Bulletin N° 1009
Subject: “Getting to know you/Getting to ‘NO...! NO...! NO...!’ all about you. . . ”
Armistice Day
2021
Dear Colleagues and Friends of
CEIMSA,
The “Age of
Surveillance Capitalism” is upon us. A good guide for survival in these times is
the humor found in dialogues between the two James – James Corbett and James
Evan Pilato – on “Media Monarchy,” which this week
features commentary on Mark Zuckerberg’s new creation: (∞
And, because of its
unexpected pertinence, we return one last time to Barrington Moore, Jr’s book, Injustice,
and to the important reflections he shares on the subjects of “moral
relativism” and “inevitability and the sense of injustice.”
Moral relativism.
. . . there is a distinction between rational and predatory authority, even if the distinction is not as easy to make as the partisan critics of a given system of authority may at times lead us to think. The distinction impresses me as clear enough to reject any thesis to the effect that political preferences can be nothing more than maters of opinion, subjective whim, or personal values. Simply put, in terms of the misery they can cause, there are better and worse moralities, better and worse social systems and collective purposes. Whether one calls them rational and predatory does not really matter a great deal.
In other words, there is such a thing as meaningful moral criticism. Pure moral relativism is an untenable position if one cares about human suffering. And the victims beyond a certain point of possible conditioning cannot help caring. Moral criticism is also politically very significant, though it has limitations I shall try to point out in a moment. In every major social and political transformation for some two thousand years the old order has, as de Maistre observed, suffered a moral defeat and the erosion of its legitimacy well before the political changes took place. That was true of the triumph of Christianity over paganism. It was also true of the great revolutionary movements from the Revolt of the Netherlands, the Puritan Revolution, the French Revolution, the American Civil War, the Russian and Chinese Revolutions. In each case the old order ceased to make moral sense for influential sectors of the population before it was overthrown. Economic and social changes may have made the old order cease to make sense. But without the concurrent development of new standards of condemnation, and new goals for the future, the results of economic and other transformations would have been very different, and quite likely sheer chaos. In each case too the new morality claimed to express the feelings and aspirations of a wider segment of humanity. There has been more than a touch of hypocrisy in all such changes, as the new moralities served to justify the inflictions of their own forms of cruelty and suffering, by no means always completely novel ones. Still the world moved. . . .
Do these considerations support the conclusion that predatory moralities and social systems can in some objective sense be considered pathological? Despite the rejection of moral relativism the answer to this question may remain ambiguous. In some political situations, while it may be possible to make an accurate diagnosis of pathology, the diagnosis is neither necessary nor helpful. In other situations moral judgments, with or without a judgment of pathology, can be totally inappropriate because they imply the asking of inappropriate questions about the nature and causes of the situation. Before exploring these issues it will be well to clarify briefly the meaning of pathology.
The concept of pathology implies some corresponding state of health subject to empirical observation and objective determination. To make sense, the state of health has to be appropriate to the organism under consideration. A horse that lacks wings is not in a pathological state. A bird that lacks them is. Pathology is a process or condition harmful to a particular organism. The cause for the process may be internal to the organism or external to it, as in the case of a wound produced by a blow. Some pathologies with internal causes, such as aging, can be normal for particular organisms. Human societies are not biological organisms. Nevertheless they do suffer from internal and external processes that are harmful and destructive. The events to which historical processes of decay may repeat themselves in such a way as to make them amenable to firm diagnosis is of course highly problematic. That decay does occur sooner or later is, on the other hand, reasonably certain. Furthermore decay is not the only form of harmful process to which human societies are subject. On these grounds the concept of pathology seems at first quite promising, perhaps even necessary. Possibly we do not use it because it might reveal something disagreeable about our own society.
Further reflection soon reveals important considerations that restrict the usefulness of the concept for social analysis. One major difficulty is that of determining the original, healthy state. If a predatory animal suffers from a disease that prevents it form behaving in a predatory fashion, one would conclude that it was suffering from a pathology. Would not the same argument apply to a predatory human society ? As long as it succeeded in being predatory, would we not have to admit that it was perfectly healthy? After all, there have been numerous warrior societies organized for predatory purposes.
As already pointed out, it might be possible to answer this objection and get around this difficulty with empirical arguments to the effect that predatory societies have caused a great deal of misery. Should we not therefore conclude that they are themselves a form of pathology? Let us assume for the moment that the argument is logically and factually correct though I shall soon give some reasons for rejecting it. What difference would it make? Suppose someone had tried to tell Hitler and the Nazis that their morality was pathological – as in fact many critics of National Socialism did assert either explicitly or implicitly. What could be expected to happen? The Nazi leaders might just possibly have been interested if they had learned that their version of the warrior ethic was becoming subject to an internal decay for which a social scientist could devise appropriate administrative therapies. Indeed there are several indications, including the secret study of their own membership cited in the preceding chapter, which demonstrate that such fears were quite strong. But nothing except coarse laughter and abusive epithets could have greeted any attempt to inform them that Nazi morality as a whole was pathological.
If someone rejects the reduction of misery and suffering as a goal, there is not external authority to which one can effectively appeal in order to make that person, group, or state desist from dangerous acts. Neither God, nor the alleged forces of history, nor some presumably rational structure of the universe, can serve as effective arguments or sanctions. Even if it were possible to demonstrate with mathematical certainly that a certain form of predatory morality and society would lead to the extermination of all humanity, a cruel and romantic egoist could snap his fingers in disdain and lead the march on the Armageddon, firmly believing that humanity deserved no better that destruction. Force and force alone can restrain such madness. And the use of force even for strictly defensive and ‘socially constructive’ purposes gives a powerful impulse to the establishment of predatory institutions and habits.
