PLUTOCRATIC POWER

MOA—Amazon, Bezos’ main company, also gets billions in subsidies and does not pay taxes. Bezos, Musk and other billionaires are errors in our economic-political systems. They should be eliminated. I am fine with subsidizing Bezos’ or Musk’s flights to space. But don’t make it round-trip tickets. 

RICHARD WOLFF—Capitalism is fragile. It is not a secure and solid system. And capitalists know this. They just don’t let their media or politicians acknowledge it.” The lack of stability of the capitalist system and its recurring crises are both inevitable and hard-wired in its core dynamic and social relations, argues Prof. Wolff in this comprehensive and at times semi-satirical chat. 

SCOTT RITTER—The most recent defense expenditure authorization required that the ODNI establish a “social media data analysis center” to coordinate and track foreign social media influence operations by analyzing data voluntarily shared by US social media companies. Based upon this analysis, the ODNI would report to Congress on a quarterly basis on trends in foreign influence and disinformation operations to the public. As envisioned by Congress, the intelligence community would determine jointly with US social media companies which data and metadata will be made available for analysis.

In short, the intelligence community, using data obtained from the social media accounts of American citizens, will report to Congress how this data influences the political decision making of these same American citizens. If this does not make the most ardent defender of the US Constitution ill, nothing will.

FW ENGDAHL—On April 2 the Swedish Space Agency, announced that the program, the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx), funded by Bill Gates, has “divided the scientific community” and will therefore not be carried out.SCoPEx was a scheme funded for several years by personal funds from Gates to test the feasibility of dimming the sun via manmade geoengineering.

The plan is to drop sulphate aerosolor calcium carbonate dust into the atmosphere from high altitude balloons in a madcap scheme to try blocking the sun and thereby “prevent “ global warming. The Swedish agency decided to cancel the experiment because of a major opposition from not only the scientific and environmentalist community, but also indigenous Swedish Saame or Laplander people who are reindeer herdsmen and feared the particles could cause severe or unknown environmental pollution to their herds. Notably, the Saami Council warned that the Gates experiment “essentially attempts to mimic volcanic eruptions by continuously spewing the sky with sun-dimming particles.”

From standup comedian to pre-eminent political analyst and communicator, Jimmy Dore has evolved into one of America’s most indispensable social media champions. Jimmy Dore and his crew—Stefanie Zamorano, and frequently the always lucid Ron Placone, Graham Elwood and others of similar merit—are worth watching regularly, for more can be learned in one of their sessions than in anything offered by the haughty NYTimes, MSNBC, or the rest of the so-called “legacy media”, that is, the establishment media owned by billionaires and solely dedicated to selling us their criminal agenda.