Bulletin N° 932
“Monsieur Verdoux”
(1947)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8lXHCXr_HA&list=PLW4bxAboVqinJtZsdiaIJ7qlgXsyJfErO&index=55&t=0s
(video, 1:59:02)
&
“Deprecating Free
Will: A Future We Don't Have to Accept”
|
a science fiction short story https://tessa.substack.com/p/deprecating-free-will-a-future-we byTessa Lena |
Subject: Corporate Capitalism as Organized Crime,
managed by thugs, tyrants and entrepreneurs.
·
Would
you let this man take your grandmother on a picnic?
Public Education “Eugenics” makes society
strong.
https://hive.blog/news/@corbettreport/from-bioethics-to-eugenics
(2020)
October 31, 2020
Grenoble, France
Dear Colleagues
and Friends of CEIMSA,
According to the
Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report, the world's richest one percent (those
with more than $1 million) own 44 percent of the world's wealth, while adults
with less than $10,000 in wealth make up 56.6 percent of the world's population
hold less than 2 percent of global
wealth. And this wealth gap is growing….
Under these
conditions, is it surprising that there is widespread skepticism towards
capitalist entrepreneurs and their official state facilitators? An increasing
number of people seem to believe that society is suffering a double menace – a corona
virus of unknown origins, and the entrepreneurial-driven response to this
public threat, as opposed to an open scientific discussion that concerns us all.
At no time in
our history has thinking clearly and engaging voluntarily in public discussion
been more essential for our survival. We cannot count on blind obedience to
find our way out of this conundrum. Instead we must look for people we can
trust and discuss candidly with them. This free exchange of information is the
only way we will be able find a means to protect
ourselves from this double danger – the relentless abuse by vested financial interests,
and the ill-will of collaboration authorities. Eventually, community leadership should arise “organically” from frequent public
meetings and open discussions among ordinary people.
Meanwhile, it
has been strongly recommended that we prudently do our own research, understanding
that much of the media is now owned by vested corporate interests and cannot be
relied on.
For example, the
HIV elements that reportedly have been spliced into this laboratory-concocted,
and weaponized virus called “covid-19” could
guarantee a weakening of the human immune system. Where is the public debate?
Nowhere without entrepreneurial control and censorship– today’s “dictatorship of the capitalist
class”!
Étienne
de La Boétie (1530-1563), author of The Politics of Obedience: Discourse of
Voluntary Servitude, has warned us :
…one must realize the
extent to which the foundation of tyranny lies in the vast networks of
corrupted people with an interest in maintaining tyranny.
And a century
later, Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), author of The Ethics, famously wrote:
Reason cannot defeat emotion; an emotion can only be
displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
He later observed:
The more you
struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure
of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that
alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
.
. .
A
free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation
not of death but of life.
-- Baruch Spinoza (The Ethics – Part IV, 1677)
It was Michel de
Montaigne (1533-1592), a contemporary of La Boétie, who
perhaps best describes intellectual alienation in his essay “On Experience” (taken
from his book, Essays,
trans. by J.M. Cohen, pp.405-406):
The great man Aesop saw his master pissing as he
walked. ‘What’ he exclaimed, ‘ought we then to shit as we run? Let us manage
our time as we can, there will still remain much that is idle or ill-employed. Our
mind has probably not enough hours to spare for the performance of its
business, if it does not disassociate itself from the body for that brief space
that it requires for its needs. People try to get out of themselves and to escape
from the man. This is folly; instead of transforming themselves into angels,
they turn themselves into beasts; instead of lifting, they degrade themselves. These
transcendental humours frighten me, like lofty and
inaccessible heights. There is nothing in the life of Socrates that I find so
difficult to swallow as his ecstasies and daemonic states, and nothing so human in Plato as that for which they say he was called
divine. And of our sciences, those seem to me the most earthly and low that
have made the highest flights. And I find nothing so lowly and mortal in the
life of Alexander as his fancies about becoming an immoral. Philotas
stung him wittily with his retort, when he wrote congratulating him on the
oracle of Jupiter Ammon, which had place him among
the gods: ‘For your sake, I am very glad about it, but I am sorry for those men
who have to live with and obey one who has exceeded the proportions of a man
and is discontented with them.’
‘It is because
you carry yourself
lower than the gods that you reign.’(Horace, Odes, III, vi,5)
That delightful inscription with which the Athenians
commemorated Pompey’s visit to their city is in agreement with my view:
‘You are a god only
in so far as you recognize
yourself to be a man’(excerpt from Plutarch’s
Life of Pompey)
The man
who knows how to enjoy his existence as he ought has attained to an absolute perfection,
like that of the gods. We seek other conditions because we do not understand
the proper use of our own, and go out of ourselves because we do not know what
is within us. So it is no good our mounting on stilts, for even on stilts we
have to walk with or own legs; and upon the most exalted throne in the world it
is still our own bottom that we sit on.
The
finest lives are, in my opinion, those which conform to the common and human
model in an orderly way, with no marvels and no extravagances. Now old age
stands in need of slightly more tender treatment. Let us commend it to that god
who is the protector of health and wisdom – but of a gay and companionable wisdom:
‘Grant me,
Apollo, that I may enjoy
with healthy body and sound mind
the goods that have been prepared for me,
and that my old age be honourable
and no stranger to the lyre.’(Horace, Odes, I, xxxi,17)
And returning to
Spinoza, on the subject of understanding he writes:
The highest activity a human being can attain is
learning for understanding,
because to understand is to be free.
Toward the end
of his life, Spinoza began to print at the bottom of his correspondence, beneath
the drawing of a rose, Caute! (which
is Latin for “Be careful”). This same advice was engraved on his tombstone in
Amsterdam, leaving us, at the age of 45, mindful of his advice that we should
not jump to conclusions, but instead judiciously reason and follow our inner light.
The present era
appears to be an age of poetry, when images and sounds and fragrances are
tested against “the smithy of our soul” (to borrow a line from James Joyce). This
personal understanding may bring us together in new and unalienated
ways.
