Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, May 14, 2021

• The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan? by Nicholas Wade from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Science is supposedly a self-correcting community of experts who constantly check each other’s work. So why didn’t other virologists point out that the Andersen group’s argument was full of absurdly large holes? Perhaps because in today’s universities speech can be very costly. Careers can be destroyed for stepping out of line. Any virologist who challenges the community’s declared view risks having his next grant application turned down by the panel of fellow virologists that advises the government grant distribution agency.

The Daszak and Andersen letters were really political, not scientific, statements, yet were amazingly effective.

• How the CIA cultivates a fake left: From the cultural cold war to intersectional imperialism by Ben Norton posted on this article from Moderate Rebels.
  

• 💥The Markets Are Rigged by James Corbett from The Corbett Report with audio, video (47:11m) & transcript. This is a best post. My reaction: Corbett keeps on investigating the capitalist Wall Street markets and discovers in this post that the "markets are rigged", with government collusion, by top capitalists who are in control of central banks throughout the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. This discovery might lead him to adopt a Marxist perspective, which will replace his anarchist (agorist--a specific type) ideology, with a self-serving ruling class. But that is verboten in a capitalist society, especially in the heart of a capitalist Empire. So, we will continue on with descriptions of "oligarchic billionaires" who control the stock market for self-serving ends. Corbett will likely not conclude that a ruling capitalist class controls every institution in a capitalist society, that is, that they control media corporations, education, opinion shapers (thesaurus) like Hollywood films, etc.
  

• 💥Denying the Demonic by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain. This is a best post. My commentary follows: 

This is a "best post" because Curtin exposes the insight that demons are a part of what it is to be human: "For they are part of ourselves, not alien beings, as the tragedy of human history has shown us time and again." And Curtin ends with a death-bed confession by James Jesus Angleton, who many believe was a sinister "devil" along with his boss Alan Dulles of the CIA. It seems that we are all susceptible to the classic conditioning of Ivan Pavlov, and it appears that power is the irresistible drug that we all occasionally aspire to have. People who designate others as being "evil people" are the latter who find this drug to be irresistible. It may be, and probably is, our "Achilles heel" that now threatens us with extinction as a species, in addition to so many others, on planet Earth--or elsewhere should a few of us manage to migrate to other planets.

 

But, what if a ruling class consists of these people that are sometimes designated as "evil people"? What if these people infest all ruling classes? What if the nature of ruling classes infect all advanced societies? These questions suggest a Marxist perspective which is heavily censored throughout all advanced capitalist societies. What about mixed societies (mixed between privately owned and controlled enterprises and those which the government owns)? I do not know, so I will confine my comments to capitalist societies represented by the leading nations under the control of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire (US, Britain, and Israel)  

• Latest Bizarre Chapter of “War on Drugs”: U.S. Special Forces Train Drug Cartel Enforcers Linked to Rape, Torture and Decapitation of Victims by Zach El Parece from CovertAction Magazine.

• We Should All Be Worried About The United Nations Food Systems Summit. From A Growing Culture.
  

• Palestine: It is Not a Conflict, It is Colonialism by Carolina Bracco from Internationalist 360°. (Also I especially recommend Vanessa Beeley's elaborate take on the ongoing strife in a 1:05 hr interview conducted by Gordon Dimmack, a Brit who has a channel on YouTube. Beeley currently lives in Syria.)
  

Israel sought not only to sustain its military supremacy in the region but also, like any colonial project, to present itself as a superior and more civilized population. The identification of the Palestinians as a primitive and violent rabble in contrast to the sophisticated, cultured and European Israeli society supports this feeling of superiority, while reinforcing the unequivocal link with its European origin and American endorsement. After all, it is these states that finance Israeli military policy. Hence the immanence of the security discourse, which in turn enables the practices of oppression, discrimination and murder by transforming them into practices of defense and revenge.

• Fifteen Thoughts On Palestine by Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian independent blogger, from her weblog.

• Silencing Supporters Of B.D.S. featuring Max Blumenthal (of The Grayzone) on Jimmy Dore's YouTube channel expressing his views on the subject. (Note: You will need to know what B.D.S. means.)

• Escalation In Palestine - Hizbullah Is Ready To Join The Fight by Bernhard, an independent German blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• Turning The Clock Back To 2001 - CIA, Others Prepare A New Resistance Against The Taliban by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.
  

• Explained: Strona and Bradshaw 2018 features Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist who has focused on the climate crisis, starting a series on his YouTube channel discussing reports from peer-reviewed websites (this one is from Scientific Reports) published in 2018).
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, April 19, 2021

• EU not to renew AstraZeneca, J&J Covid-19 vaccine contracts on expiry from Business Standard. 

• Another day, another dollar | Pfizer defends price for its COVID vaccine from RT's channel on YouTube (3:18m)

• If Johnson & Johnson Coronavirus Vaccine Shots Are Halted Because of Blood Clots, Why Have Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech Shots Not Also Been Halted? by Adam Dick from Ron Paul Institute.
  

• Pathogens in One Lesson, Courtesy of Sunetra Gupta by Jeffrey A. Tucker from American Institute for Economic Research. (Note: This is essentially a book review of Gupta's book entitled Pandemics: Our Fears and the Facts.)

• Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for the Future of Food by Colin Todhunter (a Brit) from Off-Guardian. 

• The truth about doublespeak: Is it lying or just being persuasive? by researchers at the University of Waterloo from Phys Org.
  

• Cold War Liberalism and the Labor Movement: The Epic Fail by Richard Moser from CounterPunch. 

