LUMPENPROLETARIAT—[Thursday, 22 DEC 2022] Here are some of today’s media/press notes to help us track and make sense of this plandemic dystopia we all find ourselves living through in the 2020s, including inverted totalitarianism, medical authoritarianism, medical apartheid, the post-COVID-19 controlled demolition of the global economy, the rise of neo-feudalism, houseless encampments of the neo-peasantry, nuclear danger, creeping WWIII provoked by US/NATO/AUKUS imperialism against the BRICS nations and the global south, and human-induced climate change leading to a climate crisis of melting ice caps, record heatwaves, tornadoes, floods, drought, drying rivers, and other extreme weather events, which threaten life on Earth.
Let’s learn together and find solutions together. Let’s build working class solidarity. Let’s build human solidarity. Let’s form groups and “act for justice”. “[There’s] power anywhere where there’s people.” Siempre hay esperanza. (Please see below for samples of today’s news cycle.)
OTHER SALIENT OBSERVATIONS:
- “Lies My Government Told Me with Dr Robert Malone” by RFK Jr The Defender Podcast [via Rokfin], 22 DEC 2022. [audio: 52min 43sec] (Additional notes on this topic below.)
- “Steve Keen explains: Everything Wrong with Neoclassical climate Economics” by Wellbeing Economics Brighton [via YouTube], 22 DEC 2022. [1hr 16min 45sec] | [L35] Heterodox economics > Post-Keynesian economics | After about 30 minutes of reviewing and critiquing neoclassical climate change economics, Prof. Keen turned to solutions and mathematical modeling, including his new Minksy software, which includes energy consumption (unlike neoclassical models), instead of debating how many percent damages to GDP occur, as the neoclassical types are doing. Prof. Keen discusses how modern monetary theory shows how we can finance, how we can create the money necessary to attempt to address climate change. Whether we succeed is a totally different question. But Post-Keynesian economics, Minsky software modeling, and modern monetary theory provide the best possible path forward, argues Prof. Steve Keen. Intuitively, we may be recognizing that we need to stop the world, but without crashing the global economy and creating mass misery and chaos. | Prof. Steve Keen argues humanity has “dramatically overshot what the biosphere can sustain of our civilization at the moment.” But, if we “try to adjust without addressing income distribution, we’re going to have revolts.” For example, “when Macron put up the diesel tax, supposedly for climate change reasons—really, to try to meet the Maastricht Treaty budget constraints, there was a revolt by the working-class people, the self-employed because they couldn’t afford the price increases.” So, to avoid social breakdown, Prof . Keen suggests “rations” (cf. basic income). “We;d also get carbon credits allocated to us through a digital, a Central Bank Digital Currency [CBDC] on a daily basis.” Boom! Now, right there, Prof Keen stopped your author in his tracks. And, indeed, CBDCs appear inevitable. Dr. Yannis Varoufakis, definitely one of the good guys, for lack of a better term, has also said CBDCs are inevitable, which is why, he says, we must democratize digitcal currencies. That would be nice. But we can’t even democratize basic politics nor the workplace, at least not in the USA, Canada, UK, much of the western world. And, if this is all true, as Prof. Keen argues, which it appears to be true. Then, we must contend with the fact that the global power elite have already hijacked this narrative, and weaponized it along with the social credit system via the biosecurity state, the COVID-19 psyop, and CBDCs. But the apparoach of the global power elite is a phony approach, which doesn’t actually care about industry-induced climate change. (Additional notes on this presentation below.)
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[Ideally, your author would have included links to all programs listed below. Programs listed without an embedded link or listener notes are based on past scheduling and have not yet been verified. Please check relevant websites for actual programming. / Notes will be modified/edited/updated as time and labor constraints allow. Working class solidarity. ✊🏽✊🏼✊🏿✊]
Thursday, 22 December 2022
Read this book and understand the totalitarian movement afoot; then, refuse and resist, speak out to pierce the veil of mass formation hypnosis…
06:00 PST, WPFW > On the Margin
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07:00 PST, KPFK > Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod
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07:00 PST / 10:00 EST, WBAI> CODEPINK Radio with CODEPINK activists
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08:00 PST / 11:00 EST, WPFW > Code Pink Radio
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08:00 PST / 11:00 EST, WBAI > Joy of Resistance with Fran Luck
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09:00 PST / 12:00 EST, WBAI > The Gary Null Show
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COMMENTS: This program, The Gary Null Show, is one of the most honest, compassionate, and hard-hitting shows on Pacifica Radio, or anywhere for that matter. This program is easily as important, as the best of them: Flashpoints; Project Censored; On The Ground: Voices of Resistance From the Nation’s Capitol; Covid, Race & Democracy, Guns and Butter, et al.
