Science Update: November 17, 2020 featuring Guy McPherson commenting on the latest scientific news related to the climate crisis from his Nature Bats Last (YouTube channel).
- Top Pfizer Whistleblower Trashes Company’s Vaccine ‘Breakthrough’ Spin by John O'Sullivan from Principia Scientific International (based in Britain).
- The Oligarchs Are Ramping Up Censorship In Big Way featuring Lee Camp of Redacted Tonight channel of YouTube commenting on censorship and violations of our privacy.
- The Secret Agenda of the World Bank and IMF by Peter Koenig from "The Saker" weblog.
- Pfizer Vaccine 90% Effective Claim Unsubstantiated by Peer-Review Journals and World Health Organization by Rob Verkerk PhD from Children's Health Defense.
- The Fed Man Song (to the music of Beatles ‘The Taxman’) by Jack Rasmus from his weblog. (Note: He lists all the Fed's printing of money in the past year and giving it to investors and banks to support the stock market.)
- All Wars Must End! by Christopher Black from New Eastern Outlook (based in Russia, but international in writers whose articles they publish).
- Social Media as a Weapon by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. (Note: Since Berletic "outed" himself recently, having used the pen-name "Tony Cartalucci" previously. He is currently using video clips to address issues, but still providing many references to back up his arguments. He, together with his family, has lived in Thailand for a least 10 years.) My commentary follows:
In this video clip, Berletic reveals how US social media-tech corporations such as Facebook and Twitter have functioned in Thailand and neighboring countries as a weapon to destabilize their governments and shape their policies to bring into alignment with US policies and political interests.
I've argued many times that the neofascism as practiced by the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire has shaped classic fascism by greatly enhancing the manipulation of information that targeted populations receive. This weapon was first used in WWI, and to the surprise of their propaganda agents, the methods used were astonishingly successful in turning the American public from neutrality to active support for the USA to enter the war. They used propaganda to portray the Germans as diabolical people. After the war, these same techniques were used, and developed, in advertising to motivate consumers to purchase the many products of corporations.
The Nazis also used propaganda to motivate their populations to go to war; but because the science of propaganda was still rudimentary, Nazis mostly relied on force or the threat of force. This is the classic view of Nazism which current Empire propagandists try so hard to differentiate from today's rule. I've tried throughout the more than 10 years of blogging to describe this process. (See this commentary, for example.) But our capitalist masters didn't stop there--they rewrote history, and their concentration of wealth and power of the post-WWII years brought increased control over jobs and careers. Those that didn't subscribe to their agendas were left to dead-end jobs or to starve to death, and those that contributed to their agendas were well remunerated and enjoyed comfortable careers.
Fascism is predominately the last stage of capitalism, and it depends on methods of control of populations. I argue that it matters not what forms this control takes--whether it is accomplished through the threat of force or control of information or the manipulation of information that a population is permitted to access--it is still fascism. Censorship is increasing exponentially. But our masters have methods beyond the mere access to information: they have used psy-ops to create chaos and fear in their populations which makes it easier for them to impose policies that increase their control over populations. I choose to call these advanced methods "neofascism". To be sure, the directors of the Empire continue to use the threat of violence to ensure a population's compliance when their propaganda techniques fail to work.
A contemporary writer by the name of Gabriel Rockhill seems to have a real grasp of this neofascism, but he chooses to call it plain fascism. I recommend to you the following posts featuring his articles:
Fascism: Now You See It, Now You Don’t!;
Liberalism and Fascism: Partners in Crime; The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It; Liberalism & Fascism: The Good Cop & Bad Cop of Capitalism; A Counter-History of Fascism and Liberalism
- How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps by Joseph Cox from Vice.
- 6 Factors Which Point to a Rigged Election by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.
Biden Transition Team: Nothing “Progressive” About Millionaires and CEOs by Denis Churilov from FRN.
