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

Saturday, November 13, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Saturday, November 13, 2021

How obvious does it have to be before even insouciant Americans realize that there is something seriously wrong about the Covid vaccination program?
 
One would think we are already past that point even for the mentally-challenged.
  • Media Loses Their Collective Minds Over Aaron Rodgers posted by Ben Swann from Sovren. My reaction: The billionaire's media are losing their collective minds regarding Rogers because they realize that sports (for profits) have always been a major way of distracting the public from the crimes of the ruling capitalist class, but now a major sports star has been caught up in this drama.
Because we are now seeing the effects of global warming which is putting the capitalist system in direct conflict with the ecological demands of nature, we are seeing geopolitical analysts and others attributing a conspiracy to the frantic cutbacks by major capitalists. I'm thinking of Engdahl, Michel Chossudovsky (I assume so, but he hasn't written much recently critical of global warming activists), and Mark Crispin Miller who are leading the charge against global warming from the left. They, like all old-fashioned capitalists, are seeing the basic conflict play out, that is, the basic conflict between capitalism and a sustainable planet, but are caught up in their basic loyalty to capitalism after so many years of capitalist indoctrination. 
 
This basic conflict will also affect leaders of mixed economies (China and Russia) who have learned that the only way to preserve their independence from the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire is to add capitalist practices to existing socialist components in order to out-produce and out-develop technologies of the capitalist economies of the Empire in order to survive. But, they too, will also be caught up in the confusion of this basic conflict.
 
We will also see others caught up in the confusion of this contradiction as the capitalist ruling classes try desperately to resolve this basic conflict. This confusion will also test younger loyal capitalist critics of global warming such as James Corbett, old-fashioned capitalists like Ron Unz, and Prime Minister Morrison of Australia. We will see billionaires, whose capitalist system have brought them extreme wealth and overwhelming power, desperately trying to flee the Earth as the obvious signs of destabilization of the climate become manifest: rising seas flooding major cities, inadequate supplies of food, increasing frequency of wildfires, extreme weather, etc.
 
I, after decades of following scientists, believe it is too late to save the Earth's habitat for humans and most other species.
  • Fake ‘Shoplifting Surge’ is the Just Latest in Crime Wave Propaganda by Eugene Puryear from Breakthrough News (Note: I am posting this website because its original origin from Punchout is carried on Itunes software which you may not have.) My reaction: I don't know what the actual crime statistics are, but there has been much hype about crime in the Minneapolis area (I live in southern Minnesota). I suspect that this has much to do with protecting police forces in the USA. For example, in Minneapolis, the result of the elections has rejected the establishment of a "public health approach to the delivery of functions by the Department of Public Safety (see"City Question 2 – Department of Public Safety"). On the other hand, I have a suspicion that desperation, which has affected largely working people since the pandemic, might be causing the elevating crime stats that have been so emphasized in media reports.
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Friday, November 12, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, November12, 2021

There is a growing need for a real alternative to existing arrangements. The current situation is untenable at all levels. More and more people are rejecting the rich and their cartel political parties and demanding real solutions to the problems confronting the economy and society. Acting in the old way simply won’t work and doesn’t work anymore. People are disgusted with irresponsible and unaccountable leaders who can’t solve any problems. People are also tired of being reduced to vote banks for the parties of the rich. Constantly begging politicians to do the most basic simple things is humiliating, exhausting, and a massive drain on social energy that could be harnessed to expedite human-centered arrangements.
Why do Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela pose such an existential threat to the U.S.? Why are they able to unite all the wings of the democrat party and the republican party against them? It boils down to two factors. First, the power of their example in attempting to build independent, self-determining projects that center the material needs and interests of the people over those of capital. Second, the class warfare politics of the U.S. state.
  • The nature of neoliberalism and its consequences. This post features Chris Hodges conducting an interview with Professor Wendy Brown, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University. using RT's channel on YouTube (25:19). My reaction: Prof. Brown seems to miss the fact that capitalism naturally evolves into anti-democratic fascist governments as the capitalist ruling class, that consolidates and concentrates wealth and power, feels increasingly threatened by ordinary people. Thus, she criticizes neoliberalism and the economic slide of lower classes, but seems, like many dissidents, to accept earlier forms of capitalism, as does Hodges.
How is the economy working for you? We are told this is the time of the Great Reset and Build Back Better. What does that mean to you? How the does the Green New Deal play into this? It seems the rich are only getting richer. What about the rest of us? [my edit]

