Corona virus: Bringing out the best and the worst in the people.

The British Isles - like much of the world - has been engulfed by Corona Virus. In Ireland it is Saint Paddy's Day, but the pubs are shut across the Republic by decree of the Dáil (they stayed open in Stormont-administered Ulster).  In Great  Britain panic buying has seen shops stripped of toilet roll, hand-sanitiser, pasta and plenty more besides, with online shoppers left looking at empty shelves online.  The Corona Virus follows on from SARS, Swine Flu and other similar ailments which have been sweeping the globe in recent years.  The major difference between the previous outbreaks and this one, has been the reaction.

In 2009 Swine Flu hit the world. In the UK, the reaction was pretty much business as usual. The shops stayed full.  Swine Flu killed 457 people in the UK in 2009 - or rather, 457 people infected with Swine Flu died in 2009 in the UK (there is an important distinction between the two, which is routinely ignored). As of the moment of writing, 71 people have been died of/with Corona Virus in the UK. This figure is projected by official sources to rise with estimates ranging between 20,000 and 1,000,000 deaths.

We honestly do not know how Corona Virus is going to impact people in the British Isles.  What we do know is that it has already having an impact which far exceeds that of the 2009 Swine Flu outbreak.

To visit the shops today is to visit places of madness, with people buying up ridiculous amounts of pasta, toilet roll, toiletries and other items they feel are vital if they have to go into temporary quarantine. The government is suggesting that people with symptom which are identical with Flu should self-quarantine for a fortnight, so the people who are stock-piling are really overdoing what is necessary for a short period.  Sadly, it is not only fear which is motivating stock-piling, it is greed as well.

To go online in search of items which the shops have sold out of, is to find an orgy of despicable profiteering.  There are many Markets where unscrupulous stall holders are selling goods for vastly higher prices than they would cost in shops if they hadn't been bought old. We are witnessing a return of the Spivs of the Second World War, with absolute scum buying essentials at the normal price, and re-selling at inflated prices.  Baby formula - which is essential for mothers who cannot breast-feed - sells in the shops for a a couple of pounds a pot. The new Spivs are re-selling it for hundreds of pounds.  Under the capitalist system, this is called the free market! The Socialist Motherland Party calls it what it is - exploitation, criminal selfishness, theft and anti-social behaviour which in a sane society would be responded to with the harshest of punishments.  The new Spivs are the Kulaks of the twenty-first century, hoarding food to sell at a profit, whilst their countrymen suffer - and in the case of babies whose mothers cannot breast-feed, starve.  Scum like this deserve nothing less than execution - but the UK isn't a sane country, it is a capitalist one, and this kind of behaviour isn't punished, it is encouraged.

The British Isles are being divided like never before:

• There are masses of people stock-piling through fear of succumbing to the virus and needing what they have come to see as vital items.  There are many more who are stock-piling simply because the sight of empty shelves creates panic and a spiral,of panic buying so as to not be in a position of being unable to buy anything.  These people are the majority.  
• There is a minority of absolute scum -  Spivs - who are buying in bulk to sell at a profit and who positively relish the chance of exploiting the sick and vulnerable.  
• There is another minority comprised of decent people who can see beyond the liberal individualist mindset - these people are socialists in spirit, whether they are ideologically socialist or not, for they are taking action to help their countrymen.  Examples of the socialist principle in action include individuals looking after their elderly neighbours by donating toilet rolls, soap etc and keeping in touch to make sure they are ok, going shopping for people who cannot go themselves, putting together food parcels for those in need, doing what is decent and right in any way possible without any thought of personal gain.

There are ways in which we can make a difference to people in need. It shouldn't take a health crisis to make us into decent human beings though (or to prompt us to have a wash!), we should be considerate and compassionate at all times.  Things we can do to help others can be as simple as asking what they need and making the effort to fulfil their needs where we can.  We need to be as self-sufficient as possible ourselves, and to help others to become so also.

