The War on Yemen Continues....

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Capitalism has an interesting built in feature. It creates poverty from abundance. There is a cute leftist parable which attempts to explain this phenomenon when capitalists; not the people; hold the means of production.

A Parable

It is a snowy christmas eve and the home is quite chilly.

The child asks their father why the house is so cold.

The Father replies, "Because we have no coal."

The child asks their Father why they have no coal.

The Father replies, "Because I have been laid off from the coal mine."

The child asks their Father why they have been laid off from the coal mine.

Their Father replies, "Because there is too much coal."

Beyond the worker family

Of course if the means of production were in the hands of the workers then there would be more than enough coal to go around.

This parable plays out in sovergn states as well. Those countries that attempt to distribute the wealth of production among all its peoples are severly punished by the capitalist countries/empires. We see that today in such countries as Venezuela, Bolivia, Iran and of course the most severe case presently... Yemen.

Thoughts from one who attenpted to bring aid

Caleb Maupin jumps right into the issue of the ongoing war crimes currently underway in Yemen, so no need to wade through a long video.

He captures the history of what has lead to a Christmas market massacre of innocent men, women and children over the holudays and the missle strikes to the medical university in the capital killing doctors in training.

Conclusion

There is far too much coal in Yemen.



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If only the people realised they have the power to give or take away from the capitalist system.
Food is more valuable than gold or diamonds to the rich. And thats what really scares them should they lose control.

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<rant alert>

In these days of mass anxiety there are no doubt some capitalists are concerned about the rabble. Nick Hanaeur comes to mind. However, the problem seems not so much how the rabble will react but a system whose rewards are based on profit. This system is presently running amuck and eating its own tail; as predicted by Marx in Das Kapital.

All money fiat money is debt... or generated via debt. If you are a tax slave then that is your debt. Negative interest rates give no value to saving fiat. Coming to a bank near you, if not there already.

Without trying to sound like an analysis or adviser, my personal feeling is that crypto is going to play a huge role in the next stage of the evolution of the world economy. The concepts that STEEM's DPoS is playing with shall have far reaching influences in that evolution in my opinion.

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That’s the same way I feel, take some personal responsibility and stop using their services! Yes in some cases you can’t and for that I c an understand that’s a monopoly but the creatures of comfort we’ve become isnt the fault of capitalism! We chose this, every day we continue to vote for it with our money and actions

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The world's super rich helped by the world's superpower and the world's last apartheid and worst criminal regimes bombing the Arab's poorest country for over 5 years killing thousands every month directly by bombing and slowly by diseases and starvation, and at the end they're losing the war they started!

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... at the end they're losing the war they started!

It is a war they cannot win. The quest for profit is killing the very consumer base that had been the power house of the western economies. Now selling weapons and generating conflicts is the only means to maintain the Military Complex. It is like eating your child. Thankfully the world is waking up to the evil the Profit Quest has become.

My feeling is that history shall thank the Syrian people for halting the march of that evil, giving the world time to wake up and take measures to counter it.

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Not only halted the march of that evil, it managed to reverse the domino effect in some countries that were taken by the anti-Islamic Muslim Brotherhood cult controlled by the evil powers, like in Tunisia and Egypt to a large extent, and also gave the platform for Russia and China to strengthen their presence in the region, allowed a breathe to Iran and now countries like India, and even Turkey, ironically, are saying no more often to the USA.

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Perfect Post!
An explanation "anyone"
Should get!
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Thanks @lesmann. Hopefully more will get to understand that the reward for profit system profits no one but the very wealthy.

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So you're saying the coal in Yemen = aid from within Yemen itself, in training its own doctors by its own internal medical university.

The bombing was done by a capitalist country/empire (group of ruling capitalist countries) that control the education and training of doctors that are dangled as assets - and are needed as "aid" in heavily bombed regions like Yemen.

