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 10, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, December 10, 2021

Given the continued ignorance and lack of understanding of the pandemic & detrimental consequences of mass vaccination by public and global health authorities, the chances that the disaster I’ve previously alluded to can be prevented are slim (3). The scientifically corrupt narrative is likely to be further nurtured by more and more cases of disease that are likely to occur in vaccinees once they will have acquired short-lived Abs directed at Omicron’s spike protein as a result of previous mild infection. The latter can more easily outcompete innate Abs in vaccinees, the training of which was stalled as a result of their immune suppression by vaccinal Abs. Rapid re-exposure to the highly infectious Omicron variant could then make them much more susceptible to disease.
Two Democrats joined all 50 Republicans in Wednesday’s 52 - 48 vote to overturn President Biden’s vaccine mandate for private business with more than 100 employers. According to news reports, even if the measure secures enough votes to pass in the House, Biden will likely veto it. 
 
My reaction: You must read the article to follow all the legal developments in these mandates.
The British High Court’s decision overturns the January decision by the district judge that found that extraditing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange would be “oppressive”. Rights advocates and Assange’s supporters and family strongly condemned the High Court’s decision.
  • World inequality by Michael Roberts, a Marxist-oriented economist from Britain, from his weblog. 
Indeed, the share of income presently captured by the poorest half of the world’s people is about half what it was in 1820, before the great divergence between western countries and their colonies. In other words, the rise of imperialism as the ‘latest stage’ of capitalism has delivered increased inequality of income globally. The personal income share of the poorest 50% of the world’s adults or around 3bn people is half what it was in 1820! So much for even and combined development after 200 years of capitalism.
  • Thursday~Slavery 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.)
The group, known as Le Cercle, was described by former Conservative minister Alan Clark in his diaries as “a right-wing think (or rather thought) tank, funded by the CIA, which churns Cold War concepts around”. 
The ruling classes of the capitalist Empire have since 1940 launched a war against any nation that aspires to independence from their control. Partly out of habit and partly out of a framework that this objective has never been abandoned, they do not want to cease trying to establish hegemony over the world. Because they see that this hegemony is increasingly under threat by their two main adversaries (China and Russia), the time is now to threaten these two rivals with war in the futile hope that they will back down. The latter do not want war; but the Empire's ruling classes see that their Empire is in decline, and the best chance lies now in defeating their adversaries. However, I think this is less likely because the Empire doesn't really want war, and see another more likely threat to a nuclear conflagration.
 
I think the overt fascist leaders in Ukraine are sufficiently unstable enough together with the bellicose posturing of the Empire are perfectly capable of creating an incident that will escalate into a nuclear war. I think that they will be encouraged to engage in a genocidal effort to eliminate the population of Donbass (the eastern provinces of Ukraine) thinking under the mistaken notion that if Russia intervenes, NATO, the army of the Empire, will come to their aid. This option is daily reinforced by hyped propaganda which the Empire representatives communicate daily with their fascist puppets in Ukraine. These fascist leaders see no other way out than this option to sustain their offices and control of Ukraine before their people drive them out.
 
I don't believe that NATO, under the command of the ruling capitalist classes of the Empire, will go to war over the fake pretext that the buildup of Russian forces near the border constitutes a threat to Ukraine, but they might be dragged into a nuclear conflagration by the leaders of Ukraine if they invade or hassle Russia, or if--"God forbid!"-- Ukraine is allowed to join NATO, one of the red lines drawn by Putin.
 
As always the American people will be preoccupied with domestic imperatives of surviving and keeping their families intact. Traditionally they have not concerned themselves with the "games being played" by their capitalist masters abroad in foreign lands.

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Thursday, December 9, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, December 9, 2021

