I Despair

I despair that our work for twenty-six years has had no popular impact.

The epidemiology (see 'The Spirit Level' book, and a host of sequels, and the website www.equalitytrust.org.uk confirm, unambiguously, that mortality and morbidity - death and illness - are increased by the stress caused by economic inequality, specifically income inequality.

People in more equal societies are healthier, live longer, more fulfilled lives, are more peaceful, more ecologically resposnsible, and are more happy.

People living in more unequal societies, be they Countries or States within Countries, are less healthy, die younger, etc.

In short: stress weakens auto-immune systems in people, and in societies and ecosystems.

The solution, therefore, is to create more or greater income-equal societies, Nationally and Globally.

That's what the living plan for democratic and Co-operative Socialism is all about.

Sadly, hardly anyone is listening.

Solution Not Problem

The problem that we have is that the problem has caused a problem.

And then the problem is deemed to be the solution, which is a problem.

Because the problem is not a solution: it is a problem.

So the solution is to find a solution to fix the problem.

Hence the solution:

   True,  Democratic and  Co-operative Socialism as the solution to the politics, economics (not) and ethos of selfishness (capitalism).

The problem is not solved by social distancing (isolation of the self).

But rather by social attraction for The Common Good:

     - Community provision, Free-at-the-point of use.

Thus, the solution is:

     -  Rent-, Interest- and Profits-to-shareholders- Free economics,

      - All workplaces, therefore, as appropriate Co-operatives, all contributing to The Common Good,

      - Community-provided, Free-at-the-point-of-use provision of as many human needs as possible, facilitated by a not-for-profit, interest-free money, banking and finance system,

      - Retaining money, only in the short-term as a mechanism for discetionary purchases, through the provision of 'Social pocket money', ie a guaranteed Living Income for Everyone, with paid-work income, if wished, up to a socially-determined maximum, as a top-over,

      - A National Co-operative Commonwealth of Co-operative Careship rather than Own-ership, all contributing *to*, not parasitic *upon*, a Global Co-operative Commonweal.

By Tuesday!

Corona Virus questions 12 May 2020

This is a new blogpost from the Science Museum in London

https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/coronavirus-science-what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-the-virus/

The three queztions that I still cannot answer are:

1)  Has this virus been isolated? It ssems to go by various names, why, what are they? If it mutates, is it changing into something that has a new name? Has each different type/mutation been isolated? Does each mutation have a different name? If the virus mutates in one place, say in one person, does it automatically change/mutate in every other place/person at the dame time? Does the original mutation survive alongside the nrw mutation or does it disappear?

2) So, is a test to show the presence of, say, initial Mutation A of any use to *reliably* detect any new Mutants, Mutant B, C etc? And, anyway, how specific, and how reliable are those tests?

3) To what extent is the only strategy being offered, isolation, in more, or in less strict ways worsening the death rate, and suffering rate? We know, from the pre-existing epidemiological evidence that greater levels of stress, caused by greater levels of economic distress, specifically, greater levels of income inrquality, lead to greater levels of mortality and morbidity (ie premature death and elevated distress and illness, respectively).

So, are the elevated death rates in, say the UK and US, two of the most income-unequal Countries, scarecely societies, in the world, in this period, due to the *added stress* of enforced anti-social isolation than before?

4) Finally, the only alternative explanation for the, apparently, elevated levels of death during this period is placed at the installation and use of a new microwave technology called 5G. The map of introduction and use of this new technology must be well documented, as will be the map of deaths over this period. Is there any correlation between these two sets of data? And, if yes, which set of questions follow?

The Science Museum blog doesn't seem to be open to posting these questions.

And, even if it was, would any of them be heard above the political battle that is being fought.

Ah well,

John Courtneidge (Dr), PhD UCL Chemistry 1978-1981, Post-doc, briefly at Imperial College, longer at UCL, 1981-1986. Research Chemistry Participant and co-research leader employed by the Malaysian and, then, Canadian Governments, 1988-1994 (including, by intation, at the recommendation of an anonymous fellow Chemist, as a peer-reviewer of researcher-submitted manuscripts submitted for publication in Primary Journals of The Royal Society of Chemistry). All of which ended, then, when funding for fundamental Physical Organic Chemistry research was ended, world-wide.

