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

Monday, April 11, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, April 11, 2022

Lockdowns were never part of conventional public health measures. In 1968, 1-4 million people died in the H2N3 influenza pandemic; businesses and schools never closed, and large events were not cancelled. One thing we never did until 2020 was lockdown entire populations. And we did not do this because it does not work. In 2020 we had no empirical evidence that it would work, only flawed mathematical models whose predications [predictions] were not just slightly off, but wildly off by several orders of magnitude. [my editing]
On June 18, 2021, an evolutionary biologist named Jesse D. Bloom sent the draft of an unpublished scientific paper he’d written to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to the president of the United States. A bespectacled, boyish-looking 43-year-old often clad in short-sleeved checkered shirts, Bloom specializes in the study of how viruses evolve. “He is the most ethical scientist I know,” said Sergei Pond, a fellow evolutionary biologist. “He wants to dig deep and discover the truth.”

More than a year into the pandemic, the genesis of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was still a mystery. ....
 
Bloom’s paper was the product of detective work he’d undertaken after noticing that a number of early SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences mentioned in a published paper from China had somehow vanished without a trace. 
The bird flu outbreak is not real.

That should be everyone’s starting point – with everything, really – assume the media is lying and wait for them to prove they’re not.

Always doubt the press.

Always.
  • This Is Impossible To Ignore features Russell Brand, a British comedian and former drug addict turned serious political critic--from his channel on YouTube (18:10).  
The war in Ukraine was instigated by the imperialist powers through the relentless expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe, the transformation of Ukraine into a NATO arsenal and staging grounds for attacks on Russia, and the refusal to negotiate over Russia’s demands for security guarantees.

The US and NATO want the war to continue. The objective—as blurted out by Biden in his Warsaw speech—is regime change in Russia.
  • Could NATO-Supplied Arms Change Ukraine's Fate? features Brian Berletic, an independent geopolitical expert and ex-Marine who for a lengthy time has lived in Thailand with his family--from his channel on Rumble (14:58). Note: The text is an introduction and summary of the video and begins as follows:
NATO has claimed it would begin sending more significant, heavier weapons to Ukraine including armored vehicles, missiles, and even floating discussion over tanks and warplanes.

However there are serious complications going unmentioned across the Western media: 
"The UK and the European Union (EU) will indeed be on a collision course this week over sanctioning Russian gas supplies after Brussels ignored a plea to set a clear timetable to eliminate supplies," says Dr Mamdouh G. Salameh, an international oil economist and visiting professor of energy economics at the ESCP Europe Business School in London.
  • On March 22, as a result of a strong storm in the Black Sea, the system of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), which provides more than two-thirds of Kazakhstan’s total oil exports, was damaged, as a result of which the export of Kazakh oil was threatened.
  • It should be particularly noted that, in addition to the weather factor, Kazakhstan’s reduction in the amount of oil supplied to the European market is due to delays in the repair work as a result of the unscrupulous behavior of Western partners who refused to supply mechanisms damaged in the storm.
  • Thus, Western suppliers have demonstrated not only to the CPC, but also to the whole world their unreliability as business partners, and therefore, it is unlikely that anyone will trust them with mutual cooperation after the current US sanctions frenzy ends. And it will certainly end, since Western countries themselves are already suffering more from anti-Russian sanctions, and riots of discontent among the population in them will inevitably lead to a change not only of the sanctions policy, but also of governments in a number of states. 
It looks to me like in the near future, the Empire is winning in the contest in Ukraine between Russia and the West (the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire); but in the long term, anything could happen. It all depends on the Europeans and their attitudes about the loss of reliable petroleum supplies.
  • A World At Odds: The Great Principles Wipe by Phil Butler from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: Suppose his recent late night's epiphany is correct? Are we being reprogrammed for a new reality, the one in which resembles Aldous Huxley's or George Orwell's dystopian future?
We’re undergoing a morality and mind wipe no psychothriller novelist ever imagined. The idea came to me like a bolt, snapping me from a deep sleep last night. Something about all that’s been going on has gnawed at me, as I am sure it has you, for months now. And now I know what it is. We’re being prepared for those artificial wombs that Aldous Huxley conjured up for his post-dystopian Utopia in the novel Brave New World.

