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, 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!

Thursday, October 22, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, October 22, 2020

Rockhill explains, in the words of an academic, that fascism is an integral part of capitalism. Initially, he uses words that are acceptable in bourgeois academic discourse (such as "liberalism", the classic meaning which denotes the ideology of capitalism) that tends obscure for ordinary people most of the harsh realities of capitalism. However, to his credit, he soon uses the "good cop, bad coop" metaphor, which ordinary people can understand, to explain the harsh realities of capitalism. 
Capitalism is a social-economic system that tends to hide the fact (the classic meaning of "liberalism") of capitalist rule: a ruling class of major private owners of economic enterprises who are always on guard to preserve their system which delivers them so much wealth and power, particularly the latter. 
Power is a very intoxicating and addictive drug that can easily cause some humans to commit all sort of harmful behaviors toward their fellow humans ranging from simple exploitation to outright murder: all characterized by ordinary people who regard such behavior as immoral or criminal. "Liberal democracy" is a system that relies on the rule of their laws.
Such a system results roughly in social-economic classes in which the majority are rented workers, those who benefit by serving the major owners of economic property, and the latter who form a tiny ruling class. The term "ruling class" is not a pejorative term, rather it is a descriptive term. This class puts their stamp of interests on the rest of society which includes workers, middle class people, and their fellow members of the ruling class. Their stamps of interests of this latter class impose on other classes of society range from their beliefs about their system of capitalism as good for all of society, the rule of their laws, and down to the differential behavior and the style of dress permitted to all social classes.

Whenever the ruling class are threatened or their beliefs about their capitalist system are threatened, they are inclined to use violence. History has demonstrated that this system over time results in the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. A ruling capitalist class thus might depend on overt violence or the threat of violence if they feel sufficiently threatened. Such a system is described by various people as fascism. The ruling class of capitalists increasingly ignores their rule of laws in order to rely on violence imposed on people who threaten their system in any form. To gain supporters from other classes they use bribes and fake threats posed by fake enemies (racial groups, Muslims, "terrorists", "communists", etc.).

Finally, the partial sentence "When fascist parties attain state power and are no longer held back by their commedia dell’arte with liberals" needs some explanation. Here he means by "liberals" the current meaning of "liberals": mainly middle and upper-middle-class people who are well rewarded for their support of the ruling class and who support their lies of propaganda. The phrase "commedia dell'Arte" combined with "liberals" suggests that "liberals" only pretend like actors on stage to support the ruling capitalists. Thus the partial sentence means when the fascist parties or fascist segments of the population are no longer held in check by acting liberals, "...." Although the use of "commedia dell'Arte" is clever, I don't think that most liberals are merely acting. Rather I think that most of them (particularly professionals and managers) fervently identify with, and support, the ruling class because the latter supplies them with comfortable careers.
  • UK Gov't Bans Teaching Of Anti-Capitalism featuring Lee Camp of Redacted Tonight hilariously reporting and commenting on the UK's banning of teaching anything that is anti-capitalism in a 7:22m video from his channel on YouTube.
  • How Bolivia fights fascism – It takes more than the ballot box featuring a 35 minute video in which "Anya Parampil speaks with [Bolivian] journalist Ollie Vargas in La Paz, Bolivia about the historic victory of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party in the October 18 elections." Posted on The Grayzone. (My insertion)

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, October 21, 2020

  • ‘TRUTH’ With RFK, Jr. and Mark Crispin Miller: Propaganda, Censorship and the ‘Lockdown Left’ in a 54:58m video-discussion that is posted on Children's Health Defense. (Note: Prof. Miller, a leftist professor at NY University, and Robert Kennedy, Jr. discuss the closing of public inquiry and questioning of government health authorities. Both apparently (my old ears didn't understand a lot of Kennedy's comments) they see this as an historical trend that has been closing during the past recent decades. Even the "left", particularly in America, are going along with this trend. During this discussion, Prof. Miller reports (beginning at 19:12m) on this own case at NY University where he is currently being pressured to resign because he has asked his students to examine research studies that are not in conformance with government diktats.) My reaction: This trend has been reinforced by the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of transnational capitalists. In other words, this is an inevitable trend wherever capitalism exists.
  • Chomsky: OPCW cover-up of Syria probe is ‘shocking’ by Aaron Maté of The Grayzone. (Note: This post features Noam Chomsky giving his comments regarding the imposition in the UN Security Council of censorship by the Empire's ruling class to ban testimony of a former director of the OPCW (Organization of the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) regarding possible violations of treaty obligations by the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's use of chemical weapons in Syria.
The censorship recently extended to the UN Security Council, where the US, UK, and France blocked former OPCW Director General José Bustani from testifying in support of the inspectors whose findings were kept from the public.
What does it say about our federal regulatory structure when the same dangers that blew up the U.S. financial system, the U.S. economy and the U.S. housing market in 2008 are still with us today? What does it say about who is really in control of Congress?
Capitalism is in more trouble now than it ever was when it was fighting against socialism. What Marx had to say about the crisis in capitalism is truer now than ever before. 
On the whole, if you’ve held on to the American Dream, we hope you’ll realize the American Dream is over. Capitalists have “left the building” and have gone on to invest in other countries. We say this not to say you cannot dream. Rather, we’d like you to join us in another kind of collective dream.

