Bulletin N° 948
COVID-19: THE e-BOOK (in 9
chapters)
« The 2020 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil
Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d’État and the ‘Great
Reset’ »
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
(December 2020)
From the Preface :
The fear campaign has served as an instrument of disinformation.
In the course of the last eleven months starting in early January,
I have analyzed almost on a daily basis the timeline and evolution of the Covid crisis.
From the very outset in January 2020,
people were led to believe and accept the existence of a rapidly progressing and dangerous epidemic.
Media lies sustained the image of a killer virus which initially contributed to destabilizing US-China trade and disrupting air travel.
And then in February “V- the Virus” (which incidentally is similar to seasonal influenza) was held responsible for triggering the most serious financial crisis in World history.
And then on March 11, a lockdown was imposed on 193 member states on the United Nations, leading to the “closure” of national economies Worldwide.
Starting in October, a “second wave” was announced. “The pandemic is not over”.
The fear campaign prevails.
And people are now led to believe that the corona vaccine sponsored by their governments is the “solution”.
And that “normality” will be restored once the entire population of the planet has been vaccinated.
_ Michel Chossudovsky
Subject: « Artificial Stupidity » : A ruling-class
move for checkmate–game-over in 2021.
New Year’s Eve
2020
Grenoble, France
Dear Colleagues
and Friends of CEIMSA,
Reading Joel
Kovel’s last book, Overcoming
Zionism (2007), is by any account a chilling experience. It is the
story of an ideological mindset which includes bankers who want to starve you,
doctors who don’t want to save you, teachers who don’t want to educate you,
pharmaceutical companies that seek to destroy you, etc., etc., etc…. The “super-human/sub-human”
paradigm which is at the core of this ideology is as terrifying as it is
disgusting. In the last anlaysis, it is
the ideology of the 1%, a universal equal-opportunity rationalization for the
exercise of force and abuse, without accountability, not limited to a single
ethnic group, or religion, or nationality. And like all ideologies, it conceals
more than it reveals. It also performs the dialectical function of all
ideologies, of indicating the exact opposite of what it professes.
Kovel’s book is a must read in these dark times. It is the work of a committed Marxist Humanist, whose unfailing compassion and powers of empathy have allowed him to cut through the prevalent mental fog that exists and help emancipate those of us still caught up in the entanglement of deceit and ill-will that neutralizes us and orients us toward scapegoats; using the time-tested, cynical political ploy of “divide and rule” to preserve the political power of the 1%.
The 21 + items below include articles and essays that reflect the unstable state of world capitalism and ruling-class maneuvers to remain in power at all costs in the midst of a democratic upsurge across the planet. As we can see, this struggle is not one sided, and the outcome is not a foredrawn conclusion.
The Year 2021 will soon be upon us, and the contradictions continue to proliferate . . . .
Happy New Year !
Sincerely,
Francis Feeley
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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.
#ForceTheVote Town Hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fP8JRdVHis&feature=youtu.be
(2:21:35)
Chris Hedges at
the Community Church of Boston,
Hosted by Joe
Ramsey
(1:37:15)
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“Planet
Lockdown”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1-0XKYAZII&feature=youtu.be
https://onstellar.com/posts/157954
with Catherine Austin Fitts
(48:31)
Dec.
23, 2020
This sit down interview with Catherine covers the
spectrum of the current situation we find ourselves in. The interview was done
as apart of a full length documentary under production called Planet Lockdown
and released in advance for those interested in learning more. The site for the
film is PlanetLockdownFlim.com
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The Future of
Vaccines
with James
Corbett
(41:34)
Dec. 23, 2020
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Scientists,
MPs Ask "Where Is Evidence Of 70% More Contagious Mutant COVID?"
by Tyler Durden
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From: nfu@simplelists.com [mailto:nfu@simplelists.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Subject: [MCM] WEF to unveil its "Great Reset Initiative" next
month, at Davos 2021 (so get ready to stop eating meat, in favor of
"alternatives" like algae, fungus, bugs and weeds)
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=223690
World Economic Forum Admits Davos 2021 will Reveal
“Great Reset Initiative”
http://www.domigood.com/2020/12/world-economic-forum-admits-davos-2021.html
by
Domi Good – Dec 22, 2020
The World
Economic Forum unveiled
a preview for its Davos 2021 Agenda.
The meeting
of the world’s political and corporate elites next month will be a digital
event due to Covid concerns.
Many on the
right were mocked for saying the “Great Reset” was a part of a larger conspiracy
to impose worldwide tyranny.
The
globalists are openly admitting they are using Covid-19 as a vehicle to usher
in a Marxist takeover of the world yet conservatives who sound the alarm are
mocked as “conspiracy theorists.”
The Great Reset: Harnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution https://t.co/YIN8QMlhRr @paulkagame @ivanduque @marietjeschaake pic.twitter.com/3Xa7qgacL6
— World
Economic Forum (@wef) October
20, 2020
The
globalists are using Covid-19 as a pretext for a worldwide takeover.
