Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, June 17, 2021

• Pfizer & Moderna Fail To Respond To British Medical Journal About COVID Vaccine Safety Concerns by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution. 

An article published in the British Medical Journal by Dr. Peter Doshi titled “Covid-19 Vaccines: In The Rush for Regulatory Approval, Do We Need More Data?” raises concerns regarding COVID-19 vaccine rollout, and one of them is the bio-distribution of the vaccine. This refers to the examination and study of where the vaccine and its ingredients go once injected into the body. Having sped up the approval process of these vaccines, it has been claimed that no compromises in the process of examining their safety were made. But the fact that no study for tracking the distribution of the vaccine within the human body was conducted for any of the authorized vaccines, we cannot say this is true.

• The Real B3W-NATO Agenda by Pepe Escobar from Global Research.
  

• America’s Soup-Brained President Says The US Never Interferes In Other Countries’ Elections by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband also reading the script, from her weblog.

Western news media exists to funnel propaganda into the minds of the public. It is controlled by plutocrats who work in alliance with opaque government agencies to weave narratives about why the US government needs to do the things it had already planned on doing anyway. This gets more obvious by the day.

• Edelman PR and the Manufacturing of “Trust” by Johnny Vedmore from Unlimited Hangout. My reaction: Are the new propagandists hiding under the cover of PR firms like Edelman PR? I think so. Read this article to enlighten yourself on the World Economic Forum's use of the latter firm to establish "trust" in their leadership and the Great Reset.

The Edelman firm has not only been a vehicle for laundering the public images of big corporations, but it is also used by various governments worldwide, which allows it access to all the major halls of power. Edelman is also deeply involved with the World Economic Forum, with Richard Edelman not only an official agenda contributor to the WEF, but his firm managing the very image of the globalist organization, which is advocating for a “great reset” to launch us into what the WEF terms “the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” Edelman was also represented during the suspiciously timed Event 201 pandemic simulation of 2019, which was arranged by the WEF, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

• What MSM prefers to ignore about Biden-Putin summit features Ben Swann responding to questions regarding the deficiencies of billionaire owned & controlled media corporations, via RT's channel on YouTube (6:02m).
  

• 💥Isabel Maxwell: Israel’s “Back Door” Into Silicon Valley by Whitney Webb from her weblog Unlimited Hangout. This is a best post.
  

By moving in “the same circles as her father” and vowing to “work only on things involving Israel,” Isabel Maxwell became a pivotal liaison for the entry of Israeli intelligence-linked tech firms into Silicon Valley with the help of Microsoft’s two co-founders, Paul Allen and Bill Gates.

 

My reaction: Webb's prodigious and documented research uncovers many of Maxwell's ties, and that of her father, Jeffrey Epstein, to longtime Israeli intelligence circles as well as large US tech firms.

• Relentless Digitalization: Is a Cashless Economy a Real Threat to Privacy and Civil Liberties? by Sophia Wright from Global Research. My reaction: Again, digitization is only a tool to be used to surveil and control us or to promote a more convenient way of living for ordinary people. It depends on whether this is controlled by a self-serving ruling class or it is controlled by us (ordinary people). It looks very much like it will be used by the former.

• New Book: Unanswered Questions: What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission by Ray McGinnis, the book's author, from Global Research. (Note: I give credit to Global Research for this article because they have formatted it concisely. The primary source provides a reservoir of information, and encourages you to examine unanswered questions about 9/11, a profoundly pivotal 21st century event.)

• The Breaking Of The Corporate Media Monopoly by David Edwards from Media Lens (a British media watchdog). Edwards writes:

These alternative articles were ‘being shared more widely online than the views of mainstream newspaper commentators’. Remarkably, ‘Nothing from the BBC, the Guardian or the Daily Mail comes close’ to the most-shared alternative media pieces. The Canary reported that it had doubled the number of visitors to its site to six million in May. A story by Evolve Politics, run by just two people, was shared 55,000 times on Facebook and was read at least 200,000 times. These websites ‘explicitly offer a counter-narrative to what they deride as the “MSM” or mainstream media’.

Indeed, the evidence is now simply overwhelming – the 100-year big business monopoly of the mass media has been broken.

 

My reaction: Hopeful, but I remain skeptical.

• From Steel City Scribblings, a British weblog run by an independent blogger.
  

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Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, June 15, 2021

•  Targeting Russia and China Instead of the Real Enemy – Capitalist Inequality by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• The Enduring False Narrative About the PULSE Massacre Shows the Power of Media Propaganda by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog at Substack.

• Censorship: Facebook Has Removed 16 Million Pieces of Content & Added ‘Warnings’ On 167 Million by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

The censorship of information is at an all time high, but do people really recognize the extent to which it has been and is being carried out? A recent article published in the British Medical Journal by journalist Laurie Clarke has highlighted the fact that Facebook has already removed at least 16 million pieces of content from its platform and added warnings to approximately 167 million others. YouTube has removed nearly 1 million videos related to, according to them, “dangerous or misleading covid-19 medical information.” 

