Bulletin N° 1071
“Welcome to the Dollhouse”
(1995), written and directed by Todd Solondz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDwULT6b4_A
(1:27:29)
Middle-school student Dawn Weiner
(Heather Matarazzo) faces degradation at school --
where she is teased constantly -- and at home. The middle child between nerdy
older brother Mark (Matthew Faber) and perky younger sister Missy (Daria Kalinina), Dawn can't seem
to find a place to belong.
Eleven-year-old Dawn Wiener is a
shy and unpopular seventh-grader living in a middle-class suburban community in
New Jersey. Her older brother Mark is a nerdy high school student who plays
clarinet in a garage band and shuns girls in order to prepare for college. Her
younger sister Missy is spoiled and manipulative; she pesters Dawn and dances
around the house in a tutu. Her mother Marj is a
shrewish woman who dotes on Missy and sides with her in disputes with Dawn. Her
father Harv is a meek man who sides with Marj over Dawn. Her only friend is a feminine sixth-grade
boy named Ralphy, with whom she shares a dilapidated
clubhouse in her backyard.
&
“Elephant” (2003), written,
directed, and edited by Gus Van Sant.
https://123movies.net/watch/EdZ4O8xp-elephant.html
(1:21:25)
Elephant is a 2003 American
psychological drama film. It takes place in the fictional Watt High School, in
the suburbs of Portland, Oregon and chronicles the events surrounding a school
shooting, based in part on the 1999 Columbine High School massacre. The film
begins a short time before the shooting occurs, following the lives of several
characters both in and out of school, who are unaware of what is about to
unfold.
Subject: Contradictions of Corporate
Capitalism and governance by technocratic elitists.
Grenoble
November 11, 2022
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
Technocracy: Social engineering is to organic development as
industrial GMO production is to cultivated organic gardens.
The technocrats attempting to govern corporate
capitalism feel free to run experiments on society in search of technical
solutions. This obtrusive imposition from above is usually justified
in the name of "Progress," while the science behind it often remains inconclusive. The popular
response to this so-called "evolution" eventually takes the form of revolts
against an impossible “social order” that must dehumanize society so that it
meets the needs of the corporate agenda, which of course is the maximization of
private profits for a small group of capitalist rulers. The end result is
chaos.
This obscene social arrangement is not a literary
device. It is very real and invites evasive behavior of all sorts in an attempt
to justify a necessarily painful existence, all of which is part of corporate
culture.
Outside the metaphysics of literary creations, we
live and act in accordance with our needs –those which are perceived and others
which are mostly unrecognized. This is the human condition, the raw material,
before the cultural technicians lay their hands on it to give it form and meaning
according to their technocratic ideology and despite the obvious social chaos.
We return now to Mark Ames remarkable book, Going Postal, Rage,
Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan’s Workplaces to Clinton’s Columbine and
Beyond (2005), to follow his understanding of why
people revolt, from the time of slavery to contemporary massacres at the
workplace and in schools. Part 4 of this book is titled “Wage Rage”; the
author discusses the successful social fragmentation in American society to the
detriment of collective self-defense. He begins his conversation with us by
citing an article published in the US business magazine, Fortune, on August 9,
1993: “Maybe it’s time to start handing out bulletproof vests along with IDs.
Homicides committed by disgruntled employees and former employees at the workplace are on the rise. That kind of killing was
virtually nonexistent before 1980. But since 1988, the number of office
slayings has increased disturbingly.”
He goes on to describe, in a section entitled “Hire One Bourgeois
to Alienate the Other,” the historic
anomaly in American political culture called “The Reagan Revolution.”
By any historical standard, the ground was – and is – fertile for rebellion in America, thanks to the Reagan Revolution. Any time wealth inequalities diverge as abruptly and hideously as they have over the past twenty-five years, particularly as expectations for our lives have grown, a society can be expected to explode. Rebellion is even more likely if there is an ideological or intellectual context to give form to the discontent, or “disgruntlement” to the use the current term.
What’s strange, from an historical point of view, is that there haven’t been large-scale domestic rebellions against the Reagan Revolution. This doesn’t mean that the Reagan Revolution was actually fair and equitable. Domestic rebellions inspired by gross social injustice are extremely rare in this country, as we have seen, and all rebellion is doomed to end in violent and brutal defeat.
