Bulletin N° 920
“Plandemic indoctrination”
August 18, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPf54BebJdo&feature=youtu.be
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https://www.bitchute.com/video/UJoM3rmJb1r7/
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A typical "review" of this
documentary film is found in the August 19 issue of
The Washington Post :
“ 'Plandemic' sequel faces swift social media pushback over coronavirus misinformation ”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/19/plandemic-sequel-faces-swift-social-media-pushback/
by Andrew Blake
Subject: The Agents of Historic Change and the New Entrepreneurial Control of Weaponized Viruses in the post-nationalist War Against Humanity.
August 26, 2020
Grenoble, France
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
A friend recently suggested that the covid-19 pandemic was similar
to the 2015 suicide/homicide crash of the Lufthansa airline piloted by Andreas Lubitz, when it struck a mountain on March 24, 100 km
north-west of Nice in the French Alpes, killing 144 passengers and six crew
members.
The sophomoric world views of this cruel but callow "power elite" is
no less shocking than their blatant in-your-face arrogance. Equally alarming is
the measure of cultural hegemony that they have been able to capture in order to
implement their plan for total social control with a minimum of resistance. To
catch a glimpse of this mentality and to understand their successful strategies
for deliberate carnage, we could do no better than inspect the political
history of ruling classes - before and during the historic period of
nationalism – waging wars of genocide, deindustrialization, agricultural and
commercial obliteration, and other methods of mass destruction. For this, we must
return to William R. Polk's study of 1000 years of war between the North and
South, the Crusade
and Jihad (2018), keeping in mind the words of the renowned Spanish
philosopher George Santayana, who warned us that: “Those who cannot remember the
past are condemned to repeat it.” (See the presentation of the
first half of this book in Ceimsa Bulletin N°917.)
The deindustrialization of India started when the Indian economy was colonized under the British Empire. (As Marx pointed
out in the mid-19th century, Indians were no longer allowed to
purchase Indian manufactured textiles, but could only buy English textile imports
made of Indian cotton.) The Indian
Economy was ruled under the British
East Indian Company from 1757
to 1858. After 1858, India was
ruled directly by the British government
until the end of the deindustrialization
period in 1947.
In
the early 18th century, India was a major player in the world export market for
textiles, but by the middle of the 19th century it had lost all of its export
market and much of its domestic market. Other local industries also suffered
some decline, and India underwent secular de-industrialization as a
consequence. While India produced about 25 percent of world industrial output
in 1750, this figure fell to only 2 percent by 1900. We use an open,
specific-factor model to organize our thinking about the relative role played
by domestic and foreign forces in India's de-industrialization. The construction
of new relative price evidence is central to our analysis. We document trends
in the ratio of export to import prices (the external terms of trade) from 1800
to 1913, and that of tradable to non-tradable goods and own-wages in the
tradable sectors going back to 1765. With this new relative price evidence in
hand, we ask how much of the de-industrialization was due to local supply-side
influences (such as the demise of the Mughal empire)
and how much to world price shocks (such as world market integration and rapid
productivity advance in European manufacturing), both of which had to deal with
an offset the huge net transfer from India to Britain before 1815. Whether the
Indian de-industrialization shocks and responses were big or small is then assessed
by comparisons with other parts of the periphery.(Source:
by David Clingingsmith, Jeffrey G. Williamson (2004)“NBER
Working Paper No. 10586” @ https://www.nber.org/papers/w10586)
William Polk has contributed to our historic understanding
of colonization by writing a
shattering study of the millennia of war between the Muslim world and the
Global North. The agency of change,* as he recounts,
is the military and ideological capacity to influence social behavior.
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*Agency refers to the human capability to influence one's functioning and the course of events by one's actions. There are four functions through which human agency is exercised. One such function is intentionality. People form intentions that include action plans and strategies for realizing them. The second function involves temporal extension of agency through forethought. People set themselves goals and foresee likely outcomes of prospective actions to guide and motivate their efforts anticipatorily. The third agentic function is self-reactiveness. Agents are not only planners and forethinkers. They are also self-regulators. The fourth agentic function is self-reflectiveness. People are not only agents, they are self-examiners of their own functioning. Through functional self-awareness, they reflect on their personal efficacy, the soundness of their thoughts and actions, the meaning of their pursuits, and make corrective adjustments if necessary.
People exercise their influence through three forms of
agency: individual, proxy and collective. In agency exercised individually,
people bring their influence to bear on what they can control. In proxy
agency, they influence others who have the resources, knowledge, and means to
act on their behalf to secure the outcomes they desire. In the exercise of collective
agency, people pool their knowledge, skills, and resources and act in concert
to shape their future.(Source: Weibell,
C. J. (2011). “Toward an agentic theory for the new millennium:
7 principles to guide personalized,
student-centered learning in the technology-enhanced, blended learning
environment” @ https://principlesoflearning.wordpress.com/dissertation/chapter-3-literature-review-2/the-human-perspective/an-agentic-theory-of-the-self-bandura-1997/.
From chapter 23: “Islam in India and the Formation of
Pakistan.”
Following the purge of troops, the massacres of hundreds of thousands of
Muslims villagers, and the destruction of the pitiful remains of the once-powerful
Mughal Empire in India’s first war of independence,
the so-called mutiny of 1857-1858, the British rulers determined
to reorganize India. The East India Company had run its course, and a more
stable relationship with the British government had to be forged. How to
accomplish that was a severe challenge. The British had learned that there were
few Indians they could rely on to dominate the rest. Their immediate concern
was the army.
Before the revolt, the army of India was composed of 232,224 Indian and
45,522 English troops, or roughly five Indians for each European; over the next
five years, the Indian component was reduced by roughly half, while the number
of English soldiers was increased, so that there were two Indians – “black
men,” as the English called them – for each “white man.” Units form
“unreliable” communities were disbanded, and increased efforts were made to
shift forces away from areas
where they might have interests or loyalties and to garrison them
in cantonments separate from civilian populations. These measurer’s were fairly
easy to carry out because the Indian army under the East Indian Company had
been composed, regiment by regiment, on an ethnic or religious basis: Punjabis,
for example, did not serve with Bengalis. Their distribution was seen to have
facilitated revolt, so the British decide to mix the regiments. No one formation
was to be composed of as single “ethnic, religious, or linguistic group and
Muslims were to be replace as far as possible by other
ethnic groups. All the troops were closely monitored to detect any signs of
subversion. And the vanity of the troops was to be assuaged by colorful
uniforms, an increase in salaries, and more frequent decorations. Yet, in the
half century following the 1857 uprising, there were at least sixty mutinies.
Reading the record of the half century following 1857, I have been
struck by the contrast between the intensity of political activity on the
Muslim-Hindu divide and the relative avoidance by the leadership of both
communities of the issue of British imperialism. The British, of course,
focused their attention on Indian challenges, relatively weak though they were,
so this issue deserves attention. What emerges from the records is the
following: British India was a garrison state. It spent at least three times as
much of its revenue on the military – 40 percent to 50 percent of all revenue –
as on famine relief, irrigation, and education combined, and even in a
“peaceful” year it employed as many as 50,000 troops on internal security and
backed them up with more than 150,000 police and 50,000 armed constables. As George
Orwell, who is better known for his powerful critique of Russian tyranny but
who had served five years as a policeman in the Indian service, remarked, “The
Indian Empire is a despotism, and the real backbone of
the despotism is the army.” Or, as another English author commented, “After the
Mutiny, with the enormous strengthening of the British regiments, India became
an undisguised military dictatorship, and one which was in the end prohibitively
expensive to maintain.”
As the English commander in chief remarked, Indians were, at best,
“children.” When they “got out of line,” they must be “smacked.” This was because
the “black man [that is the Indian] is fundamentally different in mentality
from the white.” “Smacking” was spelled out in the 1864 Whipping Act. The
number of Indians who were flogged rarely fell below 20,000 and in one year
reached 75,223.
‘Against Orientals it was essential to show force at once,’ remarked a
British general in 1921. And, as I have pointed out, in the entire social, political,
and cultural context of British India, from housing, clubs, and social
intercourse to food and clothing, the English made their contempt for the
Indians manifest. As the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, who worked for
the East India Company for thirty-five years;, wrote of the English
imperialists, “Armed with prestige and filled with the scornful over-bearingness of the conquering nation, they have the
feelings inspired by the sense of absolute power without the sense of
responsibility. . . . They think the people of the country mere dirt under
their feet.” Yet Mill argued that imperialism was justified because the natives
were hardly human.
Mill’s conflicting attitudes were reduced to simple terms by Warren
Hastings (the Marquess of Hastings) in his diary for October
2, 1813, when he took up his post as the governor-general of India. As he
wrote, “The Hindoo appears a being nearly limited to
mere animal functions, and even in them indifferent. Their proficiency and
skill . . . are little more than dexterity which any animal with similar
conformation [has], but with ho higher intellect than a dog, and an elephant or
monkey.” And toward the end of the century, in 1883, a noted member of the
English aristocracy, William Scrawen Blunt, was told
that he could not receive” even an Indian raja, the prince Lakhnau,
because if he did the resident English families would move out.
What is particularly surprising is that most of the Muslim and Hindu
elite seemed unaffected by the widely known and frequently expressed attitude
of their British rulers. Arguably, the English contempt did not affect the vast
majority of the Indians because they were rural and rarely met English men or women.
The Hindu social order, the cast system, had accustomed the poor to oppression,
and, even before British rule, the mass of the people were divided by language,
religion, ethnicity, and poor communications. The British built these preexisting
convections into their system of rule. They were careful to keep the Indians in
illiteracy and poverty. But still it remains difficult to understand the lack
of effective resistance on the part of the elite or the religious establishments.
I find that a major reason is that the vast majority of Indians were
kept in deep poverty. A glance over photographs of the century beginning in
1858 shows a population gripped by hunger. Only the rich were fat; the poor
were often emaciated, and the vast majority of the Indians were poor or very
poor. Hunger was so common that large numbers of people sold themselves into
slavery to keep from starving. The colonial government not only allowed such
desperate moves but actually participated in them by encouraging what was euphemistically
called “indentured labor” and by using its military power to prevent any challenge to the system
by, for example, demonstrations against excessive taxes. Maintenance of the
system required sever measures. As Bombay’s governor
stated in 1875, ‘We hold India by the sword.’ British India had a political
police establishment that was rivaled only by that of Russia.
Apart from expenditures on the army and the security forces, the
government was very lean. Practically nothing was done in public health or even
in famine relief. In the second half of the century, under direct British rule
after the abolition of the company, India suffered twenty-four famines in which
it was thought that about twenty million people, or nearly on in ten Indians,
starved to death. Today, it is believed that the total may have reached almost
twice that number, about thirty-five million. India was indeed subjected to a
colonial holocaust that killed perhaps as much as five or seven times the
number of Jews and Roma killed by the Nazis in the better-known holocaust.
Britain has never apologized or offered compensation – if there could be any compensation
– either for the death or, more importantly, for the fact that during the
famines it even forbade relief. Yet few people today, even in India, know the extent
of the killing or the policy that caused it.
Just keeping above the level of starvation was so
exhausting as task that rebellion was almost unthinkable. And the colonial
government was determined to keep it that way. As the Indian scholars R. C. Majumdar and K. K. Datta have
written,
There is no doubt that the
promotion of trade, industry, and manufacture of the Indians would
have been the
most effective remedy against famine. But it clashed directly with the
interests of
Britain. . . . [So] the British government
used its political power to stifle event the infant industry
and
manufacture which the Indians tried to set up against heavy odds. . . . While
the ruin of
manufacture and industry
forced the masses to take to agriculture as the only means of support,
the heavy
[taxes on] land revenue filled the cup of their misery. . . . [In the pursuit
of revenue]
even during
famines, the government allowed or ‘encouraged the export of food grains.
During
the period from
1849 to 1914, the value of exports increased ‘twenty-two times over’.
Disregard for the common people extended also to the upper reaches of
Indian society. During Lord Curzon’s time as viceroy, form 1898 to 1905, Indian
reached what has been called the ‘apogee of imperial theory.’ Every detail of
the lives of even the maharajas of quasi-independent states was regulated and they
were closely monitored by resident ‘advisors,’ whose advice they had to accept.
They could not travel from their principalities without British permission.
Curzon considered them ‘merely as agents of the Crown in the administration of
their territory.’ After the 1857 mutiny, in which they played no part, and as
long as they did as they were told, they were treated as ornaments to the raj
and allowed their often trivial pastimes, their toys, their jewels, their
elaborately caparisoned elephants, and their palaces.
The British government did little in the field of education. After
roughly a century of British rule, Curzon told Parliament in 1892, ‘At present
time the population of British India is 221,000,000; and of that number it has
been calculated that not more than from three to four per cent can read or
write any one of their native tongues, and considerably less than one percent –
about one-fourth of or one-third [of a percent] - can read or write English.’ The
records are incomplete, but one statistic is revealing: when the company was
trying to get Indians of sufficient education to work in its bureaucracy
because they were less expensive than imported Englishmen, ‘the returns of
1852, for example, showed that only two gazetted
[commissioned] officers [in all of India] had come from the government
colleges.
So obvious was the British lack of commitment to educating Indians that even the program that Thomas Babington
Macaulay had set out in 1835 to ‘English’ a class of Indians who would serve
the British as clerks and administrators had never been adequately funded. I
suspect that those who directed government policy recognized the danger it
posed. Macaulay had thought the spread of English would create, as he put it, a
small class on Indians, ‘English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in
intellect,’ who would help the British run India, but Macaulay’s policy would
have changed the environment in which British imperialism operated.(pp.246-250)
From chapter 28: “The Algerian Revolution.”
In the nineteenth century . . . the great Algerian patriot, Abd al-Qadir, led a generation-long guerrilla war against
the French invaders. Worn and broken, in 1846 he went into a relatively
comfortable exile while those he had led were beaten down into servitude.
