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The debate on the origin of Covid continues
Not being an expert in epidemiology I just have to wait it out until some sort of conclusion is reached although I am swayed by the argument of some sort of cross-over from animals with increased chances due to intensified industrial livestock farming
First, if you remember, they blamed it on migrants crossing the border, now it is black Americans responsible for the spread of Covid.
Yes it was only a matter of time before the media consulted one of the architects of the grand failure of the war on terror, Tony Blair.
I always prefer to say socialism will begin the dismantling of the State. An emphasis that it is a process, not an all-encompassing act.
And I usually add that there are some very useful government departments that may very well be preserved and adapted for a role inside socialism as a part of its administration.
Don’t know why it is not appearing but
L.B. Neill wrote:“A one child limit on births for each and every
child rearing/fertile unit of two persons would
result in a 50% reduction in earth’s human
population in one generation. 7.7 billion reduced
to just under 4 billion in one
generation…Instead of UBI and UBS, we should pay
people to voluntarily block their fertility after
their first child.”What a really sad ideology! Birth control as a
welfare payment to the working class and the
precariat. Birth as a financial privilege
(dominant classes able to freely give birth:
another class who are in poverty and have no
finance surrender their reproductive rights after
the first child just to receive a payment…
Smacks of reproductive control and a
commodification of the womb. Wonder who is
sterilized: will their thinking fall heavily on
women? That is another question!
We have enough resources to our current and future
populations, bar the coagulation of wealth and
productive resource controlled in the apex
structure.
I am reminded of Ian Banks and Ken Macleod
literary comments on money: wherever their is
money there will be poverty.
Our people are our wealth… every countless one
of us is precious.Post Link:
At times I am sickened by my fellow humans and wonder if some actually deserve to live.
Torturing baby monkeys online for “pleasure” and “entertainment”
MS, a sign of the washing hands of the problem is demonstrated in this news report.
In his call to Biden Macron described the mission to evacuate allies as a “moral responsibility” and told Biden: “We cannot abandon them.”
The White House version of the exchange, however, made no mention of a “moral responsibility” to evacuate Afghan allies.
What is on the mind of political leaders is not to defend themselves from any Taliban threat but to protect themselves from the expected refugee crisis.
Of the hundreds of thousands of Afghan asylum seekers already held in camps, what now?
Only the limited few who can verify and be vouched for that they collaborated with the occupation force will be treated as legitimate. The rest who feared the Taliban and are still at risk of Taliban retribution, what of they?
I have mentioned previously the over-populationists I come across on my web travels.
Here is a comment as an example
A one child limit on births for each and every child rearing/fertile unit of two persons would result in a 50% reduction in earth’s human population in one generation. 7.7 billion reduced to just under 4 billion in one generation…Instead of UBI and UBS, we should pay people to voluntarily block their fertility after their first child.
https://commons.commondreams.org/t/a-viable-human-future-depends-on-living-with-less/131248/19
I can’t blame Chomsky for his miscalculation. On this thread I too believed the civil war would continue with Special Forces and mercenaries forming the core defence of the old regime.
Turkey at one time offered troops to defend Kabul airport after the US withdrawal. That didn’t happen either.
Russia is already offering diplomatic support to the Taliban. China will offer economic support.
What will the Arab Gulf states do?
All we can do is recognises the insignificance of our influence and that we are mere spectators to world affairs. We don’t even have any special information on events, relying once more on dubious news reports and equally contentious interpretations from supposed expert observers,
YMS, the reports on the Australian atrocities in Afghanistan led to the disbandment of their previously lauded SAS units. The reports of their atrocities were mentioned on our blog
What is so hypocritical is the treatment of the refugees by the West for the past several years. Until recently many nations were deporting Afghanistani refugees back.
For example, https://ecre.org/new-eu-agreement-with-afghanistan-amid-deteriorating-security-situation/
Everything is guesswork and nobody actually knows what will happen in Afghanistan.
And we should not be surprised by the cavalier attitude of the former occupation powers who are now busy washing their hands and making scapegoats, not wishing to have their holidays disturbed by human tragedies
Green and blue hydrogen hype and the misinformation
Will the West out of spite or strategy starve the new Afghan government of finance in a similar way it created chaos and refugees in Venezuela?
Time will tell.
long time since this thread was active but I came across this news item that banks are diversifying because of low-interest rates and less money made from lending.
Banking group joins other high street names seeking a fresh income at a time of record low interest rates
George Monbiot usually has much of interest to say
The global emergency requires a new politics, but it is nowhere in sight. Governments still fear lobby groups more than they fear the collapse of our living systems. For tiny and temporary political gains, they commit us to vast and irreversible consequences…No government, even the most progressive, is yet prepared to contemplate the transformation we need: a global programme that places the survival of humanity and the rest of life on Earth above all other issues. We need not just new policy, but a new ethics. We need to close the gap between knowing and doing. But this conversation has scarcely begun
