THE UNLEASHING OF EVENT 201, THE GLOBALIST PATH TO DICTATORSHIP - LETTER TO THE TORONTO STAR

As we in Canada, and the US, and presumably the world entire, face daily bombardments of just 2 numbers - covid-19 cases and deaths - a whole series of questions remain unasked, and reports remain suppressed. Among them: 1. Was WHO started by the Rockefeller Foundation, and is it principally funded by the Gates Foundation and Big Pharma? Under its recommendations, strongly influenced by its funders (he who pays the piper....) children now receive over 50 vaccines, a ten-fold increase from a few decades ago. Isn't this a monstrous conflict of interest, and de facto capture of WHO by its beneficiaries in Big Pharma, (and Big IT)? 2. Did the Gates Foundation not make experiments with dangerous vaccines on hundreds of thousands of the poorest and most vulnerable children and women - in India, the Philippines and Africa? And did disastrous consequences including death and disability, not ensue for thousands of these involuntary guinea pigs, tricked into their roles with false promises of being injected with 'vitamins'? Why are these crimes not broadly reported, and prosecuted? 3. Does Bill Gates have major investments in the companies whose vaccines he is touting? 4. What secret medical degrees Bill Gates has been conferred, given the authority with which he has made pronouncements about the efficacy or lack of American tests, the need for 'multiple doses' of vaccines, recommendations for drugs like Remdesivir and Dexamethasone, etc? Surely his modesty is unparalleled? Setting aside sarcasm, surely his IT credentials provide the surest connection to the global surveillance and control agenda that is unfolding, prompting his recent denial that nano-chips would be installed via the vaccines? 5.Research into nano-particles in vaccines, and the potential dangers of them, such as with metal toxicity even at nano-sizes, is neither broadly reported nor discussed. 6. Nor is there mention of what was disclosed 20 years ago in James Bamford's Body of Secrets - that DARPA, Cray Research, MIT, and so on, have been researching nano-computers of unparalleled speed, marrying synthetic and organic elements like DNA and E-coli, and capable of being powered by electrical charge from the human brain. 7. That the lockdown has itself been draconian with consequences that thousands of doctors in Europe predict will kill several times more people than the alleged pandemic. Through poverty, starvation, breakdown in food and medical supplies, and the probable unleashing of far more dangerous pandemics from malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases that will mushroom in the horrific conditions engendered by the economic shutdown, especially in the poorest and most populous countries where billions live. Additional tens of millions of global refugees may ensue. In India, the economy has shrunk by a quarter, and millions walked hundreds of kilometers to their villages, fleeing from the shuttered cities they had come to work in. This is possibly just the beginning. 8. Western 'liberal' democracy - already under attack after 9/11's instant bastard - the Patriot Act, and the 2010 'Citizens' United ruling's authorization of unlimited bribery of politicians as 'free speech' - is further being shredded with huge fines, and such things like the arrest in her home, of a pregnant Australian woman, for the 'crime' of posting an anti-lockdown message on Facebook, called 'incitement' by the police. 9. In the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, 'Dubya' repeated his 'weapons of mass destruction' ceaselessly as pretext. The current covid numbers, provided without comparative ones for other diseases, like flu, cancer, heart disease, suggest similar devices at work. All manner of questions about false positives boosting statistics, lumping of co-morbidities to them, and so on, have been dismissed as 'conspiracy theories'. After being herded into social distancing, now we are told the virus 'may be airborne', which might make the wearing of masks permanent.... The invention of external threats like the 'Red Menace' and 'Islamic terror', are now superseded by this mysterious, invisible foe, which justifies the destruction of the global economy. Where are we headed? 10. The Spanish Flu cited as precedent, killed 50 million when the global population was 1.8 billion. After months, the coronavirus has just killed over 1 million (even assuming reported statistics are accurate) with the globe's population nearly 5 times larger. Our health-care systems were supposed to have been overwhelmed, weren't they? 10. Apparently both the Rockefeller and the Gates Foundation had published secret documents years ago, like Event 201, that more or less provided the blueprint for the current crisis. Arundhati Roy mentioned in her latest book, that we may be entering a 'portal' from which there may be no return.

