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

• 'Don't get yourselves caught': How the British state allowed its secret agents to commit crime by Ian Cobain from Middle East Eye (based in London). This is the best of the best posts on my website. My reaction follows:
  

This report is prime reading for anyone who wishes to gain an understanding of how "liberal" or bourgeois (capitalist) democracies work. The latter must have secret agencies operating outside of the law that follow the diktats of the ruling capitalist class. This report only deals with British agencies that during the course of their operations commit crimes. It does not report on other agencies, whose top leaders answer to the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's Deep State, that are engaged in shady operations which undermine any semblance of democracy such as propaganda activities. If you think that Britain is not an essential part of the Empire, and, as such, has no implications for the rest of the Empire, you likely won't believe it has anything to do with government operations in the USA. Brainwashed others will dismiss it entirely. However, it is essential reading by any US activist or revolutionary organization that aims to be effective. For people involved in the latter, this rare report must be studied.

• The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It by Gabriel Rockhill from CounterPunch. The author provides the post-WWII details after the Deep State, a kind of board of directors for the emerging USA, concluded that 

... it was understood that the best way to construct the fascist international was to do so under liberal cover, meaning through clandestine operations that maintained a liberal façade. While this probably sounds like hyperbole to those whose understanding of history has been formatted by bourgeois social science, which focuses almost exclusively on visible government and the aforementioned liberal cover, the history of the invisible government of the national security apparatus suggests that fascism, far from being defeated in WWII, was successfully internationalized.

• 94 page PDF details Deep State-Media collusion to destroy Trump posted by Alex Christoforou of his 19:34m video interview with Alexander Mercouris. (Note: I have ignored this issue known as "russiagate", because I viewed it as another absurd disinformation distraction from reality. I have barely enough energy and time to follow what I think is reality.)

• Running Out of Time… October Surprise Redux? by Philip Giraldi from Strategic Culture Foundation.  (My reaction: I remember well the reliable reports after Reagan's election in 1980 reporting that the CIA rigged the election for Reagan. Giraldi reports on other possible shenanigans perpetrated by the Deep State that obviously wants Trump removed. But, who cares? Both political parties serve the rich ruling class of capitalists and not ordinary Americans.)

• Top 50 US Think Tanks Receive Over $1b From Gov, Defense Contractors by Barbara Boland from Anti-Empire.

• Google & Oracle to Monitor Americans Who Get Warp Speed’s Covid-19 Vaccine for up to Two Years by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond. (Note: Webb reveals the close connected relationship between Big Pharma and government operations, among other things.)
  

• Fight Racism, Imperialism, and the Current Crisis: A Program to Unify the Exploited and Oppressed from Left Voice. (My reaction: I've only read about the first 1/4 of this lengthy article, and I agree with it so far. But, in the past I viewed the people behind this website a bit naive.)
  

• Bandar bin Sultan, prince of chaos, strikes again by David Herst from the Middle East Eye. 

 

I've only covered about 1/3 of my list of 50 credible websites before I ran out of time and energy. 

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

• While We Were Distracted: The World “Roll Up Your Sleeve” Congress by Mary Christine from The Burning Platform.

• White House Task Force, Dr. Scott Atlas: 5 Simple Facts About COVID-19 from CNSNews.
  

• The Fact-Free COVID Dystopia featuring Tom Woods, a senior fellow of the Mises Institute, lampooning the government's and the WHO's handling of the coronavirus illness. (Note: The Mises Institute is a capitalist think tank that takes a very narrow view of capitalism.)

• The Great Reset | The global elite's plan for the planet from a 3:38m video on RT's channel via YouTube. (My reaction: I think it would be more accurate to write the "Empire's plan".)
  

• The 2020 Election Bamboozle: We Are All Victims of the Deep State’s Con Game by John Whitehead from his weblog The Rutherford Institute.

• Britain’s secret state and the need for whistle-blowing by Katharine Gun from Declassified UK (obviously a British website).
  

• WATCH: The Parallels Between 9/11 and Covid19 featuring Dave Ryan commenting on the close resemblance the current "pandemic" has with the events following 9/11. Posted on Off-Guardian. (This is a best post.)

Kevin Ryan‘s video presentation for the 9/11 Truth Film Festival, held in September to mark the 19th anniversary, discusses the many parallels between the Covid19 narrative, and roll out of the “official conspiracy theory” in the wake of 9/11. 

• A Game of Nuclear Chicken with Russia and China by Michael Klare from TomDispatch. 

• The Fed Wants the Public to Know It Can Withhold Information Under an Executive Order and Defy Subpoenas from Courts and Congress by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. (My reaction: Obviously I don't agree with the first sentence, and I think the Federal Reserve is where the Deep State, a kind of board of directors of the US (if not the Empire), is largely centered.)
  

• The Show Trial of Julian Assange Is an Attack on the Right to Dissent by Megan Sherman from Global Research.

• BBC To Launch Character Assassination Program On Journalists Who Investigated White Helmets’ Links To Al-Qaeda In Syria by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond.
  

• Open Letter to All Governments, International Institutions and Lenders. By John Whitehead from Global Week of Action for Debt Cancellation -- taking place on October 10 to 17 [2020]. (My reaction: Whitehead is no anti-capitalist, but like many pundits he favors a return to a period before the transnational capitalists ("neoliberals") took over. He is mistaken. Capitalism always tends toward the concentration of wealth and power.)

• Lighting up the Elite’s Solutions will Still Smell of Sulphur by Paul Haeder from Dissident Voice. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, October 14, 2020

• Liberalism and Fascism: Partners in Crime by Gabriel Rockhill from CounterPunch. (Note: Rockhill is using the term "liberalism" in the classic sense which means the ideology of capitalism.) My commentary follows:

I agree with most of this article with the exception being that he does not distinguish capitalist "democracy" or,  a more familiar and equivalent term, "bourgeois democracy", from socialist democracy. Lenin laid down the theoretical framework for the latter, but immediately after the Russian Revolution, Russia was under attack mainly by Britain, France, Japan, and the USA--especially by Britain which interfered with Lenin's plans. Also the quashing of the Communist party in Germany contributed to the distortion of Lenin's plans and resulted in a bureaucratic ruling class headed by the authoritarian Stalin. 

