Bulletin N° 1077
“Moby Dick,
or the Whale”
https://librivox.org/moby-dick-by-herman-melville/
by
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
(24:37:50)
“This novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by
the crazed Captain Ahab of the book’s eponymous white whale. But interspersed
in that story are digressions, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and
life, and a display of techniques so advanced for its time that some have
referred to the 1851 Moby Dick as the first ‘modern’ novel.”
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“Moby Dick” and the soul of
American capitalism
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGrbRPkLqjPNZjRncBCKBCWzfMM
with Chris Hedges
(35:12)
"Moby
Dick", by Herman Melville, is among America’s greatest novels. It is a
prescient portrait of the American character and our ultimate fate as a nation
and perhaps a species. Melville makes our murderous
obsessions, our hubris, violent impulses, moral weakness, and inevitable
self-destruction visible in his chronicle of a whaling voyage.
Melville’s description of the ship’s captain, Ahab, is a description of the
bankers, corporate boards, politicians, television personalities, and generals
who, through the power of propaganda, fill our heads with seductive images of
glory and lust for wealth and power. We are consumed with self-induced
obsessions that spur us toward self-annihilation. Melville is our foremost
oracle. He is to us what William Shakespeare was to Elizabethan England, or Fyodor Dostoyevsky to czarist Russia.
Subject:
“Mental Constructs” and Material Constructions: The Role of Ideology.
Grenoble
December 4, 2022
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
By some accounts we are witnessing the precipitous
fall of the capitalist system, and the ideas of the ruling class have proved to
be bankrupt, which is to say the dominant ideologies now have less currency.
Historically, we might observe that in times of such crises, as we are experiencing
today, the ruling class debacle proceeds like a bateau ivre and pushes in every direction, abandoning any collective notion of
progress. This class is a social minority, and they are playing a dangerous
game, though undetectable behind the veil of pathologies that prevail. Culture now
appears as heroic sound effects, but without substance; its
social contribution is to distract us, producing only heat and no light. In the
dark, we are bound to stumble and fall repeatedly, until we are treaded upon by
the harried masses in search of an imaginary exit.
The 16+ items below represent the grim
account of our many trials and tribulations by many brave authors of articles
and essays in a long radical Anglophone tradition, offering critical views and
analyses of current events.
We encourage readers to become familiar with this
alternative democratic tradition and embrace the discussions it inspires,
sifting and winnowing for facts that lead to true perceptions, instead of a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing....
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.
Ethical Parameters for Human Enhancement?
by Robert W
Malone MD, MS
Excluding military applications...
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The De-Population Bomb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNdnlrkx-wg
by Hoover
Institute
(1 :06 :23)
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This Is How America Ends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s47elUKUZdk&feature=youtu.be
with Jimmy Dore
(10:15)
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The Great Reset's Dark Origins & Crumbling COVID
Illusion
with Ryan Cristián and Richard Grove
(audio, 1:16:31)
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What is the Deep State? The Doomsday Project and
Deep Events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11
by Prof Peter Dale
Scott
“I
know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must
see to it that this agency [the National Security Agency] and all agencies that
possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so
that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no
return.” —
Senator Frank Church (1975)
I
would like to discuss four major and badly understood events – the John F.
Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11. I will analyze these
deep events as part of a deeper political process linking them, a process that
has helped build up repressive power in America at the expense of democracy.
In
recent years I have been talking about a dark force behind these events — a
force which, for want of a better term, I have clumsily called a “deep
state,” operating both within and outside the public state. Today for the
first time I want to identify part of that dark force, a part which has
operated for five decades or more at the edge of the public state. This part of
the dark force has a name not invented by me: the Doomsday Project, the
Pentagon’s name for the emergency planning “to keep the White House and
Pentagon running during and after a nuclear war or some other major crisis.”1
My
point is a simple and important one: to show that the Doomsday Project of the 1980s, and the earlier emergency planning that developed
into it, have played a role in the background of all the deep events I shall
discuss.
More
significantly, it has been a factor behind all three of the disturbing events
that now threaten American democracy. The first of these three is what has been
called the conversion of our economy into a plutonomy
– with the increasing separation of America into two classes, into the haves
and the have-nots, the one percent and the 99 percent. The second is America’s
increasing militarization, and above all its inclination, which has become more
and more routine and predictable, to wage or provoke wars in remote regions of
the globe. It is clear that the operations of this American war machine have
served the one percent.2
The
third – my subject today — is the important and increasingly deleterious impact
on American history of structural deep events: mysterious events, like the
JFK assassination, the Watergate break-in, or 9/11, which violate the American
social structure, have a major impact on American society, repeatedly involve
law-breaking or violence, and in many cases proceed from an unknown dark force.
