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- ML Alert: An Illusion Of Protection: The Pandemic, The ‘Criminal’ Government And Public Distrust of - johnlilburne May 18, 2020, 12:36 pm
- Oops :) - flash May 18, 2020, 12:42 pm
- Re: ML Alert: An Illusion Of Protection: The Pandemic, The ‘Criminal’ Government And Public Distrust of - Tomski May 18, 2020, 4:37 pm
- Oops :) - flash May 18, 2020, 12:42 pm
Posted by Ian M
on May 18, 2020, 8:15 pm, in reply to "Re: ML Alert: An Illusion Of Protection: The Pandemic, The ‘Criminal’ Government And Public Distrust of "
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Good one from the Eds. Glad they pointed out that the govt's role +isn't+ to protect the health & safety of the public but to give succour to corporate power and the 'free' market, and the public can make do with crumbs as long as it doesn't impinge on profit-making activities. An improvement on their earlier covid alert which passed on the Lancet editor's credulous comments that 'For unknown reasons they waited. And watched. [...] The system failed. I don’t know why.' without comment and even making their own descriptions of the 'government’s failure to respond' and other 'failures of government' wrt climate change - https://www.medialens.org/2020/for-unknown-reasons-they-waited-and-watched-lancet-editor-exposes-devastating-government-failure-on-coronavirus/ Sometimes it's hard to remember the abject psychopathy of those who have taken upon themselves to 'govern' (read: rule) this country. I hadn't heard about this speech from Johnson. The message behind the usual buffoonery is pure evil: 'we are starting to hear some bizarre autarkic rhetoric, when barriers are going up, and when there is a risk that new diseases such as coronavirus will trigger a panic and a desire for market segregation that go beyond what is medically rational to the point of doing real and unnecessary economic damage, then at that moment humanity needs some government somewhere that is willing at least to make the case powerfully for freedom of exchange, some country ready to take off its Clark Kent spectacles and leap into the phone booth and emerge with its cloak flowing as the supercharged champion, of the right of the populations of the earth to buy and sell freely among each other.' It's basically a form of human sacrifice to placate the angry gods of the Market. I |
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