  • Q&A #4: The Coming Crisis? by Geert Vanden Bossche from Voice For Science and Solidarity. My reaction: Now that Robert Kennedy, Jr. has thoroughly exposed Fauci as committed to his own stocks in Big Pharma; if you need specific advice regarding Covid-19 and its variants, you should follow Bossche's website among others that are qualified and are not compromised by owning stocks in pharmaceutical corporations.
  • Operation Extermination--the Plan to Decimate the Human Immune System with a Lab-Generated Pathogen by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review. My reaction: I don't have the expertise to know whether these experts are right, but it fits with my view that our ruling capitalist classes are perfectly capable of doing the most evil deeds to save themselves. The latter refers to the abrupt climate destabilization that many scientists are concerned about, but are not given sufficient voice by media corporations.
  • What Putin really told Biden by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times (Singapore). (Note: You might be also interested in a post by Finian Cunningham.) My reaction: This take on Putin's statements by Escobar, who I believe is the world's top journalist, is based on previously made statements by Putin, the Russian government, and consistent with reports in Russian media. On the other hand, Biden's statements are based on previously made statements via the ruling class's US government and media. Contrast US reports via major media with China's Global Times report on the conversation.
  • US Hegemony Doesn’t Make The World More Peaceful, It Makes It More Dangerous 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. My reaction: What Johnstone doesn't understand is that the ruling capitalist class has taken over the ruling class since WWII to ensure that the world is dominated by the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire. This is explained by my essay, and supporting links, written in May of 2020 and more recently supported by a professor of history, Stephen Wertheim, in his book Tomorrow the World, published by Harvard University Press. There are considerable reasons to think that his voice is that of the US ruling capitalist class confessing that an imperialist cabal took over the ruling class beginning in 1940.
  • Science Update: Arctic Snow Transitions to Rain featuring the views and analysis of Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist (via his YouTube channel (11:31), who has fearlessly focused his attention throughout his career on the climate crisis. 
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Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, December 8, 2021

  • Pfizer Safety Data Released, And It’s Not Good (Part 1) by Chris Martenson from Peak Prosperity. (Note: This was reported in a video (47:10). My reaction: The Pfizer report was reluctantly obtained under FOIA (Freedom of Information Act), and Martenson found all kinds of inadequacies in it. When their vaccines were rushed through on an emergency basis, one would think that there would be intense interest in evaluating the risks of unexpected adverse events. Such is not the concern, and it looks to me like the medical establishment in the CDC or NIH didn't want to evaluate adverse events. (Part 2 is for members only.)
Follow the science is the media mantra behind the highly profitable media-driven feardemic. But what happens when the world’s most esteemed medical journal reveals that the experimental vaccine and repression is unsupported by science?

There is a D-Notice ~ CENSORSHIP of a highly orchestrated swindle once described by a Member of the House of Lords as ‘the gift that keeps on giving.’. The Covid-19 swindle is a gravy train that must never be permitted to hit the buffers. The esteemed medical journal The Lancet has fatally crushed the criminal vaccine coercion policy.
For anyone who doubts that the Covid-19 crisis is an intelligence-run operation controlled by spooks working with medical technocrats like Anthony Fauci, billionaires such as Bill Gates, the military, media, Big Pharma, the World Economic Forum, etc., a close reading of this book – with its 2,194 references – will disabuse one of that illusion.

The CIA has long been deeply involved with vaccines, viruses, drugs, weaponizing cancer, biological weapons, and of course massive mind-control operations – deadly propaganda in plain English – for use in controlling U.S. Americans and foreigners alike.  As Kennedy writes in an ironically understated way, “The pervasive CIA involvement in the global vaccine putsch should give us pause.”
 
My brief commentary follows:
 
I don't agree with all of Curtin's and Kennedy's views. If you have been a longtime follower of my weblog, you will be completely aware of my opposition to any "god-stuff" which influences events. The scientific method has elevated our consciousness to attain much higher levels of consciousness than superstition about our existence as much as it has improved our standard of living. But the latter has mostly been absorbed by the ruling capitalist classes under their capitalist system--the private ownership and control of the means of production. It didn't have to be this way, but capitalism made this inevitable.

So, I disagree with such statements that both Kennedy and Curtin as Catholics believe: "Like his father and uncle, he [Kennedy] has become an irrepressibly eloquent opponent of the demonic forces intent on destroying the democratic dream." The other name for this system is "bourgeois democracy", or the capitalist system that has carefully hidden the dictatorship of wealth, and its corollary, power beneath tons of propagandistic verbiage. Capitalism has enabled the possession of wealth by families as power over other classes in its class-structured societies as surely as monarchy and aristocracy have hidden their wealth behind the (transformed and acceptable) Christian religion, inherited nobility, and primogeniture. 
 
Thus, under capitalism, democracy is always fake, a system whose component of indoctrination and propaganda must always overlay and justify it. The natural tendency of capitalism is toward fascism, or the arbitrary rule of major capitalists (billionaires) to control everything for their benefit.

