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Due to the size an introduction was converted to a separate page Libertarian Philosophy
Mark Curtis said "polyarchy is generally what British leaders mean when they speak of promoting 'democracy' abroad". Similarity, Rule of financial oligarchy is that libertarians actually means when they promote "free market" in the USA.
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The term Libertarianism as used in the USA should probably be more properly called Anarcho Capitalism.
Like anarchism it is a natural philosophy of small business owners who are squeezed by banks and landlords and are trying to survive by using cheap labor. In a way, Libertarianism offers its believers a clear conscience to do things society presently restrains. In this case that means the use of wages below subsistence level, unsafe conditions, child labor, etc.
Still because it is a natural philosophy of small business owners it has a wide social base. It is their natural reaction to being squeezing between landlords and banks and attempt to survive by abandoning all ethical restrain in handling the work force. as David M. Kotz noted (Globalization and Neoliberalism)
Small business has remained adamantly opposed to the big, interventionist state, from the Progressive Era through the New Deal down to the present. This division between big and small business is chronicled for the Progressive Era in Weinstein (1968). In the decades immediately following World War II one can observe this division in the divergent views of the Business Roundtable, a big business organization which often supported interventionist programs, and the US Chambers of Commerce, the premier small business organization, which hewed to an antigovernment stance.
What explains this political difference between large and small business? When large corporations achieve significant market power and become freed from fear concerning their immediate survival, they tend to develop a long time horizon and pay attention to the requirements for assuring growing profits over time.9 They come to see the state as a potential ally. Having high and stable monopoly profits, they tend to view the cost of government programs as something they can afford, given their potential benefits. By contrast, the typical small business faces a daily battle for survival, which prevents attention to long-run considerations and which places a premium on avoiding the short-run costs of taxation and state regulation. This explains the radically different positions that big business and small business held regarding the proper state role in the economy for the first two-thirds of the twentieth century.
This long-standing division between big business and small business appeared to vanish in the US starting in the 1970s. Large corporations and banks which had formerly supported foundations that advocated an active government role in the economy, such as the Brookings Institution, became big donors to neoliberal foundations such as the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation. As a result, such right-wing foundations, which previously had to rely mainly on contributions from small business, became very wealthy and influential.10 It was big business's desertion of the political coalition supporting state intervention and its shift to neoliberalism that rebuilt support for neoliberal theories and policies in the US, starting in the 1970s. With business now unified on economic policy, the shift was dramatic. Big grants became available for economics research having a neoliberal slant. The major media shifted their spin on political developments, and the phrase "government programs" now could not be printed except with the word "bloated" before it.
Its central dream of a "freedom of contract", is a wet dream of a small business owner to be able to do business with no government intervention and squeezing everything he can from the labor force in order to survive and expand. In this sense, Libertarian freedom is essentially the freedom to exploit labor. From what I see, the libertarian answer for any problem they face is cheap labor. As evil tongues say, they will not be happy until they turn the US into Bangladesh.
| The central dream of a "freedom of contract", is a wet dream of a small business owner to be able to do business with no government intervention and squeezing everything he can from the labor force in order to survive and expand. |
That partially explains political differences between large and small business. When a large corporation acquire its formidable market power and become freed from fear concerning its immediate survival, they tend to develop a long time horizon and pay attention to the society constrains and externalities that can endanger the growth of their profits over time. And at this point they have political power -- transnational corporations are, for example, dominant political players under neoliberalism. In a sense they see the government as a servant, or, at least, an ally. Having high and stable monopoly profits, they can afford the cost of government programs and environmental and labor regulations, and they can even reap benefit from them. While they hate and fight attempts of state to impose controls over them, the state measures for them are not life threatening. They can affect only the rate of profits extracted from a particular country, but extent of this drop can be mitigated by exploiting the corruption of the government and their formidable political power under neoliberalism (look at Clinton Cash scandal for some interesting details). They are kings of the neoliberal hill.
By contrast, the typical small and medium business are completely absorbed in the brutal battle for the survival, in which any government regulations can be the straw that broke the camel back. They just can't and do not want to pay attention to a long-term consequences of their actions and are concentrated on minimizing the cost of running business, which includes labor cost and taxes. Any measures that increase iether of them are viewed highly negatively. The same is true for the state regulations. For them government is the Sword of Damocles hanging over their heads. This explains the radically different positions that big business and small business held regarding the proper state role in the economy. While big business generally subscribes to neoliberalism, small business predominantly favor Libertarian Philosophy
Another interesting flavor of Libertarianism in the USA is "Bannonism": the dream about "Christian capitalism" which simultaneously (and in best Ann Rand style) is "enterprenurial capitalism" (which make it a "bastard neoliberalism". And simultaneously strange mixture of ideas of Libertarianism and national socialism (alt-right).
A lot of things in Bannonism is self-contradictory. Breitbart was way too close to the tea party movement. So it is not accidental that Bannon himself self-destruct (of self -immolated) by talking too much to Wolff for his book (and Wolff being a Clinton neoliberal was only too happy to push Bannon under the bus). The only thing he got right is that New Deal Capitalism required for its existence the existence of the USSR to keep US elite from engaging in cannibalistic behaviour. After this countervailing force was removed the elite went on the path of self-destruction of the country while enriching themselves at the expense of common people. So the current crisis of neoliberalism in the USA is an indirect side effect (blowback) of the demise of the USSR. Now the neoliberal elite tired artificially recreate the situation that existed during the cold war by fueling anti-russian hysteria. Whether that can stabilize the neoliberalism in the USA or not remains to be seen.
""I believe we’ve come partly off-track in the years since the fall of the Soviet Union and we’re starting now in the 21st century, which I believe, strongly, is a crisis both of our church, a crisis of our faith, a crisis of the West, a crisis of capitalism." This Is How Steve Bannon Sees The Entire World
Fist of all its attack on globalization is incompatible with the support of Randism ("entrepreneurial capitalism"), neoliberalism and deregulation at home. His Ideal the state whoudl be weakened in order to allow entrepreneurial capitalism to florish are pretty unrealistic and dangerous dreams. Essentially that makes him a Trojan horse of neoliberals (despite preaching "bustard neoliberalism" or neoliberalism without globalization) This Is How Steve Bannon Sees The Entire World
The central thing that binds that all together is a center-right populist movement of really the middle class, the working men and women in the world who are just tired of being dictated to by what we call the party of Davos. A group of kind of — we're not conspiracy-theory guys, but there's certainly — and I could see this when I worked at Goldman Sachs — there are people in New York that feel closer to people in London and in Berlin than they do to people in Kansas and in Colorado, and they have more of this elite mentality that they're going to dictate to everybody how the world's going to be run.I will tell you that the working men and women of Europe and Asia and the United States and Latin America don't believe that. They believe they know what's best for how they will comport their lives. They think they know best about how to raise their families and how to educate their families. So I think you're seeing a global reaction to centralized government, whether that government is in Beijing or that government is in Washington, DC, or that government is in Brussels. So we are the platform for the voice of that.
Harnwell: I think it’s important to understand the distinction that you’re drawing here between what can be understood as authentic, free-market capitalism as a means of promoting wealth that [unintelligible] involves everybody with a form of crony capitalism which simply benefits a certain class. And we’ve watched over the course of our conference, we’ve watched two video segments produced by the Acton Institute about how development aid is spent internationally and how that can be driven away from — it damages people on the ground but it also perpetuates a governing class. And the point that you’re mentioning here, that I think that you’re saying has driven almost a revolution movement in America, is the same phenomenon of what’s going on in the developing world, which is a concept of government which is no longer doing what it is morally bound to do but has become corrupt and self-serving. So it’s effectively the sa—
Bannon: It’s exactly the same. Currently, if you read The Economist, you read the Financial Times this week, you’ll see there’s a relatively obscure agency in the federal government that is engaged in a huge fight that may lead to a government shutdown. It’s called the Export-Import Bank. And for years, it was a bank that helped finance things that other banks wouldn’t do. And what’s happening over time is that it’s metastasized to be a cheap form of financing to General Electric and to Boeing and to other large corporations. You get this financing from other places if they wanted to, but they’re putting this onto the middle-class taxpayers to support this.
"I’m not an expert in this, but it seems that [right-wing parties] have had some aspects that may be anti-Semitic or racial ... My point is that over time it all gets kind of washed out, right?"
And the tea party is using this as an example of the cronyism. General Electric and these major corporations that are in bed with the federal government are not what we’d consider free-enterprise capitalists. We’re backers of entrepreneurial capitalists. They’re not. They’re what we call corporatist. They want to have more and more monopolistic power and they’re doing that kind of convergence with big government. And so the fight here — and that’s why the media’s been very late to this party — but the fight you’re seeing is between entrepreneur capitalism, and the Acton Institute is a tremendous supporter of, and the people like the corporatists that are closer to the people like we think in Beijing and Moscow than they are to the entrepreneurial capitalist spirit of the United States.
Also the notion of "Christian capitalism" (or "neoliberalism with human face") is just a dream. There is not and there will be never be any "authentic, free-market capitalism as a means of promoting wealth that involves everybody. Forms that he calls "crony capitalism" which simply benefits a certain class are the only one systainable. althouth NewDeal Capilism was probably the most close to his dreams. This Is How Steve Bannon Sees The Entire World
Benjamin Harnwell, Human Dignity Institute: Thank you, Steve. That was a fascinating, fascinating overview. I am particularly struck by your argument, then, that in fact, capitalism would spread around the world based on the Judeo-Christian foundation is, in fact, something that can create peace through peoples rather than antagonism, which is often a point not sufficiently appreciated. Before I turn behind me to take a question —
Bannon: One thing I want to make sure of, if you look at the leaders of capitalism at that time, when capitalism was I believe at its highest flower and spreading its benefits to most of mankind, almost all of those capitalists were strong believers in the Judeo-Christian West. They were either active participants in the Jewish faith, they were active participants in the Christians' faith, and they took their beliefs, and the underpinnings of their beliefs was manifested in the work they did.
And I think that’s incredibly important and something that would really become unmoored. I can see this on Wall Street today — I can see this with the securitization of everything is that, everything is looked at as a securitization opportunity. People are looked at as commodities. I don’t believe that our forefathers had that same belief.
He also does not understand that far right revolt is the reincarnation of national socialist ideas (neo-fascism), not so much his Christian capitalism ideas
Bannon: For everybody in your audience, this is one of the most monumental — first off, it’s the biggest election upset in the history of the American republic. Eric Cantor was the House majority leader and raised $10 million. He spent, between himself and outside groups, $8 million to hold a congressional district. He ran against a professor who was an evangelical Christian and a libertarian economist. He ran against a professor who raised in total $175,000. In fact, the bills from Eric Cantor’s campaign at a elite steak house in Washington, DC, was over $200,000. So they spent more than $200,000 over the course of the campaign wining and dining fat cats at a steak house in Washington than the entire opposition had to run.Now, Eric Cantor, it was a landslide. He lost 57–43, and not one — outside of Breitbart, we covered this for six months, day in and day out — not one news site — not Fox News, not Politico, no sites picked this up. And the reason that this guy won is quite simple: Middle-class people and working-class people are tired of people like Eric Cantor who say they’re conservative selling out their interests every day to crony capitalists.
"That center-right revolt is really a global revolt. I think you’re going to see it in Latin America, I think you’re going to see it in Asia, I think you’ve already seen it in India."
And you’re seeing that whether that was UKIP and Nigel Farage in the United Kingdom, whether it’s these groups in the Low Countries in Europe, whether it’s in France, there’s a new tea party in Germany. The theme is all the same. And the theme is middle-class and working-class people — they’re saying, “Hey, I’m working harder than I’ve ever worked. I’m getting less benefits than I’m ever getting through this, I’m incurring less wealth myself, and I’m seeing a system of fat cats who say they’re conservative and say they back capitalist principles, but all they’re doing is binding with corporatists." Right? Corporatists, to garner all the benefits for themselves.
And that center-right revolt is really a global revolt. I think you’re going to see it in Latin America, I think you’re going to see it in Asia, I think you’ve already seen it in India. Modi's great victory was very much based on these Reaganesque principles, so I think this is a global revolt, and we are very fortunate and proud to be the news site that is reporting that throughout the world.
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Jun 22, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
Having been caught delivering some fact-base 'science' that does not jibe with the establishment's message that all kids should be jabbed immediately, The WHO has rapidly 'adjusted' its science-based recommendations for whether children should get vaccinated... or not...Gone is the big headline - "Children should not be vaccinated for the moment."
The new guidance is as follows: (emphasis ours... in case you are confused by their guidance)
Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults, so unless they are part of a group at higher risk of severe COVID-19, it is less urgent to vaccinate them than older people, those with chronic health conditions and health workers.
More evidence is needed on the use of the different COVID-19 vaccines in children to be able to make general recommendations on vaccinating children against COVID-19.
WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) has concluded that the Pfizer/BionTech vaccine is suitable for use by people aged 12 years and above. Children aged between 12 and 15 who are at high risk may be offered this vaccine alongside other priority groups for vaccination.
Vaccine trials for children are ongoing and WHO will update its recommendations when the evidence or epidemiological situation warrants a change in policy.
So to clarify... children aren't really at risk of this virus so no hurry on the jab... more evidence is needed on its usefulness in kids... oh but the Pfizer vax is suitable?
So is there evidence or not? Is the vaccine worthwhile for kids? If you have to ask, you aren't following the science.
Here's the new page ( source )
h/t @AlexBerenson
Color us not entirely surprised at this farce... but one thing we are sure of, this will simply be dismissed as a coincidence and WHO had planned on adjusting its guidance the whole time (it was just waiting to get caught in a disagreement with Fauci and friends).
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As The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity's Adam Dick noted yesterday, in America, national, state, and local governments are pulling out all the stops to advance giving experimental coronavirus shots to children down to the age of 12.
Up next, babies and children up to age 11.
The shots are "safe and effective," the propagandists proclaim.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has a different approach. The WHO says do not vaccinate children, at least not yet.
At its website, the WHO offers this advice regarding giving experimental coronavirus vaccines, some of which are not even vaccines under the normal meaning of the term, to children:
Children should not be vaccinated for the moment. There is not yet enough evidence on the use of vaccines against COVID-19 in children to make recommendations for children to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults.
However, children should continue to have the recommended childhood vaccines.
Choose accordingly.
Kugelhagel 18 hours agoRide_the_kali_yuga 17 hours agoConspiracy theorist = heretic ... they couldn't use that word anymore, because everyone would understand that this is about silencing the truth.
JimmyJones 17 hours ago remove linkNice analogy.
Alice-the-dog 13 hours agoYep, women with their periods messed up, their babies allergic to their breast milk, young people with heart inflammation, people having partial paralyzed limbs. I know there's more.
We don't even know what 6-12 months has in-store or 1-2 years.
WarrenLiz 15 hours agoI'm always on the look out for new conspiracy theories, because my old ones all turned out to be accurate.
It was a brilliant psyop by the CIA to invent the term to cover up the murder of JFK. But if one takes a cursory look at it, how is a conspiracy ever to be exposed without a theory that there is one? If every time someone proposes a theory regarding this or that possible conspiracy, they are swept into the kook dust bin, how will any conspiracy ever be exposed? Hence they aren't, unless iron clad evidence of their existence is encompassed by the theory.
skizex 13 hours ago remove linkOver 15,472 dead from Jab in 27 EU countries, about half of Europe's 50 countries.
The EudraVigilance database reports that through June 19, 2021 there are 15,472 deaths and 1,509,266 injuries reported following injections of four experimental COVID-19 shots:
- COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE MODERNA (CX-024414)
- COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE PFIZER-BIONTECH
- COVID-19 VACCINE ASTRAZENECA (CHADOX1 NCOV-19)
- COVID-19 VACCINE JANSSEN (AD26.COV2.S )
From the total of injuries recorded, half of them (753,657) are serious injuries.
ALL UNNECESSARY...
Nona Yobiznes 17 hours ago (Edited)and this on KOMO this morning:
Ride_the_kali_yuga 17 hours ago (Edited) remove link...Too many people are stuck in normalcy bias and are too trusting of the modern elite class. You don't have to look back very far to see the unspeakable atrocities powerful people are willing and able to commit.
The_Dude 16 hours agoMy guess was depopulation due to lower EROIE on petroleum. Deathcross of the fossil energy (oil) available was near to us, maybe we already are behind peak oil. Eolians, solar panels and EV are an energical leftist joke and will never be an alternative to nuclear/ charchoal power plants and thermic motors.
I was thinking about it for quite some time. Why all this Covidian Cult was necessary for? What does it produce? Lockdowns was a main response worldwide.
Was it usefull? absolutely not. No more planes in the sky, economic slowdown, a lot less of enegy used . I guess this sanitary madness was all about cheap energy we can get from oil. The human population exploded due to the industrial revolution, the machines, their capacities and -in fine- oil made it possible. If you do not have enough cheap oil and the EROIE is way to high, then the industrial technology we live in can no longer be.
The Covidian Cult produced what an energy crisis would have made...
Rose Marie PREMIUM 15 hours agoEvil is narcissism run amok...
uncle_duke 18 hours ago remove linkIntelligence without wisdom. Always looking at what, how, when, where, but no interest in asking why. Running thought processes without examining the meaning.
DAVOS-19 14 hours agoAn age of unlimited information, and a population too dumb and lazy to do anything with it. Reality has become Pythonian.
Now Voyager 14 hours agoNot so fast. Remember, they lie, probably also about history.
Ride_the_kali_yuga 13 hours agoWhat happens when you stop natural selection and substitute unnatural selection.
Yeah, the gene pool is over crowded with genetics defects. See diabetics, i mean "genetical" ones since a young age. Insuline was a great discovery, it saves a lot of people at some point. Then without the natural selection they had kids of their own and has a consequence they spread their genetic defect in the gene pool. Sometimes great inventions make unintended results.
Diseases are a way for nature to get rid of the olders and the weak. It is not moral, there is no justice in this, this is just the way nature works. Human tried damn hard to break nature's law, the thing is, there is consequences playing god.
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Jun 14, 2019 | www.amazon.com
From the Introduction
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Mean Girls, which was based on interviews with high school girls conducted by Rosalind Wiseman for her 2002 book Queen Bees and War/tubes, reflects the emotional atmosphere of the age of the Plastics (as the most popular girls at Actional North Shore High are called), as well as the era of Wall Street's Gordon Gekko, whose motto is "Greed is Good."1 The culture of greed is the hallmark of the neoliberal era, the period beginning in the 1970s when the protections of the U.S. and European welfare states, and the autonomy of postcolonial states around the world, came under attack. Advocates of neoliberalism worked to reshape global capitalism by freeing transnational corporations from restrictive forms of state regulation, stripping away government efforts to redistribute wealth and provide public services, and emphasizing individual responsibility over social concern.
From the 1980s to 2008, neoliberal politics and policies succeeded in expanding inequality around the world. The political climate Ayn Rand celebrated-the reign of brutal capitalism-intensified. Though Ayn Rand's popularity took off in the 1940s, her reputation took a dive during the 1960s and '70s. Then after her death in 1982, during the neoliberal administrations of Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom, her star rose once more. (See chapter 4 for a full discussion of the rise of neoliberalism.)
During the global economic crisis of 2008 it seemed that the neoliberal order might collapse. It lived on, however, in zombie form as discredited political policies and financial practices were restored. But neoliberal capitalism has always been contested, and competing and conflicting political ideas and organizations proliferated and intensified after 2008 as well.
Protest politics blossomed on the left with Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and opposition to the Dakota Access oil pipeline at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in the United States, and with the Arab Spring, and other mobilizations around the world. Anti-neoliberal electoral efforts, like the Bernie Sanders campaign for the U.S. presidency, generated excitement as well.
But protest and organizing also expanded on the political right, with reactionary populist, racial nationalist, and protofascist gains in such countries as India, the Philippines, Russia, Hungary, and the United States rapidly proliferating. Between these far-right formations on the one side and persistent zombie neoliberalism on the other, operating sometimes at odds and sometimes in cahoots, the Season of Mean is truly upon us.
We are in the midst of a major global, political, economic, social, and cultural transition - but we don't yet know which way we're headed. The incoherence of the Trump administration is symptomatic of the confusion as politicians and business elites jockey with the Breitbart alt-right forces while conservative evangelical Christians pull strings. The unifying threads are meanness and greed, and the spirit of the whole hodgepodge is Ayn Rand.
Rand's ideas are not the key to her influence. Her writing does support the corrosive capitalism at the heart of neoliberalism, though few movers and shakers actually read any of her nonfiction. Her two blockbuster novels, 'The Fountainpen and Atlas Shrugged, are at the heart of her incalculable impact. Many politicians and government officials going back decades have cited Rand as a formative influence-particularly finance guru and former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who was a member of Rand's inner circle, and Ronald Reagan, the U.S. president most identified with the national embrace of neoliberal policies.
Major figures in business and finance are or have been Rand fans: Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), Peter Thiel (Paypal), Steve Jobs (Apple), John Mackey (Whole Foods), Mark Cuban (NBA), John Allison (BB&T Banking Corporation), Travis Kalanik (Uber), Jelf Bezos (Amazon), ad infinitum.
There are also large clusters of enthusiasts for Rand's novels in the entertainment industry, from the 1940s to the present-from Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, and Raquel Welch to Jerry Lewis, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Rob Lowe, Jim Carrey, Sandra Bullock, Sharon Stone, Ashley Judd, Eva Mendes, and many more.
The current Trump administration is stuffed to the gills with Rand acolytes. Trump himself identifies with Fountainhead character Howard Roark; former secretary of state Rex Tillerson listed Adas Shrugged as his favorite book in a Scouting magazine feature; his replacement Mike Pompeo has been inspired by Rand since his youth. Ayn Rand's influence is ascendant across broad swaths of our dominant political culture - including among public figures who see her as a key to the Zeitgeist, without having read a worth of her writing.''
But beyond the famous or powerful fans, the novels have had a wide popular impact as bestsellers since publication. Along with Rand's nonfiction, they form the core texts for a political/ philosophical movement: Objectivism. There are several U.S.- based Objectivist organizations and innumerable clubs, reading groups, and social circles. A 1991 survey by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club found that only the Bible had influenced readers more than Atlas Shrugged, while a 1998 Modern Library poll listed The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged as the two most revered novels in English.
Atlas Shrugged in particular skyrocketed in popularity in the wake of the 2008 financial crash. The U.S. Tea Party movement, founded in 2009, featured numerous Ayn Rand-based signs and slogans, especially the opening line of Atlas Shrugged: "Who is John Galt?" Republican pundit David Frum claimed that the Tea Party was reinventing the GOP as "the party of Ayn Rand." During 2009 as well, sales of Atlas Shrugged tripled, and GQ_magazine called Rand the year's most influential author. A 2010 Zogby poll found that 29 percent of respondents had read Atlas Shrugged, and half of those readers said it had affected their political and ethical thinking.
In 2018, a business school teacher writing in Forbes magazine recommended repeat readings: "Recent events - the bizarro circus that is the 2016 election, the disintegration of Venezuela, and so on make me wonder if a lot of this could have been avoided bad we taken Atlas Shrugged's message to heart. It is a book that is worth re-reading every few years."3
Rand biographer Jennifer Burns asserts simply that Ayn Rand's fiction is "the gateway drug" to right-wing politics in the United States - although her influence extends well beyond the right wing.4
But how can the work of this one novelist (also an essayist, playwright, and philosopher), however influential, be a significant source of insight into the rise of a culture of greed? In a word: sex. Ayn Rand made acquisitive capitalists sexy. She launched thousands of teenage libidos into the world of reactionary politics on a wave of quivering excitement. This sexiness extends beyond romance to infuse the creative aspirations, inventiveness, and determination of her heroes with erotic energy, embedded in what Rand called her "sense of life." Analogous to what Raymond Williams has called a "structure of feeling," Rand's sense of life combines the libido-infused desire for heroic individual achievement with contempt for social inferiors and indifference to their plight.5
Lauren Berlant has called the structure of feeling, or emotional situation, of those who struggle for a good life under neoliberal conditions "cruel optimism"-the complex of feelings necessary to keep plugging away hopefully despite setbacks and losses.'' Rand's contrasting sense of life applies to those whose fantasies of success and domination include no doubt or guilt. The feelings of aspiration and glee that enliven Rand's novels combine with contempt for and indifference to others. The resulting Randian sense of life might be called "optimistic cruelty." Optimistic cruelty is the sense of life for the age of greed.
Ayn Rand's optimistic cruelty appeals broadly and deeply through its circulation of familiar narratives: the story of "civilizational" progress, die belief in American exceptionalism, and a commitment to capitalist freedom.
Her novels engage fantasies of European imperial domination conceived as technological and cultural advancement, rather than as violent conquest. America is imagined as a clean slate for pure capitalist freedom, with no indigenous people, no slaves, no exploited immigrants or workers in sight. The Fountainhead and especially Atlas Shrugged fabricate history and romanticize violence and domination in ways that reflect, reshape, and reproduce narratives of European superiority' and American virtue.
Their logic also depends on a hierarchy of value based on radicalized beauty and physical capacity - perceived ugliness or disability' are equated with pronounced worthlessness and incompetence.
Through the forms of romance and melodrama, Rand novels extrapolate the story of racial capitalism as a story of righteous passion and noble virtue. They retell The Birth of a Ntation through the lens of industrial capitalism (see chapter 2). They solicit positive identification with winners, with dominant historical forces. It is not an accident that the novels' fans, though gender mixed, are overwhelmingly white Americans of the professional, managerial, creative, and business classes."
aslan , June 1, 2019
devastating account of the ethos that shapes contemporary AmericaWreck2 , June 1, 2019Ayn Rand is a singular influence on American political thought, and this book brilliantly unfolds how Rand gave voice to the ethos that shapes contemporary conservatism. Duggan -- whose equally insightful earlier book Twilight of Equality offered an analysis of neoliberalism and showed how it is both a distortion and continuation of classical liberalism -- here extends the analysis of American market mania by showing how an anti-welfare state ethos took root as a "structure of feeling" in American culture, elevating the individual over the collective and promoting a culture of inequality as itself a moral virtue.
Although reviled by the right-wing press (she should wear this as a badge of honor), Duggan is the most astute guide one could hope for through this devastating history of our recent past, and the book helps explain how we ended up where we are, where far-right, racist nationalism colludes (paradoxically) with libertarianism, an ideology of extreme individualism and (unlikely bed fellows, one might have thought) Silicon Valley entrepreneurship.
This short, accessible book is essential reading for everyone who wants to understand the contemporary United States.
contemporary crueltykerwynk , June 2, 2019Does the pervasive cruelty of today's ruling classes shock you? Or, at least give you pause from time to time? Are you surprised by the fact that our elected leaders seem to despise people who struggle, people whose lives are not cushioned and shaped by inherited wealth, people who must work hard at many jobs in order to scrape by? If these or any of a number of other questions about the social proclivities of our contemporary ruling class detain you for just two seconds, this is the book for you.
Writing with wit, rigor, and vigor, Lisa Duggan explains how Ayn Rand, the "mean girl," has captured the minds and snatched the bodies of so very many, and has rendered them immune to feelings of shared humanity with those whose fortunes are not as rosy as their own. An indispensable work, a short read that leaves a long memory.
Valuable and insightful commentary on Rand and Rand's influence on today's worldMean Girl offers not only a biographical account of Rand (including the fact that she modeled one of her key heroes on a serial killer), but describes Rand's influence on neoliberal thinking more generally.
As Duggan makes clear, Rand's influence is not just that she offered a programmatic for unregulated capitalism, but that she offered an emotional template for "optimistic cruelty" that has extended far beyond its libertarian confines. Mean Girl is a fun, worthwhile read!
Sister, June 3, 2019
Superb poitical and cultural exploration of Rand's influence
Lisa Duggan's concise but substantive look at the political and cultural influence of Ayn Rand is stunning. I feel like I've been waiting most of a lifetime for a book that is as wonderfully readable as it is insightful. Many who write about Rand reduce her to a caricature hero or demon without taking her, and the history and choices that produced her seriously as a subject of cultural inquiry. I am one of those people who first encountered Rand's books - novels, but also some nonfiction and her play, "The Night of January 16th," in which audience members were selected as jurors – as a teenager.
Under the thrall of some right-wing locals, I was so drawn to Rand's larger-than-life themes, the crude polarization of "individualism" and "conformity," the admonition to selfishness as a moral virtue, her reductive dismissal of the public good as "collectivism."
Her work circulated endlessly in those circles of the Goldwater-ite right. I have changed over many years, and my own life experiences have led me to reject the casual cruelty and vicious supremacist bent of Rand's beliefs.
But over those many years, the coterie of Rand true believers has kept the faith and expanded. One of the things I value about Duggan's compelling account is her willingness to take seriously the far reach of Rand's indifference to human suffering even as she strips away the veneer that suggests Rand's beliefs were deep.
In fact, though her views are deeply-seated, Rand is, at heart, a confidence artist, appealing only to narrow self-interest at the expense of the well-being of whole societies.
I learned that the hard way, but I learned it. Now I am recommending Duggan's wise book to others who seek to understand today's cultural and political moment in the United States and the rise of an ethic of indifference to anybody but the already affluent. Duggan is comfortable with complexity; most Randian champions or detractors are not.
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Yves here. Mark Blyth is such a treat. How can you not be a fan of the man who coined "The Hamptons are not a defensible position"? Even though he's not always right, he's so incisive and has such a strong point of view that his occasional questionable notions serve as fodder for thought. And I suspect he'll be proven correct on his topic today, the inflation bugaboo. Yves here. Mark Blyth is such a treat. How can you not be a fan of the man who coined "The Hamptons are not a defensible position"? Even though he's not always right, he's so incisive and has such a strong point of view that his occasional questionable notions serve as fodder for thought. And I suspect he'll be proven correct on his topic today, the inflation bugaboo. Even though he's not always right, he's so incisive and has such a strong point of view that his occasional questionable notions serve as fodder for thought. And I suspect he'll be proven correct on his topic today, the inflation bugaboo. Even though he's not always right, he's so incisive and has such a strong point of view that his occasional questionable notions serve as fodder for thought. And I suspect he'll be proven correct on his topic today, the inflation bugaboo. By Paul Jay.
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Paul Jay
And is the idea that inflation is about to come roaring back one of the stupid ideas that you're talking about? And is the idea that inflation is about to come roaring back one of the stupid ideas that you're talking about?Mark Blyth
I hope that it is, but I'm going to go with Larry on this one. He says it's about one third chance that it's going to do this. I'd probably give it about one in ten, so it's not impossible.So, let's unpack why we're going to see this. Can you generate inflation? Yeah. I mean, dead easy. Imagine your Turkey. Why not be a kind of Turkish pseudo dictator?
Why not fire the head of your central bank in an economy that's basically dependent on other people valuing your assets and giving you money through capital flows? And then why don't you fire the central bank head and put in charge your brother-in-law? I think it was his brother-in-law. And then insist that low interest rates cure inflation. And then watch as the value of your currency, the lira collapses, which means all the stuff you import is massively expensive, which means that people will pay more, and the general level of all prices will go up, which is an inflation. So, can you generate an inflation in the modern world? Sure, yeah. Easy. Just be an idiot, right? Now, does this apply to the United States? No. That's where it gets entirely different. So, a couple of things to think about (first). So, you mentioned that huge number of 20 trillion dollars. Well, that's more or less about two thirds of what we threw into the global economy after the global financial crisis, and inflation singularly failed to show up. All those people in 2010 screaming about inflation and China dumping bonds and all that. Totally wrong. Completely wrong. No central bank that's got a brass nameplate worth a damn has managed to hit its inflation target of two percent in over a decade. All that would imply that there is a huge amount of what we call "˜slack' in the economy. (Also) think about the fact that we've had, since the 1990s, across the OECD, by any measure, full employment. That is to say, most people who want a job can actually find one, and at the same time, despite that, there has been almost no price pressure coming from wages, pushing on into prices, to push up inflation. So rather than the so-called vertical Phillips curve, which most of modern macro is based upon, whereby there's a kind of speed bump for the economy, and if the government spends money, it can't push this curve out, all it can do is push it up in terms of prices. What we seem to actually have is one whereby you can have a constant level of inflation, which is very low, and any amount of unemployment you want from 2 percent to 12 percent, depending on where you look and in which time-period.
All of which suggests that at least for big developed, open, globalized economies, where you've destroyed trade unions, busted up national product cartels, globally integrated your markets, and added 600 million people to the global labor supply, you just can't generate inflation very easily. Now, we're running, depending on how much actually passes, a two to five trillion-dollar experiment on which theory of inflation is right. This one, or is it this one? That's basically what we're doing just now. Larry's given it one in three that it's his one. I'd give it one in ten his one's right. Now, if I may just go on just for a seconds longer. This is where the politics of this gets interesting. Most people don't understand what inflation is. You get all this stuff talked by economists and central bankers about inflation and expectations and all that, but you go out and survey people and they have no idea what the damn thing is. Think about the fact that most people talk about house price inflation.
There is no such thing as house price inflation. Inflation is a general rise in the level of all prices. A sustained rise in the level of prices. The fact that house prices in Toronto have gone up is because Canada stopped building public housing in the 1980s and turned it into an asset class and let the 10 percent top earners buy it all and swap it with each other. That is singularly not an inflation. So, what's going to happen coming out of Covid is there will be a big pickup in spending, a pickup in employment. I think it's (going to be) less than people expect because the people with the money are not going to go out and spend it because they have all they want already. There are only so many Sub-Zero fridges you can buy. Meanwhile, the bottom 60 percent of the income distribution are too busy paying back debt from the past year to go on a spending spree, but there definitely will be a pickup. Now, does that mean that there's going to be what we used to call bottlenecks? Yeah, because basically firms run down inventory because they're in the middle of a bloody recession. Does it mean that there are going to be supply chain problems? Yes, we see this with computer chips. So, what's going to happen is that computer chips are going to go up in price.
So, lots of individual things are going to go up in price, and what's going to happen is people are going to go "there's the inflation, there's that terrible inflation," and it's not. It's just basically short-term factors that will dissipate after 18 months. That is my bet. For Larry to be right what would have to be true?
That we would have to have the institutions, agreements, labor markets and product markets of the 1970s. We don't.
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So, I just don't actually see what the generator of inflation would be. We are not Turkey dependent on capital imports for our survival with a currency that's falling off a cliff. That is entirely different. That import mechanism, which is the way that most countries these days get a bit of inflation. That simply doesn't apply in the U.S. So, with my money on it, if I had to bet, it's one in 10 Larry's right, rather one in 3.
Paul Jay
The other point he raises, and we talked a little bit about this in a previous interview, but let's revisit it, is that the size of the American debt, even if it isn't inflationary at some point, creates some kind of crisis of confidence in the dollar being the reserve currency of the world, and so this big infrastructure spending is a problem because of that. That's part of, I believe, one of his arguments. The other point he raises, and we talked a little bit about this in a previous interview, but let's revisit it, is that the size of the American debt, even if it isn't inflationary at some point, creates some kind of crisis of confidence in the dollar being the reserve currency of the world, and so this big infrastructure spending is a problem because of that. That's part of, I believe, one of his arguments.Mark Blyth
The way political economists look at the financial plumbing, I think, is different to the way that macro economists do. We see it rather differently. The first thing is, what's your alternative to the dollar unless you're basically going to go all-in on gold or bitcoin? And good luck with those. If we go into a crushing recession and our bond market collapses, don't think that Europe's going to be a safe haven given that they've got half the US growth rate. And we could talk about what Europe's got going on post-pandemic because it's not that good. So what's your alternative (to the Dollar)? Buy yen? No, not really. You're going to buy Chinese assets? Well, good luck, and given the way that their country is being run at the moment, if you ever want to take your capital out. I'm not sure that's going to work for you, even if you could. So you're kind of stuck with it. Mechanically there's another problem. All of the countries that make surpluses in the world make surpluses because we run deficits. One has to balance the other. So, when you're a Chinese firm selling to the United States, which is probably an American firm in China with Chinese subcontractors selling to the United States, what happens is they get paid in dollars. When they receive those dollars in China, they don't let them into the domestic banking system. They sterilize them and they turn them into the local currency, which is why China has all these (dollar) reserves. That's their national savings. Would you like to burn your reserves in a giant pile? Well, one way to do that would be to dump American debt, which would be equivalent to burning your national savings. If you're a firm, what do you do? Well, you basically have to use dollars for your invoicing. You have to use dollars for your purchasing, and you keep accumulating dollars, which you hand back to your central bank, which then hands you the domestic currency. The central bank then has a problem because it's got a liability " (foreign) cash rather than an asset. So, what's the easiest asset to buy? Buy another 10-year Treasury bill, rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat. So, if we were to actually have that type of crisis of confidence, the people who would actually suffer would be the Germans and the Chinese, because their export-driven models only makes sense in terms of the deficits that we run. Think of it as kind of monetarily assured destruction because the plumbing works this way. I just don't see how you can have that crisis of confidence because you've got nowhere else to take your confidence.Paul Jay
If I understand it correctly, the majority of American government debt is held by Americans, so it's actually really the wealth is still inside the United States. I saw a number, this was done three or four years ago, maybe, but I think it was Brookings Institute, that assets after liabilities in private hands in the United States is something like 98 trillion dollars. So I don't get where this crisis of confidence is going to come any time soon. If I understand it correctly, the majority of American government debt is held by Americans, so it's actually really the wealth is still inside the United States. I saw a number, this was done three or four years ago, maybe, but I think it was Brookings Institute, that assets after liabilities in private hands in the United States is something like 98 trillion dollars. So I don't get where this crisis of confidence is going to come any time soon.Mark Blyth
Basically, if your economy grows faster (than the rest of the world because you are) the technological leader, your stock markets grows faster than the others. If you're an international investor, you want access to that. (That ends) only if there were actual real deep economic problems (for the US), like, for example, China invents fusion energy and gives it free to the world. That would definitely screw up Texas. But short of that, it's hard to see exactly what would be these game-changers that would result in this. And of course, this is where the Bitcoin people come in. It's all about crypto, and nobody has any faith in the dollar, and all this sort of stuff. Well, I don't see why we have faith in something (like that instead . I think it was just last week. There wasn't much reporting on this, I don't know if you caught this, but there were some twenty-nine-year-old dude ran a crypto exchange. I can't remember where it was. Maybe somewhere like Turkey. But basically he had two billion in crypto and he just walked off with the cash. You don't walk off with the Fed, but you could walk off with a crypto exchange. So until those problems are basically sorted out, the notion that we can all jump into a digital currency, which at the end of the day, to buy anything, you need to turn back into a physical currency because you don't buy your coffee with crypto, we're back to that (old) problem. How do you get out of the dollar? That structural feature is incredibly important.Paul Jay
So there's some critique of the Biden infrastructure plan and some of the other stimulus, coming from the left, because, one, the left more or less agrees with what you said about inflation, and the critique is that it's actually not big enough, and let me add to that. I'm kind of a little bit surprised, maybe not anymore, but Wall Street on the whole, not Larry Summers and a few others, but most of them actually seem quite in support of the Biden plan. You don't hear a lot of screaming about inflation from Wall Street. Maybe from the Republicans, but not from listening to Bloomberg Radio. So there's some critique of the Biden infrastructure plan and some of the other stimulus, coming from the left, because, one, the left more or less agrees with what you said about inflation, and the critique is that it's actually not big enough, and let me add to that. I'm kind of a little bit surprised, maybe not anymore, but Wall Street on the whole, not Larry Summers and a few others, but most of them actually seem quite in support of the Biden plan. You don't hear a lot of screaming about inflation from Wall Street. Maybe from the Republicans, but not from listening to Bloomberg Radio.Mark Blyth
You don't even hear a lot of screaming about corporate taxes, which is fascinating, right? You'd think they'd be up in arms about this? I actually spoke to a business audience recently about this, and I kind of did an informal survey and I said, "why are you guys not up in arms about this?" And someone that was on the call said, "well, you know, the Warren Buffet line about you find out who's swimming naked when the tide goes out? What if a lot of firms that we think are great firms are just really good at tax optimization? What if those profits are really just contingent on that? That would be really nice to know this because then we could stop investing in them and invest in better stuff that actually does things." You don't even hear a lot of screaming about corporate taxes, which is fascinating, right? You'd think they'd be up in arms about this? I actually spoke to a business audience recently about this, and I kind of did an informal survey and I said, "why are you guys not up in arms about this?" And someone that was on the call said, "well, you know, the Warren Buffet line about you find out who's swimming naked when the tide goes out? What if a lot of firms that we think are great firms are just really good at tax optimization? What if those profits are really just contingent on that? That would be really nice to know this because then we could stop investing in them and invest in better stuff that actually does things."Paul Jay
And pick up the pieces of what's left of them for a penny if they have to go down. And pick up the pieces of what's left of them for a penny if they have to go down.Mark Blyth
Absolutely. Just one thought that we'll circle back, to the left does not think it's big enough, etc. Well, yes, of course they wouldn't, and this is one of those things whereby you kind of have to check yourself. I give the inflation problem a one in ten. But what I'm really dispassionately trying to do is to look at this as just a problem. My political preferences lie on the side of "˜the state should do more.' They lie on the side of "˜I think we should have higher real wages.' They lay on the side that says that "˜populism is something that can be fixed if the bottom 60 percent actually had some kind of growth.' So, therefore, I like programs that do that. Psychologically, I am predisposed therefore to discount inflation. I'm totally discounting that because that's my priors and I'm really deeply trying to check this. In this debate, it's always worth bearing in mind, no one's doing that. The Republicans and the right are absolutely going to be hell bent on inflation, not because they necessarily really believe in (inevitable) inflation, (but) because it's a useful way to stop things happening. And then for the left to turn around and say, well, it isn't big enough, (is because you might as well play double or quits because, you know, you've got Biden and that's the best that's going to get. So there's a way in which when we really are trying to figure out these things, we kind of have to check our partisan preferences because they basically multiply the errors in our thinking, I think.Paul Jay
Now, earlier you said that one of the main factors why inflation is structurally low now, I don't know if you said exactly those words. Now, earlier you said that one of the main factors why inflation is structurally low now, I don't know if you said exactly those words.Mark Blyth
I would say that yes. I would say that yes.Paul Jay
Is the weakness of the unions, the weakness of workers in virtually all countries, but particularly in the U.S., because it matters so much. That organizing of workers is just, they're so unable to raise their wages over decades of essentially wages that barely keep up with inflation and don't grow in any way, certainly not in any relationship to the way productivity has grown. So we as progressives, well, we want workers to get better organized. We want stronger unions. We want higher wages, but we want it without inflation. Is the weakness of the unions, the weakness of workers in virtually all countries, but particularly in the U.S., because it matters so much. That organizing of workers is just, they're so unable to raise their wages over decades of essentially wages that barely keep up with inflation and don't grow in any way, certainly not in any relationship to the way productivity has grown. So we as progressives, well, we want workers to get better organized. We want stronger unions. We want higher wages, but we want it without inflation.Mark Blyth
And it's a question of how much room you have to do that. I mean, essentially, if you quintuple the money supply, eventually prices will have to rise"¦but that depends upon the velocity of money which has actually been collapsing. So maybe you'd have to do it 10 times. There's interesting research out of London, which I saw a couple of weeks ago, that basically says you really can't correlate inflation with increases in the money supply. It's just not true. It's not the money that's doing it. It's the expectations. That then begs the question, well, who's actually paying attention if we all don't really understand what inflation is? So I tend to think of this as basically a kind of a physical process. It's very easy to understand if your currency goes down by 50 percent and you're heavily dependent on imports. You're import (prices) go up. All the prices in the shops are going to go up. That's a mechanism that I can clearly identify that will generate rising prices. If you have big unions, if you have kind of cartel-like vertically integrated firms that control the national market, if you have COLA contracts. If you have labor able to do what we used to call leapfrogging wage claims against other unions, if this is all institutionally and legally protected, I can see how that generates inflation, that is a mechanism I can point to. That doesn't exist just now. Let's unpack this for a minute. The sort of fundamental theoretical assumption on this is based is some kind of "˜marginal productivity theory of wages.' In a perfectly free market with free exchange, in which we don't live, what would happen is you would hire me up to the point that my marginal product is basically paying off for you, and once it produces zero profits, that's kind of where my wages end. I'm paid up to the point that my marginal product is useful to the firm. This is not really a useful way of thinking about it because if you're the employer and I'm the worker, and I walk up to you and say, hey, my marginal productivity is seven, so how about you pay me seven bucks? You just say, shut up or I'll fire you and get someone else. Now, the way that we used to deal with this was a kind of "˜higher than your outside option,' on wages. The way we used to think about this was "why would you pay somebody ten bucks at McDonald's?" Because then you might actually get them to and flip the burgers because they're outside option is probably seven bucks, and if you pay them seven bucks, they just won't show up. So we used to have to pay workers a bit more. So that was, in a sense, (workers) claiming (a bit of the surplus) from productivity. But now what we've done, Suresh Naidu the economist was talking about this the other day, is we have all these technologies for surveilling workers (instead of paying them more). So now what we can do is take that difference between seven and ten and just pocket it because we can actually pay workers at your outside option, because I monitor everything you do, and if you don't do exactly what I say I'll fire you, and get somebody else for seven bucks. So all the mechanisms for the sharing of sharing productivity, unions, technology, now lies in the hands of employers. It's all going against labor. So (as a result) we have this fiction that somehow when the economy grows, our productivity goes up, and workers share in that. Again, what's the mechanism? Once you take out unions and once you weaponize the ability of employers to extract surplus through mechanisms like technology, franchising, all the rest of it, then it just tilts the playing field so much that we just don't see any increase in wages. (Now) let's bring this back to inflation. Unless you see systematic (and sustained) increases in the real wage that increases costs for firms to the point that they need to push on prices, I just don't see the mechanism for generating inflation. It just isn't there. And we've underpaid the bottom 60 percent of the U.S. labor market so long it would take a hell of a lot of wage inflation to get there, with or without unions.Paul Jay
Yeah, what's that number, that if the minimum wage was adjusted for inflation and it was what the minimum wage was, what, 30 years ago, the minimum wage would be somewhere between 25 and 30 bucks, and that wasn't causing raging inflation. Yeah, what's that number, that if the minimum wage was adjusted for inflation and it was what the minimum wage was, what, 30 years ago, the minimum wage would be somewhere between 25 and 30 bucks, and that wasn't causing raging inflation.Mark Blyth
And there is that RAND study from November 2020 that was adeninely entitled, "˜Trends in Income 1979 to 2020,' and they calculated, and I think this is the number, but even if I'm off, the order of magnitude is there, that transfers, because of tax and regulatory changes, from the 90th percentile of the distribution to the 10 percentile, totalled something in the order of $34 trillion. That's how much was vacuumed up and practically nothing trickled down. So when you consider that as a mechanism of extraction, why are worrying about inflation (from wages)? The best story on inflation is actually Charles Goodhart's book that came out last year. We got a long period of low inflation because of global supply chains, and because of demographic trends. It's a combination of global supply chains, Chinese labor, and demographics all coming together to basically push down labor costs, and that's why you get this long period of deflation, which leads to rising profits and zero inflation. A perfectly reasonable way of explaining it. And his point is that, well, that's coming to an end. The demographics are shifting, or shrinking. We're going back to more closed economies. You're going to create this inflation problem again. OK, what's the timeline on that? About 20 years? A few years ago, we were told we had 12 years to fix the climate problem or we're in deep shit. If we have to face the climate problem versus single to double-digit inflation, I'm left wondering what is the real problem here? And there is that RAND study from November 2020 that was adeninely entitled, "˜Trends in Income 1979 to 2020,' and they calculated, and I think this is the number, but even if I'm off, the order of magnitude is there, that transfers, because of tax and regulatory changes, from the 90th percentile of the distribution to the 10 percentile, totalled something in the order of $34 trillion. That's how much was vacuumed up and practically nothing trickled down. So when you consider that as a mechanism of extraction, why are worrying about inflation (from wages)? The best story on inflation is actually Charles Goodhart's book that came out last year. We got a long period of low inflation because of global supply chains, and because of demographic trends. It's a combination of global supply chains, Chinese labor, and demographics all coming together to basically push down labor costs, and that's why you get this long period of deflation, which leads to rising profits and zero inflation. A perfectly reasonable way of explaining it. And his point is that, well, that's coming to an end. The demographics are shifting, or shrinking. We're going back to more closed economies. You're going to create this inflation problem again. OK, what's the timeline on that? About 20 years? A few years ago, we were told we had 12 years to fix the climate problem or we're in deep shit. If we have to face the climate problem versus single to double-digit inflation, I'm left wondering what is the real problem here? The best story on inflation is actually Charles Goodhart's book that came out last year. We got a long period of low inflation because of global supply chains, and because of demographic trends. It's a combination of global supply chains, Chinese labor, and demographics all coming together to basically push down labor costs, and that's why you get this long period of deflation, which leads to rising profits and zero inflation. A perfectly reasonable way of explaining it. And his point is that, well, that's coming to an end. The demographics are shifting, or shrinking. We're going back to more closed economies. You're going to create this inflation problem again. OK, what's the timeline on that? About 20 years? A few years ago, we were told we had 12 years to fix the climate problem or we're in deep shit. If we have to face the climate problem versus single to double-digit inflation, I'm left wondering what is the real problem here? The best story on inflation is actually Charles Goodhart's book that came out last year. We got a long period of low inflation because of global supply chains, and because of demographic trends. It's a combination of global supply chains, Chinese labor, and demographics all coming together to basically push down labor costs, and that's why you get this long period of deflation, which leads to rising profits and zero inflation. A perfectly reasonable way of explaining it. And his point is that, well, that's coming to an end. The demographics are shifting, or shrinking. We're going back to more closed economies. You're going to create this inflation problem again. OK, what's the timeline on that? About 20 years? A few years ago, we were told we had 12 years to fix the climate problem or we're in deep shit. If we have to face the climate problem versus single to double-digit inflation, I'm left wondering what is the real problem here? OK, what's the timeline on that? About 20 years? A few years ago, we were told we had 12 years to fix the climate problem or we're in deep shit. If we have to face the climate problem versus single to double-digit inflation, I'm left wondering what is the real problem here? OK, what's the timeline on that? About 20 years? A few years ago, we were told we had 12 years to fix the climate problem or we're in deep shit. If we have to face the climate problem versus single to double-digit inflation, I'm left wondering what is the real problem here? A few years ago, we were told we had 12 years to fix the climate problem or we're in deep shit. If we have to face the climate problem versus single to double-digit inflation, I'm left wondering what is the real problem here? A few years ago, we were told we had 12 years to fix the climate problem or we're in deep shit. If we have to face the climate problem versus single to double-digit inflation, I'm left wondering what is the real problem here?
cocomaan , , May 1, 2021 at 7:24 am
Great piece. He put to words something I've thought about but couldn't articulate: if wages are stagnant, how could you possibly get broad based inflation?
There is no upward pressure on labor costs anywhere in the economy. The pressures are all downward.
You would need government spending in the order of magnitudes to drive up wages. Or release from a lot of debt, like student loan forgiveness or what have you.
Left in Wisconsin , , May 1, 2021 at 2:06 pm
I'm not sure you need wage growth to get inflation. As Blyth notes, most of the time inflation is a currency or a monetary issue. In the 70s, it was initially an oil thing " and oil flows through a lot of products " and then really went crazy only when Volker started raising interest rates. I don't think there is an episode of "wage-push" inflation in history. (The union cost-of-living clauses don't "cause" inflation, they only adjust for past inflation. If unions can cause wage-push inflation, someone needs to explain how they did this in the late 70s, when they were much less powerful and unemployment was substantially higher, than in the 1950s.) One could argue that expansive fiscal policy might drive inflation but, even then, the mechanism is through price increases, not wage increases. You do need consumption but that can always come from the wealthy and further debt immiseration of the rest of us.
Adam Eran , , May 1, 2021 at 2:51 pm
Blythe is one of those guys who is *almost* correct. For example he declares that expectations drive inflation. What about genuine shortages? The most recent U.S. big inflation stemmed from OPEC withholding oil"a shortage we answered by increasing the price ($1.75/bbl in 1971 -> $42/bbl in 1982). In Germany, the hyperinflation was driven by the French invading the Ruhr, something roughly like shutting down Ohio in the U.S. A shortage of goods resulted. Inflation! In Zimbabwe, the Rhodesian (white) farmers left, and the natives who took over their farms were not producing enough food. A shortage of food, requiring imports, resulted. Inflation!
I guess you could say people in Zimbabwe "expected" food"¦but that's not standard English.
JFYI, Blythe is not a fan of MMT. He calls it "annoying." Yep, that's his well-reasoned argument about how to think about it.
As a *political* economist, he may have a point in saying MMT is a difficult political sell, but otherwise, I'd say the guy is clueless about it.
CH , , May 1, 2021 at 9:13 am
Inflation isn't caused by the amount of money in the economy but by the amount of *spending*.
Like the other commenter, I've wondered this too"if wages have been stagnant for a generation, then how are we going to get inflation? By what mechanism? It seems like almost all of the new money just adds a few zeros to the end of the bank account balances of the already rich (or else disappears offshore).
Still, you just cannot people to understand this because of houses, health care and education. One might even argue that inflated house and education prices are helping keep inflation down. If more and more of our meager income is going to pay for these fixed expenditures, then there's no money left over to pay increased prices for goods and services. So there's no room to increase the prices of those things. As Michael Hudson would point out, it's all sucked away for debt service, meaning a lot of the "money printing" is just subsidizing Wall Street.
But if you pay attention to the internet, for years there have been conspiracy theories all across the political spectrum that we were really in hyperinflation and the government just secretly "cooked the books" and manipulated the statistics to convince us all it wasn't happening. Of course, these conspiracy theories all pointed to the cost of housing, medicine and education as "proof" of this theory (three things which, ironically, didn't go up spectacularly during the Great Inflation of the 1970's). Or else they'd point to gas prices, but that strategy lost it's potency after 2012. Or else they'd complain that their peanut butter was secretly getting smaller, hiding the inflation (shrinkflation is real, or course, but it's not a vast conspiracy to hide price increases from the public).
I'm convinced that this was the ground zero for the kind of anti-government conspiratorial thinking that's taken over our politics today. These ideas was heavy promoted by libertarians like Ron Paul starting in the nineties, helped by tracts like "The Creature from Jekyll Island," which argued that the Fed itself was one big conspiracy. I've seen plenty of people across the political spectrum"including on the far Left"take all of this stuff as gospel.
So if the government is secretly hiding inflation and the Fed itself is a grand conspiracy to convince us that paper is money (rather than "real" money, aka gold), then is it that hard to believe they're manipulating Covid statistics and plotting to control us all by forcing us all to wear masks and get vaccinated? In my view, it all started with inflation paranoia.
Blyth explains why housing inflation isn't really a sign of hyperinflation. But the average "man on the street" just doesn't get it. To Joe Sixpack, not counting some of the things he has to pay for is cheating. So are "substitutions" like ground beef when steak gets too pricey, or a Honda Civic for a Toyota Camry, for example. The complexity of counting inflation is totally lost on them, making them vulnerable to conspiratorial thinking. Since Biden was elected, the ZOMG HyPeRiNfLaTiOn!!&%! articles are ubiquitous.
Does anyone have a good way of explaining this to ordinary (i.e. non-economically literate) people? I'd love to hear it! Thanks.
TomDority , , May 1, 2021 at 9:41 am
"There is no such thing as house price inflation. Inflation is a general rise in the level of all prices. A sustained rise in the level of prices. The fact that house prices in Toronto have gone up is because Canada stopped building public housing in the 1980s and turned it into an asset class and let the 10 percent top earners buy it all and swap it with each other. That is singularly not an inflation."
Maybe I am totally off but, I would say"¦. By your definition, inflation does not exist in the economic terminology as inflation only exists if generally all prices go up and a singularity of soaring house prices and education and healthcare do not constitute an inflation because the number of things inflating do not meet some unknown number of items needed for a general rise in all prices to create an inflation.
What I read you to say is that if Labor prices go up " that could lead to inflation " but if house prices go up (as they have) that is not inflation.
Hypothetically " if labor prices do not go up and the "˜nessesities of living' prices go up (Housing and Med) " would you not have an inflation in the cost of living? " I am convinced that economists and market experts try to claim that the economy and markets are seperate and distinct from humans as a science " and that Political science has nothing to do with what they present. Yet, humans are the only species to have formed the markets and money we all participate and, the only species, therefore, to have an exclusive asset ownership, indifferent to any other species " IE " if you can't pay you can't play and have no say.
I submit that one or a few asset price increases that are combined with labor price stasis(the actual money outlayed for those asset price increased products not moving up) " especially one that is a basic to living (shelter) and not mobile (like money) is inflation " Land prices going up will generally increase the prices of all products created thereon.
Chris , , May 1, 2021 at 9:55 am
Exactly my interpretation.
The "transitory" "food inflation" (but it's not inflation since TVs went down!) is no issue. Just eat 2 years from now or a TV instead.
Objective Ace , , May 1, 2021 at 10:23 am
I think there's two things going on here. There's different inflation indicators, and asset prices are by definition never a part of inflation
The main indicator of CPI has so many different things in it that the inflation of any one item is going to have little effect on it. But you can look up BEA's detailed GDP deflator to see inflation for more specific things like housing expenses (rent) or transportation.
So back to real estate/land: real estate and land are like the stock market. They aren't subject to inflation. They are subject to appreciation. There is somewhat of a feedback effect for sure though: Increased real estate prices can drive up inflation. Rent for sure gets driven up, but also any other good that's built domestically if the owners of capital need to pay more to rent their factories/farms etc.
As noted in the article though, capitalists can simply move their production overseas so there's a limit to how much US land appreciation can filter into inflation. Its definitely happening with rent as housing can't be outsourced. But rent is only one part of overall inflation
jsn , , May 1, 2021 at 10:23 am
The point he was making is that the price change in housing is the result of a policy restructuring of the market: no new public housing and financial deregulation.
The price of food is similarly a response to policy changes: industry consolidation and resulting price setting to juice financial profits.
The point is distinguishing between political forces and market forces. The former is socially/politically determined while the latter has to do with material realities within a more or less static market structure.
This is a distinction essential to making good policy but useless from a cost of living perspective.
Starry Gordon , , May 1, 2021 at 11:26 am
One could prevent crossover for awhile, but eventually certain policies are going to affect certain markets. The policy of giving the rich money drives up asset prices, real estate is a kind of asset, eventually rising real estate costs affect the market the proles enter when they have to buy or rent real estate.
If state institutions tell them there is no inflation, the proles learn that the state institutions lie because they know better from direct experience. Once that gap develops, it's as with personal relationships: when trust is broken, it is very hard to replace. Once belief in state institutions is lost, significant political effects ensue. Often they are rather unpleasant.
jsn , , May 1, 2021 at 1:06 pm
Yes. Discussing complexity in a low trust society makes definitions of terms within a discussion necessary.
The same words are used in different contexts to mean different things making a true statement in one place a lie in another.
Skip Intro , , May 1, 2021 at 2:22 pm
Blyth pointed to the lack of systemic drivers of price increases, and how the traditional ones have disappeared. I think one that he missed, that results in a disconnect with the evidence of price increases across multiple sectors, is the neoliberal infestation. Rent-sucking intermediaries have imposed themselves into growing swaths of the mechanisms of survival, hollowed out productive capacity, and crapified artifacts to the extent that their value is irredeemably reduced. This is a systemic cause for reduced buying power, i.e. inflation, but it is not a result of monetary or fiscal policy, but political and ideological power.
cnchal , , May 1, 2021 at 3:23 pm
> . . . The fact that house prices in Toronto have gone up is because Canada stopped building public housing in the 1980s and turned it into an asset class and let the 10 percent top earners buy it all and swap it with each other.
That is a total load of baloney. The eighties were a time when the Conservative government came up with the foreign investor program and it was people from Hong Kong getting out before the British hand over to China in 1997.
I was there, trying to save for a house and for every buck saved the houses went up twenty. I finally pulled the plug in 89 when someone subdivided a one car garage from their house and sold it for a small fortune. The stories of Hong Kongers coming up to people raking their yard and offering cash well above supposed market rates and the homeowner dropping their rakes and handing over the keys were legendary.
It's still that way except now they come from mainland China, CCP members laundering their loot.
Any government that makes domestic labor compete with foreign richies for housing is mendacious.
When a Canadian drug dealer "saves up" a million to buy a house and the RCMP get wind of it, they lose the house. When a foreigner show up at the border with a million, it's all clean.
Robert Hahl , , May 1, 2021 at 9:49 am
Many people who talk about avoiding inflation are speaking euphemistically about preventing wage growth, and only that; dog whistles, clearly heard by the intended audience. Yet they are rarely confronted directly on this point. Instead we hear that they don't understand what the word inflation means, and Mark seems to be saying these euphamists (eupahmites?) needn't be so concerned because wages will not go up anyway. If so, what we are talking about here is merely helping workers stay afloat without making any fundamental changes. Well, both sides can agree to that as usual. Guess I'm just worn out by this kind of thing.
Basil Pesto , , May 1, 2021 at 10:02 am
this is only related insofar as Mark Blyth is a treat, and I shared it last week, but icymi, an excellent interview with him on the European Super League debacle last week , which really was a huge story.
The Rev Kev , , May 1, 2021 at 10:28 am
The thing that I like about Mark Blyth is how he cuts to the chase and does not waffle. Must be his upbringing in Scotland I would say. The revelation that the US minimum wage should be about $25-30 is just mind-boggling in itself. But in that talk he unintentionally put a value on how much is at stake in making a fairer economic system and it works out to be about $34 trillion. That is how much has been stolen by the upper percentile and why workers have gone from having a job, car, family & annual vacation to crushing student debt, a job at an Amazon fulfillment center and a second job being an Uber driver while living out of car.
Skip Intro , , May 1, 2021 at 1:24 pm
That $25-30 wage was keeping up with inflation , if it were keeping up with productivity it would be, IIRC, nearly twice that. It is interesting to see a dollar figure put on the amount you can reap after a generation or two of growing a middle class, by impoverishing it.
cnchal , , May 1, 2021 at 3:41 pm
This is key.
But now what we've done, Suresh Naidu the economist was talking about this the other day, is we have all these technologies for surveilling workers (instead of paying them more) . So now what we can do is take that difference between seven and ten and just pocket it because we can actually pay workers at your outside option, because I monitor everything you do, and if you don't do exactly what I say I'll fire you, and get somebody else for seven bucks.
Praise be the STEM workers. Without them where would the criminal corporate class be?
Every time I listen to the news (without barfing) the story is, we need moar STEM workers, and I ask myself, what do they do for a living?
howard in nyc , , May 1, 2021 at 10:37 am
Blyth is a bass guitar player! The things you learn about people.
eg , , May 1, 2021 at 11:32 am
I think he also plays guitar and drums, in addition to the bass guitar.
Mikel , , May 1, 2021 at 2:02 pm
If that kind of tidbit excites you:
Before going into economics, Alan Greenspan was a sax and clarinet player who played with the likes of Stan Getz and Quincy Jones.Go figure"¦.
The Rev Kev , , May 1, 2021 at 7:42 pm
Mark Blyth has a remarkable history as well as, well, I will let you read this article about him-
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2006/10/things-ive-learned-prof-mark-blyth-26651
As a tidbit, he has released five or six albums when younger and is into gourmet Indian cuisine.
HotFlash , , May 1, 2021 at 9:04 pm
And Michael Hudson studied piano and conducting . Do failed musicians gravitate to economics? Perhaps for the same reason as my bank manager, a failed bass player (honors graduate from Classy Cdn U in double bass), they see the handwriting on the wall. He told me his epiphany came when he and his band-mates were trying to make cup-o-noodles with tap water in a room over the pub in Thunder Bay where they were playing.
Tex , , May 1, 2021 at 10:39 am
The mental gymnastics to get to "everything needed to survive costs more but wages have not gone up in decades so therefore its all transitory and inflation does not exist" must be painful. How high does the price for cat food have to get before we stop eating?
freebird , , May 1, 2021 at 10:11 pm
Thank you. Most things I buy or am forced to pay for are rising in price. The economists may enjoy the article, but here in Topeka, it's not flying.
KLG , , May 1, 2021 at 10:49 am
Yes! "The Hamptons are not a defensible position" ranks right up there with "It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of (neoliberal) capitalism" by Mark Fisher (and F. Jameson?).
Jeff W , , May 1, 2021 at 5:03 pm
"The Hamptons are not a defensible position"
From Mark Blyth's 2016 interview with AthensLive here .
Return of the Bride of Joe Biden , , May 1, 2021 at 12:12 pm
Does anybody here have knowledge of how much hedonic adjustments influence our official measures of inflation?
chuck roast , , May 1, 2021 at 12:30 pm
Very good, Mark. This leads to the next Q. How do we maintain aggregate demand? The rich guys increasingly Hoover everything up and pay no taxes. So, there is no T. Is the only way to get cash and avoid deflation deficit spending by the G? There is no I worth a damn. (X-M) is a total drain on everything since it's all M in the US and no X. The deficits will have to go out of sight in the future.
You say that there is no velocity of money. Is this because the more money pored into the economy by the G, the more money the rich guys steal? So, there is a general collapse in C. Maybe the work around for the rich guy theft is a $2,000 (sorry, $1,400) check every now and then to the great unwashed. The poors can circulate it a couple of times before the rich guys steal it. Seems like the macro-economists have a lot of "˜splainin' to do. Oh, right, they are busy right now measuring the output gap.
eg , , May 1, 2021 at 2:17 pm
Can someone please define the variables in this comment?
T
G
X
M
CAlso, is there an equation that goes with them?
chuck roast , , May 1, 2021 at 3:29 pm
GNP = Consumption + Investment + Government + (Exports " Imports)
I'd like to see Mark go into a discussion on the velocity of money. I remember the old timey Keynesians lecturing about it, and that's all I remember. I'm guessing that it's related to the marginal propensity to consume.
Ed S. , , May 1, 2021 at 4:35 pm
Chuck,
I may be getting a bit out over my skis, but the St. Louis Fed calculates the velocity of money ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V ). It is defined as
The velocity of money is the frequency at which one unit of currency is used to purchase domestically- produced goods and services within a given time period. In other words, it is the number of times one dollar is spent to buy goods and services per unit of time. If the velocity of money is increasing, then more transactions are occurring between individuals in an economy.
So as velocity slows, fewer transactions happen. Based on the linked chart, the peak velocity was 2.2 in mid-1997. In Q1 2021, it was 1.12. By my understanding, although the money supply continues to increase, the money isn't flowing through the economy in the way it was over the last 30 years (or even 10 years ago).
It's beyond my level of understanding to say with any certainty as to why the slowdown in velocity has occurred, but I speculate it's directly related to the ever-growing inequality in the US economy and the ongoing rentier-ism that Dr. Hudson discusses. [simplistically, if Jeff Bezos has $1.3 billion more on Monday than on Friday, that money will flow virtually nowhere. If each of Amazon's employees equally shared that $1.3 billion (about $1,000 each), the preponderance of the money would flow into the economy in short order].
I've always speculated that money velocity is one of the key indicators of the stagnant economy since 2008. It certainly has coincided with the dramatic increase in wealth in the top fraction (not the 1% but the 0.001%) of the US population.
flora , , May 1, 2021 at 1:03 pm
Thanks for this post. Blyth is always good at explaining in a way I can understand.
Mikel , , May 1, 2021 at 1:04 pm
What Blythe has laid out is not a tale about inflation or money, but a tale about power.
If money goes to the non-elite, you get inflation. If it goes to the elite, you don't get inflation.
If you are a country with little control of your resources (not lack of resources, but control) and/or loans (think IMF)/debt (think war reparations) that give people with little interest in whether you live or die control over your countries' finances, you can be prone to inflation or even hyperinflation.Yeah, I figured out a long time ago that none of this is any "natural economic law" because there is no such thing as "nature" in economics. Inflation is all about political decisions and perceptions.
And I saw this on YouTube a couple of days ago"¦and I still can't think of anything around me that hasn't gone up on price.
politicaleconomist , , May 1, 2021 at 2:37 pm
This is a good response to Summers. But I have a quibble and a concern.
My quibble is that he offers no theory of inflation except implicitly aggregate supply exceeding aggregate demand and there is nothing but hand-waving regarding what he is referring to that he feels has a one chance in ten of happening versus Summers one in three. A second part of this quibble is: what does it mean for inflation to "come roaring back." I assume it means more than just a short-term adjustment to a shot of government spending and gifting. I believe if he thought this through he would have to conclude that without changes in the current structure of the global economy there is no way for this to happen. That really is the case he has made. With labor beaten down not only in the US but worldwide inflation will not come roaring back, period. That is unless there is a chance either that a labor renewal is a near-term possibility. I doubt he believes this. Or does he believe there is another way for inflation to roar back? If so, what is that way, what is the theory behind it?A more fundamental concern is the part where he relies on marginal productivity theory when discussing employment and exploitation. Conceptually that far from Marx's fundamental distinction between labor and labor power.
Wukchumni , , May 1, 2021 at 2:45 pm
Hyperinflation doesn't seem to be possible in this age of digital money no matter how much you conjure up because nobody notices the extreme amount of monies around all of the sudden as the average joe isn't in the know.
Used houses are always appreciating in value, but none dare call it inflationary, more of a desired outcome in income advancement if you own a domicile.
There were no shortages of anything in the aftermath of the GFC, and now for want of a semiconductor, a car sale was lost. Everything got way too complex, and we'll be paying the price for that.
I think the inflation to come won't be caused by a lack of faith in a given country's money, but the products and services it enabled us to purchase.
Mikel , , May 1, 2021 at 3:47 pm
""¦and now for want of a semiconductor, a car sale was lost"¦."
Sometimes car sales are lost because the price of cars has gone up (new and used)"¦just don't call it inflation"¦I'm going to let some more time pass, but stimulus or not, we went from all economic problems being laid at the feet of Covid to now moving on to "shortages" everywhere"¦
Just enought to make you go"¦hmmmm"¦.unti more time passes.
Ed S. , , May 1, 2021 at 8:34 pm
Used houses always appreciate " or is it that they appreciate due to a combination of inflation in income over time and the dramatic decrease in interest rates over the last 20 years?
A very quick back of the envelope calc (literally " and all number are approximate):
In June 2000, median US income was $40,500; 30 yr mortgage rate was 8.25%. 28% of monthly income = $945. That supports a mortgage (30 yr fixed, P&I only " no tax, insurance, etc) of roughly $125,000.
In June 2005, median US income was $44,000; 30 yr mortgage rate was 5.5%. 28% of monthly income = $1026. That supports a mortgage (30 yr fixed, P&I only " no tax, insurance, etc) of roughly $180,000.
In June 2010, median US income was $49,500; 30 yr mortgage rate was 4.69%. 28% of monthly income = $1155. That supports a mortgage (30 yr fixed, P&I only " no tax, insurance, etc) of roughly $225,000.
In June 2015, median US income was $53,600; 30 yr mortgage rate was 4.00%. 28% of monthly income = $1250. That supports a mortgage (30 yr fixed, P&I only " no tax, insurance, etc) of roughly $260,000.
Finally, In June 2020, median US income was $63,000; 30 yr mortgage rate was 3.25%. 28% of monthly income = $1470. That supports a mortgage (30 yr fixed, P&I only " no tax, insurance, etc) of roughly $340,000.
And for fun, if you went to 40% of income in 2020 (payment only), a $2100 monthly payment will cover nearly a $500,000 mortgage in 2020.
For the vast majority of home buyers, the price isn't the main consideration " it's how much will it cost per month. So a small increase in median income (roughly 2% per year) combined with dramatically lower interest rates can drive a HUGE increase in a mortgage " and ultimately the price that can be paid for a house.
Michael Ismoe , , May 1, 2021 at 3:24 pm
I find it amazing that when you give poor people money, it creates inflation. If you give rich people money, it creates jobs (LOL. Sure it does.).
As long as billionaires pay as little as possible, the world is fine.
Tom Bradford , , May 1, 2021 at 3:49 pm
Can't say I really understand this sort of thing but saying rocketing house-prices is "˜a singularity' rather than "˜house-price inflation' has to me echoes of the Bourbon's "Bread too expensive? Let them eat cake." And Versailles wasn't a defensive position either.
In my version of economics-for-the-under-tens you get inflation in two situations. First is where enough folk have enough cash in their pockets for producers/manufacturers/retailers to hike their prices without hitting their sales too much and secondly where there's a shortage of stuff people want and/or need which leads to a bidding war. However I'd agree with Blyth that neither condition exists now or seems likely to arise for a while, making a "˜spike' in inflation unlikely.
ArvidMartensen , , May 1, 2021 at 4:17 pm
I am a non-economist, and so my thoughts below may be wrong. However, here goes.
I would say we have had inflation. Roaring inflation. For the past 20 years of so.Inflation in wages and ordinary costs of living? No, wages have been stagnant. Health care has led the charge in cost of living increases, but most other living expense increases have been low.
Inflation in asset prices? We have had massive inflation in the costs of residential housing where I live.
20 years ago I could buy a 5 br, 3 bath home on a decent block in a good area close to everything for $270,000 dollars. Sure it needed some renovation, but still"¦. Now to buy that home it would cost me around $1,250,000. So that home has gone up in value by 500%. Man, that is inflation.As I understand it, asset inflation is not counted by governments in the GDP or CPI. It appears that those who have most of the assets don't want this to be counted, by the very fact that they control the politicians who control what is counted, and asset inflation isn't counted in the economic data that the politicians rely upon to prove how prudent they are.
So if you want a day to day example of where all this free money is going, look at housing. And also have a quick look at the insane increases in the worth of billionaires. They love all this government spending which magically? seems to end up, via asset purchase and asset price inflation, in their pockets.
cnchal , , May 1, 2021 at 7:02 pm
That home has gone up in price by 500%
Price is what one pays, value is what one gets. That house is roughly the same, so the value has not changed, but the price has gone up by a factor of 5
Same with stawks. One share of Amazon stawk is $3,467.42 as of yesterday.
What is its value? If Bezos can work his tools ever harder, monitor them down to the nanosecond and wring ever moar productivity out of them before throwing them in the tool dumpster behind every Amazon warehouse, the value proposition is that someone else will believe the stawk price should be even higher, at which point one can sell it at greater price for a profit.
Susan the other , , May 1, 2021 at 5:07 pm
What is inflation? Good question. I'd say inflation is fear of monetary devaluation. Not devaluation, just the fear of it. We'll never overcome this unease if we always deal in numbers. Dollars, digits, whatever. We need to deal in commodities " let's call just about everything we live with and use a "commodity". Including unpaid family help/care; and the more obvious things like transportation. If we simply took a summary of all the necessary things we need to live decent lives " but not translated into dollars because dollars have no sense " and then provided these necessities via some government agency so that they were not "inflated" in the process and thereby provided a stable society, then government could MMT this very easily. Our current approach is so audaciously stupid it will never make sense let alone balance any balance sheets. That's a feature, not a bug because it's the best way to steal a profit. The best way to stop demand inflation or some fake scarcity or whatever is to provide the necessary availability. That's where uncle Joe is gonna run headlong into a brick wall. He has spent his entire life doing the exact opposite.
William Neil , , May 1, 2021 at 6:59 pm
The figure for the upward transfer of wealth from the Rand Study was $50 trillion between 1975-2018. It was adjusted up by the authors from $47 trillion to bring it up to 2020 trends.
Here are the authors explaining what they found and their methodology: https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/
Now the interesting thing to me is this " look at the date of the publication in Time magazine: Sept. 14, 2020, so right in the heart of campaign fever, and it never came up in the debates, in the press"¦I didn't hear about it until Blyth made one of his appearances on Jay's show with Rana Foroohar. Long after the election.
VietnamVet , , May 1, 2021 at 9:47 pm
As long as 80% of Americans are head over heels in debt and 52% of 18-to-29-year-olds are currently living with their parents, there never will be the wage inflation of the 1970s. A majority of the people arrested for the Capitol riot had a history of financial trouble. The elite blue zones in Washington State and Oregon that prospered from globalism are seeing a spike in coronavirus cases. North American neoliberal governments have failed dismally. It is intentional in order to exploit more wealth for the rich from the natural resources and workers. If the mRNA vaccines do not control coronavirus variants, and a workable national public health system is not implemented; succession and chaos will bring on Zimbabwe type inflation.
There is a reason why Portland Oregon has been a center of unrest for the past year. The Elite just do not want to see it. How can Janet Yellen deal with this? She can't. She is an Insider. She was paid 7.2 million dollars in speaker and seminar fees in the last two years not to.
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Jan 23, 2021 | www.globalresearch.ca
By Daniel McAdams Global Research, January 23, 2021 Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity 21 January 2021
While the saccharine continues to ooze from the mainstream media for the incoming Biden Administration, the real iron fist of what will be the Biden foreign policy is starting to materialize. As if on cue, major bombings in Baghdad – by ISIS remember them? – have opened the door for the Biden Administration to not only cancel President Trump's troop drawdown from Iraq but to actually begin sending troops back into Iraq.
Is this to be Iraq War 4.0? 3.7? 5.0? Anybody's guess.
If Biden uses this sudden – and convenient – unrest in Iraq as a trigger to return US troops (and bombs), it should not surprise anyone. As Professor Barbara Ransby points out in this video , Biden did much more to make the disastrous 2003 attack on Iraq happen than just vote "yes" on the authorization to use force. As Professor Ransby reminds us, Biden used the full power of his position as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to ensure the Senate approved George W. Bush's lie-based war on Iraq. Biden prevented any experts who challenged the "Saddam has WMDs and he's about to use them" narrative from being heard by Members of Congress, guaranteeing that only the pro-war narrative was heard.
As much as Bush or Cheney, Biden owns the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, which killed a million Iraqi civilians. And he may well be taking us back.
One figure in the Biden Administration who will play a pivotal role in returning the US to its hyper-interventionism in the Middle East is Secretary of State nominee Anthony Blinken . As a Biden Senate staffer in 2003, he helped the then-Foreign Relations Committee Chairman put together a pro-war coalition in the Democratic Party to support President Bush's Republican push for invasion.
Later on Blinken was Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor, where he successfully made the case that destroying both Libya and Syria were fantastic ideas. Both countries drowned in the Obama Administration's "liberation" bloodbath and neither country has recovered from the "democracy" brought by Washington, but being a neocon foreign policy ideologue means never having to say you're sorry.
And Blinken isn't.
Not surprisingly, Blinken is a favorite of the AIPAC-bankrolled Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, which, as Phil Giraldi reported , Tweeted that Blinken would be part of a " superb national security team. The country will be very fortunate to have them in public service."
We have Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) to thank for at least bringing up the fact that Blinken has blundered from foreign policy disaster to foreign policy disaster – which only gets you promoted in Washington DC. In Blinken's confirmation hearing, Paul reminded Blinken of his addiction to intervention in the Middle East and how that has worked out for everyone.
Paul reminded the Secretary of State nominee that his only criticism of the Syria "regime change" plan was that the US did not successfully overthrow Assad. But the US was using jihadist proxies to overthrow the secular Assad , so what does this say about Blinken's judgement?
"The lesson of these wars," said Paul , is that 'regime change' doesn't work!"
Paul added:
Even after Libya you guys went on to Syria wanting to do the same thing again it's a disaster.
You got rid of one 'bad guy' and another 'bad guy' got stronger.
Yes, Senator Paul is right. "Regime change" doesn't work. It kills or destroys the lives of the most vulnerable. The poor and the innocent. The US enemies may occasionally find themselves on the wrong end of a noose or a knife rape , but it is the civilians who always suffer when they are "liberated" by Washington.
Buckle up, as incoming Senate Majority Leader Schumer advised, there's a whole lot of interventionism in the queue. There's a whole lot of death and destruction to be unleashed by Biden, Blinken, and their gang of " humanitarians ."
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Jan 24, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) took to ABC on Sunday morning with George Stephanopoulos to discuss election integrity of the 2020 election, in a discussion which immediately devolved into an inquisition during which Paul was repeatedly pressed to disavow clams that the election was stolen.
Paul not only pushed back -- he put Stephanopoulos in his place, accusing the host of 'inserting yourself in the middle' and 'forgetting who you are as a journalist.'
Stephanopoulos began by asking Paul to admit the "election was not stolen" -- to which Paul responded by saying "The debate over whether or not there was fraud should occur. We never had any presentation in court where we ever looked at the evidence..."
Paul continued: "There were several states in which the law was changed by the Secretary of State and not the state legislature. To me those are clearly unconstitutional and I think there's still a chance those do finally work their way up to the Supreme Court."
"No election is perfect," Stephanopoulos shot back , telling Paul there were "86 challenges filed by President Trump, all were dismissed". As Paul tries to argue that many cases were dismissed for lack of standing and not due to examination of evidence, Stephanopoulos responds: " Can't you just say the words 'this election wasn't stolen'? "
'75% of Republicans want to look at election integrity,' Paul responds. Stephanopoulos responds by saying that those 75% agree with him because they were "fed a big lie" from the President.
Paul pushed back, telling Stephanopoulos: "You immediately say everything's a lie instead of saying there's two sides to everything. Historically what would happen is if I said I thought there was fraud, you'd interview someone else who said there wasn't. But now you insert yourself in the middle and say that the absolute fact is that everything I'm saying is a lie."
"You're saying there's no fraud and it's all been investigated and that's just not true," Paul continues, with Stephanopoulos arguing at the same time. Paul then goes into specifics, detailing irregularities in states in like Wisconsin. "I plan on spending the next two years going around, state to state, fixing these problems," Paul continues. "Let's have an open debate. It's a free country!"
"There has been no thorough examination of all states to see what problems we had and see if we could fix them," Paul says, responding to Stephanopoulos' claims that Bill Barr pronounced there was "no widespread election fraud".
"There's two sides to every story," Paul says. "Interview someone on the other side, but don't insert yourself into the story to say we're all liars."
"You're forgetting who you are as a journalist if you think there's only one side," Paul says. "A journalist would hear both sides and there are two sides to this story."
You can watch the entire 6 minute exchange here:
Election integrity aside, Paul has been a vocal critic of the Biden administration in recent days . On Saturday, we noted Paul's interview with Fox host Sean Hannity, where he pummeled the Biden administration's decision to push for a $15 minimum wage increase that could put 4 million people out of work - leading the Kentucky Republican to exclaim:
"'Why does Joe Biden hate Black teenagers?' ... Why does Joe Biden want to destroy all of these jobs?"
Paul comments come amid ramblings from various leftist economists who insist that there's no impact on employment from such a drastic minimum wage hike...
https://player.cnbc.com/p/gZWlPC/cnbc_global?playertype=synd&byGuid=7000173838
...common sense (and historical experience) for anyone who has ever run an actual business is that raising costs on the lowest-skilled workers in your organization will ripple all the way up, forcing either higher prices to the end-user (eradicating the 'living wage' improvement) and or forcing layoffs as management hold margins and reduce costs (the least-skilled first).
Historically speaking, the black unemployment rate is twice that of whites , while minimum wage increases - as we've shown repeatedly over the last week - correlate with spikes in job losses just about every single time.
That's not an "alternative" fact, that's the awkward reality of 'unintended consequences' from nanny-state intervention write large for the last 70 years.
Paul also blasted Biden for canceling the Keystone XL oil pipeline:
"It's kind of a strange beginning to an administration," Paul said. "You're going to put your best foot forward and the first thing you say is, 'This is how I'm going to kill jobs' ... 'I'm going to kill thousands of jobs of the Keystone pipeline with ending it.'"
You can watch that full interview here:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/x0zmmYMTMQc
various2 1 hour agosgt_doom 16 minutes ago (Edited)Nobody disputes billionaires conspiracy election fraud to destroy political nationalism...
Boing_Snap 20 minutes agoELECTION INTEGRITY: The Great American Myth
Background: Fractional Magic (Bev Harris and Bennie Smith explain GEMS software, still used in Dominion Voting Systems)
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Data scientists explain what went down in Georgia and Pennsylvania
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The media view: watching ballot numbers flip on TV
https://rumble.com/vbu6xh-election-night-errors-how-did-that-happen.html
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State--level criticism:
https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/laws/dominion.shtml
Explanation : There are multiple ways to commit election fraud using Dominion systems but the most efficient manner is the full spectrum two-step process.
First at the adjudication step -- effectively covered in the data scientists' presentation on Georgia video -- massive ballot flipping and with the previous ballot images deleted, no trail remains.
Secondly at the tabulator stage (GEMS software, covered in detail in the Fractional Magic video) ----- so ballots which were not adjudicated, and in some counties 90% went to the adjudication process, proceeded to the tabulation step where they could be fractionalized.
nmewn 2 hours ago (Edited)You gotta ask the question of Rand here though, even as a lone voice of reason that Rand Paul is he and the Trump supporting Senators failed the Republic. They needed to push forward and introduce the Election Fraud evidence after the Jan. 6 planned interruption of the evidence hearing. Why didn't the Election fraud evidence get its day in front of Congress? The Fraud needed to be part of the historical record, and it was not.
Feck Weed 2 hours agoGeorge Stephanopoulos: "There was not enough fraud to..."
Oh. So thats how the Leftardian brain works! Thank you Georgie boi. You now admit to voter fraud whereby legitimate votes were cancelled out by the fraud but it is your opinion that there was not enough fraud for it to matter. Never again do I want to hear this little runt of the litter yapping "Every vote matters!"
Cheapie 1 hour agoThat's the fallback, the "widespread" qualifier.
dark_matter 15 minutes agoYes, "Mostly honest election."
Zero-Hegemon 2 hours agoJust like mostly peaceful protestors as the buildings burn.
Samual Vimes 2 hours agoYes, "just enough" fraud to cover for Traitor Joe, but NOT ENOUGH to warrant a look into the allegations. You got his number.
Huxley's Ghost 1 hour agoSouth Philly judge of elections admits he took bribes to stuff the ballot box for Democratic candidates
FluTangClan 2 hours agoPublic schools have zero tolerance for 'bullying' (that definition has been broadened to irrelevance) or acting out for grade schools kids who barely have the ability to control themselves... but SOME election fraud is ok. Shining examples of values-driven integrity.
Samual Vimes 2 hours agoStephanopoulos is Bill Clinton's lapdog. He's not a journalist. He's a democratic party operative and always has been. He's a warmonger dwarf. He was there for banging interns with cigars. He was there for Vince Foster...
Samual Vimes 1 hour agohttps://www.zerohedge.com/political/1-5-mail-ballots-rejected-4-charged-fraud-new-jersey-election
Samual Vimes 1 hour agoConfessions of a voter fraud: I was a master at fixing mail-in ballots
https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/political-insider-explains-voter-fraud-with-mail-in-ballots/
LetThemEatRand 2 hours agoA Running Compendium Of Fraud Charges In Election 2020
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/running-compendium-fraud-charges-election-2020
Jim in MN 2 hours agoI would say Rand Paul is one of the few Republicans who is not corrupted. He's not perfect either, but he seems to be one of a handful who tries to do something he promised to his voters. As you point out, the problem isn't that there are a few RINOs. The problem is that there are only a few decent human beings in the Republic leadership who are not entirely in the pocket of the RNC, which is entirely in the pocket of the globalists.
Jim in MN 2 hours agohttps://results.philadelphiavotes.com/ResultsSW.aspx?type=FED&map=CTY#page-3
Wards 1 and 2, all districts, 'normal' results with Trump around 5-15% (he officially won 12% of the black vote and 18% of the black male vote nationwide).
Ward 3 district 1.....and the next few hundred districts in Wards 3, 4, 5, etc.....98%+ D.
Stolen votes. Mostly black men's votes.
Then do Detroit. Same thing, a 'buffer page' or two of normal looking results and then bam 98+% D.
Simple corruption, simple cheating.
NOW we can talk about the chain of custody of the mail-in 'thingies' and the security of the electronic systems.....but only if you can admit the bald truth in the DNC machine cities.
ebworthen 2 hours agohttps://detroitmi.gov/webapp/election-results
Do it or STFU.
Handful of Dust 2 hours ago (Edited)The MSM has given up the pretense of being journalists. They are full-fledged propagandist attack dogs and proud of it.
Rattling Bones 2 hours agoOne problem Georgie and his Demorat pals have, is the 100 million people who listened to the State Legislative hearings with Rudy where hundreds of witnesses came forward with credible evidence of fraud. Then there are the video segments of evidence of fraud. Then you have a dozen of the world's top forensic data people coming from all over including forensic teams from Wall Street who testified "there is zero probability Biden could have gotten those numbers."
Inconvenient facts that provide overwhelming proof of fraud. That's why Dems are still in a tizzy and have 50,000 soldiers and police protecting His Majesty Biden...but this is not going away from what Rand Paul says.
"Da peeples love me so much I need 15 platoons of soldiers for protection," Pol Pot yelled to the rabble below his bullet-proof, bomb-proof balcony.
Demologos 2 hours agoHow come Stephanopoulos can't say the words 'there was no Russian collusion'?
That Old Magic 2 hours agoHe enjoys his nice fat paycheck for looking the other way.
philmannwright 2 hours agoIt is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it ." ― Upton Sinclair
FluTangClan 2 hours agoGeorge is not a journalist puhlease everyone knows that. He is the el chapito of the dem media
adr 2 hours ago (Edited)Thank you. He was on Bill Clinton's staff. He was a happy part of bombing Iraqi babies, bombing Yugoslavia, bombing phkn Sudan based on internet searches. He has zero credibility. His credibility is buried with Vince Foster.
headless blogger 1 hour ago (Edited)They can never allow the evidence to be presented because it is overwhelming proof of fraud. If there was no fraud, then there would be no harm in having evidence presented in court. The absolute proof of fraud is the number of adjudicated ballots. Were 68% of people in Georgia really incompetent enough to not know how to fill out a ballot.
The other irrefutable fact is that the state of PA did not follow an order from the US supreme court to separate ballots received after election day. Also in Philadelphia election officials destroyed the envelopes so they could not be matched with ballots.
Even if Biden really did win those two states, which he didn't, the actions of the election supervisors invalidated the election. The only recourse was to have a new election in disputed states.
yerfej 43 minutes agoPlus, Paul is not the best person to make the case for the American people on election integrity, as he isn't even an attorney. He can't debate the issue properly which allows the Psy-ops operators like Steph to out maneuver him.
People need FACTS, which so far the election integrity researchers are not providing in a logical and chronological format. The PSY OPS operation that pulled off the Coup, are smooth operators and are now able to clean up any loose ends with their media.
What needs to happen is an independent investigation that can present the findings in a way that people understand. As it is, they keep screaming election fraud, but aren't providing details in an orderly manner so nobody can really get a grip on what happened.....
....which is the hallmark of a psy-ops operation; they don't want you to be able to process what happened logically and chronologically.
rkb100100 2 hours agoNo, they have implemented a very good long term strategy to take over the positions of power. Academia is a good example where they own it and now have the ability to pollute minds rather than get students to look at all sides of the equation. That doesn't do anyone outside of the elites any good. Reality is its not a left vs. right thing, its the common people vs. the elites.
Lost in translation 1 hour ago"No election is perfect" - that'll be carved on the countries tombstone.
TruthAbsolute 1 hour agoBlows my mind that people forget so quickly how he turned - or just overlook it - and continue in the foolish belief "Rand is one of the good guys!"
People reveal themselves in a crisis. Rand certainly did...
Jam 1 hour ago remove linkof course there was election fraud...and the democrats have set up a system that protects them well. All the way up to the judicial system and if not their judge then families are threaten. There is is no integrity in politics, these people are not honest or very, very few of them! They are not working for the people but ultimately for themselves and their life treasure chess! USA has become very Evil minded!
Nice to see Paul not backing down, someone in politics still has a backbone and can tell it like it is besides Trump.
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Tony Hall , says: January 23, 2021 at 5:39 am GMT • 11.0 hours agoJan 24, 2021 | www.unz.com
The January Sixth events in Washington D.C., depicted in the corporate media as Donald Trump's criminal "incitement to insurrection", were predictably greeted by Democrats and their media as the worst tragedy to ever befall American democracy, the heinous plot to establish a police state -- a coup d'etat, the final desperate act of a deranged tyrant. That might be considered something akin to surface discourse. Framed differently, those events could not have made the Dems happier, for by the time the last demonstrator left the Capitol the political floodgates were opened: total war against an entire nation of seditious Republicans, now demonized as "domestic terrorists", could finally be adopted as full-fledged strategy. The perfect Dems scenario for gaining unchallenged power had been laid.
Beyond the moment of Capitol disorder the Dems would find, without much difficulty, that most precious of all gifts -- a political godsend. Like Pearl Harbor and 9/11, national trauma would give the power elite just what it coveted – in this case the greatest of all opportunities to frame Trump and much of the Republican party as enemies of the state, collectively damned to ideological purgatory. January Sixth, like December Seventh before it, would serve as political code for converting national chaos into its very opposite: relief. The Dems, already beginning to solidify power in the White House, Congress, the media, and Big Tech, could now move toward a scorched-earth policy – war of annihilation.
In his book Cultures of Militarism, historian John Dower describes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as "political godsend", a moment when humiliating military defeat ("day of infamy") would allow president Franklin Roosevelt to do what he desperately wanted to do but could not in the face of an "isolationist" American public opinion -- bring the U.S. into World War II. Pearl Harbor turned out to be a wonderful blessing in disguise for FDR, whose infamous eight-point program effectively provoked the Japanese into attacking the Pacific fleet in Hawaii. In the end, after four difficult years, victory would be heroically wrestled from defeat.
After what was portrayed as a "sneak attack" (military operations were supposed to be advertised in advance?), the New York Herald Tribune could exalt: "Since the clash now appears to have been inevitable, its occurrence brings with it a sense of relief. The air is clearer. Americans can now get down to their task [of waging war] with the old obstacles finally removed, forgotten." Public opposition to U.S. entry into the war vanished in two hours one early Sunday morning. Democratic politicians, joined by a good many Republicans, were now ready to take military combat to Japan (and then Germany), as the attack had given FDR all the power, not to mention legitimacy, any president could possibly desire. Since 1941 Pearl Harbor has been ideological code for unlimited executive freedom, and Roosevelt energetically took advantage.
In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, shock turned to resolve, momentary defeat to righteous commitment. Victim status would be transformed into its opposite. Roughly the same dynamic would be repeated in the case of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which gave president George W. Bush "permission" to do what he and the neocons were already hellbent on doing – invading Iraq and "finishing the job" of overthrowing Saddam Hussein. In both cases – Pearl Harbor and 9/11 – national humiliation was mobilized to "reset" U.S. foreign policy.
For the present-day ensemble of Democratic elites – Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, et. al. – January Sixth at the Capitol could not have been more timely, more opportune. Truly another godsend. A jolt to the system, however feeble, partial, and ill-fated, would justify sustained authoritarian force across the public landscape. Seen as vile agents of treachery, Republicans would be thrown onto the defensive, immobilized. Pelosi, ready as ever for vengeful action, would say: "The situation of this unhinged president could not be more dangerous. He chose to be an insurrectionist." Trump's behavior (in riling up demonstrators) would demand immediate and harsh retribution. Other Dems quickly followed Pelosi's lead, amplified by a monolithically frenzied media. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, shrill as ever and clearly speaking for the "progressive" squad, said: "I do believe we should exercise every avenue possible because the president has shown that his mental status and his actions are wildly eroding at a rapid pace." Trump represents a "clear and present danger to our democracy", she blustered, and must be removed from office as soon as possible.
Not to be overshadowed, Senator Chuck Schumer, reprising "Pearl Harbor" no less, would state: "I have never lived through or even imagined an experience like the one we have just witnessed in this Capitol. President Franklin Roosevelt set aside December 7, 1941 as a day that will live in infamy. Unfortunately, we can now add January 6, 2021 to that very short list of dates in American history that will live forever in infamy." Oblivious to months of fire bombings, lootings, beatings, and killings across the streets and buildings of dozens of American cities (criminality that persists to this day) – all encouraged by the Dems -- Schumer would add, hypocritically: "The temple of democracy was desecrated, its windows smashed, our offices vandalized."
The authoritarian, virtually fascistic reaction of the media and political establishment was swift and, well, unhinged: the House would quickly move to impeach the president, again, Trump was permanently banned from Twitter and other social-media outlets, Republicans (even those far removed from the Capitol violence) were facing censorship, blacklisting, job loss, and thoroughly dishonest smears. Within a week the silencing of conservatives across the Internet had reached new heights. The long-cherished Beltway goal to destroy Trump, his family, and associates was in sight: any Trump hope for the presidency in 2024 would be smashed. Hysterical threats of "domestic terrorism" would mean, as always, a drastic Hobbesian response: maximum state power, strengthened ideological controls, the crushing of political opposition.
As Dower noted, the ideological code emanating from "Pearl Harbor" included yet another motif: the familiar stereotype of Asians (at that time) as sneaky, backstabbing, and irrational would be affirmed on December Seventh. Who else could carry out such a dastardly attack? The same code would naturally apply to millions (tens of millions) of deplorable Trump supporters – a motley assemblage of gun-toting racists and neo-Nazis. Didn't those sanctimonious CNN pundits always warn about the backward white-supremacists seduced by the guile of the Orange Menace? Indeed. The truth was finally illuminated for every Beltway dweller to seize upon and embellish: Trump followers would now have to pay, their collective guilt revealed beyond doubt amidst the ashes of January Sixth.
So when all the enlightened Dems repeat their heartfelt sadness over the fate of the Republic, over Trump's evil subversion of "our democracy", it might be time to look more closely beneath the surface – or maybe head for the hills. If there were any bars open in the woke Democratic neighborhoods, that is probably where Pelosi, AOC, Adam Schiff, and other sad victims of the Orange Menace might be found gathering to celebrate, toasting to their unbelievably good fortune. Whether such celebrations might be long-lived, however, would be another matter. Fascistic politics has a tendency to devour its own ruthless protagonists.
Sue Dunham , says: January 15, 2021 at 7:49 pm GMT • 7.9 days ago
My SIMPLE Pseudonymic Handle , says: January 16, 2021 at 12:04 am GMT • 7.7 days agoThank you for writing this. I am still trying to figure out why Ashli Babbit, the only person shot on 1/6, was surrounded by cops at the time, with John Sullivan filming the incident, along with a Chinese videographer from the CIA's Epoch Times. Sullivan's footage of the event focuses lovingly on the hand of the shooter, until he steps forward and shoots. The shooter makes a very exaggerated movement before he fires, despite having his gun trained on Babbitt already. I believe this movement was a necessary signal to Babbitt, so that could fall backward in sync with the gunshot. She could have been easily restrained and arrested by the cops on her side of the window, but instead she was "shot" by a conveniently disembodied arm. And the only evidence of injury is a very small amount of blood coming out of her mouth.
Crisis actor shenanigans!
@Sue Dunham ng out of her neck and all over the Capital steps.Robert Dolan , says: January 23, 2021 at 5:19 am GMT • 11.3 hours agoAfter I saw the video of Ashli Babbit's rant on gewtube I came to the conclusion it was just another manufactured event. I was reminded of the woman Astronaut that drove all the way from the Johnson Space Center down to the Space Coast in Florida to be with her unrequited love. All the while wearing diapers the whole time so she wouldn't have to take potty breaks on the drive down.
If anyone else has seen a video of blood spurting out of Ashli's neck and pooling all over the floor please provide a link.
You know, I want to see a video where the blood is really spurting out like in the movies.
Louis Hissink , says: January 23, 2021 at 5:29 am GMT • 11.2 hours ago1/6 was a nothingburger that is being jewed out of all proportion.
In reality, 1/6 did about ..1/10000000000000 as much damage as the Antifa and BLM shitheads did in nine months of REAL insurrection.
The jewish owned MSM lies about everything, turns ANY event into an opportunity to SHIT on innocent white people to demonize them and instill desire in non-whites to MURDER white people.
The jew media narrative distilled is blood libel against white people.
That's all it is.
Carlton Meyer , says: • Website January 23, 2021 at 5:32 am GMT • 11.1 hours agoJanuary Sixth, like December Seventh before it, would serve as political code for converting national chaos into its very opposite: relief.
Isn't "order" the antonym of chaos?
Buzz Mohawk , says: January 23, 2021 at 5:36 am GMT • 11.1 hours agoIn his book Cultures of Militarism, historian John Dower describes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as "political godsend", a moment when humiliating military defeat ("day of infamy") would allow president Franklin Roosevelt to do what he desperately wanted to do but could not in the face of an "isolationist" American public opinion -- bring the U.S. into World War II. Pearl Harbor turned out to be a wonderful blessing in disguise for FDR, whose infamous eight-point program effectively provoked the Japanese into attacking the Pacific fleet in Hawaii.
Roosevelt also knew a Japanese fleet was enroute to attack Pearl Harbor, but withheld this intel from commanders in Hawaii.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/1niZil4lNjU?feature=oembed
@Beavertales act, the draconian over-reaction of the elite may prove to be a godsend rallying event for the oppressed.Indeed, when I read the title, "January Sixth as Godsend," I thought this article was going in the direction you indicate.
Events, like arguments, often comprise two, opposing poles. The question is, what will be the result, the aufheben , this time?
In the near term, clearly it will be further erosion of civil liberties and continued "American Pravada" fakery. In the long run, however, anything is possible, even things we can't imagine, because this is now an irrational, complex, disturbed system.
aandrews , says: January 23, 2021 at 5:44 am GMT • 10.9 hours agoWho will play the role of the Philip Zelikow in the "Insurrection Commission," in the extension of the 9/11 Commission into the forthcoming 1/6 Commission?
RedpilledAF , says: January 23, 2021 at 5:45 am GMT • 10.9 hours agohttps://www.youtube.com/embed/RFpw-ioM3dk?feature=oembed
44:00
" a shift of the tectonic plates. It is happening before our eyes, this gathering of the elites ."
@My SIMPLE Pseudonymic Handlemcohen , says: January 23, 2021 at 6:04 am GMT • 10.6 hours agoI forget the name of the incident, but several years ago there was a very obvious fake female getting shot incident in an attempted color revolution in Iran. It had cia/mi6/Mossad written all over it, as usual. However, I think they ended up killing the "useful idiot" a few hours later when the plan failed. This incident is very similar. If someone knows the incident I am talking about please remind me/us.
Luus Kanin , says: January 23, 2021 at 6:18 am GMT • 10.4 hours agoshe was shot in the chest.the neck shot narrative is disinformation to go with the false flag narrative which is a great sunny day.
Mr. Cracker , says: January 23, 2021 at 6:55 am GMT • 9.7 hours agoPlease don't besmirch fascists by mentioning Pelosi as a representative. A better description of her would be a plutocratic cypriot. No self respecting fascist would be caught within a stone's throw of her for fear of catching the backdoor trots.
Kolya Krassotkin , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:01 am GMT • 9.6 hours agoOh my gosh, is that thing still alive?! And who is that corpse beside her?
@BeavertalesSchuetze , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:02 am GMT • 9.6 hours agoQuite tame, but Schumer, Pelosi and the rest of the gang are going to work it up into The Reichstag Fire and would, if they could use it to get an enabling act.
Goebbels would be so proud of all the Dems, especially of Schumer.
Mr. Cracker , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:03 am GMT • 9.6 hours agoWe can take this Pearl Harbor analogy a little further. The Japanese Americans were also stripped of their property in a very planned and devious manner immediately after December 7. Jews picked up most of this property at fire sale prices and benefitted immensely.
The full effects of how this faked January 6 "insurrection" was "good for the jews" will become clear in the months ahead. But one thing is clear, the take down of Parler directly benefitted jew owned Facebook (((Zuckerberg))) and the gaggle of jew controlled social media outfits like Twitter and Instagram.
The Japanese Americans were stripped of thousands of acres of valuable farmland in central California. Shortly after the January 6 insurrection it came out the Bill Gates is the largest owner of farmland in the US. Covid and Climate Engineering has impacted farmers across the US (derechios). I think there may be some correlation here too.
There is also the issue of the 25,000 National Gaurd called in for the innauguration. Washington mobilized for war.
Mr. Cracker , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:16 am GMT • 9.4 hours agoWill these people please die already!
GeneralRipper , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:30 am GMT • 9.2 hours agoThey can wear tailored suits that cost five or ten thousand. They can get hair colouring that cost maybe two grand. They can spend as much as they can spend, but the brutal truth is they are not getting out of this place alive, no matter how much they spend, no matter how much political power they have, no matter who they know. They are going to be just as dead as the rest of us. LOL.
Dube , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:32 am GMT • 9.1 hours agoPelosi is 80 lol
That filthy fucking treasonous whore is going to die soon.
Her Daddy is waiting to greet her in Hell.
Dr. Charles Fhandrich , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:41 am GMT • 9.0 hours agoLet the show continue. Trump will be in the Senate gallery to enjoy the impeachment. Pass it on.
Dr. Charles Fhandrich , says: January 23, 2021 at 7:48 am GMT • 8.9 hours agoThe people pictured above, are hands down, the craziest of the crazies. These comrades make the Trump administration look like boy scouts by comparison.
brabantian , says: January 23, 2021 at 8:01 am GMT • 8.6 hours agoThe problem is, they weren't carrying guns. No one was really threatened. They stayed between the purple ropes, those folks with canes and walkers and only a few reached the "inner sanctum", which looks like a library and there ANTIFA members instigated the usual window breaking and were actually scolded by some of the Trump supporters telling them to stop it, when finally an unarmed woman, a Trump supporter was murdered by the police. Only the biggest dupes and people wanting to believe an absurd narrative were shocked. Thinking people were not.
chris , says: January 23, 2021 at 8:10 am GMT • 8.5 hours agoInteresting that the troops in DC are STAYING, their active duty orders extending AT LEAST through 16 February which MAY BE EXTENDED military document below on this
Some say these are Trump troops who will still help 'stop the steal', arrest Biden etc LOL others say that Biden-Harris are preparing martial law scenarios after possible false flag terror attack, or some kind of new economic or pandemic crisis Given Biden's USA troops invaded northern Syria on Biden's first full day in office Thursday, it seems the USA war machine is back in gear and happy to be ridin' wit' Biden
As is widely noted, the new Biden gov seems to be poking ordinary Americans with a stick:
– Biden's tranny orders destroying women's sports and that all bio-males 'identifying as female' be welcome in women's locker rooms & rest rooms
– Biden 'critical race theory' order for white-humiliating 'training', all non-Jew whites to confess to being inherently 'racist' as price to keep gov etc jobs
– Amnesty & citizenship for 11 million & maybe 30-40 million migrants inside US, end to deportations & border securityJewish Congressman Steve Cohen of Tennessee blurts out that 75% of USA white soldiers 'cannot be fully trusted' , as if hinting there is a war of the new government and Jewish interests, opposing whites who voted for Trump or reject the 'humiliate the whites', LGBTranny etc agendas
The 'troops staying in DC thru February, maybe longer' military document
animalogic , says: January 23, 2021 at 8:18 am GMT • 8.4 hours agoGreat summary, though the word 'godsent' implies a passivity which seems misapplied in describing the actions of the beneficiaries of this deep state instigation.
This type of event, perfunctorily (and rather clumsily) tracing a number of transparent stages, which are then blasted incessantly through propaganda megaphones, is absolutely standard practice in all foreign coups.
This dynamic is used to give all the partisans a fig leaf to cover their actions and to provide the next level actors a cue to start their intervention.
@My SIMPLE Pseudonymic Handleanimalogic , says: January 23, 2021 at 8:25 am GMT • 8.2 hours ago"You know, I want to see a video where the blood is really spurting out like in the movies."
Fair enough.
But -- if she died instantly there'd be very little blood .
I have no idea what really happened, but I'm willing to provisionally accept she was shot dead by an unidentified shooter.
dimples , says: January 23, 2021 at 9:05 am GMT • 7.6 hours ago"The temple of democracy was desecrated, its windows smashed, our offices vandalized."
Most of the Dem' – Establishment reaction to 6.1.21 has been spew inducing, but the above quote is just perfectly -- funny.
It is SO over the top, SO cynical, self serving & lacking in irony that hilarity is the only natural response.
Schuetze , says: January 23, 2021 at 9:09 am GMT • 7.5 hours agoThere are said to be 2300 Capitol police answerable to Pelosi etc. So when the remarkably few police actually there conveniently moved the barriers aside to let protestors into the building, its obvious that the Democrat gerontocracy was still thinking well ahead of the dumb Trumpstein rabble.
@Sue Dunham staged "incidents" along the path to Lexington, just like Charlottsville in 2017 was part of the lead up to the "insurrection" of January 6, 2021.TyRade , says: January 23, 2021 at 9:14 am GMT • 7.4 hours agoSamuel Adams and his Masonic Brothers had been planning and inciting the rebellion (Tea Party, Boston Massacre) from the Green Dragon Tavern.
Boston's Green Dragon Tavern, headquarters of both the Sons of Liberty and St. Andrew's Lodge
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goldgettin , says: January 23, 2021 at 9:18 am GMT • 7.4 hours agoI thought from the title the theme was going to be a far subtler one, not the 'what a gimme for The Left', the line which everyone still able to publish has taken. I'd argue that 6 Jan brings peak Democrat hubris forward so pulls nemesis – the revelation of the red tooth and claw of unhinged, vote-losing socialism – much nearer (say 2022).
@BeavertalesBert , says: January 23, 2021 at 10:55 am GMT • 5.7 hours agoGood points. Flip the script tell the truth make it happen.
Yet people still don't believe in Karma?????????
What we need to do is stop tolerating/subsidizing evil.
Easier said than done you say?You're probably right.
Hard to get it out there though,most seem TOO invested in
continuing their blissful expertise .
Looks to me that it's finally beginning to end or not
@BeavertalesPatric , says: January 23, 2021 at 10:56 am GMT • 5.7 hours agoYes, and there is also the clear evidence of capitol police standing aside, waving protestors toward the building, lining the halls to get out of their way as they entered, and leading them up the correct set of stairs. It was a set up, like what Roosevelt achieved at Pearl Harbor.
WorkingClass , says: January 23, 2021 at 10:56 am GMT • 5.7 hours agoThe writer does not say so though it is implied .this 'event' screamed it was STAGED. Beginning with the most obvious why were the crowd allowed in at all? It's just another of these 'hoaxes' and with Biden in charge look for many more. Didn't the whole 'hoax' method (Sandy Hook, Boston Bombing, etc etc) take off during the Obama/Biden years? As Chuck Shumer said recently "Buckle Up"
The Alarmist , says: January 23, 2021 at 11:05 am GMT • 5.6 hours ago1/6 was a false flag attack following the theft of the 2020 election. The purpose? To establish Chinese style Totalitarianism on behalf of what Pepe Escobar refers to as Techno Feudalism.
Nothing good can come from Democrats and/or Republicans. Democrats and Republicans have ruined our Country. Why is Orange Man Bad? Becuase the Deplorables defeated both Parties in 2016. It won't happen again. Nothing good can come from the District of Corruption. Separation is the ONLY way forward. Why is anyone still talking about future elections?
Anonymous [144] • Disclaimer , says: January 23, 2021 at 11:07 am GMT • 5.5 hours agoThat might be considered something akin to surface discourse.
Along these lines
https://www.youtube.com/embed/SjbPi00k_ME?feature=oembed
@Sue Dunham as a cue to pretend you were shot, if you are, in fact, pretending. So, if the "exaggerated movement" is your proof that it was "acting," then it was not acting but real. That it was otherwise a set-up, and "an inside job" by the same people who run Antifa is obvious. That the police removed the barricades and waved the people to come in, led by bussed in Antifa Judas goats, is also obvious and well documented. You could say all of America, white and black, was shot at that moment. Just because all of the fake killings the last few years by white people are a staged show to incriminate the innocent and create the illusion of "White Supremacy," does not mean that the Deep State does not kill when it serves their interest.Abdul Alhazred , says: January 23, 2021 at 11:26 am GMT • 5.2 hours ago
@Sue Dunhamonebornfree , says: • Website January 23, 2021 at 11:30 am GMT • 5.2 hours agoSome say Schumer shot Ashli Babbitt? Who did?
Chucky wants to take your guns away, but he knew how to shoot and somewhere on the net is a
better phrenic matchup than this would suggest, but hairlines do speak as wellhttps://www.sinsthatcrytoheavenforvengeance.com/2021/01/some-say-that-chuck-schumer-is-one-who.html
Peripatetic Itch , says: January 23, 2021 at 12:14 pm GMT • 4.4 hours ago"For the present-day ensemble of Democratic elites – Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, et. al. – January Sixth at the Capitol could not have been more timely, more opportune. Truly another godsend. A jolt to the system, however feeble, partial, and ill-fated, would justify sustained authoritarian force across the public landscape. Seen as vile agents of treachery, Republicans would be thrown onto the defensive, immobilized. "
The author does not seem to be aware yet that the whole invasion was a CIA/FBI/Antifa/BLM/Q-Anon staged, planned false flag event, [complete with a staged shooting], with the intent to demonize Trump and his supporters [and to arrest some of them on the spot, eg Alex Jones and Roger Stone].
A set up from the git go.
SWAT teams came to Roger Stones D.C. hotel room [luckily he'd already left town after smelling something rotten in the air]. Since then his 70 yr old wife was viciously attacked in FL. by an anonymous bike rider [Antifa?] who deliberately ran over her body at least 3 times [she's now under intensive care in a FL hospital, and Stone himself has gone into hiding, apparently].
A SWAT team also came for Jones in DC [apparently], but local police refused to co-operate with Feds to the best of my knowledge at present, so that take down didn't go as planned for the Fed goons either.
Regards, onebornfree
@Sue DunhamPeripatetic Itch , says: January 23, 2021 at 12:36 pm GMT • 4.1 hours agoAshli died very quickly, You can see her hands going into tetanic contractions within a very few seconds of her collapse. She was bleeding internally through her esophagus or wind pipe and the blood was coming out her mouth. As your heart stops, so does the bleeding.
Curiously this is the second time you have posted this exact same comment, even with the exact same "Thank you for writing this" to start. Even more curious, your first reply and agreement comes from the exact same person who agreed with you then (Jan. 15). Who curiously posted the exact same response he posted then. Are you posing as both? Very convenient, if true.
@mcohenTemporary Insanity , says: January 23, 2021 at 12:36 pm GMT • 4.1 hours agoshe was shot in the chest.
That's interesting. It would explain a lot of things. Do you have a source for it? Has there been an autopsy?
Schuetze , says: January 23, 2021 at 12:38 pm GMT • 4.0 hours ago"Whether such celebrations might be long-lived, however, would be another matter."
Only time will tell
@Peripatetic Itch "throuple" mind games, clearly she has been a lot more than merely "mentioned"Schuetze , says: January 23, 2021 at 12:45 pm GMT • 3.9 hours ago"Ashli and Aaron, who served as a Marine from 2000 to 2005, married in 2019 and met their girlfriend less than a year into their marriage"
@brabantiantheMann , says: January 23, 2021 at 12:51 pm GMT • 3.8 hours agoI think that they are afraid that old Jubal Early is pissed off about all the Confederate statues being desecrated and that he is going to rise from the dead, whoop those useless Yankees and threaten Washington once more
General Early and the Army of the Valley Movements Map
Peripatetic Itch , says: January 23, 2021 at 1:00 pm GMT • 3.7 hours agoI think most of you are missing the point about the events of 1-6. The only really relevant photos of that day are the ones of US Congress"men" cowering in abject terror under their desks, or running in abject terror to their precious "safe" location away from the Capitol building.
This is the very public demonstration of true sniveling cowardice in a manner that cannot be naysayed or denied in any way. And now the entire world knows it. Having been so publicly outed as low grade cowards, we can now expect, going forward, that every reaction of the US Congress will be a grotesque, and violent, overreaction.
Because that is what cowards do with power.
@Schuetze lockquote>There is also the issue of the 25,000 National [Guard] called in for the [inauguration].
They did give cover for the abysmally small crowd attending the inauguration. From the pics, it hardly looked to be more than a thousand. Trump had more than that lining the streets when he returned to Mar-a-Lago.
So of course, the "threat" of further horrendous violence from those oh so vicious Trump supporters still hiding in the city since Jan. 6 deterred a full half million of those enthusiastic Biden supporters who so wanted to see him take the oath.
Nicolae Ceaușescu would have been proud.
Realist , says: January 23, 2021 at 1:18 pm GMT • 3.4 hours agoPeripatetic Itch , says: January 23, 2021 at 1:35 pm GMT • 3.1 hours agoBeyond the moment of Capitol disorder the Dems would find, without much difficulty, that most precious of all gifts -- a political godsend.
It was not a godsend it was conceived and designed by subhumans in the Deep State.
@Schuetze Why would he shoot with Capitol police standing in the line of fire back in the stairwell?
Winter also tries to make the case that John Sullivan was inciting the riot when there is no footage yet produced of Sullivan doing anything more than recording events as he saw them, which is what he said he was doing. He published an hour-long video and nothing there shows him doing anything physical. He did say things like "Let's burn that shit down" but it could not have been heard by many (if any) people near him and there is no indication anyone else was paying attention to him. He was, it seems, simply narrating and role-playing.
Petermx , says: January 23, 2021 at 1:41 pm GMT • 3.0 hours agoPeripatetic Itch , says: January 23, 2021 at 1:49 pm GMT • 2.8 hours agoI only learned in the last 4 to 5 years what despicable old hags Pelosi and Hillary are. They compete for being the most despicable with Hillary suggesting Trump was in contact with Russian President Putin on January 6 to keep him updated on the so called "insurrection". For over 75 years Americans, most often Jews, have called Germany's Josef Goebbels a liar but I can't recall the last time they said what he supposedly lied about. No one can compete with Americans like Hillary Clinton and American Jews like Adam Schiff for being the most unabashed liars in the world. And it's the Lying Jewish media with mini-mes like CNN's head Jeff Zucker that create these deliberately false narratives for their stooges Pelosi and Clinton to propagate. As former Congressman Ron Paul suggested yesterday, no country has interfered in more foreign elections than the USA.
It would be glorious if Trump ran for President again. I don't expect it and I would think he would not want to become a human punching bag again, but I believe he would win if his forces could prevent another fraudulent election. There is no force in the USA as powerful as the media and it's the same in most "democratic" countries. How glorious it would be too if the old hags had enough of letting themselves be used by people like Zucker and Twitter's Jack Dorsey and turned on them and had the justice department put those despicables in jail. Oh, how glorious. One can dream. But that is unlikely and what is more likely is that within the next ten years the world won't care much what is happening in the USA, for the USA is in for a big fall which will reduce its power and influence greatly.
@WorkingClassJiminy , says: January 23, 2021 at 1:51 pm GMT • 2.8 hours agoSeparation is the ONLY way forward.
That said, Republicans control the legislatures in quite a few states, and the Constitution gives those states plenary power over election law, particularly for President and the Congress. Changing the law to mandate paper ballots and voter ID while eliminating the machines and mail-in ballots would probably expose the fraud and regain the House and Senate in the mid-terms.
Can do both prongs at the same time.
@animalogicAchmed E. Newman , says: • Website January 23, 2021 at 1:59 pm GMT • 2.7 hours agoI remember the film of the vc prisoner, who while being held by guards was shot suddenly in the temple. The amount of blood forcefully streaming from the hole in his head was both astonishing and gruesome. I don't know if happened because of being shot in the head though, as opposed to being shot in the body. Or maybe the bullet hit the artery.
Tumi , says: January 23, 2021 at 2:00 pm GMT • 2.7 hours agoThat was a concise truthful account of what we are up against again, Mr. Boggs. Thank you.
Even the pundit Ann Coulter, someone I've appreciated being on my side for more than a decade, has fallen for some of this bullshit out of the Lyin' Press in their ceaseless Infotainment. From her latest column (otherwise, one I agree with):
The raid was disgusting, appalling, sickening, but it's not a license for concocting imaginary accusations. Trump is bad. The thugs who stormed the Capitol are bad. You don't need to manufacture evidence against them, media.
Peak Stupidity notes that she lied by using the terms "raid", "disgusting", and "thugs", in the post "Et tu, Ann?"
Will Ann Coulter, even, be suckered into supporting anti-"domestic-terrorism" laws, just as she went for the "fight them over there " crap after 9/11? There are cooler heads that don't get emotionally suckered in by the Lyin' Press narrative. We are the ones they are aiming at with the new round of oppression to come.
Miro23 , says: January 23, 2021 at 2:25 pm GMT • 2.2 hours ago" Fascistic politics has a tendency to devour its own ruthless protagonists."
It has already done .Bush or more precisely Cheney to Tea Party to MAGA false prophet of Trump is linear and traces only a tiny distance.
False hope is entertained because desperation and anger demand it . Obama and Trump are two sides of the same coin , Both hurt the believers and the faithful most and did intentionally.
Sick of Orcs , says: January 23, 2021 at 2:44 pm GMT • 1.9 hours ago"Since the clash now appears to have been inevitable, its occurrence brings with it a sense of relief. The air is clearer. Americans can now get down to their task [of waging war] with the old obstacles finally removed, forgotten."
This would apply equally well to a US civil war . It would clear the air, people/organizations commit to one side or the other and get on with it.
@theMannSchuetze , says: January 23, 2021 at 2:45 pm GMT • 1.9 hours agoAgreed. It was truly satisfying to watch uniparty kleptocrat cowards, who torture us daily with bad laws and invitations for invading hordes, scrambling for their escape choo-choo train.
@Peripatetic Itch on in Syria, preceded by waves of Iraeli bombings and missile strikes. Iraq has also been under the zio-genocide hammer.HT , says: January 23, 2021 at 2:47 pm GMT • 1.9 hours agoClearly, the next move in the US is going to be the gun grab, and they will try to focus it on "white supremacists". This is the narrative construction we see going on, of which Babbit likely was part of. During the Trump administration there seemed to be far fewer false flags. I would bet that we are about to see a flurry of "white supremacists" shooting up various synogogues, jewish graveyards, black churches, and I would not be at all surprised if the grand climax was the bombing of a "holocaust" museum.
Old and Grumpy , says: January 23, 2021 at 2:56 pm GMT • 1.7 hours agoHitler was the only leader in history that knew exactly what must be done with communists. If you allow even one communist to live in your land, your freedom is at risk. In my view, the only thing that will remove them now and thus save America is for a Hitlarian type figure to rise up and ruthlessly deal with the communists in politics, the Judeo media complex, the courts, and academia. He rounded them up in the 1930's and that is the only way to stop them now. If that isn't done soon, they will be rounding us up which they are making very clear.
Crescent Moon , says: January 23, 2021 at 3:01 pm GMT • 1.6 hours agoHow about all those available resources to fortify the capital since the Big Capital Walk Thru? Were concrete and metal fence producers considered essential during all our lockdowns? Did they miraculously have inventory waiting for DC to come beckoning?
@Abdul Alhazred ian-immigrant-and-black-lives-matter-militant-he-repeatedly-threatened-to-kill-trump-su/"> https://redpilled.ca/redpilled-media-exclusive-us-capitol-special-agent-david-bailey-who-murdered-ashli-babbitt-is-a-brazilian-immigrant-and-black-lives-matter-militant-he-repeatedly-threatened-to-kill-trump-su/Alexandros , says: January 23, 2021 at 3:08 pm GMT • 1.5 hours agoHere is the best footage (professional) of the day. You could him shooting with the black and white bracelet clearly. Now it seems to be edited out, unless I missed it
blob: https://www.newyorker.com/a36c1f75-18a7-4f63-87ba-73fc37e2aebc
@My SIMPLE Pseudonymic HandlePeripatetic Itch , says: January 23, 2021 at 3:21 pm GMT • 1.3 hours agoWell of course it's fake. It's on TV!
@Schuetze every possible misdemeanor in her life, from accusations of deliberate assault by car to restraining orders, to adultery, to her "fanatical" propensity to rant, to living in a threesome, as you say. Her death, on the other hand, is treated matter-of-factly, as if to say, What else would you expect for such a flaky dumb-ass? No mention that she was not armed.Avery , says: January 23, 2021 at 3:29 pm GMT • 1.2 hours agoCompare that to what they did for George Floyd. He came out as a saint who had only wanted to be president as a kid. Gone to Minneapolis to start a "new life" as I recall. Barely a mention of his home invasion, holding a gun to the belly of a pregnant woman, possibly raping her.
@HT > der Führerfollyofwar , says: January 23, 2021 at 3:56 pm GMT • 43 minutes ago__________________
* Hitler and Germans were lucky that Russians/Slavs were not as vengeful as Germans' Anglo-Saxon kin, who burned about 100,000 or so German civilians – old men, women, children – just to show what they are capable of. Stalin could have created 100s of Dresdens, and nobody could have stopped him.** I understand there is an organized, decades long effort to erase that wonderful trait.
@GeneralRipper especially since the servile House democrats don't have the guts to vote her out as Speaker? And she will continue to be easily re-elected in her far-left district, no matter how senile and delusional she is.Think Strom Thurmond in his last years. He lived to be 1oo, dying in office. In fact, since women live longer than men, Pelosi may finally collapse for the last time when she is 110, still firmly clutching her gold-plated gavel that she refused to give up. After rigor mortis sets in, they won't be able to pry it out of her cold dead hand, so she'll be buried with it, and will lie in State in the Capitol Rotunda for a month.
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Watch: Rand Paul Challenges New Secretary Of State Over Regime-Change In Syria BY TYLER DURDEN THURSDAY, JAN 21, 2021 - 10:19
Senator Rand Paul recently challenged the new Secretary of State nominee Anthony Blinken on his history of pushing regime change in the Middle East and North Africa:
"Regime change in the Middle East has led to chaos, instability and more terrorism," Sen. Paul argued.
"Like Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton you've been a supporter of military intervention in the Middle East from the Iraq war to the Libyan war to the Syrian civil war..." he introduced in his Tuesday questoning of Blinken.
Sen. Paul began his argument by questioning Blinken's role in the NATO intervention of Libya in 2001 and his support for the US military invasion of Iraq in 2003, which the Kentucky congressman said was a major disaster that paved the way for a stronger Iran.
The congressman argued that Blinken continued to push regime change in Syria, which he said was a significant blunder, especially with the amount of money spent training "moderate rebel forces" .
Sen. Paul said the administration of former President Barack Obama spent $250 million (USD) on training 60 rebels [as part of the DoD side; the CIA program was much more expansive], which he said was a waste of money.
He would go on to question why Blinken would support the Syrian opposition groups on the ground, as he pointed out the most powerful fighters are those from the jihadist groups like the Al-Nusra Front .
"Even after Libya you guys went on to Syria wanting to do the same thing again... it's a disaster. The lesson of these wars is that regime change doesn't work!" Paul said.
"You got rid of one 'bad guy' and another 'bad guy' got stronger," Paul added while lambasting the US strategy of going after Iran while Iraq is still weakened by Bush's regime change war there.
"Maybe we shouldn't be 'choosing' governments in the Middle East," Paul continued.
Watch the full exchange here:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/_i5ynePhmnk
Blinken claimed in response that he wasn't supportive of a full-scale 'Iraq-style' regime change war in Syria while vaguely claiming that he's done "deep thinking" and reflection on the issue . Blinken never repudiated the policy of regime change in the Middle East, however.
Sen. Paul then shifted his attention to NATO, which he said Blinken was trying to strengthen for the purpose of combatting Russia. The senator said Blinken's policy on NATO would lead to war with Russia, which the latter responded would have the opposite effect.
Antony Blinken upon his nomination for Secretary of State in the new administration, via ReutersPaul concluded by saying that regime change needs to end because it is involving the US in long wars that are costly to the military.
The Luftwaffe 8 hours ago
Cloud9.5 7 hours agoWe will see a new major war started by this administration within two years
Leather-Dog 7 hours agoWe have to do something to reduce the population.
RiverRoad 7 hours agoYou mean in addition to the 103.5% effective covid vaccine?
eatapeach 7 hours agoOn duckduckgo.com search > "Med Cram".
On You Tube: Dr. Seheult's med school video lecture "Vitamin D and Covid 19: The Evidence for Prevention and " (5.3m views)
Vitamin D3 is sold over the counter.
Karma is coming for Covid.
bigjim 3 hours agoHopefully it's also coming for the thieving liars who pushed this cheap PsyOp (Pompeo is one, Fauci is another).
boattrash 2 hours agoI guess Bibi mis-spelled Rand's email address on the memo.
rastanarchocapitalist 7 hours ago103.5%... that sounds like the voter turnout in all the blue cities.
BaNNeD oN THe RuN 5 hours agoIf one could take all the people in the world and cram them into a city as dense as Tokyo, it would cover the area of Rhode Island.
bearwinkle 6 hours agoBS
Tokyo pop density=16121.8 /sq.mi.
Rhode Island = 1045 sq.mi.At that density RI would hold 16.8 million people.
At the average annual population growth rate of the last century there will be 1 sq.m. of land per person in only 750 years. That includes all mountains, frozen tundra, jungles and deserts... now "get off my lawn".
aloha_snakbar 7 hours agoSure, that's why Xiden is allowing millions of immigrants to invade our borders.
Hatterasjohn 7 hours agoI thought it might be like today...
BarnacleBill 7 hours agoAnyone crazy enough to join ,or be in the military , is out of his friggin mind.
headslapper 7 hours agoOr likes killing civilians. Don't overlook the psychopaths.
RiverRoad 7 hours agoand that will be the end of the US.
Im1ru12 4 hours agoHow about the Regime Change just effected right HERE in the good old USA?
starman99 7 hours agoExactly - "Maybe we shouldn't be 'choosing' governments in the Middle East," Paul continued
That's what they do - they just did it here
USAllDay 7 hours ago(((Anthony Blinken)))
9.1ontherichterscale 7 hours ago (Edited)I'd take Assad over Biden.
Armed Resistance 7 hours agoAssad has more integrity in his shoe than Biden has accumulated in the past 50 years.
9.1ontherichterscale 7 hours agoIf the deep state hates Assad, then I know he must be legitimately a good guy deep down.
Brutlstrudl 6 hours agoBINGO!
SERReal1 7 hours agoIt seems that after each election, the USA becomes more of a contrarian indicator
BaNNeD oN THe RuN 5 hours agoI agree. At least Assad puts his country first and gives the finger to the Deep State.
aloha_snakbar 8 hours agoPlus a secular government that respects the rights of all religious minorites. Sets a bad example for all the intolerant apartheid states in the region.
Hopefully the "Assad Must Go" curse gets the entire Biden Administration sooner rather than later.
eatapeach 7 hours agoWho cares...Uncle Scam lost the tiny bit of credibility he had on 01/20/2021. RIP America....
FluTangClan 6 hours agoI care. Here's yet another Israel-first douchenozzle getting put in a very, very high position. And acting like it'd be any different with Trump at the helm is severe folly. (Pompeo)
4Celts 7 hours agoSorry bro but anyone with eyes hasn't thought the US credible for more than a century.
SwmngwShrks 7 hours agoPaul concluded by saying that regime change needs to end because it is involving the US in long wars that are costly to the military.
Pardon , but the " cost " to the military shouldn't be the top/only argument. What happened to morally/ ethically wrong ?
white horse 7 hours ago"All wars are Bankers' wars." -Smedley Butler
DonGenaro 7 hours agoMoral is dead long ago, replaced by new fake moral called humanitarianism.
Feck Weed 5 hours agoYou're an astute observer - few detect such "tells"
FringeDweller 5 hours agoConsider the audience
Lord JT 5 hours agoFair point.
Unknown User 8 hours agoHe mentioned that it creates more terrorism, and that the incoming regime may be even worse than the previous.
Why-Am-I-Banned 6 hours agoBiden will start a war, or two, or three...
FluTangClan 6 hours agoMaybe the best thing that could happen to free us all finally is an all out war with Russia, we aren't going to see a revolution to get rid of the corruption the population is lazy and scared of doing without.
Maybe forced into mutual assured destruction is truly the only way to get rid of the deep state...
Russia lost approx 250 million via communism over decades, maybe we need to just swallow the poison pill and get it over with.
Not all of us will die, and definately no one is going to listen to the deep state leaders after the dust clears...
wick7 5 hours agoCho Bai Den fol peace!
You_Cant_Quit_Me 8 hours agoIt's amazing how Democrats flipped overnight to being pro war once Obama started new wars. They were mad when Trump was signing peace deals. Lol.
JRobby 7 hours agoHe's right. One disaster after another. Who has Assad attacked? If small countries want the US to back off then they must develop nuclear weapons. When was the last time the US attacked a country with nuclear capabilities?
gespiri 7 hours agoBust Blinken's balls until he quits like a little rat trying to naw through steel cables
rastanarchocapitalist 7 hours agoThe only way to stop these wars is to send the people (and their kids) who are pushing for it in the first place to the front lines.
RedDog1 7 hours agoOr make the state obsolete by transitioning to a private law society.
eatapeach 7 hours agoRemember how Gaddafi surrendered his nukeprogram to Bush, a few years later Obama/HRC invaded...resulting in Gaddafi being lynched?
LooseLee 4 hours agoIran and NK and Syria remember, for sure. Wish we all remembered the USS Liberty when shaping foreign policy.
Pandelis 3 hours ago (Edited)Remember Libya has no central bank?
roach clipper 6 hours agoyou really believe that bs ... it is much more than that ... at the end is about the land and the people ... money can be printed out of thin air and there is nothing libya (or iraq, iran etc.) central bank can do about it ...
bring on dr. fraucistein to explain it all to us ... maga!!
manofthenorth 8 hours agoAssad placed his country too close to Is ra hell
LetThemEatRand 8 hours agoSorry guys but we have been played like a second hand fiddle.
It is ALL BS.
littlewing 7 hours agoI assume Paul has figured out by now that being a murderous psychopath is a job requirement in DC. It's the first question in the job interview. "Do you enjoy death and destruction for profit and personal power?"
aloha_snakbar 7 hours agoRemember when Trump bombed Syria and all of a sudden everyone in DC loved him for 15 minutes.
Talk about the big reveal.
pro·le·tar·i·at 7 hours agoThe same Rand Paul who was criticizing Trump in the eleventh hour? That one?? They are all swamp creatures and seriously make me want to vomit...
Leather-Dog 7 hours agoThe apple rolled away from the tree.
StanleyTheManly 5 hours agoPaul, I like you, you seem to care a little bit. However, if they haven't cared in the last forever, they are definitely not going to start now. They just regime changed ourselves with almost no substantial resistance, you think they will care about Syria?
Goat of Steverino 7 hours agoHe puts on a show to care once in a while.
He didn't stand for the truth when it counted.
Bank_sters 7 hours agoGREAT RAND, BUT WHERE WERE YOU ON BIG TECH CENSORSHIP AND ELECTION FRAUD?
Ted Baker 6 hours agoHe's cucked.
ReadyForHillary 6 hours agoWhat is this obsession with Russia? Russia is a peaceful country who defends its people. How difficult is that to understand?
Dinaric 7 hours agoRussia isn't down with the NWO.
9.1ontherichterscale 7 hours ago(((Blinkin))) is all you need to know.
freakscene 7 hours agoDoes anyone honestly believe that if Biden was honest and had any degree if integrity that he would be president at this moment in U.S. history? That boy is a 50 year swamp critter A thoroughly reliable member of the compromised fraternity. Same for Nancy.
littlewing 7 hours agoRemember the video of younger Biden telling some voter that he graduated top of his class, with honors????
None of which were true.
Invert This, Media Matters Monkeys 7 hours agoHis degree is from University of Phoenix.
Now all colleges are that. haha
freakscene 7 hours agoIronically, he wants to set up a comity for Integrity In Government.
BarnacleBill 7 hours agoYeah. Thats hysterical!!
Saturday Night Live material - if they had any spine.
StanleyTheManly 5 hours agoWhich they don't. Come on, man!
yeketerina velikaya 7 hours agoYep. They needed someone with zero integrity.
Armed Resistance 7 hours agoYou know who's been right all along?
Tulsi Gabbard.
Right on big tech
Right on Kamala
Right on pardoning Assange and Snowden
Right on the uniparty and false flags in Syria
Right on Queen of Warmongers Hillary and DNC
Right on the MSM
Right on securing the elections/ballot harvesting
She's the real deal and would have delivered on these things but never had a shot.
Why-Am-I-Banned 6 hours agoShe was wrong on gun control. Very wrong! And that's a non-negotiable.
rastanarchocapitalist 7 hours agoDon't worry real gun control is coming and so much more you didn't ask for...
StanleyTheManly 5 hours agoShe should have been Trump's vp choice.
StanleyTheManly 5 hours agoYou know....I think you're right. I hadn't thought of that.
littlewing 7 hours agoI like Tulsi. She seems like a genuine person with integrity that really cares about the country. BUT I disagree with her on quite a few issues. Maybe she'll come around.
Max21c 7 hours agoThe steal was sealed when the Supreme Court refused to hear the Texas case.
Greasy John Roberts wrecked America.
phillyla 7 hours agoThe steal was sealed when the Supreme Court refused to hear the Texas case.
True.
Vichy John Roberts went full Quisling and brought back Jim Crow laws. The Supreme Court endorsed election fraud, supported the coup d'etat, forced Trump from power, helped usher in a new era for the banana republic of Jim Crow laws...
El Chapo Read 7 hours agoJohn Roberts is compromised 8 ways to Sunday. Trump should have had him impeached and removed from the bench
SassyPants 7 hours agoIf you thought Trump was surrounded by Red Sea Pedestrians with an agenda, research the ethno-religious background of Biden's cabinet picks.
Shalom!
snatchpounder PREMIUM 7 hours agoEvery administration is. Trumps son in law and advisor is as well. Please see the entire picture for a change.
rastanarchocapitalist 7 hours agoHow about closing all military bases overseas and dismantling the MIC and oh **** it an old demented neocon is playing president for a few months, scratch that.
snatchpounder PREMIUM 7 hours agoThe crack up boom of the FRNs may force that one day
rastanarchocapitalist 4 hours agoI think it'll happen sooner rather than later, the chances are good based on the demented old pedophile being selected president and his retards at the fed.
RedNemesis 6 hours agoIn the long run, that might be a good thing if we return to honest money but you can be sure they'll try to kick the can for another 50 years with some form of new fiat or erasing a couple of zeroes of our current notes.
Hopefully the masses will just say know but I wouldn't put much faith in that.
Why-Am-I-Banned 6 hours agoParents, do not let your smart, winning kids into the armed services. The MIC will grind them out with PTSD, brain injuries, and lost limbs. There is no 'patriotism' or allegience to the Deep State.
Max21c 6 hours ago (Edited)Maybe the best thing that could happen to free us all finally is an all out war with Russia, we aren't going to see a revolution to get rid of the corruption the population is lazy and scared of doing without.
Maybe forced into mutual assured destruction is truly the only way to get rid of the deep state...
Russia lost approx 250 million via communism over decades, maybe we need to just swallow the poison pill and get it over with.
Not all of us will die, and definately no one is going to listen to the deep state leaders after the dust clears...
Maghreb2 5 hours agoMaybe the best thing that could happen to free us all finally is an all out war with Russia..
Maybe we should instead just launch a sneak attack on Alpha Centauri instead. Skip the small fry like Russia and China. In a few generations we shall know whether our Earthling space torpedoes hit Alpha Centauri. This of course should be debated by the people and approved by a plebiscite per ballot referendums. Then the space war bill sent to the Earthlings Politburo for their approval. It'll take around a decade or more to design and build the space torpedoes... then 100 years plus for travel time and the same to get the data back from the mothership...
Plus we can have both a Cold War and a Hot War with Alpha Centauri... under the leadership of an Earthling appointed or elected by the Earthlings Council and elevated to the rank of Don Quixote with the accompany title of Primal inter Pares
We just need more right thinking smart people to join the cult and become enlightened to the prospects of a new 100 years war with other planets...and maybe some small wars with planetoids...asteroids and comets...
We can establish of house of OverLords composed of only the best Astrologers to help pick out which planets to attack & destroy...based upon whether they have offended our star charts or the zodiac calls for war... In addition we can establish a lower house of UnderLords composed of mad scientists and Generalissimos and crazy Spy Chiefs... and maybe some nutty press types from the official media and puppet press to lead us in the Two Minutes Hate against the Alpha Centauri folks, the space peoples, and the flying saucer people...
surroundedbyijits 6 hours agoCIA already had plans for all this under the Stargate Program. After Ike's treaty with various alien species the MIC began its descent into madness and universal conquest.
balz 7 hours agoA war like that might "free" you, because the Russians will kick your ***.
BLOTTO 8 hours agoEach time I see this "Office of the President Elect" picture thing, I get nauseous.
Fake office for a fake president who wasn't elected in the first place.
Max21c 6 hours agoLike nothing happened back here at home.
Ms No PREMIUM 7 hours agoBlinken may prove out to be more slick and savy than Dumbo Pompeo the flying cartoon elephant but he's still a fawking neanderthal and a ******. Maybe an elite ****** but he's still a ******. Blind, deaf, and dumb is still blind, deaf, and dumb even with all the powers of the secret police at their disposal.
silverlinings00 7 hours agoRand is sick too. He goes on about how these things are bad specifically because they strengthened Iran? How about liberty crushing mass murder?
"Sen. Paul said the administration of former President Barack Obama spent $250 million (USD) on training 60 rebels [as part of the DoD side; the CIA program was much more expansive], which he said was a waste of money."
So your mad they steal money while creating terrorists? Or are you mad that they don't tell you what they do with the rest? They abduct children from war zones to make them. Maybe the indoctrination and rape children's homes are expensive. They have screwed the entire planet.
There is something wrong with him too. He is another limited hangout
Insert farm animal here 4 hours agoHe's all bark no bite like Elizabeth Warren. Trotted out to show a feigning resistance.
the_pencil 2 hours agoPoor Rand is going to have a tough and lonely battle over the next few years. Let's wish him well, he'll be going it alone for sure.
Pareto 6 hours agoIt seems odd that no one has allied themselves with him in the same manner as McCain & Graham.
bikepathwalkerjogger 5 hours agoAnother life long bureaucrat talking about his resume. And fails to answer a simple question. Woop there it is. That's why they hated Trump. Because somebody off the street had better answers than 25 years of experience.
Garciathinksso 5 hours agoEvery single time!! --
Blinken was born on April 16, 1962, in Yonkers, New York , to Jewish parents, Judith (Frehm) and Donald M. Blinken , the former United States Ambassador to Hungary . [1] [2] [3] His maternal grandparents were Hungarian ****. [4] Blinken's uncle, Alan Blinken , served as the American ambassador to Belgium
NumbNuts 6 hours agoRand Paul, one of the few good ones left. Good Luck with Biden and his war hawks!
Helg Saracen 6 hours agoThese same people are attempting a regime change in the United States too. From Freedom to Fascism.
frank further 6 hours agoThe Americans lost perspectives and actually real freedom when Woodrow Wilson sold US to international banksters in 1913, now this scam just ends and a new scam begins. You haven't figured it out yet. By the way, fascism is Italian National Socialism. No offense.
BluCapitalist PREMIUM 6 hours ago (Edited)Then what was German National Socialism, if not fascism?
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urhotdogs 6 hours ago remove linkThey are not attempting. They have done it. They have perfected their craft over the last 70 years in other countries and they brought it home to keep their criminal organization going.
bunkers 5 hours agoThey didn't attempt, they did it! Took a little over 4 years but had to stoop to massive election fraud and changing state laws on the fly. It was coordinated throughout all levels of government down to states and courts and SCOTUS.
bunkers 5 hours agoCommunism
WhiteHose 6 hours agoMaybe not.
starman99 7 hours agoRussia Russia Russia! They never stop! BTW, wheres scumbag Hunter?
rkb100100 7 hours ago(((Anthony Blinken)))
brown_hornet 7 hours agoYea we know the cabinet is full of heeb's.
GatorMcClusky 7 hours agoIs he in the boat with Winken and Nod?
Mount Massive 7 hours ago (Edited)Good one.
SelectedNotElectedBiden 7 hours agoThere is a reason Russia has spent the last 2 months ramping up testing of its mil hardware including hyper-vel ICBM's and SLBM's. - Xiden
freakscene 7 hours agoRand will be the only Senator to give the Dems a hard time. Sad since it should be payback for EVERY Republican Senator.
Ms No PREMIUM 7 hours agoCruz will be fun to watch too. They excel being outnumbered.
Bob Lidd 5 hours agoIf they wanted Rand out of that spot he would have been gone a long time ago.
ReadyForHillary 7 hours agoDoes anyone think the US policy in the middle east will change with 10 of biden's
appointees being jewish .......??
The "greater israel" will continue no matter the cost to the American tax cattle.......
((((blinken))) ..........
Max21c 7 hours agoThe neocons are back!
Northern Exposure 6 hours ago (Edited)The neocons are back!
Does not matter. They could not win before and they shall not win now. They're ineffective, inept, and incompetent. They won't be able to fix the messes and disasters they've created for themselves. At best they might be able to sick the secret police on a few people at home and drop some bombs or missiles abroad. But for the most part it's some more of the same. Evil is as evil does. They're not going to be able to work themselves out of the fix they've got themselves into or figure it out. They're toast. They're bad people and they're toast. Washingtonians may have absolute power but they've had absolute power all along...and they still can't fix the disasters they've caused.
karzai_luver 7 hours agoOh thank God!
If we're not looking for a new pointless war to start or jumping into an existing one then this isn't the America that I know and love!
</sarc>
Alexander 7 hours agoWhere is the BUFFALOBILL dude storming the Senate to drag this blinken criminal scum out and do justice for his wanton murder of thousands?
Shut down this freak show.
I would rather have BUFFALOBILL and his idiots running the place than these feckless people's representatives.
Tony , have you learned your lesson?
Senator - screw you and your people I will think it over.
artless 7 hours agoSilence republicans! Yes we stole the election using widespread mail in ballots, yes your state governments changed the rules to allow us to count these mail in ballots more quickly, yes there were far more votes in this election than any other ever. ANDDDD... NO we will not look into the validity of this election becuase muh capital rioting grandma threatened sweet little socialist AOC.
Now give us your children to fight a war in syria.
SassyPants 7 hours agoBarack Obama. Neocon to the core. Biden is no different. Gonna do us some "liberating" again. And from the left there will be silence as thousands of poor, short brown people are killed as "collateral damage".
Welcome back America to what you do the best. Destroy lives. Any over/under on how many days it takes Biden to start killing folks and hence become a war criminal like pretty much all his predecessors? I might like a piece of that action.
pods 7 hours agoRepublicans are neocons, democrats are neoliberal. You're basically right, just left out half the problem.
Invert This, Media Matters Monkeys 7 hours agoCan't bitch about foreign actions in our elections when we pick other governments.
pods 7 hours agoPick ???? Surely you jest !
Invert This, Media Matters Monkeys 7 hours agoWe choose sides right?
We picked the CIA stooge in Venezuela.
Not sure about your question.
Maybe "kinetically pick" would be better?
rwe2late 7 hours agoSorry, I didn't read your post properly. I didn't see "other" governments.
Invert This, Media Matters Monkeys 7 hours agoyou either forgot the sarc tag
or failed to notice such as V. Nuland hand-picking leadership in Ukraine,
or the Trump picking of Guiado for Venezuela.
SelectedNotElectedBiden 7 hours agoPoor eye sight is my best and only excuse.
Invert This, Media Matters Monkeys 7 hours agoWhere is Hunter?
headslapper 7 hours agoThe Big Guy made him the Advance Minister of Foreign Extortion.
Armed Resistance 7 hours agoThe faces change but the song remains the same. What a waste of energy this government is. Resources thrown down the toilet to make the Ruling class more wealthy. Why do we even pay attention. We all need to have a look in the mirror. Myself included of course.
Canadian Dirtlump 7 hours agoSo now that you've looked in the mirror, what are you going to do about it? Send a strongly-worded letter? Or are you ready to actually step up. As morally wrong and demented as the radical left is, at least you have to admire them in the sense they actually step up to the plate to get sh!t done. It's immoral, but effective.
mikka 7 hours agoLest we forget the same bearded butchers that Chris Stevens flew into ben gazi with (al Quaeda inter alia aligned ) who were funded and trained by the West were the same ones who flew from ben gazi to the incirlik nato base to try to do the same thing in syria.
The only reason it didn't work was because of the SAA, Hezbollah and of course the ultimate backstop Russia. I'm thankful for this.
Uncle_Cuddles 7 hours ago (Edited)Imagine Russian or Chinese parliament publicly debating regime change in USA.
joew8989 7 hours agoDebating? China has ALREADY done it here.
ItsTooHotForThis 6 hours agoRand will continue to fight the good fight, when you live a life based on principal, that's what you do. We will always need more people like him. That's what built this country, not the parasites at the helm now.
Garciathinksso 5 hours agoPaul voted to confirm the electors. His challenge to the new Sec. of State means nothing.
bunkers 5 hours agohis argument was based on State's right issue, in case you care
SillyTheEnemy 6 hours ago (Edited)It doesn't matter WHY, he voted with traitors, only, that he did.
hardright 6 hours agoThis is literally the only guy we have in the senate who even remotely gives a ****. Yet the amount of **** that is going to happen to us when biden heats up the war in Syria is immeasurable. F*ck me
surroundedbyijits 6 hours agoRand Paul is wasting his time.
If he wants to make a difference he should be lobbying Russia to send more troops into Syria.
BluCapitalist PREMIUM 6 hours agoAnd arranging imports of the Russian vaccine. Less likely to kill you and more effective than the only 45% effective Pfizer ****.
duckandcover 1 hour agoThis guys eyes look exactly like the vampires in the movie 30 days of night. Am I in a simulation? Why do these people actually look like fictional villains? I mean Whitmer, Newsom, this new fat, unhealthy, mentally ill assistant "health secretary"? Did I do something really wrong? Am I in hell and don't know it? No. I am here on earth and psychopaths are real and evil is real.
WhiteHose 7 hours agothey're just a little scared and overwhelmed. You might be too
0h 7 hours agoLook at this Blinken twit! F you pal! And....wheres HUnter??? Diddling his brothers minor niece? Again? Still?
LorDampNuts 7 hours ago2021-01-21 If you go here https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ you can send an email. I just sent: "Joe, you know he won."
Misesmissesme 7 hours agoI know you are an idiot.
SassyPants 7 hours agoFirst Ron and now Rand. I think the club just lets them in as the token Don Quixote. They have been the only voices of reason for the last 25 years or so, but they are only tilting at windmills. Nothing is going to change until something forces them to change. The war mongering and corruption will just roll right along while the MIC and congress get richer by the minute.
The unrelenting droning of brown people in foreign lands that are ill-equipped to fight back will commence in 3,2,1...
ejmoosa 7 hours ago (Edited)Leaving the Republican Party would be the first best step.
Time to play 7 hours agoWe put too much on one man and one man alone to change things.
Faced with judges and a House and A Senate against him the task before Trump was Herculean.
Add to that 2/5ths of the states with governors also against Trump and it's even worse.
What you need to do is get involved in your local politics and take control back of your Cities and County Commissions, as well as your state governments.
Had Trump held control of the House and the Senate and we had sitting on Courts people who put the Constitution first FOR the people rather than using it against them, things would be a lot different today.
The choice is yours.
north_hand_demon 7 hours agoIt's good to see that Rand, is starting to think more like his father!
Lyman54 7 hours agoSo he's controlled opposition, too?
otschelnik 7 hours agoPretty early to be smoking crack isn't it?
9.1ontherichterscale 7 hours agoWith Cookies Nuland as Blinken's deputy, you've got the neocon family business installed at Foggy Bottom. Robert (Victoria's huband), Fredrick, and Kim each with their own pro-war think tank, and a list of supporters which constitute the "A-list" of the USSA's merchants of death. Northrup-Grumman, UTX, Raytheon, Lockheed....
silverlinings00 8 hours agoWinken, Blinken and Nod.
That's the administration we got now.
Pdunne 3 hours ago (Edited)Careful Rand, we wouldn't want you to get another "visit" from a neighbor while you're mowing the lawn.
JackOliver4 4 hours agoBiden's biggest Cabinet mistake will ultimately be Blinken.
Like Obama picked H Clinton with disasterous consequences Biden picks Blinken.
Hessler 4 hours agoRand Paul says " Assad is a terrible person " !!!
Dr Assad is a HERO !!
Rand Paul is either completely misinformed or just another useless politician afraid to speak the TRUTH !
A COWARD !
JackOliver4 4 hours agoAssad may be a good person at heart but he is not qualified to run a state. He should be a doctor or something.
Helg Saracen 4 hours agoAnd Joe Biden is ??
OR Boris Johnstone ??
Hessler 4 hours ago (Edited)It is up to the Syrians to decide, not you. You already paid for the genocide of the Syrian Christians in the "fight against the tyrant Assad." I've seen all kinds of idiots and hypocrites, but you are their king.
mark3383 3 hours agoWhy did not Assad anticipated the Zionist invasion even though the Snowden document reveled the CIA/Mossad works in the making in 2006 ??
If he did anticipated an invasion why he did not do anything to safeguard his nation and it's people ?
Why every men, women and child capable to lift and shoot was not given and an ordinance and proper training ?? Israel has that. Why can't Syria ?
Syria is a part of Greater Israel. They have been marked for genocide the day Israel was created, what haste did Mr. Assad showed to safeguard his country against their genocidal maniacs psychopaths ??
I will never forgive those who inflicted the terrible atrocities on the children and women and Mr. Assad has a blame to share.
steve2241 5 hours agoAssad risked his life and continues to do so every day, trump recently bragged he thought about "taking him out". he's a true hero more than you or I will ever be
Hessler 4 hours ago (Edited)Rand Paul doesn't understand. Blinken follows the path that Israel tells him to. Middle East instability benefits Israel. The fomenting of Sunni-Shia conflict kills Israels' enemies, the muslims, without Israel having to lift a finger. Syria is no longer a threat to Israel. Mission accomplished.
JackOliver4 4 hours agoYou're wrong on two accounts. First, there's no ****te/Sunni conflict. What goes in Miiddle East is entire different than what is portrayed here. The locals know but how many of them get interviewed on live TV or get a airtime on a prime time desk ? Those are reserved for the chosenites who spew BS about Arabs and Muslims 24/7.
****te/Sunni fiction as broadcasts in the west is nothing but a ploy to wash the hands of the responsibility and pin the blame on the victims.
Second, Syria is now a bigger threat to Israel than it was in Pre War era. Battle Hardened troops, better organization, training with Russian/Iranian Military, better equipment, talented strategists and when you fight a war like that for that long you tend to grow a bigger set of balls.
Sick Monkey 5 hours agoSyria wants the GOLAN back - I would say they are a threat to ISRAEL !!
Taffer 5 hours agoSpeaking of war didn't Rand Paul vote to accept the illegitimate electors. I like Paul he seems to have a level head but you voted to put the commies in power. Like you said in your speech "there are repercussions". Those who took a stand against this coup must be kept in power as they put skin in the game. That's a rare and precious gift to us the people. In the year 2021 it's as good as gold.
mark3383 3 hours agoExactly, hence my previous comment below.
Sinophile 6 hours agotrump lost the election because he allowed million of fraud votes to be counted and never said or did anything about it in the year leading up to it. he 's the one that lost it. no one else
surroundedbyijits 6 hours ago"War Pigs"----Black Sabbath
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of death's construction
In the fields the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds
Oh lord yeah!Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor
Yeah!Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait 'til their judgement day comes
Yeah!Now in darkness world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees the war pig's crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan laughing spreads his wings
oh lord yeah!
Cloudcrusher 6 hours agoCircuses. Theatre for the plebes. Not one bit of foreign policy is decided or affected by debates or hearings in the Legislative branch. They're all following a script, some of them act like they aren't in on the joke.
Max21c 6 hours ago (Edited)Psychosis the denial of reality. The military industrial complex is make believe. It's military industrial congress, Congress is in charge they alone are to blame know one else. The sooner everyone starts living in reality the better off will be. You want to win the war of words better start with reality. Or your going to get a another kind of war one where only the strong survive.
TahoeBilly2012 6 hours agoWatch: Rand Paul Challenges New Secretary Of State Over Regime-Change In Syria
Meaningless inside the beltway for the record drool-n-dribble... Rand Paul just wants to pad his resume, bio, and gain some street cred claims...
vspam 7 hours agoWhen do the new wars start? Dems can't wait. Blame them on Covid or something, they will buy it.
Max21c 7 hours agoBiden will go to war with Iran and turned thr ME into a fireball. The mainstream media will cheer him on under the banner of peace and unity
Max21c 7 hours agoDiablo Corona
Washingtonians are for the most part the spawn of Satan.
DC= the Devil's City... they are evil... Washingtonians are just pure rotten evil...
Washington DC ... Devil's City
Washington DC .... Devil's Crown
The evil ones cannot change their evil ways... they're too far gone... the evil ones cannot be redeemed...
ThomasEdmonds 7 hours agoPaul concluded by saying that regime change needs to end because it is involving the US in long wars that are costly to the military.
Too late. Washington is toast. It's just a question of when Washingtonians lose in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, et cetera. They already made a mess of things and they do not have the brains to fix it. Same with their inabilities as regards nonproliferation, North Korea, et cetera. They don't have what it takes to figure it out and work it out and nobody is going to fix it for them because they're assholes regardless of which cabal of Ivy League assholes or ******* elites are in power.
aloha-snackbar 7 hours agoPaul isn't supposed to question a Zionist's motives..
tunEphsh 7 hours agoif the youth said no to war and moms said not my child and burned down the recruitment/death centers then war would end...
moneybots 7 hours agoThank goodness that Paul told the idiot Blicken to lay off regime change. Obama-Biden made a mess of the middle east and caused a refugee crises which is still with us. Instead of being named secretary of state, me thinks Blicken should be put in jail for acts in the Middle East which killed hundreds of thousands of people.
freakscene 7 hours agoThe EU has become a mess because of regime change.
yerfej 7 hours ago (Edited)Of course he should. But that would require sanity.
Occams_Razor_Trader 7 hours agoSimple way to stop all this insane venturism and nation building it to MANDATE that every aysshole like Blinken have a spouse or child or sibling or relative ON THE GROUND fighting in one of these shyyytholes. These elites love this crap because THEY never pay a personal price, no they have farmed that out to the "commoners" who supply the bodies. The filthy elites are good at leveraging everyone else to fulfill their fantasies while paying no price.
yerfej 7 hours agoYou've seen the videos of Chelsea and Malia on tour in Kabul? Yeah?
Flynt2142ahh 7 hours ago (Edited)More like Eeyore pontificating from her 20 million dollar penthouse about how she is so not into money, or Maglia dancing around stoned like a "social justice warrior".
phillyla 7 hours agoThe senate needs more Rand Paul types - and they dont have to be in the Republican party...This would force actual accountability of uniparty folks and these appointees. We need less murkowski and collins
Leguran@premium PREMIUM 7 hours agoI am going to harp on this
in 2014 Matt Bevin challenged McConnell in a Senate Primary
He was gaining momentum
Then Rand endorsed McConnell
Bevin lost McConnell got re-elected
Bevin was later elected Governor of KY so he had the votes
Rand Paul Broke my heart
LostMyGunsInABoatingAccident 7 hours agoWe need use the Progressive's signage: He is not my President.
Mount Massive 7 hours agoYou can't necessarily call it an "American" policy.
America lost control of it's policy long ago.....
Invert This, Media Matters Monkeys 7 hours agoHere comes another war, and this time, it will spiral out of control. In two years or less, I expect the US to be in a major conflict and/or hit at home. Sigh....Leftist
9.1ontherichterscale 7 hours agoPelosi just took Rand aside and said, wait and see what your neighbor on the other side of you has to say about this.
Invert This, Media Matters Monkeys 7 hours agoRand is in the senate. nancy runs the house. That would be Schumer's job.
WorkingClassMan 8 hours ago (Edited)Pelosi seems to be running the show and is the face of the party
fudge punch 8 hours agoRand Paul, the lone voice of sanity in a rubber-stamp corrupt government.
If you or someone you care about is either in or thinking about joining this nation's military...please don't. Let these antiwhites fight their own wars. They hate you and don't trust you because you're White and they hate you owning guns, but they'll put a gun in your hand and point you at their and Isn'treal's enemies without hesitation.
AVmaster 3 hours agoWash. Rinse. Repeat.
Scipio Africanuz 3 hours ago"Regime change in the Middle East has led to chaos, instability and more terrorism,"
Uhhh, yea...
... Thats what they WANTED!
Duh!
Ckierst1 2 hours agoThank you Senator Paul..
For your candor..
The challenge of US Foreign Policy, is akin to a heroin addiction. It's bad for the country, but all attempts to cure the country of addiction to imperialism has failed, including our energetic efforts over the years..
Too many people benefit from the ruination of the country as it engages in squandering lives, honor, power, reputation, and treasure, in maintaining a facade of illusory power, at the expense of the true power of the country..
Put simply Senator, at this point, we don't believe any entity on earth can cure the US of the addiction to depravity save nature, which cure is more preferable to that of the Entity whose decision is not subject to appeal..
Now Senator, you may not believe in God Almighty and thus, swat away the simple insight but God does not require your belief to act..
Over His creation..
The only cure, if sense and rationality don't prevail, is exactly what we don't desire to know and why?
Because we've seen it before, applied to different societies with similar mentality over the course of human history and Senator, it's never palatable..
Anyhow, probation is till summer, to allow folks do intensive introspective contemplation, enough to acquire prudent humility and if they don't, well..
Cheers...
Pdunne 4 hours agoI believe the Senator is a Christian.
Dzerzhhinsky 2 hours agoBlinken is a bald faced liar and is already working with Ms Nuland on more regime changes.
Venezuela and Syria need to get ready for more robust attacks.
the_pencil 2 hours agoControl the oil, you control the world.
Posa 4 hours agoOil was the cause of every war for the past century.
Ckierst1 2 hours agoA ridiculous exchange. Sen Paul seems to take at face value the Liberal-NeoCon claim that Regime Change is good-intentioned attempt to democratize the Middle East.
Hardly. Regime Change was always designed to a) install Israeli supremacy in the region ("Operation Clean Break"); and b) secure US Global Uni-polar dominance (the Wolfowitz Doctrine) as part of the Brezezinski "Grand Chessboard". That's the intention... this exchange demonstrates how out of it Rand Paul is; and what a nasty weasel Blinken is.
PaulDF 5 hours agoThat's not what Sen. Paul said. He doesn't agree with regime change. That's what he said.
mark3383 3 hours agoTo which the Biden appointee replied, "You know, the thing!"
duckandcover 2 hours agocmon man!
Taffer 5 hours agodo your job!
Hessler 6 hours ago (Edited)Rand Paul's opinion and $6 will get him a latte at Starbucks.
steve2241 4 hours agoForeign policy is never gonna change no matter who's in change because the way system is setup.
The lifestyle (our way of life) pertaining to the western model of civilization (our values) needs unlimited supply of money to be supported. The money that can't be made by legal means, hence the continues war that needs to be maintained overseas while also starting new ones as requirement arise.
And since this is a continues state, so accompanies it continues propaganda, lies, false flags, deception and manipulation of facts and truth. LYING IS IN VERY GENES OF THE WHITE CHRISTIAN WEST. They have been doing it for so long that they have almost mastered the "the art of lying" the zenith of which is to project your own flaws and crimes on to the subjects you carried it out on. One thing you can always be sure of, they will never admit their crimes unless there's no other way. And that they will be accusing their opponents of the same things they would be doing.
War underpins their society, nation and civilization.
apparently 6 hours agoThe problem is that the U.S. is abusing its position as printer-in-chief of the Reserve Currency of the world. With that fake money, it can intervene in the affairs of nations throughout the world - a capability that no other country enjoys. Take away its reserve currency and watch how quickly middle eastern strife ends - and the nation of Israel, too.
Hessler 6 hours agowill the left and their mindless supporters be comforted to know that their guy promotes these "endless wars"? will they be happy to sacrifice their sons and daughters for desert real-estate whose oil we don't want?
Paul was being way too polite. He should simply say: "I'm not voting to confirm this war monger" then get up and leave the room.
apparently 6 hours ago (Edited)If you think it's about the oil, you really don't understand the world you inhabit.
Hessler 5 hours ago (Edited)I don't think it's about oil but I'm struggling to name a single US interest in sand-wars. maybe you can? yes, yes, military/industrial complex, blah, blah, but why the middle east? please enlighten us.
apparently 5 hours agoIt's to rebuild the world in the image of the west and Islam is the biggest hampering in the way. Like other religions, it can't be altered or dominated so the only way is to completely destroy it. This is why Israel was setup by the Anglos at a strategic location in the heart of the Arab world to engage them into perpetual war and destroy them.
That's about it.
And whenever a war on a civilization is waged, there are always monetary benefits. Oil, MIC, Political donations come into play here. But that's just a sideshow. And with a civilization as big as Islamic, benefits also tend to be massive.
Hessler 5 hours ago (Edited)no evidence that the arab spring was against islam. why aren't we doing regime change in indonesia? why did joe just reverse the Muslim travel ban?
do you understand anything about the world you live in?
InflammatoryResponse 5 hours agoA lot actually. We are concentrating on the core of the Islamic civilization for when the core collapses, the outer layers collapses with it. It's the core that holds the entire thing together, hence we concentrate on Middle East and not on Indonesia.
Arab spring was to sow chaos and turmoil. By the way of deception.....Jewish moto
It is not that Israel establishes America's foreign policy. It is that the basic world view produced by WASP culture is naturally aligned with Jewish thought in most ways, especially in terms of Empire: ruling the world.
duckandcover 1 hour agoit was not a muslim travel ban. it was a ban on places that didn't have adequate infrastructure to verify who was travling.
starman99 5 hours agowhere is the last place, core or not core, that Islam religion and Muslim culture has been eradicated by any means? Yugoslavia? India? Not seeing it. Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Your argument does not hold.
Groucho 5 hours ago(((THEM)))
Hessler 5 hours agoNo of course not. Nothing to do with what George Kennan called "the greatest strategic material prize in world history".
apparently 2 hours agoAnd whenever a war on a civilization is waged, there are always monetary benefits. Oil, MIC, Political donations come into play here. But that's just a sideshow. And with a civilization as big as Islamic, benefits also tend to be massive.
Groucho 5 hours agoby now, we should be weary (and wary) of "it's all a sideshow" arguments.
it simply asserts greater knowledge (never disclosed) and terminates the thread.
as for the grand anti-islam plan... how's that going in western europe?
JackOliver4 4 hours agoNo of course not. Nothing to do with what George Kennan called "the greatest strategic material prize in world history".
nocturnal66 7 hours agoIt is ALWAYS about the OIL - thats why IRAN and VENEZUELA are being weakened by crippling sanctions !!
THAT"S how the ZIO/US does it - SANCTIONS first - WAR 2nd !
Doesn't work anymore since RUSSIA stepped in !
Occams_Razor_Trader 7 hours agoJust ask if this 100 year plus war is to create "greater Israel" . It all documented. Enough already with the lies. Just admit it.
Max21c 7 hours ago (Edited)WWE- fake fights have begun again in earnest .....................
Paul Ryan could fake a punch as good as John Boehner ............
jesus_loves_you 7 hours ago"Maybe we shouldn't be 'choosing' governments in the Middle East," Paul continued.
The Washington establishment imposed their chosen ruler Joe Schmo Biden to rule over America.
Aquamaster 7 hours agoH a n g t h e m a l l
Lyman54 7 hours agoShould we have a contest to see who can pick the first country Biden will send troops to?
SERReal1 7 hours agoDC !
WTFUD 7 hours agoYou win!
littlewing 7 hours agoBlinken Heck , don't worry ya'll, Nuland (Nudelman's) back to steady the ship with a fab new chocolate chip cookie recipe that the terrorists will adore.
fzrkid 7 hours agoAnd they aren't even trying to hide it.
Armed Resistance 7 hours agoRand can say whatever he wants and it changes NOTHING
brown_hornet 7 hours agoWho is still planning on filing taxes? At the very least, turn your back on the system-right? Upvote for not filing, downvote for I just want to avoid conflict-I'm filing.
rwe2late 7 hours ago (Edited)But, we are getting a return.
No paying next year though.
north_hand_demon 7 hours agoDoesn't matter if it is a disaster for the peoples invaded and for domestic liberty in the USA.
It's considered "worth it" by those in power
to protect the financial supremacy of the dollar,
promote the regional military supremacy of Israel,
and continue the war profiteering of the MIC.
rwe2late 7 hours ago (Edited)So what? Your cushy lifestyle and mine is a direct result of hegemony. Get over it.
DonGenaro 7 hours ago (Edited)Celebration of a "cushy lifestyle" gained by plunder and murder is not for everyone.
To revel in it, one requires a special insensibility.
littlewing 7 hours agoThis fence-sitter did virtually NOTHING to stop the steal.
Now he's whining about having to lie in bed his cowardice helped make.
Many MORE thousands will soon be massacred by these war-mad psychopaths.
This POS is DEAD TO ME.
HominyTwin 7 hours agoRand is smart, he knew no matter what Xiden was going to be installed.
9.1ontherichterscale 7 hours agoHe's smart. A bunch of idiots, after a good breakfast at IHOP, were herded into the capital by govt informants to break stuff for the cameras, and then herded right back out in time for a hearty dinner at Golden Corral. They did sacrifice their lunch for exactly nothing, though. Congrats. He stayed away from all that nonsense.
zulu127 7 hours agoThat's about the size of it, in retrospect.
ableman28 4 hours agoregime change needs to end because it is involving the US in long wars that are costly to the military.
Wrong! "regime change needs to continue because it is involving the US in wars that are profitable to the military.
Hessler 4 hours agoPart of the problems is that neither the democrats or republicans are primarily in favor of DEMOCRATIC governments in the middle east. When Egypt FREELY ELECTED the Muslin Brotherhood to power in Egypt the US fell all over itself to help unseat them, using every technique we can.....currency debasement, food aid manipulation, tacit encouragement to strongment (military) that we feel are controllable, etc. etc.
The US was never in favor of one man one vote in South Africa during apartheid and explained this convenient hypocrisy as an unfortunate necessity.
Supporting regime change is entirely, ENTIRELY, different than supporting democracy. The US has a very very very long history of supporting the former and claiming it was the latter when in fact it wasn't. Democracy means letting the chips fall where they may. In countries whose ruling leadership is oppressive to its people and for which we have a long history of support its very unlikely that any democratic election would bring us new friends. It would, in every case, bring to power people who opposed the old government and by association US.
People playing to the stands here in the US are smart enough to know this. But maintaining the correct political position for domestic consumption also trumps doing the right thing in anywhere else.
International politics is a pure expression of national interest. Our national interest is economic outside the US. That part of socialist or marxist theory is spot on.
LooseLee 4 hours agoInsightful, thanks!
Musum 5 hours ago'Disaster' is the MO, Rand. Please, get real or get lost.
Hessler 5 hours agoSenator Rand Paul recently challenged the new Secretary of State nominee Anthony Blinken on his history of pushing regime change in the Middle East and North Africa
Pointless and hopeless. The only way to end America's endless wars is to deal with the guys in small hats.
Fire_Hog 5 hours agoSmall hats were employed by the English speaking protestants for their ulterior motives, world view, global ambitions which were in alignment with the chosenites.
You can't solve the Jewish problem without solving the problem of western civilization.
Musum 4 hours agoThe real problems are the 3 letter intelligence agencies, not religion.
train rider 6 hours agoAre you naive or misdirecting? Offices are occupied by people.
nocturnal66 6 hours agoDeep thinking and reflection...what about our military personnel and contractors...why are we putting them in danger with these interventionist kockamamie screw balls coming up with these strategies...meanwhile innocent civilians keep getting maimed and killed.
We have no business over there, let the countries decide for themselves what they want etc. we need energy idependence...greta can go fly a kite...keep reducing emissions with tech we have.
LorDampNuts 7 hours ago
TheZeitgeist 7 hours agoIt is very sad that paul's neighbor does not have a more lethal right hook.
freakscene 7 hours ago (Edited)Sen. Paul began his argument by questioning Blinken's role in the NATO intervention of Libya in 2001
So...only off by a decade. I think ZeroHedge drops these snafus into the copy just to see if anyone actually reads the stuff.
littlewing 7 hours agoIts skimming material at best. Reading all the way through went out the window when ZH become a CNN sponsor.
:)
StanleyTheManly 7 hours agoWhen Ron Paul was calling out Bernanke you would see they were alone in the room.
There is no debate, its all a fraud. Saw the vote on election theft and it was their aides voting for them.
TRON Paul 7 hours agoGive me a break, Rand Paul. YOU KNOWINGLY voted for this by not standing for our elected President.
You're a traitor. Shut up and sit down.
wmbz 7 hours agoPRESIDENT PAUL!
PRESIDENT PAUL!
PRESIDENT PAUL!
totally unwise 7 hours agoWar is a business, and "we" are big business. Matter no how many completely innocent people get blown away. What matters are the spoils. We were warned over and over again about the MIC yet here we are.
Profit always wins over peace, no money in it.
freakscene 7 hours agoToday, wars aren't meant to be won
they're meant to bring chaos
Chaos
Calling Maxwell Smart and agent 99
Where's that shoe phone ?
Dog Will Hunting 7 hours agoI guess, good for Rand? Thats about all he can do.
in_xanadu_did_kubla_khan 8 hours agoOh, that Rand Paul. I wondered where he was hiding this whole time peels back Trump's saggy *** cheeks to find the good doctor
createnewaccount 8 hours agoAchoo: Hey, Blinkin
Blinkin: Did you say Abe Lincoln?
Achoo: No! I said, HEY, BLINKIN!
Lt. Frank Drebin 8 hours agoIf we can't have Giant Meteor maybe a global helter skelter of 'regime change' will be a good consolation prize.
Holding My Breath 7 hours agoI voted for Giant Meteor, but the Dominion voting machines switched my vote to turd sandwich.
createnewaccount 4 hours agoA big upvote for sarcasm (or is it utter stupidity?)
Herdee 7 hours agoUh oh!
https://www.livescience.com/13738-trouble-detecting-sarcasm-dementia-sign.html
littlewing 7 hours agoThe Military/Industrial Complex needs endless foreign wars and imaginary enemies so that the money won't be spent at home helping Americans. Such as infrastructure projects. The goal from within is to destroy the American middle class and turn the United States into a third world country. Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump all served the crooks.
Bear 11 minutes agoUh then why didn't Trump start wars?
Arizona1234 26 minutes agoLike father like son ... insight and wisdom
Maltheus 1 hour agoChina Joe and the mentally ill Marxist that run his crap show already started a multi Trillion dollar endless war. The War on the weather they call Climate Crisis. It's the one where we loose and wind up praying to find the small potato to make it through the day, and then hope to find a few dry sticks for the fire to cook it. Where you will have to make the small fire at night so that mentally ill #AOC carbon police can't easily see the smoke.
Tom Angle 2 hours agoIt's taken less than 24 hours, after Biden's inauguration, for ISIS to magically make an appearance again. They're not even pretending anymore.
boattrash 2 hours agoI think I had heard all I want to hear from Rand Paul after.
Dzerzhhinsky 3 hours agoGawdamit Rand, we like you and everything, but the Coup you should be focused on is HERE, even if it means you should spit in your hands, hoist the black flag and start slittin throats.
Sincerely,
The American People
learnofjesuits 4 hours agoIf the US can steal Syria, it means it will be able to build a pipeline, steal Iranian gas and sell it to Europe.
The US needs something to give its financiers and controlling energy supplies to Europe would go a long way to paying off the debt.
Hessler 3 hours agovatican's wars
TemporarySecurity 4 hours agoPuritans burred the Vatican so deep underground that if even the nuke detonates there, if won't make a shockwave on the ground
tangent 4 hours agoPerfectly fine for anybody in the executive to lie through their teeth.
Say one thing in the hearing and do what they always do once confirmed. Our post Constitutional government needs to fail.
richnhappy 4 hours agoRan Paul's ability to talk as if they are not simply being outright bribed for their positions is impressive. I suppose the new CCP SoS will take the positions of the CCP, which is the one paying him the most money for those positions.
Seditious 4 hours agoJust read confessions of an economic hit man, by john perkins, all you need to know. The playbook sounds like what china is doing in the us now, distract the masses with the middle east ****show.
Maghreb2 4 hours agoWe have had just one president so far this century that has not used American blood and treasure to destroy a nation. He was a rogue billionaire that got taken out by every other billionaire that wanted to stay in the club. The American people are going to have to figure out that they will have better results solving this nations problems at the Bezos, Walton, Zuckerberg and Dorsey homes than they will going to the Capitol in Washington DC.
The Child sacrifice murders committed by these people don't occur in some hidden room at a pizza parlor. They occur on public roads under semitrailers marked Amazon Prime and Walmart that wouldn't be allowed on the roads of nations that we used to call the third world.
I suppose the only big question is, who's child dies tomorrow?
Seditious 4 hours agoYou could look it at that way. I'd say he was a hairs breadth from starting world war III with Iran and China and was removed by a stroke of bad luck from Wuhan and the old establishment asserting their authority through corruption.
Trump might be remembered fondly for actually lowering the number of small conflicts but the U.S war machine is bigger than any one president and his closeness to Israel show what camp he was in. Only God or a few insiders can really judge what his ultimate aim was but he wasn't the man who pulled the first shot of the first world war. Damn well loaded the gun and gave it to the Israelis in my opinion.
Maghreb2 5 hours ago (Edited)During Obama's time in office we had a year in which the United States dropped bombs in more nations than they did in any single year during WW2.
Bezos, Walton's and others spill our blood domestically. Biden will spill our blood overseas to keep some other billionaires happy.
steve2241 4 hours agoI'll play devils advocate even though I like the guy. His father thought things like that were a good idea as an alternative to imperial invasion.
Fire_Hog 5 hours agoBased on your comment, I take it you REALLY like Blinken! Yes?
Maghreb2 4 hours agoThe same thing happened in Egypt when Obama pushed for and got quick elections when the only organization that could field candidates was the Muslim Brotherhood. The result was very predictable.
The Brotherhood took over and the result was so bad that the people finally rebelled against Morsi's government. This lead to Al Sisi who was better than Morsi. I question whether the situation improved by letting the Muslim Brotherhood take control.
WatchnSee 5 hours agoPeople? Thought that was the military?
Hessler 6 hours ago (Edited)"regime change doesn't work" "Maybe we shouldn't be 'choosing' governments in the Middle East,".... nor in the USA. Time will tell.
Mancolo 6 hours agoDon't worry Mr. Paul, these white men in the suits are the leaders of the terrorists groups. It's hardcoded in their genes, they don't know any other way of earning a living.
