Posts that I especially recommend for Saturday, March 6, 2021

• As the Insurrection Narrative Crumbles, Democrats Cling to it More Desperately Than Ever:  by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog at Substack. My commentary follows: 

In the subtitle Greenwald asks a great question: "If the threat of "armed insurrectionists" and "domestic terrorists" is as great as some claim, why do they have to keep lying and peddling crude media fictions about it?" My answer: Because Congress serves the needs of the capitalist ruling class. It is this function for which they are rewarded by the ruling class in the form of campaign financing so that Congress-people can keep their well-paid jobs and enjoy free medical care. But, this accomplishment is the source of so many other lies: elections matter, the claim of democracy, etc. Our masters are so accustomed to lying that have become chronic liars. They couldn't tell the truth if their lives depended on it.

 

This phenomenon derives from the basic moral principle of capitalism with which you might be familiar: do what you have to do to please our masters in the ruling class (and their authorities and TV "talking heads") so that we can raise our families in security. The ruling class has gotten away with the most outrageous deceptions in the past (9/11, all the assassinations, the "War on Drugs", the "War on Terrorism", their many wars, etc. So why wouldn't the success of these deceptions (and the passive acceptance from most Americans) embolden them further with the grossly exaggerated pandemic and the implementation of the "Great Reset" (I strongly suspect that they are related)?

• Joe Biden and the ‘Passive Revolution’ by Ashton Rome from Internationalist 360°. 

• Andy Ngo’s UNMASKED: Antifa—Not "Anarcho-Communism", But Anarcho-Tyranny by James Kirkpatrick from The Unz Review. (Note: I do not know whether his Ngo's arguments are correct, but they have a ring of authenticity and I thought I should offer it to you.)
  

• How the US and Great Britain Instigate Coups Nowadays by Vladimir Danilov from New Eastern Outlook (based in Russia, but their posts are mostly international.)
  

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

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

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

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

• What Carbon Budget? from Arctic News. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, January 28, 2021

• Protecting Individual Rights December 2020in the Era of COVID-19 from Children's Health Defense.
  

• Remember Overwhelmed Hospitals Across the US Three Years Ago? by Jeremy Hammond from his weblog.

• Judge Temporarily Blocks Cuomo’s Indoor Dining Ban in Ongoing Lawsuit by Ethan Yang from American Institute for Economic Research.
  

• The Leadership Institute: PR School for Right-wingers by Karl Grossmany from CounterPunch. 

• With "Biden" in the White House, the Kremlin Now Needs to Change Gear by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) for The Unz Review. My commentary follows: 

Raevsky is an American whose Russian ancestry in the White Armies (largely British supported) has enabled him to become the most informed American about Russian politics. His ancestry has shaped his views of today's Russia, and as such he is a Russian patriot. The Russia of today is not the Soviet Union, a revolutionary government in the early years that became soon ruled by Stalin and his loyal bureaucracy under the onslaught of 14 capitalist armies and failure of the revolutionaries to spread their revolution in the advanced capitalist countries. 

Today's Russia has opted to follow the path of China with a mixed economy (mixture of capitalist and state enterprises with the government in command) in order to pursue an independent path that is in opposition to the hegemonic US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. As a Russian patriot, he is on board with that path which has already shown signs of strengthening. 

The development of a Russia-China threat to the Empire exists because the capitalist directors of the Empire have so far refused to withdraw their commitment to hegemony. This is unfortunate because it means that China and Russia must accelerate their economic growth to counter the Empire's goal of world hegemony. By doing so, they will hasten the destruction of the environment and cause accelerated deterioration of the climate thereby contributing to the extinction of humans and most other species. However, I see no other good choice.

• Ajamu Baraka: We Are Entering a New Totalitarian Era featuring a discussion between
  Ajamu Baraka and Ann Garrison from Black Agenda Report.

• Why Biden installing Obama-era hawks in senior roles and preparing to fire up the War Machine again is very bad news for Syrians by Vanessa Beeley from her weblog The Wall Will Fall.
  

• The Israel-UAE Project Which Will Damage Egypt And Force Saudi Normalization by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond. (Note: Click on the following map to enlarge.)

• Dijjywan—Dijjydo or Dijjydon’t? by Fred Reed from The Unz Review. (Note: This is an examination of China's digital money that is about to be released.) My reaction: This development will only make a radical democracy more essential than ever. I don't expect the appearance of radical democracy before the extinction of humans.

• A Domestic Terrorism Law? War on Dissent Will Proceed Full Speed Ahead by Philip Giraldi from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Now that our masters set the Great Reset in motion, they expect, and will get, backlash from all those workers who they consider expendable. Hang on to your seats because the future looks like an extremely bumpy ride.

• Newspeak in the 21st Century: How to Become a Model Citizen in the New Era of Domestic Warfare by Cynthia Chung from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

Though you are well on your way to becoming a model citizen in the 21st century, you still have a little ways to go. It is for this reason that a guide to 21st century Newspeak has been recently released to make sure that well-intentioned citizens like yourself are fully informed of what is required of you in terms of appropriate behaviour, as well as appropriate thoughts, and though this will take a little more time, appropriate instincts.

Don't worry, she provides the guide, or the updated version of Orwell's Newspeak, in this article.

But I notice, and object to, this clause which reveals the influence of a North American "education". Chung, a Canadian writes: "All of these means are necessary if we are to realise that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism, ...." She evidently doesn't realize the extensive threats that collectives posed for the capitalist enemies of socialism. Her use of "collective" and "collectivism", which was always used in association with an historical effort to gather individual worker skills to confront the overwhelming power of capitalists, shows that she, too, is a victim of capitalist indoctrination.

• The Liberation of Auschwitz from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note this statement: "Today, the liberation of the largest Nazi death camp by Russia's Red Army is a fact that is largely missing from the western collective memory.")