Using Problems to Consolidate Power

"The coup currently being conducted by the global elite has been carefully planned and prepared over several decades"#GreatResethttps://t.co/FNP9JWngBb

— Winter Oak (@WinterOakPress) December 2, 2020

All we have to do to restart economy is rewire everything about our behavior, value, finance & ethics to decarbonize civilization under new world regime of central bankers & digital currencies as outlined by WEF’s Green Horizon Summit from Nov 9-10, 2020.https://t.co/CzL2Wdl4Hv

— 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Russia-USA Federation President ROMANA (@RomanaVolny) November 26, 2020

And I’m delighted to speak alongside... Professor Klaus Schwab who ‘wrote the book’ on the 4th Industrial Revolution. Your work, bringing together as you do all the best minds on planet, has informed what we are doing & I’m delighted to work with you.https://t.co/73F6R2rEqD

— 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Russia-USA Federation President ROMANA (@RomanaVolny) November 23, 2020

Highly recommend the latest from @elleprovocateur, who meticulously deconstructs the Great Resets claims of creating a more "sustainable" & "inclusive" future and shows the hell they will create if we do nothing to stop themhttps://t.co/7NIWqiewIr

— Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) November 28, 2020

It is mesmerizing to see how @elleprovocateur makes us see the destructive nature of the upcoming digital enslavement with such a clarity.https://t.co/fUUJpd36sz

— Hiroyuki Hamada (@HiroyukiHamada) November 29, 2020

A very good interview with Patrick Wood, @StopTechnocracy #GreatResisthttps://t.co/NUsK3oU4GF

— Winter Oak (@WinterOakPress) November 29, 2020

"The globalist technocracy is using the COVID-19 pandemic to bypass democratic accountability, override opposition, accelerate their agenda and to impose it on the public against our will" - Dr Joseph Mercola#GreatResethttps://t.co/WdRd8BCcoR

— Winter Oak (@WinterOakPress) December 2, 2020

Resistance Podcast 143: Answers on Vaccination Concerns w/ Fr. Ripperger – Sensus Fidelium #CatholicTwitter ⁦@chesterbelloc3⁩ #vaccination #CovidVaccine https://t.co/29LqFyHkKE

— Sensus Fidelium (@Sensus_Fidelium) December 2, 2020

"Here’s why you should skip the Covid Vaccine" - Mike Whitney https://t.co/j7iShou8y8

— The Unz Review (@UnzReview) November 30, 2020

Mike Whitney

The Tsar Speaks

The Federal Assembly Speech; Putin Vows to Rein in Capitalism and Shore Up Sovereignty by Mike Whitney

Mike Whitney on Vladimir Putin

Putin's New World Order

The debt ceiling agreement

Mike Whitney, The Worst Deal in American History?
Ron Paul, When a Cut is Not a Cut

Other items from CP:
Paul Craig Roberts, The Road to Armageddon
Paul Craig Roberts, Disastrous Outcomes From an Orchestrated Crisis
Mike Whitney, Shadow Banking and the Repo Market

Alexander Cockburn on the Civil War

Indelible Passions: From the Easter Rising to the American Civil War

Also from the weekend edition of Counterpunch online:
Mike Whitney, Welcome to Banktopia

Gavan McCormack, Can There be an End to Japan as a Nuclear State?

Ralph Nader, Stripmining American Jobs

Saul Landau / Jack Willis, The People Who Brought You Fukushima

Items of Interest, 16 March 2010

Proposal for Fukushima-I post-accident scenario analysis
John Rawlins, Energy Bulletin

Jeffrey St. Clair, Pools of Nuclear Fire

Clancy Sigal, Nuclear Renaissance? No Thank You, Mr. President

Dave Lindorff, The Real Risks to America's Security

Earth's limits: Why growth won't return - metals and other minerals
Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute

Mike Whitney, The Corporate Stash

David Swanson, Is Obama Even Worse Than Bush?

Items of Interest, 8 March 2011

Israel Shamir, A Wikileaks Cable From Moscow: US Ambassador John Beyrle: "Feminism" is a Dirty Word in Russia

Mike Whitney, The Oil Trap

Daniel Craig Dresses in Drag for International Women’s Day

Steve Sailer, Report for Congress on military: "Too many white men dying in combat"

Two by Mike Whitney

What's Driving the Surge in Auto Sales?
Wall Street Trash

Items of Interest, 12 January 2011

EB:
The globe's limitations: How peak oil threatens economic growth
Richard Heinberg, The Nation



Tom Whipple talks about the possibility of civil unrest.

