The 2023 General Election: Of Polity and Inequality

Neither Labour nor National can weather the coming onslaught of  corporate corruption and malfeasance as they both are keen to invite  foreign money to 'invest' in Aotearoa

KC SHOEN

The Plausible Scenario

Imagine as a  relatively small  nation of  5 million people, that the new incoming  government  elected this October has already  came into power and put forth a tough-on-crime policy for legislative approval.  Assume also that a coalition  plurality is strong enough in numbers for the prevailing party to support such intensive measures to become law. 

Fast forward about 3 years, and suddenly 15-20% of that 5 million are incarcerated under these new draconian 'anti-crime' measures. You notice not only that the conviction, sentencing  and  incarceration rates  skyrocketing simultaneously,  but the the knock-on effect of  prisons being built rise exponentially  so as to facilitate and warehouse these newly-minted criminals. Of the incarcerated, you note astutely, that  this expanded prison population  mostly consists of people of colour (pacifica & maori) who  make up about nearly 70%  of the dominant demographic, with lower/working class Pākehā making up nearly the  other 23-25%. As time gets on, and with these measures continued, you do note crime levels drop only slightly, except in two of the most critical  areas needed for continuing a stable & just society: high theft & burglaries and  violent crime, including mass shootings. You find that these are escalating at a harrowing rate unforeseen in New Zealand's history. They become more common,  more frequent,  and more destructive.

You notice that the the recidivism rates actually increased under the newer,  more harsh anti-crime measures. Domestic violence, suicide rates, drug use are all rising faster than in previous years.   In tandem to this excess, the  government rescinds  requirements  regarding the  levying of higher tax against corporations and the wealth accumulation of  affluent individuals, specifically in regard to capital gains tax and revenue profit taking, as an attempt to curry favorable consideration of foreign investment throughout the country. This attempt actually exasperates two major dynamics already  long-neglected in 2023: Corporate profit- taking driven  inflation,  which expanded class inequality via increased rentals and rent cost, health care, a steep rise in the rate of homelessness,  and adding further insult, the affluent class in New Zealand pays nearly no taxes, as  the general tax burden shifts downward to to the full-spectrum middle class to shoulder.  

As you live in one of New Zealand's five-largest cities, you note your daily trek to work is littered with tents alongside busy footpaths. A sizable homeless population is now  occupying green spaces meant originally as reserves for public enjoyment,  having become makeshift outdoor emergency shelters for these  swiftly-erected tent cities- 40% of  which house low-income working families. The extreme class inequality is extraordinarily evident , and mortifying. Violent gangs and general thuggery now thrive in this space, as does other violent anti-social activity.  The accelerated rise  of single-parent families  in poorer communities,  in part from the expansion of the carceral state,  has become  both the new norm as well as the majority . An entire generation now is lost. As is your community, your city and your country...

If you gotten this far in to this article, you might find the entirety of this future-narrative a bit of a melodramatic  dystopian  exaggeration. Which is understandable, until you look northwest across the Pacific and  become aware of the fact ( as laid before you in  multiple links provided by the highlighted words within the sentence, below) that these near-apocalyptic scenarios are  occurring, in real  time. in a far away land about 11,000 kilometers from our shores....

A dying republic called the United States

The Two-Headed Chris, A village missing its idiot, and The  Green bewilderedness

Chris Hipkins is essentially a left-over: the remnants of a once uber  centralist-liberal dream that disintegrated, retreating back to its mediocre roots after outsized influence largely from  it's response to Covid. And just like its charismatic orator and last benefactor,  Jacinda Ardern, who pretended to be a democratic socialist,  Labour pretends to be a robustly progressive tent,  but these three collectively have always  been centrist with corporate leanings.  Left-over  Hipkins, whose profile raised surreptitiously after advising folks to 'spread their legs ' during lockdown, saw his profile raised exponentially when Ardern split the scene to Cambridge, Massachusetts  (to feast on fellowship monies provided by the American  criminal corporate  1%  through their  one-time slave-owning ivy league university) , has been less than spectacular. This is not a dig on the ginger gent's lack of strong presence, but more on his lack of substance. 'In it for you;' has about as much sincerity as a campaign slogan as a gossip columnist swearing they don't engage in blackmail of their celebrity prey du jour, no matter how high the bounty. This is him trying to put some 'Hip" into his namesake, and appear authentic before his constituents. His releasing of Labour's  9 point pledge  is a repackaging  of what the party has already has historically backed,  performed on ,  or promised previously, and does nothing to face expanding class inequality.

Hipkins himself, a product of New Zealand academia, has shown meddle as a man whom will fight for a cause he deems fit, such as when he was wrongfully arrested back in 1997 when protesting the  Tertiary Review Green Bill at Parliament. He has shown striking tenacity and a steady hand both in the Auckland Anniversary weekend flooding of 2023 and Cyclone Gabriel. There is no question he is built for crisis, and can manage adeptly, unlike his counterpart, Auckland's  mealy-mouthed, moribund and morally bankrupt mayor Wayne Brown who completely wilted in self-defensive postering when he couldn't manage his way through a paper bag, let alone a functional emergency response for a city under deluge. 