The 26 + items below should contribute to our understanding of the crises we are now facing and the popular uprisings that challenge this new normal, the so-called “Great Reset,” which is being imposed on us by the entrepreneurial class of corporate capitalists and their lackeys - both the witting and the unwitting.
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.
The Great Reset
for Dummies
Where do we go
from here?
https://tessa.substack.com/p/great-reset-dummies
by Tessa Lena
+
Your Guide to “The Great Reset”
https://www.corbettreport.com/greatreset/
with James Corbett
(1:11:57)
+
A Message from the World Economic Forum: “The Global Takeover Is
Underway”
+
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Int'l.
Message for Freedom and Hope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpMWDCX1yMI
(18:50)
“Today,
October 24, 2020, there are many rallies around the world. Activists in these
countries are joining in a common voice: Argentina; Bolivia; Peru; Uruguay;
Italy; Germany; Poland; Belgium; Netherlands; United Kingdom; Ireland; Sweden;
Denmark; France; and Austria. Citizens of all countries are paying an enormous
price for the epidemic. They have not only lost their loved ones, but their
freedoms, their livelihood, their joy. Children and youth are suffering due to
this crisis too. Without their friends and social activities, mental health problems in our young is at an all-time high.
People around the world are demanding to be spared from the devastating
consequences of the epidemic. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Chairman of Children’s
Health Defense, provides an inspirational message for freedom and hope to
activists around the world.”
From: Cat McGuire
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2020
Subject: RFK, Jr. -- Historic speech
Just extraordinary! One of the most
inspiring speeches for freedom I have ever heard!
Bobby Kennedy, Jr. spoke to 15 countries explaining how Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Oil, and the global public health cartel are
strong-arming us with fear and censorship in order to usher in an unprecedented
worldwide coup d'etat.
"Why are Bill Gates, Fauci, Zuckerberg,
Bezos, etc. all getting
astoundingly rich during covid while the average
person is getting poorer?"
Robert F.
Kennedy, Jr.: International Message for Freedom and Hope
SEND
THIS LINK TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!
If it gets censored by YouTube, see Bobby's speech on Instagram
+
The
Truth About the Coronavirus
Vaccine Trials
NewWorldNextWeek (research with
source links)
https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1590-new-world-next-week-with-james-evan-pilato/
with James Corbett and James Evan Pilato
(23:45)
===========
b.
Fauci's Treacherous
Ties to China and Globalists
with Dr. Peter Breggin
(8:33)
Story at-a-glance
·
A report by Dr.
Peter Breggin reveals Dr. Anthony Fauci’s
ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and globalists who have profited from
the pandemic measures promoted by him as the leader of the U.S. Coronavirus Task Force
·
Fauci has been the major force behind research activities
that enabled the Chinese Communist Party to manufacture lethal SARS coronaviruses, which in turn led to the release — whether
accidental or not — of SARS-CoV-2 from the Wuhan Institute of Virology
·
In collaboration
with the CCP and the World Health Organization, Fauci
initially suppressed the truth about the origins and dangers of the pandemic,
thereby enabling the spread of the virus from China to the rest of the world
·
Fauci has supported and praised Director-General of the
WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a member of a Marxist-Leninist Ethiopian
political party with a corrupt past and terrorist ties who has also been
accused of covering up cholera outbreaks in Ethiopia
·
Fauci recently published a paper in which he dismisses
the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 was created in and released from the Wuhan
Institute of Virology, arguing instead for natural mutation. He also uses the
pandemic to justify the “green new deal” and the globalist movement known as
“the Great Reset”
+
Eugenics, an archive
https://www.bitchute.com/newsearch/?query=Eugenics&kind=video
+
Pandemic Parallax View
https://www.ratical.org/PandemicParallaxView/PPV-DailySummaryList.html
+
Nuremberg Doctor trials. Hitler Learned Eugenics from "Americans"
(mid 1800's German/Jew Immigrants)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/45EMG0qcabLi/
(2:14:36)
+
Nazism, COVID-19 and the destruction of modern medicine: An interview
with Vera Sharav
Part One
with Vera Sharav
(38:49)
Stand for Health
Freedom recently had the honor of sitting down with Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav and capturing her personal story on film. It’s a
story that every individual needs to hear. A renowned champion of human rights
and expert in biomedical research ethics, Ms. Sharav
offers rare and valuable insights into the public health arena and state of
emergency affecting each and every one of our lives. She also draws parallels
between what happened in Nazi Germany and what’s happening in our society today
— and discusses why it’s more important than ever for us to take a stand.
+
Buck
v. Bell: Inside the SCOTUS Case That Led to Forced Sterilization of 70,000
& Inspired the Nazis
https://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/17/buck_v_bell_inside_the_scotus
with Adam Cohen
(30:00)
March
2016
As President Obama nominates centrist Judge Merrick
Garland to replace late Justice Antonin Scalia on the
Supreme Court, we take a look at what’s been described as one of the worst
Supreme Court rulings in history. In the 1927 case Buck v. Bell, the court
upheld a statute that enabled the state of Virginia to sterilize so-called
mental defectives or imbeciles. The person in question was Carrie Buck, a poor,
young woman then confined in the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and the
Feebleminded, though she was neither epileptic nor mentally disabled. In the
landmark decision, eight judges ruled that the state of Virginia had the right
to sterilize her. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote the majority opinion
concluding, “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” The decision resulted
in 60,000 to 70,000 sterilizations of Americans considered “unfit” to
reproduce. At the Nuremberg trials, lawyers for Nazi scientists cited the
opinion in defense of their actions. We speak to Adam Cohen, author of
“Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of
Carrie Buck.”
+
Music
Van Morrison Releases
3rd Lockdown Protest Song
“No More Lockdowns”
(4:59)
“As I Walked Out”
(3:16)
“Born To Be Free”
(2:17)
https://bestclassicbands.com/van-morrison-lockdown-songs-social-distance-concert-10-23-20/
with Van Morrison
===========
c.
Drawing
Your Line in the Sand | Minds
https://www.minds.com/CorbettReport/blog/drawing-your-line-in-the-sand-1167128462602039296
by James Corbett
+
From: Mark Crispin Miller Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Subject: [MCM] One man's (data-driven) journey from zombie apocalypse to
lockdown skepticism (MUST-READ)
I strongly recommend Part 1, in which
Jeftovic dismantles some of the bull
that's flying around out there (e.g., internment camps built
secretly in Canada),
which makes it easier to laugh off the whole issue.
