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SOTT Focus: Beware Agenda 21 And Its Green New Deal: Plundering The World Under The Guise of 'Sustainable Development'

Geraldine Perry
Dissident Voice
Thu, 04 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
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Word to the Wise: Beware the Green New Deal!

Beware Agenda 21 and its Green New Deal!

Seemingly overnight, the Green New Deal has arrived. Given the sorry state of our environment, what possible objections could there be? In this case, plenty - and they all trace back to the Green New Deal's deeply complex and surreptitious ties to UN Agenda 21.

Those who claim that Agenda 21 amounts to little more than a right-wing rant or is somehow anti-Semitic are at best seriously misinformed. Those who buy into the carefully crafted jargon of Sustainable Development, Smart Growth, Redevelopment and the Green New Deal are similarly misinformed and need to know that the environmental movement has in fact been highjacked by the Agenda 21 plan.

First, Some Background

Journalist Thomas L. Friedman is sometimes credited with being the original source for the term "Green New Deal" because in two 2007 articles, in the New York Times and The New York Times Magazine, Friedman connected FDR's "New Deal" to a new "green" economy, suggesting that this might provide an economic stimulus program that could address economic inequality and climate change at the same time. Almost prophetically, Friedman also argued in earlier writings that an "iron fist inside a velvet glove" would be needed to maintain the coming new world order.

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SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - March 2019: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs


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Sun, 07 Apr 2019 12:26 UTC
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Biblical flooding in Nebraska, March 2019
March 2019 was another month of significant extreme weather events, with record-breaking flooding, hailstorms, snowfalls and wildfires - on every continent, no matter the season.

While the media hypes the pseudo-scientific claim that climate change is man-made and whose effects should really only concern future generations, here and now the climate is shifting - and, besides mitigating some of its effects, there is nothing governments can do to prevent this shift from happening.

Among the 'highlights' in March were catastrophic flooding in the US Midwest after a 'winter hurricane' inundated much of the US with snow and rain. Nebraska was especially hardest hit as two-thirds of the state became an inland sea. Of the multiple powerful cyclones in the southern hemisphere last month, one caused unprecedented flooding in southeastern Africa and killed 1,000 people.

Huge dust-devils, 'snownados', 'thundersnow', and deluges of hail and rain occur with such regularity now, they're practically 'normal'. The same goes for spectacular meteor fireball events, which - after a decade of not seeing them - even the mainstream media reports on these days.

All that, and more, in this month's SOTT Earth Changes Summary...


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SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Matter, Information, or Mind - Which Is The Most Fundamental?

Harrison Koehli, Elan Martin, Corey Schink
Sott.net
Sat, 06 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
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On today's show we discuss the research of computer engineer Bernardo Kastrup, a man who has devoted a significant amount of his professional life to developing a robust and comprehensive critique of the materialist worldview. He is the author of numerous books, including The Idea of the World: A multi-disciplinary argument for the mental nature of reality, and Why Materialism is Baloney, as well as many articles. Today we'll be discussing one of his latest articles, "Physics Is Pointing Inexorably to Mind".

For centuries the extreme success of the physical sciences have lent credibility the materialist worldview. However, the success of the scientific enterprise as a whole continues to reveal a world of startling intelligence that cannot be explained by the mere accidents of matter but seem plausible only in the light of an intelligent mind. As Kastrup writes, "This mental universe is what physics is leading us to." We'll be discussing this mental universe, the problems of materialism and more today, on MindMatters.


Running Time: 01:04:17

Download: MP3 - 58.9 MB

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SOTT Focus: Solidarity, Survival and Sabotage: Timeline of The Blackouts That Tormented Venezuela

Misión Verdad
The Gray Zone
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 20:51 UTC
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While Venezuela's government and the Chavista movement proclaimed victory over the worst blackouts to plague the country, Washington's coup masters have promised more darkness until their goals are complete.
Gray Zone editor's note: Between March 7th and 10th of 2019, Venezuela experienced the longest interruption of its electric system in the country's history. The government alleged that the blackout was the result of a sabotage directed against the central computer of the main hydroelectric power station at El Guri in Bolívar State.