But it's Hipkins'  centrist position that is wholly destructive, as is it  not guided by conditions on the ground, nor guided by the understanding of the world in which New Zealand resides in at current.  Mental acuity to grasp the nature of what is causing the nation to fall further back socio- economically is not a strong suit he bares with any true command . A pragmatist always lacks peripheral  vison to enable full-spectrum view, especially when its comes to matters of nascent  corporate incongruity.  Under his stead, the uber-criminal syndicate of  Black Rock has been allowed to start sucking up capital for 'sustainable green projects', and has fortified its presence. For those sullied  by my identifying  BlackRock as a criminal organization as being capricious or conspiratorial , consider this:  they are owners of an electric company in  Maui, Hawaii, that mysteriously cut off power to Lahaina six hours before the  horrific fire that leveled only the poorest housing  and structures, and killing only the poorest residents in south Maui, sparing the multi-million dollar homes  and hotels in the area . The same organization whom pushed  Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron  of France to forcibly raise the  retirement age without an open referendum nor consideration of public debate which sparked  month's long protests throughout the country.  As further evidence of the monolithic chicanery this behemoth is involved in , just watch  a certified recruiter from the company explain their global ambitions...

Video Courtesy of: O'Keefe Media Group (OMG). 

Hipkins lacks the global 'street smarts' in staving off vulture capitalists who are itching to buy thier way into New Zealand' s fragile market  and wreck the place for their own profit. The allowance of BlackRock to come in  and establish itself is profoundly telling of the putative naiveté that  he himself, and many members of parliament have toward foreign investors intentions, particularly, American, British  & Chinese hedge funders and investment firms that are completely self-benefitting and devoid of any ethical standard of 'fair play', no longer in service in creating new wealth for clients, but expanding wealth for themselves solely even if it means creating a  language that communicates environmental concerns they have no intention of meaningfully participating in. 

All the while, The Ardern/ Hipkins  led Labour continued shutting out and down migrants during CoVid, and leaving them to return to unsafe ramparts of nefarious  origins whilst allowing the likes of the DIA to manipulate away needed benefits they had temporarily been given unprecedented qualified access to receive, and allowing a toadie to run Immigration New Zealand into the ground. 

As a consequence,  Hipkins and Labour over the last 5 years have let the wolves into the parlour. 

The other Chris, Mr. Luxon , former MP of Botany is a  political- corporate creature unabashedly representing the interests of the managerial class. Having attain the heights of  CEO of Unilever in Toronto, Canada by way of Chicago, U.S. at the tender age of 38. C-Lux's  exposure the grand heights of capitalism during his time in North America left  in him an indelible mark. Having been born into a Roman Catholic family where Dad was a sales exec for Johnson & Johnson and his mother a psychotherapist gave  him  the kind of access to better schooling and opportunities that only this background can offer  through  disparity of access via inequality that is the Capitalist Way:  The Winners & Losers ,  of which he was on the winning side. In  recent years, this attribute would express itself through his  having no interest in allowing livable wages for workers during his time with Air New Zealand, and no care about curtailing malfeasance from investor toxicity.

If any one government is ready to show BlackRock and other 'foreign investors' some love, it's Luxon- homelessness by suffocating  housing unaffordability, rising food insecurity, wage deflation and recidivism be damned.... Cone on in boys! Lets Do This! 

His continuous roll-out of embarrassing policies wholly lacking in self-awareness, such as the youth rental bond initiative, his pretentious defense that his tax deferment policy of the upper class  will benefit the economy and curtail poverty, while leaving a $2 billion dollar hole to shore up fiscal appropriation,  and his sallow, vague  pulp being the National Party 8 point plan   is a strong showing  of what an empty suit he is. C-Lux's refusal to consider capital gains and luxury tax, in turn a blatant refusal to make the upper 10% pay their share, is demonstrative of  his obtuse self-interest and inane indifference to the current state of iniquity being experienced by the middle and lower working class in New Zealand. A view that Hipkins also holds , expressing his own naive lack of vision, backbone, and passivity in the matter

The debate that took place between these two bricks of the establishment wall on the 19th of September in Auckland  for mass media consumption and soundbytes,  only further fomented that both are actually the  same: neo-liberal centrists with no handle on the inequality that both their parties contribute due to ineffectual policies. The Ardern/ Hipkins camp, although brilliantly guiding the nation through the first 18 months of the pandemic, have done little else,  being nothing more than  mere custodians of polity for  oncoming corporate interest heading into the country. Chris Luxon's post-Key National Party was the party who single-handedly allowed New Zealand's credit rating  with Standard and Poor's and Fitch Group to fall through the floor during their last reign. The same National Party always willing to cut the social  safety net away from the most vulnerable to appease their criminal foreign investor  friends, which in turn, set in motion the current landscape of intense disparity the likes this country has not seen.

