Bulletin
N° 815
“Gangs of New
York”
http://www3.0123movies.org/watch/gangs-of-new-york-2002-online-123movies.html
Subject : THE TIME-TESTED TACTICS OF ‘DIVIDE AND RULE’ ARE STILL WITH US.
13 September 2018
Grenoble,
France
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
In his book, The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), Freud told the story of a Swiss village, where there had occurred a terrible murder. The prime suspect of this crime was the blacksmith, but there was only one blacksmith in this village, while there were seven tailors living in the community. One of the tailors was arrested, tried and found guilty of the crime; then duly executed. This, Freud argued, is the working of the Unconscious: we don’t allow our ideas to inconvenience us too much. Marx called such thinking “false consciousness,” and he originally believed that ideologies were mostly composed of such distortions in order to conceal certain inconvenient realities.
Over
the past 38 years, we have lived under a Kissingeresque
reconstruction of “Age of Metternich” (1815-1848), a prolonged
counter-revolutionary period of imposed “Law and Order,” enforced by
authoritarian economic and political policies dictated from above by the
entrenched powers of the status quo; it was a system similar to the one
constructed at the Congress of Vienna, when in the autumn of 1814, the heads of
the five reigning dynasties and representatives from 216 noble families began
gathering in Vienna along with the ministers from the “Big Four” (the Coalition
allies of Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia) to discuss the international
coordination of repressive measures to be institutionalized and implemented
across Europe in the wake of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars.
Congress of
Vienna
Metternich
alongside Wellington, Talleyrand
and
other European diplomats at the Congress of Vienna
Towards
the end of the 19th Century, in England the early Socialist movement
was marked by turbulence, and the constabulary was
frequently called to test the will of socialist leaders by attempting to
suppress the freedom of socialist speech. Throughout the year of 1886, police
riots were common in London and elsewhere in the United Kingdom and William
Morris’s Socialist League was at the center, alongside their factional
advisories, the Socialists of the S.D.F. (the Socialist Democratic Federation),
led by Henry Mayers Hyndman. On February 11, 1886,
the S.D.F. called for a large demonstration in Hyde Park, where the police
attacked the crowd, causing many casualties. Members of the League were eager
to criticize the Federation for their opportunistic adventurism, but in a
letter to Reverend John Glasse of Edinburgh written on
the previous day, Morris took a different view, despite his disagreements
with the Federation’s opportunist and reformist orientation, he used his energies and his genius to defend their
right to protest the wretched conditions they were forced to
live under.
As to
Monday’s riot, of course I look at it as a mistake to go in for a policy of
riot, all the more as I feel pretty certain that the Socialists will one day
have to fight seriously because though it is quite true that if labour could organize itself properly the enemy could not
even dream of resisting, yet that organization could not possibly keep pace
with the spread of discontent which will accompany the break-up of the old system . . . . Yet
I do not agree with you that Monday’s affaire will hurt the movement. I think
it will be of service: any opposition to law and order in the streets is of use
to us, if the price of it is not too high. . . . For the rest an English
mob is always brutal at any rate until it rises to heroism. Altogether taken I
think we must look upon this affair as an incident of the Revolution, and so
far encouraging: the shop wrecking was partly a grotesque practical joke (quite
in the English manner) at the expense of the upper classes.(p.483).
For
Morris, the riots represented a new stage of protest, beyond the “docility”
that London workers had exhibited during the Reform demonstrations of 1866. In
March, his article appeared in the SL’s periodical, the Commonwealth, where he elaborated on
the ideas he had expressed in his February letter to Glasse.
What was
the meaning of it? At bottom misery, illuminated by a faint glimmer of hope,
raised by the magic word SOCIALISM, the only hope of these days of
confusion. That was what the crowd represented, whatever other elements were mingled
with it. . . .
We may be
suppressed; practically at least, if not formally. . . . Of course, opinion
cannot be suppressed; we shall find means of disseminating our opinions; but
repressive interference with us will make those opinions a kind of mystery, a
thing to conjure with. . . . Repression will attract the working-class to us.
Opinion which must be suppressed is Revolutionary . . . the Socialist Party
will become a political force when all these things happen.
Now I
should like to say a few words with the utmost seriousness to our comrades and
supporters, on the policy of the Socialist League. I have said that we have
been overtaken unprepared, by a revolutionary incident, but that incident was
practically aimless. This kind of thing is what many of us have dreaded from
the first, and we may be sure that it will happen again and again while the
industrial outlook is what it is. . . . It is above all things our business to
guard against the possible consequences of these surprises. At the risk of
being misunderstood by hot-heads, I say that our business is more than ever Education.
The Gospel
of Discontent is in a fair way towards forcing itself on the whole of the
workers; how can that discontent be used so as to bring about the New Birth of
Society? That is the question we must always have before us. It is too much to
hope that the whole working class can be educated in the aims of Socialism in
due time, before other surprises take place. But we must hope that a
strong party can be so educated. Educated in economics, in
organization, and in administration. To such a body of men all the
aspirations and vague opinion of the oppressed multitudes would drift, and
little by little they would be educated by them, if the march of events would
give us time; or if not, even half-educated they would follow them in any
action which I was necessary to take.
To forge
this head of the spear which is to pierce the armour
of Capitalism in our business, in which we must not fail.(p.484)
E.
P. Thompson goes on to summarize Morris’s thinking on this question: “In the
absence of such a party, a spontaneous revolt . . . would – even if it carried
a small Socialist group to power – soon succumb to the counter-revolution” :
But,
indeed, it would not even come to that. History teaches us that no revolts that
are without aim are successful even for a time. . . .
The
educational process, therefore, the forming a rallying point for definite aims
is necessary to our success; but I must guard against misunderstanding. We must
be no mere debating club, or philosophical society; we must take part in all
really popular movement s when we can make our own views on them unmistakably
clear; that is a most important part of the education in organization.
“Education
toward Revolution” seems to me to express in three words what our policy should
be. . . .(pp.484-485)
The
two estranged British Socialist organizations (S.D.F. and S.L.) combined never
had more than 2,000 paying members and their periodicals (Justice and Commonweal,
respectively) did not have 5,000 readers. (In the summer of
1886, the Socialist League claimed a membership of 600 or 700, a significant
increase over the 230 figure they advertised in July 1885.) Reflecting on their minority position, Morris
wrote his comrade J.