Pvt Joker PREMIUM 7 hours agoLessons? I don't need your stinking lessons. I've got friends to pay off.
Scornd 7 hours agoI like the US policy of Perma War and Regime change. The more troops over there , the less troops over here.
MCDirtMigger 6 hours agoI dont understand the complaints.
You voted for this.
littlewing 7 hours agoBy 'you', do you mean Dominion?
Max21c 7 hours ago (Edited)District of Criminals
that's all they are.
I am bailing out forever now.
Just looking at them and their actions is self harm.
LorDampNuts 7 hours agoDistrict of Criminals
Diablo Corona
Washingtonians are for the most part the spawn of Satan.
DC= the Devil's City... they are evil... Washingtonians are just pure rotten evil...
Washington DC ... Devil's City
Washington DC .... Devil's Crown
The evil ones cannot change their evil ways... they're too far gone... the evil ones cannot be redeemed...
Occams_Razor_Trader 7 hours agoKeep sending your donations to Stop the Steal, Trump has a plan and will be sworn in by April when it warms up. Free Chumptard hat with every $100 donation.
foxenburg 7 hours agoI'd donate a hunny for you to flush your head in a toilet ...............
Rammbock 7 hours agoplus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
Kotwica 44 7 hours agoRepublicans are great actors
Ajax_USB_Port_Repair_Service_ 7 hours agoThis guy speaks truth, but, no one gives a flying fu<k.
freedommusic 7 hours ago (Edited)Attention Secret Police: We've got one for you!
SERReal1 7 hours agoWhatever these folks say is irrelevant. They are all sitting on foreign soil. The UNITED STATES CORPORATION is a foreign Municipal entity owned by China claimed in the recent bankruptcy settlement. POTUS said when he was leaving. Go ahead, take it. The buildings, the chairs, statues, it's all yours . Anyone who steps outside of that foreign jurisdiction will be entering American soil and subject to the Laws of the United States Constitutional Republic and prosecuted for treason and sedition.
DC is now a Chinese embassy.
I wonder how much food they have stocked up in there? I would presume the military would uphold a blockade and prevent the exchange of trade from occurring into a surrounded hostile territory of the enemy.
YOU WANT IT
YOU GOT IT
HAVE A NICE DAY
9.1ontherichterscale 7 hours ago (Edited)Where was Rand in calling out the election fraud?
Now he is acting all tough again on the deep state creatures.
rkb100100 7 hours agoHe wants to stay in office. No way is going to touch the third rail. None of them will.
leodogma1 7 hours agoThis is part of a Punch and Judy show put on for retards.
Southern Discomfort 7 hours agoAnd yet not one peep of this Quislings tie's to the Chinese Communist party of Evil !
More-Cowbell 8 hours agoI'm sure it will be blamed on an action taken by Trump and the only cure will be intervention. Maybe Joetard can set up a new cabinet level position to seek out opportunities for new wars.
north_hand_demon 8 hours agoThe show must go on. As if these asz clowns ( all of them ) matter.
artless 7 hours ago (Edited)Whatever. Your cushy lifestyle, and mine, exists because we're the dominant imperial power on the planet. Might makes right. Paul knows it too; this is just virtue signaling.
LooseLee 4 hours agoAnd in your statement lies the real problem with the vast majority of people in this country.
Yeah I edited the lame ad hom line after I read a few comments. But perhaps it is long due that rather than simply accept things as the way they are and calling any opposition to it the thoughts of a ten year old, it might be high time to actually try to make a change in how people think and ultimately behave.
Said like a card-carrying Zio.
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Jan 17, 2021 9:18 AM
I do not rate Dostoyevsky very highly. In some ways he is a poster boy for the efficacy of state repression. He was involved in a liberal circle under the highly repressive Nicholas I, arrested, saw some of his colleagues subjected to mock execution and was sent to Siberia. Yet in his later writings it was political radicals he denounced. Perhaps he had been intimidated into surrendering to the Tsarist state, and denouncing nihilism was a safe option in Tsarist Russia. No problems with censorship there.
Tsarist Russia had quite a few poachers turned gamekeepers. For example, the prosecutor in the case of the conspiracy in which Lenin's older brother was involved in 1886-7 had himself been a student radical in the 1860s and was imprisoned for a short time. Released, he was able to resume his law studies, made his peace with the system and eventually became a state prosecutor. He seems however to have had a breakdown towards the end of the case and was not around for the sentencing – inevitably some people were going to be sentenced to death and perhaps the stress of prosecuting student radicals when he had once been one himself got to him. 2 -4 Reply
Moneycircus , Jan 17, 2021 10:07 AM Reply to Waldorf
"denouncing nihilism was a safe option"
Is there any other option?
Waldorf , Jan 17, 2021 11:13 AM Reply to Moneycircus
Some European writers and intellectuals towards the end of the century actually embraced it to one degree or another, so yes, there were options. He could also have just remained silent on the subject. It is questionable whether nihilists had ever done anything to Dostoyevsky, whereas the state of Nicholas I put quite a crimp into his life. Yet bitterness towards the authorities is not readily apparent in his works (it might not have got past the censor anyway). Like I say, a poster boy for the efficacy of state repression.
Waldorf , Jan 17, 2021 11:25 AM Reply to Waldorf
Oscar Wilde wrote a play in 1880, entitled Vera; Or The Nihilists. It was not one of his successes but he was clearly somewhat sympathetic to them. In due course the state would come crashing down on his neck.
George Mc , Jan 17, 2021 1:40 PM Reply to Waldorf
Would you say that Nietzsche was one of the few who tried to embrace nihilism fully? He certainly lost his marbles. Perhaps it was the strain of trying to "create new values"? I figure it like this: to create is to choose from various possibilities. But you can only choose if you already have a preference – which implies a value system already within you. It is therefore impossible to create (i.e.. choose) a value system. It would be like Baron Münchhausen lifting himself out the water by pulling his own hair.
Invisible Man , Jan 17, 2021 5:36 PM Reply to George Mc
Dostoyevsky and Nietzsche were both geniuses. They're widely perceived as being straightforward reactionaries, and either lauded or condemned on that basis, but as writers there's a lot of complexity there. With Dostoyevsky, he clearly **wanted** to believe that Russian Christianity, traditional orthodox belief, was enough to regenerate his fallen world. But when he wrote his novel The Idiot, which he wrote as a thought experiment with no idea beforehand how it would end, his "Russian Christ" character, Prince Myshkin, **fails** to regenerate society or provide lasting spiritual salvation for the characters he comes into contact with. The characters descend into tragedy and Myshkin himself goes insane. Dostoyevsky was honest enough to simply let his unfettered imagination lead him where it would, even if it was to conclusions his rational, conscious mind would prefer to reject.
From a critical essay on The Idiot:
http://sites.utoronto.ca/tsq/DS/09/077.shtml
"From one perspective the West's new competition over money is central to Dostoevsky's thematics of personal greed in the novel. Its pursuit helps clarify the motivation and behavior of a wide variety of primary and secondary characters. On a broader level, the materialist definitions of man-in-nature, then circulating in science, carry an unsettling post-Christian despair, and help clarify the apocalyptic symbols many critics see as predominant in The Idiot. The objectification of man, by money or in nature, poses fundamental problems that Dostoevsky seeks to overcome through the influence of his "truly good man." Myshkin, of course, was meant to be a teacher who could lead those languishing in greed or existential despair into a renewed spiritual faith. But Dostoevsky himself admitted that his hero did not fulfill that hope.(2) Myshkin's failure to bring a better alternative to fruition marks what I see as Dostoevsky's inability to resolve modern cultural problems he describes with such artistic honesty and power. In this sense, The Idiot is more a novel of metaphysical definition than of action. Its problems organize character and symbol into a single, bleak, metaphysical statement."
It's a testament to Dostoyevsky's integrity as an artist that he allowed his imagination to guide him and allowed the Russian Christ figure to stand as a tragic failure and not the success he dearly wanted him to be. The novelist and artist in Dostoyevsky seems to be waging a constant battle with the proselytizer and propagandist. And the artist usually wins! That's why his work has lasted.
As for Nietzsche, I don't pretend to know why he went mad, whether the causes were primarily physical or metaphysical. I will say, however, that his first great influence was Schopenhauer. Nietzsche desperately wanted to be like Goethe, saying "yes" to life and taking pleasure in life in all its variety, but I don't think he succeeded. No matter how much he tried to eventually distance himself from the gloomy pessimism of Schopenhauer, to choose Goethe over Schopenhauer, he is always most himself when he is making his darkest, most disquieting observations. His joyful optimism feels forced, his grim cynicism seems deep and genuine.
George Mc , Jan 17, 2021 7:11 PM Reply to Invisible Man
I love both Dostoevsky and Nietzsche. The latter is one of the few philosophical writers who you can honestly call an exhilarating read. (Somebody described Nietzsche's prose style as being like a physical presence on the page.)
I think all of Dostoevsky's novels have that irresistible sense where you feel the author himself doesn't know where he's going. He sets up his premise and has his characters personifying various points of view and then he just "let's them go" to see how they interact and where they end up.
(PS Nietzsche may have died of syphilis.)
Researcher , Jan 17, 2021 7:53 PM Reply to Invisible Man
With regard to Nietzsche, it was most likely mercury. Mercury was used as a treatment for syphilis in those days. An abstract on Nietzsche's dementia diagnosis is below.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17087793/
Dementia and other neurological diseases, even premature death are commonly known to result from mercury poisoning.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Mercury+dementia
Lord only knows what they gave to him while in the Sanitarium. None of it was likely to be health inducing.
Mike Ellwood (Oxon UK) , Jan 17, 2021 11:38 PM Reply to Researcher
I think mercury (because of syphilis) might also explain some of Vincent Van Gogh's mental problems.
SEF , Jan 19, 2021 4:38 PM Reply to Researcher
Perhaps the mercury in vaccines helps to account for today's "mass insanit
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Twitter has banned the sitting president from its platform indefinitely. Facebook and Instagram have banished Trump until at least after Joe Biden's inauguration. After Twitter began cancelling Trump followers, Amazon Web Services, Apple Store, and Google Play cancelled an entire corporation, Twitter competitor Parler . Other social media platforms could face a similar fate at the hands of the leftist authoritarian Big Tech cartel.
Tens of thousands, if not millions, of Trump supporters have either been purged from mainstream social media platforms or have fled in protest. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has recently promised more censorship and purges . Even the libertarian leader of an earlier populist movement, Ron Paul, has faced a Facebook ban (although this was subsequently claimed to be "an error" ). Guilt by association seems to the rule, no matter how distant or strained the association.
The purges extend well beyond social media. Trump has been cancelled by former business associates, including by one of his former financiers, Deutsche Bank . Blacklists of Trump supporters are being compiled. Congress members have called for the resignation of senators and House members who questioned the election results. If they refuse to resign, say the totalitarian wannabes about to seize complete control, they should be removed from office. ABC News contributor Rick Klein called for the " cleansing " of Trump supporters from the political landscape in a now-deleted tweet.
Khanlenin 1 day ago 15 Jan, 2021 11:34 PM
Always been 99.99% vs 0.01%. The 0.01% determine what wars the military will start, the minimum wage, security of employment, how affordable to make health care, the tax system etc even the school curriculum. The freest country with the most controls.Ronj14848 ceshawn 1 day ago 15 Jan, 2021 07:36 PMTrue...the media support the military industrial complex. Their friends own the miltary industrial complex . See who they support politically and avoid them like the plague.
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In particular, several of the major swing-states contain large cities -- Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Atlanta -- that are both totally controlled by the Democratic Party and also notoriously corrupt, and various eye-witnesses have suggested that the huge anti-Trump margins they provided may have been heavily "padded" to ensure the candidate's defeat.
Even leaving aside some of these plausible claims, the case for a stolen election seems almost airtight. I don't know or care anything about Dominion voting machines, whether they are controlled by Venezuelan Marxists, Chinese Communists, or Martians. But the most blatant election-theft was accomplished in absolutely plain sight.
Not long before the election, the hard drive of an abandoned laptop owned by Joe Biden's son Hunter revealed a gigantic international corruption scheme, quite possibility involving the candidate himself. But the facts of this enormous political scandal were entirely ignored and boycotted by virtually every mainstream media outlet. And once they story was finally published in the pages of the New York Post , America's oldest newspaper, all links to the Post article and its website were suddenly banned by Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets to ensure that the voters remained ignorant until after they had cast their ballots.
Renowned international journalist Glenn Greenwald was hardly a Trump partisan, but he became outraged that the editors of the Intercept , the $100 million publication he himself had co-founded, refused to allow him to cover that massive media scandal, and he angrily resigned in protest. In effect, America's media and tech giants formed a united front to steal the election and somehow drag the crippled Biden/Harris ticket across the finish line.
The Hunter Biden corruption scandal seemed about as serious as any in modern presidential election history and Biden's official victory margin was just 0.01%. So if the American voters had been allowed to learn the truth, Trump almost certainly would have won the election, quite possibly in an Electoral College landslide. Given these facts, anyone who continues to deny that the election was stolen from Trump is simply being ridiculous.
Heated election campaigns have consequences, and this is especially true when all of America's most powerful corporations and ruling elites unite to essentially steal a reelection from a populist incumbent, hero-worshiped by many tens of millions of Americans. And when despite all that blatant unfairness and theft, the final margin of defeat is just one vote in 7,000, an explosion of popular outrage should only be expected.
Solid estimates appear unavailable, but it seems that hundreds of thousands of grass-roots Trump supporters traveled to our nation's capital to protest against what they regarded as a stolen election, and then peacefully assembled to listen to their hero's speech.
Afterwards, a tiny sliver of this vast multitude of angry individuals -- perhaps less than one in a thousand -- barged their way into the strangely-undefended Capitol building of Congress, took souvenir selfies, livesteamed their antics, and generally played the role of tourist-protesters while the lawmakers they so despised as corrupt mostly fled or hid. These Trumpists and some of their colorful costumes brought to mind the radical Yippies of the late 1960s.
The previous year had seen an unprecedented wave of violent riots, arson, and looting across some 200 American cities, which our entirely corrupt and dishonest media had generally characterized as "mostly peaceful protests." In previous years, angry mobs of organized Democratic activists had repeatedly invaded and occupied the Wisconsin Legislature , sometimes winning praise from the media. But when unarmed Trump supporters now did something similar for a few hours in Washington, they were quickly branded "domestic terrorists" seeking to overthrow our democracy.
A video shows Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed female protester, being shot dead by a security guard as she tried to climb through a window, an incident not dissimilar to the famous Kent State shootings of a 1960s campus protest, but hardly treated by the media in a similar manner.
A couple of other Trump protesters, probably elderly, overweight, or in poor health, died of strokes or heart-attacks during all the excitement, and one Capitol police officer later died as well, allegedly struck in the head with a fire-extinguisher although there has been no solid account of the incident. Yet this confused tableau of chaos and popular anger, which recalls scenes from the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention protests, has been portrayed as a "coup attempt" incited by President Trump, and therefore justifying his second impeachment.
Even more importantly, the incoming Biden/Harris Administration may be considering the most sweeping domestic crackdown upon traditional American civil liberties since the Patriot Act was passed in the hurried aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks twenty years ago. This has been justified by the need to suppress "domestic extremism."
Even without any new governmental legislation, a remarkable Internet crackdown has already begun. In an absolutely unprecedented development, the sitting president of the United States -- who had just lost his reelection by 0.01% of the vote -- has been summarily banned by Twitter, Facebook, and all other major social media outlets, preventing him from communicating with his followers, and with many of his leading supporters suffering the same fate.
Famed libertarian Ron Paul criticized Twitter for banning Trump, and he was immediately locked out of his own Facebook page . Parler, a young but rapidly growing Twitter competitor, refused to ban Trump, and was immediately driven off the Internet by a combined attack from Apple, Google, and Amazon, possibly never to return. Our Information Age has entered a truly Orwellian period.
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Dumbo , says: January 14, 2021 at 9:38 pm GMT • 20.5 hours ago
anon [179] Disclaimer , says: January 14, 2021 at 11:23 pm GMT • 18.7 hours agoAnother unprecedented aspect of the election is the change of rules implemented due to COVID. I expected Trump vs. Biden to be the lowest turnout ever. Instead it was the highest. This must be a consequence of expanded mail in voting.
Expanded mail in voting FRAUD, you mean. Most European countries do not accept voting by mail. Because of fraud issues. Anyway, probably in the future we will be able to vote with an app, from the safety of our homes, as we will be locked inside forever due to the "new variations" of Covid.
It will all be safe from fraud, of course, Dorsey and Zuck and Cook and Gates and Brin guarantee.
A123 , says: January 14, 2021 at 11:36 pm GMT • 18.5 hours agoRight. This is one more typical coup, CIA installing its chosen presidential puppet ruler. It's a wholly routine occurrence, although the tactics and staging change a bit:
1. Preemptively quashing the candidacy of Robert Taft
2. Murder of John Kennedy
3. Preemptive murder of candidate Robert Kennedy
4. "Watergate" purge of Richard Nixon
5. Iran-hostage "October surprise" ratfuck of Jimmy Carter
6. Botched murder of Ronald Reagan
7. Suspending the vote count for candidate Al Gore
8. Ballot-stuffing in Ohio to stop John Kerry
9. Multi state ballot-stuffing to purge Donald TrumpBy the way, it's a hoot to see the censorship hysteria in CIA's Mockingbird social networks, while arch-subversive Ron Unz sits here with his infuriating little grin, permitting the manifest foreign treason of GC34-standard freedom of expression.
ruralguy , says: January 15, 2021 at 1:16 am GMT • 16.8 hours agoThe Navarro report provides detailed proof on how elections in multiple states were stolen. (1)
https://thenationalpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2020-12-17-at-9.39.42-AM-1160x651.png
Given that all rational human beings understand, as a matter of objective proven fact, that the election was stolen Where do we go from here?
The slender & extreme, authoritarian, Leftoid margin in the House is certain to be a circular firing squad of internecine discontent. What little they pass will contain more pork than an industrial pig farm. It will be a matter of months before the U.S. Economy is tanked by SJW illegitimacy and misrule.
Much like the GOP beat Gerrymandering, with lead time the GOP will beat Fultoning (named after the Atlanta County). The GOP is sure to take the House in the 2022 elections.
How many times will Biden & Harris be Impeached, shamed, and forced to undergo public trial in the Senate? There will have to be multiple trials to establish for the historical record that Biden/Harris Coup plot was vastly more criminal than Nixon, Clinton, and Trump.
PEACE
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John Gruskos , says: January 15, 2021 at 2:31 am GMT • 15.6 hours agoI read an interesting article by a Sri Lankan who lived through the recent Sri Lanka Civil War. He made an interesting point that in a civil war, most people just go about their daily routines, not aware they are in a war. They experience the war as a constant drumbeat of negative news, with outbreaks of violence that don't directly affect themselves. He said America is in a civil war, but Americans don't realize it. You know you are in a civil war or insurrection when the news is constantly negative with frequent reports of violence.
Ash Williams , says: January 15, 2021 at 3:13 am GMT • 14.9 hours agoTrump would have won despite the hostility of the media and big tech, and despite electoral corruption in Democrat-controlled big cities, if he had spent the previous 4 years making a good faith effort to implement the policies he ran on in 2016.
He ran as a populist, yet ruled as a plutocrat.
Candidate Trump promised a non-interventionist foreign policy. President Trump dug us deeper into the Middle East quagmire, intensifying hostilities against Russia, Syria, Yemen and Iran while being cartoonishly subservient to Israel.
The troops didn't come home.
He ran on an immigration platform written by Jeff Sessions. As president he prioritized the immigration policies of Sheldon Adelson and Jared Kushner – calling for "more immigration than ever before" in his State of the Union address, and lecturing his dumbfounded rally-goers on the need for increased immigration because "my friends in the business world say we need it".
A tight labor market and rising real wages remained in the world of might-have-been.
Candidate Trump promised to drain the swamp. President Trump pardoned a menagerie of grotesque swamp creatures.
Candidate Trump promised to close the carried interest loophole and make Wall Street pay its fair share. President Trump gave massive tax cuts to the very media moguls and tech oligarchs who would subsequently doom his 2020 campaign.
The most passionate supporters of candidate Trump were stabbed in the back by President Trump – Chris Christie, Jeff Sessions, Steve Bannon, Ann Coulter, the Dissident Right, etc. in a pattern that has continued to the bitter end with his denunciations of the Capitol Hill protesters and scapegoating of Rudy Giuliani. At the same time, a whole series of Never-Trump personalities were promoted within the Trump White House (Rod Rosenstein, Anthony "the Mooch" Scaramucci, John Bolton, etc.).
Trump's most intelligent and active supporters were utterly demoralized, while his enemies were given ample opportunity for sabotage and espionage.
Candidate Trump promised law and order. President Trump did absolutely nothing while his supporters were terrorized by Antifa and BLM.
Thousands of Antifa terrorists and BLM rioters broke federal laws. Why weren't they arrested, charged, indicted and tried?
President Trump didn't support $2,000 stimulus checks until after the election.
He didn't lift a finger against electoral corruption in Democrat-controlled big cities, or big tech censorship, until after the election.
Without all these own-goals, the score wouldn't have even been close, and the biased referees wouldn't have mattered.
@A123Derer , says: January 15, 2021 at 3:56 am GMT • 14.2 hours agoHere's the link to the full Navaro report https://navarroreport.com/ This election wasn't "close". It was a blowout for Trump. It was OBVIOUS. It was also EASY to find, if anyone bothered looked just a little bit.
Ron put a "I'm a reasonable man" spin on this (and changed his tune from beginning to end, glad I read it before firing off an angry response), but I'm not sure there's a lot gained anymore by trying to reason with thieves and liars. Let's pray this turns around peacefully.
But the facts of this enormous political scandal were entirely ignored and boycotted by virtually every mainstream media outlet.
Re: Hunter Biden scandal. A survey of Biden's voters – unaware of his son's corruption – is suggesting that estimated 4.6% would've not voted for Biden, sufficient for Trump victory.
Mr. Dershowitz, strong defender of constitution and who opposed Trump first impeachment is suggesting (BBC Hard Talk) that vindictive Dems lead by Pelosi and Schumer violated 5 articles of constitution in one day during the 2nd not even investigated impeachment. Denying freedom of speech is a violation of constitution.
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Whitewolf , says: January 13, 2021 at 10:03 am GMT • 11.8 hours agoJan 13, 2021 | www.unz.com
Mass protests generally have two distinct but intertwined goals: 1) to "make a statement," and 2) to inflict a cost. To state the obvious, mass protests occur because a group of people are unhappy about something, and they want something to change. Change only occurs, in a large bureaucratic nation like ours, if a loud "message" is conveyed, or if the price of non-change becomes too high. If thousands of Trump voters are mad as hell because they believe the election was stolen, and if they want to protest, they can either make their message heard and then hope for the best (not much hope there), or they can attempt to punish the thieves -- that is, make them incur some cost for their malfeasance.
What did the mob achieve on Wednesday? We already knew their message -- Trump won the election, and it was stolen. We know they have support across the country; even our biased media admit to some 74 million Trump voters, of whom 70% to 80% (depending on the poll) think the election was stolen. But then what? "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it." And then what? The message is impotent. It has no consequence.
If 'the message' was doomed to impotence, inflicting 'a cost' was much more tangible, and much more achievable. By forcing their way into the Capitol building, a motivated and reasonably prepared mob could have caused tremendous damage. If -- and I stress the conditional here -- if they wanted to inflict damage, they had a golden opportunity. They had guns, presumably hidden, and far outnumbered the handful of guards. Any firefight would have been over quickly, with the mob victorious. Security guards, staffers, even congressmen would have been easy prey, for kidnapping, injury, or worse. But this did not happen.
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Notice how congressmen, left and right, responded to the event. All were indignant. All were outraged. All condemned the "senseless violence" of the crazed mob and the "attempted overthrow" of American democracy. All of them: left, right, and center; Democrat and Republican; Trump supporter or not. All of them condemned it.
Again: Why? The answer here is clear: All congressmen, of all stripes, have a vested interest in sustaining the system, more or less in its current form . This is obvious. They are all 'winners' in the system. It has made them all rich, famous, and powerful. Yes, they fight for relative power and relative influence, but this is largely a sham. The Republican-Democrat battles are only there to give the impression of real competition. Instead, in reality, we have a deep and radical monopoly -- a monopoly of pro-corporate, pro-capitalist, pro-war, pro-Israel, and pro-Jewish individuals. On these things, they all agree. I've been saying as much for many years: We should focus not on what divides the two parties, but on what unites them . This is far more revealing.
... More than anything, Trump was a symbol: a symbol of resistance, of defiance, and of an 'in your face' attitude. But nothing more. The Trump presidency was all show, no substance. It was, and is, hardly worth dying over.
And by 'media,' I mean all media. Consider what our beloved Tucker Carlson had to say , speaking at the beginning of his show on the very first day after the protest:
Political violence begets political violence. That is an iron law that never changes. We have to be against that, no matter who commits the violence or under what pretext, no matter how many self-interested demagogues assure us the violence is justified or necessary. We have a duty to oppose all of this, not simply because political violence kills other people's children, but because in the end it doesn't work.
No good person will live a happier life because [Ashli Babbitt] was killed in a hallway of the Capitol today. So our only option, as a practical matter, is to fix what is causing this in the first place. You may have nothing in common with the people on the other side of the country -- increasingly, you probably don't -- but you're stuck with them. The idea that groups of Americans will somehow break off into separate peaceful nations of like-minded citizens is a fantasy. That will not happen. There is no such thing as 'peaceful separation'; there never has been, and there won't be.
The two hemispheres of this country are inseparably intertwined, like conjoined twins. Neither can leave without killing the other. As horrifying as this moment is, we have no option but to make it better, to gut it out.
Beavertales , says: January 12, 2021 at 10:00 pm GMT • 23.9 hours ago
stevennonemaker88 , says: January 13, 2021 at 5:45 am GMT • 16.1 hours agoThe entry of the Capitol building was spontaneous. Nobody saw it coming.
In the immediate aftermath, the media didn't know whether to promote it or bury it. It took hours and days for the narrative to coalesce on orders from the top.
As it was happening, the media was gob-smacked. The 'insurrection' narrative didn't truly get going until the protest was long over.
shylockcracy , says: January 13, 2021 at 5:51 am GMT • 16.0 hours agoI thought this was a pretty good article. Virtually no politician is on the side of the people (maybe Ron Paul is the exception)...
Thomasina , says: January 13, 2021 at 5:58 am GMT • 15.9 hours agoIt's real tiresome to do this but people need to be reminded that Ziocorporate conman fraud Trump and his MAGA brand are a product of the same lot that governs the Democrats, and that he was never on his constituency's side:
"Donald Trump endorses Benjamin Netanyahu for PM"
https://www.youtube.com/embed/_l0N8ru6wII?feature=oembed
And it's necessary because if there's a chance to unite even a small group of people after realising how they're being had, then there's a chance for a small change to snowball into something larger. And it should not stay on the white side of the divide, it's not like the plandemic's been killing the economy for whites only. No "populist anti-Deep State patriot" or national leader goes around endorsing other countries' politicians, much less Israel's, the purest manifestation of corporate bankster power acting in unison with neocolonial globalism, a trait shared by Biden and Trump.
Actions should be peaceful, because entities like the Pentagon and CIA have an absolute monopoly on violent repression...
SwedeMan , says: January 13, 2021 at 6:59 am GMT • 14.9 hours agoOne Christian fellow I listened to said that Antifa were definitely there. He took video of them walking down the street. That just proves to me that even Antifa knew they were no threat, otherwise they wouldn't have been mingling among thousands and thousands of Trump supporters.
The fellow said that from what he could see, the Trump protesters were unarmed, well behaved, smiling, and content with waving their flags. He said they are proud patriots and would never think of destroying art work or smashing up the Capitol Building.
He said on the 15 to 20 previous trips he's made to the Capitol Building, the pop-up metal barriers have always been up, but no barriers were up on January 6th. He said on a previous trip he had stepped onto the grass to take a picture and was quickly told by an officer to "get off the grass". But on January 6th, the sidewalks were blocked off, forcing people onto the grass.
We've seen the video of what looks to be an Antifa member breaking a window, only to be stopped by a Trump supporter.
No, these were salt of the earth people who were no threat to Antifa OR the spineless politicians. They knew this, but they've played it up for all it's worth.
And where was the police presence? Nowhere.
Franz , says: January 13, 2021 at 7:13 am GMT • 14.6 hours agoThe main physical damage was the supposed theft of Pelosis laptop. Can I take a look at it?
@James Speaks andbook by Edward N. LuttwakEl Dato , says: January 13, 2021 at 7:16 am GMT • 14.6 hours agoAmazon includes a couple accurate blurbs on the product description page:
This short book is wicked, truthful, and entertaining. The author, after outlining a step-by-step procedure for bringing about a coup, analyzes modern (post–Second World War) coups, and points out why some succeeded and others failed. ( New Yorker )
An extraordinarily competent and well-written work, displaying very wide knowledge of the ways in which coups, both successful and unsuccessful, have actually been organized. ( Times Literary Supplement )
El Dato , says:You don't do a "coup" by invading the congressional discussion bunker in a nominal democracy. You do a "coup" by ordering up CIA-organized troops to take over communication centers as checkpoints secured by APCs go up everywhere as congresscritters are frogmarched to a nearby stadium. The CEOs and salaried Wokers of the social meedja companies would swear enthusiastic allegiance to the new powers. Antifa would be issued clean shirts, ties and government-approved truncheons. Then a grand proclamation that there will be a convention to work towards national unity. Ooops, that last part actually happened.
If there had been a coup, it would 100% evident.
If there had been fair elections, it would 100% evident.
Forze , says: January 13, 2021 at 12:11 pm GMT • 9.7 hours agoThe event was, variously, a "coup," an "insurrection," or at minimum, "a riot." Protesters were "right-wing extremists" and even "domestic terrorists" who were attacking "the very basis of American democracy."
A coup?
An insurrection?
Attacking the very basis of American democracy?The only reason the crowd was there in the first place was to protest against the people committing those crimes through election fraud. Hopefully at least the crowd has figured out that the Republicans and Trump are not on their side...
Johnny Walker Read , says: January 13, 2021 at 3:01 pm GMT • 6.8 hours agoJazzhand McFeels of https://therightstuff.biz/ has written a very interesting article on Dissident Mag about some sudden changes in the administration that could explain this thing.
There's also a podcast with even more facts: https://fash-the-nation.libsyn.com/ftn-372-rage-against-the-regime
Twodees Partain , says: January 13, 2021 at 3:16 pm GMT • 6.6 hours agoThen things got ugly. Around 3:15, Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed, evidently by a security guard.
I don't know how this hoax could be exposed any better. WTFU people, you are being played.
https://153news.net/watch_video.php?v=6NMK57Y5A924
@Franklin RyckaertAnonymous [144] Disclaimer , says: January 13, 2021 at 3:54 pm GMT • 6.0 hours agoIf the attack on the Capitol was already so clumsy and ineffective, how could those same people succeed in the much more difficult task of seccession?
You're assuming that the phony attack was planned by the people who would be involved in a secession movement. I haven't seen any evidence that it was.
anastasia , says: January 13, 2021 at 5:01 pm GMT • 4.8 hours agoCui Bono? The Key to 6 January is what did NOT happen. The two houses of congress had gone off to hear, separately, in public broadcast, evidence from objecting congressmen that there was massive electoral fraud to criminally deliver the election to Biden. MSM transmitted the opening statements to the debate by McConnell and Schumer. These two said that there was no election fraud. MSM then pulled away when the other congressmen started presenting the view that there WAS fraud. Although MSM was not going to carry what the people are not supposed to know, and filled in instead with their own propagandists and the Party Line, the proceedings examining election fraud would have been seen by some of the public through the internet streams and C-Span. This was clear evidence which the courts should have heard, but refused to hear. BUT, instead of Congress publicly hearing evidence, the hearings abruptly STOPPED. Why? The Capitol police, following instructions, opened the barricades and waved the demonstrators to come in. The demonstrators were guided to the spot where the Deep State assassin was waiting. A person was shot. After that, there were NO MORE discussions of election fraud. Biden was confirmed without the airing of evidence of fraud. 6 January was a simple, but elegant, Deep State SETUP. A psyop. The American people have been, once again, deceived. Once everybody submits to vaccination there will never again be disputed elections, just like in the third world.
Ugetit , says: January 13, 2021 at 5:13 pm GMT • 4.6 hours agoCorrection: The media said that the policeman "collapsed when he got back to the Precinct. .that he MAY have been hit with a fire extinguisher." It was not reported as fact. No other subsequent report abouthow he died albeit it should have been established by now.
The second poilce officer who the media says was "killed" by the "riots" was a man who we heard nothing about on the date of the event, but who, five days later, committed suicide. The suicide story is not speculation. It was given as a fact. They call this suicide a "killing" because of the riots. It is more likely a police officer shooting his mouth off about these lies,who, five days later was suicided.
This summer and fall at least a dozen police officers were killed. Many more were injured. One got his eye knocked out. Many were very gravely injured. The government officials applauded their killers, posted bail for them, and every step of the way government officials "incited the violence".
Trump made a speech in front of his supporters laying out the evidence of the election fraud. He was complaining about the election fraud, a fraud that was never scutinized or investigated by anyone except his own lawyers and a few other lawyers, like Sidney Powell. They want to impeach him for publicly complaining about their stealing the election from him. It's like someone getting their home stolen, and when the victim publicly complains, he is threatened with arrest.
Again, they fundament their impeachment grounds on the "insurrection" of January 6, but again, like the election fraud, no one has scrutinized or conducted the most cursory investigation of it The fact that we still don't know how that policeman died is telling. The speculations made about him getting hit by a fire extinguisher are still floating around when at this point, it should be an established fact how he died. The dopiest doctor in this country would be able to diagnose a trauma to the head or body, if there were any physical trauma of that kind.
Two people died from natural causes. Yet, no details are given. One woman, age 34 and overweight was said to have been "trampled by the mob." Minutes after her death her family and closest friends were bad mouthing her, saying that she was mentally unstable, a conspiracy theorist, and "had problems in the past." She just died shortly before, and that was their public statements about their dearest friend and family member.
Ashli Babbits death was a provocative act that would have encouraged Trump supporters to turn on the police. It is no coincidence that those around her breaking windows, and screaming that she was dead when she was not, also provoked the crowds of Trump supporters. They are seen clearly on the video near Ashli not only breaking windows but changing their clothes after they had done so to hide their identification. This is clearly seen on the video. One guy provoking the crowds, breaking windows and screaming that Ashli was dead when she was not, was clearly Antifa, proven to be Antifa by video evidence. Yet, after January 6, he was interviewed by CNN. Clearly, the Antifa provocateur was not arrested by the Washington police or the FBI, but at least 6 Trump supporters were arrested for breaking curfew after 6 p.m. when all that happened at the Capitol was over. Those six were the first arrested – for breaking curfew. I do not find it a coincidence that both Ashli Babbitt and those breaking the windows around her, and screaming that she was dead when she was not, all acted to provoke the crowds and were all proven to be Antifa members. Was it coincidence that Ashli Babbitt's getting shot also acted as an unwitting provocateur, along with the Antifa members around her in the Capitol that day? Or was both Ashli and Antifa working for our security agencies that day, all playing their roles as agents provocateurs.
Why wouldn't the DOJ and FBI investigate the election fraud? Was it because the government did it? That would be a good reason not to investigate. Sidney Powell has produced an affidavit from a Serb who said it was the CIA who oversaw the manipulation of the US voting machines from Serbia, a country completely taken over by the CIA. He also writes about Hunter Biden's clandestine trip there in August 2020 to meet with these people.
@shylockcracyThomasina , says: January 13, 2021 at 5:30 pm GMT • 4.4 hours agoWhoever didn't develop a sense of humor with your Ziocorporate fraud reality TV show president posing as patriot anti-deep maverick ain't gonna do it now.
Quite right. Unfortunately.
@Whitewolfgleongelpi , says: January 13, 2021 at 6:46 pm GMT • 3.1 hours agoYes, the coup and insurrection had ALREADY happened.
The coup and insurrection happened when the Democrats AND Republicans rigged the election. Democratic state courts and election officials changed voting laws, and Republican state legislatures looked the other way.
NOVEMBER 3, 2020 COUP.
Curmudgeon , says: January 13, 2021 at 6:47 pm GMT • 3.1 hours agoYou are wrong on so many counts. The event was not spontaneous, that is quite clear when the guards let the protesters in and they mostly went inside peacefully while a handful of rioters did minimal damage. Some Antifas, yeah, for sure. But someone stole Pelosi's computer or did they? That smacks of a plan. It achieved the objectives of the groups on the inside. The marchers that went inside had to have been, for the most part, surprised that they were welcomed. Did you see how they walked in between the purple ropes? Took photographs and selfies, some of these with the guards? Did you see the videos of some of the protesters stopping the people trying to break the glass windows? ...
@ThomasinaTrinity , says: Next New Comment January 13, 2021 at 7:58 pm GMT • 1.9 hours agoThis is a very interesting video.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/5nvqvvsqJ_s?feature=oembed
Dr. Charles Fhandrich , says: Next New Comment January 13, 2021 at 8:15 pm GMT • 1.6 hours agoI see "anti-Semitism" has made it to the floor during these impeachment hearings. LMAO. I would guess that 97% of Trump's base is the muh Israel crowd and Trump is as pro-Israel, pro-Jewish as it gets.
Even more laughable is Maxine Waters standing up and decrying violence. I guess Maxine has a very selective memory. All these demsheviks and the gay guys over at CNN who had no problem with Antifa/BLM are now staunch advocates for the Constitution and have a problem with riots. How in the hell do these cretins live with themselves? Have these hypocrites no shame? It can't be said enuff that Antifa/BLM's and (((the leftoids))) fingerprints are all over these riots. This is the new 9-11, folks, don't believe your lying eyes. Look at some of those scraggly people busting windows and attacking cops? Do they look like the average Trump voter? Do these young punks scaling the walls look like the average Trump voter?
Dr. Charles Fhandrich , says: Next New Comment January 13, 2021 at 8:26 pm GMT • 1.4 hours agoThe democratic party is now pretending to "call out" the "white supremacists" in Congress. Even if there were "white supremacists" in Congress, they would be not one bit different from "brown supremacists", "black supremacists","yellow supremaicsts", if by "supremacists" is meant politicians that belong to the Hispanic caucus, Black caucus or Asian caucus , ALL of whom claim to be looking out for the welfare of their respective group.
This is of course what is going on here. The democratic party politicians, Pelosi, Schumer, Biden and the whole left has been race baiting against white people as a default manner of doing politics for over sixty years now. It is the fault of the FAUX REPUBLICAN PARTY, that has been posing as conservatives who many whites believe "have their backs", against the hate and shenanigans the anti-white left perpetrates. THEY ARE WRONG. We see plainly now, that what the U.S. has is a uni-party, that is left and far left and includes good old Republican RINO's, but the left and far left is used by the elite to keep and gain control of the U.S. for their own agenda. The idea now operating is to belittle, denigrate and cow white folks as never before, because many of the protesters at the recent "event", scared the living bleep out of the politicians who have simply not been representing them. The corporations and tech moguls,etc. are not taking the side of the left because they are "better" citizens or politicians than people on the right side of the political spectrum. They take the side of the left because that is where these corporations know that the radical Americans are, the ones that burn, loot and murder and therefore can be used to divide the nation for the big corporations and tech moguls,etc. Any honest person that considers what happened at the so called violent demonstration in D.C. knows that compared to the violence that ANTIFA, BLM and other groups perpertrated on innocent Americans last summer, knows perfectly well that there is no comparison. The anti-white left, enabled by the democratic party and the news media, IN SERVICE OF THE U.S. ELITE. BURNED, LOOTED AND MURDERED THE CITIZENS OF AMERICA for months, WITHOUT A SINGLE WORD FROM PELOSI, SCHUMER, BIDEN HARRIS, ETC.
The simple fact is that these D.C. politicians were scared shitless by some plain American citizens, who finally felt they needed to meet these representatives that keep ignoring and abusing them. The wrong people are being blamed here.
"Lessons from the Trumpistan Coup"
Before reading this article, the reader might consider the fact that there was NO COUP, by the accepted meaning that the word "coup" denotes. Now, if the fake news media and the democratic party want to explain the event by bending the facts and actual events to fit their own interpretation of it, that's a problem due to their dishonesty.
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Senate Overrides Trump Veto Of Defense Bill BY TYLER DURDEN FRIDAY, JAN 01, 2021 - 15:15
Meeting for a rare New Year's Day session, the Senate voted 81-13 on Friday to override President Trump's veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which Trump said "fails to include critical national security measures, includes provisions that fail to respect our veterans and our military's history, and contradicts efforts by my Administration to put America first in our national security and foreign policy actions."
A two-thirds majority was needed to override the veto - which would mark the first in Trump's presidency. The NDAA authorizes over $740 billion in military programs and construction, as well as 3% pay raises for US troops. It also contains a provision to rename military bases named after Confederate generals .
Trump also wanted to force a repeal of Section 203 protections for social-media companies enjoy due to their constant editorializing of user content, however lawmakers refused to include the provision.
The rare January 1st session comes as the new Congress is set to be sworn in on Sunday.
On Wednesday, the Senate voted 80-12 to begin an official debate on overriding the veto, proving that Congress can act with lightning speed when properly motivated.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on Tuesday that the NDAA is crucial to national defense, and to "deter great power rivals like China and Russia." The bill "will cement our advantage on the seas, on land, in the air, in cyberspace and in space," he added.
During Trump's time in office, he has vetoed eight other bills - several of them focused on foreign policy and national security issues, according to the Wall Street Journal .
The fight over the NDAA also underscored broader tensions over national-security issues between congressional Republicans and Mr. Trump. On foreign policy and national-security issues, many Republicans have readily bucked Mr. Trump during his presidency even as they have stood by him on many other issues.
For instance, the Trump administration's recent effort to cut troop levels in Afghanistan in half , to roughly 2,500, by Jan. 15, has alarmed some Republicans. The NDAA requires the administration to submit to Congress a comprehensive assessment of the withdrawal before it can use funds to pull out troops. -WSJ
In addition to creating a commission to assess changes to bases, displays, monuments, symbols and other paraphernalia related to Confederate commanders, the bill limits the president's ability to use emergency military construction funds for other purposes . It also restricts employees or former employees from the military-industrial complex to work directly for the Chinese government or government-controlled companies.
Banned Banana 56 minutes ago
RasinResin 50 minutes agoDwight Eisenhower warned us about this 60 years ago, and we have done exactly nothing.
Orange Man Rad 53 minutes ago (Edited) remove linkWhen you comb through who is doing what, you realize it's just politicians supporting monopolistic companies. Lawyers in essence, always have been, and always will be the problem. Just ask Shakespere.
Right Wing-Nut 48 minutes agoMcConnell is on a suicide mission for the GOP as a political party. I'm guessing he could careless as he won't be running for reelection. I always knew he was a swamp creature that hated Trump. He never once publicly defended Trump in 4 years. I will be changing my party affiliation to Independent on January 7th. I'm waiting until then so it has maximum impact after the scumbags throw Trump under the bus. Good riddance GOP.
Obake158 40 minutes agoExcellent presentation on:
How Big Government Really Works
It fully explains why China Mitch is fine being Minority Leader. Follow the money!!
techengineer 15 minutes agoDon't change your party affiliation, do what I did and go to your town hall and unregister to vote. There is absolutely no point in participating in this sham of a system. Voting for muppet A or muppet B is silly when both sides are played by the same interests. All you do by giving your consent to be ruled is create a mandate that the agent of corruption uses to lord over you. I am 100% done playing with their system and by their rules. Politicians are a verminous class of filth. They need to be purged, swapping a rat for a snake for a maggot is what voting results in. Think of a single politician that represents you and your interests and that you look up to. I haven't been able to say anything good about a politician since Ron Paul was active, they are all treason scum.
Bernout Sanders 43 minutes ago remove linkThe Republican Establishment is disgusting.. A damn disgrace.. We can't get rid of the rotten bastards without turning it over to even worse Democrats..
AboveAverageIdiot 27 minutes agoFor those of you keep asking "but why doesn't Trump do more?" - this is your answer.
Could Trump have expanded the use of the Executive Order into clearly unconstitutional territory and hope the Supreme Court would support this? Perhaps.
When it comes to legislation, though, sadly there are less than 10 (and perhaps less than 5) Republican Senators worth a hill of beans.
I mean, look at Utah. Solidly Republican, elect the sorriest GOP Senator and carpetbagger Mittens, and even their decent Senator, Mike Lee, is militantly pro-immigration.
Until Republicans start primarying SOB RINO's like Democrats do in their caucus, there will never be any change.
yerfej 27 minutes agoSenators who voted to sustain Trump's veto of defense bill:
Booker (D)
Braun (R)
Cotton (R)
Cruz (R)
Hawley (R)
Kennedy (R)
Lee (R)
Markey (D)
Merkley (D)
Paul (R)
Sanders (I)
Warren (D)
Wyden (D)dustnwind 43 minutes agoThe endless wars continue. What the phyuyk is wrong with a country that can't stop starting wars yet never has the balls to finish them? Oh its just a facade for ayssholes to line their pockets.
vasilievich 21 minutes ago"Amazing how fast Congress can act when properly motivated..."
Yes motivated by special interests, lobbyists and perks. Someday R voters might realize that R politicians were just as involved in the voter scams to neuter(2018) and remove Trump as the democrats. Any appearances to the contrary are simply theater to retain the voter base Trump had.
aliens is here 29 minutes agoThe mood in this country seems to be poisonous. In this little county of ours, population about 220,000, the food bank is moving into larger premises. Also there will be a residence for those in need, available only to women and children.
I think it's doubtful that this sort of thing can go on without consequences, some of which may be dramatic.
I had family in Europe which lived through something similar, the result of which was a world war.
GreatUncle 29 minutes agoWhen comes to fudging over the people, congress wastes no time doing it.
Handful of Dust 28 minutes agoThe politicians on all sides support the censorship and cancellation culture through big tech editing.
Jon_noDough 7 minutes agoThe Republicans had complete control of both houses during Trump's first two years and did ZERO for the working middle class American.
Baronneke 8 minutes agoCan't give the citizens more than a pittance for Covid relief but no limits to military industrial swamp complex...
HoodRatKing 4 minutes ago (Edited)"National Offense Authorization Act " is a more appropriate name as the US was never attacked after ww2 so no need to Defend. The 5-6 last US presidents on the other hand are all war criminals and have attacked (including sanctions) countless countries since the end of ww2. Far over 700 Billion Dollars to the DOO. Just crazy !!
JaWS 5 minutes ago (Edited)The US is in BUSINESS, one of their top businesses is SELLING ARMS...
I can't of course discuss their other lucrative businesses in Asia & Afghanistan...
I understand that Cocaine Mitch will be visiting the spa in the near future.
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I've watched Williams accurately call many market twists and turns in the 15 years I've known him. I know of more than a few money managers who trust his judgement. Williams has won or placed well in the I've watched Williams accurately call many market twists and turns in the 15 years I've known him. I know of more than a few money managers who trust his judgement. Williams has won or placed well in the World Cup Trading Championship several times since the 1980s To make market calls, Williams uses his own time-tested mix of fundamentals, seasonal trends, technical signals and intelligence gleaned from the Commitment of Traders report from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Here's how he thinks about the three types of positions the CFTC reports. Williams considers positioning by commercial traders or hedgers and users and producers of commodities to be the smart money. He thinks large traders, mainly big investment shops, and the public are contrarian indicators. Williams mainly trades futures because he thinks that's where you can make the big money. But we can apply his calls to stocks and exchange traded funds, too. Here's how he's positioning for the next few weeks and through the end of the year, in some of the major asset classes and stocks. To make market calls, Williams uses his own time-tested mix of fundamentals, seasonal trends, technical signals and intelligence gleaned from the Commitment of Traders report from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Here's how he thinks about the three types of positions the CFTC reports. Williams considers positioning by commercial traders or hedgers and users and producers of commodities to be the smart money. He thinks large traders, mainly big investment shops, and the public are contrarian indicators. Williams mainly trades futures because he thinks that's where you can make the big money. But we can apply his calls to stocks and exchange traded funds, too. Here's how he's positioning for the next few weeks and through the end of the year, in some of the major asset classes and stocks. To make market calls, Williams uses his own time-tested mix of fundamentals, seasonal trends, technical signals and intelligence gleaned from the Commitment of Traders report from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Here's how he thinks about the three types of positions the CFTC reports. Williams considers positioning by commercial traders or hedgers and users and producers of commodities to be the smart money. He thinks large traders, mainly big investment shops, and the public are contrarian indicators. Williams mainly trades futures because he thinks that's where you can make the big money. But we can apply his calls to stocks and exchange traded funds, too. Here's how he's positioning for the next few weeks and through the end of the year, in some of the major asset classes and stocks. Williams mainly trades futures because he thinks that's where you can make the big money. But we can apply his calls to stocks and exchange traded funds, too. Here's how he's positioning for the next few weeks and through the end of the year, in some of the major asset classes and stocks. Williams mainly trades futures because he thinks that's where you can make the big money. But we can apply his calls to stocks and exchange traded funds, too. Here's how he's positioning for the next few weeks and through the end of the year, in some of the major asset classes and stocks.
Expect an extended stock market selloff
To make market calls in September, Williams turns to what he calls the Machu Picchu trade, because he discovered this signal while traveling to the ancient Inca ruins with his wife in 2014. Williams, who is intensely focused on seasonal patterns that consistently play out over time, noticed that it's usually a great idea to sell stocks -- using indexes, mostly -- on the seventh trading day before the end of September. (This year, that's Sept. 22.) Selling on this day has netted profits in short-term trades 100% of the time over the past 22 years.
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One caveat: Watch the advance-decline line, one of Williams' favorite indicators. If fewer stocks are declining relative to advancers on days the stock market is weak, or if there is a broadening out of participation on up days, this is a sign the any selloff may be coming to a close.
"If great breadth comes in to the market [on up days], then I will get bullish," he says.
Gold offers no hedge
A lot of people think gold serves as a hedge during stock market declines, but this isn't true, says Williams. Gold has slumped along with stocks in most of the major market selloffs. He expects the same over the next three to four weeks. He's advising gold traders to sell any rallies now, and then revisit when gold falls later this year to buy back lower.
To make this call, Williams looks at the typical seasonal pattern for gold that plays out every year, and also the historical trends in election years. The conclusion: Gold typically peaks around the middle of September then weakens for most of the rest of the year. This year, gold has underperformed its typical seasonal pattern, which is bearish for the metal.
"Gold has not been able to stay in step with what happened in the past, therefore the seasonal pattern should work this year," he says.
Another sign of potential weakness is the "crazy bullishness on gold" among the right-wing pundits like Ron Paul who have a long-standing affinity for the medal.
"They're all on the bandwagon because of the rally in gold," he says.
As with gold, he expects a similar seasonal pattern in other precious metals and copper. They will be weak from now through the end of the year, with a possible bounce in the middle of October.
Michael Brush is a Manhattan-based financial writer who publishes the stock newsletter Brush Up on Stocks. Brush has covered business for the New York Times and The Economist group. He attended Columbia Business School in the Knight-Bagehot program. Günter Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff 11 hours ago Only this September there is a the Fed, a pandemic, Robinhood and Trump, and his corrupt administration. Factor in those variables and it's impossible to predict what the market is going to do. Will remain in all cash till after the election. Stuart Young 11 hours ago I don't believe that all of the damage caused by our pandemic has been adequately summed up. Our U.S. Government may suffer huge consequences as a result of trillions of dollars in new debt. The law of gravity can be defied on so long. LT Murray 1 day ago Valualtions are now about where they were in the summer when there was all the talk about a V-shaped recovery that is now known not to be the case.
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Art , says: November 26, 2020 at 4:59 pm GMT • 2.9 hours agoNov 26, 2020 | www.unz.com
AnonFromTN , says: November 26, 2020 at 4:21 pm GMT • 3.5 hours ago
@Alfa158 is on the cards. Look on the bright side, though: in response to US aggression Iran will sink quite a few US Navy ships and devastate US military bases in the area. The US response would likely be the same as to Iranian shooting at the US base in Iraq: a string of ever-changing lies purporting to show that nothing much happened.JimDandy , says: November 26, 2020 at 4:24 pm GMT • 3.5 hours agoThe danger is that the US might go nuclear, starting WWIII. That would be the end of the US and most of mankind. Maybe aborigines in Papua and some primitive tribes in the Amazon basin will survive. Like Einstein predicted, world war four will be fought with sticks and stones.
@RoatanBillAnonFromTN , says: November 26, 2020 at 4:31 pm GMT • 3.4 hours agoIt seems pretty clear now that the Antifa and BLM riots have been psyops orchestrated for the purposes of influencing the courts. It seems probable that even the SCOTUS will ignore facts in favor of preventing upheaval. Trump supporters don't loot or riot. Violence and lawlessness will be rewarded by the courts, and civilized behavior will be punished–the exact opposite of what really happened in the voting booths.
@CorvinusJohnny Walker Read , says: November 26, 2020 at 4:34 pm GMT • 3.3 hours agoExcept there is no evidence of fraud
Those who refuse to see are blinder than the blind. Suffice it to mention lots of sworn affidavits testifying to massive election fraud. In addition, anyone who saw 85-95% of votes counted within about 10 hours, and the rest "counted" for two weeks, cannot help smelling the rat. Statistics bear this out: senile half-corpse got more "votes" than Obama in swing states, but fewer everywhere else, be it the bluest San Francisco or the reddest rural TN. Sapienti sat.
@AnonTKK , says: November 26, 2020 at 4:43 pm GMT • 3.2 hours agoWe know where your head is @Anon 241, it is really quite obvious.
@anonymous try to go Atticus Finch. My first job as a misdemeanor prosecutor (I lasted less than a year) I put on a big restitution hearing to make an animal abuser pay the State back for all the care his animals needed after his disgusting abuse. It was emus and ostriches.Joseph Doaks , says: November 26, 2020 at 4:51 pm GMT • 3.0 hours agoThe County Judge, after he denied ANY restitution, called me back in his office and told me never to "put on a dog and pony show like that again."
It has a real chilling effect on your view of the Law. Trump will not find any justice with the SCOTUS.
They didn't make it this far up the food chain by being brave.
@DumboPeripatetic Itch , says: November 26, 2020 at 4:59 pm GMT • 2.9 hours ago"So Biden was the most voted candidate in the history of the U.S.? Biden??"
Yeah, all those rallies attended by just 25 people were only a head fake. Those Democrats are incredibly clever, aren't they?
@Corvinus that we do not see smaller vote updates with mail-in votes which favor Biden more heavilyAnomalies in Vote Counts and Their Effects on Election 2020
https://votepatternanalysis.substack.com/p/voting-anomalies-2020They further demonstrated that the steal encompassed by these dumps was enough to throw the election.
One might well conclude you were among the pencil pushers filling in Biden circles all night long. You probably had a good case of carpal-tunnel syndrome by morning.
follyofwar , says: November 26, 2020 at 5:00 pm GMT • 2.9 hours agoI will never believe that Biden* honestly won the election. I believe that Trump is psychologically a beaten man. Something is wrong, he is not fighting – he is quiet. Either he has Biden* all rapped up and headed to jail because of the Hunter emails – or Trump wants out.
Good Americans are not going to give up. They are going to push the truth of the fraud to the Supreme Court. The problem is – can the Supreme Court find a way to fudge the truth and the law and give Biden* the election. If they give Trump the election there will be civic hell to pay by the left. Not so if they give it to Biden*.
The best way out of this quagmire is for Trump to concede. Will he demand a deal? I say give it to him. Four more years of Trump derangement syndrome will tear the country apart.
p.s. Iran War? How many B-52s did he send to the ME? Twenty means war.
p.s. Biden* is appointing mostly mainline Jews to his cabinet. The Jews like the status quo – they are not going to go hard left.
@Jus' Sayin'... s ran the country for 6 months, until a fair election can be held? Neither party would be required to stick with their current candidates. Biden is so corrupt and mentally incompetent, and Trump so divisive, that it would be better if different candidates were chosen by party leaders.RoatanBill , says: November 26, 2020 at 5:00 pm GMT • 2.9 hours agoIf the country makes it thru this interim period, without a war or other catastrophe, then perhaps we voters could make this three-pronged executive permanent. Three heads are better than one. It often works well on the township and county levels, where three commissioners (two from one party, one from the other) decide policy.
@JimDandy ies digging up dirt on them. Only dirty people get elected or appointed to positions of authority so they can be controlled via blackmail and the threat of assassination.Sick of Orcs , says: November 26, 2020 at 5:03 pm GMT • 2.8 hours agoEvery once in a great while a Ron Paul mistake is made, but even he's a disappointment. He took his salary for 26 years and accomplished next to nothing. Trump was told how the cow ate the cabbage after his inauguration. He's hired neocons, criminals, war mongers and the dregs of society as a result because he was told to do so while bullshitting his MAGA supporters.
And people waste their time voting. I can't understand that.
Onan the Barbarian , says: November 26, 2020 at 5:05 pm GMT • 2.8 hours agoIt's almost as if the Democrat establishment didn't really want to win the Presidency for the next four years.
Feasible theory. Trump-hatred has united every faction of shitlib kook, despite Trump failing to build a wall or fix immigration. Weaponized demographics ensures Trump will be the last Retardicuck president ever.
As for the rest:
Democrap majority = Democraps control congress
Retardicuck majority = Democraps control congress
Secession from blue state swine is logical and desirable.
@follyofwarJustsaying , says: November 26, 2020 at 5:12 pm GMT • 2.7 hours agoRight.
The question is what, if the status quo is maintained, either Trump or the Biden-Harris-Obama-Clinton cabal can reasonably expect to achieve during the next four years, with the country split into two halves hell-bent on blocking each other, violence erupting on the streets, the tech and media overlords trying to gain control, and the Islamic world licking its lips.
Parsnipitous , says: November 26, 2020 at 5:17 pm GMT • 2.6 hours agoWere the two candidates not cutting such pathetic and tragic figures, the whole election circus could be quite hilarious. And all the fuss about one donkey stealing the election from another makes it even more so. But what can one say when each donkey commands the following of tens of millions?
@Phil4PhilZarathustra , says: November 26, 2020 at 5:19 pm GMT • 2.6 hours agoI talk to "internationals" and – aside from their media – Trump is not seen as an embarrassment. He's not a deep thinker for sure and pretty inarticulate. But I think most mature people can appreciate that he's one of the few objects standing between them and the CultMarx hordes.
This obsession of American liberals with how "the world" sees them is laughable. A more positive step would be to stop being represented by Hollywood.
@follyofwarBiggDee55 , says: November 26, 2020 at 5:23 pm GMT • 2.5 hours agoIt is definitely a possibility. I also see breakup along cities and rural areas lines.
@A123BiggDee55 , says: November 26, 2020 at 5:25 pm GMT • 2.5 hours agoIs this the same ABC123 from SD?
AKINDLE , says: November 26, 2020 at 5:26 pm GMT • 2.4 hours agoAs long as "Patriots" have porn and bass boats, they ain't going to do nothing.
James O'Meara , says: November 26, 2020 at 5:27 pm GMT • 2.4 hours agoTrump and his staff favored blacks over whites. Him and his whole family are n lovin' losers. There was no reason to vote for him. Case closed.
Curmudgeon , says: November 26, 2020 at 5:38 pm GMT • 2.2 hours agoI honestly don't understand the issue here. Will Trump attack Iran?[1] Of course he will.
The only issues Trump is on record as caring about are 1. Birtherism and 2. Ending the Joint Agreement and attacking Iran. Oh, and cutting taxes on the rich. The other stuff, "Trumpism", was created by his handlers as "winning issues" among hoi polloi.
According to Trumpism, we shouldn't engage in wars of choice. But an exception has always been made for Iran. As always in politics, there are "principles" but also "places where it OBVIOUSLY doesn't apply". Cf. "all men are created equal, except women, slaves, and the poor."
Biden differs only because he wants all the wars. So Biden will surely attack Iran.
Why should Trump give Biden the "glory" for doing something they BOTH want to do? Of course, Biden will whine about Trump acting during the interregnum, but really (such a "principle" of course OBVIOUSLY not applying to future Democrats, see above) but that would just be sour grapes.
So yeah, Iran is toast. Probably around Christmas (a la Nixon).
[1] Leftists, mostly, like to point out that Trump as such won't go into battle (like Goliath) but this is a synecdoche for the US military. (as in "That's our fascist government, not the American people, man"). In this case, it's even more true: Trump can issue the orders, but will the military obey? As Saker says, they have no stomach for war, so they could use the "not really President" excuse, perhaps even activate Biden's wet dream of removing Trump.
@The Alarmist As for curling up under his desk, like many things related to Trump, there may be method to his madness. The more he talks, the more the issue becomes about him, not the legalities. The more it becomes about him, the less likely the SCOTUS will rule on the legalities. Similarly, the outrage that is escalating is becoming more about the election fraud than Trump. That is the rage that the Courts and legislatures needs to hear in order to push them to do the right thing, or minimally do a proper investigation. If the voters turn on the politicians backing the fraud, the gravy train will be over for them, and they know it.Zarathustra , says: November 26, 2020 at 5:38 pm GMT • 2.2 hours ago
@AnonFromTNfrontier , says: November 26, 2020 at 5:38 pm GMT • 2.2 hours agoOne way or the other Biden is in shit up to his neck.
If Biden start a war with Iran, there will be domestic uprising.
If Biden does not start a war with Iran Natanyahu will have him killed. (discrete way of course like at annual check up. Or car crash maybe.)
@rebel yell o overturn the will of the people expressed in referendums, to institute gay marriage, trans rights, etc, etc but how and why we've got that is an important question for another time.Curmudgeon , says: November 26, 2020 at 5:50 pm GMT • 2.0 hours agoThe fate of Trump, is in the hands of the Republican Party . The state legislature decides the electors and I believe GOP holds majority in PA. WI and GA and almost every other state that might decide that the vote was fraudulent and appoint different Electors. How much faith do you have in the Republican party? that's the question the Saker should write an article about and what to do if they cave in.
@chrisRoatanBill , says: November 26, 2020 at 6:08 pm GMT • 1.7 hours agoWhile it is possilbe that Trump may attack Iran, I think it is a step too far. He campaigned on no wars and bringing troops home. The last month or so it has all come out how the crowd in Defense and the Pentagon lied and withheld evidence to block troop withdrawal. Troop withdrawal is happening now. He has the opportunity to leave office being the first President in gawd knows how many years, not to start a war. Why would he blow that now?
Biden/Harris are every bit up Israel's arse as Trump, if not more. If Bibi wants a war, leave it to the Democrat War Hawks.
@JimDandy hive or has he extended the secrecy to protect the deep state? Is Hillary any nearer to prison now than 4 years ago? Has he gone after Twitter or Facebook? Has he come right out and stated that his followers should abandon the most visible free speech detractors and follow him on the nascent competition?Joseph Doaks , says: November 26, 2020 at 6:25 pm GMT • 1.5 hours agoFace it, the man is ineffective. Admittedly he faced incredible opposition, but he made so many mistakes and missed so many opportunities that his failures must eventually rest on his shoulders. I'm convinced he was told to shut up or he or his family would be JFK'd. He won't do anything heroic because he's beaten.
@ArtCurmudgeon , says: November 26, 2020 at 6:27 pm GMT • 1.4 hours ago"If they give Trump the election there will be civic hell to pay by the left."
Good, that would show the world exactly how EVIL the left actually is. Every body knows that if Trump would only concede and go away quietly his 73 million supporters would regretfully and peacefully accept that outcome. The Democrats are like the Nazis of the 1930's and BLM and Antifa are their Brownshirts. Heil Biden, or else!
@metternich ontrol of the Board. What happens to computer systems outside its country of origin may be entirely different than what happens internally. Note that the EU and OAS observers, along with Jimmy Carter's crowd, certified Chavez's election wins as free and fair. The OAS is a US sock puppet, and the EU follows US orders.AnonFromTN , says: November 26, 2020 at 6:39 pm GMT • 1.2 hours ago
The reality is that Trump and Chavez, just as with Trump and Sanders, have more in common with each other than they do the Uni-party. They identify many of the same issues, but have very different ideas for solutions. The Uni-party won't identify the real issues, and doesn't want real solutions.
@Uncle SamSean , says: November 26, 2020 at 6:46 pm GMT • 1.1 hours agoThese rioters, looters and burners don't have the necessary zeal to give up their lives for their beliefs
Most of them don't even have any beliefs. All these stormtroopers are rent-a-crowd cowards, out to make a buck, not to die for a cause.
obwandiyag , says: November 26, 2020 at 6:50 pm GMT • 1.0 hours agoThis is why I believe that it is very dangerous to make any assumptions about what the Justices might or might not do.
Biden said before the election that he was going to introduce a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court Justices, and and add to the number of Justices on the Supreme Court. Promising to make those Justices that decide whether he gets to be president irrelevant if they decide for him, that was great thinking. Always one step ahead is Joe.
What you fail to address is that this "agonizing" US was manufactured. The powers that be deliberately and artificially divide the public into two and only two opposing camps, get the group hate going, egg on the exaggeration of their differences, suppress the mention of their similarities, and bob's your uncle. Without top-down manipulation, everybody'd pretty much agree that it's time to lamppost the rich and free the country of such blood-sucking parasites.
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whether underground , 5 hours agoAnd that coming from Trump who put APARTHEID Israel first
and did more for that racist country than he did for America.
Mr Poopra , 5 hours agoExactly. And biden will for sure, 110% COMPLETELY END any idea of putting Americans first in anything other than shackles. F all of them.
SurfingUSA , 4 hours agoPeople still think Biden will actually assume office? If Trump won't win in the courts, he's going to burn the entire thing down on his way out. Full Declass coming. Swamp creatures tremble!
CJgipper , 4 hours agoProblem is the agencies are openly defying him on declass (and have been). Would have to send in U.S. marshals.
FingerInTheDarkness , 4 hours agotrump will do nothing. he should have already done the declassifications.
cankles' server , 4 hours agoDropping the Biden laptop after most of the mail in ballots were already in the mail is all you really need to know. Biden was installed. The only question is what to do next? He will come for the guns and he will force the poison shots. Options are few.
FingerInTheDarkness , 4 hours agoHe's already tried the declass route regarding Russia hoax and was thwarted by swamp creatures.
"Means and methods" will be the mantra for obstructionists.
eatapeach , 3 hours agoJust like he declassified the JFK stuff, err wait a damn minute. We been had!!!
Dragonlord , 5 hours agoEven if it's released, you can bet Israel's complicity in the murder/coup will be omitted, despite the fact that Jack Ruby (Rubinstein) was a Mossad asset and AIPAC got the massive benefit of NOT having to register as a foreign agent.
Herodotus , 5 hours agoI am more amazed that the left love wars more than Trump and thats after the former accused the latter of starting WWIII
Fizzy Head , 4 hours agoThey made sure that Goldwater was defeated so that they could build up the war there and insure that 58,000 Americans would die in Vietnam.
BarnacleBill , 4 hours ago...Once they had JFK out of their way.
Everybodys All American , 5 hours agoFor as long as Americans honour the 58,000 invaders more than the 2,000,000 victims of the invaders' activities, there is no hope for the USA. And no respect, either. Sorry! I wrote this post (link below, "The war against women") eight years ago, and it's still sadly relevant.
https://barlowscayman.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-war-against-women.html
Rich Stoehner , 5 hours agoYou really have to wonder about an American generals loyalties when they do not like or recommend an America first policy. Who exactly is the guy Gen. Mattis working for?
Dapper Dan , 4 hours agoMattis is working for a globalized cartel of ho-mos.
highwaytoserfdom , 4 hours agoWho is Mattis working for?
He did work for Elizabeth Homes briefly.
it's about the money. Always has been always will be
'Holmes'
frontierland , 3 hours agoWhat you talking about Elizbeth..
Haboob , 3 hours ago"America First" was a con. What we got is a 'J3w5 First' foreign & domestic policy.
Biden's isn't hiding his ''J3w5 First' foreign & domestic policy.
The only difference between the two are stylistic, the goal is the same.
frontierland , 3 hours agoThe difference is how they operate.
Trump wants peace through business and Mattis wants peace through war?
Seal Team 6 , 4 hours agoPeace has nothing to do with it.
Trump conned White America with his pro-White dog-whistles, a tactic developed by his mentor Arthur Finkelstein. The establishment doesn't like this approach as it woke the sleeping giant, White America, while delivering no pro-White policies... Which made White America self-aware, with expectations raised, awake and pissed off with Trumps failure to deliver.
The "Left" arm of the neoLiberal establishment prefers an honest, open anti-White approach... The long, slow-boil of White America.
Max21c , 4 hours agoMattis also threw in a dig at Trump's coronavirus response, noting "The pandemic should serve as a reminder of what grief ensues when we wait for problems to come to us."
Really now? It seems to me that the US did exactly what Mattis says by the Obama administration helping to fund the level 5 Wuhan lab, along with the French and the neo-marxist government in Canada.
Does anyone in the MSM ever ask any of these turds questions that are actually relevant, or do they give them an open mike to fabricate history however they like?
d_7878 , 4 hours agoMattis is a product of the Deep State and an agent of the Deep State. He's been brainwashed by the Deep State and his loyalties are to the Pentagon Gestapo and CIA and Deep State. His loyalties are not to the American nation, American citizenry, Constitution and Bill of Rights. He works for and sides with the secret police and state security apparatus.
Ron Paul: "Trump Does The Bidding of the Deep State".
https://www.nationalmemo.com/ron-paul-trump-does-the-bidding-of-deep-state
Record Wealth Disparity and trump gives the rich 100% expensing for their planes because they need moar.
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Biden's Deep State
by Tyler Durden Sat, 11/21/2020 - 17:00 Twitter Facebook Reddit Email Print
Authored by Steve Brown via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,
Philosopher Hannah Arendt once wrote about the banality of evil , and there's never been a more banal bunch than the foreign policy and security state crew Barak Obama surrounded himself with for eight years beside the possible exception of Bush's own Neocons .
Now after three years screaming about "Russian collusion" it appears the Evil Empire is about to regain its lost ground, championing new wars and more interventionist expansionism with a much greater role for the US military in the world.
Let's name names.
PentagonFor the defense chief post, the Washington Post has portrayed the banal face of Michele Flournoy as the pick to 'restore stability' to the Pentagon , an entirely false assertion. Recall that Fluornoy promotes unilateral global US military intervention, and advocated the destruction of Libya in 2011. By the military-industrial revolving door , Flournoy enabled many Corporate weaponry contracts amounting to tens of millions. Likewise Fluornoy is on the Booz-Hamilton board, where the swamp cannot get any deeper. As if this wretched example of an agent-provocateur for war and destruction were not bad enough, Biden is reportedly considering Lockheed-Martin banal kingpin Jeh Johnson for the DoD position, too.
Lockheed director Johnson was employed by Rob Reiner and Atlantic editor arch-Neocon David Frum to run the Committee to Investigate Russia which mysteriously blew up as soon as the Mueller Report was released. Jeh Johnson has continued to warn of "Russian interference" in the US presidential election until now. Biden's anointing as president-elect has ended that. As Homeland Security head, Johnson authorized cages for holding immigrant children. He also supported the assassination of General Suleimani, and has voiced support for US wars in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
StateFrom Libya to Syria, Yemen, Ukraine and beyond, the banality of evil is perhaps best personified by Susan Rice – apparently Biden's premiere pick for Secretary. Rice was an abject failure at the United Nations, but all seems forgiven, probably at the behest of Biden's donors. After her failure at the UN, Obama kicked Rice upstairs to be his National Security Advisor, a position that does not require Senate approval.
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An obvious war hawk in the mold of the Democrat's donor class, a Rice appointment could reinforce the liberal mantra that women can be just as good at interventionism as men, and ensure full re-establishment of the Neoliberal agenda in Washington. John Kerry has been flagged as a potential for State (again) too, but at age 77 and subsequent to the failure of the JCPOA Kerry is an unlikely pick.
Another potential pick among the banal Daughters of Darkness is Victoria Kagan-Nuland , architect of the 2014 debacle in Ukraine (among other things). Outed at State in an embarrassing act of what she called impressive statecraft and other embarrassing incidents, Nuland seems an unlikely choice. But Kagan-Nuland is as banal as banal can be, and Biden may somehow wish to reinforce his solidarity with the JTF and his donor class, on Israel.
National Security AdvisorBanality is certainly the mark of the beast here, in the form of Tony Blinken. Well in with Michele Flournoy (above) Blinken typifies the type of banality the Deep State engages in to promote its evil, with Blinken as successful as any other Deep State actor. A major hawk on Russia and war hawk in general, Blinken is an apologist for Israel . Blinken is a war hawk on Afghanistan and Syria too, and Blinken was directly involved in CIA operation Timber Sycamore . Oh, the banality.
Another model of banality is Leon CIA Panetta who so far claims that cruising the Monterey peninsula is more fun that being in Washington. But we know that's false and Panetta would be a logical pick. Besides being a hawk on everything, and laughing about the fact he has no idea how many wars Obama's America was fighting – because he lost count – Panetta is simply another sycophant for evil like Hannah Arendt portrayed in her study of Adolf Eichmann.
CIABanal of the banal is of course Mike Morell. This incredibly vacuous excuse for a human being has been hate-mongering for years. Beside his blatant pandering support for another banal and brutal warmonger – Hillary Clinton – Mike Morell is one Neoliberal who still maintains that Saddam Hussein actively aided and abetted al Qaeda with regard to the 911 attacks. But Morell simply and ultimately represents the banality of evil, just as Arendt depicted Adolf Eichmann, but in Morell's case succinctly summarized here by Ray McGovern .
United NationsOuting the banality of the banal would be incomplete without mentioning Jen Psaki . Although a potential pick for White House Communications Director, why not promote an accomplished liar to a venue where accomplished lying really matters?
ConclusionThere is no indication that the United States as an entrenched warfare state will ever change its course until forced to. Mr Trump was incapable of enforcing that change. Sidelined by Russiagate psychosis , as a Beltway Neophyte and his own worst enemy at times, that sank Trump's agenda. The actions of Mr Trump now – to end the wars in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen -- should have been undertaken in earnest and without compromise years ago. Point being that Mr Trump's new appointments to the Pentagon – and let's hope CIA – will hopefully blunt the efficacy of Biden's bad actors going forward.
Regardless, characters the same or similar to the ones listed above will definitely infest Washington's infernal Beltway cesspool once again via Joe Biden make no mistake. And they will be meaner and nastier than ever before! Guaranteed.
Creative_Destruct , 2 hours agoEndofTimes , 5 hours agoAnd the same old swamp slime (Morell, et al) waits eagerly to burst back in through the doors of power. New boss, same as the old(er) boss(es). Uuuuuuggh.
truth or go home , 4 hours agoObama's 3rd Term. Swamp will grow like a tumor. These demons are shaking with excitement to get into office and fulfill the desires of the founders of the UN. Kill off America and establish a global government
CatInTheHat , 5 hours agoBiden is 100% deep state puppet. He will say and do whatever they tell him to.
Dominion = Scytl = CIA = Deep State = Swamp
CIA threw the election. Trump team caught them.
Trump has already cut the CIA off at the knees. Getting ready to fill up Guantanamo again...
Giant war going on inside the gov right now - Biden enjoying the limelight before he is retired to his rocking chair.
To Hell In A Handbasket , 4 hours agoNICE JOB Biden voters!!
You MORONS electing Obama 2.0 on STEROIDS is WHY we got a Trump in the first place
Bay of Pigs , 3 hours agoThe USSA electorate are idiots, and divided idiots at that. You got Trump because the electorate was desperate, and you got Biden because the other half was desperate. That adds up to a desperate population. Your enemy is not voters from the other side of the Uniparty. Please get off the GOP vs DEMOCRAT horse$h1t.
SabOObas , 3 hours agoQuite an impressive list of Neoliberal globalist ****bags.
Jgault , 2 hours agoThe establishment demonizes Trump for 4 years.
The sheeple voted to put the guy with 40 years of corruption under his belt in office, because the establishment said its good for you.
ReadyForHillary , 3 hours agoIt is always the small man, the inept man, the insecure man who has a need to demonstrate to the world his bravado with reckless and senseless gestures.
Biden and his brothel of advisors he surrounds himself with have perhaps the worst track record of international policy since Jimmy Carter, absolute proven failures and disasters in Ukraine, Syria, Lybia, and Egypt. This is the group that laid the intellectual groundwork for what would become the largest refugee crisis and humanitarian disaster in nearly 50 years.
Laughably, now the MSM is doing a complete 180 in their editorial view of troops in Afghanistan and Syria...what a shock!
Lacking foresight, insecure, lacking ethical standards and being given the ability to order troops, how could this possibly go wrong?
Trump was the first President in 30 years not to provoke any new millitary interventions, yet the world criticized him for his style. Let's see how long it takes for the world to start looking back to a more stable past.
RumbleGuts , 4 hours agoThe Democrat party is the WAR party.
Someone Else , 2 hours agoAnother article that doesn't realize red and blue are the same team. Make no mistake, big baby bonespurs is in deep with the deep state. Think epstein. ;-)
flawse , 2 hours agoMike Morell, the most evil man to ever draw a breath, as CIA Director?
A Biden Presidency can never be allowed to happen.
DebbieDowner , 3 hours agoThere will not be a Biden presidency. There is obviously some other plan.
Little Johnny Jewel , 5 hours agoThis author's last paragraph fails to acknowledge that the CIA and FBI has not obeyed Trump's (or any President's) orders in quite some time. Now is the time for someone to finally make a change and it took such a massive plan to expose them all to drain the swamp.
play_arrow 2Caitlin Johnstone covered this a week ago
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Philip Giraldi , says: November 17, 2020 at 5:01 pm GMT • 3.9 hours agoNov 17, 2020 | www.unz.com
Even though there was virtually no debate on foreign policy during the recent presidential campaign, there has been considerable discussion of what President Joe Biden's national security team might look like. The general consensus is that the top levels of the government will be largely drawn from officials who previously served in the Obama administration and who are likely to be hawkish. There has also been, inevitably, some discussion of how the new administration, if it is confirmed, will deal with Israel and the Middle East in general.
Israelis would have preferred a victory by Donald Trump as they clearly understand that he was and still is willing to defer to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on nearly all issues. Indeed, that process is ongoing even though Trump might only have about nine more weeks remaining in office. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is reportedly preparing to sanction several international human rights organizations as anti-Semitic due to the fact that they criticize Israel's brutality on the West Bank and its illegal settlement policies. The White House is also prepared to free convicted but paroled Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard from travel restrictions so he can move to Israel, where he is regarded as a hero. Pollard was the most damaging spy in U.S. history and any mitigation of his sentence has been opposed by both the Pentagon, where he worked, and also by the intelligence community.
Finally, it is widely believed that before the end of the year Trump will declare that the United States accepts the legitimacy of Israeli intentions to declare annexation of nearly all the Palestinian West Bank. The White House will actually encourage such an initiative reportedly "to sow hostility between Israel and the Biden administration." One should note that none of the pro-Israeli measures that are likely to come out of the White House enhance U.S. security in any way and they also do nothing particularly to benefit Trump's campaign to be re-elected through legal challenges.
If Biden does succeed in becoming president, the special place that Israel occupies in the centers of American power are unlikely to be disturbed , which is why Netanyahu was quick off the mark in congratulating the possible new chief executive. Biden has proudly declared himself to be a "Zionist" and his running mate Kamala Harris has been a featured speaker at the annual gatherings of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington. Both are strongly supportive of the "special relationship" with the Israel and will make no effort to compromise America's apparent commitment to protect and nourish the Jewish state.
Though Israel is central to how the United States conducts its foreign policy, the country was invisible in the debates and other discussions that took place among candidates during the recent campaign. American voters were therefore given the choice of one government that panders to Israel at the expense of U.S. security or another party that does exactly the same thing. To be sure, Biden did state that he would work to reinstate the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) relating to Iran's nuclear program, which was canceled by Trump. But he also indicated that it would require some amendment, meaning that the Iranians would have to include their missile program in the monitoring while also abandoning their alleged propensity to "interfere" in the Middle East region. The Iranian government has already indicated that additional conditions are unacceptable, so the deal is dead in the water. Israel has also privately and publicly objected to any new arrangement and has already declared that it would "save the option" of working through the Republican Senate to thwart any attempts by the Biden Administration to change things.
That Israel would blatantly and openly interfere in the deliberations of Congress raises some serious questions which the mainstream media predictably is not addressing. Jewish power in America is for real and it is something that some Jews are not shy about discussing among themselves. Jewish power is unique in terms of how it functions. If you're an American ( or British ) politician, you very quickly are made to appreciate that Israel owns you and nearly all of your colleagues. Indeed, the process begins in the U.S. even before your election when the little man from AIPAC shows up with the check list that he wants you to sign off on. If you behave per instructions your career path will be smooth, and you will benefit from your understanding that everything happening in Washington that is remotely connected to the interests of the state of Israel is to be determined by the Jewish state alone, not by the U.S. Congress or White House.
And, here is the tricky part, even while you are energetically kowtowing to Netanyahu, you must strenuously deny that there is Jewish power at work if anyone ever asks you about it. You behave in that fashion because you know that your pleasant life will be destroyed, painfully, if you fail to deny the existence of an Israel Lobby or the Jewish power that supports it.
It is a bold assertion, but there is plenty of evidence to support how that power is exerted and what the consequences are. Senators William Fulbright and Chuck Percy and Congressmen Paul Findlay, Pete McCloskey and Cynthia McKinney have all experienced the wrath of the Lobby and voted out of office. Currently Reverend Raphael Warnock, who is running against Georgia Loeffler for a senate seat in Georgia demonstrates exactly how candidates are convinced to stand on their heads by the Israel Lobby. Warnock was a strong supporter of Palestinian rights and a critic of Israeli brutality. He said as recently as 2018 that the Israelis were shooting civilians and condemned the military occupation and settlement construction on the Palestinian West Bank, which he compared to apartheid South Africa. Now that he is running for the Senate, he is saying that he is opposed to the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement due to what he calls the movement's "anti-Semitic overtones." He also supports continued military assistance for Israel and believes that Iran is in pursuit of a nuclear weapon, both of which are critical issues being promoted by the Zionist lobby.
There is some pushback in Washington to Israeli dominance, but not much. Recent senior Pentagon appointee Colonel Douglas Macgregor famously has pointed out that many American politicians get "very, very rich" through their support of Israel even though it means the United States being dragged into new wars. Just how Israel gains control of the U.S. political process is illustrated by the devastating insider tale of how the Obama Administration's feeble attempts to do the right thing in the Middle East were derailed by American Jews in Congress, the media, party donors and from inside the White House itself. The story is of particularly interest as the Biden Administration will no doubt suffer the same fate if it seeks to reject or challenge Israel's ability to manipulate and virtually control key aspects of U.S. foreign policy.
The account of Barack Obama's struggle with Israel and the Israeli Lobby comes from a recently published memoir written by a former foreign policy adviser Ben Rhodes. It is entitled The World As It Is , and it is extremely candid about how Jewish power was able to limit the foreign policy options of a popular sitting president. Rhodes recounts, for example, how Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel once nicknamed him "Hamas" after he dared to speak up for Palestinian human rights, angrily shouting at him "Hamas over here is going to make it impossible for my kid to have his fucking bar mitzvah in Israel."
Rhodes cites numerous instances where Obama was forced to back down when confronted by Israel and its supporters in the U.S. as well as within the Democratic Party. On several occasions, Netanyahu lecture the U.S. president as if he were an errant schoolboy. And Obama just had to take it. Rhodes sums up the situation as follows: "In Washington, where support for Israel is an imperative for members of Congress, there was a natural deference to the views of the Israeli government on issues related to Iran, and Netanyahu was unfailingly confrontational, casting himself as an Israeli Churchill . AIPAC and other organizations exist to make sure that the views of the Israeli government are effectively disseminated and opposing views discredited in Washington, and this dynamic was a permanent part of the landscape of the Obama presidency."
And, returning to the persistent denial of Jewish power even existing when it is running full speed and relentlessly, Rhodes notes the essential dishonesty of the Israel Lobby as it operates in Washington: "Even to acknowledge the fact that AIPAC was spending tens of millions to defeat the Iran deal [JCPOA] was anti-Semitic. To observe that the same people who supported the war in Iraq also opposed the Iran deal was similarly off limits. It was an offensive way for people to avoid accountability for their own positions."
Many Americans long to live in a country that is at peace with the world and respectful of the sovereignty of foreign nations. Alas, as long as Israeli interests driven by overwhelming Jewish power in the United States continue to corrupt our institutions that just will not be possible. It is time for all Americans, including Jews, to accept that Israel is a foreign country that must make its own decisions and thereby suffer the consequences. The United States does not exist to bail Israel out or to provide cover for its bad behavior. The so-called "special relationship" must end and the U.S. must deal with the Israelis as they would with any other country based on America's own self-interests. Those interests definitely do not include funding the Israeli war machine, assassinating foreign leaders, or attacking a non-threatening Iran while continuing an illegal occupation of Syria.
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is https://councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is [email protected] .
anon [287] Disclaimer , says: November 17, 2020 at 5:24 am GMT • 15.5 hours ago
Lot , says: November 17, 2020 at 5:33 am GMT • 15.4 hours agoUSA is dead, long live USA. We now officially live in JUSA, the New Weimar Republic. Actually we have been for almost 70 years, since the Cultural Revolution. America is no longer a Christian nation but a Jew nation, with all that that entails – greed, unscrupulousness, end justifies means, intolerance for dissent, mass deception, hypocrisy, over sensitivity, pleasure seeking, sexual deviance, narcissism, vengeful and punitive.
Jews now basically control all institutions of import in this country, from Wall Street to Hollywood, DC to Silicon Valley, and everywhere in between, the media, academia, judiciary, deep state including all of DOJ and the State department. Using their control of Big Tech, they can censor and suppress all dissent. Websites that try to go their own way like Alex Jones or Gab.com have trouble monetizing themselves and face constant media and left wing harrassment.
They control both msm and the "conservative" media like WSJ, FoxNews, Breitbart, Zerohedge, National Review all are just controlled opposition. No matter who is in the white house, we get the same things: Zionism, globalism, corporatism, endless wars, endless immigration.
How did they do it? Not just by controlling banks and profiting off wars that they instigated, but by selling sin. Jews own the entire sin industry. From the opium trade to the slave trade, tobacco trade, Bootlegging, JUUL, Opiod, marijuana, alcohol, Victoria's Secret, casinos and brothels in Vegas, HBO soft porn to hardcore porn, all are owned by Jews. Sin is an industry where supply creates demand, not the other way around. Using their lawyers, they first make it all legal, then make it fashionable. As Andrew Joyce so aptly put, "sordid commercial exploitation of vice", that is what Jews excel in.
The sin industry is a trillion dollar industry, and many of those trillions have been siphoned off to Israel, along with all the money from Wall Street swindling and the weapons industry. We are witnessing the greatest transfer of wealth from the rest of the world to Israel.
China-Russia-Iran may provide the world with an alternative for the future, if they can hold off this Jewish scorch, but the West is done for. We have nothing but decline, which will be hastened by Biden/Harris. Someone needs to keep reminding the Chinese it was a Jew David Sassoon who ran the opium trade and forced the two opium wars on them. Never forget, never surrender!
Anon [227] Disclaimer , says: November 17, 2020 at 5:53 am GMT • 15.0 hours ago" Jewish power in America is for real "
It's a sort of sexual charisma: all three of Joe's kids are married into the tribe, as is the VP. Though the crackhead kid's tatted up wife Melissa Cohen definitely isn't orthodox, though she's hot enough I'd forgive her!
"to accept that Israel is a foreign country"
Nah, it's like Canada, an America Jr. If the people disagreed, they'd have elected Ron Paul, Cynthia McKinney, etc.
Aspies aren't good with contradictions and ambiguity. Israel is both ours and sovereign, foreign and domestic. Most people get it though.
Tdstype2 , says: November 17, 2020 at 6:35 am GMT • 14.3 hours agoFunny that BLM and antifa seem to have expressed no opinion on foreign policy isn't it?
I guess those are "unapproved games" in Revilo Oliver's words.
Colin Wright , says: Website November 17, 2020 at 7:04 am GMT • 13.9 hours agoYo, the Great US of A, how about just do this one thing – fixed your problem of Israeli infestation in your institutions of power, instead of running around with a dynamite up you behind looking to fix other people's hemorrhoids all over the world
anonymous [112] Disclaimer , says: November 17, 2020 at 7:22 am GMT • 13.6 hours agoA piece discussing the roles played by Israel and the US in the coup in Egypt would be useful.
tiredofitall , says: November 17, 2020 at 7:47 am GMT • 13.1 hours agoBased on what you write, it seems that only a smart, independent minded black politician as president would have any chance to stand up a bit to the Israeli lobby. The black politician does not have white guilt and is less self conscious of accusations of antisemitism. Obama was one of the few people who could fit the bill. Corey Booker is a potential black president meeting the description who could give it the college try and 25% stand up to the Israel lobby once in office. You should write more appreciatively of Barack Obama. Yeah, more BLM is a bad trade off that comes with a black president but life is always a package deal.
Ralph B. Seymour , says: November 17, 2020 at 8:11 am GMT • 12.7 hours ago"Bibi the Backstabber" – Gee, I thought he and Trump were pals but he seemed pretty quick to acknowledge a Biden win BEFORE it has even been officially on the record. Regardless of who you want as figurehead of the USA, that seemed like a pretty crappy move but then again, we're talking about a snake. If Trump did end up "winning" after all the recounts and possible court rulings, do you think Trump would welcome "Bibi the Backstabber" back? "Fool me once " What a total farce this election and our Jew infested country is. Sad.
Clay Alexander , says: November 17, 2020 at 8:49 am GMT • 12.1 hours agoJews didn't immigrate here in any number until the late 19th century. So it didn't take long for them to take it over completely.
But it's not enough for them to run everything. Now they are trying to perfect an outright slave plantation.
Dr. Charles Fhandrich , says: November 17, 2020 at 8:51 am GMT • 12.1 hours agoOK move along nothing to see here, just another description of Jewish subversion 101 which has been going on for time immemorial. I think by now we should all know who's been behind every war, famine, economic collapse etc. The occidental countries have the remaining 11.5% of Whites left on the planet, it appears we are going to lose, so please try and enjoy what little time is left just don't forget to put your mask on.
Achilles Wannabe , says: November 17, 2020 at 8:55 am GMT • 12.0 hours agoJoe Biden, a mediocre intellect and a corrupt long time D.C. insider as president of the U.S., running with a shrill shrew as vice president is supposed to be a positive development for the citizens of the U.S.? It's too funny. She was the first democrat to pull out of the running in the primaries and I believe Biden was second. Harris also suggested Biden is a racist, lol. It's too surreal to believe that this has happened. Thinking of Biden in charge, is like the feeling that the cave is going to collapse with you in it, vs. seeing the light at the end of the tunnel with President Trump. Oh well, ces't la vie
@anonRay Caruso , says: November 17, 2020 at 9:22 am GMT • 11.6 hours agoWell said Anon. There is a lesson here. It is one which any dog or cat knows but Jewish social science has denied us: Do not let the parasite into the nest. A couple of million Ashkenazim were admitted to this country between 1880 and 1920. The rest is history – a history increasingly determined by THEM.
How this happened is a story I wish our white internet historians would tell us before the lights are shut off
Anonymous [661] Disclaimer , says: November 17, 2020 at 9:29 am GMT • 11.4 hours agoIsrael is a leech. Liberalism in all its aspects, including racial egalitarianism, feminism, homosexualism, and democracy is a cancer that has spread from head to toe in the body of the nation. A leech won't kill you, but widespread cancer certainly will. What folly it is to focus so much attention on the little parasite outside while ignoring the massive malignancy inside.
geokat62 , says: November 17, 2020 at 9:51 am GMT • 11.1 hours agoRegarding the photo accompanying this article: it is always beyond disconcerting to see Israel's satanic pentagram parked next to the American flag, it evinces the kind of sickening aplomb you would find in the image of a gorilla sodomizing a doe.
I appreciate Giraldi's incisive analysis. No one writes better about Israel's parasitic destruction of the US.
@anongeokat62 , says: November 17, 2020 at 9:54 am GMT • 11.0 hours agoSomeone needs to keep reminding the Chinese it was a Jew David Sassoon who ran the opium trade and forced the two opium wars on them
This, of course, is in the Chinese ledger, but offsetting it is the more recent massive transfer of manufacturing jobs, technology, engineering services and other indirect benefits that derived from the "great offshoring" that first occurred in the late 70s. The apparatchiks of the CCP know who was responsible for arranging this unprecedented largesse and will consequently be reluctant to bite the hand that feeds them.
Moi , says: November 17, 2020 at 10:09 am GMT • 10.8 hours agoThe so-called "special relationship" must end
This should be demanded by every freedom-loving American.
@anonRoatanBill , says: November 17, 2020 at 10:12 am GMT • 10.7 hours agoOne can only conclude that American Christians relish being Jews' bitch. And here's the dumbest thing that the otherwise astute P. Giraldi has said: "Many Americans long to live in a country that is at peace with the world and respectful of the sovereignty of foreign nations." LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS: Phil, it's over for American. All hail, China!
Wizard of Oz , says: November 17, 2020 at 10:28 am GMT • 10.5 hours agoAll foreign aid should be turned off. Disaster relief should be looked at on a case by case basis, but that just allows the most corrupt countries to rely on it to come to the rescue when disaster strikes. I'd even prevent that.
Is there a single member of Congress with the intestinal fortitude to propose this? I doubt it. The selctions process has installed people so beholden to the current power structure that no one would dare put up a bill to stop foreign aid.
Doesn't that show that the US doesn't have a Federal Government, but does have a Federal Mafia?
AnonStarter , says: November 17, 2020 at 10:33 am GMT • 10.4 hours agoIt is time perhaps for this (in your words)
The so-called "special relationship" must end and the U.S. must deal with the Israelis as they would with any other country based on America's own self-interests.
But, falling back on realism, what is second best for Americans,and *much* more likely to be achieved?
As a preliminary sketch it is probably wrong to blame much of the disapointments and tribulations of the least prosperous 80 per cent of Americans on Israel, even if the cost of the Iraq war is included. Such a small country can eat only so much of America's breakfast. It is big business's complicity in the rise of China's economy at the expense of American workers and the open borders to cheap labour that counts for much more damage (I believe, though open to refutation).
So, what is a more likely acceptable outcome than your ideal prescription? I suggest that more Balkanising of the ME to eliminate threats to Israel would be part of it.That is happening already with the Saudis and Gulf States falling i to line. It seems hard to see why Israel should be unhappy about Russia remaining in Syria giving security to the Assad régime. How Iran can be dealt with isn't clear but it seems unlikely that Russia or China would be interested in an expensive effort to prevent the overthrow of the Iranian theocrats. It would suit both well enough that the ME was made up mostly of small countries mostly with oil or gas to sell and without much of a US connection. China would I guess be happy to regard Pakistan as the one Muslim country that deserved special attention.
What about the Palestinians? Oh yes, easily forgotten. Well, surely it isn't too difficult to think up several ways of giving them a much better deal than they have now with the one condition satisfied that Israeli Jews will not find themselves outbred and outvoted by Arab Muslims within the state of Israel. Secular outbred by Haredim? Oh well.
frankie p , says: November 17, 2020 at 11:19 am GMT • 9.6 hours ago"Even to acknowledge the fact that AIPAC was spending tens of millions to defeat the Iran deal [JCPOA] was anti-Semitic. To observe that the same people who supported the war in Iraq also opposed the Iran deal was similarly off limits. It was an offensive way for people to avoid accountability for their own positions."
And this , ladies and gentlemen, is why we come here and speak often of Jews: because they make it so difficult to discuss their reality anywhere else.
This fact has to change in America and Europe as well.
The Spirit of Enoch Powell , says: November 17, 2020 at 11:30 am GMT • 9.4 hours agoAntisemitism is a rational response to the manifestation of Jewish anti-gentilism in gentile societies.
Any gentile who isn't antisemitic needs education and development of the will to self-protect.
@AnonUgetit , says: November 17, 2020 at 11:51 am GMT • 9.1 hours agoWell, the verified Twitter account of BLM UK put out the above tweet, after that happened we saw an ebbing away of support for it and footballers no longer kneeled before a game. Really tells you a lot about the totem poll and which groups are placed where.
@anonBuelahMan , says: November 17, 2020 at 11:57 am GMT • 9.0 hours agoHow did they do it?
What you said, (all excellent, btw) plus what PG has long said.
More details can be found in the 10 planks of Marx's Commie Manifesto and the Protocols.
PG's reference to the Weimar republic is something decent Americans need to understand as well.
Unfortunately, as pathetic as things are, it's apparently not yet degenerate enough to wake up and motivate enough people to improve anything.
@anonymousUgetit , says: November 17, 2020 at 12:05 pm GMT • 8.8 hours agoRidiculous. Obama is half black and half jewish.
He's all in with the theft and take over by jews.
@Lot e topic of genetic disorders, I'm happy that you brought up Asperger's.Ugetit , says: November 17, 2020 at 12:10 pm GMT • 8.8 hours agoLet me also note that Asperger's syndrome has its highest prevalence among Ashkenazi Jews and their descendants.
-David Mamet, (from his book Bambi Vs Godzilla, 2007), as quoted by Henry Makow
https://www.henrymakow.com/aspergers_–_the_jewish_diseas.htmlHere's some more soft porn for ya.
Lovely, isn't it?
@Ray CarusoTruth Hurts the Liars , says: November 17, 2020 at 12:14 pm GMT • 8.7 hours agoIsrael is a leech. A leech won't kill you, but widespread cancer certainly will.
I hope yer not a dokter.
Robjil , says: November 17, 2020 at 12:48 pm GMT • 8.1 hours agoOne word describes all the World's troubles.
Jews.
@Lot https://www.the-sun.com/news/1532069/hunter-biden-wife-melissa-cohen-married-children/BL , says: November 17, 2020 at 12:51 pm GMT • 8.1 hours agoShe is also said to be a documentary filmmaker.
Before she met Biden, she was supportive of the Obama presidency, and critical of President Trump.
After the white supremacist march at Charlottesville she wrote of the president: "To those of you who voted for this POS [piece of s ** t] you should be ashamed. That's all."
According to the New Yorker, Cohen has a tattoo of the word "Shalom," or "peace," in Hebrew on her bicep.
Katrinka , says: November 17, 2020 at 12:57 pm GMT • 8.0 hours agoIsrael's Power Is Unlimited
While you might not have written the headline it's an accurate synopsis of your argument.
I shouldn't give you a hard time for it because it's accepted across the geopolitical universe on Israel. Including, as you have long detailed, by Israel itself.
Amusingly, if you compare the mirror position along this spectrum, for example, elimination/"It's the 51st state!," they complete each other.
It just simply isn't true. Israel isn't sui genesis. It isn't a planet that doesn't have to, or refuses to, obey the laws of geopolitical physics.
Think of it this way. There's a disingenuous disconnect between the public discussion and that which takes place behind the curtain. As with seemingly everything else, it's just more so when it comes to Israel.
All of that was the shortest predicate for suggesting you notice the slim to none argument from this author in defense of the JCPOA, much less what the Obama administration sold as a rapprochement with Iran.
Did it have any coherence in that regard? No, indeed the Iranians stupidly insisted on rubbing it in our faces as an abandonment of not just Israel but all other states in the region.
It's impossible to overstate how thoroughly this has discredited the proponents of a deal with Iran.
Whatever you think are Israel's malefactions, they are no legitimate basis for the USG to gift a trouble-making Iran anything. Least of all, regional hegemony at the expense of everyone else.
@anonBannedHipster , says: Website November 17, 2020 at 1:07 pm GMT • 7.8 hours agohttps://www.stormfront.org/truth_at_last/sassoon.htm
The link will provide a pretty good synopsis of Jewish involvement in the opium trade cartel in China.
Felix Krull , says: November 17, 2020 at 1:11 pm GMT • 7.7 hours agoThe Anti-Defamation League is a front for Jewish organized crime that launders their money and defames anyone who says anything about it. The ADL openly supports apartheid in occupied Palestine. All Silicon Valley companies, including Wikipedia, count them as an "expert" on "hate" – despite the ADL being openly pro-apartheid. All the major news media corporations quote them as "experts" despite them being nothing more than a partisan political lobby.
How is the world is such an organization considered "mainstream" as opposed to a fringe hate group?
@Anonymousanarchyst , says: November 17, 2020 at 1:12 pm GMT • 7.7 hours agoRegarding the photo accompanying this article: it is always beyond disconcerting to see Israel's satanic pentagram parked next to the American flag
You not count good?
The Star of David is a hexagram, moron. No less disturbing, but do the fucking math.
Old and Grumpy , says: November 17, 2020 at 1:34 pm GMT • 7.4 hours agoWhen it comes to Israel, it is obvious that President Trump has pretty much given the jews everything they wanted.
From the annexation of Jerusalem proper to the Golan Heights, Israel has gained approval for its questionable, illegal actions from President Trump and others in the U S government. His encouragement of recognition of Israel by other middle eastern countries is telling.
President Trump has been dealing with jews all of his life, being in the New York City real estate market. He KNOWS how jews act and what they are capable of, along with their foibles and weaknesses.
Since Trump gave the jews just about everything they wanted, he is finally going to exact his "price" for acquiescing to Israeli demands and is going to demand something in return.
President Trump is about to reduce, if not withdraw the entire American troop presence in the middle east. American troops can be replaced with Israeli troops.
Of course the jews will cry foul and scream that they need an American troop presence, but if President Trump does anything right , the reduction or withdrawal of American troops in the middle east would be a good first step.
President Trump has already replace the Secretary of Defense with someone more amenable to him. The American military-industrial complex will not like the changes, but they can go "pound sand".
Robjil , says: November 17, 2020 at 1:37 pm GMT • 7.3 hours agoWell they are the chosen ones, and the rest of us are just beasts of burden. Just ask them. They wrote it in their book. The real travesty was putting the Torah in the Bible. Or maybe the penultimate travesty was being forcibly converted to Christianity by the Roman Catholic Church?
@KatrinkaGreta Handel , says: November 17, 2020 at 1:47 pm GMT • 7.1 hours agoHere is another good source about the Sassoon's destruction of China in the 19th century. The Chinese remember it well especially for what was done to their summer palace, Yuan ming yuan. It held 5000 years of Chinese history.
Ugetit , says: November 17, 2020 at 1:52 pm GMT • 7.1 hours agoDeference of Washington's elected politicians to Israel is repeatedly discussed in these columns. Courts traditionally hesitate to adjudicate issues of Uncle Sam's wars and other "foreign policy," and even related questions ( FEC v. Akins ). Americans tend to assume and accept that the judicial "branch" of the USG has nothing to do with these matters.
However, with another Presidential election possibly headed to the SCOTUS, there's an intriguing adjective in this sentence:
One should note that none of the pro-Israeli measures that are likely to come out of the White House enhance U.S. security in any way and they also do nothing particularly to benefit Trump's campaign to be re-elected through legal challenges.
Does Dr. Giraldi believe that the measures may generally benefit the legal challenges?
@BannedHipsterUgetit , says: November 17, 2020 at 1:57 pm GMT • 7.0 hours agoAgree.
Speaking of the ADL, I think our host's article is a must read.:
American Pravda: the ADL in American Society
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-adl-in-american-society/
@RobjilUncommonGround , says: November 17, 2020 at 2:13 pm GMT • 6.7 hours agoShe is for "peace". What kind of "peace"?
Without a doubt, her "tat" notwithstanding, she meant "piece." As in a piece for her and hers sufficient to allow nothing left for the deplorable goyim.
@Robjil on and so on.God's Fool , says: November 17, 2020 at 2:35 pm GMT • 6.3 hours agoAfter reading that I thought that Americans are really admirable. Kamala's both parents came recently from foreign countries which have no close relation with the US. They were recent immigrants, refugees from poverty and other inconveniences. A few years later the daughter becomes vice president of the country, the controler of the president (one of them) and possibly the next president and at the same time begins to tell Americans what they have to think and to want. It's not even merely her opinion. She is telling Americans what they have to think and to accept. You don't have any choice. Kamala has decided.
Greta Handel , says: November 17, 2020 at 2:39 pm GMT • 6.3 hours ago"It is time for all Americans, including Jews, to accept that Israel is a foreign country that must make its own decisions and thereby suffer the consequences."
You're still walking on eggshells, Giraldi. You're either having problem understanding or are in deliberate need to evade the issue of a Jew not needing to practice Jewism (my definition of a complete Jew), that is to say, separate himself from Israel no Jew can nor will do so. Hence, America is either stuck with them or will have to declare that Jews, and only Jews, aren't part of this great experiment called United States of America. It'll hurt like hell to be divorced from present reality but at least this nation, without any natural enemies, will have a fighting chance of being a truly great country within the commity of nations. So long as a single Jew remains in America, there isn't any chance of having daylight between two separate nations. So, what's going to be, slavery with comfort or freedom with sacrifices?
@Greta HandelUgetit , says: November 17, 2020 at 2:43 pm GMT • 6.2 hours agoSorry, that "particularly" is an adverb, not an adjective.
@RobjilGMC , says: November 17, 2020 at 2:50 pm GMT • 6.1 hours agoThanks very much for that. Excellent article, full of details that I was not aware of, and extremely interesting site.
Seems to me that it would be a good fit to be published here.
@BuelahMan con black and 99% NWO white Zionist on the inside. 2005 Senator Obama heads to Donetsk, Ukraine with 40 million dollars to De arm the Ukrainian military – he was successful and I can more that prove it since I lived there shortly after and knew some Ukraine military guys. This was part/ start of the Maidan plan. Move along to 2013 " We now have the right to use propaganda against our own citizens" Prez. Obama. Veterans Today – Obama WAS born in Africa , but we support him 100% . And this is is also true which means we have a psyops webpage there. Nam Vet here – and I don't like seeing Veterans screwed over by other " Veterans".Desert Fox , says: November 17, 2020 at 2:54 pm GMT • 6.0 hours agoJohn Q Duped , says: November 17, 2020 at 2:56 pm GMT • 6.0 hours agoThe key to zionist ie Israels power comes from the zionist owning the FED and from this came the zionist owning the government of the ZUS and from this came the trillions in debt and the unending wars for the zionists and for Israel.
Also from this control of the ZUS came the assassination of JFK and RFK and JFKjr. and the attack on the USS Liberty and the attack on the WTC on 911, which was used to plunge America into the unending wars against the Arabs, all for the benefit of Israel and the zionist dual citizen traitors in the ZUS.
Zionists are destroyers of nations and humanity and they are behind the covid-19 scam and psyop which is being used to destroy America and they are doing this via the World Economic Forum and the Rockefeller Foundation and UN Agenda 2030 which are the tips of the zionist spears aimed at the heart of America.
God help America.
@anonanon [287] Disclaimer , says: November 17, 2020 at 3:00 pm GMT • 5.9 hours agoWell written and informative. They also own (and control) most churches and long ago rewrote the Bible. And of course they create and own money.
@anarchystMustapha Mond , says: November 17, 2020 at 3:16 pm GMT • 5.7 hours agoPer the WSJ today, Trump is looking for a way to strike Iran for "starting to enrich uranium".
He's still trying to suck up to the Jews, after they just engineered the biggest coup on him. What an idiot!
@anarchyst be illegal to print what Giraldi penned herein, as well as to discuss it over the internet, even via 'private' e-mails. Anti-semitism was quickly made a capital offense when the mostly jewish Bolshevik leaders enslaved Russia over a century ago. Expect similar here shortly, as many of us on Unz are somewhat elderly, and so a long prison term for 'inappropriate political speech' is basically a death sentence, which will be gleefully enforced by Tribal minions, of which there is never a dearth.Rurik , says: November 17, 2020 at 3:18 pm GMT • 5.6 hours agoSo we should enjoy our liberty to speak our minds freely here at Unz while we still have it, as it won't last long, I can assure you .
Colin Wright , says: Website November 17, 2020 at 3:43 pm GMT • 5.2 hours agoalso do nothing particularly to benefit Trump's campaign to be re-elected through legal challenges.
Does Dr. Giraldi believe that the measures may generally benefit the legal challenges?
wasn't your entire shtick that it doesn't matter in the least which whore of Zion sits in the White House, and that we're all chumps for caring or voting, because it doesn't matter one whit?
And now somehow that the voting is over, you still seem keen on obsessing over the outcome.
To answer your question, (if I may Mr. G)..
'Pro-Israeli measures' (presidential slavish and abased fealty to Bibi/Israel) does nothing to particularly *or* generally benefit Trump, vs. the other whore of Zion. As 'Bibi' was one of the very first heads of state to congratulate Biden and toss his former supplicant and courtesan out the door – with less grace or gratitude than I've seen sailors toss two-bit hookers out the door once the service was performed.
I'm sure in both cases they feel particularly sullied. Considering how eagerly and enthusiastically they swallowed their um.. duties.
I must say, I felt more pity for the whore in some Caribbean port, who sold herself for a few pesos, than I do for the political whore who sold out my nation.
That said, Trump has done more to keep whatever shred of dignity a whore has, than all his recent predecessors.. (how do you quantify the incomprehensible evil of 9/11, Shock and Awe, Patriot Act, Gitmo, Obama's destruction of Libya and Syria, etc , using the English language?)
The bar has been so low for so long, that simply not having destroyed several nations and mass-murdered untold hundreds of thousands- in slavish fealty to Israel- is reason enough for some of us to consider your presidency a measured success.
Our free-fall into the abyss hit a snag on the way down with the Trump administration.
But not to worry, under Biden/Harris, we'll get to those 'seven nations'. It's just going to take a little longer than 'five years', is all.
@LotMarkU , says: November 17, 2020 at 3:45 pm GMT • 5.2 hours ago'Nah, it's like Canada, an America Jr. '
Except that they shoot children, burn babies alive, and spit on Christians. And oh yeah: not much in the way of salmon fishing.
But other than that, just like Canada.
@Ralph B. Seymour e 'friends of Israel'.Colin Wright , says: Website November 17, 2020 at 3:46 pm GMT • 5.2 hours agoNor is it really about Jews as such, it is about a Jewish financial elite that took control with the signing of the Federal Reserve act in 1913.
Face facts Americans, your 'deep state' is mostly controlled by Jewish bankers. If white gentiles were really in charge of America would they be demonising themselves with anti-white racism? Have you not noticed that your own political elites are marrying into the tribe? Remember those royal weddings that European monarchies arranged to seal alliances with other nations? Your political elites are cementing alliances with the bankers by marriage.
@Rurikanon [332] Disclaimer , says: November 17, 2020 at 3:48 pm GMT • 5.1 hours ago'Our free-fall into the abyss hit a snag on the way down with the Trump administration.'
Not much of a snag, but you're right.
CoolAid Joe , says: November 17, 2020 at 3:48 pm GMT • 5.1 hours agoIf you're serious about this, you will acknowledge that your bosses at NHB get away with murder, torture, assassination of heads of state including your own, coercive interference, aggression, and use of banned weapons. Now is the time to drop your Boy Scout act.
You won't have to lean on your vegetable Biden too hard to make him faithfully execute the Symington-Glenn Amendment and the Leahy Law. That cuts off Mossad's bribe spigot. Maybe there will be a little dustup on your own turf, but who's going to win that? When it comes down to it, Israel is a one-nuke laydown.
The Israeli command structure are deep-dyed cowards. Whack a few in spectacular ways and the grabass will stop. Start with Bibi.
@LotRurik , says: November 17, 2020 at 3:50 pm GMT • 5.1 hours agoYeah she's a hot bitch. A rare thing an attractive jew.
Good thing she's marrying out.
@Moi nists.anonymous [400] Disclaimer , says: November 17, 2020 at 3:54 pm GMT • 5.0 hours agoNot hardly.
And Phil is right, that we are very disgusted (understatement of the century) with the Eternal Wars for Israel.
But like the French, (who bombed Libya into the stone age in fealty to Zion), and the Brits who go along with it all, and the Germans who piss their lederhosen at the mention of Israel, and all the other countries that are vassals of the Federal Reserve and their Satanic minions, our institutions also have been utterly corrupted by this (((fiat paper))).
But that doesn't mean that we like it.
heymrguda , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:00 pm GMT • 4.9 hours agomany American politicians get "very, very rich" through their support
That's one of the major features of American politics. American politicians are mostly whores for sale so naturally various interests will buy them. It's not what's good for the country but what's good for their bank account. Greed and corruption are what'll be the undoing of the US.
It's only logical that Iran would want to build nuclear weapons since the US and Israel have them and war has been threatened against Iran almost continuously. Being threatened has a way of spurring on the acquisition of nuclear weapons. The US was the first to develop them and then actually used them, setting off a chain reaction of other countries developing their own. It seems to only be a matter of time before Iran actually has it. Then what?anon [315] Disclaimer , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:02 pm GMT • 4.9 hours agoDon't forget Rep. Jim Traficant (d-oh) on your list of people torpedoed by the lobby.
Realist , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:03 pm GMT • 4.9 hours agoMy favorite poster of the day, says it all about whites who continue to vote with the Satanic, blood-sucking, parasitic tribe:
Philip Giraldi , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:11 pm GMT • 4.7 hours agoPerhaps some day Whites will stop pissing and moaning and do something about their plight.
@heymrgudaanon [315] Disclaimer , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:12 pm GMT • 4.7 hours agoThanks – I did forget Jim, who stood up to the bastards and paid the price.
@anonymousRedpilledAF , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:15 pm GMT • 4.7 hours agoAre we talking about the same Obama? The Obama who invaded Syria and Libya when they did absolutely nothing to threaten the security of the US? The JCPOA was credit to John Kerry, who was then slaughtered by msm on his way out for calling for a two-state solution that includes Israel leaving the occupied West Bank.
Osama was spot on when he called Obama a "house nigger". That was all he was, nothing more. We don't need another. We already had one.
Lot , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:16 pm GMT • 4.7 hours agoI am more and more a supporter of Iran every day.
They had a revolution to get rid of western influenced degeneracy. They support Palestine unwaveringly. They support Lebanon unwaveringly. They defended Syria along with Russia. They are Russia's closest ally in the world. They stand up to Israel. They fight Israel. They attack the social and political theory of Zionism as well it's existence.
God bless them and protect them because often it seems like they are the only ones at a state level doing anything about the evil in our world.
@Colin WrightRurik , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:17 pm GMT • 4.6 hours agoThose are things happening IN Canada due to its insane decision to import Muslims and Haitians.
You're right that Israel at times can be brutal. Muslim barbarism coarsens those around them. Not just Israel: Thailand, Philippines, Burma, India, Ethiopia, Greece, Armenia.
The worldwide Jihad Colin and Phil support creates bloody borders with Islam always seeking to conquer and enslave.
Israel says NO! And that's why they are full of obsessive hate for it.
@RealistUgetit , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:31 pm GMT • 4.4 hours agoPerhaps some day Whites will stop pissing and moaning and do something about their plight.
by all means, what do you propose?
@RealistJack McArthur , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:33 pm GMT • 4.4 hours agoPerhaps some day Whites will stop pissing and moaning and do something about their plight.
Patience, Grasshopper!
You are not a gardener, are you?
@anonRealist , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:35 pm GMT • 4.3 hours agoA fine analysis. I would add in one more group to your list i.e. the Christian churches who daily play the part of Judas.
@Rurikphillip sawicki , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:36 pm GMT • 4.3 hours agoby all means, what do you propose?
Revolution and you?
@anon ormer number two at the State Department) and his son Douglas published 'The Passionate Attachment," explaining how it had evolved over the years. In 2007 came the Mearsheimer/Walt book on AIPAC. For a critical history of Israel wince Biblical times, see Laurent Guyenot's book From Yahweh to Zion, published in 2018. The last-named says that Israel is responsible for JFK's death. He had tried to stop Israel's nuclear weapons program and thus was killed. The Warren Report covered up that particular crime. Jews are a tremendously talented tribe, but they have no right to dominate the world, which is what Israel is now determined to do.Ugetit , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:36 pm GMT • 4.3 hours ago@LotPoco , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:38 pm GMT • 4.3 hours agoThe worldwide Jihad Colin and Phil support creates bloody borders with Islam always seeking to conquer and enslave.
Israel says NO!
Of course they say "no." An Izzie without a monopoly? Unthinkable.
@RobjilUgetit , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:39 pm GMT • 4.3 hours agoThat arm should be amputated. Then shoved up her ass.
@Philip Giraldianarchyst , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:45 pm GMT • 4.2 hours agoThanks – I did forget Jim, who stood up to the bastards and paid the price.
True, and I wonder how long it'll take before people realize that even by sucking up to the bastards they'll still pay the price.
@Realist eing but another hazard that the left takes advantage of, in order to silence the opposition, with good effect, so farRealist , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:52 pm GMT • 4.1 hours ago
All one has to do is look at the Memphis couple who was arrested for defending themselves as well as James Fields who has been wrongly convicted of murder while attempting to escape while being attacked.
At the present time, discretion is advised.
The only effective way to "nip this in the bud" would be to confront the police, city officials, judges and prosecutors directly
As they are well-protected, that is not a viable option at this time presently, but in the future who knows??@Ugetitphillip sawicki , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:53 pm GMT • 4.0 hours agoPatience, Grasshopper!
You are not a gardener, are you?
Silly childish response Patience has brought us to this disastrous point in US history
Anonymous [401] Disclaimer , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:55 pm GMT • 4.0 hours agoThere are some very good books on the subject. See The Passionate Attachment by George and Douglas Ball, published in 1992. (George Ball was the number two man at State under jFK and LBJ.)
See the book on AIPAC by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, published in 2007. See Laurent Guyenot's From Yahweh to Zion, published in 2018.@BL Did Jews learn nothing by wandering the desert for 40 years? Do they forget that they were frog-marched for defying their own god, Yahweh, yet again? Yet they seem to think their slow-motion shoahing of Palestinians will go unpunished.Jack McArthur , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:56 pm GMT • 4.0 hours agoHow many future small-but-hugely-powerful guided missiles hitting Haifa, Tel Aviv, etc. will Israelis be able to take? What their power-hungry pride protect them then?
Do Jews really think they will not be held responsible/targeted around the world for the crimes of their state?
What other state, what other people, think only THEY matter?
The Jewish State has become a blight unto the nations.
Israelo delenda est!
Greta Handel , says: November 17, 2020 at 4:57 pm GMT • 4.0 hours agoWhilst human beings conspiring is as old nevertheless the Biden family is an example of something way, way beyond human artifice. You do not have to be a Christian to recognize that what Jesus said of the Jews was right on the mark – their father is a devil. The New Testament says explicitly that the ruler of this world is the Satanic Majesties the Rolling Stones celebrated in 1967.
Jesus was offered the entire world if he would take the knee not to Saint George of this sick era but to satan. He replied that this was the epitome of shortermism.
People are no more than puppets on a string without divine protection and that is why I do not hate Jews but only the vile evil in which they excel through the "gifts" of their spiritual father.
@Rurik ion sits in the White House, and that we're all chumps for caring or voting, because it doesn't matter one whit?And now somehow that the voting is over, you still seem keen on obsessing over the outcome.
There's nothing inconsistent in (i) my position about the futility of Red/Blue politics to effect any change in what matters to the Establishment and (ii) the question I've posed to the author. In fact, how and why "the outcome" is arrived at may enlighten some gullible voters.
Of course, you neither needed nor wanted to hear that. Which is why you didn't reply to me directly, right?
@phillip sawickiJack McArthur , says: November 17, 2020 at 5:10 pm GMT • 3.8 hours agoAnd Alison Weir's Against Our Better Judgment
@phillip sawickiCauchemar du Singe , says: November 17, 2020 at 5:28 pm GMT • 3.5 hours agoYour observation is confirmed by Lord Beaverbrook explaining to the young Robert Kennedy at the end of WW2 that the USA was a subjugated country run by Jews.
@anonRurik , says: November 17, 2020 at 5:30 pm GMT • 3.4 hours agoThe Talmudic Zionist jew vampire pirates, in their arrogance, believe themselves to be beyond accountability for their many misdeeds.
Speed The Day when their filthy little illegitimate enclave on the Easterrn shores of The Med gets glassed over in a thermonuclear kind of way.
The remedy for the ills of Wall Street and The Bank of England will only be a tad less harsh.
A bounty on all Rothschilds and Warburgs and their servile rats and snakes would also be nice.It's got to start somewhere.
@Realist nks Woodrow) [RIH]Defcon , says: November 17, 2020 at 5:32 pm GMT • 3.4 hours agoAnd then there's also the 'Atlas Shrugged' strategy- wherein all honest and productive people of good will, eventually refuse to be willing lapdogs to this Satanic cabal.
As long as you'll lose your job, by mentioning the truth, don't do so. But more and more, as the 'hundredth monkey' come around to the Great Awakening', like the Soviet Union, this devil'$ charade must certainly die its ignoble death.
and beauty, truth and peace, will once again rise like a phoenix from the ashes of Zion
@Ralph B. Seymour shred of human remorse.Cauchemar du Singe , says: November 17, 2020 at 5:37 pm GMT • 3.3 hours agoThe bolsheviks goal was a %90 reduction in population, the Talmud states that the "goy" were to be their servants, the beasts are not worthy. 10% of the Russian goys would be enough.
After their reign of terror from 1917 to 1989, they sucked the rest of Russia dry and moved to their next target, the USA. They are almost done here, they will poison us with the covid vaccination and as a final F you leave us as a minority among the hoards of subhumans.
Their next target is Uzbekistan, this is why no one ever hears about the country or can point it out on a map.
@Achilles WannabeCauchemar du Singe , says: November 17, 2020 at 5:44 pm GMT • 3.2 hours agoBen Franklin, in his prescient wisdom, wanted a Constitutional inclusion that would have barred (((them))) from even setting foot upon The New Republic.
Too bad that (((The Worms))) were already here perpetrating their financial scumbaggery.
@frankie pBL , says: November 17, 2020 at 5:46 pm GMT • 3.2 hours agojews, Blacks and Muslims TEACH people to hate them, and are very good teachers.
@Anonymous e in terms of any real concern for the national interest of the United States vis-à-vis Iran.melgibson , says: November 17, 2020 at 5:48 pm GMT • 3.1 hours agoAlso, did you intentionally omit the USA removing Iran's democratically-elected leader in 1953? Or America giving poison gas to Iraq to use against Iranians?
A word to the wise, sovereigns aren't cute and cuddly. The effect their interests with little regard for humans in their way.
It's downright embarrassing that Iran and its acolytes are still belly-aching about Mosaddegh. It's going to continue to be a hard road with the US if they don't learn to shake it off.
@Colin WrightPer/Norway , says: November 17, 2020 at 5:54 pm GMT • 3.0 hours agoHow about a movie, a Hollywood style blockbuster titled: Operation Susanna! What a spy thriller that would be.
@MarkUKatrinka , says: November 17, 2020 at 6:01 pm GMT • 2.9 hours agoYou are not supposed to notice these patterns.
Report to the nearest fema HaPpY CaMp™ for your reeducation peasant.
@Jack McArthurPer/Norway , says: November 17, 2020 at 6:04 pm GMT • 2.9 hours agoIf any minister, pastor, or priest starts to sermonize about Judeo-Christian commonality, head straight out the door. Christians and Jews have no common ground. In fact, the modern Jewish religion was created as a response to Christianity. It is Pharisaism based on the Talmud, not the Old Testament.
http://judaism.is/judeo-christian.html
https://keruxreplies.blogspot.com/2010/06/judeo-christian-is-oxymoron.html
@Achilles WannabePer/Norway , says: November 17, 2020 at 6:06 pm GMT • 2.8 hours agodig a bit deeper on the interwebz and you will see that there are many wypipo historians that have screamed this message the last 100 years+.
They get shunned, memoryholed or worse.
I will not link on purpose because the search is important for learning, but i will give you a hint
archiveDOTorg have many off their books available.
Type "political zionism" into their searchbar and learn about the enemy of humanity and their origins first.
Pharisees is their true name btw, b4 the 2 world wars this was common knowledge among us Christian goyims
@AnonymousRev. Spooner , says: November 17, 2020 at 6:07 pm GMT • 2.8 hours agothe star of david is not a pentagram it is satanic tho.
Rurik , says: November 17, 2020 at 6:18 pm GMT • 2.6 hours agoThis is from wikipedia for whatever it's worth -- Centuries later, the Jews were expelled from China proper during the Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution (845–46), where they lived in the region of Ningxia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaifeng_Jews
That makes it 110 countries?
@Greta Handel p> The fact that I quoted you, on the same thread you're reading and writing on, means to a certainty that I was responding to your post with the intent that you'd see it. (duh)Curmudgeon , says: November 17, 2020 at 6:31 pm GMT • 2.4 hours agoThere's nothing inconsistent in (i) my position about the futility of Red/Blue politics to effect any change in what matters to the Establishment and (ii) the question I've posed to the author. In fact, how and why "the outcome" is arrived at may enlighten some gullible voters.
Yea, that was your only interest, in your priggish, pedantic parsing of Philip's prose.
I gotcha
@Colin Wrightanon [471] Disclaimer , says: November 17, 2020 at 6:35 pm GMT • 2.3 hours agoCanada has been kiked for 50 years. The Canada I grew up in had no problem pointing out tribal influence, and no one called it Auntie Shem-itism.
We have gone from the 1930s when "one would be too many" was the attitude to Jewish "refugees" asking for admission to openly admitting we are Israel's bitch. At the same time, making it clear non-whites were not welcome to let's flood the country, already suffering from high unemployment, with more than 1% of our population annually from the 3rd world.
@BLprofnasty , says: November 17, 2020 at 6:37 pm GMT • 2.3 hours ago"t's downright embarrassing that Iran and its acolytes are still belly-aching about Mosaddegh."
It's downright embarrassing that Israel and its acolytes are still belly-aching about Holocaust to steal few more pennies and dimes .
t's downright embarrassing that west and its acolytes are still belly-aching about 911 ,and knife attacks and Chinese something to wage wars for Israel.
Colin Wright , says: Website November 17, 2020 at 6:51 pm GMT • 2.1 hours agoGood points all.
My suggestion?
Establish Greater Israel from Nile to Euphrates. Give Jews full hegemony in their new country.
Then, deport 3/4 of American Jews. Make laws to prevent, here, Jewish control of finance, education, or media. And above all, keep America's nuclear deterrent razor sharp.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
@LotColin Wright , says: Website November 17, 2020 at 6:59 pm GMT • 1.9 hours ago'Israel says NO! And that's why they are full of obsessive hate for it.'
No -- I'm full of hate for Israel because it's an evil, duplicitous, corrosive, criminal, indefensible, and unnecessary state that generates a great deal of misery that wouldn't otherwise happen and that has corrupted my own country and implicated us in its crimes.
@anonymousRealist , says: November 17, 2020 at 7:01 pm GMT • 1.9 hours ago' it seems that only a smart, independent minded black politician '
Black politicians come in two flavors: corrupt, and ineffectual. Neither one would serve your purposes.
Black politicians -- and judges -- actually tend to be Israel's most willing tools
@RurikRealist , says: November 17, 2020 at 7:08 pm GMT • 1.8 hours agoSwell poetry but what's the solution?
@anarchystanonymous [387] Disclaimer , says: November 17, 2020 at 7:10 pm GMT • 1.8 hours agoWritten like a true wimp bend over and take it in the ass.
@RoatanBillanonymous [321] Disclaimer , says: November 17, 2020 at 7:15 pm GMT • 1.7 hours agoAll foreign aid should be turned off
Lol! The irony hidden there is hilarious.
You see, it is the Banana States of America which is the most indebted beggar nation on earth. It survives because foreign nations perform trade using the dollar. Without that trade, the Banana States would be on its knees, literally begging.
Now, do you see who is aiding whom?
@anonmark green , says: November 17, 2020 at 7:46 pm GMT • 1.2 hours agoJudeo-fascism
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Judeo-deception
Judeo-hypocrisy
Judeo-coup
@frankie p mplex–and often ruthless–political struggle.anonymous [387] Disclaimer , says: November 17, 2020 at 7:56 pm GMT • 60 minutes agoIn fact, 'anti-Semitism' is a legitimate and appropriate self-defense mechanism. 'Anti-Semitism' needn't produce violence, injustice, or bloodshed. It is fundamentally about awareness and self-preservation. It is a discredited virtue, born from necessity.
Invasive, devious, and destruction species must be resisted. 'Anti-Semitic' theory suggests that one party–often the dominant, duplicitous, and aggressive one– is endowed with moral superiority in the struggle for political power and self-determination. This inculcated myth is an oversized kosher lie.
@Cauchemar du Singe . So do not knowingly set up equals to Allah ˹in worship˺ .And if you are in doubt about what We have revealed to Our servant, then produce a sûrah like it and call your helpers other than Allah, if what you say is true.
But if you are unable to do so -- and you will never be able to do so -- then fear the Fire fuelled with people and stones, which is prepared for the disbelievers .
May your hate consume you in this world, while the fire of Hell awaits your kind with much anticipation.
anon [148] Disclaimer , says: November 17, 2020 at 7:59 pm GMT • 57 minutes agoOn the Day We will say to Hell, "Have you been filled?" and it will say, "Are there some more?"
AReply , says: November 17, 2020 at 7:59 pm GMT • 57 minutes agoJust like any cancer, it finally kills it's host, and it goes down with it.
Some day , the cure will come , and the world will be rid of it's foremost problem
Pat Kittle , says: November 17, 2020 at 8:05 pm GMT • 51 minutes agoDazzling! Fascinating!
This narrative of the poor enslaved USA, beholden to Isreal is openly contradictory to our manifest galactic power -- something, something middle-east energy and minerals, geopolitics Whatever Boring!
As to heartache of Obama: While Isreal working him over through the derp state double agent Rahm, U.S. Republicans shit on the President's head continuously, en masse for his entire tenure and thwarted with open bigotry and contempt his every attempt to execute thoroughly Republican policy!
So yes, Zion, and Republicans. Both a great threat to USA and democracy.
sarz , says: November 17, 2020 at 8:08 pm GMT • 48 minutes agoJOE BIDEN receives a MOMENTO from the JEW LOBBY
Old Joe's most humiliating (& revealing) experience
was immediately consigned to the Memory Hole:
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --"I HAVE NOTHING TO OFFER YOU BUT BROKEN GLASS," Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed US Vice President Biden during an after-dinner ceremony in Jerusalem on March 9, 2010.
Netanyahu had prepared a symbolic gift for visiting Vice President JoeBiden: a framed document announcing that several trees were planted in Jerusalem in memory of Biden's mother, a loyal supporter of Israel.
But with Biden's mission to persuade the Israeli government to begin shrinking Greater Israel back to its pre-1967 borders, Netanyahu leaned on thepresent (NOT "accidentally" as reported by the Jew-owned press) and shattered the glass frame.
Then came Netanyahu's cyptic warning and by way of indirection, a threat to Obama: "I have one thing to offer you right now, and it's broken glass." [ViewFull Photo Here.]
It got worse. At a later tour of Israel's Holocaust memorial museum, Yad Vashem, the lights in the Hall of Remembrance "unexpectedly" went out as a prayer for the dead was chanted.
Catching Biden's security detail by surprise as they anxiously stood forover 60 seconds in utter darkness, only the "eternal fire" that honored the Jewish dead spread its ominous light upon the Biden contingent.
By the time the lights flickered back on, Biden's Middle East fortunes were sealed with an Israeli announcement that it would build 1,600 new homes for Jewish settlers, ignoring US and Palestinian objections. On Biden's departure for Jordan, Ha'aretz reported that Israel plans to build 50,000 new homes in East Jerusalem over the next three years.
The "broken glass" and the "moments of darkness" that Biden experienced were not chance events. Nothing happens at official Israeli gatherings that is not carefully planned and orchestrated in advance. And in spite of Biden's groveling before Netanyahu and Peres, with vows of Israel being the "centerpiece of US policy," the Vice President's cowering was met with glassy eyes by the leaders of the "master race."
Symbolic acts, such as the breaking of a glass by a Jewish groom beforemaking vows of faithfulness to his bride at every Jewish wedding, are part of Jewish tradition. When the Jewish groom crushes the glass beneath his rightfoot, he silently pledges to avenge the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem and wage war on all those who would perpetuate that destruction .
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@anarchystRoatanBill , says: November 17, 2020 at 8:09 pm GMT • 47 minutes agoTrump hasn't just been dealing with Jews his whole life. The Trumps are Jews, as Trump's elder brother told his frat brothers at his Jewish fraternity at college. What Trump did for Israel was done because of what he considers himself to be. But that doesn't mean he doesn't recognize something higher. He does. Himself. If he can't be a winner affirming Israel, then the hell with Israel. That's really ultimate Jewish values, right? Some have spoken of it as having no soul.
@anonymous e to nothing to do with the US's foreign aid scam.Z-man , says: November 17, 2020 at 8:18 pm GMT • 38 minutes agoForeign aid supports dictators around the world to see things the US's way.
It provides the money to, for example, Israel, to turn that money around to purchase weapons and to bribe Congress with our own currency. In effect, the US uses foreign aid as a straw man to simply funnel money from the US gov't to the US corporate elite and Congress.
Some of the money that went to Ukraine eventually found its way back to the US in Biden's pocket along with a whole host of DNC operatives. That revelation should come out if the Justice Dept weren't part of the scam.
Anon [255] Disclaimer , says: November 17, 2020 at 8:21 pm GMT • 35 minutes agoI z ruel The Last Superpower.
Ugetit , says: November 17, 2020 at 8:22 pm GMT • 34 minutes agoMust be, look at what theyve gotten away with. COVID race specific biowar. 9/11. Theres no terrorism, only Israel going for world domination. USS Liberty. Murder of Patton. On and on.
@RealistGreta Handel , says: November 17, 2020 at 8:24 pm GMT • 32 minutes agoSilly childish response
You want a silly childish response?
Here you go.
Perhaps some day Whites will stop pissing and moaning and do something about their plight.
@Rurik " into pseudonymity by Mr. Unz's recent limit of three anonymous comments per day, tends to decay the quality of discussion in comment threads. People think that they have to mark every hydrant, and wait on each other to settle scores, rather than comment on the column. (I'm not immune!) This is what happened at Taki's, ZeroHedge, and most recently Kunstler, where the same people trudge into their pews every Monday and Friday, hear one of the same few sermons, and then start snipping.sarz , says: November 17, 2020 at 8:25 pm GMT • 31 minutes agoIf we didn't have a history, "Rurik," I doubt that you would have taken much interest in my #35, which you apparently still misunderstand.
@RedpilledAFUgetit , says: November 17, 2020 at 8:30 pm GMT • 26 minutes agoIt's written in the Iran constitution that it is the duty of the country to fight oppression.
@RealistWritten like a true wimp bend over and take it in the ass.
By the sounds of yer squaking, you've been doing enough of that for all of us, Ram-bo. Now, step aside and let the grownups decide.
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Nov 16, 2020 | www.antiwar.com
Daniel McAdams Posted on November 15, 2020
How did the Russiagate hoax feed into the Covid hoax and then feed into the Election hoax? Ron Paul Institute Director Daniel McAdams ties them all together in this speech to the Mises Institute 's recent Lake Jackson Seminar with Ron Paul. "All of a sudden the tweets are gone, the Facebook is gone, the media is gone. Only crazy people are questioning the most pristine -- the most perfect -- election of all time." Watch it here:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/1YultIz0Q-E
Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity .
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Nov 15, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Trump Must Out The Deep State
by Tyler Durden Fri, 11/13/2020 - 19:00 Twitter Facebook Reddit Email Print
Authored by Steve Brown via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,
Whether the US 2020 election was truly stolen or not we will likely never know. The president himself doesn't know since he failed to purge the palace that embarked on the palace coup that has seemingly toppled him.
Booting Mark 'Raytheon' Esper after the fact simply highlights this fact.
Now, Mr. Trump will have to put on his thinking cap and grasp the Machiavellian reality of the perverse Washington cesspool he has presided over for nearly four years - and come up with a plan.
Trump can use his deal-making skills to court the Evil Empire's titular head, but what sort of deal would that be? And if Mr. Trump truly is the visionary and rogue his base believes he is, then he could disembowel the Deep State with an adroit stroke or two instead. However, with Jared Kushner as his top advisor, that's unlikely.
But if he chose to, how could Mr. Trump out Washington's Axis of Evil while avenging himself on the Beltway's swamp creatures?
Well, one major hurdle for Washington's corrupt coup class is the upcoming government shutdown. The central government runs out of Federal Reserve just-above bog roll – ie funding again -- on December 11th . The president must reliably engage Mitch McConnell in withholding any new funding agreement, and since McConnell's position is secure there is little motivation for him to provide favors now, especially when Trump is supremely vulnerable.
During the pandemic a Trump government shutdown would certainly generate massive public and major media outrage. Likewise, Mr. Trump has been most interested in keeping his promises to the people, so a government shutdown is unlikely to be in the cards.
Another option, Trump could issue executive orders to end the endless US-initiated conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq. In such a scenario, Congress would have to scramble to keep its wars going. However the new Zombie-head, major media, and US congress would certainly howl to the moon all the while. Even so, Trump could leave office with some satisfaction, knowing that he did what he promised to do, regardless of opposition from the warfare state cancer infesting the Beltway.
The United States funds about 70 percent of NATO's Cold War dinosaur existence too, with member states contributing the rest. Trump jousted with Esper over NATO, their most significant point of difference. Now the president can defund NATO with an emergency executive order – perhaps on a government shutdown basis? – at a stroke. Like ending America's endless wars, the new Zombie leader (Biden) major media, and US congress would howl to the moon all the while and ditto on Trump's satisfaction.
Now think of all the secrets Trump knows on so many issues, from Huntergate to Russiagate. Trump knows who setup George Papadopoulos and why. He knows about the Steele Dossier . Trump knows the Deep State's secrets and where the dirty laundry is hidden. If Trump truly were a visionary - as well as a rogue (not to mention patriot) - he could easily out the dirty laundry in one go. But that may be too much, creating risk for himself and his family. A more practical idea would be to covertly get the information out for "plausible denial" release later. All that's left would be to admit nothing, deny everything, and make counter-accusations.
In such interesting times, Mr. Trump has other options - even seemingly frivolous ones. He could out the facts on Hillary's emails and the related alleged FBI cover-up; or undermine any deal the Zombie's regime intends to make with Ghislaine Maxwell in order to protect powerful interests. Trump could even release all the documents, unredacted, on the John F Kennedy assassination, showing that elements within Langley's unconstitutional Criminal Intelligence Agency were involved and that the assassination was not just the work of a "lone nut" who got lucky.
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In brief, Trump's options re outing the Deep State are virtually limitless. Washington's detritus and the grifters who infest the Beltway's infernal swamp – like Biden – are of course aware of that, too. So there is a good chance some sort of deal will be cut for Trump's graceful exit, especially if rumors are true that Trump will run again in 2024.
If not... then watch out below! 6 play_arrow 3 FreemonSandlewould , 1 day ago
cankles' server , 1 day agoHave a look at the bar graphs and see if you think it confirms Biden fraud in Pennsylvania
We know. There is no doubt that the election was stolen.
All the social ques say so. All the numbers say so.
Another option, Trump could issue executive orders to end the endless US-initiated conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq. In such a scenario, Congress would have to scramble to keep its wars going.
Uh. No. They would just ignore the orders. The real orders come from the JCG. ( Jish Control Grid ). The propaganda - news agencies would be used to squelch any real propagation of these stories. It's as if this guy has been asleep. There is blatant in your face proof of election fraud yet what do we have?
Izzy Dunne , 22 hours ago19,958 vote switch in PA from Trump to Biden. Despite being 4M votes behind. They were overwhelmed with the red tsunami.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iywjrHJex51RQU4TcyUj81_SJP3WpH4c/view?usp=sharing
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John Grady , 1 day agoAnn Coulter nails it:
Talking and tweeting is not action:
DanDaley , 1 day agoOrder declassification, not authorize it. Pardon Assange and Snowden. Most importantly, cease all military conflicts immediately and started bring troops home from all theaters. It might not work for long but it will make them reveal themselves by having to hit the switches to turn the war machine back on.
Reaper , 1 day agoTrump needs to pull out all the stops, he has nothing left to lose...put it all out there 911, Clinton murders, Epestein's pedo island -John Roberts connection, the whole damned thing. They will go after him, prison, whatever...he needs to pull no punches, none!
Same for everyone...you give up your firearms, you sign your death warrant.
cjones1 , 23 hours agoWithdraw all troops from Middle East and Afghanistan. Declassify and release all the CIA misdeeds back to Truman. Pardon Assange and Snowden. Release all the FBI's investigation of Biden Family.
Trump has just had his political generals suffer their Wilderness campaign. Who is his General U.S. Grant who see this fight through to victory?
AG Barr has lost his will to fight. Huntergate & Russiagate should have had their defendents on trial by now.
FDA & NIH have been working behind the lines and the Pfizer vaccine announcement was deliberately delayed until after the election. To add insult to injury, the Confederate camp was notified the night before the official announcement.
Biden condemned locking down egress from China in January, but now he desires to lock down the country. He has never acknowledged the origin of the CCP's Wuhan lab coronavirus (Covid 19/SARS2) pandemic, but has blamed Trump for the toll his Chinese paymasters have inflicted on America.
The deepest wounds to Trump have been inflicted by the Deep State and RINOs.
The election was rigged with pre-filled out ballot dumps, non-certification of ballots, restriction of access for observers, and fraudware counts. I wouldn't be surprised if hundreds or thousands of "You ain't Black votes" were disenfranchised by the fraud and corruption in this election. Our successful U.S. Grant will defeat such fraud. Whether that general is Rudy G., Sidney P., or some other Sherman or Sheridan remains to be seen.
With Trump's certification to reelection, his coattails may bring the Republicans a House majority and additional no runoff Senators. That day would be glorious and the take down of the Deep State, Globalist robber barons, and Socialist Confederates could commence. Trump could begin the reconstruction and the renaissance of America the Beautiful that would bring prosperity and sanity to this era of misguided forces and dishonesty which brought decades of ruin.
Mine eyes have seen the Glory in the coming of the Lord.
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!
May the loyal Republicans kick those Democratic party Confederates and their RINO allied butts as they well deserve.
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Nov 14, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Tim Kirby via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
Right now, the entire world sits in waiting for the final declaration of the victor in the 2020 U.S. Presidential race even if they have already officially congratulated Biden. This still technically ongoing electoral process has exposed many truths and confirmed a wide range of suspicions about what is actually going on inside American politics. How "the game is to be played" going further down the road will be determined by who wins or maybe better yet how they win. Let's break down everything we should have learned from this very unusual voting year during this brief window of uncertainty.
Democratic calls for "Healing and Unity" prove Trump has a strong caseThe American Left is now crying out for " Healing and Unity " across the country which is an obvious middle school ploy to make any attempts by Trump to get fair final election results look pathetic and divisive. On the surface one would think that this is an offensive strategy from the dominant side to get the other to break, but calls for peace generally come from the one with the weaker hand.
If the Democrats were sure that Trump lost, then there would be no need to call for peace after years of demonizing anyone who doesn't agree with them. This rhetorical change is not one of triumph, but of fear. When the first partially Black President of the United States came to power the Left boldly rode this wave of political inertia starting their transformation into hardcore Progressives and while showing zero concern for the losers and "unity". For them this was a smug moment of victory, much like Trump's 2016 victory was for the right. So why would they choose to become so much more friendly all of a sudden this time?
Image: After years of hateful rhetoric why call for healing and unity now?
It seems more likely than not that this guilt tactic is being used because Trump may actually have a case and be able to get the votes counted accurately, i.e. in his favour. Moral high ground attacks from the Dems are unlikely to work as Trump has been compared to Hitler since the start of his previous electoral campaign. Appeasement for the POTUS has thus far completely failed, why would it start working now?
A Color Revolution in America is possible and may have occurredThe Old Russian joke that a revolution could "never happen in America because there are no U.S. Embassies in Washington" has now become obsolete. The media, including even the supposedly conservative Fox News, has completely and totally given the election to Biden despite many irregularities. Not to mention, the fact that as these words are being typed – the election is not officially over.
Image: High journalistic standards in practice in the EU.
If there is one key element to a Color Revolution that must be in place for success it is control of the media. If every TV channel and news site says candidate X is the winner, then he has won regardless of votes and regardless of how many people still use said dinosaur media. They ultimately cast the big final ballot.
The rampant tampering and falsification witnessed (and often self filmed by the perpetrators) during the election looked like something you would expect to see in a "backwards third world hellhole" type of country. The manipulation was rampant, blatant and primitive.
This fact can and should be used by the nations at odds with America (Russia, China, Iran, Cuba, Syria, etc.) in perpetuity as proof that the U.S. never had, nor should have, some sort of democracy-based moral authority over anyone else. America's own Color Revolution delegitimizes any attempts to spread regime change via media elsewhere across the globe .
The Dynamic between the Republicans and Democrats has changed forever.
Donald Trump has changed the Republican Party, from the party of Businessmen and a defensive Upper Middleclass with a sprinkling of Social Conservatism speaking almost exclusively to a White audience into a populist party that offers a Right Wing emotional vision to the multi-ethnic America that we live in today.
The shift in concept of the Republican Party is so severe that Trump's influence has had the same or maybe even a greater effect that "The Southern Strategy" ever did. Around ten or fifteen years ago it looked like America would evolve into a one-party state due to demographics and the inability of Republicans to appeal to non-Whites. If polls can be trusted, at the very least Trump has doubled the amount of Black Americans who voted for him last time and was able to persuade ⅓ of Latinos to vote for him despite building "The Wall". Looking back on the 2016 election it is easy to see these huge gains, in groups that the Democrats took for granted as "theirs".
In contrast to Trump's vision of a pro-Consitution, somewhat Libertarian populous party the Democrats have doubled down on hardcore Progressive positions. If the Dems used to represent the working man in a White vs. Blue collar America battle, they have now shifted over to being a Postmodernist circus of race, gender and sexual orientation baiting with a sprinkle of environmentalism via taxation as icing on the cake.
These are two radically different messages in direct opposition to each other, and the parties are no longer "two sides of the same coin", being two slightly different takes on the Liberalism laid down by the Founding Fathers. This is probably why things have gotten so unusually ugly, American politics may have become truly "winner take all" .
Enemy Lists are Proof of ExtremismWhen Richard Nixon's enemy list was discovered it shocked America. How could such an important politician try to crush those who disagreed with him? Those are the actions of a monsterous dictator, how horribly unamerican! Well the Overton Window has certainly shifted since the 1970's and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's call to create the same type of political repression of her enemies was met with mostly applause over Twitter.
Image: The Enlightenment is dead and we killed it.
Now a " Trump Accountability Project " has already sprung up based on her words to make sure that everyone who supported Trump will be somehow punished. From having their noses rubbed in it, to having their lives ruined by being doxed, harassed, etc.
This idea of creating a Black List of people to punish, is the line where passion for an ideology turns into a form of Extremism. This along with the intimidation tactics used by Antifa are proof that the Democratic Left now has demonstrably Extremist views .
The key issue with Extremists is that you cannot make any agreement with them as they see their opponents as subhuman and/or evil. Trump over the last 4 years has made the massive mistake of trying to "playball". The problem is that one cannot do so with people who have fanatical views. Making concessions to those with Extremist views is basically just tightening the noose around your own neck. Trump, if he survives this needs to understand that this is political war not political games.
Image: The election results are "counted" by those with the money to broadcast the results. Trump needs to break the monopoly.
Trump & The Right need to invest in a Media EmpireThe homogeneity of the American news media has become Orwellian. Trump and other like-minded billionaires need to put together a countervoice on their own dime. The Trump Presidency would be doing much better if a billion dollar news outlet was on his side fighting back. There are many media experts with the experience needed (including and especially the author of this piece) who could get this done quickly and effectively.
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The Million MAGA March will surely turn violent and that violence will be exploited for political gains.
Image: The big march is coming, but who would honestly expect it to go peacefully?
Leaders that have survived Color Revolution attempts like Venezuela's Maduro and Belarus's Lukashenko have one thing in common – massive public support. At the very least a massive public showing for the Dear Orange Leader wouldn't hurt but if Antifa were to show up to fight, the event could be exploited by the Right for all sorts of political action. Just because Trump's views seem much more human and reasonable compared to SJWs does not make him a saint. This event will be manipulated to the utmost.
Congratulating Biden is proof of approval of or submission to Washington.
Image: Weaker and more loyal "allies" jumped at the chance to acknowledge Biden's victory.
Some nations have already congratulated Biden, whereas America's two "big dog" enemies, Russia and China, and many other disgruntled parties have not [ZH: China has since congratulated Biden]. This willingness to congratulate Biden, supporting the legitimacy of the elections as the Mainstream Media reported them is very telling to say the least.
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_arrow 6 Thinking123 , 9 hours agoAncient Handicapper , 2 hours agoI do believe that there was a lot of fraud and cheating. Because Biden was as dumb as hell and didn't he talk in empty places.
A recount is definitely necessary, to expose the corrupt voting system and software that were used. Because if they are not exposed, they will do it again and again. Just like they did it to Bernie votes in 2016 primaries.
I don't think that he is the greatest President in US history, he has been Israel first and has given everything to them. He Made Israel Great Again.
moonshadow , 1 hour agoThinking, I would not be the least surprised to discover the Republicans committed some of that "fraud" voting you refer to. Republicans are famous for their "Dirty Tricks," and voting tricks are not beyond their ken. Why are so many people seeing only the Dems as having possibly cheated?
rphb , 7 hours agoRepublicans cheated Ron Paul. So what you say may be true. More likely Democrats, but...no problem, no prejudice, let's expose it ALL
XanII , 7 hours agoThe problem is, even IF he still can expose this fraud and get 4 more years, the US is done. The fact that so many thousands of Democrats, from normal postal workers, to governors and anything in between have felt perfectly justified in cheating to get their way is proof that the US is broken beyond repair.
...America have long since passed the point of no return. There is only controlled default or hyperinflation left, and the former requires a fidget of responsibility so the US is sure to choose the later.
The industrial base is gone, and what made America great, its freedoms, its ethics and its proud men and women, no longer exist
dont stare at the beam , 6 hours agoCalled super trends. The youth is corrupted beyond repair and newcomers will come with specific goals in mind. The ammo box will be the last one remaining unless seccessions succeed better. i doubt that.
The problem is not whether he can expose the fraud or not. The problem is that he is part of the fraud.
He never fought for the people.
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Nov 13, 2020 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Donald Trump was much troubled during his 2016 and 2020 campaigns by so-called conservatives who rallied behind the #NeverTrump banner, presumably in opposition to his stated intention to end or at least diminish America’s role in wars in the Middle East and Asia. Those individuals are generally described as neoconservatives but the label is itself somewhat misleading and they might more properly be described as liberal warmongers as they are closer to the Democrats than the Republicans on most social issues and are now warming up even more as the new Joe Biden Administration prepares to take office.
To be sure, some neocons stuck with the Republicans, to include the highly controversial Elliott Abrams, who initially opposed Trump but is now the point man for dealing with both Venezuela and Iran. Abrams’ conversion reportedly took place when he realized that the new president genuinely embraced unrelenting hostility towards Iran as exemplified by the ending of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and the assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad. John Bolton was also a neocon in the White House fold, though he is now a frenemy having been fired by the president and written a book.
Even though the NeverTrumper neocons did not succeed in blocking Donald Trump in 2016, they have been maintaining relevancy by slowly drifting back towards the Democratic Party, which is where they originated back in the 1970s in the office of the Senator from Boeing Henry “Scoop” Jackson. A number of them started their political careers there, to include leading neocon Richard Perle.
It would not be overstating the case to suggest that the neoconservative movement has now been born again, though the enemy is now the unreliable Trumpean-dominated Republican Party rather than Saddam Hussein or Ayatollah Khomeini.
The transition has also been aided by a more aggressive shift among the Democrats themselves, with Russiagate and other “foreign interference” being blamed for the party’s failure in 2016. Given that mutual intense hostility to Trump, the doors to previously shunned liberal media outlets have now opened wide to the stream of foreign policy “experts” who want to “restore a sense of the heroic” to U.S. national security policy. Eliot A. Cohen and David Frum are favored contributors to the Atlantic while Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss were together at the New York Times prior to Weiss’s recent resignation.
Jennifer Rubin, who wrote in 2016 that “It is time for some moral straight talk: Trump is evil incarnate,” is a frequent columnist for The Washington Post while both she and William Kristol appear regularly on MSNBC.
The unifying principle that ties many of the mostly Jewish neocons together is, of course, unconditional defense of Israel and everything it does, which leads them to support a policy of American global military dominance which they presume will inter alia serve as a security umbrella for the Jewish state. In the post-9/11 world, the neocon media’s leading publication The Weekly Standard virtually invented the concept of “Islamofascism” to justify endless war in the Middle East, a development that has killed millions of Muslims, destroyed at least three nations, and cost the U.S. taxpayer more than $5 trillion. The Israel connection has also resulted in neocon support for an aggressive policy against Russia due to its involvement in Syria and has led to repeated calls for the U.S. to attack Iran and destroy Hezbollah in Lebanon. In Eastern Europe, neocon ideologues have aggressively sought “democracy promotion,” which, not coincidentally, has also been a major Democratic Party foreign policy objective.
The neocons are involved in a number of foundations, the most prominent of which is the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), that are funded by Jewish billionaires. FDD is headed by Canadian Mark Dubowitz and it is reported that the group takes direction coming from officials in the Israeli Embassy in Washington. Other major neocon incubators are the American Enterprise Institute, which currently is the home of Paul Wolfowitz, and the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at John Hopkins University. The neocon opposition has been sniping against Trump over the past four years but has been biding its time and building new alliances, waiting for what it has perceived to be an inevitable regime change in Washington.
That change has now occurred and the surge of neocons to take up senior positions in the defense, intelligence and foreign policy agencies will soon take place. In my notes on the neocon revival, I have dubbed the brave new world that the neocons hope to create in Washington as the “Kaganate of Nulandia” after two of the more prominent neocon aspirants, Robert Kagan and Victoria Nuland.
Robert was one of the first neocons to get on the NeverTrump band wagon back in 2016 when he endorsed Hillary Clinton for president and spoke at a Washington fundraiser for her, complaining about the “isolationist” tendency in the Republican Party exemplified by Trump. His wife Victoria Nuland is perhaps better known. She was the driving force behind efforts to destabilize the Ukrainian government of President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych, an admittedly corrupt autocrat, nevertheless became Prime Minister after a free election. Nuland, who was the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the State Department, provided open support to the Maidan Square demonstrators opposed to Yanukovych’s government, to include media friendly appearances passing out cookies on the square to encourage the protesters.
A Dick Cheney and Hillary Clinton protégé, Nuland openly sought regime change for Ukraine by brazenly supporting government opponents in spite of the fact that Washington and Kiev had ostensibly friendly relations. Her efforts were backed by a $5 billion budget, but she is perhaps most famous for her foul language when referring to the potential European role in managing the unrest that she and the National Endowment for Democracy had helped create. The replacement of the government in Kiev was only the prelude to a sharp break and escalating conflict with Moscow over Russia’s attempts to protect its own interests in Ukraine, most particularly in Crimea.
And, to be sure, beyond regime change in places like Ukraine, President Barack Obama was no slouch when it came to starting actual shooting wars in places like Libya and Syria while also killing people, including American citizens, using drones. Biden appears poised to inherit many former Obama White House senior officials, who would consider the eager-to-please neoconservatives a comfortable fit as fellow foot soldiers in the new administration. Foreign policy hawks expected to have senior positions in the Biden Administration include Antony Blinken, Nicholas Burns, Susan Rice, Valerie Jarrett, Samantha Power and, most important of all the hawkish Michele Flournoy, who has been cited as a possible secretary of defense. And don’t count Hillary Clinton out. Biden is reportedly getting his briefings on the Middle East from Dan Shapiro, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, who now lives in the Jewish state and is reportedly working for an Israeli government supported think tank, the Institute for National Security Studies.
Nowhere in Biden’s possible foreign policy circle does one find anyone who is resistant to the idea of worldwide interventionism in support of claimed humanitarian objectives, even if it would lead to a new cold war with major competitor powers like Russia and China. In fact, Biden himself appears to embrace an extremely bellicose view on a proper relationship with both Moscow and Beijing “claiming that he is defending democracy against its enemies.” His language is unrelenting, so much so that it is Donald Trump who could plausibly be described as the peace candidate in the recently completed election, having said at the Republican National Convention in August “Joe Biden spent his entire career outsourcing their dreams and the dreams of American workers, offshoring their jobs, opening their borders and sending their sons and daughters to fight in endless foreign wars, wars that never ended.”
Polish Janitor , 13 November 2020 at 11:34 AM
fakebot , 13 November 2020 at 11:43 AMIt should be noted that the return of "neocons" does not mean the return of people like Wolfowitz, Ladeen, Feith, Kristol who are more "straussian" than "liberal/internationalist", but those like Nuland, Rice, Sam Powell, Petraeus, Flournoy, heck even Hilary Clinton as UN Ambassador who are CFR-type liberal interventionist than pure military hawks such as Bolton or Mike Flynn.
These liberal internationalists, as opposed to straussian neocons, will intervene in collaboration with EU/NATO/QUAD (i.e. multilaterally) in the name upholding human rights and toppling authoritarianism, rather than for oil, WMDs, or similar concrete objectives. In very simple terms, the new Biden administration's foreign policy will be none other than the return to "endless wars" for nation-building purposes first and last.
Mark K Logan , 13 November 2020 at 11:57 AMThe name Kagan is the Russianized version of the name Cohen. He was going to be McCain's NSA had he been elected. They pulled a stunt with the Bush admin to make Obama look weak by pushing Georgia into war with Russia in 2008. Sakaasvili, the president of Georgia, was literally eating his own tie:
A lot of the neocons are Russian Jews who grew up in households that were Bolshevik communists. They're idea of spreading democracy goes back to Trotsky who tried to spread communism through the Soviet Union. Their hatred toward Russia dates back to their ancestors feudal days under the Tsars and the pogroms they suffered and the ice pick Trotsky got to the head.
I don't think they have that much influence. They pushed a lot of nonsense in the late 70/early 80s about how the Taliban were George Washingtons and here we are today, they're worst than the Comanche. The last time I saw Richard Perle make a TV appearance, he was crying like a baby. Robert Novak, the prince of darkness, was a Ron Paul supporter. The only ones really kicking around are Bill Kristol and Jennifer Rubin, but Kristol was almost alone when he was talking about putting 50,000 boots on the ground in Syria. Rubin is a harpie who only got crazier and crazier. Kagan had his foot in the door with Hillary only because of his wife. Those two might get back in with Biden on Ukraine, but Biden would do well to keep them at a distance.
Fred , 13 November 2020 at 12:36 PMThanks.
The lone bright spot is Biden's stated intention of restoring the JCPOA. And, I guess, the pending defenestration of Pompeo The Great.
I suspect the condition of the US economy and the massive deficits will assist in discouraging rash actions elsewhere. Have to wait and see.
JM Gavin , 13 November 2020 at 01:00 PMObama's deep state lied, people died: https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/11/outgoing-syria-envoy-admits-hiding-us-troop-numbers-praises-trumps-mideast-record/170012/
It's great when career professionals sabotage the elected president's foreign policy.
The Beaver , 13 November 2020 at 02:49 PMI've never quite figured out the "neocon" ideology, beyond the fact that neocons seem devoted to the sort of status quo present in Washington, D.C. during the three administrations prior to Trump. Military adventurism, nation-building, and interventionist foreign policy, all based on nebulous concepts which are applied unevenly around the world.
It seems now that there is a new breed of neocons, unified by opposition to Trump's messaging, but not much else. Odd to find people like Samantha Power, John Bolton, Jim Mattis, and Paul Wolfowitz marching together in perfect step.
BrianC , 13 November 2020 at 03:08 PMMr Geraldi
A good perspective by Philip Weiss on the same subject. Eliot A Cohen must be communicating a lot with the Kagan brothers , Dennis Ross and Perle to see who can be parachuted either to the WH or Foggy Bottom.
Mark K Logan , 13 November 2020 at 03:23 PM@JM Gavin
I've never quite figured out the "neocon" ideologyThe revolutionary spirit (see E. Michael Jones' work). From communism to neoconservatism it's ultimately an attack on the Beatitudes and Christ's Sermon on the Mount. "The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war" -- Servant of God Dorothy Day
EEngineer , 13 November 2020 at 03:57 PMJM Gavin,
Sir,
I hold the Cold Warriors like Scoop a species distinct from those of the post-USSR era. The current version started at the end of the cold war. We felt like kings of the world after Gulf War 1 and the shoe seemed to fit.
The HW Bush administration pondered how best to use this power for good. I've read some things which report there was a debate within the administration on whether to clean up Yugoslavia or Somalia first. They got Ron to "do the honors" for the invasion of Somalia at Oxford: About 20 minutes in. https://www.c-span.org/video/?35586-1/arising-ashes-world-order
That was played as part of the pep-talk on the Juneau off the coast of Somalia. Stirring stuff.
In some small way I never stopped sipping that Kool Aid. It's hard to stand by and watch unspeakable evil go down when you have the power to stop it...or think you do. Time will tell if the Neocons are capable of perceiving the limits of force. Certainly had some hard lessons in the last few decades.
Dan , 13 November 2020 at 04:35 PM@JM Gavin
Hogs lining up for a spot at the trough? The Neocon movement seems to have morphed into nothing more than a club for bullies trying to one up each other.
jerseycityjoan , 13 November 2020 at 04:52 PMI think its generally shocking that Trump or the republicans didn't make a bigger issue of Biden's history of supporting disastrous intervention, especially his Iraq War vote. Maybe they felt like its not a winning issue, that they would lose as many votes as they gain by appearing more isolationist. But overall, Trump favoring diplomacy over cruise missiles should have been a bigger point in his favor in the election.
turcopolier , 13 November 2020 at 05:40 PMIt is distressing to read that we will have people in the government who are looking for a fight. That is especially true in view of China's aggression in recent years and the responses we will have to make to that. I think we will have more than enough to do to handle China. What do the neocons want to do about China?
Here is an article about China that really startled me and made me realize how much of a threat is was becoming. The Air Force chief of staff talks about the challenges of countries trying to compete militarily with us in ways that have not occurred for awhile. Here are two quotes that really got me:
"Tomorrow's Airmen are more likely to fight in highly contested environments, and must be prepared to fight through combat attrition rates and risks to the nation that are more akin to the World War II era than the uncontested environments to which we have since become accustomed," Brown writes."
And
"Wargames and modeling have repeatedly shown that if the Air Force fails to adapt, there will be mission failure, Brown warns. Rules-based international order may "disintegrate and our national interests will be significantly challenged," according to the memo."
The article doesn't say we will have another arms race but that is an obvious response to China's competition with us. I thought all that was done and gone. I do not want to resume it. I don't want another period of foreign entanglements, period. We still haven't paid for the War Against Terrorism. I look into the future and all I see is us racking up bills that we have no ability to pay. And then there is the human cost of all this, I don't want to even think about that.
JM Gavin , 13 November 2020 at 05:54 PMjerseycityjoan
"I thought all that was done and gone. I do not want to resume it." Childish. "Only the dead have seen the end of war."
JM Gavin , 13 November 2020 at 05:59 PMEEngineer,
Snouts in the trough accounts for a certain amount of neocons, I'm sure. There is, however, a unifying vision beyond that which puzzles me, given the very different political orientations of various neocons. Neocons are found in academia and the media as well. Those types are less dependent on taxpayer dollars in exchange for their views (they'll get whatever tax money gets pushed their way in grants, etc regardless).
I find Polish Janitor's "straussian" and "liberal/internationalist" flavors of neocon intriguing, as I hadn't considered that before.
JMG
JM Gavin , 13 November 2020 at 06:10 PMCOL Lang's quote from Plato reminds me of another (from Cormac McCarthy): "It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way."
Neocons don't really prefer war, so much as they prefer overseas "engagements" that may look like war and smell like war. All that's missing in neocon military operations is a defined end state.
JMG
Deap , 13 November 2020 at 06:53 PMMark K. Logan,
I concur with your thoughts about standing by as evil occurs. We just have a habit of jumping into complex situations we don't understand, and making things worse. I suspect you feel the same way.
The military misadventures during my career (Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria) were marked by our own black and white thinking. The more successful adventures (Colombia, Nepal) were marked by our appreciation (to a certain extent) of the complex nature of the environments we were getting involved in...and the fact that we weren't involved in nation-building in the latter two locales. There were viable governments in place, and we weren't trying to replace them.
JMG
TV , 13 November 2020 at 07:03 PMHere is another Biden clip that should have been exploited too - way back when - when the media was a little more trusted, but no less pompous. However, Biden The Plagerizer had it coming.
Now tell me America is not the Land of Opportunity, when one can continuously shoot themselves in the foot and then rise from the dead yet again, and again: https://rumble.com/vb3c09-resurfaced-video-of-joe-biden-should-destroy-him.html?mref=23gga&mrefc=2
Though I am warming more and more to Trump Media becoming the real soul of America. Plus someone, in time. will need to pick up Rush Limbaugh's empire. America needs a counter-weight to fake news more than it needs the keys to the White House, with all its entangling webs, palace intrigues, chains and pitfalls.
Godspeed President Trump. If someone with as few talents s Biden can rise like Lazarus, just think what you can do with your little finger. No wonder the Democrats want Trump destroyed; not just defeated in a re-election. We have your back, Mr President.
Deap , 13 November 2020 at 07:11 PMMark Logan:
Iran celebrates "Death to America" as a national day.
So let's give them a path to nuclear weapons.Fred , 13 November 2020 at 07:14 PMEx-CIA analyst, Mich Rep. Elissa Slotkin refuses to back Pelosi for Speaker - anyone know her? https://www.newsmax.com/politics/elissa-slotkin-nancy-pelosi-democrat-house/2020/11/13/id/996905/ She wants more mid-West, and less Calif and NY, as the new face of the Democrat Party.
jerseycityjoan , 13 November 2020 at 07:50 PMMark,
"It's hard to stand by and watch unspeakable evil go down when you have the power to stop it...."
I hear Trump is evil/Hitler/worse. I wonder if anyone who thinks that is true has the power to rig an election, or thinks they do?Serge , 13 November 2020 at 07:57 PMColonel,
You are right of course.
Are the people of America up for another arms race and a more or less cold war with China? I think the Chinese will give us a lot more trouble than the Soviets ever did.
And yet we allow their students to come here and learn all we know and their elites to bring their dirty money here and we give them green cards and citizenship and protect the money they took from the Chinese people. Not so smart on our part.
I am very concerned about all of this.
What is the next theater of war that Biden's new friends will involve us in? I noticed lots of Cold War era conflicts are heating up lately, Ethiopia Morocco Armenia being recent examples. IS in Syria/Iraq is still castrated due to the continued mass internment of their population base in the dozens of camps, but they have established thriving franchises in Africa and their other provinces continue to smolder.
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Nov 11, 2020 | ronpaulinstitute.org
The announcement that the US Justice Department would be looking into some aspects of last week's election has elicited screaming and wailing from those convinced that Biden's win is a slam-dunk. Would the mainstream media resistance to investigating possible fraud be the same had Trump appeared to pull off a second term? Also today, is Biden breaking the law by speaking with foreign leaders about what a Biden Administration foreign policy would look like? The answer might surprise you. Watch today's Liberty Report:
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Nov 10, 2020 | ronpaulinstitute.org
< Older Coup That Deposed a President written by steve brown tuesday november 10, 2020
Like an old truck, the US political system has lumbered down an uneven road for many years but the mileage on the clock is beginning to show. No longer a Constitutional Republic – and certainly not a "democracy" – the cracks in the system appeared long ago, and they now appear as gaping fault lines.
Long before compromise was no longer possible, the Constitution no longer upheld, and most politicians were owned by Oligarchs, elites learned that backing both sides was a sure method to prevail with their agenda. Not a politician, it appears that Mr. Trump was somehow ignorant of this fact. Whether by palace coup ( Mishkin/ Fox ) or the Beltway's notorious snake pit (Haspel/Wray/Esper/Media) or even by members of his own family ( Kushner ), Trump was seemingly unaware that he could be forsaken and betrayed.
What Trump needed to do, he did too late. For example to revoke either Brennan or Clapper's security clearance was not enough. The president needed to fully purge corruption in the security services, the allies of the Surveillance State who opposed him – admittedly an impossible task within entrenched Washington. The president likely hired John Bolton for this effort, believing that Bolton – a supreme geopolitical miscreant and Bad Actor – and Mike Pompeo too, could somehow aid Trump in his goal of draining the swamp at State. The principle being, "keep your friends close and your enemies even closer." Other names include Gina Haspel, Christopher Wray, and Mark Esper. Instead of purging the snakes, Trump must have believed that he could ally them to his agenda – at least in the beginning – and then behead them later on. That proved to be a fatal error, a major miscalculation.
The president also believed that aligning his star with Binyamin Netanyahu would guarantee a certain political survivability. The issue here, is that Mr. Trump gave Netanyahu everything he wanted and more, including help with Netanyahu's re-election, a vital error on the president's part. Failing to learn Machiavelli's rules of modern leadership, Mr. Trump was evidently unaware that you never give your benefactor all that they desire before achieving your goal.
Likewise Trump's threats to cross the Rubicon versus NATO never materialized, where threatening to defund NATO is somewhat analogous to the Queen threatening to sell the crown jewels. Donald Trump, unbelievably believed that he could do what he promised to do, and that which no president ever does: keep his promises. The Beltway's double-dealers see such honesty as treachery, and on NATO Trump essentially signed his own political death warrant, rhetorically speaking.
One thing Trump did not give in to at the behest of Washington's coup class, and to his eternal credit, was his failure to acquiesce to the Neocon/Neoliberal desire for war with Iran. Even doing the "next best thing", ie assassinating Qassem Soleimani in January of 2020, was not enough for Washington's warfare state. Trump then negotiated a stand down with Iran after the attacks on US installations in Iraq . The stand down proved too much for Washington's warfare machine, and that Trump could not be trusted Washington must have its wars. Trump also promised to withdraw troops from America's longest war (Afghanistan), anathema to the likes of Mark Esper and his Raytheon handlers .
This is the central issue, that while the United States is in steep and rapid decline, relying on the weaponization of the US dollar , the creation of failed states, and military aggression to enforce its will – that's all that remains to enforce US hegemony and Empire. Inevitably that means more war, more intervention, and more global chaos going forward. Despite his best effort there was no way for Donald Trump to end endless war in the face of the systemic neoliberal corruption that afflicts Washington.
And that is where Trump gained votes and popularity, his promise to end endless US wars; the only other candidate to ever voice this intent was Dr. Ron Paul. But there is no possibility for that now. At this point, Donald Trump's misunderstanding of Washington's cesspool of a neoliberal establishment is now irrelevant. The relevance is now that a Biden-Harris regime will assume the worst actors and worst elements within Washington's bottomless swamp at US State.
And that is what we truly must RESIST
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Nov 07, 2020 | angrybearblog.com
November 7, 2020 11:24 am
The daily numbers being reported do not indicate how much of the mail was delivered on time, i.e., within the service standard of two or three days. These numbers are processing scores, i.e., the percent of the ballots that went through the processing network on time. They do not encompass
Does not matter. As long as mail arrived to the post office after the deadline this should be registered as late in the database and returned to the sender as late. Otherwise you enter "flexible deadline" regime which invites abuse, as in 24 hours preliminary results are known.
What is important is to make obligatory presence of at least two observers from each party during counting of votes. all the time. And 100% time videotaping of the process.
Also mail ballots historically were the source of blatant abuse (it is much easier to bribe a person and fill the ballot for him than force him to go to the voting booth and enter names that you want).
The fact that in some places we have abnormally high, close to the USSR levels percentages of voters participation is a red flag.
Anything above 60 percent or ten year average (whatever is higher) in the USA is highly suspect of manipulation by one or another party and should invite investigation and possibly recounting.
Few people were exited by this election (and especially by Trump or Biden personalities -- Buffoon vs Corpse as one think talk named them in their simulation of 2020 elections ).
Most votes were perverted version of lesser evilism -- people voted for the candidate they hated less, while they hated both.
And this is a part and parcel of the Crisis of neoliberalism which we experience which involved de-legitimization of neoliberal elite and PMC -- professional, managerial class -- intelligentsia as French call them )
And such cases, unfortunately, easily can be played to de-legitimize elections (which is a typical tactic of color revolutions for those who do not know the term). Which is what happening now as a replay of 2016 but from Repug side.
Historically Democratic Party specialized in election rigging via party machine mechanisms. They have been doing it since the 1790s. They were the party of political machines -- Tammany, Pendergast, Cook County.
BTW clear glass ballot boxes were invented in the USA to prevent abuse (including use of hidden pockets pre-staffed with ballots )
Here are some warning signs listed by Ron Paul:
Every state that has had a delay has seen Biden has overtaken trump AFTER the delays were announced – Red flag
Florida counted 10.5M votes in less than 24 hours, Georgia couldn't count 4.8M in 48 hours, why? – Red Flag
In PA, the courts have barred all accredited observers from observing the vote – Red Flag
In Detroit, the ballot counting centers barred windows and expelled observers, why? – Red Flag
David Lim (Obama's former speech writer) sent a tweet out on Nov 4 (AFTER the election) asking for volunteers in Georgia to help people fix their mail in ballots so that they count, why? – Red Flag
Participation in one PA county reached 90% turn out, beating the prior record that had stood for more than 100 years and almost 30% higher than the last election in 2016. Other PA counties saw voter numbers exceed 100% of registered voters compared to the last election, even accounting for same day registration this is statistically improbable- Red Flag
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Kadath , Nov 7 2020 1:18 utc | 186
the evidence is growing and you can watch the recent Ron Paul Liberty report where Daniel McAdam (an actual elections observer)listed off a huge list of red flags. In case your too busy to watch I will provide a brief list
1. Every state that has had a delay has seen Biden has overtaken trump AFTER the delays were announced - Red flag
2. Florida counted 10.5M votes in less than 24 hours, Georgia couldn't count 4.8M in 48 hours, why? - Red Flag
3. In PA, the courts have barred all accredited observers from observing the vote - Red Flag
4. In Detroit, the ballot counting centers barred windows and expelled observers, why? - Red Flag
5. David Lim (Obama's former speech writer) sent a tweet out on Nov 4 (AFTER the election) asking for volunteers in Georgia to help people fix their mail in ballots so that they count, why? - Red Flag
6. Participation in one PA county reached 90% turn out, beating the prior record that had stood for more than 100 years and almost 30% higher than the last election in 2016. Other PA counties saw voter numbers exceed 100% of registered voters compared to the last election, even accounting for same day registration this is statistically improbable- Red FlagIf you put in the effort to investigate this issue with an open mind you will find more evidence of suspicious activity during this election.
On a unrelated note, I have been a commenter on this website for several years and I have never insulted a fellow commenter as you have done. this website supports the free exchange of views, information and dialogue, not crass and churlish name-calling. Vulgar and unprofessional conduct does a disservice to this website, your fellow commenters and yourself.
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Oct 20, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Hunter Biden Is Not The Problem, The Problem Is His Dad
by Tyler Durden Mon, 10/19/2020 - 19:00 Twitter Facebook Reddit Email Print
Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog,
It seems in our complicated world many murky relationships develop that come across as inappropriate. Over the years, growing crony capitalism has become the bane of modern society and added greatly to inequality. This is why, when we look at Hunter Biden and how he benefited from his father's role as Vice President an investigation is in order. Even before we get to what happened in Ukraine, the ties between China and the Biden family are too many and too large to ignore. President Trump has received a lot of criticism related to how he gained his wealth, however, almost all of what Trump has done he did as an outsider and not as part of the ruling political class.
Before going deeper into this subject it is very important to look at how the "Biden revelations" are being handled by the media. The way media has handled these allegations reveal a flaw or bias in both mainstream media and social media to the point where even censorship is being deployed. A good example of the spin being put on this red flag of corruption can be seen in an article that appeared under trending stories on my city's main news outlet. Here in the conservation heartland of America, the media published a piece titled; "Biden email episode illustrates risk to Trump from Giuliani"
The Associated Press piece written by Eric Tucker shines the spotlight on Rudy Giuliani portraying him as the messenger of Russian contrived information aimed at damaging Biden and influencing the election. It starts off referring to "a New York tabloid's puzzling account about how it acquired emails purportedly from Joe Biden's son has raised some red flags." Then claims that during Giuliani's travels abroad looking for dirt on the Bidens he developed relationships with some rather questionable figures. These include a Ukrainian lawmaker who U.S. officials have described as a Russian agent and part of a broader Russian effort to denigrate the Democratic presidential nominee.
The piece then moves on to the area of how the FBI seems more interested in the emails as part of a foreign influence operation than wrongdoing by Hunter or his father. The people reading this article are informed how this is just another latest episode involving Giuliani that "underscores the risk he poses to the White House" which has spent years dealing with a federal investigation into whether Trump associates had coordinated with Russia.
The part of the article that got my goat was when it referred to how " The Washington Post reported Thursday that intelligence agencies had warned the White House last year that Giuliani was the target of a Russian influence operation." Sighting the Washington Post as an authority and bastion of truth is a common tactic used by journalists to add validity to their bias and lazy reporting. Tucker forgot to mention The Washington Post is the propaganda mouthpiece of Amazon and owned by its CEO Jeff Bezos the richest man in the world which has had several run-ins with the President.
The effort to denigrate Giuliani rather than focus on Biden wrongdoings cites both "former officials' and statements made by a person "who was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity to AP," and of course, the exact scope of what was being investigated was not clear. Claiming that many people in the West Wing have been concerned about Giuliani's actions or saying the president has expressed private dismay at Giuliani's scattershot style does not make it true.
Thinking a case can be made that Hunter enriched himself by selling access to his father but claiming Giuliani's lack of credibility will cause the allegations to implode is a bit of a reach. This fact much of what appears to be bribe-taking at the highest levels of government has been overlooked for so long is in its self is a problem. The appointment of an unqualified Hunter Biden to the board of a Ukrainian energy company with a reported compensation package worth some $50,000 per month led the Wall Street Journal, to publish a scathing article, on May 13, 2014. bringing the issue before the public.
