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, February 5, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Saturday, February 5, 2022

  • ‘Vaccine Mania’: Fauci, Big Pharma Detail Plans for ‘Indefinite’ Rollout of Shots by Dr. Joseph Mercola from Children's Health Defense. My reaction: Makes perfect sense because since JFK Jr.'s The Real Anthony Fauci has been published, he made the case that Fauci owned stocks in Big Pharma with documentation. The ruling capitalist class has gotten behind Fauci policies (the daily dose of propaganda emanating from media corporations is evidence) in order to make wealth an additional incentive for Fauci and associates. One can always discern US policies, and they have always been anti-Russian since the Revolution in 1917, by focusing on their propaganda machinery, the mainstream media--see my commentary in the first post here.
Most Americans watch news programs obsessively to learn about what is happening in the world. But watching what they are permitted to watch, and readily available, is a disaster for any desirable outcome for ordinary Americans. I've since concluded that what the Empire's media corporations report in their "news" programs is an indication of what the "globalists" want their audience to believe in order to promote their interests of profit and power. This applies to their extensive coverage of the nationwide protests prompted by the murder of George Floyd and other victims, but this as yet to be fully determined as how the extensive coverage benefits ruling class interests.
  • James Corbett: Biosecurity is the New Governance Paradigm for the Planet featuring an interview with James Corbett of The Corbett Report using Geopolitics and Empire's channel on Odysee (54:45). My reaction: In this post Corbett is introduced as an "anarchist", which surprised me because he has left the "agorist" label which is a specific branch of anarchism. He, like others, eschews a class analysis which is a contribution of Karl Marx, and is a fundamental system of analysis that I use to understand societies. Unfortunately, Corbett recognizes as merely propaganda the scientific work of so many scientists--that of global warming and its effects on the near-term end of humans and most other species. He touches on class at 27:50 in the interview describing David Rothkopf's Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making which was published in 2009. Every dominant class sees itself as superior as a way of justifying themselves as a ruling class. This is behind the Great Reset, a transnational capitalist ideology that sees capitalists as innately superior to justify their position as top dog in societies and dictating what lies in the future for the rest of humankind.
  • This Is Impossible To Ignore featuring Russell Brand, a British comedian turned activist, commenting on mainstream media coverage of the Canadian Freedom Convoy using Brand's channel on YouTube (10:45).
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Friday, February 4, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, February 4, 2022

  • Damning Video of Media Lying About Ivermectin featuring Jimmy Dore with guest Kurt Metzger, a comedian mostly interjecting some satirical comments, and a number of other clips of people--from Dore's channel on YouTube (14:31). 
  • Attack of the Transphobic Putin-Nazi Truckers! by C. J. Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. My reaction: Hopkins, a political satirist, returns to his trademark satire to lampoon criticism of the Canadian truck protest convoy that has reached Ottawa, Canada.
My reaction: Again the Democratic Party, one of the two-party system, which the capitalist ruling class permits to have any substantial following, demonstrates its "woke" hypocrisy by targeting people of color.

Yesterday, The Hill published an article called “Five Democrats the left plans to target” about progressives who are trying to unseat moderate Congressional incumbents. Though not inaccurate, the piece fails to mention how important race is in all this.
  • Sources Say, a poem, by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband, Tim Foley, also reading the poem for those of you who prefer audio.
I still believe the United States is not that concerned about Ukraine’s security, though they may think about it on the sidelines. Its main goal is to contain Russia’s development. This is the whole point. In this sense, Ukraine is simply a tool to reach this goal. This can be done in different ways: by drawing us into some armed conflict, or compelling its allies in Europe to impose tough sanctions on us like the US is talking about today.
The Russia-China joint statement (here, in Russian) did not cut any corners. The two global powers, among the summit’s key takeaways, are against NATO expansion; favor the UN and “justice in international relations;” will fight “interference in the internal affairs of sovereign countries;” oppose “external forces” undermining national security; and are resolutely against color revolutions.
In this article, we are going to explore the immense economic and financial implications of BlackRock’s plan, which has been set in motion and is currently operating globally. It stipulates that central banks—which are privately owned—control our governments' fiscal policy and that policy coordination is enforced. In other words, central banks, and ultimately private wealth managers, will control the spending of our taxes and of the debt taken out in our and our children's name.

