Friday, October 28, 2022

Recommended post of the year: President Putin at the Valdai Discussion Club: “He Who Sows the Wind Will Reap the Whirlwind”

Click here to access an address by Vladimir Putin at the Valdai Discussion Club in Moscow and posted on Internationalist 360°. The description of the event is followed by his opening remarks in English. Examine carefully the first words of Putin's address (in English) which is followed by a video of the rest of his address where he addressed specific issues and by a question and answer period (in Russian, but simultaneously translated into English). I wish our country had such an insightful and articulate president who truly represented a leader and not a follower of orders from ruling (capitalist) class.
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Sunday, September 18, 2022

Recommended article: War on ‘Russian Disinformation’ is the New ‘War on Terror’ and Equally Fake with Ben Norton

Click here to access a discussion by Rania Khalek and Ben Norton, which is posted on Breakthrough News, over the deception strategy and tactics shaping the "news" we are permitted to access while living in the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire. The "news" consists of permitted propaganda that permits alternative propaganda such as Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News. The Empire's ruling class consists of most of the major transnational capitalists, financiers, and major industrial capitalists that control large parts of the world: the prime members of the Empire and includes most of Latin America, Europe, and what was left of the British Empire after WWII--Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
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Thursday, September 8, 2022

A recommended article of the year: "Germany’s Energy Suicide: An Autopsy" by Pepe Escobar

Click here to access article by Pepe Escobar from Strategic Culture Foundation. Escobar leans heavily on an article by F. William Engdahl, and you may want access to it.
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Monday, September 5, 2022

Article of the month of September 2022: Breaking! NY Times: "US Created COVID-19"

Click here to access article by Kevin Barrett from the Unz Review.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Video of the month: "Is the Ukrainian War on its Own People Now Over?"

Click here to access article by Henry Kamens from New Eastern Outlook. This article contains a 💥link to vital (may be) censored information--watch video while you still can.
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Sunday, July 3, 2022

A message to my readers

I have discovered that my new format is best given my advanced age and limitations. I have focused on honest independent websites to keep you informed during this age of ubiquitous propaganda.

I peruse these websites in addition to about 10 others, but the changes I have made do not list articles that impressed me. By "peruse" I mean much for superficial reading of these articles. 

I have made almost daily changes to my monthly listing of recommended websites for you to follow. I post the monthly lists early in the month, but so far I have made almost daily changes to clarify, add additional websites, and other edits to my monthly lists. These daily changes throughout the month won't be specified in my edited updates. Thus, you will need to occasionally refer to these monthly lists. I will transfer the lists from the updated previous month to the new month early in the month.  

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Article of the year: "How Spooks and Establishment Journalists Are Circling The Wagons"

💥Click here to access article by Jonathan Cook from Mint Press News and posted on 6/30/2022. I discovered this first in Cook's Substack account on July 1st, but it exceeded Substack's length and Substack published a condensed version. It was first published entirely on June 30 on Mint Press News.  I have been impressed with Cook's writing before, but this article I think is excellent.

 

It is an especially valuable article because it shows that the ruling class's CIA and its agents have infiltrated all the major news organizations, especially in the 21st century. This accounts for the fact that all major news corporations have all filled the ruling capitalist class's propaganda like never before. They spread the ruling class propaganda before the 21st century but it was due to the indirect influence of the ruling class. Now the mainstream media corporations have all been corrupted throughout the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire by this transnational ruling class, and it is exactly why they are entirely filled with this class's propaganda. Given that this class rules over much of Latin America and much of Europe besides the USA and what was left of the British Empire after WWII in addition to the Zionist (right-wing Jews) planted in Palestine in what is now called Israel, the mainstream propaganda has a virtual monopoly on the spread of information throughout the world. It is no wonder that much of the world has swallowed whole this transnational capitalist class's propaganda as we are witnessing today throughout the Empire, especially Europe, in connection with the conflict in Ukraine. 

 

It is also the reason for this website. In 2009 I was increasingly aware of this corruption, and in late 2009 I started this website.

