Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, June 16, 2021

• Alternative Visions - Inflation, Infrastructure ‘Smoke & Mirrors’, & Keynes’ Economics by Prof. Jack Rasmus from Alternative Visions in a 53:43m audio presentation. (Note: Rasmus attempts to explain what is the reality of the economy in contrast to what corporate media is reporting.) My reaction: Although he often frames events too much in the economy as Republican versus Democrats, I believe his interpretation of what corporate media currently reports is on the right track versus what is really going on. From my own experience, I also can agree with him in his introduction that readings of outstanding authors in the original is different from careerist and indoctrinated academics who provide skewed interpretations of what these authors wrote. To his credit, Rasmus has read much by these authors. I look forward to future posts in this series.

• It’s Now Official: The Financial House that Jamie Dimon Built Is the Riskiest Bank in the United States by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• Tupac Shakur Would Have Turned 50 Today–If He Hadn’t Threatened Deal Between Drug Traffickers and U.S. Banks Making Billions Laundering CIA Drug Money by John Potash from Covert Action Magazine.
  

• Creating enemies: China reacts to NATO targeting it by Rick Rozoff from Anti-Bellum.
  

• Biden wants NATO to project the strength it doesn’t have by Scott Ritter from RT.
  

• Science Update: Climate Change Leads to Reduced Atmospheric Oxygen featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist (via his YouTube channel--07:45m), who has fearlessly focused on the climate crisis, examining a research study reported in the Guardian.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, June 4, 2021

• ‘Self-Spreading’ Vaccines Pose Multiple Risks to Society — Including the End of Informed Consent by Children's Health Defense Team.

• China urges U.S. to clarify doubts over its bio-labs from CGTN, a major online Chinese news website, in a 01:12m video podcast by Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin.

• 💥From 1980s Neoliberalism to the ‘New Normal’ by Colin Todhunter from Dissident Voice. This is a best post. My reaction: Todhunter captures the appearance of the accelerated concentration of capital in the last several decades. Still not convinced? See this 45:23m video via Bitchute.
  

• The FBI's Strange Anthrax Investigation Sheds Light on COVID Lab-Leak Theory and Fauci's Emails by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack. Note: Greenwald summarizes his research including the 2001 mysterious anthrax events, and concludes with the following paragraph:

We do not know for sure if the COVID-19 virus escaped from the Wuhan lab, another lab, or jumped from animals to humans. But what we do know for certain — from the anthrax investigation — is that governments most definitely conduct the sort of research that could produce novel coronaviruses. Dr. Rosenberg, the subject of the 2002 New Yorker article, was suggesting that the F.B.I. was purposely impeding its own investigation because they knew that the anthrax actually came from the U.S. government’s own lab and wanted to prevent exposure of the real bio-research that is done there. We should again ponder why the pervasive mainstream doubts about the F.B.I.’s case against Ivins have been memory-holed. We should also reflect on what we learned about government research into highly lethal viruses and bacterial strains from that still-strange episode.

• Biden’s Phony Fiscal Policy: Cuts Corp Taxes & Infrastructure Spending by Jack Rasmus from his weblog.
  

• Russiagate target Kilimnik speaks out on ‘spy’ claims, Trump-Russia conspiracy theories by Aaron Maté from The Grayzone. My reaction: lying is an integral characteristic of our masters in the capitalist ruling class.
  

• Arctic Sea Ice Thinning Up to Twice As Fast as Expected by University College London from SciTechDaily.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, March 31, 2021 (I ran out of time)

• Fear of Fairy Tales by John Steppling from his weblog. (Note: Steppling is currently living with his family in Norway. He has a strong background as an American playwright, director of plays, etc., and he apparently is highly educated. I find his posts rather challenging because I don't know how his frequent quotes and images relate to the substance of his articles. He is obviously very disturbed particularly with the current pandemic particularly its impact on children.)
  

💥Thus, I especially recommend Steppling's rather lengthy (1:23:54) conversation (via some technology) with Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Johan Eddebo found  at Aesthetic Resistance (Post #35) (also in the link at the end of the above article). I encourage you to listen to this profound conversation among these highly educated people regarding the significance of the pandemic and its impact on people.) This is a best post.

• Vandana Shiva on the Taking Down of Bill Gates' Empires features Dr. Joseph Mercola in conversation (57:47) with Dr. Vandana Shiva from Marcola's weblog. (Note: This is the first video on the page.)

• What The 2007 Financial Crisis Taught Us About Corrupt Bankers by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room on Medium.com.
  

• Washington’s Hegemonic Ambitions Defy Multipolar Reality, Risking Catastrophic Conflict by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: Cunningham's introduction precedes an interview with Glenn Diesen who is a professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and author of several books.)
  