The historically amnesiac, and naive anti-China tirades in India

It is interesting how full of naivete, historical amnesia, and absence of touch with reality, the current anti-China tirades are from so many Indians, and in the Indian media. I am Indian, by the way. Yes there has been a violent (but comparatively small..) confrontation in the Galwan, and yes China has aggressively taken Aksai Chin and Tibet, and also supported Pakistan since 1947. But that is only a small part of the history. People have forgotten who ruled and raped India for over 200 years – turning it from the second largest global economy and second richest country (a veritable ‘soney ki chideeya’) into one of the poorest countries in the world – those same British, who gave birth to their bastard nation the US, which has taken over the superpower status from them. The US was forcibly stolen from the tens of millions of ‘Red Indians’ who inhabited it for millenia, BEFORE COLUMBUS WAS EVEN BORN! And some 90% of whom were wiped out, with such things as pipe-dream treaties never honoured by the US, and genocidal devices like blankets infected with small-pox, ‘gifted’ to those poor souls. Plus the brutal kidnapping and import of tens of millions of Africans into slavery, which allowed the US to replace the British as the world’s largest economy through cotton grown for free by slaves, at a time when ‘cotton was the oil of the time’, to quote Noam Chomsky. And the Brits had destroyed India’s economy (as Tharoor describes) which was the world’s greatest producer of cotton, by such devices as destroying Indian looms and cutting off the thumbs of weavers (at least in one case). And we think the US-led West is our friend? India is more ‘popular’ than China with these people? Think again. It was in 1971 when the US and UK navies charged into the Bay of Bengal to threaten India, which had been forced to intervene in the East Pakistan crisis, which created Bangladesh. Who saved us? Our Soviet friends literally saved our bacon – sending submarines which reached the Bay before the US and UK, and sent them packing. How soon we forget!! The reason the US has been on an anti-China tear has been the unprecedented, and unpredictable growth of a global economic rival – China, whose manufacturing is double that of the US (as percentage of global share) and ten times that of India! Think about that before you assume that the fiasco in Galwan will cause the Chinese to lose heart. It might - because of such things as long supply lines to that border with India, but don’t bet on it - China’s economy is nearly 5 times bigger than India’s. Yes PM Modi is acting intelligently in seeking military alliance with the US-led powers challenging China, such as Japan and Australia. But it is not in India’s interest to fight a war with China, and neither is it in China’s interest. Both have major problems internally, but India’s problems are bigger. Yes the Chinese are being sanctioned by Western countries for the new ‘security’ law in Hong Kong, and US aircraft carriers have been in the South China seas since the time of Obama….. but these are all part of the US-led anti-China campaign. And the US support of India, which only began at the time of W. Bush with the US-India nuclear cooperation deal – is calculated to countervail the growing power of China, which the US clearly fears. For decades before that, the US penalized India with sanctions for daring to build a nuke and explode it at Pokharan. And all it did was incentivize Pakistan to develop its own arsenal, and yes with Chinese cooperation. But that demon has been unleashed, and cannot be put ‘back in the box’. Who created the 1971 crisis? The US! Which gave billions of dollars of weapons to West Pakistan (via Iran’s SAVAK and Saudi Arabia) to murder millions of East Pakistanis, whom the Punjabi Pakistanis regarded as inferior…. When millions of East Pakistanis fled to West Bengal (India), Indira Gandhi was forced to intervene. She was later assassinated (read Tariq Ali’s fictionalized book on this) by her bodyguards, with secret CIA encouragement, or else they might never have dared do it. Who created the Hong Kong demonstrations which ultimately led to the Chinese clampdown? The CIA and MI-6 – who have a record of fomenting this type of trouble to topple governments or weaken them – they have done it all around the world! Do you have the first clue what Hong Kong’s history was? Hong Kong was seized by the British (whose navy ‘ruled the waves’ at the time….) after the Chinese emperor ordered that their opium - which the British forced Indian farmers to grow in Bengal (also causing famines – which cumulatively killed 35 million Indians, read Shashi Tharoor’s Inglorious