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Friday, June 3, 2022

Article of the month: "Why Is It So Hard to Finnish Nazism? NATO’s Growing Suicide Pact Threatens to Light the World on Fire"

💥Click here to access article by Canadian Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation and posted 6/3/2022. This is dedicated to those of you who have studied the rewritten history from your days in school. The rewritten history was accomplished by the ruling capitalist classes of the post-WWII and de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire. This capitalist Empire includes the USA, what was left of the British Empire after WWII, Israel, most of Europe, and much of Latin America.

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Saturday, May 21, 2022

Message to my readers regarding changes to My Recommendations: Weblogs/Websites (updated initially and frequently)

5/21/2022 update: I thought about recent changes regarding my emphasis on my list of "My Recommendations: Weblogs/Websites" and I decided to move it to the main page, from the right-hand side, to facilitate readers who view my website on their smartphones. Thus, I have moved it from the right-hand side of my website on the main page, and this will be my main work until further notice. After I work on "My Recommendations", I expect that (an expanded version) will change occasionally and only a little.  


The only exception will be that I added Global Research to my list of "My Recommendations" because I felt it worthwhile for those who don't have time to read other items on my list. Global Research, a Canadian website, is an aggregated website (def.) that offers current posts of items that they consider of special interest regarding fundamental issues of our time. This is one I can recommend--the only exception being that Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, who is the administrator of this website, is mistaken regarding the subject of abrupt climate destabilization ("climate change") which he, in the years past, considers as a "hoax". On this topic, which he posts very infrequently (especially since the recent and conservative IPCC reports were published) is sadly mistaken; but on other fundamental issues facing humanity, his selected posts are very worthwhile.

 

I can't vouch for every single post or re-post on these websites/weblogs. With over 12 years of online experience, I can recommend the following list because they offer insights on what the ruling class does to deceive us. In the future, I will keep the list updated by bringing new websites/weblogs especially with new fundamental crises which arise and are caused by the ruling transnational capitalist class of the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire in their fascist pursuit of dominance over the entire world. And, I expect that I will drop a few. Although I don't know what kind of socialism the following websites/weblogs suggest, they are definitely anti-capitalist or independent (many are "independent" or refuse to advocate socialism because of harassment by capitalist authorities) in their orientation.

 

  • Edward Curtin - Behind the Curtain--Frequency: roughly once per two weeks.
  • Breakthrough News
  • CADTM--Eric Toussaint, a French socialist
  • Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian with her American husband, Tim Foley, also reading the script in the audio section of her article, but you may miss supporting examples, illustrations, etc.) She blogs almost daily.
  • Consent Factory, Inc. by an expat living in Berlin, and mostly satire. Frequency: roughly once per three weeks.
  • Covert Geopolitics Judging by its suffix "co", it is based in Columbia, but recently Pepe Escobar said that it, or a similar website (The Cradle), was based in Lebanon. Columbian expats currently living in Lebanon?
  • CovertAction Magazine
  • Dissident Voice 
  • EarthNewspaper 
  • In Gaza - and beyond (Eva Bartlett, a Canadian journalist)
  • Global Research (an aggregated website--recommended except on the issue of "climate change" which he addresses rarely since the recent IPCC reports were issued. Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, a Canadian and the administrator of the website, has, years ago, considered it as a "hoax". Many writers on his re-posts have at least socialist leanings.)
  • Global Times (Reputedly the views of the Communist Party of China.)
  • Guns and Butter (Bonnie Faulkner infrequently posts interviews of independent and top  thinkers for about an hour.)
  • Internationalist 360° (third world perspectives on world issues)
  • Media Lens A British left-wing weblog that has lately been publishing roughly once per month.
 

I don't know where the following list are on the question of whether they favor capitalism or socialism, but they write honestly from their independent point of view: 

 

  • Arctic News Frequency: roughly once per three weeks.
  • Craig Murray is a Scotsman and retired diplomat. Frequency: about once a week
  • John's Newsletter Frequency: about two times a week.
  • The Pulse, a Canadian website
  • The Exposé A British website which has been covering the "covid" pandemic extensively. The only problem is that they consider "climate change" as nonsense. 
  • The New Atlas on Rumble--Brian Berletic, who I have followed many years. He is an ex-Marine who lives in Thailand with his family for nearly 20 years, and has also been published in New Eastern Outlook. 
  • Titanic Lifeboat Academy (Caren Black, a retired educator, runs an aggregated website and occasionally write articles herself.)
 