What is really striking is not the paucity of open rebellions in American history – which the more credulous American mandarins inevitably point to as proof of this country’s infinite virtue (just as Southern whites have pointed to the striking lack of slave rebellions as proof of the slaves’ happiness) - but rather that there have been people willing to risk rebellion of any kind. Given the odds – that is, the null set over zero – it takes reckless bravery or mental illness or suicidal desperation to launch an insurrection.
That explains why so much rebellion in America is expressed in less obvious, less direct ways. For example, in slave times, while there were only a few rebellions, there were numerous instances of vandalism, mysterious fires, poisonings and crop-sabotage. As Harding writes in There is a River, “One of the most universally popular [forms of struggle] was arson, which minimized the danger of direct confrontation and certain death. Fire could destroy property held so dear by a property-based system.” Similarly, a recent problem facing companies is what the New York Times calls ‘Layoff Rage.” One downsized IT manager, for example, sabotaged a company’s computer systems, causing $20 million in damage on the eve of the company’s public stock offering. The fifty-six year-old manager, who made $180,000 a year and had a wife and three kids, left an anonymous note explaining why: “I have been loyal to the company in good and bad times for over thirty years. I was expecting a member of top management to come down from his ivory tower to face us with the layoff announcement, rather than sending the kitchen supervisor with guards to escort us off the premises like criminals.” He got busted, of course. Pinkerton, the security firm , estimates that only 1 percent of laid-off workers strike back against their former companies, so it is still rare – just as, again, slave arson and vandalism was relatively rare.
What makes rebellion more impossible is if it lacks context and resonance. The triumph of Reaganomics occurred right as the total collapse of the Left and at the “end of history” in mainstream American ideology, ceding debate just when a new social injustice desperately needed to be framed. Labor unions in America were destroyed in the 1980s. Indeed, the percentage of private-sector employees who belong to unions in 2003 was half of what it was in 1983, according to the U.S. Labor Bureau.
Unions became identified with something un-American, immoral, and corrupt. The repeated, grotesque corruption of America’s banking elite, which required hundreds of billions of taxpayer bailout money in the wake of the S&L scandal, never led Americans to view banking as inherently immoral or un-American. The unprecedented corruption of America’s CEO class in the 1990s, including its multi-hundred-billion dollar schemes to pad books and siphon cash to offshore companies, never led a sizable number of Americans to view our dismally regulated corporations as un-American and immoral. Yet corruption in the unions was, thanks to Reaganism, seen as proof of the institutions’ congenital malevolence, as well as its anti-Americaness. Labor unions were accused of holding back America’s progress. In the popular’ conscience of anyone who came of age in the Reagan era, unions are seen as inherently working against American values. This sentiment is so powerful that today even workers who would benefit from unions are generally disinclined to support them. Such workers see themselves as patriotic and individualistic in the American spirit, putting their faith in the alleged level playing field of the free market, much to their employers’ satisfaction. This sentiment reached its reducto ad absurdum point in the 1990s with Wal-Mart employees or Amazon.com workers accepting lower wages and meager benefits in exchange for being referred to as ‘associates’ rather than as workers. Even white-collar high-tech employees mimicked the Wal-Mart employee’s gullibility, by taking worthless and meager stock shares and the title ‘associate’ or ‘partner’ in exchange for low wages and inhuman work hours, reduced benefits, and the promise not to unionize. All because the white-collar worker sees the company’s interests (that is, the major shareholders’ interests) as his own too. The goal of every slavekeeper.
And if they tried to unionize, they were crushed. Amazon.com, for example, quashed a union drive at its Seattle customer service center by simply downsizing the workforce and shutting the Seattle center down. They thereby destroyed a nest of unionization, all in the name of the New Economy where ‘old’ rules like unions don’t apply.
The very idea of collectivizing to protect their interests is anathema to white-collar, middle-class American professionals. They have always seen themselves as the class in adversarial relation to unions. Which is why white-collar workers could not even conceive of collectivizing to strengthen the precarious position they find themselves in today. Can you imagine law associates locked in collective bargaining to reduce their work week from ninety hours to eighty-five? Picketing accountants demanding two extra days of vacation a year? Data entry clerks across the country staging a walk-out to win a fifteen-minute paid coffee break?
The ghost of Western Union founder Jay Gould, who once boasted, ‘I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other,” is back, only the middle-class is now in the same galley ship that the working class once was. ‘I can hire one bourgeois to alienate the other’ – this was something Mark had never foreseen.
In this highly atomized corporate culture, it is no wonder that the workplace rage rebellions should take place in the form of one-man suicide missions. If the idea of banding together to fight for something as obvious and vital as one’s own self interest – unionizing for a dental plan or to keep wages and pensions from being slashed – is frowned upon; then who would consider raising arms with fellow employees to wage an insurrection against the company that oppresses them? No employee would be able to trust another to keep the plans secret; moreover, no employee is ever aware that anyone else is as miserable and desperate as he is. The culture demands that people smile and love their work – and most do, or at least most believe they do.
Profiling Anyone
Neither the FBI nor the Secret Service has been able to create a profile for a rampage murder – not in the office world, not in the schoolyard world.
The inability to profile these rage murders is important because it strongly suggest that external factors, that is environmental factors, create the rampage murderer, rather than the internal psychological disorders of the rampage attacker. Serial killers, for example, can be profiled because they share distinct psychological characteristics. But nearly anyone is a potential rage murderer. They spring out of anywhere in that vast unrecognized middle. Some are single, some married. Some are anti-social loner types, some friendly and well-liked. Most have been men, but there have been women. Most have been white, but there have been a number of black, Latino, and Asian-Americans. Many served in the armed forces, but so have countless millions of Americans, many collect guns, but then again, few things are as American as collecting guns.
There have been attempts to draw a profile of these rage murderers. But the profilers end up either using a brush so broad as to be meaningless, or they contradict themselves within the set of characteristics of their profile in order to create a pattern that fits with the crimes. For instance one study profiles potential office rage murderers as white males between twenty-five and fifty years old with self-esteem, loners fascinated with weapons. However, a caveat is that within that group, those under thirty and with a history of violence and substance abuse were more likely to commit non lethal violence, while those over thirty, with no history of violence and no substance abuse and ‘unable to release their frustrations’ were more likely to commit lethal violence in the workplace. Therefore you look for those over thirty years-old who have no history of violence or substance abuse, because they’re the most dangerous employees of all. That really narrows it down. The only male employees left under this profile would be student-interns, retirees, and minorities.
Another profile, in Violence in the Workplace, claims that ‘history of violence’ is a sign of a potential rage murderer contradicting the profile above.
Anyone could snap anywhere, anyone’s a suspect. And that means that employees go out of the way to make sure they’re not perceived as being potentially dangerous, no matter how cruelly they are treated. Employees are so terrified of uttering the wrong quip, one that could be misconstrued, as even the slightest hint of disgruntlement could be grounds for a visit from police, a force psychological examination, and a destroyed career. No, the only hope is to smile all the time and pray that no one notices how miserable you are. And if you snap, then don’t let it show until the morning you appear with your duffle bag.(pp.117-119)
In the sixth and final part of his book, Ames
focuses on the school environment in his search for an explanation for rage
murder by students. He gives this last section the title - after the 1995 movie
- “Welcome to the Dollhouse.” It contains a description of the
institutionalized violence that so often shapes the lives of young people
attending school.
Every Child Left Behind
In Snohomish County, Washington, educators complained in July 2004, that in order to cover their energy bills to Enron – which were still locked in at artificially inflated rates – the district had to cut back on hiring teachers, purchasing textbooks, buses, and other children’s needs. According to the Herald in Everett, Washington, school districts just in this modestly-sized county had to pay an additional $9 million for higher-priced energy thanks to Enron’s power-market scam from 2000-2001. One local school district, Mukilteo, reduced spending for text books and library books and cut bus drivers, office staff, and after-school activities for children. Nearby Snohomish School District was paying an additional $420,000 a year in power costs. According to the Herald: ‘To balance the budget, the district had not hired teachers to match the growth in the number of students, and had left vacant positions unfilled, he said. That’s driven up the average class size.’
The same funding shortages occurred in the Mukilteo school district. Although the Mukilteo school district received extra sate support in 2003, two-thirds of that assistance went straight to Enron’s accounts (that is, somewhere in Antigua), according to Carolyn Webb, the district’s executive director for business services. ‘Those were dollars intended to buy text books [and] computers and software,’ she ruefully told the Herald.
Incredibly enough, Enron sued the Snohomish County PUD (Public Utility District) for breaking an even more insane contract dating back to the peak of their 2001 scam. If Enron wins, they’ll be able to squeeze another $122 million just from Snohomish County, meaning that the school districts will be forced to hand over another $2.5 million to the thieves at Enron. [U.S. Rep. Jay] Inslee likened it to ‘Bonnie and Clyde suing the banks.’ The county’s last hope lies in appealing to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission – whose membership composition was heavily influenced by former Enron head Ken Lay! So It’s really like Bonnie and Clyde suing the banks . . . in a court where the sitting judge was appointed by Bonnie and Clyde.
“When this election [in 2000] comes Bush will fucking whack this shit, man. He won’t play this price-cap bullshit.”
-- Enron trader, before 2000 elections
“We will not take any action that makes California’s problems worse and that’s why I oppose price caps.”
-- President George W. Bush, May 29, 2001
Why do Americans take it? Why do they let it happen not only to themselves, but to their own children? Is there no one left in America with enough dignity to protect their own blood? Are we too deeply in awe of our’ masters, the CEO executives and heirs to the Reagan legacy? Are we so beaten down that we’ve actually come to like getting squeezed by them? The 2004 election victory of Bush, in spite of the record job losses and the worsening economic squeeze, suggests that worshipping the aristocracy has taken on a life all its own, totally separate from one’s personal, financial, or health needs. I’ve been arguing the persistence of the slave tendency in this book and how it is highly adaptive, but at some point it becomes too much. Stories like this, of Enron stripping children of their education with the blessing of the president, who remains loved while it happens, are so enraging that you reach a point where you just have to stop and take a deep breath. It’s shameful, disgustingly shameful…. I don’t think there is another country on earth where its citizens have so much potential power and are so fearful to use even one ounce of it.
All of this is a product of the larger cultural cruelty and bullying that has been going on since 1981, when Regan slashed school lunch programs for poor children in order to offset tax cuts for the rich. It was a whopping success: in only a few years some three thousand schools and four million children were dropped from the school lunch program, including one and a half million children living below poverty and still qualifying even by the new meager standards.
What was controversial then is just reality today. In 1999, one in every six children lived in poverty, in spite of America’s unprecedented wealth boom during the nineties. And when they say ‘lived in poverty’ they mean “Poverty” – the definition used by the Census Bureau is a family of thee living on less than $13,290 per year. I don’t know how it is even possible for one person to live on that in America, but for one in every six American children, twelve million of them, it’s not only possible, it just is. One way it’s possible is to make sure junior doesn’t see a doctor. Some eleven million American children had no health insurance in 1999, something unheard of in every other civilized country in the world. Our child poverty rate, according to the Children’s Defense Fund, is twice that of Canada and Germany, and six times the rate of France, Belgium, and Austria. We can’t even treat our children one-sixth as well as Belgium. Belgium! In other words, when it comes to judging how culture treats its children, America can’t even be compared to allegedly stagnating, old Europe. America belongs in the Division-III conference competing with countries like India or Sudan – except that they at least have an economic excuse. We’re the only wealthy nation on earth who threats its children this callously, and flaunts it like a virtue. We’re the only country who considers it normal and ‘just the way things are’ to choose, every time it grows wealthier; to divert that new wealth to the very richest while at the same time further cutting aid to the neediest. …We’re crazy. Sick and crazy, and proud as peasants. We’re convinced that it’s everyone else, the thirty-five-hour-workweek French and the universal health care Canadians who are the crazy ones. For the simple reason that they aren’t suffering enough. You start to see, consciously or unconsciously, why Eric Harris, Dylan Klegold, Patrick Sherrill, Joe ‘Rocky’ Wesbecker, and all the others make sense. Rational debate is impossible in an irrational, cruel, and credulous culture.
Peggy Sue Got Buried
The wretchedness of a huge proportion of middle-American students, and their widespread sympathy with an almost jihadist response, is so familiar that is has seeped into the popular culture. When I was in school teen movies were fun, light comedies balanced with just enough pain to appeal to teens’ manic sensibilities - Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Last American Virgin, and Better Off Dead all made high school out to be a romp punctuated by life’s painful lessons. These films seemed plausible enough at the time – even if high school was a cruel place, students weren’t squeezed then the same way they are today. Also, we didn’t have murders yet to awaken out sense that what seemed to be normal was in fact unbearable and wrong.
That feel-good John Hughes script became less and less plausible as Reagan’s presidency wore on until finally Heathers appeared and killed the feel-good teen comedy genre. Heathers was the first teen comedy that appealed to an emerging sensibility at the end of the President Reagan’s second term. It’s about the sadism and lethal hypocrisy among striving students at an upper-middle–class high school, the losers who educated them, and a hero who murdered them because murder was the only rational, heroic response imaginable. The hero, played by Christian Slater, offers a solution to the school’s noxious culture: kill the meanest, shallowest, most popular students. And kill the ones who take their place. And finally, when it comes clear that each student is just waiting for the chance to bully someone beneath them, the hero resolved to blow the whole school up. That argument – of school as Hell and the cause of arguably justified mass murder – caused a lot of controversy when Heathers was released. Today, this theme is the norm in teem movies: Elephant (2003), a verité-style film about a Columbine-like high school massacre; Thirteen (2003), about a middle-school girl’s destructive climb up the school’s vicious social ladder; O (2001), a modern adaptation of Othello that takes place in a high school and ends with a school shooting; and Donnie Darko (2000), an even more rage-filled attack on middle-class school culture and adult hypocrisy, in which the hero sets fire to the house of an ‘inspirational’ teacher, and shoots and kills a student (also delayed due to Columbine). Even teen movies without school shootings, such as 1999’s Election or 1996’s Welcome to the Dollhouse, are such merciless attacks on middle-class American school culture that you walk away hating not just the main characters, but their lives, their setting, and the broader culture that allows it all. The only likable character in Election is the lovelorn lesbian rebel who nearly wrecks the ‘school spirit’ – and gets herself thrown out of the school. The lesson being that you can only find happiness by opting out of the source of pain, which is exactly the opposite of what every fear-stricken, stress-squeezed American is made to believe.
The one exception to this school-as-Hell motif is American Pie, a callow retro rip-off of the eighties’ teen comedies. The only reason that its characters can be so happy and shallow is that they were the popular crowd, and everyone knows that the real popular kids, the top 10 percent layer, never feel the sort of anger and alienation that leads to rage. The other popular feel-good teen comedy of the nineties, Clueless, is about the popular crowd at Beverly Hills High – in other words, the very elite of the schoolyard elite (just like the popular teen TV show, Beverly Hills 90210). A light teen comedy is only plausible when focusing on the elite. Interestingly, American Pie failed to spawn a new trend of feel-good teen comedies, largely because they’re just not believable. The best teens can get are compromised movies like 2004’s Mean Girls, a comedy about the nasty popular girls in a high school, whose happy resolution only comes after a violent accident; Saved! , a wretched movie about a Christian school’s mean-spirited popular’ girls and the hypocritical teachers and adults; and Perfect Score, a teen comedy about a group of kids who conspire to cheat on the SATs by stealing the test because of the unbearable pressure they’re under. None of these movies makes school out to be much fun at all. It’s widely accepted today that high schools are miserable, nerve-pinching stress machines. They are governed by dim hypocrites; the climate favors the cruelest and shallowest students, and many, if not most students, are constantly suppressing a burning sense of injustice, shame, and powerlessness.(pp.229-232)
Mark Ames 2005 book, Going Postal, deserves a careful read
if for no other reason than it provides a contextual explanation for the
seemingly “senseless violence” that has become part of the United States landscape
since the early 1980s. No explanation can be found for this phenomenon in the
psychological profiles offered by the governing technicians serving the
predominant corporate culture of today’s capitalist society in crisis.
The 16+ items below represent a variety of Anglophone
commentaries on current events which among other things speak to the politics
of cognitive dissonance and disinformation that has been set loose in service
of an empire in decline. The information here should serve as a challenge to
those who truly wish to understand the events now unfolding which will surely
determine the quality of our lives in years to come.
Sincerely,
Francis McCollum Feeley
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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.
Physicals, Virtuals,
Machines and Overlords
by Robert W
Malone MD, MS
Is the dark vision of a new
caste system for the fourth revolution inevitable?
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
World
Economic Forum’s Drs. Klaus Schwab and Yuval Noah Harari
present their dark vision for humanity as inevitable. But is it?
During a very long interview
filmed earlier this week in the Miami Beach studio of MSCS Media, which
operates under a Spotify contract much like the one
that Joe Rogan has, it became clear to me that many still do not understand the
nature of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, Yuval Noah Harari, and the dark vision of the future which they are so
aggressively advancing throughout the world.
This vision of Schwab and Harari is based on projections that the future of humanity
which they foresee will consist of an anticipated “fourth industrial
revolution”.
What is the fourth industrial
revolution?
Who wins and who loses in this
version of the future?
+
The Politicians Who Destroyed Our
Democracy Want Us to Vote for Them To Save It
by Chris
Hedges
We should have walked out on
the Democratic Party and mounted a serious opposition movement while we still
had a chance.
+
Is the Federal Reserve Merely
Incompetent or Is There a Dark Agenda?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/federal-reserve-merely-incompetent-or-there-dark-agenda/5798491
by Dr. Paul
Craig Roberts
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b.
Caveat from Off-Guardian
“That mRNA ‘vaccines’ cause cells to produce spike proteins is a fairy tale”
with Torsten Engelbrecht and Stefano Scoglio
Stefano Scoglio,
top expert in microbiology and Italy’s most prestigious and best-known critic
of the Corona policy, interviewed by Torsten Engelbrecht
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Dr. McCullough Facing Certifications Revocation for Alleged "False...Information" Dissemination
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-dr-mccullough-facing-certifications-revocation-alleged-false-information-dissemination/5798859
with Dr. Peter McCullough and Kristina Borjesson
(1:09:35)
+
Association Between
Vaccines and Excess Mortality Getting Stronger — And Is Discussed in UK
Parliament
by Igor Chudov
+
A Slap in the Pface:
Pfizer Chief Boasts to Investors that COVID Will Continue
to be a 'Multi-billion Dollar Franchise for Many Years to Come' — As Firm
Prepares to Stick 10,000% Markup on Its Vaccine
by Cassidy
Morrison
+
Pfizer Appears to Have Corrupted
the Entire Western World
https://www.globalresearch.ca/pfizer-appears-have-corrupted-entire-western-world/5798575
by
+
Long-Term Organ Damage After COVID-19 Vaccines Emerging in Medical Literature
by Dr.
Peter McCullough
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The Funeral Business Is Booming. And Not Because of COVID. "Spike in Deaths in
2022"
https://www.globalresearch.ca/funeral-business-booming-not-because-covid/5798501
by Alex
Berenson
===========
c.
Maternal mortality in Russia
tripled in 2021
https://off-guardian.org/2022/11/09/maternal-mortality-in-russia-tripled-in-2021/
by Riley Waggaman
Why? Take a wild guess….
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COVID Dictators Plead for Amnesty.
"Some of Those Proven Wrong are Getting
Nervous"
https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-dictators-plead-amnesty/5798394
by Dr.
Joseph Mercola
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“Pandemic
Amnesty”? It’s just more narrative reinforcement
https://off-guardian.org/2022/11/02/pandemic-amnesty-its-just-more-narrative-reinforcement/
by Kit
Knightly
+
WATCH: Censorship &
Independent Publishing in the New Normal Reich
https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/censorship-in-the-new-normal-reich
with CJ
Hopkins, Søren Kristoffersen,
Robert Cibis, Kit Knightly, Simon Elmer,and
Elze van Hamelen
===========
d.
Straight Calls 3 - The Armed
Forces of Ukraine are desperate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQwuPnmCzjk
with Douglas
Macgregor and Dimitri Simes
(34:59)
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The bankers have launched a class
war
https://unherd.com/2022/11/the-bankers-have-launched-a-class-war/
What's really causing the public spending crisis?
by Thomas Fazi
+
Europe Threatens to Sue the USA
and Launch a Trade War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn4_8bWbJS8
(3:51)
+
Russian Ambassador: UK 'too deep'
in Ukraine war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBc98FI2t9I
with Russian Ambassador Andrei
Kelin
(10:42)
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UK's Ukraine bet creates 50
billion pound fiscal hole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBKh-5iK5l4&feature=youtu.be
with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris
(14:22)
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Video: Russian Forces on
Defensive but Continue Storming Ukrainian Strongholds in Donbass
by South Front
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e.