A socialist democracy has yet to be created or established, and it doesn't seem likely to appear given the limited amount time humans have due to the threat posed by the ecological crisis and the bellicose and aggressive nature of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. The latter poses the threat of a catastrophic nuclear war.

To be sure, after WWII the Western intellectual apologists for capitalism had to extensively ignore the reality of the fascist roots in capitalism, and went on to extensively rewrite the history of WWII that is de rigueur throughout the present day Empire.

I think there is a basic conflict between capitalism and socialism, and that is the question of allegiance to the extended family versus society. If one chooses family, capitalism provides the means to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of families which are the owners of economic property (and their supporters) over those who don't own economic property.

This is a powerful motive force which is the basis for many conflicts among humans, particularly those who, otherwise support socialist policies; but faced with the loss of jobs and careers, that would bring poverty to their families, many choose a capitalist path. The choice of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was capitalism, and she greatly benefited from her choice. She described her choice in a nutshell that embarrassed a number of members of the capitalist class because it was so true. She said there was no such thing as society, there were only families, and added that maybe neighbors as well.

Capitalist ruling classes have often used this control over jobs and careers in an exaggerated way to co-op people into activities that they would otherwise not engage. This is especially true of highly educated people necessary to maintain and protect all the capitalist machinery necessary for the system to enhance the wealth and power of the ruling class. This practice has led to the corruption of many highly trained professional and managerial people throughout every institution in the Empire.

• U.S. Government Awards Contracts to Seven Organizations with Ties to Gates Foundation, DARPA, Big Tech by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond.

• Open letter from medical doctors and health professionals to all Belgian authorities and all Belgian media. From Docs4opendebate.
  

• James Corbett Encourages You To Do Your Own Research from Corbett's website. (My reaction: The only problem with Corbett's views is that he blames the "media" for using experts as a way to support their authoritarian directions. He doesn't yet see that a capitalist ruling class controls major media corporations.)

• If the Main Stream Narrative Was a Conspiracy, a 3:30m video featuring JP Sears from his channel (via YouTube) doing a parody of what he has learned about the coronavirus from media corporations. 
  

• Airlines Test ‘Proof-of-Immunity’ Technology, Privacy Watchdogs Call It ‘Troubling’ by Jeremy Loffredo from Children's Health Defense.
  

• How the IMF and World Bank Turned a Pandemic into a Public Relations Stunt by Walden Bello from Foreign Policy in Focus.

• Hefty profits for top US banks as millions face social disaster by Shannon Jones from World Socialist Web Site. 

• WARNING: COVID-19 Vaccine Partnership with AstraZeneca a Threat to Public Health by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. 

• High Temperatures October 2020 from Arctic News. 

• The Battle for Hope in the Anthropocene by Jethro Gauld, Ph.D. Researcher from Scientists Warning. 

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

• Klaus Schwab and his great fascist reset from Winter Oak. My commentary follows (On 10/15/2020 I edited this entry to include the much distorted and propagandized the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact by Western historians): 

This rather lengthy article exposes the Great Reset project as a wet dream of the current transnational capitalist ruling class of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. I think that the author places too much emphasis on the similarities on the current scene in America with that of 1930s fascism in Germany and Italy, and not enough emphasis on this vision of the Great Reset as a rather desperate fantasy of the transnational capitalists of the 21st century. Fascism is endemic to any capitalist system. Fascist capitalist classes use mostly crude methods of censorship, surveillance, and police state measures, while most other capitalist countries favor pseudo-democratic methods of controlled elections and carefully crafted propaganda that infects every institution.

Capitalism's trajectory was always headed in the direction of fascism, especially when capitalist countries are threatened. That is precisely why before WWII, during most of the 1930s, capitalist ruling classes in all the other "democratic" nations mostly supported the fascist regimes in Germany and Italy. This support was motivated by the twin threats to capitalist regimes posed by the Great Depression and the rise of the Soviet Union which forbid any significant private ownership of the economy. The latter's system of socialism was a blasphemy to the church in which capitalists worship.

The British ruling class was especially disturbed by any country that promoted socialist policies; and when the Soviet Union appeared, they viewed it as a threat to their system and Empire. But Germany didn't exactly follow the British script for them to head east through Czechoslovakia and destroy the Soviet system. Instead they invaded Poland which held defense treaties with Britain and France. The German government had just signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with the Soviet Union which permitted the two powers to partition Poland between them. 

The allies have made much of that in their propaganda and the rewriting of the history of WWII. But having failed to form an anti-fascist alliance with the Western powers, the Soviets opted to gain time to prepare for the expected invasion of their country by Germany. As a result the Soviets in August of 1939 signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany in which they would carve up Poland between themselves. Shorty thereafter the Nazis invaded Poland and formally started WWII.

After eight months of a phony war with Britain, Nazi Germany invaded France and the Low Countries, and it became clear to the British that Germany was a threat to the British Empire. It was then that British capitalists switched their support (Neville Chamberlain) from the imperialist policies of Germany and Italy to an organizing (Winston Churchill) of capitalist friends of British capitalists to protect their British Empire.

Germany initially overran France on other European countries and went on to attack Britain. The German capitalist ruling class was motivated by resentment that France and Britain demonstrated in the Versailles Treaty after WWI, and the overt fascists of the ruling German capitalist class soon represented a threat to the British Empire and their dominance in the world. WWII left Britain in ruins, so the British ruling class, and what remained of the Empire, teamed up with the American capitalists to form a new capitalist empire (they later added Israel) to counter the socialism found in the Soviet Union and to restore capitalist control of the world. And, as they say, the rest is history. (Read Big Business and Hitler by Jacques R. Pauwels for further information on this subject.)

• Fascism: Now You See It, Now You Don’t! by Gabriel Rockhill from CounterPunch. (Note: The author writes in style which is abstract and academic.)
  

• Breaking Pres. Trump "Total Declassification" of Documents Related To Russia Investigation featuring Ben Swann of ISE commenting on this development.

• No 2nd stimulus? Time to admit both parties want to destroy the average American by Ramin Mazaheri from the "Saker's" weblog.
  

• The WHO Has Let the Cat Out of the Bag: COVID-19 Is Now More About Politics Than Public Health by Daniel Wild from Anti-Empire.  

• Being made invisible by Stephen Sefton from Tortilla con Sal. 

