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

Friday, December 24, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, December 24, 2021

  • 💥FDA Corruption Way Worse Than You Think featuring Jimmy Dore sarcastically discussing, with comic Kurt Metzger, recent appointment to head the FDA on Dore's channel on YouTube (28:00)--a best post. My commentary follows: 
This is a common practice in all industries and those government agencies that try to regulate corporations. It is another indication that banks and corporations have control of our government to serve their interests and not to serve the interests of the public. Their interest is control and the eventual control/domination over all of the world as I explained here.
 
The public, like Dore, is only now becoming aware of this longtime practice. It is an obsession by the public to trust the news reporting of corporate media and trusting government institutions to look after the best interests of the public that is the major problem
 
We must get rid of capitalist, self-serving control of the USA and the world dominance of their US/British/Zionist Empire that currently threatens the whole human species with a catastrophic nuclear war. This process applies to all social institutions. If you go along with this rewarding process as most educated people do, you will be assured a lucrative career, supportive family, a fancy home, etc. (Educated people can make it possible for the capitalist ruling class to enjoy profits.) This is the secret of their success, but it will lead to the extinction of humans and most other species.
 
In addition to their unconcern about other people, there is a concern about the growing signs of the destabilization of the climate. Therefore, de-population is on their agenda. 
  • VIP | Assange: Journalism on Trial features Naomi Karavani interviewing Mohamed Elmaazi, a UK-based freelance journalist, about the details of the prosecution and especially the persecution by the Empire of journalist Julian Assange--from Redacted Tonight's channel on YouTube (28:02). My reaction: This is an excellent summary of the persecution of Assange. Unlike other career journalists, Assange exposed serious crimes by the Empire.

Thursday, December 23, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, December 23, 2021

  • An email I received from John Allen: (with permission, I am quoting from his email.)

    Hi, Ron. Well it's happened. I have been terminated on Medium after over four years. It's forbidden to talk about the corruption of Big Pharma; at least on Medium. I've talked about all sorts of corruption and was suspended on Facebook for a while a few years ago. But this is a new low. I had already wanted to talk about blatant fascism tomorrow. Well this certainly is it. Is RFK Jr. going to get in big trouble about his wildly popular book? I fear for his safety. The book is hard to read as I get incensed after a few pages of reading and have to go to something else to settle down.

    People are dying because of this. Trump may have taken the blame but it goes way deeper than just a few administrations. Something I have a hard time explaining to folks that put names--like Presidents--to the system as a whole.
  • Science Should Never Shut Down Debate by Eileen Natuzzi from Brownstone Institute. My reaction: This is obvious, or should be. But the ruling capitalist class is deliberately trying to shut down debate with censorship of opposing views.
There is no moral, legal or logical argument for mandatory vaccination. The only logical argument, from a public health perspective, would be either to reduce the spread of infection or reduce the impact on health services via some other mechanism. We will explore the evidence which shows that the COVID-19 supposed “vaccines” are incapable of achieving either. 
  • 💥Fauci’s Wuhan Research Worse than Thought – New Documents Reveal featuring Jimmy Dore reading from Newsweek (of all places) an article, with sarcastic comments interjected comedian Kurt Metzger, implicating Fauci and NIH (National Institute of Health) in coverup lies--from Dore's channel on YouTube (27:55). My reaction: I wonder why Dore isn't censored off YouTube! It must be because he is described as a comedian by YouTube so that you won't take him seriously.
Why is any taxpayer-backstopped bank in the United States allowed to own anything near a trillion dollars in stock derivatives, let alone a bank like JPMorgan Chase that has admitted to an unprecedented five criminal felony counts brought by the Justice Department in the past seven years, with three of those felony counts for rigging markets.
  • Similarities of 9/11 and the Pandemic featuring Bonnie Faulker interviewing Kevin Ryan regarding the subject in an audio interview (nearly an hour)--from her weblog Guns + Butter. (Note: Here I'm breaking my rule for posting articles and interviews within one month.) My reaction: The ruling capitalist class manipulates Americans with false-flag events such as 9/11 and the current covid pandemic to instill fear in them. I've noticed over my lifetime our ruling class tries, and largely succeeds, to instill fear in Americans and manipulates them by spreading fear: the War on Drugs, the War on Terrorism, the longtime obsessive concern (since WWII) for Russians being the source of all evil, the current wave of obsessive concern about Covid-19 and its variants, and the current warmongering against China all driven by reports in major media corporations.
Coming straight from President Putin, it did sound like a bolt from the sky:

“We need long-term legally binding guarantees even if we know they cannot be trusted, as the U.S. frequently withdraws from treaties that become uninteresting to them. But it’s something, not just verbal assurances.”

