We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Showing posts with label protest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label protest. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, March 23, 2021

(Sorry for the late posting for Tuesday--I have been preoccupied by personal matters--I thought I had already uploaded it.)
  • A History of Warring on the Homefront by Mickey Huff from Dissident Voice (originally from Project Censored). (Note: I am posting this article/video from Dissident Voice because the latter have conveniently included the film of which this review on the film is based. Also, this is essential reading/viewing for all those fellow Americans who missed the actual history of American working people and were brainwashed by their history classes in the USA.)
  • OPCW Whistle Blowers Debunk Cover-Up & U.S. Propaganda featuring Jimmy Dore interviewing Aaron Maté of The Grayzone what has learned about the disinformation and censorship involved in the ruling class's reporting  of "chemical attacks" in Syria directed by the Assad government from Dore's Rokfin channel (26:22m).  
  • Thoughts On The Iraq Invasion by Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian independent blogger, from her weblog. My reaction: She knows far more than Alfred McCoy, a prominent American historian, does about the mindset of the current American ruling class. Now that the core of the ruling class, combining the resources and wealth of the USA, the British Empire, and international Zionist Jewry, is back under Joe Biden, they intend to resurrect their longstanding project to rule the world (commentary).
  • Dispatches from the Congo: The Truth Behind US Claims of ISIS Presence posted on Internationalist 360° featuring Kambale Musavuli from the Centre of Research on the Congo explaining, in a 21:09m video, how US-backed forces are engaging in massacres on behalf of corrupt political leaders while also covering this in media reports as "fighting terrorism" and protecting "human rights" of local populations. My reaction: Surprise, surprise! (a cynical remark).

Friday, March 19, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, March 19, 2021

  • World Wide Rally For Freedom featuring James Corbett and James Evan Pilato in a 28:34m video first commenting on media corporation's reporting on the upcoming worldwide protests of the pandemic restrictions. After about 18 minutes they talk about censorship issues.
The ruling capitalist class has used the social identity trick for many years to elect first Barack Obama and then in their attempt to elect Hillary Clinton. Now they have expanded their scope of operations to other social identity groups and smear anyone who challenges them (in addition to anyone who questions their pandemic policies). They do this in order to divide us into hating each other, to distract us from forming other ideas that might be influenced by class politics, and to divert our attention away from real issues of inequality under a capitalist system. 
 
I think they expanded their psychology operation to extend to other identity groups after they failed to elect Hillary Clinton to the presidency. But they saw it as useful because it greatly influenced the upper-middle-class of college-educated professionals which is their core constituency. They drew on their highly trained advertising and public relations experts to study how to "sell" ruling class policies to the rest of the American society. I think Eric London was right when he wrote the following:
 
Identity politics has become a key mechanism through which the next 9 percent situated below the top 1 percent advances its grievances within the political establishment, fighting for “space” in the universities, trade unions, political parties, state apparatus, and corporate media. This layer, which forms a principal social base for the Democratic Party, is generally pro-war and supportive of the right-wing policies that have produced a soaring stock market. 
 
Comics like Jimmy Dore exposed their feminist trick, and radical film reviewers like Michael Walsh did likewise in his review of Hollywood film. Satirists like CJ Hopkins cited in 2018 the advantages that this project of social identity had for our masters in the ruling class. He argued that its appeal extended to other groups and all classes of society. But our masters didn't quit--they had finally found the magic key to the manipulation of the general population. 
 