MCM
Enough conspiracy, let’s stick to data and science to end the
lockdowns, Part 2
A Procession of Flagellants –
Francisco De Goya 1819
by Mark Jeftovic
In part 1 I talked about two COVID-19 /
Great Reset themed conspiracy theories that were spreading in Canada and why embracing
or amplifying them made lockdown skeptics look like lunatics who could more
easily be dismissed.
There is no shortage of science and data to challenge the flawed
policies of the governments whose basic playbook has been: lockdown, close
economy, print money, ignore data, and double down.
This may be a good time to quickly outline my arc of how my
views on the pandemic shifted over time.
My
journey from Zombie Apocalypse to lockdown skeptic
I began monitoring the reports of a new virus emerging out of
China in January. On January 23rd I emailed a friend advising him to go out the
next day and pick up some N95 masks. By the first week of February I was
stocking up on food, medical supplies, cash, and weapons while advising friends
and family to do the same. I was bracing for a full breakdown of the global
supply chain and a collapse of the global economy.
Based on early reported numbers of an R0 around 3.1 with an IFR
of 5%, it looked like we’d see doubling times of 15 days. By March all three
levels of government, city, province and national were reporting case rates and
fatalities daily. I put together a spreadsheet and using those numbers as a
model I forecasted Toronto to have 1.7M cases by the end of June. If the IFR
really was 5%, or even 3%, it would mean between 51,000 and 136,000 fatalities.
This was terrifying, so as the world started locking down, it
seemed to make sense. In fact I was wondering why we were still allowing
inbound flights from hotspots like China? There were rumblings from The Clerisy
like the New York Times that blocking flights from China would be racist.
This was the early innings of the politicization that was to follow.
But then, a curious thing happened. The rate of change in
infections and fatalities started coming down, drastically.
By June it was clear to anybody following the data that this
was, at least for now, largely in the rearview mirror. I had been in touch with
an old friend who now ran IT for several hospitals. In January he was trying to
get administrators to take COVID seriously. By May, they had built 4 additional
ICU wards across their hospitals and they were sitting empty. Worse, resources
were being denied to other medical uses. He was beginning to wonder if maybe
this wasn’t going to be as bad as we both originally thought.
Then, over the summer despite the clear slowdown in the severity
of the pandemic, the policy response to it intensified. And
then it all became political. Questioning the efficacy of continuing the
lockdowns became associated with being alt-right. Pro-Trump.
Or worse. A Narrative War ensued. If you questioned
official policy, you got deplatformed. I documented
numerous instances of this over on AxisOfEasy.
===========
d.
The Construction of an
Alternative to “Manufactured Dissent”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/construction-alternative-manufactured-dissent/5726029
by Prof. Charles McKelvey
October
08 2020
In The
Globalization of War, Michel Chossudovsky writes
of the process of “manufacturing dissent,” which functions to channel the anger
and frustrations of the people in a direction that does not challenge elite
interests.
+
The
War on Truth, Dissent and Free Speech Syria, the OPCW Douma
Investigation and the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media
by Dr Piers
Robinson
+
Sharyl Attkisson: Special
Interests Behind ‘Dangerous’ Social Media Fact Checks
by Janita Kan and Jan Jekielek
+
YouTube is
Purging Again . . . Here’s How to Find Me
https://www.corbettreport.com/mp4/corbettbackup.mp4
with James Corbett
+
Google is giving
your search history to the FBI
with Faran Fronczak
and Naomi Karavani
(25:22)
+
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 6:05 PM
Subject: [MCM] MCM attacked by Wikipedia, as The Guardian reports a
frightening surge of "dangerous conspiracy theories" about COVID-19
The Guardian reports a new survey
finding that "dangerous conspiracy theories" about COVID-19 are
surging, virus-like.
This, of course, makes me a major vector: Wikipedia
has now sharpened up its entry on myself to make it
nastier.
From Steve Bhaerman:
Hi Mark:
I was just referencing your Wikipedia page. Not even Pravda could have
slanted this final paragraph more:
"Miller is a 9/11 truther.[5][6] and is a
signatory to the 9/11 Truth Statement.[7] Interviewed by the New York Observer
website, Miller said anyone using the conspiracy theory description "in a
pejorative sense is a witting or unwitting CIA asset".[8] Following a
"truthers" symposium on 9/11, "Justice
in Focus", Miller told Vice the official explanations for 9/11 and the
assassination of John F. Kennedy "are just as unscientific as the ones
that everybody feels comfortable ridiculing", referring to conservatives
dismissal of global warming.[9] Miller has shown his students the
anti-vaccination film Vaxxed made by the disgraced
physician Andrew Wakefield.[5] He has defended the false claims made in Vaxxed of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, and
the assertion that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have
been involved in a cover-up.[8]"
You could use it in your class as a classic example of propaganda ...
"disgraced physician" (does that mean Bill Gates is
"graced"?) ... "defended his false
claims". Conveniently enough, college kids are now so thoroughly
brainwashed with PC hogwash that they have no sense of discernment. I
wonder how many would recognize the bias of this "fact-checking"
site.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Crispin_Miller
Steve
[Note: At least my own students learn to see through such
jive---MCM.]
+
“Where Can We
Run To?”
https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/qfc072-wherecanwerunto.mp3
with James
Corbett
(9:24)
===========
e.
From: Mark Crispin
Miller
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2020
Subject: [MCM] St. John's history prof
punished for "bias, discrimination and harassment" after posing a
question, in class, about the Columbian Exchange
This sounds
familiar. (My department chair used that same phrase, "next steps,"
in his reassuring answer to the student tweeting that NYU ought to fire me;
but my situation isn't as precarious as Prof. Taylor's, as he's a
vulnerable adjunct, and I'm tenured.)
There are
countless students out there who've been prepped by Social Justice ideology, and primed by certain faculty and university
administrators, to go on the attack when something strikes them as
"offensive" or "insensitive." This is a tremendous boon to universities
as corporations, because it helps to keep the employees (the ones
with doctorates) in line.