And that’s how Russia-U.S. relations come to the definitive crunch – after an interminable series of polite red alerts coming from Moscow. 
  • A Bit Of Economic News. By Andrei Martyanov from his weblog Reminiscence of the Future.... (Note: I will be posting articles by Martyanov on the strength of Pepe Escobar's recommendation. I believe that Escobar is among the world's top journalists, but I also believe that his recommendation is based on the interest that Martyanov has on educating Americans in the recent advances of Russia. In researching Martyanov to learn about his background, I had great difficulty. The best source I found is nearly an hour post in late October (2021) by Bonnie Faulkner interviewing Martyanov. I have high regard for Faulkner. (I normally post articles only within a month of their occurrence.) I was contributing to the support of her weblog in recent years, but I grew impatient with the lack of posts by her, and I terminated this support. Martyanov is currently a resident of the USA, but he was raised in the Caucasus in an area under the control of the Soviet Union, had a career in the Russian navy, but immigrated to the USA in the 1990s.)
  • Nord Stream 2 is a double-edged geopolitical tool by M. K. Bhadrakumar from Indian Punchline (based in India). (Note: It is important to look at the existing pipelines from Russia to Europe on the map furnished in the article to understand the text.)
  • Science Update: Climate Havoc in the Arctic featuring the views and analysis of Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist (via his YouTube channel--08:53), who has fearlessly focused his attention throughout much of his career on the climate crisis.

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, December 22, 2021

  • Omicron Symptoms Appear Shockingly Mild featuring Jimmy Dore and guest Max Blumenthal citing in detail administration's fear campaign contrasted with actual data at Dore's channel on YouTube (35:08).
  • Dumbest Pro-Vax Argument EVER! featuring Jimmy Dore and guest Max Blumenthal arguing that we should not blame ordinary folks for the mishandling of the Biden administration at Dore's channel on YouTube (28:37). 
I think Berletic is on to something. While the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire is doing everything it can to thwart the rise of China and its influence, the directors of the Empire are also formulating methods to control the people of their Empire through the Great Reset. The directors are billionaires who are facing abrupt climate destabilization (the Great Reset is only one part of the strategy to deal with the latter real problem plus reaping rewards of profit) and the challenging rise of China, Russian, and Iran. But while they remain focused on the domination/control of the world, they are undermining all efforts for human survival. Take a look at several posts today.

First, and foremost, my attention was directed toward this post entitled "China forms new state-owned rare-earth giant through merger" from the Global Times, a major publication from China. This inspired me to look into the environmental hazards of rare earth mining, and I found many articles dealing with this subject, but a recent one was from Harvard entitled "Not So 'Green' Technology" which looks at all the problems with rare earth mining. This is never discussed in major media, but instead the latter consistently boasts about electric vehicles (that require rare earth minerals) as one solution to the climate crisis. 
 
Meanwhile, the ruling transnational capitalist class is doing everything it can to undermine China's economy and destabilize Russia, instead of collaborating with them to solve the dilemma posed by the environmental effects of rare earth mining. The ongoing efforts to curb Iran are a daily reminder. While these countries of the newly-formed Resistance in addition to China and Russia are trying to raise the living standards of their people, the Empire is going about sabotaging their efforts in order to carry out their Empire's mission to dominate the world. This is fully evident from other sources such as seen in this Berletic post, and from the ongoing reports of the Empire's major media corporations citing efforts of NATO to taunt the Russians and to exploit the fears of Europeans about a Russian invasion and the continuing efforts to antagonize China over the Taiwan issue. The contrast is dramatic, to say the least.

If the directors of the Empire were also interested in raising the living standards of the people of the world, they would join efforts with China and Russia to solve the environmental, population, and economic problems of the world. But, instead, they are focused on maintaining their control/dominance over the world. This was their objective from the beginning in 1940. The Great Reset is only one component of their strategy.