Groups of colons (also known as the pieds
noirs) from the North – mainly Spanish, Italians, Alsatians, and Corsicans,
with only about one in five being French – rushed in. They were not concerned
with the aggrandizement of France; their aim was the acquisition of land. Like
Ireland, Palestine, South Africa, and Russian Central Asia, Algeria was not so
much an imperial as a colonial venture. Within a decade after the
French invasion, Europeans made up about 1 percent of the population and were
hurriedly taking over the land. Area by area the Algerian population was driven
out of virtually all the usable agricultural lands. The country became, at
least economically, French.
[T]he colonists not only took away the land of the natives but also drove
them down culturally. When the French invaded, a large portion of the Algerian
population was literate in Arabic, with a satisfactory standard of living and a
coherent cultural life shaped by Islam.
But by 1847, as Alexis de Tocqueville told his colleagues in the French
National Assembly, ‘we have rendered Muslim society much more miserable and
much more barbaric than it was before it became acquainted with us.’
Tocqueville was correct, and the conditions of the Algerians got much
worse. After a century of French rule, about three in four Algerians were
illiterate even in Arabic, few had stable jobs, and almost none had well-paying
employment. Bad health was chronic and many went to bed each night hungry. When
I went to Algerian in 1962 in the last days of the Algerian-French war, I found
that Algerians were so totally excluded from the colon economy that even
mom-and-pop laundries and bakeries were European monopolies. Although Algiers
had France’s largest medical school and hospital complex, fewer than half a
dozen of its doctors were Algerian.
France organized Algeria both as a colony and as an integral part of
France. It was divided into three provinces (départements)
similar to those in metropolitan France, but they were governed even before the
war by ‘security’ rules that would not have been tolerated in France.
Until the end of the First World War, neither Arab nor Berber Algerians
had found means to express themselves. They played no part in administering
themselves and their voices were effectively silenced. Then, despite the bitter
opposition of the colons, the National Assembly in Paris recognized their
contribution to the war effort – 173,000 Algerians had enlisted in the French
army, and nearly one in six was killed – by moving slowly and haltingly toward
a policy of making them, first culturally and then politically, French. After
the cultural aspects of this policy were effected over
the next twenty years, a French government offered citizenship to a select
group whom it judged to have met its standards. Only 1 Algerian in 250
qualified.
Even this token concession outraged the colons, and they
organized a lobby to overturn the legislation. The lobby’s principal critic
presciently warned his parliamentary colleagues that if the Algerians were not
allowed to become members of the French nation, ‘beware lest they do not soon create
one for themselves.’ He was far in advance of his time and was virtually
laughed out of the assembly. Meanwhile, having not been given national identity
by France and not finding it in nationalism, Algerians sought refuge in Islam.
While both Arabs and Berbers were Muslims, their
religious affiliations and heritage failed to bridge ethnic divisions, tribal
schisms, or the cultural divide between villagers and the urban population.
Nor did it give them sufficient strength, as Abd
al-Qadir had already found a century before, to drive out the French. Like
peasant farmers throughout Africa and Asian, Algerians regarded their villages,
rather than Algeria, as their nation. It was their shared religious belief and
their shared sense of humiliation that gave them such sense of unity as they
had. All were despised by the Europeans, who regarded the elite as just
imitation French people, the peasants as a species of farm animal, and the
urban lower class as ‘street Arabs.’ For many years, all suffered in silence,
but gradually they sought means of change.
The means of change grew slowly and chaotically. Three main Algerian
groups came forward but failed to generate effective popular support. The
first, founded in 1931 by Muslim clerics, who were influenced by similar
revivalist movements in Egypt and Morocco, was the Gatherintg
of the Algerian Community. Somewhat like the Sunni Hamas in modern Palestine
and Shiah Hizbullah in
modern Lebanon, the gathering drew strength from the social services it
provided for the native population; however, it never managed to develop a
political program.
The second major group was a party that called itself (notably using
French rather than Arabic) the Union Démocratique
du Manifest Algérien. It was organized by the
small urban elite of relatively prosperous, educated, and Europeanized
Algerians just after the conclusion of the Second World War. The French view of
Algeria was adopted by the union’s leaders: to whom, it as a backward society.
The way forward, they proclaimed, was to put aside Algerian culture and evolve
– hence they were known as the évolués – from
current ‘backwardness’ toward French culture and French citizenship. The évolués sought not independence from France but rather
equality for Algerians within the French Union. Indeed, the man who was their
recognized leader, Farhat Abbas,
famously denied that there was such an entity as the Algerian nation. Having
served in the French army and being married to a Frenchwoman, he was
effectively marginalized as the token Algerian. So were his followers.
The third group was the most radical. It was organized and led by an
Algerian of humble origin, Messali Hadj, who had fought during the First World War in the
French army and, like Farhat Abbas,
had married a Frenchwoman. Although Messali had
practically no formal education, Algerians found him a spell-binding public
speaker.
Messali addressed the growing number of Algerians
who performed menial labor in France. Hated but not used by the French, they
were underpaid, discriminated against, and angry. He offered them a means of
expressing their anger in political association. The authorities saw this as
sedition and put him in prison. Undeterred, when he was released he continued
to speak out and over time became the visible symbol of Algeria. In 1937, he
enlarged his association into the Algerian Progressive Party and set its
objectives: to win independence from France and give back to Algerians the
lands taken from their ancestors by the colons. To the French and
particularly to the pieds noirs, he was
the very embodiment of everything they hated and feared in Algerians. During
the Second World War, the Vichy government condemned him to sixteenth years of
hard labor and banned his party.
Meanwhile, during the dreary years of the Second World War, when Algeria
was under Vichy control, the Algerians listened avidly when Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Winston Churchill made their grand pronouncements about freedom
and independence. Always keen about not being overshadowed, Charles de Gaulle
echoed their words in January 1944 when he cautiously and vaguely promised ‘to
lead each of the colonial peoples to a development that will permit them to administer
themselves, and later, to govern themselves.’
The Algerians, to their cost, believed Roosevelt and Churchill and heard
what they wanted to hear in de Gaulle’s statement. So, on the morning of May 8,
1945 – VE-day – inhabitants of the little Algerian town of Sétif
gathered to celebrate. They thought, naively to be sure, that the millennium
had arrived. Joy got out of hand and celebration turned to riot as the
participants waved the flag of their hero, the early resistance leader Abd al-Qadir. Particularly among the impoverished landless
agricultural workers, the celebration released pen-up anger. Ugly but sporadic
attacks on Europeans drew down on them the fury of the colons. Between ten
thousand and forty-five thousand Algerians were massacred by private Frenchmen,
the French police, and the French army. That tragedy may be taken as the
seedbed of modern Algerian nationalism.
The French Communist Party, to which the Algerian radicals had looked
for at least psychological support, dumped them just like its Moscow bosses
were in the process of selling out the Greek resistance. Playing European
politics, through which it wanted to influence the public against the creation
of NATO, the Communist Party decided to demonstrate French patriotism by
opposing moves toward Algerian independence. The Communist Party newspaper, Humanité, downplayed the Sétif
massacre while its Algerian offshoot, Liberté,
urged that the Algerians who had instigated the revolt be put in front of a
firing squad. For the next decade, the Algerian Communist Party sided with the colons
and supported the sending of French soldiers to fight the Algerians.
The Sétif massacre and the Communist reaction
to it caused Messali to break with the Community-led
front and to reconstitute his suppressed part at the Movement for the Triumph
of Democratic Liberties. It won the municipal elections of 1947 but was
overwhelmed by fraud and intimidation in the crucial 1948 elections for the
assembly. Following that defeat, Messali was again
arrested, and this time he was deported. The net result of French repression
was that a new generation of Algerians, many of whom had served in the French
army during the Second World War, concluded that ytye
could gain nothing at th e ballot box and began to
think in tern^s of bulle(ts.
Among the young veterans as Ahmad Ben Bella, who had won two of France’s
highest decorations for valor – one of which as awarded to him personally by de
Gaulle. As a soldier, Ben Bella had fought in the
Italian campaign; it was there that he first encountered and was deeply
impressed by the Italian partisans, the anti-Fascist Resistenza
Italiana. He carried his appreciation of their
campaign with him back to Algeria. There, after his demobilization, he entered
politics as a follower of Messali. He was successful
in a local election but soon realized that he was blocked at that level. He could
hope to go no higher. Frustrated and angry, he struck out on a track more radical
than that followed by Messali: he gathered together a
group of young men, many of them veterans like himself, to fight for independence.
Getting financial support, he realized, was crucial so he did what similar groups
elsewhere had done: he organized a robbery. He was caught and sentenced to eight
years’ imprisonment and his organization, which by then had grown to nearly
five thousand members, was broken up. Ben Bella managed to escape and went
underground, just as he had seen the anti-Fascist Italians do.
Meanwhile, far from Algeria two things happened that would shape the Algerian
struggle. First, the French army in Indochina was defeated a Dien Bien Phu. The great battle,
which the French had proclaimed would be a knockout blow to the Viet Minh, cost
some thirteen thousand French lives. It was the first time that a French army
had been defeated by a colonial people, and it had the same effect in Algeria
that the defeat of General Edward Braddock’s British army during the French and
Indian Wr in 1763 had on the colonial Armenians: as Benjamin Franklin had said
of the British defeat then, it “gave us Americans the first suspicion that our
exalted ideas of the prowess of British regulars had not been well founded.’
Just as Braddock’s defeat had helped convince Americans that they had a chance
against the British army, the Viet Minh’s triumph over the French was to
convince Algerians that they could defeat the French.
The second result of the French defeat
in Vietnam was that a group of French army officers, having been humiliated by
the Germans in the Second World War and by the Viet Minh in Indochina, came to
share an almost mystical quest to recapture French grandeur. From the Viet Minh
they drew inspiration for a new form of counterinsurgency. Politically
sensitive, utterly ruthless, and sharply targeted, French military
counterinsurgency would be first played out in Algeria by the French elite
paratroop regiments under General Jacques Massu.
On November 1, 1954, the Algerians who felt most keenly their national
destiny formed the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN; Association for the National Liberation).
It is ironic that the name of the independence movement was French. So
completely had France wiped away the heritage of Algeria, that even the
militants spoke French by preference. Years later, one
of them, Houari Boumedienne,
told President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt that he
was the only one of the Algerian cabinet who knew Arabic. Despite, but also in
part because of, the denationalization of Algeria and Algerians, the war of
independence had begun.(pp.313-318)
Part 5: “Militant Islam.”
In
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Muslims tried
to organize their reaction to imperialism. First, the rulers of the Ottoman
Empire, Egypt, and India copied what they understood to be the source of European
power. Some of what they did appears to us as simply superficial, like dressing
their soldiers in Western-style uniforms. But, superficial or not, the imperial
powers would not permit them to protect nascent industry or modernize military
forces. In response, religious leaders dug deeper into their traditions,
particularly the traditions that had evolved after the devastating invasions of
Genghis Khan’s Mongols. Sufi orders took up the defense rule
in Indonesia, Somalia, Libya, the Caucasus, Algeria, and Morocco. One
after another each of these efforts failed to stop the invasions of the
imperial powers.
Reacting to this failure and
pinning responsibility for it on the religious establishment, thinkers picked
up the then-current European fascination with nationalism and tried to define
themselves under its aegis. From roughly 1900 until about 1970, nationalism was
the banner under which would-be liberators rallied. Profiting from the decline
of support for imperialism in the North of the world, nationalism in Indonesia,
Somalia, Iran, Turkey, the Levant, and North African nation-states thought they
had found the formula for independence. Catastrophic defeats of the Middle
Eastern Arab states forced a reevaluation of the creed and the practice.
Nationalism itself was virtually discarded as a suitable ideology.
Then, after a period of confusion, a new pattern was set by militant
groups, modeled on the Muslim Brotherhood, and fundamentalist Islam was
reasserted, inspired by the Egyptian theologian Sayyid
Qutb. Read by tens of millions of Muslims, Qurb is the ideologue of the move toward a reassertion of Islamic
fundamentalism. It was this combination of organization and ideology that was
picked up by Usama bin Ladin
and spread in Afghanistan and throughout the Sunni Muslim world in response
first to Russian imperialism and then to American intervention.
Indeed, as I seek to make clear, these recent moves are stages in
processes that have deep historical roots. Some of the most spectacular
movements of today, in fact, long predate the ideologies and structures to
which they identify themselves. Thus, as the reader will see, the Moro
‘rebellion’ is now more than a century old, and the Somalia insurgency and the Boko Haram movement in Nigeria
were in large part a direct and proximate response to imperialism.
Meanwhile, and parallel to events in other parts of the Muslim world,
Iran was led by its foremost religious leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini, into revolution. Drawing on Qutb’s
philosophy, he created a Shiah version of the
theocracy the Muslim Brothers sought.
The aim of this part of the book is to show how these evolving ideas and
actions led step by step to the anger and frustration of the Muslims and to
violence by some of the adherents. While the groups mostly began as separate
movements, they have tended to coalesce and to transcend cultural differences
and vast distances to form more or less similar movements, in which the peoples
of the South of the world are grouped around individuals. However, while the reader
will bind many of their ideas and practices similar, the groups themselves are
often in conflict with one another. A fundamental issue all have had to
address, however, is whether the achievements of some sort of unity depends on
the acquisition of a homeland (as the leadership of the Islamic State
have argued) or whether it can be achieved in a less tangible form (as the leadership
of al-Qaida believe). The opponents of the militants find it easier to
attack the statists since they present a fixed target, whereas, so far at
least, the ideologues have spread widely through Africa and Asia.
What the reader should particularly note is that the ideology of
reaction to the residue of imperialism is powerful, diffuse, and self-perpetuating,
despite the large-scale and apparently successful opposition mounted, with help
from the North, against it. This section of the book prepares the way to
consider, as I will in Part 6, what might be done to create a world in which
Muslims and Christians, Hindus and Jews, peoples of the North and the South,
can find a means to live in reasonable peace and security.(pp.435-437)
From chapter 38: “The Moro ‘Rebellion’ in the Philippines.”
When Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the Philippines in 1521, most of the
population was Muslim, having been converted, like the peoples of the Malay Peninsula,
Sumatra, and Java, by Arabs and Persian traders. As in Indonesia, the vast
number of islands – the Philippines had more than seven thousand – also
supported a large Buddhist population, who had been converted by Chinese
merchants. Both areas also contained hundreds of outer native ethnic,
linguistic, and religious groups. The Spaniards, as they began their conquest
of the Philippines, were not much concerned with the traditional or pagan groups
or with the Buddhists, but they looked on the Muslims as enemies. They
considered the local Muslims another branch of the Arabs and Berbers they had
fought for centuries in Spain, so they called them ‘Moros.’
In fact the Philippine Moros were natives who
had converted to Islam only a century or two before Magellan landed. Once introduced,
the religion had spread quickly, and by the time the Spaniards arrived, Muslim
societies had coalesced into kingdoms. Some of these were large and thriving,
with vigorous cultures. Those that were situated in the north on the island of
Luzon were immediately attacked by the Spaniards. Spanish policy toward the Moros on Luzon – essentially the same one they had learned
in the Azores and carried out in the Caribbean – was simple: genocide. They had
two powerful weapons. First, they were armed with cannon and protected by steel
armor, whereas the natives, like their descendants for the next four centuries,
fought mainly with swords and were protected only by wooden or woven fiber
shields. The second weapon was more subtle but ultimately more powerful.
Accompanying the Spanish warriors were priests whom they encouraged to convert
the natives to Catholicism.
Those the Spanish did not convert or kill, they drove away form what
became the their major base on Luzon. The little
village of Manila became the anchor of one of the great trade routes of
Imperial Spain. From its port, the galeóns de Manila (the Manila galleons) were
loaded with spices and luxury goods that had been transshipped from India or
china and sent on the trade winds across the Pacific to Acapulco on their way
to Spain. That trade was the principal reason the Spaniards were in the
Philippines. The rest of the country was of secondary importance.
But the Spanish also needed timber of build and repair ships. And the
best shipbuilding timber, dense and impervious teak, was available mainly in
the jungles of the south. So to support the galleon trade, they had to deal
with the coastal port towns or sultanates on the southern island of Mindanao.
They could not safely carry on that trade unless they could suppress the local
armed traders and privateers. Their experience with the ‘other’ Moors – the
‘Barbary pirates’ – set their policy. They sometimes paid protection money to
privateers, but often they used their superior firepower to sink any native praus they encountered. That was sufficient to enable them
to get from the south the timber they needed. Local merchants were willing to
swap their timber for trade goods, just as the American Indians swapped their
furs for beads or pieces of iron. The Spaniards generally restricted their activities
to the coast. There they were safe and could deal with local merchants who
brought timber to them. When they could not get what they wanted, they employed their
steel-encased soldiers and the Christian Philippine militia they recruited to
conduct search-and-destroy missions into the interior jungle, but apparently
such ventures were rare.(pp.439-440)
In 1879, the Spanish changed their policy and aggressively
pushed into the interior of Mindanao, where they discovered the Muslim
stronghold had become disorganized due to widespread disease; they had given up
any hope of defeating the Spaniards.
Resistance
did not completely cease, but the Spaniards were effectively in control or at
least those parts of Mindanao they regarded as worth ruling. That was in
essence the status when America invaded the Philippines in 1898.
The
first target of the American invaders was the Spanish military. On Luzon, the
Americans easily defeated the Spanish forces while the American fleet blockaded
the scattered Spanish bases throughout the island and particularly on Mindanao.
Without any system of resupply; the Spanish were unable to defend themselves,
and the Moros rushed to take revenge and recoup their
lost territory. They attacked every Spanish position on Mindanao, Sulu, and other
southern islands. Whether or not they saw the Americans as liberators, the Moros seized the opportunity the Americans had given them.
Like the leaders of the insurgent groups in the Catholic north, they asserted
their independence. To win it, they sought American support. The first actions
of their most established political authority on Sulu, the sultan, showed that
he wanted an alliance against the hated Spaniards. He offered America a treaty
giving his state autonomy. He was soon disabused.
As they had already shown in the Christian north, the Americans had an
entirely different objective. They were not guided by a concern with religion,
either Christian or Muslim; they had embraced the imperial objective: they
wanted a colony. As both the Christians in the north and the Muslims in the
south began to realize the American objective, they began to resist. They had
few means of resistance: the outgoing Spaniards abandoned some arms, but they
had long devoted themselves to making sure that natives did not know either how
to use them or how to organize themselves. From their long wars against the
Native Americans, the incoming Americans were adept at both.
In the first stages of the conflict, the Americans concentrated on the
Christian insurgents and adopted the tactics of the contemporary English
theorist of counter-guerrilla warfare Charles E. Callwell,
whose book Small Wars had been published in London in 1896. It advocated
what was thought of as a Spanish style of counterinsurgency: ‘Chastise the
rebels in their homes . . . . To bring them to reason he
[the imperialist] must reach them through their corps, their flocks, and their
property . . . depriving them of their belongings or burning their dwellings.’
Only thus could the insurgents be forced into battles in which they could be
destroyed by the occupier’s superior forces. Sending out
‘flying columns’ as Callwell had advised, the
Americans destroyed dozens of villages.
. . .
As in the Spanish resistance to Napoleon’s invasion and the Moroccan resistance
to the Spanish, guerrillas fought both as organized bands, not really armies
but rather hastily gathered groups of peasants, and also as individual suicide fighters.
. . . The Spaniard had called the Moro fighters juramentados,
from the Spanish world for ‘taking an oath.’ Each suicide fighter publically
vowed to fight to the death against the Spanish troops and their Philippine
Christian auxiliaries. American officers were astonished at their suicidal
bravery. The Americans painfully discovered that even when hit by round after
round of pistol fire, the barefoot and semi-naked fidayin
kept charging. Like their cousins in Afghanistan and elsewhere, the fidayin in the Philippines would later discover how to make
and employ improvised explosive devices (IEDs), but they never put aside the kris or the barong.
. . .
As the French had done in Algeria, the Russians had done in the
Caucasus, and the Chinese were doing in Central Asia, the American
administrators hit on a program to control the Muslims that was cheaper than
combat: they encouraged migration of politically reliable colonists into their
area. In the Philippines, these reliable colonists were northern Christians. To
get them to move into the Muslim areas of Mindanao, the American administration
offered them land. Of course, what they offered was land the local Muslims
regarded as theirs. This colonial, as
distinct from imperial, policy led to sporadic uprisings throughout the
‘pacification period’ of the 1920s and 1930s.(pp.441-446)
.
. .
In the Second World War, when the Americans and their administration
disappeared, the Japanese had a chance to win over the Moros
as they had won over the Indonesian Muslims. They did not take it. They were
more concerned with products than with politics, and it was not long before the
Moros directed their armed opposition against the
Japanese. The best-known opposition group, the Communist-led Hukbalahop, was in the north, but there is no record of
Muslim cooperation with them. Ideologically they were far apart. Separately,
however, each movement tied down large numbers of Japanese troops and fought
bloody insurgencies.
The brutality of the Japanese set the basis for the Moro people’s
growing sense of corporate identity. Being uniformly brutalized, they began to
react uniformly. When the American armed forces reappeared and some elements of
the former administration began to reassert themselves, the Moros
slowly moved toward political action. It took about ten years for a group of
recognized leaders of the various Muslim groups to form a political movement.
Probably the main reason for the long gestation period, despite the wartime
experience of militancy, was that the Moro people were divided into a dozen or
more groups scattered throughout the Philippines. No group any longer
controlled a territory, and except on the islands of the far south, each was a
minority. Another reason the sense of community evolved so slowly was the
enmity of the Christian government, which acted toward the Muslims in the
pattern established by the Spanish and continued by the Americans: The Muslims
were foreigners, a distinct native people to be merely tolerated when not
actually fought, and to be gradually pushed away from the real, that is, the
Christian, nation and its territory.(pp.446-447)
William Polk concludes his discussion of the Philippines’
political history, by drawing three lessons:
The lessons of the long-running conflict, I think, are three: first, it is
very dangerous to try to deprive a people of a sense of national existence,
even if the group in question is small and has only a limited sense of its own
identity. The fighting has cost the lives of about a million people and has
caused terrible suffering for two or three times that many.
The second lesson is that in any insurgent war, both defenders and challengers
feel obliged to take positions that often endanger the civic order they are
trying to protect. In the Philippine conflict, the national army endangered
Philippine civic order with its increasing determination to score a ‘win.’ We
saw the same progression in Algeria, where the French Army nearly destroyed the
French Republic, and its dissident group, the Secret Army Organization, tried
to kill the country’s president, Charles de Gaulle. While the Philippine Army
got more radical and dangerous to the government, the insurgents split into
more radical and dangerous groups. The longer insurgency and counter-insurgency
continue, the more extreme these trends become.
The third lesson is that with intelligence, understanding, and bravery,
the causes of insurgency can be meaningfully addressed. As they are resolved,
order and security can be reestablished. This has proved to be a difficult but
not impossible task.(pp.449-450)
In his final chapter, Polk attempts to answer the questions:
Where we are, and where we can go?
The question of where we are now can be answered simply: both North and
South feel insecure. Violence has become the norm. The tragic fate of the
refugees pouring out of Africa and West Asia, in large part the result of the
breakdown of civil order, is daily recounted in the media. This breakdown has
several causes, but two overshadow the rest.
The first cause of the danger and insecurity we feel today is the long
history of imperialism. A century or more of invasion, occupation, humiliation,
and genocide has left scars that are still not healed, and cannot heal if they
are constantly reopened.
These scars were, in fact, reopened by the American invasions of
Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Somalia, which literally tore those societies
apart. What we call ‘regime change’ was far more fundamental than that term
implies. It destroyed civic institutions, canceled the social contract that
bound the citizens to one another and to government, and created precisely the
anarchy that Thomas Hobbes warned was the worst of all human conditions: ‘no
Society and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death. And
the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, burtish and short.’
Of course, the regimes the George W. Bush administration changed were
far from perfect. But, as we have learned and as the affected people have now
seen for themselves, almost any regime is better than none. Evolution,
however uncertain, into something better through the growth of education,
improve health, and rising living standards was tgopped.
Life itself was halted for untold tens of thousands. And no benefit accrued to
anyone but warlords.
The disruptive, cruel, and violent forces now so evident in the Muslim
world are at least in part a reaction to Western action. Terrorism is the
weapon of the weak because it has always been the easiest weapon to grasp.
Sometimes it is the only one they can grasp. We Americans used it in our
revolution, as did the French and Russians in theirs, and as indigenous peoples
have done the world over. Terrorism is not just something ‘they’ - whoever
‘they’ are in any era – did. It is something we all have done. And until
meaningful movement is made toward solutions, it is something everyone will
continue to do.
The second cause of the present danger, the Israeli expulsion of the Palestinians
from their homeland, was a direct outcome of European anti-Semitism, which set
in motion the events that led to the ‘Palestine problem.’ The European
holocaust had many of the same effects as imperialism. Both led to the misery
of innocent people and the rise of danger and violence in our times. A million
Palestinians who were driven from their homeland paid the final price for what
the North did to the Jews.
The peoples of the North now also face insecurity and occasionally
danger as well. To date, it is far smaller than the danger felt by people in
the South, but it is growing and spreading.
.
. .
The money costs of terrorism are obviously important, but they are less
important than the political and psychological costs of the actions used to
suppress it and defend against it. These have wounded our sense of civic order,
our respect for our legal institutions, and our trust in one another. Pushed
further, they will split our world even more deeply between north and South –
indeed, between our domestic North and South.
We are at a fork in the road – or perhaps we are already past it, having
chosen the specious security of power. Military people favor this choice
because they have been trained to follow its markers; politicians like it
because they can ‘stand tall’ an wrap themselves in
the flag; arms merchants like it because it justifies and enriches their
businesses; labor unions like it because it offers ‘quality’ jobs. Why think of
any other choice?
The simple answers are two. First, the military-security road does not
take us where we want to go. It does not lead us toward affordable world
security but rather toward unaffordable world insecurity. The further down that
road we go, the further we get from a livable world.
The second answer is that military-based security actions and policies
have been costly failures; counterinsurgency has been applied in Afghanistan
for sixteen years, at a monetary cost, in today’s dollars, larger than the
entire Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe at the end of the Second World War. The
result has been the virtual destruction of Afghanistan, terrible misery for its
people, and the creation of a corrupt oligarchy that will flee when the money
stops rolling in. The one thing the policy has not done is create peace or
stability, and there is no prospect of its doing so. The Iraqi venture has
been, if anything, worse. A direct outcome of our campaign there has been the
formation of the Islamic State. Applied further, as we are now doing, the road
of counterinsurgency leads to unending war.
The other road is unmapped and offers no quick fix. It is far less
dramatic. It is uncertain. At best it will be bumpy. Even to begin to think
through what that road would involve will require statesmanship of a kind that
is always in short supply and now does not appear to exist. It will require commitments
that depend on knowledge and sophistication that are not now evident. As an old
policy planner, I have thought long and hard about the two roads. Among the things
that are necessary is a clear view of how we got to where we are. The beginning
of wisdom, I suggest, must be sought where the Brahmins in the parable stopped.
We must understand tails and trunks in order to begin to see the elephant, much
less deal with it. Getting that perspective has been my goal in writing this
book. Perhaps it will form at least a starting point.(pp.533-535)
The 24 + items below are selected essays and articles
that reflect our new era of post-nationalism, where wars are being fought not
against nations, but against humanity with the age-old objectives of private
profit and power. We live in a period when more and more elected law-makers
and appointed government officials are controlled by blackmail and bribes, while ordinary people are distracted by
trivial pursuits. The amorality of war is now reflected in the amorality of
public policy, as national wars are subsumed by class war; blood is on the
hands of all of us who have given either explicit or tacit consent to
imperialist conquest of foreign lands and the systematic colonization of bodies
and minds at home and abroad.
The corporate capitalists shall be eaten by their children.
