Bulletin N° 1078
by Scott Noble
"An
extraordinary work by a gifted filmmaker, ‘Counter-Intelligence’ shines
sunlight into the darkest crevices of empire run amok. ... Anyone who
cares about democracy, good government, and the future will want to watch all
fives segments of this remarkable film."
-
Robert Steele, Former CIA Officer
Watch Online
all 5 Parts @ http://metanoia-films.org/counter-intelligence/
Part 1
“The
Company”
(1:18:16)
Part 2
“The
Deep State”
(1:25:25)
Part 3
“The
Strategy of Tension”
(55:10)
Part 4
“Necrophilous”
(1:56:04)
Part 5
“Drone
Nation”
(50:04)
Subject:
Monopoly Capital, Fascism, and the Paradigm of Unconditional Surrender to ‘Full
Spectrum Dominance’.
Grenoble
December 15, 2022
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
In an attempt to understand the apparent ruling-class
determination to threaten the extinction of Humanity by inflicting a
suicidal/genocidal policy across the contemporary world (sometimes called ‘full
spectrum dominance’) and to uncover the ideological underpinnings supporting
this policy of mass destruction, I have turned to 19th century German
idealist philosophers, specifically to Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), a
contemporary of Georg Hegel (1770-1831) and of Hegel’s student, Karl Marx (1818-1883).
In fact, all three of these philosophers were associated with the University of
Berlin - Schopenhauer;
a “Pessimist;” Hegel, a “Progressive;” Marx, who later became the author
of the theory of historical materialism and created the material dialictic method (thereby abandoning Hegel's idealist philosophy). For a penetrating analysis of the Marxist method, see Bertell Ollman’s remarkable book: LA DIALECTIQUE MISE EN
ŒUVRE : LA DIALECTIQUE MISE EN ŒUVRE :Le processus
d’abstraction dans la méthode de Marx ,
or the English
language edition, Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx’s Method (particularly chapter 5: “Putting Dialectics to Work: The Process of
Abstraction in
Marx's Method”
My present objective is simply to shed some light
on the idealist thinking of neocons, who are today working
with specific purpose in mind, within the economic system that we all have
inherited for better or for worse (namely, that of late monopoly capitalism).
Perhaps the thinking of Schopenhauer can be seen as an early antecedent to
neoconservatism, infested, as it is, with sentiments of pessimism and misanthropy, as is now
palpable for all to experience. We might benefit from understanding this 19th-century metaphysical construction as an attempt to build a system of philosophy,
rather than simply dismissing it as an historical oddity, preaching despair to the
oppressed in the most grim and pessimistic terms.
We turn now to a discussion by the late professor
of intellectual history, Dr. William S. Sahakian who
begins this discourse on Schopenhauer by comparing his thought to that of his
more popular colleague in the UB philosophy department:
Whereas Hegel believed reality to be rational, and a perfectly rational world may seem to justify a philosophy of Optimism, the pessimist Schopenhauer took the opposite position, viewing reality as a blind irrational will and life as evil. In contrast to Hegel’s belief that phenomena are concretely real, Schopenhauer regarded them as mere illusions.
Schopenhauer divided the world into two entities of idea (representation) and will. The world known to us in sense experiences, that is, the phenomenal world, consists of ideas or representations. The world of ultimate reality, the ontologically real (or what Kant called the thing-in-itself), is the will. The phenomenal world is merely an image; it mirrors the will, the real world. The world which the individual senses is merely an idea within him: ‘The world is my idea.’ It is made of the substance of idea, as Berkeley claimed. Nothing objective can possibly exist without a subject who experiences it. ‘All that exists exists only for the subject,’ and there is ‘no object without a subject.’ Nevertheless, Schopenhauer, like Berkeley, rejected the solipsistic theory of egoism (the theory that I alone exist and that the only world is my own subjective state of existence). He concluded that the physical world of individual things must be simply an illusion (maya) or mere appearance (phenomenon). The Basic substance (or essence) of phenomena, the real world, is the will. Kant was mistaken, wrote Schopenhauer, in assuming the ultimately real world to be unknowable, for it is knowable – and it is known as the will. The Kantian thing-in-itself is the will. Since he believed that both ideas and will are of the nature of mind, Schopenhauer was an Idealist, but he made a sharp distinction between the mode of action of the two types of Ideal Substance. The will, which is knowable to us through immediate awareness (intuition), is perfectly free in its action, but the phenomenal world of the idea is not free but is governed by necessity and follows a course prescribed by four principles of sufficient reason. According to Schopenhauer, phenomena are subject to the following four principles: (1) the principle of sufficient reason of Becoming, whereby every phenomenon must have a cause; (2) the principle of sufficient reason of knowledge, whereby logical judgments must be based on proper grounds; (3) the principle of sufficient reason of Being, whereby objects of sense must occupy space and time, and we
Sense them as such by a priori intuitions (as given); (4) the principle of sufficient reasons of action, whereby every act must have a dynamic motive of power behind it. In contrast to all phenomena which are thus controlled by laws, the will acts only in complete freedom. Consequently, the will cannot be rationally explained, nor does it respond to reason; it is motivated solely by its own caprice. Furthermore, the will is permanent, whereas phenomena are merely the transitory, overt manifestations of the will.
Schopenhauer held that individual sensory phenomena posses a universal character and are really copies of Ideas in the Platonic sense. These Platonic universal Ideas are intermediate between the will and the individual phenomena which it creates and directs. Every physical object depends upon the Universal, the Idea, and is also a mental image of the Idea. But for Schopenhauer the Ideas are not ontological realities, for only the will is reality, the Kantian thing-in-itself.
. . .
Hegel’s view of the World Spirit as a rational force was optimistic in the sense that reason could explain experience and look forward to solutions of problems. But Schopenhauer believed in a nonrational will to which reason is subordinated, in fact a will that functions capriciously and controls reason, which thus merely attempts to justify (rationalize) the unrestrained actions of the will.
The will expresses itself in the three spheres of physical, vegetative (or animal), and human nature. In each case it is a force, a nonrational urge, drive, or instinct. In the sphere of physical phenomena, the will manifests itself in the form of gravitational forces, electrical impulses, or chemical sources; in the sphere of animal nature, instinctive impulses are added; and in the sphere of human nature, conscious desire is joined to the other forces of the will. Where the force is of a conscious nature, there is suffering. Since man is aware of his insatiable desires, wants, and needs, his suffering is most acute and poignant, and it is worst of all among highly intelligent persons, whose unhappiness is compounded by understanding of their own plight.
. . .
Desires, wrote Schopenhauer, can never be fully satisfied; even when we partially satisfy some, we are tortured with a dozen others which frustrate us. Moreover, when we think we have satisfied one, we simply find that the feeling of satisfaction soon dies away, and our spirits long for other things in life. Immediately after we satisfy our heart’s desire, we find that we are bored again. (From Outline-History of Philosophy, 1969, by Wm. S. Sahakian, pp. 204-211)
The above description of Schopenhauer’s system of
thought (if it can be called a system) is certainly a conscious devaluation of
life, produced in an authoritarian Prussian state where the landowning class of Junkers ruled heavy-handedly,
effectively reducing the population, with the aid of state power, to abject submision.
Is it any
wonder that today’s ruling class and their managers might be attracted to such
a philosophy which attempts to naturalize historicly derived power relationships
between rulers and the ruled and would lionize ideas which serve to rationalize
such relationships in order to make them more palatable for the oppressed?
The 23+ items below represent current Anglophone
discussions in the social media of the imminent arrival of the nadir of
disaster capitalism and its necessary machinations which have become apparent to
much of the world’s population, who increasingly behold their lives immediately
threatened by the cultural and economic debacle of societies.
Sincerely,
Francis McCollum Feeley
___
Professeur honoraire de l'Université Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur des
Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
http://www.ceimsa.org
a.
WikiLeaks
Editor-in-chief Warns Assange May be Extradited “Within
Weeks”
by Laura Tiernan
+
Will Belated Open Letter by The New York Times and
other Media Outlets Be Enough to Compel Julian Assange’s
Release From Prison?
by Ellen Taylor
+
Daniel Ellsberg: Indict Me Too
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/07/daniel-ellsberg-indict-me-too/
by Joe Lauria
+
British MP: Minister ‘Misled’ Parliament on Secret Assange Operation
by Matt
Kennard and John McEvoy
+
UK government deployed 15 staff on secret operation
to seize Julian Assange
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57372.htm
by Matt Kennard
+
An open letter from editors and publishers:
Publishing is not a Crime | Julian Assange
The
US government should end its prosecution of Julian Assange
for publishing secrets
+
Ray McGovern: Free Julian Assange!