That's quite an interesting connection to the Laid Off Coal Miner. But I understand what you're driving at as well. In terms of the coal miner, too much coal is seen as devaluation if it is too readily available because in capitalism that would make more competitive prices in attempts to sell it. So the coal miner instead is laid off from the top of the production chain by the bosses of the mines. He cannot be paid fiat to heat his home because the people who used to pay him control the mines and laid him off. He cannot buy the substance he mined that produces the energy to heat his home from the people that stopped paying him fiat. The reserves of coal are held by capitalists while they are also paying out less fiat for the workers to purchase the very substance they mined until they have no fiat left to buy heat from the company that produces heat with the coal they mined (in essence the energy/gas company is the middle man). Once the middle man needs more coal they buy it directly from the company that laid off the miners who hold all the coal in abundance, creating a need to once more hire workers to mine more coal for heat. In essence, the fiat is just a way to middle man the hell out of miners instead of letting them control the mining and produce their own heat by burning the coal they mine directly. In this instance a "Gas company" and payment in fiat is not needed. If the mining company is a socialist middleman that tries to distribute power equally, it can simply be imposed sanctions in trade by empires that rule world trade (embargo's) leaving them with an abundance of oil like Venezuela - with nobody to sell to. The oil becomes cheap in Venezuela when sold in the country directly, but is quite expensive in capitalist countries because the emperors that make trade rules (or even shut down production by bombing hospitals) deny the ability of a country to function on its own without capitalist mediation and meddling in the process.

How horrible... There has to be a way forward. Venezuela is "Little Venice"... perhaps Italy is the solution to stop all of this. IMO - the Roman Empire still exists in laws of the West, and perhaps places in the East. But there has to be a way to prevent Western sanctions on the east as well as proxy wars by both sides (rocket attacks on military barracks of US in Iraq/on hospitals in Yemen without anyone admitting their country backed the proxy who did it)... We need to get past this all.

I'm so sickened because I see both sides. Socialism and Capitalism are exploited. What is the solution? Honesty. And also letting go of the grip on countries that desire to be different/terrorism on Western countries that worship differently than you do.

Right and Left, both are wrong and right. Centrist - yet to be achieved.

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I am reminded only because of the translation from the Italian wikipedia page for the english named "Joachim Murat" that after Napoleon made him King of Naples in 1808, he immediately shut down the most ancient medical (school) institution of the Western world:

"After a lightning-fast military expedition that allowed him to expel the British from the island of Capri , during his brief reign, Murat founded, with a decree of 18 November 1808 , the Corps of Engineers of Bridges and Roads (at the origin of the Faculty of Engineering in Naples , the first in Italy) and the chair of agriculture in the same university with decree of 10 December 1809 , but condemned the closure, with a decree of 29 November 1811 , of the ancient Salerno medical school " [source: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gioacchino_Murat]

So in a time of war... Napoleon's brother-in-law Murat, who later betrayed Napoleon by making a treaty with Austria as well as abandoning the army in Poland - leaving it to Napoleon's cousin (3rd in command) - shut down the production of "doctors" in wartime. Similar don't you think?

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So you're saying the coal in Yemen = aid from within Yemen itself, in training its own doctors by its own internal medical university.

No. Yemen is incredibly wealthy in oil and natural gas reserves. The socialist government was deposed and a puppet set up by the Saudi who cannot allow a functioning socialist society beside their dictatorship. Yemen's potential wealth (coal) is why they are suffering so severly, in my.opinion.

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It's interesting that in its largest territorial expanse, the Ottoman Empire once ruled from Hungary to Yemen. I'm just watching the dominoes fall and reading the tea leaves here, but maybe some Order will come to light to make a human-realized solution to end the proxy wars and religious wars that plague the Middle East. Something Christian, Semetic, and Islamic where everyone realizes that the efforts of the past 2000 years or so have been to create a system that works for everyone and makes sense in both a religious or humanist and lawful way.

People are ignorant in the Western Hemisphere to think that States only exist in the United States and the idea of state in international law is something even more ambiguous yet ideal as far as regulating chaos goes. I think finding common ground in history and tying knots between branches viewed as mortal enemies would be a good breather for the people on this planet. I hope we get to see it.

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