Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, December 11, 2020 (complete)

• Coronavirus Scandal Breaking in Merkel’s Germany. False Positives and the Drosten PCR Test by F. William Engdahl from Global Research. (See also "External peer review of the RTPCR test to detect SARS-CoV-2 reveals 10 major scientific flaws at the molecular and methodological level: consequences for false positive results.")

• Michigan Restaurant Owner Calls For Popular Uprising Against Hypocritical Covid Policy by Michael K. Smith from Dissident Voice.
  

• What Happens if Something Goes Wrong after You Receive a COVID Vaccine? by Dr. Meryl Nass from Global Research. (Note: Pharmaceutical companies can't be sued. Only the government (tax-payer funded) can offer some compensation, but with limitations as stated in the article.)

• British Medical Journal Editor Calls Into Question Pfizer & Moderna’s “95% Effective” COVID Vaccines by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• CHD Calls for Further Study of Pfizer COVID Vaccine for Seniors and Blacks from Children's Health Defense.
  

• What Do We Do About The Increasing Vaccine Pressure? by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution featuring a 28:14m video in which Joe Martino, founder of Collective Evolution, discusses the implications of the hints of governments mandating vaccines and private businesses that will essentially making vaccines mandatory in order to access their business services or products. A best post.

• The Bureaucratic Deal Got Us Into This Mess. The Bourgeois Deal Will Get Us Out by Art Carden from American Institute for Economic Research. 

• Mission Creep or Creepy Mission: The New York Fed’s Trading Desk Has Ballooned to $6.59 Trillion Today from $576 Billion in 2008 by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.
  

• 'RT raises issues corporate controlled media doesn't want raised' by Chris Hedges from RT. My reaction: Isn't it ironic that a critic of US government policies, like all such critics, has to go to a foreign sponsored source to express his views? And isn't it ironic that one corporate media giant labels RT as "... funded in whole or in part by the Russian government?" in order to discourage viewers away from RT? After all, corporations are careful that we don't access material from dubious sources--but encourage people to access information only from their sources. (sarcasm)

• OPCW executives praised whistleblower and criticized Syria cover-up, leaks reveal by Aaron Maté from The Grayzone. My reaction: But, why didn't we see this reported by media corporations? (sarcastic question)
  

• Naomi Klein: Gatekeeper Extraordinaire by Cat McGuire & Colleen McGuire from Off-Guardian. My reaction: It is about time that an alternative weblog "outed" a fake critic who too often conforms to careerest (def.) expectations!
  

• Thailand: US Openly Backs Anti-Government Mob by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.

• “Elephants in the Room”: Scary ‘R’ Us: The Exaggerated Threat of Terrorism: The US and Britain Train, Arm, Finance and Protect Terrorists by Rod Driver from Global Research. This is a best post.

• White Helmets founder Le Mesurier is now a mainstream saint, but leaked docs raise questions about his widow's role by Kit Klarenberg from RT.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, December 10, 2020

• New Film SEVEN Available Today on Multiple Streaming Platforms from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. My commentary follows: 

I viewed this 45 minute film last night and I highly recommend it. On 9/11/2001 I watched on TV the buildings of the World Trade Center come down, but I was already convinced that the collapse of buildings was a ruse to get Americans prepared for dramatic changes in foreign policy. Sure enough, people everywhere were shocked and prepared to do anything for their country. Gas station attendants in Oregon, where I was living at the time, insisted that their customers put patriotic stickers on their cars. Laws were rushed through Congress like the Patriot Act to grant government agencies to secure all kinds of records on Americans and the suspension of habeus corpus laws for alien Americans. Members of Congress who were concerned about the rush to pass these laws were targets for anthrax attacks. I felt very uncomfortable with this growing police state and relocated to Canada until 2006. About 1 1/2 years after 9/11, the US along with some allies had already invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. 

This film shows clear evidence that many architects and engineers were reluctant to challenge the governments flimsy excuses and reports by government agencies that gave approval to the official story of 9/11. They were intimidated into silence by the Deep State which controls nearly everything in the USA. Only after a decade did these professionals become involved and started to challenge the obvious inconsistencies and unscientific justifications of the official story.