At a less apocalyptic level of discourse it is necessary to point out that the temptation of groups and individuals to resort to predatory social arrangements, and predatory moralities to justify them, is a powerful recurring one. The temptation is likely to remain powerful as long as there is no universally satisfactory solution to the problem of the division of labor within and among human societies. Even if such a solution were found, there are good reasons to suspect it could not be permanent since different parts of the world would still be likely to change in different ways at different rates.
If one accepts the temptations of predatory social arrangements and the consequent necessity for defense against them as probably permanent features of the human scene, it becomes difficulty to take seriously the notion of predatory morality as universally pathological. Where a certain form of behavior is just about inevitable, it is impossible to be morally serious about condemning it. Hence it is not enough to assert that humanity is responsible for its own morality and its own fate, that the goal of rational authority has to be deliberately affirmed and chosen. Human beings would also have to create the basic conditions that make rational authority feasible and turn predatory forms of authority into a pathological rather than normal state of affairs.
There are good reasons for doubting that than change can or will occur on a global scale in any foreseeable future. National sovereignty and indeed all forms of collective egoism would have to come to an end. There are even better reasons to avoid expending a great deal of energy in lamenting this state of affairs. The lamentation turns very easily into a form of self-indulgence that diverts attention from other important problems. It is not necessary to have the goal of eliminating all forms of socially produce suffering, or even all forms of predatory authority. Doctors do not give up trying to cure and prevent different kinds of illness just because they cannot prescribe pills for immortality.(pp.446-449)
Inevitability and
the sense of injustice.
As we approach the end of a long journey I would like to return with the reader to concerns that have impelled us to make the journey together. What is moral outrage? Under what conditions does it occur? When and why does it not occur? Is it something natural to all human beings? If so, what does ‘natural’ really mean? Is not the apparent absence of a sense of injustice even more significant than its appearance? Though the book has explored these questions, its author does not pretend to have provided definitive answers if definitive implies the kind of answer that will persuade and satisfy everybody. Nor do I intend to present in conventional capsule form here what has been discussed at greater length throughout the book. Instead I propose to explore once again how the sense of injustice does make its appearance, drawing on the material we have covered together and whatever considerations I myself can contribute.
Let us begin by asking if there might be some common themes that appear in the behavior of Hindu Untouchables, steelworkers in the Ruhr before 1914, Ulrich Bräker’s inability to get angry at the patron who sold him as a mercenary to the armies of Frederick the Great, the awe of the Spartacists before stamps and signatures, the self-inflicted tortures of ascetics, and the reactions of human beings upon whom the Nazis inflicted the trauma of the concentration camps. In varying degrees and in different ways all the people felt that their sufferings were unavoidable. For some victims such suffering appeared to a degree inevitable and legitimate. People are evidently inclined to grant legitimacy to anything that is or seems inevitable no matter how painful it may be. Otherwise the pain might be intolerable. The conquest of this sense of inevitability is essential to the development of politically effective moral outrage. For this to happen, people must perceive and define their situation as the consequence of human injustice : a situation that they need not, cannot, and ought not to endure. By itself of course such a perception, be it a novel awakening or the content of hallowed tradition, is no guarantee of political and social changes to come. But without some very considerable surge of moral anger such changes do not occur.
. . .
Essentially our problem is to state what conditions may make such audacity possible – and effective. . . . The notion that there is some indomitable spirit of revolt in all human beings is, I fear, sheer myth. As the material from the concentration camps shows, it is possible to destroy any such spirit and even the will to survive. Admittedly, that is an extreme case, and not all inmates by any means responded in his fashion. Still the evidence there is enough to show that any inclination toward anger, and even the capacity to feel pain, can vary over a wide range to the point of complete extinction.
The most that one can assert with considerable confidence is that suffering in the forms of hunger, physical abuse, or deprivation of the fruits of hard work is indeed objectively painful for human beings. They do not seek suffering for its own sake. Even ascetics impose suffering on themselves for the sake of other goals, such as salvation, release from social obligations, or control of the universe. In the objective quality of suffering our search does reach a point that can serve as a firm basis of departure. If no culture makes suffering an end in itself and all cultures treat certain forms of suffering as inherently painful, we are justified in considering the absence of felt pain as due to some form of moral and psychological anesthesia. From this standpoint the assertion that there is no indomitable spirit of revolt takes on a different meaning. It means that under certain specifiable sociological and psychological conditions the anesthesia can be terribly effective.
How does the introduction of an historical perspective alter our understanding of social anesthesia? Historical analysis brings into the center of our vision the importance of improving capacities to control the natural and social environment along with the apparently endless chain of new causes of human suffering that this improvement produces, and the related changes in the principles of social inequality. It will be necessary to return to these issues again. It is a perspective that raises the question of whether we can legitimately speak of historically necessary forms of anesthesia. These could be connected with aspects of human suffering for which human society generally had not yet developed adequate techniques to control or eliminate. The control of diseases seems to be the clearest example. For historically necessary forms of suffering then there is nothing human begins can do but endure the pain or resort to such forms of cultural anesthesia as magic and religion. At any given stage of human development there would also be historically unnecessary – or historically futile – forms of suffering, that is, those that people could eliminate but fail to do so, presumably due to the opposition of vested interests. Thus in any concrete case we would have to ask, historically necessary for whom and why?
. . .
