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, December 29, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, December 29, 2021

The conventional wisdom is that the Fed’s recent emergency lending facilities to Wall Street were caused by the COVID-19 crisis. The above chart, which uses the New York Fed’s own Excel spreadsheet repo loan data, shows the conventional wisdom is dangerously wrong.
  • Thought The Pandemic Was BAD?! This Is What's NEXT! feature Russell Brand, a British figure, at his channel on YouTube (08:03) interviewing Professor Dr. Brad Evans, of Bristol University. My reaction: Dr. Evans is trying to elevate our critical thinking of government secrecy and on recent technological developments of surveillance especially in relation to the critics of the policies of the ruling class (who control the government).
  • 💥Leftist YouTubers Co-Opted to Counter Covid Restriction Critics featuring Jimmy Dore and guest Max Blumental (of The Grayzone) commenting on the recent efforts to control what on what "left" and "right" means in the political spectrum in an effort to smear critics of the Empire policies by propaganda agents of the US/British/Zionist Empire--from Dore's channel on YouTube (33:12). This is a best post. My reaction: This is an important propaganda psy-op to confuse various "left" leaders of the Empire in an effort to smear real left critics on various issues--and it's working!
  • 2021: How Capitalism Went Wrong by Polly Boiko from RT's channel on YouTube (08:41). (Note: This is a lite (def. #2) and satirical post mocking capitalism and it effects on some of the changes in socioeconomic class in 2021.) 
  • White House confirms US-Russia meeting in January featuring Peter Kuznick, professor of history at American University, in an interview conducted by Faran Fronczak via RT's America channel on YouTube (05:12). My reaction: Kuznick is far more positive than I am regarding the various meetings between Russian officials and various leaders of the US/British/Zionist Empire.
  • ‘TPLF’s regime was throughout supported by US, EU financially, militarily, and politically’ from Peoples Dispatch. (Note: This post features Elias Amare, editor of Horn of Africa TV giving his views on the subject via Peoples Dispatch's channel on YouTube (14:06).) My reaction: The US/British/Zionist Empire and its recent historical record reveal that it won't hesitate using violence in the form of invading armies, terrorism, and especially propaganda to control and subdue a population for the geopolitical benefits of the transnational ruling classes of the capitalist Empire toward its goal of world domination.
  • The Gordian Knot of Climate Finance featuring an address by Mia Motley, the Prime Minister of Barbados, before the recent COP26 meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, via a video from Facing Future's channel on YouTube (09:07).
In citing the UN’s IPCC Report “Code Red for Human Driven Global Heating” [02], Prince Charles then talked about carbon capture and carbon taxes, which of course, we’ve all heard before, as those who will be taxed, will be the commoner and small business owners that are blamed for, what they call “Human Driven Global Heating” while the big corporations owned by the cartel will be blessed with carbon credits which will be tradable on their rigged stock market while they continue to drive the biosphere into global ecological destruction.

The pretentious solution Prince Charles leads up to, is of course, sustainable growth.

However, the sustainable economic growth system Prince Charles is pushing is not a solution to ending the global environmental destruction that they are strangely calling climate change, because the continuation of a devastating consumer growth market will continue to be the real problem as it always has been in reference to the destruction of our environment.
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