Bulletin
N° 923
“Blade Runner 2049”
or
2017
(2:43:26)
Subject: A plan is a plan, is a plan, is a plan… : right-wing Think Tanks and what they do for a living.
September 18, 2020
Grenoblem France
Dear
Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
Between
reading and watching video reports, I’ve been experimenting recently with
haikus:
Once,
I was thirty;
Now, pushing seventy-five.
Still, destined to die.
I
showed this one to my daughter. She told me she thought it was essentialist,
and suggested that I work on expanding my imagination to supersede my
reductionist thinking.
I
replied with another haiku:
We
share our planet
With
criminal elements,
Which could kill us now.
She
bolted from the kitchen, without a word, late to another birthday party.
* * *
The
new transfer of “ownership” of the world is not a done deal. We have seen the
attempt before. The German-born, non-Marxist, philosopher Hannah Arendt
discussed it in her classic 1963 report, Eichmann
in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.
(See Eric Hobsbawm’s
critique of Arendt’s « poetic
license » in « LE SOCIAL ET LE POLITIQUE :
UN BILAN DE L'ESSAI SUR LARÉVOLUTION D'HANNAH ARENDT, » by Stéphanie
Roza)
Below
is a description of Eichmann in
Jerusalem "Epilogue"
(1963,1964), taken from The
Hannah Arendt Papers (Internet page 7),
in which she concluded: this corporatist mass murderer was “not a monster, but
rather a buffoon….”
“Evil: The Crime
against Humanity”
by
Jerome Kohn, Director, Hannah Arendt Center, New School University
(From
Eichmann in Jerusalem "Epilogue".
The Hannah Arendt Papers, The Library of Congress Manuscript Division.)
“Arendt saw Eichmann, on trial for his
life, as a "buffoon" whose inability to speak was closely connected
with an inability to think, namely, to think from the standpoint of
somebody else. No communication was possible with him, not because he lied but
because he was surrounded by the most reliable of all safeguards against the
words and the presence of others, and hence against reality as such . . . [It
was] proof against reason and argument and information and insight of any kind
(see Eichmann in Jerusalem, chapters 3
and 5).
“Having encountered such a man, Arendt
saw that the banality of evil is potentially far greater in extent--indeed
limitless--than the growth of evil from a "root." A root can be
uprooted, which is what she meant to do when she spoke of
"destroying" totalitarianism, but the evil perpetrated by an Eichmann
can spread over the face of the earth like a "fungus" precisely
because it has no root. Furthermore, the case of Eichmann led Arendt to see
that at least one evildoer was not "corruptible." Having overcome or
in his case forgotten any inclination he may have had to halt or hinder the
organization and transportation of millions of innocent Jews to their deaths,
Eichmann boasted that he had done his duty to the end! Unlike Himmler, his
ultimate superior in the chain of command and a chief architect of the
"final solution," Eichmann never attempted to "negotiate"
with the enemy when it became clear that the Nazi cause was lost. He declared,
on the contrary, "that he had lived his whole life . . . according to a
Kantian definition of duty," (see Eichmann in Jerusalem, chapter
8) and Arendt noted that "to the surprise of everybody, Eichmann came
up with an approximately correct definition of [Kant's] categorical
imperative," though he had "distorted" it in practice. She
admitted, moreover, "that Eichmann's distortion agrees with what he
himself called the version of Kant 'for the household use of the little
man,'" the identification of one's will with "the source" of
law, which for Eichmann was the will of the Führer.
“Perhaps the
most provocative aspect of Eichmann in Jerusalem is its study of human
conscience. The court's refusal to consider seriously the question of
Eichmann's conscience resulted in its failure to confront what Arendt called
"the central moral, legal, and political phenomena of our century."
The Israeli judges understood conscience traditionally as the voice of God or lumen
naturale, speaking or shining in every human
soul, telling or illuminating the difference between right and wrong, and this
simply did not apply in the case of Eichmann. Eichmann had a conscience,
and it seems to have "functioned in the expected way" for a few weeks
after he became engaged in the transport of Jews, and then, when he heard no
voice saying Thou shalt not kill but on the
contrary every voice saying Thou shalt kill,
"it began to function the other way around." (see
Eichmann in Jerusalem, chapter
6) And this was by no means true only for Eichmann. Arendt was convinced by
testimony presented at the trial that a general "moral
collapse" had been experienced throughout Europe, from which even
respected members of the Jewish leadership were not exempt.5 (see Eichmann
in Jerusalem, chapter
7)
“And so the controversy raged. Arendt
may have exaggerated the extent to which the attacks against her were prompted
by a "conspiracy" of the Jewish establishment and leveled against a
book that was "never written." (see "Personal
Responsibility Under Dictatorship") Certainly not everyone who
disagreed with her, sometimes vehemently, was malevolent or ill-informed (see
letter from Hans Jonas to H.A. marked "etwa
Januar 1964"). Much that was said was indeed
preposterous, for example, that she attempted to
exonerate Eichmann when she had done exactly the opposite; or that she was
morally insensitive in asking why Jews had not fought back, a question raised
by the prosecutor but never by Arendt, who understood that the processes of
dehumanization precluded rebellion. Yet many were deeply disturbed by her
depiction of an Eichmann who was not an ideological anti-Semite nor even
criminally motivated--he wanted to rise in rank not by murdering anyone but by
"conscientiously" doing his job. "Intent to do wrong" was
not, in Arendt's opinion, proved against him. He was not "morally
insane" for in his own "muddled" way he distinguished between
right and wrong, and the results of psychological tests showed that he was not
a "monster" but frighteningly normal.
“Eichmann was not stupid; he knew but
did not think what he was doing, not in the past and not in Jerusalem.
He contradicted himself constantly, but he did not lie; his conscience did not
bother him; and he did not suffer from remorse: "He knew that what he had
once called his duty was now called a crime, and he accepted this new code of
judgment as if it were nothing but another language rule" (see "Thinking
and Moral Considerations"). Therefore it was important to Arendt that
the justice of the death sentence delivered by the court be seen by all, and
for that reason she offered her own judgment, addressing Eichmann in the
following terms:
‘Just as you
supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the
Jewish people and the people of a number of other nations--as though you and
your superiors had any right to determine who should and who should not inhabit
the world--we find that no one, that is, no member of the human race, can be
expected to share the world with you. This is the reason, and the only reason,
you must hang.’ (see Eichmann in Jerusalem,
"Epilogue" -- part
one and part
two").
“The "Epilogue" to Eichmann
in Jerusalem deals with the legality of the Jerusalem trial, which for the
most part Arendt defended, but she thought it necessary to clarify what the
Israeli court's judgment left obscure. Eichmann was guilty of "an attack
upon human diversity as such, that is, upon a characteristic of the 'human
status' without which the very words 'mankind' or 'humanity' would be devoid of
meaning." Arendt recognized in Eichmann, who struck her as "not even
strange" (nicht einmal
unheimlich) (see letter from H.A. to Heinrich Bluecher, April 15, 1961), the exemplary criminal capable
of committing "the new crime, the crime against humanity." He
"supported and carried out" the physical destruction of European
Jewry and would have done the same for any group or anyone at all whom a power
higher than himself had decreed unfit to live.”
The 25 + items below are a selection from current events which represent the power of the human mind to either enslave or to liberate humankind. Also, of course, we have the perverse ability to voluntarily seek our own enslavement, as well as the ability to struggle for our own liberation.
Sincerely,
Francis Feeley
___
Professeur honoraire de l'Université Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur de
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.
"Empty Planet: Preparing for the Global
Population Decline"
(1:32:06)
+
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Wednesday, September 16,
2020
Subject: [MCM] A pandemic? Not so fast....
From April, a piece whose point has been deliberately
obscured by all the propaganda. "Pandemic"
is a terroristic misnomer, like "cases" and "infections."
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-deaths-compared-with-swine-flu/
+
Why Lockdowns
Are the Wrong Policy. Sweden’s COVID-19 Strategy
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-why-lockdowns-wrong-policy/5724020
by Prof. Johan Giesecke, Anders Tegnell, and UnHerd
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PLANDEMIC
INDOCTORNATION – This will fundamentally shift how you see coronavirus!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LwYSL0I9YQra/
August 21, 2020
(1:15:43)
+
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2020
Subject: [MCM] More on the possibility that "we're treating the
wrong disease"
Medium has taken this piece down, but
it seems worth considering, as it
appears to bolster Dr. Kyle-Sidell's
view of COVID-19.
Here's a recent interview with him:
MCM
Covid-19 had us all fooled, but now
we might have finally found its secret.
