black rock inc. is a great vampire squid with their tentacles everywhere for sure, as they are controlling owners/investors of all major global tech corporations, all major depository and investment banks, all major media corporations, etc.

wtf is going on in melbourne australia???

2nd only to black rock inc is the vanguard group. As of Dec. 30, 2020, vanguard board of directors comprise the following individuals: Mortimer J. Buckley, Chair & CEO Vanguard; Matthew Benchener, Managing director Vanguard Retail Investor Group; Joseph P. Brennan, Vanguard Global Chief Risk Officer (CRO); Gregory Davis, Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Vanguard; John James, Managing Director Vanguard Institutional Investor Group; John T. Marcante, Managing Director Vanguard Information Technology; Chris D. McIsaac Managing Director Vanguard International Div.; James M. Norris Managing Director Vanguard International Div.; Thomas M. Rampulla Managing Director Vanguard Financial Advisor Services Div.; Karin A. Risi Managing Director Vanguard Planning and Development Group; Anne E. Robinson General Counsel Vanguard and Secretary of Vanguard Funds; Michael Rollings CFO & Managing Director Vanguard Finance Div.; Lauren Valente Managing Director Vanguard Human Resources Div.

Good episode, but. Ellen Brown sounds like she doesnt care very much about anything. Like its all more of this la di da business. OTOH if you listen to what she says. And thats the point. Then you realise she has much of value & interest to say.

The virus scam is employed to identify those who will be hard to control in their totalitarian state. Those who take the virus are good slaves and will be useful for a while, those who refuse the virus need to be eliminated.

And introducing WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene, continuing today with Chapter Five: Husker Du! We’re joined by culture critic Steven Hyden to set the Land Speed Record of podcasting and do the Dü.

Check out Steven’s books here: https://www.amazon.com/Steven-Hyden/e/B01H0F6IDU%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
And check out his writing on Uproxx: https://uproxx.com/author/steven-hyden/

Songs in order:
Hüsker Dü - Gilligan’s Island
Hüsker Dü - New Day Risingl (Live 1987)
Hüsker Dü - It’s Not Funny Anymore
Hüsker Dü - Chartered Trips
Hüsker Dü - Something I Learned Today
Hüsker Dü - I Apologize
Hüsker Dü - The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill
Hüsker Dü - Books About UFOs
Hüsker Dü - Flexible Flyer
Hüsker Dü - The Baby Song
Hüsker Dü - Crystal
Hüsker Dü - Standing In The Rain

And Introducing

#90 HÜSKER DÜ! (ft. Steven Hyden)

In this episode, Whitney and Robbie Martin of Media Roots discuss the Biden administration’s plan to withdraw some, but not all, US military personnel from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year. The real reasons for the US invasion, the CIA’s role in Afghanistan pre- and post-invasion and the parallels between Biden’s withdrawal plan and that of his predecessor Donald Trump are also discussed. Whitney and Robbie also cover the recent confirmation of the US Capitol Police stand-down order on January 6th and the disturbing background of the military bases in Texas currently housing migrant children at the US-Mexico border. 
Originally published 04/16/21

The Illusion of a US Withdrawal in Afghanistan with Robbie Martin

Rosa Koire’s journey from local land use activism to her discovery of UN Agenda 21, a global incremental plan implemented locally; the International Council of Local Environmental Issues, or ICLEI, to de-industrialize the world; regionalization and the destruction of boundaries; transit villages and food sheds; SMART stands for sustainability, monitoring, assessing, rating and tracking; mixed-use high-density urban development; civil liberties restricted under the guise of environmental concerns; powers behind Agenda 21 committed to “sustainable” goals; mega-corporate model; mega-regions driving the economy and overpowering the nation state; Bruntland Commission; islands of human habitation; Wildlands Project; American standard of living being taken down; restrictions on rural property and farm lands; economic collapse; austerity and scarcity; technology the enabler of U.N. Agenda 21.

Aired: February 3, 2021

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Behind the Green Mask - Rosa Koire, #430

“The Crash of Flight 3804”, Charlotte Dennett’s new book, chronicles her decades-long investigation into the death of her father, the highest ranking American intelligence officer in the Middle East, in a mysterious plane crash in Ethiopia in 1947 on his return from a secret mission to Saudi Arabia for the Central Intelligence Group; the intrigue and treachery of Middle East oil pipeline politics throughout the 20th and 21st centuries; the Berlin to Baghdad Railway; ARAMCO; pipeline and airline routes; Iran hostage crisis; secular Arab nationalism; UNOCAL pipeline; Genie Oil; trans-Yemen pipeline; notorious British spymaster Kim Philby; the partition of Palestine.

