Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, May 18, 2021

• Eric Clapton’s Anti-Vaccine Diatribe Blames ‘Propaganda’ for ‘Disastrous’ Experience by Daniel Kreps from Rolling Stone.

• How the CDC is manipulating data to prop-up “vaccine effectiveness” by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian. 

• How Bill Gates & Big Pharma used children as “guinea pigs”…and got away with it. By Bernard Marx from Off-Guardian.
  

• Russell Brand: Is There a ‘Deliberate Attempt’ to Hide Origins of COVID? featuring a 17:32m video of British Russell Brand from Children's Health Defense asking all kinds of questions to unravel the mysteries of the origins of Covid-19 illness that has been used to rationalize a worldwide pandemic and health restrictions on our civil liberties of lock-downs, mask-wearing, and social distancing, all of which bankrupted an unknown number of small businesses and enriched billionaires. My brief commentary follows: 

I have been through all this before with the assassinations of the Kennedys, Malcolm X, Martin L. King, 9/11, the invasion of Iraq, etc. All the dissenting reports were heavily censored combined with media corporations promoting the official views. I have long concluded that these crimes were committed by a fascist clique in the US ruling capitalist class devoted to building a powerful, world-dominating, capitalist empire combining the military might of the USA with what was left of the British Empire following WWII. Israel, and Zionist financial power, was added later.

• 💥Propaganda and the Media – Deception on a Grand Scale – Part 2 by Larry Romanoff from "The Saker Blog". This is a best post. (Note: Romanoff analyses Empire propaganda for what it is: another weapon in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's quest to dominate the world. First, he devotes considerable space to treat how the propaganda machine works against China, next in Mexico, and finally in the implied Empire's capture of the WHO and their sterilization efforts of the developing countries.) 

It is important to keep in mind that ‘the media’ is not some amorphous, inanimate object but a group of real people with names, who plan, script and conduct these propaganda campaigns. I have had encounters with some of these ‘reporters’ and ‘columnists’. Many of them qualify as gangsters, acting as front men for a criminal enterprise, using their public power to shield and defend those who should be imprisoned and trashing anyone who stands in their way.

In contrast to hearing much media noise on a topic, we sometimes have only a deafening silence which is equally a guarantee of propaganda, this time in the form of censorship. When the entire Western media unanimously have no comment on an important current topic, we can be certain that much has happened behind the scenes to ensure this result.

• Newsweek blows lid off American 60,000-person strong “secret army” by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst, from BRICS.
  

• Sober-Minded Socialism by Devin Thomas O'Shea from Current Affairs. My reaction: Although I seem to be immune from any kind of addiction and I despise the established religions, I think that Alcoholics Anonymous is onto something.

• Non-compliance at Travel Checkpoints featuring Dan Dicks in 13:21m interview from Corbett's website regarding an onerous encounter with the RCMP, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, while traveling in British Columbia. My reaction: I think we all must disturb and resist in any way we can. Mario Savio (of UC Berkeley) words expressed in 1964 seem relevant here:
  

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels ... upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!

• 'No Dogs, No Irish, No Blacks' by Dustin Broadbery from The Cogent.

• Biden Continues To Support Israel's Warcrimes by Bernhard, an independent German blogger from his weblog Moon of Alabama.
  

• Netanyahu Warns Biden Not to Get Involved by Philip Giraldi from The Unz Review. 

• Israel’s Crimes and the Extermination of the Palestinian People by Stella Calloni from Internationalist 360°.

• Gaza Fights for Freedom, a film directed by Abby Martin regarding Israeli attacks on Gaza from Vimeo.

• Killing Gaza: Dan Cohen & Max Blumenthal’s documentary shows life under Israel’s bombs and siege from The Grayzone. (Note: This describes and furnishes a 1:36:49 hr. documentary.)

• Leak Exposes Fissures in Iranian Establishment and Power Shift to Hard-Liners by Gareth Porter from Consortium News.
  

• The Climate Crisis Is Nothing To Worry About! featuring Lee Camp satirizing the mainstream treatment of the climate crisis from his YouTube channel (2:18m).

