Posts that I especially recommend for Sunday, June 13, 2021

• The Difference Between Totalitarian Regimes And Free Democracies by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband reading the script, which is also provided in the article from her weblog. My reaction: The only criticism I have is that quotation marks should be around "free democracy". As it is (without quotation marks) there is a tendency to cynicism. "Free democracy" implies a propaganda construct, whereas a free democracy can be very real.

• A Few Thoughts on White Identity by Gary Engler from Dissident Voice. (Note: Engler reviews a book entitled White Fragility: Why White People Have Such a Hard Time Talking About Racism.)

In my opinion, this book starkly epitomizes the dangerous consequences when discussions of white identity are divorced from class analysis. 

• The 2021 Corporate Bamboozle On World Food Systems from GPEnewsdocs featuring a long interview and discussion between Lynn Fries, "producer of Global Political Economy or GPEnewsdocs, and Pat Mooney, who is "leading [the] IPES-Food’s ‘Long Food Movement’ project. My commentary follows: 

Fries and Mooney both represent small farmers in their quest to retain control over the world's food production in contrast to Big Ag's corporate dominance that is emerging under the propaganda construct of "multistakeholderism". The latter term is defined by the Transnational Institute as:

 

Multistakeholderism is a slippery term as most of the definitions are too vague and general and because it is applied to many different forms of governance. It is also an evolving form of governance. ....

 

In multistakeholderism, ‘stakeholders’ become the central actors without any clear procedure to designate ‘stakeholders’.

 

This is in contrast to the previous governing ideology of multilateralism based on interactions and agreements between nation-states. Big Ag is pushing the concept of multistakeholderism to give transnational corporations more relevance in global discussions and in legal bodies such as the UN. In my opinion, "multistakeholderism" is a sneaky construct to give global corporations (and their capitalist backers) as financial "stakeholders" more legitimacy in upcoming legal decisions by the UN. Financial stakeholders have always primarily meant those who have a financial or economic stake in outcomes.

 

Neoliberals (or transnationals) of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire have already proved their power in the recent pandemic by co-opting the World Health Organization (WHO) of the UN. Co-opting of the UN's agency was accomplished after Trump's decision to withdraw US support for the WHO and the billionaire Bill Gates and his foundation stepped in to provide the greatest single monetary support of WHO among nations. This new construct is used to effect a stealthy move around the poorer nations of the world and to enhance the power of the Empire's transnational agricultural corporations.

I think Pat Mooney is a rather naive "do-gooder" who will have little influence on international legal bodies.

• 💥Propaganda and the Media — Let’s Tell Some Lies — Part 5 by Larry Romanoff from "The Saker" weblog. This is a best post. My reaction: Romanoff illustrates how your views of events in the world are distorted by billionaire-owned media corporations to make you ignorant of the Empire's actual crimes.

I have nearly 1,000 such stories in my files, enough to fill a thick book, and all reprehensibly dishonest in their presentation. When Westerners have only a diet of daily articles like this presented to them by their most trusted media, how is it possible for anyone to accurately understand anything about China?

• How US govt-funded media fueled a violent coup in Nicaragua by Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton from The Grayzone. My reaction: This is an important report because it illustrates how the directors of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire are going about subverting entire nations (think Ukraine as another example) to the dominance of the Empire. In Nicaragua they were not successful because the people under successive Sandinista governments had encouraged the people to become politically aware.

• Toxic Chemicals Engulf the Planet by Robert Hunziker from Dissident Voice.
  

• Could temperatures keep rising? from Arctic News. 

A recent post suggests that the 1.5°C threshold was already crossed in 2012, i.e. well before the Paris Agreement was adopted by the U.N. (in 2015), while there could be a temperature rise of more than 3°C [ by 2026.

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, June 7, 2021

• Covid, Cybernetics, And The New Normal by "anonymous" from Wrench in the Gears.
  

This is a guest post written by a humanities teacher and freelance writer who holds a masters degree from the School of African and Oriental Studies, a public research university in London. It lays out over fifty concerns regarding pandemic policy implementation and plans for a cybernetic future, full spectrum dominance of life on the planet by defense, bio-tech, and finance interests. I’m glad to be able to share my platform so this detailed analysis can be more widely distributed.

• James Corbett Presents to the Corona Investigative Committee​ featuring James Corbett being interviewed by Reiner Fuellmich of the Corona Investigative Committee (based in Germany) about Corbett's investigation into the corona crisis and the future of humanity.​ My commentary follows:
   
  Early in the interview (02:45m) Fuellmich asks a very profound question: "What drives them? I mean they have enough money." The answer furnished by Corbett can be condensed in one sentence: The transnational capitalist ruling class of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire have bought into the assumption that humans are an exceptional species. Because they have long discovered that wealth brings power in its wake, they have pursued the accumulation of wealth. Now that they have so much wealth (besides the fact that power/control is addictive), the Empire's ruling class fantasize about a corollary of wealth/power: they must overcome death to prove the validity of their assumption.
   
