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 26, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Saturday, March 26, 2022

I am posting this as an illustration of how we ordinary people depend on highly trained specialists to honestly advise us. Bossche states the purpose of his weblog as:
 
Goal: Our newsletter aims at providing regular updates on the science and the truth behind the current pandemic. We are dedicated to bringing the real science to the table and sharing how the truth invalidates the current narrative, for which scientific evidence is now increasingly lacking. We’ll provide an update on a (semi-)weekly basis, on Mondays and/or Fridays. We sincerely hope this newsletter will contribute to raising awareness about the consequences of human intervention in this pandemic, particularly of mass vaccination, from both an individual and public health perspective.
 
However, I've found his articles to be highly technical that present difficulties in understanding them. Although I have had a full college education, I cannot understand most of the reports of Bossche because they lie in other fields of study than mine in sociology. 
 
We ordinary people depend on science specialists for their interpretation and utility. But what if we cannot trust these science specialists because they learn their living as science specialists under those who own scientific laboratories? And, what if we cannot trust these science specialists because they depend on grants for research if the latter are government bureaucrats who scientists constantly seek their favor. 
 
Our representatives in Congress have set up regulator bodies to supervise these bodies to ensure that they serve the public. But what if they have been "captured" by those it seeks to supervise? This means that regulatory bodies are loaded with representatives of major pharmaceutical corporations such that regulatory agencies serve the pharmaceutical corporations rather than the public. What if--god forbid!--Congress has been captured by large "stakeholders" or major corporations? This, I think, is too frequently the case today. 
 
Under number one, Bossche quotes from an article by Igor Chudov, a mathematician and a business operator: 
 
The sequence of mutated gp130 genes, found in the DNA reverse transcribed from Pfizer Covid vaccine, does not mean that it will necessarily cause cancer, does not mean that it was added to Pfizer vaccine intentionally to cause harm, does not mean that it is even expressed as a gp130 protein, as expression of genes depends on cellular context. What it DOES mean is that we need to look at this closely.

How can we be assured that depopulation is not the case when scientific critics of the Great Reset alledge is one of depopulation (also see this) and control of ordinary people to the benefit of ruling capitalist classes? Our deceptive masters in these classes often will not put these in explicit words. 
The lack of support from the Middle East is a direct outcome of US departure from the region and its increasing focus on Southeast Asia to tackle China’s rise in the Indo-Pacific region. More and more Middle Eastern states are increasingly asserting their autonomous foreign policy choices, which means that Washington may have overestimated the support it thought it will be able to generate in favour of its politics of NATO expansion.
  • Europe has no alternative to Russian natural gas by Dmitry Orlov from Bramwall's weblog on Substack. (Note: Bramwall, currently living and working in New Zealand after fleeing the USA over 20 years ago because of FBI harassment, has obviously a membership with Orlov's weblog.)
Moscow’s demand that the European Union pay for its gas exports in Russian rubles could shake up the global economy, undermining the Western sanctions strategy and forcing Europe to decide if it truly wants to be independent from the US. 
In a normal, healthy, open society, the mass media would present these terrible events with appropriate levels of outrage, identifying responsibility where it lies – so often Washington and London – rather than attempt to justify them, or shrug them off as ‘that’s just the way things are’.

‘Normalisation’ also extends to making palatable the inactions of governments. The most glaring example is the climate crisis that is now engulfing humanity amidst the utter madness of corporate-driven neoliberal economics. The UN Climate Summit in Glasgow last year was an appalling abdication of duty by those in leading positions in government, industry and finance. As we noted in our media alert last November, COP26 was a ‘greenwash festival’ and its lack of decisive actions a ‘crime against humanity’. 
  • This Is Why America Is F**ked. Features Russell Brand, a British comedian and former drug addict turned serious political critic--from his channel on YouTube (08:49).
I spoke with Matt Taibbi is a journalist and author of Hate Inc: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another...He joined me on my podcast: Under The Skin to discuss why both parties are exactly the same.
  • This Is F*cking Terrifying features Russell Brand, a British comedian and former drug addict turned serious political critic--from his channel on YouTube (13:58).
Blood has become big business in the United States and there is no shortage of big pharma corporations ready to exploit America’s young and most vulnerable.
  • Free, Enduring Love by Craig Murray, a Scotsman who has also experienced persecution from the British ruling class--from his weblog. (Note: This post is about the wedding of our hero Julian Assange. "The British authorities had done everything they could firstly to prevent, and then to mess up, this wedding".)
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