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Just last week newly released emails showed Dr. Anthony Fauci and his boss at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) wanted to conduct a “quick and devastating” take-down of renowned scientists and infectious disease experts who proposed a lockdown-free COVID control strategy. Ridicule was one of the strategies, using health regulatory agencies and mainstream media which are at the disposal of these powerful people.

The British Medical Journal recently criticized Facebook “fact-checkers” for their “incompetent” work and censoring of legit information pertaining to COVID vaccine clinical trials.

Renowned viral immunologists, epidemiologists, editors of prestigious medical journals and more have, during this pandemic, been labelled as “anti vaccine conspiracy theorists.”

In this piece Klein refers to the Kennedy crowd as "Washington Royalty", but he goes on to the critical subject:
 
While Ottawa waits for instructions, the question now burning through the American establishment must be: “How do we marginalize a Kennedy?”

Depending how long they survive, other dissenters undergo a transition of being ignored, ridiculed, slandered, censored, demonized, harassed, fired and criminalized. Or worse—although that might not happen in this case to avoid the martyrdom bestowed on his father and uncle. 
 
Klein immediately follows this rather oblique reference to the assassinations of the Kennedys with a reference to the number (17) of African leaders recently assassinated while in office. Obviously, the Deep State has no moral qualms about assassinating this Kennedy, but they only worry about how this will affect us. Klein ends his analysis with a critical remark about Robert Kennedy Jr. not being concerned about the cultural distractions that the Deep State has developed to further divide and distract Americans south of their border--the "woke" and Critical Race Theory culture.
 
I think that this post serves to dodge the more important question: if the Deep State, consisting mostly of financiers, billionaire tycoons, and their self-serving supporters, don't figure out how to silence or marginalize Kennedy and the challenges posed by dissenters, what will happen? This is the crucial question. Kennedy with his book has thrown down the challenge to their rule. The fake cultures that Klein mentions at the end are largely a smokescreen behind which the capitalist Deep State works their magic. 
 
I believe the Deep State is desperate enough to arrange an accident which appears to kill this Kennedy. Then what will the Kennedy crowd and the dissenters do? Are we prepared to challenge the Deep State which has steadily pursued world hegemony since WWII?  Or once again, be cowed by our worship of government authorities who serve the ruling capitalist class? There are so many threats to the continuation of humans like the growing awareness of abrupt climate destabilization and the dangerous, desperate launching of aggression toward China, Russia, and Iran. Most Americans are fast asleep to these dangers. These are dangerous times we Americans and the people of the world are living in! 
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  • Here I Talk A Little Bit About Timing. Or, as expressed in Andre Raevsky's (The Saker's) weblog, "The Timing of Russia’s Ultimatum to NATO". By Andrei Martyanov (highly recommended by Pepe Escobar) from his weblog Reminiscence of the Future.... My reaction: I, of course, used the "CC" button to read the machine-generated subscript. This is what I understood him to say. In this visual/audio weblog, Martyanov declares that Russia is powerful enough (militarily, economically, etc.) to ignore Europe, and has aligned itself with all kinds of relations with Asia. He goes on to say that the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire is propagandizing its own people, which is no concern of theirs so long as they respect Russia's might. And that is why Russia has recently declared the ultimatums.

Monday, December 20, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, December 20, 2021

Newly released emails show NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and his boss, soon to retire Dr. Francis Collins, director at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) wanted to conduct a “quick and devastating” ridicule and take-down campaign of scientists who did not support lockdown strategies.

The emails were released on Friday by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis. They show Collins telling Fauci in October 2020 to smear and discredit the Great Barrington Declaration.
 