• The Problem Isn’t Human Nature, The Problem Is A Few Manipulative Sociopaths by Caitlin Johnstone, an independent Australian blogger, from her weblog. My commentary follows: 

Johnstone writes in the article "Someone who says it’s human nature to be selfish, competitive, predatory, exploitative, tyrannical, vicious, brutish and violent isn’t telling you about human nature, they’re telling you about their own nature." Maybe so, but she apparently doesn't yet realize that the capitalist system is based on this view of human nature. Capitalists, and those unwitting people that support them, likely wouldn't dare admit to the negative characteristics but would swear that people are basically selfish. Thus, they would go on to support the capitalist system either completely oblivious to the more negative consequent behaviors listed above and would offer absurd rationalizations for them.

We are fed propaganda to cover-up the heinous crimes the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire commits directly or indirectly. Read a current post entitled The True Story of the Rwandan Genocide from Current Affairs for an example of a major crime (a massacre of at least 500,000 people). This is about who really was responsible for what has been "universally acknowledged as one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century".

• Faced with ICC Investigation, Apartheid Israel Asserts Moral Superiority Over The Victims of Its Terror by Miko Peled from Mint Press News.
  

• Opposing All Governments Equally Is Supporting The Most Powerful Government by Caitlin Johnstone, an independent Australian blogger, from her weblog. My reaction: This is only one fundamental reason why I think shallow-thinking anarchists are nuts.

• Tanzania’s Late President Magufuli: ‘Science Denier’ or Threat to Empire? by Jeremy Loffredo and Whitney Webb from Unlimited Hangout.
  

• Open-Source Versus Patent Monopoly Financing of Drug Development by Dean Baker from CounterPunch. My reaction: The trouble with Baker is that he takes an eighth-grade-civics- class view of how the government of the ruling class works. Thus, he doesn't see that capitalists run the puppet show that the government performs. Patents are one major way they (the capitalist ruling class) have of stealing profits from ordinary workers. Look at Bill Gates and how he accumulated his vast wealth. 

• Twisting the Law by Steve Martinot from CounterPunch. (Note: The following note was published within the article following the article: "[This article contains excerpts from a work in progress called “Brutality: a Study of Police Culture in the US,” which is also looking for a publisher.]". You might also be interested in this post from CGTM, a major Chinese news corporation, via Reuters.
  

• If the Minimum Wage Had Increased as Much as Wall Street Bonuses Since 1985, It Would Be Worth $44 Today by Sarah Anderson from CounterPunch.

• Ecuador’s poisoned loans from the World Bank and the IMF by Eric Toussaint from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt) [Part 1 of the Series].
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, February 3, 2021

• The Flight of the Covid Quacks by Robert E. Wright from American Institute for Economic Research.   

• Judge Scraps ‘Secret Science’ Rule by "Climate Nexus", a department of Children's Health Defense. 

• Mental Health System Fails Kids as COVID Creates ‘Unprecedented Need’ by "Kaiser Health News" from Children's Health Defense.

• New Report From Rep. Katie Porter Reveals How Big Pharma Pursues 'Killer Profits' at the Expense of Americans' Health by Brett Wilkins from Common Dreams.

• Newsweek Caught Lying For Biden About $2000 checks featuring Jimmy Dore revealing, via his YouTube channel, that President Joe Biden lied about the $2000 check. My reaction: What else is new?
  

• Biden’s Nominee For New Cabinet-Level Science Position is Epstein-Linked Geneticist by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond.

• The Biden Government Running True to Form by James O'Neill from Dissident Voice. My reaction: I'll bet you didn't learn of this report while watching TV.
  

• This Is Why They Attack Him - Putin Explains Why We Need New Economic Policies by Bernhard (a German independent blogger) from his weblog Moon of Alabama. (My reaction: The title refers to the theme in this report, and, in addition, you can learn what you are missing by reading this article. You will also learn what corporations like NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, NPR, CNN, etc. fail to inform you. They want you to be ignorant of what goes on in the world, and fill you with propaganda that serves billionaires so that you will end up being compliant serfs. If this article interests you, you might also add to your information about the real world by reading this.
  

• Taking on Telecom’s “5G” by David Rosen from CounterPunch. My reaction: Of course, taking on the Telecom's "5G" is like taking on the capitalist system. This issue is about the very core of capitalism to make profits and thereby create influence in the sacred halls of Congress.

• How Are They Going to Come at Us? by Howard Lisnoff from CounterPunch.

• ‘Cancel the Rents’: People Across the US Mobilize Calling for Housing Relief from People's Dispatch. My reaction: This is another way that the ruling class can impose the divide and conquer strategy on the American people. Landlords have substantial mortgages and bills to pay for upkeep of their properties. With ordinary Americans looking out for their own interest and their family's interests, we can expect more turmoil in the days ahead.

• The Lesson Of The BLM Protests: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Are UN climate talks leading to a global dictatorship? by by Simon Butler from Climate & Capitalism. My reaction: Butler's central criticism of the book is: "Climate Leviathan warns that a worldwide imperial state is on the agenda, but provides no credible arguments or evidence." But, maybe that's obvious, and therefore no need to supply evidence.

• With Anti-IMF Candidate Surging in Polls, Ecuador’s Moreno Flies To DC Amid Talk of Suspending Election by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. My reaction: Maybe this Empire's puppet is worried about the outcome of the election, and he wants to know how he can manage the election results in order to win. The ruling class of the USA are experts at this skill.