Apr 5 · 8 min read
In the last 3–5 days, a
mountain of anecdotal evidence has come out of NYC, Italy, Spain, etc. about
COVID-19 and characteristics of patients who get seriously ill. It’s not only
piling up but now leading to a general field-level consensus backed up by a few
previously little-known studies that we’ve had it all wrong the whole time.
Well, a few had some things eerily correct (cough Trump cough), especially with
Hydroxychloroquine with Azithromycin,
but we’ll get to that in a minute.
There is no
‘pneumonia’ nor ARDS. At least not the ARDS with established treatment
protocols and procedures we’re familiar with. Ventilators are not only the
wrong solution, but high pressure intubation can actually wind up causing more
damage than without, not to mention complications from tracheal scarring and
ulcers given the duration of intubation often required… They may still have a
use in the immediate future for patients too far to bring back with this
newfound knowledge, but moving forward a new treatment protocol needs to be
established so we stop treating patients for the wrong disease.
The past 48 hours or so have
seen a huge revelation: COVID-19 causes prolonged and progressive hypoxia
(starving your body of oxygen) by binding to the heme
groups in hemoglobin in your red blood cells. People are simply desaturating (losing o2 in their blood), and that’s what
eventually leads to organ failures that kill them, not any form of ARDS or
pneumonia. All the damage to the lungs you see in CT scans are from the release
of oxidative iron from the hemes, this overwhelms the
natural defenses against pulmonary oxidative stress and causes that nice, always-bilateral
ground glass opacity in the lungs. Patients returning for re-hospitalization
days or weeks after recovery suffering from apparent delayed post-hypoxic leukoencephalopathy strengthen the notion COVID-19 patients
are suffering from hypoxia despite no signs of respiratory ‘tire out’ or
fatigue.
Here’s the breakdown of the
whole process, including some ELI5-level cliff notes. Much has been simplified
just to keep it digestible and layman-friendly.
Your red blood cells carry
oxygen from your lungs to all your organs and the rest of your body. Red blood
cells can do this thanks to hemoglobin, which is a protein consisting of four “hemes”. Hemes have a special kind
of iron ion, which is normally quite toxic in its free form, locked away in its
center with a porphyrin acting as it’s
‘container’. In this way, the iron ion can be ‘caged’ and carried around safely
by the hemoglobin, but used to bind to oxygen when it gets to your lungs.
When the red blood cell gets
to the alveoli, or the little sacs in your lungs where all the gas exchange
happens, that special little iron ion can flip between FE2+ and FE3+ states
with electron exchange and bond to some oxygen, then it goes off on its little
merry way to deliver o2 elsewhere.
Here’s where COVID-19 comes
in. Its glycoproteins bond to the heme,
and in doing so that special and toxic oxidative iron ion is “disassociated”
(released). It’s basically let out of the cage and now freely roaming around on
its own. This is bad for two reasons:
1) Without the iron ion, hemoglobin can no longer bind
to oxygen. Once all the hemoglobin is impaired, the red blood cell is
essentially turned into a Freightliner truck cab with no trailer and no ability
to store its cargo.. it is
useless and just running around with COVID-19 virus attached to its porphyrin. All these useless trucks running around not
delivering oxygen is what starts to lead to desaturation, or watching the patient’s spo2 levels drop.
It is INCORRECT to assume traditional ARDS and in doing so, you’re treating the
WRONG DISEASE. Think of it a lot like carbon monoxide poisoning, in which CO is
bound to the hemoglobin, making it unable to carry oxygen. In those cases,
ventilators aren’t treating the root cause; the patient’s lungs aren’t ‘tiring
out’, they’re pumping just fine. The red blood cells just can’t carry o2, end
of story. Only in this case, unlike CO poisoning in which eventually the CO can
break off, the affected hemoglobin is permanently stripped of its ability to
carry o2 because it has lost its iron ion. The body compensates for this lack
of o2 carrying capacity and deliveries by having your kidneys release hormones
like erythropoietin, which tell your bone marrow factories to ramp up
production on new red blood cells with freshly made and fully functioning
hemoglobin. This is the reason you find elevated hemoglobin and decreased blood
oxygen saturation as one of the 3 primary indicators of whether the shit is
about to hit the fan for a particular patient or not.
2) That little iron ion, along with millions of its
friends released from other hemes, are now floating
through your blood freely. As I mentioned before, this type of iron ion is
highly reactive and causes oxidative damage. It turns out that this happens to
a limited extent naturally in our bodies and we have cleanup & defense
mechanisms to keep the balance. The lungs, in particular, have 3 primary
defenses to maintain “iron homeostasis”, 2 of which are in the alveoli, those
little sacs in your lungs we talked about earlier. The first of the two are
little macrophages that roam around and scavenge up any free radicals like this
oxidative iron. The second is a lining on the walls (called the epithelial
surface) which has a thin layer of fluid packed with high levels of antioxidant
molecules.. things like abscorbic acid (AKA Vitamin C) among others. Well, this is
usually good enough for naturally occurring rogue iron ions but with COVID-19
running rampant your body is now basically like a progressive state letting out
all the prisoners out of the prisons… it’s just too much iron and it begins to
overwhelm your lungs’ countermeasures, and thus begins the process of pulmonary
oxidative stress. This leads to damage and inflammation, which leads to all
that nasty stuff and damage you see in CT scans of COVID-19 patient lungs. Ever
noticed how it’s always bilateral? (both lungs at the
same time) Pneumonia rarely ever does that, but COVID-19 does… EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
— — — — — — — — — — — — -
Once your body is now
running out of control, with all your oxygen trucks running around without any
freight, and tons of this toxic form of iron floating around
in your bloodstream, other defenses kick in. While your lungs are busy
with all this oxidative stress they can’t handle, and your organs are being
starved of o2 without their constant stream of deliveries from red blood cell’s hemoglobin, and your liver is attempting to do its
best to remove the iron and store it in its ‘iron vault’. Only its getting overwhelmed too. It’s starved for oxygen and
fighting a losing battle from all your hemoglobin letting its iron free, and
starts crying out “help, I’m taking damage!” by releasing an enzyme called alanine aminotransferase (ALT).
BOOM, there is your second of 3 primary indicators of whether the shit is about
to hit the fan for a particular patient or not.
Eventually, if the patient’s
immune system doesn’t fight off the virus in time before their blood oxygen
saturation drops too low, ventilator or no ventilator, organs start shutting
down. No fuel, no work. The only way to even try to keep them going is max
oxygen, even a hyperbaric chamber if one is available on 100% oxygen at
multiple atmospheres of pressure, just to give what’s left of their functioning
hemoglobin a chance to carry enough o2 to the organs and keep them alive. Yeah
we don’t have nearly enough of those chambers, so some fresh red blood cells
with normal hemoglobin in the form of a transfusion will have to do.
The core point being,
treating patients with the iron ions stripped from their hemoglobin (rendering
it abnormally nonfunctional) with ventilator intubation is futile,
unless you’re just hoping the patient’s immune system will work its magic in
time. The root of the illness needs to be addressed.
Best case scenario? Treatment regimen early, before symptoms progress too far. Hydroxychloroquine (more on that in a minute, I promise)
with Azithromicin has shown fantastic, albeit critics
keep mentioning ‘anecdotal’ to describe the mountain, promise and I’ll explain
why it does so well next. But forget straight-up plasma with antibodies, that
might work early but if the patient is too far gone they’ll need more. They’ll
need all the blood: antibodies and red blood cells. No help in sending over a
detachment of ammunition to a soldier already unconscious and bleeding out on
the battlefield, you need to send that ammo along with some
hemoglobin-stimulant-magic so that he can wake up and fire those shots at the
enemy.
The story with Hydroxychloroquine
All that hilariously
misguided and counterproductive criticism the media piled on chloroquine (purely for political reasons) as a viable
treatment will now go down as the biggest Fake News blunder to rule them all.
The media actively engaged their activism to fight ‘bad orange man’ at the cost
of thousands of lives. Shame on them.
How does chloroquine
work? Same way as it does for malaria. You see, malaria is this little parasite
that enters the red blood cells and starts eating hemoglobin as its food
source. The reason chloroquine works for malaria is
the same reason it works for COVID-19 — while not fully understood, it is
suspected to bind to DNA and interfere with the ability to work magic on
hemoglobin. The same mechanism that stops malaria from getting its hands on
hemoglobin and gobbling it up seems to do the same to COVID-19 (essentially
little snippets of DNA in an envelope) from binding to it. On top of that, Hydroxychloroquine (an advanced descendant of regular old chloroquine) lowers the pH which can interfere with the
replication of the virus. Again, while the full details are not known, the
entire premise of this potentially ‘game changing’ treatment is to prevent
hemoglobin from being interfered with, whether due to malaria or COVID-19.
