Non-violent grass roots reform and Democracy: Oligarchy is inciting suicide increase then creating propaganda to distract from truth!

I don't want to be cynical every time the media goes into obsession mode after a famous celebrity dies, while ignoring the lives of the vast majority of the public; however their recent effort to highlight suicides based on a couple famous people that committed suicide shows how out of touch with reality they are once again!

And like many other issues they're ignoring the vast majority of problems contributing to the escalating suicide rates, most of which doesn't involve celebrities.

Like many other problems the traditional media went into overdrive creating hyped up propaganda about the suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bordain that seemed dramatic and had appeals to emotion, but it doesn't take much thinking to realize that they don't discuss any of the contributing causes of the growing number of suicides that these two drew attention to and they refused to report on the vast majority of suicides that aren't celebrities. One time after another they blame it on "mental illness," which may be partly true; however they never discuss the causes of that mental illness, especially if it might be related to economic political or social problems that the elites might be contributing to with their ideologies economic system or wars based on lies.

In some cases this might be easy for people to figure out at least partially, even without advanced studies from so-called experts; and social media may have demonstrated this when they went viral with some of Anthony Bordain's most famous quotes about Palestine, while mainstream media ignored it, “The world has visited many terrible things on the Palestinian people, none more shameful than robbing them of their basic humanity.”

I can't say for certain whether it's part of the reason why he committed suicide, especially since the mainstream media is unwilling to report on some of the most important news, but it seems like a reasonable possibility, which he showed additional concern about when tweeting the following picture four years ago.

If this might have led to depression and suicide to a famous celebrity who had a major show to look forward to how would it have affected the Palestinians that have to live with oppression every day? If you rely on traditional media you might have no way of knowing and some people might even buy their propaganda about the Palestinians being the ones that started this conflict, even though it's the Israeli's killing much more of them and stealing their land. However, as Middle East Monitor reported last year, ‘Unliveable’: Gaza’s rising suicide rates 09/20/2017 it's a big problem that isn't being reported on, although Anthony Bordain might have been more aware of it than most of us, for all I know.

The ME Monitor reports, "The primary cause of the increase is no mystery. Blockaded by Israel since 2007, Gaza is the world’s sixth most densely populated area. Scant resources and an inability to escape have chipped at morale, leaving citizens feeling trapped." They go on to say, "The study also noted the sadness young Gazans felt when they observed other people’s lives outside of the Strip; one respondent reported suffering from chest pains when scrolling through social media and commented: 'All I could think about was my own sorry situation compared with the way other people in the world get to live.'”

The majority of the public is almost certainly totally unaware of this and the mainstream media isn't reporting on it, anymore than they're aware of most of their apartheid policies, perhaps even a potential genocide, which is being helped along by driving them to suicide, so unless more people check with alternative media outlets that do a better job they'll be totally unaware of the contributing causes of suicide in Gaza and many other places in the world with similar problems including our own southern border and many other places.

I'm sure Kate Spade had her problems as well, although I really can't imagine what they might be, based on what little I know about her. I never even heard of her until she committed suicide although I've heard of her more famous brother in law.

I don't want to be bitter, but compared to the plight of working class people that have enormous financial problems because of a rigged economic system it's beyond me why she committed suicide, although I'm sure wealthy people have their emotional problems as well, especially since they based a large portion of their lives living sheltered from reality. It's hard to believe she's the great business woman that earned her amazing fortune selling handbags without help from family conections, and the closer you look at her history the more obvious it is that she didn't.

Is there any chance that she made that fortune without an enormous amount of help from marketing people that got paid a fortune to hype up her shallow bags selling them to other rich people? Not really, even before I Googled it I pretty much knew what I would find, High-End Leather, Low-End Labor; Handbag Workers Embroiled in Bitter Contract Dispute 09/22/1999 I'm sure there would be some people outraged that I would speak ill of the recently departed but what about the thousands if not millions of people that are so fed up with sweatshop work that they;'re driven to suicide or dying of exhaustion? Before Googling that I pretty much knew I would find something like Disney Factory Faces Probe into Sweatshop Suicide Claims 08/28/2011; Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city 06/18/2017; and Foxconn's 11th: Death by exhaustion 06/06/2010

I don't want to knock Kate Spade, but burying the much larger social problems while glorifying well-connected celebrities isn't going to help solve problems for the rich or the poor. These reports of suicides in sweatshops may not be at Kate Spade's factories, but this kind of oppression is the norm not the exception and the fashion industry is part of the cause of it where people in one part of the world pay way too much for hyped up garbage while people in another part work under slave conditions and the media refuses to report on it! We're supposed to treat celebrities with respect, while they help provide the propaganda to sweep the truth under the rug which prevents solutions from all social problems from happening when decisions are based on propaganda.