Kennedy is at dire risk by exposing Fauci and the CIA. Discussion of this book will be suppressed in major media as we've already seen happening. But the sales of Kennedy's book have been skyrocketing, and it's on the NY Times best-seller list. Amazon has run out of his book several times which has caused delays in filling orders. Kennedy will be of much consideration for the ultimate kind of censorship--assassination. If they see that their efforts to suppress any mention of this book fails, such a discussion will be seriously undertaken by our masters in the ruling capitalist class.
Xinjiang is a prime target not because of the Uyghurs, but because it is the strategic connector between western China and Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) corridors across Central Asia, South Asia and West Asia all the way to Europe. BRI – which is the centerpiece Chinese foreign policy concept for the foreseeable future – is an absolute anathema in Washington.

The fact that the US has been staging countless, costly, devastating declinations of humanitarian imperialism in Muslim lands, directly and indirectly, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen and beyond, but now, suddenly, is in tears about the fate of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, speaks for itself.
 
My reaction: The de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire's transnational capitalist ruling class in order to rule the world must lie to people in foreign lands as they do to their own citizens. 
Debt is the most prevalent source of slavery. In contemporary Sri Lanka, unpayable debt accrued through microfinance loans has been driving exploitation, dispossession, and conditions resembling debt peonage. A chain of high-risk loans disbursed at usurious rates to women with no regular income has wiped their savings and assets. 
Seun Kuti talks to Vijay Prashad [the first to appear in the video] about the EndSARS movement in Nigeria, the need for broadening the movement and building popular resistance in the country, Seun’s father Fela Kuti and his party the Movement of the People (MOP), and more. [my insertion]
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Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, December 7, 2021

  • Fauci Calls Himself High Priest of Science featuring comedy in the form of parody by Jimmy Dore from his channel on YouTube (03:38). My reaction: I guess it's better to laugh than to cry over the ruling class's claim that it is only following "science".  
  • Biden Supports Vaccine IP Waiver, Admin Does Something Else featuring Naomi Karavani using Redacted Tonight's channel on YouTube (03:37). (This video illustrates how Biden will casually lie to the American public.) My reaction: Big Pharma über alles. Big Pharma is the Biden administration, and both are controlled by the ruling capitalist class. Any government official is expected to lie when it's in the interest of this ruling class.
  • Ghislaine Maxwell's "Unique" Defense featuring Naomi Karavani who cynically reports on the legal defense as portrayed by Bloomberg News and a segment on Michael Bloomberg who "owns" Bloomberg News--from Redacted Tonight's channel on YouTube (02:37). 
Clearview AI is facing a $23 million fine over facial recognition in the UK. A move that comes after multiple reports accuse the company of widespread---and sometimes unsanctioned use of facial recognition software around the world. This, as Clearview has gotten the green light on a federal patent for its facial recognition technology. A move, sparking major controversy. RT America’s Trinity Chavez has details. Then, investigative journalist and co-host of Boom Bust Ben Swann joins In Question to discuss.
But it is unlikely that Washington will agree to any action that would reduce tension, because confrontation is the name of its game. The western military alliance is convinced — or says it is convinced — that Russia is going to invade Ukraine, and takes no account of reality, because it would, to put it bluntly, be economic suicide for Russia to do anything of the sort.

Make no mistake : if Russia wanted to invade Ukraine it could do so in a heartbeat and, as determined by several analyses conducted in western military academies, but never made public ....
Less than a month after US President Joe Biden held his first formal summit with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, the US has announced a provocative diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics, due to open in Beijing in February. [my emphasis]
  • History of World War II: How “General Winter” Did Not Save the Soviet Union in 1941 by historian Dr. Jacques Pauwels from Global Research. My reaction: There has been so much re-writing of history about WWII that you won't understand events since WWII if you don't read the history of that event by Pauwels. I have read widely about WWII from original sources, and I've found recently that Pauwels is the best historian covering that hugely important event.
Let’s make no mistake about this: Congress’s choice to keep investing in a massive, ineffective and absurdly expensive war machine has nothing to do with “national security” as most people understand it, or “defense” as the dictionary defines it.

U.S. society does face critical threats to our security, including the climate crisis, systemic racism, erosion of voting rights, gun violence, grave inequalities and the corporate hijacking of political power. But one problem we fortunately do not have is the threat of attack or invasion by a rampant global aggressor or, in fact, by any other country at all.
 