  • 💥500 Million Pushed Into Poverty By COVID Policies featuring Jimmy Dore and Max Blumenthal, reporting his insights regarding global poverty, and discussing the prediction made last year (in the headline of the post) that millions would be pushed into poverty--from Dore's channel on YouTube (15:13). If you have time, please 💥listen/view this subsequent post (26:52) from the same source and participants. My reaction: Could it be that the lockdown policies were an integral part of the transnational ruling class's Great Reset?
  • 💥Implanted COVID Microchip Is Here, based on this post (01:15), featuring Jimmy Dore, who was awakened after he was, and is, daily experiencing a post-jab injury, and Max Blumenthal, who agree that most of the "disappointing" political "left" is missing the real story of the ruling class's project--from Dore's channel on YouTube (31:14). This is a best post. My reaction: I am experiencing the disappointing "left" here in southern Minnesota.
  • Sunday~Truths & Lies by John Allen from his weblog on Medium. (Note: You might be required to have a subscription to Medium @ $5/mo. to access this article.)
“There cannot be two forms of justice — one for ordinary Americans and a different one for billionaires,” said Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who had objected to Purdue’s settlement.
  • Sputnik V: It's what Klaus Schwab craves! by Edward Slavsquat from his weblog on Substack. My reaction: Slavsquat is a Russian dissident that I have followed in recent weeks. I can't vouch for the accuracy of his articles, and this is the first one that I'm posting. So, put on your critical thinking goggles.
  • New World Next Year 2022 featuring James Corbett featuring Canadian James Corbett and American James Evan Pilato in a podcast (34:06) from The Corbett Report via Corbett's channel on Odysee.
Can the system ever change or are we stuck?! Yanis Varoufakis warns how the state has been corrupted by greedy and self-seeking politicians and whether we can turn to alternative systems.
Washington’s uncompromising foreign policy of coercing and crushing nations rather than allowing nations to enjoy constructive ties between both East and West has gone from protecting nearly a century of US global domination to a process of the US’ own self-isolation.

Should Myanmar’s crisis subside and stability be restored specifically because of China’s economic rather than political or military intervention, a strong signal will be sent to the rest of Southeast Asia targeted by US interference and facing similar choices of either tolerating US interference because of the financial stranglehold the US still has over the region and the world – or adopting alternatives that undercut and eliminate that stranglehold.

  • Anti-Chinese Sentiment Continues in South Korea by Konstantin Asmolov from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: This post, in contrast to the one above, demonstrates that the people of South Korea are resembling those of the USA in swallowing US propaganda.
This is one example, among many, of an attack on monument destroyers that one currently encounters in corporate media and their acolytes. As such, the criticism epitomizes attacks from old-fashioned members of the ruling capitalist class which I refer to as old-fashioned capitalists that have reluctantly yielded to control to our masters in the present capitalist ruling class often referred to as "neoliberals" who are exactly the same as "neoconservatives" (if they don't want to offend right-wing or Zionist Jews). They are really advanced versions of capitalists or transnational capitalists who currently rule over a de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire and have an army (NATO) that is spearheading the drive to rule the world.
 
My personal opinion is that ordinary people are tired "up the wazoo" when seeing in public places such monuments that depict historical ruling class heroes. They belong in museums, but instead, they are prominently displayed in public areas to impose their historical ruling class ideologies on ordinary people. Ordinary people don't have the wherewithal to move them to museums, but take matters into their practical hands to destroy them, and with them, their past ruling class ideologies. There are plenty such historical relics to put in museums. Only the present spokesmen of the recent or current ruling classes object to this revolutionary display by ordinary people. 
 
The present-day critics such as Jared Taylor often lump them together with the destroyers of ancient ruling classes by terrorist armies that are sponsored by the US/British/Zionist transnational ruling class. 
  • Are Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Going to Space? featuring the views and analysis of Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist (via his YouTube channel--08:48), who has fearlessly focused his attention throughout his career on the climate crisis.

Saturday, December 18, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Saturday, December 18, 2021

Calling lockdowns the worst public health catastrophe in human history is not unreasonable, and many who have studied the implications of lockdowns on human health and the global economy echo this sentiment.

The phrase seems to have been coined by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD., a professor of both medicine and economics at Stanford University.
  • Fauci Responds To RFK Jr.’s Book featuring Jimmy Dore, a straight guy, interviewing and an impersonator (Mike MacRae) of Anthony Fauci, CDC's czar, from Dore's channel on YouTube (07:22). My reaction: This is hilarious!
... far too often, the facts don’t even matter. In a heavily conditioned society, way too many folks choose to believe what they are told/taught/programmed to believe. Don’t take my word for it. Just take a look around. How/why does that happen? I’ve written about this before yet, it sadly remains relevant and timely, so here we go again.

In his book, The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson writes: “I was told by some New Zealand sheep farmers that sometimes a particularly smart lamb will learn to undo the latch of a gate, evidently not an uncommon skill, and the sheep farmer then worries that the lamb might teach his less clever companions to do the same.”