  They recently embraced the high technology of digitization of everything (the "Great Reset") in order to realize their fantasies.
  
   
  But doubts are creeping into their mad-power-complex, and most notably from the Russia-China-Iran combination which threatens not only their Empire, but also the pursuit of their assumption. Too bad for us, the rest of humanity, this mad pursuit threatens the survivability of our species ... and most others. 

• Gaming Our Lives: Pay for Success Finance. Bonnie Faulkner, of Guns + Butter, interviews (nearly an hour) Alison McDowell who has been described by others as a mom, an independent researcher, and activist. (Note: A script furnishes the introduction to the thoughts of McDowell followed by the nearly hour-long audio interview.)

• Another Claim of ‘Mission Accomplished’ Collapses by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation.
  

• Mainstream Politics Offer Pretend Revolutions To A Discontented Public by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband reading the script, which is provided from her weblog.

• Interesting Timing – Obama Administration Lifted Block on “Gain of Function Research” Just Eleven Days Before President Trump Took Office, January 9, 2017 from The Last Refuge. 

• CNN / MSNBC Audiences Abandoning After Trump featuring Jimmy Dore summarizing, and exclaiming about, statistics of viewer ratings of TV shows in this 07:26m podcast via YouTube.

• Tech Giants Help Israel Muzzle Palestinians by Jonathan Cook, an independent journalist who resides in Nazareth, Israel, from Dissident Voice.

• Book Review – Joint Criminal Enterprise: Why everything you were told about Slobodan Milosevic and the Serbs was wrong. By Andy Wilcoxson from "The Saker" weblog. My reaction: Who could have imagined? (sarcasm)
  

• Space Oddities by Bernhard, a German independent blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• Red Alert: Only One Earth from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) posted on Tricontinental.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Saturday, June 5, 2021

• Fauci Emails: How Top Public Health Officials Spun Tangled Web of Lies Around COVID Origin, Treatments features a 27:33m podcast by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (with Dr. Meryl Nass) from Children's Health Defense.

• Facebook CEO offered Dr. Fauci ‘very exciting’ proposal, vaccine ‘resources’ by Raymond Wolfe from LifeSite.

• Extreme to Mainstream: The Wuhan Lab-Leak Theory featuring Ben Swann and others, from a post on RT via YouTube.
  

Joe Biden’s asked US intelligence to investigate the origins of the deadly disease, and RT’s investigative journalist and No BS host Ben Swann is doing the same. He’ll be talking to political commentator Einar Tangen in Beijing, law professor Elaine Fahey and Nicolas Wade, one of the first journalists to report on the possibility of the Wuhan “lab-leak”.

• Divide And Brainwash: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband reading the script, which is provided, from her weblog.

• Propaganda and the Media: All you have to do is think – Part 4 by Larry Romanoff from "The Saker" blog. My brief commentary follows: 

The only thing I object to in this post is Romanoff's statements that imply that "Jews" are responsible for media propaganda that comprises a lie attached to a truth. He violates his own thesis that media propaganda is a lie attached to a truth. He seems to equate Zionists with Jews, but clearly not all Jews are Zionists. 

 

Jews were first identified with leftist Jews after the Russian Revolution by fascists in Western capitalist circles, most notably by pro-capitalist Nazis but also including major capitalists like Henry Ford. Clearly Jews, like any other ethnic group, have beliefs across the political spectrum from right (fascist-capitalists) to left (communist-socialists). Otherwise, his arguments are correct: capitalist propagandists mix truth with falsities in order to defend and advance their class interests.

• 💥The Notorious London Spy School Churning Out Many of the World’s Top Journalists by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis). This is a best post and a best post of the year (so far). "Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State’s School of Media and Communication and an expert in collusion between government and media, told MintPress, adding:

Elite institutions in the past and doubtless still today have been major playgrounds for intelligence services. The history of the modern nation-state generally, not just the USA, seems to suggest that national unity — and therefore elite safety — is regarded by elites as achievable only through careful management and often suppression or diversion of dissent. Far more resources are typically committed to this than many citizens, drilled in the propaganda of democracy, realize or care to concede. [my emphasis]

 

and Macleod goes on to write:

 

A recent MintPress investigation explored how Bellingcat acts to launder national security state talking points into the mainstream under the guise of being neutral investigative journalists themselves.

Newly leaked documents show how Bellingcat, Reuters and the BBC were covertly cooperating with the U.K.’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to undermine the Kremlin and promote regime change in Moscow.

 

He names names of graduates of Kings College that are hired to key positions in media corporations like Reuters, BBC, and CNN. 

• Think Tank Wars and the Enforcement of Thought Crime Laws by Wayne Madsen from Strategic Culture Foundation (based in Russia).
  

• U.S. Spying on ‘Allies’ Spoils Biden’s Set-Piece Visit to Europe, an editorial from Strategic Culture Foundation.
  