The
COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that no institution or individual alone can
address the economic, environmental, social and technological challenges of our
complex, interdependent world. The pandemic itself will not transform the
world, but it has accelerated systemic changes that were apparent before its
inception. The fault lines that emerged in 2020 now appear as critical
crossroads in 2021. The time to rebuild trust and to make crucial choices is
fast approaching as the need to reset priorities and the urgency to reform
systems grow stronger around the world.
The
Davos Agenda will also mark the launch of the World Economic Forum’s Great
Reset Initiative and begin the preparation of the Special Annual Meeting in the
spring.
Recently, the global elitists at
the WEF told the public to start eating weeds, algae, bugs and fungus
instead of animal products.
The strange
diet plan comes from a recent virtual event hosted by the WEF, called Bold
Actions for Food as a Force for Good. The WEF highlighted 5 main reasons that
you should start grazing on some weeds:
1) They’re easy to grow
2) They can be rich in nutrients
3) We need to diversify our diets
4) They know more about the soil
than we do
5) They taste great
Many have
scrutinized the WEF for attempting to further economic globalization and to
make the planet one giant third-world country. They
also research and publish ways to eliminate real meat from American diets and
replace it with “alternatives.”
In that
research, the World Economic Forum recommended making people eat fungus instead
of beef, crickets instead of pork, and algae in place of chicken.
The World
Economic Forum in a November of 2017 blog post told people to envision a world
taken over by technocrats.
“Welcome to
2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better.”
Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been
better https://t.co/N41KLXo27Q
#gfc17
pic.twitter.com/t1bzETBeKG
— World
Economic Forum (@wef) November
10, 2017
It's
Long Past Time For CDC To Clean-Up The COVID-19
Death
Counts
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/its-long-past-time-cdc-clean-covid-19-death-counts
by Stacey Lennox
Some of us have been questioning the COVID-19 death counts reported by the CDC through the
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) for some time.
Of course, CNN
and the corporate media love the likely elevated counts to push their
narrative. Lockdown Inc. loves them to justify their destruction of lives
and livelihoods. A
report from the Freedom Foundation, a Washington State think tank, explains
why. The foundation’s original analysis of deaths in the state found the number
may have been inflated by as much as 13% . . . .
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From: nfu@simplelists.com
[mailto:nfu@simplelists.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2020
Subject: [MCM] 3% of C-vax recipients suffer adverse effects
From a friend:
The chart below from the CDC's own website indicates as of December 18th, 112,807 Americans have been
vaccinated with 3,150 "health impacts." That's about 3
%. The CDC chart defines "health impacts" as "unable to
perform normal daily activities, unable to work, required care from doctor or
health care professional."
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2020-12/slides-12-19/05-COVID-CLARK.pdf
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Subject: [MCM] WHO
redefines "herd immunity" as vaccine-dependent
So there was no such thing as herd
immunity prior to the discovery of vaccines? And all those pandemics that have
ended without
vaccinations ended how?
This is beyond alarming.
MCM
https://twitter.com/simondolan/status/1341306917076021248?s=21
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Tiffany Dover
The McIntyre Report
&
[https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Tiffany+Dover&t=newext&atb=v240-1&ia=web]
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b.
Assange
tape throws Justice Department's indictment out of the window
with Kristinn
Hrafnsson
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The Julian
Assange Pardon Drive
https://www.globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-pardon-drive/5733363
by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
The odds are
stacked against Julian Assange,
the WikiLeaks publisher who faces the grimmest of prospects come January
4. On that day, the unsympathetic judicial head of District Judge Vanessa
Baraitser will reveal her decision on the Old Bailey proceedings that took
place between September and October this year. Despite Assange’s team
being able to marshal an impressive, even astonishing array of sources and
witnesses demolishing the prosecution’s case for extradition to the United
States, power can be blindly vengeful.
Such blindness
is much in evidence in a co-authored contribution to The Daily Signal from
this month. The authors are insipidly predictable: national security and
technology types with comic strip names (Charles “Cully” Stimson; Klon Kitchen)
and rule of law advocates who seemingly campaign against their own brief (John
G. Malcolm). Having not bothered to read the evidence submitted at the
extradition trial, the authors are obedient to a fictitious record. This
includes allegations that WikiLeaks harmed US diplomatic relations; the
stubborn libel that Assange’s actions, far from exposing US atrocities, led to
a loss of life; and the disruption of essential “intelligence sources and
methods”. (Accountability can be expensive.)
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Julian Assange
supporters outnumber his critics. Who are they?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/28/julian-assange-what-world-leaders-personalities-think
by
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From: NYC Free Assange
[mailto:nycfreeassange@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Subject: Sun., Jan 3, Stand with Us for Julian Assange at the UK
Consulate
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Glenn Greenwald:
Media's WORST Failures Of 2020
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56099.htm
by The Hill
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Mass Media Propaganda
Is Enemy #1
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56093.htm
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c.