That will do as a preliminary outline of the theoretical dangers. The task at hand is to determine how human beings awake from anesthesia, how they overcome the sense of inevitability and how a sense of injustice may take its place. The situation of the Hindu Untouchables, one of maximum acceptance of servile status with a minimum of force, may serve to illustrate the type of starting point in which we are mainly interested. In milder forms the same feelings and social relationships are quite plain in the case of Ulrich Bräker, the steelworkers of the Ruhr and countless others. On further inspection and reflection they cease to seem in any way bizarre. Instead they are instances of responses to one of the oldest and commonest of human experiences, generalized patriarchal authority. In this prototypical experience the young person wants to please the father, even if hatred may also exist. There is an exchange of dependence, services, and childlike trusting adoration in return for care, protection, and another type of affection. In daily life one can see the essence of the relationship in the behavior of a dog toward its master.
I do not know whether dogs can develop a rudimentary sense of injustice if their masters mistreat them. Quite possibly experimental psychologists have demonstrated something of the sort. Quite obviously human beings can and do develop it. In this process of growth and emancipation one can discern three distinguishable but related processes. At the level of the individual human personality it is necessary to overcome certain forms of dependence on others and acquire or strengthen controls over impulses. This dependence and lack of control, to the extent of that it actually exists is not merely a rationalization for the authority of the dominant strata, is likely to be one aspect of psychological adaptation to the fact of subordination and powerlessness. In effect, people have to grow up.
At the level of social organization they also have to overcome dependence. Here the historical component becomes more obvious, due to the ways in which economic and political forms (in Europe, for example: city-state, feudalism, royal absolutism, capitalism, state socialism) have succeeded each other. As part of the process of overcoming dependence there may be the creation of new forms of solidarity and new networks of cooperation if the subordinate group was composed of atomized units. If, on the other hand, it was already a cohesive unit with a high degree of internal cooperation and sentiments of solidarity, this solidarity may require redirection. Instead of working in cooperation with and support of the dominant groups, it will be necessary to find ways to turn it against these groups. Instead of solidarity in adopting heroic gestures that endanger the group, it will be necessary to find ways to support effective resistance. Finally, at the level of cultural norms and shared perceptions it will be necessary to overcome the illusion that the present state of affairs in just, permanent, and inevitable. The historical component is crucial in this area too. What is an illusion at one point in time will not have been an illusion at an earlier point in time. Economic and social trends have to develop to a point where possibilities change, where what is reality becomes illusion. It is vastly easier for historians to explain the illusion convincingly after the events than for social prophets to proclaim the event convincingly before it happens. It is harder still to tell exactly whose reasoning is correct.
The conquest of the illusion of inevitability is not confined to dramatic political revolutions. It has been part of the whole transformation that we call modernization and industrialization, one that has been going on ever since the rise of commercial cities in the later phase of European feudalism. There was an earlier bust in a different form that began before the pre-Socratics and petered out about time of Alexander the Great. Though specialists on the history of outer societies and cultures will surely challenge the claim, so far as I can see the conquest of the illusion of inevitability has until quite recent times been mainly a process within Western culture. Behind this process, as we recognize more clearly from an historical perspective, are changes in a society’s capacity to solve the traditional problems of hunger and disease – thereby generating new issues – and associated changes in the principles of social inequality. Now that the process as a whole has come into sight, it will be useful to step back and comment further on the psychological, sociological, and cultural aspects.(pp.458-462)
Moore concludes this
part of his study with two postulates – one axiomatic; one elaborated
:
1) The history of every major political struggle reflects the clash of passions, convictions, and systems of belief.(p.469)
and
2) During the past few hundred years workers and townsmen generally have created three levers for forcing the changes they have wanted: the trade unions, ‘revolutionary’ political parties, and the revolutionary crowd or mob. The last of these is of course much older than the industrial working class. The contradiction between trade unions and ‘revolutionary political parties has been the subject of much discussion. Is there not just as much of an inherent contradiction between the nature of a revolutionary party and a revolutionary crowd?
The essence of a revolutionary party is to be the conscious vanguard and strategist for a mass following presumed to be at least potentially revolutionary. In a society that permits considerable freedom to form oppositional political organizations the vanguard, as everyone knows, has to come to terms with the dominant groups. In so doing it is very likely to lose much of its commitment to revolution. Even in an autocratic society as Russian experience prior to 1917 demonstrates, he same tendency exists though on a reduced scale. Lenin had to devote a formidable amount ot energy and printer’ ink to keeping the Russian socialists on a revolutionary course.
A revolutionary crowd is something very different from a revolutionary party. Where the party is enduring, or tries to be, the crowd is ephemeral. Where the party is tightly organized and disciplined, the revolutionary crowd is very loosely organized. Crowds in general are forms of collective human behavior that arise outside the normal institutional structure, the usual ties of political obedience, obligations to work, and the like. They are holidays from normal society. Like holidays and any form of euphoria (or acute unhappiness), they cannot last. Very soon the imperatives of ordinary life, getting food, exchanging at least some goods and services, reassert themselves.(pp.479-480)
The 19 +
items below should cause pause on this one-hundred-and-third anniversary of the end of the capitalist carnage of WWI and encourage reflection on the famous Julie
Andrews song in The King and I, which is given new meaning
in today’s political context of world-wide events.
Sincerely,
Francis McCollum Feeley
--
Professeur honoraire de l'Université
Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur des
Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
http://www.ceimsa.org
a.
Science
Fiction Has Become Fact: The Metaverse Is ‘Big
Brother
in Disguise’. Freedom Meted Out by Technological Tyrants
by John W. Whitehead
and Nisha Whitehead
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Google & Oracle To Monitor Americans Who Get Warp Speed’s
Covid-19
Vaccine For Up To Two Years
by Whitney Webb
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Kim Iversen Interview - The Dissolving COVID Agenda & It's
Technocratic Backbone
with Ryan Cristián
(1:38:41)
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COVID
Vaccines Do Not Impact Infection
with Dr. Chris Martenson
(21:58)
Story
at-a-glance
- Research shows increases in COVID-19 cases are
completely unrelated to levels of vaccination in 68 countries worldwide
and 2,947 counties in the U.S.
