Corbyn and Netanyahu Snipe Publicly Via Twitter

Jeremy Corbyn has said that he was present but not involved at a wreath-laying for people behind the group that carried out the Munich Olympics massacre. The row centres on a wreath-laying event in Tunisia for two separate groups, both the victims of a 1985 Israeli airstrike in Tunis and for the Palestinian leaders linked …

Authoritarian Government in the Anglosphere

"The United States and Britain are being driven towards authoritarian government but it's not analogous to Germany in the 1930s. There is no Hitler, howsoever Trump may bluster, yet what we face in 2018 is worse than the spread of Nazism and there is no lesson in history to help us stop what is coming."

Autostrade Vows to Rebuild Genoa Bridge but No Apology

19 August 2018 Italian toll-road operator Autostrade per l'Italia pledged on Saturday to rebuild a bridge that collapsed in Genoa this week killing at least 40 people, but its chief executive stopped short of apologising for the disaster. Autostrade, controlled by infrastructure group Atlantia, manages the section of the A10 motorway linking Genoa to the …

A10 Motorway Bridge Collapses In Genoa Killing 39

Genoa Tuesday 14th August: 50 year old viaduct A10 motorway bridge collapsed killing at least 39 people. Bridge built in 1967 using public money but operated as a private toll road by Autostrade de l'Italia, part of the Atlantis Group, a publicly traded company on the Milan stock exchange. Autostrade runs 3000km of Italian toll …

LAW OF OLIGARCHY HAS EVOLVED FROM NATIONAL STORIES TO A GLOBAL REALITY OF PLUTOCRATIC ELITE

“Greed is good. Whatever works for me is my law. And the enemy? The opponent is all that is not mine and the enemy is everyone not of the self; which is the other. And where there is nothing sacred to exploit, the people perish. When the people start to perish, some day – one day, today – the person will be you.”

PFIZER INTERIM RESULTS REPORTED AS 90% EFFECTIVE VACCINE – WTF? RESULTS DO NOT SAY THIS!

Headlines proclaiming the big success of this vaccine are ubiquitous. Write-ups virtually cut and paste across all corporate media. It's the same angle repeated a thousand times: 90% effective - what a triumph, millions of doses ready before year's end, billions of dollars next year... Something fishy is going on here. The results don't match the reporting. At all.

CORONAVIRUS FEAR-PORN IS BETTER CLICKBAIT THAN DONALD TRUMP

In COVID-19, the media industry finally found an alternative clickbait to Trump with a better click-through rate and a lower political cost. Many daily newspapers devote two-thirds of their headline articles to rehashed coronavirus fear-porn. Covering every angle? Not at all. That wouldn't serve the mainstream media's long-term purpose...

HOW HAS GOVERNMENT GOT AWAY WITH OFFERING SO LITTLE – FOR SO LONG – TO SO MANY?

“Nothing appears more surprising… than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few, and the implicit submission with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.… force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded, and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the freest and most popular.”

NIRVANA’S JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE

Meditation and mindful practices - Vipassana, Jungian 'ego death', Buddhism nondualism, transcending the Maya, Mahayana Buddhism advaya, Dzogchen samadhi - wonderful aspirations, complex practices, a handbook for reaching ego-death liberation from the emotional animal idiot within. OR ARE THEY?

JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE ON SPOTIFY – KEY EPISODES PURGED – CENSORSHIP? EXPLOITATION? OR HAS JOE SOLD OUT?

Joe Rogan Experience, the world's biggest and most influential podcast, migrated to Spotify on Sept 1st 2020. Dozens of the show's key episodes have been purged from the migration; and there's a sly opacity about the apparent censorship - a familiar authoritarian strategy. The media bogeymen and policed language episodes excluded follow a clear theme. Is it Spotify abusing corporate privilege, preying on Rogan's contract loopholes, or is Joe bending the knee and sacrificing his reputation for the big money payoff?

LEFT OR RIGHT? TRUMP OR BIDEN? WHAT’S THE RIGHT ANSWER TO NOVEMBER’S TEST?

Left v Right, Blue v Red, Biden or Trump? This false dichotomy has been the first and (so far) only test the ruling elites have needed. Its results let citizens self-select a life as one of the 300+ million suckers at the low-stakes plutocracy table...

CORONAVIRUS VACCINE – COVID19 – WHAT’S COMING AND WHAT’S HOT AIR?

Everybody's waiting for a coronavirus vaccine and the media is full of hot takes, parsed to suit their politics and their audience. We've been tracking the reality of the vaccine progress. Here's the August 2020 latest.

TOPPLING STATUES? ONE CITY HAD A SOLUTION – SHAME IT ONLY LASTED 24 HOURS.

A sculpture of a black woman who took part in a Black Lives Matter #BLM protest in Bristol, England has been installed on the plinth where a statue of slave trader Edward Colston used to stand. It lasted 24 hours. The city council removed it without consultation or vote. Another missed opportunity.

The 1% Cheating Americans out of 100s Billions Taxes Every Year

As the plutocracy's assault on the nation's social safety net intensifies, recent data shows that billionaires and corporations are refusing to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in owed taxes every single year. Criminal evasion on such a scale should put all the hand-wringing about recent George Floyd "looting" into perspective.

SAM HARRIS – PODCAST #207 “Can We Pull Back From The Brink?

Can we restore normality - law and order - in the face of civil unrest that's polarizing America? In other words, as Sam Harris asks in episode 207 of the Making Sense podcast: "Can we pull back from the brink?" to restore normality or is this the start of the culture wars?