Few are surprised that defenders of Julian Assange against the UK injustice system are misrepresented or excluded by imperialist country governments supported by all the disinformation outlets their countries' oligarchs control. However, scientists questioning public policy on COVID-19 find themselves marginalized not only by dominant liberal opinion but also by majority progressive opinion too. Eminent scientists like John Ioannides, Sunetra Gupta, Sucharit Bhakdi, Alexander Kekulé, Dolores Cahill and dozens of others find themselves in effect, if not disappeared, certainly generally excluded from public discussion.

• Belgian health experts demand full investigation into WHO for faking COVID-19 pandemic by Ethan Huff from Pharmaceutical Fraud.

• NHS Consultant Says Staff Are Being Silenced Over COVID-19 by Michael O'Bernicia from his weblog The Bernician.

• Dr Kevin Corbett Interview 4th October 2020 by "David" who interviews Corbett from the Northern Exposure channel of YouTube. (Note: I don't know anything about Dr. Corbett other than what is provided in the interview, and I don't know anything about "David" who apparently lives in Scotland. I was impressed by Dr. Corbett's interesting comments, and I encountered similar arguments from a "Piece of Mindful" website entitled “Covid-19” = AIDS with emPHAsis.)

• The Covidian Cult by C.J. Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. (Note: I haven't read the article to determine whether it is satire or cogent observations, but I'm impressed with this satirist so much that I'm posting it anyway. Hopkins is an American currently living in Germany.)

 

Sorry, but I've again run out time and energy to complete the list of websites that contain articles which I think are credible.  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, October 12, 2020

• Are You Outsourcing Your Truth? featuring JP Sears, a satirical comedian, on his channel via YouTube.
  

• Battlefield Social Media: The West's Growing Censorship by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.

• Two Types of Terror in Michigan by James Bovard from AIER (American Institute for Economic Research).

• DAMAGE CONTROL: WHO Develops Amnesia, Claims It Never Liked Lockdowns by Alex Turner-Cohen from Anti-Empire. (I had to look up what "penny-drop" means.)
  

• The cruelty of the Covid-secure classroom by Molly Kingsley from Spiked.

• COVID Versus a Natural Catastrophe by Peter Koenig from Global Research.
  

• Dr. Reiner Fuellmich ~ Crimes Against Humanity by Suzanne Maresca from Golden Age of Gaia.

Dr. Fuellmich of Germany discusses the findings of the International Corona Investigative Committee that was formed on July 10, 2020 by four lawyers. The committee is made up of lawyers, doctors, and scientists who together have reached the conclusion that COVID may well be the greatest crime against Humanity in history. They originally set out to determine ~ 

How dangerous is the virus, really? 

What is the significance of a positive test? 

What collateral damage has been caused by the corona measures in regards to the world’s health and economy?

• The Covid-19 Roadmap: Towards Global Economic Chaos and Societal Destruction by Prof Michel Chossudovsky from Global Research.
  

• The Shoddiness of ‘Big Think’ Media by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. (My reaction: I'm not going to fault Zuesse from using the word "aristocracy" instead of "ruling class" which is my preference in the second to the last paragraph. Simply substitute his word for my preference and then the article becomes very insightful. The use of "aristocracy" is necessary in order to be published in any of today's prestigious websites because the phrase "ruling class" implies a Marxist influence which is verboten especially in the West. Apparently it doesn't matter how independent the websites are from Western capitalist publication sources. However, I know Zuesse well enough to conclude that he has been a faithful product of the American educational system. Still, his articles should be read because he reveals so much about the ruling class (excuse me, "aristocracy"😉).
  

• Hearing Reveals US Govt’s Invisible Hand in Protests Around the World by Dave DeCamp from Antiwar. 

• Not News But A Juicy Collection Of Narratives - How The New York Times Failed Its Readers by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.
  

• The Campaign to “Kill” the BDS Movement Against Israel Extends Far and Wide by Caren Holmes from Jacobin.
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 16000 Doctors & Scientists Sign Declaration Strongly Opposing a 2nd COVID Lockdown by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

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

• US Is the Top Human Rights Violator in the World, and It’s Not Even Close by Danny Haiphong from American Herald Tribune.

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

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

• If the Pandemic Thinking Was Applied To Everything by comedian JP Sears from his AwakenWithJP channel via YouTube. (I thought I would start you off with something humorous.)
  

• California Mandates All Food Must Be Consumed Through IV To Ensure Masks Are Never Removed from The Babylon Bee. (This is satire. Maybe because of reports like this.)
  

• ‘Lockdown Is More Harmful Than COVID’ – Stanford Professor of Medicine by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• New DARPA-Funded Tech Promises to Diagnose COVID-19 Through Implantable Biochip by Raul Diego from Mint Press News (Minneapolis).

• Secretive HHS AI Platform to Predict US Covid-19 Outbreaks Weeks in Advance by Whitney Webb from her website "Unlimited Hangout". (This is a best post.)

• Michelle Obama Can't Make Case for Candidate Offering NOTHING! featuring Jimmy Dore commenting on Michelle Obama's political pitch (via YouTube).

• Nobody for President: Voting Legitimizes a Fraudulent Democracy by William Hawes and Jason Holland from Dissident Voice.

• ‘None Of It Reported’: How Corporate Media Buried The Assange Trial by David Edwards from BS News (based in Britain). 
  

• Battlefield Social Media: The West's Growing Censorship by Ulson Gunnar from New Eastern Outlook.
  

• Savior of Capitalism by Alan Johnstone from Dissident Voice. My reaction: This article rebuts all the liberals and social-democrats like Eric Zuesse who absolutely adore FDR's administrations which protected the capitalist system from itself.

• Breaking Pres. Trump "Total Declassification" of Documents Related To Russia Investigation featuring Ben Swann and his information about this subject from ISE.
  

• Those “Commie Folksingers” and the FBI by Ron Jacobs from CounterPunch.
  

• Eternal Impunity of Capitalism’s Crimes by Paul Haeder from Dissident Voice.
  

• Russia and China Both Subject to Unrelenting Economic and Social Warfare by James O'Neill from Dissident Voice.

• Surviving the age of extreme heat by Alex Smith (a Canadian) from Climate Code Red (based in Australia). (Note: It seems to me that this is mostly about not surviving.)
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, October 8, 2020

Last evening I viewed a film produced by 7th Chakra Films entitled "1986 The Act". It is outstanding in its professional quality production and it offers documented illustrations for the most horrific crimes ever committed by a ruling class against the rest of society under the system of capitalism. I urge you to order it in one of their formats. If you have budget constraints which prevent you from purchasing it, notify me at goatmeal36@yahoo.com.

