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I agree: you would think that people recognizing the crime and monstrosity of what was done to them on the basis of their collective identity, having as it were ‘experienced’ the horror, would themselves refrain from inflicting the same horror on anyone else and for similar reasons, namely, a presumed ‘superiority,’ rather than to use that memory as a ‘justification’ for committing an equivalent crime.
Apparently humans are capable of absolutely anything, living out their entire lives, as they do, deeply submerged in ideological and moral contradictions ( — a condition perhaps symptomatic of widespread and endemic cultural, economic and demographic decay, or in other words, symptomatic of the dislocations of ‘capital’).
To echo Brecht: surely we live in the dark ages still, a guileless world still being an absurdity.

“Is it also possible that those actually engaged in R&D are quite poorly paid compared to their bosses in these firms,”
Pharmaceutical companies who justify high prices for their goods because they spend so much on R&D, fail to admit that these R&D costs are tax deductable anyway, so they already get a tax benefit from their R&D expenditure. It’s just more PR bullsh!t from fat, bloated CEO’s.

I read your mind as captured – that is – you actually believe what you are saying. Yes it’s a view. Have a look at “Cancer is a serious business” free online – and get a glimpse into the cartel of corporate and State via regulatory capture. This story exists to be told because the discoverer and holder of the patents held true to treating patients – regardless the extremity of the apparatus of state thrown at him.
If you wont – then the salient part to my point is that when FDA etc couldn’t shut him down, (everything was running legally), they tried to pass of identical patents whilst repeatedly and repeatedly trying to imprison him – using humongous legal obfuscation. they failed – but they have not stopped trying to shut him down. You are naive to believe what you are told. there’s a Racket and it goes further than a little mind can bear to see.
As for lazy people demanding what they don’t deserve, – where exactly does that fit in? I find it to be lazy thinking…

If communication were possible, ideas could be shared and better ways of living together could be found. But if you want to live apart – don’t allow this to occur – or subvert and infiltrate it to make it a token opposition.
‘blockquote’ On 7/7/14 Shaked wrote on her Facebook page:
Israeli MP Ayelet Shaked
“They have to die and their houses should be demolished so that they cannot bear any more terrorists,” Shaked said, adding, “They are all our enemies and their blood should be on our hands. This also applies to the mothers of every dead terrorist we eliminate.”
“Behind every terrorist stands dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there.”
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While this is only the voice of one Israeli politician, it is not without popular support in its sentiment. Does she mean what she says – or is it the deliberate provocation of anti-semitism from a belief in untouchability? For the master race idea is implicit in differentiating from ‘snakes’ deserving death.
What I see is the assertion and projection of self-denial out and away from any pretence at communication, as the means to imprint hate and terror symbols that then incriminate and vilify anyone speaking against. If anyone NOT under protection of such power acts thus, they have none and are given none.
This is useful to see in our stuffed shirt politicians. They reveal the mind they operate as in what they attempt to stamp onto others.
The outward result of war on terror/drugs/cancer/crime is its proliferation amidst capture of sympathy alignment. But the inner result is a complete lack of accountability. A blind disregard for consequence – excepting to persist in exceptionalism and self-specialness as The Regulatory Protector. Insanity.

