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The MoA Week In Review – Open Thread 2020-07
Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama:
Related:
Interview with Iran's Foreign Minister Javed Zarif:
"It’s a Disaster for Europe To Be So Subservient to the U.S" –Spiegel
Related:
The OPCW Scandal and the Silence Cartel (pdf) English translation by Michael Kobs of the German report below
Der OPCW-Skandal und das Scheigekartell – Multipolar Magazine
Other issues:
Hong Kong:
"Protesters"? Or U.S. funded terrorist …
Hong Kong protesters torch planned virus quarantine building – Reuters
>A group of protesters set alight the lobby of a newly built residential building in Hong Kong on Sunday that authorities planned to use as a quarantine facility for the coronavirus outbreak.
A Reuters witness saw several masked protesters, clad in black, rush into the public housing block in the Fanling district near to the border with China, and set alight a Molotov cocktail before running out. Black smoke could be seen pouring out of the building to the sound of fire alarms. Windows were smashed.<
Palestine:
Only Zionists and Nazis believe that Jews are a race.
Israeli High Court Allows DNA Testing to Prove Judaism – Haaretz
>Petition filed by Avigdor Lieberman, Yisrael Beitenu and several individuals asking for the DNA testing to prove Judaism to be disallowed is struck down<
Law:
The U.S. no longer cares for international law. Others continue to do.
The US’s Inalienable Right to Violence – Fair
The Troubling Decline of International Law – Craig Murray
EU, China, 15 Others Form Alliance to Settle Trade Disputes – Bloomberg
Use as open thread …
90% of the people with wealth and education, work for the government, own the corporations or are themselves privateers meaning they are all part of the same intelligence agency coordinated nation state linked mob <= and no one in the mob wants war to stop war.
Humanity has sat on its ass for so long, its chair has rotted. The mob is in control and nothing is going to stop them, not you, not me, not no one, they have the weapons, the manpower, the spy generated intelligence, they can allow/deny your access to Internet and to just about everything else, they use applications for license or admission forms at hospitals to make their data bases perfect, they own the cops, they own the military, they own the law making machinery, they own and totally control the media, they own the power companies, the grid, the railroads, the jets, the very ground you walk on, and yet those who the are few never stand for elections, remain hidden in the deepest of closets and enjoy the protection of the puppet operated nation state. None of them are required to answer for their harms their privileges cause < why not?
In America, if you examine the constitution you will see even that <=is stacked against a just outcome there are so many holes <=it like nearly all corporate documents must be read carefully. Humanity has committed itself to slavery, because it has stuck its head in the sand, get used to it cause your chair is rotten having sat in it for so long, you soon will have no place to sit. Then what?
I don't believe much opportunity exist to to organize humanity sufficiently to stop the in-control groups (the Mobsters). Nothing seems able to stop them, the Mob has command and control authority over everything.. the mob can print, or order it printed, more money, hire and pay and bribe whomever they want, whenever they need, whatever they wan they get. The mob can force the up and down of anyone, of any nation, of every economy on every continent at will .. I say it again you are either a mobster with no care about law, morality or any other thing except your self or a your are a slave ignoring all until they come for you<== take your choice. (that is the message the leaders of the nations in the world have made so clear<=by their actions; the whole world is in the hands of mobsters, and there ain't nothing anyone can do about it, they can't even talk about it, since the mobsters have outlawed speech that might reveal the nation state game).
What is the problem how did humans allow themselves to get into this situation?
It is now obvious in each nation state there are two parties: the governed and the governors and the governed are further divided by as many binaries as the propaganda can impose: two party political systems, guns/no guns, welfare/no welfare; abortion/no abortion, hate people elsewhere/ but out hate at home, and on and on. The governed are massive in number but are kept in the dark because the governors operate the nation states behind closed doors and private parties cover their tracts with fake and false news. The governors are well informed, armed and dangerous, and the seem out to get humanity.
Interestingly enough humanity was, is, and will always be the first, only and complete undeniable global authority, nothing is more global than humanity, no power on earth is greater than human power that I know of. Without permission from humanity, no nation state can exist, no kingdom can exist, no religion can exist, nothing can happen unless humanity approves. No leader can lead, no group can take from the masses to build weapons and then turn those weapon on those who paid for the development of the weapons. . everything happens because humans allow it to be.
What's wrong us, to allow a system to control our every breath, to spy on our every living minute? How can the suffering such a system inflicts be remedied? Humanity has so much better things to do than to be forced to fight each other. We live but a few short years, and each of us should be able to benefit from the progress that those before us added to their world, so our modern world could be better? But the few have monopolised those benefits and used them through the power of the nation state system to make humanity servants to the whims of a few. Deplorables are not allowed.
We humans are the only global community in the world. There is no reason on earth the few greedy should be able to divide our 8 billion fellow humans into 206 nation states and use the power of local puppets to pit humans contained in one nation state and against the power of local puppets to pit humans contained in the other <= so a few can retain their wealth and power? The masses of humanity were not placed on this earth to serve the few. They were put here to work together to make earth a better home for humanity. Everyone deserves a fair chance at life, there is so much joy in being educated, because it allows one to see the world from many different perspectives, it enhances the benefit of experience and it opens opportunity to see how things work and to envision new horizons, yet so few are allowed to be educated. The masses should not suffer at the expense of the few. We are all in the same pot.
Together we stand, separately the leaders of nation states will be ordered to use the nation states to pick us off one by one. Excuse the rant.