No longer can the media and
armchair pseudo-physicians sit in their little ivory towers, proclaiming “DUR
so stoopid, malaria is bacteria, COVID-19 is virus,
anti-bacteria drug no work on virus!”. They never got
the memo that a drug doesn’t need to directly act on the pathogen to be
effective. Sometimes it’s enough just to stop it from doing what it does to
hemoglobin, regardless of the means it uses to do so.
Anyway,
enough of the rant. What’s the end
result here? First, the ventilator emergency needs to be re-examined. If you’re
putting a patient on a ventilator because they’re going into a coma and need
mechanical breathing to stay alive, okay we get it. Give ’em
time for their immune systems to pull through. But if they’re conscious, alert,
compliant — keep them on O2. Max it if you have to. If
you HAVE to inevitably ventilate, do it at low pressure but max O2. Don’t tear
up their lungs with max PEEP, you’re doing more harm
to the patient because you’re treating the wrong disease.
Ideally, some form of
treatment needs to happen to:
Fini.
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b.
Noam Chomsky: “Elon Musk, SETI, Harper’s Magazine, JK Rowling &
Artificial Intelligence”
(1:37:36)
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QUESTIONING
COVID
Clinicians,
Researchers, & Health Experts from Around the World Interrogating the
Mainstream Narrative Around the Pandemic
“Excellent site for
dissident expertise on the whole COVID-19 mythology.”
--Mark Crispin Miller
+
“COVIS-19: Peter Myers’ Up-Date Collection, Sept.
12, 2020”
http://www.ceimsa.org/publications/Scholars/2020.13.pdf
from
Ellen Brown
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EXPOSED!!!
Bill Gates Offered $10 billion Bribe For
Forced Vaccination In Africa
https://www.bitchute.com/video/YL110KVuS7Do/
September 4, 2020
(8:19)
The opposition political parties rejected the
“foreign-sponsored Bill” mandating the compulsory vaccination of all Nigerians
even when the vaccines have not been discovered and demanded the Speaker be
impeached if he forces the bill on members. The development comes a month after
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of former American President John F. Kennedy,
in a lengthy piece exposed Bill Gates agenda in India and his “obsession with
vaccines”
+
Bill Gates urges
Congress to spend $4B for COVID-19 vaccines in poor countries
by Kaelan Deese
+
Is There A Flu
Shot / COVID Link?
with James Corbett
(24 :12)
+
Did the Federal
Government Just Secretly Take Over Vaccine Policy Usurping the Authority of the
States?
by
Wayne Rohde
COVID-19 deaths
compared with “Swine Flu”
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-deaths-compared-with-swine-flu/
by Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson
April 9, 2020
The age affected structure doesn’t fit
with pandemic theory
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has
data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of
theories to suit facts.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
Pandemic, as
the definition goes, is the worldwide spread of a new disease. Most of the
historical analysis point to those in younger age groups being
disproportionately affected in a pandemic. As opposed to
seasonal outbreaks where older people are more likely to be affected.
In this current
pandemic, the age structure of those most affected reveals a tension between
whether COVID-19 is operating more like a seasonal viral effect or is
similar in its effect to previous pandemics
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Germany Stops Harvest, Bans Agriculture as African Swine Fever Reaches Europe
with Ice Age Farmer
===========
c.
Remembering
Kevin Zeese: A fighter for peace and justice
https://therealnews.com/columns/remembering-kevin-zeese
by Sarafina Harper
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On the Lasting Influences of David Graeber
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/15/on-the-lasting-influences-of-david-graeber/
by Jason
Kirkpatrick
===========
d.
Techno-Tyranny:
How The US National Security State Is Using Coronavirus To Fulfill An Orwellian Vision
by Whitney Webb
+
James Corbett on
Solutions for Resisting Technocracy
with
James Corbett and Vinny Eastwood
(1:03:03)
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This is the full membership list of the Christian
Right's secretive and powerful Council for National Policy
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/08/30/membership-list-powerful-secretive-christian-right-america/
by
Max Blumenthal
+
The theology of police authority: the impact of
Biblical text Romans 13
(20:48)
with Taya Graham and Steve Horn
+
Mainstream
media misses damning evidence in Blueleaks police
data dump
https://therealnews.com/stories/blueleaks-data-breach-mainstream-media-misses-damning-evidence
with Taya Graham
(15:30)
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America's
settler colonialist roots explain how we see property rights
https://therealnews.com/stories/americas-colonialist-roots-explain-property-rights
with Gerald Horn
(31:58)
+
The Great
White Heist
http://www.blackagendareport.com/great-white-heist
by Michael Harriot
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Sept 19: A
Nationwide Day of Protest, and of Dialogue on Community Control of Police
by Glen Ford
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From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2020
Subject: [MCM] What's happening in France
should spark a second revolution (and that should happen everywhere)
Paramilitary robo-cops
attacking protesters, who stand up to them.
The global crackdown is intensifying,
without a peep from "our free press."
https://twitter.com/askeamonn/status/1305129705146912769?s=20
[MCM]
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“Israel to enter full-blown lockdown, schools and
"non-essential businesses" shut down, on 9/18 (this Friday)”
https://www.rt.com/news/500576-netanyahu-coronavirus-lockdown-protests/
[MCM]
===========
e.
Alfred McCoy Breaks Down the History of America’s Geopolitical
Maneuvering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Ey_-1447s
with Jeremy Scahill
(audio, 28 :12)
+
Alfred McCoy on
Asian wars and information regimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpyLinQXvHg
(1:40:35)
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From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2020
Subject: [MCM] The awful truth about Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been
censored to this day
An excellent essay
from 2012, still all too relevant in 2020.
MCM
Duty to Warn
Hiroshima and Nagasaki and
the Backlash Against Historical Truth
By Gary G. Kohls – This article was first published in August 2012 (2370 words)
Last week was
the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the whole
truth continues to be heavily censored and mythologized, starting with the news
of the events that created understandable joy among the American civilian
victors of that awful war
Most Americans
took in, as gospel truth, the heavily edited stories about the end of the war.
To the average American, the war’s end was such a relief that there was no
questioning about the mechanisms used to end the war. For the soldiers who were
war-weary, no moral questions were raised regarding the use of the atomic
bombs.
The immediate
history was written by the victors, of course, with no balancing input from the
losing side. But, several decades later, after intensive research by unbiased
historians, we now know that the patriotic narrative contained a lot of false
information, often orchestrated by war-justifying militarists – starting with
General Douglas MacArthur.
MacArthur, aka
“the American Caesar,” successfully imposed near total censorship of what
really happened at Ground Zero. One of his first acts after taking over as
viceroy of Japan was to confiscate and/or destroy all the unpleasant
photographic evidence documenting the horrors of the atomic bombings.
One example of
the backlash against historical truth was the fact that – in 1995 - the
Smithsonian Institute was preparing to correct the patriotic myths
about the war crimes committed in August 1945 by staging an honest,
historically accurate 50th anniversary display exploring all
sides of the atomic bombings. This provoked serious right-wing reactionary
outrage from veterans’ groups and other “patriot” groups, including House
Speaker Newt Gingrich from the GOP-dominated US Congress.
The Smithsonian
removed all of the contextually-important aspects of the story, especially the
bomb-related civilian atrocity stories. So again, powerful
politically-motivated groups had again falsified history because of a fear that
truth, albeit historically-accurate, would contradict their deeply held
beliefs, an intolerable psychological situation for many blindered
super-patriots.
The Smithsonian
historians did have a gun to their heads, of course, but in the melee, the
mainstream media – and the easily brain-washable consumers of propaganda –
ignored a vital historical point. And that is this: the war could have ended as
early as the spring of 1945 without the August atomic bombings, and therefore
there could have averted the three-month bloody battle of Okinawa that resulted
in the deaths of thousands of American Marines with tens of thousands of Japanese
military casualties and uncounted thousands of Okinawan
civilian casualties.
In addition, if
the efforts had succeeded at ending the war via early Japanese efforts for an
armistice, there would have been no need for the atomic bombs nor for an American land invasion – the basis of the
subsequent propaganda campaign that retroactively justified the use of the
bombs.
President Harry
Truman was fully aware of Japan’s search for ways to honorably surrender months
before the fateful order to incinerate defenseless women, children, infants and
the elderly people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who had never been given a choice
by their militarist, fascist government about going to war in the first place.
