Posts that I especially recommend for Sunday, June 13, 2021

• The Difference Between Totalitarian Regimes And Free Democracies by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband reading the script, which is also provided in the article from her weblog. My reaction: The only criticism I have is that quotation marks should be around "free democracy". As it is (without quotation marks) there is a tendency to cynicism. "Free democracy" implies a propaganda construct, whereas a free democracy can be very real.

• A Few Thoughts on White Identity by Gary Engler from Dissident Voice. (Note: Engler reviews a book entitled White Fragility: Why White People Have Such a Hard Time Talking About Racism.)

In my opinion, this book starkly epitomizes the dangerous consequences when discussions of white identity are divorced from class analysis. 

• The 2021 Corporate Bamboozle On World Food Systems from GPEnewsdocs featuring a long interview and discussion between Lynn Fries, "producer of Global Political Economy or GPEnewsdocs, and Pat Mooney, who is "leading [the] IPES-Food’s ‘Long Food Movement’ project. My commentary follows: 

Fries and Mooney both represent small farmers in their quest to retain control over the world's food production in contrast to Big Ag's corporate dominance that is emerging under the propaganda construct of "multistakeholderism". The latter term is defined by the Transnational Institute as:

 

Multistakeholderism is a slippery term as most of the definitions are too vague and general and because it is applied to many different forms of governance. It is also an evolving form of governance. ....

 

In multistakeholderism, ‘stakeholders’ become the central actors without any clear procedure to designate ‘stakeholders’.

 

This is in contrast to the previous governing ideology of multilateralism based on interactions and agreements between nation-states. Big Ag is pushing the concept of multistakeholderism to give transnational corporations more relevance in global discussions and in legal bodies such as the UN. In my opinion, "multistakeholderism" is a sneaky construct to give global corporations (and their capitalist backers) as financial "stakeholders" more legitimacy in upcoming legal decisions by the UN. Financial stakeholders have always primarily meant those who have a financial or economic stake in outcomes.

 

Neoliberals (or transnationals) of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire have already proved their power in the recent pandemic by co-opting the World Health Organization (WHO) of the UN. Co-opting of the UN's agency was accomplished after Trump's decision to withdraw US support for the WHO and the billionaire Bill Gates and his foundation stepped in to provide the greatest single monetary support of WHO among nations. This new construct is used to effect a stealthy move around the poorer nations of the world and to enhance the power of the Empire's transnational agricultural corporations.

I think Pat Mooney is a rather naive "do-gooder" who will have little influence on international legal bodies.

• 💥Propaganda and the Media — Let’s Tell Some Lies — Part 5 by Larry Romanoff from "The Saker" weblog. This is a best post. My reaction: Romanoff illustrates how your views of events in the world are distorted by billionaire-owned media corporations to make you ignorant of the Empire's actual crimes.

I have nearly 1,000 such stories in my files, enough to fill a thick book, and all reprehensibly dishonest in their presentation. When Westerners have only a diet of daily articles like this presented to them by their most trusted media, how is it possible for anyone to accurately understand anything about China?

• How US govt-funded media fueled a violent coup in Nicaragua by Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton from The Grayzone. My reaction: This is an important report because it illustrates how the directors of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire are going about subverting entire nations (think Ukraine as another example) to the dominance of the Empire. In Nicaragua they were not successful because the people under successive Sandinista governments had encouraged the people to become politically aware.

• Toxic Chemicals Engulf the Planet by Robert Hunziker from Dissident Voice.
  

• Could temperatures keep rising? from Arctic News. 

A recent post suggests that the 1.5°C threshold was already crossed in 2012, i.e. well before the Paris Agreement was adopted by the U.N. (in 2015), while there could be a temperature rise of more than 3°C [ by 2026.

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, May 20, 2021

• Biohazards News Tracker: Best articles on SARS-CoV-2 origins, biolabs and gain of function research by Sainath Suryanarayanan from U.S. Right to Know. 

• Beijing, the Five Eyes or Something Else? Who’s to Blame for the COVID Pandemic? by Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation.
  