• US Pressure on China; The Thai Connection by Christopher Black (lives in Canada) from New Eastern Outlook.

• Science Update: Soils Sequestering Carbon featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson via his channel on YouTube reporting the latest scientific news related to the climate crisis. In the video he summarizes a report from his longer article on his website, Nature Bats Last.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, December 30, 2020

• 10 Facts From the UK Government Pfizer Vaccine Guidance that Promote “Vaccine Hesitancy” by Johnny Vedmore from Unlimited Hangout.
  

• The ‘New Strain’ of COVID Propaganda by Jordan Schachtel from Anti-Empire.

• Despairing America: The Astonishing Psychological Cost of Lockdown by Sandy Szwarc from American Institute for Economic Research. 

• New Exposé Shows UK’s COVID Response was Rife with Corruption and Cronyism by Brad Polumbo from Foundation for Economic Education. 
  

• Polarization, Then a Crash: Michael Hudson on the Rentier Economy featuring an interview with Michael Hudson, a left-wing economist, with Lynn Fries who writes for her blog GPEnewsdocs.com. My reaction: I often wonder what moral conflicts Hudson, a child of Trotskyist parents, have had when he worked as an advisor to Wall Street, major banks, figures like Rockefeller, and as a professor at American institutions of higher learning. He still writes for left-wing publications in the USA and occasionally speaks in the language of Marxism. It appears that material advantages as an economics advisor to capitalist organizations seduced him. He now only distinguishes the productive aspects of industrial capitalism (capitalism v. 1) in contrast to the anti-social aspects of what is referred to as neoliberalism (capitalism v. 2--Hudson refers to this as a "rentier economy") which places making money as an end to itself, and which exploits entire societies as well as workers. But it is hard to deny his affection for version 1, a more pure exploitation of workers which might cause his parents to roll over in their graves.

• Russia vs the Biden Administration by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from his weblog. My reaction: I always like to read Raevsky's article because, as a descendent of White Russians and an American entrepreneur himself, he knows a lot about Russia. However, in contrast to his ancestors, he is very critical of US policies toward today's Russia. 

• America Sucks by Danny Antonelli from CounterPunch.

• The Year the Ruling Class Got Woke by Tom Slater from Anti-Empire. This is a best post because it points to the significance of the use of  identity politics as instrumental for imposing censorship.

• Hollywood’s “Illiberal Left” by Fiona Harrigan from American Institute for Economic Research.
  

• Why Senators Must bReject Avril Haines for Intelligence by Medea Benjamin and
  Marcy Winograd from Mint Press News. 

• The Woke Freikorps by John Steppling from his weblog. (Note: He is primarily a culture critic, but makes clear that his politics are informed by Marxism.) My reaction: This is a somewhat lengthy article, but very worthwhile reading if you have the time and need to be mentally challenged to think about the broader aspects of culture today. I found a correspondence (def. #3) with his observations about American culture and my own.

• The Year in which Comforting American Myths Were Ravaged by James Bovard from American Institute for Economic Research.
  

• The International Criminal Court: Now Simply Indefensible by Craig Murray, a Brit, from his weblog.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, December 29, 2020

• 2020: The Year We Lost Our Common Sense, Courage and Civil Liberties by Robert Bridge from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Meet The Pseudo-Left Imperialists Fighting Against Universal Healthcare by Dan Cohen from Mint Press News. (Note: This post includes a transcript.)

• The Lawsuit That Could End Covid-1984 with Dr. Pam Popper in which Spiro Skouras from Activist Post interviews Popper. (Note: This is about working legally within the capitalist system to change the onerous effects of the current pandemic.)

• 2020: The Year the Tree of Liberty Was Torched by John W. Whitehead from The Rutherford Institute. My reaction: 2020 was not the "year the tree of liberty was torched". It has been happening ever since capitalism took over from feudal authorities some several hundred years ago. The bourgeios proponents merely replaced the feudal authorities.
  

We could transform this nation if only Americans would work together to harness the power of their discontent and push back against the government’s overreach, excesses and abuse.

Targeting a capitalist government for this situation is the problem which all anarchists will embrace, but will accomplish nothing. The only solution is revolution, that is, a change from an advanced capitalist system to a democratically empowered socialist system. Anarchists, agorists, libertarians (as practiced in America), etc. have much to learn. But will they learn it in time to avert the impending catastrophes of nuclear war or the destabilization of our climate? Stay tuned and stay informed.

• 11 questions / 11 answers about the new global debt crisis and how it can be radically reduced (part 1 of 5) by Eric Toussaint , Olivier Bonfond, and Mats Lucia Bayer from CATM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt). (Note: I doubt that I will be posting the other parts because Toussaint has previously written so much about this topic.)
  

• Another Flawed Data Model from Imperial College to Blame for Latest UK Lockdown by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond.

• Should Dr. Birx Be Forgiven For Breaking Her Own Rules? by Ethan Yang from American Institute for Economic Research.
  

• A More Honest Perspective of the COVID-19 Pandemic by Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null from Global Research. (Note: This is a kind of summary of previous articles that I've posted.)