Top-secret
intelligence data, de-classified in the 1980s, showed that the contingency
plans for a two-stage US invasion of the mainland (the first one no sooner than
Nov. 1, 1945, and the second one in the spring of 1946) would have been
unnecessary.
Japan was
working on peace negotiations through its Moscow ambassador as early as April
of 1945 when the battle of Okinawa was just starting. Harry Hopkins, President
Truman’s close adviser, was aware of Japan’s desire for an armistice. He cabled the president from Moscow, saying:
“Japan is
doomed, and the Japanese know it. Peace feelers are being put out by certain
elements in Japan.”
Truman’s team
knew of these and other developments because the U.S. had broken the Japanese
code years earlier, and U.S. intelligence was intercepting all of Japan’s
military and diplomatic messages. On July 13, 1945, Foreign Minister Togo said:
“Unconditional surrender (giving up all sovereignty, thereby deposing Hirohito,
the Emperor god) is the only obstacle to peace.”
What Did
Truman Know?
Since Truman and
his advisers knew about these efforts, the war could have ended through
diplomacy, first with a cease-fire and then a negotiated peace, by simply
conceding a post-war figurehead position for the emperor Hirohito who was
regarded as a deity in Japan.
That reasonable
concession was – seemingly illogically – refused by the U.S. in their demands
for “unconditional surrender,” which was initially put forward at the 1943
Casablanca Conference between U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British
Prime Minister Winston Churchill and reiterated at the Potsdam Conference (July
1945) between Truman, Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
When General
MacArthur heard about the demand for unconditional surrender, he was appalled.
He actually recommended dropping that demand to facilitate the process of
ending the war peacefully.
William
Manchester, in his biography of MacArthur, American Caesar, wrote: “Had
the General’s advice been followed, the resort to atomic weapons at Hiroshima
and Nagasaki might have been unnecessary.”
Even Secretary
of War Henry Stimson said:
“The true
question was not whether surrender could have been achieved without the use of
the bomb but whether a different diplomatic and military course would have led
to an earlier surrender. A large segment of the Japanese cabinet was ready in
the spring of 1945 to accept substantially the same terms as those finally
agreed on.”
In other words,
Stimson felt that the U.S. was prolonging the war, including the battle for
Okinawa, and could have made using the bombs unnecessary if it had engaged in
honest negotiations.
Shortly after
WWII, military analyst Hanson Baldwin wrote:
“The
Japanese, in a military sense, were in a hopeless strategic situation by the
time the Potsdam Declaration (insisting on Japan’s unconditional surrender) was
made.”
Admiral William
Leahy, top military aide to President Truman, said in his war memoirs, I
Was There:
“It is my
opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of
no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already
defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the
successful bombing with conventional weapons. My own feeling is that in being
the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians
of the Dark Ages.”
And General
Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a personal visit to President Truman a couple of weeks
before the bombings, urged him not to use the atomic bombs. Eisenhower said:
“It wasn’t
necessary to hit them with that awful thing . . . to use the atomic bomb, to
kill and terrorize civilians, without even attempting (negotiations), was a
double crime.”
Yet, after the
bombings of August 6 and 9, the “unconditional” surrender terms were quietly
dropped. The emperor was allowed to remain in place as spiritual head of Japan,
the very condition that made the Japanese leadership refuse to accept the
humiliating “unconditional surrender” terms.
So the two
essential questions that need answering (to figure out what was going on behind
the scenes) are these:
1) Why did the
U.S. refuse to accept Japan’s only concession concerning their surrender
(Japan’s ability to retain their emperor) and
2) with the end of the war in the Pacific already a certainty,
why were the bombs still used?
The Decision
Scholars have
determined that there were a number of factors that contributed to Truman’s
decision to use the bombs, including the desire for revenge, the curiosity
about the effects about the “new-type” weapons, and the fear of allowing Russia
to share the spoils of war.
The U.S.
military and political leadership, not to mention most war-weary Americans, had
a tremendous appetite for revenge because of the surprise attack at Pearl
Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
The fissionable
material in Hiroshima’s bomb was uranium and Nagasaki’s was plutonium.
Scientific curiosity about the differences between the two weapons was a
significant factor that pushed the project to its completion.
The Manhattan
Project scientists and the U.S. Army director of the project, General Leslie
Groves, wanted answers to a multitude of questions raised by the project,
including “what would happen if a city was leveled by a single nuclear
bomb?”
The decision to
use both bombs had been made well in advance of August 1945. Harry Truman did
not specifically order the bombing of Nagasaki.
The three-day
interval between the two bombs was unconscionably short. Japan’s communications
and transportation capabilities were in shambles, and no one, neither the U.S.
military nor the Japanese high command, fully understood what had happened at
Hiroshima, particularly the short-term or long-term after-effects of the
radiation. The Manhattan Project was so top secret that even MacArthur had been
kept out of the loop until a few days before the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
The Russians had
proclaimed their intent to enter the war with Japan 90 days after V-E Day
(Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945), which would have been Aug. 8, two days
after Hiroshima was bombed. Indeed, America’s Russian allies did declare war on
Japan on Aug. 8 and were advancing eastward across Manchuria, eager to reclaim
territories lost to Japan in the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War.
The U.S. didn’t
want Japan surrendering to Russia (soon to be the only other superpower and a
future enemy) so the first nuclear threat “messages” of the Cold War were
“sent”.
Russia indeed
received far less of the spoils of war than they had hoped for, and the two
superpowers were instantly and deeply mired in the arms-race stalemate that
eventually resulted in their mutual moral (and fiscal) bankruptcies that
occurred a generation or two later.
The Reality
A victim of the Nagasaki bombing. (Unknown/public
domain in Japan/Wikimedia Commons.)
An estimated
80,000 innocent, defenseless civilians, plus 20,000 essentially weaponless
young Japanese conscripts died instantly in the Hiroshima bombing. Hundreds of
thousands more suffered slow deaths from agonizing burns, radiation sickness,
leukemia and virtually untreatable infections for the rest of their shortened
lives; and generations of the survivor’s progeny were doomed to suffer horrific
radiation-induced illnesses, cancers and premature deaths that are still
on-going at this very hour.
Another sobering
reality that has been covered up is the fact that 12 American Navy pilots,
their existence well-known to U.S. command, were instantly incinerated in the
Hiroshima jail on Aug. 6, 1945.
The 75,000 dead
at Nagasaki on Aug. 9 were virtually all civilians, except for the inhabitants
of an Allied POW camp near ground zero. They were instantly carbonized or
vaporized by an experimental weapon that was developed by obedient, unaware
scientists and soldiers, and blessed by Christian military chaplains who were
just doing their duty by obeying orders.
The War
Department knew of the existence of the Nagasaki POWs and, when reminded of
that fact before the B-29 fleet embarked on the mission, simply replied:
“Targets previously assigned for Centerboard (code name for the Kokura/Nagasaki
mission) remain unchanged.”
To obscure some
of these unpleasant truths, the official War Department/National Security
State-approved version of the end of the war in the Pacific contained a new
batch of myths which are continuously fed to us by the corporate, military, political and media opinion leaders that represent the
war-makers and war profiteers of the world.
The well-honed
propaganda of the war machine manufactures glory out of inglorious
gruesomeness, as we have witnessed in the censored reportage of the U.S.
military invasions and occupations of sovereign nations like North Korea, Iran,
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, the Philippines, Chile, El
Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Colombia, Kuwait, Iraq,
Afghanistan, etc, etc. And this list doesn’t even start to reveal the
uncountable Pentagon/CIA covert operations and assassination plots that were
secretly orchestrated in the rest of the planet.
But somehow most
humans in general and Americans in particular still hang on to a shaky “my
country right or wrong” patriotism, desperately wanting to believe the myths
that come from the ubiquitous “chicken hawk” politicians, military leaders and
media talking heads that are in their employ of the ruling class elites
While it is true
that the U.S. military has faced down the occasional despot, Americans tend to
remain blind to the fact that our nation has historically supported right-wing,
anti-democracy, fascist dictatorships that make
the world unsafe for democracy while ensuring easy access for vulture
capitalists, multinational corporations, Big Banks and other aexploiters to be able to do their dirty “profits-uber-alles” work.
The
justification of the atrocities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are symbolic of the
brain-washing that makes possible all “total wars,” which always result in the
varieties of mass slaughter that are euphemistically known as
“collateral damage” or “friendly fire.”
