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

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, June 23, 2021

  • COVID: Three men who own corporate America by Jon Rappoport from his weblog. My reaction: What, you didn't know that concentration of the ownership of commercial & industrial property has gone this far? Rappoport argued that it has--and that was in an article from a year ago!
  • Progressives NOT Demanding Biden Keep His Promises featuring Jimmy Dore (via his YouTube channel--07:36m) looking at the history of fake promises appearing at each election, but disappearing following elections, and why "progressive" Democrats in Congress lie to you. Hint: they receive benefits from the billionaire donor class. 
  • After Longest Day, the Longest Night of Horror Still Shadows Europe by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Cunningham asks a very profound question referring to "the policies of Washington and its NATO allies: "Is it really lack of awareness or something more cynical?" The answer is obvious to someone who has studied real history and ignores the new, self-serving propaganda: it is pure cynicism that drives the leaders of the new empire. I have doubts that they are conscious of their own lies. But lack of consciousness does not excuse them from their objective to impose another form of domination on the rest of us in their obsessive drive to build another empire in place of the Third Reich--only this time led by English-speaking transnational capitalists.
  • Science Update: Aerosol Masking Previously Underestimated on Overheated Earth by Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist (via his YouTube channel--09:47m), who has fearlessly focused his attention and career on the climate crisis. (Note: McPherson explains why global warming is slowing down the abrupt crash through intolerable climate instability: it is because of the aerosols which partially mask the crash, and previous scientific reports underestimated this. His conclusion: "We are overheating the planet and the escape route of reducing industrial activity just won't work. It'll heat the planet even faster.")