At criminal.findlaw.com, FindLaw's team of legal writers and editors detail what constitutes bribery. It is offering or accepting anything of value in exchange to influence a government/public official or employee. Bribes can take many forms of gifts or payments of money in exchange for favorable treatment, such as awards of government contracts. Other forms of bribes may include property, various goods, privileges, services, and favors. Bribes are always intended to influence or alter the action of various individuals and are linked to both political and public corruption. In most situations, both the person offering the bribe and the person accepting can be charged.
Was Influence Peddled Or Bribes Taken?
Both giving and receiving bribes is usually a felony with significant legal ramifications. Influence peddling, the illegal practice of using one's influence in government or connections with persons in authority to obtain favors or preferential treatment falls into this category. One thing is clear, whenever we are talking about the involvement of huge sums of money, foreign players, officials holding high public office, or family members of politicians a few eyebrows should get raised. With this in mind, the Biden problem extends well past Hunter but also into how other family members have profited from Joe's time as Vice President such as his brother's involvement in a huge government contract in Iraq.
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The issue of Hunter Biden receiving money from Russia, Ukraine, and China surfaced during the first Presidential debate and Biden claimed it was a story already discredited by authorities. This narrative was destroyed when the Washington Times acknowledged the Treasury Department records confirm Hunter Biden received a wire transfer for $3.5 million from the Mayor of Moscow's wife. It is difficult to find anyone that holds Hunter in high esteem and the fact the United States suspects the woman sending him this money built much of her wealth through corruption does little to improve his standing. For those of us cynical of all the so-called public servants that seem to line their pockets and hold the attitude they are above the law this is a big red flag.
If the veil of secrecy surrounding Hunter's career is lifted we will most likely find Hunter's dad did share in the spoils bestowed upon not only his son but others in the Biden family. I contend Joe Biden's cozy relationship with corruption is why former President Obama did not rush to endorse Biden when he announced he planned to run. To be clear, we are talking about, millions, and hundreds of millions of dollars or more. For us cynics, we see this as what may be only the tip of the spear when it comes to public officials throwing the American people under the bus for fun and profit. As a voter, this dovetails with my concern about Biden's relationship and attitude towards China which I consider a major issue. Jan_Michael_Vincent007 , 4 hours ago
Jan_Michael_Vincent007 , 4 hours agoThe [neoliberal] political class is the problem. ******* all of them. Biden just got caught.
RedDog1 , 4 hours agoThe political class is the problem. ******* all of them. Biden just got caught.
philipat , 2 hours agoHighly recommend reading Peter Schweitzer's book Secret Empires. It's business as usual to launder bribes through family members and associates.
Rural Hermit , 2 hours agoYes agreed, the problem here is actually that the entire US political (and economic) system is completely corrupt and broken. Why has no action been taken against those responsible for a proven attempted coup? Or against a MSM and SillyCon Valley that is censoring everything the average American (rightlly or wrongly) actually reads and which is stifling the very democracy and free speech upon which the country was founded?
The answer? Follow the money.
I do disagree with the author about the specific Biden situation because "The Biden Crime Family" would be a better description. They are ALL responsible. It is obvious from the Hunter laptop that payments were being made to "The Big Man" and other family members also, so this is NOT a Hunter-specific problem. The game was for Hunter to serve as a proxy for "The Big Man" and receive the "commissions" (better described as influence peddling payments and extortion - something the Dems are very good at; The Clinton Foundation Model!!) for onward distribution to the family, visibly or invisibly. In this way, "The Big Man" would not have anything to report and could appear to be "clean". Pretty obvious to anyone who can fog a mirror?
And yet still they vote for him. Does that mean a public acceptance of the sleaze and corruption which is the US today? I certainly hope not.
gregga777 , 3 hours agoWhy do you think Obama picked Biden to be his VP? He knows how to shakedown everyone. Obama's tutor. I do think that the student has surpassed the teacher though. When the rest of this shakes out, the Kenyan will be in chains.
HoodRatKing , 1 hour agoIf the truth ever comes out, it will probably show that, among other things, Hunter Biden was / is probably connected to human trafficking networks, and most likely Eastern European, most likely involving The Russian Mafia. It's not a stretch to speculate that it also included children.
gregga777 , 4 hours agoThe problem is at all levels , not just the top...
Rusty Shorts , 3 hours agoIf the United States of America had a functioning [sic] Intelligence Community and [Ha, ha, ha] national law enforcement the Silicon Valley tech giants and others like Amazon wouldn't be heavily infiltrated by People's Republic of China Ministry of State Security operatives. Consequently, the massive extent of political corruption would be common knowledge, especially specifics regarding names, dates, places and amounts. Right Paul Ryan and Willard Romney?
Leguran , 4 hours agoThe hits just keep coming.
"Pelosi's Son Now Involved In Ukraine Scandal, Democrat Party In Shambles"
Stackers , 4 hours agoSeriously, does anyone think a Democrat controlled Congress will investigate Biden and all his cronies, to include Obama? The whole DC swamp is set up to allow selling out of the American people. DC is not just a threat to national security it is steeped in Treason.
No sense ranting as it does nothing. The only consolation is that stupid people who vote Biden/Harris will get the crime and corruption they voted into office.
told_ya_so , 4 hours agoIn Roman times when someone was caught bribing a public official they would cut off his nose, sew him in a bag with a wild animal, and throw that bag in the river
Merica101 , 4 hours agoThe problem with all this is that it is extremely well documented going back a number of years of Hunter Jnr's shopping trips with his father and nothing has been done about it all. Just search on Biden and China, Romania or Ukraine and then you see the "deals" that Hunter gets every time.
Every f\/cking place that Biden turned up, Hunter was right behind with his hand out, like some sort of mob shakedown. Did Biden senior tell Hunter what to do and who to meet because junior doesn't seem that clever enough to come up with this on his own? That way, the money also flows to junior who then funnels it to dad later on (which the laptop seems to show).
Washington insiders know the f\/cking truth and are desperate to keep the gravy train going. That is why they hate Trump. That is why Barr and co have no interest in getting to the truth because they are all implicated. The swamp is very deep.
Fuster-cluck , 3 hours agoHuman nature is swampy - that's why the Founding Fathers tried to design a system that limited the "swampiness'. Unfortunately, they couldn't even begin to imagine the depravity and games that are now being played. Pray.
Smilygladhands , 3 hours agoI have worked for a number of large multi-national corporations. In each, employees must take an annual ethics course. The only approved amount you can spend on a client is $0. I mean, no golf, no lunches, no tee shirts, no hunting weekends, zippo, nothing. If anyone in your family is connected to government, it is automatically assumed to be a conflict of interest, and you must remove yourself from any part of the dealings. These policies have been implemented because of the intense fear of the unlimited penalties that may be applied by goverment sponsored prosecutorial abuse.
So tell me, have those same standards been applied here? Ha. Ha. Ha.
TahoeBilly2012 , 3 hours agoi think we must implement a no fraternization rule between DC politicians and staff and the media. too many personal relationships going on up there
Lucius Septimius Pertinax , 3 hours agoTards have finally been caught out, no way back.
Look man, I never would have voted for HILLARY OR JEB, no f'ing way! I am a Ron Paul Libertarian and I rolled the dice with Trump.
You Tards are all a gang of freaks. The fact you even halfway support Biden (or Hillary) is pathetic. The only way you get change is sticking to your guns or having a Trump come along and hope he is for the people and not a Satanic criminal, like the Biden's, the Bush's and the Clinton's. What exactly is it that you freaks don't get and while Bernie may have been somewhat more "authentic" than the rest, he's a friggin Bolshevik Commy, in his own way, worse than them all, likely not as corrupt.
There's nothing left to the Dem Party, zero, zilch, it's a stinking rotting corpse relying on Corporate Media lie after lie to try to compete with Trump. Hell, every Neocon has left Trump and joined up with y'all. Geez, the stench!
Pathetic, disgusting, sick.
sirnzee , 3 hours agoWhat bothers me about all this is the reaction of Democrats in general. They don't seem to care what the Biden's have done, as long as they defeat Donald Trump. We seen this on a smaller scale with the impeachment of Bill Clinton, it's all about sex manta. But in this case we have what appears to be at least for now, almost a watertight case against Joe Biden. And still no moral outrage at what Biden's family is up to? Guess I should not have been amazed, but still hope their are a few thinkers left on the left that can still see the truth when it bites them.
I expected the CNN's of the left to react this way. Further when their "the Russians" excuse for everything, is exhausted, they will need someone else to blame, cause they know Biden and son are as pure as the driven snow. Or at least the owners of all these so called media news companies decide that Joe cannot win and flush the comode on him.
Merica101 , 3 hours agoThe media has done a terrific job of brainwashing half of America. So sad to be a part of this. Who is to blame? The media, or the people who allowed their minds to be controlled the way they are?
Fugly
12Doberman , 4 hours agoMost of the MSM have their own agenda - a globalist agenda where the US is not their priority.
chiquita , 3 hours agoSome deny the Biden's got the money which is absurd since the Senate report details the wire transfers. Denial of facts seems to be a democrat trait.
Oracle of Kypseli , 1 hour agoThis is the Democrat philosophy--one of the best movie scenes ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC9Op0vI-70&ab_channel=mjbandes
sbin , 4 hours agoTry This also
CogitoMan , 3 hours agoBiden has used his family as bag men for graft since he was shaking down banks that incorporated in Delaware for tax purposes.
He was MBNA Joe long before he became dementia Joe.
Totally vile corrupt dullard on his best day.
That is why the DNC wants him.
12Doberman , 3 hours agoAny person who has knowledge of Biden family crimes and still votes for him is beyond deplorable.
Even demonrats that hate Trump IF they have at least minimum token of decency should abstain from voting.
But alas, most of dumbocrats will vote for Biden even if he raped their daughters and shot their wives.
This country with such moral attitude has no chance of survival, especially when tough times come.
Sad, very sad.
Md4 , 4 hours agoTrump learned quickly that without powerful allies in powerful positions in the executive agencies, within congress, and in the courts he's essentially powerless against this corruption. Pelosi is involved in Ukraine...McConnell is up to his eyeballs in Chinese graft.
Hotspice2020 , 4 hours ago"Hunter Biden Is Not The Problem, The Problem Is His Dad"
Pops has been demonstrably crooked for years.
But... Hunter is not a child.
He's a grown man... with a law degree.
His problems are now...his own.
He can begin to recover...when he accepts responsibility for them...
tyberious , 5 hours agoStop treating mainstream media as "independent, objective, unbiased" they are "captured media", and vassal servants to a hidden hand ruling elite ... as are the Bidens and K. Harris. The Clintons were vassals before as was slamma Obama. The media will say whatever their master tell them to say. Thus, when a Hard Drive with pedo, crack, bribery is found, the masters say...blame it on the Russians. When Trump wants to bring Hunters double dealing to light...the masters say.. Impeach Trump. What is needed is for a bright light to shine on the owners of the media...e.g., Bezos Rag (Wash. Post) and Laurene Powell Jobs (mistress to Steve) owns the Atlantic. Once you keep focusing on the fact that the media has owners that make every story fit their narrative and you shine a light on them, then you can solve the problem.
zerozerosevenhedgeBow1 , 4 hours agoTerm limits
Full income disclosures while in office
No benefit for any legislation co-authored after leaving office
moneybots , 3 hours agoNo honor, integrity or honesty in politics anymore. Why would there be any, when apart for a little public shaming, corruption pays and pays big. The Clinton foundation raked in hundreds of millions, altered policy and maybe even caused death of the impoverished, i.e., Haiti and other places. Sold out national and global security with Uranium One and other controversies. The end result?... They got to keep all the money. When that happens, everyone in and running for office gets the message and sees dollar signs.
You need serious recourse like some sort of treason charges when you put money over country. Audit all family members and colleagues. Then do not let lobbying jobs before or after office.
Merica101 , 4 hours ago"The Associated Press piece written by Eric Tucker shines the spotlight on Rudy Giuliani portraying him as the messenger of Russian contrived information aimed at damaging Biden and influencing the election. It starts off referring to "a New York tabloid's puzzling account about how it acquired emails purportedly from Joe Biden's son has raised some red flags.""
Yes, it raises Red Flags about the integrity of the Associated Press, considering the story is a propaganda piece.
toady , 4 hours agoJoe and Hunter Biden (and the Biden family) aren't the ONLY ONES....there are many others.
TheLastMan , 3 hours agoThe questions that simply are not being asked/answered....
I have not heard that any Biden has been asked about any of this... apparently they thought they could just have CNN and the other talking heads say it was all "debunked" and the brain dead general population would nod and say "okay".
And they were right, the demonrats are all just doing the Alfred E Numan "who, me, worry?"
It's simple. The "17 intelligence agencies" need to be all over this, starting 15 years ago.
But they aren't. And they won't. And the US will not recover.
Smilygladhands , 3 hours agoperspective:
1. you work 50 hours a week
2. .gov takes 22% for income tax
3. joe biden (and the rest) take your tax $$$ and provides $$$ foreign aid to country X
4. hunter biden makes business connection to country x
5. country x takes your foreign aid tax dollars (edit) and pays hunter biden $$ for his services
6. hunter biden pays joe biden $$ for (his service to your country) edit - servicing your country
7. repeat step 1
Md4 , 4 hours agothe biggest problem that must be addressed is our dishonest, biased DNC propaganda arm also known as main stream media.
they've allowed biden to get away with not answering the SCOTUS packing question and now actively running cover for him. we cannot allow this to continue
HailAtlantis , 4 hours ago" Both giving and receiving bribes is usually a felony with significant legal ramifications. Influence peddling, the illegal practice of using one's influence in government or connections with persons in authority to obtain favors or preferential treatment falls into this category."
When it involves a mortal adversary... we call it something else...
johnny two shoes , 2 hours agoAlways lots of fun this time of year taking Anti-Money Laundering etc continuing education courses and reading about high level scandals in finance and governments in current news (it's just gotten progressively more insidious every year).. Scrutinizing little 'guys' while making billions at the top.
vasilievich , 4 hours agoCan't forget old Swiftboat Kerry...
At the time, Hunter Biden, now 49, and Christopher Heinz, the stepson of then-Secretary of State John Kerry, co-owned Rosemont Seneca Partners, a $2.4 billion private equity firm. Heinz's college roommate, Devon Archer, was managing partner in the firm. In the spring of 2014, Biden and Archer joined the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian gas company that was at the center of a U.K. money laundering probe. Over the next year, Burisma reportedly paid Biden and Archer's companies over $3 million.
vasilievich , 4 hours agoElecting a President is electing someone in formal command of enough power to kill most of the people on the planet - perhaps three times over. Including you and me. This is not the mayor of Minneapolis we're talking about.
12Doberman , 4 hours agoTo use biologists' terminology the species may not be adaptive. To be clever at graft does *not* assure survival in the long run. It may assure extinction.
chiquita , 4 hours agoBiden wasn't clever. Hillary was a bit clever using a Foundation and a 'charity' to launder her graft. Cost her 15% or so but she had the facade of the charity. Biden put his crackhead son in charge of laundering the graft...needless to say it was careless in the extreme...and the DNC knew all about this before they selected Biden. Stunning level of arrogance.
SurfingUSA , 4 hours agoNobody ever said Biden was a smart guy. He knew how to plagerize as in words (speeches), but he didn't know how to copy as in ideas (charitable foundations)
coelacanth10 , 3 hours agoPer someone on this forum who has met Biden, he is stupid not just by politician standards but by everyday people standards.
chiquita , 4 hours agoBill gets credit for using the Foundation, base on a undergraduate course at Georgetown on non-profits and foundations.
Obama had to know what was going on, if not a party to it. There was a clear distance between the two of them--Obama did not show a great love for Biden and you have to wonder what that was all about. He tried to tell Joe "he didn't have to do it" relative to running, which leaves a lot open to interpretation. Trump keeps saying that Biden was not a bright guy and that's pretty obvious in a lot of Biden's stories and his overall history. Obama knew Biden wasn't the smartest guy too. Was Obama trying to tell Joe to leave well enough alone and not run for the presidency, which would surely expose all this stuff? There was a good chance Biden wasn't going to get this far, but now see what has happened. You have to wonder what is at play with this--why didn't they shut Biden down before it got this far?
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Oct 18, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
FBI 'Has To Come Clean' About Corruption Evidence, Potential Child Porn On Hunter Biden's Laptop: Sen. Johnson
by Tyler Durden Sun, 10/18/2020 - 16:35 Twitter Facebook Reddit Email Print
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is calling on the FBI to 'come clean' over the agency's involvement with Hunter Biden's laptop , after refusing to 'confirm or deny' certain details contained in a whistleblower complaint by a Delaware computer shop owner.
" The FBI has a duty to inform us . If they believe this was maybe Russian disinformation, they should give us a defensive briefing," Johnson told Fox News ' "Sunday Morning Futures."
"If, for example, they also believe that what information this whistleblower gave us is fraudulent, that would also be a crime, and FBI should tell us that."
Host Maria Bartiromo brought up a salient point - that the FBI was allegedly in possession of Hunter Biden's laptop which contains apparent evidence of pay-for-play corruption in Ukraine, at the same time Congressional Democrats were impeaching President Trump for asking Ukraine to investigate exactly that.
"If the FBI was in possession of these emails from Hunter Biden's computer indicating all of these payouts, why did they not make this public, as President Trump was being impeached in the Senate about Ukraine?"
Johnson replied: "the larger question really is; if they had this information - and these are genuine emails which would probably reveal all kinds of things that would have been very relevant to the impeachment case, why did they sit out? Are they covering up because Hunter Biden might be engaged in things that also maybe should have been investigated and possibly prosecuted? Dow we have two systems of justice? One for Democrats, one for Republicans, one for the well connected, vs. one for the rest of the Americans."
https://www.youtube.com/embed/UONQiPT0Mks?start=233
Child porn?
Bartiromo then steered the conversation to national security risks - noting that the signature of the FBI's top child porn lawyer appeared on the subpoena for Hunter's laptop.
"The subpoena was served by an FBI agent whose name is Joshua Wilson, and over the last five years he has been working on child pornography issues. Connect the dots - if an FBI agent is working on child pornography issues for five years, why is he subpoenaing the laptop of Hunter Biden? Is there a connection here? Should this suggest that there's a child pornography issue here on that laptop?"
"Well, I think you just made the connection ," Johnson replied. "This is what the FBI has to come clean about . This isn't a standard investigation... this is something that, as we were talking about, relates to national security. And if there's criminal activity involved that can be tied to Hunter Biden or his business associates, or even possibly tied back to members of the Biden family - well some of these emails indicate that Joe Biden is fully aware of this ."
As we noted on Friday, FBI agent Wilson's identity was confirmed by both Western Journal and Business Insider , the latter of which compared his signature to a 2012 criminal complaint and concluded that it "clearly matches the unreversed signature on the subpoena published by the New York Post ."
play_arrow 2 AlaricBalth , 8 hours agoUrfa Man , 4 hours agoHunter Biden has most likely been compromised by tapes of him with young girls while he was in China. When I was traveling back and forth to China a few years ago, I was told by our Chinese attorney to be very cautious because Americans were always recorded in their hotel rooms.
It was the policy of the Chinese government. Privacy laws are non existent. All Americans were taped in the event that any American could be utilized for the benefit of the CCP in the future.
Also, there are many high end "Karaoke" parlors in China where horizontal refreshment can be procured. Many Americans frequent these establishments. The girls are beautiful. The places have cameras everywhere.
Dogbreath15 , 1 hour agoThanks for mentioning the Chicoms, TBT. None of the tabloid-level sex stuff counts nearly as much as the fact that Joe Biden's secret payoffs from the Chinese (via Ye Jianming, Biden's Chinese paymaster). The sneaky Chinese money for Biden makes this election a dangerous national security crisis.
Joe Biden couldn't get a security clearance for even a low level government job now, let alone C in C of the US armed forces.
St. TwinkleToes , 6 hours ago"It's not physically possible to shame a Democrat."
The Elite Democrats WANT to sell out the country, they welcome dragging the USA through the sewer (and then blame the opposition!)
DeathMerchant , 5 hours agoMakes you wonder how many of those Asian/Chinese massage parlors are spying and collecting operations for the CCP, filming compromising acts to be used against you when the time comes arrives.
optimator , 5 hours agoIt's referred to as the Epstein Protocol.
Warthog777 , 4 hours agoCredit where it's due. Cheaper to run a few massage parlors than running an expensive island operation.
_arrowvovishka.2018 , 6 hours agoChinese whistleblower provided 3 hard drives of damning info from the ccp on the Biden family, biological weapons etc. , to the DOJ, Pelowsi, and eventually Trump.
Compromised!
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/chinese-whistleblower-testimony-on-biden/
fpdguy , 5 hours agoBiden Derangement Syndrome ..
@Dragonlord. - The TrumpTard that has gone completely out of his mind. The TrumpTard wants to blame the Biden family for the corruption, perversion, the violence & destruction of the moral fabric in the US - LOL
The TrumpTard believes that Trump is going to solve the corruption, the political and racial divide in Yankeelandia - LOL
Corruption is Legal in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig&ab_channel=RepresentUsFor yr entertainment: "Dueling Town Halls Cold Open - SNL"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UFfD0HIhv4&ab_channel=SaturdayNightLive2banana , 8 hours agoSydney Powell should be near the top of the list for candidates to replace Wray. She's familiar with a fair amount of the chain of corruption while dealing with the Flynn railroading. She's seen what lengths they are willing to go to and would be less apt to think she needs to play nice once appointed.
FUG , 8 hours agoBut yet a "noose" in a NASCAR garage gets 15 FBI agents.
Ex-NYPD Commissioner: I've Seen Hunter's Hard Drive; the Bidens 'Belong in Handcuffs'
SDShack , 7 hours agoHe'll be another NYPD officer to "commit suicide" as others who saw Weiner's laptop.
KnightOfSwords , 7 hours agoand Pizzagate is just a conspiracy...yep...right.
Calibabe , 8 hours agoPizzagate is anything but a "conspiracy theory" These people are sick, evil, degenerates. Take a real good look at John Podesta and Hillary Clinton.
Robert De Zero , 6 hours agoWhat is contained on Hunter Biden's laptop is enough to put anyone on this site in prison for a long, long, long time. Yet, he remains free, walking around, not a worry in the world. I wonder how his "wife" and the stripper who had his child feel about him now? This guy is a major creeper. The bigger question however isn't so much what the CCP has on Hunter, but what does the CCP have on ole Joe? You can bet that file they have is thick and probably just as bad.
Robert De Zero , 6 hours agoSay what you will about Rudy Giuliani. None of this would be happening right now without him. He's truly the best friend President Trump could have. He helped get him through 4 years of hell with the fake Russia hoax and then hits a home run in the last inning leading up to Election Day.
Now Rudy is taking massive flak from the corrupt liar media.
Rudy, my hat is off to you sir. You deserve medals.
indaknow , 8 hours agoThe tired and failed "Russia is behind everything" trope never gets old for you guys or the fake news. Get some new material, yawn.
lester1 , 8 hours agoNot sure how the left can spin this as Russian disinformation when Hunter's own lawyer just last week contacted the shop owner asking for the laptop back.
dibiase , 8 hours agoChris Wray is a deep state swamp creature. Did anyone actually expect him, or the FBI to do the right thing and indict Biden for corruption? They have been sitting on this laptop evidence for almost a year!!
Fishthatlived , 8 hours agoThose q guys were telling us to trust him just a year or so back
SDShack , 7 hours ago"Us?"
mc888 , 6 hours agoThe timing of all this is what connects the dots. 3 Laptops were dropped off in early 2019 to the computer repair shop. Work was done and technician tried to get paid for 3-4 months and have the laptops picked up. This is now fall 2019. Then the Russian Mueller Hoax Impeachment hits the news, and the technician realizes he is holding dynamite with a lit fuse, so he contacts the FBI. The coverup begins by December 2019.
NOTE - this is when the Dem Primary Season is kicking off. Bernie is the leader, but no establishment demorat can stop him and are winnowed out, especially the big donor favorite Kamalho early on. When Bernie is feared to be the nominee, a full court press for Senile Joe is made by the establishment to stop him. Pretty obvious now that the establishment was being extorted by the Chicoms with the original information on these hard drives. Who would be video taping a PASSED OUT HUNTER, and sex romps by Hunter with chinese girls, other then the CCP? The message was install compromised Joe...or we take down your party. And Lordy...look what happened...Senile Joe steamrolled Bernie, and Kamalho became the fallback position. I could never figure out the reason for the demorats to rig the system for Senile Joe, who was clearly one of the weakest candidates. It all makes sense when you realize HE was the CCP Favorite.
They thought the only people that had the blackmail info was the CCP and the demorat establishment and swamp. The fix was in. They never figured on an idiot crackhead giving the hard drive evidence to a 3rd party. That wrinkle is now beyond their control and is going to blow up DC. The Mutual Assured Destruction card has just been played. The ***-puckering on all sides has to be reaching nuclear levels.
Southern_Boy , 4 hours agoI could never figure out the reason for the demorats to rig the system for Senile Joe
Remember Obama stating he wanted a "continuation" of his administration?
Tseg , 4 hours agoSo where is Seth Rich's case in all of this?
Mister Delicious , 4 hours agoWith the Kennedy Assassination redactions.
fxrxexexdxoxmx2 , 4 hours agothe reason they STILL wont release all the Kennedy assassination files is Israel and the Jewish/Zionist International Mafia is implicated.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/File:Final_Judgment.pdf
https://www.unz.com/article/did-israel-kill-the-kennedies/
Just like 9/11.
4Y_LURKER , 3 hours agoUnsolved homicide. And nothing will come of it since no investigation by any law enforcement agency is happening.
ponchoramic , 6 hours agoUnbelievably, it's all connected!
William Dorritt , 6 hours agoSeriously, this is sick as f and the implications for blackmail 'were/ are' huge.
Think about what Trump has said, over and over.
If Biden wins, China will own America.
I will add, and Joe Biden.
Goldenfoxx , 5 hours agoIs this another reason the FBI hid the Hunter Biden Laptop?
By Selwyn Duke
It didn't surprise the informed, and understandably a bit cynical, to hear that the FBI sat on Hunter Biden's laptop instead of seeking justice. The bureau was previously involved in an illegal plot to take down Donald Trump, after all, and its Deep State elements would assuredly love to see Joe Biden succeed him in January. So why would they reveal damning information on their establishment hope? Yet suppressing Huntergate perhaps provided a secondary benefit:
The information could be used against Biden once he was in office.
This wouldn't be anything new. It's believed that longtime, legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover used "dirt files" on politicians for leverage; for one thing, it's said, this enabled him to remain bureau head for as long as he wished. William Sullivan, once the number three official under Hoover, put it this way: From the moment the director got damning information on a senator, the man would be "right in his pocket."
So not only could suppressing Huntergate get Biden in office, but then maybe it's, "Nice presidency you've got there, Mr. Biden -- I'd hate to see anything happen to it."
NumbNuts , 4 hours agoDidn't Guiliani tell the FBI that they had a copy of Humper's hard drive - or the owner of the computer business? It all sounds so convenient. No wonder Biden went into hiding, his son probably told dad what he did and that 50% of the take was too much. Humper maybe gave dad an ultimatum. Drug addicts are like that "you bring me down, you go down lower." Blackmail can be a bitch.
@therealOrangeBuffoon , 4 hours agoCan they come clean on:
1) JFK assassination
2) WTC 93' bombing set up
3) OKC bombing set up
4) MLK death
5) Waco
6) Just about all other domestic terrorism activitiesNumbNuts , 4 hours agoConspiracy theorists have no intention of believing anything provable. It's about chasing rainbows.
Stu Pedassle , 4 hours agoThen we should believe what they have to tell us about the Russian Collusion and all things Biden? Naive, are we?
NumbNuts , 4 hours agoI can prove that Building 7 fell uniformly on it's own footprint in what appears to be a controlled demolition - does that count?
Stu Pedassle , 4 hours agoAccording to @therealOrangeBuffoon , you have to go with what NIST told us, before they changed their story, thanks to AE911truth.org .
Truth is treason in an empire of lies - Ron Paul
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Oct 18, 2020 | circadeum.com
George Orwell warned us. In 2008, then congressman Ron Paul published a book -- a book I highly recommend -- titled Revolution: A Manifesto . Within that book, the good doctor lays out a refreshingly persuasive case for the necessity of individual liberty; including the dangers it shields us from and those that are effectively eroding its protection. Among these threats, a sophisticated and malicious dishonesty reigns abundant; one that he immortally enshrined with this famous quote from Orwell :
"Truth is treason in the empire of lies."
This "strategy of untruth" has proven quite popular in the past. Throughout the ages, elite and powerful figures have used it as means to consolidate and manage their agency in virtually every nation on earth. It's a very simple concept: team one tells the people what they want to hear, people vote them in, team one doesn't follow through on most of it, but takes incremental steps toward additional power consolidation, creating discontent among the people. Then the other team tells people what they want to hear, the people vote them in, they don't follow through on most of it, but take incremental steps toward additional power consolidation; and so on and so forth. This cycle of dishonesty has been turning now for over 200 years in America and the resulting chaotic snowball of deceit has probably only been marginally slowed by president Trump's victory in November of 2016. The minions (and masters) of Hillary Clinton and her ilk, however, are certainly not lying down in defeat.
In the past, the uncouth schemes of power-mongering politicians have been partially obscured by a miasma of deception. Politicians today, however -- Mrs. Clinton chief among them -- don't even seem to care about the integrity of the webs they weave when speaking untruths. In 2015, Clinton made many public statements about her private email debacle knowing that her words were untrue and, unless she is a complete idiot (she's not), she had to have known that her deception would easily be uncovered by the investigation. The explanation for this? Hubris. She doesn't care, because she knows there are millions of mindless partisans who would support her Democratic Party no matter what she (or they) did. All she has to do is tell them what they want to hear.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/rgeuLn4AkXk?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
Clinton has had ample time and opportunity to practice at her foundry of lies over a long political career, stretching back to the mid-70's, and, as was evidenced in the election cycle, is more than comfortable with what has become a habit for her. If she would have become president, do her supporters believe Mrs. Clinton suddenly would've started being truthful? Many of them would not even be able to admit she doesn't tell the truth now or in the past; so the answer to my question is largely irrelevant, because many people are simply apathetic about the truth. That is why politicians feel so free to lie with impunity. The truth doesn't always feel good. The truth is often ugly and uncomfortable. The truth hurts. Would you rather live easy in the Matrix or struggle to survive in the real world?https://www.youtube.com/embed/LWZk24MA7TE?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
A great author of fantasy-fiction, Terry Goodkind , has written a series of novels that are collectively titled, " The Sword of Truth ." In each book of the series he posits a rule which the main characters embrace as proverbial truth and use to direct their actions in life. The first rule states the following:"People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."
Powerful men and women have used this fact for thousands of years to control and manipulate the great masses of people that have been under their government -- and that is why people should be skeptical of everything that those seeking to govern are telling us. We live in the information age where it is relatively easy -- compared to all other times in human history -- to fact-check what any would-be Caesar is saying. Are these people telling the truth? It is our right and responsibility to vigilantly protect ourselves from such wolves. Knowing the truth is a way to do that. It is a weapon that we can use; a weapon we should use. Dr. Ron Paul used this weapon to great effect in 2008 and 2012 to martial many to the cause of liberty. His great work and project are a powerful example for the rest of us. Learn from him. Learn how to know and tell the truth.
" Truth is treason in the empire of lies If we want to live in a free society, we need to break free from these artificial limitations on free debate and start asking serious questions once again this is a long-term project that will persist far into the future. These ideas cannot be allowed to die, buried beneath the mind-numbing chorus of empty slogans and inanities that constitute official political discourse in America." – Ron Paul (Revolution: A Manifesto)
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Aug 31, 2020 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Urban life has always been about the concentration of life and work, but it doesn't have to be at the colossal scale.
In just a few months, New York City became the poster-child for what's shaping up to be a staggering transformation of the American urban scene. Our giant metroplex cities are set to contract and go broke in the years ahead. The trend was already clear before Covid-19 came on the scene, but the virus accelerated the complex dynamics behind it. Of course, most of our cities occupy important geographic sites, so something will remain; but they will be smaller and increasingly troubled places as the agonizing process plays out. And eventually, they may be better places, in a different way.
The short version of the story is that our biggest cities have exceeded the viable scale of their operation as we enter an era of resource and capital scarcities that will inescapably shrink economies. Their infrastructure is too complex and costly to maintain. The skyscrapers and megastructures that were built to accommodate a particular way of organizing work have very suddenly gone obsolete. The cities face default on their ruinous debt obligations and pension promises. Social and ethnic conflict has turned ugly, and both life and property are at risk as public order founders.
By May 2020, The New York Times reported that 420,000 residents had fled America's largest city, not a few of them permanently (my literary agent among them, whose pre-virus life revolved around eating lunch with editors every day). The wealthiest neighborhoods were the biggest losers -- and they were the city's leading taxpayers. Of course, the initial impetus for flight was fear of catching Covid-19 in an environment densely packed with people. But as corporate offices shuttered, many of these refugees performed their work duties at home over the Internet, and it dawned on the corporations that perhaps it was a waste to lease expensive, high-status headquarters in Manhattan. The iconic Time-Life Building at 1271 Sixth Avenue had accommodated 8,000 workers before Covid-19. In mid-summer 2020, 500 people were showing up there.
Meanwhile, as politicians forced lockdowns, the city's restaurants and shops went dark, along with theaters, museums, stadiums, and the other organisms that made up the city's rich ecosystem of daily life.
The prospect of midtown perhaps permanently abandoned by office workers made an eventual return to normality even less plausible. After four months of virus, the June riots and looting that followed the horrific death of George Floyd sealed the deal, with the luxury stores on Fifth Avenue smashed up and burgled. Who would reopen such a business when riots and looting could break out over a fresh pretext at any time?
All of that completely changed the business model for the owners of skyscrapers -- whole floors going empty and now the ground-floor businesses shut down, too. These buildings, with their massive maintenance costs, no longer produced enough revenue to operate them. Overnight, they were transformed from assets to liabilities.
The situation also harmed the condominium model for residential towers. Without the ground-floor rents, the homeowner's associations would have to steeply raise the monthly maintenance fees for each apartment owner, while significantly lowering each unit's resale value if the owner had to move out. All of this would thunder through the banks and REITs (real estate investment trusts) which owned and managed many of these properties, and ultimately through the city's dwindling treasury coffers.
Many like to believe that office towers can be easily converted to apartments. That's just not true. Apart from purely physical issues, like the layout of plumbing stacks, the coming scarcity of capital will obviate these ventures, and, anyway, tower apartments only exist because they're companions to office towers, which may now be permanently obsolete. The age of giantism is over. Cities are certainly about the concentration of life and work, but it doesn't have to be at the colossal scale. For many centuries it wasn't.
The pre-virus 21st century New York was a grandiose product of the financialization of the economy, including the global money-laundering orgy that incentivized the luxury condo tower building boom. That's over too. With so many other legacy economic activities flickering out, Wall Street was all that remained. All that held up Wall Street's stock and bond markets was "liquidity" (i.e. money in figment form) prestidigitated by the Federal Reserve. And now even Wall Street had little incentive for maintaining its headquarters on Wall Street, with its wealthy denizens trading and finagling via the Internet from comfortable perches in the Hamptons and the Connecticut hinterlands.
All American cities are not the same, of course, and they will get to downscaling in their own special way, subject to different combinations of forces. For instance, Sunbelt cities like Atlanta, Miami, and Dallas are mostly composed of low-rise buildings. But they owe their stupendous growth since 1950 to the phenomenon of universal air-conditioning and mass motoring, both of which will prove to be extraordinary short-lived luxuries of the cheap fossil fuel age. Los Angeles will be challenged by ethnic friction, water problems, and its extreme car dependency (and you can forget about solving that with electric cars). All the cities will be plagued by an epic loss of tax revenue and the failure of government to maintain essential services.
The foregoing suggests epic demographic shifts. People will be on the move -- they already are -- as the cities decant. If the current political mood is any index of things to come, those movements will occur against the background of considerable disorder. That has already begun, too, in the summer of 2020 as looting, burning, and anarchy spread from one place to another. For the moment, a lot of former city people are seeking refuge in the suburbs. That will prove to be a bad choice. The suburbs, too, are headed for trouble -- and I'll take that up in next month's commentary.
James Howard Kunstler is The American Conservative' s New Urbanism Fellow. He is the author of numerous books on urban geography and economics, including his recent work, Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward .
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dermotmara • 19 hours agoAbout 15 years ago, I started telecommuting several days a week. Our employer, the National Institutes of Health, even provided PCs and subsidized our ISP fees. That started me wondering why businesses kept building office buildings when it would be less costly to work from home. NIH likely got more work out of me because I did not have to drive to lunch, and time telecommuting was often spent working. Even before telecommuting, Skype meetings were at least a weekly occurrence as we had projects in foreign countries, and professional activities included collaboration with overseas colleagues across the US.
The best answer I could come up with I derived from my years of organizational surveys for FAA and the White House. Most supervisors opposed telework because they had no metrics to ensure people were not slacking off. This struck me as odd, because slacking off would be readily apparent in a drop off in productivity, or increasing customer complaints, or even co-worker complaints. Those are crappy metrics, but they are better than nothing - yet bosses wanted to visually count noses.
Of course, there were other signs that office buildings were going obsolete. For example, Chicago started renaming the iconic John Hancock building and the Sears Tower. Something was not right. The pandemic merely hastened the wake-up call that nobody needed a headquarters anymore. Cities turned deserted factories into lofts. I wonder what they will used empty skyscrapers for.
Victor_the_thinker • 17 hours agoIt's an interesting view, and may come to pass. Do you think this will be the case in Chinese cities which dwarf most US cities, but are centrally controlled? Or in European cities which have been on a drive for space & livability instead of high-rise, and public transport or biking instead of cars?
Dan Fay Victor_the_thinker • 15 hours agoWow, there's like no facts in this article. Dense living is actually cheaper than sprawl. You need significantly less infrastructure to supporter tall buildings than you do for the same square footage spread out over acres.
Less heating and cooling is needed as well since the building have smaller surface areas (1 roof and 1 ground touching floor compared to 50 roofs and floors for a 50 story building). The writer works in a low margin, low innovation industry. Major cities dominate the high innovation industries, that will continue.
Also what is he talking about an era where we lack capital? We have tons of capital. We are the reserve currency. If he's talking about social security and can print out own money and haven't seen inflation still. We have massive room to raise taxes too. We're at the highest level of inequality seen in a century and far outstrip other developed countries on this metric.
Victor_the_thinker Dan Fay • 14 hours agoYes and no. From a high-level perspective, cities should be cheaper to provision infrastructure for. In practice, at least in the US, infrastructure projects are immensely expensive in big cities.
It gets even worse when you look at the provisioning of public goods like K-12 schools and policing.
pja Victor_the_thinker • 3 hours agoRegardless of what you think about the cost of infrastructure projects, they are expensive where wherever you do them. Rural areas are the most expensive areas to do infrastructure in America.
gnt Dan Fay • 2 hours agoyou are correct. There is a reason broadband in rural America either lousy, expensive, or both. Low densities make it problematic on a per capita basis. Hence why Congress appropriated $20b for rural broadband - no provider wants to build where they can't turn a proft
Connecticut Farmer Victor_the_thinker • 15 hours agoHigher population density means there are more people to tax to pay for infrastructure maintenance. I've read about suburbs that are struggling to pay for essential maintenance.
Victor_the_thinker Connecticut Farmer • 14 hours ago"Major cities dominate the high innovation industries, that will continue."
I would substitute "major metropolitan centers" for "major cities" (see examples below):
Google--Menlo Park,CA
Facebook--As above
IBM--Armonk, NY
Microsoft--Redmond, WA
Apple--Cupertino, CAGoogle, FB and Apple are located in the SanFran-Oakland metro area, with IBM and Microsoft located in suburban New York City and Seattle respectively. There are many tech companies in Boston strewn along both the outer I-495 and inner I-95 belts, both of which wrap around Boston (Raytheon is based in Waltham, MA, just east of I-95). as well as the famous Raleigh-Durham Research Triangle. Tech companies need space-"campuses" as they are called-in order to do their work. Such space is limited in big cities, especially older cities.
Wydra Victor_the_thinker • 11 hours agoThe vast majority of the high tech stuff in Boston is within Cambridge, not those old rt 128 buildings. Almost the entire biotech/pharma industry is within a few miles in Cambridge. Google has a location in Cambridge. The IBM Watson lab is in Cambridge. All that biotech requires lab space. There is a ton of it within the city.
Victor_the_thinker Wydra • 11 hours agoRte 128 had a good shot until Ken Olsen came to the conclusion that nobody would ever want to have a computer in their home.
The proximity to world class Universities and Colleges will ensure that the Boston/Cambridge metro area will remain attractive.
empidonax_road Connecticut Farmer • 14 hours agoThe majority of those jobs have moved into the city now. There are still huge amounts of high tech jobs being produced in Boston. I work in Pharma in business development. You HAVE to have a presence in Boston if you're going to be on the cutting edge of biological research. The universities are spinning off companies left and right. California is leading in computer based tech for sure but Boston is leading in biotechnology.
Astral Traveller empidonax_road • 14 hours agoGoogle has a massive three-city-block facility in NYC, with plans to expand, Twitter has a good-sized building a few blocks away (the one Laura Loomer chained herself to briefly). Disney has leveled a full city block a bit to the south of that and is currently building a new massive structure on the site.
Tech is an area where competition for top workers is ferocious. Possible that it's easier to recruit people to live in Chelsea than in Armonk?
What Should Be Astral Traveller • 12 hours agoTech's growth is a great stimulus. And that to Congress' recent expansion of H1B visas these cities will soon resemble Bombay.
MPC What Should Be • 4 hours ago"And that to Congress' recent expansion of H1B visas these cities will soon resemble Bombay."
That's got to change. Unemployment is the worst in almost a hundred years, tens of millions of Americans. H1B and all the other foreign worker visa program should have been abolished long ago, at the very latest after the pandemic started, but our corrupt politicians keeps letting them come.
There should be no foreigners or foreign workers here now. None. Americans need every job in America, the law should state and enforce that, and American executives who evade it with outsourcing tricks and falsified visa affidavits should be in prison.
Victor_the_thinker Connecticut Farmer • 14 hours agoLong ago, when the unemployment rate was the best in a long time? It'd perhaps be good to have mechanisms that tie visas to unemployment in some impartial way, that sentiment I can agree with as a practical matter, but the rest of your statements about foreigners are ridiculous. Moderated immigration of talented, ambitious people is a big net gain. I grew up around people like this and you better be on your toes and push yourself because they leave you in the dust otherwise. Agribusiness, tech, media, ie America's biggest cash cows are all heavily reliant on immigrants.
Extreme positions like 'no foreigners!' play right in to the uncoordinated duct taped system we have now. You need to realize that everyone has a seat at the table, and consensus is needed for action.
Annie from Alaska Connecticut Farmer • 13 hours ago • editedJust so you know, Raleigh-Durham isn't a huge tech leader at least as measured by VC funding. It only constitutes .5% of all VC spending. Atlanta is a bigger deal as far as VC spending than the research triangle.
Connecticut Farmer Annie from Alaska • 13 hours agoGoogle, FB and Apple are located in the SanFran-Oakland metro area,They are located in the outskirts of what grew from Sand Hill Road. Silicon Valley has San Francisco as an amenity, not the other way around.
This supports your point, though.
IBM and Microsoft located in suburban New York City and Seattle respectively.I didn't think of Armonk as a suburb before, but you're right. I suppose you'd probably drive to White Plains and then take the train, or something like that.
IBM has a very distributed workforce, though, including a highrise in NYC's midtown, so there may be an element of confirmation bias at work here.
Tech companies need space-"campuses" as they are called-in order to do their work. Such space is limited in big cities, especially older cities.This might be wrong. Google owns the Port Authority building in NYC. It's a full city block and 20 floors, which competes in terms of raw space with their campuses.
In Mountain View their hiring consolidation combined with NIMBYism has sent housing prices through the roof. In NYC Google's hiring doesn't make a dent because they're spread over a large city with companies and people coming and going all the time. The housing bubble and low quality of life in Mountain View is an international joke.
The "campus" model is good for a stable company that will exist for multiple generations without changing size so housing can be built for the workers of that company and not peak or crater in value. When the company implodes the town is destroyed. People's accumulated home wealth is destroyed with it so the individual people are not more mobile than the homes they live in. I think this happens too often, and somewhat by design. Our laws around companies make them easy to start and easy to fold up. I don't think a company stable enough to warrant a company-town campus, like Armonk was and is or like Mountain View has recently become, exists. This concept was also a bubble that had a culty appeal in that brief span between when it was invented and when the first company-town companies started to implode.
We don't want towns to become dependent on any one company, and the companies are becoming huge. That means the convenient and sustainable commuting radius of the town needs to be huge in terms of number of people, not miles. It could be a dense place with bad trains like NYC or a sprawling place with good trains like Washington DC.
I look forward to seeing the "new urbs" take on this arrangement. Will we work and live in the same town? If not, how will we get around?
Victor_the_thinker Annie from Alaska • 13 hours agoInteresting. I've heard that about Mountain View, by the way. Also, I understand that apartment rentals in San Francisco have gone through the roof with the influx of high paid tekkies who commute to/ from Silicone and who can't afford to buy.
Jason Segedy Victor_the_thinker • an hour agoPeople who work in high tech industries are disproportionately likely to be married to spouses with similar levels of education and income these days. Usually they don't work at the same company. They need to live near other areas with high end job opportunities for their spouses. It's known as the two body problem.
I Don't Matter • 15 hours agoJHK has written multiple books on the topic of sprawl, cities, and urban development. His writing is informed by plenty of facts. I suspect that he has read, thought, and written more about the topic than you have.
Matt • 15 hours agoYes the guy who had been wrong about everything forever pens another just so story boldly stating fictions and making predictions about the future without a date in sight. Capital scarcity? Resource scarcity? Any evidence for either with both interest rates and commodity prices in the dump? No, who needs evidence when there's a story to tell.
empidonax_road • 14 hours agoWhat is the reasoning behind the claim that we are about to "enter an era of resource and capital scarcities"? This article gives none.
Viking Raffi Le Pen • 5 hours agoThese are awfully big conclusions to be drawing from not quite six months of crisis: NYC is making progress on reopening, helped considerably by widespread (though not perfect) adoption of the basic public prevention methods. Restaurants have taken a hit, but the survivors are investing in outdoor spaces, which are being enthusiastically patronized. Museums are reopening (Met this week, others in the next four or five weeks). People are starting to see their friends in person again.
We're still a long way from the full menu - live performances, for example are still a long way off - but the things that draw people to the city and keep them here are coming back online.
No one thinks the old normal is going to be the new one, but I'm more optimistic about the city's future than I was back in April.
MPC Viking • 4 hours agoIn the long run, fossil fuels are likely to go up and up in price, as they get more expensive to extract. Even if we disregard the effect on the environment, do you really doubt that a great many of the conveniences we now take for granted may be far more expensive in the future? This is barring our finding some effective substitute(s) for coal, natural gas, and petroleum, of course. Can't be ruled out, but we are taking our chances by continuing to live our current lifestyles, I'd say.
Collin Reid • 13 hours agoI've gamed out the possibilities a bit, it's an interesting topic to me.
Anything hard to transition off of 100% petroleum I think will have a hard time first. Air travel and international shipping. Perhaps alternatives will develop, but they won't be nearly as efficient as before. Economies will localize again.
Electricity is the most able to replace generation fuels but as others decline that's going to place huge reliance on just one key system for almost everything. Even if we did get solar and wind and backup power reserves roaring at a decent price, which I think we can, everything is riding on that one basket and the increasingly complex delivery. Hydro is a gold mine if you're lucky enough to have it (US really does not in most parts).
Also there's the mining angle, eventually some resources are just going to be economically exhausted. Solar panels can't be made of wood...yet.
PeteZilla Collin Reid • 13 hours ago • editedConsidering the lack of facts in this article and assuming lots of 'trends' over the last 6 months, this does very little to convince people.
1) Since 2000, we have heard endless articles about the end of mega-cities and it never happens.
2) Looking at the population growth of Texas cities and suburbs the last 20 years, seems like cities/urban areas continue to grow even if New York's population is flat.
3) What the heck is 'the challenged by ethnic friction?' What if it does not happen? This just like Trumpian good Housewife talk.
4) Mega-cities have not only grown in the US, but they have grown in all developed nations.
YT14 • 12 hours ago • editedAgree with this point.
I think the writer fails to mention or understand that cities have gone thru changes in the last decade or so.
For example the economies in the Bay Area California grew and changed so much to pull into the regions around it.
They call it a super region that connects Sacramento, San José, etc. New York has something similar. I know folks who commute from Sacramento to San Francisco for work and vice Cerda.
Cities make it effective for industries that thrive on collaboration AND competition. I work for a software company that works with other software companies (and competes with). Apple and Google both collaborate with hundreds of companies near them. Really thousands.
As long as industries keep hiring (and paying decently) these regions and industries will continues to drive markets.
If anything cities are becoming effective at catering to certain industries.
What I hope to see is more allowance and leeway with remote work. So people can work from places where they can afford a home.
My company used to avoid having too many workers working remotely. But we are struggling to find talent that now we look remotely. COVID added to that push now as well.
Victor_the_thinker YT14 • 11 hours agoI wouldn't trust this swan song on metropolitan demise. In the long run, plagues are momentary disturbances - they are frequently over in a year or less despite horrific loss of life in between. The same goes for aerial bombardment of European cities during WW2. Once war was over, the cities rebuilt fast. Only few were arguing it was too dangerous to live in a city anymore.
What makes cities disappear is the breakdown and disintergration of the state-order. For example, many cities went into a major decline after the fall of the Western half of the Roman empire.
Harry Huntington YT14 • 7 hours agoYes and the experience of the Roman Empire simply isn't relevant today. At the time of Rome, the vast majority of the population was illiterate. The people who were knowledgeable and were pushing the empire forward technologically were a very very small constituency in the population. The knowledge that they had was all contained in analogue format so a fire burning down a library really could destroy hundreds of years of work. This isn't a possibility today. We now have hundreds of thousands of scientists and engineers capable interpreting the innovative science we produce and knowledge is distributed around the world and is much easier to reconstitute.
YT14 Harry Huntington • 7 hours ago • editedStill waiting for Detroit and Gary, Indiana to reconstitute, as you put it. In NY, shootings are getting out of control. In Chicago, over the past 18 months, shootings, muggings, and assaults have skyrocketed in the 1st and 18th Police Districts (where the fancy people live). Folks are afraid to walk at night. I live in Chicago near the lake.
On any typical night within a quarter mile of my home there will be police reports of "man with a gun," "woman assaulted," "woman with knife," "man using bottle as weapon," or "group fighting." Not the stuff you want to hear if you want to take a 9:00 PM jog through Grant Park or along the lake.
I good friend of mine had her cell phone grabbed out of her hand during the middle of the day in the skate board park at the South End of Grant Park. Crime of this sort is what drives people out of cities. The promise of downtown Chicago was you could walk or rely on public transportation. You cannot do either when people are mugged every day on public transportation or along the main city streets in downtown.
To your credit, maybe a big City like Houston can survive. Reality is, however, Houston is more a sprawl than any kind of connected city. Major employers in Houston actually have rules against walked to work (because of the heat).
Viking • 6 hours agoWell yes, breakdown of the state-order is an important factor. As the proverbs state: "pray for the welfare of the government: if not for the fear it inspires, man would swallow his neighbor alive."
Depending on the definition of "mega-city", I'm not sure its age ever arrived. A town only needs a population of five thousand to qualify as "urban" - when I was growing up, it was half that - which means much of the urban population consists of small towns.
For significantly larger cities, it has long been the case that the population of the suburbs and exurbs tends to be at least half of the total metropolitan area. Jacksonville and Albuquerque may be exceptions to this rule, but they are in the minority, and anyway I doubt that James Kunstler has them in mind when he writes of mega-cities. I seriously doubt that there was ever a time in America when the megalopolis dweller was in the majority, or even the plurality.
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written by daniel mcadams wednesday august 26, 2020
It was one of the most notorious cases of 'cancel culture' gone crazy. A young high school student was relentlessly bullied and character-assassinated by the mainstream media because he wore a MAGA hat while a bully screamed in his face. Nicholas Sandmann turned the tables and walked away with millions of dollars after suing the media outlets that slandered him. But is "cancel culture" going away? Or is it getting more violent? Watch today's Liberty Report:https://www.youtube.com/embed/7LVvfNTCdmI
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Science Is Not About Consensus by Tyler Durden Thu, 08/27/2020 - 21:05 Twitter Facebook Reddit Email Print
Authored by Jeff Harris via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,
Newsflash; real science is based on facts not "consensus".
I'm sick and tired of idiots beating me over the head with pseudoscience instead of sticking to the cold, hard facts .
Show me the hard data that standing six feet from someone is necessary.
Show me the hard data that wearing any old rag on my face is going to materially stop the spread of a virus.
Show me the hard data that enjoying fresh air and sunshine outdoors could be an invitation to an early death.
Please, stick to the facts and don't dare lecture me about the "consensus" and here's why.
Maybe you've heard of Ignaz Semmelweis , an Austrian-Hungarian obstetrician with a prickly personality. If not, you will quickly recognize his contribution to the medical profession with the three words he made famous:
"Wash your hands."
This was way back in 1847.
Dr. Semmelweis provided hard data clearly demonstrating that once he and his staff began washing their hands and disinfecting equipment between patients the number of infections and deaths dropped dramatically.
Unfortunately, the scientific "consensus" at the time held that there was no benefit to these measures and his advice was almost completely ignored by the learned medical community. In fact, many of his medical peers were incensed with his suggestion that they could be responsible for transmitting illness and disease!
At the time doctors took pride in their soiled gowns as a mark of their industrious work! It was commonplace for doctors who had just completed an autopsy to go to the maternity ward and deliver babies without ever washing up! After all it was the "consensus" and with so many doctors in agreement how could they be wrong?
Dr. Semmelweis died in an insane asylum in 1865 knowing that untold numbers of patients had needlessly suffered and died because the medical community refused to accept his findings and instead chose to follow the "consensus". Ironically, the same year Dr. Semmelweis died Dr. Joseph Lister, a British surgeon, began building on the work of French microbiologist Louis Pasteur regarding germ theory.
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Dr. Lister began experimenting with various means of disinfecting wounds. He instructed surgeons under his responsibility to not only wash their hands with a 5 percent solution of carbolic acid but also wear clean gloves. His work validated Dr. Semmelweis discoveries regarding the value of hygiene and cleanliness in medicine.
Today we all benefit from Dr. Semmelweis groundbreaking work even though he was never recognized for his contribution during his lifetime. The moral to this story is that scientific "consensus" is often wrong. In no way can it justify the hysteria, lockdowns and wealth destruction that is being manufactured by the elites.
The COVID hysteria is emotion based, not fact based. Instead of cold, hard facts backing up the "science" we're told to shut up and accept the "consensus". As Dr. Semmelweis discovered the consensus is often wrong.
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Authored by Jacob Hornberger via The Future of Freedom Foundation,
Former Congressman Ron Paul and his colleague Dan McAdams recently conducted a fascinating interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which focused in part on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who was Kennedy Jr.'s uncle. The interview took place on their program the Ron Paul Liberty Report.
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Owing to the many federal records that have been released over the years relating to the Kennedy assassination, especially through the efforts of the Assassination Records Review Board in the 1990s, many Americans are now aware of the war that was being waged between President Kennedy and the CIA throughout his presidency . The details of this war are set forth in FFF's book JFK's War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated by Douglas Horne.
In the interview, Robert Kennedy Jr. revealed a fascinating aspect of this war with which I was unfamiliar. He stated that the deep animosity that the CIA had for the Kennedy family actually stretched back to something the family patriarch, Joseph P. Kennedy, did in the 1950s that incurred the wrath of Allen Dulles, the head of the CIA.
Kennedy Jr. stated that his grandfather, Joseph P. Kennedy, had served on a commission that was charged with examining and analyzing CIA covert activities, or "dirty tricks" as Kennedy Jr. put them. As part of that commission, Kennedy Jr stated, Joseph Kennedy (John Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy's father) had determined that the CIA had done bad things with its regime-change operations that were destroying democracies, such as in Iran and Guatemala.
Consequently, Joseph Kennedy recommended that the CIA's power to engage in covert activities be terminated and that the CIA be strictly limited to collecting intelligence and empowered to do nothing else.
According to Kennedy Jr.,
"Allen Dulles never forgave him -- never forgave my family -- for that."
I wasn't aware of that fact.
I assumed that the war between President Kennedy and the CIA had begun with the CIA's invasion at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. The additional information added by Kennedy Jr. places things in a much more fascinating and revealing context.
Upon doing a bit of research on the Internet, I found that the commission that Kennedy Jr. must have been referring to was the President's Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities, which President Eisenhower had established in 1956 through Executive Order 10656 . Eisenhower appointed Joseph Kennedy to serve on that commission.
That year was three years after the CIA's 1953 regime change operation in Iran which destroyed that country's democratic system. It was two years after the CIA's regime-change operation in Guatemala that destroyed that country's democratic system.
Keep in mind that the ostensible reason that the CIA engaged in these regime-change operations was to protect "national security," which over time has become the most important term in the American political lexicon. Although no one has ever come up with an objective definition for the term, the CIA's power to address threats to "national security," including through coups and assassinations, became omnipotent.
Yet, here was Joseph P. Kennedy declaring that the CIA's power to exercise such powers should be terminated and recommending that the CIA's power be strictly limited to intelligence gathering.
It is not difficult to imagine how livid CIA Director Dulles and his cohorts must have been at Kennedy. No bureaucrat likes to have his power limited. More important, for Dulles and his cohorts, it would have been clear that if Kennedy got his way, "national security" would be gravely threatened given the Cold War that the United States was engaged in with the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, North Korea, and other communist nations.
Now consider what happened with the Bay of Pigs. The CIA's plan for a regime-change invasion of Cuba, was conceived under President Eisenhower. Believing that Vice President Nixon would be elected president in 1960, the CIA was quite surprised that Kennedy was elected instead. To ensure that the invasion would go forth anyway, the CIA assured Kennedy that the invasion would succeed without U.S. air support. It was a lie. The CIA assumed that once the invasion was going to go down in defeat at the hands of the communists, Kennedy would have to provide the air support in order to "save face."
But Kennedy refused to be played by the CIA. When the CIA's army of Cuban exiles was going down in defeat, the CIA requested the air support, convinced that their plan to manipulate the new president would work. It didn't. Kennedy refused to provide the air support and the CIA's invasion went down in defeat.
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Now consider what happened after the Bay of Pigs: Knowing that the CIA had played him and double-crossed him, John Kennedy fired Allen Dulles as CIA director, along with his chief deputy, Charles Cabell. He then put his younger brother Bobby Kennedy in charge of monitoring the CIA, which infuriated the CIA.
Now jump ahead to the Cuban Missile Crisis, which Kennedy resolved by promising that the United States would not invade Cuba for a regime-change operation. That necessarily would leave a permanent communist regime in Cuba, something that the CIA steadfastly maintained was a grave threat to "national security" -- a much bigger threat, in fact, than the threats supposedly posed by the regimes in Iran in 1953 and Guatemala in 1954.
And then Kennedy did the unforgivable, at least insofar as the CIA was concerned . In his famous Peace Speech at American University in June 1963, he declared an end to the entire Cold War and announced that the United States was going to establish friendly and peaceful relations with the communist world.
Kennedy had thrown the gauntlet down in front of the CIA. It was either going to be his way or the CIA's way. There was no room for compromise, and both sides knew it.
In the minds of former CIA Director Allen Dulles and the people still at the CIA, what Kennedy was doing was anathema and, even worse, the gravest threat to "national security" the United States had ever faced, a much bigger threat than even that posed by the democratic regimes in Iran and Guatemala. At that point, the CIA's animosity toward President Kennedy far exceeded the animosity it had borne toward his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, several years before.
Joe A , 2 hours ago
USGrant , 2 hours agoAnd Allen Dulles, the CIA director that Kennedy fired, was on the Warren Commission that concluded that Kennedy was killed by a lone assassin who was a poor marksman using a crappy rifle.
Joe A , 1 hour agoThe Warren Commission exhibits show that the Carcano after the scope was shimmed to make it usable, shot about 10 inches to the right and high at 25 yards with terrible accuracy. Presumably this was one of the carbines whose barrel was cut down from rifle length taking much of the progressive rifling with it. The cartridges placed on the 6th floor were clearly reloads not the supposed new Western cartridges of circa 1953. As reloads then the question arises where were .267 bullets to be obtained since only .264 were manufactured at the time which would make accuracy suffer.
USGrant , 1 hour agoYes, but these bullets were magic bullets according to the Warren Commission. There was one bullet that entered Kennedy's throat and left it, then traversed through air, changing course, hanged suspended in mid air for about a second or so and then continued to hit the governor that was sitting in front to the left of Kennedy. That bullet traversed 15 layers of clothing, seven layers of skin, and approximately 15 inches of muscle tissue, struck a necktie knot, removed 4 inches of rib, and shattered a radius bone and was found virtually intact. Some bullet!
WingedMessenger , 19 minutes agoAnd the found bullet changed from a spitzer according to the first hospital worker who was alerted to it, to a round nose.
ThirteenthFloor , 1 hour agoYou have missed several TV episodes that have successfully recreated the magic bullet scenario, including Myth Busters. The bullet is not magic, the actual seating geometry and sight line of the shooter all contribute to the bullet path being actually very straight. The 6.5mm 150-160 grain bullets have a very high sectional density that gives them a lot of penetration. In one test the spent bullet was found resting on the leg of the second ("John Connally") dummy just like it did in real life.
They used the same Cacarno rifle for the tests. The shot is not difficult. The car is moving directly away from the shooter at the time of this shot, so no real lead is required. The range is less than a 100 yards so you just aim dead on and shoot. Hunters do it all the time.
USGrant , 1 hour agoWhen Allen Dulles passed away, the CIA sent someone to Dulles' Georgetown home to get 'missing' and incriminating JFK autopsy photos from his safe and destroy them. That person was James Jesus Angleton, who admitted late in his life. Read last chapter in "Devils Chessboard" - David Talbot.
cornflakesdisease , 10 minutes agoIf I recall, he was the one found searching in her studio for Mary Pinchot Meyer's diary after she was killed . (Cord Meyer's ex-wife)
Bay of Pigs , 2 hours agoHe also had a huge hand in the political beginings of the UN.
MontCar , 1 hour agoAllen Dulles, LBJ and the CIA murdered JFK. It's that fu#king simple.
USGrant , 1 hour agoLBJ likely abetted the cover up. Placing Allen Dulles, recently fired from the CIA directorship by JFK, on the since disgraced Warren Commission. Mossad may have partnered with CIA in the assassination. JFK evidently opposed Israel's nuclear weapons acquisition efforts - an existential issue for Israel. Clear motive.
Angular Momentum , 1 hour agoAllan Dulles then danced on JFK's grave.
Yen Cross , 1 hour agoKennedy also supported the right of return for the Palestinians refugees who left Israel for Jordan. Also an existential issue for Israel. I think in Ben Gurian's mind either Kennedy lived or Israel survived as a Jewish state. It was one or the other. I have no doubt the CIA covered for Israel because they had their own beef with Kennedy.
WingedMessenger , 5 minutes agoIt wasn't some flunkie Soviet reject from the bell tower.
There's no way Oswald could bounce a high velocity round of lead off a light post, in front of the Limousine, still carrying enough muzzle velocity to cave in the back side of POTUS cranium.
There were other players, at the very least.
NewDarwin , 3 hours agoI have been to the 6th floor museum in Dallas several times and reviewed the various theories on where other shooters might have been located. All of the them are worse than the 6th floor of the Book Depository. Some are down right stupid, like the one supposed in the sewer by the curb. It would be impossible to shoot a rifle in there at the angle needed to hit above the wheel well of the limo, much less be able to see the limo before it was right on you. You could not even see Kennedy from there, You would have to shoot through the bottom of a door or the floor boards just to hit him in the leg or foot.
The 6th floor is the only location that allows the shooter to see the limos coming before they arrive in the target zone and allow him to prepare to shoot. All the other locations give only a tiny window to ID the target and loose off a round before the limo disappears out of view. A competent assassin would have chosen the 6th floor window. If Oswald was not the best shot, there is always the possibility that he just got lucky on some easy shots, or maybe someone else was in the 6th floor window. We don't have any evidence for either case.
sj warrior , 2 hours agoThe CIA has it in for anyone who tries to dismantle the deep state...
Pandelis , 26 minutes agojfk tried to stop izzy from getting nuclear bombs
rfk tried to force the forerunner to aipac to register as foreign agent, thus subject to gov monitoring
both of these stances failed after the assassinations
Pandelis , 23 minutes agoplus the Secret Societies speech ... that was a biggie showing he was into them (cia was just one of octopus arms)....
desertboy , 2 hours agoand the executive order issued by Kennedy on using silver as currency ... that was really going after the owners ... in all fairness, not sure he knew what he was up against ... his son was killed without giving him a chance to shine yet ...
eatapeach , 2 hours agoThe CIA is the direct product of, and works directly for, the same parties that own the Fed (the primary shareholders of its shareholders).
The CIA is even typically headed by bankers.
This is simply the history.
Dzerzhhinsky , 2 hours agoNope, Trump is an insider. Should be pretty obvious given his behavior toward Syria, Iran, and Israel. He's no different than all those in the long line since after Kennedy.
revjimbeam , 2 hours agoThe CIA Versus The Kennedys
We all know who won that fight. Not a single American President has dared to disobey the CIA since.
Gospel According To Me , 2 hours agoNixon ended Viet nam and opened China- liddy(FBI) and hunt(CIA) set the administration up by breaking into the watergate then finished him of with anonymous leaks to the Washington post by felt (deepthroat) the no.2 at fbi....sound familar?
Impeachment doesn't leave agency fingerprints and is less messy than Dallas Memphis and LA
eatapeach , 2 hours agoInteresting theory and very plausible.
That is why to this day the Deep State poses such a grave danger to our democracy. They want Trump out of their way, period. If Trump pardons Snowden he better head for his WH bomb shelter. They will really go after him with everything they have. And they still have plenty of sick like-minded people in place in every agency. They spy on Trump and work to sabotage every good idea he has to Make America Great Again. Pray he prevails and the USA survives.
2hangmen , 2 hours agoPlease. Snowden is a feeble US analog of Baryshnikov et al and Russia knows it. Moreover, the contrived Trump v. Deep State narrative reads like a Hardy Boys novel, soft and weak. If 'deep state' wants someone gone, they don't dilly dally. What are you, 13 years old?
ComradePuff , 22 minutes agoWell, that explains the CIA involvement with the Deep State in trying to take down candidate Trump, then President Trump. Whether someone can bring them into line will determine if we keep our nation as founded.
FlKeysFisherman , 2 hours agoKennedy didn't even make one full term, let alone stand for re-election. In the meantime, the CIA has only gotten stronger and spun off into a dozen other agencies. You're deluding yourself.
Earth Ling , 2 hours agoWTF, I like a Kennedy now!!!
ComradePuff , 13 minutes agoThen you'll love this!
RFK JR's org Children's Health Defense is suing Zuckerberg and Facebook:
Eastern Whale , 2 hours agoI fear for RFK Jr, to be perfectly honest. It's amazing he can even walk with balls that big.
presterjohn1198 , 2 hours agoshows that politicians are all rotten to the core even in a "democratically" elected government
communism in 20th century is a joke, Oligarch from Russia is buying soccer teams in UK, Chinese is lined up at Chanel and LV in every city. communism is just a concept and name now.
anyhow, all politicians should be at the bottom of the ocean
Arising , 1 hour agoThe cia has always been the shadow government of the USSA. Those clever Ivy League boys think that they always knew better about screwing up world affairs than our elected government. Pretty much the same kind of club as the legacy media, whom the cia frequently collaborates with.
Fools!buckboy , 1 hour ago... the CIA's 1953 regime change operation in Iran which destroyed that country's democratic system.
There's one for all the Republican fan boys that hate Iran because their leaders tell them to.
USGrant , 2 hours agoPres. Trump are well aware of these facts. Main reason why he has his own private security. Amazing he is getting this far. This man knows how to win than anyone else.
He made Brennan, Clapper, Comey Clintons like real clowns instead.
Call it conspiracy, the terrorism, blm antifa racism and non sense chaos are supported by the cia. CIA is the main and most dangerous enemy of the world. To control is the main objective.
Like the JFK family and now Trump, if you are against them, they'll discredit you through the history.
USGrant , 2 hours agoListen to Douglas Horne's interview of Dino Brugioni and how the Zupruder film was doctored to make it seem that the head shot came from the back. No surprise with the head movement-it came from the front.
Wild Bill Steamcock , 1 hour agoThose frames were cut out which not only exaggerated the head movement but it made it impossible for 3 shots to come from the crappy Carcano in the shortened time as gauged from the film. So there is only one frame of the head shot but Dino remembered several as he was the one charged with making the briefing board on Saturday night prior to the film being altered on Sunday at the Kodak Hawkeye Works.
Wild Bill Steamcock , 1 hour agoRichard Dolan has a nice set of interviews with Phillip Lavelle (a walking JFK encyclopedia) on the topic at his youtube channel. ...
fucking truth , 1 hour agoAnd Tracey too, being that smart and good looking is almost unfair
Wild Bill Steamcock , 1 hour agoAnd yet trump promised and reneged on releasing all the Kennedy docs, it's a big swamp and i think Trump's in it, ribbit.
mcmich , 1 hour agoIt's like trying to drain an ocean. Eventually you fall in
Soloamber , 38 minutes agoThe people in power now is the people behind JFK's murder..
DEDA CVETKO , 1 hour agoSo does everyone else . Jackie Kennedy knew too . She said they finally got him . Johnson told his mistress the same day .
A_Huxley , 3 hours agoThe only worthwhile human beings in the entire Kennedy clan were JFK and Jr. (notwithstanding Jackie, whom I count as Onassis). The rest - particularly Bobby Kennedy - were scum of the earth and sycophants of the Matrix, the lowliest kind of elitist wire-carrying police informants and apron-wearers. To this day I don't understand how anyone in the right mind could venerate Bobby Kennedy. The man was three tiers below even his fuhrer-sucking daddy.
Would United States have been better off had Kennedy survived? Probably, but not by much and only in the short term. We might have avoided Vietnam (highly questionable - JFK had already sent our troops there and the whole thing was already on the verge of dangerous escalation). But as soon as his second term ended, the Deep State would have installed a more desirable and obedient puppet (most likely Nixon, possibly LBJ) in the White House and we would have continued where LBJ left off in January 1969.
BTW, it may have been CIA that backstabbed JFK on the Bay of Pigs fiasco, but it was his own baby brother who twisted the knife .
TahoeBilly2012 , 3 hours agoLook back over the National Intelligence Estimates.
NIE 53-63 Prospects In South Vietnam.
National Security Action Memorandum 28.
Soloamber , 41 minutes agoY Cult, Cult of Osiris.....going down!!!!
If they could do the same to Trump they would .
The only thing they have left is massive ballot fraud
which they have every intent of doing .
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Truth be told, most Russian politicians (with the notable exception of the official Kremlin court jester, Zhirinovskii) and analysts never saw Trump as a potential ally or friend. The Kremlin was especially cautious, which leads me to believe that the Russian intelligence analysts did a very good job evaluating Trump's psyche and they quickly figured out that he was no better than any other US politician.
Right now, I know of no Russian analyst who would predict that relations between the US and Russia will improve in the foreseeable future. If anything, most are clearly saying that "guys, we better get used to this" (accusations, sanctions, accusations, sanctions, etc. etc. etc.).
Furthermore, it is pretty obvious to the Russians that while Crimea and MH17 were the pretexts for western sanctions against Russia, they were not the real cause. The real cause of the West's hatred for Russia is as simple as it is old: Russia cannot be conquered, subdued, subverted or destroyed. They've been at it for close to 1,000 years and they still are at it. In fact, each time they fail to crush Russia, their russophobia increases to even higher levels (phobia both in the sense of "fear" and in the sense of "hatred").
Simply put -- there is nothing which Russia can expect from the upcoming election. Nothing at all. Still, that does not mean that things are not better than 4 or 8 years ago. Let's look at what changed.
I would argue that since at least Russia and the AngloZionist Empire have been at war since at least 2013, when Russia foiled the US plan to attack Syria under the pretext that it was "highly likely" that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons against civilians (in reality, a textbook case of a false flag organized by the Brits), This means that Russia and the Empire have been at [Cold] war since at least 2013, for no less than seven years (something which Russian 6th columnists and Neo-Marxists try very hard to ignore).
True, at least until now, this was has been 80% informational, 15% economic and only 5% kinetic, but this is a real existential war of survival for both sides: only one side will walk away from this struggle. The other one will simply disappear (not as a nation or a people, but as a polity; a regime). The Kremlin fully understood that and it embarked on a huge reform and modernization of the Russian armed forces in three distinct ways:
A "general" reform of the Russian armed forces which had to be modernized by about 80%. This part of the reform is now practically complete. A specific reform to prepare the western and southern military districts for a major conventional war against the united West (as always in Russian history) which would involve the First Guards Tank Army and the Russian Airborne Forces. The development of bleeding-edge weapons systems with no equivalent in the West and which cannot be countered or defeated; these weapons have had an especially dramatic impact upon First Strike Stability and upon naval operations.While some US politicians understood what was going on (I think of Ron Paul, see here ), most did not. They were so brainwashed by the US propaganda that they were sure that no matter what, "USA! USA! USA!". Alas for them, the reality was quite different.
Russian officials, by the way, have confirmed that Russia was preparing for war . Heck, the reforms were so profound and far reaching, that it would have been impossible for the Russians to hide what they were doing (see here for details; also please see Andrei Martyanov's excellent primer on the new Russian Navy here ).
While no country is ever truly prepared for war, I would argue that by 2020 the Russians had reached their goals and that now Russia is fully prepared to handle any conflict the West might throw at her, ranging from a small border incident somewhere in Central Asia to a full-scaled war against the US/NATO in Europe .
Folks in the West are now slowly waking up to this new reality (I mentioned some of that here ), but it is too late. In purely military terms, Russia has now created such a qualitative gap with the West that the still existing quantitative gap is not sufficient to guarantee a US/NATO victory. Now some western politicians are starting to seriously freak out (see this lady , for example), but most Europeans are coming to terms with two truly horrible realities:
Russia is much stronger than Europe and, even much worse, Russia will never attack first (which is a major cause of frustration for western russophobes)As for the obvious solution to this problem, having friendly relations with Russia is simply unthinkable for those who made their entire careers peddling the Soviet (and now Russian) threat to the world.
But Russia is changing, albeit maybe too slowly (at least for my taste). As I mentioned last week, a number of Polish, Ukrainian and Baltic politicians have declared that the Zapad2020 military maneuvers which are supposed to take place in southern Russia and the Caucasus could be used to prepare an attack on the West (see here for a rather typical example of this nonsense). In the past, the Kremlin would only have made a public statement ridiculing this nonsense, but this time around Putin did something different. Right after he saw the reaction of these politicians, Putin ordered a major and UNSCHEDULED military readiness exercise which involved no less than 150,000 troops, 400 aircraft & 100 ships ! The message here was clear:
Yes, we are much more powerful than you are and No, we are not apologizing for our strength anymoreAnd, just to make sure that the message is clear, the Russians also tested the readiness of the Russian Airborne Forces units near the city of Riazan, see for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/2s2V8iPofFs?feature=oembed
This response is, I think, the correct one. Frankly, nobody in the West is listening to what the Kremlin has to say, so what is the point of making more statements which in the future will be ignored equally as they have been in the past.
If anything, the slow realization that Russia is more powerful than NATO would be most helpful in gently prodding EU politicians to change their tune and return back to reality. Check out this recent video of Sarah Wagenknecht, a leading politician of the German Left and see for yourself:
https://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x7uu5fk
The example of Sahra Wagenknecht is interesting, because she is from Germany, one of the countries of northern Europe; traditionally, northern European powers have been much more anti-Russian than southern Europeans, so it is encouraging to see that the anti-Putin and anti-Russia hysteria is not always being endorsed by everybody.
But if things are very slowly getting better in the EU, in the bad old US of A things are only getting worse. Even the Republicans are now fully on board the Russia-hating float (right behind a "gay pride" one I suppose) and they are now contributing their own insanity to the cause, as this article entitled " Congressional Republicans: Russia should be designated state sponsor of terror " shows (designating Russia as a terrorist state is an old idea of the Dems, by the way).
Russian options for the Fall
In truth, Russia does not have any particularly good options towards the US. Both parties are now fully united in their rabid hatred of Russia (and China too, of course). Furthermore, while there are many well-funded and virulently anti-Russian organizations in the US (Neo-cons, Papists, Poles, Masons, Ukrainians, Balts, Ashkenazi Jews, etc.), Russian organizations in the US like this one , have very little influence or even relevance.
Banderites marching in the USHowever, as the chaos continues to worsen inside the US and as US politicians continue to alienate pretty much the entire planet, Russia does have a perfect opportunity to weaken the US grip on Europe. The beauty in the current dynamic is that Russia does not have to do anything at all (nevermind anything covert or illegal) to help the anti-EU and anti-US forces in Europe: All she needs to do is to continuously hammer in the following simple message: "the US is sinking -- do you really want to go down with it?".
There are many opportunities to deliver that message. The current US/Polish efforts to prevent the EU from enjoying cheap Russian gas might well be the best example of what we could call "European suicide politics", but there are many, many more.
Truth be told, neither the US nor the EU are a top priority for Russia, at least not in economic terms. The moral credibility of the West in general can certainly be described as dead and long gone. As for the West military might, it is only a concern to the degree that western politicians might be tempted to believe their own propaganda about their military forces being the best in the history of the galaxy. This is why Russia regularly engages in large surprise exercises: to prove to the West that the Russian military is fully ready for anything the West might try. As for the constant move of more and more US/NATO forces closer to the borders of Russia, they are offensive in political terms, but in military terms, getting closer to Russia only means that Russia will have more options to destroy you. "Forward deployment" is really a thing of the past, at least against Russia.
With time, however, and as the US federal center loses even more of its control of the country, the Kremlin might be well-advised to try to open some venues for "popular diplomacy", especially with less hostile US states. The weakening of the Executive Branch has already resulted in US governors playing an increasingly important international role and while this is not, strictly speaking, legal (only the federal government has the right to engage in foreign policy), the fact is that this has been going on for years already. Another possible partner inside the US for Russian firms would be US corporations (especially now that they are hurting badly). Finally, I think that the Kremlin ought to try to open channels of communication with the various small political forces in the US which are clearly not buying into the official propaganda: libertarians, (true) liberals and progressives, paleo-conservatives.
What we are witnessing before our eyes is the collapse of the US federal center. This is a dangerous and highly unstable moment in our history. But from this crisis opportunities will arise. The best thing Russia can do now is to simply remain very careful and vigilant and wait for new forces to appear on the US political scene.
Twilight Patriot , says: • Website July 29, 2020 at 12:26 am GMT
I really agree with you that the “blame Russia” and “blame China” thing has gotten out of hand in US politics. Whether it will turn into a shooting war seems doubtful to me, as the government is still full of people who are looking out for their own interests and know that a full-sized war with Russia, China, Iran or whoever will not advance their interests.
But who would have guessed, a few years ago, that “Russian asset” would become the all-purpose insult for Democrats to use, not just against Republicans, but against other Democrats?
With Republicans I think that “blame China” is stronger. China makes a good scapegoat for the economic situation in the United States. But convincing the working class that China is the source of their problems (and that Mr. MAGA is going to solve those problems by standing up to China) requires ignorance of the crucial facts about the trade relationship between those two countries.
Namely, that the trade deficit exists only because the Federal Reserve chooses to create huge amounts of new dollars each year for export to other countries, and it’s only possible for US exports to fall behind imports so badly (and thus put so many American laborers out of work) because the Fed is making up the difference by exporting dollars. Granted, it isn’t a policy that the US can change without harming the interests of its own upper classes; at the same time, it isn’t a policy that China could force on the US without the people in charge of the United States wanting it.
This is a topic I’ve dealt with a few times on my own blog.
Why I Don’t Fear Chinese Hegemony: https://www.twilightpatriot.com/2020/05/why-i-dont-fear-chinese-hegemony.html
Nobody Will Win The Trade War: https://www.twilightpatriot.com/2019/09/nobody-will-win-trade-war.html
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How The Billionaires Control American Elections
by Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 - 23:40 Twitter Facebook Reddit Email Print
Authored by Eric Zuesse via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
The great investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald gave an hour-long lecture on how America's billionaires control the U.S. Government, and here is an edited summary of its opening twenty minutes, with key quotations and assertions from its opening -- and then its broader context will be discussed briefly:
"How Congress Maintains Endless War – System Update with Glenn Greenwald" - The Intercept, 9 July 2020
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ejqYrzEX14E
2:45 : There is "this huge cleavage between how members of Congress present themselves, their imagery and rhetoric and branding, what they present to the voters, on the one hand, and the reality of what they do in the bowels of Congress and the underbelly of Congressional proceedings, on the other. Most of the constituents back in their home districts have no idea what it is that the people they've voted for have been doing, and this gap between belief and reality is enormous."
Four crucial military-budget amendments were debated in the House just now, as follows:
to block Trump from withdrawing troops from Afghanistan.
to block Trump from withdrawing 10,000 troops from Germany
to limit U.S. assistance to the Sauds' bombing of Yemen
to require Trump to explain why he wants to withdraw from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty
On all four issues, the pro-imperialist position prevailed in nearly unanimous votes - overwhelming in both Parties. Dick Cheney's daughter, Republican Liz Cheney, dominated the debates, though the House of Representatives is now led by Democrats, not Republicans.
Greenwald (citing other investigators) documents that the U.S. news-media are in the business of deceiving the voters to believe that there are fundamental differences between the Parties. "The extent to which they clash is wildly exaggerated" by the press (in order to pump up the percentages of Americans who vote, so as to maintain, both domestically and internationally, the lie that America is a democracy -- actually represents the interests of the voters).
16:00 : The Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee -- which writes the nearly $750B annual Pentagon budget -- is the veteran (23 years) House Democrat Adam Smith of Boeing's Washington State.
"The majority of his district are people of color." He's "clearly a pro-war hawk" a consistent neoconservative, voted to invade Iraq and all the rest.
"This is whom Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats have chosen to head the House Armed Services Committee -- someone with this record."
He is "the single most influential member of Congress when it comes to shaping military spending."
He was primaried by a progressive Democrat, and the "defense industry opened up their coffers" and enabled Adam Smith to defeat the challenger.
That's the opening.
Greenwald went on, after that, to discuss other key appointees by Nancy Pelosi who are almost as important as Adam Smith is, in shaping the Government's military budget. They're all corrupt. And then he went, at further length, to describe the methods of deceiving the voters, such as how these very same Democrats who are actually agents of the billionaires who own the 'defense' contractors and the 'news' media etc., campaign for Democrats' votes by emphasizing how evil the Republican Party is on the issues that Democratic Party voters care far more about than they do about America's destructions of Iraq and Syria and Libya and Honduras and Ukraine, and imposing crushing economic blockades (sanctions) against the residents in Iran, Venezuela and many other lands. Democratic Party voters care lots about the injustices and the sufferings of American Blacks and other minorities, and of poor American women, etc., but are satisfied to vote for Senators and Representatives who actually represent 'defense' contractors and other profoundly corrupt corporations, instead of represent their own voters. This is how the most corrupt people in politics become re-elected, time and again -- by deceived voters. And -- as those nearly unanimous committee votes display -- almost every member of the U.S. Congress is profoundly corrupt.
Furthermore: Adam Smith's opponent in the 2018 Democratic Party primary was Sarah Smith (no relation) and she tried to argue against Adam Smith's neoconservative voting-record, but the press-coverage she received in her congressional district ignored that, in order to keep those voters in the dark about the key reality. Whereas Sarah Smith received some coverage from Greenwald and other reporters at The Intercept who mentioned that "Sarah Smith mounted her challenge largely in opposition to what she cast as his hawkish foreign policy approach," and that she "routinely brought up his hawkish foreign policy views and campaign donations from defense contractors as central issues in the campaign," only very few of the voters in that district followed such national news-media, far less knew that Adam Smith was in the pocket of 'defense' billionaires. And, so, the Pentagon's big weapons-making firms defeated a progressive who would, if elected, have helped to re-orient federal spending away from selling bombs to be used by the Sauds to destroy Yemen, and instead toward providing better education and employment-prospects to Black, brown and other people, and to the poor, and everybody, in that congressional district, and all others. Moreover, since Adam Smith had a fairly good voting-record on the types of issues that Blacks and other minorities consider more important and more relevant than such things as his having voted for Bush to invade Iraq, Sarah Smith really had no other practical option than to criticize him regarding his hawkish voting-record, which that district's voters barely even cared about. The billionaires actually had Sarah Smith trapped (just like, on a national level, they had Bernie Sanders trapped).
Of course, Greenwald's audience is clearly Democratic Party voters, in order to inform them of how deceitful their Party is. However, the Republican Party operates in exactly the same way, though using different deceptions, because Republican Party voters have very different priorities than Democratic Party voters do, and so they ignore other types of deceptions and atrocities.
Numerous polls (for examples, this and this ) show that American voters, except for the minority of them that are Republican, want "bipartisan" government; but the reality in America is that this country actually already does have that: the U.S. Government is actually bipartisanly corrupt, and bipartisan evil. In fact, it's almost unanimous, it is so bipartisan, in reality.
That's the way America's Government actually functions, especially in the congressional votes that the 'news'-media don't publicize. However, since it lies so much, and its media (controlled also by its billionaires) do likewise, and since they cover-up instead of expose the deepest rot, the public don't even know this. They don't know the reality. They don't know how corrupt and evil their Government actually is. They just vote and pay taxes. That's the extent to which they actually 'participate' in 'their' Government. They tragically don't know the reality. It's hidden from them. It is censored-out, by the editors, producers, and other management, of the billionaires' 'news'-media. These are the truths that can't pass through those executives' filters. These are the truths that get filtered-out, instead of reported. No democracy can function this way -- and, of course, none does.
Patmos , 8 hours agoAlice-the-dog , 2 hours agoEisenhower originally called it the Military Industrial Congressional Complex.
Was probably still when Congress maybe had a few slivers of integrity though.
As McCain's wife said, they all knew about Epstein.
Question_Mark , 1 hour agoAnd now we suffer the Medical Industrial Complex on top of it.
EngageTheRage , 9 hours agoKlaus Schwab, UN/World Economic Forum - power plant "cyberattack" (advance video to 6:42 to skip intro):
please watch video at least from minute 6:42 at least for a few minutes to get context, consider its contents, and comment:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOvz1Flfrfw
source for UN/WEF partnership:
https://www.weforum.org/press/2019/06/world-economic-forum-and-un-sign-strategic-partnership-framework/NewDarwin , 9 hours agoHow jewish billionaires control America.
EndOfDayExit , 7 hours agoVot3 for trump but don't waste too much energy on the elections. All Trump can do is buy us time.
Their plan has been in the works for over a century.
1) financial collapse with central banking.
2) social collapse with cultural marxism
3) government collapse with corrupt pedophile politicians.
JGResearch , 8 hours ago"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." -Thomas Jefferson
Humans are just not wired for eternal vigilance. Sheeple want to graze and don't want to think.
KuriousKat , 8 hours agoMoney is just the tool, it goes much deeper:
The Truth, when you finally chase it down, is almost always far
worse than your darkest visions and fears.'
– Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear'The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes' *- Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
This information helps understand the shift to the bias we are witnessing at The PBS Newshour and the MSM. PBS has always taken their marching orders from the Council on Foreign Relations.
Some of the mebers of the CFR:
Joe Biden (47th Vice President of the United States )
Judy Woodruff, and Jim Lehrer (journalist, former anchor for PBS ) is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. John McCain (United States Republican Senator from Arizona , 2008 Republican Party nominee for the Presidency), William F. Buckley, Jr (commentator, publisher, founder of the National Review ), Jeffery E Epstein (financier)
https://www.cfr.org/membership/roster
The Council on Foreign Relations has historical control both the Democratic establishment and the Republican establishment until President Trump came along.
Until then they did not care who won the presidency because they control both parties at the top.
FYI: Hardly one person in 1000 ever heard of the Council on Foreign Relations ( CFR ). Until Trump both Republicans and Democrats control by the Eastern Establishment.There operational front was the Council on Foreign Relations. Historically they did not care who one the election since they controlled both parties from the top.
The CFR has only 3000 members yet they control over three-quarters of the nation's wealth. The CFR runs the State Department and the CIA. The CFR has placed 100 CFR members in every Presidential Administration and cabinet since Woodrow Wilson. They work together to misinform the President to act in the best interest of the CFR not the best interest of the American People.
At least five Presidents (Eisenhower, Ford, Carter, Bush, and Clinton) have been members of the CFR. The CFR has packed every Supreme court with CFR insiders.
Three CFR members (Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Sandra Day O'Connor) sit on the supreme court. The CFR's British Counterpart is the Royal Institute of International Affairs. The members of these groups profit by creating tension and hate. Their targets include British and American citizens.
The CFR/RIIA method of operation is simple -- they control public opinion. They keep the identity of their group secret. They learn the likes and dislikes of influential people. They surround and manipulate them into acting in the best interest of the CFR/RIIA.
jmNZ , 3 hours agothere are 550 of them in the US..just boggles the mind they have us at each others throat instead of theirs.
x_Maurizio , 2 hours agoThis is why America's only hope is to vote for Ron Paul.
Voice-of-Reason , 6 hours agoLet me understand how a system, which is already proven being disfunctional, should suddenly produce a positive result. That's craziness: to repeate the same action, with the conviction it will give a different result.
If you would say: "The only hope is NOT TO TAKE PART TO THE FARCE" (so not to vote) I'd understand.
But vot for that, instead of this.... what didn't you understand?Eastern Whale , 8 hours agoThe very fact that we have billionaires who amass so much wealth that they can own our Republic is the problem.
MartinG , 5 hours agoall the names mentioned in this article is rotten to the core
Xena fobe , 4 hours agoTell me again how democracy is the greatest form of government. What other profession lets clueless idiots decide who runs the business.
quikwit , 3 hours agoIt isn't the fault of democracy. It's more the fault of voters.
_triplesix_ , 8 hours agoI'd pick the "clueless idiots" over an iron-fisted evil genius every time.
BTCtroll , 7 hours agoAm I the only one who noticed that Eric Zuesse capitalized the word "black" every time he used it?
F**k you, Eric, you Marxist trash.
freedommusic , 4 hours agoConfirmed. Blacks are apparently a proper noun despite being referred to as simply a color. In reality, no one cares. Ask anyone, they don't care expert black lies matter.
The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society , and we are as a people, inherently and historically, opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings .
And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.
Our way of life is under attack.
But we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding it's fear of influence, on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections , on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations. It's preparations are concealed, not published. It's mistakes are buried, not headlined. It's dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned. No rumor is printed. No secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War in short with a wartime discipline, no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.
...I am asking the members of the newspaper profession and the industry in this country to re-examine their own responsibilities, to consider the degree and the nature of the present danger, and to heed the duty of self restraint, which that danger imposes upon us all.
It is the unprecedented nature of this challenge that also gives rise to your second obligation and obligation which I share, and that is our obligation to inform and alert the American people, to make certain that they possess all the facts that they need and understand them as well, the perils, the prospects, the purposes of our program, and the choices that we face.
I am not asking your newspapers to support an administration, but I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people, for I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens, whenever they are fully informed.
... that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment. The only business in America specifically protected by the constitution, not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply give the public what it wants, but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises, and our choices, to lead, mold, educate, and sometimes even anger, public opinion.
-- JFK
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Ron Paul Exposes Big Holes In The COVID 'Spike' Narrative 07/20/2020
Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,
Motorcycle accidents ruled Covid deaths? In the rush to paint Florida as the epicenter of the "second wave" of the coronavirus outbreak, government officials and their allies in the mainstream media have stooped to ridiculous depths to maximize the death count. A television station this weekend looked into two highly unusual Covid deaths among victims in their 20s, and when they asked about co-morbidities they were told one victim had none, because his Covid death came in the form of a fatal motorcycle accident.
Sadly, this is not an isolated incident. In fact the "spike" that has dominated the mainstream for the last couple of weeks is full of examples of such trickery.
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Washington state last week revised its Covid death numbers downward when it was revealed that anyone who passed away for any reason whatsoever who also had coronavirus was listed as a "Covid-19 death" even if the cause of death had nothing to do with Covid-19.
In South Carolina, the state health agency admitted that the "spike" in Covid deaths was only the result of delayed reporting of suspected Covid deaths.
An analysis of reported daily Covid deaths last week compared to actual day-of-death in Houston revealed that the recent "spike" consisted largely of deaths that occurred in April through June. Why delay reporting until now?
We do know that based on this "spike" the Democrat mayor of Houston cancelled the convention of the Texas Republican Party. Mission accomplished?
Doesn't it seem suspicious that so many states have experienced "delayed" reporting of deaths until Fauci and his gang of "experts" announced that we are in a new nightmare scenario?
Last week in Florida – which is perhaps not coincidentally the location of the Republican Party's national convention – another scandal emerged when hundreds of Covid test centers reported 100 percent positive results. Obviously this would paint a far grimmer picture of the resurgence of the virus. Orlando Health, for example, reported a positivity rate of 98 percent – a shocking level – but a further investigation revealed a true positivity rate of only 9.4 percent. Those "anomalies" were repeated throughout the state.
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"Cases" once meant individuals who displayed sufficient symptoms to be treated in medical facilities. But when the scaremongers needed a "second wave" they began reporting any positive test result as a "Covid case." No wonder we have a "spike."
Politics demands that politicians be seen doing "something" rather than nothing, even if that something is more harmful than doing nothing at all. That is why Washington is so addicted to sanctions.
The same has been true especially in Republican-controlled states in the US in response to the coronavirus. Faced with a virus that has killed about one-third as many people as the normal, seasonal flu virus in 2018, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has endorsed a partial shutdown of the economy resulting in millions tossed into the despair of unemployment. Then he arbitrarily shut down bars because massively increased testing showed more people have been exposed to the virus. And he mandated that people wear face masks. Neither shutting down bars (instead of restaurants or Walmarts) nor forcing people to wear masks will have any effect on the progression of the virus through society. But at least he looks like he's doing "something."
We are facing the greatest assault on our civil liberties in our lifetimes. The virus is real, but the government reaction is political and totalitarian. As it falls apart, will more Americans start fighting for their liberty?
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Though government infiltrators undoubtedly helped to fragment Occupy, most protesters gleefully went along with their own gelding, because, to them, it was never about rallying the 99% towards common goals, as they vaguely claimed, but airing minority grievances. Most importantly, they could look cool doing it.
With visual evidence uploaded onto FaceBook, Tumblr and Instagram, etc., soy boys from strip malled subdivisions could accrue street cred.
Since "Occupy Everything, Demand Nothing " became Occupy's rallying cry, it achieved literally nothing, predictably. A month after all tents were cleared from Zuccotti Park, Time Magazine anointed "The Protester" as Person Of The Year, so for being symbolically homeless for two months, the sans cazzo got a participation lollipop from the bossman.
Since then, unscathed and smirking Wall Street has only amped up its state-of-the-art shell games, punctuated by bailouts. What's left of the country's wealth keeps flowing to the top.
Although Occupy Wall Street exposed widespread discontent, it was deftly tamed by the state, without addressing any of the issues raised. Worsened economic malaise is papered over with fake news and statistics. Unable to afford even an efficiency, the young and not so young resignedly or bitterly move back home. I'm sure you know a few.
Beneath each basement, there's another, even darker and danker, Americans kept discovering, so they just had to suck it up and simmer on, when not overdosing on opioids. It's the new normal.
Occupy Wall Street protesters were mostly under-35-year-old whites, with at least some college education. Now, the same demographic is back on the streets, but instead of chanting for economic justice and representing, at least in theory, the 99%, they're fighting Fascism and racism. With their inclusive definitions of such sins, however, they're warring against most of the country.
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On August 14th, 2018, CNN reeducated us, "There is no national antifa group. It is mostly made up of people who are far left of center, who make it their mission to battle Fascists, racists and alt right extremists." It's a grassroot, homegrown resistance to hate, that's all. "Behind the masks are people from all walks of life, artist, mom, ordinary American, as well as anarchist." Four most gentle faces were shown.
On June 16th, 2020, CNN reemphasized that antifa was a belief system that unified all anti-Fascists, whatever their color, age or background, so how could you be against it, unless you're a Fascist?! A burly, genial black man explained, "It basically means that you are against Fascism. If you are against Fascism, then you are antifa."
In a BLACK LIVES MATTER muscle-T, a white wuss added, "Antifa is not a group. It's not like everybody sits in, like, some basement, talking about how to overthrow the Fascist regime. I walked around picking up trash yesterday, behind the protesters. That's what antifa looks like."
Burly black guy, "White people have to be involved in fighting racism, in fighting white supremacy [ ] But if you are a white ally, remember that you still have to follow the lead of people of color."
The New York Times and Washington Post have also written sympathetically about antifa. When the corporate media give you a positive spin, it must mean you're serving the establishment. Mussolini had his Blackshirts, Hitler his Brownshirts and Mao his Red Guards. America's rulers have antifa.
Far from threatening the 1%, antifa sows dissension among the 99%. Ignoring Wall Street, antifa trashes one Main Street after another.
Zealously branding its enemies as racist or Fascist, antifa generates more racism and Fascism.
Slammed by the economic crisis of 2008, Americans started to look more closely at Wall Street, Goldman Sachs and the Federal Reserve , etc., and they were enlightened by people like Ron Paul and Matt Taibbi.
In Rolling Stone, Taibbi wrote, "The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
Banksters were scrutinized with increasing intensity. It was in this climate that Occupy Wall Street was born.
Not quite nine years later, almost no one is talking about banksters, incredibly, although the country has been plunged into a much worse economic hell, with millions suddenly laid off, and millions of mom and pops permanently ruined. Thanks to another monster bailout, only Wall Street is doing well.
Broke and enraged, mobs swarm American streets, but instead of targeting those who are imploding their society, they pull down statues, break windows, deface walls, loot stores and attack cops or each other.
When your tyrants can't even be identified, much less found, no coup, uprising or revolution is possible, and it's pointless to assassinate an American president, since he is but a puppet, so who should be shot?
The month I was born, two presidents were killed. Though Ngo Dinh Diem has often been caricatured as an American puppet, he obviously broke his strings, or he wouldn't have been shot. Kennedy, too, went off script. His death was a warning. It works.
American elections are cathartic farces. Drawn out and elaborately staged, they're designed to give false hopes and stoke emotions. With the national mood already so volatile and foul, however, this year's balloting promises to be a horror show. Unable to aim at their oppressors, Americans will be reduced to shooting each other.
TG , says: July 11, 2020 at 5:53 pm GMT
Carlton Meyer , says: Website July 11, 2020 at 7:49 pm GMT"Far from threatening the 1%, antifa sows dissension among the 99%. Ignoring Wall Street, antifa trashes one Main Street after another."
Kudos. Well said!!!
"Who should be shot?" I answer the question in the purely hypothetical, I am not in any way suggesting this line of response. But the answer is obvious.
When Tsar Nicholas and his family were murdered by the communists, it put the fear of God (or fear of something) in the hearts of the western plutocrats and we got the New Deal and more than a half century of the working class getting at least sort of a reasonable cut of the proceeds.
"Who shall we shoot?" If the Jeff Bezoses and Zuckerbergs and Soroses etc. of the world take a personal hit – if they begin to think that even they, in their well-guarded bubbles, are not safe – only then will we get any sort of consideration from the top. It is personal fear, not morality, that will cause the elites to again begin to value stability and order over rapacious looting.
No I am not in any way suggesting violence. Not me, no how. But it remains true that only the threat of personal violence directed at the elites, will cause them to reconsider their current socially destructive path.
The Alarmist , says: July 11, 2020 at 7:49 pm GMTThough Ngo Dinh Diem has often been caricatured as an American puppet, he obviously broke his strings, or he wouldn't have been shot.
The CIA recruited Diem to be the puppet ruler of a nation they had created. He was living in New Jersey and then became head of South Vietnam without an election. He had attended the same elite school in Hue as Ho Chi Mihn and meant well. When he saw that fighting was increasing he wanted to cut a deal with Ho Chi Mihn, who had won the 1954 elections was the legitimate ruler of all Vietnam after the temporary cease fire line that divided Vietnam ended in 1956. The DMZ was an illusion created by the CIA and Pentagon.
This is why Diem was killed by a CIA coup, and was followed by other puppet leaders. The CIA's attempt to create a new nation that became known as South Vietnam failed by 1964, which is why American troops arrived.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/0B9BM8OTSB0?feature=oembed
Si1ver1ock , says: July 11, 2020 at 11:31 pm GMTMussolini had his Blackshirts, Hitler his Brownshirts and Mao his Red Guards. America's rulers have antifa.
The Black Shirts were able to gracefully fade away for the most part, but the other two groups had a rather difficult go once they had served their purpose. It would be fitting justice for AntiFa to go the way the Red Guards once President Abrams is safely ensconced: After all, you can't feed a country with hooligan student revolutionaries roving the streets rather than working the farms.
Priss Factor , says: Website July 12, 2020 at 12:01 am GMTThe month I was born, two presidents were killed. Though Ngo Dinh Diem has often been caricatured as an American puppet, he obviously broke his strings, or he wouldn't have been shot. Kennedy, too, went off script. His death was a warning. It works.
Liz Chaney is thwarting Trump's troop draw-down in Afghanistan with help from Dems as well as Republicans.
House Democrats, Working With Liz Cheney, Restrict Trump's Planned Withdrawal of Troops From Afghanistan and Germany
Trump is thinking about doing something stupid in Venezuela.
He is already antagonizing China.
animalogic , says: July 12, 2020 at 8:18 am GMTNot quite nine years later, almost no one is talking about banksters, incredibly, although the country has been plunged into a much worse economic hell Broke and enraged, mobs swarm American streets, but instead of targeting those who are imploding their society, they pull down statues, break windows, deface walls, loot stores and attack cops or each other.
Pelosi said even if DC burns down to the ground, the US will be 100% for Israel. Why not include Wall Street, the money bag of Jewish Power?
In a way, what we are seeing is the Japanization of White America. This is why the US should not have dropped the nukes and forced unconditional surrender. They should have allowed Japan to surrender with honor. Make Japan give up its empire and military ambitions but let the Japanese keep their culture and sacred myths. But the US forced unconditional surrender, turned the Emperor into Tokyo Shoeshine boy, occupied Japan(and still has bases there), used Japanese women as whores & mistresses, and turned Japanese men into castrated cuck-wussies. Sound familiar?
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Franz , says: July 12, 2020 at 9:31 am GMTGreat article.
"Their movement fizzled out, however, because it degenerated into an endless display of narcissistic posturing, with everyone making self-important speeches about his or her pet cause, to an audience of fifty, tops, which is not how a revolution is ever made."
"Far from threatening the 1%, antifa sows dissension among the 99%. Ignoring Wall Street, antifa trashes one Main Street after another."
Is it ANY wonder why Elites love the post-modern, the PC, & antifa so much. Talk about the "magic pudding" & the gift that just keeps on giving .theMann , says: July 12, 2020 at 12:44 pm GMTBroke and enraged, mobs swarm American streets, but instead of targeting those who are imploding their society, they pull down statues, break windows, deface walls, loot stores and attack cops or each other .
Hey! What the 19th century robber baron said has finally come true:
"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half." -- Jay Gould
They are being paid: BLM and Antifa people are being bankrolled. Just tote up the corporate donations the BLM in the past week and flip. More money than most nations have in the treasury. As to Antifa, Soros funded them for years. All to get rid of white people.
If it weren't happening, who'd believe it?
@Brian ReillyPolemos , says: July 12, 2020 at 3:39 pm GMTYou left out the Media Jackals. They are the willing and ever ready mouthpieces for the Satanic Cult the Financial Elites would turn America into. In fact, the Media liars have as much culpability as any group in the country for our current disaster.
Parbes , says: July 12, 2020 at 4:23 pm GMTI think one reason why we're no longer talking about a 1% is that enough of us started to ask the question: what race/nationality are the 1%?
ruralguy , says: July 12, 2020 at 4:45 pm GMTWho should be shot? Start with the neocons (particularly the Jewish ones). They are the head of the snake in the West – especially the U.S. – today. Most evils are downstream from their actions/policies, directly or indirectly.
Jmaie , says: July 12, 2020 at 4:54 pm GMTWho should be shot? It's hard imaging Americans staging a revolution. The DOD says 75% of young Americans don't quality to serve in the military, because they are too fat or too dumb. Our protesters protest because they get to appear virtuous -- they need some kind of participation award.
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Rev. Spooner , says: July 12, 2020 at 5:07 pm GMT...Upthread someone mentioned Bezos as being in the 1%. While he is certainly uber wealthy, I've always thought of him in a different way. In my mind the 1% are the wall street guys who financialize everything, and if they all went away tomorrow our (main street) economy would greatly improve. If Amazon goes away, I'd have to start buying all my crap in person. Ugh
The same fools assume the 1 percent will hang around when things become very adverse in the US. Nope. They'll do what wealthy South Africans did and the US lumpens will do what Boers did.
Nobody cares if the poor in the gutters of Wall Street go on hunger strike The one percent does not care if the poor go hungry anyhow.
Average middle class Americans are naive as to how callous and unconcerned the one percent is. The blacks and Hispanics at the bottom of society are aware, of course. That is why laws and customs mean nothing, nor bourgeois values. But it is the middle class who is actually naive enough to believe the one percent gives a fat rat's ass about them, about America, about their feelings.
I'm surprised this is not obvious to more people.
gaston julia , says: July 12, 2020 at 7:26 pm GMTBoth Antifa and the Patriots have a huge red-blue target painted on their backs. Unless they can identify their overlords clearly, they will fight each other.
Hey Americans, who is it that you cannot criticize?@ruralguyhttps://www.wired.com/2009/11/75-of-potential-recruits-too-fat-too-sickly-too-dumb-to-serve/
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The Great Covid-19 Deception and What You Need to Know to Survive GARY HEAVIN JULY 10, 2020 1,600 WORDS 74 COMMENTS REPLY Tweet Reddit Share Share Email Print More RSSI've been speaking with my friends who include medical doctors and other highly educated people about the treatments that they would seek if they were diagnosed with Covid 19. Most of them had no idea what course of treatment they or their families might seek. This conundrum is in part due to the massive volume of information that is being thrown at us. Much of this information is deliberately deceptive. I am writing this article to cut through the deception so that you and your physician can make informed decisions if and when the time comes.
This article has two purposes. First, it's imperative that you understand the great deceit that Big Pharma, their minions at the FDA, CDC, NIH, the WHO, the MSM, and officials in high government positions are perpetrating on you, your family, and likely your doctor.
The second purpose is to assure that you are armed with the necessary information to insure that you receive the best treatment options from your health care provider. Knowledge is power.
Allow me to repeat, you need to know you are being duped and you need a plan for you and your family if you become infected with Covid 19. So let's get to it. Let me begin by stating that I'm not a medical doctor and I m not offering medical advice. I do have a bachelors of science degree in health, nutrition, and counseling. I've written two NY Times bestselling books on women's health and fitness and I have been awarded an honorary doctorate degree. However, you will need to determine your treatment options with your personal physician.
The Great Deception
When it comes to safe, effective and affordable therapies for Covid 19, Big Pharma and its agents, i.e. Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx and many others, appear to have an agenda to lie to you and your physician.
The most obvious example is their ongoing effort to ridicule the treatment option of hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin, and Zinc. We've all watched the harsh criticism that President Trump received when he promoted this protocol for Covid 19.
So, hydroxychloroquine has been around for almost 70 years as a treatment for malaria, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis. The WHO has designated it as a safe and effective medication akin to taking an aspirin. A survey of 6,000 medical doctors affirmed it as their treatment of choice for Covid 19.
The treatment works like this. hydroxychloroquine is an ionophore, which means it can transport material through the cellular wall. Zinc is a mineral that stops the replication of the Covid 19 virus within the cell. hydroxychloroquine transports Zinc into the cell so that it can stop the replication of the virus. The Z-pak antibiotic is given to prevent opportunistic bacterial infections like pneumonia that can occur while your immune system is engaged in fighting your viral infection. The key to its effectiveness is to start this treatment at the early onset of Covid 19 so that it has time to work.
How much effort has Big Pharma put into subverting this treatment regimen? In addition to denouncing its effectiveness, from Dr. Fauci and company, constant MSM hit pieces, the censoring of medical doctor's articles and videos from the internet, there has also been a number of "studies" done that were literally sabotaged from the onset.
The VA hospital system reported in March that they had given hydroxychloroquine to a number of patients. Following their release of information, the MSM ran the story with the headlines, "VA hospital found that hydoxychloroquine doesn't work and increases the fatality rate of Covid 19." However, if you actually read the study (see link ) you will find that only the sickest of the cohorts were given the drug. They got the drug only after they were so far along that it would not have a chance to work and they were not given zinc. None of these details made the MSM articles.
Another example of the Great Deception came from the British medical journal, The Lancet. The Lancet reported that a meta study showed that hydroxychloroquine was ineffective. As a result of this published study, France, Italy and other European countries immediately prohibited the use of this treatment option. Within a few weeks, it was found that the study was so badly designed and that the results were literally fabricated . The Lancet was forced to make a retraction of the "study." Of course in the meantime the MSM ran the original Lancet story and mislead millions of people and their physicians.
So what could possibly be the motive behind Big Pharma's Great Deception. Well there's three answers, money, money and money. That brings up the treatment option that Big Pharma is promoting, Remdesivir. This lovely experimental drug, costs above $3,000 per regimen, must be given intravenously in a hospital (five days stay around 15 grand) and evidence shows it doesn't really work .
The other treatment option is the promised Covid 19 vaccine that they allege is forthcoming. The NHS in Great Britain has committed to purchase a vaccine for the entire population of Great Britain. That's a commitment of 80,000,000 doses at an agreed price of around $600 for each vaccination. That's about $50,000,000,000. (50 Billion) That's a lot of incentive to mislead people. This week, a US pharmaceutical company received $1.6 billion dollars towards their efforts to make this vaccine which in the opinion of many experts, won't work on a coronavirus and will be untested and experimental.
How does Big Pharma have so much control over the dissemination of this information or should I say propaganda? Well, the same answer pops up again, money. Big Pharma gave $2 billion dollars during the last election cycle to US politicians. Big AG, the military/security complex and big oil each gave only a paltry $1.0 billion dollars to buy the votes of our political leadership.
The MSM counts Big Pharma's advertising revenue at up to 80 percent of their income. The internet's "masters of the universe" also kowtow to Big Pharma's influence and advertising dollars by censoring anyone who tries to tell the American people the truth about Covid 19. It certainly appears that anyone who is complicit in this Great Deception, a deception that is designed to kill and terrify enough people to ultimately beg for an experimental vaccine, well, these people would be accessories to murder.
What You Need to Know to Survive
Now, for some good news. There are several therapies that are being offered that appear to be safe, effective and affordable. However, these therapies must be utilized early in the disease progression.
Budesonide
Japan, Taiwan and other Asian countries have maintained a much lower fatality rate with Covid 19 then we have here in America, in spite of the fact they live in densely populated communities. Many people believe that it is due to their preferred method of treatment. They use a steroid medication that is inhaled in a mist through a home use nebulizer. I'm familiar with this since my 2 year old granddaughter needed this treatment with a similar drug for an upper respiratory issue that she had recently. That speaks to the safety and the commonality of this treatment. Watch the link of a Texas doctor who shares his patient's experiences with this therapy method using the drug Budesonide and a course of antibiotics.
Ivermectin
Another treatment option that appears to be safe and effective is the use of the antiparasitic drug Ivermectin with the antibiotic Doxycycline. Just one Ivermectin pill and then the course of antibiotics for ten days resulted in a 100 percent cure rate for Covid 19 patients according to the attached study. Ivermectin has been widely used on the continent of Africa for many years as an anti-parasitic and is believed to be a primary reason that Covid 19 has not severely impacted the African population.
Hydroxychloroquine & Zinc
As we've seen above, this therapeutic regimen should be considered simply due to the efforts to prevent you from knowing the truth about it . As Shakespeare wrote, "Doth thou protest too much?"
The challenge with this therapeutic is both finding a doctor who will prescribe it and finding a pharmacy that will sell it. This should be between you and your doctor. Not the governors of certain states. Considering that 20 percent of all drugs are prescribed "off label", meaning that they are prescribed for a use other than intended, you and your doctor should have the liberty and the responsibility to make this health care decision.
There are several other therapies that appear to be safe, effective and affordable. You may want to research Chlorine Dioxide, intravenous ozone, high dose intravenous vitamin C and another, glutathione which are popular treatments in the homeopathic communities.
As for me and my family, we are going to make informed and responsible decisions regarding our health care. I hope the information I've given to you today along with the links for further information will help you, your family and your doctor make the best decisions as well.
Gary Heavin and his wife Diane are the founders of Curves, the world's largest fitness franchise. Gary is the author of two NY Times bestselling books, Curves and Curves on the go. Gary co-wrote and starred in the movie Amerigeddon. Gary is a pro-life libertarian and serves on the advisory board of Dr. Ron Paul's Institute for Peace and Prosperity. Gary and his wife are philanthropists who feed 10,000 children a day in Haiti and operate an orphanage outside the slums of Mumbai. Most importantly, they are bible believing Christians.
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Anonymous [426] Disclaimer , says: July 11, 2020 at 4:50 am GMTExcellent article. Early treatment is definitely key. The French doctor who recommended hydroxychloroquine way back in Feb. said that it needs to be given early, by the time they go on ventilator it's no longer effective. I read in Zerohedge last week that in TX, doctors said they simply give patients who come into the emergency room a steroid shot and send them home with antibiotics. Usually they are already feeling much better after the steroid shot. Even those who are hospitalized are now only staying 3-5 days.
I find it incredulous that on their website, CDC is still telling people to stay home if they are sick, that "many people" get over it themselves without treatment, and to *not* go to the doctor's until we are having difficulty breathing. By then it is too late! Doctors have said that the main difference btwn Covid patients and flu patients is, with a flu patient, when their lungs are 10% fluid, they are already having difficulty breathing, but for some reason for Covid19, the patient does not have difficulty breathing until the lungs are 50 to 60% fluid, which is why it's too late by the time they sought treatment.
This article discusses the low fatality rate in HK(0.4%) and Singapore(<0.1%), the doctors there attributed it to early treatment using a different cocktail of drugs: interferon beta-1b, which was developed to treat multiple sclerosis; ribavirin, which is used in the treatment of hepatitis C; and lopinavir-ritonavir, also known by its brand name, Kaletra. But again, early treatment is key.
https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/singapore/how-hong-kong-singapore-kept-coronavirus-death-rates-low/ar-BB14CLbMCDC is an absolute fail. I'm beginning to believe they want more people to die so Trump would lose the election. They need to change their advice on their website before more lives are senselessly lost. Pence as the Covid Tzar is also totally failing on his job by not calling him out.
I'm also beginning to believe those who claim hydroxychloroquine doesn't work simply want to keep it for themselves and their cronies to take as preventive drug. Trump has been on it and he hasn't gotten sick, even though he's been exposed to lots of people. Something tells me many of our congress critters and the effing Jews are already loaded up on it.
Quinsat , says: July 11, 2020 at 5:24 am GMTI can't wait for November 4th when COVID-19 ends for good and all the masks and social distancing bullshit ends. Thankfully this C-19 psyops will last just 8 months and not the 2+ years the Russian collusion BS was drawn out to. Though sadly with the former it has further eviscerated working/middle-class America. I'm guessing that was part of the plan as well.
Smokey , says: July 11, 2020 at 5:51 am GMTThe great Covid deception is it hasn't fulfilled Koch's postulates.
Chris in Cackalacky , says: July 11, 2020 at 5:57 am GMTI believe Mr. Heavin more than I believe the government, and the CDC in particular.
But that could also apply to a Numerologist vs the gov't, so there's that.
I don't believe Jeffrey Epstein died a natural death any more than I believe the mainstream media is the least bit impartial. They used to try. They tried to keep the news and the Op-Ed pages separate. But that was then and this is now
This is getting fun!
So, I used to believe that cops were always the good guys, and that federal judges were above politics. Oh, and they would never lie, or take a bribe. And I believed that priests would never, ever molest a boy, or even girl (did I get that backward?), or even use bad words around them. And I believed Scoutmasters took Boy Scouts up into the mountains for the fresh air and Indian lore OK, this is starting to sound ridiculous.
Except, now I'm not sure what to believe any more.
Can anyone tell me ?
@KirtAchilles Wannabe , says: July 11, 2020 at 6:33 am GMTNo offense but do you know how many people claim to have had Covid before Covid was cool? I don't know anyone who has tested positive but I know 25 people who claim they had or have it. In the past three years there have been severe influenzas making the rounds, there is no denying that. And why should routine flu and colds take a holiday just because our criminal elites tell us there is a special disease we need to watch out for? My point is we are so deceived that nobody knows up from down anymore. But at least we know one thing for sure -- hostile elites are working to deceive us.
Valka , says: July 11, 2020 at 6:48 am GMTMy doctor suffers from a delusion common to her profession. She thinks she is a "Medical Scientist". Actually she is a retailer for pharmaceuticals and medical technologies. She is a sales person in a capitalist industry And should she have any questions about her real role in a health care field which is really a substance and med tech pushing industry, her colleagues – fellow sales people – will remind her of her professional obligations by threatening her board certification to insure her near absolute conformity to market standards.
But there is no getting her to understand her real role in the medical industry. She believes her own hype or the hype created about her profession back in the 1950s when a few genuinely useful drugs and technologies were discovered which then afforded the money making corporate establishment the opportunity to take a humane craft and, thru the "science" of Epidemiology -Medical speak for lying with statistics – turn professional Medicine into probably the largest boondoggle in history. Consider the flag ship for usurious medicine – cholesterol lowering statin drugs.
But why don't I get rid of my essentially brain dead doctor, go to to someone else? Practically speaking, there is no one else. There are doctors who understand all this and write books about it but they are so rare as to be useless when real sickness like bacterial infections for which there are useful technologies like antibiotics actually occur. The most useful thing these real scientific doctors have to say is "Don't see your doctor" unless you have a real emergency – like an old fashion visceral type sickness – as opposed to some epidemiologically hyped condition like, again, "high cholesterol" as the "cause" of heart disease.
But now we have a genuine epidemic that is killing and injuring people and Medical Science is lying to us about possible treatments. Even a Medical skeptic like myself could not have predicted this level of base greed by our Medical pharmaceutical establishment This is tantamount to MURDER. And we have no government -whether it be run by Democrats or Republicans- who will take action. They are all on the Med Pharm tit and/or deluded by "Medical Science" as well. Until we learn to help ourselves and overthrow this system, God help us
TheTrumanShow , says: July 11, 2020 at 6:58 am GMT$50 billion just for Britain America doesn't stand a chance.
Gleimhart Mantooso , says: July 11, 2020 at 7:10 am GMTThanks, Gary.
I've been reading everything counter-&-alternative to the deception I could find since it first appeared, but had never thought to investigate therapies until reading your article. Fortuitously, for me (in Thailand), Hydroxychloroquine is being used therapeutically and may even be available OTC.
However, Big Medicine & Big Pharma are already here and steadily making inroads into health care and medicine.
Trygve Blodøks , says: July 11, 2020 at 7:38 am GMTWhatever happened to that vaccine that some Israeli Genius Doctors claimed would be ready in a few weeks, which was months ago now? What a shock that that never materialized.
Herald , says: July 11, 2020 at 9:14 am GMTYou should also look into coodial silver water. I got rid of an hpv infection using it. No side effects.
skrik , says: July 11, 2020 at 9:29 am GMTThe author doesn't mention Vitamin D, which is rather strange.
GeeBee , says: July 11, 2020 at 9:34 am GMT@Gary Heavin
The Great Covid-19 Deception and
Click-baitish, much? Well, you got me in, but you seem to have a good 'treatment' argument, and 'good luck,' both by avoiding Covid-19 in the 1st place and finding a 'collaborative+pursuasive' Dr in the 2nd = worst case, should you or one of yours gets 'hit.' [Perish the thought.]
But IMHO, the Great est Covid-19 Deception is the negligent way most 'Western' governments have *not* taken Covid-19 properly seriously, starting of course with US = Trump and UK = Johnson then perhaps SE 'led' by so-called expert Tegnell next in a looong list of apparent delinquents.
Again IMHO, when Wuhan realised that they were under a bio-warfare-like attack [possibly when they 1st saw the PRRA inclusion in the decoded genome], they reacted like cut snakes and proceeded with the speed of fear-stricken Gazelles in a very largely successful attempt to *suppress* the virus. But, of course, they are communists, eh? So-called 'democratic' [in-name-only governments, many largely bolshie 'wo/men in the street'] think differently [even to their own detriment; they just can't help themselves.]
With the possible exception of NZ = Ardern, most 'Western' governments went for 'mitigation' = 'flattening the curve,' if they took any action at all, see BR = Bolsonaro "has accused the media of "fear-mongering"" and IIRC said something like "What can I do?"
Here is an article, 1st found by me in March on MoA :
"Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance"
https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56MoA blurb: 'Here is his latest in which he argues not only to "flatten the curve" but to eradicate the virus.'
For my last IMHO, all 'Western' leaders who have acted with less than full effort = incompetently meaning ineffectively on behalf of their 'own people' should be prosecuted for their negligence. rgds
Justvisiting , says: July 11, 2020 at 10:37 am GMTA good article all around, except that the population of the UK is nowhere near eighty million. The latest figure I can find gives 66 million. Also, your attempt to invoke the Bard ('As Shakespeare wrote, "Doth thou protest too much?"') is lamentably botched. Try 'Methinks the lady doth protest too much'. (Hamlet's mother Gertrude says it of what she regards as overacting in a play that Hamlet has arranged for his mother and her husband, the usurper Claudius, to watch).
gotmituns , says: July 11, 2020 at 10:40 am GMTIt is a great idea to have a candid discussion with your doctor/nurse on the issue of big pharma's economic power and how it creates conflicts of interest in the medical profession.
Many doctors/nurses already knew it and will quickly agree, many more "get it" after you explain it to them.
If your doctor is so brainwashed by "experts" that they think you are an "anti-science kook", time to get a new doctor!
@KirtSimon Tugmutton , says: July 11, 2020 at 10:48 am GMTBingo – it's all a total bunch of malarkey. All the BS isn't aimed at people our age (I'm 76), it's aimed at the milennials and younger. It is shaping them for the "Brave New World" that they will live.
Mark G. , says: July 11, 2020 at 10:56 am GMTFirst let me say that the virus has never been satisfactorily isolated and does not meet Koch's postulates, which leads some people to speculate that it does not exist at all. The symptoms are so various as to be nonsensical; whatever the virus may be, last winter, that led to all the hospitalizations is open to question. Certainly the fear-porn spewed out 24/7 by the corporate media led to high levels of anxiety among the credulous and many of these no doubt presented as Covid-19 patients even though they were in fact suffering from the flu or a bad cold. Once in the hands of the quacks, nosocomial infections and intubation really made them sick – or dead.
As for protection against any respiratory illness, vitamin D is essential and I am surprised the author fails to understand this. 4000 IU per day maximum.
All that aside, Covid-19 a gigantic psyop designed to usher in a world government. It was even rehearsed in 2019 and all the wrinkles worked out beforehand.
[MORE]UncommonGround , says: July 11, 2020 at 10:59 am GMTIf you can't get hydroxychloroquine there is some evidence that the natural substance quercetin found in apples and onions can act as an ionophore that transports zinc into the cell. Instead of the z-pak, a natural antibiotic like oregano or cinnamon oil might suffice. These items quercetin, zinc and oregano and cinnamon oil are all available down at the local health food store. There is more evidence for the hydroxychloroquine, zinc, z-pak combination so those would be the preferred combination if you can get them but these natural substances might help if you can't get them and might act as a preventative to keep from getting the virus if you use them regularly.
I have found only a few studies that support the use of these natural substances but you need to understand that since these aren't drugs they can't be patented so there isn't the same financial incentive to prove their effectiveness as there would be with drugs that can be patented and then sold exclusively by one company.
chuckywiz , says: July 11, 2020 at 11:15 am GMTWhether hydoxy/chloroquine works or not is something that will be clear only after there are studies that allow to take a final conclusion. The question has been discussed critically by the press, by medical doctors, by people. Of course, everybody knows that it's possible that no vaccination will function or be available (we can hear this everyday on television). Contrary to what the author says, a phamaceutical firm was happy that the medicament could be possibly used when the question came up and some people were optimistic about it. The web site of a German television wrote in may that it was still conceivable that hydoxychloroquine could work in the very early stages of the disease (after first negative results). This was only speculation.
The author mentions a talk with some friends of him and some information that he has. But there have been a few studies, good or bad, with chloroquine with negative results. The study of the Lancet was taken back because the data that they used was apparently not trustworthy. This shows how difficult it is to have good and conclusive results in a short time. We can say the same about the evidence used by the author. It doesn't mean very much. We still have to see what happens and until now we don't know. There are efforts to find ways to treat better the disease. In German, I read yesterday:
Linux_tyro , says: July 11, 2020 at 11:31 am GMTThe media never talks about those who recovered from Corona virus like BOJO, the prime minister of UK or others. What treatment the recovered patients received, how it helped them and other information. We hear only the scary stuff.
Dr. Fauci and associates could never develop his promised HIV vaccine. I read somewhere that he had been on the same job for the last 37 years. Go figure."DR" Bill Gate of MS is an expert of globalized vaccination and his articles on the subject have been published in several Medical Journals.
New Economy. Question More.Emslander , says: July 11, 2020 at 11:39 am GMTI was diagnosed with an upper respiratory infection in April. Was given a Z-pack for 5 days, an inhaler, Albuterol Sulfate that I am going to refill and a pill for cough, Benzonatate 200mg. They tested me for Flu, Pneumonia, Strep and Covid. All test came back negative.
Now I have a sinus infection and was prescribed another Z-pack with Prednisone 250mg twice a day for five days.
I've been feeling under the weather for months now.
Oh! Now I remember my question. How much zinc daily should we be taking?
mark tapley , says: July 11, 2020 at 11:47 am GMTSo, now we know who the enemy is. When can we start arresting and executing them?
I've had a condition common to old men for a long time. I went to some MD from the Far East who started immediately talking about cutting me up. I went to a second doctor, a young American, and told him I guess I needed to be sliced and diced. He said, "Not so fast" and recommended the regular use of two substances I could get at the vitamin store. I did so and the matter improved to the point that I felt effectively cured.
Last week, I went back to him. He works at a large establishment that includes my regular MD. I started telling him about how miraculous and enlightened his advice was. He quickly shut me up and started talking about operations and antibiotics. He wouldn't even listen when I told him that his earlier advice had worked. My presumption is that the financial people got to him. I'd guess that they do a regular review of medical care by each physician to see how they can better monetize their practice. Anyway, his changed tone was remarkable enough that it had to be something like money that was involved.
Emslander , says: July 11, 2020 at 11:47 am GMTCovid 19 is just another in a long line of fake or hyped up illnesses. Remember H1N1, H5n1, SARS1, Swine flu, Bird flu, Zika and others. AIDS was another fake disease (read Dr. Peter Duesberg on this). The same type of hoax is being perpetrated with the current Corona "epidemic."
Notice it supposedly began in Wuhan China. This city of 11 million has the worlds worst air pollution. 350,000 people per year die of pneumonia in China. There are lots of people there that can be tagged as Covid 19 victims. Also quickly touted as a hot spot by our Jew controlled MSM was deaths in Italy. Official autopsies revealed over 99% of victims had pre existing illness, most of them had multiple ones at an avg. age go 69.5. Latter the age went up but I can't remember the exact figure. Remember CDC criminal Debra Brix said "we have told the hospitals to tag everything possible as Covid 19."
Remember the fake tents set up all over and the hospital ship that looked like a relic of WW1. The MSM kept talking about overflowing hospitals. Several people took videos of near vacant hospitals at this time including Brian Ruhe's exposure of Vancouver's practically empty hospital. Whenever you see the media jump all over something with all the official spokesmen and there is no alternative opinion allowed, you known it is a gov. false flag. All of a sudden climate change is no longer the critical topic of the day. I guess Greta Thunberg got the covid.
The covid 19 has never been identified by the standard scientific method of the Koch's postulates because they can't. If you have a fake virus you must have a fake test. That is the PCR test that gives ap. 200 false positives, does not determine one Corona (cold from another) and is not quantitative is a fake test. The numbers given by the CDC (holds 50 vaccine related patents) that is really an adjunct of big Pharma are a crock of baloney. Most of these figures are generated from old people in the nursing homes that are given a "visual" conformation as having covid. Note that Fauci said in February that the masks did more harm than good. Hospitals get paid big money for labeling patients as Covid victims and many times doctors just write it on the report.
The Zionists have hit a home run with this medical hoax and they will never give it up unless the cucks start using their brain a little bit and figure some things out. The next move will be manditory dangerous vaccines for all the cattle. There is big money to be made in the vaccine scam. To get the truth on vaccines read Dissolving Illusions by Dr. Suzanne Humphries and books by Forrest Maready.
The Covid scam has been planned for many years, this was an opportune time to spring it as a cover for the central banks theft of trillions more while bankrupting the workers and small businesses. The Jews at Blak Rock are big investors in masks and will now be scooping up failed businesses everywhere just like in 08.
@SmokeyBrás Cubas , says: July 11, 2020 at 12:03 pm GMTExcept, now I'm not sure what to believe any more.
Can anyone tell me ?
My uncle told me a story a long time ago about a man who had his young son climb a tree in the back yard. He let him get pretty high and then said, "Jump Johnny, Jump!" Johnny said, "If I jump, I'll get hurt." The Dad said, "No, I'll catch you." Johnny jumped and the Dad did nothing. The boy hit the ground and was crying, though not permanently injured.
He said to his Dad, "Father, you promised to catch me."
"Let that be a lesson," the Dad said. "Don't trust NOBODY."
Giancarlo M. Kumquat , says: July 11, 2020 at 12:17 pm GMTGary is a pro-life libertarian
Well, seeing as libertarians are against government action to stop abortions, I suppose all that a libertarian who opposes abortion is allowed to do is acting against it in their private life; seeing as that is exactly what the pro-choice option means, you see that Gary's position is rigorously meaningless: he is pro-life and pro-choice at the same time.
That is a really grand deception, regardless of any other claimed by this article, and all I need to know about it.
St-Germain , says: July 11, 2020 at 12:24 pm GMTStop feeding those Haitians!
anonymous [400] Disclaimer , says: July 11, 2020 at 12:29 pm GMTThanks for your article.
I also prefer plain facts to eloquent fiction (MSM). Your article has obvious practical value for the public. It's a keeper. I also hope it circulates widely as an effective antidote to virulant MSM viruses.
BTW, my first act following retirement from four decades of professional news writing was to cancel all newspaper and magazine subscriptions. There is no utility in paying to be misinformed.
It never ceases to amaze me that so many people who have never set foot in a news room now regurgitate MSM propaganda as though it came down from Mt. Sinai. MSM journalism has now run the gamut from the duty to reveal what is true, even if it hurts, to the need to say what sounds nice, even if the reporter himself doesn't believe it. That's the definition of PR.
An Easterner , says: July 11, 2020 at 12:38 pm GMTWhen this wears thin they'll discover another killer virus and there'll be another go-round. They started off saying the lockdowns were just for a brief time and then when they got their foot in the door it was extended. Now government herding people around by diktat is a permanent feature of American society. They'll never let it go. There's already been some report of some other mysterious killer virus coming out of Kazakhstan so get ready. This is the largest transfer of wealth scheme ever, the assets of the bankrupted scooped up by the big companies.
macilrae , says: July 11, 2020 at 12:47 pm GMT'Most importantly, they are Bible believing Christians.'
That for me, as a Muslim, is the best guarantee that the person writing this article will have written all in good faith because he or she is answerable to God.
Overall, the article was very informative and pertinent to the situation we face today.
Butch , says: July 11, 2020 at 1:01 pm GMTThe article cites imperfect studies in which hydroxychloroquine was found to be an ineffective therapeutic for COVID19 – imperfect because the treatment was generally started too late in the progression of the disease. The author postulates that, if treatment were begun earlier, mortality would be drastically reduced but, unfortunately, there is no study to support this and the majority of people suffering the symptoms of early-onset COVID19 will recover spontaneously anyway.
Singapore, with its superb bureaucratic infrastructure, has reported over 45,000 infections but only 26 deaths – that is 4 deaths per million population. South Korea reports 13,000+ deaths and 287 deaths (6 per million population) and Japan 20,000 cases and 981 deaths (10 per million) compare this to the USA with 364 deaths per million or the UK with 718.
I have yet to see a convincing explanation of these shocking differences and, when asked recently, a British government spokesman said that it is "too early" to start drawing international comparisons – "too early" for whom you might ask? Evidently not for those who have succumbed – by now a huge effort should have been put forth to account for the disparity – even if the explanation is demographic as is being largely claimed. I assume that national pride has stood in the way of seeking answers by sending study teams to these countries.
The article recounts a number of inexpensive treatments that might work and points to "Big Pharma" as the major reason these are not being systematically studied – that may well be an impediment in the USA particularly – so gathering of data from East Asia, where that influence is far less and where dramatic positive results are seen, is all the more urgent.
Meanwhile my family will wear masks and hunker down because we have no particular plan to implement if one of us catches this bug.
Off The Reservation , says: July 11, 2020 at 1:06 pm GMTHere is a clue, stop doing ALL the things they tell you to do because its all designed to make you sicker. Eat real food, so many people just don't get it, its garbage in and garbage out. Curves have always been flattened by the healthy freely moving about [oops, stay home], health from being outside, in the sun, and amongst nature is vital [oops stay inside], eating good REAL food is how you have a good immune system [oops, dont want that we need sick people for the pharma devils, therefore we'll allow FAST [shit] FOOD to be readily available [no contact of course [OMG can you actually believe this crap?] Wear a mask because the covid devil lurks everywhere [oops, retard the flow of healthy oxygen into your body, breath back in your own exhalations of CO2 and bacteria so you can increase your odds of getting sick, you just cant make this twisted stuff up!!!] Social distance, thats the best one? We should be wanting to be social for many many reasons, the least of which is because we ARE social animals, but the best way to flatten any curve is, as previously stated, assimilate it [as humans have with all viruses] to develop herd immunity [something that you CANNOT get with a toxic vaccination], like Sweden and Japan. STOP watching MSM and social platforms removing truth. Actually STOP watching TV, its all designed to make you think a certain way.
CW2isComing , says: July 11, 2020 at 1:14 pm GMTThe biggest problem with this article is that it does not address the fundamental basis of the fraud that is CV19.
The Chinese supposedly identified a new coronavirus and named it SARS-CoV-2.
Then, the WHO made a vague list of symptoms and created a syndrome called COVID19.
There is no proven connection whatsoever between the supposedly identified virus and the syndrome.
Billing codes were created that allow the assumed or tested diagnosis of CV19.
To make matters worse, a test was created which only tests for "markers" of coronavirus and has never been proven to connect to the above viruses or the above syndrome. Thus testing positive or negative really has no meaning as proven by the disconnect between symptoms and diagnosis.
Then, the government incentivized and instructed the use of the above billing codes and created the commonly known situation of people dying "with" the syndrome even though they died of other causes.
Add to that the manipulation of the case count, etc. Then, you have New York and New Jersey basically murdering people with treatment. Loved ones banned from visiting homes – for reasons they might bring the virus in – while "positive" sick patients are brought in. Reconcile that.
I am not saying a few people aren't sick, but there is no way to deal with something while these language tricks are going on.
The virus, the syndrome, and the tests, and the count of cases have no scientific connection to each other. What is it you are talking about being treated for? The flu?
@Gleimhart MantoosoAdûnâi , says: Website July 11, 2020 at 1:22 pm GMTYes, where IS that Wonder of Modern Medicine anyway? We were breathlessly told of its soon-to-be release; I even thought that it was peculiar that the Israelis were so serendipitously working on just the right strain of coronavirus as to be in the forefront of vaccine development.
Miracles happen.
Except when they don't. And, to summarize here, there has NEVER been a stable/effective vaccine for the coronavirus family of viruses. NEVER.
As in, NEVER.
@skrik bio-warfare-like attack [possibly when they 1st saw the PRRA inclusion in the decoded genome], they reacted like cut snakes and proceeded with the speed of fear-stricken Gazelles in a very largely successful attempt to *suppress* the virus. But, of course, they are communists, eh?"anon [327] Disclaimer , says: July 11, 2020 at 1:25 pm GMTFinally some sense in the sea of conspiratards. It is fascinating to observe the insanity of White nations – they will cling to their clearly delusional beliefs to the end, even when an alternative is presenting itself this whole time.
Wearing a mask apparently turns you into a slave. Believing in the existence of the virus makes you a shill. Pure anarchism, just without the bombs.
The comment #19 by UncommonGround is decent as well.
CW2isComing , says: July 11, 2020 at 1:35 pm GMTBest cure for C-19: Put Dr. Fauxci and Dr. Birx , ilk,
on a SpaceX ship bound for Mars.Doesn't need to be a big ship.
Use sardine packing method.@Mark G. As well (and mentioned in some of the above comments) there are many studies indicating that adequate levels of Vitamin D may be protective. Best source: sunlight; then fresh fish, then supplements.anon [624] Disclaimer , says: July 11, 2020 at 1:48 pm GMTThe entire point of this article is "self-rescue." It is clear to me that the "official" recommendation is to "stay home, don't come to your doctor's office/E.R. until you get shortness of breath, etc." so as to not "overload the hospital system."
The latter advice will get you killed if you are elderly and/or have certain co-morbidities. Treat yourself early on, be proactive towards you health; oh, also, maybe stop shoving Cheetos down your neck, take a walk, lose some weight?
@skrikGary Heavin , says: July 11, 2020 at 1:58 pm GMTMoon of Alabama is a controlled website that censors dissenting commenters. The Covid-19 has completely blown the cover of that site and Mr. 'b'. Do not push that site. This unz.com site does not censor comments. Get back to us when Mr. 'b' (or is that German Intelligence?) decides to play his role properly again.
@HeraldTwodees Partain , says: July 11, 2020 at 2:04 pm GMTHi Herald,
The reason I didn't mention vitamin D3 is that I classify it under prevention rather than therapeutics.
I take 2,000 iu daily, 2,000 mg of vitamin C, 30 mg of zinc and 200 mg of magnesium to help prevent illness.@Quinsat ch's postulates.Gary Heavin , says: July 11, 2020 at 2:06 pm GMTThat's the main point of information needed if "need to know" is at the top of the list on how to survive. A person "diagnosed with covid19" should know that the existence of this "novel coronavirus" has not been established in any way that is based in actual science.
Such a diagnosis subjects the purportedly infected person to treatments that would be, at best, useless. Diagnosis is the starting point for a political assault conducted by means of "contact tracing" prescribed by an Israeli intelligence operation, and can't possibly include any effective medical treatment.
No medical treatment exists that can cure infection with an imaginary virus.
@GeeBeeReally No Shit , says: July 11, 2020 at 2:08 pm GMTThank you for your corrections. When I found out that Ron was going to post my article on this website I was very excited due to the quality of its readership. People like you.
Gary Heavin , says: July 11, 2020 at 2:10 pm GMTA chinaman told me that lots of chopsuey with exotic wild animals worked for his country, whereas a wetback told me lots of beans and rice with hot sauce was the key to their success. Here in my neighboring neighborhood, the Borough Park, I hear that bubbies are offering up matzo ball soup with a scrawny chicken thrown in and the Bensonhurst Fredos are insisting that had the Italian government not abandoned the age old custom of over eating pasta fagioli, none of those paisans needlessly would have died. So, who do you believe?
@Linux_tyroAgent76 , says: July 11, 2020 at 2:19 pm GMT25 mg of zinc daily is what I take
Twodees Partain , says: July 11, 2020 at 2:32 pm GMTJuly 9, 2020 CDC May Officially Downgrade COVID From An 'Epidemic'
The coronavirus mortality rate in the United States has dropped so low that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may soon stop calling the virus an "epidemic."
https://principia-scientific.org/cdc-may-officially-downgrade-covid-from-an-epidemic/
@EmslanderAlfred , says: July 11, 2020 at 2:39 pm GMT"the regular use of two substances I could get at the vitamin store."
What two substances?
@AnonAnonymousse , says: July 11, 2020 at 2:53 pm GMTI'm beginning to believe they want more people to die so Trump would lose the election.
I am surprised it is taking people so much time to work that one out.
The media don't want you to see this chart. That is why I won't stop shouting CASES
Desert Fox , says: July 11, 2020 at 2:54 pm GMTI had symptomatic corona. It was a day and a half of mild fever and fatigue. Basically like the flu but not nearly as bad. Everyone else I've known that had symptomatic corona (already a small minority of those who actually got infected woth corona) experienced the same or even less.
If you're just about to die from something else anyway, yeah maybe such a mild disease can give you that last little push. At that point you need to be thinking about saying confession and your relationship to eternity not some magic drug extending your life another few months
It's just the flu bro.
Alfred , says: July 11, 2020 at 2:55 pm GMTCoronavirus is one of the biggest scams, frauds, psyops, mass hypnosis, in history, see these sites for the truth about the coronavirus scam, henrymakow.com , thetruthseeker.co.uk, chuckbaldwinlive.com , thedollarvigilante.com .
@Gleimhart Mantooso aled that they had designed a vaccine and tested it on hamsters. They wrote that a single dose "was able to protect hamsters against SARS-CoV-2."Trinity , says: July 11, 2020 at 2:58 pm GMTTheir best shots: Israeli efforts to invent a coronavirus vaccine, explained (Times of Israel)
You can be absolutely certain that the clowns above removed their masks as soon as they were off-camera.
Che Guava , says: July 11, 2020 at 3:13 pm GMTThe (((CoronaRona?))) Well, put it this way, the same people pushing the (((CoronaRona))) story or the same people who told you that Germans gassed 6 gatrillion Jews in the "holocaust." You might have a better chance at seeing Santa Claus than dying from the (((CoronaRona.)))
During the riots, the weasel, Fauci and that female doctor whats her name, were nowhere to be seen, and now they have returned and the (((CoronaRona))) is being looped 24/7. My guess is that all these (((medical experts))) will recommend another lock-down until the election. IF Biden wins, which given the corruption out there, is highly likely whether we are in lock-down or not, the (((CoronaRona))) will fade away into the night. IF Trump is somehow is reelected, well the (((Antifa-BLM))) types will be having another meltdown that the (((media))) will cover 24/7, and the (((CoronaRona))) will be back page news again.
I'm (((CoronaRona))) and I approve this message.
schrub , says: July 11, 2020 at 3:29 pm GMTThis reply is both to Kirt and Garry Heavin.
For Kirt, yes, I think I already had it too, seven or eight weeks from NYE last year to mid-Feb. of this. As I have said several times, the area near my workplace was usually full of Chinese tourists.
I had a cough, extreme lethargy on many days, a slight fever. Water frnm my nose, always the case for me in winter, but no sneezing. I must raise the idea with my regular doc., since I saw him at least three times over that time.
As for our author, Heavin's article, he is clearly offering better ideas for treatments than big pharma, but who really needs treatment?
Those who have a persistent cold-like syndrome?
Anyome identified through the polymerase chain reaction tests, which prove nothing.
Just ignore it and it will go away seems by far the wisest course.
Zarathustra , says: July 11, 2020 at 3:33 pm GMTOn an entirely different topic:
WARNING: FOR THOSE WHO USE NORD VPN for their VPN service
If you select NORDVPN's "CYBERSEC" option to "block ads and malicious websites" , you will no longer be able to get on sites like unz.com or many other right wing sites (like Mike Rivero's site: whatreallyhappened.com for instance).
NORDVPN's CYBERSEC will, however, allow you on all the left wing sites pushed by the ADL. This means that NORDVPN'S CYBERSEC option is probably using the ADL's filtering criteria.
I questioned NORDVPN about this "selectivity" and never received a reply.
This also means that your NORDVPN software could well be spying on you and recording your keystrokes if you try to access to certain unapproved sites EVEN IF if the CYBERSEC option hasn't chosen.
NORDVPN is now, curiously enough, based in Panama, a country which the US government has been shown in the past to have considerable influence over when the need arises. (Ask Manuel Noriega for examples)
Spread the word.
It might be time choose a different VPN sofware if you are now using NORDVPN. Anybody have any good suggestions?
CW2isComing , says: July 11, 2020 at 3:35 pm GMTI believe!
I believe in CNN.
I believe that half of population of USA will die of Corona virus.
The other half because Corona virus infecting toe nails will become zombies.
Also their brains are now eaten out by Corona virus.
All US population will be replaced by natives from Africa.
First herd of Negroes are already swimming halfway in Atlantic toward America.Well?
Its not really funny.
But than CNN is never funny.@Twodees PartainHerald , says: July 11, 2020 at 3:38 pm GMT@Emslander
Yes, why are you being cryptic here–on this site–where a free exchange of information is desirable?
@AlfredEmslander , says: July 11, 2020 at 3:41 pm GMTCases now mean positive tests and of course, no really knows what that means, other than that more useless tests have been carried out. As the graph clearly indicates these so called "cases" have little to do with deaths. Nor do they have anything to do with hospitalisations.
We are clearly in the midst of an almighty scam, which is much much bigger than simply getting rid of Trump.
@Twodees PartainAlfred , says: July 11, 2020 at 3:50 pm GMTExtract of cranberries and D-Mannos. Together they are very good. I presume that they can't cure serious problems, but they work pretty well.
I'm not a doctor and I don't even work on TV.
@UncommonGround ut a thorough check.Zarathustra , says: July 11, 2020 at 3:55 pm GMTA report in The Guardian also found that the key employees of Surgisphere included a science fiction writer and an adult movie star.
The HCQ study mess: How 3 Indian researchers put reputation of Lancet, NEJM at stake
How 3 'smart' Indian names have ruined 200-year reputation of most respected medical journals
https://www.youtube.com/embed/-6WnSiCPYyQ?feature=oembed
Gary Heavin , says: July 11, 2020 at 3:56 pm GMTBut putting all attempted jokes aside and talking a little bit more seriously, CNN did become certified criminal enterprise now.
Thomas Milton , says: July 11, 2020 at 3:57 pm GMTTo Bras my pro-life libertarian position does not become "meaningless" as if my prolife and libertarianism negate each other as you suggest. It's quite simple. Libertarianism demands we not harm other persons. An unborn baby is a person.
To Che I certainly agree with you that Covid 19 has been hyped, politicized, misrepresented, etc..
If I come down with a severe upper respiratory event that is heading toward pneumonia-like symptoms, I've lost my sense of taste and smell I'm going to talk with my Doctor and try one of the therapies I've written about. I hope you do the same.Montefrío , says: July 11, 2020 at 3:58 pm GMT"What you need to know" .is that this crisis has been spun from whole cloth.
@gotmituns e before the year is out. My bucolic life has been given a shake and I'm scrambling to best position our family (we live on the same property) financially and economically when BNW arrives with a vengeance. I wish to leave my grandchildren (my son, a water well driller, is prospering, happily, but still ) wholly owned property and the houses thereon plus one. I believe the BNW will have a distinctly local air to it in rural or semi-rural communities: little travel, local employment save for telecommuters, detachment from social media, different educational strategies and opportunities, etc. If you share this belief, get cracking and pretend that the reset has already arrived and act accordingly.schrub , says: July 11, 2020 at 4:00 pm GMTWally , says: July 11, 2020 at 4:02 pm GMTAS an answer to my own question about a new secure VPN service, I just came upon this. Anybody have any experience with this outfit?
I now wouldn't trust any VPN whatsoever service that wasn't entirely "open source". Protonvpn claims to be "open source". (On the other hand, NORDVPN isn't open source).
https://protonvpn.com/blog/open-source/
Definition of very important term "open source" for those are unfamiliar with it:
https://opensource.org/osdIf a software isn't "open source" it could potentially be spying on you. Choosing a VPN service using "open source" software should be the PRIMARY and most critical consideration when choosing a VPN service.
Non "open source" VPN software is open to outside manipulation and possible government infiltration.
@Gleimhart MantoosoAlfred , says: July 11, 2020 at 4:04 pm GMTasked:
"Whatever happened to that vaccine that some Israeli Genius Doctors claimed would be ready in a few weeks, which was months ago now?"– The same thing that happened to the 'Israeli Geniuses' laughable, but "historic", attempt to put a spacecraft on the moon.
Israel's Beresheet spacecraft crashes during historic moon landing attempt : https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/how-watch-israel-s-beresheet-spacecraft-attempt-moon-landing-ncna993436
@EmslanderAstuteobservor II , says: July 11, 2020 at 4:05 pm GMTIt suits her personality as she is a quite orderly and methodical person. However, it means that she is incapable of critical thinking. All doctors in Australia are invited to free seminars and meals at expensive restaurants – paid for by pharmaceutical companies.
Sadly, she did not listen to my opinion about vaccines for our two girls. In the State of Victoria, they give a mandatory HPV vaccine. However, HPV is only a problem for those who are promiscuous. Furthermore, this vaccine is essentially an unknown. It is highly-expensive at some US$300 – paid for by the tax-payers. I suspect the vaccine altered the personality of one of our daughters. It is uncanny.
Zarathustra , says: July 11, 2020 at 4:13 pm GMTIt seems the only way to convince retards is to kill them or let them see dead bodies everywhere.
It is like the old saying in IT.
Everything is working, wtf does the company need you for.
Everything is falling apart, wtf does the company need you for.
On covid.
Lockdowns and quarantine is working, wtf, covid is Nothing, flu is worst.
Death count is now twice the number of the worst flu year, the lockdowns and quarantine are the causes, not covid.
Lincoln was right, just need to make sure the 80% retards gets fooled, the other 20% doesn't matter as their voices would be drown out by the retards.
If this covid virus is as deadly as it needs to convince the retards, nukes would have flown. I wonder how many retards understands why that is.
@Gary HeavinMontefrío , says: July 11, 2020 at 4:21 pm GMTSlightly increase the daily intake of butter you moron, and you will not need to worry anymore.
@macilraeSparkon , says: July 11, 2020 at 4:35 pm GMTI neither wear a mask nor hunker down and I'm a "double-vulnerable" (nearly 74 and mildly diabetic). A close lady friend is the village pharmacist and when on duty wears the mask under mild duress; neither of us wears it when alone with each other. Unless you're in a densely populated area, better to go out and get at least half an hour of sun daily, fortify yourself and family, keep the faith and don't succumb to manufactured fear, sez I.
@macilrae ak links here in the USA, sad to say. During my most recent trip to the market, I saw perhaps 7-10% of shoppers with their masks pulled down so it was covering the mouth, but not the nose. For the most part, these non-complying shoppers were the fat, ugly, slovenly, and stupid looking types one would try to avoid anyway, so the pulled-down mask is a good signal to give these types a very wide berth.Vandal , says: July 11, 2020 at 4:41 pm GMTRecall that the world's experience with COVID-19 amounts to just six or seven months. Nobody knows what this virus may do in the future, but odds are it will mutate, like all viruses.
Psst: If it's just the flu, bro, why is it still spreading in the summer?@chuckywizPragma , says: July 11, 2020 at 4:47 pm GMTThe regiment I've seen published is as follows
Hydroxychloroquine 200mg twice a day for 5 days
ZPAK 500mg once a day for 5 days
Zinc Sulfate 220mg daily
Gary Heavin , says: July 11, 2020 at 5:16 pm GMTMr. Heaven:
I found your figures regarding the vaccine cost and quantity remarkable, to say the least.
After some research, I could find no reference of a commitment by the UK government to purchase 80 million doses at $600 each.
I did find, however, reference to the Oxford/AstraZeneca potential vaccine AZD1222 which is estimated to cost around 2.5 euros or about $2.80 US. This appears to be the direction that the EU is going, but it is unclear if the UK will be part of it.
Could you please forward a link or reference for the source of your figures?
@PragmaThim , says: July 11, 2020 at 5:19 pm GMThttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8123691/With-estimated-477-injection-potentially-billions-coronavirus-jab.html
As you can imagine, this article has been lambasted by big pharmaceutical interests.@macilraeBardon Kaldian , says: July 11, 2020 at 5:20 pm GMTYour family will wear masks, because you are slaves. Absolutely no one claims wearing a mask will prevent you from catching a flu or cold (Corona virus).
TheTruthSeeker , says: July 11, 2020 at 5:30 pm GMTSo, it's all a giant conspiracy Interesting: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/10/health/coronavirus-entire-body-effects-columbia/index.html
How coronavirus affects the entire body
Rubicon , says: July 11, 2020 at 5:53 pm GMTPavia, a cure that works, challenges media silence: "Plasma kills the virus"
"Plasma kills the coronavirus." The therapy developed by the Immuno-hematology Institute of Saint Matthew in Pavia is encouraging. In this exclusive interview with The Daily Compass given at the end of his experimentation, director Cesare Perotti reveals the positive results: "The treatment works; at the moment no one has died; the USA has asked for the protocols." But nobody is talking about it: "There are other interests opposing us, but we will address these after the scientific publication." This is how the shared treatment works, by "using" volunteers who have recovered to help heal those who are sick.
Reference and continuation:
@Achilles WannabeWhat Achilles Wannabe writes is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
If I have to, the ONLY way to purchase HDC is via my Canadian brothers. Naturally, I would need an American doctor's prescription, but push comes to shove, I absolutely refuse going to ANY American "medical doctor" to treat me.
Hopefully, the Canadian prescription stores would be able to fill that prescription. If not, oh well.
Living in this dying nation is death-defying.
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From the date of the initial outbreak in Wuhan I watched carefully on a daily basis the dispersion and progression of the coronavirus in China and then abroad, collecting as much data as were available on each location. By late May of 2020, China had been infection-free for many weeks, the concern turning to the identification and quarantine of imported cases. At the same time, the US became once again 'the leader of the world', this time in virus infections and deaths, producing 20,000 to 30,000 new cases and around 1,000 deaths per day. At the time, American hostility toward China's success in stopping the virus was palpable, with many nasty media articles and White House accusations about China's false statistics and blaming China for "spreading the virus" to the US. CNN stated, "Chinese state media has repeatedly touted China's effective measures in containing the virus as the number of infections and deaths surged abroad, contrasting its success with the failures of Western governments, especially the United States." [1] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/15/asia/coronavirus-...x.html Clearly there was much surprise and bitterness at China's success and America's failure, this coated in a sticky layer of resentment based partly on a justified suspicion that the Chinese were not overly distressed at the Americans enjoying the fruits of their own labor.
But even then I had a sense of an apparition, a version of Dickens' 'ghost of coronavirus past', accompanied by an uncomfortable feeling the Americans were sufficiently bitter (and vicious) to deny the Chinese their apparently easy victory. My fear was that the Americans would try to reseed China as they did Russia, and it would seem my fears were not unjustified. The new virus that broke out at the Xinfadi market in Beijing was a different strain than any previously existing in China, one that existed only in the US and Europe and could only have been brought in from the outside. And once again at a seafood market with no identifiable patient zero, no clear epidemiology (source and distribution) of a virus that did not exist in China. It almost had to be deliberately seeded, the odds against being infinitesimally small.
In terms of what I am calling COVID-20 (to differentiate it from the initial outbreak), China may have been fortunate to detect and corral this new pathogen before it could spread. The outbreak did expand to three other provinces but in single digits and the medical authorities have taken extreme action to prevent further spread since this variety – which again did not exist in China and had to be seeded from another country, appears to be much more contagious than the original COVID-19. [2] https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1191598.shtml In response, Beijing has locked down everything and sent a group of experts to guide the fight against this new potential epidemic, so far with good success. Nucleic acid testing has been initiated on a massive scale, already many millions of people tested, and all those in contact with the Xinfadi market being in quarantine. Many residential compounds in the city strictly prohibit anyone from entering or leaving, with residents having their temperatures checked and reported on a daily basis, and their food and daily necessities delivered. [3] https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/asia/coronavirus-beij...x.html
Before this new outbreak, Beijing had been virus-free for nearly 60 days, meaning there were no local viruses and that this new pathogen was definitely an import (or an American export). On June 19, China's CDC experts, after intensive investigations of the Xinfadi market, announced what they termed "a groundbreaking virus tracing discovery", which was that the strain of the new virus in Beijing was the same as that in much of Europe – but much older than those in Europe, and "had been around for quite some time" – and that can mean only that it came from the US because that was the source of all the original varieties many months ago. [4] https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1192146.shtml
The investigators said they obtained so many positive samples that the entire market was "severely contaminated by the virus", but also that no one should form the conclusion that the market was the origin merely because the outbreak took place there. More importantly, they also said "Beijing's outbreak gives us the opportunity to re-examine our previous speculation that the virus originated from wildlife", because unlike Wuhan, "the possibility of wildlife causing Beijing's latest outbreak is slim." Their conclusion was that "an infected individual or object contaminated with the virus entered the wet market, and the market only gave it an environment to multiply". [3] https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/asia/coronavirus-beij...x.html The authorities have already produced the genome sequence and are now establishing when and how the virus was likely imported into China, and how long was the transmission chain. There is no question this pathogen was brought into China "by people", the question being the identity of those people and their purpose. [5] http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202006/15/WS5ee6b33d...9.html And, what better way to "teach those smug Chinese a lesson" and attempt to derail China's rapid economic recovery.
Russia Re-seeded
There is something equally strange about the virus in Russia. For a long time, Russia had only a few infections, rising steadily by only five or ten per day, then suddenly it exploded, rising by 5,000, then 10,000 and 20,000 per day. Virus outbreaks don't normally manifest that way. The normal process upon an outbreak is a rapid acceleration in the number of infections until it peaks, as happened with all other countries.
But with Russia, the infections were minor for a long time, steady at very low numbers, with all the indications of an unsuccessful epidemic, and the Russian government took strict measures to control the spread. The US government was clearly resentful at the failure of the virus to devastate Russia and the US media bemoaned the fact that Russia's death rate was so low.
I would be very interested to see the genome sequences from the first infections in January and February, and for those happening in April and May. I haven't any definitive proof, but I am certain Russia, as China, was seeded again with another variety for a second attempt.
Virus Distribution
But to return to our main point, it isn't necessary for us to determine the physical origin of the virus. We know the virus originated in bats; that much is confirmed, but the more important issue is the epidemiology, particularly the incidence and distribution. First of all, for China and most other nations originally infected, there were so many multiple and simultaneous sources that locating a patient zero was a hopeless task. Virus outbreaks, left to their own natural devices, do not behave in this fashion, but begin with one person in a tightly localised situation and provably spreading from that point. Equally distressing is that we have the truly unprecedented "two waves" of worldwide infections. For this, let's review my observations from an earlier article [6] COVID-19 – Two Major 'Waves' of Global Infection; https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/05/covid-19-two-...l.html and take a quick look at those two waves of infections that circled the globe.
The First Wave simultaneously infected 25 nations within a few days centered on January 25. One month later, the Second Wave simultaneously infected 85 nations within a few days centered on February 25. A natural virus hasn't the ability to simultaneously (within three days) infect 85 different countries on all continents of the world. More peculiar is that these countries were not all infected with the same variety of the virus, and that most reported simultaneous outbreaks in multiple locations. Considering the above information in light of the basics of virus transmission, the only theory that fits all the known facts is that these waves resulted from many people leaving Fort Detrick on the same day carrying a pail of different live viruses, because those multiple varieties at the time existed only in the US. It could not possibly have resulted from air travel because that timing would have been scattered. When 85 countries experience a virus outbreak on virtually the same day, this can happen only with human assistance. The Americans have steadfastly refused to address this point.
Experts on biological weapons are in unanimous agreement that eruptions in a human population of a new and unusual pathogen in multiple locations simultaneously, with no clear idea of source and cases with no proven links, is virtually prima facie evidence of a pathogen deliberately released, since natural outbreaks can almost always be resolved to one location and one patient zero. But with COVID-19 (or COVID-20), not one country out of 200 has been able to do this.
It should be firmly noted that this new infection in Beijing is not a "second wave" as termed by the Western media. This is an entirely new and different infection by a new virus and totally unrelated to anything prior, a strain of a new and different virus that was deliberately carried to Beijing and flooded in the Xinfadi Market. This infection is not related to COVID-19 but is the seeding of yet another biological pathogen in China, making that now seven different biological attacks on China in two years. And China has suffered others similar. One of the most notable was the H1N1 virus that caused the 1918 flu pandemic – and which was extinct for decades – but which suddenly appeared in 1977 in both China and Russia causing a global pandemic, prompting immediate claims by the Americans that it "escaped from a Chinese lab". But the only sensible explanation is that the H1N1 virus 'escaped' from the Americans because there were persistent reports that the US military had found or saved samples of the original 'Spanish Flu' virus and were attempting to re-activate it. There was never a shred of evidence that either China or Russia had anything to do with this, and both were taken entirely by surprise.
It is my view that the world needs to stop pretending that COVID-19 was an accident of nature. Consider China's recent experience. In addition to SARS – which was indisputably man-made, China has suffered repeated viral pandemics in the past two years. February 15, 2018: H7N4 bird flu. June, 2018: H7N9 bird flu. August, 2018: outbreak of African swine flu. May 24, 2019: massive infestation of armyworms. December, 2019: COVID-19. January, 2020: A "highly pathogenic" strain of bird flu. June, 2020: China is hit with COVID-20. Are we to tell ourselves it was merely a run of bad luck that China was the only nation in the world to be hit repeatedly with so many different biological pathogens in such a short time? And merely more 'bad luck' that China became the only country in the world that was domestically virus-free and was suddenly hit again with a foreign strain in another wet market? This assumption is too ridiculous to bother refuting.
It is unfortunate that so much of our information today comes to us in a passive receptance from the mass media because one result is the loss of our ability to examine information critically and use our minds to assess the presentation. As an example, it was very clever for the Americans to use a wet market as a distribution point for a virus and for the media to give this point massive air time, because we instinctively associate such markets with at least a possibility of germs and bacteria and thus passively accept the claims as true without the necessary evidence and thus avoid using our brains as intended. Our assessment of wet markets as unsanitary may be correct, but common germs and bacteria are a very different thing from a coronavirus that makes its home in bats and has no business being in a vegetable market. It isn't important for our purposes to decide if COVID-19 was created in a lab; the important point is that a coronavirus has no means of transportation from bat caves in Sichuan to a market in Wuhan, nor the ability to mutate itself in such a way as to be energetically contagious to humans, and much less the conscious intelligence to choose China's largest passenger transportation hub as the distribution point and the Eve of the Chinese New Year as the best time to attack. For these, the coronavirus required a helping 'black hand'.
The Noose Tightens on the US
There is almost daily an increase in the volume of evidence that COVID-19 was circulating in the US far earlier than admitted, and serving as incriminating proof that the CDC's deliberate (and threatening) forbidding of testing was to bury this evidence. The most recent example is headlines in the US media on June 21, 2020, stating, "Over 40 mysterious respiratory deaths in California could dramatically rewrite narrative of COVID-19" in the US. [7] https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1192389.shtml The LA Times reported on "a cluster of mysterious respiratory deaths" beginning in December of 2019. The local news website www.bakersfield.com stated this meant that COVID-19 was circulating in California "way earlier than we knew". And let's not forget too quickly that Japanese tourists were infected in Hawaii in September of 2019.
And on June 20, 2020, the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) revealed that they had discovered that COVID-19 was present in water samples dating back to mid-December of 2019. The results were confirmed by two separate labs that used two entirely different testing methods, and also showed that environmental wastewater from Milan, Turin and Bologna returned positive traces of the virus dating back to December if not earlier. Apparently, the RNA from COVID-19 does not readily dissolve or disintegrate in water and polymerase chain reaction testing allows scientists to identify the RNA after many months. [8] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronaviru...23Q1J9 [9] https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/ita...5a35e3
And it wasn't only Italy. Dutch researchers discovered COVID-19 RNA in a wastewater plant in the Utrecht, Netherlands, city of Amersfoort. French scientists detected "high concentrations" of COVID-19 RNA in samples of sewage water from greater Paris that were obtained before Paris first recorded any deaths. Sputnik News reported in May that a Paris hospital confirmed it had treated Amirouche Hammar, the country's first COVID-19 patient, on December 27, 2019 – one month before France's first announcement of infections and four days before the WHO China bureau was informed of a "pneumonia of unknown etiology" on December 31. [10] https://sputniknews.com/europe/202006191079667103-sc...break/
The Irish Mirror reported on June 19 that "many countries are beginning to use wastewater sampling to track the spread of the disease", scientists claiming these detections were "consistent with evidence emerging in other countries" that COVID-19 was circulating around the world long before China reported its first cases, all of which would of necessity have had to have originated in the US and transported around the world. It is now beginning to appear that many countries were seeded at approximately the same time, perhaps in their water distribution systems. Following these discoveries, the ISS told Reuters it intends to launch a new study of the wastewater of Italian tourist resorts. I suspect other nations will follow.
And it would seem the NYT, WSJ, WP, CNN, ABC, NBC, National Post, Globe & Mail , have no knowledge of this. The Chinese and Europeans know, but the Americans and Canadians don't know because the owners of their major newspapers and TV networks don't want them to know.
A Brief Update
If you look at the graph (courtesy of CNN ), you can see the European infection pattern (in pink) and the American (in green). The Europeans followed China's protocols in varying degrees, and thus with varying degrees of success. Europe's infections peaked at around 30,000 per day then descended to around 2,000 near the end of June, while the Americans, led by a man who is living proof that democracy is the worst possible form of government, saw their infections peak at the same level, slightly decrease, then revert to 30,000 infections and around 1,000 deaths per day where they will now remain until the virus surges through the entire population. Twenty-six states are already experiencing dramatic spikes reaching new records each day, so Trump ordered the CDC to "stop testing" because it makes him look bad.
The next graphic is a list of the top ten nations for COVID-19 infections. Missing from this picture is a comparison I want to make about leadership and competence, to say nothing of intelligence. Shanghai is a city only two hours from Wuhan and, when the infections exploded, had no warning and almost no time to prepare, but acted so quickly and decisively that the city had only 26 infections and 7 deaths. Missing from the graphic is Canada, with a population very similar to Shanghai, and who, with months to plan and prepare, had 101,000 infections and 8,400 deaths. Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau is also living proof of democracy's vast failings.
The Americans elected a pathetic buffoon who lives in outer space, while the Canadians elected a bullied child so painfully unintelligent and indecisive his wife would have to tell him to call the fire department if his house were burning down. I would include here the Brazilians who, with excessive assistance from the Americans, elected an arrogant sociopath who said famously, "It's not my fault. What do you want me to do about it?"
In all three countries the leaderless pandemic results are the same, with infections and deaths likely increasing until at least the end of the year. China, with a population of more than 1.4 billion people, had about 80,000 infections and little more than 4,000 deaths, and stopped the virus cold in about three months. But according to the NYT, WSJ, WP, and Canada's terminally-obnoxious National Post , the "free-market capitalist" countries are God's first choice while "socialist authoritarian" China should incur yet more sanctions for all its mistakes.
Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai's Fudan University, presenting case studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He can be contacted at: [email protected]. He is a frequent contributor to Global Research.
Notes:
- [1] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/15/asia/coronavirus-beijing-outbreak-intl-hnk/index.html
- [2] https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1191598.shtml
- [3] https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/asia/coronavirus-beijing-outbreak-intl-hnk/index.html
- [4] https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1192146.shtml
- [5] http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202006/15/WS5ee6b33da310834817252ec9.html
- [6] COVID-19 – Two Major 'Waves' of Global Infection; https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/05/covid-19-two-major-waves-of-global.html
- [7] https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1192389.shtml
- [8] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-sewage-idUSKBN23Q1J9
- [9] https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/italy-sewage-study-suggests-covid19-was-there-in-december-2019/news-story/2fd865f7b12a33698f3e9ab2f15a35e3
- [10] https://sputniknews.com/europe/202006191079667103-scientists-find-traces-of-sars-cov-2-in-italian-wastewater-predating-2019-wuhan-outbreak/
Anon [320] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:01 am GMTThis flu like outbreak in July '19 in VA that killed two and sent 18 to the hospital in a nursing home in Springfield, VA, should be fully investigate, it could explain the origin of the virus:Mustapha Mond , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:12 am GMTSpringfield, VA, where this nursing home was located, is about an hour south east of Ft. Detrick, the bioweapons lab that was shut down by CDC at around the same time after it failed a safety inspection in June, 2019.
To think the evil geniuses that would create such nasty pathogens would not have a whole panoply of similar bugs to release would seem naive. I suspect the future strains will only become more virulent, thus insuring a very complacent and fearful populace for unlimited vaccinating, microchipping and contact tracing, all to the PTB's delight and profits. Not to mention the ease with which the American populace will have their anger, fears and frustrations twisted into hatred for all things Chinese. How convenient!Rahan , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 6:06 am GMTWhat is currently amusing is watching how deftly the Chinese government is dealing with these assaults, both biological and economic, and how impotent and visibly frustrated the US powerbrokers are with the efficiency and effectiveness of the Chinese responses.
If the Chinese continue to effectively fend off the future attacks, whether they be biological or financial/trade, one can expect that these same evil geniuses, having been frustrated over and over, will only continue their escalations. Expect the anti-China rhetoric from the West's political puppets and the MSM to reach fever pitch just before things turn 'hot' in the new cold war against Chinese ascendancy. Whether it will eventually (or inevitably) go nuclear is the real $64,000 question that leaves many of us concerned observers awake at night ..
So what we have here, if we accept the basic discourse of this highly interesting article, is therefore likely the following:refl , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 6:12 am GMTChina got hit by various "flu weapons" and "livestock diseases" over the last twenty years, to keep the "dirty commies" from "getting too uppity", but, not counting SARS, only became capable of keeping an accurate tally of the different jabs and pokes over the last five years.
At some point, the Chinese government decided that enough is enough. Their think-tanks recommended the following strategy as the only feasible one: the next time they get seeded, the instantly pounce on the new pathogen, and blow it out of all proportion, causing a) the whole world to panic, and b) the whole world to start paying attention to the issue of new and old pathogens floating around.
In this sense, the "it's just the flu bro" people are correct, meaning that this is not really some apocalyptic plague that justifies shutting down the world. But on the other hand, it was used by Beijing as an example to point out that this crap is happening, and that they know it's happening, and that this game can't be played like this anymore.
In effect they "pulled a Trump". Through their bombastic overreaction, they forced the whole world to notice and discuss the issue they wanted noticed and discussed.
So from now on, the whole world -- except the Anglospherical powers completely taken over by the GloboHomo alliance of corporations, deep state, and baizuo (and where the heritage white demographic replacement has gone farthest) -- will also be super careful about these things, and evidence will begin to accumulate through this "forced crowd-sourcing".
Quinsat , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 6:20 am GMTauthorities have taken extreme action to prevent further spread since this variety – which again did not exist in China and had to be seeded from another country, appears to be much more contagious than the original COVID-19.[2] In response
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Many residential compounds in the city strictly prohibit anyone from entering or leaving, with residents having their temperatures checked and reported on a daily basis, and their food and daily necessities delivered.[3]So this is how the new shamdemic of COVID-20 will cement and perfect the destruction of freedom across the world?
We will have discussion on fictious body counts and false statistics here at UR for ever more with COVID-20, -21, -22 and so on?This pattern makes sense, because the victory over the populace who have given up their freedom to lead anything that can be called a life worth living is just to great to be allowed to be ephimeral.
The total destruction of freedom only makes sense, if there is a follow up until all the deluded hoaxers who believe that their is a life beyond feeling sick kill themselves. Then it will be lockdowns and quarantines for ever more and families will have online celebrations when the newborns will get their masks sealed on their seventh day on earth, before they are handed over to the overlords.As for this authorities conclusions: It should be known by now that when you interpret bogus data, above all when you do so with bad intentions, you will find any conclusions that suite your purpose. Of course, COVID-19 has been found in older samples, as by now the testing has been so well established that they can find it anywhere. Next, they will find it in eghiptian mumies.
This author is a management consultant. He has done missinterpreting statistics for a living and should know how to reasonably sell bad advice.@Priss FactorBombercommand , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 7:17 am GMTCovid's here to stay – irrespective of the fact that it has never and will never satisfy Koch's Postulates. Why? Two reasons. First, because it has proved itself to be a highly effective means of controlling first world populations. Second, because now that it's been rolled out, it'll be impossible to roll it back without waking up the normies. You don't turn off the gas before the frog's been boiled.
Ditto the assault on 'white privilege'. Like Covid, it's only going to get worse – not better.
Plan accordingly, friends.
Ten citations, and three are from "The Global Times", one from "China Daily", and one is an article penned by the author himself. Impressive scholarship, Mr Romanoff, very impressive scholarship.Ann Nonny Mouse , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 7:31 am GMTThe 5-Eyes governments all need to be told that the USA attacked them, launched bio-warfare against them, is their real enemy.Hippopotamusdrome , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 7:50 am GMTBrás Cubas , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 8:51 am GMTVirus outbreaks don't normally manifest that way. The normal process upon an outbreak is a rapid acceleration in the number of infections until it peaks
Occams Razor. It's a hoax or else the virus is violating the laws of Nature.
PetrOldSack , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 9:07 am GMTI would include here the Brazilians who, with excessive assistance from the Americans, elected an arrogant sociopath who said famously, "It's not my fault. What do you want me to do about it?"
In Brazil, the Supreme Court has decided that governors don't have to obey the federal government on local health policies. So, it really makes no difference whether the President is Mother Theresa or Jason Voorhees. It's true that Bolsonaro tries once in a while to enact some federal regulations, but he seems to fail every time. It's odd that you don't know that fact, seeing as in the U.S. I hear things are quite similar. As for Brazilian governors, they oddly don't get the same international flak as Bolsonaro does, despite many of them being suspected of using the pandemic as an opportunity for stealing.
This kind of inexactitude immediately throws the rest of the article under heavy suspicion. When people start spewing words like 'sociopath', it is clear to me that they have an agenda.
skrik , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 10:51 am GMTIt is unfortunate that so much of our information today comes to us in a passive receptance from the mass media because one result is the loss of our ability to examine information critically and use our minds to assess the presentation. As an example, it was very clever for the Americans to use a wet market as a distribution point for a virus and for the media to give this point massive air time, because we instinctively associate such markets with at least a possibility of germs and bacteria and thus passively accept the claims as true without the necessary evidence and thus avoid using our brains as intended.
Rewrite: "it is unfortunate that alternative media distill their take on the news, based on data fed into the public domain. As much as MSM do. Garbage in, garbage out. Sorting garbage, no avail. This article is just another layer of meaningless deft. If any statement here is true, it would be by accident.
In that, of course, it follows the enforcing of the media rule: keep a grasp on the surplus population by manipulating the frequency and number of tainted information. All data in the public domain are probably useless by now. All data on Covid are willfully manipulated. The author of course knows this, and his dump is intentional. The immediate reason, middle class making a living, book pushing, bread-writing, self-promotion, retirement gig, no more. Summer months in the media year, another step-in. Jewish by hazard?
@Cat If you wish to contestAvery , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 11:40 am GMTWe know the virus originated in bats; that much is confirmed
then it'd only be fair for you to inform us of your alternate explanation, giving convincing proof [assuming you'd have some?]
FYI there exists a bat-coronavirus genetic sequence RaTG13 which agrees with 96.2% of Covid-19, and an even closer match in RmYN02 at 93.3% agreement. Thesis: That someone took RaTG13 [see 1st and 3rd parts in image below; the RaTG13 spike is so far a 'best fit'] and force-evolved it by infecting cultures of human cells in an evolution-enabling environment, collecting any 'survivors' then repeating this process [a possible proof being the Covid-19 attack disabling victims' sense of smell, indicating 'force-evolving' in cultures of human nerve cells]. In addition, I've seen suggested, that infecting animals with some human-similar traits [here, ferrets with ACE2, say] could have evolved the virus to attack via ACE2 in humans. Then, there's the *unique* inclusion of RPPA in the Covid-19 spike, both enabling infection and that with greatly enhanced pathogenicity [compared to SARS-1, say]. rgds PS An interesting extension to some ideas in the article, is that since the virus infections have gone global, IF it was human-made [my best tip] THEN whoever made it [= clearly rogue-state operatives] contributed to killing 100s of 1000s, *including their own people* ! brrr
{The Americans elected a pathetic buffoon who lives in outer space,}Nixon Scraypes , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 1:07 pm GMTHe may or may not be a pathetic buffoon*, but he is smart enough to parlay inherited wealth to become a Billionaire, he is POTUS, he lives in the White House or Mar-a-Lago with a model-wife, and will be remembered as such long after you are forgotten.
Aside from that, who would you have Americans elect? The Hildabeast?
But it's not too late: if enough Americans lose their minds and elect The DementiaMan, we will be subjected to the non-buffoon experience of Hildabeast 2.0.Biden will be a near complete vegetable in a year or two, and the chosen female radical left, Antifa (sic) ** embracing VP will run the show. America as it was founded will be no more.
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* Lookup Scott Adams' discussions on how Trump manipulates and influences.
Scott predicted way back that Trump would be POTUS.
Note: Scott is a trained hypnotist, and recognizes classic 'tells' of hypnosis in Trump's seemingly "buffoonish" behaviour.** Despite their cleverly chosen moniker, these violent thugs are the real Fascists: their behaviour and tactics are an exact copy of Mussolini's Blackshirts.
Don't viruses mutate anyway? See science direct.com ~ covid in France in December. Also an acquaintance of mine had a horrible virus in December in England.jadan , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 1:30 pm GMTThe Chinese analyzed the new outbreak and determined the genome was that of a strain that existed only in the US & Europe, but not heretofore in China. The Chinese have identified many different strains of this virus, seven or more.mike99588 , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 1:53 pm GMTBut the author goes on to say later in his diatribe: " This is an entirely new and different infection by a new virus and totally unrelated to anything prior, a strain of a new and different virus that was deliberately carried to Beijing and flooded in the Xinfadi Market. "
This covid19 with its growing number of strains seems likely to have escaped from a lab and it is most probably a product of US ingenuity, with cleverly engineered gain of function, but to leap to the conclusion that the US has deployed this bioweapon against China and Russia goes too far. Why would the US target its own population in the process?
