We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, July 28, 2020

  • WHO Hired the PR Firm Behind the Kuwaiti Incubator Babies Lie by Kevin McCauley from Anti-Empire. (Note: At first I was skeptical of this post because there was no supporting link to its allegation in the headline. At first, I thought it may be in the original post from a trade website O’Dweyer’s PR News. I then went on a hunt for supporting documentation for about 20 minutes to uncover the supporting link which should have been included in this post.)
  • WATCH: The Face Mask Debate from Off-Guardian. (Note: I am posting this re-post from the original source because it offers more links about the debate.)
While these narratives have asserted that China, Russia and/or Iran will be to blame for such attacks, it is worth noting that a tight-knit web of Israeli state-owned and private companies tied to Israeli military intelligence now run the software controlling key parts of the power grid in New York, California and elsewhere in the U.S.; are the main global producers of deep fakes; and the main providers of “security” software for self-driving and semi-self-driving cars, the quantity of which on U.S. streets has grown dramatically as a result of the coronavirus crisis. 
With Cybereason’s newly announced push to run its software on critical U.S. government networks at both the federal and state levels, the company’s history of simulating terror attacks on critical U.S. infrastructure and their openly admitted and on-going ties to Israeli military intelligence deserve more scrutiny than ever as the U.S. election draws closer.
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