Although Hipkins did mop up the floor with Luxon's face using confirmed facts and figures verses Luxons  shallow and repetitive use of sloganeering  masquerading as legitimate expression of policy, the debate was as hollow as wingbone: light and breezy, pseudo substantive and  inflective performative theatre. A mere artifice of placative entertainment not meant to put genuine resolve into action. The more dangerous bits was Luxon's commitment to ban gang patches ( a form of censorship) and  the  allowance of expansion of large  tech companies into New Zealand , a problematic proposition given their dubious history

Further concerning was both candidates commitment to criminalizing 'hate speech', another form of censorship which part of a much larger issue involving  global oligarchical control over the masses. 

ACT's David Seymour has been reduced to just being comedy relief, and while  I could prattle on as to the wonderment of his vacuous existence, and the  ACT party being the mirror of the  violent, empty heads that occupy American House Freedom Caucus as well, I'll let John Campbell 'hold the mic and spit this'  as his 'bars are phat'. I will say his misinformed  and boisterous musings make  for great entertainment. My favourite moment of anti-intellectual rumblings was when he was debating Chloe Swarbrick on NewsHub AM about how to best approach the uptick in criminal activity since CoVID. While she  was coherently laying her argument against harsher penalties for young offenders with verified facts and figures in relation to a solution that can be effective , he could only bellow superlative hyperbole " We just need strong sentencing!! New Zealand has become a third world country!!". Somewhere out amongst the countryside, a village is truly missing its idiot...

And this idiot and his party might have enough to get the 61 seats necessary to make a majority coalition with National...

 

The Greens, outside of Chloe Swarbrick, however,  are  hyper-focused on environmental impacts like climate change initiatives,  de-carbonization, implementation of alternative fuels, and overall improvement to food and water purity. They  do not, however,  address class inequality. 

A green bewilderment.

Not addressing class inequality as the primary crisis makes other 'green initiatives' absolutely unattainable and without solid structural base to enact. Put simply, if people are too broke to manage sustaining what they need  to live properly, they will not have time nor care to meaningfully pursue these matters with any brevity.  Without the leverage of equality, the environment will continue to suffer. Being participatory in the facade of 'green initiatives' enacted by multinational corporations is not only naive in itself, but is also superficial as such entities only care about profit, and will sell a captive audience anything they wish to hear, so as  to continue raping foreign lands globally of resources unencumbered. The Greens are the one party that can cease this activity in totality. They need to discontinue the mixed-messaging and focus first on driving back Capitalism-induced poverty, pay  disparity, and the speculatory-driven  housing prices and rents . No other party in Aotearoa  can or will do it. They should also force Labour's hand to start moving in that space from a policy context

This is assuming Labour even comes back to majority or coalition rule in parliament . They may not...

New Zealand voters collectively  are moving toward a "Lesser of Two Evils" approach this cycle, one that does not work. I know this intimately because I am American by birthright, and I have seen this movie before. Voting alone will not yield the change of course of class inequality. It will worsen, and as a result recidivism will rise in tandem with criminal activity, especially among the young. Gang membership , collectively at around 8,900 strong in New Zealand, is growing faster in membership than the rate of newly hired and trained police officers, which currently stand at around 10,000 . Illicit activity will draft new recruits into the gangs as other assessable  resources  are reduced and curtailment of upward mobility continues to exert pressure and the most vulnerable- the working lower class/ unemployed  poor.

One Last Point...

Labour, National, ACT, and NZ First are complete  centrist garbage as a collective. Green Party is ineffective unless  it has majority coalition with itself at the lead, and this is would  only be erstwhile if Ms. Swarbrick can get the other  enviro-obsessed members to start focusing on class inequality, as that  is where 'all the bodies are buried'.  

There is no danger of the Greens forming a new majority coalition government in October  according to the current poles. I have a better chance at winning the lotto

New Zealande voters themselves need to take stock in their neighbours wellbeing, irrespective of differing  political leanings. We are part of the 'rest of the world' in the severity of the circumstances we find ourselves in.  If you need any evidence to suggest the plausible outcome of not bettering our neighbours and ourselves to a  more equal footing  through living wage and reasonable cost of living, if you still  view Capitalism as  all good, and becoming wealthy off the backs of others means your 'special', I would like to re-direct your attention as evidence to this place 11,000km northwest of here..

A dying republic called the United States

How They Will End Us

 In the dues ex machina which has expanded billionaire wealth from the CoVid pandemic , the managerial class are  writing their  'happy ending': the killing of the rest of us.

KC SHOEN

"It is impossible to separate the breakdown of civic culture, the collapse of language, and a rise in insurrectionist violence in the United States from the plague of gangster capitalism. Under a regime of privatized utopias, hyper-individualism, and ego-centered values, human beings are reduced to self-sufficient atoms of self-interest, removed from relations of mutual dependency. A neoliberal market-driven society has given rise to a culture of fear, uncertainty, and danger that numbs many people just as it wipes out the creative faculties of imagination, memory, and critical thought. Rather than live in a historical period that awakens the critical faculties, Americans now occupy a social order that freezes and numbs the capacity for informed judgment. " Henry Giroux

As the vestiges of democracy throughout the world continue to evaporate into the full illusion of fantastical fiction,  and should compliance from the masses cease and turn into full-scale social  rebellion worldwide,  the oligarchs and the WEF are preparing to kill us off completely via the  reduction of  access to food and water, the institution of trackable and controllable central digital currency which can be siphoned  from private bank accounts with  just a keystroke 

This is not conjecterous rancor nor paranoid conspiratorial hyperbole. It  has started in earnest. 