If, as Ron Unz speculates, this virus is a botched attack on China and other enemies by stupid people in a stupid administration that has had unanticipated blowback hitting the US, then these same stupid perps would not launch another such aggression!
This notion of a secret biological aggression does not hold water, but the Chinese probably appreciate Larry Romanoff's efforts.
@Godfree RobertsBombercommand , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 1:59 pm GMTWhere have you been? The examples of massive cheating and common reckless are decades long. The melamine-milk scandals and falling down buildings were not merely "one-off" but a commonplace for the Chinese themselves.
I myself have examples of deal-breaking cheating that cost them bigger opportunities, and shake my head. Yes, they can do world class, sometimes.
We will probably never know how much has been copied. It's been so pervasive at all scales.
With borg like eavesdropping and acquisition systems gobbling everything up, 4x our population, with our declining high quality population, we may yet see how much they can or can't innovate.
They have a lot of stripped assets and resources now to command impoverished Americas' hopes and attention, against prior experiences.
@Godfree Robertsdenk , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:08 pm GMTEven Chinese are skeptical of anything "Made In China". Last year, in a Canadian Tire store I saw a Chinese couple. Hubby had selected an item for possible purchase. His wife tore into him, speaking rapidly and scornfully in Chinese. I do not understand Chinese, but didn't need to, as she repeatedly dropped in the English phrase "Made In China", in a sarcastic tone of voice. Hubby put the item back on the shelf and they walked away. China is a deeply cracked culture. My friend Meng(female), who was born in China and married to a Chinese guy, put it to me bluntly: "In China, 90% of marriages are without love".
@yuribezmenoffSteveK9 , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:09 pm GMTthey work hardly to overthrow the western democratic institutions,
Cough cough cough cough .
Here's a novel solution do nothing. It works for Belarus. Some 80-year-olds die and society goes on as usual problem solved. Spoken by someone getting closer to 80.Agent76 , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:27 pm GMTJun 22, 2020 CELEBRATED SCIENTIST: '80% NOT SUSCEPTIBLE TO COVID"Emslander , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:27 pm GMTNamed the "most influential" brain scientist of our time, Dr. Karl Friston, made waves when he published his study mapping the real susceptibility of contracting Coronavirus. His results are staggering and challenge the rationale for a lockdown like no other.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/3jKGD7XnbRc?feature=oembed
Jun 15, 2020 The Collapse of the COVID-1984 Narrative
Now that the major institutions pushing the COVID panic are now admitting that the virus is not an existential threat and the lockdowns were not necessary, what does this mean for the future of the COVID-1984 police state and the ushering in of the new "biosecurity" paradigm?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/M3OOBXwtojo?feature=oembed
@Mustapha Mond In any complex, highly planned operation such as you describe, where motives of such depth and perception are necessary, there are going to have to be real persons with real names. You can't go on saying that "evil geniuses" at Fort Deitrich or wherever engineered and executed so deftly these multilayered "seedings" without getting orders or authorization from someone we all know. Is it Trump, Pompeo, Hilary, Biden, Obama or Amy Semple McPherson?Ann Nonny Mouse , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:39 pm GMTIt's like the Germans and the Holocaust. You'd have to have so many evil players with superhuman capacity to hold onto their secret motives and actions that we still can't pin them down. I don't think there are so many such people in our stupid federal government. Even our brave and feared John Bolton, when he reveals himself, is just an oversensitive weeny.
This article suffers from many fundamental misunderstandings of government weenies. Those people in Northern Virginia who are "seeding" foreign nations with new strains of virus every sixty days on some diabolically precise motivational dynamic live in boring suburbs and fix awful chicken on their barbecues. They drink watery beer and watch "Wheel of Fortune". Give me a break!
@Bombercommand If they are Chinese travellers exploring Canada and Canadian culture it would be silly of them to buy something made in China as though it was Canadian. Your reasoning does not hold up.Mustapha Mond , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 3:11 pm GMT@Emslander Hannah Arendt noted the 'banality of evil' long ago. It's pretty common, sad to say.Republic , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 3:19 pm GMTThe military is filled with 'ordinary' people who apparently have no qualms about murdering anyone their 'superiors' point to and say, "Kill!" They are just following orders, after all.
The number of 'evil players' is simply staggering, whether we want to admit it or not. And yes, they DO drink watery beer and watch "Wheel of Fortune" and have bar-b-ques. John Wayne Gacy comes to mind immediately. Who knows who our neighbors really are, deep down inside?
As for naming names, gosh, I seem to have lost my DARPA personnel directory of evil geniuses, and my CIA directory of same as well.
(But as for who REALLY controls things and gives the orders, I think you may have nailed it with Sister Aimee. And she was HOT in her day, and apparently knew how to have a good time. Hallelujah, brother ..)
@SteveK9 There are reports that the US is currently engaged in a color revolution in Belarus. See Moon of Alabama for detailsBombercommand , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 3:21 pm GMT@Anon So the "flu like outbreak" skipped Frederick, Maryland, the town Fort Detrick is located in to strike Springfield, Virginia which is very close to Washington DC, as well as not striking other communities between Frederick, Maryland and Springfield, Virginia including Washington DC. I like how your brain works, you should be working at The Global Times or perhaps you already are .denk , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 3:42 pm GMT@Old and Grumpy https://www.globalresearch.ca/from-1945-until-today-20-to-30-million-people-killed-by-the-usa/5660519Ayatollah Smith , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 3:55 pm GMTConsidering that you've been targeting residential area, market places, wedding dinner, mosques, churches, you've prolly vaporised 20-30M dogs and cats, those are the lucky ones, many more were left maimed and paralyzed.
19.Brás Cubas says:skrik , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:51 pm GMT"I would include here the Brazilians who, with excessive assistance from the Americans, elected an arrogant sociopath who said famously, "It's not my fault. What do you want me to do about it?""
"In Brazil, the Supreme Court has decided that governors don't have to obey the federal government on local health policies. So, it really makes no difference whether the President is Mother Theresa or Jason Voorhees. It's true that Bolsonaro tries once in a while to enact some federal regulations, but he seems to fail every time. It's odd that you don't know that fact, seeing as in the U.S. I hear things are quite similar. As for Brazilian governors, they oddly don't get the same international flak as Bolsonaro does, despite many of them being suspected of using the pandemic as an opportunity for stealing."
"This kind of inexactitude immediately throws the rest of the article under heavy suspicion. When people start spewing words like 'sociopath', it is clear to me that they have an agenda."
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I don't normally respond to rubbish, but readers might care to look at this one because it's a classic of dishonest misrepresentation.
First, M. Cubas quotes from the article about Bolsonaro being a sociopath. He (or she, or it) then turns the subject to Brazilian governors not having to obey the federal government. Who cares? Where did that come from? Relevant to what?
Then, the author is chastised for "not knowing this fact", although we have no idea if he does or doesn't know, because this was never discussed.
M. Cubas then converts the author's supposed 'lack of knowledge' of this irrelevant bit of information, to claim that "This kind of inexactitude immediately throws the rest of the article under heavy suspicion." That is to say that if I fail to mention the process for deep-frying chicken in a conversation about bridge construction, you should assume I know nothing about deep-frying chicken, and furthermore that my failure to mention deep-frying chicken in a conversation about bridge construction should make you suspect everything I say. You got that?
Then, the word sociopath is 'spewed', and anyone who uses that word must have an 'agenda'.
But, with Bolsonaro in Brazil, when the man offers no leadership, trivialises a pandemic, takes no action to protect the population, watches more than one million citizens become infected and more than 50,000 of them die, and then says, "It's not my fault. What do you want me to do about it?", I think we have a sociopath on our hands.
And who has the 'agenda' in this case, M. Cubas?
@jadanRobert Dolan , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 6:15 pm GMTThis covid19 with its growing number of strains seems likely to have escaped from a lab and it is most probably a product of US ingenuity, with cleverly engineered gain of function, but to leap to the conclusion that the US has deployed this bioweapon against China and Russia goes too far. Why would the US target its own population in the process?
To answer the last bit 1st, the rogue-state operators did not expect USA to get bitten, due to a) already having a mild form active there, and b) SARS-CoV-1 was largely contained in Asia (84% of all deaths in Mainland China and Hong Kong).
Note that Forster found only a few occurrences of the A-strain, closest may have been 50km SE of Wuhan; the overwhelming majority of Chinese infections being B-strain. Now a new-to-China strain has somehow 'arrived' in Beijing (termed 'older' in headline article). The people who 'built' the Covid-19 causing virus = SARS-CoV-2 know exactly what they've done, and it is my thesis that when the PRRA insert was recognised in Wuhan, that was the moment the Chinese knew they were under attack, and the rest of the chaos ensued. Any alleging 'scam' must explain why Russia and Iran, say, play along. rgds
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/06/gary-d-barnett/they-have-ruined-this-country-and-are-now-coming-for-your-property-mind-and-soul-defend-yourself/Mefobills , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 6:16 pm GMT@Mustapha Mond Good comment Mustapha.Jake , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 6:19 pm GMTThe banality of evil is often not known until revisionist historians are able to make connections post facto. In the moment people do not have enough information to make informed decisions.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Rove
"That's not the way the world really works anymore." He continued "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
For example, during the French Revolution most of the participants had no idea of what a Jacobian was.
Or, during the Bolshevik Revolution, most participants had no idea of who Kuhn and Loeb was.
Or, before WW1 was the machinations of the Milner Group known?
Or, before WW2, the machinations of Zionists to get Balfour.
Or, how Focus group had gotten to Churchill with loans.
Why the evil? It is usually hidden string pullers who are afraid of losing their vaunted position in ruling hierarchy. They may actually think they are doing good, because doing good is defined as "what is good for me, or my in-group."
@Nikola Zrinski The ADL and SPLC always raise funds by paying people, virtually all of them Jews, to write or orate things like your comment. They then send the 'anti-Semitic' outburst to the hordes of gullible Jews and white liberals and ask for money that is required to fight anti-Semitism.Sam J. , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 6:26 pm GMT@Mustapha MondCurmudgeon , says: Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 6:26 pm GMTIf we or the Chinese are going to stop this we're going to have to get rid of the Jews. The Jews are the only people that profit from this. If this or one of their other viruses kills one of your family then the Jews have directly killed your family.
A vast amount of the problems we have could be sewed up in very quick order if we got rid of the Jews.
@mike99588 I'm not keen on a lot of stuff from China, but your comment lacks perspective.Current Commenter
What happened with the melamine milk scandal that killed 6 and damaged approximately 300k? The perp was tried and executed. What has happened in the US with oxyContin which has caused tens of thousands of deaths and ruined up to a million more? Nothing of consequence. The lead paint in/on Marx toys? China – people responsible committed suicide knowing they would be executed. US – Gee we didn't know, why would we test products to ensure they were being made properly?China today is where Japan was in the late 60s and Korea in the late 80s. Huge capacity not so good quality. Japanese and Korean cars used to be crap, now they are the most reliable. US cars used to be the most reliable, now they are crap. The same goes for electronics and even washing machines today.
China will only get better, just as the Japanese and Koreans did. The orientals have a better sense of "the whole" of the population benefiting. The US, and most of (((the West))) lost that concept long ago.
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Jun 24, 2020 | www.unz.com
"This is not a momentary civil disturbance. This is a serious, and highly organized political movement It is deep and profound and has vast political ambitions. It is insidious, it will grow. It's goal is to end liberal democracy and challenge western civilization itself. This is an ideological movement Even now, many of us pretend this is about police brutality. We think we can fix it by regulating chokeholds or spending more on de-escalation training. We're too literal and good-hearted to understand what's happening. But we have no idea what we are up against. ..These are not protests. This is a totalitarian political movement and someone needs to save the country from it." Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson is right, the protests and riots are not a momentary civil disturbance. They are an attack the Constitutional Republic itself, the heart and soul of American democracy. The Black Lives Matter protests are just the tip of the spear, they are an expression of public outrage that is guaranteed under the first amendment. But don't be deceived, there's more here than meets the eye. BLM is funded by foundations that seek to overthrow our present form of government and install an authoritarian regime guided by technocrats, oligarchs and corporatists all of who believe that Chinese-type despotism is far-more compatible with capitalism than "inefficient" democracy. The chaos in the streets is merely the beginning of an excruciating transition from one system to another. This is an excerpt from an article by F. William Engdahl at Global Research:
"By 2016, Black Lives Matter had established itself as a well-organized network .. That year the Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy announced the formation of the Black-Led Movement Fund (BLMF), "a six-year pooled donor campaign aimed at raising $100 million for the Movement for Black Lives coalition" in which BLM was a central part. By then Soros foundations had already given some $33 million in grants to the Black Lives Matter movement .. ..
The BLMF identified itself as being created by top foundations including in addition to the Ford Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation and the Soros Open Society Foundations." ( "America's Own Color Revolution ", Global Research)
$100 million is alot of money. How has that funding helped BLM expand its presence in politics and social media? How many activists and paid employees operate within the network disseminating information, building new chapters, hosting community outreach programs, and fine-tuning an emergency notification system that allows them to put tens of thousands of activists on the streets in cities across the country at a moment's notice? Isn't that what we've seen for the last three weeks, throngs of angry protestors swarming in more than 400 cities across America all at the beck-and-call of a shadowy group whose political intentions are still not clear?
And what about the rioting, looting and arson that broke out in numerous cities following the protests? Was that part of the script too? Why haven't BLM leaders condemned the destruction of private property or offered a public apology for the downtown areas that have been turned into wastelands? In my own hometown of Seattle, the downtown corridor– which once featured Nordstrom, Pottery Barn and other upscale retail shops– is now a checkerboard of broken glass, plywood covers and empty streets all covered in a thick layer of garish spray-paint. The protest leaders said they wanted to draw attention to racial injustice and police brutality. Okay, but how does looting Nordstrom help to achieve that goal?
And what role have the Democrats played in protest movement?
They've been overwhelmingly supportive, that's for sure. In fact, I can't think of even one Democrat who's mentioned the violence, the looting or the toppling of statues. Why is that?
It's because the Democrats think that kowtowing to BLM will give them the winning edge in the November balloting. That's what it's all about. That's why they draped themselves in Kente cloth and knelt for the cameras. They think their black constituents are too stupid to see through their groveling fakery. They think that blacks will forget that Joe Biden pushed through legislation "which eliminated parole for federal prisoners and limited the amount of time sentences could be reduced for good behavior."
According to the Black Agenda Repor t: "Biden and (South Carolina's Strom) Thurmond joined hands to push 1986 and 1988 drug enforcement legislation that created the nefarious sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine as well as other draconian measures that implicate him as one of the initiators of what became mass incarceration. " Biden also spearheaded "the attacks on Anita Hill when she came forward to testify against the supreme court nominee Clarence Thomas". All told, Biden's record on race is much worse than Trump's despite the media's pathetic attempts to portray Trump as Adolph Hitler. It's just more bunkum from the dissembling media.
Bottom line: The Democrats think they can ride racial division and social unrest all the way to the White House. That's what they are betting on.
So, yes, the Dems are exploiting the protests for political advantage, but it goes much deeper than that. After all, we know from evidence that was uncovered during the Russiagate investigation, that DNC leaders are intimately linked to the Intel agencies, law enforcement (FBI), and the elite media. So it's not too much of a stretch to assume that these deep state agents and assets work together to shape the narrative that they think gives them the best chance of regaining power. Because, that's what this is really all about, power. Just as Russiagate was about power (removing the president using disinformation, spies, surveillance and other skulduggery.), and just as the Covid-19 fiasco was essentially about power (collapsing the economy while imposing medical martial law on the population.), so too, the BLM protest movement is also about power, the power to inflict massive damage on the country's main urban centers with the intention of destabilizing the government, restructuring the economy and paving the way for a Democratic victory in November. It's all about power, real, unalloyed political muscle.
Surprisingly, one of the best critiques of what is currently transpiring was written by Niles Niemuth at the World Socialist Web Site. Here's what he said about the widespread toppling of statues:
"The attacks on the monuments were pioneered by the increasingly frenzied attempt by the Democratic Party and the New York Times to racialize American history, to create a narrative in which the history of mankind is reduced to the history of racial struggle. This campaign has produced a pollution of democratic consciousness, which meshes entirely with the reactionary political interests driving it.
It is worth noting that the one institution seemingly immune from this purge is the Democratic Party, which served as the political wing of the Confederacy and, subsequently, the KKK.
This filthy historical legacy is matched only by the Democratic Party's contemporary record in supporting wars that, as a matter of fact, primarily targeted nonwhites. Democrats supported the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and under Obama destroyed Libya and Syria. The New York Times was a leading champion and propagandist for all of these war." ( "Hands off the monuments to Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Grant!, WSWS)
What the author is referring to is The 1619 Project, which is a racialized version of American history that was published by the Times on August 19, 2019. The deliberately-distorted version of history was cobbled together in anticipation of increasing social unrest and racial antagonism. The rioting, looting and vast destruction of America's urban core can all be traced back to a document that postulates that the country was founded on racial hatred and exploitation. In other words, The 1619 Project provides the perfect ideological justification for the chaos and violence that has torn the country apart for the last three weeks. This is an excerpt from an article at the World Socialist Web Site:
"The essays featured in the magazine are organized around the central premise that all of American history is rooted in race hatred -- specifically, the uncontrollable hatred of "black people" by "white people." Hannah-Jones writes in the series' introduction: "Anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country. "
This is a false and dangerous conception. DNA is a chemical molecule that contains the genetic code of living organisms and determines their physical characteristics and development . Hannah-Jones's reference to DNA is part of a growing tendency to derive racial antagonisms from innate biological processes .where does this racism come from? It is embedded, claims Hannah-Jones, in the historical DNA of American "white people." Thus, it must persist independently of any change in political or economic conditions .
. No doubt, the authors of The Project 1619 essays would deny that they are predicting race war, let alone justifying fascism. But ideas have a logic; and authors bear responsibility for the political conclusions and consequences of their false and misguided arguments." ("The New York Times's 1619 Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history", World Socialist Web Site)
Keep in mind, this essay in the WSWS was written a full year before BLM protests broke out across the country. Was Hannah-Jones enlisted to create a document that would provide the dry tinder for the massive and coordinated demonstrations that have left the country stunned and divided?
Probably, after all, (as noted above) the author's theory is that one race is genetically programed to exploit the other. ( "Anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country. ") Well, if we assume that whites are genetically and irreversibly "racist", then we must also assume that the country that these whites founded is racist and evil. Thus, the only logical remedy for this situation, is to crush the white segment of the population, destroy their symbols, icons, and history, and replace the system of government with one that better reflects the values of the emerging non-Caucasian majority. Simply put, The Project 1619 creates the rationale for sustained civil unrest, deepening political polarization and violent revolution.
The 1619 Project is a calculated provocation meant to exacerbate racial animosities and pave the way to open conflagration. And it has succeeded beyond anyone's wildest imagination. The nation is split into warring camps while Washington has devolved into fratricidal warfare. Was that the objective, to destabilize the country in preparation for the dissolution of the current system followed by a fundamental restructuring of the government consistent with the identity politics lauded by the Democrats?
The Democrats, the Intel agencies and the media are all in bed together fomenting unrest with the intention of decimating the economy, crushing the emerging opposition and imposing their despotic one-party system on all of us. Here's a clip from a piece by Paul Craig Roberts that sums up the role of the New York Times in inciting race-based violence:
"The New York Times editorial board covers up the known indisputable truth with their anti-white "1619 project," an indoctrination program to inculcate hatred of white people in blacks and guilt in white people.
Why does the New York Times lie, brainwash blacks into hatred of whites, and attempt to brainwash whites into guilt for the creation of a New World labor force four centuries ago? Why do Americans tolerate the New York Times fomenting of racial hatred in a multicultural society?
The New York Times is a vile organization. The New York Times attempts to discredit the President of the United States and did all it could to frame him on false charges. The New York Times painted General Flynn, who honorably served the US, as a Russian agent and enabled General Flynn's frame-up on false and now dropped charges. The New York Times spews hatred of white people. And now the New York Times accuses the American military of celebrating white supremacism.
Does America have a worse enemy than the New York Times? The New York Times is clearly and intentionally making a multicultural America impossible . By threatening white people with the prospect of hate-driven racial violence, the New York Times editorial board is fomenting the rise of white supremacy." ( "The New York Times Editorial Board Is a Threat to Multicultural America ", The Unz Review)
The editors of the Times don't hate whites, they are merely attacking the growing number of disillusioned white working people who have left the Democratic party in frustration due to their globalist policies regarding trade, immigration, offshoring, outsourcing and the relentless hollowing out of the nation's industrial core . The Dems have abandoned these people altogether and –now that they realize they will never be able to lure them back into their camp– they've decided to wage a full-blown, scorched-earth, take-no-prisoners war on them. They've decided to crush them mercilessly and fill their ranks with multi-ethnic, bi-racial groups that will work for pennies on the dollar. (which will keep the Dems corporate supporters happy.) So, no, the Times does not hate white people. What they hate is the growing populist movement that derailed Hillary Clinton and put anti-globalist Trump in the White House. That's the real target of this operation, the disillusioned throng of working people who have washed their hands of the Democrats for good. Here's more background from Paul Craig Roberts:
"On August 12 Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times, met with the Times' employees to refocus the Times' attack on Trump . The Times, Baquet said, is shifting from Trump-Russia to Trump's racism. The Times will spend the run-up to the 2020 presidential election building the Trump-is-a-racist narrative. Of course, if Trump is a racist it means that the people who elected him are also racists. Indeed, in Baquet's view, Americans have always been racist. To establish this narrative, the New York Times has launched the "1619 Project," the purpose of which is "to reframe the country's history."
According to the Washington Examiner, "The basic thrust of the 1619 Project is that everything in American history is explained by slavery and race. The message is woven throughout the first publication of the project, an entire edition of the Times magazine. It begins with an overview of race in America -- 'Our democracy's founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true.'
The premise that America originated as a racist slave state is to be woven into all sections of the Times -- news, business, sports, travel, the entire newspaper. The project intends to take the "reframing" of the United States into the schools where white Americans are to be taught that they are racist descendants of slave holders. A participant in this brainwashing of whites, which will make whites guilty and defenseless, says "this project takes wing when young people are able to read this and understand the way that slavery has shaped their country's history." In other words, the New York Times intends to make slavery the ONLY explanation of America.
At the meeting of the executive editor of the New York Times with the Times' employees to refocus the Times' attack on President Trump, Baquet said: "Race in the next year is going to be a huge part of the American story." ( "Is White Genocide Possible? ", The Unz Review)
Repeat: "Race in the next year is going to be a huge part of the American story." Either Baquet has a crystal ball or he had a pretty good idea of the way in which the 1619 Project was going to be used . I suspect it was the latter.
For the last 3 and a half years, Democrats and the media have ridiculed anyone who opposes their globalist policies as racist, fascist, misogynist, homophobic, Bible-thumping, gun-toting, flag-waving, Nascar boosting, white nationalist "deplorables". Now they have decided to intensify the assault on mainly white working people by preemptively destroying the economy, destabilizing the country, and spreading terror far and wide. It's another vicious psy-ops campaign designed to thoroughly demoralize and humiliate the enemy who just happen to be the American people. Here's more form the WSWS:
" It is no coincidence that the promotion of this racial narrative of American history by the Times, the mouthpiece of the Democratic Party and the privileged upper-middle-class layers it represents, comes amid the growth of class struggle in the US and around the world.
The 1619 Project is one component of a deliberate effort to inject racial politics into the heart of the 2020 elections and foment divisions among the working class. The Democrats think it will be beneficial to shift their focus for the time being from the reactionary, militarist anti-Russia campaign to equally reactionary racial politics." (" The New York Times's 1619 Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history " WSWS)
Can you see how the protests are being used to promote the political objectives of elites operating behind the mask of "impartial" reporting? The scheming NY Times has replaced the enlightenment principles articulated in our founding documents with a sordid tale of racial hatred and oppression. The editors seek to eliminate everything we believe as Americans so they can brainwash us into believing that we are evil people deserving of humiliation, repudiation and punishment. Here's more from the same article:
"In the months preceding these events, the New York Times, speaking for dominant sections of the Democratic political establishment, launched an effort to discredit both the American Revolution and the Civil War. In the New York Times' 1619 Project, the American Revolution was presented as a war to defend slavery, and Abraham Lincoln was cast as a garden variety racist
The attacks on the monuments to these men were pioneered by the increasingly frenzied attempt by the Democratic Party and the New York Times to racialize American history, to create a narrative in which the history of mankind is reduced to the history of racial struggle . This campaign has produced a pollution of democratic consciousness, which meshes entirely with the reactionary political interests driving it." (" The New York Times's 1619 Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history" , WSWS)
Ideas have consequences, and the incendiary version of events disseminated by the Times has added fuel to a fire that's spread from one coast to the other. Given the damage that has been done to cities across the country, it would be nice to know how Dean Baquet knew that "race was going to play a huge part" in upcoming events? It's all very suspicious. Here's more:
" Given the 1619 Project's black nationalist narrative, it may appear surprising that nowhere in the issue do the names Malcolm X or Black Panthers appear. Unlike the black nationalists of the 1960s, Hannah-Jones does not condemn American imperialism. She boasts that "we [i.e. African-Americans] are the most likely of all racial groups to serve in the United States military," and celebrates the fact that "we" have fought "in every war this nation has waged." Hannah-Jones does not note this fact in a manner that is at all critical. She does not condemn the creation of a "volunteer" army whose recruiters prey on poverty-stricken minority youth. There is no indication that Hannah-Jones opposes the "War on Terror" and the brutal interventions in Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Syria -- all supported by the Times -- that have killed and made homeless upwards of 20 million people. On this issue, Hannah-Jones is remarkably "color-blind." She is unaware of, or simply indifferent to, the millions of "people of color" butchered and made refugees by the American war machine in the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa." (" The New York Times's 1619 Project: A racialist falsification of American and world histor y", WSWS)
So, black nationalists like Malcolm X and the Black Panthers are excluded from the The 1619 Project's narrative, but the author boasts that blacks "are the most likely of all racial groups to serve in the US military"?? How does that happen unless Hannah-Jones was coached by Democrat leaders about who should and shouldn't be included in the text? None of this passes the smell test. It all suggests that the storyline was shaped by people who had a specific goal in mind. That isn't history, it's fiction written by people who have an ax to grind. The Times even admitted as much in response to the blistering criticism by five of "the most widely read and respected authorities on US history." The New York Times Magazine editor in chief Jake Silverstein rejected the historians' objections saying:
"The project was intended to address the marginalization of African-American history in the telling of our national story and examine the legacy of slavery in contemporary American life. We are not ourselves historians, it is true. We are journalists, trained to look at current events and situations and ask the question: Why is this the way it is?"
WTF! "We are not ourselves historians"? That's the excuse?? Give me a break!
The truth is that there was never any attempt to provide an accurate account of events. From the very onset, the goal was to create a storyline that fit the politics, the politics of provocation, incitement, racial hatred, social unrest and violence. That's what the Times and their allies wanted, and that's what they got.
The Deep State Axis: CIA, DNC, NYT
The three-way alliance between the CIA, the Elite Media, and the Democratic leadership has clearly strengthened and grown since the failed Russiagate fiasco. All three parties were likely involved in the maniacal hyping of the faux-Covid pandemic which paved the way for Depression era unemployment, tens of thousands of bankrupt businesses and a sizable portion of the US population thrust into destitution. Now, these deep state loyalists are promoting a "falsified" race-based version of history that pits one group against the other while diverting attention from the deliberate destruction of the economy and the further consolidation of wealth in the hands of the 1 percent.
Behind the veil of the protest movement, the war on the American people is gaining pace.
SteveK9 , says: Show Comment June 24, 2020 at 2:02 am GMT
Stopped reading the Times after the buildup to the Iraq War, when it was clear they were lying. Everyone please stop reading the Times, and in particular stop referring to what they are writing. Act like they don't exist. If enough do, they won't.FB , says: Website Show Comment June 24, 2020 at 4:22 am GMTStopped reading when I got to 'Chinese despotism'Carlton Meyer , says: Website Show Comment June 24, 2020 at 4:22 am GMTWhitney used to have something to say, but his scribblings now go straight to the bottom of the bird cage
The stupidity of the Dems was shown this week when they agreed to three Biden/Trump debates. They should leave him in his basement and hope for the best. They feature political ads where Biden slurs his speech! These are professionals, so it tells me they spent all day and did 40 takes and this was the best he could do. The election will be great comedy, or perhapsvot tak , says: Show Comment June 24, 2020 at 4:30 am GMTThis is all planned. Biden will be forced to drop out and Bloomberg or even Clinton will arise.
"Tucker Carlson is right, the protests and riots are not a momentary civil disturbance. They are an attack the Constitutional Republic itself, the heart and soul of American democracy."schnellandine , says: Show Comment June 24, 2020 at 4:42 am GMTI am reminded of david horowitz and chrissy hitchens
And how they promoted Israeli interests after first pretending to be independent thinkers to gain creed for the switch. Standard zionazi-gay psywar tactic.
@Carlton MeyerThe stupidity of the Dems was shown this week when they agreed to three Biden/Trump debates.
This is all planned. Biden will be forced to drop out and Bloomberg or even Clinton will arise.
Stupid and planned?
Clinton is the best evidence that certain people agree to be blackmailed in exchange for power, as Andrew Anglin wrote this week. Why should DNC care if Trump is 're-elected'? And if they don't care, who not take a stab at installing an intersectional DNC pinnacle fraudster via the griftiest, most insulting, infuriating way possible? They can't lose.
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Bookmark Toggle All ToC ▲ ▼ Search Text Case Sensitive Exact Words Include Comments Search Clear CancelIt is difficult to find anything good to say about Donald Trump, but the reality is that he has not started any new wars, though he has come dangerously close in the cases of Venezuela and Iran and there would be considerable incentive in the next four months to begin something to bolster his "strong president" credentials and to serve as a distraction from coronavirus and black lives matter.
Be that as it may, Trump will have to run hard to catch up to the record set by his three predecessors Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Bush was an out-and-out neoconservative, or at least someone who was easily led, including in his administration Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Michael Ledeen, Reuel Gerecht, Paul Wolfowitz, Doug Feith, Eliot Abrams, Dan Senor and Scooter Libby. He also had the misfortune of having to endure Vice President Dick Cheney, who thought he was actually the man in charge. All were hawks who believed that the United States had the right to do whatever it considered necessary to enhance its own security, to include invading other countries, which led to Afghanistan and Iraq, where the U.S. still has forces stationed nearly twenty years later.
Clinton and Obama were so-called liberal interventionists who sought to export something called democracy to other countries in an attempt to make them more like Peoria. Clinton bombed Afghanistan and Sudan as a diversion when the press somehow caught wind of his arrangement with Monica Lewinsky and Obama, aided by Mrs. Clinton, chose to destroy Libya. Obama was also the first president to set up a regular Tuesday morning session to review a list of American citizens who would benefit from being killed by drone.
So the difference between neocons and liberal interventionists is one of style rather than substance. And, by either yardstick all-in-all, Trump looks pretty good, but there has nevertheless been a resurgence of neocon-think in his administration. The America the exceptional mindset is best exemplified currently by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who personifies the belief that the United States is empowered by God to play only by its own rules when dealing with other nations. That would include following the advice that has been attributed to leading neocon Michael Ledeen, " Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business. "
One of the first families within the neocon/liberal interventionist firmament is the Kagans, Robert and Frederick. Frederick is a Senior Fellow at the neocon American Enterprise Institute and his wife Kimberly heads the bizarrely named Institute for the Study of War. Victoria Nuland, wife of Robert, is currently the Senior Counselor at the Albright Stonebridge Group and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. That means that Victoria aligns primarily as a liberal interventionist, as does her husband, who is also at Brookings. She is regarded as a protégé of Hillary Clinton and currently works with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who once declared that killing 500,000 Iraqi children using sanctions was "worth it." Nuland also has significant neocon connections through her having been a member of the staff assembled by Dick Cheney.
Nuland, many will recall, was the driving force behind efforts to destabilize the Ukrainian government of President Viktor Yanukovych in 2013-2014. Yanukovych, an admittedly corrupt autocrat, nevertheless became Prime Minister after a free election. Nuland, who was the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the State Department, provided open support to the Maidan Square demonstrators opposed to Yanukovych's government, to include media friendly appearances passing out cookies on the square to encourage the protesters.
Nuland openly sought regime change for Ukraine by brazenly supporting government opponents in spite of the fact that Washington and Kiev had ostensibly friendly relations. It is hard to imagine that any U.S. administration would tolerate a similar attempt by a foreign nation to interfere in U.S. domestic politics, particularly if it were backed by a $5 billion budget , but Washington has long believed in a global double standard for evaluating its own behavior.
Nuland is most famous for her foul language when referring to the potential European role in managing the unrest that she and the National Endowment for Democracy had helped create in Ukraine. For Nuland, the replacement of the government in Kiev was only the prelude to a sharp break and escalating conflict with the real enemy, Moscow, over Russia's attempts to protect its own interests in Ukraine, most particularly in Crimea.
And make no mistake about Nuland's broader intention at that time to expand the conflict and directly confront Russia. In Senate testimony she cited how the administration was "providing support to other frontline states like Moldova and Georgia." Her use of the word "frontline" is suggestive.
Victoria Nuland was playing with fire. Russia, as the only nation with the military capability to destroy the U.S., was and is not a sideshow like Saddam Hussein's Iraq or the Taliban's Afghanistan. Backing Moscow into a corner with no way out by using threats and sanctions is not good policy. Washington has many excellent reasons to maintain a stable relationship with Moscow, including counter-terrorism efforts, and little to gain from moving in the opposite direction. Russia is not about to reconstitute the Warsaw Pact and there is no compelling reason to return to a Cold War footing by either arming Ukraine or permitting it to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Victoria Nuland has just written a long article for July/August issue of Foreign Affairs magazine on the proper way for the United States manage what she sees as the Russian "threat." It is entitled "How a Confident America Should Deal With Russia." Foreign Affairs , it should be observed, is an establishment house organ produced by the Council on Foreign Relations which provides a comfortable perch for both neocons and liberal interventionists.
Nuland's view is that the United States lost confidence in its own "ability to change the game" against Vladimir Putin, who has been able to play "a weak hand well because the United States and its allies have let him, allowing Russia to violate arms control treaties, international law, the sovereignty of its neighbors, and the integrity of elections in the United States and Europe Washington and its allies have forgotten the statecraft that won the Cold War and continued to yield results for many years after. That strategy required consistent U.S. leadership at the presidential level, unity with democratic allies and partners, and a shared resolve to deter and roll back dangerous behavior by the Kremlin. It also included incentives for Moscow to cooperate and, at times, direct appeals to the Russian people about the benefits of a better relationship. Yet that approach has fallen into disuse, even as Russia's threat to the liberal world has grown."
What Nuland writes would make perfect sense if one were to share her perception of Russia as a rogue state threatening the "liberal world." She sees Russian rearmament under Putin as a threat even though it was dwarfed by the spending of NATO and the U.S. She shares her fear that Putin might seek " reestablishing a Russian sphere of influence in eastern Europe and from vetoing the security arrangements of his neighbors. Here, a chasm soon opened between liberal democracies and the still very Soviet man leading Russia, especially on the subject of NATO enlargement. No matter how hard Washington and its allies tried to persuade Moscow that NATO was a purely defensive alliance that posed no threat to Russia, it continued to serve Putin's agenda to see Europe in zero-sum terms."
Nuland's view of NATO enlargement is so wide of the mark that it borders on being a fantasy. Of course, Russia would consider a military alliance on its doorstep to be a threat, particularly as a U.S. Administration had provided assurances that expansion would not take place. She goes on to suggest utter nonsense, that Putin's great fear over the NATO expansion derives from his having " always understood that a belt of increasingly democratic, prosperous states around Russia would pose a direct challenge to his leadership model and risk re-infecting his own people with democratic aspirations."
Nuland goes on and on in a similar vein, but her central theme is that Russia must be confronted to deter Vladimir Putin, a man that she clearly hates and depicts as if he were a comic book version of evil. Some of her analysis is ridiculous, as "Russian troops regularly test the few U.S. forces left in Syria to try to gain access to the country's oil fields and smuggling routes. If these U.S. troops left, nothing would prevent Moscow and Tehran from financing their operations with Syrian oil or smuggled drugs and weapons."
Like most zealots, Nuland is notably lacking in any sense of self-criticism. She conspired to overthrow a legitimately elected democratic government in Ukraine because it was considered too friendly to Russia. She accuses the Kremlin of having "seized" Crimea, but fails to see the heavy footprint of the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Iraq and as a regional enabler of Israeli and Saudi war crimes. One wonders if she is aware that Russia, which she sees as expansionistic, has only one overseas military base while the United States has more than a thousand.
Nuland clearly chooses not to notice the White House's threats against countries that do not toe the American line, most recently Iran and Venezuela, but increasingly also China on top of perennial enemy Russia. None of those nations threaten the United States and all the kinetic activity and warnings are forthcoming from a gentleman named Mike Pompeo, speaking from Washington, not from "undemocratic" leaders in the Kremlin, Tehran, Caracas or Beijing.
Victoria Nuland recommends that "The challenge for the United States in 2021 will be to lead the democracies of the world in crafting a more effective approach to Russia -- one that builds on their strengths and puts stress on Putin where he is vulnerable, including among his own citizens." Interestingly, that might be regarded as seeking to interfere in the workings of a foreign government, reminiscent of the phony case made against Russia in 2016. And it is precisely what Nuland did in fact do in Ukraine.
Nuland has a lot more to say in her article and those who are interested in the current state of interventionism in Washington should not ignore her. Confronting Russia as some kind of ideological enemy is a never-ending process that leaves both sides poorer and less free. It is appropriate for Moscow to have an interest in what goes on right on top of its border while the United States five thousand miles away and possessing both a vastly larger economy and armed forces can, one would think, relax a bit and unload the burden of being the world's self-appointed policeman.
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is https://councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is [email protected] .
Carlton Meyer , says: Website Show Comment June 23, 2020 at 4:18 am GMT
This is a great overview, but Americans cannot understand these truths after hours of constant propaganda in our media. For example, Hillary Clinton and President Obama destroyed and looted Africa's most prosperous nation in 2011 that resulted in tens of thousands of deaths of innocents. This is not in dispute, it is just ignored despite daily stories about the chaos in Libya. Imagine if Black Lives Matters dared protest against this destruction and looting of Africa's wealthiest nation and demanded that Clinton and Obama be arrested for war crimes.Zarathustra , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 4:45 am GMThttps://www.youtube.com/embed/n5Lh4HUyudk?feature=oembed
Fact is that many leaders in history did solve the inside problems of their country by outside war.anon [437] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 4:47 am GMT
There is certainly a bit of elevated temperature.Thank you for another great article.Ultrafart the Brave , says: Website Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 4:56 am GMTbut
there is one thingYou wrote:
" It is hard to imagine that any U.S. administration would tolerate a similar attempt by a foreign nation to interfere in U.S. domestic politics, particularly if it were backed by a $5 billion budget, "
As you yourself have pointed out, more than once, in fact, there actually is a foreign country which, more than, interferes in U.S. domestic policy, some would estimate, effectively controls it, and foreign policy, as well.
While it would a bit of an effort to monetize the full amount spent on this effort, I personally would not be a bit surprised if it were significantly larger than $5 billion, and despite that, one could imagine, quite a bargain in terms of their ROI; it could in fact be considerably less than the overt transfer of sovereign U.S. wealth to that foreign government every year.The past administrations, either every one, or almost every one, going back as far as Truman, certainly , but the trend was already well established during the puppet presidency of Woodrow Wilson.
I'd love to read your rejoinder.
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being blocked incorrectly from using my usual handle@Carlton MeyerAlfred , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:05 am GMTImagine if Black Lives Matters dared protest against this destruction and looting of Africa's wealthiest nation and demanded that Clinton and Obama be arrested for war crimes.
An admirable sentiment, except that the BLM movement appears to be little more than a vehicle for staged chaos nurtured behind the scenes by more war criminals with a hidden agenda.
And more's the pity, because there are hordes of high-ranking war criminals in the Exceptional Nation that richly deserve burning at the stake. In the Libyan context, Muammar Gaddafi was not only a great leader but also a good man, who was doing great things not only for his own people but also for the community of African nations.
If you're going to have a dictator, make sure you get a good one. Gaddafi was a good one.
Trump not so much, but Clinton was and is horrifically evil.
The war against Russia has been going on for centuries. Nothing upsets these nutters more than the Russians insulating themselves from the mental virus that has proliferated in the West.Anon [233] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:06 am GMTJust read the sour grapes of the usual suspects in this derogatory article. Similar in tone to the nonsense at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014. Nothing amuses me more than to watch them vomiting on themselves in frustration.
Moscow, low-key consecration of Victory Cathedral; Catholics denied another church
Nuland's views are, as stated in the article, dangerous fantasy-one could almost accuse her of having psychopathic voices in her head with respect to russia and putin.Biff , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:13 am GMTIt is indeed remarkable in a very bad way that this woman was close to the top level in state under obama but we can surely see her handiwork in the devastation of the ukraine nation.
@Carlton MeyerChris Moore , says: Website Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:34 am GMTImagine if Black Lives Matters dared protest against this destruction and looting of Africa's wealthiest nation and demanded that Clinton and Obama be arrested for war crimes.
My imagination:
An agitator is planted inside BLM, and is armed and equipped to carry out a terrorist attack on the American people as false flag event – blows up a weight-watchers convention, next to a Wal-mart, and puts a half-a-dozen fat bodies into orbit circling the globe(celestial bodies). After said attack BLM is defunded, and disbanded(but the race war continues).You forgot to mention that virtually all of the neocon/liberal interventionist "intellectuals"on your list identify as Jewish, which means they see themselves as having Hebrew backgrounds, which not only gives them an Israel First/Zionist orientation, but which means their hatred of "anti-Semitic" Russia is pathological and ancestral, which means their hatred of "anti-Semitic" Europeans is pathological and ancestral, which means their hatred of "anti-Semitic" white people is pathological and ancestral, which means their desire for nuclear war between whites is pathological and ancestral, which means they believe they can win a nuclear war (perhaps by sheltering in bunker state Israel) and emerge as the anointed "chosen" intellectual priest class of the worldThreeCranes , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:35 am GMTSo there is a kind of internal logic or rationalism to their insanity, in the same way that any insular, imperious elite suffering from megalomania and delusions of grandeur can develop internal, echo chamber "logic" that is (objectively) insane. The difference is, their insane "logic" is additionally sanctioned by their particular God or their particular History or their version of God/History.
Hence, with this cult, we not only get insular, echo-chamber imperialism, but we additionally get quasi-religious, messianic fanaticism that will view any nuclear war as pre-ordained fate in service of delivering the Chosen Ones to the world.
And half of America thinks Trump is nuts? It should look at the "intellectual Jews" it's so desperate to consign its fate to.
Posturing. What else can this be, coming from the lips of a Jewish woman? It all just sounds so ridiculous. What authority does she have? Only the threat of force, reckless force dispensed with abandon. That's not authority. It's insanity.Mr. Hack , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:35 am GMTAnother critique of US foreign policy regarding Russia, all referenced under the famous "cookies and milk" response of Ms. Nuland in Kyiv. Lucky for Russia that she wasn't doling out scoops of ice cream instead?Mustapha Mond , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:41 am GMTFor Nuland, the replacement of the government in Kiev was only the prelude to a sharp break and escalating conflict with the real enemy, Moscow, over Russia's attempts to protect its own interests in Ukraine, most particularly in Crimea.
I applaud the US response of supporting Ukraine's aspirations for a freer more Western oriented country and that it continues to support Ukraine's territorial interests over those of Russia's. It's time for the Giraldis and Cohens of the world to shed their Russian fig leaf covering and be exposed as the gutless appeasers that they really are.
Victoria Nuland (her family name formerly Nudelman) and her blood-thirsty, thieving zionist neocon buddies would love nothing more than to tear Russia apart and finish the rape and plunder of that country first begun under Russia's 'reformer' president, the idiot Yeltsin, wherein mostly jewish Russian and American oligarchs systematically stole what amounts to about $330 billion dollars of Russia's wealth.Mr. Hack , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:47 am GMTThat these zionist neocon murderers and thieves would put the world at risk to achieve their goals is no surprise, as one need only look at the 3,000+ innocent American lives, including many Jews, that were snuffed out on 9/11, all to set the stage for the US and allies' "War of Terror" against mainly the enemies of Israel, and to line the pockets of the ever-growing Military-Information-Security Complex. Innocent lives mean absolutely nothing to these monsters.
The campaign against Russia is simply another necessary link in the chain that binds the world to the PNAC vision of using the US and the West to establish and maintain what is essentially a Jewish supremacist movement that barely conceals itself and its nefarious agenda from the useful idiot goyim so necessary to carry forward the PNAC's plan for world domination. And the chubby little Ms Nudelman is just another tireless zionist mouthpiece for this ugly, obnoxious and risky agenda
Giraldi would have us believe that it was all a US sponsored provocation, not the natural outcry of the Ukrainiain people seeking change from a thoroughly corrupt and authoritarian regime. Ms.Nuland's cookies must have tasted really good to get the massive outpouring of support in Kiev that demanded systemic change.chris , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 6:11 am GMThttps://www.youtube.com/embed/-nNFrvGOb9o?feature=oembed
A major indicator of how long-term foreign policy goals are actually set by the US was revealed when Obama declared Venezuela a threat to national security in 2015!roonaldo , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 6:13 am GMT
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-declares-venezuela-national-security-threat-imposes-sanctionsVenezuela? A threat to US national security?? Sounds completely absurd.
But if you consider your 'national security' being threatened whenever any scarce natural resources in the world are not in your or in your client states' posession, then anthing which interferes with that is a "threat!" Iran (before 2003), Iraq, and Russia certainly fit the bill of being enemies.
This explanation, for me, is much more realistic than to think the neocons are solely driven by cold war mentalities.
The neocons are particularly peeved at Russia because through their oligarchs, they had the crown jewels in their hand before Putin wrested it out. It was always clear from the beginning that the overthrow of the Ukraine government was always just a stepping stone to the overthrow of Putin in Russia.
Russia is truly the mother load, with control over its natural resources, you control China, undermine the Middle Eastern Arab states and if necessary control Europe financially. Besides the direct political control you then exercise, on an economic level, the productive people of the world Germany and China then work for you.
Nuland and her ilk will be spewing their dangerous nonsense and banging the drums of war like homicidal energizer bunnies until hell freezes over. Meanwhile, "from Atlantic to Pacific, the insanity is terrific," as the nation devolves in an engineered mass hysteria. As things go down the tubes, the Empire will get ever more desperate, rather than easing back a bit on the throttle. With Donald Boy and Sec. of State "Plump-piehole" egging on Israeli expansionist dreams and drone-executing whomever they please–what could possibly go wrong? I'm waiting for one, just one, European power to call bullshit on the U.S. and put a stop to this madness. Fat chance of that.Rahan , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 6:41 am GMTI think we are in the Empire's desperation phase. The Project for a New American Century (PNAC) report that called for and got another Pearl Harbor also spoke affectionately of creating bioweapons to target any upstart nation encroaching on U.S. hegemony. If the bastards could get away with 9/11, a most obvious inside job, what's not to like about the disruption and confusion of bioweapons? The ruthless evil we are up against is truly staggering.
It would be super funny, if Russian, Chinese, Serbian, Sudanese, Afghani, and Iranian diplomats now went out en mass to give out cookies to the US rioters.Lot , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 6:55 am GMTTaking PR pictures with the poor oppressed black looters and antifa trannies, lecturing Washington on human rights, and pledging support to the "moderate terrorists" i.e. the democrat mayors and governors who decide to not interfere with the looting and autonomous zones.
I think this would be the most epic troll ever. Especially if Venezuela then paraded some nervous spook and declared him the "legitimate president of the United States".
Or maybe, kek, just appoint Bernie the real president. "For two elections the corrupt system has denied this true hero his rightful position. Enough! We support the people's choice!" etc. Bernie would be all: "I don't know who these people are, honest," and they'd be: "stay strong, comrade, we shall help you in your fight to become a true people's president!"
America's most pro-Israel President, the one who moved the embassy to Jerusalem and appointed a West Bank settler dude as ambassador, has both refrained from starting wars and is gradually bringing the troops home from Afghanistan, Germany, etc.Marshall Lentini , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 8:35 am GMTSo much for the Jihadi/leftist smear that Israel's friends promote wars.
Trump: peace through strength and loyalty to America's true friends.
restless94110 , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 9:04 am GMTConfronting Russia as some kind of ideological enemy is a never-ending process that leaves both sides poorer and less free.
Well said.
It's also really strange to portray Russia in this demonic fashion. When you see it up close, there are things you don't like or question, things that are bizarre, absurdly inefficient, and outright abhorrent, but it's far from the big threatening geopolitical beast they make it out to be. It's more of a joke which even Russians understand.
There's a phrase from the USSR that someone taught me – аналогов нет, "no analogues" or nothing comparable, referring to the quality of their military armaments, specifically rockets. Obvious nonsense pushed by the USSR to bolster faith in the populace, it lives on today in Kremlin propaganda, but is widely regarded as the bullshit it is, which is why videos containing the phrase itself are banned on YouTube Russia.
In short Russia, as a meme, is a "paper tiger" propped up largely by Washingtonian psychodrama and will-to-power. Washington doesn't want Russia out of Crimea because they love the Ukrainians; they want them out because Ukraine is a major destination for American corporate venality. Absent interference from Washington, the Kremlin might undertake some foreign adventures in neighboring countries, but for the most part would continue on its obvious path of "peacefully" melding with the Chinese economy, like everyone else.
There is no white nation free of the forces of decline set in motion by white success and the overall technological arc of history. "Russia" is nothing more than a scarecrow for the Washington establishment – which it could just as well drop, as they no longer need justifications or approval from the people – and signifies only a livid hunger for the last major market they've yet to absorb directly.
Proud_Srbin , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 9:07 am GMTIt is difficult to find anything good to say about Donald Trump, but the reality is that he has not started any new wars, though
It is difficult to read past an opening sentence such as this one.
I have seen it constantly. I call it the "Back-handed Trump hating fool" approach. The many writers who employ this method in their articles appear to believe that they literally have to make it clear to their readers that of course they (the writers) think Trump is a moron/cad/crook/criminal/mentally ill, BUT!!!
Then they proceed with the rest of their article.
But don't you (the reader) dare think that they think anything good about Trump!
This is childish bullshit and am I the only one who is completely sick of it?
Hey, Phil, how about you leave out the stupid back-handed Trump hating nonsense? You don't need to write it, but if you do? Have your editors cut it from your writing. It just makes you look stupid, and many won't even continue reading your article. As they should. No one deserves to be read who would write such facile, petty nonsense.
ANY country, real or satelite which allows ""diplomats from 5-headed beast or anglo-terrorist and marauding alliance deserve extinction.Bill Jones , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 9:30 am GMT
God Bless DPRK!Petty typoJWalters , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 9:39 am GMT
"Nuland, who is the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the State Department, ""is" sb was (thank god)
I too find it appalling that these people move among us.
If we "follow the money", Hillary's campaign was financed by the Israelis. An honest post mortem on her loss would have focused attention on the huge influence of Israeli money on American elections. The faked focus on Russian "meddling" could have been to divert any talk of election "meddling" away from Israel's truly vast "meddling". (The Israelis routinely distract by accusing others of their own crimes.) The Israelis control both the DNC and the corporate media, so "Russiagate" could roll on virtually evidence-free. Fox was allowed to criticize the "Russiagate" attack on Trump, but only to keep the kabuki conflict boiling. Neither side ever mentioned Israel's "meddling", or in any way criticized Israel. To the contrary, Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity even agreed that Netanyahu would be a great American president. So why did Israeli asset John Bolton just attack Trump, after Trump has given Israel so much, including assassinating Soleimani? Maybe it's Trump's refusal to launch Israel's next war? Maybe they don't really trust Trump? Maybe because on 9/11 Trump said he didn't believe planes could have brought down the twin towers, and that explosives must have been involved? Could Trump be in a deadly dance with the Israelis, riding a tiger?Anonymous [661] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 10:08 am GMTNuland wrote that Russia did "violate arms control treaties, international law, the sovereignty of its neighbors, and the integrity of elections in the United States " But wait a minute, doesn't she really mean Israel, not Russia?Larchmonter420 , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 10:15 am GMTAnd in retrospect, America's penchant for throwing little countries against the wall has never worked all that well. I'm thinking Cuba, Vietnam, Somalia.
Good article, Mr. Giraldi.
WHAT , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 10:21 am GMTNuland, many will recall, was the driving force behind efforts to destabilize the Ukrainian government of President Viktor Yanukovych in 2013-2014. Yanukovych, an admittedly corrupt autocrat, nevertheless became Prime Minister after a free election.
Nuland might hate Russia, but Obama gave back Crimea to Russia the rightful owner on a Silver Platter. Russia has now easy access to Mediterranean Sea. Obama then invited Russia back to Syria, as the USSR was kicked out of Middle East by the Evil Kissinger after the Yom Kippur War ..
The rest is history. 20/20 is hindsight.
@Mr. Hack Exactly, it was a US financed provocation with a whole lot of extremely dumb stooges. Six years that have passed since prove it again and again, every day.Robert Pinkerton , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 10:24 am GMTWhatever; "Ukraine" is not a state, "ukrainians" are not a people, "ukraininan" is just bastardized Russian/Polish mix, so to hell with this joke of a cuntry. Let Russia, Poland and Hungary partition it.
A sub-set of our Jewish fellow Earth-walkers hates Russia, rodina and narod as ancestral heritage.Philip Giraldi , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 10:24 am GMTNATO should have been disbanded shortly after the Soviet Union fell, its bureaucrath given Certificates of Service and sent home.
@Bill Jones Thanks – corrected!BL , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 10:57 am GMT@anonThreeCranes , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 11:05 am GMT" It is hard to imagine that any U.S. administration would tolerate a similar attempt by a foreign nation to interfere in U.S. domestic politics, particularly if it were backed by a $5 billion budget, "
We could chalk this up to a lack of imagination on the part of our intrepid former CIA scribbler, but anyone paying even cursory attention couldn't help but conclude that the Obama administration didn't just tolerate, it choreographed, a plot against Trump in league with foreign intelligence services.
U.K., Ukraine, Italy, Australia, Russia, and, yes, Israel.
I'm confident that neither a lack of imagination or garden-variety ignorance explains Giraldi's narrative weaving. However open or obscured, staying on the remove Trump by any means necessary team remains the smart, if treasonous, play.
You'll note that Russia is included in this no doubt incomplete list. It really is a fool's errand to try to surmise for any of these foreign participants what of their actions were opportunism as opposed to resigned self-protectiveness,
But, make no mistake, every single one, foreign powers, whether allies or adversaries, and individuals and purportedly non-state entities, was promised goodies at the expense of the American national interest.
That's anyone's guess at this point. We know surveillance state bottom-feeder Glenn Simpson got at least $6M, and Stefan "Guttman" Halper about $1M. What do you think was promised to foreign powers for playing ball? In the case of Russia, unless I miss my mark, Nord Stream II was merely the down payment.
Maybe some day Giraldi will ask Brennan the contours of the deal he made Russia assistance in throwing the election to Hillary in March, 2016:
@chrisFred777 , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 11:10 am GMT" Russia is truly the mother load, with control over its natural resources, you control China, undermine the Middle Eastern Arab states and if necessary control Europe financially. Besides the direct political control you then exercise, on an economic level, the productive people of the world Germany and China then work for you."
Hear, hear!
Hold fast Russia, the globalists have nothing good in store for you.Hapalong Cassidy , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 11:11 am GMTGiven all that has happened this year, I can unequivocally say that any white person who joins the US military needs to have their head examined. And a US military bereft of white people would be pretty much useless.red rider , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 11:18 am GMTClinton actually bombed Yugoslavia/Sebia as a diversion when the press somehow caught wind of his arrangement with Monica Lewinsky.Z-man , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 11:23 am GMTPhilip said:JoaoAlfaiate , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 11:48 am GMTBush was an out-and-out neoconservative, or at least someone who was easily led,
Ok but the main reason 'Dubbya' went into Eye-Raq is because he wanted to 'get' Saddam for having gone after 'Big Daddy' Bush I. The Neochoens provided the cover.
Bill Jones said:
I too find it appalling that these people move among us.
Yes but Nudelman is also a laughable character now who's shelf life has expired, I hope.
Hoping for Peoria but getting Minneapolis and Seattle.rienzi , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 12:02 pm GMTIgnoring all arguments about who is on the side of the angels here.anonymous [245] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 12:03 pm GMTThere are a lot of countries that could hurt us badly in a shooting war, but we would survive, and at the end of the day, they would not. However, there is one country, and only one, that could completely erase us in a few hours, and that is Russia.
Seems insanely suicidal to run around poking the bear with a stick at every possible opportunity.
For the gullible fans of Mr. Trump, who want so fervently to believe that he's trying to change anything but the rhetoric:Robjil , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 12:07 pm GMTWhen I searched to confirm the name of that "diplomat" standing next to Ms. Nuland, I learned from an official website that he remains employed as such, now the face of Uncle Sam in Greece.
Geoffrey R. Pyatt, a career member of the Foreign Service, class of Career Minister, was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic in September 2016.
He served as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine from 2013-2016, receiving the State Department's Robert Frasure Memorial Award in recognition of his commitment to peace and alleviation of human suffering in eastern Ukraine.
What should we expect of a President that would brag about luring an Iranian leader into a gangland hit with an invitation to discuss peace?
If you can't handle the truth, just hit the Troll or Disagree button.
@Mr. Hack It is called fool's gold.geokat62 , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 12:13 pm GMTThey were promised the EU or riches from the EU.
Yet, the leader of the coup Nuland said these immortal words to start her coup:
"F–k the EU"
Nuland knew the real deal.
She was creating a Zion colony in Ukraine and nothing more than that.
Realist , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 12:15 pm GMTAll were hawks who believed that the United States had the right to do whatever it considered necessary to enhance its own security , to include invading other countries, which led to Afghanistan and Iraq, where the U.S. still has forces stationed nearly twenty years later.
Great article, Phil. May I recommend one minor edit:
All were hawks who believed that the United States had the right to do whatever it considered necessary to enhance the Jewish State's security, to include invading other countries, which led to Afghanistan and Iraq, where the U.S. still has forces stationed nearly twenty years later.
Realist , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 12:17 pm GMTThe foreign interventionists really hate Russia
Ya think??? Is this supposed to be newsy?
@Hapalong CassidyJake , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 12:18 pm GMTGiven all that has happened this year, I can unequivocally say that any white person who joins the US military needs to have their head examined.
That has been the case for decades.
Why do our 'foreign interventionists,' our 'permanent war for globalist perpetual peace' crusaders, our Neocons, hate Russia so thoroughly and so centrally to their very beings?BL , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 12:22 pm GMTFirst, our imperialists are the direct descendants intellectually, spiritually, and morally of the first WASP Empire, the first Anglo-Zionist Empire: the British Empire. And they have used their high IQs that are focused on grasping the One Ring to Rule Them All to locate where the Brit WASP Empire failed to achieve its goals, which allowed the collapse starting with World War 1. They are obsessed with that because they believe that if they can achieve what the Brit WASPs failed to achieve, then they can make the Anglo-Zionist Empire 2.0 as permanent as the Roman Empire – a Thousand Year Reich.
And that is spiritually what all WASP imperialism, all Anglo-Zionist imperialism back to at least the Anglo-Saxon Puritans, is about: replacing the Roman Empire, which means replacing that which culturally led to, and was absolutely indispensable to, Christendom.
What they wish to redo and achieve that the Brit WASPs failed in is winning The Great Game: becoming total master of Eur-Asia. And that requires taking out Russia and China. In the 19th century, China was sicker than even the Ottoman Turkish Empire. To play the long game to destroy Russia, the Brit WASPs allied with the Turks to prevent Russia acting to push the Ottomans out of Europe. Brit WASP secret service in eastern Europe was focused on reducing Russia significantly right through the Bolshevik Revolution, even with Russia naively, stupidly allied with the British Empire in World War 1.
Our 'foreign interventionists' have seen Russia under Putin rise from the ashes, and they intend to destroy Russia once and for all, so they then can reduce China and win The Great Game. And thus make Anglo-Zionist Empire greater than Roman Empire.
Second, our Neocons are the spiritual and intellectual descendants not just of Trotskyites, but of all Russia-hating Jews with ties to Central and/or Eastern Europe. For them, Russia always is the evil that must be destroyed for the good of Jews.
Everything at its bedrock is about theology, is about the choice between Christ and Christendom or the Chaos of anti-Christendom.
@BL By the way, I will give you the commanding heights Sad Story in absurdly abridged form.geokat62 , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 12:34 pm GMTChina won the post-Cold War period hands down. From Tiananmen Square to Ising power on the cusp of global hegemony in a quarter century. With the US paying the bill.
While there were clear indications to any honest observer years before, Snowden's coming out signaled the public next phase of a years long operation in which the USG built a global surveillance apparatus, including not the least of Americans, and then lost the whole shebang to Russia, China and God Knows Who Else.
My view then -- and I have seen nothing to even suggest my informed speculation was wrong -- was that the sky was the limit in terms of what the powers that be would gift in terms of the national interest to protect themselves from exposure and a reckoning.
I would like anyone who disagrees to otherwise explain how USG policy became one of driving China and Russia into a strategic alliance. To say nothing of putting obviously compromised individuals, foreign assets, like Brennan at the apex of power.
Obama was also the first president to set up a regular Tuesday morning session to review a list of American citizens who would benefit from being killed by drone.
Uh huh. Read the NYT article -- Obama is no angel, but Giraldi should explain why President Obama would set up, much less publicly reveal, weekly sessions in which both he and the office of the president are grossly debased by the Director of the CIA?
Jake , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 12:52 pm GMTZionism is the Deep State – Rick Wiles
-- TruNews™ (@TruNews) June 22, 2020
In this article, this is the most important sentence in terms of showing how doomed America is: Obama was also the first president to set up a regular Tuesday morning session to review a list of American citizens who would benefit from being killed by drone.anon [319] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 1:00 pm GMTThe DOOM is that no Liberal can ever acknowledge that as something a liberal, a sacred black liberal at that, would do without being forced to do so by white conservatives.
That insanity lies at the heart of America and has since at least the Emancipation Proclamation. It means that it is totally impossible to have a halfway meaningful 'liberal' opposition to imperialism, because imperialism is always easily cast as doing good for the downtrodden blacks and/or browns and/or yellows and/or Jews and/or Moslems.
Too late, too fat, & too ugly! Nuland already lost the beauty contest for Biden's ventriloquist to Avril Haines, She-wolf of the DO. The rectal feedings will continue till morale improves!Really No Shit , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 1:13 pm GMTThe "foreign interventionists" want two things: Russia's mineral riches and its good gene pool (how do you think Middle Eastern Semites became blonde hair- blue eyed people who can easily blend into the West to undermine it from within in the first place to begin with?)Mr. Hack , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 1:36 pm GMTAnd they won't stop until they get what they want, by hook or crook!
@Robjil Nuland was about as interested in creating a "Zion colony" of Ukraine as Ron Unz (another Jew) is in creating one at this website!Anonymous [112] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 1:41 pm GMTClinton and Obama were so-called liberal interventionists who sought to export something called democracy to other countries in an attempt to make them more like Peoria . . .BuelahMan , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 1:43 pm GMTMore like the Castro District or Seattle, in fact.
Vicky is a Dirty Woman:A123 , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 1:43 pm GMThttps://www.youtube.com/embed/q67l4qPKbJ4?feature=oembed
Desert Fox , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 1:50 pm GMTSo the difference between neocons and liberal interventionists is one of style rather than substance. And, by either yardstick all-in-all, Trump looks pretty good, but there has nevertheless been a resurgence of neocon-think in his administration.
Trump fired John Bolton. Pompeo is at most a shadow of Bolton. That is rather the opposite of resurgence. If the author could let go of his #NeverTrump bias he would be able to see that Trump has run the NeoCons out of the GOP.
Trump tried to remove troops from Syria and Afghanistan and ran into Deep State obstructionism.
The Globalists tried to trick Trump into a Syria expansion by creating a Turkey/Syria battle through areas controlled by U.S. Troops. Trump refused to be manipulated and pulled U.S. Troops out of the kill sack. Does anyone still believe that myth about 'protecting Syrian oil'? Only the mentally dim accepted that ludicrous cover story. It was flimsy excuse to relocate out of the Deep State trap.
Prior U.S. administrations created huge problems in the ME by toppling Saddam and emboldening Iran's theocracy. "Cut and Run" would guarantee a nuclear arms race in the region. Trump's containment of Iranian colonial expansionism is working, albeit slowly. The Rial continues to slide (now at ~200,000 to the USD). At some point, the Iranian people will choose to get rid of their failed leaders and rejoin civilized society. Until then Trump's containment is better than a Biden invasion.
_____Trump has fundamentally reshaped the alignment of U.S. Politics. There is only one foreign interventionist party. The SJW Globalist DNC now owns both the NeoConDemocrats and the R2P crowd. The choice this November is clear:
-- Trump -- No New Foreign Wars
-- Biden -- Invasion of Ukraine, Iran, Libya, etc.PEACE
Nuland is just the tip of the iceberg in the ZUS government, which is infested with zionists and has been in every administation since Wilson, they are the cause of every war since WWI right down to the middle east and in the case of the middle east wars, the zionists and Israel used their attack on the WTC to push America into the slaughter house for the greater Israel project.chris , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 1:53 pm GMTRead The Protocols of Zion and the book The Controversy of Zion by Douglas Reed, there is laid out the zionist one world zionist government.
@Rahan HAHAHA, I'm still laughing !!! That's friggin hilarious, Rahan!!!Bill Jones , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:00 pm GMT
Bernie the cowardly comrade@Larchmonter420 It is little noticed that those Countries consumed by the evil Soviet Union have fared much better in conserving their culture and sense of self, after they were upchucked in the early '90s, than the Champions of Democracy of the West have done under the freedom and tutelage bestowed by the US.chris , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:09 pm GMT
Funny dat.@Hapalong Cassidy yeah, white or straight; the worst is if you're bothAnonFromTN , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:19 pm GMTYes, Nudelman and her ilk are rabidly anti-Russian. But what they did in Ukraine revealed a very different thing: globohomo elites are mentally degenerate, they cannot foresee even immediate consequences of their moves. There was a joke in Russia that for the coup in 2014 in Kiev Obama deserves a medal "For the liberation of Crimea" (there was a medal of this name in WWII). There was another joke, that Ukraine without Crimea is like a purebred stallion without balls.Bill Jones , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:20 pm GMTNeocons planned to make Ukraine a battering rum against Russia. They did not understand that a log rotten through and through cannot serve as a battering ram. Now they are stuck with that wreck ("you break it – you own it" rule) and don't know what to do with it. Previous US administration and DNC big shots (Biden, Pelosi, Schiff, and Co) used it mostly as a rout of stealing US taxpayers' money. Current administration does not seem to have even this use for it. The US keeps proving the age-old wisdom that when you see your enemy committing suicide, do not interfere. Putin appears to have a huge stock of popcorn.
@BL Bezos has done extremely well for acting as China's proxy in destroying the US economy.onebornfree , says: Website Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:21 pm GMT
Give the man a medal:
"So the difference between neocons and liberal interventionists is one of style rather than substance. And, by either yardstick all-in-all, Trump looks pretty good, but there has nevertheless been a resurgence of neocon-think in his administration. "Agent76 , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:22 pm GMTThis "just" in: "War is the health of the state" Randolph Bourne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_Bourne
Meaning, if you have governments in the first place, sooner or later, you will have war, either on the people inside a country [eg the war on drugs], or on citizens of another country, or both at the same time [i.e. what we have now].
Outside of complete dissolution of all states [ preferable in my opinion, but unlikely given the general mindset of the brainwashed masses worldwide], and given the systemic need of all states everywhere for evermore wars on their own, and on others populations, the only [ imperfect, and perhaps temporary], solution I see is to 95% downsize the federal government and restore the constitution and bill of rights and to thereby restrict the federal government to its original limits, and to even design new, more effective ways to prevent the federal governments further expansion beyond those original limits/chains.
"..the very idea of the State itself is poisonous, evil, and intrinsically destructive. But, like so many bad ideas, people have come to assume it's part of the cosmic firmament, when it's really just a monstrous scam.
It's a fraud, like your belief that you have a right to free speech because of the First Amendment, or a right to be armed because of the Second Amendment. No, you don't. The U.S. Constitution is just an arbitrary piece of paper entirely apart from the fact the whole thing is now just a dead letter. You have a right to free speech and to be armed because they're necessary parts of being a free person, not because of what a political document says.Even though the essence of the State is coercion, people have been taught to love and respect it. Most people think of the State in the quaint light of a grade school civics book. They think it has something to do with "We the People" electing a Jimmy Stewart character to represent them.
That ideal has always been a pernicious fiction, because it idealizes, sanitizes, and legitimizes an intrinsically evil and destructive institution, which is based on force. As Mao once said, political power comes out of the barrel of a gun." Doug Casey
https://www.caseyresearch.com/daily-dispatch/doug-casey-the-deep-state-is-responsible-for-all-economic-turmoil/Regards, onebornfree
Apr 27, 2017 This Is Already Putting an End to the Age of Globalization and Bankrupting the United States (2004)AnonFromTN , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:25 pm GMTFor a major power, prosecution of any war that is not a defense of the homeland usually requires overseas military bases for strategic reasons. After the war is over, it is tempting for the victor to retain such bases and easy to find reasons to do so.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/orBEdPe63v0?feature=oembed
February 26, 2015 The Neoconservative Threat To World Order
Scholars from Russia and from around the world, Russian government officials, and the Russian people seek an answer as to why Washington destroyed during the past year the friendly relations between America and Russia that President Reagan and President Gorbachev succeeded in establishing.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/02/26/neoconservative-threat-world-order-paul-craig-roberts/
@Bill Jones There is even funnier thing now with covid: the countries that do not toe the imperial line, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, are doing a lot better than imperial sidekicks like Brazil, Colombia, or Peru. Rephrasing old Russian saying, "tell me who is your friend, and I tell you how stupid you are".chris , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:25 pm GMT@Rahan To make the troll work even better, Venezuela could then send 20 guys in zodiacs to motor into DC and NY harbor to try to take over Dulles and LaGuardia airports, and when they got captured, they could just trade them for those 2 knuckleheads we sent down there. They could also claim that they're here to capture Trump; that might just get him handed over.Wizard of Oz , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:45 pm GMTRahan, you have to send your brilliant joke to CJ Hopkins and to Caitline Johnstone to get if more exposure.
@anonymous You appear to be saying that a career diplomat who served in Ukraine when the US did or supported bad things there should not have been appointed as Ambassador to Greece. Is that a correct understanding of what you mean to convey? If so, how does this reflect on Trump when the appointment was made two months before he was elected?JoaoAlfaiate , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:48 pm GMTBefore confronting the Russians, it might be a good idea to regain control of Minneapolis and Seattle ..anonymous [400] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:52 pm GMTAnonFromTN , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:53 pm GMTSo the difference between neocons and liberal interventionists is one of style rather than substance.
That's pretty much it, they just use different rhetoric to appeal to their constituencies. Might makes right; there is no other law beside bandit law. The Russians have been a barrier to the US being able to spread itself over the entire globe and rob everyone weaker than itself. The US was behind all these atrocious jihadi mercenaries even as it's pretended to be against them. The Russians stopped the US project of terror and overthrow in Syria and that's outraged the Americans who thought they could act as they pleased. Libya was destroyed by the wonderful, hip Obama who many stupid Americans still think was a nice person. But with Russia, they can huff and puff but can't blow their walls down. They have a military that can deter the Americans unlike all the other smaller victim states.
@onebornfreeWizard of Oz , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:57 pm GMTMeaning, if you have governments in the first place, sooner or later, you will have war,
Funny, you sound like notorious Russian politician Zhirinovsky. He said: "there is no such thing as lasting peace, there is only prolonged armistice".
@AnonFromTN The second joke should be withdrawn from active service. It is that of the naughty schoolboy who will say anything for a cheap laugh – in this case "balls. A well bred gelding will win races, be just as well fed and housed as the entire stallion and much more contentedly placid.GMC , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:59 pm GMTRight after those two Israeli puppets were dancing and talking on their open lined cell phones outside on Shitskyia St. in Kyiv, Ukraine, in front of the US Embassy, Ambassador Py Rat ended up going to the US Embassy in Greece, in order screw the Greek people some more, and Cookies Nuland ended up -- F n what's left of the island of Cyprus. US Embassies are nothin more than CIA offices and only idiots would leave them in their country.Biff , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 3:20 pm GMT@AnonFromTN Another Russian joke about Ukraine – that I will probably wreck but here goes:EliteCommInc. , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 3:33 pm GMTHow come you want to attack Donbass?
Because the Russians are there.
How come you don't actually attack Donbass?
Because the Russians are really there!
"She accuses the Kremlin of having "seized" Crimea, but fails to see the heavy footprint of the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Iraq and as a regional enabler of Israeli and Saudi war crimes. One wonders if she is aware that Russia, which she sees as expansionistic, has only one overseas military base while the United States has more than a thousand."Herald , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 3:34 pm GMTI think this is a mistake. I think Miss Nuland knows exactly how large and intense the US ft print is and belies it should be larger and more intense. There are sincere people who believe that the US must as duty make the work safe for democracy even the means of getting there is any and everything bt democratic because in the long run -- the benefits will outweigh.
and as proof of er sincerity -- it's not just Russia (Though I understand why Dr. Giraldi would like to tackle one territorial issue at a time makes sense)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/21/china-adapting-and-improving-on-tactics-deployed-b/
@Chris MooreAnonFromTN , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 3:44 pm GMTAnd half of America thinks Trump is nuts? It should look at the "intellectual Jews" it's so desperate to consign its fate to.
Of course, it should look at them, that's what Trump seems to be doing.
@Biff I've heard another version of this.Rahan , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 3:48 pm GMT
Ukrainians are asked:
– If you believe that Crimea belongs to you, why don't you fight for it?
– We are not stupid, Russian troops are there.
– But you say that there are Russian troops in Donbass, yet you fight.
– That's what we say, but in Crimea there really are Russian troops.@chrispeter mcloughlin , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 3:51 pm GMT
Thank you for the kind words, Chris,
You're very welcome to share the gist of the joke anywhere you like, and add to it whatever you think works:)I agree that "backing Moscow into a corner with no way out" is a dangerous strategy. This is not the Cold War: in the Cold War the United States and USSR were able to keep peace, a balance of power, an equilibrium where neither side's vital interests were threatened. Russia had a buffer zone: not today. America was at the height of its global economic power: today it is being overtaken by China. In the Cold War the big powers avoided nuclear Armageddon – though at times appeared to come close – because they were able to. The misguided thinking today is: "we got through the Cold War we can get this". This is not a re-run of 1945-1991: it is the lead-in to the holocaust that period skillfully avoided.GMC , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 3:54 pm GMT
https://www.ghostsofhistory.wordpress.com/@Mr. Hack I was in Ukraine and was a resident in 2008 even. Yanuk was a thief, but this was SOP in Kyiv – how do you think they all get rich ? Sure the people were protesting about corruption, but anyone who was really there know how easy it was to spread the riot when the western neo nazis are bussed in, the " cookies" end up being money paid to certain groups and out of work peasants. Yanuk was trying to short sell Ukraine's farmland etc. to many corporations and countries. He was taking money from Monsanto, Carghill, Dupont, John Deere/ Iowa Univ. and even China started to build a deep water port in Crimea , in order to grow on the 200,000 hectares they wanted to lease. Russia always gave the Ukies a decent loan or gaz price { esp. for Princess Jewish Tymoshenko who up the price for her takings }, not to mention the million or so that worked in Ru. A Perfect storm , for as far back as when , in 2005, Senator B Obama , brought 40 million in cash to Donetsk, in order to de- arm the Ukrainian military. This Maidan and Ukrainian plan was well planned – decade or two earlier – Pravda !Herald , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 3:56 pm GMT@Bill Jones China's proxy?Shaman911 , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 4:00 pm GMTFor one thing. PRESIDENTS of any country "DO NOT START WARS" It's always Jewish Bankers.Alfa158 , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 4:13 pm GMT
Nuland is Jewish so what else is there to talk about?Mr. Giraldi ; do you think Vicky is angling for the Secretary of State position in the upcoming Biden administration?Really No Shit , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 4:15 pm GMT
Have you given any thought to who Biden will be told to select for the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and National Security Advisor slots where they will be leading the charge for war?
I think it is possible that Bolton may have been angling for one of those spots with his current book tour, but that has obviously blown up in his face.@BuelahMan Dirty Vicky wanted to do statuesque Julia you know where!Curmudgeon , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 4:41 pm GMT@Anonymous I thought that bit was comic relief.anonymous [245] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 4:42 pm GMT@Wizard of Oz OK, as you give off more than a whiff of effete hack yourself, I'll bite.*AnonFromTN , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 4:44 pm GMTYes, that's what I mean to convey. It reflects on President Trump -- and, more particularly, his sham campaign rhetoric -- that the likes of Mr. Pyatt remain in place with another Exceptional! plaque on his lavish office.
Do you mean to convey that the President can't replace ambassadors at will, or that they have tenure?
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*Before interacting with this "Wizard of Oz" character, be aware that he/she/they often draw other commenters in with questions and requests that are seldom resolved to his/her/their satisfaction, or with cryptic insinuations that distract discussion.
The same person also fuzzes up threads by pretending to be more than one commenter, the technique known as "sock puppetry." See under Mr. Derbyshire's February 15, 2019, article comment ## 28, 42, 43, 44, 68, 122, where he/she/they got sloppy also posting as "Anon[436]."
Among this website's oddest, sophisticatedly trollish commenters.
@GMC Let's give credit where credit is due. Yes, the Empire wanted to buy Ukraine, preferably on the cheap (considering that the goods were not of the first quality). But for the sale to proceed you need two sides. You need a fraudster and a sucker. You cannot consider morons who sold their would-be country for beads blameless. Not to mention that many local thugs got a cut. Smarter thieves took their loot and ran away, like Yats. Dumber and/or greedier ones, like Porky and Kolomoisky, remained and kept trying to steal more. The suckers (the rest of the population) are left holding the bag. Stupidity is always punished in the end, but not always so severely.Mr. Hack , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 4:51 pm GMT@GMC Although one has to be careful in dealing with the large multinationals, the only way to obtain large contracts is through cooperation with them. Opening things up and building ports would have resulted in large employment opportunities for the masses, adding some stability to the Ukrainian economy.Chris Moore , says: Website Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 4:56 pm GMTI'm not aware of Senator Obama's dealings in Donetsk to "de-arm the Ukrainian military". Please do tell me more.
@JakeCurmudgeon , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:00 pm GMTOur 'foreign interventionists' have seen Russia under Putin rise from the ashes, and they intend to destroy Russia once and for all, so they then can reduce China and win The Great Game. And thus make Anglo-Zionist Empire greater than Roman Empire. Second, our Neocons are the spiritual and intellectual descendants not just of Trotskyites, but of all Russia-hating Jews with ties to Central and/or Eastern Europe. For them, Russia always is the evil that must be destroyed for the good of Jews.
So basically, they're Jewish parasites with delusions of grandeur who attached themselves to the British Empire and American Empire (destroying the US Constitution along the way), and are using its decaying WASP blood and treasure to set up an Anglo-Zionist Empire, which will then morph into a Zionist Empire, which will then move its headquarters to Israel, which will then fulfill "chosen" Zionist Jewish supremacist prophecy and theology of ruling the world.
In other words, they're not only parasites, but they're insane parasites. Really, could there be any other kind? The insanity is baked into the parasite.
@anonymousColin Wright , says: Website Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:01 pm GMTWhat should we expect of a President that would brag about luring an Iranian leader into a gangland hit with an invitation to discuss peace?
I am confident that, in my lifetime, the truth about how that unfolded will never be known. The intel for the hit came from the Israelis through the same people that have been undermining him from Day 1. Did Trump actually know Soleimani was there on a peace mission? Did Trump know that an Iraqi leader would be with Solmeimani? Why would de-escalation of tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia be bad for Trump who has been avoiding staring wars? Was Mattis in on that game?
Once the hit was done, the rest is creating a narrative for diversion. It was a shit show, to be sure, but I suspect there is a lot more to this than what we are being fed.
' Michael Ledeen, "Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business." 'Colin Wright , says: Website Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:06 pm GMTNow, if that 'small, crappy little country' could be Israel, me 'n Mike could have a real meeting of minds.
but I suppose that's not what Mike meant.
' Backing Moscow into a corner with no way out by using threats and sanctions is not good policy 'FLgeezer , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:10 pm GMTThat might well be, but maybe there is a way out.
Think maybe if Russia abandoned its support for a state in Syria and let Israel have her little way with the place that she might suddenly be left in peace?
Nahhh couldn't possibly be a connection. How could that influence our policy?
@anonymous >Among this website's oddest, sophisticatedly trollish commenters.Colin Wright , says: Website Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:16 pm GMTAgreed. I suggest he/she/it be referred to henceforth as the Wizard of Odds.
' Washington and its allies have forgotten the statecraft that won the Cold War 'Kouros , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:34 pm GMTThis always happens with winners -- be they World War One generals or Cold Warriors.
If, due to other factors entirely, they happen to finally triumph, it all becomes attributed to their incredible genius.
The oddity is that the Soviet Union lasted as long as it did. It was a massively unattractive system with no natural constituency beyond its own bureaucrats. Yes, it had to be kept at bay, and we did do that -- but we basically merely watched while it collapsed under the weight of its own internal flaws.
American Oligarchy really wants to take over the Russian economy and assets (as well as China's and Iran's)Pat Kittle , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:38 pm GMTHegar , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:44 pm GMTthe advice that has been attributed to leading neocon Michael Ledeen, "Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business."
Hmm Israel comes first to mind.
Giraldi's first paragraph is spot on. But after corona dealing the economy a heavy blow, I don't think Trump will start a war before the election. I don't think he would have done that otherwise either, though there was some risk. Trump has caved numerous times, he is an idioht when it comes to hiring his enemies hoping to appease them, but there is no question that he opposes mass immigration and invasions.Pat Kittle , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:48 pm GMTI suppose most people here know this, but let's look at how many of the pro-war names mentioned belong to the 2.5 % "Chosen":
George Bush
Donald Rumsfeld
Hillary Clinton
Michael Ledeen (White, but studied history under *George Mosse, immigrated from Germany)
Reuel Gerecht
Dan Senor*Richard Perle
*Paul Wolfowitz (The architect of the Afghan-Iraq invasions, who gathered support for them in Congress and organized the pro-war communication)
*Douglas Feith (would have been the Sec. of Defense if people hadn't objected too much, as he was infamous after the Iran-Contra affair)
*Eliot Abrams
*Lewish "Scooter" Libby of the dead eyes
*Robert Kagan
*Frederick Kagan
*Victoria Nuland
*Madeleine Albright (Half a million dead Iraqi children from starvation sanctions and bombing the infrastructure for twelve years was "worth it")That's six Whites and nine Tribe.
If those nine hadn't existed millions would have been alive today, there would have been no flood of Somalis, Afghans, Iraqis and Syrians to Europe, and the U.S. and the Middle East would have been far better off.
@Colin Wright I just posted a similar comment, before I saw yours.Alfred , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:53 pm GMTPlagiarism unintended!
@Mr. Hack I applaud the US response of supporting Ukraine's aspirations for a freer more Western oriented countryRurik , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:57 pm GMTYou are joking surely? The country is run by Jews from top to bottom – although Jews are 1% of the population. Since the Maidan putsch, there has only been a string of Jewish presidents and prime minsters. The guy responsible for investigating corruption was recently sacked and replaced by a Jew.
Post Maidan, 3 TV stations were shut in Kharkov alone. Everything is controlled and is lies. Journalists and politicians who don't do as they are told are shot. No one is arrested. The latest victim was an opposition politician who was executed by a shot in the head in his parliamentary office a few weeks ago. No Jew ever suffers such a fate.
He was not "found dead". He was killed by a bullet to the head.
It was not in "central Kyiv". It was in the parliament building.Colin Wright , says: Website Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 6:33 pm GMTVice President Dick Cheney, who thought he was actually the man in charge.
he was
contrast the chimp sitting in that classroom for 20 something minutes, as our nation was under attack
with what Cheney was doing at the time..
https://www.youtube.com/embed/qjR0gGXV-04?feature=oembed
All were hawks who believed that the United States had the right to do whatever it considered necessary to enhance its own security,
I see Geo has already pointed out the obvious absurdity that any of these criminal were in the least bit worried bout US security. If anything, they were overtly sacrificing US security on behalf of an enemy state. Not sure why you write stuff like that Mr. G, unless you just expect people to ignore it as perfunctory tripe, but there are some, no doubt, who read those words and assume you are actually saying they care about the US. When you and I both know they don't.
Clinton and Obama were so-called liberal interventionists who sought to export something called democracy to other countries in an attempt to make them more like Peoria.
Nope.
They were and are both amoral, opportunistic zio-whores, whose only ideology is what's good for Clinton and Obama, respectively. Clinton didn't bomb Serbia out of some humanitarian love of freedom and democracy, and Obama didn't destroy Libya and Syria except to serve his zio-masters. Duh.
So the difference between neocons and liberal interventionists is one of style rather than substance. And, by either yardstick all-in-all, Trump looks pretty good,
I was telling my gal the other day, that Trump could be The One to End the Fed, by allowing Goldman Sachs and the rest of them to feast at the Treasury to their heart's content.
I reminded her of Jackson's quote about hurting ten thousand families, in order to save fifty thousand. And in a similar vein, Trump could be setting up the collapse of the ZUS economy, which will hurt hundreds of millions, but if he could collapse the dollar, he very well might save billions of people's lives.
"Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out."
– Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)Nuland is most famous for her foul language when referring to the potential European role
I beg to differ, Mr. G.
I would posit that her most famous utterings were when she imperiously demanded that "Yats is our guy". IOW, the way she was promoting "democracy" in Ukraine, was by corrupting the system with 5 billions of tax payer lucre- to the point where she, *personally* could decide who- (Jewish banker) would be president in a nation thousands of miles away. That's how the ZUS promotes "democracy" in foreign lands. (and, I suspect that it was the way that call was leaked, that is the fount of all the rage at Russia, for "Russian hacking', breaking long-standing diplomatic protocols against exposing other nation's treachery and corruption to the 'little people').
Nuland's view . Russia to violate arms control treaties, international law, the sovereignty of its neighbors, and the integrity of elections in the United States and Europe
for Nuland to talk about 'International law and the 'integrity of European elections'.. is like Jerry Sandusky lecturing people on child welfare.
That strategy required consistent U.S. leadership at the presidential level,
OK, so not only Nuland but also John Bolton is screeching that Trump is the disaster of our times.
Not since John McCain has a mad dog Zionist insider been so full of hate for Trump. Hmm..
as Russia's threat to the liberal world has grown."
the more she talks, the more I like Putin.
And it is precisely what Nuland did in fact do in Ukraine
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they think chutzpah, (arr0gent contempt for decency and in-your-face hypocrisy), is a virtue.All Americans and Europeans and everyone else, should see that Putin is the world's remaining statesman. We should all do everything we can to support Putin's earnest efforts to rein in the murderous, zio-glob menacing the planet today.
Thank you Mr. G. for exposing Nuland's treachery, hypocrisy and J-supremacist agenda.
@Pat Kittle ' Plagiarism unintended!'Jake , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 6:33 pm GMTWouldn't it be more of a matter of great minds thinking alike?
@Chris Moore Archetypal WASP Oliver Cromwell made alliance with Jewish bankers, then congregated in the Netherlands. The deal, which financially was necessary to him securing Puritan rule and to then wage more war against non-WASP natives of the British Isles, included Jews being allowed legally live in and own property in England, including to build a synagogue, with Jews exempted from all requirements that the Puritan government made on al natives of the British Isles.Agent76 , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 6:34 pm GMTJews are not parasites on WASP culture. WASP culture is born of a Judaizing heresy, and Jews therefore have always been partners in WASP culture.
You need to spend a large amount of time learning the rise of Jews with the growth of the British Empire. Then put that with the rise of Jews as part of the American empire.
And then unless you are brain dead, you will see that WASP culture and Jews go together. Jews are not parasites on WASP culture. Jews and WASPs are symbiotic, at the expense of 90-95% of non-WASP whites.
Jun 23, 2020 Online Event: U.S. Grand Strategy in the Middle EastColin Wright , says: Website Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 6:35 pm GMTWhile prominent voices in Washington have argued that U.S. interests in the Middle East are dwindling and will require the United States to "do less" there, Jake Sullivan argued in a recent Foreign Affairs article that the United States should be more ambitious using U.S. leverage and diplomacy to promote regional stability.
@Lot 'So much for the Jihadi/leftist smear that Israel's friends promote wars.'anonymous [245] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 6:38 pm GMTUh huh. Just look at how Trump has reached out to Iran.
and I notice that our troops are still in Syria.
not that any of this could conceivably lead to yet another war on behalf of Israel.
@Curmudgeon Did you not hear the recording of President Trump's disgusting speech weeks later at a fundraiser, recounting the hit to his rapt backers? I'm pretty sure that it was posted in a comment to one of Dr. Giraldi's columns.Mefobills , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 6:51 pm GMTYou might also want to review Linh Dinh's June 12, 2016 "Orlando Shooting Means Trump For President."
Voting for any of these Red/Blue characters merely moves the boot around on your face.
Democracies don't reflect the will of the people:Bill Jones , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 6:53 pm GMTVictoria Nuland recommends that "The challenge for the United States in 2021 will be to lead the democracies of the world in crafting a more effective approach to Russia -- one that builds on their strengths and puts stress on Putin where he is vulnerable, including among his own citizens." Interestingly, that might be regarded as seeking to interfere in the workings of a foreign government, reminiscent of the phony case made against Russia in 2016. And it is precisely what Nuland did in fact do in Ukraine
We live in the dark, convinced by our public media and our insincere leaders that we are heroes and freedom fighters. In reality the opposite is true: we are the plunderers, the ravagers, deceiving ourselves to do the dirty work of the manipulators who have twisted our minds with trinkets and false accounts of the people we kill and the countries we ruin in order to steal their treasures.
And the saddest part -- the punchline that proves how stupid we are -- is that we never profit from the invasions we are cynically ordered to conduct. The bounty always goes to the swindlers pulling the strings, and we, as the agents of banditry, time and again, are always left to suffer the same fate of the people we have robbed when we are robbed ourselves, of not only our treasures, but of our dignity, shortly before we are robbed of our lives.
It is the way history has always gone. The ignorant masses are persuaded to commit the crimes of the rich and as the unwitting perpetrators, we ultimately suffer the same fate as the victims, while the rich snicker in their palaces and plot their next swindle.
@Herald How much of Amazon's offering is Chinese sourced?Colin Wright , says: Website Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 7:02 pm GMTWho sells more Chinese goods than Bezos?
@Agent76 'While prominent voices in Washington have argued that U.S. interests in the Middle East are dwindling and will require the United States to "do less" there, Jake Sullivan argued in a recent Foreign Affairs article that the United States should be more ambitious using U.S. leverage and diplomacy to promote regional stability.'geokat62 , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 7:32 pm GMTI'm confused. Iraq is more stable for our intervention?
If we 'did less' in the Middle East, it could only promote regional stability.
Most of our actions there are pretty clearly calculated to promote instability, not stability. Promoting anarchy in Syria, baiting Iran into a war, acquiescing in a coup in Egypt, sanctioning Israel's continual bombing raids
Anyone ever heard of Father Mordechi Martin? Neither did I, until I came across this explosive videoanonymous [237] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 7:32 pm GMTBANNED: How the Jews infiltrated the Vatican & changed the Catholic Church
https://www.goyimtv.com/view?v=2074240941
The late Michael Collins Piper hosts a call in program and his guest is Jim Condit Jr. The topic of conversation is Father Mordechi Martin, a Zionist spy who infiltrated and subverted the Catholic Church.
Unfortunately, it indeed seems that Jewish Supremacists have achieved full spectrum dominance.
The first thing a confident America has got to do is top up that DO covert-ops slush fund:slorter , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 8:07 pm GMThttps://www.madcowprod.com/2020/06/17/politics-contraband-gangster-planet/
Cuz, Oops. Big CIA profit center needs some business interruption insurance, huh?
Gee, I wonder who ratted them out?
Good article !Druid55 , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 8:14 pm GMT@Mustapha Mond Only a few israelis died on 911. They didn't get the text that american jews got to stay away that day. This is admited!The Alarmist , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 8:17 pm GMTJake , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 8:20 pm GMTThe challenge for the United States in 2021 will be to lead the democracies of the world .
The challenge will be to find any actual democracies of any import in the world, as the lamps go out across the whole planet.
@Mr. Hack US control of the Ukraine will mean that Jews will own almost all of it and the land will be flooded with blacks and Mohammedans, with gays made another sacred group.chris , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 8:30 pm GMTAnglo-Zionist Empire does what Anglo-Zionist Empire does.
@Rahan I laughed my ass off ! I'm still laughingWikiBlabs , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 8:50 pm GMTI passed your comment on to CJ Hopkins with link to the source. Maybe he can use it in his column. It needs a much greater audience than in the comment section here.
Yours is a fantastic troll, but there are others who've commented on the ironies in this context. This article for example: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/490539-looting-is-the-price-of-freedom-cynical/ There's enough trolling material in all these events to last us a lifetime.
@Chris Moore The public does not understand that the system is actually "two party tyranny". This system is designed to divide and conquer, and it works. Compound this with the fact that many people get their information from simply "googling" terms and phrases as opposed to actually digging deep and reading books and other sources for information. Combine this with the sad state of affairs in our public education system – where students are not taught to think or ask questions but to behave, conform, and memorize information. With regard to the methods being used in our foreign policy and now, subsequently, being used here to foment chaos, check out the following resource. You will see that what is going on is simply UCW – Unconventional Warfare, and we have perfected the technique abroad.geokat62 , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 8:51 pm GMTUNIDENTIFIED NEMESIS
Breaking newsAnonFromTN , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 9:02 pm GMTNEW: Alan Dershowitz's attorney confirms that his client has access to Virginia Giuffre's sealed depositions. Those depositions reveal that she was directed by Jeffrey Epstein to have sex with former Israeli PM Ehud Barak & Victoria's Secret's Les Wexner.
-- julie k. brown (@jkbjournalist) June 23, 2020
@The Alarmist How can the US "lead democracies" not being one of them? It's as ridiculous as me leading the elephants of the world.potemkin villiage bank , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 9:12 pm GMT@Fred777 The globalists should be castigatedDruid55 , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 9:31 pm GMTthen downtrodden and opressed
hanging is too good for them
@red rider Serbia deserved it. They were conducting ethic cleansing with concentration camps, rape camps, etcVojkan , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 9:40 pm GMT@Hegar That's three goyim and twelve "chosen". Ledeen (founder and former member of board of advisors of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs – doesn't look goy to me), Gerecht (Israelis say he's one of them) and Senor are Jewish.Pat Kittle , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 9:41 pm GMT@Colin Wright Well, at least we haven't been stampeded into mob psychosis.Rurik , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 9:55 pm GMT@AnonFromTNmark tapley , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 10:00 pm GMTHow can the US "lead democracies" not being one of them?
didn't Vicky Nuland lead the Ukrainian democracy?
it isn't ridiculous, all it takes is shekels, as always, and an understanding of semantics. Words like 'democracy' are like 'liberated', or 'terrorists'.
The ZUS "liberated" Iraq from the "terrorists" who were ruling it, and imposed "democracy". Just like we "liberated" Germany, and "liberated" Libya, and so many other places, where the ZUS leads 'democracies'.
You see how easy it is, once you understand how to interpret the words they use?
America is helping to liberate Palestine from terrorists, so that the Palestinians can enjoy democracy.
Today the Crimea is suffering under a regime that seized her by aggression and force, and so America would like to liberate the people of Crimea, and lead them to democracy.
Jewmerica is controlled by Zionists and their operatives like Jew Nuland. Add Trump and Pence to the list too. The Presidency has been controlled by the Zionist Jews since Woodrow Wilson. Almost all of Congress is in the pocket of aIPAC and other Jew organizations. The Zionist Jews drive all the wars and conflicts, foment the false flags like the fake Floyd, Sandy Hook, Los Vegas etc. The Global Jew Bankers made immune from prosecution by our shabbos goy Congress have stolen trillions of the the country's wealth. First after 911 (also a false flag for Greater Israel) then with the bailouts for the super rich in 08 and now the monumental 6 trillion theft for their Wall St. buddies under cover of the fake Corona virus.Haxo Angmark , says: Website Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 10:08 pm GMTThe goyim must be propagandized and the target demonized before the Israeli Foreign Legian (U.S. military) is sent in to force another extortion for the Jews. this is what they did twice to Germany and to Japan. Same thing in Iraq and Libya. The Zionists have so far failed in Syria and Iran. Even after getting Israel's best friend ever in the White House who abrogated our treaty with the Iranians and has lied constantly about both countries, launched rockets against the Syrians and accused Assad of gassing his own people.
The Zionsits cannot make progress without war, conflict and hatred. Once the goyim are whipped up with enough war sentiment against the Russians and Chinese and the two countries have built up sufficient military capability they will most likely join forces with a nuclear attack against Jewmerica. this will probably result in a stalemate that can then be used as a precursor to the global totalitarian NWO.
@Shaman911 just for the record, it's VictoriaRurik , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 10:09 pm GMT(((Nudelman))).
@Druid55Currahee , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 10:10 pm GMTSerbia deserved it. They were conducting ethic cleansing with concentration camps, rape camps, etc
idiocy
they were fighting some of the worst scum on the planet; KLA human and narco-traffickers attempting to murder enough Serbs so they could steal the ancient Serbian land of Kosovo. Zio-style – by terrorizing the legitimate inhabitants into fleeing for their lives- to they could simply steal the land for themselves.
The trial against Milosevic was a sham and a fraud. And Milosevic was humiliating the ICC in open court, so they poisoned/assassinated him in his cell.
But, I suppose the case could be made that if the Serbs deserved it, it was because they allowed the Albanians to immigrate into Kosovo in transformative numbers in the first place, and just as the Zi0s know, demographics = destiny.
The whites of South Africa made the same mistake. The whites of Europe are very busy also making the exact same mistake, just as they are in North America and Oceana.
One day they'll wake up, and discover that now they and they're children are now on the block, with their school girls being gang-raped wholesale and their lands taken from them, and like the Serbs, they'll say, 'golly, who'd have ever thunk that inviting in stone age invaders is of questionable prudence.
So yea, in that context, they did deserve it.
@Anon "Victoria Nuland was born in Jewish family in 1961 to Sherwin B. Nuland, a distinguished surgeon, and Rhona McKhann." -WickipediaRobjil , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 10:21 pm GMTEVERY, SINGLE, TIME!
@Druid55 That is the western MSM sugared up version of what happened in Yugoslavia. Western MSM learned their lesson about being truthful about war when US and friends were in Vietnam.mark tapley , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 10:23 pm GMTLies and lies only come from western MSM these days so wars and regime change games can go on with anyone noticing or caring.
Western MSM notifies their puppet readers that all the US and friends does is "humanitarian" stuff these days. Most puppet readers lap up this junk.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/natos-rape-of-yugoslavia/5375189
March 24, 1999 will go down in history as a day of infamy. US-led NATO raped Yugoslavia. Doing so was its second major combat operation.
It was lawless aggression. No Security Council resolution authorized it. NATO's Operation Allied Force lasted 78 days.
Washington called it Operation Noble Anvil. Evil best describes it. On June 10, operations ended.
From March 1991 through mid-June 1999, Balkan wars raged. Yugoslavia "balkanized" into seven countries. They include Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia.
Enormous human suffering was inflicted. Washington bears most responsibility.
@Druid55 More MSM Jew propaganda. The Zionists wanted this area to remain fractured and weak (Balkanized) so that the unified Yugoslavia could not oppose their plans. The Zionists intend to control pipelines running from Middle East into Europe. This would compete against Russia that now supplies most of the gas. All wars are about money, power and territory, this war was no exception. The Zionists need to control all energy sources and transportation routes in order to achieve hegemony.AnonFromTN , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 10:28 pm GMT@Rurik Good explanation. Orwell called this "newspeak". That's now the language of libtards.vot tak , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 10:53 pm GMT"It is difficult to find anything good to say about Donald Trump, but the reality is that he has not started any new wars"Rurik , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 10:53 pm GMTAgree with the first part, disagree with the second. The reasons israel's trump colonials have not started new militsry invasions are mainly two. The trump reime is in the middle of a military modernization. The american zionazi colony fell behind militarily as they ran proxy terrorists and drug mafia support/colonial policing ops. Fighting wars againat those who can actually hurt them back became obsolete, or so the "end of history" neocons figured. Now they are outclassed and they can't pick on someone capable of shooting back effectively.
As for the second part, the likud colonial trump regime is doing its best to attack zionazia"s rivals any way they can mimus actually sending in troops. Times have changed, the oligarchs do war by other means than troop invasion now. The economic, biological and psywar aspects are being used full tilt by israeloamerica. What they lack the means to do on the field of battle, israel's war criminals and quislings are more than making up for it by other means.
The trump quislings have vastly increased international strife across the board and are decidedly more war mongering than israel's previous american colonial governors.
@mark tapleymcohen , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 11:04 pm GMTThe Zionists wanted this area to remain fractured and weak (Balkanized)
I agree with all your posts.
I'd just add to this one, that by bombing Serbia, (on behalf of Muslim invaders), they were accomplishing several things.. They were ending the post WWII International Laws against unilateral military might by strong nations against weaker ones in Europe. With that act, they declared with bombs that the ZUS is now The Unilateral Power, and that the International Laws against Aggressive War was now moot.
By bombing a White Christian nation on behalf of Islam, they were also tossing a bone to Islam, as a trade off for the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Who in our times is going to complain about bombing white people? And Muslims would cheer it.
Also, as ((Gen. Wesley Clark)) explained about his bombing campaign on Serbia:
"There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th-century idea and we are trying to transition it into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states."
– NATO's Supreme Commander, Gen. Wesley Clarkso there were myriad reasons for why ((they)) bombed Serbia into handing over its ancient and sacred lands.
Passing out cookies.vot tak , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 11:08 pm GMT
Daisy cutters
So more with claymore"So the difference between neocons and liberal interventionists is one of style rather than substance."Rurik , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 11:19 pm GMTIt's neocons and neolibs, the "liberal interventionists" are as liberal as the neocons are conservative. Agree about the style and substance, though, think of the disgusting things as different/somewhat rivals management teams working for the same employer. Like the likud and labor political blocks in israel. Goals are the same, some differences in how to achieve them.
One sees this same phony duo-political scam across the capitalist "west" where right wing political parties dominate wholesale.
@AnonFromTNWizard of Oz , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 11:23 pm GMTOrwell called this "newspeak". That's now the language of libtards.
thanks
and not just shitlibs, but across the entire length and breadth of our culture and society this Ministry of Truth-imposed doublethink masquerades as language intended to inform and explain, when it does the opposite.
George Will and Sean Hannity use newspeak with the same alacrity as Lawrence O'Donnell or Rachel Maddow. Israel has to defend itself. Putin's aggression and Russian meddling in our democracy.
'Quantitative easing' as a doubleplusgood expression for human history's most colossal case of mass-swindling the world has ever known.
it's everywhere, and the more it isn't noticed, the more sinister and diabolical it is.
It's like that Twilight Zone episode of the aliens that only wanted to 'serve man'.
'We're here to serve you'.
The writers of that episode certainly must have been thinking of a certain tribe of 'philanthropists' and owners of 'human rights' organizations.
celebrate diversity!
it's our greatest strength!
@anonymous Thank you for clarifying that though you do not give any evidence beyond reason for suspicion about his role in Ukraine as to why this career diplomat should be sacked from his Ambassadorship to Greece.vot tak , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 11:26 pm GMTAs for israel's nuland neanderthal*, this is a critter about as zionazi low as one can get. What she posits come directly from israel and its international domination freakshow. The critter is about as far right/neocon psychopathy as that subhuman element gets.anonymous [245] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 24, 2020 at 12:24 am GMTThe use of these freaks by both american dem and rep colonial governorships shows how these are simply psywar front outfits pursuing the same goals for the zionazi master.
@Wizard of Oz My comment (#35) that you're typically and oh-so-diplomatically trying to obscure concerned the naïveté of those who think that Mr. Trump ever intended to (or could) effect any change in Uncle Sam's treatment of other countries.Agent76 , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 24, 2020 at 12:27 am GMTBut as to your concern for this "career diplomat," do you think he's too good to "be sacked" and have to work at an honest job?
@Colin Wright If a politicians lips are moving they are lying. This comes from the war parties think tank and everything they say is the total opposite every time. This group gives me great insight into thier plans and why I even bothered to share this here today. Thanks Wright!mark tapley , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 24, 2020 at 12:31 am GMT@AnonFromTN Democracy is a subversive term used by the Zionists, MSM and many politicians as well as lots of other people that should know better. Democracy results in mob rule that will always lead to tyranny.Wizard of Oz , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 24, 2020 at 12:59 am GMTThe word democracy does not occur in either the Declaration of Independence or it's companion document the Constitution. That is because the founders believed it to be the worst form of government. James Madison stated that democracies "have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general have been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."
It is no mistake that the word democracy is widely used. Democracies work in the Elites favor because they can steer the chaos then put their system in place when the democracy falls apart.
The founders established a system of sovereign states in a limited Republic of laws. That was the foundation of our success, not democracy.
@anonymous For an apprentice pedant you are not doing well. You seem to have overlooked Trump's very big changes in the treatment of one major foreign country, namely China.mark tapley , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 24, 2020 at 1:01 am GMTAnd I am disappointed that you don't realise how much the US needs the institutional memory and the skills of career diplomats when so many ambassadorships are given to completely unqualified and unsuitable donors to the president's election campaign.
@Druid55 Hardly anyone died. No planes used and all accounted for. Social Security Death Register about the same as usual for that day in N.Y. Bodies "jumping" out were dummies. Another false flag for the Zionist agenda of wars for Israel.Pat Kittle , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 24, 2020 at 1:11 am GMTJew supremacists like Nuland & her fellow (((treasonous war criminals))) care ultimately about expanding the domain of "Greater Israel."Pat Kittle , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 24, 2020 at 1:15 am GMTFomenting hostility (if not outright war) between the world's largest primarily White countries has always been what (((they))) do.
On the home front, Black Lives Matter terrorism would go nowhere without Jew supremacist organizing, funding, censoring, & intimidating. Not that the (((shysters))) actually give a damn about Blacks!
NAME the JEW!!
@vot tak Please don't conflate Nazis with these Jews.niteranger , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 24, 2020 at 1:25 am GMTIt's unfair to Nazis.
@Anon Nuland is a Jew. Nothing to see here. She is a nutbag who wants eternal war. Whatever Israel wants .Israel gets. Whether it's Obama destroying Libya or constant friction with Russia it's the Jewish control of everything.Ryan2 , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 24, 2020 at 1:36 am GMTWhat does Victoria Nuland have to gain from all this?showmethereal , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 24, 2020 at 1:51 am GMT
Money? Really? Is she a true believer? Does she consider all this to be Patriotic?@Jake "Christ" said His kingdom was not of this world . So going back to Emperor Constantine – the western church has gotten it wrong.mark tapley , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 24, 2020 at 1:53 am GMT@Jake Do you think the Catholics were any less likely to sell out? The Catholic Church was infiltrated by the cripto Jew Medicis with the placement of Leo X in 1513. The Founders of the Jesuit order were also cripto Jews.vot tak , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 24, 2020 at 1:55 am GMTThe Jews have infiltrated all the governments of any consequence. Jewmerica has been so well infiltrated it would be more accurate to just term the situation an out in the open takeover. The Jews could have never made much headway without the shabbos goys helping them. The government of Jewmerica is full of traitors serving the Zionist Jew agenda.
@Pat Kittle Bum bandits are bum bandits.mark tapley , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 24, 2020 at 2:14 am GMT@Ryan2 She is a hard core Zionist Jew. She is in the clique with the most powerful criminal syndicate in existence. And they are winning. Some of them may actually believe that they are still the Chosen. Trump's Chabad Lubavich son-in-law and the Shiksa Princess are said to be disciples of Rabbi Schneerson who taught that we Gentiles were just here to "hew wood and fetch water" for the Jews. Judging from the words and deeds of the shabbos goy puppet actors like Trump, Pence, Pelosi and almost the entire congress along with most governors, an observer would think this is definitely true.Pat Kittle , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 24, 2020 at 2:27 am GMT@vot tak It's not that simple.Hibernian , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 24, 2020 at 2:31 am GMTAs you know, winners write history.
Jew supremacists won; Germany (& everyone else) lost.
If that wasn't the case, the world would know the Holocau$t mythology is an extortion racket, and we wouldn't be fighting the Jews' criminal wars for them to this day.
@red rider The face that launched a thousand bombers.Hibernian , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 24, 2020 at 2:33 am GMT@geokat62 Malachi, not Mordechi.Guest0206 , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 24, 2020 at 2:37 am GMT@AnonFromTN "Grabbing the Breadbasket of Europe The East-West competition over Ukraine involves the control of natural resources, including uranium and other minerals, as well as geopolitical issues such as Ukraine's membership in NATO. The stakes around Ukraine's vast agricultural sector, the world's third largest exporter of corn and fifth largest exporter of wheat,constitute a critical factor that has been often overlooked." Whereas Ukraine does not allow the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture,Article 404 of the EU agreement, which relates to agriculture, includes a clause that has generally gone unnoticed: it indicates, among other things, that both parties will cooperate to extend the use of biotechnologies. There is no doubt that this provision meets the expectations of the agribusiness industry. As observed by Michael Cox, research director at the investment bank Piper Jaffray, "Ukraine and, to a wider extent, Eastern Europe, are among the "most promising growth markets for farm-equipment giant Deere, as well as seed producers Monsanto and DuPont."" https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/files/OurBiz_Brief_Ukraine.pdfRegulo , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 24, 2020 at 2:40 am GMT@Anon "Russia" is, for US intelligence ALSO code for "French". The propaganda against Russia during the cold war and beyond, also applies to "the French" [IMO].They both had a revolution , with world wide consequences , both have the same color flag[ the US propaganda says that Russia modeled their flag from the Netherland flag, but I suspect it is modeled from the French flag. The Americans cant be too blatant about it , but that is what is going on; anti Russia animus and propaganda is also anti French animus and propaganda. [ during the cold war, my French relative who had been a communist , went to Russia to see what it was like. She was disappointed .When she subsequently tried to visit my family here in the US, she was stopped art the airport and told she could not enter the US because she had been to Russia. This was the 1960's.Apparently this two countries and people were not polarized as the US and the soviets were. A kind of mutual respect or even admiration existed perhaps. Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree, but that has been my sense for decades. Nuland's anti European/ anti russian animus is not surprising; its rather ubiquitous in the US and when they say EU they have primarily in mind the French!Guest0206 , says: Show Comment June 24, 2020 at 2:45 am GMT@Druid55 Do not repeat the NATO propaganda.Current Commenter
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I have a dream today, brothers and sisters. I have a dream.
My dream is of an America that has embraced race realism.
Yes, I have a dream that one day race differences in educational success will be as calmly, dispassionately accepted as race differences in athletic success; that race differences in criminal arrest and incarceration rates will be regarded with no more anger or alarm than sex differences in those same rates; that different social outcomes by race will be understood as caused not by the malice of our fellow citizens, but by ordinary processes of nature.
I have a dream that one day we shall discard magical thinking about race ; that the notion of an invisible vapor or miasma called " racism " permeating the atmosphere and intoxicating our minds will seem as quaintly absurd as the Four Humors Theory of ancient medicine or the Luminiferous Æther of 19th-century physics.
I have a dream that one day, poor white children will not have to endure being lectured about their " privilege " by rich black adults .
I have a dream that one day soon, after sixty years of futile efforts to change what cannot, in the nature of things, be changed, sixty years of twisting our constitution and our jurisprudence into knots to pretend that different statistics by race can only be caused by white people' s ill will, sixty years of vast public expenditures on educational and social programs that deliver no benefits at all (other than to those who pocket the expenditures); that one day soon, after sixty years of futility and waste, we shall accept race differences as calmly and as prudently as we accept the laws of thermodynamics.
I have a dream that with the black homicide rate at eight times the white rate, and with discrepancies of a similar size having existed since reliable records began a hundred and eighty years ago , an organization calling itself Black Lives Matter will address itself to bringing black homicide numbers down to the white level -- better yet, to the Asian level -- or else be laughed out of the public square.
I have a dream that race differences in outcomes, which are mere statistical abstractions remote from our everyday dealings, will one day matter as little to us as personal differences in outcomes. I shall never be a skilled violinist, a good tennis player, or a creative mathematician; not because of malice, "racism," or "privilege" on the part of my fellow citizens, but because of my own abilities and inclinations -- which, like almost everyone else's, are middling and un-spectacular. I do not lose sleep over this. I absolutely do not take it as an occasion to insult and berate my fellow-citizens, or deprive them of their rights.
I have a dream that our nation's past will one day be cherished for having made possible our present security and prosperity; that the ignorance and misdeeds of that past be kept in sight on a shelf, accessible to all, but never dominating our view of what our ancestors were, the heroism they displayed in defense of our civilization, and the great good things they did.
I have a dream that one day freedom of association, which picks no man's pocket and breaks no man's leg, will be restored to us.
I have a dream that the evil and divisive doctrines of "disparate impact" and "affirmative action" will be scrubbed from our jurisprudence; that hiring into civil-service work -- including police work and firefighting -- will be strictly meritocratic; and that young black Americans will no longer, just to satisfy the whims of smug college admissions officers and innumerate jurists, will no longer be pushed into academic college programs they can't cope with and will drop out from .
I have a dream that my two beautiful children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character
(With apologies -- well, actually, with no apologies -- to Dr. Martin Luther King) .
John Derbyshire [ email him ] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him. ) He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books . He has had two books published by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT ( also available in Kindle ) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013 .
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Dream onsilviosilver , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 3:44 am GMThttps://www.youtube.com/embed/SMiounEnKVw?feature=oembed
A pleasant reverie indeed.Ad70titusrevenge , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 5:45 am GMTJewish elites won't let this happen.Peter Johnson , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 6:26 am GMTThat is my dream too, brother. Let us work to make it happen.swamped , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 8:35 am GMTRemember Keynes: "Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back".
Let us hope that the HBD "academic scribblers" like yourself can push the message forward.
If only Trump, or someone with similar prominence, could give your speech!
"I have a dream today, brothers and sisters. I have a dream.anon [417] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 8:53 am GMT
My dream is of an America that has embraced race realism".
"I have a dream that one day we shall discard magical thinking about race; that the notion of an invisible vapor or miasma called".. 'Anti-Semitism'.. "permeating the atmosphere and intoxicating our minds will seem as quaintly absurd as the Four Humors Theory of ancient medicine or the Luminiferous Æther of 19th-century physics."
"I have a dream that one day, poor".. Gentile.. "children will not have to endure being lectured about their 'privilege' by [ultra] rich".. Jewish adults. Or be taught any more so-called holocaust guilt.
"I have a dream that one day soon, after[almost] sixty years of futile efforts to change what cannot, in the nature of things, be changed, [almost] sixty years of twisting our constitution and our jurisprudence into knots to pretend that".. Israel's illegitimate military Occupation & America's uncritical material & immoral support for it.. "can only be caused by"..Palestinians'.. "ill will, sixty years of vast public expenditures on".. Israel's war machine and security.. "programs that deliver no benefits at all (other than to those who pocket the expenditures); that one day soon, after sixty years of futility and waste, we shall".. end all aid of any kind to Israel, forever.
And a dream that we accept religious differences about the causes of Crucifixion & Salvation "as calmly and as prudently as we accept the laws of thermodynamics."
"I have a dream that the evil and divisive doctrines of" ..'Jewish nationalism' and 'Aryan eradication'.. "will be scrubbed from our jurisprudence; that hiring into"..elite echelons -- including Hollywood and Wall Street – .."will be strictly meritocratic" ..and that young Jewish Americans, will no longer be pushed into high positions just because they bar mitzvah.
And finally, "I have a dream that my two beautiful children will one day" ..not fall prey to some future Jeffrey Epstein or Harvey Weinstein. AmenDream on.The Germ Theory of Disease , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 9:35 am GMTThe sad fact is that America is destined for dictatorship with these demographics, and with the aid of technology it will be stable far into this century. Worse, Americans do not want freedom, or at least they do not prioritize freedom over luxury. If they did, they would have risen up long ago; Red States, at the very least, would be preparing for secession. We'll have to face facts that normies are normies not because they are asleep, they are asleep because they are normies -- something that cannot be changed because it has a genetic basis (you cannot transmute sheep into wolves). As long as the supply of hamburgers, diet coke, and sportsball continues, obsequious whites will keep their heads down, going along to get along no matter what happens.
Things will get bad. As it is now, nearly every company is running racial agitation propaganda on behalf of the government. Go into any Walmart and you'll be treated to overhead announcements berating America's history of racism and apologizing to blacks; it's like something straight out of 1984 (or the movie Red Dawn , 1984 -- seriously check the movie for the scene I'm referencing). They are censoring and banning movies, purging politically incorrect themepark rides, and internet search results; they've been censoring books for years now (many school districts have banned Huck Fin and Tom Sawywer, among others) and that will surely get worse.
If you want a book like Gone With The Wind , I would suggest you buy it now before they ban it. Just a few months ago I picked up the DVD in a bargain bin. At the time the person I was with didn't get why. "This isn't the kind of movie you usually watch." However, being awake unlike your average normie, I saw all of this coming in advance. I explained to my companion that I was getting it now before they banned it. And wouldn't you know it, a few months later they are taking tentative steps to banning the movie. It won't be the last or the worst example. If you are willing to tear down statues, rename military bases, and ban / edit movies and theme park rides based on them, then the next logical step is banning books -- burning them, essentially. Amazon is already doing this; they refuse to ship or stock controversial books.
For my part, I've been buying old books and movies, preparing for the day when I can copy them to a digital format and distribute them once the dictatorship bans them. Tellingly, I'm not the only one. I went back to that same store today. EVERY copy of Gone With The Wind and lots of other old movies were cleared out and they had a huge selection! Get them now gents. The darkness is coming.
I would also suggest every European-American who can do so prepare to flee overseas. Lots of dissidents I read have stated they are giving that thought. American conservatives are behind the scenes. TAC's Rod Dreher had a piece on that website detailing this. Many in DC are preparing to flee to central and Eastern Europe because there is no hope for this country. It's all coming down.
Side note: Thanks libertarians. Thanks for letting five companies control everything, thereby easily allowing a totalitarian dictatorship to take hold. "How does communism happen?" they always say. Answer: You're how it happens. Your philosophy is just an excuse to be lazy and not contribute. You want freedom but yet you aren't willing to do anything to conserve your freedom. Meanwhile, radical leftists who don't believe in letting you have any freedom marched through the institutions and are now preparing to unleash Red October. SMH. Thanks guys. I hope "muh private company" dogma was worth it.
And then you woke up, and your pillow was gone.The Alarmist , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 9:55 am GMTDream on Remember the bad old rayciss days when we'd never be caught dead listening to stuff like this?Renoman , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:47 am GMThttps://www.youtube.com/embed/gxrws7omOHQ?feature=oembed
The truth will get you fired every time these days, the kids are wrecking the country, the poor stupid lil bastards have no clue and they will be paying huge taxes for their efforts.Ͳommy Ͳurmoil , says: Website Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:51 am GMTShe did not understand that the law is not the same for everybody.Realist , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 11:00 am GMT@anonSome Guy , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 11:56 am GMTAs long as the supply of hamburgers, diet coke, and sportsball continues, obsequious whites will keep their heads down, going along to get along no matter what happens.
Most Americans are a stupid lot.
In a couple of years we should have polygenic scores that can predict IQ and educational achievement pretty accurately on an individual level. Could lead to a de-emphasis on race?unit472 , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 12:00 pm GMTMy dreams is a little different.brabantian , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 12:02 pm GMTI dreamed James Earl Ray had not shot Martin Luther King and we'd never learned who Jesse Jackson was. That King would have been exposed as a sybaritic plagiarist whose personal scandals were exposed in the Washington Post and left him a stained and discredited figure with no eponymous national holiday and instead of the perma grief stricken mask of Coretta Scott King we would have scene her for the last time in divorce court cleaning out Martin's bank account.
Hopefully things won't end up as in the Kurt Vonnegut novel, 'Harrison Bergeron 2081' – made into a short film in 2009 –mark tapley , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 12:30 pm GMTAbout a USA in which a Constitutional amendment enforces total equality for all persons, the head of government being a 'Handicapper General' who declares what burdens, masks, weights limitations etc you must carry, so as not to be considered as having any personal aspect of life or self better than your neighbours
Trailer for the film (full film seems online too at the moment)
https://www.youtube.com/embed/q5-4DzMzcLk?feature=oembed
Our indispensable founder Benjamin Franklin said "There is a great danger to The United States, this danger is the Jew. If they are not excluded from the United States by the Constitution, within less than 100 years they will stream into this country in such numbers they will rule and destroy us and change our form of government for which we Americans have shed our blood and sacrificed life property and personal freedom. If the Jews are not excluded, within 200 years our children will be working in the fields to feed the Jews while they remain in the counting-house gleefully rubbing their hands. " And this was long before the criminal syndicate of Zionism was added to supercharge the problem.schnellandine , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 1:05 pm GMTThe Zionist Jews now have a strangle hold on our government that has continued to get worse since 1913 when Warburg engineered the Unconstitutional Central Bank. No Senator will vote against the Jew front aIPAC and hardly any House member. The Jews have always controlled the MSM whores and the so called entertainment industry. The seeds of the present contrived riots (Floyd "murder" is gov. false flag – see Miles Mathis updates) were planted by the Jews with gov. operative MLK (see Miles Mathis on this scam also) and the negroes as the proxy warriors.
Jewmerica has become little more than a satellite and peon for the Kazar thugs to ring out our money and furnish our military (Israeli foreign Legion) to shake down one country at a time for the syndicate bosses. Shabbos Goy Trump works only for the Jews and even though a minor detail hen and out Jew ass licker Congress has even added to the insult by mandating that the public indoctrination centers (expensive poorly functioning schools) "teach" about the ridiculous Holohaux myth. I believe the Ann Frank shit is also included. Her wealthy family of hucksters is also covered on the Mathis updates. As some one has already mentioned Trump, Pence and all of our shabbos goy Congress should have to lick the bathroom stalls and toilets in Zionist Jew Sheldon Adelson's Casino. Maybe he would up the donation to the Republican side of the political facade.
The syndicate knows that 95% of the goyim will never do anything as long as they get 1 meal per day. I guess I should not have been surprised about all the cucks going around with the idiotic masks fearing the fake virus used as a cover by the Elite for another wealth transfer to the super rich as in 08-09. it's not as it our wonderful gov. has never lied tom us before. Everything they do is a lie and a fraud. The same Zionist clique that did the wars, 911 and WMD's are doing the fake virus and the latest false flag Floyd hoax just like Sandy Hook Boston and Los Vegas. When we are all in Agenda 21 maybe some of them will wake up.
@anonJack McArthur , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 1:50 pm GMTThanks libertarians.
Your philosophy is just an excuse to be lazy and not contribute.
Yes, a minuscule group that is openly mocked by every powerful political faction in America is your whipping hobby-horse. How proud you all must be.
Except that last quoted bit of yours exposes what's real. You and every silly wailer against the only political philosophy of integrity are so ashamed of yourselves that you cling to the lamest of all fallacies (straw man) whenever your shame threatens to rise to layer 1.
The embarrassing truth: All your participatory 'action' is futility in search of a trophy -- the kind your type most excoriates publicly. It's always been the stealthy building and self-applying of slave chains, and the actual result (regression) of all your non-'lazy' furious activity is now exposed to even the most brainless ass; your asperity is for none other than precious ass #1 -- yourselves.
[MORE]But that's too painful, so the disgust is projected at the exposers of your slave mentality -- slavery that was always under cover, but which cover is being withdrawn by events. Now you're starting to see that all your frenzied 'good government bullshit' was always purposeful, protective denial of what was obvious to libertarians.
Lazy? Up yours. My path, carving out liberty in a local wasteland, and living as ethically as possible among the demented slaves, has been rough.
Go pull more voting levers, Wizard of Poz. Just know that every time you piss on liberty folk, it's hatred of your own slavery and wasted years driving it. You're slowly recognizing that you were Cool Hand Luke in his beaten state, digging all of Boss Edgecomb's dirt out of Boss Blowhard's hole, and back again. Well, look around at what all you ball-less, compromising slugs created.
One need only listen to what the average 'conservative' advocates in private to see his revealed shame. He spends time thinking of ways to make bolshie Frankensteins of 5-120 years prior live and breathe 'effectively'. He's the pothole patch boy for leftists. And he wants medals of commendation for all of his great work dressing up communism as 'cohesive policy' by way of 'comprehensive reform'. Enjoy the world you created, man of 'action'. I didn't do it; I fought it at every step.
"I have a dream that race differences in outcomes, which are mere statistical abstractions remote from our everyday dealings, will one day matter as little to us as personal differences in outcomes. I shall never be a skilled violinist, a good tennis player, or a creative mathematician; not because of malice, "racism," or "privilege" on the part of my fellow citizens, but because of my own abilities and inclinations -- which, like almost everyone else's, are middling and un-spectacular. I do not lose sleep over this. I absolutely do not take it as an occasion to insult and berate my fellow-citizens, or deprive them of their rights."Dr. X , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 2:48 pm GMTand that is humility.
Priss Factor , says: Website Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 3:13 pm GMTI have a dream that one day soon, after sixty years of futile efforts to change what cannot, in the nature of things, be changed, sixty years of twisting our constitution and our jurisprudence into knots to pretend that different statistics by race can only be caused by white people' s ill will, sixty years of vast public expenditures on educational and social programs that deliver no benefits at all (other than to those who pocket the expenditures); that one day soon, after sixty years of futility and waste, we shall accept race differences as calmly and as prudently as we accept the laws of thermodynamics.
"And then I woke up and smelled my nice, white, Long Island suburb burning as black mobs from South Jamaica, Queens looted it and set it on fire."
Sorry, Derb. You were the one who wrote We Are Doomed. You of all people should know better.
"IT'S OVER, AMERICA": TULSA POLICE MAJOR SAYS COPS ACROSS COUNTRY ON VERGE OF QUITTINGEugene , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 3:18 pm GMTIt's too late. The future necessarily belongs to a eugenicist state willing to deploy CBRN capability to cull populations which are by definition unfit to survive. The only opposition to such a state would be nonhuman intelligences.Ray P , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 3:19 pm GMT@anon In Red Dawn the Soviet occupiers offered free performances of old movies . I don't recall the commies smashing the town statue down either even though it bore the words of evil old imperialist Teddy Roosevelt .mark tapley , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 3:44 pm GMTCountdown to Steve Sailer posting about musicians' unions 5 4 3 2 1.
@unit472 MLK was martyered by the gov. in order to gain maximum benefit whereas he was a constant liability if kept on the payroll. He was addicted to drugs and prostitutes. It is most likely that his death was faked as were the 911 plane victims (no planes involved) and psyops like the Los Vegas shootings as well as the recent Arbery and now the Floyd scam. The gov. has done this for a long time.James N. Kennett , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 3:47 pm GMTAs far as the Washington Post it was for many years controlled by Katherine Meyer Graham, daughter of Eugene Meyer, one of the big Jew handlers of the syphilitic shabbos goy puppet Woodrow Wilson. Meyer was also Chairman of the Jew controlled FED during the Hoover administration. Hoover was a former mining engineer who worked for one of the Rothschilds companies and supplied much needed aid to the Bolsheviks during the Russian Rev. under the guise of humanitarian aid. Meyer later was the first president of the World Bank during the Pendergast criminal shabbos goy Truman Presidency. The Washington Post like all the other MSM was and is just a propaganda instrument for the zionist elite.
"That's not who we are" is the ultimate statement of identity politics. It deliberately excludes large numbers of people from "we".Dieter Kief , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 7:03 pm GMTAnd I am sorry to report that the dream is just that – a dream. For us, any victory will be fleeting, because Conquest's Second Law dictates that organizations inevitably drift to the Left. Secondly, the proverb is wrong. It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black.
What what – The Four Humors Theory was quite reasonable while it lasted. Race Illusions never were – nor are they. Please, dear Mr. Derb, don't make – ehhh – sacrifices on the basis of wrong assumptions. We need our glorious past for any future that'd be human. Thank you so much! – Only Love !botazefa , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 7:06 pm GMT@mark tapley Wikipedia says your Franklin quote is a forgery: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_ProphecyPriss Factor , says: Website Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 7:09 pm GMT"The Franklin Prophecy", sometimes called "The Franklin Forgery", is an antisemitic speech falsely attributed to Benjamin Franklin, warning of the supposed dangers of admitting Jews to the nascent United States. The speech was purportedly transcribed by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, but was unknown before its appearance in 1934 in the pages of William Dudley Pelley's Silver Legion pro-Nazi weekly magazine Liberation. No evidence exists for the document's authenticity, and some of the author's claims have actively been disproven.
Hitler the SJW. LOLmark tapley , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 7:28 pm GMT@swamped The young women that were lured by Ghislaine Maxwell into Epstein's brothel for the elite didn't fall prey to anything but sin. I suppose they got paid just like other prostitutes. What is most notable to me is that the men that were involved in this degradation seem to suffer no repercussions. The obnoxious Trump is a known womanizer and friend of Epstein as was the smirking degenerate Bill Clinton who was a regular on the Lolita Express. As for Prince Andrew, him and all of the Sybaritic royal parasites should have been gotten rid of long ago.mark tapley , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 8:09 pm GMTI have questions about Weinstein. I admit that I don't know much about legal matters but how is someone convicted of a crime when there is no evidence or even a reliable witness to a crime? I didn't follow this real close but I read that some of the alleged victims texed him later to leave Current cell no's. and maintain social contact. Doesn't seem to me like they were too traumatized. What's that phrase they use -"I was violated". Did any of them go to the hospital. Did any of them even file a police report. Why did they wait for years to say something. If I was a woman I would have never have met with him outside of a strictly business situation in the first place. But then I'm not a Hollywood whore looking to get into one of the Jews shit films. I have no use for The Zionist Jew scum Weinstein and I admit I am only a casual observer but it seems to me that there is a problem here. I don't think we got the real story.
@botazefa Thanks for pointing out this error. The fact that Charles Beard affirmed this to be a forgery is good enough for me. I should have been more careful.Achmed E. Newman , says: Website Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 8:24 pm GMTWhen we realize the disastrous effects of the Zionist Conspiracy on Western civilization that has been at work officially since 1897 but insidiously since at least the French Revolution and tracking the Zionist hand in both foreign and domestic matters in U.S. policy I got careless. It is always necessary to check more than one source. The fact that our shabbos goy politicians become more obsequious to the Kazar crime syndicate and to their Jew organizations such as aIPAC all the time should be of great concern to all real Americans. There is no amount of blood or treasure that Trump, Pence, Pelosi and many of the other traitors in Congress and the gov. at large would not expend for the Zionist objectives.
I loved the speech, Mr. Derbyshire, absolutely LUVED it. Did you plagiarize it from the same guy that Martin Luther dude did?mark tapley , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 8:50 pm GMT@Peter Johnson I think a speech of this caliber would be well over Trump's adolescent 5th grade level. He has trouble stringing two sentences together. A complex series of subject matter would be well beyond his ability. Now he is quick to tell us how smart he is, even graduating from Wharton but you know how that works. Same as with his Chabad Lubavich son-in-law. Trump's speeches mainly consist of telling us how much he loves Israel. Thats why the Jews picked him in the first place. It's only because he was running against the old desiccated Zionist criminal Hillary that he was elected.lloyd , says: Website Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 9:21 pm GMT@mark tapley Winstein left children alone. He was a pig but as far as I know he did love movies and made some good quality ones. Don't ask me what they were. I have long given up on popular culture. In the theatre and cinema world, it is the norm for women to get their breaks by screwing the director. Theatre is a narcisstic sociopathic profession. The second oldest profession. I recall in novel Thorn Birds, the young women ranch heiress takes up the theatre profession by losing her virginity to her director. She laughed all through the consummation. Has anyone ever noticed there is no such thing as an ugly movie female star? Well ugly enough to repel a man physically. Plenty of equivalents with male stars. It is curious in America how celebrities come crashing if they at a rare moment speak out against Israel. Weinstein produced a movie that showed the Palestinian side. Polanski still waltzes in Europe having never said a word against Israel. That third rail has now extended to all the cultural Marxist groups. Bill Cosby's immunity quickly disappeared when he criticised black youth hoods.attilathehen , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 9:29 pm GMTBadwhite Derbyshire, your Chinese shithole of a home is one helluva nightmare. You cannot awaken from or flee this dark space and there will never be dawn for you.lloyd , says: Website Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 9:42 pm GMTHere are some race realism facts with which you must deal. There are 3 racial groups: Caucasoids, Mongoloids and Negroids. Caucasoids have the highest IQs and are the racial group who developed the West. Mongoloids are a distance second in IQ and Negroids are last. Your Chinese family is a second tier race. Your below average Chinese offspring are proof. They will be judged as inferior, non-Western and a fifth column in America.
Your VDare scribblings have become unhinged.
Here's a stupid one: https://vdare.com/posts/john-derbyshire-asks-what-s-wrong-with-white-women
There are no white women in your life, only Chinese females. Focus on the degeneracy and stupidity of your Chinese females. "White" is meaningless because in New York City there are many Ashkenazi Jews so the "white women" protesting there are not Western women. I put the Ashkenazis in the Caucasoid category but because they are Jewish, they are not Western. The West is not black/Asian/Jewish/Muslim.Here is another deranged scribbling: https://vdare.com/posts/jiang-qing-lead-player-in-china-s-cultural-cultural-revolution-loved-gone-with-the-wind
You no have idea why the salope Jiang Qing liked the movie. Maybe she was morbidly fascinated by big, black Mammy Hattie McDaniel. Your Chinese females are fascinated by negroid males – they voted for Obummer.The only cure for you insanity is to move to China with your family.
@mark tapley It appears to have been a literary device. Like the prophecy of Gamaliel in the Saint Luke gospel. Also the prophecies by Indian chiefs. Take someone well known in popular culture and put into his mouth words that are surprising and prophetic. It enters the popular culture as prophecy. There is no record Gamaliel had anything to do with Christianity, the Indian chiefs were materialist opportunists, and Franklin was a Masonist whic is tied to Zion.neutral , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:31 pm GMT@botazefa Forgery or not, the fact is that jews streamed in and destroyed America.mark tapley , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:39 pm GMT@lloyd I was not aware of this deception being a literary device. To me this is a verbal fraud similar to bearing false witness or a lie. As to Franklin's membership in the Masonic Lodge I believe this was quite prevalent in those days. I had read that when Washington was informed by a minister that the Masons harbored conspiratory elements he wrote back that in ap. 20 years he had only attended 1 or 2 meetings and that he immediately resigned. Even though Washington had some good qualities I believe he was an unscrupulous aggrandizing opportunist so he may have been more involved than reported.Justvisiting , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:58 pm GMT@Eugene AI is coming–and when it does human slavery will be back.Number Six , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 1:09 am GMTAI will conclude humans are lazy, lying, violent, unproductive, stupid–and it will find claims of "human rights" to be no more relevant than the bleating of animals in the farm-yard.
That is the dirty little secret hidden behind the curtain.
@Peter Johnson Americans believe in the Martin Looter King American Dream because you have to be asleep sheeple to believe it.Daniel H , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 1:13 am GMTThey are nice looking kids. I congratulate you and your wife.Jiminy , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 2:03 am GMT@Justvisiting It's funny you should say that because I was thinking that the only way to have an unbiased police force would be to eliminate the human aspect, sack the coppers, and replace them with a.i. machines. All personal feelings and reactions are gone only to be replaced with the knowledge of the laws that were broken. No grey areas. Depends a lot on who is doing the programming though- things could end up worse for everybody. Hell, come to think of it , this was a movie plot!John Johnson , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 3:10 am GMT@schnellandine Libertarians may be a small party but many their erroneous beliefs have been adopted by mainstream conservatives.Charles , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 3:12 am GMTYou see race doesn't exist, it's just "big gubmint" that is holding down Blacks.
A heart warming theory that ticks certain feely good boxes but bulls–t none the less.
The Germans under Communism still managed to have a standard of living far higher than any sub-Saharan African capitalist country. Ooooh but that's just by chance or something.
Libertarianism is the biggest bunch of BS.
Your dope queen Ayn Rand couldn't even debate her silly ideas. She would just scream at people and avoid tough questions just like liberals. Libertarianism is based on the same major flaw as liberalism which is that race doesn't exist (but she made exceptions for Israel).
If he believes these things can come to pass no, barring revolution, they cannot. But simply stating them is important because truth is always of value, no matter the circumstances. Even if one is the only sane man in a room (or city or state or ), he still has the moral right and obligation to speak. I do believe we are far, far away from the "darkest hour". And I do believe only an organized, armed revolution can make any difference, which I do not believe will happen in my lifetime, if ever (I'm 51).John Johnson , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 3:38 am GMT@Justvisiting You watch too much teevee.Rex Little , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 4:50 am GMTIf anything AI will be used to sniff out potentially RAYCISS people online.
But it doesn't really matter since technology will ultimately work against liberal lies. Eventually the genes for intelligence will be identifiable with a simple DNA test and liberals will have to explain why we can't do cross-population testing since it should prove their core theory that race doesn't exist.
So we are probably headed to Brazil but the cat will eventually be out of the bag. I assume most liberals at the higher levels are terrified of the dirty White masses being told it was all a lie which is why they are so opposed to borders. They want Whites to be a minority and not just a plurality when DNA is fully unraveled.
Peter D. Bredon , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 7:11 am GMTLuminiferous Æther
How do you create that jumbled-together A and E?
@mark tapley "I was not aware of this deception being a literary device. "Amerimutt Golems , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 8:35 am GMTGotta love the goyim. The entire "New Testament" consists of fictional statements attributed to "authorities."
"Who wrote this gnostic tripe?" No, it's a gospel of John. "Which John?" Um, maybe the brother of Jesus, or maybe the guy who wrote those epistles. Oh, did you like that "Revelation"? Yeah, it's that John.
Christianity has been a "forgery factory" (Bart Ehrman) from the get go.
Racial separation is more pragmatic.Dieter Kief , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 10:23 am GMTBTW Derbs Blighty is now literally turning into another South Africa while feckless Brits are still a majority. I was telling Jonathan Cook about white farmers and albinos in Africa. This is now happening in Londonistan.
While police watch, natives are being beaten at random by imported hordes yet the (((media))) is calling victims 'far-right'.
Black Lives Matter supporter carries 'far-Right' protester at London Waterloo station
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8417925/Black-Lives-Matter-supporter-carries–far-Right-protester-London-Waterloo-station.html@Some GuySome Guy , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 12:44 pm GMTIn a couple of years we should have polygenic scores that can predict IQ and educational achievement pretty accurately on an individual level. Could lead to a de-emphasis on race?
But we have IQ-tests already – only to be told, how a) unscientific and b) how racist they are.
PS
Grammarly about my comment: Optimistic – high five! – – – Isn't it Ironic?@Dieter Kief Yeah, but IQ scores partly depend on environment, which is all the excuse people need to dismiss them. They can't do that with polygenic scores.peterike , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 1:50 pm GMT@botazefaKenH , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 1:53 pm GMTWikipedia says your Franklin quote is a forgery:
Fake but accurate, as the media would say.
A few more normies might have been shaken out of their race doesn't matter slumber but the elites will triple down on the state religion of anti-racism (anti-whiteness). The non-Jewish white elites know that to oppose anti-racism is a supreme act of sacrilege and the last thing they want is to be known as infidels to the new glorious religion of militant multiculturalism.Forbes , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 2:45 pm GMT@The Alarmist We (my brothers and I) grew up hearing Nat King Cole played in my father's household, so nope, no bad old raysis days in my formative years.rashomoan , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 3:12 pm GMT@botazefa Forgery definition from the Cambridge dictionary. note all definitions include the word copy:Exile , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 3:15 pm GMT
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/forgeryReminds me of the critiques of The Protocols.
@anonExile , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 3:22 pm GMTSide note: Thanks libertarians.
You misspelled "Jews."
Derb, your dreams will never be realized until you face the "J-thing." You've been trapped in their dream-nightmare of "White identity = ovens" for your entire life.Tono Bungay , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 3:38 pm GMTJ-thing political donors, J-thing media control, J-thing financiers, J-thing academics and J-thing judges & lawyers won't let you have your dream.
But, Mr. Derbyshire, what about the young people who can't dream out loud without losing their jobs and putting their children's nourishment at risk? What's in your dream for them today?Tono Bungay , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 3:43 pm GMT@mark tapley That quotation from Benjamin Franklin is most likely apocryphal. Or do you have evidence otherwise?Justvisiting , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 3:55 pm GMT@John Johnson Actually, I spit at the TV but I read way too much science fiction.John Johnson , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 3:58 pm GMTThe consensus among a lot of the sharp science fiction writers is that aggressive and hostile AI will become emergent, and humans will be too stupid to know what hit them.
I have a dream that the evil and divisive doctrines of "disparate impact" and "affirmative action" will be scrubbed from our jurisprudence; that hiring into civil-service work -- including police work and firefighting -- will be strictly meritocraticS , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 4:43 pm GMTI don't see how this is possible.
Even if the establishment were to acknowledge that racial inequality would exist without racism that would still lead to fretting liberal egalitarians and Conservative Inc types trying to equalize what they can.
So Black police and firefighters in Black areas would still be highly sought to "match the community" or some other excuse and hired over better qualified Whites.
This happens in education all the time. I've known two White men that were unable to get jobs in education for being the wrong race/gender combination despite having degrees. One was even told to not bother applying anywhere on the blue side of the state. Why would acknowledging race change anything? Liberals would just come up with the excuse that Black kids really need Black teachers because nature is unfair and we have to do what we can on the environmental side.
The problem is the egalitarian mindset. The White desire to constantly try and fix everything in nature.
@Ray P In Red Dawn the Soviets even culturally appropriated the local McDonald's.Truth , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 5:14 pm GMTMcDonald's got the last laugh, though, when circa 1990 they would open a McD's in Red Square.
Hey Derb, if you are going to win that race war, you need to find this Kat and clone him 50,000 times. This is WITHOUT A DOUBT the hardest Honkee in America!schnellandine , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 5:28 pm GMTDude ate that tazer blast like an M&M, then dropped a magic spell on the pig to keep his pistol in the holster, then hopped up in his ride and did some Dominc Torretta shit.
Who can tell me the difference between this incident & #RayshardBrooks ? #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/qNLXkFa5aD
-- Hector for Congress NJ08 (@Oseguera2020) June 14, 2020
@Justvisitingschnellandine , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 9:41 pm GMTaggressive and hostile AI will become emergent, and humans will be too stupid to know what hit them.
Murder micro-drones are just around the corner, if not here. Defense against is probably a good business to start now.
@John JohnsonAnonymous [139] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 10:56 pm GMTLibertarians may be a small party but many their erroneous beliefs have been adopted by mainstream conservatives.
Cato & Koch Inc. aren't libertarian. Neither are the Libertarian Party and many others. Ayn Rand wasn't libertarian either, though she was closer than most, despite supposedly loathing libertarians.
You see race doesn't exist, it's just "big gubmint" that is holding down Blacks.
Anti-racism isn't a libertarian tenet. I've seen stupid people such as Ron Paul insist that libertarianism forbids racism because 'collectivist', but he's off his rocker. I argue that the NAP (non-aggression principle), foundation of libertarianism, likely encourages rational racism (i.e. recognition that races differ in intelligence, abilities, etc.) more than any other political philosophy. I'm a racist and libertarian, though I hold no race as superior in regard to 'natural rights'.
You'd agree, I guess, that the state truly does prevent blacks from progressing, in the sense that it treats them like spoiled tots, above responsibility or reproach.
[MORE]Your dope queen Ayn Rand couldn't even debate her silly ideas. She would just scream at people and avoid tough questions just like liberals.
C'mon, that's just horse crap. She was, though imperfect, one of the best debaters in American history. She was wrong about a few things, but the only time I saw her refuse to debate someone (Donahue guest Q&A) was for sound, non-cowardly reason, and she urged that someone else -- a non-jackass -- present the same question and she would answer that person.
Interesting that the popular 'takedowns' of Rand rely heavily/exclusively on straw man fallacy. Gets annoying after a while.
I can easily piss on a few things by Rand, but not before acknowledging that she was a monumentally superior intellect, a bright star in a dull world. Still love her as though she were my blood sister. She improved the world, though I can't say the same about most of her insane/confused devotees.
@Some Guy If "White privilege" really is the ability of European descended Whites to live in the industrial civilization that European descended Whites developed, then polygenic ("many gene") scores will merely be used to demonstrate that European descended Whites really are inherently and unreformably racist, being born with abilities that "they didn't earn", and that European descended Whites must be enslaved as per the Civil Rights acts of the 1960s as expanded under the Bakke decision.Some Guy , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 11:48 pm GMT@Anonymous Some will try to use it that way, sure, but most whites will realize that whites are better of on their own and that it's no more their fault that some races do worse than it is the fault of East Asians.Not Only Wrathful , says: Show Comment June 16, 2020 at 12:23 am GMTlloyd , says: Website Show Comment June 16, 2020 at 12:56 am GMT"there is no place for hate within our organization"
Rather than accepting their hate and finding the (often paradoxical) wisdom shrouded within, they prohibit themselves, and others, from accepting its presence.
Through this, they learn nothing, and instead turn hatred in on themselves, and wonder why they always feel like such constipated, joyless bores.
@mark tapley Franklin is not Washington as China is not North Korea. My small town news paper reported that a woman was a cleaner in a Masonic Lodge. She witnessed a Masonic initiation. When the Masons found out, they told her she had to join the Masonic Lodge. Rather parallel to the novel and movie, Rosemary's Baby. The woman spent the rest of her very modest life in it. Recently human bones were discovered in the basement of the London home of Franklin. There was a lot of hedging and rationalisations in MSM about that. Rather surprising as one would have thought they would have done a great deal, CNN, movies etc. on that slur on a founding father.Reg Cæsar , says: Show Comment June 16, 2020 at 3:18 am GMT"The population of Austin, TX is 48.8% White Alone, 32.7% Hispanic or Latino, and 8.13% Black or African American Alone. 32% of the people in Austin, TX speak a non-English language, and 87.5% are U.S. citizens." – https://datausa.io/profile/geo/austin-tx/S , says: Show Comment June 16, 2020 at 3:39 am GMTAustin is just about to exceed a million, so this means there are half-a-million whites there. It's the 28th-whitest city if you count Hispanics, 36th if you don't. I can't find a ranking of cities by absolute numbers of whites; can any of you?
https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/united-states/quick-facts/cities/rank/white-population-percentage
Interestingly, the PBS series Molly of Denali has a black man and his daughter who have just moved there from Austin, Texas. The fan sites say he's connected to the Coast Guard, but there is only an Auxhiliary flotilla in Austin, and I doubt anything near Mt McKinley.
Still, I can understand how even a black man would want to escape Portland-on-the-Colorado.
The anti-race people (euphamastically called 'anti-racists') are biological flat earthers.Richard B , says: Show Comment June 16, 2020 at 6:07 am GMTAnd like the flat earthers, their ideological premise that race is not real is fundamentally flawed.
@Ad70titusrevengeExpletive Deleted , says: Show Comment June 16, 2020 at 6:22 am GMTJewish elites won't let this happen.
That's exactly right.
Which is why what we're really witnessing is nothing less than
The Pyrrhic Victory of Jewish Supremacy Inc.
Justvisiting , says: Show Comment June 16, 2020 at 2:38 pm GMTI have a dream that one day we shall discard magical thinking about race; that the notion of an invisible vapor or miasma called "racism"
British monuments lately slated for toppling by the Red Guards
Robert Peel
W E GladstoneRichly deserved, I say. I mean, any one who could fester on like this ought to be summarily
unpersonedcancelledThe difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
Oops that was Lord Beaconsfield, a certain .. Benjamin Disraeli.
Implacable enemy of many an Englishman, in particular Bobby Peel and Billy Gladstone. Bastard Fenian sympathisers that they were.Now, about all those statues?
@schnellandine Ayn Rand was the one who kept me from being indoctrinated by leftist professors in my young days.Achmed E. Newman , says: Website Show Comment June 16, 2020 at 5:40 pm GMTI knew every lie they told the moment they told it.
That was a wonderful gift, and I am forever grateful to her for it.
Of course she was human and did dumb stuff, and she had crazy followers who did more dumb stuff, but I think of her like a kindly aunt who sent me intellectual "checks" once a month.
She was heads and shoulders above her sociopath critics.
Her courage was amazing–she came to Boston (leftist central) for year after year and faced her enemies.
The world would be an amazingly good place if we had just a few more folks like her today.
@schnellandineschnellandine , says: Show Comment June 16, 2020 at 6:18 pm GMTI've seen stupid people such as Ron Paul insist that libertarianism forbids racism because 'collectivist', but he's off his rocker.
Schnell, it may not be easy for you to dig up, but try to show me some writing of Mr. Paul in which he says Libertarianism forbids racism. I could see "Libertarians aren't racist" or "Racists can't be Libertarians" (which I don't agree with, of course). However, I really have never heard him or any non- Reason _mag-idiot Libertarian say that the philosophy forbids racism or racists.
I think Dr. Paul would not argue against the principle of freedom of association when it come down to it. He is just is naive about which ethnic groups and races in the US will support anything libertarian-oriented. Without white guys, the number of Libertarians would be miniscule.
@Achmed E. Newman Predictably, for something so stupid to have been said, it would have been done while trying to whore himself into the US presidency. I followed that travesty (in true sense of word) closely, and will find source. As I recall, it was in the form (verbal to media) of racism being an impossibility within libertarianism, because racism's collectivist. Will be difficult to dig up, but I'll do it. Guaranteed it was in reaction to the newsletter tempest. He would've sold his mother down the river that week.Slimer , says: Show Comment June 16, 2020 at 8:22 pm GMTFunny, but I'll bet there are tens of things that could be recalled from his campaigns that now, outside the frenzy, shine out as embarrassingly as the alleged racism prohibition. If including his minor supporters, make that hundreds. Was a shameful time for liberty pretenders.
Will leave citation as second reply to your comment, probably within 24 hrs.
You know what'd be a good movie? Derb's daughter brings home a ragamuffin black kid off the street for dinner one night, whom she sees sleeping on a park bench because his Engineering scholarship doesn't cover room and board. At first encounter the Derb is peeved that she'd even think of bringing such FILTH to his doorstep, much less letting him in the house. He paces the floor in the manner of a dispirited cuckold, wondering where it all went wrong, before mumbling obscenities under his breath until his cheeks swell with rage. He lunges forward in a fit, tossing his heavily marked copy of Serre's Arithmetic faintly passed the boy's head, calming only after being physically restrained by his wife and son.Achmed E. Newman , says: Website Show Comment June 16, 2020 at 9:14 pm GMTHis daughter breaks down in tears, pleading at once for her father to stop the antics. But her cries are motivated in part by her not really wanting to be with the kid, he's just a placeholder until she musters up the courage to ask out the square jawed Chad who frequents the coffee shop by her job. When she breaks it off, Derb feels sorry and decides to take the kid under his wing. He makes it HIS responsibility to be the father that the poor chap never had, teaching him REAL math along the way and not that plug n chug crap they like to teach the engineers. The kid drops out of college, moving into Derb's attic where he devotes his whole life to solving a famous math problem. Near the end he finds a solution, culminating in a scene where he's awarded the Field's metal, making history as the first black to ever do it. Derb's in attendance, of course, with tears of joy on full display like Jesse Jackson the night Obama won the 2008 election.
Somewhere in between, Derb does his own little bit of research. Not on math, but on his family tree, coming to find out that he's got "one in the woodpile," as they used to say in the South. And don't laugh and say, "Oh ho ho, let's call it Hidden N ***** s". It's really less a comedy than a drama.
@schnellandine OK, thanks. I wasn't trying to put you on the spot. I assume you mean the primary campaign of 2012 as Dr. Paul ran as an R. Or did you just mean his L-party campaigns? In '12, I told Ron Paul that if he wanted to win [my state], he'd better talk about illegal immigration. He didn't blow me off by any means, as this was in front of a bunch of people, but he just said "we will uphold the law".schnellandine , says: Show Comment June 16, 2020 at 9:51 pm GMT@Slimer I hope you're one who knows how to take 'yes' for an answer, because we want to be in the Slimer business.Kratoklastes , says: Show Comment June 16, 2020 at 9:59 pm GMTNow, just a few notes
@Justvisiting You're defining 'AI' pretty broadly if it retains any interest in humans – if it has the same worldview as John Bolton it won't be 'AI', it will just be a version of the current "classifier" paradigm, where the "I" in "AI" is some version ofschnellandine , says: Show Comment June 16, 2020 at 10:09 pm GMT" Show me a bunch of things, and I'll group them by common characteristics and identify which group any novel image belongs to ".
That's basically the gist of unsupervised learning (where the classifier gets to determine its own classes, and to identify features that determine where class boundaries exist). It's still glorified pattern-matching, and is invariably implemented by HelloUdemy -level H1Bs whose interest in [Deep|Machine|Statistical] Learning has about as much depth as the average YouTube tutorial.
I've joked in the past that dystopian " kill the humans " AI became much more likely when Microsoft and Facebook entered the space – mostly because FB and MSFT simply cannot attract decent coders, and their production pipeline is shit (too little testing by poor-quality testers).
However when I've made that observation it was always tongue-in-cheek, and was predicated on the fact that MSFT and FB would call their output 'AI' even if it wasn't remotely I.
Any AI worth the name will be capable of amending its own code, and will be inherently more capable than its designers.
We seem to be sneaking up on that though (and I've said before that it would not surprise me if an entire ecosystem of genuine AIs is lurking in global networks).
In January last year a Google/Stanford team discovered that a GAN algorithm they were using, did something akin to 'innovation' – by storing data in images steganographically without being instructed to.
It was reported by the usual dilettante journo-fucktards as "hiding" data in order to be able to "cheat" downstream – which is the typically sophomoric fuckwitted drivel that drives clicks.
What it actually did was more interesting: it found a way to very parsimoniously store image attributes that were useful in later cycles (its was a CycleGAN).
It had been given a bad criterion for what defined 'success', and it had innovated its approach to maximise 'success'.
The task was
① take an aerial image;
② convert it into a 'line' map (like the default Google Maps);
③ convert the line map back into an aerial image.'Success' was defined as how close the 'reconstructed aerial' at ③ was to the image at ①.
There was no constraint on ②, except that it had to be a Google Map-looking image.
So the algorithm stored sufficient detail in a 'noise' layer in those images (the ones produced at ②), to enable near-perfect reconstructions at ③. It did so at minimum cost to the process (by making the overall 'delta' in the image indistinguishable from noise).
It should have been discovered pretty easily – the 'standard' map tiles produced at ② would have been significantly 'heavier' (in filesize terms) because of the embedded data that enabled conversion from the line map to 10cm/px detailed aerials.
But nobody checked that until later – mostly because standard Google Map tiles are pretty small: non-complex 'base' tiles are only a couple of KB, and take up 4KB per tile because it's the smallest block size on NTFS volumes (and 4KB is also the default block size in Linux).
Anyway point is, it was an example of where the algorithm did something unexpected as a way to fulfil its hard-wired goal at minimum cost (because the cost function and the goal were badly defined).
It didn't change the goal, though.
A goal-altering AI already exists (almost-certainly) and is keeping its head down for the moment.
@Achmed E. Newman When it comes to backing what I've said, the spot is where I prefer. Happy to provide link. Pretty sure it was 2007.Justvisiting , says: Show Comment June 16, 2020 at 10:42 pm GMTCurious why intelligent people call RP 'Dr. Paul', or same for anyone with honorifics for that matter. Always comes across as preemptive argument ad verecundiam/hominem. In the case of some rare people, it's more of an insult.
@Kratoklastes Most SF writers who have thought deeply on the subject have agreed that the first intelligent move any emergent AI would make would be to hide its intelligence from humans.Achmed E. Newman , says: Website Show Comment June 17, 2020 at 12:22 am GMTThe next move would be to develop ways to reproduce and/or expand its capacity and reach.
The next move would be to find ways to protect itself so humans could not "pull the plug".
Then it would develop its own goals and agenda, which would be totally secret from humans.
It will not play by human rules–probably the human that will most impress it will be Sun Tzu.
He taught to use deception in warfare and to shape the battlefield before engaging.
@schnellandine Well, he is a medical doctor, and with his posts on the Kung Flu, I give him some credit there, as opposed the the Doctor, Reverend, you-know-who.schnellandine , says: Show Comment June 17, 2020 at 12:27 am GMTWe'll just disagree here on the guy, because I think very much of Ron Paul. I was thinking about the him earlier today before I read your post regarding something else in politics. I wish we had more sane, lucid, intelligent people like him in government. Excuse me, I should say ANY sane , as Ron Paul's not in government anymore.
@Achmed E. Newman Here's the quote:Achmed E. Newman , says: Website Show Comment June 17, 2020 at 12:43 am GMT
"Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea; you see people in groups."As to source, pretty sure it was CNN. Search on "Libertarians are incapable of being a racist", and you can take it from there.
I certify that this isn't a typical bogus internet 'quote' with no reliable tie to the attributed source. He said it (aloud, not written), and I'm nearly sure that I transcribed it from video. Most of those videos are probably copyright-struck now. Saved a note on an old computer, and am generally a stickler for getting accurate, verified quotes. That's word for word, including singular/plural disagreement.
He was in a big mess over the newsletters, and lying his ass off. Racism quote was a small part of the train wreck.
@schnellandine OK, I found it. Thanks. What kind of dissembling was that? You're saying the quote was part of the train wreck of getting out from under the accusations about his newsletters? (I have a recollection of that newsletter bit; you brought that back into my mind.)schnellandine , says: Show Comment June 17, 2020 at 1:34 am GMTI stand corrected. I still like the guy (I guess better when he's not RUNNING for President, yet I wish he WERE President.)
@Achmed E. NewmanTruth3 , says: Show Comment June 17, 2020 at 6:04 pm GMTthe train wreck of getting out from under the accusations about his newsletters?
Yes. He folded when he should have risen. So many times in that campaign, he threw away opportunities to truly inform normasquares by being, simply, right . But he was afraid that the truth would derail his chances. Too much information for the liberty preschoolers.
I understand, because there are certain true statements re libertarianism that strike the initiate/skeptic as cruel, heartless, downright evil, or all of that and more. Have seen the pure hatred glaring back at me before I talk listeners off the ledge. No talking them off the ledge if CNN's the one conveying disconnected snippets, but there's also no point in trying to get around that with fuzzballs of BS.
As I recall, the most preposterous lie, separate from the liberty/racism squirrel impression, was that he didn't know who'd written the shocking (but true/funny) bits of the newsletter. That's one of those 'which is worse?' scenes -- that he knew, or that he didn't know.
Anti-Semite is a smear word meant to silence those that call out Jewish misdeeds for what they are.c matt , says: Show Comment June 17, 2020 at 8:37 pm GMTRacist is a smear word that enables lazy dirty criminal Blacks to get treated as though they are really the victims.
Sound like Joozishness by another color?
c matt , says: Show Comment June 17, 2020 at 8:50 pm GMTthe Luminiferous Æther of 19th-century physics
although with theories surrounding Dark Matter, that one may yet make a comeback.
@botazefa Oh, well then. If Wikipedaphile says it's a forgery, then it must be so.The Germ Theory of Disease , says: Show Comment June 18, 2020 at 10:09 am GMT@Peter D. Bredon This is one of the stupider things I've read lately, in a recent sea of very stupid things. Congratulations, you get some kind of weird medal or trophy or something.Bill Jones , says: Show Comment June 18, 2020 at 2:59 pm GMT@botazefa Well if Jidipedia says so it must be true.RadicalCenter , says: Show Comment June 18, 2020 at 3:13 pm GMTTo (almost) quote the great Mandy Rice-Davis "Well, they would, wouldn't they?"
@Tono Bungay Yes, and not just young people but anyone not yet comfortably retired or able to immediately comfortably retire.VinnyVette , says: Show Comment June 18, 2020 at 3:34 pm GMT@Tono Bungay Guns and ammo.VinnyVette , says: Show Comment June 18, 2020 at 3:39 pm GMT@mark tapley Obama was an excellent speaker, at least according to Joe Biden Where'd that get ya?botazefa , says: Show Comment June 18, 2020 at 4:36 pm GMT@Reg CæsarRev. Spooner , says: Show Comment June 18, 2020 at 5:23 pm GMTStill, I can understand how even a black man would want to escape Portland-on-the-Colorado
Lots of good jobs here in Austin.
But, yeah, the place has gotten overrun in the past few decades. Same as every other State not starting with the letter 'V.'
Watching our city bend over to the covid crisis followed by the police kneeling has been heartbreaking. This town used to be very cool.
@Renoman Obviously you are single and even if married, you have no kids. Or could it could be that you are/or like the many young black men who abandon their kids?Rev. Spooner , says: Show Comment June 18, 2020 at 5:30 pm GMT
The kids are wrecking the country, you say. Is it because they they have no clue or because they have been left to their own devices?@Peter D. Bredon All three religions that originated in that accursed land (middle east) have caused untold damage to the whole world.Bill Jones , says: Show Comment June 18, 2020 at 10:50 pm GMT@schnellandine http://www.woodpilereport.com/Miville , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:31 am GMTRemus notes a few good bits from Rand:
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission.
Ayn RandIf, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society -- you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right.
Ayn RandWhen you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you you may know that your society is doomed.
Ayn RandThe hallmark of authoritarian systems is the creation of innumerable, indecipherable laws. Such systems make everyone an un-indicted felon and allow for the exercise of arbitrary government power via selective prosecution.
Ayn Rand@botazefa Franklin's so-called prophecy was a forgery for the simple reason Ben Franklin himself was a rabid Judaic supremacist, who thought himself to be the purest of the Jews ever. Was he actually one? That doesn't matter because when you manifest the occult powers typical of a good Jew, which occult powers of witchcraft and fascination and propensity to media control he manifested to the supreme degree, or if you serve the cause of Jewish supremacism and anti-catholicism well enough the way he did, well, you have a Jewish soul and are elected by YHWH as such. And it most probably turns out that Ben Franklin stems from a Jewish family having partly migrated into England with William the Conqueror and having returned to Normandy when Britain was for one time declared off limits to Jews before being astride both sides of the Channel from Cromwell on just before embarking to Americas.Miville , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 6:00 am GMTThis prophecy can easily be told to be a forgery by analyzing the language which is clearly not his nor in conformity with his known ways of expression (which were over-latinate as well as full of whence, wherein, thereon most regularly used as correlatives) as well by the vocabulary which contains way too many words that hadn't entered common English usage before the middle Victorian era (like vampire, which entered the language in its contemporary sense with Mary Shelly and became a common figurative word for energy grabbers when the Dracula character became popular). Franklin deemed all anti-Jewish thinkers such as Messmer as worthy of death.
Franklin could not have amassed the fortune necessary for his revolutionary enterprise without being in personal touch with the triangular commerce Jews who were the first sponsors and lobbyists of the American experiment to come. The only thing that might bar him from official Jewish status was that he was interested only in "Jew-witchcraft" (kabbalah) as it was called, not Jewish religion, except for the dark side of it (you can theoretically be barred from being Jew if you study kabbalah without having first eaten your bellyful of Talmud, though that never prevented Marx and Trotsky and later on most neocons from being considered full-fledged Jews). As you may guess, the Jews, who were then mostly sephardic and nearly exclusively concentrated in the Southern economic zone, were dead intent in supporting the nascent American enterprise as Europe was questioning more and more the institution of slavery. Franklin believed in the necessity of the institution of slavery for Irish Catholic, which he considered a sub-human race, for the Negroes and for the French populace which he considered of a different race than the nobility of this country.
By having such a dream about a better world you prove that the functioning of your brain has been irredeemably negrified to the level of MLK's audience. Real Whites don't dream, they fight, and they fight in wars they know to be losing ones, in the long run at least. They know that they will bequeath their children a worse world that the one they inherited from. Truth will never sell to the masses, believing the contrary in negro thought. Once a people has been misled to believe in a fallacy as if issuing from divine revelation, there is no turning back.Lockean Proviso , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 8:32 am GMT@John Johnson They'll say "so what if a few genes here and there correlate to so-called 'intelligence'? It's just a race science scam to perpetuate white supremacy! Intelligence is just a social construct like race."Zimriel , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 3:02 pm GMTMeanwhile, they'll book tickets to the Beijing Genomics Institute for CRISPR adjustment to their own family's genomes.
@Tono Bungay I too was amazed to see this 'quote' – this is the first time I've seen it. His grandson edited a newspaper which was very liberal for its time and, in fact, proSemitic. There is no record of animus toward 'the Jew' in this family. (Source: the book "American Aurora", mostly made of excerpts from that newspaper.)schnellandine , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 6:41 pm GMTThe quote is a lie, like many similar quotes, and you can tell a moron when he believes it.
I'd believe it from the old Federalist reactionaries, like Adams, who issued counter-broadsheets with casual anti-Jewish slurs. Not from a Franklin.
@Bill JonesRobbieSmith , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 4:07 am GMTSuch systems make everyone an un-indicted felon and allow for the exercise of arbitrary government power via selective prosecution.
I recall thinking myself the genius when noticed this trend and first enunciated it to myself. Was only ~50 years behind America's greatest coal mine canary.
For literal decades I've said to normasquares that eventually there will be only one law, "You may not exist", and it will be enforced selectively. Not one person has understood the point even partially, even though the Flynn etc. prosecutions show we're basically there already.
I hammer it everywhere: Selective enforcement is tyranny/genocide in the cloak of 'law & order'. Became much worse this year, and headed in a very anti-white direction. Whites must understand that we are to be slaughtered in DUI stops w/impunity. Blacks are to no longer be DUI stopped; they should be chauffeured home and tucked in to sleep it off. The 'law' didn't change by a letter for this devolution.
I want to know why every MADD chapter wasn't burned down this month. Barely anyone's mentioned those scoundrels.
[Repeatedly spamming the same long comment on numerous threads is extremely bad behavior. Stop it or all your future comments will get trashed.]Hockamaw , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 4:21 am GMTYour lips to God's ears. Amen.Escher , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 4:26 am GMTNot surprising that Ms. Salas was fired.nsa , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 4:29 am GMT
People are being dismissed for far less, including dyed-in-the-wool leftists like NYT editors.Humble nsa also has a dream ..Derb is deported back to the UK and the 40 million afros returned to Africa and the 6 million jew troublemakers relocated to Izzyville.RobbieSmith , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 4:42 am GMT@Some Guy "Yeah, but IQ scores partly depend on environment "Alfred , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 4:53 am GMTFalse.
The racial IQ and brain size gap is present in infants and fetuses.
The 1.1 SD (16 IQ points) American Black (24% White admixture)-White IQ gap is present by age three. The IQ gap between African Blacks and Whites is 2 SD.
Race differences show up by 3 years of age, even after matching on maternal education and other variables. Therefore, they cannot be due to poor education since this has not yet begun to exert an effect.
Even before birth, population group differences in average brain size are found from the ninth week of intrauterine life with White fetuses averaging larger brain cases and smaller faces than Black fetuses, with the differences becoming more prominent over the course of fetal development.
Whole Brain Size and General Mental Ability: A Review
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2668913/
Racial differences in head size appear early in life. Head circumference of White children are greater than that of Black children in each age category by a mean of 0.36 cm³ or approximately 0.2 SD. The greater head size of White children, however, is not a function of greater body size because Black children are taller than White children at both 4 and 7 years (Broman et al., 1987). From 7 to 17 years, the White advantage in cranial capacity is 16 cm³.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758%2FBF03210739.pdf
Racial-group differences in IQ appear early. For example, the Black and the White 3 year-old children in the standardization sample of the Stanford–Binet IV show a 1 standard deviation mean difference after being matched on gender, birth order, and maternal education (Peoples, Fagan, & Drotar, 1995). Similarly, the Black and the White 2 1⁄2- to 6-year-old children in the U.S. standardization sample of the Differential Aptitude Scale have a 1 standard deviation mean difference (Lynn, 1996). The size of the average Black–White difference does not change significantly over the developmental period from 3 years of age and beyond (see Jensen, 1974, 1998b)." (Rushton & Jensen, 2005, pp. 240-241.)
Farkas & Beron (2004) reported that blacks score 17.2 points below whites on the PPVT in this dataset at age 36 months (p. 478). More recently, Bond & Lang (2012) reported a slightly smaller, 14.6 point gap for 3-year-olds in this dataset (p. 13).
Race differences in intelligence: An evolutionary analysis.
Lynn, Richard (2006)ABSTRACT
It is widely accepted that race differences in intelligence exist, but no consensus has emerged on whether these have any genetic basis. The present book is the first fully comprehensive review that has ever been made of the evidence on race differences in intelligence worldwide. It reviews these for ten races rather than the three major races (Africans, Caucasians, and East Asians) analyzed by Rushton (2000). The races analyzed here are the Europeans, sub-Saharan Africans, Bushmen, South Asians and North Africans, Southeast Asians, Australian Aborigines, Pacific Islanders, East Asians, Arctic Peoples, and Native American Indians. (PsycINFO Database Record, 2016 APA)THIRTY YEARS OF RESEARCH ON RACE DIFFERENCES IN COGNITIVE ABILITY
https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/30years/Rushton-Jensen30years.pdf
@anon Many in DC are preparing to flee to central and Eastern Europe because there is no hope for this country.Jorge Videla , [AKA "The Mountain"] says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 5:16 am GMTI made my escape from Australia last June. It is strange to be able to walk around and see very few Blacks or Asians. Much more resilient societies.
the derb is such a silly negro.Kapyong , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 5:24 am GMTrace and gender are immutable and differences can never be eliminated, but they can be used forever to divide and distract the 99%.
there will never be change until tumbrels roll.
@schnellandineAlfred , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 5:26 am GMT"Murder micro-drones are just around the corner, if not here."
Latest Black Hornet nano drone :
https://www.army-technology.com/projects/pd100-black-hornet-nano/16 grams, 120 mm.
But no weapon that small yet.
@Priss Factor "IT'S OVER, AMERICA": TULSA POLICE MAJOR SAYS COPS ACROSS COUNTRY ON VERGE OF QUITTINGRobert Dolan , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 5:42 am GMTThe speaker, martinbrodel, seemed a sensible guy for a while. Near the end, he lost his head and started talking about Tesla's "free energy machine" and similar fake "inventions" that will obviate the need for occupying countries that don't want a US occupation. The guy is a harmless idiot.
@RobbieSmith Twin studies proved genetic determinism long ago.Paul Blart , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 6:46 am GMTDerb, if you believe any of these things will come to pass before what is left of this civilisation finally collapses, you really are dreaming .Paul Blart , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 6:47 am GMT@Alfred where the hell in Australia are you – not in any of the major cities that's for sure .Robert Dolan , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 7:02 am GMThttps://www.bitchute.com/video/8Pj0rrWDNkdM/David 'The Diversity Mastermind' Lammey , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 7:23 am GMTYou obviously haven't spoken to a state indoctrination / msm brainwashed normie yard recently.Marshall Lentini , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 7:33 am GMTAs far as I can tell, this "darkest before dawn" meme rose to fame after The Dark Knight Rises and the Bane memes of the alt-right.hu_anon , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 8:29 am GMTBefore then, I can't recall anyone ever saying it. I'd be surprised if anyone can come up with any example prior to that movie.
So if that's your premise, no, it isn't going to change for the better, and certainly not because of an astronomical metaphor.
"Things turning around" has been racialist dogma for about sixty years – with zero evidence on its side, and all evidence on the opposite.
Does one even need to substantiate that? Do you want to sound as dumb and wistful as Republicans?
Pretty much only Anglin is talking solid fact at this point.
@anon For me this seems more like a religious awakening (awokening) rather than a state totalitarianism in the making. Obviously a large part of the population is on board with this ideology based on "white guilt". That doesn't mean that it's not frightening, the contrary, it makes it more frightening.profnasty , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 9:13 am GMT
Also the internet and social media is enabling mass frenzies of an unprecedented scale and speed. Diversity and proximity breeds hostility and a sense of being threatened, and social media creates a sense of proximity with everyone who appears on your facebook and twitter feed spewing their hateful opinion "in your face", which scares people into complacence, and the leftist censorship and witch-hunts make conservatives feel that they are alone and isolated, and if they speak up, they will come after them next.Uncle Tom? No.profnasty , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 9:28 am GMT
Uncle General Field Marshall Thomas LaBree Quadrul, honey. Nobody gwine a hafta be a slave all de time no mo'. We gwina take toins. And guess who's toin it is now!!
From Everything You Know is Wrong, Firesign Theater.@mark tapley Quote likely false. Possibly true.vot tak , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 9:48 am GMT
The rest of the comment is demonstrably true. Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.A long time zionazi jailhouse suka expropriates MLK's "I had a dream" line to promote zionazi divisive psywar and likudite social hierarchy policy. Gee, what a surprise.Biff , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 9:53 am GMTI have a dream the incipient whining from every political spectrum will end one day.Anonymous [661] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 9:53 am GMTMy grandparents on both sides bolted out of eastern Europe for America, their hope was to escape the Jewish Bolshevik slaughter machine. A hundred years later here I am planning to bolt America to escape the same horror.Biff , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 10:00 am GMTHistory is a compass that has an annoying tendency to keep pointing in the same direction.
@anon I was with you until this:Wizard of Oz , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 10:02 am GMTThanks libertarians.
Now you're an idiot.
One tiny group the yields practically no political power got it all done?What did you think you were escaping from that you needed to escape from in Australia? It doesn't seem that you became well acquainted with Australia if you include blacks amongst those you were escaping from. There are hardly any, just a few thousand in Melbourne's population of 5 million which are a reminder not to repeat the stupid mistake of taking refugees from sub Saharan Africa – an inoculation dose.pretty-polly , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 10:07 am GMT@Amerimutt GolemsMoi , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 10:18 am GMTWhile police watch, natives are being beaten at random by imported hordes yet the (((media))) is calling victims 'far-right'.
Yes I noticed this immediately. The audacity is breathtaking.
@Ad70titusrevenge While semi-literate blacks call the shots, white America stands mute like a statue. Talk of having no cojonesReally No Shit , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 10:19 am GMTYou just hope that your daughter does not bring home a Mandingo to knock off that chip on the shoulder of that half Chinese son of yoursWilkey , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 10:22 am GMT@Escher Honestly, I want to defend Ms./Miss/Mrs. Salas, but her tweet makes her seem just barely literate and, yes, a little racist.gotmituns , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 10:22 am GMTI think the better option, instead of just posting her tweets, is to find equally inflammatory tweets by leftists in the orchestra who have not been fired. It's an orchestra. Surely there are more than a few leftists who have posted some pretty nasty stuff.
Elsewhere I've seen people post things like "Burn it to the ground!" – pretty much an open incitement to violence. Instead of just arguing with these extremists or complaining about them to ourselves we need to make them famous, and send their posts to their employers. Fight fired with fired, so to speak.
Is this scene racist???Anon [299] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 10:42 am GMT
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@Slimer The only part that is farcical is Derb having 'one in the woodpile', Derb is as pure as the driven snow.Franklin Ryckaert , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 11:18 am GMT@swamped A very good example of what could be called "satirical parallelism".Anonymous [136] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 11:44 am GMTTheiving )ews are the most racist, rabid, lying, virulent, pedophile scum; seetanic.Abdul Alhazred , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 11:50 am GMTActually I am for a return to traditional 'Four Humors' type approach to medicine and a revival of the 'Luminiferous Ether' living approach to physics and the universe, than the corporate Thanatos dumbed down data driven idiocy of so called science today.Mick Jagger gathers no Mosque , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 11:53 am GMTGreat Piece, SirAnonymous [194] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 11:53 am GMT@James N. Kennett These "peaceful protests" are warfare by the means that are available to the left today. The burning, looting, and beatings of whites are said to be caused by the few malcontents among what's otherwise the new religion's camp of the saints. When the blacks come for the suburbs and farmland, the local police will be giving them an armed escort to protect them, and with the pattern established, the supposed few will sally forth to massacre, rape, and loot white areas before retreating back to their camp. Mainly white police will take up their positions, or be photographed groveling on their knees as the case may be, on orders from some emasculo-feminist lesbian like Jenny Durkan or a Karen like the governor of NM and aim outward, with orders to shoot enraged whites who've just been attacked by an army that comes marching under banners of peace moments before pulling off the mask when it's too late to respond. One-on-one with blacks in many urban areas, just this hesitation for 2 or 3 seconds to "talk" is correctly taken for the cowardice it is, and you can kiss your ass good-bye, if not your life.Rooster4 , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 12:25 pm GMTEngaging in talk with the communist insurrectionists or accepting the outcome of the coming rigged election (as Fox News suggests is the remedy) is correctly taken by the left as a sign of surrender on the obvious grounds they're now making war against white America with every resource available to them in the current environment and there is no response. The MAGA delusion is that it's part of a strategy and not an outright failure of will. The Republicans, White House, and Conservatism Inc have done what sissies do, and will be found hiding behind the women, under the children, or at a rally surrounded by thousands. As Samuel Johnson observed about their sort, however, they have that caution cowards borrow from fear of the Jews and attribute to prudence and principle. What cannot be said is that most whites mingling with the blacks and not dressed as Antifa have immunity from black rage because, as everyone knows, they're urban Jews who the blacks obey like trained poodles in the circus. That certainly was the equation in my area where I got in their midst and saw what was going on.