• ‘COVID Vaccines’ Could Be Useless at Lowering Death, Give You Symptoms of Mild COVID, and Still Pass Clinical Trials by Dr. Peter Doshi posted on Anti-Empire, but the source is the NY Times. (Note: I am posting this from Anti-Empire because the framing of the article is more relevant than the NY Times--but there is a link to the latter provided in this post.) 

• What do HONEST SCIENTISTS say about covid-19 and the pandemic? from Wake Up to the Truth.

• Assaulting Science in the Name of Science: Exploring the Coronavirus Crisis of 2020: A Compilation and Commentary on Online Essays by Prof. Anthony J. Hall from Global Research (based in Canada).
  

• Protests & Provocateurs: Infiltrators are Disrupting BLM Protests by David Rfosen from CounterPunch. My reaction: Although the article starts out with statements disparaging Trump like all liberal media, it soon describes the infiltration tactics and agent provocateurs that are used by the capitalist class to manipulate protests. It focuses on lessons that have been learned by every generation since the Vietnam War, and must be relearned by current activists at an accelerated pace if the protests are to be effective.

• How Exceptional America Is by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Zuesse often uses the feudal word "aristocracy" for a ruling class partially in order to be published in liberal-left websites, but mostly because he was indoctrinated by many years of education in the USA to absolutely avoid any writing that is associated with Marxist thought. You see, Marxism is verboten in the USA and throughout most of the the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. "Marxian" can only be used by professors to indicate that they only have an academic interest in Marxist ideology. This is part of the Empire's indoctrination program to control and prevent thought that does not favor a capitalist system, a system founded on private ownership. Public ownership and control of an economy is blasphemous to this capitalist religion. Still, as a critic of US policies, his writings are valuable to read.
  

• Eco-socialism and/or De-growth by Michael Löwy from Rise (based in Ireland). (Note: This is a best post.)
  

How to distinguish the authentic from the artificial, factitious (artificially created) and makeshift needs? The last ones are induced by mental manipulation, i.e. advertisement. The advertising system has invaded all spheres of human life in modern capitalist societies: not only food and clothing, but sports, culture, religion and politics are shaped according to its rules. It has invaded our streets, mail boxes, TV-screens, newspapers, landscapes, in a permanent, aggressive and insidious way, and it decisively contributes to habits of conspicuous and compulsive consumption. Moreover, it wastes an astronomical amount of oil, electricity, labour time, paper, chemicals, and other raw materials - all paid by the consumers - in a branch of “production” which is not only useless, from a human viewpoint, but directly in contradiction with real social needs. While advertisement is an indispensable dimension of the capitalist market economy, it would have no place in a society in transition to socialism, where it would be replaced by information on goods and services provided by consumer associations. The criteria for distinguishing an authentic from an artificial need, is its persistence after the suppression of advertisement (Coca Cola!). Of course, during some years, old habits of consumption would persist, and nobody has the right to tell the people what their needs are. The change in the patterns of consumption is a historical process, as well as an educational challenge.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, October 7, 2020

• Covid experts: there is another way by Sunetra Gupta, Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff from Unherd. 

• ANOTHER 10 Experts Questioning the Coronavirus Panic from Off-Guardian.

• Canadian Doctors & Professors of Medicine Come Together To Oppose A 2nd Lockdown by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.
  

• From British Israelism to the Miami Model: What’s Behind QAnon’s 2020 Resurgence? by Raul Diego from Mint Press News. (Note: Be sure to click on the link "investigation" that will take you to a Mother Jones article on which this article is based.)

• US Politics Isn’t ‘Polarized’; It’s In Almost Universal Agreement by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.
  

• How A Secret Society Created The Federal Reserve At Jekyll Island featuring G. Edward Griffin, author of book entitled The Creature from Jekyll Island, in a lengthy 1:24:22 interview. This post is from Valuetainment channel of YouTube. (Note: I have not posted an exposé of the Federal Reserve for sometime, but it is important that you know about the history of this essential capitalist ruling class organization because it is controlled by major private banking institutions that issues our money.) 

• The War on Truth, Dissent and Free Speech by Dr Piers Robinson from Off-Guardian.

• Rudy Gobert and the Infectious Disease of the Uyghur “Genocide” Myth by Danny Haiphong from American Herald Tribune. 

• 6 Wikileaks Revelations Expose Corporate Abuse At The Expense of People & Planet by Jeremy Loffredo from Children's Health Defense. (Note: Also by Loffredo is a short piece entitled "Sackler Family of Purdue Pharma Keeps Their Billions Amid Opioid Crisis" that I recommend. I believe (without much evidence) that the occupation of Afghanistan by US Forces which protected Afghanistan's opium poppy crops resulted in this crime.)

• Nature Bats Last Show, October 6, 2020 from Arctic News. Note: I am posting this from Arctic News because a participant in the discussion is Sam Carana (SC), who is an editor of Arctic News, and the website supplies a transcript of the discussion which I recommend reading instead of viewing the lengthy 1:24:22 video. The discussion is led by retired Dr. Guy McPherson (GM):

GM: We are delighted to have the inimitable Sam Carana on today’s show. We submitted written questions to Carana and went back-and-forth a couple times to pursue follow-up questions. Our frequent guest, Pauline Schneider, will be supplying the voice of Dr. Carana. You can find Carana’s blog at Arctic hyphen news dot blogspot dot com. Dr. Carana posts anonymously about abrupt, irreversible climate change. To preserve her anonymity, we will refer to her as female, Sam, and Dr. Carana. A caveat is in order: In doing so, we are acknowledging our respect for Carana’s work, and we are not indicating Carana’s credentials or gender. Dr. Carana, welcome to Nature Bats Last on the Progressive Radio Network. 

SC: Pleasure to be with you.

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

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

Note: I updated today (Wednesday, Oct. 7) the article by Webb to link it to The Last American Vagabond for your convenience.)

 

• PCR Inventor: “It doesn’t tell you that you are sick” by David James from Off-Guardian.
  

There has been a great deal of controversy over claims that Kary Mullis, the creator of the PCR technology that is being widely used to test for so-called ‘cases’ of COVID-19, did not believe the technology was suitable for detecting a meaningful presence of a virus. 