• Extinction by 2027 by Malcolm Light from Arctic News.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, February 10, 2021

• The Disarticulation of Pandemic War Propaganda by Raul Diego from Mint Press News. In this post Diego presents a mountain of evidence that a propaganda project is being imposed on the US and (likely) European populations that China is responsible for most of the onerous restrictions imposed on populations worldwide. The sub-headline says what his prodigious research has uncovered: "An investigative analysis takes apart a hackneyed piece of propaganda authored by an international alt-right clique with links to the Pentagon." Read the post for the detailed and supporting evidence.

• Who Wanted Pandemic Lockdowns? by Jeffrey A. Tucker from American Institute for Economic Research. 

• ‘It’s the Vaccines, Stupid’ — New Book Exposes Corruption That Led to HPV Vaccines and Injuries by Mary Holland from Children's Health Defense.
  

• Facebook Hires NATO Press Officer Ben Nimmo as Intelligence Chief by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

• Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence from Boom Bust channel of RT (via YouTube).
  

In an era where artificial intelligence seems to be rapidly developing by the day, should society begin to question to reliability of the fairly novel technology? We hear from co-host Ben Swann and cybersecurity expert Morgan Wright on the potential shortfalls of the computer intelligence and the perils that could accompany complete reliance.

• Bernie's Pro-War Advisor Joins Biden Administration. This post features Jimmy Dore and Max Blumenthal, via Dore's YouTube channel, commenting on this latest development in relation to fake Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders in order to win elections.

• Establishment's Secret Project To Control 2020 Election & Censor Critics Revealed. This post features Jimmy Dore and Max Blumenthal, via Dore's YouTube channel, commenting on a report in Time Magazine that reveals secret organizations funded by powerful members of the capitalist ruling class to influence media corporations to censor negative reports that regarding Joe Biden, Democratic Party candidate. 

• From Concentration Camps to Overflow Facilities: With Biden in Charge, Media Forgets Kids in Cages by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. Another post from MPN that illustrates how mainstream media hypocritically serves the Deep State by avoiding subjects that embarrasses them, and what the Deep State, the directors of the ruling class, don't want you to know. 

• The Mechanism of Invisible Hand, Invisible Cage, and Invisible Empire over Humanity and Nature by Hiroyuki Hamada from Dissident Voice.
  

• New NORAD Warfare Strategies and Canada’s Role in the Great Game Revisited by Matthew Ehret (a Canadian geopolitical analyst) from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Why Russia is driving the West crazy by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker Blog".  

• The Headless Chicken and the Bear by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from "The Saker Blog". I regard Raevsky, who now lives in the USA, as the foremost expert on Russian politics writing in English today. Thus, this statement near the end of the article caught my eye:

For these reasons I would call the probability of an actual military clash between US/NATO and/or Russia/China as “likely in 2021”. As for the future of NS2, I always assumed that EU politicians can count their Euros and realize that the EU needs that project way more than Russia. Frankly, I am not so sure now: counting on the mental abilities of a headless chicken is probably not a good idea! Neither is counting on the courage of the type of politicians whom Boris Johnson once called “supine invertebrate protoplasmic jellies“.

You will need to know what his use of "3B+PU" means. I found what it means in another article he has written--"3 Balts plus Poland and the Ukraine". ("NS2" in the paragraph above means Nord Stream 2, the natural gas pipeline nearing completion which is posing a problem for European political leaders not wanting to offend the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire who have been dead-set (def.) against it.

• Why Israel is joining the Pentagon’s 'Arab Nato' by Jonathan Cook from Middle East Eye.

• Wish You Were Here by John Steppling from his weblog. (Note: Steppling is an American playwright who currently lives in Norway, but has traveled extensively throughout the world. Not only has he traveled, but he has lived in numerous countries. In this post, he muses about the significance of travel, identifies its roots in colonialism, and generally how travel serves, and has served, the ruling classes from a historical and cultural perspective.)

• Science Update: More Rain, More Flooding, More Methane featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson (via YouTube) reporting on the latest peer-reviewed reports on the above.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, February 9, 2021

•  Essential reading to understand the COVID19 fraud. By Vanessa Beeley, a Brit, from her weblog The Wall Will Fall. This is a best post because of its extensive documentation.

• Is it True that the New Variants are Very Dangerous? by Rosemary Frei, MSc, from her weblog. (Note: This post features a 9:18m video that features Frei summarizing her report that follows in the post.)