Empire…!) and were dumping in China - be stopped. A Chinese official threw one British opium shipment into the sea (shades of the Boston tea party) - so the global superpower and the world’s greatest drug cartel of the time, used its gunboats to bomb Chinese coastal cities - forcing the Chinese emperor to surrender, pay the equivalent of billions of pounds in reparations, and cede territories like Hong Kong to the British, which they used to continue the drug trade, which was a major source of ‘royal’ fortune. And these are the people who are claiming China is injuring freedoms in Hong Kong! Please – please – stop parroting American and British nonsense. Go back and read history. We have had recent border conflict with China. But they never robbed or raped us. That was the British and now is the Americans (see below). Yes it seems the Chinese intend to dominate the off-shore resources off their coasts, whose ownership is disputed by Vietnam, etc…. But let’s keep perspective…. the British colonial history is one of outright theft of other countries… as Tharoor puts it, most if not all museums in London, are full of treasure stolen from former colonies, which the no-longer so ‘great’ Britain refuses to return to the rightful owners. Like the Kohinoor diamond stolen from India, or the ‘Elgin marbles’, stolen by ‘Lord’ Elgin from Greece. Yes the Americans are now looting India, as we foolishly surrendered to them the freedom achieved at so much cost from the British! Read Arundhati Roy’s Capitalism a Ghost Story, for how trillions of dollars of mineral resources in Orissa, Jharkhand and Chattisgarh, were simply handed over to US corporations for a song!!! Literally all India gets will be royalties as little as 0.5% or possibly as high as 7%.. Which Indian politicians had big deposits in their Swiss bank accounts in consequence..? I don’t know. No wonder Obama – one of the greatest ‘actors’ (as in Hollywood or Bollywood) in history – soon thereafter told an Indian audience what their esteem-starved minds wanted to hear: ‘India is already a superpower’. What a laugh! The overwhelming majority of India’s population – over 700 million – remain in horrible crippling poverty…. While the major corporate controlled media yammers on about a handful of Indian billionaires, like Mukesh Ambani, who has apparently overtaken Warren Buffett. China on the other hand, has LIFTED 700 million people out of extreme poverty. China is our geographical neighbour…. And this minor conflict needs to be handled diplomatically, not to escalate into a potentially catastrophic war. And there is no fundamental geopolitical reason to be at odds with China. What has been not understood by Indians, is that the border conflicts at Aksai Chin and Tibet, were caused by lines drawn in 1947 by 2 British officials - Johnson and McMahon - lines which the Chinese never accepted! Who is right is not clear. But one thing is CRYSTAL CLEAR - war with China will be a disaster for India, as Pakistan is unlikely to miss the opportunity to invade Jammu and Kashmir, and complete the theft it initiated in 1947, which a Gandhi-dominated India did not repel by force. It is hard not to see that as a major blunder. But now is the time to stay cool.... thandey dimaag se kaam lena hai, josh se nahin. Yes China supports Pakistan. But who created Pakistan? It was the British who deliberately created the Muslim League during the struggle for independence, to ‘divide and conquer’, weakening the Congress Party of Gandhi, Nehru and Patel. And long before China, it was the British and the US who gave huge materiel assistance to Pakistan, including weapons, which they used to wage wars against India. This was the reward to Pakistan for allowing the Brits and the Americans to spy on the Soviets from their territory, which India refused to allow. Stop parroting American propaganda….. they don’t really care about India – they are only using India to rival China in the region. And climate change, whose horrors we are just beginning to witness, as with the months long fires in Australia which burned over a billion animals to scorching death, will affect India far worse than most countries, and certainly far worse than China..... And google 'US wars in 130 countries', all in pursuit of corporate plunder of local resources, all the while pretending to be a 'Global War against Terror', after the self-inflicted 9/11, blamed on 19 Arabs who could not possibly have done it - read the books of David Ray Griffin - so that the Cheney/Halliburton plan - their Project for a New American Century - to invade the Middle East and take control of its massive oil reserves, using a 'catastrophic, catalyzing event, a New Pearl Harbour', could be realized.

