Tag: #poverty #homeless #society #space #morality

Economics for us all

So when writing a million most of us realise it is 1⁶ or 1,000,000. One to the power of 6, meaning six zeros after the one. A billion used to be defined in Britain as a million millions 1¹² however the rest of the world said it was 1⁹ and that is what we now recognise as a billion, so 1⁹, which is a 1 with 9 zeros.

It was Harold “Mary where’s my pipe” Wilson who in 1974 clarified that from that point on the British Government would recognise a billion as being a thousand million, purely because that was how it was internationally recognised. You see Harry was a progressive Prime Minister.

Now we know the world has a few ‘billionaires’ and sadly most are men, worse not particularly nice men it seems, but now we are in a world where there is currently no such  thing as a Trillionaire it seems, according to some sources, no I don’t mean HP or ketchup, not sauces you twit, sources such as the media (not usually very trust worthy sources sadly, or even the 21st century’s version of the encyclopedia Britannica – Wikipedia), however there will be in under 5 years.

So what is a trillion. Well a trillion sounds a lot, but its kinda a ridiculously large ‘lot’. It is the original British billion, a 1¹², one with twelve zeros. 1,000,000,000,000. Now Google states there are no Trillionaires yet, but other sources say its not quite that clear, because there are people who have their wealth hidden away, using corporations, trust funds, property and undeclared assets.

If you started counting to a trillion it again according to Google would take, if you counted each number per second 37,100 years.

Anyone up for that challenge.

So there truly are individuals that could not ever count the money they have,

Its suggested by money advisers that 11.5 million people (adults) have less than £100 in the UK alone. Now i am sure Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer would argue that, saying that all the poor have adequate benefits to save and have a large safety net, thats already the assumption of Universal Credit, the gap between applying and receiving the ‘entitlement’ is 5 weeks, and can be more. It also can and is sanctioned at the whim of a case worker, meaning that any reserves people have can and are taken. Despite people thinking people choose not to work, there is no benefit I can see in not working.

Savings for people at the poverty level are not greed, they are a measure of hope or complete despair. Financial issues are likely the biggest causes of depression and anxiety, and when we talk of suicide, well let’s just say money is more than significant.

Now I know I digress, but the point is how can we accept a world where individuals have such wealth that realistically it could never be spent, yet others are killing themselves or living in desperation and fear, simply because they cannot afford to feed their children, and will not even try to feed themselves until their family have eaten.

 

The poor are not your enemy, they are not scum, though the BBC and Channel 5 will tell you they are. No not when a few dozen billionaires working together could end world poverty for good, or just 100 of these super rich donating one years income – not their entire wealth could also achieve this. 

They do not. They do not want to.

So when you are asked who your true enemies are, remember they are not defined by skin colour, by religion, by geography, they are defined by their willingness to let 850,000,000 people live in abject poverty, that is under (US) $2.15 per day to live on.

They are the enemy, their  gods are greed and power.

It truly is that simple

Dead like me!

David Cameron was poster boy for the parasitic establishment.
Theresa May was their attempt to lose power and blame the opposition.
Boris Johnson was their desperation to have a whipping boy to blame for all the turmoil Cameron and May caused.
Now Truss is their desperate attempt to discredit the entire Tory government and install their next poster boy for the Establishment – Starmer, pretending the Labour Party actually was a separate entity still from the Conservatives, in a last ditch effort to make people believe we have democracy and not just an installed faux government that pretends to represent the actual people.
All hail our masters, the new world aristocracy, the failing celebrity of monarchy and the true owners of international business.
There is no longer a country flag to doff to, just corporate logos and the headers of the stock exchange.
We are now not citizens, we are to them eaters and a true waste of their worlds resources. No longer needed or wanted.

WE GONNA ACCEPT THEIR RULES? WE GONNA DIE UPON DEMAND?

ARE WE? WE GONNA ACCEPT THEIR RULES? WE GONNA DIE UPON DEMAND?