- The data from U.S. counties showed similar trends, with
new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people being “largely similar” regardless
of the vaccination rate
- Of the five U.S. counties with the highest vaccination
rates — ranging from 84.3% to 99.9% fully vaccinated — four are on the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “high transmission”
list, while 26.3% of the 57 counties with “low transmission” had
vaccination rates under 20%
- Iceland and Portugal, both of which have more than 75%
of their populations fully vaccinated, have more COVID-19 cases per 1
million people than Vietnam and South Africa, where only 10% or so of
their populations are fully vaccinated
- CDC data show rates of hospitalization for severe
illness among the fully vaccinated went from 0.01% in January 2021 to 9%
in May 2021, and deaths went from 0% to 15.1%. If the shots actually
worked, these rates should have remained near zero
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5G — The Great Enabler or Safe Wired Technology?
The Choice Is Ours
https://www.globalresearch.ca/5g-great-enabler-safe-wired-technology-choice-ours/5761225
by Kate Kheel and Patricia Burke
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b.
Excess Deaths Point to Depopulation Agenda
https://www.globalresearch.ca/excess-deaths-point-depopulation-agenda/5761182
by Mike Whitney
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“The testimonies project” - the movie
https://www.vaxtestimonies.org/en
(1:07:05)
Edited by Maor Naim
The Testimonies Project was created to provide a platform
for all those who were affected after getting the covid-19 vaccines, and to
make sure their voices are heard, since they are not heard in the Israeli
media.
We hope this project will encourage more and more people
to tell their story.
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Pfizer Whistleblower Exposes
Compromised Vaccine Trial Research
with Jimmy Dore
(53:28)
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More opinions on the vaccine
https://www.bitchute.com/video/7qXhV2PHU30u/
from Cussin_Elles_Place
(30:03)
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California Governor Gavin Newsom
Injured by Moderna Booster Shot
https://www.globalresearch.ca/gov-newsom-injured-moderna-booster-shot-source-tells-defender/5761215
by Children’s Health Defense
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The Simpsons ‘doctor visit’ (vaccine
dangers) episode
(3:29)
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Athletes Suffer Cardiac Arrest, Myocarditis, Blood Clots, Hospitalized
after COVID Injections
https://www.globalresearch.ca/athletes-dead-hospitalized-covid-injections/5761192
by Dr. Mark Trozzi
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Children/Athletes Are Collapsing & Dying From ‘Sudden Cardiac
Arrest’
At Unprecedented Levels
with Ryan Cristián
(1:01:41)
(1:01:48)
(1:02:05)
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Video: Covid-19 Criminality
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-covid-19-criminality/5747186
with Professrors Michel Chossudovsky and Ariel Noyola
Rodriguez
(
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The Covid Hoax: The Steamroller to Tyranny
‘It’s not Just a Question of
Vaccination or No Vaccination’
https://www.globalresearch.ca/steamroller-tyranny/5760398
by Peter Koenig
(14:41)
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c.
Eric
Clapton and RFK Jr Stand and Deliver
https://anchor.fm/rfkjr/episodes/Eric-Clapton-and-RFK-Jr-Stand-and-Deliver-e19l4ak
(48:50)
Great stuff—some of
it shocking—on Rolling Stone, UK's plan to take down
Telegram (we need some follow-up on that!), the elite
"engineering" against Brexit as the prelude
to the COVID lunacy in Britain, and much more, including both men's problems
with addiction, and how their faith has helped them.
What makes this
conversation such a pleasure is how honest, humane and eloquent these two
heroes are, and how they've kept their sense of humor through it all.
Clapton's doing this
for the same reason that he's still touring: because he loves the music,
and knows how people need it. So why, we have to wonder, are so few of his
peers standing with him? (George Harrison would have been with them, says
Eric.)
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‘Cloak and dagger’ military-intelligence outfit
at center of US digital
vaccine passport push
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/26/cloak-dagger-military-intelligence-digital-vaccine-passport/
by Jeremy Loffredo and Max Blumenthal
This group is chilling.
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MITRE: The Military Intelligence Group That Drives The Push For Digital Vaccine Passport In America
This is an absolutely must-read article to understand the
meaning of the phrase, “Deep State”. America is being driven by unelected
and unaccountable Technocrats clustered in private think-tanks that could not
possibly exist in the public sector. All of it is unwittingly funded by
taxpayers.
Collusion between the military and Big Tech was warned
about by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address. This has since
morphed into the heart of what Shoshana Zuboff has described as “Surveillance Capitalism”, which is
also a perfect description of modern Technocracy.
According to the FBI’s former Assistant Director William Bayse, the MIDB enabled police programmers to link
activists to their political causes, associates, employers, criminal records, mugshots and fingerprints, spending habits, and even tax
information.
Through hundreds of FOIA requests and interviews with
current and former MITRE officials, Forbes learned that MITRE has designed “a prototype tool
that can hack into smartwatches, fitness trackers and
home thermometers for the purposes of homeland security… and a study to
determine whether someone’s body odor can show they’re lying.”
MITRE is also home to the ATT&CK Program, an cybersecurity module which the
corporation describes as “a globally-accessible knowledge base of adversary
tactics and [intelligence] techniques based on real-world observations.” Adam Pennington, the lead architect for MITRE’s ATT&CK, “has spent
over a decade with MITRE studying and preaching the use of deception for
intelligence gathering.”
ACLU staff attorney Nate Wessler
has called MITRE’s surveillance projects “extraordinarily chilling,” and warned
that they “raise serious privacy concerns.”