There
are any number of analyses of America’s current breakdown in terms of income
and wealth disparity, also in terms of America’s increasing militarization and
belligerency. What I shall do today is I think new: to argue that both the
income disparity – or what has been called our plutonomy
— and the belligerency have been fostered significantly by deep events.
We
must understand that the income disparity of America’s current economy was not
the result of market forces working independently of political intervention. In
large part it was generated by a systematic and deliberate ongoing political
process dating from the anxieties of the very wealthy in the 1960s and 1970s
that control of the country was slipping away from them.
This
was the time when future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, in a 1971
memorandum, warned that survival of the free enterprise system depended on
“careful long-range planning and implementation” of a well-financed response to
threats from the left.3 This warning was answered by a sustained
right-wing offensive, coordinated by think tanks and funded lavishly by a small
group of family foundations.4 We should recall that all this was in
response to serious riots in Newark, Detroit, and elsewhere, and that
increasing calls for a revolution were coming from the left (in Europe as well
as America). I will focus today on the right’s response to that challenge, and
on the role of deep events in enhancing their response.
What
was important about the Powell memorandum was less the document itself than the
fact that it was commissioned by the United States Chamber of Commerce, one of
the most influential and least discussed lobbying groups in America. And the
memorandum was only one of many signs of that developing class war in the
1970s, a larger process working both inside and outside government (including
what Irving Kristol called an “intellectual
counterrevolution”), which led directly to the so-called “Reagan Revolution.”5
It
is clear that this larger process has been carried on for almost five decades,
pumping billions of right-wing dollars into the American political process.
What I wish to show today is that deep events have also been integral to this
right-wing effort, from the John F. Kennedy assassination in 1963 to 9/11. 9/11
resulted in the implementation of “Continuity of Government” (COG) plans (which
in the Oliver North Iran Contra Hearings of 1987 were called plans for “the
suspension of the U.S. constitution”). These COG plans, building on earlier COG
planning, had been carefully developed since 1982 in the so-called Doomsday
Project, by a secret group appointed by Reagan. The group was composed of both
public and private figures, including Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
I
shall try to show today that in this respect 9/11 was only the culmination of a
sequence of deep events reaching back to the Kennedy assassination if not
earlier, and that the germs of the Doomsday Project can be detected behind all
of them.
More
specifically, I shall try to demonstrate about these deep events that
1) prior bureaucratic misbehavior by the CIA and similar
agencies helped to make both the Kennedy assassination and 9/11 happen;
2) the
consequences of each deep event included an increase in top-down repressive
power for these same agencies, at the expense of persuasive democratic power;6
3) there are symptomatic overlaps in personnel between the
perpetrators of each of these deep events and the next;
4) one sees in each event the involvement of elements of the
international drug traffic – suggesting that our current plutonomy
is also to some degree a narconomy;
5) in the
background of each event (and playing an increasingly important role) one sees
the Doomsday Project — the alternative emergency planning structure with its
own communications network, operating as a shadow network outside of regular
government channels.
Bureaucratic Misbehavior as a Factor
Contributing to both the JFK Assassination and 9/11
Both
the JFK assassination and 9/11 were facilitated by the way the CIA and FBI
manipulated their files about alleged perpetrators of each event (Lee Harvey
Oswald in the case of what I shall call JFK, and the
alleged hijackers Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi in the case of
9/11). Part of this facilitation was the decision on October 9, 1963 of an FBI
agent, Marvin Gheesling, to remove Oswald from the
FBI watch list for surveillance. This was shortly after Oswald’s arrest in New
Orleans in August and his reported travel to Mexico in September. Obviously
these developments should normally have made Oswald a candidate for increased
surveillance.7
This
misbehavior is paradigmatic of the behavior of other agencies, especially the
CIA, in both JFK and 9/11. Indeed Gheesling’s
behavior fits very neatly with the CIA’s culpable withholding from the FBI, in
the same month of October, information that Oswald had allegedly met in Mexico
City with a suspected KGB agent, Valeriy
Kostikov.8 This also helped ensure that Oswald would not be placed under
surveillance. Indeed, former FBI Director Clarence Kelley in his memoir later
complained that the CIA’s withholding of information was the major reason why
Oswald was not put under surveillance on November 22, 1963.9
A
more ominous provocation in 1963 was that of Army Intelligence, one unit of
which in Dallas did not simply withhold information about Lee Harvey Oswald,
but manufactured false intelligence that seemed designed to provoke retaliation
against Cuba. I call such provocations phase-one stories, efforts to portray
Oswald as a Communist conspirator (as opposed to the later phase-two stories, also
false, portraying him as a disgruntled loner). A conspicuous example of such
phase-one stories is a cable from the Fourth Army Command in Texas, reporting a
tip from a Dallas policeman who was also in an Army Intelligence Reserve unit:
Assistant
Chief Don Stringfellow, Intelligence Section, Dallas
Police Department, notified 112th INTC [Intelligence] Group, this Headquarters, that information obtained from Oswald revealed
he had defected to Cuba in 1959 and is a card-carrying member of Communist
Party.”10
This
cable was sent on November 22 directly to the U.S. Strike Command at Fort MacDill in Florida, the base poised for a possible
retaliatory attack against Cuba.11
The
cable was not an isolated aberration. It was supported by other false phase-one
stories from Dallas about Oswald’s alleged rifle, and specifically by
concatenated false translations of Marina Oswald’s testimony, to suggest that
Oswald’s rifle in Dallas was one he had owned in Russia.12
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b.