It might already
be too late to rescue and resuscitate a more humanitarian, peace-loving
America. It might be too late to effectively confront the corporate hijacking
of liberal democracy in America. It might be too late to successfully bring
down the arrogant and greedy ruling elites who are selfishly exploiting the
resources of the world and dragging the planet and its creatures down the road
to destruction
But there is
always hope. Rather than being silent about the wars that ruthless warmongers
are provoking all over the planet (with the very willing pushes by the
Pentagon, the weapons industry, the weapons industry’s global investors and
their war-hawk lapdogs in Congress), people of conscience need to ramp up their
resistance and teach the truth of history, even if painful lessons will be
revealed.
Americans need
to start owning up to the uncountable war crimes that have been hidden from
history, perhaps starting with the war crime bombings of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. And then we need to go to the streets, publicly protesting and
courageously refusing to cooperate with those who are transforming America into
a criminal rogue nation that will eventually be targeted for its downfall by
the billions of suffering victims outside our borders, just as happened to Nazi
Germany, Fascist Italy, Fascist Spain and Fascist Japan after World War II.
Doing what is
right for the whole of humanity for a change, rather than just doing what is profitable
or advantageous for our over-privileged, over-consumptive and unsustainable
American way of life, would be real honor, real patriotism and an essential
start toward real peace.
===========
f.
Trainings for
the Not-Yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH5gGf2ADzY
with
David Harvey
(2:18:30)
On Wednesday 4 December 2019, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst,
Utrecht proudly presented a lecture by Distinguished Professor David Harvey – “Disrupting
Neoliberal Urban Governance: New Organisational Forms”
for the Future. The lecture focused in part on the theory and practice of Urban
Front, a transnational urban consultancy co-founded by Harvey and Associate
Professor Miguel Robles-Durán - Harvey's lecture is
preceded by a short introduction by Robles-Durán.
Launched during the Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2019 - a network made up
of independent associates around the world. The network provides
trans-disciplinary research support, tactical directions, and critical advice
to diverse governments and organizations aiming to confront the contradictions
of neoliberal urbanization and to develop new visions for the well-being of its
citizens. The lecture addresses the theoretical proposition of Urban Front and
opens a discussion on new forms of institutional practice within the neoliberal
condition. --- This lecture was part of a two-day program with Urban Front
(David Harvey and Miguel Robles-Durán), taking place
at BAK on 4 and 5 December 2019 as part of Trainings for the Not-Yet (14
September 2019–12 January 2020).
+
COVID-911: From
Homeland Security to Biosecurity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opAyJt94Kmo&app=desktop
with
James Corbett
(33:36)
===========
g.
Are you awake
yet? CDC admits 94% of covid deaths DIDN'T DIE OF
COVID and 90% of tests were NEGATIVE
https://www.bitchute.com/video/dwZzwikuBdCw/
(39:58)
===========
h.
Lord Rothschild
freely admits how his family created Israel – The Full Interview
https://www.bitchute.com/video/0NMwL0W6rtBe/
(15:55)
+
How Israel lit match for deadly fire
https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-israel-lit-match-deadly-fire/31201
The Electronic Intifada
+
TUC calls for Israel sanctions to “end apartheid”
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/tuc-calls-israel-sanctions-end-apartheid
The Electronic Intifada
===========
i.
Michael Parenti, The
Darker Myths of Empire: Heart of Darkness Series"
(1:23:01)
+
From: Jim O'Brien via H-PAD
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2020
Subject: [H-PAD] H-PAD Notes, 9/10/20: Links to recent articles of
interest
Links to Recent Articles of Interest
"Patton and Westy Meet in a Bar"
By Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch.com, posted September 10
A fanciful alcohol-fueled conversation between long-dead generals George Patton and William Westmoreland and a fictitious general who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The author is a retired Army colonel and a professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University.
"Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States' Post-9/11 Wars"
By David Vine et al., Watson Institute, Brown University, posted September 8
This new report from the Watson Institute's Costs of War Project at Brown University estimates that "at least 37 million people have fled their homes in the eight most violent wars the U.S. military has launched or participated in since 2001."
Briefing book edited by Peter Kornbluh, National Security Archive, posted September 4
On the 50th anniversary of socialist Salvador Allende's election as president of Chile, Georgetown University's National Security Archive has published declassified documents showing that the Nixon administration began immediate efforts to destabilize Chile, leading to the military coup of September 1973.
"Obama's 'Biggest Mistake' Is Still Wreaking Havoc"
By Stephen Kinzer, Boston Globe, posted September 3
On the continuing damage done by the 2011 NATO bombing of Libya. The author is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.
"Gerald Ford Rushed Out a Vaccine. It Was a Fiasco"
By Rick Perlstein, New York Times, posted September 2
On the Ford administration's hurried election-year production of a vaccine that caused hundreds of cases of the paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome. The author has written several books on modern American conservatism, most recently Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 (Simon and Schuster, 2020).
"Opening Up New Avenues to Understanding the Path to War in Iraq"
By Joseph Stieb, War on the Rocks, posted September 1
A review essay on Robert Draper's new book To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq (Penguin Press, 2020). The author of the essay has a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina and is writing a book on the containment of Iraq.
By Martha S. Jones, Washington Post, posted August 25
The author teaches history at Johns Hopkins University, and her book Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All is due in September from Basic Books.
"Belligerent Patriotism, or Why Donald Trump Cannot Mourn the Dead"
By John Bodnar, History News Network, posted August 23
The author is a professor emeritus of history at Indiana University and author of Divided by Terror: Patriotism in Post-9-11 America (U. of North Carolina Press, 2021).
By Rick Perlstein, Time, posted August 20
On the successful effort by the rising conservative movement within the Republican Party to force the party's congressional leaders to abandon their initial support for President Carter's proposals to make voter registration easier through national legislation.
"What We Don't Understand about Fascism"
By Victoria de Grazia, Zocalo Public Square, posted August 13
"Using the word incorrectly oversimplifies history - and won't help us address our current political crisis." The author teaches history at Columbia University and is the author of, among other books, of The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini's Italy (Harvard U. Press, 2020).
Thanks to an anonymous reader for flagging some of the above articles. Suggestions can be sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com.
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j.
ASSANGE
EXTRADITION: Craig Murray: Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange
Hearing—Day 6
by
Craig Murray
+
Assange Hearing Day 9
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55578.htm
by
Craig Murray
+
Glenn
Greenwald: Why The Media Is SILENT On Julian Assange's Trial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNFEXvyZdyU
(7:57)
+
Support This Website - Craig Murray
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/support-this-website/
+
Courts Vindicate SNOWDEN!
with NSA Whistle-blower BILL BINNEY!
(15:19)
===========
k.
Bombshell #Evidence that #COVID is #Chromosome-8 #Human #DNA Faulty #PCR Test designed by Kary Mullis is not for viral infections.
https://framasphere.org/tags/dna
+
Humor
WE WILL MOCK
YOU! A little tune for the sheeple
https://www.bitchute.com/video/sNzbt6PERyiL/
+
COVID-19: The Musical
Share the living daylights out of this Ya Super Sexy Awakened Bunch!
If You Care, Then Share
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3593038497396060&id=213131242053486
===========
l.
Heated Vaccine
Debate Kennedy Jr. vs Dershowitz,
a demolition of the official stance!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/k6PGlqbls4sf/
(1:16:49)
===========
m.
Global
Capitalism: Capitalism’s Decline Accelerates [September 2020]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6vrc1mPsNo
with
Richard Wolff
(video, 1:18:04)
+
“Democracy and the Pathology of Wealth”
with Michael Parenti
(56 :37)
===========
n.
From: Moshé Machover
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2020
Subject: Fwd: Palestiniennes (film documentaire)
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Forwarded message ---------
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 at 11:36
Subject: Palestiniennes (film documentaire)
To: eitan.grossfeld
Bonjour,
Un documentaire en trois "courts" avec neuf portrait de femmes
palestiniennes.
https://www.courrierinternational.com/node/1978949
Rappel : si le lien n'est pas actif, copiez puis collez le
dans la barre d'adresse d'un nouvel onglet.
Patrick & Eïtan
===========
o.
The working class is the vast majority of society
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/working-class-peoples-guide-capitalism-marxist-economics
by Hadas Thier
+
For Flint
residents, money won't buy forgiveness
https://therealnews.com/stories/for-flint-residents-money-wont-buy-forgiveness
with Kim Brown and Melissa
Mays
(45:52)
+
Pandemic, Wildfires & Heat Wave: Undocumented Farmworkers Face “Triple Threat” as West Coast Burns
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/14/us_wildfires_farmworkers
with Estella
Cisneros,
legal
director of the agriculture worker program for California Rural Legal
Assistance.
(14:24)
+
On the Hidden History of Monopolies in America
with
Richard Eskow and Thom Hartmann
(40:01)
===========
p.
