Tag: poverty

Sutton: Visiting the Carshalton Water Tower! (24.9.2023)

As immense wealth was generated through the labour of the exploited masses (which involved the development of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade) a privileged middle-class developed – particularly after the English Civil Wars of the 1640s. This development saw the successful transference of the control of the ‘means of production’ (and political power) from the Aristocracy (the upper-class) to the Bourgeoisie (the middle-class) and with it the unleashing of tremendous creative force (a process magnified enormously by the ‘discovery’ of the Americas and the effective stealing of immense tracts of ‘free’ land and other resources)! Of course, the spread of British power and influence throughout other countries of the world – including Africa and Asia – opened all kinds of diverse markets which spread commodities to the four corners of the earth!

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Ghana: President Urges UN to Consider Reparations for Slave Trade! (22.9.2023)

“Reparations must be paid for the slave trade,” Akufo-Addo said to an eruption of applause.

“No amount of money will ever make up for the horrors, but it would make the point that evil was perpetrated, that millions of productive Africans were snatched from the embrace of our continent, and put to work in the Americas and the Caribbean without compensation for their labor,” he said.

He also called for the illicit flow of funds from Africa to be returned to the continent.

While the current picture on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals “is not very bright,” Akufo-Addo expressed the hope that “it is within our capacity to turn things around.”

A good start would be to make the needed changes to the structures of the United Nations, “then we can rebuild trust and reignite global solidarity,” he said.

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US: Death of 53 Migrants in 2022 – 4 Charged in Texas 18-Wheeler Horror! (19.9.2023)

The tractor trailer with a fake plate was carrying 67 migrants when it was found on Monday, Francisco Garduno Yanez, head of Mexico’s National Immigration Institute, said at a press conference on Wednesday.

There was no sign of water in the refrigerated tractor-trailer and no visible working air conditioning unit, according to San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood. Those found alive were hot to the touch and suffering from heat stroke and exhaustion.

Temperatures in San Antonio climbed to 101 degrees Fahrenheit (38.3 degrees centigrade) on Monday, while the heat in the packed trailer was likely way higher than that, according to the U.S. National Weather Service.

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Southeast Asia: Britain (and the US) Must NOT Be Allowed To Infiltrate the Region! (5.9.2023)

This has included the wasting of millions of pounds upon the housing and financing of so-called ‘Ukrainian’ Neo-Nazi ‘refugees’ – whilst British people go homeless, suffer starvation and die from medical neglect (as the Tories try to transform the UK into a second-rate US State). Poverty in the UK is rife amongst the working-class – so why is this unelected Tory government wasting UK tax-payer money on Neo-Nazi ‘tourists’ – and what is considered by many Tories to be an ‘obscure’ Southeast Asian (Socialist) State? The answer is that the ‘US’ has ordered the UK to attempt a political counter-strike in Southeast Asia by enacting a charm offensive against the perceived influence of ‘China’ in the region! The UK is wasting (again) millions of pounds in Laos (a Buddhist country I support) – but this will not appear in the mainstream UK press simply because the Tories do not want the general public knowing exactly what they have been doing in their name and with their tax money!

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Cuba: US Cancel Culture & CIA Lies! (27.7.2023)

Another disturbing fact is that in the UK many of the Trotskyite Unions are openly supporting Cuba whilst their representatives continuously issue US-friendly attacks on China and North Korea! Why is the Cuban cause (which is supported by China) being distanced in the West from China by the very Unions that are willing to pay for advertisements in the Cuban Solidarity Magazines! A side issue is that some of these Unions are also flirting with the far-right and making anti-vax statements! This is NOT the calibre of support that Cuba needs – but as matters stand – perhaps it is the only support Cuba can muster in the current US-dominated climate!

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World Insights: Fentanyl – Solely A Homegrown US problem – So Why Blame China? (19.7.2023)

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Fentanyl and its derivatives sufentanil, alfentanil and remifentanil are all synthetic phenypiperidine drugs, which are synthetic opioid receptor agonists.

A painkiller for countless patients, fentanyl has many side effects. The drug has gradually become a menace to social security across the United States, a society long plagued by opioid addiction and abuse.

Statistics by the Council on Foreign Relations in April indicated that opioids, primarily fentanyl, are the leading cause of U.S. overdose deaths, which have roughly quadrupled over the last ten years for which data is fully available. In 2021, the death toll surged to 80,411, more than 10 times the number of U.S. military service members killed in the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

There have been three waves of opioid abuse in U.S. society, with fentanyl being the “main character” of the third wave.

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