Those making these assertions were attacked and ‘fact checked’ (deemed inappropriate by propagandists) by news outlets claiming that Mullis’ comments had been taken out of context. 

So when a video surfaces with Mullis talking about the efficacy of the technology it is worth paying close attention to what he is saying.

• And a Plague Shall Cover the Land of Trump by Brendan O’Neill from Anti-Empire. My reaction: The author points to the dominant capitalist ruling class and its method derived from the Middle Ages to shape the views held by ordinary Americans via their media corporations:

And there you have it, in terrifying black and white, in explicit Biblical writ: if Trump stays in power, America will be visited by floods, fires and plagues; death will come to your door; pestilence will be visited upon the land. This pre-modernism among those who fancy themselves as modern – as enlightened and ‘woke’ – is striking. It speaks to their own profound inability to come up with a vision for the US that might inspire voters, so instead they must invoke a PC version of Leviticus and warn people that if you don’t choose us then you will be consumed by hellfire and disease. And it confirms what they find so distasteful about so-called Trumpworld – the fact that it has dared to question expert authority, pushed aside the liberal elites who believe that they are the only people sensible enough to rule, and propagated the apparently outrageous idea that ordinary people (eurgh) have something to contribute to the discussion about how we deal with Covid-19 and other crises. 

This is what lurks behind the irrational, anti-Enlightened treatment of Covid as a metaphor for the sicknesses of 21st-century America – the desperation of the bruised old elites to regain their authority over a people whom they view as too dumb, vulgar and destructive to govern their own lives. Now that’s sick.

• Operation Warp Speed is Using a CIA-Linked Contractor to Keep Covid-19 Vaccine Contracts Secret by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond. (Note: I updated this article to a posting today (Oct. 7) on The Last American Vagabond.) 

• COVID-19: President Trump Tested Positive – A Reelection Campaign Bonanza? by Peter Koenig from Global Research.

• Telling the Untold: Remembering Andre Vltchek (1963-2020) by Patrick Henningsen from 21st Century Wire.
  

• I Am A Conspiracy Theorist featuring James Corbett on the term "conspiracy theorist".
  

• Reporters Claim Facebook is Censoring Information on Julian Assange Case by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.
  

• A Wrong Turn At Albuquerque: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone (from Australia) from her own weblog.

• As 98,000 Businesses Permanently Closed, the Fed and Treasury Have Sat on $340 Billion of Untapped Money from the CARES Act by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.
  

• Ex-OPCW chief Jose Bustani reads Syria testimony that US, UK blocked at UN by Aaron Maté from The Grayzone.

• Will the Israel-US “New Wars” succeed in weakening Hezbollah? by Elijah J Magnier from his website. (Note: Although this is a partial text from the whole article, I feel that it contains much information about the topic.)

• Heart of Madness (a History) by Steve Brown from The Duran. 

• China's High-Speed Rail Reaches into Southeast Asia by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.

• The Double De-Coupling by Alastair Crooke, a former MI-6 analyst, from Strategic Culture Foundation.
  

• EU betrays Greece & Cyprus. Merkel wins, sanctions on Belarus by Alex Christoforou from The Duran.

• Take Pity on Britain Because It Is Approaching Catastrophe by Brian Cloughley from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Censored Russian Filmmaker Speaks Out Against ‘European Magnitsky Act’ as Yet Another Western Hit-Job Against Moscow by Robert Bridge from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• The Battle for Hope in the Anthropocene by Jethro Gauld from Scientist Warning. (Note: For the record, I view the extinction of humans and most other species as inevitable. But, in the time remaining, I continue working on my weblog in the hope that humans will end the last stage of capitalism--transnational or neoliberal fascism.)
  

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

• Here Is a Video of Fauci Explaining in January 2020 That Asymptomatic Transmission Is NEVER the Driver of Outbreaks by Marko Marjanović from Anti-Empire.

• Combating The Virus: Mass Unemployment is Not the Solution by Prof Michel Chossudovsky from Global Research.

• “It’s Poor People and Young People Who Are Paying the Cost of the Lockdown,” Says Stanford Professor by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and John C. A. Manley from Global Research. 

• 6 Wikileaks Revelations Expose Corporate Abuse at Expense of People and Planet by Jeremy Loffredo from Children's Health Defense.

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

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

• Truth Seeker by Jim Meehan MD from his website which apparently is being updated. (Note: Meehan's covid-19 website challenges many of the conventional beliefs about the pandemic spread by media corporations and supported by government health authorities such as the wearing of masks, lockdowns, vaccinations, etc. One thing he does agree with them regarding the prevention of covid-19 is the benefits of social distancing. Dr. Meehan often points to Big Pharma and their huge profits as the cause of their recommendations. Kate Porter of Children's Health Defense apparently agrees with him. I have no health credentials, but I find his assembling of scientific evidence compelling in support of his challenges. In the absence of reliable information regarding the illness, we as individuals must decide for ourselves regarding measures to maintain our health.)

• We Are Being Lied To! Here Is How… by Spiro Skouras from Activist Post. (My reaction: I've read numerous articles that the PCR test produced a substantial number of false positives. Skouras provides details on the fallibility of PCR test. Listening to media corporations and government health authorities, the accuracy of the PCR test is a fact, and often the positive results are added to their reports on covid-19 "cases".)

• No jobs, so what future? Half the world’s workforce on the edge. By Ned Temko from The Christian Science Monitor.

• What They Are Not Talking About: War and Peace, Healthcare and Jobs Are Non-Issues by Philip Giraldi from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: I thank an activist for alerting me to this article.)

• Germany’s Extra-Parliamentary Corona Investigative Commission Launching a Class Action Suit Against Corona Criminals by Peter Koenig from Global Research. (Note: The author reports that legal challenges to government health edicts are being used in Germany and the USA, under the latter's Class Action Suits, for personal damages due to loss of jobs, income, etc.)

• Twitter is Blocking Access to OffG’s Content by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.