Over the years the public opinion shapers improved on his project by using it against major dissidents to control and limit their influence on the general population. They discovered last year the benefits of declaring a pandemic: it enabled them to add censorship to their project by using "fact- checkers" to prohibit the use of privately owned social platforms by disobedient dissidents in order to limit their influence. Now they have turned their new weapon on the likes of Glenn Greenwald and Katie Herzog whose writings challenged their newfound weapon. This could not be tolerated. The two in this post, besides commiserating with each other, explain the victimization as a phenomenon of recent converts to prior forbidden social identities as the source of the attacks on them. However, unlike Walsh and Hopkins, the two do not explicitly link this recent persecution to a ruling class that doesn't like their brand of independent journalism.
  • The Puppet Masters: Is There Really a Deep State? by Philip Geraldi from Strategic Culture Foundation (based in Russia, but independent and international). My reaction: For a long time I have suspected Geraldi to be an agent of one of the Empire's many secret services, and now I am sure. You see, they have heavily infiltrated many news agencies located in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire in order to shape public opinion according to the orders of the Deep State. For the past several years Geraldi has posed as a supporter of Palestinian rights and in opposition to Israeli policies to the extent that one could label him with an anti-Semitic bias. However, now that he is firmly established in various publications and has collected an audience of mostly left-wingers, his bosses in the Deep State ordered him to obscure the CIA, the foremost US secret service, and gaslight the Deep State, the hidden, real government of the USA. In this article he poo-poos the concept of a Deep State, reverses the role they play in relation to their secret services, and he conflates the term "Deep State" with "establishment". Contrary to his assertion, the concept of "deep state" was not coined by a Turkish author, but by Peter Dale Scott. You see, for more than 50 years, I have observed and read about the subversive actions of the CIA, the hidden government represented by the Deep State, and I've developed an advanced "nose" for detecting such fake opinion-shapers. In this case, the stench is overwhelming.
  • Myanmar: Hidden Opposition Violence by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. My reaction: I have covered Berletic's reports, when he was known as "Tony Cartalucci", for many years, and I've always found them to be reliable. In this post he takes a report from a Western news agency and shows by reading line by line how it is scripting reports from other "color revolutions", whose activists are funded via Western NGOs, to hide what is really going on--starting a revolution in Myanmar.

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, February 9, 2021

  • Trust the Science by Dave Cullen, an Irishman, in a satirical 9:37m video from his Bitchute channel Computing Forever.
  • The (New Normal) War on Domestic Terror by CJ Hopkins from his satirical weblog Consent Factory, Inc. My reaction: No doubt the NY Times triggered this response by calling for a "Reality Czar". I think Hopkins could be put out of the satirical business by reading/watching mainstream media. They increasingly write/show their own self-targeting satire.
  • Joe Biden and the Revenge of the Behaviorists (Why Statistical Thinking Can Get You Killed) by Matthew Ehret from FRN (Fort Russ News). My reaction: This post reveals how scientists can, and often do, serve the capitalist ruling class, who are already corrupted by wealth and power, by manipulating data to support ruling class policies. Such scientists are rewarded with comfortable careers for the benefit of themselves and their families. The necessity of preserving their privileged life-styles is often too alluring for scientists, especially when they already have sociopathic tendencies.
  • Canadian Government Delays Mandatory Traveler Quarantine featuring an interview with John Carpay of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, which appears to be a non-profit center that is independent of the government, conducted by James Corbett, a Canadian, from The Corbett Report. (Note: Canada is very much a part of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire being a former member of the British Empire. Many of Carpay's comments apply to Americans. Of course, we are both citizens of the same imperialist Empire.)
The Canadian government announced it was going to subject Canadian residents to mandatory quarantine, at their own expense, after returning from international travel, regardless of their negative COVID status. After public backlash and the threat of legal action, the government is now delaying those plans, but some are alleging that the government has already arrested Canadians arriving in the country by air and transported them to a secret hotel location. Joining us to discuss this developing story and what Canadians can do about it is John Carpay of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.

The plan to radically restructure agrifood in the country is being sold to the public under the guise of ‘modernising’ the sector. And this is to be carried out by self-proclaimed ‘wealth creators’ like Zuckerberg, Bezos and Ambani who are highly experienced at creating wealth – for themselves.

Friday, January 29, 2021

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

  • 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.
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.
  • 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.) 