• Conformity: The Vice of the Coward Stacey Rudin from her weblog on Medium.

• REVEALED: Soros Bankrolls AOC’s Anti-Billionaire NYC Mayoral Candidate Maya Wiley. By Natalie Winters from The National Pulse. My reaction: These are great times for women of color to make it into political offices. There is only one catch: They must carry- out orders of their masters in the capitalist ruling class. This is another manifestation of the ruling class wrapping themselves in virtue.
  

• Sanctions on Syria – a silent death and killing hope by Vanessa Beeley from her weblog The Wall Will Fall. 

This is the latest panel discussion hosted by the International Manifesto Group on Sunday 13th June 2021.

 
Economic sanctions are becoming an increasingly popular foreign policy instrument in Western countries, deployed alone or in conjunction with military and/or diplomatic interventions to achieve strategic political and policy goals, such as ostensibly protecting individuals and states from the behaviour of wrongdoers. Because economic sanctions are considered less violent than direct military assault, they are often supported by many on the left and the peace movement, who reluctantly accept the policy as a necessary evil.

This panel, part of a broader series on sanctions, will focus on their public health effects, through an analysis of five case studies: Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Syria and Iran. All but one of these countries are currently under sanctions by both Canada and the United States.

 

(Note: This post is only Beeley's contribution to this discussion regarding Syria as a victim of economic sanctions that was a part of the general discussions about the effects, particularly on small countries, from the use of economic sanctions. Only large, financially stable nations like Russia and China can prevent sanctions from doing major damage to their nations.)

 

My reaction: The weapon of economic sanctions is the 21st century's weapon of choice that formerly was accomplished by what Gen. Smedley Butler referred to as a "racket" that was the weapon of choice for the US prior to WWII. (After WWII such invasions were replaced by subversive actions. Economic sanctions were added to subversive efforts in the 21st century. This was especially evident in Syria, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran.) Butler was referring to the invasions of Latin American countries, much like organized crime used in major North American cities, to threaten small businesses with harm if they didn't financially dole out bribes to Mafia figures to prevent further harm. 

• Amazon Buys MGM Amidst Antitrust Court Case featuring Naomi Karavani of the Redacted Tonight show. (comical satire)
  

Naomi Karavani focuses on Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com, Inc. in this Weekly Offensive. Bezos recently announced his plan to head to space on a commercial flight with his company Blue Origin. The announcement of his space flight came amid a flurry of bad press over tax evasion, questions about antitrust violations, Amazon's $8.45 billion purchase of MGM, and a global corporate tax proposal from the G7 that could leave Amazon out.

• The Same Shady People Own Big Pharma and the Media by Dr. Joseph Mercola from his weblog.
  

• The US-Russia Summit by Patrick Lawrence from Consortium News.
  

• Empire of Clowns vs. Yellow Peril by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog.

• How U.S. and UK Information-Warfare Fronts Ignited Anti-Government Protests in Belarus by Kit Klarenberg from CovertAction Magazine.
  

• Who is Naftali Bennett? from RT America. 

• The Truth About the California Water Crisis by Joshua Frank from CounterPunch.
  

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 Friday, June 11, 2021

• Fauci Declares Himself INFALLIBLE! featuring Jimmy Dore (via his YouTube channel--15:36m) exposing Dr. Fauci, a government bureaucrat in charge of our health, for what he is--sociopathic liar. My reaction: You have to be a "sociopathic liar" to serve the ruling class.
  

• Interview 1648 -- New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato featuring James Corbett and James Evan Pilato discussing the latest news which includes Japan's Olympics, cyber-attacks (and other fake propaganda "Reset" ploys), vaccination stories, etc., and Corbett's inferences based on these reports. 

• 💥The Lie That A Kinder, Gentler US Empire Is Possible by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband reading the script, which is also provided in the article from her weblog. This is a best post because she defines the core problem.
  

As long as the US is the center of a globe-spanning empire, it will be necessary to keep Americans too poor, too busy and too confused to interfere with the operation of the machine. You cannot allow a critical mass of Americans to have enough money to spend on political campaign donations, to have enough free time to research what’s actually happening in their world, to be sufficiently stress-free to look up and realize that your government is murdering children in their name, and also keep the empire running smoothly. You cannot have an imperialist oligarchy who runs things and also have income and wealth equality. 

 

Johnstone concludes her article with this insightful statement about any effective solution: 

It’s not that you can’t beat the machine, it’s that you can’t beat the machine using the tools the machine has given you. A grassroots effort to wake each other up to reality is a very achievable goal, and once enough eyes are open, anything is possible.

• US in Afghanistan: A War By Any Other Name... by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.
  