American
Psychosis
The
United States of Narcissism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpk5WG-arRE&feature=youtu.be
with Chris Hedges
(14:43)
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Capitalism's
Awful Solutions
to its Crises
with Richard
Wolff
(6:41)
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COVID
Relief Bill is a
CRUEL
JOKE
with Jimmy Dore
(30:55)
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“Blow Torching
The Economy” COVID Relief Bill is Disaster for America
with Jimmy Dore
(27:35)
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Lessons
From A Crisis Year 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwO2qx1z1UU
with Richard
Wolff
(29:55)
Dec. 21, 2020
This week's show features a survey of the major
economic events of 2020 that were poorly covered by mainstream media: the twin
crises of viral pandemic/capitalist crash; protesting right-wing regimes
(France, US, India, Poland); how the US Census Survey reveals the extent of US
suffering; how Federal Reserve policies, intended to combat Covid-19 and
economic crash, worsened income/wealth inequality; and the correction of poor unemployment
data during a massive jobless crisis.
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Podcast:
Chris Hedges on the Collapse of US Empire, Liberal Suicide and the Rise of
Fascism
https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/mnarmuhawesh/
by
Mnar Muhawesh Adley
Chris Hedges joins
MintCast to discuss the decline of US empire, the breakdown of society, the
rise of militarized Christian fascism, and the discredited liberal class among
other hard-hitting topics.
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d.
The Unspoken
Premise Of Modern Capitalism Is That The World Will Be Saved By Greedy Tech
Oligarchs
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56100.htm
by
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Debate with John
Bolton & Yanis Varoufakis: “Is Global Stability A Pipe Dream?”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56094.htm
by Holberg
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The Threat of
Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56108.htm
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e.
Developers of
Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Tied to UK Eugenics Movement
by Jeremy
Loffredo and Whitney Webb
+
From: nfu@simplelists.com [mailto:nfu@simplelists.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Subject: [MCM] Why Bill and Boris bonded? Both are offspring of fanatical
eugenicists
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/e9853u/boriss_father_stanley_johnson_has_been_writing/
Boris’s father, Stanley Johnson has been writing books
promoting depopulation for almost fifty years now; starting with ‘Life without
Birth: A Journey Through the Third World in Search of the Population Explosion’
published all the way back in 1970.
He’s also a former employee of the World Bank and the
European Commission; two of the most prominent promoters of ‘Carbon’ taxation;
which would increase the cost of both food and fuel, exponentially. Resolving,
they hope, the ‘population issue’.
Stanley was Head of Prevention of Pollution Division at the
European Commission (1973 to 1979) and Conservative MEP for Wight and Hampshire
East (1979 to 1984).
His first wife (Boris’ mother) Charlotte Johnson Wahl “made
her name as a professional portrait painter” for Crispin Tickell; the UN spook
who first convinced Margret Thatcher to introduce the concept of CO2 driven
‘climate change’ into mainstream British politics in a speech she gave to the
Royal Society, in September 1988.
Sir Crispin is a direct descendent of Thomas Henry Huxley
(known as Darwin’s bulldog), one of the first promoters of Darwinism and
Eugenics (leading to Government sterilisation policies all over the
world).
Some "astonishingly prescient" reading by Stanley
Johnson, published in 1982:
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Warning: Covid
Vaccines!
Huge Risks, Huge
Injuries
– Huge
Compensations?
by Peter Koenig
Did you know
that the US Government since 1988 paid as of 1 December 2020 more than 4.4
billion dollars to vaccine-injury victims? – It’s your money – Taxpayers Money.
This is Health
Services and Service Administration Vaccine Injury Compensation Data
The National
Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), was set up in 1988, to
compensate for the National Childhood
Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA)
of 1986 (42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-1 to 300aa-34) which was signed into law by US
President Ronald Reagan, as part of a larger health bill on November 14,
1986.
Under
NCVIA nobody can sue a vaccine producing pharma-company or laboratory for
injuries and / or death caused by a
vaccine. NCVIA’s purpose was to eliminate the potential financial liability of
vaccine manufacturers due to vaccine injury and death. The official explanation
for the NCVIA is “to ensure a stable
market supply of vaccines, and to provide cost-effective arbitration for
vaccine injury claims.”
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f.
US Intel
Agencies Played Unsettling Role in Classified and “9/11-like” Coronavirus
Response Plan
by Whitney Webb
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Google &
Oracle To Monitor Americans Who Get Warp Speed’s Covid-19 Vaccine For Up To Two
Years
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g.