• The Finders: CIA Ties to Child Sex Cult Obscured as Coverage Goes from Sensationalism to Silence by Elizabeth Vos from Mint Press News.

• UFOs Have New Name According To CNN featuring Jimmy Dore in a conversation with "Jake Tapper", a CNN "journalist", discussing in a humorous satire reference to CNN & UFO's in Dore's channel (6:46m) on YouTube. 
  

• I Know Who is Scarier Than the Big Bad Wolf, Do You? by Samantha Bruegger from CounterPunch. My reaction: Homo sapiens are an exceptional species, and are definitely not a part of the web of life. (sarcasm)

• The Genocide We’re Allowing in Amazonia by J.P. Linstroth from CounterPunch. My reaction: Perhaps such "savages" remind us who are living in the "advanced nations" too much of our animal origins.
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, March 11, 2021

• Urgent Open Letter from Doctors and Scientists to the European Medicines Agency regarding COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Concerns from Doctors for Covid Ethics.
  

• Digital Health Pass: IBM and Moderna Hook Up to Capitalize on COVID Reset by Raul Diego from Mint Press News.

• More Countries Adopt Vaccine Passports To 'Boost Tourism' by Tyler Durden from his weblog ZeroHedge.
  

• Bill Gates’ Global AIDS Fund Provided With $3.5 Billion in Coronavirus Stimulus Package by Richard Moorhead from Big League Politics.
  

• Twitter Demands Allegiance to NATO? featuring Ben Swann informs us about the propaganda activities of Twitter, a giant social media corporation, in a 6:46m video from ISE.

• Western Media Is Using Women’s Rights In Afghanistan To Justify Continuation Of US Troop Presence by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond.
  

• Militarization of Colombia is a Key Aspect of U.S. Hemispheric Control by Vicente Guevara from Internationalist 360°. My rather brief commentary follows: 

The rich US capitalist ruling class using direct threat of violence supplied by the US military have succeeded in using Columbia as a base to control all of South America. They have done this under the guise of fighting the trafficking of illicit drugs, and, of course, against any violation of human rights. However, their real intentions were to control South America for the benefit of US corporations. 

 

Meanwhile, this self-seeking wealth and power ruling class have used censorship and propaganda to keep out any hint of their real intentions from ordinary Americans who have in the past enjoyed some of the benefits of this control. As long as some of the benefits kept coming for ordinary Americans and they were distracted by all the entertainment that the ruling class supplied to them, they ignored what their government, controlled by capitalists, was doing to the rest of the world. Thus, our masters have depended on the ignorance of their subjects regarding their real intentions. 

 

It is becoming increasingly clear to ordinary Americans that they have been deceived about a number of issues by their masters in the ruling class. Whether a sufficient number of ordinary people wake up to this fact to challenge these policies remains to be seen. A positive outcome requires ordinary Americans to identify with ordinary people, not only Colombians but all people of the world because they have all been targets for exploitation by capitalist ruling classes.

• How Bad Does the Western Media Lie? by Brian Berletic, an ex-Marine living with his family in Thailand, from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.
  

• Finding Meaning Under A Meaningless System by Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian independent blogger. 

• Raging Twenties: A Presentation of Pepe Escobar’s New Book by Pepe Escobar from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: This post takes us beyond a mere self-promotion of a new book to a perspective on world events.)

• Aid for Profit: The Dark History of USAID by Saheli Khastagir from Current Affairs. (Note: This general policy used government aid to underdeveloped nations following WWII to serve the profit needs of US corporations by tying aid to purchases from US corporations.)

• Russell Brand on royalty and power featuring Russell Brand, a British comedian, in a 9:39m video is from Steel City Scribblings, a British website, offering unique comments, insights, and facts regarding the current British monarchy.
  

• When American Small Towns Loved Socialism by Dave Nance, Noah Van Sciver, Paul Buhle, and Steve Max from Yes!. (Note: This post is for those of you who, through no fault of your own, are ignorant of the real history of the USA. Also, I think that the contents of this post don't justify the headline that only "small towns loved socialism".)

• History Shows Privatized Space Colonization Will Be Disastrous by Elic Weitzel from Dissident Voice. (Note: The post offers real history lessons for ordinary Americans.)

• The financialization of environment protection by Riccardo De Cristano from Climate & Capitalism.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, March 4, 2021

• 💥Ask The Experts 2 - BBC Panorama Response by Oracle Films posted on a 54:02m video posted from the channel of Earth Newspaper on Bitchute. This is a best post.
  

• Dr. James Lyons-Weiler PHD Interview – PEG, TEG & The Known Dangers Of The COVID Vaccines features Ryan Cristián, host from The Last American Vagabond, interviewing another medical scientist, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler PhD, who has challenged the government medical establishment over vaccine information that they have approved. The problems with this post are: Wieler's report is rather technical and the interview lasts 1:18:32m (it starts at about .50m). 

