- Coronapocalypse; Big Pharma's Doomsday Vaccine #666 by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review.
- The Twilight Zone: Covid, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Eugenics by Peter Koenig from Global Research.
- The Pandemic Modellers Have a Conflict of Interest Problem featuring Rosemary Frei on a 5:58m video from Vimeo reporting on the conflicts of interest of key players of coronavirus in Britain.
- Meanwhile, in Australia | Melbourne COVID-skeptics rally results in arrests from Ruptly via RT and YouTube.
- Dr. Cornel West Is A Free Man featuring West along with Jimmy Dore from the latter's channel on Rokfin. (Note: Listen to the 10:12m video to find out what the title means, and other insights.)
- Understanding the Dangers of Innovation Zones and Smart Cities by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond. My reaction: You, too, can be smart by living in a smart city. (sarcasm)
- Role of NGOs in Promoting Neo-Colonialism by Syed Ehtisham from CounterCurrents. (Note: Read this to find out about NGOs. They can be used for good or for evil. The US/Anglo/Zionist Empire often uses them for subversion of nations that they do not like. This report offers extensive documentation.)
- Schwab Family Values by Johnny Vedmore from Unlimited Hangout.
... the past that Klaus Schwab has worked to hide is explored in detail, revealing the involvement of the Schwab family, not only in the Nazi quest for an atomic bomb, but apartheid South Africa’s illegal nuclear programme. Especially revealing is the history of Klaus’ father, Eugen Schwab, who led the Nazi-supported German branch of a Swiss engineering firm into the war as a prominent military contractor. That company, Escher-Wyss, would use slave labor to produce machinery critical to the Nazi war effort as well as the Nazi’s effort to produce heavy water for its nuclear program. Years later, at the same company, a young Klaus Schwab served on the board of directors when the decision was made to furnish the racist apartheid regime of South Africa with the necessary equipment to further its quest to become a nuclear power.
- They Don’t Work To Kill All Dissent, They Just Keep It From Going Mainstream by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.
In a society that maintains the illusion of freedom in order to prevent outrage and revolution, it does not serve rulers to stifle all dissent. Just the opposite in fact: their interests are served by having a small number of dissidents hanging around the fringes of society creating the illusion of freedom. If Johnny Hempshirt over there is allowed to stand on a soapbox and criticize the US war machine, then the US must be a free country.
So they don’t work to silence all dissent. What they do is work to make sure that dissent never hits a critical mass and goes mainstream.
My commentary follows:
This
grabbed my attention because I don't see my lifetime of telling the
truth (as I see it) has done much good. The capitalist ruling class has
to maintain the illusion of freedom and "democracy" by keeping
dissidents marginalized to the numerical fringes of acceptable debate.
That way they can "eat their cake, and have it too", that is, they can
preserve their propaganda about freedom and democracy, and at the same
time, manage their self-serving rule.
I
was only once asked, and this was in person, how I had permitted to
write such vigorous criticism about the rule of capitalism. I answered
that it didn't matter to the ruling class if a few voices criticized the
social-political arrangements under their rule because it was permitted
only to a few dissidents in order to maintain the illusion of democracy
and civil rights. However, I've noticed in the last several years that I
don't see any of my posts go viral, but I occasionally did before there
was a concerted effort to marginalize dissident voices. I agree with
Johnstone--they are only worried about numbers of dissidents.
I
don't share her optimism that eventually things will change. I'm
particularly concerned about the word "eventually"--that is, if we had
enough time, we might eliminate the ruling capitalist class. I don't
think we human animals have much time left on planet Earth before we
also become extinct after our (I hold the capitalist classes primarily
responsible) destabilization of the climate really sets in. I think we
have devoted too (def #2) much
time to ancient religions which erroneously put us in the center of the
universe. We have failed to recognize that we are a part of the web of
life on planet Earth. In the meantime, I and other dissidents will
continue our work to tell the truth about our ruling class and the
system which serves them with so much wealth and power.
However, I think we should also accept our ultimate defeat. Our masters in the ruling class (I hold upper-middle-class workers and their self-centered concerns primarily responsible) have been much too clever with their control of information. Unfortunately, we human animals can't seem to overcome the weakness of our species' Achilles heel, that is, the devotion to ourselves and our families; and instead with a class consciousness, a dedication to overcoming our subservience to a ruling class. Perhaps Margaret Thatcher was right when she said "there was no such thing as society, there were only individuals and their families".
- Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor More, Threatening the First Amendment by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack.
- Facebook: Genocide is Cool but Don’t Threaten our Profits by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis). (Note: You may also be interested in a post from Off-Guardian regarding Facebook's operations in Australia.) My reaction: The title could be improved by stating after "Facebook" the phrase "Genocide is Cool When It Doesn't Threaten Our Profits".
- The Nature of Money by M.K. Anderson from Current Affairs. My reaction: The author is an accountant and his closing comments reflect his views on the use of money in our existing capitalist societies:
... it’s a tool used to describe workers with the goal of extracting wealth and labor from them. It is an incredibly poor tool for holding the wealthy accountable, and so we will have to come up with other methods.
- Talking with Jack Rasmus about Well Street and Us featuring host of the program, Michael Albert of RevolutionZ interviewing Rasmus about the stock market in a 52-minute podcast.
- NATO announces huge expansion of ops in Iraq, after Trump wind-down from RT via YouTube. (Note: This 2:09m video features Scott Ritter who offers a commentary on this NATO announcement. Also, see how Bernhard, a German independent blogger, reports on this news.) My reaction: I'll bet this news won't be reported in corporate media.
- The Greater Danger of Israeli Provocations in Syria by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.
- Biden's policy of containing China, Russia and Iran is no longer viable by Marco Carnelos from Middle East Eye (based in London). My reaction: I think this policy of containment could also lead to a nuclear war.
- How Democratic is China? by Godfree Roberts from his weblog Here Comes China!
- UN Report: Action Needed Now to Solve Triple Emergency from Climate & Capitalism. (Note: This is an example of a report that will never be published in mainstream media.)