Decline of US
Empire, Liberal Class Suicide & Fascism
with Chris
Hedges
(42:16)
+
Kicking People
Out Of Their Homes During a Pandemic Economic Crisis
with Jimmy Dore
(14:46)
+
Why Capitalist
Inequality Matters
with Richard
Wolff
(8:08)
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"Why
#ForceTheVote? Now or Never For America"
with Joimmy Dore
(7:08)
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h.
2020 in Review:
“Media and the
Left”
with Matt Taibbi
(44:29)
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From: nfu@simplelists.com
[mailto:nfu@simplelists.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Subject: [MCM] More psychotic blindness on "the left":
"What happened to the global uprisings of a decade ago?" asked Consortium
News, as if the globe had not locked down THIS year....
I had to read this piece twice, and
pinch myself, to make sure this isn't a hallucination, but an article in
Consortium News. It's not satiric, but a deadly serious lament as to the
vanished mass ferment of 2010.
What about the "global
uprisings" last year—a year that FAIR looked back on, last
December, as "the year of the protest"? The year that saw the Yellow
Vests, and mass protests in Lebanon, Gaza, Chile, Haiti, Ecuador, and elsewhere
all over Latin America (the continent rocked by an unprecedented wave of
feminist protests in particular)? There also was the Bernie movement here. All
those protests were blacked out or played down by "our free press,"
which focused only on Hong Kong (as FAIR rightly noted) and Greta's multitudes
(as FAIR, believing in their righteousness, did not observe).
So what happened to all those "uprisings"?
Three guesses. And—still more important—what about the massive protests
going on right now? 250 million Indian farmers and workers—the biggest
protest in the history of the planet—and huge outpourings in the streets of the
UK, France, Germany, Spain, Denmark and elsewhere? According to Vishay Prashad
(who evidently slept through that gigantic and protracted demo in his own
country a few weeks ago), those "uprisings" either
aren't uprisings, or don't meet with his approval.
That he would disapprove of those uprisings—and
that Consortium News would feature his myopic article—is, sadly, no surprise,
inasmuch as that once-great outlet ran a piece last April, by the UN
Secretary-General, dismissing concerns about vaccine safety and the lockdowns'
dangerous consequences—including heightened mass surveillance—as
"conspiracy theory." That capitulation by Consortium News is all too
typical of the "left" press today, which maintains its a tight,
now-dated focus on neoliberal economics, Western foreign policy, the
non-progressive make-up of the incoming Biden apparat, the threat posed by
"the right," etc. (the same old same old that we get from Chomsky,
Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Caitlin Johnstone, Chris Hedges and so many others),
as if 2020 were 2010, or 2019, and not this unprecedented,
"COVID-related" Year from Hell, which calls on all of us who
really are progressive—that is, who love humanity, and believe
profoundly in democracy—to face up to what's really happening all around us,
ask why, and tell it like it is, and so help stop it.
MCM
What Happened to the Global Uprisings of
a Decade Ago?
December 22, 2020
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/12/22/what-happened-to-the-global-uprisings-of-a-decade-ago/
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Ten years have slipped by
since a man named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in the Tunisian town of
Sidi Bouzid, begins Vijay Prashad.
French
protest in support of Mohamed Bouazizi, “the Hero of Tunisia,” Jan. 15,
2011. (Antoine Walter, CC BY-SA 2.0, Flickr & Wikimedia Commons)
By Vijay Prashad
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
A decade has now slipped
by since a man named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in the Tunisian town
of Sidi Bouzid on Dec. 17, 2010.
Bouazizi, a street vendor,
took this extreme step after policemen harassed him for trying to survive. Not
long after, thousands of people in this small Tunisian town gathered in the
street to express their anger. Their outburst spread to the capital city,
Tunis, where trade unions, social organizations, political parties and civic
groups marched into the avenues to overthrow the government of Zine El Abidine
Ben Ali.
Demonstrations in Tunisia inspired
similar outbreaks around the Mediterranean Sea from Egypt to Spain, the chant
of Cairo’s Tahrir Square — ash-sha’b yurid isqat an-nizam
(“the people want to overthrow the regime”) — redolent with the emotion of
hundreds of millions.
People poured into the
streets, their sentiment captured by the Spanish term indignados:
indignant, or outraged. They came to say that their hopes were being crushed by
forces both visible and invisible. The billionaires of their own societies and
their cozy relationship with the state — despite the global downturn spurred by
the credit crisis of 2007-08 — were easy to see.
Meanwhile, the forces of
finance capital that had eroded the capacity of their governments (if they were
favorable to the people) to provide humane policies were much harder to see,
but no less devastating in their consequences.
Please Contribute to
Consortium News
During
its 2020 Winter Fund Drive
The sentiment that fueled the
slogan overthrow the regime was shared widely by large
majorities of people who had become dulled by the futility of voting for evils
and lesser evils; these people were now seeking something beyond the horizon of
the election games which seemed to bring so little change. Politicians ran for
elections saying one thing, and then did the exact opposite when they took
charge.