• DIVIDE & RULE - The Plan of The 1% to Make You DISPOSABLE - Vandana Shiva

• Exclusive Interview: Fight To Stop Bill Gates Control of Global Seed Population featuring Ben Swann introducing his interview with Vandana Shiva in a 14:51m video from ISE.

• Microsoft vs Indian Farmers: Agri-Stacking the System by Colin Todhunter, a Brit who has live in India for a number of years, from Global Research.
  

• Gas Shortages and Simulations by Matt Nilsson from his weblog What About the Roads.

• Checkpoints on the Frontier of Desire by John Steppling from his weblog. (Note: This post is for those who have spent a lot of time in universities.)
  

• Why Did Facebook Censor Two Renowned Oxford Professors Sharing Information About Face Masks? by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.
  

• New Eastern Outlook: "Account was disabled or suspended by server administrator". I got this message this morning while trying to access this website. The ruling capitalist class is intent on narrowing the information and opinions you receive in order to better control you. They are afraid of you. They will do this as long as you remain quiet and remain "good Germans". 

A similar thing has happened to CGTN, China's major online news website. Although you can now access the website, you can't read any of the articles.

• James Corbett on the Human Extinction Event featuring Corbett reporting his views on the coming attacks on our present systems on the way to the Great Reset, the grandiose plan by transnational billionaire capitalists, in a 57-minute interview from his weblog The Corbett Report. My reaction: Did you notice that sometime in the interview, Corbett uses the verboten words "ruling class"?

• Note To Greenwald - The 'Russian' Pipeline Is A Germany Need by Bernhard, a German independent blogger from his weblog Moon of Alabama.
  

• Mexico’s President AMLO Accuses US State Department of “Promoting Coup-Plotters” by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond.
  

• The US Is Complicit In Every Single Israeli Government War Crime by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond.
  

• Antarctica is headed for a climate tipping point by 2060, with catastrophic melting if carbon emissions aren’t cut quickly by Julie Brigham-Grette and Andrea Dutton from The Conversation. My reaction: These two professors in the field of geoscience focus on the melting of the Antarctic glaciers, but other scientists tell us that the Arctic sea ice will disappear much sooner which is disastrous for us and other species.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, April 22, 2021

• 💥Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi Interview – COVID Vaccine Blood Clot Risk Was Known, Ignored & Buried in a video interview (52:21m)from The Last American Vagabond. This is a best post. Also, if this interests you, you might also find an interest in this article. Unfortunately the retired doctor does not understand that our American capitalist masters have chosen to work through corporations to enforce their demand to take Covid-19 vaccinations.

• U.S. May Soon Reach Tipping Point on COVID Vaccine Demand + More by Children's Health Defense Team from Children's Health Defense.

• The Covidian Cult (Part II) by political satirist CJ Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. (Note: He occasionally detours from his usual ridicule and becomes serious in exposing what he calls the "covidian cult".)
  

• Forging Vaccine Passports featuring James Corbett from his weblog offering his insights that forging vaccine passports is not the answer even though reporting on this solution is accompanied by propaganda to encourage fake passports. My reaction: What is the solution to this? Unfortunately, this anarchist doesn't have an answer because "the powers that shouldn't be" (read our "ruling capitalist class") are coming with their solution because "it is for your own good". Listen to what their solution is!

• Masters of Puppets and Men of System: Review of Mario Rizzo and Glen Whitman, Escaping Paternalism by Art Carden from American Institute for Economic Research.
  

• The Catastrophes of the Pandemic are the Catastrophes of Capitalism by Stephen Gowans, an independent Canadian blogger from his weblog What's Left. 

• Free Speech Has Legal And Ethical Confines, Propaganda Does Not by Patrick Wood from Technocracy. My reaction: Unfortunately, our ruling class masters have other ideas.
  

• US Postal Service Running 'Covert Operations Program' To Spy On Americans' Social Media Posts, Share With Agencies by Tyler Durden from his weblog ZeroHedge.
  

• We’re All Weird Naked Murder Monkeys by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• US Order Against Russia: Italy at Attention by Manlio Dinucci, translated from Italian on Il Manifesto, and reproduced on Global Research. (Note: This report reveals how the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire is currently imposing "such costs as to cause a strategic impact on Russia”.)
  