Fauci Forced To Answer COVID Questions By Judge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Aft4wxfac&feature=youtu.be
with Jimmy Dore
(31:45)
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Big Pharma “Knowingly Sold” HIV-Infected Products In Asia & Latin America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9bN3C3_YcA&feature=youtu.be
(5:54)
Natural cross immunity confirmed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaSU2mfNrIg
with Dr. John Campbell
(20:21)
+
The US Spends Almost as Much on Healthcare as the Rest of the World Combined and Has One of the Worst Outcomes
by Robert Scheer
DIED SUDDENLY: The Film
They Don't Want You To See
with Nicholas Stumphauzer
and Matt Skow
(1:08:21)
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Financial Crimes, COVID +
Con Artists
with Whitney Webb and Dr. Jessica Rose
(55:18)
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“It’s not too late to stop being a tool
of oppression”
by Jem Bendell and read by Michael
Dowd
(audio, 22:47)
See
complete text, with Internet links @
https://jembendell.com/2022/11/21/its-not-too-late-to-stop-being-a-tool-of-oppression/
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c.
Facebook (Meta)
Confirms It Has Ties to a U.S. Military Propaganda Campaign
by Mac Slavo
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Call of Duty is a Government Psyop:
These Documents Prove It
https://www.mintpressnews.com/call-of-duty-is-a-government-psyop-these-documents-prove-it/282781/
by Alan Macleod
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II has been
available for less than three weeks, but it is already making waves. Breaking
records, within ten days, the first-person military shooter video game earned more than $1 billion in revenue. Yet it
has also been shrouded in controversy, not least because missions include
assassinating an Iranian general clearly based on Qassem
Soleimani, a statesman and military leader slain by
the Trump administration in 2020, and a level where players must shoot “drug
traffickers” attempting to cross the U.S./Mexico border.
The
Call of Duty franchise is an
entertainment juggernaut, having sold close to half a billion games since it
was launched in 2003. Its publisher, Activision Blizzard, is a giant in the
industry, behind titles games as the Guitar
Hero, Warcraft,
Starcraft,
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Crash Bandicoot and Candy Crush Saga series.
Yet
a closer inspection of Activision Blizzard’s key staff and their connections to
state power, as well as details gleaned from documents obtained under the
Freedom of Information Act, reveal that Call
of Duty is not a neutral first-person shooter, but a carefully
constructed piece of military propaganda, designed to advance the interests of
the U.S. national security state.
+
False
Flags: The Secret History of Al Qaeda (parts 1, 2, & 3)
https://www.corbettreport.com/alqaeda/
with James Corbett
+
False Flags Q & A - Questions For Corbett
https://www.corbettreport.com/qfc-ffqanda/
with James Corbett
(51:03)
Last week James solicited your questions on False Flags: The Secret History of Al Qaeda and you responded. In today's edition of Questions For Corbett, James answers your queries on Al CIA-da, the invasion of Iraq, the role of Cheney in 9/11, Eisenhower's awareness of the conspiracy and much more.
A False Flag Reading List - Questions For Corbett
with James Corbett
(49:40)
+
Propadanda
:
“Eye-bouncing” - #SolutionsWatch
https://www.bitchute.com/video/H9lwUAK8ccox/
with James Corbett
(23:44)
+
The UN outlines a new campaign against “hate speech”
https://reclaimthenet.org/un-campaign-hate-speech/
by Didi Rankovic
Another
vaguely-worded push for speech restrictions.
If you're tired of censorship, cancel
culture, and the erosion of privacy and civil liberties subscribe
to Reclaim The Net.
The United Nations (UN) is dishing out tips on social media to citizens around the world on how
to “say no to hate” – specifically online, declaring at the same time that
“words can be weapons” which lead to violence in real life.
