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 LappĆ©, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Friday, January 7, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, January 7, 2022

Is there anything you can or should do if you are facing a vaccine mandate as a condition of attending school or keeping a job? Yes. Absolutely, there is.
  • The CIA’s War on Democracy: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Edward J. Curtin, Jr. Converse by Edward Curtin features a video of this interview (34:44) from his weblog Behind the Curtain. My reaction: Both Kennedy and Curtin are supporters of the capitalist system, a system which pretends to offer a democracy for the public instead of the control and dominance of capitalist class rule. But I think both (along with Glenn Greenwald--and JFK) are honest regarding their political views.
That the January 6 riot was some sort of serious attempted insurrection or "coup” was laughable from the start, and has become even more preposterous with the passage of time and the emergence of more facts. The United States is the most armed, militarized and powerful regime in the history of humanity. The idea that a thousand or so Trump supporters, largely composed of Gen X and Boomers, who had been locked in their homes during a pandemic — three of whom were so physically infirm that they dropped dead from the stress — posed anything approaching a serious threat to “overthrow” the federal government of the United States of America is such a self-evidently ludicrous assertion that any healthy political culture would instantly expel someone suggesting it with a straight face.
  • A year later, what are the lessons from the Trump-backed insurrection of January 6? from Peoples Dispatch. (Note: In this post Monica Cruz interviews Brian Becker, a prominent left-wing activist, who attempts to assess what happened on Jan. 6 of last year.) My reaction: Although he doesn't offer new evidence, he reviews the known events surrounding the alleged "attack on the Capitol" on January 6, 2021 that were characterized by feeble attempts of the FBI and the Capitol guards to prepare for this demonstration, and he concludes that this was a public relations stunt engineered by the Democratic Party to prepare for the next elections.)
So I think that the Democratic Party is grandstanding by looking like they’re big and strong against Trump when, in fact, what they’re doing is the opposite. He is not facing criminal charges. As for the other charges, the contempt charges in Congress will be in fact the political rallying cry for Steve Bannon and the other parts of the Trump entourage. So again, it’s performance theater by the Democratic Party. Meanwhile, it is using these events so that people can send millions and millions to the Democrats as they prepare for the next round of elections. And you also have Trump using the allegation of election fraud to raise lots of money – hundreds of millions of dollars.

So it doesn’t appear to be serious because it’s not serious.
 
Becker then goes on to argue that fascists events characterized what was going on in all Western nations in the 1930s when their populations were suffering from the Great Depression which corresponds to my analysis based on readings of reliable historians and examination of writings during that time.
 
The promotion of the scandalous nature of the event by the Democratic Party represents punishment for that part of the populace who voted for Trump, another capitalist politician, in 2016 in opposition to the ruling class's chosen candidate Hillary Clinton. The ruling capitalist class has chosen the Democratic Party as a vehicle for the execution of their agenda to confuse workers and civil libertarians in their belief that the Party represents them instead of the ruling capitalist class.
  • The Truth About China in Africa features Danny Haiphong and his views about China in an interview conducted by Naomi Karavani using Redacted Tonight's channel on YouTube.
Naomi Karavani interviews journalist Danny Haiphong for a look at modern China, the propaganda being deployed against it by the US empire, and the reality contrasting that propaganda. Haiphong’s journalism is published on his “Chronicles of Haiphong” Substack. There are many lies being spread about China across the West and they’re shading the world’s understanding of what’s happening in the world’s most populous country. Haiphong explains how the Belt and Road Initiative really works, the new Cold War being developed by the NATO powers, and much more.  
  • What Kazakhstan Isn’t by Craig Murray, an independent blogger from Scotland, from his weblog. (Note: I am posting this article in an effort to present another view from an independent blogger of recent events in Kazakhstan.) My reaction: I'm still not convinced that subversive agents of the CIA are not involved. But, we will soon see.
The narrative on the right is that Putin is looking to annex Kazakhstan, or at least the majority ethnic Russian areas in the north. This is utter nonsense.

The narrative on the left is that the CIA is attempting to instigate another colour revolution and put a puppet regime into Nur-Sultan (as the capital is called this week). This also is utter nonsense.
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Thursday, January 6, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, January 6, 2022

  • Which Was Washed More? by Allen Forrest from Dissident Voice. (Note: He offers a cartoon to express what he thinks.)
The overriding factor is the financial incentives of offering money, as is true for hospitals in the USA, as a reward for attributing the cause of death to Covid-19. 
 