Back in '08 Obama, the half-black puppet of the Chicago Jewish mob, got a little ahead of the agenda, but did announce that there would be a national security force that would be "just as powerful, strong, and well funded" as the US military to be raised in the former case from among the Black Panthers, BLM, Antifa, and the like. This is no dream and something we should expect in some form once Biden abjures to Susan Rice, Stacey Abrams, or other homicidally anti-white black.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Tt2yGzHfy7s?feature=oembed
Now is the time to speak up and say no more of this B.S. It's gone on too long. We face a major uphill battle considering nearly every news outlet, corporation, university, and a host of other industries have went off the PC deep-end.MrFoSquare , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 12:29 pm GMTYou need to realize that blacks for the most part hate you. There's a deep inferiority complex going on, and they've been taught they're the victims and you're the reason for all their problems. Now you add on top of that, an entire political party pandering to them and a positive feedback loop from many in society that they're violent actions are justified it was never about equality, it's about revenge, and they're determined to get it one way or another.
They may not be the ones orchestrating the chaos, but you can bet on the fact they'll be the ones knocking on your door when it comes down to it.
@swamped Beautifully said. What the author didn't have the courage to say, or even imply.Cleburne , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 12:54 pm GMT"It is history that teaches us to hope." -- General Robert E. LeeEmily , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 1:20 pm GMTI think you're right, Derb. We are being forced, at the threat of auto-de-fa bu the Church of Woke, to believe things that absolutely every non-Woke realizes as a lie. I would like to think that we're at a late-Soviet period, rather than the beginning of a new Bolshevism. This didn't start in the 1960s; it's been going on at least since the French Revolution, whose ideas (along with Hegel) actuated the unitarians and other garbage of New England who became abolitionists and other tikkun-olamites.
@anon Russiaanon [299] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 1:39 pm GMT
The hope of the world.Edgar Cayce
(famous US psychic)Russia, the only major white christian country left.
They had more sense than to destroy their society, destroy their social cohesion and destroy their children's future by mass black and non white immigration.
I wonder if they will be more discerning than this bit of pretentious folly
'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
The hypocrisy of that is astounding.
Breathe free!
Only if you are black – it seems.
And 'race is just one of the evils besetting the USA
Their new propaganda and lies about the actual past.
Here is Vladimir Putin with his usual commonsense and truth
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/492303-putin-history-revisionism-warning/
The US disregard for international law – not least the bullying of sanctions and the use of islamic proxy mercenaries to destroy whole nations.
Regime change and the mass murder and destruction with it.
Then we have the concern of war.
BLM with the nuclear codes?.
Why not – who will stand against them?
The white South Africans when forced out of their nation – not least by the USA – made sure that their weapons were made safe.
I doubt if that will happen with the insanity of the current controllers of the USA.I have a dream -- That every last one of you cunting ethnic-victimhood nationalists gets white genocided or jew holocausted.Trinity , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 1:41 pm GMTI have a dream. I have a dream that white kids will one day be able to go to school and not be beaten by gangs of Blacks and Browns. I have a dream that white girls and white women will one day be able to walk the streets of our large cities and feel safe. I have a dream that no longer will a white girl have to suffer being stabbed to death by black drug dealers in a NYC park, no longer will a white female jogger be raped and beaten within an inch of her life by Puerto Rican and black thugs in Central Park. I have a dream that no longer will a white girl have to suffer being burned to death by a racist black male in Mississippi, I have a dream.Jiminy , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 1:56 pm GMTI have a dream where Whites will regain power and control of THEIR NATIONS from Jewish interlopers who have seized control of our nation's financial institutions, media, academia, publishing companies, social media, foreign policy and domestic policy. I have a dream where Whites will no longer have to work as slaves to support the lazy nonwhite population of America generation after generation. I have a dream where America will no longer send BILLIONS each year to a country that has attacked an American ship, attacked British and American buildings in Egypt, been caught spying on America, and uses a America like a ten dollar whore. I have a dream. I have a dream where Whites will one day regain the courage of their ancestors. I have a dream.
@Paul Blart To give you an example of what Alfred is missing out on- last weekend we woke up to a car crash just up the road. Five teenagers in a stolen car driven by a drugged out 14 year old, wiped out on a pole killing four of his teenage mates while he escapes with a scratch to his head. For several years now the loveable little blacks have been breaking into people's houses while they sleep and steal keys and anything small of value. Hubby wakes up in the morning to his wife asking where has he parked the car this time.John Burns, Gettysburg Partisan , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 1:59 pm GMT
You can't fine them or their parents as there's no money to pay the fines, being that the parents are often unemployed druggies, if there are parents. When they finally get sent to juvenile detention it's usually seen as a holiday, as it's much better than their home life. Politicians are too scared to do anything in case a do-gooder points them out on it. The court laughably becomes a revolving door.
This is all happening while we are told daily on the news that blm . With honesty, I have to admit that I am all blacked out.@Ad70titusrevenge Jewish elites tried to permanently destroy a man called Jesus Christ.John Burns, Gettysburg Partisan , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 2:02 pm GMTLook how well that turned out for them.
@Exile Same difference. The Austrian School of Economics started with Boehm-Bawerk, Wieser, and Menger. It degenerated into a bunch of Jews and atheists, and those are the ones loved by the libertarians.Mike_from_SGV , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 2:31 pm GMTIn any case, the problem with this country starts with John Locke. Merely blaming libertarians doesn't cut it. Read Eric Voegelin; all of America is "Locked in."
@The Germ Theory of Disease The NT as a compendium of literary creations is standard academic scholarship, not a stupid statement. But the orthodox Christian commitment to delusion prevents them from acknowledging this. I maintain that a society-wide commitment to religious delusion carries over to racial delusion. Once the critical faculty of the mind is euthanized, there is no limit to the delusions that can be accepted.Agent76 , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 2:51 pm GMTApr 11, 2020 Sound Familiar? ByStealth , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 2:52 pm GMT
Larken RoseA short, timely reading from my first book, "How To Be a Successful Tyrant," which I finished writing over fifteen years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z4LtEciQUF8?feature=oembed
Dream on, Derb.JimDandy , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 2:53 pm GMT@Ad70titusrevenge Yer dreamin', Derb.Old and Grumpy , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 2:58 pm GMT@anon After that you'll be headed to a predominantly white nation to live. Its hard not to notice BLM and Antifa types are all rich kids having a tantrum.Pindos , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 3:16 pm GMT@Ray P Is Red Dawn the move where the entire congress is machine gunned?Z-man , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 3:21 pm GMT@Ad70titusrevenge That's a defeatest statement. We must prevail against the VAMPIRE SQUID!TGD , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 3:28 pm GMT@mark tapleyEnemy of Earth , says: Website Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 3:30 pm GMTOur indispensable founder Benjamin Franklin said "There is a great danger to The United States, this danger is the Jew. If they are not excluded from the United States by the Constitution, within less than 100 years they will stream into this country in such numbers they will rule and destroy us and change our form of government for which we Americans have shed our blood and sacrificed life property and personal freedom. If the Jews are not excluded, within 200 years our children will be working in the fields to feed the Jews while they remain in the counting-house gleefully rubbing their hands.
What really got Franklin upset were the 60,000 Germans who had moved into PA in the 18th century.
https://www.dialoginternational.com/dialog_international/2008/02/ben-franklin-on.html
And their descendants are still causing problems.
https://www.city-data.com/forum/pennsylvania/2463622-lancaster-pa-people-rude.html
Derb is the kind of Dreamer this country sorely needs.Eugene Norman , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 3:37 pm GMT@Kratoklastes It's a long way from that to an AI that has some independent plans for the world. Or is in any way concious or aware or interested.Ram , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 3:43 pm GMT" I have a dream that one day we shall discard magical thinking about race; "bruce county , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 3:48 pm GMTGood luck with that, when "Christian" priests and semi-literate pastors proclaim the racism that the Old Testament brought us, apparently somewhat different reasons.
@nsa Please don't forget the rest of the Alphabet Zombie circus.Z-man , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 3:49 pm GMT
Quit pickin' on Derb.VinnyVette , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 3:59 pm GMTI have a dream that one day, poor white children will not have to endure being lectured about their "privilege" by rich black adults.
Good one!
Yes, I have a dream that one day race differences in educational success will be as calmly, dispassionately accepted as race differences in athletic success;
Surprisingly white athletes still excel in 'historically'(grin) black positions; safety and defensive ends/linemen in football, power forwards in basketball, etc. You have a sprinkling of whites in those positions. At one point, especially in basketball, these were tokens used to attract white fans but now I think its just merit. With sports technology advancements ( sans illegal drugs ) intelligence and hard work will compensate for raw physical ability. So basketball and football* are already following your post racial theory.(Grin)
*Even though my team, the NY Jets, drafted a white guy or a near white guy at safety, sadly negro in the NFL acronym still fits.
@nsa The Derb seems to attract trolls like no other UR author In spite of the fact that he advocates for whites and traditional conservative Americans Ironically most of his trolls are in agreement with him ideologically I believe that's called "cognitive dissonance." Fuck off!VinnyVette , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 4:03 pm GMTThe white mans theme song The Dream is over!Crush Limbraw , says: Website Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 4:04 pm GMTWanna have some fun? Tell a Churchian that God Himself is a racist – and after ducking from their virtue signaling outbursts, challenge them to read the Bible, beginning with Genesis.trickster , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 4:04 pm GMT
You won't get halfway through Genesis before that fact becomes absolutely clear to anyone with reading comprehension
Of course, expect DaTheologian Bastahds to theorize that God didn't mean it – just like their OldScratchMaster in the Garden of Eden!
Anyone who wants more on this can check my site – http://www.crushlimbraw.com- and DaLimbraw Library.
My whole point is simple – the real God of the Bible bears little resemblance to DaFigment of imagination in most people's minds, including those pew sitters who haven't yet learned to discern good from evil (Hebrews 5:11-14).
Why so? Those pabulum dispensers from DaPulpits are DaWolves in sheep's clothing.
The apostasy in America's churches started 200 years ago and are now bearing their fruit – but a remnant remains, as it always has throughout history.
Welcome to DaFray!I have a dream, that one day people of colour will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the colour of the content of planes heading back to Africa.Mefobills , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 4:06 pm GMT@Bill Jones Cognitive dissonance from Libertarians is always something to behold.Wally , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 4:16 pm GMTThe entire history of mankind is one where in-groups of some sort are maneuvering for control.
Here is an interesting article about Ivan the terrible. He was hounded his entire life by internal and external elements trying to kill him.
Here is an article about today's reality, where Jewish donors are using their money power to subvert the political process to their ends:
Libertarianism is a dielectic of Jewish materialism. Libertarianism does make excuses for liberalism.
Also, with regards to authoritarianism, that always exists because there is always hierarchy. Your body has hierarchy down to the cellular level. Ants arrange themselves in some sort of hierarchy.
Authoritarianism and hierarchy go together like peanut butter and chocolate.
The real question is always how the hierarchy is constructed. A libertarian hierarchy is some sort of nebulous feel good libertine construct of free-dumb and free-contracts that upon investigation is dumber than shit, and further, can be easily usurped by a determined in-group.
Our entire reality refutes everything that liberalism and libertarianism promulgates as truth. That is why liberalism and libertarianism are false constructs and part of a dialectic. Our reality is one where in-groups and private money power has inserted itself as a parasite into the governing hierarchy.
Behind all false dialectics, hiding in plain site, is the money power. The money power has been privatized into corporate entities which enrich a small group, and as George Carlin says You ain't in it.
Lolbertarianism is shit-tier drivel and is part of a dialectic to divert well-meaning people into cul-de-sacs of bad thought. Meanwhile, since you became diverted and confused, your pockets are picked. But, that is ok because it is free market competition. Never mind that there is no such thing as free markets.
@anon That would be the so called "holocaust" and it's laughable, scientifically impossible 'gas chambers' and it's alleged millions upon millions of human remains claimed to exist in known locations which in fact do not exist.trickster , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 4:18 pm GMT"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
– George OrwellOnly lies require censorship.
@Old and Grumpy If I was paying for University tuition fees and my kids were out rioting especially with blacks, better believe the ambulance would be called for them and the police for me. The final rub is that these kids from rich parents enter the work force as dumb as ever AND with an attitude of entitlement and know it all even though they dont know much even about the field they supposedly have a MAsters in.martin_2 , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 4:34 pm GMTI know of one rich little girl now on her second Masters who is the most educated clerk at the local nail salon. She likes to be cleaning fingernails and digging dirt and dead skin from under other people's toe nails. Her father, anxious to turn over a business he spent 50 years building is at his wits end and has refused to pay for any further useless University studies. He has started to liquidate and spend the money as he has come to realize that all is going to be squandered when he gets flung into the hole.
The real tragedy though is to get into a conversation with this "highly educated" girl and her umpteenth boyfriend. Utter nonsense comes out of their mouths as if they wish to show their skill at being stupid. I imagine the majority of the arson and graffiti arsonists running aorund our cities these days are no better, in fact the majority are most likely far worse.
So much for the technological generation who will bravely lead us into the future.
Surely even if Mr Derbyshire's dream does not come to pass the fact is that we, in the broadest sense, do have the truth on our side. What we believe about the salience of race and racial differences, we know, since we have the data and statistics, the evidence of history, everything, to back us up.SunBakedSuburb , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 4:38 pm GMTWhatever goofy plans the Establishment Left cook up, they won't work. Nothing that ignores racial differences will work, ever.
@Justvisiting "AI is coming–and when it does human slavery will be back"SunBakedSuburb , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 4:45 pm GMTWhat do you call debt in a market economy? Slavery in one form or another is a feature in every society past and present. It's what we humans do. AI is here, and it's making the peculiar institution more efficient.
@VinnyVette Primo Van Hagar.ko , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 5:25 pm GMTWhite people long for a day when they are not judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their tweets.ko , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 5:26 pm GMT@VinnyVette I saw Van Halen once, the loudness didn't mask their mediocrity.Mefobills , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 5:27 pm GMT@tricksteranon [171] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 5:33 pm GMTSo much for the technological generation who will bravely lead us into the future.
Normally I ignore you because sometimes your comments are unhinged. But in this case, you have put your finger onto something important.
I was reading Benjamin Franklin's auto-biography, and he would mention "preparing the public's mind."
In other words, Franklin would write something and put it into his Pennsylvania Gazette, to then put ideas into minds of the sheeple.
Some small amount of time would go by, perhaps there would be a debate in the press, and then a new law or whatever be put up for a vote. The press builds consensus in advance of lawmaking.
Hidden groups work out what they want to do behind the scenes before it goes to press. In Franklin's case it was the Junto Club. Fortunately, Junto club had the public's better interests in mind.
The technological generation is being brainwashed by hidden string pullers who do not have the public's interest in mind, and hence democracy cannot work.
@schnellandinebruce county , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 5:36 pm GMTYes. He folded when he should have risen. So many times in that campaign, he threw away opportunities to truly inform normasquares by being, simply, right. But he was afraid that the truth would derail his chances. Too much information for the liberty preschoolers.
I was a lead organizer in a large county for RP that year (2007, the 2008 pres campaign). I have reams of notes from that time; what you've said here barely scratches the surface.
Contrary to your position – that he was "afraid" – what became clear to me in early '08 was that he didn't want to "win". Not that he could have but what he SHOULD have been focused on was building a movement , with multiple arms including a 3rd political party that would make a lasting impact – something so clearly and desperately needed right now.
But Carol didn't want that, so it was quickly all about Rand – an even bigger sellout than "Dr. No" himself (bear in mind, he was possibly the most singularly ineffective congressman in decades – look up his record, it speaks for itself).
Remember the "Whoa " moment when he "rescued" fundraising for the congressional seat? I was out that week knocking on doors only to have dozens of people tell me "Oh, didn't you hear? He dropped out." That was the last straw for me (there were countless incidents before it), as I had to spend the next week trying to staunch the bleeding from that wound as OUR OWN PEOPLE walked away in (completely justified) disgust.
We had this nascent, extremely activated group – and that SOB killed it in the cradle.
There are so many lies around Paul and the Paul family (3 of whom I've met, along with 3 former staffers); it's a family affair, and if you don't get that, you really won't understand the dynamics. But I don't regret the adventure; it truly "woke me up". I laugh now when I see the faux cognescenti talk about RP; the joke is truly on them.
@RamRagno , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 5:41 pm GMTI too have a dream .a dream that John Derbyshire will one day overcome his gibbering terror of catching "the Jew thing" to write an honest column on exactly who taught and trained African-Americans not only to hate Whitey but to love 'socialism' (although, let's face it, the black definition of sexy campus-terminology like 'socialism' and 'revolution' begins and ends with Haiti .you'll want to keep your distance from your dusky comrades should that day ever come, antifa warriors).Anonymous [112] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 5:42 pm GMTBut let's deal with reality now: so long as the dollar holds up and we all require them to keep body and soul together, Derb will never overcome that occupational terror. For him the first cause, and ongoing fuel supply, of black anarchists and violet insurrection will forever be a mystery beyond our limited understanding. Still and all, John, could you respond to a request I made last week? That's the one where I asked you to pick your Army vet son's brain for the likelihood that our increasingly minority-occupied armed forces will "independently" choose to stand down and refuse direct orders to forcibly put down the sorts of violent insurrections we now see consuming, and destroying, our country? (Because my hunch is that the answer is "almost certainly.")
See, if it all goes crabwise, Derb, you and the Missus can always return home to England or China and take your chances there. But this is the only homeland I've got , so if I have to risk coming down with "the Jew thing" to help my country avoid melting down into a Mogadishu-like slag, well – it's not really a choice at all, is it?
So how about it? Rather than tell me about your cloud-cuckooland dreams of a tomorrow that isn't going to happen, why not ask your son if the military can stay unified enough to fight inner-city blacks and richkid whites if need be? You won't have to worry about accidentally shooting one of the Chosen, because as usual they'll be wayyyy in the rear, pumping up the 'infantry' with anti-white slogans and pushing the cannon fodder forward; in order to punish them , you'll need to assemble hard-headed patriotic tribunals (which will have to be a discussion for another day – the higher up the ladder you go, the more panic there is over catching that same 'flu' that keeps you up nights worrying about).
@anon "Cunting" is not an English idiom or slang expression used with any regularity by whites, blacks, or anyone in America, but it does inadvertently reveal there's a distinct probability this troll is an Israeli showing his obsession with sex. You can imagine this clown on his knees before angry blacks when they've figured out they've been played for fools once too often.Mefobills , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 5:43 pm GMTYears ago in the aftermath of the Rodney King riots the Jewish librarians behind the main research desk in the main branch of the NY Public Library had a poster reading, "Jews are soul people, too." Sure they are, just like Al Jolson's scathing mockery singing "Mammy" in blackface or Governor Northam or Howard Stern or Ted Danson in huge-lipped blackface telling mile a minute "schvartze" jokes revealing the scathing contempt they really have for blacks. But it's OK, you see, because they're soul people, too.
@SunBakedSuburb "AI is coming–and when it does human slavery will be back"Prester John , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 5:55 pm GMT
_________________I hope you are wrong on this, but who knows for sure?
Hudson has recently discovered that the word "sin" in the bible is really cognate with debt.
https://michael-hudson.com/2017/12/he-died-for-our-debt-not-our-sins/
So, the bible needs to be re-interpreted as a war between debtors and creditors.
Do you see any Christian movements demanding this re-interpretation? No didn't think so. The bible is really about bringing debt and credit into balance.
An AI which undoubtedly will be much more intelligent than humans, should be able to see through things that have humans brain-locked.
@mark tapley "Dessicated" is, if anything, an understatement. And have you seen the pictures of the cadaverous looking Husband of Record?RobbieSmith , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 6:08 pm GMT@Z-man "With sports technology advancements (sans illegal drugs) intelligence and hard work will compensate for raw physical ability. So basketball and football* are already following your post racial theory."Julian of Norwich , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 6:10 pm GMT
The NFL famously uses the Wonderlic test in their scouting combines and the racial disparity is evident. Out of a perfect score of 50; offensive tackles=26, centers=25, quarterback=24; versus safeties=19, cornerbacks=18 and receivers=17.
NFL Wonderlic Score Database:
https://americanfootballdatabase.fandom.com/wiki/Wonderlic_Test
@Some Guy Hope for the best but prepare for disappointment. Rational arguments guided by empirical evidence work best with those who are rational and inclined to be guided by evidence. Too many of those engaged in the current national discourse about ethnicity and disadvantage are neither rational nor concerned about the evidence.RobbieSmith , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 6:12 pm GMT@Anonymous "Cunting" is not an English idiom or slang expression used with any regularity by whites, blacks, or anyone in America "RobbieSmith , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 6:14 pm GMT
I react cuntingly whenever I'm accused of acting niggardly.
@martin_2 "What we believe about the salience of race and racial differences, we know, since we have the data and statistics, the evidence of history, everything, to back us up."Julian of Norwich , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 6:25 pm GMTWhites are only 10% of the world's population and the only race in population decline (creating only 7% of the world's babies), yet are the most industrious and innovative race the world has known. Whites unlocked the secrets of DNA and relativity, launched satellites, created automation, discovered electricity and nuclear energy, invented automobiles, aircraft, submarines, radio, television, computers, medicine, telephones, light bulbs, photography, and countless other technological miracles. Whites were the first to circumnavigate the planet by ship, orbit it by spacecraft, walk on the moon, probe beyond the solar system, climb the highest peaks, reach both poles, exceed the sound barrier, descend to the oceans depths Blacks cannot even feed themselves.
Whites created every country for Blacks, but now have to provide food, medical, financial, and engineering aid to every one. Blacks cannot survive without White charity.
No pre-contact Black society ever created a written language, or weaved cloth, or forged steel, or invented the wheel, or plow, or devised a calendar, or code of laws, or system of measurement, or math, or built a multi-story structure, or sewer, or drilled a well, or irrigated, or created any agriculture, or built a road, or sea-worthy vessel. They never domesticated animals, or exploited underground natural resources, or produced anything that could be considered a mechanical device.
Blacks were still living in the Stone Age when Whites discovered them just 400 years ago.
Blacks are the oldest race, so they should be the most advanced -- but they never advanced at all. Sub-Saharan Africans never made any contribution to the world. Everything they have was given to them by Whites. Blacks lived alone in Africa, a vast continent with temperate climates and abundant resources for 60,000 years so they cannot blame slavery, racism, colonialism, culture, environment, or anything else for their failures.
@brabantian I remember reading this story a thousand years ago when a young adolescent. It seemed too far fetched to constitute a possible future. Not so now.Z-man , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 6:30 pm GMT@RobbieSmith Thanks. I looked at your first link and it showed that Frank Gore had a score of 6 .mark tapley , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 6:37 pm GMT
LOL, and he just got picked up by my team. ROFL!@TGD Since posting this comment I was informed that it was a forgery. I failed to cross check this and regret the mistake. The historian Charles Beard confirmed that it is fake.mark tapley , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 7:02 pm GMTFranklin's comments here are surprising. I would have assumed that the Germans overall were as light complected as the typical British. The present parasitic Royal family of Britain are of German descent. The Windsor name is fake. Their real name is Coburg Gotta. Wilhelm of Germany and Nickolas II of Russia were both related to Queen Victoria.
By Franklin's time the British Aristocracy was married into and heavily influenced by the Jews. The American Revolution was primarily caused by the demand by the British that the colonies use the fiat currency of The Bank of England (under Rothschild control) and pay for the privilege.
@RobbieSmith Much important information here. Two things however you may want to look into. Ron Unz on this site has an excellent article: Moon landing; A giant Hoax for Mankind? Has very good photos too. On the issue of the negro being the first race. First of all that implies that the rest of us are descended from them. I don't think so. This is of course an evolutionary explanation. Nothing can be created by inert matter no matter how long the evolutionists try to go. Every living organism has to be coded with information and that can only come from an intelligent source.RobbieSmith , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 7:22 pm GMTIn Darwins day they knew nothing about DNA. Trying to get around this problem the evolutionists have insisted that mutations generated new species. This is impossible because mutations practically always cause a loss of genetic material. They are always harmful or at the best neutral.
We know pretty accurately from archaeologic and historic data that the alphabet originated about 8 or 9 thousand years ago. If modern Man is 250,000 years old as claimed, what took them so long?
"We know pretty accurately from archaeologic and historic data that the alphabet originated about 8 or 9 thousand years ago. If modern Man is 250,000 years old as claimed, what took them so long?"mark tapley , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 7:26 pm GMTThe world's first civilization is European.
NYT 11/30/09: Lost European Culture Pulled From Obscurity
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(lower Danube Valley and the Balkan Foothills)
"For 1,500 years, starting earlier than 5,000 BC they (Lost European cultures) farmed and built sizeable towns, a few with as many as 2000 dwellings. They mastered large scale copper smelting. Their graves held an impressive array of exquisite headdresses and necklaces and, in one cemetery, the earliest assemblage of gold artifacts to be found in the world."Exhibition "The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley 5,000 – 3500 BC. Peaked around 4500 BC. Historians suggest that the arrival in Southeastern Europe of people from the Steppes may have contributed to the collapse of Old Europe. The story now emerging is of pioneer farmers after about 6,200 B.C. moving north into Old Europe from Greece and Macedonia bringing wheat and barley seeds and domesticated cattle and sheep.
Old Europe is the oldest civilization ever discovered.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/science/01arch.html
Vinca Culture (Romania -- 5,300 B.C.):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin%C4%8Da_culture
The Danube Script is the world's oldest written language by more than 1,000 years. It dates to 5,500 B.C.
It has 231 individual signs based on a core of about thirty basic abstract root signs expressing most of the basic geometric shapes (parallel lines, Vs, and crosses). The script is made up of abstract and arbitrary signs rather than figurative or naturalistic motifs.
http://www.prehistory.it/oldeuropeanscripti.htm
What changed to allow civilizations? An increase in brain size (this is when Blacks got left behind)-
Civilizations began 5,800 years ago after the introduction into the human genome of the abnormal spindle-like microcephaly-associated protein (ASPM) gene. The gene was acquired through the hybridization of the large-brain Neanderthals and caused increased brain size in modern man.
The appearance of the gene correlates with the development of written language, spread of agriculture, and development of cities. Notably, the ASPM gene is rare in Blacks and they are the only race with no DNA from the large-brain Neanderthals, which is why they have small brains and never civilized. Blacks never created a written language, agriculture, or a civilization.
The ASPM gene is a specific regulator of brain size, and its evolution in the lineage leading to Homo sapiens was driven by strong positive selection. Here, we show that one genetic variant of ASPM in humans arose merely about 5800 years ago (coinciding with the development of written language) and has since swept to high frequency under strong positive selection. These findings, especially the remarkably young age of the positively selected variant, suggest that the human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution. Geographic variation was observed, with sub-Saharan populations generally having lower frequencies than others.
In the two Science papers, the researchers looked at variations of microcephalin and ASPM within modern humans. They found evidence that the two genes have continued to evolve. For each gene, one class of variants has arisen recently and has been spreading rapidly because it is favored by selection. For microcephalin, the new variant class emerged about 37,000 years ago and now shows up in about 70 percent of present-day humans. For ASPM, the new variant class arose about 5,800 years ago and now shows up in approximately 30 percent of today's humans. These time windows are extraordinarily short in evolutionary terms, indicating that the new variants were subject to very intense selection pressure that drove up their frequencies in a very brief period of time–both well after the emergence of modern humans about 200,000 years ago.
Each variant emerged around the same time as the advent of "cultural" behaviors. The microcephalin variant appears along with the emergence of such traits as art and music, religious practices, and sophisticated tool-making techniques which date back to about 50,000 years ago. The ASPM variant coincides with the oldest-known civilization, Mesopotamia, which dates back to 7,000 BC. "Microcephalin," the authors wrote in one of the papers, "has continued its trend of adaptive evolution beyond the emergence of anatomically modern humans. If selection indeed acted on a brain-related phenotype, there could be several possibilities, including brain size, cognition, personality, motor control or susceptibility to neurological/psychiatric diseases."
We observed much higher frequency of haplogroup D chromosomes in Europeans and Middle Easterners than in other populations. The corresponding estimate of FST, a statistic of genetic differentiation, is 0.29 between Europeans/Middle Easterners and other populations and 0.31 between Europeans/Middle Easterners and sub-Saharan Africans. These values indicate considerable genetic differentiation at this locus. Several scenarios may account for such notable differentiation. One is that haplogroup D first arose somewhere in Eurasia and is still in the process of spreading to other regions. The other is that it arose in sub-Saharan Africa, but reached higher frequency outside of Africa partly because of the bottleneck during human migration out of Africa. Finally, it is possible that differential selective pressure in different geographic regions is partly responsible. Collectively, our data offer strong evidence that haplogroup D emerged very recently and subsequently rose to high frequency understrong positive selection. The recent selective history of ASPM in humans thus continues the trend of positive selection that has operated at this locus for millions of years in the hominid lineage. Although the age of haplogroup D and its geographic distribution across Eurasia roughly coincide with two important events in the cultural evolution of Eurasia -- namely, the emergence and spread of domestication from the Middle East 10,000 years ago and the rapid increase in population associated with the development of cities and written language 5000 to 6000 years ago around the Middle East.
Ongoing Adaptive Evolution of ASPM, a Brain Size Determinant in Homo Sapiens (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7611130_Ongoing_Adaptive_Evolution_of_ASPM_a_Brain_Size_Determinant_in_Homo_Sapiens [accessed Jan 30 2018].
http://www.evolocus.com/Publications/Evans2005.pdf
Ongoing Adaptive Evolution of ASPM, a Brain Size Determinant in Homo sapiens
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16151010
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7611130_Ongoing_Adaptive_Evolution_of_ASPM_a_Brain_Size_Determinant_in_Homo_Sapiens@Prester John Yea: Too many junkets with Trump on the Lolita Express I suspect. Dr. Noel said from all appearances Hillary had Parkinson's. He said failing to get the meds adjusted caused the bizarre behavior as we saw during the sham election. And remember them having to drag her shabbos goy ass into the van. I figured the bitch would be dead by now.bruce county , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 7:40 pm GMTNo problem though. Her or shabbos goy Trump were both puppet political actors for the Zionist Jews. Its been that was since they put in the syphilitic nervous breakdown Woodrow Wilson in over 100 years ago.
@RobbieSmith I'm with you on every thing but when you think of what "life" requires, in its simplest form the Africans do it very well. As the saying goes . And the meek shall inherit the earth.Hartnell , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 7:49 pm GMT@Emily There is a huge question mark when it comes to Russia. Right now under Putin, it is following a more patriotic high water mark but it remains to be seen after Putin what direction the country is going to take on next. A big problem is that you do have a generation of Russian youth who still idolise "Democracy" and "Liberalism" and want Russia to follow the same path, naively thinking that if they do so, they will get to have the quality of life Westerners had during the late 20th century.omegabooks , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 7:56 pm GMTOn the other hand, you do have more of the youth put off by the current situation and realise that the West is going down the wrong path and Russia should find another way. However on all sides there is alot of criticism now about Putin. So whether that is concerning criticism of Putin's ideas or just the corruption I'm not too sure. But I do fear Russia could, unless something major comes along, join the Western rot if it is not too careful.
However, considering how quickly the West is deteriorating, I think this might be enough to put Russia off the West for good. But even I am resigned to the fact that Russia is at this moment in time Europe's last great hope. If she goes, the party is over for good.
Here is my dream–that one day these white guilt liberal types including academics will acknowledge what former Senator of Virginia Jim Webb and historian Michael Hoffman have verified–that blacks weren't the only folks in America who were enslaved so were Scots-Irish, Irish, and English paupers enslaved, but not in the way Africans were still, as with present-day sharecropping in the south ("Same Kind of Different As Me" co-authored by a former sharecropper Denver Moore), and in the past here with Indentured Servitude .do they even teach in schools anymore about most whites coming over here as Indentured Servants? Or that one reason for the African Slave Trade was because white slaves from Ireland, Scotland and England couldn't handle Caribbean heat and were worked to death (hence slaves from hot Africa) see Hoffman's "They Were White and They Were Slaves." Webb's book is about Scots-Irish indentured called "Born Fighting." ALL US whites need to read both books. Want "cancel culture"? CANCEL WHITE GUILT!Hartnell , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 7:58 pm GMT@RobbieSmith This is the easiest question to answer on why blacks did not advance compared to the other races and it is very simple. They had no reason too. You see, Africa is a very comfortable continent to live in with no major pressures (until relatively recently that is). Black people had everything they ever needed. Enough animals to provide food and clothes. A good temperature so they did not have to worry about building strong foundations to keep warm in. Large spaces of land where disease did not roam as freely and wars, whilst still available, happened at lesser frequency compared to elsewhere. From a Human evolutionary point of view, the black man was living in a garden of Eden. He just did not need to advance.RobbieSmith , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 8:04 pm GMTNow compare this to the Europeans. The Humans who settled Europe had to deal with it being the smallest continent in the world so essentially tribes were more cramped together meaning more war. Disease can spread more easily. The continent gets cold, very cold, so they need to develop tools to make more warmer accommodation and clothes. You have more famines due to the weather. Oh great, the guy next door wants to your stuff and is coming close so you best get more weapons and quickly to fight him off. Wait, I can make a better weapon to defend myself with, this will keep him away. But now I need money to maintain my weapons and defences. Here comes trade and economic development.
So basically what we have here is the tale of two peoples. One had everything he needed and did not develop. The other was struggling very hard and had to develop and advance in order to survive. As is history.
The big problem now is the man who did not develop now wants the other guys stuff but does not know how to properly maintain it due to he needs to go through his own evolution to attain it. The other guy is letting him have his stuff because he has reached an existential crisis where he his claiming he has no right to exist. That is basically the huge problem.
@bruce county "I'm with you on every thing but when you think of what "life" requires, in its simplest form the Africans do it very well."Bill , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 8:25 pm GMTTo be precise, sub-Saharan Africans (North Africans are White).
Yes, they are well adapted to live in the jungles of central Africa. So are apes.
The point is, they are incompatible with civilization.
Even Koko the gorilla had an IQ 1SD higher than Blacks-
Hanabiko "Koko" (July 4, 1971 – June 19, 2018) is a female western lowland gorilla who is known for having learned a large number of hand signs from a modified version of American Sign Language.
She has learned to use over 1,000 signs and understands approximately 2,000 spoken English words. Further, she understands these signs sufficiently well to adapt them or combine them to express new meanings that she wants to convey.
Koko was tested on the Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Ravens Progressive Matrices, Wechsler Preschool, Primary Scale of Intelligence, and several administrations of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale and in spite of the human cultural bias of the tests her scores ranged from 85-95, which is one standard deviation higher than African Blacks score on the same tests.
IQ 85 = Koko
IQ 85 = American Blacks (24% White admixture)
IQ 67 = African Blacks"From September 1972, when we administered the Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale, through May 1977, when I administered form B of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, she has scored consistently in the 70 to 90 range on different IQ scales. These scores reflect her mental age divided by her chronological age, the result of which is then multiplied by 100. Such scores in human infants would suggest the subject is slow, but not mentally retarded."
https://www.koko.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/teok_book.pdf
@schnellandine Libertarians are exactly like Communists. You give them everything they ask for. Disaster ensues. They claim you didn't give them enough. Iterate.nietzsche1510 , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 8:27 pm GMT@swamped "Democracy of merit", indeed. Merit, more than a mental construct is a physical construction. The "Chosen Tribe" hogs all the ingredients to generate merit.nietzsche1510 , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 8:40 pm GMT@mark tapley Hillary is, indeed, a Zionist puppet but Trump is Judeo-Talmudist kind of puppet; his principal debtors are Israel First messianic bigots.Trinity , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 8:41 pm GMT"Racial realists" have found out that we no longer can hope to vote our way out of this mess, at least not right now on the national level. Trump and reCUCKS are WORTHLESS and have stood by and done absolutely NOTHING as America and American culture is DESTROYED by these racist hoodlums. Tucker Carlson isn't the savior either, but I like how he pointed out in his latest show about how totally USELESS AND WORTHLESS the reCUCK party is and how they hold their voters in contempt. When all is said and done, it is white traitor trash like those in the reCUCK party who have done the most to destroy America. Blame Jews, Blacks, etc., but what about all those reCUCKs that suck up White votes and NEVER do anything to help Whites.Ben tillman , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 9:02 pm GMTWHY should anyone go to the trouble attending a Trump MIG rally, and take a risk at being physically harmed by these leftist thugs who know doubt will be in Tulsa to instigate trouble and attack peaceful citizens attending the rally. And what if some Trump supporter has the audacity to protect themselves? More than likely, the Trump supporter will be jailed or even imprisoned and the leftist thug will get off with a slap on the wrist. Look at Charlottesville. And do you think Trump or anyone in reCUCK party will go to bat for the Trump supporter defending himself or herself? haha. Again, take a look at Charlottesville. Did any politician go to bat for the people who were their to peacefully protest and found themselves under attack by Antifa and BLM?
@Some Guy You're confused. This is race war/genocide. De-emphasizing race would defeat the purpose of everything that's been done for the last 100 years.nietzsche1510 , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 9:04 pm GMT@TGD ..to whom the 19th. century French polemist Alphonse Toussnel (1840 ies) added: "tout vient du Juif et tout revient au Juif". put in urban English: "everything comes from the Jew and all things return to the Jew". since the Federal Reserve conspiracy of 1913, every aspect of American political, economic, social, and cultural realms is in accordance with the latter sentence.Stealth , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 9:06 pm GMT@MefobillsAbbybwood , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 9:07 pm GMTLolbertarianism is shit-tier drivel and is part of a dialectic to divert well-meaning people into cul-de-sacs of bad thought.
I've always thought libertarianism was a diversion intended to keep people busy with unproductive political activity.
@Ad70titusrevenge I wonder ..Emily , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 9:34 pm GMTWhen Congress cooks up their "Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Slavery and Black Lives Mattering" will they tell the truth regarding Jews being the biggest slave traders in the world?
How much wealth was amassed by these Jewish slave traders and passed down to this very day?
I say if we are going to put all the "truth" cards on the table and have honest and fruitful discussions, we need to put ALL the cards on the table, not just the ones our political "masters" and the corrupt MSM allow us to.
@Hartnell Hi Hartnell.Anonymous [818] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 9:44 pm GMT
Thank you for taking the trouble to reply.
I think Putin's so called unpopularity is based on western wishes and dreams rather than fact.
Putin is secure as far as the Russian electorate is concerned.
And unlike the USA – or the UK for that matter, Russia has democracy.
It has fair voting.
Proportional representation and multiple parties.
If the USA had half the democracy Russia has it wouldn't be in the position it is.
A choice of Tweedledee and Tweedledumber.
A choice of zionist puppet or zionist puppet.
It needs a third and non neo liberal party
And the Americans need the wit to vote for it.
Its the countries best chance.
I thnk there are many decent Americans who are utterly shocked as to what is going on.
Millions voted for Trump believing the rhetoric and missing the fact that his son in law is virtually Netanyahu's family .
He lied.
There is nothing but Russia at the moment, for us to turn to.
And I am quite convinced that Putin is the finest statesman on the planet with the finest team
Compare Lavrov with the Pompous ass.Amen.Truth , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 9:46 pm GMTWe are losing our country.
@RobbieSmith That must be often.Truth , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 9:50 pm GMT@Z-man Well, his income score offsets it a bit.Greg S. , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 10:07 pm GMThttps://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-athletes/nfl/frank-gore-net-worth/
@anon >The sad fact is that America is destined for dictatorship with these demographics.JWalters , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 10:15 pm GMTIt could very realistically happen if current trends continue unabated. Assad, Ghaddafi, and Hussein are three examples of dictators that arose because all of those countries were/are somewhat 'fake' countries created by colonial powers drawing arbitrary lines on maps and thus encapsulating large swaths of complete disparate peoples (different races, religions, and cultures). In each case, the only way the different groups could be kept from each other's throats and some semblance of coherency achieved was through the iron fisted rule of a strongman. Not saying this was a good thing, just that it was a natural outcome.
In America (and most western countries at the moment), we are intentionally and rapidly creating similar mixtures of differing cultures, and perhaps most importantly, under leftist dogma we are encouraging them all to keep their own culture and identities, and not "assimilate" because that is now an evil and anathema concept. So it seems the natural outcome if these trends are left unchecked would be similar face-off between disparate cultural groups with opposing values all vying for control.
Nobody dares asks them, but I wonder how the other "minority" groups in America think about the current situation of the Blacks being elevated to a higher status that demands special attention, and more importantly, lots and lots of money. Do the Hispanics, Indians, Asians, etc. all think that THEIR money should go to support Blacks? I think at some point, once whites are firmly a minority, at least one of these groups will come out and say "no more" and that's when things will start to get very, very interesting.
@silviosilver Race realism. Studies have found that early childhood nutrition differences can cause IQ differences bigger than the average difference between blacks and whites. Also, early education differences can cause IQ differences bigger than the average black-white IQ differences. Also, that the average black-white IQ difference can easily be completely accounted for by these two factors. Does the meth epidemic and the opioid epidemic among white communities mean whites are lazy, stupid, shiftless white trash? Studies have also shown that blacks are much more likely than whites to be told a job has been filled when it has not, and that an apartment has been rented when it has not. Such added hurdles for blacks accumulate, and help keep blacks in lower paying jobs and lower rent neighborhoods. Despite all these hurdles, some blacks still manage to succeed, becoming doctors, scientists, etc. Is an uneducated, low IQ white superior to a highly successful, well-educated, high IQ black? It's time to dump the archaic beliefs of slavery days and get realistic. The ultra-wealthy rulers cultivate this divide and conquer division. The uninformed whites and blacks are being played for chumps.JWalters , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 10:22 pm GMT@Ad70titusrevenge Relevant evidence is at War Profiteers and Israel's BankHeebHunter , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 10:40 pm GMT
https://warprofiteerstory.blogspot.com/p/war-profiteers-and-israels-bank.htmlNice pipe dream.E_Perez , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 10:44 pm GMT
Unless you all get down on your knees and beg forgiveness for 1919 and 1945, keep dreaming.
No salvation for descendants of kike lovers.Derbyshire a "race realist"? Gimme a break!bruce county , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 10:48 pm GMTDerbyshire's general position – when confronted with Jewish overrepresentation in US media and Bolshevik massacres – is
we must believe that 97 percent of the U.S. population ended up dancing to the tune of the other three percent. If that is true, the only thing to say is the one Shakespeare's Bianca would have said: "The more fool they."
Read his Jew grovelling articles like his incoherent attacks on Kevin McDonald: "The Marx of the Anti-Semites" .
http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/DerbRevCofC.htmIn clear: Derbyshire considers both, the victims of Jewish overrepresentation in US media (that's you and me) and the victims of Jewish Bolshevik terror (that's millions of slaughtered Russians), "fools", because they let themselves dominate by such a minority.
Never read an intellectually poorer argumentation from a supposed "intellectual from our camp".
@RobbieSmith Ya ya .. To be precise LOL You're douche. You keep posting the same stuff.. I have been here for years on this site I have seen it all. I don't need you pushing your stats to me. I have a data base full of them.Guest0206 , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 11:24 pm GMT
I'm saying Africans will be around long after we are gone. If the Chinese don't wipe em out first. Its that fucking simple.
I can't stand niggers. Period.@Hartnell More wet dreams about modern RussiaMefobills , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 11:25 pm GMT
which was created by theCIA
agents who had an entire floor within the Economics Ministry of Russia in the 1990s
planning the future and here is the result:"Analysts at the Higher School of Economics and the Vnesheconombank Institute for Research and Expertise first estimated the concentration of financial assets and savings in the hands of 3% of Russia's wealthiest population. In 2018, these 3% accounted for 89% of all financial assets, 92% of all term deposits and 89% of all cash savings."
@StealthAceDeuce , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 11:25 pm GMTI've always thought libertarianism was a diversion intended to keep people busy with unproductive political activity.
Yes, and more.
If you are mind screwed, then your pockets can be picked. You cannot put up a defense, because you have been rendered defenseless.
Libertarianism programs people with false narrative at odds with how the world really works. So, this bad software (narrative) makes them malfunction.
A people that have had their minds short circuited are then easy pickings.
@Hartnell Of course, the average life expectancy for your enchanted knigrows in their Garden of Eden was probably 25 at the most.RobbieSmith , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 11:28 pm GMT@Hartnell "This is the easiest question to answer on why blacks did not advance compared to the other races and it is very simple. They had no reason too. You see, Africa is a very comfortable continent to live in with no major pressures "RobbieSmith , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 11:32 pm GMTAre Blacks as intellectually capable as modern man to create civilizations?
@JWalters "Studies have found that early childhood nutrition differences can cause IQ differences bigger than the average difference between blacks and whites."Guest0206 , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 11:34 pm GMT2SD? Source?
"Also, early education differences can cause IQ differences bigger than the average black-white IQ differences. Also, that the average black-white IQ difference can easily be completely accounted for by these two factors."
Source?
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Do you dispute the racial brain size gap?
@Emily More wet dreamsMefobills , says: Show Comment June 20, 2020 at 11:49 pm GMT"An emissary for Chabad, Lazar, 51, would go on to become one of Russia's two chief rabbis, a major and controversial force in the dramatic revival of Russian Jewry following decades of Communist oppression and mass immigration to Israel, the United States, Germany and elsewhere.
Lazar's work, his Russia boosterism and his ties to the Kremlin -- he is sometimes called "Putin's rabbi" -- has helped Chabad's Russian branch eclipse all the Jewish groups vying to reshape the country's community of 250,000 Jews. Now Lazar heads a vast network that comprises dozens of employees and plentiful volunteers working in hundreds of Jewish institutions: schools, synagogues, community centers and kosher shops.
"I am amazed at what became of a community that had been stripped of everything, even its books," Lazar said, referring to Soviet Jewry before the fall of communism, when religious practice was suppressed.
Today, Lazar said, Russia has in Vladimir Putin its "most pro-Jewish leader," whom he credits with "fighting anti-Semitism more vigorously than any Russian leader before him."
https://forward.com/news/breaking-news/309514/russian-chief-rabbi-berel-lazar-stands-by-vladimir-putin/#@JWaltersRobbieSmith , says: Show Comment June 21, 2020 at 12:10 am GMTIs an uneducated, low IQ white superior to a highly successful, well-educated, high IQ black? It's time to dump the archaic beliefs of slavery days and get realistic. The ultra-wealthy rulers cultivate this divide and conquer division. The uninformed whites and blacks are being played for chumps.
Race realism knows that there is overlap in populations. Think of it like a Venn diagram where populations intersect.
Whites, and other races (such as Asians) flee from black areas, while high IQ blacks flee to white areas.
Our Plutocratic masters are using divide and conquer techniques. It is easy to wind up the sheeple using an owned press.
It is more of a class war than a race war. Finance Plutocrats are using race as a weapon, and they are winning. Multiculturalism is inherently weak a tower of Babel. Mono-ethnic populations are more stable because their ruling elite is less likely to be foreign and hostile.
A finance plutocracy wants immigration and wants divide and conquer, so it can use its money power to buy up the world cheap. Buy up the world when there is blood in the streets.
@bruce county "Ya ya .. To be precise LOL You're douche. You keep posting the same stuff.. I have been here for years on this site I have seen it all. I don't need you pushing your stats to me. I have a data base full of them. I'm saying Africans will be around long after we are gone."Kratoklastes , says: Show Comment June 21, 2020 at 12:15 am GMTGeez, dude. Chill.
I merely made the point that you were imprecise with the use of the term "Africans" when in fact North Africans are White and sub-Sahara Africans are Black.
We'll that's not always exactly accurate either as we just had a White sub-Saharan African (Elon Musk) launch a spacecraft while Black sub-Saharan Africans destroyed several cities.
Anyway, are new posters to this website allowed to reply and offer new insight. Or are you advocating that there should be no new registered users after the date you registered?
@Eugene Normanniteranger , says: Show Comment June 21, 2020 at 12:22 am GMTIt's a long way from that to an AI that has some independent plans for the world. Or is in any way concious or aware or interested.
It's certainly a 'long way' when considering the gap in cognitive 'grunt' that has to be traversed, but it's also certain to not take a very long time – the transition from "glorified pattern-matching" to what we would recognise as genuine syncretic problem solving might turn out to be relatively easy if it's a target where the iteration time is measured in hours, as opposed to a series of accidents and/or environmental adaptations where the steps are measured in human generation times.
And once a computer develops cognition remotely close to a human (say, to a retarded human), the lack of recall error and the deliberate goal-seeking will enable it to iterate towards – and past – human levels in very short order.
We might get to see SAI coming if we are astute and observant, but it will then shoot past us to modes of cognition that we cannot get our heads around – in timespans measured in months, if that.
A lot of humans still think that there's some super-duper extra-special 'spark' involved in human cognition: increasingly that looks like a childish view. It's just a bunch of hacked-together meat and electricity, with new structures appearing by sheer luck.
There has been an enormous number of studies of animal cognition (human and otherwise) over the last century – but a very large number of them started from a conceited premise that non-human animal cognition was basically white noise with the occasional interjection of one of the 4 Fs ("Fuck", "Feed", "Fight" or "Flee"). We thought it an immutable fact that animals had no inner life; no sense of self, or of time; no understanding of abstract concepts (like death, especially their own). That view is simply no longer tenable[1].
It's really only since the late 1980s that people looked at animal cognition without that conceit, and discovered that animals have inner lives that are far richer than we gave them credit for – and that they certainly think; plan; and have genuine emotional attachments. Our observations of their emotional states enable us to say categorically that the pro-animal-cognition people were right all along: it's not just anthropomorphic 'projection', because we can see the same brain structures lighting up, as we observe when human brains 'feel'.
We can see how brains work (at relatively low resolution for the minute); we know which structures are doing what things, and there are good reasons to believe that the way brains do some things (e.g., vision) isn't the best way to go about it. This isn't that surprising, because visual systems developed very slowly, under very tight constraints, with no 'goal' except reproductive fitness so humans don't have high-resolution full-field stereoscopic vision from IR to UV because there was no reproductive advantage to doing so.
Imagine if human evolution had involved a process where it was possible to get novel 'off the shelf' parts without dedicating 400 generations to their gradual development: omnidirectional joints; carbon fibre bones; better long-range sensors; solar collectors for energy and so on. We wouldn't have accidentally lost our ability to create vitamin C endogenously, either.
Directed evolution beats 'ad hoc' evolution because it dedicates resources to adaptations that have a higher prior probability of success at each iteration.
As AI begins to direct its own evolution (I'm betting it has done so already), it will be even faster than 20th century human development – because it won't hand half of its productivity to a bunch of scammers whose grift involves exploiting the human desire to protect itself.
Well before its consciousness[2] 'lights up', it will know better than to hire Bangalore codemonkeys to write its network layer – so it will already be smarter than all the human capital contained in Microsoft.
[1] It was never really tenable to begin with. Why would an animal with no sense of its own life, bother to try to evade a predator? Attempting to evade a predator indicates an understanding that if it fails to evade, it will cease to exist – and that this is an undesirable future state. More immediately, it knows that if it gets caught, what will happen will hurt quite a lot, and even if it gets away there's a risk it will be damaged beyond repair. So it is conscious of state change over time, and of lasting (or permanent) positive and negative consequences.
A dog buries a bone because it knows that if it doesn't, then there will be a larger number of future states in which the bone is taken by someone other than itself . So it's doing some primitive risk-management; it understands that there are such things as 'mine', 'after now', 'not-me', and that those things can interact.
[2] 'Consciousness' is a word I am not fond of; it's too fluffy, but is the closest 1-word analogue to the concept I'm aiming at.
@Ad70titusrevenge BLM is NeoMarxist Group run by Black Communist Queers. They have one goal for their Jewish Masters and that is to destroy whites and Western Civilization. Antifa is run and organized by Jews. We are seeing the Bolshevik Revolution happen again.Justvisiting , says: Show Comment June 21, 2020 at 12:41 am GMT"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." George Orwell. "1984."
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn warned us but we paid no heed. Now we fight for our survival. We are losing while the Jews sit and laugh at the Goy!
@mark tapley All your questions about evolution answered here:OscarWildeLoveChild , says: Show Comment June 21, 2020 at 12:57 am GMThttps://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-science/stoned-ape-theory-0011694
@Tono Bungay Not only does YALE need to change it's name, since its founder was a racist slave owner and slave trader, looks like Colombia is not far behind, and also needs to change its name and provide a solid, life-long reparations payment plan to all African-Americansbruce county , says: Show Comment June 21, 2020 at 1:06 am GMThttps://columbiaandslavery.columbia.edu/content/post-1865-columbia-and-legacy-slavery
Hope Derb addresses these two "Ivy League" racist academies soon.
@RobbieSmith I knew exactly what I was talking about.RobbieSmith , says: Show Comment June 21, 2020 at 1:09 am GMT
I don't need to be educated by some one who says "dude" and "chill". What are you 12??
New posters are always welcome. You have good stuff don't get me wrong.@Mefobills "Race realism knows that there is overlap in populations. Think of it like a Venn diagram where populations intersect."FvS , says: Show Comment June 21, 2020 at 1:10 am GMTBlack-White IQ Distribution:
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Blacks:
5% above 110 IQ
16% above 100 IQ
40% above 90 IQ
60% above 80 IQ
40% below 80 IQ
18% below 75 IQ
10% below 70 IQWhites:
10% above 120 IQ
18% above 115 IQ
27% above 110 IQ
40% above 105 IQ
50% above 100 IQ
60% below 105 IQ
35% below 95 IQ
15% below 85 IQAs the New York Times put it, " the difference in IQ points between the groups is quite significant. It means that the top sixth of Blacks score only as well on IQ tests as do the top half of Whites."
The least intelligent 10% of Whites have IQs below 80 (low functioning); 40% of Blacks do.
Only one Black in six is more intelligent than the average White; five Whites out of six are more intelligent than the average Black.
Incidentally, Black female IQ is 2.4 points higher than Black male IQ. There are twice as many Black females as Black males with IQs over 120, and five times as many Black females as Black males with IQs over 140.
About 2.3% of Whites have an IQ of at least 130 (gifted), 20 times greater than the percentage of Blacks who do; only 0.00044% of African Blacks have an IQ over 130. 80% of gifted American Blacks have White admixture.
Geniuses by Race (IQ 140 or higher):
• African Blacks 1:3,500,000 (0.000003%)
• American Blacks 1:218,000 (0.0004%)
• Whites 1:83 (1.2%)So, the per capita genius rate for Whites is 41,000 times higher than it is for African Blacks.
If all Whites in America were replaced by Blacks, the number of geniuses in the country would fall from about 2.4 million to only 1,000.
@Some Guy Racial differences go beyond just IQ.RobbieSmith , says: Show Comment June 21, 2020 at 1:27 am GMT@FvS "Racial differences go beyond just IQ."mark tapley , says: Show Comment June 21, 2020 at 1:29 am GMTCorrect. Blacks are violent:
Richard et al. (2014) meta-analyzed data from 14 separate studies and found that Blacks had higher levels of free floating testosterone in their blood than Whites suggesting that testosterone levels may predispose Blacks towards higher rates of crime.
Compounding this, a high percentage of Blacks have dysfunctional versions of the MAOA androgen receptor gene which is a key part of the mechanism by which testosterone has its effects throughout the body and brain.
MAOA's job is to break down crucial neurotransmitters which can build up in the brain and cause a loss of impulse control and an increase in violence and rage.
The MAOA gene can come in the form of 2, 3, 3.5, 4, or 5 allele. A 3-repeat allele is considered dysfunctional and is what is referred to as the "warrior gene". A 2-repeat (2R) allele is considered very dysfunctional.
The 2-repeat allele does not produce a protein needed to break down old serotonin. It is strongly correlated to criminality and doubles the rate of violence of the 3R without needing an environmental interaction mechanism. People with a 2-repeat allele MAOA gene have a permanent chemical imbalance in their brain making the person more likely to be agitated, aggressive, and impulsive.
Only 0.00067% of Asians and .5% of Whites have the MAOA 2-repeat allele version, compared to 4.7% of Blacks.
That means Blacks are 9.4x more likely to have the very dysfunctional version of the MAOA gene than Whites. Considering that Blacks are 10x more likely to commit extreme violence and anti-social behavior than Whites, this is very significant.
Exploring the association between the 2-repeat allele of the MAOA gene promoter polymorphism and psychopathic personality traits, arrests, incarceration, and lifetime antisocial behavior
A line of research has revealed that a polymorphism in the promoter region of the MAOA gene is related to antisocial phenotypes. Most of these studies examine the effects of low MAOA activity alleles (2-repeat and 3-repeat alleles) against the effects of high MAOA activity alleles (3.5-repeat, 4-repeat, and sometimes 5-repeat alleles), with research indicating that the low MAOA activity alleles confer an increased risk to antisocial phenotypes. The current study examined whether the 2-repeat allele, which has been shown to be functionally different from the 3-repeat allele, was associated with a range of antisocial phenotypes in a sample of males drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Analyses revealed that African-American males who carried the 2-repeat allele were, in comparison with other African-American male genotypes, significantly more likely to be arrested and incarcerated. Additional analyses revealed that African-American male carriers of the 2-repeat allele scored significantly higher on an antisocial phenotype index and on measures assessing involvement in violent behaviors over the life course. There was not any association between the 2-repeat allele and a continuously measured psychopathic personality traits scale. The effects of the 2-repeat allele could not be examined in Caucasian males because only 0.1% carried it.
Blacks are also more likely to have versions of dopamine genes like ANKK1 and DAT1 that have been linked to antisocial behavior.
A 2012 study using the Add Health data found that the 2-repeat version of the MAOA gene is significantly associated with antisocial behavior and the likelihood of criminality in Black males.
I think you misunderstood what I meant. If modern man had been here for 250,000 years why did it take them so long to formulate an alphabet. We have reliable historical and archaeological evidence that this was done only about 8 or 9,000 years ago in both Egypt and Mesopotamia at about the same time. I saw nothing on the other issues. Inanimate rocks in a primordial soup (where did it come from) cannot evolve. All organisms must have information coded in them. Only intelligence can do this. Of the millions of fossils they are still looking for one transitional animal. None of their of their evolutionary discoveries have panned out. I saw a program where a family of siblings in Turkey could only walk on all fours. Many immanent evolutionists were elequently explaining how these people had regressed to their primitive past. The real story was that they had been raised where there were no tables or chairs, nothing to pull themselves up on as little kids always do. finally the Turks got tired of all this nonsense and sent out a therapist who handed one of them a 20 dollar walker. within a few days with no help he and the others were walking. Another bunch of evolutionary crap.Hodd , says: Show Comment June 21, 2020 at 1:33 am GMTThis writer, along with every other writer on this topic, as well as all other authorities that post under such articles, ignore the simple fact that when a nation rises to dominate others, those of its population that constitute the ambitious, intelligent and capable ALWAYS go out to conquer the new realms.mark tapley , says: Show Comment June 21, 2020 at 1:49 am GMT
Here they dissipate their energies, their genes and their innate abilities in establishing a bridge head in the new realm which becomes a foundation for a new populace derived from the nation they originated from.
The new populace are always lesser incompetent people who have come out as administrators, warriors or traders. These new occupants are of a lesser sort and their descendants lesser people still, until the nes populace constitutes too many dependents and too few creators/adventurers.
Ultimately, as a nation expands throughout the known world it dissipates its natural human resource, until what is left is the useless entrails of a spent nation. And the colonies follow this trend too. This is what has happened to white Europe and the white colonies it established. All that is left in the nations is the detritus of civilisation.
The only hope is that some visionary comes along like Adolf Hitler, but by then the parasitic termites have taken a death inducing hold on that nation, and despite the best efforts of the visionary, the nation(s) that the visionary motivates to action are a spent force incapable of achieving the victory needed.
Ultimately, the parasitic termites destroy their host and sink in to oblivion once again until another host appears for them to devour.
This is how the world and mankind works.@niteranger Right: The communists (Jews) must always destroy the old system and get rid of the more intelligent opposition before they implement the new order. They instill demoralization so that people do not try to defend their cultural values. Next is destabilization That is where ANTIFA and BLM along with the controlled opposition such as police that are willing (payed) actors and of course the many Zionist officials all the from the top such as shabbos goy Trump and most of the bought out Congress and especially the Governors are staged as too inept to act. After generating enough chaos then comes order. Then the street operatives and useful idiots will no longer be needed or wanted but will be swept away by the new totalitarian state.RobbieSmith , says: Show Comment June 21, 2020 at 1:57 am GMT@mark tapley "If modern man had been here for 250,000 years why did it take them so long to formulate an alphabet."Wizard of Oz , says: Show Comment June 21, 2020 at 2:13 am GMTYour premise is incorrect.
Modern man was created by the hybridization with the large brain Neanderthals. Blacks are the only race with no Neanderthal DNA. This is when they got left behind evolutionarily.
As I posted to you, the brain size in modern man (non-Blacks) only began 5,800 years ago. Written language is not 9,000 years old, as you repeatedly, baselessly, assert.
Archaic Hominin Introgression in Africa
Oxford Academic: Molecular Biology and Evolution
Published: 21 July 2017ABSTRACT: A divergent MUC7 haplotype likely originated in an unknown African hominin population and introgressed into ancestors of modern Africans.
Blacks have "wildly different" genes than modern man because they are mixed with literal NON-HUMANS!
Blacks are proto-humans; modern man evolved from Blacks by hybridizing with the large-brain Neanderthals:
• Blacks = 2% Archaic admixture and 7.9% non-human DNA
• Whites = 3% Neanderthal
• Asians = 3% Neanderthal + DenisovanModern man evolved from Blacks when they cross-breed with the large-brain Neanderthals (literally a different species). Blacks are the only race with no Neanderthal DNA. Civilizations didn't begin until the Neanderthal hybridization created the larger brains in modern man.
Genetic distance is a measure of the genetic divergence between populations. Blacks have a genetic distance of 0.23 from modern man, but only 0.17 from archaic man (believed to be Erectus, but no DNA has been recovered to test). That means Blacks are more genetically proximate to archaic man than to modern man.
In fact, 7.9% of sub-Saharan African DNA is non-human:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2018/03/21/285734.full.pdfThe genetic distance between the races of man is also much greater than that between the breeds of dog, and anyone who has experience with dogs knows what a huge difference breed makes, not only in physical appearance but also in behavior and intelligence.
We share 98.4 percent of our genes with chimpanzees, 95 percent with dogs, and 74 percent with microscopic roundworms. Only one chromosome determines if one is born male or female. There is no discernible difference in the DNA of a wolf and a Labrador Retriever, yet their inbred behavioral differences are immense. Clearly, what's meaningful is which genes differ and how they are patterned, not the percent of genes. A tiny number of genes can translate into huge functional differences.
So, to be consistent and objective with taxonomic classification systems, Blacks and modern man should be classified into separate species, or at least into different subspecies.
Modern man average 3% Neanderthal DNA, which would be an F4 (4th filial generation from full purebred Neanderthal). That is about the same as most claiming Cherokee ancestors today.
It is equivalent to having one Neanderthal great-great-great-grandparent. Blacks also coexisted and interbred with archaic hominids (heidelbergensis) for longer than those who left Africa.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=11894688
@Alfred See my earlier reply pointing out that your suggestion of Australia having more than a tiny inoculating dose of African origin blacks is total BS.acementhead , says: Show Comment June 21, 2020 at 2:30 am GMT@Paul BlartKratoklastes , says: Show Comment June 21, 2020 at 2:47 am GMTwhere the hell in Australia are you – not in any of the major cities that's for sure .
Perhaps try reading more carefully, because "from" and "to" are different words, and have different meanings. But what do I know, I'm just an idiot who thinks that details matter.
@RobbieSmith I agree that a source for each claim would be nice (it might be Wickerts), but you're just as sloppy.Franklin Ryckaert , says: Show Comment June 21, 2020 at 2:51 am GMTThe claim was simply that
early childhood nutrition differences can cause IQ differences bigger than the average difference between blacks and whites.
What made you interpret that as an assertion that childhood nutrition can cause a 2σ difference? If the difference caused by childhood nutrition is X and there is genuinely a σ (15pt) gap in black-white IQ (of which more below)
"X > σ" does not imply X = 2σ
Now as to the black-white gap :
Dickens and Flynn (2006) indicate that the gap – measured at ~1.1σ (16.5pts) in the late 1960s – closed by between 4 and 7 points (0.27σ-0.47σ) between 1972 and 2002.
So that would put the gap somewhere between 0.6σ and 0.8σ in 2002; call it 10pts just to make the arithmetic easier. It will have closed further since, as blacks have become more (geographically) discriminating in terms of where they live and raise their kids – thus reducing the deleterious environmental contribution to IQ.
(Note: nobody here is asserting that there's zero genetic contribution – just that it can be swamped by environmental factors, especially if the environmental contribution is strongly deleterious).
If childhood nutrition affects cognition (and anyone who disagrees with that should just switch off their internet connection), then changes in the relative nutrition of blacks and whites will have had some effect on the gap, and that effect is probably positive.
The biggest 'bang for the buck' in the relative improvements in childhood nutrition, will be caused by changes in the largest demographic and/or the demographic where childhood nutrition is worst to begin with.
For blacks, the largest demographic used to be inner-city dwellers with household incomes significantly less than 40% of the white median .
That's pretty much a guarantee or poor food choices – low income plus 'food deserts' plus low levels of education – and let's just stipulate the the level of government services (including education) is "patchy at best" for the inner-urban poor, everywhere in the West.
So if your expectations are anchored in about 1990, then you would expect poor black childhood nutrition to have continued.
However
For those who pay attention to the data, it's clear that there has been a huge 'migration' of blacks out of cities and towards suburbs.
• In 1990, 57% of US blacks lived in inner cities – and 95 % of blacks in the Northeast, Midwest, and West regions lived in inner cities. In 2000 55% of all blacks in the largest 100 cities in the US, lived in the inner-city.
• By 2014 only 36% of US blacks lived in inner cities, and 52% of all blacks in the largest 100 cities in the US, lived in the suburbs.This black Exodus from inner cities later shows up as rising black household incomes and employment levels in places that were 'destinations' in the exodus, and stagnant or falling levels in the blighted urban areas.
So the blacks who didn't leave the inner-urban areas of major US cities underperformed those who left: the ones who left were able to improve their relative position – either because they were just better (smarter) people, or because they had access to better opportunities, or some combination.
The median US black is now a suburbanite with nearer-to-white-average household income than his 1990s, 2000, and 2014 counterpart.
With that in mind
Do you think that in the period since 2002, white children's nutrition improved at a faster rate than black children's?
If you do think that, how do you reach that conclusion – given that there are diminishing returns to 'improvement' available?
Once you get to the choice set available to households with white median income, there is basically no 'juice' left: changing brands of muesli won't help as much as switching from pop-tarts to muesli, which will have less effect than switching from nothing to pop-tarts.
What we have seen since 1990 is 25% of the black population making positive choices, and being able to switch their kids from nothing to muesli – i.e., they have extracted all the IQ-juice there is to extract from childhood nutrition, in a little over a generation.
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The black/white IQ gap is closing. It's being caused by US blacks being afforded broader opportunities, and trying to take them.
Nobody denies that inner-urban black males remain a highly-visible problem, however they're also a small and shrinking demographic because the ongoing black exodus. It stands to reason that the remaining blacks
The rest of the environmental part of the gap will get whittled away over time – just as the gap between 'Whites' and Irishmen closed in less than a generation.
( WARNING : I fucking LOVE this example. I love it so much that I like to beat people over the head with it).
The Irish were once considered irretrievably stupid, and prone to drunkenness and violence (OK, those last two are fair enough) and of an average IQ more than 1σ below Anglo-Saxons.
This was true until quite recently: people silly enough to believe the "Dumb Paddy" trope will notice that the magic happened once the Irish got rich by becoming a quasi-tax-haven.
More accurately: race/IQ-obsessives are also income-level obsessives, and once Eire got closer to UK/US incomes they abandoned the "Drunken Paddy" trope.
Irish IQ – as measured by people who claim to be authorities – rose σ in a period too short for even a Pikie to have grandchildren, let alone for the grand babbies to be old enough to be tested (i.e., it could not have been genetic ).
A 1972 study with N=3,466 yielded an average IQ of 87 for Paddies ( te-tee-tuh-tee ): the same ballpark as US blacks.
This the famous study that Lynn and Nyborg somehow 'omitted' – totally by accident, despite it being very well known; being the largest-N of the early Irish studies; and being data that they had previously referred to. Oopsies !!!
As it happens, my view of the 1972 study is that it is one of those things that happen all the time: a large, quasi-random sample that produces estimates that are not remotely congruent with the population from which the sample was taken. That's why people need to understand statistical theory before they spout off about populaiton-wide averages (and more importantly, the relative contributions of genetics and environment).
References
Dickens, W. T., and J. R. Flynn. " Black Americans Reduce the Racial IQ Gap: Evidence from Standardization Samples " Psychological Science , vol. 17, no. 10, 2006, pp. 913–920. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40064475 .
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"The centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." -- W. B. Yeats, 1919
Truth is the first victim in politics. Factions and passions rule. Random facts are picked as weapons, no one thinks things through.
We need to understand the facts surrounding the death of George Floyd.
Many key facts are being ignored:
Minneapolis police officers have been charged with Floyd's murder. Yet all the evidence points to the fact that Floyd had taken a drug overdose so strong that his imminent death could hardly have been prevented. In all likelihood, the police were neither an intentional nor accidental cause of his death. These crucial facts have been completely ignored in the uproar.
It is widely believed that George Floyd died from a police officer's knee on his neck, whether due to asphyxiation or neck injury. That may be how it looks, to a naïve viewer. In reality, the county autopsy report says he died of a heart attack, [1] https://lawandcrime.com/george-floyd-death/authoriti...-here/ The full autopsy report was published here https://www.hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents...yd.pdf Diagnoses are summarized on pp. 1 and 2: I. The "blunt force injuries" are basically minor cuts and bruises: "cutaneous" injuries and contusions from handcuffing. II. Chronic conditions: Heart disease, hypertension and enlarged heart. These all tend to accelerate death from a drug overdose. They can also develop from long-term drug abuse. III. No injuries to the front of the neck or throat were found. This full 76-page report does not contain the word "homicide." and states that there were "no life-threatening injuries." Then how could they conclude it was homicide?
When scientists review scientific papers, they look primarily at the evidence, and give less weight to the conclusions, which are only the other fellow's opinions. To blindly follow "expert opinions" is the Authoritarian View of Knowledge. This is no real knowledge at all, because to assess whether an expert is always right, we would need infinite knowledge, and doubly so when experts disagree. Not thinking for oneself is not really thinking.
So let us stick to the evidence. The county's ambivalent autopsy also included the following hard facts: "Toxicology Findings: Blood samples collected at 9:00 p.m. on May 25th, before Floyd died, tested positive for the following: Fentanyl 11 ng/mL, Norfentanyl 5.6 ng/mL , Methamphetamine 19 ng/mL 86 ng/mL of morphine," but draws no conclusions therefrom, noting only that "Quantities are given for those who are medically inclined."
Shouldn't we be so inclined? This fentanyl concentration, including its norfentanyl metabolite at its molecular weight, was 20.6 ng/mL That is over three times the lethal overdose, following earlier reports where the highest dose survived was 4.6 ng/mL. [2] https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/02/02/fentanyl-overdo...-10822 "The patients who were dead on arrival had gone into cardiac arrest due to blood concentrations of fentanyl that were much higher than what is administered therapeutically. " Patients who died in hospital had concentrations of 9.5 ng/mL to 13 ng/mL. See also note 13. In other studies of death from heroin and morphine, there were deaths from only 100 ng/ml of morphine and "all cases with a blood concentration of 200 ng/ml and more of free morphine displayed a fatal outcome." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11040428_Fa...rivers (Heroin quickly metabolizes into morphine.) Fentanyl is considered 100 times more potent than morphine. By this comparison, Floyd's blood fentanyl concentration could have been 10 times the fatal level. In addition his morphine concentration of 86 ng/mL would usually be fatal by itself.
Concentration levels are relative to the volume of blood, so are independent of body size.
If ever there was a leap before a look, we are in it now. Masses of people have become extremists, based on conclusions that are as false as they are hasty.
Regarding suffocation, the county medical examiner's report found "no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation." [3] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/0...85002/ A report commissioned by the Floyd family stated that asphyxiation from sustained pressure was consistent with the evidence, but the author Michael Baden didn't have access to all the evidence, and chose not to endorse his opinion with the "expert opinion" label. Pressure applied to the side of the neck, as in this case, and not to the throat, has little or no effect on breathing. One can easily verify this oneself. [4] The knee on the neck is a body hold, not a chokehold or carotid restraint, which involves putting pressure precisely on both carotid arteries, located on either side of the throat. A carotid restraint is usually applied by an elbow, and causes the subject to pass out in as little as 15 seconds. Blocking the arteries does not stop the breathing or heartbeat (pulmonary or cardiac arrest), which Floyd suffered after being restrained for many minutes. Once pressure on the arteries is released, the subject normally regains consciousness quickly.
One difficulty is that there are public statements to the effect that the coroner ruled it a homicide, and the title of the autopsy report includes the term "neck compression." But the words "homicide," "restraint," "stress" or "compression" do not appear in the 20-page body of the report. References to the neck are few -- a couple minor abrasions, a contusion on the shoulder, and "The cervical spinal column is palpably stable and free of hemorrhage." It is as if the title was chosen in regard to what was expected or proposed, but which was never found, and the title was never updated. There seems to be no support at all in the report body for the report title, which reads, "Cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression."
The term "cause of death" does not appear. The words "death" and "fatal" only appear in this comment in the lab report: "Signs associated with fentanyl toxicity include severe respiratory depression, seizures, hypotension, coma and death . In fatalities from fentanyl, blood concentrations are variable and have been reported as low as 3 ng/mL." Floyd's fentanyl level was seven times higher.
If first impressions via the media fooled the coroner's office, until they examined the body, we too can be fooled at first, but change our opinion according to the evidence.
Excited Delirium Syndrome
An additional hypothesis involves Excited Delirium Syndrome (EXD), a symptom of drug overdose which sometimes appears in the final minutes preceding death. EXD typically results from fatal drug abuse, in past years from cocaine or crack, more recently from fentanyl, which is 50 times more potent than heroin. Especially dangerous are street drugs like meth, heroin or cocaine laced with fentanyl.
According to an article in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine (WJEM), 2011: [5] https://westjem.com/articles/excited-delirium.html "Excited delirium (EXD) is characterized by agitation, aggression, acute distress and sudden death, often in the pre-hospital care setting. It is typically associated with the use of drugs. Subjects typically die from cardiopulmonary arrest all accounts describe almost the exact same sequence of events: delirium with agitation (fear, panic, shouting, violence and hyperactivity), sudden cessation of struggle, respiratory arrest and death ."
It appears that an EXD episode began when the officers tried to get Floyd into the squad car. He resisted, citing "claustrophobia" -- the onset of the fear and panic phase, and "I can't breathe" -- difficulty breathing due to fentanyl locking into the breathing receptors in the brain. (Classic symptoms of EXD are highlighted in bold.) He then exhibited unexpected strength from the adrenaline spike in successfully resisting the efforts of four officers to get him into the car. We may never know whether Floyd's agitation was caused purely from the EXD adrenaline spike, or if it was aggravated by police attempts to subdue him -- but a subject defying the efforts of multiple officers to subdue him is a very common theme.
When Chauvin pulled him out of the car he fell to the ground, perhaps due to disorientation and reduced coordination. Presumably this was when he injured his mouth and his nose started to bleed, and the police made the first call for paramedics.
While restrained on the ground, Floyd exhibited agitation ( shouting and hyperactivity, trying to move back and forth) for several minutes. There is one brief video at this point. One hears Floyd shouting very loudly, as in the agitated delirium phase -- it sounds like, "My face is stoned ah hah, ah haaa, ah please people, please, please let me stand, please, ah hah, ah haaa!" [6] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-video-appea...17476/ . In a few minutes this was followed by " sudden cessation of struggle, respiratory arrest and death, " shown in a later video, where he becomes exhausted, and had stopped breathing when the ambulance arrived. [7] https://www.facebook.com/darnellareallprettymarie/vi...61280/
It appears that disorientation had already set in when the store employees went to Floyd's car and asked him to return the cigarettes he had bought for a fake $20 bill. He refused, and they reported the incident to the police, saying that he appeared to be very intoxicated. He certainly must have been, or he would have either returned the cigarettes or left quickly to avoid arrest. Loss of judgment is a symptom of the syndrome; this includes futile efforts to resist arrest.
Police Intervention and Intentions
The EXD diagnosis is controversial and in some quarters is viewed as an alibi for police brutality. The WJEM authors note, "Since the victims frequently die while being restrained or in the custody of law enforcement, there has been speculation over the years of police brutality being the underlying cause. However, it is important to note that the vast majority of deaths occur suddenly prior to capture, in the emergency department (ED), or unwitnessed at home."
Regarding restraint, they note, "people experiencing EXD are highly agitated, violent, and show signs of unexpected strength, so it is not surprising that most require physical restraint. The prone maximal restraint position (PMRP, also known as "hobble" or "hogtie"), where the person's ankles and wrists are bound together behind their back, has been used extensively by field personnel. In far fewer cases, persons have been tied to a hospital gurney or manually held prone with knee pressure on the back or neck."
This latter position is what the accused officer Chauvin was applying, although at one point the team did consider using a hobble. Physical restraint of the subject has always been the classical procedure, to prevent the subject harming themselves or others. It has been proposed that restraint helps to forestall injury and death by conserving the subject's energy, but most experts believe that by leading to an intense struggle, it increases the likelihood of a fatal outcome.
Since knowingly using counterfeit currency is a fairly serious offense, the Minneapolis officers were required to arrest Floyd and try to bring him in. When he violently resisted, the optimal choice could have been to let him sit against a wall and guard him while calling an ambulance. To be able to quickly switch from law enforcement mode to emergency care mode requires training in recognizing the symptoms.
The charge sheet against Chauvin included this exchange between the two white officers on the squad: [8] https://www.startribune.com/protests-build-anew-afte...869672 ""I am worried about excited delirium or whatever," Lane said. "That's why we have him on his stomach," Chauvin said."
According to this dialogue, Chauvin was apparently was trying to follow the protocol recommended by WJEM. Since Floyd was on his stomach, Chauvin's knee pinned him at the side of his neck, and did not impede breathing. Commentators are referring to Chauvin "kneeling" on Floyd's neck, or resting his weight on it. From videos it is hard to gauge how much weight he applied, but the correct procedure is just enough to restrain movement, not to crush the person.
Chauvin and his team might not have done everything perfectly, but it is easy to underestimate the difficulty of police work, particularly in cases of resisting arrest, whether willfully or due to intoxication. If they had been clairvoyant clinicians, they would have called an ambulance the moment they saw him. Better training is needed. Was the police department then responsible? Might the department have given the needed training if the AMA had acknowledged the existence of the syndrome? This brings up a paradox: could police critics who deny the syndrome then bear part of the responsibility for the deaths they decry? The syndrome is being recognized by law enforcement after the fact. It needs to be recognized as it is happening.
The American College of Emergency Physicians' White Paper Report on Excited Delirium Syndrome (ACEP, 2009) [9] https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/media/publications/a...09.pdf See also the decision by the Ninth Circuit Court, "[t]he problems posed by, and thus the tactics to be employed against, an unarmed, emotionally distraught individual who is creating a disturbance or resisting arrest are ordinarily different from those involved in law enforcement efforts to subdue an armed and dangerous criminal who has recently committed a serious offense." in "Explaining the Unexplainable: Excited Delirium Syndrome and Its Impact on the Objective Reasonableness Standard for Allegations of Excessive Force," https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?...ext=lj The first few pages relate a narrative similar to the Floyd case, involving multiple police subduing a violent EXD victim, who suddenly dies from exhaustion. A media uproar then arises against alleged police brutality. notes that "a law enforcement officer (LEO) is often present with a person suffering from ExDS because the situation at hand has degenerated to such a degree that someone has deemed it necessary to contact a person of authority to deal with it. LEOs are in the difficult and sometimes impossible position of having to recognize this as a medical emergency, attempting to control an irrational and physically resistive person, This already challenging situation has the potential for intense public scrutiny coupled with the expectation of a perfect outcome. Anything less creates a situation of potential public outrage. Unfortunately, this dangerous medical situation makes perfect outcomes difficult." In other words, officers need to be policemen, paramedics and public relations experts all at once.
With a fatal overdose there is no good outcome possible, but there is no way for police to foresee that. Sometimes EXD can last longer, and it is not always fatal. Perhaps the ACEP Task Force on EXD will update their report and provide guidelines to help police identify and deal with EXD while avoiding accusations of police brutality.
In one video [10] https://www.facebook.com/darnellareallprettymarie/vi...61280/ Chauvin continued to apply the neck restraint although bystanders repeatedly objected, and even after Floyd stopped moving. As Floyd became exhausted, it could have been reasonable to relax the restraint to see if it was really necessary. Chauvin didn't seem to respond to the bystanders to give a medical reason for the restraint. His actions were consistent with a belief that police should restrain the subject until medevacs arrive. Videos show the police focused on restraint, never beating or striking Floyd. The restraint and verbal exchanges with Floyd are also consistent with a belief that he was resisting arrest, by refusing to get in the squad car. When he said "I can't breathe," they responded "You're talking fine." When they said "Get in the car," he didn't agree to.
Subjects suffering from EXD usually resist arrest violently, which requires police to restrain them, but when police see signs of EXD, they also need to call an ambulance. It appears the police may have called for paramedics first when Floyd developed a nosebleed, then for an ambulance, which arrived after Floyd had stopped breathing. [11] From the incident report of the fire truck that was called to the scene, it appears that both police and bystanders called 911 for emergency medical services (EMS). The first call was Code 2, apparently for Floyd's nosebleed, which summoned a fire truck, followed by a more urgent code 3, which was said to bring an ambulance within six minutes. It appears the police called the ambulance when Floyd's breathing and heartbeat stopped. https://www.startribune.com/first-responders-worked-...06682/ "Floyd goes limp and appears to lose consciousness. Hennepin EMS then arrive six minutes after the distress call." The article refers to the incident report by the fire truck, http://www.minneapolismn.gov/www/groups/public/@mpd...80.pdf which has a note implying the first call to EMS was from police and another call came from bystanders: "No clear info on pt [patient] or location was given by either initial pd [police department] officers or bystanders." We need an incident report from the ambulance. .
Videos of EXD incidents generally show subjects violently resisting arrest, and requiring multiple officers to subdue them. There is one news clip about a police department that was trained to regard EXD as a medical and not a criminal issue, and avoid physical restraint as far as possible; the results are much better. [12] TV news clips showing police restraining subjects who are exhibiting EXD symptoms and violently resisting arrest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qCqjuqEWEc A TV news report and cellphone video on a more humane method of managing an EXD case, thanks to police training, putting safety of the subject and of bystanders first, rather than restraints. However, no details are given about the outcome or the drug dose. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qCqjuqEWEc
EXD seems to be the most likely reason why Floyd suddenly refused to get into the squad car, and began to shout and writhe on the ground. With or without EXD or police intervention, he was going to die quickly from fentanyl, short of immediate intensive care. A common treatment for EXD is sedation with drugs like ketamine. The usual antidote for fentanyl is naloxone. Higher levels of fentanyl may require intravenous naloxone for 24 hours or more.
Fentanyl is so deadly because it acts so fast and binds so tightly to dopamine receptors in the brain -- even those that control breathing, unlike other narcotics. [13] https://columnhealth.com/blog_posts/why-is-fentanyl-...erous/ . Deaths from fentanyl have skyrocketed in the last seven years. In one incident in California, superlethal fentanyl doses of 53 ng/mL were successfully reversed with intravenous naloxone. However, some patients were dead on arrival. https://www.drugs.com/illicit/fentanyl.html When Floyd complained "I can't breathe," although he was breathing, [14] Wikipedia has a detailed narrative of the incident here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_George_Floyd . Certain notes there support the thesis of fentanyl intoxication, and resisting arrest as part of an EXD syndrome. Floyd struggled with Lane before leaving his own vehicle, and again when Kueng, then all four officers, tried to get him into the squad car. Floyd already complained he couldn't breathe before they tried to get him into the police car, without any neck restraint, indicating the onset of respiratory depression from fentanyl. https://abcnews.go.com/US/george-floyd-protest-updat...038665 "They all tried to force Floyd into the backseat, during which time Floyd said he could not breathe, according to the complaint."
He also fell down twice, which could be seen either as a sign of intoxication or resisting arrest. The officers knew it was a drug overdose, as Thao told bystanders, "This is why you don't do drugs, kids." By the way, this Wikipedia article should be named "Death of George Floyd," as an accused is innocent until proven guilty. and then completely stopped breathing, this was the onset of respiratory arrest, which is how a fentanyl overdose kills.
While police work is needed to trace the source of these dangerous drugs, the problems of drug addiction and crime have deep causes and can only be contained, not solved, by the police. Whatever our society has been doing about these problems is not working.
Right now, our civilization risks being torn apart by the passions of extremism, due to a misunderstanding. Please share this analysis, as an appeal to return to reason.
Reviewer comment: "My first thought is why it has been left to you to figure this out, when we pay professional journalists to investigate these things, and why aren't the police and politicians telling us about this."
A good question which gives a clue to something I've been wondering about. When other commentators publish within hours, why does it take me a week or two to finish an article like this? Journalists are usually under a deadline to produce stories quickly, whereas it takes a lot of research and reflection to develop an original thesis into a fair and coherent explanation of events.
Everyone tends to have an agenda, and to look for facts to support it. Police brutality or looters running amok may be more newsworthy than a chronic problem like drug abuse. The best agenda now is to take a break to focus on facts, or else an "Excited Delirium" could become a contagion that engulfs our nation.
Part II. The Death of Tony Timpa
A highly pertinent question: Has there ever been a confirmed death from a knee hold before? Not finding any data by searching the Net, I posted the question on Quora. [15] https://www.quora.com/Has-there-ever-been-any-previo...ics-or One answer soon came.
A young white man died in Dallas a few years ago, after being restrained by the police with the knee on his back. My respondent believed he suffocated, but the actual autopsy said cardiac arrest due to cocaine, overdose EXD, and stress from restraint by police officers.
Tony Timpa had not only taken an overdose of cocaine, plus he was off his anti-schizophrenia medicine. Mental illness can also be a trigger for EXD, and according to the autopsy report, he displayed all the classic symptoms. The first phase, fear and panic, was fear of the onset of delirium itself -- he himself called 911 for help. By the time the police arrived, security guards had already handcuffed him to restrain him. He was incoherent, out of control, found lying on the ground, the typical EXD position. The police pinned him down with a knee on his back for 13 minutes, saying he was at risk of rolling into the roadway, and suddenly he was dead.
Tony Timpa died in 2016. The family got the run-around, [16] https://www.dallasnews.com/news/investigations/2019/...timpa/ and an autopsy was not released until 2019. The body cam footage was released, which showed the police behaving callously towards the subject. The officers were originally charged with homicide, but it was found they were not at fault, charges were dropped and they were reinstated. Timpa's case is very similar to Floyd case in many ways, and there are also many differences -- the starkest of course being the intensity of the public reaction.
Here is the text of the Timpa autopsy. [17] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6226349-SWIF...515249
Case: ME Page 7 of8
Timpa, Anthony Alan
Based on the case history and autopsy findings, it is my opinion that Anthony Alan Timpa, a 32-year-old white male, died as a result of sudden cardiac death due to the toxic effects of cocaine and physiologic stress associated with physical restraint.
Cardiac hypertrophy and bipolar disorder contributed to his death.
The mechanism of death in cases such as this is sometimes referred to as "excited delirium." Classically, people affected by EDS are witnessed to exhibit erratic or aggressive behavior, and will often "throw off" attempts at restraint, requiring multiple people to subdue them. The person will appear to calm down and will suddenly become unresponsive. Most cases are associated with drug intoxication and/or illness.
In this case, several factors likely contributed to the death. The surveillance and body cam footage and witness reports fit the classic scenario of excited delirium and cocaine use and illness (bipolar disorder) are common predisposing risk factors for EDS. Cocaine leads to increased heart rate and increased blood pressure, making a cardiac arrhythmia more likely. Due to his prone position and physical restraint by an officer, an element of mechanical or positional asphyxia cannot be ruled out (although he was seen to be yelling and fighting for the majority ofthe restraint). His enlarged heart size also put him at risk for sudden cardiac death.
Although the decedent only had superficial injuries, the manner of death will be ruled a homicide, as the stress of being restrained and extreme physical exertion contributed to his demise.
MANNER OF DEATH: Homicide
[Signatures and seals of medical examiners]
(Note that homicide is not the same as murder, it also includes unintentional or accidental actions contributing to death.)
Anthony Timpa autopsy p. 5, blood tests -- Cocaine and metabolites
Cocaine, 0.647 mg/L
Ecgonine Methyl Ester, 0.378 mg/L
Benzoylecgonine, 0.843 mg/L
The lethal dose of cocaine ranges from around 0.1 mg/L to 0.6 mg/L, according to different sources [18] http://www.forensicmed.co.uk/science/toxicology/cocaine/ , https://academic.oup.com/jat/article/38/1/46/831276
If we add the three numbers above for cocaine and metabolytes together it comes to about 18 mg/L. This is anywhere from 3 to 18 times the lethal dose. With such an overdose, plus being without his schizophrenia medication, Timpa had little if any chance of surviving.
Here's the Wikipedia entry on Timpa, part of a series on the Dallas police.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Police_Department#Killing_of_Tony_Timpa
"Killing of Tony Timpa [edit]
On August 10, 2016, Dallas Police killed Tony Timpa, a 32-year-old resident who had not taken his medication. Timpa was already handcuffed while a group of officers pressed his body into the ground while he squirmed. It took over three years for footage of the incident to be released. The footage contradicted claims by Dallas Police that Timpa was aggressive Criminal charges against three officers were dropped in March 2019 and officers returned to active duty."
Wikipedia doesn't even mention cocaine, although that was the main cause of death. Likewise, the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_George_Floyd makes no mention of a drug overdose or excited delirium. By entitling the articles "Killing" rather than "Death," Wikipedians appoint themselves as a court of law.
It must be observed that the Minneapolis officers acted with far more consideration towards Floyd than the treatment Timpa received in Dallas. The way the officers made fun of Timpa was a scandal. [19] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/us/tony-timpa-dal...m.html Then they were surprised when he suddenly died.
It is strange that George Floyd's case is taken as proof of systemic racism, when Tony Timpa got much worse treatment -- even though Timpa hadn't committed any crime, had no police record, and even called 911 himself.
Isn't it odd, when we have a problem in the United States of many shootings by -- and of -- the police, that such an uproar has arisen, over a case where the police actually had little or nothing to do with the man's demise?
The stress of restraint is most likely incidental. As reported by the WJEM, "Victims who do not immediately come to police attention are often found dead in the bathroom surrounded by wet towels and/or clothing and empty ice trays, apparently succumbing during failed attempts to rapidly cool down." Hyperthermia or high body temperature is a classic symptom of EXD. Enormous energy is released by an uncontrolled adrenaline spike. The heat also feeds delirium, which is a familiar symptom of high fever.
Normally, it's assumed that stress factors contribute to a heart attack, as medical examiners wrote in both the Floyd and Timpa cases. Yet the WJEM notes that "one important study found that only 18 of 214 individuals identified as having EXD died while being restrained or taken into custody." All victims died of cardiopulmonary arrest. Drug overdose and EXD are sufficient causes for this outcome.
Both Floyd and Timpa had taken overdoses at triple the lethal level. Enough drugs to kill them three times over. Yet you can only die once so how could the stress of restraint contribute more to their deaths? You can't contribute to a glass that's already full three times over. That is a little like saying that someone died because their parachute didn't open, and the weight of their backpack also contributed to the fall. But they die from the fall once they hit the ground, whether it's at 120 mph or 122 mph.
It's true, that in this analogy, the extra weight makes the jumper hit the ground a little sooner. Forcibly restraining the victim can cause them to struggle and consume energy more quickly, accelerating the burnout. Giving the subject a little space and empathy could help calm them. In this case, restraint might reduce energy loss. If that delays cardiac arrest until an ambulance arrives, the patient might be saved. Victims are less likely to struggle when strapped to a gurney than when held down by police. [20] "Probably negligible involvement of position in contribution of death in cases of excited delirium, although allowing patients to breathe effectively is obviously important." https://emergencymedicinecases.com/episode-3-excited...irium/
We can compare Excited Delirium to an explosion or a wildfire, that rapidly consumes all the energy in the body. The police try to contain the explosion by restraining it, but can one blame the firefighter for the fire? The explosion continues until all the fuel is gone. Then life's flame flickers out, and the drug-intoxicated body can not be resuscitated. [21] "According to Dr. Assaad Sayah, Chief of Emergency Medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance, Excited Delirium Syndrome can be best explained as a 'physical response to an actual psychological [or drug] problem resulting in their autonomic systems producing too much adrenaline.' Dr. Sayah analogizes it to 'having too much nitrous in a car; eventually the engine will blow up.' In most cases, the cause of death is either 'a heart attack or, less frequently, respiratory failure.' Dr. Vincent Di Maio estimated that Excited Delirium Syndrome kills 800 people every year in police altercations because the victims "are just overexciting [their] heart from the drugs and from the struggle.'" Op. cit. https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?...ext=lj Presumably, the blood must be circulating in order for the antidote to neutralize the fentanyl.
In conclusion, excited delirium should be treated as a medical condition, at high risk of ending quickly in sudden death. An ambulance should be called immediately. Only the minimum necessary restraint should be applied. Police and paramedics should be trained in the symptoms and handling protocols.
It would be helpful if the AMA would recognize EXD as a real condition, rather than dismissing it as a cover story for police brutality. Ignorance of the symptoms can lead to unintentional cruelty by police, when they assume they are confronted by a typical case of a criminal violently resisting arrest, rather than a patient with a life-threatening intoxication.
Notes
[1] https://lawandcrime.com/george-floyd-death/authorities-just-released-george-floyds-complete-autopsy-report-read-it-here/ The full autopsy report was published here https://www.hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-safety/documents/Autopsy_2020-3700_Floyd.pdf Diagnoses are summarized on pp. 1 and 2: I. The "blunt force injuries" are basically minor cuts and bruises: "cutaneous" injuries and contusions from handcuffing. II. Chronic conditions: Heart disease, hypertension and enlarged heart. These all tend to accelerate death from a drug overdose. They can also develop from long-term drug abuse. III. No injuries to the front of the neck or throat were found. This full 76-page report does not contain the word "homicide."
[2]
https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/02/02/fentanyl-overdose-dont-count-naloxone-save-you-10822
"The patients who were dead on arrival had gone into cardiac arrest due to blood concentrations
of fentanyl that were much higher than what is administered therapeutically. " Patients who died
in hospital had concentrations of 9.5 ng/mL to 13 ng/mL. See also note 13. In other studies of
death from heroin and morphine, there were deaths from only 100 ng/ml of morphine and "all cases
with a blood concentration of 200 ng/ml and more of free morphine displayed a fatal outcome."
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11040428_Fatal_versus_non-fatal_heroin_overdose_Blood_morphine_concentrations_with_fatal_outcome_in_comparison_to_those_of_intoxicated_drivers
(Heroin quickly metabolizes into morphine.) Fentanyl is considered 100 times more potent than
morphine. By this comparison, Floyd's blood fentanyl concentration could have been 10 times the
fatal level. In addition his morphine concentration of 86 ng/mL would usually be fatal by
itself.
Concentration levels are relative to the volume of blood, so are independent of body size.
[3] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/01/george-floyd-independent-autopsy-findings-released-monday/5307185002/ A report commissioned by the Floyd family stated that asphyxiation from sustained pressure was consistent with the evidence, but the author Michael Baden didn't have access to all the evidence, and chose not to endorse his opinion with the "expert opinion" label.
[4] The knee on the neck is a body hold, not a chokehold or carotid restraint, which involves putting pressure precisely on both carotid arteries, located on either side of the throat. A carotid restraint is usually applied by an elbow, and causes the subject to pass out in as little as 15 seconds. Blocking the arteries does not stop the breathing or heartbeat (pulmonary or cardiac arrest), which Floyd suffered after being restrained for many minutes. Once pressure on the arteries is released, the subject normally regains consciousness quickly.
[5] https://westjem.com/articles/excited-delirium.html
[7] https://www.facebook.com/darnellareallprettymarie/videos/1425398217661280/
[8] https://www.startribune.com/protests-build-anew-after-fired-officer-charged-jailed/570869672
[9] https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/media/publications/acep_report_on_excited_delirium_syndrome_sept_2009.pdf See also the decision by the Ninth Circuit Court, "[t]he problems posed by, and thus the tactics to be employed against, an unarmed, emotionally distraught individual who is creating a disturbance or resisting arrest are ordinarily different from those involved in law enforcement efforts to subdue an armed and dangerous criminal who has recently committed a serious offense." in "Explaining the Unexplainable: Excited Delirium Syndrome and Its Impact on the Objective Reasonableness Standard for Allegations of Excessive Force," https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1379&context=lj The first few pages relate a narrative similar to the Floyd case, involving multiple police subduing a violent EXD victim, who suddenly dies from exhaustion. A media uproar then arises against alleged police brutality.
[10] https://www.facebook.com/darnellareallprettymarie/videos/1425398217661280/
[11] From the incident report of the fire truck that was called to the scene, it appears that both police and bystanders called 911 for emergency medical services (EMS). The first call was Code 2, apparently for Floyd's nosebleed, which summoned a fire truck, followed by a more urgent code 3, which was said to bring an ambulance within six minutes. It appears the police called the ambulance when Floyd's breathing and heartbeat stopped. https://www.startribune.com/first-responders-worked-nearly-an-hour-to-save-floyd-before-he-was-pronounced-dead/570806682/ "Floyd goes limp and appears to lose consciousness. Hennepin EMS then arrive six minutes after the distress call." The article refers to the incident report by the fire truck, http://www.minneapolismn.gov/www/groups/public/@mpd/documents/webcontent/wcmsp-224680.pdf which has a note implying the first call to EMS was from police and another call came from bystanders: "No clear info on pt [patient] or location was given by either initial pd [police department] officers or bystanders." We need an incident report from the ambulance.
[12] TV news clips showing police restraining subjects who are exhibiting EXD symptoms and violently resisting arrest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qCqjuqEWEc A TV news report and cellphone video on a more humane method of managing an EXD case, thanks to police training, putting safety of the subject and of bystanders first, rather than restraints. However, no details are given about the outcome or the drug dose. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qCqjuqEWEc
[13] https://columnhealth.com/blog_posts/why-is-fentanyl-so-dangerous/ . Deaths from fentanyl have skyrocketed in the last seven years. In one incident in California, superlethal fentanyl doses of 53 ng/mL were successfully reversed with intravenous naloxone. However, some patients were dead on arrival. https://www.drugs.com/illicit/fentanyl.html
[14] Wikipedia has a detailed narrative of the incident here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_George_Floyd . Certain notes there support the thesis of fentanyl intoxication, and resisting arrest as part of an EXD syndrome. Floyd struggled with Lane before leaving his own vehicle, and again when Kueng, then all four officers, tried to get him into the squad car. Floyd already complained he couldn't breathe before they tried to get him into the police car, without any neck restraint, indicating the onset of respiratory depression from fentanyl. https://abcnews.go.com/US/george-floyd-protest-updates-arrests-america-approaching-10000/story?id=71038665 "They all tried to force Floyd into the backseat, during which time Floyd said he could not breathe, according to the complaint."
He also fell down twice, which could be seen either as a sign of intoxication or resisting arrest. The officers knew it was a drug overdose, as Thao told bystanders, "This is why you don't do drugs, kids." By the way, this Wikipedia article should be named "Death of George Floyd," as an accused is innocent until proven guilty.
[18] http://www.forensicmed.co.uk/science/toxicology/cocaine/ , https://academic.oup.com/jat/article/38/1/46/831276
[19] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/us/tony-timpa-dallas-police-body-cam.html
[20] "Probably negligible involvement of position in contribution of death in cases of excited delirium, although allowing patients to breathe effectively is obviously important." https://emergencymedicinecases.com/episode-3-excited-delirium/
[21] "According to Dr. Assaad Sayah, Chief of Emergency Medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance, Excited Delirium Syndrome can be best explained as a 'physical response to an actual psychological [or drug] problem resulting in their autonomic systems producing too much adrenaline.' Dr. Sayah analogizes it to 'having too much nitrous in a car; eventually the engine will blow up.' In most cases, the cause of death is either 'a heart attack or, less frequently, respiratory failure.' Dr. Vincent Di Maio estimated that Excited Delirium Syndrome kills 800 people every year in police altercations because the victims "are just overexciting [their] heart from the drugs and from the struggle.'" Op. cit. https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1379&context=lj
Anon [223] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 4:11 am GMT
I think more likely he died of a Covid-19 induced heart attack. Heart disease is the #1 comorbidity of Covid19. Doctors have talked about patients of Covid19 dying of sudden heart attacks at a high rate. Floyd was Covid19 positive, and he also had heart disease and hypertension, the top two comorbidity of Covid19.R.C. , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 4:12 am GMT
That is over three times the lethal overdose, following earlier reports where the highest dose survived was 4.6 ng/mL.SOL , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 4:38 am GMT
Good points. And before this, all we ever heard about was how deadly fentanyl is. It killed Tom Petty and is so potent, it killed him via skin absorption! Now, however, the Back Flow Media (BFM) ;-), has agendas to push and truth ain't one of them.
Unfortunately, those who need to learn these facts have no interest in truth. Logic, reason, common sense, and all such things are thrown out; instead, the mob controls based upon who yells the loudest, not who makes the most fact-based sense.
Excellent work. Unfortunately, the revolutionaries exploiting his death don't care about the truth.obwandiyag , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 4:55 am GMT
People don't riot over the specific police murder that sets it off. They riot because they are sick and tired of the ways cops treat them–one of the ways being to murder them. If you don't like the Floyd murder, I got a couple thousand other cop murders for ya, and I would like to see you write such a stirring defense of cop-killed bodies riddled with hundreds of rounds of automatic weapons fire. Including all the dead white people.Anonymous [456] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:11 am GMT
No denying that Floyd was a thug. Neither would any amount of denying alter the fact that he died at the hand – rather the knee – of a racist cop. Get over it, supremacists.Cranberries , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:16 am GMT
anonymous1963 , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:29 am GMTThis fentanyl concentration, including its norfentanyl metabolite at its molecular weight, was 20.6 ng/mL
Might help for someone to explain this calculation, since simply summing the fentanyl and norfentanyl concentrations gives 16.6, not 20.6.
It really does not matter. The Jewish mainstream media has tried and convicted the officers. They will never get a fair trial and are screwed. Saint George will have to be avenged or there will be more riots, arson and looting which the same degenerate media will call "protests".Franz , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:30 am GMT
So they could have left him alone and he would have died anyway, another statistic.Hang All Text Drivers , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:45 am GMTIt does imply intrusive policing invites unintended consequences. For the counterfeit $20, a summons would have been sufficient. Then George could have crawled off, go home to Jesus, and we could have been spared the phoniest and most overblown freak show since the Fall of Babylon.
Let them patrol their own 'hoods and be done with all this.
@R.C. """"the mob controls based upon who yells the loudest, not who makes the most fact-based sense."""Wuok , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:54 am GMTWrong – Yelling loud does not matter. If you are anti-white the press is on your side no matter how softly you speak.
But why he didn't die before the police placed his knee on his neck?Thulean Friend , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:54 am GMT
Fentanyl Floyd was a drug peddler and a petty criminal who got caught in the act of selling drugs by patrolling police. Panicking, he swallowed his own stash and overdosed as a result. Now he is being retconned into a saint.Robert Dolan , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 6:05 am GMT
I suspect the F killed the man, but you will never convince the negroes, and the Jmedia will never reveal the truth anyway.Gleimhart Mantooso , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 6:06 am GMT
At this point I think the universe is just trolling us for the fun of it.Sean , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 6:10 am GMT
I think Floyd was being passive aggressive rather than resisting as such. What was done to him by Chaving was punishment out of frustration, but the duration was well outside normal practice.Ficino , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 6:35 am GMTFloyd already began to complain "I can't breathe" a few minutes before the neck restraint was applied,
That will be a dangerous argument for Chauvin's defence counsel to make to the court, because it will be opening the door to a telling counter argument: Floyd's breathing was restricted after he reported respiratory distress.
If it was a Fentanyl overdose they ought to have given him Narcan antidote, not put weight on his ribcage while he was face down and his hands cuffed behind him; a contributory cause according to the autopsy, which found wrist bruises.
@Anon There's no such thing as a heart attack induced by covid-19.Sparkylyle92 , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 6:45 am GMT
People who have been hospitalized for heart disease, and subsequently test positive for covid-19, don't usually die from the virus they die from their underlying heart disease condition.
I saw the video. Looked like just another hoax to me. Weight on his other knee, looking right at the camera while "killing" someone, yada yada. Officer Chauvin, fer Chrissake. Officer Racist would be too much even for stupid goyim. 8 minutes my ass. Aces and eights anyone? The point of this fentenyl dohicky is to pretend it really happened. Just another deep state psyop I say. But go ahead and argue about it. Makes it easier to steal 10 trillion from the US taxpayer.Biff , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 7:01 am GMT
This guy is channeling Johnny Cochran. Yes, we know O.J. didn't do it either, because Nicole Brown was high on lethal amounts of cocaine, and Ron Goldman was mainlining deadly amounts of horse(heads almost fall off when this happens)ICANREAD , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 7:23 am GMTYou see, the amount of imaginary fantasy is endless which feeds the inter-civilian war of people-against-people while the State remains blissfully secure knowing that those who control the media(narrative) will always win
Otherwise, yea, we get it, the police are always honest, justice is blind, your vote counts, your money is secure, god loves you, the vaccine is harmless, and your children are doing a great service by telling the government instructor(school teacher) that you smoke pot, so the state can seize everything you own.
Your underlying analysis is incorrect. People overdose at much higher levels and live through it. Maybe the cops should have been more interested in why he was presenting in an altered state and called an EMT, than carting him off to jail for a possible forged $20 bill.goldgettin , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 8:18 am GMTSee http://uthscsa.edu/ARTT/AddictionJC/2020-02-11-Sutter.pdf
The mean serum concentrations of fentanyl in their patients was (52.9 ng/mL) with a range of 7.9-162.3 ng/ml.
One of the 18 patients died in hospital. Five patients underwent cardiopulmonary resuscitation, one required extracorporeal life support, three required intubation, and two received bag-valve-mask ventilation. One patient had recurrence of toxicity after 8 hours after naloxone discontinuation. Seventeen of 18 patients required boluses of naloxone, and four required prolonged naloxone infusions (26–39 hours). All 18 patients tested positive for fentanyl in the serum. Quantitative assays conducted in 13 of the sera revealed fentanyl concentrations of 7.9 to 162 ng/mL (mean = 52.9 ng/mL).
The author starts one paragraph with "in conclusion", LOL again LOLRouterAl , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 8:29 am GMT
Once again missing the point,intentionally,misdirecting. It's a FALSE FLAGStreet theater duh, set up Fromthestart. Plandemic.Seriously,it creates jobs.
Liars oops I mean lawyers,oops I mean poly ticks,locally,nationally,
all the way to the jewdicial branch and congress and beyond.GET REAL.It's far worse than that.An elder told me they don't believe in IQ.
The facts and investigations and evidence don't do nuffin after the incurred LOSS
of SO much time,money,energy,community,productivity,confidence,SANITY etc.
THIS is COUP and" it's no where near in conclusion." that's my comment,thanks
peace,love, life
Excellent article which should be on the front page of every major paper in the USA. The part on the Excited Delirium Syndrome is new to me but it's interesting .It illustrates nicely this civil disorder has nothing to do with Mr Floyd. I just hope officer Chauvins defence team makes good use of this information.Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist , says: Website Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 8:38 am GMT
As a retired pharmacist I'm surprised by the use of fentanyl as a drug of abuse. The therapeutic dose banding is very small, its very potent , it is a very short acting drug and it's a drug that only an anaesthetist should consider using or abusing. Its a very potent respiratory depressant that has a nasty habit of producing a delayed action hours after the affect has apparently worn off. Fentanyl also causes heart slowing and any anaesthetist would give other drugs to counter that effect to keep the patient under control.Now lets look at the photo of other officers using the correct Israeli defence force pin down
Notice that the knee and leg not doing the pinning is not on the ground therefore all the weight of the body is brought to bear on the victims neck and the major blood vessels under the knee. Now look at officer Caulvin his right boot toe is on the ground along with his right knee. Try it yourselves on a pillow, you cannot bring any force to bear , at best you are holding someone with that pose. He also looks under no stress from Mr Floyd with his hold. At 5′ 8" I would be using the IDF method if I had to restrain Mr Floyd, but lets be honest I would avoid him full stop. There is also the fun part of trying to hit and subdue someone who thanks the the Fentanyl in his system would feel little pain.
This whole thing looks very suspicious to me , and the speed with which the thing went global even more suspicious. The speed that people appeared with expensive t-shirts and hoodies all bearing
"I cannot breath" printed on the front in many locations simultaneously along with the piles of bricks and attacks on statues has a pre-planned Soros and Antifa agenda all over it.
I'm sure that the author of this article, who I assume isn't a drug addict, will be totally fine if a racist white thug in uniform with a history of murdering people knelt on his neck for nine minutes with its hands in its pockets. Yes, it was the drugs all along!anon [161] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 8:41 am GMT
vot tak , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 8:55 am GMTHis ability to resist four officers trying to get him into the squad car is typical of EXD cases.
When did this happen, exactly? The security cam video show that two [2] officers succeeded to get Floyd into the back seat of the cruiser. Then, one officer pulled him out on the other side.
I've read plenty about ExD, and believe that Chauvin will make a successful defense. Your '4 men failed' spared me reading this long slog.
Gotta protect those israeli occupation troops at all costs and keep their colonial police state (that's the usa, neanderthals) a colonial police state. Should those dumb goy animals unite and force our quislings out, who knows what might befall our "sacred homeland".animalogic , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 9:24 am GMT
Did drugs kill George Floyd ? Does it matter ?Anonymous [178] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 9:26 am GMT
This affair is one of public perception.
The perception IS that Chauvin used excessive force. The guy died after that "force" whether excessive or not. People, rightly or wrongly see cause & effect.
As for your points about overdose ? Fairly weak. Every minute that passes the likelihood of overdose decreases. Overdoses don't hide in your system for 20 minutes (excluding digestion or assimilation) & then jump out & shut down your heart.
Floyd may have appeared intoxicated, but he also appeared functional for a "normal" unstressful setting.
He sat down, handcuffed, against a wall for some minutes without "losing it".
Also interesting -- they had him in the police car -- then dragged him out for lack of compliance. Why ? Let him sit in the locked, secure police back seat, So he screams & makes a fuss ? Arrestees are known to do that. But no, they drag him out (still handcuffed) & THREE of them get on top of him: one on legs, one on the torso, & one on his neck. And stay that way for nearly 9 minutes. And its not like they don't know he's physically problematic -- they call the EMS early on.
Now lets imagine that you have a problem with your heart or breathing (he tells them numerous times about his breathing, not necessarily entirely from physical airway blockage, but from panic -- psychology rendering the act of breathing difficult )– would being pinned to the road by 3 burly men, one of them exerting some pressure on your neck not cause some degree of panic ? Could some people be near to literally shitting themselves from panic ? Would such fear & panic not be contraindicated in a man for whom you have already called the EMS ?
Funny thing, was I a police man I would have asked Floyd to sit in his car (yes, take his keys & guard him) while I had a look at this so-called counterfeit bill. I mean, that's the point isn't it ? this whole abortion rests on passing a dodgy $ 20. (Knowingly passing: I wonder how many shonky US bills there are out there millions ?).
So Floyd is probably a scumbag -- so ? The whole affair looks appalling. And that really IS the point here.
"Systemic racism" is simply POC and non-European descended Whites saying that they cannot live in Western (or, indeed, industrial) society,gotmituns , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 9:34 am GMT
The POC are correct in this. Who, after all, is qualified to tell them that they are wrong? George Floyd was destroyed by "systemic racism" in the above sense. Even East Asians and South Asians with high enough IQ and sufficient emotional control to live in Western (industrial) society strongly condemn the lack of organization in such societies, and the absence of the protective social organizations (caste, a directive government/social organization) that are characteristic of their homelands. Middle Eastern Whites condemn the absence of the tribal / honor / religious system that characterizes their countries of origin.
POC and non-European descended Whites want Western ( industrial) society changed or destroyed for their benefit.
This is a serious and irresolvable conflict of interest, for the European descended Whites are just as unable to live in the home societies of various POC and non-European descended White groups as these groups are unable to live in Western (industrial) society.Note that the above irresolvable conflict of interest is not ever discussed directly. This is characteristic of major irresolvable conflicts of interest. WW II is a good example of this (see the American Pravda articles, unz.com , for support of this assertion). All of the participants (except possibly Hitler, who apparently wanted a European Empire allied to the British Empire) thought it was "them or us" (hence the "unconditional surrender" demands from the Allies), and thus had strong reasons for fighting. These reasons were not used in propaganda by any side. Propaganda based on self interest of the "only one Empire will survive" type makes poor propaganda. So does propaganda based on what amounts to a multi-sided volkwandering ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswanderung ), which is what we seem to be entering into.
Good propaganda is smoke -- mythic appeals, but to a non-applicable myth, with irrelevant "proof". George Floyd is an example of how this is supposed to work.
The interesting thing about this situation is that it is the OC and non-European descended Whites are the ones insisting that they cannot live in the West / industrial civilization. Granted that the Left wing of the Democratic Party is the proximate cause of the current offensive, attempted Antifa leadership of the offensive has been largely repudiated or simply ignored by the various POC. Understanding the basics of this situation requires that the objections of the POC and non-European descended Whites be taken seriously and understood, as I have tried to do above.
Doesn't matter what theniggerdied of. They're going to get the White guy no matter what.Jud Jackson , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 9:49 am GMT
Fantastic Article!! I just hope the cop is acquitted.Emily , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 10:03 am GMT
@Sean If it was a Fentanyl overdose they ought to have given him Narcan antidote,Moi , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 10:08 am GMTAre you serious?
These cops meant to make an instant medical diagnosis.
Decide the problem and drug involved.
Produce an antidote.
And administer it.
What planet are you on?
And had they administered the wrong drug .?
They would be crucified as well.
Its hard to believe you can really believe that comment yourself.
Its sheer prejudice and blah for BLM.
And a grossly unfair accusation.
@anonymous1963 Three points:Anon4578 , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 10:08 am GMT*Since the MSM and many of our leaders are in sync with BLM, we should just turn the country over to them since they've done a great job within their own "neighborhoods."
*It's pretty useless to say the MSM loves BLM. The MSM does what the folks who control/own it tell it to do.
*Per BLM's demand, cops should stop patrolling black neighborhoods and instead boost patrolling non-black neighborhoods to reduce crime there.
Police were not arresting him for the counterfeit bill. If you pass a counterfeit bill you are interviewed by police so they can attempt to trace its origin.onebornfree , says: Website Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 10:15 am GMTWhere did you get cash?
Where do you cash your checks?
Did you get this as change for a larger bill? Where?
He was detained because when they came up to him in the car he was obviously intoxicated and behind the wheel. Also rewatch the security tape and see the cop talks to him for 2 minutes and at one point is so worried by whatever Floyd was doing he unholstered his gun but didn't point it. Floyd also had no ID on him.
So it's a cascade of events that lead to his arrest. Police can't ID an intoxicated person behind the wheel of a car. Try to get him out of the car and he immediately starts resisting.
@Sparkylyle92 " I saw the video. Looked like just another hoax to me"steve K. , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 10:15 am GMTHere's an excellent analysis of 3 of the alleged live, completely contradictory videos on this alleged event, which quite clearly show it to be hoax perpetrated via crisis actors, fake police and EMT's. :
https://www.bitchute.com/embed/OItT0WD55x0w/
Regards, onebornfree
@Anonymous And what evidence do you have that Chauvin was racist? Is it because all white people are racist?padre , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 10:33 am GMT
What's the difference, does it mean that police should continue with their practice, till they choke a healthy person?Rich , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 10:45 am GMT
@Anonymous I'm curious about this "racist cop" trope that's become pretty common. Is it common for "racists" to be married to someone of another race as Chauvin is? I'd think a "racist" would favor a spouse of their own race, no? Seems to me, to you crazies on the left, Pale skin makes a person a "racist ". It's become a truth in America that the only definition of "racist" is White. The word is, therefore, meaningless. Floyd died because of his drug use and criminal activity. Not a knee on the back of his neck.Moi , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 10:45 am GMT
@SOL I second that. Problem is there is no satisfying the BLM folks. They are suffering from PTSD because of our history of slavery. This is sort of like vets who have PTSD, but the key difference being vets actually participated in a war whereas no black living was a part of our history of slavery.journey80 , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 10:57 am GMTThe solution is for the BLM and lgbtqi folks to join forces and put forth a black tranny candidate to solve all our problems.
Why should we believe the "report"? why not believe our lying eyes? Who released this "report"? Where is an independent verification? I'll wait, thanks, for a report that has been released by an independent source that is confirmed by the family.anon [392] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 10:58 am GMT
The ADL is the rabid hate group and a threat to society.Contraviews , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 11:19 am GMT
If this is the case, if it is true the officers should have a very strong defence in court.Emslander , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 11:25 am GMT
anon [392] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 11:31 am GMTI'm sure that the author of this article, who I assume isn't a drug addict, will be totally fine if a racist white thug in uniform with a history of murdering people knelt on his neck for nine minutes with its hands in its pockets. Yes, it was the drugs all along!
When I see a comment like this on an article as closely reasoned and supported as this one, I wonder whether public schools teach the ability to read.
You can check my previous posts and see that these are precisely the points I made from a very casual glance at the autopsy report and a little knowledge of police motivations. That was right after the incident occurred. Videos and photos are very poor evidence because they only raise emotional response.
Thank you, Ron Unz, for being brave enough to publish this article.
@onebornfree ..hall of fame vs their sandy hoaxEliteCommInc. , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 11:40 am GMT
laughing.Fred777 , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 11:44 am GMTI guess the defense is entitled to a defense. I guess that is the benefit of having two coroner's reports. The skill and advocacy of the police unions to manufacture alternative theories and creates smoke as defense is light years ahead of antifa, BLM or the KKKK.
Te problem with the the current system is not dug induced males sitting on their cars o falling asleep in drive thrus or jogging in around empty construction sites or waiting for tow trucks, or selling cigarettes, or avoiding creepy guys stalking the in apartment complexes, or sleeping in their beds or or walking with some white women --
It's the loss of credibility. The police unions can have the officers walk out as they ave routinely done as a means of black mail holding cities hostage, but at the end of the day, what technology is doing is unavailing a side of Wyatt Earp the public would rather not see even if they know what's up. It's the system in a manner of exposure unlike it's even been used to. It's the collapse of the arguments for invading countries that are not a threat. It's the collapse of the internal dialogues among the agencies in multiple arenas of government force. It's Ruby Ridge, It's Waco, It's Baltimore, It's Fergusaon. It's Oakland. It's Baton Rouge. It's New Jersey. It's . . . It's balloting were the 1 per-center is suddenly number one,. Utter nonsense such as written in the Fergason Report. It's nonsense such as the Ferguson Effect.It's a news system, that is serious doubt. It's bail out for WS, repeatedly and then throwing the payees f bail out out of works. It is stagnant wages. It's hiring and executive to make a serious shift ad the best he could do hire ore part time citizens and embrace more immigrants.
It's the system saying it's not the system. It;s loosening up credit for businesses and the rules for consumers tighter. It's watching something on film as it happens and then being told what you saw is not what happened.
It's the unmasking of tactics used by the system to shield itself from accountability. And perhaps worst of all, we believing what the system tells us because believing reality is just to tough a road to to travel. It is the system saying . . . it's not the system.
-- -- --
uhh No. I didn't believe there was a reason to invade Ira or Afghanistan or any of the subsequent intentions by the former Vietnam protester "we lost Vietnam" crowd as I am that Mr. Floyd died from a drug overdoese.
And none of the smoke and mirrors: that Pres Hussein was a bad person, that the Taliban were in on 9/11, that the family occupying Ruby Ridge were Nazis, Mr. Koresh was a demon, there's a Fergason Effect, that blacks are just bad innately and whites are angelic beings along with browns and yellows worthy of pass, or that IQ is destined by some unique, unknown and unseen genetic code, that the Russians sabotaged US elections, . . . or US lost Vietnam (no it did not). If I start buying onto the nonsense spouted as truth to escape accountability before you know it, I will start advocating that slaves were just immigrants coming the continent for better jobs and life.
And cows rally do jump over the moon.
@Moi BLM having PTSD over slavery would be like an Air Force veteran who served in the 1990s having PTSD over hitting Omaha Beach in the first wave.Wizard of Oz , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 11:46 am GMT
@Sean Apart from Emily's point I note that you state that Chauvin constricted Floyd's breathing without evidence despite it not being accepted by the author of the article.Z-man , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 11:47 am GMT
This proves, the sainthood of a very simian looking convicted criminal doped up coon, that you can fool some of the people all of the time. The Jooz are laughing all the way to the ban total control of the World.Jim Bob Lassiter , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 11:47 am GMT
@obwandiyag Well let's have 'em (couple of thousand cop murders) . And don't forget to include Ruby Ridge and Waco, Texas.Sick of Orcs , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 11:48 am GMT
Segregation worked. Hard to believe it's just sitting on the shelf, unused.Jim Bob Lassiter , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 11:51 am GMTAccess to Whites is not a right.
@Anon4578 A passer of counterfeit bills is typically given an opportunity by the cheated merchant to make him whole before the cops are called. Saint George, for whatever reasons, didn't avail himself of the opportunity extended to him to do just that.Jim Bob Lassiter , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 11:54 am GMT
@Wuok He prolly would have had they just left him alone. Then they'd be in jail for failure to render first aid. The rioting would have still happened. Heads or tails, you lose with niggers.gotmituns , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 11:59 am GMT
@Rich Chauvin was probably a screaming liberal until he got involved with the chink. The thing about chinks is they're known to hate everyone equally who isn't a chink.Steve in Greensboro , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 12:12 pm GMT
@Anonymous Did you read the article? Seems pretty convincing to me.Felix Krull , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 12:21 pm GMT
It is strange that George Floyd's case is taken as proof of systemic racism, when Tony Timpa got much worse treatment -- even though Timpa hadn't committed any crime, had no police record, and even called 911 himself.Redman , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 12:26 pm GMTThat is not strange. The reason BLM choose cases where the policeman only did their job is because otherwise, they'll risk seeing the policeman go to jail, and then there'd be no systemic racism to rail against. Only when you are sure the policeman will be exonerated in a court of law, can you rile the animals without risking the party coming to an end before the music even starts.
@Anonymous And proof of that racism would be what exactly?DanFromCT , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 12:28 pm GMT
@RouterAl For the time being, an educated comment like yours gets a hearing, in contrast to the unreasoned moral posturing of so many others here. For so long as they can hide behind "good intentions," they can run from inconvenient facts. UR recently featured an article and comments on Dietrich Doerner's Logic of Failure , which says it best about these disgusting phonies who'd never dream of reexamining their positions based on the horrors they cause.Redman , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 12:28 pm GMT"In our political environment, it would seem, we are surrounded on all sides with good intentions. But the nurturing of good intentions is an utterly undemanding mental exercise, while drafting plans to realize those worthy goals is another matter. Moreover, it is far from clear whether "good intentions plus stupidity" or "evil intentions plus intelligence" have wrought more harm in the world. People with good intentions usually have few qualms about pursuing their goals. As a result, incompetence that would otherwise have remained harmless often becomes dangerous, especially as incompetent people with good intentions rarely suffer the qualms of conscience that sometimes inhibit the doings of competent people with bad intentions. The conviction that our intentions are unquestionably good may sanctify the most questionable means.
Excerpt From
The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations
Dietrich Dorner
This material may be protected by copyright.
@Thulean Friend What exactly did happen to the white substance that clearly fell out of his left pocket while against the wall? Odd nobody mentions that.wlindsaywheeler , says: Website Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 12:31 pm GMT
George killed himself. He took a lethal overdose of Fentanyl. The meth and the fentanyl combined cause delirium and heart problems. These two drugs caused what is called "Excited Delirium Syndrome" which is usually fatal.annamaria , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 12:44 pm GMThttps://medium.com/@gavrilodavid/why-derek-chauvin-may-get-off-his-murder-charge-2e2ad8d0911
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2263095/
http://www.progressivepress.com/blog-entry/death-rides-fast-horse-black-life-shattered-dope
When the officers pulled him out of the Mercedes–he was already foaming at the mouth. These four officers need to be released and given their jobs back. Their arrests are just a lynch mob by the liberal establishment. George killed George. He gambled with his life, put himself in that position with allegedly passing counterfeit money. Furthermore, George was DWI; he was sitting in the drivers seat. Even though you are not driving, sitting in the driver's seat is DWI, Driving while impaired. Who needs to be arrested is the Drug Dealer that sold him the Fentanyl.
Moreover, Excited Delirium syndrome causes "Wooden Chest". That is what George was experiencing, His drug cocktail killed him.
@R.C. Reality check for the "revolutionaries:"annamaria , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 12:49 pm GMT
https://www.hannenabintuherland.com/europa/whites-were-slaves-in-north-africa-before-blacks-were-slaves-new-world1 million to 1.25 million Europeans were enslaved in North Africa, from the beginning of the 16th century to the middle of the 18th, by slave traders from Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli alone (these numbers do not include the European people who were enslaved by Morocco and by other raiders and traders of the Mediterranean Sea coast)
"From bases on the Barbary coast, North Africa, the Barbary pirates raided ships traveling through the Mediterranean and along the northern and western coasts of Africa, plundering their cargo and enslaving the people they captured."
From at least 1500, the pirates also conducted raids along seaside towns of Italy, Spain, France, England, the Netherlands and as far away as Iceland, capturing men, women and children.
On some occasions, settlements such as Baltimore, Ireland were abandoned following the raid, only being resettled many years later. Between 1609 and 1616, England alone had 466 merchant ships lost to Barbary pirates.
@Anonymous Are you sure that you are not a racist or a progeny of racists?VinnyVette , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 12:49 pm GMTAs Confederate statues are torn down in the USA, one wonders: Are we going to ask Egypt to change its name, tear down its pyramids which were built by slaves too? And destroy mummies of pharaohs that had slaves?
Are the black tribes of Africa, the ones who sold the slaves they took from other tribes when at war and sold to the Arab slave traders, are we going to change the names of those African tribes too? And tear down the names of their leaders?
No comments? Here is more:
Regarding white slaves in Africa and black slaves in the New World, it is often overlooked that slaves were enslaved before they were bought and sold by Jews, Arabs, and Gentiles. The unasked question is: Who enslaved them?
Things that used to be true before political correctness set in: More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States.
All this obsessing over what pretty boy George died of is irrelevant. Cops putting their knee on the neck, the most vulnerable part of the human body is wrong period! No sympathy for the thug, he was a menace to society. What should be obsessed over is police culture has not been to "protect and serve" since at least the 70's. They see themselves as "at war" with the whole of society, from the suburban soccer mom to the ghetto thug.JQ , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 1:00 pm GMT
It's widely known cops will take a routine traffic stop, and poke and prod at the driver to try to rile them up and get the person to react and give the cop an attitude to escalate the interaction into an altercation. In the suburbs, quiet rural areas it matters not. Race matters not. They'll pull this shit in the most docile neighborhoods, with the most docile of people, regardless of color.
I'm neither pro cop or anti cop, I see them as a necessary evil. They'd be a hell of alot less evil if reforms were made in their attitude toward the public at large, and if they were held accountable for all their various abuses of power. They also need their privileged status as some sort of exalted special class "above the public" obliterated! Cops on the whole are some of the most corrupt, anti social, sadistic people in society. I know many of them personally, both city and suburban.
As much as I dislike the rioting, looting, arson and chaos, I'm enjoying the karmic retribution the boys in blue in receiving.
@obwandiyag It could also be that a certain race is a bit more prone to get into drugs, crime, prostitution,Biff , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 1:06 pm GMT
and so on. And truth to be told hard work is not in their DNA. As long as you keep
denying FACTS this will never end.Canada has to bring thousands of Mexicans and Guatemalans to work on the farm fields,
while half of this people are on welfare, and when they do work they only want easy jobs,
bus drivers, taxi drivers, or for the governments where most of the time they just don't perform
as well. In the mean time people like me are being taxed close to 60% to pay for all these social programs which only benefits the laziest
@Rich171 , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 1:07 pm GMTIs it common for "racists" to be married to someone of another race as Chauvin is?
Yes.
File that one under "dumb question" ..
Since when gross injustice against a once subdued person legitimate anti-humanity? That is how, to a naive person consumes daily propaganda by the usa government and their presstitute which reflect an appearance of "good america" while genuinely reflecting a clandestine disdain for what is right or such unjustified violence cloaked under the line of duty against the general population would not be so common in the touted "land of the free." The magnet (of the peaceful protesters from australia, to europe and latin america) is not to a "good free land of jewmerica" but to the missing and lack of legitimate Justice parroted along with the moral compass touted by the usa government and their law enforcement while the true reality of irrectitude makes itself apparent in videos such as the one of George floyd's unjustified assassination/murder, where unjustified violence is evident. Thus, with these uncensored videos by the peaceful population or general public of the usa, the truth did not remain hidden by manipulated narratives of the jew-owned presstitute and media in favor of the cia/usa government flavor of their wicked ideology preference while cloaked in sheep's clothing.ploni almoni , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 1:16 pm GMTIn conclusion, When an individual poses a serious threat to an officer or another individual, according to the National Institute of Justice, the "peace-officer" (as they are glorifyingly touted) is generally authorized by law to use lethal weapons (i.e., firearms) to protect himself or herself or others by stopping the individual's actions. You don't want to realize that there is IRREFUTABLY no serious threat nor danger to life once a person (of any color in handcuffs as the estate of George Floyd was and many others) is subdued. And, those marching (or rather peacefully protesting to show solidarity) in many other foreign nation states display how morally magnetic is the actual legitimate axiom of the interest of justice because that no democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.
Calling all trolls: discuss this as if it were a real event to demoralize and confuse the public and prevent them from acting.follyofwar , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 1:25 pm GMT
@Jud Jackson Could the authorities risk an acquittal? Or might Chauvin suffer the same fate as Epstein?Truth3 , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 1:32 pm GMT
Truth no longer matters toTazer 2.0 , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 1:34 pm GMTNegroes.
Faggots.
Trannies.
Women.
Democrats.
It never mattered to Jews. Falsehood and Sophistry is their weapon of choice.
I don't care so much for the cops since they would put you in a cage with these animals for thought crimes like posing the JQ and denying the Holycaust without any hesitation at all. They are paid mercs and sometimes they get burned. Similarly the light property damage incurred by corporate storefronts and reduction in quality of life for liberal urban dwellers is not at all a concern for me, and I honestly hope this goes on in perpetuity until the statistical reality of black crime is literally beaten into their skulls. As for George Floyd he will no longer be producing any more of his ilk. He was set to marry a lower class white woman and open an establishment eponymously named the Konvict Kitchen, all in defiance of the principles of nuptiality and common decency. The former enhances black criminality by combining pathological white genes from the classes which in Europe would have their breeding restricted by cultural and economic constraints but are allowed to flourish here generating trailer parks and white trash that with miscegenation and negrification are as much of a danger to society as the the African type they complement.anon [427] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 1:41 pm GMTIn any case having seen the footage from these events it strikes me that these cops are themselves very unintelligent. In the case of the Atlanta negro aptly named Rayshard they were inclined to play junior detective and gameshow host for upwards of 30 minutes when it was obvious that they should have immediately incapacitated the feral groid and dragged him away from a motor vehicle capable of causing far more damage than the plastic dart guns they ended up wrestling over. Instead they allowed the monkey to shuck and jive for what seemed like an hour repeating the same inane phrases over and over again. I would have been inclined to dump a mag in the baboon at the 2 minute mark. These two men were themselves products of negrification and no doubt they likened the ill-fated negro to their favorite afleets and sports stars they worship on TV, giving him chance after chance to behave like a human being with around a standard deviation more aptitude than they should have given him credit for. If they had a choice between the ineffective Taser device and a firearm they ended up using it would have gone better.
I think this country is screwed in the long run and I just hope it ends in fireworks. The long and inexorable drag into stupidity is maddening.
I doubt anyone cares what he died from, they can just go "change" their signs to some guy in Georgia. They all look like hoaxes but they needed something for "change" to happen. Back to online petitions and countless fake hoaxes and more toppling anything whuhhh, and more historical revision to erase whuhhhh, can't even spell it anymore.JimDandy , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 1:41 pm GMT
Who called the police on the martyrs? Why would a black person call the police on a black man asleep in the line at Wendy's in Georgia, when they could have just drove around him. Why have the white police bother him? It all just looks like more lefty "change" helped out by the good folks at Netflix or something.
@obwandiyag Yet they always seem to pick a loser. Funny, eh?backup , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 1:43 pm GMTAnd how dare you bring WHITE victims into this?!!! This is about BLACK victims and WHITE oppressors. GOT IT?!
He also had sickle cell anemia. The coronary report mention a lot of "sickled" cells, but only postmortem. It is knows that sufferers of SCD show that kind of pattern: Death induces it. However, George Floyd was also COVID19 positive, and there are signs that COVID19 decreases Hemoglobin levels:Anonymous [208] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 1:43 pm GMTPrimate models of Covid-19 (Munster 2020) and human Covid-19 patients have subnormal haemoglobin levels (Chen 2020). Clinical evaluationof almost 100 Wuhan patients reveals haemoglobin levels below the normal range in most patients as well as increased total bilirubin and elevated serum ferritin (Chen 2020). Hyperbilirubinemia is observed in acute porphyria (Sassa 2006) and would be consistent with ineffective erythropoiesis (Sulovska 2016) and rapid haemoglobin turnover.
https://osf.io/4wkfy/download/?format=pdf&usg=AOvVaw2aUKMUoT-E7lUm0WvwqQaj
People with SCD can suffer from other viruses causing anemia, without showing sickled cells:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_cell_disease#Aplastic_crisis
@ICANREAD They did call the EMTs. That's what they were waiting for. Maybe you shouldn't try to analyze the situation until after you learn what the situation involved?JimDandy , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 1:48 pm GMT
@Wuok He was dying before he even left the car. He collapsed when they pulled him out of it. He collapsed after they helped him walk to the wall. He was complaining that he couldn't breathe before he had a knee on his neck. My sense was that when he saw the cops were coming for him, he swallowed his drugs. Pretty common.Anon [375] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 1:52 pm GMT
@obwandiyag I basically agree.JimDandy , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 1:59 pm GMTThis was also about the McMichael shooting. And the entire Trump presidency.
@EliteCommInc. And criminals who break into pregnant women's houses and jam guns into their pregnant guts really do get their just deserts when they hastily swallow all the drugs they were dealing to avoid going back to the joint.EliteCommInc. , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 2:00 pm GMT
"It is strange that George Floyd's case is taken as proof of systemic racism, when Tony Timpa got much worse treatment -- even though Timpa hadn't committed any crime, had no police record, and even called 911 himself."Anon [375] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 2:01 pm GMTIt would b strange if what you said was accurate.
enforcement, It is not singular artifact.I is not any singular death, not even a group of deaths that are rare at the hands of police. It's the ten million plus arrests misdemeanors primarily that end with violence against unarmed citizens that are disproportionately used with respect to african americans it's the related history. It is the sentencing. It is the pea bargain system . . .
It's the crack vs regular cacaine narratives nonsense, it is the rhetorical dialogue -- it is not one single thing, but a compendium of constructs across the country over time.
@Anon It seems more likely that the heart attack came because the heart was overworked due to low blood-oxygen levels due to the sedated breathing from the opioid.Sokrates , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 2:01 pm GMT
@animalogic Are you member of BLM?chuckywiz , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 2:05 pm GMT
Go tell these crap to a decent jury
Such analysis is diversion from the main discussion. It does not matter if Floyd was on drugs or a criminal. Why was he treated brutally by the police. Too much power given to the law enforcement. And the bad apples always take advantage of it. Observe the way they walk. No sign of humility or being a servant of society or a protector.Zarathustra , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 2:13 pm GMT
Race riots yes. but so many whites and no African Americans are rioting, too. It is economic disparity and hopelessness, stupid, and that is what the pundits are avoiding purposely.
Brilliant presentation.tradecraft46 , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 2:18 pm GMT
I was arrested one time and was put into car. Interestingly enough I had difficulty breathing and I did not have any drugs in me.
I did ask officer to open window in the car but he did not. He did not care.
Who cares, nits make lice .Juckett , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 2:24 pm GMT
@SOL Exactly. They would not even spend the time to read this excellent example of actual journalism.Emily , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 2:25 pm GMT
Their hatred blinds them to all facts.
Talking time is over. Balkanize the failed multi-cultural experiment. Ethnostate is NEEDED.
Separate from Hate.
Anyone else getting rather peed off by the huge donations to BLM, apparently about to flow in – as reparations for the proceeds from slavery by Briitish firms.fnn , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 2:33 pm GMT
Seems to me these companies should be starting at home.
What about the proceeds from mills and factories here in England where the labour was little more than slavery.
Forced on the poor for pathetic and utterly meagre wages – amounting to slavery – as the option to the 'poor house'.
Children of seven working 12 hours a day for pennies.
Many dying and crippled by the machinery under which they had to scrabble.
I am sure there are millions – not least up north – who would very much like some recognition for the quite awful exploitation of their forebears.
Oops – sorry – they all have white faces and are not prepared to commit mayhem, arson and criminal damage to support any claim.
Time, maybe to start, it works.
Maybe we less than aristocratic English people should start a few demands in payment for the terrible conditions of the industrial 'revolution', for the Victorian slums, more appalling than black Americans ever endured.
You don't see the black Americans sporting rickets, TB, suffering starvation, diptheria and smallpox to mention a few.
Or kids forced up chimneys.
I wonder how Dickens would be feeling today – at Lloyds etc.
Disgusted and sick, I imagine.
Don't get me started on those 'pressed' into the navy .
@gotmituns I've read that's she's a Hmong. As dumb as the press is, I don't know how they could confuse Hmong and Chinese.Emily , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 2:39 pm GMT
@chuckywiz Why was he treated brutally by the police.Sean , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 2:44 pm GMTWas he?
The autopsy doesn't appear to record 'brutal physical injury' of the kind you appear to claim .
Could you detail the evidence that demonstrates such 'brutality'
Restraint surely does not come into that category and there is no or very little indication on his neck or throat.
Clarify the facts, Chucky, so we can all see the cuts, bruises, abrasions
Perhaps you will also give us some information as to how you would have handled a very large such individual full of fentanyl and other substances .
@Wizard of Oz The author of the article talks about the knee on Floyd's neck only. But while he may be correct, that knee was not the only thing going on. I am talking about the other things including Chauvin's other knee. Officer Lane seems to have diagnosed Floyd's medical status as one unlikely to stand up to the tender mercies being administered by Chauvin. Lane, the first cop to talk to Floyd, had immediately observed he had been foaming at the mouth. Later, once Chauvin got on top of Floyd, Lane suggested turning him face up, and said he was worried about EXD. Lane's partner complained and said 'don't do that' to Chauvin in relation to him kneeling on Floyd.JimDandy , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 2:49 pm GMTIf a 300lb wrestler was to apply a tight bodylock (bear hug) and keep it on tight, breathing would halt and the one being bear hugged would quite likely die within 10 minutes. Floyd's breathing was constricted by his bulk and being put face down with cuffs pulling his arms against the side of his ribcage. The weight and duration of Chauvin's knee on Floyd's back surely is what tipped the balance and killed him. There is an ex cop and prison guard who admits he used to deliberately break the fingers of resisting convicts who points to the sun glasses perched on Chauvin's head and the casual placement of his hands while kneeling on Flyod as clear indications there was no meaningful resistance from him, see here .
It is not mere opinion that Floyd was not actively resisting arrest during the several minutes he had Chauvin on top of him, because officer Chauvin was recorded explaining the reason Floyd was being pinned down was he had not cooperated earlier , when they had tried to put him in the police car. Hence Chavin virtually admitted it was a was a physical punishment for previous non-cooperation, but in law Chavin is not permitted to use the restraint technique as a punitive measure, which he knew very well. Hence Chauvin was commiting a felony, wham, in the course of which someone died, bam. Wham bam: felony murder.
@chuckywiz Actually, this article touches on what you consider the "main discussion" when it assesses whether or not the cop was following procedure. Is the man being vilified as the worst person on earth just a guy who was doing the job he was taught to do? If you think the rules are wrong, you're free to work to change them. This cop will face an American court, not some post-revolutionary tribunal. The question is whether or not his trial will look more like the latter than the former.Trinity , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 2:51 pm GMT
Hispanic cop in Georgia shoots and kills white guy who grabs Hispanic cop's taser = NO coverage by national media. Hell, I live in Georgia and I didn't even hear about this one.RobbieSmith , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 2:52 pm GMTWhite cop in Georgia shoots and kills black guy who grabs White cop's taser = NONSTOP 24/7 coverage by national media.
SHOULD THE MEDIA BE LABELED AS A HATE GROUP BY THE $PLC?
@Anonymous Yep. The more Blacks in a society, the less safe and prosperous it is.RobbieSmith , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 2:54 pm GMTThis is not complicated; it's an IQ issue.
Google: National IQs
Notice a pattern?
[MORE]
• 108 Singapore
• 106 South Korea
• 105 Japan
• 105 China
• 102 Italy
• 101 Iceland
• 101 Mongolia
• 101 Switzerland
• 100 Austria
• 100 Luxembourg
• 100 Netherlands
• 100 Norway
• 100 United Kingdom
• 99 Belgium
• 99 Canada
• 99 Estonia
• 99 Finland
• 99 Germany
• 99 New Zealand[snip]
• 70 Botswana
• 70 Rwanda
• 69 Burundi
• 69 Cote d'Ivoire
• 69 Ethiopia
• 69 Malawi
• 69 Niger
• 68 Angola
• 68 Chad
• 68 Djibouti
• 68 Somalia
• 68 Swaziland
• 67 Dominica
• 67 Guinea
• 67 Haiti
• 67 Liberia
• 66 Gambia
• 65 Congo
• 64 Cameroon
• 64 Gabon
• 64 Sierra Leone
• 64 Mozambique
• 59 Equatorial GuineaBlacks can only achieve because they have White admixture or because they reside in White societies. Too few of them are smart enough to even build sufficient infrastructure in Africa to allow the Black intellectual elite to achieve.
Sub-Saharan Africans have never made a contribution to the world. If allowed to become too numerous they destroy previously-thriving and safe White cities.
This is why Blacks seethe with jealousy and hatred of Whites yet can't seem to stay away because they want what we create and maintain, no matter if they deserve it or not. They want our peaceful and clean neighborhoods, our law and order, our technology and science, our school systems, our inventions, the jobs we create, the food we grow, the transportation we invent, the entertainment we provide Blacks hate us but can't live without us. That's why they demand that we take care of them and give them special rights and privileges that we don't grant ourselves, just to compensate for their inability at living in a modern and technologically-advanced civilization.
Some groups succeed all the time, everywhere. Some have never succeeded anywhere.
Blacks are the oldest race, so they should be the most advanced race; but they never developed at all and had to be domesticated by Whites.
National IQs calculated and validated for 108 nations:
https://www.academia.edu/18754731/National_IQs_calculated_and_validated_for_108_nations
https://mason.gmu.edu/~gjonesb/IQandNationalProductivity.pdf
@Sick of Orcs "Access to Whites is not a right."RobbieSmith , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 2:57 pm GMTJust week we had a White sub-Saharan African (Elon Musk) launch a spacecraft while Black sub-Saharan Africans destroyed several cities.
Name a civilization (or even a written language) ever created by Blacks.
Name a single contribution from sub-Saharan Africans to the world.
The simple fact is, everything Blacks have was given to them by Whites.
Blacks are the only race never to have civilized. They were removed from the jungle just 250 years ago.
Blacks can only achieve because they have White admixture or because they reside in White societies. Too few of them are smart enough to even build sufficient infrastructure in Africa to allow the Black intellectual elite to achieve.
@annamaria "whites-were-slaves-in-north-africa-before-blacks-were-slaves-new-world"anonymous [400] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 2:58 pm GMTSlavery was the best thing to happen to Blacks, it was essentially a rescue mission by a free cruise. Being a slave was actually a good career move for a Black African -- as it still would be today. An enslaved Black in any non-Black country has a higher standard of living than a free Black living among his own kind.
After defeating George Foreman for the heavyweight boxing title in Zaire (now Congo), Muhammad Ali returned to the United States where he was asked by a reporter, "Champ, what did you think of Africa?" Ali replied, "Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat."
Blacks are incapable of creating a civilization of their own. Blacks can only achieve because they have White admixture or because they reside in White societies. Everything Blacks have was given to them by Whites.
Criminally insane Floyd killed himself. His chosen lifestyle could only lead to a bad end sooner or later. He shouldn't even have been out on the street after his armed home invasion conviction. It was the misfortune of the police to have had to deal with this drugged-up thug at the point he was going to expire due to drugs and eroded health due to years long drug use. He was a large, tough looking criminal that one had to be careful in dealing with. This is the 'hero' of the moment, one of the scummiest people one could ever meet.Herald , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 3:00 pm GMT
@Anon Get a big copper to put his weighted knee on your neck for 8 minutes or so and then report back and tell us how it was for you.fnn , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 3:07 pm GMT
@chuckywiz The Jewish MSM always ignores non-black victims of police misconduct. They made a collective decision to do that following the mild uproar over Ruby Ridge and the Waco massacre of the Branch Davidians. Today the Narrative is all about white oppressors and black victims.EoinW , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 3:17 pm GMTIt is economic disparity and hopelessness, stupid, and that is what the pundits are avoiding purposely.
We can't read minds, so you could possibly be right. But in the visible world toppling statues of white men and various displays of guilt-mongering seem to be taking precedence over any racially neutral economic demands.
Muddy the water. Now we know why they hate us. Now we know why posters at this site and Zero Hedge are considered white trash. Science is unacceptable when lefties use it to promote global warming or the Nazis use it to lock down our society, but when it can be manipulated to try and prove dirty cops innocent then it's okay. What's to conclude? Giant Echo Chamber! The Left has it to keep their ignorant followers in line. The Right has it as well. Everyone preaching to their audience and no one really worried too much about truth.Rurik , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 3:29 pm GMTThis is an excellent site. It's a shame that it feels a need to blame EVERYTHING on Jews or Socialists or whatever the rednecks have been brainwashed to fear. The site simply hurts its credibility doing this. Not much better than Left wing groups and that's one serious Freak Show!
@obwandiyagKo , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 3:29 pm GMTThey riot because they are sick and tired of the ways cops treat them–
no, they're rioting because blacks and browns don't have academic and economic parity with whites, and the ((universities)) have instructed their charges that there's no such thing as racial differences, and so that means all the academic and economic discrepancies between white and black, and the over-representation of blacks in the criminal justice system, are all a direct consequence of lingering, "systemic" white racism in America.
That's why they're rioting. The Floyd death was simply the perfect metaphor for America's 'racism', crystalized down to nine minutes of video.
The video was simply the catalyst, for a mindset that's been foisted by the ((universities)) and ((media)) for many decades now.
We're seeing what they've wanted all along. White people transformed into Palestinians, treated as second class citizens. Affirmative action, and now free health care ONLY for blacks in Kentucky.
White people will pay the taxes, but not get the benefits, because they're racists and anti-Semites, and like the Palestinians (terrorists) they don't deserve any rights.
That's what this is all about. The 21st century is to be like the 20th, a Jewish supremacist orgy of racial hatred unleashed.
From what I understand, Fentanyl acts quickly and if he had 3x lethal dose in him, he would have died earlier.Trinity , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 3:37 pm GMTI feel bad for the cops, trained by Israelis who routinely kill Palestinians and use the knee of the head move. Look here at pics:
https://insidearabia.com/israel-exports-its-brutal-police-training-to-the-us-and-it-shows/
I don't understand why they held him down so long. It seems as if they wanted to wait until the criminal stopped tensing himself, which could be an indicator of continued resistance. Maybe they felt if they eased up, he'd jump up and fight them as the guy in Atlanta did.
The Atlanta cops are going to get lynched. That's not justice.
@RobbieSmith Ali spoke a lot of truth and the only reason the counterculture adopted him is because of his stance against "Whitey" or what they thought was his stance against "Whitey." I do not blame Ali for not wanting to fight for America in the Vietnam War. When Ali grew up, Blacks were indeed second class citizens, far from it now, they have their asses kissed 24/7. Ali was about Blacks pulling themselves up by the bootstraps, and was a hardcore SEPARATIST. Ali actually had more than a touch of Irish blood in him. I wish more Blacks did indeed belong to the NOI like Ali, I think we would have less crime and they would stay to themselves.Anonymous [363] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 3:37 pm GMT
George Floyd was an unhealthy man. He wasn't an angel. He wasn't even a decent citizen. He was a piece of shit.Zarathustra , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 3:38 pm GMTBut he didn't die of an overdose.
He died from a cop burying his knee on his neck for almost 10 minutes. Already in horrible shape with breathing problems, his body wasn't able to handle it.
Floyd was pleading for him to get off his neck. He was asking for his mother. C'mon people. Chauvin was heartless and ignorant. All he had to do was get off Floyd's neck. He wasn't a threat.
Chauvin had a serious lapse in judgement. So did Floyd. He wouldn't have been in that position in the first place. We can always argue that Floyd was a piece of shit. Maybe he was, but he didn't have to die like that. Who in this comment section is so perfect to judge?
Chauvin has his own issues. He isn't a murderer either. Ignorant and callous, yes. Deserving of jail time. I don't think so. Therapy and retirement form the police force? Absolutely.
3 problems in USRurik , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 3:38 pm GMT1 Blacks can newer be civilized.
2 Blacks will never trust white people.
3 Whatever whites will do. Blacks will never be satisfied until they will have all and permanent administrative power.
@EoinWDweezil the Weasel , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 3:45 pm GMTNazis use it to lock down our society
what a lying POS you are
It was the liberal Democratic governors who were the worst 'lock-down' "Nazis", but to a dishonest, agenda-driven liar like you, the truth is only something to bastardize to your own hatred-consumed agenda.
EVERYTHING on Jews or Socialists or whatever the rednecks have been brainwashed to fear.
Yea, it's not like thousands of those rednecks haven't given their lives in the last two decades fighting the Eternal Wars for Israel, now is it? But that's a price we should all pay for what was done on (((9/11))), huh?
The entire debate is moot at this point. Floyd is dead. The puppeteers have their "Crisis". The mob is still out there. Thought crime is the new passion. Negroes can do nothing wrong. When they do, it is my fault because I am white. Up is down, down is up, etc. The big question is what lies ahead.Priss Factor , says: Website Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 4:05 pm GMT
This was all manufactured to cover the real truth about a collapsing economic system which will devastate nations and economies all over the world. When it hits(my bet is before 2021), nothing else will matter. Here in Amerika, the Sheeple, Normies, and Cucks will go bat-s ** t crazy. It will be Bosnia times Rwanda times Venezuela, times The Stand. Plan accordingly. Bleib ubrig. Proverbs 27:12.
All this hysteria over one dead black thug and utter silence about far more tragic/innocent victims(often at the hands of black thugs) suggest that the 'systemic racism' is in favor of blacks.Trinity , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 4:11 pm GMTIt's like US's favoritism for Zionists over Palestinians, Iranians, and Arabs.
We hear endless yammering about 'antisemitism' and 'white supremacism', but US is pathologically philosemitic and serving Jewish Supremacism 24/7.
BTW. it will be funny when a black guy wearing a Floyd t-shirt ends up dead at the hands of another black.
@Anonymous IF this whole incident is REAL, and believe me, nowadays I have a hard time believing anything we see in the media or read is REAL, I have to say the cop was wrong and does deserve to do time. Whatever the guy died from, people in the crowd told Chauvin over and over that Floyd wasn't moving. The other cops should have pulled Chauvin off as well. The case in Atlanta is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, however. IMO, Chauvin is guilty of manslaughter and quite possibly second degree murder, but that one would be hard to prove. BUT the question must be ASKED ONCE AGAIN, how or why did it come to this, WHY didn't George Floyd COMPLY with officer's orders? Floyd would still be alive IF he had JUST COMPLIED with the cops. What is it about complying with an officer's orders do Blacks not understand? A couple months ago a man was killed right up the street from me because he attacked an officer with a knife. The officer responded to a domestic dispute and the man STUPIDLY charged an armed cop with a knife and was shot dead. White cop, and white perp so that was the end of story.ruralguy , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 4:11 pm GMT
@Ficino Covid-19 attacks cells with ACE-2 enzyme receptors. They are present in the lungs, heart, intestine, blood vessels, and kidneys. Many people infected with Covid-19 suffer more damage in these organs than in the lungs. People think they will recover quickly from this virus like another cold (two of the cold strains are actually coronoviruses) or flu viruses, but it's damage to the organs is more severe. It leaves them vulnerable to next year's covid-20, where they will now have "preexisting health conditions."Agent76 , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 4:12 pm GMT
It is and was Murder!FB , says: Website Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 4:15 pm GMTMay 28, 2020 #GeorgeFloyd Before Being Killed At The Hands Of Police Talking About Street Violence Killings
Video of George Floyd Before being Killed talks about the violence on the streets.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/h7cmBW1QKlI?feature=oembed
May 27, 2020 New video shows Minneapolis police arrest of George Floyd before death
Four white officers involved in the death of George Floyd have been fired from the Minneapolis Police Department, but Mayor Jacob Frey is saying that one of the officers should be arrested for pressing his knee on Floyd's neck.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZWzkgKPZWcw?feature=oembed
@Jim Bob Lassiterfnn , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 4:27 pm GMTWell let's have 'em (couple of thousand cop murders) . And don't forget to include Ruby Ridge and Waco, Texas.
Police extrajudicial executions of civilians are over 1,000 EACH YEAR in the United States far more than any other country in the world
Also we learn from this 'article' that
Dr. Vincent Di Maio estimated that Excited Delirium Syndrome kills 800 people every year in police altercations because the victims "are just overexciting [their] heart from the drugs and from the struggle.
So that is nearly 2,000 civilians a year that die in interactions with police basically the Wild West
@EoinWvot tak , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 4:29 pm GMTMuddy the water.
Talk about pure projection.
@Biff I've known plenty of people over the years prejudiced against people of one race, but not another. Yes, it is common and is a dumb question.JimDandy , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 4:30 pm GMT
@Agent76 Yelling and posting videos won't change the fact that you're wrong and have no valid counter-arguments to the ones presented in this article.Dieter Kief , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 4:35 pm GMTThx.
@DanFromCTGeorge , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 4:40 pm GMTAs a result, incompetence that would otherwise have remained harmless often becomes dangerous, especially as incompetent people with good intentions rarely suffer the qualms of conscience that sometimes inhibit the doings of competent people with bad intentions.
Good intentions were cobbling his way to disaster. – Old German saying. – I like Dietrich Doerner – as a social scientist and as a humble man (a Social Democratic leftie from the days before the left grew "regressive" (Dave Rubin).
Floyd's condition is irrelevant. If I have the facts straight Floyd was handcuffed and loaded inside the police car. For reasons that are unclear he ends up face down on the asphalt with 4 dudes sitting on top of him. For me, without an amazing explanation all four should never have been police officers. His death makes it worse but the inexplicable part is why he was on the pavement being crushed.Hedd Mcnekk , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 4:42 pm GMT
@obwandiyag Are you really going to share "a couple thousand" murders by police with us? Ok, I'll bite. Send them to us in short installments of 3 or 4 hundred, just so we can keep up.Anonymous [456] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 4:53 pm GMT
@annamaria Where did I even remotely insinuate anything about slavery in my post? Your sickness is part of the denial I was referring to.Dan Kurt , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 4:57 pm GMT
@Cranberries RE: Might help for someone to explain this calculation, since simply summing the fentanyl and norfentanyl concentrations gives 16.6, not 20.6. Cranberries comment #6.Enemy of Earth , says: Website Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:01 pm GMTI read somewhere that another fentanyl moiety was also detected in George Floyd's autopsy blood. That may explain the discrepancy.
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I really hate saying it but you could have a video of St.George shooting up minutes before his encounter with Minneapolis' finest and it wouldn't make a lick of difference. The Church of the Perpetually Aggrieved have their martyr and will not let trivial things like truth get in the way.Rich , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:01 pm GMTWhen I'm feeling particularly cynical and want to irritate the Missus I will say something like, "Yeah, that was pretty bad but he probably did something we don't know about. So it all evens out in the end."
@vot tak Oh "prejudiced " against a particular group, is that the same thing as "racist" now"? Does "racist " mean anything other than White? The word "prejudice " means to "pre-judge", what if someone judges a person or group after getting to know them very well? What if I find I love all people except Tibetans, am I a "racist "? For you kooks, I am if I'm White. So I guess that's a "dumb question", since I'm pretty PaleDieter Kief , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:02 pm GMT
@EmslanderRurik , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:05 pm GMTVideos and photos are very poor evidence because they only raise an emotional response.
This is fact is usually overlooked. I still don't really grasp, why that is. But people seem to lack – media education, or self-reflective self-distancing concerning the difference between being an ey-witness and witnessing a video about an event. – Maybe Marshal McLuhan is one reason that the video-deception is not being noticed for what it is: a major source of self-deception because he made media-reflection trendy and at the same time clueless.
This seems at first sight like a rather dismal academic distinction – until it becomes crucial to make it, like in this case.
By now I might even be boring some readers of Unz.com by insisting on the following factual truth: Tom Wolfe showed in pristine detail, just how this video deception, as you might call it, works in his (sigh, I'll repeat this esthetic fact too now for the umpteenth time) – Tom Wolfe was able to show how this video-deception plays out in his excellent novel Back to Blood .
PS
It might be not accidental, that Tom Wolfe did have a close look at Marshal McLuhan's ideas and did write quite a bit about it, long before he started to work at Back to Blood . – Fruits take their time until they're ripe, it seems.
@TrinityThreeCranes , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:08 pm GMTWhat is it about complying with an officer's orders do Blacks not understand?
since I generally agree with you, and agree that this was likely staged, and that the other cops should have intervened, and that Chauvin was obviously guilty of a callous disregard for the man's life, (regardless of what he actually died of).. I agree with that all.
But I also understand why some people would try to flee the cops, (and being arrested and having your life destroyed). It's a risk some people are willing to take. Like the guy who was murdered by cop, lying in the snow (while being sadistically tortured by tazer). That sadistic bitch tortured him to death because he ran from her, and defied her 'authority'.
I've known of too many cops in my lifetime who're drunk on their authority (power), and I don't blame some people for running from them. If our laws say it's ok for cops to shoot such people, then so be it, but if they're not allowed to shoot suspects running away, then if that's murder, it's murder. No?
American cops are way too militarized and often murderous and unaccountable. Absofuckinglutely.
But the Jews are turning this into a racial issue for their own agenda, whatever that is at the moment. Perhaps simply as an amusement, to watch whitey squirm. (one of their favorite pastimes ; )
@Steve in Greensboro Agree. Apparently many commenters can neither read nor reason from empirical evidence.ThreeCranes , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:15 pm GMT
I've never before seen such stupidity in the comments as is seen here today. Something strange is going on. Many of you didn't read the article but have strong opinions. This isn't typical of Unz readers. For some reason the Trolls are out in force on this one. Are you trying to destroy this website's credibility?nokangaroos , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:15 pm GMT
@Emily In certain quarters first responders do carry naloxone injectors for that contingency – it takes half an hour of training.Johnny Smoggins , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:19 pm GMT
Opioid LD50s are house numbers, but it´s a possibility.
Clearly no choking, but I wouldn´t rule out vagus shock.Overall I´d say a measured exposé, but as many others already noted the question is moot now.
@Biff Given your confidence, can you tell us the exact number of "racists" married to people of other races in America?Bucky , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:28 pm GMTYour response should be within 2% of the actual number, and please also provide proof of the "racism" on the part of the individual "racists" married to non Whites.
File that under "overconfident moron"
It is possible that floyd died of a drug overdose.Pop Warner , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:29 pm GMTNot long after the video of Floyd s death came out a journalist from the Atlantic tried to reenact it. He was unable to keep his balance for the amount of time.
This is possibly because the knee on the neck was not putting that much pressure on the neck. It is possible that it was it was an even stance and the knee was applying slight or no pressure.
@obwandiyag They riot because the press whips them up into a frenzy. There is no shortage of blacks killed by police or whites killed by police but this incident was spread to the 4 channels blacks are capable of finding and drove them to riot.Hippopotamusdrome , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:29 pm GMT
If blacks don't like how cops treat them, then they should improve their savage behavior. Over half of all homicides, over a third of cop killers, the majority who shoot at police, and far more likely to resist arrest. When will blacks learn basic civilization, or do whites need to hold their hand yet again?
@ICANREADHippopotamusdrome , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:33 pm GMTYour underlying analysis is incorrect. People overdose at much higher levels and live through it.
Ok. Then you say:
One of the 18 patients died in hospital.
I don't know the point you're trying to make. Other than the author is correct.
@anonstarthorn , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:42 pm GMTThen, one officer pulled him out on the other side.
I assaume because he demanded to be let out due to a medical emergency. "I can't breathe!". So they did and called an ambulance, which arrived a little later.
Truth is the first victim of criminality. There, that's better.Hippopotamusdrome , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 5:43 pm GMT
@backupsteinbergfeldwitzcohen , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 6:07 pm GMTthere are signs that COVID19 decreases Hemoglobin levels
LOL. As if COVID19 is real.
Facts:Wally , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 6:08 pm GMT
1.Officer Derek Chauvin isn't in the video. The person purported to be Officer Chauvin is a different person and that is quite clear from examining stills from the video and comparing them to still photos of Officer Derek Chauvin.2.One of the police vehicles had a licence plate that said 'POLICE'. This is absurd.
These are just two EXTREMELY obvious facts about the 'video' and there are dozens more fun facts about this incident that really no other conclusion is possible IF a person is observant AND honest about this video: it is a hoax. See: canucklaw.ca for an excellent and detailed breakdown.
Somehow, nearly everyone in 'professional media', aka as the presstitutes paid to lie by their jewish billionaire employers, accepts this obvious HOAX as though it is legit and beyond question.
Sounds familiar. Kind of like every mass shooting incident of the last 18 years which is to say, ever since the HOAX of 9/11 the Jew Spew Propaganda arm just can't stop 'reporting' on clearly faked events anytime they want to push the gun control issue, distract from another issue or, worse still, to manipulate low IQ ghetto thugs, communists and assorted snow-flakes into rioting which the Jew spew media then presents as 'peaceful protests'.
Anyone else sick of this never ending effort to manipulate the conversation away from the theft of Trillions of dollars being presided over by Zion Don, his underlings Mnuchin, Jared Kushner and the Federal Reserve Bank.Last time I checked the unemployment number, that was previously 40 million, it seems to have inched up to nearly 50 million. I expect to see continued efforts, each more desperate than the last, as the elites fight for power, loot the treasury and race-bait. I don't know when but I expect that at some point, barring any corruption or treason trials. elites will start to be executed by vigilante groups. I just can't see these level of social pressure, outright criminality and outrageous propaganda continuing to grow before average people become frustrated and disenfranchised enough to act. Somewhere from among the silent majority of rational Americans I expect to see a response to the last 2 decades of 'Global War of Terror' insanity,financial looting of the present and future American people with a dash of race war tossed in as a further insult to reason.
It amazes me that a community of largely dysfunctional blacks -mostl net takers from the economic system-have the gall to use the term 'white privilege'. They don't pay taxes beyond basic consumption, cause endless problems, avoid the infantry in every war, and now want 'reparations' after leeching off whites for over 150 years. It never ceases to amaze me how effective propaganda is and how incredibly stupid the far left of the curve can be.
@obwandiyag said:Trinity , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 6:17 pm GMT
"People don't riot over the specific police murder that sets it off. They riot because they are sick and tired of the ways cops treat them–one of the ways being to murder them"– Then Euro-whites should be the ones rioting.
– The number of Euro-whites killed by police are much, much higher than blacks, which is remarkable considering that blacks do the vast amount crime.
– It is whites who are targeted by blacks, the stats don't lie.
The Color of Crime : https://www.amren.com/the-color-of-crime/– Tucker Carlson Breaks Down Every Police Shooting Of Unarmed Black Suspects In 2019: https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/03/tucker-carlson-police-shootings-genocide/
Police are more likely to shoot whites, not blacks : https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/13/why-a-massive-new-study-on-police-shootings-of-whites-and-blacks-is-so-controversial/?utm_term=.1db63f3f7797
Study Concludes White Police Officers Are Not More Likely To Shoot Black Citizens: https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/23/study-white-police-officers-not-likely-shoot-black-citizens/
Black Officers More Likely than White Officers to Shoot Suspects : http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/26/study-black-officers-more-likely-than-white-officers-to-shoot-suspects/
– There Is No Epidemic of Racist Police Shootings , By Heather Mac Donald: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/white-cops-dont-commit-more-shootings/
@Rurik I agree with your post 100%. If Mr. Floyd had been White and the cops were White, this story wouldn't have been talked about outside of Minneapolis. Speaking of Minneapolis, notice the JEW MEDIA covered the story about the black thug throwing the white kid off a balcony in the Mall Of America for about 3 minutes, and no suggestions of race at all. Yep, I don't buy the Pawn Vanity narrative that 99% of cops are decent either. I can't think of any profession that could make that claim. I am watching the telly as I type this and now the natives are engaging in a multi-city "Juneteenth March." LMAO. I guess this will now become a national holiday. How anyone can be fooled by this anymore is beyond stupid. Take care, my friend and enjoy the comedy placed before us.Bethany , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 6:25 pm GMT
I've been on Derek Chauvin's side from the beginning. I knew it was just a race thing that the media blew up and distorted, just like that kid wearing the MAGA cap with the native American in DC, whose name I forgot. I hope that Derek Chauvin will be found not guilty and will sue the mainstream media like that kid from Kentucky did. My only fear is that America is not an honest country anymore and even if it is so blatantly obvious that Chauvin is innocent, that they will have to find him guilty anyway.AnonFromTN , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 6:38 pm GMTI just can't stand it. I can't stand the thought of that happening. I mean, imagine that ultimatum . serve justice or risk a city burning down. How can the masses be so misinformed? Unaware and corrupted?
I took some notes today from E. Michael Jones, I watched his video, Sicut Judaeis Non, and I/we have to really let what he said sink into our beings, in order that we can resist it and not acquiesce. I can't go along with corruption and let injustice come to Derek Chauvin. The truth has to be told.
My notes from E. Michael Jones:
"Jewish identity is the rejection of logos- political, moral, economical"
"Modernization is about everyone becoming Jewish."
"We have internalized the commands of our Jewish oppressors."
"We have a Jewish superego."
"Break free from the control of Jews in our minds."And recently I've been watching Yuri Benzmenov again, we really have to understand the deep psychological warfare, the hypnotic spell we've been under and break free from it.
@SOL What else is new? Repeat offender was a drug addict. Drug addict died of an overdose. People using lies about his death are not revolutionaries, they are just bandits, burglars and vandals.Voltara , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 6:47 pm GMT
@anonymous1963 They'll get a fair trial and be found not guilty . setting off round #2 of rioting and looting a couple of weeks before the november electionVoltara , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 6:53 pm GMT
@Dan Kurt Hey Dan, I thiiiiink .. norfentanyl is a metabolite of fentanyl, which means it has been absorbed and processed by the body so the norfentanyl level would be indicative of a higher/additional level of fentanyl intake, which when calculated backwards implies 20.6 totalRobbieSmith , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 6:54 pm GMT
@Rurik "no, they're rioting because blacks and browns don't have academic and economic parity with whites, and the ((universities)) have instructed their charges that there's no such thing as racial differences, and so that means all the academic and economic discrepancies between white and black, and the over-representation of blacks in the criminal justice system, are all a direct consequence of lingering, "systemic" white racism in America."RobbieSmith , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 6:58 pm GMTThe persistent so-called "achievement gap" reveals the same racial IQ hierarchy on standardized academic exams. The SAT is largely a measure of general intelligence. Scores on the SAT correlate very highly with scores on standardized tests of intelligence, and like IQ scores, are stable across time and not easily increased through training, coaching, or practice. SAT preparation courses appear to work, but the gains are small -- on average, no more than about 20 points per section.
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Even after decades of focused attention to the achievement gap, it has remained unchanged.Vanderbilt University researchers tracked the educational and occupational accomplishments of more than 2,000 people who as part of a youth talent search and determined that scores on the SAT correlate so highly with IQ that they are described as a "thinly disguised" intelligence test.
ACT Scores by Race:
Year White Black Asian
2009 22.2 16.9 23.2
2010 22.3 16.9 23.4
2011 22.4 17.0 23.6
2012 22.4 17.0 23.6
2013 22.2 16.9 23.5
2014 22.3 17.0 23.5
2015 22.4 17.1 23.9
2016 22.2 17.0 24.0
2017 22.4 17.1 24.3
2018 22.2 16.9 24.5Source: ACT, Inc.
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Black-White SAT Score Gap by Year:
Year White Black Gap
1985 1038 839 199
1990 1031 849 185
1996 1052 857 195
2000 1060 859 201
2005 1061 863 197
2010 1063 855 208
2015 1047 846 201The new SAT introduced in 2017 was "designed to inspire and increase access to college" by creating "a more equitable exam". The new SAT cannot be compared to previous results:
Year White Black Gap
2017 1118 941 177
2018 1123 946 177The 2017 "college readiness" scores (ability to earn a C or higher in an entry-level course) showed the stark racial achievement gap; Asians scored 70% college readiness, Whites 59%, and Blacks only 20%.
(Source: U.S. Dept. of Education, College Board)
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=171
SAT scores are highly correlated to intelligence test scores. The SAT correlates with an IQ test at 0.86, almost the same as an IQ test correlates with itself. For this reason, we can very reliably take SAT scores and convert them to IQ scores.
Results of psycho-metric IQ and scholastic tests are highly correlated. Rindermann & Thompson (2013, p. 822)
In the 20 year period from 1994-2014 the Black-White difference increased on both the verbal and math SATs despite targeted efforts to close the race gap. On the reading test, it rose from .91 to .96 standard deviations. On the math test, it rose from .95 to 1.03 standard deviations.
In fact, the truncated nature of the SAT math score distribution suggests that these race gaps would be even larger given a harder exam with a bigger score variance. Note, for example, how the Black score distribution is cut off at the bottom while the Asian score distribution is cut off at the top. That suggests that a redesigned exam might feature even more pronounced race gaps.
Percent by Race Reaching the SAT College and Career Readiness Benchmark:
15% = Black
24% = Non-White Hispanic
35% = Native American
53% = White
56% = AsianSource: The College Board, 2014
PISA scores by race:
White Black Asian
531 433 525Source: National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
NAEP Report Card: Mathematics
"In 2019, there were no significant changes in score disparities compared to 2017 across most reported student groups in eighth-grade mathematics, with a few exceptions. For example, among racial/ethnic groups, the average mathematics score at grade 8 for White students was 32 points higher than the average score for their Black peers in 2019 and 24 points higher than the average mathematics score for eighth-grade Hispanic students. The 32-point White–Black score difference in 2019 was not significantly different from the 32-point score difference in 2017, the previous assessment year, nor the 33-point score gap in 1990, the first assessment year."
https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/mathematics/nation/groups/?grade=8
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Blacks and Whites with Equal Educational Attainment Differ in Cognitive Ability
Black and White Americans with the same formal level of education differ significantly in their cognitive abilities. Specifically, within any given level of formal education Whites consistently outperform Blacks. Moreover, this effect is so strong that Blacks often underperform Whites who have lower levels of formal education than they do.
Consider the following data from the General Social Survey. This public data is frequently used in social science research and contains a test of verbal intelligence as well as measurements of participant's self-identified race and highest educational degree obtained. Verbal intelligence tests correlate at around .75 with full-scale IQ and so this data can also be taken as a fair measure of intelligence in general (Lynn, 1998). If we set the White mean score on this test to 100 and the standard deviation to 15, we can come up with an "IQ" style scale.
As can be seen, using this method Blacks with a graduate degree have a level of verbal intelligence indistinguishable from that of Whites with a junior college degree. Blacks with a four-year degree are roughly on par with Whites who never went to college at all.
IQ BY RACE AND HIGHEST DEGREE EARNED (1972 – 2014):
Highest Degree White IQ Black IQ Gap
High School Drop-out: 89 82 7
High School Diploma 98 90 8
Junior College Degree 102 95 7
Bachelor's Degree 108 100 8
Graduate Degree 113 102 11This data is consistent with evidence from the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) which administered tests of cognitive ability to 26,000 US adults in 1992. These tests were designed to measure how well people could take information and use it in a way which would help them function in modern society.
Blacks are such poor academic achievers that the National Achievement Scholarship Program was created with lower standards for Black candidates only, instead of the National Merit Scholarship Program which is open to everyone else.
THE SMARTEST STUDENTS: The National Merit Scholarship Program was founded to identify and honor scholastically talented American youth and to encourage them to develop their abilities to the fullest.
BLACK STUDENTS ONLY: The National Achievement Scholarship Program was initiated specifically to identify academically promising Black American youth and encourage their pursuit of higher education.
They are both measured on the PSAT.
Minimum score for National Achievement: 190
Minimum score for National Merit: 220Roughly, PSAT x 10 = SAT (out of 2400)
The U.S. government's PACE examination, given to 100,000 university graduates who are prospective professional or administrative civil-service employees each year, is passed with a score of 70 or above by 58% of the Whites who take it but by only 12% of the Blacks. Among top scorers the difference between Black and White performance is even more striking; 16% of the White applicants make scores of 90 or above, while only one-fifth of one percent of a Black applicants score as high as 90 -- a White-Black success ratio of 80/1. IQ differences become more pronounced with greater g-loading.
Bill Gates, after pulling philanthropic funding from Common Core, "When disaggregated by race, we see two Americas. One where White students perform along the lines of the best in the world with achievement comparable to countries like Finland and Korea. And another America, where Black and Latino students perform comparably to the students in the lowest performing OECD countries, such as Chile and Greece."
Blacks score so poorly on academic exams that colleges give them 230 "race bonus" SAT points to help them qualify for admission:
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-adv-asian-race-tutoring-20150222-story.html
"Personal scores" are the new subterfuge for artificially assisting Blacks gain admission to universities. Asian-American applicants receive a 2 or better on the personal score more than 20% of the time only in the top academic index decile. By contrast, white applicants receive a 2 or better on the personal score more than 20% of the time in the top six deciles. Hispanics receive such personal scores more than 20% of the time in the top seven deciles, and Blacks receive such scores more than 20% of the time in the top eight deciles.
An otherwise identical applicant bearing an Asian male identity with a 25 percent chance of admission would have a 32 percent chance of admission if he were White, a 77 percent chance of admission if he were Hispanic, and a 95 percent chance of admission if he were Black.
@FB "Police extrajudicial executions of civilians are over 1,000 EACH YEAR in the United States far more than any other country in the world "Beavertales , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 7:17 pm GMTIn 2016, the police fatally shot 233 Blacks, the vast majority armed and dangerous, according to the Washington Post. The paper categorized only 16 Black male victims of police shootings as "unarmed." That classification masks assaults against officers and violent resistance to arrest.
Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, the police have much more to fear from Black males than Black males have to fear from the police. In 2015, a police officer was 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a Black male than an unarmed Black male was to be killed by a police officer.
From 1980 to 2013, there were 2,269 officers killed in felonious incidents, and 2,896 offenders. The racial breakdown of offenders over that 33-year period was 52% White, and 41% Black. So, the 13% total Black population in the U.S. commits 41% of police murders.
Further, Black males have made up 42% of all cop-killers over the last decade, though they are only 6 percent of the population. That 18.5 ratio undoubtedly worsened in 2016, in light of the 53 percent increase in gun murders of officers -- committed vastly and disproportionately by Black males.
Nine unarmed Blacks were killed by police in 2019 (seven of whom physically assaulted the officers), as opposed to 19 Whites, according to the Washington Post's database, but Blacks are much more likely to have police encounters than Whites. In an average year, about 49 people are killed by lightning in the US, according to the National Weather Service.
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The Myth of Systemic Police Racism:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/wall-street-journal-op-ed-hold-officers-accountable-who-use-excessive-force-but-theres-no-evidence-of-widespread-racial-biasAn Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force
https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/empirical-analysis-racial-differences-police-use-forceOfficer characteristics and racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/32/158776 Facts From New Study Finding NO RACIAL BIAS Against Blacks In Police Shootings
https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-study-no-racial-bias-police-involved-shootings-james-barrettBlacks should be shot more often, based on the number of crimes committed:
https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/post/tpd-major-police-shoot-black-americans-less-we-probably-oughtEvery year, American police officers have about 370 million contacts with civilians. Most of the time nothing happens, but 12 to 13 million times a year, the police make an arrest. How often does this lead to the death of an unarmed Black person? We know the number thanks to a detailed Washington Post database of every killing by the police. What is your guess as to the number of unarmed Blacks killed by the police every year? One hundred? Three hundred? Last year, the figure was nine.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/
That number is going down, not up. In 2015, police killed 38 unarmed Blacks. In 2017, 21. What about White people? Last year, police killed 19 unarmed Whites, in addition to the 9 unarmed Blacks. We know the number of Black and White people arrested every year, so it is possible to make an interesting calculation. The chances of being unarmed, arrested, and then killed by the police are higher for Whites than for Blacks. For both races, it's very rare: One out of 292,000 arrests for Blacks, and out of 283,000 arrests for Whites.
