Bulletin N° 1097
Video:
“Imperial Conquest: America’s ‘Long War’ against Humanity”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/imperial-conquest-americas-long-war-against-humanity/5364215
with Prof Michel Chossudovsky
(44:09)
Subject: The End of Just Another
Empire, or The End of the World?
Grenoble
April 3, 2023
Dear Colleagues and Friends of
CEIMSA,
Recently while rereading The Instinct of Workmanship (1914) by Thorstein Veblen - 55
years after my first reading - I experienced a trip down memory lane,
with many forgotten turns and byways along the path.
I was 22 years old when I first
read this book and was preparing to enter graduate school in social history at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I was introduced to Veblen’s work by an
exceptionally creative professor who had sent me a diverse list of some 20
classic readings in social science to bring my critical attention up to speed.
I discovered that Veblen had grown
up in an insulated rural Norwegian community first in Wisconsin, then in
Minnesota. He acquired skills in the English language late, and his syntax was
sometimes difficult to follow: sentences
often trailing on for half a page or more; the occasional absence of a verb
did not make for easy reading, and the British spelling was sometimes a
distraction. But it was definitely worth the effort. Veblen was an original thinker,
as only a consummate “outsider” can be. What he saw and understood is not
easily available to most people, but once grasped it has all the effect of a
lightening rod, drawing attention to hitherto unnoticed events.
In the first couple of paragraphs
from the Preface to Instinct, Veblen, in
his own inimitable way, explains the purpose of his book.
The following essay attempts
an analysis of such correlation as is visible between industrial use and wont
and those other institutional facts that go to make up any given phase or
civilisation. It is assumed that in the growth of culture, as in its current
maintenance, the facts of technological use and wont are fundamental and
definitive, in the sense that they
underlie and condition the scope and method of civilisation in other than the
technological respect, but not in such a sense as to preclude or overlook the
degree in which these other conventions of any given civilization in their turn
react on the state of the industrial arts.
The analysis proceeds on the
materialistic assumptions of modern science, but without prejudice to the
underlying question as to the ulterior competency of this materialist
conception considered as a metaphysical tenet. The inquiry simply accepts these
mechanistic assumptions of material science for the purpose in hand, since
these afford the currently acceptable terms of solution for any scientific
problem of the kind in the present state of preconceptions on this head.(p.v)
In the introductory chapter of
this book, Veblen introduces some of his basic premises for this study.
For mankind as for other
higher animals, the life of the species is conditioned by the complement of
instinctive proclivities and tropismatic aptitudes with which his species is
typically endowed. Not only is the continued life of the race dependent on the
adequacy of its instinctive proclivities in this way, but the routine and
details or its life are also, in the last resort, determined by these
instincts. These are the prime movers in human behaviour, as in the behaviour
of all those animals that show self-direction
or discretion. Human activity, in so far as it can be spoken of as conduct, can
never exceed the scope of these instinctive dispositions, by initiative of
which man takes action. Nothing falls within the human scheme of things
desirable to be done except what answers to these native proclivities of man.
These native proclivities alone make anything worthwhile, and out of their
working emerge not only the purpose and efficiency of life, but its substantial
pleasures and pains as well.
Latterly the words ‘instinct’
and ‘instinctive’ are no longer well seen among students of those biological
sciences where they once had a great vogue. Students who occupy themselves with
the psychology of animal behaviour are cautiously avoiding these expressions,
and in this caution they are doubtless well advised. For such use of the word
appears no longer to be serviceable as a technical term. It has lost the
requisite sharp definition and consistency of connotation, apparently through
disintegration under a more searching analysis than the phenomena comprised
under this concept had previously been subjected to. In these biological
sciences interest is centering not on the question of what activities may be
set down to innate propensity or predisposition at large, but rather on the
determination of the irreducible psychological – and, indeed, physiological –
elements that go to make up animal behaviour. For this purpose ‘instinct’ is a
concept too lax and shifty a definition to meet the demands of exact biological
science.
For the sciences that deal
with psychology of human conduct a similar searching analysis of the elementary
facts of behaviour is doubtless similarly desirable; and under such closer
scrutiny of these facts it will doubtless appear that here, too, the broad term
‘instinct’ is of too unprecise a character to serve the needs of an exhaustive
psychological analysis. But the needs of an inquiry into –the nature and causes
of the growth of institutions are not precisely the same as those of such an
exhaustive psychological analysis. A genetic inquiry into institutions will
address itself to the growth of habits
and conventions, as conditioned by the material environment by the innate
persistent propensities of human nature; and for the propensities, as they take
effect in the give and take of cultural growth, no better designation than the
time-worn ‘instinct’ is available.
In the light of recent
inquiries and speculations it is scarcely to be questioned that each of these
distinguishable propensities may be analyzed into simpler constituent elements,
of a quasi-tropismatic and physiological nature, but in the light of every-day
experience and common notoriety it is at the same time not to be questioned
that these simple and irreducible psychological elements of human behaviour fall
into composite functional groups, and so make up specific and determinate
propensities, proclivities, aptitudes that are, within the purview of the
social sciences, to be handled as irreducible traits of human nature. Indeed,
it would appear that it is in the particular grouping and concatenation of
these ultimate psychological elements into characteristic lines of interest and
propensity that the nature of man is finally to be distinguished from that of
the lower animals.
These various native proclivities
that are so classed together as ‘instincts’ have the characteristic in common
that they all and several, more or less imperatively, propose an objective end
of endeavour. On the other hand what distinguishes one instinct from another is
that each sets up a characteristic purpose, aim, or object to be attained,
different from the objective end of any other instinct. Instinctive action is
teleological , consciously so, and the teleological scope and aim of each
instinctive propensity differs characteristically
from the rest. The several instincts are teleological categories, and are, in
colloquial usage, distinguished and classed on the ground of their teleological
content. As the term is here used, therefore, and indeed as ig is currently
understood, the instincts are to be defined or described neither in mechanical
terms of those anatomical or physiological aptitudes that causally underline
them or that come into action in the functioning of any given instinct, not in
terms of the movements of orientation or taxis involved in the functioning of
each. The distinctive feature by the mark of which any given instinct is
identified is to be found in the particular character of the purpose to which
it drives. ‘Instinct,’ as contra-distinguished from tropismatic action,
involves consciousness and adaptation to an end aimed at.
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The ends of life, then, the
purposes to be achieved, are assigned by man’s instinctive proclivities; but
the ways and means of accomplishing those things which the instinctive
proclivities so make worth while are a matter of intelligence. It is a
distinctive mark of mankind that the working-out of the instinctive
proclivities of the race is guided by intelligence to a degree not approached
by the other animals. But the dependence of the race on is endowment of
instincts is no less absolute for this intervention of intelligence; since it
is only by the prompting of instinct that reflection and deliberation come to
be so employed, and since instinct also governs the scope and method of
intelligence in all this employment of it. Men take thought, but the human
spirit, that is to say the racial endowment of instinctive proclivities,
decided what they shall take thought of, and how and to what effect.(pp.1-6)
Veblen’s study attempts to account
for historical and psychological disposition of humanity toward craftsmanship
from Neolithic times to the Industrial Revolution and the beginning of modern
technology. He postulates that instincts are inherlited traits that lead to the
establishment of institutions, which in turn influence the effectiveness of
instincts and eventually sabotage those who have inherited these traits. Here
we see the use of early 20th-century race theory to explain the
different cultural traits and uneven economic development.
