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

Friday, August 6, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, August 6, 2021

  • The Panic Pandemic by John Tierney, a former NY Times journalist, from City Journal (CJ), a New York City publication. (Note: I recommend Still Panicking, a 28:25m audio interview with Tierney from the same source.) My reaction: Tierney doesn't question that there was a ruling class conspiracy a la the Great Reset behind the severe restrictions of our liberties, but he refers to some of the censorship of well-qualified experts.
  • The Boiling Frog Effect featuring Dave Cullen, an Irishman, from his channel Computing Forever with Bitchute (23:53m). 
A settlement close to being finalized in a bankruptcy case would provide a shield from civil litigation to the members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma. The development means that family members will be significantly less likely to be questioned under oath about their role in the marketing of the potent prescription painkiller blamed for fueling a nationwide opioid epidemic.

Despite years of litigation alleging some Sacklers pushed Purdue to aggressively and inappropriately market OxyContin, members of the family successfully avoided most attempts to force them to answer questions about their stewardship of Purdue or the multibillion-dollar fortune they amassed as OxyContin became a bestselling pain medicine.
  • 💥Spy Cops: How UK Police Infiltrated Over 1,000 Political Groups by "Lowkey" interviewing Tom Fowler of Spy Cops (58:18m) from Mint Press News. This is a best post. (Note: The script serves as an introduction.) My reaction: There is much to be learned from this video (and audio) in order to prevent infiltrators hired by Deep State government agencies from corrupting protest organizations.
The new MintPress podcast, “The Watchdog,” hosted by British-Iraqi hip-hop artist Lowkey, closely examines organizations about which it is in the public interest to know — including intelligence, lobby and special-interest groups influencing policies that infringe on free speech and target dissent. The Watchdog goes against the grain by casting a light on stories largely ignored by the mainstream, corporate media.

Since the 1960s, the U.K. police have been charged with surveilling and infiltrating some 1,000 political, environmental or social justice organizations. Much of this involved undercover work. As part of their false personas, many officers entered romantic relationships with activists, leading to the births of a number of children whose mothers were completely unaware of their partners’ double lives. More than 20 women have come forward to claim they were “raped by the state” in such a way.
 
Today, The Watchdog is talking to Tom Fowler about the so-called “Spycops” scandal in the United Kingdom.
  • New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato from Corbett's website via audio and visual videos (22:55m). (Note: This article brings us up-to-date on the introduction of digital money as mostly described by central banks of the de-facto US/Anglo/Zionist Empire, and other topics.)
  • Richard Trumka 1949–2021 by Jerry White from World Socialist Web Site. My reaction: With friends like this, who can trust labor leaders?
  • Red Menace # ? Joseph McCarthy 2.0 by Philip A Farruggio from Global Research. (Note: This is essentially a book review reporting on the classic and horrible McCarthy period entitled A Conspiracy so Immense by David Oshinsky which is missing from your schooling. It is not dissimilar to the present time when corporate media spreads fear and corresponding government threats to enforce restrictions among the US population regarding the Covid pandemic if they do not get vaccinated.)
What many do not understand about Sen. McCarthy was that he was not the first or the only force in this movement to uncover this ‘Red Menace’.

In 1950, state and local governments actually competed to see who would ‘crack down hardest’ on this Communist threat.

What I am about to repeat from Oshinsky’s book is not satire or any sort of humor… though it can be construed as such.
  • Western Media Sleuths PROBABLY Show Dangerous Symptoms by Phil Butler from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: Butler engages in ridicule of an article published by The Guardian which is appropriate given that similar Western publications are prime sources of propaganda to create "realities" in the minds of their obedient subjects.
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