Gaza

 I want to encourage the reading of an excellent Jamal K Kanj op-ed: "Why would six Israelis receive more attention than 41,000 murdered Palestinians".  While reading the op-ed it brought to mind watching Israeli people trying to debate and justify the torturing of Palestinian prisoner hostages.   Whatever other evil that brings to mind it also seemed to shout "White Messianic Superiority".   The Israelis  passionately trying to support those crime are clearly promoting abject hate.  And it also looks like they embody little or no traditional Semitic heritage and culture that has long been common to all the indigenous Palestinians, regardless of their religious belief.  

Knowing the origin of the majority of the early immigrant Jewish refugees (Russians from the Ukraine from the 1800s, onward, due to the anti-semitic pogroms), and the most recent immigrant refugees to Israel  (Ukrainians in the past few years).  The hate that motivates that debate seems to  indicate those particular folks do not embody the semitic culture of all indigenous Palestinian (of all religions and ethnicity).  Does that indicate those  imagining that torture is acceptable and debatable are either  1st generation immigrants to Israel, or the children of 1st generation of immigrants, and/or the descendants of the early quasi-religious political zionist zealots from Europe?

To be more clear, and very clear, I am not suggesting that problem exists in the indigenous native Palestinian demographic of Jews, Christians, and Muslims living in Israel and oPT, today or in the past.   However it does seems quite clear it is a problem that has thrived and grown through the generations which arrived with the immigrant refugees who already were, or shortly after were converted into zealous political zionists by the political zionist leadership when it arrived in Palestine shortly after WWI to create a "Jewish Liberation Army" in Palestine.  In fact there was nothing about the lives of the demographic of indigenous Jewish folks of Palestine from which they needed to be "liberated" divisively - politically or religiously - from the rest of the indigenous Palestinian population.  The Jewish Palestinians who did not want to cooperate with the violent "liberation" effort of the political zionist leadership were manipulatively extorted, which resulted in their cooperation.

As a result of current events, and history, reading the op-ed also causes wonderment  about how the quasi-religious zionist cult of "White Messianic Superiority" in Israeli, is  different than the quasi-religious cult of the supposedly surreptitious white supremacist "White Christian Nationalist" cult in U.S.A.?  I suggest they are near  identical, and that Israel's quasi-religious cult is as far removed from actual Judaism, as America's is far removed from actual Christianity.   If that collusion does not shout Fascism and more specifically the neo-Nazism of modern times, then I don't know what does so, more clearly..

I have come to the undeniable conclusion that the establishment of  Israel was/is a huge false flag long-term Nazi endeavor that preceded and promoted the rise of WWII Nazism; that the establishment of the political zionist state of  Israel was intended to attract as many Jewish folks to one place as possible to make it easier to victimize a huge number of them all at one time.  That was the actual intent of the anti-semitic Christian Zionists in the early 1800s who preceded and promoted secular Jewish political zionism that required 50 years to manifest.. 

All the quasi-religious efforts to use religion to justify what religion does not condone, for which  political zionism is notorious, always intended for the first victims to be the Jewish demographic.  Those folks were not religious scholars for the most part, so were able to more easily buy into the zealous pushing of the political zionist ideology by it's leadership. The same demographic, in these time is also seemingly the  the last to know the creation of the zionist state was intended to make victims of Jewish folks - all at the genocidal cost, also, of the indigenous Palestinians of every religion.  

Those leaders created and participated in the terrorist gangs in Palestine that engaged in the massacres of villagers which started the Nakba in April 1948 - the catastrohe and "exodus" of non-Jewish Palestinians from the region the political zionist terrorists wanted for a Jewish only nation.  The non-Jewish Palestinian people had been told they would be killed if they did not leave their homes and land behind that were in the territory the political zionist leadership (by then terrorist gangs) wanted.  The lightning speed massacres of people in numerous villages proved that.  A month after the largest massacre, in April, which resulted in the catastrophic leaving behind by non-Jewish Palestinians of their homes and properties imagining they would be able to return, that same political zionist terrorist leadership declared Israel to be a nation, and peopled the first government of Israel.  The descendants of some of those folks are still peopling the government in a seemingly inherited quais-royalty way. 