Bruce Glasier of
Glasgow at the end of 1886:
As a party
of principle, we are not likely to number as many members as an opportunist
body; but we have several solid and increasing branches here. . . . . Of course we ought to do much more,
but we are suffering from the lack of energetic initiative men, who are not
overburdened with work and responsibilities.(p.489)
The
small body of British Socialists inside the Imperialist Juggernaut, fighting
among themselves produced a self-conscious critique in
some Branch affiliates to the Socialist League. One comrade from the small town
of Farnham wrote to Commonweal in early 1887:
We
Socialists in small towns or villages . . . feel especially the need of unity
and good-feeling, [and] cannot but deplore and feel ashamed of this bad-blooded
rivalry, which makes the Cause look ridiculous, and gives occasion to the
common enemy to laugh in his sleeve at us. . . . It must be comic . . . to
witness the complacent swagger of Justice, and the occasional mutter of
the Commonweal, as of some sulky boy who has been teased by his fellows.(p.488)
Morris
had no illusions about his fledgling political Party, “if I can dignify a little knot of men with such a word.”
You see we
are such a few, and hard as we work we don’t seem to pick up people to take our
places when we demit. All this you understand is only said about the petty
skirmish of outposts, the fight of a corporal’s guard, in which I am
immediately concerned: I have [no] more faith than a grain of mustard seed in
the future history of ‘civilization’, which I know now is doomed to
destruction, and probably before very long: what a joy it is to think of! and how often it
consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real
feelings and passions, however rudimentary, taking the place of our wretched
hypocrisies. With this thought in my mind all the history of the past is
lighted up and lives again to me. I used really to despair once because I
thought what the idiots of our day call progress would go on perfecting itself:
happily I know now that all that will have a sudden check. . . .(p.501)
In his book, A Dream
Here Morris depicts the revolutionary John Ball sitting in prison, musing upon the trajectory his life has taken:
Hadst thou kept tyy tongue between thy teeth thou mightiest have been something, if it had been but a parson of a town,
and comfortable to many a poor man; and then mightiest thou have clad here and there the naked back, and filled the empty
belly, and holpen many, and men would have spoken well of thee, and of thyself thou hadst thought well; and all this hast thou
lost for lack of a word here and there to some great man, and a little winking of the eyes amidst murder and wrong and untruth.(Ibid.)
In
final analysis, William Morris’s eye always returned to the
contradictions within capitalist "civilization," and his utmost concern was how
to successfully bring these contradictions to the conscious perception of the
working classe, the only group, in his estimation, that was capable of making
a Socialist Revolution, “turning the world downside-up” by withdrawing its
alienated labor.
The
25 items below will serve to remind readers where past events have
brought us in this Odyssey of capitalist development. By looking at what our
ancestors have tried to do to protect themselves from the crushing effects of
the private profit motive, we can only draw lessons about our own lives and
determine more clearly What has to be
done if an alternative system is to be constructed successfully out of the
debris of the failed system that threatens our very existence. Where, we might
ask, is today’s William Morris or Jean Jaurčs? They both represented the triumph
Sincerely,
Francis
Feeley
Professor
emeritus of American Studies
University
Grenoble-Alpes
Director
of Research
University
of Paris-Nanterre
Center
for the Advanced Study of American Institutions and Social Movements
The
University of California-San Diego
a.
The U.S. Military is Winning. No,
Really, It Is!
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176463
by Nick Turse
A Simple Equation Proves That the U.S.
Armed Forces Have Triumphed in the War on Terror
In
2010, H.R. McMaster wasn’t the former
national security advisor to you-know-who but a brigadier general and senior
adviser to General David Petraeus, then commander of
U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. At that time, he came up with a striking
name for America’s twenty-first-century wars in the Greater Middle East, then a
mere nine years old. In a report titled, “Operating Concept, 2016-2028,”
looking into the Army’s future, he dubbed
them our “wars of exhaustion.” No general has been quite so grimly
honest again, though three years later, in May 2013, Charlie Savage and Peter
Baker of the New York Times
reported
that, when it came to the war on terror, “a Pentagon official suggested last
week that the current conflict could continue for 10 to 20 years,” which at
least sounded exhausting.
Three
years later, in June 2016, Army General Joseph Votel,
then head of the U.S. military’s Central Command overseeing those conflicts, spoke
of Washington’s war on terror as a “protracted, protracted fight,”
adding, in response to a question, “I don't know if it's a 'forever war';
define forever.” The next year, the general whom McMaster had been advising
back in 2010, now retired (having also pled
guilty to a misdemeanor charge for mishandling classified material),
offered his own version of that phrase in reference to Afghanistan. He told
the PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff:
“This
is a generational struggle. This is not something that is going to be won in a
few years. We’re not going to take a hill, plant a flag, go home to a victory
parade. And we need to be there for the long haul, but in a way that is, again,
sustainable.”
Exhausting,
protracted, generational, maybe even forever-ish, and
without a victory parade in sight.
As it happened, in 2018, the Washington Post’s
Greg Jaffe reported that another descriptive phrase had come into use at the
Pentagon. “These days,” he wrote, “senior officers talk about ‘infinite war.’”
As Air Force General Mike Holmes explained it, “It’s not losing. It’s staying
in the game... and pursuing your objectives.”
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b.
Trump Does 180 Shift
On Syria: Regime Change Back On The Table
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50218.htm
by Tyler Durden
Will the war in
Syria never end? Will the international proxy war and stand-off between Russia,
the United States, Iran, and Israel simply continue to drift on, fueling
Syria's fires for yet more years to come? It appears so according to an
exclusive Washington
Post report which says that President
Trump has expressed a desire for complete 180 policy shift on Syria.
Only months ago
the president expressed a desire "to get out" and pull the over
2,000 publicly acknowledged American military personnel from the
country; but now, the new report finds, Trump has approved "an
indefinite military and diplomatic effort in Syria".
The radical
departure from Trump's prior outspokenness against militarily pursuing
Syrian regime change, both on the campaign trail and during his first year in the White
House, reportedly involves "a new strategy for an
indefinitely extended military, diplomatic and economic effort there, according
to senior State Department officials".
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c.
Indefinite Occupation
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50216.htm
by
Moon Of Alabama
Today
the United States officially announced a new policy in its war on Syria. It is
an equivalent to the three
step business plan (vid) of the underpants
gnomes:
The
new U.S. plan is
to: 1. keep north-east Syria indefinitely occupied, 2. ???,
3. Iran leaves Syria and the 'regime' in Damascus falls:
President Trump,
who just five months ago said he wanted “to get out” of Syria and bring U.S.
troops home soon, has agreed to a new strategy that indefinitely extends the
military effort there and launches a major diplomatic push to achieve American objectives, according to senior
State Department officials.
Although
the military campaign against the Islamic State has been nearly completed, the
administration has redefined its goals to include the exit of all Iranian
military and proxy forces from Syria, and establishment of a stable,
nonthreatening government
acceptable to all Syrians and the international community.