MCM
|
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===========
f.
« Yugoslavia
USA Deja Vu »
with Chris Hedges
(28:07)
+
The
Secret War: Gladio
and the Battle for
Eurasia
https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-298-gladio-b-and-the-battle-for-eurasia/
with James Corbett
+
Danger in the
South China Sea
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/10/16/danger-in-the-south-china-sea/
+
Fools’ Crusade:
Why United States Provocations Towards China Will Lead
to Disaster
by Jeff J. Brown and Jeremy Kuzmarov
+
US Nord Stream 2
Sanctions “an Act Just Short of War"
with George Galloway
(9:01)
+
How
Bolivia fights fascism - It takes more than the ballot box
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeKIyHDseM4
by Ben Norton
(35:00)
Anya Parampil speaks with journalist Ollie Vargas in La Paz,
Bolivia about the historic victory of the Movement Toward
Socialism (MAS) party in the October 18 elections. They discuss the role of
Bolivia's social movements in overturning the coup regime that came to power in
2019, as well as the expectations of average people as the new government of
Luis Arce takes power.
===========
g.
Latest
News and Top Stories On GlobalResearch.ca
https://www.globalresearch.ca/latest-news-and-top-stories
+
“Populism, Politics, and Panic”
with Thomas Frank
(35:39)
+
The Politics of
Cultural Despair
with Chris Hedges
(1:58:22)
===========
h.
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2020
Subject: [MCM] More on CommonPass, "the
world's first COVID passport," just rolled out on Airtstrip
One
Digital health passports roll out for
air travelers tracking
COVID status, vaccination proof; ‘CommonPass’
has been
dubbed the 'world’s first COVID passport'
Thu Oct 8, 2020 - 4:29 pm EST
https://www.weforum.org/projects/commonpass
https://www.weforum.org/partners#search
https://www.weforum.org/platforms/shaping-the-future-of-cybersecurity-and-digital-trust
https://www.weforum.org/about/klaus-schwab
“CommonPass”
For global
travel and trade to return to pre-pandemic levels, travelers will need a secure
and verifiable way to document their health
status as they travel and cross borders. Countries will need to be able to trust that a traveller’s
record of a COVID PCR test or vaccination administered in another
country is valid. Countries will also need the flexibility to update their health screening entry requirements as the pandemic evolves and
science progresses.
Airlines,
airports and other travel industry stakeholders will need the same.
The Commons
Project together with The World Economic Forum is working to initiate the CommonPass framework to address those
challenges.
https://thecommonsproject.org/commonpass
"The
Commons Project was established with support from the Rockefeller
Foundation."
https://thecommonsproject.org/
https://thecommonsproject.org/commongeo
+
Chief Science
Officer for Pfizer Says “Second Wave” Faked on False-Positive COVID Tests,
“Pandemic Is
Over”
by Ralph Lopez
+
“If We Were Honest”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CVpccOS8cE&feature=youtu.be
with Jason Bosch and
Cory Morningstar
(1:44:35)
Jason Bosch interviews independent investigative journalist, writer and environmental activist Cory Morningstar. Topics include the "The Social Dillema", "humane tech", "stakeholder capitalism", the financialization of nature, "data colonies", COVID-19, AI, the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" and more.
===========
i.
BASTA!
https://www.bastamag.net/les-derniers-articles-de-Basta-861
+
“We want a Spanish republic.”
https://mailchi.mp/jacobinmag.com/prime-day-550702?e=997d6d360e
an interview with Pablo Iglesias
+
Invisible 9/11s:
Only the CIA Can See How US Is Attacked By Nations It Targets
by Caitlin Johnstone
===========
j.
Story #1: The
German Investigation Into the Covid
Scandal
with James Corbett and James Evan Pilato
+
The Doctor
Is In: Scott Atlas and the Efficacy of Lockdowns, Social Distancing, and
Closings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biC4nHPYtbA
(50:30)
+
COVID-19 and the End of
Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vipaqx_fo2g
with Richard Wolff
(31:38)
+
Two
dozen deaths after vaccines scare people away
by Shim Kyu-Seok
+
Sanofi, SK flu shots halted in Singapore as South Korea
post-vaccination deaths climb to 59
by Angus Liu
===========
k.
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2020
Subject: [MCM] So now the WHO is suddenly AGAINST the lockdowns they've
been pushing hard worldwide all year?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4PuvmWq...e=youtu.be
ZeroHedge article:
Carl Vernon's commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wvmL7Dk7Uk
===========
l.
“The Sickness is the
System”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kew5vagDP2M
with R. J. Eskow
and Richard Wolff
(37:57)
+
New U.S. Labor Militancy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0NbVh4GLIk
with Richard Wolff
(29 :55)
+
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles:
“Stock Market Booms While Americans Face Economic Disaster”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEHOZFfTpBY
with David Harvey
(25:36)
+
Wolff
Responds:
“The
Eviction Crisis and US Capitalism's Self-destruction”
with Richard Wolff
(6:57)
===========
m.
“The Church of
the Holy State-
Worship Service!”
holystate.mp4https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-386-the-church-of-the-holy-state/
with James Corbett
(56:01)
+
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2020
Subject: [MCM] "Build Back Better": A GLOBAL propaganda meme
There is enormous power
behind this drive.
===========
n.
A Post-Capitalist
Economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppQp0_2dFQc
with Richard Wolff
(56:21)
+
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2020
Subject: [MCM] 2020 is the third-least deadly year per capita in Swedish
history, and September the least deadly month, ever
These are the latest statistics from
Sweden, whose numbers always are precise and scrupulous.
https://cornucopia.cornubot.se/2020/10/september-2020-least-deadly-month-ever.html
Compare that view to the attack on
Sweden in "The Scourge of Herd Immunity" (!) from the faux-left
Counterpunch, a sturdy organ of the Lockdown Left:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/23/the-scourge-of-herd-immunity/
Because, thanks to "the scourge of
herd immunity," Sweden has built up a strong defense against this virus,
it will continue to do well, while Norway, Denmark and the other countries that
locked down will keep seeing some real cases, with bumps in hospitalizations
and death. This is something Counterpunch, just like the New York Times et al.,
does not want us to know, as it is zealously collaborating with the forces
waging war on all humanity.