Other recommended websites that are honest and represent likely non-socialist or old-fashioned capitalism where finance capitalism replaces industrial capitalism (old-fashioned capitalism) plus private ownership of the economy in fewer hands. Under financial capitalism (neoliberalism), a society with a concentrated ruling class inevitably descends into neofascism:

 

  • A Son of the American Revolution--Larry Johnson is presently a historian at the College of William & Mary and was formerly employed at the CIA & State Department.
  • Children's Health Defense, founded by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
  • Children's Health Defense--Europe  
  • Consortium News  features posts and re-posts about relevant events.
  • Geopolitics & Empire on Odysee. The unnamed interviewer and former professor of history and residing in Mexico, interviews independent dissident thinkers for various lengths of time. Frequency: roughly twice a week.
  • Middle East Eye Based in London
  • Paul Craig Roberts, a former Asst. Secretary of the Treasure in the Reagan administration. Frequency: He take weekends and most holidays off.
  • Peak Prosperity Chris Martenson, who is administrator of this website, seems to be advocating "back to the land" by cutting most ties to city and government services. 
  • Reminiscence of the Future...--The founder of this weblog, Andrei Martyanov, is a Russian immigrant and a US citizen for over 20 years and is reputedly a Russian military expert. Recommended by Pepe Escobar.
  • The Ice Blog Frequency: about once per month. 
  • The Saker You can access Pepe Escobar's articles here as well as other articles of interest. Founded by Andrei Raevsky ("The Saker"), who is descended from White Russian immigrants (essentially capitalist armies who fought against Bolsheviks) and who, after the defeat of White Russian armies, immigrated to Europe and he eventually became a US citizen. Raevsky is the founder and administrator of the website. After receiving threats from governmental or corporate authorities, he moved his server to Iceland.
  • The Unz Review founded by Ron Unz, a retired physicist, who has a brilliant mind but limited by anti-Jewish attitudes which seem to be fading appropriately to targeting right-wing Jews or Zionists. And, he seems to be moving to the true left as he includes more articles by Pepe Escobar, who in my opinion, is the best journalist in the world. Unz's most important contribution has been uncovering the many mysteries of the "covid" pandemic. 
  • Wall Street on Parade founded by Pam Martens and Russ Martens who find lots of misdeeds regarding Wall Street. They blog almost daily except for weekends and holidays.
  • YouTube My subscriptions--I particularly like this selection in spite of YouTube's tendency to censor..
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Sunday, May 1, 2022

A Final post and Announcement to my readers

Unfortunately, we live in a capitalist society which means that individual families are competing for influence and advantages of wealth. The capitalist ruling classes have attained so much power with their ownership of fabulous wealth that they think that they are invincible. They think they will use naive ordinary humans to fight to the death to protect their system from being overthrown as they are doing today in Ukraine. They are the masters of deception, and they have used their tools of deception to deceive most of us to go along with their agenda to acquire ever more dominance and control. The capitalists have destroyed society and the ecology of our mother Earth with their deceptions.

This was a fundamental insight that Margaret Thatcher, the fanatically useful tool of British capitalists, articulated with her dictum: "there is no such thing as society, there is only individuals and their families". I'm sure that she was well rewarded for her efforts. It is unfortunate that humans have not been able to grow out of their infantile belief in families and extended families before the climate crisis really sets in or wars will end in the disappearance of humans in a final nuclear war.

Also, the ruling capitalist classes of the dominant capitalist empire (the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire) refuse to give up their top-dog status on our unique planet Earth which caused both crises--destruction of our planet's ecology and constant wars. This truth is obvious in the war in Ukraine where they are determined to use gullible ordinary humans to fight to the death for their powerful Empire that provides the capitalist classes with so much wealth and control over the rest of us.

After more than 12 years, this essay finally ends my work on the "Surviving Capitalism (Not)". In the future I will do my best to maintain updated recommended websites/weblogs to the right of my website.

