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If your economy can't be differentiated from the dominant back drop of unlabelled status quo capitalism, regardless of your position within capitalism, owner, boss or wage slave, you are perpetuating capitalism. So... you're a capitalist. And if knowing your place within capitalism upsets you, perhaps own that feeling and research some alternatives. My suggestion is check out Worker Co-op's
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SOMETHING DIRE HAPPENING TO THE BOOSTED IN NZ...
We are into another "wave" of covid here in NZ.
The graph below shows the relative numbers of people in each covid vaccine group, hospitalised with Covid in the week Nov 14 - 20 2023
The numbers written on the colour blocks show the number of people per 100,000 of each vaccination group.
This is the most honest way of presenting statistics because it negates the confounding variable of the differing sizes of each group.
Critics have been claiming that the seeming over representation of the boosted, is due to the age skew of boosted being elderly and more at risk.
However, the Boosted category in NZ includes anyone who has had 3 doses of covid vaccine - and there are 2.77 million people of all ages from 18 up, in this "boosted" category.
Irrespective of age of the boosted...the entire premise of being boosted is to PREVENT hospitalisation and death...isn't it?
-NZ and the MRNA
@HopeRising19
Monday, November 20, 2023
Songs: Ohia - East Last Heart
Laboring,
I first chose you
for my all-star team,
you have been advised
where power and rich kids
find ways to unite
it is virtue who's sitting the bench
by not talking,
I shouldn't have to say it
I said get out,
I mean get out this minute
I don't trust you more than the weight of your shadow
rich kid I'm talking to you
rich kid I'm talking to you
oh rich kid I'm talking to you
oh rich kid
Sunday, November 19, 2023
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Impt. thing to remember is to acknowledge that if you go down this path of Capitalist vs Democratic arts, 99.999% of the existing arts community is going to hate you, even if they say they understand your argument.
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Impt. thing to remember is to acknowledge that if you go down this path of Capitalist vs Democratic arts, 99.999% of the existing arts community is going to hate you, even if they say they understand your argument. Being pointed out rationally that your efforts are the opposite of help is a cognitive dissonance storm few are willing to enter let alone pass through. For me there's nothing less. It's like I'm wearing pants and everyone else is naked.
Barry Thomas
You're clearly my fellow penguin along with Sam mahon, Derek cowie, mike joy...
Degrowth, inward personal "growth", less is less... Are the only ways out of the myopic circle of vested interests.
Wells Tao
Barry Thomas no, I'm sorry. Sam Mahon, Derek Cowie, Dr Mike Joy,
and even yourself, unless you are practicing and promote your different
economy, for all 'good intentions' you are still fundamentally
perpetuating Capitalism. Capitalism is the default economy dominating
the market place, as a Democratic Socialist Public Welfare Artist, I am
not perpetuating capitalism. It's a profound and lonely difference.
Wells Tao
I must have now said the above sentence a hundred times a hundred different ways... for more versions please see: https://taowells.blogspot.com/.../my-made-facebook-memes...
TAOWELLS.BLOGSPOT.COM
My
Made Facebook Meme's end of 2022, a smattering before I was banned. -
Democratic Socialist Public Welfare Artist, Tao Wells - you're welcome.
Barry Thomas
Wells Tao
it's one thing to think, act and believe that the species has over
blown it's self, limits, et al but it's quite another to seek validation
within victim-hood.
You're not alone nor do you "Own" your isolation... worn as a badge. The whole species does.
Wells Tao
Barry Thomas
you are just not listening. Which is fine, but if you want to have a
conversation with me about this issue, it would be great if you could
engage with what I have said.
Wells Tao
I
own my isolation and I do wear it as a badge, because I'd love there to
be more like me, but until there is I'm not going to pretend. I'm the
opposite of victim, but as I initially said, once I've pointed out that
you ( and the rest) are still capitalist, it's an automatic victim card
that's played... "I'm not a capitalist, I don't have any capitals etc
etc.. ."
Wells Tao
Everyone
who works for Gov. is a Democratic Artist. Everyone who's material
existence is reliant on wealth from collected collective wealth,
distributed by Gov. is a Democratic Artist. Everything is art, Everyone
is an artist, artist of what?) However they must promote this
distinction, this role visibly, otherwise Capitalism captures all
effort, all work, all outcomes.
Video of the "Capital Insurrectionists!" being Peacefully lead into the building by Capitol Police. Some insurrection.
Video of the "Capital Insurrectionists!" being Peacefully lead into the building by Capitol Police. Some insurrection. https://x.com/ggreenhttps://x.com/ggreenwald/status/1725920051427963050?s=20wald/status/1725920051427963050?s=20
10, 000 for gay communist
The real-life triumphs of the gay communist behind hit movie Pride
This article is more than 9 years old
Friends recall 'a firecracker of a human being' as memorial fund for Mark Ashton receives more than £10,000
Sun 21 Sep 2014 00.04 BST
He is one of the central characters in Pride, the feelgood film now in cinemas that tells how gay and lesbian activists threw their support behind a Welsh mining community during the strike of 1984.
But while many of those who inspired the film attended its recent premiere, Mark Ashton was absent. He died in 1987 of an Aids-related illness at the age of just 26. But now the film has sparked a surge of interest in his political activism. A memorial fund in his memory has received donations of more than £10,000 since the film's release this month.