Joining me today is Dr. James Lyons-Weiler PhD, here to discuss the potential dangers of the mRNA COVID-19 injections. We will focus on how James called out the presence of unsafe epitopes as well as PEG within these injections, before they were being used, and how today the real-world data is verifying his claims. Finally, we go over TEG and the EPA’s newly authorized (for emergency use) ‘Chemical Air Treatment’ and how this only adds to the potential for damaging reactions. All of this was ignored, dismissed and disparaged by the very institutions charged with keeping you safe in exactly this way.

• Schools ‘Blackmailing’ Parents For COVID Consent & “Fake News” Vaccine Passports Now Mainstream featuring a rant by Ryan Cristián that lasts "only" about -46:40m, which is where it starts, and from The Last American Vagabond.

• New Lancet Article Suggests 50-75% of “Positive” PCR Tests Are Not Infectious People by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• Rick Sanchez blasts CDC for confusing Americans on COVID from RT's YouTube channel. (Note: This video starts at about .17m and lasts 4 minutes.)
  

• Your Right to Refuse a Health Passport by Jenin Younes from American Institute for Economic Research. 

• The Bits and Bytes of The Great Reset: COVID-19 and the Scaling Up of Data-Capitalism by Raul Diego from Mint Press News.
  

• Our Children are Crying by Peter Koenig from New Eastern Outlook.
  

• Minneapolis Bans Government Use of Facial Recognition by Mike Maharrey from the Tenth Amendment Center.

• New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato from The Corbett Report and features the reporting of various topics, the first one is about what is a new "1984" policy from Los Angles public schools regarding a requirement for a "pass ap" to attend schools in a 24:56m video.
  

• Skeletons in the Neoliberal Cupboard by Thomas Klikauer and Norman Simms from CounterPunch. My reaction: I can think of another skeleton: as the rich get richer and more powerful because they have mastered the game of capitalism aided by the wealth and power of their family and ancestors, they have also taken on an illusory omnipotent attitude. This neoliberal development is characterized by thinking that they, the rich and powerful transnational class of capitalists, are an exceptional race apart of the mass of humans; and because of the latter, they can dictate future societal arrangements (think the Great Reset) to the rest of us using mostly deceptive means. You see, the rest of us are too dumb to follow their commands so that they must deceive us into playing along with their plans by planting the idea that such plans are good for us and inevitable. And, they want us to love them while deceiving us.

• Progressives Sell Out Workers on $15 Minimum Wage featuring Jimmy Dore exclaiming about the reluctance of the Democratic Party to push this legislation in Congress via a 24:15m video on his YouTube channel. My reaction: Dore is in the process of discovering how undemocratic Congress is and that both parties have to push policies that favor the capitalist ruling class. To do this, the Democrats, as a party supposedly favoring the working class, have to engage in deceptions far more than the Republicans.)
  

• May The Unseen Be Seen by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like? by Jeremy Lent from Yes!. (Note: It should be obvious that I don't agree with any ancillary statements that authors make in my posts. An example for this post is the statement that Biden is saner than Trump--this is questionable.)

• Big Oil’s New Plan: Flood the World With Plastics by Megan Redshaw, J.D. from Children's Health Defense.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Saturday, February 20, 2021

• Coronapocalypse; Big Pharma's Doomsday Vaccine #666 by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review.

• The Twilight Zone: Covid, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Eugenics by Peter Koenig from Global Research. 

• The Pandemic Modellers Have a Conflict of Interest Problem featuring Rosemary Frei on a 5:58m video from Vimeo reporting on the conflicts of interest of key players of coronavirus in Britain.

• Meanwhile, in Australia | Melbourne COVID-skeptics rally results in arrests from Ruptly via RT and YouTube.
  

• Dr. Cornel West Is A Free Man featuring West along with Jimmy Dore from the latter's channel on Rokfin. (Note: Listen to the 10:12m video to find out what the title means, and other insights.)

• Understanding the Dangers of Innovation Zones and Smart Cities by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond. My reaction: You, too, can be smart by living in a smart city. (sarcasm)

• Role of NGOs in Promoting Neo-Colonialism by Syed Ehtisham from CounterCurrents. (Note: Read this to find out about NGOs. They can be used for good or for evil. The US/Anglo/Zionist Empire often uses them for subversion of nations that they do not like. This report offers extensive documentation.)
  

• Schwab Family Values by Johnny Vedmore from Unlimited Hangout.

... the past that Klaus Schwab has worked to hide is explored in detail, revealing the involvement of the Schwab family, not only in the Nazi quest for an atomic bomb, but apartheid South Africa’s illegal nuclear programme. Especially revealing is the history of Klaus’ father, Eugen Schwab, who led the Nazi-supported German branch of a Swiss engineering firm into the war as a prominent military contractor. That company, Escher-Wyss, would use slave labor to produce machinery critical to the Nazi war effort as well as the Nazi’s effort to produce heavy water for its nuclear program. Years later, at the same company, a young Klaus Schwab served on the board of directors when the decision was made to furnish the racist apartheid regime of South Africa with the necessary equipment to further its quest to become a nuclear power.