Masson asked the farmers: “What do you with sheep who can undo the latch?”

“We shoot them,” came the reply, “so they can’t pass on their knowledge.”
 
My reaction: The moral of this story is ... be sure to pass on your knowledge and critical thinking!
  • Glenn Greenwald: This is How They STOLE Your DEMOCRACY! featuring Russell Brand, a British comedian, and includes a commentary by Glenn Greenwald (with occasional comments by Brand) from Brand's channel on Rumble (with audio version). My reaction: This is where Greenwald and I part company. The "democracy" that has been tolerated by the ruling capitalist class is, and has always been, mostly fake. But now they are taking this largely fake democracy away from us.
Guardian journalist Stephanie Kirchgaessner was aware of the spying long before it was made public. Yet rather than blowing the whistle, publishing a huge scoop, or even simply notifying Assange privately, she instead chose to write highly dubious articles insinuating that he was an agent of Russian malfeasance.
  • Architects and Engineers: Solving the Mystery of Building 7 - w/ Ed Asner featuring Asner and various architects and engineers in a 2015 video explaining that 9/11 was an impossibility as anything other than a controlled demolition--from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. My reaction: Yes, Architects and engineers have also suffered censorship. Apparently this video has been restored on YouTube--for how long is anyone's guess.
The British government has historically maintained that the United Kingdom is only ever “four meals from anarchy” – meaning that the country would descend into widespread disorder, rioting and protest if stores were to run out of food for more than a day. While there is little to no indication of that happening in the U.S., hunger is on the rise, and with it political disenchantment. What form that will take remains to be seen. Globally, however, the situation is as grave as it has been in living memory, and it seems inconceivable that there will be no political ramifications to the shortages. If so, it could make the Arab Spring look mild by comparison.
  • The Persecution of Julian Assange featuring Chris Hedges and his guest Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, in an interview from RT's channel on YouTube (27:05).
“We want ‘war fighters’ – whether they be cyber specialists, drone pilots or infantry soldiers – to be stronger, faster, more intelligent, more resilient and more mobile to overcome the environment and the adversary. … As technology has become more sophisticated our thinking has become more focused on the machine rather than the person, but this needs to change if we are going to be effective in the future”, the paper says.
Foreign aid was revered by the Washington establishment, and the World Bank epitomized the arrogance of the financial masters of the universe (at least in their own minds and press releases). The World Bank, heavily subsidized by US taxpayers, profited from every debacle it spawned. The more loans the bank made, the more prestige and influence it acquired. After a profusion of bad loans to Third World governments helped ignite a debt crisis, I warned in a 1985 Wall Street Journal piece that expanding the World Bank’s role “would be akin to appointing Mrs. O’Leary’s cow as chief of the Chicago Fire Department.”

I was astounded at how many despots the World Bank was propping up.
The new German coalition government headed up by Chancellor Olaf Scholz is only one week in power but already the signals are pointing to Berlin being more amenable to U.S.-led NATO hostility towards Russia.
Many westerners trying to make sense of the events in the “dark continent” of Africa have many barriers standing in the way of their minds and reality. This must be the case, for without such filters of spin proclaiming Africa’s problems to be self-induced (or the consequence of Chinese debt slavery), we in the west, might actually feel horrified enough to demand systemic change. We might come to recognize that the plight of Africa has less to do with Africa and more to do with an intentional program of depopulation, and exploitation of vital resources.

Friday, December 17, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, December 17, 2021

Dr. Chris Martenson: [00:00:00] Hello, everyone, Dr Chris Martenson here, and welcome to the show, and it's one I've been waiting for, we've all been waiting for today. We are talking with Dr Peter McCullough. Dr McCullough is an American cardiologist. He's editor in chief of the Journals Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine and Cardiorenal Medicine. In addition to being an M.D., he holds a master's in Public Health from the University of Michigan. He's an author on over 1000 research publications, holds an h index of over. Anything over 100 is really quite an accomplishment. His is 117. In other words, we are talking today with an exceptionally talented and brilliant cardiologist and a deeply principled man whose entire life and profession has been permanently impacted by what he's learned about COVID and saving patients lives. Peter, welcome to the program. It's been long overdue. I'm so glad to have you on.
We’ve been hit by the flood of money washing over our movement and creating a swamp of political stagnation. It’s important to spend some time talking about money because it has played such a divisive role in our organizations and in our movement.
 
