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 26, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, October 26, 2021

I think the Governor has voiced an idea that will destroy the mandates. And he is calling back the legislature to act on the issue.
Unfortunately, in this video-interview Miller argues against global warming that is only supported by independent scientists rather than conventional scientists that go along with the officially approved denial of global warming. Only the ruling capitalist class, which fears global warming because it would be an end to their system, is aware of this threat to a system that gives them so much wealth and power. 
 
In these days of rising sea levels, large-scale fires, increasing floods, rising temperatures, and the desertification of much of our planet Earth, it is getting increasingly harder for them to deny the effects of global warming. Obviously, the ruling classes will be infiltrating global warming organizations to turn them into impotent groups. That is precisely what has happened to much of the Green Movement. 
 
The transnational capitalist class has spearheaded an effort to undermine the past international meetings, and the upcoming UN-sponsored international meeting in Glasgow, Scotland is likely to produce similar non-binding fake resolutions. 
The real threat that Omarova poses to U.S. financial stability, that Democrats should be calling out, is that she wants to further concentrate all major aspects of the U.S. banking system in the hands of the Federal Reserve, a captured regulator whose 12 regional bank tentacles are, literally, owned by the banks. (See These Are the Banks that Own the New York Fed and Its Money Button.) Omarova offers not one scintilla of a suggestion about restructuring the Fed so that it is not owned by or controlled by the banks.
... perhaps the reason the vaccine strategy is not being reconsidered, but has become cult doctrine on which the Establishment has doubled-down, is that it was conceived at the outset, not just as a means to an end – i.e. creating herd immunity via vaccines – but also an end in, and of itself.

Looked at in this way, we can perceive not just ‘one failure’ – that a V-shaped recovery on re-start, was presented as gospel – but rather, a series of related judgmental ‘failures’.
 
He then describes what is going on today with the Empire's revealed strategies, and ends with this statement:
 
Cults historically are dismissive of fragility in complex systems. They are focussed on the means to ‘ends’. .... Human attitudes and behaviour – i.e. people – are seen as an obstruction, and as Biden repeatedly warns, “if people won’t help, they must get out of the way of vaccine rules … get out of the way of people doing the right thing”.
 
It seems that Russia and China, seeing all this, will remain aloof and patient – waiting upon structures to crack. 
  • 💥Cruel Britannia: Britain’s Real Role in the World, with Mark Curtis by Alan Macleod, a Brit by upbringing, if not citizenship, joins in a discussion of Britain in the post-WWII world with Curtis. Curtis, according to the brief bio in the text following the video, explains that he is also a Brit. But his accent shows that he has been in the USA for a significant amount of time. This post is from Mint Press News (they are lucky to have Macleod as a writer) which is based in Minneapolis. This is a best post. My reaction: This is a document that supports my central thesis of a de-facto merging of American power with what remained of the British Empire after WWII that I explained in this commentary. This merger of post-war ruling classes added Israel and right-wing Jews (Zionists) which they settled in Palestine to protect their interests of wealth and power. This is the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire that we see today trying to assert their waning power--and it is a well-kept secret (among their populations) that is hidden by their human rights and democracy-promoting propaganda.
  • Golan Heights: No one trusts Biden and they're right not to by Najla M. Shahwan from the Daily Sabah (based in Turkey). My reaction: Biden, of course, is only an employee of the ruling capitalist class. And in the post-WWII era, the newly organized de-facto Empire, consisting of what was left of the British Empire and the undamaged USA, settled right-wing Jews (Zionists) in Palestinian lands to function as a base to protect the Empire's imperial interests.
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