"New York Times' Paul Krugman
is DELUSIONAL!"
with
Jimmy Dore
(9:07)
+
“On Credit, New Money, And
The Road To Fascism"
with
Richard Wolff
(4:03)
===========
q.
Civilization in the Overdrive: A Conversation at the
Edge of the Human Future
https://www.globalresearch.ca/conversation-edge-human-future/5723786
by
Richard Falk and Konrad Stachnio
===========
r.
The Day Israel
Attacked America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx72tAWVcoM
Al Jazeera English
(48:59)
===========
s.
What to do in November? The Editors for CovertAction Magazine Weigh In
by
Chris Agee and Jeremy Kuzmarov
+
Trump Vs The Military-Industrial-Complex: Coup Concerns Escalate
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-vs-military-industrial-complex-coup-concerns-escalate
by Matthew Ehret
+
Prof.
Richard Wolff on Trump, the Generals, and the Nazis
(36:45)
===========
t.
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Wednesday, September 16,
2020
Subject: [MCM] "Rogue" Chinese virologist presents
"smoking gun" evidence that SARS-COV-2 was created in a lab
Missing from this plausible scenario, of
course, is any mention of Dr. Fauci's $3.7 million
grant to that very lab, after funding of such "gain-of-function"
research had been banned:
MCM
Blocked
on facebook.
'Rogue' Chinese Virologist Joins Twitter, Publishes
"Smoking Gun" Evidence COVID-19 Created In Lab
by Tylor
Durdan
+
"I Am The Target": Silenced Chinese Virologist Tells Tucker
COVID-19 Intentionally Released, CCP Trying To 'Disappear' Her
by Tyler Durden
Hours after her unceremonious
Twitter ban for, we assume, presenting evidence that
SARS-CoV-2 was created in a Wuhan lab, Chinese virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan appeared on "Tucker Carlson Tonight," where
she told the Fox News host that
the virus is a "Frankenstein" which was designed to target humans
which was intentionally released.
+
“Some red flags
(so to speak) in that Chinese virologist's story”
https://twitter.com/o_rips/status/1306088632386633728?s=12
===========
u.
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Monday, September 07, 2020
Subject: [MCM] On the latest "Novichok" absurdity, as an example of "propaganda
by omission" (James Corbett)
How To Read The News
in #news • yesterday
by James Corbett
corbettreport.com
September 05, 2020
It's not the most original
observation you'll read this week, but it's one of the most important: the news
lies to you by omission.
Shocked? I thought not. But
let's really interrogate what this means.
All of us (presumably) would
agree with the observation that "the news is lying to you." But most
people hearing that statement immediately interpret it to mean that the news is
lying by commission, i.e., deliberately spreading information that they
know to be untrue.
While this is certainly true
sometimes (and we can all think of examples of the news outright lying about
the facts of a case), blatant lies about verifiable facts represent only a tiny
fraction of the media's mendacity. Most of the time, the talking heads of the
corporate mouthpiece media are not telling fibs, per se; they're just leaving
out vital pieces of the story.
Often, this type of
lying—lying by omission—is a more effective means of duping the public
than telling provably untrue statements about independent reality. When the
talking heads of the corporate media leave out the proper context for a story,
the audience can be led to incorrect conclusions about the world. And, since
these perfidious presstitutes haven't technically
said anything that's untrue, they can never be caught in their lie. They
maintain plausible deniability about whether they knew the missing parts of the
story.
In the interest of learning
how to really read the news, then, let's look at an example of a news
story where the media is hiding key information from the public and see what
that news story looks like when we add the relevant context.
Hopefully you'll remember
the Novichok nonsense that took place in Salisbury in
2018. If not, you'll definitely want to go back and re-read my article on how
"The
Russian Poison Story is WMD 2.0" and follow that up with a deep dive
into the archive
of Craig Murray's coverage of the subject and The Blogmire's
excellent summary
of the story.
In case you need a
refresher, you can do what the normies do: turn to
Wikipedia! Here's the first paragraph of the wiki
summary of the story:
On 4 March 2018, Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military officer and double agent
for the UK's intelligence services, and his daughter, Yulia
Skripal, were poisoned in the city of Salisbury,
England with a Novichok nerve agent, according to UK
sources and the Organisation for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons (OPCW). After three weeks in a critical condition, Yulia regained consciousness and was able to speak; she was
discharged from hospital on 9 April. Sergei was also in a critical condition
until he regained consciousness one month after the attack; he was discharged
on 18 May. A police officer was also taken into intensive care after attending
the incident. By 22 March he had recovered enough to leave the hospital.
While everyone who was
following the news at the time has likely heard various pieces of this
narrative as it was being reported, only those obsessives
who were really following all of the twists and turns in the case will know the
incredible absurdities that were casually revealed and quickly buried in the
weeks and months after the story fell out of the limelight. Those absurdities
include:
I could go on. And on and on. (Trust me, we've
only scratched the surface of the absurdity here.) But if you're reading this
article in the first place, you likely know the drill by now: a spectacular
event takes place, it's shoved down the public's throat as part of a campaign
to demonize the bogeyman du jour, and it's promptly dropped as soon as
contradictions or uncomfortable questions start to arise about what really
happened.
In this case, the
propagandistic value of the Skripal case is hardly
difficult to divine. It was those dastardly Russians, sending their spies into
the heart of enemy territory to kill an old retired double agent who hadn't
been relevant to them in years because . . . reasons? And they did it in the
most incredibly complicated (and ultimately ineffectual) way possible because .
. . Putin wanted everyone to know that he was capable of (not quite) poisoning
people in foreign countries?
. . . Or something like that. Just don't think too deeply about it.
But just when you thought
that particular piece of absurdity had played itself
out, it's back! That's right, there's been another high-profile
novichok poisoning! This time the target was a person
that the corporate lapdog press is referring to as the "leader" of the
Russian "opposition," Alexei Navalny.
Apparently, Putin didn't think he made his point well enough with the Skripals so he has once again resorted to using an arcane,
elaborate, and ultimately ineffective poison to (not quite) kill his enemy in a
way that would inevitably be immediately tied directly back to himself. The
fiend!
. . . Or so the MSM would
want you to believe. The truth, as always, is a little more complicated. Kit
Knightly over at Off-Guardian breaks it down expertly in his
article on the story:
Sigh. Here we go again. An
incredibly unlikely narrative is being shoved down the public's throat in order
to blame that arch-bogeyman, Vladimir Putin.
Never mind that the story
makes no sense on its face.
Never mind
that Moscow granted permission for Navalny (who is
barely a blip on the Russian political radar) to leave the country for medical
treatment, thus ensuring that their super secret plan to poison him with novichok would be uncovered and publicized to the world. (As Luke Harding helpfully explains
in The
Guardian: "The logical conclusion: Moscow wants the world
to know.")
Never mind that it would
make no sense for Putin to kill his opponent in such a way (namely, using a
mysterious nerve agent that he had been blamed for using in the past and would
inevitably implicate himself).
Never mind that this super
deadly nerve agent failed to kill the last opponents that he supposedltried to use it on (and never mind that it has
apparently failed once again).
Never mind any of this. The
answer to any and all questions about the logic of this story is the same
answer that the MSM offers to anyone who dares question why Assad would use
messy and horribly ineffective chemical weapons on his own people when his
military is on the brink of complete victory over the CIA-supported terrorists
in his country. The answer is that Putin, just like Assad, is an insane,
bloodthirsty, suicidal
monster.
. . . And yet, that hardly
seems like a satisfying answer to anyone with two brain cells to rub together,
does it? It's almost like there's another part to this story, a missing puzzle
piece that would help us to understand what's really happening here. And there
is:
"Germany
pressed to rethink Nord Stream 2 pipeline after Navalny
poisoning"
Surprise,
surprise. It looks like the Navalny case is giving all the opponents of Nord Stream 2
another excuse to derail the project.
If you've been following the
pipeline politics that are reshaping diplomatic relations in Eurasia, you'll
know that the US has used every trick in the book to halt the construction of
the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. And if you haven't been following those
pipeline politics, you'll want to re-read my 2017 article on "US
Battles Russia for Heart of the EU," in which I noted:
Nord
Stream 2 is, as the name suggests, an extension of Nord Stream, the natural
gas pipeline connecting the Russian port town of Vyborg to the German
university city of Greifswald. Nord Stream currently consists of two parallel
lines with a capacity of 1.9 trillion cubic feet, but the Nord Stream 2
expansion is expected to increase that capacity to 3.9 trillion cubic feet.