- Negotiations for Peace in Ukraine
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57384.htm
(1:26:17)
+
Top media outlets demand US end prosecution of
Julian Assange
by Al Jazeera Staff
US
charges against WikiLeaks founder threaten press
freedom and set ‘dangerous precedent’, US and European media say.
The United States must end its prosecution of Julian Assange, top global media organisations have urged,
saying the US indictment against the WikiLeaks
founder threatens free expression and freedom of the press.
In an open letter on Monday, five leading media
outlets denounced the US’s prosecution against Assange, who is wanted on 18 counts, including a spying charge.
Keep reading :
(list of 3 items)
·
Julian Assange: The threat of extradition and
politics behind it
·
CIA sued for allegedly surveilling Americans
who met with Assange
·
In new book, a journalist makes the case for Julian Assange
+
Julian Assange Explains
What's REALLY Going On In Ukraine War"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF1Aa8cn7EA
with Jimmy Dore
(0:58)
===========
b.
The Secret
History of WWI with Adam Hochschil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjOV9KZpPEc&feature=youtu.be
with Chris Hedges
(33:21)
Historian Adam Hochschild examines
the untold history of WWI in his new book, American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis.
+
“Capitalism Headed OFF A CLIFF!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv1Aj8zXudk&feature=youtu.be
with Richard D.
Wolff
(11:47)
+
US Intelligence community & conflict with Russia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXw6kYLYRrs&t=880s
with Ray McGovern, Alexander Mercouris
& Glenn Diesen
(2:14:06)
+
Americans Dumbed Down on
Russia
https://www.globalresearch.ca/americans-dumbed-down-russia/5801673
by Ray McGovern
+
Zelensky Named Time Magazine’s “Person Of The Year”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ReQ_97k7sI
with Jimmy Dore and
Ray McGovern
(36:39)
+
Meet the
Brutal Proxy Force Fighting the Russians, Not Only on the Ground in Ukraine But Also on the Internet
by Evan Reif
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c.
David Ray
Griffin, 1939 to 2022 – A Celebration of his Life and Work
with Peter Dale Scott, Paul Craig
Roberts, Fran Shure, Niels Harrit, Steven Jones, Barbara Honegger, David Chandler, and
Ken Jenkins.
(2:48:13)
===========
d.
“Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Xh5eN2fXY
(22:51)
A
brief and crucial history of the United States
+
You Must Know This Situation In America
!!! “Everyone Has Been Manipulated”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odP8fFDNuEQ&feature=youtu.be
with Jeffery Sachs
(11:59)
+
From: Cat McGuire <cat@catmcguire.com>
Date: Dec 11, 2022
Subject: Insights into mind control
We all sort of know about invasive technology, but
still, just read through a bunch of these tweets.
https://twitter.com/jeffreyatucker/status/1601722328509186048
Then think, it must be
bi-directional: i.e., not just sending thought-data, but receiving thought-data
as well. And it must be beyond delivering ads in return. Think about mass
formation psychosis as forms of thought-data. Thoughts about woke or
vaccines received by us as innocuously as our thoughts about products are
sent.
I wonder if this phenomena
of reading our thoughts increased exponentially after covid
because either the PCR and/or vaccines have implanted nanobots
in us as antenna. In other words, how prevalent was this before 2020?
Now watch this eye-opening 30-min doc
@https://www.comusav.com/en/bluetruth/
+
Russia-Ukraine War LIVE | Vladimir Putin's “Nuclear
War” Warning To Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKfJX2Mwsls
by ET NOW
(2:08:43)
Russia-Ukraine
War LIVE | Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that the risk of nuclear
war was on the rise — as he admitted Russia’s war in Ukraine could become a
“long process.” The Russian ruler discussed the threat of nuclear war while
addressing Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council, the latest in a series
of nuclear flirtations since the tide of the nine-month war in Ukraine has
begun to shift in Kyiv’s favor.
+
US National Security Strategy | Scott Ritter,
Jeffrey Sachs, John Mearsheimer & Douglas
Macgregor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrJcvVASpWk
by Dialogue works , with Scott
Ritter, Jeffrey Sachs, John Mearsheimer & Douglas
Macgregor
(22:00)
===========
e.
The Covid “Killer Vaccine”. People
Are Dying All Over the World. It's A Criminal
Undertaking
by Prof
Michel Chossudovsky
“Once
the Lie becomes the Truth, there is no moving backwards. Insanity prevails. The
world is turned upside down.”
Let us be under no
illusions, the Covid Jab is not only “experimental”,
it’s a Big Pharma “killer vaccine” which
modifies the human genome. The evidence of mortality and morbidity
resulting from vaccine inoculation both present (official data) and future
(e.g. undetected microscopic blood clots) is overwhelming.
The official data
(mortality and morbidity) as well as numerous scientific studies
confirm the nature of the Covid-19 mRNA vaccine which is being imposed on all
humanity.
Peer reviewed reports confirm
the causes of vaccine related deaths and
“adverse events” (injuries) including among others blood clots, thrombosis, myocarditis, cardiac arrests.
The stated objective is to
enforce the Worldwide vaccination of 8 billion people in more than 190
countries, to be followed by the imposition of a digitized “vaccine passport”.
Needless to say this is a multi-billion dollar operation for Big Pharma. It’s a crime against humanity.
The global
vaccine project entitled COVAX is coordinated Worldwide by the WHO, GAVI,
CEPI, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in liaison with the
World Economic Forum (WEF), the Wellcome Trust,
DARPA and Big Pharma which is increasingly
dominated by the Pfizer-GSK partnership established barely four months before
the onset of the Covid-19 crisis in early January 2020.
The Covid
19 “Vaccine” from the very outset in January 2021 has been conducive to a
Worldwide Upward Movement in Mortality
+
Patient Groups Push Congress to
Combat Big Pharma Greed in Spending Bill
by Brett
Wilkins
+
Welcome to Fifth Gen
(Information) Warfare
by Robert W
Malone MD, MS
The battleground is consensus
of the swarm and your own mind.
+
“Fall On
Your Sword, Mr. Fauci”
by Jude Roberts
(video, 3:26)
+
Transcribed Deposition of DR. ANTHONY FAUCI
“DR. ANTHONY FAUCI 11/23/2022”
by Robert W Malone, MD, MS
Fresh off the press - the transcribed deposition of Dr. Fauci from Nov 23, 2022
+
Elon Musk Says: “PROSECUTE FAUCI!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NoMbJWq4EQ
with Jimmy Dore
(16:48)
===========
f.
The
Bivalent Booster Disaster
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-bivalent-booster-disaster?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
by Robert W Malone MD, MS
When profits are first priority:
humiliation of the CDC, FDA, Pfizer, Moderna, and the
Biden administration.
+
Vax-injured Living Hell on Earth
by Veronika Kyrylenko
US Federal Government and corporate media just do not care
+
“Risks and
Benefits”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgVpVHL8nkY
with Dr. John Campbell and Professor Fenton
(56:26)
+
Gov. DeSantis drops BOMBSHELL mRNA Pfizer vaccine news
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th3NAHllWdQ
with Clayton Morris
(14:22)
+
News from Underground by Mark
Crispin Miller
“With the
highest ‘vaccination’ rate in the US, Vermont is looking to get EVERYBODY
jabbed—ESPECIALLY its people of color—by the holidays!”
by Mark Crispin Miller
And they're offering "culturally affirming spaces"
for that very purpose! And such "care" doesn't cost a dime! How cool
is that?