Monday, November 9, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, November 9, 2020

Murray is right when he writes "If people thought that the last four years in American politics were divisive, then they’ve seen nothing yet. Since Trump was elected in 2016, we have been subjected to 24/7 lies from the main ruling transnational capitalist class. They have demonstrated that they will use any means to accumulate more money and power. But what could we expect from this criminal gang of thieves? They have simply done to Americans what they have always done to manage their minds--cover for their assassinations, psy-ops, lies, in other words, the subversive use of media corporations to spread their propaganda. Murray cites numerous specific examples to smear Trump. 
He is right about the hardening of divisions among Americans, and I think we can expect this ruling class to contribute to this divisiveness in the years to come while distracting gullible Americans from the real issues as they "laugh all the way to their banks".
  • Colbert WEEPS Over Trump's Press Conference! featuring Jimmy Dore (of the Jimmy Dore Show) using his YouTube channel to trash Steven Colbert, a "comedian" for the ruling class featured regularly on one of their TV corporations. 
'Sparked by activist Greta Thunberg in Sweden and exploding around the world, the global climate protests have been some of the largest demonstrations in history. Rebellion, a documentary from The Nature of Things, is a vivid portrait of this extraordinary grassroots movement.

David Suzuki joins the front lines of the protests, meeting the youth of this generational wave — often compared to the civil rights movement of the ‘60s, the Vietnam War protests, the gay rights movement, and the women’s movement. We meet Olivia Wohlgemuth from New York, age 17, as she plasters flyers on utility poles in Manhattan; Jerome Foster, who was mocked for his lonely vigil for climate justice in front of the White House when he was 16; and Sophia Mathur, of Sudbury, Ont., who at age 11 was the first Canadian student to join Thunberg’s school strike.

Suzuki talks to veteran voices in the climate crisis: David Attenborough, famous for his BBC nature documentaries, shares his fears for the future of civilization itself; Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of the Extinction Rebellion movement that shut down the city of London, describes a tipping point in modern history; Bill McKibben — journalist, activist, and founder of the worldwide 350.org movement — reveals a 30-year conspiracy of the fossil fuel industry to tell “the most significant lie in human history.'
My commentary follows (edited for clarity at 7:25 PM CT):

While viewing this I was emotionally moved by the hordes of people protesting the deterioration of our climate brought about by the capitalist ruling class because of their obsession with profits and power. I also thought about the smug people celebrating the defeat of Donald Trump in the recent "election" announced by media corporations. I thought about the contrast of these protesting (mostly) young people and the people who were celebrating the defeat of Trump (which his camp is disputing), the devil incarnate created by the media of the ruling class. Then I thought about the Germans who were attracted to the Nazi party because they represented a powerful force that were lavishly supported by international capitalists who wanted to destroy the one country where their class didn't rule--the Soviet Union. (See my commentary in which I developed this argument.) (Sorry about the delay in applying this link--I was distracted by format problems.)

Then the thought occurred to me that many ordinary Germans were attracted to this powerful social-economic force because they felt so powerless themselves, and they wanted to identify with what they perceived as a powerful force. I thought the same was applicable to many of my fellow Americans.

But my mind didn't stop there. I concluded that the Great Reset project that our unelected masters decided and their massive engineering of this pandemic was intended to divert our attention to the many real issues that divide Americans while they focus their attention and actions to
projects that will support their class's obsession with profits and power, and to extend as long as possible their system of capitalism that provides them with these rewards.
  • Humans don’t know how to be happy by Sam Leith from Unherd (based in Britain). (Note: I had to look up the meanings of two words: alterity and Whiskas.) My reaction: This piece got me thinking about the difference between humans and other species. Hopefully, it will have the same effect on you.)

