Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, June 15, 2021

•  Targeting Russia and China Instead of the Real Enemy – Capitalist Inequality by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• The Enduring False Narrative About the PULSE Massacre Shows the Power of Media Propaganda by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog at Substack.

• Censorship: Facebook Has Removed 16 Million Pieces of Content & Added ‘Warnings’ On 167 Million by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

The censorship of information is at an all time high, but do people really recognize the extent to which it has been and is being carried out? A recent article published in the British Medical Journal by journalist Laurie Clarke has highlighted the fact that Facebook has already removed at least 16 million pieces of content from its platform and added warnings to approximately 167 million others. YouTube has removed nearly 1 million videos related to, according to them, “dangerous or misleading covid-19 medical information.” 

• Conformity: The Vice of the Coward Stacey Rudin from her weblog on Medium.

• REVEALED: Soros Bankrolls AOC’s Anti-Billionaire NYC Mayoral Candidate Maya Wiley. By Natalie Winters from The National Pulse. My reaction: These are great times for women of color to make it into political offices. There is only one catch: They must carry- out orders of their masters in the capitalist ruling class. This is another manifestation of the ruling class wrapping themselves in virtue.
  

• Sanctions on Syria – a silent death and killing hope by Vanessa Beeley from her weblog The Wall Will Fall. 

This is the latest panel discussion hosted by the International Manifesto Group on Sunday 13th June 2021.

 
Economic sanctions are becoming an increasingly popular foreign policy instrument in Western countries, deployed alone or in conjunction with military and/or diplomatic interventions to achieve strategic political and policy goals, such as ostensibly protecting individuals and states from the behaviour of wrongdoers. Because economic sanctions are considered less violent than direct military assault, they are often supported by many on the left and the peace movement, who reluctantly accept the policy as a necessary evil.

This panel, part of a broader series on sanctions, will focus on their public health effects, through an analysis of five case studies: Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Syria and Iran. All but one of these countries are currently under sanctions by both Canada and the United States.

 

(Note: This post is only Beeley's contribution to this discussion regarding Syria as a victim of economic sanctions that was a part of the general discussions about the effects, particularly on small countries, from the use of economic sanctions. Only large, financially stable nations like Russia and China can prevent sanctions from doing major damage to their nations.)

 

My reaction: The weapon of economic sanctions is the 21st century's weapon of choice that formerly was accomplished by what Gen. Smedley Butler referred to as a "racket" that was the weapon of choice for the US prior to WWII. (After WWII such invasions were replaced by subversive actions. Economic sanctions were added to subversive efforts in the 21st century. This was especially evident in Syria, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran.) Butler was referring to the invasions of Latin American countries, much like organized crime used in major North American cities, to threaten small businesses with harm if they didn't financially dole out bribes to Mafia figures to prevent further harm. 

• Amazon Buys MGM Amidst Antitrust Court Case featuring Naomi Karavani of the Redacted Tonight show. (comical satire)
  

Naomi Karavani focuses on Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com, Inc. in this Weekly Offensive. Bezos recently announced his plan to head to space on a commercial flight with his company Blue Origin. The announcement of his space flight came amid a flurry of bad press over tax evasion, questions about antitrust violations, Amazon's $8.45 billion purchase of MGM, and a global corporate tax proposal from the G7 that could leave Amazon out.

• The Same Shady People Own Big Pharma and the Media by Dr. Joseph Mercola from his weblog.
  

• The US-Russia Summit by Patrick Lawrence from Consortium News.
  

• Empire of Clowns vs. Yellow Peril by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog.

• How U.S. and UK Information-Warfare Fronts Ignited Anti-Government Protests in Belarus by Kit Klarenberg from CovertAction Magazine.
  

• Who is Naftali Bennett? from RT America. 

• The Truth About the California Water Crisis by Joshua Frank from CounterPunch.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, June 3, 2021

• Bombshell: Fauci wrote in 2012 that benefits of gain-of-function research ‘outweigh the risks’ by Calvin Freiburger from LifeSite.

• Fauci Emails: COVID “Looks Engineered,” A Govt-Funded Immunologist Told Fauci in January 2020 by Arjun Walia & Joe Martino from Collective Evolution.
  

• A scandal is being thuggishly covered up by a regime more interested in propaganda than human life by Stephen Gowans from his weblog.

• Media Rats Jump Off Their Sinking Ship by Dr. Joseph Mercola from his weblog.
  

• Abolish vaccine patents now! from Climate & Capitalism.

• The Campaign against Ivermectin: WHO’s Chief Scientist Served with Legal Notice for Disinformation and Suppression of Evidence by Colin Todhunter, a British independent journalist who has lived a number of years in India, from Global Research, based in Canada.

• The War of Corporations on Our Children by Emanuel Pastreich from Global Research.
  

• The New Domestic War on Terror Has Already Begun -- Even Without the New Laws Biden Wants by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog at Substack.

• CIA (Dis)Information Operations Come Home to the US by Peter Van Buren from his weblog Hooper's War.
  

• A Truly Free Society Would Have No Official Narratives by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog with her American husband furnishing an audio narrative of the script. 

The fact that there can be that drastic of a shift from something no pundit or politician may say to something they’re encouraged to talk about all the time—all at once, at the drop of a hat—says so much about what the political/media class is and how it works in our society. How utterly uninterested in truth and facts it is. How arbitrary its dictates are. How completely made-up its ongoing story of the world is. It just says what’s convenient for the powerful, and when that’s not convenient anymore it switches to something else. 

• The Etymological Animal Must Slip Out of the Cage of Habit to Grasp Truth by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain.
  

• Biden’s Disastrous ‘Infrastructure’ Bill by F. William Engdahl from New Eastern Outlook. My brief commentary follows: 

Engdahl argues that the "infrastructure bill" is mostly propaganda to fool the American public (once again), but will actually promote the transnational capitalist Empire's virtuous sounding phrase "Green Agenda". The latter is, in turn, promoted to hide "Agenda 21" to seem more palatable to the brainwashed American public. Here is what the editor of Technocracy says about Agenda 21:

 

From its inception in 1992 at the United Nation’s Earth Summit, 50,000 delegates, heads of state, diplomats and Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) hailed Agenda 21 as the “comprehensive blueprint for the reorganization of human society.” The 350-page, 40 chapter, Agenda 21 document was quite detailed and explicit in its purpose and goals. They warned us that the reorganization would be dictated through all-encompassing policies affecting every aspect of our lives, using environmental protection simply as the excuse to pull at our emotions and get us to voluntarily surrender our liberties.