• They Don’t Work To Kill All Dissent, They Just Keep It From Going Mainstream by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

In a society that maintains the illusion of freedom in order to prevent outrage and revolution, it does not serve rulers to stifle all dissent. Just the opposite in fact: their interests are served by having a small number of dissidents hanging around the fringes of society creating the illusion of freedom. If Johnny Hempshirt over there is allowed to stand on a soapbox and criticize the US war machine, then the US must be a free country.

So they don’t work to silence all dissent. What they do is work to make sure that dissent never hits a critical mass and goes mainstream.

My commentary follows:

This grabbed my attention because I don't see my lifetime of telling the truth (as I see it) has done much good. The capitalist ruling class has to maintain the illusion of freedom and "democracy" by keeping dissidents marginalized to the numerical fringes of acceptable debate. That way they can "eat their cake, and have it too", that is, they can preserve their propaganda about freedom and democracy, and at the same time, manage their self-serving rule.

 

I was only once asked, and this was in person, how I had permitted to write such vigorous criticism about the rule of capitalism. I answered that it didn't matter to the ruling class if a few voices criticized the social-political arrangements under their rule because it was permitted only to a few dissidents in order to maintain the illusion of democracy and civil rights. However, I've noticed in the last several years that I don't see any of my posts go viral, but I occasionally did before there was a concerted effort to marginalize dissident voices. I agree with Johnstone--they are only worried about numbers of dissidents.

 

I don't share her optimism that eventually things will change. I'm particularly concerned about the word "eventually"--that is, if we had enough time, we might eliminate the ruling capitalist class. I don't think we human animals have much time left on planet Earth before we also become extinct after our (I hold the capitalist classes primarily responsible) destabilization of the climate really sets in. I think we have devoted too (def #2) much time to ancient religions which erroneously put us in the center of the universe. We have failed to recognize that we are a part of the web of life on planet Earth. In the meantime, I and other dissidents will continue our work to tell the truth about our ruling class and the system which serves them with so much wealth and power.

However, I think we should also accept our ultimate defeat. Our masters in the ruling class (I hold upper-middle-class workers and their self-centered concerns primarily responsible) have been much too clever with their control of information. Unfortunately, we human animals can't seem to overcome the weakness of our species' Achilles heel, that is, the devotion to ourselves and our families; and instead with a class consciousness, a dedication to overcoming our subservience to a ruling class. Perhaps Margaret Thatcher was right when she said "there was no such thing as society, there were only individuals and their families".

• Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor More, Threatening the First Amendment by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack. 

• Facebook: Genocide is Cool but Don’t Threaten our Profits by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis). (Note: You may also be interested in a post from Off-Guardian regarding Facebook's operations in Australia.) My reaction: The title could be improved by stating after "Facebook" the phrase "Genocide is Cool When It Doesn't Threaten Our Profits". 

• The Nature of Money by M.K. Anderson from Current Affairs. My reaction: The author is an accountant and his closing comments reflect his views on the use of money in our existing capitalist societies:

... it’s a tool used to describe workers with the goal of extracting wealth and labor from them. It is an incredibly poor tool for holding the wealthy accountable, and so we will have to come up with other methods.

• Talking with Jack Rasmus about Well Street and Us featuring host of the program, Michael Albert of RevolutionZ interviewing Rasmus about the stock market in a 52-minute podcast.
  

• NATO announces huge expansion of ops in Iraq, after Trump wind-down from RT via YouTube. (Note: This 2:09m video features Scott Ritter who offers a commentary on this NATO announcement. Also, see how Bernhard, a German independent blogger, reports on this news.) My reaction: I'll bet this news won't be reported in corporate media.
  

• The Greater Danger of Israeli Provocations in Syria by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.
  

• Biden's policy of containing China, Russia and Iran is no longer viable by Marco Carnelos from Middle East Eye (based in London). My reaction: I think this policy of containment could also lead to a nuclear war.

• How Democratic is China? by Godfree Roberts from his weblog Here Comes China!
  

• UN Report: Action Needed Now to Solve Triple Emergency from Climate & Capitalism. (Note: This is an example of a report that will never be published in mainstream media.) 
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, March 4, 2020

• A Green New Deal: Climate change is a collective problem and it demands collective action by David Lorimer from Wall Street International. (Note: I am posting this article as an example of the confused and misleading thinking of those that I would identify as "progressive liberals", those ideologically committed to capitalism but urging idealistic notions of modifying capitalism to save us from the climate crisis that threatens all life of Earth. What they mean by the "need for a system change" is "reviving and reinventing the public sphere, remembering how to plan, reining in corporations, re-localising production, ending the cult of shopping, and taxing the rich and filthy.", but not taking private ownership of the economy away from individuals and giving it to a government run by and for the people.)

• Climate strikers: Open letter to EU leaders on why their new climate law is ‘surrender’ from CarbonBrief. 

