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

Monday, July 19, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, July 19, 2021 (I added a "best post" at approximately 3:00 PM CT)

  • Exposing the Technocratic-Transhumanist-CyberPandemic Agenda with Whitney Webb being interviewed by Derrick Broze (1:24:51hr) from The Conscious Resistance. (Note: This post offers both video and audio versions of the interview. Webb with encyclopedic knowledge from her extensive research covers a wide-range of topics besides those in the title. The website provides lists of research articles by Webb.)
  • The Propaganda War (And How to Fight It) by CJ Hopkins, a former satirist living in Berlin from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc., who knows that satire is no longer possible, is desperately trying to educate us to be conscious of propaganda, and in addition, he suggests a method of fighting back against the New Normal, a reality that the ruling class of the de-facto US/Anglo/Zionist Empire has created.
  • 💥Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created featuring an interview conducted by Freddie Sayers of Unherd, a British website, from their channel on YouTube, with Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales, co-founders of Wikipedia. This is a best post submitted by Brad Fredricks. (My note: Any topic that is remotely political on Wikipedia's website is to be distrusted.) Fredricks' commentary follows:

    Capitalism will always undermine a system, as its basic function is to obtain and retain control. The extent of this has not just polluted our rivers, destroyed our forests, and oiled our oceans, it has also corrupted our information sources, and our open voices.

    Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger, a vocal advocate of discussion, debate, and the variability of news and information. "What many of our media sources today, and Wikipedia included, seem to assume, is that there is only one legitimate, defensible version of the truth on any consequential question. Of course, that's now how Wikipedia use to be."

    Marketing, the bastard child of capitalism and consumption, make use of controlling narratives so as to direct consumers to preferred outcomes. So long as corporations and private individuals control the media mediums, be it hosting servers, advertising dollars, and even communications censorship, we will have one preferred narrative to push to the masses.

    Under a singular system that entrusts power to the few, the many will always suffer. Without a place for debate and dissent, there is no conversation, no progress, and only the inevitability of a dystopic world state controlled by the rich, who long ago decided it is the many who are to serve the few.

    This system of control has gone a step further to ensure narrative control for the elites only. The White House recently released National Strategy for Countering Domestic Violent Extremism, which specifically mentions anti-corporatists, anti-capitalists, and anti-globalists. While the statement is in relation to those willing to use violence, it only highlights the hypocrisy.

    The government controlled by the ruling class is the only one allowed to make the rules, questions the system, and back up their beliefs with the threat of force.

    You have the right to remain silent, no questions.
An anti-Yemeni coalition led by Saudi Arabia invaded Yemen in March 2015 to crush the revolution, and to prevent Ansarullah from coming to power. Great Britain, France, the United States, Germany, and some Arab countries all support the coalition militarily, and by delivering weapons to keep fanning the flames of an unequal war, which officials say has become the world’s worst humanitarian disaster, and the future of the beautiful country of Yemen remains, for now, painted in dark overtones.
  • A Plea for the MEER featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist (via his YouTube channel--(01:56m), who has fearlessly focused his attention and career on the climate crisis. (Note: McPherson pleads with us to support the Meer project that may yet save most species on planet Earth.) My reaction: What do you think the chances are for this project to be supported by capitalists, our masters, who are thoroughly addicted to profits and power, and the rest of us are too deceived by their propaganda? I think none.
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