What is known of heredity goes
to say that the various racial types of man are stable ; so that during
the life history of any given racial stock, it is held, no heritable
modification of its typical make-up, whether spiritual or physical, is to be
looked for. The typical human endowment of instincts, as well as the typical
make-up of the race in the physical respect, has according to this current view
been transmitted intact from the beginning
of humanity, - that is to say from whatever point in the mutational development
of the race it is seen fit to date humanity, - except so far as subsequent
mutations have given rise to new racial stocks, to and by which this human
endowment of native proclivities has been transmitted in a typically modified
form. On the other hand the habitual elements of human life change
unremittingly and cumulatively, resulting in a continued proliferous growth of
institutions. Changes in the institutional structure are continually taking
place in response to the altered discipline of life under changing cultural
conditions, but human nature remains specifically the same.
The ways and means, material
and immaterial, by which the native proclivities work out their ends,
therefore, are forever in process of change, being conditioned by the changes
cumulatively going forward in the institutional fabric of habitual elements
that governs the scheme of life. But there is no warrant for assuming that each
or any of these successive changes in the scheme of institutions affords
successively readier, surer of more facile ways and means for the instinctive
proclivities to work out their ends, or that the phase of habituation in force
at any given point in this sequence of change is more suitable to the untroubled
functioning of these instincts than any phase that has gone before. Indeed, the
presumption is the other way. On grounds of selective survival it is reasonably
to be presumed that any given racial type that has endured the test of
selective elimination, including the complement of instinctive dispositions by
virtue of which it has endured the text, will on its first emergence have been
passably suited to the circumstances, material and cultural, under which the
type emerged as a mutant and made good its survival; and in so far as the
subsequent growth of institutions has
altered the available scope and method of instinctive action it is therefore to
be presumed that any such subsequent change in the scheme of institutions will
in some degree hinder and divert the fee play of its instinctive proclivities
and will thereby hinder the direct and
unsophisticated working-out of the instinctive dispositions native to this
given racial type.
What is known of the earlier
phases of culture in the life-history of the existing races and peoples goes to
say that the initial phase in the life of any given racial type, the phase of
culture which prevailed in its environment when it emerged, and under which the
stock first proved its fitness to survive, was presumably some form of
savagery. Therefore the fitness of any given type of human nature for life
after the manner and under the conditions imposed by any later phase in the
growth of culture is a matter of less and less secure presumption the farther
the sequence of institutional change has departed from the form of savagery
which marked the initial stage in the life-history of the given racial stock.
Also, presumably, though by no means assuredly, the younger stocks, those which
have emerged from later mutations of type, have therefore initially fallen into
and made good their survival under the conditions of a relatively advanced
phase of savagery, - these younger races should therefore conform with greater
facility and better effect to the requirements imposed by a still farther
advance in that cumulative complication of institutions and intricacy of
ways and means that is involved in
cultural growth. The older or more primitive stocks, those which arose out of
earlier mutations of type and made good their survival under a more elementary
scheme of savage culture, are presumably less capable of adaptation to an
advanced cultural scheme.
But at the same time it is on
the same grounds to be expected that in all races and people there should
always persist an ineradicable
sentimental disposition to take back to something like that scheme of savagery
for which there particular type of human nature once proved its fitness during
the initial phase of its life-history. This seems to be what is commonly
intended in the cry ‘Back to Nature!’ The older known racial stocks, the
offspring of earlier mutational departures from the initially generic human
type, will have been selectively adapted to more archaic forms of savagery, and
these show an appreciably more refractory penchant for elementary savage modes
of life, and conform to the demands and opportunities of a ‘higher’
civilization only with a relatively slight facility, amounting in extreme cases
to a practical unfitness for civilized life. Hence the ‘White Man’s Burden’ and
the many perplexities of the missionaries.
Under the Mendelian theories
of heredity some qualification of these broad generalisations is called for. As
has already been noted above, the people of Europe, each and several, are
hybrid mixtures made up of several racial stocks. The like is true in some
degree of most of the peoples outside of Europe; particularly of the more
important and better known nationalities. These various peoples show more or
less distinct and recognizable national types of physique – or perhaps rather
of physiognomy – and temperament, and the lines of differentiation between
these national types incontinently traverse the lines that divide the racial
stocks. At the same time these national types have some degree of permanence;
so much so that they are colloquially spoken of as types of race. While no
modern anthropologist would confuse nationality with race, it is not to be
overlooked that these national hybrid types are frequently so marked and
characteristic as to simulate racial character and perplex the student of race
who is intent on identifying the racial stock of which any one of these hybrid populations has been
compounded. Presumably these national and local types of physiognomy and
temperament are to be rated as hybrid types that have been fixed by selective
breeding, and for an explanation of this phenomenon recourse is to be taken to
the latterday theories of heredity.
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So, if the conditions of life
in any community consistently favour a given type of hybrid, whether the
favouring conditions are of a cultural or of a material nature, something of a
selective trend will take effect in such a community and set toward a hybrid
type which shall meet these conditions. The result will be the establishment of
a composite pure line showing the advantageous traits of physique and
temperament, combined with a varying complement of outer characters that have
no such selective value. Traits that have no selective value in the given case
will occur with fortuitous freedom, combining in unconstrained diversity with
the selectively decisive traits, and so will mark the hybrid derivation of this
provisionally established composite pure line. With continued intercrossing
within itself any given population of such hybrid origin as the European
peoples, would tend cumulatively to breed true to such a selectively favorable
hybrid population is ultimately made up. So would emerge a national or local
type which would show the selectively decisive traits with a great degree of
constituency but would very indefinitely in respect of the selectively idle
traits comprised in the composite heredity of the population. Such a composite
pure line would be provisionally stable only; it should break down when crossed
back on either of the parent stocks. This ‘provisionally stable composite pure
line’ should disappear when crossed on pure-bred individuals of one or other of
the parent stocks from which it is drawn, - pure-bred in respect of the
allelomorphic characters which give the hybrid type its typical traits.
But whatever the degree of
stability possessed by these hybrid national or local types, the outcome for
the present purpose is much the same; the hybrid populations afford a grater
scope and range of variation in their human nature than could be had within the
limits of any pure-bred race. Yet, for all the multifarious diversity of racial
and national types, early and late, and for all the wide divergence of hybrid
variants, there is no difficulty about recognising a generical human type of
spiritual endowment, just as the zoologists have no difficulty in referring the
various races of mankind to a single species on the ground of their physical
characters. The distribution of emphasis among the several instinctive dispositions
may very appreciably for one race to another, but the complement of instincts
native to the several races is after all of much the same kind, comprising
substantially the same ends. Taken
simply in their first incidence, the racial variations of human nature are
commonly not considerable; but a slight bias of this kind, distinctive of any
given race, may come to have decisive weight when it works out cumulatively
through a system of institutions, for such a system embodies the cumulative
sophistications of untold generations during which the life of the community
has been dominated by the same slight bias.
Racial differences in respect
of these hereditary spiritual traits count for much in the outcome, because in
the last resort any race is at the mercy of its instincts. In the course of
cultural growth most of those civilizations or peoples that have had a long
history have from time to time been
brought up against an imperative call to revise their scheme of institutions in
the light of their native instincts, on pain of collapse or decay; and they
have chosen variously, and for the most part blindly to live or not to live,
according as their instinctive bias has driven them. In the case where it has
happened that those instincts which make directly for the material welfare of
the community; such as the parental bent and the sense of workmanship, have
been present in such potent force, or where the institutional elements at
variance with the continued life-interests of the community or the civilisation
in question have been in a sufficiently infirm state, there the bonds of
custom, prescription;, principles, precedent, have been broken – or loosened or
shifted so as to let the current of life and cultural growth go on, with or
without substantial retardation. But history record more frequent and more
spectacular instances of the triumph of imbecile institutions over life and
culture than of peoples who have by force of instinctive insight saved
themselves alive out of the desperately precarious institutional situation,
such , for instance, as now faces the peoples of Christendom.