CrossTalking with Jeffrey Tucker, Joti Brar, and Tony Ewing.
Time and time again we see banks launch voluntary climate initiatives which seem to be aimed purely at reaping PR benefits now, while postponing all concrete action as far into the future as possible.
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Thursday, November 11, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, November11, 2021

I don't usually post articles from right-wing media corporations; but because the ruling capitalist class has switched from backing the right-wing political party to confuse their subjects (US citizens) from the Republican to the Democratic parties, I feel justified in posting this article. The ruling class changed their backing--of the two political parties that they allow to dominate elections--because they have so ruined any weak tendency for the Democratic Party to back issues favoring the working class and they felt safe to do so. 
 
And it worked! The ruling class has so confused the Democratic electorate, which traditionally supported civil rights and workers, but now supports the dictatorial measures against working people. Furthermore, to add to the confusion, they have also supported the spread of fake ideologies such as critical race theory and "woke" policies via their corporate media.
 
Whether the highly exaggerated and poorly managed pandemic is over is a moot question that will be decided in the future.
This time the corporate faction of the Democratic party deployed the Black political class and its media acolytes to neutralize the rising cry for social democracy and anti-capitalist politics.

What we are seeing is the failure of Democrats’ cynical post Obama strategy of focusing on racial grievance discourse divorced from materialist policy. That strategy was supposed to both shut down the possibility of any social democracy, or Sanders-type politics that would benefit most Black people, while secondly using Blacks as crash test dummies to fight Trump. That strategy has blown up in the Democrats face and is doing nothing but feeding the reactionary right.
 
My reaction: Although he clearly touts social democracy (capitalism with a comprehensive welfare system), he clearly sees through the fake progressives in the Democratic Party for what they are. Can I conclude that most African-American people see this as the usual fakery from the ruling class? Maybe, but I have doubts. I only wish that he and the Black Agenda Report also would see through the fakery of social democracy as the solution to the natural tendency of capitalism to turn into fascism where you won't "own", i.e., control anything (including your lives), but "you will be happy".
... a profound dilemma is visible from the momentum of this movement: a large bulk of liberal politics is driven by precisely the opposite impulses. The most loyal Democratic partisans are frequently venerating prosecutors, advocating for harsh criminal punishments, championing punitive theories of criminal law that have long been rejected by liberal jurists and, above all else, often demanding the longest and harshest punishments in "the carceral state” for a large group of people.

Why are so many Democrats simultaneously chanting radical criminal reform slogans to abolish or greatly reduce the police and the prison state while simultaneously demanding harsh prison terms for so many people under the classic law-and-order ideology they claim to oppose?
 
My reaction: There won't ever be police reform under the capitalist system with the ruling class exploiting those below them, and is worst the farther you go below them. In addition, the ruling class depends on police forces to enforce their interests. Police forces protect the safety of the ruling class, not ordinary people.
  • The Great Resignation from RT's channel on YouTube (00:59). My reaction: Under capitalism, the "owner" can purchase Robots and realize profits from their use. Working people like scientists and technicians built these robots to replace you.
I think the statement introducing this essay is "spot-on": "Bloomberg CIA Apologia Accidentally Vindicates China’s Strict Domestic Policies". 
 
But it does more. It reveals what their response is to this failure to wreck harm on China. The ruling class's directors want greater results from their "intelligence" agencies, and they are willing to spend money to get greater results as is indicated by this paragraph from the Bloomberg article:
 
Some of the people interviewed by Bloomberg said that such announcements are more symbolic than substantive and need to be backed up by increases in spending and staffing to have credibility.
 
I agree with her statement near the end of the essay which states: 
 
So Beijing’s anti-corruption crackdowns, widespread surveillance and strict control over Chinese society is making it harder for the CIA to undermine that nation, and now the CIA is expressing its frustration through the billionaire media. Which shows that China is acting entirely in self-defense when it implements these policies.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, November10, 2021