The
first major step of the "diplomatic push" is to prevent the imminent
Syrian army operation against al-Qaeda aligned groups in Idleb
province:
While the United
States agrees that those forces must be wiped out, it rejects “the idea that we
have to go in there . . . to clean out the terrorists, most of the
people fighting . . . they’re not terrorists, but people fighting a
civil war against a brutal dictator,” as well as millions of civilians, [U.S.
special representative for Syria James] Jeffrey said. Instead, the United
States has called for a cooperative approach with other outside actors.
“We’ve
started using new language,” Jeffrey said, referring to previous warnings
against the use of chemical weapons. Now, he said, the United
States will not tolerate “an attack. Period.”
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d.
Inside Israel’s Secret Program to Back
Syrian Rebels
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50202.htm
by
Elizabeth Tsurkov
Israel
secretly armed and funded at least 12 rebel groups in southern Syria that
helped prevent Iran-backed fighters and militants of the Islamic State from
taking up positions near the Israeli border in recent years, according to more
than two dozen commanders and rank-and-file members of these groups.
The
military transfers, which ended in July of this year, included assault rifles,
machine guns, mortar launchers and transport vehicles. Israeli security
agencies delivered the weapons through three gates connecting the
Israeli-occupied Golan Heights to Syria—the same crossings Israel used to
deliver humanitarian aid to residents of southern Syria suffering from years of
civil war.
Israel
also provided salaries to rebel fighters, paying each one about $75 a month,
and supplied additional money the groups used to buy arms on the Syrian black
market, according to the rebels and local journalists.
The
payments, along with the service Israel was getting in return, created an
expectation among the rebels that Israel would intercede if troops loyal to
President Bashar al-Assad tried to advance on
southern Syria.
When
regime forces backed by Russian air power did precisely that this past summer,
Israel did not intervene, leaving the rebel groups feeling betrayed.
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e.
Report on IDF funding Syrian rebels pulled
on request of ‘army’s censor’ – Jerusalem Post to RT
https://www.rt.com/news/437719-jerusalem-post-idf-censor/
&
https://www.rt.com/news/437719-jerusalem-post-idf-censor/
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f.
Staged Gas Attacks & US Shortcomings:
US Senator Tells Sputnik About
Syria Trip
https://sputniknews.com/interviews/201809101067877625-us-senator-black-syria-interview/
US Senator
Richard Black in an exclusive interview with Sputnik, revealed how the Syrian
people see their president, what went wrong with the US policy in the Mideast
and also expressed his admiration for the state of human rights in the country,
as "Syria has the greatest women’s rights and the greatest religious
freedoms of any Arab country."
Black, a
Republican member of the Virginia State Senate, has recently returned
from Syria, where he met with Syrian President Bashar
Assad and discussed recent developments in the country.
+
https://www.rt.com/uk/438063-chemical-attack-british-intelligence/
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g.
September
11, 2018
Netherlands
provides logistic support
for terrorist organization in Syria: Report
File photo of
militants in Syria's Aleppo, 22 May 2013. (Photo by AFP)
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/09/11/573787/Netherlands-support-Syria-terrorist
The
Dutch government has come under fire after a report revealed it has been
providing logistic support for a Syrian “opposition” group labeled as a
terrorist organization by Dutch prosecutors.
The news report, aired by the national public broadcaster,
said Amsterdam had given “non-lethal assistance” (NLA) to 22 armed opposition
groups, including the Jabhat al-Shamiya
terrorist organization, fighting against the Syrian army.
The Dutch government has reportedly provided pick-up trucks,
uniforms and other equipment for the terrorist group last year, the report
added. This caused a storm of protest from Dutch parliamentarians, who strongly
protested against the country’s government on Monday and asked for its
explanation.
The cabinet is bound to a deadline on Tuesday, in which it
has to answer the questions, including whether any aid to Syria may have ended
up with extremist groups, Christian Democrat party MP Pieter Omtzigt told AFP.
Dutch lawmaker Sjoerd Sjoerdsma
also described the news report as “shocking”, and asked, "How did this
happen, despite all the warnings by lawmakers?"
The revelations on Monday come days after Dutch Foreign
Minister Stef Blok announced the government was
cutting all support to what it called "moderate" opposition groups in
Syria.
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h.
September
10, 2018
What Will Follow the Battle of Idlib?
by Robert Fisk
Wars are dodgy things to predict. And the vast plain below the battlefield of Idlib – not to mention the Syrian artillery battery of four 130mm guns on the heights of Mount Akrad pointing at the hot fields and deserted villages held by the Islamists to the east – bake under the white sun in silence. In the dank tributary canals of the river below, herds of black-and-white cows stand beneath the trees. A little towards the main road, Syrian soldiers rest under the bushes. A clutch of T-72 tanks are parked, hull down in the earth, beneath the branches.
Is that it, I ask myself, as I drive north towards the much-signposted town of Jisr al-Chougour? It’s still in the hands of Nusrah, but only 10 miles away – you grow used to wars in which the road signs constantly point you to locations on the wrong side of front lines – and the idea that this ancient countryside with its old stone houses and the green drift of the Orontes is about to become the site of the last and final battle of the Syrian war seems strangely out of place.
Are the Syrians going to pour forth from the basin of the Orontes – Strabo and Dionysus’s Orontes, the Asi river in Arabic – and lay waste to the province of Idlib which has long been the dumping ground for Syria’s enemies, the Nusrah fighters and Isis and the other jihadis who refused to give up when they evacuated the big Syrian cities?
The Islamists sent a silver-painted drone over the Syrian lines a few hours before I arrived, brought down by rifle fire. Painted on the wing by Nusrah were the words: “If you receive this message, there is worse to come” and it was signed “Tariq bin Ziad from Andalusia”. It had three tiny rockets strapped to the wings. Tariq bin Ziad was the 8th century Umayyad conqueror of Spanish Andalusia. Yes, history lies heavily on you in these parts.
But back to the present. Is this really about to be the “Berlin ’45” of this vast tragedy? The scene of “unprecedented” human loss, as the UN fears? The “massacre” of which Erdogan warns? The “wreckless” advance into Idlib of which Trump roars? The final “lancing of the abscess of terrorism” of which Sergei Lavrov talks – in full Israel-speak, I might add, for that is the language Israel uses about Hamas in Gaza? Lavrov has become quite a “terrorist” expert as we head towards this particular armageddon – always supposing armageddon actually happens.
I guess you have to be a bit of a detective when you drive around these roads and laneways and up into the foothills where General Jihad Sultan’s guns are dug in behind their earth revetments. The Islamists must have drone-photographed these mountainsides many times (and so must US satellites) and the Russians know them perfectly well because they are Syria’s allies. These guns are not for show. They fired this very morning after rockets were reportedly aimed at the Syrians. But where were the legions of ground troops, the massed armour for the great advance? Plenty of villagers close behind the Syrian lines, sitting in coffee shops, driving cattle into the fields, hanging out washing on fences.