However, you won't understand this current problem unless you read real history from the 1930s onward. I have summarized this for you in this post. But, if you don't believe me--and you shouldn't--read history has written by Dr. Jacques Pauwels and the recently published Tomorrow, the World by Stephen Wertheim which confirms the rise of a fascist cabal in the US, although rather favorably.
  • Monday~Kick the Can by John Allen from his weblog on Medium. (Note: If you have had free access before, a $5/mo subscription is due to access Allen's weblog.)
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Monday, December 6, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, December 6, 2021

  • American Pravda: Vaxxing, Anthony Fauci, and AIDS by Ron Unz from his website The Unz Review. My reaction: Although I've posted interviews of Robert Kennedy's book, this is the first review of Kennedy's book that I've encountered, but there will be several more. This review by an old-fashioned capitalist, who presents himself as a true believer of many of the suspected deceptions of the capitalist ruling class, is now beginning to question what corporate media are saying about the covid pandemic. This is a good omen that this book will awaken the American people to the vast lies they have told throughout their lives.
One of the recent roles of the Parliamentary Healthcare Committee has been to reassure the British public that any claims regarding the ‘Americanization’ of the National Health Service (NHS) were wildly overstated, “creating a climate that risks blocking the joining up of services in the interests of patients.”

In fact, the penetration of the healthcare system by the giant U.S. insurer UnitedHealth reveals the opposite to be true, with the full extent of its influence capable of surprising even seasoned NHS watchers.
This post should ideally be read in conjunction with earlier posts that explain that excessive wealth is extracted by controlling an industry, receiving many types of unearned income (known as rent-seeking) and all manner of unethical, fraudulent or criminal activity. Excessive wealth is a symptom of an economic system that drains wealth from everybody else, because the biggest companies have enough power to exploit employees, suppliers, customers, governments and the environment. These people have not ‘earned’ their wealth. They became rich because they understand how the system is rigged.
  • 💥The “Great Reset” and the UN Resolution Prohibiting the “Glorification of Nazism” by Carla Stea from Internationalist 360°. This is a best post.
The now neo-fascist vaccine mandate forced upon citizens of the US and other nations, including the UN itself, the violation of the Nuremberg Code and numerous UN Resolutions protecting human rights, especially the right to bodily autonomy, indicate an ominous global trend toward totalitarianism which must be opposed by all necessary means.  Otherwise, Hitler’s diabolic agenda will become a global reality.

“The Great Reset” (with its “transhumans”) is an expanded, updated disguised version, of “Mein Kampf,” eugenics masquerading as “public health.”  A new cult has arisen with a tragically gullible mass of deceived people following the cult leader, who arrogantly and falsely claims to “represent science.” 
  • In That Final Moment [a poem] by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband, Tim Foley, also reading this poem (which I recommend)--from her weblog. 
The emergence of a multipolar world is anathema to Washington’s dictate for unipolar hegemony (or what it cynically calls “rules-based order”). The ascendant reality of China as an alternative economic power and the shift in the global economy towards Eurasian integration is unbearable for the U.S. zero-sum view of its imperial demands.

In polarizing international relations, Washington can exert control over “allies and partners” (in reality, vassals and lackeys) by dictating the economic policy of nations – the euphemistically named “Washington Consensus” – that is designed so as to always benefit U.S. capital. Even supposedly stronger Western states like those of the European Union are effectively under Washington’s economic tutelage.
  • Sunday~Civil Rights-? by John Allen from his weblog on Medium. (Note: From direct communication with Allen, I've learned that he is plagued by significant medical problems and he is unable to pay the rent this month.)
  • Two Fake Stories about the DPRK in November 2021 by Konstantin Asmolov from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: Another report of how propaganda is used to deceive the people of the world for the benefit of the transnational capitalist ruling class and their US/British/Zionist Empire. DPRK, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, has a different economic system that won't allow capitalism, the private ownership of the economy that only benefits the owners, to interfere with their lives in the northern part of Korea. For the directors of the Empire, this is a fundamental crime.
In general, we would like to remind you once again that Radio Free Asia is a foreign agent. It was created as a propaganda radio to fight against communism and remains such, which is why fake news makes up a significant percentage of its content.
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Saturday, December 4, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Saturday, December 4, 2021