• The CIA's Plot To POISON Julian Assange! Featuring Jimmy Dore (of The Jimmy Dore Show), and he interviews Max Blumenthal (The Grayzone), the source of the information.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, October 3, 2020

• Giorgio Agamben and the Biopolitics of COVID-19 by Simon Elmer from Architects for Social Housing, a British website. (Note: Although this post is past my informal rule of limiting posts to one month, I will post it anyway because of its startling clarity about the dangers of the "new normal" which is being promoted by all authorities of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. (Note: This article is about the writings of an Italian philosopher, Giorgio Agamben, but applies to the political scene in Britain. It is a rather lengthy article, but one that should be read to understand the nature of the "Great Reset" project, a bio-politics that the Empire is promoting with the covid-19 pandemic. It is a best post. 
  

• Big Business Is Swallowing the World, Thanks to Lockdowns and Bailouts by Austan Goolsbee and posted on Anti-Empire. (Note: the original source was NY Times, but in this post I have detoured a bit from my usual practice of posting only from original source. I have my personal limits, and in this example I will not post to a source that has been engaging in disinformation almost continuously. But like a broken clock, they sometimes give the time accurately--twice a day.)

• Response To Trump Covid Diagnosis Shows His ‘Opposition’ Always Saw Him As Part Of The Club by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (Note: She offers another take  on Democratic Party's switch from hostility to sympathy for Trump because he tested positive for one of their covid-19 tests.)

• Capitalism – not ‘humanity’ – is killing the world’s wildlife by Anna Pigott from Climate & Capitalism.
  

• The Powerful and Obnoxious Odor of Mendacity by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain.

• Daniel Korski: The Intelligence-Linked Mastermind Behind the UK’s Orwellian Healthtech Advisory Board by Johnny Vedmore from "Unlimited Hangout". (My reaction: If you like investigative journalism, this is an example of the finest.)

• ‘You are Dust, You Are Dead, We’re Coming To Get You’- Julian Assange Is Hearing Voices by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution. (My reaction: Another failure of the anemic British left to come to the aid of people, who are vital to their agendas, before the British authorities captured him.)

I did not get through all of my credible websites to pursue articles that may be of your special interest before I ran out of time and energy.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, October 2, 2020

• Why is the World Going to Hell? by Jonathan Cook from CounterPunch. This is a best post. Read it and think!

There is a conspiracy, but not of the Pizzagate variety. It is an ideological conspiracy, of at least two centuries’ duration, by a tiny and ever more fabulously wealth elite to further enrich themselves and to maintain their power, their dominance, at all costs.

There is a reason why, as Harvard business professor Shoshana Zuboff points out, social media corporations are the most fantastically wealthy in human history. And that reason is also why we are reaching the human “event horizon” these Silicon Valley luminaries all fear, one where our societies, our economies, the planet’s life-support systems are all on the brink of collapse together.

The cause of that full-spectrum, systemic crisis is not named, but it has a name. Its name is the ideology that has become a black box, a mental prison, in which we have become incapable of imagining any other way of organising our lives, any other future than the one we are destined for at the moment. That ideology’s name is capitalism.

• Election to Nowhere by Rob Urie from CounterPunch. My reaction follows: 

This writer, like most American intellectuals, slides sideways into blaming capitalism and the "PMC". Because I read this article rather rapidly, I couldn't figure out what this writer meant by the "PMC". Perhaps the "Political Media Complex"? A pet peeve of mine are writers using acronyms carelessly.

I agree with the author that this election is an "Election to Nowhere". Have you noticed that more and more announcements on TV are urging you to vote? The Deep State, essentially the board of directors of the capitalist ruling class, is holding an election where they control both parties, and your vote legitimatizes their contrived elections. So, why vote for whom you think are the lessor-evil candidates--except for candidates in local elections who you know?

(Note: I later received an email (from the author?) claiming that "PMC" refers to "Profession/Managerial Class".)

Because I have plans to travel today, this is a shortened version of my usual posts. I'll return tomorrow. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, October 1, 2020

• The New York Fed, Pumping Out More than $9 Trillion in Bailouts Since September, Gets Market Advice from Giant Hedge Funds by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• Slipping into totalitarianism? UK government tries to shut down socialist teaching by Johanna Ross from BRICS. (My reaction: What would we do if exploitation, wars, poverty, inequality, ignorance, along with private ownership of the economy suddenly disappeared?)
  

• After Calling for Climate Action, US Chamber of Commerce Pushes Pro-Fossil Fuel Agenda by Sharon Kelly from Desmog. (My reaction: This is another illustration of the contradiction or the basic conflict between capitalism versus a sustainable planet.)
  

• New studies confirm weakening of the Gulf Stream circulation (AMOC) from Real Climate.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020

• The Establishment’s Plan to Divide Part 2: COVID-19, Election 2020, and The Great Reset by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond. My reaction: I think Broze spends too much time on how Trump functions to divide Americans, and not enough time devoted to exposing the carefully designed ruling class agenda of fomenting fear and chaos among ordinary Americans. Trump is a natural-born American capitalist of a nationalist variety, but the transnational ("neoliberal") ruling class intentionally creates chaos among ordinary Americans as a method to install more authoritarian measures. They want to do this as a part of their global domination project that I have exposed numerous times. Transnational capitalists see Trump, who unconsciously stirs up conflict, as an upstart who is detracting from their finely honed control methods, and as such, they are greatly irritated by him. They only included the clownish Trump on the 2016 ballot to ensure the victory of their chosen candidate Hillary Clinton; but they were surprised, as I was, that many voters simply withheld their votes with disgust from Clinton, and as a result, Trump was elected (by the electoral college but not by popular vote).

• Media Gunning For Scott Atlas Because He Keeps Exposing Coronavirus Lies from Political Patrol.
  

• Big donors fund state parties at record levels by Reid Wilson from The Hill. (Note: This article gives only one part of the ruling class's control over elections which is an integral part of American capitalists' fake democracy. See also this evidence.)
  

• Brave New Money, part 1 and part 2 of a 2-part series. By Norbert Häring, a German blogger and economist, from his weblog Money and more. (Note: I think that this is a summary of his book by the same title.) My reaction: I think that digital money is a part of the The Great Reset project that the Empire wishes to accomplish with the pandemic. I assume that if they are successful, this will give them ever greater control (domination) over their populations. Control and domination is what the Empire and capitalism are all about.
  

• Like a Rowboat in a Typhoon: Why 2020 Center-Right Yankee Election Outcomes are Dead in the Water by Bruce Lerro from Planning Beyond Capitalism. 