Usury and The Virus

"Let's go and see our friend, he's feeling down."

"We can't . . ."

"Oh, I get it:

Divide, Depress, Rule, Rob."

"Yes, and kill: it's a genocide.

Capitalism is a genocide.

Not a racial genocide, but a Class Genocide."

"But they need us, the essential workers, to do the d-jobs that they won't do: the dirty, dangerous, dispiriting, degrading, down-right drudgery."

"Yes, but they can breed drone eunuchs to do that."

"No!"

"Yes, that's what the north European slave trade was all about, the Vikings, Jewish Bankers in Rouen, etc."

"No, it won"t happen!"

"And, you say 'Jewish Bankers in Rouen': that's Anti-Semitic!"

"It's historically factual."

"And the Bankers in the Jewish Communities are Anti-Semitic."

"How can that be? Surely self-hating Jews is not possible?"

"Well, first of all, being a Usurer, in other words a for-profit Banker, is a guaranteed route to becoming hated. And people's first instinct is to see all of the people in the Jewish Community as benefitting from the practice of Usury.

Especially, since The Bible has the Deuteronomic Double Standard: that Jews people are *forbidden* to practice Usury (Ie charging interest of any amount, not the corrupted definition of 'Excessive Interest') to the rest of their Jewish Community, but they *are* allowed to practice Usury towards all other Communities.

One rule for Us, one rule for Them.

That's why, in my experience, popular Anti-Semitism develops: people don't like being used for the profits of others.

They hate Landlords, they hate Usurers, they hate Bosses-for-Profit: they hate Capitalists, the 2%, generally.

And they hate the Capitalists' Praetorian Guard: the 10% who are allowed by the Capitalists to tax them (us, the 88%, The Worked Class), in order to finance the guaranteed, higher-than-average, higher-than-fair, paid-work incomes and retirement 'Pension', incomes: 'Reward for Service', more like.

It's that TRIP-Up thing: inequality created by Theft, Rent, Interest, Profits and Unequal-pay-for-work.

And we all know that inequality makes everyone sick: *everyone".

As in 'The Spirit Level' book and at www.equalitytrust.org.uk .

And, because *some Jews* are Usurers, *all Jews*, in popular culture, get painted with the same brush.

And, of course, people know that, if Usury 'against one's brother' is wrong, then Usury against one's neighbours can't be right.

That's why Usury creates Anti-Semitism.

And the present Virus panic."

"So the prevalence of Usury against other Populations engenders Anti-Semitism."

"Yes.

To say nothing of the hatred of Jewish Bankers of Rouen, and other North Sea and Baltic ports, from the victim Communities, in financing slavery from northern Europe to the Islamic Caliphates. Memories have histories.

And present-day consequences."

"Such as Israel?"

"Yes."

"Oh, OK."

"Hold on . . . "

". . . You haven't told me about the relationship between Usury/Capitalism/Israel/Zionism and this virus thing."

"Another day."

"OK, thanks."

Fake Socialism

Fake capitalism = 'Oh! How generous I am/we are!'

Fake socialism = 'I/we tell you what to do, when to do it, how often to do it.'
Nothing about, 'Why to do it.'

True Socialism

True Socialism = 'What can I give?'

True Capitalism = ' What can I/we get? And, how much? And, how quickly?'

I Will Remember

Capitalism will use anyone's blood for its own survival.

To say nothing of tomorrow's VE Day diversion.

All wars are instigated for profit.

We, the Worked Class, the 88%, are murdered (culled) for profit.

The 2% take the profits, then collect interest on the 'War Debts' while, all the time collecting Rents, every day, every minute, every second.

And less.

While the 2%'s Praetorian Guard are allowed to Tax us, in 'peace'-time as well as in war-time.

All the time.

To fund their higher-than-fair incomes, pensions and perks.

So, whose murder will you be remembering?

And whose, ongoing, victory.

Me?

Victor Adolphous John Courtneidge.

My dad.

Murdered at the age of fifty-seven.

By capitalism.

It, then, becomes personal.

Ps, he and my uncle, I'm fairly sure, were at Cable Street.

Will that be likewise remembered?

Hope so!