Countries like the United States, Australia & New Zealand where active resistance against repressive censorship from establishment narratives of corporate media are inert and  nearly non-extant, the once-quiet creep of the slow muzzling of public dissent against such capitalist narratives have become profoundly outbound; noisily possessing the compunction to interrupt, misdirect, propagandize in unfettered saturation,  mute, and imprison its populace without so much as a collective  shrill holler in defiance.

Coupled with the cultural  unwillingness to unify in protest in the U.S.in particular, there are three partitions that will allow this continued repression of rights by the corporate oligarch to persist to our global death: The Corporate /Donor Class partition, The Law Enforcement/ Para-military partition and The Elected Political Sycophant partition. I will focus  on the Corporate partition, as they are the ring-leaders to the other two who  get their marching orders from. This is a kinship of wanton control and/or elimination of laws, governmental processes of oversight, progressive  social policies that intervene their control, subvert their advantage, and counters ideological constructs they are positioned in , or create as narrative.

The Lords of Kingdoms: The Corporate/Donor Class partition 

"All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter." -Aldous Huxley-'Enemies Of Freedom Essays'-1958

For historical  context, American companies such as Ford, Coca-Cola, and Kodak all supported Hitler's  fascism, as it was financially and ideologically beneficial to to so. Being the nation that was the genesis of Eugenics,  racial segregation , and suppression which influenced Hitler's Ayrian  dream, these American-bred companies had became natural allies  of the Third Reich rendering direct  confluence and aid to  Germany to  becoming  a powerhouse of industrialization during the mid- 1930's to early 40's.  Having the support of  the SA:  a conglomeration of military veterans, para-military organizations and members of  law enforcement,  allowed Hitler and the NSDAP protection against groups who vehemently opposed them before and during his reign. Cronies positioned in critical points of the Nazi governmental and military posts lent Hitler continuity, even expansion of his ideological vision and command through propaganda, violence, and corporate backing. This same coalition of  collusional corruption allowed  for the stealth cover of the  protracted use of gas chambers and prison death camps to continue operations right up to the very last day of World War II.

The Powell Memo in 1971 was the device which began the corporate takeover of US policy via lobbying and the administrative revolving-door  to posts within the Federal Government for  former industry  CEOs , hedge funders and other 'captains of industry'.  The ramping  up of financial deregulation and union-busting during the  Reagan era  (that continues under Biden),  in tandem with Clinton-era's further protection roll-backs against corporate malfeasance and economic manipulation , fostering  further erosion and curtailment of  the public welfare safety net, the destruction of Social Security and further making toxic the Public Trust , alongside increased  military defense  spending rising  substantially since 1980,  (which currently allocates over 45% of discretionary tax revenue ) .  

Multi-national corporations world-wide haven't the slightest issue with dealing in misdirection by deliberate misinformation, even if  their activity, or associations with such violent regimes causes mass death. It is not their concern, just the margin of profits  and their coalesced retention of power via the purchase of elected bodies of governments so as  to enhance the  sphere of control they covet. This forwards the providing of policies for protection of wealth and capital being most paramount,  updrafting  lost income as revenue from any economic destabilization of the worker, including foreclosures and evictions  furthering the deliberate destruction of the public space and social contracts that articulate the provisions of social welfare for the working class itself. 

This includes 95% of the population of the western world that comes under the purview of the  oligarchical 1%.,  essentially, all of 'us' being those who are not recognized members of this strata class. They are the late-Capitalist Lords to our Kingdoms of  global serfdom, and we are now more than ever in human history,  under thier complete rule.

As example, view the totality of  the Covid pandemic:  from  its origin, creation, how it escaped from a lab in China after  human experimentation, the application of scientifically unproven  methodologies to mitigate and manage that were applied freely by governments upon their citizens,  to the unsubstantiated and incomplete research  that was the resulting vaccines  by its primary purveyor, the ensuing evidence of  adverse reactions to it, the Covid death rates between  the vaccinated being nearly the same as the unvaccinated,  additionally further victims who were  confirmed as killed by the vaccine exclusively while the high frequency of vaccinated persons  who where confirmed as diagnosed with myocarditis from the mRNA , the further censorship of factual information about these harms by conglomerate legacy and social media platforms, all of whom are sponsored by advertising revenue via the aforementioned  purveyor, the corruption, past and present discovered upon the purveyor, and the purveyor's callous antipathy towards negligible outcomes within global populations. 

Add to this the fact that as of 2021  the largest donor to the World Health Organization is the United States and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (including GAVI,)  total nearly $1.87 billion dollars.  This does not include the World Bank , an American-based  institution which donated $132 million , and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) also based in New York City, US,  which donated $103 million dollars of its own.  So, it is not a completely speculatory, or even qualifying as paranoid delusion, to state the WEF's members obvious and  intense interest in the outcome of the recent amended changes to the  the WHO's  global IHR of 1969, (the amendments  categorized as the 'pandemic treaty'),  which has assigned (unelected) delegates from  each member country to 'sign off' and authorize approval of these amendments without public notification nor referendum. By placing the powers of surveillance, control of movement of peoples, a requirement for every human being to enroll and scanned into  a global digital health record tracking system  , to be accessed and  used within the sole discretion of  the executive branch of every member state government. 