If you thought the surveillance state was already out of control, hold on to your hats---because the Covid pandemic has just opened the door to the world of medical surveillance—and we’re not just talking about data. Covid-19 has provided your personal health data, your name—and other identifying details-to the federal government and it doesn’t stop at US borders. This is happening globally. Investigative journalist and Boom Bust cohost Ben Swann shares his perspective. 
Singer songwriter Brad Skistimas of Five Times August discusses his unanticipated turn toward anti-establishment rebel rock in the age of Covid. Many of his songs have gone viral and his most recent tune targeting Dr. Fauci had been censored and banned by YouTube. He talks about the pandemic power grab and how people continue to double down on their emotional investment in the official narrative even though none of this is making sense anymore. He touches on why all our old guitar heroes have gone woke and become part of the establishment. He addresses the challenge and danger of speaking your mind at the cost of family, friends, and fans. In spite of the difficulties, his outspokenness has garnered him huge worldwide support.
Earlier today, I was horrified to hear that one of my readers had just been denied access to a local hospital. He was taking his wife in for a very important reason, but there were people at the entrance that were checking the vaccination status of everyone that attempted to enter. He and his wife had not been vaccinated, and so they were turned away. 
  • New film sounds alarm on Wall Street rapacity featuring an interview (from RT) with Sean Stone, author and filmmaker, who "discuss his new film, 'the Paradigm of Money', which exposes corruption in the financial markets of perfidious Wall Street. His film seeks to show how 'collusion between big government and big finance' have led to irresponsible investments, an unaccountable financial sector and a ruined US middle class." [my link inserted]
  • More Fake News About China featuring Lee Camp from his channel on YouTube (15:40) regarding the "news" on all major media specifically about the Chinese tennis star. 
The Pentagon has released its annual Global Posture Review (GPR), which included a number of revisions to US strategy in its struggle to maintain influence in multiple theaters. It recommends “infrastructure” improvements at bases in Guam and Australia and increasing its South Korean presence. It also proposes a rescission of the Trump-era cap on troop deployments in Germany, apparently wanting to be prepared for deeper trouble in Ukraine.
  • UNGA’s Latest Resolution Illustrates the International Community’s Complicity With Israel’s Colonial Expansion by Ramona Wadi from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: This is because of the US's merger what was left of the British Empire after WWII combined to have effective control over the UN and its General Assembly, and designed its organization back in 1945. The General Assembly is organized so that it can only offer non-binding resolutions. So most of the nations have no effective voice in the General Assembly other than offering resolutions. The US and the British set it up that way to allow most nations of the world (outside of the big five: US, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and China--remember that US's ally, the Kuomintang gov. still ruled there until 1949) to "feel" like they had a decision-making voice.
Wadi writes in her opening paragraphs:
 
Yet another non-binding UN General Assembly has passed, granting Palestinians permanent sovereignty over their natural resources, even as Israel has absolute dominion over their territory. The draft resolution, titled “Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources,” is a perfect example of how the UN glosses over Israel’s colonial violence by refusing to take action, preferring to enact non-binding resolutions which do nothing to protect the Palestinian people’s political rights and their territory.

The resolution demands Israel ceases its exploitation and theft of Palestinian land, while noting all other Israeli violations on Palestinian territory, such as the Apartheid Wall, settlement expansion, destruction of Palestinian infrastructure, as well as the impact of Israel weapons in Gaza. With the passing of such a detailed resolution, it would stand to reason that the UN takes measures against Israel’s colonial violence, rather than call upon Israel to halt its damage.
Microwork is a rising form of labor exploitation being deployed by some of the world’s wealthiest capitalists. It’s online work where users are asked to perform menial, small tasks for pennies. Naomi Karavani takes on the phenomenon and shows us the victims of the industry. The low-paid work includes tasks like identifying the contents of images, translating, transcribing audio, or any task that someone on the site is willing to pay for. These tasks can become abusive where workers have been sexually harassed by the people setting the tasks. Jeff Bezos has a company called Mechanical Turk that competes for microwork jobs. Vulnerable people such as refugees and those living in occupied territories are the target worker for the microwork industry.
Debt collectors can now come after you on social media. Some rules apply, but that’s just the latest after a new set of policies that came into place this week by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. RT contributor Mollye Barrows reports. Then, professor of economics at UMASS Amherst Richard Wolff weighs in.
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Friday, December 3, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, December 3, 2021

  • What’s Left? How Greenwald, Covid and Rittenhouse Exposed a Plague Among Progressives by Riva Enteen from Mint Press News. My reaction: Although Greenwald is not a socialist, he has integrity and he, as a lawyer, knows the law. Having tamed the Democratic Party, the ruling class has switched sides from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party; and by doing so exposed fake leftists and created some confusion as to what the "left" means. Now it appears to mean "liberals" or soft capitalists in the Democratic Party who fake concern about racism. The true "left" has always meant public or worker ownership and control of the economy which is anathema to all capitalist-loving people in the Democratic Party. Clownish Trump is only a flash-grenade to excite these simple-minded people. What concerns me most is that the people at World Socialist Web Site have supported the Democrats and major media, and have gone along with the fakeries of their fear campaign and the mandates during the covid pandemic.
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Thursday, December 2, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, December 2, 2021

Hayley Hodgson, 26, moved to Darwin from Melbourne to escape the never-ending lockdowns — only to find herself locked up in a Covid Internment Camp without even having the virus.