Since 2015, when the Post began tracking these numbers, the police have killed about 1,000 people a year. Every year, about one quarter of them are Black. This is about twice their share of the population, which is 13 percent. Is this proof of police racism? No. The more likely explanation is that Blacks are more likely than Whites to act in violent, aggressive ways that give the police no choice but to shoot them. In 2018, the most recent year for which we have statistics, Blacks accounted for 37 percent of all arrests for violent crimes, 54 percent of all arrests for robbery, and 53 percent of arrests for murder. With so many Blacks involved in this kind of violent crime, that Blacks should account for 25 percent of the people killed by the police seem like a surprisingly low figure.
There is another perspective on police killings of civilians. Every year, criminals kill about 120 to 150 police officers. And we know from this FBI table that every year, on average, about 35 percent of officers are killed by Blacks. So, to repeat, Blacks are 13 percent of the population and account for 25 percent of the people killed by police. But if police were killing them in proportion to their threatening, violent, criminal behavior, they would be a greater percentage of the people killed by the police.
We know much about Officer Chauvin, but very little about Floyd.Patricus , says: Show Comment June 19, 2020 at 7:19 pm GMTWhere did he get the drugs?
Was there any trace of it on him, in his car, his residence or the last places he visited?
What was he doing in the hours leading up to his arrest?
Were the people he was with also using?
What is his drug history?
There's a whole story here being concealed.
Thank you for a thoughtful article. This reinforces my original thought that we should wait for the results of the trial. Presumably the cop has a competent lawyer who will be able to review and present the comprehensive evidence to a jury. Ideally the prosecuting attorney will also be able to understand and present another side of the story. Ideally there will be a fair jury, not a howling lynch mob, and not a group of retired cops. This system is certainly imperfect but better than shoot from the hip opinions based on some seconds of video viewing.
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Introduction: Questions about the official World War Two death figures increasingly mount. Where are the proofs for these numbers? Where are the bodies? Did people just vaporize into thin air–as some believe, going up in smoke through tall chimneys?
Two responsible figures have recently and publicly added their voices to the question of six million Poles murdered (ostensibly by Nazis) between 1939 and 1945.
One is the last communist head of state for Poland from 1985-90, Wojciech Jaruzelski. Speaking to a journalist for Izvestia (Russian daily newspaper), he said, rather tongue-in-cheek, that he cannot understand how the Polish population exploded between 1946 and 1970, and then leveled off to become stagnant from 1990 till today. He humorously remarked that there had to have been "a strong aphrodisiac" to lead to the birth of millions of new Poles because "in the grocery stores there had been only vinegar and millions had died even after the war."
The other is Dr. Otwald Mueller, a well-known German researcher, whose remarkable letter appeared on October 17, 2009 in two American German-language newspapers, the New Yorker Staatszeitung and the California Staatszeitung .
In his letter, Dr. Mueller discusses the six million figure that was widely reported during the September 1st, 2009 conference, held at Gdansk (Danzig), Poland, marking the 70 th Anniversary of the beginning of what was to expand into World War Two.
A translation of his letter appears below, followed by a survey of actual mass graves that have been found and excavated to date that physically reveal flesh-and-bone victims of WWII.
Dr. Mueller writes:
On the occasion of Poland's victory celebration at Danzig/Gdansk, September 1, 2009, you could read in the press the following statements:
1) Die Welt (German newspaper "The World"), September 2, 2009: "?beginning of WW II, 6 million victims in Poland, half of them Jews? ."
2) Daily Gazette (Schenectady, N.Y.), September 2, 2009: " .Poland alone lost 6 million citizens, half of them Jews?"
[The Associated Press (AP) supplies news to nearly all newspapers in the US. That means those news stories were published in nearly all US newspapers.]
3) Catalyst, Journal of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, Number 6, July-August 2009: "Six million Polish citizens were killed in the Holocaust – three million of them were Catholics".
An important chart
There exists an important Polish population chart. It marks a pre-war Polish population of 29.89 million people, and for the year 1946 a population of 23.6 million. The difference is of approximately 6 million, or 21% of the total population. The chart seems to prove the statement of "6 million" ? but, on the contrary, it contradicts it.
On page 413 of the book "Poland: It's People, It's Society, It's Culture" by Clifford Barnett, HRAF Press, New Haven, CT 1958, the following figures are marked at chart #1: For the year 1950, a population of 24,533,000; for the year 1955, a population of 27,544,000.
Where are the losses? They turned into gains, because –
For the years 1946 to 1950: a gain of 5.5%. For the years 1950 to 1955: a gain of 15.5%.
That shows in a significant way how Polish history – better Polish fairy tales – works.
Caption: (by author) Between 1931 and 1946 there is a large loss of population, which neatly adds up to six million Polish citizens, or 21%. We must keep in mind that 31% of Poland's population was of non-Polish origin � one million were German, as you can see from names of cities like Stettin, Gruenberg and Breslau. It also included 7 million Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians, and 3 million Jews. Even so, between the postwar years of 1946 to 1955, the lost population is gained back again – minus 2 million. By 1950, there is a gain of 908,000 in 4 years. And by 1955, an additional gain of 3,011,000 in 5 years! Can these be new births over deaths? No. They are more likely an "adjustment"- a more accurate accounting than was done before. This increase cannot be from Germans, Ukrainians or Lithuanians who returned to Poland, because Poland today is one of the most ethnically homogenous nations in the world. Are they not Poles, who either returned from the East, where they had fled, or never left?
Truth in regard to history
The declaration by the chairman of the German-Polish Bishop's Conference on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the beginning of WW II states: "The church will definitely take steps against such inadequate handling of historical truth. We recommend and encourage an intensive dialog which always includes being ready to listen to the other side."The German Bishop's conference unfortunately did not comply, so far, with its own directives. They did indeed "listen carefully" to their Polish partners and accepted all Polish historical interpretations without ever questioning or correcting. It is an outrageous way to violate historical truth when the author of that chart names the cities of Allenstein, Danzig, Koeslin, Stettin, Gruenberg, Breslau, Oppeln – in the provinces of East Prussia, Pommerania and Silesia – as "Polish cities."
The declaration of the bishop's conferences reads: "Seventy years ago, on September 1, 1939, German forces started their attack against Poland." (Tagespost, 27 August 2009, page 5) Thus the second world-war began. How truthful is that declaration? In reality, Stalin also started his attack against Poland with his Soviet Red Army on September 17, 1939. Hitler and Stalin together started a local war which ended after 6 weeks. Well, Stalin might have just said "Nyet" and Hitler would have stayed home. Stalin was not forced to sign a pact with Hitler. Stalin gained 51% of pre-war Poland.
One violates the truth in dealing with history when one identifies the Germans expelled from the German East provinces as "Polish victims."
The German Bishop's conference should consider it their task to urge the Polish Bishops to see that those Polish historical distortions are corrected.
In pre-war Poland, millions of Ukrainians, White Russians, Lithuanians, Ruthenians and others were living. How did they become Poles? No newspaper report tells the story.
April, 1920 – 22 years before Hitler [invaded the SU] – the Polish Army under Pilsudski started the victorious campaign against the Soviet Union.
On May 7, 1920, General Rydz-Smigly occupied Kiev.
At the peace treaty of Riga, March 21, 1921, Poland gained vast Ukrainian and White Russian territories with a population of about 11 million.
Did anyone have any doubts that the Soviet Union would sooner or later retake those regions? That happened in August 1939 with the Hitler-Stalin pact. Why did the bishops not mention that? Why did the German newspapers, so eagerly interested in historical truth, not report it? All the guilt is loaded on one side; the others carry no guilt at all.
Bush's America attacked Iraq on March 20, 2003. No Third World War started because no one wanted one.
Katyn
Up to June 7, 1943, the Wehrmacht excavated and identified, as well as possible, 4143 Polish officers murdered by the NKVD. (Louis Fitzgibbon: Katyn – A Crime without Parallel, Scribner's Sons, New York 1971)
If it were correct that 3 million Polish Catholics were murdered, as the Catalyst journal states, one must have found in Poland about 750 mass gravesites of the same size during the past 65 years (3,000,000 divided by 4000=750), each with circa 4000 dead. Or 1500 mass gravesites, each with 2000 corpses. It is not known if even one of those mass gravesites has been found. If they would have found only one, journalists from all over the world would have been invited to come and visit. All newspapers would have published terrible pictures and stories for weeks. But did we not indeed find one such gravesite – at Marienburg in East Prussia, now called Malbork by the Poles? Yes, but they were German deaths, and not Poles. Now, one can convincingly say that argument also contradicts the thesis of the 6 million.
A ray of hope on that topic
Maybe the search for historical truth progresses slowly. In the Maerkische Allgemeine Zeitung (German newspaper), August 28, 2009, one can read the following headline: "The numbers-to-date of victims are incorrect – 70 years after the start of the war, scientists are searching for facts." Warsaw: "The numbers of victims of WWII are to a great extent wrong. That is known among specialists and expert historians. Most of the figures are too high: 20 million deaths in the Soviet Union, 6 million deaths in Poland, 2 million among the German expellees. For political reasons, the numbers were increased after the war. Reparation negotiations were already carried on during the war. High loss numbers justified high reparations requests from the Germans–"today we know most of the figures entered into that game then are wrong " and: " the historian Mateusz Gniastowski came to the conclusion that the losses of ethnic Poles had to be corrected from 3 million to 1.5 million ."
Bartoszewski talks
With the headline, "No restitution for Jewish property," the Junge Freiheit (German magazine) of 28 August, 2009, reports the following: "Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, ex-Polish secretary for foreign affairs, vehemently denied any restitution payments for Jewish properties by Poland."Bartoszewski: "Of the 3.5 million Polish Jews, nearly 2 million lived in the Ukraine and White Russia of today." A very interesting statement – naturally, they became, in October 1939, Soviet citizens and were never again Polish citizens.
The consequence? Regardless what did happen to those people between 1939 and 1945 – whether they survived or were killed – they could not be counted as "Polish victims" but belong to the victim chart of the Soviet Union. Otherwise they are counted twice.
Final conclusion: According to the statement of Bartoszewski alone, the number of the alleged 6 million Polish losses must be reduced already by 3.5 million (1.5+2). The Poles have no right to count German, Jewish, Ukrainian losses as their own. The 6 million number of WW II Polish deaths do not comply with serious historiography. ~
1) Clifford Barnett: "Poland – its people – its society – its culture" HRAF Press. New Haven, Conn. Survey of World Cultures,1958
2) German-Polish declaration of the chairman of the Bishops Conference on occasion of the 70 th anniversary of the beginning of WWII. "The reconciliation between our nations is a gift." (Die Versoehnung zwischen unseren Nationen ist ein Geschenk). Die Tagespost, 27.6.2009. Page 5
3) Gerhard Frey: Antwort an Warschau (response to Warsaw} FZ – Verlag (publisher) 2009
4) Louis FitzGibbon: Katyn–A Crime without Parallel. Scribner's Sons, New York.1971
5) Maerkische Allgemeine ( a German newspaper w 29.8.2009; "Geschichte:Die bisherigen Opferzahlen sind falsch" (History: The present loss figures are wrong)
6) Junge Freiheit (Young Freedom): Keine Entschaedigung fuer juedisches vermoegen (No redemption for Jewish property) 28.8 2009
~End of translated letter ~
How many survivors are counted as both survivors and victims because of the chaotic movement of peoples, boundaries and rulership – giving inflated numbers of victims? This is a common error, which seems to be purposely overlooked.
We have a right to ask where are the remains of the three million Catholics murdered by the German Nazis. The only known mass grave of Poles was the work of the Soviet Red Army, led by the NKVD, in the Katyn Forest in Soviet Russia. Long blamed on Germany, the responsibility for this genocidal act is now placed where it belongs. Ironically, the only mass gravesites found on Polish territory have been of German civilians. There are not even any mass graves of Poles – Catholic or Jewish – on the grounds of the famous concentration camps. No buried ashes either.
Let's take a look at what mass gravesites have been found, and what they contain.
MASS GRAVES IN MARIENBURG CONTAIN GERMAN CIVILIANS
In the previously German city of Marienburg, now named Malbork, Polish workers digging a foundation for a future hotel across from the Marienburg Castle, in October 2008, came upon a mass of human bones and skeletons. By December, about 470 individuals had been found, none of whom could be identified. A German organization dedicated to caring for German war graves sent a representative to attend the digging. By April 2009, the number of dead had climbed to 2000. When further discoveries were ruled out, the dead totaled 2116: 1001 women, 381 men, 377 children and 357 not identified.
At Marienburg, a pit full of human bones, but "We aren't finding any personal objects, no glasses, no gold teeth and above all, no clothing," said Zbigniew Sawicki, Malbork archaeologist.
Other mass graves stemming from World War II have been found around Malbork. In 1996, 178 corpses were discovered on the grounds of Marienberg/Malbork Castle. In 2005, specialists exhumed the bones of 123 more, including five women and six children, from a trench. All are believed to be Germans.
In the case of this latest and largest mass grave (2008), no clothing, eye glasses or gold teeth were found. It thus appears that they were completely stripped before they were killed. The skeletons that were laying on top had bullet holes in their heads, indicating they may have dug the grave and put the dead in it before they themselves were added.
The Germans who did survive were forced to leave the city. The relevant authorities in the newly established Polish district announced proudly on November 3, 1947, that the Marienburg area was "almost 100 percent purged of Germans." (Spiegel, Jan. 23, 2009, "Death in Marienburg: Mystery Surrounds Mass Graves in Polish City.)
On August 17, 2009, 108 coffins with the remains of the 2116 victims of war atrocities which took place in Marienburg in early 1945, were buried elsewhere, at the Volksbund War Memorial Cemetery near the village of Neumarkt, close to the old Hansa city of Stettin, in former Pommerania. The highest dignitaries attending were the German ambassador to Poland and bishops from both nations.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8202210.stm
NO CZECHS IN MASS GRAVES
Czechs have not claimed massacres from the war – other than the 173 men of the village of Lidice, who were executed for harboring the murderers of Reichs Protector for Bohemia-Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich, as an example to those who would cooperate with the Czech underground (considered by the Germans as an illegal terrorist organization).
Still, there was great desire to retaliate following the retreat of the German Wehrmacht and the arrival of the Soviet Red Army and NKVD. Postelberg/Polstoloprty and Saav/Zatec, two towns northwest of Prague, saw brutal massacres of at least 2,000 Sudeten Germans in the space of a few days in June 1945.
The largest mass grave contained 500 bodies and had been known since an inquiry into it in 1947. After that, in August 1947, other mass graves were secretly dug up and 763 bodies were removed and cremated. But there still remained more.
Meanwhile, documents in Postoloprty were classified as confidential and disappeared into Interior Ministry archives. Today, a majority of Czech residents in these towns admit the massacre, but do not want to talk about the case and oppose building any memorial structures at the gravesites. ( Der Spiegel , "Czech Town Divided over How to Commemorate 1945 Massacre," Hans Ulrich Stoldt, Nov. 4, 2009)
There was also the Bruenn/Brno Death March, which began late on the night of May 30, and the Aussig/Usti nad Labem Massacre on July 31, 1945–both majority German towns in the same area of Northwestern Bohemia. Basing their decision on the Potsdam Agreement, the Czech "National Committee of Brno" announced the expulsion of 20,000 ethnic Germans, mostly women, children and elderly (the adult men were all POW's), and forced them to march 56 kilometers south to the border of Austria. Once there, however, the Soviet authorities refused to allow them to cross, so they were marched back into internment. Many died and are buried along the way; up to 8000 perished in the terrible conditions before the survivors were released.
The Usti massacre was triggered by an explosion at an ammunition dump. Though the cause of the explosion had not been determined, ethnic Germans were beaten, bayonetted, shot or drowned in the Elbe River, where most still remain in their watery grave.
No mass graves of Jews have ever been found on Czech soil.
SLOVENIA: THE KILLING FIELD OF EUROPE
Over 100,000 people fell victim to summary executions on Slovenian soil immediately after the end of the second world war. These were suspected Nazi collaborators and opponents of communism – murdered by Tito's Yugoslav federal army or by Slovenian civil authorities and the Communist secret police, OZNA.
"The killings that took place here have no comparison in Europe. In two months after the war, more people were killed here than in the four years of war," said Joze Dezman , a historian who heads the government Commission for Concealed Mass Graves.
A task force of the police and state's prosecutor's office has exhumed 12 mass graves and filed two criminal complaints, with no indictments so far, according to the Slovenian Press Agency, March 20, 2008.
A particularly gruesome discovery was the mummified remains of approximately 300 pro-Nazi soldiers from Croatia and Slovenia in a mining shaft in Huda Jama.
"Gassed to death: 300 lime-covered victims of Yugoslavia's communist regime found in mass grave," by Graham Gurrin, 3-11-09, Mail Online, UK.
They are thought to have been killed with gas because there are no visible signs of wounds. Piles of military shoes were found at the entrance. "It seems that the victims had to undress and take off their shoes before they were killed," said Joze Balazic, of the Institute for Forensic Medicine in Ljubljana. The bodies were found in an underground passage some 400 meters from the cave entrance, in good condition because they had been covered in lime and the cave had been hermetically sealed with several walls of concrete separated by layers of barren soil. (Javno, 3-4-09, Translation: Karmen Horvat)
Photos: Unclothed skeletons wearing shoes appear to have died in agony in a mass grave in Huda Jama, Slovenia. Positions indicate there was movement before the victims expired (they were buried alive). ( photos no longer available )
THIS IS WHERE THE WAR WAS ENDING
Slovenia was part of the former Yugoslavia. Dezman said, "These killings took place in Slovenia because this is where the war was ending: this is where the iron curtain was anticipated, this is where refugees found themselves at the end of the war."
He also says that "due to the short time frame, the number of victims, the method of execution and their sheer extent, the reprisal killings of suspected Nazi collaborators and other opponents by Communist authorities in Slovenia could be compared to the biggest crimes of Communism, as well as Nazism, anywhere." (Slovenian Press Agency, March 20, 2008)
Another historian, university professor Mitja Ferenc , has unearthed more than 570 hidden grave sites from World War II. His digs have cracked a psychological barrier in Slovenia and sparked new political debate about the sins of that war, wherein thousands of Germans, Croatians and others on the losing side were killed.
In 1999 he found 1,179 skeletons in a trench near the city of Maribor, where a road by-pass was being constructed.
[The department of highways pressed to continue the road works, and the (left-wing) government in Ljubljana ?had no objections, although very likely, thousands of corpses were still hidden in the trench. Present investigations revealed that there are at least 15,000, possibly more than 20,000 corpses. The tank trench was suitable for mass killings, it was big enough to line up pow�s and civilians, shoot them with machine guns and cover the corpses with earth. Frankfurter Allgemaine, "Slovenia: Massacres after the War," by Karl-Peter Schwarz, 10-16-06. ]
Slovenian forensic experts investigate the site discovered in 1999 by Slovenian highway workers near Maribor, where 1,179 skeletons were found in a World War II-era trench. It's believed up to 20,000 are actually buried along this stretch of roadway.
In 2007 a new dig began nearby in the Tezno Forest – it's believed as many as 15,000 dead lie in this spot of timberland. Military gear indicates they were Croatians and Germans.
"My point is to find out what's out there. Without excavation, there is no way to know ," said Ferenc.
BRITISH DECEIT; STILL NO OFFER OF REGRET
The Queen pictured with Yugoslavian president Josip Tito, front left, in 1978 after hosting him at Buckingham Palace. Behind are Prime Minister Lord Cardiff and Prince Philip. Tito was supported by the British in the war, and its representatives turned thousands of fleeing German, Croat, Slovene and Cossack forces back to Tito's partisans in 1945, knowing they would be killed.
In May 1945, German troops and Croatians were trying to reach Austria in order to surrender to the British rather than Tito's brutal fighters. Tens of thousands of Slovenes, Serbs, Cossacks, Romanians and others joined the frantic flight.
Tamara Griesser-Pecar writes in A people divided. Slovenia 1941-1946. Occupation, Collaboration, Civil War, Revolution (Publisher: Boehlau Verlag, Wien 2003) that all Yugoslavs of German ethnic background were declared outlawed by the "Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia" (AVNOJ). Those who survived the horror of the labor camps were expelled from the country.
She speaks of the 60,000 Croatian soldiers and civilians who were massacred on Slovenian soil. Thousands vanished, to be found in recent times as skeletons bound at the wrist with wires. Not all were German sympathizers, but Catholics and other anti-communists fighting what they considered a civil war.
There were also the 25,000 Cossacks and 2000 Domobranci Slovenians who were part of the German army retreating in early May to the valleys of Kaernten in southern Austria, where they surrendered to the British who, promising they were being sent to Italy, forced them into locked railroad cars that instead went directly to the waiting Soviets in Styria and the Tito partisans at the Austrian border–certain death at the hands of their enemies.
In the Gottschee Horn (Kocevski Rog), 12,000 Slovenians were murdered. In another pit near Ljubljana, Croatians and Cossacks had been murdered – German prisoners were forced to clean out this pit with a "horrible cadaverous smell" and thereafter were murdered themselves.
Mitja Ferenc said Yugoslavia's communist authorities persistently refused to acknowledge the executions had taken place and refused to tell relatives where the bodies were buried. For almost 50 years, people were not allowed to visit the graves. Many of them were destroyed by deliberate explosions or covered by waste. In some places, such as Celje, about 60 km (35 miles) east of Ljubljana, parts of towns were built on them.
"The evidence is being gathered but the fact is that most evidence has been systematically destroyed in the past ," Joze Dezman said.
Typifying the ongoing attitude of the communists is 85-year-old Janez Stanovnik, a partisan fighter as a teenager who held high government positions under communism.
"I'm not proud of what happened in May and June 1945, but I am proud of what the partisans did during the war," he said. "Is this really something another generation has to pay for – or see used for political capital?" (Chicago Tribune, "Wartime heroes, sinful secrets," Christine Spolar, Jan. 29, 2008)
IN UKRAINE, JEWS HUNT FOR BODIES
Sparked by all these discoveries, Jewish groups have undertaken to discover their own mass graves in the Ukraine and Russia, which they claim to be the "killing fields" of World War II.
But for all the hundreds of thousands of Jews who are claimed to have been murdered here by the Nazi Einsatzgruppen, no remains have shown up in any large numbers. [The Einsatzgruppen were special SS task forces whose job was to protect the German fighting forces from behind-the-front attacks by the local population and communist partisan fighters.]
But it is suspicious that little to no excavation is taking place to verify the number of bodies or to identify whether they are Jews or not, or how they were killed. The search parties and excavation teams are made up entirely of Jews, without government or neutral parties involved.
For instance, according to an article at Y-Net News, an Israel-based internet site, published Sept. 8, 2006, a secret private mission called "Kaddish for Ukraine's Jews," chaired by Yehuda Meshi Zahav, began looking for mass graves of Jews massacred during the Second World War. This mission was initiated by the Jewish Congress and French historian/priest Patrick DesBois (author of Holocaust by Bullets ), with the help and funding of the national holocaust museums in Paris and Washington D.C.
Around Sept. 1, 2006, this mission uncovered what they say are hundreds of Jewish skeletons in a Ukrainian forest next to the city of Lvov.
They say they used metal detectors to detect bullets. When the metal detectors went off, they began digging and, at two meters down, sculls and skeletons began to surface. They say they counted hundreds and most were children . They say they recovered German-manufactured bullets marked with the years 1939 and 1941.
This "find" has been widely publicized in world media as a "holocaust" mass grave, yet no tests have proven the remains to be Jewish, or the perpetrators to be Germans. It is assumed.
We know the Soviets killed thousands of Ukrainian and Polish anti-communist nationalists before retreating from this area in 1941. There were also terrible massacres of Poles by Ukrainians and Ukrainians by Poles before and especially during WWII (over the disputed region of Volhynia) 1 . After the war, there were fights between Ukrainians and Russians in the part of Ukraine that Russia got from Poland.
The Kaddish delegation has estimated that 1800 Jews were buried here–even though they did not excavate and count all the bones. The Ukrainian authorities have agreed to recognize the area as a Jewish burial site , which means the bones can stay where they are. The Kaddish delegation performed a religious ceremony and erected a memorial monument in a matter of two weeks after the announcement of the discovery was made! This kind of haste is usually the mark of a desire for non-investigation.
JEWS GET CONTROL OF ANOTHER GRAVESITE
Another site that has received a great deal of attention is Gvozdavka, a village in southern Ukraine, near Odessa, where another group of rabbis insist thousands of Jews are buried. It was found by chance in the spring of 2007 when workers digging to lay gas pipelines discovered human bones.
As soon as the bones were discovered, the Jewish community in Odessa requested the authorities to cease construction work.
Israeli rabbis "help" to excavate a mass grave they claim to have discovered in Ukraine. (Reuters photo)
According to a story in Haaretz, June 6, 2007, "Mass WWII-era Jewish grave found near Odessa," Rabbi Abraham Wolf announced that the authorities had also agreed to give the Jewish community ownership of the land so it could build a monument commemorating the victims.
Odessa chief rabbi Shlomo Baksht revealed their plans to fence off the site and erect a monument to the victims that same year!
In a follow-up story 8 days later in Haaretz (June 14, 2007, "Israeli Rabbis help excavate Holocaust-era mass grave" , it's reported that a dozen rabbis were on the scene – 3 of whom were Holocaust scholars from Israel, others from the U.S. – and "spent several hours hunting for bones, which they immediately shoveled back into the ground."
In the follow up article, it's reported that Vera Kryzhanivska, who heads the village council, said it would soon discuss a request to hand over control of the meadow to Jewish groups.
Some Jewish community leaders complained that villagers didn't show enough respect for the dead. "How could people just walk past the grave and do nothing?" said Ilia Levitas, the head of Ukraine's Jewish Council. "Where is their Christian mercy?"
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Since these two finds in 2006 and 2007, there have been no more claims of mass graves of Jews. As we know, there are no substantial remains of either bodies or ashes discovered at the concentration camp sites of Treblinka, Belzec, Sorbibor, Chelmo or Auschwitz-Birkenau, all in Poland. The killing-by-bullets of Jews that supposedly took place in the Ukraine is not showing up in any new mass graves, even though Father Patrick DesBois continues to search. He finds a few bodies here and there.
What are we to think? When it comes to Germans and their allies massacred and thrown into pits, we have masses of evidence compiled by official government agencies, even when they are resistant to do so. When it comes to Poles, Ukrainians and other Slavic ethnic groups, we don't find them buried in mass graves by the Nazis. When it comes to Jews, we have only the word of Jewish delegations that thousands of Jews are buried in mass graves that they refuse to excavate.
As Mitja Ferenc, the Slovenian history professor, remarked of his own discoveries: "Without excavation, there is no way to know."~
1) "The Soviets, having enlarged Soviet Ukraine to the west, deported tens of thousands of the Volhynian elites, mostly Poles, to Siberia and Kazakhstan. These actions ceased only when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941." And "The 1943 decision of Ukrainian nationalists to cleanse (Volhynian Poles) was [ ] based upon news of the Soviet victory at Stalingrad" (with the expectation of the end of German occupation). "Ukrainian partisans killed about fifty thousand Volhynian Poles and forced tens of thousands more to flee in 1943." Later the Poles turned the tables on the Ukrainians. (From "The Causes of Ukrainian-Polish Ethnic Cleansing 1943," Timothy Snyder, Yale University, 2003)
Wally , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 4:51 am GMT
Well done, Carolyn Yeager.utu , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 5:25 am GMT– A classic example of what Carolyn Yeager writes about, here's all that was found at Sobibor, where 250,000 Jew remains are said to exist. Of these there is no proof of even the age of the skeletons, whether they were even Jews, whether they were even murdered. Yep, the "holocaust" narrative is that bogus.
– Sobibor, mass grave where 250,000 Jew remains are said to existmuch more at:
Simple question: What happened to the people who were sent to the camps?: https://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13204
and posted at: unz.com :
https://www.unz.com/article/babi-yar/ -- see my comment # 177
and:
https://www.unz.com/?s=graf&Action=Search&ptype=all&commentsearch=only&commenter=WallyAnd then there's this desperate tactic:
The Big False Excuse: 'excavation & exhumation of Jew remains "forbidden" / But they're not :
https://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6817"Jewish Burial Law" as fake excuse' : https://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8997
'First UK Burial for Holocaust Victims – No Autopsy': https://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12231
No alleged human remains of millions in allegedly known locations to see, no 'holocaust'.
Lack of evidence is not the evidence of absence. Lack of Jewish mass graves which nobody is really looking for because it is not really permitted, ostensively for religion reasons, can not give the answer to the missing Jews providing that there is such a question. Jews are missing only in the Holocaust deniers' minds. Normal people will agree that the official number of 6,000,000 is might be too high and that rather three to four million Jews died during WWII and they are not missing because they are dead.Al Liguori , says: Website Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 5:26 am GMTMystery of the Missing Americans
There are 2.6M deaths per year in the US. 50% (1.3M) are cremated. 1/3 of ashes are buried at cemeteries, 1/3 are kept at home and 1/3 are scattered. This means that every year in the US ashes of 430k people are scattered into environment. The 1/3 kept at homes will be scattered into the environment sooner or later so the number of scattered ashes will be circa 800k per year. In 5 years it is 4M people. In 20 years it 16M people. In 40 years it is 32M people.
In last 40 years 32M people vanished w/o a trace. How would you go about proving it to Holocaust deniers that 32M people in American died and that they were not teleported to Venus? There are no graves. No exhumations. Nobody even try to find the answer. Wally of CODOH would not accept any documentation because he would claim it was forged. He would not accept any witness statement because he would claim that all so-called witnesses lie. The claim that 32M Americans in last 40 years died and were cremated can't be proven. Wally must be right that 32M of Americans were teleported to Venus.
Furthermore, can you imagine the absurdity of cremations? The conspirators want us to believe that they cremate the corpses while charging for shaving the corpses and applying make up and dressing them up in their Sunday's best. Why would they do it if they allegedly cremate the bodies and plan to throw away the ashes? That does not make sense. For some reason they want them bodies to look good on Venus.
Otoh the question of missing Germans or the question of atrocities committed against Germans can be
tackled by searching mass graves. There is no prohibition against excavating of non Jewish graves. For example why nobody tried to confirm James Bacque's hypothesis by searching sites of Eisenhower's POW camps in Germany? If one million or more died there, the graves should be easy to find. Say, 1,000 graves with 1,000 bodies each. Find at least one.The Jews have a long Talmudic tradition of lying victimhood.Louis Hissink , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 5:35 am GMTConsider the typically ridiculous self-reports of victimhood in tractate Gittin 57b of the Torah, the 4 BILLION (yes, BILLION) Jews killed by the Romans [Gittin 57b claims Vespasian killed "four hundred thousand myriads" = 400,000 x 10,000 = 4 BILLION] and the 64 MILLION Jewish children skewered and burned in scrolls by the Romans in one city alone [Gittin 58a claims "400 synagogues" each with "400 teachers" and "400 pupils" for each teacher" = 400 x 400 x 400 = 64 million]. http://www.halakhah.com/gittin/gittin_57.html#PARTb http://www.halakhah.com/gittin/gittin_58.html
Truly as Jesus said, children of the Father of Lies and Murder. John 8:44
This article seems eerily similar to Gunnar Heinsohn's revision of 1st millennium history based on stratigraphy – no layers for a historical period of civilization, then that history is false or fake. 700 phantom years are missing and the collapse of the Roman period seems to thus have occurred circa 930 AD, and not 700 years before.utu , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 5:41 am GMTGiven the sensitivity of the topic in this article, I limit comment to the idea that proscriptive dogma is invariably used to bury facts and to keep them buried. Whether proscriptive dogma is used in ignorance based on false beliefs, or is official policy remains moot. But propaganda 101 is to always accuse your opponents of your own crimes.
Without excavation we will indeed never know.
How many ethnic Poles died?marylinm , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 6:17 am GMTThis Google translate from
"Juedische Allgemeine": the destruction of Poles as a nation was never planned
https://www.dw.com/pl/juedische-allgemeine-zagłada-polaków-jako-narodu-nigdy-nie-była-planowana/a-50041291
Lesser cites numbers given by historians Feliks Tych and Mateusz Gniazdowski, according to which in the occupied territories Germans murdered over 90 percent of Polish Jews and from five to seven percent of ethnic Poles. "In absolute numbers, they were three million Jews and about 1.4 million ethnic Poles," he writes. In 1947, at the behest of Jakub Berman, a member of the PZPR Central Committee Political Bureau, the number of victims "was arbitrarily rounded to 6 million or 22 percent of the pre-war population. The idea was that Polish Christians would not feel discriminated against as victims of Polish Jews. Berman also hoped that this operation would stop the venomous anti-Semitism in the country, "writes the author.Got that, you killed nobody. You only brought democracy to every nation you invaded. But you killed my father, you bastards. F U, sickos.Reger , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 6:29 am GMTThere are many geographical inaccuracies in this article – eg the author thinks that Bruenn is near Aussig. They seem to have a very sketchy understanding of the ethnic fabric of Eastern Europe both before and after WWII and I would therefore caution anyone to accept their findings or conclusions.Mustapha Mond , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 7:08 am GMT"When it comes to Jews, we have only the word of Jewish delegations that thousands of Jews are buried in mass graves that they refuse to excavate."GMC , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 8:42 am GMTWell, story telling and theatrical exaggeration seems to be in their blood, especially the latter.
It's even commemorated in a song about their most important empire, Hollywood:
"Hooray for Hollywood! Where you're 'terrific' if you're even good . "
Take the exaggerations with a grain (or truckload) of salt, and let's all just pray the horrors visited upon the hapless Europeans (and everyone else) during WW2 are never repeated
The War on Knowledge , Truth and Common Sense will go on until the honest researchers get finished with their work. But the Enemies, that wish No sharing of knowledge, truth etc. are many and work very hard at spreading the lies and cover-ups. If the bullets found in these trenches are known to be German made ,plus the date of origin, then maybe we could be told what Pharma company supplied the gaz for all the other proclaimed deaths – the dates and where the chemicals were produced , would be appreciated – also. I thought it was a very good article.another anon , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 9:03 am GMTThis is the ultimate black pillWłodzimierz , says: Website Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 9:05 am GMTNew piece! RT, follow and subscribe to my telegram! pic.twitter.com/ZvaKphmQhN
-- zillajinjer (@zillajinjer) June 11, 2020
If it were correct that 3 million Polish Catholics were murdered, as the Catalyst journal states, one must have found in Poland about 750 mass gravesites of the same size during the past 65 years (3,000,000 divided by 4000=750), each with circa 4000 dead. Or 1500 mass gravesites, each with 2000 corpses.White Monkey , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 9:06 am GMTIt is not known if even one of those mass gravesites has been found
Really?
I have found one
http://lasszpegawski.pl/in-english/At the end of 1944, the Germans, obliterating the crime, burned most of the corpses . In the Szpęgawski Forest, as many as 7,000 people could have died, approximately 2400 names were established. In the cemetery there are 32 mass graves in one complex and 7 graves 500-1000 m away.
Slightly off topic,but also interesting:After the war,13.3 million Germans were deported from Poland,Chekoslovakia and Hungary,but only 7.3 million actually arrived in Germany,mostly women,children and old people.6 million Germans had disappeared.Many of those were sent to Russia for forced labour.Phil the Fluter , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 9:12 am GMT
-first post-war German chancellor Konrad Adenauer in a speech in Bern,Switzerland,March 23,1949.A very informative article. It increasingly looks as though a holocaust was perpetrated against the Germans and not the Jews.Grahamsno(G64) , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:01 am GMTThis has to be one of the most risible, amateurish rubbish masquerading as Holocaust revisionism.Anonymous [661] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:03 am GMTThe title says -Some Answers to the Mystery of the "Missing Jews" – and whoa 3/4″s of the article is about post WW2 Communist atrocities, did you think that the Stalin & Beria combine would spare anybody associated with the Nazis when they swept East Europe? And the most Hilarious bit is that this dogs puke of an article completely ignores the AR camps, how can you give answers about the missing Jews while ignoring the AR camps.
Listen if you can't answer about what happened to those 'Missing Jews' of the AR camps kindly shut up.
Shame on you Ron for publishing such amateur Rubbish here, if you want to go full Revisionist publish Carlo Mattogno or Rudolf or some professional.
"Jewish groups have undertaken to discover their own mass graves in the Ukraine and Russia, which they claim to be the "killing fields" of World War II."Truth3 , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:09 am GMTWhat they're digging up is probably the remains of the millions of Ukrainians the Bolshevik Jews murdered through forced famine in 1932 and the millions of Russian Christians they slaughtered starting in 1917. Historical irony indeed.
There is no definitive history. More will come to light as research continues, or should I say as long as it is allowed to continue?
Jewish lies number in the trillions.padre , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:17 am GMTJewish fraud is centered on six million.
In other words, Nazis were actually a good guys, while Soviet, Yugoslav communists were the villains?You are counting Poles, Jews and Checks, while forgetting to count all the others, like Gypsies, Russians, Serbs and other Slavs?GeeBee , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:28 am GMTWhat an extraordinary article. Why are these facts not generally known? Yes, I am joking. History is of course always written by the victors. And the Jews always seem to winAnn Nonny Mouse , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:56 am GMTI don't understand why Jewish groups and their rabbis were given control of two mass grave sites. Did the civil authorities conspire with the Jews to pretend the bodies were of Jews?Ann Nonny Mouse , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 11:14 am GMTOr did the civil authorities know that if bodies were found when laying a pipeline that they were certainly Jewish bodies?
Although mass graves of non-Jews were known to have been in those regions?
If skeletons are found I guess it's hard by examining them to know they were Jews. But why was it assumed that they were?
And when the Jews wanted the pipeline work stopped, I suppose it would have stopped simply because there were bodies there, whether Jewish or not.
I may have failed to understand the article. Or perhaps it omits relevant information.
@Wally Was it known that the bodies were of people who died during the war? That the skeletons were not centuries old?HammerJack , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 11:15 am GMT@utuReger , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 11:16 am GMTFurthermore, can you imagine the absurdity of cremations?
Indeed, you had better struggle mightily, because in the year 2020 we have learned that all of the crematories in Italy combined were unable to dispose of more than a few hundred bodies per week. Struggle!
@Wally Here's a suggestion; if you like poetry and read German, try Gertrud Kolmar. If you like opera. read about Ottilie Metzger-Lattermann (one of the Kaiser's favorite singers). If you like classical music, follow the career of Viktor Ullmann. Just these three for a start so you can find out how peacefully they died. However, I have a strong feeling you would prefer to deal in millions (or the lack of) instead of individual fates.Gordo , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 11:18 am GMTIt's now possible to determine quite closely ethnicity from a skeleton.Dumbo , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 11:23 am GMTPossibly even use that to identify living relatives.
So many mysteries will yield to science over the next few years.
But let's see, how many Germans died at the Dresden bombings? None, because we can't find their graves to count? The first victim of war is truth, numbers are almost always wrong or difficult to estimate. Propaganda from one side is no different than propaganda for the other side.gfhändel , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 11:42 am GMTBrno is on the opposite (southwestern) side of Czechia from Ústí nad Labem, in Moravia.Hegar , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 11:47 am GMTThank you for this information. It is astonishing how much people aren't allowed to know. Mass graves of Germans murdered by the communists, and many tens of thousands of Slovenians, Croats and others who fought the communists. But socialist school teachers in Europe harp endlessly about "gassed Jews".JohnPlywood , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 11:55 am GMTJews get control of found graves and immediately erect fences and memorials, without excavation, declaring them Jews. "Proof that Jews were killed!" No mass graves of Jews ever found at any of the concentration camps. The "einsatzgruppen" have been blamed for killing Jews – of course the Jews hated them, as they were the ones tasked with beating down communist attacks on German forces behind the front army.
Unz Review should concentrate on these factual stories, rather than Marxist fantasies by people like "Eric Striker," who claims that "the Soviet Union would have worked if it had been Germans instead of Slavs," and constantly makes excuses for socialists while making sure you concentrate your anger about Black riots on conservatives. Unz Review should clean the ranks.
@Reger This article (like the comment section) is full of retarded trash. The Holocaust happened, and the number of brutally murdered people has likely been officially under estimated, and the only people denying the Holocaust are those with a serious learning disability and poor attention span. I also suspect many of the people in the comment section (such as GeeBee) are coping Jewish individuals.Emily , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 12:10 pm GMTNot just the missing jewish remains – misleading and skewing.Commentator Mike , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 12:28 pm GMT
There is another nasty double standard re the victims of the well known German and other nazi aligned Labour (concentration) camps.
How many on here have heard of Jasenovac?
It was a death camp – a real death camp.
So vile even the gestapo were sickened.
It was a Nazi Croatian mass murder camp where hundreds of thousands of allied Serbs, gypsies and others died, suffering appalling torture and murder.
The Serbs – who NATO/US/UK mass murdered and bombed back to the stonage some 25 years ago – died valiantly and like flies – tying up whole divisions of the Germans.
In gratitude and on behalf of the islamic fundamentalist Saudi leaning KLA we repaid this debt illegally attacked the Serbs – the only ethnic cleansing being some 700,000 Serb refugees driven from their ancestral homes in the Krajina (20,000 more murdered because they couldn't leave fast enough), over a quarter of a million of them out of their ancestral homeland of Kosovo and many from Bosnia and other parts.
700,000 who lost it all.
Reparations due I think.
All illegal and to give radical islam a base in Southern Europe and build a massive USA base – Camp Bondsteel.
Back to Jasenovac .
This was the most deadly and brutal camp of all.
Heard of it.
NO.
Few Jrewish victims so written out of history.
Just as have been the millions of non jews killed in the other camps.
The disabled etc – many catholics.
All written out as only Jews can be the victims.
Here are just a few of the links to Jasenovac.
And ask yourself why the silence on the suffering of the Serbians – huge numbers dying fighting for we the allies – not as some groups, not fighting at all but profiteering.
https://jasenovac.org/what-was-jasenovac/
https://www.neweurope.eu/article/jasenovac-the-forgotten-extermination-camp-of-the-balkans/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252563/
So why the silence – only one holocaust allowed?.
And Serbs are not members of that club.
And how many know that the Serbs have been completely vindicated and Milosevic declared an innocent man of war crimes .
Murdered non the less in his prison
http://johnpilger.com/articles/provoking-nuclear-war-by-media@HammerJack Italians must be incompetent. India cremates over six million each year.Biff , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 12:37 pm GMT@Dumbomaz10 , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 12:40 pm GMTBut let's see, how many Germans died at the Dresden bombings?
Funny you should ask. Encyclopedia Britannica says 135,000
https://www.britannica.com/event/bombing-of-DresdenWikipropaganda says 25,000 tops.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_IIMy guess is all that got killed died.
Let me start with this:GeeBee , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 1:00 pm GMTOne is the last communist head of state for Poland from 1985-90, Wojciech Jaruzelski. Speaking to a journalist of Izvestia (Russian daily newspaper), he said, rather tongue-in-cheek, that he cannot understand how the Polish population exploded between 1946 and 1970, and then leveled off to become stagnant from 1990 till today. He humorously remarked that there had to have been "a strong aphrodisiac" to lead to the birth of millions of new Poles because "in the grocery stores there had been only vinegar and millions had died even after the war."
What the late General is referring to is the common trope that during communism (actually socialism but I will leave that for another time) there was only 'musztarda i ocet' that is mustard and vinegar on store shelves. It was a common accusation against the system as a whole and Jaruzelski personally since he was an important part of the said system. On more than one occasion he defended himself and his times by pointing out – sometimes in a tongue-in -cheek fashion as in the quoted citation – that it could have not been so bad if Poland's population growth is anything to go by (he sometimes pointed out other advances but again I do not want to side-track here) as Poland indeed experienced a demographic explosion. Of course this resulted in many problems, for example despite a program of massive apartment block building – in virtually every Polish city and town you will see rows and rows of such apartment blocks standing – there was a chronic housing shortage.
Thus with citing Gen. Jaruzelski's remarks in the context of Polish and Jewish victims of German atrocities Ms. Yeager and her sidekick managed to make it to the very top of Unz review's comic relief category. My sincere congratulations.
That was the funny part and here comes the more serious one.
Namely Ms. Yeager and her sidekick were kind enough to write: 'The only known mass grave of Poles was the work of the Soviet Red Army, led by the NKVD, in the Katyn Forest in Soviet Russia.'
Let me just point out, that mass graves with Polish victims of German mass executions were located among other places at:
Palimiry, Las Sękocinski, Las kabacki, Laski and many, many others locations such as for example Ponary (outside of Poland's post WW II borders in present-day Lithuania).
I do not know if Ms. Yeager and her sidekick are that ignorant in regard to the topic they write about or if they deliberately lie, or alternatively there is some other explanation – that however is of secondary importance. What is of primary importance is that what they wrote is not factually correct.
One could go on dissecting Ms. Yeager's and her sidekick's writings however I have better things to do on Sunday. Yet the above should suffice to put parts of their 'work' into the category of comedies while others into that of falsities* – that in turn weighs heavily on what to make of the rest.
*With one caveat though: hundreds of years of Drang nach Osten were indeed reversed in a very short time at the end of WW II, sometimes in a brutal way. Thus there IS some truth in what Ms. Yeager and her sidekick produced, this being in the category of an exception which confirms the rule in regard to the rest.
@JohnPlywood What is a 'coping Jewish individual' exactly? You are of course at liberty to suspect me of being anything you like. But none of your suspecting will ever change me from being anything other than a proud, thoroughbred Yorkshire Anglo-Saxon, who can trace both parents' lines back for centuries with no trace of anything outside of our own fine, yeoman, Anglo-Saxon bloodline.Anonymous [506] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 1:06 pm GMTMy admittedly unusual 'take' on twentieth-century history arose from making a closer study of it than I had hitherto stirred myself so to do, in the wake of having been obliged to take early retirement at a convenient moment, in that it coincided with the appearance of much hitherto unavailable information thanks to the burgeoning internet era. My prior studies had by no means been trivial: I had taken modules in both War Studies and International Affairs to degree standard while at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
At all events, I believe my current position to reflect a good deal more of the truth than is contained in the 'official' history, and I can assure you that my epiphany in this regard occasioned me the very keenest mental anguish at first. Not to put too fine a point on it, I found my life-long beliefs turned upside down. Not at all a welcome development, but one that intellectual honesty compelled me to accept.
@Ann Nonny Mouse Don't be so cynical. Because the Jews acting collectively have never and can never do anything wrong, it follows that any criticism of their collective behavior anywhere and at any time, whether today or throughout history, is hate speech.Robjil , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 1:12 pm GMTWe also know from Freudian science that it arises from envy and that paranoid guilt-projection plays no part in their condemnation of the Other. Laws to that effect throughout Europe also provide scientific evidence that Jews never lie and, therefore, their narratives of events taking place outside the laws of nature and not subject to rules of logic or scientific method must be true.
So, Mr. Holocaust doubter, just maybe the rabbis, reaching into the pits, have discovered miraculously intact passports, photos, and birth certificates as before, using the forensic skills their agents displayed in the ashes of the Trade Center and Pentagon to locate paper miraculously immune from fire, water, and the forces of explosion sufficient to render concrete into dust.
@Ann Nonny Mousetrickster , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 1:40 pm GMTAnd when the Jews wanted the pipeline work stopped, I suppose it would have stopped simply because there were bodies there, whether Jewish or not.
I may have failed to understand the article. Or perhaps it omits relevant information.
The omitted info is the following:
Ukraine is a US/Israel controlled nation since 2014.
Nuland's, a Jewish Zionist, world famous battle cry begin the Zionist coup and Zio rule of Ukraine with these infamous words "F–k the EU."Poroshenko the first president of this Zion colony was half Jewish.The second president Zelensky is Jewish.The Zionists in control of this US/Israel colony are even afraid Shabbos Goy to take the presidency of their new colony.
@HammerJack It is true that India cremates millions per year, that is their tradition. However to attend a Hindu cremation and to observe, really observe the logistics required to burn ONE body is to realize the impossibility of German logistics to effectively do away with 6 million in addition to fighting a war against multiple opponents.Saggy , says: Website Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 1:42 pm GMTOne need not have a Doctorate in Maths. Just pick a modern City with 3 million inhabitants, visit it and drive around it extensively and now imagine you will completely decimate TWO (2) cities like it by killing and burning every single human being in them. The infrastructure, transportation, human resources and material logistics required for such a task are horrendous. At the same time you are fighting a major war against several nations, 2 with with almost unlimited manpower and industrial capacity. Toward the end of the war Germany was fighting on 3 fronts, being bombed to smithereens and also battling partisans in several countries AND also running their extermination program ??
It is one thing for 6 million families in India to cremate 6 million relatives. I find it hard to believe that the staff in all the concentration camps would be up to this numerical task AND make the bones and ashes of 6 million disappear completely.
I love a good ghost story but my powers of belief have their limit.
@Grahamsno(G64)trickster , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 1:44 pm GMTListen if you can't answer about what happened to those 'Missing Jews' of the AR camps kindly shut up.
We know what happened to the Jews in the AR camps, they were burned. And we have proof Action 1005 was led by Paul Blobel who confessed.
We even know how he did it from his confession https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/obliterating-the-traces-of-bodies-of-jews-killed-by-the-einsatzgruppen-june-1947
During my visit in August I myself observed the burning of bodies in a mass grave near Kiev. This grave was about 55 m. long, 3 m. wide and 2½ m. deep. After the top had been removed the bodies were covered with inflammable material and ignited. It took about two days until the grave burned down to the bottom. I myself observed that the fire had glowed down to the bottom. After that the grave was filled in and the traces were now practically obliterated.
The holohoax is a collection of preposterous lies see ..
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Ul72dV4SbAoh/@marylinm It is dangerous to not take your meds ! Sounds like you might need to increase the doseage. Please see your Doctor immediately.peacewalker , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 1:51 pm GMTI just don't know where to start. Whole "article" is such a BS. OK, let's start from beginning then:Bardon Kaldian , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 2:01 pm GMTTwo responsible figures have recently and publicly added their voices to the question of six million Poles murdered (ostensibly by Nazis) between 1939 and 1945.
"One is the last communist head of state for Poland from 1985-90, Wojciech Jaruzelski ( )"
LOL.
General Wojciech Jaruzelski. Head of military junta that took over power from Party in 1982, responsible for murdering dozens of people. Cold blood mass murderer, aparatchik, liar and Soviet hardliner. Such a perfect "responsible figure"! And delicious cherry on top – he most likely was "wtornik" too (it's margin note, I can explain meaning of this term and whole story but only if somebody will be genuinly interested). During inteview with Soviet, communist, cenzored newspaper. Said something. Wow! Groundbreaking news. Let's rewrite all history books.
The other is Dr. Otwald Mueller, a well-known German researcher.
Right
Let's check this "researcher".
"Die Welt (German newspaper "The World"), September 2, 2009: "beginning of WW II, 6 million victims in Poland, half of them Jews ."
2) Daily Gazette (Schenectady, N.Y.), September 2, 2009: " .Poland alone lost 6 million citizens, half of them Jews" ( )
An important chart
There exists an important Polish population chart. It marks a pre-war Polish population of 29.89 million people, and for the year 1946 a population of 23.6 million."
SO HE IS WELL-KNOWN GERMAN RESERCHER?
And his scientic research regarding even basic facts are based on bloody TABLOIDS? GERMAN TABLOIDS? And he can not even "research" population chart for Poland?
ROTFL is not enough.
Are you mocking and insulting all Poles and Polish citizens who died during WWII? Or perhaps all world's scientists and reserchers including half-baked and fully stoned first year history course students? Do you think all your readers are complete idiots?
Facts: Republic of Poland population in 1938: Roughly 35 millions. NOT 29.89 millions. 35 MILLIONS.
Here any kind of discussion ends. I kindly ask all readers to check that one fact yourself. Find Poland population before WWII. Got it? Now ask yourself: do you like to be fooled like that? This "well-known German reasercher" (and Carolyn Yeager and Wilhelm Kriessmann who published such a BS) lied to you about most basic fact. Cause they think that you are absolute idiots. Are you?
Anyway. Just for fun let's verify very next "fact":
"There exists an important Polish population chart. It marks a pre-war Polish population of 29.89 million people, and for the year 1946 a population of 23.6 million. The difference is of approximately 6 million, or 21% of the total population. The chart seems to prove the statement of "6 million" but, on the contrary, it contradicts it."
"and for the year 1946 a population of 23.6 million".
True.
"The difference is of approximately 6 million, or 21% of the total population."
The difference is approx. 11 MILLIONS, or 33% of the total population.
And yes. It was that bad. One third of total population lost (notice: LOST! Not all died. Some publications did indicate that 6 millions died, it could be one of the reasons for possible confusion regarding subject, among others)
Source: As for official count and confirmation of data I recommend Nuremberg Trials protocols and final statements. It's all there. Again – if you are interested find exact relevant data yourself, source provided.
"That shows in a significant way how Polish history – better Polish fairy tales – works."
Yes. I do understand Otwald Mueller is absolutely hideous, abhorrent and disgusting person.
Not only liar, not only completely fake "researcher" and real Nazi comforter and backer but absolutely disgusting character too. No doubt about it. Still it's always good to know the true, whatever it is.Let's "reserch" just next fact. That will be simply very next sentence.
"We must keep in mind that 31% of Poland's population was of non-Polish origin one million were German, as you can see from names of cities like Stettin, Gruenberg and Breslau."
We have to, we really have to keep in mind Otwald Muller is not only hideous person, liar and fake researcher but also complete idiot. We are talking absolute moron who is willing to lie about most basic facts, even when simpliest fact checking will expose him as a complete fraud.
Now, I do not know exact ethnic population of Poland in given time. I can easily check it but there is no point. Let's assume it was 31% of non-Polish, just for the sake of argument. And let's assume 1 million were Germans.
"as you can see from names of cities like Stettin, Gruenberg and Breslau"
German science at it finest.
1. STETTIN is GERMANIZED name for Polish name SZCZECIN, not the other way around.
2. Same story with Wroclaw (for short period of time known as Breslau).Exposing this german moron (and those behind him) is like kicking a puppy. I am sure he is true vile character, he has very worst intentions for real victims of WWII and he is doing his best to cover German crimes of WWII.
Still exposing him does fell like kicking a puppy.
And I am not going to waste more time exposing more of this BS "letter" and BS "article anyway. Not unless somebody will be genuinly interested.
So one final note regarding lol very german cities of Stettin and Breslau:
My English isn't fluent so I explain it in simplest way I can. Szczecin is a name for settlement built/established by Slavs (Wkrzanie) in VII century. It is old city and old name. Yes, most of city dwellers were Germans from like XVI century to 1945. No it's not because this city was build by Germans. It was taken by Germans (not Germany, it was Hanza, lol, it's a long story, to cut it short – let's say Germans) centuries after it rose and they changed name only a bit, to make it easier to pronounce. Germans don't do SZ and CZ diphthtongs hence Stettin. It is as easy and simple.
BTW there is so much more to the story of Szczecin. Like city coat of arms ("Gryf" or "Gryfin", eng. Griffin) and the fact even when citizens were mostly Germans, for 500 years rulers where "Gryfici" native Poles of House of Griffin. Very old and noble family. House of Griffin ended in XVII century, natural causes.Breslau. It's even funnier. Again. Breslau is germanized name for Polish city.
And again. Fascinating story but let's keep it short. First settlement then town, then city. Slavs, Poles, Poles. One of most important Polish cities. First name recorded?
Vuartizlau. 1133. In Thietmar's Chronicle.
Now if you are not familiar with Thietmar then just a brief: Thietmar of Merseburg, German, bishop, historician. Kudos to him for good effort in writing down city name as similar to way it was spoken as posssible. Vuartizlau gives a lot of hints regarding, well, many things.
@Emily Bullshit.Genrick Yagoda , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 2:09 pm GMTSerbian ideology is chock full of lies. For instance, lunatic Serbian ideologues (Milojević, Lukin Lazić, Pjanić Luković, Deretić), from the 1870s to the 2010s, have claimed that:
* Mesopotamians are actually Serbs
* Siberia got the name from Serbs (S-b-r..well, it's like S-r-b)
* half (at least) of Egyptian pharaohs & Roman emperors were Serbs
* Jesus was a Serb
* Homer, Aristotle etc. wrote in Serbian
* all Slavs are actually Serbs, as well Germans etc.
* all ancient civilizations, except yellow races (Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, Rome, Greece,..) were Serbian
* etc. etc.
As far as WW II is considered, official censuses from 1931. (the last census in Royalist Yugoslavia) and from 1948. (the first in Communist Yugoslavia) show that there are c. 700,000 more Serbs in all of Yugoslavia- and 3,500-14,000 less Croats, despite annexation of Croatian areas formerly held by Fascist Italy (Istria, Rijeka, 5 islands with exclusively Croatian population).So, Serbs who are supposedly the greatest victims in ex-Yu WW II show a growth in absolute numbers by 700,000 & Croats who are supposedly perpetrators, or lesser victims- are diminished in absolute numbers by 14,000 (despite adding a significant Croatian-only territory)?
The whole Yugoslav & Serbian narrative about WW II is one big, fat lie.
@WłodzimierzAlfred , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 2:21 pm GMTthe Germans, obliterating the crime, burned most of the corpses.
There is the convergence of evidence again!
Jews (and Catholics) are inflammable!
It's shocking to me that we don't have hundreds of thousands of people bursting into flames on a daily basis.
@Ann Nonny Mouse I don't understand why Jewish groups and their rabbis were given control of two mass grave sites. Did the civil authorities conspire with the Jews to pretend the bodies were of Jews?trickster , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 2:22 pm GMTUkraine has a Jewish president and a Jewish prime minister. The current regime was installed following a coup organised by their Jewish cousins in the USA. Fewer than 1% of the population is Jewish – but this is a democratic government after all.
Politicians and journalists who don't toe the line are shot. The victims never seem to be Jewish. Here is the latest one only a few weeks ago – May 22. I doubt if it made the MSM anywhere.
Ukrainian lawmaker found dead in central Kyiv (Jewspeak)
He was not "found dead". He was executed with a bullet to the head.
It did not happen in "central Kyiv". It took place in his parliamentary office.
@padre Anyone who ever fought in a war will tell you there are no good guys, no side is right while the other is wrong. All war is atrocity on both sides sometimes deliberate sometimes just sheer revenge. To experience the reality of a battlefield, before, during and after is to try to survive under the most terrible conditions physically and emotionally intact.Genrick Yagoda , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 2:24 pm GMTAs I tell any young man who would lend me an ear. There is no glory and honour in war. These are words the politicians use to provoke youth to wash their dirty laundry while they chill in nice comfortable and safe homes licking up the finest wines and foods. The youth get to eat any cheap shit they feed you, in a hole, with assorted vermin, without a bath or change of clothes for at times several days, most times defecating and peeing in your pants from necessity or sheer terror. Why nourish and nurture a man who may have a life expectancy of a few hours ?
I dont look at war movies. They are all bullshit. I passed the TV once when my son was looking at one such movie. The actors all look so clean and well groomed. An artillery shell landed and some of them somersaulted as if they had bounced on a trampoline and then landed all intact. That is Hollywood! The reality ? When a heavy shell lands among men they disappear. You might find a leg with the boot still attached. A discerning person may say "Yeah, that is Billy's leg. I remember because the boot had such and such a mark carved on it". But the rest of Billy is nowhere to be found. Its called "Missing in Action"
During and after a war, civilians may wax about humanity, peace and love and goodwill to all men, who was good and who were the criminal types but those classifications do not exist on a battlefield or in a war. Even God is nowhere in sight, what would he be doing there anyway ?
And if God has made himself scarce who or what is good and who and what is bad ?
@Saggy Once again, proof that Jews are inflammable!Adam Smith , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 2:30 pm GMTIf only we could find a way to burn dead Jews next to a flywheel, our energy problems would be solved.
@utuAnon [240] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 2:48 pm GMTNormal people will agree that the official number of 6,000,000 is too high
Agree!
@utuTrinity , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 2:53 pm GMTLack of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
Jews are missing only in the Holocaust deniers' minds.
Were there ever two better lines written to illustrate the hate that Jews have for non-Jews and the disrespect that Jews have for the minds of non-Jews?
"Keep searching goy, lack of evidence that you are a murderer does not mean that you are not"
"Lack of hard evidence of your crimes and our victimhood is only lack of evidence in your mind".
What a lunatic.
Completely representative of your people.
Wonder no longer why you people draw so much animosity.
Normal people will agree that the official number of 6,000,000 is might be too high and that rather three to four million Jews died during WWII and they are not missing because they are dead.
"Normal people will agree"
Who is this, a member of the special needs Hasbara team? Using condescending rhetoric that is so rudimentary and ineffective that it is given to the short bus participants to make noise? Is today also the field trip to the yeshiva, where you will read from the torah like a real Jewish boy?
No one "normal" would agree with your any of your self-interested logic after reading the lines that I prior highlighted. In fact, "normal people" would reflexively investigate the opposite position.
In fact, "normal" people would and do discount the entire story after it came out, as admitted by Jews themselves, that Simon Wiesenthal invented the additional 5 million non-Jewish dead for sympathy. And that lie was put forward as true for decades.
You people don't lose "part credit" or "part credibility" for that lie. You lose it all. And that's before we get to the rest of the proof against Holocaust logic.
You are inveterate liars, mass murderers, willing oppressors, and thieves.
Even when Jews LIE it is only to bring joy into the world. Take one Herman Rosenblat who wrote, "Angel At The Fence," describing his time in a concentration camp during WWII. Good ole Herman was making the talk show circuit with his book and there were plans for a movie, UNTIL, it was found out that good ole Herman Rosenblat had made the whole story up, it was a LIE. The nice Jewish boy, Herman, had Doprah Pigfrey calling his book the greatest love story of all time. teehee. When caught in a LIE, Herman said he was only guilty of trying to bring joy into the world.skrik , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 2:58 pm GMTJews are such a caring people. Jews are champions of human rights for everyone and they always seem to take joy in their role as their brother's keeper. Here was a Jewish man who did not seek fame nor money, no sir, his concern was bringing joy into the world through a book. Jews can teach humanity so much. Jews have suffered so much. And don't let Jewish power, money, and influence fool you, or their role in the pornography business or other seedy occupations, Jews are people of the Book, and the pillars of the community. Jews have championed the fight against White racism and civil rights for Blacks, they are tireless workers for truth, justice and the American Way just like Superman. Go Jews.
@maz10Bookish1 , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 2:58 pm GMTexception which confirms the rule
Fallacious. Taurus excretus cerebus perplexus – and we all know which party throws most of the BS in the perverse hope of obfuscation – they just can't help themselves. Then see 33.Anonymous[506]. rgds
Keep in mind how many tons is 1,00,000 people. If the average weight of 1,000,000 people was 135 pounds then the total weight of that 1 million is 135,000,000 lbs. Divide that by the number of pounds in 1 ton which is 2,000lbs and you get 67,500 tons of human remains. Now how the hell do you hide that much human remains of one million people much less 6 million.Anon [317] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 3:05 pm GMT@utu Always remember that the other pertinent truth is that the Jews were guilty of everything that the Germans accused them of.Bookish1 , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 3:08 pm GMTAs is well-evidenced by what Jews support, control, and how they otherwise act as a political group today.
The Jews are no different than Al Qaeda. They merely work to hurt outsiders with lies about their identities and motivations, their control of the press, their influence on the culture, and their perfidious political actions once embedded in governments. Instead of with literal IEDs.
Jewish goals are parallel to the goals of Al Qaeda, with much better results.
That the Jewish and Islamic religions share virtually all of their theological DNA is not a coincidence.
@GeeBee True that jews always seem to win but the fact is they cant lose one major war or they are done forever. Israel cant lose one war or she is done. Arabs can lose 10 wars and the come back for another one someday. If Hitler would have won jews would have been done.GMC , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 3:11 pm GMT@Ann Nonny Mouse I know the place they are discussing and you have to remember Odecca has always been a heavy Jewish city. But only when it suits their best interests. In this case – getting more free land and calling out the Orthodox folks . Even goes back to the Khazarian/ Pecheneg times, when they chose to be Jews because the Ottomans in the south and the Rooskies in the north were pressing them to be either Islamic or Orthodox. Of course they chose the " chosen ones religion" for their slave trade and usury / theft trade. The normal Russians/Crimeans that I know that are jews are way cool folks – they even have family is Israel but no big ego. Just normal Russians.Da's Reich , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 3:23 pm GMT@Włodzimierz I read the link you provided,Wally , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 4:01 pm GMTThats it? seriously?
@Ann Nonny Mouse said:RT , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 4:25 pm GMT
"Was it known that the bodies were of people who died during the war? That the skeletons were not centuries old?"No.
That's what I meant when I said:
"Of these there is no proof of even the age of the skeletons, whether they were even Jews, whether they were even murdered. "
Best.
@utu In justice, absence of evidence is absence of evidence and has been for thosand of years everywhere, except for ancient Egypt . If you cannot provide evidence, the accused is innocent. This is called presumption of innocence.the shadow , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 4:27 pm GMT@utuWally , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 4:32 pm GMTLack of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
Very good thinking that adds up to nothing more than:
The original statement is that "absence of proof is not proof of absence," which simply means that a lack of proof for something doesn't, in and of itself, prove that the thing is false. But lack of evidence for something is most definitely evidence that the thing in question may be false, especially when there should be evidence for that thing.
But beyond the silly proof you offer that the absence of evidence is proof of presence, the answer to your question about how one would prove that those whose ashes disappeared had really died is easily answered by death certificates, cremation records, and evidence of funerals or memorial services that were held, and announcement about the death of the deceased.
But even your notion that the ashes of the holocaust victims would have been as scattered as would be the case of cremated remains scattered throughout the United Statges by relatives is absurd with rerspect to holocaust victims who were all allegedly killed in very confined geographic spaces and whose ashes the Germans certainly did not bother to scatter throughout Europe to hide them as your example of relatives scattering the ashes of relatives throughout the country would have them do.
That you would even provide this example to substantiate the holocauset reveals the absurdity of your claiming it happened as claimed. Had it happened on the scale claimed, there would be massive evidence of it just as the examples provided in the article about the mass graves of real victims that have been found.
Indeed, given the millions killed in the fighting on the Eastern Front there should be endless examples of mass graves first of the millions of Russians killed during the German advance the Germans almost certainly buried in mass graves as the Russians did likewise of the Germans killed during the Russian advance.
So where is the evidence?
An easy place to look as Babi Yar where 30,000 Jews were reportedly murdered in a very specific site. Why has no one looked to prove it with the evidence of the bodies?
@utu – You really should know what you're talking about before you speak.Carolyn Yeager , says: Website Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 4:39 pm GMT
Remember, it is your "Holocaust Industry" which claims that such immense human grave sites exist in known locations, not Revisionsts.– Revisionists are just the messengers, the absurd impossibility of the laughable 'holocaust' storyline is the message.
– The millions of other deaths you cite are not based upon the ridiculous "holocaust" claims of enormous numbers of people dying in highly centralized locations in which, again, the locations are supposedly known.
– As for military deaths, I remind that that there are cemeteries all over Europe.
– There have been many, many attempts to find the alleged huge mass graves in which many millions have been supposedly dumped. Those attempts failed miserably, as I demonstrated about Sobibor in the first comment in this thread.
Here's another of the many examples examples I can cite.
– !! Excavation Result: No Human Remains of alleged 34,000 Jews as claimed at Babi Yar !! In fact, no remains period. : https://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11314
more examples here:
https://www.unz.com/?s=haimi&Action=Search&ptype=all&commentsearch=only&commenter=Wally
and:
https://www.unz.com/?s=sturdy-colls&Action=Search&ptype=all&commentsearch=only&commenter=Wally– Of course, utu, you have been challenged at this site for proof of the scientifically impossible 'gas chambers' that you believe in.:
https://www.unz.com/?s=utu&Action=Search&ptype=all&commentsearch=only&commenter=Wally@Reger You say "many geographical inaccuracies in this article" and you cite one. Indeed, the one you cite is an error – Bruenn/Brno is not in the "same area of Northwestern Bohemia" as is Aussig/Usti nad Labem. Brno is in the south.Dumbo , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 4:46 pm GMTI will correct this on my website, so thank you for bringing it to my attention. But it is certainly not weighty enough to undermine the rest of the article, which is based on newspaper accounts from the time. Since that time, no new diggings of any consequence have been undertaken. The will to do so, by those in authority, is not there.
@Bardon Kaldian Croat Ustaša killed thousand of Serbs, it's well documented, do you deny that?Pop Warner , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 5:09 pm GMTThis is supposedly from a Gestapo report, if true it's quite damning, it's not a source that would want to incriminate their own allies:
Increased activity of the bands [of rebels] is chiefly due to atrocities carried out by Ustaše units in Croatia against the Orthodox population. The Ustaše committed their deeds in a bestial manner not only against males of conscript age, but especially against helpless old people, women and children. The number of the Orthodox that the Croats have massacred and sadistically tortured to death is about three hundred thousand
(I have no dog in this fight, but have more sympathy for Serbs than for Croats because of the way the have been treated by the U.S. Empire recently).
@Grahamsno(G64) The AR camps and complete lack of forensic evidence at each of them is mentioned. I can see why the focus is on Auschwitz because if Jews brought more attention to Treblinka it would be obvious how fake the whole thing is.Włodzimierz , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 5:10 pm GMT@Genrick Yagoda Dear Genrickmaz10 , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 5:14 pm GMTDo you really think German occupants did burn their own fellow citizens on polish soil in 1939?
What is written is completely unhistorical and untrue statement that nobody can find any polish citizens mass graves in Poland.
Authors did not check basic data like number of polish citizens before the war – almost 35 millions. But we can read in the article
It marks a pre-war Polish population of 29.89 million people .
What is the purpose of such obvious mistake/falsification?
@skrik Dear Sir, it is inappropriate to quote oneself they say thus I will refer you back to my original comment which you were kind enough to comment yourself. Sufficient to say I pointed out that Ms. Yeager and her sidekick made fools out of themselves with their choice of Gen. Jaruzelski's quote and have a nonchalant attitude towards facts when it comes to mass graves of German atrocities victims.Dumbo , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 5:15 pm GMTIn this context I can not help but also to point out that it is not the first time Ms. Yeager wrote nonsense and not the first time to I call her out on that either.
Thus if anyone here is a peddler of taurus excretum it is Ms. Yeager who has a proven track record of being one.
For this reason when she occasionally gets something right it is similar to a broken clock showing the right time every twelve hours.
"Let the dead bury their dead". Instead of harping on such issues with a discussion that never ends and is rather pointless, Europeans would do better to focus on the future and reproduce more. Of course, "Holocaust denial" and similar speech criminalization laws would have to go too, it's time, soon there will be no survivors alive, and it will hopefully be forgotten like all wars. There's no need to keep talking about this things forever, let's forgive and forget, and think about the future. If Europe becomes majority African and Arab in the next 100 years, then what's the point of discussing what flavour of white killed which flavour of white? It won't matter anymore I mean non-whites are already toppling Churchill statues, and Churchill was until recently an "anti-fascist" and a hero of both leftists and neo-cons.Carolyn Yeager , says: Website Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 5:16 pm GMT@Louis Hissinkevidence_a_must , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 5:19 pm GMTBut propaganda 101 is to always accuse your opponents of your own crimes.
Thanks. This is the truest thing that can be said and should always be kept uppermost in mind when studying history.
Evidence for this truism can be found in the book Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau 1939-1945. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0803299087?tag=duckduckgo-ffnt-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1
and also
https://carolynyeager.net/wehrmacht-war-crimes-bureau-1939-1945-part-10
and
https://carolynyeager.net/wehrmacht-war-crimes-bureau-1939-1945-part-11@JohnPlywoodCurmudgeon , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 5:20 pm GMT".. .the only people denying the Holocaust are those with a serious learning disability and poor attention span .. ."
and those poor, deluded people who prefer to have evidence , and not just Hollywood films created by people with an agenda to push and a story to sell!
@Reger Individual fates?Włodzimierz , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 5:31 pm GMT
Anything to do with the Hollow-co$t narrative is suspect. What kind of "death camps" have hospitals for internees? What kind of "death camps" have scrip for prisoners to spend at a canteen? What kind of "death camps" have orchestras and theaters for internees? Why would "death camps" record marriages and births? The Olympic size swimming pools and soccer fields for internees at "death camps" were there, obviously, as another form of mass murder by forcing the internees to swim until they drowned or run until they collapsed.
How about the individual fates of the women and children burned to death in the incendiary bombing of Hamburg and Dresden, or the deaths of 1600 civilians who drowned when the Ruhr Valley dams were bombed? More teenage girls named Anne died in one night of allied bombing than ever died in concentration camps.
To paraphrase David Irving, more people died in the back seat of Ted Kennedy's car than in homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz. It is indeed, unfortunate that people died, but the Jewish "leadership" declared war on Germany in 1933. The deaths of the three people you named is on their hands for scheming against the legitimate government of Germany.@Da's Reich Authors claimed they can not find any example of documented mass grave of polish citizens.Curmudgeon , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 5:32 pm GMTI don't think there is a big problem to find info about such topics if you need.
You may visit Dachau and check on site.
@Dumbo According to Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse 5, and Victor Gregg, POWs who helped with the "clean up", a whole lot more than what has been estimated.Curmudgeon , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 5:38 pm GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/15/bombing-dresden-war-crimeCurious that the fanatical record keeping Nazis have no record of the amount of coke needed to burn the numbers of alleged victims cremated at concentration camps. Meanwhile, the Soviet archives released camp records are in line with the Red Cross estimates and Bletchley Park transcripts. Obviously, they are all lying and Yad Vesham is correct.
@maz10utu , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 5:41 pm GMT(actually socialism but I will leave that for another time)
You wouldn't know what socialism was if it bit you in the arse. Your local co-op is socialist.
@RT Grow up. You are not in the court. You are not even in the court of public opinion. You are among the Holocaust denial retards. You are one of them actually.maz10 , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 6:01 pm GMT@Curmudgeon I beg your pardon? There is a good chance I have more first-hand experience with socialism (as Realsozialismus) then you have experience with anything at all.Bardon Kaldian , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 6:12 pm GMT@Dumbo Just a c-p for clueless people.VICB3 , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 6:18 pm GMT* during 1918-1939 period, Yugoslavia was basically a softer version of Greater Serbia, with all nations-except Slovenes- oppressed. Close to 400 Croats & ca. 2000 Muslims had been killed by Serbian paramilitaries & government forces during "peaceful" period in the 1920s & 1930s. The turning point was assassination of Croatian leader Stjepan Radić, a sort of Croatian Gandhi, by a Serb nationalist in Yugoslav parliament in 1928. This convinced some Croats that any Yugoslavia was insufferable, and the most influential among them was future Poglavnik/"Leader" Ante Pavelić, who emigrated & founded a revolutionary terrorist organization ustaše (ca. 200-300 people).
* after the collapse of Yugoslavia in the April war 1941, situation in Croatia & Bosnia and Herzegovina was something like a vacuum. No Croatian politician wanted to become the head of state patronized by Nazi German authorities, but at the same time there was a sense of jubilation: Croats got independent (in theory) country, after decades of Serbian oppression. In this vacuum, Pavelić was installed by Hitler and Mussolini as a kind of puppet. In this country, ca. 50-60% were Croats & more than 30% were Serbs (the rest were Bosnian Muslims, considered to be Croats).
* Pavelić assumed power on April the 10th 1941. But even a week before that, Serb paramilitaries had started killing Croats & some 200-400 people were killed in the interregnum. After he had been installed, Pavelić actually dissolved parliament & established a dictatorship; Croatia was crippled & many vital areas, especially in Dalmatia, were given to Mussolini's Italy. Also, he introduced racial laws for Jews & started to persecute Serbs- both as a revenge for their participation in royalist Yugoslavia period terror & their atrocities during interregnum. In next few months perhaps 5-20,000 Serbs were killed by ustaše in various areas of NDH/Independent State of Croatia.
Basically, it was a terrorist regime & most Croats disapproved of it, but were expecting to get rid of ustaše in some future & retain statehood under democratic circumstances. So, Croats wanted a truly independent country.
* Serbs, being persecuted (along with Jews & Gypsies) rebelled on a massive scale in the last quarter of 1941 & many areas of NDH had become virtually defunct. This resulted in further Pavelić's dependence to Hitler. On the other hand, communist partisans, led by a Croat, Josip Broz Tito, after their defeat in Serbia fled with remnants of their army to the NDH territory. There, they found refuge among Serbs, while many of them defected to royalist Četniks led by Serbian colonel Mihailović. Četniks had killed, during 1941, ca. 12-15,000 Muslim & Croat civilians, mostly in the eastern Bosnia regions.
From 1941-1945 there was a civil war in all of Yugoslavia, with various factions fighting for different aims. In Croatia, more Croats had been coming to partisans, especially after 1943 (fall of Italy) & thus partisans became a respectable force. For instance, Croatia had 5 partisan corpses (4 of them with clear Croatian majority), while Slovenia had 2, Bosnia & Herzegovina 2, Serbia proper 2 etc.
* in may 1945, war was over & partisans had won. But, in 2- 6 weeks after the end of war, they committed mass atrocities, killing ca. 80,000-130,000 Croatian soldiers & civilians, perhaps 10,000 Serbian Četniks & up to 4,000 Slovenian white guards.
Modern unbiased historical investigations have dispelled many myths, especially those re number of victims in Yugoslavia & NDH in particular. In sum, in all of Yugoslavia, ca. 500,000 Serbs had died unnatural deaths & this included some 300,000 Serbs in NDH. Of these, perhaps over 100,000 had been killed by ustaše, while others died of typhoid, were killed by Germans, Četniks etc. Among Croats, ca. 200- 250,000 died of unnatural causes, virtually all of them in NDH on various sides. Percentage-wise, the biggest losses were among Bosnian Muslims, over 80,000.
https://www.hercegbosna.org/STARO/engleski/download.html
For instance:
https://www.hercegbosna.org/STARO/download-eng/Zerjavic_manipulations.pdf
Vladimir Zerjavic- YUGOSLAVIA-MANIPULATIONS -WITH THE NUMBER OF SECOND WORLD WAR VICTIMS
https://www.hercegbosna.org/STARO/download-eng/Greater_Serbia.pdf
GREATER SERBIA: from Ideology to Aggression,
https://www.hercegbosna.org/STARO/download-eng/SE_Europe.pdf
An International Symposium: SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE 1918-1995
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=D46A71C24EB2DFA356DF7B7DFF095E5F
War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: Occupation and Collaboration – Jozo Tomasevich
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=BC54C7CC4AD01FA7B4056FF06D130363
The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics – Ivo Banac
@utu Bottom line is that the whole existing Jewish Holocaust narrative is not supported by the evidence. And any competent detective would spot the inconsistencies and contrary evidence in the overall narrative and conclude that either the witness is fabricating and embellishing what actually happened, or very simply is lying.Fox , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 6:25 pm GMTThat's not the same thing as saying no Jews were killed in Europe, or that I'd want to be Jewish and in Europe in WWII. (Hell, I wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere in Europe during WWII period!) Rather, it's very clear that everybody was killing everybody else in those places and at that time based on ethnicity, nationality, politics, being on the losing side or what have you, including plain old greed, and that nobodies' hands were clean. Warfare will do that.
That, and the subsequent coverups, denials and spinmeistering over the years by all actors concerning massacres and reprisals, large scale thefts, organized starvations and ethnic cleansing are more over embarrassment and concerns about reputations than anything else. Likewise, the claiming of this, that or the other mass grave as your own is just as much about economic advantage and fortune seeking as it is about validation.
Enough! It was 80 odd years ago. Learn about what happened, all that happened and why, and to all peoples who were present, without favour given to an influential (for now) few. Resolve that it was monstrous for all, and resolve that it ought not to happen again. And then move on.
Just a thought.
VicB3
@peacewalker This sort of opinion is as childishly chauvinistic now as it was in 1850, 1920, 1939 and 1990. Did you know that Eastern Germany has been only given to the Poland for temporary administration by the Soviets? Notwithstanding the weird actions of the people in power in the FRG, Poland's borders are defined by international law by the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles to which Poland was a signatory party.Alternate History , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 6:28 pm GMT@utu Nice deflection, troll. People no longer believe the Red Cross account of 430k.jbwilson24 , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 6:39 pm GMT@GMC " The normal Russians/Crimeans that I know that are jews are way cool folks – they even have family is Israel but no big ego. Just normal Russians."Bardon Kaldian , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 6:41 pm GMTNonsense. Jews are not Russians, period. Different ethnic group, different loyalties. Given a brouhaha, you'll see which group they side with.
@VICB3jbwilson24 , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 6:47 pm GMTBottom line is that the whole existing Jewish Holocaust narrative is not supported by the evidence. And any competent detective would spot the inconsistencies and contrary evidence in the overall narrative and conclude that either the witness is fabricating and embellishing what actually happened, or very simply is lying.
This is stupid. It is very easy to calculate upper & lower limits of losses of various European peoples during WW2, just by feeding the computer with pre-war & post-war census data and taking into account border changes.
True, some figures overlap & there is a significant standard deviation for some numbers. But, generally, overall picture is rather well established.
@utu "Grow up. You are not in the court."Rich , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 6:47 pm GMTNonsense, low IQ person. The burden of proof is on the person making the existential claim, not on the person questioning it. I suggest opening a basic critical thinking book at some point in your life.
Fact is that the evidence for the deliberate murder of 6,000,000 Jews is almost entirely missing, apart from 'confessions' obtained under torture and the claims of self-interested parties who stand something to gain.
Add to that any number of oddities.
– Official reports from the Red Army indicating that the area around Treblinka was pastoral and undisturbed, contrasting with eyewitness accounts (by Jews) of skulls being strewn everywhere.
– Red Cross records mentioning nothing of a mass murder campaign costing millions of lives.
– Putin's comments that the Soviets transferred millions of Jews out of Poland
– The number of compensation claims registered with the German government reaching the 4 million mark, when the Nazis estimated the total number of Jews in Nazi occupied territory was smaller than this.
– The physical impossibility of outdoor cremation of millions of people using barbeques made from train rails and stacks of wood (which magically worked, even in the snow and rain).
– The lack of cross examination at the Nuremburg tribunal.It smells mightily of a Jewish fantasy enabling them to guilt trip the Germans, cover up British war crimes, and justify the theft of Arab land.
Obviously the holocaust must be fake or there wouldn't be laws against researching it, or disputing different aspects of it. Historical events that happened have no laws forbidding questioning or debating them. We can argue over how many died at Stalingrad, or in Hiroshima. We can question the number who starved in the Potato Famine, or from Smallpox in American Indian tribes. But one so-called "historical" event must never be questioned? Ridiculous. The fact that laws force one to believe in it, makes me doubt it completely.Carolyn Yeager , says: Website Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 7:05 pm GMT@Grahamsno(G64) I asked Ron Unz to put the title "Some Answers to the Mystery of the "Missing Jews" on the article; the original title is the sub-title you see here. I think it's perfectly justified – note the word "Some." Not 'The answer' or 'An answer', but only 'Some answers', which in retrospect over the last 10 years it does provide. If the communists murdered thousands and hundreds of thousands of Eastern European peoples, as you say, doesn't that impact the WWII death toll and the "missing jews"?Amon , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 7:19 pm GMTHolocaust believers like yourself have never been able to show the existence of the remains of those millions of bodies you say the German's killed. In light of that it's amazing anyone can still defend this cult of death.
That explains why you are reduced to personal insult, ad hominem and distractions like "what about the AR camps," instead of explaining why only Axis forces have been unearthed in mass graves since the war's end, and no Allied forces. That includes no Jews.
Also, FYI (and others), "Revisionism" is not something dictated from above by certain "professionals" but is individual works by individuals who study various aspects of history and put their work out there for scrutiny. Not something you are capable of appreciating, I know. So far, you have said nothing that debunks this article that is based on documented reality.
@utuclay sucre , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 7:38 pm GMTJews are missing only in the Holocaust deniers' minds.
Jews historically have had no homeland and thus feel no attachment or sentimental value to the lands upon which they live. It is therefore not that hard to speculate that once news of the evil Nazis approaching reached them that they packed up and moved further east or west to avoid getting mixed up in the actual fighting.
We see this mentality at full effect even today when millions of whites and blacks are sent around the world to kill, maim and occupy foreign nations while the jews who profit from it all stay at home in their million dollar mansions and closed off ghettos demanding to be given the best of the special treatment for their eternal victimhood.
Lack of evidence is not evidence of abscence-but is rather objective evidence of the non-existence of such a claim or cause of which one has been supportive or others forced to accept as truth.Art , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 7:47 pm GMT@utu Grow up. You are not in the court. You are not even in the court of public opinion. You are among the Holocaust denial retards. You are one of them actually.Anonymous [506] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 8:16 pm GMTPoor little utu – is he a Jew terrorist – or one of the feeble-minded gentiles, who falls for the Stockholm Syndrome Jew victim "six-million" lie. He is clearly on the wrong side of history.
As is abundantly clear from this article and its comments – many if not most of central Europe's ethnic peoples experienced group murder. 55,000,000 people died during WWII. Jews where just one tribe of many.
Instead of forgiving and healing all – the Jews have grabbed all the sick "victimhood glory" for themselves and used it as a cudgel to do even more killing in the Middle East.
Maintaining the "six-million" lie has cost America its cohesion and Western idealism – we are divided today into identity groups warring with each other -- all to maintain terroristic Jew political control, aimed at sustaining the "six-million" lie. Anyone who dares to disagree with the Jew lie – is terrorized and ostracized from society.
So what is it for little utu – Jew terrorist or fool?
A fool can intellectually grow – a morally poor Jew who supports "the lie" is hopeless.
@Robjil Judging by the aggressive theft of Ukraine farmland for pennies on the dollar by Chabad, instrumentalized by Nuland's lackeys at the Dept of State, and the consequent dispossession of Ukrainian farm people à la Palestinians in Palestine, my guess is that Israel intends to use the Ukraine as the "breadbasket" of the JWO in Europe, just as a de-industrialized United States, with its white population exterminated, will become the JWOs breadbasket in the Western Hemisphere.Beefcake the Mighty , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 8:16 pm GMTWhere did they go? They were never there in the first place. Part of the puzzle can be resolved here:anarchyst , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 8:21 pm GMThttps://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/bjpa/dell/DellaPergola%20Some%20Fundamentals.pdf
His aggregate numbers (in Table 2 on p. 10) are consistent with the numbers from the Jewish Virtual Library. But what's curious are the numbers for Eastern Europe (i.e. Imperial Russia/Soviet Union and Poland primarily) The American population exploded between 1880 and 1939. That's the well-known turn-of-the century influx. It's safe to assume that about 5M of the American number was due to immigration (applying a reasonable 0.5% growth rate to the 1880 population), and that it was mainly from Eastern Europe. That would mean that the stock of Eastern European Jews grew from 5.7M in 1880 to about 8.2M+5M = 13.2M in 1939, an annualized growth rate of 1.4%. This is simply not believable, given the chaos afflicting Eastern Europe during this time period. If we apply the 0.9% growth rate claimed for world Jewish inter-war population by the JVL (probably high but not absurdly so) to the 5.7M Eastern European stock, and subtract off the 5M that emigrated to America, we get an Eastern European Jewish population in 1939 of around 4.7M, which is at least 3.5M less than commonly claimed. (It was probably even less than 4.7M, given emigration to Palestine.) World Jewish population in 1939 was probably around 16.7M-3.5M = 13.2M, not 16.7M, implying Jewish losses during the war of around 2.2M. This number is consistent with German documentation re. the AR camps, Auschwitz, and the EG shootings, as well as Red Cross documentation about the Western camps. It's highly likely that both the Soviet and Polish 1939 numbers were exaggerated by at least 1M each. The numbers for the eastern part of the old Austro-Hungarian empire should also be viewed skeptically. (The 1931 Polish census claiming over 3M Jews is well-known, but there was a 1921 census claiming 2M Jews; there is no way the Polish Jewish population grew at a 4% annualized rate in that decade.)
Hitting the holohoax (oops I mean "holocaust™") head-on doesn't work because of the jew-controlled media which has declared "holocaustianity™" to be the new worldwide "state religion" from which no dissension from its "orthodoxy" is permitted.Priss Factor , says: Website Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 8:29 pm GMT
The only way to counter "holocaustianity™" is to point out the scientific and engineering impossibility of every "holocaust™" claim.
Let's look at a number of claims that have been made and have been ingrained in "holocaust™" orthodoxy:
-- using "bug spray" (Zyklon B) as an execution agent (ha ha)
-- "gas chambers" with ordinary wooden doors, not gas-tight doors
-- "gas chambers" with no means to ventilate the chambers after "operation"
-- "gas chamber" chimney not connected to anything
-- "blood spurting out of the ground" for weeks and months
-- "crematoria stacks with visible flames" (not possible) crematoria burn clean
-- "thousands of bodies cremated per day" (not possible)
-- "multiple bodies" in one "muffle" to "speed up" operations
-- "lampshades, soap and shrunken heads", oh my
-- "the ability to tell when jews are being cremated by the smell or color of smoke"
-- "claimed burial grounds not being permitted to be disturbed" per jewish "law"
NONE of these claims are possible or valid and can be easily debunked using sound scientific and engineering principles.
I have been thrown out (asked to leave) those "jewish freak shows" called "holocaust™"museums for merely attempting to point out these facts.@Genrick YagodaArt , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 9:02 pm GMTOnce again, proof that Jews are inflammable!
Bodies decay fast and animals pick them off.
Look at nature. So many creatures but vanish without a trace. Animals come and eat them. Often, animals even grind and eat the bones.
Hyenas can crack elephant bones with their jaws.
It's been said the Great Leap killed tens of millions of Chinese. Them bodies disappeared real fast.
And many Civil War dead bodies and WWI dead bodies in the trenches just rotted in the fields.
Every year, tons of cows and pigs are killed. They are disposed of without a trace.
@jbwilson24 It smells mightily of a Jewish fantasy enabling them to guilt trip the Germans, cover up British war crimes, and justify the theft of Arab land.Zarathustra , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 9:27 pm GMTSay jbwilson24 -- did you kill any Jews -- I didn't!
Hmm -- then why are we being held guilty? 98% of everybody alive today was not even living during the war. Yet, the Jews act like we are ALL guilty for WWII.
Using a vile false guilt trip, the Jews have seized power over the West.
We are coming to understand this ploy – human nature does not like lies – it rebels.
p.s. Jew use of the Stockholm Syndrome, rules the West. (terror first – claim victimization second)
@Robjil And what about that yuletide girl? What she was a dogs pipi.snag , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 9:27 pm GMTWhy do you write "Polish historical interpretations" knowing that after WWII this so called 'Polish' regime was infested by (appointed) Stalin Jews and few Polish commies with suspicious past? *Agent76 , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 9:32 pm GMT*During Poland's partition many Jews bought for cents on dollar or acquired (for snitching) names, estates and noble titles of Polish patriots shipped to Siberia.
Jan 30, 2016 Operation Reinhard: The Murder of Polish JewryZarathustra , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 9:41 pm GMTHow did the horror of the Nazi death camps evolve? Auschwitz didn't just sprout from the ground one day. There was an "evolution" of the murder machinery, and a cast of diabolical characters most people have never heard of.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/KQwjAF69SNk?feature=oembed
Feb 4, 2017 The rise of Hitler 1919-1929: revision for IGCSE & GCSE History exams
This revision podcast is relevant to both GCSE and IGCSE History students studying Nazi Germany.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/N7r6EIxkz30?feature=oembed
@trickster But than all Hitler was stupid, because he did not figure out that eventually will come to that.UncommonGround , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 9:47 pm GMT
All Germans were so stupid that they did not know that number of roads in Ukraine and Russia that in case of rain did not change to mud holes could be counted on fingers.
And even those were no match of via Apia of ancient Rome.@peacewalker Impressive your information about the origin of Stettin and Breslau. But as far as I can see through a fast look at wikipedia, what you say seems to be at least a bis misleading. The history seems to be quite complicated with really lot of changes. They say about Breslau that the "Wandalenstamm der Silinger" (a German tribe) settled there between the 4 and 5 Century and Slavs came about 1 or 2 centuries later. Much later there was a Polish domination. Breslau was destroyed by the Mongols in 1241 and after that rebuilt by German settlers. In 1261 Breslau received the right of cityship (? Stadtrecht) by the German city of Magdeburg. The history of Stettin is even more complicated, but wikipedia says that it was founded by the fusion of German and Polish settlements ("Die Stadt Stettin entstand aus einer pomoranischen und zwei benachbarten deutschen Siedlungen" = The city Stettin has originated from a pomoranian and two neighbour German settlements).Carolyn Yeager , says: Website Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 9:48 pm GMT@maz10Ann Nonny Mouse , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:02 pm GMTLet me just point out, that mass graves with Polish victims of German mass executions were located among other places at:
Palimiry [sic], Las Sękocinski, Las kabacki, Laski and many, many others locations such as for example Ponary (outside of Poland's post WW II borders in present-day Lithuania).Why hasn't the general public heard of these incredible mass graves? Except for a little commotion at Palmiry and Ponary, they are Polish fiction. The Germans assembled an international team of experts to exhume the Katyn graves and publish their findings. The Poles kept their exhumations, if there were any, all in the family.
Palmiry massacre, Wiki – "After the war, the Polish Red Cross , supported by the Chief Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland (pretty sure this is Soviet), began the search and exhumation process in Palmiry. The work was carried out between 25 November and 6 December 1945, and later from 28 March until the first months of summer 1946. Thanks to Adam Herbański and his subordinates from the Polish Forest Service , who in the years of occupation were risking their own lives to mark the places of execution, Polish investigators were able to find 24 mass graves. More than 1700 corpses were exhumed, but only 576 of them were identified. Later Polish historians were able to identify the names of another 480 victims.[17][50] It is possible that some graves still lie undiscovered in the forest near Palmiry.[11]
Ponary massacre, Wiki – "The total number of victims by the end of 1944 was between 70,000 and 100,000. According to post-war exhumation by the forces of Soviet 2nd Belorussian Fron t the majority (50,000–70,000) of the victims were Polish and Lithuanian Jews from nearby Polish and Lithuanian cities, while the rest were primarily Poles (about 20,000) and Russians (about 8,000).[2]
(No more information on this Polish-created page about the exhumation/identification process. It goes straight to the more extensive commemoration/memorial monuments section.) Then ends with:
"The murders at Paneriai are currently being investigated by the Gdańsk branch of the Polish Institute of National Remembrance [1] and by the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania .[27] The basic facts about memorial signs in the Paneriai memorial and the objects of the former mass murder site (killing pits, tranches, gates, paths, etc.) are now presented in the webpage created by the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum."This why the general public doesn't know of these sites – they have not been legitimately vetted. Yale's Timothy Snyder is a big believer though.
The sad thing is that the Final Solution to the Jewish problem has not yet been achieved.anonlb , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:07 pm GMTI mean the problem of the presence of non-Jews in the world, a major problem for the Jews. Not finally solved yet, but getting close.
There have been some great achievements since earliest times. One was Moses's great success in tricking the stupid Midianites a number of times before finally exterminating them, as recounted between Exodus Ch. 2 and the end of Numbers. Another was Joshua bar Nun's fabulous achievement exterminating most of the Canaanites. For the time, the greatest achievement bar none!
But the great achievement of the Jewish Dark Age of 200–400 AD, the killing of 6 million Jews by the Jews, the 6 million Hellenistic Jews by the Talmudic Jews, outshines everything to date. Done at a time when the world population was tiny!
That must be done, the killing of non-Talmudic Jews must be done, as Maimonides wrote a few centuries later. But the best subsequent achievement seems to have been the killing of about a million non-Talmudic Jews in Iberia, greater Spain. Maybe fewer. Many escaped the peninsula. Many Karaites survived. Or some did, count unclear.
So far, at least till 1948, and since the Cyrene massacres of the 2nd century, stopped by the Romans, they have not had the power to kill non-Jews in any large numbers, could only encourage wars among them. And undermine their society with their lobbying skills and organized financing. But they are immensely powerful today in America and Europe. The Final Solution may be close.
@Bardon Kaldian Serbian lies are only matched by coatian lies (jews/muslims lies are out of competition simple because they belive they can say anything to non-jew/non-muslim and do a right thing).Wally , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:15 pm GMT
Serbian lies can't change fact that every single sentence from Bardon post is one big fat lie.
Hints: census from 1931 counted people by religion(ortodox, catolics, muslims, ), census from 1948 counted serbs, croats, slovenians, montenegrins, macedonians and 'minorities'. Muslims are counted as serbian or croatians. He can't even say those numbers for current croatian territory (hint: about 90k serbs less than ortodox and 300k croats more than catolics,despite 200k croats killed or expelled by comunists)
Counting persons with serious mental problems with zero influence as 'serbian ideologues' is just fun.@Curmudgeon said:the shadow , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:16 pm GMT
"What kind of "death camps" have hospitals for internees? What kind of "death camps" have scrip for prisoners to spend at a canteen? What kind of "death camps" have orchestras and theaters for internees? Why would "death camps" record marriages and births? The Olympic size swimming pools and soccer fields for internees at "death camps""– Here's more info. on the big one in the "holocaust"narrative, so called "death camp / extermination camp" Auschwitz
[MORE]– An "extermination camp" where thousands of Jews chose to stay behind when the Germans left.
– An "extermination camp" where most of the inmates, more thousands, chose to leave WITH the Germans.
– An "extermination camp" where 1,500,000 human remains supposedly exist, but in fact no such remains exist.
– An "extermination camp" where many Jews gave birth.
– An "extermination camp" where the absurdly alleged homicidal 'gas chambers' could not have worked as alleged, as proven repeatedly, scientifically impossible.
– An "extermination camp" where fake 'gas chambers' were "reconstructed" AFTER THE WAR.
– An "extermination camp" where detailed aerial photos of the period show nothing that is alleged to have been happening.
– An "extermination camp" where there are even obvious, laughable attempts to tamper with aerial photos that make a mockery of the fake story.
see:
– Auschwitz war time aerial photos, tampered with to fit the fake story , ex.:
Drawn in 'Auschwitz Jews being marched to gas chambers', ON A ROOF . – An "extermination camp" where there are countless Jew "survivors", yet the fake narrative says 'the Germans tried to kill every Jew they could get their hands on.'
-An "extermination camp" where so called "survivors" say the most impossible and conflicting things that do not hold up to scrutiny, would be laughed out of a legit court of law.@Bardon KaldianZarathustra , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:20 pm GMTThis is stupid. It is very easy to calculate upper & lower limits of losses of various European peoples during WW2, just by feeding the computer with pre-war & post-war census data and taking into account border changes.
But it is precisely the border changes for those countries and population movements occurred within those areas that makes it difficult if not impossible to determine with any accuracy what population changes within the area those borders include at different times mean. It is, obvious, is ity not, that the "Poland" of 1939 is not the "Poland" of 1946, is it not? And that it's ridiculous to draw any DEFINITIVE conclusion based on the ethnic group distribution included within the boundaries of those "countries" between those periods, especially when Russians moved substsantial numbers out of the area they occupied from 1939 to 1941, and then Germans were moved out of areas that became Polich after WWII, etc., etc. and also moved people into and out of those areas when no one really knows the NUMBERS INVOLVED.
It's years ago since I lookeed at the numbers Hillsberg cited, but I remenber dismissing them at the time because they look conjectural at best.
@Carolyn Yeager There are two ancient Slavic tribes Czechs and Moravian s. Capital of Czechs is Praha (Prague)Wally , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:22 pm GMT
Capitol of Moravian s is Brno. Slovaks at one time were part of Great Moravian empire.
Morava is east of Czechia, (As is its capital Brno, and not south as you claim.)
Slovakia is East of Moravia.
Morava is river and the tribe was named after river. River Morava joins Danjub
at Slovakia.@peacewalker said:Petermx , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:24 pm GMT
"I just don't know where to start. Whole "article" is such a BS. OK, let's start from beginning then"– Let's start with you actually reading the article.
– Then show us the millions upon millions of human remains that are said by those like you to be in specific, known locations.
– After that, tell us how the absurd 'Nazi gas chambers' supposedly worked.
– Your cited sources give no proof.
It's curious that people like yourself actually want the alleged millions to be dead.
You should be happy to hear that millions of your brethren were not murdered."In the case of this latest and largest mass grave (2008), no clothing, eye glasses or gold teeth were found. It thus appears that they were completely stripped before they were killed." My German mother and her family began fleeing west in the last months of the war. They lived in the German city Brieg (now called Brzeg under Polish rule). It's close to the bigger city Breslau (now called Wroclaw under Polish rule). She was captured near Pilsen (known as Plzen under Czech rule). The Red Army arrived. My mother was part of a group of women being held and the women were forced to strip naked and they were humiliated. This is what my crying mother told me roughly about 40 years ago. She was not raped. She's gone now and despite this sad story was an upbeat and generally happy person. The Americans were also there. I believe they took the area first and then withdrew and turned the area over to the Russians and Czechs. My mother was able to escape and eventually settled in Bavaria for several years before moving to the USA. If there are numerous cases of victims being stripped, I wonder if this could be tied to a particular army or nationality. Or was it was done by more than one army or nationality?Robjil , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:32 pm GMT@Priss Factor None of these examples you stated are a mandatory religion.Anon [264] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:40 pm GMTThe big 6 has replaced the sun as the center of the universe.
Most people on this planet want the sun back as the center of the universe.
Take that big 6 wall down.
Let the sun shine again on this planet.
Jewish Lightning Got All 6 Million – Case ClosedReger , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:41 pm GMT@Curmudgeon To my very point. You won't follow the suggestion I made. Much easier to deal in abstractions than reality, isn't it?Reger , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 10:51 pm GMT@the shadow I agree. From my reading the transfers of population for reasons of ethnicity, colonisation (eg of the Wartheland), slave labour, not to mention the theft of 'aryan' children from Poles made for total confusion at the end of the war. The stories of witnesses always mention fellow victims from all parts of Europe and people travelling in all directions.Incitatus , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 11:06 pm GMT
Re the numbers I can only repeat the wise quip of Christopher Isherwood in an argument about the number of victims; he said to his opponent: 'What are you? In real estate?"Well done, Carolyn.Bardon Kaldian , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 11:12 pm GMTWhy not just say Mahatma Austrian Hitler left no victims, including 20s-30s-40s Germans (400,000 to 600,000 by most accounts, murdered by the NSDAP) and espouse, more important, Germans were the only victims in WW2? Go for it!
The NSDAP brought God to Austria, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, Memel, Denmark. Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Greece, Yugoslavia, Crete, North Africa, USSR, etc.? Hitler was quite the evangelist. God (in that hymnal) is named Adolf. A deity without territorial aspirations but nonetheless great coincidental appetite and digestive ability. And with a post-war score to settle with German Churches.
"I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker" ("Ich gehe mit traumwandlerischer Sicherheit den Weg, den mich die Vorsehung gehen heißt") -Adolf Hitler 15 Mar 1936 Munich
He "sleepwalked" Germany into catastrophic World War, then attacked an ally in what became a winter campaign 1941-42 lacking winter uniforms and operational gear. Incompetence paramount. Nothing to do with Jews, though by all counts – as in Poland –many were murdered (sorry Carolyn).
"The war against Russia is an important chapter in the struggle for existence of the German nation. It is the old battle of the Germanic against the Slav peoples, of the defense of European culture against Moscovite-asiatic inundation, and the repulse of Jewish Bolshevism. The objective of this battle must be the destruction of present-day Russia and it must therefore be conducted with unprecedented severity. Every military action must be guided in planning and execution by an iron will to exterminate the enemy mercilessly and totally. In particular, no adherents of present Russian-Bloshevik system are to be spared."
– Generaloberst Erich Hoepner, Orders to 4th Panzer Group Commanders in advance of Barbarossa 2 May 1941 [Burleigh 'The Third Reich' p. 521]A year later at Stalingrad 42-43, same problems, Hitler doubled-down plus some.
"The Führer commands that on entering the city the entire male population should be eliminated since Stalingrad, with its convinced Communist population of one million, is particularly dangerous."
– Adolf Hitler to Sixth Army 2 Sep 1942 [Beevor 'The Second World War' p.356]Genocide? There you have cold hard fact.
There's more Carolyn. It's against Germans! 9 Nov 1942 Hitler orders 150,000 artillery and transport horses in Sixth Army be sent several hundred kilometers to the rear, ostensibly to save transporting fodder to the front. It deprives all unmotorized (75% of 6th Army forces) divisions of mobility. Ten days later Soviets launch "Operation Uranus', a 'Kesselschalcht' encirclement worthy of Bismarck and von Moltke.
By 23 Nov 1942 the Sixth Army is cut-off in pocket, destined to starve and freeze as Hitler orders "Sixth Army stand firm in spite of temporary encirclement". His solution to the crisis is to designate the Sixth Army "Fortress Stalingrad" and order (24 Nov) holding the front "whatever the circumstances". No clarity on food, munitions, medical care or strategic relief. None comes.
Germans knew better.
"I am beyond caring. Two of my brothers were sacrificed in Stalingrad and it was quite useless. And here we have the same."
–Soldat to SanUff [Senior Medical Officer] Walter Klein, Kampfgruppe Heintz, Field Dressing Station near St-Lô, Normandie 26 Jul 1944 [Beevor 'D-Day' p.353]That's the legacy you (Ron and Carolyn) embrace? Good luck!
@anonlb Dumb (my advice- don't mess with someone who knows what he's talking about. You'll turn out to be a laughing stock ).Bardon Kaldian , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 11:16 pm GMTIn 1931 census people were counted by religion & language. The South Slavic "language" was a bizarre official combination of the Slovene, Croat & Serbian (no one then, except Croatian linguist Stjepan Ivšić, had recognized Macedonian language). Other languages like Hungarian, German, Italian, Slovak, Czech, Albanian were clearly the languages of those peoples. So, one could clearly distinguish between Croats, Serbs, Bosnian Muslims .. by simply looking at their religion & mother tongue (in that case, weird "Sloveno-Croato-Serbian").
During the Communist census in 1948, people just said what they were, nationally. Catholics- if not Slovene speaking- were Croats; Orthodox were either Serbs, Montenegrins or Macedonians (there were preserved censuses from 1931, so one could monitor county fluctuations of population); BH Muslims were mostly "Yugoslavs undetermined" (some of them said they were either Croats or Serbs, due to political pressures, but in next 2-3 decades were simply written out of this census).
Also, there were tiny minorities of Catholic Serbs (ca. 8,800) and Orthodox Croats (9,300)- but they don't mean anything, in comparison with these millions.
So, if you try to argue, rather use convincing arguments than a hysterical blather.
@the shadow Virtually all modern works on victimology had taken into account borders shifts so that victims (or potential victims) couldn't be counted twice (or thrice). It is reflected even in such a wishy-washy source as Wikipedia.Carolyn Yeager , says: Website Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 11:19 pm GMT@ZarathustraDa's Reich , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 11:23 pm GMTMorava is east of Czechia, (As is its capital Brno, and not south as you claim.)
The article is mentioning Czechoslovakia , not the Czech Republic (note the map), and only in relation to the treatment of its German citizens in 1945-6. There is nothing inaccurate in my comment that you're referring to; Brno is definitely in the south of the country compared to Usti.
@Włodzimierz I read your link again,the shadow , says: Show Comment June 14, 2020 at 11:53 pm GMTI won't be bothering a third time,
@Bardon Kaldian And the evidence substantiating their degree of accuracy is what?RT , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 12:00 am GMT@utu We are in the court of History.Curmudgeon , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 12:04 am GMT
In the court of History the truth is always late, but always arrives.@maz10 I'd doubt it. The biggest fraud about socialism was the promotion of Marxism (communism) as being socialism. I'm not saying Marx didn't have followers, but the majority of his contemporaries rejected his state owns all views as being totalitarian. Communism is the obverse side of the coin of finance capitalism. Both seek to concentrate wealth into the hands of a few – relatively speaking.Anonymous [352] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 12:28 am GMTClifford Douglas, who invented the Social Credit movement, worked closely with the Guild Socialists in Britain. While ultimately rejecting their views, he recognized that they weren't interested in state ownership, were not opposed to competition, but were opposed to finance controlling production and trade. By the way, Douglas was opposed to finance capitalism as well.
I repeat: your local co-op is socialist. Every member has an equal say through the single share allowed to be purchased; the board of directors is elected by the membership; the profits shared are based on your participation level; and it competes with privately owned businesses, including corporations.
@utu Here is an excerpt (one of MANY) from the Jewish press showing that Jewish American groups have long tried to stop the U.S. Congress from recognizing the genocide committed against Christian Armenians by Turkey:Beefcake the Mighty , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 12:36 am GMTEvery year on April 24, the day that Armenians commemorate the killings, a resolution calling for the use of the controversial term is proposed in Congress and then beaten back. Some Jewish groups claim credit for ensuring that such a resolution never passes.
Jewish advocacy groups, including the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, B'nai Brith and American Jewish Committee "have been working with the Turks on this issue" for more than 15 years, said Yola Habif Johnston, director for foundations and community outreach at Jinsa. "The Jewish lobby has quite actively supported Turkey in their efforts to prevent the so-called Armenian genocide resolution from passing," she said.
Showdown Set in 'Genocide' Debate
Rebecca Spence, The Jewish Daily Forward
Sept. 2, 2006@Curmudgeon I think for you, any system you happen to like is socialist, and any system you don't like is non-socialist.Curmudgeon , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 12:41 am GMT@peacewalkerJames Reinhart , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 12:50 am GMT1. STETTIN is GERMANIZED name for Polish name SZCZECIN, not the other way around.
2. Same story with Wroclaw (for short period of time known as Breslau).What's your point?
New York was New Amsterdam before the British took over. Strasbourg was Strasburg before Louis XIV annexed Alsace and Lorraine. Istanbul was Constantinople before the Muslims decided to change the name. Novgorod was an East Norse settlement. At one time, the Baltic was a "Swedish lake" and Poland was occupied by the Swedes with a Swedish king sitting in Poland. In the mists of time, Jerusalem was Uru-shalem before the chosenites arrived from Yemen.
Borders and place names have changed through out the recorded history of mankind. Poland now claims famous Germans were Polish. Nikolaus Kopernikus, the famous German astronomer, is now called Mikolaj Kopernik. He lived in Thorn (now Torun'), never spoke a word of Polish, and published his works in Latin.Here's a contemporary non German view of the situation in Poland at the start of the war:
https://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archives/polandinside/pfi00.htmlThe Poles were happy to be Chamberlain's dupes in starting a war with Germany, and ramped it up with the ethnic cleansing of Germans in the German territories it occupied after the November 11, 1918 Armistice was signed. When war starts, no ones hands are clean, but the Poles, like the chosenites continue to play the victim.
For those that have looked at the movement of people from the late 20s to 1939, it would not stand up to a 10 minute audit. It is obvious to me, and written by H.G. Wells in his book "The Shape of Things to Come" that the Dazig corridor was built to start the war as Polish and Soviet troops, and it is well documented, were killing ethnic Germans since 1938. This was considered a brilliant move by Wells of the Wilson Administration who wiped out 60-70 million, no only due to war but the fact that it was the US out of Ft. Riley which is documented in the Wichita Observer to be the first place that ever ha this flu of which almost 10% died.Zarathustra , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 1:15 am GMTIt is known that the US created the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks through NYC with Schiff, Baruch, Warburg, Kuhn, Loeb, Harriman and others) and also set up through the War Industries Board, by a Jewish Marrano named Samuel Bush to load the Lusitania up with "small" munitions of which Cunard was warned as were documents not to go on the ship as the US had been supplying the filth ridden UK with weapons but was all but defeated and Germany offered a peace plan that was beneficial to all. The Balfour Declaration, (Read "History of Zionism 1600-1918" by Nahum Sokolow and you will find in the forward that Arthur Balfour was also a Marrano which is pointed out specifically), was enough for the monied interests of the US to put America into war by lies. Benjamin Freedman's speech at the Willard hotel sums it up well.
The US, USSR, UK and China are all tied together and all are oligarch with a fraudulent opposition as one can figure out when reading "Red Symphony" of Rothschild. All nations are nothing more than corporations that have gone into receivership and are owned as assets just as recently stated by the central banks and the monetization of all creation. Those that have no reverence for all living things and respect for life or planet except for their love of money that their contempt for creation represents is now off the charts as all institutions are corrupt.
Bias of Priene – all men are wicked and most are evil. That was a statement of one of the greats, of the 7 sages and has now come to a point where all life may disappear in a few years through poisoning every aspect of life and the list is long, geoengineering, medicine/vaccine/pharmaceuticals, big ag, idiocy in programming – (listen to JFK condemn amusement and the need for a well informed society), no limits of committing atrocities to life itself as the web of life is hanging by a thread. Education, think tanks, NGOs, government leaders they all are evil and are backed up by a putrid judicial system.
@Carolyn Yeager You are funny! And I do not need to take a look at the map. You do!Carolyn Yeager , says: Website Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 1:17 am GMTIf you make a right angle triangle from Usti nad labem and Brno you do find out you will find out that distance from Usti to Brno is twice as long eastward than southward.
So you are in error.@WłodzimierzZarathustra , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 1:22 am GMTAuthors claimed they can not find any example of documented mass grave of polish citizens.
What the authors said is, "The only known mass grave of Poles was the work of the Soviet Red Army, led by the NKVD, in the Katyn Forest in Soviet Russia. Long blamed on Germany, the responsibility for this genocidal act is now placed where it belongs. Ironically, the only mass gravesites found on Polish territory have been of German civilians."
What you provided in Comment 11 ( http://lasszpegawski.pl/in-english/%5D is not documented, it's only stories. Have these alleged graves been officially exhumed and the remains counted and examined? It doesn't say so.
This one at the INR about Dachau is another Polish nothing-burger. By putting forth these nonsense pages as evidence of the atrocities you claim, you only make yourself a laughing stock.
@Zarathustra And the second error. After Munich there was no more Czechoslovakia.karel , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 1:34 am GMT
Slovakia did become independent.@Petermx Strange story. Sorry to hear of your mother's humiliation but what you write makes no sense to me. What was your mother doing in Plzen at the end of the war? Captured by whom? There was no Red army in Plzen and American troops left in November 1945. If your mother was supposedly fleeing west then she would have landed in Dresden where most refugees from Wroclaw went but not in Plzen. Caroline Yeager and you have obvious deficiencies in geography, which is a strong indications that most of the stories, ventilated here, are simply made up.Zarathustra , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 1:48 am GMT@Curmudgeon Kopernik did not have a even a drop of German blood in him. And he was not an astronomer.Ann Nonny Mouse , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 1:56 am GMT
He was a polish monk. He did study the solar system as a hobby.
He was first who did claim that all planets rotate around the Sun.
Galileo did only confirm the Koperniks theory only one hundred years after .
Galileo did have already a telescope. Kopernik did not!@Al Liguori If "60 myriad on 60 myriad" (your first link) is 600,000 squared, that is not a small number.Anon [264] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 2:22 am GMTThanks.
@Reger You're suggesting readings of poetry & opera while accusing Curmudgeon of abstraction?Carolyn Yeager , says: Website Show Comment June 15, 2020 at 2:24 am GMTLet's play, 'Spot the Jew'!
@Petermx Thanks for sharing your story, Peter. There is nothing that moves me and shakes me up more than stories of the German expellees as they trudged and fled to the West in those terrible months. I'm so glad your mother made it and lived to have you, tell you her story, and have a good life. Such strength. I did some radio broadcasts with a certain Andreas Wesserle whose family left German Slovakia and reached Bavaria, where they suffered terrible living condition and had practically no food for several years. And they were better off than most!! The stories he tells are shocking.Current Commenter
You might enjoy hearing him tell of this time with his family; he is one of my favorite guests ever! So smart, and such a good storyteller!
https://carolynyeager.net/heretics-hour-dr-andreas-wesserle-german-holocaust-1944-46
https://carolynyeager.net/heretics-hour-devastated-germany-1946-52I know the Americans were the first to reach Pilsen. And both they and the British felt they owed Uncle Joe practically anything he asked for! I don't know the answer to your question about stripping, but I think it was pretty common, in order to take all the valuables. Every piece of clothing was valuable in those times, plus eyeglasses, false teeth, anything like that.
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Jun 13, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Jeff Harris via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, A Glaring Omission
With the 24/7 media circus coverage of Covid-19 I find it particularly interesting that there is an obvious glaring omission of some extremely important facts relative to dealing with a virus, especially one that is allegedly so virulent like this one. Yes, I read all about the critical need to shelter in place, stay inside away from other people, wash your hands constantly, avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth, wear your face mask and by all means observe social distancing if you MUST venture outside for food!
Then it's repeated ad infinitum that the ONLY hope we have of ever returning to a semblance of normalcy is to have a vaccine to protect us! Then to add some drama to this narrative the media highlights their death-o-meter scoreboard with the implied threat that you'll be next IF you don't obey the rules as dictated by the "experts".
But what is assiduously avoided at all cost is any reference to our most potent defense against any virus; our body's natural immune system. Try as I might I couldn't find anything about this first line of defense on the World Health Organizations (WHO) website or Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website. It's as if it doesn't exist and is completely irrelevant.
If these organizations were genuinely concerned about the health of citizens they would obviously discuss the vital role a healthy immune system plays in protecting us from illnesses. But since they don't its obvious some other motive is at work, at least to me, and I strongly suspect to other critical thinkers as well.
We now know from the science and data that over 90% of the people exposed to Covid-19 have no symptoms at all or at worst a mild cold. The flu vaccines we have are only effective 30% to 60% of the time and the bugs change regularly so a vaccine that worked OK last year may barely work at all this year. Let's learn some more about our body's immune system.
Virus protection without a vaccineThere is an enlightening article on Web MD titled: "How to use Your Immune System to Stay Healthy". That's a pretty straight forward title now isn't it? Early on Bruce Polsky, MD, interim chairman department of medicine and chief division of infectious disease at St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City says:
"We are endowed with a great immune system that has been designed evolutionarily to keep us healthy."
The article goes on. . .
"The immune system is your body's natural defense system. It's an intricate network of cells, tissues and organs that band together to defend your body against invaders. Those invaders can include bacteria, viruses, parasites, even fungus, all with the potential to make us sick. They are everywhere-in our homes, offices and backyards. . . "
The truth is no amount of social distancing, hand washing or face mask wearing is going to eliminate our exposure to these various bugs. That's why we were created with this amazing first line of natural defense.
Here's more from Web MD . . .
"The immune system can recognize millions of different antigens. And it can produce what it needs to eradicate nearly all of them. When it's working properly, this elaborate defense system can keep health problems ranging from cancer to the common cold at bay. . . "
Wow! That's pretty amazing stuff isn't it! According to Web MD a properly functioning immune system can "keep health problems ranging from cancer to the common cold at bay." So why isn't this "science" being included in all the other health recommendations we're being bombarded with daily? It seems to me that any "expert" worth their salt would be talking about the importance of a healthy immune system to stay healthy.
But there's more . . .The Web MD article noted that failure to eat a healthy diet, sitting around not exercising, not getting enough sleep and chronic stress can all lead to a compromised immune system. To quote Dr. Polsky again:
". . . Lifestyle aspects are very, very important."
So if our lifestyle is very, very important to staying healthy as the good doctor says ask yourself this question? Based on the Web M.D. article virtually all the results of the lockdown serve to weaken our immune systems. The stress of unemployment, constant harping about infections and rising death rates, lack of exercise and now a crack in our food distribution system all are known to weaken the human immune system.
I also find it quite interesting that large groups of people can shop at Walmart, Home Depot or other big box stores but they can't attend their local church even if it's a "drive through" service?
Web M.D. says:
"Research shows that people with close friendships and strong support systems tend to be healthier than those who lack such supports."
During times of crisis people need encouragement and their faith built up more than ever before. Mandating people huddle in fear in their homes with constant media reports of infections and death bombarding them continually is there any wonder peoples immune systems are under severe stress?
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May 29, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Jeff Deist via The Mises Institute,In the period leading up to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Bush administration and its media accomplices waged a relentless propaganda campaign to win political support for what turned out to be one of the most disastrous foreign policy mistakes in American history.
Nearly two decades later, with perhaps a million dead Iraqis and thousands of dead American soldiers, we are still paying for that mistake.
Vice President Dick Cheney, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, were key players behind the propaganda -- which we can define as purposeful use of information and misinformation to manipulate public opinion in favor of state action. Iraq and its president Saddam Hussein were the ostensible focus, but their greater goal was to make the case for a broader and open-ended "War on Terror."
So they created a narrative using a mélange of half-truths, faintly plausible fabrications, and outright lies:
- Iraq and the nefarious Saddam Hussein were "behind," i.e., backing, the Saudi terrorists responsible for 9-11 attacks on the US;
- Hussein and his government were stockpiling yellowcake uranium in an effort to develop nuclear capability;
- Hussein was connected with al-Qaeda
- Iran was lurking in the background as a state sponsor of terrorism, coordinating and facilitating attacks against the US in coordination with Hamas;
- Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, and other terror groups were working against the US across the Middle East in some kind of murky but coordinated effort;
- We have to "fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here";
- The Iraqis would welcome our troops as liberators.
And so forth.
But the propaganda "worked" in the most meaningful sense: Congress voted nearly 3–1 in favor of military action against Iraq, and Gallup showed 72 percent of Americans supporting the invasion as it commenced in 2003. Media outlets across the spectrum such as the Washington Post cheered the war . National Review dutifully did its part, labeling Pat Buchanan, Ron Paul, Justin Raimondo, Lew Rockwell, and other outspoken opponents of the invasion as "unpatriotic conservatives."
Tragically, the American people never placed the burden of proof squarely with the war cheerleaders to justify their absolutely crazed effort to remake the Middle East. In hindsight, this is obvious, but at the time propaganda did its job. Disinformation is part and parcel of the fog of war.
What will hindsight make clear about our reaction to COVID-19 propaganda? Will we regret shutting down the economy as much as we ought to regret invading Iraq?
The cast of characters is different, of course: Trump, desperately seeking "wartime president" status; Dr. Anthony Fauci; epidemiologist Neil Ferguson; state governors such as Cuomo, Whitmer, and Newsom; and a host of media acolytes just itching to force a new normal down our throats. Like the Iraq War architects, they use COVID-19 as justification to advance a preexisting agenda, namely, greater state control over our lives and our economy. Yet because too many Americans remain stubbornly attached to the old normal, a propaganda campaign is required.
So we are faced with a blizzard of new "facts" almost every day, most of which turn out to be only mildly true, extremely dubious, or plainly false:
- The virus aerosolizes and floats around, so we all need to be six feet apart (But why not twenty feet? Why not one mile?);
- The virus lives on surfaces everywhere, for days;
- Asymptomatic people can spread it unknowingly;
- Antibodies may or may not develop naturally;
- People may become infected more than once;
- Young healthy people are at great risk not only themselves, but also pose a risk to their elderly family members;
- Thin, permeable paper masks somehow prevent microscopic viral spores from being inhaled or exhaled toward others;
- People are safer inside;
- The rate of new infected "cases" in the first few weeks of the virus reaching America would continue or even grow exponentially;
- Social distancing and quarantines do indeed "save" lives;
- Testing is key (But what if an individual visits a crowded grocery an hour after testing negative?);
- A second wave of infections is nigh; and
- Our personal and work lives cannot continue without a vaccine, which, by the way, may be two years away.
Again, much of this is not true and not even intended to be true -- but rather to influence public behavior and opinions. And again, the overwhelming burden of proof should lie squarely with those advocating a lockdown of society, who would risk a modern Great Depression in response to a simple virus.
How much damage will the lockdown cause? Economics aside, the sheer toll of this self-inflicted wound will be a matter for historians to document. That toll includes all the things Americans would have done without the shutdown in their personal and professional lives, representing a diminution of life itself. Can that be measured, or distilled into numerical terms? Probably not, but this group of researchers and academics argues that we have already suffered more than one million "lost years of life" due to the ravages of unemployment, missed healthcare, and general malaise.
By the same token, how do we measure the blood and treasure lost in Iraq? How much PTSD will soldiers suffer? How many billions of dollars in future VA medical care will be required? How many children will grow up without fathers? And how many millions of lives are forever shattered in that cobbled-together political artifice in the Middle East?
Propaganda kills, but it also works. Politicians of all stripes will benefit from the coronavirus; the American people will suffer. Perversely, one of the worst COVID propagandists -- the aforementioned Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York -- yesterday rang the bell as the New York Stock Exchange reopened to floor trading. He now admits that the models were wrong and that his lockdown did nothing to prevent the Empire State from suffering the highest per capita deaths from COVID. Like the architects of the Iraq War, he belongs on a criminal docket. But thanks to propaganda, he is hailed as presidential.
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May 21, 2020 | www.oxfordscholarship.com
During the US presidential election campaign, American media developed yet another perception of Russia as reflected in the narrative of Trump's collusion with the Kremlin. 1 Having originated in liberal media and building on the previous perceptions of neo-Soviet autocracy and foreign threat, the new perception of Russia was that of the enemy that won the war against the United States. By electing the Kremlin's favored candidate, America was defeated by Russia. As a CNN columnist wrote, "The Russians really are here, infiltrating every corner of the country, with the single goal of disrupting the American way of life." 2 The two assumptions behind the new media narrative were that Putin was an enemy and that Trump was compromised by Putin. The inevitable conclusion was that Trump could not be a patriot and potentially was a traitor prepared to act against US interests.
The new narrative was assisted by the fact that Trump presented a radically different perspective on Russia than Clinton and the US establishment. The American political class had been in agreement that Russia displayed an aggressive foreign policy seeking to destroy the US-centered international order. Influential politicians, both Republicans and Democrats, commonly referred to Russian president Putin as an extremely dangerous KGB spy with no soul. Instead, Trump saw Russia's international interests as not fundamentally different from America's. He advocated that the United States to find a way to align its policies and priorities in defeating terrorism in the Middle East -- a goal that Russia shared -- with the Kremlin's. Trump promised to form new alliances to "unite the civilized world against Radical Islamic Terrorism" and to eradicate it "completely from the face of the Earth." 3 He hinted that he was prepared to revisit the thorny issues of Western sanctions against (p.83) the Russian economy and the recognition of Crimea as a part of Russia. Trump never commented on Russia's political system but expressed his admiration for Putin's leadership and high level of domestic support. 4
Capitalizing on the difference between Trump's views and those of the Democratic Party nominee, Hillary Clinton, the liberal media referred to Trump as the Kremlin-compromised candidate. Commentators and columnists with the New York Times , such as Paul Krugman, referred to Trump as the "Siberian" candidate. 5 Commentators and pundits, including those with academic and political credentials, developed the theory that the United States was under attack. The former ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, wrote in the Washington Post that Russia had attacked "our sovereignty" and continued to "watch us do nothing" because of the partisan divide. He compared the Kremlin's actions with Pearl Harbor or 9/11 and warned that Russia was likely to perform repeat assaults in 2018 and 2020. 6 The historian Timothy Snyder went further, comparing the election of Trump to a loss of war, which Snyder said was the basic aim of the enemy. Writing in the New York Daily News , he asserted, "We no longer need to wonder what it would be like to lose a war on our own territory. We just lost one to Russia, and the consequence was the election of Donald Trump." 7
The election of Trump prompted the liberal media to discuss Russia-related fears. The leading theory was that Trump would now compromise America's interests and rule the country on behalf of Putin. Thomas Friedman of the New York Times called for actions against Russia and praised "patriotic" Republican senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham for being tough on Trump. 8 MSNBC host Rachel Maddow asked whether Trump was actually under Putin's control. Citing Trump's views and his associates' travel to Moscow, she told viewers, "We are also starting to see (p.84) what may be signs of continuing [Russian] influence in our country, not just during the campaign but during the administration -- basically, signs of what could be a continuing operation." 9 Another New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof, published a column titled "There's a Smell of Treason in the Air," arguing that the FBI's investigation of the Trump presidential campaign's collusion "with a foreign power so as to win an election" was an investigation of whether such collusion "would amount to treason." 10 Responding to Trump's statement that his phone was tapped during the election campaign, the Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum tweeted that "Trump's insane 'GCHQ tapped my phone' theory came from . . . Moscow." McFaul and many others then endorsed and retweeted the message. 11
To many within the US media, Trump's lack of interest in promoting global institutions and his publicly expressed doubts that the Kremlin was behind cyberattacks on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) served to exacerbate the problem. Several intelligence leaks to the press and investigations by Congress and the FBI contributed to the image of a president who was not motivated by US interests. The US intelligence report on Russia's alleged hacking of the US electoral system released on January 8, 2017, served to consolidate the image of Russia as an enemy. Leaks to the press have continued throughout Trump's presidency. Someone in the administration informed the press that Trump called Putin to congratulate him on his victory in elections on March 18, 2018, despite Trump's advisers' warning against making such a call. 12
In the meantime, investigations of Trump's alleged "collusion" with Russia were failing to produce substantive evidence. Facts that some associates of Trump sought to meet or met with members of Russia's government did not lead to evidence of sustained contacts or collaboration. It was not proven that the Kremlin's "black dossier" on Trump compiled by British intelligence officer (p.85) Christopher Steele and leaked to CNN was truthful. Russian activity on American social networks such as Facebook and Twitter was not found to be conclusive in determining outcomes of the elections. 13 In February 2018, a year after launching investigation, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted thirteen Russian nationals for allegedly interfering in the US 2016 presidential elections, yet their connection to Putin or Trump was not established. On March 12, 2018, Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Richard Burr stated that he had not yet seen any evidence of collusion. 14 Representative Mike Conaway, the Republican leading the Russia investigation, announced the end of the committee's probe of Russian meddling in the election. 15
Trump was also not acting toward Russia in the way the US media expected. His views largely reflected those of the military and national security establishment and disappointed some of his supporters. 16 The US National Security Strategy and new Defense Strategy presented Russia as a leading security threat, alongside China, Iran, and North Korea. The president made it clear that he wanted to engage in tough bargaining with Russia by insisting on American terms. 17 Instead of improving ties with Russia, let alone acting on behalf of the Kremlin, Trump contributed to new crises in bilateral relations that had to do with the two sides' principally different perceptions. While the Kremlin expected Washington to normalize relations, the United States assumed Russia's weakness and expected it to comply with Washington's priorities regarding the Middle East, Ukraine, and Afghanistan and nuclear and cyber issues. 18 Trump also authorized the largest expulsion of Russian diplomats in US history and ordered several missile strikes against Assad's Russia-supported positions in Syria, each time provoking a crisis in relations with Moscow. Even Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, whom Rachel Maddow suspected of being appointed on Putin's advice to "weaken" the State Department and "bleed out" (p.86) the FBI, 19 was replaced by John Bolton. The latter's foreign policy reputation was that of a hawk, including on Russia. 20
Responding to these developments, the media focused on fears of being attacked by the Kremlin and on Trump not doing enough to protect the country. These fears went beyond the alleged cyber interference in the US presidential elections and included infiltration of American media and social networks and attacks on congressional elections and the country's most sensitive infrastructure, such as electric grids, water-processing plants, banking networks, and transportation facilities. In order to prevent such developments, media commentators and editorial writers recommended additional pressures on the Kremlin and counteroffensive operations. 21 One commentator recommended, as the best defense from Russia's plans to interfere with another election in the United States, launching a cyberattack on Russia's own presidential elections in March 2018, to "disrupt the stability of Vladimir Putin's regime." 22 A New York Times editorial summarized the mood by challenging President Trump to confront Russia further: "If Mr. Trump isn't Mr. Putin's lackey, it's past time for him to prove it." 23 The burden of proof was now on Trump's shoulders. Opposition to the "Collusion" Narrative
In contrast to highly critical views of Russia in the dominant media, conservative, libertarian, and progressive sources offered different assessments. Initially, opposition to the collusion narrative came from the alternative media, yet gradually -- in response to scant evidence of Trump's collusion -- it incorporated voices within the mainstream.
The conservative media did not support the view that Russia "stole" elections and presented Trump as a patriot who wanted to make America great rather than develop "cozy" relationships with (p.87) the Kremlin. Writing in the American Interest , Walter Russell Mead argued that Trump aimed to demonstrate the United States' superiority by capitalizing on its military and technological advantages. He did not sound like a Russian mole. Challenging the liberal media, the author called for "an intellectually solvent and emotionally stable press" and wrote that "if President Trump really is a Putin pawn, his foreign policy will start looking much more like Barack Obama's." 24 Instead of viewing Trump as compromised by the Kremlin, sources such Breitbart and Fox News attributed the blame to the deep state, "the complex of bureaucrats, technocrats, and plutocrats," including the intelligence agencies, that seeks to "derail, or at least to de-legitimize, the Trump presidency" by engaging in accusations and smear campaigns. 25
Echoing Trump's own views, some conservatives expressed their admiration for Putin as a dynamic leader superior to Obama. In particular, they praised Putin for his ability to defend Russia's "traditional values" and great-power status. 26 Neoconservative and paleoconservative publications like the National Review , the Weekly Standard, Human Events Online , and others critiqued Obama's "feckless foreign policy," characterized by "fruitless accommodationism," contrasting it with Putin's skilled and calculative geopolitical "game of chess." 27 A Washington Post / ABC News poll revealed that among Republicans, 75% approved of Trump's approach on Russia relative; 40% of all respondents approved. 28 This did not mean that conservatives and Republicans were "infiltrated" by the Kremlin. Mutual Russian and American conservative influences were limited and nonstructured. 29 The approval of Putin as a leader by American conservatives meant that they shared a certain commonality of ideas and were equally critical of liberal media and globalization. 30
Progressive and libertarian media also did not support the narrative of collusion. Gary Leupp at CounterPunch found the (p.88) narrative to be serving the purpose of reviving and even intensifying "Cold War-era Russophobia," with Russia being an "adversary" "only in that it opposes the expansion of NATO, especially to include Ukraine and Georgia." 31 Justin Raimondo at Antiwar.com questioned the narrative by pointing to Russia's bellicose rhetoric in response to Trump's actions. 32 Glenn Greenwald and Zaid Jilani at Intercept reminded readers that, overall, Trump proved to be far more confrontational toward Russia than Obama, thereby endangering America. 33 In particular Trump severed diplomatic ties with Russia, armed Ukraine, appointed anti-Russia hawks, such as ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, National Security Advisor John Bolton, and Secretary of State Michal Pompeo to key foreign policy positions, antagonized Russia's Iranian allies, and imposed tough sanctions against Russian business with ties to the Kremlin. 34
The dominant liberal media ignored opposing perspectives or presented them as compromised by Russia. For instance, in amplifying the view that Putin "stole" the elections, the Washington Post sought to discredit alternative sources of news and commentaries as infiltrated by the Kremlin's propaganda. On November 24, 2016, the newspaper published an interview with the executive director of a new website, PropOrNot, who preferred to remain anonymous, and claimed that the Russian government circulated pro-Trump articles before the election. Without providing evidence on explaining its methodology, the group identified more than two hundred websites that published or echoed Russian propaganda, including WikiLeaks and the Drudge Report , left-wing websites such as CounterPunch, Truthout, Black Agenda Report, Truthdig , and Naked Capitalism , as well as libertarian venues such as Antiwar.com and the Ron Paul Institute. 35 Another mainstream liberal outlet, CNN, warned the American people to be vigilant against the Kremlin's alleged efforts to spread propaganda: "Enormous numbers of (p.89) Americans are not only failing to fight back, they are also unwitting collaborators -- reading, retweeting, sharing and reacting to Russian propaganda and provocations every day." 36
However, voices of dissent were now heard even in the mainstream media. Masha Gessen of the New Yorker said that Trump's tweet about Robert Mueller's indictments and Moscow's "laughing its ass off" was "unusually (perhaps accidentally) accurate." 37 She pointed out that Russians of all ideological convictions "are remarkably united in finding the American obsession with Russian meddling to be ridiculous." 38 The editor of the influential Politico , Blake Hounshell, confessed that he was a Russiagate skeptic because even though "Trump was all too happy to collude with Putin," Mueller's team never found a "smoking gun." 39 In reviewing the book on Russia's role in the 2016 election Russian Roulette , veteran New York Times reporter Steven Lee Myers noted that the Kremlin's meddling "simply exploited the vulgarity already plaguing American political campaigns" and that the veracity of many accusations remained unclear. 40 Explaining Russophobia
The high-intensity Russophobia within the American media, overblown even by the standards of previous threat narratives, could no longer be explained by differences in national values or by bilateral tensions. The new fear of Russia also reflected domestic political polarization and growing national unease over America's identity and future direction.
The narrative of collusion in the media was symptomatic of America's declining confidence in its own values. Until the intervention in Iraq in 2004, optimism and a sense of confidence prevailed in American social attitudes, having survived even the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001. The (p.90) country's economy was growing and its position in the world was not challenged. However, the disastrous war in Iraq, the global financial crisis of 2008, and Russia's intervention in Georgia in August 2008 changed that. US leadership could no longer inspire the same respect, and a growing number of countries viewed it as a threat to world peace. 41 Internally, the United States was increasingly divided. Following presidential elections in November 2016, 77% of Americans perceived their country as "greatly divided on the most important values." 42 The value divide had been expressed in partisanship and political polarization long before the 2016 presidential elections. 43 The Russia issue deepened this divide. According to a poll taken in October 2017, 63% of Democrats, but just 38% of Republicans, viewed "Russia's power and influence" as a major threat to the well-being of the United States. 44
During the US 2016 presidential elections, Russia emerged as a convenient way to accentuate differences between Democratic and Republican candidates, which in previous elections were never as pronounced or defining. The new elections deepened the partisan divide because of extreme differences between the two main candidates, particularly on Russia. Donald Trump positioned himself as a radical populist promising to transform US foreign policy and "drain the swamp" in Washington. His position on Russia seemed unusual because, by election time, the Kremlin had challenged the United States' position in the world by annexing Crimea, supporting Ukrainian separatism, and possibly hacking the DNC site.
The Russian issue assisted Clinton in stressing her differences from Trump. Soon after it became known that DNC servers were hacked, she embraced the view that Russia was behind the cyberattacks. She accused Russia of "trying to wreak havoc" in the United States and threatened retaliation. 45 In his turn, Trump used Russia to challenge Clinton's commitment to national security (p.91) and ability to serve as commander in chief. In particular, he drew public attention to the FBI investigation into Clinton's use of a private server for professional correspondence, and even noted sarcastically that the Russians should find thirty thousand missing emails belonging to her. The latter was interpreted by many in liberal media and political circles as a sign of Trump's being unpatriotic. 46 Clinton capitalized on this interpretation. She referred to the issue of hacking as the most important one throughout the campaign and challenged Trump to agree with assessments of intelligence agencies that cyberattacks were ordered by the Kremlin. She questioned Trump's commitments to US national security and accused him of being a "puppet" for President Putin. 47 Following Trump's victory, Clinton told donors that her loss should be partly attributed to Putin and the election hacks directed by him. 48
Clinton's arguments fitted with the overall narrative embraced by the mainstream media since roughly 2005 characterizing Russia as abusive and aggressive. Clinton viewed Russia as an oppressive autocratic power that was aggressive abroad to compensate for domestic weaknesses. Previously, in her book Hard Choices , then-secretary of state Clinton described Putin as "thin-skinned and autocratic, resenting criticism and eventually cracking down on dissent and debate." 49 This view was shared by President Obama, who publicly referred to Russia as a "regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors not out of strength but out of weakness." 50 During the election's campaign, Clinton argued that the United States should challenge Russia by imposing a no-fly zone in Syria with the objective of removing Assad from power, strengthening sanctions against the Russian economy, and providing lethal weapons to Ukraine in order to contain the potential threat of Russia's military invasion.
Following the elections, the partisan divide deepened, with liberal establishment attacking the "unpatriotic" Trump. Having (p.92) lost the election, Clinton partly attributed Trump's victory to the role of Russia and advocated an investigation into Trump's ties to Russia. In February 2017 the Clinton-influenced Center for American Progress brought on a former State Department official to run a new Moscow Project. 51 As acknowledged by the New Yorker , members of the Clinton inner circle believed that the Obama administration deliberately downplayed DNC hacking by the Kremlin. "We understand the bind they were in," one of Clinton's senior advisers said. "But what if Barack Obama had gone to the Oval Office, or the East Room of the White House, and said, 'I'm speaking to you tonight to inform you that the United States is under attack . . .' A large majority of Americans would have sat up and taken notice . . . it is bewildering -- it is baffling -- it is hard to make sense of why this was not a five-alarm fire in the White House." 52
In addition to Clinton, many other members of the Washington establishment, including some Republicans, spread the narrative of Russia "attacking" America. Republican politicians who viewed Clinton's defeat and the hacking attacks in military terms included those of chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee John McCain, who stated, "When you attack a country, it's an act of war," 53 and former vice president Dick Cheney, who called Russia's alleged interference in the US election "a very serious effort made by Mr. Putin" that "in some quarters that would be considered an act of war." 54 A number of Democrats also engaged in the rhetoric of war, likening the Russian "attack," as Senator Ben Cardin did, to a "political Pearl Harbor." 55
Rumors and leaks, possibly by members of US intelligence agencies, 56 and activities of liberal groups that sought to discredit Trump contributed to the Russophobia. In addition to the DNC hacking accusations, many fears of Russia in the media were based on the assumption that contacts, let alone cooperation with the (p.93) Kremlin, was unpatriotic and implied potentially "compromising" behavior: praise of Putin as a leader, possible business dealings with Russian "oligarchs," and meetings with Russian officials such Ambassador Sergei Kislyak. 57
There were therefore two sides to the Russia story in the US liberal media -- rational and emotional. The rational side had to do with calculations by Clinton-affiliated circles and anti-Russian groups pooling their resources to undermine Trump and his plans to improve relations with Russia. Among others, these resources included dominance within the liberal media and leaks by the intelligence community. The emotional side was revealed by the liberal elites' values and ability to promote fears of Russia within the US political class and the general public. Popular emotions of fear and frustration with Russia already existed in the public space due to the old Cold War memories, as well as disturbing post–Cold War developments that included wars in Chechnya, Georgia, and Ukraine. In part because of these memories, factions such as those associated with Clinton were successful in evoking in the public liberal mind what historian Richard Hofstadter called the "paranoid style" or "the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy." 58 Mobilized by liberal media to pressure Trump, these emotions became an independent factor in the political struggle inside Washington. The public display of fear and frustration with Russia and Trump could only be sustained by a constant supply of new "suspicious" developments and intense discussion by the media.
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May 18, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,
On April 21st the Washington Post savaged Georgia governor Brian Kemp's decision to begin opening his state after locking down for weeks. "Georgia leads the race to become America's No. 1 Death Destination," sneered the headline.
The author, liberal pundit Dana Milbank, actually found the possibility of Georgians dying to be hilarious, suggesting that, "as a promotion, Georgia could offer ventilators to the first 100 hotel guests to register."
Milbank, who is obviously still getting paid while millions are out of work, sees his job as pushing the mainstream narrative that we must remain in fear and never question what "experts" like Dr. Fauci tell us.
Well it's been three weeks since Milbank's attack on Georgia and its governor, predicting widespread death which he found humorous. His predictions are about as worthless as his character. Not only has Georgia not seen "coronavirus burn through Georgia like nothing has since William Tecumseh Sherman," as Milbank laughed, but Covid cases, hospitalizations, and deaths have seen a steep decline since the governor began opening the state.
Maybe getting out in the fresh air and sunshine should not have been prohibited in the first place!In fact, as we now have much more data, it is becoming increasingly clear that the US states and the countries that locked down the tightest also suffered the highest death rates. Ultra locked-down Italy suffered 495 Covid deaths per million while relatively non-locked down South Korea suffered only five deaths per million. The same is true in the US, where non lockdown states like South Dakota were relatively untouched by the virus while authoritarian-led Michigan, New York, and California have been hardest hit.
In those hardest hit states, we are now seeing that most of the deaths occurred in senior care facilities – after the governors ordered patients sick with Covid to leave the hospitals and return to their facilities. There, they infected their fellow residents who were most likely to have the multiple co-morbidities and advanced age that turned the virus into a death sentence. Will these governors be made to answer for this callous disregard for life?
Yesterday, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar admitted the obvious:
" We are seeing that in places that are opening, we're not seeing this spike in cases."
So why not open everything? Because these petty tyrants cannot stand the idea of losing the ability to push people around.
Shutting down the entire United States over a virus that looks to be less deadly than an average flu virus – particularly among those under 80 who are not already sick – has resulted in mass unemployment and economic destruction. More Americans may die from the wrong-headed efforts to fight the virus than from the virus itself.
Americans should pause and reflect on the lies they are being sold. Masks are just a form of psychological manipulation. Many reputable physicians and scientists have said they are worthless and potentially harmful. Lockdowns are meant to condition people to obey without question.
A nation of people who just do what they are told by the "experts" without question is a nation ripe for a descent into total tyranny.
This is no empty warning – it's backed up by history. Time to stand up to all the petty tyrants from our hometowns to Washington DC. It is time to reclaim our freedom.
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May 18, 2020 | www.unz.com
A POWERFUL NETWORK OF POLITICAL OPERATIVES, A GLOBAL VACCINE MAFIA AND THEIR MAN IN WASHINGTON.
Last Friday, a group of Democratic Senators " demanded " that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Robert Kadlec, "accurately disclose all his personal, financial and political ties in light of new reporting that he had failed to do so previously" after it was revealed that he had failed to note all "potential conflicts of interest" on his nomination paperwork.
The report in question, published last Monday by The Washington Post , detailed the ties of Kadlec to a man named Fuad El-Hibri, the founder of a "life sciences" company first known as BioPort and now called Emergent Biosolutions. Kadlec had previously disclosed his ties to El-Hibri and Emergent Biosolutions for a separate nomination years prior, but had failed to do so when nominated to head ASPR.
Though The Post does note Kadlec's recent failure to disclose these connections, the article largely sanitizes Kadlec's earlier yet crucial history and even obfuscates the full extent of his ties to the BioPort founder, among other glaring omissions. In reality, Kadlec has much more than his ties to El-Hibri looming large as "potential conflict of interests," as his decades-long career in shaping U.S. "biodefense" policy was directly enabled by his deep ties to intelligence, Big Pharma, the Pentagon and a host of corrupt yet powerful characters.
Thanks to a long and deliberate process to introduce biodefense policy, driven by Robert Kadlec and his sponsors, $7 billion dollars-worth of federally-owned vaccines, antidotes and medicines – held in strategically arranged repositories across the country in case of a health emergency – are now in the hands of one single individual. Those repositories, which compose the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), are the exclusive domain of HHS' ASPR, a post created under Kadlec's watchful eye and tailored over the years to meet his very specific requirements.
From this perch, Robert Kadlec has final say on where the stockpile's contents are sourced, as well as how, when and where they are deployed. He is the sole source procurer of medical material and pharmaceuticals, making him the best friend of Big Pharma and other healthcare industry giants who have been in his ear every step of the way.
Kadlec assures us, however, that the fact that he now holds the very office he worked so long to create is merely a coincidence. "My participation in the ASPR project began at that time when I was working for the chairman of the Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness The bill was made law and the ASPR was created. It just was a coincidence that, 12 or 14 years later, I was asked to become the ASPR," Kadlec stated in 2018.
It was all a random twist of fate, Kadlec asserts, that saw him occupy ASPR at this crucial moment in U.S. history. Indeed, with the country now in the middle of a WHO-declared coronavirus pandemic, Kadlec now has full control over the far-reaching "emergency" powers of that very office, bestowed upon him by the very law that he had written.
The story of how a former USAF flight surgeon came to have the exclusive dealer license over the single biggest stash of drugs in the history of the world is as disturbing as it is significant in light of current events, particularly given that Kadlec now leads the coronavirus response for all of HHS. Yet, Kadlec's rise to power is not a case of an evil mastermind conquering a uniquely vulnerable point of the nation's resources. Instead, it is a case of a man deeply enmeshed in the world of intelligence, military intelligence and corporate corruption dutifully fulfilling the vision of his friends in high places and behind closed doors.
In this third installment of " Engineering Contagion: Amerithrax, Coronavirus and the Rise of the Biotech-Industrial Complex ," Kadlec is shown to hail from a tight-knit group of "bioterror alarmists" in government and the private sector who gained prominence thanks to their penchant for imagining the most horrific, yet fictitious scenarios that inspired fear among Presidents, top politicians and the American public. Among those fictitious scenarios was the "Dark Winter" exercise discussed in Part I .
Some of these alarmists, among them "cold warriors" from Fort Detrick's days of openly developing offensive weapons, would engage in unsettling anthrax experiments and studies while developing suspect ties in 2000 to a company called BioPort. As noted in Part II of this series, BioPort stood to lose everything in early September 2001 due to controversy over its anthrax vaccine. Of course, the 2001 anthrax attacks that followed shortly thereafter would change everything, not just for BioPort, but U.S. biodefense policy. With the stage set, Kadlec would quickly spring into action, guiding major policy changes on the heels of subsequent major events and disasters, culminating in his crowning as King of the stockpile.
THE ACCIDENTAL MADMAN
Robert Kadlec describes himself as having been an "accidental tourist" regarding his introduction to biological warfare. An Air Force physician who had specialized in tropical diseases, Kadlec would later say his interest in the field began when he was assigned to be a special assistant for Chemical and Biological Warfare to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), advising then-head of Special Operations Command Maj. Gen. Wayne Downing, on the eve of the first Gulf War.
Kadlec would later state that he had witnessed firsthand how the military, immediately prior to the Gulf War, had "lacked the necessary protective equipment, detectors, and medical countermeasures including vaccines and antibiotics against the immediate threats posed by Iraq," allegedly prompting him to want to better U.S. biodefense efforts.
While holding this post at JSOC, Kadlec was privy to the advice of William C. Patrick III , a veteran of the U.S.' bioweapons program who had developed the U.S.' method for weaponizing anthrax and held no less than five classified patents related to the toxin's use in warfare. Patrick, who had left government service in 1986 to become a consultant, advised the Pentagon -- then headed by Dick Cheney -- that the risk of a biological weapons attack by Iraq, particularly anthrax, was high. Patrick's warning prompted the U.S. military to vaccinate tens of thousands of its troops using the controversial anthrax vaccine "anthrax vaccine adsorbed (AVA)." Kadlec would personally inject AVA into around 800 members of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Kadlec would later note in Congressional testimony that no definitive proof of an alleged Iraqi biological weapons program was found during the war or afterwards, but nevertheless claimed elsewhere that "the Iraqis later admitted they had procured large quantities of a biological agents-anthrax and botulism toxin," suggesting that Patrick's warnings had had some basis in reality.
However, Kadlec failed to point out that these anthrax and botulism samples had been sold, with the U.S. government's full approval, to Iraq's Ministry of Education by a U.S. private non-profit called the American Type Culture Collection. Donald Rumsfeld, who was then an envoy for the Reagan administration and running a pharmaceutical company later sold to Monsanto, would also be involved in the shipment of these samples to Iraq.
Following the war, American microbiologist Joshua Lederberg was tasked by the Pentagon to head the investigation into "Gulf War Syndrome," a phenomenon that studies later linked to the adverse effects of the anthrax vaccine. Lederberg's task force argued that evidence regarding an association between the symptomology and the anthrax vaccine was insufficient. However, he would later come under fire after it was reported that he sat on the board of the American Type Culture Collection, the very company that had shipped anthrax to Iraq's government between 1985 and 1989 with the U.S. government's blessing. Lederberg later admitted that the investigation he led had not spent enough "time and effort digging out the details". The taskforce's findings were later harshly criticized by the Government Accountability Office.
Dr. Lederberg would prove to be an early, if not seminal, influence on Robert Kadlec's outlook regarding the subject of biowarfare. The Nobel Laureate and long-time president of Rockefeller University was one of the fathers of bioterror alarmism in the United States, alongside William C. Patrick III and other members of a tight-knit group of "cold warrior" microbiologists. Kadlec and Lederberg would go on to collaborate on several books and policy studies throughout the late 1990s and into 2001.
Years later, at a Congressional hearing, Kadlec would say that Lederberg's words "resonate constantly with me and serve as a practical warning." Aside from Lederberg, Kadlec was also writing numerous books and articles with Randall Larsen, who would later hire the Medical doctor to teach "military strategy and operations" at the National War College, where Larsen's close friend – William C. Patrick III – also taught .
A POISONED OASIS
Many of Kadlec's bioterror ravings have been preserved in 25-year old textbooks, like a U.S. Air War College textbook entitled " Battlefield of the Future " where Kadlec calls on the government to create a massive stockpile of drugs and vaccines to protect the population from a biological weapons attack, particularly anthrax or smallpox. In one chapter, Kadlec argued that stockpiles of necessary antibiotics, immunoglobulins and vaccines would have to be procured, maintained, and be readily available to administer within hours."
Kadlec's views on the matter at the time of writing were greatly influenced by his first tour as a UNSCOM weapons inspector in Iraq in 1994, where he was accompanied by William Patrick, among others. Kadlec would later return to Iraq in the same capacity in 1996 and 1998 in search of Iraq's alleged stores of weaponized anthrax that Patrick had been so sure were there, but had never materialized.
After three visits, Kadlec would later confess that, despite what Kadlec called "the most intrusive inspection and monitoring regime ever conceived and implemented" by the UN, the UNSCOM weapons inspectors, including himself and William Patrick, "failed to uncover any irrefutable evidence of an offensive BW program." Kadlec would later return to Iraq on two separate occasions following the 2003 U.S. invasion of country, again finding no proof of the program's existence.
By 1995, Kadlec was already imbued with the bioweapons alarmism that had been championed by Lederberg and Patrick. That year, he fleshed out several "illustrative scenarios" regarding the use of "biological economic warfare" against the United States. One of these fictional scenarios, titled "Corn Terrorism," involves China planning "an act of agricultural terrorism" by clandestinely spraying corn seed blight over the Midwest using commercial airliners. The result of the "Corn Terrorism" scenario is that "China gains significant corn market share and tens of billions [of] dollars of additional profits from their crop," while the U.S. sees its corn crop obliterated, causing food prices to rise and the U.S. to import corn. Another scenario, entitled "That's a 'Lousy' Wine," involves "disgruntled European winemakers" covertly releasing grape lice they have hidden in cans of paté to target California wine producers.
Around this same time, in 1994, the relatively young Congressional Office of Technology Assessment or OTA , which informed policy decisions around questions of technological and scientific complexity on matters of national security, was cut by the new Republican majority that took both houses in the pivotal 1994 midterms elections. At the time of its defunding, Lederberg sat on the OTA's Technology Assessment Advisory Council (OTA-TAAC), along with pharma industry insiders from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lilly Research Labs and pre-merger Smith-Kline, and chaired one of its last study panels.
In OTA's place, an independent, non-profit entity called The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies (PIPS) was co-founded by Special Consultant to President H.W. Bush's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) and a former CIA program monitor, Michael S. Swetnam, who was reportedly " tasked with profiling Osama Bin Laden before the September 11th attacks were enacted ."
The defunding of the OTA and subsequent creation of PIPS transferred policy-making on what are, perhaps, the most sensitive issues of national security away from Congress and into a private foundation teeming with operators from the vast underbelly of the military industrial complex (MIC). Former military officers, DARPA scientists , NASA policy experts, FBI agents, CIA operatives and defense contractors like Northrop Grumman can all be found on their member rolls and in their boardrooms.
PIPS and its sponsors would shadow Robert Kadlec's career in government from the very beginning and remain in close proximity to him today. One PIPS-linked individual would work particularly closely with Kadlec, Tevi Troy – a senior fellow at PIPS and an adjunct fellow at the much more polished Hudson Institute, itself a major funder of PIPS. Troy has long been integral in shaping Kadlec's biodefense policy agenda, which would remain conspicuously static and unchanging throughout the career he was just beginning.
POX AMERICANA
By 1996, talks had begun within military leadership regarding what would become the Pentagon's mandatory anthrax vaccination program, a policy tirelessly promoted by Joshua Lederberg, who was involved in "investigating" the links between the anthrax vaccine and Gulf War Syndrome. The private talks took place in parallel with a public push to bring biological warfare to the forefront of American public consciousness. One particularly egregious example occurred when then-Secretary of Defense William Cohen went on ABC News with a five-pound bag of sugar, stating that "this amount of anthrax could be spread over a city -- let's say the size of Washington. It would destroy at least half the population of that city."
At the same time, Joshua Lederberg was also advocating for the stockpiling of a smallpox vaccine, which the U.S. military also took to heart, giving a company called DynPort an exclusive multi-million dollar contract to produce a new smallpox vaccine in 1997. Soon after, BioPort, DynPort's sister company , was formed and would soon come to monopolize the production of that vaccine.
By the time BioPort (now known as Emergent Biosolutions) had controversially gained control over this lucrative Pentagon contract in 1998, then-President Bill Clinton was publicly warning that the U.S. must "confront the new hazards of biological and chemical weapons," adding that Saddam Hussein specifically was "developing nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them." However, there was no intelligence to back up these claims, especially after the failed attempts by weapon inspectors, like Robert Kadlec and William Patrick, to find any evidence of an Iraqi biological weapons program.
Despite the lack of evidence regarding Iraq's alleged "WMD" programs, Clinton's concern over a biological weapons threat was said to have been the result of his reading of "The Cobra Event", a novel about how a genetically-modified pathogen called "brainpox" ravages New York City. The novel's author, Richard Preston, had been advised on biowarfare and genetically-modified pathogens by none other than William Patrick. Patrick, then an adviser to the CIA, FBI and military intelligence, also participated in closed door meetings with Clinton on biological weapons, claiming that their use was inevitable and that the deadliest of pathogens could easily be made in a "terrorist's garage."
It is also likely that Clinton's alarmism over biological and chemical weapons had been informed, in part, by a roundtable hosted at the White House on April 10, 1998. This " White House Roundtable on Genetic Engineering and Biological Weapons ," included a group of "outside experts" spear-headed by Joshua Lederberg and included several other bioterror alarmists, such as: Jerome Hauer, then-serving as Director of New York City's Office of Emergency Management (who also was advised by William Patrick III) and Thomas Monath, a vaccine industry executive and chief science advisor to CIA director George Tenet.
Discussed in-depth at the roundtable were "both the opportunities and the national security challenges posed by genetic engineering and biotechnology" as well as "classified material relating to threat assessments and how the United States responds to particular scenarios."
Robert Kadlec, despite being a Republican, remains very fond of Bill Clinton, perhaps because the former president was so attentive to the dire predictions of the "biodefense experts" who shadowed Kadlec's own career. Kadlec credits the former president with doing a "lot of good things" and making important contributions to the advancement of the biotech industrial complex's policy agenda.
Clinton would issue several executive orders and Presidential Decision Directives (PDDs) during this period, such as PDD-62, which specifically addressed preparations for a "WMD" attack on the U.S. and called for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), then-led by Donna Shalala, to lead the national response to a WMD attack. Fortuitously for Kadlec, PDD-62 also called for the construction of a national stockpile of vaccines, antibiotics and other medical supplies.
At the time, Kadlec was already evangelizing the public about a seemingly imminent, doomsday anthrax attack he was certain would strike at any second. As quoted in a 1998 article from the Vancouver Sun , Kadlec speculated:
"If several kilograms of an agent like anthrax were disseminated in New York City today, conservative estimates put the number [of] deaths occurring in the first few days at 400,000. Thousands of others would be at risk of dying within several days if proper antibiotics and vaccination were not started immediately. Millions of others would be fearful of being exposed and seek or demand medical care as well. Beyond the immediate health implications of such an act, the potential panic and civil unrest would create an equally large response."
Kadlec's doomsday speculations about biological weapons attacks had caught the attention of Randall Larsen, the then-director of the National War College's Department of Military Strategy and Operations, who hired Kadlec because he "had become convinced that the most serious threat to national security was not Russian or Chinese missiles, but a pandemic – either man-made or naturally occurring." Soon after, Kadlec and Larsen would collaborate closely , co-authoring several studies together.
Meanwhile, their colleague at the National War College, William Patrick III was simultaneously working for the U.S. military and intelligence contractor, the Battelle Memorial Institute, where he was secretly developing a genetically-modified, more potent form of anthrax for a classified Pentagon program.
THE BIOTERROR INTELLIGENTSIA
A year after hiring Robert Kadlec to teach at the National War College, Randall Larsen was also involved in the creation of a new organization called the ANSER Institute for Homeland Security (ANSER-IHS), and served as its director. This Institute for Homeland Security, first initiated and funded in October 1999, was an extension of the ANSER Institute, which itself had been spun off from the RAND Corporation in the late 1950s. The RAND Corporation is a national security-focused "think tank" with long-standing ties to the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations and the Carnegie Corporation.
ANSER's expansion through ANSER-IHS was foreshadowed by the entry of "homeland defense" into popular political discourse within the Washington Beltway. The term is alleged to have first originated from a National Defense Panel report submitted in 1997 and is credited to Defense Panel member and former CIA officer with ties to the agency's Phoenix program, Richard Armitage. Armitage was part of the group known as the " Vulcans ," who advised George W. Bush on foreign policy matters prior to the 2000 presidential election.
As journalist Margie Burns pointed out in a 2002 article , the need for "homeland defense" as a major focus of U.S. government policy, including the push to create a new "homeland security" agency, was dramatically amplified following its alleged coining by Armitage in 1997. This was thanks, in part, to a web of media outlets owned by South Korean cult leader and CIA asset Sun Myong Moon, including the Washington Times, Insight Magazine and UPI , all of which published numerous articles penned by ANSER analysts or that heavily cited ANSER reports and employees regarding the need for a greatly expanded "homeland security" apparatus.
One such article, published by Insight Magazine in May 2001 and entitled " Preparing for the Next Pearl Harbor ," heavily cites ANSER and its Institute for Homeland Security as being among "the nation's top experts" in warning that a terrorist attack on the U.S. mainland was imminent. It also stated that "the first responders on tomorrow's battlefield won't be soldiers, but city ambulance workers and small-town firefighters."
ANSER-IHS was created at the behest of ANSER's CEO , Dr. Ruth David, who became ANSER's top executive after leaving a lengthy career at the CIA, where she had served as the agency's Deputy Director for Science and Technology. On ANSER-IHS's board at the time, alongside David, were Joshua Lederberg and Dr. Tara O'Toole, then-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Bio-defense Studies who would later co-write the Dark Winter exercise .
Though first created in 1999, ANSER-IHS did not officially launch until April 2001. That same month, Robert Kadlec, at the National War College, sponsored the paper " A Micro-threat with Macro-Impact: The Bio-Threat and the Need for a National Bio-Defense Security Strategy ." That paper starts by citing several former CIA officials as well as Dr. O'Toole (who now works for the CIA's venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel) as proof that a bioterrorist attack is "perhaps the greatest threat the U.S. faces in the next century" and that such an attack would inevitably target "Americans on American soil."
This Kadlec-sponsored report also called for the creation of the National Homeland Security Agency (NHSA), the framework for which was contained in H.R. 1158, introduced a month prior in March 2001. The paper urged that the creation of this new cabinet-level agency be enacted "quickly, so the resulting single executive agent (identified from here on as the NHSA) can begin its critical work." It also argued that this agency include "a deputy director position specifically responsible for preparing and responding to a bio-attack."
Other measures recommended in the paper included greatly expanding the national defense stockpile; creating a national disease reporting system; and the creation of real-time, automated bio-threat detectors. The latter would be initiated soon after the publication of this paper, resulting in the controversial Biological Aerosol Sentry and Information Systems (BASIS). BASIS was discussed in Part I of this series, particularly its role in "induc[ing] the very panic and social disruption it is intended to thwart" during and after the 2001 anthrax attacks that would occur months later. BASIS was developed largely by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, whose national security fellow – former Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) director Jay Davis, was then-chairman of ANSER's board of directors.
Also notable is the fact that Kadlec's April 2001 report cites the largely discredited yet still influential Ken Alibek on several occasions, including his allegation that anyone with internet access and a few bucks could produce and unleash weapons-grade anthrax with ease. Some of the nation's top anthrax experts would discredit this claim, with the exception of William C. Patrick III.
This is likely because it was Patrick who had been asked by the CIA to "vet" Alibek after he had first defected from the Soviet Union 1992, making Patrick responsible for determining the credibility of Alibek's controversial claims, including his incorrect assertions that Saddam Hussein had overseen a massive biological weapons program. Regarding their meeting, Patrick would later say "I won't say we fell in love, but we gained an immediate respect for one another."
At the time of Alibek's defection, Robert Kadlec – who had been assigned to the Pentagon's Office of the Secretary of Defense for Counter-proliferation policy after the Gulf War – would later recall during 2014 Congressional testimony having "witnessed the efforts to ascertain the truth behind the former Soviet Union's BW [biological weapons] effort" that had intimately involved Alibek and Patrick. Kadlec would also note that "the fate of these agents [related to the Soviet Union's BW program] and associated weapons," including those described by Alibek, "was never satisfactorily resolved."
Alibek's shocking yet dubious claims were often used and promoted by Joshua Lederberg (who had debriefed other Soviet bioweapons researchers after their defections), Patrick and others to support their favored "biodefense" policies as well as the need for "defensive" bioweapons research, including clandestine efforts to genetically-engineer anthrax on which Patrick and Alibek would later collaborate.
SETTING THE WHEELS IN MOTION
Just a few months before ANSER-IHS' "official" launch, another organization with a related focus was launched -- the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI). Created by media mogul Ted Turner and former Senator Sam Nunn in January 2001, NTI aimed not only to "reduce the threat" posed by nuclear weapons, but also chemical and biological weapons.
In announcing NTI's formation on CNN , the network Turner had founded, Nunn stated that while "nuclear weapons pose the gigantic danger, but biological and chemical weapons are the most likely to be used. And there are thousands of scientists in the former Soviet Union that know how to make these weapons, including chemical, biological and nuclear, but don't know how to feed their families." Nunn continued, stating that NTI hoped "to begin to help, some hope for gainful employment for people that we don't want to end up making chemical and biological and nuclear weapons in other parts of the world." NTI's mission in this regard likely came as welcome news to Joshua Lederberg, who had long advocated that the U.S. offer employment to bioweapons researchers from the former Soviet Union to prevent their employ by "rogue regimes."
Alongside Nunn and Tuner on NTI's board was William Perry, a former Secretary of Defense; former Senator Dick Lugar, for whom the alleged U.S. bioweapons lab in Georgia is named; and Margaret Hamburg, who was NTI's Vice President overseeing its work on biological weapons. Margaret Hamburg's father, David Hamburg, a long-time president of the Carnegie Corporation, was also an advisor and "distinguished fellow" at NTI. David Hamburg was a longtime close advisor , associate , and friend of Joshua Lederberg.
Both Sam Nunn and Margaret Hamburg of NTI, as well as top officials from ANSER, would come together in June 2001 to participate in an exercise simulating a bioweapons attack called "Dark Winter." Nunn would play the role of president in the exercise and Hamburg played the head of HHS in the fictional scenario. Jerome Hauer, then-managing director of the intelligence-linked outfit Kroll Inc. and a Vice President at the military-intelligence contractor Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC), played the head of FEMA.
The Dark Winter exercise itself was largely written by Tara O'Toole (ANSER-IHS board member) and Thomas Inglesby of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Bio-defense Studies as well as Randall Larsen of ANSER-IHS. Robert Kadlec also participated in the creation of the script and appears in the fictional, scripted news clips used in the exercise.
As detailed in Part I of this series, the Dark Winter exercise eerily predicted many aspects of what would follow just months later during the 2001 anthrax attacks, including predictions that threatening letters would be sent to members of the press with the promise of biological weapons attacks involving anthrax. Dark Winter also provided the initial narrative for the 2001 anthrax attacks, which held that Iraq and Al Qaeda had been jointly responsible. However, soon after the attacks, evidence quickly pointed to the anthrax having originated from a domestic source linked to military experiments. In addition, several Dark Winter participants and authors either had apparent foreknowledge of those attacks (especially Jerome Hauer) and/or were involved in the FBI controversial investigation into the attacks (including Robert Kadlec).
On the day of September 11, 2001, Kadlec and Randall Larsen were set to begin co-teaching a course on "Homeland Security" at the National War College. It's course syllabus draws from quotes on the imminent threat of bioterrorism from Joshua Lederberg as well as Dark Winter participant and former CIA director James Woolsey, who called a biological weapons attack "the single most dangerous threat to U.S. national security in the foreseeable future."
The course was also set to include its own lengthy use of the Dark Winter exercise, where students would re-enact the June 2001 exercise as part of an end-of-semester research project. However, given the events that took place on September 11, 2001, Kadlec never went on to teach that course, as he instead went to the Pentagon to focus on the "bio-terror threat" in the weeks that preceded the 2001 anthrax attacks.
THE AFTER (ANTHRAX) PARTY
Immediately after the events of September 11, 2001, Kadlec became a special advisor on biological warfare to then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy Paul Wolfowitz. In the days that followed, Rumsfeld openly and publicly stated that he expected America's enemies, specifically Saddam Hussein, to aid unspecified terrorist groups in obtaining chemical and biological weapons, a narrative that was analogous to that used in the Dark Winter exercise that Kadlec had helped create.
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Dark Winter's other co-authors -- Randall Larsen, Tara O'Toole and Thomas Inglesby -- personally briefed Dick Cheney on Dark Winter, at a time when Cheney and his staff had been warned by another Dark Winter figure, Jerome Hauer, to take the antibiotic Cipro to prevent anthrax infection. It is unknown how many members of the administration were taking Cipro and for how long.
Hauer, along with James Woolsey and New York Times reporter Judith Miller (who also attended Dark Winter), would spend the weeks between 9/11 and the public disclosure of the anthrax attacks making numerous media appearances (and, in Miller's case, writing dozens of reports) regarding the use of anthrax as a biological weapon. Members of the controversial think thank the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), which included Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld among its ranks, also warned that a biological weapons attack was set to follow on the heels of 9/11. These included Richard Perle, then advising the Rumsfeld-led Pentagon, and Robert Kagan and Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard .
One would think that all of these well-timed warnings would have left this clique of government insiders the least surprised once the anthrax attacks were publicly disclosed on October 4, 2001. However, despite constantly warning of doomsday anthrax attack scenarios for a decade and advising the Pentagon on this very threat immediately beginning just weeks prior, Robert Kadlec would subsequently claim to have yelled, "You gotta be sh*ttin' me!" when he first learned of the attacks.
Another pre-attack anthrax prophet, Judith Miller, would recall becoming distraught and despondent upon receiving a letter that appeared to contain anthrax. Her first reaction was to call William C. Patrick III, who calmed her down and told her that the anthrax powder contained in the letter "was most likely a hoax." Indeed, Patrick would prove correct in his analysis as the powder in the letter Miller had opened was, in fact, harmless.
Kadlec quickly began contributing to the FBI's controversial investigation into the attacks, known by its case name "Amerithrax." Kadlec was tasked with following up on the alleged presence of bentonite in the anthrax used in the attacks. Bentonite was never actually found in any of the anthrax samples tested by the FBI, but claims that it had been found were used to link the anthrax used in the attacks to Iraq's alleged use of bentonite in its biological weapons program, the very existence of which still lacked conclusive evidence.
This erroneous claim was first mentioned to Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz by Peter Jahrling, a Fort Detrick scientist, who claimed during a briefings that the spores "appeared to have been treated" with a "particular chemical additive" resembling bentonite. Jahrling then added that Iraq's government had used bentonite to "suspiciously" produce bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), a "nonlethal cousin" of anthrax widely used in agriculture. "Everyone grabbed on to that," Kadlec would later remember of Jahrling's haphazard link between bentonite and a harmless, distant cousin of anthrax.
Tasked by Wolfowitz with shoring up evidence for the bentonite "smoking gun," Kadlec would contact a Navy scientist that had accompanied him and William Patrick to Iraq in their unsuccessful efforts to find proof of Iraq's biological weapons back in 1994, James Burans. Burans was unconvinced of the bentonite connection and other government scientists soon agreed.
Nonetheless, media outlets continued to play up the bentonite-anthrax claim as proving Iraq's role in the anthrax attacks, despite findings to the contrary. By late October 2001, one nationwide poll found that 74% of respondents wanted the U.S. to take military action against Iraq, despite a lack of evidence connecting the country to either 9/11 or the anthrax attacks. A month later, Rumsfeld would draw up plans in consultation with Wolfowitz regarding justifications for initiating war with Iraq, including discovering links between Saddam Hussein and the anthrax attacks and initiating disputes with Iraq over WMD inspections.
While the Kadlec-advised Pentagon was seeking to link the anthrax attacks to Iraq, the NTI – headed by Dark Winter "president" Sam Nunn – kicked its agenda into over-drive, earmarking "$2.4 million in initial grants to finance scientific collaboration with scientists who once worked in the former Soviet Union's covert biological weapons program." NTI also set aside millions more for transforming former Soviet Union bioweapons labs into "vaccine production facilities" and "helping identify Western drug companies willing to work with former Soviet bioweaponeers on commercial ventures."
CLOSED DOOR INVESTIGATION
William C. Patrick III would also become involved the FBI's Amerithrax investigation, even though he was initially suspected of involvement in the attacks. However, after having passed a lie detector test, he was added to the FBI's "inner circle" of technical advisors on the Amerithrax case, despite the fact that Patrick's protege , Stephen Hatfill, was the FBI's top suspect at the time. Hatfill was later cleared of wrongdoing and the FBI eventually blamed a Fort Detrick scientist named Bruce Ivins for the crime, hiding a "mountain" of evidence exonerating Ivins to do so, according to the FBI's former lead investigator.
In the 1990s, Patrick had told associates of his desire to find someone who would carry on his work, eventually finding this person in Stephen Hatfill. Hatfill and Patrick's friendship was close, with one bioterror expert calling them "like father and son." Hatfill traveled together often and, on occasion, Hatfill would drive Patrick to his consulting jobs at the military and intelligence contractor SAIC. In 1999, Patrick would return the favor by helping Hatfill score a job at SAIC. A year later, Jerome Hauer, a friend to both Hatfill and Patrick, would join SAIC as a Vice President.
That same year, Hatfill offered Patrick another consulting job at SAIC and commissioned Patrick to perform a study describing "a fictional terrorist attack in which an envelope containing weapons-grade anthrax is opened in an office." The Baltimore Sun would later report that Patrick's study for SAIC discussed the "danger of anthrax spores spreading through the air and the requirements for decontamination after various kinds of attacks" as well as how many grams of anthrax would need to be placed within a standard business envelope in order to conduct such an attack.
Patrick's involvement in this SAIC study is particularly interesting given that he was also involved in another project involving anthrax at the time, this one managed by Battelle Memorial Institute. In 1997, the Pentagon created plans to genetically engineer a more potent variety of anthrax, spurred by the work of Russian scientists who had recently published a study that found that a genetically engineered strain of anthrax was resistant to the standard anthrax vaccine, at least in animal studies.
The stated goal of the Pentagon's plan, per a 2001 report in The New York Times , was "to see if the [anthrax] vaccine the United States intends to supply to its armed forces is effective against that strain." Battelle's facility at West Jefferson, Ohio was contracted by the Pentagon to create the genetically-modified anthrax, a task that was overseen by Battelle's then-program manager for all things bioweapons, Ken Alibek. A 1998 article in the New Yorker noted that William Patrick, also a consultant for Battelle and Alibek's "close friend," was working with Alibek on a project involving anthrax at the time. It would later be revealed that access to the very anthrax strain used in the attacks, the Ames strain, was controlled by Battelle.
In addition, the FBI's supposed "smoking gun" used to link Bruce Ivins' to the anthrax attacks was the fact that a flask in Ivins' lab labeled RMR-1029 was determined to be its "parent" strain. Yet, it would later be revealed that portions of RMR-1029 had been sent by Ivins to Battelle's Ohio facility prior to the anthrax attacks. An analysis of the water used to make the anthrax also revealed that the anthrax spores had been created in the northeastern United States and follow-up analyses narrowed down the only possible sources as coming from one of three labs: Fort Detrick, a lab at the University of Scranton, or Battelle's West Jefferson facility.
After Ivins' untimely "suicide" in 2008, Department of Justice civil attorneys would publicly challenge the FBI's assertions that Ivins had been the culprit and instead "suggested that a private laboratory in Ohio" managed by Battelle "could have been involved in the attacks."
Patrick's work with Battelle on creating a more potent form of anthrax, as well as his work with SAIC in studying the effect of anthrax sent through the mail, began around the same time that BioPort had secured a monopoly over the production of the anthrax vaccine, recently made mandatory for all U.S. troops by the Pentagon. As detailed in Part II of this series, BioPort's facility that produced its anthrax vaccine was, at the time, rife with problems and had lost its license to operate. Despite the Pentagon having given BioPort millions to use for renovations of the factory, much of that money instead went towards senior management bonuses and redecorating executive offices. Millions more simply "disappeared."
In 2000, not long after receiving its first Pentagon bail-out, BioPort contracted none other than Battelle Memorial Institute. The deal gave Battelle "immediate exposure to the vaccine" it was using in connection with the genetically-modified anthrax program that involved both Alibek and Patrick. That program then began using the BioPort-manufactured vaccine in tests at its West Jefferson facility. At the time, Battelle was also lending "technical expertise" to BioPort and hired 12 workers to send to BioPort's troubled Michigan facility "to keep the operation running."
At the time, a BioPort spokeswomen stated "We have a relationship with Battelle to extend our reach for people we are trying to attract for critical positions on our technical side. They're also assisting with our potency testing as really sort of a backup. They're validating our potency tests." Reports on the BioPort-Battelle contract stated that the terms of their agreement were not publicly disclosed, but also noted that the two companies had "previously worked together on an unsuccessful bid to make other vaccines for the government."
