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 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 Monday, April 5, 2021

• Real COVID death rate 0.15% from Left Lockdown Sceptics: Socialist anti-lockdown news and analysis. My reaction: This figure was furnished by a research study conducted by Stanford epidemiologist John P.A. Ioannidis, and was peer-reviewed. But the ruling class has its approved "experts", and Ioannidis is not on the list. Therefore, it will be totally ignored by the ruling class's major media corporations. Instead, we will get uninterrupted fear campaigns with their insistence that we should wear masks, experience soul-crushing lockdowns, and take our "medicine" in the form of untested, experimental vaccinations. 

• Fighting lockdown in California: A US teacher speaks from Sceptics.  "Left Lockdown Sceptics interviews Andy Libson, an American anti-lockdown high school teacher and revolutionary socialist"

• Scenes From 2030 by TE Creus from Off-Guardian.

• Complicity/Collusion by Korvus Korax from Off-Guardian
  

• Global Casinos: Financial Markets are a Fraudsters Paradise by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room.
  

• Tax havens and Capital Flight by Rod Driver from Elephants in the Room. 

• We’re on Our Own: Texas in the Aftermath by Holly Lewis and Snehal Shingavi from Spectre.  

• A Damned Murder Inc: Kennedy’s Battle Against the Leviathan [Part 3 of 3] by Cynthia Chung from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: I missed posting Part 2, but the link is in this article.) My commentary follows:

You cannot understand the present unless you were furnished with accurate information about the past (history). Unfortunately for you, you have been given a history written by the secret services of the USA, mainly by the CIA. However, Cynthia Chung, who has done enormous research, has liberated true history from the fake that you have been fed by institutions that are all under the control of the capitalist ruling class.

• How Russia 'Weaponized' 111 Times by Bernhard, an independent German blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama.
  

• New Yorker Uses Cartoons to Boost “Uyghur Genocide” Myth by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. My reaction: The busy, trying-to-survive ordinary Americans usually swallow US imperialist propaganda, but Berletic makes a herculean effort trying to expose it for what it is--lies.
  

• 💥A Quintessential Eastern Marxist State: A Review of A.B. Abrams’ Immovable Object: North Korea’s 70 Years at War with American Power by Stephen Gowans from his weblog What's Left. A best post.

• 💥Humans, Nature and the Illusion of Separateness by Kenn Orphan from CounterPunch. Orphan writes about the key cause of this huge calamity:

... capitalism cannot do anything but accumulate more and more capital. And capital is virtually everything that exists, from the raw minerals and petrol deep in the earth’s crust, to the fish in the sea and trees in the boreal range, to governments and politicians, to our own personal information and preferences. It has created a global arrangement of power that must use obfuscation and violence, or its threat, as a way of keeping the engine running. 

 

Orphan forgot to include racism in the weapons that the tiny class of capitalists has used against the survival of humans. Racism has been used to divide humans so that capitalists can continue plundering and destabilizing the Earth's miracle ecosystem that supports all life.

Posts that I especially recommend for Sunday, February 21, 2021

• Covid Karma: U.S. Lockdown Kings Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo Suffer Political Fallout by Robert Bridge from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• “We Don’t Debate with Anti-Vaxxers Whether They’re Right Or Wrong”, Says BBC by Dr. Vernon Coleman (23:48) from EarthNewspaper.

• Musings From Dystopia, a 29:40m video featuring Dave Cullen from his channel Computing Forever on Bitchute. My commentary follows: 

I object to his and other dissidents' statements impugning the climate crisis that we already in. The climate crisis is real and the ruling capitalist classes know it, but they themselves are guilty of causing it. Furthermore, they have chosen the wrong solution--depopulation of "useless eaters", that is, people who don't contribute to the profits of corporations. 

 

And, he is wrong about associating the coronavirus strategies used by capitalist governments with socialism/communism. Cullen's views have been shaped by schools in capitalist Ireland. He mentions billionaires and the rich, but he doesn't associate this with anything--it's just a fact of life like the air we breathe, not a system that capitalists have created to serve their needs of wealth and power. Again, like a good anarchist, he targets the "state" as being the villain. The Irish capitalists will love him for this. But I agree with the rest of his observations regarding the governments' solutions.

• Is there a remedy for the PCR disease? (Part 1) by T.P. Wilkinson from Dissident Voice. (This article features an important 48:49m video in which "Dr Füllmich, a German attorney, explains why the evidence to date warrants not only charges of fraud (not negligence) and crimes against humanity".)
  

• Killing Revolution in Bahrain, U.S.-UK Plotted Regime Change in Libya, Syria by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Haiti's Century of US Coups, Invasions & Puppets featuring Abby Martin providing a brief history of this tormented nation from her channel on YouTube in an 8:47m video.

