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

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, November 3, 2021

  • The Covid Hoax: The Steamroller to Tyranny by Peter Koenig from Global Research. (Note: Koenig also asserts what the real agenda is, and what the real effects will be.) My reaction: No, Covid-19 is real, but the pandemic and government and business measures against it are a hoax. I have little doubt that the ruling capitalist class engineered this pandemic.
Yet the steamroller bulldozes on, rolling over all the scientific evidence, and since the steamroller pays and corrupts the media, the media keep lying and corrupting people, and the governments keep corrupting, threatening, blackmailing, coercing certain vulnerable scientists into continuing with the lie despite their better knowledge. 
  • The Matrix Has Tightened Its Grip by Paul Craig Roberts from his weblog. My reaction: I thoroughly endorse this post with the "matrix" being the ruling capitalist class rule.
  • UPDATE 2-California judge delivers drugmakers 1st trial win in opioid litigation by Nate Raymond from Yahoo Finance. My reaction: Essentially the California judge ruled in favor of major pharmaceutical corporations that caused what I argue is a pandemic of opioid addiction across America. I've personally seen the havoc such crimes produced in a family. But, what else is new under the capitalist system? In a podcast from RT the interviewer "asks opioid-epidemic activist and blogger Jake Bradshaw what the ruling will mean for survivors."
The COVID-19 pandemic and the socio-economic crisis worsened by it has affected people from all walks of lives across the world, with the working class being forced to bear the burden of the ongoing crisis. In most parts of the world, the common peoples’ tax money has been used by governments to save big businesses, while small-scale enterprises and the livelihoods of millions of people have been ruined in this period due to lockdowns and other rotating restrictions to contain the pandemic.
 
Many sections of society have adapted to this ‘new normalcy’ and slowly started reconfiguring their lives, especially as developed countries in Europe and North America – boasting higher vaccination rates – have fully or partially lifted lockdowns and other regulations which were imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19. However, the lives of refugees and poor people still remain miserable as there has been no break on imperialist aggression and capitalist profiteering even during the pandemic.
As global warming becomes obvious, “climate denial” fades into the sunset. The twin twilight stars replacing it are the “Blah, blah, blah” of inaction and “energy denial.”
 
The following posts are selected by Brad Fredricks (and his reactions, commentaries, etc.) for this website:
Dr. Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, along with Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, and Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases, have called an end to mandates and lockdowns, as they're leading to worsening mental, physical and economic conditions for all. 

Despite their well-informed perspectives, rational discourse is useless when the masses have been manipulated by a tightly controlled narrative sponsored by Pfizer ....
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