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, September 10, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, September 10, 2021

Note: Monday (Aug. 30) after I completed my posts, I watched on TV the tennis matches at the US Open. I realized how much I enjoyed watching tennis matches by expert players. So, I decided to wait until the 13th of September to take off on my road trips east from my home in southern Minnesota. I will go as far as New York state and possibly up into Vermont and across to Massachusetts.

I won't patronize any businesses that require papers to prove that I have been vaccinated because I haven't been. (I have enjoyed the longest streak of good health that I can remember, that is, outside of my balance problems I experienced in April.) Thus, I can't visit people in Nova Scotia and I won't go into New York City because authorities in both places require proof of vaccination.

Recently I received an email from someone who is living in Albuquerque (New Mexico) who has followed my website for over six years! No, I'm not omniscient, but I do what I can (while I still can) to uncover the truth about what is happening in our country: the country of lies and crimes. These lies and crimes are perpetrated by a ruling class with widespread cooperation of people who are concerned with only the comforts of their individual lives. I need aware people to join me in this endeavor.

I could use more volunteers of regular readers of my website to meet along the way to the east coast. Hopefully, more will respond (goatmeal36@yahoo.com) before the 13th of September. I want to meet some of my regular readers over coffee, tea, or beer to get acquainted with them.

In response to the events of September 11, 2001, the emergency use authorization (EUA) concept was created. The ostensible idea was to empower the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow the use of potentially life-saving products (e.g. medicines, etc.) after a terrorist attack. However, the EUA designation was not put into effect until late 2020 — for the COVID-19 “vaccines.”
  • Ivermectin Toxicity Reviewed featuring Chris Martenson using his channel on YouTube (37:18m) to explain why he condemns the attack of Ivermectin by various parts of the ruling class. Posted by Brad Fredricks, and his brief commentary follows: 
The evidence continues to support the view that mainstream media is absolutely full of shit. Ivermectin has been turned into tinfoil. It's safe to use for the past 30 years has been tossed, and the only thing big brother wants you to know is that you can trust big brother and his media elites as they inject you with a drug that has no safety history, but big profits for the global elite, and whichever financial institutions stand to gain from the global pain of potentially toxic, and obviously ineffective.

Peak Prosperity's Chris Martenson continues to use his PhD in pathology from Duke University and an MBA from Cornell University, to help others see through bullshit, and get a clear look at the data.
  • New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato featuring James Corbett and Pilato discussing satirically (25:03m) podcast via Odysee what the ruling class wants us to believe about the 9/11 event (and related happenings) that was used to rationalize wars on Afghanistan and Iraq.
  • 💥The Age of Manufactured Ignorance featuring an interview via YouTube (25:39m) conducted by Chris Hedges with Professor Henry A. Giroux. This is a best post. My reaction: Giroux finally recognizes the desperate state of our country under the domination of a ruling transnational capitalist class that has turned to fascism as a final evolution of capitalism.
  • How The Elites Trained You to Hate featuring an interview conducted by Russell Brand, a British comedian turned serious critical thinker, from his channel on YouTube (09:01m), with Deeyah Khan who offers an insight on how the working class is being used to hate each other by mainstream propaganda.
  • Nord Stream 2 pipeline COMPLETED from RT's channel on YouTube (01:14m). My reaction: This fact is the beginning of the end of the world dominance of the de-facto US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.
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Thursday, September 9, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, September 9, 2021

Note: Monday (Aug. 30) after I completed my posts, I watched on TV the tennis matches at the US Open. I realized how much I enjoyed watching tennis matches by expert players. So, I decided to wait until the 13th of September to take off on my road trips east from my home in southern Minnesota. I will go as far as New York state and possibly up into Vermont and across to Massachusetts.

I won't patronize any businesses that require papers to prove that I have been vaccinated because I haven't been. (I have enjoyed the longest streak of good health that I can remember, that is, outside of my balance problems I experienced in April.) Thus, I can't visit people in Nova Scotia and I won't go into New York City because authorities in both places require proof of vaccination.