Instead of dedicating all its energy to
policing, through peacekeeping, warzones, and making sure international law and
the UN Charter are respected by all its member-states, the UN seems to have
plenty of time and resources to be policing online speech.
Related: UN is working with tech, media companies, and states
to address “misinformation” and “hate speech”
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d.
The West is playing Russian roulette"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBiV1h7Dm5E
with Freddie Sayers
and John Mearsheimer
(1:17:12)
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SERIOUS! Jeffrey Sachs: "The Crisis Will Wipe
Out Everyone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcIR6a9bREo&feature=youtu.be
with Jeffrey Sachs
(8:42)
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Inflation, Europe's energy crisis, and the Fed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I43uC1mfHKc&feature=youtu.be
with Chris Hedges
and Richard Wolff
(34 :00)
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Neocon takeover of
EU nears completion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei8TRZm_zAQ
with Alex Christoforou, Alexander Mercouris,
and Glenn Diesen
(1:43:55)
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Q & A: Neocon takeover
of EU nears completion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9IB8hQECb0&feature=youtu.be
with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris
(34:27)
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Furious With Biden, Europe Says US Is Profiting Off
Ukraine War
https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/28/furious-with-biden-europe-says-us-is-profiting-off-ukraine-war/
by Dave DeCamp
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Europe Accuses U.S. Of War Profiteering Off Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzHuOYUQ4Hw
with Jimmy Dore
(11:20)
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EU bad moves, oil price cap. Russia big moves, gas
union
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9abYGrFjzBo
with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris
(27:25)
===========
e.
Alex Rubinstein on Nazism in Ukraine, NAFO and
Information Warfare
by Scheer Post Staff
(51:04)
+
Failure of Western Allies to Destroy Nazism
https://www.globalresearch.ca/failure-western-allies-destroy-nazism/5800511
by Shane Quinn
+
Ukraine Russia War Update 11-30-22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QVDWt3OBJc&feature=youtu.be
with Judge
Napolitano and Scott Ritter
(27:43)
+
Russia Ukraine War (Live)
: Putin's Forces Shell Several Towns In Donetsk To Regain
Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK7GS-yHKxQ&feature=youtu.be
with Times Now
(8:37:27)
Russia-Ukraine War Live
: Russia launched an offensive and tried to make further advances and
shelled several towns, including Bakhmut and nearby Soledar and Opytne. Other
battleground activity was reported in northeastern and central Ukraine, the
Ukrainian military said. Russia Ukraine War Live: Putin's Forces Shell Several
Towns In Donetsk To Regain Control, World News
+
The Russians are fully mobilizing to complete the
task
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeHGrvYk-Do&feature=youtu.be
with Douglas
Macgregor
(39:58)
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Russia, massive missile strike. Macron meets Biden. Putin scolds Scholz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGBw1RM0RLg&feature=youtu.be
with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris
(32 :07)
+
German Military Preparing for Potential War with
Russia, Leaked Internal Report Reveals
by Ben Norton
+
The Poland Lie Exposed The
Propaganda Pipeline & Israel Sent Secret “Strategic Materials” To Ukraine
with Ryan Cristián and Michael Hudson
(1:54:49)
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Why German-state racism is now directed at the
Palestinians
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57361.htm
by Jonathan Cook
There are troubling insights to be
gained into modern European racism from the German arts community’s decision
to revoke a lifetime achievement award to the respected
British playwright Caryl Churchill over her trenchant support for the Palestinians.
On 31 October, Churchill was stripped of
the European Drama Prize she had been given in April in recognition of her
life’s work. The decision was backed by Petra Olschowski,
the arts minister of the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, who said: “We as a country take a clear and non-negotiable
stance against any form of antisemitism. This is all
the more reason why a prize funded by the state cannot be awarded under the
given circumstances.”
The jury - comprising eminent figures in
German cultural life - said they had had their attention drawn, since making
the award, to two problems. First, Churchill had backed BDS, a Palestinian grassroots movement calling for a
boycott of Israeli institutions directly involved in Israel’s decades-long oppression of the Palestinians.
Back in 2019, an overwhelming majority
of the German parliament designated support for BDS
as “antisemitic”.
And second, the panel had been reminded
of a short play called Seven Jewish Children, written 13 years ago in the immediate aftermath of
Israel’s savage and extended bombardment of Gaza’s besieged Palestinian population in the winter of
2008-09. In a statement, the German jury said the play could "be regarded as being antisemitic".
In Churchill’s now largely forgotten
play, Jewish parents articulate their trauma generation by generation.
Palestinians are not present. They are
shadows. They are the referred pain of a wound from Europe. Instead, the play contextualises the suffering in Gaza through a series of
monologues as each generation of Jewish parents struggles to decide what they
should tell their children and what realities they should hide - be it about
the horrors of Europe, the crimes involved in the creation of Israel, or
the bombardment of Gaza.
The play hints at uncomfortable truths:
that the oppressed can turn into oppressor; that traumas do not necessarily
heal or enlighten; and that their effects can be complex and paradoxical.
Friends to tormentors
One conclusion to draw from the
revocation of Churchill’s award - the latest episode in Europe’s endless “antisemitism rows” - is that German elites, who control the
public discourse, have signally failed to internalise
the Holocaust’s key lesson.
It is a universal one: that we should
never tolerate the demonisation of oppressed and marginalised groups, or those who stand in solidarity with
them, especially when the state itself or its representatives are behind such demonisation. That way lies pogroms
and gas chambers.
How has support for the Palestinian
cause of BDS - for boycotts of those directly involved in Israel’s decades-long
oppression and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians - come to be reinterpreted
as racism against Jews?
This, of course, is not a uniquely
German failing. Most western states - including the US, France and Britain - have willingly conflated criticism of Israel over
its oppression of Palestinians with antisemitism, and
sought to silence or criminalise calls to punish
Israel through boycotts.
But this failure ought to be all the
more surprising given the enormous efforts Germany has expended over many
decades in Holocaust
education, supposedly to
eradicate the susceptibility of Germans to state-sponsored racism. How have
they switched - so easily, it seems - from one kind of state-sanctioned racism,
antisemitism, to another kind, anti-Palestinian
racism?
But even more paradoxically, Germany has
smeared not just Palestinians and their supporters through its crackdown on
BDS, but Jews too. It treats them all as inherently responsible for the actions
of Israel, a state that no more represents all Jews than Saudi Arabia represents all Muslims.
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Palestine-Israel: The History and the Evidence
https://www.globalresearch.ca/palestine-israel-evidence/5801087
by Hans Stehling
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f.
“Operation Claw-Sword”: Erdogan’s
Big New Game in Syria
https://www.globalresearch.ca/operation-claw-sword-erdogan-big-new-game-syria/5800567
by Pepe Escobar
+
Turkey delivers its terms to US, ground invasion imminent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rEdeiIpaB0
with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris
(17:43)
+
Made in Britain: How London Handpicks Iraqi Leaders
https://www.globalresearch.ca/made-britain-how-london-handpicks-iraqi-leaders/5800619
by Kit Klarenberg
+
Turkey's Erdogan Threatens
Ground Invasion Of Syria After Unclaimed Attack In
Istanbul
by Robert Inlakesh
After
firing a series of strikes against Kurdish armed groups in both Syria and Iraq,
Turkish President, Recep Tayip
Erdogan, has threatened a ground invasion into
north-eastern Syria. The strikes have been painted as a response to a terrorist
attack in central Istanbul, but what else factors into this decision?
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g.
Nord Stream updates Russia-Germany pipeline outage
end-date to April next year
by Reuters
+
Electric War
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57364.htm
by Pepe Escobar
Spare a thought to the Polish farmer
snapping pics of a missile
wreckage – later indicated to belong to a Ukrainian S-300. So a Polish farmer,
his footfalls echoing in our collective memory, may have saved the world from
WWIII – unleashed via a tawdry plot concocted by Anglo-American “intelligence”.
Such tawdriness was compounded by a
ridiculous cover-up: the Ukrainians were firing on Russian missiles from a
direction that they could not possibly be coming from. That is: Poland. And
then the U.S. Secretary of Defense, weapons peddler Lloyd “Raytheon” Austin,
sentenced Russia was to blame anyway, because his Kiev vassals were shooting at
Russian missiles that should not have been in the air (and they were not).
Call it the Pentagon elevating bald
lying into a rather shabby art.
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Is NATO falling apart?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57363.htm
by The Saker
Something quite amazing has just
happened. Following the terrorist attack in Ankara which
killed 34 people and injured another 125, Turkish authorities first declared that they will not accept US condolences. Then the Turks launched a military operation
against “Kurdish terrorists in northern Syria“. Turkey then claimed to have neutralized 184 terrorists.
What is not mentioned in those articles
is that the target of the Turkish strike was the US-run center for the training
and education of PKK militants in Rojava. There
are rumors that the Turks gave the US enough warning time to evacuate most of
its personnel.
Does that sound familiar?
If it does, it is because it is very
similar to what the Iranians did when they hit US bases in Iraq following the
murder of General Solemani in a US drone strike.
If the above is true, and rumors are
very much “if” and cannot be considered as proven fact, then that means that a
NATO member state (Turkey) just attacked a US base and, like Iran, got away
with it: the “The Finest Fighting Force in the History of the World” just got
whacked hard and humiliated for a second time and could do absolutely nothing
to defend itself or even save face.
How big a slap in the face did Uncle Shmuel get this time? According to the Turkish defense
minister, Hulusi Akar,
Terrorists’
shelters, bunkers, caves, tunnels, and warehouses were successfully destroyed,” Akar said, adding that “the so-called headquarters of the terrorist
organization were also hit and destroyed.” Overall, the Defense Ministry
claimed that the strikes hit nearly 90 targets, which it said were connected to
the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Kurdish People’s Defense Units
(YPG).
Even allowing for some “patriotic
exaggeration”, it is pretty clear that Ergodan’s
revenge strike was both quite substantial and, apparently, rather effective.
So, what do we have here? A NATO
member state all but accused the US of a major terrorist attack against its
capital city, and then that NATO member state openly attacked a US-run facility
(let’s not call it a base, that would be inaccurate).
Is Erdogan’s
claim even credible? Absolutely! Not only has the US already
attempted to overthrow and kill Erdogan, who was
saved in extremis by Russian
special forces (same with Ianukovich), but we also
know that the US overthrew General de Gaulle in 1968-1969 and that NATO covert
forces were used to stage false flag attacks against NATO allies (especially
Italy) in the so-called GLADIO operation.
NATO is not a defensive alliance – it
never was – but it is a tool of US colonial
domination.
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h.
Michael Hudson: The Destiny of Civilization: Finance
Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57366.htm
by Real
Progressives
(1:09:02)
+
Economic Update: Nomi Prins
on the Distorted US Financial System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii3TEen_LP4&feature=youtu.be
with Nomi Prins and Richard Wolff
(29:55)
+
Economic Update: The Terminal Crises of Global
Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXNhS0bMv9I
with Richard Wolff
and Prof. William I. Robinson
(29:10)
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Russia, China and the “Multipolar
World”. The Kremlin’s Evolving Relations with Africa
by Kester Kenn Klomegah
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i.
Ukraine: Winter offensive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6DUVEi5gos
with Alex Christoforou, Alexander Mercouris,Patrick
Lancaster and Alex at Reporterfy
(1:29:02)
+
Watch "Q & A: Winter offensive"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIXZjyl1fPk
with Alex Christoforou, Alexander Mercouris
(22:16)
+
700.000 Russian troops are now devouring Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WL1_2qCxEI&feature=youtu.be
with Aaron Maté and Douglas Macgregor
(39:02)
+
Back from the front: a British volunteer in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbD4WBqPg4
by Lindybeige
(57:51)
+
Chris Hedges Report: Soldiers speak out against
America's misguided wars"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwhW8avrCng&feature=youtu.be
with Chris Hedges,
Andrew Bacevich, and Danny Sjursen
(32:41)
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New Documentary Offers Grunt’s View of War in Afghanistan
During Its Last Nine Months
by Ed Rampell
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j.
“The New McCarthyism:
Angela Davis Speaks in New York After Critics Shut Down Two Events”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR5_sNrNV6s&feature=youtu.be
with Amy Goodman
(14:56)
When high school students in Rockland
County, New York, invited renowned activist and professor
Angela Davis to speak, the event got shut down in two different venues over
protests that she was "too radical." But the students persevered, and
Angela Davis addressed a packed church Thursday night. "I talked about the
importance of recognizing that through struggle, through organized struggle,
through the efforts of people who come together and join hands and join their
voices together, we've made changes in this country," says Davis. We also
speak with community activist Nikki Hines, who supported students at Rockland
County High School when they invited Davis to speak and who says
"misinformation" drove the protests.
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How Terror Came Home and What to Make of It
https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/24/how-terror-came-home-and-what-to-make-of-it/
by Andrea Mazzarino
+
Steven Donziger & Lee
Camp: Big Oil Owns the US Justice System
https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/23/steven-donziger-lee-camp-big-oil-owns-the-us-justice-system/
with Steven Donziger and Lee Camp
(55:35)
+
The Corporate Media Deference That Endangers Us All
https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/26/the-corporate-media-deference-that-endangers-us-all/
by Caitlin
Johnstone
+
Ralph Nader Explains Why Democrats Lost the House
by Chris Hedges
+
2022 Midterm Election Analysis
https://www.blackagendareport.com/2022-midterm-election-analysis
with Dr. Anthony Monteiro
(audio, 27:40)
+
African and Indigenous Peoples: An Alliance for
Defense, Survival and Revolution
with Mark P. Fancher
+
San Francisco Police Department Proposes Letting
Robots Kill Suspects
https://www.globalresearch.ca/san-francisco-pd-proposes-letting-robots-kill-suspects/5801085
by Zero
Hedge
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k.
