Some interesting articles on our interesting times Jan 1 - 11, 2021

 Even if you couldn't stand Trump (I certainly couldn't) you must be appalled with the censorship our new masters the big tech in partnership with the deep state, are carrying out.  It matters little whether you think you are on the Right or Left of the political spectrum,  the new and improved Nazis are gonna bang on all our doors when they catch us saying anything they don't like.  Lovely times ahead !!!!!

All below from the Alternative Media.  

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MSM Already Using Capitol Hill Riot To Call For More Internet Censorship

By Caitlin Johnstone

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56146.htm


January 07, 2021 "Information Clearing House" - The United States received a very small taste of its own medicine today as rioting Trump fanatics temporarily forced their way into the nation's Capitol building, and now the whole nation is freaking out.

I am being generous when I say that America was given a very small taste of its own medicine; unlike the horrific coups and violent uprisings the US routinely orchestrates in noncompliant nations around the world, this one stood exactly zero chance of seizing control of the government, and only one person was killed.

I am also being generous when I say the rioters "forced their way" in; DC chose not to increase its police presence in preparation for the protests despite knowing that they were planned, and there's footage of what appears to be cops actively letting them through a police barricade. There was some fighting between police and protesters, but contrasted with the unceasing barrage of police brutality footage which emerged from Black Lives Matter demonstrations a few months prior it’s fair to say the police response today was relatively gentle....



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John Pilger and Roger Waters - ‘Freedom Denied’

By ICH & Agencies

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s hopes for freedom have been dashed after a judge refused him bail.


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56142.htm


District judge Vanessa Baraitser rejected an application for Assange’s release over concern he would abscond.


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Revealed: UK sets up media influencing project in Venezuela amid secretive £750,000 ‘democracy promotion’ programme

By Matt Kennard and John McEvoy• 6 January 2021
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-01-06-revealed-uk-sets-up-media-influencing-project-in-venezuela-amid-secretive-750000-democracy-promotion-programme/

The UK government has established a journalism project to ‘influence’ Venezuela’s ‘media agenda’ while a Foreign Office-funded foundation is spending £750,000 on a secretive ‘democracy-promotion’ programme in the country, as Britain appears to deepen efforts to remove the Maduro government.

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Violence in the Capitol, Dangers in the Aftermath
From the Cold War to the War on Terror: the harms from authoritarian "solutions" are often greater than the threats they are ostensibly designed to combat.

Glenn Greenwald
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/violence-in-the-capitol-dangers-in-67f

n the days and weeks after the 9/11 attack, Americans were largely united in emotional horror at what had been done to their country as well as in their willingness to endorse repression and violence in response. As a result, there was little room to raise concerns about the possible excesses or dangers of the American reaction, let alone to dissent from what political leaders were proposing in the name of vengeance and security. The psychological trauma from the carnage and the wreckage at the country’s most cherished symbols swamped rational faculties and thus rendered futile any attempts to urge restraint or caution.

Nonetheless, a few tried. Scorn and sometimes worse were universally heaped upon them.

On September 14 — while bodies were still buried under burning rubble in downtown Manhattan — Congresswoman Barbara Lee cast a lone vote against the Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF). “Some of us must urge the use of restraint,” she said seventy-two hours after the attack, adding: “our country is in a state of mourning” and thus “some of us must say: let’s step back for a moment, let’s pause just for a minute, and think through the implications of our actions today so that this does not spiral out of control.”...........

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Video: The Capitol Hill Fiasco 2021


By David W. Mathisen
Global Research, January 09, 2021
starmythworld.com


https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-the-capitol-hill-fiasco/5733996


Global Research Editor’s Note

We bring to the attention of our readers this carefully documented analysis of the so-called “Storming the Capitol” by David W. Mathison.

With regard to the coverage of the Wednesday Capitol Event, Global Research will be publishing opposing and contradictory points of view by several of our authors.

We are dealing with a complex and far-reaching political process. We are at the crossroads of a major political, economic and social crisis which has bearing on the future of the United States. This crisis must be the object of debate and analysis rather than confrontation of opposing political narratives...........



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How the left is being manipulated into colluding in its own character assassination

by Jonathan Cook / January 8th, 2021

https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/01/how-the-left-is-being-manipulated-into-colluding-in-its-own-character-assassination/

There was a fascinating online panel discussion on Wednesday night on the Julian Assange case that I recommend everyone watch. The video is at the bottom of the page.