In practical terms, we can beat the panic buyers by creating our own products.  These are a few things we can make ourselves:

1. Disinfectant - 1 part water, 1 part white vinegar;
2. Alternative disinfectant - 900ml hot water, 50ml white vinegar, 25g bicarbinate of soda, half lemon squeezed, grated zest - sieved then put into an old spray bottle;
3. Pasta - its really simple to make (tricky but simple). Plain flour and eggs are all you need. A pasta machine helps, but isn't necessary. Pasta machines can be bought online for around £14. Recipes and instructional videos are readily available online.
4. Bread - you can use an ordinary cooking tray. The ingredients are flour, yeast, salt, sugar, oil and water (other ingredients to suit your own taste). Recipes online.
5. Look online!!! You have the internet. Use it as a tool to educate yourself in how to create items you need from ingredients you can get hold of when the finished product is scarce.

We can also educate ourselves into not joining the panic mindset.  It is possible that Corona virus could be a massive killer. It is also possible that it might not be.  The frail and elderly are susceptible to all manner of sickness which can kill them simply because their immune systems are weak.  Be wary of this at all times and take care to not put them in danger. Don't be a dirty bugger! Personal hygiene such as washing, changing your clothes, not spitting, go a long way to stopping the spread of germs, so be clean! Its simple and shouldn't need spelling out.  The panic buying of soap does suggest that to a lot of people, cleanliness is something alien and only to be indulged in in times of crisis.




To put some perspective on the similarities of Corona Virus (2020) and Swine Flu H1N1 (2009), have a look at the old posts written at the time, reposted at this link:
https://socialistmotherlandparty.blogspot.com/2020/03/corona-virus-2020-vs-swine-flu-2009.html

Corona Virus 2020 vs Swine Flu 2009:

We do not know how bad Corona Virus will be.  Will it be a tragedy on a massive scale, as predicted by all the 'experts'? Or will it be a typical bout of seasonal flu, but with added panic due to media irresponsibility prioritising sales of their rags with hype taking precedence over the facts?  We will find out either way in due course. 

For historical information only, the following section of this article is a republishing of British Socialist Party articles from 2009 during the Swine Flu scare.  Have a look at the similarities with now.  The reaction of the public is different, but the country isn't the same as it was in 2009. The population has grown vastly and the culture has changed.  Also Swine FLU made people think of Flu (fatal for the vulnerable, not so much for the healthy), whereas Corona VIRUS - like SARS - has an impact of fear of the unknown. Keep that in  mind too when considering the current panic with the 2009 lack of panic.

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Scaring people to Death - The Swine Flu Lie

As the Swine Flu pandemic continues to NOT kill or make seriously ill a multitude of people, those who are in charge of managing the epidemic in Britain have been subtly altering their propaganda in order to keep the perceived threat high in the minds of the general public.

The media in Great Britain are doing stirling work pushing the establishment fear mongering. This is only to be expected, considering that the BBC is owned and manned by the establishment. The 'government' in the form of elected politicians is really nothing but a puppet show for the benefit of those who believe that 'democracy' exists and that they have a say in the running of the country they live in. In truth, the establishment own the nation in the same way as slave owners owned the plantations and all who worked them.

In Great Britain, as in all Western countries, the establishment is made up of a network of families who control the financial sector through the banking cartel, and use this monetary wealth to control the elected representatives in the political parties which they own from top to bottom. They control the legal system and the media by owning all the major corporations and law societies. Indeed in England, the centre of power resides in the City of London and Temple Bar, with the rest of the nation being merely a serfdom from which their slaves are procured. The families in question go by names such as the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, with these families being subservient to the elite controlling clique in the British Monarchy. The idea that Britain is in any way a democratic nation is simply laughable. The idea that the politicians who preside over it are in any way servants of the Nation is sheer lunacy.

The media mouthpiece of the ruling regime have switched their presentation of Swine Flu from being a direct killer of all who have it, to being an illness with a vast range of symptoms, ranging from the sniffles to death! By this cynical ploy, the media are keeping the pressure on the people at large - stating that many people will have very few symptoms and no feeling of ill-health, yet simultaneously arguing that everyone must be vaccinated lest the army of carriers spread the virus to the weak and vulnerable, resulting in their deaths. In short, the propaganda machine is pushing the lie that those who do not take the vaccine will kill anyone they come in contact with who is not so fortunate to have a strong immune system. Yes, that's right - the establishment are classing vaccine refusers as premeditated murderers.