In the United Kingdom, for
instance, the student protests that broke out in November-December 2010 were
against the betrayal by the Liberal Democrats of their pledge not to raise
fees; regardless of who they voted for, the outcome was that the people
suffered.
“Greece, France: now here
too!,” chanted the students in the U.K. They could have added Chile, where the
students (known as los pingüinos, or “the penguins”) took to the
streets against the education cuts; their protests would pick up again in May
2011 and last almost two years in el invierno estudiantil chileno,
the “Chilean Student Winter.”
U.K.
student protesters mount traffic lights in central London, Dec. 9, 2010. (bobaliciouslondon,
CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)
In September 2011, the Occupy
Movement in the United States would join this wave of global outrage, emerging
out of the gross failure of the U.S. government to address mass evictions
spurred by the mortgage calamity that morphed into the credit crisis of
2007-08. “The only way to experience the American Dream,” someone wrote on the
walls of Wall Street, “is while sleeping.”
Overthrow the regime was the slogan because
faith in the establishment had weakened; more was demanded of life than what
was on offer from the neoliberal governments and the central bankers. But the
point of the protests was not simply to overthrow the government alone, since
there was widespread recognition that this was not a problem of the
governments: it was a deeper problem about the kind of political possibilities
that remained open to human society.
A generation or more had
experienced austerity cuts by governments of different kinds, even social
democratic governments that were told that the rights of the wealthy
bondholders – for instance – were far more important than the rights of the
totality of the citizens. It was bewilderment at the failure of what appeared
to be progressive governments, such as the Syriza coalition in Greece later in
2015, to deliver on their basic promise of no more austerity that spurred this
kind of attitude.
Global Scope
This area
of downtown Bangkok was occupied by “Red Shirt” protesters between April 3,
2010, and May 19, 2010, when the Thai military violently ended it. (Takeaway,
CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)
The uprising had a truly
global character. A million people in Red Shirts in Bangkok on March 14, 2010,
took to the streets against a state of the military, the monarchy and the
monied sections; in Spain, half a million indignados marched
in the streets of Madrid on October 15, 2011.
The Financial Times ran an
influential article calling it “the year of global
indignation,” with one of its leading commentators writing that the revolt
pitted “an internationally-connected elite against ordinary citizens who feel
excluded from the benefits of economic growth, and angered by corruption.”
“‘The only
way to experience the American Dream,’ someone wrote on the walls of Wall
Street, ‘is while sleeping.'”
A report by the Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) from October 2008 showed that between the
1980s and the 2000s, inequality rose in each of the 20 richest countries in the
world who are members of the OECD. The situation in the developing world was
catastrophic; a report by the UN Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD) from 2008 showed that the share of national consumption by
the poorest fifth of the population in developing regions had declined to 3.9
percent from 4.6 percent between 1990 and 2004.
This was gravest in Latin
America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa, where the poorest fifth
accounted for merely 3 percent of national consumption or income.
Whatever funds had been
gathered to help the banks stave off a serious crisis in 2008 did not translate
into any income redistribution for the billions of people who saw their lives
become increasingly precarious. This was the major spur for the uprisings of
that period.
A Sign of Hope
Brazil’s
Dilma Rousseff receiving presidential sash from Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Jan.
1, 2011. (Fabio Rodrigues Pozzebom, Agência Brasil, CC BY 3.0 br,
Wikimedia Commons)
It is important to point out
that in all these statistics there was a hopeful sign. In March 2011, Alicia
Bárcena, the head of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean (ECLAC), wrote that despite the high levels of
income inequality, poverty rates in the region had dropped due to the social
policies of some of the governments in the region.
Bárcena had in mind the
social democratic governments such as in Brazil under President Lula da Silva,
with schemes such as the Bolsa Familia, and left governments such as in Bolivia
under President Evo Morales and Venezuela under President Hugo Chávez. The
indignant in these parts of the world had entered government and were driving a
different agenda for themselves.
How swiftly the wealthy
turned from the language of “democracy promotion” to the language of law and
order, sending in the police and the F-16s to clear out public plazas and to
threaten countries with bombardment and with coup d’états.
The Arab Spring, which drew
its name from the 1848 revolts across Europe, quickly turned cold as the West
encouraged a hot war between regional powers (Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey)
with the epicentres in Libya and Syria. The destruction of the Libyan state by
the 2011 NATO attack sidelined the African Union, suspended all talk of the
Afrique as a currency to substitute for the French Franc and the U.S. dollar,
and drew in a massive French and U.S. military intervention along the Sahel
region from Mali to Niger.
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Lockdowns
Do Not Control The Coronavirus: The Evidence
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/lockdowns-do-not-control-coronavirus-evidence
Via The American Institute for Economic Research
The use of
universal lockdowns in the event of the appearance of a new pathogen has no precedent. It has been a
science experiment in real time, with most of the human population used as lab
rats. The costs are legion.