From Xinjiang to Shanghai, Protests Grow in China
over COVID Restrictions After Fatal Apartment Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzKlUMupkzw&feature=youtu.be
with Amy Goodman
(15:52)
Unprecedented protests have erupted in
multiple Chinese cities over President Xi Jinping's
strict zero-COVID policies, which have resulted in extended strict lockdowns
across the country. The protests were triggered by a deadly fire Thursday at an
apartment building in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, where local COVID
restrictions reportedly prevented firefighters from reaching the trapped
residents. This comes as hundreds of workers at the world's largest iPhone factory, Foxconn, clashed
last week with police over restrictions that have forced many workers to live
at the factory. "China now for three years has seen a level of lockdown
that is simply inconceivable," says Cornell labor scholar Eli Friedman,
who calls the cross-class, cross-ethnic protests a
"movement against surveillance." Friedman says although China
enforces the country's COVID restrictions, top U.S. corporations like Apple and
Tesla are implicated in upholding the closed-loop management system at Foxconn and other Chinese manufacturers.
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Xi vs Trudeau: How China
is Rewriting History with the Colonial West
https://www.mintpressnews.com/xi-trudeau-china-rewriting-competition-with-west/282824/
by Ramzy Baroud
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China: The World’s First Technate
– Part 1
https://off-guardian.org/2022/11/25/china-the-worlds-first-technate-part-1/
by Iain Davis
+
Chinese Defiance - #NewWorldNextWeek
https://www.corbettreport.com/nwnw503/
with James Corbett
and James Even Pilato
(23:26)
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Accept to Lockdown, Be Arrested, Queuing
for Covid Tests: China’s Changing Social and Economic
Landscape
https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-changing-social-economic-landscape/5800593
by Tom Clifford
It was a tiny
incident, not captured by TV cameras, nor did it make headlines across the
world. But it suggested a seismic shift in attitudes. The men in white hazmat
suits, (the Big Whites as they are known as or da bai in Mandarin) had come to lock down a building of about
100 residents in northern Beijing.
It
was close to 5pm on Sunday. The Big Whites erected steel barriers and were
about to cordon off the 26-floor structure with a large metal fence. Then the
women came out. They were a group of mothers of small children and residents of
the building. They berated the officials, shouting at them.
Security
guards hurriedly arrived and menacingly took up position. Everyone expected the
women to back down, accept the lockdown, be arrested or at least cautioned.
Those who challenge authority in China normally pay a heavy price. But the
women stood their ground. Shouts and insults were exchanged. And then
incredibly the men in white suits took down the barriers and left.
The
security guards also left. People on the street who were queuing for Covid tests witnessed the incident and applauded the
outcome. China is changing socially as well as economically.
The
miracle that has transformed the country’s fortunes over the past four decades
was due in large part to local-level policy innovation and experimentation.
Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) Holds Its Annual Strategic Private Meeting: “Shaping the
Future of China”. Deep-seated Political Divisions within
Chinese Leadership?
Beijing
unleashed the hounds of capitalism and let the provinces get on with the job.
Growth was the priority. President Xi Jinping changed
that. His priority and the party’s since he came to office in 2012 was enhancing the party’s position. He believed that great
prosperity gave people greater choice and the party position would,
consequently, be undermined. People with financial security do not need to
follow party manifestos or doff their caps to officials.
Even
before COVID broke in early 2020 Xi had implemented measures to curtail GDP
growth that was then about 6 per cent. Then Covid hit
and Xi shut down Wuhan city, the scene of the first mass outbreak, with 11
million people.
.
This
it must be stressed met with initial public acclaim. But Xi’s zero-covid policy was political and not health based.
.
People
quickly tired of it. Shunning the introduction of more effective Western
vaccines, Xi allowed the elderly to avoid vaccination and claims, wrongly, that
the Omicron variant is as lethal as the initial outbreak. It isn’t.
.
The
health sector in China has been ravished by corruption. Exposing it to the
harsh spotlight of extensive media coverage would raise questions about its
financing or more pertinent, lack of investment even though billions of dollars
have been allocated to the sector. Even a cursory visit to any state hospital
would show the chronic lack of investment in what is, after all, still a
communist country.
It
is worth bearing in mind that Covid cases in China, a
country of 1.4 billion people, barely record a blip on the radar. According to official figures 5,200 have died
since the pandemic began.
That
works out at about three Covid deaths in every
million. It is 3,000 per million in the US and 2,400 per million in the UK. It
must also be pointed out that not all Covid-positive
fatalities were caused by Covid but it still gives an
indication of the likely numbers.