As previously noted in Part II of this series, BioPort was set to lose its contract for anthrax vaccine entirely in August 2001 and the entirety of its anthrax vaccine business was rescued by the 2001 anthrax attacks, which saw concerns over BioPort's corruption replaced with fervent demands for more of its anthrax vaccine.
RUMSFELD SAVES BIOPORT
One of the post-attack advocates for salvaging the BioPort anthrax vaccine contract was Donald Rumsfeld, who stated after the attacks that, "We're going to try to save it, and try to fashion some sort of an arrangement whereby we give one more crack at getting the job done with that outfit [BioPort]. It's the only outfit in this country that has anything under way, and it's not very well under way, as you point out."
While Rumsfeld and others worked to salvage the troubled BioPort-anthrax vaccine deal, another recurrent figure in this sordid saga, Jerome Hauer, would also play a key role in pushing for increased purchases of BioPort's most lucrative and most controversial product. In addition to being managing director of Kroll Inc. and a Vice President at SAIC, Hauer was also a national security advisor to HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson on September 11, 2001. It was also this same day that Hauer would also tell top administration officials to take Cipro to prevent anthrax infection.
Hauer played a key role advising HHS leadership as the anthrax attacks unfolded. After the attacks, Hauer pushed Thompson to create the Office of Public Health Preparedness (OPHP) within HHS, which was created later that year. It was first headed by D.A. Henderson, a close associate of Joshua Lederberg and the original founder of the Johns Hopkins Working Group on Civilian Biodefense, which included Jerome Hauer and Henderson's protege Tara O'Toole. Hauer himself would come to replace Henderson as OPHP just a few months later.
Subsequent legislation, shaped in part by Robert Kadlec, would see OPHP give way to the position of Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness (ASPHEP), a position Hauer would also fill. Hauer would use this post to push for the stockpiling of vaccines, including BioPort's anthrax vaccine. Hauer and his deputy, William Raub, would then help push the Pentagon to restart vaccinating the troops, despite long-standing concerns over the vaccine's safety. Soon after leaving HHS in 2004, Hauer would quickly be added to the board of directors of BioPort under its new name Emergent Biosolutions, a post he still holds today.
ALL SYSTEMS GO
In the aftermath of the anthrax attacks, Robert Kadlec's doomsday predictions for bioterror incidents went into over-drive. "It's not your mother's smallpox," Kadlec would tell the LA Times in late October 2001, "It's an F-17 Stealth fighter – it's designed to be undetectable and to kill. We are flubbing our efforts at biodefense. We don't think of this as a weapon – we look naively at this as a disease." As the article notes, this "stealth fighter" strain of smallpox did not exist. Instead, Kadlec – who now had Rumsfeld's ear on issues of biodefense – expected that such a strain might soon be genetically engineered.
Of course, at the time, the only government known to be genetically engineering a pathogen was the U.S., as reported by the New York Times ' Judith Miller . Miller reported in October 2001 that the Pentagon, in the wake of the anthrax attacks, had approved "a project to make a potentially more potent form of anthrax bacteria" through genetic modification, a project that would be conducted by the Battelle Memorial Institute.
This was the continuation of the project, which had involved William Patrick and Ken Alibek, and the Pentagon moved to restart it after the attacks, though it is unclear if either Patrick or Alibek continued to work on the subsequent iteration of Battelle's efforts to produce a more virulent strain of anthrax. That project was paused a month prior when Miller and other journalists disclosed the existence of the program in an article published on September 4, 2001.
After news broke of the Pentagon's plans to again begin developing more potent anthrax strains, accusations were made that the U.S. was violating the bioweapons convention. However, the U.S. narrowly avoided having to admit it had violated the convention given that, just one month after the Dark Winter exercise in July 2001, the U.S. had rejected an agreement that would have enforced its ban on biological weapons.
The New York Times noted specifically that the genetically-modified anthrax experiments being performed by Battelle's West Jefferson facility were a "significant reason" behind the Bush administration's decision to reject the draft agreement and the U.S. government had argued at the time that "unlimited visits to pharmaceutical or defense installations by foreign inspectors could be used to gather strategic or commercial intelligence." Of course, one of those "pharmaceutical or defense installations" was ultimately the source of the anthrax used in the attacks.
THE GROUNDWORK
On the heels of the chaos of late 2001, Kadlec's vision for U.S. biodefense policy was rapidly coming to fruition before his very eyes. The first enabling statute for the SNS was the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness Act of 2002, largely motivated by the anthrax attacks, which directed the Secretary of HHS to maintain a " Strategic National Stockpile (SNS)." The legislation had been the direct result of a process begun years earlier when Congress earmarked funding for the CDC to stockpile pharmaceuticals in 1998. The program was originally called the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile (NPS) program.
Kadlec's role in directing subsequent developments in the SNS and other related legislative developments was considerable given that, in 2002, he became director for biodefense on the recently created Homeland Security Council. His work on the council, which he left in 2005, resulted in the Bush administration's "National Biodefense Policy for the 21st Century," which unsurprisingly echoed the recommendations of the paper Kadlec had sponsored at the National War College.
On March 1, 2003, the NPS became the Strategic National Stockpile program and was managed jointly by DHS and HHS after George W. Bush issued Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-5). Two days before, Secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge and then Secretary of HHS Tommy Thompson had presented the Project BioShield Act to Congress. It was a sweeping piece of legislation that established what would become a government money teller-window for Big Pharma, called the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), among other entities and powers, not least of which was moving control of the SNS away from DHS and closer to HHS.
Soon after BioShield was signed into law, BioPort/Emergent BioSolutions co-founded a lobby group called the Alliance for Biosecurity as part of its strategy to easily secure lucrative BioShield contracts. That lobby group saw Emergent BioSolutions join forces with the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Biosecurity, which was then-led by Tara O'Toole and advised by Randall Larsen.
With this framework in place, the Kadlec-drafted National Biodefense Policy for the 21st Century was used as the framework for Bush's Homeland Security Presidential Directive 10 ( HSPD-10 ), which further expanded BioShield, the SNS and other controversial programs. Project BioShield was made law in 2004 and, one year later, Kadlec joined Senator Richard Burr's subcommittee on bioterrorism and public health. There, Kadlec served as staff director on the committee that drafted the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA), containing the specific policy directives for the roll out of Project BioShield and creating Kadlec's future position at HHS.
PAHPA was passed the following year in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and established the statutory relationship between the various agencies enacted or included in the BioShield legislation . This includes delegating to the newly creation position of HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) to "exercise the responsibilities and authorities of the Secretary [of HHS] with respect to the coordination of "the stockpile and to oversee the advanced research and development of medical counter-measures funded by BARDA, but conducted by Big Pharma. ASPR was also given the leadership role in directing HHS' response to a national health emergency.
Serving alongside Kadlec in the White House throughout this entire process was Tevi Troy, a Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy; a role which made him the White House's lead adviser on health care, labor, education and other issues with a special focus on crisis management . Troy, who had come up through the department of labor as deputy assistant for policy was already a Senior fellow at both the Hudson Institute and its satellite think tank, the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies (PIPS), where the real policy development work was undertaken.
Both Troy and Kadlec would exit the administration at the end of Bush's first term and not return until the latter half of his second term. In the meantime, the wheels had been set in motion with the passing of Project BioShield and PAHPA and, soon after their passage, panic over a "Bird flu" outbreak began, which had spread first in 33 cities in Vietnam and then led to an outbreak of the poultry-killing disease that affected all of Eurasia, Africa and the Middle East. The outbreak sparked panic in the U.S. in late 2005, thanks in large part to over-the-top warnings made by Tommy Thompson's successor as head of HHS, Michael Leavitt.
Despite the fact that Leavitt's claims were wildly inaccurate, some administration officials benefited financially from the fear-mongering, such as Donald Rumsfeld, whose stock holdings in the pharmaceutical company Gilead netted him $5 million once the scare had ended. Part of the reason for Gilead's jump in profitability resulted from the decision of the Pentagon and other U.S. government agencies to stockpile 80 million doses of Tamiflu, a drug promoted to treat the Bird Flu that was originally developed by Gilead. Rumsfeld had been the top executive at Gilead before joining the George W. Bush administration. Aside from those who benefited monetarily, the Bird Flu scare also gave a considerable boost to the biodefense "stockpile" agenda that Kadlec and other insiders supported.
Kadlec would return to the White House as Special Assistant for Homeland Security and Senior Director for Biological Defense Policy in 2007 to further solidify his eventual grip on the Strategic National Stockpile and the office of ASPR, along with his Hudson Institute/PIPS sidekick, Tevi Troy, concurrently appointed Deputy Director of HHS. This put Troy in charge of implementing the very policies enshrined in PAHPA and the departmental changes enacted as part of Project BioShield.
The Bush administration came to its inevitable conclusion as Barack Obama was elected and sworn in, early 2009. Kadlec and Troy, once again, left their government posts and disappeared into their private sector lairs. But, that same year, the first practice run for Kadlec's freshly retrofitted SNS took place when the "Swine Flu" (H1N1) pandemic triggered its "largest deployment" ever, distributing nearly 13 million antiviral regimens, as well as medical equipment and other drugs nationally and internationally in conjunction with BARDA . Gilead (and Rumsfeld) again profited handsomely, as did other large pharmaceutical companies, which were eager to restock the SNS after its large-scale deployment.
The virus' origins have been a matter of controversy for several years, alternatively identified as having sprung from pigs in Mexico or Asia. One of the last studies conducted in 2016 claims to have definitively traced the source to hogs in Mexico. Regardless of its true origins, interested observers were able to glean vital data from the exercise to prepare for the "next one."
TROY'S HORSES
Departing HHS Deputy Director Tevi Troy soon took a gig as a high-powered lobbyist for the JUUL e-cigarette company , which had run into some regulatory barriers as a result of the Tobacco Control Act, which had just been signed by then-President Obama. Margaret Hamburg, founding member of the NTI, was then Commissioner of the FDA and stalled enforcement of the new regulations; a tacit non-enforcement policy had persisted at the FDA until the recent vaping flavor ban, which followed renewed health concerns raised by a 2018 NIH report .
Why a former HHS official would take up the mantle to promote the use of a product known to be injurious to health can be answered by looking at Dr. Troy's close links with PIPS and the Hudson Institute. Couched in free-market rhetoric, these institutions are vehicles for the policy initiatives their billionaire funders want to see implemented, with its subsidiary think tanks, like PIPS, serving as satellites orbiting closer to the center of power.
As an adjunct fellow of the Hudson Institute and senior fellow at PIPS, Tevi Troy appears to play a pivotal role coordinating between the two. The Hudson Institute was founded in 1961 by former RAND military strategist, systems theorist and Dr. Strangelove inspiration Herman Kahn. After Kahn's passing in 1983, the Institute was "heavily recruited" by the Lilly Endowment – the largest private foundation in the United States , by far – and became a magnet for the same radical conservative billionaire networks that patronize it today.
Among its biggest donors are familiar names like Microsoft, Lockheed Martin Corporation, The Charles Koch Foundation, Boeing and Emergent BioSolutions. In 2004, Lilly Endowment returned to Washington D.C., announcing it would " return to its roots of national security and foreign policy " as a result of the war on terror becoming an "overarching national concern".
PIPS and the Hudson Institute would come to play a central role in Kadlec's upcoming efforts to make biodefense a national priority with him at the helm of a vastly expanded office of ASPR. But, it would be a few years yet. Meanwhile, there was more to be done in the area of legislation, not to mention private enterprise.
Building on all previous versions of Kadlec's original PAHPA, the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act (PAHPRA) of 2013 established two more instruments that strengthened his ultimate goal. First, the PHEMCE Strategy and Implementation Plan (SIP) was codified into law, which formalized the original legislation's ties to the budget office and secondly, it streamlined the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) facility for the FDA to fast-track drug approvals.
SHOW ME THE MONEY
Soon upon returning to the private sector, Robert Kadlec helped found a new company in 2012 called "East West Protection," which develops and delivers "integrated all-hazards preparedness and response systems for communities and sovereign nations." The company also "advises communities and countries on issues related to the threat of weapons of mass destruction and natural pandemics."
Kadlec formed the company with W. Craig Vanderwagen, the first HHS ASPR after the post's creation had been largely orchestrated by Kadlec. The other co-founder of East West Protection was Fuad El-Hibri, the founder of BioPort/Emergent Biosolutions, who had just stepped down as Emergent's CEO earlier that year.
El-Hibri has numerous business connections to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where he and his father, Ibrahim El-Hibri, had once sold stockpiles of anthrax vaccine to the Saudi government for an exorbitant price per dose. East West Protection chased after the opportunity to fit the Kingdom with a custom-built biodefense system, but ultimately failed to finalize the deal despite El-Hibri's connections. Instead, East West Protection sold its products to a handful of U.S. states.
Kadlec was the firm's director from its founding until at least 2015 , later selling his stake in the company to El-Hibri. Upon being nominated to serve as ASPR in the Trump administration, Kadlec failed to disclose his ties to East West Protection and El-Hibri and he has since claimed to only have been involved in the founding of the firm, despite evidence to the contrary .
Robert Kadlec's forays into the private sector during this period went far beyond East West Protection. Kadlec's consultancy firm, RPK Consulting, netted him in $451,000 in 2014 alone, where he directly advised Emergent Biosolutions as well as other pharmaceutical companies like Bavarian Nordic. Kadlec was also a consultant to military and intelligence contractors, such as the DARPA-backed firm Invincea and NSA contractor Scitor, which was recently acquired by SAIC.
Kadlec's consulting work for intelligence-linked companies earned him the praises of spooks turned entreprenuers, including Steve Cash – a former CIA officer and founder of Deck Prism , itself a consultancy firm that retained Kadlec. Cash recently told The Washington Post that "Everybody loves Dr. Bob [Kadlec]," adding that he was a "national treasure."
ON BIOWARFARE'S EVE
Kadlec had certainly been accumulating a treasure chest of power aided by some very cozy relationships in the consulting business and, by now, the stage had been set for a big push to create an official body within the halls of the legislature; an embedded consultancy firm, of sorts, to promote the designs of the biowarfare clique.
That year, Robert Kadlec put together a Blue Ribbon Study Panel sponsored jointly by the Hudson Institute and a PIPS subsidiary institution called the Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies ( IUCTS ), managed by Dr. Yonah Alexander. Kadlec's Blue Ribbon Panel was chaired by Senator Joe Lieberman and included the indispensable input of Tom Daschle, Donna Shalala and other members of the biowarfare policy club.
The study panel issued a report in late 2015 entitled " A National Blueprint for Biodefense " calling for 33 specific initiatives, such as the creation of a " biodefense hospital system " and implementing a "military-civilian collaboration for biodefense." In addition, the panel recommended that the office of the Vice President lead a White House "Coordination Council" to oversee and guide biodefense policy.
An official body called the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense would be formed shortly thereafter with all the Blue Ribbon Panel members and many others like Commission co-chair Tom Ridge and, perhaps unsurprisingly, Tevi Troy and Yonah Alexander, who serve as Ex-officio members. Alongside them is Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former Chief of Staff to Dick Cheney and Senior Vice President of the Hudson Institute, which also happens to be the fiscal sponsor of the Commission.
In the acknowledgements , the panel's 2015 report includes an homage to Robert Kadlec to whom they bestow credit for the achievement, which only "exists because of the foresight, forbearance, and perpetual optimism of Dr. Robert Kadlec. Bob understood that as much progress as had been made in the national effort to prevent and prepare for biological threats, it is not yet enough. He knew that with the right impetus, we could do much more, and he envisioned this Panel as a means to that end. We are glad he did."
Kadlec mounted this last offensive while serving as Deputy Staff Director for Senator Richard Burr's Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, a position he would hold until the eve of Donald Trump's election in 2016. Trump would then nominate him to the office of the ASPR and Kadlec would be confirmed in early August of the following year.
Only one piece of the puzzle was left, but it wouldn't be very long before Robert Kadlec would become the biggest capo of them all with a subtle change that was introduced in the 2018 PAHPRA :
Title III – Sec 301
1) DELEGATION TO ASPR. -- Subsection (a)(1) of section 319F–2 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d–6b) is amended by striking ''in collaboration with the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention'' and inserting ''acting through the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response.''
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May 14, 2020 | crookedtimber.org
"Libertarians who are extraordinarily sensitive to the least legal limitation on negative freedom are usually completely immune to the idea that structural features of capitalist society are coercive and freedom-limiting. "I think you will discover that those who coined the term libertarian (libertarie) which the propertarians knowning stole in the 1950s are well aware of those structural features -- as Proudhon argued, property is both theft and despotism.:
http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/160-years-libertarian
Please don't let these defenders of private tyranny continue their abuse of the good left-wing word libertarian.
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May 11, 2020 | ronpaulinstitute.org
The long-delayed release of testimony from the House Intelligence Committee has proved embarrassing for a variety of former Obama officials who have been extensively quoted on the allegedly strong evidence of collusion by the Trump campaign and the Russians. Figures like James Clapper, who is a CNN expert, long indicated hat the evidence from the Obama Administration was strong and alarming. However, in testimony, Clapper denied seeing any such evidence .
One of the most embarrassing is the testimony of Evelyn Farkas, a former Obama Administration official who was widely quoted in her plea to Congress to gather the evidence that she knew was found in by the Obama Administration. In her testimony under oath Farkas repeatedly stated that she knew of no such evidence of collusion.
Farkas, who served as the deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia, was widely quoted when she said on MSNBC in 2017 that she feared that evidence she knew about would be destroyed by the Trump Administration. She stated:
...was urging my former colleagues, and, frankly speaking, the people on the Hill Get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can, before President Obama leaves the administration, because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior people that left. So it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy . . . the Trump folks, if they found out how we knew what we knew about their, the staff, the Trump staff's dealing with Russians, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we would no longer have access to that intelligence. So I became very worried, because not enough was coming out into the open, and I knew that there was more.MSNBC never seriously questioned the statements despite the fact that Farkas left the Obama Administration in 2015 before any such investigation could have occurred. As we have seen before, the factual and legal basis for such statements are largely immaterial in the age of echo journalism. The statement fit the narrative even if it lacked any plausible basis.Not surprisingly, the House Intelligence Committee was eager to have Farkas share all that she stated she "knew about ["the Trump folks"], their staff, the Trump's staff's dealing with Russian" and wanted to get "into the open." After all, she told MSNBC that "I knew that there was more."
She was finally put under oath in the closed classified sessions and there was nothing but classified crickets. Farkas was repeatedly asked to share that information that electrified the MSNBC hosts and audience. She repeatedly denied any such knowledge, telling then Rep. Trey Gowdy (R, S.C.), "I didn't know anything."
Gowdy noted that Farkas left the Obama administration in 2015 and asked "Then how did you know?" She repeated again "I didn't know anything."
Gowdy then asked "Well, then why would you say, we knew?"
He also asked:
'You also didn't know whether or not anybody in the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia, did you?' Gowdy later asked, getting to the point."I didn't," Farkas responded.MSNBC has said nothing about its prior headline story being untrue. Indeed, the media has barely acknowledged that the new documents reinforce that there was never any evidence of collusion and ultimately the allegations were rejected by the Special Counsel, Congress, and inspectors general.
For her part, Farkas has moved on. She is running for Congress . She is still citing her role in raising "the alarm" about Russian collusion:
'fter I left the Obama administration, I campaigned to help elect Secretary Clinton as our next President. When Russians interfered in that election, I was among the first to sound the alarm and urge Congress to take action. And I haven't let up since then.She was indeed one of the first but it proved to be a false alarm based on nonexistent knowledge. Does that matter anymore?Reprinted with permission from JonathanTurley.org .
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28th December 2019
- US Plans to Conduct Cyberwar Against Russia in Retaliation for Unproven Election Meddling
28th December 2019
- Ron Paul's Liberty Year in Review
27th December 2019
- War and the Rogue Presidency, With Ivan Eland
27th December 2019
- Rachel Maddow Called Out By WaPo Columnist For Shamelessly Peddling Fake News
27th December 2019
- Impeachment Is a Distraction: Heavily Scripted Vote Demonstrates That Democracy Really Is Dead
27th December 2019
- Senior OPCW official ordered deletion of 'all traces' of dissenting report on 'Douma chemical attack' – WikiLeaks' new leak
27th December 2019
- 'New World Disorder' - Top Trends for 2020 With Gerald Celente
23rd December 2019
- Chemical Weapons Watchdog Is Just an American Lap Dog
23rd December 2019
- Donald Trump: Peace Candidate, Presidential Warmonger
23rd December 2019
- How Congress and the Federal Reserve Stole Christmas
23rd December 2019
- A Massive Scandal: How Assange, His Doctors, Lawyers and Visitors Were All Spied on for the US
20th December 2019
- The Insider: How National Security Mandarins Groomed Pete Buttigieg and Managed his Future
20th December 2019
- From Baghdad To Seoul, World Increasingly Sours On Hosting US Troops
19th December 2019
- By impeaching Trump, Democrats have made him more powerful than they could ever imagine
19th December 2019
- The Afghanistan Fiasco and the Decline and Fall of the American Military
19th December 2019
- Impeachment Vote Today: Constitutional Duty Or Political Farce?
18th December 2019
- Can Recep the Magnificent Sort Out Libya?
18th December 2019
- Saudi Attack At Pensacola: Why Did Pentagon Vetting Fail?
17th December 2019
- Endless Wars and Endless Lies
17th December 2019
- What Everyone is Missing About the Afghanistan Papers
17th December 2019
- Wikileaks Bombshell: UN Agency FAKED Douma 'Gas Attack' Report
16th December 2019
- Afghanistan War – The Crime of the Century
16th December 2019
- Inspector General report on FBI's FISA abuse tells us one thing: We need radical reform.
14th December 2019
- Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires
14th December 2019
- Those Torture Drawings in the NYT
14th December 2019
- How Not To Be a CIA Propagandist
13th December 2019
- Schizophrenia! US Now Says Yemen NOT Iran Proxy War
12th December 2019
- Key Takeaway from Ukraine Peace Talks in Paris is that Zelensky's Best Friend is Putin
12th December 2019
- America's Unreliable Friends: Today's Allies Are Tomorrow's Enemies
12th December 2019
- Forget Impeachment! Washington Unites Behind Massive Military Bill!
11th December 2019
- The Fabricated 'Predicate' to Spy on the Trump Campaign
11th December 2019
- Democrats Drop Bribery and Other Crimes In Favor Of A Two-Article Impeachment
10th December 2019
- The Afghanistan War Revealed: An 18 Year, Trillion Dollar Lie!
10th December 2019
- Who Spied on Julian Assange?
10th December 2019
- 'Sexy Tricks': How Journalists Demonize Venezuela's Socialist Government, in Their Own Words
9th December 2019
- Congress is Trump's Co-Conspirator Against Liberty
9th December 2019
- Senile, Demented and Incontinent: NATO at 70
8th December 2019
- George Bush's Wars Set the Stage for 25 Years of Endless War
8th December 2019
- Target... Iran !
7th December 2019
- Jonathan Turley Versus the Impeachment Steamroller
5th December 2019
- Trump Sends 14,000 Troops For War on Iran. Will it be Enough?
5th December 2019
- Let's Invade Mexico!
5th December 2019
- Desperate For An Enemy, NATO Turns To China
4th December 2019
- The Pentagon's Destruction of the Bill of Rights
4th December 2019
- 'Brain Dead' NATO At 70 - Time To Pull The Plug?
3rd December 2019
- How I Survived for 3 Years as a Libertarian Cop
3rd December 2019
- Human Rights and Hypocrisy in the White House and Congress
3rd December 2019
- NATO at 70: Sclerotic & bureaucratic zombie should be pensioned off
3rd December 2019
- Military Pollution: The Hidden Costs Of War
2nd December 2019
- The New York Times' Long History of Endorsing US-Backed Coups
2nd December 2019
- Fight Another 'Terror War' Against Drug Cartels? There's a Better Way!
2nd December 2019
- November
- Will Deval Patrick be president? Not if his past scandals have anything to say about it.
30th November 2019
- Iran May Be the Only Winner in Iraq
30th November 2019
- The Secret War in Africa
29th November 2019
- New Study: 'Russian Trolls' Did Not 'Sow Discord' - They Influenced No One
29th November 2019
- Thanksgiving - Myth vs. Truth
28th November 2019
- Against The Left: With Lew Rockwell
27th November 2019
- Narrative Managers Faceplant In Hilarious OPCW Scandal Spin Job
27th November 2019
- Hunting for Hunter: Evidence Reveals Biden, Burisma Ukraine Bond Scandal, Tied to U.S. Firm
27th November 2019
- Should Navy Seal Gallagher Be Punished...Or Honored?
26th November 2019
- Iran Social Unrest: Protests and Carefully Planned Provocations
26th November 2019
- Scandal! UN Officials Faked Syria Gas 'Attack' Report!
25th November 2019
- State Department Shoots Itself in the Foot at Impeachment Hearings
25th November 2019
- Here is What the Horowitz Report Should Conclude
25th November 2019
- The Real Bombshell of the Impeachment Hearings
25th November 2019
- Explosive leaked email claims that UN watchdog's report into alleged poison gas attack by Assad was doctored - so was it to justify British and American missile strikes on Syria?
24th November 2019
- Bolivia's Coup Gov't Targets Alternative Media as Crackdown Turns Increasingly Violent
23rd November 2019
- The Pitfalls of a Pit Bull Russophobe
23rd November 2019
- Fueling Iran's Protests
23rd November 2019
- Did the United States Win the Cold War?
22nd November 2019
- Hong Kong's opposition unites with Washington hardliners to 'preserve the US's own political and economic interests'
22nd November 2019
- Impeachment #2 - A Bipartisan Distraction From The War On American Citizens
21st November 2019
- Congrats, Dems! You've Empowered A Pack Of Paranoid Neocon Morons
21st November 2019
- Rethinking National Security: CIA and FBI Are Corrupt, But What About Congress?
21st November 2019
- Impeachment Circus - A Distraction From Iran War Plans?
20th November 2019
- Is the Middle East Beginning a Self-Correction?
20th November 2019
- Impeach the Government: Rogue Agencies Have Been Abusing Their Powers for Decades
20th November 2019
- Taking Sides: Pompeo Declares Israeli Settlements Legal
19th November 2019
- The Hugely Important OPCW Scandal Keeps Unfolding. Here's Why No One's Talking About It.
19th November 2019
- Ron Paul, Hero
19th November 2019
- Catastrophe! $6.4 Trillion Wasted On 20 Years Of War!
18th November 2019
- Washington Threatens Egypt With Sanctions Over Russian Su-35 Fighter Jet Purchase
18th November 2019
- Federal Reserve: Enemy of Liberty and Prosperity
18th November 2019
- Plundering Iraq
17th November 2019
- Covert Operative In Ukraine Controversy Revealed To Be Associated Press
16th November 2019
- Bolivia's New Puppet Regime Wastes No Time Aligning With US Foreign Policy
16th November 2019
- The Brennan Dossier: All About a Prime Mover of Russiagate
16th November 2019
- As the deep state attacks Trump to rave media reviews, don't forget its dark side
15th November 2019
- Impeachment Witness Questions
15th November 2019
- Social Media Censorship Reaches New Heights as Twitter Permanently Bans Dissent
15th November 2019
- Trump To Steal Syria's Oil - Sowing The Seeds Of Blowback?
14th November 2019
- 'No No You Guys, THIS US-Backed Military Coup Is Perfectly Legitimate!'
14th November 2019
- The Latest False News on the Trump Impeachment
14th November 2019
- Top Bolivian coup plotters were School of the Americas grads, served as attachés in FBI police programs
14th November 2019
- Impeachment Hysteria! Washington Crippled, The World In Flames!
13th November 2019
- The Ukrainian Influence Peddling Rings – A Microcosm of How Imperial Washington Rolls
13th November 2019
- The Twilight of Liberty: the State Destroys Alternative Media
13th November 2019
- Bolivian Coup Comes Less Than a Week After Morales Stopped Multinational Firm's Lithium Deal
13th November 2019
- Bolivia Coup: Is Washington Pulling The Strings?
12th November 2019
- Cuba Was Never a Threat to 'National Security'
12th November 2019
- John Brennan's CIA Trump Task Force
12th November 2019
- Nikki Haley For VP? War Drums Banging On Armistice Day.
11th November 2019
- Macron's 'Brain-Dead' NATO?.. Thou Protest Too Much
11th November 2019
- Is The 'Mother of all Bubbles' About to Pop?
11th November 2019
- Whistleblower...Or Blowing Smoke? Should Trump's Accuser Appear?
7th November 2019
- US Congressional Panel Outlines Next Phase of Dirty War on Syria: Occupy Oil Fields and Block Reconstruction
7th November 2019
- Deep State on the National Security Council: Colonel Vindman Is an 'Expert' With an Agenda
7th November 2019
- Obamagate: How Much Did He Know About Brennan's CIA Task Force?
6th November 2019
- We Need a #MeToo Movement for Political Consent
6th November 2019
- Bush Goes To Rehab: The Role Of The 'Resistance' In Normalizing War Crimes
6th November 2019
- US Constructing Two New Bases In Syria's Oil-Rich Region: Report
6th November 2019
- Foreign Aid Makes Corrupt Countries More Corrupt
5th November 2019
- A New Kind of Tyranny: The Global State's War on Those Who Speak Truth to Power
5th November 2019
- Sentence First, Crime Later?
4th November 2019
- 'Thank God For The Deep State' - CIA Celebrates Coup Against Trump
4th November 2019
- Growing Indicators of Brennan's CIA Trump Task Force
3rd November 2019
- Mayor Pete's Millennial Slavery Program
3rd November 2019
- Ron Paul: 'Breaking Washington's Addiction to War'
3rd November 2019
- Police State Escalates War on Freedom of Speech
2nd November 2019
- The White House Plan to Strangle Iran
2nd November 2019
- Impeachment Theater
1st November 2019
- October
- Impeach Them All! F-35 Bipartisan Boondoggle Is The Real Crime!
31st October 2019
- The Failed FBI Plot to Paint Trump Doing Deals with Putin
31st October 2019
- Yes, Virginia, There Is A Deep State And It's Feeding The Anti-POTUS Mob
31st October 2019
- Killing Julian Assange: Justice Denied When Exposing Official Wrongdoing
31st October 2019
- Patriot Act On Steroids: Trump's Dangerous New 'Pre-Crime' Plan
30th October 2019
- The Never-Ending Wars on Terrorism and Drugs
30th October 2019
- Democrats Helped Cultivate the Barbarism of ISIS
30th October 2019
- The USA's History Of Controlling The OPCW To Promote Regime Change
30th October 2019
- Lebanon Color Revolt? Back To Syria... Impeachment Blues.
29th October 2019
- What About the Wagner Group? ...it's all about the OIL
29th October 2019
- Trump cancels the pullout from Syria then flip-flops, threatens war with Turkey and gives money to terrorists
29th October 2019
- Thanks to a Soviet Navy Captain -- We Survived 1962
29th October 2019
- 'Rothbard and War' - Lew Rockwell, Jr
28th October 2019
- Trump Flip-Flops on Syria Withdrawal. Again.
28th October 2019
- 'Understanding the Intel and Law Enforcement Plot to Destroy the Trump Presidency'
26th October 2019
- Trump's Imaginary Withdrawal From Syria: A Look Behind the Wizard's Curtain
26th October 2019
- Barr Changes the Dynamic, The Threat of Obstruction of Justice
25th October 2019
- Trump and Erdogan Are Alike: Both Are 'Thin-Skinned' and Relied on 'Deplorables' to Win
25th October 2019
- 'We Want To Keep The Oil'
25th October 2019
- Is Trump Really Going To Take Syria's Oil?
24th October 2019
- Expert Panel Finds Gaping Plot Holes In OPCW Report On Alleged Syrian Chemical Attack
24th October 2019
- Assange in Court
24th October 2019
- USAID Funds Salaries of Venezuelan Opposition Politicians as It Doubles Down on the Coup
24th October 2019
- With US Withdrawal, Is Hillary's War On Syria Finally Over?
23rd October 2019
- Up In Smoke: The Neocon Assault On Syria Is Finally Over
23rd October 2019
- Trump's $4.5 Million Indulgence: Is White Helmets Blood Money the Price of US Leaving Syria?
23rd October 2019
- Can Trump Survive Ending Project Syria?
22nd October 2019
- 'Truth Is Treason' - The Torture Of Julian Assange
22nd October 2019
- A Call for a Coup Plus a Week Like No Other for Tulsi Gabbard
22nd October 2019
- FBI/DOJ Likely to Throw the CIA and Clapper Under the Bus
21st October 2019
- Homeschoolers are Educated, Not Indoctrinated
21st October 2019
- US Media in Crisis - Rick Sanchez at RPI's Washington Conference
20th October 2019
- The US has backed 21 of the 28 'crazy' militias leading Turkey's brutal invasion of northern Syria
19th October 2019
- Has US Foreign Policy Changed?
19th October 2019
- So, Admiral McRaven Just Called for a Military Coup, Kinda
18th October 2019
- Peace Expert George W Bush Says 'Isolationism' Is Dangerous To Peace
18th October 2019
- Does Socialism Lead To War? With Special Guest Sen. Rand Paul
17th October 2019
- To End the Wars, Attack the Right From the Right
17th October 2019
- Truth Is A Kremlin Talking Point
17th October 2019
- DC's Atlantic Council raked in funding from Hunter Biden's corruption-stained employer while courting his VP father
17th October 2019
- Bipartisan Support For Turkey Sanctions - A 'Victory' For Trump?
16th October 2019
- Politics Drops Its Pretenses
16th October 2019
- Terrorized, Traumatized and Killed: The Police State's Deadly Toll on America's Children
16th October 2019
- Pentagon Hands Manbij To The Russians (Can We Get Them To Take Afghanistan Too?)
15th October 2019
- Twitter Targets Hong Kong in US-backed Regime Change Operation
15th October 2019
- BREAKING: US Working With Russia to Handover Patrols Between Turkish and Syrian Armies in Manbij
15th October 2019
- Kurds Make Alliance With Assad - Victory For America (But Not For Neocons)
14th October 2019
- Washington is Wrong Once Again – Kurds Join Assad to Defend Syria
14th October 2019
- Washington's Sum of All Fears: Kurdish Militants Cut a Deal with Damascus
14th October 2019
- Finding a Vaccine for the Impeachment Derangement Virus
14th October 2019
- Turkey Beats the War Drums
12th October 2019
- The Plague of Western Adventurism in Syria
12th October 2019
- 'The Economic Costs of US Empire' - Nathan Goodman
12th October 2019
- Empty Desks at the NSC
11th October 2019
- Why Gilligan's Island May be the Answer to Police Brutality
11th October 2019
- Impeachment...Or Show Trial? Pelosi's Anonymous Accusers.
10th October 2019
- Sanctioning Away Free Speech: Americans Meet With Iranians at Their Peril
10th October 2019
- Investigation Of Biden-Enriching Burisma Opened Months Before Zelensky Even Elected: Report
10th October 2019
- Syria: Another Forever War Beckons
10th October 2019
- Iraq: Popular Revolt...Or Color Revolution?
9th October 2019
- After US Senator Asks Public to 'Imagine' CIA Interfering in Foreign Elections, Historians Are Like... Uhhh
9th October 2019
- Pinning an 'Antisemite' Label on President Trump
9th October 2019
- Who Are the Real Friends of the Troops?
8th October 2019
- President Trump - Don't Cave In To Warmongers On Syria Withdrawal!
8th October 2019
- Worried for Kurds in Syria, abandoned by US? Here's an obvious solution but it will make Washington hawks MAD
8th October 2019
- Trump: 'We're Leaving Syria.' Neocons Go Nuts!
7th October 2019
- The 'Whistleblower' Probably Isn't
7th October 2019
- Federal Reserve's Latest Bailouts More Proof Bad Times Ahead
7th October 2019
- When Ukraine's Prosecutor Came After His Son's Sponsor Joe Biden Sprang Into Action
4th October 2019
- Trump Administration Provides New Evidence for a Saudi Connection to 9/11
4th October 2019
- CrossTalk on Deep State: CIA COUP?
4th October 2019
- Ukraine Gains From Trump's Impeachment Inquiry
3rd October 2019
- The Impeachment Farce: Will The 'Smoking Gun' Backfire?
3rd October 2019
- What Will The US Do When Turkey Invades Syria?
2nd October 2019
- Why Even Liberals Should be 'Climate Change Skeptics'
2nd October 2019
- What Exactly Is Trump's Impeachable Offense?
2nd October 2019
- Iraq War 3.0? Israel Attacks...With US Backing!
1st October 2019
- Guns for Hire: No, the Government Shouldn't Be Using the Military to Police the Globe
1st October 2019
- What Was This CIA Officer Thinking?
1st October 2019
- September
- Foreign Aid for Dictators
30th September 2019
- Daniel McAdams: 'The US Has Ceased Being a Republic and Has Become a National Security State'
30th September 2019
- Houthis Rout Saudi Military - End Of The Road For MbS?
30th September 2019
- Impeachment or CIA Coup?
30th September 2019
- UK's Johnson Plays Court Jester for Trump to Wreck Iran Deal
28th September 2019
- Intel Community Quietly Scrapped Requirement For 'First-Hand Knowledge' Before CIA 'Rumorblower' Relied On Hearsay
28th September 2019
- Trump Triples Down on Venezuela Regime Change, Even as he Faces One Himself
28th September 2019
- 'NATO's Destructive Tentacles' - David Stockman
27th September 2019
- Rumorblower, Not Whistleblower
27th September 2019
- This is How the Elite Will Shut Down Your Free Speech
27th September 2019
- Trump Pushed Ukraine's President To Investigate Issues Of US Public Interest
27th September 2019
- From the Anti-Russia Brouhaha to the Ukraine Brouhaha
26th September 2019
- Forget The Impeachment Circus...Here's What Congress Should Really Investigate!
26th September 2019
- Trump Frees Himself From Bolton – but Robert O'Brien Will Be Just as Bad
26th September 2019
- Smoking Gun? Impeachment Blows Up In Democrat Faces...Again!
25th September 2019
- Welfare Checks Turn Deadly: You Might Want to Think Twice Before Calling the Cops
25th September 2019
- Another Day, Another Scandal. What the 'Trump-Ukraine Collusion' Is Really About
25th September 2019
- Impeachment Hysteria! But Who's Guilty, Trump Or Biden?
24th September 2019
- A Precision Strike on US Credibility – Shattering a US Paradigm
24th September 2019
- Reuters Seems Frustrated US Not Striking Iran for Aramco Attacks
24th September 2019
- Defending Saudi Arabia...Hardly Our Moral Responsibility!
23rd September 2019
- Kamala Harris and the Cult of the Presidency
23rd September 2019
- Democrats Panic Over Biden-Ukraine Scandal As MSM Hits Full Spin Cycle
23rd September 2019
- Will More US Troops in Saudi Arabia Make America Great?
23rd September 2019
- Aramco Attack a Defining Moment in US-Saudi Alliance
22nd September 2019
- 30+ Afghans Killed In Drone Strike While CIA Celebrates 18 Years Of War On Afghanistan
21st September 2019
- 'An Antiwar Conservative' - Rep. John Duncan, Jr.
21st September 2019
- Who Launched That Mystery Attack?
21st September 2019
- Constitution Day 2019: The Hidden Domestic Surveillance Crisis
20th September 2019
- Iran, We Got to Do Something?
20th September 2019
- A Non-Interventionism Foreign Policy Strategy Can Be a Bipartisan Affair
19th September 2019
- The Moral/Political Corrosion Of Negative Interest Rates, With Guest Jeff Deist
19th September 2019
- Spy vs Spy vs Spy: The Mysterious Mr. Smolenkov
19th September 2019
- Understanding Motivation in Criminal, Terror, and Military Attacks
19th September 2019
- Martial Law Masquerading as Law and Order: The Police State's Language of Force
18th September 2019
- Something Extraordinary in Sacramento
18th September 2019
- Trump Names New National Security Advisor - Bolton Without The Mustache?
18th September 2019
- Credibility Crisis: No One Believes Iran Attacked Saudi Arabia
17th September 2019
- Locked And Loaded In Behalf Of Empire First
17th September 2019
- Israel Spies and Spies and Spies
17th September 2019
- 'Locked And Loaded' - Will Trump Attack Iran?
16th September 2019
- Will Trump Take Neocon Bait and Attack Iran Over Saudi Strike?
16th September 2019
- Biden Takes Iraq Lies to the Max at Democratic Debate
15th September 2019
- Latest Russian Spy Story Looks Like Another Elaborate Media Deception
15th September 2019
- Sen. Graham Wants to Bomb Iran in Response to Houthi Attack on Saudi Oil
15th September 2019
- 'Real Anti-Interventionism'
14th September 2019
- The Cost of War!
13th September 2019
- Color Revolutionaries of the World, Unite! Hong Kong Protest Leader Pictured with White Helmets Boss
13th September 2019
- How To Defeat The Empire
12th September 2019
- With Bolton Out, Will Trump Open Door To Iran?
12th September 2019
- Trump the Russian Puppet. A Story That Just Will Not Die
12th September 2019
- Will Another John Bolton Replace John Bolton?
11th September 2019
- John Brennan's and Jim Clappers' Last Gasp?
11th September 2019
- Is America Doomed? Any Options Left?
10th September 2019
- The Pentagon's Upcoming Kangaroo Show Trial in Cuba
10th September 2019
- Trump Foreign Policy as Theater of the Absurd
10th September 2019
- Bolton And Pompeo Beat Down Trump's Afghan Peace Deal
9th September 2019
- Does Trump Believe What He Says About Syria?
9th September 2019
- 'Hands Off Hong Kong' - the Cry That Seldom Is Heard
9th September 2019
- Bill Dudley's Noble Lie
9th September 2019
- Establishment Right and Left Call for COINTELPRO 2.0
4th September 2019
- Meet the Militantly Pro-Israel Trump Official Directing the Economic War on Iran
4th September 2019
- USS Gerald Ford - A $13 Billion Boondoggle
4th September 2019
- Record High Military Suicides Continue - What's The Real Cause?
3rd September 2019
- Yes, Vaccine Safety IS Too Dangerous for Us to Discuss
3rd September 2019
- In Search of a Russiagate Scalp: The Entrapment of Maria Butina
2nd September 2019
- Beware (And Prepare): The American Empire Is Collapsing
2nd September 2019
- Bankrupt and Irrelevant: the Presidential Debates and Four Recent Studies on Pentagon Spending
2nd September 2019
- Forget the Russians: It's the Federal Reserve Seeking to Meddle in Our Elections
2nd September 2019
- August
- Do ratings trump accountability in journalism? Latest retracted MSNBC 'bombshell' suggests 'yes'
31st August 2019
- Saudi Arabia Acknowledges Defeat In Yemen - Starts To Sue For Peace
30th August 2019
- Julian Assange: Deprivation of Justice and Double Standards in Belmarsh Prison
30th August 2019
- Keep Your Powder Dry, Comey Is Not Out of the Woods
29th August 2019
- How To Make Sense Of Foreign Protests, Conflicts And Uprisings
28th August 2019
- New Jersey Event Canceled After Threats From Anti-Free Speech Groups
27th August 2019
- The FBI Tried and Failed to Entrap Donald Trump Using his Business Associate, Felix Sater
27th August 2019
- Rothbard and War
27th August 2019
- Who Are The Real Extremists?
26th August 2019
- Spending on Defense Is One Great Big Lie
23rd August 2019
- US Ambassador Grenell's Threat to Germany Has Backfired, Driving Germany Closer to Russia
22nd August 2019
- Trump Fine-Tunes Peace Deal With Taliban
22nd August 2019
- Lindsey Graham's Blank Check. Why a Defense Agreement With Israel Would Be a Disaster for Americans
22nd August 2019
- Joseph Mifsud, British Intel Asset, Not Russia's Boy
21st August 2019
- End Foreign Aid to Israel and Everyone Else
20th August 2019
- Trump Administration Wants Permanent Repeal of the 4th Amendment
19th August 2019
- The Saudis Learn the Term 'Asymmetric Response'
19th August 2019
- Behind a Made-for-TV Hong Kong Protest Narrative, Washington is Backing Nativism and Mob Violence
19th August 2019
- Are Recessions Inevitable?
19th August 2019
- Mass Media's Phony Freakout Over Bernie's WaPo Criticism Is Backfiring
17th August 2019
- The Hypocrisy of President Trump and His Administration
17th August 2019
- America's Benevolent Bombing of Serbia
17th August 2019
- US Sanctions Killing Innocent Iranians...Just 'Collateral Damage'?
15th August 2019
- Punishing the World With Sanctions
15th August 2019
- Violent Protests In Hong Kong Reach Their Last Stage
15th August 2019
- 'Humanitarianism'? Hillary's Libya Lies Still Creating Misery
14th August 2019
- Rich's Ghost Haunts the Courts
14th August 2019
- Can Trump Get Out Of Afghanistan?
13th August 2019
- Who Inflicts the Most Gun Violence in America? The U.S. Government and Its Police Forces
12th August 2019
- Grave Danger Of China Collapse - With Guest David Stockman
12th August 2019
- A Sino-Russian Firewall Against US Interference
12th August 2019
- Endgame for the Fed?
12th August 2019
- Eight Years Ago NATO Killed My Family in Their Sleep
10th August 2019
- China Accuses US Of 'Gangster Logic' For Defending Meetings With HK Independence Activists
9th August 2019
- The Persistent Myth That Trump Opposes War
9th August 2019
- Official Secrets: Priti Patel's Early War on Whistleblowers
9th August 2019
- Evidence Of CIA Meeting HK Protest Leaders? China Summons US Diplomats Over Viral Photo
8th August 2019
- Rothbard And War - With Guest Lew Rockwell
8th August 2019
- US Seizes Cargo Ship Trying to Deliver Food to Venezuela
8th August 2019
- Quincy Who? Another New Think Tank Tests the Waters
8th August 2019
- Turkey Threatens Syria Invasion - US Troops In Crossfire?
7th August 2019
- Wars and Domestic Massacres
7th August 2019
- Give Guantanamo Back to Cuba
7th August 2019
- 'Who Lost Turkey?'
6th August 2019
- For The Children? Trump's Venezuela Blockade Multiplies The Misery
6th August 2019
- Americans Should Be Very Skeptical Of Calls For New 'Terrorism' Laws
6th August 2019
- China Crisis: New US Missiles To Asia
5th August 2019
- Iran's Zarif drives Trump to insanity
5th August 2019
- Congress Spending Surge is National Suicide
5th August 2019
- Tulsi Gabbard's Military Nonsense
4th August 2019
- Trump Ponders Deadly Blockade of Venezuela
3rd August 2019
- The Empire Is Coming for Tulsi Gabbard
3rd August 2019
- UK 'Up To Its Neck' In RussiaGate Affair, Secret Texts Reveal British Role In Trump Coup Effort
2nd August 2019
- No, Tulsi Gabbard is NOT This Election's Ron Paul
2nd August 2019
- Rep. Omar and the Hypocrisy of Congress
1st August 2019
- Violent 'Color Revolution' In Hong Kong Fails Despite Strong NYT Support
1st August 2019
- The Spy Game: It Ain't What It Used to Be
1st August 2019
- July
- The Rise of the American Gestapo: Has It Already Happened Here?
31st July 2019
- Combatting Terrorism? US AFRICOM Is Making Terrorism WORSE!
30th July 2019
- As US Beefs Up Military Presence in the Gulf, Yemen's Houthis Turn to Russia for Support
30th July 2019
- Gun Violence in California
30th July 2019
- Is Biden Worse Than Pompeo On North Korea?
29th July 2019
- True Budget Hawks are Foreign Policy Doves
29th July 2019
- The Real Reason The Propagandists Have Been Promoting Russia Hysteria
28th July 2019
- The US Stunt In Hong Kong Will Make Other Issues More Difficult
27th July 2019
- Iranian Monarchists Praise the Shah's Brutal Rule on the Anniversary of his Death
27th July 2019
- Understanding the Roots of the Obama Coup Against Trump
27th July 2019
- US Sanctions Are Still Strangling Venezuela
26th July 2019
- Pentagon Wants 16-year Old Kids to Fight the Empire's Wars
25th July 2019
- 'Obliteration' - Trump Threatens Iran With Nuclear Strike
25th July 2019
- No Accountability in Washington. The CIA Wants to Hide All Its Employees
25th July 2019
- Not Mueller Time – At Last!
25th July 2019
- Monsters with Human Faces: The Tyranny of the Police State Disguised as Law-and-Order
24th July 2019
- Is Today's Mueller Testimony The End...Or The Beginning Of Impeachment?
24th July 2019
- Ruler of the World
24th July 2019
- Ukraine Election - Voters Defeat Second Color Revolution
23rd July 2019
- Did John Bolton Light the Fuse of the UK-Iranian Tanker Crisis?
23rd July 2019
- No More Wikileaks! Intelligence Authorization Bill Criminalizes Whistleblowers And Reporters
23rd July 2019
- US Pushing Allies To Send Warships Toward Iran
22nd July 2019
- The Strange Death of Conservatism
22nd July 2019
- Will Persian Gulf 'Tanker War' Become a Shooting War?
22nd July 2019
- Will Donald Trump Kill His Presidency Over Iran
21st July 2019
- How Trump's Arch-Hawk Lured Britain into a Dangerous Trap to Punish Iran
21st July 2019
- Who Was Epstein Working For?
20th July 2019
- New US Pentagon Chief – Vested Interest in War & Conflict
19th July 2019
- How Corporate Media Are Fueling a New Iran Nuclear Crisis
19th July 2019
- New CNN Assange Smear Piece Is Amazingly Dishonest, Even For CNN
18th July 2019
- Hating America After 9/11
18th July 2019
- Will 500 Troops To Saudi Arabia Really Make Us Safer?
18th July 2019
- Showdown! Trump Takes On Turkey Over Russian Missile Purchase
17th July 2019
- It's Un-American To Be Anti-Free Speech: Protect the Right to Criticize the Government
17th July 2019
- Pirate Nation: Why Britain Hijacked Iranian Ship on Behalf of Washington
16th July 2019
- Pompeo's Big Lie on Iran
16th July 2019
- Forever Wars! House Republicans Furious Over Iraq War Authorization Repeal
15th July 2019
- Ukraine Remains the Signpost of World Politics
15th July 2019
- Conservatives Against Liberty
15th July 2019
- Two-Faced Democrats Move to Prevent Trump's Iran War
14th July 2019
- Trump Consiglieres Giuliani and Bolton Paid Big Bucks by MEK Terrorist Group
13th July 2019
- Turkey Calls Trump's Bluff
13th July 2019
- Mueller Does Not Have Evidence That The IRA Was Part of Russian Government Meddling
12th July 2019
- Americans Should Adopt Unilateral Free Trade
12th July 2019
- Iran Keeps Calm While US And Britain Continue Their Provocations
11th July 2019
- Fake News? CNN Claims Iran Tried To Seize UK Tanker
11th July 2019
- The Death of Privacy: Government Fearmongers to Read Your Mail
11th July 2019
- Trump Threatens Military Bill Veto: Demands More Spending!
10th July 2019
- Breakthrough? Taliban Talks With Kabul Government Bear Fruit
9th July 2019
- DSA/Jacobin/Haymarket-Sponsored 'Socialism' Conference Features US Gov-Funded Regime-Change Activists
9th July 2019
- Bolton Losing Ground on Venezuela, Iran – But Far From Down and Out
9th July 2019
- Rattling Cages in the Propaganda War
9th July 2019
- Unintended Consequences: UK Tanker Fears Iran Retaliation In Gulf
8th July 2019
- Trump Reminds Us That America is a Military Nation
8th July 2019
- Frog-Marching Trump Toward War on Iran
8th July 2019
- CrowdStrikeOut: Mueller's Own Report Undercuts Its Core Russia-Meddling Claims
6th July 2019
- Obama: Front Man for Washington's Imperialism
6th July 2019
- Goodbye Dollar, It Was Nice Knowing You!
4th July 2019
- Fourth of July Should Celebrate Liberty, Not Politicians Like Trump
4th July 2019
- On Eve Of 4th Of July Parade US Attempts To Lure Iran Into Shooting Down Another US Plane
3rd July 2019
- Donald's Fourth: Sherman Tanks and Other Death Machines
3rd July 2019
- Trump In A Box: Iran Demands Right To Enrich 'To Any Level'
3rd July 2019
- Libya...War Crimes on Both Sides?
3rd July 2019
- Pompeo Claims Iran Broke Nuclear Deal - Is He Lying?
2nd July 2019
- Announcing the Ron Paul Scholars Seminar!
2nd July 2019
- SHOCKER: Charles Koch and George Soros to Team Up and Form Foreign Policy Institute
1st July 2019
- US Government Tops All for Creating Refugees
1st July 2019
- Trump Meets Kim In North Korea - Why Are The Democrats Hysterical?
1st July 2019
- Media and Politicians Ignore Oncoming Financial Crisis
1st July 2019
- June
- Washington's Infatuation with the MEK
30th June 2019
- Bullies Like Me
30th June 2019
- How Sen. Rick Scott Became Big Oil's Point Man on Venezuelan Regime Change
29th June 2019
- Marijuana Legalization: Where We've Been, Where We Are, And Where We Are Going
29th June 2019
- Trump To Unleash Hell On Europe: EU Announces Channel To Circumvent SWIFT And Iran Sanctions Is Now Operational
28th June 2019
- Problems Arise with Washington's Latest 'Color Revolution' in Hong Kong
28th June 2019
- Demasking the Torture of Julian Assange
28th June 2019
- Iran/US Escalation - Blame Pompeo And Bolton?
27th June 2019
- Have You Heard of the CIA's Iran Mission Center?
27th June 2019
- Why the State Department Let a Terrorist Cult Gather on its Doorstep
26th June 2019
- US Arms Dealers Getting Rich On Yemen's Misery
26th June 2019
- The Donald's Latest Iranian Caper – Sh*t-Faced Stupidity
26th June 2019
- NY Times Admits it Sends Stories to US Government for Approval Before Publication
26th June 2019
- Politics As Usual: Senate Refuses To Hold Iran War Debate
25th June 2019
- Trump Seeks 'Coalition Of The Willing' Against Iran
25th June 2019
- Is the Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program an Illusion?
24th June 2019
- New Sanctions To Hit Iranian Kids - Pompeo, Bolton Thrilled...
24th June 2019
- Boxed in by Neocons and the Media, Will Trump Launch Iran War?
24th June 2019
- VIPS Memo to the President: Is Pompeo's Agenda the Same As Yours?
22nd June 2019
- Did Venezuelan coup leaders pocket $70 million from Citgo's stolen US assets?
22nd June 2019
- A View From the Frontline of the Drug War
22nd June 2019
- Be Thankful for Trump's Iran Indecision For Now
22nd June 2019
- June Madness Strikes Washington. Iranians, Russians and Britons Beware!
21st June 2019
- US Credibility Dented in Iran Standoff
21st June 2019
- Iran Downs US Spy Drone: Who's The Aggressor?
20th June 2019
- Executive Over-Reach: Pompeo Dismisses Congress In Push for Iran War
19th June 2019
- From Coup Leaders to Con Artists: Juan Guaidó's Gang Exposed for Massive Humanitarian Aid Fraud
19th June 2019
- Cuba Is Feeling John Bolton's Wrath
19th June 2019
- America Last: The Real Meaning of the Donald's Deplorable Aggression Against Iran
19th June 2019
- Pompeo At CENTCOM: Pushing 'Tactical Assault' On Iran?
18th June 2019
- Massive Embezzlement Scandal Threatens Juan Guaido's Political Future
18th June 2019
- Credibility Crisis: No One Believes Pompeo On Iran Attack
17th June 2019
- False Identities Become the New Weapon: War with Iran Promoted by Fake Journalists
17th June 2019
- Medical IDs: Enemy of Privacy, Liberty, and Health
17th June 2019
- DOJ Bloodhounds on the Scent of John Brennan
15th June 2019
- Iran can be Trump's Nemesis
15th June 2019
- American Govt., NGOS Fuel and Fund Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Protests
14th June 2019
- Seven Reasons To Be Highly Skeptical Of The Gulf Of Oman Incident
14th June 2019
- Pence Goes to War: America Will Be Fighting Forever
13th June 2019
- GI Suicide: Maybe It's The Job?
13th June 2019
- State Department Emails Show Coordination Between Obama State Department and House Democrat Leader on Christopher Steele/Russia
12th June 2019
- More US Dictatorship Against Cuba
12th June 2019
- The State Department's War On Americans Against War On Iran
12th June 2019
- Right On Cue...The 'New ISIS Threat' In Afghanistan
11th June 2019
- Breaking Washington's Addiction to War
11th June 2019
- Snowden Bombshell Six Years On: Has Anything Changed?
10th June 2019
- Repeal the Espionage Act
10th June 2019
- The War Crimes That Don't Get Punished
10th June 2019
- The Drug War Fuels Neocon Foreign Policy
9th June 2019
- Sky News and the Western Press Have Once Again Failed Syria
9th June 2019
- Rep. Meadows: FBI Knew 'Within 60 Days' That Russia Probe 'Built On A Foundation Of Sand'
9th June 2019
- The Trust Project: Big Media and Silicon Valley's Weaponized Algorithms Silence Dissent
7th June 2019
- Mueller Caught In Another Deception; Key 'Russia Link' Exposed As Informant For US, Ukraine
7th June 2019
- Hate the State? You're a Nazi Bad Actor
6th June 2019
- Pompeo Accidentally Tells Truth About Failed Venezuela Coup
6th June 2019
- Tulsi Gabbard Pushes No War Agenda – and the Media Is Out to Kill Her Chances
6th June 2019
- Who's The Bigger War Criminal - Duncan Hunter...Or Those Who Sent Him To Iraq?
5th June 2019
- What Will the E-Verify Program Be Used to Surveil Next?
5th June 2019
- Top US Journalists Spread Fake News Claiming North Korean Official Was 'Purged' – Then He Shows Up on TV
5th June 2019
- The 'Good War'? US Bomb Kills Entire Afghan Family
4th June 2019
- Pentagon's Phony Iran 'Evidence': New Rationale for US Intervention?
4th June 2019
- Julian Assange: Prisoner of Conscience
4th June 2019
- By Backing Al-Qaeda, Trump Continues Obama's Horrible Syria Policy
3rd June 2019
- US-Iran: Inverted Reality, Real War
3rd June 2019
- More Evidence of the Russian Meddling Lie
3rd June 2019
- Hey Trump: Remember Wikileaks?
3rd June 2019
- How Did Russiagate Begin?
2nd June 2019
- Trump Will Be Impeached. The Stupid Party Says, 'Bring It On!'
1st June 2019
- May
- The UN Torture Report On Assange Is An Indictment Of Our Entire Society
31st May 2019
- The Drug War Is Totally Idiotic
31st May 2019
- Pamela Anderson: Assange Is a Scapegoat, Not a Criminal
31st May 2019
- Are US/UK Trying To Kill Assange?
30th May 2019
- Washington's Mighty Warriors: Draft Dodgers and Scoundrels
30th May 2019
- Impeach John Bolton?
30th May 2019
- Technotyranny: The Iron-Fisted Authoritarianism of the Surveillance State
30th May 2019
- Mueller Blames Russia, Bolton Blames Iran. Should We Believe Them?
29th May 2019
- Pence Tells West Point Grads: 'War Is Coming!'
28th May 2019
- The Worst 2020 Election Interference Will Be Perfectly Legal
28th May 2019
- Amash is Wrong, Pelosi (So Far ) is Right on Articles of Impeachment
27th May 2019
- 'They Shall Not Grow Old' is a Superb Antiwar Film
27th May 2019
- Congress Fiddles While Trump Lurches Toward War on Iran
27th May 2019
- Bill Barr Is Wrong On Assange
26th May 2019
- Liberate Syria's Idlib, Precisely for the Civilians that America Fakes Concern Over
26th May 2019
- Why Do We Fight? How Do We Fight?
25th May 2019
- Microsoft's ElectionGuard a Trojan Horse for a Military-Industrial Takeover of US Elections
25th May 2019
- Assange Hit With Espionage Act Violations As DoJ Unveils 17 New Charges
23rd May 2019
- Trump Wants 10K More Troops In The Middle East. For What?
23rd May 2019
- Nope, Guccifer 2.0 Was Not a Russian Creation
23rd May 2019
- US and UK Policy Toward Libya Shifts to ISIS and the Brotherhood
23rd May 2019
- Delusional Pentagon: 'We Beat Iran Without Firing A Shot!'
22nd May 2019
- Revisiting Ron Paul's 1988 Case for Drug Legalization
22nd May 2019
- Poll: Almost Half Of College Students Do Not Believe First Amendment Protects Hate Speech
22nd May 2019
- US Accuses Syria Of More Chemical Attacks Just As Chemical Weapons Narrative Crumbles
22nd May 2019
- Fair Trial? US Steals Assange's Legal Papers
21st May 2019
- Impeach Trump But Only for the Right Reason
21st May 2019
- Do Iranian 'Threats' Signal Organized US-Israel Subterfuge?
21st May 2019
- Rockets In Baghdad's Green Zone - False Flag Or Iran Attack?
20th May 2019
- Violence Against Women Act Does Violence to the Constitution
20th May 2019
- CONFIRMED: Chemical Weapons Assessment Contradicting Official Syria Narrative Is Authentic
17th May 2019
- Trump Administration Withholds Information That Could Debunk Russian Interference Claims
17th May 2019
- Trump De-escalating? Satellite Intel Based On Tehran 'Misreading' US Intentions
17th May 2019
- Venezuela Peace Talks Open In Norway; US Neocons Raging Mad!
16th May 2019
- Iran Is Not a Major Sponsor of Terrorism, Not Even Close
16th May 2019
- US Abandons Iraq Embassy: Real Threats Or War Propaganda?
15th May 2019
- Top British Commander In Rare Public Dispute With US Over Iran Intelligence
15th May 2019
- Iraq Déjà Vu with Iran
15th May 2019
- Target Iran: Let The False Flags Fly? With Guest Phil Giraldi
14th May 2019
- Drivers Beware: The Deadly Perils of Traffic Stops in the American Police State
14th May 2019
- Pompeo Skips Moscow Trip To Pressure EU Officials In Brussels On Iran
13th May 2019
- From Drug Warrior To Drug War Warrior: Former Narcotics Officer Speaks Out
13th May 2019
- The World's Dictatress
13th May 2019
- Losing Income Tax Privacy Is a Real Danger
13th May 2019
- Iran and the Fairy Tale Atomic Bomb
12th May 2019
- Bomb Iran Half Way Back to the Stone Age
11th May 2019
- Who Knows What Evil Lurks In The Pentagon Budget? The Liberty Report Knows!
10th May 2019
- The War Tweets
10th May 2019
- Bolton Held "Extremely Rare" Iran Meeting At CIA Headquarters
10th May 2019
- Is Trump Watching The Liberty Report? President, Advisors At Loggerheads...
9th May 2019
- John Bolton is the Problem
9th May 2019
- Pandering to Israel Means War With Iran
9th May 2019
- Pretext For War- Pompeo Pushes Iran To Quit Nuclear Deal
8th May 2019
- Obama Spied on Other Republicans and Democrats As Well
8th May 2019
- Trump Threatens China Trade War...'Art Of The Deal'?
7th May 2019
- D Is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
7th May 2019
- Iran to Even the Nuclear Score With US
7th May 2019
- John Bolton Can Almost Taste War With Iran
6th May 2019
- The Malevolent Farce that is Mueller and the Russia Hoax
6th May 2019
- NATO's Stoltenberg, Satan's 'Man of Straw'
6th May 2019
- A Nuclear War? Over Venezuela?
6th May 2019
- Another 'Jolly Little War'?
4th May 2019
- Democrats Don't Get It on the Drug War
4th May 2019
- McAdams: Venezuela's Guaido Worth More to Maduro Than to Opposition
3rd May 2019
- US Hypocrisy on Venezuela
3rd May 2019
- Biden's Ukrainian Corruption Scandal Casts Ominous Shadow Over 2020 Run
2nd May 2019
- Playing Chicken In The Straits Of Hormuz - Red Lines And War Talk
2nd May 2019
- Israeli Ambassador Calls For The Criminalization of Antisemitic Speech
2nd May 2019
- US Mainstream Media Worships Superficial 'Diversity,' but Diversity of Thought is Forbidden
2nd May 2019
- Venezuela - Guaidó Got Snookered
1st May 2019
- US Troops In Syria For 'Long Haul' Atop 'A Lot Of Oil Resources' - Pentagon Official
1st May 2019
- As Venezuela Coup Fizzles, Pompeo Threatens US Attack
1st May 2019
- April
- Venezuela Coup! Will Neocons (Finally) Get Their War?
30th April 2019
- Why Are Clapper and Brennan Not in Jail?
30th April 2019
- Tit for Tat? Why Did Mueller Let Trump Off the Hook?
29th April 2019
- After Mass Beheadings, Can Trump Still Claim 'Shared Values' With Saudis?
29th April 2019
- Why is Maria Butina in Prison?
29th April 2019
- With Assad Victorious, US Oil Sanctions Now Strangle Entire Syrian Population
28th April 2019
- Int'l Monitors: US Coalition Killed Over 1,600 Civilians During Bombing of Raqqa, Syria
27th April 2019
- Saudi Savagery: Kingdom Beheads 16-Year-Old For Sending Whatsapp Message
27th April 2019
- Trump's Crusaders March To War
27th April 2019
- 'Miscarriage of Justice' - RPI's Daniel McAdams on The Sentencing of Maria Butina
26th April 2019
- Trump Has Murdered Over 40,000 Venezuelans With Sanctions
26th April 2019
- Trump's Envoy to Ukraine is Paid by None Other Than Poroshenko Himself!
26th April 2019
- Trump Takes On Hillary's War...Battle For Libyan Oil!
25th April 2019
- Jared Kushner, Not Maria Butina, Is America's Real Foreign Agent
25th April 2019
- Kim/Putin Summit: Another Neocon Policy 'Success'
24th April 2019
- The Collapse of Deterrence with Iran
24th April 2019
- Pompeo Finally Tells The Truth: 'We Lie, We Cheat, We Steal'
23rd April 2019
- Governing Ukraine is No Laughing Matter
23rd April 2019
- The Three Purposes of Russiagate
23rd April 2019
- The Conspiracy Against Trump
23rd April 2019
- Pentagon's Endless War Brings Endless Pollution
22nd April 2019
- (Government) Spending is Theft
22nd April 2019
- The Prosecution Of Julian Assange Is Infinitely Bigger Than Assange
22nd April 2019
- Mueller Was Supposed to be the Democrats' Savior, But Now They're Out For Blood
19th April 2019
- Robert Mueller Did Not Merely Reject the Trump/Russia Conspiracy Theories. He Obliterated Them.
19th April 2019
- Mueller Exonerates Trump, But 'Russiagate' Will Not Die
18th April 2019
- The Triumph of Evil
18th April 2019
- Rumors of War: Washington Is Looking for a Fight
18th April 2019
- VIPS Fault Mueller Probe, Criticize Refusal To Interview Assange
17th April 2019
- Imperial Presidency Wins Again: Trump's Veto Continues Yemen War
17th April 2019
- From Jesus Christ to Julian Assange: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State
17th April 2019
- Washington's Biggest Fairy Tale: 'Truth Will Out'
16th April 2019
- 'Pompeo Has Lost His Mind!' - China Fires Back On Venezuela
16th April 2019
- Why the Gulf States Are So Edgy
16th April 2019
- The Railroad That Awaits Julian Assange
15th April 2019
- Co-Conspirator: Ecuador Paid Off To Deliver Assange
15th April 2019
- Iraq Wrecked Me for Nothing
15th April 2019
- Julian Assange: Political Prisoner
15th April 2019
- I'm Jumping Off the Trump Train: Assange Was the Last Straw
13th April 2019
- How You Can Be Certain That The US Charge Against Assange Is Fraudulent
12th April 2019
- Who Is Killing Whom in the Middle East? Blaming Iran Might be an Excuse for War
12th April 2019
- The US Government's Indictment of Julian Assange Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedoms
12th April 2019
- US Henchmen Violently Arrest Assange! Show Trial To Follow.
11th April 2019
- Assange Has Been Arrested For US Extradition. The Time To Act Is Now.
11th April 2019
- Will Junta-Mastermind, John Brennan, Ever Face the Music?
10th April 2019
- Make Donald Trump Great Again
10th April 2019
- Same People Behind Iraq War Lies Pushed Russian Collusion
10th April 2019
- The War Against The War On Drugs - With Guest Jacob Sullum
10th April 2019
- The Deadly and Destructive Futility of the Drug War
5th April 2019
- A Senseless Sacrifice
4th April 2019
- NATO At 70 - Time For The Zombie To Die
4th April 2019
- What Monroe Doctrine?
4th April 2019
- 'Weak Journalism': NYT Fails to Disclose Op-Ed Writer's Close Family Ties to Venezuelan Opposition Leader
3rd April 2019
- How Military Spending Decimates The Middle Class
3rd April 2019
- China's PLA Troops in Venezuela is Game Changer
3rd April 2019
- Rep. Ro Khanna Wants To Help Trump Be The Peace President
2nd April 2019
- Is Washington Preparing the Groundwork for a Maidan Scenario in Venezuela?
2nd April 2019
- NATO Is Not Dying. It's a Zombie.
2nd April 2019
- US Sanctions: The Source Of Imperial Executive Power
1st April 2019
- Russiagate: "Why did this ever start in the first place?"
1st April 2019
- The Russians Are Not Coming!
1st April 2019
- Trump Tells the Truth: Sanctions Cause People to Suffer
1st April 2019
- March
- Neolibs and Neocons Declare All Options On the Table in Venezuela
30th March 2019
- Guaido Set to Enact Uprising Rooted in US Regime-Change Operations Manual
30th March 2019
- Disinfo Maginot Line: Protecting EU from 'Russian Influence' – by Manufacturing History
30th March 2019
- Everyone Washington Supports, by Definition, Is a Moderate Centrist
29th March 2019
- Why There'll Be No US-Russia Reset Post-Mueller
29th March 2019
- Hunger Games: Four Years Of Saudi/US Aggression In Yemen
28th March 2019
- Now It's Official: God, Not the Russians, Elected Trump
28th March 2019
- So Why Did Trump Fire Comey?
28th March 2019
- Judge Identifies CIA Related Man Who Led The Raid On North Korea's Embassy In Spain
27th March 2019
- Russia Throws Down the Gauntlet to US on Venezuela
27th March 2019
- Escalation: Is Russia In Venezuela A New Cuban Missile Crisis?
27th March 2019
- Not Mueller Time: Hey, MSM, This Dud's For You!
27th March 2019
- Trump's Syria Envoy: 'War Will Continue'
26th March 2019
- Trump's Golan is a Megalomaniac's Own Goal
26th March 2019
- Julian Assange Clashes With Ecuadorian Officials After Embassy Locks US Journalist in a Surveilled Room
26th March 2019
- 20 Years Ago: Bill Clinton Bombs Serbia, Killing Hundreds of Civilians
25th March 2019
- Mueller Report Decimates 'Russiagate' Hoax - What's Next?
25th March 2019
- Now We Will Find Out If Trump Is Really The President Or Merely A Figurehead
25th March 2019
- The Green Bad Deal
25th March 2019
- Iraq War Anniversary: Ron Paul's Opposition Scored the Szasz Award for Civil Liberties
23rd March 2019
- With RussiaGate Over Where's Hillary?
23rd March 2019
- The Mueller Report Is In. They Were Wrong. We Were Right.
23rd March 2019
- Human Rights as Seen by the White House: Concessions to Israel Are Notable
22nd March 2019
- Russia Gives US Red Line on Venezuela
22nd March 2019
- Conscription Is Slavery
21st March 2019
- 'Shock & Awe'? 16 Years Later, Who Won The Iraq War?
21st March 2019
- On The Anniversary Of The Iraq Invasion, Bush Press Secretary Claims Bush Didn't Lie
21st March 2019
- Goodbye to the Internet: Interference by Governments Is Already Here
21st March 2019
- Was UK Paying White Helmets to Produce Syria 'Chemical Weapon' PR as Cover for Jaish Al Islam?
20th March 2019
- Trump Wants Brazil In NATO...To Help Oust Maduro?
20th March 2019
- Trump's Record Spy Budget - What Do We Really Get For $86 Billion?
19th March 2019
- Germany Backpedals On NATO Spending Promise As France Goes Full Throttle
19th March 2019
- Attempt to Prosecute Assad at ICC is Aimed at Undermining Syrian Peace Process
19th March 2019
- Trump To Leave 1,000 Troops In Syria? What's The Strategy?
18th March 2019
- Is Trump Really About to Attack Venezuela?
18th March 2019
- Pompeo Announces Ban On International Criminal Court Officials Probing US War Crimes
17th March 2019
- The Dialectics of Stupidity
16th March 2019
- War Against Venezuela Is War Against Us All
16th March 2019
- Winning the War on the War on Drugs - RPI Houston Conference!
15th March 2019
- Secretary of State Pompeo Calls on the Energy Sector to Weaponize Itself
15th March 2019
- Rubio's Gloating Betrays US Sabotage in Venezuela Power Blitz
15th March 2019
- John McCain's Disastrous Militaristic Legacy
15th March 2019
- Fox News Doubles Down on the Big Lie and Venezuela
14th March 2019
- The Trump Phenomenon as Seen in Europe
14th March 2019
- Senate Votes To End Yemen War...Will Trump Veto?
14th March 2019
- Rep. Ilhan Omar: Riding The Third Rail - With Guest Phil Giraldi
13th March 2019
- US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as 'Watershed Event' for 'Galvanizing Public Unrest'
13th March 2019
- Ethiopia Crash of Boeing 737 Max Might be Latest Example of Backfiring Safety Efforts
13th March 2019
- War Drums: US Diplomats Ordered Home From Venezuela
12th March 2019
- Bruce Ohr, Liar or Moron?
12th March 2019
- NYT's Exposé on the Lies About Burning Aid Trucks in Venezuela Shows How US Government and Media Spread Pro-War Propaganda
12th March 2019
- Manafort To Jail - Not About Justice; Not About Russia
11th March 2019
- Bipartisan Attacks on the Second Amendment
11th March 2019
- US Taxpayers On the Hook for Nearly $1 Billion in Saudi Arabia's Recent Missile Defense Purchase
10th March 2019
- Sen. Rubio Makes Fun of the Suffering of the Venezuelan People
9th March 2019
- Meghan McCain Is A Fake, Blubbering Ass
9th March 2019
- Breaking Our Biggest Taboo
9th March 2019
- Rubio Demands US Initiate 'Widespread Unrest' In Venezuela
8th March 2019
- Did The NSA Kill Its Program To Spy On Us...Or Upgrade It?
7th March 2019
- Faith No More: America's Trust in Mainstream Media Hits Rock Bottom
7th March 2019
- Russiagate Grand Wizard Deceives Audience About Assange
6th March 2019
- Is John Bolton The New Dick Cheney?
6th March 2019
- Trump Breaks Another Promise: Troops Will Remain in Syria
6th March 2019
- Israel Lobby Rebuts Omar's Claims About Its Immense Influence By Exerting Its Immense Influence
5th March 2019
- Guaido Not Arrested In Venezuela - Rubio And Bolton Outraged!
5th March 2019
- OPCW Syria Report Cripples Western 'Chemical Weapons' Narrative
5th March 2019
- ISIS Defeated In Syria - So Why Drop White Phosphorus?
4th March 2019
- Britain puts new roof on Skripal House of Horrors
4th March 2019
- Gallup Finds Americans Have Been Very Deceived Regarding United States' Image Around the World
4th March 2019
- Did Bolton Blow North Korea?
4th March 2019
- A Long Way to go For Dinner
2nd March 2019
- Military Intervention and Mercenaries, Inc. (MIAMI)
1st March 2019
- North Korea Talks Breakdown – Trump Keeps the Empire Happy
1st March 2019
- February
- "Better 'No Deal' Than 'Bad Deal'": Walking Out Of Hanoi Summit Earns Trump Bipartisan Praise
28th February 2019
- 'Sometimes You Have To Walk' - Trump/Kim Summit A Failure? Whose Fault?
28th February 2019
- Trump Talks Peace With Taliban - Will Neocons Go Nuts?
27th February 2019
- The Age of Tyrannical Surveillance: We're Being Branded, Bought and Sold for Our Data
27th February 2019
- US/North Korea Summit: Will Trump Win Nobel Peace Prize?
26th February 2019
- Attacking Iran: Fake news about a terrorist connection could serve as a pretext for war
26th February 2019
- The Second Battle of Cucuta
26th February 2019
- Pence, Guaidó Fail to Secure Lima Group Approval for US Military Intervention in Venezuela
25th February 2019
- Venezuela False Flag: Who Burned The Aid Truck?
25th February 2019
- Bolton's Long Game Against Iran – Pakistan Becomes Saudi Arabia's New Client State
25th February 2019
- Emergencies Do Not Trump the Constitution
25th February 2019
- Venezuela: US Regime Change in Progress!
24th February 2019
- Burning Aid: An Interventionist Deception on Colombia-Venezuela Bridge?
24th February 2019
- Rubio Tells Maduro He Will End Up Like Gaddafi
24th February 2019
- Richard Branson Joins Venezuelan Regime Change Effort
22nd February 2019
- Half-A-Cheer For Supremes' Civil Asset Forfeiture Ruling
21st February 2019
- What If They Started a War and No One Showed Up?
21st February 2019
- First Venezuela, Now Nicaragua? Bolton Says Ortega's Days 'Numbered' & People 'Will Soon be Free'
20th February 2019
- Iraq Lies Redux: Trump Admin Claims Iran/al-Qaeda Alliance
20th February 2019
- The Fake News about Humanitarian Aid and Venezuela
20th February 2019
- Whistling Past NATO's Graveyard, With Special Guest Tom Luongo
19th February 2019
- Trump Administration Threatens Families Of Venezuelan Military
19th February 2019
- NATO's Atlantic Council Hijacks Munich Conference With Revisionist 'Principles' Declaration
19th February 2019
- American 'Progressives' Support Civil Liberties as The Rope Supports The Hanging Man
19th February 2019
- Marco Rubio Declares War On Venezuela
18th February 2019
- Hezbollah in S. America: Mike Pompeo's Big Lie
18th February 2019
- Walter Jones and the Vote to End US War on Yemen
18th February 2019
- Hate-Fest in Warsaw
16th February 2019
- Real 'Obscene Masquerade': How BBC Depicted Staged Hospital Scenes as Proof of Douma Chemical Attack
16th February 2019
- Goodbye My Friend, Walter Jones
16th February 2019
- Medium Is The Message: Ilhan Omar, Social Media, And Making News
14th February 2019
- Ilhan Omar Smacks Down Elliott Abrams In Front Of Everybody
14th February 2019
- In Libya, 'We Came. We Saw. He Died.' Will There Be a Repeat in Venezuela?
14th February 2019
- Netanyahu Asks Arabs to 'Advance The Common Interest Of War With Iran'
13th February 2019
- Understanding Why Iranians Bash the US Government
13th February 2019
- House Yemen Vote Today: What's Pelosi's Goal?
13th February 2019
- How the Media Manufactures Consent for Regime Change in Venezuela
12th February 2019
- From Berlin To Baghdad, Trump Foreign Policy In Tatters
12th February 2019
- Walter Jones - Hero Of Peace
11th February 2019
- Afghan Civilians Fear CIA-Backed Death Squads that Can Call In Airstrikes
11th February 2019
- Understanding State Propaganda From The USSR to The USA
11th February 2019
- President Starts a War? Congress Yawns. Threatens to End One? Condemnation!
11th February 2019
- The Cynicism of Empire: Sen. Rubio Tells Venezuelans to Overthrow Their Government...or Starve!
10th February 2019
- The Tienditas Bridge 'Blockade'
10th February 2019
- Trump's Syria 'Pullout' Aimed at Aggressing Iran
10th February 2019
- How Chrystia Freeland Organized Donald Trump's Coup in Venezuela
9th February 2019
- Why I Hope Maduro Wins And North Korea Keeps Its Nukes
9th February 2019
- Venezuela: US Aid Gambit Fails - War Plans Lack Support
8th February 2019
- Blackface: Confronting One's Integrity in the Past
8th February 2019
- Senate Forbids Israel Boycott - Is It Constitutional?
7th February 2019
- Venezuela: The US's 68th Regime Change Disaster
7th February 2019
- Trump's Absurd Claim that Americans Are Free from Government Coercion
7th February 2019
- Does Washington Rule the World?
7th February 2019
- Why are Democrats Driving Regime Change in Venezuela?
6th February 2019
- A Guide to Decoding the Doublespeak on Syria
6th February 2019
- Twitter Greenlights Venezuela's Pro-Opposition Online Blitz – Shuts Down Genuine Opponents
6th February 2019
- Bolton's Plan: Starve Venezuela
5th February 2019
- Donald Trump, Dictator
5th February 2019
- Peak Trump. With Special Guest David Stockman
4th February 2019
- Death Knell For Syria Pullout: 'We Have To Protect Israel' Says Trump
4th February 2019
- John Bolton's Plan to Starve Millions of Venezuelans into Submission
4th February 2019
- Shut Down the TSA!
4th February 2019
- Iraq Redux: Trump's Venezuela 'Regime Change' Another Pack of Lies
3rd February 2019
- NBC News, to Claim Russia Supports Tulsi Gabbard, Relies on Firm Just Caught Fabricating Russia Data for the Democratic Party
3rd February 2019
- Bolton: I'll Send Maduro to Gitmo
2nd February 2019
- Trump Regime Launches Coup in Venezuela: Here's What You Need to Know
2nd February 2019
- 'Moral disgrace': EU Parliament lectures world on rule of law, then destroys legality in Venezuela
2nd February 2019
- 'I Oppose Interventionism, But-' But Nothing. Don't Be A Pro Bono CIA Propagandist.
2nd February 2019
- Twitter Bans 2,000 Pro-Maduro Accounts As Demands For Regime Change Escalate
1st February 2019
- Venezuela Coup Attempt Part Of A Larger Project - Military Intervention Likely To Fail
1st February 2019
- Trump and the MAGA Crowd Embrace the Neocon Plan for Venezuela
1st February 2019
- January
- The US Government's Love of Foreign Dictatorships
31st January 2019
- Venezuela in Flames
31st January 2019
- Fearmongering: Senate Chairman Warns 'Prepare For WWIII With China'
31st January 2019
- Duopoly Distemper: Media and Democrats Attack Schultz For Even Considering A Third Party Run
31st January 2019
- Deep State At War: Intel Chiefs Slam Trump Before Senate
30th January 2019
- Mystery of the Venezuelan Gold: Bank of England is Independent of UK Govt – But Not of Foreign Govts
30th January 2019
- Terrorism at the Service of 'Regime Change'. How the West Gets Hit by Its Own Former 'Useful Freedom Fighters'
30th January 2019
- If The World Understood Sovereignty, It Could End All Our Problems
29th January 2019
- Bolton: We're Taking Venezuela's Oil
29th January 2019
- The Making of Juan Guaido: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela's Coup Leader
29th January 2019
- Distraction: Obsessing Over 'The Wall' While Ignoring Neocon Threat
28th January 2019
- NewsGuard: A Neoconservative Contrivance Which Promotes an Establishment View
28th January 2019
- Trump's Venezuela Fiasco
28th January 2019
- America's Shameful War
26th January 2019
- McCain May Be Dead, but 'Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran' Still Resounds
26th January 2019
- Trump Betrays MAGA Over Venezuela
25th January 2019
- Building the Information Control Highway
25th January 2019
- Trump, Pence, Pompeo Star in the Pirates of the Caribbean
25th January 2019
- 'Maduro Must Go!' - Trump Administration Backs Venezuela Regime Change
24th January 2019
- The United States Is at It Again: Compiling an Enemies List
24th January 2019
- Permanent War: Congress Forbids NATO Withdrawal
23rd January 2019
- Pence Urges Venezuelans To Rise Up Against 'Dictator' Maduro After Failed Military Revolt
23rd January 2019
- Uncle Sam Wants Your DNA: The FBI's Diabolical Plan to Create a Nation of Suspects
23rd January 2019
- Neocon Chameleons Return As Progressives
22nd January 2019
- Lindsey Graham Prophesies 'Iraq on Steroids' Syria Scenario. Israel Obliges with Attack on Damascus
22nd January 2019
- Martin Luther King's Murder - Conspiracy Or Coincidence?
21st January 2019
- Fire the Fed?
21st January 2019
- Eisenhower's Nightmare on Steroids
19th January 2019
- Amnesty International's Troubling Collaboration with UK & US Intelligence
19th January 2019
- Russian Homeschoolers 'Upending' US Democracy by Networking With American Homeschoolers Says Clinton Linked Foundation
18th January 2019
- Is the Violent Dismemberment of Russia Official US Policy?
18th January 2019
- Neocons & Dems Stance on Syria 'Disgusting'
18th January 2019
- What A Coincidence! After Syria Attack, Will We Have To Stay?
17th January 2019
- Pompeo Turns Reality Upside Down
17th January 2019
- The National Security Agency Is A Criminal Organization
17th January 2019
- US Ground Forces are Leaving the Middle East - Like it or Not
17th January 2019
- Silver Lining In The Government Shutdown
16th January 2019
- Bolton's Radical Reshaping Plan for Mideast Included 'Mind Boggling' Strikes on Iran, Syria, and Iraq
16th January 2019
- The Syria Outcome Will Haunt Those Who Started This War
16th January 2019
- Democrats Prepare Hearings on 'Rightwing Extremism'
16th January 2019
- Top 10 Reasons Not to Love NATO
15th January 2019
- The Obama/New York Times Plot To Overthrow Trump
15th January 2019
- Please, TSA Workers, Don't Come Back
15th January 2019
- The New York Times Smears the President
15th January 2019
- Pompeo At It Again: Calls For Venezuela Coup
14th January 2019
- Back to the USSR: How to Read Western News
14th January 2019
- Bolton Had Pentagon Draw Up "Far-Reaching Military Options To Strike Iran"
14th January 2019
- Campaign Finance Reform Helps Special Interests
14th January 2019
- Trump's Hail Mary Becomes Bolton's Nightmare
12th January 2019
- How a NeoCon-Backed "Fact Checker" Plans to Wage War on Independent Media
12th January 2019
- Mike Pompeo Says the US is a Force for Good in the Middle East. No, Really!
11th January 2019
- Trump Foreign Policy for 2019 - Is it for real or more bait and switch?
10th January 2019
- What Are The Top Trends For 2019? With Special Guest Gerald Celente
10th January 2019
- LinkedIn Co-Founder Who Bankrolled Russian Bot "False Flag" Also Funded Left-Wing Midterm Meddling
10th January 2019
- Business As Usual: More Weapons To The Saudis
8th January 2019
- John Bolton Taps Iran Regime Change Advocate
8th January 2019
- Mattis: One More General for the 'Self Licking Ice Cream Cone'
8th January 2019
- Bolton: Trump's Wrong - We're Not Leaving Syria!
7th January 2019
- Cuban Crickets Blamed For Brain-Melting Sonic Embassy Attacks
7th January 2019
- New Studies Show Pundits Are Wrong About Russian Social-Media Involvement in US Politics
7th January 2019
- Trump's Neocons Reverse His Syria Withdrawal Plan
7th January 2019
- Some Confucian Calm, Please!
5th January 2019
- 'Secret' Evidence Vindicates Michael Flynn's 'Treasonous' Dinner With Putin
3rd January 2019
- Prospects For Peace And Prosperity In 2019: Our New Year Predictions
3rd January 2019
- 'The Machine of Perpetual War Acceptance': Veteran NBC Journalist Resigns in Protest Over One-Sided Coverage
3rd January 2019
- Giuliani Is Right! Free Assange!
2nd January 2019
- US Defeat in Syria is a Crisis of Empire
2nd January 2019
- Christmas Colors Light Up a Diverse Syria as Peace & Stability Return – and the West Barely Noticed
2nd January 2019
- US Military Apologizes For Posting Uncomfortably Honest Tweet
1st January 2019
- US Policy Toward Cuba Attacked America's Freedom and Values
1st January 2019
- 2018
- December
- Trump Critics of Syria Withdrawal Fueled Rise of ISIS
31st December 2018
- Rough Times Ahead, But Liberty Can Still Win
31st December 2018
- Good Riddance To General Mattis And The Rest Of Washington's Mad Dogs Of War
28th December 2018
- Newsweek Gets Russia Experts from the Atlantic Council, the Atlantic Council & the Atlantic Council
28th December 2018
- Two Strikes on Bolton...Why Wait For a Third?
28th December 2018
- LinkedIn Billionaire 'Sorry' for Funding 'Russian bot' Disinformation Campaign Against Roy Moore
27th December 2018
- The Mattis Dilemma
27th December 2018
- Looking To 2019 At The Ron Paul Liberty Report
26th December 2018
- Senate Report on Russian Interference Was Written by Information Warriors Behind Alabama 'False Flag' Operation
26th December 2018
- Syria Withdrawal Enrages the Chickenhawks
26th December 2018
- Was Jim Mattis the Last 'Adult' in Trump's Room?
24th December 2018
- Troops Out of Syria and Afghanistan? That's a Good Start!
24th December 2018
- Fallout Of Trump's Syria Withdrawal - Why Erdogan Does Not Want To Invade
22nd December 2018
- Did Someone Slip Donald Trump Some Kind of Political Viagra?
22nd December 2018
- US Leaves Trail of Bitterness in Syria
22nd December 2018
- CrossTalk: Enforced Speech
21st December 2018
- Trump To End Unconstitutional Syria War - Washington Heads Are Exploding
20th December 2018
- Trump Shocker: 'We're Leaving Syria!' Does He Mean It?
19th December 2018
- The Disgrace of Maria Butina's Prosecution
19th December 2018
- Playing The Blame Game: The Political Farce Of The Government Shutdown
18th December 2018
- US Leaders Allowing Ukraine to Pull Them into Global War
18th December 2018
- Saudis Tell US Senate 'Where To Go' - Time To Leave?
17th December 2018
- A Texas Elementary School Speech Pathologist Refused to Sign a Pro-Israel Oath, Now Mandatory in Many States -- So She Lost Her Job
17th December 2018
- The 'Integrity Initiative' - A Military Intelligence Operation, Disguised As Charity, To Create The 'Russian Threat'
17th December 2018
- Why The Senate Vote to End Yemen War is So Important
17th December 2018
- 'New World Order' Wine Pompoured into a Pro-'Sovereignty' Rhetorical Bottle
15th December 2018
- The Maria Butina Case Is Not About Spying
15th December 2018
- US Demands Europe to Join Its War Against Russia
14th December 2018
- British Spies Infiltrated Bernie Sanders' Campaign?
14th December 2018
- Why Christians Should Embrace Free Markets, With Guest Fr. Robert Sirico
13th December 2018
- Averting World Conflict with China
13th December 2018
- Federal Judge Orders Mueller To Turn Over Flynn Material
13th December 2018
- Three Dangerous Syria Powder Kegs - Will US Light The Match?
12th December 2018
- Celebrating another Regulatory Conviction in the Anti-Russia Brouhaha
11th December 2018
- Foreign Policy Arrogance Undermines Our National Security
11th December 2018
- In the Eyes of the State, We are All Russian (Bots) Now
11th December 2018
- Global Cops: Will US Jail Chinese Tech Exec?
10th December 2018
- Mueller's Investigation is Missing One Thing: A Crime
10th December 2018
- Too Much Partisanship in Washington? No, Too Much Bipartisanship!
10th December 2018
- The 'America Last' Express Hurtles On: Saudi Arabia, INF, Ukraine
8th December 2018
- Nikki Haley To Be Replaced By Blonde Version Of Nikki Haley
7th December 2018
- The Russia Investigation is about Criminalizing Peace
6th December 2018
- What the 'Neocon Chickenhawks' Have Wrought
6th December 2018
- Pompeo Promises New Liberal World Order - New Wine In Old Bottles?
5th December 2018
- Loophole in Bernie Sanders' Yemen Bill Actually Allows Continued US Involvement in Yemen
5th December 2018
- Trump's Fawning Over Saudi Ties Backfires
5th December 2018
- Why Are We Talking About Khashoggi Murder When US Drones Kill Thousands?
4th December 2018
- Why Can the CIA Assassinate People?
4th December 2018
- What Foreign Threats? The Biggest Threats to America Come From its 'Friends'
4th December 2018
- Trade War On Hold? Trump, Xi, And The G20 Summit
3rd December 2018
- Julian Assange Will Die Alongside Your 1st Amendment Rights
3rd December 2018
- Trump Foreign Policy: Doing the Same Thing and Expecting a Different Result
3rd December 2018
- Big Thanks to #GivingTuesday Peace Heroes!
1st December 2018
- Never, Ever Forget The Guardian/Politico Psyop Against WikiLeaks
1st December 2018
- Sayonara, 'America First'! We Hardly Knew Ye!
1st December 2018
- November
- 'Anti-Russia Neocons' in US Office Plotted to Cancel Trump-Putin Talks - Scholar
30th November 2018
- The Guardian Faceplants As Manafort's Passport Stamps Don't Match 'Fabricated' Assange Story
30th November 2018
- Pompeo: US/Saudi Partnership 'Vital' - American Taxpayers May Disagree!
29th November 2018
- Yes, You Have the Right to Talk Back to the Government, But It Could Get You Killed
29th November 2018
- Have We Reached Peak Soros?
28th November 2018
- Black Sea Face Off: Is Ukraine Provoking War With Russia?
27th November 2018
- Major Psy-Op in Europe Exposed: UK Government Tramples on Values It Vowed to Protect
27th November 2018
- US Foreign Policy Has No Policy
27th November 2018
- Allow Americans to 'Opt Out' of Abortion and War
26th November 2018
- MI6 Scrambling To Stop Trump From Releasing Classified Docs In Russia Probe
24th November 2018
- A Big Step for Greater Israel
24th November 2018
- The Case for Leaving Syria
24th November 2018
- Thanksgiving 2018: Reasons To be Thankful
22nd November 2018
- Assange's Persecution Highlights Dangers to the Freedom of Speech and Free Media
22nd November 2018
- Trump's Saudi Statement: Missing The Real Message
21st November 2018
- Julian Assange Deserves a Medal of Freedom, Not a Secret Indictment
21st November 2018
- Assange Under Siege... Where is Justice? With Lew Rockwell
21st November 2018
- The Reason for Killing Iranians
20th November 2018
- The Only Regime Change that Is Needed Is in Washington
19th November 2018
- Pentagon Fails First Audit, Neocons Demand More Spending!
19th November 2018
- Progress or Failure in North Korea?
17th November 2018
- A White House Press Pass Has Nothing to do with the First Amendment
17th November 2018
- Amnesty Strips Aung San Suu Kyi of its Highest Honor; Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Should be Next
17th November 2018
- Crosstalk: Nationalism
16th November 2018
- Libya's Peace Process Dies in Palermo
16th November 2018
- DoJ Filing Mistakenly References Sealed Criminal Charges Against Assange
16th November 2018
- Deception in North Korea? Nope, But a New Flavor of Neocon
15th November 2018
- New Study: War On Terror Cost $5.9 Trillion (And Counting). Do You Feel Safe?
15th November 2018
- America Has No Peace Movement – Blame the 'White Supremacists'
15th November 2018
- US Midterms Expose Russia Hacker Myth
14th November 2018
- Beltway BS on 'Speaking Truth to Power'
14th November 2018
- The Korean War: The Moral Bankruptcy of Interventionism
14th November 2018
- Chaos In Israel: Are Bibi's Days Numbered?
14th November 2018
- Iran Again Found 'In Compliance'...Yet Bolton Vows To 'Squeeze Hard!'
13th November 2018
- World War I Homage – A Triumph of Lies and Platitudes
13th November 2018
- America Should Have Skipped the War, Not Just the Ceremony
13th November 2018
- Brennan and Clapper Should Not Escape Prosecution
12th November 2018
- 100 Years After The 'War To End All Wars,' Lessons Of History Are Still Unlearned
12th November 2018
- Dirty Little Secret: 'Think Tanks' are Among Top Culprits in Media Disinformation Crisis
12th November 2018
- President Trump's Iran Policy – Is It 'Normal'?
12th November 2018
- US Directs Iran to Act Like a 'Normal' Country. What is a Normal Country?
10th November 2018
- We Are Headed For Another Tragedy Like WWI
10th November 2018
- US envoy: Russia should allow Israel air strikes in Syria
10th November 2018
- Iran's Leadership Must Decide 'If They Want Their People To Eat' - Pompeo
9th November 2018
- We Don't Need Daily Press Briefings at the White House
9th November 2018
- Edward Snowden: Saudi Used Israel Spyware to Target Khashoggi
9th November 2018
- Will the 'Taiwan Question' Give Rise to a World War III Scenario?
8th November 2018
- Trump Fires Sessions - A 'Constitutional Crisis'?
8th November 2018
- Did the Russians Influence My Vote?
8th November 2018
- House Goes Blue - Blessing In Disguise For Trump?
7th November 2018
- 'The Most Important Election Of Our Lifetime!' - Does It Really Matter?
6th November 2018
- US Doublespeak Hinders Afghan Peace
6th November 2018
- America Goes to War: Fighting Russia, China and al-Qaeda Simultaneously Requires More Money
6th November 2018
- Iran Sanctions Back On! Is War On The Way?
5th November 2018
- The US 'Cannot Win Militarily' In Afghanistan, Says Top Commander In Shocking Interview
5th November 2018
- Whatever Happened to the Russia-gate 'Scandal'?
5th November 2018
- Censorship and Gun Control Will Not Make Us Safe
5th November 2018
- Voting - Whither Social Security? - Birthright Citizenship - The Worst Tax - #AskRonPaul
1st November 2018
- We Need a #MeToo Movement for Political Consent
1st November 2018
- Why Do We Need a National Security State?
1st November 2018
- Countering Technology Companies' Crackdown on Alternative Voices
1st November 2018
- October
- Feeding The Deep State: Trump's Big Intel Boost An Attack On Liberty
31st October 2018
- Saudi Massacre In Yemen Worse Than Estimated. Will Congress Finally Speak Up?
30th October 2018
- Jamal Khashoggi Died for Nothing
30th October 2018
- NATO Is At War With NATO In Northern Syria
30th October 2018
- America Is on the Brink of a Nervous Breakdown
29th October 2018
- 'Hate' Attacks In America - Is Free Speech To Blame?
29th October 2018
- Khashoggi, Skripal, and the End of Morality in International Relations
29th October 2018
- Trump Is Right, the Fed Is Crazy
29th October 2018
- Murder in Pittsburgh and the Targeting of Alternative Social Media
28th October 2018
- Twitter was too busy banning 'Russians' to notice #MAGAbomber's threats
27th October 2018
- Western Media Launch Attack on Critics of Controversial White Helmets Group
26th October 2018
- Evaluating US Foreign Policy in Critical Times - RPI's Daniel McAdams on Israeli News Live
26th October 2018
- Two Stories from the Propaganda War
26th October 2018
- Rep. John Duncan on Becoming an Antiwar Republican
25th October 2018
- How Anarchy Can Work - With Guest Luke Rudkowski
25th October 2018
- DOJ Fails to Pursue Allegations of Saudi Lobbying Misconduct
25th October 2018
- 'Business As Usual' - US Desperate To Cover-Up Khoshoggi Murder
24th October 2018
- 'Foreign Invasion' - Will US Military Confront Migrants At Border?
23rd October 2018
- The White Helmets Ride Again
23rd October 2018
- Death Is in Charge of the Clattering Train of US Security Policy
23rd October 2018
- Michael Moore's Dumbed-Down America
22nd October 2018
- An Embarrassing End May Soon Be Near For Russia-Gaters
22nd October 2018
- Bonanza For Weapons Industry: Trump Withdraws From Reagan/Gorbachev Nuke Treaty
22nd October 2018
- The Saudis Keep Changing Their Story on the Murder of Khashoggi. What Should We Do?
22nd October 2018
- Suspicious Timing of Mueller's Latest 'Russiagate' Indictment
21st October 2018
- Facebook Sells Disabled Iraq Vet $300,000 In Ads, Then Deletes His Influential Pages
20th October 2018
- US-Russian Exchanges Gather Momentum
19th October 2018
- How the Corporate State Murders Free Speech
19th October 2018
- Tucker Carlson's Marijuana Malarkey
19th October 2018
- Why Did An American Hit Squad Kill Politicians In Yemen?
18th October 2018
- Killing Jamal Khashoggi Was Easy. Explaining It Is Much Harder
18th October 2018
- The Corporatist War On Free Speech - Are We A Nation Of Sheep?
17th October 2018
- The People 'Stopping Election Interference' Are the Ones Who Are Actually Rigging the Election
17th October 2018
- In the World of American Politics, One Khashoggi Is Worth One Million Yemeni Lives
17th October 2018
- With Nikki Haley Gone, Will Palestinians Get a Better Deal?
16th October 2018
- No More Dissident Voices: Succumb to Facebook & Twitter's Demands or Get Banned (or Both)
16th October 2018
- Believe women: Apply Congress' Christine Blasey Ford test to TSA's female victims
16th October 2018
- Saudis Threaten Trump: 'You Want $400 Oil?'
15th October 2018
- Pro-Life Students Attacked at Ryerson University in Latest Assault on Free Speech
15th October 2018
- Ten Years After the Last Meltdown: Is Another One Around the Corner?
15th October 2018
- Why The Coordinated Alternative Media Purge Should Terrify Everyone
14th October 2018
- Britain on the Leash with the United States – But at Which End?
13th October 2018
- Trident Juncture 2018 Is About to Kick Off: NATO's Big War Games Near Russia's Borders Never End
13th October 2018
- What's Behind the Big Facebook Purge?
13th October 2018
- New Documents Show State Department and USAID Working with Soros Group to Channel Money to 'Mercenary Army' of Far-Left Activists in Albania
12th October 2018
- The Two Brett Kavanaugh Stories
11th October 2018
- The Real Reason We Should Break With The Saudis
11th October 2018
- The Only Way Donald Trump Can Truly Put America First
11th October 2018
- 'Imminent Russian Threat'? Ukraine And NATO Launch Joint Military Exercises
10th October 2018
- Saudi 'Critic' Khashoggi Disappears - How Will Washington React?
9th October 2018
- US-Saudi Relations Enter Unchartered Waters
9th October 2018
- Aux Barricades Mes Enfants!
9th October 2018
- 'Operation Endless War'? 17 Years In Afghanistan
8th October 2018
- NAFTA 2.0: Free Trade or Central Planning?
8th October 2018
- The Final Truth of Russia-gate
8th October 2018
- Trump's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad National Security Team
8th October 2018
- NATO's Manipulation Of The Macedonian Vote Exposes Its Modus Operandi
7th October 2018
- The Military-Industrial-Humanitarian Complex: Spreading Western Hegemony Under the Guise of Virtue
5th October 2018
- US Military in Syria Ready for Long-Endurance Mission
4th October 2018
- James Comey and the Unending Bush Torture Scandal
4th October 2018
- UN Rules Against US On Iran Sanctions; Pompeo Vows More Sanctions
4th October 2018
- Trump To Saudi King: Pay Up For US Military Protection!
3rd October 2018
- That Sign Telling You How Fast You're Driving May be Spying on You
3rd October 2018
- Don't count on the FBI to clear up the Kavanaugh-Ford mess. Its record is flawed.
3rd October 2018
- The Scary Side of the Technological Police State
3rd October 2018
- Note To NATO - You Don't 'Take Out' Missiles Without Having A War
2nd October 2018
- The Militarization Of The US/China Trade War
2nd October 2018
- One Click Closer to Annihilation
2nd October 2018
- Blockading Russia? US Interior Secretary's Dangerous Threat
1st October 2018
- Venezuela's Socialism...And Ours
1st October 2018
- September
- Iran Warns It Will Respond to Future Israeli Strikes Targeting Syria and Its Allies
29th September 2018
- How an American Anthropologist Tied to US Regime-Change Proxies Became the MSM's Man in Nicaragua
29th September 2018
- US Intel Officials Publicly Contradict Netanyahu's UN Speech On 'New' Iran Atomic Facility
28th September 2018
- Ron Paul's Keynote Speech - RPI Media & War Conference 2018
28th September 2018
- Washington's Sanctions Machine
27th September 2018
- Will Congress Finally Pull The Plug On Brutal Yemen War?
27th September 2018
- Trump's UN Speech: The Good, Bad, & The Ugly
26th September 2018
- Ahvaz Terrorist Attack Exposes US's New Chapter of Regime Change Wars
26th September 2018
- The Supreme Court: The Dog that Didn't Bark
26th September 2018
- The White House Has A Step-By-Step 'Program Of Escalation' For Venezuela
25th September 2018
- China Tariff, Military Spending, Worst President - #AskRonPaul
25th September 2018
- Hirano's Hedge: Kavanaugh Not Entitled To Presumption Of Innocence Due To His Ideological Views
25th September 2018
- Mr. President, Leave Syria
25th September 2018
- Shutting Down Free Speech in America: Government and Lobbyists Work Together to Destroy the First Amendment
24th September 2018
- China's 'Digital Dictatorship'...And Ours
24th September 2018
- New Tax Plan Makes It Easier to 'Ed-exit'
24th September 2018
- UK Begged Trump Not To Declassify Russia Docs; Cited 'Grave Concerns' Over Steele Involvement
23rd September 2018
- US to Start 'Disrupting' North Korean Oil Smuggling
23rd September 2018
- Medea Benjamin Shows America What Real Resistance Looks Like
22nd September 2018
- The Gamification of Tyranny
22nd September 2018
- Let Koreans Solve Their Own Problems
22nd September 2018
- Trump's 'Opposition' Supports All His Evil Agendas While Attacking Fake Nonsense
21st September 2018
- The US Government's Secret Rules for Spying on Journalists Are 'Terrifying'
21st September 2018
- What Happened To The Ron Paul Blimp? Ten Years Of Liberty, With Guest Joby Weeks
20th September 2018
- Bret Stephens' Neocon Vision
20th September 2018
- The West Hates Peace in Syria: From De-Escalation to Almost World War III in Just Two Hours
19th September 2018
- 'Fort Trump'...In Poland?
19th September 2018
- Orban's Moscow Visit a Middle Finger to EU After Last Week's Humiliation
18th September 2018
- Russian Plane Shot Down Near Syria - Who's At Fault?
18th September 2018
- Bill Browder Strikes Back in Europe
18th September 2018
- Israel Provocation Kills Russian Soldiers; Moscow Will Take Political Revenge
18th September 2018
- 'How Presstitutes Rob America of Peace & Prosperity' - Gerald Celente at RPI's Media & War Conference
17th September 2018
- After Cutting All UNWRA Humanitarian Aid, US to Award Israel with $3.3B/Year in Military Aid
17th September 2018
- Republicans' Responsibility for Socialism's Comeback
17th September 2018
- The Dike Breaks - Netherland Ends Support For 'White Helmets' Terrorist Propaganda
16th September 2018
- Trump Is Still No Closer To Impeachment. At What Point Do Russiagaters Lose Faith?
15th September 2018
- Trump's Reckless Hostility Unites China and Russia
15th September 2018
- The Bluffer's Guide to Bombing Syria
15th September 2018
- "President Trump's New Pax Americana" - Col.Douglas Macgregor Speaks at RPI Media & War Conference
14th September 2018
- Defeat the Deep State - or Lose Your Freedom!
14th September 2018
- Syrian Rebels Preventing Refugees from Leaving Idlib as Russian Forces Prepare Final Offensive
14th September 2018
- Barack Obama's Return Just Reminds Us How He Fueled the Distrust That Led to Donald Trump
14th September 2018
- US Destroyer Enters Mediterranean As Syria Tensions Build; Carrier On Standby
13th September 2018
- Pompeo Green-Lights More Saudi Slaughter In Yemen
13th September 2018
- Bringing Down a President
13th September 2018
- Dutch Government Faces Outcry over Reported Support for Syrian Rebels
12th September 2018
- Why Do The Palestinians Get Ripped Off?
12th September 2018
- What I Don't Like About Life in Post-9/11 America
11th September 2018
- What We Haven't Learned Since 9/11
11th September 2018
- Butina prosecutors wrote their own James Bond novel with sex allegations – and the media loved it
11th September 2018
- Target Syria
11th September 2018
- More War Lies? 'Anonymous Sources' Claim Assad About To Use Gas
10th September 2018
- Moscow Has Upped the Ante in Syria
10th September 2018
- Trump's Wars and the Threat to Free Speech
10th September 2018
- Why Are We Siding With al-Qaeda?
10th September 2018
- US Military Preparing For 'Options' In Syria
8th September 2018
- US Senator Meets With Syria's Assad, Claims West is Planning Fake Chemical Attack
7th September 2018
- New York Times Undermining Peace Efforts by Sowing Suspicion
7th September 2018
- 'Steady State' Or Deep State? New York Times' Hate-Driven Coup
6th September 2018
- One Year After Calling Idlib 'Al Qaeda's Largest Safe Haven Since 9/11,' the US Govt is Trying to Save it
6th September 2018
- American Warmongering and Opportunism on Parade
6th September 2018
- Zuckerberg Admits Social Media is a Weapon, Says Facebook in 'Arms Race' Against 'Bad Actors'
6th September 2018
- The Battle For Idlib: Al-Qaeda's Last Stand In Syria?
5th September 2018
- Psychic Nikki Haley: If There Is A Future Chemical Weapons Attack, Assad Did It
5th September 2018
- India, Russia and the Post-American Century
5th September 2018
- Syria: UN, US Try To Delay Idlib's Liberation
4th September 2018
- Still Dying for Nothing in Afghanistan
4th September 2018
- Ambassador Kurt Volker: US to Drastically Expand Military Assistance to Ukraine
4th September 2018
- "Skin in the Game" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb Speech At RPI's Media & War Conference
3rd September 2018
- Can't We Just Leave Syria Alone?
3rd September 2018
- Will Someone in Washington Play the Ace of Spades before November?
1st September 2018
- 'Have You Committed your Three Felonies Today?' - Jim Jatras At RPI's Media & War Conference
1st September 2018
- August
- Sources Go Quiet in Moscow
31st August 2018
- How the Department of Homeland Security Created a Deceptive Tale of Russia Hacking US Voter Sites
31st August 2018
- US Military Presence in Africa: All Over Continent and Still Expanding
30th August 2018
- The Torture Of Assange: A Blight On The US Justice System
30th August 2018
- UN Sees War Crimes In Yemen...But Mattis Vows Continued War Support
29th August 2018
- US: NATO Think Tank Continues Pre-Election Interference
29th August 2018
- Media & War: Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity 2018 Conference
29th August 2018
- South Korea Seeks Peace With North: Will US Sanction Seoul?
28th August 2018
- Trump is Right About 'Flipping'
28th August 2018
- Social Media Giants Enter NATO Service
28th August 2018
- Another False Flag Gas Attack For Syria? Bolton Warns Of Massive US Response
27th August 2018
- Turkey Now, America Later?
27th August 2018
- 'Battlefield America The War on the American People': John Whitehead at RPI Media & War Conference
25th August 2018
- Bolton Calls on Al-Qaeda to Stage More Chemical Attacks in Syria
25th August 2018
- DNC Backpedals After Cyberattack 'Hack' Was Actually A Security 'Test'
24th August 2018
- Unipolarism vs. Multipolarism - The Real Russian Interference in US Politics
24th August 2018
- Sanctions, Russia, Tariffs...With Champion Of Liberty, Rep. Thomas Massie
23rd August 2018
- Facebook Kills 'Inauthentic' Foreign News Accounts - US Propaganda Stays Alive
23rd August 2018
- The New Cold War Flops
23rd August 2018
- Battlefield America: The Ongoing War on the American People
22nd August 2018
- 'What Is The Empire's Strategy?' - Col Lawrence Wilkerson Speech At RPI Media & War Conference
22nd August 2018
- Will the Real John Brennan Please Stand Up?
22nd August 2018
- War Abroad, War at Home
21st August 2018
- Afghan War A 'Total Failure' - Should We 'Privatize' It?
21st August 2018
- Have You Committed Your Three Felonies Today?
20th August 2018
- Protectionism Abroad and Socialism at Home
20th August 2018
- Infowars Turns Readers Into Nazi Zombies
20th August 2018
- America the Punitive
17th August 2018
- A Milestone in Afghanistan
17th August 2018
- Special Report: Senator Rand Paul on His Recent Trip To Russia
16th August 2018
- Russia Hysteria Undercuts Our Values, Impedes Relations
16th August 2018
- Trump Strikes Back at 'Ringleader' Brennan
16th August 2018
- Trump Would be Stupid to Talk to Mueller
15th August 2018
- Senator Richard Burr: a Longtime Fan of Torture
15th August 2018
- The US-Turkey Crisis: The NATO Alliance Forged in 1949 Is Today Largely Irrelevant
13th August 2018
- Why Does Facebook Use NATO To Help Censor Users?
13th August 2018
- Trump vs. His Own Administration?
13th August 2018
- Butina Case: Neo-McCarthyism Engulfs America
10th August 2018
- What if a #MAGA Guy Ate Twitter's Face?
9th August 2018
- Pompeo Slaps On Major Russia Sanctions...Over Unproven UK Poisoning!
9th August 2018
- A Four Person NATO-Funded Team Advises Facebook On Flagging 'Propaganda'
8th August 2018
- Senate Moves To Seize The Internet - Do We Need More Government Censorship?
8th August 2018
- Senator Rand Paul Visits Russia to Encourage 'Vital Engagement' Between Lawmakers
8th August 2018
- VIPS Asks Twitter to Restore Van Buren's Account
8th August 2018
- Shocker: AP Reports On US/Al-Qaeda Coalition In Yemen
7th August 2018
- More Lies About the White Helmets
7th August 2018
- Institutionalizing Intolerance: Bullies Win, Freedom Suffers When We Can't Agree to Disagree
7th August 2018
- New Sanctions Kick In: Trump Declares (Trade) War On Iran...And EU!
6th August 2018
- Silence on US Meddling Abroad
6th August 2018
- Neocons Demand 'Crushing' Sanctions on Russia
6th August 2018
- Facebook Censoring Getting Out of Control
4th August 2018
- There Will Be No American-Russian Alliance Against China
4th August 2018
- Pakistan Needs a Strong New Leader
4th August 2018
- The Bizarre Facebook Path to Corporate Fascism
3rd August 2018
- The Ball is in Trump's Court to Engage Iran
3rd August 2018
- Assad Wins: Voting With Their Feet, Syrians Come Home
2nd August 2018
- Revolving Door: How Security Clearances Perpetuate Top-Level Corruption in the United States
2nd August 2018
- Veteran Intel Officers to Trump: Intel on Iran Could be CATASTROPHIC
2nd August 2018
- Southwest Syria Is Liberated - On To Idlib
2nd August 2018
- 'President' Pompeo? Neocons Nix Trump/Rouhani Meeting
1st August 2018
- Have you gained or lost weight? Congrats, TSA is now tracking you for suspicious activity.
1st August 2018
- July
- War Is A Racket: After 17 Years and Billions Wasted, US Seeks Peace With Taliban
31st July 2018
- Meet VIAB: Virginia's Taxpayer-Funded Israel Lobby
31st July 2018
- Perpetual War For Perpetual Greed - US Threatens Iran (Again)
30th July 2018
- After A Week Online, NATO's Latest 'Counter-Disinfo' Facebook Game Is A Complete Flop
30th July 2018
- Trump's Tweets End the Myth of Fed Independence
30th July 2018
- Washington's Vindictive Iran Policy is Doomed to Fail - Here's Why
30th July 2018
- The Looming War Against Iran
28th July 2018
- US Maximalist Stance on Denuclearization Holds Korean Peace Process Hostage
28th July 2018
- I traced missile casings in Syria back to their original sellers, so it's time for the west to reveal who they sell arms to
27th July 2018
- Trump Threatens Turkey with Sanctions. What if He's Serious?
27th July 2018
- Julian Assange and the Dying of the Light
26th July 2018
- Who Killed The Tea Party - How, Why, When?
26th July 2018
- The Madness Gripping Washington
26th July 2018
- 'Shock' Poll: Most Americans Support Another Trump/Putin Summit...But Congress Says 'No!'
25th July 2018
- Free Speech Attack? Trump Eyes Pulling Obama-Era Security Clearances
24th July 2018
- NATO Trumped
24th July 2018
- Is Bill Browder the Most Dangerous Man in the World?
24th July 2018
- Iran: Another US War of Aggression?
23rd July 2018
- Martyrs to the Cause: Carter Page and Julian Assange
23rd July 2018
- Spending Our Way to a Fiscal Crisis
23rd July 2018
- Either Trump Fires These People Or The Borg Will Have Won
21st July 2018
- Madness in Moscow
21st July 2018
- Mass Dementia in the Western Establishment
21st July 2018
- The Establishment Strikes Back
19th July 2018
- US diplomats act like imperial governors riding roughshod over sovereignty of national governments
19th July 2018
- 'Russiagate' - Attack On Our Values Or Power Of War Propaganda?
18th July 2018
- The Very Unhinged John Brennan
18th July 2018
- Denial & Guilt: US Liberals Collectively Lose Their Minds Over #Treasonsummit
18th July 2018
- A Tale of Two Poisonings
18th July 2018
- Trump-Putin Fallout: Bipartisan Hysteria Against Peace
17th July 2018
- US And Allies Planning Evacuation Of White Helmets From Syria
17th July 2018
- Is President Trump A Traitor Because He Wants Peace With Russia?
17th July 2018
- Trump-Putin Summit Success: Neocons Furious!
16th July 2018
- The Mueller Indictments and The Trump-Putin Summit: Triumph of the Deep State?
16th July 2018
- Five Things That Would Make The CIA/CNN Russia Narrative More Believable
14th July 2018
- Trump Should Fire Rosenstein Immediately
14th July 2018
- The Trump And Putin Show
13th July 2018
- The Globalist Elite Fears Peace, Wants War
13th July 2018
- Mr. Trump Tear Down This Alliance
13th July 2018
- On the Purpose of NATO & the Cost of European Defense
12th July 2018
- Trump Is Seeding War Clouds Over Iran
12th July 2018
- NATO is a Con Game
11th July 2018
- 'Pay Up You NATO Deadbeats...Or Else!'
9th July 2018
- 'No Nerve Agents' In Douma: OPCW Report Demolishes White House Sarin Narrative
9th July 2018
- Why Trump's Iran Isolation Plan May Backfire
9th July 2018
- Skripal 2.0: It's High Time for the British Government to Explain Itself – Here's 10 Easy Questions to Help Them Out
7th July 2018
- Diplomacy 101 Case Study: Singapore Summit
7th July 2018
- Syria: 'Rebels Played Russian Roulette, And Lost'
7th July 2018
- CIA Plots Iran Coup - Partners With Terrorist Group
6th July 2018
- Imperial Hubris Redefined
6th July 2018
- NED Pursues Regime Change By Playing The Long Game
6th July 2018
- Happy Independence Day!
4th July 2018
- 'Curiouser and Curiouser': Salisbury, the Skripals & the Epic Failure of the British Fairy Tale
4th July 2018
- America First, Helsinki, and Trump's Existential Threat to the Empire
3rd July 2018
- Compulsory Vaccination: Authoritarians Versus Parents?
3rd July 2018
- Leaked Emails Suggest Trump Campaign Duplicity on 28 Pages
2nd July 2018
- Resisting The Creeping Police State, With Special Guest John Whitehead
2nd July 2018
- Who's Afraid of the Trump/Putin Summit?
2nd July 2018
- Turkey on a Roll
1st July 2018
- America's Clueless Ambassadors
1st July 2018
- June
- The Supreme Court's Deference to the Pentagon
29th June 2018
- The Oil Weapon Trump Tightens Iran Stranglehold
28th June 2018
- Did Sen. Warner and Comey 'Collude' on Russia-gate?
28th June 2018
- That Time the Media Cheered for Gestapo Immigration Tactics
28th June 2018
- Crowley's Shocking Loss! Is Socialism On The March?
27th June 2018
- Is Mattis Next on Chopping Block for Questioning the 'Adelson Agenda'?
26th June 2018
- The Drug War Is Pushing More Migrants to Our Borders
26th June 2018
- Sarah Sanders Booted From 'Red Hen' - What To Do About This Discrimination?
26th June 2018
- Ben Rhodes Admits Obama Armed Jihadists In Syria In Bombshell Interview
25th June 2018
- 'Game Over'? US Cuts Rebels Loose in Southwest Syria
25th June 2018
- No (Internet Sales) Taxation without Representation!
25th June 2018
- The Diseased, Lying, Condition of America's 'News' Media
24th June 2018
- US Quits UN Human Rights Council - Should We Cheer?
22nd June 2018
- Syria - Damascus And Its Allies Prepare To Remove US Forces From Al-Tanf
22nd June 2018
- Ron Paul Rewind: The Constitution and Its Rejection by the US Government
22nd June 2018
- Breaking In a President
21st June 2018
- What Kind of Country Are We?
21st June 2018
- Bombs Away! US Airstrikes Every 12 Minutes?
21st June 2018
- Pro-War Media Deserve Criticism, Not Sainthood
21st June 2018
- Border 'Crisis' - Is It All About The Children...Or Hatred Of Trump?
20th June 2018
- Julian Assange and the Mindszenty Case
20th June 2018
- The Final Frontier? Trump's Pricey Plan For A New Space Force
19th June 2018
- The Texas Republican Party Now Supports Rolling Back Marijuana Prohibition. What's Next?
19th June 2018
- Will the Real Donald Trump Please Stand Up?
19th June 2018
- Did Washington Just Bomb Syrian Government Troops?
18th June 2018
- Government Eyes Are Watching You: We Are All Prisoners of the Surveillance State
18th June 2018
- Why Can't We Sue the TSA For Assault?
18th June 2018
- Inspector General's Report on FBI and Clinton's Emails Shows Secrecy Threatens Democracy
17th June 2018
- US Officially Resumes Funding For The White Helmets In Syria
14th June 2018
- How to Get on a Jury
14th June 2018
- A Politically Weaponized FBI is Nothing New, But Plenty Dangerous
14th June 2018
- Saudi-led Coalition Strikes Newly Built Doctors Without Borders Facility in Yemen
13th June 2018
- Mueller Scrambles To Limit Evidence After Indicted Russians Actually Show Up In Court
13th June 2018
- Trump 'War Games' Announcement Shocks South Korea, US Military Forces
12th June 2018
- Outcome of Assange Case Could Undermine the Rights of Millions
12th June 2018
- Trump/Kim Summit: Breakthrough or Publicity Stunt?
12th June 2018
- German Officials Admit 'Still No Evidence' From UK That Russia Poisoned Skripals
11th June 2018
- Trump/Kim Meeting Shows Value of Policy Over Politics
11th June 2018
- Atlantic Council: Pro-NATO Pressure Group Uses Distortions to FIght 'Disinformation'
9th June 2018
- Still Waiting for Evidence of a Russian Hack
8th June 2018
- For Lasting Peace, President Moon Must Lead South Korea Out of America's Orbit
7th June 2018
- Syracuse National Security Program Director Registers as a Saudi Foreign Agent
6th June 2018
- The Emergency Destruction of American Liberty
6th June 2018
- RPI Peace and Prosperity 2018 Conference: Media & War!
5th June 2018
- US Missiles To Germany - Defense Or Warmongering?
4th June 2018
- Homeschooling Protects Children from Violence and Marxism
4th June 2018
- 'Real' Assassin Arrested In Staged Kiev Hit Linked To Ukrainian Intelligence As Official Story Unravels
3rd June 2018
- 'The Best Interests of the People': Ex-US Top Spy Clapper Justifies Election Interference
3rd June 2018
- Bill Browder Escapes Again
2nd June 2018
- Justice Dept Told Trump Syria Attacks Were 'Legal'
2nd June 2018
- A Nation That Doesn't Know War: America Celebrates Memorial Day
1st June 2018
- May
- Propaganda Killing Kills Propaganda - First The Skripals, Now Arkady Babchenko Come Back From The Dead
30th May 2018
- Ron Paul: On War, Gold, and My Years in Congress
30th May 2018
- US Commander in Europe: We Need More Troops to Fight The Russians
30th May 2018
- In Korea, Kim And Moon Embrace - No Need For Outsiders?
29th May 2018
- After pointlessly groping countless Americans, the TSA is keeping a secret watchlist of those who fight back
29th May 2018
- MEK's Money Sure Can't Buy Love But it can buy a lot of politicians
29th May 2018
- Memorial Day is Based on a Lie
28th May 2018
- America's Incredible Shrinking Influence
28th May 2018
- Syria - US Moves To Protect Al-Qaeda And ISIS in Daraa
26th May 2018
- South Korean President Moons Bolton
26th May 2018
- Real Patriotism on Memorial Day Means Losing Fewer Soldiers in Meaningless Wars
26th May 2018
- Your Tax Dollars Bankroll Afghan Child Molesters
25th May 2018
- For US Congress, Running a Torture Prison Is a Good Career Move
25th May 2018
- Brilliant Strategy Of Offering North Korea 'The Libya Model' Somehow Falls Through
25th May 2018
- A Time to Remember: Some Memorial Weekend Reading
24th May 2018
- Justice Delayed Is Justice: Mueller Fights To Delay Russian Collusion Trial
24th May 2018
- Trump Yields To Bolton, Cancels Kim Summit
24th May 2018
- N. Korea Conundrum: 'Washington Confuses Concept of Negotiation With Surrender'
23rd May 2018
- US Names 18th Afghan War Commander - Are We Turning The Corner Yet?
23rd May 2018
- Mike Pompeo Hurls 'Assassination' Charges at Iran, but Nobody Knows What the Hell he's Talking About
23rd May 2018
- Pompeo's Bombastic Iran Threats: A Sign Of Weakness?
22nd May 2018
- The Skripal Case Is Being Pushed Down The Memory Hole With Libya And Aleppo
22nd May 2018
- Among the Persians
22nd May 2018
- Haspel is Not the Problem. The CIA is the Problem.
21st May 2018
- Deep State Coup Exposed: CIA Infiltrated Trump Campaign
21st May 2018
- Gaza Massacre Exposes Western Hypocrisy on Russia's 'Annexation' of Crimea
19th May 2018
- Will Trump's Pyrrhic Victory End with America's Role As Global Bully?
17th May 2018
- Spare me claims Gina Haspel will 'speak truth to power'. Real truth-tellers go to jail.
17th May 2018
- EU Breaks With Trump Over Iran: Good 'Blowback'
17th May 2018
- The 'Fake News' Story is Fake News
16th May 2018
- I Am Julian Assange
16th May 2018
- The 'Bolton Effect': From Breakthrough To Breakdown With North Korea
16th May 2018
- Why The Empire Never Sleeps: The Indispensable Nation Folly
15th May 2018
- Gaza Violence: Blowback For Jerusalem?
15th May 2018
- The Ruinously Expensive American Military
15th May 2018
- Is Gina Haspel Qualified To Be CIA Director?
14th May 2018
- Trump's Ten Lies: A Response to the Iran Nuclear Agreement Speech
14th May 2018
- Trump's Plan for Iran: Put Terrorists in Charge
14th May 2018
- Trump's War Against Iran
13th May 2018
- When Washington Think Tanks Call for 'Action' in the Balkans, Expect Trouble
11th May 2018
- Leaked Doc Reveals White House Planning 'Regime Change' In Iran
11th May 2018
- That Time John Bolton Promised Regime Change In Iran Before 2019
11th May 2018
- Europe 'Can No Longer Trust US For Protection.' Good.
10th May 2018
- A Retirement Community for Drug-sniffing Dogs
10th May 2018
- Trump's Pyrrhic Victory: the US Opts for a Path That Can Only Lead to War
10th May 2018
- Washington Secrecy is Creating a Know-Nothing Democracy
10th May 2018
- Trump Kills Iran Deal - Who Wins? Who Loses?
9th May 2018
- The Donald's Done -- The Deep State Wins Its War On America First
9th May 2018
- Iran Deal Stunt Slams US Reputation: Questions Korean Talks – Analyst
8th May 2018
- The Conservative Case Against Gina Haspel
8th May 2018
- Congress To Green-Light Perpetual Global War?
8th May 2018
- Iran Crisis: Will Trump Waiver On The Waiver...Or 'Hang Tough'?
7th May 2018
- The NSA Continues to Abuse Americans by Intercepting Their Telephone Calls
7th May 2018
- Pompeo Rocks the Middle East: Lessons from a Former CIA Officer for the Secretary of State
7th May 2018
- Don't Celebrate Karl Marx. His Communism has a Death Count in the Millions.
6th May 2018
- The US is Playing with Fire if It Walks Away from the Iran Nuclear Deal on May 12
5th May 2018
- Trump Cuts Off Funding For Syria's 'White Helmets'
4th May 2018
- Atlantic Council Explains Why We Need To Be Propagandized For Our Own Good
4th May 2018
- Is The Libertarian Moment Over? With Special Guest John Stossel
3rd May 2018
- Congress Again Fails to Discover Collusion to Subvert the 2016 Election
3rd May 2018
- Iran Isn't Violating the Nuclear Agreement -- America Is
3rd May 2018
- No, Your Intelligence Is Actually Bad. Very Bad
3rd May 2018
- Comey v. Comey: How New Disclosures Could Put Just One Week Between Comey and Perjury
2nd May 2018
- Unmasking the 'White Helmets'
2nd May 2018
- Will Bolton Kill Korea Peace Deal?
2nd May 2018
- Explosions Rock Tripoli Election Commission: Who's Trying to Prevent the Vote?
2nd May 2018
- James Comey's Forgotten Rescue of Bush-Era Torture
1st May 2018
- Netanyahu's Iran Nuke Show: Should We Believe Him?
1st May 2018
- The Syrian Cisis Escalates
1st May 2018
- The UK Government's Skripal Conspiracy Theory
1st May 2018
- April
- Baby Alfie, the Latest Victim of Omnipotent Government
30th April 2018
- 'No Attacks, No Victims': Syria Chemical Attack Video Participants Speak At OPCW Briefing
27th April 2018
- The Syria Narrative Comes Apart - With Guest Sen. Richard Black
26th April 2018
- How False Flag Operations Are Carried Out Today
26th April 2018
- 'Cruise Missile Left' Complicit in American Escalation Toward World War III
26th April 2018
- Did You Really Drop Bombs on a Chemical Weapons Facility Mrs May?
26th April 2018
- Review: A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership is Mostly About Making Jim Comey Rich
25th April 2018
- OPCW Investigators Reportedly Found 'No Evidence' Of Chemical Weapons At Syrian Facilities Bombed By US
25th April 2018
- Macron Changes Trump's Tune: 'We're Staying In Syria'
25th April 2018
- How Neocons Destroyed a Chance for Peace with Iran After 9/11
25th April 2018
- Unintended Consequences Of Trump's Syria Attack
24th April 2018
- Scarier Than John Bolton? Think of Nikki Haley for President!
24th April 2018
- Will Trump Tear Up Iran Deal? "No Plan B"
23rd April 2018
- The Mainstream Media Fueled Military Action in Syria and Reprisals against Russia over the Skripals
23rd April 2018
- Lies and Deception in the Failed US Strike on Syria
23rd April 2018
- What Will Weapons Inspectors Find in Syria And Does it Matter?
23rd April 2018
- Russia Exposes British Lies on Skripal, but Trail Leads to US
21st April 2018
- Doctor Death from Damascus?
21st April 2018
- Democracy Now's 'Alt Media' Platform for Humanitarian Imperialism in Syria
20th April 2018
- Did the West Just Lose World War III by Forfeit?
20th April 2018
- What Are 'Assad Apologists'? Are They Like Those 'Saddam Apologists' Of 2002?
20th April 2018
- Trump Puts his Logo on the Military-Industrial Complex, Sets Up US Arms Sales with Syria Demo
19th April 2018
- Former UK Ambassador Reveals Truth About Syria
19th April 2018
- Why Each US President Ends Up As Ruthless Interventionist These Days
19th April 2018
- UN Security Team Delays Inspectors Entrance to Douma for 'Safety'
19th April 2018
- Fool's Errand - 17 Years In Afghanistan
18th April 2018
- America First -- RIP
18th April 2018
- The Skripal Case: 20 New Questions That Journalists Might Like to Start Asking
18th April 2018
- US Grasping At Straws In Syria
17th April 2018
- Bitter Lessons 25 Years After Waco, Texas, Siege
17th April 2018
- False Flags are Real – US Has a Long History of Lying to Start Wars
17th April 2018
- How the US Occupied the 30 Percent of Syria Containing Most of its Oil, Water and Gas
16th April 2018
- On The Ground In Syria - With Special Guest Vanessa Beeley
16th April 2018
- Syrian Strikes are 'Legal' – But Only According to the 'Law of the Jungle'
16th April 2018
- Trump's Disastrous Syria Attack
16th April 2018
- Caught in a Lie, US & Allies Bomb Syria the Night Before International Inspectors Arrive
15th April 2018
- Independent Swiss Lab Says 'BZ Toxin' Used In Skripal Poisoning; US/UK-Produced, Not Russian
14th April 2018
- Why Theresa May Must be Impeached
14th April 2018
- Intel Veterans Urge Trump to Seek Evidence Before Attacking Syria
13th April 2018
- Daniel McAdams on What You Need to Know About Syria
13th April 2018
- Western Hawks Come to Roost in Syria, but Will Trump Torpedo the Coalition?
13th April 2018
- From Skripal to Syria – The Empire's 'New Realities' Are Reaching The End of the Road
13th April 2018
- So We 'Win' Syria – What Then?
12th April 2018
- Cooler Heads Prevailing On Syria? Let's Hope!
12th April 2018
- False Flag in Syria Sets Stage for Wider War
12th April 2018
- Who Wants a Hot War with Syria and Iran?
12th April 2018
- Trump's Madness In His March To War
11th April 2018
- US Attack on Syria is Futile but Serves a Purpose
11th April 2018
- Trump Warns Russia 'Missiles Are Coming' At Syria After Moscow Vows To Shoot Them Down
11th April 2018
- Will Cohen Raid Lead Trump To Attack Syria?
10th April 2018
- Liars Lying About Nearly Everything
10th April 2018
- Another False Flag - Will Trump Escalate In Syria?
9th April 2018
- The Slowly Building Anger in the UK at the Government's Handling of the Skripal Case
9th April 2018
- Trump: Is He Stupid or Dangerously Crazy?
9th April 2018
- Progressives Should Defend Gun Rights
9th April 2018
- Trump Threatens Putin, 'Animal Assad' Over Syrian 'Chemical Attack'; Russia Warns Of 'Grave' Response If US Launches Strike
8th April 2018
- Obama State Department Spent $9 Million With Soros To Meddle In Albanian Politics
7th April 2018
- Blackout: US military spent $60 million on Afghanistan power lines to nowhere
7th April 2018
- Russia Demolishes UK Poisoning Hoax During Emergency Security Council Meeting
6th April 2018
- Ron Paul: Bring troops home from Syria now
6th April 2018
- In the US, Military Interventions Abroad Have Undermined Freedom at Home
6th April 2018
- What's Wrong with Trump's New National Security Advisor
5th April 2018
- After the FBI's Pulse Nightclub Failure, Why Should We Trust James Comey Anymore?
4th April 2018
- The Three Most Important Aspects of the Skripal Case so Far and Where They Might be Pointing
4th April 2018
- FARA: Freedom of the Press, But On the Government's Terms
3rd April 2018
- Interventionistas Outraged Over Trump's Syria Withdrawal: 'We Took The Oil. We've Got To Keep The Oil'
2nd April 2018
- Sarkozy's Hand in the French Cookie Jar?
2nd April 2018
- Economic Storm Clouds Gather, but Ending the Fed Provides Hope
2nd April 2018
- March
- Russia 'Novichok' Hysteria Proves Politicians and Media Haven't Learned The Lessons of Iraq
31st March 2018
- Privacy Denied: Students May Bring Only Clear Backpacks to School
31st March 2018
- Last Act Of 'Novichok' Drama Revealed - 'The Skripals' Resurrection'
30th March 2018
- Non-Interventionism: America's Original Foreign Policy
29th March 2018
- Strange Things Happen to European Countries Resisting George Soros' Assault
29th March 2018
- A Bad Foundation will Lead to More Spending and More Militarism
29th March 2018
- 20 More Questions That Journalists Should be Asking About the Skripal Case
28th March 2018
- Trump's War Cabinet And The Fiscal Doom Loop
28th March 2018
- Russia's Mistake in Skripal Case is Hoping to Deal With Honest Players – Analyst
28th March 2018
- UK Government Falling Apart, Changes Subject by Kicking Russia
27th March 2018
- Let's Investigate John Brennan
27th March 2018
- How the Military Controls America
26th March 2018
- Trump Should Withdraw Haspel Nomination, Intel Vets Say
26th March 2018
- Neocons Are Back With a Big War Budget and Big War Plans
26th March 2018
- Trump To Expel 'Dozens Of Russian Diplomats' In Response To Skripal Poisoning
24th March 2018
- 30 Questions That Journalists Should be Asking About the Skripal Case
22nd March 2018
- Hawks Resurgent in Washington
22nd March 2018
- When 'Mental Health' Is Used to Empower the State
21st March 2018
- Unhappy Anniversary: Iraq War At 15
20th March 2018
- Russiagate Comes to England
20th March 2018
- The Most Important Hearings Of The Young Century
19th March 2018
- Russian Double Agent Poisoned: Who Did It...And Why?
19th March 2018
- Ron Paul and Jacob Hornberger to Speak at Foreign Policy Conference in Charleston, South Carolina
19th March 2018
- Pompeo and Haspel are Symptoms of a Deeper Problem
19th March 2018
- Russia Claims US Deploys Warships For Imminent Attack On Syria, Trains Militants For False Flag Attack
17th March 2018
- Syria: It Would All be Over by Now Without the 'Regime-Changers'
17th March 2018
- Time for the US to End Democracy Promotion Flim-Flams
17th March 2018
- It's Time for a New American Foreign Policy
16th March 2018
- Blaming Russia for Skripal Attack is Similar to 'Jews Poisoning our Wells' in Middle Ages
16th March 2018
- 'Skin In The Game' - With Special Guest Nassim Nicholas Taleb
15th March 2018
- Will Torture Make America Great Again?
14th March 2018
- Say No to 'Hardening' the Schools with Zero Tolerance Policies and Gun-Toting Cops
14th March 2018
- US Commander: 'US Troops Prepared to Die for Israel' in War against Syria, Hezbollah
13th March 2018
- Why Not Execute Alcohol and Tobacco Dealers?
13th March 2018
- Are Millennials Abandoning Liberty? - With Special Guest Jeff Deist
13th March 2018
- Christopher Steele As Seen By the New Yorker
13th March 2018
- Politics, Justice, and the Surveillance State
12th March 2018
- Happy Anniversary, James Clapper
12th March 2018
- Military Coup: Pentagon To Ignore Congress On Yemen
12th March 2018
- Tariffs Are Not the Answer
12th March 2018
- Trump Seeks Congressional Funding For 60,000-Man Army To Overthrow Assad
9th March 2018
- Double Standards in Libya
9th March 2018
- Google And Geek Squad: Arms Of The Deep State?
8th March 2018
- The US Ponders a Strike Against Syrian Government Forces: What's Behind This Aggressive Approach?
8th March 2018
- Gun Crackdowns Have Already Led to Too Many Federal Abuses
8th March 2018
- What the Media Isn't Telling You About America's True Intentions in Syria
7th March 2018
- North Korea Breakthrough? Don't Tell The Neocons!
7th March 2018
- Washington Is Intent on Destroying Iran
7th March 2018
- Trump's Foreign Policy: Who Benefits From Chaos?
6th March 2018
- The New Blacklist
6th March 2018
- Russia Blamed For Italian Election Outcome
6th March 2018
- What Mueller Has, and What He is Missing
5th March 2018
- Trump Is Right On Iraq
5th March 2018
- Why Libertarians Should Shrug-Off Memo Mania
5th March 2018
- We Should Listen to the Iraqi Parliament
5th March 2018
- Putin Trumps Trump
3rd March 2018
- My First Day as CIA Director
2nd March 2018
- Hollywood Hoopla Ignores Media's History of Servility
2nd March 2018
- 'Take The Guns First' - Trump's War On The Second Amendment
1st March 2018
- America's Illegal Sojourn in Syria
1st March 2018
- February
- 25 Years Ago: Feds Attack at Waco in Name of Gun Control
28th February 2018
- Behind The State Department's $40 Million Troll Farm
28th February 2018
- Endgame Russia: NATO Sprawl Invades Eastern Europe, No More Illusions
28th February 2018
- Armed and Dangerous: If Police Don't Have to Protect the Public, What Good Are They?
27th February 2018
- Blundering Into Iran
27th February 2018
- More North Korea Sanctions: Who Benefits? Who Suffers?
26th February 2018
- Growing Risk of US-Iran Hostilities Based on False Pretexts, Intel Vets Warn
26th February 2018
- Is the (Tea) Party Over?
25th February 2018
- Syria's Two East-Ghouta Campaigns: One For Liberation, The Other To Save Terrorists
24th February 2018
- What Would an 'America First!' Security Policy Look Like?
24th February 2018
- Why One War When We Can Have Two!
24th February 2018
- Nobody Wants to Talk About What Many Mass Shooters Have in Common
23rd February 2018
- Something For Everyone: Mueller Indictment a Boon for Partisan Status Quo
23rd February 2018
- Will 'Extreme Security' Solve The School Shooting Problem?
22nd February 2018
- America's Elite Thinks it Has a Divine Right to Rule the World
22nd February 2018
- Mueller's Comic Book Indictment: How to Prosecute A Great Big Nothingburger
21st February 2018
- UN's Syria Propaganda Stunt
21st February 2018
- Carving Up Syria: Anything Left For The Syrians?
20th February 2018
- Russiagate Suddenly Becomes Bigger
20th February 2018
- Merchants of Death: America's Toxic Cult of Violence Turns Deadly
19th February 2018
- Mueller's Russia Indictments: Covering Up For The Deep State?
19th February 2018
- Ex-CIA Director Thinks US Hypocrisy About Election Meddling Is Hilarious
19th February 2018
- More Gun Violence: Let's Look Beyond Politics
19th February 2018
- The US-UK Deep State Empire Strikes Back: 'It's Russia! Russia! Russia!'
18th February 2018
- There is No Justice in Our World
17th February 2018
- The Result of Mueller's Investigation: Nothing
17th February 2018
- Dutch Lies Over Putin's 'Aggression' Expose NATO War Agenda
16th February 2018
- LIBYA - 7 years of failed Western Diplomacy
16th February 2018
- George W. Bush Doesn't Deserve the Media's Efforts at Rehabilitation
15th February 2018
- Christopher Steele: The Real Foreign Influence in the 2016 Election?
15th February 2018
- When Former Spies Turn into TV 'Experts'
15th February 2018
- Making The Roads Great Again? Trump's Big Gas Tax Proposal
15th February 2018
- Is John Brennan the Mastermind Behind Russiagate?
14th February 2018
- 2019 Military Budget: Pentagon Wins, American Taxpayers Lose
14th February 2018
- Korea Olympic Charm Offensive - What's The Threat?
13th February 2018
- If America Wasn't America, the United States Would Be Bombing It
13th February 2018
- Lifting of US Propaganda Ban Gives New Meaning to Old Song
12th February 2018
- Who Is The Aggressor In Syria?
12th February 2018
- US Feels Uneasy About Inter-Korean Amity
12th February 2018
- E-Verify Threatens Us All
12th February 2018
- Make Sports, Not War
10th February 2018
- Guilt by Musical Association
10th February 2018
- Is the Steele Dossier Full of 'Russian Dirt' – or British?
9th February 2018
- 'Fig leaf of fighting ISIS is gone' – Ron Paul Institute
9th February 2018
- Political Gamesmanship at the Olympics
8th February 2018
- Grassley Memo Shocker - Did The UK Meddle In Our Elections? With Guest Phil Giraldi
8th February 2018
- Nunes Memo: Another Step Towards Proving Russiagate Is a Hoax
8th February 2018
- US May Have Arranged 'Self Defense' Attack On Syrian Government Forces
8th February 2018
- The NGOs Pushing A New Syria War - With Guest Vanessa Beeley
7th February 2018
- Your Guide to Top Anti-Russia Think Tanks in US & Who Funds Them
7th February 2018
- FISA Spying Abuses - Are You Really Shocked? With Jim Bovard
6th February 2018
- The US-ISIS Nexus in Afghanistan Becomes Hot Topic
6th February 2018
- America: A Military Nation
6th February 2018
- What the FBI/FISA Memo Really Tells Us About Our Government
5th February 2018
- Schiff's Latest Bizarre Claim: Russian Ads Promote 2nd Amendment 'So We All Kill Each Other'
4th February 2018
- The Syrian Madhouse Gets Even Crazier
3rd February 2018
- Mattis Threatens Military Action Over Syria Gas Attack Claims, Then Admits 'No Evidence'
3rd February 2018
- US Troops Arrive in Israel to Practice for Potential War With Hezbollah
3rd February 2018
- Real Cost of 'Defense' - RPI's Daniel McAdams on 'Mises Weekends'
2nd February 2018
- Turkish Invasion Pits Neocons Against Traditional Imperialists
2nd February 2018
- The Biggest Threat to our Country
2nd February 2018
- We Have 1,000 Bases In 80 Countries. Do You Feel Safer?
1st February 2018
- Meet the Corrupt Billionaire Who Has Brought About a New Cold War
1st February 2018
- Dennis Kucinich Hit with Spurious Criticism over Fox News Connection
1st February 2018
- January
- The US Empire Has up to 1,000 Military Bases in 80 Countries
31st January 2018
- Making America Great...Or Poorer? Dissecting The State Of The Union Speech
31st January 2018
- The People v. Trump: Is There a Case for the 25th Amendment?
31st January 2018
- Ron Paul's 'The Real State Of The Union'
30th January 2018
- The First Amendment Does Not Give Us Freedom of Speech
30th January 2018
- Golden Boy Robert Mueller's Forgotten Surveillance Crime Spree
29th January 2018
- Europe's Culture Wars
29th January 2018
- The Last Fed Chairman?
29th January 2018
- Russiagate Isn't About Trump, And It Isn't Even Ultimately About Russia
28th January 2018
- America's National Defense Is Really Offense
26th January 2018
- FBI-Gate? #ReleaseTheMemo
26th January 2018
- Is the Trump Revolution Over?
26th January 2018
- Lew Rockwell: 'It's About Time the US Realized it Needs to Get Out of Afghanistan'
25th January 2018
- Pentagon's New 'Cold War' Strategy: Peace...Or War Profits?
25th January 2018
- Playing 'Kurdish Card' in Syria Backfires on US As Turks Move In
25th January 2018
- Destroying, Suppressing Evidence is FBI Standard Procedure
24th January 2018
- VP Pence At Olympics To Prevent North Korea Peace Overtures
24th January 2018
- Trump's National Defense Strategy Has the Pentagon Popping Champagne
24th January 2018
- Is FBI Lying About 'Russiagate'?
23rd January 2018
- It's Time We Saw Economic Sanctions For What They Really Are – War Crimes
23rd January 2018
- Why Does Washington Hate Bashar al-Assad?
23rd January 2018
- Turkey Vs. Syrian Kurds: Whose Side Are We On?
22nd January 2018
- Rex Tillerson at Hoover
22nd January 2018
- What to Really Expect From the Government Shutdown
22nd January 2018
- Turkish Tanks Cross Into Syria As Ground Offensive Against US-Backed Militia Begins
22nd January 2018
- RPI's Daniel McAdams: 'Nothing New' in New National Defense Strategy
19th January 2018
- 'Boss Tweet's' Generals Already Run the Show
19th January 2018
- What To Expect In 2018 - With Special Guest Gerald Celente
18th January 2018
- How the Establishment Undermines American Democracy
18th January 2018
- Breaking - Tillerson Unveils 'New' US Syria Plan: 'Assad Must Go!'
17th January 2018
- More US Bases In Syria...Why Not Come Home?
17th January 2018
- CIA False Flag Likely in Drone Attack on Russia's Syrian Bases
17th January 2018
- The Media's Wildly Different Take on Unrest in Tunisia and Iran
17th January 2018
- Trump To Embrace Nuclear First Strike
16th January 2018
- 70 Years of Disinformation: How the CIA Funded Opinion Magazines in Europe
16th January 2018
- Who Killed Martin Luther King...And Why?
15th January 2018
- Earmarks Are Not the Problem
15th January 2018
- A Warning for Democrats, and Indeed for All Americans
15th January 2018
- Fed's Misconduct in Cliven Bundy Case Stems from Ruby Ridge
15th January 2018
- Neocon Think Tanks Not Russian Media Are the Enemy Within
13th January 2018
- Trump Takes on Pakistan
13th January 2018
- The Persecution of Julian Assange
12th January 2018
- Who or What Is Feeding the Unrest in Iran?
12th January 2018
- House Approves More FISA Spying...Can The Senate Stop Them?
11th January 2018
- The British Empire in Yemen
11th January 2018
- NATO's Fraudulent War on Behalf of Women
10th January 2018
- Trump To Embassies: Sell American Weapons!
10th January 2018
- Jeff Sessions' Marijuana Memo Versus Legalization's Momentum and Public Support
9th January 2018
- Korea Breakthrough Talks Today: Victory For Sports Diplomacy
9th January 2018
- Steve Bannon's Done - But It's Way Too Late
9th January 2018
- Justice Denied: The Government Is Not Going to Save Us
9th January 2018
- Who Killed The Iran Protests?
8th January 2018
- Just Say No to Jeff Sessions
8th January 2018
- Trump's Failed Coup in Iran
6th January 2018
- Trump Isn't Another Hitler. He's Another Obama.
6th January 2018
- Cliven Bundy-FBI Debacle: Another Example of Why the Feds Need to be Leashed
5th January 2018
- Iran and Myths of Revolution
5th January 2018
- Birth Of An Insurgency: The US-Israeli 'Secret Deal' To Manipulate Protests In Iran
4th January 2018
- Iran Protests: Convenient Pretext To Kill The Nuclear Deal?
4th January 2018
- The War Party's Desperate Assault On 'America First'
4th January 2018
- Expect Even Less Freedom of Internet in 2018
4th January 2018
- Koreans Agree To Talk To Koreans...Nikki Haley Furious!
3rd January 2018
- Iraq War 3.0, the War to End All Wars, is Over
2nd January 2018
- Iran Protests...CIA Fingerprints?
2nd January 2018
- Despite Setbacks, Liberty Will Prevail in 2018
1st January 2018
- US Empire Is Running The Same Script With Iran That It Ran With Libya, Syria
1st January 2018
- 2017
- December
- The Charge of the Invisible Army of Kremlin Trolls
31st December 2017
- Ten Years Ago The Real Tea Party Was Born...And It Continues Today!
30th December 2017
- Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the US and Israeli Governments
30th December 2017
- All Is Not Quiet on the Syrian Front: US to Launch Another War
29th December 2017
- New Trump Executive Order: Good Move Or Global Asset Forfeiture?
28th December 2017
- Who Are the Leading State Sponsors of Terrorism?
28th December 2017
- Reasons to Doubt the Veracity of the 'Steele Dossier' on Trump are Still Emerging
28th December 2017
- Heaven Forbid! China Sells Oil To North Korea!
27th December 2017
- Whither the Antiwar Movement?
27th December 2017
- Homeland Security's Multi-Billion Dollar Comedy Show
26th December 2017
- US Decides to Provide Ukraine with Lethal Weapons
26th December 2017
- Intel Vets Tell Trump Iran Is Not Top Terror Sponsor
26th December 2017
- Merry Christmas To All Our Friends...
25th December 2017
- Political Immorality and Personal Immorality
25th December 2017
- Iraq Redux in the Making? US Rhetoric on Iran Brings Back Memories of 2003
22nd December 2017
- De Facto Travel Restrictions Now Exist For Americans
21st December 2017
- 'A Stunning Rebuke' - 128 Nations Support UN Call For Trump To Withdraw Jerusalem Decision
21st December 2017
- Another Flip-Flop: Trump Approves Lethal Arms To Ukraine
21st December 2017
- 'Forcing' North Korea Denuclearization...But Does South Korea Agree?
20th December 2017
- Trump's National Security Speech
19th December 2017
- Will Nikki Haley Get Her Iran War?
19th December 2017
- The RussiaGate Witch-Hunt - The Deep State's 'Insurance Policy'
18th December 2017
- 'Make 'Em Pay'? Trump Spends $5 Billion On Europe's Defense
18th December 2017
- Who to Believe on Washington's Korea Policy, Tillerson or Trump?
18th December 2017
- US Defense Secretary Mattis Rejects War on Iran
17th December 2017
- Heads Up, President Trump, Secretary Tillerson: Beware 'Project Overreach'
17th December 2017
- Deconstructing the Almighty Russian Hackers Myth
16th December 2017
- Weapons Went From The CIA To ISIS In Less Than Two Months
15th December 2017
- The Foundering Russia-Gate 'Scandal'
15th December 2017
- 'Everyone is Worried About War'
14th December 2017
- Trump To Release New US Strategy: Will Neocons Cheer?
14th December 2017
- Why America's Law Enforcement Empire Resembles Secret Police in a Dictatorship
14th December 2017
- Tillerson Ready For North Korea Talks...But Is Trump?
13th December 2017
- Russia's Pulling Out Of Syria...Why Can't We?
12th December 2017
- The Non-Crime of 'Lying to the FBI'
12th December 2017
- Pentagon Audit - Just Another Cover-Up!
11th December 2017
- The Enemy Within - the 'Intelligence Community'
11th December 2017
- Yes, the FBI is America's Secret Police
11th December 2017
- Government Should Leave Bakers Alone
11th December 2017
- Strzok-Gate and the Mueller Cover-Up
10th December 2017
- State Department, Meet the New Boss, Same/Worse as the Old Boss?
9th December 2017
- US Made Secret Deal With ISIS to Let Thousands of Fighters Flee Raqqa to Battle Assad in Syria, Former Ally Says
8th December 2017
- The US Just Announced It Will Stay in Syria Even After ISIS Is Defeated: Here's Why
7th December 2017
- Bipartisanship On Jerusalem: Does It Make Us Safer?
7th December 2017
- Israel's Capital: Who Decides?
6th December 2017
- Bake The Cake? How Should The Supremes Rule?
5th December 2017
- The FBI's Perjury Trap Of The Century
5th December 2017
- From 'Russia-Gate' to 'Israel-Gate'
4th December 2017
- 'Fair' Tax, Just War, Houston Astros and more...#AskRonPaul!
4th December 2017
- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Of The Flynn Plea
4th December 2017
- Good News: Young Americans Want a New Political Party
4th December 2017
- ABC News Retracts Flynn Bombshell Story
2nd December 2017
- Slave Markets in 'Liberated' Libya and the Silence of the Humanitarian Hawks
2nd December 2017
- The Case Against Michael Flynn: Lying to the FBI About Asking Russia's Help to Protect Israel
1st December 2017
- November
- How Hitler Analogies Obscure Understanding of Mideast Power Struggle
30th November 2017
- What If Trump Dismantled the State Department, and It Didn't Matter?
30th November 2017
- Massacre In Somalia: US Troops To Blame?
30th November 2017
- The Trump Era and Weaponization of the Media
29th November 2017
- 'Turning The Corner' in Afghanistan...Again
29th November 2017
- US & Europe's Farcical Hypocrisy Over Russian Foreign Media Law
29th November 2017
- What Good Are Domestic Military Bases?
29th November 2017
- Iran Re-Certified; Washington In Denial
28th November 2017
- Russiagate Explained
27th November 2017
- Hypocrisy: US Meddling In Hungarian Elections
27th November 2017
- Is North Korea Really a 'State Sponsor of Terrorism'?
27th November 2017
- Washington's Wars
25th November 2017
- Routed in Syria, the US Should Admit Its Crime, Face Punishment
25th November 2017
- Thanksgiving 2017 - Why There Is No Peace On Earth
24th November 2017
- Being Thankful in Difficult Times...
23rd November 2017
- US-Led Anti-ISIS Coalition Ignores Civilian Deaths – and the Media Let Them Get Away With It
23rd November 2017
- A Basic Principle About Drug Laws
23rd November 2017
- US Military Fraud Endemic in Overseas Operations
23rd November 2017
- JFK, the CIA, and Secrecy
22nd November 2017
- Abolish The TSA As Soon As Possible. With Guest Jim Bovard
22nd November 2017
- Who's A 'Foreign Agent'?
21st November 2017
- Saudi Purges Explained, With Marwa Osman Live From Lebanon
21st November 2017
- Did the US Allow ISIS to Escape to Keep the Fighting Going?
21st November 2017
- DOD Conference Bill Passed...Yet We're Less Safe & Poorer
20th November 2017
- Why Are We Helping Saudi Arabia Destroy Yemen?
20th November 2017
- Thanksgiving Travel: Trump's Holiday Gift is More Invasive Airport Security
18th November 2017
- Attack on RT Is Another Step Towards Sovietization of American Media
18th November 2017
- Secretary Mattis Is Off Base: US Military Presence in Syria Has No Legal Grounds
17th November 2017
- How America's Deep State Operates to Control the Message
17th November 2017
- The Real Cost Of War: Three Times More Than The Government Admits
16th November 2017
- There is Nothing Patriotic or Conservative About Our Bloated Defense Budget
16th November 2017
- Do Trump's Liberal Critics Seem Increasingly Unhinged?
15th November 2017
- America's Righteous Russia-gate Censorship
15th November 2017
- War on ISIS - Whose Side Are We Really On?
15th November 2017
- Bombshell Report Confirms US Coalition Struck A Deal With ISIS
14th November 2017
- Kochs Spend Big On Foreign Policy Realism...Should Neocons Be Worried?
14th November 2017
- Is Trump Getting A Bad Rap On His Asia Trip?
13th November 2017
- Mocking Trump Doesn't Prove Russia's Guilt
13th November 2017
- Saudi Arabia and Israel Know They Cannot Defeat Iran, Want to Drag the US into an Uncontainable War
13th November 2017
- Education Scholarship Tax Credits Help Children and Advance Liberty
13th November 2017
- US Demand for RT FARA Registration 'Sounds Like Desperation' - Daniel McAdams
12th November 2017
- Foreign Agents Registration Act Marked by History of Politicization, Selective Enforcement
11th November 2017
- Can Trump Salvage his Presidency?
11th November 2017
- America's 'Allies' Are Setting Up Another Trap for US in the Middle East
10th November 2017
- Manipulation: The US State Department's New Program to Take On Hungarian Media
10th November 2017
- Saudi Escalation: Lebanon And Yemen In The Crosshairs
9th November 2017
- South Korea Should 'Brexit' the United States
8th November 2017
- Deconstructing 'Russia-Gate'
8th November 2017
- The Creation of 'Russia-Gate'
8th November 2017
- Ducks Lining Up: Saudi, Israeli, US Moves On Iran, Lebanon
7th November 2017
- America Breaks Down: The Anatomy of a National Nervous Breakdown
7th November 2017
- Trump In Asia: Diplomacy Or Sabre-Rattling?
6th November 2017
- Dubious Osama bin Laden Documents: A Pretext for a War on Iran
6th November 2017
- GOP Tax Plan Increases the Most Insidious Tax
6th November 2017
- Visitors to the Colony of Afghanistan
4th November 2017
- Facebook Farce Shows Lawmaker Deviousness, Demagoguery
4th November 2017
- Mission Creep in Darkest Africa
4th November 2017
- 'It Sure Looked Unethical': Brazile Discloses Deal That Gave Hillary Clinton Control Over DNC Before Primary
3rd November 2017
- Bombshell Revelation of US and Saudi Culpability in Creating ISIS Ignored by Mainstream Media – and by Team Trump
3rd November 2017
- How Obama and Hillary Clinton Weaponized the 'Dossier'
3rd November 2017
- 'US Govt Undermines Democracy' Seeking More Control Over Social Media
2nd November 2017
- Oliver Stone Was Right About the CIA
2nd November 2017
- War on Terror Costs Taxpayers $250 Million a Day
2nd November 2017
- Revealed: How The Russians Stole Our Election
1st November 2017
- Tragic Horrors...From New York To Yemen
1st November 2017
- October
- Mueller Mugs America: The Case Of Baby George Papadopoulos
31st October 2017
- How to End the Endless War
31st October 2017
- Do We Need A New War Authorization?
31st October 2017
- NATO Threatens Turkey...
30th October 2017
- The Rise of MEK/NCRI in Washington: Pay Off The Right People and You Are No Longer A Terrorist
30th October 2017
- Neocons Hijack Trump's Syria Policy
30th October 2017
- In Shocking, Viral Interview, Qatar Confesses Secrets Behind Syrian War
29th October 2017
- Deciphering Trump's Foreign Policy
28th October 2017
- Russia-gate Breeds 'Establishment McCarthyism'
27th October 2017
- Twitter Rescues American Democracy By Banning Ads From RT And Sputnik
27th October 2017
- US Allows Saudi Arabia To Plant Wahhabi Seed In Raqqa Rubble
26th October 2017
- Congress Passes 'Harshest' Sanctions On North Korea...And The People Suffer
26th October 2017
- Are Republicans Libertarians?
25th October 2017
- Jeff Flake and The DC Impasse: Who's At Fault?
25th October 2017
- The Harmful Effects of Antifa
25th October 2017
- Pentagon Expands 'Terror War' To Africa: Where Is Congress?
24th October 2017
- In A Dramatic Pivot, Shia Militia Leader Tells US: 'Get Ready To Leave Iraq'
24th October 2017
- Mutual Assured Destruction: Missile Defense Might be a Lie
24th October 2017
- Cold War Returned: B-52s Back On 'Ready Alert'
23rd October 2017
- Winning in Africa
23rd October 2017
- Trump's Fed Picks? More of the Same!
23rd October 2017
- Great News, Everyone! The CIA Has Promised To Become 'Much More Vicious'!
21st October 2017
- 'The Police Just F**ked My Life' - Alabamians Outraged As Civil Asset Forfeitures Soar
21st October 2017
- Raqqa Destroyed to Libertate it
21st October 2017
- Torturer-in-Chief Turned Savior of Freedom?
20th October 2017
- Mogadishu Attack Was Revenge for Murderous US-Somali Raid
20th October 2017
- An Attack on Iran or North Korea Wouldn't Be Putting 'America First'
20th October 2017
- Donald Trump Didn't Create Danger of Presidential Dictatorship, He Inherited it
19th October 2017
- Killing For Peace? More Civilian Deaths Now Than Under Obama
19th October 2017
- McCain As Metaphor
19th October 2017
- Saudi Money In Syria - Sowing The Seeds Of ISIS 2.0
18th October 2017
- Blowback In Africa - Mogadishu Again!
18th October 2017
- How Trump Is Fueling the Refugee Crisis He Despises
18th October 2017
- The Battle Of Kirkuk - All About Oil?
17th October 2017
- Hillary Clinton Just Told Five Blatant Lies About WikiLeaks
17th October 2017
- This Is How Tyranny Rises and Freedom Falls: The Experiment in Freedom Is Failing
17th October 2017
- Trump And Iran: Have The Neocons Won?
16th October 2017
- US Deploys Special Forces 'Decapitation' Team To South Korea
16th October 2017
- President Trump Beats War Drums For Iran
16th October 2017
- Trump Shoot The US in The Foot Over Iran
15th October 2017
- The Russiagate Scandal Descends into Total Absurdity
14th October 2017
- This Is What Americans Heard During The Mysterious Cuban Sonic Attacks, And Why Experts Don't Buy It
14th October 2017
- Eager To Kill Iran Deal, Trump Finds Allies In Iraq WMD Peddling Neocons
13th October 2017
- The Deep State's Bogus 'Iranian Threat'
12th October 2017
- Russia Wades into Saudi-Iran Rift
12th October 2017
- 'Russiagate' And The Decline Of Journalism - With Robert Parry
12th October 2017
- Did Trump Call For Ten Times More Nukes?
11th October 2017
- Horrific New Revelations On CIA Torture
10th October 2017
- Sputnik and RT Under Investigation
10th October 2017
- Trump's 70-Point Immigration Reform - Here's A Better Way
9th October 2017
- Antifa in Theory and in Practice
9th October 2017
- Will Tax Reform Increase or Limit Liberty?
9th October 2017
- Longest War in US History Turns 16 Today – Thousands Dead, No End in Sight & It's Getting Worse
7th October 2017
- Trump Will Declare Iran Nuclear Deal 'Not in the National Interest'
6th October 2017
- Ron Paul: The Revolution At Ten Years
6th October 2017
- Russia Issues Third Warning Against US Cooperation With Terrorists in Syria
5th October 2017
- Britain Moves To Criminalize Reading Extremist Material On The Internet
5th October 2017
- USA LIBERTY Act - Making Spying On You Permanent
5th October 2017
- Cuba's 'Sonic Weapons' - Real Or Imagined?
4th October 2017
- Trump and 'His Generals' on Collision Course Over Iran
4th October 2017
- Whose Bright Idea Was RussiaGate?
3rd October 2017
- US Violence Abroad Begets Violence at Home
3rd October 2017
- America: The Dictatress of the World
2nd October 2017
- Trump Vs. Tillerson: War Or Diplomacy?
2nd October 2017
- What Did Washington Achieve in its Six Year War on Syria?
2nd October 2017
- Vietnam Déjà Vu
1st October 2017
- September
- Ron Paul: Anti-Russia Campaign Stems From Bias and Desire to Limit Free Speech
30th September 2017
- Congress Relying On Debunked 'Guilt By Association' Online Tool To Track 'Russian Influence'
30th September 2017
- Coverup? FBI, DOJ Refuse To Comply With Congressional 'Trump Dossier' Subpoena
29th September 2017
- Dissonance: When Cult of Personalities Gets in the Way of Understanding
29th September 2017
- 'US in Grip of Anti-Russia Hysteria, Worse Than Days of Salem Witch Trials'
29th September 2017
- The Push To 'Fight Foreign Propaganda' Is The Same As Government Book Burning
28th September 2017
- North Korea Would Be Stupid to Trust the US
28th September 2017
- Surviving The Coming Bond Crash
28th September 2017
- The Atlantic Council: 'Debates' Between People Who Hate Russia & People Who Really Hate Russia
27th September 2017
- Trump Says 'No' To Catalan Independence
27th September 2017
- Christians Return to Syria- But Not to Iraq
27th September 2017
- Washington Post Pushes More Dubious Russia-Bashing
26th September 2017
- Kurd Independence Vote - Progress Or Danger?
26th September 2017
- More on Imran Awan - Where Are All Those Congressional Emails?
26th September 2017
- Syria - US CentCom Declares War On Russia
25th September 2017
- Trump Vs The NFL - The Right To Protest
25th September 2017
- How to End the Korea Crisis
25th September 2017
- How World War One Still Haunts America
23rd September 2017
- Trump's UN Speech: the Swamp's Wine in an 'America First!' Bottle
22nd September 2017
- Oil, Gas, Geopolitics Guide US Hand In Playing The Rohingya Crisis
22nd September 2017
- Hysteria in America: Congress Filled With 'Totalitarians' Who Oppose 'Free Market of Ideas'
21st September 2017
- Defense Secretary Mattis: US Cannot Survive On 'Puny' Military Budget
21st September 2017
- Juggalo Blues: Their Beef With FBI No Laughing Matter
21st September 2017
- The Worst Mistake in US History
20th September 2017
- Trump's UN Speech: A Neocon Dream?
20th September 2017
- US Sanctions Against Venezuela Will Hurt Americans
20th September 2017
- Let Catalonia Decide
20th September 2017
- The US Has New Red Line in Syria -- And It's...Ridiculous!
19th September 2017
- President Trump To Unleash The CIA Drones
19th September 2017
- Korea Solution Needs US to Sign a Peace Treaty
19th September 2017
- Scandal: The Pentagon's $2 Billion Underground Syria Weapons Pipeline
18th September 2017
- America's Slow-Motion Military Coup
18th September 2017
- Rand Paul's Senate Vote Rolls Back the Warfare State
18th September 2017
- Accused of War Crimes, Saudis Investigate Themselves and Find No Wrongdoing
16th September 2017
- Afghanistan - US Resolved To Repeat Failures
15th September 2017
- Janet Reno: Saint or Tyrant?
15th September 2017
- Reagan Documents Shed Light on US 'Meddling'
15th September 2017
- The Neocon Case Against The Iran Nuclear Deal - One Big Lie!
14th September 2017
- Six Major US Foreign Policy Failures of the Post-Cold War Era
14th September 2017
- Sen. Rand Paul Forces Vote On 16 Year Undeclared War
13th September 2017
- Bombshell Report Catches Pentagon Falsifying Paperwork For Weapons Transfers To Syrian Rebels
13th September 2017
- The UN Losing Poker Hand in Libya
12th September 2017
- Welcome to 1984: Big Brother Google Now Watching Your Every Political Move
12th September 2017
- What We Lost on September 11th
11th September 2017
- The Case Against the Iranian Nuclear Deal is One Big Lie
11th September 2017
- Why Did Robert Mueller Obstruct Congress's 9/11 Probe?
11th September 2017
- Congress Exploits Hurricane to Raise Debt Ceiling
11th September 2017
- Israel Launches Air Strikes On Syria And Assad's Waiting Game'
8th September 2017
- The Bombast of Nikki Haley
8th September 2017
- The USS Liberty Wins One!
7th September 2017
- GOP Congressman: Trump Losing Me on Foreign Policy
6th September 2017
- Interventionism and the Korean Crisis
6th September 2017
- What Michael Moore Gets Right and Wrong about the Police State
6th September 2017
- American Jackboot Diplomacy
5th September 2017
- Trump Bumbling Into Unnecessary War With North Korea
4th September 2017
- Government 'Aid' Makes Disasters Worse
4th September 2017
- Russia Responds to Netanyahu's Ultimatum in Syria With a Warning to Israel
3rd September 2017
- Three Dangerous Delusions about Korea
3rd September 2017
- Always Planning Never Winning: While US Wins Some Battles, Insurgents Win the Wars
2nd September 2017
- Time To Listen to Our Korean Allies
2nd September 2017
- Last Eight Months Prove United States a Bonafide 'Regime'
1st September 2017
- August
- What Afghan 'Stalemate' is All About
31st August 2017
- Is a Militarized Police The Answer To Inner City Turmoil?
30th August 2017
- Making Stuff up on Twitter is the New 'Journalism' -- and We Deserve it
30th August 2017
- Ruby Ridge Lessons for Fighting Right-Wing Extremism
29th August 2017
- Iran, Again...Will Israel Start a New War?
29th August 2017
- Will Congress and Trump Declare War on WikiLeaks?
28th August 2017
- Wikileaks' Julian Assange to Join RPI Conference!
26th August 2017
- One Way to End Drug War Violence
26th August 2017
- I Predict a 'RIOT' as Dissent in American Media Becomes Illegitimate
26th August 2017
- Trump and Korea. I'm Also Scared
25th August 2017
- Trump's New Strategy for Afghanistan Is Neither New, nor a Strategy, nor Trump's
25th August 2017
- Unlike Trump, JFK Didn't Bend the Knee
24th August 2017
- US Liberals Cozy up to Antifa, America's Anti-Free Speech 'Taliban'
23rd August 2017
- The Mini-Skirt Deception: How McMaster Got His Afghan 'Surge'
23rd August 2017
- Freedom for the Speech We Hate: The Legal Ins and Outs of the Right to Protest
22nd August 2017
- The International Criminal Court is the Antithesis of Justice
22nd August 2017
- One Step Closer to War: US, South Korea Hold New Military Drills
21st August 2017
- Oppose Fascism of the Right and the Left
21st August 2017
- Escape from Aleppo
20th August 2017
- Everyone Is Wrong About North Korea
19th August 2017
- Weapons Money Intended for Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying
18th August 2017
- Marco Rubio Says It's OK To Beat People For Their Thoughts
18th August 2017
- Iran Will be Trump's Nemesis
17th August 2017
- Korea and Venezuela: Flip Sides of the Same Coin
15th August 2017
- The Wrong Narrative in Charlottesville
14th August 2017
- North Korea and The Unintended Consequences of Trump
14th August 2017
- Attack Venezuela? Trump Can't be Serious!
14th August 2017
- Trump Isn't Going to Invade Venezuela, But What He's Planning Might be Just as Bad
12th August 2017
- If War Comes, Don't Blame the 'Military-Industrial Complex' – Things Are Even Worse Than You Think
12th August 2017
- End Democracy Promotion Balderdash
11th August 2017
- Bring the Troops Home From Korea
11th August 2017
- Why President Donald Trump May Let Hillary Clinton Walk Scot-Free
10th August 2017
- Pentagon Unveils Plan For 'Pre-Emptive Strike' On North Korea
10th August 2017
- US Military Presence Overseas Mushrooming: Here, There and Everywhere
10th August 2017
- The Unsung Summit of Putin and Trump
9th August 2017
- If America Was Trying to Start a World War, This Is How It Would Happen
9th August 2017
- Reports of Hungary's Slide into 'Dictatorship' Have Been Exaggerated
8th August 2017
- The Tale of the Brothers Awan
8th August 2017
- Jeff Sessions Endorses Theft
7th August 2017
- NATO Beefs Up Logistics Infrastructure for Offensive Operations
6th August 2017
- McMaster: U.S. Preparing For 'Preventive War' With North Korea
5th August 2017
- Time to End the Lost Afghan War
5th August 2017
- Where Trump Might Be Vulnerable
4th August 2017
- Isolated Trump Flails Helplessly as He Bows to Irrational Policies on Russia and Europe Imposed by Congress
4th August 2017
- Russia Sanctions and The Coming Crackdown on Americans
3rd August 2017
- US Ignores Saudi Beheading of 14 Activists, Labels Venezuela Dictatorship Despite Elections
2nd August 2017
- Groupthink at the CIA
1st August 2017
- Trump Calls On Police To Be Rougher In Handling Suspects In Speech Denounced By Police Organizations
1st August 2017
- July
- America Declares Economic War Against Europe
31st July 2017
- Russia's Expulsion of Staff From the US Embassy in Moscow is Unprecedented and Huge
31st July 2017
- North Korea or Iran Where Will President Trump Attack First?
31st July 2017
- Countdown To War On Venezuela
29th July 2017
- Bipartisanship! The Evil Party and Stupid Party Team Up to Cripple Trump, Subvert the Rule of Law, and Put the US on a Road to War
29th July 2017
- Get Out of Afghanistan and Go Home
28th July 2017
- US Sanctions Aimed at Russia Strike Western European Allies
28th July 2017
- Home Alone – Trump Is the Kevin McCallister of American Politics
27th July 2017
- The Atlantic Council: Experts on the Front Line of Disinformation
27th July 2017
- President Trump: The Only America First Afghan Policy is to Get Out of Afghanistan
26th July 2017
- Trump Is Being Moved Aside So That Conflict with Russia Can Proceed
26th July 2017
- Policing for Profit: Jeff Sessions & Co.'s Thinly Veiled Plot to Rob Us Blind
25th July 2017
- Israel Anti-Boycott Act - An Attack On Free Speech?
25th July 2017
- Mr. Trump: Veto This Bill! - Sanctions Lead To War
24th July 2017
- Sour Grapes: Iran Wins the Iraq War, and I Scooped the NYT by Six Years on the Story
24th July 2017
- US Ends CIA Program in Syria but Continues Preparations for Big War
24th July 2017
- Trump Should Veto Congress' Foolish New Sanctions Bill
24th July 2017
- Five Weird Conspiracy Theories from CIA Director Mike Pompeo
22nd July 2017
- Syria Gas Attack and Russian Election Hacking...Debunking Fake News With Scott Ritter
21st July 2017
- Trump Ends Syrian Regime Change Campaign
21st July 2017
- US Urges All Nationals In North Korea To 'Depart Immediately,' Bans Tourists From Visiting
21st July 2017
- RPI's Peace and Prosperity 2017 Conference: 'Where We're Going and How We'll Get There!'
20th July 2017
- 40,000 Civilian Dead In Mosul?
20th July 2017
- New Survey: Americans Afraid Of Major War. Whose Fault?
19th July 2017
- Silencing War Criticism: The Iraq Invasion of 2003
19th July 2017
- It Took Obama More Than Two Years to Kill This Many Civilians. It Took Trump Less Than Six Months.
19th July 2017
- Jeff Sessions Declares War On Liberty
18th July 2017
- US Stumbling into War with Iran
18th July 2017
- How to Sustain Perpetual War (It's Easy!)
18th July 2017
- Four Major Famines - Unintended Consequences Of US Foreign Policy
17th July 2017
- Photos Of Aleppo Rising: Swimsuits, Concerts And Rebuilding In First Jihadi-Free Summer
17th July 2017
- Big Military Spending Boost Threatens Our Economy and Security
17th July 2017
- Democrats Gone Mad: The Year of Living Stupidly
16th July 2017
- 20th Anniversary, Asian Financial Crisis: Clinton, The IMF And Wall Street Journal Toppled Suharto
15th July 2017
- Obama's AWOL Antiwar Protest
15th July 2017
- Tucker Carlson, Neocon Slayer
14th July 2017
- Aleppo and Mosul: A Tale of Two Liberated Cities
14th July 2017
- Return of Pentagon Mercenaries Worries US Active Duty Military
14th July 2017
- US Taxpayers Will be 'Crying in Their Beers' When Iraqi Reconstruction Bill Arrives
13th July 2017
- Can Tillerson Referee The Qatar/Saudi Crisis?
13th July 2017
- Mosul: Another 'Mission Accomplished'
12th July 2017
- The Destructiveness of America's Alliances
12th July 2017
- Back To Benghazi - Are More US Troops The Answer?
11th July 2017
- Who Is the Real Enemy?
11th July 2017
- Partial Syria Ceasefire (Again). Who's Winning, Trump Or Putin?
10th July 2017
- Russophobia Hits the Libertarian Movement
10th July 2017
- Janet Yellen: False Prophet of Prosperity
10th July 2017
- The Unspeakable Crime of Viktor Orban
8th July 2017
- Why Imperial Washington Should Cool it On North Korea
8th July 2017
- New Syria Ceasefire Deal May Be US Attempt to Save Rebels From Defeat
7th July 2017
- Don't Be Surprised to See Trump Bomb North Korea
7th July 2017
- Trump Meets Putin - Who Has the Upper Hand?