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, October 20, 2020

  • US Seeks to Prolong Terrorism in Syria, Not Defeat It by Tony Cartalucci from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: I regard Cartalucci, who is living in Thailand, a very reliable source. I have often posted his articles over the last 10+ years because he always backs up his arguments with documentation. If you liked this article and if your interested in Thailand, you may also be interested in the latest article by this author from his website.)
  • Vanessa Beeley Debunks A BBC Hit Piece from The Corbett Report in which James Corbett, the host, interviews Beeley, an honest British journalist who has reported on the Empire's subversive activities in Syria, activities of the White Helmets, her experience with the BBC, and other subjects related to this topic in a 28:51m video interview.
  • The Colour of Disenchantment by John Steppling from his weblog. (Note: This is a lengthy, intellectual essay on how the ruling class controls all indoctrination to prevent any discourse harmful to capitalism (aka "liberalism), an ideology that supports the power and wealth of their class whose members own very substantial economic property.)
Why are tens of thousands of doctors and scientists all over the world being ridiculed and in many cases censored for sharing their research and opinions? (This post is the latest example.)
  • 'The Last and Most Important Advice I Will Ever Give' Dr. Meyer Hillman from the Extinction Rebellion channel via YouTube. My reaction: I agree with his statement that climate change is now "exponential and irreversible". And I agree that elected officials are not going to do anything. The latter are nearly always supported by capitalists who are not concerned sufficiently about climate destabilization because it will hurt the latter's immediate profits and eventually their power.

Monday, October 19, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, October 19, 2020

Social media giants are consistently censoring information that the main ruling class doesn't like:

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Sunday, October 18, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, October 18, 2020

This also applies to David North of the World Socialist Web Site. He, and most of his writers, have jumped onto the bandwagon of scare tactics to instill fear in workers about this over-hyped "pandemic" which has caused untold harm by locking out millions of workers from employment. To be sure, employers of "essential" workers  have exposed worker-employees to unsafe working conditions and have largely ignored safety considerations, but North ignores the evidence of scientific research done by qualified independent experts that suggests the cure of the lockdowns and other policies are worse than the disease.
Regarding Bernhard, maybe I wasn't looking to him, an astute geopolitical analyst, to explain what is going on in this "pandemic". The articles that I have assembled from the beginning have suggested that something nefarious is going on. This huge medical controversy is being driven by fear inculcated in the population by the constant din of major media and the withdrawing of civil liberties by governmental authorities. I discovered yesterday that Bernhard had jumped on the fear pandemic along with others in the ruling class, and their numerous employees and sycophants, by attacking in a similar fashion Prof. Chossudovsky of Global Research. Bernhard impugns the integrity, expertise, and facts of independent and qualified experts. I was astounded by both of these critics.  
Have they both been compromised by the insidious and powerful influences of the ruling class and their Great Reset project?
  • Your Guide to The Great Reset, a 1:11:57 video featuring Jame Corbett (of The Corbett Report), a Canadian living in Japan, explaining from his point of view the "Great Reset" project. My reaction follows: 

I don't have time to listen to all of if, but I don't entirely agree with his general views on political subjects. He is an anarchist, a fashionable leftist type occurring nowadays. This view emphasizes mostly the rejection of official authorities. Anarchists frequently don't see a ruling class that behind the curtain controls the puppet shows that are incessantly broadcast by major media corporations and shows that are a pervasive influence in all other institutions of societies within the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Corbett in this broadcast acknowledges their existence, but goes on to mostly ridicule them.