Hours after I left Jourine, a spray of rockets and missiles were fired by Islamist rebels onto the Syrian front lines, exploding across the town. The attack was short – the second in a week – and clearly intended to provoke the Syrian army. Since the usual suspects – the armed opposition in Jisr al-Chougour – can’t be arrested, they can, I suppose, expect the usual shellfire.
One of the first things I notice in General Sultan’s office – he holds the title of commander of the Idlib security committee, although we are still (just) in the province of Hama rather than in the province of Idlib – are two large photographs above his desk of Presidents Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin. Two equally large Syrian and Russian flags flank the coloured portraits. This may not be a joint Russian-Syrian operation on the ground – I saw one Russian military police vehicle on my whole drive up from Hama – but in the air it surely will be, if it happens. General Sultan, who was a tank lieutenant at the Lebanese battle of Sultan Yakoub during the 1982 Israeli invasion, talks of “our Russian friends”, and insists to me that “from zero hour, it will take me seven days to be inside Jisr al-Shugour”.
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i.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50201.htm
by Jonathan Cook
Not
only is the role of pro-Israel
partisans in the UK now visible, but their ugly assumptions are under closer
scrutiny than ever before.
Back
in the 1950s, the US intelligence community coined a term:
"blowback". It referred to the unintended consequences of a covert
operation that ended up damaging one’s own cause.
There
are mounting indications that the intensifying campaign by the Israel lobby in
the UK against Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the parliamentary opposition, is
starting to have precisely such self-harming repercussions.
A
campaign of smears
In
the three years since he was elected to lead the Labour party, Corbyn has faced
non-stop accusations that his party has an endemic "anti-Semitism
problem", despite all evidence to the contrary. Of late,
Corbyn himself has become the chief target of such allegations.
Last
week the
Daily Mail led a media mauling of Corbyn over disparaging comments he
made in 2013 about a small group of pro-Israel zealots who had come to disrupt
a Palestinian solidarity meeting. His reference to them as
"Zionists", it was claimed, served as code for "Jews" and
was therefore anti-Semitic.
Mounting evidence in
both the UK and the US, where there has been a similar escalation of attacks on
pro-Palestinian activists, often related to the international boycott movement
(BDS), suggests that the Israeli government is taking a significant, if covert,
role in coordinating and directing such efforts to sully the reputation of
prominent critics.
Corbyn's
supporters have argued instead that he is being subjected to a campaign of
smears to oust him from the leadership because of his very public championing
over many decades of the Palestinian cause.
Al-Jazeera
has produced two separate undercover documentary series on Israel
lobbyists' efforts in the UK and US to
interfere in each country’s politics – probably in violation of local
laws. Only the UK series has been aired so far.
It
showed an Israeli embassy official, Shai Masot, both plotting to
"take down" a Conservative government minister seen as too
sympathetic to the Palestinian cause and helping to create an anti-Corbyn front
organisation in the Labour party.
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j.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8L_Xzrgzg&feature=youtu.be
Respect Party leader George Galloway and former political adviser to Tony Blair, John McTernan discuss the anti-semitism crisis engulfing the Labour Party.
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k.
Britain: No-confidence Motions Passed Against Leading Blairite MPs
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50222.htm
by
Paul Mitchell
Cheers
greeted the passing of a no-confidence motion, by 94 votes to 92, on Thursday
night at a meeting of Enfield North Labour Party against Blairite Labour MP, Joan
Ryan. Ryan, who chairs the Zionist Labour Friends of Israel (LFI), has
been at the forefront of the campaign to oust Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
The
same evening, Labour MP Gavin Shuker also lost a no-confidence vote after 33
members of his Luton South local party voted against him, with five abstaining
and only three supporting him.
Ever
since the failed 2016 leadership putsch against Corbyn, Ryan has been at the
centre of the destabilisation campaign involving MI5, Mossad and the Central
Intelligence Agency against the Labour leader. Her speciality is fabricating
accusations of anti-Semitism against Corbyn and his supporters. The goal is to
discredit socialism in the hope of preventing any challenge by the working
class to austerity and the escalating pursuit of militarism and war in the
Middle East and globally.
The
no-confidence motion against Ryan took place despite an email dispatched
earlier this week by the chair of the Enfield North Constituency Labour Party
branch, Siddo Dwyer, claiming that the motion had been excluded from the
agenda.
The
motion declared, “Our MP has on numerous occasions contributed to and written
articles that have been seized upon by a press unjustly hostile to Jeremy
Corbyn.” It called on local party members to express “no confidence in our MP
Joan Ryan” and “the removal of the party whip and an open selection process for
our next parliamentary candidate.”
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Neoliberal
Fascism
and
the Twilight of the Social
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/neoliberal-fascism-and-the-twilight-of-the-social/
by Henry Giroux
Donald
Trump’s increasingly dangerous, incendiary attacks
on the media, his willingness to separate children from their parents at
the southern border, his efforts to strip
citizenship from naturalized citizens and deport
U.S. citizens on the groundless claim that they have fraudulent birth
certificates, and his relentless attempts to pressure Attorney General Jeff
Sessions and others to obstruct the rule of law all amount to a lawless grab
for power that is pushing the U.S. further into the abyss of fascism.
The
terrors of 20th century fascism have risen once again in the United States
but less as a warning about repeating past mistakes than as a measure of the
degree to which the lessons of history become irrelevant. Politics now moves
between what philosopher Susan Sontag once labeled as “unremitting
banality and inconceivable terror.” The “unremitting banality” is
evident in Trump’s daily barrage of reckless tweets in which language becomes a
weapon to vilify, humiliate and demonize government officials, journalists and
critical media outlets. An evil banality is also present in his branding of
undocumented immigrants as “murderers and thieves,” “rapists” and criminals who
want to “infest
our country.”
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m.
How Israel Spies on US Citizens
https://orientxxi.info/magazine/how-israel-spies-on-us-citizens,2598
by
Alain Gresh
The
Truths that Won’t Be Heard
A
never-shown Al Jazeera documentary on the pro-Israel lobby in the US reveals
possibly illegal Israeli spying on US citizens, and the lobby’s fear of a
changing political mood. (This article has been published in French in Le Monde diplomatique, and translated
by Le Monde diplomatique, English
edition, click here
to subscribe.)
Anti-AIPAC
Demonstration at the White House
and
March through Washington DC
Washington,
26 mars 2017. Manifestation anti-Aipac le premier jour de sa conférence
annuelle.
Gili
Getz/IfNotNow
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Noam
Chomsky: Donald Trump is a Distraction
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50224.htm
While Donald Trump works to distract the public, his
administration is working to dismantle every aspect of government that benefits
the people.
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o.
