THE CAPTIVE MARKET, HEALTHCARE EDITION PART II

       This weekend we learned that, contrary to the thoughts and prayers of the Whacko Left-Wing, President Trump turned out to be very much alive. I'm not certain what they think they'll gain by Trump's demise: I can't imagine that Vance would be more to their liking, but the American Left (and the public in general) tends not to think long-term. Americans are, by and large, so infatuated with authority-figures that they've apparently come to believe that removing one man changes everything for the better. We see how well that's worked out in US Foreign Policy (e.g. Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc.). Act First, Think Later is one of our defining sociopolitical attitudes.

      Although we don't know many details about Trump's health, we are learning more of his whereabouts during the past week. Late August was a big week for Big Pharma; and amidst the fake outrage from the Democrat faction of the Uniparty over the CDC resignations and the online shout-fests over whether or not Elvis Trump was dead or alive; our old pal Bill Gates made a rather under-publicized visit to the White House.  

     “Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates went to the White House on Tuesday for a meeting with the President, according to a Gates spokesperson. In a statement obtained by Fox News Digital, the spokesperson noted, 'Bill met with the president to discuss the importance of U.S. global health programs and health research that is necessary to save lives, protect Americans’ health, and preserve U.S. leadership in the world.'"

     

        The last time the two met (that we know of), the White House made a great publicity stunt of withdrawing from the World Health Organization, and the very next week set up an unelected bureaucracy to give Gates everything that he wanted from that organization, subsidized to a half-trillion taxpayer dollars. Gates is in control of that project, too, incidentally.

       Right on schedule, today the White House announced data on COVID vaccines be released, no doubt a concession from Gates, who also earlier this week announced that he had cut ties with a major funding source for Democrat candidates. No doubt we'll be treated to some more years-old scandals (along with Epstein Island and the Russiagate Hoax) to divert public attention from the Corporate takeover of Public Healthcare.

       Time will tell what Gates got in exchange for all of this, but shortly after the meeting we learned that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched an AI program which will "use artificial intelligence software to determine whether certain kinds of coverage are 'appropriate' or not." The White House informs us that 

     "Through the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model, CMS will partner with companies specializing in enhanced technologies to test ways to provide an improved and expedited prior authorization process relative to Original Medicare’s existing processes, helping patients and providers avoid unnecessary or inappropriate care and safeguarding federal taxpayer dollars."

    Anybody want to hazard a guess as to what Big Tech firm has the WISeR Model?

        If you guessed WEF Strategic Partner Microsoft, you guessed correctly. Once again, these issues always seem to go back to the same people. 

        In yesterday's article, we exposed Peter Thiel's machinations behind the CDC takeover; his confederate Gates is evidently moving in on Obamacare. That's what the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services actually (or, are supposed to) do: authorize patients for qualifying to receive medications and treatments. Just as Thiel's people will be deciding on what medications and treatments are safe and effective, Gates' goons will be deciding who gets coverage and who doesn't.

       It doesn't even stop there. Thanks to Thiel's fingers in the Stargate Project along with Gates' front-group, MGX Fund Management (another WEF Strategic Partner, based in the United Arab Emirates), all of our medical information, including DNA profiles, will be in the hands of Big Pharma and Big Tech in a conveniently centralized location. 

      Totally not like an authoritarian move, though---I'm sure that we'll hear that from the True Believers and the Denialists. Wishful thinking aside, however, those receiving Medicare or Medicaid should be advised that the Government will have the ability within a short time to compile Healthcare dossiers on everyone receiving such services, which they can use for whatever purposes they see fit. 

     

        Like the WEF/Corporate takeover of the CDC, this is another problem entirely of our making. It's not as there weren't numerous Red Flags going up around Gates and his connections to the Conservative-Industrial Complex. But American 'Conservatives' decided to look the other way, because the only important thing was to own the Libtards. Now Big Pharma and Big Tech are going to own them, and us too. 

     

       

      

EMPATHY AND THE ELITES

    The latest manufactured controversy ongoing in the United States centers upon the US Congress. Every so often in our Postmodern Managed Democracy, Congress has to try and pretend that it is still relevant even though it long ago ceded any actual authority it had to the Executive and Judicial Branches. Invariably, these controversies coincide with declining poll numbers for whichever wing of the Uniparty holds office and/or upcoming election cycles. 

    What the Uniparty is debating for public consumption currently concerns a budget program ridiculously named The Big Beautiful Bill, in conformity of our current zeitgeist of government by Social Media and Spectacle. Like most of these documents, it was crafted by Special Interests and Corporate Lobbyists whose core policies of transferring more wealth and power into their Masters' hands will happen regardless of the political theater. The Bill includes a major revision of funding for Government-subsidized giveaways to Big Pharma and the Insurance Cartels operating under the pretext of a National Healthcare Program.

    Iowa Senator Joni Ernst caused some Media stir last weekend. Senator Ernst is another of the Prairie-Muffin Tradmoms who has positioned herself as a Christian Nationalist, despite some rather flexible compromises on Social Issues like voting to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. These days, though, such peccadilloes can be overlooked since it seems that the only qualification one needs to be a Christian Conservative is not being a Democrat.