As for Sweden: Despite the recent
strengthening of COVID "recommendations" in some local
jurisdictions---a measure loudly misreported, by the Daily Mail and others, as
backtracking in the face of an (imaginary) resurgence of "the
virus"---life in Sweden is idyllic by the standard now prevailing in the
West (and elsewhere).
Here's a message from Mihalis Nevradakis, who recently
escaped to Sweden from the cattle-car once known as Greece:
"Obviously in this world anything
can change at any time, but as of now, coming to Sweden has been perhaps the
best decision of my life. My health has immediately improved, especially my
mental health. Other than getting used to a new country, which is happening
rather quickly, I am living a normal life. Going to
restaurants, cafes, bars, parks, shops, cinemas, all with no interference
whatsoever."
+
The Global
Capitalist Cage and the Corona Crisis: “Solutions” by Those Who Have Created
“The Problems”
by Hiroyuki Hamada
+
Economic Update:
“China:
Capitalist, Socialist or What?”
with Richard Wolff
(29:25)
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o.
Re-Targeting
Iran/Political Satire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRms-JINOoM
(1:00:35)
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p.
From: Jim O'Brien via H-PAD
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 3:48 PM
To: h-pad@historiansforpeace.org
Subject: [H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 10/13/20: Recent articles of interest;
miscellaneous notes on current activism
Links to Recent Articles of Interest
"With Crushing Sanctions on 18 Iranian Banks, Is Trump
Trying to Leave a War Behind for Biden?"
By Juan Cole, Informed Comment
blog, posted October 9
The author teaches Middle East
history at the University of Michigan.
"Trump's Attacks on Refugees Expose the Inadequacies of
the Current System"
By Carl J. Bon Tempo, Washington
Post, posted October 6
Traces US refugee
policy from the 1950s to the present. The author teaches history at SUNY Albany and is the
author of Americans at the Gate: The
United States and Refugees During the Cold War (Princeton
U. Press, 2009).
"Trump's Call for Freelance Poll Watchers Summons a
Dark History"
By Nicole Hemmer, cnn.com, posted October 2
On voter intimidation in New Jersey
in 1982 that led to a nationwide consent decree (now expired) against the
Republican National Committee. The author is an associate research scholar at
Columbia University and co-host of the history podcast Past Present.
"Trump's War on Election Integrity Follows a Racist
Playbook Used in 1980s Orange County"
By Gustavo Orellano,
Los Angeles Times, posted October 1
A similar story to
the New Jersey episode recounted by Nicole Hemmer, above.
"How Trump Brought Home the Endless War"
By Stephen Wertheim, The New
Yorker, posted October 1
On the spillover of U.S. military
policy into civilian life since the 1990s, exacerbated by the current
administration. The author is a staff member of the Quincy Institute for
Responsible Statecraft and has written Tomorrow,
the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy (Harvard U. Press, forthcoming
October 27).
"Where Does the
Democratic Party Stand on War, Peace, and International Relations?"
By Lawrence Wittner,
History News Network, posted September 27
Analysis of the
2020 Democratic Party platform. The author is a professor Emeritus of history at SUNY Albany.
By Nadezhda
Azhgikhina, The Nation, posted September
25 (in translation)
A tribute by the
director of PEN Moscow to the late historian Stephen F. Cohen, who died on
September 18. "Stephen
Cohen was an active participant in democratic changes in Russia,
and he will always be remembered as such." See also the New York Times obituary, "Stephen
F. Cohen, Influential Historian of Russia, Dies at
81."
"The
Endless Fantasy of American Power: Neither Trump Nor
Biden Aims to Demilitarize Foreign Policy"
By Andrew Bacevich,
Foreign Affairs, posted September 18
The author is a professor emeritus of
history and international relations at Boston University and president of the
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
"Extreme Option: Overthrow Allende"
Edited by Peter Kornbluh,
National Security Archive, posted September 15
September 15 marked the 50th
anniversary of a White House meeting at which President Nixon ordered the CIA
to foment a coup to overthrow the elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende. "Make the economy scream," he ordered. The
National Security Archive has assembled and published
declassified documents showing the US government's plotting.
Thanks for Rusti
Eisenberg and an anonymous reader for flagging some of the above articles.
Suggestions can be sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com.
Miscellaneous Notes on Current
Activism
H-PAD Urges Forums on Critical Issues
In these final weeks prior to the
election, historians have an opportunity to tap the interest and attention of
students and community members on the vital issues facing our country. In this
era of zoom and skype, virtual forums can be created
more rapidly and simply than the in-person events to which we are accustomed.
To facilitate events, we are providing a
list of historians, scholars and activists who are willing to speak in virtual
Forums without honoraria--assuming this fits with their schedules.The
list of speakers, proposed topics, and contact information is available here.
We suggest that you contact the desired speaker directly.
For further questions or suggestions
contact: Andor Skotnes (skotna@sage.edu) or Carolyn Rusti Eisenberg (Carolyn.Eisenberg@hofstra.edu).
"Educating Against White
Supremacy"
Hundreds of educators and organizations
have signed-on to a statement entitled "Educating for Democracy Demands
Educating Against White Supremacy." Click here to see the statement, the list of signers so far, and an
option for signing it.
"We Are Not Your Soldiers"
Campaign
Veterans of the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan are available to speak to high school classes (in person or
remotely) to counter military recruitment. Click here for information. (A summary of events during the
2019-20 school year is here.)
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30+ Years of
Freedom of Information Action
2020
Party Platforms and Cyber Policy
compiled and edited by Cristin J.
Monahan
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When Big Money
Rules
Dark Money &
Barrett Nomination: The Link Between Big Polluters
& the War on ACA, Roe & LGBT Rights
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/10/16/amy_coney_barrett_sheldon_whitehouse
with Shelden Whithouse
(15:02)
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s.