• Wall Street’s Mega Bank CEOs To Be Hauled Before Congress in May; Nobody Will Say Why by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. Note: The Martens soon dash hopes that anything substantial will come of the hearings.

If past is prologue, which we pray it is not, the hearings will use such a buckshot approach to questioning the witnesses that there will be no meaningful takeaway to the public from the hearings.

 

Later they go on to argue:

 

While each of these issues are critical to the national debate, dumping them all into one hearing where the Congressional questioner together with the witness get just a combined five minutes does a disservice to the seriousness of each issue. In fact, this approach has served to hold back change on Wall Street as news reporters simply grab the single most titillating detail from each hearing and put that in a headline. 

 

I argue that the purpose of the hearings will be to give the appearance that Congresspeople are protecting the people from the shenanigans of the major financial institutions. The bank CEOs are closer to the ruling capitalist class (if not a part of it) than the Congresspeople who are treated as mere employees of the ruling class. 

• How the US Enforces Exploitative Economic Policies: The IMF and the World Bank by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room.

• Biden Approves DAPL! Betrays Native Americans Again featuring Jimmy Dore citing various mainstream reports regarding that the wealthy who contribute far more than the poor and Justin Jackson offering his comments on Dore's YouTube channel (9:08m).
  

• Deliberate Attempts to Downplay the Science: Karl Grossman Interviews Dr. Devra Davis  in a 29 minute YouTube video from Environmental Health Trust.
  

• Western US States Prepare For 1st-Ever Water Shortage Declaration; Hoover Dam Hydroelectric Generation At Risk by Tyler Durden from his weblog ZeroHedge.

• Opium poppy production in Afghanistan from Global Research. (Note: This article is posted on Esri a company that is devoted to "A geographic information system (GIS) is a framework for gathering, managing, and analyzing data." However, because there is no date or an author on this post which originated from Esri, I have decided to post it from Global Research as an exception to my usual policy to post articles from their original websites.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Sunday, April 18, 2021

• Open Letter to a Friend Who “Tested Positive”…and Should Have Known Better by Jerry Bernini from Off-Guardian. 

• Are Conversations About COVID Vaccines Fracturing Your Family? Here’s What You Need to Know. By Children's Health Defense Team from their website.   

• On Contact: Securing Democracy with Glenn Greenwald featuring Chris Hodges interviewing Greenwald on Hodges' YouTube channel (25:32m). 

• Uganda Dictatorship: Imperialism’s Pearl of Africa featuring Abbie Martin speaking in a 16 minute YouTube video from her weblog Media Roots about the history of Uganda that continues today under the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.

• A School for Spooks: The London University Department Churning Out NATO Spies by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.
  

A prestigious university located in the heart of London, King’s College has, in its own words, “a number of contracts and agreements with various departments within government, including the Cabinet Office, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the Ministry of Defence.” Some of those contracts are up to 10 years long. The university has so far refused to elaborate on the agreements, telling investigative news outlet Declassified UK that doing so could undermine U.K. security services.

• Three China reads: 3, Global reach by Philip Roddis, an independent British blogger, from his personal weblog Steel City Scribblings. 
  

• So Who Wants a Hot War? by Pepe Escobar from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• US President Joe Biden’s Shameful Push for War with China and Russia by John Stanton from Dissident Voice.
  

• Ukraine Plays with Fire as NATO Moves Dangerously Close to Russia’s Border by Denis Lukyanov from Internationalist 360°.

• Why Xinjiang is Emerging as the Epicenter of the U.S. Cold War on China by Vijay Prashad and Jie Xiong from Internationalist 360°.

• How to Keep Poor Countries Poor — The Absurdity of Comparative Advantage by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room. My reaction: The article describes how the capitalist system works on an international scale.
  

• How the Rich Keep Workers Poor — Outsourcing and Sweatshops by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room. My reaction: Notice that he only makes unidentified references to "a system". He is another author who regards capitalism as another reality like the sun, moon, and stars instead of man-made. Therefore his recommended "solutions" are merely reforms and absolutely ineffective.

• Military Bases Housing Migrant Children Plagued by Serial Sexual Abuse Claims by Whitney Webb from her weblog Unlimited Hangout. 

• Six Months to Prevent a Hostile Takeover of Food Systems, and 25 Years to Transform Them by Nick Jacobs from Common Dreams.

... the keys of the food system are already being handed over to data platforms, e-commerce giants, and private equity firms. This could mean dismantling the diversified food webs that sustain 70% of the world's population and provide environmental resilience. It could mean putting the food security of billions of people at the mercy of high-risk AI-controlled farming systems and opaque supply corridors.

And yet, there is nothing inevitable about this dystopian future. 

 

I think that as long as we tolerate capitalism and its goal to maximize only profits, a dystopian future is guaranteed. I am not only referencing the ultimate extinction that we will inevitably experience, but I am arguing that in the time we have left if we do not reject capitalism and replace it with socialism (a system of governance that publicly owns and controls the economy for the benefit of all people) that a near-term dystopian future is guaranteed.

• Fukushima Daiichi Radioactive Dumping and the Summer Olympics in Japan In Question by Vladimir Odintsov from New Eastern Outlook.
  
   
  ... according to Kyodo, which recently conducted a social survey of residents about the holding of the Olympics in Tokyo, most Japanese residents oppose its holding in 2021. 39% of the Japanese surveyed were in favor of canceling the Games, and about 33% were in favor of postponing the Olympics. Only 24.5% of Japanese residents are positive about the fact that thousands of athletes from all over the world will come to the Japanese capital in the summer of 2021. [I supplied this link.]