Wednesday I received an email from someone who is living in Albuquerque (New Mexico) who has followed my website for over six years! However, I'm not going in that direction. But I could use more volunteers of regular readers of my website to meet along the way to the east coast. Hopefully, more will respond (goatmeal36@yahoo.com) before the 13th of September. I want to meet some of my regular readers over coffee, tea, or beer to get acquainted with them.

If a fellow citizen thinks that politicians want to protect the health of the population by prescribing coercive measures such as lockdown, quarantine, muzzling or gene therapy serums, then it should be conveyed to him that the levers of power were already occupied years ago by corrupt, immoral, petty and mendacious political actors because they willingly implement the orders of the ruling psychopaths. These currently include the media stoking of irrational fears, the destruction of the middle class, the abolition of cash, total control as well as the reduction of the population and the isolation of “undiscerning” people in special “quarantine camps”. But these lackeys must one day step down. Evil will not triumph because man, though irritated, is good and social by nature.
Reports over the last few months about the proposed multi-billion-dollar settlements to end huge opioid-related lawsuits clearly reflect the attitude of drug manufacturers and distributors.

Even as they agree to pay record amounts, industry leaders and their public relations representatives maintain there is no connection between Big Pharma and narcotic addiction in the U.S.
Most leftists in this country still remain loyal to the Democratic Party despite decades of deception, overt collusion with ruling class interests, and support of U.S. imperialism. The Democrats use a variety of means to keep the support of millions of people who yearn for something other than the excuses and double dealing they are constantly offered. 
 
My reaction: The two parties that the ruling capitalist class allowed in this country are  both which they use to manipulate and deceive ordinary Americans to serve capitalist interests of profit and power.
The development of international relations and the world economy in recent decades demonstrates, on the one hand, Germany’s will to take the lead in Europe, and on the other hand, the active reluctance of Washington and London to give any advantage to Berlin in the European Union and the world order in general. These contradictions have considerably worsened in recent years when Germany began to strengthen its cooperation with Russia and the struggle to possess the European gas hub.
As the Indian career diplomat and journalist, Bhadrakumar, recently wrote:
 
It is an open secret that the defeated ISIS fighters were airlifted from Syria by what is known in local folklore as Daesh Airlines who are today the cutting edge of the ISIS-K. Hamid Karzai himself has spoken about unmarked helicopters under cover of darkness dropping strangers in remote areas. And this when the Afghan airspace was under NATO control! 
It’s too early to tell how Taliban 2.0 will play out in the dizzyingly complex, emerging Eurasian integration chessboard. But internally, a wiser, more traveled, social media-savvy Taliban seem aware they cannot allow themselves to repeat the dire 1996-2001 mistakes.

Deng Xiaoping set the framework for socialism with Chinese characteristics. One of the greatest geopolitical challenges ahead will be whether Taliban 2.0 are able to shape a sustainable development Islam with Afghan characteristics. 
What Awan writes in the following second paragraph is a fundamental characteristic of the capitalist-owned press, but in the first paragraph he omits that it is the directors of the capitalist Deep State that are doing the "using"--President Bush merely carried out their orders. The US Government is only a facade much like the fake buildings featured in Hollywood Western movies.
 
President Bush used “9/11” as a false flag operation, and without investigating or compiling any concrete pieces of evidence, he announce the launch of the Crusade against the Muslim world. Maybe it was written in the script already, and he have to perform accordingly. Although, it was never proved that Afghanistan was involved in “9/11”.

A massive media campaign was launched, the unholy media, played a dirty role and spread fake news, fabricated stories, and distorted stories of Muslims. Media is merely a tool for Western powers to malign any country, nation, or individual. Ugly media is one sale or for money ready to serve them, The unholy media, keeping ethics and their conscious out and looking after materialistic gains only. Projected Muslims as terrorists, barbaric, uncivilized, etc.
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Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Note: Monday (Aug. 30) after I completed my posts, I watched on TV the tennis matches at the US Open. I realized how much I enjoyed watching tennis matches by expert players. So, I decided to wait until the 13th of September to take off on my road trips east from my home in southern Minnesota. I will go as far as New York state and possibly up into Vermont and across to Massachusetts.