CN Live! Daily
Video Report on Assange Hearing–Day 14
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/09/26/watch-cn-live-daily-video-report-on-assange-hearing-day-14/
+
Yanis Varoufakis to testify
against private company hired to spy on Assange
https://diem25.org/yanis-varoufakis-testify-against-private-company-hired-spy-assange/
by DiEM25 Communications
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t.
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2020
Subject: [MCM] FEAR is the Great Plague that's killing us, and it's not
of natural origin (MUST-READ)
From Michael Green:
It
is difficult to overpraise the second gem in a row
from Mercola, organizing in neat linear form what is
happening to us and how. It’s much the stuff that Corbett did in his
“Great Reset” video last week, but it is in print, readable, and clearly
organized. I only wish that he hadn’t ended with Lord Sumption’s quote that states that the impetus for decisive
action, and hence the totalitarian response, comes
from the people; this is entirely contrary to the thrust of everything that
precedes it in this and yesterday’s piece. The difficulty, as ever,
is what I stated in my final essay: we are faced with the obstacle of telling
an eagerly brainwashed people a deep truth essential to their future and
well-being yet so inimical to their world-view and sensibility that we are
deemed mad or speaking in tongues. So the debates about masks,
vaccine safety-efficacy, schoolchildren infection rates/mortality, when to
reopen businesses, etc. keeps spinning away from the central kaleidoscopic
horror in which they are glistening distractions embedded in a false
phantasmagoria.
Fear Fear Secures Obedience
in COVID-19 War
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola Fact Checked
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/10/24/securing-obedience-through-fear.aspx?cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20201024Z1_dnl_v_24&mid=DM697148&rid=994924631
· October 24, 2020
Story at-a-glance
· Scientists, lawyers, medical professionals and
academics are increasingly recognizing that the deliberate fear-mongering that
has kept the COVID-19 pandemic alive threatens to replace democracy with
fascist totalitarian models of government
· Over the past several years, the threat of
bioterrorism and viruses in general have been highlighted as one of the most
serious threats to mankind, yet we continue to fund dangerous gain-of-function
research — the very source and basis of this threat
· The data tell us SARS-CoV-2 is not the existential
threat it’s been made out to be. The big picture emerging seems to point in one
direction, and that is the implementation of a long-standing plan to usher in
and permanently establish a technocratic society
· In a few short months, we’ve been dramatically shifted
from a state of freedom to a state of totalitarianism, and the way that was
done was through social engineering, which involves psychological manipulation,
two tools of which are fear-based propaganda and censorship
· It appears mobile phone carriers may already be
providing data to state governments for quarantines and contact tracing
purposes without your knowledge or consent, even though we’ve been told track
and trace apps would be voluntary. …
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“We are all
Palestinian Jews . . .”
“Stranded in
Gaza”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/stranded-gaza/31316
by Khuloud Rabah Sulaiman
+
Israel to massively expand settlements after UAE
normalization
by Tamara Nassar
+
“Darker
shadows of shared supremacy”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/darker-shadows-shared-supremacy/31276
by Josh Ruebner
+
“Video:
Palestinian puppeteers bring theater to Gaza”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/video-palestinian-puppeteers-bring-theater-gaza/30836
by Ruwaida
Amer and Sanad Ltefa
(4:49)
+
“IHRA definition
of anti-Semitism silences solidarity”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/ihra-definition-anti-semitism-silences-solidarity/31341
by Rowan Gaudet
+
Jewish Chronicle
admits libeling Labour councilor over “anti-Semitism”
by Asa Winstanley
+
EU panders to far-right
on Palestine aid
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/eu-panders-far-right-palestine-aid
by David Cronin
+
UK pro-Israel
lobby welcomes racist ambassador
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/uk-pro-israel-lobby-welcomes-racist-ambassador
by Asa Winstanley
+
Is Bernie
Sanders quietly distancing himself from ‘Emgage’?
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/bernie-sanders-quietly-distancing-himself-emgage
by Ali Abunimah
+
Dismantle it and
let them fall
https://electronicintifada.net/content/dismantle-it-and-let-them-fall/31281
by Bassel al-Araj
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Muslim group ‘Emgage’ raises money for pro-Israel candidates
https://electronicintifada.net/content/muslim-group-emgage-raises-money-pro-israel-candidates/31386
by Ali Abunimah
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v.
Pandemic
Unemployment: in the US, not in Europe
with Richard Wolff
(9:28)
+
From: c.s.
Sent: Saturday, October
17, 2020
Subject: les employés de l’agence des droits
de l’homme de l’ONU ne reçoivent plus de visa ...
relevé sur : Israël cesse de délivrer des
visas aux employés de l’agence des droits de l’homme de l’ONU
par Joe Dyke
le jeudi 15 octobre 2020
ci-dessous et en PJ
Israël cesse de délivrer des
visas aux employés de l’agence des droits de l’homme de l’ONU
Alors qu’Israël avait
annoncé en février la suspension de ses relations avec le Haut-Commissariat
des Nations unies aux droits de l’homme, les demandes de nouveaux visas restent
sans réponse et les passeports envoyés pour renouvellement des visas reviennent
vierges.
Selon les informations
recueillies par Middle East Eye, Israël a cessé de
délivrer des visas aux employés du Haut-Commissariat
des Nations unies aux droits de l’homme (HCDH), contraignant les cadres de
l’agence à partir.
En février, Israël avait
annoncé la suspension de ses relations avec l’agence des droits de l’homme de
l’ONU après la publication d’une liste de plus d’une centaine d’entreprises
opérant dans les colonies israéliennes en Cisjordanie.
Depuis le mois de juin,
toutes les demandes de nouveaux visas restent sans réponse et les passeports
envoyés pour renouvellement reviennent vierges.
Neuf membres étrangers sur les douze de l’organisation ont déjà quitté Israël et les territoires palestiniens par crainte de se trouver en situation d’illégalité, a confirmé le HCDH. Parmi eux, le directeur James Heenan.
Les trois autres verront
leurs visas expirer dans les mois à venir. Par ailleurs, trois employés qui
devaient arriver en Israël pour commencer à travailler n’ont pas été en mesure
de le faire.
Le personnel israélien et
palestinien continue toutefois à travailler et les bureaux de l’organisation ne
sont pas fermés.