It’s
Time to Get Billionaires Off of Welfare
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50221.htm
by Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna
Year
after year, decade after decade, Republicans in Washington have lectured the
American people about the need for “welfare reform.” In the 1980s, Ronald
Reagan railed against a fictitious “welfare
queen” driving a Cadillac. Just a few years ago, Republicans turned
their attention to a young surfer who used the food stamp program to purchase
lobster. But if you listen closely, you will never hear much talk from our
Republican colleagues about some of the biggest welfare recipients in America:
The billionaire
owners of some of the most profitable corporations in our country.
Here
are just a few examples.
Jeff
Bezos, the founder of Amazon,
is the
wealthiest person on Earth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires
Index. He is now worth $168 billion. In fact, since the beginning of this year,
his
wealth has increased by about $277 million — every single day.
Meanwhile,
Mr. Bezos continues to pay many thousands of his Amazon employees wages that
are so low that they must rely on food stamps, Medicaid or public housing in
order to survive.
In effect, the middle-class taxpayers of this country are subsidizing the low
wages paid by the richest person on Earth. That’s nuts.
But
Jeff Bezos and Amazon are not alone. . . . .
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p.
THE
NEW YORKER
Books
September
17, 2018 Issue
The
Real Cost of the 2008 Financial Crisis
The
uplifting story of economic recovery overlooks the political consequences of
financial collapse, both here and abroad.
Illustration
by Woody Harrington
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/17/the-real-cost-of-the-2008-financial-crisis
by
John Cassidy
The
aftermath produced a lost decade for European economies and helped lead to the
rise of anti-establishment political movements here and abroad.
September
15th marks the tenth anniversary of the demise of the investment bank Lehman
Brothers, which presaged the biggest financial crisis and deepest
economic recession since the nineteen-thirties. After Lehman filed for
bankruptcy, and great swaths of the markets froze, it looked as if many other
major financial institutions would also collapse. On September 18, 2008, Hank
Paulson, the Secretary of the Treasury, and Ben
Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, went to Capitol Hill and
told congressional leaders that if they didn’t authorize a
seven-hundred-billion-dollar bank bailout the financial system would implode.
Some Republicans reluctantly set aside their reservations. The bailout bill
passed. The panic on Wall Street abated. And then what?
The standard narrative is that the rescue operation succeeded in stabilizing the financial system. The U.S. economy rebounded, spurred by a fiscal stimulus that the Obama Administration pushed through Congress in February, 2009. When the stimulus started to run down, the Fed gave the economy another boost by buying vast quantities of bonds, a policy known as quantitative easing. Eventually, the big banks, prodded by the regulators and by Congress, reformed themselves to prevent a recurrence of what happened in 2008, notably by increasing the amount of capital they hold in reserve to deal with unexpected contingencies. This is the basic story that Paulson, Bernanke, and Tim Geithner, who was the Treasury Secretary during the Obama Administration, told in their respective memoirs. It was given an academic imprimatur by books like Daniel Drezner’s “The System Worked: How the World Stopped Another Great Depression,” which came out in 2014.
This
history is, on its own terms, perfectly accurate. In the early
nineteen-thirties, when the authorities allowed thousands of banks to collapse,
the unemployment rate soared to almost twenty-five per cent, and soup kitchens
and shantytowns sprang up across the country. The aftermath of the 2008 crisis
saw plenty of hardship—millions of Americans lost their homes to mortgage
foreclosures, and by the summer of 2010 the jobless rate had risen to almost
ten per cent—but nothing of comparable scale. Today, the unemployment rate has
fallen all the way to 3.9 per cent.
There
is much more to the story, though, than this uplifting Washington-based
narrative. In “Crashed:
How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World,” the Columbia
economic historian Adam Tooze points out that we are still living with the
consequences of 2008, including the political ones. Using taxpayers’ money to
bail out greedy and incompetent bankers was intrinsically political. So was
quantitative easing, a tactic that other central banks also adopted, following
the Fed’s lead. It worked primarily by boosting the price of financial assets
that were mostly owned by rich people.
As
wages and incomes continued to languish, the rescue effort generated a populist
backlash on both sides of the Atlantic. Austerity policies, especially in
Europe, added another dark twist to the process of political polarization. As a
result, Tooze writes, the “financial and economic crisis of 2007-2012 morphed
between 2013 and 2017 into a comprehensive political and geopolitical crisis of
the post–cold war order”—one that helped put Donald Trump in the White House
and brought right-wing nationalist parties to positions of power in many parts
of Europe. “Things could be worse, of course,” Tooze notes. “A ten-year
anniversary of 1929 would have been published in 1939. We are not there, at
least not yet. But this is undoubtedly a moment more uncomfortable and
disconcerting than could have been imagined before the crisis began.”
In
the years leading up to September, 2008, Tooze reminds us, many U.S.
policymakers and pundits were focussed on the wrong global danger: the
possibility that China, by reducing its huge holdings of U.S. Treasury bills,
would crash the value of the dollar. Meanwhile, American authorities all but
ignored the madness developing in the housing market, and on Wall Street, where
bankers were slicing and dicing millions of garbage-quality housing loans and
selling them on to investors in the form of mortgage-backed securities. By
2006, this was the case for seven out of every ten new mortgages.
Tooze
does a competent job of guiding readers through the toxic alphabet soup of
mortgage-based products that Wall Street cooked up: M.B.S.s, C.D.O.s, C.D.S.s,
and so on. He looks askance at the transformation of commercial banks like
Citigroup from long-term lenders into financial supermarkets—“service providers
for a fee”—in the decades before 2008, and he rightly emphasizes the enabling
role that successive Administrations played in this process, not least Bill Clinton’s.
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q.
To Stop the Next Financial Crisis, We Need Public Ownership of Banks—Now
by
Thomas Hanna
The
financial crisis has made it difficult to argue that privately owned banks are
more efficient when their activities nearly brought down the entire capitalist
global economy.
In
mid-September, a secret
party is scheduled to take place in London. The participants will be
hundreds of alumni from the defunct global investment bank Lehman Brothers. The
occasion? The 10-year anniversary of the bank’s collapse in the midst of the
Great Financial Crisis.
For
many Americans, the sight of those very same bankers walking out into the
streets of New York City in 2008, with cardboard boxes containing their
belongings and shocked looks on their faces, was the first sign that something
was truly wrong.
But
the subsequent publicly funded rescue of America’s giant financial corporations
and the “1 percent” demonstrated how unable and unwilling the nation’s
political leadership was to address that wrong by fundamentally reshaping the
industry responsible for the crisis in the first place. A decade later, we are
still experiencing the political, economic and social ramifications of that
failure.
There
will be another financial crisis. That much is certain. Only when and how
destructive it will be is up for serious debate. The financial industry is more
consolidated that it was in 2007—dominated by banks still too big to
fail. Bank lobbyists and their congressional allies have systematically undermined
the weak regulatory reforms put in place after the crisis, demonstrating again
that the tremendous political and economic power these financial institutions
wield makes strong regulatory and institutional reforms (such as “breaking up
the banks”) improbable, if not impossible.