  
  

  In these conditions, the new Japanese government, balancing on the mood of the population of its country, has been looking for an opportunity for several months to find an objective reason for canceling the Olympic Games and report it “without losing face.” Finally, as reported by the British The Times, citing responsible sources, the Japanese government is still tacitly inclined to the decision to cancel the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo “because of the Covid-19 pandemic”, intending, nevertheless, to claim the right to hosting the 2032 Games.

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, March 25, 2021

• Facts about Covid-19 features an updated report from the Swiss Policy Research website. 

• A Year of Billionaire Pandemic Gains by Chuck Collins from Institute of Policy Studies. 

• 💥Why COVID Policies Are A War Against Humanity by Neenah Payne from Activist Post. This is a best post. (I only scanned this, but it provides so much good material and so many important links to documentation. I will read it carefully later.) My brief and later (at 6:36 PM CDT) commentary follows: 

Although I have some objections and qualifications regarding this post, I generally approve of the importance of this post. Regarding my objections and qualifications, I object to the sanctification of our "Founding Fathers" in the (38:49m) interview with Vera Sharav. The only member of the Founding Fathers who objected to some of actions of the rest of the ruling class at that time was Jefferson. But he also had slaves which were needed to furnish labor on his plantation. 

 

I also object to her propaganda-like allegations that (at 21:49m) the "same thing happened in Soviet regime and the Chinese regime". She has obviously been fed this information as indoctrination to hate the Soviet Union and Communist China. But what she directly experienced in Nazi Germany and the USA is undoubtedly true.

• Suez Canal Blocked: A “Worst Case Scenario for Global Trade” by Christian Westbrook from his weblog the Ice Age Farmer. (Note: This reminds me of a post earlier this month from U.S. Right To Know entitled "Bill Gates Food Tracker".) My brief commentary follows: 

I don't know if this event is the global trade disrupting event that the author makes of it (with documentation), but it fits within his theory about the coming food crisis, fulfilling the Great Reset agenda, and that we should all plan to localize our food supply. It is the latter that I differ from him. 

 

I see a growing movement of contemporary activists that want to localize our lifestyles to cope with the transnational effort (neoliberalism) to globalize all trade and to supply our daily requirements by major corporations. This development (see also this and this) promises physical and other separations from the neoliberal agenda of advanced capitalist nations as a solution to all of our social problems. This is dead wrong.

 

Not only does it take away from efforts to topple capitalist regimes and replace them with real socialist systems, but it also supplies a wrong solution to most of the major problems confronting us: a world facing a global nuclear war, extreme economic inequality, and the presence of tiny self-serving ruling classes and dictatorial regimes.

• New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato from The Corbett Report.
  
  After 10 Years of Civil War in Syria, US (Quietly) Declares Defeat but Won’t Go Home by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. My reaction: US forces continue to occupy 1/3 of Syrian territory and bleed the Syrian economy of their precious oil resources. Maybe the ruling class has settled for a nation that is weak and unstable. It looks to me like the ruling class has turned much of its aggressiveness and rage from foreign affairs toward potential activist groups within the USA by promoting policies of surveillance and increasing onerous laws against their civil rights. 
  

• Bogus Claims Of Iran Plan To Attack Washington DC Work To Justify War by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond.
  

• Washington's Obsession with China Expands by Brian Berletic, an ex-Marine living with his family in Thailand, from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. (Note: Berletic reveals that the actions by the US government indicate that the primary concern of its foreign policy toward China is motivated by a concern to advance the profits US corporations and other transnational corporations under the control of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.) My reaction: This applies to all policies promoted by the Empire. It is the expression of neofascism (essentially governments corrupted by the promotion of power and profits by the Empire's ruling capitalist classes) which saw the replacement of the fascist nations led by Nazi Germany in the last century with the new US/Anglo/Zionist Empire since then.

• China Hit With Sobering Splash of Reality as Alaskan Talks Melt Under Heat of U.S. Belligerence by Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: The first major conference (in Alaska) revealed that the Biden administration is totally committed to the old cold war tactics that were implemented by previous administrations. Although not unexpected, this warmed-over cold war strategy spells doom for the latest would-be Empire.

In the ensuing days of meetings, it should not come as a surprise that very little in the way of serious conflict resolution occurred. In fact, the only solid points of agreement which the U.S. side would permit involved two joint protocols that fall perfectly into alignment with the Malthusian closed system objectives of the Great Reset agenda attempting to reign in a post-nation state world order in the wake of the oncoming economic meltdown.

 

Eric Zuesse agrees with Ehret in his latest article.

• Newly discovered eyewitness account puts NIST in a corner on WTC 7 explosions by Craig McKee from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. My reaction: The truth is closing in on the lies that government officials, under the direction of ruling class players, told about 9/11, but there are still so many other lies to  deal with.

• Haiti: The United Nations and the US-Backed Regime of Terror by Pierre Michel Chéry from Internationalist 360°.

Haiti is heading for days of great misfortune. Haitians, for the most part, are increasingly convinced that the United Nations considers them as enemies to be eliminated. We are no longer in the conspiratorial scenarios in which Haitians were seen as prime targets by resentful Western leaders, thirsting for revenge for the 1803 defeat of the French generals at Saint-Domingue. For those readers who think it is inconceivable to claim that the United Nations intends to establish a regime of terror in Haiti, let them think again by looking at what has happened or is still happening in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Iraq, Libya, Syria and, above all, in Egypt, where the arrival of the Muslim Brotherhood to power democratically led to a military coup and a very bloody repression (1).

The United Nations is trying to establish a regime of terror in Haiti. To prove it, ....