My reaction: This weblog has been attacked by those who are concerned about money. Rogers then goes on to provide the details. I noticed that this weblog plans to convert this website to a subscription-only website. I can well understand this move, but I fear that this trend will have the effect of trapping readers/viewers into internet-type ghettos which will serve to cut off readers/views of other opinions.   
The American people and most of those people that reside in the US/British/Zionist Empire have, indeed, been scammed! And, they must finally take responsibility for the scourge of capitalism. I don't know if this is gullibility is a part of human nature, but is obvious to me, and a few others like Johnstone, that the system is a fundamental cause for the ongoing existential crisis for humans and most other species here on planet Earth!
 
The main issues confronting the world's population are between a system that is designed for the self-serving interests of a tiny number of people who "own" economic property and those who want a socialist system that will forbid the "ownership/control" of economic property. The latter want a socialist government which truly represent them, identifies with them, beholden to them, and will look out for their real needs: health, education, and general well-being. 
 
Capitalists want to gain money via their system because accumulated wealth gives them more power/control over others. However, the world's population are forever deceived into thinking that this tiny group of capitalists are only interested in accumulating wealth. For a limited time capitalists will supply goods in order to gain power over others, but their long-term goal is to gain power/control over others in the entire world! Control is the number one thing that capitalists want! It is this component of capitalism that causes them to tell countless lies and commit the most outrageous crimes to the rest of the world's population. It is this very addictive component of capitalism that drives this transnational class of capitalists toward fascism! You "true believers", and your fellow gullible human beings, share in the responsibility for this!
  • What Assange’s prosecution means for all of us featuring Gabriel Shipton, brother of Julian Assange, from Peoples Dispatch via their YouTube (03:39) channel whose extradition to the US for truth-telling about the crimes committed by ruling capitalist class of the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire.
  • Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier: How Doomed Are We? by Jeff Goodell from RollingStone. My reaction: This post is an attempt to rationalize the lack of attention by major corporate media to the climate crisis and to break the news of the climate crisis gently to their readers that they no longer can ignore. The ruling capitalist class has long taken control of Rolling Stone via their "intelligence" agencies by posting articles that serve to distract readers instead of covering the issues that might embarrass the ruling class.

Thursday, December 16, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, December 16, 2021

... it is not easy to find information on scientific research not funded by pharmaceutical companies or organizations that depend on multinational drug companies. In fact, national and international drug agencies are funded by Big Pharma (the European Medicines Agency is 85 percent funded by multinational pharmaceutical companies). Even data from natural experiments are usually interpreted in an overly alarmist manner. For example, the Covid-19 disease mortality predictions were based on the mortality rate on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which “was 1 percent…but this was a largely elderly population in a crowded” and artificially ventilated environment (p. 172). 
 
A little later I found this sentence:
 
Regarding the Danish researcher’s [Peter Gotzsche] thoughts on the SARS-Cov-2 outbreak, his position can be summarized in these lines: it was an overly alarmist health emergency caused by generalized panic, affecting ordinary people and health care workers.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s book attacking Anthony Fauci and the medical establishment has become a publishing sensation, spending more than a full week as the #1 Amazon bestseller and racking up over 2,600 reviews, 94% of them five-star.
 
Now after nearly a month of stunned silence, the American media is finally taking belated notice. This morning the Associated Press released a 4,000 word hit-piece harshly attacking the most prominent public figure in America’s much-vilified anti-vaxxing movement.
 
And, a little later:
 