Thursday, October 29, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, October 29, 2020

  • Election Special: Pre-Planned 2020 Election Chaos and the “New 9/11” (Part 1) from The Last American Vagabond. (Note: I am posting this because Whitney Webb joins Ryan Cristián in discussing the topic in a two hour and 27 minute discussion. I have in the past resisted posting the latter's "Daily Show" because he has a case of "diarrhea of the mouth" in which he takes so much of our time to review current events. I have only listened to about 20 minutes, but I intend to listen to the rest of the discussion later. However, I view Whitney Webb's knowledge as a veritable encyclopedia of Empire's Deep State agents (CIA, Israeli, other secret government agencies, and/or outsourced to private corporations) events, and her statements are all based on extensive research.) 
General Note: Because of the many deceptions by the ruling class in their Great Reset project, I have neglected one of the main themes of this website--climate destabilization. This selection of posts will only partially make up for this interruption.
  • Post-doom with Michael Dowd from Dowd's YouTube's channel "thegreatstory". (Note: Michael Dowd discusses with Paul Beckwith, a Canadian climate scientist, in an approximately one hour interview, the latter's take on future events relating to the climate crisis that we may expect happen. You should not miss this best post.)

Sunday, October 25, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, October 25, 2020

Curtin quickly disposes of the current election scene as a giant distraction, and goes on to examine the most serious issue of all: the fascination of power over people that drives humans to commit all sorts of immoral acts against their fellow humans.  
Edward Curtin is a contemporary of mine and as an academic, much more well-read than I have been able to accomplish. But his experience of growing up in a society than promised much in the way of democracy and equality, but in reality, hid a growing fascist threat in the USA over the past 70 years is the same as mine. The fascist puppeteers of the current capitalist ruling class are hidden behind the curtain of distractions such as the "debate" between puppets. The ruling capitalist class have managed to conceal their dastardly deeds of their increasing power over the citizens of this country and much of the world. Now this power is clearly demonstrated for all to see in their laws which require nearly all citizen of the planet Earth to behave according to the diktats of a corrupt UN health agency, an agency corrupted by their power (in the form of money) to stoke up this fearsome "pandemic" which is an excuse to remove from us all remaining freedoms. They have used the profound fear of death to accomplish this.

As a result, the title suggests how all these phenomena are related: death, money, and the much ballyhooed debate. Curtin's name for his weblog is what he is all about: exposing the puppet show for what it is, or in other words, a major contribution to the exposing of fake scenarios, much like the media stories related to the coronavirus pandemic, the assassinations in the 1960s, the strange events that occurred in "9/11", the anthrax attacks of members of Congress, and the subsequent removal of many civil liberties. The article is deserving of study by those young people who still have questions and doubts about the current ruling class's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. It is far much more about this than the title suggests: the debate between Trump and Biden. It is ultimately about power that a tiny class of humans has over the rest of humanity.

Curtin's main thesis of the article is the implication for humans given their consciousness of death as a termination of individual lives. He examines this theme as a way to understand the fascination with power that has driven the actions of the fascist core of the capitalist ruling class over the past 70+ years since WWII. His inclusion of one link is monumental in this effort, that is, the interview that Lars Schall gave with Canadian Graeme Green in 2015. You simply must read this interview to understand what he is driving at. (In 2015 I also posted the interview from a website that no longer exists.)

I think that his main theme of understanding their drive for power is less important, especially for young people, than an understanding of the overwhelming evidence of the enormous threat of the concentration of power (along with wealth) by the ruling capitalist class, otherwise known as fascism. Old guys like Curtin and I have fought all our lives against this growing fascism and have largely resigned ourselves to this threat. We have mostly given up the fight against it, and now only attempt to explain it. But younger people haven't had this experience, and they should be given the knowledge gained from fighting this threat so that they can carry on the fight against fascism.
This an 18:50m video which features an impassioned speech by Kennedy to arouse the public to the defense of free speech, free assembly, and all the other freedom supposedly guaranteed by the US Constitution. He comes from a liberal viewpoint (in today's conventional sense) with its emphasis on civil liberties spelled-out in the Bill of Rights in the Constitution which I think was only accepted by the early capitalist ruling class to establish their control over the new nation. They have never taken civil rights seriously, and have violated them endless times over the centuries. Kennedy does not understand the basic contradiction of class rule with civil liberties. 
However, I think we can join his fight because the fight for these freedoms is our fight: certainly the fight for civil liberties such as freedom of expression and all the other civil liberties. But, while we are fighting for these freedoms, we can also fight for a social-economic system which inherently features equality in all respects: freedom from want, opportunities to participate in major issues--not only civil issues, but economic issues which are an essential part of our lives. To do this, we must eliminate a class system based on the private ownership and control of our economy.