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, February 22, 2021

• 💥Government Docs From 2002 Reveal 20 Year Plan To ‘Alter Evolution’ With Nanotechnology, a one hour excerpt from Ryan Cristián's usual several hours talk video-talk show posted on The Last American Vagabond. This is clearly a best post. (Note: I encountered several technical problems while accessing this audio-video program. Cristián has helpfully posted this essential and very interesting post on various websites. He quotes from various government documents (which he cites) starting from more than 20 years ago that clearly is alarming about research combining the fields of biotechnology, information technology, and nanotechnology to modify human behavior and engineer bioweapons which serve various interests of the ruling capitalist class. The resemblance of the recent Klaus Schwab's Reset speech and this research is uncanny, to say the least. This ongoing research is accompanied by government drives in support of censorship.)
  

• The ‘Transition’ of the Élites by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: In this essay Crooke, a British ex-MI6 agent, diplomat, now geopolitical analyst, sees the core of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire, the USA, as being fragmented by generations and factions. Perhaps the imperialist USA is in a dying phase in which fragmentation is the last phase. It is to be hoped because I have never before experienced such a deep feeling of living in an insane nation.

• The Arab Spring – A Personal Story by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: You will need to know the meaning of the British phrase "came a cropper".) My reaction: Suddenly news about the ongoing riots and protests in Bahrain dropped out of sight. This story fills in the gap of missing information about the attempted, and very genuine, revolution in Bahrain beginning in 2010. It also confirms my theory that all mainstream media concentrate their reporting on events that are crucial to their masters in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. This experience together with the MSM's extensive coverage of Arab Spring events in Egypt helped me to see that the 24/7 TV coverage by MSM about the exaggerated "corona pandemic" is largely serving the Empire's policy interests.

• RED ALERT: Food Supply Chain Shutting Down as Blackouts Spread – Grand Solar Minimum by Christian of the Ice Age Farmer. My reaction: This applies to my theory in the above post: why so scant coverage of this event in MSM? (I haven't seen much coverage, but I don't watch MSM often.) Could it be that they don't want to alarm people, or provoke perceived adversarial nations? One can only speculate.

• How Individuals Become Excessively Wealthy by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room on Medium. 

• Why it is important to keep talking about Syria featuring explanations given by Vanessa Beeley on the 7 minute video excerpt from Beeley's weblog The Wall Will Fall.
  

• The external debt of Developing Countries: a Timebomb (Part 2) by Eric Toussaint and Milan Rivié from CADTM.
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, January 29, 2021

• Lessons From Portland’s Protest Movement by Sunnivie Brydum from Yes! (This article features a 3:45m video explain how the movement succeeded over four months.) 

• Gamestop–And the Game That Never Stops by Jack Rasmus from his weblog. My reaction: Rasmus describe how the capitalist system works to make the some of the rich richer and the poor poorer.

• Contradictions of Finance Capitalism by Richard Peet from Monthly Review. My reaction: You will learn about the evolution of industrial capitalism into finance capitalism that began around 1950 and accelerated in the 1980s and beyond. They added finance to their wealth and thereby increased their power over the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. They sought cheap labor all over the world, invested in, and loaned money to, companies that exploited this cheap labor. The also bought many homes in foreign lands which added to their neoliberal outlook (trans-nationalism). The de-industrialization of the USA was the result.  The author reveal that he had an education in North America by ending his article with an affirmation of democratic socialism and a rightward move for the Monthly Review. Democratic socialism in the USA commonly means a welfare-state type of a capitalist economy. In other words, a fake representation of socialism.
  

• What Carbon Budget? from Arctic News. 

• Is the NHS overwhelmed by incoming COVID-19 patients? by Ludovic Noble from Off-Guardian (based in Britain). 

• Conflicts of Interest Taint Investigations Into COVID Origins by Dr. Joseph Mercola from Children's Health Defense. 

• Under Federal Law, Can Your Employer Makte You Get the COVID Vaccine? by Greg Glaser and Mary Holland from Children's Health Defense. (Note: Those who do not choose the vaccine may want to read this article entitled "Forced to Get the COVID Vaccine? ICAN May Be Able to Help."
  

• 329 Deaths + 9,516 Other Injuries Reported Following COVID Vaccine, Latest CDC Data Show from Children's Health Defense. (Note: These stats are never reported by corporate TV stations.) 

• January 6th: Cops, Vigilantes, and the Ruling Class by Richard Moser from Be Freedom. 

• Reuters vs. Thailand: Why Does the Western Media Always Lie? by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. My commentary follows: 

I have followed this ex-Marine for the last 10 years, and I've always found his reports about political issues, whether they were about Thailand or some other country, to be absolutely spot-on (to use a British expression). Thus I trust his presentation and analyses of issues.

As Caitlin Johnstone frequently and convincingly writes, "Whoever controls the narrative controls the world." This is never more true than in today's world because the communication of ideas has become under such tight control by a relatively few capitalists than ever before. This point is driven into our consciousness no better than this article by Berletic. The solution is obvious: take away their ownership/control of communication properties. But that would be the ultimate evil of communism, you declare in an angry voice! The thorough indoctrination of your mind by capitalist ruling classes who control all institutions is the problem preventing any future progress and ensuring our ultimate doom.

• Biden Attacks Farms – Comprehensive War on Global Food Supply – Engineered Famine by the "Ice Age Farmer" from his weblog. (Note: This post features his 27:35m report on his YouTube channel.) My reaction: I don't know much about farming, the production of crops, the world's food supply, etc. I would like to learn of your responses to this report by writing to me at goatmeal36@yahoo.com.)