The flogging of Djokovic and other disturbing questions

Since the onset of the current pandemic, many disturbing questions about it have been suppressed, either covertly or overtly. Chief among them was the banning of David Icke, a self-described 'conspiracy theorist' - from youtube and facebook - for his claims that there is no certain virus definition (hence the burning of some 5G towers), that statistics of deaths are being manipulated (with co-morbidities falsely attributed to the coronavirus), and the presumed intent by billionaires like Bill Gates (who is now the largest funder of W.H.O.) to plant nano-chips in vaccines which are likely to become mandatory or carry consequences for those who resist (like restrictions on travel). That nanoparticles are being researched for use in vaccines and nano-medicine is an open secret, easily googled, with benefits such as new limbs, repairing damaged nerves etc. being positive possibilities. But none of this is openly stated. The WTA, including Canada's Eugenie Bouchard, mocked Novak Djokovic since his Adria tournoi (done without distancing), resulted in him and others testing positive. What is not mentioned is whether Novak or any other affected person, such as his coach Ivanesivic, actually suffer any symptoms post diagnosis. Isn't that a relevant question? Yes theoretically these people could 'infect' others.... but if most of those others suffer no symptoms, is there harm or benefit? The only way to acquire immunity is exposure - either direct infection or through vaccine. We are told without vaccination the death count would be vastly greater. But therein lies the dilemma..... should the focus be on natural herd immunity, or dependency on Big Pharma vaccines? The Gates foundation openly prefers the latter, and has a record of pressuring the poorest in Africa to serve as guinea pigs, with some disastrous consequences. But the billionaire's wealth and current neo-liberal corruption is likely to protect him from consequences, both civil and criminal. And the as yet undiscussed $6.4 trillion dollar question, and potentially a $64 trillion dollar question if pandemics (real or manipulated) become a future trend - is why is a set of private, undisclosed hyper-rich bankers (called banksters by former Canadian Clerk of the Privy Council Paul Hellyer) - have the license to create from thin (if polluted) air, these trillions of dollars being 'borrowed' by governments around the world? Almost certainly they include the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers.... And why should citizens, including Canadians - have to pay back such fictitious money - through vastly increased taxes or slashed programs? Isn't this just another grotesque and monstrous money grab by the hyper-rich, from the 99%?

LETTER TO THE NEW YORK TIMES RE KASHMIR

Your op-ed presents a biased picture of history as it recommends the UN get involved. The history is that at the time of independence in 1947, Kashmir was ruled by a Hindu. Under the British administration of the partition, princely states could opt to join India or Pakistan. As the Hindu ruler demurred, forces from Pakistan 'surged into Kashmir', and took by force what is now called POK - Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir. This illegal seizure induced Kashmir's ruler to sign to join India. That obviously included the portion seized by Pakistanis. The Indian Army was capable of repulsing this invasion and reclaiming by force what is now POK. But in view of Gandhi's beliefs on non-violence, and that India and Pakistan were 2 limbs of the same body, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (himself a Kashmiri Pandit) ordered the army to desist. A line of control developed (LOC). Arguably, the Indian army can still take POK, although now the situation is far more calamitous, with nuclear weapons on both sides. Having grabbed a third or more of Kashmir by force, Pakistan never stopped trying to seize the rest by force. Wars in 1967, 1971, and 1999 followed. Pakistan's own massive crimes against what was East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) include the murder of millions using weapons supplied illegally by the US via Iran's SAVAK and Saudi Arabia. This led to Bangladesh's independence as India had no choice but to intervene as millions of East Pakistani refugees flowed into West Bengal. This was a by-product of the 1971 war. Having failed to grab Kashmir though open wars, Pakistan switched to supporting terrorist acts both in India-controlled Kashmir (ICK) and in India. The history of murderous bombings in Indian cities is well established, including with what is called 26/11 in India - the attacks on the Taj and Sheraton hotels and the train station formerly called Victoria terminus, in Mumbai. In all of this of course, there was a direct line to the fanatic jihadists installed in Afghanistan, trained under ISI auspices, by the CIA, to oust the USSR, which (if Zbigniew Breszinski is to be believed) was lured in by an American coup in Kabul (removing a Soviet-friendly government) to 'give the Soviets their own Vietnam'. So this is a more complete history than what you have written. Then there is the case that Pakistan itself has committed human rights abuses in POK. The hysterics of PM Imran Khan ever since India moved to integrate ICK into the Indian federation, show clearly the continued lust for territory of Pakistan. The claim on Kashmir by Pakistan is based on the fact that a majority of ICK residents are Muslim. That does not amount to a legitimate argument, as India has more Muslims than all of Pakistan. And Pakistan's history of treating Muslims who moved there from India during partition is a poor one - they are called 'mohajirs' (refugees) - decades after the partition, and subjected to open discrimination. All things considered, Pakistan does not have any legal rights to the Kashmir that has been part of India since 1947.