This is a global coup d’état. The government you elect no longer controls how it spends your taxed income; central banks do, and they will do as directed by private money.
  • Splendid opening ceremony raises curtain on Games from ChinaDaily, an online news source for China. My reaction: Our ruling masters are doing everything they can to downplay this event. You don't have to meekly comply. I assume this opening ceremony will be broadcast in the USA this evening. Although I'm not active anymore, I formerly was and tried most sports--I excelled at long-distance bicycling and cross-country skiing.
  • US Exacts Revenge on Afghanistan for its Defiance by Viktor Mikhin from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: This post again "puts the lie" to the almost daily propaganda broadcasts in the USA from media corporations about the US giving aid to Afghanistan.
When the Taliban toppled the US-backed government of Ashraf Ghani last summer, they lost access to financial reserves under full US control of the World Bank and IMF, their assets were frozen and development assistance was suddenly suspended. In addition, President Joe Biden’s administration has frozen $7 billion of Afghanistan’s foreign exchange reserves held in New York. It is only natural that these enormous funds are not lying dormant, but are actively working, bringing in considerable dividends for the US bankers.
  • Panama Ransacked in 1989 from Tales of the American Empire and their channel on YouTube (15:35). My reaction: This post offers an accurate example from recent history. These highly secretive CIA operations continue today.
... while 5G networks, satellites, mass data-harvesting, artificial intelligence and virtual reality will allow the colonization of still more physical, economic and mental space by multinational corporations, technologies like fossil fuels, global trading infrastructures, and television have already helped to impose a corporate-run consumer-based economy in almost every corner of the globe.

For reasons that are increasingly evident, an acceleration of this process is the last thing we need in a time of serious social and environmental crises. 
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Thursday, February 3, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, February 3, 2022

Roger Waters, the founding member of Pink Floyd, believes the ban of RT DE by German govt is motivated by a desire to shut down voices that 'don't agree with Big Brother' 
Today I am speaking with Isa Blumi, historian, academic and Yemen expert.

We will be covering a lot of hidden ground in the Yemen conflict – effectively a genocidal war waged by the US and UK and Israel by their Saudi, Qatari and UAE proxies. Isa delves into the realities that are obfuscated by the Legacy Media and Academic embeds, think tanks and narrative managers.

Please follow this link to Isa’s most recent academic paper entitled:

Speaking above Yemenis: a reading beyond the tyranny of experts, Global Intellectual History
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Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Scientists have described the pandemic as “the largest isolation study in history” – and its effects are only just becoming clearer over time.
The new rules came after a handful of musicians, including Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen’s guitarist Nils Lofgren and Joni Mitchell, pulled their music catalogs from Spotify, in an effort to force Spotify to choose between their music or Rogan’s podcast. Author Brené Brown also joined the protest, stating she won’t release new episodes of her Spotify-exclusive podcasts “until further notice.”
Trudeau called the national trucker protest a ‘fringe minority,’ yet the Freedom Convoy continues to pick up steam as it rolls on through Canada. Take a look at the ongoing protests against the nation’s vaccine mandate.
  • Response to allegations by the academic smear campaign* by Geert Vanden Bossche, a world-renowned virologist and vaccinologist from his weblog Voice for Science and Solidarity. My reaction: If you don't get on board with the capitalist Empire's agenda of world conquest, you may be isolated and smeared. Bossche is one of the figures among many that the Empire has censored and smeared because he did not get on board with the well-funded and well-organized drive to have everyone receive covid "vaccinations". I don't know what the leaders of the Empire had in mind whether it was for population control or some other reason, but it was not for our own good. The well-organized drive was, as always, to serve the interests of our billionaire masters. Meanwhile, our sheep-like neighbors all gobbled up the propaganda and are living in a delusional world. 
Concealed beneath the ‘virus’/‘vaccine’ narrative, and marketed by the World Economic Forum as the ‘Great Reset’, this coup is designed to utterly transform human society and even human life. This is because the detail outlined in the ‘Great Reset’ documentation, which anyone can investigate for themselves, clearly identifies intended changes to some 200 areas of human activity, essentially characterized as part of the ‘fourth industrial revolution’.