Melt down of NHS

Kings Mill Hospital in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire had a referral for me, from my GP, in October 2021. I have managed to get through today for the first time in 6 months of calling, only to be told the team are not yet looking at October 2021 referrals and would be another three months at least for an appointment.
I was then put through to the complaints team. I explained my diabetes was out of control due to my other illnesses. I told him I was not just concerned about me but all the other people awaiting a response, the call handler clearly responded that my case is not urgent.
With blood sugars going from 3mml to 33mml I beg to differ. The neuropathic pain gives a different story as does the pain management consultant.
I asked the call handler if he was clinically trained, he said no. I pointed out,that, then he was not qualified to give a opinion or make a decision and asked him why he had. He fumbled a vague answer without actually answering.
I explained that I had been referred to Kingsmill due to chesterfield Royal Hospital letting my brother down and likely being complicit in the events leading to his death due to diabetes. I also pointed out that I too had been let down before and after Robert died, by the staff at Chesterfield Royal Hospital diabetes team which is why I was being referred to Kingsmill.
He then offered the ‘options’, I could make a complaint ‘or’ (not and) get an faster appointment.
I again pointed out that yes I need an appointment but so do all the others referred 6 months or more ago that have had no response.
He did not it seems understand this.
At the beginning of the call I advised I was recording the call, as my brain fog often leaves me forgetful of points.
I am beyond frustrated that despite the death of my brother and countless others, despite the massively life changing effects to the detrement of those with diabetes, that people continue to be so let down.
Diabetes is but one major cause of death in the UK, however, it also likely is the major cause of amputation, it is a serious cause of blindness, kidney disease, depression, anxiety, along with other mental health problems that people have to live with.
No one should be let down by the health service at all, this is the 21st Century and medicine could easily deal with so many health issues, disease, disability, it does not however, not due to lack of ability, but to lack of resources caused by greed and enforced poverty.
We sit here worrying about wars in other areas in the world but accept the symptomatic death and suffering caused by consecutive British governments since and before WWII.
Again there are many other areas of medicine including cancer and heart disease that people, ourselves, our friends and to many, more importantly our family are being sacrificed upon the excuses of lack of resources but the reality of greed and corruption.
People may say diabetes, cancer or heart disease (along with all the other diseases, conditions and disabilities) are not political, my answer is ‘bullshit’, politics causes and sustains poverty, and poverty is the biggest cause of all chronic ill health.
This needs to change now and stop the government’s privatisation agenda in its tracks.
People must come before the Conservatives profiteering.
PEOPLE ARE DYING, WE ARE DYING!

The day trust died

If you were robbed in the street you would want (with a high degree of futility) the police to identify, catch and peosecute the thieves.
You would want them locked up.

Well sadly we are being robbed every day. Petrol, council tax, food, essentials all going up in price, but today the government have enabled what we’re once our own services – gas, water and electricity – now private companies (not actually supplying the gas, electricity and water, just administrating our bills) to steal everything from some of us.

Their actions today will cause poverty for tens of millions of people in the UK.

Is this to reward the hard work these companies put in? No it’s to reward their shareholders. To ensure their profits continue to increase well above any standard rate of inflation.

Is it lawful? It shouldn’t be, but when did that ever prevent the rich from profiteering?

So when you see that person begging on the street, remember you who voted Conservative, you who betrayed your own personal family history, your communities, your class, caste, allowed this to happen, as did all those within the Labour Party who betrayed us from within.

Today proves democracy is dead

Today there should be no trust in government.

Today there should be no trust in any presumption of democracy.

Today is when our faith in our country should truly die.

Revolution

There is no democracy in the UK. There are only three viable political parties, sharing one capitalist vision of greed, and controlled by the 1% richest people in Britain along with the equally rich 1% of the rest of the world.
Wealth serves no national flag, it provides a faux democracy with no possible chance of change. The only loyalty this 1% and their snivelling minions have are to greed and corruption.
Our world is staged for us. None of what we believe about government, law or justice is truly real.
The destruction of the socialist Labour Movement 2yrs ago proved that beyond doubt.
The rises in energy bills, fuel and cost of living shows these parasites have no interest in allowing you to live safe, nourished, nurturing lives. They see us and our children as nought but carrion feeding off their scraps.
We really do now need a revolution, now more than any other time in British if not world history.