If the electrical collapse was indeed the result of an outside attack, it represented the most severe escalation of hostilities since the beginning of the latest regime change campaign. The blackout significantly disrupted Venezuelan society and showed that the war against the country targeted everyone, regardless of their political affiliations.

What follows is a reconstruction of those moments of darkness, showing how the deluge of fake news and humanitarian propaganda, the interruption and recovery of the electrical services, the calls for violence and the organization of the people and their families transformed daily life into a struggle for peace and coexistence. As in the past, the Chavismo movement successfully resisted Washington's attempts to foment a civil war.

This analysis was originally published at the Venezuelan independent website Misión Verdad, and has been edited and adapted by The Grayzone
Threats of intervention and the failure of "Plan Guaidó"

On January 23 of this year, the United States and its allies recognized Juan Guaidó as "President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela", completely ignoring the Venezuelan Constitution and the more than 6 million Venezuelans who voted for Nicolas Maduro in the elections of May 20, 2018.

During the last two months, all mechanisms of economic suffocation against the country have been deployed. Everything from bank accounts to the assets of the Republic have been frozen by the U.S. government. Most glaring among these cases was the blockage of $1.2 billion in gold owned by Venezuela, located in the Bank of England, and the confiscation of CITGO, a subsidiary of PDVSA on US soil.

Comment: See? Socialism doesn't work!

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SOTT Focus: Objective:Health #8 - Attention, Memory and Focus in a Distracted World


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Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
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Attention seems to be getting a lot of.... attention these days. Whether it be due to the rise in attention deficit and related disorders or because new technological devices seem to be robbing us of this essential resource is difficult to say. Yet the mystics have been telling us about our lack of attention and our inability to recognize this since time immemorial. Is the modern world actually withering away our ability to attend, focus and remember, or are we simply more cognizant of our limited abilities against a modern technological background? Is technology shaping us, or simply reflecting what we already are?

Join us on this episode of Objective: Health, where we discuss attention, memory and focus in its many forms, exploring ways of using and improving attention, taking control of what we attend to and the consequences of not paying attention.

And stay tuned for Zoya's Pet Health Segment, where she tells us all about doggie dementia.


Time stamps:
Selective attention test: 34:02
Misdirection: 49:26
Pet Health: 1:22:09

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Running Time: 01:32:34

Download: MP3 - 84.3 MB

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SOTT Focus: Muellergate and the Discreet Lies of the Bourgeoisie

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 20:34 UTC
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This cartoon seems to me very apposite. The capacity of the mainstream media repeatedly to promote the myth that Russia caused Clinton's defeat, while never mentioning what the information was that had been so damaging to Hillary, should be alarming to anybody under the illusion that we have a working "free media". There are literally hundreds of thousands of mainstream media articles and broadcasts, from every single one of the very biggest names in the Western media, which were predicated on the complete nonsense that Russia had conspired to install Donald Trump as President of the United States.

I genuinely have never quite understood whether the journalists who wrote this guff believed it, whether they were cynically pumping out propaganda and taking their pay cheque, or whether they just did their "job" and chose to avoid asking themselves whether they were producing truth or lies.
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SOTT Focus: Pollution in Pre-Industrial Europe

Marian L. Tupy
Humanprogress.org
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 12:05 UTC
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Last week, I wrote about Jason Hickel's romantic idea that people in the past "lived well" with little or no monetary income. I noted that prior to the Industrial Revolution, clothing was immensely expensive and uncomfortable. The cotton mills changed all that.

As a French historian noted in 1846, "Machine production...brings within the reach of the poor a world of useful objects, even luxurious and artistic objects, which they could never reach before."