Friday, October 23, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, October 23, 2020

  • The moment for change is now, a 18:17m video about a panel of European doctors, other professionals, and massive demonstrations protesting the fear-base reports on the "pandemic" and censorship by media corporations and the draconian violations of civil rights due to the policies of the government authorities. This post is from a channel of YouTube called "Kai Stuht Creative Caravan".  
  • The Fact Checkers, a 5:15m video featuring comedian JP Sears doing a parody of "fact checkers" from his YouTube channel AwakenWithJP.
  • Press Conference: Response Brief Filed in Landmark Case Against FCC from Children's Health Defense. (Note: Children's Health Defense is legally challenging the FDA's dismissive challenge to 5G technology based on scientific evidence. My reaction: Nothing is allowed to stand in the way of big profits by corporations. Corporations are addicted to profits (and power) under capitalism, and with profits come power ... over us.
  • How Big Ag Tries To Silence Critics featuring a 5:28m video of Naomi Karavani of the Redacted Tonight channel of YouTube doing a parody of Big Ag: agricultural corporations like Bayer-Monsanto, Conagra, Tyson Foods, and meat packers. These corporations are also growing huge and powerful under capitalism like all corporations in other industries.
In her "Weekly Offensive" Naomi Karavani dives into how the pandemic has revealed the flaws in the factory farm food production system. More people are becoming aware that Big Animal Agriculture spreads disease, and is bad for the environment, workers, and animals. The industry is fighting back against these valid criticism and their desperation is laughable.
The U.S. Department of Justice is being played like a fiddle at a tractor meet. Those big white shoe law firms that handle increasingly dirty cases against the mega banks on Wall Street have twice, in a period of just three weeks, managed to get the Justice Department to announce settlements of landmark criminal cases against two of the largest banks on Wall Street on the day of presidential debates when the public and the media are not paying attention to Wall Street.
  • Killing Unknown by Hiroyuki Hamada from Off-Guardian. My reaction: The only real solution is revolution! This is a best post!

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, October 14, 2020

  • Liberalism and Fascism: Partners in Crime by Gabriel Rockhill from CounterPunch. (Note: Rockhill is using the term "liberalism" in the classic sense which means the ideology of capitalism.) My commentary follows:
I agree with most of this article with the exception being that he does not distinguish capitalist "democracy" or,  a more familiar and equivalent term, "bourgeois democracy", from socialist democracy. Lenin laid down the theoretical framework for the latter, but immediately after the Russian Revolution, Russia was under attack mainly by Britain, France, Japan, and the USA--especially by Britain which interfered with Lenin's plans. Also the quashing of the Communist party in Germany contributed to the distortion of Lenin's plans and resulted in a bureaucratic ruling class headed by the authoritarian Stalin. 
A socialist democracy has yet to be created or established, and it doesn't seem likely to appear given the limited amount time humans have due to the threat posed by the ecological crisis and the bellicose and aggressive nature of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. The latter poses the threat of a catastrophic nuclear war.
To be sure, after WWII the Western intellectual apologists for capitalism had to extensively ignore the reality of the fascist roots in capitalism, and went on to extensively rewrite the history of WWII that is de rigueur throughout the present day Empire.
I think there is a basic conflict between capitalism and socialism, and that is the question of allegiance to the extended family versus society. If one chooses family, capitalism provides the means to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of families which are the owners of economic property (and their supporters) over those who don't own economic property.
This is a powerful motive force which is the basis for many conflicts among humans, particularly those who, otherwise support socialist policies; but faced with the loss of jobs and careers, that would bring poverty to their families, many choose a capitalist path. The choice of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was capitalism, and she greatly benefited from her choice. She described her choice in a nutshell that embarrassed a number of members of the capitalist class because it was so true. She said there was no such thing as society, there were only families, and added that maybe neighbors as well.
Capitalist ruling classes have often used this control over jobs and careers in an exaggerated way to co-op people into activities that they would otherwise not engage. This is especially true of highly educated people necessary to maintain and protect all the capitalist machinery necessary for the system to enhance the wealth and power of the ruling class. This practice has led to the corruption of many highly trained professional and managerial people throughout every institution in the Empire.
  • James Corbett Encourages You To Do Your Own Research from Corbett's website. (My reaction: The only problem with Corbett's views is that he blames the "media" for using experts as a way to support their authoritarian directions. He doesn't yet see that a capitalist ruling class controls major media corporations.)

