George Rebane
“Since the introduction of Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms, China has what economists call a socialist market economy – one in which a dominant state-owned enterprises sector exists in parallel with market capitalism and private ownership.” This is the version of capitalism of which many on our Left are so enamored, with claims of how such restructuring of the economy will promote – wait for it – equity. The truth is actually the opposite. The further the socialist slide toward communism has progressed, the more unequal becomes a country’s economy and wealth distribution as measured by the UN in its Gini Index (or Coefficient) ratings of member countries. The index ranges between zero (complete equality) and one (complete inequality) – a review here. Today China’s GI = 70.4 compared to America’s GI = 47.7 (more here) That’s quite a difference in wealth distribution, and completely expected for authoritarian cum totalitarian regimes. Team Biden and the new radically socialist wing of the Democratic Party are busy fundamentally transforming our economy to more resemble the People’s Republic of China.
[20aug21 update] Islam – our eternal foe? So suggests Robert Nicholson, president of the Philos Project, as he dances around the notion of religious plurality in the Middle East. In his ‘The Unconquerable Islamic World’ (20aug21 WSJ) he writes – “The House of Islam has many rooms, but it stands on a few pillars: The Quran is Allah’s final revelation, binding on all humanity; faith is a matter of private devotion as well as public law, best lived out in a state that blends religion and politics; and Muslims should, where possible, hold power over non-Muslims to ensure that Allah’s law is rightly enforced. It is doctrines like these that cause the Taliban, al Qaeda, and Hamas to fight the ‘Jews and Crusaders’ who tread on land that historically belonged to Islam. But their commitments are far from radical; most Muslims see them as normative even if they fail to act on them.” (emphasis mine) Combine such ‘normative beliefs’ with Islam’s taqiya, and you get a much better idea of the Muslim mentality that the world faces. [23aug21 update is the nearby picture. H/T to correspondent.]
[21aug21 update] ‘The biggest crime committed during the vaccine heist is the censorship of Ivermectin’ (H/T to reader) In these pages over the past 18 months we have covered the imbecility and criminality of our governments’ Covid responses, blindly abetted by millions of our leftwing lackies. Most recently RR focused on the criminality of withholding effective and established prophylactic and treatment drugs from the American public while hundreds of thousands needlessly died waiting for Warp Speed to bear fruit (here). Now more physicians and scientists have begun to speak out about this enormous crime. The above cited pieces summarizes –
- While the list of crimes committed by authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic is a long one, perhaps the biggest crime of all is the purposeful suppression of safe and effective treatments, including ivermectin. This appears to have been done to protect the COVID “vaccine” program
- The COVID shots were brought to market under emergency use authorization (EUA), which can only be obtained if there are no other safe and effective alternatives available
- Several systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies looked at ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 infection. A rapid review performed on behalf of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) in the U.S., January 3, 2021, found the drug “probably reduces deaths by an average 83% compared to no ivermectin treatment”
- According to a more recent review and meta-analysis, ivermectin, when used preventatively, reduced COVID-19 infection by an average 86%
- Another recent scientific review concluded ivermectin produces large statistically significant reductions in mortality, time to clinical recovery, and time to viral clearance
Do you have your prescribed Ivermectin courses of treatment ready to go in your medicine cabinet?
Speaking of getting vaccinated, one should take every opportunity –
[more 23aug21 update] And now, if you can lower your eyes a mite, for your edification we delve into a bit of timely poetry.
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