• Trust the Science by Dave Cullen, an Irishman, in a satirical 9:37m video from his Bitchute channel Computing Forever.
  

• Stanford Medical Prof: Scientists Are Being Censored For Sharing “Alternative” Info About COVID by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• Revealed: How Facebook Plans to Read Your Brain from Children's Health Defense.
  

• The (New Normal) War on Domestic Terror by CJ Hopkins from his satirical weblog Consent Factory, Inc. My reaction: No doubt the NY Times triggered this response by calling for a "Reality Czar". I think Hopkins could be put out of the satirical business by reading/watching mainstream media. They increasingly write/show their own self-targeting satire.

• Joe Biden and the Revenge of the Behaviorists (Why Statistical Thinking Can Get You Killed) by Matthew Ehret from FRN (Fort Russ News). My reaction: This post reveals how scientists can, and often do, serve the capitalist ruling class, who are already corrupted by wealth and power, by manipulating data to support ruling class policies. Such scientists are rewarded with comfortable careers for the benefit of themselves and their families. The necessity of preserving their privileged life-styles is often too alluring for scientists, especially when they already have sociopathic tendencies.
  

• Democrats WANT To Lose The Midterms: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian, from her weblog. My reaction: She knows far more about the USA than most Americans. I wonder if her American husband has something to do with this.

• Really Existing Capitalism is Crony Capitalism by Rod Driver from Elephants in the Room, his weblog on Medium's website.

• Canadian Government Delays Mandatory Traveler Quarantine featuring an interview with John Carpay of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, which appears to be a non-profit center that is independent of the government, conducted by James Corbett, a Canadian, from The Corbett Report. (Note: Canada is very much a part of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire being a former member of the British Empire. Many of Carpay's comments apply to Americans. Of course, we are both citizens of the same imperialist Empire.)

The Canadian government announced it was going to subject Canadian residents to mandatory quarantine, at their own expense, after returning from international travel, regardless of their negative COVID status. After public backlash and the threat of legal action, the government is now delaying those plans, but some are alleging that the government has already arrested Canadians arriving in the country by air and transported them to a secret hotel location. Joining us to discuss this developing story and what Canadians can do about it is John Carpay of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.

• MSM accused of keeping America devided | Can it get worse? from RT (via YouTube).

• Collective Hysteria: Western Leaders Work to Alter the Definition of Reality by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Retail Traders Are the New Lab Rats in High Frequency Trading Schemes by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 
  

• U.S., Taiwan Manipulate Chip Supplies To Press For War With China by Bernhard, a German independent blogger from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• China newsbrief and sitrep by Godfree Roberts from "The Saker Blog".
  

• Farmers’ Protest in India: Price of Failure Will Be immense by Colin Todhunter (a Brit who has lived a number of years in India) from CounterPunch. My reaction: What is happening in India is representative of the worldwide effects of capitalist development through the corporatization (def. American English) of agriculture.

The plan to radically restructure agrifood in the country is being sold to the public under the guise of ‘modernising’ the sector. And this is to be carried out by self-proclaimed ‘wealth creators’ like Zuckerberg, Bezos and Ambani who are highly experienced at creating wealth – for themselves.

• How Ecuador’s US-backed, coup-supporting ‘ecosocialist’ candidate Yaku Pérez aids the right-wing by Ben Norton from The Grayzone. My reaction: Note how similar this is in the USA, the center of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Subversive Empire agents now have control of the Democratic Party which traditionally supported workers (within a capitalist framework).

• Bolivia Heading Towards Cooperative Politics and Economy by Ron Ridenour from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Turkish Proxies Launch Missiles At Joint Russian-Syrian HQ In Southern Idlib [Syria] from Southfront. (Note: The post includes a transcript of the 3:53m video.)
  

• Key points regarding abrupt, irreversible climate change featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson (via YouTube) summarizes the main peer-reviewed documents that support his view of abrupt climate change.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, December 10, 2020

• New Film SEVEN Available Today on Multiple Streaming Platforms from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. My commentary follows: 

I viewed this 45 minute film last night and I highly recommend it. On 9/11/2001 I watched on TV the buildings of the World Trade Center come down, but I was already convinced that the collapse of buildings was a ruse to get Americans prepared for dramatic changes in foreign policy. Sure enough, people everywhere were shocked and prepared to do anything for their country. Gas station attendants in Oregon, where I was living at the time, insisted that their customers put patriotic stickers on their cars. Laws were rushed through Congress like the Patriot Act to grant government agencies to secure all kinds of records on Americans and the suspension of habeus corpus laws for alien Americans. Members of Congress who were concerned about the rush to pass these laws were targets for anthrax attacks. I felt very uncomfortable with this growing police state and relocated to Canada until 2006. About 1 1/2 years after 9/11, the US along with some allies had already invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. 