 

But what this editor doesn't understand is that the capitalist ruling class's motive is to try to salvage the capitalist system, which has brought capitalists so much wealth and power, in their recognition that a finite planet cannot accept a system that results in unending growth. Or, to put it differently, this plan is a desperate attempt to save capitalism in a limit-bound finite planet. The editor compounds this misunderstanding with his well-indoctrinated ignorance about socialism.

• Crypto: Congress Dawdles as $1.7 Trillion Con-Game Goes Unregulated, Threatening Reputation of U.S. Markets by Pan & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. They write:

 ... for reasons that have yet to be explained to the American people, when it comes to the $1.7 trillion cryptocurrency market – which is effectively a con-game based on the greater fool theory, nothing is regulated. Not the crypto currency; not the promoters; not the crypto exchanges; and not the firms that are providing as much as 100 times leverage to fuel this “rat poison squared,” as the legendary investor Warren Buffett has characterized Bitcoin. (See The Smartest Guys in the Room Call Bitcoin “Rat Poison Squared,” “a Colossal Pump-and-Dump Scheme” and “a Big Criminal Scam” but Federal Regulators Look the Other Way.)

• Inflation on the agenda at Fed and European Central Bank by Nick Beams, an Australian, from World Socialist Web Site.
  

• Notes on Turning Seventy by John Steppling from his weblog. Steppling, who presently lives in Norway, is an American playwright, author, etc. who writes like somebody who has been extensively educated. And, it takes such a person (with a lot of time) to fully understand his writing. A few quotes from his article reveals much:

The most profound artworks demand something impossible from the viewer ... One problem is this idea that Kafka (but substitute any major novelist) is tracing out the shaping of the modern subject — through capitalism (or mastery over nature, etc) but then leaving capitalism as a universal. As if God created Capitalism on day 8. One cannot write criticism without being critical, of all things. Of oneself. If not, the class system is absolved, class struggle and political repression. They become a form of Nature.

 

And he concludes his article with this insightful statement:

Culture is an indicator for the mental and physical health of a society. The trend toward fascism is sickness. The fascist state is the apotheosis of sickness; physical and moral. The ruling class has no respect for anyone outside their small circle.

• A Decade On: West’s War on Syria Continues by Brian Berletic from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: The two main corporations that feed Empire's "news" agencies with propaganda, AP (Associated Press) and Reuters, keep the people of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire in ignorance about what is actually happening in the Mid-East.

• Israel’s New Mossad Chief Threatens More Assassinations and Attacks Inside Iran by Dave DeCamp from Anti-War. 

On Tuesday, the new head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency suggested more Israeli covert attacks and assassinations inside Iran should be expected even as the US and other world powers are negotiating a revival of the nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA.

• Dan Kovalik on Elections, Rebuilding and the Ongoing Proxy War in Syria featuring Kovalik in a video interview conducted by Mnar Muhawesh Adley, the founder of Mint Press News. 

• Biden Administration Proposes to Allow Oil Companies to Disturb Polar Bears, Walruses in Alaska’s Arctic from Center for Biological Diversity.
  

• Greenhouse gas levels keep rising at accelerating rates from Arctic News.
  

• Self-Reinforcing Feedback Loop #21, Climate-Change Summary featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist (via his YouTube channel--02:40m), who has focused on the climate crisis, listing scientific articles regarding the climate crisis.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Sunday, May 30, 2021

• The ‘New Normal’ Lexicon by Ian Jenkins from Off-Guardian.

• Is Ivermectin the new Penicillin? by Dr. Justus R. Hope, MD fro The Desert Review. (Note: This post from an unnamed activist source (according to his wishes) writes the following:  

Vermectin, an anti-parasitic drug placed the same radioactive category as Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for the treatment of COVID-19, has reemerged as a promising treatment in the battle to extinguish the pandemic. 

 

New York Times best-selling author Michael Capuzzo has called it the "drug that cracked Covid," writing that there are “hundreds of thousands, actually millions, of people around the world, from Uttar Pradesh in India to Peru to Brazil, who are living and not dying.”

 

Doctors in India are big fans.  

• Coronavirus Fact-Check #11: Is Sars-Cov-2 a bioweapon? from Off-Guardian. My reaction: I certainly take issue with their conclusions:

Maybe the virus was grown in a lab, maybe it just jumped from bats to people. Since all evidence suggests it’s not very dangerous, it doesn’t really matter.

The debate sure does make a good distraction though. 

 

Does it matter that many after the age of 70 died from it if it was designed and used as a bioweapon for whatever purpose? What about all the severe restrictions on people's civil rights that were dictated by various governments of the world based on the declaration of WHO that the threat constituted a pandemic and the virtual diktats by the CDC or similar agencies throughout governments of the world? What about the censorship that was imposed on many other relevant medical specialists who differed about various aspects of the declared pandemic?

• The Bogus January 6 Commission Poses a Real Threat to Freedom by James Bovard from Mises Institute. (Note: Mises Institute is a nationalist capitalist website/weblog which features old-fashioned capitalists who no longer control the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. The latter is controlled by "neoliberals" or transnational capitalists.)
  

• ‘Stop the Monopoly Madness’: Biden Urged to Block Amazon’s $8.5 Billion Purchase of MGM by Jake Johnson from Children's Health Defense.
  

• Obama's Labor Secretary Joins Union Busters featuring Jimmy Dore of the Jimmy Dore Show (via his YouTube channel).

• Once a US Soldier, Always Wounded, Always Losing! by Paul Haeder from Dissident Voice.

... we can either prepare for the ultimate disaster that disaster capitalism gives us, or, put our heads back in that sand ....

• The Conscious Resistance Network Presents: The Pyramid of Power Ep. 4 – The Hollywood-Military-Intelligence-Complex by Derrick Broze from Activist Post.  My brief commentary follows: 

I remember one of the first acts formally announcing a Cold War against the Soviet Union after the conclusion of WWII (1st article) was Winston Churchill's speech in Fulton, Missouri (with Pres. Harry Truman on the stage) in 1946 declaring that an "iron curtain has descended" across Europe. This was a shock to the American people because we had been allied in WWII with the Soviet Union against the Axis powers. 