• The United States Started the Korean War from the YouTube channel of Tales of the American Empire. (Note: This is a short, authentic history of our post-WWII policies toward Asia.) My reaction: This history has been re-written by US historians that were motivated by career aspirations. They could not aspire to a career in academia unless they rewrote history to conform to the empire-building efforts of the cabal that took control in the post-WWII ruling class. This is a rare opportunity for you to recover a small part of the real history. 

• Biden's DHS Attacks Pipeline Protestors featuring Jimmy Dore (via his YouTube channel--7:31m) to reveal a true history of two single, but related, events--the protests that people organized in opposition to the Keystone pipeline in North Dakota and similar protests in northern Minnesota. My reaction: And many of you depend upon reports by media corporations to cover the news!

• Pinkwashing: Why Big Corporations Drape Themselves in Rainbows by Pablo Herón from Left Voice.
  

• A Sinister Agenda Behind California Water Crisis? by F. William Engdahl from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: Engdahl is one of the geopolitical experts, who are in denial of the climate crisis. He proposes a conspiracy theory which is rooted in government regulatory agencies where there is none. Such experts and most state bureaucrats and politicians view environmental regulations to save threatened species in a destabilizing climate as an "agenda" serving only negligible "special interests". Therefore expect such regulations will be dropped (or not enforced) in order to save us humans. This is only a  short-term solution to our future to the problem of the destabilization of the climate on our planet-Earth. Our masters in the ruling capitalist already know this, but their inherent drive to sustain profits will only accelerate their population reduction agenda known as the Great Reset in order to save themselves and their "beautiful" system of capitalism. The system depends on ever expanding growth on a planet that has finite resources. Something will have to give way. I look for more trouble in our future.

• The World is Changing, But Do the Americans Recognise It by James ONeill from New Eastern Outlook.
  

• Let there be no doubt about it from Extinction Rebellion in Britain (via their YouTube channel--03:53m)
  

• Explained: Quintero and Wiens 2013 featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist (via his YouTube channel--04:36m) and has fearlessly focused on the climate crisis, examining a research study regarding the adaptability of species to adjust to abrupt climate changes. (Note: This is a key question for our human species: can we adapt to rather dramatic changes in climate that McPherson foresees?)
  

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 Friday, June 4, 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, June 3, 2021

• Bombshell: Fauci wrote in 2012 that benefits of gain-of-function research ‘outweigh the risks’ by Calvin Freiburger from LifeSite.

• Fauci Emails: COVID “Looks Engineered,” A Govt-Funded Immunologist Told Fauci in January 2020 by Arjun Walia & Joe Martino from Collective Evolution.
  

• A scandal is being thuggishly covered up by a regime more interested in propaganda than human life by Stephen Gowans from his weblog.

• Media Rats Jump Off Their Sinking Ship by Dr. Joseph Mercola from his weblog.
  

• Abolish vaccine patents now! from Climate & Capitalism.

• The Campaign against Ivermectin: WHO’s Chief Scientist Served with Legal Notice for Disinformation and Suppression of Evidence by Colin Todhunter, a British independent journalist who has lived a number of years in India, from Global Research, based in Canada.

• The War of Corporations on Our Children by Emanuel Pastreich from Global Research.
  

• The New Domestic War on Terror Has Already Begun -- Even Without the New Laws Biden Wants by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog at Substack.

• CIA (Dis)Information Operations Come Home to the US by Peter Van Buren from his weblog Hooper's War.
  

• A Truly Free Society Would Have No Official Narratives by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog with her American husband furnishing an audio narrative of the script. 

The fact that there can be that drastic of a shift from something no pundit or politician may say to something they’re encouraged to talk about all the time—all at once, at the drop of a hat—says so much about what the political/media class is and how it works in our society. How utterly uninterested in truth and facts it is. How arbitrary its dictates are. How completely made-up its ongoing story of the world is. It just says what’s convenient for the powerful, and when that’s not convenient anymore it switches to something else. 

• The Etymological Animal Must Slip Out of the Cage of Habit to Grasp Truth by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain.
  

• Biden’s Disastrous ‘Infrastructure’ Bill by F. William Engdahl from New Eastern Outlook. My brief commentary follows: 

Engdahl argues that the "infrastructure bill" is mostly propaganda to fool the American public (once again), but will actually promote the transnational capitalist Empire's virtuous sounding phrase "Green Agenda". The latter is, in turn, promoted to hide "Agenda 21" to seem more palatable to the brainwashed American public. Here is what the editor of Technocracy says about Agenda 21:

 

From its inception in 1992 at the United Nation’s Earth Summit, 50,000 delegates, heads of state, diplomats and Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) hailed Agenda 21 as the “comprehensive blueprint for the reorganization of human society.” The 350-page, 40 chapter, Agenda 21 document was quite detailed and explicit in its purpose and goals. They warned us that the reorganization would be dictated through all-encompassing policies affecting every aspect of our lives, using environmental protection simply as the excuse to pull at our emotions and get us to voluntarily surrender our liberties.