10:00 PST / 13:00 EST, WBAI > Leonard Lopate at Large
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COMMENTS: This program, Leonard Lopate at Large, suffers from the same “liberal bias” (which Dr. Noam Chomsky has warned about since at least the 1990s), as UpFront, Democracy Now!, Letters and Politics, Talkies, Rising Up, et al. Democrat Party apologism and a refusal to critique or interrogate the two-party dictatorship is the common thread between all these liberals (i.e., pro-capitalists or non-anti-capitalists)…
10:00 PST, KPFA & KPFK (simulcast) > Letters and Politics
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COMMENTS: This program, Letters and Politics, suffers from the same “liberal bias” (which Dr. Noam Chomsky has warned about since at least the 1990s), as UpFront, Democracy Now!, Leonard Lopate at Large, Talkies, Rising Up, et al. Democrat Party apologism and a refusal to critique or interrogate the two-party dictatorship is the common thread between all these liberals (i.e., pro-capitalists or non-anti-capitalists)…
10:00 PST / 13:00 EST, WPFW > Your Rights at Work
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11:00 PST, KPFA > Talkies with Kris Welch
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COMMENTS: This program suffers from what Dr. Noam Chomsky described circa 1991 as “the liberal bias”. Kris Welch is a stalwart defender of Democrat Party reformism. But, of course, the defense is done with subtlety and nuance. Uncritical listeners might even project their own views on to her liberal rhetoric and see what they want to see. But, make no mistake, Kris Welch is a staunch Democrat, a Wellstone Democrat to be precise. The Democrat Party will always be a corrupt, corporate party. Yet, some Democrat reformists never stop with their false left-right paradigm, operating from an underlying assumption or from the presupposition that the Democrat Party is a sincere opposition party to the racist, anti-working class Republican Party. Over time, a pattern of Democrat Party apologia emerges. This seems implausible as an ideological stance. Such apologia only makes sense coming from shills on some payroll.
11:00 PST / 14:00 EST, WBAI > Take Charge of Your Health with Corrine Furnani & Carol Petersen
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12:00 PST, KPFA > Behind the News
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COMMENTS: This program, Behind the News, suffers from the same “liberal bias” (which Dr. Noam Chomsky has warned about since at least the 1990s), as UpFront, Democracy Now!, Leonard Lopate at Large, Letters and Politics, Talkies, et al. Democrat Party apologism and a refusal to critique or interrogate the two-party dictatorship is the common thread between all these liberals (i.e., pro-capitalists or non-anti-capitalists). Doug Henwood, like the hosts of Against the Grain (Sasha Lilley and C.S. Soong), deserve some credit for providing some informative programs, which are of interest to left-leaning people. And, I must admit, they had me fooled for years into thinking that they are actually leftists. But, at this point in my life, I finally understand that Doug Henwood, like C.S. Soong and Sasha Lilley, will never critique the Democrat Party nor the two-party dictatorship as thoroughly as they may critique the Republican Party. Notably, Sasha Lilley is a political ally of Doug Henwood, helping him get on the KPFA broadcast schedule back during the years when Sasha Lilley was KPFA’s interim Program Director. I remember at least one KPFA ally, speaking against Doug Henwood, calling him a “hack” back then, when I naively perceived Doug Henwood as more leftist than he actually is. Liberals, like Doug Henwood, Sasha Lilley, and C.S. Soong are the most clever of Pacifica Radio liberals because they seem sincere, honest, leftist. But, when you listen closely to them, especially for decades as your author has done, you start to see the liberal bias and the Democrat Party apologia very clearly. It’s obvious over time, especially taking notes on their broadcasts. But such liberals can perpetrate a fraud against occasional listeners, as they have done for years, but all the while contributing to a general dumbing down of free speech Pacifica Radio listeners, especially when it comes to what Dr. Peter Dale Scott, Dr. Peter Phillips, and others call “deep politics”, especially when it comes to moments of kairos, turning points, such as 9/11 and the COVID-19 psyop (chimeric virus is real, most likely lab-engineered through gain of function research; but the statistics and statistical modeling was fraudulent and inflated for fearmongering purposes). All we get is gaslighting from such liberals masquerading as anti-capitalists when it comes to deep politics. Ultimately, this is liberal entertainment for shallow and demobilized types. It takes more sincerity, more willingness to challenge power structures with specifics, naming names, to truly elevate the consciousness of listeners, to activate and politicize and mobilize listeners to go from being passive to active. We need people like Doug Henwood, Sasha Lilley, and C.S. Soong to stop bullshitting listeners, when it comes to deep politics, even when it comes to the two-party dictatorship. Such liberals need to interview and learn from other more honest broadcasters, such as Mickey Huff, Bonnie Faulkner, Dennis Bernstein, Esther Iverem, Gary Null, Steve Zeltzer, et al.