Today, I wish to turn to pollution. It is well known that industrialization helped to pollute the environment, but that does not mean that air and water were clean before factories and mills came along! Compared to today, our ancestors had to endure horrific environmental conditions.

Comment: Social and environmental justice warriors and anti-capitalist activists of all types would do well to read a little real history before they roundly denounce the 'modern world'. It is true that we live in an increasingly dystopian society, but that is largely due to the lack of truly moral guidance from authorities and cannot reasonably be laid at the door of technological progress. Indeed, without the creature comforts of modern technology, the immorality of modern Western life would likely be too much to bear.

At the same time, modern creature comforts have led many people to passively accept or ignore the immorality that defines modern Western culture and encouraged the 'social justice' types to misjudge what should be railed against and what should be left well alone. Indeed, a major part of the immorality sweeping Western society is the result of modern technology and comforts that allows fanatical social justice warriors the time and means to promote their twisted view of reality far and wide.

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SOTT Focus: Facebook Teams up With Mainstream Media to Directly Censor News Websites

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Sun, 31 Mar 2019 23:50 UTC
Le Monde Paris
Several days ago I received a Facebook notification that content shared on the French Sott.net website Facebook page (Les Signes des Temps) had been "rated false by an independent fact-checker."

Clicking on the notification produced this pop-up window...

Facebook false rated content
...where I was informed that fr.sott.net shared content that had been reviewed by someone called 'Les Décodeurs du Monde' and that they found it to be "false". Included was a link to the offending article on the fr.sott.net FB page, a link to and "additional reporting" page at 'Les Décodeurs du Monde', and text telling me that:
"To fight false news, Facebook reduces the distribution of misleading content while also showing additional reporting on the same topic.

Pages and websites that repeatedly publish or share misleading content will see their overall distribution reduced, their ability to monetize and advertise removed and their ability to register as a news page removed.

Deleting the misleading content won't affect these outcomes."
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SOTT Focus: Italy's Embrace of China's Belt & Road Initiative: Hope For Europe

Matthew J.L Ehret
Sott.net
Sat, 30 Mar 2019 21:35 UTC
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It is no secret that the rise of the Belt and Road Initiative has created a positive dynamic for international relations, seriously challenging the Western technocratic system that has come to dominate the Trans-Atlantic region under financial and bureaucratic dictatorship.

While many branches of the Belt and Road Initiative - which officially united with Russia's Eurasian Economic Union in 2015 - have manifested across Europe in the form of rail lines and ports, to this day no actual agreement has been reached between European powers and China.

As President Xi Jinping's trip to Europe from March 22-28 has demonstrated, there is for the first time a sense that the post-industrial society dominant in the West since the 1971 floating of the dollar is no longer the dismal fate of nations.

Xi Jinping has carried the Belt and Road Initiative into the heart of Europe, a lifeline for all patriots who wish to survive the coming financial collapse. As of Saturday March 23, the first G7 country has officially joined this program, with Italy's Prime Minister Conte signing his country onto the historic Memorandum of Understanding with China, setting a great precedent for other member-states trapped within the Euro currency cage.
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SOTT Focus: MindMatters: New Show! Why Mind Really Matters, and Your Life Reflects Your Values

Harrison Koehli, Corey Schink
Sott.net
Sat, 30 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
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On this first episode of MindMatters, we dive into the biggest mystery of our times: consciousness. What is it, why is it so mysterious, and why is it important? Materialists either explain it away or deny it really exists, but the mind is much more than that. It can't be so easily denied. Everything in our experience, from our sensations and feelings to our theories and choices in life - all of these depend on our minds.

Summing up many of the topics we have looked at on our previous show, the Truth Perspective, today we put together ideas from Andrew Lobaczewski, James C. Carpenter, Whitehead and Griffin, and Jordan B. Peterson. We also examine a clip from Peterson's latest Q&A on how our aims structure everything in our experience from our perception to the choices we make in life.

If you like what you see, make sure to subscribe to our new YouTube channel, MindMatters.


Running Time: 01:34:39

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