      Ms. Joni drew some criticism for speaking too candidly at a Town Hall meeting and expressing what the Republican Wing of the Uniparty actually thinks about the American People. Someone in the audience pointed out that people could die from these proposed budget cuts, Joni rolled her eyes in exasperation and told us all “For heaven’s sake, folks, we all are going to die.”

      Even though, for the past 18 months or so, Conservative pundits have been telling us that facts don't care about your feelings, and top advisers to the President and Christian Conservative megachurch leaders have been droning on relentlessly about the Sin of Empathy, some actually pretended to be shocked at the Senator's perceived lack of compassion. 

     The Corporate Media's sudden discovery that some Americans have come to believe that the Elites don't really care about them sent the Controlled Opposition into damage-control mode. Christian Nationalist and one of the masterminds behind Project 2025, Russ Vought (now the Director of the Office of Management and Budget) ran to sympathetic talk-shows to assure everyone that only undesirables would be effected, and dismissed the fears as political propaganda. The numbers of such undesirables is quite high: “one out of every five or six dollars in Medicaid is improper." Vought proclaimed without offering any further proof than Elon Musk's word for it, and added: "We have illegal immigrants on the program! We have able-bodied working adults that don’t have a work requirement that they would have in food stamps and other federal programs!"

    For her part, Ms. Joni issued an apology of sorts, explaining that "Those who objected to the prospect of death should seek eternal and everlasting life and embrace Jesus Christ," to "escape the fires of Hell" which no doubt awaits all who obstinately refuse Conversion to the New Right. 

      Now, nobody is denying that Medicare/Medicaid are now horribly corrupt and dysfunctional agencies. They actually do help a number of Americans---in spite of, not because of---their existence. An actual Conservative approach would be lowering the cost of healthcare by prying the Corporate leeches out of the system and investing in things like rebuilding the economy, schools, and infrastructure so that we don't have an ever-burgeoning Underclass dependent on Welfare. The way to reduce the costs of Social Services is to empower the people economically to the point where only a few actually need it. 

     But economic independence wouldn't serve the purposes of Big Pharma and the Insurance Cartels, nor does it serve the agendas of power-hungry politicians and Social Engineers. It doesn't serve the agenda either of Christian Nationalist and Dark Enlightenment fanatics who wistfully dream of the Early Middle Ages as some sort of Golden Age. All that Senator Ernst really did with her statements is to reveal what these factions have thought all along: that those not of productive use to their Overlords are, and should be, expendable. The religious varnish applied to cover these crimes is just as bad and as hypocritical as the old Divine Right of Kings doctrine that paid clerics once imposed upon humanity. 

     It is past time that American Conservatives started calling this out and stopped pretending that the Republicans and Democrats are really two different parties; or that either one serves anybody's interests but those of the Globalist Elite. 

WANT TO GIVE TO A WORTHY CAUSE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON?

        It isn't often that we find a worthy cause to donate to these days. However, one that readers might wish to consider is to help 42-year old Florida mother, Briana Boston by visiting her GoFundMe page. Donations were at around $62,000 as of this writing.

      

     In the wake of the assassination of the CEO of United Health Care last week, the ringleaders of the criminal cabals posing as American economic leadership have become understandably nervous. After decades of  carrying on"unchecked by constitutional restraints or ordinary human feeling, making sport of the lives and fortunes of men," the reality that some nameless, faceless individual can cancel them like they cancel others is giving them nightmares. 

    Since these Plutocrats own the Legal Establishment like they own everything else, they've mobilized their private armies (a.k.a. Law Enforcement agencies) to make examples of anybody who might not watch what they say in public. Briana Boston is (so far) the first such example. 

    Mrs. Boston had an argument on the telephone with an unusually paranoid 'Customer Service Representative' employed by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Group, a confederation of Insurance Cartels which would have ceased to exist long ago if our Government bothered enforcing Anti-Trust Laws and if BCBSG weren't pumping millions into Beltway lobbying efforts. Apparently, she referenced the assassination in New York during the argument: the BCBSG operative ran screaming to the police and within a few hours, Ron DeSantis' goon squads raided the Bostons' Lakeland, Florida home.

   “She’s been in this world long enough that she certainly should know better that you can’t make threats like that in the current environment that we live in and think that we’re not going to follow up and put you in jail,” snorted Lakeland Police Chief Sammy Taylor. Mrs. Boston has no criminal history and owns no firearms.

    Briana Boston is facing 15 years in prison and is currently being held on $100,000 bond thanks to the elastic legal procedures brought to us by George Bush, allegedly to 'fight terrorism.' According to the judge who set the bail, the high amount was “appropriate considering the status of our country at this point.”

    The status of our country, indeed. This is what decades of Speech Codes, Cancel Culture, and Political Correctness has brought us to. Fortunately (for now) we can push back. Visit Mrs. Boston's GoFundMe page this holiday season and do an innocent family a good turn. 

    

    

WHITHER GOETH NEW YORK?

     This has been one of those weeks where things have happened faster than most of us can keep up with them. The new Operation Warp Speed is speeding us all into the Great Reset much faster than the lethargic Biden Government was doing. This week, the Republicans rounded out filling top posts: among them an operative of BlackRock as policy manager at the State Department. Mark Zuckerberg, one of the latest globalist oligarchs to join Team Woke, contributed a million into the Coronation Ceremonies in January; while WEF linchpin Marc Benioff dedicated an issue of his news outlet Time Magazine to celebrate the Trump Victory. Just four years ago, of course, Benioff dedicated an issue of Time to bragging about how he and Zuckerberg helped Biden 'win,' but these peccadilloes can be overlooked. 