12:00 PST / 15:00 EST, WBAI > Resistance Radio with John Kane and Regan de Loggans
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13:00 PST, KPFA >
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14:00 PST, KPFA > The Visionary Activist
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COMMENTS: This show, The Visionary Activist, is, perhaps, the most egregious example of dishonoring the Pacifica Mission statement. Instead of calling this show The Visionary Activist, it ought to be called The Demobilizing Activist, fomenting analysis paralysis. Fake deep statements. Fetishism of indigenous stuff? Liberals (i.e., pro-capitalists or non-anti-capitalists).
14:00 PST / 17:00 EST, WBAI > Driving Forces
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14:00 PST / 17:00 EST, WPFW > Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod
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15:00 PST / 18:00 EST, WPFW > U Must Learn
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17:00 PST, KPFA > Flashpoints with Dennis Bernstein
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18:00 PST, KPFA > The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays
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COMMENTS: The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays is usually, honest on basic social justice issues, but KPFA newscast bosses tend to gaslight listeners on COVID-19 (never mention VAERS data, VAERS deaths, assaults on informed consent, assaults on parental consent, no mention of litigation in India against the World Health Organization, etc.) and also gaslight listeners regarding establishment Democrat Party politics (i.e., usually engaging in Democrat Party apologia and perception management to keep people within the Democrat Party imaginary and away from the third-party politics imaginary, in the sociology sense of the term, ‘imaginary’). I.e., in other words, ‘it’s all good, just don’t question 9/11, COVID-19, nor establishment electoral politics.’ Having said all that, this is still a better nightly newscast than most. I’m hard-pressed to think of a better one, especially since the demise of Free Speech Radio News (FSRN), particularly regarding local news coverage. But that doesn’t excuse the KPFA news bosses’ intellectual dishonesty, lying by omission, and other deficiencies of journalistic integrity. WION is pretty good on global news; but there, too, one can detect the liberal bias, which Dr. Noam Chomsky has warned about since at least the 1990s.
19:00 PST, KPFA >
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“Lies My Government Told Me with Dr Robert Malone” by RFK Jr The Defender Podcast [via Rokfin], 22 DEC 2022. [audio: 52min 43sec]
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“Steve Keen explains: Everything Wrong with Neoclassical climate Economics” by Wellbeing Economics Brighton [via YouTube], 22 DEC 2022. [1hr 16min 45sec]
NOTES: [L35] | Heterodox economics > Post-Keynesian economics | […] After about 30 minutes of reviewing and critiquing neoclassical climate change economics, Prof. Keen turned to solutions and mathematical modeling, including his new Minksy software, which includes energy consumption (unlike neoclassical models), instead of ‘debating how many percent damages to GDP occur’, as the neoclassical types are doing. (c. 33min 30sec) Prof. Steve Keen: “So, we have to include energy in how we think about the economy. So, what that means is that the non-alpha, the Post-Keynesian thing, fits the data. It’s realistic. It survives bringing energy into the argument. And what you can get out of it—and I’ve done this with a couple of mathematical and meteorological friends—is build models based on what’s called Goodman’s model of cyclical growth using my Minsky software. So, I’ll explain that in a short while. I know this is stuff, that you people haven’t experienced before. So, what we should really be doing is not debating how many percent damages to GDP occur [as the neoclassical types are doing]. We should be saying, How the hell do we finance the rapid transition we need right now?! That’s what economists should be doing. And they know bugger-all about it because they don’t understand money. This is where modern monetary theory comes in. And I know Randy Wray [i.e., Dr. L. Randall Wray] has spoken here, and also Warren [Mosler]. Hasn’t he? Oh. Okay, okay. So, what you see when you look at that is that government deficits create money. The government doesn’t borrow. It creates money. When it sells bonds, the bonds are bought by the banks using reserves, that are also created by the government spending. So, what you get out of it is that we can finance; we can create the money necessary to attempt to address climate change. Whether we’ll succeed, that’s a totally different question. But these are the sort of questions, that economists should be answering, showing that the money can be created to harness the resources to try to attempt to fight climate change. The reserves will be purchased using bonds, which provide an income stream to the banks. And, if the bonds are sold to the public, that doesn’t finance the spending. It reduces the public’s capacity to frivolities, when you’re trying to focus as much of