Clearly, the very creation of the rogue nation of Israel was based on a genocidal intention and series of actions targeting Palestinians.  Rogue nation, because the partition was intended to be peacefully negotiated - to resolution.  However, the political zionist leadership wanted the first draft in December 1947 of the partition to be the final draft.  That resulted a series of massacres in Palestinian village (though there had been a series of systematic massacres prior to that also) and the decision of the terrorist leadership to forcibly declare the territory they wanted as a Jewish only nation which they did in May 1948 - to prevent further negotiating of the partitioning of Palestine.  However, that did not entirely put an end to the efforts to negotiate - until the same terrorists (by that time the Israeli government leadership) assassinated the chief negotiator of the partition, in September 1948.

That same demographic of Jewish folks who were not religious scholars in those times, is also seemingly the same demographic these days - and the last to know the creation of the zionist state was intended to make victims of Jewish folks - all at the genocidal cost, also, of the indigenous Palestinians of every religion..  

What else could account for the Israeli leadership choices consistently between then and now, being so far removed from the values of the religion of the indigenous Jewish Palestinians, if not "white messianic superiority" of the European immigrants?  Even non-Jews know better about Judaism  than the  cult of the  Israeli government that professes and superimposes  the political zionist ideology on the Israeli people - which promotes atrocities that of course are antithetical to Judaism.  

From the start it has been the indigenous Palestinians (Muslims, Christians, Jews . . . ) who have been made to pay for all the crimes of that collusion of ideological cults that manifested and continues to be supported in Israel, predominately by the same so-called "Christian" and "Jewish" ideological political cults in the U.S.A. and Britain.  It is also at great cost to the people of U.S.A. and Britain, whose taxes are primary supporting the genocidal Israel political cult and it's genocidal citizenry. It is no mystery that the majority of Israeli adults embraces genocidal hatred of Palestinians, given there is a universal draft of 18 year olds.  They are drafted to embody and engage in abject hate, that is encouraged to genocidally target Palestinian people.  The full extent of that cost has yet to be comprehended by the majority of  citizens in U.S.A. and Britain.  Whether or not people elected and appointed to government positions are as unaware as the citizenry, or as corrupt as the political zionist collusion, likely depends on the number of people who buy into the ideology of political zionist white supremacy who are serving in our government. 

There are numerous tales of people who have been shoved out of office in our nation by the illegal Israeli lobbies (i.e. which are not registered as foreign agents) because so many are dual citizens of Israel and America, but always put Israel first when making decisions *for the American people* especially if they gave up their Israeli citizenship to be able to serve the U.S. government for the benefit of Israel.  As hard as our legislators in the Israel First camp try to convince themselves and everyone else in our nation that what is good for Israel is good for America - it simply ain't so. 

There remains a concentrated effort of the Israeli lobby to people the U.S.A. and British governments with those who are political zionist zealots, which has resulted in any means to an end efforts to replace legislators who do not want to cooperate with what Israel wants from our government.  The Israeli lobby is well-funded and throws money and perks into the political arena to get different people elected when the ones who have been elected do not want to cooperate with the Israeli lobby.  Those are the least offensive and least criminal methods employed.

Cynthia McKinney's story is a textbook case.  She refused to be silenced by the bullying and badgering of the Israeli lobby, and those who bought into that lobbies maligning of her about everything except Israel - because she would not cooperate with how the Israeli lobby wanted her to vote, in favor of Israel.  She was not the first nor the last person that happened to, but one of the more recent people who did not remain silent about the manipulative efforts, because she is among the folks who  stood up for what was best for our nation, and called out the manipulative, corruption, bribery,  extortion, and harassment  applied to persuade people in our legislatures to cooperate.  As a result the Israeli lobby put a full out effort with any means to an end in the 2002 election to support an opposing candidate who the party was also "persuaded" to support.  And of course as part of that entire debacle, the retributive political zionist Israeli lobby continued to malign Cynthia McKinney.  Even so she was elected again.  However, there was a continued concentrated effort to derail and harass her. 