Monday, October 12, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, October 12, 2020

Dr. Fuellmich of Germany discusses the findings of the International Corona Investigative Committee that was formed on July 10, 2020 by four lawyers. The committee is made up of lawyers, doctors, and scientists who together have reached the conclusion that COVID may well be the greatest crime against Humanity in history. They originally set out to determine ~ 
How dangerous is the virus, really? 
What is the significance of a positive test? 
What collateral damage has been caused by the corona measures in regards to the world’s health and economy?
  • The Shoddiness of ‘Big Think’ Media by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. (My reaction: I'm not going to fault Zuesse from using the word "aristocracy" instead of "ruling class" which is my preference in the second to the last paragraph. Simply substitute his word for my preference and then the article becomes very insightful. The use of "aristocracy" is necessary in order to be published in any of today's prestigious websites because the phrase "ruling class" implies a Marxist influence which is verboten especially in the West. Apparently it doesn't matter how independent the websites are from Western capitalist publication sources. However, I know Zuesse well enough to conclude that he has been a faithful product of the American educational system. Still, his articles should be read because he reveals so much about the ruling class (excuse me, "aristocracy"😉).

Thursday, October 8, 2020

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.
  • 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.
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.

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, October 7, 2020

  • How A Secret Society Created The Federal Reserve At Jekyll Island featuring G. Edward Griffin, author of book entitled The Creature from Jekyll Island, in a lengthy 1:24:22 interview. This post is from Valuetainment channel of YouTube. (Note: I have not posted an exposé of the Federal Reserve for sometime, but it is important that you know about the history of this essential capitalist ruling class organization because it is controlled by major private banking institutions that issues our money.) 
  • Nature Bats Last Show, October 6, 2020 from Arctic News. Note: I am posting this from Arctic News because a participant in the discussion is Sam Carana (SC), who is an editor of Arctic News, and the website supplies a transcript of the discussion which I recommend reading instead of viewing the lengthy 1:24:22 video. The discussion is led by retired Dr. Guy McPherson (GM):
GM: We are delighted to have the inimitable Sam Carana on today’s show. We submitted written questions to Carana and went back-and-forth a couple times to pursue follow-up questions. Our frequent guest, Pauline Schneider, will be supplying the voice of Dr. Carana. You can find Carana’s blog at Arctic hyphen news dot blogspot dot com. Dr. Carana posts anonymously about abrupt, irreversible climate change. To preserve her anonymity, we will refer to her as female, Sam, and Dr. Carana. A caveat is in order: In doing so, we are acknowledging our respect for Carana’s work, and we are not indicating Carana’s credentials or gender. Dr. Carana, welcome to Nature Bats Last on the Progressive Radio Network. 
SC: Pleasure to be with you.

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020

  • Gates, Kissinger and Our Dystopian Future by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review. My reaction: Could the pandemic be promoted by the Empire's ruling class of transnational capitalists in order to cope with the looming climate crisis? Whitney persuasively puts together an argument to support the affirmative to this question. I've previously argued that the pandemic serves a variety of purposes to promote the interests of this ruling class. Among them were the sowing of chaos (in addition to stirring up racial hatred) before the election to instill fear about Trump in the electorate, as well as a project to cope with the destabilization of our climate. If the intentional campaign of panic lasts beyond the election of Biden, you can be sure that the latter reason is primary.

