Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, June 17, 2021

• Pfizer & Moderna Fail To Respond To British Medical Journal About COVID Vaccine Safety Concerns by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution. 

An article published in the British Medical Journal by Dr. Peter Doshi titled “Covid-19 Vaccines: In The Rush for Regulatory Approval, Do We Need More Data?” raises concerns regarding COVID-19 vaccine rollout, and one of them is the bio-distribution of the vaccine. This refers to the examination and study of where the vaccine and its ingredients go once injected into the body. Having sped up the approval process of these vaccines, it has been claimed that no compromises in the process of examining their safety were made. But the fact that no study for tracking the distribution of the vaccine within the human body was conducted for any of the authorized vaccines, we cannot say this is true.

• The Real B3W-NATO Agenda by Pepe Escobar from Global Research.
  

• America’s Soup-Brained President Says The US Never Interferes In Other Countries’ Elections by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband also reading the script, from her weblog.

Western news media exists to funnel propaganda into the minds of the public. It is controlled by plutocrats who work in alliance with opaque government agencies to weave narratives about why the US government needs to do the things it had already planned on doing anyway. This gets more obvious by the day.

• Edelman PR and the Manufacturing of “Trust” by Johnny Vedmore from Unlimited Hangout. My reaction: Are the new propagandists hiding under the cover of PR firms like Edelman PR? I think so. Read this article to enlighten yourself on the World Economic Forum's use of the latter firm to establish "trust" in their leadership and the Great Reset.

The Edelman firm has not only been a vehicle for laundering the public images of big corporations, but it is also used by various governments worldwide, which allows it access to all the major halls of power. Edelman is also deeply involved with the World Economic Forum, with Richard Edelman not only an official agenda contributor to the WEF, but his firm managing the very image of the globalist organization, which is advocating for a “great reset” to launch us into what the WEF terms “the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” Edelman was also represented during the suspiciously timed Event 201 pandemic simulation of 2019, which was arranged by the WEF, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

• What MSM prefers to ignore about Biden-Putin summit features Ben Swann responding to questions regarding the deficiencies of billionaire owned & controlled media corporations, via RT's channel on YouTube (6:02m).
  

• 💥Isabel Maxwell: Israel’s “Back Door” Into Silicon Valley by Whitney Webb from her weblog Unlimited Hangout. This is a best post.
  

By moving in “the same circles as her father” and vowing to “work only on things involving Israel,” Isabel Maxwell became a pivotal liaison for the entry of Israeli intelligence-linked tech firms into Silicon Valley with the help of Microsoft’s two co-founders, Paul Allen and Bill Gates.

 

My reaction: Webb's prodigious and documented research uncovers many of Maxwell's ties, and that of her father, Jeffrey Epstein, to longtime Israeli intelligence circles as well as large US tech firms.

• Relentless Digitalization: Is a Cashless Economy a Real Threat to Privacy and Civil Liberties? by Sophia Wright from Global Research. My reaction: Again, digitization is only a tool to be used to surveil and control us or to promote a more convenient way of living for ordinary people. It depends on whether this is controlled by a self-serving ruling class or it is controlled by us (ordinary people). It looks very much like it will be used by the former.

• New Book: Unanswered Questions: What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission by Ray McGinnis, the book's author, from Global Research. (Note: I give credit to Global Research for this article because they have formatted it concisely. The primary source provides a reservoir of information, and encourages you to examine unanswered questions about 9/11, a profoundly pivotal 21st century event.)

• The Breaking Of The Corporate Media Monopoly by David Edwards from Media Lens (a British media watchdog). Edwards writes:

These alternative articles were ‘being shared more widely online than the views of mainstream newspaper commentators’. Remarkably, ‘Nothing from the BBC, the Guardian or the Daily Mail comes close’ to the most-shared alternative media pieces. The Canary reported that it had doubled the number of visitors to its site to six million in May. A story by Evolve Politics, run by just two people, was shared 55,000 times on Facebook and was read at least 200,000 times. These websites ‘explicitly offer a counter-narrative to what they deride as the “MSM” or mainstream media’.