+
“Referee
Gerhard Weng's heart stops mid-game; runner Felix Wittman has testicular cancer; folk singer Kazım Çiriş has heart
attack mid-show; TV reporter Julie Yoo collapses
mid-report”
by Mark Crispin Miller
Latest NON-fatals include 2 German
17-year-olds in wheelchairs post-injection; 2 "sudden illnesses"
snarl public transport in Rome, & actor Lando Buzzanca is now "10% of what he was"
+
Pelé's cancer; UK DJ Adele Roberts' cancer; Dutch reporter
has a stroke; Belgian comic cancels show; actresses in India, Malaysia &
Australia gravely ill
by Mark Crispin Miller
Also: Brazilian deputy & Spanish magistrate blacked out
in public; Qatari TV reporter collapsed, & Moroccan goalie vanished, at
World Cup; South Korean pop star rushed to hospital
+
In memory
of those who "died suddenly" in the United States and worldwide,
December 5-December 12, 2022
by Mark Crispin Miller
Politicians in the US (5), Mexico, Trinidad & Tobago,
Uruguay, Germany, Israel, Russia, Pakistan, the Philippines & Indonesia;
actors in the US (2), UK, Russia, India (2), Japan; and all too many more
+
MAiD in Canada - #NewWorldNextWeek
https://www.corbettreport.com/nwnw504/
with James Corbett and James Evan Pilato
(21:12)
+
“IT’S OVER”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3rbuZzAv-Y
with Russell
Brand
(13:22)
You know the Terminator films?
Well they’re actually coming true. Police in America can now legally kill
people with robots. What could go wrong? #police #technology #robots
===========
g.
Watch “German Study Reveals Unsettling Truth About Myocarditis”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJA-HkxSMkg
with Jimmy Dore
(14:29)
+
“German photographs”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_DdSMn55cA&feature=youtu.be
with John
Campbell, MD
(14:45)
+
Doctors
and Scientists with Brian Hooker Ph.D.
“‘Sickness Behavior’ + the Effect of Spike Proteins
on the Body”
with Brian Hooker
and Russell Blaylock, MD
(55:47)
+
The “New” Medical Freedom
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-new-medical-freedom?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
by Robert W
Malone and Christian Nix
There are many important lessons to be
learned from the last several years of COVID drama. Perhaps the most important
of all is…
Medical Freedom matters.
The idea that drug companies are allowed
to create an injectable gene therapy… hide the
ingredients from public disclosure… and remain immune to any legal liability
for the harm that is now undeniably linked to their actions - as they roll in
billions of dollars of profit, we should expect to see the masses whetting the
guillotine.
Yet, no such outrage is apparent -
anywhere.
Instead, there’s a renewed determination
to clamp down on any and all dissent.
+
“People Dying at Unheard of Rates, Mainstream Media
Silent”
https://www.sachbharat.org/2022/12/people-dying-at-unheard-of-rates.html
by Sach Bharat
===========
h.
76
Years Ago, The February 1945 Dresden Fire Bombing:
Allied War Crime Prelude to the Cold War
by Dougal Macdonald
+
“HOW LONG THE CRISIS WILL LAST AND WHAT GOOD WILL
COME OUT OF IT?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU0tKi5e9_o
with Alexander Mercouris
(16:49)
+
Ukraine
Fires Missiles DEEP INTO RUSSIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKOjPBocHEI
with Jimmy
Dore
(14:20)
+
Missile
Strike on Ukraine, Ukraine Launches Soviet Drones at Russia Bases; Moscow
Retaliates Oil Cap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzAmoG4p1Yo
with Alexnder Mercouris
(1:01:07)
+
Drone
strikes, security guarantees, winter build up and oil price caps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifxg783Kh5U
with Alex Christoforou and Alexnder Mercouris
(41:01)
+
The
current state of affairs in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqfRRFES_mg&feature=youtu.be
with Douglas
Macgregor
(21:27)
+
The
beginning of the end of Ukraine as a country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZHHQlcNW04
with Douglas
Macgregor
(36:00)
+
How
to End the War in Ukraine: Matt Duss and Ray McGovern
Debate U.S. Policy on Russia, NATO & More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Ya4QXB_7c
with Amy
Goodman
As the U.S. pours billions in military aid into
Ukraine, we host a debate on the Biden administration’s response to the war and
U.S. policy toward Russia amid increasing calls among progressives for a
diplomatic end to the conflict. We speak to former Bernie Sanders foreign
policy adviser Matt Duss, now a visiting scholar at
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Ray McGovern, a former CIA
analyst who specialized in the Soviet Union. “Everyone understands that at some
point there will need to be a negotiation to bring this war to a close, but I
think the tension within the progressive community comes to when and how that
diplomacy actually takes place,” says Duss. McGovern stressest that U.S. policymakers must understand Russia’s
motivations, saying Russia sees the eastward expansion of NATO as threatening
its core interests akin to how the United States viewed the Cuban Missile
Crisis in the 1960s. “We need to go back and figure out how this all started in
order to figure out how to end it,” says McGovern.
+
A
Negotiated End to Fighting in Ukraine Is the Only Real Way to End the Bloodshed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrmWpI_s7rc&feature=youtu.be
with Amy
Goodman and Jeffrey Sachs
(21:37)
+
Senate
Candidate Diane Sare Reveals How She Ended Up on
Ukraine’s Notorious “Info Terrorist” Hit List
with Lee Camp
and Diane Sare
(59:14)
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i.
La CIA était-elle derrière le massacre de Jonestown ?
&
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/10/07/was-the-cia-behind-the-jonestown-massacre/
by Jérémy Kouzmarov
“I think the Jonestown
incident was an extension of In Search of the Manchurian Candidate. I
think those people were conditioned to act in certain ways and would have
probably just moved from Montreal [where CIA mind control experiments were
carried out under the direction of Dr. Ewen Cameron]
to Guyana, in this case. You look at Jim Jones’ background carefully,
he had a lot of intelligence contact there for doing exactly what he did. It
escalated once they killed Congressman Leo J. Ryan; basically, they had no
other way to go, so they just tried to self-destruct the whole mission. And
that means the death of hundreds of people. As I point out in the book, the
medical examiner there made some startling statements, and we wouldn’t even
allow the bodies to be properly examined when they were brought back to the
East Coast and turned in. So obviously it was a cover-up. Jonestown I think was
an extension of MK-ULTRA from the CIA and there are probably other experiments
going on.”
– Colonel James “Bo Gritz,
legendary Special Forces operative
who trained Special Forces that went into Jonestown after
the massacre.[1]
+
The Mafia, CIA & Jeffrey
Epstein Worked TOGETHER To Traffic Minors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3rhlXhvf-c
with Jimmy
Dore
(47:27)
===========
j.
Rabbi Dovid Weiss: Zionism has created “rivers of blood”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUppu2OHVTY
(20:46)
+
George
Galloway: Zionism and Nazism cooperated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8L_Xzrgzg&t=5s
with George Galloway and John McTernan
(5:37)
+
Israel’s
Zionist-Settler Colony Project Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAjPAtCV3ys
by TRT World
In this episode of I Got A
Story To Tell we discuss the root of the violence against the
Palestinians today, the racism of Zionist political ideology, the legitimisation of Israel's settler-colonial project in
Palestine and whether the world has done enough to help.
(9:15)
+
Peter Beinart Leads Charge to Cancel Palestinian American
Journalist Mnar Adley
by Mnar Adley
and Alan Macleod
The latest victim of cancel culture wave is MintPress News founder and editor-in-chief
Mnar Adley. Adley had been booked to host and moderate an event
discussing anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) laws in the United
States, and how Palestinians are under increasing pressure to silence
themselves, when she was herself, ironically, removed from the panel at the
behest of a shady advisor.
The event was
hosted by Voices From the Holy Land, an
organization that hosts documentary films and group discussions in order to
give voice to those ignored by the mainstream press and to educate the public
about the realities of living under the Israeli occupation.
It was scheduled for October 9th online and featured a
screening of the documentary “Boycott”, followed by a discussion. Other
panelists included editor-at-large of Jewish
Currents magazine Peter Beinart; “Boycott”
producer Suhad Babaa; and
Texas speech therapist Bahia Amawi.
While Voices From The Holy Land
coordinator Deepak Kenkeremath had expressed
excitement to have her host the panel, just hours before the event, he informed
Adley that Beinart and
others had objected to sharing a stage with her. In fact, he shared with Adley that Beinart had been
calling him daily, putting pressure on him to remove Mnar
from the event.
Beinart had been
contacted by a Mr. Stanley Heller, who insisted that Adley
was anti-Semitic, and that MintPress News
was a discredited pro-Putin, pro-Assad, pro-Iran outlet.
As proof, Heller reportedly shared MintPress’ (heavily defaced) Wikipedia entry.
