Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020

• Belarusian President Lukashenko Says IMF Offered A Billion USD Bribe to Impose Covid-19 Lockdown by Joaquin Flores from FRN (Fort Russ News which is based in Serbia). My reaction: "This fact can be verified using most search engines." I did this and am satisfied that the report is factual: see this, this, and this. This report is another illustration of the use of money to influence how people behave; and in this case, regarding a nation's leader. In many cases, the influence of money applies to politicians who need money to finance their candidacy in government elections, professional people who have careers to protect to support a comfortable lifestyle, and workers who want to protect their jobs that are needed for their, and their families', very survival. Concentrated wealth is promoted under capitalism. The system often leads to decisions that harm most people, but benefit their ruling classes. The system needs to be abolished and substituted for one that promotes egalitarian and thoroughly democratic societies. 

• UK’s MSM has slavishly obeyed the govt over Covid like the docile arm of a despotic state. I know, because I was part of it by Matt Drake from RT. My reaction: Of course the same obedient-like behavior of ordinary people applies to most governments fronted by ruling classes on our planet Earth. I think that this phenomenon is a result of roughly 10,000 years of domination of ruling classes that they have obtained through various forms of violence. This experience has engendered in ordinary people a belief in the superiority of their masters, and that their "superiors" have innate abilities that we ordinary people do not have.  Many of the upper-middle-class, whose support is needed for the current ruling class of capitalists to exist, also are convinced of this through their socialization. Such propaganda is pervasive in class-ridden societies.

• Let’s Give Trump Some Credit—On Labor Day He Threw Down the Gauntlet to the Corrupt Military Brass by Paul Craig Roberts from his weblog. My reaction: What he, who is intensely loyal to capitalism, fails to recognize is that the system of capitalism inevitably produces the use of money to influence decisions.

• No, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Didn’t Spawn 250,000 Coronavirus Cases by Elizabeth Nolan Brown from Anti-Empire. (Note: Also see this report.) My reaction: I've recently been to Sioux Falls, South Dakota and discovered their small businesses are thriving--unfortunately their workers enjoy near minimum wages--and their economy is too, to the extent possible for small business enterprises. Such propaganda, laughable or not, is believed by many of those who follow media controlled by the ruling capitalist class.

• Flu is killing more people than Covid19, and has been for months by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian. 

• DHS Head Chad Wolf Adopts Language of War in Threats Against Portland Protesters by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. My reaction: Whenever the ruling class is threatened, they respond by the use of force whether Constitutional or not.

• Belarus: A Catalyst for Regime Change and the Peace Alternative by Roger D. Harris from Mint Press News. (Note: Excellent journalism!)

• Allegiant Stadium In Vegas to Be America’s First Pro Sports Venue to Open Cashless (from 0:00m to 7:25m) from The Corbett Report. My reaction: This happening, the promotion of digital money, is another benefit, among a number of other benefits to the ruling class derived from their engineered "pandemic crisis".