Indeed, the evidence is now simply overwhelming – the 100-year big business monopoly of the mass media has been broken.

 

My reaction: Hopeful, but I remain skeptical.

• From Steel City Scribblings, a British weblog run by an independent blogger.
  

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Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, May 19, 2021 (very abbreviated post)

• Biden, Reversing Trump, Permits a Key Putin Goal: a New Russian Natural Gas Pipeline to Germany by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog at Substack. My commentary follows: 

I was totally "blown away" by the headline of this article. Although I consider myself as excelling at detecting propaganda, I was so influenced by major and other more independent media to believe their reports about what was purportedly Biden's statements against Putin in his recent meeting (March 10) with Putin. I even had sufficient doubts about Greenwald's article (he didn't provide confirming links). 

 

After two hours of research on the internet, I found some information about the actual meeting between Putin and Biden on March 10 as is stated in Greenwald's article (caption under the lead photo of their meeting), and I did find reports that partially confirmed his main allegation that Biden agreed to withdraw sanctions. Biden withdrew sanctions against some firms, mostly German firms, as reported in these articles: this, this, this, and this. 

 

Other than that I was only able to find future prospective meetings and current propaganda related to Biden's reference in 2014 that he told Putin to his face that he was a "killer" and that he didn't have a "soul". This was recently dredged up by ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, the source of which was an interview by The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos in 2014 when Biden was Vice-President, in which he claims to have said these dramatic statements to Putin in the interview with Osnos. Was he telling the truth? There is no corroborating evidence. All the mainstream media played up this 2014 incident following the March 2021 meeting and many independent sources didn't question it.

After my research I again examined Greenwald's article. Too much of his article, in my opinion, makes Obama look like a good-guy. Wasn't the Ukraine coup engineered by the State Department not on his watch? Wasn't the Syrian project to overthrow the Assad government not on his watch?

 

I think I have learned my lesson to not trust any mainstream source for important news. And I think you can only trust thoroughly independent journalists like Glenn Greenwald, even though at times I disagree with him. I urge all of you to subscribe to his newsletter. 

• Gaza Is Better Than Auschwitz by Israel Shamir from The Unz Review. (Note: Yes, I know this article with an ironic title is published by an old-fashioned conservative website representing an old capitalist ruling class that has been replaced by Zionist-conservatives, popularly known as "Neo-cons". The latter have taken direct control of the US and they have been since WWII stealthily building an empire. But, I don't care whose website speaks the truth! That said, I don't necessarily agree with all of his arguments.) 

Only a rabid antisemite would say Gaza is worse than Auschwitz. No, it is better, but only just. And it has gone on longer, year upon year, with no end in sight. 

• The Suffering of the Palestinians Continues and the World Simply Watches by James O'Neil from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: The suffering will continue because the new imperialist Empire is replacing the Third Reich which had produced so many "good Germans" with the "good Germans" of the 21st century. They are obediently following their new fuehrers in the same ruling class as the Third Reich in the same expansive adventures to rule the world. But this time the fascist-capitalists have a different brand: Made in America!

• Israel's crimes are America's crimes by Bradley Blankenship from CGTN, a major Chinese onsite news publication.
  

• New Zealand Refuses to Accuse China of “Genocide” by Brian Berletic, an ex-Marine living in Thailand, expressing his approval and explanation of New Zealand's rejection of anti-China propaganda in a 4:30m from his weblog Land Destroyer report.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, May 13, 2021

• The Corona Crisis: Has “Depopulation” Already Begun? by Peter Koenig from Global Research. 
  

• Russia Is Seriously Concerned About US Biolabs In Former Soviet States by Andrew Korybko from OneWorld. 

• Who Dunnit Bill? Melinda Gates Sought Divorce After Epstein Reports by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• A mainstream outlet accepted my pitch on what media refuses to say – then refused to let me say it by Matthew Alford from The Grayzone. He writes toward the end of the article:
  

... when it comes to Western power, I think something more fundamental is taking place than normal biases and differences of opinion. Indeed, it is standard – even when it comes to the most vicious applications of British and American foreign policy – that Western mainstream media simply ghosts pivotal critical content that is staring it right in the face.