Now, MITRE is working to implement digital vaccine
passports in the US, and beyond.
Now that the lockdowns appear to be over, MITRE is at the
center of the push for digital vaccine passports through the Vaccine Credential
Initiative. Yet the influential military-intelligence organization remains
behind “cloak and dagger,” mostly unknown to a US public whose lives could be
radically altered by one of its most consequential projects.
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Whistleblower Emergency (ER) Doctor Talks About Spike
in Strokes after Vaccine Rollout and Increased D-Dimer
Levels Indicating New Blood Clots - Global Research
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Doctors and Scientists
with Brian Hooker,
Ph.D. and Jessica Rose M.D.
(57:24)
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‘Vaxxed vs. Unvaxxed’: CDC Hits New Lows
with Two Manipulated Studies
https://www.globalresearch.ca/cdc-hits-new-lows-two-manipulated-studies/5761251
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
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d.
Health Effects of Cellphone & Cell Tower Radiation:
Implications for 5G
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-_8PvG753A&t=4872s
with Michelle Meyer and Joel M. Moskowitz
(1:22:02)
Nov. 3, 2021
97%
of U.S. adults own a cellphone of some kind. The vast
majority, 85%, own a smartphone. This presentation
will summarize research on biologic and health effects from exposure to radio
frequency radiation emitted by cell phones and cell towers. Learners will also
discuss the implications of this research for 5G, the fifth generation of
cellular technology. At the completion of this activity, the learner will be
able to: - Describe what wireless or radio frequency (RF) radiation is,
including 5G, and its relationship to ionizing radiation - Summarize the
biologic and health effects caused by, or associated with, RF radiation
exposure - Explain why current national and international RF radiation exposure
limits fail to protect the health of humans and other species
We hear way too much about "the
virus"—all of it false, and therefore dangerous—and, as well, about the
Next Big Existential, said to be "climate change"; while we
hear nothing about all the radiation from our cell phones, and the cellphone towers surrounding most of us—and that silence
too is dangerous.
So here is a corrective. As you'll see below, you
won't hear much more than this, unless you go in search of it, since scientists
cannot find funding for studies of 5G, or even 4G (just as there's no funding
for the impact of Fukushima).
--Mark Crispin Miller
Notes on Q&A by Dylan Harnett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-_8PvG753A&t=4872s with Joel Moskowitz, PhD, Director of Center for Family and
Community Health, School of Public Health, University of California, BerkeleyMoskowitz received over 100 questions during the
Q&A, and he was not able to get to my question about whether shungite protects against EMF. Here is one argument for shungite with citations of studies, and here is one argument against it.
Some of my notes:
- Dr. Moskowitz recommended the site saferemer.com for safety tips regarding technology and health. Minimize
use of the tech; keep as much physical distance from your devices as you
can; use speaker phone for calls; don't use a device when the
reception is poor; and turn off WiFi router and
wireless connections whenever you can, or, better yet, use wired
connections.
- Since
2001, electromagnetic radiation/EMF, which emits from phones and other devices,
has been considered "possibly carcinogenic" by the WHO's
International Agency for Research on Cancer.
- Among 944
studies from 1990 to 2020, significant negative effects of wireless
radiation on health were found in 711, or 75%, of studies. Meta-analyses
have similar findings.
- The FCC's
regulations on EMF are not designed to protect against long-term effects
of constant exposure.
- The
amount of money spent by the telecom industry to lobby politicians is at a
comparable level to the money spent by the oil & gas industry: https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/industries/summary?cycle=2021&id=B09
- According
to Dr. Moskowitz, scientists at the CDC published
a warning about cellphone risks on the CDC's
website, but the warning was taken down at the behest of industry-funded
scientists. The alleged archive of the original warning can be found here. The New York Times reported on the CDC's
"debate" over these risks in 2016.
- It's
nearly impossible to get funding to study the health effects of 5G. No
peer-reviewed studies on 5G have been published. There are not even many
studies on 4G.
- The media
reports the government's narrative without scrutiny. It's the Big Tobacco
playbook.
- Relevant
petitions include the EMF Scientist Appeal and the 5G Appeal.
- Organizations
working to check the telecom industry include the Environmental Health
Trust,
which sued the FCC and won; Physicians for Safe Technology; and Americans for Responsible
Technology.
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e.
Wolff Responds: Elon Musk's Billionaire BS
with Richard Wolff
(8:32)
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From:
Paul Jay [mailto:pauljay@theanalysis.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 3:49 PM
To: francis.feeley@u-grenoble3.fr
Subject: Net F**ED by 2050 & Polexit
humbug
Biting satire, a guest appearance, and a bit of humbug
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Justice For
Julian Assange Is Justice For All
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56852.htm
by John Pilger
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CIA Plot to Kill Julian Assange: Will Perpetrators Ever Face Legal
Accountability for Criminal Behavior?
by John Kiriakou
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What’s Next
for Julian Assange?
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/11/09/whats-next-for-julian-assange/
by Joe Lauria
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g.
Video: Fauci, HHS Officials Discuss Using New Virus from China
to Enforce Universal Vaccines in Footage
(7:16)
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“Rand Paul vs. Dr. Fauci”: Their Four Most Recent Senate Hearing
Clashes
(30:11)
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To Protect Fauci, The Washington Post is Preparing a Hit Piece on the
Group Denouncing Gruesome Dog
by Glenn Greenwald
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h.
