Democracy or Dictatorship – What Have We?

 

Just posted this in the comments on Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian’s conversation on Scheerpost at Substack today:

Everything looks insane.
A total disconnect between what we think should be and what actually is.
Where’s the reason for that?
It’s here:
We think we are in democratic countries with democratic rule.
But democratic rule means rule by the people of the people for the people.
‘By the people’. Get it?
By the people.
But the people are doing nothing to rule themselves.
All over our democracies we assume our elected representatives are doing it for us.
Well they are not.
And they are not even theoretically supposed to. They are supposed to represent our wishes. Us. They should represent us.
But when we elect one of them because they are of the Party that we least dislike then in effect We are representing Them.
Completely the wrong way round.

So we expect one kind of reality because we think we are ‘democratic’.
But we don’t attempt to function as democratic citizens.
Hence we get another kind of reality: effective despotism.

The despotism of inhuman big business is what it is, essentially, nothing more nor less than that.

We have to get the idea out of our heads that we’re democratic nations simply because someone said so.

We will never be democratic nations until the citizens participate continually in the political process.

And it is very doubtful we’ll ever get there because, clearly, the vast majority have no desire to participate. Too much trouble. Too hard.

They get plumbers to do the plumbing for them, electricians to do the electrical work, builders to do the building – and they expect politicians to do all the political work.

They don’t want to do it.

In effect, in fact, we live in dictatorships. The dictatorship of Big Business motivated by profit not by concern for humanity.

It is said the ideal govt would be benevolent dictatorship

We currently do not have a benevolent dictatorship. We have malevolent dictatorships.

Open the eyes. Drop the newspeak. Tell it as it is: we do not live in democracies, we live in dictatorships and then perhaps we can begin work on making those dictatorships benevolent instead of malevolent.

And here’s the conversation I’m talking about:

https://scheerpost.com/2022/06/17/noam-chomsky-in-ukraine-diplomacy-has-been-ruled-out/#comment-37630

New Book: Trial of Julian Assange

 

Not just another book.  This one proves the case that Julian Assange is effectively being tortured and has been for years.

The shame this brings on Australia and the Australian government is beyond measure.

And perhaps in that context this quote from the first page of that book is very apt:

Those who sleep in a democracy will wake up in a dictatorship.
—Otto Gritschneder

And here’s the guff on the book:

https://theconversation.com/a-new-book-argues-julian-assange-is-being-tortured-will-our-new-pm-do-anything-about-it-183622?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%207%202022%20-%202313223042&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%207%202022%20-%202313223042+CID_b5b67b198462f4216e3ed55ac7acf168&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=A%20new%20book%20argues%20Julian%20Assange%20is%20being%20tortured%20Will%20our%20new%20PM%20do%20anything%20about%20it

Here’s Who/What it is all about…

What profit to Ukraine this war?

Add up all the deaths, destructions, injury, cripplings, trauma etc…

Compare with the deaths, destructions, injury, cripplings,  trauma etc..  if Ukraine had been allowed by the USA to accede to Putins demands.

What’s the conclusion?   Slam dunk.  Ukraine on a hiding to nothing.  All this for NIL benefit for them.

Get on your smartphone.  Get the number of any soldier in the war there who’s snuck in or retained his phone and point all that out to him.  And give him a link to this the real reason why they’re risking their life and limb:

http://Arsenal of Autocracy? The Major Weapons Makers Cash in Worldwide, Not Just Ukraine by Editor May 25, 2022

 

Phony Covid Death Toll

A good report with reasoning and facts about how the beat up about the Covid ‘death toll’ in the USA is totally bull.

But that’s the bull that our government in Aus has used to screw the country in a myriad ways for the last two years – not the least of which ways was the running up of a 600 BILLION dollar debt.

It’s all totally phony.

And now the bastards (excuse the language but it’s only a colloquialism,  just as colloquially speaking when I asked for harmless Ivermectin for I thought it may save my life, possibly, as told by hundreds of doctors, they said (colloquially) ‘die you bastard’. )

where was I?

Oh, yes  …  ‘and now’   they want us to elect them
AGAIN for another term during which they can swan around spending ONE BILLION DOLLARS A DAY to ‘fight’ something that isn’t even there!  And screw the country at the same time.

And notice this: In ALL the political propaganda we’re being inundated with now including from all the ‘newcomer’ parties – NO ONE mentions all that.  NO ONE.

Why?  Because they know a large percentage of the population was totally taken in by the propaganda and they are all frightened of alienating that percentage and not getting voted in because of that.

Even though generally they have no chance of being voted in anyway.  Many of them.

And my point here is GUTLESSNESS and PHONY.

I don’t want to elect any party, any person who wants to smarm their way in by omitting to tell important truths such as you and your country has been and is being and will be shafted by a whole massive lying scam.

Do you?