Sincerely,
Francis Feeley
___
Professeur honoraire de l'Université Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur de
Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
http://www.ceimsa.org
a.
Bill Gates: ‘I was so jealous’ of
‘genius’ Steve Jobs
by Tom Huddleston
Jr.
+
Testing Will Begin In
Africa For Biometric ID, "Vaccine Records", & "Payment
Systems"
by Tyler Durden
+
James Corbett Discusses “The
Technocratic Coup”
with James Corbett
(audio:
25:06)
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From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020
Subject: [MCM] Anderson Cooper asks Bill Gates about all those lunatic
"conspiracy theories" about Bill Gates.
From
July 23.
Hard-hitting
journalism (from a Vanderbilt), as enlightening as all the
"fact-checking" that Bill Gates pays for.
Can
you imagine "theorizing" that Gates is making BILLIONS off vaccines?
That's just one example of the madness these two decent, humane guys deplored
together.
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Bill Gates: US
fumbled coronavirus response because
'we believe in freedom'
https://www.foxnews.com/health/bill-gates-us-masks-freedom
by
Audrey Conklin
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From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020
Subject: [MCM] Journalism's Gates-keepers, keeping Bill Gates
"safe" (MUST-READ)
This
may be the key to all the hell the rest of us are living through.
Bill
Gates, chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in 2019. Samuel Habtab/AP Photo
Journalism’s Gates keepers
https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php
AUGUST 21, 2020
LAST AUGUST, NPR PROFILED
A HARVARD-LED EXPERIMENT to help low-income families find
housing in wealthier neighborhoods, giving their children access to better
schools and an opportunity to “break the cycle of poverty.” According to
researchers cited in the article, these children could see $183,000 greater
earnings over their lifetimes—a striking forecast for a housing program still
in its experimental stage.
If you squint as you read the story, you’ll notice that every
quoted expert is connected to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which
helps fund the project. And if you’re really paying attention, you’ll also
see the editor’s note at the end of the story, which reveals that NPR
itself receives funding from Gates.
NPR’s funding from Gates “was not a factor in why or how we did
the story,” reporter Pam Fessler says, adding that
her reporting went beyond the voices quoted in her article. The story,
nevertheless, is one of hundreds NPR has reported about the Gates
Foundation or the work it funds, including myriad favorable pieces written from
the perspective of Gates or its grantees.
And that speaks to a larger trend—and ethical issue—with billionaire philanthropists’ bankrolling the news. The Broad Foundation, whose philanthropic agenda includes promoting charter schools, at one point funded part of the LA Times’ reporting on education. Charles Koch has made charitable donations to journalistic institutions such as the Poynter Institute
, as well as to news outlets such as the Daily Caller, that support his conservative politics. And the Rockefeller Foundation funds Vox’s Future Perfect, a reporting project that examines the world “through the lens of effective altruism”—often looking at philanthropy.As philanthropists increasingly fill in the funding gaps at news
organizations—a role that is almost certain to expand in the media downturn
following the coronavirus pandemic—an underexamined worry is how this will affect the ways
newsrooms report on their benefactors. Nowhere does this concern loom larger
than with the Gates Foundation, a leading donor to newsrooms and a frequent
subject of favorable news coverage.
I recently examined nearly twenty thousand charitable grants the
Gates Foundation had made through the end of June and found more than $250
million going toward journalism. Recipients included news operations like
the BBC, NBC, Al Jazeera, ProPublica, National
Journal, The Guardian, Univision, Medium, the Financial Times, The Atlantic,
the Texas Tribune, Gannett, Washington Monthly, Le Monde,
and the Center for Investigative Reporting; charitable organizations affiliated
with news outlets, like BBC Media Action and the New York Times’ Neediest Cases Fund; media
companies such as Participant, whose documentary Waiting for “Superman” supports
Gates’s agenda on charter schools; journalistic
organizations such as the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the National
Press Foundation, and the International Center for Journalists; and a variety
of other groups creating news content or working on journalism, such as the Leo
Burnett Company, an ad agency that Gates commissioned to create a “news site”
to promote the success of aid groups. In some cases, recipients say they
distributed part of the funding as subgrants to other
journalistic organizations—which makes it difficult to see the full picture of Gates’s funding into the fourth estate.
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Lancetgate: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to
Treat Covid-19 Patients. Why Was this “Monumental Fraud” Not a Huge Scandal?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/lancetgate-why-monumental-fraud-not-huge-scandal/5721761
by Daniel Espinosa
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Multiple Studies
Predicted Governments Become Authoritarian in Response to Pandemics
with Derrick Broze
+
#PropagandaWatch
“Only Sociopaths Reject the New Normal!”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZimk0nhjO
with James Corbett
(29:08)
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From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Subject: [MCM] LINK to C.J. Hopkins' piece on "the invasion of the
New Normals"
A
subscriber tells me that the link did not come through, so here it is again, with
the first few paragraphs of this great piece.
NB,
for those who don't know, that apt illustration is a frame from Phil Kaufman's killer
1978 remake of Don Siegel's (also great) 1956 Invasion
of the Body Snatchers.
MCM
CONSENT
FACTORY, INC.
Manufacturing
consent for private and public sector clients for over 250 years
Invasion of the New Normals
https://consentfactory.org/2020/08/09/invasion-of-the-new-normals/
by C.J.
Hopkins
They’re here! No, not the pod people from Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
We’re not being colonized by giant alien fruit. I’m afraid it is a little more
serious than that. People’s minds are being taken over by a much more
destructive and less otherworldly force … a force that transforms them
overnight into aggressively paranoid, order-following, propaganda-parroting
totalitarians.
You know the people I’m talking about. Some of them are probably
your friends and family, people you have known for years, and who had always
seemed completely rational, but who are now convinced that we need to radically
alter the fabric of human society to protect ourselves from a virus that causes
mild to moderate flu-like symptoms (or absolutely no symptoms at all) in over
95% of those infected, and that over 99.6% survive, which, it goes without
saying, is totally insane.
I’ve been calling them “corona-totalitarians,” but I’m going to
call them the “New Normals” from now on, as that more
accurately evokes the pathologized-totalitarian
ideology they are systematically spreading. At this point, I think it is
important to do that, because, clearly, their ideological program has nothing
to do with any actual virus, or any other actual public health threat. As is
glaringly obvious to anyone whose mind has not been taken over yet, the
“apocalyptic coronavirus pandemic” was always just a
Trojan horse, a means of introducing the “New Normal,” which they’ve been doing
since the very beginning.
The
official propaganda started in March, and it reached full intensity in early
April. Suddenly, references to the “New Normal” were everywhere, not only in
the leading corporate media (e.g., CNN, NPR, CNBC, The New York
Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Forbes,
et al.), the IMF and the World Bank Group,
the WEF, UN, WHO, CDC (and the list goes on), but
also on the blogs of athletic organizations, global management consulting firms, charter school websites, and
random YouTube videos.
===========
b.
Discussion
of Wikileaks or any “Hacked Information” Banned Under
New YouTube Rules
by Alan Macleod
+
Julian Assange Court Case
Delayed Again in Bizarre Circumstances
by Thomas Scripps and Kevin Reed
+
“Prominent lawyers and legal associations demand Assange’s freedom”
|
Le 17/08/2020, à 22:27, WSWS Free Assange
Newsletter a écrit : A group of 152 eminent legal experts and 15 lawyers’
associations from around the world have today issued
an open letter to the British government, documenting a long list
of legal abuses perpetrated against Julian Assange.
Their letter was released just days after Assange’s most recent UK court appearance on Friday, which
deepened the legal travesty he has been subjected to. The WSWS published a
Perspective article on Saturday characterising this
show trial as “a
cruel and pseudolegal farce.” At the
eleventh hour, his persecutors in the United States government introduced a
new indictment of Assange, less than a month before
his extradition hearing is due to resume on September 7. “The US government seems to want to change the indictment every
time the court meets, but without the defense or Julian himself seeing the
relevant documents,” said WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief
Kristinn Hrafnsson. If extradited, Assange faces 175 years
in a US Federal prison. Assange’s lawyers are now
confronted with an impossible choice: either they accept that the September
hearing will proceed despite having had no timer to
prepare arguments or evidence against the new indictment, or they appeal for
a delay, prolonging Assange’s life-threatening
detention. Friday’s court appearance proceeded under a veil of secrecy.
Only five journalists were allowed in the courtroom, while dozens more
journalists and international observers dialling-in
by phone were not connected. As the WSWS Perspective states: The state conspiracy against Julian Assange
is the spearhead of a sustained offensive against democratic rights targeting
the working class. Assange’s crime in the eyes of
his persecutors is his exposure of imperialist war crimes and diplomatic
intrigues that galvanized mass oppositional sentiment around the world. The WSWS renews its call for the international working class to
come to Assange’s defense. Please read and share
our latest articles to alert your friends and colleagues to the crime being
perpetrated by the British, US and Australian governments. Help build the
global movement to free Julian Assange! Many thanks,
|
+
From: #JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange
[mailto:contact@speak-up-for-assange.org]
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020
Subject: Assange case update - 17 August 2020
Dear
friends and colleagues,
As you may be aware, there have been many developments with regards to Julian Assange’s case in the last few weeks.
We are seriously concerned for his well-being and are outraged by the
continuous violation of due process and countless other abuse of process taking
place. This is happening now, in the U.K. – prominent publications remain
silent on his treatment.
Since March, Julian has not been allowed to see his family. Access to lawyers,
which was already limited, came to a full stop. He was finally given a computer
to prepare his defence – it came with keys glued
down!
A new indictment was announced to the press almost two months ago, but the U.S.
Department of Justice and the U.K.’s Crown Prosecution Service only filed the
updated extradition request two days before the latest hearing – another abuse
of process which will cause additional delay. As time ticks, Julian remains in
solitary confinement.
He attended his last hearing via video-link – he seemed weak and confused,
coughing throughout the proceedings. When asked to confirm his name and date of
birth, he faltered but eventually stuttered his name.
Only five journalists were allowed to attend the latest hearing. Most of them,
in addition to observers, were asked to use the dreaded dial-in system again.
On this occasion, instead of listening to the court proceedings, they heard Muzak. Dozens were left on hold the time!
We are here to ask you to take action.
1) Report about the case and investigate. This is urgent and essential. Please
email us any stories you publish relating to Assange
to <contact@speak-up-for-assange.org>
2) There is a new initiative “Lawyers 4 Assange”.
Please find the press release attached. It was launched yesterday.
Background about the latest developments:
• • [News:] DOJ’s
new WikiLeaks indictment has significant, convenient
plot holes – Dell Cameron, Gizmodo, 25 Jun 2020.
• • [Legal:] Rich
v. Fox News LLC: Request for International Judicial Assistance – The U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of New York to British Royal Courts of
Justice, 5 Aug 2020.
• • [News:] ‘We
have absolute proof’ DNC leaks were not hacked, ex NSA technical director says
– Mohammed el Maazi, Sputnik, 12 Aug 2020.
• • [News:] U.S.
decision to file new charges against Julian Assange
‘astonishing and potentially abusive’ – Computer Weekly, 14 Aug 2020.
• • [News:] ‘What
happens if Julian Assange dies in a British prison?’
– Journalists and Monitors Voice Concerns – Tareq
Haddad, 15 Aug 2020.
Furthermore, DeclassifiedUK has published six
investigations into legal irregularities and conflicts of interest pertaining
directly to Assange in the U.S. extradition case. You
can find them here.
We need to act, ourselves included.
We are pleased to say that Tareq Haddad is joining us
to help with administration and co-ordination. Together, we will be launching a
number of investigations. You can find out more about Tareq
here.
As always, if there is something more we can do to help you report about this
case, or if you have ideas on how we can do more, please get in touch.
Thank you and warm regards,
Serena, Nicky, Blaž
--
International
journalist statement in defense of Julian Assange :
https://speak-up-for-assange.org
Signatories
list :
https://speak-up-for-assange.org/signatures/
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/SpeakUpForAssange/
Hashtag: #JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange
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c.
https://hive.blog/news/@corbettreport/resistance-is-fertile
by James Corbett
+
The Great Reset Where Do We Go From Here
https://lbry.tv/@Alin:7/The-Great-Reset-Where-Do-We-Go-From-Here:f
with Alin
(10:19)
+
They're Relying
on You to OBEY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHuZCCvKK00&feature=youtu.be
with reallygraceful
(10:12)
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From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2020
Subject: [MCM] On the catastrophic costs of
complying (MUST-READ)
Our
most fundamental rights and liberties---including some rights that the Framers
never would have thought to have included in the Constitution, such as the
right to breathe, the right to smile at someone, the right to hug somebody or
shake hands---are disappearing right before our eyes; and we won't ever get
them back if we don't stand up and say NO to this insanity, and say out loud
that none of this has any scientific basis whatsoever, but is about complete
control over our minds and bodies and society.
https://www.ageofautism.com/2020/08/the-catastrophic-costs-of-complying.html
+
Thousands in
Ireland protest lockdowns
https://twitter.com/aussieval10/status/1297186071986360323?s=12
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/civil-unrest/thousands-protest-lockdowns-in-ireland/
https://gript.ie/thousands-attend-dublin-rally-calling-for-health-freedom-end-to-lockdown/
+
From:
Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020
Subject: [MCM] Belgians suing Bill Gates and Belgian government over
COVID-19 restrictions
From
July 29.
MCM
‘Pestered’ Belgians sue Bill Gates and Belgium over coronavirus restrictions
Wednesday,
29 July 2020
Donning
plague doctor masks, over 200 Belgians are taking their government, Bill Gates
and a British epidemiologist to court, in a bid to get all lockdown and coronavirus measures revoked. Pictured: Maxime, a truck driver and plaintiff. Credit:
Provided by Michael Verstraeten
Bill Gates, Belgium and a British epidemiologist are being taken
to court by hundreds of Belgians who are against all coronavirus
regulations and want to get them abolished.
Around 240 Belgians have joined a group called Viruswaanzin, which translates to ‘viral madness’ in Dutch and was launched by members of the restaurant and hospitality industry, according to their lawyer Michael Verstraeten.
