@Pluto's Republic One question: what's the Peace Party?

No state can succeed in the 21st century without a healthy and educated population.

With the exception of the US and other failing states, every nation in the world puts the health and education of citizens at the top of their priority lists.

The US has turned those two essentials of civilization into profit-humping rackets that actively asset-strip the disposable income of the People. And we've got a top-heavy, gullible, brain-rotted population that will vote to keep it that way. Or to paraphrase Joseph Goebbels: "Let me control the media and I will turn any nation into a herd of pigs.”

Alas, time has run out on the political-change clock — in a practical sense. The Federal Government leadership is completely rogue. The retail vote was already a sham before I was born. The current Pandemic and the utter vulnerability of the United States could not make any of this any clearer. Consider this:

As of four days ago, the number of COVID-19 infected cases in America continues to soar, with 23,290 new cases and 1015 deaths for one day, reported on May 30th. On that day, there were 18,267 COVID-19 patients in critical condition.

A leading coronavirus model often cited by the White House is now projecting nearly 135,000 deaths in the United States by early August, up from its earlier prediction of 74,000 deaths. But common global models predict that the US death rate will hit 148,000 by early August and that between October 2020 to February 2021 up to 1.3 million individuals in the US will die. And, that's a best case scenario! The global model excludes the impact of the flu season, which will compound the gravity of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Political party building via video chat might be on People's front burner while they are being stalked by a virus. However, in 2020, Trump will be running against China, and not against Biden, who is hiding in his basement. And Trump may have immunity from the virus (see below).

The US is the worst managed developed nation in the world when it comes to the COVID-19 crisis. Clueless government and health authorities dictate stupid policies and treatment protocols to healthcare professionals who should know better. The US is a chaotic mess and most Americans, themselves, are living in denial about the seriousness of the COVID 19 threat. By this time next year, at least 68 percent of the country will have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. It doesn't matter if their symptoms were mild, or whether they remain asymptomatic. What matters is that the residual SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is going to affect their health conditions for the rest of their lives.

Our problems, in general, will only be solved with something visionary, visionary far beyond what you saw with Bernie Sanders. And that's going to require a "political revolution" that will have to occur without Bernie Sanders, and perhaps despite him. Right now we're at "competing species of reactionary" -- we have a long way to go.

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Political transformation hit its opportunity deadline during the 2020 primaries, and it failed spectacularly. Goebbels' herd of pigs voted against it. Those who hope to survive what is coming should leave the US now. Jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down in a sane nation. This can be done. There is plenty of information out there to show you how.

I am someone who is not in denial about the fact that we are dealing with an intelligent depopulation. The profile that has developed shows specifically who is to be culled. Now that the virus death statistics are being compiled and we have a chance to study them, we can see who the victims are and examine their profiles. Data about risky conditions, specific chemical deficiencies and imbalances, and certain blood profiles that act as triggers for viral attack resulting in death are coming to light. Those who have developmental disabilities are up there at the top. (This should sound a familiar alarm.) Those who are targeted also include diabetics, people with any form of heart disease or blood disease or related kidney or liver disease, people with cancer detected and undetected, those with hypertension, and any of the common diseases of aging, except for rheumatoid arthritis. In fact, a variety of autoimmune diseases that are being treated with certain specific drugs are being spared by the coronavirus.

Which brings me to another point. Don't put all your eggs in the vaccine basket. I'm not going to get into all the reasons why a universal vaccine is unlikely to emerge. All that I will say now is this: Do not inject a for-profit vaccine. If the vaccine is not in the public domain, don't take it. More on this another time.

In the end, this all comes back to politics and political leaders. Expect to notice that Political leaders and the Oligarchs seem to have an immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Obviously, there are effective prophylactics and preventives out there. Donald Trump and his family are using them. More are being uncovered in our current formulary, for example PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis) which blocks HIV infections. Many new drugs are now being developed for this purpose alone, since vaccines are unlikely to be the frontline.

You will recognize effective preventatives immediately because they will be demonized and vilified by Western (capitalist) governmental medical institutions and regulatory agencies to frighten the public away from them until they can be properly monetized. But you knew it would come to this, didn't you?

As an aside, I joined the Peace Movement for a People's Party newsletter after I saw your note the other day. Hopefully others will keep the organization mindful and responsive to the immediate reality that we are facing. Ancient Chinese philosophy teaches us that times of great danger are times of great opportunity. For those who act.

@wokkamile There needs to be a restructuring of the universities' research agendas as well, away from "let's pander to private industry so we can get foundation grants" and toward "let's try to solve our civilization's problems for once."

and I hope Bernie and others can help bring Biden to his Obamacaring senses on this. If Sanders concentrates just on this issue and achieves a breakthrough in influence, he can easily redeem himself for his disappointing 2020 campaign.

College for All, ok. It's abundantly clear that costs for colleges/universities have long gotten out of hand, mostly bc in recent decades these institutions have added lucrative and unnecessary administrative positions. What a ripoff.

Dunno if Bernie ever proposed the following (doubt it -- this one is probably too radically bold), namely a substantial defunding and eventual elimination of our "punishment infrastructure" of policing as local gov'ts increasingly are financially strapped while police depts continue to request or are unilaterally given additional funding, while continuing to receive Pentagon surplus military equipment handouts to go to war against the communities they terrorize. In my view most of the police depts around the country come from the same callous cookie cutter of over militarization, brutal tactics and racist attitudes, and are equally incapable of reforming themselves in a direction that is less punitive and more community oriented. Time to kill them all and start over anew.

@RantingRooster all the other countries are giving their citizens in light of COVID-19.

There has got to be some form of a UBI. 40 million recently lost their jobs and it's been estimated that about 40% of those jobs are not coming back. I was having a really, really, hard time finding work before the pandemic, now it's damn near impossible.

But this, is what bothers me greatly.

I am someone who is not in denial about the fact that we are dealing with an intelligent depopulation.

The following excerpt is from the Video - Rule from the Shadows - from StormCloudsGathering youtube channel.

In 1951 psychologist Solomon Asch set out to study and measure the effects and causes of social conformity and its ability to alter perception.

To do so he ran a series of experiments in which he asked groups of students to participate in what he told them was a "vision test." In reality, all but one of the participants in each test were actually actors, each of whom had been prepped to give specific answers at specific times.

The subjects were shown a card with a line on it, followed by another card with 3 lines on it labeled 1, 2, and 3. They were then asked which line in the second card matched the line on the first card in length. The lines were made in such a way that correct answer was obvious. Each member of the group was asked to give their response one at a time, and the "real" participant always answered last or next to last. For the first two trials the actors gave the obvious, correct answer, however beginning on the third trial, they would all give the same wrong answer.

The goal was to ascertain how many people would conform to the perception of those around them when the group's position contradicted their own senses. The results surprised Asch. He had believed that the majority of participants would not conform and give an answer that was obviously wrong; however, results showed that 37% of people would conform to the crowd consistently and 75% conformed at least some of the time. Asch was uncertain as to whether this conformity was limited to social compliance or whether it was actually influencing perception at the neurological level.

In 2005 neuroscientist Gregory Berns sought to answer this question. Berns created a variation of Asch's experiment, this time measuring brain wave activity during the test to determine at what level of the brain this conformity was taking place. The results showed very clearly that the Occipital and Parietal lobes were the most active when the participants were answering incorrectly.

This meant that conformity was actually altering the perception of the test subjects at the neurological level.

Take a moment and register what that means. Social conformity literally causes the brain to rewrite our reality.

(Bold emphasis mine)

Here's the video
[video:https://youtu.be/p8ERfxWouXs]