  • What Is France Hiding in the Sahel? by Clinton Nzala from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis). My reaction: I hesitated to post this article because Americans tend to ignore events in other countries. They do not see these events as related to their own issues and lives. But the latter definitely are related because the transnational ruling capitalist class is in control of the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire, and as such, they oppress, exploit, and fool Americans as they do to people in other unfriendly or third-world nations. In this report we see that France sponsors terrorists while opposing Russia's help to fight against these terrorists. There is little doubt Americans have been, and are, experiencing ruling class terrorist-sponsored organizations (FBI, CIA, and other so-called secretive "intelligence" organizations) here in the USA. The ruling class uses these organizations to spread fear, and fear is only one primary weapon (ignorance is another one) used against working people.
  • 140 Degree Days Are Coming featuring Eugene Puryear in a podcast (11:26) reporting on a study from the journal Nature and two other topics from Breakthrough News.
  • Pfizer Whistleblower Exposes Compromised Vaccine Trial Research featuring Jimmy Dore from his channel on YouTube (16:44) mainly reads a report from the British Medical Journal citing many errors in the research done by Pfizer on their Covid vaccine. Dore also reads reports from other sources that are contrary, or raise questions, to what Fauci, corporate media, and other medical authorities advise. 
Philanthropies incubate and fund campaign groups and NGOs to serve particular narratives. Talking points embedded with fallacious logic are easily passed on and bolstered by access to market reach and attention metrics. Greta, AOC and XR are the three most significant examples of high-reach climate warriors. All three share a blind spot that has been crucial to controlling the narratives about what climate action should look like – they all completely ignored the output of the IPCC Working Group 3 (WG3) on mitigation.
  • Monday~Anomalies by John Allen from his weblog on Medium ($5 subscription required). 
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Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, November 9, 2021

  • Losing Militarily & Strategically, in Order to ‘Win’ Politically (but Ephemerally) by Alastair Crooke, a British political analyst, from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Crooke focuses on three current emphases that the US foreign policies are currently pursuing: Taiwan, Israel's plan to harass Iran, and US support for Ukraine's harassment of the breakaway and Russian-speaking Donbass. He concludes with this paragraph:
Success stories are needed in the wake of the Kabul withdrawal débacle, and this Administration is in a tearing hurry to give Biden the semblance of foreign policy success. Yet, the combined weight of such fragile, unfinished and strategically disconnected ‘successes’ will at some point badly rebound, in ways exceeding what a dysfunctional U.S. system can bear. 
 
My reaction: I think that the transnational ruling capitalist class of the Empire has passed its apogee to world domination, and I see in the future a slow decline in the power of this de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire. But that won't keep the ruling class from engaging in fantasies like the Great Reset, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and vacating the spoiled Earth to migrate to other planets. Hopefully in the meantime, they won't harass these nations enough to provoke a major war-conflagration.
If only the American people tried to find the time to read books! The ruling class doesn't yet censor such books, but they make them harder to find. The latest book in this category is what this article refers to. I'm referring to "husband and wife duo of Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, authors of a new memoir which illuminates the real story of Afghanistan, were two such journalists who learned just how the sausage is made in the nation’s capital with the connivance of the yellow press." The book is entitled The Valediction: Three Nights of Desmond.
 
However, Parry gives you so much more. If you read this article, it can give you a picture of how policies are made, and have been made, in contrast to how corporate media reports them. Parry, a retired investigative journalist currently living in Germany, expands on the book to leave a coherent picture of the last 50 years of US involvement in Afghanistan and beyond.
 
I've wondered if Max Parry is related to Robert Parry, also an investigative journalist and editor of the Consortium News until his recent death.
  • A Look Back At Russiagate by Bernhard, a German independent blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama. My reaction: This is a glaring piece of evidence that US major media corporations are not in the business to inform you, but to fool you.
Meanwhile the deep state actors who had pushed Russiagate all ended up in lucrative positions at CNN and elsewhere. The 'journalists' who ran the fake stories got promoted.

Those who had been right were given no recognition.
Robin Aitken says there is an “acceptable and polite” view of world events which is dominated by media liberals. The former BBC employee warns that we must all be wary of the “hidden persuaders” that operate in all forms of news. 
 
My reaction: Aitken means when he says "media liberals" that the ruling transnational capitalist class has taken control of all major media corporations in the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire. He essentially means that younger journalists employed by the BBC (and all other major media corporations in the Empire) should keep their mouths shut if they want to get ahead in major media. 
Some of the world's largest chipmakers including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have responded to a contentious US government request to submit chip data ahead of the Monday deadline, in a move described by industry observers as yet another instance of US hegemony that coerces global semiconductor supply chains to bow to arbitrary requirements way beyond commercial standards.