This, of course isn't limited to sweatshop labor; the entire political and economic system is rigged by a small percentage of the public and the closer you look into one subject after another the clearer it is that oppressive political activities is contributing to social problems which tend to be much worse for marginalized people without political power, and those with a reasonable standard of living can easily ignore it. However refugees and sweatshop workers that have no other opportunities for economic advancement, despite all the propaganda about how our economic system is so great and glorious, know that they're at an obvious disadvantage, and when they get the runaround with a bunch of lies from those in power they know it, including Marco Antonio Muñoz, who was fleeing oppression in Honduras only to face more oppression in the United States, which claims to be "the defender of the free world," according to the following article:

Honduran migrant who was separated from family is found dead in Texas jail in an apparent suicide 06/1/2018

A Honduran migrant separated from his wife and child under the Trump administration’s new “zero tolerance” policy was found dead in his Texas jail cell last month, officials said.

Marco Antonio Muñoz, 39, crossed into the U.S. from Mexico with his wife and 3-year-old son on May 12 near Granjeno, a town where Central American families seeking asylum often turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents. Muñoz and his family were detained and taken with others to a processing center in nearby McAllen.

The death is the latest incident to cast a harsh spotlight on the zero tolerance policy, which advocates for immigrants have denounced as inhumane and on the processing center, which a U.S. senator recently likened to a dog kennel.

After being told his family would be separated, Muñoz became upset and struggled with agents, according to an agent who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case. He was 5-foot-8, 140 pounds, according to a sheriff’s report filed after he was taken to a county jail, where his charge was listed as “illegal entry.” Muñoz signed in, but never signed out. Authorities say he committed suicide. Complete article

The Trump administration and many of their Republican allies have been trying to put the blame of this problem on the immigrants themselves, or in some cases the Democrats, often saying that they created the law which requires him to do this, which is false; and that they don't want to solve this problem, instead they just want to use this as a political issue in the election. The claim that they want to use this as a political issue instead of solving this problem might actually be true, based on their past history creating this problem and sweeping it under the rug; but if so Trump is playing right into their hands with his incredibly bad argument!

Part of the reason that they're forced to flee in the first place is because the United States has been supporting oppressive governments in Central and South America for decades, including Guatemala, which they admit to supporting the coup in the fifties, although they pretend they're not responsible for all the oppression since then; and Honduras, which as I pointed out during the 6016 election in, DNC Describe Wink And Nod Method For Bribes & Indoctrination Studies, That Hillary Clinton supported the coup. The same article pointed out that Hillary Clinton's position on immigration was only slightly less oppressive than Donald Trump's as indicated in an interview where she said “We have to send a clear message, just because your child gets across the border, that doesn’t mean the child gets to stay. So, we don’t want to send a message that is contrary to our laws or will encourage more children to make that dangerous journey.” (06/18/2014).

This blatantly contradicted her political promises during the campaign, and now that she lost, it also contradicts her current position. The truth, which many people that are victims of trade, immigration and wars based on lies often know is that both political parties support similar policies that benefit corporations that finance campaigns and the media while both sides pretend they're trying to solve one problem after another.

Similar problems have come up when it comes to the high rate of suicides among veterans, which the media and the political establishment treat almost as if it's an incomprehensible mystery that can never be solved. Part of the reason they can never figure it out is that they put one of the most important contributing factors off the table before they even begin discussing the subject: is it possible that fighting one war after another based on lies is a contributing factor?

Not only is it possible but it's virtually guaranteed; and they would be able to figure it out if they were able to consider it, since some of the evidence is incredibly obvious!

This is also a major contributing factor when it comes to the problems with mass shootings from veterans coming home from these was then being abandoned without treatment for PTSD. Actually there are even more murders that don't get nearly as much attention, because they're treated as isolated incidents, and they're often killing only one or two people, often family members or other veterans, but it's the mass shootings that get the attention.

Amazingly several of the mass shooters practically came right out and said that they went on shootings sprees because, that although they fought wars they were led to believe was to defend the country, when they came back they found out the government they were fighting to defend wasn't defending their own people, and in some cases they were killing their own people, although the details, are of course, more complicated than that. It's not just Hispanics that are being oppressed as part of the economic system to oppress wages by taking advantage of sweatshop labor and migrant workers that aren't protected by labor laws; minorities in abandoned inner cities are also being oppressed. Shipping jobs overseas while cutting funds to education in African American communities, in abandoned inner cities has led to high crime problems and more confrontations with police, which was of course a major contributing factor to two shootings in 2016.

Gavin Long was of course one of them, and although I'm not recommending anyone go to the same extremes that he did, it is in our best interest to ackowledge his concerns and at least try to figure out whether some of them might have been legitimate, even if his methods of addressing them weren't. In Source: Baton Rouge officer shooter Gavin Eugene Long had extremist online persona Cosmo Setepenra 07/17/2016 he said, “If y’all wanna keep protesting, do that, but for the serious ones, the real ones, the alpha ones, we know what it’s going to take. It’s only fighting back of money, that’s all they care about, Revenue and blood. Revenue and blood. Revenue and blood. Revenue and blood. Nothing else.” He goes on to say, "Don't get emotional about it, When you make decisions that are based off emotion, when that emotion dies, then that fuel dies that energy for that decision. That's why you base your decisions off logic." And in a Twitter post, he wrote, "You can't talk (or protest) the devil into changing his ways, this has never been done and never will."