From: News from Underground
[mailto:nobody@simplelists.com]
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2021
Subject: Daily digest for nfu@simplelists.com
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1)
Where's Commissar Newsome? - Mark Crispin
Miller (07 Nov 2021 00:19 EDT) |
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2)
Who started the "horse-paste" propaganda
smearing Ivermectin? It wasn't Pfizer, J&J, Moderna, GAVI or Bill Gates. It was... the FDA! - Mark Crispin
Miller (07 Nov 2021 00:30 EDT) |
|
3) Attention,
professors! Please sign our Italian peers' petition against the "Green
Pass" - Mark
Crispin Miller (07 Nov 2021 14:16 EST) |
1) Where's
Commissar Newsome? by Mark Crispin Miller (07 Nov 2021 00:19 EDT)
Reply to list
There's a distinctly USSR feeling about Gavin Newsome's
sudden disappearance from the scene, the official silence over it, and the
masses guessing what may have happened to him.
Could it be, as Alex Berenson implies, that the
governor accidentally got the sort of "booster" ordinarily used to
finish off, like, old people, denizens of "red" states and other
vermin? (Those eugenic details are my own, not Berenson's.) Or maybe Newsome
was sidelined, or felled, by such a shot on purpose, in furtherance of yet
another dark agenda?
Who knows? We sure don't. Such is life in COVID
Country.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/wheres-gavin-newsom/comments
Where's Gavin Newsom?
Nov 5
1,301
Governor White Teeth was last seen eight days ago getting his Covid booster shot.
He was supposed to go to Scotland for the “how do we get heating oil to $10 a gallon to show the peasants who’s in charge?” conference, I mean the United Nations climate summit. (No points for guessing if he planned to fly private.)
But he didn’t go to Scotland. Something about “family obligations.”
Dude hasn’t been seen since.
Those are some serious obligations!
I’m sure he’s fine. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the booster.
SOURCE: https://abc7.com/gavin-newsom-california-governor-newson-family-obligations-today/11202905/
2) Who
started the "horse-paste" propaganda smearing Ivermectin?
It wasn't Pfizer, J&J, Moderna, GAVI or Bill
Gates. It was... the FDA! by Mark Crispin Miller (07 Nov 2021 00:30 EDT)
Reply to list
Please think about that, hard.
What this country very badly needs is revolution; and
"the left" will not be leading it—or, if it should succeed, surviving
it.
Someone call Joe Rogan. (I'll gladly do his show on this.)
MCM
Attachment: FDA-Disinformation-Ivemectin.pdf (application/pdf)
3) Attention,
professors! Please sign our Italian peers' petition against the "Green
Pass" by Mark Crispin Miller (07 Nov 2021 14:16 EST)
Reply to list
Begin forwarded message:
From: Daniela Danna <daniela.danna@unimi.it>
Date: November 7, 2021 at 8:24:53 AM PST
Subject: [ASA_PEWS] Appeal against the Italian Green
Pass
Dear PEWS members,
some hundreds of Italian
professors and researchers have mobilized against the obligation to carry a
Green Pass in universities, an obligation from 1st September that has been
extended since 15th October to all workplaces, private and public. There is a
mobilization going on, defamed as being "fascist", and obscuring the
fascistic character of the green pass requirement. We have already lived such
an historical period, where the required document was the card attesting
belonging to the Fascist Party. So we have translated the Italian declaration,
asking colleagues from abroad to subscribe it.
This is the text:
International support of university teachers and
intellectuals for the “no green pass” appeal in Italy
To the President of the Italian Republic
To the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian
Republic
To the Speaker of the Senate of the Italian Republic
To the Prime Minister of the Italian Republic
To the Minister of Education of the Italian Government
To the Minister of Universities and Scientific Research of
the Italian Government
To the President of the Conference of Italian University
Chancellors - CRUI
As university teachers and intellectuals,
We are extremely concerned about the way the current
pandemic emergency has been handled , and about
the consequences it has already had, and could have in the future, for the
Italian people, starting with the world of universities and schools.
We are particularly concerned about academic freedom, which
is a pillar of the rule of law and an expression of the highest human dignity.
Academic freedom means the freedom to teach, study and
learn without any kind of interference or conditioning.
The handling of the emergency has led many European
governments to introduce a health pass (or so-called “Green Pass”) for many
activities (although the situation varies widely from state to state).
Like many of our Italian colleagues, some of us have freely
chosen to be vaccinated against Covid-19. All of us,
however, consider the social discrimination introduced with the Green
Pass, which restricts many fundamental human rights, to be unjust and
illegitimate. The population is thus divided between upper-tier citizens,
who possess a pass and can access basic services (transport, healthcare,
catering, etc.) and lower-tier citizens, who do not have a pass.
In Italy, unlike in all other European countries, the Green
Pass has been extended to schools and universities. As a result,
students not in possession of a Green Pass are refused access to university
facilities (classrooms, canteen, library, etc.): in short, they are denied the
right to study. Likewise, teachers without a pass are
suspended from teaching duties and receive no salary.This
troubles and worries us enormously!
The word “university” comes from universitas,
from vertere in unum:
“turning into one”, which means welcoming the plurality of knowledge, but also
the multiple bonds that are created between people. Under an
medieval, noble rule promulgated in Italy, the Authentica
Habita, university teaching staff and students were
granted a series of specific rights in terms
of hospitality, immunity, protection, freedom,
and movement. These achievements of about 900 years ago became a civil and
cultural reference in other areas of society. Precisely for this
reason, discrimination in Italian universities, a beacon of civilization
for many, acquires a dangerous symbolic value for all of us.
As a result of the Green Pass, Italian universities are no
longer free and welcoming for everyone, nor are they forums for
free thought and discussion. With the adoption of the Green Pass, universities
become a government tool aimed at inducing teachers and young people to get
vaccinated. The Green Pass in fact encourages them to sacrifice their ideas and
intellectual freedom, as well as to abandon critical thinking. Universities are
thus disowning their fundamental values and principles, and undermining their
objectives.
