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Reimagine our priorities
Times of crisis stress a culture, and produce shifts in the balance of power within a society. As the Black Plague burned through Europe in the 1300’s, killing many peasants, it created a labor shortage that forcing society to shift from a feudal economy to one based on wages.
When the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991, it adversely affecting the countries they subsidized. A 2006 documentary, “The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil”, describes how Cuba dealt with the loss of most of their fossil fuels and agricultural chemicals, such as fertilizers and pesticides. In addition to transforming their transportation system, the whole country mobilized to shift to 100% organic agriculture, which was accomplished within 6 months.
Despite being a socialist country, there were distinct class differences within the society, and peasant farmers had been at the low end of the scale. But during the transformation, called “The Special Period”, these farmers skills were recognized as essential to the entire society, and they become national heroes.
As COVID-19 burns through our society, we are beginning to recognize the value of previously marginalized sectors of our own work force. Certainly, the doctors and nurses on the front lines in the hospitals are being celebrated, but doctors have always been in the upper tier of the workforce. However, nurses are as essential to actual health care, and haven’t always been as honored or rewarded. In addition, the rest of the hospital staff, aides, housekeeping, janitors, and food service, are critical as well. These people are risking their lives every day, to help keep Americans healthy, yet are rarely rewarded appropriately.
All the employees of the various Emergency Medical Services are putting their lives at risk, and some don’t even have health insurance as part of their employment, even though they are essential, skilled workers.
Another critical sector in this fight is the staff at nursing homes and assisted living facilities, both private and public. These establishments house, in close proximity, citizens most at risk to the worst effects of the virus. The staff is generally low wage, low status, maybe minimally trained, and may not have health insurance, yet they are essential to the health of their residents.
In the larger economy, we see that grocery store workers are essential to our survival, yet are another group fairly low in the economy, measured by wages and benefits. Further down the food chain are the factory workers who process the food, and the field workers who grow and harvest food. Many in this workforce are immigrants, perhaps undocumented and disparaged by “patriots”, working for low wages and few benefits. New clusters of infected people have appeared at meat processing plants in mid-western red states with no shelter in place orders, working in conditions which force very close contact. Plants are having to close, reducing meat availability. As the virus spreads into these groups of workers, we are beginning to appreciate that they are also providing essential services.
The virus has squeezed our economy, highlighting what is really essential and what is not. People who provide health care and food are essential. Everyone else is down the list, which is generally the opposite of how our “normal” economic system values work. If nothing else comes out of this pandemic, I hope that we restructure our economy to reward people who are actually important to survival. At the very least, we see the advantage of everyone having living wages and access to competent health care, not insurance, but the actual care.
In the last four weeks, more than 22 million people have filed for unemployment, while the DOW average has grown 30 percent. This mismatch between what is considered important in our economy, and the reality of how people live, demonstrates a profound distortion. For example, we have a national leader who lacks compassion or empathy, focused entirely on reelection and enhancing his brand value, to the point of holding up relief checks to add his name. Contrast that to an overwhelmed nurse, perhaps wearing home-made protective gear because the richest country in the world still can’t get that together, holding the hand of a stranger while they die. America can do better. Regime change is a moral imperative.
83 Comments on "Reimagine our priorities"
offical whoa real on Tue, 28th Apr 2020 5:52 pm
my butthole hurts
REAL Green on Tue, 28th Apr 2020 9:46 pm
Davys kicking all y’alls asses on this lame unmoderated forum. That makes Davy REAL Speshall. In a REAL Speshall kinda weigh.
Davy on Wed, 29th Apr 2020 1:01 am
For anyone that cares. We forgot to put are widdle Pink Poodle cartoon on are last JuanP ID Fraud comment.
We gots to work on that harder. We no how much pink poodle makes us look manly and strong and such. And REAL smart like.
Nite y’all!
JuanP on Wed, 29th Apr 2020 5:53 am
For anyone that cares. I forgot to put are widdle Pink Poodle cartoon on are last Davy ID Fraud comment.
I gots to work on that harder. I no how much pink poodle makes us look manly and strong and such. And REAL smart like. I dropped out of hi scule
Nite y’all!
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 29th Apr 2020 6:56 am
OMG, BoJo-2.0/Churchill-3.0 has arrived.