• 2020 Annual Wrap Up: The Going Direct Reset — The Central Bankers Make Their Move with John Titus in 4 minute video report posted by Catherine Austin Fitts from her weblog Solari Report. 

• Solutions: Survival Currency featuring James Corbett of The Corbett Report giving his introduction and recommendations for a survival currency. (Note: Although I have only listened to 25 minutes of his one hour talk, I think it is worth your time.) 
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, January 11, 2021

• Genetic Engineering, Agriculture and Brexit: Treachery in Our Midst by Colin Todhunter (based in Britain) from Off-Guardian. My reaction: Now I understand why the directors of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire have been so ambivalent toward Brexit--they don't want to lose Europe, but they don't like the European resistance to gene editing.
  

• ASSA 2021: part two – the radical answers by Michael Roberts (lives in Britain) from his weblog. I regard this as a best post because he exposes Michael Hudson for what he is-- champion of industrial capitalism and not a socialist as he is often portrayed in left-wing weblogs in the USA.
  

• Are You Ready for Total (Ideological) War? by master-satirist CJ Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. 

So, welcome to 2021! If last week was any indication, it is going to be quite an exciting year. It is going to be the year in which GloboCap reminds everyone who is actually in charge and restores “normality” throughout the world, or at least attempts to restore “normality,” or the “New Normality,” or the “Great Normal Reset,” or “The New Normal War on Domestic Terror” … or whatever they eventually decide to call it. 

In any event, whatever they call it, GloboCap is done playing grab-ass.

• The Arctic's 'Last Ice Area' Is Showing Worrying Signs of Fragility by David Nield from Science Alert.   

• Michael Dowd - Post-doom Compost Theology featuring Dowd, a religious person who is kowledgable about science, explains his views of the future in a 49:53m video in Michael Shaw's channel The Great Story via YouTube. My reaction: I notice he doesn't mention capitalist culture as being unsustainable.
  

• The Abuse of Science in the Corona Crisis by Michael Esfeld from American Institute for Economic Research. 

• Three Eminent Epidemiologists Explain Why They Strongly Oppose Lockdowns For Covid-19 by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution. (This post also contains a 32:26m video.)
  

• The Great Reset | Dystopian Sci-Fi Short Film by Zackary Denman via YouTube. 

• The Great Covid Class War by Alex Gutentag from The Bellows.

• Can Twitter exist in a democracy? by Ed West from Unherd (based in Britain). My reaction: I guess that we don't have a democracy, but I don't think we ever did.
  

• Lights Out for the City on the Hill by Stephen Karganovic from Strategic Culture Foundation.

The fact that after four years in office their symbolic champion has nothing to show, yet in the midst of economic collapse he was still able to garner about eighty million votes, is a huge sign. It is a sobering warning to the ruling elite that blatant electoral manipulation and ruthless information censorship may serve as Band-Aid solutions, but are losing their effectiveness. 

You can pull the tiger’s tail only so much before it pounces.

Hopefully, his analysis is correct. Also, notice that he uses "ruling elite". In our crazy time, you can't get away with using a Marxist term "ruling class"--although he comes close--if you want to be published. Class analysis is strictly "verboten". This is another example of thought control by our capitalist masters.

• Non-MAGA Activists Caught in Social Media War as Twitter Begins Purge by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis).
  

• We Cannot Let Yesterday’s Farce Become Tomorrow’s Tragedy from Spectre. My reaction: This online post takes the right-wing and their attack on Congress rather seriously. But who is the right-wing? The Trump supporters or the ruling capitalist class that owns the government and likes to play psy-ops with their enemies? I think the latter. Do the ruling class regard ordinary Americans as the enemy? Yes! is my firm answer.

• CIA Conspiracy to Flood Black Communities with Crack Exposed in Explosive Netflix Documentary by Matt Agorist from The Free Thought Project. My reaction: Well, well whadya know, a media corporation is finally taking notice of Gary Webb's work from 25 years ago! However, I couldn't find a title for the film in the article.

Posts that I especially recommend for days: Saturday & Sunday, December 12 & 13, 2020

• The Friedman doctrine in the 21st century by Michael Roberts from his weblog The Next Recession. 

• AOC Schooled By NFL’s Justin Jackson On Forcing Med4all Vote Now! featuring Jimmy Dore blasting AOC (Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) as a careerist--her career comes first rather than needs of her constituents. My reaction: She will definitely lose her position in Congress if she crosses Pelosi. Look what happened to Sen. 

• Vaccinated Vs. Unvaccinated: The Study The CDC Refused To Do — Interview with Dr. Weiler conducted by Spiro Skouras from Activist Post.

• The COVID Vaccine Is Here… And So Are Potential Side Effects… featuring Spiro Skouras reviewing some of the negative history of vaccinations. This 18:15m video was on his YouTube channel.

• How the Media Wants You To Think featuring JP Sears, a comedian, and others performing their versions of fascist collaborators in a 3:17 post on his channel belonging to YouTube. (satire) He also has been threatened by YouTube about the loss of his channel.
  

• Yes, Bill Gates Said That. Here’s the Proof. By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and posted on Children's Health Defense.
  

• Cynical US policy on Syria revealed: to Hell with the people by Vanessa Beeley from her weblog The Wall Will Fall.
  

• YouTube Bans Creators From Questioning 2020 Presidential Election; Bans Investigating Possible Fraud by Ben Swann from ISE.

• Imperialism 2.0: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, December 5, 2020

• RFK Jr - The Big Question About C0VlD Vac3ines featuring Robert Kennedy, Jr. being interviewed by Ben Swann and posted on ISE. (Note: The "big question" is regarding the transmission of the Sars-2 corona virus which causes Covid-19 illness, but Kennedy also addresses at length a big censorship problem.) 