 

(Note: You will need to know what "ghosts" (def. #3) mean as used as a transitive verb.) My reaction: Alford doesn't elaborate on his implication of "something more fundamental is taking place than normal biases and differences of opinion". Let me explain what the "something" is: it's blatant censorship.

• Was Folk Music a Commie Plot? by Mat Callahan from Monthly Review.

From the beginning of the twentieth century until 1929, purveyors of record players, radios, sheet music, and musical instruments had made large fortunes and proved useful in forging a culture with which people in the United States could identify. In many ways, the music industry was a nation-building force, which the country’s rulers needed to legitimize and propagate their claims. Now, after almost total collapse during the depression, the industry reestablished itself with new instruments, new sounds, and, above all, a new public attuned to bright lights and the big city.
 

In this context, the revival of folk music—that is, music derived from rural southern sources, unamplified, and, to a large extent, comprised of old songs of anonymous origin—was more than just another fad. Folk music encapsulated longings for an idyllic past, for a time before crass commercialism turned music into a commodity, and for relationships between musicians and audiences that were egalitarian and holistic. Folk music continues to have an appeal for these reasons today. 

 

My reaction: This post provides a real history of a cultural movement that was a threat to the ruling class which decided to launch an empire combining their military dominance with what was left of the British Empire. They smeared this folk music movement as Russian-Communist inspired. These folk musicians were hounded and persecuted by the FBI in an effort to destroy it. This cultural phenomenon flourished in the post-WWII years when the fascist coup began with the use of the atomic bomb in Japan and continued with the McCarthy attacks on anyone who dared to voice opinions different from what the ruling class coup-leaders allowed. But they could not destroy it until the conclusion of the Vietnam War when this folk music movement and their influence also ended. After that, youth devoted themselves to "turning-on and dropping-out" to the Beetles tunes and rock-and-roll music. Now we see the same ruling class, which owns nearly everything and able to censor at will, able to pull-off successfully 9/11, the Iraq invasion, and the current pandemic with its lockdowns, shutting small businesses, and vaccines which hugely profits the pharmaceutical corporations with the latter immune from prosecution when their vaccines harm people. (I added to this reaction at 8:38 PM CT.)

• On Nakba Day, Israelis Forced to Guiltily Confront a Secret by Jonathan Cook from Dissident Voice. My reaction: Please notice that Israel is very much a part of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.

• Poisoning the Planet’s Web of Life by Robert Hunziker from Dissident Voice.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, March 10, 2021

• No Safety Data? No Problem! by Rosemary Frei from her weblog.

• Predictive Programming Vaccine Mass Sterilization Depopulation Agenda On Amazon ‘Utopia’ Show (5:27) from EarthNewspaper. (Note: This is an actual film production (series) by Amazon, Inc.) My reaction: Is it "predictive" or an attempt to exploit a conspiracy theory? Seems like it expands on a theme promoted by Bill Gates who is the top funder of UN's World Health Organization which officially declared the pandemic.

• WSJ Editorial Board: Facebook Censors Scientific Debate by Megan Redshaw from Children's Health Defense. 

• Why It’s Necessary to End NATO by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation (based in Russia but international in scope).  

• Empire Update: US Kisses Saudi Crown + Taliban’s Tet Offensive featuring Abbie Martin reporting the adventures of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire during the week in a 8:38m video from Media Roots. (Note: She reports more news than the title of this post acknowledges.) My reaction: This would be good for Americans to watch this weekly report instead of TV "news" reports by media corporations.
  

• Chaos In Ukraine Is Making An Epic Comeback from South Front. (Note: This post includes a 3:48m video report and transcript.) My reaction: This is another report on how true Joe Biden's statement that "America is back". The main capitalist ruling class is back after the Trump interruption and returning to their favorite strategies to counter Russia's influence as illustrated by Ukrainian developments reported in this post and the bombing and missile strikes on Syria. Among the developments in Ukraine are those that the ruling class is already implementing here in the USA:

It all started with the shutting down of opposition TV channels and immediately moved to attacks on the largest and most popular opposition party – “Opposition Platform – For Life!”.Opposition leaders were then sanctioned, for being “Putin agents”, and many of its members were openly censored and persecuted. Then it came down to censoring and persecuted another well-known opposition figure – Anatoly Shariy, and his party.