These charges are, of course, false. MintPress is an expressly anti-racist platform and does not support any
government, let alone specifically those of Russia, Syria or Iran.
Instead, MintPress
focuses on exposing the permanent war state and those who benefit from it. For
this, we have been targeted by NATO-funded think tanks, the Israel lobby, U.S.
and U.K. intelligence outfits, foreign governments and lobbying groups. We have
also had our Wikipedia page attacked, been demoted and deranked
by algorithms, and had our financial accounts frozen.
Adley, who
previously lived under Israeli occupation and apartheid, witnessed grave human
rights abuses and crimes, has advocated for Palestinian human rights for
decades. She has used her career as a journalist and antiwar activist to oppose
U.S. weapons from reaching human rights abusers. For a Palestinian woman who
defends the rights of Palestinians to resist occupation to be called
anti-Semitic is another example of the tried-and-tested smear tactic used by
the Israeli lobby to target and silence Palestinian dissent.
As part of his investigation, Kenkeremath
spoke with his confidant, Israeli-American author and activist Miko Peled. Peled, who frequently
contributes to MintPress, was adamant that Adley
is an exemplary figure. “What I told Deepak is that it’s Peter Beinart who should be grateful that he gets to sit on a
panel with Mnar, not the other way around!” he said,
adding,
I’m absolutely appalled at the fact that somebody thinks
they have the right to cancel Mnar. I am appalled, I’m disappointed, I’m angry. I think it is
indicative of where we are today, politically – a privileged white guy who
considers himself progressive can just feel comfortable enough to cancel a
Palestinian woman from speaking about her country?”
MintPress contacted
Beinart for comment, but received no response.
Kenkeremath came to a
similar conclusion, telling MintPress,
Mnar was the
right choice [to moderate the panel]. I think Mnar is
great. As a committee, we like her. We would like to find a way or time to
bring her to participate with us, a time when we wouldn’t be blackmailed or
held hostage by somebody [Heller].”
+
Al Jazeera Sues Israeli Forces in Intl Criminal Court
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/06/al-jazeera-sues-israeli-forces-in-intl-criminal-court/
by Julia Conley
+
Jewish
Organization WHITEWASHES Ukraine Nazis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rdOGAwQu-c
with Jimmy Dore
(6:39)
The Anti-Defamation League, or ADL, is known for its
tenacity in fighting antisemitism in all its forms,
so it’s no surprise that the ADL years ago identified Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov
Battalion as an enemy of the Jewish people. Yet now that Israel and Ukraine are
aligned in the war against Russia, the ADL has had a “come to Jesus” moment and
determined that Azov is not, in fact, infested with violent antisemitic
extremists after all. Who knew?
+
You Need
to Watch This Before History is ERASED | (Leo Frank
Trial & the ADL)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0sNB8uWAUs
with reallygraceful
(13:48)
+
Palestine
in Pictures: November 2022
https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-pictures-november-2022/36746
+
Masked
gunmen from the Balata Brigades hold a military parade in Balata refugee camp
near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, 4 November.
Nasser Ishtayeh SOPA Images
+
Palestine
Action puts Israel's war industry “on trial”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-action-puts-israels-war-industry-trial/36736
by Kit Klarenberg
+
On “Hate”
and Love at the World Cup: Palestine Is More Than an Arab Cause
by Ramzy Baroud
+
Headscarf Requirement,
Discrimination Against Homosexuals, and Construction
Worker Accidents in Qatar Overshadow an Insane Big Lie Aimed at Starting
Another World War
by Felix Abt
The European Woke International of Hypocrisy and
Neo-Colonialism looks past the incendiary escalation of the Ukraine conflict,
preferring instead to spoil the beautiful game for hundreds of millions of
soccer fans in Arab and developing countries.
===========
k.
“Know Thine Enemy”
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/05/chris-hedges-know-thine-enemy/
by Chris Hedges
The expedited legislation passed by Congress to avert a
strike by railroad unions dealt one more blow in the decades
long war waged by the two ruling parties against the working class.
+
US
Military Atomic Cleanup Crews Paid Heavy Price After
Nuke Testing
by Jake Epstein
+
The
48,000-worker strike at the University of California is still going
https://therealnews.com/the-48000-worker-strike-at-the-university-of-california-is-still-going
by Sara Wexler
The massive walkout at California’s
flagship public university system is the largest strike in the US in recent
years, and it’s now in its third week. Jacobin spoke with striking grad student
workers at UC Riverside and UC Irvine.
A strike involving 48,000 graduate
student workers, postdocs, and academic researchers
across the University of California system is in its third week. Organizers say
that the strike is the largest academic strike in US history; it also happens
to be one of the largest strikes, period, in the country in the last few years.
On Friday, Nov. 18, Jacobin’s
Sara Wexler spoke with striking grad student workers at UC Riverside about
their demands and their experiences during the strike.
+
The
Freedom Convoy Commission with the JCCF
https://www.corbettreport.com/jccf-commission/
with James Corbett, Rob Kittredge, and Hatim Kheir
(55:41)
+
Canada's Freedom Convoy
Commission
https://www.corbettreport.com/freedomconvoy/
with James Corbett
(1:26:54)
+
Why Iran's
National Strike Is a Huge Deal
https://scheerpost.com/2022/12/06/why-irans-national-strike-is-a-huge-deal/
by Juan Cole
As Iranians in 23 provinces join in on national strikes and
truckers and shopkeepers walk out, the Iranian government has plenty of reasons
to fear the staying power of these protests.
+
Prepping for a China War:
The United States and the New Arc of Militarization Across
Northern Australia
by Richard Tanter
In
recent years, successive Australian governments, in coordination with the
United States, have responded to the dramatic rise of China with military and
economic policies that directly challenge the possibility of accommodation with
China.
===========
l.
How THE
RICH Stole Democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qyeHy84GXk
with Thom Hartmann and Richard Wolff
(16:52)
+
Inflation,
Europe's energy crisis, and the Fed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I43uC1mfHKc&t=13s
with Chris Hedges and Richard Wolff
(34:00)
+
Economic
Update: Instability - Capitalism's Constant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcBRuWVaAtM
with Richard Wolff
(29:20)
+
Black Market in Broad Daylight
by Lauren Smith
U.S. school kids, hospital patients,
and prison inmates share food poisoning, while food liquidators boast they turn
“trash into treasure.”
[This article is the second part of
a series on human rights abuse by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and
the Miami Federal Detention Center (Miami FDC). Part One was on its deadly lack of health care services. Part
Two is about its torturous and corrupt food service industry. In violation of
international human rights, the U.S. prison system fails to provide inmates
with “wholesome and adequate food,” as specified in the United Nations’ Human Rights
and Prisons: A Pocketbook of International
Human Rights Standards for Prison Officials.—Editors]
Operating in the shadows is easy in
the United States secondary food market, as few question
what happens to food that exceeds its expiration date in leading supermarket
chains across the nation. Well, truth be told, expired food gets reprocessed,
repackaged, relabeled, and resold to institutions, discount retailers and
restaurants.
With scant regulations in place for
repurposed food, and institutional purchasing specifications silent, food
liquidators underbid their competitors and win contracts nearly every time. In
the secondary food market, you get what you pay for, and never has the saying
“garbage in, garbage out” been more appropriate.
No matter how much hot sauce or
gravy is added as camouflage, spoiled food products are unfit for human
consumption and cause foodborne illness. Here, what
you don’t know can kill you.
+
Watch
"How Twitter Worked With The FBI To BAN Donald
Trump"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb7WNFkuxio&feature=youtu.be
with Jimmy Dore
(33:13)
+
Americans
Actually Put Up With THIS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzTbLFXp5bs&feature=youtu.be
with Richard Wolff
(13:49)
===========
m.
Why
Capitalism Must Be DESTROYED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_ZHaCqSY8Q
by Richard D. Wolff
(9:57)
+
Marc Morano
Writes The Great Reset
with James Corbett and Marc Morano
+
Dr. David Martin Blasts
Health Authorities for Turning Roughly 4 Billion People into “Bioweapons Factories”
by Belle Carter
Financial analyst and self-help entrepreneur Dr. David Martin has
slammed public health authorities around the world for forcing roughly
four billion people to take the Wuhan coronavirus
(COVID-19) mRNA “kill shots,” turning them into biological weapons in the process.