The British National Health Service has computerised its diagnosis of Swine Flu. I challenge anyone to visit NHS Direct on their dedicated Swine Flu sections and NOT be diagnosed as having the virus. The page to start this diagnosis is:
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/Sat/MiniSAT/Topics/ColdsAndFlu/ColdsAndFlu.aspx

The diagnosis tool accepts such a general range of symptoms, that anything from a cold to food poisoning or tiredness will be categorised as indicative of having the Flu. Coupled with the hysterical media screaming that people must not visit their Doctors or go into work for fear of contaminating others and thereby potentially killing them, the automated diagnosis tool is sure to lead to a mass of people, already worried by the media propaganda, convincing themselves they really are sick with the dreaded Swine Flu.

Stress is an immunosuppressant. It has been found in clinical tests that a person under stress will be more susceptible to illness than someone who is comparatively stress-free. For example, of two individuals exposed to the common cold, the one who is under stress is far more likely to contract the illness. The media bombardment of fear through ludicrous exaggerations of the potential effects of the much-hyped illness are a contributory factor to stress-induced illness.

What we are experiencing here is psychological warfare. Our masters will make a substantial amount of money from the mass vaccination. The fact that the vaccines are more dangerous than the Flu, is of little interest to the establishment, aside from those who actively wish to harm us. Alarmingly, there is an agenda at work to reduce the population by any means necessary. The minions of the establishment will be motivated to push the Vaccine programme due to monetary greed. The inner core of the establishment are the ones who create money through their fraudulent banking mechanism - they have no need of money, as they create it out of thin air. What they seek is control and power. A healthy and informed populace is their worst nightmare - they need docile servants who will believe whatever mind-rotting drivel they are told. In a post-industrial society, they need only a fraction of the number of slaves as in less technological eras. The surplus population are useless eaters and wastes of resources, and most importantly a reservoir for potential resistance and rebellion - thus they must be culled.

Now, this is where the Swine Flu saga goes beyond being merely a fleecing operation into more worrying realms. The World Health Organisation has the power to enforce vaccinations on every citizen in all 194 nations which are signed to it. This is highly profitable for the pharmaceutical giants whose vaccines will be used. If the vaccines were safe, the operation would be a hideous fraud, but nothing more.

The Swine Flu vaccines follow in the footsteps of the Bird Flu scandal, in which millions of doses were prepared which, had they been administered, would have resulted in millions of deaths, by disabling the immunity of the vaccine victim, making him/her vulnerable to the manufactured strain introduced into the environment by the medical terrorists who masquerade as defenders of health. The WHO did not declare Bird Flu a pandemic (possibly the Bird Flu scare was designed to familiarise people with the possibility of a pandemic) and the mass vaccinations were not carried out. This time, it is extremely probable that highly dangerous vaccines will be injected into millions of people, without having been adequately tested for their efficacy and safety. If this is allowed to occur, the death-toll could be phenomenal.

For more information on the criminal cabal controlling the Swine Flu Pandemic and the Vaccination industry, visit:
http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/who-moves-forward-in-secrecy-to-accomplish-population-agenda/
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Swine Flu Scare - Swine Flu Scandal

Turn on the Radio or Television, open a Newspaper, and you will be bombarded by stories about the outbreak of Swine Flu which, you will be told, is set to devastate the planet, killing millions. What is the reality? Well, as anyone who cares to look a little more deeply into the world around them than just accepting the official version of events will already suspect, the stories and reality are very different. The propaganda is designed to instil fear and unthinking panic. Take a deep breath, step back from the illusion being pushed by the establishment media and you will see that events are worlds apart from what we are being told.

According to the mass media, as of yesterday, 29th April, over 150 people have died worldwide of Swine Flu. However, this has been rejected by the World Health Organisation, which has recorded just 7 deaths. Vivienne Allan, of the WHO Patient Safety Programme stated on ABC Radio (29.4.9):

“Unfortunately that [150-plus deaths] is incorrect information….That figure is not a figure that’s come from the World Health Organisation and, I repeat, the death toll is seven and they are all from Mexico.”

