Financial markets were on the brink of collapse immediately prior to COVID. Quantitative easing (QE) had been put in overdrive following the financial crisis of 2008. QE was used as a tool to prop up a failing system.
What we saw following the 2008 crash was ordinary people being pushed further to the edge. We witnessed more than a decade of ‘austerity’ in the UK, a neoliberal assault on the living conditions of ordinary people carried out under the guise of reining in public debt following the bank bail outs.
During that period, a leading UN poverty expert compared the Conservative government’s welfare policies to the creation of 19th-century workhouses and warned that, unless austerity is ended, the UK’s poorest people face lives that are “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”. Philip Alston, the UN rapporteur on extreme poverty, accused ministers of being in a state of denial about the impact of policies. He accused them of the “systematic immiseration of a significant part of the British population”.
In a 2019 report, the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank laid the blame for more than 130,000 deaths in the UK since 2012 at the door of government policies. It claimed that these deaths could have been prevented if improvements in public health policy had not stalled as a direct result of austerity cuts.
And in a report on poverty in the UK by Professor David Gordon of the University of Bristol, it was found that almost 18 million could not afford adequate housing conditions, 12 million were too poor to engage in common social activities, one in three could not afford to heat their homes adequately in winter and four million children and adults were not properly fed (Britain’s population is estimated at around 66 million).
Meanwhile, The Equality Trust in 2018 reported that the ‘austerity years’ were just fine for the richest 1,000 people in the UK. They had increased their wealth by £66 billion in one year alone (2017-2018), by £274 billion in five years (2013-2018) and had increased their total wealth to £724 billion – significantly more than the poorest 40% of households combined (£567 billion)." https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/23/uk-circling-the-drain-crisis-what-crisis/
Embed this noticeSherri_Ingrey (sherri_ingrey@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 19:10:55 JST
Sherri_IngreyMan is so arrogant to believe man is significant enough to stop the earth's natural evolution. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund under the leadership of David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger founded the United Nations Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). and funded it with near unlimited resources going forward. In the climate change arena, the Rockefellers call the shots. The whole thing was their idea, they took a silly but interesting theory and amped it up with hundreds and hundreds of million of dollars. They founded institutions and linked the survival of those institutions to promoting climate change and population reduction. They adopted one likely politician after another. By 1998, the Rockefeller family had swept the table clean of any opposition to this one idea. Any scientist not on board with the agenda was imperiled. Any university department not working towards this one artificial goal, was in danger of being marginalized. Infiltration had begun into every media organization, every entertainment division of every major corporation. This, as stated below, would be a generational goal. For everyone. Or get off the bus.' https://kleanindustries.com/.../the-rockefellers-created.../ It was the idea of the Club of Rome. In the 60s they were implementing the agenda. https://www.timetoast.com/.../historia-del-desarrollo And the Carnegies are not far behind! Scroll down this page, reads like Gates' Foundation investment portfolio for carbon removal: https://c2g2.net/ https://www.timetoast.com/.../historia-del-desarrollo https://www.wri.org/about/history Nothing actually relates to nature’s climate… It’s all about spreading lies in order to control the world’s finances and resources…
@KeepTakingTheSoma I have seen a lot more boys like that than girls though, tbh. I remember my cousins let their boys FO when it was time to clear up after a massive family dinner, but the girls still at least had to clear scrape and stack.
Parental abuse is not limited to classic forms (physical, sexual, psychological, verbal) and to ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences). It includes all forms of overprotectiveness, instrumentalization of the child, and disallowing the child to develop boundaries, separate, and individuate.
@KeepTakingTheSoma@Flick We used to have popular candidates back in the 1960s. Maybe even the 70s. Then came neoliberalism, and it all ended. Canada got the virus in the early 1990s, 10 years later than the UK and USA, but we got it bad.
Embed this noticeSherri_Ingrey (sherri_ingrey@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 09:19:38 JST
Sherri_IngreyThe DSM-V defines Paraphilic Disorder as “disorders characterized by persistent and intense atypical sexual arousal patterns that cause significant distress or impairment to the individual or involve nonconsenting persons” and goes on to list eight categories: Exhibitionistic Disorder, Fetishistic Disorder, Frotteuristic Disorder, Pedophilic Disorder, Sexual Masochistic Disorder, Sexual Sadism Disorder, Transvestic Disorder, and Voyeuristic Disorder. While the DSM categorizes these phenomena as disorders only in the instance that it causes significant distress, it is my position that our entire society has been groomed to accept a harmful amount of tolerance for paraphilias that can be conceptualized as Multiple Paraphilia Exposure (coined by Jennifer Thomas in 2024).
This exposure has proliferated through the internet and social media, advertising, and government policy over a prolonged period of time, with an acceleration in the mid-2010’s when “Transgenderism” became the civil rights cause du jour. Under the guise of protecting a “vulnerable minority”, our exposure to aberrant sexual behavior over time has led to a tipping point in which public display of fetish and paraphilia is not only societally accepted but celebrated and enforced. To be clear, “transgender” is another euphemism in a long line of euphemisms for Transvestic Fetishism and is in no way innate, naturally occurring, or evidence of a new sexual orientation that needs protection under the law. Whether it be called transexuality, autogynephilia, or the latest buzzword “autosexuality,” the acceptance of Transvestic Fetishism is opening the door to accepting pedophilia as a sexual orientation that needs equal protection. If a child has expressed a wish to be the opposite sex, this is indicative of having been exposed to paraphilia, either through grooming by online predators, sexual abuse, or mandatory education on Gender Ideology at school. Any attempt to diagnose these children with autogynephilia is to downplay the ways in which we have all been trained to accept the unacceptable and to destroy the safeguarding boundaries set in place to protect the most vulnerable classes of society. https://substack.com/inbox/post/154790428?r=3cfrmo&showWelcomeOnShare=true&triedRedirect=true