 

But what this editor doesn't understand is that the capitalist ruling class's motive is to try to salvage the capitalist system, which has brought capitalists so much wealth and power, in their recognition that a finite planet cannot accept a system that results in unending growth. Or, to put it differently, this plan is a desperate attempt to save capitalism in a limit-bound finite planet. The editor compounds this misunderstanding with his well-indoctrinated ignorance about socialism.

• Crypto: Congress Dawdles as $1.7 Trillion Con-Game Goes Unregulated, Threatening Reputation of U.S. Markets by Pan & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. They write:

 ... for reasons that have yet to be explained to the American people, when it comes to the $1.7 trillion cryptocurrency market – which is effectively a con-game based on the greater fool theory, nothing is regulated. Not the crypto currency; not the promoters; not the crypto exchanges; and not the firms that are providing as much as 100 times leverage to fuel this “rat poison squared,” as the legendary investor Warren Buffett has characterized Bitcoin. (See The Smartest Guys in the Room Call Bitcoin “Rat Poison Squared,” “a Colossal Pump-and-Dump Scheme” and “a Big Criminal Scam” but Federal Regulators Look the Other Way.)

• Inflation on the agenda at Fed and European Central Bank by Nick Beams, an Australian, from World Socialist Web Site.
  

• Notes on Turning Seventy by John Steppling from his weblog. Steppling, who presently lives in Norway, is an American playwright, author, etc. who writes like somebody who has been extensively educated. And, it takes such a person (with a lot of time) to fully understand his writing. A few quotes from his article reveals much:

The most profound artworks demand something impossible from the viewer ... One problem is this idea that Kafka (but substitute any major novelist) is tracing out the shaping of the modern subject — through capitalism (or mastery over nature, etc) but then leaving capitalism as a universal. As if God created Capitalism on day 8. One cannot write criticism without being critical, of all things. Of oneself. If not, the class system is absolved, class struggle and political repression. They become a form of Nature.

 

And he concludes his article with this insightful statement:

Culture is an indicator for the mental and physical health of a society. The trend toward fascism is sickness. The fascist state is the apotheosis of sickness; physical and moral. The ruling class has no respect for anyone outside their small circle.

• A Decade On: West’s War on Syria Continues by Brian Berletic from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: The two main corporations that feed Empire's "news" agencies with propaganda, AP (Associated Press) and Reuters, keep the people of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire in ignorance about what is actually happening in the Mid-East.

• Israel’s New Mossad Chief Threatens More Assassinations and Attacks Inside Iran by Dave DeCamp from Anti-War. 

On Tuesday, the new head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency suggested more Israeli covert attacks and assassinations inside Iran should be expected even as the US and other world powers are negotiating a revival of the nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA.

• Dan Kovalik on Elections, Rebuilding and the Ongoing Proxy War in Syria featuring Kovalik in a video interview conducted by Mnar Muhawesh Adley, the founder of Mint Press News. 

• Biden Administration Proposes to Allow Oil Companies to Disturb Polar Bears, Walruses in Alaska’s Arctic from Center for Biological Diversity.
  

• Greenhouse gas levels keep rising at accelerating rates from Arctic News.
  

• Self-Reinforcing Feedback Loop #21, Climate-Change Summary featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist (via his YouTube channel--02:40m), who has focused on the climate crisis, listing scientific articles regarding the climate crisis.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, May 31, 2021

• 57 leading scientists, doctors, and public policy experts call for immediate halt to COVID vaccine rollout from Covid Call To Humanity. (Note: Includes audio and transcript.)
  

• Antiganda in Action on Declare Your Independence​ from James Corbett's website The Corbett Report (49:59m). (Note: I assume that the title, "Antiganda", means a play on the word "propaganda". Also, Corbett is a Canadian living in Japan for about 16 years.)

• Al Pacino Afraid To Get "Canceled" from Jimmy Dore's comedy show on his YouTube channel. (Note: Dore talks to a voice that claims he is "Al Pacino" by phone for comic and satirical effect.) 

• FFWN: “YouTube Will Annihilate My Channel If I Even Mention This” (with E. Michael Jones) from one of Dr. Barrett's platforms FFWN ("False Flag Weekly News") in a video discussion on current topics with Dr. Jones (about one hour) from False Flag Weekly News, one of Barrett's websites. Notice that Barrett also carries the discussion to YouTube at about 20:30m into the podcast. (Note: Dr. Barrett taught at the University of Wisconsin until he was blacklisted in 2006 by the ruling class who disapproved of his views and analysis.) My reaction: This source is one of the best of alternative media.
  

• Why We Need to Distribute and Democratise Wealth by Richard D. Wolff from Economy for All/Newsclick. My reaction: Wolff misses the social and economic injustice built into the system of capitalism by ignoring the power that wealth gives to capitalists which lead inevitably to the concentration of wealth and power for this class in addition to all the economic and social disparities. This feature necessarily creates class warfare as first pointed out in the writings of Karl Marx verboten to most people.  