     Trump went to Wall Street today to address the de facto US Government, and likely to still fears swelling among many of the Oligarchy after the assassination of the CEO of United Health Care. The Media has been clutching their bowties nervously because their usual sensationalism about such crimes hasn't had the desired effect. 

      It seems that the public, in this particular case, isn't expressing a great deal of sympathy for the slain CEO. The scum in the Corporate Mainstream Media variously have been trying to explain this phenomenon away by claiming either that such an outpouring of sentiment is "hate-filled extremism" (no doubt fomented by Russian or Chinese operatives) or as "frustration with our national healthcare system." The Controlled Opposition Media---which has a polar opposite reaction whenever a rich guy does the same to a poor one--- is portraying the victim as a heroic martyr just doing his job who was brutally gunned down by an envious Left-Wing Whacko. 

    The whole affair reminded me of an interview with Richard Nixon shortly after Lee Harvey Oswald was shot. Nixon said:

    "The man who was guilty of murdering our president deserved to die, but under our system he was entitled to a trial. Two wrongs don't make a right. As much as all Americans wanted to see the President's murderer brought to justice, under the circumstances, we deplore the law being taken into the hands of a man...It is my hope that all Americans will use that day {Day of Mourning declared by President Johnson} to pledge ourselves to fight this tendency towards hatred and violence that we saw evidenced in the last few days."

   My own thoughts are similar to Nixon's. The CEO of United Health Care meeting his demise in front of a firing squad after a fair trial would have been appropriate. The issue here, however, is that we don't have a functioning legal system like we had in 1963; and back then the Government actually reined in predatory Corporations. Also, the tendency that Nixon described then is a New Normal today---in fact one actually encouraged by the Government. 

   The "frustrations" that Americans feel is not solely with the Health Care System: it is rooted in deep-seated anger against a system in its entirety which no longer represents them or even especially cares about them. In fact, I would say that contempt probably describes the general attitude best that just about anyone in any position of power holds towards anyone who doesn't hold power.

   The reality---which most Americans probably will avoid facing---however, is that this situation is largely self-inflicted. Americans for the most part have abandoned any sense of community or any sense of responsibility to a Higher Power and engaged in a sort of war of all-against-all in the pursuit of egotistical greed and personal narcissistic gain. I would wager that the majority of those calling for the targeting of the CEOs would behave exactly like these executives do if they came into their positions themselves. 

   A Dead White Male spoke of another society much like ours today which it wouldn't hurt to quote here: "They had seen a single lawless will, unchecked by constitutional restraints or ordinary human feeling making sport of the lives and fortunes of men. They had seen the sons of the proudest families selling their ancestral honor for their lives, betraying their nearest and dearest and kissing the hand reeking with innocent blood. They saw that for the last several years, with brief intervals, virtue had been exiled or compelled to hide itself in impotent seclusion, and that power and wealth had been the reward of perfidy and self-abasement."

    That author was describing Ancient Rome under the likes of Caligula and Nero, but the passage was striking because it describes so succinctly the American Culture that we have seen develop since the previous quote from Nixon. The Romans were able to turn themselves around and saw better days for the next few centuries, whether we do or not is another matter. In Rome's case, a group who cared about the direction of their country ejected the ruling dynasty and instituted reforms. They did not do as both wings of our Uniparty want to do: seize power to replace one group of villains with another. 

   Americans have to face the fact that our culture cannot---and never can---function as long as the majority are bent on outsourcing their inalienable human rights to whichever powerful clique favors them. The idolatry of Wealth and Power led to what happened in New York and drove the ruthless exploitation carried out by United Health Care and is also driving the bloodthirsty calls for revenge. If it were anything else, the debate would be focused upon rational reforms instead of one side demanding a police-state crackdown and the other demanding lynch-mobs. 

   Despite what many want to believe, the Incoming Government shows no indication that it has any intention of reversing any of these trends, in fact, in some cases it seems inclined to accelerate them. The Party Platform adopted at this Summer's Convention scornfully rejected everything but top-down solutions and openly embraced Woke ideology; that the appointment of nearly two dozen globalist Oligarchs to key positions (positions liberally salted with Christian Nationalists and other fanatics) ought to tell anybody that change is not coming from the top. It needs to come from within ourselves first and foremost. 

   

   

    

  

THE AMERICAN FAT FARM

     Here in the Prozac Nation, a new study published in the Journal of American Medicine revealed yet another of the growing health issues facing America's youth. Obesity rates among the 12-18 age group have now hit an alarming 21% of that demographic. One would assume that this and several other reports of high addiction, suicide rates, infant mortality, and infertility would be a major topic of discussion over here, but apparently only the Chinese Media thought it worthy of mention. Their editors also stated the obvious: "Treatment strategies vary, but lifestyle modification remains the cornerstone. Effective interventions include dietary changes, increased physical activity, and behavioral counseling." Ultimately, parents have the responsibility for the physical and mental health of children and legal minors; however pointing out parental failures is probably not an ideal way to flatter the public for votes during an Election Year. 