5/19/2022 Update, (updated 5/20/2022): I've been cleaning up my website and particularly the "recommended websites/weblogs" that are most relevant to current issues. To do this I've have followed daily to all (approximately 50) websites/weblogs that I've always used to determine my daily posts that I've recommended daily since the last over 12 years, but I've changed from that to keep current "my recommended" website/weblogs. Not all of these websites/weblogs qualify for my recommended list because they, in reality, advocate the denial of the fundamental issues of our time: peace, climate destabilization (e.g. Global Research and The Exposé), and social/economic justice (e.g. Paul Craig Roberts). I have not discovered all credible sources because I've not discovered them in my daily posts, but the ones I've discovered and followed for an extended period are demonstrated credible journalists, genuine socialists, independent scientists and experts.  

They don't necessarily advocate real socialism (as I do), but their posts provide honest and insightful posts. The only possible exceptions to the latter statement are with Global Times (China) and Sputnik (Russia) which I include in order to understand our nations' opponents and their points of view. Otherwise, I follow policy analysts (who are available on US websites) who I believe offer (as best that they can) accurate news and insights on ruling class and government policies. I expect to make frequent changes to my recommended list of websites as long as I am able.

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                                                                                                        An Appeal
                                    
I'm in the process of simplifying my life. At the age of 86, I don't need any confusion in handling my adult responsibilities, and must lean on someone for advice to make major decisions before some capitalist takes advantage of me in my advanced age. Finally, I need someone to take responsibility for my ultimate demise. I have no one such as an immediate family or relative to look after my needs and advantages that I've accrued throughout my long life. My adult life was filled with a desire and activities to rid our selves of capitalism to promote a real socialism, that is, to promote a classless society and to establish a society of humans who cared for one another. I have failed in this endeavor.

Finally, I'm wondering if there is someone out there who will take me into their household and protect me from all the ravages that a capitalist society can impose upon one until my natural demise. I can meet a monthly rent of a room and board. If there is, I would reward you with my accumulated modest wealth by substantially including you in my last will. If interested, you can contact me by email: rdh@sekur.com, a secure private email address, or a less secure one at ronh36@protonmail.com. The terms, conditions, and expectations are absolutely negotiable. This appeal is still valid if you see these two paragraphs.

May 11, 2022                                                                               An Appeal Update

So far, I am gratified to receive three inquiries for my appeal. One of the three has dropped out, and the 2nd one doesn't look promising. The final one looks good for now. I invite those who have space for me in their household to make inquiries. 

I am so far able to sustain independent living, but I need guidance for major and some minor decisions in my life. I dislike where I am currently living in a co-op in southern Minnesota among bible-oriented Lutherans.

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Saturday, April 30, 2022

A Post that I especially recommend for Saturday, April 30, 2022

  • DeSantis Vows To Fight Biden’s “Ministry Of Truth”, but better entitled "The New Ministry of Truth" that features Jimmy Dore and Max Blumenthal discussing the new ruling class initiative to establish Disinformation Governance Board from Dore's channel on YouTube (19:58). (Note: I could not prevent myself from posting this!)
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Monday, April 25, 2022

Announcement to my readers on 4/25/2022: 

Because I've noticed feelings of resentment and mistakes while recently working on my website, I am reducing my posts to original essays that I will be able to post about once per week (this is just an estimate) any day of the week including Sundays. This new policy is partly due to my declining stamina in my old age (approaching 86). Thus, you will be able, if you want, to access my website only occasionally, but you may want to access my website for research purposes. For example, you may want to access my articles in February of 2014 and beyond in which I closely followed the events in Ukraine.

This change will require more of you to exert greater efforts to keep up on accurate news. I advise you to follow my recommended websites (on the right-hand side), or if you prefer, to follow websites/weblogs that you have found to be of particular interest in the past. I am committed to updating and keeping current my "recommended" websites. If you can't find a website that I've used before, contact me at ronh36@protonmail.com.

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Saturday, April 23, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Saturday, April 23, 2022

  • The Pandemic Isn't Over? features Russell Brand, a British comedian and former drug addict turned serious political critic--from his channel on Rumble (15:39).
  • I notice that the Strategic Culture Foundation has been taken off the internet, that is, the one I can access. In my 12 years of administrating this website, I have posted articles from this source as much as any other. This censorship policy of the Empire's capitalist ruling class illustrates how much they want to censor anything that will contradict their narratives. This also demonstrates how insecure they are. RH  4/25/2022 update: this note was probably in error. This link is only temporarily down. Later 4/25/2022 update: I accessed the site today, but I have my Firefox set to VPN. According to a west coast activist, one can only access the site if one has one's browser is set to VPN.
When the ecosystem is dying because of economic systems which depend on infinite growth on a finite world, your choices are either (A) abandon those systems or (B) pray that sociopathic oligarchs somehow get us into space in the next few years. Guess which one we’re going with.

