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, December 7, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, December 7, 2021

  • Fauci Calls Himself High Priest of Science featuring comedy in the form of parody by Jimmy Dore from his channel on YouTube (03:38). My reaction: I guess it's better to laugh than to cry over the ruling class's claim that it is only following "science".  
  • Biden Supports Vaccine IP Waiver, Admin Does Something Else featuring Naomi Karavani using Redacted Tonight's channel on YouTube (03:37). (This video illustrates how Biden will casually lie to the American public.) My reaction: Big Pharma über alles. Big Pharma is the Biden administration, and both are controlled by the ruling capitalist class. Any government official is expected to lie when it's in the interest of this ruling class.
  • Ghislaine Maxwell's "Unique" Defense featuring Naomi Karavani who cynically reports on the legal defense as portrayed by Bloomberg News and a segment on Michael Bloomberg who "owns" Bloomberg News--from Redacted Tonight's channel on YouTube (02:37). 
Clearview AI is facing a $23 million fine over facial recognition in the UK. A move that comes after multiple reports accuse the company of widespread---and sometimes unsanctioned use of facial recognition software around the world. This, as Clearview has gotten the green light on a federal patent for its facial recognition technology. A move, sparking major controversy. RT America’s Trinity Chavez has details. Then, investigative journalist and co-host of Boom Bust Ben Swann joins In Question to discuss.
But it is unlikely that Washington will agree to any action that would reduce tension, because confrontation is the name of its game. The western military alliance is convinced — or says it is convinced — that Russia is going to invade Ukraine, and takes no account of reality, because it would, to put it bluntly, be economic suicide for Russia to do anything of the sort.

Make no mistake : if Russia wanted to invade Ukraine it could do so in a heartbeat and, as determined by several analyses conducted in western military academies, but never made public ....
Less than a month after US President Joe Biden held his first formal summit with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, the US has announced a provocative diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics, due to open in Beijing in February. [my emphasis]
  • History of World War II: How “General Winter” Did Not Save the Soviet Union in 1941 by historian Dr. Jacques Pauwels from Global Research. My reaction: There has been so much re-writing of history about WWII that you won't understand events since WWII if you don't read the history of that event by Pauwels. I have read widely about WWII from original sources, and I've found recently that Pauwels is the best historian covering that hugely important event.
Let’s make no mistake about this: Congress’s choice to keep investing in a massive, ineffective and absurdly expensive war machine has nothing to do with “national security” as most people understand it, or “defense” as the dictionary defines it.

U.S. society does face critical threats to our security, including the climate crisis, systemic racism, erosion of voting rights, gun violence, grave inequalities and the corporate hijacking of political power. But one problem we fortunately do not have is the threat of attack or invasion by a rampant global aggressor or, in fact, by any other country at all.
 
However, you won't understand this current problem unless you read real history from the 1930s onward. I have summarized this for you in this post. But, if you don't believe me--and you shouldn't--read history has written by Dr. Jacques Pauwels and the recently published Tomorrow, the World by Stephen Wertheim which confirms the rise of a fascist cabal in the US, although rather favorably.
  • Monday~Kick the Can by John Allen from his weblog on Medium. (Note: If you have had free access before, a $5/mo subscription is due to access Allen's weblog.)
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