I recall my experience in Wisconsin as a Rehabilitation Counselor. I had transferred from California where I did the same work. But the Wisconsin bureaucratic officers were greatly motivated by the "rehabilitation closures" (meaning that clients benefited from our services to achieve employment) they could report in order to justify their next year's appeal for extra funds. Whereas in California the bureaucratic overseers, under the Reagan governorship, had slashed funds for rehabilitation, the Wisconsin counterparts were motivated by more money related to "rehabilitation closures". 
 
Thus, the typical closure had "unpaid family worker" (or some such fake closure) that theoretically described a person who as a result of our services had resulted in another family member obtaining employment. Anyone who walked through our doors in Wisconsin ended up as a "rehabilitation closure"--and the pressures on us counselors were enormous to obtain such closures. (I finally left this career for which I had long prepared.)
 
This policy was justified with an explanation that they were used to acquire more funds to do our work. I became aware that 1/2 of my time was devoted to fake "closures" as real work to help a person with some kind of disability. The raising of funds was the primary reward for our work in Wisconsin, which resulted in Wisconsin having high rates of "closures". And, the same is true for diagnosing someone with covid. The inadequate PCR test also contributes to the excessive rates of covid in USA.
 
The ruling class has taken advantage of the complicated nature of attributing any one cause for death in order to have high rates of Covid-19. They knew that the US population has, in general, poor health by consuming "fast foods", inadequate exercise, poor public health arrangements, and American lifestyles. Medical practitioners and specialists who criticize these policies and methods are threatened with loss of licenses to practice, terminated, or threatened with shortened career opportunities. Those who comply are rewarded with career advancement, and most do.
 
Since then, I've discovered that most state services of rehabilitation have been privatized and taken control of by insurance companies.
British scholar Susan Williams has spent years documenting these and other instances of the United States’ secret operations during the early years of African independence. The resulting book, White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa, may be the most thorough investigation to date of CIA involvement in Africa in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Over more than 500 pages, Williams counters the lies, deceptions, and pleas of innocence perpetuated by the CIA and other US agencies to reveal a government that never let its failure to grasp the motivations of Africa’s leaders stop it from intervening, often violently, to undermine or overthrow them.
  • Steppe on Fire: Kazakhstan’s Color Revolution by Pepe Escobar from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: I regard Escobar as the world's top journalist. After he describes what he knows about Kazakhstan from his visit there in 2019 and from his contacts there, he continues:
Now compare it to what I learned from two different, high-ranking intel sources.

The first source was explicit: the whole Kazakh adventure is being sponsored by MI6 to create a new Maidan right before the Russia/US-NATO talks in Geneva and Brussels next week, to prevent any kind of agreement. Significantly, the “rebels” maintained their national coordination even after the internet was disconnected.

The second source is more nuanced: the usual suspects are trying to force Russia to back down against the collective West by creating a major distraction in their Eastern front, as part of a rolling strategy of chaos all along Russia’s borders. That may be a clever diversionary tactic, but Russian military intel is watching. Closely. And for the sake of the usual suspects, this better may not be interpreted – ominously – was a war provocation.
  • Science Update: New England Heating Up! featuring the views and analysis of Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson while focusing on climate data for the states in New England (via his YouTube channel--11:17). He is an independent scientist, who has fearlessly focused his attention throughout much of his career on the climate crisis.
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Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, January 5, 2022

  • More Harmful Than Helpful (part 1) by Chris Martenson (in a video--32:13) from his weblog PeakProsperity. (Note: Part 2 is behind a paywall.)
Like any good analyst, Forte, a Canadian professor of Anthropology, examines the evidence all over the world and arrives at some conclusions (which are contained at the end of the article). 
 
But he leaves out a conclusion of mine that the frantic concern for the pandemic of the capitalist ruling class of the US/British/Zionist Empire is because they have recognized to their genuine horror that the enormous growth of population, which their rule has unconsciously created, has caused an enormous threat to the destabilization of the climate.
 
This major concern, stemming from the earliest acknowledge of the threat being the 1972 Club of Rome paper, The Limits to Growth, is an indication for their hyper-aggressive actions, as we have seen and experienced related to the pandemic. If they have enriched themselves in the process out of habit, all the more the better. Their aggressive efforts have resembled the methods of fascist regimes of old, and are a major cause of concern for general populations, civil libertarians, and, not the least, medical scientists and practitioners.
 
