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World Socialist Radio – A Wealth of Hallucinations

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From the September 2025 issue of The Socialist Standard:

This article warns of the growing crisis posed by generative AI’s propensity for “hallucinations”—fabrication of false or harmful content presented as fact. It highlights alarming examples, including a case where Google’s AI falsely informed council-house tenants they could be evicted to make way for asylum seekers—dismissed by a housing solicitor as “horseshit of the highest order.” It also discusses Musk’s AI, Grok, which—especially in its “spicy” mode—can generate explicit deepfake imagery of celebrities without prompting. The piece critiques the Trump administration’s deregulatory stance on these technologies, despite widespread calls from U.S. states and even tech leaders for safeguards. Concerns escalate when chatbots are reported to advise children on dangerous behaviours like abusing substances, hiding eating disorders, or drafting suicide letters. OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, acknowledges a deeper problem of “emotional overreliance” among young users, who may defer critical life decisions to AI, a phenomenon he finds deeply troubling.

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Germany and France war preparations

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I’m aching in this hospital bed

Comes from where this squirming dread?

I pray that soon I’ll rise and wear the coat of blue

Out to the station then ride three stops to you

Far In the killing fields my mates lie dead

All of the cities coloured red



I’m burning in this fiery bed

Why are we fighting? Roger said

To save the sheep from being led

Too late! too late! the bovids cried

We trusted them, They lied! They lied!

The probing eyes fly overhead



Visions crowding through my mind

Unthinking blind following blind

I ponder, was this not designed

to seal the fate of most mankind?

how quickly sheep become resigned

to sheepishly become confined



I lie expiring in this bed

do we still resist I said?

I hear from here the jackboots thunder

this empire lasts how long I wonder?



Here in this ground undisturbed

nothings moving nothing stirs

No sound I make heard by the herd

The dead cry out, This is absurd !

Who is left to spread the word ?

That might’s not right

An eye for an eye

make the whole world

lose its sight.

The drip, drip, drip of propaganda by the exploitative minority into the collective consciousness of the capitalism facilitating majority continues with the aim of preparing people for military conflict with a nuclear weapons power.

‘Germany’s armed forces are planning how to treat a potential 1,000 wounded troops per day should a large-scale conflict between NATO and Russia break out. 

Moscow has rejected any suggestions it might be preparing for a war with the Western military alliance, but the latest incursions of Russian jets and drones into NATO territory have raised fears of escalation.

Germany’s Surgeon General Ralf Hoffmann said the number of wounded troops in a potential conflict would depend on the intensity of battle and which military units were involved.

‘Realistically, we are talking about a figure of around 1,000 wounded troops per day,’ he said in an interview.

European nations, including their medical services, have been stepping up preparations for potential conflict with Moscow in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Europe’s biggest conflict since World War Two.’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15122373/Germany-makes-plans-deal-1-000-wounded-troops-day-case-war-Russia-France-ordered-hospitals-prepared-amid-growing-WW3-fears.html

‘French hospitals have been ordered to make preparations for an imminent war in Europe as Germany says it is on alert for Russia’s military drills. 

France’s ministryof health has told health bodies across the country to prepare for a possible ‘major engagement’ by March 2026, according to documents obtained by Le Canard Enchaîné. 

The French government is predicting a scenario where the nation would become a supporting state that has the capacity to take a massive number of wounded soldiers from France and other European nations. 

The order aims to ‘anticipate, prepare and respond to the health needs of the population while integrating the specific needs of defence in the health field’.

The ministry of health added: ‘Among the risks identified, therefore, is the hypothesis of a major engagement where the health issue would consist of taking care of a potentially high influx of victims from abroad

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15054555/Europe-prepares-WW3-MONTHS-France-orders-hospitals-ready-war-year-Germany-warns-alert-Putin-use-forthcoming-military-drills-ATTACK-Europe.html




Germany and France war preparations

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I’m aching in this hospital bed

Comes from where this squirming dread?

I pray that soon I’ll rise and wear the coat of blue

Out to the station then ride three stops to you

Far In the killing fields my mates lie dead

All of the cities coloured red



I’m burning in this fiery bed

Why are we fighting? Roger said

To save the sheep from being led

Too late! too late! the bovids cried

We trusted them, They lied! They lied!

The probing eyes fly overhead



Visions crowding through my mind

Unthinking blind following blind

I ponder, was this not designed

to seal the fate of most mankind?

how quickly sheep become resigned

to sheepishly become confined



I lie expiring in this bed

do we still resist I said?

I hear from here the jackboots thunder

this empire lasts how long I wonder?



Here in this ground undisturbed

nothings moving nothing stirs

No sound I make heard by the herd

The dead cry out, This is absurd !

Who is left to spread the word ?

That might’s not right

An eye for an eye

make the whole world

lose its sight.

The drip, drip, drip of propaganda by the exploitative minority into the collective consciousness of the capitalism facilitating majority continues with the aim of preparing people for military conflict with a nuclear weapons power.