Also, I think he rejects the notion of the threat of climate destabilization--which is real. This, I think, is mainly what the Great Reset is all about (among other issues), that is, I think that the transnational capitalist ruling class that controls the Empire are genuinely concerned about this issue and they see the Great Reset as a means to continue their system of capitalism. They see as a necessity to sacrifice the lives of people who don't contribute to their wealth and power ("useless eaters") as a solution to the growing threat of climate destabilization. But Corbett has useful perceptions and should be listened to, that is, if you have an hour and eleven minutes to spare.

Friday, October 16, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, October 16, 2020

This report is prime reading for anyone who wishes to gain an understanding of how "liberal" or bourgeois (capitalist) democracies work. The latter must have secret agencies operating outside of the law that follow the diktats of the ruling capitalist class. This report only deals with British agencies that during the course of their operations commit crimes. It does not report on other agencies, whose top leaders answer to the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's Deep State, that are engaged in shady operations which undermine any semblance of democracy such as propaganda activities. If you think that Britain is not an essential part of the Empire, and, as such, has no implications for the rest of the Empire, you likely won't believe it has anything to do with government operations in the USA. Brainwashed others will dismiss it entirely. However, it is essential reading by any US activist or revolutionary organization that aims to be effective. For people involved in the latter, this rare report must be studied.
... it was understood that the best way to construct the fascist international was to do so under liberal cover, meaning through clandestine operations that maintained a liberal façade. While this probably sounds like hyperbole to those whose understanding of history has been formatted by bourgeois social science, which focuses almost exclusively on visible government and the aforementioned liberal cover, the history of the invisible government of the national security apparatus suggests that fascism, far from being defeated in WWII, was successfully internationalized.
  • Running Out of Time… October Surprise Redux? by Philip Giraldi from Strategic Culture Foundation.  (My reaction: I remember well the reliable reports after Reagan's election in 1980 reporting that the CIA rigged the election for Reagan. Giraldi reports on other possible shenanigans perpetrated by the Deep State that obviously wants Trump removed. But, who cares? Both political parties serve the rich ruling class of capitalists and not ordinary Americans.)
 
I've only covered about 1/3 of my list of 50 credible websites before I ran out of time and energy. 

Thursday, October 15, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, October 15, 2020

  • The Fact-Free COVID Dystopia featuring Tom Woods, a senior fellow of the Mises Institute, lampooning the government's and the WHO's handling of the coronavirus illness. (Note: The Mises Institute is a capitalist think tank that takes a very narrow view of capitalism.)
Kevin Ryan‘s video presentation for the 9/11 Truth Film Festival, held in September to mark the 19th anniversary, discusses the many parallels between the Covid19 narrative, and roll out of the “official conspiracy theory” in the wake of 9/11. 

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.)

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, October 13, 2020

This rather lengthy article exposes the Great Reset project as a wet dream of the current transnational capitalist ruling class of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. I think that the author places too much emphasis on the similarities on the current scene in America with that of 1930s fascism in Germany and Italy, and not enough emphasis on this vision of the Great Reset as a rather desperate fantasy of the transnational capitalists of the 21st century. Fascism is endemic to any capitalist system. Fascist capitalist classes use mostly crude methods of censorship, surveillance, and police state measures, while most other capitalist countries favor pseudo-democratic methods of controlled elections and carefully crafted propaganda that infects every institution.
Capitalism's trajectory was always headed in the direction of fascism, especially when capitalist countries are threatened. That is precisely why before WWII, during most of the 1930s, capitalist ruling classes in all the other "democratic" nations mostly supported the fascist regimes in Germany and Italy. This support was motivated by the twin threats to capitalist regimes posed by the Great Depression and the rise of the Soviet Union which forbid any significant private ownership of the economy. The latter's system of socialism was a blasphemy to the church in which capitalists worship.

The British ruling class was especially disturbed by any country that promoted socialist policies; and when the Soviet Union appeared, they viewed it as a threat to their system and Empire. But Germany didn't exactly follow the British script for them to head east through Czechoslovakia and destroy the Soviet system. Instead they invaded Poland which held defense treaties with Britain and France. The German government had just signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with the Soviet Union which permitted the two powers to partition Poland between them. 
The allies have made much of that in their propaganda and the rewriting of the history of WWII. But having failed to form an anti-fascist alliance with the Western powers, the Soviets opted to gain time to prepare for the expected invasion of their country by Germany. As a result the Soviets in August of 1939 signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany in which they would carve up Poland between themselves. Shorty thereafter the Nazis invaded Poland and formally started WWII.
After eight months of a phony war with Britain, Nazi Germany invaded France and the Low Countries, and it became clear to the British that Germany was a threat to the British Empire. It was then that British capitalists switched their support (Neville Chamberlain) from the imperialist policies of Germany and Italy to an organizing (Winston Churchill) of capitalist friends of British capitalists to protect their British Empire.