As I reported at the time,
the US imposed a new round of sanctions against Russia in 2017 and,
surprisingly, the EU actually pushed back on those sanctions. Of course, they
only pushed back because the sanctions were targeting European business
interests, specifically any and all companies working with Russia in developing
the Nord Stream 2 project. But however self-serving that pushback may have
been, the incident did demonstrate there is a significant and rising
faction in the EUreaucracy who favour
building EU independence from the US and pursuing EU business interests, even
if those interests are linked to Russia and/or China.
But now the latest dirty
trick is being played to scuttle the pipeline project: the poisoning of Navalny with novichok, the nerve
agent Absolutely 100% Guaranteed to Be Used
Exclusively by the Russian Government or Your Money Back.
And it appears this ploy is
working. As Rothschild Reuters reports:
Pressure mounted on German Chancellor
Angela Merkel on Thursday to reconsider the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which will
take gas from Russia to Germany, after she said Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny had been poisoned with a Soviet-style nerve agent.
But even here we can detect
the "lie by omission" strategy that is skewing our perception of this
event. The only two people cited in the article as "pressuring"
Merkel to end the pipeline deal are Norbert Roettgen,
descirbed as "the conservative head of Germany’s
parliamentary foreign affairs committee," and Wolfgang Ischinger,
described as "chairman of the Munich Security Conference and a former
ambassador to Washington."
What Reuters fails to inform
its readers is that Norbert Roettgen is a co-chair
of the European Council on Foreign Relations and a committed Russophobe who
has been calling for a more aggressive German foreign policy against the
Russians for years. Also missing from the Reuters report is that Wolfgang Ischinger is also a consummate globalist insider, sitting
on the board of the Atlantic Council, the World Economic Forum's Global Future
Council on the Future of International Security and a raft
of other globalist bodies.
So, to summarize: Merkel is
under "mounting pressure" to scuttle Nord Stream 2 because of the
phony-as-a-three-euro-bill Navalny novichok incident. This "pressure" is coming from
precisely two men, both well-connected globalist insiders, and neither
particularly influential in German politics. Merkel herself, as Reuters admits
"has been unwavering in her support for the [Nord Stream] project"
and has shown no sign whatsoever that she is even thinking of stopping the
pipeline over the incident. But Reuters makes it a headline story and implies
that her government is on the brink of succumbing to the pressure.
This is how the news is really reported. In bits and pieces, like a puzzle with only enough pieces there to
give the audience an (often mistaken) impression of the events in question.
Other pieces of the puzzle may be provided later as the story unfolds, but only
for the purpose of further misleading the public with even more poorly reported
information lacking in key details.
Sadly, this is the status
quo of modern corporate mainstream dinosaur media. And the fact that this
context-poor, misleading reporting is the norm these days means it falls on the
readers of the news to fill in the gaps in these stories themselves. This often
involves independent research and the ability to fit together disparate pieces
of information reported in bits and pieces over many months and even years.
Naturally, it isn't feasible
for every individual to do this with every story they ever see in the media.
But at least keep this in mind: if you have only read one report on a major
news event, you not only don't know the full story of that event but you may be
even worse off than if you had never read it at all.
Alexander Pope may have
meant it as a warning when he penned the famous line "A little learning is
a dangerous thing." Unfortunately for humanity, the globalists and their
media mouthpieces have managed to turn that observation into a business model.
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From: Bernie Sanders [mailto:info@berniesanders.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020
Subject: I am writing to discuss the possibility that Trump will not
voluntarily leave office if he loses in November, and then I am asking you to
add your name to join me in calling on Mitch McConnell to form a bi-partisan
committee to protect the integrity of our democratic elections.
I am very concerned about Trump's attempts to discredit and
sabotage this election.
Yes. This is a presidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
Yes. This is an election about health care, education, the economy, climate
change, criminal justice, and so many other important issues.
More importantly, however, this is an election about whether or not we
retain American democracy. This is an election we must not lose.
Today, virtually every national poll and most battleground state polls
have Biden ahead. Yet, Trump continues to repeat a message he tweeted several
weeks ago: "The only way they can take this election away from us is if
this is a rigged election."
Think about what that means. What he is saying is that if he wins the
election, that's great. But if he loses, it’s rigged. And if it’s rigged, then
he is not leaving office. Heads I win. Tails you lose.
Never before in the history of this country have we failed to have a
peaceful transition of power from one president to the next. And now, for the
first time, we are facing an election where it is not clear that a sitting
president will voluntarily leave office if he loses.
I am not in the habit of quoting former President Ronald Reagan, but I
think something that he said in his first inaugural address makes the point
about how important this part of our heritage is.
Here is what President Reagan said:
“To a few of us here today, this is a solemn and most momentous
occasion; and yet, in the history of our nation, it is a commonplace
occurrence. The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution
routinely takes place as it has for almost two centuries and few of us stop to
think how unique we really are. In the eyes of many in the world, this every-four-year
ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle."
Protecting this “orderly transfer of authority,” as President Reagan
characterized it, is absolutely essential if all of us — Republicans,
Democrats, Independents — want to protect our democracy. And the truth is that
Donald Trump poses the biggest threat to our democracy that we've ever seen
from a sitting president.
Remember: Donald Trump is the president who made the preposterous
statement after the 2016 election, which he won, that "millions of people
voted illegally." That's when he won. What will he say in 2020 if he
loses?
This is the president who was asked by Chris Wallace on Fox News whether
he would accept the election results. Trump refused to give a straight answer,
and said: "I have to see. No, I’m not going to just say yes. I’m not going
to say no, and I didn’t last time either."
This is the president who has talked about delaying the election.
This is the president who's now talking about a third term, in violation
of the Constitution.
And it gets worse.
Last week Roger Stone, a convicted felon who was pardoned by Trump,
stated on a right-wing radio show that Trump should declare "martial
law" if he loses the election.
Roger Stone continued to say:
"The ballots in Nevada on election night should be seized by
federal marshals and taken from the state. They are completely corrupted. No
votes should be counted from the state of Nevada if that turns out to be the
provable case."
Stone is following the rhetoric from Trump that mail-in ballots will be
"rigged," and the election should be called into question before a
single vote has been counted.
And just the other day Michael Caputo, a right-wing political operative
who, incredibly, is the assistant secretary of public affairs at the Department
of Health and Human Services, made the outrageous suggestion that left-wing
voters are planning an armed revolt following the election. He stated in a
video to his social media followers: "If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies
and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get."
Think about that. A senior Trump official is telling Trump supporters to
purchase ammunition for an armed conflict here at home.
Trump himself has recently threatened to use the Insurrection Act — a
law that allows the president to bring in the National Guard to confront civil
unrest. If there are protests on election night, Trump says: "We’ll put
them down very quickly if they do that. We have the right to do that. We have
the power to do that, if we want.”
At a time when Trump is urging tens of thousands of his supporters to
intimidate voters by becoming "poll watchers," he is now threatening
to bring in the National Guard if there are protests.
It is becoming clearer by the day that Donald Trump will do whatever it
takes to maintain the power of the presidency.
Miles Taylor, a life-long Republican who previously served as chief of
staff inside the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security, warned
that Trump will stop at nothing to defeat Biden.
"Put nothing past Donald Trump," Taylor told the Associated
Press. "He will do anything to win. If that means climbing over other
people, climbing over his own people, or climbing over U.S. law, he will do it.
People are right to be concerned."
In addition, after Trump proposed postponing the election, another
Republican, Steven Calabresi, one of the founders of
the conservative Federalist Society, wrote an op-ed in the New York Times
condemning Trump. Calabresi called Trump's comments
"fascistic" and said that his call to delay the election was an
impeachable offense.
So, given this very dangerous situation, what are we going to do about
it?
Here is what I believe needs to happen in order to prepare for what
could be an unprecedented chain of events following the November election:
Let me be very clear:
This is the most important election in the modern history of this
country. And for the first time in America, it appears that we have a sitting
president who will be reluctant to leave office if he fails to win re-election.
We absolutely must come together in November to defeat Trump by the
largest margin possible and stop him from dragging our country in an
authoritarian direction. Nothing less than the future of our democracy and our
country is at stake.
Over the next 48 days, let us do all we can to deliver a decisive
victory for Joe Biden on November 3. And once we do that, let us remain
vigilant to see to it that Trump allows for the peaceful transition of power.
In solidarity,
Bernie Sanders
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From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2020
Subject: [MCM] Huge crowds protest
corona-fascism in Germany, UK, Poland, France, Bolivia and elsewhere, ALL
blacked out by "our free press"
Celia Farber posted: " I had
family duties yesterday that took me away from computer from 6 am to 8 pm
and, having only slept 2 hours the night before, I literally thought I had
fallen asleep and was dreaming when I began to watch the clips of the
protests in Berlin, London, "
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From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2020
Subject: [MCM] "Forced isolation may be the only way to stop
resurgence of virus" (Says WHO?)