“The reason why [the mRNA injections] are important and distinct is that
they turn your body into being what I refer to as the bioweapons
factory,” Martin told “Man in America” host Seth Holehouse.
“Because legally, when you actually create a thing that manufactures a known
pathogen, that is actually biological weapon manufacturing and the fact that
your body is doing it means you’re a bioweapons
factory.”
He pointed out that this “scamdemic” that paved
the way for billions people to submit to the “experimental” vaccine mandate,
would cause a fundamental existential problem with humanity. “That means that
we have mRNA and we have DNA modifications that are going to not only impact
this generation, but will also impact generations to come,” he said.
Martin related this as well to the 10-year National Science Foundation
grant that gave rise to the company now known as Moderna.
Through its COVID-19 vaccine partnership with the U.S. government, Moderna picked up nearly $1 billion in research aid. Then, it joined the list of pharmaceutical companies to take a
supply order from the federal government.
“So anybody who wants to sit back and pretend like this is some sort of
innocuous thing and it doesn’t have any long effects is absolutely ludicrous,”
he said.
According to Martin, the best-case scenario would be the death or disability
of 300 million vaccinated individuals. These many people would be incapacitated
and would not be able to contribute to the economy, as per his risk management
analysis.
The worst case, on the other hand, would be the death of more than three
billion people.
“When you think about the combination of the death rates that are coming
off of the injections and the fertility and miscarriage problems coming off of
people exposed to the spike protein, this is a much more catastrophic event,”
he noted.
Mandatory
vaccination of cows a direct attack on food supply
Elsewhere in the show, Martin also discussed with Holehouse
how the mRNA technology would be eventually injected into livestock per
the Food and Drug Administration‘s (FDA’s) most recent standards.
According to an InfoWars article back in
October, dairy farmers in Australia are now being forced to inject the
gene-altering vaccine that contains spike protein into
their cattle so they could remain in business. And just like in
humans, the experimental jabs are causing severe damage to the animals as 35 out of 200 cows died immediately after being administered the injection. (Related: Nearly 2 in 10 cows injected with mRNA
vaccine DIE almost instantly.)
Analysts consider the mandatory vaccination of cows as a direct attack on
the food supply. Many of them are asking if the milk and other by-products
would contain the spike protein that actually harmed the animals.
This was in line with Martin’s analysis that allowing cows to be injected
would just be the gate opening for injecting the “kill shots” into other forms
of food supply.
“And not unlike what we’ve seen with now, over 50 percent of the
population have gastrointestinal problems because of our gene therapies in
plants and crops,” he stated, adding that in case this “dangerous move” pushes
through, 70 to 80 percent of the world’s population is going to be directly
impacted by the mRNA modified meats and foods in the next five years.
Watch the full episode of “Man in America” with Seth Holehouse and Dr. David Martin.
===========
n.
Putin just
scored a KNOCKOUT blow to Europe and the WE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFzy7EEURJQ
with Clayton Morris
(14:10)
Europe
just announced a $60 per barrel of oil cap against Russian oil at the same time
Putin and China are increasing trade. Europe is facing a slow boiling energy
disaster. Meanwhile OPEC+ says they're not changing anything which means 2
million barrels of oil will continue to be slashed from daily output. All Putin
has to do is cut uranium sales to Europe and the U.S. and it will be lights
out. We are watching these moron globalists destroy our way of life right
before our eyes, and the latest moves this weekend prove my point.
+
NATO &
EU may not survive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiFiDM80RuE&feature=youtu.be
with Douglas Macgregor
(4:16)
+
Putin winning the energy war? Europe’s unity crumbles amid spat
over gas prices | Energy Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0t9f4LC5pE
with Hindustan Times
(3:26)
+
German coup
targets political opposition. Merkel's disastrous legacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo1q1armIV8
with Alex Christoforou, and Alexander Mercouris
(24:16)
+
The
Trans-Atlantic Rift Grows Wider
https://scheerpost.com/2022/12/06/patrick-lawrence-the-trans-atlantic-rift-grows-wider/
by Patrick Lawrence
===========
o.
“Lies My
Government Told Me, and the Better Future Coming”
by Joseph Mercola and Robert
Malone
(52:45)
+
Conservative
crash, time is ticking for Sunak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnBtCdcc5c4&feature=youtu.be
with Alex Christoforou and
Alexander Mercouris
(14:59)
===========
p.
An
Invisible Prison Has Been Built Just for You
https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/invisible-prison-digital-id?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
(video, 1:16:19)
All the pieces are now coming together to control the global
population, and this digital prison is already mostly
built. When it's finished, it will be the final lockdown of mankind.
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- An international vaccine
passport, digital identity, a social credit system and a central bank
digital currency (CBDC) form a digital control system that will lock down
the population in perpetuity
- Facial recognition is an
essential part of the control structure, as it’s the “password” to your
digital identity
- By the end of 2022, there
will be 1 billion data collecting surveillance cameras in the world, all
connected to the internet and artificial intelligence (AI). Cameras and
audio recording devices in cell phones, automobiles and smart appliances
also collect and share data
- All these data are then used
to give each person an individual score, based on their behavior,
expression and interaction with the world. Ultimately, your social credit
score, will dictate what you can and cannot do, what you can buy and where
you can go
- Artificial intelligence (AI)
is an absolutely crucial component, without which the control system
cannot work. The easiest way to push against this system is to starve AI
of data by refusing to use technologies that collect and share your
personal data
+
UK and
Ukraine to collaborate on digital ID
https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-ukraine-to-collaborate-on-digital-id-tech/
by Ken Macon
As part of a new trade deal.
The United Kingdom
(UK) and Ukraine have signed a digital trade deal aimed at helping the Ukrainian economy to recover and
“improve” both countries’ digital output. The Digital Trade Agreement (DTA)
also has a provision for collaborating on digital identity, where Ukraine
supposedly has a lot to teach the UK about ID tracking tech and using digital ID
to access services.
Related: Lobbyists call on the US
government to develop digital ID infrastructure for “security” reasons
Ukraine’s highly-sophisticated
digital ID, Diia, is used to grant the public access
to most government services online. It has nine digital credentials: the ID
card, the identity provider (IDP) certificate for network access, birth
certificate, passport, driving license, tax number, student card, and vehicle
registration certificate.
+
Russia’s
Secret Oil Tankers Take to the Seas to Crush G7 Price Cap | Russia Ukraine War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Oeu_1e8KnI
with Firstpost
(4:14)
Russia’s Secret Oil Tankers Take to the Seas to Crush G7
Price Cap | Russia Ukraine War. Russia is all set to defeat the West’s
sanctions with the help of a plan that Vladimir Putin has been working on for
months. Moscow has been preparing for a Western-backed price cap on its oil for
quite some time now. The United States, G7, European Union and NATO – they all
thought they had Vladimir Putin by the neck this time. However, Russia has
revealed its grand plan of bypassing Western sanctions and the oil price cap.
+
Odessa blackouts. Ukraine situation crashing as
Russian missile strikes continue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1YM248czy4
with Alex Christoforou and
Alexander Mercouris
(19:39)
===========
q.
Chinese
vaccine comparisons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN315cA3Aaw
with Dr. John Campbell
(15:27)
+
Western
media badmouth China’s epidemic like how Washington fans the flames in
Russia-Ukraine conflict
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57369.htm
by Global Times
Whatever China does in its battle against COVID-19 is wrong
under the prism of Western media. Those who once denounced China's strict
approach to epidemic prevention and control are now hyping up the consequences
of opening up. Headlines such as "The disastrous implications of lifting
Zero-COVID in China" are flooding on Western social media platforms.
Bloomberg is more dramatic, articulating that "a full reopening could see
5.8 million in ICU" in China and that "there's no way an uncontrolled
wave of infections can be managed."
It is hard to believe that Bloomberg published such a
prognosis with a straight face. China's 20 measures, recently fine-tuned and
adjusted to optimize the epidemic response, do not mean loosening prevention
and control against the virus, less a lift of COVID-19 restrictions or
"lying flat" in the COVID-19 fight. It aims at making the response to
the virus more targeted and science-based, maximizing the protection of
people's safety and health, and minimizing the impact of the epidemic on
economic and social development.