His claims that it will be necessary to fight a violent revolution don't have to be true if politicians address legitimate concerns or if the media covers candidates that won't sweep them under the rug; however under the current circumstances the media is only willing to cover candidates that collect donations from corporations and cater to their interests and the result is constant bickering and incompetence from both sides. John F. Kennedy made this point clear when he said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

The people in power that refuse to acknowledge the legitimate complaints of the public are doing more to incite violence and other problems that lead to these police shootings than reform movements like Black Lives Matter they often try to demonize and blame; and as long as they continue doing so there will be more like Gavin Long and Micah Johnson, even though many activists are trying to avoid it!

Clearly, at least to those that are being suppressed by this obvious double standard and those better informed about many issues, these oppressive tactics are contributing to depressions, suicide and mass shootings in more ways than one and one of the most important ways to reduce it is to review legitimate concerns from all citizens, not just those that donate to campaigns. In a Democracy people who are impacted by a decisions are allowed to participate in the decision, as Richard Wolff often points out; and Abraham Lincoln made the same point when he said "No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent."

Which means that not only should we be allowing people from other countries to participate in some form, on issues that impact them, although this might not extend to voting rights about domestic issues, but we should be increasing peoples access to the ballot when they live in this country, including making it easier for immigrants to become citizens and vote. But instead the political establishment has been relentlessly forcing their views on people all around the world supporting oppressive regimes, then oppressing refugees even more when they come to this country because they have no other options.

This also extends to American corporations like Monsanto that have been using their political connections with the help of the United States government to force their views on people across the world including in India where according to several credible sources including Dr. Vandana Shiva who wrote Monsanto and the Poisonous Cartel of GMOs in India 09/09/2016, and several other articles or books describing how Monsanto policies are making farming much more expensive and how large oligarch are driving them into bankruptcy and contributing to high suicide rates.

Monsanto responded by funding some of their own studies which aren't hard to find, nor is it hard to find reviews that debunk them and show how biased they are, including one listed below by Mother Jones, that provides what might be a reasonable middle ground, although I suspect that if Mother Jones, isn't quote right a closer review would show that the truth is far closer to Vandana Shiva's claims which are practically never reported by the mainstream media, which treats anyone that doesn't go along with corporate ideology as fringe, even if there research does hold up to scrutiny much better.

And after they sweep many of the biggest social contributing causes to depression and suicide, or worse mass shootings, under the rug and they come up with sudden concerns for this problem which they treat as inexplicable, how do you think they're going to try to solve it? If past is prologue there's a strong possibility that they'll send people to psychiatrists that continue sweeping these causes under the rug and prescribe antidepressants, as if the sole problem is a chemical imbalance!

However, there have been studies for years if not decades showing that Antidepressants can raise the risk of suicide, biggest ever review finds 01/26/2016, which is of course the exact opposite of what these drugs are supposed to do! I don't have the expertise to say that a chemical imbalance might be a contributing cause to depression of other mental illnesses; however I do understand some of the most basic principles of medical treatment including the Hippocratic Oath, which is often abbreviated, "First do no harm;" and I understand that almost all medications and surgical procedures have some degree of risk, so when there are other solutions that don't have these risks they should be tried first!

This could lead to the conclusion that if we did a better job addressing all concerns and minimized income inequality, allowing all people to participate in the democratic process to address these contributing causes to suicide and many other social problems that it could greatly reduce the problem as well as many other issues including stopping wars based on lies eliminating child labor and oppressive sweat shop conditions etc.

If we do this without trying to turn different factions of the working class against each other by praying on their emotions and racial prejudices it would be far more effective!

Nor do I think we even have to turn the working class against the ruling class, once we get major reform that share responsibilities fairly and far more people from the current working class get a fair education that is often withheld by the ruling class enabling them to handle college jobs and better control the government.

If they put all this unnecessary pressure on the working class to turn factions against each other it's virtually guaranteed that occasionally they also intimidate and harass members of the ruling class and celebrities as well, which probably contributed to many suicides including Robin Williams, Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade.

When I see propaganda pieces about how celebrity news reporters are gleefully trying to help solve these problems hugging and kissing poor people they meet in photo ops, including Erin Burnett, who famously ridiculed the Occupy Wall Street movement when starting her CNN show, it's clear that they're just trying to put a new face on the same old policies that caused these problems in the first place. Erin Burnett is, of course married to a finance executive and the managing director of Citigroup, and, like many other multimillionaire celebrity pundits and politicians, she has a massive financial incentive to defend the status quo!

The people profiting off our problems aren't going to solve them no matter how good their propaganda looks!