- Vaccines Offer Better Outcomes… featuring Chris Martenson, from his website PeakProsperity, discussing his findings from mainly Israeli sources of data. My reaction: Martenson, although a discerning expert, has faith in data from official sources, but what if the data is contaminated by biases, political or economic? And, what about the powerful effort to censor any alternative other than official sources of medical information (also, see especially this).
- A New Variant of COVID-19 Propaganda from NewBraveWorld. My reaction: In this brave new world it is not known who you can trust regarding accurate medical information. Too often we have been subject to fear propaganda my compromised media corporations, by those who would profit from vaccines, and even our personal physicians because they receive pressure from investors of their medical facilities. Because of these reasons, it is sad that we now have to do due diligence by informing ourselves of the best sources of medical information. I highly recommend Children's Health Defense, and tentatively recommend Physicians for Informed Consent. I do my best to post other reliable sources of information.
- Asia Departs from the Gates/Schwab Agenda of Vaccinating the World by Martin Armstrong from his weblog Armstrong Economics.
- Harvesting the Sickening Fruit of Lockdowns by Peter C. Earle from American Institute for Economic Research.
... to suggest that there was no evidence linking stress and economic uncertainty to suicides is shameful at best. The literature is nothing less than expansive [def. #1] At AIER, we have been tracking the costs of nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) [mainly opioids] since last fall.
(We also knew then and now know of the ICL [Imperial College London] model’s ruinous deficiencies. That it became the primary evidence in favor of shutting down major economies and inducing a sudden, sharp recession should, given this information, see a handful of health technocrats hauled before the International Court of Justice or a similar body. But I’m not holding my breath.) [my insertions]
(We also knew then and now know of the ICL [Imperial College London] model’s ruinous deficiencies. That it became the primary evidence in favor of shutting down major economies and inducing a sudden, sharp recession should, given this information, see a handful of health technocrats hauled before the International Court of Justice or a similar body. But I’m not holding my breath.) [my insertions]
Earle later concludes:
... political decisions made during the early onset of the pandemic are the immediate, directly attributable causes of this nightmarish (and wholly predictable) burst in overdose fatalities. One would be well advised to expect that nary a single public official will be called to account for the mounting NPI death toll.
- How the Rich Keep Workers Poor – Outsourcing and Sweatshops by Rod Driver from Global Research.
- You’re Not SUPPOSED To Trust The Government: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband also reading the script--from her weblog. (Note: I am posting this only to criticize it.) My commentary follows:
💥I was profoundly disturbed by this post because I held so much promise that Johnstone was becoming aware of a system that is responsible for most of our social-economic problems and threats to peace. I originally thought that she was going to finally recognize that the government and all institutions are controlled by a socioeconomic class of capitalists based, of course, on a system of capitalism. Thus, the system of capitalism was responsible for most of the ills that societies have been tormented with.
But, sadly, that was not the direction she was headed with this post. She insists that it is a given that all governments are not to be trusted without pointing to a system that promotes owners of economic property above all the rest of the population. I guess I assumed with all her diatribes against capitalism, the "empire", imperialism, "Silicon Valley plutocrats" and other plutocrats, mainstream media, etc., that she was headed in the direction of the system itself. But I was wrong.
It seems all along that her main thesis was the control of narratives.
The ultimate factor in determining what will happen in our world is not control of capital, nor control of government, nor control of resources, nor control of weapons, but control of narrative. See this and you see why governments, plutocrats and media behave the way they do.
It is becoming clear that Johnstone can't see the system that is responsible for all our ills. She can't see the system that enables a class of people to own everything and their control over narratives. I wonder why this is the case. Could it be that she, too, has been brainwashed to not see the system as the root cause of our main troubles: imperialism, empire, militarism, plutocrats, inequality, and narratives that are designed to support all the preceding? Could it be that she, too, along with her husband, are so handicapped by so many years of capitalist indoctrination that they are totally blind to see what is right in front them: a system of capitalism that promotes a tiny socioeconomic class of owners of economic property that gives them so much wealth and power? And, the power to control narratives. Apparently so.
The latter fact is so discouraging. I can only infer that the majority of humans on our unique planet Earth will be unable to see the system as the root cause of most of our problems before the capitalist system drives us to extinction. I fervently hope I am wrong. Maybe I have become too impatient.
- CIA Considered Bombing Miami To Blame Cuba! featuring Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone and Jimmy Dore reporting on the reality of Cuba from his YouTube channel (34:14m) in contrast to the sensational coverage provided by media corporations.
- The French Revolution: A First Step Towards Democracy by Jacques R. Pauwels, a highly recommended Canadian historian, provides the reality of the French Revolution that was largely re-written by historians employed by capitalist institutions.