However, some Western forces tend to write off all the efforts and achievements
China has made to rein in the virus, while putting the shortcomings under
scrutiny to provoke confrontation and stir up chaos on Chinese soil. For them,
it would be best if China's development slows down or stagnates.
+
The Third
Opium War: The Agenda Behind the COVID-19 Assault on
China
https://www.globalresearch.ca/third-opium-war-agenda-behind-covid-19-assault-china/5801796
by Emanuel Pastreich
Let us move forward to Operation
COVID-19, the global coup d’état disguised as a pandemic that was launched
against China, and the world, in December of 2019 and that continues on to the
present. Although not directed exclusively at China this operation resembles the
previous two Opium Wars in method and in purpose.
The author does not have inside
knowledge as to exactly how the COVID-19 operation was planned and launched;
most likely no one has the full picture. Enough information is available,
however, to permit an informed assessment, as opposed to the repetition of the
disinformation circulated as journalism these days.
The strategy behind the Wuhan
outbreak of 2019, the start of the COVID Wars, had its roots in classified
research conducted at DARPA, RAND, and other American institutions, on how to
conduct warfare using biotechnology, nanotechnology, and cyber-warfare.
The cyber-warfare imagined in
security circles was less concerned with hacking computers and more with
hacking the minds of citizens so as to render them incapable of independent
thinking and encourage psychological and ideological dependency on a consumer
culture powered by narcissism. The promotion of a banal consumer culture that
destroys the intellectual functions of the educated classes in politics was a
critical part of the groundwork for the COVID wars.
This new form of warfare is best
described as “silent weapons for quiet wars,” to use the term employed in the
(supposedly) classified manual from the 1950s discovered in 1986 that describes
the use of social engineering and automation as a strategy for domination.
Private finance and intelligence complexes like BlackRock,
Vanguard, and Goldman Sachs, along with the strategic teams of billionaires are
the primary clients of this campaign.
China was selected as a primary
target (although the strategy is being carried out around the world) for the
radical degradation of the population’s thinking through the promotion of AI,
smart phones, thereby creating addiction to consumption culture and immediate stimulation,
and forcing dependency on technology.
China was a ripe target because
modernization ideology has been so central to Chinese society and the
imperative to surpass the West that humiliated China in the 19th century is so
acute among Chinese intellectuals that the promotion of dangerous automation
and geo-fencing could be easily justified as a means for China to surpass the
West and to become truly modern. Moreover, Chinese Confucian thought encourages
a trust in the role of government that makes it hard for citizens to grasp how
corporations have seized control of policy and administration in government.
The use of QR codes for all public
spaces, including public restrooms, the requirement of vaccination, and PCR
tests within the last 48 hours (or sometimes last 24 hours) was initially
accepted by citizens because it was justified as more advanced than the “West.”
Most likely the operation was
launched by corrupt elements of intelligence in both the United States and
China who are pursuing plans to create a slave society in which billionaires
set the ideological and administrative rules for the entire society.
The Chinese and the foreign agents
involved in COVID-19 policies at the local level follow directives issued by
private intelligence companies that work together with the World Economic
Forum, intergovernmental agencies like the World Health Organization that is
controlled by the Gates Foundation, and to other multinational institutions
tied to global finance.
The promotion of a “new Cold war” between
the United States and China in the corporate media is critical to this
campaign. Lower level government officials, and citizens, on both sides, are
fed the story that because relations between China and the United States are
getting worse, that there can be no cooperation or communication between the
two nations. This narrative is made substantial by directives that prohibit, or
make difficult, interactions between government officials, academics, and
cultural figures.
The reality is that a tiny group of
key players representing the super-rich in the United States and in China
coordinate closely to promote COVID-19 lockdowns in China.
+
China set
to shake up energy market. Mongolia gas pipelines"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKgjVZ2IBzQ&feature=youtu.be
with Alex Christoforou and Alexnder Mercouris
(19:48)
+
China
Keeps Aggressively Surrounding Itself With US Bases
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57370.htm
by Caitlin Johnstone
Facts:
- There are Chinese people with real grievances against
their government.
- The US empire’s propaganda
machine will spin current protests in China to advance imperial agendas.
- Western intelligence agencies will become more and more
involved in these protests the longer they go on.
It still amazes me how many people
who fancy themselves anti-establishment critical thinkers will spend all day
mindlessly regurgitating mainstream media lines about China.
I cannot emphasize enough how little
respect I have for anyone who parrots US empire narratives about China and how
completely dismissive I am of all their attempts to explain to me that it’s
actually right and good to do this. Literally all of our major problems
are because of the people who rule over us; if you’re buying into the narrative
that who we should really be mad at right now is a government on the other side
of the planet with no power over us, you’re a fucking loser. You’re a
bootlicking empire simp. You’re worthless, bleating
human livestock.
===========
r.
SACH BHARAT Archives
https://www.sachbharat.org/2022/12/people-dying-at-unheard-of-rates.html
- “In A Time Of Universal
Deceit, Telling The Truth Becomes A Revolutionary Act.” (attributed to George Orwell)
- “ALL TRUTH PASSES THROUGH
THREE STAGES; FIRST, IT IS RIDICULED, SECOND, IT IS VIOLENTLY OPPOSED,
THIRD, IT IS ACCEPTED AS BEING SELF-EVIDENT.” (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- “I WILL TELL YOU ONE THING
FOR SURE. ONCE YOU GET TO THE POINT WHERE YOU ARE ACTUALLY DOING THINGS
FOR TRUTH'S SAKE, THEN NOBODY CAN EVER TOUCH YOU AGAIN BECAUSE YOU ARE
HARMONIZING WITH A GREATER POWER.” (George
Harrison)
- “THE WORLD ALWAYS INVISIBLY
AND DANGEROUSLY REVOLVES AROUND PHILOSOPHERS.” (Nietzsche)
+
Controlled
Opposition, Black Propaganda
by Robert W Malone MD, MS
Risk assessment, paranoia, strategy or reality?
(audio, 21:19)
+
Gabor Maté: Who’s Crazy, You or Your Nation?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57385.htm
by Robert Scheer
+
The
Twitter Files just got a lot more interesting
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57379.htm
by Freddy Gray
As I wrote earlier, last week Matt Taibbi, the journalist chosen by Elon
Musk to reveal what really happened behind-the-app during the 2020 presidential
election, published the first instalment of the
‘Twitter Files’. He did it as a long Twitter ‘thread’ which showed various
panicky corporate communications about the ethics of suppressing intriguing
political information. This was important stuff but it wasn’t exactly
explosive. We all knew that Big Tech censored information in order to help Joe
Biden. Lots of Democrat-friendly journalists were therefore quick to pour cold
water on the news. Nothing to see here, folks, move on.
But Musk
and Taibbi promised more and last night Taibbi dropped a genuinely shocking ‘supplemental thread’
explaining why the Twitter files had not been quite as sensational as some
hoped. It seems that, without Musk’s knowledge, somebody within the organisation had been vetting the files which Taibbi and Bari Weiss — the other journalist Musk has
anointed to do the story — were allowed to see. And that somebody was Jim
Baker, the former FBI general counsel who, extraordinarily enough, has the
title of Twitter Deputy General Counsel. Or rather he did. Musk sacked him
yesterday.
Baker is,
as Taibbi puts it, ‘something of a Zelig of FBI controversies dating back to 2016… He resigned
in 2018 after an investigation into leaks to the press.’
Yikes. Any
intelligent commentator who doesn’t recognise this as
a potentially enormous scandal is being wilfully
blind at best. What is increasingly clear is that the FBI and Twitter were
working hand-in-glove to suppress what they deemed to be ‘misinformation’ —
which actually turned out to be a true story about the now President’s son. The
level of ‘collusion’ — to use a word we heard a lot in relation to Russia and
Trump in 2016 — between law enforcement agencies, partisan political actors,
and Big Tech is starting to become painfully clear. Bari Weiss will deliver the
next batch of Twitter files — on Twitter, natch — and
the story has only got more interesting. The old defence
of Twitter was that it was a private company and in a free world a private
company can publish or not publish whatever it wants. But what if that private
company is being manipulated by state actors?
+
You’re Gonna Get Sick, Get Used to It
https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/10/youre-gonna-get-sick-get-used-to-it/
by Todd Hayen
Zero Covid,
zero disease, zero suffering, zero death. Unrealistic goals? You bet—although many countries
(particularly China) have seemingly adopted a “Zero Covid”
stance and have made a rather destructive effort to eliminate any occurrence of
Covid-19 from their citizenry—boarding people up in their apartments, attacking
people trying to escape, all those fun things fascists like to do.