Germany initially overran France on other European countries and went on to attack Britain. The German capitalist ruling class was motivated by resentment that France and Britain demonstrated in the Versailles Treaty after WWI, and the overt fascists of the ruling German capitalist class soon represented a threat to the British Empire and their dominance in the world. WWII left Britain in ruins, so the British ruling class, and what remained of the Empire, teamed up with the American capitalists to form a new capitalist empire (they later added Israel) to counter the socialism found in the Soviet Union and to restore capitalist control of the world. And, as they say, the rest is history. (Read Big Business and Hitler by Jacques R. Pauwels for further information on this subject.)
Few are surprised that defenders of Julian Assange against the UK injustice system are misrepresented or excluded by imperialist country governments supported by all the disinformation outlets their countries' oligarchs control. However, scientists questioning public policy on COVID-19 find themselves marginalized not only by dominant liberal opinion but also by majority progressive opinion too. Eminent scientists like John Ioannides, Sunetra Gupta, Sucharit Bhakdi, Alexander Kekulé, Dolores Cahill and dozens of others find themselves in effect, if not disappeared, certainly generally excluded from public discussion.
  • Dr Kevin Corbett Interview 4th October 2020 by "David" who interviews Corbett from the Northern Exposure channel of YouTube. (Note: I don't know anything about Dr. Corbett other than what is provided in the interview, and I don't know anything about "David" who apparently lives in Scotland. I was impressed by Dr. Corbett's interesting comments, and I encountered similar arguments from a "Piece of Mindful" website entitled “Covid-19” = AIDS with emPHAsis.)
  • The Covidian Cult by C.J. Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. (Note: I haven't read the article to determine whether it is satire or cogent observations, but I'm impressed with this satirist so much that I'm posting it anyway. Hopkins is an American currently living in Germany.)
 
Sorry, but I've again run out time and energy to complete the list of websites that contain articles which I think are credible.  

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"😉).

Sunday, October 11, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, October 11, 2020

Off-Guardian is running a series of posts that I have neglected because I was suffering from an overload of articles about articles from reputable sources that downplayed what I believe is an unreasonably hysterical reporting by corporate media on this pandemic. I'm referring to the first of a series of posts entitled "The Great Viral Debate" which essentially introduced the series in which two well-qualified experts, Tim Anderson, PhD and Prof. Denis Rancourt, debate the following proposition:

Does SARS-COV-2 merit suppression measures in order to combat the virus rather than the herd/community immunity approach?

On following days they present "opening statements" by the two experts (here and here). (I don't know if they will be posting additional series of articles focusing on additional arguments made by the two experts.) One part which I recommend to you, is rather lengthy video discussion between Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, with whom I was particularly impressed, and Dr. Zubin Damania, found at the end of one of these posts. Damania is a physician-comedian-host who has a channel (The ZDoggMD) on YouTube.

However, I did encounter one issue with Damania when I found a particular video as I sampled some of his videos on his channel. In this video he severely criticized Dr. Judy Mikovitz and the audience of "Plandemic 1 and 2" after googling Mikovitz. Mikovitz in one of the latter videos described her experiences with Dr. Fauci of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Damania doesn't cite his sources of information about Mikovitz.

I have had a recent experience with a person who has a Masters in Public Health. I recommended to her a video "1986: The Act" thinking that she would be interested in the content of this film. However, she, like Damania who googled Dr. Mikovitz, also googled the film, and found material totally discrediting the well-documented film. I asked her to supply the sources of her information and she reported Wikipedia, The Guardian, and some other obscure website. Because she was absolutely convinced of the validity of these sources, she refused to watch the film! This is typical of most educated (brainwashed) Americans who have spent considerable time being educated (indoctrinated) in universities. They are simply unaware of the conspiratorial nature of our ruling capitalist class, their filling of all commonly used information resources and media with their biases and propaganda, and much less of the major crimes they have committed all over the world.