BoJo the Spreader:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8268775/Newborn-son-officially-Prime-Minister-Boris-Johnsons-sixth-child.html
“So how many children is that, Boris? Newborn son is (officially) PM’s sixth child after four with ex-wife Marina Wheeler and daughter from 2009 affair… but courts mention possibility of one more”
Whatever. Congrats to the PM and his, errr, girlfriend. Decisive talks about the nuptial agreement apparently have yet to take place. Open fire, glass of wine and a “good talk”.
#GetOffMe
https://www.msn.com/nl-nl/nieuws/buitenland/slaande-ruzie-met-vriendin-die-get-off-me-roept-doet-opper-brexiteer-boris-johnson-geen-goed-in-peilingen/ar-AADl9WN
joe on Wed, 29th Apr 2020 12:02 pm
EUSSR preps for no deal
“https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1275401/Brexit-news-UK-EU-trade-talks-Michel-Barnier-transition-period-date-latest-update”
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 29th Apr 2020 2:03 pm
“EU preps for no deal”
UK putting its head on the chopping block, Russia here we come.
https://parisberlinmoscow.wordpress.com/2020/04/21/france-keeps-pushing-reset-eu-russian-relations/
“France Keeps Pushing Reset EU-Russian Relations”
https://parisberlinmoscow.wordpress.com/2020/04/23/russian-eu-ambassador-offers-europe-unlimited-cooperation/
“Russian EU Ambassador Offers Europe “Unlimited Cooperation””
Even the traditional best friends of the UK in Eurasia, the Dutch, are turning their backs on the reckless Brexiteers:
https://parisberlinmoscow.wordpress.com/2020/04/21/dutch-1-foreign-policy-think-tank-supports-pbm/
Expect Airbus to withdraw from the UK in case of a no deal Brexit, at least if they are interested in ever more lucrative defense contracts. And then there is Shell. And Unilever.
https://www.ft.com/content/b941c288-b357-11e9-bec9-fdcab53d6959
“Airbus chief warns Europe to prepare for ‘no deal’ Brexit”
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 29th Apr 2020 2:12 pm
“British Airways Massive Staff Cuts Bring Fresh Blow to U.K.”
https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/british-airways-massive-staff-cuts-bring-fresh-blow-to-economy
BA is owned by:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Airlines_Group
Spanish-British. Interestingly no such layoff in Spain. What does IAG know what we don’t know. Wouldn’t be the first time speculations will arise that BA will be registered in continental Europe in case of a no-deal Brexit:
https://simpleflying.com/british-airways-to-become-spanish-in-no-deal-brexit/
“British Airways Will Become A Spanish Airline If Brexit Deal Is Not Approved”
And of course, there is Scotland:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1275315/SNP-Ian-Blackford-Brexit-news-extension-EU-UK-trade-negotiation-latest
“SNP’s Ian Blackford slapped down after scathing Brexit rant on ‘shameful no deal gamble'”
No-deal Brexit also means that the assets of The City will be distributed over Amsterdam, Paris and Frankfurt.
Furthermore we want Shell HQ to return to the Netherlands. Shell is interesting because it is gradually changing into a renewable energy company:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-04/shell-leads-big-oil-in-the-race-to-invest-in-clean-energy-tech
“HOW SHELL IS BUILDING AN INTEGRATED LOWER-CARBON POWER BUSINESS”
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 29th Apr 2020 2:20 pm
Britain is still split in the middle over Brexit. To make it worse for the Brexiteers like joe esquire, Labour has now a full-blooded Remainer as leader and his shadow cabinet only contains Remainsers:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/12/keir-starmer-labour-will-prevent-no-deal-brexit-whatever-it-takes
“Keir Starmer: Labour will stop no-deal Brexit ‘whatever it takes'”
Best EU-strategy:
– find an excuse for no-deal Brexit, like these insignificant fisheries
– let the UK crash out of the EU
– in the wake of economic devastation, create the excuse for Edinburgh to crash out of the UK, so the EU can rake in Scotland
– ditto Ulster
– rake in Airbus-UK, Shell, British Airways (new name: European Airways), Unilever, City
– wait for Stammer to take over government after the implications of Brexit have sunk in with the English population.
– park England in a Norway deal.
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 29th Apr 2020 2:54 pm
“Potential Nord Stream 2 pipelayer headed for Northern European waters”
https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/natural-gas/042420-potential-nord-stream-2-pipelayer-headed-for-northern-european-waters
Russian vessel will circumvent the sabotage of Nord-Stream-2 by our American “ally”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50875935
“Nord Stream 2: Trump approves sanctions on Russia gas pipeline”
Dredd on Wed, 29th Apr 2020 5:26 pm
“Reimagine our priorities”
and theirs … (On Thermal Expansion & Thermal Contraction – 43).