 

 

This was followed a year later with the Un-American Activities Committee investigations of Hollywood playwrights, directors, and actors that weren't sufficiently anti-communist enough to suit the interests of the capitalist ruling class. This constituted a major purge of all left-wing influential people associated with the Hollywood film industry in order to stifle any kind of dissent and further propagandize people into smearing any kind of socialism. Churchill's visceral hatred of the Russian Revolution and his role beginning with the capitalist intervention in the Russian Civil War made him an exceptionally qualified person (in the eyes of the ruling capitalist class) to announce this new effort against the Soviet Union. 

• Biden Cynically Politicizes Lab-Leak Theory to Bash China by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• The politics of the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis by Stephen Gowans from his weblog What's Left. Gowans concludes his article with this statement:

If Biden were genuinely interested in learning how to prevent a future pandemic he would be exploring how to prevent zoonotic spillovers, both in nature, and in the lab. On the other hand, if he’s interested in tarring the reputation of a country he has labelled a competitor, as his predecessor was, he is proceeding along the right path. Unfortunately, that path has nothing to do with protecting humanity from future pandemics.

• Loophole lets soya farmers tear down the Amazon by Andrew Wasley , Alexandra Heal , André Campos, and Daniel Camargos from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
  

• Methane and the mass extinction of species by Andrew Glikson from Arctic News. 

• The Net Zero Mirage by Robert Hunziker from Dissident Voice.
  

• Ask an Ecologist Anything -- Saturday, May 29, 2021 featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist who has focused on the climate crisis, from his YouTube channel. (Note: This has been removed from YouTube by the administrators of this platform. Apparently he said something which they, in their scientific wisdom, do not like.)
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, May 28, 2021

• Good news: Mild COVID-19 induces lasting antibody protection by Tamara Bhandari from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

• Covid-19: Who fact checks health and science on Facebook? by Laurie Clarke from the BMJ (British Medical Journal).
  

• So the Ruling Class Was WRONG WRONG WRONG About Covid-19. What Else Are They Wrong About? by Lance Welton (a pseudonym) from The Unz Review. 

• Alarming Casualty Rates for mRNA Vaccines Warrant Urgent Action F. William Engdahl from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: I thank an activist for sending me this post.)

• 9 New ‘Vaccine Billionaires’ Amass Combined Net Worth of $19.3 Billion During Pandemic by Children's Health Defense Team from their website/weblog.
  

• Will the Pandemic Promote Political Power in Perpetuity? by James Bovard from American Institute for Economic Research.
  

• 💥Whitney Webb Interview – Cyber Hacks, White Powders Scares & Vaccine Tracking, It’s All Come To Pass from The Last American Vagabond (1:47:47hr). This is a best post. (Note: I hesitated to post this because of its length, but I thought it important because Webb brings us up-to-date on her personal circumstances, and other observations on important topics based on her extensive research efforts. This interview begins at 0:22m.) My reaction: She does not let Ryan Cristián dominate the interview. This post is especially for independent thinkers who are not programmed what and how to think about various important issues.
  

• The Smarmy Sacrilege of Corporate Divinity Consultants by Adam Vander Tuig from Current Affairs.
  

• Washington is playing a losing game with China by Chas W Freeman Jr, of Brown University from East Asia Forum.

• 💥“Xinjiang in My Eyes”: Debunking the Lies and Anti-China Propaganda Focusing on China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by Peter Koenig from Global Research. This is a best post.
  

• Sombre truths behind bright green lies by Paul Cudenec from Winter Oak (Acorn), a British website. (Note: This post is essentially a book review in which the author clearly likes the book. In his review Cudenec spots three truths. "But wait, there's more." He argues that there are two more additional truths for a total of five.) My reaction: I have followed articles by top scientists since the 1970s, and, in contrast to this author, I have arrived at the conclusion that it is far too late for the human species and most other species to survive the ravages of capitalism on our very unique planet. But what do I know? I agree with, and follow, retired professor Guy McPherson who as a devoted climate scientist has specialized many years in the independent study of the subject, and has reached similar conclusions which convinced me that my gut-felling was right. That is why a few years ago I changed the title of my weblog/website to "Surviving Capitalism" by adding the word "(not)" to the title. But, in the meantime, I have not abandoned my promotion of real socialism (the economy owned and controlled by all of the people) and my hatred of capitalism. I see this intellectual position, if somehow accomplished, as redemption for the centuries that humans have allowed capitalists to rule.

• Squad Finally Strategized Votes -- To Fund The Police!?!? featuring Jimmy Dore (of The Jimmy Dore Show) using his YouTube channel (16:34m) with Ron Placone to satirize The Squad and their vote to furnish more funds to the police.
  

• Australia Is A Giant US Military Base With Kangaroos by Australian Caitlin Johnstone, with her American husband furnishing an audio narrative, from her weblog. 

• Eisenhower rejected military chiefs’ demand for nuclear war on China, classified account of ’58 Taiwan Strait crisis reveals by Gareth Porter from The Grayzone.

• House Hearing: Only Jamie Dimon’s Microphone Mysteriously Malfunctions During Pivotal Questioning by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.
  

• What Will Israel Do to Counter Hezbollah’s Missiles? by Elijah J. Magnier from Internationalist 360°. (Note: Magnier's weblog is behind a paywall.) My reaction: One cannot expect first-rate journalists and political analysts to work for nothing. Unfortunately, many of us have next-to-nothing.

• Syria, Israel, the Resistance bloc and Syrian elections – Vanessa Beeley on Syria Insider. From Beeley's website via YouTube (11:55m). (Note: Syria Insider Weekly is obviously a Syrian radio/TV station and Beeley is a British journalist currently living in Syria.)

• The Company They Keep by Stephen Karganovic from Strategic Culture Foundation.
  

• New climate predictions increase likelihood of temporarily reaching 1.5 °C in next 5 years from the World Meteorological Association.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, May 27, 2021

• Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread by Martin J Vincent et al from Virology Journal, a peer-reviewed science journal. (Note: SARS-CoV is the underlying virus that causes the illness of Covid-19.)

• MIT: Covid Skeptics Champion Science by James Corbett from his weblog The Corbett Report.

• Today I received this newsletter from LifeSiteNews.

• The economic response to the crisis benefits large companies featuring an interview with Eric Toussaint from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts) conducted by Roberto González Amador from the Mexican daily La Jornada .
  