« L’absence de personnel
international dans les territoires occupés est une situation particulièrement
irrégulière et aura un impact négatif sur notre capacité à exercer notre mandat
», affirme un porte-parole du HCDH à MEE.
« Nous continuons à espérer
que cette situation sera bientôt résolue et nous coopérons activement avec les
différentes parties concernées pour y mettre un terme. »
Tous les accès au territoire
palestinien sont contrôlés par Israël et ce dernier est accusé, ces dernières
années, de restreindre l’accès aux humanitaires.
L’an dernier, Israël a
expulsé le directeur de Human Rights
Watch (HRW) Omar Shakir, après l’avoir accusé de soutenir les appels au
boycott, ce qu’il nie.
Toujours l’année dernière,
le gouvernement israélien a refusé de renouveler le mandat d’une force
internationale qui surveillait les atteintes aux droits de l’homme dans la
ville de Hébron en Cisjordanie occupée.
Pour Omar Shakir, «
l’expulsion des organes de surveillance des droits de l’homme de l’ONU
constitue une nouvelle tentative du gouvernement israélien d’entraver la
documentation de sa répression systématique des Palestiniens ».
« Refuser des visas afin de
sanctionner les critiques est désormais un instrument central de l’offensive
israélienne sur les mouvements des droits de l’homme », explique-t-il à MEE.
Une liste de 112 sociétés
Le HCDH rédige régulièrement
des rapports mettant en exergue les atteintes israéliennes aux droits de
l’homme à Jérusalem-Est occupée, en Cisjordanie et dans la bande de Gaza
assiégée.
En février, l’agence a
publié une liste de 112 sociétés travaillant dans les colonies israéliennes,
lesquelles sont illégales au regard du droit international. Ce rapport, qui a
pointé du doigt TripAdvisor, Airbnb
et le fabricant de camions et d’excavatrices JCB, entre autres, a été salué par
les Palestiniens mais a suscité la colère des Israéliens.
En représailles, le ministre
israélien des Affaires étrangères de l’époque Israel
Katz a suspendu les liens avec l’organisation, ce qu’il avait salué comme « une
mesure dure et exceptionnelle ». Les implications pratiques de cette mesure
n’étaient alors pas claires.
Les employés de l’ONU à
travers le monde sont supposés avoir un accès automatique aux visas pour
remplir leur mission.
Épaulé par le fervent
soutien du président américain Donald Trump, Israël a
connu une série de succès diplomatiques dans le monde ces dernières années,
notamment les accords de paix signés dernièrement avec les Émirats arabes unis
et Bahreïn.
Pour Martin Konečný, le directeur du think-tank
European Middle East Project, les restrictions
s’appliquant au HCDH s’inscrivent dans une tendance plus globale.
« Avec le soutien des
États-Unis, Israël a enchaîné les victoires sur la scène internationale (tels
que les accords avec les Émirats arabes unis et Bahreïn). L’examen des droits
de l’homme est une sorte de nuisance qui gâte ce triomphe », déclare-t-il.
« Je pense qu’Israël se sent
enhardi, ne serait-ce que par le soutien de l’administration Trump, pour agir contre les organisations qui s’intéressent
aux droits de l’homme. »
Il constate que, si les
gouvernements européens critiquent les politiques israéliennes à cet égard, peu
de mesures ont été prises pour contraindre Israël à s’amender.
Un porte-parole du ministère
des Affaires étrangères israélien a affirmé n’avoir rien à ajouter aux
communiqués de février suspendant les relations.
Traduit de l’anglais
(original) par VECTranslation
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w.
Daniel
Korski: The Intelligence-Linked Mastermind Behind the
UK’s Orwellian Healthtech Advisory Board
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/10/investigative-reports/korski/
by Johnny Vedmore
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x.
From:
Jim O'Brien via H-PAD
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2020
7:59 PM
To: h-pad@historiansforpeace.org
Subject: [H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 10/23/20: Links to recent articles of
interest
Links to Recent Articles of Interest
"Which
Constitution Is Amy Coney Barrett Talking About?"
By Jamelle
Bouie, New York Times, posted October 16
Based on work by Eric Foner and other historians, the Times columnist argues that that the Civil War and
Reconstruction made radical changes in the meaning of the Constitution. As Foner put it, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
"created a fundamentally new document with a new definition of both the
status of blacks and the rights of all Americans."
"The
Framers of the Constitution Didn't Worry about 'Originalism'"
By Jack Rakove,
Washington Post, posted October 16
"History shows that the original
text is far more complex than the legal doctrine might indicate." The
author teaches history and American Studies at Stanford University. His book Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of
the Constitution won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in history.
"Toward
a Global History of White Supremacy"
By Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield,
and Jennifer Sutton, Boston Review, posted October 16
"The simultaneous success of
Trump and Brexit was no coincidence: white
supremacist politics are international in scope and often share entwined
histories." Daniel Geary and Camilla Schofield teach history at Trinity
College Dublin and the University of East Anglia, respectively; Jennifer Sutton
is an independent scholar with a PhD in history from Washington University.
"The
Right's War on Universities"
By Ruth Ben-Ghiat,
NYR [New York Review of Books] Daily, posted October 15
"Authoritarians from Mussolini
onward have seen colleges as holdouts of liberal democracy--and attacked them
relentlessly." The author teaches history and Italian studies at New York
University.
"Republican
Judges Are Quietly Upending Public Health Laws"
By
John Fabian Witt, New York Times, posted October 15
Republicans' "campaign to take
over the federal and state courts" threatens "a long and deeply
embedded tradition of upholding vital public health regulations." The
author teaches law and history at Yale University and is the author of American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from
Smallpox to Covid-19 (Yale U. Press, forthcoming October 27).
"America
Has No Reason to Be So Powerful"
By Stephen Wertheim, New York
Times, posted October 15
"Eighty years ago, the United
States made a tragic decision to pursue global supremacy. The project has
outlived its purpose." The author is a staff member of the Quincy
Institute for Responsible Statecraft and author of Tomorrow the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy
(Harvard U. Press, forthcoming October 27).