• Vladimir Putin On Petty Tabaquis And International Issues by Bernhard, an independent German blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama. (Note: "Tabaquis" refer to a novel by Rudyard Kipling. Also, this article references the attempted assassination of the government leader of Belarus which is explained in this article from The Saker weblog.)

• Resistance Axis on war alert, to ‘openly’ target Israel if Iran attacks continue: Hezbollah insider from Middle East Observer. 
  

• [Big] Agriculture’s Greatest Myth by Jonathan Latham, PhD from Independent Science News. (Note: My insertion in the title.)
  

• The Impact of Population, Productivity, and Consumption on the Planet featuring Jaia Syvitski, professor at the University of Colorado and Stuart H. Scott, educator and environmentalist discussing the climate crisis. My reaction: I notice that Prof. Syvitski emphasizes population; and whenever Scott introduces that capitalism is a central problem, she always brings back the subject of population as the problem. She is in tune with our transnational ruling class of capitalists as expressed by Karl Schwab and the Great Reset as the solution to our climate crisis--the very thing that capitalism promoted along with its alliance with Christianity and similar religions.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, April 21, 2021

• Covid’s IFR just keeps DROPPING by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.
  

• The Lockdown Paradigm Is Collapsing by Jeffrey A. Tucker from American Institute for Economic Research.
  

• Simple Ways to Keep Your Immune System Strong by Dr. Vernon Coleman, a Brit, from his weblog. (Note: This article includes a video of his talk and transcript.)
  

• How Stalin Canceled 'Hamlet' in the Soviet Union—and What It Can Teach Us about Cancel Culture by Jon Miltimore from Foundation for Economic Education. My reaction: Ruling class experts of propaganda has turned so many liberals (dreamy reformist capitalists) into intolerant "virtuous" bigots who obsessively want to divert attention away from the growing inequality among the world's poor. This is based on the religion of absolute god-like authority figures who know what's best for us--American-style capitalism and away from any consideration of socialist ideas. Thus they, or the authoritative talking-heads you see on TV, read scripts that wrap themselves in virtue and censor all ideas that don't fit with the American goose of capitalism, a goose which continues to lay so many golden eggs for billionaires.

• There is No Substitute for the Rank and File: Thoughts on Amazon Unionization by Tatiana Cozzarelli from Left Voice. 

• A Trader’s Federal Lawsuit Against JPMorgan Chase Offers a Window into the Crime Culture at the Five Felony-Count Bank by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• You reap what you sow by Natalie Bennett from Ecologist (a British weblog).

That we live on a hugely degraded, biologically impoverished planet, in which natural ecosystems are battered, abused, barely clinging on, is now emerging into public consciousness. But the corresponding rise of the superweed, and increasing vulnerability of our crop species, has yet to so register.

• The deafening sound of silence in the West (Open Thread #15) by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from his weblog.
  

• Russia Increases Its Defense, While U.S. Backs Down From Provoking WWIII by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Why Cryptocurrency Is A Giant Fraud by Nathan J. Robinson from Current Affairs.

• The US Withdrawal From Afghanistan May Just Lead To Privatized War by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond. 

• Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for Agrifood Must Not Succeed by Colin Todhunter from Dissident Voice. 

• The Doomsday Glacier Lives up to its Billing by Robert Hunziker from Dissident Voice.
  

• Rapid Loss of Habitat for Homo sapiens by Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist who has focused on the climate crisis, from Academia. (Note: You will need to download this brief paper, and I recommend Acrobat Reader. But notice the installer wants you to select a list of additional software. Decide for yourself if you want them.)

• 💥In our hurry to conquer nature and death, we have made a new religion of science by Jonathan Cook from his weblog. This is a best post.
  

Were we not so technology obsessed, were we not so greedy, were we not so terrified of insecurity and death, if we did not see our bodies and minds as separate, and humans as separate from everything else, we might pause to ponder whether our approach is not a little misguided.

Science and technology can be wonderful things. They can advance our knowledge of ourselves and the world we inhabit. But they need to be conducted with a sense of humility we increasingly seem incapable of. We are not conquerors of our bodies, or the planet, or the universe – and if we imagine we are, we will soon find out that the battle we are waging is one we can never hope to win.