"He was an everything person," said his friend Chris Birch. "He was an Irishman, a communist, an agitator, a lapsed Catholic who still went to mass very occasionally. He was very charismatic. His communism governed everything he did. He spent a couple of months in Bangladesh in '82 and the poverty really politicised him. I miss him terribly. People tell me I didn't smile for three months after he died."
Pride, which features a cast including Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and Paddy Considine, tells how Ashton co-founded Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM), a movement that raised tens of thousands of pounds for striking miners, the two sides finding solidarity in their enmity towards Thatcherism and shared feelings of alienation.
Their collective sense of marginalisation was captured in a notorious Sun headline that branded the two groups "Pits and Perverts", an epithet that the paper's targets gleefully appropriated for a memorable fundraising concert at Camden's Electric Ballroom.
Pride shows how disparate groups of gay and lesbian people were inspired by Ashton, a gay man from Portrush in County Antrim, who was an active member of the Young Communist League, a fact overlooked in the film, apparently so as not to alienate American audiences.
With a soundtrack that features the Smiths and Billy Bragg, the uplifting film is in the mould of Billy Elliot, Brassed Off and The Full Monty. But it is only when the credits roll that viewers learn the fate of Ashton, to whom the Communards' Jimmy Somerville paid tribute in his song, For a Friend. "I´ll never let you down, a battle I have found," Somerville sings. "And all the dreams we had, I will carry on."
Roy James, a member of LGSM and a friend of Ashton, blames his early death on the lack of resources that went into combating HIV in the 80s.
"Aids was a key political issue, alongside Greenham Common, the women's movement, CND and Cruise missiles," James said.
"People were sick and dying and nothing was being done about it. In the film we're depicted as good, fluffy people supporting the miners but there was a clear strategy on Mark's part to align himself with the labour movement in order to get gay politics, sexual liberation, HIV and Aids treatment on to the political agenda."
At the time, prejudice was rife. The treatment of the gay community by the police was a major grievance. "HIV was seen as so scary back then," said Lisa Power, a volunteer at Switchboard, the telephone advice line for gay and lesbian people in London, where Ashton helped out. "Once we had to get some BT engineers to come and sort out our phones and they refused to come into the building."
Power remembers Ashton as a "firecracker of a human being". "He was completely irrepressible, incredibly committed and extremely uncompromising. He was one of the most vibrant, alive people that I knew."
Given such a climate, the miners and the gay community had a common enemy in the government of the time, Ashton believed, in that both groups were stigmatised. "The big issue was that Thatcher and Reagan were seen to be in cahoots," James said. "They were resisting any requests or demands that would start research funding. They did not do it until the heterosexual community demanded it. We, as gay people, saw it as a form of genocide."
Money raised for the miners was seen as a declaration against Thatcherism but it was also a corrective to the power base of the president of the National Union of Miners, Arthur Scargill, who had determined that any funds raised in the US and London in support of strikers should go to his favoured pits in Yorkshire and Kent, leaving south Wales to fend for itself.
Finding groups sympathetic to their plight was therefore crucial to the mining communities not favoured by Scargill.
"We sought to broaden the struggle beyond the picket lines to what we called an anti-Thatcher broad democratic alliance," recalled Hywel Francis, MP for Aberavon, and a former member of the Communist party, who helped forge links between the gay community and Welsh miners. "That is why our support group also set up the South Wales Striking Miners' Choir and the South Wales Striking Miners' Rugby Team."
By January 1985 there were 11 LGSM groups around the country. Ashton died just two years later but he lived long enough to see his dream that gay rights should become part of the political agenda realised. The 1985 Labour party conference saw a motion to support equal rights for gay men and lesbians go down to the wire. It was carried only due to the block votes of the National Union of Mineworkers and its allies.
"This was a major turning point for the fortunes of lesbians and gay men as it allowed the more progressive elements of the Labour party to push for a real implementation of this policy," argued Colin Clews, a member of LGSM and an HIV rights campaigner, in his blog.
NZ Election 23
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woops truth slipped out, Labour, I appreciate the half arsed scramble, on a sinking ship and all, yes I'll, The "Nemeficiary artist" will take a National Act Beating at WINZ rather than continue to support Labour/Greens failures, particularly their abandonment of those raped and still censored by the state. What's 'tax the rich' mean if they can't tell the truth from a lie. Honestly, they've abandoned the mine of integrity. Not that Individual members, particularly greens aren't shining with real star power.
Brian Tither
What
a selfish and arrogant and stupid attitude. It isn't all about you. So
don't put that expectation on the rest of us to take a beating from
winz. You should return the grant you got for creating the beneficiaries
office if that is your attitude.
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yeah you are a living embodiment of the spineless jellyfish that is the Labour party. Go beat yourself off somewhere else.
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Wells Tao
Brian Tither hey but Grant, if you ever want to go public and fight WINZ with me, you know where to find me eh.
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Brian Tither
No way I am not a selfish arrogant stupid individual like you.
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Brian
Tither yeah I didn't think so, clue less coward screaming revolution to
those with real skin in the game, anonymous from his couch
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Lefties like you always screw it up for the people that you claim you are acting for.
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When are you returning the government grant that paid for the beneficiaries office?
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