Humanity’s major problems arise from the impulse to control. Ecocide arises from the impulse to control nature. Empire arises from the impulse to control civilizations. Oligarchy arises from the impulse to control political outcomes. Ego arises from the impulse to control life.

A healthy humanity would be free of the impulse to manipulate and exert control: over life, over people, over nature. But it would be so different from the humanity we know now that falling into that way of functioning would be a kind of death. And it would feel like a death.

Sometimes it seems like people want the world to end, want humanity to go extinct. I’d suggest that this may be a confused expression of an intuited truth: that there’s something good on the other side of ending all this. But it’s the end of our dysfunction, not of our species. 
  • Oh, So It’s Just Bullsh*t Then features Russell Brand, a British comedian and former drug addict turned serious political critic discussing the imminent extradition of Julian Assange to the USA--from his channel on YouTube (13:48).
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Friday, April 22, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, April 22, 2022

  • Shanghai Lockdown: Facts vs Western Fiction featuring Brian Berletic, an independent geopolitical expert and ex-Marine who for a lengthy time has lived in Thailand with his family, interviewing Andy Boreham, a New Zealand journalist stationed in Shanghai, China, who gives us a more accurate report of the circumstances than we are receiving from the Empire's ruling class media corporations during the upsurge in Shanghai of Covid-19 and China's current lockdown policy to deal with it--from his channel on Rumble (36:12). 
For those of you who have an intense interest in the origins of the covid pandemic, I very much recommend that you listen to this post. Although the interview is about two hours in length (minus the nearly 12 minutes after the end of the interview), the more I listened to it the more I learned from Unz who has studied the topic more than any other person I can think of. 
 
For those of you who haven't the time, I will summarize the interview for you. Unz concludes that covid was a biowarfare weapon gone wrong. He constantly says "that evidence suggests", and he has an encyclopedic knowledge of the subject. After he reviews the evidence, he goes on to "speculate" that his conclusion best fits the evidence. Once it had been launched, the rogue conspirators encounter numerous "blow-backs" and some of which they tried to take advantage of.  
 
I left the physicist (retired?) by being impressed with his scientist's mind.  Although he does think that a "rogue" element in the government carried out this bio-weapon attack (on China and Iran), he does not consider that the origins lie in a ruling class (or an anti-democratic deep state of the capitalist US/British/Zionist Empire) that violated the biowarfare weapons treaty and gave the go-ahead order. This is a common failing of those highly trained scientists who have been educated in the Empire.
  • Kramatorsk Train Station Attack by Scott Ritter from The Unz Review. My reaction: This will be one of the few articles I will post from a credible source because I do not want to use my website as a counter-propaganda for the lies media corporations will tell their populations about the war in Ukraine.
A British magistrate’s court has approved Julian Assange’s extradition order, meaning the Australian journalist may soon be sent to the United States to face up to 175 years in prison for “revealing state secrets” and “computer hacking”.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Note: I ended up not sleeping the entire night, so I don't know what extent that I will finish this posting and the quality it deserves. Yesterday's disappeared post was a shock to me. It is likely, more than not, that technicians have revised Google's worksheet, and that was the cause of the disappeared post yesterday. The technicians probably left an error in their program which will be corrected soon. We shall see. They have done this a number of times in the past years, and it always caused difficulties for me, but I was able to continue to post using various adjustments.