    It should be noted that in the clinical sense that JAMA is using the term, obesity is not the same as overweight. Heaven only knows how many fall into the latter category, which is also unhealthy. Evidently the situation has gotten so bad since I studied any medical science that the World Health Organization has had to add new categories for hyper-obesity.

        The Public Schools and politically-correct politicians likewise have failed our youth in this respect. In the early 1960s, now-Dead White Males led by President John F. Kennedy mandated a program in the school system to ensure the health of future generations, which included health education in addition to actual physical training. The program was abandoned by Neocon George Bush Sr. who saw it as a waste of money and later by the Clinton Co-Presidency who thought it wasn't inclusive enough. There have been a few half-hearted attempts to promote public health in schools, most notably under Obama; but these were mostly publicity stunts and there has been no political focus on the problem since the 2010s and no real policy on the subject since the 1980s. 

      JAMA is, of course, published by the American Medical Association which has deep ties to both Big Pharma and to the Insurance Cartels; so naturally their proposals call for more top-down solutions and expensive medical procedures instead of good parenting and better education. Wall Street is never one to let a good crisis go waste when there is an opportunity to enhance stakeholder profits.

    Likewise, there appears to be no popular will to address the problem either, considering how so-called Fat Acceptance has become a New Normal in American standards of beauty. Like Gender Dysphoria and Drug Addiction, most Americans seem to imagine that pretending there are no health risks will make the problem go away by ignoring or denying it. 

    However, Reality does have a bad habit of making itself felt whether people ignore it or not. Four-fifths of Americans aged 18-24 are unfit for military service, even by the Pentagon's abysmally low standards. Infertility rates are causing a decline in future work forces which will have to support an increasingly aging population. What's worse: the associated health problems with morbid obesity is putting a strain on the very generation that will need to provide for its elders.

   It's also quite apparent that our failures in public education are contributing to our decline as a world leader in innovation and technology. As we've noted many times before, it's simple mathematical logic that what is a social problem in the 2020s is going to be a national disaster in the 2040s. 

   Sadly, the average Ameroboob's concept of the future is something like next weekend; and thus the next decade or so is as remote to their thinking as the 25th Century. So likely we'll continue sinking into bulimia and addiction while Big Pharma, Big Ag, the Insurance Cartels, and the Academic Mafia going laughing all the way to the bank.

     

 

    

US AT BOTTOM (AGAIN) IN MATERNAL MORTALITY RATES

     Here in the Prozac Nation, outbreaks of mass-insanity are becoming increasingly common, as they historically do when a society is breaking down. These outbursts usually manifest themselves around some controversial issue which wouldn't even be a matter of debate in a sane society, while underlying or more serious issues get ignored but these absurdities are always dignified with some high-sounding stock phrase to give the illusion of importance.

    Last week, for example, the rage was all about the Donald Trump and Hunter Biden trials while the whole issue of egregious dysfunction in our Legal System was swept under the rug. This week, women's issues have resurfaced, the controversy surrounding two (so far) beauty pageants 'won' by contestants who---to put it mildly---weren't quite what we'd normally expect. The decisions obviously were made to incite controversy a make a statement because no rational person would justify either of them in any other way. 

   The State of Maryland decided that Gender Dysphoria was a positive role model for girls; while the State of Alabama stressed Morbid Obesity as a desirable feminine goal. Actually, I'm not sure why any young woman would want to participate in these events after these clown-shows, but outlets for positive femininity are becoming about as closed as their masculine counterparts these days. It's a common misconception in the Manosphere that women are valued more than men in our society, but this is an illusion based on a faulty perspective. Women are worth nothing in our society: men are worth less than nothing and this actually is the only difference. 

    As proof of this, let's look at a story which went ignored behind all of the online flame-wars, gender-bending, and general stupidity. For the third straight year, the US retains last place among developed nations in its maternal mortality rate. In fact, the percentage of mothers dying in childbirth is nearly twice as high as Chile, which is second-worst among the 37 OECD nations. 

   This isn't a phenomenon which only happened last week: the numbers have been crashing throughout the entire 21st Century, though neither our social influencers nor the political class seem to take much interest in it. In the year 2000---which had already seen some decline in previous years, the maternal mortality rate in America stood at 9.8 per 100,000 births; today that number is 22.8. In 2021, the numbers had hit as high as 32.9: but even since then, the rates of infertility and infant mortality rates have climbed which probably account for the modest decline. Native-born Americans are not even reproducing at replacement levels. 

    The study also showed an interesting statistic; 2/3 of maternal mortality happens postpartum---within a year---of giving birth. Those are causes of death referred to as complications of pregnancy. While it is true that addictions, obesity, and the generally poor condition of American health is causing much of the problem, poor postnatal care is also a contributing factor. 

    The reason behind this likely has to do with the structure of American healthcare. Obamacare essentially turned over the system to Big Pharma and the Insurance Cartels---which had already amassed considerable power over it under the Neocon policy of outsourcing social services and favoring monopolistic practices. Policies on pregnancy and childbirth are today centered on the most cost-effective options and patients are merely commodities. Postnatal care doesn't involve the subsidies or medical expenses that natal care does, and the latter already is done as cheaply as possible. As proof of this, it should be noted that the highest rates of both maternal and infant mortality are in so-called Red States where Crony-Capitalist control over healthcare is more pronounced.

