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, December 17, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, December 17, 2021

Dr. Chris Martenson: [00:00:00] Hello, everyone, Dr Chris Martenson here, and welcome to the show, and it's one I've been waiting for, we've all been waiting for today. We are talking with Dr Peter McCullough. Dr McCullough is an American cardiologist. He's editor in chief of the Journals Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine and Cardiorenal Medicine. In addition to being an M.D., he holds a master's in Public Health from the University of Michigan. He's an author on over 1000 research publications, holds an h index of over. Anything over 100 is really quite an accomplishment. His is 117. In other words, we are talking today with an exceptionally talented and brilliant cardiologist and a deeply principled man whose entire life and profession has been permanently impacted by what he's learned about COVID and saving patients lives. Peter, welcome to the program. It's been long overdue. I'm so glad to have you on.
We’ve been hit by the flood of money washing over our movement and creating a swamp of political stagnation. It’s important to spend some time talking about money because it has played such a divisive role in our organizations and in our movement.
 
My reaction: This weblog has been attacked by those who are concerned about money. Rogers then goes on to provide the details. I noticed that this weblog plans to convert this website to a subscription-only website. I can well understand this move, but I fear that this trend will have the effect of trapping readers/viewers into internet-type ghettos which will serve to cut off readers/views of other opinions.   
The American people and most of those people that reside in the US/British/Zionist Empire have, indeed, been scammed! And, they must finally take responsibility for the scourge of capitalism. I don't know if this is gullibility is a part of human nature, but is obvious to me, and a few others like Johnstone, that the system is a fundamental cause for the ongoing existential crisis for humans and most other species here on planet Earth!
 
The main issues confronting the world's population are between a system that is designed for the self-serving interests of a tiny number of people who "own" economic property and those who want a socialist system that will forbid the "ownership/control" of economic property. The latter want a socialist government which truly represent them, identifies with them, beholden to them, and will look out for their real needs: health, education, and general well-being. 
 
Capitalists want to gain money via their system because accumulated wealth gives them more power/control over others. However, the world's population are forever deceived into thinking that this tiny group of capitalists are only interested in accumulating wealth. For a limited time capitalists will supply goods in order to gain power over others, but their long-term goal is to gain power/control over others in the entire world! Control is the number one thing that capitalists want! It is this component of capitalism that causes them to tell countless lies and commit the most outrageous crimes to the rest of the world's population. It is this very addictive component of capitalism that drives this transnational class of capitalists toward fascism! You "true believers", and your fellow gullible human beings, share in the responsibility for this!
  • What Assange’s prosecution means for all of us featuring Gabriel Shipton, brother of Julian Assange, from Peoples Dispatch via their YouTube (03:39) channel whose extradition to the US for truth-telling about the crimes committed by ruling capitalist class of the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire.
  • Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier: How Doomed Are We? by Jeff Goodell from RollingStone. My reaction: This post is an attempt to rationalize the lack of attention by major corporate media to the climate crisis and to break the news of the climate crisis gently to their readers that they no longer can ignore. The ruling capitalist class has long taken control of Rolling Stone via their "intelligence" agencies by posting articles that serve to distract readers instead of covering the issues that might embarrass the ruling class.