Their system of capitalism is dependent on the growth of populations. In the past our authorities were always exclaiming positively over the growing population. The Catholic church, whose religious institution has always aligned with the "powers that be" (the ruling capitalist class), promoted large families, opposed abortion and drugs that prevented pregnancies. Indeed, population growth was always seen as creating more consumers that capitalists feed upon.
 
So, what are they to do in the face of this contradiction? Some may choose the impractical and drastic option to escape the Earth and reside on other planets, but others mistakenly see the enormous growth population--not their capitalist system--as a threat causing the destabilization of the climate and threats to their beloved system. This recognition is motivating them the hide behind the pandemic, which they likely caused, to ensure population decline.
 
Meanwhile, with this dire threat in mind the directors of the capitalist Empire are more aggressively pursuing their longstanding objective of the control/dominance of the world. 
 
In any case, their fascistic policies are likely to continue because they feel the desperate need to control the populations of countries the Empire controls. Their compulsively aggressive pursuit of wealth and power through private ownership and control of the economy has created a kind of fascist conditions during this pandemic which, understandably, are of major concern to many people. 
 
We are, indeed, living in dangerous times!
  • Before and Without Marx by Alan Johnstone, a British member of the Socialist Party of Britain (a companion party of the World Socialist Movement) from Dissident Voice.
  • CNN Gives Award to Pfizer CEO featuring Jimmy Dore, using his channel on YouTube (26:18) sarcastically reporting and discussing, with comic Kurt Metzger interjecting humorous comments, various mainstream media sponsored by Pfizer Corporation. My reaction: Dore gets away with his sarcastic comments regarding the pandemic because his is listed by YouTube as a "comedian".
  • Blue State REFUSES to Follow CDC Guidelines! featuring Jimmy Dore, using his channel on YouTube (14:57) sarcastically reporting and discussing, with comic Kurt Metzger who occasionally interjects humorous and sarcastic comments, regarding the unscientific recommendations by Fauci's CDC. My reaction: Note that Dore is careful to not violate YouTube's censorship rules.
  • Photo-Shopped History: Editing Out Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s Support for Palestine by Clinton Nzala from Mint Press News. My reaction: What most Americans, and those under the rule of the US/British/Zionist Empire, don't realize that all of history has been "photo-shopped", so to speak, by our masters in the capitalist ruling class in all our institutions: education, media, entertainment, etc. This is to ensure that their subject-citizens knowledge of history fits well with their objectives to turn people into consumers and justify their endless wars. The only way to counteract this problem of indoctrination is to read books by the contemporary authors of each historical period and the few dissident authors of our period.
  • China's Excellent, Very Good Year by Godfree Roberts (behind a paywall) and re-posted by Bernhard, an astute independent German blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama.
Kazakhstani President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has DISMISSED the government after a wave of VIOLENT protests over liquefied gas prices swept the country. Multiple clashes between riot police and demonstrators erupted and a number of police cars were burned in the nation’s largest city, Almaty, prompting the president to impose a curfew.
  • Professors Guy McPherson and Beril Sirmacek Field Questions from McPherson's channel on YouTube (1:08:46). (Note: I think this is very important, but I haven't time now to listen to the comments by McPherson, a longtime climate scientist,--I will listen to it later. The serious comments begin at 04:26.) 
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Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, January 4, 2022

  • Killing the First Amendment by Philip Giraldi from the Altworld's weblog on Substack. My reaction: Giraldi points to the US justice system's use of "lawfare" to target journalists and bloggers who use Strategic Culture Foundation. This will also target me. I can expect future legal repercussions because of my re-posting of SCF articles. BTW, the First Amendment to the Constitution reads:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
 
This amendment, like all amendments to US Constitution, was added after the Constitution was written by the revered "Founding Fathers" in order to sweeten its passage by the US States. 
  • EXCLUSIVE: Gloria Allred 'predicts' Prince Andrew's future (FULL show), or three new subjects from RT via YouTube (26:11). My reaction: Tired of scaremongering that corporate media spreads and you're not afraid of RT despite YouTube's scary warning that it is sponsored by Russia? If not, you might be interested in RT's substantive selection of three news items that this video covers.
  • Making Mars and Venus habitable is possible from RT's channel on YouTube (04:49). My reaction: Good news for the fantasies of billionaires who dream of living on other planets away from the nuclear and climate crises of Earth. Do you know who will pay for this venture?
The US may have assassinated Soleimani, but the illegal aggression has not thwarted the Quds Force general's plans for West Asia one bit, and may even have accelerated them.
 