    Regardless of the policy reasons however, it's sadly obvious that a culture which considers access to abortion and homo 'marriage' as sacred human rights isn't likely to concern itself much over things like maternal or infant mortality rates. Nor will an economic system which is essentially dehumanizing put much value on things like the miracle of birth. So our culture will probably go on fighting over challenging traditional gender stereotypes while things like femininity and motherhood continue to decline. 

APEC, ABORTION, AND OTHER FUN STUFF

      In a sort of bizarre extension of yesterday's news stories, the US Congress---which is supposedly controlled by the Republicans---mercifully ended its session early after rubber-stamping the Junta's budget proposal. At least they won't they won't be creating any more national embarrassments until after Thanksgiving. No sooner had the Budget passed, though, than some rather awkward details about Pentagon and Homeland Security projects were quietly slipped under the Media radar-screen. 

    Biden, however, managed to make a fool of himself for the second time at the APEC Summit. There were, however, a few positive developments: China agreed to start answering the Defense Department's phone calls again, which they stopped doing after Pelosi's Taiwan visit last year. The Junta agreed to set up a joint commission to address China's concern about repeated US Military infractions of their territorial waters. It's difficult to say whether that one will amount to much: Trump ordered the Navy to stop these provocations at one time, but the Pentagon ignored him. There were some token agreements on climate change and fighting the drug war too; but Xi no doubt is planning a quiet week in the Chinese countryside to recover his strength after the mentally exhausting ordeal of meeting with US politicians, CEOs, and the streets of San Francisco in general. 

    

   Just as we predicted yesterday too, the Corporate shills RNC 'experts' were dropping their prepared statements accusing Biden of being a sellout and a major weenie on China. The stand-up team of Thayer and Fanell---a pair of worthies of whom we've spoken before---stated that our Head-of-State's gaffes and diplomatic blunders are "worse than appeasement." An assertion in their article's opening paragraph is more instructive than it is informative:

  "Ironically, the risks should be all on Xi’s side as his increasing paranoia and purging of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has warped the Party and government, coupled with the collapse of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) economy and other major social, demographic problems that place Xi in a uniquely vulnerable position." 

   This is instructive because it illustrates two fundamental problems with the Neocon narrative in general.

   1. It's a complete lie. Xi is not paranoid; there no Party purges going on; China's economy is currently stronger than ours; and there is no demographic crisis going on there---other than those occasionally fomented by outside religious cults like the Soros-backed Wahhabi Jihadists and Lamaist Tibetans, or the Koch-backed Moonies and Falun Gong cults, etc.  

  2. It's complete Projection. Our leadership is the one characterized by paranoia, purges and political witch-hunts, a collapsing economy (at least for the bottom 80%), and deliberately engineered racial and gender divisions. 

 This is a fairly typical outline of what passes for 'Conservative Opposition' position-papers these days. Accuse everyone else of doing what we do; blame everything on the Democrats, immigrants, or the Chinese; hold your noses and vote for the Neocons; and if you object that makes you a defeatist, a sellout, an unrealistic idealist, etc. 

   

   The Congressional hiatus and the winding-down of the APEC debacle have, however, given the Republican Establishment time to promote its new-found wokeness on the Abortion issue. There was a good article at LifeSite News today giving a run-down of some of the characters involved. The only critique that I would have of this article is its assumption that leading Conservatives are 'sellouts.' The fact that no one in the GOP leadership has done a thing to stop the murder of the unborn since the Ford Administration, all the while profiting off fetal-tissue trafficking and other abortion-racket scams and doing very little since Roe was overturned, should indicate that the GOP's solid Pro-Life position was nothing but marketing angle and a sales-pitch all along. 

   The article starts with our President-In-Exile who is leading polls in a quixotic attempt to regain the White House. While I firmly believe that Trump was deposed in an illegal coup in 2020, I must confess that I have had legitimate concerns that our dispossessed Chief Executive has suffered some kind of nervous breakdown since the Putsch. Aside from his position on Abortion, Trump has refused to disavow the disastrous Operation Warp Speed and made some dangerous and really borderline-psychotic policy statements on more than one occasion recently. 

   Trump's remarks came in response to Ron DeSantis' allegedly hardline Pro-Life statements, although Ronnie-the-RINO himself hasn't been especially aggressive about outlawing the safe and legal procedure in his own state, Whacko Left histrionics to the contrary. 

   Kari Lake---who like DeSantis thrives on Publicity Stunts---and Neocon frauds Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter have shown their true colors as well. Though they weren't mentioned in the article, WEF Young Global Leaders and GOP presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy are taking the pro-life but not judgemental about personal choices approach. Ramaswamy hasn't made a detailed position yet, but his ties to Big Pharma and the Abortion Racketeers is self-explanatory. Chris Christie, like DeSantis, is generally fine with a so-called '15 week law' which still kills babies and keeps profits flowing to Big Pharma and the Biochemical Cartels, but can be sold as 'Pro-Life.' 