Chief among those instinctive
dispositions that conduce directly to the material well-being of the race, and
therefore to its biological success, is perhaps the instinctive bias here
spoken of as the sense of workmanship. The only other instinctive factor of
human nature that could with any likelihood dispute this primacy would be the
parental bent. Indeed, the two have much in common. They spend themselves on much
the same concrete objective ends, and the mutual furtherance of each by the
other is indeed so broad and intimate as often to leave it a matter of extreme
difficulty to draw a line between them. Any discussion of either, therefore,
must unavoidably draw the other into the inquiry to a greater or less extent,
and a characterisation of one will involve some dealing with the other.
As the expression is here
understood, the ‘Parental Bent’ is an instinctive disposition of much larger
scope than a mere proclivity to the achievement of children. This latter is
doubtless to be taken as a large and perhaps as a primary element in the
practical working of parental solicitude; although, even so, it is in no degree
to be confused with the quasi-tropismatic impulse to the procreation of
offspring. The parental solicitude in mankind has am much wider bearing than
simply the welfare of one’s own children. This wider bearing is particularly
evident in those lower cultures where the scheme of consanguinity and inheritance
is not drawn on the same close family lines as among civilsed peoples, but it
is also to be seen in good vigour in any civilised community. So, for instance,
what the phrase-makers have called ‘race-suicide’ meets the instinctive and
unsolicited reprobation of all men, even of those who would not conceivably go
the length of contributing their own person to the incoming generation. So,
also, virtually all thoughtful persons, -that is to say all persons who hold an
opinion on these premises, - will agree that it is a despicably inhuman thing
for the current generation willfully to make the way of life harder for the
next generation, whether through neglect of due provision for their subsistence
and proper training or through wasting their heritage of resources and
opportunity by improvident greed and indolence. Providence is a virtue only so
far as its aim is provision for posterity.
It is difficult or impossible
to say now far the current solitude for the welfare of the race at large is to
be credited to the parental bent, but it is beyond question that this
instinctive disposition has a large part in the sentimental concern entertained
by nearly all persons for the life and comfort of the community at large, and
particularly for the community’s future welfare. Doubtless this parental bent
in its wider bearing greatly reinforces that sentimental approval of economy
and efficiency for the common good and disapproval of wasteful and useless
living that prevails so generally throughout both the highest and the lowest
cultures, unless it should rather be said that this animus for economy and
efficiency is a simple expression of the parental disposition itself. It might
on the other hand be maintained that such an animus of economy is an essential
function of the instinct of workmanship, which would then be held to be
strongly sustained at this point by a parental solicitude for the common good.
. . .
The expression [‘instinct of workmanship’] may as well be taken to
signify a concurrence of several instinctive aptitudes, each of which might or
might not prove simple or irreducible when subjected to psychological or
physiological analysis. For the present inquiry it is enough to note that in
human behaviour this disposition is effective in such consistent, ubiquitous
and resilient fashion that students of human culture will have to count with it
as one of the integral hereditary traits of mankind.
As has already appeared,
neither this nor any other instinctive disposition works out its functional content
in isolation from the instinctive endowment at large. The instincts, all and
several, though perhaps in varying degrees, are so intimately engaged in a play
of give and take that the work of any one has its consequences for all the
rest, though presumably not for all equally. It is this endless complication
and contamination of instinctive elements in human conduct, taken in
conjunction with the pervading and cumulative effects of habit in this domain
–that makes most of the difficulty and much of the interest attaching to this
line of inquiry.(pp.18-29)
Veblen goes on to qualify the
purity of instinctive actions in everyday life.
There are few lines of
instinctive proclivity that are not crossed and coloured by some ramification
of the instinct of workmanship. No doubt, response to the direct call of such
half-tropismatic, half-instinctive impulses as hunger, anger, or the promptings
of sex, is little if at all troubled with any sentimental suffusion of
workmanship; but in the more complex and deliberate activities, particularly
where habit exerts an appreciable effect, the impulse and sentiment of
workmanship comes in for a large share in the outcome. So much so, indeed,
that, for instance, in the arts, where the sense of beauty is the prime mover,
habitual attention to technique will often put the original, and only
ostensible, motive in the background. So, again, in the life of religious faith
and observance it may happen now and again that theological niceties and ritual
elaboration will successfully, and in great measure satisfactorily, substitute
themselves for spiritual communion; while in the courts of law a tenacious
following out of legal technicalities will not infrequently defeat the ends of
justice.
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Hence all instinctive action
is teleological. It involves holding to a purpose. It aims to achieve some end
and involves some degree of intelligent faculty to compass the instinctively
give n purpose, under surveillance of the instinctive proclivity that prompts
the action. And it is in this surveillance and direction of the intellectual
processes to the appointed end that the instructive dispositions control and
condition human conduct; and in this work of direction the several instinctive
proclivities may come to conflict and offset, or to concur and reinforce one
another’s action.
The position of the instinct
of workmanship in this complex of teleological activities ins somewhat
peculiar, in that its functional content is serviceability for the ends of
life, whatever these ends may be; whereas these ends to be subserved are, at
least in the main, appointed and made worth while by the various other
instinctive dispositions. So that this instinct may in some sense be said to be
auxiliary to all the rest, to be concerned with the ways and means of life
rather than with any one given ulterior end. It has essentially to do with
proximate rather than ulterior ends. Yet workmanship is none the less an object
of attention and sentiment in its own right. Efficient use of the means at hand
and adequate management of the resources available to the purposes of life is
itself an end of endeavour, and accomplishment of this kind is a source of
gratification.
All instinctive action is
intelligent and teleological. The generality of instinctive dispositions prompt
simply to the direct and unambiguous attainment of their specific ends, and in
this dealings under their immediate guidance the agent goes as directly as may
be to the end sought, - he is occupied with the objective end not with the
choice of means to the end sought; whereas under the impulse of workmanship the
agent’s interest and endeavour are taken up with the contriving of ways and
means to the end sought.
The point of contrast may be
unfamiliar, and an illustration may be pertinent. So, in the instinct of
pugnacity and its attendant sentiment of anger the primary impulse is doubtless
to a direct frontal attack, assault and battery pure and simple; and the more
highly charge the agent is with the combative impulse, the higher the pitch of
animation to which he has been wrought up, the less is he inclined or able to
take thought of how he may shrewdly bring mechanical devices to bear on the
object of his sentiment and compass his end with the largest result per unit of
force expended. It is only the well-trained fighter that will take without
reflection to workmanlike ways and means at such a juncture; and in case of
extreme exasperation and urgency even such a one, it is said, may forget his
workmanship in the premises and throw himself into the middle of things instead
of resorting to the indirections and leverages to which his workmanlike
training in the art of fighting has habituated him. So, again, the immediate
promptings of the parental bent urge to direct personal intervention and
service in behalf of the object of solicitude. In persons highly gifted in his
respect the impulse assets itself to succour the helpless with one’s own hands,
to do for them in one’s own person not
what might on reflection approve itself as the most expedient line of conduct
in the premises, but what will throw the agent most personally into action in
the case. Notoriously, it is easier to move well-meaning people to unreflecting
charity on an immediate and concrete appeal than it is to secure a sagacious,
well sustained and well organized concert of endeavour for the amelioration of
the lot of the unfortunate. Indeed, refinements of workmanlike calculation of
causes and effects in such a case are instinctively felt to be out of touch
with the spirit of the thing. They are distasteful; not only are they not part
and parcel of the functional content of the generous impulse, but an undue
injection of these elements of workmanship into the case may ever induce a
revulsion of feeling and defeat its own intention.