I will not post tomorrow because of a medical appointment.
Dr. Jessica Rose discusses the fraud we've all experienced over the past few years in relation to the pandemic. The data shows negative efficacy regarding the COVID19 vaccine, meaning that it's actually hurting you. If they can lie about issues surrounding COVID19 so easily, then what have they been lying about the whole time? She goes into the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and how the adverse event and death reports related to COVID19 injections are off the chart. The FDA and CDC are not even looking at the data. She believes the vaccine is a segueway into introducing new injection platforms, normalizing injections, and digitizing the human. She agrees the goal of the Vaccine Passports is to install the Social Credit System. The WHO Pandemic Treaty will be the total loss of sovereignty for all countries and individuals. That's the end.
  • Is Covid Actually Snake Venom?? Episode 57, Part 1 by Chris Martenson from his weblog Peak Prosperity. Martenson reviews the evidence behind the documentary “Watch the Water”. He write the film is a hugely successful/popular “documentary” that purports that Remdesivir is actually snake venom, and that what we call Covid is really people’s reactions to snake venom. (Note: There is also a video (54:34) which features Martenson and his criticism of the movie.)
The United Kingdom’s Office for National Statistics “the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics and its recognised national statistical institute” has quietly released substantial data on the COVID-19 vaccines.
The larger issues that are at stake raised by the Russian intervention in the Donbass were highlighted by Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview he gave to Russian media last week. Lavrov said that “the special military operation aims to put an end to the unfettered expansions and unfettered course toward total domination of the United States and other Western states under it on the international arena.”
 
My reaction: O'Neill seems to agree with Lavrov's statement.
There is endless excitement about Russia’s imminent “economic sovereignty,” but what about Russia’s medical sovereignty? Does it matter if Russia adopts the golden petro-yuan (or whatever) if it continues to copy-paste “health measures” drafted by an organization that gets most of its funding from NATO states and Bill Gates?

It’s a serious question, especially because the WHO is forging ahead with its so-called “global pandemic treaty.” Slated for completion in 2024, the agreement will give the World Health Organization unprecedented powers to combat new outbreaks of positive PCR tests.

Does Russia really need this? After two years of the WHO’s non-stop virus scamming, maybe it’s time to pull the plug?

Thankfully, a grassroots campaign (aided by lawmakers) seeks Russia’s immediate withdrawal from the WHO. This is an excellent idea—but is it possible?
  • WATCH: CN Live! — ‘The Assange Family Struggle’  features Joe Lauria speaks to Assange's father John Shipton, brother Gabriel Shipton and Ben Lawrence, director of Ithaka, a film in which clips are played. Joe Lauria interviews various figures related to a new film Ithaka in addition to family members--from Consortium News. (Note: The post start at 1:56 and its length is 49:30--so it's about 47:30 in duration.)
Assange faces 175 years in prison for publishing accurate information revealing prima facie evidence of war crimes by the United States. There is a human side to Assange’s story rarely seen.

It is revealed in the new film Ithaka by director Ben Lawrence. It tells the story of a father and a wife’s struggle to save their son and husband. The film follows Assange’s father, John Shipton, and his wife, Stella Assange, during the days of Assange’s extradition hearing in February and September 2020 and Shipton’s journeys to the United States and Europe to gain support for his son with governments and the public.
  • The Telephone by Paul Craig Roberts from his weblog. My reaction: Some local medical outfit's employee sold the email address to an agent who sold the address to numerous corporations. Now I am inundated with emails on my email server I've had for many years. I thoroughly agree with his following statement:
I remember when the telephone was a useful and appreciated device. The digital revolution, one of humanity’s most unfortunate developments, has turned the telephone into a nuisance and a threat.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Note: I think that the censoring agents of the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire have finally caught with me by destroying my approximately 8 entries for Tuesday, April 19, 2022, in the middle of my work posting articles for my website while working on Google's worksheet. Because I've used their worksheet for nearly 12 years of posting without this happening, this is probably no accident. However, I will attempt to re-post articles, including most of the missing articles from today's posts, tomorrow. (Updated at 4:16 PM CT)
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Monday, April 18, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, April 18, 2022

  • Dawn of a New Global Financial System by Pepe Escobar from Covert Geopolitics. (Note: This post includes an introduction and interview with Sergey Glazyev from Covert Geopolitics. (Note: "Special Operation Z" is Russia's name for their current invasion of Ukraine.)
For the past three years he has helmed Moscow’s uber strategic portfolio as minister in charge of integration and macroeconomics of the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU).  
 