The question is whether lockdowns worked to control the virus in a way
that is scientifically verifiable.
Based on the following studies, the answer is no and for a variety of reasons:
bad data, no correlations, no causal demonstration, anomalous exceptions, and
so on. There is no relationship between lockdowns (or whatever else people want
to call them to mask their true nature) and virus control.
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Altmetric –
RETRACTED: Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for
treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis
https://www.altmetric.com/details/82549788
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i.
RT raises issues
corporate controlled media doesn't want raised
with Chris
Hedges
(7:12)
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DNC's Election
Interference – “NEW Revelations! Bernie, Buttigieg,
and Iowa”
(20:17)
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Iowa Caucus
Shenanigans: “DNC Knew App Would Glitch”
(12:04)
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j.
“United States to Imperial America: Our
Hidden Empire”
with Abby Martin and Professor Daniel Immerwahr
(39:55)
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Agenda 2021:
Resist the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination
https://www.blackagendareport.com/agenda-2021-resist-useunato-axis-domination
by Ajamu Baraka
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k.
CIA-Backed
Afghan Death Squads Massacred Children Inside Religious Schools in Campaign of
Terror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih2Um3TG5U0&feature=youtu.be
with Amy Goodman
and Andrew Quilty
(15:30)
A shocking exposé in The Intercept reveals
CIA-backed death squads in Afghanistan have killed children as young as 8 years
old in a series of night raids, many targeting madrassas, Islamic religious
schools. In December 2018, one of the death squads attacked a madrassa in
Wardak province, killing 12 boys, of whom the youngest was 9 years old. The
United States played key roles in many of the raids, from picking targets to
ferrying Afghan forces to the sites to providing lethal airpower during the
raids. The Intercept reports this was part of a campaign of terror orchestrated
by the Trump administration that included massacres, executions, mutilation,
forced disappearances, attacks on medical facilities, and airstrikes targeting
structures known to house civilians. "These militias … were established in
the very early days of the Afghan War by CIA officers, many of whom had been
brought back into the fold after the invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001 who
had previously been working in Afghanistan during the 1980s," says
reporter Andrew Quilty. "This network of militias was set up and appear to
be entirely under the control of the CIA but made up entirely of Afghan
soldiers."
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Hamas says
'barbaric' Israeli strike damaged children's hospital in Gaza
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-israel-barbaric-strike-hamas-damaged-childrens-hospital
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From: Agence Media
Palestine
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2020
Subject: [PUB]Un message retentissant de Bethléem: mettre fin à
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Hundreds
of Settlers Attack Palestinian Homes in Sheikh Jarrah Dec 28, 2020 photo en PJ
https://imemc.org/article/sheikh-jarrah-hundreds-of-settlers/
In the pre-dawn hours of Sunday
morning, hundreds of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian homes, businesses
and vehicles in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem.
This is a neighborhood that has
been designated by Israeli authorities as an area to be colonized by Israeli
settlers, and the past several years have seen numerous violent assaults
against Palestinians and Palestinian property, as Israeli colonizers move in
and force out the indigenous Palestinian inhabitants.
The Sunday morning attacks took
place around Road 1 in Sheikh Jarrah.
The settlers, protected by Israeli
police, threw stones at Palestinian vehicles, then proceeded to attack
Palestinian homes and pedestrians.
In addition, local sources reported
that Israeli settlers threw rocks at Palestinian vehicles traveling on Route
60, north of Ramallah in the West Bank.
No casualties were reported in either
of the two incidents.
By IMEMC News
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Press Release: Al Mezan condemns
Israel’s military attacks on Gaza and calls for urgent international
intervention to protect civilians and their properties Dec 27, 2020 photo en PJ
ِAl-Mezan Center For Human Rights: Israel carried out a series of
airstrikes in the early hours of Saturday, 26 December 2020, targeting multiple
areas in the Gaza Strip. Three Palestinians, including a six-year-old girl,
were injured, and several public and private properties were damaged in the
attacks.
Al Mezan’s field data shows that at
around 12:40 am on Saturday, Israeli warplanes fired five missiles at a vacant
land in the vicinity of the al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City. Imad
Khamis al-Hadad, 32, Hani Mahdi Hajaj, 55, and six-year-old Yasmin Mohamed
al-Ashqar sustained injuries due to the attack. The airstrike also caused
damages to the power grid and public building in the area, including, al-Durrah
Children’s Hospital, a rehabilitation facility for people with disabilities run
by the Ministry of Social Development, a primary school, and the Ministry of
Education’s Pedagogical Training Center, as well as a number of private
enterprises (Al-Yazji Company for Beverages, Al-Ramlawi Plastic Fabrication
Company, and Al-Sawafiri Carpentry).
Shortly thereafter, the Israeli
forces stationed at the perimeter fence fired arterially shells at a
Palestinian security outpost in the Middle Gaza district before targeting it
again with a drone missile. In addition, Israeli warplanes fired six missiles
into an empty land to the east of the Bureij refugee camp. No casualties were
reported in either attack.
Al Mezan strongly condemns Israel’s
military attacks and warns against the resumption of hostilities especially
amid the continued inaction of the international community and unprecedented
deterioration of socioeconomic conditions in Gaza due to the coronavirus
pandemic.
Accordingly, Al Mezan calls on the
international community, particularly the High Contracting Parties to the
Fourth Geneva Convention, to take prompt action in order to prevent any further
military escalation and to ensure the protection of civilians and civilian
objects. The international community must also exert pressure on Israel to lift
the closure and blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip, and ensure accountability
of perpetrators of serious human rights violations in Gaza.
By IMEMC News
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Israeli minister orders jails not to vaccinate Palestinian
security prisoners
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-orders-jails-not-vaccinate-palestinian-security-prisoners
by MEE and agencies
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/11/22/will-biden-end-the-yemen-war-that-he-and-obama-started/
by Aaron Maté
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Mass Starvation
Looms as Yemen's Currency Nears Historic Freefall
https://www.mintpressnews.com/famine-looms-as-yemen-currency-nears-freefall/273744/
by Ahmed Abdulkareem
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Biden and the
systems managers of empire are returning to power
by Chris Hedges
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Israeli ambassador
made anti-Semitic video
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israeli-ambassador-made-anti-semitic-video
by Asa Winstanley
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After Trump
leaves, US and Israeli aggression against Iran remains
by Aaron Maté
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It is time for
the one state solution to go mainstream
https://electronicintifada.net/content/it-time-one-state-solution-go-mainstream/31946
by Awad Abdelfattah and Jeff Halper
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Israel’s
Genocide in Gaza Goes Uninterrupted, But Is Europe Finally Taking Notice?
by Miko Peled
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Under Guise of
Green Energy, Israel Entrenches Itself in Golan Heights
https://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-energix-wind-farm-syria-golan-heights/273708/
by Jessica Buxbaum
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Palestine in
Pictures: November 2020
https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-pictures-november-2020/31831
by The Electronic Intifada
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Abby Martin Sues
Georgia Over Israel Loyalty Oath Law
[Full Press
Conference & Interviews]"
with Abby Martin
(20:15)
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Purdue
Pharma Owners Were Wary Of Lawsuits Before Moving $10 Billion From Company
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/purdue-pharma-owners-were-wary-lawsuits-moving-10-billion-company
by Tyler Durden
The Sackler
family, owners of Purdue Pharma LP, have been front and center in the nation's
opioid crisis over the last decade. The crisis has taken over 450,000 lives
since 1999 and prescription drugs like OxyContin and fentanyl have been
the culprit in many cases.
Purdue Pharma,
maker of OxyContin, has been in the midst of bankruptcy proceedings that
resulted from a legal onslaught which culminated in an $8 billion
settlement with the DOJ and criminal charges for misconduct relating to
opioids. The Sackler family paid $225 million to settle civil claims.
New documents that have been made available during bankruptcy proceedings
show the family had discussed the potential for litigation exposure as early as
2007, which Reuters
noted was a full decade before the company stopped making significant
financial transfers from the company totaling $10 billion - a move lawyers
for creditors may allege was to shield assets. The company now faces roughly 3,000 legal actions.
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m.
From: National Security Archive
[mailto:nsarchiv@gwu.edu]
Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2020 2:09 PM
To: Francis Feeley
Subject: Intelligence and Vietnam (II): Return of The Top Secret 1969
State Department Study
INR study re-released on appeal under FOIA restores redacted text
and hundreds of pages of referencesINR was highly attuned to Chinese aid to
North Vietnam; first in US government to recognize significance of the Buddhist
crisis in the South
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n.
“Something
Strange Is Happening To Hollywood”
with
reallygraceful
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Meet the
pseudo-left imperialists fighting against universal healthcare
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/12/24/pseudo-left-imperialists-healthcare/
by Dan Cohen
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When Austerity’s
Chickens Came Home to Roost in the U.S., Bernie and “the Squad” were
Unprepared
by Danny
Haiphong
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o.
The Planet’s
Problem from Hell: Samantha Power
http://www.blackagendareport.com/planets-problem-hell-samantha-power
by Ann Garrison
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The theory of change that depicts the likes of
Bernie Sanders and AOC as the leaders of the class struggle has failed to
materialize in reality.
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You Can’t Shame
the Shameless Black Misleadership Class
https://www.blackagendareport.com/you-cant-shame-shameless-black-misleadership-class
by Glen Ford
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Biden’s Victory
Was Hardly a Win for “Democracy.” It Was Another Win for the 1%.
https://www.blackagendareport.com/bidens-victory-was-hardly-win-democracy-it-was-another-win-1-1
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BAR Book Forum:
Yelena Bailey’s “How the Streets Were Made”
https://www.blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum-yelena-baileys-how-streets-were-made
by Roberta
Sirvent
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p.
Another "Pre-Crime" AI
System Claims It Can Predict Who Will Share Disinformation Before It's
Published
by Tyler Durden
We previously have covered the many weighty claims
made by the progenitors of A.I. algorithms who claim that their technology
can stop
crime before it happens. Similar predictive A.I. is increasingly being used
to stop the spread of misinformation, disinformation and general “fake news” by
analyzing trends in behavior and language used across social media.
However, as
we’ve also covered, these systems have more often that not failed quite
spectacularly, as many artificial
intelligence experts and mathematicians have highlighted. One expert in
particular — Uri Gal, Associate Professor in Business Information Systems, at
the University of Sydney, Australia — noted that from what he has seen so far,
these systems are “no
better at telling the future than a crystal ball.”
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US War Machine
Masquerading as Country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLvBVHkKWi4&feature=youtu.be
by Finian Cunningham
The late and not-so-great Republican Senator John
McCain once provocatively described Russia as “a giant gas station masquerading
as a country”.
Mitt Romney, the former presidential candidate and
fellow Republican Senator, was quoted in US media over the weekend channeling
McCain’s contemptuous description of Russia.
Russophobia
among the American political class has become hysterical over the past week
since prominent media outlets reported on an alleged massive cyber-attack
attributed to Russian agents.
For any
objective reader, such “reports” (more accurately “propaganda”) are ludicrous.
There is no evidence to support the lurid claims of Russian hacking. The
“story” – as in countless other “stories” in the past about alleged Russian
malfeasance, from election interference to bounty-hunters killing US troops in
Afghanistan – relies on anonymous sources, innuendo and gullible journalists.
It’s so
obviously a psychological operation orchestrated by the US
military-intelligence nexus which is facilitated by hacks at the New York Times
and other major outlets who are in the pocket of the CIA.
The Pavlovian response among the American politicians is a classic demonstration of ideological conditioning. Republicans and Democrats are accusing Russia of committing act of war from the alleged cyber-assault. They are hence braying for a “cyber-retaliation” against Russia.
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r.
The New Film
“Seven”:
Scientific Study of WTC Building 7
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-new-film-seven-scientific-study-of-wtc-building-7/5733355
by Kevin Ryan
AE911Truth’s new documentary about Dr. Leroy
Hulsey’s groundbreaking new study on WTC7
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s.
From: Cat McGuire
[mailto:cat@catmcguire.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 9:20 AM
To: Cat McGuire
Subject: ABSOLUTE MUST WATCH -- Alison McDowell
Alison McDowell explains
what the "Internet of Bodies" is all about. If the plutocrats have their way, our bodies
are going to be commoditized for their wealth. As Alison says, AI control is
settler colonization down to humanity's very cells. With data the new oil and
financial markets based on futures and derivatives of our bodies, the tracking
of our bodies and behavior will become their new wealth creation.
Catherine Austin Fitts
gives the brilliant abstract big picture. Alison McDowell provides the
shocking, dangerous details of The Great Reset Capitalist New World Order
blockchain.
Both interviews below
are really excellent and extremely informative.
Kevin Jenkins
of Urban Global Health Alliance interviews Alison McDowell –
December 29, 2020 – 2 hours
Gary Null interviews Alison McDowell –
December 23, 2020 – 1 hour
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What’s Not Being Said About the Pfizer Coronavirus
Vaccine. "Human Guinea Pigs"?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/what-not-said-pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine/5729461
by F. William Engdahl
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Masking the COVID-19 Virus in this ‘Pandemic’
https://www.globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-masking-the-covid-19-virus-in-this-pandemic/5733307
by Global Research News
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Mass-Vaxxing of US Military Forces for COVID
https://www.globalresearch.ca/mass-vaxxing-us-military-forces-covid/5733386
by Stephen Lendman
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The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real Danger is
"Agenda ID2020"
https://www.globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-causes-effects-real-danger-agenda-id2020/5706153
by Peter Koenig
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10 Facts From the UK Government Pfizer Vaccine Guidance
that Promote “Vaccine Hesitancy”
by Jonny Vedmore
t.
From: Basta ! [mailto:basta@bastamag.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2020
Subject: Inès Léraud et Basta en procès contre Chéritel, télétravail et
inégalités femmes-hommes, littérature et féminisme : nos derniers articles !
Victoires
collectives en 2020
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Cet
espoir improbable, ce nouveau récit, c’est vous qui le ferez surgir en 2021
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u.
Noam Chomsky: "Fight the Class Struggle or Get it in the Neck"
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/12/noam-chomsky-fight-the-class-struggle-or-get-it-in-the-neck
interview by David Barsamian