World of war

I am in one of those places where normally I would write about my feelings, stresses and trials, but in this current reality here and across the world there are not millions but billions far far worse off than me.
If I were to die tomorrow I would leave a legacy of two amazing kids. A good number of friends, that is true wealth. not money or riches.
I have the princely sum of £6.17 in my bank until Thursday, but I have food, heating and even a few miles worth of fuel.
I can sit here moaning whilst watching Netflix on my comfy sofa.
I look out of the window and see the sun and the start of the coming spring.
In the UK, however, there are too many folk with nothing in the bank but debt. There are people . cannot afford to heat their houses even though they are ill or have young children or disabilities.
There are human beings, parents, children, grandparents, elderly, employed, retired, unemployed or no longer able to be employed with no food, no transport and no security of continuong to have a roof over their heads.
This is not due to fuel shortages as you are being told is due to a foreign war; it is due to greed, corruption, and ensuring shareholders make profit upon their investments.
Yes, there are issues around gas getting from Russia, but we in the UK have our own, or rather Scotland’s gas and oil fields.
What is happening in the Ukraine is terrible beyond words and made more scary for us because of the risk that we will be wiped out by nuclear weapons, a situation caused in more than a part by an inept tory minister – Liz Truss threatening to Nuke Russia first. An empty threat given our nukes can only be fired with permission from the USA.
Ukraine however is not the only horrifying war right now, the Yemeni people being attacked by the UAE using weapons we in the UK sold them, not because the Yemani were a threat to Saudi Arabia!
Libya 🇱🇾 where we destroyed the entire country because their leader refused to sell their oil for US Dollars, wanting sales to be in gold. So we under the orders of the war criminal, Blair aided the Americans to assassinate Gadaffi by bombing him and then destroy all infrastructure to a stable modern country
Afghanistan 🇦🇫 where we in the eighties condemned Russia 🇷🇺 for invading but then once Russia lost that war, he jumping upon the shirt tails of the Americans invaded ourselves. For humanitarian need? We were told so, but more likely, I and many others believe due to the vast minerals Afghanistan has to offer. Sadly for us and The US, oh and Soviet Russia as it was then, it is too difficult to control the resistance, whether it be political, cultural, or criminal. We quite easily just abandoned Afghanistan to the very people that are responsible for human rights abuses.
Palestine 🇵🇸 is another war torn country, area or state (depending upon who you talk to), where people are being killed daily using weapons the UK have provided, and sadly stemming from UK interference in the region from before we, the British, created the State of Israel 🇮🇱 in the 1940’s.
These are but a few wars right now, we could also mention Iraq 🇮🇶, which still has not stabilised since we again with the United States of America invaded – twice!
The tensions we promote with Iran 🇮🇷, prodding them with sticks.
China 🇨🇳 who we one minute vilify (likely rightly so) on human rights grounds, but then deal with commercially on a huge level.
I could carry on writing all day and not cover half of what is going on in this world right now.
This after two years of a global pandemic of fear.
People cannot, should not and will not take much more.
We have to help the many understand most of the death, pain and torture in this world right now is not due to circumstance or accident, it is planned, thought out and connived purely so the few can control, profiteer and increase their power and hold.
We do not need a world or presidents, dictators and billionaires, we need a world of empathy, support, healthcare, communities, and a good basic, no infact a very good basic standard of living than people can use as a base to make their lives worthwhile.
We need a world where no human is killed, starved or forced to live in poverty due to the actions of country. State, religion, culture, caste, or corruption
Companies should not hold more power than communities
War should not exist and when it does occur a truly ‘United Nations’ of the world should, must step in, not just issue vague statements or reports as the current lip service run UN does.
We live in a world of information, well let’s inform everyone of what we want and need. Stop allowing them to censor or mute us.
Enough is truly enough here in the UK as well as throughout our globe. It’s not workers of the world unite, it has to be People, every one of us of the Earth Unite.
RIGHT NOW

‘2020’ hindsight, still a bit fuzzy?

Remember if we had locked down in February, if we had not had a corrupt government giving mates contracts and paying them our money to steal from us, if we had a prime minister and opposition with a backbone, if we had mandatory masks in February, closed schools, airports, ferries, stopped unnecessary travel even if it was to drive across the UK to test our eyes, if we had a primate minister who did not hide, a government that told the truth, that followed medical guidence, that put human life before their bank accounts and status amongst their friends, Royals that had the guts to shout ‘no’ rather than saying they want to be reincarnated as a killer virus, if we had a nation of people with common sense, prepared to social distance, wear masks rather than stand clapping the nurses, doctors, paramedics, keyworkers as those very live savers died on their feet, if we had a media that itself did not publish fake news and propaganda, if we had a government that had not run down all the health and social care services in the name of Austerity whilst paying for missiles we can never use, if we had focused upon our real enemies instead of a few refugees and migrants, not hating folk because of their gender, sexuality, race, culture, ability, if we had prioritised our families and not our possessions, then maybe, just maybe so many families would not be feeling the pain of loss, the fear of loss, the anxiety of even opening their doors. If we did not live in a country that treats its sick, elderly, disabled and vulnerable as scum, a drain, expendable maybe we would have seen the warning signs and acted upon them.
Yes hind sight is always ‘2020’ , (ironic hey) but looking back it’s easy to be made to believe the mistakes were accidental, not the fault of those in charge, unavoidable.
Just to be clear, the Conservative Government, the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, the press, and the businessmen asset stripping the UK made no ‘accidental mistakes’. Their behaviour was and is deliberate. They are culpable. They should be accountable, but unless we hold them to account now they will kill many many more.
Jonesy