The information request, seen as a possible maneuver to target China, a thorn in the flesh for US desire for chip leadership, could create more problems than it solves, analysts said, noting that the affected businesses can resort to legal action in case of damage caused.
 
Later the article reads:
 
The request, unveiled by the US Commerce Department in late September, smacks of an attempt to contain China's tech rise under the disguise of addressing chip shortages, according to industry insiders.
Just once it would be great to hear widespread discussion of US election rigging in the same alarmed tone we hear mass media concern trolls talking about nations like Nicaragua, Bolivia or Venezuela. ....

Whenever I raise this point I get people saying “Well the US doesn’t imprison its political opposition leaders like other tyrannical countries!” That’s only because the US doesn’t have any political opposition leaders. There are no politicians in America with any political purchase [purpose] who oppose the ruling power structure in any meaningful way. All true opposition has been quashed; .... [my insertion for typo error]
  • The Truth About COP 26 featuring Lee Camp, using his channel on YouTube (04:28), trying to make humor out of the capitalist meetings of COP 26.
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Monday, November 8, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, November 8, 2021

Dr Peter Doshi, associate editor of the British Medical Journal(BMJ), discusses the total lack of scientific process behind the development and roll out Covid vaccines in a meeting called by Senator Ron Johnson on the topic of vaccine mandates.

Peter Doshi is an associate professor of pharmaceutical health services research in the School of Pharmacy and associate editor at The BMJ. His research focuses on policies related to drug safety and effectiveness evaluation in the context of regulation, evidence-based medicine, and debates over access to data.
What else can you expect of "news" from the ruling capitalist class and their media corporations? 
 
I spent nearly 30 minutes trying to ascertain the ownership of NBC which is theoretically owned by Comcast. I couldn't remember the name of Tegna Inc. which owns the NBC affiliates, but I finally discovered it on my own website using search engines. (You may have glanced at the black and white notice following many of their programs on NBC affiliated stations.) It was conveniently located near the CIA headquarters in Langley, VA, but has moved further down the road to Tyson, VA (you will see Langley in the right corner).
 
You can see the complicated picture of how the ruling class and their major corporations manage to hide their concentration of ownership/control of media.
  • Young Voters Done With Biden & Democrats featuring Jimmy Dore commenting on some news from his channel on YouTube (11:33). My reaction: Dore argues for a new party forgetting once again that the ruling capitalist class has an iron hold on US elections. The chances that a new political party can challenge the established two parties is infinitesimal.
Investigative journalist Tim Shorrock discusses CSIS's (Center for Strategic and International Studies) links to the CIA, as well as how it's managed to shape public opinion and foreign policy with regard to the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea]. CSIS is an influential think tank that produces reports on the DPRK and China and is funded by military contractors like Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing, as well as the governments of the US, Japan, and UAE. [my insertion]

To listen to the full episode, subscribe at: http://www.patreon.com/radiofreeamanda
  • COP26: Emitters Sue To Chill Climate Measures by Manuel Pérez-Rocha from Consortium News. (Note: I tried and failed to access this article on Inequality, the original source as I always do, so I had to post it from Consortium News.)
  • NATO Malign Influence Corrupting Serbian Academe by Stephen Karganovic from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Dr. Miloš Ković, a faculty member in the history department at Belgrade, Serbia, simply opposes the NATO-sponsored re-writing of history. 
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Saturday, November 6, 2021

