Note: I am planning a first road trip to the US east coast probably immediately after Labor Day, September 6, from my home in southern Minnesota. (Most of my adult life was on the west coast.) If any of you regular followers would like to meet me on this road trip, I will try to accommodate you in my itinerary. The arrangement would at least consist of meeting over a beverage of your choice at a location near you or at your home. Please contact me if this interests you at my email address: goatmeal36@yahoo.com. Ron H.
- 💥2 Things Mainstream Media Didn’t Tell You About FDA’s Approval of Pfizer Vaccine by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Meryl Nass, M.D. from Children's Health Defense. This is a best post. My reaction: For those being coerced into taking the experimental vaccine, this is an essential post.
- A Lesson in Being Human: 9 tips for new homeschoolers by Lucy Davies from Off-Guardian. (Note: For those of you who still can't stomach your kids getting the experimental vaccine.)
- Video: Dr. Mike Yeadon Talks About COVID Lies with Dr. Reiner Fuellmich from Global Research. (Note: I'm posting this from Global Research because of its better format.)
- The Bizarre Refusal to Apply Cost-Benefit Analysis to COVID Debates by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog at Substack.
In virtually every realm of public policy, Americans embrace policies which they know will kill people, sometimes large numbers of people. They do so not because they are psychopaths but because they are rational: they assess that those deaths that will inevitably result from the policies they support are worth it in exchange for the benefits those policies provide. This rational cost-benefit analysis, even when not expressed in such explicit or crude terms, is foundational to public policy debates — except when it comes to COVID, where it has been bizarrely declared off-limits.
- INVESTIGATION – Bill Gates has major shares in both Pfizer & BioNTech, and an FOI has revealed he is the primary funder of the MHRA from The Daily Expose, a British website. (Note: This fairly brief and well-documented article also includes an audio version which has interjected ads at various points.)
- Why You Can’t Trust What the FDA Says About Ivermectin by Julius Dahne from Covid-19 Up.
- In Historic Decision, Federal Court Orders FCC to Explain Why It Ignored Scientific Evidence Showing Harm from Wireless Radiation from Environmental Health Trust.
- Absurdity Airlines - Take the Shot?? from Rumble (a video company something like YouTube). (04:09m)
- Fauci Says Pfizer FDA Approval Will Bring a ‘Lot More’ COVID Vaccine Mandates + More from Children's Health Defense.
- When Your Life is at Stake by Following the Herd by Dylan Charles from Waking Times.
- How Data Manipulation Is Used to Support the Desired Narratives by D.P Friesen from The Organic Prepper.
- The Crimes of the Pharmaceutical Industry by Rod Driver from his weblog ElephantsInTheRoom.
- In the Name of ‘Public Safety’ Australia Descends Into a Nightmarish Orwellian Police State by Robert Bridge from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: This is the astonishing land that Caitlin Johnstone and her American husband reside!
- 💥Where best to ride out the climate apocalypse? The billionaires’ bunker fantasies go mainstream by Jonathan Cook, British-born and a journalist currently living in the Zionist-occupied Palestine, from his weblog. This is a best post.
The most powerful among us are powerful precisely because they create the dominant ideology – the thread of narrative that ties together what we imagine to be our personal understanding of why the world is as it is. That is why elites, whether the state or corporations, prioritise capturing the main channels of communication. They make sure to own and control the mass media.
When powerful external actors are framing the world for us – whether it be through broadcasting, newspapers or social media – they get to decide what matters, what should be prioritised, what is right.
But he concludes his essay with these words:
The reality is that we can save our species – assuming it can be saved at all at this late stage – only by radically transforming our societies: by ending inequality, by criminalising greed, by dispossessing billionaires, by nationalising corporations, by making economies and political systems far more localised, by introducing real democratic accountability, by abolishing the corporate media, by funding critical thinking in our education system, and much else. [my emphasis]
You must read the article to see how he gets to his conclusion from the first paragraph above.
- US mainstream media host military industry giants among pro-war guests by Donald Courter from the channel of RT on YouTube (03:48m).
- The party’s over: China clamps down on its tech billionaires by Vincent Ni from The Guardian. My brief commentary follows:
I've viewed mainstream media corporations as taken over by right-wing propagandists, and The Guardian is no exception. So, I proceeded cautiously with the reading of this article to find self-serving bias that favors the de-facto US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's transnational-capitalists interests. I finally decided that it gives much valuable information about the Chinese Communist Party.
For a long time I have worried under Deng's influence in the late 1970s that the Communist Party of China was in danger of being corrupted by the success of their entrepreneurs.
In the four decades since Xi’s predecessor Deng Xiaoping enabled economic liberalisation, booms in manufacturing and technology have allowed a select few in China to amass vast fortunes. But the tables are turning, with Beijing’s regulators mounting almost daily attacks on private power bases, in particular the technology titans, whose influence has begun to stretch far beyond Asia.
Although this article does not allay my worry, I think that it is informative about recent developments. This is not to argue that the directors of the de-facto Empire are not worried about China--they are, and have in the several years declared an unofficial war against China. But China as well as Russia and Iran are charting an independent course of their nations by instituting mixed economies--some private and others public--which is independent of the Empire. To the directors who will accept nothing less than total domination of their Empire, this is apostasy and justifies their force-full response to these heretics.
- John Pilger: Afghanistan, The Great Game of Smashing Countries from Mint Press News.
- No Hope for Earth without Indigenous Liberation, a book review by Simon Butler from Climate & Capitalism. (Note: I am posting this from C&C because it has a darker print than the original site from Common Notions.)
- Nearly Half the World's Children at 'Extremely High Risk' for Facing Effects of Climate Crisis, Report Finds by Julia Conley from Common Dreams. (Note: You will need to scroll down to the article.)