FALSE FLAG OP IN THE STRAITS OF HORMUZ

The US, joined by its usual ally the UK, and invisibly by its partner Israelin all anti-Iran matters, has immediately accused Iran of attacking 2 tankers in the Hormuz Straits off the coast of Iran, where it had already sent an aircraft carrier. The immediacy of such accusations, backed by 'intel', should be viewed with great skepticism. The US has a history of such 'false-flag' operations, including Operation Northwoods (which was not carried out but replaced with other actions against Cuba), the Gulf of Tonkin incident with which it gave itself the pretext to attack North Vietnam (after already having drenched South Vietnam with Agent Orange), and more recently the Weapons of Mass Deception used to attack Iraq in 2003, following 9/11 which half-a-dozen books by Professor David Ray Griffin and others including Christopher Bollyn allege was unquestionably an 'inside job'; the 'incontrovertible' evidence of which has been dismissed as conspiracy theory, while the official US government theory that 19 Arabs successfully conspired to smash the security systems of the world's sole superpower blankets any open discussion of the 'real' facts. The ultra-right wing neo-cons of the W. Bush administration had discussed in their long-planned 'Project for a New American Century' or PNAC, the need for a 'catalyzing event', a 'New Pearl Harbour', to accelerate their plans to re-arrange the oil-rich Middle East, consonantly with the Israeli 'Oded Yinon' plan to create a 'Greater Israel' comprising chunks of smashed Muslim countries, that supposedly existed thousands of years ago according to the Old Testament. Iran, being the strongest of the ME countries, was the last target on the list, and its invasion has been delayed by the insurgency in Iraq which has cost the US trillions of dollars, which made 'boots on the ground' invasions of Libya and Syria (also abetted by Russia) impractical. That the US position is loaded with duplicity is also demonstrated by the fact that under Trump the US has broken a US-negotiated deal with broad international support including Europe and Russia, by which Iran was curtailing its nuclear activities in exchange for easing of US-imposed sanctions. Iran accepted this deal notwithstanding the fact that Israel is allowed to keep more than 100 nuclear weapons with not a word of Western protest, but rather massive support of every kind - financial, diplomatic, technological and military - by the US. The best option for Iran, and the most logical one, is to re-commence nuclear development. Its leaders have been painted as reactionary and unstable and impossible to trust with a nuclear bomb by the US and Israel for the plain and obvious reason that a bomb would neutralize much of US-Israeli threats and plans against Iran. Like the smaller and weaker North Korea, Iran would acquire a far more effective 'defense' against its enemies. A slightly older review of history, brazenly suppressed by Western media, is that Iran was the US's #1 ally in the ME between 1953 and 1979. 1953 was when the US and UK supported a coup d'etat in Iran, toppling a democrat and installing a puppet dictator (the Shah) who terrorized, tortured and killed thousands of Iranians, while having breakfasts flown in from Paris on the Concorde as his wife took baths in tubs of milk, while the population suffered as the pitiful oil revenues went to buying US weapons. Kissinger used his considerable influence to pressure US universities including MIT, to accept Iranians into nuclear engineering programs. But all that changed when the Iranians kicked out the Shah in 1979, when Iran went overnight from being US ally # 1 in the region to US enemy # 1. A war with Iran will continue the genocide of millions of Middle-Eastern Muslims, by an increasingly stretched and desperate superpower, anxious to keep its hands on the throttle.