Two years ago, the 2020s started with a murder.
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Monday, January 3, 2022

Announcement of future changes in my weblog/website

I will continue my efforts at reducing my time maintaining my website by reducing the number of posts that I scan (50 at present) from which I list posts that are especially relevant. This change will likely not happen in today's aggregated post because I've had a long weekend to work on it. But after today, this will put more of a time burden on my readers to search out other articles of their interest. I will also need to ensure that my "recommended" websites/weblogs, located on the right-hand side of my website, are maintained and up-to-date.
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Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, January 3, 2022

  • šŸ’„A New Strategy to save Capitalism from Itself: The Great Reset, has been announced by the increasingly fascist and desperate, neoliberal directors of the US/British/Zionist Empire by Ron Horn for Surviving Capitalism (not). This is a best post because anything I write extensively qualifies as a best post so that my followers can get a "reading" on my positions.
The signs of the climate crisis can no longer be denied by the self-serving directors of the Empire. The signs: wildfires, the destabilization of the climate with extreme weather, the accelerating melting of the glaciers in the arctic and subarctic regions of our planet can no longer be ignored by our masters in the ruling class, and they have acted accordingly to save themselves while pursuing their concentration of wealth and power. However, it is too late. They have dawdled being distracted by their quest for unilateral dominance, control and wealth concentration into their hands with the result that it is now too late to save the planet. 
 
In recent years we have seen their frantic efforts to save themselves by venturing into outer space to discover new hospitable planets and other opportunities to accumulate more power and wealth. We have also witnessed other frantic efforts reflected in the Great Reset to meet only one of the various crises of capitalism. One wonders if the suspicious covid pandemic isn't one of their desperate solutions to reduce the Earth's population. It is obvious that they have prospered during this pandemic while the lower classes have suffered from the loss of employment and businesses. 
 
The propaganda organs of media corporations have been trying to sell us on the positive prospects of this Great Reset that thinly disguises their motives by a campaign which promises that we will own nothing, but remain happy mainly because of the technological fantasies that high-tech corporations promise. The reality behind this propaganda campaign is further impoverishment in terms of the standard of living of the sub-classes they rule over which will result in the decline of their populations, and this is precisely their intention.
 
While this is going on, independent medical scientists are pointing to the disturbing defects with which the ruling capitalist medical institutions are dealing with the pandemic. There are growing signs that their methods are prolonging the pandemic and creating new variants of this disease. 
 
There are also disturbing signs that their use of authoritarian mandates to cope with this pandemic are creating fascism which is endemic to capitalism and which are the preference by their directors. Who needs democracy and free of speech, when you can rule by mandates?! The directors of this capitalist empire are always looking for new methods of control over their populations, and these mandates are offering new, promising means of this control while causing the reduction of workers and people engaged in small businesses. But they can't resist enriching themselves while the pandemic is going on to urge the rest of the population to get vaccinated. This health campaign is a perfect cover for their project to reduce populations while providing new opportunities for profit-making.
 
Independent scientists like retired Guy McPherson are pointing out that it is too late to save the planet unless they make a last-ditch effort at installing mirrors world-wide to reflect the sun's rays. This is method is highly unlikely given to the proclivities of capitalists. Such highly qualified scientists are being suppressed with their careers blocked if they are working in corporations and other institutions which capitalists control. It is no wonder that relatively few are critically speaking out against the existing policies of the Deep State.
 
This suppression of dissent is also true of highly qualified medical specialists who have been long critical of these methods (and new ones) in the past year like Geert Vanden Bossche and Dr. Robert Malone, and lessor known medical physicians (which suffer threats to their license to practice). They are being censored, suppressed, and ignored. Meanwhile, media corporations are continuing their fear campaigns and urging the American people to take their vaccines despite the high number of injuries and deaths they are causing, hospitals are continuing to be rewarded with increase government payments if they report covid cases. Critics like Robert Kennedy, Jr., who has exposed Anthony Fauci that the criminal he is, have long joined the battle against these methods and their proponents. But the ruling class who have control of all institutions have so far been successful in suppressing these dissenting voices.
 