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

  • 💥Vaccine Authoritarianism Explained by Max Borders from American Institute for Economic Research. This is a best post. My reaction: I very much doubt that Borders explains the obsessive promotion by the ruling class of the Covid-19 pandemic with his "follow the money" scenario--that will await further revelations. But he does explain how irrational it is from a public health perspective. But for now, I will patiently await further revelations.
Thousands of intelligence officers could soon face dismissal for failing to comply with the U.S. government’s vaccine mandate, leading Republican lawmakers to raise concerns about removing employees from agencies critical to national security. 
  • “This Takes The P*** Now!” Biden’s New JFK Files Excuse featuring Russell Brand, a British comic, using the postponement of the JFK files as a comic theme, also as an illustration that the ruling capitalist class (throughout the banking and corporate circles) via their government has been deceiving you for nearly 60 years--from his YouTube (09:36) channel.
  • Shock Update! featuring Lee Camp from his channel on YouTube (12:13) cynically and comically reporting and commenting on the ol' Russiagate story reported in recent years by the ruling class via their control of all corporate media and the Democratic Party (actually both significant political parties that are allowed to participate in US elections) to once again fool the American people.
  • The End of Media featuring an interview (1:03:00) with Ben Swann conducted by Chris Martenson, PhD from his weblog PeakProsperity.
The most powerful private financial interests in the world, under the cover of COP26, have developed a plan to transform the global financial system by fusing with institutions like the World Bank and using them to further erode national sovereignty in the developing world.
  • What America's 17 Intelligence Agencies Won't Say About the Origins of Covid by Ron Unz from his weblog The Unz Report. My reaction: Although I have criticized this source for casting all Jews in a negative light; that their political orientation is old-fashioned (industrial) capitalism; and it is obvious that while The Unz Report argues against neoliberalism and neoconservatives, they also favor industrial capitalism. However, I also think that this site basically issues real evidence on other topics, and I think this is one example.
Although China has dedicated efforts to maintaining good relations with India, the South Asian country inherited Western geopolitical ideas and principles from its suzerain when it was a British colony. India conducted numerous cooperation with the US in cybersecurity and it is reasonable to speculate that behind the hacker groups there is intelligence sharing between India and the US, Shen said.
The climate denial delegates are listed as attending COP26 on behalf of the US-based Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), both of which have a long history of rejecting mainstream climate science and have previously taken funding from oil giant ExxonMobil.
 
The following post is selected by Brad Fredricks (and his reactions, commentaries, etc.) for this website:
This desire to create true world money would involve the creation of a digital special drawing right (SDR). SDRs are issued by the IMF to member nations and may be issued to other multilateral institutions such as the United Nations.
 
My comments:
 
The IMF is part of the UN, as is the World Bank. Long ago the IMF began issuing debt (technically not currency) under its Special Drawing Rights (SDRs). It is the IMF's goal to become the single currency of nations, using SDRs to issue its debt. SDRs are convertible to nearly all Government based currencies and even have a corresponding conversion table update in real-time, but again, they claim it is not a hard currency, but just a drawing right issued to governments central banks.

In 1969 the IMF created the first SDRs, however, its origins went back to the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944. This enabled the UN to act as a big brother piggybank to smaller nations. The SDR is roughly made of a basket of five currencies contributed by member nations, and is generally used as a loan for poorer nations.

What do these loans actually accomplish?

In Geneva, UN member nations come to convene business with corporations at the United Nations Council on Trade & Development (UNCTAD). These are "open-door" closed meetings where UN-recognized members, representatives, etc., of companies, corporations, and nations sit down to agree upon what minerals, hydrocarbons, and other national capital assets are available to sell, how much to sell, and to who they will sell it to.

This right here is exactly what the United Nations is truly about. Commerce.
 
In extracting the resources, the member nations are issued essentially credits into their central bank which they can use to obtain currencies used to buy hard assets, like mining rigs, trucks, and whatever is needed in the extraction of resources that were forecast and agreed upon in sales at the UNCTAD meetings.

Sometimes during this process, someone is corrupt and takes their special position and access to reroute this money into their own special interests, be it companies, friends, personal wealth, etc.
 
So, when you think of the IMF, they're really just a method of financing of resource extraction from member states that the banking world agrees to. It's all a big self-referential bullshit machine that signifies nothing more than a paper agreement to take land and resources from the people of earth in an organized and orderly fashion.

In my humble opinion, these are the real thieves of nations.

The fairest and most reliable monetary system I can think of is one that is the least elegant, with a plurality of currencies, overlapping and not organized. This copies food systems found in nature, which are not organized and elegant, but chaotic and overlapping.

The only true efficiency achieved by the SDK is control of many by the few, and as such, is to be avoided at all costs.
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Friday, November 5, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, November 5, 2021