• Révolution écosocialiste: A strategic perspective for uniting ecosocialists in Québec by Richard Fidler from Climate & Capitalism.

• Bolivia: New Gov’t Sets to Work Undoing Damage Left by US-Backed Añez Regime by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. My reaction: Be sure to appoint sound military loyalists to the Constitution of Bolivia as top generals in the Bolivian army. By "sound", I mean generals that have demonstrated their loyalty to the Bolivian Constitution, but not to foreigners.

• Pentagon to Biden: Latin America a major battlefield in war with China by Bill Van Auken from World Socialist Web Site.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 (might add posts later)

• Nineteen Tragic Facts About Covid 19 by Bill Quigley from Dissident Voice.

• WATCH: Ask The Experts (Covid-19 Vaccine) from Off-Guardian. 

• US hits Search and Destroy against the New Silk Roads by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog.
  

• Watchdog Report: Fed’s Billions in Emergency Repo Loans to Wall Street Didn’t Go Away in June; They Just Went Dark by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• New Research Shows 'Pandemic Profits' of Billionaires Could Fully Fund $3,000 Stimulus Checks for Every Person in US by Jake Johnson from Common Dreams. 

• BREAKING - More Repubs Than Dems Vote Against Military Budget featuring Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Show and posted on his YouTube channel.
  

• COVID Whistle Blower RAIDED with Gestapo Tactics! featuring Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Show and posted on his YouTube channel.
  

• Protecting Individual Rights: Can COVID Vaccines Be Mandated? from Children's Health Defense.

• Want Vaccines Fast? Suspend Intellectual Property Rights by Dean Baker, Achal Prabhala and Arjun Jayadev from CounterPunch. My commentary follows:
  

With the assumption that mainstream reports are accurate regarding the current pandemic, I don't care of you read the article or not because the more informed readers will know beforehand the gist of this story as an illustration of how capitalism functions. Such readers already know the rest of the story. They will already know the socially dubious ways property owners have by taking advantage of public subsidies to acquire more of this type of intellectual property for their own, and their families', benefit.

But, aren't the authors indulging in a bit of confusing contradictions? Their only defense is an argument that matters of life and death deserve some suspensions of capitalist rules which "liberals" such as these authors like to argue. But this is a specious argument that soon collapses under the weight of another argument that people should be provided all necessary goods for their health and survivability such as shelter, food, sufficient clothing, and health care. But why stop there? 

Don't people need to be productive so that they can contribute to an economy that supplies these needs? The first thought that comes to mind is education, and then training in a productive specialty. Shouldn't all people have access to these fundamental needs? Is the capitalist system which considers all property, intellectual and real economic property, as privately owned and controlled to be used for their, and their families', benefit? Isn't this system, which has succeeded in bringing vast types of all property under private control for the benefit of a relatively few individuals and their families, considered almost sacred by it proponents, many of whom "own" much of this property? Because property rights are considered by such people as sacred, does this not justify in the minds of these people the right to exploit others, force others to comply with property owners ideas and demands with threats of harm, even maim or kill them? But you say, that is fascism! (Neo-fascism, which is prevalent today, relies more on controlling your mind with censorship and manipulation of information. However, if that doesn't work there is always the police and military to enforce compliance.)

In spite of the heavy censorship provided by media corporations, you might know that this happening everywhere in the world today. Given such thoughts, you might reconsider your commitment to capitalism by supporting efforts to end all property rights (except over personal property). But, you say in horror, that would be socialism/communism!

• Black Dirt Farm Collective: Building a Self-Sufficient Community by Kayla Soren from CounterPunch. My commentary follows:

This collective type of ownership of economic property is often described as a alternative to capitalist enterprise, even as a revolutionary alternative for some enthusiastic supporters. The latter are usually employed in educational institutions and enjoy comfortable careers. 