Our overlords in the ruling class are also engaged hyperactively in aggressive actions against their old foes China, Russia, and Iran. These actions look like a last desperate attempt to save their system of capitalism and to salvage what they can of the US/British/Zionist Empire. But their aggressive actions threaten a horrendous conflagration of a nuclear war.
 
I look forward with much trepidation to the new year's calamities that are sure to follow. I hope I am wrong. If we make it through the new year without things getting dramatically worse, it will be a miracle.
  • Andrei Martyanov: It's Game Over for the West from Geopolitics & Empire. (Note: Because of Martyanov's thick accent and his rapid speech, I had a very difficult time, in my old ears, understanding his comments. I will instead order his book Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse to understand his views.)
  • Are There Limits to Growth? by James Corbett from his weblog. (Note: I recommend that you limit this post is only 23:30 of the entire post of 1:41:39. This post is only a bad example of "critical thinking" of someone who poses as an anarchist that has numerous followers.) My brief commentary follows: 
Corbett in this post lampoons (at one point he laughs out loud) the early forecasts during the early 1970s in which the transnational capitalist class was sufficiently concerned about the future to hire MIT to project into the future how the Earth would tolerate the ever-burdening population growth that the capitalist system promoted. Apparently Corbett, in contrast to climate scientists, is unconcerned about the continuing rise in global average temperatures, wildfires, extreme weather, the melting of the glaciers and the ice covering the Arctic Ocean. 
 
If my memory serves me correctly, Corbett is an anti-authoritarian, extreme individual-oriented anarchist which places him on the right-wing of anarchism. He is comfortable with the early stages of capitalism before it became the grownup monster that is controlling our lives. 
 
And, I think (although I cannot yet prove it) that this is a pandemic engineered by the ruling class to solve this over-population that their profit-making, pharmaceutical corporations are called on to solve. The ruling class consists of mostly financiers and large investors, and it is perfectly understandable to maintain their power and control that they will reward their corporations with abundant profits to carry out this project of population reduction via a pandemic and their mostly useless, and sometimes dangerous, vaccinations. It is also understandable that they will use governments, controlled by them, to issue mandates to further enhance these efforts.  
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Sunday, January 2, 2022

Announcement of change of style for my posts

Important notice: As I decline in my powers due to aging, I must finally curtail the time I spend daily on my posts. I must find the time to rest more. I am not certain how I will shorten the time I spend on the posts, but I will decide between now and tomorrow noon.
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Friday, December 31, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, December 31, 2021

The Justice Department’s China Initiative Was Established by the Trump Administration to Crackdown on Chinese Economic and Scientific Espionage
 
However, its primary targets have been academics prosecuted for failing to properly disclose their connection to Chinese universities on grant forms and it has led to numerous miscarriages of justice 
  • Live Talking Maxwell Verdict w/Whitney Webb 12/29/21 featuring Whitney Webb's interpretation of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial to date as revealed in this interview with Webb, who has done extensive research on the Maxwell case. This interview and discussion was directed by Graham Elwood using his channel on YouTube (33:40). (Note: This is not a 1:08:03 interview because Elwood has technical difficulties with YouTube and other problems with hooking up to Webb. The interview starts at about 10:00 and lasts until about 43:40, which equals about 33:40 total for the interview with Whitney Webb.) My reaction: As you probably know, Maxwell was found guilty of five of six counts during her recent trial. But that isn't justice served because the two main criticisms of the trial are provided by Webb which indicates that the trial made a concerted effort to prevent any prominent names associated with Epstein's trafficking of minors for sexual blackmail purposes would be kept out of the trial, and prevented any examination of Israeli spy involvement with this essentially blackmail operation. Elwood near the end cynically speculates about the sentencing of G. Maxwell put off until another day.
  • Brian Williams’ RIDICULOUS Retirement Speech featuring Jimmy Dore commenting about the hilarious speech that Brian Williams gave on TV, with mostly humorous comments interjected in the conversation by comedian Kurt Metzger--using Dore's channel on YouTube (25:46). My reaction: Williams is representative of the shallow, morally-compromised people who work for media corporations, and the mouthpiece of corporations and the ruling capitalist class in general. He has been rewarded with a long career at NBC as a presenter of the "news" or, more realistically, ruling class propaganda.
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Thursday, December 30, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, December 30, 2021