How the US government attempts to
control public perception of its aid to Ukraine
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57326.htm
by Scott
Ritter
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Ukraine Would be “Just a Warmup" for Washington - US Strategic Command Head
https://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-would-just-warmup-washington-us-strategic-command-head/5798536
by Lucas Leiroz de Almeida
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Ukraine War 'Warmup'
for U.S. in Face of China "Threat": Stratcom
Commander
|
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57327.htm
by Gerrard Kaonga
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The Self-Licking Boot Of US Militarism
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57325.htm
by Caitlin
Johnstone
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Will Our War-for-Profit System
Lead to Nuclear Annihilation?
https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/09/will-our-war-for-profit-system-lead-to-nuclear-annihilation/
by Leonard
C. Goodman
The US continues to fan the
flames of nuclear conflict with massive investments in the war department. How
long can this last?
+
The ‘Collective West’ Declares
War on the World
https://www.blackagendareport.com/collective-west-declares-war-world
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The US Military Is Operating in
More Countries Than We Think
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-military-operating-more-countries-than-we-think/5798548
by Jim Lobe
+
Towards a World War III Scenario:
The Privatization of Nuclear War
by Prof
Michel Chossudovsky and James Corbett
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f.
2022 Midterm Election Results
https://therealnews.com/
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The Makings of an Election-Day Disaste
https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/06/ralph-nader-the-makings-of-an-election-day-disaster/
by
Ralph Nader
+
For African/Black Working Class
and Colonized Peoples, Midterm Elections in the U.S. Offer No Relief from War,
Repression and Capitalist Misery
by Ajamu Baraka
The 50-year old neo-liberal
agenda explains why political choices in this country provide little change
that benefits the masses of people. The recent midterm election results will
not bring about an improvement in the lives of the Black working class.
The agenda was set with the Lewis Powell
Memorandum in 1971. Written at the request of the United States Chamber of
Commerce, probably the most influential structure of capitalist rule at the
time, the concern for the Chamber was the need to find a more coherent
counter-offensive to the attacks against the system over the previous years. At
the center of the anti-system attacks during the 1960s was,
of course, the Black Liberation Movement and the Anti-War movement.
Powell made the argument that
the capitalist class had to recognize that their very survival was at stake and
that meant capitalists had to understand that as a class their interests
transcended their individual enterprises.
And while the tone of Powell’s
memo was “professional” and lacked rhetorical excesses, the need for a more
intentional and strategic class war was the call that leaped out from the
Powell memo.
“The day is long past when the
chief executive officer of a major corporation discharges his responsibility by
maintaining a satisfactory growth of profits, with due regard to the
corporation's public and social responsibilities. If our system is to survive,
top management must be equally concerned with protecting and preserving the
system itself.”
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DISCUSS: US Midterm Elections –
More obvious corruption, more reality denial
It’s
election Day in the US, amid what they call the “most important” mid-term
elections of all time. Apparently, the very idea of democracy is at risk. The
crazy thing is, both sides are saying this, like one
of those medieval battles where two kings both claimed to be chosen by God.
The NFL, NBA and MLB keep
having players do ads where they tell people to vote. Pocket celebrities and
those public figures still suffering Trump Derangment
Syndrome are talking up the importance of voting as if it’s a Gandhi vs Hitler on the ballot.
Yes, they are pushing the
“your vote matters” messaging really hard with this one, despite the fact that
no votes have mattered less in the history of US democracy.
2020 was the most brazenly
rigged Presidential election I have ever seen – Joe Biden shattering the votes
received record by 14 million votes is absurd – and it looks like these
midterms will follow the same playbook. [You can read the detail report on that
here.]
In the run up to the 2020
election, news outlets all over the Western world were talking about mail-in
ballots being safe (they’re not, they’re the easiest ballots to cheat with),
while also predicting “it’s gonna look like Trump has
won, then he will lose”, and that counting the votes will take a much longer
time than usual.
It was an obvious set-up for a
rigged election – and the same is happening now.
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What we might learn about this
next election from what happened on November 22, 1963
by Mark
Crispin Miller
A Revolutionary Lens on U.S.
Elections
https://www.blackagendareport.com/revolutionary-lens-us-elections
by Netfa Freeman
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g.
Palestine in Pictures: October
2022
https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-pictures-october-2022/36631
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Netanyahu Election Victory Will
Mean Massive Escalation In Palestine-Israel Conflict
by Robert Inlakesh
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Why are
Israel's cops a "strategic partner" for EU?