The WHO has confirmed a total of 89 cases worldwide - 40 in the Latin America, 26 in Mexico, 6 in Canada, 2 in Spain, 2 in Great Britain and 3 in New Zealand. The 7 fatalities are included within the figures for Mexico. The 2 people in Britain with flu are classed as not being seriously ill, but rather a bit poorly.

So, what is this ‘Swine Flu’ which we are all being conditioned to be terrified of?

According to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Swine Flu is an influenza type A H1N1 virus which although unpleasant for pigs, rarely transfers to humans, and in the cases where it does, this only occurs where people are in very close proximity to the animals. Thus, a pig farmer would be at much greater risk than a town dweller, and then only at high risk should he be in intimate contact with the porker. The flu is not transmitted person-to-person. Living conditions in the affected region of Mexico cannot be considered comparable to conditions in Europe, or for that matter in the rest of Mexico. Although death does occur with influenza, this is incredibly rare. In the overwhelming majority of cases, symptoms are similar to the common cold and are best dealt with by isolating oneself and resting. The media scare-mongering is just that.

Alongside the irresponsible reporting of the media, who will repeat any salacious lie in order to sell their product, politicians are jumping on the misery and fear bandwagon. EU health commissioner, Androulla Vassiliou issued a warning on Monday 25th April against travelling to North and Central America. The British Foreign Office followed suit . The motive behind politicians issuing edicts is to reinforce the fear factor by giving the media a level of official governmental backing. Many people who are inclined to treating the media with a pinch of salt are less cynical when it comes to the Government. The much vaunted use of the so-called Cobra Committee is nothing but an instrument of psychological warfare.

The Swine Flu scare is just another in a series of contrived panics. In 1995-97 Britain had the BSE scare. We were told that up to 10 million Britons would be infected and die of a horrendous debilitating sickness. The nation’s farms were decimated as entire herds of cattle were slaughtered and farms forced to sell out to property developers and international businesses. The millions of dead Britons are still alive and uninfected. The BSE scare was more of a BSE scandal. The mass sickness did not occur, but the mass slaughter of cattle was real, as was the impact upon the farming communities.

The BSE travesty was followed a year later by the scare that Sheep were now infected. They were not. This did not stop the senseless butchery of millions of Sheep. The result of this was the destruction of the meat industry in Britain, with the ridiculous situation of foreign livestock being imported into the country, causing great suffering to the animals, and great cost to the consumer. The end of British self sufficiency and the on going reliance upon imports is of course part of the Globalist agenda of interdependency on all commodities, including food.

In 2003 there was the Sars outbreak in Asia. Dr Patrick Nixon was rolled out to give scientific credence to the lunacy that the Sars outbreak would kill at least a quarter of the population of Great Britain. How many died, or even were infected? Zero, Nil, None, No one at all.

In 2006 we had the Bird Flu non-epidemic. The 1 in 4 Britons who were predicted to die, did not. The ‘first pandemic of the twentyfirst century’ was nothing of the sort. Millions of birds were slaughtered, but there were no human fatalities. The murder of the wildlife was sickening, and pointless.

Now we are told that Swine Flu will kill hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Already we are witnessing the mass slaughter of pigs and the destruction of the Pig Farming Industry in many countries. Swine Flu is another scare like Avian (Bird) Flu, Sars and BSE.

Why would the Government make such a ‘mistake’ as to spread fear and panic which will result in the further erosion of the national self-reliant farming community. ? Why? In order to tighten the Globalist noose and make any chance of national self determination and self sufficiency much more difficult.

Pharmaceutical companies are set to make a fortune in selling un-needed and harmful drugs to the bewildered and terrified populations across the globe. They are manipulating a non event in order to make profit. This is economic and chemical terrorism.

The worst aspect of all this is that alongside the senseless slaughter of animals, the gullible and cowed masses who accept the vaccinations against this spectral pandemic will be unwittingly weakening their immune systems, so should real flu come, they will be less able to fight it.

Then, as a result of the mass vaccinations, many people will die. The Globalists and the Pharmaceutical Companies will have achieved their aims – power and profits – whilst ordinary people suffer, and animals are destroyed for no reason. This is the level of sickness and insanity which our rulers have reached.

Protect your families. Refuse the Vaccination. Protect the animals and the farming communities - expose this disgusting lie. There is no Swine Flu epidemic.
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Swine Flu has arrived! Big Deal!

England is in the grip of a Swine Flu epidemic. People are dropping like flies. The foul stench of rotting carcasses piling up in the streets is overpowering. Such is the horror now that society has broken down and the dead outnumber the living. How could things have been allowed to reach this point? Why oh why, oh, hang on, erm, well, actually - they haven't!

Swine Flu in England has been recorded as the cause of ONE fatality in an otherwise healthy individual. The death of one person is a tragedy for that person's loved ones. However, when one considers the death rate of people every day due to legally available substances such as tobacco and alcohol, or to industrial pollution, the hysteria over Swine Flu is massively disproportionate to the threat posed.

"But", I hear the TV-faithful bark in Pavlovian manner, "we've seen the statistics! How can you dismiss the Swine Flu pandemic when so many people are being diagnosed with it?"

My answer to this question is to point to the astounding fact that the diagnosis of Swine Flu is anything but medically accurate. In the overwhelming majority of cases, people who telephone their Doctors' Surgery complaining of nausea and 'flu-like symptoms' are being told that they have Swine Flu ad must isolate themselves.

The Official list of Swine Flu symptoms are:

Fever, Cough, Shortness of breath
Headache
Sore Throat
Tiredness
Aching Muscles
Chills
Sneezing
Runny Nose
Loss of Appetite

Anyone who has these symptoms is advised to ring NHS Direct on 0845 4647. they are advised NOT to go to see their GPs as this would risk spreading the infection. What this amounts to is advice to contact a call centre by telephone, where an NHS employee will listen to the patient describe his/her symptoms, then without any medical examination, and without any contact with a Doctor, the aforementioned patient will be told he or she has swine flu and must self-isolate in order to contain the spread.

So, in England, which is a country notorious for the prevalence of hypochondriacs and overworked individuals who will jump at the chance to get paid time off work, the National Health Service is providing the perfect excuse to enjoy a week off work on full pay, and to boost the numbers classified as having Swine Flu, justifying the official propaganda that there is an epidemic in the country!

The establishment need only to rely on the quite understandable opportunism of the hard-pressed British worker and the hypochondria of others to see the number of people who are officially recorded as having Swine Flu skyrocket!

With a vast number of people classed as having Swine Flu, the much needed rationale to mass vaccinate in order to protect the population at large (especially the children) is provided.

There is no epidemic. Certainly many people are sick with head colds, gastric problems, lethargy and general aches and pains, but by and large they are not suffering from Flu of any variety. What we are witnessing is a lumping together of general sickness under the umbrella label of Swine Flu. This is much the same as the rapid expansion of aliments categorised as indicating an individual has AIDS, as occurred when that was the media and establishment obsession.

The manufacturers of Tamiflu stand to make a massive profit from this contrived pandemic. Sadly, the vaccine itself IS dangerous and is very harmful to the health of those who accept it, under the barrage of propaganda the Media, Health Service and other branches of the establishment is subjecting them to. The irony is that natural contraction of Flu boosts the immune system, whereas vaccination at best will provide protection against the exact strain injected, for twelve months, after which, the body is more vulnerable to all strains of Flu.

Don't accept the vaccination. It won't benefit you in any medical way, and is potentially very harmful. The only people who benefit are the shareholders in Big Pharma, and the politicians and other corrupt individuals in their pay.
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H1N1 (referred to as “swine flu” early on) is a new influenza virus causing illness in people. Symptoms of swine flu are similar to those caused by other influenza viruses. Health authorities across the globe are taking steps to try to stem the spread of swine flu after outbreaks in Mexico and the United States. The World Health Organisation has called it a "public health emergency of international concern.

At least one senior member of the Intelligence services is saying its a deliberately released bio weapon.

According to at least one member of our Military Intelligence, the Swine flu is indeed a Bioweapon.

Michael Shrimpton QC stated as much publicly, the statement was then quickly pulled off the blogs, but a Google cached version can be found Here

If google haven't removed it altogether you will need to scroll down to see the article.