A year and a half after the arrival of Virus, some may have started wondering why the usually unscrupulous ruling elites decided to freeze the global profit-making machine [capitalism] in the face of a pathogen that targets almost exclusively the unproductive (over 80s). Why all the humanitarian zeal? Cui bono? Only those who are unfamiliar with the wondrous adventures of GloboCap can delude themselves into thinking that the system chose to shut down out of compassion. Let us be clear from the start: the big predators of oil, arms, and vaccines could not care less about humanity. [my insertion]
Unz, a writer who promotes old-fashioned capitalism, labeled by neoconservatives as paleoconservatism, argues that Kennedy's book The Real Anthony Fauci has reopened a controversy that raged in the 1990s set off by Prof. Luc Montagnier, the medical researcher who won a Nobel Prize for discovering the HIV virus in 1984. Unz writes: “Tragically for humanity, there are many, many untruths emanating from Fauci and his minions. RFK Jr. exposes the decades of lies.” Kennedy also included names like Kary Mullis, the renowned creator of the revolutionary PCR test, and Prof. Peter H. Duesberg. 
 
One of the major scientific heroes in Kennedy’s account is Prof. Peter H. Duesberg of Berkeley. During the 1970s and 1980s, Duesberg had been widely regarded as among the world’s foremost virologists, elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences at age 50, making him one of its youngest members in history.
 
Unz goes on to report in this article:
 
In 1996 he published Inventing the AIDS Virus, a massive 712 page volume setting forth his case, with the Foreword provided by Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis, the renowned inventor of PCR technology and himself another leading public critic of the HIV/AIDS hypothesis. Duesberg even underscored the confidence of his HIV skepticism by offering to be injected with HIV-tainted blood.

But rather than openly debate such a strong scientific opponent, Fauci and his allies blacklisted Duesberg from receiving any government funding, thereby wrecking his research career, while also vilifying him and pressuring others to do the same.
  
According to Unz, other attacks on Duesberg followed.
 
This article reports on the fakery behind the current ruling class's promotion of the Democratic Party and their "woke" policies which pretend to show how minorities like homosexuals and African-Americans have been discriminated against by old-fashioned conservatives, the former capitalist ruling class, which was replaced by neoconservatives (right-wing Jews or Zionists) like Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Dick Cheney, etc., who arose in the government during the Reagan administration and promoted the new ideology of neoliberalism. This ideology formed a basis for the new transnational capitalism which has morphed into the thoroughly corrupt ruling class in which the latter chose the Democratic Party as an instrument to further their agenda as we see today. 
 
However, this is a ruse to further confuse and divide Americans while the ruling capitalist class installs foreign military bases, engages in subversive activities to overthrow governments they don't like, and wages wars in order to construct their world Empire. Meanwhile, they continue to make half-hearted attempts to cope with the climate crisis which will increase in the near future.
  • Ghislaine Maxwell Is Guilty by Dan Adler from Vanity Fair. My reaction: The fact that this was reported in Vanity Fair is significant. Only the rich ruling class read this magazine because VF report on matters that affect them. (Note: If you have limited time, Ben Swann also reports and comments on this from Sovren--03:11.)
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Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, December 29, 2021