She’s just returned from a 14-day detention at Howard Springs, the 2000-capacity Covid camp outside Darwin to which regional Covid cases are transported by the authorities. In an exclusive interview with Freddie Sayers, she recounted her experiences.
  • 💥The Strategic Conflict of the 21st Century and its Effects on Latin America by Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein from Internationalist 360°. This is a best post. (Note: There are several typo errors in this article that you should overlook and forgive.) My reaction: Because I am overawed at the scope of this essay or presentation, I still do not know what to make of this post. First, Gelfenstein cogently offers an exceptional geopolitical analysis of the present confrontation of the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire with the emerging powers of Russia and China, but then he applies this analysis to the implications for policies that Latin American and Caribbean countries should pursue.
The Pentagon has ordered more Aircraft Carriers to the Pacific to preempt conflict with China. Meanwhile, Washington plans to deploy fighter and bomber planes to Guam and Australia to counter Beijing. The two world powers are engaged in a new arms race.
 
China and Russia, have developed and successfully tested hypersonic weapons systems while the US has yet to do so. RT America's Trinity Chavez reports on the US military's unflinching global bellicosity and tremendous expense to taxpayers. Then former naval intelligence officer John Jordan shares his insights.
America is coming to face an ominous crossroads, in her view, which boils down to this: will the United States embrace socialism or will it descend into fascism?

Dr Harriet Fraad lives in New York City. She has been a practicing psychotherapist and hypnotherapist for nearly four decades. She is also a political activist, a founding member of the women’s liberation movement in the United States during the late 1960s and co-founder of the journal Rethinking Marxism.
  • Epstein’s shadow: 5 takeaways from Ghislaine Maxwell trial. This post gives us an update on the latest happenings in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's assistant, via RTs channel on YouTube (01:46). (Note: They have both been accused of "entertaining" important political members of the Empire with underage girls. Epstein is reportedly dead from a mysterious "suicide".)
Americans live under a governmental regime that openly breaks its own laws. The government not only believes it can do whatever it can get away with politically, not only believes that it can torture its foreign foes and claim the torture is a state secret, not only can bribe and coerce witnesses into saying what the government wants to hear, but it also can authorize criminals to commit crimes.
This book is about capitalism, racism, misogyny, and the many ways American industry upholds and recreates power imbalances. Sports often presents an exaggerated version of these problems, but the way these problems manifest in sports mirror how they occur in every other aspect of American life. 
Is this the same Democratic administration that promotes "woke" policies, "cancel culture", Critical Race Theory, etc.? 
 
Yes, the ruling capitalist class decided to back the Democratic Party in order to fool Americans who were concerned about racism and civil liberties--the concerns of mainly and superficially the well-educated and indoctrinated high-tech professionals. They used their control of all major media corporations to bring about this apparent change. 
 
The US and British ruling classes are no different than the Nazis which, if you think about it, makes perfect sense. The end objective of capitalism is fascism. Racism is a tool used historically to divide Americans and Europeans, many of whom are not racists, by the current de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire to advance their objective of world domination. 
#NoMore Censorship of Africa’s Roving Digital Army of Peace                   Ethiopians Rally for Peace and Against Corporate Media Lies
 
What exactly is the #NoMore movement? On November 1st, a group of activists, fed up with almost a year of war between the US-backed Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the federal government of Ethiopia, initiated a campaign calling for “no more” war, “no more” support for TPLF by the US, “no more” disinformation by the mainstream media and “no more” sanctions on Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. Accordingly, these demands were popularly expressed in the hashtag #NoMore.
Steve St. Angelo of the SRSrocco Report returns to continue our conversation on how the world is going off the Energy Cliff and how we are never going back to normal. We are seeing the peak and decline of this global hi-tech complex economy. He believes the elite are powerless to stop the falling Energy Return On Investment (EROI) and that a lot of their wealth is going to be wiped out, just as in past history (e.g. late Bronze Age). He sees us hitting the energy peak at 2025 and the likelihood of military conflicts as a consequence. Russia is looking to the Arctic and China is in serious trouble. We don't have enough energy to make the transition to the Green Economy and therefore things like the metaverse, cryptocurrencies, and EVs won't be possible at scale due to the lack of energy and an electric grid already at capacity. This would make maintaining a global digital technocracy difficult.
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Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, December 1, 2021