Some 50+ years ago even I was taken in by their rhetoric. I studied them in the few obscure sources that I discovered, and even participated in a few collective type enterprises.  However, the proponents rhetoric failed to live up to the reality I encountered. Such enterprises barely survived, and most workers had to supplement their income from conventional sources of employment. Many failed or were taken over by private owners who turned them into conventional industries. 

It seems that conventional enterprises are supported by the legal, educational, and social institutions of capitalist countries and collective enterprises are not. This adversely affects collective enterprises in two decisive ways: 1) such enterprises could not compete with conventional enterprises because of lower costs of labor for the latter, and 2) many people who participate in these enterprises have experienced capitalist culture all their lives. 

The first difference results in the employment of people exclusively based on their philosophical preference of working in such a collective enterprise, but not on their skills or productivity, and because less productive members can't fired. The second reason resulted in workers who were socialized in selfishness and competitiveness of the larger culture and were unable to function effectively in a collective enterprise.

• Dangerous Provocations Ahead for Iran by "Tony Cartalucci" from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: Once again the author relies on a Brooking's document to demonstrate the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's plans for Iran. This is sound because the ruling capitalist class never allows exposure to their plans in a mainstream source which are for self-serving propaganda purposes only.

• General Flynn, QAnon and the US Elections [and this post] USA: General Flynn calls for suspension of the Constitution both by Thierry Meyssan from his weblog VoltaireNet.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, December 8, 2020

• ‘Buy It or Else’: Inside Monsanto and BASF’s Strategy to Force Farmers to Buy GMO Seeds and Pesticides by Johnathan Hettinger from Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting. 

• Palantir’s Tiberius, Race, and the Public Health Panopticon [part 2 of 3] by Jeremy Loffredo and Whitney Webb from Unlimited Hangout. This is a best post.

Part 1 of this series on Operation Warp Speed and Race, “The Johns Hopkins, CDC Plan to Mask Medical Experimentation on Minorities as ‘Racial Justice,’” explored Warp Speed’s vaccine allocation plan in depth. That plan utilizes a phased approach aimed at “populations of focus” that had been identified in advance by various government organizations, including the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

The main focus of this allocation strategy is to deliver vaccines first to racial minorities and in such a way as to make them feel “at ease” and not like “guinea pigs.” This is particularly glaring given that these minorities will be receiving an experimental vaccine that allocation-strategy documents admit is likely to cause “certain adverse effects . . . more frequently in certain population subgroups,” with research showing that those “subgroups” most at risk of experiencing adverse effects are these same racial minorities.

• Florida Department of Health Quietly Requires Labs to Report Cycle Threshold of Troubled PCR Test by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond.

The fact that the Florida Department of Health is taking this step is a sign that an increasing number of health professionals and regulators are questioning the accuracy of the PCR test. The PCR is the most common lab test being used to detect COVID-19. This incredibly sensitive technique was developed by Berkeley scientist Kary Mullis, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1993. The test is designed to detect the presence of a virus by amplifying the virus’ genetic material so it can be detected by scientists. The test is viewed as the gold standard, however, it is not without problems.

• US Media, Pols Rage After Venezuelans Defy US Empire to Re-elect Socialists by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.   

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, December 7, 2020

• 9/11 Families and Experts Submit New Eyewitness Evidence of Explosions in Building 7 from Architects & Engineer for 9/11 Truth. 

• Polar-ward climate zones shift and consequent tipping points by Dr Andrew Glikson,
  Earth and Paleo-climate scientist, from Arctic News. 

• Hunger in US | 'Everybody's just worried about their next meal' from RT channel on YouTube.
  

• Medical Doctors share their views on the Pandemic & Vaccines from World United News channel of YouTube. 

• Groundbreaking Study Shows Unvaccinated Children Are Healthier Than Vaccinated Children by Alix Mayer from Children's Health Defense.