The conventional wisdom is that the Fed’s recent emergency lending facilities to Wall Street were caused by the COVID-19 crisis. The above chart, which uses the New York Fed’s own Excel spreadsheet repo loan data, shows the conventional wisdom is dangerously wrong.
  • Thought The Pandemic Was BAD?! This Is What's NEXT! feature Russell Brand, a British figure, at his channel on YouTube (08:03) interviewing Professor Dr. Brad Evans, of Bristol University. My reaction: Dr. Evans is trying to elevate our critical thinking of government secrecy and on recent technological developments of surveillance especially in relation to the critics of the policies of the ruling class (who control the government).
  • šŸ’„Leftist YouTubers Co-Opted to Counter Covid Restriction Critics featuring Jimmy Dore and guest Max Blumental (of The Grayzone) commenting on the recent efforts to control what on what "left" and "right" means in the political spectrum in an effort to smear critics of the Empire policies by propaganda agents of the US/British/Zionist Empire--from Dore's channel on YouTube (33:12). This is a best post. My reaction: This is an important propaganda psy-op to confuse various "left" leaders of the Empire in an effort to smear real left critics on various issues--and it's working!
  • 2021: How Capitalism Went Wrong by Polly Boiko from RT's channel on YouTube (08:41). (Note: This is a lite (def. #2) and satirical post mocking capitalism and it effects on some of the changes in socioeconomic class in 2021.) 
  • White House confirms US-Russia meeting in January featuring Peter Kuznick, professor of history at American University, in an interview conducted by Faran Fronczak via RT's America channel on YouTube (05:12). My reaction: Kuznick is far more positive than I am regarding the various meetings between Russian officials and various leaders of the US/British/Zionist Empire.
  • ‘TPLF’s regime was throughout supported by US, EU financially, militarily, and politically’ from Peoples Dispatch. (Note: This post features Elias Amare, editor of Horn of Africa TV giving his views on the subject via Peoples Dispatch's channel on YouTube (14:06).) My reaction: The US/British/Zionist Empire and its recent historical record reveal that it won't hesitate using violence in the form of invading armies, terrorism, and especially propaganda to control and subdue a population for the geopolitical benefits of the transnational ruling classes of the capitalist Empire toward its goal of world domination.
  • The Gordian Knot of Climate Finance featuring an address by Mia Motley, the Prime Minister of Barbados, before the recent COP26 meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, via a video from Facing Future's channel on YouTube (09:07).
In citing the UN’s IPCC Report “Code Red for Human Driven Global Heating” [02], Prince Charles then talked about carbon capture and carbon taxes, which of course, we’ve all heard before, as those who will be taxed, will be the commoner and small business owners that are blamed for, what they call “Human Driven Global Heating” while the big corporations owned by the cartel will be blessed with carbon credits which will be tradable on their rigged stock market while they continue to drive the biosphere into global ecological destruction.

The pretentious solution Prince Charles leads up to, is of course, sustainable growth.

However, the sustainable economic growth system Prince Charles is pushing is not a solution to ending the global environmental destruction that they are strangely calling climate change, because the continuation of a devastating consumer growth market will continue to be the real problem as it always has been in reference to the destruction of our environment.
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Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, December 28, 2021

  • Video Transcript: Why are Hillary and Trump United in Warning of Bitcoin's Dangers? Interview with Alex Gladstein featuring Glenn Greenwald interviewing (107:23) Gladstein--from his weblog on Substack. (Note: This post features a literal audio transcription in addition to a video interview which you will need to scroll down to it.) My reaction: I have been mostly collecting posts of cryptocurrencies, but I haven't made up my mind yet even after listening/reading to the post over the long weekend. I offer this post to you for your study only--I do not endorse cryptocurrencies. I am not a financial analyst. Recently Sovren has been running short video appearances by various individuals here, here, and here.
  • The central bank takeover of Russia by Edward Slavsquat from his weblog on Substack. (Note: I have no idea if the author is a legitimate knowledgeable authority or not regarding cryptocurrencies and central banks.)
The US/British/Zionist Empire engages, as always, in psychological projection accusing Russia of aggression when it is the other way around, that is, the Empire is engaging in aggressive actions by encircling Russia with military bases next to it border designed to provoke Russia in defense of its nation. No doubt this strategy is accompanied by lucrative rewards to European politicians to support the Empire's goal of making Europe dependent on American gas. 
 
The capitalist Empire always offers monetary rewards to bribe its way to power and domination when direct intimidating violence is out of the question. It will be up to ordinary European citizens to decide this contest.
 
It is my opinion that the aggressive policies of moving NATO troops up to the Russian border and promulgating militant anti-Russian propaganda are methods to sabotage efforts of Europeans to secure much cheaper gas from Russia. To the directors of the Empire, this is a crucial strategy to keep Russia and Europe apart. For them to cooperate in this economic effort would be a major defeat for the goal of global domination of the world by the capitalist Empire. The directors of the Empire are staking everything on the success of this strategy which is threatening the world with a global nuclear war conflagration. This is the reason why Russia has issued some "red lines" (see here, here, and here.)
Russia’s strategic patience has worn out. Years of relentless encroachment by the United States and NATO on Russia’s territory has reached the point where Moscow has peremptorily declared red lines that must be respected. In short, no more eastward expansion by the U.S.-led military bloc and, secondly, the removal of U.S. strike weapons from neighbouring states.