• Another Vatican Insider: COVID Is Being Used By “Certain Forces” To Advance Their “Evil Agenda” by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• The 'Mighty Wurlitzer' - How U.S. Financed 'Human Rights' Organizations Create Anti-Chinese Headlines by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• Update : Transcript Added : A Hard Look at Rent and Rent Seeking with Michael Hudson & Pepe Escobar from "The Saker". 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, December 3, 2020

• “Great Reset” Equals Greater Tragedies For the People by Shawgi Tell from Dissident Voice. (Excellent post!)

• 7 Things That Used to Be “Crazy Conspiracy Theories”….Until 2020 Happened by Daisy Luther from Off-Guardian (based in Britain). 

• No Escape From Our Techno-Feudal World by Pepe Escobar posted on "The Saker" weblog. A best post.
  

• House Hearing: Wall Street Gets Bailed Out by Fed; Main Street Gets Sold Out by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.  

• BIDEN'S Media Propagandists -- Ruling Class Hides Behind Diversity. This features Jimmy Dore (of The Jimmy Dore Show) giving a sarcastic commentary of Joe Biden's appointments to his administration. 

• When did the media stop telling the truth? by Patrick Hitchens from Unherd (a British website). My commentary follows:

The powerful ruling classes that have governed society during the last 10,000 years have always striven to shape the news, but in period since WWII the directors of the remaining capitalist nations (which began as the US combined with what was left of the British Empire) have more seriously shaped the news and information that has informed the general public in order to conform to their interests of power and profits. Read my commentary here for the development of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire since WWII. This development focused on shaping news and information, and censorship of real news; in other words, the intentional use of self-serving propaganda formed a prominent role in promoting the power and profits of this Empire.

• The Cheering Section for World War III by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• CIA Partners with Google, Amazon and IBM in Latest Big Tech Procurement Drive by Raul Diego from Mint Press News.

• New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato featuring James Corbett and James Pilato in a nearly 9 minute video reporting on the latest news regarding vaccines, pandemic related matters, and posted on The Corbett Report. 

• Censorship in the Biden Era by Margaret Kimberley from Black Agenda Report.

• BLM Chapters Demand “Accountability” from Trio that Cashed in on the Movement by Glen Ford from Black Agenda Report. My reaction: You can't blame women from advancing their prospects by allying themselves with the ruling class because many other are doing it. Advancement of careers is an "equal opportunity employer" and thoroughly American (in these dark days, I often resort to cynicism).

• The Problem With the COVID Vaccine | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Explains .... (via YouTube) My reaction: His explanation is precisely how and why the ruling capitalist class (the "billionaire class" or the "oligarchy") has taken over the government. I haven't seen such an explanation by him anywhere on the web. It's because his explanation is dangerous--to him personally because he risks his own assassination.

• Warp Speed Ahead: COVID-19 Vaccines Pave the Way for a New Frontier in Surveillance by John W. Whitehead from his weblog The Rutherford Institute. 

• 22 Scientists Publish Paper Claiming The PCR Test Is “Useless” For Detecting COVID-19 Cases by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, November 19, 2020

• EcoHealth Alliance orchestrated key scientists’ statement on “natural origin” of SARS-CoV-2 from USRTK (U.S. Right to Know). (Note: The Lancet is a prominent medical journal based in Britain.)

• Pfizer’s Experimental Covid-19 Vaccine—What You’re Not Being Told by Johnny Vedmore from Unlimited Hangout.
  

• Beyond COVID-19: the Power Struggle Over Alternatives for Health Care Reform by John P. Geyman from CounterPunch. (My reaction: And then the ruling class pretends to care about our health!)

Corporatization, privatization, a shift from not-for-profit to for-profit health care, and the growth of investor-owned corporate health care have been dominant themes in the transformation of U. S. health care since the 1980s. We have seen a 3,000 percent growth in the numbers of administrators and managers [with their focus on profit] compared to a minimal growth in the numbers of physicians. [My insertion]

• Crisis, What Crisis? Hypocrisy and Public Health in the UK by Rosemary Mason & Colin Todhunter from Off-Guardian.

Since that time, we have seen lockdowns, an ongoing government-backed fear campaign, fundamental rights being stripped away, dissent censored, inflated COVID-19 death numbers and the use of a flawed PCR test to label perfectly healthy individuals as COVID-19 ‘cases’ in order to fit the narrative of a ‘second wave’. 

But, just for a moment, consider an alternative scenario… 

The government is extremely worried about a substance that could be contributing to a spiraling public health crisis that has been decades in the making. It has been detected in food and in urine. The government has therefore decided to carry out mass urine testing. It has found millions of ‘cases’. ....

But the government does nothing. It does not just do nothing but actively facilitates the marketing of this substance and collude with its manufacturers.  [Sorry for the inconsistent formatting.]

And the name of this ‘stuff’? Glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide. The main culprit – Monsanto’s Roundup. But it is not just glyphosate. It is the cocktail of agricultural chemicals that have been in use for decades.