Agree or disagree with her politics, views, opinions about collusion, she has never been afraid to ask the hard questions, to explore "sensitive" issues for the purpose of needed debated (in part sensitive because of the risk of ill-intent coming to light that would also implicate those who had chosen to cooperate with the ill-intended).  She knew what needed to be talked about and had the courage to state an opinion, whether or not other folks were willing to explore the issues more deeply that she brought up because they needed a closer look. When she brought up known collusions (which were not widely known) because of the need for further inquiry, there was always a concentrated effort to silence her and label her a conspiracy theorist when she was standing up for the best interests of the people of Georgia and the American people. 

Cynthia McKinney was a force of nature while she was serving in government.  She refused to be silent so that other folks could be comfortable about the status quo which needed to be questioned.  And lest it be forgotten , or perhaps never known, pertinent to present times, she was an early supporter of the international Free Gaza movement, which again resulted in active clashes with the political zionist machine, which included armed attacks by Israel on ships taking supplies to Gaza.  Israel prevaricated about the attacks. She has since earned her Ph.D. and has never stopped working for the best interests of the American people. 

Like I said above, hers is a textbook case about which there is much to be learned about both all the good she has done for our nation, and AIPACs discomfort with and targeting of Cynthia McKinney for being honest, not being silent about injustice and corruption, putting our nation first, and for not remaining silent about Israel's victimizing of Palestinians.

In U.S. the combined Christian/Jewish quais-religious political cult and collusion, of what appears to be primarily "white supremacists" exemplified by the political zionism of the Israeli government,  is totally antithetical to our Constitutional separation clause that protects religion from government and government from religion, while insuring individual freedom of worship.  That alone should raise the question of what looks like unconditional support from our nation, for Israel, at high cost to we, the people, when is in support of a nation that functions antithetically to it's claimed religious allegiance, and wants us to to violate our Constitution regarding our separation clause - is actually dedicated to that end.

I am very angry at all of the criminal conniving - in particular the corruption of our U.S.A. government's support by the political zionist state, no matter which administration, given that they have all promoted, supported, and financed it for relentless decades, while participating in the government of Israel's long-term hypocrisy, truth twisting, lying, and cheating, plus all the associated crimes of the myriad of false flag attacks (that are oh so obvious, yet elude the comprehension of so many, as intended).  Our legislative branch makes a career of ignoring those.

More recently there is absolutely NO excuse for the concentrated development of spreading the Gaza-like genocidal atrocities into the rest of oPT, also, from where most of the Palestinian prisoner hostages (including Palestinian children) originated long-ago, and have continued to originate without cause and without charges during the Gaza genocide.  Along with the ongoing genocidal actions in Gaza,  today's invasion of Jenin, still on going, is the most recent genocidal action targeting Palestinians in the rest of oPT.
 
As usual - there must be a disclaimer to fend off claims of a debate being valid about the fact that the political zionist Israeli government is targeting Palestinians with a genocide.   There is no debate.  A genocide has actually been occurring for many decades, based on the agreed upon International Law  legal definition of genocide to which Israel and most of the world's nations are signatory.  The  instances of the Israeli government's genocidal intent and actions simply have not been saturating the media through the decades.  And as many of us know they have intentionally been kept out of the media, moreso in U.S.A. than in Israel.
 
If you have not already done so, do read Jamal K Kanj insightful op-ed: "Why would six Israelis receive more attention than 41,000 murdered Palestinians".

Hybridized Medicare - Government Funded Insurance Industry Managed

A thoughtfully written article about Veterans Administration (VA) health care came to my attention today, with the suggestion that government management of health care, given reality, did not seem like a great idea. 

The article pointed out several past problems that are no longer problems in the VA system.  And the actual  problem that has been needing to be addressed for years seems to have minimized that of scheduling and long waits.  In fact, the main scheduling problems appear to be "community care" based.  That means the  hybrid government funded/insurance managed private sector which VA has been able to offer for a number of years.  It mostly started out on a case by case basis regarding women's health issues the VA was not prepared to handle.  The question in the article was whether or not VA care had improved its deficiencies since the previous audit.  And it seems to have done so with the exception of farmed out appointments to the private sector (community based care) which were routinely requiring a seven day wait to be seen, while the VA itself was meeting its goal of a wait no longer than three days for an appointment.