  • 💥Robert Kennedy, Jr. Interviewed by Tucker Carlson from Behind the Curtain (Curtin's website). This is a best post. (Note: If you are in a hurry, listen at approximately 4:26-6:35 to get an introduction to Kennedy's remarks. You can also get a transcript by accessing the original YouTube video by clicking on "YouTube", below the video "..." and choosing "open transcript". I, because of my hearing loss, must activate "CC" to access the written words that Kennedy speaks because of his speech disability.) My reaction: I am offering free for the first 10 requests a recent book entitled The Real Anthony Fauci by RFK, Jr.--presently it is sold-out on Amazon so you can expect a delay--to anyone requesting this book by writing to me (Ron H) at goatmeal36.com.
  • Now or Never: The Great ‘Transition’ Must Be Imposed by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Crooke seems to be arguing that the ruling capitalist class of the US/British/Zionist Empire feel compelled to enforce their pandemic restrictions, but that is risking a nuclear war with Russia and China.
This is key: When the West speaks, it is forever looking over its shoulder, at the domestic, and wider psychic impact when it is ‘making a point’ (such as practicing attacks by nuclear-capable bombers as close to Russia’s borders as they dare). And that when Russia and China say, ‘This is our Red Line’, it is no meme – they really mean it. 
 
Regarding those who determine policies (the ruling class), he vaguely writes earlier:
 
There are powerful oligarchic interests behind the Re-Set. They do not want to see it go down, nor see the West eclipsed by its ‘competitors’. So it seems that rather than back off, they will go full throttle and try to impose compliance on their electorates: tolerate no dissidence.
 
My reaction: Who constitutes the "oligarchs"? (We, in the West have democracy which is rule by the people--this is one of their longtime major deceptions.)
Politicians around the world, all of whom, whatever their colouration, serve the interests of finance capital, duly took note of their master’s voice. They declared there would be no significant changes in their policies, apart from some token restrictions, largely on international travel. 
 
My reaction: However, if the financial capitalists instead of the old-fashioned (industrial) capitalists are in command of the Empire, then we can continue to expect risky policies (re. Crooke in the above post) will be pursued which will threaten all inhabitants of the Earth with global nuclear war.
The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) is celebrating as, with almost all votes counted, they appear to have won 20 out of the country’s 23 states in Sunday’s regional “mega elections.” More than 70,000 candidates stood for one of 3,082 public positions, including local mayorships, councillors, regional legislators and state governors — the vast majority of candidates affiliated with opposition parties.

The landslide victory was watched over by international observers from 55 countries, including a delegation from the European Union, who praised the organizational capacity of the National Electoral Council, effectively endorsing the proceedings.
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Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, November 30, 2021

A broader framework of disorder exacerbates this fragmentation. Nation-state actors have declared their “right” to assassinate persons anywhere in the world thought to be “enemy combatants” by secret evidence, without trial or any due process of law. Big money influences how laws are made in nearly every country, industrial-military complexes encourage a war mentality, and mass media propaganda encourage seeing the world as full of enemies and security threats. The capitalist system cultivates both egoism and an unlimited expansionist economic model that has wrought havoc on our finite planet with its multiple intersecting, delicately balanced ecosystems. Unless the people of Earth take charge through a true democratic system more powerful than multinational corporations, big money, global private banking, or militarized imperial nation-states, our planet has little hope for a transformed future.
... do not expect anything dramatic to happen in the New York courtroom. One has to suspect that a tale of Mossad running a major spy ring in the US using a pedophile and young girls might just be too much for some folks in power to tolerate and they have made sure that that aspect of the story will never see the light of day. That is the real story that is being conveniently covered-up. Israel yet again spies and Washington denies.
It should be obvious to everyone that humanity is headed down a dark path if worldwide public speech is regulated by monopolistic oligarchs with a vested interest in preserving the status quo and a steadily increasing alignment with government institutions. If every platform people flock to in large numbers becomes subjected to iron-fisted establishment narrative management, it will greatly hinder humanity’s efforts to become a conscious species that has a truth-based relationship with the world.
On November 11 Filippo Grandi, the head of UNHCR, issued a plea for greater assistance from rich countries, saying that “the international community must redouble its efforts to make peace, and at the same time must ensure resources are available to displaced communities and their hosts.” Unfortunately most of the international community couldn’t care less about refugees, as evidenced by reaction to recent agonising events such as Poland’s inhumane treatment of the thousands attempting to enter from Belarus, whose President is quite as cruel and pitiless as the Polish authorities who have repelled so many of them.
China is imposing harsh regulations on private education, big tech, and billionaires. The new Cold Warriors in the U.S. government and media call these moves authoritarian, leftward tyranny, and bad for business.