• The crisis triggered by the pandemic and the economic policy of the European Union by Daniel Albarracín from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt).

The Covid-19 pandemic has overwhelmed our species due to its impact on public health, but even more because of the depth of the economic depression it has unleashed, causing a social and employment disaster which plunges us into uncertainty.

The European Deep State follows the lead of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire, of which they are an integral part. The author provides an illustration of an informal theme frequently used by the directors of the Empire first identified by journalist Vanessa Beeley that was going in Syria: problem, reaction, and solution. Currently they have initiated the problem (as yet unproven, but likely) of the covid-19 pandemic which adversely impacts public health and the economies of nations of the world, then their media corporations hype the threat which caused widespread fear, and finally, they offer solutions: highly profitable (for them) vaccines and the rest of the Great Reset package: digital money and authoritarian decisions (more censorship and surveillance) by major tech corporations. All of these programs are designed to enhance the profits and power of the transnational capitalist ruling classes in Europe, and offer the transnational capitalist class's solution to the climate crisis by depopulating "useless eaters" (people who don't contribute to the power and profits of the Empire and their corporations).

The design of the European Union, despite the propaganda and its founding myths, is not conceived to protect its citizens in general, let alone its working classes. Its cornerstones are the defence of the freedom of movement of capital and goods and, when and as appropriate, the mobility of people within its borders, to achieve more profitability and competitiveness for its companies. The aspects of cohesion it may contain do not counteracting [sic] this priority.

• The Secret Agenda of the World Bank and IMF by Peter Koenig from New Eastern Outlook.
  

• Rapper Lord Jamar: 'George Soros Controls Black Lives Matter - It's NOT Our Movement' by Jay Greenberg from Neon Nettle featuring a video interview with rapper Lord Jamar. (My reaction: I know I'm getting past my expiry date when website authors refer to "leftists" as supporting the ruling class. It is an illustration of the shifting political spectrum here in the USA.)
  

• The ECB would (not really) like to know your opinion on the digital euro – let them know by Norbert Häring, a German economist, from his weblog Money and More.

• Militarism and the Populist Playbook by Craig Murray, a Scottish activist, from his weblog.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020

This morning I only got through to 1/3 of the 50 websites that I normally peruse to select articles for your greater understanding of the world we live in. I've simply run out time. I was so fascinated by the many articles I found--there are several "best posts" among them. I will start you off with something light: a satirical comedian's take on censorship.

• What It’s Like Getting Censored on YouTube featuring comedian JP Sears. 

• How an “Act of God” Pandemic is Destroying the West by Michael Hudson from his weblog. (I neglected to credit an activist for alerting me to this article.)
  

• Julian Assange trial: the mask of Empire has fallen by Pepe Escobar posted on A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. 

• NATO’s Slow-Motion Blitzkrieg Eastward by Ulson Gunnar from New Eastern Outlook.

• Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Statement About the Situation in Belarus issued via this Russian press office and authored by S.N. Ivanov and posted on "The Saker".  

• BLM's War on the Deplorables by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review. A best post.
  

• Hyperinflation, Fascism and War: How the New World Order May Be Defeated Once More by Matthew Ehret from "The Saker". (Note: I didn't read all of this rather lengthy article, but I will. I was so impressed by his knowledge of history during this period about which I have read widely. I need to followup with subjects and books he suggested. A best post.)

• New Technologies, TikTok, Competition, and “Free” and Human Labor: An Interview with Economist Paula Bach. This article was posted on Left Voice. (Note: The article was translated from a transcript in Spanish and found on a Spanish website. She has an exceptional knowledge about this important subject. I found at times that I didn't understand all of her references and arguments, but I learned a lot. Maybe you can do better. You will need to know about "unicorn companies" This is another best post.)
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, July 29, 2020

• Crash the Economy, Burn the Cities, Infect the People: the Evil Plan to Remake America by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review. (My reaction: A very wise and insightful analysis. Hopefully--and it is a desperate hope--that dissident Americans are up to the challenge "to scupper the plan".
  

• Slavery of Fear by Gilbert Mercier from News Junkie Post.

• How to Take Back Control of Your Mind by Cynthia Chung from Strategic Culture Foundation. (My reaction: She mostly addresses, in a somewhat convoluted fashion, the issue of how to brainwash a person, but, I think, not to emphasize methods to  "take back control of your mind". But the lesson is there: that understanding the past can fortify you against this unceasing brainwashing that we are all subject to by living in the capitalist US/Anglo/Zionist Empire where the past is re-written.)

• U.S. Household Eviction Crisis: 43% of American Renters Now Face Risk of Eviction by Eric Zuesse from Global Research. (My reaction: I can't restrain the impulse to ask the social-democratic (def.) Zuesse: How is capitalism working out for ya?)

• Capitalism is a Class-Divided, Racist, Sexist Horror Without End from The Internationalists.

• Combat breathing: The spirit of rebellion in the US by Nigel C Gibson from New Frame, a South African website.