I start with VA because I like to think the structure of both original Medicare, and VA are probably good places to start when envisioning what a functional, all inclusive, equal opportunity for all, no tax increase, single payer, national health care system that is  government managed could be - like Senator Bernie Sanders has researched and promoted for years, with increasingly more people signing on as the necessity of it becomes clear.  Keep in mind that government already funds a huge chunk of the insurance managed industry, like all "Part C", and some amount of Medicaid, so it is not a far reach to consider well structured national insurance without the insurance industry as the for-profit middleman.  Medical personnel endorse it, including M.D. who went into medicine to be healers, who efforts have repeatedly been thwarted by the managing insurance companies at cost to health of patients.  I have listened to many of them speak in interviews, who retired early, stay current with research, and do their own research, who wish they could have treated their patients as they deserved to be treated, as the healers they were motivated to become who the patients needed them to be.

From experience, observation, and personal accounts I have to say the manifesting of government managed and funded health care within a functional framework, imo, would be better, warts and all, than the current hybrid system which basically prevents and  undermines the partnership between a patient and a physician so they can agree to be a team that manages the patients health and wellness choices.  After all health is all about wellness, not only restoring people to wellness but maintaining wellness and learning to optimize metabolic health - first primarily through nutrition and natural tried and true integrative functional holistic means for the patient in coordination with those physicians who are also credentialed to treat the whole person and take the time to properly do so.  And that requires extensive metabolic testing at first, to know exactly what metabolic cellular level problems and deficiencies a person might have.  The way the current system works, without some type of symptoms of a serious illness, not even half the metabolic testing of holistic baseline discovery which is possible, is done.

That is the way we gain, regain, and maintain health as a nation of healthy individuals when basic holistic medical care is available to all so that problems are more likely to be prevented from developing. And of course is is much more cost effective, in a variety of ways, into the future, partly because of an increased quality of life for all.

Consider that health care in our nation is managed by a for-profit industry, funded by government, being pushed by the insurance industry with its increasingly obnoxious harassment of people through uninvited phone calls, mail, texts, and mail, and ads on all media - print, broadcast, and internet.  The pushing for Medicare folks to change to Part C, or change the insurance company they have selected to do the managing, is relentless whether or not people have actually agreed to use Part C.  It used to be through October, November, and part of December.  Next it went from October to March.  And this year it did not ever stop. 

Instead of patient needs and Doctors discussing with patients what they determine is needed, the for profit insurance industry oversteps its authority and ability to do so, for the purpose of manipulating its own profits, first.  There is no comparison to the patient doctor relationship of trust.  Dumping the insurance industry into the mix is unacceptable to doctors and patients, and it should not be acceptable to government that the insurance industry profits from the amount of government funding it takes, when it should be going to patient care, with medical folks being salaried.  Otherwise the 15 minute limit, is little different from the push, push, push, of sales people who get a commission for selling Medicare Advantage.  The more patients an M.D. see the more income they earn.  It undermines the quality of health care when physicians become accustomed to being managed by the insurance industry.  The fact is that many retire early.  And early retired physicians create valuable websites where they share vital information that they all say they wish they had been able to do prior to retirement.  In fact it haunts some physicians to consider what they could have done to improve the health of their patients.

The insurance industry creates actuarial models on which they base their predictive extrapolation models and methods that are used to manage the industries own profit-making.  In this case that has been extended to and superimposed on managing the government funded health care that industry is hired and funded by government to administer.  That creates a middle man bureaucracy of health care management that is costly and interferes with both patients rights and physicians rights, not to mentions is stingy with government funding for patients when it has to cut corners AFTER taking its share.  The insurance industry is not qualified to manage health care choices.  For the most part their profit driven model superimposes consequences of negative health predictors from their actuarial models, on everyone based on select data about age; and crime rates, frequency of disasters, current types of health problems, in specific demographics of people, and who knows what else - based on the area in which people reside.  Insurance predictions and rates differ from zip code to zip code for those reasons.  It truly is bizarre to do what is labeled as "health care" as a statistical analysis that results in a one size fits model for patient care, when health never has been and never will a result of that.  Bet the same folks think astrology is ridiculous.  What the insurance companies do is damaging, astrology is not whether one considers it a silly parlor game, or a type of interpretive physics.