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r.
Conjuring
Up the Next Depression
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/conjuring-up-the-next-depression/
by
Chris Hedges
During
the financial
crisis of 2008, the world’s central banks, including the Federal
Reserve, injected trillions of dollars of fabricated money into the global
financial system. This fabricated money has created a worldwide debt of $325
trillion, more than three times global GDP. The fabricated money was hoarded by
banks and corporations, loaned by banks at predatory interest rates, used to
service interest on unpayable debt or spent buying back stock, providing
millions in compensation for elites. The fabricated money was not invested in
the real economy. Products were not manufactured and sold. Workers were not
reinstated into the middle class with sustainable incomes, benefits and pensions.
Infrastructure projects were not undertaken. The fabricated money reinflated
massive financial bubbles built on debt and papered over a fatally diseased
financial system destined for collapse.
What
will trigger the next crash? The $13.2 trillion in unsustainable U.S. household
debt? The $1.5 trillion in unsustainable student debt? The billions Wall Street
has invested in a fracking industry that has
spent $280 billion more than it generated from its operations? Who
knows. What is certain is that a global financial crash, one that will dwarf
the meltdown of 2008, is inevitable. And this time, with interest rates near
zero, the elites have no escape plan. The financial structure will
disintegrate. The global economy will go into a death spiral. The rage of a betrayed
and impoverished population will, I fear, further empower right-wing demagogues
who promise vengeance on the global elites, moral renewal, a nativist revival
heralding a return to a mythical golden age when immigrants, women and people
of color knew their place, and a Christianized fascism.
The
2008 financial crisis, as the economist
Nomi Prins points out, “converted central banks into a new class of
power brokers.” They looted national treasuries and amassed trillions in wealth
to become politically and economically omnipotent. In her
book “Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World,” she writes that
central bankers and the world’s largest financial institutions fraudulently
manipulate global markets and use fabricated, or as she writes, “fake money,”
to inflate asset bubbles for short-term profit as they drive us toward “a
dangerous financial precipice.”
“Before
the crisis, they were just asleep at the wheel, in particular, the Federal
Reserve of the United States, which is supposed to be the main regulator of the
major banks in the United States,” Prins said when we met in New York. “It did
a horrible job of doing that, which is why we had the financial crisis. It
became a deregulator instead of a regulator. In the wake of the financial
crisis, the solution to fixing the crisis and saving the economy from a great
depression or recession, whatever the terminology that was used at any given
time, was to fabricate trillions and trillions of dollars out of an electronic
ether.”
The
Federal Reserve handed over an estimated $29 trillion of this fabricated money
to American banks, according to researchers
at the University of Missouri. Twenty-nine trillion dollars! We could have
provided free college tuition to every student or universal health care,
repaired our crumbling infrastructure, transitioned to clean energy, forgiven
student debt, raised wages, bailed out underwater homeowners, formed public
banks to invest at low interest rates in our communities, provided a guaranteed
minimum income for everyone and organized a massive jobs program for the
unemployed and underemployed. Sixteen million children would not go to bed
hungry. The mentally ill and the homeless—an estimated 553,742
Americans are homeless every night—would not be left on the streets or
locked away in our prisons. The economy would revive. Instead, $29 trillion in
fabricated money was handed to financial gangsters who are about to make most
of it evaporate and plunge us into a depression that will rival that of the global
crash of 1929.
Kevin
Zeese and Margaret Flowers write on the website Popular Resistance,
“One-sixth of this could provide a $12,000 annual basic income, which would
cost $3.8 trillion annually, doubling Social Security payments to $22,000
annually, which would cost $662 billion, a $10,000 bonus for all U.S. public
school teachers, which would cost $11 billion, free college for all high school
graduates, which would cost $318 billion, and universal preschool, which would
cost $38 billion. National improved Medicare for all would actually save the
nation trillions of dollars over a decade.”
An
emergency clause in the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 allows the Fed to provide
liquidity to a distressed banking system. But the Federal Reserve did not stop
with the creation of a few hundred billion dollars. It flooded the financial markets
with absurd levels of fabricated money. This had the effect of making the
economy appear as if it had revived. And for the oligarchs, who had access to
this fabricated money while we did not, it did.
The
Fed cut interest rates to near zero. Some central banks in Europe instituted negative
interest rates, meaning they would pay borrowers to take loans. The Fed,
in a clever bit of accounting, even permitted distressed banks to use these
no-interest loans to buy U.S. Treasury bonds. The banks gave the bonds back to
the Fed and received a quarter of a percent of interest from the Fed. In short,
the banks were loaned money at virtually no interest by the Fed and then were
paid interest by the Fed on the money they borrowed. The Fed also bought up
worthless mortgage assets and other toxic assets from the banks. Since Fed
authorities could fabricate as much money as they wanted, it did not matter how
they spent it.
“It’s
like going to someone’s old garage sale and saying, ‘I want that bicycle with
no wheels. I’ll pay you 100 grand for it. Why? Because it’s not my money,’ ”
Prins said.
“These
people have rigged the system,” she said of the bankers. “There is money
fabricated at the top. It is used to pump up financial assets, including stock.
It has to come from somewhere. Because money is cheap there’s more borrowing at
the corporate level. There’s more money borrowed at the government level.”
“Where
do you go to repay it?” she asked. “You go into the nation. You go into the
economy. You extract money from the foundational economy, from social programs.
You impose austerity.”
Given
the staggering amount of fabricated money that has to be repaid, the banks need
to build greater and greater pools of debt. This is why when you are late in
paying your credit card the interest rate jumps to 28 percent. This is why if
you declare bankruptcy you are still responsible for paying off your student
loan, even as 1 million people a year default on student loans, with 40 percent
of all borrowers expected to default on student loans by 2023. This is why
wages are stagnant or have declined while costs, from health care and
pharmaceutical products to bank fees and basic utilities, are skyrocketing. The
enforced debt peonage grows to feed the beast until, as with the subprime
mortgage crisis, the predatory system fails because of massive defaults.
There will come a day, for example, as with all financial bubbles, when the
wildly optimistic projected profits of industries such as fracking will no
longer be an effective excuse to keep pumping money into failing businesses
burdened by debt they cannot repay.
“The
60 biggest exploration and production firms are not generating enough cash from
their operations to cover their operating and capital expenses,” Bethany McLean
writes of the fracking industry in
an article titled “The Next Financial Crisis Lurks Underground” that
appeared in The New York Times. “In aggregate, from mid-2012 to mid-2017, they
had negative free cash flow of $9 billion per quarter.”