This is demonstrably false---and a clear sign that this COVID crisis was devised to turn the whole world into a neo-feudal high-tech playground for the ultra-rich, with just enough of us left living (if you can call it that) to service them.
"The virus" is NOT "resurgent," as the data makes quite clear. Only those who get their "news" about it from Big Pharma's advertising venues---a captive audience that, unfortunately, includes millions of "educated" people---believes it's on the rise again, since that's what the New York Times and NPR et al. keep telling us, based on morbid half-truths, terroristic rumor-mongering, factoids taken out of context, the deliberate obfuscation of what constitutes a COVID-19 "case," unrelenting CENSORSHIP of inconvenient truths, and a staggering array of bald-faced lies, about the infectiousness of children, the effectiveness of HCQ+, the necessity of masks, and every other aspect of this "crisis."
"Forced isolation" wasn't necessary in Japan, Taiwan, Iceland, South Korea, Sweden or Belarus---or Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas or the Dakotas---which all got through the crisis very well with no lockdown of any kind; nor was it necessary ANYWHERE, though it was surely used in China and New Zealand---models of repressiveness applauded by the same high interests pushing just that sort of crackdown here and now. This technocratic faux-"solution" is political, not medical, and represents an existential threat to freedom, health and happiness throughout the US and beyond.
This must be stopped, and WILL be stopped, because it's too big, and too evil, NOT to fail; and because there are enough of us, and will be eventually be even more of us, who just won't take it
MCM
Forced Isolation
May Be the Only Way to Stop Resurgence of Virus
Forced Isolation May Be the Only Way
to Stop Resurgence of Virus
(Bloomberg)
-- Flare-ups from Australia to Japan show the world hasn’t learned an early
lesson from the coronavirus crisis: to stop the
spread, those with mild or symptom-free coronavirus
infections must be forced to isolate, both from their communities and family.
In
Australia, where Victoria state has been reporting record deaths, some 3,000 checks last month on people who
should have been isolating at home found 800 were out and about. In Japan,
where the virus has roared back, people are staying home but aren’t in
isolation: 40% of elderly patients are getting sick from family
members in the same apartments.
The
failure to effectively manage contagious people with mild or no symptoms is a
driving factor behind some of the world’s worst resurgences. But lessons
from Italy, South Korea and others that have successfully contained large-scale
outbreaks show that there’s a tried-and-tested approach to cutting off transmission: move them out of
their homes into centralized facilities while they get over their infections,
which usually doesn’t require longer than a few weeks.
“A
laissez-faire approach naively trusting everyone to be responsible has been
shown to be ineffective, as there will always be a proportion who will
breach the terms of the isolation,” said Jeremy Lim, adjunct professor at the
National University of Singapore’s Saw Swee Hock
School of Public Health.
Faced with
a new cluster this week after 102 days without a locally transmitted case, New
Zealand has quickly enacted this strategy, placing 17 people -- including two
children below the age of 10 -- into centralized quarantine.
But other
countries facing sustained spread like Australia and the U.S. are not broadly
enacting the policy despite its proven track record. Their unwillingness -- or
inability -- to do so underscores the challenges faced by liberal
democracies whose populations are less likely to tolerate measures that
require individual sacrifice for the greater good.
Not
at Home
The
existence of a large group of carriers who hardly feel sick is a unique feature
of the coronavirus crisis, and a major factor that
has driven its rapid spread across the globe. Unlike in previous outbreaks like
the 2003 SARS epidemic, many infected people don’t feel ill enough to stay
home, and so spread the pathogen widely as they go about their daily lives.
The U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated that 40% of Covid-19 infections are
asymptomatic.
In Wuhan,
the Chinese city where the coronavirus first emerged
last year, mildly sick patients were originally turned away from hospitals and
told to rest at home, given that the overwhelmed health-care system needed to
tend to the most severe cases. But health experts soon found that these people
would infect their family members and others as they moved around in the
community, precipitating a deluge of cases.
Read more on
successful virus containment strategies in Asia:
These Elite Contact Tracers Show the World How to Beat Covid-19Virus Hunters Sift Through Sewage to Detect Covid-19 HotspotsAs China Fights Second Wave, Taiwan Starts Stockpiling Again Beijing Just Reported No Cases. Here’s How They Turned It Around |
Bringing
mild or asymptomatic patients to designated facilities -- re-purposed
convention centers, hotels and stadiums -- for basic medical care marked a
turning point in the city’s fight against the coronavirus. Simply separating them from healthy
people halted the pathogen’s silent spread through the community.
The
strategy has since been used in Italy, Singapore and South Korea at the height
of their own coronavirus outbreaks earlier this year.
Faced with a resurgence last month, Hong Kong converted an exhibition center to accommodate mild Covid-19
patients and is building more such facilities.
In New
Zealand, the government put “a lot of thought” into enacting the policy, and is
asking family members of confirmed cases to go into centralized quarantine with
them if they require care, said director general of health Ashley Bloomfield.
©
Bloomberg Fitting Out and Finishing Touches to a Dedicated Covid
Health Centre as India Extends Lockdown
Finishing
touches are applied to a ward at a dedicated Covid
Health Centre at the Bandra Kurla
Complex exhibition ground in Mumbai, India on May 17.
Photographer:
Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg
The
approach is effective firstly because it prevents people from infecting family
members in the same household -- over 80% of cluster infections in China cities
were in households after mild patients were allowed to stay home, said a Lancet
study. In Europe, the surge of household infections drove Italy’s Milan to start
putting such cases in hotels, enabling the country to gain control over its
outbreak in early May.
Beyond
household spread, the strategy is necessitated by a facet of human nature
that’s been seen time and again across countries and cultures: left to their
own devices, some people just won’t follow the rules.
In
Australia and Japan, infected people who’ve been told to stay home have gone
out for a variety of reasons -- some can’t work from home and need the income,
while others want to pick up groceries and supplies. One woman in Tokyo traveled cross country by bus after having her infection
confirmed.
“It is far
better to be more aggressive in the short term with even mild cases than it is
to allow such cases to slip under the radar,” said Nicholas Thomas, associate
professor in health security at the City University of Hong Kong.
Locked
Up
But
forcibly moving mild or asymptomatic patients into centralized facilities has
been met with backlash in some countries where citizens are not as accepting of
government directives. Some people might lose their jobs if they disappear for
two weeks, or have caretaking responsibilities for young children or older
parents where it’s unfeasible to be separated.
“People
would be wondering what on earth they’re doing locked up in a hospital,” said
Stephen Leeder, emeritus professor of public health
and community medicine at the University of Sydney. “From what I know about the
Australian psyche, I don’t think it would go down all that
well.”
In places
like Venezuela and India where conditions in quarantine facilities are poor,
the prospect of being taken away has caused some to avoid being tested or to
lie to contact-tracers for fear of being found positive, making the work of
health officials more challenging.
©
Bloomberg Victoria state accounts for almost all the flareup's
new cases
In an
emailed response to Bloomberg News queries, the Department of Health and Human
Services in Victoria said the government provides alternative accommodation for
quarantine, but that these are for health workers “who may not be able to
safely live at their normal address” and other vulnerable groups.
Rather
than forcing isolation on mild cases, authorities have locked down 5 million
residents in Melbourne and are tightening restrictions until new cases come
under control.
© Bloomberg Wearing Face Coverings Becomes
Mandatory in Melbourne
An
information sign informs all customers that they must wear a protective mask at
all times at a shopping precinct in Melbourne on July 23.
Photographer:
Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg
Officials
are using a combination of stepped-up checks and fines of
A$4,957 ($3,550) to convince infected people to stay home, while repeat
offenders risk a A$20,000 penalty in court. More than 500 military personnel
are helping the police conduct checks on 4,000 households every day to ensure
those who are supposed to be staying home are there.
To
be sure, aggressive and thorough contact-tracing and case follow-up have
successfully contained outbreaks in countries like Germany without a
centralized quarantine strategy. But these places relied on an army of
efficient workers hunting down every chain of transmission, a resource not many
governments have had time to build up.
“The
classic practice in public health is to identify, trace and quarantine,” said
Yang Gonghuan, former deputy director of the Chinese
Center for Disease Control and Prevention. “But how that is carried out depends
on popular sentiment and the country’s resources.”
For
more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com
©2020
Bloomberg L.P.
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