• The White Black Nationalist Color Revolution by CJ Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. (My reaction: I think Hopkins is too cynical. Okay, so the ruling class has instituted a well-funded and organized color revolution, but the people don't have to go along with their agenda. The suffering people can organize themselves and establish their own agenda independent of the ruling class who want to provoke chaos in order to establish a more overt fascism in their backyard. But are the people capable of doing this? It is too soon to determine the outcome. But just because the ruling class, confident in having brainwashed most Americans, has decided to desperately gamble with stirring up the American people, the latter according to Hopkins should resist this desperate move by quietly submitting to their program.)

• Don’t. Side. With. The. Powerful. by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.
  

• Are worst-case climate scenarios less likely, as media reports of a new scientific paper suggest? by David Spratt from his weblog Climate Code Red. (Note: His short answer is "no". This is another example of wishful thinking that is normal for the ruling class who are faced with their own demise as a ruling class.)

• FDA Director Peter Marks and the Ever-Shifting COVID Vaccine Narrative by Robert F, Kennedy, Jr., Chairman, Children’s Health Defense from the latter's website.
  

• YouTube outlaws “contradicting” the World Health Organization by Catte Black from Off-Guardian.

• COVID-19-driven famine | The pandemic might see millions of children go hungry, a video from RT.

• The curse of ‘both-sidesism’: How climate denial skewed media coverage for 30 years by Joseph Winters from Grist.
  

• Elon Musk Confesses to Lithium Coup in Bolivia from TeleSur.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, July 21, 2020

• Coronavirus and the End of Authority by Christopher Roach from American Greatness. (My reaction: Americans have been lied to so many times (even much more often than they realize) that they are having a growing problem, especially among young people, with trusting authorities. The author misses the mark when he designates a managerial class that is responsible. The latter is merely the highly educated trained and indoctrinated upper-middle-class people who are devoted entirely to their well-paid careers and who dutifully serve the ruling class as long as they are getting paid.)

• Toronto Children’s Hospital Recommends Back to School without Masks or Social Distancing. Detailed Report by John C. A. Manley from Global Research. (Note: Here are school policies based on science.)

• WATCH: Your Body, Their Choice from Off-Guardian. 

• This Is a Financial Extinction Event by Charles Hugh Smith from his weblog Of Two Minds.

• America’s hidden economic crisis: Widespread wage cuts by Megan Cassella from Politico.  (Note: Also Lee Camp points to this.) 

• The Only Obstacle To A Healthy World Is Government Secrecy And Propaganda by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Hezbollah, The Source of All Troubles in Lebanon and the Middle East by Elijah J. Magnier from his weblog behind a paywall and re-posted on American Herald Tribune. 

• Global Warming and Ocean Acidification Accelerate by Manuel Garcia, Jr. from CounterPunch.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, May 4, 2020

• Americans Can Handle an Open Discussion on Vaccines—RFK, Jr. Responds to Criticism from His Family by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. from Children's Health Defense. (Note: This was posted on August 15, 2019.)

My commentary: In this nine-month-old post, Kennedy proves with considerable documentation that many government agencies and leaders of such agencies, especially those that are directly concerned with drugs, have been co-opted by Big Pharma (the pharmaceutical industry) with "ownership" of stocks in the industry. Thus, they are heavily compromised by pursuing policies that increase their capital gains of stocks which they own in the pharmaceutical industry.

Now during this pandemic we learn that citizens like Bill Gates who have used his $-billions by helping to fund agencies like the World Health Organization (WHO) which is an agency of the United Nations and oversees drug policies worldwide. Furthermore, there are many other involved in the government's leadership who are heavily compromised.

Yes, I know that this is shock to some of you to learn that the capitalist "virus" has spread throughout government agencies that are officially responsible for the safety of drugs that you consume. But what you may not be aware of is that the capitalist virus has spread throughout all institutions of our society. The only remedy is revolution.

• Fear and Loathing of the COVID-19 Economy by Kurt Nimmo from Global Research.

• The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis Is Here by Matt Taibbi from Anti-Empire. 

• Perspectives on the Pandemic | The Bakersfield Doctors from Journeyman Pictures (via YouTube).

Perspectives on the Pandemic - Episode 6: When Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Antin Massihi held a press conference on April 22nd about the results of testing they conducted at their urgent care facilities around Bakersfield, California, the video, uploaded by a local ABC news affiliate, went viral. After reaching five million views, YouTube took it down on the grounds that it "violated community standards." We followed up with the doctors to determine what was so dangerous about their message. What we discovered were reasonable and well-meaning professionals whose voices should be heard.

• Virus of Mass Destruction by C. J. Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. 

• JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Fossil Fuel Industry Get Bailed Out Under Fed’s “Main Street” Lending Program by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• Very High Greenhouse Gas Levels from Arctic News. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, April 16, 2020

• The Recovery Will Not Be V-Shaped by Bernhard from Moon of Alabama.

• Long Breadlines Form Outside of Food Banks as America Struggles to Cope With COVID-19 Fallout by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. 

• Reactions to the Corona Virus Hint of a Wider Agenda by James O’Neill from New Eastern Outlook. (I thank an activist for alerting me to this article.)