However one problem with insurance industries  actuarial data used for managing health care could be its lack of consideration for the level of toxicity from pollution of water, air, soil within a zip code which they may know but the folks living there do not.  Of course anyone's first response to that would be "that's criminal!"  Toxicity also overwhelms our food chains and us.  It is worse in some areas than others, which also has to do with placement in storage during shipment and at end points, plus the insecticide in the form of gas that is used during shipping that easily penetrates flimsy plastic and paper, thus having the potential to create and exacerbate medical conditions, in clusters. 

Clustered health problems in specific areas are indicators of toxicity and/or poverty.  Instead of addressing the toxicity the insurance industry increases insurance rates in those areas where people are poorest.  Poverty and environmental toxicity, together, seem built into actuarial databases as witness to slow collusive blameless depopulating  which that industry does not want to address in its health care model, except to increase rates. 

Holistic, integrative, functional M.D.s who are true healers have no place in the health insurance industry middle man model.  It could actually be a health care industry if they did have, instead of a for profit driven "illness industry" because of the hybrid partnership between government and the insurance industry which mismanages government funding, and patient care, not to mention obstructs how appointments work, and the  treatments recommended by  physicians.

VA has had to eventually deal with the problems of specific cluster medical conditions because of environmental pollutant exposure, not only in people who were in combat zones, but also those stationed at domestic bases.  And we see what that has created for veterans deserving of medical care when at least 20 years must pass before government admits the evidence actually does point to clusters of medical conditions, then provides funds to VA to ameliorate some of the problems - for those who are still living.  And veterans not part of a "cluster"?  Forget it, even with substantiating medical records.  If people pursue an issue after the first time they take a claim to V.A., they will have to jump through a series of hoops V.A. must create to be able to delay - for the purpose of appeasing government financing - for decades, in some cases.

My uncle, a  WWII Purple Heart recipient veteran, who was fortunate to live through his ordeal, eventually went to V.A. (at his son's suggestion, no doubt) after 40 some years,  which resulted in his service related disability rating.  I do not know what it was, however an educated guess suggests probably 100% given his wartime experiences.

What has become clear to me is that adequate government oversight does not necessarily apply to hybrid partnerships between government and industry as it should, especially when it comes to use of  funding provided by government.  In the case of health care, currently, the partnership between government and the insurance industry regarding Medicare, and "Obama care", appears to be based on the dictates of the for-profit insurance industry which government hires to manage the hybrid systems it funds.  That is what Obama care turned Medicare into with the Part C additions - because of insurance industry managing.  That managing includes ceaseless and costly hiring of phone folks, and costly media advertising to push, push, push,  people to enroll in the part C hybrid of Medicare Advantage.  That relentless push has turned into an all out war that zeros in on relentless individual unwanted contact harassing that is targeting people who prefer to stay with original Medicare instead of  totally allowing insurance companies to manage their care; preferring instead to manage it themselves along with their M.D. who the insurance company does totally dictate to. 

And of course the Dual Care system for folks who receive medicare and medicaid, without the permission or knowledge of Medicaid qualified individuals of retirement age who were changed over to a into a managed care Medicaid plan both without their knowledge and consent, which creates an Original Medicare, Medicaid insurance managed hybrid some people do not want, preferring both  original medicare which is available and original medicaid, which does not seem to be available  . . . until or unless retired folks, themselves, consider making a change to Part C, which the state Medicaid folks want to push. No doubt with the federal funding it is more cost effective for states, and does more for more patients.  Presumably that would relieve them of a lot of accounting - and perhaps relieves them of the cost so they are able to hire fewer employees to do the work.

The fact is that the insurance industry profits more when there are more healthy people signed up for Medicare Advantage, because they apply their actuarial models at their most doom and gloom worst for each individual which results in the amount they are allocated for each individual.  If/when an individual does not use up all that has been allocated to the insurance company to use on their behalf (estimated through the actuarial data the accumulate about an individual) then it can be used on other patients.   That apparently means big profits for the insurance company at the end of the year when they have funds remaining because of the number of healthy people who did not need the funds allocated. That model would only have individual excess funds available at the end of the year. 