The instinct of workmanship,
on the other hand, occupies the interest with practical expedients, ways and
means, devices and contrivances of efficiency and economy, proficiency,
creative work and technological mastery of facts. Much of the functional
content of the instinct of workmanship is a proclivity for taking pains; The
best and most finished outcome of this disposition is not had under stress of
great excitement or under extreme urgency form any of the instinctive propensities
with which its work is associated or whose ends it serves. It shows at its
best, both in the individual workman’s technological efficiency and in the
growth of technological proficiency and insight in the community at large,
under circumstances of moderate exigence, where there is work in hand and more
if it in sight, since it is initially a disposition to do the next thing and do
it as well as may be; whereas when interest falls off unduly through failure of
provocation from the instinctive dispositions that afford an end to which to
work, the stimulus to workmanship is likely to fail, and the outcome is as
likely to be an endless fabrication of meaningless details and much ado about
nothing. On the other hand, in seasons of great stress, when the call to any
one or more of the instinctive lines of conduct is urgent beyond measure, there
is likely to result a crudity of technique and presently a loss of proficiency
and technological mastery.
It is, further, pertinent to
note in this connection that the instinct of workmanship will commonly not urn
to passionate excesses; that it does not, under pressure, tenaciously hold its
place as a main interest in competition with other, more elemental instinctive
proclivities; but that it rather yields ground somewhat readily, suffers
repression and falls into abeyance, only to reassert itself when the pressure
of other, urgent interests is relieved. What was said above as to the paramount
significance of the instinct of workmanship for the life of the race will of
course suffer no abatement in so recognising its characteristically temperate
urgency. The grave importance that attaches to it is a matter of its ubiquitous
subservience to the ends of life, and not a matter of vehemence.
The sense of workmanship is
also peculiarly subject to bias. It does not commonly, or normally, work to an
independent, creative end of its own, but is rather concerned with the ways and
means whereby instinctively given purposes are to be accomplished. According,
therefore, as one or another of the instinctive dispositions is predominant in
the community’s scheme of life or in the individual’s every-day interest, the
habitual trend of the sense of workmanship will be bent to one or another line
of proficiency and technological mastery. By cumulative habituations a bias of
this character may come to have very substantial consequences for the range and
scope of technological knowledge, the state of the industrial arts, and for the
rate and direction of growth in workmanlike ideas. (pp.29-35)
Veblen concludes this introductory
chapter by returning to the original theme of his book: “the instinct of
workmanship” and the reciprocal influence it has had on institutions and the
state of the industrial arts throughout history, from Neolithic mankind to the
modern industrial state.
Changes are going forward constantly in incontinently in the
institutional apparatus, the habitual scheme of rules and principles that
regulate the community’s life, and not least in the technological ways and
means by which the life of the race and its state of culture are maintained;
but changes come rarely - in effect not
at all – in the endowment of instincts where by mankind is enabled to employ
these means and to live under the institutions which its habits of life have
cumulatively created. In the case of hybrid populations, such as the people of
Christendom, some appreciable adaptation of this spiritual endowment to meet
the changing requirement of civilization may be counted on, through the
establishment of composite pure lines of a hybrid type more nearly answering to
the later phases of culture than any one of the original racial types out of
which the hybrid population is made up. But in so slow-breeding a species as
man, and with changes in the conditions of life going forward at a visibly
rapid pace, the chance of an adequate adaptation of hybrid human nature to new
conditions seems doubtful at best. It is also to be noted that the vague
character of many of the human instincts, and their consequent pliability under
habituation affords an appreciable margin of adaptation within which human
nature may adjust itself to new conditions of life. But after all has been said
it realms true that the margin within which the instinctive nature of the race
can be effectively adapted to changing circumstances is relatively narrow –
narrow as contrasted with the range of
variation in institutions - and the
limits of such adaptation are somewhat rigid. As the matter stands , the race
is required to meet changing conditions of life to which its relatively
unchanging endowment of instincts is presumably not wholly adapted, and to meet
these conditions by the use of technological ways and means widely different
from those that were at the disposal of the race from the outset. In the
initial phases of the life-history of the race, or of any given racial stock,
the exigencies to which its spiritual (instinctive) nature was selectively
required to conform were those of the savage culture, as has been indicated
above, - presumably in all cases a somewhat ‘low’ or elementary form of
savagery. This savage mode of life, which was, and is, in a sense, native to
man, would be characterised by a considerable group solidarity within a
relatively small group, living very near the soil, and unremittingly dependent
for their daily life on the workmanlike efficiency of all the members of the
group. The prime requisite for survival under these conditions would be a
propensity unselfishly and impersonally to make the most of the material means
at hand and a penchant for turning all resources of knowledge and material to
account to sustain the life of the group.
At the outset, therefore, as
it first comes into life-history of any one or all of the racial stocks with
which modern inquiry concerns itself, this instinctive disposition will have
born directly on workmanlike efficiency in the simple and obvious sense of the
word. By virtue of the stability of the racial type, such is still its
character, primarily and substantially, apart from its sophistication by habit
and tradition. The instinct of workmanship brought the life of mankind form the
brute to the human place, and in all the later growth of culture it has never
ceased to pervade the works of man. But the extensive complication of circumstances
and the altered outlook of succeeding generations, brought on by the growth of
institutions and the accumulation of knowledge, have led to an extension of its
scope and of its canons and logic to activities and conjunctures that have
little traceable bearing on the means of subsistence.(pp.35-37)
The 15 + items below represent
critical articles and essays taken from the Anglophone social media this week which
reflect discussions, large and small, across contemporary North America.
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.
“Crimes
against Humanity”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/theme/crimes-against-humanity
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
+
Aaron Mate at UN: OPCW cover-up
denies justice to Douma victims
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1BCtPgyxYI&feature=youtu.be
with Aaron Maté
(26:19)
Speaking
to the United Nations Security Council, Aaron Maté of The Grayzone calls out
the OPCW's ongoing cover-up of its investigation into the alleged April 2018
chemical attack in Douma, Syria.
+
“The U.S. Has a HISTORY of
TERRORISM”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAihgopJEbc&feature=youtu.be
with Michael Parenti
(1:56:37)
+
“Nature of False Flags”
https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1795-james-corbett-on-the-nature-of-false-flags/
with James
Corbett
(1:33:11)
+
“9/11 and the COVID-19 Hoax in the
Transition to Governance by ‘Emergency Measures’”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/911-covid-19-hoax-transition-governance-emergency-measures/5813759
by Prof. Anthony J. Hall
+
“War and Crimes against Humanity.
‘Fake Intelligence’ and the Destruction of Countries”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-war-and-crimes-against-humanity-michel-chossudovsky/5813447
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky and
Caroline Mailloux
+
“Unrelenting" Propaganda”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZWihIL09TE
with Kate Halper and John Pilger
(1:06:45)
Legendary
journalist, writer and filmmaker John Pilger joins the show to talk about
"the unrelenting nature of propaganda," how to deconstruct the news,
the proxy war in Ukraine, the coming war on China and more. Plus Human Rights
and Environmental lawyer Steven Donziger reacts to the Supreme Court's terrible
decision against him and the people of Ecuador who were poisoned by Chevron.
And Susan Kang speaks out against the medicare "reform" for public
sector workers retirees being pushed by NYC Mayor Adams as a "cost
savings" measure.
===========
b.