Almost half of the entire book under attack—around 200 pages—is devoted to the presenting and promoting the astonishing claim that everything we have been told about HIV/AIDS for more than 35 years probably amounts to a hoax. 
  • The Assange Case Explained Simply by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband, Tim Foley, also reading the script (but you may miss supporting examples, illustrations, etc.)--from her weblog.
The Assange issue is simple. What makes it seem complicated is the lies people have been fed by the media class whose job is to manipulate the public into consenting to the agendas of the US power alliance and its war machine.
It’s looking increasingly likely that the US Federal Reserve and the globalist powers that be will use the dramatic rising of inflation as their excuse to bring down the US financial markets and with it, crash the greatest financial bubble in history. The enormous inflation rise since the malicious political lockdowns and the trillions of dollars in emergency spending by both Trump and Biden, coupled with the continuation of the Fed’s unprecedented near-zero interest rate policies and asset purchases of billions in bonds to keep the bubble inflated a bit longer– have set the stage for an imminent market collapse. Unlike what we are told, it is deliberate and managed. 
  • What Do Men Tell Us about Pornography? What Does Pornography Tell Us about Men? by Derrick Jensen from Dissident Voice. My reaction: This gives a false analysis that encourages the divide between women and men. What this analysis misses is that control permeates our entire capitalist culture. As such, both women and men are indoctrinated in its control features. There is no appropriate or healthy pornography (material that stimulates erotic fantasies). There is just pornography which is a reflection of our capitalist culture which emphasizes control: over employees, over societies and ordinary people, over minorities (when our ruling class attempts to divide us), over nations when the ruling capitalist classes always seek to dominate them to obtain cheap labor or resources, and over women (which is the same dynamic as applied to minorities). Women as well as men and every race/ethnic group especially in the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire are infected with this indoctrination-virus. The challenge is to identify the elements in our common pornography that perpetuate this distortion. This Jensen accomplishes.
  • Why it's hard to bring manufacturing back to US by Ding Gang from Global Times, a major Chinese publication. My reaction: It is not repetitive or hard work that motivated owners of industry to transplant their corporations to foreign lands. No, it was profits. The transplantation to foreign countries by privately-owned industries in search of greater profits, which has been going on for nearly 50 years, has had the effect of de-skilling the American workforce. The "owners" of these properties gave them the control, which is the case under capitalism, and combined with the advances in technology (created by this workforce) enabled these "owners" to transplant their entire operations to foreign lands to take advantage of cheaper labor outside of the USA. The "owners" are loyal to profits and not to American workers which would be the case with publicly-owned industry under a socialist system. I can remember that "Yankee know-how" was deservedly famous around the world, but those days are long gone.
Absent from mainstream discourse on Ghislaine Maxwell’s ongoing trial is any mention of the ties, not only of herself, but her family, to Israeli intelligence. Those ties, forged by Ghislaine’s father Robert Maxwell, are critical to understanding Ghislaine’s history and her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual blackmail and trafficking network.
  • The Year of the New Normal Fascist by CJ Hopkins, normally a comedian living in Berlin, from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. Hopkins returns to parody--what else is there? This holiday season ...
The message is, there will be no more unauthorized presidents, no more leaving the European Union, no more “populist” rebellions against the global hegemony of global-capitalism and its soul-crushing, valueless “woke” ideology. GloboCap is done playing grab-ass. They announced that back in March of 2020. They informed us in unmistakable terms that our lives were about to change, forever. They branded and advertised this change as “the New Normal,” in case we were … you know, cognitively challenged. They did not hide it. They wanted us to understand exactly what was coming, a global-capitalist version of totalitarianism, in which we will all be happy little fascist “consumers” showing each other our “compliance certificates” in order to be allowed to live our lives.
 
My reaction: It seems that we are now living in a fascist world which is the ultimate trajectory of capitalism. It also seems that, out of all proportion, many comedians are challenging, or engaging in sarcastic parody with, the onerous restrictions that the ruling classes are imposing on us ordinary people which they are labeling "the new normal". 
  • Humanitarian Hawks Demand War on Ethiopia, National Guard Deploys to the Horn by Ann Garrison from Black Agenda Report. My reaction: While distracted by the confusion generated by the ruling class over promoting the Democratic Party (traditionally a "workingman's political party" permitted by them), the fake "woke" policies and the Critical Race Theory, ordinary Americans unfortunately don't pay much attention to this development. Add to this the corona pandemic and all the social restrictions, what is "left" and what is "right" on the political spectrum, the ruling capitalist class has enjoyed one success after another.

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, December 15, 2021

In the USA and Germany, high-level officials have used the term pandemic of the unvaccinated, suggesting that people who have been vaccinated are not relevant in the epidemiology of COVID-19. Officials’ use of this phrase might have encouraged one scientist to claim that “the unvaccinated threaten the vaccinated for COVID-19”. But this view is far too simple.