Discerning the purpose to which something is put, is free from being entrapped in the entanglements of engaging in terms of the framing of the content.
I notice a very subtle mind-trap by which communication is prohibited and penalised – that is the means and power to enact penalty are feared.
Such is an assertion of power over minds – that it cannot even be truly identified because it operates our identity.
Without anti-Semitism, the Jewish Identity would and does assimilate. And so the fear of everyone ELSE suddenly hating and killing you and your family is embedded in Jewish Identity by its power class – that can thus draw on its support or at least its reluctance to more than token criticism.
The ones who work power through deceits – in any guise – Use hatred as power in asserted self-righteousness – and propagate such a mentality within the direction and protection of service, obedience and sacrifice.
The sacrifice of truth for power is the elitist ‘religion’ – and I mean elite in terms of supremacist, not excellence. Therefore they enjoy the term ‘elites’ as it confers validation to their sense of being BETTER than and superior to the inferior who personify ‘lack of worth’ of an undeserving humanity of anything but under-serving those assigned to rule over them.
Meeting this written out sounds like insanity, but when was the last time you stood in judgement over another from a presumed superiority – or sought secretly to gain from their loss? Or the last time you ruled your mind with cold indifference to the feelings you associate with weakness and loss of power?
The ‘lie and the father of the lie’ are one in purpose of hatred and denial of truth – and so the attack, usurpation and fragmentation of truth to war by terror. I say this is the basis of our human identity – as a conditioning from which we are almost exclusively turned to look away. For we hate hatred – excepting we give it a backstage pass to operate through us in self righteous vindication – and for that – ‘our wound is sacred and as a jealous god – for from it comes power of a different order than the creation we take as our footstool’.
How else would the human mind dissociate its context and attack it than to make in its own image and mask as both life and the attack against it? The power of immunity to self-hatred is hatred of others, of world and of Life. Never pausing to look within and see a call for healing because only vengeance can be defined ‘healing’.
If insanity rules our world – and our perceptions and experience of it – then what is Sanity but such recognition? However, to sacrifice the glimpse to the mind of blame and hate and denial, is to have but fluttered open a moment before returning to dreams of power amidst powerlessness.
The linkage between our thinking – at its deeper levels of self-definition and belief – and our experience and consequent identity is kept hidden my materialism – that WANTS no Source or Author but itself amidst a world to exploit and conform to its will.
In all of this power talk – is the idea that we have it in and of ourselves – or would if not denied by THEM from whom we will take what is rightfully ours… in good time. But my growing recognition is that this definition of power corrupts, hollows out and uses us – not unlike a parasitic influence working against our life-force – but either we like the ride – or cannot get off.
Power addiction denies recognition of true worth in another. is this then power? Or is it the denial choice by which pain to awaken the need and desire for true? the apple of the Tree of Life is not denied or hidden – excepting by choosing to live out from the fruits of the judgement of good and evil – in which true and false are lost to identity in power struggle that has distorted and blocked the Inheritance of Being and so is the power to destroy that holds its world captive. Or does it? Identified in struggle or recognizing self in each other in true relation. Notice how sickening is the idea of love to a mind rooted in hidden hate.
Perhaps the ‘chosen ones’ are those who carry the reflection and reminder of a choice we forgot we made and hid. For only a choice you know you are making, can be changed. All the struggle and deceits cannot change a choice but simply add layers and layers of denial and defence – ad nauseum.

You are assuming that the likes of Bayer should be allowed to charge whatever they like for the drugs they sell because they reinvest their profits in research and development. That is quite a huge assumption to make.
Isn’t it possible that most medicines and drugs are actually quite cheap to make and most of the profits pharmaceutical companies make go towards fattening the salary packages of senior executives or into dividends and bonuses paid out to individual and corporate shareholders, instead of being put back into the core business of producing drugs? Is it also possible that those actually engaged in R&D are quite poorly paid compared to their bosses in these firms, or are employed on contract and thus easily expendable once their work as researchers and innovators is done?
The point of the article is that Western pharmaceutical firms are abusing and exploiting intellectual property rights in order to extract excess profits from medicines that actually might have been cheap to research and develop, and then to market, distribute and sell. In doing this, these firms are putting lives – especially the lives of children, disabled people and elderly people (whom you label “lazy spongers”) – at risk. This is an enormous waste of human potential.
But I suppose the aim of the article goes above the heads of trolls deliberately determined to confuse people with idiotic talk about socialist-capitalist dogma.

Norman Pilon. Very eloquent. I wish I had said that.
If “The Holocaust” actually happened,(and I personally have no idea whether it did, or it didn’t), wouldn’t it be a great idea, if Israel showed some compassion towards the Palestinians, rather than treating them like ‘Concentration camp’ victims?
For all the great things that Jews have achieved in this world, here is their chance to show compassion towards the Palestinian citizens of Israel, who are on their knees, while “The World’s policeman” turns a blind eye to their suffering…………….