This film shows clear evidence that many architects and engineers were reluctant to challenge the governments flimsy excuses and reports by government agencies that gave approval to the official story of 9/11. They were intimidated into silence by the Deep State which controls nearly everything in the USA. Only after a decade did these professionals become involved and started to challenge the obvious inconsistencies and unscientific justifications of the official story.

• Révolution écosocialiste: A strategic perspective for uniting ecosocialists in Québec by Richard Fidler from Climate & Capitalism.

• Bolivia: New Gov’t Sets to Work Undoing Damage Left by US-Backed Añez Regime by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. My reaction: Be sure to appoint sound military loyalists to the Constitution of Bolivia as top generals in the Bolivian army. By "sound", I mean generals that have demonstrated their loyalty to the Bolivian Constitution, but not to foreigners.

• Pentagon to Biden: Latin America a major battlefield in war with China by Bill Van Auken from World Socialist Web Site.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020

• Is There A Flu Shot / COVID Link? – Questions For Corbett featuring Canadian James Corbett (who lives in Japan) from his website. (Note: This post was inspired by a personal experience that I had last November. I received the flu shot in early November and I came down with the flu a day or two later. This was a shocking experience for me because it was unprecedented of getting flu shots in the last 30 years. If I came done with flu, it was always in the spring of the following year. I am otherwise a very healthy 84 year old (83 last year), and haven't come down with covid-19, but I've wondered about this strange happening ever since. This post offers some correlations and research studies that suggests there may be a link between getting flu shots and covid-19 illness.)   

• Scotland Changes Definition of COVID Hospitalization. Number Drops From 262 to 46 from Anti-Empire.

• Prime Minister & CMO of Canada Sued For Extreme & Unnecessary COVID-19 Measures by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• Washington Post Is Right That 5G Is a Lie, But Wrong About the Reason by Dafna Tachover from Children's Health Defense.
  

• A “Persistent Eye in the Sky” Coming to a City Near You? by Medea Benjamin and Barry Summers from Dissident Voice.

• Federal Judge Rules Pennsylvania Lockdown “Unconstitutional” by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian. 

• Virtual School Dangers: The Hazards of a Police State Education During COVID-19 by John W. Whitehead from his weblog.
  

• Why Are Governments Trying to Fast-Track Unlicensed, Experimental COVID Vaccines? from 21st Century Wire (based in Britain). (Note: A second video emphasizes the major influence of Bill Gates on British policies.) 

• How Xinjiang “Interferes” with the EU-China Deal by Pepe Escobar via Global Research.
  

• Fake News About Iran, Russia, China Is U.S. Journalism's Daily Bread by Bernhard (German) from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• Temperatures threaten to become unbearable from Arctic News.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020

• COVID Vérité: Leading French Expert Destroys Gov’t Case for Masks and Lockdown, a video from 21st Century Wire.

• Is the UN Preparing for the “Second Covid Lockdown”? Oppressive Measures Worldwide, Obedience and Acceptance… by Peter Koenig from Global Research.

We know by now that nothing of this, masks, “cases / infections”, quarantine, lockdown, vaccination, or any other repressive measure have anything to do with covid. They are means and instruments for the New World Order (NWO) to “train” the population for total obedience and control by the invisible super power, or deep dark state. WHO plays a key role in this nefarious plans, as it still is regarded by most people and governments as an authority, as far as world health is concerned which sadly, it has ceased to be decades ago.

