Coronavirus: Facts, Anyone?
Perspective is helpful, and critical. Panic is not. Consider the figures: Japan: Just under 5,000 deaths per year from bathtub drownings; just over 5,000 deaths per year from…
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The Central Challenge Of Our Time
What is the central challenge of our time? It is not what most people think it is. It is not race or gender, or climate change, or the environment broadly,…
The Dangers Of Denial
When someone fails to realize that China is a deeply authoritarian state, or actively denies it, or likewise does not realize that the US, Canada, the UK and Europe have…
Billionaires Cheer Lockdown – Surprise, Surprise
* Forbes magazine cheers lockdown. Surprise, surprise. * The billionaire club of Davos likes lockdown, because they prefer oligarchy and authoritarianism, that is, fascism, to freedom and democracy. It also…
Biowarfare, Power Games, Fear & Hype
* Interesting how synchronicity works, as Jung referred to it. The other night I watched a Star Trek episode, and it was about a bio-engineered virus designed to kill specific…
Global Trends: Fascism Amidst Manufactured Panic & Distraction
Multi-cultural elite rule turning increasingly toward global corporate oligarchy, neofeudalism, and fascism, has been the undeniable direction of the West since 9/11, 2001. Further moves in this direction make far…
Slaughterhouse Now: Reflections on Huxley, authoritarianism, and the Brave New World being ushered in by a bug
* I think of a dear friend’s response to my dinner invitation tonight – him saying (in the face of the “pandemic”) that he is generally staying home…. Frankly, like…
The Collapse of Modern Civilization
More than 150 years ago Thoreau commented, “Our sills are all rotten.” He was right. It is for that reason that Western, and Westernized, “modern” “civilization” is collapsing. This could…
Lockdown: Fascism 1, Sanity 0
China and Italy, both with authoritarian governments, are the first to put their countries under lockdown. The Davos oligarchs think that’s wonderful, of course. Divide & conquer, sow fear &…
US 2020 Election: One Choice Only – The Oligarchy
Chris Hedges states there is no choice in the 2020 US election if it is a choice between Trump and Biden: both are a vote for the consolidation of the…
Importing From China: A Virus? Or A Totalitarian Model Of Elite Control?
Someone prescient once said, “Those who would sacrifice a little freedom for a little security, deserve neither, and will lose both.” We would do well to remember those words now.…
Fantasy and Indoctrination: Rough notes on a few fantasy novels: part two
Here are two more fantasy books that I could not get through. That makes three in a row. And to think, I had a love affair with Terry Brookes’ Shannara…
Coronavirus Update – Panic or Propaganda? Both? Or Simply Mass Insanity? All The Above
As of today, the mass media hype and hysteria over the latest exotic virus continues to spread, unabated. In its wake, mass insanity is spreading nearly as fast. Let’s step…
Peter MacKay and the Cage Boy Horror Show
I have always had trouble taking Peter MacKay seriously. I've always thought of him as a wannabe Margaret Thatcher, who couldn't quite pull it off.There is a reason I call…
Demystifying Economics – Or, Rescuing Humanity From Death By Shared Delusion, Part One
To start with, it should be made clear that it is unwise, to say the least, to disparage mysticism. Mysticism, in the true sense, means to dive into, and deeply…
Viral Fads? Collective Escapism Through Displaced Fear?
I could be wrong, but every indicator to me so far is that the latest virus scare is vastly over-hyped, as they almost always are. Still it’s at 2,800…
Coronavirus: The latest in over-hyped threats & DANGERS
Read my essays, Danger and Delusion, and, Reality Check, on my blog and Twitter. Poverty, hunger, and obesity are vastly bigger killers than any infectious disease. Boost your immunity…
Degeneration, Collapse, and Rebirth
What we are facing is systemic degeneration: ecologically, culturally, spiritually, intellectually, psychologically, socially, and biologically in terms of degenerating health and shortening life spans. This is the slow-motion collapse of…
On Reading Petronella Lee’s Anti-Fascism Against Machismo: gender politics and the struggle against fascism (Review by Butch Lee)
available from leftwingbooks.net This is exciting. Because it starts to break away from the once fresh but increasingly dead end of what had become macho antifa. There’s not only false…
THE IMPERIALIST STATE OF THE MULTINATIONALS IS NEITHER FASCIST NOR SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC (Red Brigades, 1978)
In the transition from armed peace to war, the revolution/counter-revolution confrontation grows increasingly direct and generalized, but there is not, as some claim, a transformation of the democratic state into…