Beyond that, however, as a lengthening list of doctors, scientists and scholars have been warning us for some time, although their efforts are invariably heavily censored by corporate media, the injectables program is decimating the human population ....
To me, at the end, it became rather obvious that the whole momentum was part of a corporate political campaign for the Democratic Party establishment. The same people who raised their fists and said “Black Lives Matter” turned out to be the supporters of Joe Biden who has bragged that he was the architect of crime bills and The Patriot Act — the very root of the school to prison pipeline, the racist, colonial “war on terror,” the prison industrial complex and so on.

Is irony completely dead as “reality” continues to be stretched to fit the ruling class interests? In the end, I felt so dirty and violated to be a part of that committee’s activities. [my emphasis]
  • What Has Been Asserted Without Evidence May Be Dismissed Without Evidence by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband, Tim Foley, also reading the script, but you may miss supporting examples, illustrations, etc.)--from her weblog. My reaction: The ruling capitalist class (billionaires) has built a de-facto empire (US/British/Zionist Empire) since WWII, and hasn't given up the objective of world domination like the Third Reich of the Nazis. The general population is carefully filled with appropriate propaganda via ruling class media corporations. Thus, anyone aspiring to a lucrative career must blend in with this objective, and we see people frequently lapping up this propaganda. For free thinkers, this is an anathema. This is the main reason I dropped out after receiving a BA from a major west coast university, and pursued my own goal of being educated by reading original dissident authors corresponding to any age. Thus, I am a free thinker by receiving an excellent education instead of being loaded with capitalist propaganda like "Johnny Harris" expressed, and who merely repeats the current propaganda of the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire.
Professor Shoshana Zuboff explains how Google ALWAYS intended to be what it
is today - a company that harvests our personal information as covertly as possible and invade our privacy for profit. They pretended that they are a service we could use but really they are using us. Are we only just starting to realise how bad it is now?!
In all seriousness, the U.S. government may not be far from investigating and charging critics of the world’s mightiest military alliance with treason. Over two years ago the NATO Strategic Communication Centre of Excellence conducted an “experiment” with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram, and then denounced the four for permitting “social media manipulation” on their platforms. As President Biden regularly speaks of his “sacred obligation” to NATO’s Article 5 war clause, it isn’t far-fetched to envision him employing the political equivalent of blasphemy laws and canonical courts against those of us warning of the threat posed by the world’s oldest and history’s largest military bloc.
The sheer size and scope of the western information operations – insisting repeatedly on the imminence of a Russian invasion of Ukraine – has almost dwarfed the western effort mounted in the lead up to the second invasion of Iraq. This latest info-war has been qualitatively different from that earlier episode however, in the way in which supposed intelligence titbits were constantly fed to the press in order to stiffen the narrative spine with a direct sense of being at the very cusp of war.

By last weekend, the U.S. mainstream was indeed in a war frenzy, and it seemed that the narrative was gaining a momentum and energy of its own – moving beyond Washington’s control and picking up support from across the U.S. bi-partisan spectrum.
UK PM Boris Johnson conspicuously canceled a scheduled call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the following day flew to Kiev to meet with Ukrainian President Zelensky. The UK has also inaugurated a new triple alliance with Ukraine and Poland, drawn together over “common principles” and not geography. Investigative journalist Ben Swann has the details. Then independent journalist Ben Norton weighs in. He points out that “nothing actually changes on the ground” and that Ukraine’s military is larger than that of the UK. 
Andrew Cockburn, author of “The Spoils of War”, on the US arms industry’s role in promoting and profiting from today’s global conflicts, from Ukraine to Yemen to Syria. [my link]
The Modi government is going to come under immense pressure in the coming weeks and months from Washington to move into the Western camp on the burning issues of Ukraine and NATO’s further expansion, which would “change the world,” as President Biden framed the paradigm in stark historical terms last week.
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Tuesday, February 1, 2022

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

Jim Kavanagh & Ed Curtin discuss their fellow high school alumnus, Anthony Fauci, and the confusions, contradictions, and harms of the coronavirus policies he has promoted.
Dr. Roger Hodkinson is Canada's mandate-free MD, and has been a staunch activist in the fight for our freedoms. Roger shares a powerful message, and a poem by a fellow freedom-loving physician.
Canadian pathologist, Dr. Roger Hodkinson, shares how the suppression of safe and effective early treatments could have prevented half a million deaths in the US. Expresses why he is "mad as hell" that doctors have been blocked from treat….
 
