Tuesday 17 March 2020

Fighting Fake News with REAL 17/3/20; Coronavirus Capitalism — and How to Beat It, Scott Morrison & Hillsong; Catastrophy is Capitalism


This crisis — like earlier ones — could well be the catalyst to shower aid on the wealthiest interests in society, including those most responsible for our current vulnerabilities, while offering next to nothing to the most workers, wiping out small family savings and shuttering small businesses. But as this video shows, many are already pushing back — and that story hasn’t been written yet.

  Coronavirus Capitalism — and How to Beat It





Saturday's conference comes after Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the government would ban events with more than 500 people from Monday
 Hillsong, Morrison and Covid-19 stop for nobody.
Paraphrasing Gough Whitlam " Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say 'God Save Australia because nothing will save the this Prime Minister's Hypocrisy to put off mass gatherings until Monday for Hillsong. The proclamation you have heard Scott Morrison make, who will take him down in history as the alleged criminal Houston's cur".
 Worshippers gather for Sydney Hillsong conference after Scott Morrison introduced ban 

FAKE NEWS 

WE MUST SLOW THIS SPREAD OR IT WILL BE A CATASTROPHE

New cases of coronavirus jumped in Australia by nearly 30 per cent on Saturday, 23 per cent on Sunday. If we can't slow this spread, we're in huge trouble. My editorial from The Bolt Report. UPDATE: The increase yesterday was 15 per cent.  That is still lethally high, but are aggressive measures slowing the spread? By week's end, we'll know.
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Bolt calls warmists "Catastrophisers"  what is he spreading as far as this virus is concerned if it's not panic? The average age of those that have died in Italy was 81, and they lived in the EU's most aged country. In 2016 the life expectancy of Italians was 82 it seems Covid-19 hasn't created a significant change in those statistics so is a 1-year gap the catastrophe that Bolt makes out. It would seem the sky isn't falling in. What is being in fact tested is Capitalism, and it's the ability to deal with this epidemic. What's being tested is the abilities of the medical system to deal with the issue. Those with Universal Health Systems in place are far better off than those without unless those without work on a pro-bono basis in states without like America that has 40 million citizens without any safety net. Universal Health Care and Paid Sick Leave would be a good start. However, this LNP Government fails to believe that to be necessary. It continues to assist business cutting workers and social welfare benefits at every opportunity and not even fast enough as far as Andrew Bolt is concerned. Their priority since the GFC was to only provide benefits from the top down.

 The virus will kill fewer people than the systemic economic collapse over the horizon as unlike the GFC China can't save the world.

COVID-19 is the pin that popped grossly inflated markets from over a decade of overly accommodative Fed policy for investors and profit-making at the expense sound economic policy.
Williams noted that Fed “loss of systemic control (was) brought to a head by the coronavirus crisis, exacerbated by collapsing oil prices.”
The latest data from China’s bellwether economy are a shot across the bow for what’s likely coming ahead globally.
Its year-to-date retail sales crashed an unprecedented 20.5% in modern times, far exceeding a projected 4% drop.
Industrial production collapsed 13.5%, its first ever reported decline.
Fixed asset investment plunged nearly 25%, another first ever drop. Property investment is down over 16% year-to-date, unemployment at a reported 6.2%, a record high in modern-day China.
Much more pain is likely ahead before recovery and a return to growth occurs — what’s happening in China already spreading worldwide. (Lendman) https://stephenlendman.org/2020/03/unchartered-economic-troubled-waters/
Since the neoliberal 90s, poverty, unemployment, underemployment, homelessness, food insecurity, hunger, overall deprivation, and human suffering have been growth industries.
Countless trillions of dollars are spent on militarism, endless imperial wars, the Pentagon’s global empire of bases, and corporate handouts to Wall Street and other business favorites.
At the same time, popular needs increasingly go begging, social justice on the chopping block for elimination.
The world’s richest country USA was thirdworldized to benefit privileged interests exclusively at the expense of beneficial social change — control maintained by police state harshness.

WORLD STARTS LOCKDOWN

Britain: people aged over 70, pregnant women and the frail to self-isolate for 12 weeks. US: Trump issues guidelines to avoid social gatherings of more than 10 people. Bars and restaurants should be closed where evidence of community transmission. France:  people must stay at home unless strictly necessary - to shop, get medical help and work. 
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Bolt doesn't highlight the difference between the UK and the USA's approach to this problem. That the UK is so far ahead of the USA in their approach, not shutting down the economy but isolation the most vulnerable. Collateral damage  has always been an insignificant  cost to America






CHINA SLOWS NEW CASES; ITALY CAN'T. NOW IT'S UP TO US

China proves we can stop the worst. It had just 16 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday. In Italy, Italy, in contrast: "Fatalities [have] more than doubled since Thursday... Italy now has 27,980 infections, compared to 15,113 four days ago." UN warns: "Australia was making the same mistake... by sending people with the coronavirus home."
2h ago 
It goes to show the poverty of and the difference between the two political systems' ability to take on a non-discriminatory illness like Covid-19. The Chinese state really treated it as a Public Health threat in which the government took full control the Italians, Americans and Australians have tried to handball the responsibility to the public with scattered advice, and as a result, the medical system has collapsed under the weight.
Morrison seems to be a follower and not a leader in any sense of the word. Friday he was no matter what going to the NRL football until the NRL stopped him. His ban wasn't immediate, and Morrison seemed to be influenced by Hillsong as to when he ordered an official ban.
Tests still take 3 days and equipment remains in short supply as are our leader's directives. You get the feeling that's going to continue, and unlike climate change, the experts and scientists have been thrown in the front line.
Despite China's success, Morrison is turning to the USA for salvation allowing ideology to dominate his decisions.

GRETA THUNBERG: MUM SAYS HER DISABILITIES ARE A SUPER POWER

How soon before we're banned for disagreeing?: "As Malena [Thunberg] documents... Greta’s autism diagnosis... she makes the case that such conditions can be an advantage. '[These] neuropsychiatric functional impairments... can be a superpower.'" No, I think they encourage her to catastrophise. Read why before it's ruled too blasphemous to print.
33m ago 
 
Internet trolls have been jailed for inciting violence without ever having moved from their PCs Rhinegoldberg being just one that springs to mind. The question is fair a may well be asked why Andrew Bolt hasn't fallen to the same fate given he's publicly encouraged Christians to fight back like the Muslims he admired for their dedication to their cause. He wished young Christians had the conviction the Barcelona bombers had.  
He's motivated murder indirectly calling for push back and hides when one comes as it did in NZ. Bolt applies the same techniques as ISIS recruiters did calling for push back by anyone listening. If people like the ultra-right-wing trolls can be charged for incitement how is it Andrew Bolt isn't? Is it because he works for Murdoch and if he didn't he would be? 
Greta Thunberg differs from Bolt in that she has talent common good intent and bigger following than Andrew Bolt who if you mentioned his name outside Australia or within you'd get the response Andrew who?

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