Posted by: snake | Jan 26 2020 16:34 utc | 11
c1ue @ 15 I don’t think your objection is really relevant to the general intention of my post, but I will try to address your objections as best I can but before I do, thanks for the effort; everyone’s thoughts are essential to complete the narrative.. so here goes=> The universities live off the government =>student financing is government financing, => research financing is government making every university paycheck into a government subsidy, just like the renters in government subsidized privately owned housing projects. there is no difference if the government loans or government grants fund the (renters or students) is still government financing that funds the privately owned housing project or the privately owned not for profit, non governmental, university! The fact that the private contributions made to university foundations by grant, operation of will or whatever, supports the universities: such are government subsidies (donations are tax deductible), makes the entire university (same as if it were the government itself) and more or less puts the university into the same dependent position that a small nation finds itself in, its management totally puppetized to the larger nation because it is dependent on a larger nation for its survival<=Trump would sanction any nation dependent on federal money, if that nation refused his demands. A prime example of how dependent universities are government dependents BDS is that universities that allow those called its government financed paid employees, support BDS lose their government financing.
As to the tech corporations<= private I presume; you were thinking=> much of the technology is government research funded, and starts by privatizing the research of a Phd or a small group of PHDs, who just graduated from a government sponsored university conducted basic research program grant and don’t forget most university programs exist to use public funds to train persons to be eligible for jobs in privately held corporations .. The program was government funded, university sponsored either because the military wanted the research, or because the research was too basic, too risky or too expensive for private industry to commit their precious investor funds to take on such research, (as with most of that grant funded research, because many of the programs fail to produce something economically viable, still the private employers get the government to pay those university instructors to train their students to do jobs at the private employer) .
In the few cases where the program grant and university instruction develops in house expertise in the form of a candidate slave, and the Phd does come up with sufficient evidence that the research is likely to have strong enough economic possibilities, to warrant private funding, the government steps in and grants to the University and the Private corporation picking up where the University left off, a public monopoly which monopoly denies all other private corporations from using that technology (that monopoly is called a patent). So government sponsors the too risky, too costly likely not to really be useful research programs, either inside of the private corporation on inside of a university directed research programs or even in special labs like Fermilab and Maglab, and so on.
Once again we are back to humanity. Here you will see the human mind is developed by public funds and private sponsored propaganda (maybe some where there is an exception) but our modern society cannot exist if the average person was not been taught to language and math skills (no one could sell books, cell phones, calculators, clocks or electronic gadgets). Would you deny that basic instruction (nearly always public funded) creates markets and transform humans into employable capital stock) is not public funded, teaching children to read is just a public funded as building a highway? you can take if from there..
Without public funded mass education there would be no market for computers, no need for the Internet, and few if any pilots, and fewer still passengers in need of going from the jungle markets in the City of London to the ruler of the world in NYC. So I argue the inventions of the human mind are not the governments to give away to their mob owned private corporations. How does government rob the public of inventions created by those public funds trained? Government does this robbery by rule of law ? It is monopoly law (patents, copyrights) that create from thin air private property rights in a public good (the invention which is an expression of the inventors publicly trained mind).
The reason even beyond profits the Mobsters use government to take from the public new developments of ideas (inventions), is because some inventions are disruptive to the long standing private corporations. The private corporations d/n want to be producing airplanes that cost billions to build, millions to fly, when some kid in his back yard invents a flying machine for a few hundred thousand dollars capable to operate for days at a time on $10 worth of gas, which carries a bigger payloads, at faster speeds, than the store bought Billion dollar albatrosses. <=That is why government makes grants of patents. Licensed monopolies (patents) and licensed content (art, books, and the like are (copyrights) are a large part of the mobster profit economy, but Patents and Copyrights are the essential need, lest some guy in the back year would put them out of business overnight.
Without public funded roads and airports ' Walmart and FedeX would be SOL. If one of the road or airport users were to discover while driving, or flying a new quicker way to load and unload cargo, the employer of that idea inventor would likely pay the poor sap $100 or and use the patent derived from that drivers idea and use it to make more profit and to eliminate more competition. Capitalism depends on open, unabated competition for its success.
Try to use that idea in your trucking company, because it will save your company lets say a $1 million a year, and every other trucking company quite substantial sums (generally world wide if everyone could use it, it would save humanity trillions a year, but because your publically trained employee could not help but think of it, as he or she needed what looks like a novel idea just to do his or her job. The company with the patent then sues every one that tries to uses that patented idea which denies the humanity of the world the benefit of training that driver who came up with it. <=that's theft in my mind, the government by its laws took the idea generated by a publically trained mind and transformed one of its expression (privatized it) into a private property asset and made the employer the owner with exclusive right to use the property, The company that just happened to hire a guy who would be doing the same thing for whom ever truck owner he was working for.
Take a private corporate factory, its a place were persons highly educated with public funds are selected after they wind the competitive challenge with other publicly trained candidates (that is they get hired). While at work, the employee arranges his work efficiently (its novel) so the government grants the employer a patent and by operation of the patent, the government privatizes the idea that came from a publically trained mind, and takes the expression of the idea from the actual inventor (the employee) and makes the patent a privately owned corporate asset (a product of a person's human mind becomes by grant of government law, private property, owned by a privately owned corporation. 95% of the patents I have seen over my years would have been invented by just about anyone who was in the job the inventor had at the time. Why, because it is the challenge of the job or the task to make more efficient or to solve a particular problem. <= like finding a vaccine for a new virus, in a privately owned government grant funded lab. The task itself forces the idea that leads to the invention in time the invention would come about as a matter of course because it is the job to solve the problem or because it helpful to make easier the task involved in the job.
Eureka, for making the task easier the employee gets a $100 award, the company makes more money because the task is simpler, and the company gains a competitive advantage that keeps prices high and kills off competing companies.
Posted by: snake | Jan 27 2020 2:43 utc | 77
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