I prefer Anne Gibbons’s visualization of One Health (https://annecantstandit.substack.com/p/one-health) to their hideous diagram (appropriately so to represent a hideous concept) and used it to illustrate this piece:
• “What If They Threw a Pandemic and Nobody Came?” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/what-if-they-threw-a-pandemic-and)
I prefer Anne Gibbons’s visualization of One Health (https://annecantstandit.substack.com/p/one-health) to their hideous diagram (appropriately so to represent a hideous concept) and used it to illustrate this piece:
Thank you, Margaret. Clearly, WHO is a top-down (authoritarian) organization, but you point out that its top executive is controlled by money, similar to the WEF. Such hydras will be brought under control only when the money is cut off. Until that happens, money (corruption) will reign.
That's why Putin forbade Russian oligarchs from interfering in politics. Khodorkovsky defied Putin, who managed to dis-empower Khodorkovsky and prosecute him. Since then, private money is essentially barred from Russian politics, and that's why Putin is so reviled in the plutocratic West. The weakness of plutocracy and its inherent corruption is the splintering that may occur as different oligarchs vie for control of everything. We're seeing that now with Trump and Musk.
Corruption can only be brought under control when the people check corruption either through their own inherent power and the natural rights of individuals (the Glorious Revolution followed a century later by the American Revolution), through a leader who listens to and acts for the benefit of his people, or through an alliance of such forces (Washington's Presidency). Russia has achieved that (for now). For decades, China achieved that through authoritarian leaders and the Mandate of Heaven (which recognizes the inherent power of the people), starting with Deng Xiaoping and his successors culminating in Hu Jintao, who voluntarily relinquished power in 2012. The jury is still out on Xi Jinping. Will he respect the Mandate of Heaven, or is he so enthralled with his own power that he ignores the natural rights of individuals and pushes the people to assert their inherent right under the Mandate of Heaven?
Perhaps Xi has already gone "a bridge too far" through extreme lockdown measures, and the people will bring him down. But that's a decision to be made by the people of China and their culture, not by US. Nor does what happens in China or Russia control our own problems. We do.
I prefer Anne Gibbons’s visualization of One Health (https://annecantstandit.substack.com/p/one-health) to their hideous diagram (appropriately so to represent a hideous concept) and used it to illustrate this piece:
• “What If They Threw a Pandemic and Nobody Came?” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/what-if-they-threw-a-pandemic-and)
Thank you, Margaret. Clearly, WHO is a top-down (authoritarian) organization, but you point out that its top executive is controlled by money, similar to the WEF. Such hydras will be brought under control only when the money is cut off. Until that happens, money (corruption) will reign.
That's why Putin forbade Russian oligarchs from interfering in politics. Khodorkovsky defied Putin, who managed to dis-empower Khodorkovsky and prosecute him. Since then, private money is essentially barred from Russian politics, and that's why Putin is so reviled in the plutocratic West. The weakness of plutocracy and its inherent corruption is the splintering that may occur as different oligarchs vie for control of everything. We're seeing that now with Trump and Musk.
Corruption can only be brought under control when the people check corruption either through their own inherent power and the natural rights of individuals (the Glorious Revolution followed a century later by the American Revolution), through a leader who listens to and acts for the benefit of his people, or through an alliance of such forces (Washington's Presidency). Russia has achieved that (for now). For decades, China achieved that through authoritarian leaders and the Mandate of Heaven (which recognizes the inherent power of the people), starting with Deng Xiaoping and his successors culminating in Hu Jintao, who voluntarily relinquished power in 2012. The jury is still out on Xi Jinping. Will he respect the Mandate of Heaven, or is he so enthralled with his own power that he ignores the natural rights of individuals and pushes the people to assert their inherent right under the Mandate of Heaven?
Perhaps Xi has already gone "a bridge too far" through extreme lockdown measures, and the people will bring him down. But that's a decision to be made by the people of China and their culture, not by US. Nor does what happens in China or Russia control our own problems. We do.