   Unfortunately, human life has become another commodity in the United States. Babies can't vote or donate to political lobbies while narcissistic women and opportunistic men can and do; so we know whose interests the Political Class is going to support. The Crown of Motherhood and the Miracle of Birth are not marketable concepts these days. If anyone doubts this, it would instructive to see a typical contract issued by any one of the major Insurance Cartels. There's plenty of coverage for Abortion Clinics---Fertility Clinics, not so much. Given the Cartels' influence in the Beltway, that's not liable to change any time soon.

   

MEANWHILE THE GREAT RESET GOES ON...

     On Tuesday, Americans voted in what has become the almost meaningless performance which are called Elections over here. Elections are something that are an American tradition because once upon a time, they actually represented the general American will fairly equitably. Today, of, course, Elections are staged events to give people the illusion that the Elites have a consensus and ordinary people actually have some control over what they do.  

    Not surprisingly, the Controlled Opposition (a.k.a. the Republican Party) was wiped out. Equally unsurprisingly, the GOP leadership believes that moving closer the Democrats will solve their lack of popular support. It has nothing to do with their incompetence, their lack of any meaningful strategy, their mendacity, or their phoniness in general. Like the ancient Greeks said of the Trojans, Conservatives never learn until it's too late.

    Consider what has happened since last year's Election. It took nearly a year for the GOP Congress even to decide on a House Speaker. Once they chose one, his first order of business was to pay back his donors in AIPAC, Big Pharma, and Big Oil with an aid package to prop up the Zionist Cult in the "ultimate LGBTQ travel destination" of Tel Aviv. The $14 billion or so in taxpayer resources that Mike Johnson just transferred to the Oligarchy could have been spent on something that might actually have benefit Americans. For example, the agricultural lands of California have been drying up for over a decade due to a long-term drought and the State is facing severe water shortages. It costs about $25 million to build a large-scale desalination plant. For $14 billion, we could have rescued hundreds of farms, supplied Los Angeles with water, and had money left over for further infrastructure upgrades. But making the world safe for offshore oil-drilling on the Gaza Coast was a higher priority.

    Johnson's been busy with other important programs of vital interest to the American people, however. On Tuesday, he managed to get some Democrats to cross the aisle and official censure Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib for speaking out too vocally against the Deep State's servility to Israeli interests. Today, he set to fast-track the Biden Impeachment Hearings---as if those will amount to anything but creating more drama. After all, if the Republican front-runner is being indicted, the Democrats' should too: just to make it fair. 

   Assuming that we even have elections next year, what a scenario is shaping up. Two 80-year old men debating over which one has the most criminal charges, which is the greatest threat to the country, and which has had more allegations of sexual impropriety. The Corporate Media might as well just drop all pretenses and have Howard Stern and Oprah Winfrey moderate the debates. 

   If anyone really wants to see how bad its really become; the Asia-Pacific Economic Conference is being held in San Francisco this week. Chinese President Xi Jinping might attend. Several Chinese journalists have arrived to cover the conference---many of whom are in the US for the first time---and they are aghast at the squalid condition of our 9th largest city. If Americans still had the capacity for feeling any shame, this would be such a national embarrassment that they would demand action. But, as it is, they'll go on pretending that it's not as bad as China, or something.

     While these distractions are going on, the unelected Corporate leaders who actually do run the United States are pushing forward with the Great Reset Agenda which, as John Kerry promised in 2021, "it will happen and it will happen with greater speed than most people realize." 

    The Insurance Cartels, for example, are apparently having some difficulty reconciling their support for depopulation with the outflow of capital generated by a sudden surge in post-Loyalty Vaxx deaths. I think that we can all guess roughly where this is going to lead: the Cartels either will get a taxpayer-funded bailout or a possibly an Obamacare-style Life Insurance scheme that they will manage. Either way, the Oligarchs will transfer more wealth and power into their own hands while no one responsible for all of these mass-casualties will ever be brought to justice for it. 

   The Gates Foundation, too, is working on a proposal to experiment with his longstanding goal of implementing Digital ID surveillance program in Kenya. This is part of the WEF-backed UN Agenda 2030 where by their own admission in less than a decade "governments will be issuing everyone biometric ID, including babies." If anyone is still inclined to keep their head in sand and pretend that it can't happen here, recall that a little over a year ago, Vaxx Passports were being considered in the US---and actually implemented among many of our colonies allies. 

    On the subject of tagging babies, some academics connected with these same supranational oligarchies have floated a position paper suggesting that parents should be required to obtain a license to have children. Connor Kianpour, professor at the University of Colorado---an institution heavily funded by Big Pharma and Big Tech---wrote in the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy that “Individuals have no right to rear their biological children, nor do they have any interests weighty enough to justify a right to rear children generally. Since these rights do not exist, regulated parenting policies cannot be said to jeopardize them.” 

    Kianpour outlines the proposed requirements for obtaining such a license: “Certain individuals are unfit to rear children because they are objectionably intolerant of certain backgrounds and ways of life...strongly homophobic individuals are unfit to rear children.” This also includes those parents affiliated with “organizations that would give us reason to believe they are objectionably intolerant,”

    These are all examples of what these people hope to achieve within the lifetimes of most of our readership. But we want to keep telling ourselves that we'll vote our way out of it and that Hamas is the real threat to Civilization and Democracy. What we need to do is start facing Reality. Disconnect, disunite, disengage from the Mainstream as much as possible; network with like-minded people. Build parallel communities. Don't aid and abet these people any more than is absolutely necessary. 