• LIVE UPDATES: ASSANGE HEARING DAY SEVENTEEN—US Intel Spying on Assange Detailed in Court, Including Plans to Kidnap or Poison Him by Joe Lauria from Consortium News. My reaction: I am not posting articles on the trial of Assange because I see the court in Britain as a "kangaroo court", I assume that Assange will be either killed in the British prison or he will be extradited to USA where he will await a similar fate.

• Carolyn L. Karcher: “Zionism Was Always A Settler Colonial Ideology” by Mohsen Abdelmoumen from American Herald Tribune. (Note: The author interviews Karcher who is a long time activist, retired professor, and author.)
  

• Western government-funded intelligence cutouts trained Syrian opposition leaders, planted stories in media outlets from BBC to Al Jazeera, and ran a cadre of journalists. A trove of leaked documents exposes the propaganda network. By Ben Norton from The Grayzone.

• Thai Protests are Anti-Chinese, Not "Pro-Democracy" by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. (Note: Cartalucci is an American living in Thailand.)

• For an egalitarian, cooperative road to an ecosocialist future from Green Left (based in Australia).
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020

• The Covid-19 Numbers Game: The “Second Wave” is Based on Fake Statistics by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, founder of, and from, Global Research.
  

• Is a New Wave of Covid-Fascism Invading Europe? by Peter Koenig from Global Research.

• Just Before The Dam Breaks… A video from Computer Forever, a channel of YouTube.
  

• OPEN LETTER: Belgian Healthcare Workers Call for End to Lockdown from Docs 4 Open Debate. (Note: Signed by 588 medical doctors, by 1678 medically trained health professionals, and by 11995 citizens in Belgian.)
  

• Gates, Kissinger and Our Dystopian Future by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review. My reaction: Could the pandemic be promoted by the Empire's ruling class of transnational capitalists in order to cope with the looming climate crisis? Whitney persuasively puts together an argument to support the affirmative to this question. I've previously argued that the pandemic serves a variety of purposes to promote the interests of this ruling class. Among them were the sowing of chaos (in addition to stirring up racial hatred) before the election to instill fear about Trump in the electorate, as well as a project to cope with the destabilization of our climate. If the intentional campaign of panic lasts beyond the election of Biden, you can be sure that the latter reason is primary.

• Why the Bill Gates Global Health Empire Promises More Empire and Less Public Health by Jeremy Loffredo from Anti-Empire.

• Wanna Make Cash For Evicting Poor People - There's An App For That (Web Exclusive) featuring Lee Camp of Redacted Tonight (via YouTube) pointing to the future of evictions staring many people in the face, how capitalists are going to profit off of it, and how they will recruit desperate people to do this "vomiting" work.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020

This is posted late, that is, on Monday morning. For some reason after I did some minor editing (some time) after publishing this set of posts, but I forgot to press the "update" button on the new weblog software, and as a result I noticed on Monday morning that the Sundays' posts were not published. I apologize. Because of this mistake I'll not publish any posts on Monday. But not to worry: today (Monday) I will scan my 50 credible websites for posts and include them with other posts tomorrow.

 

•  Engineering Contagion: UPMC, Corona-thrax and “the Darkest Winter” by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond. (Note: This is a series of articles reporting on the research that Webb has undertaken. You will need some background in biotechnology to fully understand this article, and the one before entitled "Engineering Contagion: UPMC, Corona-thrax and “the Darkest Winter” that I was alerted to by an activist.) My reaction follows:

From her research Webb uncovers some odd and suspicious facts in US corporations' pursuit of a vaccine to prevent covid-19. For example:

Such experiments, like this study by Duprex, involved the genetic engineering of three viral pathogen strains and then seeing which would become most transmissible and virulent in an animal host. Such studies are often referred to as gain-of-function (GOF) research and are incredibly controversial given that they often create pathogens that are more virulent and/or transmissible than they otherwise would be. It is also worth noting that UPMC, before Duprex joined the center, had also received millions in funding from DARPA’s Prophecy program “to develop in vitro and computational models for predicting viral evolution under selection pressure from multiple evolutionary stressors.”

• Development banks must be held accountable for their disastrous oil palm plantation investments in the Congo from GRAIN. (My reaction: But they won't be held accountable because they as transnational capitalist corporations are too powerful for ordinary people to challenge. This is true throughout the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. This is the sad reality of advanced capitalism. Only a thoroughly democratic organization of ordinary people can challenge and topple them in the time remaining before climate deterioration really sets in and puts the end of humans and most other species.)

• Sinophobia, Lies and Hybrid War”: The Nation which Unleashed This Plague…” according to Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly: Contrary to US rhetoric and disinformation China is not an existential threat to the ‘free world’ by Pepe Escobar via Global Research. My reaction: But the China-Russia combination is a threat to world domination to the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.

• Why Liberals Hate Leftists by Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian, from her weblog.

• Leaked docs expose massive Syria propaganda operation waged by Western govt contractors and media by Ben Norton from The Grayzone.
  

• Why is the World going to Hell? Netflix’s The Social Dilemma tells only Half the Story by Jonathan Cook from Dissident Voice. (This is a best post.) My reaction follows: 

Cook, unlike most other thoroughly brainwashed critics nowadays, names the system--capitalism. Here are excerpts from the article: 

The cause of that full-spectrum, systemic crisis is not named, but it has a name. Its name is the ideology that has become a black box, a mental prison, in which we have become incapable of imagining any other way of organising our lives, any other future than the one we are destined for at the moment. That ideology’s name is capitalism.

... “evilness” – the psychopathic pursuit of profit above all other values – is the business model for all corporations, not just the digital ones.

The Social Dilemma offers us an opportunity to sense the ugly, psychopathic face shielding behind the mask of social media’s affability. But for those watching carefully the film offers more: a chance to grasp the pathology of the system itself that pushed these destructive social media giants into our lives.

Even in the dark age in which we are currently living, naming the system is, sadly, a revolutionary act. It will take vastly much more to change the deadly system that we are under.

• Did Putin order the assassination of Alexei Navalny? by Stephen Gowans from his weblog What's Left. (Note: The propaganda is so ridiculous that I hesitated to post this.)
  

• Nations Should Begin Removing Facebook, Twitter, and Google from Their Information Space by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.
  

• What OBAMA Got Away With. This features Jimmy Dore (via a YouTube video) describing himself as a "dumb", but independent, comedian demonstrating what independence of thought can lead one to think critically about their "bought" government. But this comes at a price--he's losing his comedic take on life. In another video, he rants about the suicidal destruction of the ecology which supports human along with many others species--because of corporate pursuit of profits (under the capitalist system).