This effort to maintain a “Zero Covid” environment is yet another piece of the agenda
intended to brainwash and thus control the populace. The powers that be know
that, but most of the people they are controlling do not.
The people might think “Zero Covid” sounds like a good idea, but it is fantasy, and
typically you can’t count too much on fantasy in a nitty-gritty real world.
Now, I’m not knocking fantasy.
Sometimes it is just what we need to get through the day. But this isn’t our
own personal fantasy, this is fantasy put upon us by an authority that has a
nefarious agenda. It is a sleight of hand card trick, it is an intentional
deception—a deception premeditated to cause harm to some (most) and benefit
others (a few).
+
European
Parliament Smears Russia While Bankrolling Nazi Terrorism
by Editorial Staff of the Strategic Culture Foundation
One would think, perhaps, that with a perilous war raging on
the European continent, the European Union’s parliament might want to show some
leadership in promoting diplomatic solutions to end that conflict. No, not a bit of it.
The European Parliament has shown itself again this week to
be nothing more than a giant reactionary talking shop whose
proclaimed democratic values have an inverse relationship to its copious
chamber of 705 parliamentarians.
Only three years ago, the same parliament voted on a
resolution that shamefully distorted the origins of the Second World War by
trying to equate the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany.
The parliament comprising lawmakers from 27 member nations
passed a resolution this week condemning Russia as
“a state sponsor of terrorism and a state that uses the means of terrorism”.
The motion is legally non-binding, and so, therefore, has no power of
enforcement. It is a highly “symbolic gesture” of censure against Russia. In
other words, it is naked political propaganda for a political purpose – to
smear the Russian Federation and to inculcate the public perception of Russia as
a barbarian rogue that needs to be eliminated.
Not even the United States has gone this far. The Joe Biden
administration has balked at suggestions to similarly designate Russia a terror
state. Washington has balked because it is a ludicrous incendiary step, as well
as blatantly false.
The European resolution text was a screed of rabid Russophobia packed with anti-Russia allegations referring
to the nearly 10-month-old war in Ukraine. Many of the claims are baseless or
have been shown to be outright fabrications contrived to malign Russia. They
were also hilarious in their stupidity.
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s.
New Report Details How Vast Military Spending By the Richest
Countries Greatly Accelerates Climate Crisis
by Jeremy Kuzmarov
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Why Does U.S. Navy Allow Officers to Commit Gory Murders and
Other Atrocities with Impunity?
Far left, Britt Slabinski
[Source: navy.mil];
2nd from left, Eddie Penney [Source: reddit.com];
2nd from right, Eddie Gallagher [Source: navysealsfund.org];
far right, Justin Sheffield [Source: reddit.com]
by Jeremy Kuzmarov
And even more disturbingly, why are
the men who commit these crimes revered in American popular culture?
“The thrill of killing [is] like a
drug; the greatest feeling I’ve ever experienced in my life.” – Eddie Penney,
Navy SEAL Team 6.[1]
In January 2012, Chris Kyle’s
book American Sniper: The Autobiography of the
Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History became an instant best
seller, selling more than two million copies and spending fourteen consecutive
weeks on The New York Times bestseller list.
A 2014 film version directed by
Clint Eastwood grossed more than $547 million and earned six Academy Award
nominations, including for Best Picture and Actor (Bradley Cooper who played
Kyle).
The book and film provided a heroic
portrait of Kyle, who emerged as a poster boy for the Navy SEAL Team 6 which,
in May 2011, led the mission that killed Osama bin Laden.
A professional cowboy who grew up on
a Texas ranch and earned a Bronze Star in combat in Iraq, Kyle suggested that
all the people he had killed in his career were “savage” and “despicably evil,”
and that he only “wished he had killed more, not for bragging rights but
because [he] believe[d] the world is a better place without savages out there
taking American lives.”
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t.
War
profiteers are fueling this crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVWIDi4mceg
with Chris Hedges
(28:14)
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We need to
talk about why Russia invaded Ukraine
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57383.htm
by Mary Dejevsky
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Global
Arms Sales Grow for 7th Consecutive Year
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/07/global-arms-sales-grow-for-7th-consecutive-year/
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Watch
"Pentagon Lost $2 Trillion AGAIN!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyKFdq9bp8o&feature=youtu.be
with Jimmy Dore
(10:03)
A trillion here, a trillion there and soon you’re talking
about real money! Unless you’re the Pentagon, that is, which
has failed YET ANOTHER audit, this time failing to account for $2 trillion
worth of “assets.” But will the Defense Department face any
consequences, any additional oversight, any budget
cuts? Ha ha, very funny.
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Why Are
Ukraine Weapons Going To Nigeria, Finland & Holland?!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixxWeicFoX4
with Jimmy Dore
(7:04)
Since the earliest days of the Ukraine War, and NATO
intervention on the Ukraine side, it’s been clear that of the billions of
dollars in armaments intended for Ukraine are actually being redirected and
sold on the black market to line the pockets of corrupt officials and others along
the line. Now Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari reveals that at least some of that weaponry is
finding its way into the hands of anti-government terrorists in the Lake Chad
region of Nigeria.
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The
Perpetually Irrational Ukraine Debate
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57381.htm
by Stephen M. Walt
The war continues to be discussed in ways that are
self-serving—and self-defeating.
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Zelensky's three step peace plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lica3I1Q4uQ
with Alex Christoforou,
Alexander Mercouris, Brian Berletic,
and Gonzalo Liraq
(2:53:39)
+
Three
scenarios for how war in Ukraine could play out
by Shashank Joshi, Defence editor, The
Economist
+
Watch
"Zelensky Named Time Magazine’s “Person Of The Year”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ReQ_97k7sI&feature=youtu.be
with Jimmy Dore and Ray McGovern
(36:39)
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Watch
"Dr. Michael Vlahos & Col. Douglas Macgregor: Why NATO strategic
failure? A war of deceit, denial Pt2"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvYCxK8THbg&feature=youtu.be
with Douglas Macgregor
(44:26)
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As the World Fixates on Ukraine, Another War is Brewing in
the Middle East
by Patrick Cockburn
As
war rages in Ukraine, another conflict is ready to explode in the Middle East as
the US and its allies confront Iran over its nuclear programme,
supply of drones to Russia, and repression of anti-government protests.
If the US
or Israel were to attack the main Iranian nuclear facility producing
weapons-grade nuclear fuel, Iran would most likely retaliate by using its drone
and missile arsenal to close the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf,
through which tankers daily carry almost a fifth of the world’s oil and gas.
The
confrontation escalated sharply this week when Iran announced that it intended
to make near bomb-grade nuclear fuel at its Fordow
plant, located inside a mountain to protect it from bomb and missile attack.
Iran decided to ramp up its nuclear programme after
the failure of talks to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)
nuclear deal agreed in 2015 by President Barack Obama but denounced and dropped
three years later by President Donald Trump.
Escalating crisis
At the
heart of the agreement was a far-reaching reduction in economic sanctions on
Iran in return for international monitoring of a reduced Iranian nuclear programme, which Israeli and Western leaders say is aimed
at producing a nuclear bomb.
The
escalating crisis is a resumption of the confrontation three years ago between
the US and Israel, on the one side, and Iran, on the other, that almost led to
war. Under pressure from sanctions and threatened by military assault, Iran
launched a highly successful drone and missile attack on Saudi oil facilities
that briefly cut its oil output by half.
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u.
The Munk Debates – “Be it Resolved: Don't Trust Mainstream
Media”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57380.htm
by Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi Douglas Murray @DouglasKMurray
Malcolm Gladwell @Gladwell
Michelle Goldberg @michelleinbklyn
(1:58:34)
Transcript
The following is a transcript of the
Munk Debates in Toronto last Wednesday, November
30th, in which author Douglas Murray and I took on New Yorker contributor
Malcolm Gladwell and columnist Michelle Goldberg of
the New York Times. As noted, we won with the largest swing in the event’s history, moving from a 48%-52% voter deficit
to a 67%-33% win. Because the entire transcript exceeds Google’s email limit,
this portion is edited for size, but there’s a video you can access here, and you can also click through to a PDF here.