On just the strength of this  alone you can view the continuing pattern of regulatory entities within government, as well as the private sector colluding to ensure that, above all,  profits and power are retained at the expense of the populous and the control thereof, by all means necessary.

Combined further with the IMF's cheerleading on centralized digital currency's worldwide implementation, which would eventually  criminalize personal possession of crypto,  placing limits on personal cash possession, could further  constrict, confine and isolate an entire populous with several keystrokes on  a laptop  by  one of any presiding Presidents or Prime Ministers under cloak of pandemic emergency, particularly those segments within a nation-state population who vigorously protest against such hegemonistic apoplexy being thrusted upon them against their will . Free speech and redress of grievance could be bankrupted into silence such as was done to the  the Canadian truckers who protested  against mandates back  in early '22, but on a much greater technological  scale then was previously imagined.

 In recent years the movement toward institutional implementation of  direct censorship masquerading as 'hate speech laws' has gained sizable traction. The Corporate/Donor Class partition has regularly instituted language coda deemed undesirable in corporate or social discourse for several decades. As a participating sycophant of the WEF,  former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was quite the enthusiastic voice for this polity wishing to criminalize such unpleasant non-threatening  protected free speech under this canon. The same one BlackRock has utilized in its ESG sloganeering, portending, and pretending to honor racial tolerance and  civility within the workplace,   ethical environmental practices and corporate  governance. 

This comparison might appear conflated, until you understand how both methodologies undermine free speech in totality. They  accomplish two objectives: 1) render a soft bifurcated censorship  disguised as polity for mass approval being 'disguised' as  creating a 'safe harbour' against  'bad or hateful' language in public spaces and media, and  2) establishing dictates to impart artificial morals against what is designated as 'improper'  or 'mis/ disinformation'.  Ardern's lament about outlawing 'extremist' speech was prompted by the alleged  misinformation carried out during the pandemic by 'anti-vaxxer radicals' in tandem with her enacting vaccine mandates , in which her handling of  was heavily criticized via protests.  For BlackRock, their implementation of ESG was the forerunner of 'cancel culture', and  in latter years, encouraged the censorship of dissent via de-platforming, FBI infiltration , collusion   and  censorship   within social media companies, supported by members of the US Democratic Party, while the  other half of the duopoly, the US Republicans and their donors fair no better in this , allowing the censorship by job  termination  of a mainstream news personality to occur without protest when they began reporting facts about the US proxy war in Ukraine, and the suspicious activity of federal agents and confidential human sources ('CHS') present amongst the protesters during the  riots at the U.S. capital on January 6th 2021.

Propaganda is another form of censorship exercised actively by this participation through their media conglomerates.  This was made simpler to conduct when monopoly rules were severed for media companies in the United States  in 1996. Since its enactment by President Clinton, all  major U.S. news media outlets  came under the  control of six companies. This has allowed the complete centralization of media dissemination and its ability to create propaganda narratives resembling factual journalism in support of their corporate masters worldview, alongside the controlling political party establishment(s).  Mainstream media was never completely neutral, but has been far more open in its willingness to manipulate facts and events to suit a narrative that allows this partition to complete its objectives .  9/11,  The Bush Administration's  WMD fiasco to invade Iraq, The Syrian Conflict, Russiagate, and the Ukraine Conflict are more of the obvious examples. Propaganda, and the divisions it creates, allows corporate oligarchs and their purchased political custodians   to continue their wholesale  criminal enterprise of razing the earth of resources and wealth extraction via the continuous construction of military bases  globally Coups, proxy wars, military triangulation, assassinations, installation of authoritarian regimes, and outward acts of  forward aggression to incite larger conflicts are merely the cost of expanding global capital. What was once thought tabu and incontrovertibly amoral and inhumane, is now normalized. Nuclear war is now a viable option where as twenty five years ago, was considered the end of all biological life on earth, a summation of a fools errand in  the most evil and malevolent  order. 

The efficacy of the impact of propaganda, including the deliberate perversion of intended context, has been long-lasting, allowing large swaths of populations globally to disenfranchise themselves through partisan echo-chambers online and further caste into self-implemented  silos within society,  divided amongst themselves and be devoid of critical thought and deductive reasoning. This partition has been successful, well-organized, focused and unified: never wavering from its putrid  narratives, false flags and persistent   suppression of dissonance  and distillation of meaningful oversite into its own  moribund, greedy, sallow, and violent psychopathy.

How The Global Mass Killing Starts

By keeping populations in perpetual divisions along cultural and political enmity,  it thwarts any ability at reconciliation to a unified revolt against the corrupt and self-enriching establishment. The partition is terrified always, of our sheer numbers and need to retain us in these silos, so  we do not recognize class inequality is our enemy, not one another. Its simplifies the ability to murder us all in greater numbers across dense populations with no threat of mass revolution.