I will leave these questions for you to answer.
While staff members of The Kyiv Independent grandstand about how “independent journalism is the cornerstone of democracy,” they are quietly being funded by Western governments – a fact that should ring alarm bells with critical media consumers.
The most powerful empire that has ever existed, which is circling the planet with hundreds of military bases and continuously works to destroy any nation who challenges its global dominion, claims that it is in a global power struggle against “authoritarianism”.

And because the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire has a monopoly on information services ...

Russia will lose the propaganda war on every front, at least in the west. It will lose every narrative dispute about alleged war crimes in the court of public opinion, whether those allegations are true or not. The US military is beatable, the US dollar is beatable, but the US propaganda machine is an unstoppable juggernaut. 
 
It is only small websites with relatively few followers like mine that produces accurate information from unbrainwashed, critical thinking, and informed people, but I worry each day that I will be cut off from the internet.

It’s actually really disturbing that US empire managers now feel comfortable just leaking the fact that they are blatantly lying to the public to win a psywar against Putin. It means they’re confident they can get the public to consciously consent to their rulers lying to them for their own good.

But, read the rest of the article to see the way the brainwashed, uniformed, and uncritically-thinking people see the war in Ukraine--the same way they see the official narratives of the assassinations (Kennedys, MK King, Malcolm X, etc.), 9/11, the War on Drugs, the War on Terror, the invasion of Iraq, the "pandemic", etc. It's the same way the victims during the 1930s eugenics movement asked the authorities as reported by Edwin Black in his book War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race: 

Like so many [around 60,000], Mary never understood what was happening. She recalled the day doctors told her. "They asked me, 'Do you know what this meeting is for?' I said, 'No, sir! I don't. ''Well this is a meeting you go through when you have to have a serious operation, and it's for your health.' Well,' I said, 'if it's for my health, then I guess I'll go through with it." See, I didn't know any difference." Mary didn't learn she was sterilized until five years after her operation. [my insertion]
  • Assessing the Combat in Ukraine: Learning from Mistakes by Elijah J. Magnier from Internationalist 360°. My reaction: According to Magnier, there are nine lessons that Russian militaries must learn in order to defeat NATO and the Nazi forces in Ukraine. He concludes with this statement:
All anti-American forces are watching the battle to learn lessons from it, hoping that it will not last much longer. Meanwhile, the sanctions war between the West and Russia is just beginning and can be expected to considerably harm both sides and their respective populations.
Instead of doing a chemical weapons false flag, the West  [the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire] has decided to do random traditional weapons attacks against civilians in the Ukraine. [my insertion]

I don’t think anyone who isn’t a totally brainwashed American believes this garbage.
  • 💥Inflating A Cold War State Of Mind features Ross Ashcroft interviewing Matthias Weik, an author, financial expert, and Alex Krainer, founder of Krainer Analytics from Renegade's channel on YouTube (27:21). This is a best post. (Note: Weik and Krainer discuss the important topic of inflation and printing money, the central bankers of the Empire (the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire) are practicing and the consequences for ordinary people.) My reaction: The Empire needs the war in Ukraine, but ordinary people don't. The question is: who will ultimately determine policies.
Khan's ouster comes amid his cooling relations with the powerful military and an economy struggling with high inflation and a plummeting Pakistani rupee. The opposition has charged Khan’s government with economic mismanagement.

Khan has claimed the U.S. worked behind the scenes to bring him down, purportedly because of Washington's displeasure over his independent foreign policy choices, which often favor China and Russia. He has occasionally defied America and stridently criticized America's post 9/11 war on terror. Khan said America was deeply disturbed by his visit to Russia and his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Feb. 24, the start of the devastating war in Ukraine.
The lingering suspicion unfolds a reasoned impression that Imran Khan – the hurriedly ousted PM’s failure is the net success of the nine skeleton grouped parties – “Democratic Front.” This Front is not formed by the people but by the few discontented figures eager to grab political power by any means. It would be illogical to describe the opposition as democratic as so many of them are listed indicted criminals, thugs, killers and failed politicians of the recent past. The current political chaos does not signal any ingenious mechanism of rational perception to appreciate the necessity of political change engineered by the few against many – the masses of Pakistan. 
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