My reaction: This claim was based on data that assumed co-morbidities in addition to influenza classified as Covid-19. Influenza almost disappeared from the data. PCR test to detect Covid-19 was grossly inappropriate according to the inventor of this test, Kary Mullis, who conveniently died last year. Overall, the data show the rising number of deaths attributed to Covid-19 only slightly exceeded average years prior to last year. The data indicate that a "pandemic" was not justified.
Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks about new lies being spread about Joe Rogan, ”The View’s” Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust comment scandal, the freedom convoy blocking the US Canada border, and Press Secretary Jen Psaki dismissing rising crime concerns. First, Dave shares a clip from “CBS Mornings” where the hosts try to directly connect deaths from COVID to Joe Rogan’s podcast being on Spotify. Neil Young may have started the most recent attacks on the Joe Rogan Experience, but now there is a relentless movement to censor him from all mainstream media outlets. Next, Whoopi Goldberg created her own scandal with her claims on “The View” that the Holocaust had nothing to do with race. She then went on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” to explain her comments, but she might have made matters even worse with her apology. Whoopi is now being accused of antisemitism by some. Will she end up canceling herself? The freedom convoy is causing more headaches for Justin Trudeau. The truckers of the freedom convoy have now formed a trucker blockade at the Alberta border crossing to protest vaccine mandates. Will Justin Trudeau give in to their demands? Finally, a clip of Press Secretary Jen Psaki being asked about voters' concerns about the spike in violent crime across the nation. Instead of addressing the reasons for the rising crime rates she dismissed the concerns by simply reading a list of what Joe Biden is doing about gun control.
What would a completely unscrupulous chief executive whose sole purpose in life is to seize power and never relinquish it do to conceal his evil intentions? He or she would use deception to change the narrative. Many are beginning to recognize that that is precisely what the Democrats are doing and their game plan includes demonizing both Russia and China to create plausible external enemies while also generating fear and uncertainty around alleged domestic threats as well as the COVID menace, to include initiating mandates designed to make the people submissive and fearful of legal and personal consequences for defying the government. Well, be that as it may, the penny has finally dropped and it is now clear that Biden-Pelosi-Schumer are intent on changing the rules and using lawfare and other tools to create a permanent governing majority.

The key to power in this case has been exploiting the legal system to criminalize many forms of dissent. 
  • Let’s Back Up A Sec And Ask Why Free Speech Actually Matters by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband, Tim Foley, also reading the script (but you must register with one of the hi-tech platforms, and you may miss supporting examples, illustrations, etc.)--from her weblog. (Note: You will need to know what "DM" means.)
It doesn’t matter what you’re free to say if nobody hears you say it. If those who support the status quo are loudly amplified on all media while those who oppose it are denied access to mainstream audiences and algorithmically censored, dissenting views have no effect. They might as well not exist. An environment where everyone has “free speech” but only those who support the status quo get heard is functionally indistinguishable from an environment where no one has free speech and only authorized state propaganda gets heard.

Which is of course the idea [regarding censorship]. [my insertion]

But, in the USA, the conservative-fascist Supreme Court will rule on free speech that it is permissible to censor speech if the states do not have laws explicitly banning it, and, in any case, private companies are permitted to censor speech. (cynical observation or reality?) The Supreme Court similarly ruled regarding requiring workers of privately owned businesses, as a mandatory condition of employment, to be vaccinated or "tested" regularly.
In a recent interview with US media, Chinese Ambassador to the US Qin Gang said that if the Taiwan island authority, emboldened by the US, keeps going down the road for independence, it would most likely involve China and the US "in a military conflict." He also compared the Taiwan question to "the biggest tinderbox" between China and the US.

The ambassador's words sent shockwaves to the US. US media believe this is a rare and direct warning from Chinese mainland to the US and Taiwan. 
  • President JFK’s Murder Is Graphic Proof of Entrenched Cold War Ideology and Why Peace Eludes U.S.-Russia Relations by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: In 1940 the instigators of this Cold War (& threatens to be hot) are the very characters in the State Department and the very private Council of Foreign Relations together hatched a long-range coupe to take over the government and establish an Empire capable of dominating the world. Read a summary provided by me and/or read a recently published book by Columbia Professor Stephen Wertheim entitled Tomorrow the World. I think that the descendants of this maniacal billionaire group are hell-bent on achieving this goal of world domination today because they are worried about abrupt climate change. Cunningham provides an interview with Martin Schotz which adds perspective on this coup back in Kennedy's day:
In the following interview, Martin Schotz, a respected Massachusetts-based author on the assassination of President John F Kennedy, explores the systematic basis for Cold War logic. He contends that the United States’ political class is locked in an entrenched Cold War mentality that serves its hyper-militarized economy. Cold War politics necessitates conflict and war in international relations, which is all too clearly demonstrated by the present crisis over Ukraine between the U.S. and Russia.