I won't patronize any businesses that require papers to prove that I have been vaccinated because I haven't been. (I have enjoyed the longest streak of good health that I can remember, that is, outside of my balance problems I experienced in April.) Thus, I can't visit people in Nova Scotia and I won't go into New York City because authorities in both places require proof of vaccination.

Wednesday I received an email from someone who is living in Albuquerque (New Mexico) who has followed my website for over six years! However, I'm not going in that direction. But I could use more volunteers of regular readers of my website to meet along the way to the east coast. Hopefully, more will respond (goatmeal36@yahoo.com) before the 13th of September. I want to meet some of my regular readers over coffee, tea, or beer to get acquainted with them.

  • COVID19/11: Narratives Intertwined features Graeme MacQueen, PhD, briefly explaining (03:26m) his views about how the covid pandemic and 9/11. He asserts that the former project is a Deep State operation designed to separate us.
  • 💥How the US Trained the Afghan Mujahideen To Produce War Propaganda by Dan Cohen from Mint Press News. This is a best post. (Note: Because of difficulties with my auto, I am under considerable pressure today to post these articles. It looks like the text is a transcript of the first YouTube video (06:44m) and not the second video (10:06m). My reaction: Cohen reveals for all to see that propaganda is a key feature in any war that the US forces and its Empire (de-facto US/Anglo/Zionist Empire) have engaged in since the Vietnam War.
Propaganda has been a key component of every war the U.S. has waged from Vietnam to Grenada to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. These efforts become more sophisticated and insidious over time. Without them, the U.S. permanent war state simply couldn’t operate. 
 
But this leaves out the ongoing propaganda since WWII that the directors of the ruling capitalist class have designed against the American public (and allies in their Empire) to hide their real objective--the domination of the entire planet. 
 
The current propaganda of the covid pandemic is a reflection of their concern about the global climate crisis to which their capitalist policies have led the entire planet. However once again, their propaganda Reset project totally serves them, a tiny class of transnational (billionaire) capitalists, and not us--the overwhelming majority of ordinary people.
  • Seeking 9/11 Truth After Twenty Years by Ron Unz, who is the founder of the old-fashioned conservative website The Unz Review. (Note: This is quite a lengthy article, but an important one.) My reaction: In the article Unz subdues his "anti-Semitic" remarks (I put this word in quotation marks because the root word means Semite which includes Arabs as well as Jews) behind words like "Zionist" and "neocons" in contrast to many of his articles which only refer to "Jews" instead of right-wing Jews.  Otherwise, Unz zeros in on the essential facts of the growing movement in the USA to cast considerable doubt on the official story.
I began to wonder if I had been as deluded as the tens of millions of Americans in 2003 and 2004 who naively believed that Saddam had been the mastermind behind the September 11th attacks. We live in a world of illusions generated by our media, and I suddenly felt that I had noticed a tear in the paper-mache mountains displayed in the background of a Hollywood sound-stage. If Osama was probably not the author of 9/11, what other huge falsehoods had I blindly accepted?
 
Notice that this article and another one focus on the government and not the ruling capitalist class. This is because they are both supporters of capitalism. Unz is an old-fashioned capitalist, and the Whiteheads appeal to the superficial anarchist crowd.
Acknowledging that being the world’s largest supplier of heroin did not fit with the altruistic image the West endeavoured to portray. Almost entirely missing from the western media portrayal of the invasion was the fact that one of the earliest consequences of the United States 2001 invasion was a rapid escalation of poppy production and hence heroin supply. Equally missing from the western narrative was the fact that this production was almost exclusively a United States enterprise, firmly in the hands of the CIA, not only in production, but in the processing of the raw poppy into heroin, and its subsequent distribution around the world. As such it remained a significant contributor to CIA illicit funds, used in turn as part of their worldwide program of influencing governments of multiple countries.

