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

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, October 12, 2021 (Shortened collection of posts because I've run out of time & energy.)

While there is no doubt that the threat of Sars-CoV-2 is real, the greater threat is the covert military-intelligence psychological operation against humanity, driving people to act against their own best interests out of fear. These operations have taken firm root in all sides of the “covid debate”, pitting people against one another in ways that are so extreme, so devoid of humanity, that the destructive result has been shocking to witness. Most tragic is the fact that activists and human rights defenders have been caught in the psy-op, playing into the hands of empire and a global enslavement agenda, becoming agents of the status quo, repeaters of the dominant narrative, at a time when we most need revolutionary thought and action.
Only the Vaccine industry can afford to pay the very best vaccinologists, immunologists, epidemiologists and virologists on this planet and bring them together around one and the same table. I cannot rid myself of the impression that none of them is even allowed to speak or to even share any kind of comment on social media. So, I feel like I am wasting my time talking to scientific illiterate “fact-checkers” or people who have no hands-on experience in vaccinology. But no matter how hard the “fact-checkers” try to debunk my scientific arguments, all of them ended up retreating with tails tucked firmly between their legs.
  • 💥Below the Surface: An Interview with Whitney Webb (1:41:56) featuring the latter being interviewed by Chris Martenson, PhD, introducing Webb to the followers of his website Peak Prosperity. This is a best post. My reaction: A wide-ranging, fascinating interview in which Martenson joins in to discuss issues.
As we “paranoid conspiracy theorists” have been warning would happen for the past 18 months, people who refuse to convert to the new official ideology are now being segregated, stripped of their jobs, banned from attending schools, denied medical treatment, and otherwise persecuted. 
We live in a profoundly unfree society that is disguised as a free society. Western liberal democracy is just totalitarianism dressed in drag.

And it’s only getting worse. Propaganda is a still-developing science.
He traces the problem of energy shortage in Europe to be a consequence of their preparation to replace fossil fuel energy with renewable energy. Engdahl comes down hard on especially German efforts to replace fossil fuels with green energy, apparently wrongly believing that global warming is not a reality. 
 
The response from the EU Commission in Brussels, rather than admit the glaring flaws in their Green Energy agenda, has been to double down on it as if the problem were natural gas and coal. EU Climate Czar Frans Timmermans absurdly declared, “Had we had the green deal five years earlier, we would not be in this position because then we would have less dependency on fossil fuels and natural gas.”

If the EU continues with that suicidal agenda, it will find itself in a deindustrialized wasteland in a few short years. The problem is not gas, coal or nuclear. It is the inefficient Green Energy from solar and wind that will never be able to offer stable, reliable power.
 
On the other hand, he cites financial speculation as the cause of the dramatic price hikes.

Banks or others can speculate for pennies on the dollar, and when news broke on how low EU gas storage for the coming winter were, financial sharks went on a feeding frenzy. By early October futures prices for Dutch TTF gas had exploded by an unprecedented 300% in only days. Since February it is far worse, as a standard LNG cargo of 3.4 trillion BTU (British Thermal Units) now costs $100-120 million, while at the end of February its cost was less than $20 million. That’s a 500-600% rise in seven months.
 
I don't yet know if his allegations that the Davos crowd is responsible or if the dramatic prices hikes for energy are caused by normal capitalist practices, or both. At this time, I suspect both. The basic problem is that our real leaders of the de-facto US/Anglo/Zionist Empire, with their obsessive pursuit of profits and power, have too late realized that their exclusive pursuit is responsible for global warming. However, for them, this addiction to power and profits can be very profitable, and they don't regard an opportunity like this to go to waste.
  • Nuclear Weapons and Europe by Brian Cloughley from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: I don't know if a nuclear war will break out; but if the directors of the Empire think that their continuation of power and profits is hopeless, I believe that they will use nuclear weapons as the last option. Otherwise, a nuclear war would result in the destruction of their assets.
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