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U.S. and World Politics

The Working Class: Robbed, Poisoned, and Killed

By Dr. Nayvin Gordon

Conspiracy theory: an attempt to explain harmful or tragic events as the result of the actions of a small powerful group.1

Three Examples:

  1. The Libor conspiracy of The Banking System defrauded hundreds-of-millions of people from 2003-2012.
  2. The conspiracy of executives at VW (Volkswagen) and Fiat-Chrysler fraudulently sold millions of polluting cars all over the world from 2008-2015.
  3. The 2020 COVID-19 conspiracy of silence and death—the President, his cabinet, the intelligence agencies, and Congress lied to the nation while they kept the truth secret from 330 million U.S. citizens.

Banker’s conspiracy robs the planet

The major U.S. and international bank executives and bank regulators rigged the London interbank offered rate (Libor) to increase their profits. An estimated $800 trillion in financial products are linked to the Libor rate including mortgages, student loans and credit cards. Manipulating the rate upwards robbed millions of people of billions-of-dollars in inflated loan cost over the years. The American banker “Mr. Birkenfeld, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and was sentenced to 40 months in prison.”2

Automakers conspiracy poisons the planet

Volkswagen and Fiat Chrysler CEOs, executives and engineers, found that making less polluting diesel engines was difficult and expensive so they conspired to install software to falsify emission results. Between 2009 and 2015, 11-million-cars worldwide had computers that gave a fraudulent reading on emissions control testing, allowing ten to 40-times-more smog-causing nitrogen oxides to be emitted—poisoning people’s lungs around the world.

“A Volkswagen engineer was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sean F. Cox of the Eastern District of Michigan to 40-months in federal prison, and two years of supervised release, for his role in a nearly ten-year conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators.”3

COVID-19 conspiracy of silence and death

On November 20, 2019, the U.S. Select Committee on Intelligence, the National Security Council and the White House were informed about the potential for a possible new pandemic. This information was kept secret from the American people.

January 24, 2020, the Senate Health Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a closed-door briefing on the COVID-19 outbreak. The subjects of the meeting were kept secret.

According to the Washington Post, March 20, 2020, “U.S. intelligence agencies were issuing ominous, classified warnings in January and February about the global danger posed by the coronavirus while President Trump and lawmakers played down the threat and failed to take action that might have slowed the spread.”

On February 7, 2020, Chinese President Xi Jinping talked by phone with Trump about the dangerous new virus.

Between January 29 and February 29, 2020, the New York Times did not write a single editorial about the developing pandemic.

On February 28, 2020, Trump accused the Democrats of politicizing the deadly coronavirus as “their new hoax”.

The tapes published by author Bob Woodward, clearly reveal that President Trump admits to lying to the public about the dangers of COVID-19.

This was a conspiracy at the highest levels of government to keep silent about the threat posed by the virus which has claimed over one-half-million American lives.

Eliminating conspiracies requires social transformation designed to prevent the emergence of any “small powerful group.” A society of equals, no rich or poor, no powerful or weak, no exploiters or exploited, no social hierarchy—a militantly egalitarian society of social, economic, and political equality for all.

—January 6, 2021



1 https://www.britannica.com/topic/conspiracy-theory

2 https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/business/ubss-track-record-of-averting-prosecution-common-sense.html

3 https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/volkswagen-engineer-sentenced-his-role-conspiracy-cheat-us-emissions-tests