Amidst mass protests against their US-backed dictator, Abby Martin covers how the American Empire has determined the destiny of the Haitian people for generations. 

• Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to “weaken Russia,” leaked docs reveal by Max Blumenthal from The Grayzone. 
  

• On Not Being a Princess by Craig Murray, an independent blogger from Scotland.

• The Urge to Dominate by Nathan J. Robinson from Current Affairs. (Personal note: I remember in the late 1980s I went to a San Francisco store that advertised as having 10,000 games. I wanted to purchase a cooperative game, but I discovered they had none. I think this experience illustrates the power of a ruling class to shape all institutions in society, even games. Unlike the author, I think cooperative games can be fun, but it teaches values and methods of cooperation not competition which is incompatible with the underlying capitalist system or any other authoritarian and class-based system.
  

• UN Head Decries 'Senseless and Suicidal' Destruction of Nature as New Report Urges Systemic Solutions by Brett Wilkins from Common Dreams. My reaction: Yes, a system solution is most urgent, that is, a change from capitalism to something that is compatible with Earth's ecosystem.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, January 19, 2021

• Freedom Airway featuring a 24:22m interview with Professor Delores Cahill, who has a degree in molecular biology, conducted by James Corbett from his weblog The Corbett Report.
  

Professor Delores Cahill joins the deprogram today to discuss a solution for freedom-respecting travel in the age of COVID. The Freedom Airway & Freedom Travel Alliance is seeking to create travel options that don’t require travelers to submit to vaccination, face masks or quarantines.

• Government Mistakes Provided the Breeding Ground for the Mutant Virus, Which it is Now Using as an Alibi for Its Failures by Patrick Cockburn from CounterPunch. My reaction: Cockburn's observations regarding the poorest areas of Britain produces an argument that the ruling class's government knowingly allowed the coronavirus to mutate and spread among the poor. Because Britain's poorest go without immediate access to quality medical services and that they had to keep working to survive, the ruling class had perfect alibis to cull the poor from their nation. Could the rich directors of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire have engineered this virus in their secret bio-weapon laboratories in order to cull the "useless eaters" from their population? One might suspect so because they are guilty of other social crimes (wars for one) of this magnitude. This suspicion leads one to the insight that the global pandemic is a class war that the Empire's capitalist ruling classes are committed to winning.

• Why I Became a “Covid Denier” by Kevin Smith from Off-Guardian (based in Britain).
  

• January 6 Was An Inside Job featuring in a 26:03m podcast Abby Martin, Mike Prysner, and Brian Becker, who has made a study of the Jan. 6 incident, discuss why they think it was an "inside job". I suspect that it was a Deep State project carried out by the secret intelligence services to prepare the public (psy-op) for more legislation curbing civil-rights of the general public. But I do not agree with them in their prediction that the "powers that be" will legally go after Trump to the extent of imprisoning him. If you have a special interest in this event, you may be also interested in a piece of investigative journalism entitled "Was Trump Ousted from the Military Chain of Command?" from the same website.

• How Billionaires Transfer Blame to Others by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Zuesse is always careful to portray the US government as determined by an "aristocracy" of wealth in order to avoid the Marxist expression "ruling class". You see, any hint of Marxism is verboten in the USA.

• Russia Withdraws From Open Skies Treaty After US Departure by Om Marathe from Anti-Empire.
  

• Continuity of Agenda: Trump’s was Obama’s will be Biden’s Asia Strategy by Brian Berletic (an American who lives in Thailand) from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. My reaction: This is so because the Deep State ("Tony Cartalucci" was the pen-name for Berletic) actually determines the policies of the US government, and most especially its foreign policies.

• Evolution of the external debt of developing countries between 2000 and 2019 by Eric Toussaint and Milan Rivié from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt). 

• Indian Farmers on the Frontline Against Global Capitalism by Colin Todhunter (British blogger) from Dissident Voice. 

• US makes aggressive opening move on Russian chessboard by M. K. Bhadrakumar from his weblog Indian Punchline. My reaction: He is convincing in his argument that the USA or by extension, the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire will attempt to use the "divide and conquer" strategy in a move in the dangerous global chess game.

• New Leaks Show How British Spies Infiltrate And Undermine Lebanon's Security Services by Bernhard, a German blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• US economic decline and global instability by "Phillyguy" from "The Saker" weblog. (Note: I roughly skimmed this lengthy article for accuracy, and I found no errors.)

• Reimagining the World: Agroecology vs Post-COVID Plunder by Colin Todhunter from Off-Guardian.
  