But Chinese president Xi Jinping calls it part of a “common prosperity” agenda to create a more equitable society on the road to building socialism.
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Monday, November 29, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, November 29, 2021

  • The Darkest Dream: Mind Control, GMOs and Medical Murder by Ryan Matters, "a writer and free thinker from South Africa" (apparently) from his weblog NewBraveWorld. My reaction: This lengthy post investigates how the occult has influenced science, but I would express this as the irrational application of science to serve the imperatives of the capitalist system: the accumulation of wealth and its highly addictive corollary power.
The “scientific method” breaks down when it encounters evidence that falls outside what “science” has deemed to be true. The data are then misrepresented, ridiculed or ignored. The scientific consensus is steered by research funded and promoted by corporations with vested interests and little regard for human wellbeing. Industry shills and soulless academics defend their oppressors while dancing to the tune of elite mind-control, relayed through textbooks, research grants, “consulting” fees, TV shows, news and current events.
 
Matters concludes his lengthy essay with these insightful words:
 
It has never been more important for us to plant our feet firmly on the Earth, draw energy up from the living soil and re-establish our connection with the natural world. As we cultivate a new organ of perception, one that allows us to perceive the spectre-like web of occult influence woven around us and its pervasive influence on modern society, we’re finally able to face up to our oppressors, dissolve the darkness, and set forth on a journey of healing and reparation. When we do this, the bonds of fear, hatred and division fall away like dry leaves in the Autumn wind.
Dr. Goebbels’ inept disciples have overlooked the concept of gute Propaganda, paradoxically one of the key postulates of the doctor’s technique. It means that to be credible, successful, and ultimately persuasive, propaganda must be heavily laced with elements of truth. In their hubris and unremitting reliance on crude force, they failed to do their homework. “Good propaganda,” Goebbels wrote, “need not lie, in fact must not lie. Propaganda which makes use of the lie … cannot have success in the long run … but a right idea must also be set forth in the appropriate way.”

They have obviously failed to find the appropriate way to package Covid-19 for the hesitant and disbelieving masses. Hence, their inelegant solution is to try to ram it down everybody’s throat, which is a risky approach and likely to backfire. Schade … the doctor is probably muttering in his molten lake in hell.
In societies bombarded with propaganda – propaganda that gets ever more sophisticated as software and algorithms learn through billions of tiny mind experiments how to trigger us, arouse us, incentivise us – it is extraordinarily hard to think clearly. It requires a huge amount of mental and spiritual energy to gain distance. That’s very difficult to do if we spend all day working, or we are exposed all day to the news cycle. The biggest problem is not just that our thoughts are likely to be someone else’s (often Rupert Murdoch’s), it is that we don’t even know that they belong to somebody else. That is how propaganda works.
  • Humanity Is Still Trying To Be Born 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.
Supported by America and other foreign forces, including elements within United Nations (UN) agencies, The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is attempting to overthrow the democratically elected Government of Ethiopia and regain power. This would be disastrous for the country and the region.

The impact of the year-long conflict is devastating. Perhaps as many as three million people are internally displaced, tens of thousands have been killed; women and girls raped, property trashed, land destroyed, livestock slaughtered by TPLF fighters.
  • Terms Used to Describe Global Warming featuring the views and analysis of Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist (via his YouTube channel--06:02), who has fearlessly focused his attention throughout his career on the climate crisis. My reaction: McPherson tells us the history of global warming as seen through the eyes of scientists. We learn that more than a century ago humanity first learned that carbon dioxide was contributing to global warming and subsequent scientists, particularly during the 1930s, contributed to this discovery. McPherson also at the end refers to a possible solution for this global warming known as the "mirrors" proposal along with other societal changes. However, in other posts and books, he does not leave much hope for the proposal being carried out by our current masters in the capitalist classes which are far more focused on wealth accumulation and power, control (of ordinary people).
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