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<p>Hi all<br>
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<p>I participated in the Jesuits International webinar "<a
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href="http://www.canadianjesuitsinternational.ca/webinar-solidarity-in-a-covid-19-world/">Solidarity
In a Covid-19 World</a>" on Nov. 9th,2021. I was particularly
resonant with the words of Padre Melo from El Progreso, Honduras.
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<p>Padre Melo describes our Covid-19 world as one in which we as a
global people must chose between a life giving future for our
children or death and hopelessness through our acquiescence to
the comfort and security of our egotism and selfishness. <br>
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<p>Melo says that many countries have responded to the crisis of our
time with increased force and repression to control through fear
those sectors of our peoples who pose a threat to the Capitalist
Status quo. There is a move to increased militarization and
repression in which the big loser is democracy. He notes that
there is an "extreme manipulation of information" in our media.
Given this reality he says that we have three temptations to
distract us from global solidarity. <br>
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<ol>
<li>immediate violent change being proposed by the
insurrectionists in his country</li>
<li>Remain passive and submissive to the authorities</li>
<li>Escape from the reality of this crisis. <br>
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<p>From his discourse I got the sense that we the global people are
all in this together. Solidarity is recognizing that we are din
the same boat. In Canada we also have to realize that their is an
"extreme manipulation of information" in our own CBC. I can see
daily that increasingly information that threatens the dominant
narrative is deleted from social media. At the same time our
national media channels do not cover descent which is happening in
other parts of the world. O'Murcho writes, our Gospel mandate is
one of inclusivity. Yet, we now live in an anti-Christian
segregated society where the media has identified the unvaccinated
class as responsible for the suffering caused by Covid-19. When
asked about the vaccines in Honduras, Melo says that they are
being used by the Honduran government to increase its control over
the population. This is no different from what is happening in
Canada. <br>
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<p>Forbes has revealed 660 new billionaires in 2021. Jeff Bezos,
saw his net worth grow by 59.1% over the course of 2020. Tesla
CEO Elon Musk became the second-richest man in the world, with his
net worth growing by a staggering 437%. Bill Gates' net worth was
up 14%, while Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's grew 32.3%. The
number of multimillionaires have also increased in an inordinate
amount. Meanwhile those at the bottom of the wealth pyramid both
in Canada and in the world. Hardest hit were those in small
business startups with some losing their entire investment while
others losing their income going increasingly in debt. While once
employed people were paid to stay home, medium and small
businesses were shut down, leaving only the large corporations
like Amazon, Walmart and Costco as viable channels of
consumption. Melo confirmed that this same trend happened in his
country. The Billionaire owned extractive industries remained in
full operation even while most of the other businesses in his
country were closed. The world over has seen the rise in power
and wealth of the billionaire class as the poorer classes became
more impoverished. <br>
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<p>Any suggestion that this historically massive transfer of wealth
and power from the poor to the rich was planned in any way is
denounced by the media indoctrinated public as conspiracy theory
and misinformation. Even as the World Economic Forum and other
world leaders including Justin Trudeau announce the need for a
great reset involving a new currency based on a digital ID, there
is extreme public denial of any relationship to the digital ID
passports being implemented throughout the world for proof of
vaccine. While people the world over are being isolated and locked
down, trillion dollar investment portfolios like Blackwater and
Vanguard with access to unlimited free loans are buying up assets
at an unprecedented rate. We are moving into the new normal of
technocratic feudalism where according to Vandana Shiva, three
classes will prevail: <br>
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<li>The super wealthy to whom no rules apply</li>
<li>The digital slave class who are charged with maintaining the
system</li>
<li>and the useless class or as Bill Gates has called them: the
useless eaters</li>
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<p>Melo when asked about COP26, declared that the interests of the
poor are not represented there. You have to receive an invitation
to appear and only the representatives of the rich and powerful
are invited. Better, he says to form our own organizations to
create the future that we want than depend on the futures being
offered by the World Economic Forum and the billionaire class. As
Church, in the past we have resisted the directives of the IMF,
the WEF and other UN organizations because we have seen the
suffering that these organizations have wrought upon the poor of
our world. <br>
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<p>In a similar vein we should be aware of who funds the WHO. Once
the USA withdrew their funding from the WHO, the largest
contributor was the Bill and Belinda Gates Foundation. Is it to
wild to think that the WHO might be serving the interests of the
Billionaire class who are funding their operations. Perhaps as we
have in the past attempted to develop organizations like the World
Social Forum to coordinate our solidarity with the poor on
international development so should we consider an organizing a
pandemic response that is based on science and not on the plans of
the billionaire class to establish a techno-feudalistic
totalitarian future. It is time that we realize that we are in a
class war with psychopathic overlords who do not care about
anybody outside their class. The real enemy of the church are not
the right wing detractors of Pope Francis who condemn the
sacrificing of our children to the technocratic Idol of Moloch,
but the unbridled technocratic class described in Chapter three of
Laudato Si.</p>
<p>Peace and Love <br>
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<p>Arthur Blomme<br>
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