Money, Money,Money: the voting illusion

It’s election season. The amount of significance that can be attributed to that term varies for each individual, and this writer can state early that when it comes to general elections, such events grab very little of my attention.My serious attention anyway.

Election campaigns are sensationally entertaining, whether your politically minded or not.

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The UK has just announced the depressing results of the general election (Conservative majority), while canvassing and election campaigns are still ongoing in the US and Ireland. Ireland is more preoccupied with its referendum on Gay marriage as of late, so the US will be the focal point.

It’s safe to say Obama will be ousted, so who will take the throne?
Clinton, a token of traditional US political history, and slightly more approachable because of the possession of a female reproductive system, which enforces an illusion of change, reform, good warmheartedness?
Or Bush, another token for the more violent, radical, and- lets face it- stupid side of US political history?

Or a variety of other candidates: Romney, Paul, Cruz, Rubio?

Who will you, the people, vote in?
Who will you, the people, pick? Who will you, the people, elect into government?

The answer to all three?
No-one. You, the people, in addition to your opinions, and votes, have very meager influence in the lobbying and campaigning that takes behind closed doors, or sometimes out in public. With the Multimillion and billion dollar fiasco that is US lobbying and Campaigning, best believe when you simply follow the money in politics, your going in the right direction.

Take the Koch Brothers for example. With the intention to spend $886 Million in the run up to the 2016 election, ensuring who they want in power gets power, only the naive could think they’re little box-tick is enough to change the system.

But we know that, right? It has to be largely accepted, whether we like it or not, that general elections and voting is largely just a show. We know how it goes- they stand up there, say some speech, make some promises to do this,that, and the other, and we watch and say “Great”.

But deep down we know it’s all bollox.

Its largely accepted: Politicians lie.
We Expect Them to Lie.

But we still go and vote, fueling this endless cycle of pointless nonsense.

If anything, the voting process is there to assure Politicians and Government, that it is they who still have the power.

Anyways.

From following US news, specifically honing in on whenever the Dangerous Duo  are involved, their names resound in my mind like some evil duo of boss’s in a video game; or a partnership of villains from a movie. Perhaps the New Avengers movie (I should state clearly here I am not familiar with comic books at all), with the creepy pale Brother and Sister, who, at the beginning, use their powers for evil; until they realize the extent of the mass destruction they’ve unleashed.

Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver=Koch Brothers.

I can’t be the only one who see’s it.

Pedophilia in the Establishment- Why is Justice Being Prevented?

News of late has been riddled with various sex and child abuse scandals among prominent politicians, bankers and others stretching from the US across the Atlantic to the UK. Both countries pillars of western democracy.

Prince Andrews has been under the spotlight with child abuse allegations, and his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, convicted of soliciting underage girls for prostitution.

It has emerged that Bill Clinton too was in constant contact with the Billionaire Epstein, and had regularly flew to his Florida properties.

People in the UK are no stranger to the legacy of politican Cyril Smith, a pedophile of historic proportions, whose activities were covered up by the British Parliament during the 1980’s. Proof is slowly emerging that Thatcher, and others knew the extent of child abuse that was occurring in prominent ranks of the UK Parliament, but chose to protect those involved.

All of these events are hideous, and truly shocking for everyone involved. whats increasingly hideous, is the obstruction of justice that is being implemented by the Government to protect the names and positions of those involved.

Bluntly, why are governments and state authorities protecting these pedophiles? Files and information regarding the names of individuals have been classified, and remain so in the “interests of national security”.

We, as taxpayers, are funding establishments that lie frequently to the people about political issues such as tax, fracking, the privatization of resources and State agencies, wars- and now pedophilia.

Where does the line stop?
This, if nothing else should be the wake up call to people that democracy is NOT working.

• If Democracy is the a system designed “for the people, by the people”, why do UK residents have no say in the controversial Fracking legislation, despite 90% public opposition to it? Why is the UK’s NHS being privatized?
• Why do US Citizens get dragged into foreign wars they don’t agree with until false pretenses of WMD?
• Why are Irish citizens lied to about bank bailouts, forced to pay illegally implemented Water Charges which the majority are opposed to?

  And now, why are taxpayer funded Politicians, Policing organizations,and others trying to obstruct justice and protect a number of exploitative, despicable individuals?

  This is Democracy.

  An illusion of justice, freedom of choice, and honesty, maintained by instilling the fear that whilst our governments aren’t the best, they could be worse. Recent events make me wonder. Could they be?

  It takes certain type of people to condone and ignore child abuse. Yet, that’s whats running the country.

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Britain’s Prince Andrew linked to US ‘sex slave’ abuse case with Jeffrey Epstein- David Icke was right, again.

A woman has filed claims billionaire banker Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused her multiple times as a minor, and loaned her out to various high profile individuals, including Prince Andrew. One of the most recent stories to come out in the mainstream media, shadowing Icke’s claims years before.  Obviously, Buckingham Palace has denied the claims. Full story here

Can you afford to be healthy?

We’ve all been there. Shopping isles, foraging for the items we normally throw in our trollies, but wait; something catches our eye on the same shelf. Organic. Hmm. Same item but apparently better for you, and alas, more expensive. Less chemicals, GMO free, No artificial flavors ect. and of course it probably is better for you. But can you afford it?

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Government: “Eat healthier”

We hear it regularly, government plans to tackle obesity and related illnesses, often preaching to us, the consumer, to “Eat healthier, Make better choices”. These statements do nothing more than insinuate that the blame is on society; poor eating habits result in poor health. It’s your fault (lets ignore for a moment the vested interests the Healthcare industry and pharmaceutical companies have in unhealthy societies). The truth is while more and more people are becoming aware of poor quality food standards and the health dangers cheap, processed, chemical pumped foods offer, people cannot simply just “eat Healthier”. It’s not like go exercise; walking and running are free. It’s not like get more sleep. Antibiotics and arsenic in the chicken. Growth hormones in the milk. Cancer causing sweeteners in, well, just about everything. Now that your aware of such dangers, surely you can spend an extra 15 minutes on your shopping trip to read the label of every item you pick up and make better, healthier choices.

Truth is, a shocking number of people can’t. Cancer causing, processed, dangerous foods are stocked in every food store at low prices, as opposed to organic foods (if your store even stocks them) which are generally more expensive, and less plentiful. In new study published by the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, low income Americans would have to spend almost 70% of their income to meet the national dietary guidelines. So, while it’s all well and good for the government to simply blame societies lack of education regarding food, or allocating it to laziness, gluttony ect, and while this may be true in some cases, the fact that Governments maintain low food standards resulting in mass cheap food production that harms health is rather telling.

Bluntly, if low income families (nearly half of the USA) can’t afford a healthy lifestyle, this results in widespread unhealthy lifestyles, which results in health issues, which subsequently leads to a need for health care, which funds a booming Health and Pharmaceutical industry.

We are allowing ourselves to be told we’re to blame by the very organizations who are keeping us unhealthy.
Governments, Food and Healthcare companies need to stop allocating all the responsibility and blame for nationwide poor health and obesity epidemics to people and start taking responsibility for allowing the present day situation, where it’s cheaper to buy a box of doughnuts in Walmart then a bag of sprouts.