• Remembering The Black Roots of Memorial Day by Laura Flanders from her weblog. (Note: The podcast starts at 38 seconds.)

• More of the same: Biden’s hybrid war against China by Madison Tang and Jodie Evans from Asia Times (based in Hong Kong, China). (Note: This is free of their usual paywall.)
  

• Palestine: Hamas Defeats Israel by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from The Unz Review.
  

• Presidential Election drives home Syrian sovereignty and Western irrelevance by Vanessa Beeley from Off-Guardian.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, May 28, 2021

• Good news: Mild COVID-19 induces lasting antibody protection by Tamara Bhandari from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

• Covid-19: Who fact checks health and science on Facebook? by Laurie Clarke from the BMJ (British Medical Journal).
  

• So the Ruling Class Was WRONG WRONG WRONG About Covid-19. What Else Are They Wrong About? by Lance Welton (a pseudonym) from The Unz Review. 

• Alarming Casualty Rates for mRNA Vaccines Warrant Urgent Action F. William Engdahl from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: I thank an activist for sending me this post.)

• 9 New ‘Vaccine Billionaires’ Amass Combined Net Worth of $19.3 Billion During Pandemic by Children's Health Defense Team from their website/weblog.
  

• Will the Pandemic Promote Political Power in Perpetuity? by James Bovard from American Institute for Economic Research.
  

• 💥Whitney Webb Interview – Cyber Hacks, White Powders Scares & Vaccine Tracking, It’s All Come To Pass from The Last American Vagabond (1:47:47hr). This is a best post. (Note: I hesitated to post this because of its length, but I thought it important because Webb brings us up-to-date on her personal circumstances, and other observations on important topics based on her extensive research efforts. This interview begins at 0:22m.) My reaction: She does not let Ryan Cristián dominate the interview. This post is especially for independent thinkers who are not programmed what and how to think about various important issues.
  

• The Smarmy Sacrilege of Corporate Divinity Consultants by Adam Vander Tuig from Current Affairs.
  

• Washington is playing a losing game with China by Chas W Freeman Jr, of Brown University from East Asia Forum.

• 💥“Xinjiang in My Eyes”: Debunking the Lies and Anti-China Propaganda Focusing on China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by Peter Koenig from Global Research. This is a best post.
  

• Sombre truths behind bright green lies by Paul Cudenec from Winter Oak (Acorn), a British website. (Note: This post is essentially a book review in which the author clearly likes the book. In his review Cudenec spots three truths. "But wait, there's more." He argues that there are two more additional truths for a total of five.) My reaction: I have followed articles by top scientists since the 1970s, and, in contrast to this author, I have arrived at the conclusion that it is far too late for the human species and most other species to survive the ravages of capitalism on our very unique planet. But what do I know? I agree with, and follow, retired professor Guy McPherson who as a devoted climate scientist has specialized many years in the independent study of the subject, and has reached similar conclusions which convinced me that my gut-felling was right. That is why a few years ago I changed the title of my weblog/website to "Surviving Capitalism" by adding the word "(not)" to the title. But, in the meantime, I have not abandoned my promotion of real socialism (the economy owned and controlled by all of the people) and my hatred of capitalism. I see this intellectual position, if somehow accomplished, as redemption for the centuries that humans have allowed capitalists to rule.

• Squad Finally Strategized Votes -- To Fund The Police!?!? featuring Jimmy Dore (of The Jimmy Dore Show) using his YouTube channel (16:34m) with Ron Placone to satirize The Squad and their vote to furnish more funds to the police.
  

• Australia Is A Giant US Military Base With Kangaroos by Australian Caitlin Johnstone, with her American husband furnishing an audio narrative, from her weblog. 

• Eisenhower rejected military chiefs’ demand for nuclear war on China, classified account of ’58 Taiwan Strait crisis reveals by Gareth Porter from The Grayzone.

• House Hearing: Only Jamie Dimon’s Microphone Mysteriously Malfunctions During Pivotal Questioning by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.
  

• What Will Israel Do to Counter Hezbollah’s Missiles? by Elijah J. Magnier from Internationalist 360°. (Note: Magnier's weblog is behind a paywall.) My reaction: One cannot expect first-rate journalists and political analysts to work for nothing. Unfortunately, many of us have next-to-nothing.

• Syria, Israel, the Resistance bloc and Syrian elections – Vanessa Beeley on Syria Insider. From Beeley's website via YouTube (11:55m). (Note: Syria Insider Weekly is obviously a Syrian radio/TV station and Beeley is a British journalist currently living in Syria.)

• The Company They Keep by Stephen Karganovic from Strategic Culture Foundation.
  