Shrimptons CV can be Found here

United Kingdom National Defence Association

Shrimpton

http://tinyurl.com/mknmnp

http://www.intelligencesummit.org/speakers/MichaelShrimpton.php

www.theflucase.com

Socialist Quotes for Sunday Reflection pt 105

"After the destruction of capitalism - the proletariat will abolish prostitution - the great misfortune of humanity"

Soviet poster, 1923

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"We must cultivate and practice the essential socialist values in the family and guide all its members, especially the next generation, to love the Party, the homeland, the people and the Chinese nation. Furthermore, we must actively spread the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, transmit the idea of respecting the elderly and loving the little ones, maintaining equality between men and women and harmony between husband and wife, managing the home diligently and saving and defend solidarity between neighbours, propose the concepts of loyalty, responsibility, family love, learning and public welfare and encourage people to improve their spiritual world and cultivate a civilised style in the process of seeking family happiness, offer warmth to others and contribute to society."

- Xi Jinping

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Humanity's prospects for the future look bleak. First climate change, now their handling of the Corona Virus, we see time and time again how the ruling class will sacrifice our lives to save their profits. One might end up thinking the planet is screwed and human beings are just selfish. This is not the case. Don't ever be fooled into thinking this is merely how humans are. As communists we believe humanity can be better. We are the product of our material conditions. The fundamentals of the capitalist system are the labour of the proletariat being exploited by the bourgeoisie and an economy that does not serve the working people, that does not encourage innovation to better our future but rather only supports growth in profits. Our governments exist to maintain this system as they do any class system. This is not how it has to be. We've created societies in the past where such exploitation is abolished, where the economy is planned and controlled by and for the working people. We can do it again. We can build a world without exploitation, a world where human beings cooperate and strive for the common good, a world where everyone's needs are met. Cuba is a shining example that another future is possible. They are there, sending medical aid and researching how to fight this virus, not thinking about how it's effecting the stock market. If we organise and show the capitalists just how much power we've really got we can defeat anything they throw at us. The working class can arise in every corner of the earth and build a better society, build communism. Don't despair - organise! We have a world to win!

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Socialist Quotes for Sunday Reflection pt 104

Happy international women's day to all you ladies - for the avoidance of doubt, that's anyone without a penis.

- Ky Spoons

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Authentic nationalism isn’t a patriotic or chauvinist mood but quite simply the will of a people to live according to its own laws, this nationalism is and will always be the real enemy of imperialism.

- Ernst von Salomon

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All democracy is nothing but an oligarchy of powerful entrepreneurs allied to satisfy their individual interests at the expense of the interests of the nation, and their assembly of interests rapidly degenerates into an assembly of appetites, appetites for public resources they can obtain with the least effort, without concern about organised labour seizing power from them through electoral manoeuvres.

- George Valois - L'homme qui vient

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"The role of the party supersedes the technocrats. Having reached this point in the thoughts of Saddam Hussein there are a number of important questions, some purely theoretical and others more practical, which must be asked. For instance, can economic growth of the type referred to lead to the creation of socialism? What guarantee is there that it will not go the same way as other experiments in the developing world, also carried out under the banner of socialism, and turn into state capitalism? Looking back at his ideas about the developmental process and the way it should be applied in Iraq, what in Saddam Hussein's opinion is the role of the Iraqi masses? And how is this role represented? What guarantee is there that it will continue, not only amongst the masses, but also amongst the leaders themselves, who may be goaded by success in "battle" imagine that they have won the "war", and consequently make light of the role of the masses, or ultimately do away with it altogether?

Saddam Hussein first of all says: "Not all development is a step along the road to socialism in any country or regime. There has been development in Europe, America, Japan and other countries, but it has not resulted in socialism. The activities of the state in these places have been no more than a form of state capitalism, which is part of the general process of building capitalism. In such instances, the state with its authority is rather ensuring that the capitalist system is maintained." But on the other hand: "Without development, the creation of a flourishing social system which can serve as a model in this area of which we are part, and which can increase the people's well-being and provide the where-withal to defend itself and its principles, is unimaginable. Similarly, development in our country cannot but accurately express the socialist roots of the system with its related programmes, to which again it is inescapably linked. There is therefore a close relationship between this and the principal guidelines of our party in both social and economic fields."" 

- Dr. Amir Iskandar, "Saddam Hussein: The Fighter, the Thinker and the Man"

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The goal of the society in which you live is to destroy you. Do the same to it. The weapon it uses is indifference. Don’t let yourself adopt the same attitude. Go on the attack!

