Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, January 14, 2021

• Upper Ocean Temperatures Set a New High Record in 2020 from Climate & Capitalism.

• Escaping the Singularity: Why Artificial Intelligence Will Not Save the Planet by Raul Diego from Mint Press News.
  

• ‘TRUTH’ With RFK, Jr. and Author Jason Shurka: The Vaccine Safety Movement from Children's Health Defense which features Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. answering questions from Shurka via 48:25m video on YouTube.

• Tech censorship: how paranoid should we be? This 36:15m video from Unherd (British) features Freddie Sayers interviewing Glenn Greenwald regarding the accelerating trend of social media giants censoring views they don't like.

• Chaos agent: Right-wing blames US Capitol riot on notorious instigator banished by Black Lives Matter by Max Blumenthal from The Grayzone. My reaction: Most activists are unaware that capitalist agencies of the Deep State like the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. All the "intelligence" agencies use agent provocateurs to disrupt any activities by movements, both foreign and domestic, anyone who interferes with the power and profits of the capitalist ruling class. Because most activists don't pay attention to accurate foreign news provided by independent sources, they are often naive about the domestic uses of agent provocateurs. Fortunately, Blumenthal isn't, and at least some members of BLM are not. Such agent provocateurs are very well paid and follow capitalist moral principles that all capitalists adhere to: what is best for me, my family, and is sanctioned by powerful authorities are the right course of action.
  

• SHOCKER: AOC endorses #ForceTheVote, Embarrasses Her Defenders! featuring Jimmy Dore (via YouTube) pointing to the hypocrises of Congresswoman and careerist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez regarding her stand on impeaching Trump.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, October 8, 2020

Last evening I viewed a film produced by 7th Chakra Films entitled "1986 The Act". It is outstanding in its professional quality production and it offers documented illustrations for the most horrific crimes ever committed by a ruling class against the rest of society under the system of capitalism. I urge you to order it in one of their formats. If you have budget constraints which prevent you from purchasing it, notify me at goatmeal36@yahoo.com.

• ‘COVID Vaccines’ Could Be Useless at Lowering Death, Give You Symptoms of Mild COVID, and Still Pass Clinical Trials by Dr. Peter Doshi posted on Anti-Empire, but the source is the NY Times. (Note: I am posting this from Anti-Empire because the framing of the article is more relevant than the NY Times--but there is a link to the latter provided in this post.) 

• What do HONEST SCIENTISTS say about covid-19 and the pandemic? from Wake Up to the Truth.

• Assaulting Science in the Name of Science: Exploring the Coronavirus Crisis of 2020: A Compilation and Commentary on Online Essays by Prof. Anthony J. Hall from Global Research (based in Canada).
  

• Protests & Provocateurs: Infiltrators are Disrupting BLM Protests by David Rfosen from CounterPunch. My reaction: Although the article starts out with statements disparaging Trump like all liberal media, it soon describes the infiltration tactics and agent provocateurs that are used by the capitalist class to manipulate protests. It focuses on lessons that have been learned by every generation since the Vietnam War, and must be relearned by current activists at an accelerated pace if the protests are to be effective.

• How Exceptional America Is by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Zuesse often uses the feudal word "aristocracy" for a ruling class partially in order to be published in liberal-left websites, but mostly because he was indoctrinated by many years of education in the USA to absolutely avoid any writing that is associated with Marxist thought. You see, Marxism is verboten in the USA and throughout most of the the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. "Marxian" can only be used by professors to indicate that they only have an academic interest in Marxist ideology. This is part of the Empire's indoctrination program to control and prevent thought that does not favor a capitalist system, a system founded on private ownership. Public ownership and control of an economy is blasphemous to this capitalist religion. Still, as a critic of US policies, his writings are valuable to read.
  

• Eco-socialism and/or De-growth by Michael Löwy from Rise (based in Ireland). (Note: This is a best post.)
  