• Destroying the Web of Life: The Destruction of Earth’s Biodiversity Is Accelerating by Robert J. Burrowes from Global Research.

One species – Homo sapiens – is annihilating life on Earth, driving at least 200 species to extinction each day. In the time it took you to read this article, another species of life on Earth vanished into the fossil record.

My reaction: After researching this subject for more than 40 years, I hold the opinion that it is already too late to save our species; but that to redeem ourselves, we must fight capitalists and their addictions to profits and power by establishing our ownership and control over the economies of the world.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, January 11, 2020

• Iran: Ukrainian plane brought down 'due to human error' from PressTV (Iran).

• Iranian Armed Forces Say They Inadvertently Shot Down The Ukrainian Plane - Updated by Bernhard from Moon of Alabama.

• Iraqi PM asks US to begin withdrawal process in Iraq from Al-Masdar Al-'Arabi ("The Arab Source", based in Lebanon). 

• France strikes: nurses, teachers and lawyers join pension protests by Angelique Chrisafis from Defend Democracy Press.

• Cabin Porn from Maize.

On Contact: Extinction Rebellion [segment 2 of the interview]

Click here if you wish to directly access Chris Hedge's interview with the British head of Extinction Rebellion from RT America. (Segment 1 largely deals with the objective of Extinction Rebellion and its global strategy to non-violently deal with the overwhelming signs of man-made altering of ecosystem to the point that we now face extinction if we continue emitting carbon into the atmosphere. You can skip segment 1 if you are already aware of this threat.)

Some environmental activists argue the only way to stop the impending ecocide is to carry out nonviolent acts of civil disobedience to shut down the capitals of the major industrial countries, crippling commerce and transportation until the ruling elites are forced to publicly state the truth about climate catastrophe, implement radical measure to halt carbon emissions by 2025, and empower an independent citizens committee to oversee the termination of our 150-year binge on fossil fuels. UK-based group Extinction Rebellion has called for nonviolent acts of civil disobedience on April 15 in capitals around the world to reverse our “one-way track to extinction.” Joining Chris Hedges in the second part of a two-part discussion from London is Roger Hallam, the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion.

In this segment of the interview, both participants emphasize the non-violent nature of the protests. I think this is completely naive. They both see the need to be realistic in proposing their strategy of massive non-violence, but in doing so I think they are being unrealistic about the drugged rule of their adversaries.

Throughout my many years of warnings about the threat of extinction, I have always emphasized the drugged nature of our adversaries in the dominant capitalist ruling classes that make up the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. The organization of the Empire reflects their own makeup of the latest iteration of capitalist rule (neoliberalism): the transnational character of their rule and the globalization of their activities based on the old cornerstone of capitalism--the sanctity of private ownership of the economy using a hierarchical system of authority. Because of this hierarchical system that they necessarily employ, a relatively few people that makeup this ruling class determine how the rest of humans will participate in their societies. Most important of all is that this capitalist system is fundamentally in conflict with our biosphere, but their addiction to power and the basic conflict between capitalism and a sustainable planet prevents them from acknowledging that fact.

I insist that we recognize the drugged nature of these people: they are thoroughly addicted to power that the system of capitalism delivers to them. Addiction is a strong word, but I use it deliberately to indicate the reality of their irrational behavior that is inevitably leading to the extinction of all of us whether capitalist or ordinary people.

The unrealistic nature of the strategy that Hallam is proposing is based on massive participation to shut down the capitalist organization of most of the world's economies. Both Hedges and Hallam wrap themselves in the completely unrealistic righteous clothing of non-violence. But we are not dealing with rational people. We are confronting a very powerful and addicted tiny class of people who have demonstrated over and over that they will stop at nothing to preserve their power. Thus, we must not advocate the violent overthrow of this regime, but be ready as best we can to confront their violence with our own violent power in defense of our objective--a sustainable planet. To do anything less is to accept defeat which means our disappearance from the Earth. We won't have a second chance at devising a new strategy. We must put everything into this effort to save ourselves if we want to continue our very existence as a human species. 

It’s the Green New Deal or Else

Click here to access article by Paul Street from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

Now that we understand these economic realities [as presented to us by capitalist class "experts"], we can prepare—without rebellion, with calm acceptance and within the limits of our stagnant incomes—for our coming extinction. Onward with the coming macroeconomic ecocide. [satire]

Except, wait. Hold on. Maybe Ohanian [one of the "experts"] is full of petroligarchic crap. Maybe there’s still hope for the species after all.

He is, and there is [maybe].   [my insertions]

The road to hell

By cartoonist Max Gustafson from his website.

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?