Three of those countries that suffered as a consequence of this heroin epidermic are China, Iran and Russia. It is little surprise therefore that a condition of the support of these three countries to the new Taliban government is a renewal of the latter’s implacable dislike of heroin when they were last in power. The western media have been almost completely silent on the new Afghanistan government’s views on the topic. But there is little reason to believe that their hostility is in any way reduced from when they were last in power.
The editorial below is being published this month by over 200 medical journals, including the Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, the British Medical Journal, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, the East African Medical Journal, the Chinese Science Bulletin, the National Medical Journal of India, and the Medical Journal of Australia, and others from around the world.
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Tuesday, September 7, 2021

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

Note: Monday (Aug. 30) after I completed my posts, I watched on TV the tennis matches at the US Open. I realized how much I enjoyed watching tennis matches by expert players. So, I decided to wait until the 13th of September to take off on my road trips east from my home in southern Minnesota. I will go as far as New York state and possibly up into Vermont and across to Massachusetts.

I won't patronize any businesses that require papers to prove that I have been vaccinated because I haven't been. (I have enjoyed the longest streak of good health that I can remember, that is, outside of my balance problems I experienced in April.) Thus, I can't visit people in Nova Scotia and I won't go into New York City because authorities in both places require proof of vaccination.

Wednesday I received an email from someone who is living in Albuquerque (New Mexico) who has followed my website for over six years! However, I'm not going in that direction. But I could use more volunteers of regular readers of my website to meet along the way to the east coast. Hopefully, more will respond (goatmeal36@yahoo.com) before the 13th of September. I want to meet some of my regular readers over coffee, tea, or beer to get acquainted with them.

Hello there. I understand you’re a believer. You have zealous, unwavering faith in the System. You Trust The Science™. You deem anything that falls beyond the margins of the approved narrative “misinformation,” “conspiracy theories,” and “fake news.”
  • You Cowards Are Responsible For What’s Coming by "WhatsHerFace" from EarthNewspaper. (Note: This post features a 09:53m Bitchute video.) My reaction: This is happening in Australia, the land that Caitlin Johnstone and her American husband live in!
Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russian gas giant Gazprom, is starting to settle payments for the jet fuel it supplies in China in yuan, instead of in U.S. dollars, the company’s Alexander Dyukov has said.

Russian oil firms have sought for years to shift away from U.S. dollar payments for deliveries, while China intends to make the yuan a more widely used currency internationally.

Analysts say the settlement of jet fuel payments in yuan is also part of a broader strategy of the Russian companies to diminish the risk of U.S. sanctions against them.
  • It’s Raining Scarlet Letters by Alastair Crooke for Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Crooke refers to the developing apartheid in America and much of the de-facto US/Anglo/Zionist Empire:
Of course today, we look on with smug satisfaction about how progressive, science-driven and modern we are. Scarlet letters don’t happen today, we tell ourselves – except they do. It is raining scarlet letters, in fact. It is perfectly true that a woman giving birth out of wedlock today will not be mocked by a jeering crowd. No – but we have replaced those 17th century taboos with new, rigid ones which appear, remarkably, as the polar inverse of the earlier crop. Anne Applebaum argues that the treatment meted out to today’s transgressives – though couched in contemporary idiom – is no less capricious, no less punitive, than in Puritan Massachusetts of the 1640s.
 
But, he doesn't stop there. You should read Tom Fowdy's link entitled "China’s crackdown on the ‘spiritual opium’ of gaming is part of a big social revolution pitting collectivism against individualism".
 
And, you should also read this article to understand how Crooke reaches this conclusion regarding China under the leadership of Xi Jinping:
 
If its’ import was not already clear, its’ revolutionary ethos was made explicit this week in a WeChat blog known as the “Li Guangman Ice Point Commentary”. The author’s diatribe was reprinted across Chinese state-run media with the clear blessing of the authorities.

“Everyone can feel that a profound change is taking place,” he stated, proclaiming an end to China’s love affair with western culture, and a “return to the essence of socialism”.