PEELING THE LIES BEHIND NEO-LIBERAL ECONOMICS - THE MINIMUM WAGE ISSUE

The last few decades have been called the age of neo-liberal economics. Following the 'Powell memorandum', these policies have been implemented with a progressive takeover by big business and the super rich who own them, of public institutions - political parties, the media, the academy, major chunks of the judiciary, and so on, at the cost of decimated unions whose power was stripped away with technological changes that enabled off-shoring of manufacturing to places where labour cost 'peanuts'. The so-called 'free trade agreements' progressively (or rather regressively) turned corporations into Masters, nation-states into Servants begging for investment, and liquidating their natural resources at bargain-basement prices. Kevin Taft (former Alberta politician) has written on how this process unfolded in Alberta (as one example), with the Peter Lougheed government being the last one to successfully negotiate reasonably fair terms for the province and its people. Key elements of the fraud that has been neo-liberalism have included tax cuts for the super-rich with promises of 'trickle-down' jobs and benefits, but as Arundhati Roy has put it, all that happened was a massive Gush-Up; by a recent estimate of some $30 trillion to the super-rich in the West, at the cost of a rapidly disappeared middle-class, transformed from what was once the 'proletariat' into what is now the 'precariat'. Other massive cons were privatization - trillion-dollar thefts creating billionaire oligarchies everywhere (because 'public' enterprises were simply 'inefficient'), and the 'deregulation' tsunami that produced the multi-trillion dollar subprime fraud which nearly wrecked the world's economy, but resulted in Zero CONSEQUENCES for the perpetrators in Wall Street, who remain TOO BIG TO JAIL. Thus Wall Street followed up the junk mortgage fraud of the early 2000s, with an even more brazen mortgage foreclosure fraud in 2010, with banks foreclosing on thousands of American homes with fraudulent documents filed in courts. Soldiers returning to the US from service in Iraq found their homes had been seized by banks.... One of the neo-liberal frauds is that higher wages destroy jobs. Well Big business... at least some representatives of it - 100 CEOs who include at least some big corporations - Facebook, Tesla - are finally clueing on that robbing the worker blind does not make for a sustainable economy. That's what the Ford company which made the Model T a century ago understood well - that paying its own workers well improved the market for its own products. Michael Hudson's book 'Killing the Host' talks about how decimating labour wages was the parasite (virus) killing its own host. During the 1950s and 60s, US labor enjoyed its highest prosperity, executive wages were only 10-15 times the worker's wage, and tax rates were incomparably higher for the rich. The US economy remained the dominant one, but prosperity was shared. Neo-liberal fraud has changed all that. But at least some businessmen are getting what Ontario Premier Doug Ford does not - that there are 2 sides to the minimum wage issue. Ostensibly, higher wages make it harder for business to pay for workers.... in the short run. But in the long run, higher wages mean more money spent by wage-earners on the products such businesses make or sell... Duh! 'Ontario is open for business again', says Doug. What he means is he wants Ontario to join the likes of states in the US South, where 'Right-to-Work' means to work for next to nothing, with no labor unions fighting for the workers' rights. Profits and executive compensation then can go sky-high. As Michael Moore shows in Fahrenheit 11/9, a young man working in construction rages about how he makes $7.30/hour in a Southern state; and gets 17 hours of work a week. This is what the US has done throughout Central and South America, destroying labour movements, arming and financing death squads to topple 'left-wing' governments that want to create a better life for their populations; assassinating labour, political, even Church leaders (priests) so that American transnational corporations can make higher profits, squeezing the life out of overseas economies, labour and nation-states. Well that ideology is now operating in the West, starting with the US. The parable of the frog and the scorpion is instructive here - even though the scorpion needs the frog to cross a stream, it stings the frog anyway, because that is its 'nature'. Those increasingly lower-paid workers in the US pay for the massive costs of the Pentagon, CIA, private mercenary/security armies like the former Blackwater, the 70,000 strong 'Special Operations' forces, etc which enforce the wishes of the gangsters of capitalism, in anywhere between 130 and 150 countries around the world at any given time, according to recent reports, naturally unpublicized in the major corporate-controlled media. The 99% who pay taxes (which the top 1% are more or less exempt from) carry the burden of the racketeers for the capitalists that make up the 0.01% who have benefited from decades of neo-liberal theft. Before the Powell memorandum the 0.01% were the principal beneficiaries of the international racketeering; now the racketeering has turned to the domestic populations of the West, through neo-liberal frauds. So at home (within the West) the frog is slowly being cooked so it doesn't realize what is happening. That minimum-wages destroy jobs is a lie; that tax-cuts for the rich create jobs is a lie; and that 'austerity' programs for countries which end up being 'loan-sharked' by the biggest sharks on the planet - the IMF, World Bank etc., are needed is also a lie. Bankers create loans from thin air.... then charge interest... then break bones of countries which cannot pay... usually because the money loaned went not to the country's population, but to crooked elites (the 1%) who lost it and the burden then fell, as is also usual - on the 99%. The 'greatest nation in history', also the richest on the planet and in history, has unlimited funds to pay for wars, weapons of mass murder, terror, torture and mass destruction, but is being driven bankrupt by socialist programs like medicare and Social Security. So the brainwashing goes. And as it goes in the US, so it slowly goes in other Western countries, through an inevitable process of osmosis, pushed through the international financial system. In short, Capitalism (the rule of the 1%) is Democracy, and Democracy (the wishes of the 99% or a majority of the 'un-brainwashed') is Communism.