   We're seeing in both Ukraine and the Middle East that the Oligarchy is not invincible. We don't have the numbers, resources, or organization to fight them in the same way, but the resolve of the Russian and Arab freedom-fighters will help hasten the New World Order's demise---and ultimately it will fail. In fact, I believe that many of us will live to see its downfall, although whether that downfall will be brought about by foreign resistance or the inherent flaws in the Oligarchy's schemes, time alone will tell. In the meantime, we have to reject the propaganda and hold fast to our values.

 

    

CHINESE OPIOID EXPOSE FRUSTRATES US DEEP STATE

    Recently, the Beltway Junta has been trying desperately to paper over reports of increasing Opioid fatalities in the United States. As part of their 'depopulation' agenda, of course, the Oligarchy desires this situation, but the situation has reached such proportions that it's become impossible to hide from the general public. So, both the Junta and the Controlled Opposition have agreed upon a narrative blaming China for the problem---much like they blame Russia for spreading 'disinformation' whenever their crimes are publicly exposed in the alternative media.

   With great fanfare and 'bipartisan' support, the nominal United States Government officially listed China as a Major Drug Source Country and imposed several pointless sanctions on Chinese companies making pharmaceutical supplies. This, in spite of the fact that China (unlike the US) bans Fentanyl even as a prescription drug. China's officials have been speaking out against this. In an interview with Wei Xiaojun---head of the Chinese equivalent of the DEA---some rare admissions were made as to the state of the Opioid Crisis in China. While it is fairly severe, it pales in comparison to the American problem---and, unlike the US, China has been making substantial progress in suppressing the illegal drug trade.

   The Global Times also went on to publish an investigative report on the Opioid situation here. Americans have been conditioned by our own Corporate Media to sneer reflexively at anything published by China (as if our Media isn't State-disseminated propaganda itself). The most compelling aspect of this article is that is an outsider's view of corrupt, corporatist Western Culture. If this is indeed  Propaganda that the Chinese Government employs to tell it's citizens what to think of the West, it's a very damning indictment that they don't really need to exaggerate or lie much to make their case that postmodern Western Civilization is a sham Democracy; and that most of us are really just slaves to the Corporate Leviathan that rules over us, and seeks to spread it's Empire of Domination over the entire world. It may be 'anti-American propaganda used to prop up a Communist regime'; but if so, it's certainly effective, because so much of it is based on the truth. In fact, it is noteworthy because it cites sources from our own Government-Media Complex.

   

      

     The report states that "the US is plagued with a drug abuse problem more acute than any other countries as 12 percent of global drug users come from the North American country, two times higher than the proportion of its population. Provisional data indicates that nearly 110,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2022, the highest of all time, and more than two-thirds of the deaths involved the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, as per US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." 

    This number was going down under the Trump Administration's Opioid Task Force, incidentally; but Orange Man Bad, and we know the rest of the story. Today, dope-pushers are running free again, while our President-in-Exile may likely end up in jail---a perfect metaphor for Americans' social priorities.

    "US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, when visiting China in late August, claimed that US hopes to cooperate with China to tackle the rapidly increasing rates of fentanyl overdoses. However, the country simultaneously keeps scapegoating China on the issue, imposing sanctions and filing criminal charges against Chinese enterprises and individuals."

    It should also be noted that the Trump Administration made an agreement with China to work jointly on eradicating Opium supplies in Afghanistan, and Trump also agreed to end the so-called Freedom of Navigation exercises in the South China Sea so that China could focus more heavily upon suppressing smuggling in the region. The Pentagon ignored both of those orders. 

   China likewise launched military operations in Burma aimed at destroying the Opioid networks illegally operating there. US NGOs backed by George Soros and Bill Gates fought China desperately; framing the narrative as 'ethnic cleansing' against the Burmese Rohingya people---whose population was largely engaged in it. They've promoted a similar narrative against Chinese actions among the Uighurs in Western China who are doing the same things. Coloring anything as 'racist' in the American Media is like a magic incantation---it causes immediate cessation of reasoning. However, that formula never applies when our Media blames all Mexicans for drug trafficking on our Southern Border. 

   The report goes on to trace the sordid history of Big Pharma and US Deep State collusion beginning with the OxyContin scandals of the 1990s. "The pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma colluded with US medicinal regulators and developed aggressive marketing tactics to promote its brand name product OxyContin, an extended-release form of Oxycodone, as less likely to cause addiction, raking in tens of millions of dollars. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), charged with the responsibility of prescription drug use regulation, gave OxyContin the green light in 1995 even though neither long-term studies nor assessments of its addictive capabilities had been thoroughly conducted."

   I well remember this scandal, and that several officials within the Clinton Co-Presidency were implicated, as noted in the report: 

  "Two principal FDA reviewers who originally approved Purdue's application took positions at the company after leaving the agency. In the following two decades, more FDA staffers involved in opioid approvals left the FDA to work for opioid makers, according to the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics. Purdue offered kickbacks, paid lecturers, and organized free seminar vacations to doctors to incentivize them to prescribe OxyContin, leading to a tenfold increase in prescriptions for less serious pain, from about 670,000 in 1997 to about 6.2 million in 2002."    

