Capitalism and mortality: Death rate soars for middle-aged US workers

[monicaangela]

33. THANK YOU!

Thanks for taking the time to post all of this wonderful information. I especially like the way you intertwined your comment with pictures from High Plains Drifter etc. How do you add pictures and videos to comments on this site?

I know about all of the information you have posted here and am in agreement with your assessment of how terrible it is for this nation and the world. I don't believe the rest of the world is taking this laying down though. Many foreign countries have began fighting back by setting up their own intelligence services that counteract much of what the U.S. and the U.K. are doing. I look at this as an updated version of what took place centuries ago. You only need to read books that explain the days of colonialism, slavery, and even centuries before that back to the days of the Roman Empire and other empires that have come and gone to realize that what is happening is a continuation of the same.

The British government on Wednesday published a proposed new law to reform and dramatically expand surveillance powers in the United Kingdom. The 190-page Investigatory Powers Bill is thick with detail and it will probably take weeks and months of analysis until its full ramifications are understood. In the meantime, I’ve read through the bill and noted down a few key aspects of the proposed powers that stood out to me – including unprecedented new data retention measures, a loophole that allows spies to monitor journalists’ and their sources, powers enabling the government to conduct large-scale hacking operations, and more.

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/05/seven-major-takeaways-from-the-u-k-s-proposed-surveillance-rules/

I agree that those that were responsible for many of the disastrous things that have been perpetrated upon the globe, did not do these things without leaving a play book for their offspring. I believe they, just like all of the rest of us attempted to teach their kids to get ahead in the manner in which they did, even though what they did was atrocious as far as you and I are concerned, they somehow don't seem to see it that way. They think of it as progress, as early bird getting the worm, as being proactive and taking advantage of others before they take advantage of you rather than doing unto others as you would have them do unto you. The problem with counteracting this is as it was in days of old, complacency IMHO. As in the days of the Kings, Lords, and Serfs, although the serfs outnumbered the Kings and Lords and could have at any moment rebelled and changed their situation, they did nothing. It is the same today...just look at the turnout in recent elections, 20% voting here, 30% there, etc. Oh yes, I know, the recent election was not a General, a more or less off season election if you will, but as in the days of the serfs, if you don't participate in the government that has the power over your life, then you probably don't have a right to object when things go against your best interest in a terrible way.

Knowledge is a wonderful thing, knowing about oppression and oppressors helps one to understand why things are the way they are, it also leads one to believe that for some reason, those that perpetrate the crimes, and their offspring after them, somehow are more intelligent than the majority of people, are better con artist or, have gained the power over the lives of the majority through work opportunities, inequality where justice and freedom is concerned, and so many other ways that this board would fail to be able to stand up to the list.

The question is, how do we get the masses, or at least that infamous 99% of us to stand up and fight back, or at least begin to challenge the status quo. My answer to it is that we begin to forget our petty differences and unite. What's your answer? BTW, I will be reading your journals and may have questions from time to time if that is alright with you. Thanks again Octafish.