The Kavanaugh mess; and why the 99% should watch Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 11/9

Aftermath of Kavanaugh 'victory'. A sickening mess. And why Michael Moore's latest film 'Fahrenheit 11/9' should be seen by all who care about democracy, the planet, human rights and justice. I realize I posted against allowing CBF's unsubstantiated and largely uncross-examined testimony to be allowed to derail the Kavanaugh nomination. But this has not led to a good result either. And this 'victory' is going to lead to a more intense fight in the upcoming mid-term elections. Both Republicans and Democrats will find reasons to fight harder in those elections; the R side to capitalize on their 'victory', and the D side to capture sufficient seats in Congress to be able to initiate impeachment proceedings against the new judge. So if that scenario plays out, women like CBF may find another chance to go after their target. So long as due process is followed, I have no problem. For me a Republican majority on the US Supreme Court is an obscenity. On this score I highly recommend Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 11/9', which I saw last night. This provides a frightening and good overview of the diseased system which produced Trump, and which long-experienced writers like Noam Chomsky predicted would produce a 'strong-man' figure like Trump. Moore asks the question 'HTF did this happen?' and then gives his own answer to it. Sometimes the answer produced queasiness in me, as it looked like bias, but once I saw the film to the end, Moore makes a compelling case. He covers a lot of bases: - aside from the distortions and lies and 'narcissism' that led to Trump's victory in 2016, he covers how decades of Democratic sell-out to the neo-liberal (big money) takeover of US politics starting with Bill Clinton made an 'outsider' like Trump possible. It was Bill Clinton who massively accelerated deregulation (like destroying the regulatory protections put in place after the Great Depression separating investment and commercial banking, which led inexorably to the multi-trillion dollar sub-prime mortgage fraud which nearly destroyed the world economy in 2008). - After Billy Boy Clinton came the W Bush administration, which Moore suggests caused 9/11 and the war-crimes that followed. David Ray Griffin's many books provide mountains of evidence to support this charge. - he shows unsettling videos of the Trump rallies at which African-Americans were insulted and kicked out from - at one Trump himself yells to one black man 'go home and get a job'. And of course those infamous comments about Mexican rapists and 'build a wall'. - he also covers the Flint poisoned water supply problem. Shows how racist, corrupt Michigan governor Rick Snyder ordered the building of an unnecessary pipeline (because a functioning one already existed) to supply Lake Michigan water to Flint, thus benefiting rich corporations. While the new one was being built, the old pipeline was shut down, and Flint's water-supply sourced from a lead-polluted Flint river. Thousands of black kids became poisoned for life ('irreversibly') with the Snyder administration doing nothing but deny and coverup. - when that poisoned water began to damage the parts produced in the sole GM plant in Flint, however, Snyder acted to re-route the pure Lake Michigan water, TO ONLY THE GM PLANT. Flint residents continued to drink poison. This led St. Obama to visit Flint, with tens of thousands of black residents overjoyed. - But all Obama did is at public meetings, to ask for 'a glass of water'; when people yelled out 'ask for a bottle of water', he insisted on a glass. Then he pretended to drink from it and asked for calm. The Flint residents, who wanted Obama to call in FEMA, Army engineers etc., to deal with this massive crisis, could only watch in disbelief as he betrayed them and later ordered a US army training exercise in that city, using the many abandoned buildings. Helicopters shot missiles into those buildings as Flint residents watched in fear, also having received no warning. Could there be a more revealing image of the cynical fraud that Obama was? Moore reveals that Goldman Sachs was the biggest contributor to St. Obama's campaigns; and of course overseas Obama murdered tens of thousands with drone strikes. - he discusses the only positive things that arose in response to this blatant neo-liberal destruction of the environment and democracy in the US. Teacher unions in Virginia successfully arising in revolt, and the students who organized huge rallies after the mass shooting in Florida. As he puts it - time is running out. With Trump in charge, only the worst can happen as climate catastrophe and corporate greed threaten the US and the planet. Of course, the corpo-Rats and the politicians, judges and media people in their pockets, make sure we stay ignorant - drunk or opiod addicted, or busy with sports, sitcoms, movies and such 'shit' so we barely have time to think, let alone act.