• New climate predictions increase likelihood of temporarily reaching 1.5 °C in next 5 years from the World Meteorological Association.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, May 27, 2021

• Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread by Martin J Vincent et al from Virology Journal, a peer-reviewed science journal. (Note: SARS-CoV is the underlying virus that causes the illness of Covid-19.)

• MIT: Covid Skeptics Champion Science by James Corbett from his weblog The Corbett Report.

• Today I received this newsletter from LifeSiteNews.

• The economic response to the crisis benefits large companies featuring an interview with Eric Toussaint from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts) conducted by Roberto González Amador from the Mexican daily La Jornada .
  

• Fact Checkers Take A Beating On Lab Leak Theory featuring Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Shows channel on YouTube. (Note: Dore goes on an appropriate rant about ruling class "fact-checkers", censorship practiced by ruling class corporate media, and both of their records of contradictions. He also puts Matt Taibbi, a journalist, on the podcast to comment on this subject.) My reaction: It's only realistic to assume that the consolidation and concentration of wealth, which is a core feature of capitalism, also gives the rich control over all of mainstream media--as well as all other institutions. Taibbi essentially explains that all the issues related to this subject can be explained by "politics". This is a shorthand way to obscure the problem of issues. Social-economic class conflict is the root cause of most social-economic issues, which is a recognition that class matters, and that a particular issue is a conflict between the rich ruling class and the working class. This view is verboten in capitalist USA.

• The U.S.' latest COVID-19 lab leak theory push is a distraction by Andrew Korybko from CGTN, a major Chinese online news website. (Note: Now that the ruling class has suddenly shifted its main enemy from Russia to China--because of the stupendous rise of China as an economic powerhouse--in a major effort to prevent a powerful Russia-China combination, Korybko sees major problems for ruling class propagandists to fool Americans once again.)
  

• The US Empire Is A Self-Reinforcing Trauma Factory by Australian Caitlin Johnstone and narrated by her American husband. (Note: Now that the billionaire ruling class has gotten rid of the upstart and unauthorized (by them) Trump, their propaganda efforts through their media corporations focuses on rampant crime in American to counter the defund-the-police movements.) My reaction: The American audience is being played (manipulated) once again.
  

• Statement of NEO Editorial Board from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: This another ironic example where "the [Empire's propaganda] pot calls "their enemies'" kettle black" (def.). I received this message when I tried today to access Middle East Observer's website.

• Gaza resistance: beginning of the end for apartheid Israel? by Anya Parampil from The Grayzone. (Note: You might be also interested in this related post entitled "Days Before Approving Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, State Department Agreed to Contentious Bomb Sale to Israel".) My reaction: The answer to Parampil's title of this post is emphatic "no!". Israel is an integral part of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. The current activities of the Israeli army against Palestinians will only make it more difficult for Empire propagandists.
  

• Why has the Amazon flipped from carbon sink to carbon source? by Dave Borlace, a Brit, from his video channel, Just Have a Think, on YouTube.

• Self-Reinforcing Feedback Loops #18 through #20, Climate-Change Summary by  Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent (independent of the ruling class) scientist who has for many years focused on the climate crisis, from his YouTube channel (04:24m). (Note: In this podcast McPherson cites a number of peer-reviewed studies that focus on the disappearance or the alteration of ice on both polar regions that contribute to the destabilization of our climate.)

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, May 24, 2021

• 10 Covid-Skeptic Memes to Get You Through the Day – Part 3 by Kim Usbourne from Off-Guardian.
  

• America’s Public Health System Is Utterly Corrupt by Paul Craig Roberts from his weblog.
  

• Imagining Year 2020 Without Fauci, Redfield, USIAID, and the CDC by John Tamny from American Institute for Economic Research. My reaction: From my personal experience, I find "cancel culture" highly effective in limiting the views of ordinary Americans, particularly in relation to Americans believing whatever CDC and Dr. Fauci say despite abundant evidence to the contrary. "Cancel culture" is a ruling class sub-ideology that justifies censorship of those who have dissenting views, a characteristic of historical fascist-style capitalism. Worse yet, "cancel culture" is encouraging, and largely succeeding, in getting ordinary Americans to ignore dissident views related to the pandemic no matter how qualified they are on the subject.
  

• Slavoj Žižek, Emergency Capitalism, and the Capitulation of the Left by Fabio Vighi from The Philosophical Salon.

• How Billionaire Foundations Fund NGOs to Advance US Foreign Policy Goals by Rick Sterling from Dissident Voice.
  

• A People’s Guide to the War Industry by Christian Sorensen from Consortium News.

• The Disintegrated States of America by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker Blog". (Note: This post is essentially a book review of Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse, a recent book authored by Andrei Martyanov that has had a marked influence on Escobar's thinking.)
  

• Manufacturing Consent for War: 70 Years of CIA Coups, Assassinations, False Flag Operations and Mass Murder by Jeremy Kuzmarov from Internationalist 360°. (Note: This post is a book review of Vijay Prashad's book entitled "Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations".) 