We are shocked that most of academic bodies – as
far as we know – allow such discrimination, which also translates into
socio-economic discrimination, if we consider that those students who cannot or
do not wish to be vaccinated, but who intend to follow lessons in person (as
they are entitled to), will have to sustain monthly Covid-19 test costs of
about €200. It is clear that only students from well-off families will be
able to afford the “luxury” of the right to education!
For these reasons, we agree with the appeal made by Italian
university teachers against the Green Pass, and firmly support the
teachers, administrative staff and students engaged in this battle of civil
rights. We hope that this discriminatory mechanism will be abolished as
soon as possible.
To sign the petition, send an email with your title
to Daniela Poli < zazadig@gmail.com>
First subscribers:
Antoine Brès professeur associé en aménagement et
urbanisme, HDR, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France)
Pietro Elia
Campana , Associate Professor, Mälardalen University (Sweden)
David Vera Candeas ,
Associate Professor, University of Jaén
(Spain)
Francesca
Capelli, Associata
di Grammatica Italiana, Università del Salvador - Buenos
Aires (Argentina)
Guillaume
Faburel, Professeur en Science
Politique - Université Lumière Lyon 2, et Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
(France)
Francesco
Gervasi, Profesor
Investigador de Tiempo Completo Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, Facultad de
Ciencias de la Comunicación, Coahuila
de Zaragoza (México)
Ashwani Gupta ,
Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, College Park,
Maryland (MD), (USA)
Simon Harvey , Professor of Engineering,
Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden
Daniele Joly,
P rofessor
Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL (UK),
CADIS-EHESS, College d'etudes mondiales
FMSH
Paris
(France)
Valérie
JOUSSEAUME, Maîtresse de conférences en
géographie de l’aménagement, HDR, Université de
Nantes (France)
Francisco Jurado ,
Full Professor, University of Jaen (Spain)
Markus Kraft, Fellow of Churchill College
and Full Professor, University of Cambridge (UK)
Antonio Lecuona-Neumann,
Full Professor, Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid, (España)
María Pilar
LISBONA-MARTÍN , Associate Professor, Universidad de
Zaragoza, (España)
Béatrice
Mariolle, professeure en architecture et
urbanisme, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et de Paysage de
Lille
Alberto Matarán Ruiz ,
Profesor
of Urban and Spatial Planning España(https://www.ugr.es/en/about/organization/entities/department-urban-and-spatial-planning" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener noopener noreferrer" style="line-height: normal;"
target="_blank">, Universidad de Granada (
Rebeca Merino del
Río , Ricercatrice a tempo determinato , Universidad
de Sevilla (España)
Jaroslaw Milewski
,Full professorPolitechnika
Warszawska (Politecnico di Varsavia)
Robert Olinski,
M.Sc., PhD, Senior Scientist head of genomics team at Novozymes A/S headquarters (Denmark)
Thierry Paquot , professeur émérite à l'Institut
d'urbanisme de Paris - université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne (France)
Carlos Plaza Ricercatore
a contrato
, Universidad de Sevilla (España)
Sergio Porta ,
Professor of Urban Design, Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde
Director of UDSU - Urban Design Studies Unit, Course
Director MSc in Urban Design, Glasgow (UK)
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United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26)
November 1, 2021
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by Ellen Brown
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Washington recruited ex-Sandinistas like Dora María Téllez and her
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by BenNorton
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http://www.blackagendareport.com/why-black-revolutionaries-must-stand-people-nicaragua
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We shouldn't actively ignore it
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s.
From: Michael Albert
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2021 2:43 PM
Subject: [zcommunications] What's
Next?!
Hello,
The
book No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better
World by Michael Albert is now available at various outlets and also
via links on the No Bosses book page at nobossesbook.com
That
page also has eight early reviews of the book, nine early video appearances
discussing the book, nine testimonials endorsing the book, a table of contents,
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree.
Here,
however, I unashamedly include only a short review that I did - yes - it is a
review by me of my own book. In it I succinctly tell what No Bosses contains
and I quote a number of the above mentioned testimonials, among other
inclusions.
I
bet the odds are pretty good, in fact I bet the odds are actually really good,
that you are at the very least outraged by what our current economic system is
doing to human conditions and relationships and even to our planet itself.
Capitalism is a suicide machine and honestly, we all know it. So, what’s next?
Is
my asking “what’s next” timely and warranted? Is my trying to propel a
conversation that can contribute to developing shared vision timely and
warranted?
If
your answers are yes and yes, then I hope you will give the short review,
below, a chance.
Indeed,
I hope you will visit the nobossesbook.com site, and if you do visit it, and if you
are moved to get and read the book, I hope you will let me know your reactions
to it.
On
the other hand, if your answers to the above two questions are no and no, if
your answers are that asking what’s next and trying to propel a conversation
about vision is not warranted, well, in that case, I guess we will have to
agree to disagree. Or perhaps you will write to tell me why.
Yours
in waiting,
Michael
Albert at sysop@zmag.org
————————
Self
Review of No Bosses
by
Michael Albert
I
wrote No Bosses because I believe we need shared vision to
sustain hope, orient strategy, and escalate commitment. I recently wondered,
what if I were invited to review No Bosses?
What would I say?
Imagine, it isn’t hard if you try. It is a sunny day sometime in
the future. In many countries, a massive transformation has redefined society’s
basic institutions. In other countries, similar transitions are in mid to late stages.
Supporters
have named their aims “participatory socialism” or perhaps “participatory
society.” Whatever its name, their project has transformed political, kinship,
gender, cultural, community, economic, ecological, and international relations.
All humanity and all humanity’s habitats.
No
Bosses says to reach such
new relations, we need to know their defining
features. To have hope, orientation, and commitment, we need economic,
political, kinship, and culture/community vision.