Aired: August 5, 2020

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Follow the Pipelines:  The Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil - Charlotte Dennett, #424

This is part one of a series exploring the truth behind the new Covid 19 virus. In our first half hour, we hear from a high profile scientist about the way the outbreak has not warranted lockdowns. In the secod half hour, Mark Crispin Miller,describes the harmful side of masks and the reasons behind the propaganda of health.

Coronavirus- A Second Look Part One: Killer Virus or Common Flu?

This week's Global Research News Hour examines the Social and economic consequences of major changes resulting from the corona virus and actions designed to contain it. In our first half hour we’ll speak with Professor Michel Chossudovsky about the Social and economic implications of the fight against Covid for labour and small businesses.
Then in our second half hour, Professor of political studies professor Radhika Desai talks to journalist Chris Cook about her 7 part series WHAT IS TO BE DONE? A MANIFESTO FOR POLITICS AMID THE PANDEMIC AND BEYOND

Corona Virus a Second Look Part 5: Corporate Plunder and Hope for Political Change

How did a small movement of Jewish fanatics, devastated by the ignominious demise of their leader, rise to become the official state religion of the Roman empire, Armenia, Georgia, and Ethiopia?  We trace the dramatic rise of the new faith through three centuries of preaching, prophesy, and persecution.

image:  fresco of a woman at the 3rd-century house-church of Dura-Europos

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suggested reading:  E. Glenn Hinson, "The Early Church"

for context:
--on composition of the New Testament texts:  https://soundcloud.com/historiansplaining/who-wrote-the-bible-new-testament
--on the historical Jesus:  https://soundcloud.com/historiansplaining/the-historical-jesus

The Early Church, pt. 1 -- Christianity on the Road

The neoliberal agenda; the decision making process leading to the closure of economic activity; the crisis and the lockdown; the new normal; the destruction of humanity; hegemony of finance capital over the real economy; the green economy; countries funding their own indebtedness; assets picked up at negative prices; colonialism; speculative financial instruments; global debt operation; mechanisms of deceit and manipulation; public heath concern used as a pretext and a justification; media disinformation and the fear campaign; the World Economic Forum plan for the great re-set of the global economy; global governance.

Aired: August 19, 2020

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Bankrupting the US Economy Is No Solution - Michel Chossudovsky, #425

Ellen Brown’s articles, "Meet BlackRock the New Great Vampire Squid", and "From Lockdown to Police State the Great Re-Set Rolls Out", are discussed; the relationship between the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve Central Bank; reserve requirement for banks eliminated; the repo market; the discount window at the Fed thrown open in March 2020; the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, administered by BlackRock Financial Management on behalf of the Federal Reserve through eleven Special Purpose Vehicles; Blackrock’s Aladdin software data platform; Fed lending against riskier assets than allowed under the Federal Reserve Act; exchange traded funds (ETFs) iShares bought by BlackRock; advantages of public banking; liquidity crises the cause of crashes; quadrillion in derivatives outstanding; World Economic Forum a public/private partnership; great global re-set a re-characterization of the new world order; global digital currency; corporatocracy.

Aired: September 23, 2020

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Financial System In Transition - Ellen Brown, #426

Historian Marcia Chatelain on the economic and social dynamics of fast food corporations and Black American life, and her book "Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America" from Liveright. 

https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631493942

1283: McDonald's in Black America / Marcia Chatelain

Artist, activist and filmmaker, John Parulis, recounts his early mystical attachment to the land; his immersion in the eastern mysticism movement in a San Francisco ashram; his recruitment into Greenspeace’s Rainbow Warrior trawler missions as a videographer; the mission to interfere with Japanese factory boat operations in the Bering Sea; a dangerous mission to Lorino in Soviet Siberia to expose an illegal Soviet whaling operation in order to save endangered whales; the mission to the South Pacific Rongelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands to rescue indigenous people off of their island that had been irradiated by a huge nuclear test on Bikini Atoll; the mission to Moruroa Atoll to help indigenous people fight French underwater nuclear testing; Greenpeace infiltrated by French intelligence; the blowing up of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbor.


Aired: October 7, 2020

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The Rainbow Warrior:  Early Campaigns - John Parulis, #427

Guns and Butter investigates the relationships among capitalism, militarism and politics. Show list: http://gunsandbutter.snappages.com/archived-show-list.htm.  

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Financial System In Transition - Ellen Brown, #426

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