Thinking outside the box
Dave Cohen, Decline of the empire

Secrecy by complexity: Obfuscation in energy data, and the primacy of crude oil
Gregor Macdonald, The Oil Drum

Ecological civilization
Fred Magdoff, Monthly Review

CP:
Franklin Spinney, Surging Tit for Tat in Afghanistan
Alan Nasser /Kelly Norman, The Student Loan Debt Bubble
Mike Whitney, The Unreported War in Mexico
Paul Craig Roberts tilting towards the left? A Brief for Animals

Monday's Counterpunch

The Tax-Payers' Tab: a Cool $9 Trillion and Then Some
By PAM MARTENS
Fed Finally Forks Up Documents Showing It Funded Wall Street's Off-Balance Sheet Vehicle

Patrick Cockburn, Reprising US Fantasies in Vietnam

Bill Quigley, Cover-Ups, Coups and Drones

Mike Whitney, Korea Steps Back From the Brink

Paul Craig Roberts, Reaganonmics: a Defense

From the weekend edition:
Franklin Spinney, Obama's March to Folly:the Myth of Liberal Interventionism

Gareth Porter, The Brutal Price of Progress

Eric Stoner, Afghanistan: You Call This Progress?

Ron Jacobs, The Drug War That Never Ends

Charlotte Dennett, Wikileaks: Where's the Oil?

Counterpunch

Franklin C. Spinney, Who is the Wise General in Afghanistan?
Mike Whitney, Post Mortem for the World's Reserve Currency
Ralph Nader, Majority of One
Patrick Cockburn, Billions Down the Drain in Useless US Afghan Aid

Mike Whitney, The Korean War, Round Two

From Monday's Counterpunch

Michael Hudson, Deficit Commission Follies

Paul Craig RobertsThe US Government's Frontal Assault on Freedom

Mike Whitney, How Ireland Can Strike a Blow Against the Imperial Bankers

Counterpunch:

Michael W. Hudson, The Borrower and the Billionaire

Paul Craig Roberts, What the Wiki-Saga Teaches Us

Franklin C. Spinney, Staying the Course in Afghanistan

Uri Avnery, The Original Sin of the Israeli State

Mike Whitney, If the US Wants Peace in North Korea, It Should Keep Its Word

Russell Mokhiber, Obama's Kleptocracy Initiative: What About Wall Street?

Counterpunch Weekend: Mike Whitney, Bernanke Gets His Pink Slip
Dave Lindorff, America's Happy News Media

PIcked up an assignment this morning, and have been mostly busy since. Will try to have a normal blogging day tomorrow, after I get out of work.

Zenit: Unmasking the "Ella" Masquerade
Mike Whitney, The Housing Holocaust

Items of Interest, 4 August 2010

Dr. Fleming on the wikileaking -- Treason in a Good Cause:

Am I the only one who is a bit put off by all this conservative support for the Pfc who allegedly leaked classified material to Wikileak? Have anti-war conservatives gone so far down the road that they no longer value honesty and duty or condemn oath-breaking and treason? Oh well, it’s all in a good cause, as Julius and Ethel Rosenberg used to say. Or was it Kim Philby?

NLM: The Delights of the Divine Office and Lay Life: Further Meditations

From last week: Jung So-ra Crowned Miss Korea and Chong So-ra crowned Miss Korea 2010 (MISSOSOLOGY • View topic - My Top 4 For Miss Korea 2010 and 2010 년 미스코리아)

Asia Times:
Mullen's 'unintended consequences'
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the United States' joint chiefs of staff, seems to have forgotten his own insight into the "unintended consequences" of an attack on Iran. As he ups the ante with provocations, the admiral and other military planners are unlikely to share pundits' false notions. A surgical strike on Iran's nuclear facilities would achieve nothing but unleashing chaos throughout the Middle East. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

India wants its crown jewel
Visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron has refused to return the contentious - and priceless - Kohinoor diamond to India. The purportedly cursed gemstone, which was given to Queen Victoria and now resides in the Tower of London, once belonged to various Hindu, Mughal, Persian, and Afghan rulers. Now like much colonial plunder, it has become an emotive symbol of former subjugation. - Raja Murthy

Cantonese cultural warriors fight back
On both sides of the border separating Hong Kong and mainland China, protesters who feel their Cantonese dialect and heritage are under threat by the Chinese leadership's obsession with national unity have taken to the streets. Amid arrests in Guangdong on Sunday they have made it clear that nothing can force them to give up their native tongue. - Kent Ewing

Energy Bulletin:
Crop to Cuisine: Urban farming, food safety, and the new generation of farmers (original)

Dov Hirsch, Crop to Cuisine

This week, Crop To Cuisine steps into the field of urban farming. Food Safety Expert, Bill Marler, addresses the right to eat whatever you want. And Crop To Cuisine continues its series on the new generation of american farmers, From The Ground Up. All that and more.

