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

Sunday, December 13, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend for days: Saturday & Sunday, December 12 & 13, 2020

  • AOC Schooled By NFL’s Justin Jackson On Forcing Med4all Vote Now! featuring Jimmy Dore blasting AOC (Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) as a careerist--her career comes first rather than needs of her constituents. My reaction: She will definitely lose her position in Congress if she crosses Pelosi. Look what happened to Sen. 
  • How the Media Wants You To Think featuring JP Sears, a comedian, and others performing their versions of fascist collaborators in a 3:17 post on his channel belonging to YouTube. (satire) He also has been threatened by YouTube about the loss of his channel.
  • Yet Another Major Escalation In Establishment Internet Censorship by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. My reaction: She argues that we are now on calamitous path to full censorship imposed by the ruling capitalism class on opinions that they don't like. Perhaps they will be punished to by the gods of history like the ancient Greeks saw in their myth of Sisyphus. But I think we will all be punished for their sins of hubris (thinking that we could go forever exploiting of our planet Earth for their benefit), which too many of us have not resisted for too long, by ending the very existence of humans, and most other species.
  • The British Hand Behind America’s Color Revolution: Soros and Lord Malloch Brown (posted on FRN) featuring Canadian intellectual Matthew Ehret briefly giving his in-depth analysis of the Soros' Open Society in collusion with British secret services to promote a "one-world government". If you liked this article, I especially recommend another by Ehret entitled "The Empire Doubles Down: Open Society Foundations Will Now Be Run by Lord Malloch Brown" (posted on Strategic Culture Foundation). My reaction: I am convinced these actors are key figures ruling capitalist class figures who are promoting the "one-world government" idea in which the entire world is under the domination of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. I don't know enough about Ehret's ideological position to comment on his politics, but I respect his encyclopedic knowledge about the deeper secretive forces that determine official and actual policies that happen in the Empire.
  • 2021: Empty Shelves – Shortages in Sight – Soybeans Explained by Christian from his weblog Ice Age Farmer (based in California).  (Note: Because I only recently accessed his website, I don't know "Christian" and his politics very well. He at times argues rationally about food shortages, but at other times he indulges in apparently fanciful paranoid explanations. You decide.)
  • Jack Dorsey, the CIA and Twitter Censorship in the Age of Covid-19 by Vanessa Beeley from Unlimited Hangout. (Note: Beeley follows Dorsey who has played a major role in data corporations, increasingly known as Big Data, that are playing a big roll in tracking activities of ordinary Americans and sharing this information with the government agencies like the Dept. of Homeland Security and the CIA.)
  • Resisting the Great Reset featuring James Corbett interviewed by John Bush of LiveFreeNow website and posted on The Corbett Report. My commentary follows: 
Corbett passionately and brilliantly argues (in a little more than an hour) that we must resist the Great Reset now because the ruling class of billionaires are planning our futures for us in many disturbing ways. He touches on various aspects of the Great Reset such as digital currencies, and he contrasts this with crypto-curriencies such as Bitcoin. However, he doesn't specifically mention billionaires, the ruling class, capitalism, private ownership of our economy, or other aspects of our societies that have over time consolidated so much wealth and power into such few hands. He does use the term "agora" and "agorism", but he doesn't explain how such a philosophy promotes a "free people" interacting "freely". Other statements indicate that Corbett does support an egalitarian society. This confusion suggests that he and John Bush are victims of capitalist education which prevents any consciousness of how the capitalist system that makes all the horrors not only possible, but necessary to serve a very small number of capitalists. They have not reached a consciousness that reveals the basic asocial aspect of a system which is designed to serve only the ambitions of a tiny minority of people--to accumulate wealth and power.
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