• America’s ‘Deal of the Century’ in Flames After Israel Pounds Gaza by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.
  

• The US Isn’t An Israel Puppet, Israel Isn’t A US Puppet: It’s One Empire by Caitlin Johnstone, an independent Australian blogger, with her American husband's narration of her post. (Note: This is consistent with my longtime designation of the empire: US/Anglo/Zionist Empire which I argue reflects reality.)

• Israeli Soldiers Murder Palestinian Child And Kidnap Young Men In The Village Of Bil’in by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond.
  

• U.S. hypocrisy on human rights shines bright on Palestine by Danny Haiphong from CGTN, China's major online news publication. My reaction: Ordinary Americans are too absorbed with surviving, subject to brainwashing propaganda, and other distracting nonsense, that they will ignore reports like this.

• 'She was too vocal': Outrage grows over AP journalist fired for pro-Palestine views by MEE staff from Middle East Eye (based in London).
  

• We’re wired to care for others featuring an interview conducted by Sophie Shevardnadze of Tbilisi, Georgia (Sophie&Co.) with Patricia Churchland, a retired neuroscientist from San Diego, California, from Shevardnadze's RT channel on YouTube. My reaction: Although Churchland's theory of human nature as social animals makes sense, she admits that her field of neuroscience are unable to fully explain the phenomenon of sociopaths ("psychopaths"). Could it be that the man-made system of capitalism rewards "psychopaths" with wealth and power? 

Posts that I especially recommend for Saturday, May 22, 2021

• One state is giving 5 people who get COVID-19 vaccine $1 million each by Sean Keane from Cnet.  

• The Jab, Star Wars, and the Bubble Net of Digital Gulags by Paul Haeder from Dissident Voice.
  

• Pentagon’s UFO PsyOps Fuel Russia, China War Risk by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.
  

A Senate intelligence committee is to receive a report from the Department of Defense’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force next month. That has also raised public interest in the possibility of alien life breaching our skies equipped with physics-defying technology far superior to existing supersonic jets and surveillance systems.

Several other questions come to mind that beg skepticism. Why does the phenomenon of UFOs or UAP only seem to be associated with the American military? This goes back decades to the speculation during the 1950s about aliens crashing at Roswell in New Mexico. Why is it that only the American military seems privy to such strange encounters? Why not the Russian or Chinese military which would have comparable detection technology to the Americans but they don’t seem to have made any public disclosures on alien encounters? Such a discrepancy is implausible unless we believe that life-forms from lightyears away have a fixation solely on the United States. That’s intergalactic American “exceptionalism” for you!

• The Chinese Forced Labor Lie Collapses featuring Lee Camp from his YouTube channel, satirically commenting on another piece of propaganda against China.
  

• U.S. Cyber Army Revelations Make Mockery of Accusations against Russia from Strategic CultureFoundation.

It was the Americans under the George W Bush and Barack Obama administrations who developed and deployed the Stuxnet malware virus which crippled Iran’s nuclear industry over a decade ago. No other nation has been caught so red-handed in an act of cyber warfare.

The revelations in 2013 and later by former CIA contractor Edward Snowden documenting in devastating detail a global campaign of illegal surveillance covering the internet and telecommunications by the American National Security Agency is another astounding facet. Snowden provided the Wikileaks whistleblower site archives showing how the CIA and NSA worked with U.S. internet tech companies to illegally infiltrate the private communications of governments and citizens all around the world. Not only that but the CIA has developed techniques for falsely incriminating others with their cybercrimes.

• YouTube Censoring Israel Coverage By Independent News featuring Jimmy Dore (from his YouTube channel) asking questions of Aaron Maté from The Grayzone regarding YouTube's rejection of an on-the-ground journalist's report from in Israel. YouTube threatens a total banishment of The Grayzone.
  

• "Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East" with guest Stephen Gowans from the YouTube channel (58:08m) of Coming from Left Field. My reaction: Gowans, who is a Canadian, is one of my top favorite geopolitical analysts.  Gowans briefly provides more information on the two other participants in this discussion from his weblog.

• Sitrep: Here Comes China: Space, Trade, Encirclement and Tibet from "The Saker Blog".

Selections from Godfree Roberts’ extensive weekly newsletter: Here Comes China. You can get it here: https://www.herecomeschina.com/#subscribe
Further selections and editorial commentary by Amarynth.

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 Friday, May 7, 2021

• CDC Specifies PCR Test Cycle Threshold For Vaccinated Individuals: What Does This Mean? by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• Covid Vaccines: The Tip of the Iceberg from Swiss Policy Research. 

• Federal Gov’t Telling Facebook to Silence Those With Vaccine Safety Concerns Says Lawsuit by Matt "Agorist" (I can't believe this is a real name) from The Free Thought Project.
  