• Biden’s Climate Plan Is a Catastrophe in the Making by Robert Belano from Left Voice. (My reaction: In short, it is "business as usual" that was characteristic under previous Democratic administrations.)

• Soybean Shortage & Cyberattack on Food Supply Chain: Achilles’ Heel from Ice Age Farmer. (Note: The report by "Christian" relies on documentation from apparently reliable sources of information. But there are hints that the shortages are a bit contrived by the Great Reset project of the World Economic Forum, that is, the ruling class of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire, who will use cyber attacks to create food shortages as cover for their more pernicious attacks on our civil liberties. I don't want to contribute to a spread of panic, but I've noticed some food shortages from my local stores, and together with his documentation, I think something is going on.)

• Why Trump’s America will live on: The Biden-led political restoration is an elite project. It offers nothing to the working class. By Joel Kotkin from Spiked. My reaction: In this excellent documented article, the author argues that Trump may have contributed to the awakening of ordinary Americans to the exploitative class nature of American society.

• With Rent Freezes About to Expire, Mnuchin Lobbies for More Wall Street Bailouts by Raul Diego from Mint Press News.
  

• 12 Major Impacts of Global Climate Change in 2020 from Climate & Capitalism. 

• Bretton Woods 2.0 featuring Jame Corbett of The Corbett Report disclosing what he has discovered about the plan for a new digital currency. This is a best post. My commentary follows:

I think we should follow his website and his research efforts to learn about the new digital currencies that the directors of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's ruling capitalist classes have promised in glowing phrases for us to use. He leans heavily on other experts such as John Titus and Steven Guinness to inform what he has learned. However, I want to criticize his limitations regarding the history of money and his earlier affirmation of anarchism. I don't know enough about his recent conversion to "Agorism" to see if that offers any prospects for the formation of a currency not controlled by the directors of the Empire.

Corbett's thinking on this issue has been shaped by higher education in Canada, one of the nations of the present capitalist Empire. He has earlier described himself as an anarchist. Anarchism is an acceptable form of opposition granted by the Empire's ruling class in the education in students of in their nations due to the fact that it encourages students to oppose officials of their governments, but not the powerful capitalists (a ruling class) behind the "curtain" of governments under their control. Thus, one notices that increasingly the critics of policies refer to "oligarchs" or "technocrats" (the term Corbett uses in this video) to refer to powerful capitalists (mostly financiers) who work behind the scenes to enact policies favorable to them in terms of power and profits. 

In addition, Corbett error's in describing nefarious motives to Harry Dexter White behind the earlier history of Britton Woods. This he learned from Canadian higher education which was loaded with anti-Soviet propaganda during the Cold War. The Britton Woods agreement was simply an acknowledgment that the Western capitalist powers led by the USA and what was left of the British Empire would lead a post-war regime which later became an anti-socialist empire, and still is today. I don't wish to claim virtues for the mixed economies of Russia, China, and their allies, but they are the only nations that are in opposition to the imperialist actions of the existing US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. 

 

General Note: I didn't finish, and will not, my list of credible articles for today. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, May 21, 2020

• How the United States Government Failed to Prepare for the Global Pandemic by Vijay Prashad from CounterPunch. (Note: You must be aware of the difference between SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.)

• Brave New Normal (Part 2) by C.J. Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. (Note: Part 1 is here.)

• Pandemic 2020: From Statistical Fraud to Controlled Society by Vincent Mathieu from Global Research. (Note: I think "DSP" must be explained here.)

• Vaccine Wars in the USA by Russell Bentley from FRN (based in Serbia).

• Capitalism vs. science: The lessons of the 36-hour Moderna vaccine frenzy by Benjamin Mateus from World Socialist Web Site. 

• Food shortage prompts clashes between hungry protesters & police | COVID-19 lockdown from RT (via YouTube).

• 1) The Journey of the Jobless by Kalena Thomhave , and 2) Everybody Hates the SBA by Alexander Sammon both from The American Prospect.  (Note: I've included two articles explaining how many Americans are suffering from job losses.)

• Some Truths about Falsehoods by Fernando Buen Abad from Resumen. (Note: I thank Caren, an activist, for alerting me to this article.)

• Life as Commons by Stavros Stavrides from Undisciplined Environments. 

• How To Understand All This China Stuff by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, May 5, 2020

• For the Workers of the World the Pandemic is Based on Inequality by Pasqualina Curcio from Resumen. (Note: I thank an American activist for this post.)

• The Disconnect Between the Stock Market and the Real Economy Is Destroying Our Lives by Hamilton Nolan from In These Times.

• The Sleeping Giant by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (Note: This is a political allegory. See if you can identify the referents to the characters. Also notice that it is unfinished. What will the giant do the next time he wakes up? Only the future will tell. But you are a tiny cell of that giant, or should be, as an informed activist. What will you do?)

• Now more than ever, supporting abolition of the debt is a priority! by Brigitte Marti from Women in and Beyond the Global. 

• The scarring by Michael Roberts from his weblog. (Note: This is how a Marxist economist looks at recessions, and now we are in the "mother of all recessions".)

• COVID-19 “CARES Act” Bankrolls AlI Post-Human Education by John Klyczek from Dissident Voice. (Note: The author argues that the CARES Act promotes the future of education. Learn what this future is like.)

• Only the Poor Starve: Hunger in the Time of Covid by Graham Peebles from Dissident Voice. 