But from all the outstanding contributions, I want to highlight a very important point made by Yanis Varoufakis that has significance for understanding current events well beyond the Assange case.

Varoufakis is an academic who was savaged by the western political and media establishments when he served as Greece’s finance minister. Back in 2015 a popular leftwing Greek government was trying to oppose the imposition of severe loan conditions on Greece by European and international financial institutions that risked tipping the Greek economy into deeper bankruptcy and seemed chiefly intended to upend its socialist programme. The government Varoufakis served was effectively crushed into obedience through a campaign of economic intimidation by these institutions.

Varoufakis describes here the way that leftwing dissidents who challenge or disrupt western establishment narratives – whether it be himself, Assange or Jeremy Corbyn – end up not only being subjected to character assassination, as was always the case, but nowadays find themselves being manipulated into colluding in their own character assassination...................


................. Varoufakis also says, the left needs urgently to go on the offensive.

We need to find ways to turn the tables on the war criminals who have been gaslighting us in demanding that Assange, who exposed their crimes, is the one who needs to be locked up.

We need to make clear that it is those who are so ready to smear anti-racists as antisemites – as Corbyn’s successor, Sir Keir Starmer, has done to swaths of Labour party members – who are the real racists.

And we need to unmask as war hawks those who accuse the anti-war left of serving as apologists for dictators when we try to stop western states conducting more illegal, resource-grab wars with such devastating results for local populations..............


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First came plant based meat (not a bad idea if we can stop slaughtering cows, sheep, pigs and chickens and make the new "meat" taste exactly like we are biting into crispy chicken wings, or a juicy steak,etc)  and now comes fly larvae eating animals.

World’s Largest Insect Farm To Be Built In Illinois Amid Signs Of Soaring Food Inflation


by Tyler Durden

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/worlds-largest-insect-farm-be-built-illinois-amid-signs-soaring-food-inflation

The food industry is about to take a giant leap forward towards sustainability as a new partnership between Chicago-based food processing company Archer Daniels Midland and InnovaFeed, a French firm that makes insect protein for animal feed, are set to build the world's largest insect protein factory farm in central Illinois, according to Forbes.

ADM and InnovaFeed will grow and harvest billion and billions of insects called black soldier fly, whose larvae are scavengers and thrive on decomposing organic matter and convert it into a nutrient-rich protein that can be transformed into animal feed. ....


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US & UK May Not Will Assange’s Death, But Everything They Are Doing Makes It More Likely

By Jonathan Cook
Jonathan-Cook.net

https://consortiumnews.com/2021/01/08/us-uk-may-not-will-assanges-death-but-everything-they-are-doing-makes-it-more-likely/


There was a hope in some quarters after Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled on Monday against an application to extradite Julian Assange to the U.S., where he faced being locked away for the rest of his life, that she might finally be changing tack............

.......Her script always favored Washington’s line, apart from on those occasions when she took an even more hostile position towards Assange than requested by the U.S.. That included sealing him off from the rest of the court in an impregnable perspex box, treating him more like Hannibal Lecter than a publisher and journalist fighting for press freedom.

Much of the time, Baraitser sounded unnervingly like a prosecution barrister rather than the judge.......


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The Boot Is Coming Down Hard And Fast

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/01/09/the-boot-is-coming-down-hard-and-fast/


A lot’s been happening really fast. It’s a white noise saturation day and it’s impossible to keep track of everything going on, so I’m just going to post my thoughts on a few of the things that have happened.

Biden has announced plans to roll out new domestic terrorism laws in the wake of the Capitol Hill riot.

“Mr. Biden has said he plans to make a priority of passing a law against domestic terrorism, and he has been urged to create a White House post overseeing the fight against ideologically inspired violent extremists and increasing funding to combat them,” Wall Street Journal reports.

Did you know that Biden has often boasted about being the original author of the US Patriot Act?......


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I found the two pieces of news below pretty ironic. In one, Biden calls the pro-Trump protestors "terrorists"and in the other, Trump has designated the Houthis of Yemen "terrorists".  So... can we now say there are terrorists running around in both the USA and in Yemen?  Should there be travel restrictions stamped on the pro-Trump Americans who marched in DC just like there will be travel restrictions on Yemeni Houthis from now on?  What's good for the goose should be good for the gander too, eh?


https://news.antiwar.com/2021/01/08/biden-calls-pro-trump-capitol-protesters-domestic-terrorists/


Biden Calls Pro-Trump Capitol Protesters ‘Domestic Terrorists’
Biden has previously said he plans to pass new legislation aimed at combating 'domestic terrorism'
Dave DeCamp Posted on January 8, 2021

In the wake of pro-Trump demonstrators entering the US Capitol Building, Joe Biden made it clear that he views the incident as “terrorism” in comments on Thursday.