There is increasing evidence that vaccinated individuals continue to have a relevant role in transmission.
  • Omicron Fears Mount: But Only For The Data Hesitant by Chris Martenson from PeakProperity (part 1: Episode 039). (Note: Both audio and visual for Part 1 (below "Part 2") is available. Part 2 will only be available for members.) My reaction: Listen/view this because you don't want to passively submit to fear propaganda that is spread by corporate media.
Assange committed empire’s greatest sin. He exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption and innumerable war crimes. Republican or Democrat. Conservative or Labour. Trump or Biden. It does not matter. The goons who oversee the empire sing from the same Satanic songbook. Empires always kill those who inflict deep and serious wounds.
In Part 1, we explored the ever-expanding definition of the global commons and the claim made by stakeholder capitalists that they should be the trustees of both the global commons and society. We are now going to look at how systems have been established to enable those stakeholders to seize the commons and to control society.

We should be mindful of what “global commons” means in the eyes of the Global Public-Private Partnership (GPPP) capitalists. For them, it indicates possession of everything: every resource on the planet, all land, all water, the air we breathe, the natural world in its entirety, and all humanity.
 
My reaction: "You will own nothing and be happy!"--Klaus Schwab. Translation: We, in the transnational capitalist ruling classes will own everything and control everything--and be completely satisfied!
  • Tuesday~Tuff Times by John Allen from his weblog on Medium. (Note: You may be required to subscribe to Medium @ $5/mo in order to access this article.) My reaction: He has important news for recipients of Social Security.
New reports explore how the OPCW suppressed findings that undermined US-led allegations of a chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria in April 2018. Dr. Piers Robinson and Aaron Maté discuss the latest revelations on how the OPCW censored science.
Who knew that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the biggest importer of sophisticated weaponry in the developing world going back a generation and more, is SO fragile?
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Apparently, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board thinks so. Last week, it published an alarmed editorial that relayed the Saudis’ urgent pleas “for America for help as it runs out of ammunition to defend against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen.”

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Hospitals across the U.S. are doing away with their vaccine mandates as a result of a persistent shortage of healthcare workers, according to a report Monday in The Wall Street Journal
 
Hospital chains and nonprofit hospitals are dropping the mandate in a bid to hold on to staff members who range from nurses to sanitation workers.
  • Why I Wrote ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. from Children's Health Defense. (Note: I have had only two offers taken by my readers of Kennedy's book. I have still eight other offers to fill. I will send you copies of this book directly from my collection. You only have to notify me of your request including your address to goatmeal36@yahoo.com. 
“Monsanto is a serial violator of federal environmental laws,” said U.S. attorney Tracy L. Wilkison. “The company repeatedly violated laws related to highly regulated chemicals, exposing people to pesticides that can cause serious health problems.”
 
My reaction: This was only one occasion when they were caught breaking the law. To corporations, the paltry fines are only a cost of doing business. 
Western states are stunned: It is the first time that others are dictating to them – setting out their red lines – rather than being instructed on how to conform to American red lines. They are disconcerted, and unsure what to do next.
 
My reaction: The same one as posted Dec. 10 after this post: Ukraine: The Danger is NATO. I addition, read this post entitled "Ukraine receiving weapons and 'military instructors' from NATO".
People whom none of us elect, who ultimately control international finance, all corporate and business activity, government policy and international relations have constructed a system that will enable them to seize the “global commons.”

These people constitute a network called the Global Public-Private Partnership (GPPP).

In 1945, the world woke up to a new reality, a new world order.

The US had escaped World War II unscathed while Europe and Asia were completely destroyed. Throughout the war the US developed a massive industrial base to supply the war effort and its share of the world's economy had exponentially increased making the US the ultimate winner.

When the war had finally concluded, the US held 35% of the world's GDP, had 75% of the world's gold reserves, and owned both the massive debts of its allies and imposed war reparations upon its enemies.

The mass media have been growing astonishingly forceful in their efforts to manipulate the world into being so terrified of China that they’ll consent to any agenda no matter how insane and dangerous. The more forceful they become with their manipulations, the more important it is to counter their lies.

We’re being shoved in a very bad direction at an increasingly frenetic pace. This is being done for a reason. Be alert.
 
My reaction: The manipulation is accomplished by media corporations. This is why you need independent journalists like Julian Assange to bring you accurate reports of world events.