• The Carney/Freeland Green Reset Shapes Canada’s ‘New Normal’ by Mathew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: This is a report and analysis of the events after the "Great Reset" project was adopted by the Empire's Deep State back in June.) My commentary and analysis follows:

I missed this article when it was published online last week largely because I thought it was about Canadians and their issues. But on another website this morning I was convinced that Ehret was addressing not only a parochial Canadian issue, but an issue that worries the transnational capitalist ruling class that governs the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Canada is an integral part of the Empire, and this reports on events after the Empire's leaders adopted the "Great Reset" project. This project is mainly designed to stop the Empire's threat from China and its New Silk Road project (aka Belt and Road Initiative) that many nations have already signed onto, including some European nations. However, there several other problems that the transnational ruling capitalist class is confronting, and the current covid-19 pandemic is the chosen method to deal with all of these concerns. It is evident that I am departing from Ehret's formulation which cites Carny and Freeland as the main actors pushing this "Great Reset". But most all, I firmly reject his main conclusion: 

If the world is truly as closed, finite and entropic as the misanthropic minds of an Oxford-trained technocrat like Mark Carney, Chrystia Freeland or David Attenborough, then this sort of post-COVID world order would admittedly be the way to go. 

Our planet is overburdened by capitalist operations which has resulted in over-population, but it is obvious that our, or any, planet has finite resources and environmental limits which no species can exceed. Thus, we can only conclude that Ehret agrees that the "Great Reset" project and capitalism are the best methods/systems that humans can design.  

It is no secret that the Empire is worried about the challenge that independent nations, such as China, Russia, and Iran are posing for their dominance in our overburdened planet. However, they are worried about several other issues: over- population, the unsustainability of the operations under the existing capitalist system, the financial quagmire that they find themselves in, and excessive burdens posed by "useless eaters" such as old and lame people on their nation's treasuries. I firmly believe that the present covid-19 crisis, whether engineered by Empire agents or not (likely it was), has resulted in the "Great Reset" project which is designed to deal with all the above problems. 

It is obvious that the Empire's transnational capitalist ruling class is not concerned about all the onerous effects that their project will impose on workers, but the members are only concerned with all of their problems, and number one is China. It is my opinion that they are using this covid-19 crisis as cover for all of their problems. Using this crisis as cover permits them to impose all kinds of restrictions on their populations which in normal times would be illegal and unconstitutional.

• Germany Starts Universal Basic Income Trial Giving Some Citizens $1400 A Month For 3 Years by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution. (My reaction: I can't believe that this is actually happening. The author admits that this measure is not supported by any political party in Germany. So, how did it pass in their legislature? The USA could not afford such a program due to the fact that they are engaged all over the world with occupations, invasions, and subversions.)

• Belarus - NATO Lobby Acknowledges That Its Color Revolution Failed by Bernhard (German) from his weblog Moon of Alabama.   
  

Recommended articles for Tuesday, August 7, 2018

• Fear and Loathing In And Of The USA by Christopher Black from New Eastern Outlook.

• Codename Acor Sycamore - The Saudi-U.S.-Al-Qaeda Plan To Reconquer Canada by Bernhard from Moon of Alabama. Also you might be interested in a related article entitled Canada Refuses to Back Down After Saudi Arabia Freezes New Trade

• In A Corporatist System Of Government, Corporate Censorship Is State Censorship by Caitlin Johnstone from her website. It looks like the ruling class censors are going after "low-hanging fruit" in their initial phase. This reminds me of Niemöller's famous quote: "First they came for...."

What’s Wrong in Canada’s Halls of Power?

Click here to access article by Phil Butler from New Eastern Outlook.

Based on my four years of living in Canada, I think that Butler makes some very keen observations about Canada's rather dismal fate as a colony of the US given what Trump has declared as his agenda for US industry. Still, given Canada's subservience to the US Empire's diktats, I can't imagine that the real directors of the US (think Deep State) will allow him to go too far in hurting Canada's economy.

The fourth largest country in the world by land area, Canada’s true potential is not even close to being tapped. A nation of only 36 million people, the country probably should have emerged as a major power decades ago. Instead the hapless politicians set in place there just tag along, and they don’t even do a good job of that. Canada’s national debt of just over $800 billion is not even all that bad compared to the US, and European nations. Still the leadership there trudges along doing foreign policy like a satrap. It is inconceivable for me that the world’s most educated country can appoint the dumbest leaders on the planet. The only country that can actually beat Russia at ice hockey cannot even chart its own course and best interests?

Canada-Russia relations and trade were put on hold after the Ukraine crisis, to the detriment of both nations.

Keeping the Student Strike Alive

Click here to access article by Alain Savard from Jacobin. 

