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They Rule Over Dysfunctional Ruin, but They Rule Alastair Crooke Since 2008, we have lived in a western world shaped by the ‘permanent state’ or by our managerial technocrats – label to choice. Since 2008, we have lived in a western world shaped by the ‘permanent state’ or by our managerial technocrats – label to choice. This ‘creative class’ (as they like to see themselves) is particularly defined by its intermediary position in relation to the wealth-controlling oligarchic cabal as ultimate big money overlords on one hand, and the dullard ‘Middle Class’ below them – at whom they sneer and deride. This intermediary class didn’t set out to dominate politics (they say); It just happened. Initially, the aim was to foster progressive values. But instead, these professional technocrats, who both had accreted considerable wealth and were tightly congregated into cliques in America’s large metro areas, came to dominate left-wing parties  around the world  that formerly were vehicles for the

Thanks to  Left(Flank)…not behind for recommending this article. Self-Destructive Social Habits, Loneliness, and Propaganda by Edward Curtin  We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! —  T.S. Eliot ,  “The Hollow Men”,  1925 When many people share thoughts, speech, or conduct that is frequently repeated and becomes automatic, it is fair to call it a social habit.  Such habits tend to become invisible and unspeakable. They become part of our taken-for-granted-world. When I recently wrote an essay about hoarding – “ The Last Temptation of Things ,” many people got angry with me.  A friend wrote to me to say: “I congratulate and curse you for writing this.”  He meant it as a complement.  I took it as meaning I had touched a raw nerve and it touched off a series of further thoughts about social habits and people’s angry reactions when they are challenged. Some people who criticized me absurdly complained that I was supporting Klaus Sc

Report: Potentially Lethal New Super Strain Of COVID Created In London Lab Renowned Molecular Biologist describes development as “insanity”   A potentially deadly new strain of COVID has been created in a University lab in London, according to a report. The Daily Mail reports  that researchers at Imperial College London have hybridised the original Wuhan strain of the disease with both the Omicron or Delta variants separately. The College is yet to reveal how effective the strain they have created is, and has denied that the work constitutes gain of function, the process now widely believed to have been responsible for the original strain in Wuhan. Molecular biology expert Dr. Richard Ebright warned that the new mutant strain, which was injected into hamsters in London, “is insanity, both in terms of the redundancy and waste,” and that it has zero “foreseeable practical applications.” At least four labs on two continents now have constructed non-natural, lab-generated viruses that reta

Preferred Pronouns Lit the Path to Covid Science Denialism Ramesh Thakur he Telegraph  (UK) reported an interesting  case  on October 22. A woman, a victim of a previous sexual assault, went into a private hospital in London for a complex colorectal surgery. During the pre-op clinical assessment involving intimate procedures, she encountered someone she believed was a trans-woman in a blonde wig and make-up who left her feeling uncomfortable.  The patient, who had previously refused to use preferred pronouns, requested an all-female nursing team, saying “mixed sex hospital facilities are unsafe for women.” The CEO replied the hospital “did not share her beliefs” and, because she had caused “unacceptable distress” to the staff, her operation had been cancelled. Baroness Nicholson, chair of the parliamentary campaign group Children and Women First, has written to the Care Quality Commission calling for an investigation into the “astonishing” development that a hospital would refuse to tr