Websites were pulled down, accounts were banned, cases were opened against those against President Volodymyr Zelensky and his “Servant of the People” party. 

• Lawyers' Committee targets sham FBI probe of 2001 anthrax attacks by Craig McKeefrom Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

• BREAKING: Jaw-Dropping Development In Malcolm X Assassination featuring Lee Camp at his YouTube channel reporting a new eye-opening development related to the assassination of Malcolm X. This is direct evidence, that many people have suspected over the many years since the assassination: that the NYC police department is responsible for this murder. Of course, the latter was acting according to orders issued by the ruling capitalist class to silence him because they didn't like his efforts at raising the consciousness of poor African-Americans. This incident will never be reported by mainstream "news" corporations who will continue serving the ruling class with the dissemination of propaganda.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, March 9, 2021

• Vaccine Diabolus and the Impending Wave of Rare Neurodegenerative Disorders by Mike Whitney from Global Research.
  

Is it the reputable scientists, virologists, epidemiologists and other medical experts who don’t have a stake in the outcome and who base their judgements on the science alone, or is it the conflicted state bureaucrats, the public health toadies and the billionaire activists who control the media and whose shadowy and sinister motives are still not clear?

Most people know the answer to that question already. It’s obvious.

• No COVID Vaccine? No Travel, Air Force Officials Say by Pam Long from Children's Health Defense. 

• The Brutal Attack on Scientific Dissent by Paul E. Alexander from American Institute for Economic Research. (Note: It would be helpful to know what "Age of Lysenkoism" means.)

• Perspectives on the Pandemic: "The Illusion of Evidence Based Medicine" from Journeyman Pictures, based in Britain, featuring author and professor Leemon McHenry, PhD explains why articles in prominent medical journals have been corrupted by the profit interests of giant pharmaceutical industries.

• Another Independent News Show Gets Shut Down. This 13:51m YouTube video features Jimmy Dore and a guest Kit Cabello whose channel has been censored by YouTube. My reaction: It's amazing why Dore's channel hasn't been censored. My hunch is that he has a very large following. 

• Enforcing Orthodoxy by Patrick Lawrence from Consortium News. (Note: Based on another example of ruling class censorship (Consortium News), Lawrence comments on the significance of censorship.)
  

• Reclaiming Our Common Home by Vandana Shiva from Yes!. My reaction: I think that the basic needs of humans must be equitably shared. But at the same time, humans must learn about the fact that they are one of a vast number of species in the web of life on planet Earth, and act responsibly. Neither one of my conditions will be met as long as self-serving classes rule over humans. From scientific reports I've read during the past 45 years, I think that humans living in class-structured societies have not acted responsibly and they will become extinct as well as many other species on our exceptional planet Earth.
  

• Wherefore Art Thou Ghislaine Maxwell? And who are your friends? by Philip Giraldi from The Unz Review.

• Biden and the ‘Yellow Brick Road’ by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation (based in Russia but international in scope). (Note: "4IR" means "fourth industrial revolution" which was announced by Klaus Schwab by the Great Reset. The latter is a project decided by our masters, the billionaires in the transnational capitalist ruling class of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.)

Crooke writes:

 

America’s position as ‘global leader’, Stephen Wertheim has observed in his book Tomorrow the World, was premised on a set of impermanent and atypical post-war circumstances that handed primacy to the U.S.; but Wertheim then goes on to underscore how “those days of incontestable unipolarity are over, and cannot be wished back”. The U.S. empire is, then, at an impasse: Its moral and political justification of overseeing a global order shaped to its norms is now beyond its capabilities (militarily or financially) to maintain.

 

His view differs from mine in that he sees only an American empire, whereas I see the reality of a transnational capitalist empire built on the ruins of the former British Empire combined with the military power of the USA and extended by their combined power over numerous other nations, primarily Europe and Israel. This is the history since WWII of the development of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire which has largely replaced the Nazi ambitions of the Third Reich. 