- Michel Houellebecq, Rester vivant (1991)

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I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

- Eugene Debs

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When high ranking officials secretly collude with a foreign nation, aren’t they looked upon as spies? In my eyes this woman [Priti Patel] is guilty of Treason, plain & simple. She should at the very least be facing a lengthy jail term. Here we have not just an MP but a cabinet minister committing this very crime yet she’s got away with a slap on the wrist! The Zionist controlled media have dutifully played down this treachery as if it was nothing.

- Michael Aydinian

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All of Comrade Stalin’s writings are immortal documents of Marxism. His works, The Foundations of Leninism, The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union [Bolshevik], and his last great work, Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR, constitute an encyclopedia of Marxism-Leninism, a synthesis of the experience of the world Communist movement of the past hundred years. His speech at the Nineteenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is a precious last testament bequeathed to the Communists of all the countries of the world.

- Mao

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The transgender movement has made clever use of the powerful force of identity politics. Clearly, personal identity, the totality of one’s sense of self, does not consist simply of gender any more than it does of one’s race, ethnicity, religion, or class. Such, however, are the categories upon which identity politics are built. To be politically effective, identity politics depend upon lumping people into groups that obliterate personal identities and characteristics. There are no individuals in identity politics, only amorphous masses of people with a common and defining property, one exploited for a political purpose.

- Richard B Corradi, M.D.
https://thefederalist.com/2016/11/17/psychiatry-professor-transgenderism-mass-hysteria-similar-1980s-era-junk-science/
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Second Opinion: Death by Medicine - Wilberg on Wednesday

Second Opinion 

This is the first of a new series of articles by medical writer and researcher Peter Wilberg MA. Peter Wilberg is the founder of a new form of existential and humanistic counselling for medical patients called ‘Life Medicine’. He is also the author of several books on medicine including  The Illness IS the Cure - an introduction to Life Medicine and Life Doctoring, a new existential approach to illness. The English edition, available from Amazon, has been translated into Czech and Slovenian by Eugenika.sk, and can be ordered in the Czech Republic and Slovakia from online bookshops under the title Nemoc Léčí. 

1. Death by Medicine

What is the leading medical cause of death? Cancer? Heart disease? Traumatic injuries? Many readers may be surprised to learn that the single biggest medical cause of death is in fact medical treatment itself - and medically prescribed drugs in particular. We are speaking, in other words, of what is called ‘iatrogenic’ illness’ - illnesses of a sort caused or generated by iatro- (Greek for physicians or medicines). The fact that modern medicine kills is not just a wild conspiracy theory. Peer-reviewed, evidence-based articles in prestigious medical journals like the BMJ (British Medical Journal) and JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) admitted this fact decades ago - and comprehensive supporting evidence and statistics can be found also in  Death by Medicine by Gary Null.  Yet this research has been consistently ignored in order to maintain the profits of the Medical-Industrial Complex and Big Pharma. 

Is the huge fatality rate resulting from medical treatment and prescriptions only an American or UK phenomenon? Not at all. And what about the Czech Republic in particular? Here is just one example - one of very many - of negligent, dangerous or even life-threatening medications prescribed by doctors in Prague. In this case they were given to a patient who I know very well. He has a severe and chronic respiratory disease (emphysema), had recently had a myocardial infarct or ‘heart attack’ needing immediate surgery, had symptoms associated with a highly enlarged prostate - including passing a lot of blood and blood clots in his urine. He also suffers from loss of sleep because of frequently waking and needing to urinate in the night.  One evening, he was taken to the emergency department of two very known Prague hospitals, or which we went to for urinal bleeding, the other because he was very worried about what are medically recognised symptoms of severe heart failure (high blook pressure combined with extreme weakness dizziness and coldness in his hands, feet and legs) that he had experienced in the morning. Yet because the symptoms had subsided and no longer registered on a heart monitor by the time he was taken to hospital, his fears were ridiculed by the doctor he saw. But - and here the story begins to bite - the three prescriptions he was given were: 

1. Five tablets of a brand of ‘sleeping pills’ - even though the patient had no problems going to sleep at night, but was only losing sleep because of frequent night time urination (nocturia).  Checking out this prescription I discovered that it was among the most addictive type of prescription drugs (benzodiazepines) that exist - called Xanax in the United States. Benzodiazepine type drugs like Diazepam and Xanax (Alprazolam) have caused an epidemic of involuntary addiction and dependency for over half a century now, starting with Valium - ‘Mother’s little helper’ - which was first marketed by a member of the now infamous billionaire Sackler family - the same family whose pain killing drugs also caused the recent and massive opioid addiction crisis in the US. But just five pills of Xanax are easily enough to cause lifelong addiction. 