  Purdue is now an insolvent corporation; it was formerly headed by a billionaire 'woke capitalist.' (Sound familiar?) The case is still in litigation, mostly over corrupt CEOs and Federal bureaucrats trying to protect their assets. Of course, nobody in our Mainstream Media is going to talk about the revolving-door bureaucracy, 'woke capitalists' in Big Pharma---or about the obvious fact that, coupled with the stated 'population control' agenda of these interests---that our drug crisis is part and parcel of a deliberate, Corporate-Government organized system encouraging addiction and overdose deaths. So, who is the real party here engaging in Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide?

   The report also notes the collusion of the Insurance Cartels in promoting the epidemic: "Most insurance, especially for poor people, won't pay for anything but a pill," said Judith Feinberg, a professor at West Virginia University with expertise in infectious diseases associated with drug injection. The US Department of Health and Human Services estimated that about 11 million people in the US consume Oxycodone in a non-medical way annually." 

   In the American Healthcare System, cost-effectiveness has replaced what was once personal care. Medical personnel once felt a responsibility for their patients; today, the primary responsibility is to profit the 'stakeholders' in the Insurance Cartels. Patients are simply commodities. Needless to say, actual treatment for addictions is not an especially high priority to these people. That matter they leave up to their corporate cronies in the Prison-Industrial Complex. 

   "Addicts are not redeemed." the report notes, "The large, ever-expanding group of drug dependence, without proper social support and intervention, easily became the victims of new, more powerful drugs. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid which is also FDA-approved, is up to 50 and 100 times stronger than heroine and morphine respectively. Fentanyl, the cheaper to make yet more lethal drug and its close cousins became the biggest drug-related killers in the US in 2016, the Associated Press reported."

     The Trump Administration did make an effort to focus on treatment for addicts, despite considerable obstruction and bristling, even from members of his own Party. Trump's policy cut too deeply into too many profit-margins and since has been scrapped. 

    The very notion of investing in treatment programs often brings a firestorm of fury from many on the Postmodern Right. "No way! Why should we be taxed to pay for someone else's poor lifestyle choices?!?" is one common refrain heard. Aside from the humanitarian aspect---which seems to matter very little to today's new breed of Conservatism anyway---it doesn't occur to anybody that we're already paying a lot for overpriced, for-profit prisons, the crimes committed to support drug habits, and declining quality-of-life in general. Sadly, it's doubtful that such arguments carry much weight. 'Justice' in America today is really more focused on retaliation, revenge, and scapegoating; and advocating rehabilitation is seen as being a soft-on-crime weenie. Contrary to American Media propaganda, incidentally, the Chinese Justice System prioritizes treatment for drug-offenders. 

    

    "With around 4 percent of the world's population, the US consumes 80 percent of the world's opioids. Why is the US? 

    "The US' drug problem, including the current fentanyl abuse crisis, is deeply rooted in the country's lobbying political structure and ideology, said Zhang Yifei, an associate research fellow at the Institute of American Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The colossal profits bundle pharmaceutical companies with the FDA, sponsored politicians, academic groups, and the media, making the fentanyl crisis a predictable tragedy in the US that has enriched a few at the expense of many lives lost.

    "Academic institutions provide 'scientific proof,' media and think tanks propagate said proof, and drug makers lobby the government - this is a very complete and mature chain, Zhang elaborated, 'They have various ways to exchange rights and interests through the Revolving Door system.'  

   "Zhang also pointed to 'the pan-liberalism trend in the US, which emphasizes the absolute freedom of individuals.' US governments, be they federal or state, are incapable of exercising effective regulation on many issues, although some of them, like drugs, have endangered the public."  

    Sadly, I don't think that one can argue with any of Zhang's assessment. In fact, it could be added that the American population in general isn't exactly making it difficult for exploitative corporations and corrupt politicians to get away with their criminal activities. Despite annual six-figure casualties from narcotics, the Drug Crisis doesn't even crack the top 10 of voter concerns.  

   As the report showed---and many of us recall---the Opioid Epidemic began first with Big Pharma in the 1990s, and surged after the US Occupation of Afghanistan. According to official sources, "from 1999 to 2017, more than 399,000 people died from drug overdoses that involved prescription and illicit opioids. Those addicted to opioids, both legal and illegal, are increasingly young, white, and female, with 1.2 million women addicted compared to 0.9 million men in 2015. The problem is worse in rural areas." Just as the 'Cocaine Epidemic' of the Bush-Clinton Era  proliferated narcotics among Black Communities, the Opioid Crisis of the Bush Jr-Obama Era targets the White working-class. 

    After the Biden 'Administration' seized power, Afghanistan was abandoned due to increasing anti-drug actions in the region---mostly by China and Iran. Operations were brought back to the United States and compromised Latin American countries. With the downfall of the Trump Justice Department and a complete stranglehold on the American Media, the Oligarchy has no fear of exposure. Since 2021, Opioid overdoses and addiction rates have returned to, and even surpassed pre-2017 levels. 

    The American drug epidemic is the result of an orchestrated policy, the Strategy of Tension, the Depopulation Agenda, and cultivating anti-China sentiments. Most importantly, though, it is also a product of our own making. The American public---which sees the effect of the crisis before its own eyes every day---continues pretending not to see, and so it goes along unabated.