+
Engineering Contagion - Investigative Series
https://unlimitedhangout.com/engineering-contagion/
by Whitney Webb and Raul Diego
+
IMF and WEF – From Great Lockdown to Great
Transformation. The COVID
Aftermath
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55468.htm
by Peter Koenig
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d.
The Politics of War: What is Israel’s
Endgame in Lebanon and Syria?
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-politics-of-israel-endgame-in-lebanon-syria/270361/
by Ramzy Baroud
+
Passengers injured after ‘Israeli fighter jet’
buzzes Iranian airliner over Syria
https://www.rt.com/news/495672-israel-jet-iran-passenger-plane/
July 23, 2020 videos
+
The Beirut Explosion, Economic Terror
and the Drumbeat of War Against Hezbollah
by Mnar Muhawesh
Adly
+
Beirut – Accident or “New” Bomb Blast?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55462.htm
by Peter Koenig
+
Beirut
Goes Up In Smoke
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55435.htm
by Andre Vltchek
+
Explosives
expert claims Beirut explosion that killed 160 was caused by burning military
missiles - not ammonium nitrate – because the blast cloud was orange not yellow
(photos and videos)
+
Russia warns it will see any incoming missile as
nuclear
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55443.htm
by Vladimir Isachenkov
+
“A
Cynical Manipulation”: On Israel's Empty Gesture of Goodwill to Beirut
https://www.mintpressnews.com/tel-aviv-israel-gesture-of-goodwill-to-beirut-lebanon/270455/
by Miko Peled
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Lebanon's
corrupt, colonial system leads to explosion catastrophe
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/08/07/lebanons-corrupt-colonial-system-leads-to-explosion-catastrophe/
with Aaron Maté
and Rania Masri
(26:20)
+
Israelis
Are Protesting Netanyahu Like Never Before
from Vice News
(8:33)
+
Who Profits from the Beirut Blast?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55439.htm
by Pepe Escobar
+
Lebanon Regime Change, 'Pervasive' Gates-Backed
Health Consultants & #BeirutBlast Who Benefits?
with Ryan
Cristián
(2:47:20)
+
How the US helped push Lebanon to the brink of
collapse, and now threatens more sanctions
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/08/13/us-lebanon-sanctions-regime-change/
by
Ben Norton
+
Fadi Sawan: The man leading
the Beirut explosion investigation
by Timour Azhari
+
Max Blumenthal: Digital Censorship -- and the
Israel/UAE Pact
(‘the deal of the century’)
by
Max Blumenthal
===========
e.
History to
'vindicate Swedish COVID-19 strategy'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXmwt_8tdNY
with Rowan Dean
(7:17)
Sky News host
Rowan Dean says the effectiveness of the COVID-19 herd immunity strategy
implemented in Sweden and Switzerland “should put the fear of God into every
politician in this country”.
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From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020
Subject: [MCM] Bad news ("bad" in both senses) from France
1)
Masks mandates tightened as COVID-19 "cases" (whatever that means)
spike. Instead of forcing healthy people to keep masks on in the heat, France's
government should lift its lethal ban on HCQ.
2)
Anti-masking protesters in Spain derided by French media EXACTLY as the German
media did to the protesters in Berlin. Note how this report casts truth as lie.
Every single claim made by the Spanish woman interviewed is absolutely true:
MCM
+
Voiceless
Victims of the COVID Lockdowns
with Henna
Maria
(13:13)
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f.
From: CandC Alumni
[mailto:ucsdcoopsandcollectivesalumni@earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2020 4:43 AM
To: ucsdcoopsandcollectivesalumni@earthlink.net
Subject: Invitation to Co-op Union Movie Nights
Invitation to Co-op Union Movie Nights.
Sunday,
August 9, 2020, 5 pm to 7 pm San Diego/Tijuana Time
Our "movie"
will be the new webinar we did in June to introduce new first year and transfer
students to Co-op Union. The panel has people from Groundwork Books, General
Store, Food Co-op, Che Cafe, and Co-ops &
Collectives Alumni. It is under one hour long. After the movie we will enjoy
our usual socializing and conversation about the movie. How can we get the best
reach for this video, not only to new students but to all potential new
volunteers? How might we improve the video if we do another version in future
quarters?
If
you would like to watch the video before the movie night and mull over thoughts
to raise during the after-show conversation, you can
see it at:
An
Introduction to Groundwork Books Collective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMn5nWp-bHk&list=PLKQ_6DpT6P30rb5ZL_t4MeS_a7N52rVaF&index=2
(54:44)
You
are invited to join a meeting.
·
Join the Co-op Union Movie Nights meeting: https://meet.jit.si/Co-opUnionMovieNights
·
To join by phone instead, tap this: +1.512.647.1431,,1799422737#
+
From:
David Morales (Basecamp)
[mailto:notifications@3.basecamp.com]
Sent:
Monday, August 03, 2020
Subject:
(UCSD Co-ops & Collectives Alumni) Building Accountable
Communities
I
just posted this to the Co-op Union Facebook message
group:
Hello
Co-op Union. I am posting a link here to a panel discussion that is worth
checking out. Some years back (after we all effectively saved not only the Ché but GW and FC in the momentum of that campaign), there was a painful situation that ran its course on this
very chat due to how a sexual abuse situation within the Co-ops was handled by
memberships of the various Co-ops. Through discussions with at least one Ché Core alum active at the time, I found that the music
scene community at the Ché was approaching the
Collective regularly over alleged sexual abuse incidents within said scene.
Effectively, the community was attempting to get the CCC to adjudicate on such
matters (something that the Collective was not quite "qualified" to
do). The video linked here is applicable because it is based in the
Restorative/Transformative Justice movement, and the participants are or have
been actively involved in co-ops/collectives that include being situated in
punk music scenes. Check it out, and CCC members, feel free to share on Ché Slack. One of the best take aways
is that this is not easy, but worth attempting if we are going to survive as a
community/movement.
Here
is the link:
What is
Accountability?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjRbj57vBvA&feature=youtu.be
by
the Barnard Center for Research on Women
(1:26:08)
===========
g.
Australians have
been filled 'with fear and alarmism'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvOcyc3jNcA
with
Alan Jones
(10:05)
+
Politicians 'don't have the guts to admit COVID-19
was exaggerated'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J3gWwG_ty4&feature=youtu.be
with Andrew
Bolt
(7:30)
+
Australia’s spirits have ‘been crushed’ by its
COVID-19 response
with Alan Jone
(8:32)
+
Melbourne Cop chocking and manhandling a girl
https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1293075082466586626
with Caitline Johnstone
(8:03)
+
Chloroquine et
Didier Raoult : la mauvaise foi de Patrick Cohen
https://www.acrimed.org/Chloroquine-et-Didier-Raoult-la-mauvaise-foi-de
by Frédéric Lemaire, Mathias Reymond
+
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Subject: [MCM] ANOTHER safe, effective remedy for COVID-19
Ivermectin,
along with Doxycycline and zinc.
Here
it is, reported on Australia's Sky News (which evidently doesn't mind
the bio-fascist
crackdown in Melbourne; but never mind). Which of the major
TV
outlets in "our free press" would run a similar report on
that or any other
drug that has shown
great promise as a COVID-19 remedy (and, by now, there
are quite a few,
some now used the world over)?
The
answer is: "None." The US press is a totalitarian joke, and not a
funny one. See :
“COVID-19
treatments are ‘staring at us in the face’ but have been ignored”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_4FvBAwseQ
with
Chris Smith
(7:47)
MCM
+
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Thursday,
August 13, 2020
Subject: [MCM] WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS
STRENGTH—and SAMENESS IS DIVERSITY!
Two
great bits from Mark Diamond:
"Diversity"
at every Silicon Valley company (and lots of other
places)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZy4QXLKHlI
And:
"The
coronavirus doesn't spread in gatherings I agree
with"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpbrvWe3xFk
MCM
===========
h.
THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC RECONSIDERED . . . .
The COVID-19 political strategy appears to be
unraveling, as the master mentality of the ruling class is exposed and
the slave mentality of those living under its powerful social control
mechanisms dissipates quickly with the light of day.
“Biosecurity Theatre”
COVID-19 Coronavirus "Fake" Pandemic: Timeline and
Analysis
https://www.globalresearch.ca/ncov-2019-coronavirus-time-line/5705776
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
+
*1/3
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2020
To: newsfromunderground
Subject: [MCM] Some promising developments---and an
urgent warning :
From Lila York:
Folks, there are several critical developments
happening now that give us all hope that we can save our democracy, our
constitution and our freedoms and try to recover our humanity and our culture
in full. I am going to link a few articles and urge you to read them.
1 - Doctors across the US write an open letter to
Dr. Fauci testifying that HCQ+ zinc cures the virus
in phase one and demanding that he support its use on an outpatient basis which
will save hundreds of lives. https://www.globalresearch.ca/open-letter-dr-anthony-fauci-regarding-use-hydroxychloroquine-treating-covid-19/5721065
2 - 640 German doctors inaugurate the covid19 extra -parliamentary
inquiry committee. stating that the virus, though
real, is a typical flu and that the covid 19 pandemic
is a global scam. "The two key questions are 1 - Who would do this and
2 - Who benefits". They will be joined by hundreds of doctors from across
the globe.
- 3 minute introduction in English https://twitter.com/jonkirbysthlm/status/1294556980477079552
- 29 minute detailed explanation of the project in German with English
subtitles. https://acu2020.org/english-versions/
3 - From
CDC data, 2020 has the lowest weekly death rate in a decade - so far. Where is
the pandemic?
5 - Grass roots organization make
Americans free again https://makeamericansfreeagain.com/
6 - I watched
a two hour video on 5G satellites and their effects on the planet, animals,
plants and humans hosted by Arthur Firstenberg,
the world' s foremost expert on electricity and electro
magnetic fields and author of The Invisible Rainbow, a book
everyone should read. His conclusion was that we must stop 5G satellites before
they are activated mid- September, and the only route he knows for that is for
everyone on the planet to understand how dangerous smart phones and wifi are and throw away their cell phones, ending the
demand for 5G and giving the governments no way to track human movement and
action. Video is up only this weekend. (You can start halfway through,
since Firstenberg did not join until late) https://event.webinarjam.com/replay/57/rm0mlc8lskktv4c4lzy
shorter video by him here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLmc5cJ1SRY
There are
some very unsavory powerbrokers with totalitarian plans for us. They are not
hiding it. It goes by "Agenda 2030," now sped up to be
agenda 2020, "ID 2021", an inserted tattoo chip under our
skin containing our financial and medical records, The
great reset. and - worst of all - "transhumanism" - essentially turning all humans
into robots by altering our DNA via injection. At the World Economic
Forum meeting in Davos, the corporate members cackled
with glee saying that the virus gave them "such a wonderful opportunity to
inaugurate "The Great Reset"---meaning one-world
government, one-world currency, all naturally produced food replaced by GMO
food, the end of nation-states, global surveillance of all humans, and a
greatly reduced global population. For starters I will just say that without
hard cash currency there is no freedom. Those digits in the cloud can be erased
at will, and a new "social credit system" means that if you step out
of line, you can lose access to your money - among other freedoms. Their goal
is global control of all humans. To me this is no different from slavery. So
let's put this information together We have doctors celebrating the discovery
of a cure for a lame virus whose presence is dying down to zero, whose
mortality numbers peaked in April and have now declined to zero.We
have the media ignoring that data and initiating another fear campaign based on
fake data. We have doctors around the globe declaring that the pandemic was a
fraud and is being perpetuated in the media to serve profits for big pharma. We have the telecoms willy
nilly putting thousands upon thousands of satellites
into orbit to saturate the earth in man-made 5G radiation and obliterate
the night sky without even the smallest attempt to study the effects on the
earth, the ionosphere or on us.
This is my
own conclusion: When Salk discovered the polio
vaccine and offered it to the world for free there was joy across the world. It
meant an end to that horrific disease. Last week doctors across the US
announced a cure for the virus called covid 19 . Was there joy across the land? Did CNN
cheer on the doctors who brought this cure to the public? No. the
opposite happened. They accused doctors of impeccable reputations of being
"quacks"---GPs and ER doctors of long standing. They included the
renowned epidemiologist head of the Yale School of Public Health in their
slander. Google removed not only the video of the doctors' press conference
from youtube (now back up at bitchute),
but also removed their own website, America's Frontline Doctors
As for 5G radiation poisoning, the 5G satellites are scheduled to be
activated mid-September. Millions will become sick from them and some will die
from hypoxia. The media will claim the dreaded "second wave of the
virus" has arrived or announce some other new virus in its place as a coverup to the lethal effects of 5G. The infamous
"deep state" needs 5G to nail down its control of us and operate our
cars. (Tesla remote-driven cars routinely crash, fall apart and burn up - not
so sure the CIA will have an easy time on that.) I will add here an article I
wrote a month ago. I held it back from most of you because what we are fighting
is way scary.
PARTLY HUMAN: THE TRANS-HUMANIST AGENDA
by Lila York
Raise your hand if you don't like the way God created us and think that
Bill Gates should be allowed to improve on God's work by altering our
DNA with injected genetically modified nano-particles.
No? Okay.
Raise your hand if you think that the solution to overpopulation is to
sterilize every man and woman on earth with millimetre
electro-magnetic frequencies.
No? Okay.
Raise your hand if you would like your newborn infant to be injected with formaldehyde, aluminum, mercury, Polysorbate 80,
dog brains and DNA from aborted fetal
tissue. No?
Raise your hand if you want the CIA to drive your car for you. - and incidentally run it into a guard rail if
they don't like something you write on Facebook.
No?
Raise your hand if you think all churches, synagogues and mosques should
get the wrecking ball and be eliminated so that God can be replaced by Amazon's
robots. No?
Raise your hand if you knew that all of the above are being planned for
us and are already in process courtesy of Bill Gates and the Rockefeller Foundation.
No?
Then raise your hand if you are willing to defy the government
and the telecoms, and the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation and refuse to consent to any of the above and so
remain fully human and drive your own car.