 

However, in the end Crooke returns to the political dynamics of the USA to imply that most Americans simply want to return to "normal" and will not go along with this delusional agenda. Although his metaphor using "Alice in Wonderland" is clever, I don't think this implication is accurate. I don't see that ordinary Americans will become a significant factor in the future. I believe that too many Americans have been so brainwashed by fake history, capitalist culture, and the advantages that Americans have enjoyed since WWII to be an effective actor in the future. I also believe that our present ruling class suffer from a dangerous delusion, one among many others, of omnipotence that will make the near future much more dangerous than what Crooke suggests.

• U.S. Launches New Afghanistan Initiative Which Is Unlikely To Fly by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama. (Note: He brings us up-to-date on efforts by the US State Department to get US official forces out of Afghanistan.)

["The Biden regime"] needs some face saving period of 'peace in Afghanistan' to justify a pull out. It also wants to keep some CIA counter-terrorism force in the country which is something the Taliban are unlikely to allow.

• Govt-Linked CSIS Urges DC To Partner with Social Media Firms To “Promote Protests Movements” by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.
  

• Excessive Wealth Disorder is Destroying Our Societies by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room.

• Introduction: Self-Reinforcing Feedback Loops featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson (in a 2:27m YouTube video), a scientist who has specialized on the near-term climate destabilization crisis.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, June 24, 2020

• Behind the Veil of the Protest Movement, the War on the American People Is Gaining Pace by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review.

• Stanford prof: Median infection fatality rate of coronavirus for those under 70 is just 0.04% by Daniel Payne from Just the News.

• Testing fraud explained by Canadian David Crow from his weblog Brasscheck TV. My commentary follows:

Because so many times during the last 10 years I've documented examples of authorities employed by the capitalist ruling class have lied (here's another current example), I have concluded that they rule by deception. Crowe has entitled his website after a book (which I've read) by a well-known 1920s sceptic and critical thinker, Upton Sinclair, who revealed so much corruption and lies during that period. I think that Crowe is another critical sceptic of our age.

I have been so troubled by the reports which take statistics and tests reported by corporate media TV as absolute facts without any nuances or details about how they could be misleading and problematic, I have looked around for critical analysts who do. I am convinced that David Crowe is such a person.

This post contains two videos by Crowe. The first one is where he critically analyzes health test results, and the second uses the same skills regarding Anthony Fauci who is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984. You might also be interested in a recent post by another critical analyst, Kevin Barrett, entitled "Tony Fauci is Corrupt to the Core!"

• Colorado Adopts Mandatory Vaccinations for Children by Renée Parsons from Off-Guardian.

• Cops Criminalize Protest; Psychiatrists Medicalize It by Susan Rosenthal from her weblog. (Note: Rosenthal has practiced as a psychiatrist (probably retired) and knows her colleagues and the profession very well. She is currently living in Canada.)

• The True Financial Pulse of America’s Families by David Silberman from The American Prospect.

• Why an Arab-Israeli diplomat's assault is no surprise by Jonathan Cook from The National (Abu Dhabi). (My reaction: We are all Palestinians now! You see, it matters not that we are Americans--the Empire's transnational ruling class is at war with all workers. They dare to because they imagine that they "own" AI and robots that can replace most of us.)

An Israeli diplomat filed a complaint last week with police after he was pulled to the ground in Jerusalem by four security guards, who knelt on his neck for five minutes as he cried out: “I can’t breathe." 

There are obvious echoes of the treatment of George Floyd, an African-American killed by police in Minneapolis last month. His death triggered mass protests against police brutality and reinvigorated the Black Lives Matter movement. The incident in Jerusalem, by contrast, attracted only minor attention – even in Israel.

• Suicidal Empire by Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh (Palestinian) from his weblog Popular Resistance. 

• May All Be Revealed by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Another New Study Points to the Dangers of Geoengineering the Climate by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond. 

• Staggering Heat, Extreme Weather, and Reporting the Climate Connection from Covering Climate Now. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tueday, January 14, 2020

• Iraq is the Next battleground by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog.