Beijing
is not threatened by sporadic unrest. It has immense firepower and other
measures to deal with protest. Covid restrictions
will remain as the loss of face in reducing them would carry a heavy political
price.
But
something has changed. Xi is no longer considered beyond reproach. His policies
are facing higher scrutiny in the public arena. Since Mao’s death China has
been on a journey.
During
those tumultuous decades the party has broadly enjoyed public support under the
promise of a better and wealthier tomorrow. The Chinese now fear they are being
short changed.
The
women who protested on Sunday gave voice to frustrations shared by millions.
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What System Governs the People’s Republic of China?
“Socialism With Chinese Characteristics”
by Dr. T. P.
Wilkinson
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The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State
A New Book by Simon Elmer
+
COP27 and the Climate Crisis
https://www.blackagendareport.com/cop27-and-climate-crisis
with Margaret
Kimberley and Kali Akuno
(audio, 26:18)
+
US Foreign Policy, COVID-19 & The
Great Reset - All The Unseen Tabs
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8yxtoQbzqKwN/
with Ryan Cristián
(3:58:30)
+
How to Defeat the Billionaire Class
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCCD_g1XYac&t=651s
with Chris Hedges
and Kshama Sawant
(34:39)
Since being elected to office in 2013,
Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant
and her socialist party have been locked in a bitter battle against the city’s
moneyed elites, who have poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into a
corporate PAC called “A Better Seattle” and saturated television and digital
platforms with negative advertising. Sawant is hated
because she is effective. Following a three-year struggle against the richest
man in the world—Jeff Bezos—and his political
establishment, she and her allies pushed through a tax on big business that
increased city revenues by an estimated $210 to 240 million a year.
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m.
BBC Accused of 'Whitewashing' Autocratic Azerbaijan
in BP-Sponsored Film
by James Dowsett
‘Wonders of Azerbaijan’ film was made
with BP funding and the help of the country’s controversial ruling Aliyev family.
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Doctors who are accused of spreading “misleading
information” could be jailed under new British Columbia law
https://reclaimthenet.org/british-columbia-canada-medical-censorship-bill-36/
by Tom Parker
Jail terms, huge fines, and more for
doctors who don't tow the line.
+
In memory of those who "died suddenly" in
Canada, November 21-November 28, 2022
by Mark Crispin
Miller
+
Actors who got fired for saying NO to the needle
by Mark Crispin
Miller
Along with athletes like Novak Djokovic, Aaron Rogers and Kyrie Irving, and musicians like
Van Morrison, M.I.A. and Toni Braxton, these actors are among the all-too-few
who WON'T get jabbed
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The
Defender – November 15, 2022
Children’s
Health Defense – News and Views
“Australia
Rejects 3rd Booster + Sperm Counts Plummet Worldwide + More”
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqRZgLpRLhPRJmzZqXCghWFljx
+
Global
Research – November 28, 2022
Selected Articles: “Don’t Get Jabbed: Powerful Video
on “Killer Vaccine” that Needs to be Watched by
Everyone”
+
CHD. TV – November
14, 2022
Children’s
Health Defense – Live, Video, Audio
“What's Making Our Children Sick? Disaster
Preparedness + More on CHD.TV”
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqRZfCSwvPnfPQHsJdDjSxXPDw
+
The
Defender – November 29, 2022
Children’s
Health Defense – News and Views
“Joe Rogan and Will Harris: Don’t Miss This
Interview + Twitter Ditches COVID Misinformation Policy + More”
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGrbHxvkBXsNSsQtkrpmXhhrwpl
+
The
Defender – December 1, 2022
Children’s
Health Defense – News and Views
“Landmark Deal: Fracking
Firm Pays Up for Pollution + The Eyes of Amazon +
More”
+
“Doctors/nurses in US (5), Canada (3), UK, Germany, Austria (2) & Italy; musicians in US (5), Argentina, Finland, Italy & Nigeria; actors in US (2), Germany, Denmark, Pakistan (2) & Russia; & many more”- November 21-28, 2022
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-e63?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
by Mark Crispin Miller
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‘Sickness Behavior’ + the Effect of Spike Proteins on the Body
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/doctors-and-scientists-with-brian-hooker-phd/sickness-behavior--the-effect-of-spike-proteins-on-the-body/?utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=chdtv&utm_term=chdtv&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=58c70feb-3750-46a0-b696-ce1b3fe2c94b
with Drs. Brian Hooker and Russell Blaylock
(55:47)
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p.
Friday Funnies - Trust The
Government
by Robert W
Malone MD, MS
they are here to help you. And cats.
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Sunday Strip - The More Things Change
by Robert W
Malone MD, MS
The More They Stay the Same...