The dark truths WikiLeaks revealed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nbTlZRin78&feature=youtu.be
with Chris Hedges and Stefania
Maurizi
(30:49)
+
Julian Assange Extradition: “A
Frontal Attack On Freedom Of The Press”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCLnqbpis20&feature=youtu.be
with Jimmy Dore
(22:28)
+
“Targeted by Surveillance: Julian
Assange, WikiLeaks & Networked Repression #SmartPrisons”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asLFiRZfpl4
with Stella Assange, Kevin
Gosztola, and moderated by Stefania Maurizi
(1:19:46)
As an
introduction to the film Ithaka, this panel describes the pervasive
surveillance, monitoring and personal control that has oppressed Julian Assange
and WikiLeaks for more than ten years, and discusses the conditions around
Assange’s incarceration at the Belmarsh high-security prison in the United
Kingdom, where he has been imprisoned for four years, and faces indefinite
detention, while the United States seeks his extradition to face a 175-year
prison sentence. He is accused of receiving and publishing documents from
Chelsea Manning which documented war crimes, extrajudicial killings and
civilian casualties during the US occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
+
“Breaking Points” Host RATIO’D
After Adding CIA Shill To Board Of Directors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=who80ZgoglE
with Jimmy Dore
(12:44)
Left-leaning
online publication The Intercept has announced that it will be unmooring itself
from billionaire founder Pierre Omidyar and becoming, in words of editor Ryan
Grim, “100% independent.” Except if you look more closely, the publication will
still depend on Omidyar for 10% of its funding, and will also be adding to the
board a certain Maria Ressa, who used to work for the CIA front NGO the
National Endowment for Democracy. Oh, and she also says Julian Assange is not a
journalist. Sounds like a 100% independent outlet for sure!
+
Dissent Into Madness: Projections
of the Psychopaths
by James Corbett
In Part 1
of this series on Dissent Into Mandess, I recounted the sordid details of
"The Weaponization of Psychology," noting how the psychiatric profession has been turned into an
instrument for repressing and marginalizing political dissents.
In Part 2
of this series, "Crazy Conspiracy Theorists," I detailed how conspiracy theorizing is being pathologized as a
mental disorder and how this false diagnosis is being used to justify the
forced psychiatric detention and medication of 9/11 truthers and COVID
dissenters.
This week,
I will examine the great irony of the situation we find ourselves in: that
those who are wielding the psychological weapon against any would-be dissenters
are themselves driven by a
psychopathological disorder . . .
Being Sane in An Insane Society
+
“Finding Mental Health”
https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-mentalhealth/
with James Corbett
(38:36)
===========
c.
“This is The Roman Empire
Collapsing”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAvK-_TiY1k
with Scott Ritter
(54:29)
+
“CREATING 3rd WORLD COUNTRIES”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6wmwsZxU6o&feature=youtu.be
with Michael Parenti
(9:09)
+
“FIRST YUGOSLAVIA now UKRAINE”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59pI2mwAWbw&feature=youtu.be
with
Michael Parenti
(16:57)
+
“Ukraine Has ISOLATED the
Collective West, not Russia”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NCOB2e_gHk
with Danny Haiphong, Alex Christoforou, and Alexander
Mercouris
(27:11)
+
“Cinematic spring offensive”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j20NoI2AzE
with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris
(20:11)
+
“End of unipolarity”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMQ6mqUS3qs&feature=youtu.be
with Jeffrey Sachs, Alexander
Mercouris and Glenn Diesen
(25:39)
+
Conflict mood swings. Pumping USD
into Ukraine, holding up the hryvnia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8LqNCoh2Rk&feature=youtu.be
with Alex Christpoforou and Alexander Mercouris
(23:55)
===========
d.
A Chronicle of the Slavic Civil War So Far
https://roloslavskiy.substack.com/?utm_source=cross-post&utm_campaign=520963&utm_medium=email
by Rolo Slavskiy
Please
share with the 5D people and demand that they stop lying.
I
should state my biases as an analyst up front. I am pro-Russian in the sense
that I am for the political unity of the East Slavs and their incorporation
into the Russian Federation on the grounds of a shared blood, culture, and
history. I have always been pro-Putin, but I have taken up this position mostly
for lack of a better option. I also believe that the evidence points to a
concerted effort on the part of neocons in the West and Ukraine to provoke and
prologue a fraternal bloodletting in the Slavlands. In my opinion, this
concerted effort has largely been successful as there is no end to the conflict
in sight and Ukraine will now be a permanent armed and hostile “Israel” on
Russia’s borders for the foreseeable future.
What
follows is a summary of the key events in the ongoing Slavic Civil War so far.
+
“Maidan
snipers & Ukrainian proxies”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E56IVQY_Sx4&feature=youtu.be
with Ivan Katchanovski, Alexander Mercouris and
Glenn Diesen"
(2:26:13)
+
Nukes in Belarus: open thread
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
by Edward Slavsquat
Edward's weekly Russia news roundup & open thread
+
“Zelensky Has Made A Terrible
Mistake By Trying To Pin Missile Strikes On Russia”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoLmH30SSkQ
with Douglas Macgregor
(10:06)
===========
e.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxOQlq-pa8w&feature=youtu.be
with Michael Parenti
(13:35)
+
History of
US-NATO Military Campaigns (1991-2023)
https://www.globalresearch.ca/history-of-us-nato-military-campaigns-1991-2023/5813708
by Jean Toschi Marazzani Visconti
Before tackling the story of the
military campaigns that have haunted our last thirty years up to today, it is
necessary to recall three facts about the origin of these wars.
In 1944, seventy-four Nazi leaders
were aware of the defeat of Germany but determined to save the Nazi ideal from
the catastrophe, they founded the organization O.D.SS.A. Their intent was to emigrate, and
to any state where they establish, engage in companies, administrations, and
political parties at any level, and filter their Nazi thought. Many of them
were absorbed into the US services for their experience of the Soviet Union and
placed in the departments of various agencies. Their vision has undoubtedly
influenced American politics crosswise.
In 1977 a group of liberal intellectuals, the future neo-conservatives,
including characters who would later take part in President Bush jr.’s
Administration such as Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Jeb
Bush or philosopher Francis Fukuyama, conceived a project that shares many
ideological traits with O.D.SS.A:
“The history of the 20th century should have taught us that it is
important to shape circumstances before crises emerge and to deal with threats
before they become tragic…
The history of this century should have taught us to embrace the cause of
American leadership…. establish a strategic military presence worldwide through
a military technological revolution, deter the emergence of any competitive
superpower, launch pre-emptive strikes against any power that threatens
American interests.”
These are the guidelines of the PNAC (Project for a New American
Century). The founders of the project will later reveal to be linked to the oil
and arms industries, then to the Industrial-Military Complex which, at the end
of Gen. Eisenhower’s Presidency, had assumed such power as to influence the
policy of any government and President in charge.
+
Why America Needs War, The Project
for The New American Century (PNAC)
https://www.globalresearch.ca/why-america-needs-war/5328631
by Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels and Prof
Michel Chossudovsky
This incisive and
carefully documented article by renowned historian and political
scientist Dr. Jacques Pauwels was published by Global Research almost 20
years ago on April 30, 2003 in the immediate wake of the war on
Iraq. Dr. Jacques Pauwels is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on
Globalization (CRG).
+
The U.S. Has Killed More Than 20
Million People in 37 ‘Victim Nations’ Since World War II
by James A. Lucas
Let us put this in a historical perspective: the
commemoration of the War to End All Wars acknowledges that 15 million
lives were lost in the course of World War I (1914-18).
The loss of life in the second
World War (1939-1945) was on a much large scale, when compared to World War I: 60
million lives both military and civilian were lost during World War II. (Four
times those killed during World War I).