• The Long Planned U.S. Assassinations In Iraq Will Increase Its Political Chaos by Bernhard (based in Germany) from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• How long will you stay complicit? A Question for UK, Canada, France, and Germany by Tom Winter from Fort Russ News. 

• Dylan Howard on Epstein's rich and powerful friends from RT America via YouTube.

• Military campaign pushes forward – Erdogan’s imperial ambitions threaten Libya (this is a followup news item posted yesterday) from Fort Russ News. 

• How the chicken nugget became the true symbol of our era by Raj Patel and Jason W Moore from The Guardian.

Posts I especially recommend for today: Saturday, November 16, 2019

Bolivia:

• Interview: President Evo Morales on the Real Situation in Bolivia from 21st Century Wire.

• Bolivian Army Massacres Peaceful Protesters in Cochabamba from Internationalist 360°.

• Top Bolivian coup plotters trained by US military’s School of the Americas, served as attachés in FBI police programs by Jeb Sprague from The Greyzone. 

• VIVA EVO! Morales Overthrown, But Bolivian Socialism Will Endure by Andre Vltchek from 21st Century Wire.

• The Removal of Morales is a Minor Victory in a Series of Losses for Washington by Paul Antonopoulos from Brics.

Other posts:

• Former US Secretary of State Kissinger points to danger of “catastrophic” conflict between US and China by Nick Beams (Australian) from World Socialist Web Site.

• Seeking to cultivate fascistic base, Trump pardons two war criminals and promotes a third by Evan Blake from World Socialist Web Site. 

• Epstein Is Alive (Part 2) -- No DNA Test! from Fort Russ News (FRN).

• Watch the Arctic’s sea ice slowly disappear by Sid Perkins from Science.

• 2020 El Nino could start 18 degree temperature rise by Sam Carana from Arctic News.

Posts I especially recommend reading today: Sunday, November 10, 2019

• On Contact: Resistance & the Left with Paul Street, posted on RT.  Chris Hedges interviews Street. 

• Epstein, Al Baghdadi and the Point by Russell Bentley from Fort Russ.

• Lebanon and Iraq protestors: The US, Israel and Saudi Arabia are fed up with Iran 3/4 by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog.

• Qatar – Education as a Weapon by Andre Vltchek from New Eastern Outlook.

Articles I recommend today: Saturday, September 7, 2019

• Hong Kong capitulates to protesters’ demand – what now? featuring investigative reporter Michele Greenstein on the Rick Sanchez program on RTAmerica.

• Exclusive: How the US is pushing protesters to attack China featuring investigative reporter Michele Greenstein on the Rick Sanchez program on RTAmerica.

• State Department 'Swagger' Means Offering Bribes by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup - book review by Orlando Hill from Counterfire (Britain).

• Kidnapping as a Tool of Imperial Statecraft? by The Saker (Andrei Raevsky) from The Unz Review.

Articles I recommend for Friday, August 30, 2019

• Making a Killing From Killing by Paul Atwood from CounterPunch.

• The Bizarre Action in U.S. Treasuries Is Linked to the U.S. National Debt and the Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• The Justice Department Has Had the Epstein Case Since July 2006 – It’s Time to Arrest Accomplices by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

• Another Syrian Victory – and West’s Telling Silence by an editor of the Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Give Me Suggestions On How To Level Up My Fight by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

How the Alliance of Intelligence & Organized Crime Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein

Click here to access to a nearly one hour interview conducted by Bonnie Faulkner of Guns & Butter with Whitney Webb who has established credibility because of her investigative research published online by Mint Press News and other websites.

We get to hear the voice of Webb via Faulkner's program and learn so much about the complex web of criminal links among the capitalist ruling class. After listening to Webb, you will find it hard to argue that her information is an exaggeration that capitalism has evolved into organized crime in the USA and its associated empire, the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Shocking Origins of the Jeffrey Epstein Case

Click here to access article by Whitney Webb from Mint Press News. 

Although I skimmed this article and recommended it before, I now wish to offer a brief commentary on introduction to this piece.

Webb explains the long American history in which organized crime has operated at the highest political levels to coerce government officials into supporting their interests. Nowadays it appears that the capitalist system has devolved into a system which supports organized crime rather than the welfare of the American people. Because of the key role that the USA plays in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire, the interests of organized crime affects all nations of the world. 