Once the food & water sources are controlled and commodified globally, all communications monitored , all  legacy and social media  'cleansed' of all dissidence, the role of militarized law enforcement  will be to incarcerate the dissenters, and kill the rest as warranted. Simultaneously, once conglomerated control has been established across multiple countries using multiple entities and 'store front' NGOs, the killing of all 'non compliant' beings will be  made simpler and efficient.   American police departments , for example ,  currently operate under 'qualified immunity' from prosecutorial actions taken against them for criminal malfeasance and murder, and one only need to look closely at the western history of policing as a modern construct having evolved from being created as a  security force that was not allied with the state, to a state-sanctioned  law enforcement apparat,  whose only real function  is to guard the centers of commerce from theft and malfeasance, and  to protect land owners and public property  against  trespass and  vandalization by the enemies of the state: the public. 

As law enforcement agencies globally are  an extension of the courts in every country in which  they exist, the courts themselves are allied with what used to be known as the affluent merchant class.  In the 21st century, there is the continued  relationship of  Corporate corruption  between the courts  and  the 1% via purchased politicians. The claims of  service to the public safety as their primary duty by many in this partition is absolute fiction. Britain, France , Germany, and nearly all of Europe have police forces that are  structured akin  to military organizations and function similarly as law enforcement militias in authoritarian regimes such as Iran and China.  (The only western countries that have yet to militarize their law enforcement is Australia , who normally move in lockstep with the U.S. on many similar policies , and New Zealand, whom, in 2020 had opportunity to militarize their police forces but inevitably declined.)  

As such, the Corporate/ Donor class partition can direct The Law Enforcement/ Para-military partition to adjust its scope of operations by increase of incarceration, and expand the allowance of  lethal force (murder)  to maintain control of the masses and to silence dissent permanently. Many in this partition worldwide are actively engaged in unwarranted violations of human rights and sanctioned murder as it stands it would not take great effort for these partitions to coordinate into intercontinental  death squads quietly executing such a covert oppression doctorate on an unsuspecting proletariat.

Climate change and its continued politicization and censorship by NGOs will do much to aid in crushing human dissent alongside life. Despite the best efforts of scientific community to neutrally  and accurately report on climate impacts on human existence, it is organizations who have  a vested interest in maintaining their stature within the Corporate/ Donor partition and governments who will continue  to weaponize distortions of science to its personal benefit. The exact nature of  human industrial activity places the primary offenders -  70%  of  the earths carbon footprinting, coming from the the partition itself. Another partition member, the fossil fuel industry, enjoys record-breaking subsidies on oil and coal extraction globally, all the while,  a fellow partition member, corporate agriculture and food processing, is successfully pushing back against all attempts at meaningful regulation of their excessive methane output. It is obvious why this area is of  grave concern for them, as they are the group responsible for a larger part of human pollution and environmental damage, and since 1970 , the partition has engaged in a full-throated campaign of misdirection by enlisting  and manipulating the publics participation in environmental stewardship by making the public the primary scapegoat of this damage. What started with  an Italian actor from Brooklyn dressed in surreptitious stereotypical Native American  regalia in a public service ad, has now became a full-throated mammoth theatrical production the partition sponsors and produces every year in different cities. A narrative- controlling road show, replete with lofty unattainable and  unrealistic goals, illusory themes  of environmental  advancements and new , imaginative adjectives to describe its ongoing progress and programs. 

Circus and bread for the pseudo-progressive class, and the largest act of placation on the world stage, and for proletariat consumption.

At the killing stage, the  billionaire members of the partition do not want to have to share quarters on any level with a impoverished  population now dying of  from the effects  of accelerated climate change brought on primarily of and by their own activity. The global south, after decades of military adventurism be visited upon them primarily by the US Military Industrial Complex, will most likely to be extinguished  first under the  WEF members Malthusian  construct of lowering the population to contravene any ethical return of wealth and resources the Corporate/ Donor class partition has stolen. This will require further assassinations and coups ( similar to  what  French Prime Minister Macron is embarking on in Niger at the time of this writing), and greater authoritarian  control of materials and natural resources ( such as lithium, titanium and cobalt) coveted by this partition.

While censorship, restriction of free movement through quasi-surveillance techniques and technologies, and complete control of the earths homo sapiens  are preferred by this partition, they can and will choose the  committing of mass genocide of millions if deemed necessary to preserve their Kingdoms of Capital and Resources. As of right now,  they tirelessly work towards the goal of an  ultra- global hegemony. The existence of nations will be reduced to nothing more than meaningless nomenclature on a map, having as much substantive weight as political 'parties'. The partition isn't interested in preservation of national sovereignty (which was originally invented by the expansion of capitalist trade, post-original monarchial rule), or rule of law. The partition has no interest in humanity, and barely recognizes it as a  viable living organism worthy of saving , although they are biological human themselves.  we the proletariat are  a nuisance to be dealt with, fodder for their wars, and expendable like used shoes.