  • Florida Now Has Lowest Covid Rates In Nation! featuring Jimmy Dore and Max Blumenthal from Dore's channel on YouTube (14:48). My reaction: This was a surprise to me. The ruling class, via their control of media and the Democratic Party, must do a better job of distorting statistics or else admit to their efforts at distorting data and the use of pro-pandemic propaganda.
  • Hear the Suppressed Voices of the Vaccine Injured featuring Ben Swann from Sovren covering the highlights of the hearing at the "U.S. Senate building in Washington DC where vaccine-injured spoke about their experience and the tens of thousands of others who are being 'erased' by politicians and social media". My reaction: I'll bet you didn't learn of this government hearing from corporate media.
... after five weeks, I had to quit a job where my requirement was supposedly to help people living in poverty, living with mental illnesses, with traumatic brain injuries, with developmental disabilities, get job ready, get their job profiles and interview skills up to speed, and to get them jobs ....
  • Why Democrats Lost In Virginia Is Painfully Obvious featuring Jimmy Dore exposing the meaninglessness of the US government as providing any kind of "democracy", the electoral system, and corporate media from Dore's channel on YouTube (27:59). My reaction: I wonder when Dore gives up on his efforts to expose the ruling capitalist class and their stranglehold on the US nation. I think we will all be strangled to death by our masters much before he ever succeeds.
Their ability to display ideological cohesion at the expense of a reflexive process of dialogical thinking is remarkable but not surprising: establishment liberals do see themselves as the centre of political enlightenment. If they appear vainglorious and self-righteous it is because they are part of a power structure that produces and perpetuates these character traits. Those who entertain the possibility of failure are side-lined as bearers of bad news, the centre-stage is reserved for those who project confidence and a sense of moral superiority. As to considering opposing viewpoints, that is entirely optional.
That’s why I use the word “miracle” sometimes. Because if you really grasp how fucked things are and still hold out hope that we can change things in time to save the world, you’re basically holding out hope for a miracle. You might not use that word, but you’re hoping for something to happen that on paper is impossible.

So what do we do? The only thing we can do in such a situation: work tirelessly to spread awareness. To spread awareness to other people, and to spread awareness within ourselves. To facilitate awakening, collectively and as an individual. It’s the only thing that ever leads to healthy change.

Do that with everything we’ve got, and do it for its own sake with the full allowance that it could easily not be enough, and who knows. We just might get our miracle.
Israel is doing what any colonial power does. It expands at the expense of the native population. The onus is not on colonial powers to behave themselves, but on the rest of the world to hold them accountable.
 
My reaction: Actually this entity is a colony of largely right-wing European Jews settled in Palestine thanks to the power of the then US-British Empire (read chapter 3 of Stephan Wertheim's Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy) after WWII.  The colony was designed to serve the former Empire in order to police the Middle East. In 1967, after it proved its loyalty to the Empire, Israel was admitted to the now de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire. 
  • Japan’s Energy Policy and its Significance for Russia by Petr Konovalov from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: Here we see a national interest emphasized over the planet's interest in reducing carbon-emitting fuel. That is better than what we see in the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire: a family's interest--jobs and careers--via a corporation's interest of profitability. Although this author's take is morally a little better, and Russia's interest in pursuing a multipolar world and defending against the Empire's obsessive drive to dominate all nations (also see my "best post" here) of the planet might be a moral excuse for pursuing a national interest. But, either way, the planet is going to get more inhospitable for all life-species despite any COP meetings.
Outside of the above vital consideration, I learned from reading the article a lot about carbon emissions. For example, this one about hydrogen power:
 
Indeed, hydrogen does not pollute the environment when used. However, the environment is polluted during hydrogen’s production: surprisingly, most of the hydrogen produced in the world comes from the same oil and coal. Other ways of producing hydrogen on an industrial scale are not cost-effective yet. Thus, to avoid processing hydrocarbon fuel on its territory, Japan will have to pay a lot of money to other countries, and only later receive the finished product. In the eyes of the United Nations, this may absolve Japan of responsibility for air pollution. Still, it will not make the number of harmful substances in the Earth’s atmosphere any less.

The following posts are selected by Brad Fredricks (and his reactions, commentaries, etc.) for this website:
A man from Florida, actually the Governor of the State with the current lowest COVID-19 infections, is suing the Biden administration over the latest White House Executive orders mandating vaccinations.

Normally headlines about a man from Florida are followed by insane stories that seem far-fetched, however, we are in a totally inverted reality where everything is backward.
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Thursday, November 4, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, November 4, 2021

Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter suspended hundreds of influential pro-Sandinista journalists and activists days before Nicaragua’s November 7 elections, falsely claiming they were government trolls.
  • Mass Media Hasten To Help Pentagon Exonerate Itself In Afghan Airstrike 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. This post discloses an illustration of how the ruling class constructs the "news" that you obtain from social media and corporate news sources.
AP, along with Reuters and AFP, is one of just three news agencies which write the bulk of international news media reporting in the western world. Corporate media outlets who generally can’t be bothered to do their own original reporting on international affairs often run articles published by those agencies, along with whatever propaganda, spin, and journalistic malpractice they happen to contain. A quick search shows that this AP report has already been picked up and run verbatim by Politico, The Independent, Yahoo News, and many other outlets.