It is increasingly hard to differentiate organized crime from contemporary capitalism. This is because it has now fully integrated, or merged, with the capitalist system. This system seems to be a perfect host for organized crime. (For a good history of this development, I highly recommend reading a book entitled The Money and the Power by S. Denton & R. Morris.) 

Articles recommended for Friday, July 19, 2019

• Hidden in Plain Sight: The Shocking Origins of the Jeffrey Epstein Case by Whitney Webb from Mint Press News.

• Inside the Yellow Vests: What the Western media will not report (Part 3) by Ollie Richardson from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

• Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the newspaper Argumenty i Fakty (transcript) from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

• Western intellectuals freak over ‘Frankenstein’ China by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times. 

• WikiLeaks Editor Kristinn Hrafnsson, Michael Isikoff, Pepe Escobar, As’ad AbuKhalil on CN Live! Friday 2pm EDT from Consortium News.

• Drug companies poured 76 billion opioid pills into US neighborhoods in just six years by Genevieve Leigh from World Socialist Web Site. 

Honest Government Ad

Click here if you wish to this satirical video from YouTube directly. It was produced and uploaded by The Juice Media channel. (I must thank my good friend in Oregon for alerting me to this outstanding satirical video.)

Recommended articles for Friday, March 1, 2019

• Carbon Taxes Won’t Stop Climate Change by Brian O'Boyle from Rebel (Republic of Ireland). The author gives you the history of the carbon tax fix in Ireland offered by Irish capitalists to cope with global warming. This is the same story, except for details, throughout the capitalist world; and their fix has not changed, nor was it meant to, the destabilization of our climate.

• What's next for US-North Korea ties after Hanoi summit failure? by Faras Ghani from Al Jazeera.

• Salvador Allende’s grandson calls for international solidarity as Venezuela faces US-backed coup, a 5:57m video from The Canary (Britain).

Pablo Navarrete reports from Venezuela, where Pablo Allende – grandson of former Chilean President Salvador Allende – gives a chilling summary of how the US and its allies have destabilised left-wing governments in Latin America and beyond to further their own imperialist interests.

• Michael Cohen hearing: A criminal administration, a reactionary opposition by Patrick Martin from World Socialist Web Site. (I view nearly all governments to date as being illegitimate because they were originally installed by violence in order to serve a tiny ruling class.)

As Al Capone once said, "Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class." 

The climate emergency with Dahr Jamail

Click here if you wish to directly access a 28:27m video of an interview with Dahr Jamail on Chris Hedges' "On Contact" show that is posted on RT America. (My thanks go to a long-time activist for alerting me to this video.)

The following is an introduction to this video:

The glaciers in Alaska alone are losing an estimated 75 billion tons of ice every year. The oceans, which absorb over 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by greenhouses gases in the atmosphere, are warming and acidifying, melting the polar ice caps and resulting in rising sea-levels and oxygen-starved ocean dead zones. We await a 50-gigaton burp, or "pulse," of methane from thawing Arctic permafrost beneath the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, which will release the equivalent of around two-thirds of the total carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere since the beginning of the industrial era. Some 150 to 200 species of plants, insects, birds and mammals are becoming extinct every 24 hours – one thousand times the "natural" or "background" rate. This pace of extinction is greater than anything the world has experienced since the disappearance of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Chris Hedges speaks to journalist and author, Dahr Jamail, about his new book 'The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption,' which looks at the climate emergency.

  

It's clearer now than ever before that climate destabilization has already set in. Chalk another victory to the addicts of power and profits--capitalist ruling classes all over the world (in addition to their collaborators among the highly trained, indoctrinated, and pampered upper-middle classes) who have been the main criminals perpetrating this crime. What does this mean for those who have long witnessed the destruction of our biosphere upon which so many species depend including our own human species? 

I, for one, choose to continue my fight against those who are guilty of this monstrous crime of ecocide: capitalists who have imposed on the rest of us through violence and chicanery the system of capitalism. I don't care if addiction is a disease or not because those who have succumbed to this addiction have used the most criminal means possible to commit this monstrous crime. What about you? What is your choice?