Bill Gates' brave new world will be
missing the things that fuel our yearnings and right our moral
compass. Things that make us cheer and weep. Imagine a world without
Mozart, without Shakespeare' s plays, Dickens'
novels, or Jane Austen's. Without the Rolling Stones or Bach, without
Balanchine or break-dancing, without Van Gogh or
Jackson Pollock, without La Boheme or Les
Miserables. without Citizen
Kane or Star Wars. A world where
nobody falls in love or mourns the death of a parent. That is the
world Bill Gates is planning for us: a world bereft of human
expression, human searching, human joy; a world where God is no
longer within us.
--
lila
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*2/3
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2020
To: newsfromunderground
Subject: [MCM] “Forced isolation may be the only way
to stop resurgence of virus” (Says WHO?) :
This is demonstrably false---and a clear sign that
this COVID crisis was devised to turn the whole world into a neo-feudal
high-tech playground for the ultra-rich, with just enough of us left living (if
you can call it that) to service them.
"The virus" is NOT "resurgent,"
as the data makes quite clear. Only those who get their "news" about
it from Big Pharma's advertising venues---a captive
audience that, unfortunately, includes millions of "educated"
people---believes it's on the rise again, since that's what the New York Times
and NPR et al. keep telling us, based on morbid half-truths, terroristic
rumor-mongering, factoids taken out of context, the deliberate obfuscation of
what constitutes a COVID-19 "case," unrelenting CENSORSHIP of inconvenient
truths, and a staggering array of bald-faced lies, about the infectiousness of
children, the effectiveness of HCQ+, the necessity of masks, and every other
aspect of this "crisis."
"Forced isolation" wasn't necessary in
Japan, Taiwan, Iceland, South Korea, Sweden or Belarus---or Iowa, Nebraska,
Kansas or the Dakotas---which all got through the crisis very well with no
lockdown of any kind; nor was it necessary ANYWHERE, though it was surely used
in China and New Zealand---models of repressiveness applauded by the same high
interests pushing just that sort of crackdown here and now. This technocratic
faux-"solution" is political, not medical, and represents an
existential threat to freedom, health and happiness throughout the US and beyond.
This must be stopped, and WILL be stopped, because
it's too big, and too evil, NOT to fail; and because there are enough of us,
and will be eventually be even more of us, who just won't take it
MCM
Forced Isolation May Be the Only Way to Stop
Resurgence of Virus
(Bloomberg)
-- Flare-ups from Australia to Japan show the world hasn’t learned an early
lesson from the coronavirus crisis: to stop the
spread, those with mild or symptom-free coronavirus
infections must be forced to isolate, both from their communities and family.
In Australia,
where Victoria state has been reporting record deaths, some 3,000 checks last
month on people who should have been isolating at home found 800 were out and
about. In Japan, where the virus has roared back, people are staying home but
aren’t in isolation: 40% of elderly patients are getting sick
from family members in the same apartments.
The failure to effectively manage contagious people with mild or no
symptoms is a driving factor behind some of the world’s worst resurgences.
But lessons from Italy, South Korea and others that have successfully contained
large-scale outbreaks show that there’s a tried-and-tested approach to cutting off transmission: move
them out of their homes into centralized facilities while they get over their
infections, which usually doesn’t require longer than a few weeks.
“A laissez-faire approach naively trusting everyone to be responsible
has been shown to be ineffective, as there will always be a proportion who
will breach the terms of the isolation,” said Jeremy Lim, adjunct professor at
the National University of Singapore’s Saw Swee Hock
School of Public Health.
Faced with a new cluster this week after 102 days without a locally
transmitted case, New Zealand has quickly enacted this strategy, placing 17
people -- including two children below the age of 10 -- into centralized
quarantine.
But other countries facing sustained spread like Australia and the U.S.
are not broadly enacting the policy despite its proven track record. Their
unwillingness -- or inability -- to do so underscores the challenges faced by liberal
democracies whose populations are less likely to tolerate measures that
require individual sacrifice for the greater good.
Not at Home
The existence of a large group of carriers who hardly feel sick is a
unique feature of the coronavirus crisis, and a major
factor that has driven its rapid spread across the globe. Unlike in previous
outbreaks like the 2003 SARS epidemic, many infected people don’t feel ill
enough to stay home, and so spread the pathogen widely as they go about their
daily lives.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated that 40% of Covid-19
infections are asymptomatic.
In Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus
first emerged last year, mildly sick patients were originally turned away from
hospitals and told to rest at home, given that the overwhelmed health-care
system needed to tend to the most severe cases. But health experts soon found
that these people would infect their family members and others as they moved
around in the community, precipitating a deluge of cases.
Read more on successful virus containment strategies in Asia:
Bringing mild or asymptomatic patients to designated
facilities -- re-purposed convention centers, hotels and stadiums -- for basic
medical care marked a turning point in the city’s fight against the coronavirus. Simply separating them from healthy
people halted the pathogen’s silent spread through the community.
The strategy has since been used in Italy, Singapore and South Korea at
the height of their own coronavirus outbreaks earlier
this year. Faced with a resurgence last month, Hong
Kong converted an exhibition center to
accommodate mild Covid-19 patients and is building more such facilities.
In New Zealand, the government put “a lot of thought” into enacting the
policy, and is asking family members of confirmed cases to go into centralized
quarantine with them if they require care, said director general of health
Ashley Bloomfield.
Finishing
touches are applied to a ward at a dedicated Covid
Health Centre at the Bandra Kurla
Complex exhibition ground in Mumbai, India on May 17.
Photographer:
Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg
The approach
is effective firstly because it prevents people from infecting family members
in the same household -- over 80% of cluster infections in China cities were in
households after mild patients were allowed to stay home, said a Lancet study. In Europe, the surge of household infections drove
Italy’s Milan to start putting such cases in hotels, enabling the country to
gain control over its outbreak in early May.
Beyond household spread, the strategy is necessitated by a facet of human
nature that’s been seen time and again across countries and cultures: left to
their own devices, some people just won’t follow the rules.
In Australia and Japan, infected people who’ve been told to stay home
have gone out for a variety of reasons -- some can’t work from home and need
the income, while others want to pick up groceries and supplies. One woman in
Tokyo traveled cross country by bus after having
her infection confirmed.
“It is far better to be more aggressive in the short term with even mild
cases than it is to allow such cases to slip under the radar,” said Nicholas
Thomas, associate professor in health security at the City University of Hong
Kong.
Locked Up
But forcibly moving mild or asymptomatic patients into centralized
facilities has been met with backlash in some countries where citizens are not
as accepting of government directives. Some people might lose their jobs if
they disappear for two weeks, or have caretaking responsibilities for young
children or older parents where it’s unfeasible to be separated.
“People would be wondering what on earth they’re doing locked up in a
hospital,” said Stephen Leeder, emeritus professor of
public health and community medicine at the University of Sydney. “From what I
know about the Australian psyche, I don’t think it would go down all that well.”
In places like Venezuela and India where conditions in quarantine
facilities are poor, the prospect of being taken away has caused some to avoid
being tested or to lie to contact-tracers for fear of being found positive,
making the work of health officials more challenging.
© Bloomberg
Victoria state accounts for almost all the flareup's
new cases
Rather than
forcing isolation on mild cases, authorities have locked down 5 million
residents in Melbourne and are tightening restrictions until new cases come
under control.
© Bloomberg
Wearing Face Coverings Becomes Mandatory in Melbourne
An
information sign informs all customers that they must wear a protective mask at
all times at a shopping precinct in Melbourne on July 23.
Photographer:
Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg
Officials are
using a combination of stepped-up checks and fines of A$4,957 ($3,550) to convince
infected people to stay home, while repeat offenders risk a A$20,000 penalty in
court. More than 500 military personnel are helping the police conduct checks
on 4,000 households every day to ensure those who are supposed to be staying
home are there.
To be sure, aggressive and thorough contact-tracing and case follow-up
have successfully contained outbreaks in countries like Germany without a
centralized quarantine strategy. But these places relied on an army of
efficient workers hunting down every chain of transmission, a resource not many
governments have had time to build up.
“The classic practice in public health is to identify, trace and
quarantine,” said Yang Gonghuan, former deputy
director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. “But how
that is carried out depends on popular sentiment and the country’s resources.”
For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com
©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
+
*3/3
IS there a pandemic?
https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/there-pandemic
by Colleen Huber
To all who
have been battered by the media's non-stop COVID-19 coverage for the last six
months, that question seems insane.
To anyone who
bothers to consult the facts, that question is entirely rational---and its
answer clear as day, as is the absolute insanity of what we've all been told,
and what we're going through because of it.
===========
i.
What the
Nazis Learned from Jim Crow: Author Isabel Wilkerson on the U.S. Racial Caste
System
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/8/12/caste_isabel_wilkerson
(
17:57)
+
America’s Death
March
by Chris Hedges
+
“The Crash IS Coming! What To
Watch For"
with Richard Wolff
July 15, 2020
(24:05)
+
“How American Capitalism Is Just Socialism For The Rich”
https://youtu.be/GpATCLnUHlU
with Richard Wolff
(8:29)
+
“Coming Economic Crash Will be WORSE Than Great
Depression”
with Richard Wolff
July 15, 2020
(12:31)
+
“It Doesn’t
Matter Who’s US President,
The Military-Industrial Complex Must
be Funded!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljOB1PIKfcw
with Oliver Stone
(28:23)
+
Let them eat yellowcake: As Powell
backs Dems, warmongers seek to regain full control of
US policy, regardless of what voters want
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/498480-democratic-warmongers-control-policy/
by Tom Cox
+
Noam Chomsky : “Trump is WORSE Than Hitler”
+
Government by
Blackmail: Jeffrey Epstein, Trump’s Mentor and the Dark Secrets of the Reagan
Era
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2019/07/investigative-series/government-by-blackmail-jeffrey-epstein-trumps-mentor-and-the-dark-secrets-of-the-reagan-era/
by Whittney Webb
+
How
Government and Media Are Prepping America for a Failed 2020 Election -
unlimitedhangout.com
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/01/investigative-series/how-government-and-media-are-prepping-america-for-a-failed-2020-election/
by
Whittney Webb
===========
j.
https://www.historiansforpeace.org/
From: Of Jim O'Brien via H-PAD
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Subject: [H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 8/12/20: Recent articles of interest; Congressional
Update
A Congressional Update follows the
list of articles.
Links to Recent Articles of Interest
"Dropping Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Was
Unnecessary"
By Gar Alperovitz and Martin Sherwin, CommonDreams.org,
posted August 6 (from the Los Angeles Times)
Argues that the imminent entry of the Soviet Union
into the war against Japan was sufficient to force Japanese surrender. Gar Alperovitz teaches political economy at the University of
Maryland and Martin Sherwin teaches history at George Mason University.
Historians Kai Bird and Peter Kuznick contributed to
the article.
"The U.S. Hid Hiroshima's Human Suffering. Then John
Hersey Went to Japan"
By Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington
Post, posted August 6
On the significance of John Hersey's August 1946 book-length New Yorker article on the human suffering caused by the atomic
bombing of Hiroshima. The article broke through a curtain of silence with the
US military had imposed on reports of the atomic bomb's
civilian damage.
"The Elusive Horror of Hiroshima"
By Lesley M. M. Blume (with photographs by
Hiroki Kobayashi), National Geographic, posted August 6
A richly illustrated essay on Hiroshima in the wake
of the atomic bombing and today. The author's new book on John
Hersey, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who
Revealed It to the World, was released by Simon and
Schuster on August 4.
"Richard Nixon Bears Responsibility for the Pandemic's
Child-Care Crisis"
By Anna K. Danziger-Halperin, Washington
Post, posted August 5
On Nixon's veto of federally funded universal child
care in 1971 and its lasting consequences. The author is a
postdoctoral fellow in women's history and public history at the New-York
Historical Society.
"Atomic Bombings at 75: Truman's 'Human Sacrifice' to Subdue Moscow"
By Peter Kuznick, Consortium News, posted
August 3
Written as the introduction to the memoir of a Nagasaki bombing victim,
Taniguchi Sumiteru, tthis
essay touches on the purpose and impact of the atomic bombings and the role of
victims in the Japanese anti-nuclear movement. Peter Kuznick teaches history at American University and directs
the Nuclear Studies Institute there.
"The Battle of the Atlantic Has Lessons for Fighting
Covid-19"
By Marc Wortman, History New Network, posted August 2
On the
struggle to get coastal homeowners and businesses to observe a coastal blackout
in the interest of preventing German submarines from enjoying free visibility
for their attacks. The author is an independent historian and journalist who
wrote 1941: Fighting the Shadow War. A
Divided America in a World at War (Grove Atlantic, 2019).
By Caroline E. Janney, Washington
Post, posted July 31
"The South's mythology glamorized a noble defeat. Trump's backers
may do the same." The author teaches the history of the Civil War at the
University of Virginia.
"A Magazine Story Opened Eyes to Hiroshima's Horror.
White House Allies Plotted to Shut Them Again"
By Greg Mitchell, Mother Jones, posted July 24
On the effort to counter the effect of John Hersey's New Yorker report on the impact of the Hiroshima bombing. The
author's book The Beginning or the End: How
Hollywood--and America--Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
was published earlier this month by The
New Press).
By Brent Cebul, Boston Review, posted
July 22
"Policing is not the only kind of state violence. In the
mid-twentieth century, city governments, backed by federal money, demolished
hundreds of Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal." The author
teaches twentieth-century US history at the University of Pennsylvania.
"The Border Patrol's Brute Power in Portland Is the
Norm at the Border"
By Karl
Jacoby, Los Angeles Times, posted July 22
"What’s
happening in Oregon reflects the long history of unprecedented police powers
granted to federal border agents over what has become a far more expansive
border zone than most Americans realize." The author teaches US history at
Columbia University.
Thanks to an
anonymous reader for flagging some of the above articles. Suggestions can be
sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com.