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/why-are-israels-cops-strategic-partner-eu
by David
Cronin
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Why doesn't Amnesty recognize
Palestinians' right to resist?
https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-doesnt-amnesty-recognize-palestinians-right-resist/36576
by Maureen Clare Murphy
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Israel’s Violent Repression of
Palestinian Human Rights Organizations: CJPME
by
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
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“Honest” Reporting: Meet The Israel-Linked Pressure Group Getting Palestinian
Journalists Fired
by Jessica Buxbaum
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The ‘Principal Threat’: Time to
Talk about the Palestinian Class Struggle
https://www.mintpressnews.com/time-to-talk-about-palestinian-labor-class-struggle/282600/
by Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo
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h.
New Documentary Released: 'The
Origins of America's Secret Police'
https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-documentary-released-origins-america-secret-police/5798445
by Matthew Ehret-Kump
(31:19)
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History of Nazism in Ukraine: The
OUN during World War Two, 1941-1945 – Part 2
https://www.globalresearch.ca/history-fascism-ukraine/5798384
by Hugo
Turner
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i.
Examining the Sinister Growth of
Digital Currencies around the World
by James
Corbett
The coming Central Bank
Digital Currency prison is truly global in nature, being implemented in nearly
every country in the world.
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j.
From Ireland to Crimea – A
History of British-sponsored Terrorism
https://www.globalresearch.ca/from-ireland-to-crimea-history-british-sponsored-terrorism/5798392
by Gavin OReilly
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Germany: Is the Chancellor
Betraying the US Emperor? The New Germany-China "Connection"
https://www.globalresearch.ca/germany-chancellor-betraying-us-emperor/5798455
by Peter
Koenig
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Germany’s position in America’s
New World Order
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57324.htm
by Michael
Hudson
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The One Chart That Explains
Everything
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57323.htm
by Mike
Whitney
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How to
Destroy Russia. 2019 Rand Corporation Report: "Overextending
and Unbalancing Russia"
https://www.globalresearch.ca/rand-corp-how-destroy-russia/5678456
by Manlio Dinucci
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k.
How Europe Is Destroying Its Own
‘Garden
https://www.mintpressnews.com/decline-europe-destroying-garden/282616/
by Ramzy Baroud
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Will You Survive the ‘Tripledemic’?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/will-you-survive-the-tripledemic/5798475
by Dr.
Joseph Mercola
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The Shortages Are Coming
https://www.globalresearch.ca/shortages-coming/5798552
by Michael
Snyder
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The Truth About
Cargill, The World’s Most Evil Company
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-truth-about-cargill-the-worlds-most-evil-company/282560/
with Lee Camp
(15:11)
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Africa Confronts the Food,
Fertilizer, and Climate Crisis
http://www.blackagendareport.com/africa-confronts-food-fertilizer-and-climate-crisis
by AnnGarrison
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l.
Chinese Governance and Diverse
Paths to Modernization
https://www.globalresearch.ca/chinese-governance-and-diverse-paths-to-modernization/5798510
by Peter
Koenig
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m.
New Study Delves Into Censorship During COVID Era
https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-study-delves-into-censorship-during-covid-era/5798398
by Cindy
Harper
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Climate Disruption: It's Not Due
to CO2
https://www.globalresearch.ca/climate-disruption-its-not-due-to-co2/5677036
by Prof.
Claudia von Werlhof and Silvia Terribili
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n.
The BBC’s Connections to the
Conservative Party, and Unit 8200 Infiltrating Social Media
with Lowkey and Alan MacLeod
(51:16)
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The BBC-to-NATO Pipeline: How the
British State Broadcaster Serves the Powerful
https://www.mintpressnews.com/bbc-nato-pipeline-british-state-broadcaster-serves-powerful/282156/
by Alan
Macleod
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o.
News from Underground by Mark
Crispin Miller
“In memory
of those who "died suddenly" in the United States and worldwide,
October 31-November 2”
Musicians
in the US (3), Canada, Jamaica, Chile, UK, France, Switzerland (2), Finland,
Italy (2) & Russia; journalists in the US, Germany, Norway (2), Serbia,
South Africa, Russia & Malaysia; & more
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p.
Global Research: Selected
Articles – Nov. 9
Video: The “Death Tsunami” Is Here. “You should never ever take any COVID shot anymore, ” with Dr. Sherry Tenpenny.