"How
Do Pandemics End? History Suggests Diseases Fade But Are Almost Never Truly
Gone"
By Nűkhet
Varlik, The Conversation, posted October
14
A warning against
expecting the complete eradication of the coronavirus. The author teaches history at Rutgers University and
specializes in the early modern history of medicine and health in the
Mediterranean world.
"Military Bases Never Go
Unused"
https://davidswanson.org/military-bases-never-go-unused
By David Swanson, Let's Try
Democracy blog, posted October 13
A review essay on David Vine's new
book The United States of War: A
Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic
State (U. of California Press, October 2020). David Swanson is a prolific
antiwar writer and radio commentator and campaign coordinator of
RootsAction.org.
"Demon
vs. Monster: The Vice-Presidential Debate and an Historian's Harassment"
By Hank Reichman,
Academe Blog, posted October 13
On threats by the administration of
Collin College in Texas to discipline historian L. D. Burnett for her
tongue-in-cheek characterization of Vice President Pence as a "demon"
(in a blog entry on the Harris-Spence debate).Hank Reichman
is a professor emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay and
is the Chair of the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. On this
episode, see also October
16 commentary on the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education website.)
"My Memories of Voter
Suppression"
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/177743
By Lawrence Wittner,
History News Network, posted October 12
A historian's personal account of
working for voting rights in Louisiana in the summer of 1962, The author is a professor emeritus of history at SUNY
Albany.
"Fragments
from a Past - La Lotta Continua"
By Jeffrey L. Gould, Against
the Current, posted September 10
Another personal experience account
by a historian, this one drawing lessons from the author's highly varied
experiences in labor and solidarity movements from the mid-1960s to the late
'80s in the US, Italy, and Central America. The author now teaches history at
Indiana University.
Thanks to Kevin Young and an
anonymous reader for flagging some of the above articles. Suggestions can be
sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com.
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y.
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Subject: [MCM] Time's special issue on "the Great Reset" was
fathered by Time's owner, a WEF trustee, and business partner of Bill Gates (in
"green"—i.e., nuclear—energy)
For a whiff of this Time magazine propaganda
blast: https://time.com/collection/great-reset/
MCM
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z.
War
Wasn’t a Campaign Issue. What Does That Mean for the Next Presidency?
by Barbara Koeppel
+
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2020
Subject: [MCM] "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy,
and life has never been better"
The "life" envisioned here is, to
put it mildly, not the one that Bezos, Gates, Mike
Bloomberg, Klaus Schwab, Ted Turner and their peers intend to lead. On the contrary. They'll own everything, and
live—forever, they expect—in high-tech compounds with elite security.
Nor, of course, is it a life that anybody
genuinely human, and still capable of thinking, would accept, which is why
they plan to kill or alter all the
rest of us—and why we have to stop them.
MCM
·
Values
Welcome to 2030. I
own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/shopping-i-can-t-really-remember-what-that-is
"Now I can hardly
believe that we accepted congestion and traffic jams."
Image: REUTERS/Nicky Loh
11 Nov 2016
1.
Ida AukenMember of Parliament, Parliament of Denmark (Folketinget)
The World Economic Forum COVID Action
Platform
Most Popular
Right-wing extremism:
The new wave of global terrorism
Sean
Spence · The Conversation 28 Oct
2020
What is ‘Long COVID’ and what parts of the body does it affect?
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/covid-coronavirus-symptoms-health/
Coronavirus
can cause symptoms affecting the brain, cardiovascular system and heart, the
kidneys, the gut, the liver and the skin.
Kate Kelland
· Reuters 27 Oct 2020
These tech giants want
to help prepare the world for the future of work
Explore context
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Explore the latest strategic
trends, research and analysis
For more information
watch the What If:
Privacy Becomes a Luxury Good? session from
the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2017.
Welcome
to the year 2030. Welcome to my city - or should I say, "our city". I don't own anything. I don't own a car. I
don't own a house. I don't own any appliances or any clothes.
It
might seem odd to you, but it makes perfect sense for us in this city.
Everything you considered a product, has now become a service. We have access
to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily
lives. One by one all these things became free, so it ended up not making sense
for us to own much.
First
communication became digitized and free to everyone. Then, when clean energy
became free, things started to move quickly. Transportation dropped dramatically
in price. It made no sense for us to own cars anymore, because we could call a
driverless vehicle or a flying car for longer journeys within minutes. We
started transporting ourselves in a much more organized and coordinated way
when public transport became easier, quicker and more convenient than the car.
Now I can hardly believe that we accepted congestion and traffic jams, not to
mention the air pollution from combustion engines. What were we thinking?
Sometimes
I use my bike when I go to see some of my friends. I enjoy the exercise and the
ride. It kind of gets the soul to come along on the journey. Funny how some
things seem never to lose their excitement: walking, biking, cooking, drawing
and growing plants. It makes perfect sense and reminds us of how our culture
emerged out of a close relationship with nature.
"Environmental problems
seem far away"
In
our city we don't pay any rent, because someone else is using our free space
whenever we do not need it. My living room is used for business meetings when I
am not there.
Once
in awhile, I will choose to cook for myself. It is easy - the necessary kitchen
equipment is delivered at my door within minutes. Since transport became free,
we stopped having all those things stuffed into our home. Why keep a
pasta-maker and a crepe cooker crammed into our cupboards? We can just order
them when we need them.
+
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2020
Subject: [MCM] Dr. Zeke Emanuel, Joe Biden's COVID-19 advisor, sees Italy's failed lockdown as a model for the USA
Dr. Emanuel's "Why I Hope to Die at 75," his eugenicist protest against
"living too long," in the October, 2014 Atlantic (one of Bill/Melinda Gates'
"strategic media partners"):
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/10/why-i-hope-to-die-at-75/379329/
With that attitude, the good doctor was probably quite pleased by the mass
disposal of all those past-their-sell-date, Social-Security-squandering
bipeds finished off in nursing homes throughout the US, UK, Canada and
Sweden at the height of the coronavirus crisis. (And he probably was not
heartbroken by the die-off of the very old in northern Italy.)
The team that picked Joe Biden sure knows how to pick 'em!
MCM
From Tom Woods:
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