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

Saturday, March 12, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Saturday, March 12, 2022

  • VSS Science Updates During Pandemic Times #8 assembled and posted by world-renowned virologist Geert Vanden Bossche from his weblog Voice for Science and Solidarity. (Note: This post assembles seven posts related to Covid-19.)
Emergency medicine physician Dr. Chris Milburn, on an episode of “RFK Jr. The Defender Podcast,” described how he was fired for publicly questioning the viability of COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccine mandates, and how a divisive political climate paved the way for authoritarianism.
  • Hate Is Back in Fashion by Gregory Hood from American Renaissance. My reaction: After the campaign to have everyone vaccinated with their newfangled experimental "vaccines", it boggles my mind the apparent success of the propaganda organs ("news" programs) of the de-facto capitalist US/British/Zionist Empire! They can induce in any population the attitudes that the directors of the capitalist Empire want.
  • Inflation Is Going To Get Worse by Chris Martenson from his weblog PeakProsperity. (Note: This post consists of an introductory text along with a YouTube (38:15) video and audio.) My reaction: This is a good explanation about how the Federal Reserve functions and inflation.
  • 💥Ukraine On Fire by Oliver Stone (Documentary) (1:36:53) from EarthNewspaper. My reaction: Most Americans are so ignorant about Ukraine that they couldn't even find it on a map. This is highly recommended for people who want to be "up to speed" (def.) or want to learn about the true story of the current war going on in Ukraine.
The Western lie machine continues to speak of “the Russian invasion of Ukraine,” but it is not an invasion of Ukraine. It is a limited military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine.
Mexico’s left-wing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador published a blistering statement denouncing the European Parliament as “flunkies of the reactionary and coup-plotting strategy of the corrupt” right-wing oligarch-backed opposition in his country.

López Obrador, who is known popularly by the acronym AMLO, criticized the European Union’s lawmaking body for meddling in Mexico’s internal affairs, and implored its members to “evolve, leave behind your obsessive meddling disguised as good intentions.”

Noting that he has a 66% approval rating, which is higher than any leader in Europe, AMLO stressed, “Don’t forget that we are no longer a colony of anyone. Mexico is a free, independent, and sovereign country.”
  • Inflation Is Going To Get Worse, Part 1 (part 2 is for members only) by Chris Martenson from his weblog PeakProsperity. My cynical reaction: The ruling class has more to do to kill off the "deplorables" (unemployed and borderline poverty workers as well as small business owners).
at
Labels: