Bulletin N° 951
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
(Book Summary) - Minute Book Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsBh1TyWSM4
(6:12)
The Jungle (in 31 chapters)
1905
https://archive.org/details/jungle_tw_0908_librivox
by Upton Sinclair
(audiobok, 16:03:02)
The Jungle is a 1906 novel by the
American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). The novel portrays
the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in
Chicago and similar industrialized cities<
“Upton Sinclair conceived The
Jungle as a political game-changer, a book that would get people talking and
instigate some major reforms. The book certainly did both of those things—but
for reasons that its author didn’t quite expect. Grab a barf bag and join us as
we take a fresh look at Sinclair’s gut-wrenching magnum opus.”
-From “10
Things You Should Know About Upton Sinclair's The
Jungle,” by Mark Mancini
Subject: "The times they are a-changin’."
January 10, 2021
Grenoble, France
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
I had the pleasure of teaching with Dr. Joel Kovel (1936-2018) at San Diego State University in 1987. He was an extremely interesting thinker who had engaged in several careers: as Director of Residency Training, Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, from 1977 till 1983, where he was also Professor of Psychiatry from 1979–1986; from 1980 to 1985, he was an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research teaching theories of Marxism and Freud; in 1986, he abandoned the field of Psychiatry, and taught political science and communications as a visiting professor in San Diego, California; in 1988, he was appointed Alger Hiss Chair of Social Studies, a non-tenured position, at Bard College which he occupied until and 2009. Kovel claimed his termination at Bard was due to his critique of Zionism, to which the college president, Leon Botstein, responded that, such an accusation “insults not only your intelligence but the intelligence of your readers.”
The book in question, Overcoming Zionism, Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine, was published in 2007 by Pluto Press, and contains 247 pages of text, 32 pages citing 246 notes and 168 references, as well as an index of 10 pages with more than 400 entries. This work is organized into three sections, comprising a total of ten chapters. The first section, “Coming to Zion,” contains three chapters; the second, “The Jewish State,” is comprised of five chapters; while the final section, “Zionism Overcome,” contains chapters 9 and 10 in which the author argues against the “two-state solution” and in favor of a “secular and universal democracy for Israel/Palestine.”
In the first part of this study, after a lengthy Prologue in which Kovel (who was raised in a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York) examines his motivations and personal influences, he begins by discussing the ontology of Jewish identity and common errors which have had disastrous results. By offering a brief description of the historical context of the Jewish religion, as it evolved over time, Kovel offers an analysis of the origins of the Jewish “sense of separateness.”
The
Judaic way of being begins with a leap of negative logic. Among the social
formations of the ancient world there emerged a grouping of hill tribes whose
identity was based upon refusing to be like the others. It called itself
Israelite, and the notion of separateness remained, to appear throughout the Pentatuech, the five books of its chronicle, which
collectively became the Torah, Judaism’s precious affirmation of its history
and being. In the fourth Book, Numbers, the seer Balaam announces the theme
directly: Behold, it is a people dwelling apart, not counting itself among the nations. The ancient Israelites were
the only people who refused to grant validity to the gods of their
neighbors, in contrast to what Ronald Hendel has
called the ‘basic cultural translatability in the ancient Near East,’ in which
peoples would freely borrow spiritual motifs from each other. By affirming
apartness, the tribes developed a sharply internalized identity whose spiritual
reflex was to become the God, Yahweh. Thus they became the ‘Tribes of Yahweh,’
a title given to them by the Liberation theologist
and historian Norman Gottwald, who saw in the
Israelites’ struggles with the principalities of the time a discovery of the
possibility of emancipation. This is plainly true.
But
so is the converse: Becoming a people apart, with a godhead to match, may help
account for the extraordinary durability of the Jewish identity, but it also
equipped it with an enduring sense of conflict, both within itself and with
other nations, and can lead to domination as well as emancipation. There is no
mystery to this. Paraphrasing John Donne, we are none of us an island, thus no
people can really live apart, no matter how high they build separation walls.
Those who try to do so only aggravate history. They are the splinters under the
skin of humanity.
Looking at the matter a bit more closely, we see the existential choice
to live as a ‘people apart’ to be a launching point for a dialectic, whose
further development was shaped, first, by the kinds of reactions others would
have to them, and then by the counter-reactions of Israelites (later under
names such as Hebrews, Jews and Israelis) in order to adapt to others. This
sets into motion that process of struggle and self-definition, which makes
Jewish history so interesting and varied, but also so troubled. The process could
undergo lulls for considerable periods of equilibrium during which Jews were
reasonably comfortable in the larger world; it could burst into spasms of
terrible persecution, massacre and exile when things became destabilized; it
could take forms known as ‘homelessness,’ ‘rootlessness,’
‘cosmopolitanism;’ etc., at various points; it would allow them to play an
essential role in navigating the universal alienator we call money, and so help
to bring about capitalism, and it could also cause them to develop pockets of
deep and dark atavisms through isolation and withdrawal from the world. We find
the origins of the malaise called antisemitism in this dialectic;
and we also find the reaction to antisemitism known
as Zionism.
The theological reflex of being a people apart is known as the Covenant,
a kind of promise bestowed by Yahweh upon his people, and first encountered in
Genesis with respect to Abraham, the original Patriarch:
‘Go from your country and your kindred and
your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a
great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will
be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I
will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’
The Covenant is a very conditional promise, as Abraham discovered when
Yahweh asked for the sacrifice of his son Isaac as a sign of loyalty. The Old
Testament is seeded with passages in which the God of the Hebrews scolds his
people and threatens to bring about every kind of calamity should they disobey
or forget him. We see a variation in Psalm 137’s imprecation to ‘let my right
hand wither’ if the Jew forgets Jerusalem – which, turned around, means that
the power to wreak vengeance, in today’s world, the power of the IDF, will be
restored once Jerusalem is remembered, or what comes to the same thing, if
Yahweh is obeyed. Yahweh was the internal reflex of the apartness of the Israelites, and the peculiar mode of organization of their
moral world made the Jewish people into the original guilt culture. Guilt is
not the same, however, as recognition of wrongdoing or taking of responsibility
to bring about change. That is its overcoming. Too often, it becomes a signal
calling for the replacement of responsibility with blame and accusation, and
the repetition of wrongdoing, as we explore below.
The
contrast between the Covenant between ancient Israel and its God, on the one
hand, and animistic or Asian religions, on the other, could not be starker. In
these latter, voices abound but as a plurality that is distinct from, yet
continuous with, the sensuously lived world. For Judaic being there is one
voice, male and dissociated from any image, in other words, abstracted from the
sensuous world, and experienced as a harsh command. The voice is of God, but it
is also of the inner self, and of the tribe as well,
whose separateness from other peoples – heathen and idolators
– is ever more sharply inscribed. Obedience to a peremptory guilt-inducing
inner voice is a distinctive aspect of Judaic being, both a product a apartness and a reinforcement for apartness. It leads to a
kind of moral universe where the dictates of the tribe and those of the
universal deity can be conflated, especially under circumstances in which the
larger society enforces the separation of Jews from others by law or
persecution. When this happens, as was the case not infrequently in the long
period of wandering know as the Diaspora which followed the destruction of the
Second Temple by Rome, then being apart and being chosen as exceptional became
one and the same; spiritual greatness and collective narcissism flow together.
Under the conditions of ghettoization that
characterized the Diaspora, the ethical world can readily become organized
tribally. Now the potentials for universality by monotheism are squandered and
the cycle of vengeance prevails. For if one’s ethical reference point is the
tribal unit, then all others are devalued, and one no longer belongs to
humanity but sets oneself over humanity. The other is no longer a full person,
but a thing-like repository of barbarous impulse, devoid of history and moral
weight and suitable to be dashed against the rocks. The dilemma is to haunt
Zionism once its state formed and its logic of conquest put Jews in the
driver’s seat. But it is much older than Zionism.
To repeat, Judaic being can conduce to universality and bring forth
emancipation. We should regard this as its priceless potential, if not always a
legacy.(pp.19-22)
Further into the first chapter, “A People Apart,” the author turns to examine some of the contradictions embodied in antisemitism.
Abrahamic Judaism was carried out against a backdrop
of tribal hill culture; but the Prophet Isaiah, and all the prophets to come,
contended with a state society and its class distinctions. Hence prophetic-emancipatory Judaism is necessarily revolutionary with
regard to state power.
Isaiah was the greatest Old Testament prophet; but the greatest prophet
of all, and the one whose advent he prophesied, was Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus
was authentically Jewish and yet a breaking point in the history of Judaism,
which becomes defined thereafter by those Jews who did not follow him. Jesus
was that Jew who made the Covenant universal by dissolving its tribal shell and
extending it to all humanity. All spirit-forms are given shape by the concrete
world in which they appear, even as they shape that world. By the time of Jesus
the tribal world of Hebrew origins had become a mythic backdrop to a world of
Roman imperialism, militarism, and religion served through the Second Temple.
Universalism under these conditions, therefore, had to incorporate those who
lived under empire and worshipped under the imperially derived authority of the
Temple. These included the marginalized masses, to whose fate Jesus directed
himself. He spoke to, of, and for the beggars, the whores, the rabble, the
outcasts, the underlings, the nothings. His message was crafted to keep state
authorities at bay by rendering unto Caesar that which was Caesar’s. But toward
the moneyed classes, and toward the Temple hierarchy, Jesus was ruthless. He
understood the exploitation of labor and of spirit, he
understood how priestly authority could manipulate religious law to create
mystery and alienate spirit, and how priests could be in league with
money-lenders.
And so Jesus was asking for trouble, and got it. The political mapping
of the time between Rome and the various factions of Jews is complex and does
not concern us here. However, as a spiritual teacher, Jesus was obliged to
clash with the Temple’s monopoly over spirituality, as well as with Rome. The
Passion of Christ is the chronicle of this world-transforming event. His
constituency was the Jewish masses, very numerous at the time, and his
antagonists were the rich and their Temple hierarchy. Consequently, he was done
in by an alliance of wealthy, Sadducee Jews and the priests whose spiritual
monopoly he threatened, while the Roman authorities looked on in continual
worriment over htier obstreperous Jewish subjects.
Out of the welter of factions and events, there arose that half-truth,
which became the germ of the most durable of delusions, that the Jews killed
Jesus. Certainly, Jews played an important role in the death of Jesus – but
those who did were members of the class structure threatened by his radical
message. This is the key point, perpetually buried under the blather
surrounding antisemitism. The generalization of this
specific moment into a blood-curse on a whole people has been one of the more
pernicious turn of events to have afflicted humanity for two reasons: the grief
it gave to Jews over the centuries as accusation persisted in an undercurrent
of hatred toward them within Christendom; and by the way it was explained to
occlude Jesus’ racially emancipatory message – because Christ must perennially
be crucified so that the world may continue on its tracks. The instrument of
these baleful changes was the nucleus of what we know today as antisemitism – or what may also be called, judaeophobia, which is its phenomenological core, a
kind of primal fear-and-loathing of the Jew qua Jew.(pp.23-24)
Kovel goes on to expose a common epistemological error concerning the history of Judaism.
Alas, many commentators, and chief among
them the ideologues of Zionism, insist on keeping up the ridiculous and
demeaning charade that Jews, being the most spiritually/ethically advanced
people, that is the Chosen Ones, have been essentially innocent of all charges
concocted by antisemites. Thus Howard Fast, a popular
writer of strongly left-leaning convictions, wrote in his The Jews, the
Story of a People: ‘Such despair and agony as the Jewish people had to
endure over the past thousand years is the result, not of what they are, but of
what the Christian world has inflicted upon them.’ In other words, who the Jews
are is to be simply defined by what has been done to them, as thought they had
no internal relationship to their persecutions, nor made any use of it for
their own purposes. This is as logically defective as anti-Semitism itself.
More recently, Marvin Perry and Frederick Schweitzer have written in their Antisemitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the
Present, that ‘Antisemitism has very little to do
with the actually behavior of Jews or the strictures of their highly ethical
religion – indeed antisemites usually are totally
ignorant of the rich tradition of rabbinical writings that discuss, often
wisely and insightfully, biblical themes and Jewish laws….’ By proclaiming the
essential innocence and moral purity of the Jews, this inversion of the antisemitic complex reinstalls the tribalist
notion of ‘a people apart,’ and reinforces it with the perennial Jewish
character traits of dwelling within the notion of suffering and being
persecuted, and coordinated with this, having a superior ethical stature. It in
fact denies the humanity of Jews be refusing to look at their reciprocal
relations with others?’
To diagnose the malady of anti-Semitism, one need to distinguish the
empirical facticity of a remark about Jews from its
logical content and phenomenological structure, that is, the inner state of
being from which it is launched.(p.25)
At the end of this discussion, Kovel arrives at “a vexing question”: namely, “is this statement about Jews a concrete one, or is it made as a proposition about an underlying general essence of Jewishness?”
The method here is strictly historical; that
is, is one looking at concretely situated people subject to the whole range of
historical determinations and recognizable therefore as living individuals? Or
do we encounter them as pasteboard figures carrying about some sign of Jewishness – avariciousness, cunning, etc. – and essentially
standing in for that?
The phenomenological inquiry is more difficult, but only because it
requires some knowledge of the state of mind from which the judgment of Jews
proceeds. Chiefly, this consists of being able to determine the affect with
which the judgment is made, and whether it is deeply felt and enduing as well
as hateful. If the answer to these questions is affirmative this tells us that antisemitism is going on and that it is an effort to deal
with a lesion in the being of he who launches the charge against the Jew; the accusation
against Jews itself is no more then than a cloak to
cover up this relationship, thought needless to add, often enough highly
destructive. In this respect, Jewishness is a
statement about something unresolved in the self of the antisemite.(pp.25-26)
Kovel then turns to discuss the all too human foibles which appeared in the Jewish population at the time they lived under extreme stress during the long Diaspora.
One would be hard put to say which of the three Abrahamic
religions has most betrayed its prophets. All have a
lot to answer for, nor can any degree of explanation as to why this was done
take away the stain of the doing. In the case of interest here, that of the
People Apart, Perry and Schweitzer’s propagandistic evocation of the ‘rich
tradition of rabbinical writings that discuss, often wisely and insightfully
biblical themes and Jewish laws,’ deserves some scrutiny. This is quite a tall
tale in view of the very checkered record of classical
Judaism under the influence of the Rabbinate who replaced the priestly class of
antiquity during the long Diaspora – and whose important relationships to modern
Israel we take up in sole detail below. There is
needless to say, much spiritual and aesthetic wealth in the rabbinical tradition.
But there is also a lot of dross, and beyond that, things weird and frankly
destructive. What else can be expected in so great a range of enclosed and weak
societies surrounded by a hostile world and presided over by a male authority
system?
The great Israel Shahak, fearless critic of Zionism, made a study of the odd results of this system as it took hold in Europe from the medieval to the early modern period. Here is something of what he learned:
· that according to the Talmud (that is, the teachings of the rabbis), ‘Jesus was executed by a proper rabbinical court for idolatry, inciting other Jews to idolatry, and contempt of rabbinical authority. All classical Jewish sources that mention his execution are quite happy to take responsibility for it; in the Talmudic account the Romans are not even mentioned.’ Other, more popular accounts accuse Jesus of witchcraft; the very name is ‘a symbol for all that is abominable, ….’
· Jews are forbidden to praise gentiles; rather are they asked to utter curses when passing by gentile cemeteries, or large gatherings of gentiles. Similarly, they are not to give gentiles gifts, while being directed to charge gentiles maximum interest in their money-lending activities.
· Sexual intercourse between Jewish men and gentile women is not considered adultery but bestiality, since gentile women are not considered human and are therefore incapable of matrimony. This does not let the gentile woman off the hook. She must be executed even if raped: ‘If a Jew has coitus with a gentile woman [writes one authority who shall be discussed below], whether she be a child of three or an adult, whether married or unmarried, and even if he is a minor only nine years old and one day – because he had willful coitus with her, she must be killed, as is the case with a beast, because through her a Jew got into trouble. ‘The Jew himself must be flogged, as befits one who has had sex with a beast.
In sum, the dark record of antisemitism includes not just the racist-imposed
sufferings of Jews but the imprint of certain counter-racisms. The presence of
these and similar startements should not be used to
label Judaism as such, or even its orthodox proponents. They are only parts of
a much more complex whole. But they are also parts that can be seized under
particular circumstances, including those pertaining to the history of Zionism,
which has incorporated them in ways we discuss below in order to advance the
notion of Jewish exceptionalism in a malignant form.(pp.26-27)
He goes on to give a modern example of
Zionist prejudices extending from this medieval period.
Rabbi Abraham
Kook the Elder (1865-1935), an important figure in the Zionist tradition and
“revered father of the messianic tendency of Jewish fundamentalism … said ‘The difference between a Jewish soul and (the souls of
non-Jews … is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and
the souls of cattle.’”Similarly, Rabbi Menachem
Mendel Schneerson, the adored leader of the Lubovitcher Hassidim, writes that
“The difference
between a Jewish and a non-Jewish person comes from the common expression; ‘Let
us differentiate.’ Thus we do not have a case of profound change in which a
person is merely on a superior level. Rather we have a case of ‘let us
differentiate’ between totally different species. This is what needs to be said
about the body: the body of a Jewish person is of a totally different quality
from the body of [members] of all nations of the world …”
From which it
follows logically, in the words of Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh
in the Jewish Week of April 1996, that ‘If every single cell in a Jewish
body entails divinity, and is thus part of God, then every strand of DNA is a
part of God. Therefore, there is something special about Jewish DNA.’
This kind of thinking is laced through the
Talmud and other documents of the Halakhah, the
foundation of Jewish Law and the cement of traditional Jewish identity and
society. The contradictions become particularly sever around the question of
the saving of gentile lives by Jewish physicians. It is inscribed, for example,
in the Talmudic maxim that ‘Gentiles are neither to be lifted [out of a well
into which they may have fallen] nor hauled down into it.’ The Hppocratic Oath – product of the Hellenism that discomfited
Jews in the three centuries directly before the Common Era – prescribes that
the doctor try to save all human life irrespective of the identity of the
person who happens to be alive. This however runs afoul of the classical Jewish
percept that the difference between Jews and non-Jews is greater than that between
humans and cattle, and that therefore non-Jews are not human. Given the primacy
of rabbinical authority in traditional Jewish society, then, it should come as
no surprise to read the following:
“As for Gentiles
with whom we are not at war …, there death must not be caused, but it is
forbidden to save them if they are at the point of death; if, for example, one
of them is seen falling into the sea, he should not be rescued, for it is
written [Lev: 19-16]: ‘neither shalt thou stand
against the blood of thy fellow’ – but [a Gentile] is not thy fellow . . . .”
It does however come as a surprise to
learn that the author of these jarring words is none other than Moses
Maimonides – who also wrote the passage above about putting to death gentile
women with whom Jewish men have had sexual relations, along with others in this
vein. Maimonides!? The most revered and prodigiously learned of Jews, physician
to the court of the great Saladin (who is exempt from the prohibition of
treatment, as the kind of authority a prudent Jew would not want to cross), the
contemporary of St Francis and his moral equivalent for the Jewish people, and
one of the greatest of those medieval Aristotelians whose intellectual
synthesis points the way for the Age of Science and Reason.
The contribution of Maimonides to the
practice of withholding medical treatment to gentiles resurfaced in the
infamous case of Baruch Goldstein, an immigrant physician from Brooklyn who
massacred 29 Muslims (wounding 100 others) at prayer in the Patriarch’s Cave in
Hebron on February 25, 1994. Submerged in the history of this sensational event
is the prior story of Goldstein as a doctor in the Israeli army, where he
repeatedly breached military regulations by refusing to treat Arab soldiers and
was more than once reassigned on this basis. Two things stand out in this
episode: first, that though Goldstein repeatedly violated direct military
orders, he was never court-martialed, evidently because of protection by
higher-ups fearing adverse publicity by Israel’s ultra-right religious parties.
And second, when confronted with refusal to treat a wounded Arab, Goldstein declared : ‘I am not willing to treat any non-Jew. I
recognize as legitimate only two [religious] authorities: Maimonides and [Meir]
Kahane.’
It is therefore not possible to dismiss
the moral oddities of the Halakhah as a mere
peccadillo. As extreme as he may have been Baruch Goldstein certainly mattered
within Israel, as shown by his elevation to the status of a heroic martyr after
his death, and more generally, by the remarkable rise in the status and
influence of the ultra-Orthodox in Israel. It follows that the two names, Moses
Maimonides and Meir Kahane, the former a veritable
saint and the latter as violent a figure as has ever appeared in Jewish
history, are drawn together by the logic of Zionism, which has rooted itself,
for reasons we now explore, in the most archaic and vengeance-ridden strata of
Judaic being in order to advance a thoroughly modern agenda.(pp.29-31)
Overcoming Zionism, by Dr. Joel Kevel, is a thought-provoking book, and the author’s multidisciplinary approach to this topic is complemented by his fine-tuned analytical mind and his intimate familiarity with the dialectical materialist method which he skillfully employs to uncover many new insights into this subject. As a Marxist Humanist, he steadfastly refuses to demonize any of the participants in this human drama, and we come away with a better understanding of who we are and how we got to be this way.
The 18 + items below include articles and essays that reflect the turbulence of our times, as well as the pervasive ruling-class cynicism which seeks to naturalize social class relationships of inequality that are worsening every day. Paradoxically, the worse this crisis becomes, the more transparent the hypocrisy, and the more conscious the population becomes that they have been deceived - tricked into collaborating with their oppressors. The material reality begins to speak for itself and bad faith and empty rhetoric stands to be judged in all its shame by all of us who are working for the formation of community and for self-protection against capitalist greed and the ideologies of class enslavement for private privilege.
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.
What #ForceTheVote Tells Us About The Democrat Party
with Jimmy Dore
(23:21)
+
Top U.S. & World Headlines
January 8, 2021
with Amy Goodman
(11:10)
+
"The Terrorist Attack Is NOT Over"
with Michael Moore
(1:00:54)
+
America's existential crisis
with Chris Hedges and Cornel West
(5:33)
+
DC Rage: “More
Coming Unless Basic Economic Changes Made”
with Richard
Wolff
(10:45)
+
“Insurrection
was predictable”
https://mailchi.mp/jacobinmag.com/m4a-550822?e=997d6d360e
by David Sirota
+
“Woman shot
in the neck in the Washington Capitol Building Protests | Trump Supporters”
+
Top U.S. & World Headlines
January 7,
2021
with Amy Goodman
(15:46)
&
(16:11)
+
"Proud
Boys run wild while police stand by (again)"
+
“Unprecedented Moment”: Far-Right Forces Swarm
D.C. to Back Overturning Election, Egged On by Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBMI-fOdI5E&feature=youtu.be
with Amy Goodman
(13:22)
Thousands
who refuse to accept President Trump’s 2020 election loss to Joe Biden are
protesting in Washington, D.C., as Congress meets to count the Electoral
College votes and certify the results. Mayor Muriel Bowser has called in the
National Guard ahead of the protests, after anti-democracy protesters clashed
with police near Black Lives Matter Plaza. Police arrested six people on
charges that include bringing illegal guns to the city. National security
reporter William Arkin says it is “an unprecedented
moment,” with the sitting president actively encouraging the unrest. We also
speak with Jason Wilson, an investigative journalist who tracks the political
right and extremist movements, who says the Trump presidency has seen a
startling merger of the GOP with the far right. “There’s not really a sharp
dividing line between violent, far-right street activists and the supporters of
the president in Congress,” says Wilson.
+
Medea Benjamin on Twitter: "Unbelievable!!! Police
actually opened the barricades to let the protesters into the Capitol! They
must be fired.
Every one of
them."
+
“No More Excuses For
Democrats -- AOC Pivots Messaging”
with Jimmy Dore
(16:45)
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b.
Watch: ‘#FraudSquad’ on YouTube
with Jimmy Dore
(33:05)
+
AOC's False
Accusations Against #ForceTheVote
Activists
with Jimmy Dore
(40:12)
+
“AOC Deletes
Tweet -- Betrays Her Own Campaign Promises #FraudSquad”
with Jimmy Dore
(16:30)
+
“Krystal Ball is CORRECT About The Left's Response To #ForceTheVote”
with Jimmy Dore
(19:33)
+
Meet the
pseudo-left imperialists fighting against universal healthcare
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/12/24/pseudo-left-imperialists-healthcare/
with Dan Cohen
(video, 14:02)
Comedian
Jimmy Dore has exposed a collection of self-styled leaders of progressive media
as imperialist hacks joined at the hip with the Democratic Party and NATO.
This
video report originally appeared at Behind The Headlines.
+
Only a
“Transformational” Electoral Politics is Useful
http://www.blackagendareport.com/only-transformational-electoral-politics-useful
with Margaret
Kimberley and Glen Ford
(audio, 19:14)
===========
c.
Evidence Mounts
of a Capitol Hill False Flag
https://www.globalresearch.ca/evidence-mounts-capitol-hill-false-flag/5733918
by Stephen Lendman
America’s road
to hell is paved with diabolical intentions. 9/11 changed everything —
followed last year by unleashing The Great Reset war on
humanity (sponsored by the World Economic Forum) and Wednesday,
January 6 orchestrated Capitol Hill violence.
+
“Capitol Stormed by Protestors! Trump's
Twitter Suspended!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suo7bZiDZU8&feature=youtu.be
with Jimmy Dore
(29:07)
Force
The Vote! We demand that every progressive in Congress refuse to vote for Nancy
Pelosi for Speaker of the House until she publicly pledges to bring Medicare
for all to the floor of the House for a vote in January: https://forcethevote.org/
==========
c.
Assange Wins. The Cost:
The Crushing of Press Freedom, The Labelling
of Dissent as Mental Illness
by Jonathan
Cook
+
From: WSWS Free Assange Newsletter
[mailto:freeassange@wsws.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2021
Subject: UK judge rules against US extradition: Release Julian Assange now!
|
+
Let’s Be
Absolutely Clear What’s At Stake In The Assange Case
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56123.htm
by Caitlin
Johnstone
+
|
+
“Journalists angered by Assange
ruling”
with Chris
Hedges
(4:41)
+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4zLwMt-Rw8
(1:07:43)
==========
d.
Stimulus
Checks, Larry Summers, plus Mark Crispin Miller on “Academic Freedom”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-FDHTptx08
with Mark
Crispin Miller
(1:38:43)
+
Stop Watching
Propaganda - #PropagandaWatch
with James
Corbett
(18:51)
+
“NEWS FROM UNDERGROUND”
https://markcrispinmiller.com/
by Mark
Crispin Miller
==========
e.
“Untaught
History: 1871” https://youtu.be/LwFpOO90LH0
by reallygraceful
(10:20)
+
Red Pill
Your Friends: 2020 in Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfNGxcCS-1k&feature=youtu.be
(16:02)
+
Something
Strange Is Happening to Our DNA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXLHdNlU3F8
(32:35)
+
Red Pill
Your Friends: The Human Farmers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwOQvZvmvb4&feature=youtu.be
(11:28)
+
Billionaires
Became ONE TRILLION DOLLARS Richer
in 2020
with really
graceful
(7:20)
==========
f.
FLASHBACK: “Contagion”
– Film, Literature and the New World Order (September 2014)
https://www.corbettreport.com/contagion-flnwo-19/
with James
Corbett
(47:52)
+
https://www.corbettreport.com/mp4/ep392-futurevaccines.mp4
with James
Corbett
(41:35)
+
HISTORIC
VACCINE DEBATE: RFK JR. VS. DERSHOWITZ ON FORCED VACCINATION OF AMERICANS
with Robert
Kennedy Jr. and Alan Dershowitz
(1:16:47)
+
Capitalism Covid-19 = Mass Death in US
http://www.blackagendareport.com/capitalism-covid-19-mass-death-us
with Margaret
Kimberley and Glen Ford
(audio, 21:07)
“The
US health system has failed utterly and completely to protect the people” in
this country, said veteran activist Sara
Flounders, co-editor with Lee Siu Hin of the new, 50-writer anthology “Capitalism on a
Ventilator: The Impact of Covid-19 in China and the US.” The US accounts for a
quarter of the world’s infections and a third of deaths, a catastrophe due to
“the cost of health care for profit, of no national health care, and no
national coordination,” said Flounders, who notes that the US “does not lack
infrastructure in police, in the military, and in prisons.”
+
Glenn
Greenwald: Big Tech is censoring Covid debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSVNm7XbnYA
with Freddie
Sayers and Glenn Greenwald
(36:15)
+
Techno-Tyranny:
How The US National Security State Is Using Coronavirus To Fulfill An Orwellian Vision
by Whitney
Webb
Last
year, a government commission called for the US to adopt an AI-driven mass
surveillance system far beyond that used in any other country in order to
ensure American hegemony in artificial intelligence. Now, many of the
“obstacles” they had cited as preventing its implementation are rapidly being
removed under the guise of combating the coronavirus
crisis.
+
Covid-19
catch-22: Regime-change policies come packed with
US pandemic
relief
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/12/22/covid-regime-change-us-pandemic-relief/
by Alexander
Rubinstein and Jeb Sprague
The
US Congress’ $900 billion Covid-19 relief bill was packaged with $1.4 trillion
in omnibus spending that includes tens of billions for war, weapons, and regime
change abroad, from anti-Russia and anti-China initiatives to $3.3 billion for
Israel’s military.
+
Pandemic
Reveals Crisis of US Imperialism
http://www.blackagendareport.com/pandemic-reveals-crisis-us-imperialism
with Margaret
Kimberley and Glen Ford
(audio, 18:57)
“I
think what we are looking at is a severely wounded, crippled US imperialism as
the chief hegemon of world capitalism,” said Omali Yeshitela,
chairman of the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and
Reparations. The coronavirus epidemic “brought the
crisis of this economy into bold relief,” said Yeshitela,
while China continued its rise “as a major contending force that was rapidly
overtaking the US economy – and most of Europe,” as well.
==========
g.
Bill Gates
'stunned' by pace of scientific advances, says 2021 will be better than 2020;
shares details about Covid, vaccines in detailed blogpost
Bill
Gates hopes to spend much of his time in 2021 talking with leaders around the
world about both climate change and Covid-19.
+
“How
billionaires prevent
social change”
with Krystal
Ball and Anand Giridharadas
(10:23)
==========
h.
Blackwater's Erik Prince: Iraq, privatising
wars, and Trump
with Mehdi Hasan
(49:08)
+
Lead FBI
investigator in Blackwater case likens Iraq massacre
to My Lai
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56131.htm
by The
Guardian
+
Iran Demands
South Korea Unfreeze $7BN In Assets While It Detains
Tanker Crew
by Anonymous
+
Iran, China
ready for war
‘at any second’
with Rick
Sanchez
(25:28)
Iran's
spokesman at the United Nations says the US is "appearing to set traps and
provocations to provide an excuse to initiate armed conflict" in the final
days of the Trump administration. He emphasized that Tehran is ready to meet
such a challenge. Meanwhile, South Korea is sending troops to the Persian Gulf
in response to Tehran's seizure of a South Korean ship for violating
"environmental laws" in its territorial waters. Is a new war in Iran
imminent? RT America's Alex Mihailovich reports. Then
former naval intelligence officer John Jordan and former UK MP George Galloway
share their insights. (3:01)
+
After Trump
leaves, US and Israeli aggression against Iran remains
by Aaron Maté
+
Debate : “Iran &
US - who's the aggressor?”
with Former
naval intelligence officer John Jordan and former UK MP George Galloway
(6:49)
+
The Legacy
of General Qassem Soleimani:
A Woman's Perspective
https://www.mintpressnews.com/legacy-general-qassem-soleimani-womans-perspective/274049/
by Zohreh Kharazmi
+
Why invent
conspiracies when you have the neocons starting
the Iraq war
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56126.htm
by Philip
Weiss
+
The D.C.
Political Monopoly Just Does Not Get It
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56122.htm
by Richard
Wolff
+
2020 Ends as
It Began: With the Looming Threat of a US War With
Iran
https://www.mintpressnews.com/2020-ends-began-looming-threat-us-war-iran/273931/
by Alan
Macleod
==========
i.
The Real
Reason Why Blackstone Is Courting The Pentagon
by Whitney
Webb
The
sudden push by Wall Street’s largest private equity firm to heavily lobby the
Pentagon and State Department for largely unspecified reasons is part of an
increasingly visible conflict within the U.S. establishment regarding how to
handle the Artificial Intelligence “arms race.”
+
AFRICOM Causes Humanitarian Crises on Two Continents
http://www.blackagendareport.com/africom-causes-humanitarian-crises-two-continents
with Margaret
Kimberley and Glen Ford
(audio, 15:49)
Under
the guise of helping fight the Boko Haram, the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) has helped the
French-speaking West African government of Cameroon wage war against its
English-speaking population, causing thousands to flee to Mexico in hopes of emigrating to the United States, said Joe Penny, a reporter for The
Intercept. “There are now camps of people living at the [US] border with next
to no resources,” including large numbers of Cameroonians, as well as Haitians,
said Penny, author of an article titled “Cameroonian Asylum-Seekers at the
Border are Fleeing a US-Backed Military.”
+
Joe Biden
should end the US pretence over Israel’s ‘secret’ nuclear weapons
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56127.htm
by Desmond
Tutu
Every
recent US administration has performed a perverse ritual as it has come into
office. All have agreed to undermine US law by signing secret
letters stipulating they will not acknowledge something everyone knows:
that Israel has a nuclear weapons arsenal.
Part
of the reason for this is to stop people focusing on Israel’s capacity to turn
dozens of cities to dust. This failure to face up to the threat posed by
Israel’s horrific arsenal gives its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a sense
of power and impunity, allowing Israel to dictate terms to
others.
But
one other effect of the US administration’s ostrich approach is that it avoids
invoking the US’s own laws, which call for an end to taxpayer largesse for
nuclear weapons proliferators.
+
How Nas Daily whitewashes
Israel’s
crimes
https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-nas-daily-whitewashes-israels-crimes/31936
by Tamara Nassar and Ali Abunimah
+
“Medical Apartheid”: Israeli Vaccine Drive
Excludes Millions of Palestinians in Occupied Territories
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/1/5/israel_vaccines_palestinian_territories_mustafa_barghouti
with Mustafa Barghouti
(12:16)
===========
j.
The Johns
Hopkins, CDC Plan to Mask Medical Experimentation on Minorities as “Racial
Justice”
by Jeremy Loffredo and Whitney Webb
===========
k.
What is the
human cost to
China's
economic miracle?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZs4PqKlph0
with Mehdi Hasan
(29:12)
In
this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges
Charles Liu, Senior Fellow at Peking University, seasoned Chinese entrepreneur
and informal adviser to the Chinese government, on Xi Jinping’s
record in power so far, the government’s crackdown on the Uighur Muslim
minority, and what role for China if it becomes the 21st century’s military and
economic superpower. With the presidential term limit abolished in 2018,
critics say that Chinese President Xi Jinping appears
to be paving the way to being able to stay in power for life, but Charles Liu,
founder of Hao Capital, disputes this. Separately,
despite lower-than-predicted growth, China is still growing substantially and
is set to become the world’s biggest economy. But the economic boom has been
paired with an increase in state surveillance and crackdowns on dissent, as
well as the repression of the Muslim Uighur minority. So at what cost has
China’s economic miracle come? And what’s the future for civil liberties of the
Chinese people? In recent years China has also increased its military spending
while some Chinese officials have been ratcheting up their militaristic
rhetoric, raising fears of direct military confrontation with the United
States.
On
this Head to Head episode filmed at the Oxford Union, we challenge Charles Liu
on all these topics, ask him whether the Chinese economy has hit a wall, and
whether China’s neighbours should dismiss their fears
as his country builds up its military and extends its global reach. We are
joined by a panel of three experts: Andreas Fulda - China Specialist at Asia
Research Institute and Assistant Professor at the School of Politics and
International Relations, University of Nottingham. Victor Gao - Vice President of the Beijing based Center for
China and Globalization and former interpreter for the late President Deng
Xiaoping. Steve Tsang - Professor and Director of the China Institute at the
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London.
+
Is China
Eclipsing the USA as the World's Superpower?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFE0L_1HD2A&feature=youtu.be
with Richard
Wolff
(31:05)
+
“A Hard Look at Rent and Rent Seeking”
with Michael
Hudson & Pepe Escobar
(1:36:42)
+
Polarization,
Then a Crash: the Rentier Economy
with Michael
Hudson
(41:28)
+
“Financialization
and Deindustrialization”
with Michael
Hudson
(48:27)
===========
l.
“How
'Progressive' Biden's Economic Team is Not”
with Richard
Wolff
(8:44)
Prof
Wolff comments on some of the selections of Biden's cabinet that are being
labeled as "progressive," specifically Janet Yellen,
Jared Bernstein, and Heather Boushey. He says they
know something about the fundamental problems and flaws of American capitalism,
but are ideologically blinded to the solution. He says they are good people,
well-intentioned, but they long ago accepted the rules of what can and cannot
be said, what can and cannot be done policy wise, and they love being
"realistic." He believes their policies will take some of the edge
off of the many painful aspects of capitalism, but will not address root
causes. "If you want to do something about burgeoning inequality, don't
nip around at the edges."
+
The Freedom
Struggle in 2020: Angela Davis on Protests, Defunding Police & Toppling
Racist Statues
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/31/the_freedom_struggle_in_2020_angelai
(16:28)
+
We are all
we’ve got: Why mutual aid is more critical than ever
https://therealnews.com/we-are-all-weve-got-why-mutual-aid-is-more-critical-than-ever
with Kim Brown
(1:01:36)
+
Mumia: Fear of Socialism
http://www.blackagendareport.com/mumia-fear-socialism
with Mumia Abu Jama
(audio, 2:04)
+
Stephen F.
Cohen on Russia's democratization and how US meddling undermines
it
by Aaron Maté
+
US govt-sponsored website Bellingcat
disrupts MH17 trial in Netherlands
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/02/bellingcat-disrupts-mh17-trial-netherlands/
by Eric van de
Beek
===========
m.
'Devastating
Effects' of CA Prop 22 Begin as Albertsons Stores Move to Replace Unionized
Drivers With Gig
by Kenny Stancil,
+
Much hope
but little gain
https://electronicintifada.net/content/much-hope-little-gain/32041
by Josh Ruebner
+
Biden’s
Victory Was Hardly a Win for “Democracy.” It Was Another Win for the 1%.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/bidens-victory-was-hardly-win-democracy-it-was-another-win-1-1
by Rajko Koundzic
===========
n.
The American
Money Tree: The Untold Story of US Aid to Israel
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-american-money-tree-the-untold-story-of-us-aid-to-israel/273993/
by Ramzy Baroud
+
The
anti-Palestinian racists attacking Raphael Warnock
Rabbi Ilan Feldman has gone on the offensive against US Senate
candidate Raphael Warnock without Atlanta media examining his own
anti-Palestinian connections and baggage. (via
YouTube)
by Michael F.
Brown
Over
the last few weeks, Reverend Raphael Warnock, the Democratic candidate for one
of Georgia’s US Senate seats, has abandoned his support for Palestinian rights.
I
have painstakingly
documented
his collapse
under Israel lobby pressure.
But
what do we know about those pressuring him?
So
far, we know that following his rapid reversals, Warnock was endorsed
by the political action committee of Democratic Majority for Israel.
DMFI
recently wrote
members of Congress excusing Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
The
lobby group approvingly cited Regavim, a right-wing
settler group connected to Bezalel
Smotrich, a member of Israel’s parliament who
supports segregation
and expulsion
for Palestinians – ideas that have been called potentially genocidal by Daniel Blatman, a prominent Israeli scholar of the Holocaust.
In
2015 Smotrich claimed
God commanded Jews not to sell homes to Arabs.
“I
believe in God’s words,” Smotrich stated. “I prefer
that Jews make a living and wouldn’t sell a house to Arabs.”
And
now, we know
that Ilan Feldman, a rabbi for Atlanta’s Congregation
Beth Jacob, is leading the charge against Warnock.
Feldman
and three other rabbis criticized Warnock’s Israel-related views in a December letter
the Coalition for Jewish Values sent to Warnock.
This
is a right-wing organization that aims to combat the
influence of “American liberal Jewish movements” and “left-wing ideologues.”
The
Coalition for Jewish Values recently attacked
Jewish Voice for Peace for hosting a panel of
speakers who condemned anti-Semitism, but refused to equate activism for
Palestinian rights with anti-Jewish bigotry.
Rabbi
Yaakov Menken,
the group’s managing director, has defended Israel’s Nation-State
law that enshrines superior rights for Jews over Palestinians, including
Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Legal
advocates say the law violates international prohibitions on apartheid.
Menken’s
comments should lead Warnock to push back rather than continue to knuckle under
on equal rights for Palestinians.
Instead,
Warnock has rapidly been moving in Menken’s direction.
Rabbi
Ilan Feldman
Warnock
is also moving in the direction of Rabbi Ilan
Feldman.
In a
2017 speech
Feldman gave about the 1967 War, not once did he stop to consider the legal or
moral implications of Israel’s 50 years of control since then over the lives of
Palestinians and Syrians in the occupied West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan
Heights.
He
argued that “millions of Jews were again threatened by annihilation while the
world postured and did absolutely nothing.”
This
rewriting of history ignores the basic fact that Israel started the war with a
surprise attack on Egypt. Israeli defense minister Moshe Dayan later
admitted that the taking of the Golan Heights was fueled by a lust
for more land.
During
the war, Israel forced out more Palestinians, as it had in 1948, and decades later Israel’s occupations continue to inflict
horrific harm on Palestinians and neighboring countries and their populations.
Just
days after Israel occupied East Jerusalem, Israel ethnically
cleansed the ancient Moroccan Quarter – destroying within days over 100
houses, a centuries-old mosque and by 1969 other
treasures – in order to create what is now the Western Wall Plaza.
But
Feldman remembered entering occupied East Jerusalem as a child. He called it
“unbelievably thrilling” and recalled without remorse “bulldozers bulldozing
down all those old houses.”
In
Feldman’s talk, Palestinians don’t even warrant naming.
Feldman,
Congregation Beth Jacob’s senior rabbi,
is closely connected to Rabbi Yitzchok
Tendler, the executive
director.
Tendler is also a co-founder of Young
Jewish Conservatives.
Rabbi
Ben Packer, his
co-founder, routinely incites
unhinged
bigotry against Palestinians and activists for Palestinian rights. Packer supports
Meir Kahane, a racist who demanded the wholesale ethnic
cleansing of Palestinians.
Kahane’s affiliated organizations – including Kach
and offshoot Kahane Chai – are designated
as terrorist
organizations by the US State Department.
Congregation
Beth Jacob’s website obscures Tendler’s connection to
Young Jewish Conservatives and Packer by stating he “serves as executive
director of a national grassroots pro-Israel organization.”
This
is very likely Young Jewish Conservatives, where Tendler
is listed as a
co-founder and director.
Tendler and Packer, as documented by The Electronic
Intifada, have cultivated right-wing politicians such as Congressman Dan
Crenshaw in their work with Young Jewish Conservatives.
+
Palestine in
Pictures: December 2020 | The Electronic Intifada
https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-pictures-december-2020/32031
+
‘They took everything from me’: Israel
destroyed his house. A month later they shot and paralyzed his son.
by Yumna Patel
+
Video: Not
even allowed to live in a cave | The Electronic Intifada
https://electronicintifada.net/content/video-not-even-allowed-live-cave/31821
(4:12)
Israel
is threatening to wipe a Palestinian village off the map.
Farasin, in the occupied West Bank near Jenin, has 200 residents.
It is
located in Area C – the 60 percent of the West Bank under full Israeli military
control according to the Oslo accords of the 1990s.
While
Jewish settlers are allowed to build freely, Israel bars virtually all new
construction in Area C by Palestinians.
Despite
owning the land, Palestinians have no choice but to build without Israeli
permits. They live in constant fear that their homes will be demolished and
that they will face fines.
Israel’s
Civil Administration, the bureaucratic arm of its military occupation, ordered
the demolition of Ahmad Amarneh’s small home in the
village as he was building it.
Amarneh then moved to one of the village’s historic
caves, “because it does not require an Israeli permit, or so I thought,” he
told The Electronic Intifada.
In
July, Israeli occupation forces ordered Amarneh to
leave the cave.
“I
had exactly 96 hours to evacuate,” he said.
Since
he did not do any new construction, Amarneh thought
he was safe from Israel’s demolitions.
“I
didn’t build a villa or a house. I didn’t build anything, not even a tent. I
found something that already existed, built by nature, and I lived in it,” Amarneh said.
“And
now they say it’s not allowed and that they will destroy it. I feel
incredibly sad.”
Mohammed
Amarneh, another village resident, experienced two
Israeli demolitions in two years.
“The
feeling is indescribable because there’s no justice,” Mohammed told The
Electronic Intifada.
“Any
settler whose father and grandfather are unknown can come and live here in
outposts that cover 1,000 square meters, while I’m forbidden from building on
even 10 square meters,” he continued.
“I
can’t even build a bathroom in my house.”
+
Israel’s
Genocide in Gaza Goes Uninterrupted, But Is Europe
Finally Taking Notice?
by Miko Peled
+
Video:
Palestinian puppeteers bring theater to Gaza
https://electronicintifada.net/content/video-palestinian-puppeteers-bring-theater-gaza/30836
with Mahdi Karira
(4:49)
+
“Forbidden Weapons” Used
Against Gaza Strip Palestinians. Israel Deliberately Targets Palestinian
Civilians
by Dr. Zuhair Sabbagh
The
following research article will explore three forbidden weapons that were and
are still being used against the Palestinian civilians of the besieged Gaza
Strip.
+
“An Israeli Blitzkrieg" Signs Point to
Imminent Israeli Military Action in Yemen
https://www.mintpressnews.com/signs-point-to-imminent-israel-military-action-yemen/274009/
by Ahmed Abdulkareem
===========
o.
The Political Case for Boycotts
with
Richard Wolff
(5:30)
+
p.
The Corbett
Report Archives
https://www.corbettreport.com/bestof/
+
From: PDF By Marc Pilisuk
[mailto:updates@academia-mail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2021
Subject: 📄
"Report from iron mountain" by Marc Pilisuk
|
===========
q.
A Pandemic
of Insanity
https://www.globalresearch.ca/wrong-pandemic/5733749
by Arthur
Firstenberg
We have a pandemic, all right, but it is a
pandemic of insanity, not COVID-19. The world — the entire world, not just
a few people or a few countries or a few cultures — has forgotten what life is.
Life is community.
You see them everywhere. Men
and women walking down the street, all of them with masks on their faces and
cell phones in their hands. People jogging, with masks
covering their faces and cell phones in their hands. Mothers
wheeling their babies with one hand, holding a cell phone in the other hand,
with a mask covering their face.
The world has gone insane.
Back in May, the President of Tanzania
announced that a goat, a quail, and a papaya had tested positive for COVID-19.
People did not stop eating papayas. But when farmed minks began testing
positive, the response has been to kill them all.
After a few minks in the Netherlands tested
positive in April, 570,000 minks were slaughtered. Minks started testing
positive and being killed in Denmark in June, and on November 4, Denmark
announced it would destroy the rest of its 17 million minks. Sanity finally
broke out in that country, and the eradication
campaign stopped after only 2.5 million minks were slaughtered. But minks have
also been killed in Spain, Sweden, Greece, France, and the United States.
Lions, tigers and leopards in zoos have
tested positive.
People have been testing their dogs and
cats, and lo and behold, some of them have tested positive, and on May 6, the
Centers for Disease Control created a webpage titled “What
to Do if Your Pet Tests Positive for the Virus that Causes COVID-19.”
This is what you are supposed to do:
“Isolate the pet from everyone else, including other pets.” “Keep your pet at
least 6 feet away from other pets and people.”
“If you have a private backyard where your
dog can go to the bathroom, do not take them for walks.” But, the CDC warns,
“Do not wipe or bathe your pet with… hand sanitizer,” and “Do not try to put a
mask on your pet.”
It is becoming obvious that no matter what
you test — minks, lions, dogs, papayas, people, or anything else — you will get
positive results, and that the results mean nothing. Just wait until someone tests
a cow. Kill all the cows, and no more meat or dairy products! Vaccinate every
pet and farm animal in the world! Do contact tracing for every pet that comes
in contact with an infected pet!
We have a pandemic, all right, but it is a
pandemic of insanity, not COVID-19. The world — the entire world, not just a
few people or a few countries or a few cultures — has forgotten what life is.
Life is community. It is social contact, touching, breathing, sharing. It is oxygen. People are dying because their masks
are making them hypoxic. Cancer cells thrive in the absence of oxygen. . . . .
+
U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence defies Trump, says he
will not reject electoral college vote
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56143.htm
by
ICH & Agencies
Congress
convened Wednesday for an extraordinary joint session to confirm the electoral
college vote won by Joe Biden, in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump's
relentless effort to overturn the election and cling to the White House.
The
typically routine proceeding was anything but, as Trump mounts his desperate
attempt to stay in office. Trump's Republican allies in the House and Senate
planned to object to the election results, heeding supporters' pleas to
"fight for Trump" as the president himself staged a huge rally
outside the White House. The fight is tearing the Republican Party apart.
The
last-gasp effort is all but certain to fail, defeated by bipartisan majorities
in Congress prepared to accept the November results. Biden, who won the electoral college 306-232, is to be inaugurated Jan. 20.
Still,
Trump vowed he would "never concede" and urged the massive crowd to
march to the Capitol where hundreds had already gathered under tight security.
From: Cat McGuire [mailto:cat@catmcguire.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2021
Subject: Eyewitness account -- I was in Washington Jan 6
After the fact, seeing what is being said compared to what I saw and wrote in my account here, it is 100% clear to me that the EXTREME reverse interpretation of what happened on Jan 6 is an outright fascistic plot to thoroughly undermine the process of doing a legal determination of the actual election 2020 votes.
Ask yourself, was it a mob riot or a legal protest? The lack of police was meant to draw Trump supporters in to be extras in a propaganda script all set up to disseminate an exquisitely-produced visual lie.
I was at the Washington, D.C. “Save America” rally by Cat McGuire
Another good account – 7 minute video
Man who entered Capitol building tells his story
===========
r.
Introducing
#SolutionsWatch
with James
Corbett
(10:09)
Welcome
to #SolutionsWatch, a new regular podcast series from
The Corbett Report that seeks to examine the movements, technologies,
activities and philosophies that purport to provide solutions to the problems
that we face and to highlight the work of activists who are making a
difference. Let’s work together to make the world a better place.]