I can't really vouch for all of my posts because it is becoming very difficult to sort out the truth from an ocean of lies. Edward Curtin has also encountered such difficulties, and he recently authored a book entitled Seeking Truth in A Country of Lies. I should read it. {Edited for clarity at 8:15 PM CT.)

  • Morning in Hell by John Steppling from Off-Guardian. (Note: I haven't read this article; but I have so much respect for this author, that I am listing it anyway.)

I've run out of time and energy to complete my perusal of 50 websites.

Friday, October 9, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, October 9, 2020

  • Savior of Capitalism by Alan Johnstone from Dissident Voice. My reaction: This article rebuts all the liberals and social-democrats like Eric Zuesse who absolutely adore FDR's administrations which protected the capitalist system from itself.
  • Surviving the age of extreme heat by Alex Smith (a Canadian) from Climate Code Red (based in Australia). (Note: It seems to me that this is mostly about not surviving.)

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, October 6, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Because domestic issues have predominated in the last six months, I've been concentrating on those subjects to the neglect of foreign events. In this post I hope to make up for that shortfall. 

Note: I updated today (Wednesday, Oct. 7) the article by Webb to link it to The Last American Vagabond for your convenience.)
 
There has been a great deal of controversy over claims that Kary Mullis, the creator of the PCR technology that is being widely used to test for so-called ‘cases’ of COVID-19, did not believe the technology was suitable for detecting a meaningful presence of a virus. 
Those making these assertions were attacked and ‘fact checked’ (deemed inappropriate by propagandists) by news outlets claiming that Mullis’ comments had been taken out of context. 
So when a video surfaces with Mullis talking about the efficacy of the technology it is worth paying close attention to what he is saying.
  • And a Plague Shall Cover the Land of Trump by Brendan O’Neill from Anti-Empire. My reaction: The author points to the dominant capitalist ruling class and its method derived from the Middle Ages to shape the views held by ordinary Americans via their media corporations:
And there you have it, in terrifying black and white, in explicit Biblical writ: if Trump stays in power, America will be visited by floods, fires and plagues; death will come to your door; pestilence will be visited upon the land. This pre-modernism among those who fancy themselves as modern – as enlightened and ‘woke’ – is striking. It speaks to their own profound inability to come up with a vision for the US that might inspire voters, so instead they must invoke a PC version of Leviticus and warn people that if you don’t choose us then you will be consumed by hellfire and disease. And it confirms what they find so distasteful about so-called Trumpworld – the fact that it has dared to question expert authority, pushed aside the liberal elites who believe that they are the only people sensible enough to rule, and propagated the apparently outrageous idea that ordinary people (eurgh) have something to contribute to the discussion about how we deal with Covid-19 and other crises. 
This is what lurks behind the irrational, anti-Enlightened treatment of Covid as a metaphor for the sicknesses of 21st-century America – the desperation of the bruised old elites to regain their authority over a people whom they view as too dumb, vulgar and destructive to govern their own lives. Now that’s sick.
  • The Battle for Hope in the Anthropocene by Jethro Gauld from Scientist Warning. (Note: For the record, I view the extinction of humans and most other species as inevitable. But, in the time remaining, I continue working on my weblog in the hope that humans will end the last stage of capitalism--transnational or neoliberal fascism.)

Monday, October 5, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, October 5, 2020

  • How a Police State Starts by Scotsman Craig Murray, who has been reporting on the British kangaroo court trying Julian Assange, from his weblog.

Sunday, October 4, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, October 4, 2020

  • Truth Seeker by Jim Meehan MD from his website which apparently is being updated. (Note: Meehan's covid-19 website challenges many of the conventional beliefs about the pandemic spread by media corporations and supported by government health authorities such as the wearing of masks, lockdowns, vaccinations, etc. One thing he does agree with them regarding the prevention of covid-19 is the benefits of social distancing. Dr. Meehan often points to Big Pharma and their huge profits as the cause of their recommendations. Kate Porter of Children's Health Defense apparently agrees with him. I have no health credentials, but I find his assembling of scientific evidence compelling in support of his challenges. In the absence of reliable information regarding the illness, we as individuals must decide for ourselves regarding measures to maintain our health.)
  • We Are Being Lied To! Here Is How… by Spiro Skouras from Activist Post. (My reaction: I've read numerous articles that the PCR test produced a substantial number of false positives. Skouras provides details on the fallibility of PCR test. Listening to media corporations and government health authorities, the accuracy of the PCR test is a fact, and often the positive results are added to their reports on covid-19 "cases".)