Alexandra Marshall discusses what she calls the three apocalypses as framed by the ruling elite: coronavirus pandemic, climate change, and a coming cyber pandemic or "digital darkness". "Climate Change" has been a hard sell and "is the only narrative capable of achieving massive state land grabs and control of global food production." "Apocalypse Politics" is a favorite tool of Davos and the ultimate goal is to "induce a permanent war economy within democratic nations onto which global treaties can be grafted to justify the antiquated socialist dream of a global bureaucracy." She feels the coming cyber attacks are really going to hurt and cause greater damage than the government pandemic policies and climate politics, but beyond that, she is even more worried of a fourth apocalypse, that of a geopolitical conflict and war with China.

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Show Notes
Digital darkness: the third apocalypse https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/06/digital-darkness-the-third-apocalypse
The problem with Covid sticks and carrots? Citizens aren’t horses https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/07/the-problem-with-covid-sticks-and-carrots-citizens-arent-horses
Secret planning exercise in 2016 modelled Mers outbreak in UK https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jun/10/secret-planning-exercise-in-2016-modelled-impact-of-mers-outbreak-in-uk
Our parent prison – the UK turns itself into hell https://goodsauce.news/our-parent-prison-the-uk-turns-itself-into-hell

Websites
Website https://ellymelly.home.blog
Twitter https://twitter.com/ellymelly
Good Sauce https://goodsauce.news/author/alexandra-marshall

About Alexandra Marshall
Alexandra Marshall (@ellymelly on social media) is the host of "Curtain Call", a Good Sauce show exploring the leading personalities in the culture war. She writes on liberty, philosophy and geopolitics. You can find her on Twitter or read her articles over at her blog.

Elly is also an AI database designer for the retail industry, contributor to multiple online journals and a Young Ambassador with Australians for Constitutional Monarchy.

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Alexandra Marshall: The Four Apocalypses of Corona, Climate, Cyber Pandemic, & War with China #210

As the US Empire makes its major military retreat from Afghanistan, learn about the CIA forces that will be staying behind—and their disturbing 20-year track record of war crimes. 

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CIA Stories: Death Squads in Afghanistan

This week’s instalment of the Global Research News Hour focuses on the first assassination death: John F. Kennedy. It takes during the same week that an explosive new documentary series is released! The release of JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass takes place also 30 years after the release of the blockbuster JFK and it is directed as well by film-maker Oliver Stone. 
The investigator who will be guiding us through the complexities of the case and cover-up is a remarkable researcher particularly of this case. He is also incidentally the screenwriter of JFK Revisited:  James DiEugenio.

The Assassinations Part 2: John F. Kennedy

Abby and Mike are joined by Jordan Chariton and Jenn Dize of Status Coup about their bombshell story exposing new criminal evidence in the Flint water poisoning.

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Flint's Killer Cover-Up: Bombshell Report w/ Jordan & Jenn of Status Coup

Brian and Prof. Wolff continue a multi-part series on agriculture under capitalism. This week, they focus on the evolution of the system of factory farming and the effect it has on workers and nature.

Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. You can check out his work at rdwolff.com.

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The Factory Farm Takeover of Agriculture: Food, Farming and Capitalism (Part 2)

(Patreon-only Rose McGowan interview here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rose-mcgowan-57953217)
Labor journalists Alex Press (https://twitter.com/alexnpress) & Jonah Furman (https://twitter.com/JonahFurman) discuss the labor movement, strikes, John Deere and what it has to do with Alec Baldwin's deadly shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Alex Press is a writer and editor at Jacobin Magazine, whose latest article is "Halyna Hutchins’s Death on the Set of Rust Was 'Not a Freak Accident'."Jonah Furman is a labor movement organizer and writer for Labor Notes (https://twitter.com/labornotes), the media and organizing project that since 1979 has amplified the voice of workers and labor militants. He is also a frequent contributor to The Intercept.

Alec Baldwin Shooting 'NOT a Freak Accident' With Alex Press & Jonah Furman

On today's In the News roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss a newly-revealed US war crime in Syria that took the lives of over 60 civilians, causing shock and outrage around the world. They also discuss the trials of Kyle Rittenhouse and the killers of Ahmaud Arbery, CIA-orchestrated efforts to destabilize Cuba, the dangerous rise of the violent far right, the social program budget being pushed to the side in favor of military spending, and more.

The following articles are referenced in this episode:

How the U.S. Hid an Airstrike That Killed Dozens of Civilians in Syria
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/us/us-airstrikes-civilian-deaths.html

How a School District Got Caught in Virginia’s Political Maelstrom
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/14/us/loudoun-county-school-board-va.html

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Hidden U.S. War Crimes in Syria

Karl Marx wrote in Capital that capitalism came into the world “dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.” The Thanksgiving holiday is built around an insidious and false creation myth -- that the so-called “settling” of North America was a peaceful and amicable process. But in reality, the genocidal expansion of colonialism across the continent led to unspeakable suffering and death for Indigenous peoples. What is the real story of the birth of U.S. capitalism?

Dr. Gerald Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston and the author of many books, including “The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century”.

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U.S. Capitalism Born in Blood: From the First Thanksgiving to Today w/ Dr. Gerald Horne

The US Navy has poisoned the largest water supply in O'ahu, Hawaii. Nobody knows how long residents have been drinking toxic water, how big the chemical leak is, or how many it will impact. But instead of urgent action to save lives, the Navy is engaging in a cover up. 

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Hawaii Emergency: Navy Poisons Drinking Water

With a diplomatic boycott by Western governments, corporate media propaganda has demonized China over the 2022 Winter Olympics. Britain's Financial Times openly declared, "Beijing Winter Olympics: the new front line in the US-China cold war."

Actual China expert Carl Zha joins Multipolarista to pick apart the propaganda and explain what's really happening.

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Beijing Winter Olympics: Front line in new cold war on China - with Carl Zha

Aaron Maté and Max Blumenthal speak with Russia's Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations, Dmitri Polyanskiy, on escalated tensions on the Russian-Ukraine border, US accusations of an imminent Russian invasion, and the context missing from a US media that refuses to interview Russian officials.

Guest: Dmitri Polyanskiy. Russia's Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations.

Russian UN Ambassador on NATO-Ukraine escalation

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