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 29th Apr 2020 6:08 pm
“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”
~General George S. Patton
makati1 on Wed, 29th Apr 2020 6:10 pm
MOB. most Amerikans never think,. It hurts too much. ^_^
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 29th Apr 2020 10:23 pm
German doctor in NYC:
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/corona-arzt-in-new-york-ueber-donald-trump-dilettantisch-unsaeglich-luftnummern-a-2cea91e7-02d9-44e2-8988-8a095b6a68b1
“Nur einer von zehn kommt lebend wieder raus”
(“Only one in ten comes out alive”)
He means a ventilator, where patients stay in for weeks, to die anyway for 90%.
All medical resources are wasted on 81-year olds, who die anyway. In the mean time the economy is ruined. And the real reason is that politicians are afraid to be called “butchers”.
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Who gets the Easter-Europeans?
https://nos.nl/artikel/2332218-nu-de-seizoensarbeiders-niet-komen-dreigen-oogstproblemen-overal-in-europa.html
Foreign agricultural workers in normal times:
Italy……..370k
Germany…..300k
France……200k
Netherlands…..170k
UK…….90k
Yesterday in the Dutch news: bringing in the harvest is going to be precarious in Europe. In Italy they are proposing to “document” undocumented illegals, against which the populist right protests.
Note that except for the UK, all are food exporters, where the UK is self-sufficient for only 50%, the rest they get mostly from the EU, the very EU they choose to estrange themselves from. Ah well, nice opportunity for the highly obese Brits (record holder in Europe)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_rate
…to take an example from Venezuela and on average loose 10 kg/capita:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-weight-loss-average-19lb-pounds-food-shortages-economic-crisis-a7595081.html
“Venezuelans lose average of 19lb in weight due to nationwide food shortages, study suggests“
Feeding Brits won’t be very high on the EU-priority list, after they crashed out of the EU with a no-deal.
Perhaps their US friend can divert grain deliveries from Egypt to Britain so the Brits can at least eat pasta. On the other hand, if the US does that, they run the risk that they lose their vassal to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is not good for Israel, can’t have that. Israel is still much more important to the US than the UK.
Again, if I were a Brit I would plough under my lawn NOW, get on your knees and plant some easy stuff like potatoes, beans, carrots and beets. That always grows.
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 29th Apr 2020 11:13 pm
Way to go Macron!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-8271227/French-President-Emmanuel-Macron-wants-Europes-flight-leagues-end-2019-20-season-now.html
“Stop all football in Europe! French president Emmanuel Macron ‘wants other top-flight leagues to follow his country’s example by ending the season NOW with sports minister in talks with Spain, Germany and Italy governments about doing so’“
No public institution is so much used to ram through multicult as is football. Now “national teams” are presented with majority non-whites. The worst by far is the “French” team…
https://i.imgur.com/iRBTpJj.jpg
…that sometimes consists for 9-11 out of Africans. UK and Dutch teams often have 6-11, Germans only 2-11 and Italians mostly 0-11 (Italians are the strongest identitarians in Europe).
If Corona will destroy soccer in Europe, just bring it on!
I AM THE MOB on Thu, 30th Apr 2020 12:11 am
Christian church in Canada Issued Court Order To Stop Teaching Hateful Beliefs To Children
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fundamentalist-christian-custody-upbring-1.5548238?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar
This could set a precedent that would lead to the banning of chistianity worldwide.
Davy on Thu, 30th Apr 2020 1:30 am
So true Mob. So true.
stupid cristians
Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 30th Apr 2020 2:08 am
Christian church in Canada Issued Court Order To Stop Teaching Hateful Beliefs To Children
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fundamentalist-christian-custody-upbring-1.5548238?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar
This could set a precedent that would lead to the banning of chistianity worldwide.
I agree! The jewish-invented shit-hole religion and the basis for marxism and multicult, should now really get dismantled.
https://gab.com/Alex_Linder@pieville.net
i am prepared for science to disprove my Theory that Apes are ascended from baptists; until they do, i shall hold it
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19322
“The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche”
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2019/07/28/alain-de-benoist-on-being-a-pagan/
“Alain de Benoist – On Being a Pagan”
Make Roman Empire and White Race Great Again!
Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 30th Apr 2020 2:20 am
Latest position AKADEMIK_CHERSKIY:
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:899194/mmsi:273399760/imo:8770261/vessel:AKADEMIK_CHERSKIY
Between Denmark and Sweden. This vessel is going to write history and will complete the last missing 160 km of Nord Stream 2, another stepping stone towards PBM.
Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 30th Apr 2020 2:38 am
Dutch populists discover Michael Moore’s frontal attack against renewable energy and can’t believe their luck:
https://www.geenstijl.nl/5153211/generatie-greta-piswoest-op-michael-moore/#comments
“Generation Greta PISSED at Michael Moore”
I have long stopped voting for populists, it is no longer necessary. When the first pictures will come in from CW2, multicult will have finished itself off once and for all.
12 (and counting) professional videos about collapse & CW2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EnrXkWpKtk
Next time I’ll vote for the coming new strongman in the Netherlands, the Christian Democrat Wopke Hoekstra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THH8NZ5XpWo
He is pro-German…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN96lQkGGmM
…pro-EU, pro-transition and mildly skeptical about multicult. In Italy he is known as the “butcher of the corona-bonds”, they hate him and that is good:
https://www.politico.eu/article/wopke-hoekstra-netherlands-italy-corona-bonds-fight/
“How Wopke Hoekstra became Europe’s bond villain”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-netherlands/netherlands-refuses-to-go-dutch-on-eu-coronavirus-debt-idUSKCN21R31J
“Netherlands refuses to ‘Go Dutch’ on EU coronavirus debt”
Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 30th Apr 2020 4:30 am
More “Planet of the humans” fall-out:
https://cleantechnica.com/2020/04/29/climate-activists-call-bs-on-planet-of-the-humans-film/
“Climate Activists Call BS On Planet Of The Humans Film”
NOS (“Dutch BBC”)
https://nos.nl/artikel/2332241-veel-discussie-over-klimaatfilm-moore-maar-heel-soms-heeft-hij-een-punt.html
“A lot of discussion about climate movie Moore, but rarely he has a point”
The NOS discusses the docu with the Dutch environmental organisation “Milieu Centraal”. According to them, Moore has indeed a few points, especially about population and chopping forests for biomass, as well as solar panels occupying a lot of space. I am personally also against plastering post stamp Holland with solar panels, only panels on every roof and most electricity from offshore wind and geothermal, heat pumps, seasonal storage of heat. Europe should import a substantial amount of energy (say 50%) from the so-called third world, in the form of hydrogen and as such grant these people (Africans and Arabs) a substantial source of income.
What Moore claims about solar panels, that allegedly cause more CO2 emissions than they avoid, is plain wrong. The real calculation is entirely covered by EROI. It takes 1-2 years for a solar panel to earn back the fossil fuel inputs and for the rest of the 30+ years it is “free energy without emissions”. The highly misleading picture of the decaying Hawaiian wind farm is more proof of American maintenance sloppiness than a failure of wind energy. These pictures can’t be made in Europe.
Electric cars, same stories. It takes 3.5 years to earn back the fossil fuel inputs. Later the car will be entirely produced by renewable energy, without fossil inputs, a point very difficult to understand for Americans, even on this board.
Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 30th Apr 2020 4:43 am
Probably for the first time in history, in Q1-2020 Royal Dutch Shell loses money on its oil business:
https://nos.nl/artikel/2332256-shell-maakt-verlies-in-eerste-kwartaal-minder-dividend-voor-beleggers.html
But Shell is a smart company and knows where the new business opportunities are: in wind and hydrogen:
https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/shell-unveils-worlds-largest-offshore-wind-plan-to-power-green-hydrogen/2-1-763610
“Shell unveils world’s largest offshore wind plan to power green hydrogen”
(10 GW)
Shell Oil will become Shell Hydrogen by 2050 at the latest and will have a competitive edge over the other Six Sisters…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_(oil_companies)
…whose CEOs will all be watching Michael Moore’s movie, which makes them hope they can carry their oil and gas business deep into the future (they can’t), putting themselves at a competitive distance, with Shell laughing all the way to the bank.
Michael Gorbachev: “Life will punish those who come too late.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAhW1l17FeY
I AM THE MOB on Thu, 30th Apr 2020 4:47 am
‘All of our rooms are empty’: Hospital ERs vacant during pandemic
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/all-of-our-rooms-are-empty-hospital-ers-vacant-during-pandemic-1.4918208?fbclid=IwAR2gQ1Jku68NuzxFH61GwUsIjSlqDCEEGyqfbR8EQtV1Deg8XVXW-s7A21k
This doesn’t add up people. That means. God help us all..