The largest WWII casualties
were China and the Soviet Union:
·
26 million
in the Soviet Union,
·
China
estimates its losses at approximately 20 million deaths.
Ironically, these two countries
(allies of the US during WWII) which lost a large share of their population
during WWII are now under the Biden-Harris administration categorized as “enemies of America”, which are threatening the Western World.
NATO-US Forces are at Russia’s
Doorstep. A so-called “preemptive nuclear war”
against China and Russia is on the drawing board of the Pentagon.
Germany and Austria
lost approximately 8 million people during WWII, Japan lost more than
2.5 million people. The US and Britain respectively lost more than 400,000
lives.
This carefully researched article
by James A. Lucas documents the more than 20 million lives
lost resulting from US led wars, military coups and intelligence ops
carried out in the wake of WWII, in what is euphemistically called the
“post-war era” (1945- ).
The extensive loss of life in
Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine and Libya is not included in this study.
Continuous US led warfare (1945-
): there was no “post-war era“.
And now, a World War III scenario
is contemplated by US-NATO.
At no point since the first atomic
bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been
closer to the unthinkable. All the safeguards of the Cold War era, which
categorized the nuclear bomb as “a weapon of last resort”, have been scrapped.
The Dangers of Nuclear War are
Real. They are “Profit Driven”. Under Joe Biden, public funds
allocated to nuclear weapons are slated to increase to 2 trillion by 2030 allegedly as
a means to safeguarding peace and national security at taxpayers expense.
(How many schools and hospitals could you finance with 2 trillion dollars?).
===========
f.
Watch
“Weather Modification And The U.S. Military”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4qAfJGMBa0&feature=youtu.be
by
Massachussetts School of Law, with Professor Ilva Sandra Perlingieri
(5:23)
The Air Force
is on record as saying they want to control the weather by 2025. The
Massachusetts School of Law's Educational Forum presents part 2 of a Conference
on Global Climate Change with Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri, author, educator and
environmental writer.
&
Part
1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2d8SCEnu8Q
(1:00:03)
&
Part
2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXub7aVfjN4
(1:00:04)
+
“The Darker Myths of Empire: Heart of Darkness Series”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOF56wYTl1w&feature=youtu.be
with Michael Parenti
(1:23:00)
===========
g.
Watch “End of unipolarity” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMQ6mqUS3qs&feature=youtu.be
with Glenn Diesen, Alexander
Mercouris, and Jeffrey Sachs
(25:40)
+
Global
Planned Financial Tsunami Has Just Begun
https://www.globalresearch.ca/global-planned-financial-tsunami-has-just-begun/5784217
by F.
William Engdahl
Since the creation of the US Federal Reserve over a
century ago, every major financial market collapse has been deliberately
triggered for political motives by the central bank. The situation is no
different today, as clearly the US Fed is acting with its interest rate weapon
to crash what is the greatest speculative financial bubble in human history, a
bubble it created. Global crash events always begin on the periphery, such as
with the 1931 Austrian Creditanstalt or the Lehman Bros. failure in September
2008. The June 15 decision by the Fed to impose the largest single rate hike in
almost 30 years as financial markets are already in a meltdown, now guarantees
a global depression and worse.
The extent
of the “cheap credit” bubble that the Fed, the ECB and Bank of Japan have
engineered with buying up of bonds and maintaining unprecedented near-zero or
even negative interest rates for now 14 years, is beyond imagination. Financial
media cover it over with daily nonsense reporting , while the world economy is
being readied, not for so-called “stagflation” or recession. What is coming now
in the coming months, barring a dramatic policy reversal, is the worst
economic depression in history to date. Thank you, globalization and Davos.
+
“The
Crisis Is About To Get MUCH Worse”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EdQArCkVjY
with
Jeffrey Sachs
(10:09)
+
“Has the
Revolution Started?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hefec9jhjzM
with RJ
Eskow, and Richard Wolff
(34:19)
“This Russian Plan IS THE BIGGEST
ATTACK OF OUR LIFETIME”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbL2zA2XX_w
with Scott
Ritter
(audio, 26:23)
In Exclusive Interview Scott Ritter
joins us on this exclusive interview to discuss the Russia Ukraine war, the
conflict of Bakhmut, the bad feelings between Putin and Zelenskyy and how this
war will end. Russia rained down over 80 missile on Ukraine last night after
figuring out how to bypass their air defense systems. Scott Ritter and Stephen
Gardner also discuss military predictions of Colonel Douglas Macgregor on how
this war will end and Putin's next military moves. Scott Ritter is an American
author, pundit, former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer, former
United Nations Special Commission weapons inspector, and convicted sex
offender. Ritter served as a junior military analyst during Operation Desert
Storm.
+
“The dollar system's
contradictions after de-linking from gold”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRlOfxWR-qE
with Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson
(1:39:08)
===========
h.
“Everyone Will Be WIPED OUT IN 10 DAYS, THIS IS SERIOUS!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8CmJfQLFqs
with Douglas Macgregor
(32:49)
+
“US
Intelligence PLANTED Fake Nord Stream Reporting To DISCREDIT My Reporting”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVxISG1GI8I
with Sy Hersh
(8:42)
+
Ex-CIA: White House PANICS Over
Newly Exposed War Crimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jcQL3YBXI
with Ray McGovern
Former CIA
Ray McGovern sits down with Stephen Gardner to talk about the Russia Ukraine
War. Why Putin is gearing up for a long war. Why Biden and Scholz are in
trouble for sabotaging the Nord Stream pipeline and why they are covering it up
with silly stories. Plus Ray McGovern reveals China is much more involved in
the Russia Ukraine war that anyone is admitting.
===========
i.
Seymour Hersh: “Scholz A Lapdog,”
“On US Reports On Nord Stream Leak,” & “Why Germany
Is Shielding Biden”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_hcpYOmZsA
with Zakka Jacob, and Seymour
Hersh
(32:05)
Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer
Prize-winning American journalist, speaks to Network 18's Zakka Jacob about his
story on Nord Stream pipeline. Hersh as reported that the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) of the US carried out a covert operation last September that
involved the bombing of three Nord Stream gas pipelines. The journalist, in his
self-published article in February, claimed that US Navy divers planted
explosive devices beneath Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in June 2022 and
three months later in September, the explosives destroyed three of the four
Nord Stream pipelines. Hersh also talks about new US intelligence reports
suggesting pro-Ukrainian groups were behind the bombing of the pipelines last
year. The report by the New York Times comes a month after investigative
journalist Seymour Hersh said the US was responsible for bombing the Nord
Stream pipeline.
+
CODEPINK Protester DRAGGED AWAY
After Confronting Sec. Of State Blinken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIxsAOIkaVA&feature=youtu.be
with Jimmy Dore
(3:07)
+
French Protests Escalate – “Macron
Ready To Back Down!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLbFFMa9h7s&feature=youtu.be
with Jimmy Dore
(10:53)
+
Cole Stangler: What's Unfolding in
France (recorded March 23, 2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IKjr2IKl_o&feature=youtu.be
with RJ Eskow
(31:34)
+
MILLIONS
Protest Macron Across France!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ttciob8dzo&feature=youtu.be
with Jimmy Dore
(13:28)
Ever since
President Emanuel Macron pushed through Parliament a raise in the retirement
age from 62 to 64, the French public have been pouring into the streets with
millions of protesters demanding the new law be revoked. Even firefighters and
some police have joined in the protests — although many cops have continued to
serve as the agents of state violence and cracked down on protesters.
===========
j.
