- Lockdowns Worsen the Health Crisis by Kiley Holliday and Jenin Younes from American Institute for Economic Research.
- “Making something out of nothing”: PCR tests, CT values and false positives by Niels Harrit PhD from Off-Guardian.
- Ask Congress to Investigate COVID Origins and Government Response to Pandemic from Children's Health Defense.
- Covid Vaccine: The New Sacred Cow by Computing Forever featuring Dave Cullen, an Irishman, in a 14:56m video from the Bitchute channel of EarthNewspaper.
- Smart Cities: Digital Prisons of The Great Reset by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond. My commentary follows:The Great Reset is all about our masters' fantasy: the transnational capitalist ruling classes, who are directors of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire and have a fantasy about saving their system of capitalism. Our billionaire masters are finally concerned about preventing the climate crisis and destroying their beloved system of capitalism, which is a system of organized plunder of the Earth's resources and the labor of working people.Thus, it is more of the same: the ruling class is trying to co-opt us into following their self-serving plan to save capitalism for the future. If you like their past record of exploitation, never-ending wars, extreme inequality, full-spectrum control of everything, etc., you will absolutely love their plan for the Great Reset of capitalism. Brose expressed it in a nutshell when he wrote:In truth, the push for smart cities, the UN SDGs, and the Great Reset is based in a deeper agenda to monitor, control, and direct all life on the planet using technology. The true agenda of the WEF and the United Nations is to establish a global Technocratic State where alleged experts and technologists make decisions for the vast majority of the people in the name of saving the environment.The description of our masters' plans sound familiar. Doesn't it sound like what we experienced during this pandemic where dissenting voices about pandemic policies, contrary medical evidence, and scientific arguments from equally qualified experts are all dismissed or silenced? And you are confined to your homes, must wear masks, and get "vaccinated" with potentially unsafe and unknown substances in order to work or travel? And they're promising to make us happy despite owning nothing--because they will own, and thereby control, everything! Do you want such a world?
Just because they have recognized (too late) that unlimited growth, which capitalism requires, on a finite planet is impossible, we should follow them meekly and their self-serving fantasy-plan. I think not!
- Congress, in a Five-Hour Hearing, Demands Tech CEOs Censor the Internet Even More Aggressively by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack. Greenwald writes about the Congressional hearing in which Republican members of the Committee largely joined Democrats demanding more censorship:
Words
cannot convey how chilling and authoritarian this all is: watching
government officials, hour after hour, demand censorship of political
speech and threaten punishment for failures to obey. As I detailed last
month, the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that the state
violates the First Amendment’s free speech guarantee when they coerce
private actors to censor for them — exactly the tyrannical goal to which
these hearings are singularly devoted.
And he concludes with this statement:
We
are taught from childhood that a defining hallmark of repressive
regimes is that political officials wield power to silence ideas and
people they dislike, and that, conversely, what makes the U.S. a “free”
society is the guarantee that American leaders are barred from doing so.
It is impossible to reconcile that claim with what happened in that
House hearing room over the course of five hours on Thursday.
- In Quest of a Multi-Polar World featuring Pepe Escobar in conversation with Michael Hudson from Consortium News.
- US/NATO vs. Russia-China in a hybrid war to the finish by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog.
- Rise Up, Say the Birds to the Bread by Edward Curtin from Off-Guardian.
- How the Suez canal blockage could impact global supply chains by Sulaiman Lkaderi, a 2:32m video from Middle East Eye.
- An Old Green Colonial Trick: Israel Masking Land Grabs as Environmental Conservation by Jessica Buxbaum from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis).
- How to start a housing co-op by Mira Luna from Shareable.
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