• Fact Checkers Take A Beating On Lab Leak Theory featuring Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Shows channel on YouTube. (Note: Dore goes on an appropriate rant about ruling class "fact-checkers", censorship practiced by ruling class corporate media, and both of their records of contradictions. He also puts Matt Taibbi, a journalist, on the podcast to comment on this subject.) My reaction: It's only realistic to assume that the consolidation and concentration of wealth, which is a core feature of capitalism, also gives the rich control over all of mainstream media--as well as all other institutions. Taibbi essentially explains that all the issues related to this subject can be explained by "politics". This is a shorthand way to obscure the problem of issues. Social-economic class conflict is the root cause of most social-economic issues, which is a recognition that class matters, and that a particular issue is a conflict between the rich ruling class and the working class. This view is verboten in capitalist USA.

• The U.S.' latest COVID-19 lab leak theory push is a distraction by Andrew Korybko from CGTN, a major Chinese online news website. (Note: Now that the ruling class has suddenly shifted its main enemy from Russia to China--because of the stupendous rise of China as an economic powerhouse--in a major effort to prevent a powerful Russia-China combination, Korybko sees major problems for ruling class propagandists to fool Americans once again.)
  

• The US Empire Is A Self-Reinforcing Trauma Factory by Australian Caitlin Johnstone and narrated by her American husband. (Note: Now that the billionaire ruling class has gotten rid of the upstart and unauthorized (by them) Trump, their propaganda efforts through their media corporations focuses on rampant crime in American to counter the defund-the-police movements.) My reaction: The American audience is being played (manipulated) once again.
  

• Statement of NEO Editorial Board from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: This another ironic example where "the [Empire's propaganda] pot calls "their enemies'" kettle black" (def.). I received this message when I tried today to access Middle East Observer's website.

• Gaza resistance: beginning of the end for apartheid Israel? by Anya Parampil from The Grayzone. (Note: You might be also interested in this related post entitled "Days Before Approving Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, State Department Agreed to Contentious Bomb Sale to Israel".) My reaction: The answer to Parampil's title of this post is emphatic "no!". Israel is an integral part of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. The current activities of the Israeli army against Palestinians will only make it more difficult for Empire propagandists.
  

• Why has the Amazon flipped from carbon sink to carbon source? by Dave Borlace, a Brit, from his video channel, Just Have a Think, on YouTube.

• Self-Reinforcing Feedback Loops #18 through #20, Climate-Change Summary by  Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent (independent of the ruling class) scientist who has for many years focused on the climate crisis, from his YouTube channel (04:24m). (Note: In this podcast McPherson cites a number of peer-reviewed studies that focus on the disappearance or the alteration of ice on both polar regions that contribute to the destabilization of our climate.)

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, May 21, 2021

• 160+ experts slam COVID vaccines as ‘unnecessary, ineffective and unsafe’ in powerful letter by Raymond Wolfe from Life Site. 

• Children’s Health Defense Files Petition With FDA Over Covid Vaccine Concerns by Janet Phelan from Activist Post.
  

• Breaking the Silence on the Origins of Covid-19 by Ron Unz from The Unz Review.

• The Skew in Science That Feeds US EPA Regulation by S. Stanley Young and Warren Kindzierski from American Institute for Economic Research. (Note: John Ioannidis in the first paragraph is a top Stanford epidemiologist. Use my search engines to find out more about him.) My reaction: Science is skewed to favor the billionaire ruling class who are addicted to power and profits. They rule, and we suffer.
  

• Wearable “Solutions” and the Internet of Incarceration by Jeremy Loffredo from Unlimited Hangout. My reaction: As technology, controlled by capitalists, discover more and more methods of population control and tracking you, you can expect that the methods will be designed for the greater panopticon (under the "Great Reset") to ensure the ruling class's access to profit and power. Of course, technology is neutral, but the way it is used can give the ruling billionaire class more power and control over you while amassing wealth for themselves. Everything about the capitalist system impels them to use technology in this way. Or it can be used to enhance and protect your health and welfare. Which do you see it used for under the current system?

• Total Tyranny: We’ll All Be Targeted Under The Government’s New Precrime Program by John Whitehead from Activist Post.

• Crypto Craze: Treasury, Federal Reserve and Senate Banking Each Release Strong Statements on Thursday by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. (Note: I have no position on digital currencies which I do not fully understand. I bring you this post by highly skilled Wall Street observers for your consideration.)
  

• American Arms Makers Are Making a Killing Off of Israel’s Slaughter in Gaza by Jessica Buxbaum from Mint Press News. 

• CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Israel Youth's Shocking Bloodthirsty Opinions featuring Jimmy Dore interviewing Mas Blumenthal in a 20:17m video--from Dore's channel on YouTube.
  

• New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato featuring the latest discussion (27:20m) by Corbett and Pilato regarding three subjects: 1) AT&T In ‘Advanced’ Talks To Combine HBO, CNN, Discovery And Other Media Assets; 2) Palestinians Stage Historic Strike Over Israeli Abuses, Gaza Bombing; 3) OSHA Tells Employers They May Be Liable For Adverse Reactions’ Over Vax Mandate from The Corbett Report.

• Corporate Media's Double Standard: They Attack Whomever They Want, But You Cannot Criticize Them by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack. 

• 💥Propaganda and the Media — Part 3 – Establishing and Controlling the Narrative by Larry Romanoff from "The Saker Blog". This is a best post. The article represents a sophisticated exposure of the concentration of ownership (and wealth) occurring since WWII that has shaped mainstream news that most Americans follow. Because the latter have not been conscious of this concentration of wealth (mainstream media have long hidden information related to this fact), they have been so filled with propaganda that has served the wealthy instead of serving their own interests.

I stated earlier that the US media function as the microphone of the US State Department, full partners in scripting propaganda campaigns to achieve foreign policy objectives. But it is crucial to understand that the Americans are not leading these international geo-political, social, and moral assaults. They are merely functioning as the Bankers’ Private Army to accomplish the objectives of a group of European-UK elites who are always in the shadows and led by one who ... is “he who must not be named”.

 

I have described the slow and deliberate rise of fascist-capitalists and a summary of their efforts to groom the American population for their project to construct the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire since WWII.

• Serbian WWII Film Smeared by War Propagandists in Western Media by Max Parry from The Unz Review.