• Longtime Climate Science Foe David Schnare Uses "Scare Tactics" to Bash Transportation Climate Initiative for Koch-Tied Think Tank by Dana Drugmand from Desmog.

• Membership Income Triples for UK’s Main Climate Science Denial Campaign Group by Zak Derler from Desmog.

• Planet Plastic by Tim Dickinson from Rolling Stone.

• Why the American Ruling Class Fears Bernie Sanders by Eric Sommer from Global Research.

• Democratic Party leaders engineer Biden victory in most Super Tuesday states by Patrick Martin from World Socialist Web Site.

• Super Tuesday & The Irrevocable Split in the Democratic Party by Jack Rasmus from his weblog. (Note: He likely wrote this before Bloomberg dropped out and supported Biden.)

• Media Pundits Secretly Funded by Lobbying Firms! featuring Natalie McGill from a segment of the Redacted Tonight show on RT. "Viewers know that the mainstream media is paid to spit corporate propaganda. Natalie McGill delves into how they're encouraged to sell out to those interests." 

As the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire crumbles, we will see increasing chaos

By Ron Horn

The recent assassination of Suleiman, a beloved leader of Iran, by the US continues the desperate coping by the Empire confronted by its own disintegration. There are so many indications that the capitalist Empire is threatened by a myriad of problems. Among these are the European countries which are seeking and implementing cheaper Russian energy and lucrative trade with China, the indebtedness and the problematic economy of the US as depicted by numerous honest articles on the internet (see, for example, Wall Street on Parade), the ongoing conflicts between the Deep State and the Trump administration, the continuing subversion of Bolivia by US agents, the revelations of fake reports by US commanders in Afghanistan as reported by The Washington Post, the ongoing imprisonment and torture of truth-tellers (Assange and Manning), extreme weather events, etc. 

Things could very easily spiral into a nuclear war conflagration. Even if we avert this nightmarish scenario, the Earth's habitat that supports our human species and most others is being destroyed by capitalist ruling classes and their obsession with profits and power.

While enduring all this, most Americans are firming sticking their heads in the sand by mostly believing what their told by media corporations (I include so-called public media corporations like PBS and NPR) and diverting their attention to sport events. In the days ahead we shall see increasing chaos in our lives.   

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, December 26, 2019

• End-of-life anxiety and finding meaning in a collapsing climate by Leonie Joubert from Our Burning Planet (aka Daily Maverick--New Zealand) (Note: I didn't know what to do about this post because this website blocks access to those computers who block ads. Another website you can access the article is Living Resilience, but one can't access the links in the latter website. I have ad blocking software on my primary browser; so to access such articles from blocking sites, I have downloaded a second web browser which I use to access articles on such websites and don't load any ad blocking software to the browser. That way I don't have to remember to re-activate or mess with my ad blocking software on my primary browser. Incidentally, the ads on Our Burning Planet are not obnoxiously all over the article as in more commercial websites.)

• The Amazon at a Tipping Point by Robert Hunziker from CounterPunch.

• Trump and the Stock Market Are the Winners in the Fed’s Repo Loan Binge; Here’s the Losers by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

• Banking Nature, a 1:26:39 video posted on Thought Maybe. (I thank an activist, Caren, for this recommendation.) 

• Planetary arson and amplifying feedbacks: No alternative to CO2 drawdown by Andrew Glikson, an Earth and climate scientist, posted on Arctic News.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, December 9, 2019

• “The Cost Of Sanity, In This Society, Is A Certain Level Of Alienation” by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Journalist: Newsweek Suppressed OPCW Scandal And Threatened Me With Legal Action by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• West Point Professor Builds a Case Against the U.S. Army by David Swanson from World Beyond War. 

• On Those Questionable Jobs Numbers….Again! by Jack Rasmus from his weblog. (Note: Is the ruling capitalist class desperate enough to lie to extend their predatory system?)

• Why the UK establishment hates Jeremy Corbyn by Johanna Ross from Brics.

• US and UK military-intelligence apparatus campaigns to destroy Jeremy Corbyn by Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal from The Grayzone.

• The Planned 1933 Fascist Coup in America by Larry Romanoff from Global Research. (Note: For history buffs like myself who have wondered why FDR seemingly colluded to cover up this crucial event.)

• Capitalism versus Life on Earth by Ian Angus from Climate & Capitalism.

NATO summit dominated by growing inter-state conflicts

Click here to access article by Alex Lantier from World Socialist Web Site.

Lantier summarizes what I believe are the signs to the collapse of the capitalist US/Anglo/Zionist Empire which rose from the ashes of the German Nazi version of this capitalist Empire. WWII was not fought to end fascism as the Empire's propagandists want you to believe, but the ultimate contest between a German-capitalist led and a British-capitalist led fascist capitalism. The Nazi Empire was originally funded and supported by Western capitalists of all countries, but as soon as they saw Nazis stalled at the gates of Moscow, the capital of a first socialist experiment, they immediately allied themselves with the preservation of the British Empire. The current fascist Empire (in "democratic" clothes) has been the final result of the devastating conflict of WWII. 

