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I'm not sure how this article originally published at the blog "Dissident Voice" got missed being re-posted here, but thanks to the blog "Wrong Kind Of Green" for recently bringing it to my attention. The Mechanism of Invisible Hand, Invisible Cage, and Invisible Empire over Humanity and Nature by Hiroyuki Hamada / February 9th, 2021 When the whole society becomes a theater of absurdity, the puppeteers become kings and queens of insanity. The society loses its logic, history, facts, honesty, sincerity, creativity and imagination, as  the monstrous imaginations of the deranged ruling class devour humanity and nature. The invisible cage of authoritarianism comes in the shape of a bottomless pyramid.  Fear and hopelessness fill the dimly lit bottom layers. Layers and layers separate us, alienate us and dehumanize us. The​ pain of “others” becomes your gain.  The power of oppressors becomes your safety: The safety of living in the...

  Believing in impossible things – and COVID19 Dr. Malcolm Kendrick “Alice laughed: “There’s no use trying,” she said; “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” 1: ‘The Concept of Coronavirus Herd Immunity Is Deadly and Dangerous’   https://www.self.com/story/coronavirus-herd-immunity Since COVID19 first hurtled over the horizon, before landing upon us all with great force, I find that I have been asked to believe in many impossible things. First, I was told that attempting to create herd immunity was not achievable. It would also be extremely dangerous and would inevitably result in many hundreds of thousands of excess deaths. Then the vaccines arrived at fantastical speed and I was told that mass vaccination, by creating herd immunity, would be the factor that would allow us ...

  Conspiracy of Fear: How Media Was Weaponized to Induce Covid Compliance Teodrose Fikremariam  N oam Chomsky once noted that any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. But Chomsky was talking about the news industry within the context of wars; I am sure even he is shocked at the level of obsequiousness media professionals have descended into during the past 12 months. In what could only be explained as a coordinated campaign, governments, media empires and the medical industry have colluded to induce compliance from a leery public and silence the voices of people who diverge from acceptable media narratives. The very foundation of journalism and the reason why the rights of a “free-press” were enshrined in the U.S. Constitution is to ensure a counterweight to the coercive power of governments and business interest who have the ability to shape public opinion with impunity. Sadly, the so-called “fourth-estate” has been co-opted by the very same c...

  The Sovietization of the American Press The transformation from phony "objectivity" to open one-party orthodoxy hasn't been an improvement Matt Taibbi I collect Soviet newspapers. Years ago, I used to travel to Moscow’s Izmailovsky flea market every few weeks, hooking up with a dealer who crisscrossed the country digging up front pages from the Cold War era. I have  Izvestia’s  celebration of Gagarin’s flight, a  Pravda  account of a 1938 show trial, even an ancient copy of  Ogonyek  with Trotsky on the cover that someone must have taken a risk to keep. These relics, with dramatic block fonts and red highlights, are cool pieces of history. Not so cool: the writing! Soviet newspapers were wrought with such anvil shamelessness that it’s difficult to imagine anyone ever read them without laughing. A good Soviet could write almost any  Pravda  headline in advance. What else but “A Mighty Demonstration of the Union of the Party and the People” f...