Not only there is there clearly nothing “independent” about government officials investigating their own agencies, but the possibility of any actual independent review of the airstrike has been made impossible, since the Pentagon’s report on the matter has been classified.
  • How the CIA Trained Violent Tibetan Extremists To Stoke Unrest In China featuring a video interview (08:28) with Ken Hammond, Professor of East Asian and Global History at New Mexico State University, conducted by Rania Khalek from Breakthrough News. My reaction: Young people are more informed than my generation regarding Tibet. I remember when the Dalai Lama visited the Seattle area, public schools bused their student to listen to his address. I remember all the bumper stickers saying something like "Free Tibet" of graduate students of universities that I attended.

The following posts are selected by Brad Fredricks (and his reactions, commentaries, etc.) for this website:
New OSHA and CMS Rules Mean Two-Thirds of All Workers Now Covered by Vaccination Rules from The White House. They will require employers with 100 employees to:
  • Get Their Employees Vaccinated by January 4th and Require Unvaccinated Employees to Produce a Negative Test on at Least a Weekly Basis
  • Pay Employees for the Time it Takes to Get Vaccinated
  • Ensure All Unvaccinated Employees are Masked
  • Employers are subject to requirements for reporting & record keeping
My comments:
 
Hot on the heels of The Lancet Report, which states "fully vaccinated individuals with breakthrough infections have peak viral load similar to unvaccinated cases and can efficiently transmit infection in household settings, including to fully vaccinated contacts", one must wonder why any of this is being forced on businesses and people despite the obvious issues around leaky vaccines (read as ineffective).
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Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, November 3, 2021

  • The Covid Hoax: The Steamroller to Tyranny by Peter Koenig from Global Research. (Note: Koenig also asserts what the real agenda is, and what the real effects will be.) My reaction: No, Covid-19 is real, but the pandemic and government and business measures against it are a hoax. I have little doubt that the ruling capitalist class engineered this pandemic.
Yet the steamroller bulldozes on, rolling over all the scientific evidence, and since the steamroller pays and corrupts the media, the media keep lying and corrupting people, and the governments keep corrupting, threatening, blackmailing, coercing certain vulnerable scientists into continuing with the lie despite their better knowledge. 
  • The Matrix Has Tightened Its Grip by Paul Craig Roberts from his weblog. My reaction: I thoroughly endorse this post with the "matrix" being the ruling capitalist class rule.
  • UPDATE 2-California judge delivers drugmakers 1st trial win in opioid litigation by Nate Raymond from Yahoo Finance. My reaction: Essentially the California judge ruled in favor of major pharmaceutical corporations that caused what I argue is a pandemic of opioid addiction across America. I've personally seen the havoc such crimes produced in a family. But, what else is new under the capitalist system? In a podcast from RT the interviewer "asks opioid-epidemic activist and blogger Jake Bradshaw what the ruling will mean for survivors."
The COVID-19 pandemic and the socio-economic crisis worsened by it has affected people from all walks of lives across the world, with the working class being forced to bear the burden of the ongoing crisis. In most parts of the world, the common peoples’ tax money has been used by governments to save big businesses, while small-scale enterprises and the livelihoods of millions of people have been ruined in this period due to lockdowns and other rotating restrictions to contain the pandemic.
 
Many sections of society have adapted to this ‘new normalcy’ and slowly started reconfiguring their lives, especially as developed countries in Europe and North America – boasting higher vaccination rates – have fully or partially lifted lockdowns and other regulations which were imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19. However, the lives of refugees and poor people still remain miserable as there has been no break on imperialist aggression and capitalist profiteering even during the pandemic.
As global warming becomes obvious, “climate denial” fades into the sunset. The twin twilight stars replacing it are the “Blah, blah, blah” of inaction and “energy denial.”
 
The following posts are selected by Brad Fredricks (and his reactions, commentaries, etc.) for this website:
Dr. Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, along with Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, and Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases, have called an end to mandates and lockdowns, as they're leading to worsening mental, physical and economic conditions for all. 

Despite their well-informed perspectives, rational discourse is useless when the masses have been manipulated by a tightly controlled narrative sponsored by Pfizer ....
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