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

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Presentation of 3 January 2021. "In the middle of that day we took a break and we walked over to the Supreme Court, and that was the video that got 20 million views. It gets 20 million views not because I can sing as Beyonce, but because human beings recognize truth. We have something inside of us, right. I really emphasize that point. Within an hour all of the platforms censored us simultaneously. [...] YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, facebook, Twitter, all of them."
  • Snowstorms, the Breach of the Arctic Vortex and the Effects of Ice Meltwater on the Oceans by Dr. Andrew Glikson from Global Research. My reaction: Prof. Chossudovsky who founded this website, has in the distant past (over one decade) been always negative about scientific evidence that indicated over-all global warming. But it seems that he has changed by recognizing scientific evidence that indicates climate destabilization along with abrupt global warming.
The extreme rate at which the global warming and the shift of climate zones are taking place virtually within a period less than one generation-long, faster than major past warming events such as at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary 56 million years ago, renders the term “climate change” hardly appropriate, since what we are looking at is a sudden and abrupt event.