Because domestic issues have predominated in the last six months, I've been concentrating on those subjects to the neglect of foreign events. In this post I hope to make up for that shortfall.
Note: I updated today (Wednesday, Oct. 7) the article by Webb to link it to The Last American Vagabond for your convenience.)
- PCR Inventor: “It doesn’t tell you that you are sick” by David James from Off-Guardian.
There has been a great deal of controversy over claims that Kary Mullis, the creator of the PCR technology that is being widely used to test for so-called ‘cases’ of COVID-19, did not believe the technology was suitable for detecting a meaningful presence of a virus.
Those making these assertions were attacked and ‘fact checked’ (deemed inappropriate by propagandists) by news outlets claiming that Mullis’ comments had been taken out of context.
So when a video surfaces with Mullis talking about the efficacy of the technology it is worth paying close attention to what he is saying.
- And a Plague Shall Cover the Land of Trump by Brendan O’Neill from Anti-Empire. My reaction: The author points to the dominant capitalist ruling class and its method derived from the Middle Ages to shape the views held by ordinary Americans via their media corporations:
And there you have it, in terrifying black and white, in explicit Biblical writ: if Trump stays in power, America will be visited by floods, fires and plagues; death will come to your door; pestilence will be visited upon the land. This pre-modernism among those who fancy themselves as modern – as enlightened and ‘woke’ – is striking. It speaks to their own profound inability to come up with a vision for the US that might inspire voters, so instead they must invoke a PC version of Leviticus and warn people that if you don’t choose us then you will be consumed by hellfire and disease. And it confirms what they find so distasteful about so-called Trumpworld – the fact that it has dared to question expert authority, pushed aside the liberal elites who believe that they are the only people sensible enough to rule, and propagated the apparently outrageous idea that ordinary people (eurgh) have something to contribute to the discussion about how we deal with Covid-19 and other crises.
This is what lurks behind the irrational, anti-Enlightened treatment of Covid as a metaphor for the sicknesses of 21st-century America – the desperation of the bruised old elites to regain their authority over a people whom they view as too dumb, vulgar and destructive to govern their own lives. Now that’s sick.
- Operation Warp Speed is Using a CIA-Linked Contractor to Keep Covid-19 Vaccine Contracts Secret by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond. (Note: I updated this article to a posting today (Oct. 7) on The Last American Vagabond.)
- COVID-19: President Trump Tested Positive – A Reelection Campaign Bonanza? by Peter Koenig from Global Research.
- Telling the Untold: Remembering Andre Vltchek (1963-2020) by Patrick Henningsen from 21st Century Wire.
- I Am A Conspiracy Theorist featuring James Corbett on the term "conspiracy theorist".
- Reporters Claim Facebook is Censoring Information on Julian Assange Case by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.
- A Wrong Turn At Albuquerque: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone (from Australia) from her own weblog.
- As 98,000 Businesses Permanently Closed, the Fed and Treasury Have Sat on $340 Billion of Untapped Money from the CARES Act by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.
- Ex-OPCW chief Jose Bustani reads Syria testimony that US, UK blocked at UN by Aaron Maté from The Grayzone.
- Will the Israel-US “New Wars” succeed in weakening Hezbollah? by Elijah J Magnier from his website. (Note: Although this is a partial text from the whole article, I feel that it contains much information about the topic.)
- Heart of Madness (a History) by Steve Brown from The Duran.
- China's High-Speed Rail Reaches into Southeast Asia by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.
- The Double De-Coupling by Alastair Crooke, a former MI-6 analyst, from Strategic Culture Foundation.
- EU betrays Greece & Cyprus. Merkel wins, sanctions on Belarus by Alex Christoforou from The Duran.
- Take Pity on Britain Because It Is Approaching Catastrophe by Brian Cloughley from Strategic Culture Foundation.
- Censored Russian Filmmaker Speaks Out Against ‘European Magnitsky Act’ as Yet Another Western Hit-Job Against Moscow by Robert Bridge from Strategic Culture Foundation.
- The Battle for Hope in the Anthropocene by Jethro Gauld from Scientist Warning.
(Note: For the record, I view the extinction of humans and most other
species as inevitable. But, in the time remaining, I continue working on
my weblog in the hope that humans will end the last stage of
capitalism--transnational or neoliberal fascism.)