Glazyev’s recent intellectual production has been nothing short of transformative, epitomized by his essay “Sanctions and Sovereignty” and an extensive discussion of the new, emerging geo-economic paradigm in an interview with a Russian business magazine. 
  • The Parapolitical Hypothesis from "Apparatchik's" weblog on Medium. My reaction: I don't get that this post is about any "parapolitical hypothesis" unless it is the last paragraph, but the history-summary since WWII the anonymous author presents is far more accurate than ordinary Americans have received since that global war in their education, Hollywood films, and mainstream media. Lacking any real education, ordinary Americans cannot understand the current real issues. This is deliberate on the part of the US ruling capitalist class because they have wanted ordinary Americans ignorant of their real objectives: to rule the entire world. They combined what was left of the British Empire with their intact military-industrial complex to establish a transnational capitalist class to rule much of the world, and they have expanded since by incorporating all European capitalists in their plan. In 1967 the directors of their Empire added right-wing, wealthy Jews by admitting Israel in their conspiracy to rule the world. (Read my articles here and here, and this has been recently confirmed (confessed to) by a Columbia U. professor in his recent book Tomorrow the World.) Russia and China (and allies) are challenging the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire and their attempt to rule the world in order to establish a multipolar world.
One factor that Johnstone has missed is that our American society is fractured into socioeconomic classes with the self-serving ruling class determining what news to deliver to ordinary people. I put emphasis on "self-serving" because it's a fact demonstrated throughout history and because a ruling class always serve themselves first.

Because the subject of socioeconomic classes has been banished from our consciousness by the ruling capitalist class, we are ignorant of how it determines the rest of our understanding of so many societal issues. I first met this in the university in my early adult years, but I went around it by using the university library to determine what was false and what was true information. It was quite a struggle, and it is growing worse because of censorship. They not only banished from our consciousness the fact that all societies are fractured in classes, but they have fed us information about other issues that they wanted us to believe for their own benefit--wealth and power.
 
However, I've found throughout my long life that information supplied to us by the ruling capitalist class is severely distorted with the result that only a few people can realistically understand and communicate their own opinions about what is going on. 
 
Johnstone and her American husband miss what is the striking feature of American society and nation, and the result is that they mistake what is really going on. They describe the censorship that the ruling class issues as becoming worse by such statements as this:
 
One severely under-discussed aspect of the latest round of escalations in Silicon Valley censorship which began at the start of the Ukraine war is the fact that it’s an entirely unprecedented order of censorship protocol. While it might look similar to all the other waves of social media purges and new categories of banned content that we’ve been experiencing since it became mainstream doctrine after the 2016 US election that tech platforms need to strictly regulate online speech, the justifications for it have taken a drastic deviation from established patterns.
 
What they are unaware of is the fact that the ruling class has always influenced the information that they allow us to receive. But what they are missing is this: it is getting worse because the ruling capitalist class have consolidated the ownership which gives them control of our mainstream media and most of the economy. Ownership gives them control over media corporations as well as other features of their (not ours) economy. It is their economy because they have exploited us as workers to attain ownership over the entire economy. Johnstone and her husband substitute "Silicon Valley" for a class that has caused the growing censorship, but failed to point-out that a ruling capitalist class owns Silicon Valley. This is precisely why Klaus Schwab said "you will own nothing and be happy!" He is acting like a used-car salesman selling you a car that was junk because he feels that you are gullible enough to swallow his sales pitch.
 
The capitalist system works for capitalists and their desire to eliminate competition, and the result is monopolies: a relative handful of owners own nearly all of the economy. Is this so hard to understand?!
Professor John Mearsheimer is the man who predicted the Ukraine crisis. In a new, must-watch video discussion with the American Committee for U.S.-Russia Accord, he explains why the West’s current strategy is so dangerous.
  • Elon Musk Buying Twitter: Why It's a Bigger Battle Than You Think features Brain 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 (14:54). My reaction: Berletic shows how important social media like Twitter is to our ruling billionaire masters.
Jacques Baud joined Aaron Maté, host of Pushback, to analyse the Russia-Ukraine conflict.  He argued that the US and its allies are exploiting Ukraine in a longstanding campaign to bleed its Russian neighbour.
  • The War in Ukraine and the Collapsing World Order, a discussion by a number of top experts including Alastair Crooke, Scott Ritter, Max Blumenthal, and Seyed Mohammad Marandi from The Alt World. (Note: If you have time to hear the comments of this nearly 2 hour video of a group of distinguished guests, I promise it will be at least interesting. I will listen to it after I post today's collection of posts.)
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