Establishment media and technology corporations - two sets of entities that should never be trusted with well, anything.

Here's a clear example of why -

https://scheerpost.com/2021/02/09/the-journalistic-censorship-industry-suffers-well-deserved-blows/

 

To declare any discussion of that term off-limits — as Lorenz tried to do — is deeply anti-intellectual. To pretend that there is no difference in the use of that term by the Redditors and its discussion in Clubhouse on the one hand, and its malicious deployment as an insult to the cognitively disabled on the other, is dishonest in the extreme. To publicly tattle on adults who utter the term without any minimal attempt to understand or convey context and intent is malicious, disgusting and sociopathic.

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But this is now the prevailing ethos in corporate journalism. They have insufficient talent or skill, and even less desire, to take on real power centers: the military-industrial complex, the CIA and FBI, the clandestine security state, Wall Street, Silicon Valley monopolies, the corrupted and lying corporate media outlets they serve. So settling on this penny-ante, trivial bullshit — tattling, hall monitoring, speech policing: all in the most anti-intellectual, adolescent and primitive ways — is all they have. It’s all they are. It’s why they have fully earned the contempt and distrust in which the public holds them.

 

Is this really a good idea, Canada?

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/02/06/caco-f06.html

Canada’s governments lift COVID-19 restrictions, even as pandemic rages

Frédéric Charlebois

28 minutes ago

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Canada recorded its 20,000th death from COVID-19 last Sunday.

Of those 20,000 deaths, 5,000, or fully a quarter, came in the 36 days between December 26 and January 31—underscoring just how much more lethal the “second wave” of the pandemic is proving to be than last spring’s.

In recent days, the number of daily new COVID-19 infections has fallen to around 4,000, as a result of a spate of late December-early January lockdown measures. But governments across Canada, flying in the face of the recommendations of the most reputable epidemiologists, are now rushing to lift these restrictions.

 

A book I think I want to read -> “Histories of Racial Capitalism”

https://blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum-destin-jenkins-and-justin-leroys-histories-racial-capitalism

 

“Our book provides a ‘way of seeing’ the links between a global pandemic and a national epidemic of racial health disparities.”

 

Can order it here -> https://cup.columbia.edu/book/histories-of-racial-capitalism/9780231190756  

The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire.

https://peoplesparty.org/decline-and-fall-american-empire/

As Medea summarizes -

Instead of opening doors for American big business or supporting America’s diplomatic position in the world, the U.S. war machine has become a bull in the global china shop, wielding purely destructive power to destabilize countries and wreck their economies, closing doors to economic opportunity instead of opening them, diverting resources from real needs at home, and damaging America’s international standing instead of enhancing it. 

As if I didn't have enough reason to distrust neoliberals.

The nefarious connections here are troubling to say the least.

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/bidens-nominee-lead-new-cabinet-level-science-position-epstein-linked-geneticist/

Graham Elwood demonitized by YouTube.

Other include -

• Ford Fischer
• Convo Couch
• Franc Analysis
• Progressive Soapbox 
• Status Coup

Wonder who else the Establishment will target?

A dire warning from Chris Hedges about the collapsing American Empire.

https://scheerpost.com/2021/02/01/hedges-papering-over-the-rot/

 

History has repeatedly illustrated the dire consequences of extreme social inequality. It foments revolutionary ferment, which can come from the left or the right. Either a left wing populism that smashes oligarchic power takes control or its counterfeit, a right wing populism, built on the poisoned solidarity of hate, racism, vengeance and violence — and bankrolled by the hated oligarchs that use it as a front to solidify tyranny. We are barreling towards the latter.