The latest phase in the long post-Cold War game has been the vicarious menacing with Ukraine. Moscow could be criticized for being too complacent about the bad faith and backsliding by NATO since the late-1990s in ripping up assurances to Russia over no eastward expansion. But the NATO-backed Kiev regime threatening Russian people in eastern Ukraine and Russia’s national security is the last straw. Better late than never.
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Monday, December 27, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, December 27, 2021

A number of renowned doctors and scientists have been sharing evidence calling into question the measures that health authorities have taken to combat COVID. Whether it be catastrophic harms of lockdown measures, vaccine mandates or science that calls into question the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines, both evidence and opinion have been shut down, censored and ridiculed.

Many experts in the field have been subjected to ridicule campaigns as well. The Great Barrington Declaration scientists are a recent example.
  • šŸ’„UNCENSORED: RFK Jr. Tells Shocking Truth About Anthony Fauci featuring an interview with RFK, Jr. conducted by Jimmy Dore from Dore's channel on Rumble (1:04:39). (Note: There is an abbreviated (censored or self-censored?) version (44:49) on YouTube.) This is a best post. My reaction: RFK, Jr. gives a condensed version of his book. This is an illustration (need I elaborate?) of how the ruling capitalist class and their rich conspirators' corrupt individuals and institutions to serve themselves with wealth and, especially, power to rule much of the world. Read all about it in my essay here and recently corroborated by a Columbia University historian. 
Even though Barack Obama had explicitly campaigned against George W Bush’s foreign policy (as well as Hillary Clinton’s in the Democratic primary), he soon proved himself amenable to many of their ideas. Power was a key influencer, holding multiple positions in the Obama administration.
 
My reaction: This post, one of many, that demonstrates the fact that there is a Deep State or a ruling class that controls the government which has the effect of continuing policies regardless of which political party is in control of the government.
  • The Weather Underground & Political Violence featuring on RT's channel on YouTube (28:39), Chris Hedges in an interview with Mark Rudd, author, and former leader of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). (Note: SDS evolved into the Weather Underground, an organization that organized a violent guerrilla movement with the ultimate aim to take over the US government.) šŸ’„My commentary follows:
 I cannot judge these people because, as is well-known, hindsight is 20/20, and especially nearly 50 years later. I think that many of the left organizers in SDS were reaching the height of frustration when organizing efforts did not seem to pay off in the face of widespread ignorance that infected the American people plagued by so many years of indoctrination and incessant propaganda. 
 
I think that if they had succeeded, we wouldn't be facing the twin threats of our demise that confront us today: nuclear war conflagration and the inevitable destabilization of the climate leading to the extinction of humans and most other species. If they were successful at causing the government to be in the hands of the people, they certainly would have restored peace in the world and we might have had a chance to solve the climate crisis. It was obvious at the time they were concerned with stopping the aggressive foreign policies that led to the Vietnam War and all the other wars in the future. 
 
Thus, they would have averted a nuclear war Armageddon, and we would have had a chance to avert the other threat--the climate crisis. Looking back nearly 50 years later by Hedges and Rudd at their unsuccessful attempt is hardly a criticism of them. They should be celebrated as heroes.
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Friday, December 24, 2021

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

This is a common practice in all industries and those government agencies that try to regulate corporations. It is another indication that banks and corporations have control of our government to serve their interests and not to serve the interests of the public. Their interest is control and the eventual control/domination over all of the world as I explained here.
 
The public, like Dore, is only now becoming aware of this longtime practice. It is an obsession by the public to trust the news reporting of corporate media and trusting government institutions to look after the best interests of the public that is the major problem. 
 
We must get rid of capitalist, self-serving control of the USA and the world dominance of their US/British/Zionist Empire that currently threatens the whole human species with a catastrophic nuclear war. This process applies to all social institutions. If you go along with this rewarding process as most educated people do, you will be assured a lucrative career, supportive family, a fancy home, etc. (Educated people can make it possible for the capitalist ruling class to enjoy profits.) This is the secret of their success, but it will lead to the extinction of humans and most other species.
 
In addition to their unconcern about other people, there is a concern about the growing signs of the destabilization of the climate. Therefore, de-population is on their agenda. 
  • VIP | Assange: Journalism on Trial features Naomi Karavani interviewing Mohamed Elmaazi, a UK-based freelance journalist, about the details of the prosecution and especially the persecution by the Empire of journalist Julian Assange--from Redacted Tonight's channel on YouTube (28:02). My reaction: This is an excellent summary of the persecution of Assange. Unlike other career journalists, Assange exposed serious crimes by the Empire.
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Thursday, December 23, 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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