Congressional Update
By Carolyn "Rusti"
Eisenberg and Prasannan Parthasarathi,
H-PAD's legislative coordinators
Senators Need to Hear from Their
Constituents
Capitol Switchboard : 202-224-3121
Increased funding for a wasteful,
dangerous defense budget is nothing new.
But something different is happening
this time: With our country in crisis and
millions of Americans desperate for federal assistance, the
Senate has authorized another $740.5 billion for defense, while refusing to
vote on the House of Representatives Heroes Act, in the name of fiscal responsibility. The House bill has shortcomings,
but it provides vitally needed benefits that the President's Executive Order
leaves out: $600 a week added to unemployment insurance, a second stimulus
check for American beneath a certain income level, urgent assistance to states
and city government, funding for the post office and for schools, and other
important items.
Senators Need to Hear from Their
Constituents. Helpful to call your Senators' office today:Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121. Let them know you are furious about the misplaced
priorities of $740.5 billion for "defense," and the failure to
support the necessary expenditures contained in the Heroes Act.
If it's a done-deal, why bother? All
these offices keep a count of their calls. And in one form another, both
defense spending and a stimulus package will come up again. So
constituent push-back is still helpful.
.
Senate Roll-Call on 2021 Defense
Authorization Act
Further information on the Heroes Act
+
NASA ADMITS WE NEVER WENT TO THE MOON
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/nasadmits-we-never-went-to-the-moon/
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGU1BkUzut8
(9:07)
===========
k.
“Who is behind the protests in Hong
Kong?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg4wqJ15e-o&feature=youtu.be
with George Galloway
(51:43)
+
China Going Into
‘State of SIEGE’, Will Defend Itself Against the US!
with John Pilger
(28:02)
+
“Understanding
the Political Scenario of INDIA,CANADA, JAPAN, CHINA,USA,
FRANCE, etc…”
with Tomas Schuman
(1:03:55)
+
“The truth
about war with Danny Sjursen, combat veteran and West
Point graduate.”
with Chris Hedges and Danny Sjursen
(27:41)
+
History
Professor Exposes One of America's biggest History Myths
with Peter Kuznick
(22:17)
===========
l.
Thomas Frank on Useful Idiots, Interview Only:
“The People,
NO: A Brief History of Anti-Populism”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvxyEta01EU
with Matt Taibbi, Kaitie Halper
(1:13:13)
===========
m.
Israel bombs
Gaza for eighth day in a row as it threatens Hamas with war
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-bombs-gaza-hamas-threats-war
by MEE and agencies
+
Israel
Launches Week-Long Bombing Campaign in Gaza Amid
Ongoing War Crimes Investigation
by Kathryn Shihadah
+
From: Moshé Machover
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020
Subject: Interview about An Army Like No Other in L’Humanité today
L’Humanité 12 Lundi 17 août 2020.
version française
« Les
Israéliens mènent une vie spartiate de soldats en vacances »
entretien par Pierre Barbancey
LE PROJET
SIONISTE À TRAVERS SON ARMÉE
Haim Bresheeth est le fils de
rescapés de la Shoah. Juifs de Pologne,
ils avaient refusé l’appel sioniste, lui préférant le Parti
travailliste juif
socialiste. À la sortie des camps, faute de trouver un pays
d’accueil,
ils se sont rendus en Israël. L’auteur, né en 1946 à Rome, y
a grandi
et fait son service militaire, avant de quitter le pays.
Ce livre
survient bien à propos pour mieux comprendre les rouages
de la société israélienne. Une société militarisée à
outrance, une armée
qui a créé la nation israélienne et dont la force politique
est sans
égale. Et surtout, elle est la garante de l’occupation. C’est
une « armée
comme aucune autre » pour
reprendre le titre de cet ouvrage
magistral divisé en trois parties : les guerres d’Israël,
l’armée et son État,
et enfin le dépérissement d’Israël, où il demande si Israël
est une
démocratie. Bresheeth estime que le projet sioniste, hier, aujourd’hui
et demain, ne peut inclure la création d’un État palestinien
aux côtés
d’Israël. Il faut espérer qu’un éditeur français saura s’en
saisir.
Haim Bresheeth retrace dans un livre
l’évolution de l’armée israélienne,
de la Nakba aux guerres en Égypte,
au Liban, en Irak, aux assauts
continus sur Gaza. Le chercheur montre que l’État d’Israël
a été formé à partir de ses guerres. Entretien.
PB : Quelles sont les raisons pour lesquelles
vous avez concentré votre travail sur les forces de défense
israéliennes (FDI) ?
HB : Les FDI représente
l’institution sociale la plus cruciale de l’État israélien
depuis 1948. C’est la plus grande, la mieux financée, et la plus
importante en nombre, comprenant la plupart des hommes d’Israël et énormément
de femmes. Cela a de graves répercussions – Tsahal est
pleinement représentative de la population juive en Israël. En ce sens, l’armée
est l’organe le plus représentatif de la société israélienne.
Comprendre
cela, c’est commencer à comprendre Israël, et la difficulté à laquelle nous
sommes confrontés lorsqu’il s’agit de résoudre le conflit en
Palestine, un conflit de type
colonial. Parce que la seule solution que les FDI accepteront est
celle dans laquelle elles
détiennent toutes les cartes.
PB : Vous dites que les FDI ont fait une
nation. Pourquoi ?
HB :
Dans le livre, je traite du fait que ce qui existait en 1948 était une armée, et
cette armée a construit un État, mais il n’y avait pas de nation ! Ce n’est pas
mon point
venues de toutes les parties du monde, sans rien qui les relie,
n’est pas une nation. La
nation devait être formée par une organisation sociale large
afin de créer une culture nationale, un sentiment d’appartenance, l’identité
d’une nouvelle nation israélo-juive. Le seul corps qui était capable de cette
tâche complexe, qui prend des centaines d’années dans la plupart des cas, était
les FDI, et Ben Gourion l’a choisi parce qu’en 1948,
il comprenait pratiquement tous les adultes juifs – tous les hommes et la
plupart des femmes.
Il s’agissait
d’une armée qui combattait les Palestiniens et les armées arabes. Mais elle
exerce aussi toutes les tâches civiques normalement exécutées par la société
civile. La plupart d’entre elles restent encore effectuées par les FDI. Dans la
dernière crise du coronavirus, les FDI et les services secrets (Shabak) ont ainsi pris le relais d’une grande partie du
pays pour l’opération de suivi et de traçage, par exemple. Le revers
de la médaille est que la plupart des Israéliens ne
perçoivent leur identité que dans les termes de l’armée et ne voient le conflit
qu’à travers le filtre de la force militaire.
PB : Quel est le rôle des militaires dans la vie
politique et économique ?
HB : Les
FDI et les entreprises qui y sont liées forment le plus grand secteur
d’Israël et sont responsables de la plus grande partie des revenus
provenant des exportations, entre 12 et 18 milliards de dollars par an. Vendant
dans plus de 135 pays, Israël est l’un des principaux marchands d’armes de la
planète.
Israël a
transformé le conflit en une entreprise florissante – il a fait de l’adversité
un succès
commercial, en s’appuyant sur le slogan « testé dans l’action
». Le modèle d’affaires comprend
également des milliers d’entreprises high-tech créées par des
officiers retraités, qui, avec les entreprises d’armement et de sécurité
nationalisées, sont le plus grand employeur du pays. Tous les établissements
universitaires bénéficient d’un financement substantiel de la recherche
déboursé par les FDI, le ministère de la Défense et les diverses organisations
de sécurité ; certaines universités et des collèges ont également organisé des
programmes de formation pour les FDI et les organismes connexes.
PB : Dans le livre, vous vous interrogez sur «
Israël est une démocratie » et s’« il aurait pu y avoir un autre Israël
».
Pouvez-vous
nous donner quelques éléments de réponse ?
HB : Il
n’y a jamais eu de société colonisatrice qui était démocratique ou libre.
Israël ne fait pas exception. Un projet de colonisation est une question de
contrôle – de la terre, des ressources et de la maind’oeuvre.
En tant que tel, il dépend de l’anarchie et de l’injustice, toujours défendu
par la violation du système juridique. C’était vrai pour l’Algérie,
l’Australie, l’Amérique du Nord et du Sud, l’Afrique du Sud, le Congo, et c’est
vrai en Palestine. Une société militaire dans l’occupation illégale ne peut pas
être démocratique, et,
comme Marx l’a souligné, ne peut pas, en soi, être libre.
Par
conséquent, l’Israël sioniste ne peut jamais être démocratique. Dans le passé,
certains sionistes de gauche ont soutenu que l’idée sioniste était pure et
juste, mais en quelque sorte souillée par la pratique. Il n’y a rien de plus
éloigné de la vérité. Comme je l’ai souligné, le but ultime du projet sioniste,
à partir du moment où il apparaît
Même si l’on
est assez brutal pour ignorer la souffrance palestinienne, la vie des juifs
PB : Depuis le 1er juillet, l’État hébreux est
censé annexer 30 % de la Cisjordanie. Comment les FDI se comportent-elles
HB :
L’évolution vers l’annexion illégale de la majeure partie de la Cisjordanie est
l’exemple ultime de l’anarchie soutenue par les États-Unis – une action
illégale unilatérale et non négociable contre les droits des Palestiniens. Le
fait que le premier ministre, Benyamin Netanyahou, n’ait pas respecté
l’échéance de son annexion d’ici le 1er juillet est un signe clair que même
l’armée israélienne s’oppose à cette mesure. Avant les années 1990, les
Mais
l’annexion peut conduire l’ANP vers l’effondrement. En fin de compte, elle
pourrait perdre le contrôle des organisations de sécurité palestiniennes,
détestées et méprisées par le peuple palestinien. Les FDI ne souhaitent pas
perdre cet important assouplissement de ses fonctions et s’inquiètent
grandement de sa capacité à contrôler les
territoires occupés si un tel scénario se produit. Les FDI ont
opposé leur veto au programme d’annexion tel que Netanyahou l’a présenté, et il
semble donc avoir dû l’abandonner discrètement pour le moment. En revanche,
Israël n’a pas abandonné son véritable programme, qui se poursuit à un rythme
soutenu. L’incapacité de la communauté
internationale, telle qu’elle est, à s’opposer à une telle
illégalité atroce est un danger pour l’État de droit partout dans le monde, à
une époque de grande fragilité internationale.
Le droit
international doit être appliqué avant que d’autres dommages irréparables ne
soient causés aux Palestiniens, et qu’un dangereux précédent soit établi.
PB : Tous les pays occidentaux, mais aussi
l’OLP, parlent encore de la solution des deux États. Avec l’annexion, cette
idée est morte. Mais quand l’État sioniste refuse un État palestinien, est-il
possible d’établir un seul État, même binational et plein droit pour tous les
citoyens ?
HB : Il doit être clair pour les lecteurs de l’Humanité
qu’Israël n’a jamais eu l’intention de mettre fin à son occupation
militaire, et a fait tout ce qui est humainement possible pour bloquer toute
forme d’État palestinien depuis 1948, et plus spécialement depuis 1967. Il ne
pouvait pas le faire seul, bien sûr. Sans le soutien fort et indéfectible des «
démocraties » occidentales, cela n’aurait jamais été possible. En ce sens, Israël
a toujours été contre la solution dite des deux États. Le débat à l’ONU
comprenait en réalité deux options : celle de la partition, qui a été votée, a
conduit à la Nakba et à l’expulsion des deux tiers
des Palestiniens de leurs foyers. Mais aussi, on s’en souvient moins, la
proposition d’un État unique laïque et démocratique sur l’ensemble de la
Palestine :
un État de tous ses citoyens, sans lois racistes spéciales.
Jusqu’en 1988, cette option, rejetée par l’ONU en 1947, était la position officielle
de l’OLP. En faisant valoir qu’une telle issue démocratique ne peut pas avoir
lieu à cause de l’opposition israélienne, rappelons-nous que c’est aussi la
raison pour laquelle il ne peut y avoir d’accord sur une autre solution.
Israël a
rejeté toute solution qui offrirait aux Palestiniens une certaine autonomie
même sur une partie minuscule de leur terre. Donc, nous, le reste du monde,
devons forcer Israël à l’accepter. Le monde l’avait fait dans le cas de l’autre
État de l’apartheid – l’Afrique du Sud. Seule une campagne engagée de boycott,
de désinvestissement et de sanctions (BDS) coordonnée au niveau international
peut déloger Israël de son projet colonial. Une telle campagne, en faveur de
l’égalité, des droits de l’homme, du droit international, des résolutions des
Nations unies, des conventions de Genève, et de la Cour pénale internationale,
peut apporter l’espoir d’établir une paix juste et durable au Moyen-Orient
à toutes les personnes résidant en Palestine, ainsi qu’aux
réfugiés palestiniens.
La campagne
BDS, qui s’oppose aux actions militaires illégales et agressives d’Israël, est
une campagne civile. Une action civique menée par tous les citoyens du monde,
en évitant la violence et la brutalité, en essayant de changer la situation par
des méthodes non violentes. Je pense que le moment est clairement venu d’une
telle approche, si l’on veut éviter
davantage d’effusions de sang et de souffrances.
_______
ENTRETIEN
RÉALISÉ PAR PIERRE BARBANCEY
(1) Auteur de An
Army Like No Other. How the Israel Defense Force Made
a Nation. Verso Books Edition.
English version
« Israel is a
militarized State, preferring the state of war »
https://www.humanite.fr/middle-east-israel-militarized-state-preferring-state-war-692491
August 17,
2020 interview in L’Humanité with Haim
Bresheeth by Pierre Barbancey
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POUR LA
LIBÉRATION IMMÉDIATE DE MAHMOUD NAWAJAA
https://www.aurdip.org/pour-la-liberation-immediate-de.html?lang=fr
par l’AURDIP
Mahmoud Nawajaa, le Coordinateur général du comité national
palestinien de BDS (BNC), a été
arrêté près de
Ramallah le mercredi 29 juillet à 3h30 du matin. De nombreux soldats israéliens
ont envahi son domicile et, en présence de sa femme et de ses enfants, l’ont
menotté, lui ont mis un bandeau sur les yeux et l’ont embarqué pour une
destination inconnue, emportant avec eux le matériel informatique trouvé sur
place. L’AURDIP condamne avec la plus grande fermeté cette nouvelle atteinte au
droit perpétrée par une armée d’occupation et demande au gouvernement français
de faire son devoir, c’est-à-dire de faire respecter le droit international, au
besoin en prenant des sanctions contre Israël.
