Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020

• Triumph of the Oligarchs by Joel Kotkin from The American Mind.

• Curve Flat, Still in Lockdown, Billions Wasted on Ventilators by Dr. Joseph Mercola from his website Mercola: Take Control of Your Health. (Note: Even using the questionable statistics from the CDC, he concludes that various states over reacted.)

• What is Covid-19, SARS-2. How is it Tested? How is It Measured? The Fear Campaign Has No Scientific Basis by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky from Global Research (based in Canada). 

• How the West followed China into lockdown from Spiked. (Note: Paddy Hannam, of Spiked, interviews Karl Wennberg, a Swedish sociologist, regarding his views following his research regarding various nations and their responses to the covid-19 pandemic.)

Karl Wennberg: We found that rather than factoring in the heterogeneous situation each country was in, decision-makers followed the actions of neighbouring countries to a very large degree. .... 

To understand why this has happened, it is important to think about psychological factors. Humans are greatly influenced by the behaviour of other humans, and specifically those they compare themselves with. Key decision-makers obviously compare themselves to other key decision-makers, and hope to be perceived as better than them, or at least not any worse than them. The desire to not be seen to have performed worse is incredibly important when it comes to explaining the decisions made around Covid-19. ....

• The Fed Provides an Unlimited Money Lifeline to Wall Street; 30 Million Americans Facing Eviction Get a No-Money 4-Month Plan by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.
  

• Hancock’s Half-Hour by Stephen McMurray from Off-Guardian (based in Britain). (Note: It appears that there is a new TV show that satirizes the current restrictions imposed people by government authorities. But it appears to me that this TV show can only be viewed in Britain.)

A brand new TV show has just been announced called Hancock’s Half-Hour. Over the course of 30 minutes the main character, Hapless Hancock, playing the part of the Health Secretary, will highlight all the government’s absurd policies and fake facts and figures surrounding the covid situation.

• Let’s not fall into the empire’s trap by Jorge Capelán from Off-Guardian.  (Note: This post provides a link to an original Spanish-language version of this article.)

• Novichok, Navalny, Nordstream, Nonsense by Craig Murray (a Scotsman) from his weblog. (My reaction: Murray demolishes their latest fake story being widely circulated by US media corporations.)

• Richard Gage Delivers Updates on 9/11 Truth from The Corbett Report. (Note: James Corbett interviews Richard Gage of AE911Truth, an organization made up of architects and engineers that dispute the official story, to explain his organization's views about the 9/11 tragedy on this 19th anniversary.)

• In the Worst of Times, the Billionaire Elite Plunder Working Class America by Nick Baker from CounterPunch.
  

• Facebook Hires an Israeli Censor by Philip Giraldi from American Herald Tribune.
  

• Media Silence: Israel Has Been Bombing Lebanon, Gaza and Syria This Week by Robert Inlakesh from 21st Century Wire.

• You Can Have Peace Or The US Empire. You Can’t Have Both. By Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog (Australia).
  

• 'Full Frontal Attack on Rule of Law': Trump Sanctions Top ICC Officials Probing US War Crimes in Afghanistan by Jessica Corbett from Common Dreams.

•  New Normal Gleichschaltung, or: The Storming of the Reichstag Building on 29 August, 2020 by CJ Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc.
  

• The unthinkable consequences of global warming by Andrew Glikson from Arctic News.
  

• Margaret Atwood who briefly urges action regarding the climate crisis (via YouTube). (Note: As you may know, if you have followed my weblog, I finally concluded last December that it was already too late.)