My reaction: I hope he is right about his optimistic future:

Consistent with the new time we are moving into, a shift in collective consciousness is taking place among large numbers of people all over the world. To accommodate this shift, this new awareness that is slowly emerging, new ways of thinking, new institutions and structures are badly needed, including crucially a radically overhauled socio-economic system. A flexible evolving model anchored in certain Principles of Goodness: Unity, sharing and justice.

This common-sense trinity is interdependent and encourages values of cooperation and understanding, responsibility and tolerance.

• Towards A New World Order? The Global Debt Crisis and the Privatization of the State by Prof Michel Chossudovsky from his weblog Global Research.

• LEAKED: Wall Street Told Investors Not To Invest In Cures! featuring Lee Camp (via YouTube) of the Redacted Tonight show. Camp illustrates the logic of capitalism regarding your health. 

• As Death Toll Increases Blame China Campaign Intensifies by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama (Germany). (Note: He provides much evidence that our ruling class are using this pandemic to prepare us for war with China.) 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, April 13, 2020

• Resistance Growing to Covid-Capitalism by Glen Ford from Black Agenda Report.

• Solidarity in a Time of Pandemic, While the US Capitalizes on Disaster by Roger D. Harris from Mint Press News.

• COVID-19: US Politicians and Media Have Success Hyped the Public Into an Anti-China Frenzy by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

• This Absolute Bullshit Would Not Be Possible Without Propaganda by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• COVID-19: Fallout From a Navy Captain’s Heroism: The Possible Emergence of a New Idea of ‘National Security’ by Gareth Porter from Consortium News. My commentary (edited for clarity at 8 AM CT on 4/16/2020):

This article contains the secret of the success of American capitalism, which has established the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire, and the US capitalist ruling class dominance of the world while maintaining a "humanitarian" and "democratic" image throughout much of the world. In the micro world of the Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier illustrates this carefully hidden secret.

The secret is revealed when you substitute the "pentagons bureaucracy" with America's capitalist ruling class. The secret of the latter's success is to provide ongoing management of what Caitlin Johnstone has described as control of the narrative, meaning the control of all major media corporations which provide daily news reports. Major media corporations, controlled by the ruling capitalist class, have served their masters by the re-engineering of people's consciousness of economic and political issues.

Although the capitalist ruling class (typical of all ruling classes) has from the birth of the USA (read my commentary here) has imposed their views on the rest of the population, this process of the "control of the narrative" process started deliberately and consciously by the ruling class right after WWII with the propaganda of the "Iron Curtain", attacks on labor unions, and elimination of left-wing dissenters among the Hollywood film industry. The secret and unaccountable CIA led these attacks and they have continued ever since then comprehensively among all institutions. (Read my commentaries here and here for further clarification.)

When the ship's captain (Crozier), with concern for the health of his 4000 man crew, sent a letter urging immediate action to evacuate sailors from the ship, he was summarily removed from his command by the Pentagon's bureaucracy (intimately connected to the ruling class). But the latter thought more about it and the large number of sailors involved, after which they concluded that this was too much of a threat to their legitimacy and their "control of the narrative" that they "chickened out" by removing the Sec. of Navy who fired Crozier. Thus is revealed the secret of their success: they won't allow anything to damage their control of the narrative that in the USA "democracy" and "humanitarianism" reigns. The Pentagon, which serves the ruling class and probably at the latter's direction, thought that the action of the Sec. of the Navy might stir up a storm of reaction among ordinary people of the US. They worried about 4000 sailors writing home to their parents, sisters, brothers, and sweethearts about the callous disregard for their health. If this ship had substantially fewer sailors, the ruling class would not have intervened.

Thus is illustrated the success of America's ruling class and its ideological control. They have opted for a soft fascism. They will not invoke harsh and open authoritarian measures to crush any opposition, but they nevertheless will succeed in controlling their population by controlling the narratives of sizeable minorities and majorities. This explains why sizeable, but less influential dissidents are not punished in any way, but highly influential whistleblower individuals like Julian Assange are. However, the ruling class's control of the narrative insures that their citizens, and much of the world, falsely believe that freedom of political dissent like all civil liberties is very much alive in the USA.

• American Workers Get a 4-Month Safety Net; Wall Street Gets a 4 to 5-Year Bailout by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• The US Declares War on America: Chemical and Biological Weapons by Larry Romanoff from Global Research. 

• Brave New Normal by C. J. Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. (satire)

• Coronavirus Has Broken America’s Food Supply by Alexander Sammon from The American Prospect.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, January 17, 2020

• How climate change influenced Australia's unprecedented fires by Dana Nuccitelli from Yale Climate Connections.

• Lords of Food from Maize.

• No Crisis gone to waste: IMF celebrates signs of approaching global financial crisis by Joaquin Flores from Fort Russ News.

• Trump’s Feeble Phase 1 China-US Trade Deal by Jack Rasmus from his weblog.

• How a Hidden Parliamentary Session Revealed Trump’s True Motives in Iraq by Whitney Webb from Mint Press News. 

Articles recommended for Monday, June 24, 2019

• Accelerating Imperial Decline by Patrick Lawrence from Consortium News.

• How Iran decided to down a US drone and narrowly averted War by sparing another US plane by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog.

• The US got Itself Caught in the Gulf by Salman Rafi Sheikh from New Eastern Outlook.

• Europe lacks sovereignty even inside its borders: Iran from PressTV (Iran).

• Minutes to disaster: Lessons to be learned from the confrontation with Iran by Andre Damon from World Socialist Web Site. 

• A Film about GMOs and the Corruption of the Food Supply for Profit by Colin Todhunter (Brit) posted on Dissident Voice. 

• Trump Threatening the World’s Most Eco-Sensitive Habitats by Wayne Madsen from Strategic Culture Foundation.