Does the insurance industry actually transfer their unused funds at that time, the start of a new year, to people whose allocated amount was used up?  Or do they continue to deny them the treatments without allocating the remaining funds to those treatments at the start of the new year for those patients?  Without government oversight on how the insurance  industry is supposedly taking from Peter to pay Paul, who knows where the remaining funds for healthy folks who did not use all of them, go when the same individuals who were told "no" to treatment or procedures the year before are still being told "no" the next year!  Individuals are not told how much is allocated on their behalf based on actuarial models. 

Only recently did I happen upon an article (while not looking for anything about that topic) which gave a name to that hybrid effort and outright stated it was unethical to foist the insurance managed Medicaid of Dual care Medicare folks onto people without their knowledge or consent.  It seems an effort to force Original Medicare people to succumb to the unnatural pressure to voluntarily choose the Medicare Advantage hybrid they purposely choose to avoid.  Dual care people, according to one of the people who actually answered my questions did admit, when pressed, that if an original medicare patient chose to see a physician or covered Medicare medical provider outside of the Medicaid insurance managed system, that people of retirement age who had unknowingly been put on the program instead of regular medicaid, would still be able to have their care choices covered, same as it was with regular medicaid, instead of having to select a provider from the Medicaid insurance managed list.  So essentially Medicaid supposedly continues to supplement Medicare payment not dictate to it from the state level. 

Whether or not what I was told is factual I have no way of knowing. I arrived at the point decades ago of asking for copies of regulations for the purpose of seeing in writing just exactly what we should be able to depend on as factual.  Thing is when we don't know the facts, we don't know when we are being bamboozled by the folks employed by the system who like to behave as if  the money is coming out of their own pockets. Plus they enjoy  being obnoxious about revealing what the regulations entitle one to be able to expect.  If we do not know what government entitles us to, we can not ask for it when insurance companies do not inform us of the covered entitlements.  Why government insists on investing in the insurance industry with funds that should be used for patients, is nonsensical.

Have hybrid relationships between government and industry ever ended up not screwing government - which means we, the people, too?  It is our collective taxes doing the funding.  Either way it is lose/lose, imho.  And it creates situations where either government owns industry, or industry owns government, the same way the economy was hybridized in German and Italy after WWI which improved the economy and corrupted the governments, thus enabling the fascist descent into WWII in Europe.  The U.S.A. also admired that model, which may have had something to do with our nation not joining the war until after being attacked by an Axis power.  It is not even a century later and we collectively seem to need to relearn that lesson the world learned the hard way - once again in the hard way! 

We, the people, are empowered to collectively steer the ship of state, yet we can do nothing about industry - except with our collective purchasing power.  Rarely does it seem that we are able to persuade or force government to actually apply the law to industry - or, locally, apply the law to any businesses that fund the election campaigns of those who will be the victors.  And how about government giving corporate conglomerates the rights of an individual - a very wealthy "individual" with a huge amount of narcissistic, nepotistic, Machiavellian influence, through the financial power of the sum total of their investors, who may not be nearly as cut throat.

 It will not end well for we, the people, if we do not put the skids on the monetary power of monopolies and wealth to buy government cooperation - starting at the party level.  And we still wonder why our choice of presidential candidates has too often seemed to be no acceptable choice?  We have a plethora of good decent law-abiding people  who relate well to all people in respectable and respectful ways, and are not embroiled in legal problems that in times gone by would have been identified as treason, or at least would have disqualified them as presidential or any other office holding candidates.  Those characteristics of good character should be a preliminary requisite for all who want to be presidential candidates

Government being duped into wasting tax payers money on the insurance industry as a health care manager, instead of those taxes being returned as needed to us all by government funded health care that goes entirely to health care without the insurance industry profiting from it, is not what anyone is advocating for when they advocate for "Medicare for All" or "single payer".  What people are envisioning is what a functional all inclusive equal opportunity for all, no tax increase, national health care system could be,  based on a Mayo clinic structure, with its efficiency, efficacy and and quality of care that is adequately funded to the advantage of all.  However, the manifesting of that within a functional framework, currently is basically undermined because of - in a word - corruption that creates a  for-profit illness industry instead of a salaried, government funded and managed Mayo Clinic like holistic national health care system for all.  How can people not comprehend that a healthy nation of individuals is at the foundation of the continuing quality of evolution rather than devaluation and genetic devolution of our nation and its people?