But this Empire is seeing its end days. To revise a weather folklore, I believe that the Empire will not go out like a lamb, but like a wounded lion which thrashes around to impress his fellow lions (capitalists) that he is still dominant among the creatures of the earth--think Bolivia and Venezuela after the Syrian debacle. The Fed is stuffing our failing banks with their "printed" money to stave of the massive debts that the Empire has created to impose its dominance on the rest of world. The signs are everywhere.

But let me not assure you that we residents of the Empire will not suffer "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune". The ensuing series of catastrophes will soon engulf us and end in the extinction of humans. In contrast to this inspiring video we are doomed as a species. We might have changed things back in 2012, but we surely can't while approaching 2020. The artillery of our oceans and skies are so locked and loaded with capitalist-produced carbon that our fate is already decided. 

We are entering a new "brave world" in which our capitalist masters may still be brought to justice--hopefully! For us, this can only be a bitter-sweet reward to see that this class of sociopathic people, who have destroyed ours and so many other species, and whose exploitation of the Earth and all of its working people has brought them so much temporary wealth and power, will finally share in our fate--extinction.

Today's posts (Monday, November 4, 2019) I think are especially important for activists

• CrossTalk on Max Blumenthal: Arresting speech from RT. (Notes: it is clear that our ruling class is going after journalists who are not approved by them, and few people know about it--truth is dangerous! I thank an activist for alerting me to this post.)

• New land height metric raises sea level rise risk by Tim Radford from Climate News Network.

• The United States has produced very few anti-imperialists. Noam Chomsky is not among them. By Stephen Gowans from his weblog.

• US Embassy Pressures Thailand Over Monsanto Poison Ban by Joseph Thomas from New Eastern Outlook. (An illustration of "our" government promoting corporate profits onto other countries regardless of environmental consequences.)

• “Robbing” Syria’s Oil to Thwart Syria’s Recovery by Salman Rafi Sheikh from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: Analysis of the Empire's latest move in Syria. Esper is the current Secretary of Defense. The sentence beginning with "It is obvious that the bid to control Syria’s oil has nothing with the fight against terrorism;" should read as "It is obvious that the bid to control Syria’s oil has nothing [to do] with the fight against terrorism;")

• The Truth About The Syrian Arab Army by Vanessa Beeley, the extraordinary independent British journalist, from BSNews.

• The Incredible Shrinking Overton Window by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (Note: the "Overton Window" is essentially what is regarded by our ruling class as acceptable or legitimate for discussion and debate.)

Articles I especially recommend for today: Wednesday, September 25, 2019

• Just Three Of World's Top Ten Banks Signed UN Climate-Goals Commitment by Tyler Durden from ZeroHedge.

• Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse but Business as Usual by Colin Todhunter from CounterCurrents.

• Did CIA use LSD to create Charles Manson’s madness? from RT.

Articles I especially recommend on Saturday, August 31, 2019 [Updated with a post from Deep City)

• Bahamas, Florida in path of 'dangerous' Hurricane Dorian by Leila Macor from Phys.org.

• Hurricane Dorian: What the Presidential Candidates—and All of Us—Need to Know by Kristy Dahl from Union of Concerned Scientists.

• The DNC rejects a climate change debate and puts virtual caucusing in doubt by  Anya van Wagtendonk from Vox.

• Political Climate by Raul Diego from his weblog Deep City. (Note: this is an exception to my usual rule that posts must be within one month.)

• Saving The Amazon’s Only Worth $20 Million — But Amazon, Inc is “Worth” $1 Trillion. What The? by Umair Haque posted on The Greanville Post.

• Syrian 'Rebels' Feel Left Behind - Burn 'Traitor' Erdogan's Picture by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama (Germany).

Articles recommended for Tuesday, August 6, 2019

• US to ring China with missiles in nuclear arms race by Andre Damon from World Socialist Web Site.

• Charter School Apologia by Shawgi Tell from Dissident Voice.

• More Fake Happy News About Jobs by Paul Craig Roberts from his weblog.

• What kind of rebellion will it take to save humanity from extinction? by Pip Hinman from Green Left Weekly (Australia).

• Nuclear power somehow always makes a loss by Paul Brown from Climate News Network.

• Attack on Iran would be an attack on Russia by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times.

• The Military-Industrial Jobs Scam by Nia Harris, Cassandra Stimpson, and Ben Freeman from TomDispatch.

• Europe’s record heat melted Swiss glaciers by Chelsea Harvey from Science.

• Brazilian institute head fired after clashing with nation’s president over deforestation data by Herton Escobar from Science.

How Capital Heats the Planet: Introducing Fordulat Journal’s Latest Issue on “Climate Change and Capitalism”

Click here to access a review by Zsolt Kapelner of a recent leftist journal (in Hungarian) devoted to a leftist perspective on climate destabilization. (Once again, I must thank an activist for forwarding this article to me.)