2. A drug for pain. Why? The patient had not himself complained of any pains - even chest pains - which are not a primary symptom of heart failure. But if he had used this drug to suppress chest pains that were signs of another heart attack, this could have been very dangerous or even fatal. This particular pain-killing drug has also been banned or more than 40 years in more than 30 countries - including the United States, Japan, Australia, Canada and most of Western Europe - because it can and has killed patients by destroying their red blood cells. 

3. A drug to stop the patient's urinal bleeding. This drug is sometimes given to women who bleed a lot during menstruation, but it is extremely dangerous - and could also be fatal - to give to a patient who is passing not only blood but blood clots in his urine. Suppressing the release of these clots could lead to them becoming an embolism that blocks an artery instead of coming out in urine. The same drug would also have worked directly against the effect of a heart medication the patient was taking, by promoting instead of preventing the creation of dangerous blood clots or embolisms. 

Patients are generally advised to read the information leaflets that come with their medical  prescriptions very carefully - or at least they are told to do so in the leaflets themselves. But it seems that most doctors don’t feel they need to do this themselves - as if they had an encylopaedic memory of all drug information, or else feel their own existing expertise makes it unnecessary. 

As a result of this attitude, however, they often also do not give any time to check and remind themselves of what are called ‘contraindications’ - illnesses that can make it very dangerous to prescribe a drug to patients with particular illnesses such as heart disease, or  particular symptoms such as high blood pressure, difficulty breathing or passing urine etc. Most doctors also do not spend any time checking for possible or dangerous interactions between different drugs taken by the same patient. This is a very serious failure, because so many patients, particularly elderly ones, are taking multiple prescription drugs at the same time. All these all-too-common forms of medical negligence by doctors are a veritable prescription for ‘ADRs’ (Adverse Drug Reactions) many  of which can and do result in fatalities, but are also negligently unreported by doctors themselves, even if patients themselves report them.  

As a medical researcher, I cannot count the number of times I have been shocked, bewildered and even left speechless by the sheer medical ignorance of doctors themselves. Unfortunately, this ignorance can result in dangerous medical negligence. It often goes together also with a sort of authoritarian professional arrogance that many or most patients - naively believing that ‘doctor knows best’ - just surrender to, agreeing without question whatever their doctor suggests. 

That is why an important part of my own work as a new type of counsellor for medical patients (see my book on Life Medicine) is to research all the drugs, test procedures and treatments that doctors or medical specialists have prescribed or recommended to a  particular patient - and offer them a Second Opinion. Without such medically researched advice patients may take prescribed medical drugs, accept medical treatments or simply allow types of medical examination which carry a lot of risks in themselves - but which could make their symptoms or illness worse - or even lead to death.  That said, there is an even more fundamental way in which modern medicine ‘kills’. For in becoming a mere clinical object of medical investigation, examination and treatment - and no matter how friendly their doctors may be on the surface - the individual ceases to be seen and treated as a person with a life beyond their body - and becomes just another, more or less anonymous ‘patient’. That is why the entire process of medical hospitalisation  is often experienced as a process of radical depersonalisation of the individual - who in many ways is killed off as a living flesh and blood person under the gaze of medical professionals and their standardised, almost quasi-automated procedures and prescriptions. As another Czech friend of mine put it recently: “I felt treated like a lump of meat.” 

Note: If you are a medical patient and wish for counselling and/or researched advice and a Second Opinion on the relative risks and benefits of your prescription drugs or of any recommended tests or treatments - or those of a friend or family member - Peter Wilberg can be contacted by email at pwilberg76@gmail.com 

© Peter Wilberg, MA Oxon