• An International Message of Hope for Humanity From RFK, Jr. featuring Kennedy appealing for support in his efforts to curb "Big Pharma", "Big Data", "Big Oil", etc. from harming us a further. Posted on Children's Health Defense. My commentary follows:

Obviously, I don't agree with several arguments he makes, but I vigorously defends his right to express his views. I argue that he makes two fundamental mistakes. The first, it is not Big Pharma, etc. that is wrecking harm on this country and a number of others. It's Big Capitalism. The capitalist system which affirms the rights of private parties to own and control economic property portends what we have today: the overwhelming concentration of wealth and power in a very few hands. It is inevitable. Eventually the ruling capitalist classes must resort to ever greater amount of fascist-like control--censorship and manipulation of information which are the hallmarks of neofascism.

The second mistake he makes is that he assumes--no doubt, he learned this in schools--that we live in a democracy. It could be thought of as a capitalists' version of democracy, but it definitely isn't any real democracy where the people decide conflicting issues. Capitalism is the inverse of real democracy. The system gives power in the form of ownership and control over the economy to private individuals and their families.

• An International Message of Hope for Humanity From RFK, Jr. featuring Robert Kennedy, Jr. asking for your support for his struggle against Big Capitalism (no, it's not Big Pharma,  Big Data, Big Oil, etc. (15:37m). Posted on Children's Health Defense. My reaction: Kennedy makes two fundamental errors and I've already pointed to one. The second is that capitalism is in contradiction to any real democracy. Allowing one class to privately own and control the economy is the other. Over time the system inevitably results in the concentration of power in a few hands that we see today. Thus, what we have is a fake democracy.
  

• Richest 1% own 43% of global wealth, while billions have no wealth at all by Michael Roberts from Climate & Capitalism. My reaction: Under capitalism, ownership means control. Thus capitalists control 43% of economic decisions. I think this understates capitalist control of the world's economy which, I think, is much larger. But this is another indication that capitalists, who merely bet on, and loan money to, competing corporations that are largely run by comfortable and highly trained upper-middle-class technical workers, have won the war against the lower working classes and small business operators. However, due to the ever increasing attacks by corporations, the engines of capitalist accumulation, on the Earth's ecosystem, their victory will be of a Pyrrhic kind which will end in the extinction of humans and most other species. 

Recently this tiny group of capitalists has entertained fantasies about escaping to another planet after they have ruined Earth. However, because they ("capitalists", "oligarchs", "billionaires", etc.) are also humans which have evolved on planet Earth and there is no other planet like ours in which they can realistically access, these are just fantasies.

• With Rent Freezes About to Expire, Mnuchin Lobbies for More Wall Street Bailouts by Raul Diego from Mint Press News.

• Withholding Stimulus Unless Vaccinated, Doctors Paid Per Vaccination & PCR Test Further Called Out featuring Ryan Cristián commenting, in a 1 1/2 hour program, on these subjects and questioning, and objecting to, widespread proposals to ensure the success of universal vaccinations. Posted on The Last American Vagabond. My reaction: I only listened to about 36 minutes of this podcast, but Cristián raises some very important questions about various proposals advanced by government officials and "experts" many of whom are influenced by the vast wealth (and power) of Big Pharma, Bill Gates, and capitalist ruling classes via their big media corporations. If you don't have time to listen to this podcast, you might be interested in similar, but limited, material covered by Dr. Marcola in a shorter article entitled "What We Know So Far About U.S. Government’s Plan to Track COVID Vaccine Recipients".
  

• Infinite Spiders by John Steppling from his weblog. (Note: He gathers many of the most profound thinkers to offer insights, including his own, on the post-WWII development of our societies under capitalist ruling classes.) My reaction: I only scanned this article, but I gather from this scan that Steppling argues that advanced technology is being used by capitalist ruling classes for their own benefit (power and profits) instead of the benefit of the vast majority of people on our planet. I totally agree with him. Technology is neutral. It can be used for the benefit of people in general or it can be used by self-serving groups of people. Capitalism is a system that has used technology for the almost exclusive benefit of a tiny group of transnational capitalists located predominately in the powerful US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.

• Fall 1941: Pearl Harbor and The Wars of Corporate America by Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels from Global Research. (Note: If you were educated to believe in a revised version of WWII (revised by capitalist ruling classes), and want to learn about the true history of the war, read this.