Can We Feed the World without Destroying It?

Click here to access article by Eric Holt-Giménez, Executive Director of Food First. 

The author clarifies how the capitalist system affects food production, but has unrealistic hopes about the Green New Deal's ability to transform the present system into one that empowers all of humanity instead of capitalism which serves the needs of a tiny minority of "owners".

 He writes:

The food movement has been very good at developing alternatives, but it hasn’t been good at addressing the systemic barriers to good, clean, fair food for all. Some even seem to think that we can transform our food system in isolation of the larger, political-economic system in which it is embedded. That system is capitalism and it has co-evolved with our food system, so clearly we can’t change one without changing the other.

The good news is that the food system has always been a pivotal pillar in capitalism, so if we can push systemic changes within the food system, it will influence the rest of the system. That’s why things that seem utopic, like insisting on the human right to food and food sovereignty, are so important. To the extent we can ensure these rights, we dismantle capitalism.

But pins his hopes on the Green New Deal:

... whatever you are doing—studying, gardening, in a CSA [link], whatever—thank you, and keep doing it. Now, you need to do something else: change everything! Let’s catch the momentum of the Green New Deal to build a powerful, broad-based, working class and people of color-led movement for transformation. Let’s create the political will not just for reforms, but for transformative, structural reforms that put us solidly on the road to food sovereignty and to cooling the planet. [my inserted link]

Like the New Deal under the Roosevelt administration, the Green New Deal won't be allowed to empower people at the expense of capitalists. Only an organized revolutionary people can do that. The Green New Deal, under capitalist controlled political system, likes its predecessor, will only protect the present ruling class from any substantial changes. He essentially admits that in the first paragraph.

Growing power: Mega-Mergers and the fight for our food system

Click here to access article by Katie Sandwell from the Transnational Institute (TNI).

Download this PDF document and learn about how mergers of agricultural corporations are leading to just a handful of corporations that exercise almost total control over what we eat. Yes, it's corporations über alles under capitalism!

Giant corporations have taken control of our food. Today, just a few companies control what we eat and how it is produced. For them, food is money: companies and their shareholders aren’t interested in what food means to the people who grow and eat it, or what farming means for the environment. They are interested in the profits they can make from it.

The situation is not good, and it is getting worse: since 2015 a number of “mega mergers” have been proposed, or taken place. Six companies controlled most of the international trade in seeds and agricultural chemicals in 2015. In the last two years, these companies have begun the process of merging and re-arranging themselves into just four colossal corporations. The larger these companies grow, the less we can control them. And the less control we have, the harder it is for us to build the kind of food system that more and more of us want: one that recognizes the value of people, respects the planet, and provides decent, dignified work.

Environmental Groups as Climate Deniers

Click here to access article by George Wuerthner from The Greanville Post.

Most environmental/conservation groups are Climate Change deniers. Specifically, I am talking about the numerous organizations that give lip service to the threat posed by climate change, but don’t even mention to their membership the contribution that livestock production has with regards to rising global temperatures. While most organizations are calling, climate change the environmental issue of our time, they avoid discussing the contribution of animal agriculture in climate change.

From Earth Day to the Monsanto Tribunal, Capitalism on Trial

Click here to access article by Colin Todhunter from East by Northwest. 

This British independent blogger has lived in India for a significant number of years, and saw first hand the destructive influence of large corporations on Indian farmers, farming, and Indian food. In this article commemorating Earth Day, he sums up what he has learned from this experience.

Monsanto and other powerful corporations can only operate as they do because of a framework designed to allow them to capture governments and regulatory bodies, to use the WTO and bilateral trade deals to lever global influence, to profit on the back of US militarism (Iraq) and destabilisations (Ukraine), to exert undue influence over science and politics and to rake in enormous profits.

The World Bank’s ‘Enabling the Business of Agriculture’ and its ongoing commitment to a wholly corrupt and rigged model of globalisation is a further recipe for plunder, corruption and the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of the few.

International tribunal seeks to build case against Monsanto

Click here to access article by Pete Dolack from Systemic Disorder.

What I found most interesting in this article were the details about the close ties between government officials and Monsanto corporation and the way Congress slips pro-Monsanto legislation in bills they pass. Monsanto represents one typical example--probably the most egregious one because it affects the food we eat--of the integration of government with corporate interests. 

All major corporations together with the more powerful banking industry is thoroughly in control of what passes in ruling class ideology as "democratic" governance. To reinforce the latter illusion, they periodically hold well managed elections and long campaigns to distract their subjects from the realities of capitalist rule. It needs to be understood that the integration of government with corporate and financial interests is one classic feature of fascism. 

The dominance of capitalists over our political institutions has always existed in US history; but now that this class so thoroughly manages our governance behind a facade of "democratic" governance while maintaining the elements of a police state behind this facade qualifies our system as one of fascism. By maintaining this facade, our current fascist governance differs superficially from the classic forms of Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan that was prevalent in the 1930s. 

Our present ruling capitalist class finds it very useful to retain the appearance of democracy by holding "show elections", by managing the information you receive about the real world through their carefully controlled media which they advertise as "a free press", by their vigorous control of all institutions that serve an ideological function such as Hollywood and education, and by their complete control of all government institutions that supply the appearance of democratic rule. 

Meanwhile as insurance to continue their rule should this facade of "democracy" break down, they have developed all the other classic features of fascist rule: an infrastructure of a police state as reflected in the Patriot Acts and other laws which can suspend all civil liberties instantly, militarized (and racist) local police forces, and 24/7 surveillance technology over their subjects (that's us).