(mp3)

Counterpunch:
Ron Jacobs, Afghanistan: a War Correspondent's Viewpoint
Gareth Porter, Obama Junks 2008 "Troops Out" Pledge
Mike Whitney, Looming Changes at the Fed
Doug Giebel, Flip-Flops and Failures

An excerpt from Bye Bye, Miss American Empire

Bill Kauffman, Wherein We Meet Genial Radicals by the Shores of Lake Champlain

Bye Bye, Miss American Empire

More from Counterpunch:
Gareth Porter, Bomb Iran? Neocon Nutballs Ramp Up Campaign
Patrick Cockburn, Getting Out of Afghanistan
Chase Madar, Torturing the Rule of Law at Obama's Gitmo
Mike Whitney, Trillions for Wall Street
Dave Lindorff, National Insecurity Complex
Conn Haliinan, The Great Myth of Counter-Insurgency

Items of Interest, 28 July 2010

Bill Kauffman, The Loneliness of the Long Dissonant Reader

Wikileaks, the War in Afghanistan:
Michael Shedlock, Afghanistan is a "Lost Cause"; Leaked Documents Show Futility of Afghanistan War
Wikileaks: The Afghan War Diary (Dedicated Webpage)

The New Republic: The Significance Of The Wikileaks by Andrew J. Bacevich

Video reports:
The Guardian


Asia Times:
Pakistan has its own battle to fight
The leaked classified United States military documents that point to Pakistan's links to the Taliban are significant even though the news is not particularly new. They come at a juncture when the lines in Pakistan are clearly drawn between militants and the military, and any misunderstanding between Islamabad and Washington will only benefit the militants. - Syed Saleem Shahzad

The death of political idealism in Hong Kong
This summer marks a low point for Hong Kong pro-democracy champion Martin Lee Chu-ming, after the Democratic Party, which he founded, backed a Beijing-supported reform package that fell well short of the one-person, one-vote system he pursues. Voters see the reforms as progress, but the Democrats' collusion with mainland leaders suggests the notion of "one country, two systems", like Lee's political career, may be as good as dead. - Kent Ewing

Energy Bulletin:
The Emergence of Localism (original)

Richard Moore, Speaking Truth to Power

Our global society is in crisis, and the core of the crisis seems to be about resources: resource limits, overuse and misuse of resources, resource-related conflicts, and the resulting destruction of our natural life-support systems. The crisis is at an extreme stage, as we are approaching the final hard limits of a finite earth. This is all the more frightening because our governments seem powerless to respond effectively to the crisis. We can all see the rocks ahead, and yet the crew steams straight on, as the ship-of-state carries us toward destruction.

Taking Financial Reform into Our Own Hands (original)

Staci Mitchell, Yes! Magazine

With the passage of the financial reform bill, giant banks see a golden opportunity to finally put the financial crisis, along with their culpability for wrecking our economy, in the rearview mirror.

The End of Capitalism?: Part 2B. Social Limits and the Crisis

Alex Knight, The End of Capitalism

Counterpunch:
Paul Craig Roberts, US Treasury is Running on Fumes
Jeanine Molloff, The Predatory Nature of Home Loan Modifications
Gareth Porter, The Afghan War Springs a Leak
Mike Whitney, A Decade of Declining Housing Prices
Steve Breyman, Afghanistan: the Inside Story
Patrick Cockburn, Worse Than Hiroshima?

Items of Interest, 9 July 2010

Abstract of "Liturgy in the Life of the Church" by Robert Taft, SJ
"Eastern" Presuppositions and Western Liturgical Renewal
From 2009: Fr. Robert F. Taft gives keynote address honoring the late Fr. Alexander Schmemann

Border police bait & switch by Paul Sperry (via VFR)

Asia News:
Ningxia, priest and nun murdered by former seminarian
by Zhen Yuan
Wenping Zhang, 43, was arrested yesterday afternoon in Hohhot. He had been fired and promised to kill Fr Joseph Zhang. Victim’s funerals will be held on 11 July.

UN to condemn Cheonan sinking, not Pyongyang
China: 38 tonnes of melamine milk seized (again)

Asia Times:
The'why' of Europe's banks by Chan Akya
The dismal state of European banks, in stark contrast to the Agriculture Bank of China's world record US$22 billion share sale, offers Chinese authorities a window on what should - and should not - be done to prevent Chinese lenders heading in the same direction that European banks followed over the past 20 years.

Operation enduring war
The United States accepts a persistent state of war in fear of appearing weak, while the detachment of modern warfare has fed a militarization of American society. As difficult to contain as an oil spill, the US's enduring fascination with war can only end with a rejection of the idea that it is seductive, along with an end to the constant doomsday scenarios. - William J Astore

Energy Bulletin:
Lighting the way to a new economy (original)

David Korten, Yes! Magazine

Listen carefully. This is serious. We seek: Within a generation, a global system of human-scale, interconnected Local Living Economies that function in harmony with local ecosystems, meet the basic needs of all people, support just and democratic societies, and foster joyful community life.

Transition in the big city - part I (original)

Joanne Poyourow, Transition US

The Transition movement coaches us to "begin in your own backyard." But what if your backyard happens to be one of the biggest megacities in the world?

Counterpunch:
Mike Whitney, EU Banking System on the Brink
Ralph Nader, Summer Reading: 10 Books That Might Change America
John Ross, Drug Cartels Win Mexico's Super Sunday Elections
Julie Hilden, Elena Kagan and the 1st Amendment: Reasons for Concern
Christopher Brauchli, Blackwater's Nine Lives
Dave Lindorff, Just Business