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

Monday, December 20, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, December 20, 2021

Newly released emails show NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and his boss, soon to retire Dr. Francis Collins, director at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) wanted to conduct a “quick and devastating” ridicule and take-down campaign of scientists who did not support lockdown strategies.

The emails were released on Friday by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis. They show Collins telling Fauci in October 2020 to smear and discredit the Great Barrington Declaration.
 
  • 💥500 Million Pushed Into Poverty By COVID Policies featuring Jimmy Dore and Max Blumenthal, reporting his insights regarding global poverty, and discussing the prediction made last year (in the headline of the post) that millions would be pushed into poverty--from Dore's channel on YouTube (15:13). If you have time, please 💥listen/view this subsequent post (26:52) from the same source and participants. My reaction: Could it be that the lockdown policies were an integral part of the transnational ruling class's Great Reset?
  • 💥Implanted COVID Microchip Is Here, based on this post (01:15), featuring Jimmy Dore, who was awakened after he was, and is, daily experiencing a post-jab injury, and Max Blumenthal, who agree that most of the "disappointing" political "left" is missing the real story of the ruling class's project--from Dore's channel on YouTube (31:14). This is a best post. My reaction: I am experiencing the disappointing "left" here in southern Minnesota.
  • Sunday~Truths & Lies by John Allen from his weblog on Medium. (Note: You might be required to have a subscription to Medium @ $5/mo. to access this article.)
“There cannot be two forms of justice — one for ordinary Americans and a different one for billionaires,” said Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who had objected to Purdue’s settlement.
  • Sputnik V: It's what Klaus Schwab craves! by Edward Slavsquat from his weblog on Substack. My reaction: Slavsquat is a Russian dissident that I have followed in recent weeks. I can't vouch for the accuracy of his articles, and this is the first one that I'm posting. So, put on your critical thinking goggles.
  • New World Next Year 2022 featuring James Corbett featuring Canadian James Corbett and American James Evan Pilato in a podcast (34:06) from The Corbett Report via Corbett's channel on Odysee.
Can the system ever change or are we stuck?! Yanis Varoufakis warns how the state has been corrupted by greedy and self-seeking politicians and whether we can turn to alternative systems.
Washington’s uncompromising foreign policy of coercing and crushing nations rather than allowing nations to enjoy constructive ties between both East and West has gone from protecting nearly a century of US global domination to a process of the US’ own self-isolation.

Should Myanmar’s crisis subside and stability be restored specifically because of China’s economic rather than political or military intervention, a strong signal will be sent to the rest of Southeast Asia targeted by US interference and facing similar choices of either tolerating US interference because of the financial stranglehold the US still has over the region and the world – or adopting alternatives that undercut and eliminate that stranglehold.

  • Anti-Chinese Sentiment Continues in South Korea by Konstantin Asmolov from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: This post, in contrast to the one above, demonstrates that the people of South Korea are resembling those of the USA in swallowing US propaganda.
This is one example, among many, of an attack on monument destroyers that one currently encounters in corporate media and their acolytes. As such, the criticism epitomizes attacks from old-fashioned members of the ruling capitalist class which I refer to as old-fashioned capitalists that have reluctantly yielded to control to our masters in the present capitalist ruling class often referred to as "neoliberals" who are exactly the same as "neoconservatives" (if they don't want to offend right-wing or Zionist Jews). They are really advanced versions of capitalists or transnational capitalists who currently rule over a de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire and have an army (NATO) that is spearheading the drive to rule the world.
 
My personal opinion is that ordinary people are tired "up the wazoo" when seeing in public places such monuments that depict historical ruling class heroes. They belong in museums, but instead, they are prominently displayed in public areas to impose their historical ruling class ideologies on ordinary people. Ordinary people don't have the wherewithal to move them to museums, but take matters into their practical hands to destroy them, and with them, their past ruling class ideologies. There are plenty such historical relics to put in museums. Only the present spokesmen of the recent or current ruling classes object to this revolutionary display by ordinary people. 
 
The present-day critics such as Jared Taylor often lump them together with the destroyers of ancient ruling classes by terrorist armies that are sponsored by the US/British/Zionist transnational ruling class. 
  • Are Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Going to Space? featuring the views and analysis of Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist (via his YouTube channel--08:48), who has fearlessly focused his attention throughout his career on the climate crisis.