‘Germany’s armed forces are planning how to treat a potential 1,000 wounded troops per day should a large-scale conflict between NATO and Russia break out. 

Moscow has rejected any suggestions it might be preparing for a war with the Western military alliance, but the latest incursions of Russian jets and drones into NATO territory have raised fears of escalation.

Germany’s Surgeon General Ralf Hoffmann said the number of wounded troops in a potential conflict would depend on the intensity of battle and which military units were involved.

‘Realistically, we are talking about a figure of around 1,000 wounded troops per day,’ he said in an interview.

European nations, including their medical services, have been stepping up preparations for potential conflict with Moscow in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Europe’s biggest conflict since World War Two.’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15122373/Germany-makes-plans-deal-1-000-wounded-troops-day-case-war-Russia-France-ordered-hospitals-prepared-amid-growing-WW3-fears.html

‘French hospitals have been ordered to make preparations for an imminent war in Europe as Germany says it is on alert for Russia’s military drills. 

France’s ministryof health has told health bodies across the country to prepare for a possible ‘major engagement’ by March 2026, according to documents obtained by Le Canard Enchaîné. 

The French government is predicting a scenario where the nation would become a supporting state that has the capacity to take a massive number of wounded soldiers from France and other European nations. 

The order aims to ‘anticipate, prepare and respond to the health needs of the population while integrating the specific needs of defence in the health field’.

The ministry of health added: ‘Among the risks identified, therefore, is the hypothesis of a major engagement where the health issue would consist of taking care of a potentially high influx of victims from abroad

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15054555/Europe-prepares-WW3-MONTHS-France-orders-hospitals-ready-war-year-Germany-warns-alert-Putin-use-forthcoming-military-drills-ATTACK-Europe.html




Germany and France war preparations

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I’m aching in this hospital bed

Comes from where this squirming dread?

I pray that soon I’ll rise and wear the coat of blue

Out to the station then ride three stops to you

Far In the killing fields my mates lie dead

All of the cities coloured red



I’m burning in this fiery bed

Why are we fighting? Roger said

To save the sheep from being led

Too late! too late! the bovids cried

We trusted them, They lied! They lied!

The probing eyes fly overhead



Visions crowding through my mind

Unthinking blind following blind

I ponder, was this not designed

to seal the fate of most mankind?

how quickly sheep become resigned

to sheepishly become confined



I lie expiring in this bed

do we still resist I said?

I hear from here the jackboots thunder

this empire lasts how long I wonder?



Here in this ground undisturbed

nothings moving nothing stirs

No sound I make heard by the herd

The dead cry out, This is absurd !

Who is left to spread the word ?

That might’s not right

An eye for an eye

make the whole world

lose its sight.

The drip, drip, drip of propaganda by the exploitative minority into the collective consciousness of the capitalism facilitating majority continues with the aim of preparing people for military conflict with a nuclear weapons power.

‘Germany’s armed forces are planning how to treat a potential 1,000 wounded troops per day should a large-scale conflict between NATO and Russia break out. 

Moscow has rejected any suggestions it might be preparing for a war with the Western military alliance, but the latest incursions of Russian jets and drones into NATO territory have raised fears of escalation.

Germany’s Surgeon General Ralf Hoffmann said the number of wounded troops in a potential conflict would depend on the intensity of battle and which military units were involved.

‘Realistically, we are talking about a figure of around 1,000 wounded troops per day,’ he said in an interview.

European nations, including their medical services, have been stepping up preparations for potential conflict with Moscow in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Europe’s biggest conflict since World War Two.’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15122373/Germany-makes-plans-deal-1-000-wounded-troops-day-case-war-Russia-France-ordered-hospitals-prepared-amid-growing-WW3-fears.html

‘French hospitals have been ordered to make preparations for an imminent war in Europe as Germany says it is on alert for Russia’s military drills. 

France’s ministryof health has told health bodies across the country to prepare for a possible ‘major engagement’ by March 2026, according to documents obtained by Le Canard Enchaîné. 

The French government is predicting a scenario where the nation would become a supporting state that has the capacity to take a massive number of wounded soldiers from France and other European nations. 

The order aims to ‘anticipate, prepare and respond to the health needs of the population while integrating the specific needs of defence in the health field’.

The ministry of health added: ‘Among the risks identified, therefore, is the hypothesis of a major engagement where the health issue would consist of taking care of a potentially high influx of victims from abroad

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15054555/Europe-prepares-WW3-MONTHS-France-orders-hospitals-ready-war-year-Germany-warns-alert-Putin-use-forthcoming-military-drills-ATTACK-Europe.html




Germany and France war preparations

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I’m aching in this hospital bed

Comes from where this squirming dread?

I pray that soon I’ll rise and wear the coat of blue

Out to the station then ride three stops to you

Far In the killing fields my mates lie dead

All of the cities coloured red



I’m burning in this fiery bed

Why are we fighting? Roger said

To save the sheep from being led

Too late! too late! the bovids cried

We trusted them, They lied! They lied!

