Afraid to dig deeper – the Left’s lack of skepticism (pt. 1)

The WHO’s catapulting of the SARS-CoV-2 virus into pandemic territory has, as a side effect, revealed some very dire limitations in range of inquiry that the political Left in the US has set for itself.

When it comes to questioning the validity and truthfulness of mainstream Establishment narratives, the Left in the US seems to be only willing to challenge those narratives to a certain point, a point beyond which they tend to stick their fingers in their ears, close their eyes and start yelling “Blah blah blah!” at the top of their lungs to drown out what they don’t want to hear. This was true when the veracity of government claims around 9/11 were being challenged, and it is definitely true in 2020 with the advent of the coronavirus “pandemic”.

The US Left has accepted the whole coronavirus “pandemic” narrative without question, despite the fact that there is ample evidence circulating to raise serious questions about it. These are people who are comfortable challenging the intentions of corporations, but when it comes to corporate-owned media (which is most of it), the US Left is seemingly afraid to disagree with “official” sources and grant them the benefit of the doubt.

The very fact that oligarch-controlled groupings like the World Economic Forum held a pandemic role-playing scenario (the now-infamous Event 201 or the older “Lockstep” scenario) last year prior to the WHO’s pandemic declaration just zips by the Left as if it is completely irrelevant. No conspiracy here, just the 1% holding meaningless meetings and making meaningless recommendations that have no import for the 99%. This is pretty much the attitude of the US Left – blind faith in Establishment media sources and a strange desire to believe the oligarchs don’t really mean us any harm.

The professional Left in the US is afraid of challenging the Establishment because many are ultimately at the mercy of the oligarchs for their livelihood. Those who hold positions at universities are careful not to dig too deep or to suggest the obvious because they face the possibility of being run off campus. The fear of the “conspiracy theorist” label is enough to frighten most academics – their professional status and reputation is more important than actually digging too deep into the darkness that should not be dug into.

And we should not diminish the basic human social desire to “fit in”, to have the social acceptance of one’s peer group, to be taken seriously. It is a powerful force in human relations and the kind of people who sit around and plan “pandemics” definitely understand this and they put forth a lot of effort in controlling the narratives they’ve fashioned.

In my opinion, the academic Left seems overly concerned with their reputations and how they’re seen by their peers – being tarred as a “conspiracy theorist” can be career-ending, so they limit the range of their criticism of power. According to the Left, Dick Cheney is a bad man, but there’s no fucking way he’d plan to have thousands of Americans killed in order to catalyze changes to American society that probably wouldn’t happen absent a 9/11. Dick is a bad man, but not that bad.

The Left in the US could use a healthy injection of skepticism and a lot less faith in the inherent goodness of oligarchs and their institutions.

US “Intelligence” Agencies? Don’t Believe a Word They Say (about anything)

 

The mainstream/corporate US media is having a major temper tantrum after US president Donald Trump not only failed to cancel his summit with Russian president Vladimir Putin (which is the result they desired after dropping a politically-motivated indictment the Friday before the summit), he also failed to go along with the US “intelligence” community and their allegations that Russia is the big, mean ol’ bear trying to gobble up freedom-loving democracies. The mainstream described it as a “slap in the face” of these “intelligence” agencies, but what exactly has the “intelligence” community in the US done to merit any confidence from the American people, let alone a president? The answer is easy:  Nothing.

(You may have noticed already that I’m continually putting “intelligence” within quotations? This is because there is absolutely nothing “intelligent” about the agencies comprising the US intelligence apparatus). The media goes to great lengths to portray these agencies as simply non-partisan, impartial collectors and disseminators of vital information, whose edicts are beyond question and who carry supreme authority. But the people of the US should be at least smart enough to learn from their shameful lying and many fabrications leading up to the Bush regime’s Iraq invasion that these “intelligence” agencies can’t be trusted to tell us the truth.

In politics and especially in my daily path in life, I tend to give relatively new people in my life the initial benefit of the doubt in terms of trust – until they prove me wrong, I’ll trust them, but if they betray my trust, it will almost never be given again. The American public is like a stupid person who keeps on believing someone who continually lies to them, a perpetual situation of running for The same news networks, newspapers, talking heads and pundits, government officials and politicians who lied us into a criminal war just keep on doing it, and most Americans just keep on obeying and believing the lies.

“Intelligence” agencies lie, and they lie often – it is a large part of their job. They are in the business of shaping public (largely through the compliant media), and that agenda has been (at least since 9/11) based on neoconservative ideology. Taking anything these “intelligence” agencies say without verifying it is foolish, but it is commonplace for Americans in 2018.

After shooting down a Russian bomber that was attacking ISIS forces in Syria, the Turkish government steadfastly refused to issue an apology for their act of war, a refusal which prompted retaliatory sanctions against them from Russia. Turkey’s president only recent offered a conditional apology, and here are my thoughts on the situation.

Turkey would never have carried out this attack on the Russian plane without a green light from NATO and by association, the US (don’t let American leaders off the hook because they without a doubt encouraged it). Russian attacks are threatening the oil the Turks have been stealing from Iraq and Syria and they hoped their “show of force” against Russia would convince not to attack ISIS oil convoys headed into Turkey.

Erdogan is a thuggish right-wing brute who has been supporting ISIS from day one. If we were really serious about fighting terrorism (and if ISIS is really the threat to us that we’re told it is), then we’d have punished Turkey years ago.

I bet very few people in September 2001 thought we’d ever be rooting for an al-Qa’ida victory in a foreign country (Syria) and trying to “contain” them as they massacre thousands of people now did we? But that’s exactly where we stand today.

Social Media Commentary

One of my favorite things to do, dating way back to the start of the Internet era, has been to post comments on various political sites in hopes of starting meaningful dialogue with other people and maybe get others to think about some issues differently.

Our corporate-owned media completely whitewashes, omits, and distorts much of the information they are giving to the American public in order to serve the interests of their employers. The Internet and its easy access to information from around the world has been a lifeline for those seeking the full picture, but most Americans still get their information from corporate-owned sources – information which is often blatant propaganda.

I’ll be re-posting some of my comments here on my site along with the relevant article the comment is based on. I’ve had literally thousands of these types of comments over the years and I’ve always wished I had them saved in one place for viewing later. This is the place!

Hiatus ended

Well, I decided today that now is as good a time as any to start posting again – it’s been quite a while! I’ve been busy writing and commenting on various news sites, trying to drop a smidgen of knowledge on a lot of people who otherwise would never hear it. It was mostly a futile gesture though as most people simply don’t believe anything unless it comes from one of the major corporate “news” sites.

There has been a helluva lot going on it the world since I last posted, so let’s get to it!