Future of Labour

So St Sir Kier of Starm (I was going to call him Sturm but then found that Sturm means noun. : a late 18th century German literary movement characterized by works containing rousing action and high emotionalism that often deal with the individual’s revolt against society. So in contrast to Starm which means puppet of the establishment and unofficial agent of Mossad), is it seems about to face a revolt after his vile behaviour towards Jeremy Corbyn.
Someone on a post earlier in a socialist group asked what the left in Labour are going to do, the thing is Labour is supposed to be bloody ‘left’, it is supposed to be in opposition to the Conservatives – the ‘right’ (as in direction not morality).
Starmer is not a left wing politician, he and his ilk are careerist right wing (center right at best) representatives of those who wish the status quo of the poor remaining poor and the rich getting richer.
If there is no one in the gutter how can they judge how high their platforms are?
Prince Phillip let it slip a couple of years ago when he stated that he wished a virus would wipe out half the world (not a direct quote but near enough). The rich, wealthy and super rich do not value our lives. They do not respect our rights, just because they smile when stabbing you does not make their tyranny any less.
It’s easy to lie, to use fake news, propaganda, and cover your own corruption, deviance and atrocities when you own the press and media. It’s easy to convince the masses that you are on their side it seems by saying you like their music, support their football club, drive a car they love or ride a pushbike.
Politics truly now is smoke and mirrors, a deception that makes the majority believe we live in a democracy. Sadly we do not.
There will never be a time that we are permitted or allowed to have a free honest vote on anyone who is not owned by those in charge.
Starmer, Rayner, Mann, Watson, Hodge, Brown or any of the long line of sabateurs have I believe been bribed, cohersed, romanced not just by our establishment but by foreign governments and powers. They do not in any way represent the membership, the National Exec, the Party or the people.
I cannot see any simple way out of this disgusting reality that doesn’t involve us being suppressed by force or living under their rules of compliance.
It really to me is that simple.
So yes it would be good if Starmer was sacked, challenged and replaced, but we need to Learn our lesson, the powers in control will never allow an honest moral leader and cabinet run the UK.
Fractionalised parties will never gain power. The only chance of change is a ‘Labour Movement’ that sheds blood sweat and tears as our forebears did with the start of the unions and civil rights.
If you want a fair, non discriminatory and caring future of hope for our children, we are going to have to stand up and fight.
Jonesy

Future or not

Beyond fed up of police bullying, incompetence & corruption, government bullying, incompetence & corruption, of media bullying, incompetence & corruption, of British Societies bullying, incompetence & corruption.
This is not the country our forebears fought and died for, nor the one we worked and fought for. It is not the country our children deserve. We have let down our generation and all those to come. There can be no excuse. We haven’t even ‘just been following orders’ for we have just been following the propaganda, lies, misinformation and fake news we have been fed. Because of that we lost our safety net, you know the one that we pay tax & national insurance for, our health services, the one we pay tax & national insurance for, our freedoms that we were born with, our rights that were won with blood and lives by those who came before us.
We should all recognise our blame, see our betrayal of our kids, our families, our friends and our communities.
To me we are well beyond a political or democratic solution, but we have been trapped into a reality with nare any viable option.
We are not only now pretty much powerless, we no legal nor bureaucratic recourse, we are meaningless and valueless to those in power. Our lives, never mind opinions mean nought to what are in effect our masters.
We have allowed a fascist government to engulf the UK, with their only true gods being those of greed and cruelty.
If we do not find a way to rid them and their own masters we, our children and grandchildren have no hope nor optimism of a bright and safe future.
We have in effect condemned our kids to a life of cattle, to be herded and harvested at whim.
Are you proud of our legacy? I am not.
Jonesy