production as you can on fighting climate change. That’s what we should be doing. And I recommend this paper by Beardsley Ruml back from 1946, by the way. We knew this stuff, after the Second World War. We’re now relearning it, despite the resistance of neoclassical economists. So, uh, when, again, looking at that dependence upon energy because we are going to cause dramatic climatic events in the next 10 to 20 years, if we’re lucky. And we don’t have anything like the level of renewable energy or non-fossil fuel energy to maintain our current civilization. We’ll be forced to reduce GDP, whether you want to or not. Okay? De-growth is inevitable. It’s a question of what the form that takes. It’ll happen long before we hit the sort of four degree and six degree levels about, um. And what’s really going on. We’ve dramatically overshot what the biosphere can sustain of our civilization at the moment. And, if we now try to adjust without addressing income distribution, we’re going to have revolts. You would’ve seen the Gilets jaunes in France, back in—what?—2019, about a century or so ago? Um, when Macron put up the diesel tax, supposedly, for climate change reasons—really, though, to try to make the Maastricht Treaty budget constraints—uh, there was a revolt by the working-class people and self-employed because they couldn’t afford the price increase. Now, we simply can’t allocate energy or, indeed, living standards in that world because the poor will starve. And, so, you have social breakdown. So, I think the only way to go about it is something, which rations, in some way, energy consumption. And there’s a proposal on that website ecocore dot org to bring about a parallel currency. So, we have money as now. Okay. We’ll have money income. We’d also get carbon credits allocated to us through a digital, a Central Bank Digital Currency on a daily basis. You could set that level at the level, which would, uh, enable the average for the country. And 95% of the population would be below that level, given the skewed distribution of income. So, the top one percent would need to buy off the bottom 95% or 99% to do their consumption. And it would be a market mechanism, no trying to design a carbon tax, as some expert knowing what the price should be, which economists have never got right. Let the market work it out. Okay? But do it using a dual currency. | Now, it’s going to be in politically infeasible to do it. There’s no way you could get that through politics right now. But, if we start seeing major crises, then, at that point, the government might well find itself spending in the way that it did during COVID to give people money, so they can survive despite the fact that they can’t work. So, I think we can more likely see more government transfers coming our way. […]”
COMMENTS: After about 30 minutes of reviewing and critiquing neoclassical climate change economics, Prof. Keen turned to solutions and mathematical modeling, including his new Minksy software, which includes energy consumption (unlike neoclassical models), instead of debating how many percent damages to GDP occur, as the neoclassical types are doing. Prof. Keen discussed how modern monetary theory shows how we can finance, how we can create the money necessary to attempt to address climate change. Whether we succeed is a totally different question. But Post-Keynesian economics, Minsky software modeling, and modern monetary theory provide the best possible path forward, argues Prof. Steve Keen. Intuitively, we may be recognizing that we need to stop the world, but without crashing the global economy and creating mass misery and chaos. | Prof. Steve Keen argues humanity has “dramatically overshot what the biosphere can sustain of our civilization at the moment.” But, if we “try to adjust without addressing income distribution, we’re going to have revolts.” For example, “when Macron put up the diesel tax, supposedly for climate change reasons—really, to try to meet the Maastricht Treaty budget constraints, there was a revolt by the working-class people, the self-employed because they couldn’t afford the price increases.” So, to avoid social breakdown, Prof . Keen suggests “rations” (cf. basic income). “We;d also get carbon credits allocated to us through a digital, a Central Bank Digital Currency [CBDC] on a daily basis.” Boom! Now, right there, Prof Keen stopped your author in his tracks. And, indeed, CBDCs appear inevitable. Dr. Yannis Varoufakis, definitely one of the good guys, for lack of a better term, has also said CBDCs are inevitable, which is why, he says, we must democratize digitcal currencies. That would be nice. But we can’t even democratize basic politics nor the workplace, at least not in the USA, Canada, UK, much of the western world. And, if this is all true, as Prof. Keen argues, which it appears to be true. Then, we must contend with the fact that the global power elite have already hijacked this narrative, and weaponized it along with the social credit system via the biosecurity state, the COVID-19 psyop, and CBDCs. But the apparoach of the global power elite is a phony approach, which doesn’t actually care about industry-induced climate change.
[22 DEC 2022]
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