By William Walter Kay BA JD ——Bio and Archives--January 14, 2021
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"…the military-industrial-complex does not walk alone."
"The so called "military-industrial-complex" is no unique institutional form; the "complex" has become the standard mode of structuring the planning and control activities of corporate banking, agribusiness and mass communications."Complexes are sprawling Big Government/Big Business alliances wherein cross-penetration blurs public-private lines. Complexes are broader, deeper and more flexible than cartels. They decentralize to the point of being leaderless:
"The web is spidery but there is no single spider."Corporations and Ministries comingle with industry associations and university departments to form juggernauts that game regulations and drain treasuries. Gross's exemplar is the auto-highway-construction-complex. America's automobilization arose not merely as a function of consumer choice but proceeded on the basis of immense government investments in interstate highways and urban expressways. Gross also isolates a banking-housing-construction-complex. Others espy a prison-industrial-complex. I've written of a climate-industrial-complex. The medical-industrial-complex includes: pharmaceutical companies, hospital administrators, equipment manufacturers, nurses' unions, medical schools, epidemiology agencies, and public health bureaucracies,etc. These leviathans dominate every policy and transcend boundaries.
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"The mRNA vaccines in which we are now staking so much hope wouldn't exist without public support through every step of the development."(Oxford professors developed AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine.) Moderna's and Pfizer's vaccines require patients to receive two shots. Mandated pricing agreements limit these companies to charging US customers no more than $19.50 per dose. Customers outside the US pay $25 to $37. At $19.50 Pfizer turns a 70% profit. One billion First World denizens will get vaccinated as will another billion in the developing world (at First World taxpayer expense). That's two billion customers; two shots each. Do the math. Finally, no complex walks alone. Behind every complex's mega-grift lurk politicians who daren't let good crises go to waste. Ushering in our complex world order stride mandarins eager to nudge along state-building, democracy-winnowing processes. Sources Gross, Bertram. Friendly Fascism; M. Evans and Co., New York, 1980. • Opinion | The Covid-19 Vaccine Doesn't Mean Big Pharma Is Your Savior - The New York Times (nytimes.com) • Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) FY 2020 Budget (nih.gov)
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