Coming September 2019: The Anatomy of a Great Deception — Part 2!

Click here to access article and video that was sent to me by Richard Gage, AIA
Founder & CEO, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

Here is your opportunity to help fund a second film by Dave Hooper about the greatest false-flag event in history and help to expose it as that. There are no limits--and I mean no limits--that our masters will go to to defend the benefits of their ruling class positions and their attacks against anyone or nation that stands in their way of access to their drugs of power and profits. I'm referring to the ruling, transnational, capitalist classes of the US-led Empire. 

Some of their worst deceptions in addition to their crime of 9/11 include the creation of a democratic facades of their governments whose war policies are always presented as motivated by humanitarian concerns, their successful attempts to evade taxes (and raise ours) with the establishment of offshore tax havens, and finally their use (or misuse) of our money that is issued by their privately owned central banks. The list of their deceptions and crimes against the overwhelming majority of humanity are endless--9/11 is only one of them. But if the American people can be convinced of this greatest false-flag event, there is no telling where they will go to question all the lies, deceptions, and crimes of our masters.

Whose Side is the CIA on?

Click here to access an interview with Douglas Valentine with an introduction by Kim Petersen posted on Dissident Voice. 

Valentine has contributed so much to reveal the criminal secrets of the CIA, and much of it can be accessed directly or indirectly in this article. It must be understood that the word "criminal" must be understood in the context of what ordinary people refer to as gross anti-social acts, but the concept doesn't apply to class structured nations in which a ruling class commit such crimes. A crime is always an official crime when it seriously offends the ruling class of any society. The CIA, like all government secret agencies, functions in complete secrecy to protect the interests of the ruling capitalist class (from domestic dissidents as well as foreign antagonists) who created them. Thus, they commit crimes (in the ordinary sense) with impunity.

I've always wondered how Valentine could get away with hoodwinking so many CIA officers into revealing such criminal activities. Valentine offers an explanation. He convinced CIA Director William E. Colby that he was on the side of the Empire because he had written a book about his father in WWII (The Hotel Tacloban), his conventional appearance, he was not seen as a journalist, didn't ask any direct questions regarding the dirty secrets of the CIA, and most importantly (in my view) because of the military chain of command in the CIA and because of the practice of compartmentalization (CIA agents were given only information that they needed to know to carry out their assignments).

Also I've always wondered how the CIA could have let him get away with reporting their dirty secrets without any reprisals (much less by losing his life). Because as Sen. Chuck Schumer stated, the CIA and other secret agencies that serve the ruling class "have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you". I've never read of any harm or threats that have come to Valentine. Of course, they have gone out of their way to insure that very few Americans have learned of his disclosures. 

Perhaps this is the major way that our masters control dissent and opposition in the USA: they prevent any information inimical to their interests from being picked up by the vast majority of Americans. Our masters have gained complete control over the spread of information. I offer my own experience as an example: I have written about a revolutionary strategy to overthrow the rule of the capitalist class, and I've suffered very few consequences except for one late night journey--no, doubt picked up through emails to my sister--when I was threatened with being run off the road, and was followed clear to my home. Because my website and comments have been read by a relatively few people, I don't represent any threat to them. And, I am retired thus that they cannot threaten my access to jobs. 

The answer to the question in the title, "Whose Side is the CIA On?", is simply "their side": that of the tiny ruling capitalist class that created them.

If Society Understood Sovereignty, It Would End Rape Culture, Imperialism, And Propaganda

Click here to access article by Caitlin Johnstone from her blog.

She makes an insightful connection between rape and imperialism.

I bring up rape culture from time to time not just because it’s an inherently toxic dynamic which destroys lives and has impacted me personally, but because I see it as inseparable from the constant transgressions of powerful people who seek to undermine the sovereignty of entire populations and nations. I truly believe that if our culture had a better understanding of what sovereignty is and how it works, everyone from serial rapists to imperialists to mass media propagandists would lose the societal framework in which they operate.

Power, when you get right down to it, is ultimately about control.