• ANTIFA, Red Herrings and Fanning the Flames of Discord! by Henry Kamens from New Eastern Outlook.
  

• Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In. The Next Moves Will Be Crucial by John Branch and Brad Plumer from The NY Times. (Note: If you are not registered with this source, you can access the article here.) My reaction: This source is like a broken clock that registers the time correctly two times a day. This is one of those times. But, after they shock ordinary Americans with this headline, they, as a propaganda rag for the capitalist ruling class, must sprinkle their reporting with more positive statements so that we can go back to sleep--and, of course, they blame it on the government which is owned and controlled by the ruling class. But it shows that our masters are aware of this looming threat. Could the covid-19 pandemic be their desperate means to cope with the abrupt deterioration of our climate?
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, Sept. 25, 2020

Introductory note for today's posts: I intended several days in advance to take this day off to relax, refresh, and direct my attention to other rewarding experiences. But I could not do this. Instead, I have lain down to take a nap; and when I woke up several hours later, I found myself, to my surprise, perusing articles that I normally do. Several articles grabbed my attention; but not until I viewed James Corbett's latest, almost daily, video, did I decide to post two articles. I was so impressed by his commentary that I somewhat regretted that I disagreed with his yesterday's post. I say "somewhat" because I often post articles from authors that I disagree with only some of their arguments and perspectives. These include Eric Zuesse, Matthew Ehret, and James Corbett.

•  A Message to New “Conspiracy Theorists” featuring a lecture of sorts by James Corbett to new “Conspiracy Theorists” among American young people who are only beginning to question the reports that media corporations flood TV and internet reports. This is an addition to the indoctrination they receive throughout their education and much of their entertainment. (This is a best post.) My commentary follows:
  

Elsewhere I have noted the huge task that younger generations have to overcome many years of brainwashing, and I doubted that they would overcome this systematic brainwashing. I have been encouraged by many of the comments made by Corbett in this video presentation. I also noticed that he admitted only starting to question some of his beliefs in 2006. (I started in 1955.) And I also noticed that he is starting to point to "oligarchs" as the source of evil instead of merely governments as is usually the case with anarchists. This is much closer to what I believe is the truth: a ruling capitalist class that controls not only the government, but every institution. By doing this, he is providing examples of his own growth out out swamp of lies and disinformation that he has experienced all of his life. Beyond this, he is offering specific examples of very sound advice to the younger generation who are starting to question.

• The Death of Andre Vltchek, A Passionate Warrior for Truth by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain. (Note: I have been mourning over this loss of a great humanitarian truth-teller.)
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020

• Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life by Vandana Shiva from CounterPunch. (This is a best post.)

• A Socialist Case Against Howie Hawkins and the Green Party by Ezra Brain from Left Voice.
  

• Senate GOP releases report on Hunter Biden's dealings in Ukraine from The Duran (based in Cyprus). My reaction: It is hard to know which candidate among the two candidates in the "democratic" election that we are allowed to vote for is worse. But, you are not forced to vote for either--that is our very limited freedom!

• André Vltchek Remembered by Peter Koenig and Andre, friend by Farooque Chowdhury from Internationalist 360°. My reaction: Another fine human being lost in the battle of human survival against the forces of capitalism which can only support the interests of a few capitalists. He will not be the last.

• The Pandemic is a Test Run – #PropagandaWatch by Canadian James Corbett from his weblog. (I do not endorse this post.) My commentary follows (or here are the reasons why I don't endorse this post.):

Unfortunately, Corbett pans the overwhelming evidence provided by independent scientists that we have already "baked-in" sufficient greenhouse gases in the planet's upper atmosphere and the oceans to insure dramatic changes in the climate such that planet Earth will no longer be able to sustain human and many other species. In short, we, humans--an "exceptional" species, will disappear (along with most others).

He does so for two basic reasons: 1) because he is an anarchist produced by the indoctrination-loaded educational system throughout the capitalist Empire to ensure that their graduates are not "contaminated" with any anti-capitalist ideas; and 2) because he refuses to recognize the unthinkable--that we humans depend on a rather unique environment which does not appear on nearly all other planets. He refuses to accept scientific evidence that in the future the conditions of the planet Earth will be dramatically altered because of capitalism's incessant search for profits, and that they have loaded our atmosphere, oceans, and other places on the planet with greenhouse gases. 

Thus, Corbett fails to recognize the reasons why their latest "Reset" project is their attempt to cope with this very real concern, along with many other problems facing the capitalist Empire. He refuses to accept scientific evidence that in the future the conditions of the planet Earth will dramatically change because of capitalism's incessant packing of our atmosphere, oceans, and other places on the planet with greenhouse gases. He doesn't distinguish independent scientists from scientists employed by capitalist industries and from government bureaucrats, employed by the ruling class, posing as authorities. He refuses to recognize that the system is the source of not only abrupt climate destabilization, but so many other problems facing humans. Finally, Corbett fails to recognize the reasons why the Empire's latest "Reset" project is their attempt to cope with this very real concern, along with many other problems facing the capitalist Empire.

• Throw Sand In The Gears Of The Machine by Caitlin Johnstone (an Australian) from her weblog.

Humanity [human species] will continue along its self-destructive trajectory until the masses use the power of their numbers to force real change. Humanity will not use the power of its numbers to force real change as long as it’s being successfully propagandized not to do so. The oligarchic propaganda machine is therefore the primary barrier to our transition from our self-destructive patterns into a healthy collaborative relationship with each other and with our ecosystem. 

So throw sand in the gears of the machine. If enough of us throw enough sand, we can cause the whole thing to break down.   

And she continues on to give her advice on how we should "throw sand in the gears" of what she identifies as the "oligarchic propaganda machine".

• Nations Should Begin Removing Facebook, Twitter, and Google from Their Information Space by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.

• Science and Soft Totalitarianism by Brian Jones from The American Conservative. 

• UK’s “Daily Covid Deaths” didn’t die in one day & didn’t all have Covid by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.

• Chief Science Officer for Pfizer Says "Second Wave" Faked on False-Positive COVID Tests, "Pandemic is Over" by Ralph Lopez from HubPages.  

These posts today are all I have time for.