• Montana physician Dr. Annie Bukacek discusses how COVID 19 death certificates are being manipulated (via YouTube). (Note: This is another medical doctor (like Dr. Scot Jensen,) who has reported CDC's instructions to encourage them to report deaths as from Covid 19. She reveals this at 11:32m into her address.) My commentary: The doctor (nor I) is not implying that the coronavirus pandemic is fake, but more evidence that some people want "to scare the hell of you" (def). Also, see this and this!

• Ron Paul: People ‘Should Be Leery About’ a Coronavirus Vaccine by Adam Dick from the Ron Paul Institute. (Note: Paul thinks the motivation behind the scare strategy is to motivate us to unquestionably accept vaccines.)

• Robert Kennedy Jr slams WHO's sordid ties to Big Pharma from Rick Sanchez program on RT (via YouTube).

• The Agenda behind Bill Gates Vaccine & ID2020 : Coronavirus Conspiracies featuring "Syrian Girl" (via YouTube) offering much information to suggest that conspiracies may be involved. (Note: She is well informed and credible, and offers new information that citizens need to be aware of. I am not suggesting that conspiracies are involved in this pandemic, but we need to be aware that conspiracies (like shit) sometimes happen.)

• Here Are the Contracts Showing How $4.5 Trillion in Stimulus Was Outsourced to Wall Street by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• Coronavirus stimulus bill funds State Dept/USAID operations that once helped trigger polio outbreak in Syria by Max Blumenthal from The Grayzone.

• The post-pandemic slump by Michael Roberts from his weblog.

• We Won’t Pay for Their Crises Anymore! from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt).

• The End of Sanders, and Maybe the Beginning of a Mass Independent Left by Glen Ford from Black Agenda Report. 

• How top Labour officials plotted to bring down Jeremy Corbyn posted by Johnathan Cook on his weblog. (I am posting this from Cook's blog as an exception to my rule to post from the original sources because it gives the article greater credibility from a renowned British journalist.)

• Arctic Hit By Ten Tipping Points from Arctic News.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, March 26, 2020

• To confront capitalism’s multifaceted crisis the bankers must be expropriated and the banks socialised (Part 2 of the series: The Capitalist Pandemic, Coronavirus and the Economic Crisis) by Eric Toussaint from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt).

• Stimulus Bill: The Fed and Treasury’s Slush Fund Is Actually $4 Trillion by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• Coronavirus: What Newsweek Failed to Mention About “Continuity of Government” by Whitney Webb from Mint Press News.

• The War on Death by C. J. Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. (satire)

The point is, the global capitalist empire (for whatever reasons, real or imagined) has turned on the MINDLESS HYSTERIA machine, and dialed it up as high as it goes. People are in full-blown headless chicken mode. No one (or hardly anyone) is thinking, or listening to dissenting opinions, or paying attention to official statistics, or common sense, or anything else that contradicts the War on Death narrative.

• What We Can Learn From A Pandemic “Tabletop Exercise”? by Mary Holland from Children's Health Defense. 

• The Staggering Collapse of U.S. Intelligence on the Coronavirus by Scott Ritter from The American Conservative.

• PBS Report on the 'Doomsday Glacier' by Scientist Warning (via YouTube).

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, March 14, 2020

• NATO and COVID-19: a Parasitical Disease in Europe by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.

The Defender-Europe 20 military exercise is obviously directed against Russia. So why is it patently inconsistent with the otherwise drastic measures such as limiting crowd sizes, closing schools, cancelling political and sporting events, limiting travel, etc. that many nations are taking to limit the spread of this new Coronavirus that originated in China? Don't misunderstand me--this is a real threat especially to elderly. Meanwhile, this viral attack and NATO countries severe reactions could be the catalyst that tips capitalist economies into collapse if recent adverse effects on capitalist economies continue.  I will await further information on this topic before I consider any suspicions of a 9/11 type of false-flag event to serve several fascist and imperalist interests of the Empire's Deep State, the trans-national finance capitalists whom we are all literally in debt to. (Also, see this --I restored the link to the Voltaire website after discovering that it ultimately went to Facebook. Hopefully it will remain.) Ruling capitalist classes are perfectly capable of gross crimes against humans such as this as they have demonstrated in the past. Whether or not they are capable of this crime, only future events and whistleblowers can reveal. (Update: I noticed this article on the following Monday that Germany is withdrawing their participation in the exercise.)

• US Intel Agencies Played Unsettling Role in Classified and “9/11-like” Coronavirus Response Plan by Whitney Webb from Mint Press News. 

• Toilet Paper Is the People’s Vaccine by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain. (Note: I had revised the formatting of my comment when I inadvertently erased my comment. I had a personal experience today with this startling phenomenon, followed by Curtin's article which proposed a theory to explain it. I was not convinced of his theory, but I don't have any other explanation for this irrational practice.)

• Fake News Alert: Washington Post hypes fake news on coronavirus ‘burial pits’ in Iran  by Erin Cunningham and Dalton Bennett of the Washington Post via PressTV (Iran). (Note: This "news" report was picked up by all sorts of mainstream media and minor US media outlets that function as repeaters of propaganda from mainstream media corporations.)