And we are helping them to end us, for the completion of their 'happy ending':  the retention of all the wealth and power, and the dispatching of all of us who are simply taking up their valuable space.

We are in the stupor of awe, captivated by our captors,  worshipping their wealth and unbridled omnipotence ,  little are we aware that we idolize the very partition who will have us all murdered , in those silos of our own making, and we will be the ones whom assist with the pulling of the trigger while they steady the gun to our head. 

We comply to the divisions they manufacture and we consume. We know something is very  wrong  but do nothing to organize as a species against it. We continue to excel in the  mental masturbation of distraction, whilst in the global south millions of human beings are being destroyed and displaced for the North's continued extraction, not understanding that, now, the western consumer themselves is next in line for the guillotine....

In cold silence of our demise, there will seemingly be nary a whisper that will carry in the droll vacuums of capitalism's death machine: in the fields of blood , ash, and rubble we will be nothing more than  a currency, spent.

From MAGA to #MeToo: Your Activism is Bullshit, Your 'American' Life Means Nothing & Inequality is The Global Grim Reaper

By KC Shoen

“Tame street protests are doomed to failure. If you file for a parade permit or let the police pen you up in a ridiculous “free speech zone” or promise that you’ll be nonviolent no matter what, your street protest will be drowned out by the clinking of glasses and the popping of champagne corks in the salons of the ruling classes.” --Ted Rall

As Australia had finished  a near- complete environmental and ecological collapse under the sheer weight of multiple incendiary cyclonic macro-systems created by the excessive smoke , heat and drought conditions, and is giving way to the Corona virus pandemic being the new incendiary device destroying not only the fabric of conventional  economic Neo-liberalism, but human life itself, I would like to take this opportunity upon this marker of the human timeline and say fuck your environmental and political activism and protest. 

None of it is doing shit.

My disaffection toward ‘activism’ has been punctuated  by witnessing the American mainstream media’s continual deepthroating of corporate and government entities for confluence via the distribution of  blindingly dense propaganda, not concerning itself with genuine journalism. Instead, dedicating its services in expanding capitalist fascism, making room for itself to exist within it. 

Western governmental agencies supporting such increased propaganda under the Coronavirus pandemic are protected by private industry,  and passively allowing the disease to kill the more impoverished. unprotected, ethnic working-class population at a higher velocity. Taking an enlightened  and compassionate approach and saving as many human beings as able with access to available resources is not an acceptable  revenue generator to keep markets ‘active’,  and it is not inline with the ruling class' desire to see governments deliberately fail in their civic obligation to the masses so they can continue to receive  their ‘ROI’ off its collective carcass. 

This leads to any  associated ‘resistance’  ‘protest’ and ‘pushback’ being nothing more than ego-induced, self-interested horseshit, for it is not focused on the primary element that  fuels the current environmental, social,  economic pandemic trifecta worldwide:  the primary disease allowing the continuation of our destruction of both humanity and the environment 

Inequality

In the United States, our more nauseating and jaunted group of  cursory echo-addicted mainstream political activist-balls of Yak (both of the ‘left; and ‘right’) are more feverishly irritating given the petulant drivel  they cling to full-on. Their staunch beliefs, always edited to suit their linear agendastic and limited vision  (much of which is vacuously excavated of any notable nuance and reasonable candor), choosing the trading of barbs sent through corporate media outlets and twitter-spasms of apoplexy that end as deformed,  stomach churning, anti-intellectual, cerebral-numbing discourse . 

Both the liberal left and the conservative right are solipsistic bias-whores, both supporting the ongoing ‘cancel culture’ war between themselves, with the left exercising their selfish brand of pseudo-intellectual SJW , #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, #resist activism (much of which is racist and meant to solidify white entitlement using progressive themes as a cover: a form of lying), and its collective and continual psychotic hatred of the Trumps’ personae, while the right exists in its mindless patriotism, violent anti- woman / anti-ethnic mantras, xenophobic canards, religious zealotry, and its willfully ignorant consumption of unfounded conspiracy theories. Both sides being addled of any mental space for acknowledgement of what is truly killing humanity et al.

Inequality

Ignored by much of the media (and, particularly American society), is the fact the US has been riding (and continues to ride) a bailed-out,  zombie economy since the market/ derivatives crash of 2008-09, extended by the  current pandemic. Moreover,  this bailout is to act as a 2 trillion dollar slush fund for the corporate elites to grab their share before a single face mask or ventilator is delivered to any US state. That is exactly the intent. 

American Corporations as a whole  had been grappling with regaining political leverage that was lost to Roosevelt during the Great Depression, adding  further insult to injury by his not only “welcoming their hate” but by dropping the New Deal for the nation to recover utilizing social safety nets, having corporate elites  heavily regulated and taxed for these social programs due to the damage done by them, beginning in the 1920s. 