“Don’t dare call them protesters,” he said from Wilmington, Deleware. “They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists. It’s that basic. It’s that simple.”.....
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Trump Administration Announces Houthi Terror Designation
Designation will hamper aid organizations who operate in Houthi-controlled areas, where 70% of Yemen's population lives
Dave DeCamp Posted on January 10, 2021

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/01/10/trump-administration-announces-houthi-terror-designation/

On Sunday night, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the Trump administration will designate Yemen’s Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization.

In the statement, Pompeo said the State Department will notify Congress of his intent to make the designation. He said he will also designate three Houthi leaders as Specially Designated Global Terrorists..........

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The vid within has scenes I had not seen before. YouTube more often than not removes TLAV's vids, so like in the case of The Corbett Report, it's best to go to his website to watch the vids there.

What We Know About The Washington DC Capitol Building Raid & Who Benefits
Posted on January 7, 2021 Author Ryan Cristián


https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/what-we-know-about-the-washington-dc-capitol-building-raid-who-benefits/


What We Know About The Washington DC Capitol Building Raid & Who Benefits
Posted on January 7, 2021 Author Ryan Cristián


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Keynes’ Sleight of Hand: From Fabian Eugenicist to World Government High Priest
Matthew Ehret
January 9, 2021

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/01/09/keynes-sleight-of-hand-from-fabian-eugenicist-to-world-government-high-priest/

It is as if the battle lines of civil war have been drawn up between masses of Americans who have been led to believe in either a false “bottom up” approach to economics, as defined by the Austrian School represented by Friedrich von Hayek, or in the “top-down” approach of John Maynard Keynes. The former sacrifices the general welfare of the whole nation for the sake of the parts (i.e. individual liberties), while the latter sacrifices the individual liberties of each citizen for the sake of the general welfare (or at least some oligarch’s definition of what that should be).

In my last article, I introduced, in broad strokes, a history of the American System of political economy as advanced by Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Henry Clay, Henry Carey, Lincoln, and McKinley. We reviewed how it was derailed by McKinley’s 1901 murder and was only revived 30 years later with Franklin Roosevelt’s 1932 presidential victory which put a stop to the 1933 Bankers Dictatorship....................

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The ‘War On Terror’ Comes Home
Written by Ron Paul
Monday January 11, 2021

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/january/11/the-war-on-terror-comes-home/

Last week’s massive social media purges – starting with President Trump’s permanent ban from Twitter and other outlets – was shocking and chilling, particularly to those of us who value free expression and the free exchange of ideas. The justifications given for the silencing of wide swaths of public opinion made no sense and the process was anything but transparent. Nowhere in President Trump’s two “offending” Tweets, for example, was a call for violence expressed explicitly or implicitly. It was a classic example of sentence first, verdict later.

Many Americans viewed this assault on social media accounts as a liberal or Democrat attack on conservatives and Republicans, but they are missing the point. The narrowing of allowable opinion in the virtual public square is no conspiracy against conservatives. As progressives like Glenn Greenwald have pointed out, this is a wider assault on any opinion that veers from the acceptable parameters of the mainstream elite, which is made up of both Democrats and Republicans............

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I Hate Federal Commissions, But Americans Need One To Look Into The 2020 Election
Written by Jonathan Turley
Friday January 8, 2021

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/january/08/i-hate-federal-commissions-but-americans-need-one-to-look-into-the-2020-election/

Below is my column in USA Today on the need for a federal commission on the 2020 election. While I opposed the challenge and the call for the ten-day commission, I do believe that a real commission is warranted.  Indeed, the violence Wednesday only further shows the deep divisions in this country over these lingering questions. However, there must be the commitment to a real commission — not another placebo commission

Here is the column:

I hate federal commissions. I have always hated federal commissions. Federal commissions are Washington’s way of managing scandals. They work like placebos for political fevers, convincing voters that answers and change are on the way. That is why it is so difficult for me to utter these words: We need a federal election commission. Not the one proposed by some Senate Republicans. And not like past placebo commissions. An honest-to-God, no-holds-barred federal commission to look into the 2020 presidential election............