The depth of this Cold War logic of the accompanying national security state is illustrated by the shocking murder of President John F Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. His murderers and the institutional coverup that followed were motivated by Kennedy’s growing opposition to the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The fact of JFK’s murder and the systematic denial by media is an indication of how deeply engrained Cold War thinking is in the American political establishment.
In addition to the US-NATO military investments in Ukraine, there is the $10 billion plan being implemented by Erik Prince, founder of the private US military company Blackwater, now renamed Academy, which has been supplying mercenaries to the CIA, Pentagon and State Department for covert operations (including torture and assassinations), earning billions of dollars. Erik Prince’s plan, revealed by a Time magazine investigation, is to create a private army in Ukraine through a partnership between the Lancaster 6 company, with which Prince has supplied mercenaries in the Middle East and Africa, and the main Ukrainian intelligence office controlled by the CIA. It is not known, of course, what would be the tasks of the private army created in Ukraine by the founder of Blackwater, certainly with funding from the CIA. However, it can be expected that it would conduct covert operations in Europe, Russia and other regions from its base in Ukraine.

Against this background, it is particularly alarming that the Russian Defense Minister Shoigu denounced that in the Donetsk region there are “private US military companies that are preparing a provocation with the use of unknown chemicals”.
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Monday, January 31, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, January 31, 2022

  • WHAT?! The Great Reset Is NOT a Conspiracy! featuring Russell Brand, a British comedian, using sarcastic comedy to argue that our ruling class is using mainstream media to promote the Great Reset--using Brand's channel on YouTube (14:30).
  • Doug Casey's Take [ep.#164] Canada's Freedom Convoy featuring Casey's opinions about this event from the latter's channel on YouTube (24:59). My reaction: Casey's comments about mainstream media's coverage of any topic opposed to the ruling class's agenda is "spot on". I don't use any new sources from media corporations, and I only use independent sources. The divide of opinion over the "covid pandemic" is only between people who are addicts of media corporations and others who find fake information spread by media corporations by forcing others to find independent and reliable sources of information. Media corporations only report "news" or propaganda that fits the various hidden agendas of the ruling capitalist class. This divide and conquer strategy divide people into two warring camps: those who follow mainstream media and others who want reliable sources for information. Mainstream media is the voice of the ruling capitalist class whose basic purpose is to dominate the entire globe.
  • American Pravda: Anne Frank, Sirhan Sirhan, and AIDS by Ron Unz from his weblog The Unz Review.  My reaction: Unz, an old-fashioned capitalist (contrasted with the hyper-aggressive right-wing neocons) is highly critical of media corporations and their reporting and silence regarding the many scandals that have occurred in the 50 years (including the assassination of the Kennedys and the AIDS crisis). Unz gives many slanderous references to the "dishonest or cowardly American media". But these are no casual descriptive references. I, in contrast to Unz, believe that the CIA and other highly secretive "intelligence" services of the ruling capitalist class have taken over major media corporations throughout the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire and using them as a tool for the transnational capitalist class as the main propaganda tool to brainwash Americans in support of their agendas, among which is, and has always been, since WWII that of global domination (see this and this). Anyone standing in way of their goals is immediately neutralized in one way or another.
Which is why I am saying my goodbyes now while I can still reach you, my most obstinate followers.

But this isn’t really about one small light being snuffed out. This isn’t just about our relationship coming to an end. Something bigger, and more disturbing, is taking place.

Journalists like me are part of an experiment – in a new, more democratised media landscape. We have developed new reader-funded models so that we can break free of the media corporations, which until now ensured billionaires and the state controlled the flow of information in one direction only: to speak down to us.
It has been seven months since Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett took office, and here he is today dispelling (any) doubts about his government’s political path: frank rejection of the Oslo Accords and peace based on the two-state solution.
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