They were held to account for the disparity and inequality they created 

By the 1970s , Corporations and Industrialists had finally found a friend within a Supreme Court appointee under Nixon, and for the next quarter-century, Justice Powell would deliver many a decisive turn for the elites, working in tandem under the Reagan administration during the great deregulation of Wall Street. The financial sector emerged from the decade a more prominent figure like never before, with more central  control in policy making it had not enjoyed for almost 60 years at that point  

Further adding to this new political  strength of financial institutions ,was the succeeding administrations of Clinton, Bush II, Obama and now Trump. The Neo-liberal policies that were at one time regulated and controlled to prevent inequality were gone, and since the Nixon administration had been getting steadily chipped away at, quietly. Working wages in the US would never see another meaningful rise, rather, staying at relatively the same stagnate rate since 1970. For further reinforcement, The Supreme Court did not miss their opportunity to solidify this power, so that the current political structures and parties could retain their control, to allow further Corporate benefits from favors, to enrich  themselves and their criminal friends in the Congress, Senate and the White House. 

Lobbyism, ‘revolving door’ Federal appointments for former CEOs from the financial sector and lobbyists that conflict with public interest,  and cronyism are normalized in American culture. Such as is the case of the perpetual wars all instigated by the United States since Operation Desert Storm in 1991.  The greed, corruption, violence, racism and despotism are all tolerated by a civically lethargic and distracted populace with no sense of indignation worthy of a strong  revolutionary push back for change. 

The willful ignorance, anti-intellectualism and divisiveness are all emblematic of a society devoid of true critical thinking, and consumed by material possessions and the further indebtedness of living beyond reasonable means. More terrifying is the fact that this ignorance is self-imposed. Verifiable facts and truth lose value against witless bias to ‘party’ and propaganda. Since the 1980s the self identification to a prescribed party or movement has become its own ‘branding’ , rather than a meaningful position or true social movement for change. Monikers and titles do not represent change, They are nothing more than symbols, and symbols are pretentious at this critical  moment in human history, Being ‘democrat’ ‘republican’ or identifying yourself as part of the #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, #resist, Proud Boys etc. movement doesn't mean shit. It just means you are not looking at the obvious and fundamental disease that will kill us all, as sure as SARS-CoV2 will:

Inequality

From every arrogant, punk-ass selfish effete progressive intellectual to every flag waving trailer-park allstar who is looking to make America ‘Great Again’. To every self-absorbed pussy-cap wearing protester continuing their obsessive hate of the Cult of Trump and every bible-thumping evangelical judgemental jack-off spewing hate against women's reproductive rights and people of color. From those whom had made a life hiding out from reality within the hallowed walls and campuses of American and European  academia, to those who, at every two-to- four years, believe that lodging your vote for one of two candidates pre-selected by the corporate duopoly as politically viable and meaningful act, your ‘protests’ and ‘activism’ are complete bullshit, and is not worthy of respect , reverence, admiration, or glorification. 

They are nothing more than  mindless, meaningless, insufferably selfish and lazy activity passively qualifying as civic duty.

Just as apathetic, is soliciting authorization from your local city official/law enforcement entity to parade professionally, prefabricated, carefully-worded signage, with some organizer coordinating rehearsed chants of dissidence and homages through a bullhorn to a group of protesters is not a true movement, either. When your protest is given ‘permission’  by the very forces you are ‘demonstrating’ against, it is reduced to meaningless vulgar pageantry, an empty symbolic public street performance of free speech, which immediately loses its credibility upon the first footstep taken, and immediately relegated to the dustbin of history when the last footstep falls.

A true protest is ugly, leaderless and organized just enough by vast  numbers of ‘primary messengers’ as a large and moving group that is willing to collectively commit vandalism specifically against its oppressors’  primary and valued property and organizational quarters in the process. Its loud, cantankerous and aggressive without the intention of hurting or killing anyone  in the oppressors group, but nonetheless scares the fuck out of them. 

A true protest reminds the oppressor they are outnumbered, and as such, need to pay strict attention to the oppressed  and their demands.

Which is exactly what we need. Because it is inequality that is killing us all. 

World-wide, corporate-driven inequality accepted  by western governments that are threatening mass extinction of the homo sapiens through the extension of poverty, repression and war. Any activism not dedicated to this most necessary human right is not legitimate and is full of shit.

The United States population is now quickly dying from  withheld medical access and no federal government support either medically or financially , and is (as of the date of this article) leading the planet in total confirmed cases of CoVID19. 

  Even the mainstream media can stop the propaganda long enough to spit a little truth sometimes.... 

(Courtesy: CNN/WarnerMedia (AT&T)

So, the question now becomes this: at your point of death, now will you stand up as one? Or will you go down like the witless, useless, consumerist ne’erdowell pukes that Trump and the 1%  multinational corporate elite take you for? Will you, my fellow Americans pull your collective heads out of your asses and rise up, or suffocate in the violent silence of this Plague….?

Hopefully , the Trump administration might have enough body bags on hand to zip up the  piling corpses, as you, your family and friends expire, using shared ventilators in hospitals around medical staff, all of whom are wearing used, second-hand face masks, and are fatigued and infected themselves. And this being the better of possibilities for you, but only if you have healthcare insurance, unfortunately.  For if you don't, you may have to stay at home to drown helplessly in your own lung tissues..

..and that's if you haven't been evicted from your home for not  being able to keep up your rent payment after losing your job...