But No
Bosses doesn’t propose what future workers and consumers will eat or
wear. Nor does it picture what they will drive. Nor enumerate their jobs. Nor
indicate how long they will work each day. No Bosses doesn’t
list future holidays or describe future products. It celebrates no new gizmos.
Instead, No
Bosses envisions the personal and social characteristics of future
workplaces. It envisions how future jobs affect us and how we affect them. It
envisions norms that determine our future incomes. It envisions how we freely
decide what to produce and consume.
No
Bosses proposes how we
collectively and cooperatively decide our economic responsibilities and
benefits. It proposes how we have no individuals dominate others. It explains
what classlessness means and it proposes how to attain it in a self managing,
equitable, solidaritous, and sustainable
economy.
No
Bosses does not discuss
contingent future policy decisions. It does not discuss as yet unknowable
details of future economic life. Instead, No Bosses proposes
only what it finds necessary to ensure that our children and their children and
their children’s children will equitably and freely implement the content and
practices of their future economic lives.
No
Bosses proposes ways for
future workers and consumers to implement their own free choices. It proposes
ways for future workers and consumers to collectively organize their work and
consumption. It proposes ways for them to collectively self manage their
economic circumstances and simultaneously propel, reflect, and respect comparably
liberating outcomes in also revolutionized families, sex/gender relations,
cultural and community relations, and politics.
In
short, No Bosses proposes a new economy for a better
world. No Bosses proposes a post capitalist commons of
productive assets; a non-hierarchical and self managing mode of economic
decision making; a non corporate conception of work; a classless division of
labor; workplace and society-wide methods to allot equitable incomes; and
finally a new, non market, non centrally planned,
decentralized and participatory self managing approach to allocation. No
Bosses is about dignified freedom. Goodbye, capitalism. Hello,
participatory economics.
No
Bosses proposes five core
institutional innovations it deems necessary to attain a classless, self
managing, equitable, caring, innovative, sustainable, and even artistic
economy. It offers these economic proposals as a flexible scaffold for
movements to creatively enrich with diverse details based on practical
experiences.
A
book that addresses how we might better conduct economics in a better future is
not a tweet or even a set of tweets. It is not a selfie.
It is not binging a new TV series with snacks in hand.
It doesn’t say only what one already agrees with. For these reasons it requires
more hours, more intensity, and more commitment than many other uses of one’s
time.
But No
Bosses rejects academic pretense. It does not obfuscate. It
prioritizes activism, organizing, hope, desire. As author and self-interested
reviewer, I would say, yes, No Bosses delivers viable and
worthy economic vision. Big deal—of course I think that. If I didn’t think
that, I wouldn’t have written the book.
Beyond
me, however, consider that Noam Chomsky says, “No Bosses describes
and advocates workers’ and consumers’ self-managing councils, a division of
labor that balances empowering tasks among all workers, a norm that apportions
income for duration, intensity, and onerousness of
socially valued labor, and finally not markets or central planning, but instead
participatory planning of what is produced, by what means, to what ends. It
makes a compelling case that these features can be brought together in a spirit
of solidarity to establish a self-managing, equitable, sustainable,
participatory, new economy, with a rich artistic and intellectual culture as
well.”
Or
that Yanis Varoufakis
says: “No Bosses helps us retrieve from within ourselves
the suppressed conviction, shared by every human being, that it is not alright
to live under the tyranny of market forces weaponised
by cunning bosses.”
And
Kathy Kelly adds: “Seriously and carefully, No Bosses aims to
create a framework, a ‘scaffold,’ for a worthy economic plan. No Bosses describes
participatory economics with enjoyable candor, raising as many questions as it
answers and inviting readers to set cynicism aside.”
Or
Ron Daniels says: “No Bosses,
proposes an answer for economics from self managed decision making to balanced
work and from equitable incomes to ending class division. No Bosses should
be widely read as we assess the way forward in this unprecedented moment in the
history of this nation.”
And
Bill Fletcher adds: No Bosses does not argue whether the
future that it proposes is probable, but rather insists that it is necessary.
Albert’s latest book No Bosses accomplishes
just that and is a delight to read.”
Or
Medea Benjamin says: “Read No Bosses with
delight at the creative ways we can organize—asap—to
sweep Mr. Moneybags into the dustbin of history and create the new equitable,
participatory, empowering, and sustainable world that we want to live in.
“
And
Ezequiel Adamovsky
adds: No Bosses, A New Economy for a Better
World offers a refined, compelling argument in favor of a
non-capitalist, participatory economics. Its vision is of utmost importance for
people and social movements struggling for a better world.”
And
Jeremy Brecher concludes: “You'll have a hard time
finding a better guide to moving from capitalism to a genuinely free, equal,
and participatory economy.”
But
even such testimonials only suggest that No Bosses fulfills a
necessary but a far from sufficient condition for effectivity.
Words unheard, even good books unread, sounds of silence have little practical
impact.
Writing
is a hit or miss endeavor. As its author, I can answer interview queries and do anything else in my reach to help No Bosses get
read. I can even audaciously self-review it. But what will determine No
Bosses success or failure will be the book’s readers. Will its readers
review, critique, correct, extend, or otherwise actively engage with No
Bosses? Will outlets carry readers’ reviews and debates? Will outlets
address readers’ concerns, extend their extrapolations, evaluate their
detractions, and elaborate their extensions? Will individuals, organizations,
and media who doubt or who even already reject capitalism initiate inquiring,
critical, creative steps toward together arriving at shared advocacy of a new
economy for a better world? Only time and you will tell if that occurs at least
in part by way of assessing No Bosses’ participatory socialist
proposals.