Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, December 17, 2020

• When Deplorables Become Ungovernables by Pepe Escobar from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Barbarians at the barn: private equity sinks its teeth into agriculture from GRAIN. Note: I am posting this lengthy article to show you that investors and managers of worker and government pension funds are taking over farmland all over the world and causing many problems for humans and the environment to add to their wealth. This is how capitalist practices serves the food needs of humans the profits and power needs of a tiny minority of capitalists and associated professionals working in Wall Street.
  

It is disconcerting that the biggest players in the private equity industry are people’s pension funds, followed by governments’ development finance institutions. They are responsible, yet there is zero connection between them and the people whose money they are investing, much less between them and the communities impacted by these investments.

• Twitter Says It Will REMOVE All Posts Claiming Vaccines Can Harm People by Steve Watson from Summit News.

• Cheers for College Football’s Victory over Covid-19 Fear by Alan W. Dowd from American Institute for Economic Research.

• Year Zero by CJ Hopkins, a political satirist, from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. 

2020 was GloboCap Year Zero. The year when the global capitalist ruling classes did away with the illusion of democracy and reminded everyone who is actually in charge, and exactly what happens when anyone challenges them. 

In the relatively short span of the last ten months, societies throughout the world have been transformed beyond recognition. Constitutional rights have been suspended. Protest has been banned. Dissent is being censored.

• AOC's Gas Lighting Gets Called Out On Twitter! featuring Jimmy Dore, from his YouTube channel, attacking AOC (Rep. Alexandria Casio-Cortez) in a 22:41m video.

• Quantitative Easing Is the Biggest Sham Ever (S3 E2) featuring John Titus explaining in his Best Evidence channel of YouTube, QE and other shinanigans played on us by the Federal Reserve. (Note: Other important resources are included in this post.)

• New World Next Year 2021 featuring James Corbett and James Pilato offering an-end-of-the-review and some hopeful predictions about next year. It lasts nearly 34 minutes and is posted on The Corbett Report.

• Federal Regulators Are Rewriting Environmental Rules So a Massive Pipeline Can Be Built by Ken Ward Jr. from ProPublica.

• Temperatures keep rising from Arctic News.
  

• Life Without Lies from the YouTube channel of Journeyman Pictures, a one minute preview entitled "The Troublemaker". This is a best post because it is so urgent.
  

Facing up to the climate crisis on a journey of self-discovery
It is in times of crisis that we find out what really matters to us, that we get to discover who we really are, as individuals and as a society. The Troublemaker delves deep into the ideas and emotions behind the international wave of civil protest, born in the face of the unfolding climate crisis. Through the eyes of a visionary leader who co-founded ‘Extinction Rebellion’, and a previously law-abiding citizen inspired to take action, The Troublemaker aspires to stir the audience from passive resistance to a life-affirming defence of our future. Now that we understand more about what a ‘global crisis’ feels like, it can no longer be ignored.