• Peasant mobilizations against backdrop of agrarian crisis by Sushovan Dhar from International Viewpoint. (Note: I need to magnify the text in order to read it, but if that doesn't help, you can read the article in its secondary source from CDTM.) My reaction: This is profoundly relevant for people who want to become informed about the farmer's massive protests against the government of India and their recent agricultural "reforms". Otherwise this post may interest you because it seems that the transnational capitalist frequently tests out their self-serving plans in foreign countries before they implement them here in the USA, the center of the reality of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.

The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act allows farmers to sell their products outside the mandis (markets) of the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) without paying taxes. The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act allows farmers to sell their future products to agri-food companies at a predetermined price, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act eases the centre’s control over the production and sale of agricultural products.

The Indian government wants us to believe that these laws are a decisive moment for Indian agriculture because they free farmers from the influence of intermediaries. But farmers’ organizations see it as a measure that increases the level of participation of private companies. There are two concerns about the laws. First, their content is seen as a threat to small and marginal farmers. Second, the haste with which they were passed in parliament is seen as a threat by states and regional parties. Let’s examine why the laws have met with strong opposition from farmers’ associations, opposition political parties and state governments ....

• Alarming Biodiversity Devastation: Human-Driven Decline Requires Millions of Years of Recovery by Naturalis Biodiversity Center from SciTechDaily.

• World's largest iceberg has just broken off an Antarctic ice shelf by Adam Vaughan from New Scientist.
  

• Explained: Burke et al. 2018 featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist who has for many years focused on the climate crisis--from his YouTube channel (01:50m).
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, March 23, 2021

(Sorry for the late posting for Tuesday--I have been preoccupied by personal matters--I thought I had already uploaded it.)

• Scientists Explain The Catastrophic Impact of Covid Forced Societal Lockdowns by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution. 

• Anti-lockdown protests sweep across Europe as infection numbers surge from RT (4:32m).
  

• Humanity will not be saved by vaccines by Stelios Elliniadis from Defend Democracy Press.

• The New Normal “Reality” Police by master satirist CJ Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factor, Inc.

• A History of Warring on the Homefront by Mickey Huff from Dissident Voice (originally from Project Censored). (Note: I am posting this article/video from Dissident Voice because the latter have conveniently included the film of which this review on the film is based. Also, this is essential reading/viewing for all those fellow Americans who missed the actual history of American working people and were brainwashed by their history classes in the USA.)

• On One Day Last Year, the Fed Had $495.7 Billion in Loans Outstanding to Unnamed Wall Street Trading Houses by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

• The Brand-Spanking-New Space Race from South Front.

• Flashmobs for Freedom featuring James Corbett in a 27:40m video from The Corbett Report 
  

• Syria - The War Is Resuming On Several Fronts by Bernhard, a German independent blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• OPCW Whistle Blowers Debunk Cover-Up & U.S. Propaganda featuring Jimmy Dore interviewing Aaron Maté of The Grayzone what has learned about the disinformation and censorship involved in the ruling class's reporting  of "chemical attacks" in Syria directed by the Assad government from Dore's Rokfin channel (26:22m).  
  

• Make Way for Kamala Harris, the Deep State’s Dream President by Robert Bridge from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• A Green-Washed Global Economy – A Delusion That May Crash It by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Thoughts On The Iraq Invasion by Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian independent blogger, from her weblog. My reaction: She knows far more than Alfred McCoy, a prominent American historian, does about the mindset of the current American ruling class. Now that the core of the ruling class, combining the resources and wealth of the USA, the British Empire, and international Zionist Jewry, is back under Joe Biden, they intend to resurrect their longstanding project to rule the world (commentary).

• Code Pink & Why Peace Can Never Break Out (w/ Medea Benjamin) featuring Lee Camp of Redacted Tonight interviewing Benjamin, a longtime anti-war activist, via RT's channel of YouTube (33:59m).
  

• Capitalizing on conflict: How defense contractors and foreign nations lobby for arms sales by Dan Auble from Open Secrets.
  

• Project Veritas Obtains Never-Before-Seen Images Inside Texas Detention Facility … Illegal Immigrants are Cornered in Tight Spaces and Wrapped in Space Blankets on the Floor from Project Veritas.

• “Bad Reception” Film (2003) about the Wireless Revolution and Opposition to Cell Towers in San Francisco (Free Online) by B. N. Frank from Activist Post.
  

• Walmart, Amazon and the Colonial Deindustrialisation of India by Colin Todhunter, a Brit who has lived for a long time in India, from CounterPunch. My reaction: This is a manifestation of neoliberalism as illustrated in India, not "colonial deindustrialization".

• The American Terror State by Donald Monaco from Global Research.
  

• Dispatches from the Congo: The Truth Behind US Claims of ISIS Presence posted on Internationalist 360° featuring Kambale Musavuli from the Centre of Research on the Congo explaining, in a 21:09m video, how US-backed forces are engaging in massacres on behalf of corrupt political leaders while also covering this in media reports as "fighting terrorism" and protecting "human rights" of local populations. My reaction: Surprise, surprise! (a cynical remark).

• John Magufuli: Death of an African Freedom Fighter by Celia Farber from The Solari Report.
  

• Unnamed Western Officials Spread Dubious Claims About Iran by Dave DeCamp from AntiWar.
  

• That Time A Leaked Memo Proved The US Weaponizes ‘Human Rights’ Against Nations Like China by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• What Will Go Extinct featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson in his channel on YouTube (7:10m).
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Sunday, March 7, 2021

• What’s Not Being Said About the Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine. “Human Guinea Pigs”? by F. William Engdahl from Global Research. (Note: NIAID refers to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.)
  

• The Problem with Conspiracy Theories by Kevin Ryan from his weblog Dig Within. My reaction: the ruling classes' governments can only issue conspiracy theories, not citizens (sarcasm).
  

• Corporate ‘Mindfulness’ Programs Are an Abomination by Thom James Carter from Current Affairs. 

• Bioethics and the New Eugenics featuring James Corbett from his weblog focusing on "death panels" passed under the "Obamacare" law and similar laws in Canada in a 39:33m video. My reaction: This is a good way to get rid of "useless eaters" (sarcasm). Unfortunately, true to his commitment to anarchism, he points to governments, and occasionally, billionaires, or in this video academic eugenicists, but never to the capitalist ruling classes who control governments or, indirectly, academic appointments.
  