I AM THE MOB on Thu, 30th Apr 2020 8:42 pm
The WHO inflated the death rate of this virus to cause mass panic and damage worldwide.
“This will teach the Americans a lesson”.
Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 30th Apr 2020 10:01 pm
New German data: no change in overall mortality. 2020 will be a year like every other. A few thousand will die of corona, but therefor won’t die from another cause. In the end it doesn’t matter:
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/corona-todesfaelle-kaum-anzeichen-fuer-uebersterblichkeit-in-deutschland-a-432fd46d-6022-4ef9-b07f-7a89a21504d3
“No signs of overmortality in Germany”
Here white nationalists making fun of the hysteria:
https://youtu.be/JNr8YnwaG4s
Nevertheless, it is a very bad flu. IF it catches you, it catches you really good. Here UK PM BoJo, slightly out of breath during his first press conference:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8274933/Boris-sounds-worryingly-breathless-Prime-Minister-leans-lectern-strained-briefing.html
“’Boris sounds worryingly breathless’: Prime Minister leans on his lectern in strained first Downing Street briefing since leaving intensive care after an acute bout of coronavirus“
Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 30th Apr 2020 10:08 pm
“Turkish soldiers intentionally shot at German Frontex civil servant at Greek border”
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/tuerkische-soldaten-sollen-auf-deutsche-frontex-beamte-gezielt-haben-a-ad7bd4ca-d7df-430e-b40a-7cf7e59bd92a
Exactly what we need! Turkey is the perfect adversary, Europe needs as a common enemy to organize building its defenses around. And then there are these millions of Turks inside Europe who need to be told to beat it.
whoa on Thu, 30th Apr 2020 10:32 pm
Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 30th Apr 2020 10:01 pm
New German data: no change in overall mortality. 2020 will be a year like every other. A few thousand will die of corona, but therefor won’t die from another cause. In the end it doesn’t matter:
supertard,
still refrain from calling for amputation of whitey supertard scientific supremacist “thunderf00t”?
who said the supertard imposing self quarantine smellz? NIXON (it is I) and that was a few weeks ago
as yourself cui bono?
supreaicst muzzies
makati1 on Fri, 1st May 2020 1:23 am
MOB All of the numbers are bullshit. Anyone who has a brain and can think for him/herself sees that they are contrived. Accurate numbers would require autopsies on every virus blamed death to prove cause of death.
Most may have had the virus symptoms but died of heart failure, etc. Like saying the cause of death was over eating and not liver shutdown.
The elite caused this and are trying to make everyone afraid to live. Not going to work much longer. Summer is coming and that means riots and who knows…? 50,000,000+ unemployed with nothing to do and guns…
I AM THE MOB on Fri, 1st May 2020 8:21 am
When they say they are saving lives.
Ask them “how old is the average life being saved and by how many years?
I AM THE MOB on Fri, 1st May 2020 8:25 am
In China they are now forcing the kids in school to wear “social distancing” hats on their heads. To you know, stop the spread (wink wink).
And in India they are now forcing people to walk around in broad daylight with open umbrella’s.
I am not making this up. Hilarious.
All I can say with certainty is when the spell wears off. These people behind this are going to be in big trouble. Like no people in human history have every been.
Bin Laden hold my beer.
I AM THE MOB on Fri, 1st May 2020 8:50 am
Trump tweeted: “Sweden is paying a heavy price for not locking their country down.”
Actually. Sweden is showing the world that not everything can be bought. And not everything in this world is for sale.
Abraham van Helsing on Fri, 1st May 2020 9:40 am
Sweden: 10 million people, thinly populated, isolated northern country with little foreigners coming in and out, much unlike Holland, UK, Northern Italy, NYC.
Here the Corona data for Sweden:
https://tinyurl.com/yxyz5tbt
Number of deaths declining (100), number of new infections stable.
It is not too bad. Sweden has no real lock-down, so little economic damage is done there. Sweden will be a relative big winner, economically.
“Actually. Sweden is showing the world that not everything can be bought. And not everything in this world is for sale.”
Absolutely and they have fine knackebrod.
Any more platitudes?
Abraham van Helsing on Fri, 1st May 2020 9:49 am
“How China Will Take Over The World”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tatianakoffman/2019/12/17/how-china-will-take-over-the-world/#2470f4d44c1f
The US dollar is built on quick-sand, since it is no longer backed by sufficient real productive capacity, very much unlike the Chinese currency.
Forbes understands these things, empire dave not so much.