• Viral CIA Recruitment Video Features "Cisgender Millennial" Who Says "I Am Unapologetically Me" from Forbes' YouTube channel. My reaction: If you want to see an example of "woke" propaganda using identity politics, view this as a prime example from the US's Deep State and its prime subversive agency, the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). I don't know if it is over-the-top as propaganda because they've received a lot of flack or ridicule from some minor news shows, Fox's Tucker Carlson, Lee Camp, and of course Jimmy Dore. Even Newsweek magazine has expressed doubts about it. (Here is an exposé of the real CIA that Oliver Stone has done.) However, the Deep State doesn't use ineffectual propaganda. They have likely tested this on American audiences and determined that much of the American public was susceptible to its message. It must be emphasized for our gullible fellow-Americans that the CIA is engaging in such subversive activities today as illustrated in a recent report by Bernard, a German blogger. This CIA recruitment ad is further evidence--if you need some--that the ruling capitalist class today considers the general American public as enemies to be manipulated.

• USAID admits to Venezuela regime change fraud by Anya Parampil from The Grayzone. (Note: I've just found that if I access YouTube videos directly from independent websites that I receive an error message. But if I access them directly from YouTube, I succeed. Thus if you access this video from the "Watch on YouTube" caption on the lower left-hand corner, you will succeed.)

• An empire in love with its Afghan cemetery by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog.
  

• US Establishment Recycling “WMD” Iraq War Propaganda For Iran by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond.

• Oceanographers Find “Heat Bombs” Destroying Arctic Sea Ice by Scripps Institution of Oceanography from SciTechDaily.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, May 4, 2021

• New Report Sheds Light on Vaccine Doomsday Cult by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review. 

• India’s “COVID outbreak” & the need for scientific integrity – not sensationalism by Colin Todhunter, a Brit who lived many years in India, from Off-Guardian.
  

• CDC Violated Law to Inflate COVID Cases and Fatalities featuring nearly a 1:05 hour interview with Dr. Henele (Dr. Henry Ealy) from Dr. Joseph Mercola's website. My commentary follows: 

At first, having done some research on "Henele" who is a naturopathic physician, I decided not to post this interview on my website; but after reading the entire transcript of the interview, I felt that "Henele" was making a sincere effort to investigate the pandemic which others of my posts weren't asking the appropriate questions, were ignoring discrepancies, and having a too narrow of focus. I personally was frustrated last summer after learning from a very sociable person that she knew of no one who was afflicted with Covid-19 in our town of 12,000, but she qualified her position by saying that she knew of hospital statistics in a nearby large city that many people have come down with Covid-19 illness. Then I kept noticing reports of doctors being pressured by health authorities to declare the coronavirus reason for someone dying, and hospitals being offered money incentives to diagnose deaths due to Covid-19 illnesses. 

 

I had in an early career with a state Department of Rehabilitation directly experienced the gross inflation of numbers of "rehabilitations" to justify higher budgets and was pressured to "play along with the game". After a while and learning that this was the same situation in many states, it disturbed me so much that I ended up quitting an entire career that I had trained for.

 

My suspicion is that the ruling capitalist class, for various reasons, intentionally brought about this pandemic. They first created Covid-19 illness and somehow spread it in China, their number one enemy. The concentration of ownership in private enterprise and the concentration of the medical professions (no longer can doctors afford to set up a private practice) under chains of authority (bureaucracy) that physicians can be easily controlled. 

• Corporate News Outlets Again "Confirm" the Same False Story, While Many Refuse to Correct it by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack. (Note: Greenwald introduces his article with the caption "Journalists with major outlets know they spread a false, retracted story about the FBI and Giuliani but refuse to remove it because their real job is spreading disinformation.")

And he follows this caption with the first paragraph as follows:

 

One of the primary plagues of corporate journalism, which I have documented more times than I can count, just reared its ugly head again to deceive millions of people with fake news. When one large news outlet publishes a false story based on whispers from anonymous security state agents with the CIA or FBI, other news outlets quickly purport that they have “independently confirmed” the false story, in order to bolster its credibility (oh, it must be true since other outlets have also confirmed it). 

• On World Press Freedom Day, US Report Reveals 'Startling Extent of Police Violence Against Journalists' by Jessica Corbett from Common Dreams.
  

• From gunboats to treaties: Who wrote the rules of globalisation? by Ben van der Merwe from Investment Monitor. (Note: I very recently this article received from Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS). But, in conformance with my policy, I re-posted it from the original source at Investment Monitor.)

• Recognizing Lies about Latin America: Seven Tips by Laura Wells from Dissident Voice. My reaction: She immediately starts with a false assumption: "A focus on lies about Latin America is important because we do care about how the US treats other people ...". Unfortunately, that is not true. Being focused on surviving and otherwise distracted, Americans mostly ignore how the government treats other people in foreign lands. They mostly believe what their told by the "talking heads" on major TV stations. But her advice on detecting lies is spot-on.