Monday, September 7, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, Sept. 7, 2020

My reaction:
I regard Webb as a top investigative journalist. In this interview she uses her encyclopedia knowledge, gained from her research, to shed light on the Deep State, their various organizations, operatives, and their deceptive propaganda in the run-up to the November election and their Transition Integrity Project. All of these deceptive projects are treated by media corporations as protecting the security of the people, but in reality are designed through their well-honed chaos strategies to create fear in order to increase their neo-fascist control of the population. This is a best post.)

Friday, September 4, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, Sept. 4, 2020

By keeping Americans angry and distracted by the partisan divide through pre-planned election chaos, a “New America” waits in the wings – one that is coming regardless of what happens on election day. That is, of course, unless Americans quickly wake up to the ruse.
My reaction follows:
I am giving this piece of investigative research top billing. I don't always do so because frequently my selection to order important articles follows other criteria--mainly to follow one important article after another to build momentum for a top article. But this well-researched piece explains with solid documentation the apparent current plan to use chaos strategy that I elaborated on in a commentary regarding Tuesday's post entitled "Riots for Neo-Liberalism: ANTIFA & BLM Are the Global Elites’ Useful Thugs". If this plan is followed and if Biden were to lose the November election, who knows where this plan will end?
  • Anti-Racist Uprising Infiltrated by Extreme-Right Hooligans by Andre Vltchek from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: I apologize to my readers for not posting this very important article in the middle of August. It lends further evidence that the ruling class is using its well-honed method of chaos strategy to impel Americans into accepting more fascist methods. This is another best post.)

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020

Previously I have tended to avoid arguments regarding the riots going on currently in major cities of the USA. They have been increasingly characterized by two opposing groups--antifascists and fascists. I have done this because of the following reasons: I didn't know enough about the participants and I didn't want to alienate participants on the antifascist side that were involved with sincere beliefs in their organizations. 
Much of today's neofascism is manipulated by well-trained agents of the ruling capitalist class who have infiltrated all activist groups in order to control and manipulate them. To be sure, there are a number of people who sincerely believe that they are fighting racism or fascism, but are being increasingly manipulated by these subversive agents. You see, the directors of the ruling class have learned that they can control all antagonistic movements in order to manipulate them for their own ends. This analysis applies to all activist groups: BLM, Antifa, and hardcore fascists.  
The directors of the ruling class have long honed the weapon of organized chaos into a strategy to dominate whole societies. They have done this for many decades notably in places like El Salvador, Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine. The ruling class likes to experiment abroad with strategies of oppression and control, and those deemed effective are applied in the home countries of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.  
This, I believe, is going on now to a significant extent. Such subversive agents have found in the past that if they can control these groups, they can create chaos in societies with the result that ordinary people look to Empire sponsored groups that promise order to get rid of the chaos. If successful, ordinary people will support those with the necessary force and phony promises to restore order: armed forces sponsored by the Empire attacking established police forces, or the police and military organizations that the Empire already controls. 
It is necessary to find antidotes to this chaos strategy, infiltration, and surveillance in order to build effective revolutionary organizations. I don't have a recipe for this, but I'm sure that activists can create their own given enough time--but time is in short supply. All I recommend is that any effective strategy must include real democratic principles and practices whether in activist organizations or in nations like Belarus. With the latter accomplished--and it is a major feat--an effective activist group must continue to devise methods to thwart surveillance. All of these tasks would have been much easier decades ago; but now, although much more difficult, it is imperative and in a short time. Perhaps the latest stunt, the covid-19 pandemic, promulgated by the ruling class has awaken activists sufficiently that they can accomplish these tasks in the time remaining for homo sapiens on planet Earth.