So what to do?  Well there’s apparently NO ONE good to vote for.  No one.  Not one party/person that I see.  But maybe you can find someone.

Failing that I’d say vote for the most isolated independent you can find.  Just to ‘waste’ the votes, keep them away from the existing.  Just to get this lot OUT.

ALL of them.

We need a totally new paradigm or something.  We need an ethos within which the TRUTH is told fearlessly, not hidden in smarmy attempts to ‘get in’ at any cost.

Anyway:

Here’s a good rundown on how phony the whole USA bullshit fear mongering ‘One million deaths’ thing is:

https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/did-covid-kill-a-million-americans?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxODgyNTU1NSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTU0MDQ4NjgsIl8iOiJENDd0WSIsImlhdCI6MTY1MzA5NDk0MCwiZXhwIjoxNjUzMDk4NTQwLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNDQxNjk4Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.VH89FI4Lcdfx86aR9gwTNJIssQlxpXf1hK_bDjWYhIM&s=r

Send This To Your Politicians…. (re Covid)

The Attorney General of Indiana USA sent a response to the USA Surgeon General’s request for information on Covid Misinformation and the harm caused by such.

Here some of it is, taken from a  post of Tom Wood’s newsletter:

the following examples of disinformation from the CDC and other health organizations that have shattered the public’s trust in science and public health and will take decades to repair.”

The document then lays out the problems with lockdowns and masks, refutes the claim that the jabs could prevent transmission (the basis for the various vaccine passports and mandates), and criticizes the authorities for overcounting Covid deaths and denying natural immunity.

Then, too, it criticizes the practice of mass asymptomatic testing: “Mass testing of asymptomatic individuals with contact tracing and quarantining of people who test positive has failed to substantively slow the progress of the epidemic and has imposed great costs on people who were quarantined even though they posed no risk of infecting others.”

“Three facts are crucial to understanding why this policy has failed,” it continues. “First, even close contacts of someone who tests positive for the SARS-Cov-2 virus are unlikely to pass the disease on. In a large meta-analysis of household contacts of asymptomatic positive cases, only 3% of people living in the same home got sick.

“Second, the PCR test that has been used to identify asymptomatic infections often returns a positive result for people who have dead viral fragments, are not infectious, and pose no risk of infecting others.

“And third, the contact tracing system becomes overwhelmed whenever cases start to rise, leading to long delays in contacting new cases. At precisely the moment when contact tracing might be needed, it cannot do its job.

“At the same time, quarantining people is costly – for workers without adequate sick leave, absenteeism due to contact tracing means pay cuts, lost opportunities, and perhaps even an inability to feed families. For children, it means more skipped lessons and missed opportunities for academic and social growth at school, with long-run negative consequences for their future prospects. In the UK, an official government review determined that its 37 billion pound investment in contact tracing was a waste of resources. The same is undoubtedly true in the United States.”

Then it takes on the implicit and sometimes explicit claim and goal of total eradication of Covid, even though it bore none of the characteristics of a disease that could be eradicated. The process of trying to do so, meanwhile, would cause incalculable damage:

“First, we have no technology to reduce the spread of the disease or meaningfully alter disease dynamics. Lockdowns and social restrictions fail because only people who can afford to work from home without losing their job can comply over long periods….

“Second, there are many animal hosts for SARS-CoV-2 and evidence of transmission between mammals and humans. One USDA study in late 2021 found that nearly 80% of white-tailed deer in the U.S. had evidence of COVID-19 antibodies. Dogs, cats, bats, mink, and many other mammals can get COVID-19. So even if the disease were eradicated among humans, zoonotic transmission would guarantee that it would come back.

“Finally, eradication takes a global commitment from every country – an impossible goal since COVID-19 eradication is far from the most pressing public health problem for many developing countries.”

So as usual, the real misinformation comes from the official sources, and the statement by the Indiana Attorney General is a rare case in which this problem is publicly acknowledged and countered.

That’s what Tom published.  If I can get hold of the original document I’ll print it all.

Meanwhile I suggest we all send copies of what we have to every one of our politicians particularly those who here in Australia ran up a debt to lay on all of us of $600BILLION on the pretext of ‘fighting’ this non-existent threat in these totally spurious ways.

AND we could write to the Indiana govt and commend them and their Attorney General Todd Rokita on the sterling job they’ve done and the example they’ve set for the rest of the world.

There’s no email address that I know of to email them directly but they have an online form we can use.  It is necessary to have a USA address but I used the address of their public library and explained myself in the text.  I think we could all do that.

The Central Library:

40 East Saint Clair Street
Indianapolis, Idiana     Zip:   46204
Phone:   317-275-4100

When they get back to me they may come up with a direct email or at least amend their form to allow foreigners more easily use it

Yep.  Big hooray for Todd Rokita and Indiana USA.    🙂

p.s.  Here’s Tom Wood’s post from where I got all this:

https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/disinfo?e=cd4e8833d4