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Journalism
Defenders Push for Passage of 'Game-Changing' PRESS Act
https://scheerpost.com/2022/12/08/journalism-defenders-push-for-passage-of-game-changing-press-act/
by Brett Wilkins
"The PRESS Act is the most important free press
legislation in modern times because it would finally stop the government from
spying on journalists and threatening them with arrest for doing their
jobs," explained one advocate.
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On the
State of Free Speech In Our Monopolized Internet
by Glenn Greenwald
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Warmongers
CONFRONTED By Journalist At National Press Club Event
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWAV4rK7u9Q
with Jimmy Dore
(26:18)
During a recent symposium at the National Press Club about
the prosecution of Julian Assange, The Grayzone reporter Max Blumenthal asked DC attorney and Assange critic Mark Zaid whether
prosecutors should really be depending on testimony from an admitted pedophile
and liar like Sigurdur Ingi
Thordarson, who has since recanted his allegations,
to convict Assange. Jimmy plays a video of the
interaction and then he and Max discuss the weaselly
way Zaid attempts to dodge the question and suggests
that Assange will get a fair trial in the U.S.
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Pilger on the Fall of the British
Press
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/05/watch-pilger-on-the-fall-of-the-british-press/
with John Pilger
(56:44)
Mark Curtis of Declassified
UK speaks with legendary journalist John Pilger,
who began filing for the Daily Mirror in
the 1960s, about the fall of British journalism.
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v.
Internal
Documents Reveal Big Oil’s Plan for Profiting Amid
Climate Pressures
by Mike Ludwig
The largest oil and gas companies are leveraging the climate
crisis to further entrench their domination of energy markets.
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India’s
Farmers Reject GMOs – Global Public Don’t Want GM Food
https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/06/indias-farmers-reject-gmos-global-public-dont-want-gm-food/
by Colin Todhunter
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The
Netherlands: Template for Ecomodernism’s Brave New
World?
https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/12/the-netherlands-template-for-ecomodernisms-brave-new-world/
by Colin Todhunter
Disaster
capitalism and
crisis narratives are currently being used to manipulate popular sentiment and
push through a set of unpalatable policies that would otherwise lack sufficient
political support.
These
policies are being promoted by wealthy interests that stand to make billions of
dollars from what is being proposed. They seek to gain full control of food and
how it is produced. Their vision is tied to a wider agenda aimed at shaping how
humanity lives, thinks and acts.
Throughout
much of 2022, protests by Dutch farmers have grabbed the headlines. Plans to
reduce the Netherlands’ nitrogen output by half come 2030 have led to mass
protests. The government talks of the need to move away from animal-based
agriculture and its climate-impacting emissions.
This ‘food
transition’ often goes hand-in-hand with the promotion of ‘precision’ agriculture,
genetic engineering, fewer farmers and farms and lab-made synthetic food. This
transition is sold under the banner of ‘climate-friendly’ and piggybacks on the
‘climate emergency’ narrative.
Campaigner Willem
Engel claims the Dutch government is not seeking to eliminate farmers from
the landscape for environmental reasons. Instead, it is about the construction
of Tristate City, a megalopolis with a population of around 45
million extending to areas of Germany and Belgium.
Engel
suggests the ‘nitrogen crisis’ is being manipulated to drive through policies
that will result in reshaping the country’s landscape. He argues that the main
nitrogen emitter in the Netherlands is not agriculture but industry. However,
land currently occupied by farms is strategically important to industry and
housing.
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Iran’s
protests spark regime change campaign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-rcN-Emwp8
by The Gray Zone
(42:04)
Isfahan, Iran-based independent researcher Setareh Sadeghi joins The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal to discuss how protests in Iran
have triggered calls for regime change and a violent insurgency from Western
hawks, and the media warfare that has accompanied the destabilization campaign.
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Filipinos
Don’t Want Their Country to Be Used As a “Launching Pad” for a U.S. War Against China or Any Other Country
by Jeremy Kuzmarov
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Southeast
Asia Chooses to Work with China, What Will Happen Next?
https://www.asia-pacificresearch.com/southeast-asia-chooses-work-china-what-will-happen-next/5631418
by Brian Berletic and Li Jingjing
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UN Member
States Fall Short on Accountability for Philippine Mass Killings
by International Coalition for
Human Rights in the Philippines
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The
60-Year U.S. Blockade on Cuba is an Abomination Just as Great as Guantanamo
Bay—With no End in Sight
by David Starr
“El Bloqueo” (The Blockade) is
what Cubans call it. It is a 60-year-old abomination. It is the U.S. embargo
against Cuba.
Imposed by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1962, the
embargo has and continues to be an utter failure in its objective,
that is, trying to fuel a counter-revolution within the island nation;
or more politely put, “regime change.”
Contrary to U.S. media and government propaganda, the 1959
Cuban Revolution has transformed Cuba from its status as an American neo-colony
before 1959 and improved Cubans quality of life by nationalizing its economy
and investing in health-care and education.
Stansfield Smith, an
anti-war activist, wrote
that The New York Times, however,
“still asserted Cuba is a mismanaged anachronism, that the average Cuban has no
say-so, that the government does not permit public dialogue on its policies.
This is arrogant nonsense to anyone knowledgeable about Cuba.” Smith continued:
“Unlike the U.S., Cuba has a number of mass organizations that involve the
people in running the government,” such as, “the Confederation of Cuban Workers
(CTC), the National Association of Small Farmers (FEU) and Federation of
Pre-University Students (FEEM).” Smith then dares to write, “Clearly this
system is vastly more open and democratic than in the U.S.” He may have a point
since U.S. society has become more alienating and violent. Plus, there is an
electoral system that is essentially controlled by big corporations through
massive donations to their political pawns. But, of course, there are shades of
gray.
But that is not all Smith wrote about: “In 2011 Cuba had a
national discussion in thousands of assemblies in workplaces and schools around
the country to establish new laws and guidelines for economic reforms. The U.S.
did no such thing when confronted by the 2008 economic crisis.” Further, “In
2018 Cuba had a similar national discussion on a new constitution. The process
was discussed in over 100,000 workplaces and community meetings. After the
debates and modifications of the draft, the National Assembly approved it,
which was voted on in a national referendum.”
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Nobody
Told You THIS About Socialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rdYjiSFMjk&feature=youtu.be
by Richard D. Wolff
(11:16)
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w.
Global Research – December 6, 2022:
Selected Articles
“No, Putin
Did Not Start the War in Ukraine”. Towards a U.S. War Against
Russia?
+
The Grayzone
Latest Stories – December 6, 2022
“Leaked
files: private spying firm targets global population with illegal spyware”
+
Global Research – December 12, 2022:
Selected Articles
“What Does
the US Federal Reserve’s Jerome Powell Have Up His
Sleeve?”
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CovertAction Magazine
“Exposing Covert Action Since
1978”
We're writing to let you know that today we
will be joining the Canada Files (TCF), a Canadian news outlet committed to
holding Canada accountable on its foreign policy, for the webinar:
The event is being co-hosted by CAM and is
taking place today, December 13 starting at 7pm EST. It features CAM’s Managing
Editor Jeremy Kuzmarov, TCF’s Editor-in-Chief Aidan
Jonah, intrepid journalist Eva Bartlett and TCF’s Contributing Editor Arnold
August, as event speakers. You can register for it here.
In solidarity,
CovertAction Magazine
Our mailing address is:
CovertAction Institute, Inc.
55 Gerard St # 1323
Huntington, NY 11743-8252
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https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/12/10/eighteen-years-ago-today-journalist-gary-webb-was-murdered-after-exposing-cia-drug-trafficking/?mc_cid=5902366572&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d
by Jeremy Kuzmarov
On December 10, 2004, the body of journalist Gary Webb, 49, was discovered in his home near Sacramento after a moving company worker found a note posted to his front door that read: “Please do not enter. Call 911 and ask for an ambulance.”
Webb’s death was listed as a suicide, but Webb was found with two bullet holes in the head, indicating that he was executed.[1]
Artwork that accompanied the original Dark Alliance series published in the San José Mercury News. [Source: theintercept.com]
In the days leading up to his death, Webb had told friends that he was receiving death threats, being regularly followed by what he thought were government agents, and that he was concerned about strange individuals who were seen breaking into and leaving his house.