+
How an
Israeli Spy-Linked Tech Firm Gained Access to the US Gov’t’s
Most Classified Networks
by Whittney Webb
+
How Israel
wages war on Palestinian history
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55485.htm
by Jonathan
Cook
+
On Bombs And Bombings
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55476.htm
by Caitlin
Johnstone
For a full week now the Israeli army has been
bombing Gaza, a population that is about to run out of fuel for its only
power plant due to a years-long Israeli program of deliberate siege warfare.
Yesterday the
US ordered an airstrike on Syrian forces,
killing one, when they refused to let the illegal occupying force past a
checkpoint in northern Syria.
In both cases
an arm of the US-centralized empire used wildly
disproportionate force against people who stood against a hostile occupation of
their own country. In both cases the more powerful and violent occupiers
claimed they were acting in “self-defense”. In both cases dropping explosives
from the sky upon human beings barely made the news.
ISRAEL is
dropping bombs on Gaza and no one is talking about it..
WHYYYYY.????#Gaza #GazaUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/gGhl8bYKOk
— Elaa Naqvi (@greyhairs_)
August 17, 2020
Bombs should
not exist. Explosives designed to blow fire and shrapnel through human bodies
should not be a thing. In a sane world, there wouldn’t be bombs, and if some
mentally unbalanced person ever made and used one it would be a major
international news story.
Instead,
bombs are cranked out like iPhones at enormous profit, and nearly all bombings
are ignored. Many bombs are being dropped per day by
the US and its allies, with a massive civilian death toll, and almost
none of those bombings receive any international attention. The only time they
do is generally when a bombing occurs that was not authorized by the
US-centralized empire.
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n.
In
collaboration with McGill University
BRIEFING
PAPER, JULY 2020
The Internet
of Bodies Is Here:
Tackling new
challenges of technology governance
http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_IoB_briefing_paper_2020.pdf
by Xiao Liu McGill University, Faculty Fellow at the World
Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution; Wilson China
Fellow,
and Jeff Merritt, Head of Internet of Things, Robotics and
Smart Cities, Member of Executive Committee, World Economic Forum
===========
o.
Covid-19:
Lockdown of the Global Economy of Planet Earth. Diabolical Project:
The Closing
Down of 193 National Economies Is Not “A Solution”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-lockdown-of-the-global-economy-of-planet-earth-diabolical-project-the-closing-down-of-193-national-economies-is-not-a-solution/5721581
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
and Bonnie Faulkner
(with audio: 59:52)
===========
p.
Moral Bioenhancement, IMF Payoffs, Illogical
Unscientific Mask Tyranny & Gaza Under Israeli
Attack
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/moral-bioenhancement-imf-payoffs-illogical-unscientific-mask-tyranny-gaza-under-israeli-attack/
with Ryan Cristián
(3:32:59)
+
The public are
waking up to ‘alarmist politicians'
with Alan Jones
+
QAnon is a fake, decoy imitation of a healthy revolutionary
impulse
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/498573-caitlin-johnstone-qanon-trump/
by Caitlin Johnstone
===========
q.
From: Global Research Newsletter [mailto:newsletter@globalresearch.ca]
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2020 7:29 PM
To: francis.feeley@u-grenoble3.fr
Subject: Was COVID-19 a Cover for an Anticipated or Planned Financial Crisis?
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“ENDGAME 2050”
May 22, 2020
(1:32:44)
What will the
future be like in the year 2050? A mere three decades away, most of us hope to
still be around. So, what kind of future are we riding into? ENDGAME 2050 gives
us a glimpse into that future, and it does not look good. Humanity has backed
itself into an ecological endgame as we approach mid-century. Featuring
musician Moby along with leading scientists, ENDGAME 2050 lays out the reality
that, unless we act urgently now, we are hastening our own destruction.
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"Everyone
Should Be Prepared | The Statistics Are
Frightening"
April 26, 2020
(10:07)
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u.
Australia's big
four banks remove thousands of ATMs, shut down
hundreds of branches
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8633457/Australias-big-four-banks-remove-thousands-ATMs-close-branches-coronavirus.html
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v.
Sweden and Switzerland PROVE, respectively, that (a) the lockdowns are a
catastrophic wrong, and (b) so is NOT using HCQ+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXmwt_8tdNY
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From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2020 4:19
AM
To: newsfromunderground
Subject: [MCM] Some promising developments---and an
urgent warning
From Lila York:
Folks, there are several critical developments
happening now that give us all hope that we can save our democracy, our
constitution and our freedoms and try to recover our humanity and our culture
in full. I am going to link a few articles and urge you to read them.
1 - Doctors across the US write an open letter to
Dr. Fauci testifying that HCQ+ zinc cures the virus
in phase one and demanding that he support its use on an outpatient basis which
will save hundreds of lives. https://www.globalresearch.ca/open-letter-dr-anthony-fauci-regarding-use-hydroxychloroquine-treating-covid-19/5721065
2 - 640 German doctors inaugurate the covid19 extra -parliamentary
inquiry committee. stating that the virus, though
real, is a typical flu and that the covid 19 pandemic
is a global scam. "The two key questions are 1 - Who would do this and
2 - Who benefits". They will be joined by hundreds of doctors from across
the globe.
- 3 minute introduction in English https://twitter.com/jonkirbysthlm/status/1294556980477079552
- 29 minute detailed explanation of the project in German with English
subtitles. https://acu2020.org/english-versions/
3 - From
CDC data, 2020 has the lowest weekly death rate in a decade - so far. Where is
the pandemic?
5 - Grass roots organization make
Americans free again https://makeamericansfreeagain.com/
6 - I watched
a two hour video on 5G satellites and their effects on the planet, animals,
plants and humans hosted by Arthur Firstenberg,
the world' s foremost expert on electricity and electro
magnetic fields and author of The Invisible Rainbow, a book
everyone should read. His conclusion was that we must stop 5G satellites before
they are activated mid- September, and the only route he knows for that is for
everyone on the planet to understand how dangerous smart phones and wifi are and throw away their cell phones, ending the
demand for 5G and giving the governments no way to track human movement and
action. Video is up only this weekend. (You can start halfway through,
since Firstenberg did not join until late) https://event.webinarjam.com/replay/57/rm0mlc8lskktv4c4lzy
shorter video by him here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLmc5cJ1SRY
There are
some very unsavory powerbrokers with totalitarian plans for us. They are not
hiding it. It goes by "Agenda 2030," now sped up to be
agenda 2020, "ID 2021", an inserted tattoo chip under our
skin containing our financial and medical records, The
great reset. and - worst of all - "transhumanism" - essentially turning all humans
into robots by altering our DNA via injection. At the World Economic
Forum meeting in Davos, the corporate members cackled
with glee saying that the virus gave them "such a wonderful opportunity to
inaugurate "The Great Reset"---meaning one-world
government, one-world currency, all naturally produced food replaced by GMO
food, the end of nation-states, global surveillance of all humans, and a
greatly reduced global population. For starters I will just say that without
hard cash currency there is no freedom. Those digits in the cloud can be erased
at will, and a new "social credit system" means that if you step out
of line, you can lose access to your money - among other freedoms. Their goal
is global control of all humans. To me this is no different from slavery. So
let's put this information together We have doctors celebrating the discovery
of a cure for a lame virus whose presence is dying down to zero, whose
mortality numbers peaked in April and have now declined to zero.We
have the media ignoring that data and initiating another fear campaign based on
fake data. We have doctors around the globe declaring that the pandemic was a
fraud and is being perpetuated in the media to serve profits for big pharma. We have the telecoms willy
nilly putting thousands upon thousands of satellites
into orbit to saturate the earth in man-made 5G radiation and obliterate
the night sky without even the smallest attempt to study the effects on the
earth, the ionosphere or on us.
This is my
own conclusion: When Salk discovered the polio
vaccine and offered it to the world for free there was joy across the world. It
meant an end to that horrific disease. Last week doctors across the US
announced a cure for the virus called covid 19 . Was there joy across the land? Did CNN
cheer on the doctors who brought this cure to the public? No. the
opposite happened. They accused doctors of impeccable reputations of being
"quacks"---GPs and ER doctors of long standing. They included the
renowned epidemiologist head of the Yale School of Public Health in their
slander. Google removed not only the video of the doctors' press conference
from youtube (now back up at bitchute),
but also removed their own website, America's Frontline Doctors
(now restored) All news networks are utterly dependent
upon big pharma advertising to pay their bills. And
big pharma no doubt ordered the shutdowns They have billions in potential profits at stake in forced,
mandatory vaccines - none of which are now needed, since there is a safe,
effective, and very cheap cure (10 cents per pill for HCQ). widely
prescribed for 60 years, long out of patent, so big pharma
cannot make money from it. Bottom line - they preferred to see Americans die
for lack of access to HCQ than lose their billions from an experimental vaccine
that has never been used on humans and never tested on animals. That told me
all I needed to know. What it told me is that there is some other motive or
list of motives behind this trumped up pandemic - likely universal control and
surveillance of citizens. The refusal of governments and media to cheer the
discovery of a cure tells us all that it is a fraud upon the people of the
globe.
As for 5G radiation poisoning, the 5G satellites are scheduled to be
activated mid-September. Millions will become sick from them and some will die
from hypoxia. The media will claim the dreaded "second wave of the
virus" has arrived or announce some other new virus in its place as a coverup to the lethal effects of 5G. The infamous
"deep state" needs 5G to nail down its control of us and operate our
cars. (Tesla remote-driven cars routinely crash, fall apart and burn up - not
so sure the CIA will have an easy time on that.) I will add here an article I
wrote a month ago. I held it back from most of you because what we are fighting
is way scary.
PARTLY HUMAN: THE TRANS-HUMANIST AGENDA
by Lila York
Raise your hand if you don't like the way God created us and think that
Bill Gates should be allowed to improve on God's work by altering our
DNA with injected genetically modified nano-particles. No? Okay.
Raise your hand if you think that the solution to overpopulation is to
sterilize every man and woman on earth with millimetre electro-magnetic frequencies.
No? Okay.
Raise your hand if you would like your newborn infant to be injected with formaldehyde, aluminum,
mercury, Polysorbate 80, dog brains and DNA from
aborted fetal tissue. No?
Raise your hand if you want the CIA to drive your car for you. - and incidentally run it into a guard rail if
they don't like something you write on Facebook.
No?
Raise your hand if you think all churches,
synagogues and mosques should get the wrecking ball and be eliminated so that
God can be replaced by Amazon's robots. No?
Raise your hand if you knew that all of the above are being planned for
us and are already in process courtesy of Bill Gates and the Rockefeller
Foundation. No?
Then raise your hand if you are willing to defy the
government and the telecoms, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and refuse to consent to
any of the above and so remain fully human and drive your own car.
Bill Gates' brave new world will be
missing the things that fuel our yearnings and right our moral
compass. Things that make us cheer and weep. Imagine a world without Mozart,
without Shakespeare' s plays, Dickens'
novels, or Jane Austen's. Without the Rolling Stones or Bach, without
Balanchine or break-dancing, without Van Gogh or
Jackson Pollock, without La Boheme or Les
Miserables. without Citizen
Kane or Star Wars. A world where
nobody falls in love or mourns the death of a parent. That is the
world Bill Gates is planning for us: a world bereft of human
expression, human searching, human joy; a world where God is no
longer within us.
--
lila
w.
From: Richard Greeman [mailto:rgreeman@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020 4:26 PM
To: Richard Greeman
Subject: George Floyd Rises; Donald Trump Collapses
Amérique: Grand tournant politique
par Richard
Greeman
George Floyd vit encore. Assassiné
par des policiers racistes le 26 mai, Floyd est incarné par le mouvement Black Lives Matter qui depuis trois
mois continue à enflammer la pays. En revanche, Donald
Trump est déjà politiquement mort – selon les
sondages électoraux. Déjà ce dictateur en herbe prépare ouvertement un coup
d’état pour saboter les présidentielles de novembre. A lire :
https://aplutsoc.org/2020/08/22/grand-tournant-aux-etats-unis-par-richard-greeman/
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/richard-greeman/blog/230820/usa-le-mouvement-black-lives-bouleverse-la-politique
R.G.
A LIRE AUSSI
https://aplutsoc.org/2020/08/07/covid-quel-camp-choisir-par-richard-greeman/
par Richard Greeman
Dans quel
camp nous situons-nous face à cette pandémie terrifiant qui s’étend à travers
la planète en tuant tous les jours de plus en plus de gens – à commencer par
les personnels médicaux, les travailleur/euses necessaires, les pauvres, les discriminés, les faibles ?
Rangeons-nous du côté de Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro,
et des néo-libéraux qui nient le danger afin de faire
retourner au boulot les salarié.es, sans
financer les mesures sanitaires nécessaires ? Qui profitent alors que les
travailleur/euses risquant leurs vies pour faire
gonfler la Bourse ?
Ou sommes nous avec la résistance des urgentistes, enseignants
et travailleur/euses de première ligne qui veulent se
protéger et protéger les autres en renforçant les mesures de santé
publique ?
Malheureusement,
cette question divise même la gauche au moment où l’unité est urgent à forger pour les luttes sociales qui vont éclater à
la rentrée. Lire plus :
https://aplutsoc.org/2020/08/07/covid-quel-camp-choisir-par-richard-greeman/
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x.
Capitalism in crisis
https://youtu.be/EodhCqvD4@U
with Yanis Varoufakis
(5:08)
+
"What's
Next For The U.S. Economy?”
with Jeffrey Sachs
(11:27)
+
The US Healthcare Crisis
with
Richard
Wolff
(9:25)