Note From Student of SCOTUS: The emailed message below refers to the Lawyers’ Committee petition to the Supreme Court concerning FBI intransigence in the face of a Congressional mandate to assess all evidence from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (Scroll down for related entries from July 19, 21 and 23.)
“Hi Mark, I’ve been trying to find out how Certs proceeds and I came up with this item. As I understand it the court must hear the petition and vote. It cannot be ignored or swept under the rug or dodged as SCOTUS has in the past with 9/11 cases. I cannot find it on the docket as being filed on 7/16/21 if that is the right date. Great blog, always interesting and informative.”
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Have You Had Your Shots? If you have, should you have? If you haven’t, should you get them? (I have, both of them. Should I have? I got them out of convenience and because I hate the masks and the social distancing. Then came the “delta variant.” What’s next?)
Well, HERE is Edward Curtin on the subject, and on someone who has been on target through the years on various subjects and who for months has dedicated himself and the Centre for Global Research to studying the novel coronavirus and is, not surprisingly, defying the powers that be on the subject. Curtin’s essay, posted on Aug. 4, is titled “‘The Fog of Propaganda’: Professor Michel Chossudovsky: Truthteller Extraordinaire.” Please read it and all the comments.
There’s a distinct possibility that billions of people have been bamboozled by the PTB on Covid, and a less distinct possibility (because so many people still rely on the organs of the PTB for their news and entertainment) that a turning point is coming.
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We are stardust, we are golden, and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden. — Joni Mitchell
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I’ve knocked the news media repeatedly for failure to report on anything that differs from the official Executive Branch mythology on the September 2001 attacks. But the media — captive though it seems on certain things — does well on a host of topics. To show that 9/11 truthers are not all monomaniacs focused solely on the lies of commission and omission surrounding the attacks, below are two of many possible examples from the New York Times this past week; the colored words are the Times’s headlines, and the quoted material is from each story:
“Experts Say Extreme Weather Will Continue Across the U.S.”: 8-2-21 [This summary had five sections under the following subheads: * “Wildfire season began sooner with giant blazes in Oregon and California” * “Despite a return of monsoon rains, the West’s drought is getting worse” * “Scorching heat waves have shattered temperature records” * “Wildfire smoke is creating dangerous air quality thousands of miles away” * “Hurricane season got off to a swift start, bringing deadly flash floods.”
“Record Heat Wave Fuels Fires in Southern Europe”: 8-3-21 ATHENS — “While scientists have yet to draw a firm connection between this barrage of stifling temperatures and global warming, it fits an overall trend. Heat waves around the world are occurring more often and with higher intensity as the climate changes because of greenhouse gas emissions.” The report concerned Greece primarily, and Croatia, Italy and Turkey.
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Views in Pittsfield, Massachusetts: * A friend observed this week that global warming in their native countries is the driving force behind the flow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into Western Europe and the United States from the south in recent years. News operations tend to give most attention to the desperate migrants’ plight and the challenges of governments on the receiving end, and minimize the roles played by accelerating climate change and population growth. * In late July a Facebook friend posted a photo of the sun overhead looking that day like a round red pill, owing to smoke from western U.S. and Canadian wildfires combining with humidity to make smog here. The night before, for the same reason, the half moon over downtown was a vivid orange rather than the usual pale yellow. * Pittsfielders returning from a few days on the Massachusetts North Shore reported that the smog caused by those wildfires out West was noticeable and remarked on in Gloucester, Manchester by the Sea, Salem, and Beverly.
— Mark Channing Miller