The
global financial system is a ticking time bomb. The question is not if it will explode but when it will explode. And once it
does, the inability of the global speculators to use fabricated money with zero
interest to paper over the debacle will trigger massive unemployment, high
prices for imports and basic services, and a devaluation in which the dollar
will become nearly worthless as it is abandoned as the world’s reserve
currency. This manufactured financial tsunami will transform the United
States, already a failed democracy, into an authoritarian police state. Life
will become very cheap, especially for the vulnerable—undocumented workers,
Muslims, poor people of color, girls and women, anti-capitalist and
anti-imperialist critics branded as agents of foreign powers—who will be
demonized and persecuted for the collapse. The elites, in a desperate bid to
cling to their unchecked power and obscene wealth, will disembowel what is left
of the United States.
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s.
Wall Street
Is the Definition of a Ponzi Scheme
(Literally)
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/wall-street-is-the-definition-of-a-ponzi-scheme-literally/
by Lee Camp
Maybe it
makes me unsophisticated, but I don’t think about the stock market that much. I
know that many say it’s the central nervous system of our economy. I know its estimated worth is around $30
trillion. And I know that when it tanks, the lives of
millions of Americans are wrecked, ruined and upended. I know that when that
happens, the powerful millionaires (and billionaires) who caused said
destruction generally grab their money and their well-coiffed dogs and run for
it. (Sometimes our government has to step in to make sure the elites get all of their
money and don’t have to share in the devastation they’ve dispensed to the lower
classes.)
But in my
day-to-day life, I don’t think much about the stock market. So maybe I
shouldn’t care that the entire thing is a gigantic fraud. But I do. I do care.
And you should too.
In a few
minutes’ time you will see that our stock market is a Ponzi
scheme. (And unfortunately, it doesn’t matter whether you’re happy or sad or
ambivalent about that fact. It will be true nonetheless.)
When you
picture buying stock in a company, what do you picture? You probably imagine a
company like PepsiCo, and you are an investor in that company. You own a tiny
piece of it, and because of that, you get a tiny proportion of the profits,
which are called “dividends.” Well, that’s not what a stock is. That’s what stocks used to be, but that was back when top hats were worn by
non-magicians, and if a lady showed her knees in public, she was considered a floozy
who should die alone.
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t.
More Jobs Fictions
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50223.htm
by Paul Craig Roberts
According
to today’s payroll jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy
created 200,000 new jobs in August. These jobs, assuming that they exist, are
reported to be in low paid domestic service jobs such as transporting and
selling goods, ambulatory health care services, and waiting tables and mixing
drinks. There are none in manufacturing or in the “high tech clean fingernail”
jobs that neoliberal economists promised the American work force in exchange
for letting the industrial and manufacturing jobs go to Asia.
The
great mystery is how these jobs can possibly have been created when the Bureau
of Labor Statistics Household Data (Table A) https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm
reports that the civilian labor force declined by 469,000 in August from
the level in the previous month (July); that employment declined by 423,000 in
August from the previous month; and that 692,000 Americans dropped out of the
labor force in August. Year over year (August 2017-August 2018) 1,531,000
Americans have left the labor force. This is inconsistent with a booming
economy at full employment.
It
is not explained how during August the Household Survey found unemployment to
rise by 423,000 and the work force to shrink by 692,000 for a total of
1,115,000 missing working people, but the economy created 200,000 new payroll
jobs.
According to the financial presstitutes, we have a booming economy and labor shortages stemming from a 3.9% unemployment rate, which if it were real would probably be the lowest in my lifetime. Economists are puzzled why there is no upward pressure on wages when there are not enough workers to go around. All of this mystery is due to the fact that the unemployment rate does not count workers who cannot find jobs and have dropped out of the work force. If an unemployed person has not looked for a job in the past four weeks, the unemployed person is not counted as unemployed.
The
Employment Situation Summary
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm states that there are
4.4 million workers who are involuntary part-time workers because they cannot
find full time jobs. So we have a booming economy in which there are more
workers than full time jobs!
The
Employment Situation Summary also says that there are 1.4 million workers who
are not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4
weeks preceding the survey.”
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u.
Roger
Waters: Neoliberal propaganda keeping voters ‘asleep’ like Orwellian sheep
https://www.rt.com/news/437915-roger-waters-rt-interview-politics/
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v.
Explosive Skripal Allegations
May Blow Up
In Syria
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50231.htm
by George
Galloway
Explosive Skripal allegations will probably blow up in Syria's Idlib where the US/UK axis is cocked, ready to fire.
The UK media
lost their collective mind over Russia but their masters have not. There is
method in their madness. Today's latest offering
is that the 'Russians' in the 'mugshots' released
last week are 'already dead' having been 'executed by Putin' to stop them
talking, forever. Which neatly avoids the British state
asking Russia for help in identifying them. London's failure to do so
was already arousing suspicion amongst a cynical public. There is now no point, the would-be assassins are now six-feet below the
permafrost of Anglo-Russian relations. The media here have completely ignored
the statement of the head of the anti-terrorist squad of Scotland Yard that he
had "No" evidence of Russian state involvement in the crime in
Salisbury, preferring instead the cheap barroom brawling of the British prime
minister on the floor of the House of Commons cheered on by the vulgar popular
press and their more refined elder sisters in the upmarket
papers and on the BBC.
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w.
From:
"Mark Crispin Miller"
<markcrispinmiller@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, 10 September, 2018
Subject: [MCM] Round-up on the lethal
risks of all that electricity
2018
EMF, TECH AND UTILITY NEWS OVERVIEW
September
9-10
ANTENNAS:
Antenna Sickness Is Everywhere Now
Mobile
communications and mobile entertainment require a human environment
overflowing with disease- inducingradiation, both indoors and
out. Above is a photo of the Stockholm Central Railway
Station in Sweden. A 2016 study ofthe man-made wave pollution
within this facility was conducted by the Hardell Cancer Research Group in
Sweden. [4] This study is a reality check on the astronomical
number of RF/microwave frequencies and modulations
which simultaneously bombard our bodies everywhere we go.
Twenty
different pulsed frequency sets were found within this cavernous
facility. Investigators used professional RF analyzers to
identify FM radio at 87 megahertz and three different police radio
bands (TETRA) propagating at 380 to 470 megahertz. The 4G/LTE signals
range from 791 megahertz to 2.7 gigahertz. GSM signals span 880 megahertz to
1.8 gigahertz. Wi-Fi signals range from 2.45 gigahertz to 5.9 gigahertz.