It was framed as a fight to the death with the West. 
  • Biden Is Turning Pages on Foreign Policy by Brian Cloughley from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Paraphrasing an old saying, "the more things appear to change, the more they do not change".
Evidently, the corporate and government-controlled media in the U.S. and Western Europe are inextricably linked to the military-industrial and intelligence complex. The only institutions which benefited from the endless wars of the previous two decades are the defense industries which have supplied the weapons that have killed and maimed untold numbers both abroad and within the U.S. itself. The Pentagon often provides military equipment to domestic police agencies which are then turned against antiracist demonstrators fighting to end law-enforcement misconduct.
  • Power by Patrick Lawrence from Consortium News.
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Monday, September 6, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, September 6, 2021

Note: Monday (Aug. 30) after I completed my posts, I watched on TV the tennis matches at the US Open. I realized how much I enjoyed watching tennis matches by expert players. So, I decided to wait until the 13th of September to take off on my road trips east from my home in southern Minnesota. I will go as far as New York state and possibly up into Vermont and across to Massachusetts.

I won't patronize any businesses that require papers to prove that I have been vaccinated because I haven't been. (I have enjoyed the longest streak of good health that I can remember, that is, outside of my balance problems I experienced in April.) Thus, I can't visit people in Nova Scotia and I won't go into New York City because authorities in both places require proof of vaccination.

Wednesday I received an email from someone who is living in Albuquerque (New Mexico) who has followed my website for over six years! However, I'm not going in that direction. But I could use more volunteers of regular readers of my website to meet along the way to the east coast. Hopefully, more will respond (goatmeal36@yahoo.com) before the 13th of September. I want to meet some of my regular readers over coffee, tea, or beer to get acquainted with them.

  • Jerome Powell’s Quest for Economic Stability is Destabilizing by Richard M. Ebeling from American Institute for Economic Research. My reaction: A capitalist economy has always lurched from economic depression from one to another. But this time the Fed, a privately held (mostly by New York bankers) is discouraging banks from lending, and over-heating the economy. This policy will result in the inevitability for a major crash eventually--argues Ebeling.
Why has there not been the expected general price inflation from such a huge increase in the money supply through the banking system? Because the Federal Reserve has been paying banks not to fully lend the loanable reserves at their disposal. As a result, as of July 2021, banks were holding “excess reserves,” (that is, reserves above the minimum Federal Reserve rules require banks to hold against possible cash withdrawals by their depositors), of around $3.9 trillion, upon which the Federal Reserve pays those banks an interest rate of 0.15 percent. In other words, 63 percent of the Monetary Base is being held off the active loan market.
 
This leads him to this conclusion:

When the Fed chairman cautiously suggests that the American central bankers are not sure what they are going to do, it is because they cannot do what they say they want to do. By trying to pursue their declared goals through the monetary and interest rate policy tools at their disposal, they are, in fact, continuing to imbalance and wrongly “twist” the real economy in ways that will result in the instability, and the eventual [deep] recession and likely price inflation they say they wish to prevent. [my insertion]
 
I think the ruling capitalist class, which owns the Federal Reserve (in charge of our economy), is more concerned about other major capitalists who are paying back loans they've received via "printing money" from the Fed than from the real economy. In the past, a traditional capitalist economy of booms and busts are always driven by capitalist's lust for profits (and power) by lending money from the Fed and other sources. But I think this time the directors of the ruling class (ensconced in the Fed and the Council on Foreign Relations) are so concerned by debts of major capitalists that such policies are "twisted" to maintain the solvency of their corporations and banks. Could there be an added motivation for this policy: their desire to create the eventual inflation of ordinary goods to justify and rationalize their digitization of money?
In the 20 years since the September 11 attacks, the United States government has spent more than $21 trillion at home and overseas on militaristic policies that led to the creation of a vast surveillance apparatus, worsened mass incarceration, intensified the war on immigrant communities, and caused incalculable human suffering in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and elsewhere.
There is no greater hypocrisy than the deceitful lies of imperialist propaganda. One of the most damaging, since it rests on 20 years of destructive war and occupation, is that the U.S. war on Afghanistan was about liberating Afghan women.
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