Kapelner's review covers both radical perspectives: that of a bottom-up reconstruction of society and a state structure supported by the people to challenge capital's way of exploiting man and nature to the fullest (a la Cuba). The journal articles also advocate a variety of other schemes to modify capital's normal practices in a last ditch attempt toward sustainable economies.

I have over the life of this weblog (nearly 10 years) gone from pointing out the need to change the system of capitalism which is the fundamental dynamic factor which determines the way we live to urgently advocating a revolutionary necessity to overturn capitalism, and finally to a position that recognizes that it is too late to avoid extinction but we should prepare revolutionary strategies to attack capitalism to punish the class who benefits from it.

I'm no philosopher, but I recognize that humans have evolved from primitive notions of humans as being the center of reality, which gave rise to many supernatural mythologies (religions) to explain this notion, to where we are today: reassuring views emanating from the ruling capitalist class that hijacked science, which emphasized material reality of our existence, to serve their class of people--the owners of our economies. Thus, instead of science being used to serve the health and welfare of people in general, it has been used in a very manipulative way to serve only this tiny class of capitalists at the expense of the rest of humanity and preserving our natural environment. I concluded that this class of people became addicted to the power and wealth that their self-serving system delivered to them. Now we are facing the extinction of nearly all life of our planet Earth.

Because of the time scale of the destruction of our environment is so large in comparison to our human life span, we humans in general failed to discover this destruction until it was nearly at the end stages of catastrophe (about 1970). Yet we still had time to change our fate and we had warnings at the time, but capitalist agents were always urgently motivated to pursue their control of the Earth's population of humans. They downplayed such warnings by obscuring the issues, adding many distractions (wars included), outright censorship of any views of our impending doom, etc.

Now I think it is too late to save ourselves; but in the time remaining, I think that the class has brought this about--the high crime of our extinction in addition to those of many other species--must be punished. I have no doubt as the climate destabilization progresses to dramatic alterations that threaten human life, it will awaken people to the necessity of dramatically altering the way we live in a desperate attempt to save the human species from extinction. But as the environment that supports human life (and that of many other species) begins to dramatically destabilize as it is becoming obvious now, I think it will become increasingly clear to most populations that the class who are responsible for this greatest of all crimes must be punished. Those of us conscious of this end must prepare people for this remaining task. Thus, I see in these journal articles preliminary attempts to do just that.       

Articles recommended for Friday, July 26, 2019

• Mindbreaking - The mental health effects of environmental change by Jan Wyllie and Jennifer Hynes via YouTube. See also this link. (Thanks go to an activist for alerting me to this post.)

• Not In My Name: Academics Publicly Attacking UN Torture Rapporteur by "contraspin" from BSNews.

• Chelsea Manning’s lawyer refutes conspiracy allegation against Julian Assange by Mike Head from World Socialist Web Site.

Articles recommended for Tuesday, July 23, 2019

• Challenging global corporate power by James Shultz from Ecologist.

• Acid oceans may trigger mass extinction by Tim Radford from Climate News Network.

• Khamenei’s three commandments for the Iranians: the Middle East is heading towards “maximum danger" by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog.

• Did John Bolton Light the Fuse of the UK-Iranian Tanker Crisis? by Gareth Porter from Dissident Voice. 

• B(o)r-exit by Bernhard (Germany) from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• Do You Choose the Truth or War Propaganda? Your Choice Makes a Difference. By Mark Taliano from Global Research.  

• The Just World Fallacy: Why People Bash Assange And Defend Power by Caitlin Johnstone from Medium. (Recently I have been having increasingly difficulties accessing her website. Yesterday and today I have been unable. Censorship?)

• Multinational Pharmaceuticals and Medicine: Under Fire Worldwide by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos from United World (Turkey).

• How the pharmaceutical companies, Congress and the DEA made the opioid epidemic a billion-dollar industry by Genevieve Leigh from World Socialist Web Site.

Posts recommended for Wednesday, July 3, 2019

• Countdown to “Full Spectrum Dominance” by T.J. Coles from CounterPunch.

• The Only Thing Worse Than The World Dying Would Be If It Died Unseen And Unappreciated by Caitlin Johnstone (Australian) from her weblog.

• Former British Parliamentarian George Galloway Speaks out on the Violent Criminalization of Julian Assange in an interview conducted by Dennis J. Bernstein and Randy Credico. This is a transcript of their broadcast from KPFA, a listener funded radio station in Berkeley, California via Covert Action Magazine. You can also listen to the interview directly from the station (nearly one hour).

• Corporations have 'hijacked justice' by Sam Cossar from Ecologist. 

• The global war on refugees by Will Morrow from World Socialist Web Site.

• Sea Ice Nitty-Gritty, Profoundly Disturbing European Heatwaves from the weblog of Paul Beckwith, Climate Scientist. (four 15:00m videos with his introductions related to the subject.)