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, March 1, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, March 1, 2022

  • So They DO Run The World featuring Russell Brand, a British comedian turned activist challenging the Great Reset, sarcastically and effectively proves that the WEF and Klaus Schwab are participating in a conspiracy--from Brand's channel on YouTube (14:36).
  • Is “Medical Oligarchy” Preventing Treatment For Long COVID? featuring Jimmy Dore in a conversation with Dr. Ram Yogendra, a medical practicing physician, who after patients came to him to ask for help, found himself participating in a research project--from Dore's channel on YouTube (28:40). As a result of his experience in the research project, the participants discovered helpful treatments for covid, but they experienced opposition from Big Pharma.
Board-certified anesthesiologist and Chronic COVID Treatment Center co-founder Dr. Ram Yogendra has been researching the causes of and treatments for so-called “Long COVID,” but has found that promising experimental treatments are often derailed or defunded by what he terms the “medical oligarchy,” of which Big Pharma is an integral part.

Jimmy and Dr. Yogendra discuss the state of research into Long COVID and the institutional barriers to developing new treatments.
  • VSS Science Updates During Pandemic Times #5 by Geert Vanden Bossche from his weblog Voice for Science and Solidarity (VSS). (Note: I am posting this because Bossche is only one example of many highly trained virologists--indeed, he is world-renowned--ignored by the ruling class and/or its agencies that pretend to follow science.)
The fear of “terrorism” is an important tool for the plutofascist system in its attempts to intimidate its slaves and stop them from breaking free from exploitation and control.

But how would things look if we could show people that far from protecting them from some insidious threat, the system is itself that threat? How would things look if we could show them that the real terrorists are those in power?
 
My reaction: Writers nowadays will go to extreme lengths to not name the system. Here Cudenec identifies the system as a "plutofascist system" instead of a capitalist system in its last stage of fascism. Apparently they will go to extreme lengths to deny that Marxism, which identified the system more than 170 years ago as one of social class conflict, has anything to do with the current system. Perhaps this self-censorship is practiced in order to publish such an article anywhere in the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire. Otherwise, I think that Cudenec is "spot-on".
... if the US/EU were to block Russia out of SWIFT, it could directly – and very forcefully – accelerate the growth of payment systems that are not only not dollar-centric, but would ensure that the global payment system is no longer West centric. Thus, a Russian exclusion of SWIFT – which remains a possibility as more and more western countries join the call for Russia’s exclusion – could mean the beginning of the end of the US/Western financial hegemony.
 
This new international payments system would be the equivalent of a check-mate for the end of the capitalist Empire.
  • The Single Most Important Question In The World Right Now by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband, Tim Foley, also reading the script (08:59), but you may miss supporting examples, illustrations, etc.)--from her weblog. My reaction: Johnstone doesn't realize that the Empire's hegemonic goal over the world has meant the directors of the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire see themselves as making a desperate last stand to maintain their Empire regardless of the horrendous costs to the rest of us.
Monopolizing the Dollar Area’s oil market and isolating it from Russian oil and gas has been a major U.S. priority for over a year now, as the Nord Stream 2 pipeline threatened to link the Western European and Russian economies more tightly together. 

💥My commentary follows: 
 
The directors of the long-established de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire care not for the welfare of anybody, except for their transnational capitalist class interests of world hegemony. This linking of European economies to Russia is inevitable. Only the European capitalist class stands in the way, but they soon will see the profit advantages of an integrated economy with Russia. This terrorizes the directors of the Empire, and accounts for their ignoring the present security concerns of Russia. 
 
The encroachment of Russia with NATO bases on its western flank by the Empire has been intentional, and explains why Russia has invaded Ukraine for existential reasons (their existence as a nation). The directors of the Empire hope that by terrorizing Europeans of a Russian invasion that they will refuse the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that provides cheap gas to ordinary Europeans to heat their homes. 
 
It is finally up to Europeans to decide whether we all disappear into a mushroom nuclear cloud or enjoy peace and comfort in the near future. I say near future because we will all see the end of the human species and most, if not all other species, disappear because of an over-heated planet brought on by capitalism.
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