• Democrats Kill Minimum Wage In Senate featuring Jimmy Dore on his Rokfin channel.
  

• US Continues Crusade Against Nord Stream 2 by Brian Berletic from Land Destroyer Report. 

• How Did the Life Insurance Industry Survive the Pandemic? by Robert E. Wright from American Institute for Economic Research.
  

• Approaching a Risky 1.5°C Global Overshoot by Robert Hunziker from CommonCurrents.

• Confirm Methane's Importance from Arctic News.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, March 5, 2021

• 💥GMO Soy, Popular Resistance, and Corporate Power, essentially a book review by Brian Tokar from Climate & Capitalism. This is a best post. (Note: It appears from reading this article that technically knowledgeable, ordinary people must learn about the genetic engineering methods to design seeds, foods, and even us humans in order to enhance corporate profits. Thus far, evidence suggests that corporations have obscured the introduction of these methods to hide their obsessive drive for ever greater profits despite their effects, potential and actual, on our health and well-being.)

• 💥Dr. Andrew Kaufman Interview – Virus Isolation, Terrain Theory & COVID-19 features Ryan Cristián conducting a 1:37:34 interview with Dr. Andrew Kaufman, a microbiologist, regarding the isolation of SARS-CoV-2 and other related subjects regard the Covid-19 pandemic. I have not the technical training to digest all of Kaufman's comments, but he sure seems credible to me. I was so impressed that I am giving it the highest rating--a best post.
  

• All Of Humanity’s Problems Are Caused By A Lack Of Awareness by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• Full-Spectrum Extinction by Paul Atwood from CounterPunch. My commentary follows:

I wish he had provided links to supporting documents for the arguments he made. He acknowledges that "his undergrads" have been taught false history lessons regarding WWII. Why, after a lifetime of indoctrination in false history, should the American people and "his undergrads" believe his undocumented history of WWII? Or, his later argument that (unspecified) people who lead the USA want full spectrum dominance of the world much like Nazi Germany and Japan. He seems to grant legitimacy to dominance in the early paragraphs, but then in the last paragraphs he seems to imply that such policies and motives threaten the extinction of humans. Which is it? I think this is a lame essay because of these faults and weaknesses. For these reasons, I question the motives that led him to write the article and the motives for CounterPunch to publish it online.

 

The above criticisms apply to nearly all of the articles published by CounterPunch. Perhaps Jimmy Dore's satirical arguments about the evasiveness of Democratic Party members of Congress describe the writers that CounterPunch chooses to publish. I haven't seen them posting articles that challenge the policies of Dr. Fauci and the actions of Bill Gates.  Perhaps they, too, as well as CounterPunch, only pretend to care about the issues of inequality and imperialist US policies that the rest of their writers of CounterPunch so incessantly address. Perhaps they, too, are in on the game of promoting themselves while pretending to care about important issues.

• U.S., EU Sanctions on Russia a Reckless Triumph of Absurdity from Strategic Culture Foundation (based in Russia, but international in scope).
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, March 3, 2021

• Investigation Links Fauci to Controversial Experiments That May Have Led to Pandemic with a commentary from Children's Health Defense. My reaction: This looks like an accurate and important piece of investigative research from a mainstream TV network that usually offers news from a Republican Party perspective.

• Do As I Say, Not As I Do by Todd Hayen, PhD from Off-Guardian. (Note: This is regarding the infantilization of world societies following the World Health Organization's (of the UN) official declaration of the current pandemic.)

• Vaccine Passports Were Always Part of the Plan Dave Cullen, an Irishman, arguing in support of the title (with documentation) in a 12:40m video from his Bitchute channel Computing Forever.
  

• Lawyers Promise ‘Nuremberg Trials’ Against All Behind COVID Scam by Jean-Michel Grau from Principia Scientific International.
  

• America's back! Bombs away! a 1:02m video from RT.

• Israel and US fear Iran... and not because of its nuclear weapons featuring a 5:08m video commenting on the title from RT.
  

• Laws Apparently Just Don’t Apply to Presidents by Nathan J. Robinson from Current Affairs. 

• Tearing down 'China domination' propaganda from CGTM. (Note: The post includes a 3:13m post in which Paul Craig Roberts comments.) 

• Putin Blasts W.E.F. Honchos at Davos Gabfest by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review. 

• The watchdogs of imperialism and the Uyghur genocide slander by Stephen Gowans, a Canadian, from his weblog What's Left. 

• Senator Ossoff Drops a Bombshell: “The 12 or 13 Largest Banks” Got the Trillions from the Fed’s Repo Loans Last Year by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.
  

• Biden's Protection of Murderous Saudi Despots Shows the Hidden Reality of U.S. Foreign Policy by Glenn Greenwald from his website on Substack. My commentary follows: 

Greenwald argues that the myth of this administration opposing tyranny is just that--a myth. He discloses a secret that most Americans naively believe: that their government pursues moral objectives. This grand deception hides many truths that their government not only is immoral like any criminal gang, but a bigger insight that their government is only a facade behind which a tiny class of capitalists rules all the nation and transnational capitalists rule the nations of the Empire. Many activists are aware of the first deception, but fail to recognize the second. And virtually all Americans fail to know that their elections along with the complex of myths regarding democracy are all deceptions. They are living and working in a world much like that of the film The Truman Show. 

• The Age of Social Murder by Chris Hedges from ScheerPost. My reaction: I am posting this article only to criticize it. I am turned off most of his writing by the moral denunciations of his targets in the government and oligarchy. His articles often read like sermons (he trained in a seminary to be a sermonizer) castigating sinners in the government and the rich for their sins. He seldom mentions the capitalist system which I firmly believe accounts for most of his "evil-doers". Besides this fundamental criticism, I don't accept his take on the current pandemic in which he largely accepts what the mainstream media report about the pandemic.

• Big Oil Is Really Scared! w/ Steven Donziger (Web Exclusive) featuring an interview conducted by Lee Camp (via his Redacted Tonight channel on YouTube) with Steven Donziger, the lead attorney who won a court case in 2011 against Chevron for their harmful practices in Ecuador. Donziger, who is suffering from Chevron's backlash ("Then Chevron went after Donziger. He's currently one of the US's many political prisoners."), brings this forever case up-to-date.
  

• Oceans, Carbon and Heat. Have we wrecked another equilibrium? from Just Have a Think featuring Dave Borlace explaining in this 12:04 YouTube video that the oceans are becoming more acidic and the effects of that.