How to distinguish the authentic from the artificial, factitious (artificially created) and makeshift needs? The last ones are induced by mental manipulation, i.e. advertisement. The advertising system has invaded all spheres of human life in modern capitalist societies: not only food and clothing, but sports, culture, religion and politics are shaped according to its rules. It has invaded our streets, mail boxes, TV-screens, newspapers, landscapes, in a permanent, aggressive and insidious way, and it decisively contributes to habits of conspicuous and compulsive consumption. Moreover, it wastes an astronomical amount of oil, electricity, labour time, paper, chemicals, and other raw materials - all paid by the consumers - in a branch of “production” which is not only useless, from a human viewpoint, but directly in contradiction with real social needs. While advertisement is an indispensable dimension of the capitalist market economy, it would have no place in a society in transition to socialism, where it would be replaced by information on goods and services provided by consumer associations. The criteria for distinguishing an authentic from an artificial need, is its persistence after the suppression of advertisement (Coca Cola!). Of course, during some years, old habits of consumption would persist, and nobody has the right to tell the people what their needs are. The change in the patterns of consumption is a historical process, as well as an educational challenge.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, June 30, 2020

• The Co-opting of Activism by the [Deep] State by Dustin Broadbery from Off-Guardian.

• US Gov website falsely inflating Care Home Covid deaths from Off-Guardian.

• The Covid-BLM Diversion; "Shock Therapy" Behind a Smokescreen of Hysteria and Racial Incitement by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review.

• The Media is Lying About the ‘Second Wave’ by Ron Paul from his weblog.

• Unsanitized: Time to Seize Drug Patents by David Dayen from The American Prospect. 

• WHO’s Conflict of Interest? by David Macilwain from American Herald Tribune.

• Real Revolution Means Expanding Consciousness, Both Outwardly And Inwardly by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

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

Totalitarian Democracy means end of Freedom for the People - William Binney, Herland Report TV.

Click here to access an interview with ex-CIA officer William Binney (via YouTube) conducted by Hanne Herland (Norway), founder of the Herland Report, historian of comparative religions, bestselling author, commentator and TV producer.

Binney tells what he knows about the infiltration of media corporations by CIA agents, and other subversive actions. Some excerpts from the interview:

William Binney says: "The media is totally infiltrated by the CIA and various other agencies. When it comes to national security, the media only talk about what the administration wants you to hear, and basically suppress any other statements about what's going on that the administration does not want get public. The media is basically  the lapdogs for the government."

"William Casey, who was the director of Central Intelligence Agency back when Reagan was president, said at one point that you'll know how effective we are once at least 70 percent of what’s publicly known is false."

"In other words, they have been infiltrating the press for decades and they're pushing their thinking and agenda to the media, so the media will promulgate it to the public. The public won't even have any idea what’s really going on."

"The objective is to keep everybody uninformed so that they can't make a smart decision about anything. Everything is being done behind this secret door that you are not supposed to know about. That is really destroying the fundamental essence of democracy."

"That was what our Constitution was all about, that the people were supposed to know what the government was doing. Not the government knowing what the people were doing at all times, they way it is turning today."

"We are pretty much heading towards a totalitarian system. In this country, democracy has been subverted, much I think by Dick Cheney. He masterminded this because he would spend time in Congress, he knew about the congressional operation, how it worked. He was assistant to President Nixon, spying on everybody. He knew that he needed to know things about people in the opposition. What better way to do it than have a sister agency and the US government just open up and collect everything, store it, so you can go in and look at it at any time retroactively and examine anybody." 

Infiltration alert: "Rebellion Extinction: a capitalist scam to hijack our resistance"

Click here to access article by "The Acorn" posted on Winter Oak.

I know very little about this website and how "The Acorn" is related to them. However, I've noticed in the past 50 years that capitalist directors have often infiltrated their agents into movements to control and/or sow chaos among activist organizations. I've observed this method to destroy the Black Panthers organization, more generally in the Civil Rights Movement, and directly witnessed this in the Anti-Vietnam Movement. I fear this is happening once again in movements trying to stave off the worst effects of the destabilization of our climate caused by the operations of international capitalism.

"The Acorn" discovered signs that in Britain a group identified as "XR Business" appears to be doing just that.