The Quebec student movement centered in Montreal had very impressive victories in 2012 against the provincial government which was intent on raising tuition and outlawing student demonstrations. This article attempts to analyze why and how they succeeded in contrast to other campuses in the rest of Canada and the US. 

It appears to me that the basic ingredients are one-day strikes, general student assemblies which are limited in size, maintaining an activist core, and the hiring of more permanent key staff funded by student fees. You might glean other elements that contribute to their success. He concludes his article with this statement:

As the impact of the Great Recession drags on, the time is ripe for student unions across Canada, and the United States to take a page from the Quebec students’ playbook and take back their campuses.

On Canada Day, What Does Humanity Have To Look Forward To? Not What Canada Represents

Click here to access article by Stephen Gowans from his blog What's Left. 

Today is Canada Day, an annual fete in Canada to honour the birth of the country. In Ottawa, the capital, Canadians dress in the red and white of their country’s flag, set baseball caps with CANADA emblazoned across the front atop their heads, clutch mini Canadian flags in their hands, and make their way to the annual Parliament Hill spectacle, which features massive flags, marching soldiers, and Canadian war planes roaring overhead....

I regard Gowans as one of the leading thinkers in today's US-led Empire. In this essay he reflects on the traditional orgy of patriotic displays that are celebrated on Canada Day (July 1) that we in the US are so familiar with on July 4th. He examines the many contradictions between the celebrated ideological themes on their nationalistic holiday and the disturbing realities of his country's history and that of Great Britain, the mother country. It's clear that these contradictions are the same for the US because the same transnational capitalist class rules in the US. 

The devastating world wars of the 20th century largely settled the issue of competing centers of capitalist ruling classes. Previously there was a true multipolar capitalist world which nowadays we find so many "progressives" wanting to re-establish. The British Empire joined the powerful US capitalists to defeat the German affiliated nations of the capitalist world. Only the Soviet Union remained after WWII, and the Cold War and their own contradictions soon put an end to them. But what has arisen to compete with the US-led Empire are Russia and China whose mixed economies have mixed ruling classes who refuse to bow to the dictates of the Empire, and as a consequence are constantly hounded by the dogs of the Empire. But I digress.

What I really wanted to express is that all the nations of today's Empire are ruled by a tiny transnational class whose representatives come from all countries under the domination of the Empire's army of NATO. The behavior of this class has always been influenced by the drugs that they are addicted to: profit and power. Hence their foreign policies are imperialistic and their domestic policies exploitative, and all this has been hidden under a thick blanket of ideology.

In order to secure their workers allegiance to their rule, their agendas, and to fight in their wars, capitalists have always had to construct an elaborate ideological structure that appealed to workers in addition to supplying key leaders of the working class with a little of their imperialist plunder. This is what is celebrated most effusively on national holidays. Of course these ideologies are overwhelming filled with deceptions, and in this piece Gowans exposes the fakery of Canadian and British nationalistic ideology by revealing the true histories of their imperialist crimes.

Here’s the Climate Context For the Fort McMurray Wildfire

Click here to access article by Brian Kahn from Climate Central. 

I looked long and hard for any commentaries about the relationship between the fire conflagration in Fort McMurray and global warming. This is one of the few. Most other corporate media are feasting on the sensational aspects of this event, some try to figure out the causes but have a very limited perspective by focusing on the immediate causes, some attribute the increasing fires to a "new normal" climate, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau criticized people who made a  connection with global warming. I've noticed that local TV meteorologists in the Seattle area, if they make a connection at all to the record breaking temperatures we've been experiencing, correctly deny that any single event can be traced to global warming; but yet they refuse to look at patterns over time.

This article provides the best analysis of the relationship, but it only makes some brief references.

The wildfire is the latest in a lengthening lineage of early wildfires in the northern reaches of the globe that are indicative of a changing climate. As the planet continues to warm, these types of fires will likely only become more common and intense as spring snowpack disappears and temperatures warm.

“This (fire) is consistent with what we expect from human-caused climate change affecting our fire regime,” Mike Flannigan, a wildfire researcher at the University of Alberta, said.