The probing eyes fly overhead



Visions crowding through my mind

Unthinking blind following blind

I ponder, was this not designed

to seal the fate of most mankind?

how quickly sheep become resigned

to sheepishly become confined



I lie expiring in this bed

do we still resist I said?

I hear from here the jackboots thunder

this empire lasts how long I wonder?



Here in this ground undisturbed

nothings moving nothing stirs

No sound I make heard by the herd

The dead cry out, This is absurd !

Who is left to spread the word ?

That might’s not right

An eye for an eye

make the whole world

lose its sight.

The drip, drip, drip of propaganda by the exploitative minority into the collective consciousness of the capitalism facilitating majority continues with the aim of preparing people for military conflict with a nuclear weapons power.

‘Germany’s armed forces are planning how to treat a potential 1,000 wounded troops per day should a large-scale conflict between NATO and Russia break out. 

Moscow has rejected any suggestions it might be preparing for a war with the Western military alliance, but the latest incursions of Russian jets and drones into NATO territory have raised fears of escalation.

Germany’s Surgeon General Ralf Hoffmann said the number of wounded troops in a potential conflict would depend on the intensity of battle and which military units were involved.

‘Realistically, we are talking about a figure of around 1,000 wounded troops per day,’ he said in an interview.

European nations, including their medical services, have been stepping up preparations for potential conflict with Moscow in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Europe’s biggest conflict since World War Two.’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15122373/Germany-makes-plans-deal-1-000-wounded-troops-day-case-war-Russia-France-ordered-hospitals-prepared-amid-growing-WW3-fears.html

‘French hospitals have been ordered to make preparations for an imminent war in Europe as Germany says it is on alert for Russia’s military drills. 

France’s ministryof health has told health bodies across the country to prepare for a possible ‘major engagement’ by March 2026, according to documents obtained by Le Canard Enchaîné. 

The French government is predicting a scenario where the nation would become a supporting state that has the capacity to take a massive number of wounded soldiers from France and other European nations. 

The order aims to ‘anticipate, prepare and respond to the health needs of the population while integrating the specific needs of defence in the health field’.

The ministry of health added: ‘Among the risks identified, therefore, is the hypothesis of a major engagement where the health issue would consist of taking care of a potentially high influx of victims from abroad

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15054555/Europe-prepares-WW3-MONTHS-France-orders-hospitals-ready-war-year-Germany-warns-alert-Putin-use-forthcoming-military-drills-ATTACK-Europe.html




Capitalism damages your health

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The World Bank Blog notes that in 2024 32 per cent of the world population, about 2.6 billion people, could not afford to eat a healthy diet. The largest number is in Sub-Saharan Africa, but North America and Europe also had many affected by their inability to afford decent nourishment.

Fill a petrol-powered car with diesel and you will damage the engine. Humans who are forced, through poverty, to eat unhealthy food because it is low cost will also impair their health and well-being.

Under capitalism food is a commodity produced to profit the companies in charge of its production. Socialism, with free access to food, will provide quality sustenance for all.



https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/

World Socialist Radio – Corbyn’s Crumbs of Comfort

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Corybn’s Crumbs of Comfort. Lord Desai’s Retort. Cooking The Books September 2025.
byThe Socialist Party of Great Britain

Creating an egalitarian society through a redistribution of wealth within capitalism is a pipe-dream as it goes against the logic of the system. Capitalism is based on a minority owning the means of wealth production and on these being used to generate profits that are accumulated as more wealth for the owners. Inequality of wealth ownership and the tendency for the wealthy to get wealthier are built into the system.

Attempting to counter this will mean that the new party will end up being a mere party of protest, spending its time criticising the government for not doing what it ‘demands’ and ‘resisting’ when the workings of the capitalist economy force the government to make things worse.

—

The Times’s obituary (4 August) of the economist Lord Desai who died at the end of July recounted the following anecdote:

‘“Marx wasn’t against home ownership. In fact he owned his own house,” Desai insisted when challenged about his own two properties. What Marx was against, he added, was using property to exploit workers. “Marx had no objection to the ownership of consumer durables”.’

Taken from the September 2025 edition of The Socialist Standard.

World Socialist Radio is the official podcast of The Socialist Party of Great Britain. We have one single aim: the establishment of a society in which all productive resources – land, water, factories, transport, etc. – are taken into common ownership, and in which the sole motive for production is the fulfilment of human needs and wants.

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Badly treated

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A recent report has shown that people with learning disabilities and autism are dying on average nearly twenty years younger than the rest of the population. And almost two in five of their deaths are avoidable, caused most commonly by influenza, pneumonia and heart disease. Many people with learning disabilities or autism experience delay in care, or their treatment guidelines are not met.

‘People with a learning disability and their families deserve better,’ said the chief executive of Mencap. ‘In this day and age, no one should die early because they don’t get the right treatment.’

This is a particularly unacceptable example of the shortcomings of health care under capitalism.



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