UMTS/3G frequencies span 1.9 gigahertz to 2.2 gigahertz. There is also WiMAX at
3.3-3.9 gigahertz. This pollution is measured as high-frequency
electromagneticvoltage, which literally charges the air with powerful electron
activity. Ions and molecules are greatly affected. This pollution
oscillates the polarity of human cells (negative-positive) millions to billions
of times per second, a situation that does not occur in nature. This
pollution is the VOLTAGE OF CANCER.
http://christianobserver.net/ antenna-sickness-is-
everywhere-now/
CHILDREN
SCHOOLS: Electronic devices in schools
hurt learning — and health
5G
IOT: For Safety’s Sake, We Must Slow Innovation in Internet-Connected Things
That’s
the view of security expert Bruce Schneier, who fears lives will be lost in a
cyber disaster unless governments act swiftly
In
a new book called Click Here to Kill Everybody, Bruce Schneier
argues that governments must step in now to force companies developing
connected gadgets to make security a priority rather than an afterthought.
There’s
been lots of discussion in the US this year about cyber threats to critical
infrastructure like power grids and dams. How serious are these?
We
know that at least twice, Russian hackers have turned off power to bits of
Ukraine’s grid as part of a broader military campaign. We know that
nation-state hackers have penetrated systems at some US power companies. These
hacks have been exploratory ones and haven’t caused damage, but we know it’s
possible to do so. If there are military hostilities against the US, we should
expect these attacks will be used. And the US will use them against our
adversaries, just as we used cyberattacks to delay the nuclear programs in Iran
and North Korea.
5G; Study: 52% Use IoT Devices, 64% Have
Problems with Them
·
73%
of consumers fear being locked in or out of the smart home due to bugs in smart
home technology
· 68%
of consumers are worried they won’t be able to control the temperature in the
smart home due to malfunctions in smart home technology
· 64%
of consumers fear not being able to control lights in the smart home due to
glitches in smart home technology
·
81%
of consumers are concerned that technology or software problems with smart
meters will lead to them being overcharged for gas, electricity, and water.
·
https://www.rtinsights.com/
study-52-use-iot-devices-64- have-problems-with-them/
HEALTH
EMF: The Use of EMF Filters forElectromagnetic Hypersensitivity
STORY
AT-A-GLANCE (Mr. Mercola interviews Magda havas)
·
If
you’re Type 1 or Type 2 diabetic and are electrically hypersensitive, your
blood sugar may increase when you’re exposed to dirty electricity
·
Risk
factors for electromagnetic hypersensitivity include spinal cord damage,
whiplash, brain damage, concussion, chemical and heavy metal toxicity, impaired
immune function and bacterial or parasitic infections such as Lyme
·
Dirty
electricity has been shown to worsen multiple sclerosis (MS), and many MS
patients report improvement when installing EMF filters to remove dirty
electricity from their environment
·
Dirty
electricity may also worsen asthma, heart problems, anxiety, infertility,
tinnitus and other health problems
·
Test
reveal microwave radiation causes red blood cells to aggregate and clump
together, which can raise your risk of stroke, heart attack and other health
problems
HEALTH:
Article | OPEN | Published: 07 September 2017
The
effect of a high frequency electromagnetic field in the microwave range on red
blood cells
The
effect of red blood cells (RBC) exposed to an 18 GHz electromagnetic
field (EMF) was studied. The results of this study demonstrated for the first
time that exposure of RBCs to 18 GHz EMF has the capacity to induce
nanospheres uptake in RBCs. The uptake of nanospheres (loading efficiency 96%
and 46% for 23.5 and 46.3 nm nanospheres respectively), their presence
and locality were confirmed using three independent techniques, namely scanning
electron microscopy, confocal laser scanning microscopy and transmission
electron microscopy. It appeared that 23.5 nm nanospheres were
translocated through the membrane into the cytosol, while the 46.3
nm-nanospheres were mostly translocated through the phospholipid-cholesterol
bilayer, with only some of these nanospheres passing the 2D cytoskeleton
network. The nanospheres uptake increased by up to 12% with increasing
temperature from 33 to 37 °C. The TEM analysis revealed that the
nanospheres were engulfed by the cell membrane itself, and then translocated
into the cytosol. It is believed that EMF-induced
rotating water dipoles caused disturbance of the membrane, initiating its
deformation and result in an enhanced degree of membrane trafficking via a
quasi-exocytosis process.
https://www.nature.com/ articles/s41598-017-11288-9
PRIVACY:
Is smart technology invading your privacy?
SECURITY: Millions of in home Wi-Fi connections at
risks for hacking
7
˝ minutes
https://www.usatoday.com/ videos/news/world/2018/09/05/
millions-home-wi-fi- connections-risks-hacking/ 37718711/
SMART
METERS: EMF Radiation Testing: ‘Smart’
Meter vs. Cell Phone (VIDEO)
https://takebackyourpower.net/ emf-radiation-testing-smart-
meter-cell-phone/
A possible step in the right direction:
UTILITIES: Why “Mini” Matters To Achieve Power For All
By
Vivian Vendeirinho, Alliance for Rural Electrification
AFRICA
Mini-grids
don’t just provide access to electricity, they are a catalyst to economic
growth and improved livelihoods.
underway
to provide energy access to 1 billion, mostly rural, people living without
electricity. That access will be delivered in many ways; through the
traditional grid, via rooftop solar for homes, and increasingly by scaling an
innovative, community-based approach called “mini-grids.”
By
some estimates, at least 100,000 mini-grids — small, localized
power plants and transmission that not only provide electricity for homes, but
local business and industry — are needed to bring power to 140
million Africans. Thousands more will be needed in Asia and island states.
But
instead of requiring US$15,000 per kilometer to extend often over-stressed and
unreliable grids, or limiting people to lighting and phone charging as some
rooftop solar systems do, mini-grid technology allows small power plants to be
built where they are needed, and if well designed, to reliably power whatever
loads and appliances are needed. The International
Energy Agency (IEA) has said mini-grids and other non-centralized solutions are
the least-cost option for connecting three-quarters of those still living
without basic electricity.
All
that’s required is US$15 billion a year between now and 2030, the IEA says, to
fund the needed mini-grids. That might seem like a lot, but to put it in
perspective, it’s just one-third of what American consumers spend each year on
pet care.
https://cleantechnica.com/ 2018/09/06/why-mini-matters-
to-achieve-power-for-all/
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Are
We on the Brink of Another Financial Crisis?
https://www.thenation.com/article/are-we-on-the-brink-of-another-financial-crisis/
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“We Love the CIA!”—or How the “Left” Lost Its Mind
https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-love-the-cia-or-how-the-left-lost-its-mind/5653450
by Ann Garrison
Armageddon Rides In The Balance
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/09/10/armageddon-rides-in-the-balance/
by Paul Creagh Roberts
For some time I have pointed out the paradox of the American liberal/progressive/left being allied with the CIA, FBI, military/security complex and deep state. Now leftist Ann Garrison has noticed the paradox of this alliance. She concludes that the left has lost its mind. https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-love-the-cia-or-how-the-left-lost-its-mind/5653450