I think that the fire conflagration at Fort McMurray is giving us a look into our future. Unfortunately, most people, especially our ruling capitalist class, refuse to acknowledge this simply because capitalism and a planet that can support human life are completely incompatible. Capitalist indoctrinated people frequently can imagine the end of humans before they can imagine the end of capitalism.

The Paris Climate Agreement and the Fight Against Climate Change: A Detailed Summary

Click here to access article by Arnold De Graaff from Heathwood Institute and Press. 

This Canadian author, academic, and therapist provides an excerpt from his forthcoming book on the above subject. After summarizing the reactions to the recently concluded Paris climate talks, he writes:

They range from euphoric to disastrous. After the first relief passed that at least something had been accomplished, the negative reactions multiplied. The general consensus from many different sources is that the Paris agreement is a failure for humanity and a disaster for the global environment. These negative reactions are well-founded. Here’s why.

He examines the mostly futile efforts that Canadian provinces are making to deal with this problem, and reaches this conclusion:

Unfortunately, climate change does not respond to global economic practices nor to political pressure and manipulation. The rise in CO2 and other gasses, leading to global warming, is a matter of scientific observation and requires solutions that are in keeping with current science and not market-based. Or, on a more practical level, climate change is a matter of global experience by millions of people and requires down-to-earth solutions and people-power. In this respect most of the world leaders are ‘climate change deniers’ that do not really take the evidence of science into account in developing their policies. They are committed to an ideology that makes them blind to the reality and urgency of global warming.

Québec fights back against austerity

Click here to access article by Pete Dolack from Systemic Disorder.

We are supposed to accept austerity as being as natural as ocean tides. Or be demoralized by the power of the forces that continually press down on working people around the world. But there is an ongoing, organized fightback going on — in Québec.

A series of rolling strikes by public-sector employees and students throughout 2015 appear to be headed toward a provincial general strike in December. Haven’t heard of this? That is not because it is francophone workers and students are who are driving these actions but because there has been a near total blackout of this news in the North American corporate media.

TTIP: Might is Right

The 49:16 video via YouTube embedded below was produced by an independent Dutch media organization called VPRO. It illustrates the concrete realities of the clause inserted in all the new neoliberal trade treaties called Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) by focusing on the effects witnessed in Canada under the NAFTA agreement. As the introduction to this video states:

In order to understand the potential consequences of this, VPRO Backlight traveled to Canada, which became one of the most sued countries in the world after it entered into a trade agreement with the US. American companies now summon the Canadian government to appear before an arbitration tribunal if they feel that Canadian rules aren't in compliance with the free trade agreement Nafta. Despite democratic decisions against fracking under Canada's most important river, the Saint Lawrence, the Canadian government was sued for millions of dollars by the oil and shale gas company Lone Pine.

Harper's gone. Trudeau is in. The struggle continues.

Click here to access article from No One Is Illegal-Toronto.

Although Canadians voted for a lessor evil in their recent elections, the author of this article advises against any complacency.

While many rejoice at the end of the Harper government, we also know that the new Liberal government must be met with radical, collective, strategic organizations, and mobilizations if we are to improve the lives of our communities.

The Liberal Party has governed Canada for about half of Canada’s existence, and is responsible for half of the grave injustices we now face, including but not limited to the coup in Haiti, cuts to the national housing plan, and the creation of the temporary foreign worker program and the Canada Border Services Agency. Thus it is clear to us that this new change in government will not result in the collective transformation we require.

Canada targets tar sands critics in new criminalization of dissent

Click here to access article by Pete Dolack from Systemic Disorder.

Canada’s Harper régime has invented the new crime of being a member of an “anti-Canadian petroleum movement,” and equating such a stance with terrorism. Evidently believing it is in danger of losing the fight against pipeline projects intended to speed up Alberta tar sands production, its response is to place environmentalists under surveillance.

A secret report prepared by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the country’s national police agency, claims that public activism against the problems caused by oil and gas extraction is a growing and violent threat to Canada’s national security.

Undercover Informant Involved In Canadian ISIS Terror Cell

Click here to access article and 6:18m video from Press For Truth (Canada).

From our Canadian activist neighbors we learn about police operations that we are very familiar with here in the US--entrapment. They call it a "Mr. Big" sting operation. The similarities are not accidental, all police agencies under the US-led Empire--and Canada is a part of this Empire--receive essentially the same training by Empire police agencies.