The ‘Population Bomb’ Was A Dud -
#NewWorldNextWeek
https://www.corbettreport.com/nwnw514/
with James Corbett
(27:12)
+
“Our Species Is Being Genetically
Modified”
Are We Witnessing Humanity’s March
Toward Extinction? Viruses Are Our Friends, Not Our Foes
by David Skripac
+
TGA (Therapeutic Goods
administration) document revelations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-xss9K7kwQ
with Dr. John Campbell
(21:18)
+
3,631 reports of miscarriages and
fetal deaths in Europe
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGslklsKGPdVVcXMvBhTQgndtFC
by Robert W Malone MD, MS
More
Pagina UM (Portugal) reporting on the genetic COVID vaccine adverse reactions
+
“Functional neurological disorders
after COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines”
by Robert W Malone
+
Watch “WHO covid vaccine revised
roadmap”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIG5zTLB3hw&feature=youtu.be
with Dr. John Campbell
(13:43)
+
Watch: Sir
Christopher Chope’s “Vaccine SpeechC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_uUb6WM6bI
with Dr. John Campbell
(20:03)
+
“Covid Policy Death Rates Compared
with Sweden”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok0iGSgak4A
with Dr. John Campbell
(20:49)
+
Children Continue to Die From
Influenza & Streptococcus A Complications. Are We Seeing Severe Immune
System Damage From COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines?
by Dr. William Makis
+
Groundbreaking Analysis: COVID
Vaccines Caused 300,000 Excess Deaths, $147 Billion in Damage to Economy in
2022 Alone
by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.
In the
U.S., COVID-19 vaccines injured 26.6 million people, disabled 1.36 million
people, caused more than 300,000 excess deaths and cost the economy an
estimated $147 billion in damage — in 2022 alone — according to a new analysis
by Humanity Projects, a wing of Portugal-based research firm Phinance
Technologies.
+
Committee Reviewing COVID Vaccine
Injuries Meets Behind Closed Doors
by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.
The National
Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine met for three days — behind
closed doors, except for a two-hour public comment period — to review the
epidemiological, clinical and biological evidence on adverse events associated
with COVID-19 vaccines.
+
Americans believe that
"COVID-19: Virus Deaths vs. Vaccine Deaths" are almost the same
by Robert W Malone
+
Hospital Whistleblower… “The
Killing Floor”
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3bGwQXeDeCLyd99CQHdeeA
with Att. Tom Renz
(audio, 58:24)
+
“Murder in Hospitals”
https://www.bitchute.com/search/?query=hospital&kind=video
videos on Bitchure
===========
k.
“The dollar system's
contradictions after de-linking from gold”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRlOfxWR-qE&feature=youtu.be
with Radhika Desai & Michael
Hudson
(1:39:08)
+
“But the digital ruble is
different”
by Edward Slavsquat
Didn't your mother tell you to stay
away from CBDCs?
Is the
digital ruble the CBDC you’ve been waiting for your whole life? We hope so
because it’s almost here.
If
everything goes according to plan, the legal framework for the Bank of Russia’s
digital ruble (notice we didn’t type “Russia’s digital ruble”) will be ratified sometime in the next four weeks.
The
traceable, programmable, and extremely centralized digital currency will be
released into the wild after it completes a pilot program involving thirteen
Russian banks.
CBDCs are
bad, but the Russian CBDC good—Russian state
media has sprung into action. RIA Novosti published an article on March 27 extolling the virtues of this “third form” of
“national” currency.
We’ll
summarize. The digital ruble:
============
l.
Capitalism Hits Home: All Empires
Rise and Fall, The US Is No Exception"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivwIWgL_AV4
with Dr. Harriet Fraad
(27:17)
In this
episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad traces a brief history of the rise
and fall of the American empire. Throughout much of the 20th century, the US
was the dominant global power, with strong unions, social programs, and a
strong currency. Today, our wealthiest people are barely taxed, social services
are weak, hunger and poverty are worse than ever, and the dollar is losing its
primacy. How did we get here? How can we face this shift in global power and
move forward? Dr. Fraad explores these questions. Correction: Judy 16.
+
Does America
Have a Future?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/does-america-have-future/5814174
by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
In this article I explain why I think nuclear war is
in the cards. I know that most do not want to hear this. But if no
one knows, there is even less chance of preventing it.
The
headline yesterday (March 29) is “US To Withhold Nuclear Weapons Data From
Russia As Last Treaty Collapses.”
Washington’s
propagandists, of course, blame Russia. This succeeds with patriots who
wrap themselves in the flag, but it doesn’t succeed with the Kremlin. The
Kremlin sees Washington taking another step toward war to obliterate the
Russian obstacle to Washington’s world hegemony.
Looking at
Russia’s puzzling conduct of its conflict with Ukraine, and now with NATO and
the US, I have been seeking an explanation that makes sense. Why, as
readers know I have been asking, does the Kremlin refuse to use the force to
quickly end the conflict before Washington and its NATO puppets become too
involved to let go? It made no sense until I realized that the Kremlin
has been convinced by Washington’s neoconservatives that war with the US is
inevitable, which, of course, means nuclear war.
The
Kremlin is likely concerned that if Russia uses the conventional force at her
disposal to knock out Ukraine, the result could be a US/NATO direct
intervention prior to Russia having in place larger numbers of its hypersonic
nuclear missiles and its S-500 and S-550 air defense systems which have the
ability to intercept and destroy Washington’s nuclear missiles. Unlike
Russia’s hypersonic missiles that randomly change course and cannot be
intercepted, Washington’s technically inferior missiles can be downed.
My
conclusion is that the Kremlin, convinced by Washington’s neoconservatives and
their domination of every US government in the 21st century that the US intends
the destruction of Russia, is preparing for nuclear war. Several times Putin
has made the public statement that it is clear that the West intends Russia’s
destruction. It is incomprehensible that Washington is so reckless, so
irresponsible, so utterly stupid as to have convinced the Kremlin that
Washington intends Russia’s destruction. It is extraordinary that Putin’s
statements produced no reassurances from the White House.
When
Russia is prepared, the US and the capitals of its NATO puppets face
annihilation.
Try to
comprehend the enormous failure of US foreign policy to have led Russia to such
a desperate conclusion. Here you can see the consequence of the hubris
and arrogance, of which I have written at length, of the totally unrealistic
neoconservatives who have control of US policy.
I don’t
see any way out of this. The neoconservatives have control of all the
principal agencies of government–the National Security Council, the Pentagon,
the Department of State. They control the US media, the think tanks, and
the foundations. Not even the Republicans oppose them. Republican
Senator Jim Risch, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
declared on March 29 that “I’m all in for escalation” of the conflict in
Ukraine. If the US doesn’t escalate, Risch says, we will lose. It
is about winning or losing, not about surviving. Clearly Risch indicates
that Congress has no concept of the real risk in the situation. See this.
The
Kremlin has sized it up and is preparing to eliminate the enemy that intends
the destruction of Russia.
What can
be done? The Kremlin no longer believes or trusts Washington, so no
assurances that this is all a mistake, even if forthcoming, would be believed
by the Russians.
Perhaps if
every neoconservative was fired from the government, Russophobic think tanks
closed, and the military/security complex permitted a president to be elected
who immediately went to Moscow, agreed to the restoration of all the broken
agreements and pulled NATO off of Russian borders, nuclear war could be
prevented.
But can
you imagine Washington doing such a thing? It would require leadership
that Americans have not seen for a very long time. It would require
comprehension in Congress and in the public, and there is no media or experts
to instill comprehension.
Enjoy your
life. Quit worrying about the future. The neoconservatives have assured
that you don’t have one.