• Science Update: Backtracking on Geoengineering? a 6:25m video featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, a scientist who has specialized in the impending climate destabilization crisis, from his YouTube channel. He cites and clarifies important new research that has the potential to at least delay this crisis!

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, February 19, 2021

• March 1st Reopen America by Bold Business Owners For Liberty (3:43) featuring a small business owner in Florida calling for the complete opening of US businesses on March 1st free of any Covid-19 restrictions.

• Catastrophe Capitalism Has Gone Intergalactic featuring Lee Camp in discussion with Andrews Lee, a correspondent on a privately owned "lunar colony" in 2062! (Note: This is satire about our future.)
  

• Politico’s Defense News, Brought to You by Northrop Grumman by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. My reaction: The point is obvious, but that applies for capitalist funding of media in general.
  

How can media be relied upon to report honestly on these industries or hold them to account if that media is being directly funded by them? Should we really expect journalists to be breaking stories about pharmaceutical price gouging, the enormous power of Silicon Valley, or the devastation caused by fossil-fuel company pollution if those companies are essentially paying their wages?

Advertising works, not only on consumers, but on outlets as well.

• Russia holds the key to German sovereignty by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog.
  

• Emails Reveal US Officials Joined With Agrochemical Giant Bayer to Stop Mexico's Glyphosate Ban by Kenny Stancil from Common Dreams.
  

• Global Ice Melt: Much Faster Than Predicted by Evan Lim from State of the Planet.

• Millions will die if world fails on climate promises by Tim Radford from Climate News Network. My reaction: As long the international class of capitalists drive policies, we will not see them keep climate promises. Furthermore, the nations (especially their governments) that they reside in will not suffer any significant consequences for their failures, but the people who reside in them definitely will.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, February 17, 2021

• Beyond Lucrative: Jeffrey Epstein’s Billionaire Tax Avoidance Assistance Business by Daniel Hemel and Bob Lord from Inequality.

• US Election 2020: From Conspiracy Theory to Conspiracy Fact by Andrew Korybko from Off-Guardian (based in Britain).
  

• How Gov’t Hides The Real Unemployment Rate featuring Lee Camp charges the government with lying about unemployment, but he doesn't explain how in this 4:05m YouTube video.

• The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack. My reaction: What Greenwald misses is that the Deep State has taken over completely what honest journalism ever aspired to be throughout the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Only getting rid of capitalists, and all other hegemonic social-economic classes, can there ever be an honest media.

• The Empire Attacks BDS For The Same Reason Nixon Started The Drug War by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. My reaction: Nixon's anti-(illicit) drug policies were well understood by activists in the early 1970s, but the public completely bought the lies. Now mainstream politicians, who are employed by the capitalist ruling class, are trying to profit off of marijuana sales to the consternation of the older-age public--the same people who bought the lies of the ruling class in the 1970s and beyond.

• News Anchor Suggests Using Drone Strikes on Trump Supporters featuring Ben Swann of ISE trying via a 13 minute video presentation to correct the lies of contemporary "journalists" that have contributed to actual terrorism using the actual history of lies spread by ruling class media corporations. Such sociopathic "journalists" will still be hired by media corporations and will enjoy comfortable careers in the future, and a gullible public, while also pursuing comfortable careers, will continue to believe them. This self-reinforcing phenomenon will continue until sufficient numbers of the public will not accept such lies because they have been exposed to independent media.

• The Empty Promise of Western-Style "Equality" and "Democracy" by Brian Berletic patiently giving a corrective presentation via a 5:27m video to mythical concepts like "Illuminati". Capitalist ruling class media like to encourage such myths that detract their gullible listeners from them and their dastardly deeds.

• How Governments and the Media Help Corporations Get Away With Their Crimes by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room.
  

• 💥Global Coup d’État: Mapping the Corporate Takeover of Global Governance. This 31:14m video (and transcript) appears to be a collaboration between two non-profit agencies--Global Political Economy (GPE) and Transnational Institute (TNI). This post is undoubtedly a best post. My commentary follows:

I have posted numerous articles from the latter organization, but I've only recently discovered GPE. This video features Lynn Fries of the Global Political Economy (GPE) conducting an interview with Nick Buxton of TNI. This essential post points out the subversion of the United Nations by corporations. Previously, I've posted articles that have explored the ways that secretive capitalist agencies like the CIA have subverted governments to promote Empire interests, but now they are corrupting the UN with their class-based motives of profit and power.

My impression of TNI was of a do-gooder (def) type of organization that believes that capitalism and a meaningful democracy were not incompatible. Reflecting on Buxton's remarks, I believe they are waking up to their contradictions. (See my remarks about this organization a year ago.)

(Note: Every time I consider retiring from maintaining this website, I encounter an excellent article that I want to spread far and wide. As long as this keeps up, I won't retire until forced to by ill-health. If there is someone out there in the blogosphere that can help out, I would greatly appreciate it.)

• China overtakes U.S. as the EU's largest trading partner by Katherine Berjikian from CGTN (China's main newspaper). 

• The Reshaping of Global Agriculture: The WEF Agenda Behind India’s Modi Government’s “Farm Reform” by F. William Engdahl from Global Research. 

• Update on Syria by Vanessa Beeley, an independent British journalist, from her weblog The Wall Will Fall. You may also be interested in an update provided by South Front.
  

• The Arab Spring Failed But the Rage Against Misery and Injustice Continues by Patrick Cockburn from CounterPunch.

• US, OAS, Colombia Try to Steal Ecuador’s Election from Popular Socialist Candidate, While Spreading Fake News from Internationalist 360°. 

• Science Update: Arctic Permafrost, Mines Releasing Carbon, a 6:21m video featuring Prof. Guy McPherson (retired) giving an update from the latest scientific news (peer-reviewed journals) about the climate crisis. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, February 16, 2021

• Tyranny By Propaganda Is Tyranny By Force by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• AP and Atlantic Council Anoint Me “COVID Conspiracy Super-Spreader”— and Erase Ron Unz by Kevin Barrett from his weblog Truth Jihad. My reaction: Barret is one of those activists who is fighting ruling class propaganda that Johnstone is referring to in the above article.

• Cultural Deafness Defines the West by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

Quite simply, that being so invested, so immersed, in one particular ‘reality’, others’ ‘truths’ then will not – cannot – be heard. They do not stand out proud above the endless flat plain of consensual discourse. They cannot penetrate the hardened shell of a prevailing narrative bubble, or claim the attention of élites so invested in managing their own version of reality.