The stage is being set and Canadians are being conditioned to accept nearly any Draconian measure that ensure their safety. In this video Dan Dicks breaks down the latest manipulation techniques used by the Canadian government to convince you to give up your freedoms!

Canada’s false flag terror: fingerprints of U.S. involvement

Click here to access article by Barrie Zwicker from Truth and Shadows.

When I first encountered the reporting of this "terrorist" incident in Ottawa, I felt that it overwhelmingly reeked of the odor of another false flag operation that we have seen so often here in the US to manipulate citizens into giving up freedoms and to support the imperial designs of the capitalist Empire. Zwicker in this article reinforces my initial reaction with many observations about the similarities of this event with such well known false flag operations in the US.

THE “TERRORIST” EVENTS of Wednesday October 22nd in Ottawa and two days earlier in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu bear all the hallmarks of a coordinated cross-border one-two punch false flag operation.

He then goes on to provide details about what he sees as nine such hallmarks of well planned and coordinated false-flag "terrorist" operations:  "the timing, prior 'involvement' of agents of the state [with 'terrorists']", "the chosen miscreants are 'human wreckage' [unstable individuals]", "the 'lone wolf' or 'lone gunman' narrative [probably to head off any notions of a conspiracy]", "'lone wolves' tend to become quickly deceased [to avoid any public trial]", "the branding" [as 'terrorism' by ruling class spokespeople immediately following the incident], "'security exercises' and the false flag [operations] curiously overlap", "media manipulation on both sides of the border", and "failure of media to ask fundamental questions".

The only criticism I have of his analysis is that too much emphasis is placed on the cross-border aspects of the Ottawa incident, and not enough on the class interests involved--the only exception being with a few hints in relation to anti-capitalist opposition in the form of comments about the Canadian security state's suppression of left wing dissidents. Thus, the main implication is that it was the fault of a well established US "security state" which is constructing the same security state in Canada. Such a limited perspective avoids looking at the underlying global class interests of the transnational gang of capitalists known widely as the Empire--sometimes referred to as the "Fourth Reich".

To be sure, this Empire is most firmly embedded in the US, but this is only because of an accident of history which left the US ruling capitalist class with an intact military-industrial infrastructure following WWII. The essential feature of this present transnational ruling class is its global nature. They have no more regard for the disintegrating US civilian infrastructure than they do for anyplace else on earth, except to prevent any organized reaction from US citizens that might threaten their military-industrial complex, security state, and above all their capitalist gang rule. (Also, it must be kept in mind the inter-capitalist gang competition that is presently heating up especially against Russia, and secondarily against China; and that this competition for global dominance could easily descend into a nuclear war.)

This latter concern is the reason they have not only constructed the security state apparatus in the US, but everywhere in the NATO countries (including Canada) and its Middle Eastern fortress of Israel. It is precisely in these countries where the Empire is located. Borders between these states have been erased by the Empire's ruling capitalist class for their operations, and are now only used to control the movements of workers within, and to, the Empire. Failure to recognize this "Brave New World [Order]" can only result in a failure to destroy it.

Canada, At War For 13 Years, Shocked That ‘A Terrorist’ Attacked Its Soldiers

Click here to access article by Glenn Greenwald from The Intercept. 

While ordinary Canadians are shocked, Greenwald makes a couple of good points: first, to understand what might motivate such attacks; and second, does this recent attack even fit the definition of terrorism even though Canadian government officials immediately framed it that way? 

This latter point by Greenwald raises a suspicion. Given that the directors of the Empire and its sycophantic allies always use such attacks to justify more surveillance and repression of its own citizens, it might be even more important to read the reminders provided by Eric Draitser and Tony Cartalucci (see this and this): many of these "terrorist attacks" have been aided and abetted by our nations' secret services as a method to get us to support their imperial projects. Don't be a dupe like many of these setup-terrorists were!

'Massive Environmental Disaster' in Canada as Toxic Tailing Pond Floods Waterways

Click here to access article by Deirdre Fulton from Common Dreams.

Here is the latest environmental disaster report as a result of corporate operations to feed the voracious energy appetite of capitalist industry.

"You can't release that amount of toxic metals into ecosystems without having long-term repercussions," Hart told QMI Agency. "If they're able to clean some of it up that would be helpful, but they'll never be able to clean it all up — those metals don't go anywhere."