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Russia obsession drives Blinken to
warn India ahead of G20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s10hK-1npzs
with Alex Christoforou and
Alexander Mercouris
(22:31)
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South Africa Invites Putin To
Summit & REFUSES To Arrest Him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOWwjDAPhi4
with Jimmy Dore
(5:52)
Despite
being a signatory to the International Criminal Court, South Africa has invited
Vladimir Putin to an upcoming economic summit in Durban, and high ranking
members of parliament including legislator Julius Malema have pledged that if
he came they would NOT arrest Putin. In an impassioned speech Malema accused
the ICC of hypocrisy for charging Putin for war crimes but never charging
members of the Bush administration or Tony Blair for the Iraq War nor Barack
Obama for bombing Libya into submission.
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m.
“Israel Runs World’s Biggest Medical Experiment On Its Own People”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONLtzV3D3wU
with Jimmy Dore
(8:39)
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The
Beginning of the End of Israel
https://www.globalresearch.ca/beginning-end-israel/5814254
by Steven Sahiounie
Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel
Smotrich gave a hate speech in Paris that may have begun the destruction of
Israel. “There are no Palestinians because there isn’t a Palestinian people,”
he said on March 19. He also displayed a map of “Greater Israel” which included
Syria and Jordan.
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Ride or Die: Rachel Corrie's Body and the Bitter Legacy of
White Allies
https://www.blackagendareport.com/ride-or-die-rachel-corries-body-and-bitter-legacy-white-allies
by
Jon Jeter
Being
a white ally is a very serious matter. They can be "martyred on a shrine
of white supremacy in an effort to discourage other whites from following their
lead."
This article was originally published in Black
Republic Media .
The
political economy of white settler colonialism is organized around murder, or
its threat: forcing Africans to work at gunpoint; raping and stealing
indigenous land at gunpoint; herding Palestinians into open-air jails, at
gunpoint; overthrowing elected leaders at gunpoint are all part of the colonial
and neocolonial blueprint. In this series, Black Republic Media explores what
it means when a junta of homicidal maniacs governs a nation, or a network of
nations, across the world.
Twenty
years ago today, an Israeli soldier drove a bulldozer over Rachel Corrie,
crushing her to death. The 23-year-old from Olympia, Washington was part of an
international team of peace activists who had volunteered to protect
Palestinian homes from demolition by Israeli settlers. Mother Jones magazine
gave this account of her final hours:
At
two o’clock on the afternoon of Sunday, March 16, Rachel Corrie received a
cell-phone call from a comrade in the International Solidarity Movement. “The
Israelis are back,” she told Corrie. “Get over here right away. I think they’re
heading for Dr. Samir’s house.” The news alarmed Corrie. Samir Nasrallah was a
Palestinian pharmacist who lived with his wife and three children a few hundred
yards from the battle-scarred Egyptian border in the Gaza Strip town of Rafah.
Corrie and other pro-Palestinian activists based in Rafah had frequently spent
the night in Nasrallah’s house, acting as human shields against the Israeli
tanks and bulldozers, clearing a security zone around the border. Almost every
other structure in the area had been knocked down in recent months; Nasrallah’s
abode now stood alone in a sea of sand and debris.
Certain
that the pharmacist’s house was about to be razed, Corrie caught a taxi to the
Hai as-Salam neighborhood. The paved roads of downtown Rafah gave way to sandy
tracks lined with scrabbly olive groves, mosques, modest houses, and dirt
pitches where Corrie often played soccer—badly but enthusiastically—with local
youths. At 2:30, a neighbor of Nasrallah’s named Abu Ahmed caught sight of the
activist hurrying past his house. Slight, hazel-eyed, with high cheekbones and
dirty blond hair pulled back in a ponytail, she carried a megaphone in one hand
and an orange fluorescent jacket in the other. “Come inside and have some tea,”
he urged her. But Corrie told him she didn’t have time, and he watched as she
disappeared around the corner of his house, heading toward the roar of
machinery.
This
much has never been contested: placing herself in the path of an Israeli
bulldozer that she believed was about to flatten Nasrallah’s house, Rachel
Corrie was crushed to death—her skull fractured, her ribs shattered, her lungs
punctured. But the bitter accusations and violent recriminations that followed
obscured almost everything else about the incident. Palestinians hailed her as
a martyr of the Intifada. Several eyewitnesses charged that the bulldozer
operator ran her down deliberately and called her killing “a war crime.” The
Israeli government, which rarely acknowledges the deaths of Palestinian
civilians killed during its military operations, went into damage-control mode.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised President Bush a “thorough, credible, and
transparent investigation.” Later Israel declared the killing a “regrettable
accident” and blamed it on overzealous Corrie and the other activists working
as human shields. Charges and countercharges flew back and forth until, like
Rashomon, the facts of Rachel Corrie’s death dissolved into a half-dozen
competing versions of the truth, none of them fully convincing.
Maybe,
maybe not. But if there were any doubts that Israel deliberately killed Corrie,
they were surely erased by the fatal shooting last spring of Shireen Abu Akleh,
a Palestinian-American journalist who had worked for the Arabic language
channel, Al Jazeera, for 25 years at the time of her death.
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Israeli fugitive and family living
in luxury Florida home bought with funds he plundered overseas
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/02/12/israeli-fugitive-florida-funds-overseas/
by David Sheen
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n.
The Rockefeller Way: The Family’s
Covert ‘Climate Change’ Plan
https://www.globalresearch.ca/rockefeller-familys-covert-climate-change-plan/5678775
by The
Energy & Environmental Legal Institute
+
“Current Climate of Catastrophe”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goJEmTcC0Cs&feature=youtu.be
with Jeffery Sachs
(1:07:50)
===========
o.
“Ukraine’s Clear Pattern Of
War Crimes Condemned By Amnesty International”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAO21sEmbb8&feature=youtu.be
with Jimmy Dore
(8:54)
+
“All the Lies That Are Fit to Print: The Media & the
Ukraine War”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_t6TcEFAmA
with Brian
Becker and Walter Smolarek
(50:33)
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p.
“EU peacekeepers in Ukraine. Spy
games. Lukashenko, Belarus invasion being prepared”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rQEsDXQjdE
with Alex Christoforou and
Alexander Mercouris
(26:43)
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Scott Ritter: “Russia IS INVADING
FAST, THIS IS FATAL”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwt9dmZ4tl4
by Red
Pill TV
(audio, 22:03)
Scott
Ritter joins us on this exclusive interview to discuss the Russia Ukraine war,
the conflict of Bakhmut, the bad feelings between Putin and Zelenskyy and how
this war will end. Russia rained down over 80 missile on Ukraine last night
after figuring out how to bypass their air defense systems. Scott Ritter and
Stephen Gardner also discuss military predictions of Colonel Douglas Macgregor
on how this war will end and Putin's next military moves. Scott Ritter is an
American author, pundit, former United States Marine Corps intelligence
officer, former United Nations Special Commission weapons inspector, and
convicted sex offender. Ritter served as a junior military analyst during
Operation Desert Storm.
+
Douglas Macgregor: “Ukraine IS
LOSING, THIS IS IT”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiEW2gvfOII
by Red Pill TV
(audio, 34:13)
+
“Existential
conflict”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbLFpNyDu-s
with Alex Christoforou, Alexander
Mercouris, Angelo Giuliano, and Brian Berletic
(1:52:41)
===========
q.
The Truth Barrier
“Our Profound Disrespect Of The Importance of Water For Health—Not Quantity, Quality"
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/our-profound-disrespect-of-the-importance?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
by Celia Farber
(3:23:36)
“The Hidden Power of Water Documentary”: A Fascinating Conversation with Norbert Heuser and John B. Wells.