The ‘Big Weakness’? The élites come to believe their own narratives – forgetting that the narrative was conceived as an illusion, one among others, created to capture the imagination within their society (not others’).

• How Conspiracy Theorizing May Soon Get You Labelled a ‘Domestic Terrorist’ by Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: The ruling class would not know how to recognize the truth if it was staring them in the face. The tend to believe their own propaganda.

• Corporate Criminals by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room. My reaction: Corporations only serve the ruling capitalist class, and as such they wreck havoc on the rest of the population in every society.  Corporations together with the financiers (banks, the Fed, etc.) are the motors of capitalism that exist to extract wealth from societies, and they use this wealth to further their power and control over societies.

• Corporate Concentration in the US Food System Makes Food More Expensive and Less Accessible by Philip H. Howard and Mary Hendrickson from Common Dreams. 

• How FCC and Big Telecom Makes Us ‘the Dummies’ by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. from Children's Health Defense.

• New Documents Reveal More British Efforts To Undermine Russia by Bernhard (a German independent blogger) from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, February 2, 2021

• ‘Killer Profits’: How Big Pharma Hoards Money, Harms Patients by Brett Wilkins from Children's Health Defense. 
  

• Exclusive: Medical Board Attempts To Strip Doctor Of License Over Informed Vaccine Consent featuring Ben Swann interviewing a medical doctor from Minnesota who faces the loss of his medical license. Posted on Ise.

• German Doctors Write Letter To Chancellor Merkel by Mark Taliano from his weblog.
  

• Myanmar Crisis Explained... by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. (Note: Myanmar is only an example of how the USA works to subvert unfriendly governments and install "friendly" governments that will cooperate with their Empire's capitalist interests.)

• Psychology: Pretending There Is Nothing Wrong by Rod Driver from Elephants in the Room. My commentary follows:

Driver tends, as is commonly done, to shame us into acting in a more moral fashion. Later on in his argument he cites numerous studies, that I have been exposed to because I was a student of sociology in college, that illustrated how immoral acts are committed by the average human because he/she wanted the approval of authorities. Then he caps his argument off with an experiment done on individuals who merely wanted to gain the approval of the group. In both cases, the individuals succumbed to authority figures or a social group. 

These experiments are often cited by authoritarians who want to prove how weak humans are, and thus provide evidence to support their belief in authoritarianism: the belief that certain individuals are endowed with superior wisdom in contrast to the herd of humans which consist of dumb animals. The fact that these superior individuals all belong to one dominant class of people is carefully hidden from their brainwashing task in order to prove their bias of class leadership. In reality Driver is not trying to morally shame us into more ethical behavior, he is attempting to justify the moral position that a few individuals are superior and thus should be followed. Note that in the group experiment where all of the "subjects" were in on the experiment that the latter conformed to the authority's wishes. They, too, were indoctrinated to obey the existing authorities. However, this was carefully omitted from the report. 

Disobeying authorities usually brings swift punishment for any who wish to defy authority. Driver knows this and all supporters of class rule know this. Thus, such propagandists--Driver is one such individual--know that most humans from birth are taught to conform to the expectations of their class of people. But "class" is carefully hidden from the consciousness of ordinary humans. (To point to class as explaining anything is like farting in a social setting--it's taboo.) On the other hand, what is drilled into the minds of ordinary humans is the belief of the desirability of promoting the welfare of the family. That is precisely why a thoroughly brainwashed Margaret Thatcher revealed her own belief that "there is no such thing as society, there is only individuals and their families."

As Jerome Roos wrote in 2013 shortly after her death :

In the global class war of the 21st century, Thatcher’s blunt upper-class sneers have been replaced with ... Reagan’s cowboy attitude to CIA-sponsored coups and US invasions in Latin America has long since made way for Obama’s friendly smiles and silent drone strikes. In the process, the dehumanizing logic of global capitalism and neoliberal ideology is obscured with a gentle layer of good-intent. This is capitalism with a human face; a blend of market fundamentalism specifically tailored to making you believe it is in your best interest to obey.

He continues on to conclude:

... it remains crucially important to make a distinction here: it was not Thatcher who systematically erased our dignity and destroyed our society. It was the capitalist system she sought to defend.

To promote this fake meme of obedience is to avoid the subject of disobedience to class authorities which usually brings swift punishment to individuals and even their families. It is a consciousness that one belongs to a class that rescues one from the unconscious blind obedience to mostly brainwashed authority figures that support capitalist class rule.

• Whitney Webb Interview – Starbucks COVID Connection, GameStop Suspicions & WEF Cyber Pandemic Simulations from The Last American Vagabond. This discussion between Webb and Cristián lasts nearly 2 hours based on Webb's research which she summarizes. Because of the corporations and individuals involved and the "weird" way their involvement is introduced in mainstream media, they both suspect that a public relations campaign is going on to cover the increasing role of major corporations in obtaining data about the general public. Also, they suspect this is only beginning steps to integrate the present situation in the USA into their plans for the Great Reset.

• Guess Which Side The Corporate Media Is Taking In The GameStop Story… by Michael Snyder from Activist Post.  (Note: This is another take on the GameStop story that mainstream media are attempting to cover. Snyder also smells something "fishy" (def #2) about what is going on.

• Citizen for Free Speech featuring an interview conducted by James Corbett, of The Corbett Report, with Patrick Wood, founder of Citizens for Free Speech, concerning his worries about restrictions on people's communications. (Note: Corbett brings the subject back into his anarchist perspective by pointing to the facade of "government" as the culprit rather than the people who control the government--the capitalist ruling class.)

• Xi and Putin make the case for win-win vs. zero-sum by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker Blog".
  

• Must see: Explosive video exposes MI6 links to Alexei Navalny featuring a clip from The News from Rick Sanchez via RT and YouTube. My reaction: This is more evidence to argue that our mainstream media is designed for only propaganda rather than news.
  

• The triads, the Kuomintang and Hong Kong’s “democracy riots” by Ji Pei from "the Saker Blog". (Note: This post will interest those who are interested in history, particularly China's history of the 19th and early 20th century. Also recall that Franklin D. Roosevelt, another history and ancestry buff, traced his family fortune to a person who engaged in the China- trade in opium.)