US announces big hike in Medicare premiums

The federal government announced a large hike in Medicare premiums Friday night, blaming the pandemic but also what it called uncertainty over how much it may have to be forced to pay for a pricey and controversial new Alzheimer's drug.

[msn.com]

This isn't what you thought you'd be getting from Biden, now is it?

{We are sidetracked into, at best, debates about how we can improve the status quo, rather than whether the status quo works or, even more usefully, whether the status quo is dangerous and eco-cidal.}

Preserving Out-of-Control Power

The propaganda system tightly constrains our understanding of political and ideological realities to make them dependent on the economic priorities of the ultra-rich. We become unconscious lobbyists for the lawless and immoral activities of corporations and billionaires.

[consortiumnews.com]

Before I go further into the Consortium article, I'll address the Medicare article after I attempt to show how the 2 are related. While Jonathan Cook uses Russell Brand as an example in the linked interview, we get the same typical examples from our representatives. We got a ton of these examples during the 2020 election cycle from both representatives and MSCM. Which today the positives have not played out, and aren't going to any time soon. The following from a reply I made this morning related to Medicare.

{I just read this morning that Medicare recipients are going to take a large hit with a monthly increase of over 14%. Even those who also get SS, while looking forward to an increase of a little over 5% within the largest inflation period of 30 years will still face harder, struggling times, as the difference negates the other. This is another issue I and others warned democratic supporters of as Biden came into the presidential circus. They chose to ignore and argue against our use of his history despite our warnings. Now, along with rising cost due to the virus, which was used as a weapon against our society, by both Trump and Biden, they're going to pay the price with the rest of us. Exactly how we explained it before the election. The few that might benefit the most were more than willing to throw those not so well off under the bus to keep what they have. Now they don't exactly have it now either. I'm sure those with what they deem as a large enough nest egg left to get by may still argue they were right anyways, as they ignore the criminal cycle we attempt to expose that actually effects the whole of our society. As generations below them will be left to even more drastic rising cost to cover them. The cycle seemingly invisible? Or is it just a case of narcissistic entitlement? To hell with those that come after me? I'll be gone as the planet burns.}

And it will burn, according to all indications beginning with horrific conditions beginning approximately in 2036. More on that bellow. Which is also highly related.

{So Riddell — who was honored by the queen in 2012 as a commander of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to journalism — is very much integrated into the establishment that runs the country for its own benefit. But he is also on the wing of it that is most anxious about the masses getting restless if the failures inherent in a system designed to uphold the establishment’s power become too apparent.

The candidates for these public bodies — including, of course, Riddell himself — have already been carefully filtered for ideological sympathy to elite goals. The vast majority, like Riddell, have attended private schools and/or gone on to elite universities such as Oxbridge.}

This is where my argument has been with progressives since 2016 when it became obvious Sanders was limiting himself to fully denouncing Clinton in that primary and went on to betray his supporters in all aspects of that year. Then carried it over into 2020. The squad also plays a roll in this by limiting their dissent to only a slight of verbal notice. Do you ever hear them denounce the cast of representation above them with information of discovery found here that could provide them a powerful argument for real change, exposing their crimes and unethical practices? Of course not, their job is merely to keep us from becoming to restless within false hope.

{The appointments system has always been heavily rigged — as one would expect — to maintain class privilege. Cliques have no incentive to invite in outsiders, those who might disrupt the financial and ideological gravy train the elite has been growing fat on. The appointments system, by its very nature, is deeply conservative.}

What was our warning towards Biden's cabinet picks? You didn't hear MSCM speak of the history our sources provided. So yet again the same horrid social and world policies they helped to create are still going and growing worse. We got a new boss and new cabinet still working for the same ruling class with the help of the media they also own.

Crony Appointments

{Any challenges to the status quo come not from the left — or so rarely from the left that they can be quickly snuffed out with corporate media-led propaganda-vilification campaigns, as happened with the former Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn – but from the right. Which is why the system has a consistent tendency to shift rightwards, even as reality moves leftwards, in the sense that the failure of financial institutions and the collapse of environmental support systems become ever harder to conceal or ignore.}

{“a non-political senior independent panel member.” They even have an acronym for this sticking plaster: a SIPM.

What does “independent” mean in this case? Only that these solitary figures on the appointments panels should not be “politically active” in public — perhaps to encourage us to imagine that, in secret, there are lots of socialist bankers and hedge fund managers who pick the people who head our most important public bodies. And that, unlike the other panelists, the “independent” one should have some minimal technical understanding of the principles of making public appointments.

In other words, Riddell’s role is to make sure there is one person like him on these selection panels — a moderate apostle for neoliberalism — rather than only dog-at-dog cheerleaders for neoliberalism. And the reason is as cynical as it looks: that it benefits the system that not too many overtly dog-eat-dog candidates get appointed to Britain’s most important, visible and cherished public bodies.}

In other words. Independent appointed panels means cover up. Very limited accountability will be provided, if any. With a long history of this nature, we still remain unwilling to seemingly to unite for change.

{The Guardian fulfills the same role. In its report on the public appointments system, it highlights a supposed battle to maintain the system’s already non-existent integrity — as though Riddell serves as a check on government power over regulatory bodies in the same way The Guardian claims to act as a check on the rest of the billionaire-owned corporate media.

In reality, both are trying to stop real scrutiny of out-of-control power structures that are ultimately destroying economic health and environmental health on a global scale.}

Big Oil’s dangerous lies, the push for pharma price negotiations, ‘Baby Shark’ song used in torture

How long do you think our energy companies have known how our dependency on fossil fuels would effect climate warming? What if Lee Camp told you it has been since 1959? What if Lee Camp shows you how it has been since 1959. According to their own estimates the beginning of the worst will start hitting us approximately 2036. As if it isn't already bad enough now as we're looking at virtually no turning back, that isn't far away. 1959 mind you, with their predictions, according to documents shown by Camp, since then have played out virtually with bullseye accuracy to what we've been experiencing from then right up to today. Also, Anders Lee goes into more on the facade of Big Pharma’s latest effort to stop Congress from giving the government the power to negotiate lower drug prices.

[rt.com]

I'm also going to suggest anyone who gets the Vice channel to catch this weeks episode of {WHILE THE REST OF US DIE} Which is called Toxic Wasteland --- Government policy and powerful companies fuel the country’s appetite for natural resources. But the average American is paying the price for their greed.

[vicetv.com]

Food Kills which I suggested last week is now also available online.

[vicetv.com]

I don't recommend Vice for a whole lot of content, and place a high sense of caution on their news, but these shows on while the rest of us die provide great sources information.