“Acting true to form as the US military-intelligence community propaganda agent it is, the Washington Post recently published an opinion piece asserting, “America Needs To Be on a War Footing.” In it, Danielle Allen asserts, “The appropriate analogy for this moment is Pearl Harbor… The country needs to transform to
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Warren Kinsella: My latest: defeating a silent, invisible foe
In June 2004, the young doctors in their sparkling white coats filed into my father’s hospital room, holding charts and papers. They were there to tell him how they were going to save his life, and defeat the cancer that was throughout his lungs. I was there, on a chair
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On spin over substance
PressProgress is right to point out how many landlords are using the loud announcement of coronavirus relief – which, if you read the small print, won’t be available for months – as an excuse to keep charging rent as of April 1. (Not to mention to attempt to pressure tenants
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Conventional Wisdom!
A public health emergency demands that we unite mindlessly behind the government which deliberately mocked it, utterly failed to prepare us, and is now prohibiting anybody from taking stronger action.
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: MASS QUARANTINE, POLICE STATE MEASURES, PROVEN UNJUSTIFIED
A report from the Italian government confirms what should have been obvious weeks ago: the virus danger is vastly exagrated, mass quarantine is utterly unjustified, and the draconian responses are infinitely more dangerous than the virus itself. Bloomberg picked up the story on the Italian government report. GreenMedInfo reports on
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Coronavirus: Martial Law & The New Police State
An excellent live webstream discussion was given last night by Sayer Ji, the founder of GreenMedInfo – the best source I know of for science-based health information. His remarks offer a calm, well-reasoned, fact-based entry into the discussion as to what in the world is really going on with the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Eric Doherty, and Eric Galbraith and Ross Otto, respectively write that the response to the coronavirus shows how it’s possible to imagine and implement needed changes along the lines of a Green New Deal. And Heather Mallick theorizes that it can also
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: When the lights go on for the people…
While the world is currently in Chamberlain mode (denial), it may soon go to Vichy/Quisling mode (collaboration & surrender – giving up). Despite his enormous faults, we need people like Churchill now: “We shall never surrender.” JTR, March 22, 2020 #FightTheFascists Here is Churchill’s famous speech: https://youtu.be/MkTw3_PmKtc via @YouTube
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Political-Economy 101
Governments and corporations, and the state-corporate media they control, systematically distort or conceal the truth, peddle illusions and starkly deceitful false narratives, and lie. (Does anyone remember Iraq’s WMDs?) This is political-economy and media studies 101. Unsurprisingly, vested interests tend to serve their own narrow interests – and routinely
Continue readingScripturient: Social distancing and reading
With every responsible, mature adult practicing social distancing and self-isolation these days, it means spending lots of time at home, alone or within the small family unit. Trying for some, but it’s the perfect time to catch up on your reading, to explore new authors, to discover the contentment of
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Adam Tooze writes that the coronavirus pandemic has offered a reminder that the economy (particularly defined in terms of shareholders’ interests) can’t be given priority over human survival and well-being. – John Daley discusses three possible options in responding to the coronavirus –
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: A little shock therapy for the masses
Thoughts on Trump, the Deep State, Psyops & the Virus: Explains what is happening now…. The Shock Doctrine (film). The deep state steers Trump. (Demonstrated fact.) Smart move would be to nudge him to dismiss the coronavirus as over-hyped. (Speculative as to nudging, but he did.) Then the lemmings will
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Global Famine Approaches As Pollinators Die From Pesticides – But Virus Hysteria & Mass Distraction Reign
Strolling just now, with my belle and my boy, enjoying the spring day, trying not to worry too much about the mass insanity which has gripped the people, as fear and panic are daily manufactured, and a virus that has 1% the death toll of the common flu is hyped
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Mike Konczal offers (PDF) a framework for responding to the coronavirus pandemic from a U.S. perspective. And the CCPA is providing ample analysis of the economic and social impacts of COVID-19. – Dakshana Bascaramurty discusses how the pandemic is revealing and exacerbating Canada’s
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: A Silver Lining to COVID-19?
As an optimist I tend to look for silver linings in the darker clouds. The other day I read an article saying some Italians remarked that they could finally hear birds sing and see blue skies as a result of the decline of industrial activity caused by COVID-19. Something good
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Frances Woolley points out how the coronavirus pandemic is exposing the effects of decades of austerity on Canada’s health care system. Martin Regg Cohn discusses how the spread of the coronavirus is requiring us to seriously rethink how much of our society
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: The Most Dangerous Epidemic Of All
Just over 100 deaths in the US from the coronavirus, and what is the government response? Fascist lockdown. The pattern is the same across the Western world, mirroring the police state which is China. Fascist lockdown. People are hysterical over a virus that kills fewer than bathtub drownings, motor
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Bernie, Plutocracy, and Plutocracy’s Iron Heel
#Coronavirus.hype=fascist.machinations See my blog, and Trends Journal Bernie is great. But the big picture needs to be seen. He and we are up against fascism now: not just plutocracy, but plutocracy’s iron heel. JTR, March 18, 2020
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Coronavirus: Facts & Fall-Out
Four explanations of coronavirus outbreak: 1. Standard narrative of Western governments and media: natural virus, extreme danger, draconian measures needed, justified 2. Weaponized biowarfare virus accidentally leaked from Wuhan BSL4 bioweapons lab 3. US elites (military industrial complex, or deep state) launched biowarfare in hybrid war with China, without informing
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