• Tulsi’s Emergency UBI Plan & More For Coronavirus. Tulsi Gabbard, who is now excluded from candidate debates by the Democratic Party, appears with Jimmy Dore (via a YouTube channel) to offer her recommendations to cope with the Coronavirus and the experience of Hawaiians who she represents in Congress.

• COVID-19 death rates not what they seem, 'misleading and naive' (full show) featuring Rick Sanchez from his show on RT. (Note: I can't recommend this enough for you to stay reasonably informed on most important topics of today.) 

With the last post I have run out of time and energy. Sorry, but I have tasks I need to do.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, March 7, 2020

• Global Warming on a Rampage by Robert Hunziker from Dissident Voice.

• Mailbag Love: How Can You Help? from Guy McPherson's weblog Nature Bats Last.

• How I try to break climate silence by BaerbelW from Skeptical Science. (Note: This German scientist takes us through the many ways climate crisis deniers try to deceive us, and simultaneously promotes critical thinking. But alas, she only devotes two sentences to a claim that "There is also hope: We already have much of the technology we need to solve climate change. We 'just' have to deploy it at scale." And she follows these two sentences by saying "this clear for scientists". But this is not true. Many scientists remain in doubt that we can solve this problem, and some, like McPherson, have already decided that it is too late.)

• Greta Thunberg | Youth Strike 4 Climate | Bristol, UK featuring Greta from Extinction Rebellion (via YouTube). (Note: She rallies British children to protest the inaction by adults (in the ruling class) who "despite all the beautiful words and promises from elected officials" (and the people who employ them in the capitalist ruling class) about  preventing climate destabilization, but the latter will result in the destruction of the children's futures and they sense that.)

Satirical comedians discover that capitalist controlled elections are corrupt, but they don't connect them to elections held in capitalist nations or nations held by ruling classes of any kind. The result is cynicism. The following two posts illustrate that:

• Voter Suppression, Closed Polling Places, Rigged Media & More featuring Lee Camp and his how Redacted Tonight from RT (via YouTube).

• Establishment Hacks Deny Establishment Colluding Against Bernie featuring Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Show from RT (via YouTube). 

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• Joe Biden in 2020 Duplicates Hillary Clinton in 2016 by Eric Zuesse from Global Research. 

• Two Charts Explain Why Wall Street Banks Are Under So Much Selling Pressure by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. (They explain a lot more.)

• Putin saves Erdogan from himself by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times. 

• Donbass and Syria – A Perfect Storm Approaching? by Russell Bentley from FRN (Fort Russ News) (Note: Notice the background of the author, and he has a website.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, December 3, 2019

(Blogger's note: I have been fighting influenza for nearly a week; so if the posts are not up to the standard of previous ones, I apologize.)

• Leading climate researchers: we are in a climate emergency, facing existential risks by David Spratt from Climate Code Red.

• Failed Action On The Climate Crisis Makes Resistance Imperative by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese from Popular Resistance.

• The fantasy world continues by Michael Roberts from his weblog.

• Venezuela's Counter-Attack by Eric Striker from National Justice.

• Technocracy now: The US is working to turn Lebanon’s anti-corruption protests against Hezbollah [part 1 of 2] by Rania Khalek from The Grayzone.

• Crack down on genomic surveillance by Yves Moreau from Nature.

Articles I recommend on the internet today: Tuesday, September 10, 2019

• How To Defeat The Empire by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• The Establishment is Changing its Tune on Russia by Patrick Lawrence from Consortium News.

• The West Oppressed the Third World for So Long It Became the Third World Itself by US citizen Andre Vltchek from New Eastern Outlook (magazine of the Russian Academy of Sciences).

France's Yellow Vests, State Violence and The Way Forward

Click here to access an 1:37:01 interview with "three-time French Presidential candidate, Jacques Cheminade, President of the French party Solidarité et Progrès", conducted by Dr. Kirk Meighoo (Trinidad and Tobago). (Updated at 1:10 PM CT)

I am posting this as a way of acquanting you with another independent thinker, Dr. Meighoo, whose interview with "The Sake" I posted today. But, in addition, I think the views of Jacques Cheminade, as well as Dr. Meighoo, are also insightful regarding the ongoing Yellow Vests protests and general issues facing most ordinary people today. On the subject of global warming and some other subjects, I obviously don't agree with the two.

EU and China sign a Mandate of Trade Heaven

Click here to access article by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times.

China scores again while the Empire plays regime-change games and arrests and jails journalists.

... Beijing’s drive is to configure national champions in virtually every industrial and post-industrial sector, including preeminence in 5G and AI. The crux of the Chinese strategy is not the US but a close relationship with Europe, where opportunities to acquire first-class technology and first-class education are immense. Not to mention that Europe is BRI’s privileged terminal.

Perception is reality. There’s no doubt the Beijing leadership has understood that this EU-China agreement goes a long way to show, especially to its leaders, that they are dealing with a responsible emerging superpower. The contrast with the acrimony and intimidation tactics displayed throughout the US trade war could not be sharper.