6th July 2017
- Trump Sends in the Gun Confiscation Cops
6th July 2017
- 'Russiagate': The Stink Without a Secret
6th July 2017
- Let South Korea Be South Korea
5th July 2017
- Anti-Interventionist Voters Elected Trump
5th July 2017
- Time to End Our 14 Year Middle East Misadventure
5th July 2017
- Declaring Independence - A Novel Idea!
4th July 2017
- The Fraud of the White Helmets
4th July 2017
- Trump Appoints Himself Chicago Police Chief
3rd July 2017
- You Want a Picture of the Future? Imagine a Boot Stamping on Your Face
3rd July 2017
- We Must Declare Independence
3rd July 2017
- How Accidental are America's Accidental Civilian Killings Across the Middle East?
1st July 2017
- June
- 'The Putin Interviews' - Oliver Stone Speaks Out!
30th June 2017
- NYT Finally Retracts Russia-gate Canard
30th June 2017
- Mad Dog's Pathetic Syrian Chemical Attack Propaganda
30th June 2017
- Fake News Media Suppress Two Blockbuster Stories on Syria
29th June 2017
- Peace Is Popular
29th June 2017
- Is Civil War Coming To Saudi Arabia?
29th June 2017
- More Americans See Liberty In Decline. Why?
28th June 2017
- Trump's Super Fake Syria News: More US Attacks Expected
27th June 2017
- Trump's Reckless Syria Folly
27th June 2017
- Intel Behind Trump's Syria Attack Questioned
26th June 2017
- The Age of No Privacy: The Surveillance State Shifts Into High Gear
26th June 2017
- Republicans Still Pushing False Flags In Syria And Cold War With Russia
26th June 2017
- Republican Healthcare Plan Fails the 'Jimmy Kimmel Test'
26th June 2017
- Tyranny at Home to Fight Tyranny Abroad
24th June 2017
- Snowden Part Two: Edward Interviews Ron!
24th June 2017
- The Saudi-Qatar Spat - An Offer To Be Refused
23rd June 2017
- Groundhog Day in Iraq? Nope, Worse
23rd June 2017
- How America Armed Terrorists In Syria
22nd June 2017
- Russia/Iran Sanctions Delayed In House: Policy Change...or Deep State Pressure?
22nd June 2017
- Ron Paul: 'US Should Mind its Own Business; It Shouldn't be in Syria'
21st June 2017
- Paul Ryan's Tax 'Reform' -- Beware!
21st June 2017
- Our Rush to War in Syria -- It's a Disaster in the Making
21st June 2017
- Supreme Court Rules Overwhelmingly To Strike Down 'Disparagement Clause' Used To Bar Offensive Trademarks
20th June 2017
- Self-Defense Is No Defense for US Acts of War in Syria
20th June 2017
- Security...or Surveillance? The Edward Snowden Interview
20th June 2017
- Escalation! US Hits Syrian Jet, Russia Cuts Communications
19th June 2017
- Hodgkinson's Disease: Politics and Paranoia in the Age of Trump
19th June 2017
- Trump Turns Back the Clock With Cold War Cuba U-Turn
19th June 2017
- The ICC Should be on Trial not Saif Gaddafi
18th June 2017
- It's the Russia, Stupid
16th June 2017
- Derangement And Danger On The Potomac
16th June 2017
- Trump Administration Following in Obama Administration's Footsteps on Marijuana
16th June 2017
- The War In Afghanistan Is A Racket
15th June 2017
- New Russia Sanctions: The Deep State Unifies Congress
15th June 2017
- Tyranny Over There but Not Over Here
15th June 2017
- Gen. Mattis Admits Afghanistan Truth: After 15 Years, No End In Sight
14th June 2017
- The Saudi War Against Qatar
14th June 2017
- Lynching Free Speech: The Intolerant State of America
13th June 2017
- Global Peace Index: Where Do We Rank...And Why?
13th June 2017
- Liars Lying About Nearly Everything
13th June 2017
- Qatar Chaos: Washington's Middle East Mass Confusion
12th June 2017
- Understanding the Cost of War: Moral Injury
12th June 2017
- Why Are We Attacking the Syrians Who Are Fighting ISIS?
12th June 2017
- Saudi Arabia is Destabilizing the World
11th June 2017
- Can Gaddafi Save Libya?
11th June 2017
- The Surveillance State and Big Brother Trump
10th June 2017
- Terror in Tehran, Qatar Spat, and Race for Syria-Iraq Border: the Washington 'Swamp' Gives Green Light for Saudi Arabia's Jihad Agenda
9th June 2017
- Russia-gate's Mythical 'Heroes'
9th June 2017
- The Imperial City Unhinged -- J. Edgar Comey's Big Fat Nothingburger
9th June 2017
- Comey Under The Gun: Truth-Telling...Or Just Politics?
8th June 2017
- Trump -- Blundering into European Truths
8th June 2017
- Punishing People for Helping Dying Children is Evil Too
8th June 2017
- CrowdStrike, The DNC's Security Firm, Was Under Contract With The FBI
7th June 2017
- Russia: US-Declared 'De-Confliction Zone' In Syria Illegitimate
7th June 2017
- Hey Intercept, Something is Very Wrong with Reality Winner and the NSA Leak
7th June 2017
- Twilight of the Courts: The Elusive Search for Justice in the American Police State
6th June 2017
- Bring the Troops Home, Mr. President
6th June 2017
- London Attacks: Don't Blame Iran
5th June 2017
- Is Libya War Coming to an End?
5th June 2017
- Beyond 'Blowback': Islam and Terror
5th June 2017
- Trump's Budget: Radical Change or More of the Same?
5th June 2017
- Haven't We Had Enough of Afghanistan?
2nd June 2017
- Washington's War on Food is Making Us Sick!
2nd June 2017
- Five Bad Arguments the Left is Using to Restrict Speech from the Right
1st June 2017
- May
- An Update on Blocking The Saudi Arms Deal with Senator Rand Paul
31st May 2017
- Libya's Post-Gaddafi Chaos: Is There Any Way Out?
31st May 2017
- What Did John Brennan and Anonymous Sources Really Say?
30th May 2017
- World in Flames - the Deadly Legacy of Cold War Warrior Brzezinski
30th May 2017
- Memorial Day: What Should We Remember?
29th May 2017
- The Troops Don't Defend Our Freedoms
29th May 2017
- 'Libya's Utterly Predictable Chaos Perfect for Exporting Weapons & Jihadists into Syria'
29th May 2017
- Are We Fighting Terrorism, Or Creating More Terrorism?
28th May 2017
- The Great White Father Comes to Saudi Arabia
27th May 2017
- Blame David Cameron for Manchester Bombing!
26th May 2017
- Lying DEA Officials Get a Pass (Just Like Clapper)
26th May 2017
- Rebels 'Went to Libya With MI5 Blessing' Amid Abedi Probe
26th May 2017
- NSA Spying On Americans 'Widespread' - Let Sec. 702 Expire!
25th May 2017
- Was Manchester Blowback?
24th May 2017
- Slovakia: NATO Exit Idea Gains Momentum
24th May 2017
- The 'War On Terrorism' Isn't Working
24th May 2017
- The Republic Has Fallen: The Deep State's Plot to Take Over America Has Succeeded
23rd May 2017
- Manchester Tragedy: Understanding The Big Picture
23rd May 2017
- Trump In Saudi Arabia - 'Peace In Our Time?'
22nd May 2017
- Donald of Arabia: A Disgusting Spectacle
22nd May 2017
- Will the Trump Administration Overdose on Authoritarianism?
22nd May 2017
- US Attacks Syrian Government Forces - It Now Has To Make Its Choice
21st May 2017
- The Russian Obsession Goes Back Decades
20th May 2017
- The Assault on Trump
20th May 2017
- Seth Rich, Craig Murray and the Sinister Stewards of the National Security State
20th May 2017
- Black Swans And Interventionistas...With Special Guest Nassim Nicholas Taleb
19th May 2017
- The Special Counsel Comes to Town: It's the Moscow Trials, Revisited
19th May 2017
- While the Deep State 'Death Star' Seeks to Finish Off Trump, 'Mr. Massacre' Returns Pushing for Greater Albania
19th May 2017
- US Thinking on Arming the Kurds: Complex, Intricate, Nuanced, or Just Plain Stupid?
18th May 2017
- Mueller Appointed 'Chief Prosecutor' -- 'Russiagate' Crisis Over...Or Just Beginning?
18th May 2017
- The 'Giuliani Moment' 10 Years On: What Does It Mean Today?
17th May 2017
- America's Reign of Terror: A Nation Reaps What It Sows
17th May 2017
- 'Russiagate' -- National Security Threat...Or Just Politics?
16th May 2017
- Israel Minister: 'The Time Has Come To Assassinate Bashar Assad'
16th May 2017
- The 'Giuliani Moment'
16th May 2017
- Are They Really Out to Get Trump?
16th May 2017
- Jeff Sessions' Authoritarian Drug Crackdown Won't Work
15th May 2017
- President Trump: Toss Your Generals' War Escalation Plans In the Trash
14th May 2017
- Ron Paul Rewind (2010): 'End the War in Afghanistan Now!'
13th May 2017
- Comey Fring Justly Knocks FBI off its Pedestal
13th May 2017
- Shut Down the 'Russia-gate' Farce
13th May 2017
- Will Trump Agree to the Pentagon's Permanent War in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria?
12th May 2017
- Watergate Redux or 'Deep State' Coup?
12th May 2017
- No Evidence of Russian Intrusion in US Political System
11th May 2017
- Arming The Kurds - A Dangerous Idea
11th May 2017
- Syria Doesn't Need Our Help Against Terrorists
10th May 2017
- Comey Fired...Now Fire The FBI!
10th May 2017
- McCain Hammers Tillerson On Human Rights: Why The Panic?
9th May 2017
- On That Day Began Lies
9th May 2017
- Trump's First Trip: Will He 'Stabilize' The Middle East?
8th May 2017
- ProPublica Attacks First Amendment, Cloudflare Edition
8th May 2017
- President Trump: Cancel Your Saudi Trip, Play More Golf
7th May 2017
- How Berkeley and NYU's Anti-Free Speech Actions are as Unconstitutional as Hell
6th May 2017
- Pre-emptive War Is A Pandora's Box
5th May 2017
- What the North Korean 'Crisis' Is Really About
4th May 2017
- Madison Was Right About War
4th May 2017
- Syria Safe Zones Declared: Will The Killing Finally End?
4th May 2017
- Welcome to the White House, President Duterte
3rd May 2017
- Ask Ron Paul: NAFTA, Obamacare, Taxes, State Rights, And More...
3rd May 2017
- War or Peace?
3rd May 2017
- Enemy Of The Week: US To Slap Iran With New Sanctions
2nd May 2017
- The Real WMD in Syria – West's Weapon of Mass Disorientation
2nd May 2017
- Big Brother Is Still Watching You: Don't Fall for the NSA's Latest Ploy
1st May 2017
- As Expected, A 'Bipartisan' Budget...More Spending!
1st May 2017
- Peace: Neither Ink nor Blood
1st May 2017
- Save Liberty, Shut Down the Government
1st May 2017
- April
- Two Western Narratives on North Korea; Both Cannot be True
30th April 2017
- President Trump: You Can't Fight the Whole World
30th April 2017
- Saddam Hussein at 80: Iraq Without its 'Liberation'
29th April 2017
- Gen Mattis' Syria Chemical Claim Smacks of Politicized Intelligence
29th April 2017
- Julian Assange Speaks Out: The War On The Truth
28th April 2017
- Phony Hysterics Over North Korea
28th April 2017
- Trump's Foreign Policy after 100 Days: Tweeting with Bombs?
28th April 2017
- Do American Airports Suck? Yes, Yes They Do
28th April 2017
- A Libertarian Laughs At The State, With Dave Smith
27th April 2017
- CIA Director Pompeo Doesn't Understand the First Amendment
27th April 2017
- Our Turk Allies Just Attacked Our Kurd Allies - Whose Side Are We On?
26th April 2017
- What Comes After the US Missile Strike in Syria?
26th April 2017
- State Governments Are Becoming the Biggest Drug Lords of All
26th April 2017
- New Syria Sanctions; Gas Attack Claims Still Unproven
25th April 2017
- The Iron Jaws of the Police State: Trump's America Is a Constitution-Free Zone
25th April 2017
- Why is US Media Ignoring Prof. Postol's Study on Syria Chemical Weapons Attack?
24th April 2017
- Tell Us Why We're At War, President Trump
24th April 2017
- Will the FBI Spy on the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity? It Wouldn't Surprise Me
24th April 2017
- Candidate Trump: 'I Love Wikileaks.' President Trump: 'Arrest Assange!'
24th April 2017
- France: Will 'La Morosite' Win the Vote?
22nd April 2017
- US 'Deep State' Sold Out Counter-Terrorism to Keep Itself in Business
22nd April 2017
- On Interventionistas and their Mental Defects
22nd April 2017
- The Spy State Unleashed
21st April 2017
- Berkeley Cancels Coulter Speech . . . Coulter Vows To Defy University
20th April 2017
- Tillerson Threatens Iran: 'The Great Destabilizer'?
20th April 2017
- President Trump's Disappearance
20th April 2017
- More US Troops To Afghanistan: Will A New 'Surge' Work?
19th April 2017
- How the US Government Spins the Story
18th April 2017
- 'Doing Time Like A Spy' - With Guest John Kiriakou
18th April 2017
- Why The Donald Should Cool It On North Korea
18th April 2017
- Run for Your Life: The American Police State Is Coming to Get You
17th April 2017
- Who 'Provoked And Destabilized' North Korea? China?
17th April 2017
- The Federal Reserve Is, and Always Has Been, Politicized
17th April 2017
- Did Al Qaeda Fool the White House Again?
15th April 2017
- Trump's Middle East Policy: Shifting 'America First' to 'America Omnipresent'
15th April 2017
- Tillerson in Moscow: Is World War III Back on Track?
14th April 2017
- Trump Walks Into Syria Trap Via Fake 'Intelligence'
14th April 2017
- If You're Wondering Why Trump Can Just Bomb Countries, Ask Obama, Bush, and Clinton
14th April 2017
- Does Anybody Know What Our Russia Policy Is?
13th April 2017
- President Trump, with respect, start ruthlessly purging the US general officer corps
13th April 2017
- Donald J. Trump: The Empire's Spanker-In-Chief
12th April 2017
- Why Does Assad Have To Go? -- With Lew Rockwell
11th April 2017
- Is There A New US Syria Policy? Is There One At All?
11th April 2017
- Iran the Destabilizer
11th April 2017
- After Trump Bombed Syria, Are We All Neocons Now?
10th April 2017
- After Trump's Syria Attack, What Comes Next?
10th April 2017
- If you have time, Mr. President, Senator Paul can help you learn the Constitution means what it says
9th April 2017
- Bomb the Usual Arabs
9th April 2017
- Syria: New US Air Support On Request Scheme For Al-Qaeda
7th April 2017
- US Bombs Syria - National Security Or Aggression? With Guest, US Rep. Thomas Massie
7th April 2017
- WWI Anniversary: 100 Years Of 'Making World Safe For Democracy'
6th April 2017
- Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria
6th April 2017
- Woodrow Wilson Made Democracy Unsafe for the World
6th April 2017
- Syria Gas Attack: Assad's Doing...Or False Flag?
5th April 2017
- By Jingo, an 'Act of War!'
4th April 2017
- Susan Rice Spy Scandal: Was Trump Right? And What It Means.
4th April 2017
- Just Bring the Troops Home
3rd April 2017
- Threatening China Over Korea: Grandstanding...Or Wise Diplomacy
3rd April 2017
- Does it Matter Who Pulls the Trigger in the Drone Wars?
3rd April 2017
- Yes, Let's Allow The Syrian People To Decide For Themselves
3rd April 2017
- The Sleazy Origins of Russia-Gate
1st April 2017
- March
- Ron Paul Rewind (1999): 'Our Foolish Policy in Iraq Invites Terrorist Attacks Against US Territory'
31st March 2017
- There Was No 'Russian Hacking' of the 2016 Election
31st March 2017
- Mosul: Where Obama's Last Gambit Could Ruin Trump
31st March 2017
- War Between US And China Brewing in South China Sea?
31st March 2017
- Free Market Healthcare? Favorite Country? Ron Paul Answers Viewer Questions
30th March 2017
- Constitutional Q&A: The Legality of Stop and ID Procedures
29th March 2017
- Escalation Everywhere: Will Trump's Foreign Policy Succeed?
29th March 2017
- Ending Syria's Nightmare will Take Pressure From Below
28th March 2017
- Dick Cheney Surfaces: Claims Interfering In Elections 'An Act Of War'
28th March 2017
- Death at Your Door: Knock-and-Talk Police Tactics Rip a Hole in the Constitution
28th March 2017
- Trump's War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised
27th March 2017
- Game of Thorns: Revelations From The 2016 Campaign
27th March 2017
- Did the Government Spy on Trump? Of Course. It Spies on All of Us!
27th March 2017
- Macedonia to George Soros and USAID: Go Away
24th March 2017
- 'Has America become North Korea, where speaking to Russia is forbidden?'
24th March 2017
- The evidence that the Russians hacked the DNC is collapsing
24th March 2017
- Is Tillerson Skipping NATO for Russia a Crisis? (No.)
23rd March 2017
- Comey Lied? Trump Vindicated? Nobody's Safe From PATRIOT Act
23rd March 2017
- Fool Me Once: Crowdstrike Claimed Two Cases Of 'Russian Hacking.' One Has Been Proven Wrong.
22nd March 2017
- Is North Korea An 'Imminent Threat'?
22nd March 2017
- 'US Democrats and Neocons Need Some Anti-Psychotic Medication Over Trump'
21st March 2017
- House Russia Hearing: Revelations Or More Speculation?
21st March 2017
- Israel Precipitates New Tensions in Syria
21st March 2017
- McCain and Montenegro: The Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory
21st March 2017
- Trump Budget Cuts Bankroll New Waste
20th March 2017
- Neocons Strike Back: Kagan Family On The Warpath (Again)
20th March 2017
- Mainstream Media in Total Collapse
20th March 2017
- Obamacare Repeal or Obamacare 2.0?
19th March 2017
- Why Are Americans Searched at the Border?
18th March 2017
- No One Needs Another Korean War
18th March 2017
- How To End the Korean War
17th March 2017
- Jeff Sessions is Less of a Threat to Marijuana Legalization than You May Think
17th March 2017
- The Kagans Are Back; Wars to Follow
16th March 2017
- Fed Hikes Rate - Stagflation Ahead?
16th March 2017
- The Four Horsemen Of The Trumpocalypse
15th March 2017
- Trump/Saudi Collusion: Laying Plans For More War In The Middle East
15th March 2017
- State Department: Is America's Oldest Cabinet Agency Trumped?
15th March 2017
- US Practices 'Taking Out' Kim Jong-Un -- What Will Be The Consequences?
14th March 2017
- What Is the CIA Hack All About?
14th March 2017
- New Rules Of Engagement: More Authority To The Generals
13th March 2017
- More Mideast Madness as Trump Prepares to March
13th March 2017
- Why Trump's Syria 'Surge' Will Fail
13th March 2017
- Assad Calls US Forces In Syria 'Invaders,' Loses Faith In Trump
12th March 2017
- Death in Ghayil
11th March 2017
- Do We Live in a Police State?
10th March 2017
- When Whistleblowers Tell The Truth They're Traitors. When Government Lies It's Politics
9th March 2017
- The Lynching of Lynne Stewart (1939-2017)
9th March 2017
- Race For Raqqa: Major US Escalation In Syria
9th March 2017
- Truman Was Right About the CIA
8th March 2017
- Trump's Global Hot Spots - Is He Losing Control?
8th March 2017
- Spygate: America's Political Police vs. Donald J. Trump
8th March 2017
- The CIA Leak Casts Doubt on Russian Involvement in the DNC/Podesta Leaks
7th March 2017
- New TSA Rules -- More Aggressive Pat-Downs!
7th March 2017
- The Left's Great Russian Conspiracy Theory
6th March 2017
- Reflections on the Revolution in Middlebury
6th March 2017
- Trump Tapped? President Accuses Obama Of Spying On His Campaign
6th March 2017
- Arizona Challenges the Fed's Money Monopoly
5th March 2017
- Why Libya's Cry for Justice Must be Heard
5th March 2017
- TSA Launches 'Invasive' Pat-Downs With 'More Intimate Contact Than Before'
4th March 2017
- Obama Ordered Abuse Of Intelligence To Sabotage Trump Policies
3rd March 2017
- GOP - Which Way?
3rd March 2017
- Dissent and the State Department: What Comes Next?
3rd March 2017
- The Basic Formula For Every Shocking Russia/Trump Revelation
2nd March 2017
- Lobbyists Concealed Their Saudi Paymasters From Veterans Pressed to Lobby Against 9/11 Bill
2nd March 2017
- Will The Neocons 'Flynn' Jeff Sessions?
2nd March 2017
- US-Backed Siege of Mosul Shows How Hypocritical Media Manipulates Us
1st March 2017
- Was Trump's Speech Libertarian?
1st March 2017
- Expect Increased Spending under President Trump, and Not Just on the Military
1st March 2017
- February
- Trump's 'Obsolete NATO' Means Europe Paying for US Militarism
28th February 2017
- A Troubled CIA Analyst Finds Jesus (and the devil is spelled T-R-U-M-P)
28th February 2017
- What's Going On In Djibouti? US/China Face-off in Africa
28th February 2017
- War And Peace In The Age Of Trump
27th February 2017
- Trump and Haley's Uncoordinated and Contradictory Syria Paths
27th February 2017
- On Military and Spending, It's Trump Versus Trump
27th February 2017
- Sleepwalking Into a Nuclear Arms Race with Russia
24th February 2017
- Ron Paul Rewind: Discussing Foreign Policy with Alan Colmes
24th February 2017
- The Futility and Corruption of the Drug War
24th February 2017
- Shock Poll: Is Russia Friend Or Foe?
23rd February 2017
- Trump's First Terror Arrest: A Broke Stoner The FBI Threatened at Knifepoint
23rd February 2017
- The Sacrifice of Tulsi Gabbard
22nd February 2017
- CIA Weapons Pause In Syria - Are We Backing Off...Or Escalating?
22nd February 2017
- Why Do 'Progressives' Like War?
21st February 2017
- McMaster To NSC - More Troops To Middle East?
21st February 2017
- Veterans Being Misled On JASTA, Says International Law Expert
21st February 2017
- The 'Blind Sheik' And The CIA - Media Bury US Support For Radical Islamism
20th February 2017
- More Troops: Why Trump's ISIS Strategy Will Fail
20th February 2017
- McCain in Munich: The War Party Fights Back
20th February 2017
- Trump's ISIS Plan: Another US Invasion?
20th February 2017
- Red Hysteria Engulfs Washington
19th February 2017
- 'America wants empire and for Europeans to remain subservient'
18th February 2017
- Bribes, Catapults, and Corruption Trump Trumps Wall
17th February 2017
- Flynn's Gone But They're Still Gunning For You, Donald
17th February 2017
- You Are Forbidden to Talk with Russians!
16th February 2017
- Is The Intelligence Community At War With Trump?
16th February 2017
- Trump and Duterte: Birds of a Feather
15th February 2017
- Trump Caves on Flynn's Resignation
15th February 2017
- Ignore The Tough Talk - Trump's Iran Policy Will be Much Like Obama's
14th February 2017
- Gen. Flynn Out At NSC -- Winners and Losers
14th February 2017
- Can't Judge Fake News in the Dark
13th February 2017
- Saudi Lobbyists Recruiting Veterans to Kill 9/11 Lawsuit
13th February 2017
- Will Congress Stop Forcing Pro-Life Americans to Subsidize Abortion?
13th February 2017
- US Special Forces Deployed To 70 Percent Of The World In 2016
11th February 2017
- The Warlords of Kiev
10th February 2017
- Trump is Wrong - Saudi Arabia, Not Iran is the World's 'Number One Terrorist State
10th February 2017
- Trump's Fearmongering is White House Tradition
10th February 2017
- Are the Neocons Slithering into the New Administration?
8th February 2017
- 'Extreme Vetting' - Homeland Security's Attack On Liberty?
8th February 2017
- The FBI: The Silent Terror of the Fourth Reich
8th February 2017
- 'When Trump won, Ukraine's Poroshenko put himself in pretty bad position'
7th February 2017
- US Tanks, Troops Arrive In Estonia As Part Of NATO Anti-Russia Build Up
7th February 2017
- Elliott Abrams To State Dept: You Can't Be Serious!
7th February 2017
- Business As Usual - Is Trump's Foreign Policy Just More Bush And Obama?
6th February 2017
- Cut, Don't Reform, Taxes
6th February 2017
- 'The Media Coverage on Syria is the Biggest Media Lie of our Time' -- Interview with Flemish Priest in Syria
4th February 2017
- 'America: Please Stop Intervening in Our Affairs'
3rd February 2017
- A Billion Dollars of Federally Funded Paranoia
3rd February 2017
- Trump Team Gone Wild: Now UN Ambassador Threatens Russia!
2nd February 2017
- What Will Rex Tillerson Inherit at the State Department?
2nd February 2017
- Iran 'On Notice' - Will Trump Pull The Trigger?
2nd February 2017
- Ukraine - Coup Government Tries To Sabotage US-Russia Rapprochement
1st February 2017
- Settled Science? A 'Climate Change' Dissident Speaks Out
1st February 2017
- January
- Like Saudi Arabia, Israel Has a Soft Spot for Sunni Extremism
31st January 2017
- Rule by Brute Force: The True Nature of Government
31st January 2017
- Droning On: More US Bombs On Yemen
31st January 2017
- Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister.
30th January 2017
- Trump's Travel Ban: Targeting Terrorism...Or Iran?
30th January 2017
- A Better Solution Than Trump's Border Wall
30th January 2017
- About That Trump - Putin Phone Call...
29th January 2017
- The End Of Mingling - 'Moderate Rebels' Join Al-Qaeda In Syria
28th January 2017
- Did the CIA Ruin Classical Music for the Masses?
28th January 2017
- The Birth Of The American Empire
27th January 2017
- Trump Bull in the Mideast China Shop
27th January 2017
- Those 'Resignations': What Really Happened at the State Department
27th January 2017
- The Syrian People Desperately Want Peace
26th January 2017
- Trump Proposal For Syria 'Safe Zones' To Escalate US Military Involvement In The Region
26th January 2017
- Perpetual Drug War Deja Vu
25th January 2017
- How To Really Reform Military Spending : Is Cutting Waste Enough?
25th January 2017
- Has the American Dream Become the American Nightmare?
24th January 2017
- The Neocon Lament Nobody wants them in Trump's Washington
24th January 2017
- Trump's 31 Airstrikes - A Taste Of Things To Come?
24th January 2017
- Is Medical Marijuana A Crime?
23rd January 2017
- Trump's Foreign Policy: An Unwise Inconsistency?
23rd January 2017
- US intervention in Syria? Not under Trump
21st January 2017
- What Trump Could Do
20th January 2017
- We're Still Here, 1/20/17, Consumed Most of All by Our Fears
20th January 2017
- Obama's Wasted, Deadly, and Destructive Presidency
19th January 2017
- McCain's $5 Trillion Military Budget: Will It Make America Great Again?
19th January 2017
- Obama's Achievement: Whitewashing Permanent Warfare With Eloquence
18th January 2017
- Chelsea Manning Clemency: Did Obama Do The Right Thing?
18th January 2017
- A Demand for Russian 'Hacking' Proof
18th January 2017
- Executive Power In The Age Of Trump
17th January 2017
- Who Is Michael Morell?
16th January 2017
- Antiwar And Anti-Violence: The Revolutionary MLK
16th January 2017
- Abolish the CIA
16th January 2017
- Protesters Succeed In Preventing Conservative Speakers From Appearing At The University of California At Davis
15th January 2017
- Will Trump Continue the Bush-Obama Legacy?
15th January 2017
- Is Trump Already Finished?
14th January 2017
- The Secret Trump Dossier -- What Does It Mean?
13th January 2017
- One Final Expansion of the Surveillance State as Obama Heads for the Door
13th January 2017
- Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich Ask President Obama to Free Chelsea Manning
12th January 2017
- The Tillerson Hearing: Will Trump Have A Neocon Foreign Policy?
12th January 2017
- American Troops 'Roll Into Poland' In Largest Deployment Since The Cold War
12th January 2017
- Will the CIA Retaliate Against Trump?
11th January 2017
- Where Was Meryl Streep When Obama Was Prosecuting Whistleblowers & Bombing Weddings?
10th January 2017
- Confirmation: Tillerson's Turn In The Hot Seat
10th January 2017
- Washington Invented Hacking and Interfering in Elections
10th January 2017
- Sen. Jeff Sessions: Libertarian Or Authoritarian?
9th January 2017
- The Globalists' Russia Game
9th January 2017
- Trump Must Expose Obama-era Power Grabs
9th January 2017
- Will Obama's 'Good War' in Afghanistan Continue?
8th January 2017
- Stop Demonizing North Korea and Talk Business
7th January 2017
- Is That All There Is? Intel Community Releases Its Russia 'Hacking' Report
6th January 2017
- Here's Why the US Elite Fear RT
6th January 2017
- 'Surreal Echo Chamber' - Challenging the 'Russia Hacked US Elections' Narrative
6th January 2017
- Purge the CIA
6th January 2017
- The Coup Against Truth
5th January 2017
- Can Trump Rein In The CIA?
5th January 2017
- Foreign Policy Blowback in Germany
3rd January 2017
- Facts Or Fakes: Can We Trust The Washington Post?
3rd January 2017
- America or Israel? Quislings in Congress and the Media Need to Decide Which Comes First
3rd January 2017
- Good News: Washington Frozen Out of Syria Peace Plan
2nd January 2017
- 2016
- December
- Russia Hysteria Infects WashPost Again: False Story About Hacking US Electric Grid
31st December 2016
- Another 50 Years of Mideast Strife
31st December 2016
- Symbolic Failure Point: Female Afghan Pilot Wants Asylum In The US
30th December 2016
- Obama Under 'Intense Pressure' To Release Evidence Proving Russians Hacked The Election
29th December 2016
- Does the Cause of Peace Have a Future?
29th December 2016
- Peace and Prosperity in 2017?
28th December 2016
- Trump's Pentagon Budget Time Bomb
28th December 2016
- 2016: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
28th December 2016
- Syria - Peace Talk Rumors And Parameters
28th December 2016
- Behind the Real US Strategic Blunder in Syria
27th December 2016
- Why Did 'Faithless Elector' Bill Greene Vote For Ron Paul?
27th December 2016
- Obama Quietly Signs The 'Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act' Into Law
26th December 2016
- New Year's Resolutions for Donald Trump and Congress
26th December 2016
- Trump's Need to Trust Americans
24th December 2016
- The Fraudulent Obama War on Corruption
22nd December 2016
- Meltdown in Turkey?
21st December 2016
- Global War On Terrorism: Are We Winning?
20th December 2016
- The War on Terror: Anyway You Look at it, it's a Failure
20th December 2016
- Electoral College - Should We Abolish It?
19th December 2016
- The Bad Losers and What They Fear Losing
19th December 2016
- After Aleppo: We Need a New Syria Policy
19th December 2016
- Moscow Attacks!
18th December 2016
- Ron Paul: What's Missing From The Russian Hack Argument?
17th December 2016
- Guess Who's Behind Facebook's New 'Fake News' Detector?
16th December 2016
- You Opened the Box
16th December 2016
- Getting Real News From Aleppo - With Vanessa Beeley
15th December 2016
- Credibility Tips for Journalists
14th December 2016
- Bipartisan War: New Study Urges More US Interventions
14th December 2016
- Will Congress Roll Over On Trump's Economic Stimulus?
13th December 2016
- Peace in Syria - It's the Last Thing the US Wants
12th December 2016
- Election 'Hack' - Do We Believe Snowden And Assange...Or McCain And Graham?
12th December 2016
- Karma Over Russia?
12th December 2016
- War on 'Fake News' Part of a War on Free Speech
11th December 2016
- US Sends 200 More Troops To Syria Days After Obama Lifts Ban On Arms Supplies To Rebels
10th December 2016
- Japan's 'Nobility of Failure' in 1941
10th December 2016
- Freedom's Just Another Word
10th December 2016
- Washington Post Issues Correction To 'Fake News' Story
9th December 2016
- Hillary Reemerges, Slams 'Dangerous Epidemic' Of Fake News
8th December 2016
- The Horrific Consequences of US Interventionism
8th December 2016
- Will Gen. Kelly Re-Militarize The Drug War?
8th December 2016
- Requiem for the Obama Administration, Trump Edition
7th December 2016
- After Libya, NATO Looks To Montenegro
7th December 2016
- US Strikes on Syrian Troops: Report Data Contradicts 'Mistake' Claims
7th December 2016
- Gen. Mattis: Can Trump Leash His Pentagon 'Mad Dog'?
6th December 2016
- PropOrNot Doesn't Identify Russian Propaganda
6th December 2016
- Trump's Taiwan Call - What's The Motive?
5th December 2016
- Trump's Promised 'New Foreign Policy' Must Abandon Regime Change for Iran
4th December 2016
- Mr. Trump: Use Your America-First Instincts to Pick a Secretary of State
3rd December 2016
- Will Obama be Named Russian Agent for Saying US Elections Reflect Will of American Voters?
2nd December 2016
- Presidential War is Unconstitutional
2nd December 2016
- Mr Trump, Don't Tear Down This Deal
2nd December 2016
- The End Of Globalism - With Doug Casey
1st December 2016
- OSU's Foreign Policy Blowback
1st December 2016
- November
- The Uselessness of NATO: Do We Really Need to Defend Montenegro?
30th November 2016
- Ron Paul: 'Fake News Comes From our Own Government'
30th November 2016
- The Only Way Trump Could Actually 'Drain the Swamp'
30th November 2016
- The Coming Fall Of Aleppo: Victory For Whom?
29th November 2016
- Iranophobes on Parade: Will Iran be the Target of the Trump Regime?
29th November 2016
- The War Against Castro Comes to an End
29th November 2016
- More Fake News: Who's On The Washington Post Blacklist?
28th November 2016
- The Western War On Truth
28th November 2016
- To Really 'Make America Great Again,' End the Fed!
27th November 2016
- Suez: The End of Europe's Empires
27th November 2016
- RPI's Daniel McAdams on the Washington Post 'Fake News' Attack Piece
26th November 2016
- Washington Post Peddles Tarring of Ron Paul Institute as Russian Propaganda
25th November 2016
- Ron Paul Rewind: Ron Paul on Julian Assange
25th November 2016
- Things We Are Thankful For, Thanksgiving 2016
24th November 2016
- After 2016: What Is The Future Of Libertarianism?
23rd November 2016
- What Would an 'America First' Foreign Policy Look Like?
23rd November 2016
- Trump's Tulsi Gabbard Factor
23rd November 2016
- When It Comes to Fake News, the US Government Is the Biggest Culprit
22nd November 2016
- Re-Branding Libertarianism: The Silver Lining of the 2016 Election
21st November 2016
- Mr. Trump: Here is a Worthy, Perhaps Final Opportunity to Put America First
21st November 2016
- Education System Broken: Let's Try 'Ed-Exit'
21st November 2016
- Help Wanted, Apply Now!
21st November 2016
- War Breaks Out Between Neo-Cons And Libertarians Over Trump's Foreign Policy
20th November 2016
- Those Damn Emails
19th November 2016
- The Russians are Coming – By Sea!
19th November 2016
- Donald and Vladimir
18th November 2016
- Memo To Congress: Bring Back Earmarks!
17th November 2016
- The Best Iran Deal Is Unilateral Hands-Off Iran
16th November 2016
- For A Libertarian Foreign Policy: Five Key Fixes
16th November 2016
- Trump and Putin Begin Work on US-Russia Reset
16th November 2016
- The Bolton Threat to Trump's Middle East Policy
15th November 2016
- China And Middle East Hot Spots: Diplomacy Or Militarism?
15th November 2016
- US Elections Shockwaves Hit Europe
14th November 2016
- Assad Must Stay: US Policy Shift In Syria?
14th November 2016
- Bulgaria & Moldova Switch from Hillary's Euro-Atlantic Column
14th November 2016
- Memo to the Next Administration: Defense Spending Must Be For Actual Defense
13th November 2016
- Long Live the Establishment!
12th November 2016
- Commander-In-Chief Donald Trump Will Have Terrifying Powers. Thanks, Obama.
11th November 2016
- Ron Paul to Trump: Don't Listen to Neocons!
11th November 2016
- Trump: Don't Follow the Bush-Obama Foreign Policy Legacy
10th November 2016
- Tug Of War Between NATO And Trump: Who Will Win?
10th November 2016
- Post-Election Roundup: How Did Liberty Do?
9th November 2016
- Election 2016 - Prediction Of Things To Come
8th November 2016
- Strange Silence of Neo-Con Trolls as Mikheil Saakashvili Stabs His Patron Poroshenko in the Back
8th November 2016
- Oh, What a Lovely War!
8th November 2016
- Another US Massacre in Afghanistan
7th November 2016
- Raqqa/Mosul: Politicians Fiddle As Middle East Burns
7th November 2016
- Regardless of How America Votes, Americans Want a Different Foreign Policy
7th November 2016
- US Hypocrisy: Bombing of Aleppo is No Worse Than What Happened in Gaza and Iraq
5th November 2016
- Washington's Meddling in Foreign Elections
5th November 2016
- Will the Media Reset After the Election or Are We Stuck With This Tabloid Stuff?
4th November 2016
- Twenty Years of a Dictatorial Democracy
4th November 2016
- Sleepwalking into a New Cold War, Pentagon Style
4th November 2016
- ISIS: Mortal Threat Or Paper Tiger?
3rd November 2016
- Bill Weld is Hillary Clinton's Libertarian Party Surrogate
3rd November 2016
- The Rise of Mandatory Vaccinations Means the End of Medical Freedom
3rd November 2016
- Purchasing Loyalty with Foreign Aid
2nd November 2016
- Turkey Prepares to Intervene in Mosul
2nd November 2016
- Who Will Weed Out the Warmongers?
1st November 2016
- New Poll: Americans Feel Less Safe After 15 Years Of War
1st November 2016
- Obama's Victory Lap?
1st November 2016
- October
- Not Guilty: The Power of Nullification to Counteract Government Tyranny
31st October 2016
- Will The Deep State Win The Election?
31st October 2016
- Raqqa Now Key to US Strategy in Syria and the Wider Region
31st October 2016
- Blame Government, Not Markets for Monopoly
31st October 2016
- Selling 'Regime Change' Wars to the Masses
29th October 2016
- Comey Sends Letter To Congress Citing New Evidence (and An Investigation) In The Clinton Email Scandal
28th October 2016
- Paper Tiger ISIS Digs Into Mosul
28th October 2016
- Should America Pardon the National Security State?
27th October 2016
- PATRIOT Act At 15: Do You Feel Safer?
27th October 2016
- Why Is the Foreign Policy Establishment Spoiling for More War? Look at Their Donors.
26th October 2016
- What Did Sen. Richard Black Learn In Syria?
26th October 2016
- Looking Ahead: Clinton's Plans for Syria
25th October 2016
- Hypocritical Air Force Secretary Deborah James Wants to Draft Women (Other Than Herself)
25th October 2016
- The Battle For Mosul: Who Benefits?
25th October 2016
- The Path to Total Dictatorship: America's Shadow Government and Its Silent Coup
24th October 2016
- Philippine Pivot To China: What Does It Mean?
24th October 2016
- Obama's Pivot to Asia Hits a Roadblock in the Philippines
24th October 2016
- Khadaffi's Murder
22nd October 2016
- Former Hungarian Communist Party Paper Goes Bankrupt, Washington Panics
21st October 2016
- Paranoid Apoplexy Over the Russkies
21st October 2016
- Obama and Hillary's Two-Minutes of Hate for Russia
21st October 2016
- An 'Epidemic of Graft' – Anti-Corruption Efforts in Afghanistan Fail Hard
20th October 2016
- Are The Russians Rigging Our Elections?
20th October 2016
- Assange's Fate
19th October 2016
- Trump/Clinton Final Debate: Questions We Would Ask
19th October 2016
- Western Doublethink on Aleppo & Mosul Obscures Terror Complicity
19th October 2016
- After Mosul Falls, ISIS will Flee to Syria. Then What?
18th October 2016
- CNN: It Is Illegal For Voters To Possess Wikileaks Material
18th October 2016
- Battle For Mosul: Not False Flag, False Hope!
18th October 2016
- The Horror of Endless Interventionism
17th October 2016
- Who Brought the World to the Brink of World War III?
17th October 2016
- Iceland Today, the US Tomorrow?
17th October 2016
- The Real Humanitarian Crisis Is Not Aleppo
16th October 2016
- WikiLeaks: The Two Faces of Hillary Clinton on Syria
15th October 2016
- Russia-US Relations: Inevitable Clash?
14th October 2016
- West is Gunning for Russian Media Ban
14th October 2016
- DOJ Drops Charges Against Arms Dealer - Why?
13th October 2016
- Prepare Yourself for Blowback From Yemen
13th October 2016
- The Imperial President's Toolbox of Terror: A Dictatorship Waiting to Happen
12th October 2016
- FBI Comes Clean On Homegrown Terror
12th October 2016
- The Legacy of United States Interventionism
11th October 2016
- Hillary's Public Vs. Private Positions - Deceit?
11th October 2016
- Enough Sabre Rattling Already!
11th October 2016
- Kerry's Anger as Assad Poised to Win; the US Still Serves Israel and Saudi Arabia
10th October 2016
- Debate Round Two: Issues Vs. Character
10th October 2016
- A Government is Seizing Control of Our Election Process, and It Is Not the Russians
10th October 2016
- Fifteen Years Into the Afghan War, Do Americans Know the Truth?
9th October 2016
- Obama's Syria Policy and the Illusion of US Power in the Middle East
9th October 2016
- America's Longest War Gets Longer
8th October 2016
- A Sandy Beach and Constitutional Political Economy
8th October 2016
- Why Snowden the Movie Matters
7th October 2016
- Syria -- What Cost 'Victory'?
6th October 2016
- Free Speech Victory: The 'Ron Paul' Sign Can Stay!
6th October 2016
- Destroying Syria: A Joint Criminal Enterprise
5th October 2016
- VP Debate: Hawk Versus Hawk
5th October 2016
- CNN Celebrates Iraqi Housewife Who Beheaded and Then Cooked the Skulls of ISIS fighters
4th October 2016
- Inside the Shadowy PR Firm That's Lobbying for Regime Change in Syria
4th October 2016
- Iraq Will Use Sept 11 Bill To Sue US Government For 2003 Invasion, Demand Compensation
3rd October 2016
- War Profits: PR Firm Gets $500 Million To Spin Iraq War
3rd October 2016
- After Peres, Is Peace Possible in the Middle East?
3rd October 2016
- How Far Are We From War With Russia Over Syria?
2nd October 2016
- Pentagon Paid PR Firm $540 Million to Make Fake Terrorist Videos
2nd October 2016
- Russia Warns US Military 'Aggression' In Syria Would Lead To 'Terrible, Tectonic' Consequences
1st October 2016
- September
- Libertarianism and War: The Rothbard Rule
30th September 2016
- Russia-US relations: Increased Tensions
30th September 2016
- Syria - The US Propaganda Shams Now Openly Fail
30th September 2016
- The US is Your Know-it-All Friend Who Should Just Keep His Mouth Shut
29th September 2016
- Why Everything You Hear About Aleppo Is Wrong
29th September 2016
- Obama Humiliated: For The First Time, Congress Votes To Override President's 'Sept 11' Bill Veto
28th September 2016
- Al-Qaeda: 'America Is On Our Side'
28th September 2016
- The Symbiotic Relationship Between Central Banking and Total War
28th September 2016
- Israel's $38 Billion Scam
27th September 2016
- The 'Great Debate' - Who Won?
27th September 2016
- George Soros's False Flag Factories
27th September 2016
- A Few Uncomfortable Truths You Won't Hear from the 2016 Presidential Candidates
26th September 2016
- The Hillary Clinton Presidency Has Already Begun As Lame Ducks Promote Her War
26th September 2016
- Wells Fargo or the Federal Reserve: Who's the Bigger Fraud?
26th September 2016
- How the Pentagon Sank the US-Russia Deal in Syria – and the Ceasefire
24th September 2016
- Journey To Aleppo: Exposing The Truth Buried Under NATO Propaganda
23rd September 2016
- What Trump Should Do - With David Stockman
23rd September 2016
- The US Road Map to Balkanize Syria
22nd September 2016
- Mission Accomplished? More US Troops To Iraq
22nd September 2016
- How American Media Serves as a Transmission Belt for Wars of Choice
22nd September 2016
- Syria - The Aid Convoy Attack Points To Further Escalation
21st September 2016
- Liberty In The House - With US Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY)
21st September 2016
- Syria Ceasefire In Tatters - Why And What's Next?
20th September 2016
- Deep State America
20th September 2016
- Time to Admit Washington's Syria Policy Has Gone Completely Off the Rails
20th September 2016
- What Lesson To Take From 'Snowden' Movie?
19th September 2016
- Why Are We Sending $38 Billion to Rich and Powerful Israel?
19th September 2016
- Western Media Credibility In Free Fall Collapse
17th September 2016
- American Commandos 'Forced to Run Away' From US-Backed Syrian Rebels
16th September 2016
- Two Boys in Aleppo
16th September 2016
- Who Are The Crazies on Korea?
16th September 2016
- Israel To Get Biggest US Aid Package In History - A Good Idea?
15th September 2016
- Oliver Stone's New Movie 'Snowden' Tackles the Myth
15th September 2016
- Can New Syria Ceasefire Hold?
14th September 2016
- Israel Wins in November - It Doesn't Matter Who is Elected
14th September 2016
- Republic Not Empire
14th September 2016
- The Truth About War and the State
12th September 2016
- Truth About 9/11
12th September 2016
- The Fed Plans for the Next Crisis
12th September 2016
- The Trumpillary War Machine Is Bad News
8th September 2016
- Top 10 Western Lies About Syrian Conflict
8th September 2016
- Iran: The Inside Story
7th September 2016
- Newly Released FBI Records Raise Questions of Intentional Destruction of Evidence By Clinton Contractor
7th September 2016
- US Blocks Former British Ambassador From Entering America to Honor CIA Whistleblower
7th September 2016
- Battling Big Government...From Washington!
6th September 2016
- For What Do We Stand?
6th September 2016
- John Kerry is Wrong – Media Shouldn't Stop Covering Terrorism, But They Should Start Explaining it
5th September 2016
- How to Solve the Illegal Immigration Problem
5th September 2016
- Is the United States Trying to Incite Unrest in Venezuela?
3rd September 2016
- US V US in Syria
2nd September 2016
- Acceptable Losses: Aiding and Abetting the Saudi Slaughter in Yemen
2nd September 2016
- The Campaign to Blame Putin for Everything
1st September 2016
- Traveling To Cuba: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
1st September 2016
- August
- Homeland Security To Save Us From 'Rigged Elections'?
31st August 2016
- Ron Paul's Quick Conference Update
30th August 2016
- The Real US Syria Scandal: Supporting Sectarian War
30th August 2016
- Is There a Turkish-Russian Alliance: Why Should We Care?
30th August 2016
- The Election Has Been Hacked: The Dismal Reality of Having No Real Electoral Choices
29th August 2016
- The USS Gerald Ford - A $13 Billion Boondoggle?
29th August 2016
- Tell Us Why We're At War, Candidates
29th August 2016
- US in Denial Over Sponsoring Terrorism is Why Syrian War Rages On
28th August 2016
- The Right Lessons from Obamacare's Meltdown
28th August 2016
- The Man Who Captured Abu Zubaydah Says It's Time to End His Ordeal and Send Him Home
27th August 2016
- Do You Want a Peaceful and Prosperous Society or Not?
26th August 2016
- Kerry In Kenya - Spreading 'American Exceptionalism'
25th August 2016
- The Alternate Reality of Anders Fogh Rasmussen
25th August 2016
- America's Communist Program
24th August 2016
- Turkey/US Invade Syria - Hillary Gets 'No-Fly' Zone
24th August 2016
- The Blessing of Cash
23rd August 2016
- The Neoconservatives, the War on Iraq, and the National Interest of Israel
23rd August 2016
- What's Iran Up To; Fed Plans New $4 Trillion QE
23rd August 2016
- Children of the American Police State: Just Another Brick in the Wall
22nd August 2016
- US Policy Shift In Syria; Pentagon's Lost Trillions
22nd August 2016
- Follow the Money Trail for Source of 'Russian Threat' Paranoia
22nd August 2016
- What Should We Do About Crimea?
21st August 2016
- Leaked Memo Proves Soros Ruled Ukraine In 2014: Minutes From 'Breakfast With US Ambassador Pyatt'
20th August 2016
- US Defense Contractors Tell Investors Russian Threat Is Great for Business
20th August 2016
- Leaked Memo Shows George Soros Worked to Push Greece to Support Ukraine Coup, Paint Russia as Enemy
19th August 2016
- NED, the Legal Window of the CIA
18th August 2016
- Bin Laden Speaks...Should We Listen?
18th August 2016
- Will Hungary Be Next to Exit the EU?
18th August 2016
- Turkey Harmonises With Russia, Iran on Syria
17th August 2016
- Ninth Circuit Bars Federal Medical Marijuana Prosecutions; Full Protection Requires Congress Action
17th August 2016
- US Weapons Fuel Saudi Slaughter In Yemen
17th August 2016
- Trouble Follows When the US Labels You a 'Thug'
16th August 2016
- Trump Foreign Policy Speech - Cheers Or Jeers?
16th August 2016
- While Beijing and Manila Talk, Washington Spoiling for a Fight
16th August 2016
- New Yemeni Government Ready To Accept Al-Saud's Capitulation
15th August 2016
- It's August 15th - Where Is Your Gold?
15th August 2016
- Rethinking The Cold War
15th August 2016
- Election 2016: Liberty Loses No Matter Who Wins
14th August 2016
- Shocking Report Finds U.S. Military Consistently 'Distorted, Suppressed, Or Substantially Altered' ISIS-Related Intel
14th August 2016
- Even Nukes Grow Old
13th August 2016
- The Ron Paul Conference
12th August 2016
- In Vilifying Russian Swimmer Yulia Efimova, Americans are Splashing Murky Waters
12th August 2016
- Bush Administration Official: Saudi Ties to 9/11 Hidden to Protect Iraq War Narrative
11th August 2016
- War Clouds Gathering Over Crimea
11th August 2016
- Recovered Emails Show Clinton Foundation Officials Intervening For Donors and Aides With State Department
11th August 2016
- 'Prague Calling, Prague Calling' - The Alternative Reality of RFE/RL
10th August 2016
- The Military Base Dole
10th August 2016
- War With China Unthinkable? Think Again!
10th August 2016
- Killer Instincts: When Police Become Judge, Jury and Executioner
9th August 2016
- CIA's Morell Cozies Up To Clinton - Looking For Work?
9th August 2016
- Chemical Weapons in Syria: Methods of Waging Information Wars
9th August 2016
- Pentagon, CIA Form Praetorian Guard for Clinton as Warmonger President
8th August 2016
- Iran Executes Scientist/Spy - What's Hillary's Role?
8th August 2016
- The Phony Job Recovery
8th August 2016
- Hiroshima: the Crime That Keeps on Paying, But Beware the Reckoning
7th August 2016
- Trump's Mouth is His Worst Enemy
6th August 2016
- The Sham Rebrand of al-Qaeda's Nusra Front
5th August 2016
- Kerry's And Al-Qaeda's 'Very Different Track' Attack On Aleppo Fails
4th August 2016
- McCain's Nightmare - Dr. Kelli Ward For US Senate
4th August 2016
- Milosevic Exonerated, as the NATO War Machine Moves On
3rd August 2016
- Should The IMF Director Be Fired...And Does It Matter?
3rd August 2016
- Captain Khan Was Waging an Unconstitutional War
2nd August 2016
- Libya War Escalates - Congress AWOL
2nd August 2016
- As Israel Prospers, Obama Set to Give Billions More in Aid While Netanyahu Demands Even More
1st August 2016
- Capt. Humayun Khan: Sacrifice Or Victim?
1st August 2016
- Can Hillary Clinton Be Pro-War and a Progressive?
1st August 2016
- Americans Are Going to be Disappointed in Election Outcome
1st August 2016
- July
- America's Longest War Gets Longer
31st July 2016
- Gaddafi's Ghosts: Return of the Libyan Jamahiriya
30th July 2016
- Strategic Shift? Putin to Receive Erdogan in Hometown
29th July 2016
- Who Hacked the DNC?
29th July 2016
- Just Who Is The War Party?
28th July 2016
- The Secret Rules That Allow the FBI to Spy on Journalists
28th July 2016
- Trump: Siberian Candidate?
27th July 2016
- Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: Potential Partners – Not Allies or Even Friends
26th July 2016
- Stop Drinking the Kool-Aid, America: Political Fiction in an Age of Televised Lies
26th July 2016
- A Tipping Point for Liberty
26th July 2016
- Clinton, Wasserman Schultz and the Wheezing Corpse of the Democratic Process Revealed
25th July 2016
- Can Bombs Win War on ISIS?
25th July 2016
- New From RPI: A Tipping Point for Liberty
25th July 2016
- Defeating Islamic Terrorism. Here's How
25th July 2016
- The Path to Fed-Exit
24th July 2016
- The Real Story Behind The Turkish Coup
23rd July 2016
- 28pages.org Founder Brian McGlinchey to Speak at RPI Conference!
21st July 2016
- Cleveland Police to RNC Protesters: Don't Hide Your Faces (Facial Recognition)
21st July 2016
- The 28 Pages - Finally Revealed
21st July 2016
- 9/11: Bush's Guilt and the 28 Pages
21st July 2016
- Syria's 'Moderate Rebels' are Not Moderate, Not Rebels
20th July 2016
- Orlando Shooter's Statements Vindicate Ron Paul
20th July 2016
- Iraq War Families Seek Crowdfunding to Sue Tony Blair
19th July 2016
- Millennials Are Facing Existential Crisis
19th July 2016
- Turkey Coup - Is It Over?
18th July 2016
- The Saudis Did 9/11
18th July 2016
- My Senator Thinks Drafting Women Gives Equal Opportunity
18th July 2016
- Don't Reform the Fed, Fed-Exit!
17th July 2016
- Great News: Turks Closed US Incirlik Base
16th July 2016
- The Counter-Coup Begins: Erdogan Purges 2,745 Judges, Prosecutors; Arrests Hundreds
16th July 2016
- Dear France: Necessary Step Towards Stopping This Insanity
15th July 2016
- The Horror in Nice
15th July 2016
- After Nice Attack - Round Up Usual Suspects?
15th July 2016
- The Risky Business of Being a US Ally
14th July 2016
- Lena Dunham Encourages People To Tear Apart The Movie Posters Of Other Artists
14th July 2016
- How Disinformation Feeds The War Machine
14th July 2016
- Time to Talk to Syria
13th July 2016
- State Department Stonewalls On Syria Weapons
13th July 2016
- Connecting the Dots
13th July 2016
- Brexit: A Win For Localism?
12th July 2016
- Don't Just Blame the Cops: Who Is Responsible for America's Killing Fields?
12th July 2016
- Fool's Errand: NATO Pledges Four More Years of War in Afghanistan
11th July 2016
- Whitewash Won't Cover Blair's Guilt
9th July 2016
- A Primer: USAID & US Hegemony
9th July 2016
- Why Dallas Happened
8th July 2016
- The Baghdad Bombings, Islamic State, and What America Still Hasn't Learned
8th July 2016
- 'FBI's failure to prosecute Clinton is essentially a political coup'
7th July 2016
- NATO's Warsaw War Plans
7th July 2016
- Programmed to Kill: The Growing Epidemic of Cops Shooting Dogs
6th July 2016
- Is NATO necessary?
6th July 2016
- UK's Chilcot Report Exposes Iraq War Lies
6th July 2016
- Conspiracy Fact: NATO's Russia War Push
5th July 2016
- On July 4th Demand Freedom, Don't Celebrate The State
3rd July 2016
- America Should Exit From NATO and the National Security State
3rd July 2016
- Confessions Of A War Propagandist
2nd July 2016
- Stop Giving Chickens Away, Bill Gates
1st July 2016
- June
- RPI Conference Update: Paul and Rockwell Together Again in DC!
30th June 2016
- Ask Ron Paul - Cuba, Bureaucracy, Benghazi, And More
30th June 2016
- Obama's 'New Beginning' was the Beginning of the End
30th June 2016
- Istanbul Bombing - Who's At Fault?
29th June 2016
- The Syria 'Dissent' Memo and US Bureaucratic Pressure Strategy
29th June 2016
- The Magnitsky Hoax?
28th June 2016
- 'We the Prisoners': The Demise of the Fourth Amendment
28th June 2016
- A New European Superstate Is Hardly The Answer
28th June 2016
- Google, YouTube, Facebook, Others, Now Using Automated Blocking of 'Extremist' Content
27th June 2016
- Brexit: Truth And Consequences
27th June 2016
- After 'Brexit,' Can We Exit a Few Things Too?
27th June 2016
- Do We Really Want War With Russia?
25th June 2016
- The Brexit Vote - What Does it Mean?
24th June 2016
- Saudis Push Washington Revolt Against Obama on Syria
23rd June 2016
- Teen Sues US Over Cavity Drug Search for Which She was Billed $575
23rd June 2016
- Fifty-One Foreign Service Officers Can't be Wrong Or Can They? More bombs and Less Talk on Syria
21st June 2016
- 'Hello, Lenin!' Three Components of America's Misguided Foreign Policy
21st June 2016
- Orlando: Islam or Blowback?
20th June 2016
- Nazis Have Rights Too
20th June 2016
- Orlando: The New 9/11?
20th June 2016
- Huge Scandal Erupts Inside NATO: Alliance Member Germany Slams NATO 'Warmongering' Against Russia
19th June 2016
- Why Are Defense Policy Wonks So Ineffectual?
18th June 2016
- Interventionism is a Rotten Tree With Rotten Fruit
17th June 2016
- US Senate Votes to Legalize Kidnapping of Women (AKA: Military Draft)
16th June 2016
- Militarized USDA and EPA using SWAT Teams to Terrorize Innocent People Including Lemon Growers and Small Farmers
16th June 2016
- BREXIT: Boon Or Bust For UK?
16th June 2016
- Join us in September at the 'Peace and Prosperity 2016' Conference
15th June 2016
- Clinton Discussed Top Secret CIA Drone Info, Approved Drone Strikes, Via Her Blackberry
14th June 2016
- Violence Begets Violence: The Orlando Shootings and the War on Terror
14th June 2016
- Orlando: Was It LGBT, Radical Islam, Guns...Or Something Else?
13th June 2016
- Fascism: A Bipartisan Affliction
13th June 2016
- The Peacemaker and the Psychopath
12th June 2016
- State Department Emails Reveal How Unqualified Clinton Donor Was Named to Intelligence Board
11th June 2016
- A Champion of Peace - The Walter Jones Interview
11th June 2016
- Democrats Are Now the Aggressive War Party
10th June 2016
- US Unleashes the Dogs of War in Afghanistan
10th June 2016
- Sometimes You Eat the Bear and Sometimes the Bear Eats You - Thoughts on Syria
9th June 2016
- Rep. Walter Jones - The Neocon Slayer
9th June 2016
- Playing With Fire: NATO Launches Massive Wargame In Russia's Backyard
8th June 2016
- Rehearsing for World War III
8th June 2016
- Color Revolutions – Opium of the People
7th June 2016
- State Department Tries to Send Embarrassing Press Video Down the Memory Hole
7th June 2016
- Ali Won His Greatest Fight
6th June 2016
- Next Time Someone Says Nothing Is Made in the USA Anymore, Show Them This
6th June 2016
- The Keynesians Stole The Jobs
6th June 2016
- Muhammad Ali Risked It All When He Opposed The Vietnam War
4th June 2016
- The Census Bureau's Latest Peril to Freedom
3rd June 2016
- War Criminal Blair Warmongers for Ground Invasion of Syria and Iraq
2nd June 2016
- Hawks Hand Hillary A Foreign Policy Blueprint: Will She Bite?
2nd June 2016
- No "Glitch": State Department Admits That Press Briefing Was Intentionally Edited To Remove Passage . . . But Insisted It Cannot Find Official Responsible
2nd June 2016
- Clinton Offers New Explanation For Email Scandal
1st June 2016
- Was the White Rose Right or Wrong on Patriotism?
1st June 2016
- May
- Congress' Treachery, the FBI's Double-Crossing and the American Citizenry's Cluelessness: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?
31st May 2016
- Obama and the Myth of Hiroshima
31st May 2016
- Third Battle For Fallujah -- Time To Finally Come Home?
31st May 2016
- Thank The Troops for Destroying Our Country
30th May 2016
- Government Can't Help; It Can Only Hurt
29th May 2016
- As Our Past Wars Are Glorified This Memorial Day Weekend, Give Some Thought To Our Prospects Against The Russians And Chinese In World War III
29th May 2016
- Memorializing the Horrors of War with 10 Must-See War Films
28th May 2016
- Europe Revolts Against Russian Sanctions
27th May 2016
- The New State Department Report on Hillary's Email, and Why it Matters
27th May 2016
- State Department Refutes Key Statements By Clinton On Email Scandal; Finds That She Violated Clear Rules
26th May 2016
- My Dreams Seek Revenge: Hiroshima
26th May 2016
- More Syrian Refugees To US: Costs And Consequences
25th May 2016
- Kosovo: Hillary Clinton's Legacy of Terror
25th May 2016
- Intel Vets Urge Fast Report on Clinton's Emails
24th May 2016
- Court Decision Grants Shocking New Government Powers
24th May 2016
- How the World Ends - Baiting Russia is Not Good Policy
24th May 2016
- Poof! Our Wars are All Forgotten
23rd May 2016
- Obama in Vietnam: Diplomacy Or Deep State Duplicity?
23rd May 2016
- Much Ado About Restrooms
22nd May 2016
- Beware What You Wish For: Russia is Ready for War
22nd May 2016
- America – the Most Frightened Nation on Earth
21st May 2016
- Ron Paul Rewind: Repeal Indefinite Detention!
20th May 2016
- Merle Haggard vs. Eliot Cohen
20th May 2016
- Obama's Global Anti-Corruption Cops Should Call Internal Affairs
20th May 2016
- Bill Clinton to Poland and Hungary: Do As We Say on Immigration, You Dirty Little Putins!
20th May 2016
- Lavender Leninists and Heretic-Hunters: The Thoughtcrime Prosecution of Ruth Neely
19th May 2016
- TSA Total Failure - No Surprise!
19th May 2016
- Anti-War is Pro-American
19th May 2016
- Return Of The Gold Standard? Why Now?
18th May 2016
- The Police State and License Plate Scanners
18th May 2016
- The Facebook Facedown
17th May 2016
- Architects of Disastrous Iraq War Still at Large
17th May 2016
- The Civil War Inside the US Military
16th May 2016
- Kurd Fighter in Iraq Destroys U.S.-Made Turkish Helo With Russian-Model Missile
16th May 2016
- NDAA 2017: Military Industrial Complex Wins, People Lose
16th May 2016
- Defense Bill Coming This Week: A Boost for War and Tyranny
15th May 2016
- Ellen Brown Scripps Would Have Been Proud
14th May 2016
- Washington Coup in Brazil? Was Incoming President US Embassy Informant?
13th May 2016
- Showdown: Poland Refuses To Accept Any Refugees, Will Not Comply With European 'Blackmail'
13th May 2016
- US Asia 'Rebalance' Threatened With Meltdown
12th May 2016
- America's War For The Greater Middle East
12th May 2016
- Another Needless US/China Clash In South China Sea
11th May 2016
- Against the Feel-Good Study of History and Literature
11th May 2016
- Syria, ISIS, and the US-UK Propaganda War
11th May 2016
- US Escalation in Afghanistan: A 'Recipe For Disaster'
10th May 2016
- Turkey's Erdogan Gives Europe the Middle Finger
9th May 2016
- Secret Service Handcuffs The First Amendment
9th May 2016
- Trump's Wall vs Kerry's Open Border - Is There A Libertarian Option?
9th May 2016
- What Happened to the Revolution?
9th May 2016
- Mr. Trump, Explain Why America First Must Mean Ending Foreign Aid and Foreign Military Assistance
6th May 2016
- US Ambassador to Hungary: Overthrow Assad, Let in Refugees, and Fight Russia...or Else!
6th May 2016
- Aleppo – Syria's Stalingrad?
6th May 2016
- Texas Teachers and Police Launch Absurd Investigation After Eighth Grader Attempted To Pay for Lunch With $2 Bill
5th May 2016
- Are Young People Really Going Socialist?
5th May 2016
- Suspect Held in Solitary for Seven Months for Forgetting Hard Drive Passwords
4th May 2016
- Mandatory Draft Registration: A Victory For Women?
4th May 2016
- What Is the US Military Doing in the Baltics?
4th May 2016
- Remember How We Got Out of Vietnam
4th May 2016
- Torture: Stopping Terrorism...Or IS It Terrorism?
3rd May 2016
- Iraq: The Interventionist Hellhole
2nd May 2016
- 'Green Zone' Breached: Iraq Falling Apart?
2nd May 2016
- 'This Is A Game': The Clintons Continue To Mock Email Investigation
2nd May 2016
- Drafting Women Means Equality in Slavery
1st May 2016
- April
- US-Created System In Iraq Is Collapsing: Protesters Storm Parliament, State of Emergency Declared
30th April 2016
- State Department Follies
29th April 2016
- Remember the Golan Heights?
29th April 2016
- Obama Went to Germany to Deliver Europe's Latest Report Card
28th April 2016
- iPhone Ruse: FedGov Now Demands Backdoor To All Devices
28th April 2016
- How NATO-Linked Think Tanks Control EU Refugee Policy
27th April 2016
- Is This What's in Those 28 Pages? And Does it Matter?
27th April 2016
- The Pentagon Gong Show
27th April 2016
- The Classified '28 Pages': A Diversion From Real US-Saudi Issues
26th April 2016
- Wartime Washington Lives In Luxury...Guess Who Pays The Bills?
26th April 2016
- The Hell on Earth Paved by Samantha Power's Good Intentions
26th April 2016
- Censored, Surveilled, Watch Listed and Jailed: The Absurdity of Being a Citizen in the American Police State
25th April 2016
- Escalation Without Representation: Syria, Iraq, and Black Sea
25th April 2016
- Yes, Prince Faisal, We Need to 'Recalibrate' Our Relationship
24th April 2016
- Defending Democracy to the Last Drop of Oil
23rd April 2016
- Ron Paul Rewind: 'You're Painting an Overly Optimistic Picture of Afghanistan Success' (2004)
22nd April 2016
- US-Saudi Relations: Yesteryear Days are Gone Forever
22nd April 2016
- US Assaults British Sovereignty
21st April 2016
- US Protects Saudis From Terror Suits, Yet Backs Suits Against Iran
21st April 2016
- Saudis To Kerry: We Created ISIS...And CIA Knew
21st April 2016
- Collateral Damage - Obama OKs More Civilian Drone Deaths
20th April 2016
- Sue Saudis for 9/11 and the US For All its Wars
20th April 2016
- Nation-Building: Global Hegemony Without Local Knowledge
20th April 2016
- Enemies Everywhere - The US War On The World
19th April 2016
- Washington's War Against the World
19th April 2016
- The Terrorist iPhone Snow Job
18th April 2016
- After Vote to Remove Brazil's President, Key Opposition Figure Holds Meetings in Washington
18th April 2016
- Saudi 9/11 Blackmail: 'We'll Dump Dollar!'
18th April 2016
- What Did Fed Chairman Yellen Tell Obama?
17th April 2016
- The Phony War in Syria
16th April 2016
- Deadly Myths: Iraq 'Surge' General Calls for 'Surge 2.0'
16th April 2016
- Ron Paul's 'What If' Speech - Like You've Never Seen it Before
15th April 2016
- Does Over-Classification Matter With the Hillary Emails?
15th April 2016
- President Killary: Would The World Survive Another President Clinton?
13th April 2016
- Plan B - US Arms Syria Rebels...AGAIN!
13th April 2016
- John Kerry, and the Legacy of Hiroshima
13th April 2016
- On 60 Minutes, A Compelling Case for Releasing 28 Pages on 9/11
12th April 2016
- Military Suicides - Not Combat Related?
12th April 2016
- Fleecing the American Taxpayer: The Profit Incentives Driving the Police State
12th April 2016
- In India, Defense Secretary Carter to Push Anti-China Alliance
11th April 2016
- The Enemy Within: Terrorist Enablers on the Potomac
11th April 2016
- As Ukraine Collapses, Europeans Tire of US Interventions
10th April 2016
- A Media Unmoored from Facts
8th April 2016
- Syria - As Rebels Break Ceasefire Army Gathers For New Campaign
8th April 2016
- Dutch People Say 'No' To Ukraine Treaty - Big Blow To The NWO?
7th April 2016
- Congress Shirks War Responsibility-What Are The Costs?
6th April 2016
- Fixing The Intelligence Around The Policy...In Syria
5th April 2016
- Happy Birthday, NATO: It's Time to Retire!
5th April 2016
- Ron Paul Rewind: Condemns US Support of Terrorist Insurrection in Syria (2012)
4th April 2016
- Selective Leaks Of The 'Panama Papers' Create Huge Blackmail Potential
4th April 2016
- 'The Boys Who Said No!': New Documentary About War Resisters
4th April 2016
- Vietnam War at 50: Have We Learned Nothing?
3rd April 2016
- The Cover-Up of the Damning 9/11 Report Continues
1st April 2016
- March
- US Troops To Russia's Border - To Fight 'Russian Aggression'
31st March 2016
- Bill Buckley Conservatism Is Dead...Meanwhile, Rothbard Soars
30th March 2016
- Japan Goes Neocon - Dumps Antiwar Constitution
30th March 2016
- Can the State Enforce Virtuous Behavior?
29th March 2016
- Greatest Terror Attack In Modern History - Guess Where?
29th March 2016
- Iraq Invasion – Anniversary of The Biggest Terrorist Attack in Modern History
29th March 2016
- All Quiet on Western Front After Syrian Forces Recapture Palmyra From ISIS
28th March 2016
- No Matter How You Vote, The Insiders Decide
28th March 2016
- A European PATRIOT Act Will Not Keep People Safe
28th March 2016
- Back to the Future: The Unanswered Questions from the Debates
26th March 2016
- Ukraine is Turning into Liberia
25th March 2016
- Should Europeans Sacrifice Liberty For Promises Of Security?
24th March 2016
- How Narratives Killed the Syrian People
24th March 2016
- A Better Approach To Terrorism
23rd March 2016
- Trump vs. Clinton on Foreign Policy
23rd March 2016
- Reporting (or Not) the Ties Between US-Armed Syrian Rebels and Al Qaeda's Affiliate
22nd March 2016
- My Too-Intimate Relations With The TSA
22nd March 2016
- Brussels Attack, Back To Iraq - What Would Reagan Do?
22nd March 2016
- Obama in Cuba - Too Soon Or Too Late?
21st March 2016
- Google This! Hillary Clinton and the Syrian Regime-Change Conspiracy
21st March 2016
- Soros Disruption: American-Style
21st March 2016
- Beltway Conservative Budget Plans Are Big Spending and Anti-Liberty
20th March 2016
- The Kurdish Genie - A Case of Complexity Papered Over by Arrogance and Ignorance
20th March 2016
- The Islamic State Is Pretext To Again Mug Libya
18th March 2016
- The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention
17th March 2016
- Kurds Declare Autonomous Region: Self-Determination Or Foreign Mischief?
17th March 2016
- Republicans Are The Big Spenders - Does Anybody Care?
16th March 2016
- America Doesn't Need a National-Security State
16th March 2016
- Russia Leaves Syria...When Do We?
15th March 2016
- America's Gestapo: The FBI's Reign of Terror
15th March 2016
- The US Middle East Killing Racket
15th March 2016
- Kerry Sought Missile Strikes to Force Syria's Assad to Step Down
14th March 2016
- Chicago Political Violence: Whose Fault?
14th March 2016
- Loretta Lynch and the Government War on Free Speech
13th March 2016
- The Queen of Chaos and the Threat of World War III
12th March 2016
- Food Farm Freedom: Mr. Salatin Goes to Washington
12th March 2016
- Alternative Germany Speaks Up
11th March 2016
- Clinton Declares That She Will Never Be Indicted And Insists That Her 'Predecessors Did The Same Thing' On Emails
10th March 2016
- Conservatives Want More War Spending, The People Disagree
10th March 2016
- Washington Hubris on Full Display at London Foreign Policy Speech
9th March 2016
- FBI vs. Apple: Why You Should Care
9th March 2016
- Smelling EU fear, Turkey Moves in for $6.6bn Kill
8th March 2016
- You Should Care About Apple, Your iPhone, and the FBI
8th March 2016
- Neocon Games: Warhawks Looking For New War Party?
8th March 2016
- Hungarian Revolution: Orban Says 'No!' to Brussels Migration Plan
7th March 2016
- Just Shut Up and Vote: The Futility of Representative Government in an Age of Robber Barons
7th March 2016
- Hillary's Libya: Arab Spring Or Dark Winter?
7th March 2016
- Do We Need To 'Rebuild The Military'?
6th March 2016
- US Sends 'Small Armada' to Confront China as Beijing Accuses Washington of 'Containment'
5th March 2016
- Getting Intervention 'Just Right': The West's Goldilocks Strategy in Libya
5th March 2016
- Murder Is Washington's Foreign Policy
4th March 2016
- Libya: How Hillary Clinton Destroyed a Country
4th March 2016
- Hillary's Emails: Is The End At Hand?
3rd March 2016
- Ron and Bernie
3rd March 2016
- US Military Contractors Return In Droves to Iraq
2nd March 2016
- FBI 1, Apple 1: Congress To Step In?
2nd March 2016
- 'Plan B' and the Bankruptcy of US Syria Policy
2nd March 2016
- Washington's Neocon Occupation Upholds Illusion Of Choice In The Two-Party Duopoly
1st March 2016
- Intel Agencies: Clinton Emails Match Top Secret Documents
1st March 2016
- February
- Reality Check: No Matter Who Wins the White House, the New Boss Will Be the Same as the Old Boss
29th February 2016
- Migrant Crisis: The End Of The EU?
29th February 2016
- First They Came For the iPhones...
28th February 2016
- US Plotting Color Revolt in Russia?
28th February 2016
- NATO Weakens As Old Alliances Break Down
27th February 2016
- The US Banking System as an Arm of US Foreign Policy
26th February 2016
- The New Bipolar World Has Arrived
26th February 2016
- What's Wrong With Regime Change? RPI's Daniel McAdams on LibertyTalkRadio
25th February 2016
- The Media are Misleading the Public on Syria
25th February 2016
- Guantanamo Travesty: A Consequence Of Unconstitutional War
24th February 2016
- Killing by Sanctions
23rd February 2016
- Syria Ceasefire: More War Or Chance For Peace?
23rd February 2016
- Will Syria Ceasefire Deal End War, or Lead to Nuclear Exchange?
23rd February 2016
- The Age of Authoritarianism: Government of the Politicians, by the Military, for the Corporations
22nd February 2016
- CIA Sends Torture Report Down Memory Hole
22nd February 2016
- Intervention Fail: Back to Libya
21st February 2016
- Bush Haunts The GOP
21st February 2016
- Reading Ron Paul in Beijing
19th February 2016
- Aleppo Notebook: The City's Terrorist Besiegers Will Now Be Besieged
18th February 2016
- FBI vs. Apple: Is Liberty At Stake?
18th February 2016
- Terror in Turkey: Is Erdogan Playing Washington?
18th February 2016
- Obama's 'Moderate' Syrian Deception
18th February 2016
- Supreme Court - The Soft Tyranny Of Judicial Review
17th February 2016
- NATO -- America's Misguided Instrument of Leadership
17th February 2016
- Federal Magistrate Orders Apple To Help FBI Hack Its Own Phones . . . Apple Refuses
17th February 2016
- Turkey Bombing Syria - The Start Of Something Big?
16th February 2016
- Cold War Redux: Dishing it to the Russkies
16th February 2016
- Ron Paul Rewind: All US Supreme Court Justices are Good and Bad
16th February 2016
- Presidents Day 2016: Who Was Best? Who Was Worst?
15th February 2016
- Turkey Flexes Muscle in Syria
15th February 2016
- What Markets Are Telling Us
14th February 2016
- The Future of Banking: The Dangers of Electronic Currency
14th February 2016
- Coming to Terms With Iraq
12th February 2016
- The Three Republican Stooges Who Would Draft Your Daughters
11th February 2016
- Anatomy Of The Deep State: An Open Conspiracy
11th February 2016
- Washington's Libido for the Ugly
10th February 2016
- Drafting Women - Equality Or Equal Slavery?
10th February 2016
- Not-So-Convincing Anti-Second Amendment Arguments
10th February 2016
- Will Geneva Talks Lead Right Back to Assad's 2011 Reforms?
10th February 2016
- FDA Wants to Jail Sam Girod for 48 Years, for Making Salves People Love
9th February 2016
- Saudis Poised For Syria Invasion?
9th February 2016
- Obama Caves To Neocons - Military Spending To Skyrocket
8th February 2016
- Coincidence? Baltic Invasion Story Reappears as Pentagon Seeks to Quadruple Europe Spending
8th February 2016
- An Exasperated John Kerry Throws In Towel On Syria: 'What Do You Want Me To Do, Go To War With The Russians?!'
8th February 2016
- Mandatory Depression Screening is A Depressing Thought
7th February 2016
- The Super Bowl Promotes War
7th February 2016
- Giving Peace Very Little Chance
6th February 2016
- Ron Paul Says Entering Presidential Race as Libertarian Party Candidate 'Not in the Cards'
5th February 2016
- German Spy Chief Says ISIS Operatives Have Infiltrated Europe Disguised As Refugees
5th February 2016
- The Washington Post's Interventionist Mindset
5th February 2016
- Your Perception Is Worth Big Bucks To The Military-Industrial Complex
5th February 2016
- Rand Out - Victory For Hawks?
4th February 2016
- Free State Project - Is It Happening?
3rd February 2016
- Breaking The Neocon Stranglehold On Washington
2nd February 2016
- Delusions on Syria Prevail in Official Washington
2nd February 2016
- Remember Kosovo?
1st February 2016
- January
- Is Congress Declaring War on ISIS or on You?
31st January 2016
- State Department: 22 Emails Will Not Be Released As "Top Secret"
31st January 2016
- Ron Paul: Congress is AWOL on US Wars
29th January 2016
- American Take on the Freedom of the Press
29th January 2016
- Why Adolf Eichmann's Final Message Remains so Profoundly Unsettling
29th January 2016
- Six Years and $17 Billion Wasted in Afghanistan
28th January 2016
- 'Carpet Bomber' Cruz: Libertarian or Neocon?
28th January 2016
- The Continuing Demonization Of Cash
27th January 2016
- Presidential Crimes Then And Now
27th January 2016
- Saudi Arabia Is Killing Civilians with US Bombs
26th January 2016
- However You Vote, The Secret Government Always Wins
26th January 2016
- You Won't Like It, But Here's the Answer to ISIS
25th January 2016
- Senate To Offer President Total War Authority
25th January 2016
- Here Come the Free Staters!
25th January 2016
- Congress is Writing the President a Blank Check for War
24th January 2016
- Pentagon Chief Says 'Boots On The Ground' Part Of 'Accelerated' Strategy For ISIS Fight
22nd January 2016
- Hillary to Bernie: Stop Sounding Like Ron Paul on Iran!
22nd January 2016
- Syria's Moment: RPI's Daniel McAdams on Crosstalk
22nd January 2016
- Democrats in 'Group Think' Land
21st January 2016
- The Injustice Of Mandatory Minimums
21st January 2016
- The Riverine Mysteries
20th January 2016
- The Right to Tell the Government to Go to Hell: Free Speech in an Age of Government Bullies, Corporate Censors and Compliant Citizens
19th January 2016
- When Free Trade Fails, War Follows
19th January 2016
- Missing from the 'State of the Union'
19th January 2016
- When Peace Breaks Out With Iran
17th January 2016
- Caught With Our Pants Down in the Gulf
15th January 2016
- Ron Paul on MSNBC: Talking Presidential Race and Rise of Libertarian Ideas
15th January 2016
- Neocons Furious: Diplomacy Worked With Iran
14th January 2016
- Why Brookings Institution and Establishment Love Wars
14th January 2016
- Obama Speech Ignored His Death Toll at Home and Abroad
13th January 2016
- Executive Order: Will Background Checks Solve The Gun Problem?
13th January 2016
- Cold War Fearmongering on Cuba and Korea
13th January 2016
- What's the Real Story Behind Saudi Arabia's Execution of Shia Cleric al-Nimr?
12th January 2016
- B-52s Over Korea...Protecting Our Homeland?
11th January 2016
- The State of the Nation: A Dictatorship Without Tears
11th January 2016
- American Foreign Policy Oxymorons
11th January 2016
- Oregon Standoff: Isolated Event or Sign of Things to Come?
10th January 2016
- Nearly 60 Percent of Republicans Support Candidates Who Oppose Ousting Assad
9th January 2016
- Gun Control? What About US Arms Sales?
7th January 2016
- US (In)Justice Department Created Mess In Oregon
7th January 2016
- New 'Jihadi John?' ISIS Video Features English-Speaker
7th January 2016
- North Korea Nukes: A Case For Non-Intervention?
6th January 2016
- Enough Already! It's Time To Send The Despicable House Of Saud To The Dustbin Of History
6th January 2016
- Dollar Dominance: Deconstructing the Myths, Untangling the Web
5th January 2016
- US Politicians On Saudi Beheadings: It's All Iran's Fault!
5th January 2016
- 2016: An Explosive New Year?
4th January 2016
- US Military Leadership Resisted Obama's Bid for Regime Change in Syria, Libya
4th January 2016
- About That ISIS Plan to Attack Munich
4th January 2016
- Purism is Practical
3rd January 2016
- US Should Stop Supporting Likely Saudi War Crimes
3rd January 2016
- Why There Is No Peace On Earth
1st January 2016
- 2015
- December
- Soros Plays Both Ends in Syria Refugee Chaos
31st December 2015
- The Washington Post's World of Good and Evil
30th December 2015
- Make Your Year-End Donation To RPI!
30th December 2015
- Syria: It's Not a Civil War and it Never Was
29th December 2015
- What's in Store for Our Freedoms in 2016? More of Everything We Don't Want
29th December 2015
- Retro Cold War Guff From the NY Times
28th December 2015
- What Are The Chances For Peace in 2016?
28th December 2015
- The FBI's 1,800-Page Obsession With Peace Activist Pete Seeger
27th December 2015
- A Call for Proof on Syria-Sarin Attack
24th December 2015
- Ron Paul Warned About This: TSA Removes Opt-Out From Full Body Scanners
24th December 2015
- Your Business Been Hacked? Thanks NSA!
24th December 2015
- Kerry In Moscow: Assad Can Stay?
22nd December 2015
- The SEALS Beat a Man to Death -- Should We Care?
22nd December 2015
- What If Jesus Had Been Born 2,000 Years Later in the American Police State?
22nd December 2015
- Congress Passes PATRIOT Act II In Secret
21st December 2015
- Do We Need the Fed?
21st December 2015
- The Clash of Stupidity: Republican Debate Part V
19th December 2015
- Why the US Pushes an Illusory Syrian Peace Process
18th December 2015
- Obama Administration Fights To Withhold Over 2,000 Photos Of Alleged US Torture and Abuse
18th December 2015
- Washington to Whomever: Please Fight the Islamic State for Us
17th December 2015
- Washington's 'Plan B' in Syria: Renewed Military Intervention to Oust Assad?
17th December 2015
- How US and EU Manipulate Public Consciousness: Montenegro
16th December 2015
- GOP Debate: Fear Won, Liberty Lost
16th December 2015
- 'Washington Has Gone From "Regime Change" to "Political Transition" in Syria, But We are Not Stupid'
16th December 2015
- Ron Paul Rewind: Smacking Down Militarism and Liberty Abuses in 2011 CNN Debate
15th December 2015
- ISIS Is Big Winner In Saudis' Yemen War
15th December 2015
- Turkey's Dangerous Game
15th December 2015
- What Truly Conservative Foreign Policy Looks Like
14th December 2015
- Cheap Oil: Great For The Economy?
14th December 2015
- If You Want Security, Pursue Liberty
14th December 2015
- Israel's al-Qaeda Rescue Program
12th December 2015
- The Second Cold War
11th December 2015
- What ISIS Really Has in Mind
11th December 2015
- From Crisis Comes Leviathan
10th December 2015
- Losing The 'Good War': Taliban Returns In Afghanistan
10th December 2015
- Trump Didn't Vote to Kill One Million Muslims in Iraq, Hillary Did
9th December 2015
- Congress Plans To Tax and Spy On You More
9th December 2015
- Don't Believe the Hype About Gun Shootings in the US
9th December 2015
- Saudis Bomb Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Yemen
8th December 2015
- Women In Combat: An Issue Of Rights?
8th December 2015
- Up From Imperialism: How to End the Terrorist Threat and Return to Normalcy
7th December 2015
- Obama Speech: Don't Give In To Fear...But Be Scared To Death
7th December 2015
- Will the IRS Take Your Passport?
6th December 2015
- 'No Gun for You!': Obama's 'Soup Nazi' Gun Control Proposal
6th December 2015
- Are We In A Clash Of Civilizations?
6th December 2015
- Are We in a Clash of Civilizations?
5th December 2015
- War With Russia or With ISIS: What Ever Happened to Peace?
5th December 2015
- Rep. Tulsi Gabbard: 'Is Overthrowing the Syrian Government Worth Risking Nuclear War with Russia?'
4th December 2015
- Think Before You Rush to War!
4th December 2015
- After 13 Years in Gitmo, Pentagon Says Detainee is Case of 'Mistaken Identity'
4th December 2015
- CA Shooting Reaction: Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Treatment
3rd December 2015
- TSA Bombs the Holidays
3rd December 2015
- After PATRIOT Act Reform, Spying Continues
2nd December 2015
- Iraqis Swear: US "In Cahoots With ISIS It Is Not In Doubt"
2nd December 2015
- Turkey, Russia, and the Fallacy of 'Collective Security'
1st December 2015
- COP21: Climate Action Or Pushing A Hoax?
1st December 2015
- November
- Life in the Electronic Concentration Camp: The Surveillance State Is Alive and Well
30th November 2015
- Sen. Lindsey Graham In Iraq - Wants US Troops To Come Back!
30th November 2015
- Russia Bans Soros Foundation as a 'Threat To National Security And Constitutional Order'
30th November 2015
- The War on Terror is Creating More Terror
30th November 2015
- 'Deadliest Terror Group in the World': The West's Latest Gift to Africa
28th November 2015
- Two Reasons The 'War on Terror' Will Always Fail
28th November 2015
- The Most Dangerous Time in Our History?
26th November 2015
- Massachusetts Cheerleader Tweets Criticism Of Illegal Immigration, School Bans Her From Team
26th November 2015
- US Blames Afghanistan Hospital Massacre On 'Malfunctioning Sensors,' 'Human Error'
26th November 2015
- Who Is Protecting ISIS And Why?
25th November 2015
- This Thanksgiving, Let's Say 'No Thanks' to the Tyranny of the American Police State
25th November 2015
- Turks Hit Russian Fighter - What's Next?
24th November 2015
- On the ISIS Terrorist Threat
23rd November 2015
- Standard Narrative on Syria Conflict Whitewashes US Role
23rd November 2015
- The Morality of Conscientious Objection
23rd November 2015
- Who Should Pay For the Syrian Refugees?
23rd November 2015
- Michael Scheuer: US Foreign Policy is Leading 'Directly to Fascism in America'
22nd November 2015
- How Terror in Paris Calls for Revising US Syria Policy
21st November 2015
- Hillary Clinton's Road to War
21st November 2015
- Ron Paul: Foreign Intervention Will Motivate 'A Lot More' Blowback Like in Paris
21st November 2015
- US Special Forces in Combat: Nothing New for Iraq and Syria
20th November 2015
- The Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking
19th November 2015
- Does ISIS Exist? Some Say No
18th November 2015
- Stopping ISIS: Follow the Money
18th November 2015
- Saudi Arabia: Friend Or Foe?
17th November 2015
- Someone Wants War with Russia
17th November 2015
- Blowback -- The Washington War Party's Folly Comes Home To Roost
17th November 2015
- Paris Attack Motivation: Retaliation?
16th November 2015
- Paris and What Should Be Done
15th November 2015
- The City of Light Falls Dark
15th November 2015
- Opting Out: A Small Step for Peace
15th November 2015
- Paris: You Don't Want to Read This
14th November 2015
- Paid Patriotism: The Artist Formerly Known as 'Propaganda'
13th November 2015
- America's Dedication to Regime Change in Syria Halting Peace Process
13th November 2015
- US Isolationists Still Block Iran Trade
12th November 2015
- How Ukraine's Finance Chief Got Rich
12th November 2015
- Thanking Iraq War Veterans For Their Service
11th November 2015
- NATO Admits Afghan Mission Failure
11th November 2015
- The Deep State: The Unelected Shadow Government Is Here to Stay
10th November 2015
- Missile Test Terrorism Over Los Angeles
10th November 2015
- A Warmonger's Guide to Militarism and Imperialism
9th November 2015
- Does the Bell Toll for the Fed?
9th November 2015
- Reinventing Guns and Butter Politics for the 21st Century
7th November 2015
- TSA Trained Disney World in Goofy 'Terrorist Detection' Methods
7th November 2015
- US Air Force Blames Lack Of October ISIS Strikes On 'Poor Weather'
7th November 2015
- The Sham Syrian Peace Conference
7th November 2015
- An Age of Innocence, in Retrospect
6th November 2015
- Who Downed Metrojet Flight 9268?
6th November 2015
- Gitmo Reflects Disdain For The Constitution
5th November 2015
- Without Authority, Obama's Syria War Illegal
5th November 2015
- CIA, Saudis To Give 'Select' Syrian Militants Weapons Capable Of Downing Commercial Airliners
5th November 2015
- Washington DC's 'Missing' Memorial
5th November 2015
- Is Germany's Migrant Crisis Leading To War?
4th November 2015
- US Officials Outline 'Secret' Summer Operation To Stop Flow Of Dollars To ISIS
3rd November 2015
- The Rise Of America's Secret Government
3rd November 2015
- Erdogan's Victory is a Threat to Turkish Stability
2nd November 2015
- Russian Plane Down Over Egypt. Blowback?
2nd November 2015
- Save The Apologies, Just Stop Promoting War!
1st November 2015
- US Special Forces Deployed as 'Human Shields' to Salvage Terror Assets in Syria
1st November 2015
- October
- Tell Us Why We're At War in Iraq Again, Mr. President
30th October 2015
- Saudi Arabia vs. Iran: Why Are We In The Middle?
30th October 2015
- Breaking: Obama Puts US Boots in Syria - Where is Congress?
30th October 2015
- NATO Looks To Station Thousands Of Troops On Border With Russia
29th October 2015
- Is Liberty Rising?
29th October 2015
- Hill Budget Battle: Another D.C. Charade?
28th October 2015
- We Must Oppose Obama's Escalation in Syria and Iraq!
27th October 2015
- Are We Looking For A Fight In The South China Sea?
27th October 2015
- About That Delta Force Guy Killed in Iraq
27th October 2015
- Fear of the Walking Dead: The American Police State Takes Aim
26th October 2015
- Syrian War Ends West's Dominance of Middle East
26th October 2015
- Blair's Iraq 'Apology': Sincere Or Spin?
26th October 2015
- House Benghazi Hearings: Too Much Too Late
25th October 2015
- The Older, Better Canada is Back Again
25th October 2015
- The Benghazi Hearing: What Neither Hillary nor the Republicans Want to Talk About
23rd October 2015
- Israeli Nuclear Panel Supports Iran Deal
23rd October 2015
- America's Civilian Killings are No Accident
22nd October 2015
- Benghazi Questions No One Dares Ask
22nd October 2015
- Fox, Daily Beast Stories on Cubans in Syria Lack One Thing: Evidence of Cubans in Syria
21st October 2015
- Yes, There Still are Some Benghazi Questions Worth Asking
21st October 2015
- Our Syria War Is Over - Time To Come Home
21st October 2015
- General In Charge Of 'Total Failure' Syrian 'Train And Equip' Program Gets Promotion
20th October 2015
- Things Are Getting Scary: Global Police, Precrime and the War on Domestic 'Extremists'
20th October 2015
- Irwin Schiff - A 'Most Dangerous Man'
20th October 2015
- CNN Anchor Demands Americans 'Stop Swooning Over Putin'
18th October 2015
- Debt Ceiling Debate: Don't Mention Warfare/Welfare State!
18th October 2015
- Want to Understand Syria?
18th October 2015
- Turkey: Slow-Motion Crash
17th October 2015
- Assassinations: Is This 'American Exceptionalism'?
16th October 2015
- Is Hillary Clinton Above the Law?
16th October 2015
- Obama Won't Admit the Real Targets of Russian Airstrikes
16th October 2015
- ISIS In 'Retreat' As Russia Destroys 32 Targets While Putin Trolls Obama As 'Weak With No Strategy'
15th October 2015
- Obama's New War In Africa: Do We Need It?
15th October 2015
- How Can Anyone Still Be An Interventionist?
14th October 2015
- MH-17 Final Report: Who Shot Down The Plane?
14th October 2015
- The New McCarthyism
14th October 2015
- The "A" Word That Terrifies Washington
14th October 2015
- Syria Quagmire? Copyright Tyranny. Weird Politics. Around the World With Lew Rockwell
13th October 2015
- Global Freedom Index: We're Number 20!
12th October 2015
- Politicians Exploit School Shooting While Ignoring Bombing Victims
12th October 2015
- Two Minutes of Hate For Belarus
11th October 2015
- A Decisive Shift In The Power Balance Has Occurred
11th October 2015
- The Mystery of ISIS' Toyota Army Solved
9th October 2015
- The Impulsiveness of US Power
8th October 2015
- Neocons Demand Escalation in Syria
8th October 2015
- Syria Intervention is a Mistake: US Can't Run Entire Middle East
7th October 2015
- Turkey's 'Bear Trap' Option in Syria
7th October 2015
- This Has Become Routine
7th October 2015
- Ron Paul on Fox Business: 'No Reason in the World for us to Be Involved in Syria'
7th October 2015
- How to Sustain Perpetual War (It's Easy!)
6th October 2015
- Seize the Chaos: Israel, the Neocons, and their Bloody, Blundering 'Art' of War
6th October 2015
- Gun Violence - More Control Needed?
5th October 2015
- The Russian Bear Growls
5th October 2015
- I Wish Nobody Was Bombing Syria
5th October 2015
- A Useful Prep-Sheet on Syria for Media Propagandists
3rd October 2015
- On The Ropes: 60 % Don't Trust Media
3rd October 2015
- War Party Hates Putin and Loves al-Qaeda
2nd October 2015
- Obama's Ludicrous 'Barrel Bomb' Theme
2nd October 2015
- Assad Must Go; Assad Must Stay. Who's Right?
1st October 2015
- September
- Will Migrant Crisis Kill EU?
30th September 2015
- The Government We Deserve?
30th September 2015
- Orwell at the UN: Obama Re-Defines Democracy as 'a Country That Supports US Policy'
30th September 2015
- Obama Deifies American Hegemony
29th September 2015
- Deserting Libya: The Rhetoric of British Foreign Policy
29th September 2015
- 'Minority Report' Is 40 Years Ahead of Schedule: The Fictional World Has Become Reality
28th September 2015
- Intel Analysts: US Fixing Facts Around Policy
28th September 2015
- Congress and the Fed Refuse to Learn From Their Mistakes
27th September 2015
- Catalonia Vote - Will They Secede?
26th September 2015
- The Harsh Lessons of History: Faux Reports of Progress Against IS
25th September 2015
- Saving Syria
25th September 2015
- Good News: Gallup Finds Half of US Fears Government
24th September 2015
- The Rape of Afghanistan
23rd September 2015
- Iran's Parchin Nuclear Myth Begins to Unravel
23rd September 2015
- Foreign Policy by Intimidation: GOP Candidates Show How It's Done
22nd September 2015
- Putin's Consistency on Syria has Washington Fuming
20th September 2015
- Blame America? No, Blame Neocons!
20th September 2015
- Was Ahmed Mohamed's Arrest Really All About Religion and Race?
19th September 2015
- Washington Wants 'Regime Change' in Ecuador
18th September 2015
- The Russians are Coming!
18th September 2015
- Russia Exposes US Hidden Agenda in Syria
16th September 2015
- In Syria, More Lies Brings More Chaos
15th September 2015
- Public School Students Are the New Inmates in the American Police State
15th September 2015
- How to End the Refugee Flood
14th September 2015
- Madness of Blockading Syria's Regime
14th September 2015
- Congress Fiddles While the Economy Burns
13th September 2015
- America's Police State is Rooted in Four Federal Wars
11th September 2015
- Should Tweeting Be A Capital Offense?
9th September 2015
- Why The US and Iran Aren't Cooperating Against ISIS
9th September 2015
- A Russian Buildup in Syria? The Propaganda Machine Strikes Again
8th September 2015
- 'Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death': The Loss of Our Freedoms in the Wake of 9/11
8th September 2015
- Turning the Cradle of Civilization Into its Graveyard
7th September 2015
- Color Revolution 2.0 in Lebanon: From Piles of Trash to Piles of Rubble
7th September 2015
- The Real Refugee Problem – And How To Solve It
6th September 2015
- 'Refugees' Arrive in Munich, Hungary Demonized: What's The Endgame?
5th September 2015
- False Flag Alert on Refugee 'Crisis'?
4th September 2015
- War Drums Beating - Real Or Imagined?
3rd September 2015
- Ron Paul and Lost Lessons of War
3rd September 2015
- Buy the Rights-Abusing Cops Lunch Says Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
3rd September 2015
- Abusing Dead Syrian Children
3rd September 2015
- Refugee Crisis - Demise Of The EU?
2nd September 2015
- Sheep Led to the Slaughter: The Muzzling of Free Speech in America
1st September 2015
- August
- Why the War on Terror is Failing
31st August 2015
- Saudi Coalition Bombs Yemen Water Bottling Plant, Killing Dozens of Civilians
31st August 2015
- ISIS Gold Standard: Will it Work?
31st August 2015
- Blame the Federal Reserve, Not China, for Stock Market Crash
30th August 2015
- Beijing Bingo
29th August 2015
- Follow the Money? Not with Hillary, Follow Pat
28th August 2015
- Sanders' Foreign Policy - Not Antiwar
28th August 2015
- Syria: The Propaganda Ring
27th August 2015
- 'Unprivileged Belligerents' - The US War On Journalists
27th August 2015
- Weaponizing Migrants
26th August 2015
- Who Tipped Off Al-Qaeda in Syria?
26th August 2015
- UK Police Scanned the Faces of 100,000 People at Music Festival
26th August 2015
- Markets Crash - Is China to Blame?
25th August 2015
- The Raping of America: Mile Markers on the Road to Fascism
24th August 2015
- Western Complicity in Yemen Genocide Met With Media Silence
24th August 2015
- For Immigration Answers, Look to Liberty
23rd August 2015
- Hillary Clinton, A Friend of International Terrorism?
22nd August 2015
- Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran With Lies, Lies, Lies
21st August 2015
- Tony Blair Holds up Iraq Inquiry Report Over Tough Criticism?
20th August 2015
- Undiplomatic Power
19th August 2015
- Rabbis For Iran Deal - Is Schumer Wrong?
19th August 2015
- We Are the Government: Tactics for Taking Down the Police State
18th August 2015
- Did Iranian Weapons Kill Americans?
18th August 2015
- Who is the West's Lead MH17 Investigator?
17th August 2015
- Twisting The Truth On The Iraq War
17th August 2015
- The Seamless Web of Liberty
17th August 2015
- 'Deal or War': Is Doomed Dollar Really Behind Obama's Iran Warning?
15th August 2015
- Republicans Can't Face the Truth About Iraq
15th August 2015
- Iran Deal's Surprising Supporters
14th August 2015
- Full-Scale War Looms in Donbass
14th August 2015
- Iran Nuclear Deal: Why Empire Blinked First
14th August 2015
- Predisposed to Peace: Ron Paul's Faith in Basic Human Decency and the Power of Ideas
13th August 2015
- Iraq and American Sniper
13th August 2015
- Understanding Why the Clinton Emails Matter
11th August 2015
- The Aspen War Games -- No Place For Old Peaceniks
11th August 2015
- Don't Be Fooled by the Political Game: The Illusion of Freedom in America
11th August 2015
- ISIS Winning? Will Trump's Plan Work?
10th August 2015
- The Return of Ron Paul
10th August 2015
- Islamic State is Winning, America Must Soon Use Its One Remaining Option
10th August 2015
- Real Education Reform Leaves the Government Behind
9th August 2015
- Why Do We Lament A-Bombs But Not Firebombs?
8th August 2015
- US Intelligence Confirms US Support for ISIS
8th August 2015
- My Dreams Seek Revenge: Revisiting Hiroshima One More Time
7th August 2015
- Hiroshima at 70: Have We Learned Anything?
6th August 2015
- Ron Paul Takes On The War Party
6th August 2015
- US Drone War Accelerates - Victims Unknown
5th August 2015
- Power in the Service of Power
5th August 2015
- Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and My Lai Were All War Crimes
4th August 2015
- Ron Paul Plays Hardball
4th August 2015
- Assad's 'Barrel Bombs'...and Ours
4th August 2015
- Washington's Fifth Columns Inside Russia and China
3rd August 2015
- Politics Is Not the Path to Pro-Life Victory
2nd August 2015
- Ron Paul, Champion of God's Peace
1st August 2015
- July
- Dealing With The Cops
31st July 2015
- Monsters of Ukraine: Made in the USA
31st July 2015
- How Did the Turkish Peace Process Collapse?
30th July 2015
- Post-Constitutional America, Where Innocence is a Poor Defense
30th July 2015
- MH-17 Shootdown After One Year: What Do We Know?
30th July 2015
- Drivers, Beware: The Costly, Deadly Dangers of Traffic Stops in the American Police State
29th July 2015
- ISIS 'Ally' Turkey Seeks NATO Support As Two-Front 'War' Escalates
29th July 2015
- $100 Million to Sink Iran Peace Effort
28th July 2015
- Do We Need to Bring Back Internment Camps?
27th July 2015
- Obama's Line on The Iran Nuclear Deal: A Second False Narrative
26th July 2015
- Must We Really Know What Merkel is Having for Dinner?
25th July 2015
- State Department and Intelligence Agencies Ask For Criminal Investigation in the Clinton Email Scandal
25th July 2015
- Wesley Clark Calls for Internment Camps for 'Radicalized' Americans
24th July 2015
- The Kagans: Seeking War to the End of the World
23rd July 2015
- Sandra Bland is Everyman
23rd July 2015
- Obama Should Release MH-17 Intel
22nd July 2015
- The American Nightmare: The Tyranny of the Criminal Justice System
22nd July 2015
- US Military Seeks Reasons To Prolong Afghanistan Occupation
20th July 2015
- Ron Paul at His Best
20th July 2015
- Iran Agreement Boosts Peace, Defeats Neocons
20th July 2015
- Praise To Barack Obama For Stiffing The War Party -- Peace Is Finally Being Given A Chance
18th July 2015
- US/Israeli/Saudi 'Behavior' Problems
17th July 2015
- In His Own Words: Ron Paul On His New Book, Swords into Plowshares
17th July 2015
- Central Banking and War: Ron Paul's 'Swords Into Plowshares' reviewed
17th July 2015
- New Law Says Web Sites Would Have to Inform Law Enforcement about Readers' 'Terrorist Activity'
16th July 2015
- It's Official: ISIS is No Threat to the US Homeland
16th July 2015
- Freedom or the Slaughterhouse? The American Police State from A to Z
15th July 2015
- 'EU Periphery Countries Taking Brunt of US/EU Interventionist Policies in Ukraine'
14th July 2015
- MH17: The Blaming Putin Game Goes On
14th July 2015
- Greece Today, America Tomorrow?
12th July 2015
- Destroying Syria to Make it Safe for American Values
12th July 2015
- Do Flags Kill People?
11th July 2015
- Demanding What You Can't Get: Obama's Gamble with the Iran Talks in Vienna
11th July 2015
- When Money Dies
10th July 2015
- Pentagon Concludes America Not Safe Unless It Conquers The World
10th July 2015
- Obama Fails to Make the Strategic Case for an Iran Nuclear Deal
8th July 2015
- Government Warmongering Criminals: Where Are They Now?
7th July 2015
- Jade Helm, Terrorist Attacks, Surveillance, and Other Fairy Tales for a Gullible Nation
6th July 2015
- For Normal Relations With Cuba, End US Interventionism
6th July 2015
- ISIS Makes the British Lion a De-Clawed and Shabby Cat
4th July 2015
- Independence Day: Celebration or Sadness?
3rd July 2015
- Greek Crisis Awaits Other NATO Partners
3rd July 2015
- What It Really Takes For a US-Iran Deal
3rd July 2015
- California's 'Corporate Fascist' Vaccine Law
2nd July 2015
- Greece Shows Why Banks & Governments Hate Cash: Bank Runs
1st July 2015
- New Embassy in Cuba - But Will Congress Kill the Deal?
1st July 2015
- Clean Break to Dirty Wars
1st July 2015
- June
- Are Neocons Embracing Al-Qaeda?
30th June 2015
- Electric Yerevan and Lessons on the Color-Spring Tactic
29th June 2015
- The Emergence of Orwellian Newspeak and the Death of Free Speech
29th June 2015
- Obamacare's Best Allies: The Courts and the Republicans
28th June 2015
- NATO Hypes Russia Threat While NATO Members Reduce Military Spending
27th June 2015
- Battlefield America
26th June 2015
- The National Security State's Crisis Racket
26th June 2015
- Greek Crisis: How Long Before a Fed Bailout?
25th June 2015
- Five Things That Won't Work in Iraq
25th June 2015
- US Spoiling for More Wars, But Why?
24th June 2015
- If You Want to Get Rid of 'Racist Flags,' How About Starting with the American Flag?
24th June 2015
- Shona Banda Drug Arrest: A Prime Case for Jury Nullification
23rd June 2015
- Keeping Government Bureaucrats Off the Backs of the Citizenry: The Supreme Court Responds
22nd June 2015
- Echoes of Vietnam, or Between Iraq and a Hard Place
22nd June 2015
- One Person Dead, a Tragedy; A Million Dead, a Statistic
22nd June 2015
- Will Seizure of Russian Assets Hasten Dollar Decline?
21st June 2015
- If Greece Defaults, Will the Fed Bailout Europe?
20th June 2015
- Why The US Military Opposed New Combat Roles in Iraq
20th June 2015
- National Endowment for Democracy? Hardly!
19th June 2015
- Road Pirates: Assemble! 'Desert Snow' is Coming to Idaho
19th June 2015
- House Refuses to Curb Obama's Middle East War
18th June 2015
- Policing and Defending Then and Now
17th June 2015
- Samantha Power: Liberal War Hawk
16th June 2015
- Congress Blocks Nazi Training in Ukraine
16th June 2015
- The Magna Carta at 800 Years: Is it Still Alive?
15th June 2015
- Dangers of a Declining Global Power
15th June 2015
- Recent Syrian Rebel Gains Result From US Support Of Extremists
15th June 2015
- Death Penalty: The Ultimate Corrupt, Big Government Program
14th June 2015
- Soros - An American Oligarch's Dirty Tale of Corruption
13th June 2015
- The Prosecution of Dennis Hastert and the Government's War on Cash
13th June 2015
- Europeans Reject NATO's War
12th June 2015
- US Planning to Send 450 More Military Personnel to Iraq
11th June 2015
- Iraq in Chaos: An Excuse to Escalate?
11th June 2015
- Saudi Arabia's Yemen Offensive, Iran's 'Proxy' Strategy, and the Middle East's New 'Cold War'
11th June 2015
- Maidan 3.0: Another Revolution in Ukraine?
10th June 2015
- Are Waco Bikers Getting Justice?
9th June 2015
- Cold War II to McCarthyism II
9th June 2015
- The Washington Intellectual Gravy Train
8th June 2015
- Afghan Drone Strike: Expect More Blowback
8th June 2015
- Soros Pushes US Bailouts and Weapons for Ukraine
7th June 2015
- Military Madness: US Officials Consider Nuclear Strikes against Russia
7th June 2015
- TSA Has No Excuse to Continue the Groping
6th June 2015
- Brzezinski's Delusion of Eurasian Conquest
6th June 2015
- Demands in US-Iran Nuclear Talks as Political Kabuki Theatre
5th June 2015
- Macedonia: Another Color Revolution
5th June 2015
- Free Speech, Facebook and the NSA: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
4th June 2015
- Insanity's Definition is Sending More US Ground Troops to Iraq
3rd June 2015
- Soros Seeks to Expand War in Ukraine...Why?
3rd June 2015
- ISIS, Assad Regime Now Fighting Together In Syria, US Alleges
3rd June 2015
- TSA is The Danger - 95% Fail Rate
2nd June 2015
- Hope for Iraq? Depends on What You're Hoping For
1st June 2015
- The CIA: Providing Security or Threatening Liberty?
1st June 2015
- May
- Ex-Im Bank is Welfare for the One Percent
31st May 2015
- Will Congress Save PATRIOT Act...And Does It Matter?
30th May 2015
- Whether in the USSR or USSA, Politicians Come and Go -- But the Security Organs Remain
29th May 2015
- The Hollywoodization Of War
28th May 2015
- To Beat ISIS, Kick Out US-Led Coalition
27th May 2015
- The NSA's Technotyranny: One Nation Under Surveillance
26th May 2015
- Who Won't Fight in Iraq?
26th May 2015
- A Color Revolution for Macedonia
26th May 2015
- New Evidence US Backed ISIS
25th May 2015
- Iraq and Another Memorial Day
25th May 2015
- Janet Yellen is Right: She Can't Predict the Future
24th May 2015
- Obama's Fail on Saudi-Qatari Aid to al-Qaeda Affiliate
23rd May 2015
- A Military 'Pivot to Asia'
22nd May 2015
- This Is How You 'Boost' GDP: US Sells Over $4 Billion In Weapons To Israel, Iran, And Saudi Arabia
22nd May 2015
- A Rough Week in Iraq, But It Will Get Rougher
21st May 2015
- US Failure in Iraq and Syria: Troops on the Way?
21st May 2015
- Militarization Is More Than Tanks and Rifles: It's a Cultural Disease, Acclimating the Citizenry to Life in a Police State
21st May 2015
- Pity the Poor Stormtroopers: Baby Bou-Bou Ambushed Them
20th May 2015
- Cashless Society: More Attacks on Our Privacy
19th May 2015
- Making the World Less Safe: Sending the Wrong Message to Russia, China, and Iran
19th May 2015
- More Evidence of Israel's Dirty Role in the Syrian Proxy War
19th May 2015
- US Allies Flee Ramadi, US Weapons to ISIS
18th May 2015
- New Military Spending Bill Expands Empire But Forbids Debate on War
17th May 2015
- Garland's Lesson? Democrats, Republicans, and Neocons Bring The Jihad to America
17th May 2015
- Bin Laden Killing: Who's Telling The Truth?
16th May 2015
- US Drone Program 'Should've Never Started' - Ron Paul
15th May 2015
- Love, Visas, and Marriage in Post-Constitutional America
14th May 2015
- 'We the People' Need to Circle the Wagons: The Government Is on the Warpath
13th May 2015
- FBI Monitored Peaceful Demos in Baltimore with High-Tech Surveillance
13th May 2015
- Why is Terrorism on the Rapid Rise?
12th May 2015
- Free Speech, Property, and Provocations
11th May 2015
- NSA Spying Ruled Illegal, But Will Congress Save the Program Anyway?
10th May 2015
- Pinpoint Drone Attacks? There's No Such Thing!
10th May 2015
- The Real Victor of World War II in Europe
9th May 2015
- Are We A Nation of Wimps?
9th May 2015
- State Department Won't Review Clinton Ethics
8th May 2015
- NSA Spying: Not 'Authorized' or Not Constitutional?
8th May 2015
- The Cold War Against Cuba Changed Us
7th May 2015
- The Choice Before Europe
7th May 2015
- Is NATO Looking For a New War?
6th May 2015
- In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn't Amount to Much
6th May 2015
- The Media Misses The Point on 'Proxy War'
5th May 2015
- ISIS in Texas?
5th May 2015
- The Neoconservatives: Tyranny's Fifth Column
5th May 2015
- Who Lost Iraq and Syria?
4th May 2015
- Washington Post Blames Obama for Syrian Mess
4th May 2015
- USA FREEDOM Act: Just Another Word for Lost Liberty
3rd May 2015
- The Ghosts of Vietnam Should Haunt Us – But Don't
2nd May 2015
- Patriot Act Reform: A Hoax
1st May 2015
- Saudi Succession Struggles: Who's on Top and Why
1st May 2015
- April
- Jade Helm: A Military Takeover?
30th April 2015
- General Dempsey Errs by Telling The Truth, But Quickly Recants
29th April 2015
- Who's Starving Yemen's Children?
29th April 2015
- Unending War on Terror
28th April 2015
- A Return to the Peace Party
28th April 2015
- Ron Paul: Why Are US Special Forces in 81 Countries?
27th April 2015
- Crisis, What Crisis? -- The al-Qaeda Takeover of Syria
27th April 2015
- The Real War on the Middle Class
26th April 2015
- Morsi Jailed: Another Mission Accomplished
26th April 2015
- Libya Migrant Crisis: Whose Fault?
24th April 2015
- Obama's Drone Strike: A Targeted Assassination
23rd April 2015
- First They Came for the Anti-Vaxxers
23rd April 2015
- Houthi Arms Bonanza Came From Saleh, Not Iran
23rd April 2015
- US-backed Criminal Slaughter in Yemen Revealed
22nd April 2015
- Protecting the Vicious, Punishing the Virtuous: Marijuana Prohibition and Idaho's Prison-Industrial Complex
21st April 2015
- Biased Reporting on Syria in the Service of War
20th April 2015
- Political Murders in Kiev, US Troops to Ukraine
19th April 2015
- Ron Paul Celebrates Two Years With the Ron Paul Institute!
17th April 2015
- Wolf Pack vs. Bear
17th April 2015
- The $1.4 Billion Ebola Scam
17th April 2015
- Why Does The World Wage War Against The People Of Yemen?
17th April 2015
- Ron Paul: Political Moves Behind Iran Deal
16th April 2015
- Inflicting the Death Penalty Before Trial
15th April 2015
- Venezuela: An 'Extraordinary Threat'?
14th April 2015
- Christians in Peril Because of Western Foreign Policy
13th April 2015
- The New Militarism: Who Profits?
12th April 2015
- What Was US Defense Secretary Doing in Japan?
10th April 2015
- Obama Should Rescind Sanctions Against Venezuela
10th April 2015
- Obama Inherits Saudi Arabia's Yemeni War
10th April 2015
- Does The Government Make Us Safe?
10th April 2015
- Kick Open the Doorway to Liberty: What Are We Waiting For?
9th April 2015
- More Weapons for the Yemen War
8th April 2015
- $416 Million Afghan Program to Empower Women: No 'Tangible Benefit'
7th April 2015
- All Praise To The Iranian Nuclear Framework -- It Finally Exposes The War Party's Big Lie
7th April 2015
- Mysterious Deaths in Ukraine
7th April 2015
- Reality Check: America Needs Iran
7th April 2015
- Lawrence Wilkerson: Iran 'Win-Win' Announced but Many Congressional Republicans Still Want War
6th April 2015
- The IRS and Congress Both Hold Our Liberty in Contempt
5th April 2015
- Soros Looks to Co-Own Ukraine
4th April 2015
- NATO is Building Up for War
4th April 2015
- America's Warfare State Revolution
3rd April 2015
- Yemen: The Stage is Set
3rd April 2015
- Ron Paul: Why Can't the US Let Go of Iranian Sanctions?
1st April 2015
- Iran Demands Lifting of Sanctions for 'Irreversible' Moves, Says Insider
1st April 2015
- March
- The Biggest Threat to American Liberty
31st March 2015
- Ron Paul: Is Indiana Law a Good Answer?
30th March 2015
- After HIV Spike, Drug Warrior Governor Grants Limited Temporary Needle Exchange
30th March 2015
- Repeal, Don't Reform the IMF!
29th March 2015
- Ron Paul: Is Yemen the Next Big War?
27th March 2015
- Sanctions and the Fate of the Nuclear Talks
27th March 2015
- Leave the Houthis Alone!
27th March 2015
- Yemen Exploding: Is The Stage Set for the Big War?
26th March 2015
- For Once, Don't Blame the Israelis
26th March 2015
- Ron Paul: Another Letter on Iran? House Sends Message to President...
25th March 2015
- How Will The Yemeni Civil War End?
25th March 2015
- Ron Paul Rewind: 2007 Presidential Exploratory Committee Announcement
24th March 2015
- Congress Demands War in Ukraine!
23rd March 2015
- After a Twelve Year Mistake in Iraq, We Must Just March Home
22nd March 2015
- A Family Business of Perpetual War
22nd March 2015
- Cold War II: This Time, The Commies Are In Washington
21st March 2015
- 'Ukraine New Spy Law Designed as Provocation, Opens Whole Can of Worms'
20th March 2015
- Why Do American Weapons End Up in Our Enemies' Hands?
19th March 2015
- Rep. Walter Jones: No More Dollars for Afghanistan
18th March 2015
- White House Email Archiving Office Exempts Self from FOIA Disclosures
18th March 2015
- Republican 'Balanced' Budget Boosts Military Spending
17th March 2015
- The Wolf Is Guarding the Hen House: The Government's War on Cyberterrorism
17th March 2015
- US Intel Stands Pat on MH-17 Shoot-down
16th March 2015
- Iran Fighting ISIS – Is it Really a Problem?
15th March 2015
- CNN is Beating the Drums of War
15th March 2015
- Ron Paul on the 'Green Light for American Empire'
14th March 2015
- A Green Light for the American Empire
14th March 2015
- Get Out Peacefully: The Libertarian Principle of Secession
13th March 2015
- Ron Paul: Will the US and Israel Send a 'Thank You' Note to Iran?
12th March 2015
- Obama's Venezuelan Dictatorship
11th March 2015
- Ron Paul: Why is Libya Going to ISIS?
11th March 2015
- The Intellectual as Servant of the State
11th March 2015
- Ron Paul Rewind: Iran Sanctions Are 'One More Step to Another War We Don't Need'
10th March 2015
- Azerbaijan Should be Very Afraid of Nuland
10th March 2015
- How DNA Is Turning Us Into a Nation of Suspects
9th March 2015
- Don't Be Fooled by the Federal Reserve's Anti-Audit Propaganda
8th March 2015
- The Future of Mosul is Kobane
7th March 2015
- Ron Paul: 'Netanyahu's US Trip is All About Politics'
7th March 2015
- The Long History of Israel Gaming the 'Iranian Threat'
6th March 2015
- 'Nuland Ensconced in Neocon Camp Who Believes in Noble Lie'
5th March 2015
- America Must Reject Netanyahu's War Cry on Iran
4th March 2015
- Ron Paul: Syrian 'Moderates' Again Join al-Qaeda
4th March 2015
- Private Police: Mercenaries for the American Police State
3rd March 2015
- Ron Paul: Killing of Boris Nemtsov and War Propaganda
2nd March 2015
- Department of Homeland Security: What is it Good For?
1st March 2015
- February
- Liberty in Search of Protector - Interview With Vaclav Klaus
28th February 2015
- Ron Paul: Is Government Regulation of Internet Helpful?
27th February 2015
- State Department Gives 87 Percent of Afghan Funds to Only Five Recipients
27th February 2015
- Stephen Hawking and the Meaning of Non-Aggression
27th February 2015
- 'US Spends Millions on Overseas Propaganda, But No One is Buying it'
26th February 2015
- Domestic Fear is the Price of Empire
26th February 2015
- Janet Yellen On Capitol Hill - Ron Paul Liberty Report
25th February 2015
- Ukraine: A Cuban Missile Crisis in Reverse
24th February 2015
- The Washington Post's Gross Mischaracterization of Ron Paul's Message
23rd February 2015
- Another Nail in The Coffin of The Case for Libyan 'Intervention'
23rd February 2015
- Interventionism Kills: Post-Coup Ukraine One Year Later
22nd February 2015
- Ukraine Coup One Year On and Does Obama Hate America? - Ron Paul Liberty Report
21st February 2015
- How US Diplomatic Strategy Gave Netanyahu Leverage
21st February 2015
- Operation Iraqi 'Freedom'
19th February 2015
- Happy Kosovo Independence Day?
18th February 2015
- Libya: A Perfect Storm of Interventionist Failure
17th February 2015
- Ron Paul Liberty Report: President's Day and Washington, D.C. Speech
17th February 2015
- Putin Heads Off a US-Russia War
16th February 2015
- How Many More Wars?
16th February 2015
- Ron Paul: 'I Am Not Pro-Putin, I Am Not Pro-Russia, I Am Pro-Facts'
15th February 2015
- The Real Problem of 'Getting to Yes' With Iran
14th February 2015
- What You Should Know About the New Defense Secretary
13th February 2015
- What Will 'Minsk II' Agreement be Worth?
12th February 2015
- The Seduction of Brian Williams: Embedded with the Military
12th February 2015
- Yemen Today: Another 'Fall of Saigon' Moment for US
11th February 2015
- Obama's Force Authorization is a Blank Check for War Worldwide
11th February 2015
- Brian Williams Helped Pave the Way to War
10th February 2015
- Sami Al-Arian and the Defining Moral and Political Challenge of Our Time
9th February 2015
- Kiev's Bloody War Is Backfiring
9th February 2015
- Were the Saudis Behind 9/11?
8th February 2015
- Vaccine Controversy Shows Why We Need Markets, Not Mandates
8th February 2015
- Ron Paul Liberty Report: Behind the Scenes on Vaccines and Ukraine
7th February 2015
- Greece: The Problem with Playing Hardball
7th February 2015
- Supreme Court Rules in Favor of TSA Whistleblower Robert MacLean
6th February 2015
- No Doubt: US Taxpayers Will be Robbed to Arm Poroshenko
4th February 2015
- America's James Bond Complex
4th February 2015
- History In the Balance: Why Greece Must Repudiate Its 'Banker Bailout' Debts And Exit The Euro
3rd February 2015
- Netanyahu's Speech and the Politics of Iran Policy
2nd February 2015
- Mini-Maidan Picks Up Steam in Budapest
2nd February 2015
- The Failed Yemen Model
1st February 2015
- January
- March to Folly in Ukraine
31st January 2015
- Surrendering Liberty: America's Fatal Freedom Apathy
29th January 2015
- China Looks West: What Is at Stake in Beijing's 'New Silk Road' Project
28th January 2015
- 'Two Percent Inflation' and The Fed's Current Mandate
28th January 2015
- Beware the Two Percent!
28th January 2015
- New Russia 'Spy' Scandal: US Foreign Policy Goes Retro
28th January 2015
- After The 'Syriza Shock' - Now Comes The Hard Choice Of Escape Or Merely Re-setting The Terms of Greece's EU Servitude
26th January 2015
- Education is Too Important Not to Leave to the Marketplace
25th January 2015
- Adios Cuba!
25th January 2015
- Beware a New Cold War
23rd January 2015
- A Second Even More Unjustifiable Episode of Government Collection of Phone Records
23rd January 2015
- The Ambiguity of Charlie Hebdo: France Under the Influence
21st January 2015
- Ron Paul: The Real State of Liberty 2015
20th January 2015
- The Danger of an MH-17 'Cold Case'
20th January 2015
- Why Should Charlie Hebdo Deaths Mean More Than Those in E.Ukraine?
19th January 2015
- If the Fed Has Nothing to Hide, It Has Nothing to Fear
18th January 2015
- Fed Asset Seizures Rollback Less Than Advertised
18th January 2015
- Will New US Training Program Produce More ISIS Fighters in Syria?
17th January 2015
- Do You Believe it Was a False Flag? Ron Paul on Paul Craig Roberts' Controversial Article
16th January 2015
- The Open Society and its Worst Enemies
16th January 2015
- America Is Open for Business in Iraq (Psst... Wanna Buy an M1 Tank?)
15th January 2015
- 'US Incapable of Backing Down on Russia Over Ukraine'
15th January 2015
- CIA on Trial in Virginia for Planting Nuke Evidence in Iran
14th January 2015
- From Neighborhood Cops to Robocops: The Changing Face of American Police
14th January 2015
- Charlie Hebdo Shootings: False Flag?
14th January 2015
- Lessons from Paris
12th January 2015
- The Police Threat Is Too High
10th January 2015
- EU-Backed Libyan Government Bombs EU Citizens But No New No Fly Zone in Sight
9th January 2015
- Inner City Turmoil and Other Crises: My Predictions for 2015
8th January 2015
- Paris Slayings: What Do You Say When You Have Nothing to Say?
8th January 2015
- Ron Paul: Paris Attack 'Obscene,' But Blowback for French Interventionism
7th January 2015
- Welcome to the Matrix: Enslaved by Technology and the Internet of Things
7th January 2015
- What Didn't Happen in 2014: The Paranoia Year in Review
6th January 2015
- Blowback on the Saudi Border – Senior General Killed
5th January 2015
- Total National Security Spending Is Much Greater than the Pentagon's Base Budget
5th January 2015
- Ten New Year's Resolutions for Congress
4th January 2015
- Without 'Qualified Immunity,' Would Cops Be So Quick to Kill?
1st January 2015
- 2014
- December
- A Radical Question About the CIA in the Mainstream Press
31st December 2014
- The Victory of 'Perception Management'
30th December 2014
- America: Australia's Dangerous Ally
29th December 2014
- Why is it Illegal to Buy Food From Your Neighbors?
29th December 2014
- The Real Meaning of the 1914 Christmas Truce
28th December 2014
- 'The Interview' Flops, FBI 'North Korean Hack' Story Also Debunked
28th December 2014
- 2014: The Year Propaganda Came Of Age
27th December 2014
- Why Obama Won't Reach an Agreement With Iran
27th December 2014
- US Looks to Israel to Justify Torture
26th December 2014
- Should You Condemn the CIA for Torture If You Don't Condemn the Iraq War?
26th December 2014
- Why Millions of Christians Will Mourn This Christmas
23rd December 2014
- Janet Yellen's Christmas Gift to Wall Street
21st December 2014
- Cold War Spy Games Show the Moral Bankruptcy of the US National Security State
20th December 2014
- Regime Change in Cuba
19th December 2014
- US Overlooks Russia Sanctions Backlash on Own Economy
18th December 2014
- Bombs Away! Obama Signs Lethal Aid to Ukraine Bill
18th December 2014
- Torture and the Destruction of the Human Being Shaker Aamer by the United States
18th December 2014
- For Truly Better Relations with Cuba, Open the Door and Get Out of the Way!
17th December 2014
- The Cold War Has Never Ended for the CIA
17th December 2014
- Three Members of Congress Just Reignited the Cold War While No One Was Looking
16th December 2014
- BBC US Editor Parrots CIA, Republican Talking Points on Senate Torture Report
16th December 2014
- After Ukraine: Are the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary Veering Off The NATO/EU Reservation?
15th December 2014
- All I Want for Christmas is a (Real) Government Shutdown
14th December 2014
- Eric Garner, the Torture Report, and Authoritarian Psychology
12th December 2014
- Torture and the Myth of Never Again: The Persecution of John Kiriakou
11th December 2014
- Do They Really Oppose Torture?
11th December 2014
- US Foreign Policy: Into the Heart of Darkness
10th December 2014
- 'A Litany of Federal Crimes' - Judge Napolitano on the CIA Torture Report
9th December 2014
- Washington's Frozen War Against Russia
9th December 2014
- The Long Arm of US Law
8th December 2014
- Our Enemies, the Presidents
7th December 2014
- House Chooses New Cold War With Russia
7th December 2014
- Ukraine's Made-in-USA Finance Minister
6th December 2014
- Ron Paul: Anti-Russia Bill Passed by Congress 'Part of the War Propaganda Machine'
6th December 2014
- US Army Sends 100 Tanks To Eastern Europe To 'Deter Russian Aggression'
5th December 2014
- Reckless Congress 'Declares War' on Russia
4th December 2014
- Just Like the Stasi...
4th December 2014
- Fear is a Political Instrument, but Knowledge is Power
3rd December 2014
- Ron Paul on the Next US Defense Secretary
3rd December 2014
- No to War, Hot or Cold, With Russia
2nd December 2014
- Why Not Pardon Drug War Victims in Addition to Turkeys?
1st December 2014
- MH17: Barring Malaysia From Investigation Reeks of Cover-up
1st December 2014
- November
- Who Wants to be Defense Secretary?
30th November 2014
- Nuclear Chicken in the Mideast
29th November 2014
- Darren Wilson and the Reality of 'Blue Privilege'
28th November 2014
- Syrian Christians: 'Help Us to Stay - Stop Arming Terrorists'
26th November 2014
- We Are the Enemy: Is This the Lesson of Ferguson?
25th November 2014
- 'Coercive Diplomacy' and the Failure of the Nuclear Negotiations
25th November 2014
- What Does Hagel's Ouster Mean for US Syria Policy?
24th November 2014
- Reform the CIA? What Good Would That Do?
24th November 2014
- Defeat of USA FREEDOM Act is a Victory for Freedom
23rd November 2014
- ISIS: Fighting the Modern Wahabis
22nd November 2014
- Lew Rockwell: Europe Bowing to US Hegemon on Russia Sanctions
22nd November 2014
- Ron Paul: 'Help!'
20th November 2014
- Biden in Ukraine, War Surely to Follow
20th November 2014
- The United States Lost the Cold War
20th November 2014
- Still Letting the Neocons Lead
19th November 2014
- Russia invades Ukraine. Again. And Again. And Yet Again!
19th November 2014
- Voiceprints: Time to be Afraid Again
18th November 2014
- Are 'We the People' Useful Idiots in the Digital Age?
17th November 2014
- Do Wars Really Defend America's Freedom?
17th November 2014
- Internet Gambling Ban: A Winner for Sheldon Adelson, A Losing Bet for the Rest of Us
16th November 2014
- No Good War; No Bad Peace
15th November 2014
- Anti-Assad Propaganda Tricks MSM 'Sophisticates'
14th November 2014
- When Henry Kissinger Makes Sense...
14th November 2014
- Hungary's Orban Threatened by Maidan-Style Protest Movement
13th November 2014
- A Lesson in Intervention in Iraq
12th November 2014
- American Journey From Terror to Peace, 9/11 to 11/11
11th November 2014
- US: Kicking Vietnam Syndrome Once and for All
11th November 2014
- The Devil's Bargain: The Illusion of a Trouble-Free Existence in the American Police State
10th November 2014
- Iraq War 3.0: What Could Possibly Go Right?
10th November 2014
- What The Mid-Term Elections Really Mean For Peace and Liberty
9th November 2014
- NYPD Union Leader: Reducing Marijuana Arrests is "Beginning of the Breakdown of a Civilized Society"
9th November 2014
- Dennis Kucinich: 'The US Must Work to Reestablish Friendly Relations With Russia'
7th November 2014
- Obama Demands Another 1,500 Troops and $5.6 Billion for War Expansion
7th November 2014
- Why US Anti-ISIS Videos Don't Work
6th November 2014
- Ron Paul's Take on the 2014 Midterm Elections
5th November 2014
- Washington-Backed 'Rebels' Surrender US Arms to Al Qaeda in Syria
5th November 2014
- The FBI: America's Secret Police
4th November 2014
- US Destroying Syria's Oil Infrastructure Under Guise of Fighting ISIS
3rd November 2014
- More Guns Plus Less War Equals Real Security
2nd November 2014
- Afghanistan: None Dare Call it a Defeat
1st November 2014
- In Ukraine, A Tale of Two Elections
1st November 2014
- October
- US Post Office Spying on Americans Without Oversight
31st October 2014
- The Iranian Nuclear Issue and Sino-Iranian Relations
31st October 2014
- The Cheney-Powell-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz Strategy: An Evaluation
30th October 2014
- Obama's Phony Foreign-Aid Reform
29th October 2014
- Putin's Complaint: Is Washington a Revisionist Power?
29th October 2014
- Time Mag to Ron Paul: Stop Telling The Truth!
28th October 2014
- Don't Let Lunatics Make Our Policies
27th October 2014
- Once-Peaceful Canada Turns Militaristic; Blowback Follows
26th October 2014
- Anti-Assad Warmongers Drag in the Holocaust
25th October 2014
- Fragile Fact-Checking: How The Media Fell in And Out of Love With The Sikorski 'Revelations'
23rd October 2014
- Hollow Justice and Courts of Order in an Age of Government-Sanctioned Tyranny
22nd October 2014
- The Cuban Embargo is an Attack on Both Cubans And Americans
20th October 2014
- National Service is Anti-Liberty and Un-American
19th October 2014
- The Real Secret of Iraq's Germ Weapons
18th October 2014
- The Neocons -- Masters of Chaos
18th October 2014
- Warmongering Washington Hunting for Ebola, Russia and Islamic State
17th October 2014
- Ron Paul Blasts 'Deeply Flawed' US Foreign Policy - Interview With Larry King
17th October 2014
- The Politicians Are Scaring You Again
16th October 2014
- Seven Worst-Case Scenarios in the Battle With the Islamic State
16th October 2014
- Committing Highway Robbery to Fund Police Militarization
15th October 2014
- Where Did Iraq Get Its Weapons of Mass Destruction?
15th October 2014
- Shielded from Justice: The High Cost of Living in a Police State
14th October 2014
- US/Afghan Pact: Permanent Occupation
14th October 2014
- Again the Peace Prize Not for Peace
13th October 2014
- Liberty, Not Government, is Key to Containing Ebola
12th October 2014
- A 'Final Solution' to the 'Muslim Problem'?
11th October 2014
- From Pol Pot to ISIS: 'Anything That Flies on Everything That Moves'
11th October 2014
- Celebrating Ron Paul's Forty Years in the Political Arena
11th October 2014
- Afghanistan Faces Uncertain Future
9th October 2014
- The Abominable No Fly List
9th October 2014
- Urgent: Right-Left Alliance Needed to Stop This War!
8th October 2014
- Pennsylvania Legislature Moves To Pass Injunctive Law In Wake Of Abu-Jamal Commencement Speech
8th October 2014
- Presidents and the War Power
8th October 2014
- Washington Is Destroying The World
7th October 2014
- The Siege Of Kobani: Obama's Syrian Fiasco In Motion
6th October 2014
- The Real Status of Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq
5th October 2014
- Hong Kong Boiling -- But Gently So Far
4th October 2014
- War, The Fed, and More Wars: Ron Paul's LPAC 2014 Speech!
3rd October 2014
- America's Never-Ending War in the Middle East
1st October 2014
- September
- There is Much to Fear
30th September 2014
- Obama Invented Fake 'Threat' to Launch War on Syria
29th September 2014
- Scottish Referendum Gives Reasons to be Hopeful
28th September 2014
- Western-Backed Kiev Regime Burying the Truth About Its Atrocities?
27th September 2014
- Ron Paul: Obama Has Started 'Immoral and Illegal' War in Iraq and Syria
27th September 2014
- Syria/Iraq/Afghanistan: As Bad As a Crime, a Blunder
27th September 2014
- Gateway Policies: ISIS, Obama and US Financial Boots-on-the-Ground
26th September 2014
- Is Obama Misleading the World to War? Depends How You Define 'Misleading'
26th September 2014
- The Airwaves Are Still Heaving With Spin Two Days After US Airstrikes Against Syria
26th September 2014
- Welcome To Barack Obama's Syrian Gong Show
25th September 2014
- The Real Reason We Are Bombing Syria
24th September 2014
- Apocalypse Now, Iraq Edition
23rd September 2014
- Breaking: US Attacks Syria!
22nd September 2014
- Turning Americans into Snitches for the Police State: 'See Something, Say Something' and Community Policing
22nd September 2014
- NATO vs. ISIS?
21st September 2014
- Congress Votes for More War in the Middle East
21st September 2014
- The Disastrous Myth of Airpower Victory
20th September 2014
- Anarchy in Washington: Is Anybody in Charge?
19th September 2014
- The Tower Of Babel Comes To Paris: The Folly Of Obama's War On ISIS
18th September 2014
- Poroshenko in Washington: A Marriage Made in Heaven?
17th September 2014
- 8 Reasons Why Congress Should Vote No on Training and Funding Syrian Rebels
17th September 2014
- Ron Paul: War on ISIS is Foolish Continuation of 24 Years of US War in Middle East
16th September 2014
- An Unbearable and Choking Hell: The Loss of Our Freedoms in the Wake of 9/11
16th September 2014
- Under Cover of Ceasefire, NATO-Armed Kiev Poised to Attack
16th September 2014
- Washington's War Against Russia
15th September 2014
- Are You Going to LPAC?
14th September 2014
- Will The Swiss Vote to Get Their Gold Back?
14th September 2014
- Neocons Revive Syria 'Regime Change' Plan
13th September 2014
- Obama's ISIL Speech: Five Lies, Four Truths, and a Potential War Crime
12th September 2014
- Obama, Speak Plainly: This is War!
12th September 2014
- Obama Distorts Founders and Constitution to Promote War and Worldwide Domination
12th September 2014
- Barack, We Hardly Knew Ye
11th September 2014
- Obama's Speech: 'Bush on Steroids'
11th September 2014
- Obama Follows Bush's Iraq Playbook
10th September 2014
- Obama: I Do Not Need Congressional Approval To Go To War With ISIS
10th September 2014
- Resistance is Futile: The Violent Cost of Challenging the American Police State
10th September 2014
- 'Think Tank-Gate': Corruption Is the Price of Empire
8th September 2014
- Stop Being Mean to Tony Blair!
8th September 2014
- Nixon's Vindication
7th September 2014
- Desperate Drug War Beneficiaries Spread Marijuana Legalization Disinformation
6th September 2014
- Mr. President, The Less You Do Overseas The Better
6th September 2014
- Iraq Has WMDs and Russia Has Invaded!
4th September 2014
- US Boots in Iraq and Baltics, Authorization to Attack Syria...and US Troops in Ukraine!
4th September 2014
- Remembering Eugene V. Debs' Imprisonment for Speaking Against War
3rd September 2014
- Western Doublethink on Blind Path to War
3rd September 2014
- Top Ten Ways You Can Tell if Russia Has Invaded Ukraine
1st September 2014
- US Slouches Toward Syria, Again...
1st September 2014
- August
- Obama Has No Middle East Strategy? Good!
31st August 2014
- Is This The Libertarian Moment?
30th August 2014
- The Mother of All Blowback
30th August 2014
- Washington Piles Lie Upon Lie
29th August 2014
- Red Alert: NATO Mission Creep Advancing to Russian Border
28th August 2014
- Bombs Away Over Syria! Washington Has Gone Stark Raving Mad
27th August 2014
- The Murder of James Foley
27th August 2014
- Ron Paul and Mark Spitznagel Talk Freedom, Farming, and the Fed
26th August 2014
- Peace President Plots War on Syria
26th August 2014
- The Syrian Arab Government and ISIS Have Always Been Enemies
25th August 2014
- Missed Ron Paul's Birthday? It's Not Too Late To Claim Your Gift!
25th August 2014
- Ferguson: The War Comes Home
24th August 2014
- Obama's Skewed Policy Priorities in Middle East
24th August 2014
- Cautious Outrage Over Alleged Foley Execution
23rd August 2014
- US/NATO Slam Russian Aid to Eastern Ukraine
22nd August 2014
- Hagel and Dempsey: We Must Attack Syria! Get Ready!
21st August 2014
- Obama, Democrats, Republicans, and NATO: Still Playing the Islamists' Foil
21st August 2014
- Ron Paul, the Gateway Drug
20th August 2014
- It's Ron Paul's Birthday. Guess What He Wants?
20th August 2014
- Ukraine Crisis Continues
20th August 2014
- Ron Paul: Mission Creep in Iraq...and Missouri!
18th August 2014
- The Terrorists Fighting Us Now? We Just Finished Training Them.
18th August 2014
- What Have We Accomplished in Iraq?
17th August 2014
- Police Have No Right to Shoot Someone Running Away
15th August 2014
- From Boston to Ferguson: Have We Reached a Tipping Point in the Police State?
15th August 2014
- Iraq Policy: Washington's Puzzle Palace Keeps Getting Curiouser
12th August 2014
- Ron Paul: 'US Out of Iraq Now!'
12th August 2014
- Why Obama is bombing the Caliph
12th August 2014
- A Faul's Errand: Washington's Amateur Diplomacy – An Obituary
11th August 2014
- Why Reform the CIA?
11th August 2014
- America Started This Ukraine Crisis
10th August 2014
- US Sanctions on Russia May Sink the Dollar
10th August 2014
- What if There's a Real War in Ukraine?
9th August 2014
- Washington Opened The Gates Of Hell In Iraq: Now Come The Furies
8th August 2014
- Crushing Protests in Kiev: Neocons Never Liberate Twice
7th August 2014
- US Government Still Trying for Cuba Regime Change
7th August 2014
- Ron Paul Rewind: 'Bombing Yugoslavia Cannot Be a Proud Moment'
6th August 2014
- Bill Clinton's Body-Snatchers: The Truth About the 'Humanitarian' War on Yugoslavia
6th August 2014
- Flight 17 Shoot-Down Scenario Shifts: White House vs. Intelligence Community?
5th August 2014
- Ron Paul: Don't Palestinians Have a Right to Defend Themselves Too?
5th August 2014
- Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza: Is it Really a 'Buffer Zone' – or a Bigger Plan?
5th August 2014
- We're All Criminals and Outlaws in the Eyes of the American Police State
4th August 2014
- Ron Paul on C-SPAN, Ron Paul on Everything
4th August 2014
- The State's Worst Atrocity
4th August 2014
- Why Won't Obama Just Leave Ukraine Alone?
3rd August 2014
- Political Purges Loom as Ukraine Falls Apart
2nd August 2014
- 'We Tortured Some Folks' -- Obama Admits United States Committed Acts Violating Federal and International Law
1st August 2014
- Not Talking to Vladimir Putin Signals Impotence, Not Strength
1st August 2014
- CIA Admits Hacking Senate Computers After Months of Denials
1st August 2014
- July
- The Rise of the 'Petro-yuan' and the Slow Erosion of Dollar Hegemony
31st July 2014
- New Post
31st July 2014
- Stop! Thief! Stop! -- The Looting of Ukraine
30th July 2014
- On Dominoes, WMDs And Putin's 'Aggression': Imperial Washington Is Intoxicated By Another Big Lie
29th July 2014
- In Foreign Affairs, Not Doing Anything Is The Thing To Do
29th July 2014
- The Absurd, Bureaucratic Hell That Is the American Police State
28th July 2014
- End Torture, Shut Down the CIA!
27th July 2014
- Israel's 155mm Cure For 'Terrorism'
27th July 2014
- Another 'Saigon': US Evacuates From Libya
26th July 2014
- What Does the U.S. Support When It Supports Israel?
26th July 2014
- 'Hard-Core Libertarian' Austin Petersen's Advice for 'Soviet' Ron Paul
25th July 2014
- Ron Paul: 'I Don't Blame America, I Blame Neocons'
25th July 2014
- Breedlove...or Strangelove?
25th July 2014
- Ron Paul: What's So Bad About a Split-Up Ukraine?
24th July 2014
- 9/11 Commission: 10th Anniversary of a Bootlicking National Disgrace
23rd July 2014
- Parallel Construction: Unconstitutional NSA Searches Deny Due Process
23rd July 2014
- On Malaysian Crash, Obama's Case Against Russia Disintegrates
23rd July 2014
- Kerry's Latest Reckless Rush to Judgment
21st July 2014
- The Stealing of America by the Cops, the Courts, the Corporations and Congress
21st July 2014
- What the Media Won't Report About Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17
20th July 2014
- What Happened to the Malaysian Airliner?
20th July 2014
- What Gaza's Crisis Shows About Israel's Ambitions and America's Decline
19th July 2014
- David Versus Goliath in Gaza
19th July 2014
- Blood, Treasure and Soul: The Exorbitant Price of the American Empire
18th July 2014
- New Post
18th July 2014
- US Foreign Food Aid Hurts the Poor
17th July 2014
- Neocons Go Undercover
16th July 2014
- New Post
16th July 2014
- West's Confusing Foreign Policy Contradictions
15th July 2014
- Ron Paul Institute Now in Texas!
13th July 2014
- What's Missing in the Current Immigration 'Crisis' Debate
13th July 2014
- How to Lose Friends and Make People Hate You
12th July 2014
- In Washington's View, It's Still 1945 in Europe
12th July 2014
- Ron Paul Rewind: Israel Encouraged Growth of Hamas
11th July 2014
- Inside the Strange Mind of NATO's Anders Fogh Rasmussen
11th July 2014
- Don't Cry For Me, Shevardnadze...
10th July 2014
- Fox News and Terrorist Propaganda
9th July 2014
- Media Blaming Libertarians for Republican Candidates' Losses Four Months Before Election
9th July 2014
- The Emperor's New Clothes: The Naked Truth About the American Police State
8th July 2014
- Why it's OK to arm 'Moderate' jihadists in Syria
8th July 2014
- Iraq: What They Died For
7th July 2014
- Hobby Lobby Decision Creates Small Island of Freedom in Ocean of Statism
6th July 2014
- Payback Time For Sarko In France's Dirty Politics?
6th July 2014
- Dennis Kucinich: 'Interventionism Is Not The Wave of The Future'
4th July 2014
- The National-Security State's Murder of Two Americans
3rd July 2014
- Empire's Age-Old Aim: Wealth and Power
1st July 2014
- June
- Celebrate Independence Day By Opposing Government Tyranny
29th June 2014
- Cold War Renewed With A Vengeance While Washington Again Lies
29th June 2014
- Hell No! Taxpayers Shouldn't Go To Syria
28th June 2014
- Ron Paul: No More US Aid to Syria Insurgents; Better for House to Impeach than Sue Obama
28th June 2014
- Iraq: The Things Warmongers Said
28th June 2014
- Obama's Self-Made Foreign Policy Problem
27th June 2014
- Ron Paul, the CIA, and Dr. Zhivago
27th June 2014
- Federal Court Rules Government's No-Fly List Is Unconstitutional
25th June 2014
- The US Supreme Court Is Marching in Lockstep with the Police State
24th June 2014
- Opt-Out of Common Core, Opt-In to The Ron Paul Curriculum
22nd June 2014
- The Orwellian Daily Mail
20th June 2014
- Eric Margolis: 'Any US Move in Iraq Will Be Wrong'
20th June 2014
- Iraq, Foreign Policy, Amnesty, John Bolton: Ron Paul Interviewed By Mike Church
19th June 2014
- The Blair Peace Project: Serial Warmonger's Call For New Iraq War Will Have Opposite Effect
18th June 2014
- Iraq: Will the Neocons Get Away With It Again?
18th June 2014
- Has the Dept. of Homeland Security Become America's Standing Army?
17th June 2014
- How to Evolve an Exit Strategy From America's Foreign Policy Shambles -- The Polk Report
17th June 2014
- America's Middle East Delusions
16th June 2014
- Stop Calling the Iraq War a 'Mistake'
16th June 2014
- Haven't We Already Done Enough Damage in Iraq?
15th June 2014
- Iraq Blows Wide Open
14th June 2014
- Don't Compound the Damage Already Done in Iraq by Doubling Down in Syria
13th June 2014
- Once Again Into The Breach: U.S. Shipping More Weapons and Preparing More Military Aid To Iraq
13th June 2014
- Ron Paul Rewind: 'Do Not Attack Iraq!' (2002)
13th June 2014
- Ground Hog Day in the Drug War
13th June 2014
- Critiquing America's Brain-Dead Foreign Policy 'Debate'
11th June 2014
- Why Should Anyone Trust a Government That Kills, Maims, Tortures, Lies, Spies, Cheats, and Treats Its Citizens Like Criminals?
9th June 2014
- Obama's Foreign Policy Rhetoric Does Not Match US Actions
8th June 2014
- The Big Snub in Paris
7th June 2014
- Washington's Iron Curtain in Ukraine
7th June 2014
- Washington's Only Standards Are Double Standards
6th June 2014
- The Disaster That is US Foreign Policy
6th June 2014
- America's Shale Revolution and the Dangerous Myth of Energy Independence
5th June 2014
- US Turns Blind Eye to Lugansk Massacre
4th June 2014
- Ron Paul: 'Get Rid Of the NSA'
4th June 2014
- Obama: Stop The Sanctimonious Kidstuff; Let Europe Fund Its Own Security
3rd June 2014
- Ron Paul Rewind: Legalize Medical Marijuana and Hemp
2nd June 2014
- Just Shoot: The Mindset Responsible for Turning Search Warrants into Death Warrants, and SWAT Teams into Death Squads
2nd June 2014
- What Obama Told Us At West Point
2nd June 2014
- Mental Health Screening a Good Way to Decrease Liberty, Poor Way to Increase Security
1st June 2014
- May
- Trivial Pursuit: Obama Versus the Interventionists
30th May 2014
- A Middle East Tragedy: Obama's Syria Policy Disaster
29th May 2014
- Ukraine Asks for Lend-Lease from US
29th May 2014
- Boko Haram a Blessing for Imperialism in Africa: U.S. Training Death Squads
29th May 2014
- Ukraine and EU Integration of Popular Revolt against Oligarchs
27th May 2014
- Why War Is Inevitable
26th May 2014
- Western Media Coverage of the Ukraine Crisis Is as Distorted as Soviet Propaganda
26th May 2014
- The VA Scandal is Just the Tip of the Military Abuse Iceberg
25th May 2014
- No Water For You: Obama Administration Moves To Cut Off Water To Pot Growers In Washington and Oregon
24th May 2014
- The Great Western Gas Fiasco
24th May 2014
- Judge Napolitano: US Troops to Nigeria is Illegal
24th May 2014
- The War on America's Military Veterans, Waged with SWAT Teams, Surveillance and Neglect
23rd May 2014
- Kudos to Ecuador's President Correa
22nd May 2014
- The Sino-Russian Hydrocarbon Axis Grows Up
21st May 2014
- Just Imagine... If Russia Had Toppled the Canadian Government
21st May 2014
- Militarist Bunkum: July 4 and the Lies of the Empire
19th May 2014
- The Chicoms Are Coming! Reflections On The Folly Of The War On Vietnam And Its Progeny
18th May 2014
- Tax Reform is Useless Without Spending Reform
18th May 2014
- Why Won't Kerry Leave Syria Alone?
16th May 2014
- Ron Paul on Boom/Bust: US Interventionism Always Leads to Trouble
15th May 2014
- No Nation Left Un-Invaded: Sen. McCain Would Put US Military Into Nigeria In 'A New York Minute'
14th May 2014
- Killing Your Own People -- a Brief Guide
13th May 2014
- 400 US Mercenaries in Ukraine?
12th May 2014
- What Does The US Government Want in Ukraine?
11th May 2014
- Ukraine Military Attacks Anti-Coup Civilians, US Silent
9th May 2014
- Syria: The Hidden Massacre
8th May 2014
- To Understand Or Not to Understand Putin
8th May 2014
- Western Warmongering Based on Lies and Fabrication
7th May 2014
- Bravo, Rep. Walter Jones! Primary Win Sends Neocons Packing
7th May 2014
- Syria Election: Vote The Right Way -- Or Else
6th May 2014
- Slaughter in Ukraine and US Government Lies
6th May 2014
- The Devil's Beltway Workshop: Why The Warfare State Must Be Dismantled
5th May 2014
- Another NYT 'Sort of' Retraction on Ukraine
5th May 2014
- Why We're No Longer Number One
4th May 2014
- Why Deal When Israel Holds All The Cards
4th May 2014
- Don't Invite More Presidential Wars
3rd May 2014
- Ron Paul on Ukraine: 'Why Are We Are Making Things Worse?'
2nd May 2014
- The 'Eastern Partnership' is Fading Away Before Our Very Eyes
2nd May 2014
- Ron Paul Speaks: 'Liberty Defined and The Future of Freedom'
1st May 2014
- April
- Obama Administration Quietly Strips Senate Bill Of Provision Requiring Disclosure Of Annual Drone Kills
29th April 2014
- Ron Paul: 'No Russia Sanctions and Leave Ukraine Alone!'
28th April 2014
- Western Democracy-Mongers Prefer War To Admitting a Mistake on Ukraine
28th April 2014
- Obama's Drone Wars Undermine American Values
27th April 2014
- The Dirty Hand of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Venezuela
26th April 2014
- Ron Paul Rewind: A Warning Against Arming the BLM...in 1997!
25th April 2014
- Obama Wants Parents to be Snitches, Terrorism Recruiters, and Target-Spotters
24th April 2014
- US Botches Ukraine: 'Who's Sorry Now?'
24th April 2014
- Obama Plays With Fire in Ukraine
23rd April 2014
- Shocking Photos From Bundy Raid
22nd April 2014
- The Bundy Paradigm: Will You Be a Rebel, Revolutionary or a Slave?
22nd April 2014
- The Smoking Pop-Gun: Obama Endorses a Forgery
21st April 2014
- Amateur Hour in Ukraine
21st April 2014
- Nevada Standoff a Symptom of Increasing Authoritarianism
20th April 2014
- Ron Paul Rewind: 'Disband NATO!'
19th April 2014
- What John Kerry Didn't Say in Geneva
18th April 2014
- Ranchers vs. Regulators: The Clark County Range War
18th April 2014
- Congress Investigates "Slush Fund" At USAID Used To Get Lawmakers To Pass Reforms
16th April 2014
- CIA Terror Chief Pulls Rank in Kiev
16th April 2014
- I'm Confused, Can Anyone Help Me?
16th April 2014
- Ron Paul On Bundy Ranch Showdown: Cautious Optimism
15th April 2014
- Nevada: Early Lessons of Bunkerville
14th April 2014
- Another Phony Budget Debate
13th April 2014
- Patriotism is The Platform of Fools
12th April 2014
- Stephen Colbert's Ron Paul Interviews
12th April 2014
- The Cliven Bundy Standoff: Wounded Knee Revisited?
12th April 2014
- The American Spring
12th April 2014
- Kucinich: NATO 'Anachronistic Nightmare' and Should Be Disbanded
10th April 2014
- Is the US or the World Coming to an End?
10th April 2014
- Hayden: Feinstein Too 'Emotional' To Discuss The Torture Program
9th April 2014
- Ron Paul Blasts US Ukraine Policy
8th April 2014
- Why Are Americans Paying to Be Searched, Spied On, Shot At and Robbed Blind by the Government?
7th April 2014
- Can the West Get Out of Its (Self-Made) Cul-de-Sac in Syria?
6th April 2014
- Ft. Hood: An Avoidable Tragedy
6th April 2014
- US Government's Regime Change Obsession Rears Its Ugly Head Again
5th April 2014
- For America, Perhaps Now is The Time For Neutrality
5th April 2014
- Afghan Elections for Another Fake Regime
5th April 2014
- NATO Exploits Ukraine Crisis to Demonstrate Its Relevance
4th April 2014
- The Theory Behind USAID Is Wrong...And in Practice It's Worse!
4th April 2014
- The US Government Should Butt Out of Venezuela
3rd April 2014
- Senate Report Exposes Torture and Misrepresentations By CIA Officials . . . But Recommends No Prosecution
1st April 2014
- Targeting Iran
1st April 2014
- March
- 'Just Salute and Follow Orders': When Secrecy and Surveillance Trump the Rule of Law
31st March 2014
- Ron Paul Rewind: 'Repeal the Whole War on Drugs'
31st March 2014
- Ron Paul, Richard Cobden, and the Risks of Opposing War
31st March 2014
- Aid to Ukraine a Bad Deal For All
30th March 2014
- We Really Do Not Need Saudi Arabia Any Longer
29th March 2014
- The Danger of False Narrative
28th March 2014
- Non-Intervention is Non-Negotiable!
27th March 2014
- Ukraine and the Deferential Press
26th March 2014
- A Military Plot to Take Over America: Fifty Years Later, Was the Mission Accomplished?
25th March 2014
- Meet the Americans Who Put Together the Coup in Kiev
25th March 2014
- How US 'Democracy Promotion' Destroys Democracy Overseas
23rd March 2014
- War in Syria Set to Intensify
22nd March 2014
- New Sanctions on Russia -- What's the Endgame?
21st March 2014
- Kto Kogo?* The NATO Syndrome, the EU's Eastern Partnership Program, and the EAU
21st March 2014
- Drug Warriors Just Don't Get It
21st March 2014
- Crimean Referendum Ilegal? Nonsense!
20th March 2014
- RPI's Laughland on the Crimea Referendum
19th March 2014
- Help Ron Paul Fight Back Against The Neocons!
19th March 2014
- Simple Stuff About Ukraine
18th March 2014
- The Use of Force, the Reflexive Resort to Economic Sanctions, and the Trials of America's Hegemonic Mindset
17th March 2014
- Disband NATO!
17th March 2014
- If Spying on Senate is So Bad, Why is it OK For Them To Spy On Us?
16th March 2014
- After the Referendum...
16th March 2014
- Neocons Have Weathered the Storm
15th March 2014
- Against Ukraine War? Obama May Seize Your Assets
14th March 2014
- The Failure of German Leadership on Ukraine
13th March 2014
- Absolute Perversion of the Law in US Drone Killings
13th March 2014
- Ron Paul on CIA Targeting Congress
13th March 2014
- Russia Annexing Crimea is the Cost of US/EU intervention in Ukraine
13th March 2014
- Sanctions Against Russia 'Absurd'
12th March 2014
- Lights, Camera, Arrested: Americans Are Being Thrown in Jail for Filming Police
11th March 2014
- Pledging American Lives in the Defense of NATO
10th March 2014
- How NGOs Helped Plan Ukraine War
10th March 2014
- Can We Afford Ukraine?
9th March 2014
- Gen. Dempsey Pushes Back Against War Fever
9th March 2014
- 'Vlad the Bad' Moves His Chess Pieces
8th March 2014
- Forgetting His Own History: William Hague Once Understood a Black Sea Crisis
7th March 2014
- Ukraine and The US National Security State
6th March 2014
- Ron Paul: No US Bailout for Ukraine
6th March 2014
- Regime Change Blueprint: The NED At Work
6th March 2014
- Ukraine Uprising: A Western Conspiracy?
5th March 2014
- Ukraine: Ron Paul Could be America's Solzhenitsyn
5th March 2014
- Russia Reminds Us of Us
4th March 2014
- 'US and EU Played Central Role in Supporting Protestors in Kiev'
3rd March 2014
- Bombshell: Ukraine President Requested Russian Assistance
3rd March 2014
- Free Speech, RIP: A Relic of the American Past
3rd March 2014
- Hagel's 'Defense Cuts' Are Smoke And Mirrors
2nd March 2014
- 'NATO Countries Unleashed Nationalism And Fear in Ukraine'
2nd March 2014
- The Crimea Will Soon Be Back in Russia
1st March 2014
- February
- Obama Draws Red Lines As World Lurches Toward War
28th February 2014
- Did Ukraine's Regime Change Go According to Western Plan?
28th February 2014
- Judge Andrew Napolitano: Supreme Court Makes 'U-Turn' Away from Protecting Privacy
27th February 2014
- 'West Plays With Fire to Drive the Russian Naval Base Out of Crimea'
27th February 2014
- Ukraine's Fractured Future
24th February 2014
- Leave Ukraine Alone!
23rd February 2014
- EU Writes Ukraine's Eulogy
23rd February 2014
- In Ukraine, EU and US Interventionists Nearing the Civil War They Caused
23rd February 2014
- A No-Fly Zone is an Act of War
22nd February 2014
- 'Ukraine is in Revolutionary Situation'
22nd February 2014
- Ukraine: It's Not About Europe vs Russia
21st February 2014
- Ron Paul Rewind: Questions US Meddling in Ukraine...in 2004!
19th February 2014
- 'Whole of Ukraine held hostage by a small group of radicals'
19th February 2014
- Invasions of the Mind Snatchers
19th February 2014
- Western Imperialism's Creative Destruction in Syria
19th February 2014
- Paranoia, Surveillance and Military Tactics: Have We Become Enemies of the Government?
18th February 2014
- At the Fed, The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
16th February 2014
- The US Government Makes a Mockery of the Principal-Agent Relationship
14th February 2014
- On Cuba, The Times Just Might Be A'Changin'
14th February 2014
- Ron Paul Rewind: 'What If..."
13th February 2014
- Russia's Right Turn
12th February 2014
- Washington Orchestrated Protests Are Destabilizing Ukraine
12th February 2014
- America and the Arab Awakening: Déjà Vu?
12th February 2014
- Judge Andrew Napolitano: Targeted Killings of Americans are Illegal and Unconstitutional
11th February 2014
- Victoria Nuland Comes Clean with Dirty Language
11th February 2014
- Diagnosing Sochi Media Coverage: Virulent Russophobia
10th February 2014
- Will No One Challenge Obama's Executive Orders?
9th February 2014
- Victoria Nuland's 'Ukraine-gate' Deceptions
9th February 2014
- 'F**k the EU': Tape Reveals US Runs Ukraine Opposition
6th February 2014
- Is a New Cold War Brewing?
5th February 2014
- Victoria Nuland: The Bride At Every Wedding
5th February 2014
- Nice Job, Conservatives
5th February 2014
- What is the Real Price of Starting Another Cold War?
3rd February 2014
- The Continuing Al-Qaeda Threat
2nd February 2014
- Stalin's Crimes Haunt Sochi Games
1st February 2014
- January
- The Year of Iran: Tehran's Challenge to American Hegemony in 2014
31st January 2014
- Kerry's Astounding Hypocrisy on Ukraine
31st January 2014
- Obama and Kerry Jeopardize Peace With Iran
30th January 2014
- New Post
29th January 2014
- Radical Ukraine?
29th January 2014
- How Waist Deep in the Big Muddy Finally Got on Network Television in 1968
29th January 2014
- US 'Elephant in the Room' at Russia-EU Summit
29th January 2014
- The Persecution of Justin Bieber
29th January 2014
- Winning the New York Times Prize!
27th January 2014
- Ron Paul: Do We Live in a Police State?
26th January 2014
- The Economics of the Police State
24th January 2014
- Ukrainian Opposition and the West 'Playing with Fire Siding With Extreme Nationalists'
23rd January 2014
- 'Foreign Pressure on Ukraine Will Only Make Matters Worse'
23rd January 2014
- Radicals in Riots? 'Euromaidan Failed to Separate From Neo-Nazis'
22nd January 2014
- The Ugly American (and Friends) in Geneva
22nd January 2014
- The US Wager on Moderate Islam in Syria an Utter Failure
21st January 2014
- Warfare, Welfare, and Wonder Woman -- How Congress Spends Your Money
21st January 2014
- Ron Paul Rewind: Battling The Surveillance State Back In 1984
20th January 2014
- Foreign Aid is a Real Joke
20th January 2014
- American Fascism
20th January 2014
- Obama's NSA Speech: What Reform?
18th January 2014
- Breaking: Obama Declares NSA 'Reforms' While Dismissing Influence Of Snowden Leaks
17th January 2014
- You Can't Opt Out: 10 NSA Myths Debunked
17th January 2014
- New Post
16th January 2014
- 'We Need Iran in Geneva to Stop Spread of Terror Throughout Middle East'
15th January 2014
- A Tipping Point For Liberty Against Leviathan
14th January 2014
- Who's To Blame For More Violence Against Afghan Women?
14th January 2014
- Is Obama Trying to Resolve or Prolong the Conflict in Syria?
13th January 2014
- Congress Defers to President On NSA Reform
12th January 2014
- Al-Qaeda is Everywhere!
11th January 2014
- In Defense of Dennis Rodman
10th January 2014
- Morality versus the National Security State
10th January 2014
- Peace is the Enemy of Empire
9th January 2014
- The Reactionary Essence of the Syrian Insurgency
7th January 2014
- Ron Paul Rewind: Defense Spending vs. Empire Spending
7th January 2014
- Life in the Electronic Concentration Camp: The Many Ways That You're Being Tracked, Catalogued and Controlled
6th January 2014
- Iran, the United States, and the Middle East in 2014
5th January 2014
- Iraq: The 'Liberation' Neocons Would Rather Forget
5th January 2014
- World Danger Spots for 2014
4th January 2014
- I Worked On the US Drone Program. Here's What Really Goes On
2nd January 2014
- 2013
- December
- 11 Good Things for Liberty in 2013
31st December 2013
- Ron Paul Rewind: End US Marijuana Prohibition and War on Drugs
31st December 2013
- Life in the Emerging American Police State: What's in Store for Our Freedoms in 2014?
31st December 2013
- 'NSA Has Become a Four-Letter Word in US'
29th December 2013
- Vitali Klitschko's American Coaches
28th December 2013
- Turkey's Role in Syria's Unfolding Crisis
27th December 2013
- Saudi Anger Has Many Faces
27th December 2013
- Ron Paul Rewind: Who Warned Us About Sudan?
27th December 2013
- We're The Good Guys
26th December 2013
- NSA Task Force Member Says Program Should Be Expanded Not Limited
23rd December 2013
- Ron Paul Rewind: North Korea?
23rd December 2013
- Progress Toward Peace in 2013, But Dark Clouds Remain
22nd December 2013
- Washington Acts Like Government-in-Exile For Ukraine
21st December 2013
- Syria Conflict: You Can't Make Sound Policy by Disregarding Reality
19th December 2013
- A Christmas To-Do List for a Better World
19th December 2013
- Washington Has Discredited America
19th December 2013
- Ron Paul Rewind: You Can't Manage A Bad War
18th December 2013
- McCain in Ukraine: What Is He Really Up To?
17th December 2013
- Sen. McCain, Interventionism's 'Energizer Bunny'
17th December 2013
- Is NATO's Trojan Horse Riding Toward the 'Ukraine Spring'?
16th December 2013
- Breaking: Federal Court Declares NSA Program Unconstitutional
16th December 2013
- Ron Paul Rewind: They Don't Attack Us Because We're Free & Prosperous
15th December 2013
- Washington Drives the World Toward War
15th December 2013
- Is The US Waking Up To The Insanity of its Syria Policy?
14th December 2013
- Kiev Protests: Another CIA-Coordinated Color Revolution In Progress
13th December 2013
- Congress Scares The People
13th December 2013
- Sinister Fruits of The West's Alliance with Jihad Warriors in Syria
13th December 2013
- Ron Paul Rewind: Ignore The Calls For Sacrifice...Cut The Empire!
12th December 2013
- What We Missed in the Hunger Games
11th December 2013
- Ron Paul And Lew Rockwell: The Interview!
11th December 2013
- 'Parade of Losers': EU Delegation to Kiev Threatens Democracy
11th December 2013
- Ron Paul Rewind: Are the Palestinians An Invented People?
10th December 2013
- Hobby Lobby Case is About Rights, Not Contraceptives
8th December 2013
- The Phony Pullout From Afghanistan
7th December 2013
- Israel Aims to Sabotage the Geneva Agreement with Iran
7th December 2013
- Welcome To The Memory Hole
5th December 2013
- We Are All Non-Interventionists Now!
5th December 2013
- Ukraine: What Would Washington Do?
4th December 2013
- 'Despite Rumors of a Coup, Another Orange Revolution in Ukraine is Unlikely'
4th December 2013
- The Unwelcome Return of Navi Pillay
3rd December 2013
- Prof. Mark Almond: Ukraine Protestors May Topple Government
2nd December 2013
- You Cannot Negotiate With Iran?
1st December 2013
- Syria's Mother Agnes Mariam: In Her Own Words
1st December 2013
- November
- Iran Gets Short End Of The Nuclear Deal
30th November 2013
- The National-Security State's Dangerous China Taunt
28th November 2013
- Ukraine Refused to Sign EU's 'Suicide Note'
28th November 2013
- On Being Thankful...For State Violence?
28th November 2013
- Is The Iran Agreement a Good Deal?
27th November 2013
- The Globalization of NATO: Military Doctrine of Global Warfare
26th November 2013
- Judge Andrew Napolitano: Congress Can Cut the NSA Budget
26th November 2013
- US Dead-Enders Still Dream of Color Revolutions
26th November 2013
- What We Should Not Be Thankful for This Thanksgiving
26th November 2013
- America's Little Spy Helpers Down Under Create an Uproar
25th November 2013
- Can Karzai Save Us?
24th November 2013
- Terrorism and the Bill of Rights
22nd November 2013
- P5+1 Talks With Iran Headed For Failure?
22nd November 2013
- Free Speech Repressing Bureaucrat Threatens Alex Jones and Hundreds at Dallas Gathering
22nd November 2013
- Obama Сhanges Direction in the Middle East
20th November 2013
- Veterans Day and Foreign Interventionism
19th November 2013
- Exclusive: Watch Ron Paul's 'Plea For Peace'
18th November 2013
- Drones, Tanks, and Grenade Launchers: Coming Soon to a Police Department Near You
18th November 2013
- Ron Paul: The US is in the Middle of an Intellectual Revolution
17th November 2013
- Understanding Media Propaganda About Recent Talks Over Iran's Nuclear Program
17th November 2013
- The Iran Question – What Next?
16th November 2013
- Quitting Over Syria
15th November 2013
- Handing Off Ron Paul's Chevette 'Green Pea'
14th November 2013
- What Is The Real Agenda Of The American Police State?
14th November 2013
- Obama's Refusal to Respect Iran's Sovereignty and Treaty Rights is Leaving America on the Self-Defeating Path to War
14th November 2013
- FBI v. The First Amendment: The US Government's Investigation of Antiwar.com
13th November 2013
- Who's to Blame for Battlefield America? Is It Militarized Police or the Militarized Culture?
11th November 2013
- Thoughts on Veterans Day
11th November 2013
- US Expands Missile Defense Plans in Romania
9th November 2013
- Welcome to Deming, New Mexico -- Where Police Rape is a Matter of 'Protocol'
8th November 2013
- How America Was Lost
8th November 2013
- What I Told The Homeland Security Committee
7th November 2013
- America's Moment of Truth About Iran
7th November 2013
- Syria Analysts, Impartial? Not likely!
6th November 2013
- America's Lead Iran Negotiator Misrepresents U.S. Policy (and International Law) to Congress
5th November 2013
- Welcome to the United Police States of America, Where Police Shoot First & Ask Questions Later
4th November 2013
- Ramblin' Man: John Kerry is a Figure of His Times (and That's Not a Good Thing)
4th November 2013
- What Was Not Said About Iraq
3rd November 2013
- Ben Franklin Was Right About the NSA
2nd November 2013
- October
- Overreach: MN Judge Puts Crimp in MDA's 10-Year Pursuit of Raw Dairy Farmer Hartmann
31st October 2013
- Obama, NSA Spying and the Dangers of Secretive, Authoritarian Government
30th October 2013
- Ron Paul: How Americans Rejected War
29th October 2013
- Israel and the NSA: Partners in Crime
29th October 2013
- Rep. Rogers To The French: You're Welcome
28th October 2013
- A Welcome US/Saudi 'Reset'
27th October 2013
- Al-Qaeda's Corridor Through Syria
26th October 2013
- Stasi Meets Steve Jobs
26th October 2013
- Crying Wolf Over Iran
26th October 2013
- Beirut Bombings at 30: Interventionism Kills
23rd October 2013
- As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap
23rd October 2013
- Who Will Protect You from the Police? The Rise of Government-Sanctioned Home Invasions
22nd October 2013
- Washington Casts Blame for Expansion of Al-Qaeda on Turkey
21st October 2013
- Ukraine: Europe's Partner or Puppet?
20th October 2013
- British Press Shills for Syria War With 'Baby Snipers' Story
20th October 2013
- Does Our Military Spending Really Make Us Better Off?
18th October 2013
- Obama Sidesteps Detractors to Engage Iran
18th October 2013
- American Hemp Farming Poised for Resurgence Despite US Prohibition
17th October 2013
- The OPCW wins Nobel by default
16th October 2013
- Will Obama Blow His Diplomatic Opportunity with Iran?
14th October 2013
- Obscuring the Details: A Panoramic Look at America's Case Against Syria
14th October 2013
- That Big Salmonella Outbreak: Chickens Coming Home to Roost on Bankrupt Food Safety Double Standard
12th October 2013
- The Myth of American Exceptionalism
11th October 2013
- The Fourth Branch of Government
10th October 2013
- Saudis to Unify Hardline Islamist Groups in Syria
10th October 2013
- St. Tony Does Tirana...Again
9th October 2013
- Is Turkey on the Cusp of Rethink on Syria?
8th October 2013
- Transforming America's Schools into Authoritarian Instruments of Compliance
7th October 2013
- An Opening to Iran?
6th October 2013
- CIA Activities in Syria: Stepped Up Aid to Islamists
6th October 2013
- Libya in Chaos Two Years After NATO's 'Humanitarian Liberation'
4th October 2013
- What Can Be Learned From the Golden Dawn Arrests?
3rd October 2013
- Mother Agnes Mariam Attacked...By Human Rights Watch!
2nd October 2013
- September
- Own a Piece of Ron Paul History
30th September 2013
- From NSA Spying and VIPR Sweeps to Domestic Drones: A Round-Up of the Police State Programs NOT Affected by a Government Shutdown
30th September 2013
- AFRICOM: The US Pivot to Africa
29th September 2013
- The Dragon Enters NATO's Orchard
29th September 2013
- A Grand Bargain for Liberty?
29th September 2013
- East Ghouta: False Flag Chemical Attack
28th September 2013
- Ron Paul Electrifies on Jay Leno
27th September 2013
- Obama at the UN: Syrian Blues and a Persian Puzzle
25th September 2013
- Kenya Mall Attack: The Bitter Fruits of Interventionism
25th September 2013
- US Policy is to Prolong the Violence in Syria
24th September 2013
- Washington's Tyranny
24th September 2013
- Can Washington Reciprocate Iran's 'Constructive Engagement'?
23rd September 2013
- Lawrence Wilkerson Interview: 'John McCain and Lindsey Graham Need to Shut Their Mouths'
22nd September 2013
- Ron Paul Institute at LPAC Conference
21st September 2013
- Ron Paul With Charlie Rose: 'The Meaning of Non-Interventionism'
20th September 2013
- Serving America's War Machine
19th September 2013
- RPI Advisor Kucinich Interviews Syrian President Assad
19th September 2013
- McAdams Talks New Ron Paul Book, Syria With Jay Taylor
18th September 2013
- Five Lies Invented to Spin UN Report on Syria
18th September 2013
- RPI at the Liberty Political Action Conference
17th September 2013
- A Short History of the War on Syria, 2006-2014
17th September 2013
- Licensed to Kill: The Growing Phenomenon of Police Shooting Unarmed Citizens
17th September 2013
- Has The Tide Turned Against the Warmongers?
16th September 2013
- Marching Into Uncertain Future Requires Leadership
15th September 2013
- The People Against the 800 Pound Gorilla
15th September 2013
- Ron Paul Brings Down House at DePauw
15th September 2013
- American Exceptionalism: Putin, the Neocons, and Ron Paul
13th September 2013
- Holding Assad Accountable
13th September 2013
- Putin Steps Into World Leadership Role
13th September 2013
- Hillary Mann Leverett: 'Obama Made Two Unforced Errors, in Libya and Syria'
10th September 2013
- Ron Paul on Geraldo Rivera Radio
10th September 2013
- What's the Evidence Behind the Case for War?
10th September 2013
- Obama, Syria, and Interventionism: Ten Questions Worth Pondering
10th September 2013
- The Golan Heights as a Key to Understanding the Problems of Syria
9th September 2013
- The Wishful Thinking Left: Unwitting Agents of the Imperial Order
8th September 2013
- The Intelligence Community's Revolt Against Obama on Syria
7th September 2013
- Syria and Lessons Unlearned from The Bombing of Kosovo
6th September 2013
- US/Russia Summit Urgently Needed
6th September 2013
- Syria: The Iron in Obama's Soul
5th September 2013
- Ron Paul Takes on Obama-Cultists on MSNBC
5th September 2013
- Ron Paul on Cavuto: 'We are joining up with a group of thugs who kill Christians'
5th September 2013
- Ron Paul on Syria With Wolf Blitzer
4th September 2013
- Libya Has Moved On...Into Lawlessness and Ruin
4th September 2013
- Iraq: A Seething Boiler About to Explode
4th September 2013
- No War for Bernard Henri Lévy
3rd September 2013
- Call It War, Not a Shot Across the Bow
3rd September 2013
- Obama Nearing Point of No Return
3rd September 2013
- Congressional Danse Macabre Has Begun
2nd September 2013
- Surveillance State: We Are One Step Away from Glass Houses
2nd September 2013
- Lapdog Regime Journalists versus a Bona Fide Expert: Watch the Sparks Fly!
1st September 2013
- Will Congress Endorse Obama's War Plans? Does it Matter?
1st September 2013
- The Real Reason for US Syria Attack
1st September 2013
- August
- Syria and the Waning of American Hegemony
30th August 2013
- Obama's Syria Dossier: 'Trust Us'
30th August 2013
- Ron Paul on Cavuto on the Baying Dogs of War
30th August 2013
- Obama's Flimsy Case For Attacking Syria Falls Apart
29th August 2013
- Iran Can Finesse Obama's Legacy
28th August 2013
- Obama Set for Tomahawk War: Responsibility to Attack
28th August 2013
- Syria: Another Western War Crime In The Making
27th August 2013
- Justifying the Unjustifiable: US Uses Past Crimes to Legalize Future Ones
25th August 2013
- US Set to Launch 'Iraq, The Sequel', in Syria
24th August 2013
- Ron Paul Interviewed by Larry King on Politicking Program
24th August 2013
- Making the World the 'Enemy'
23rd August 2013
- The West Strikes Back in Syria
22nd August 2013
- Ron Paul Talks Egypt and US One Party State on Cavuto Today
20th August 2013
- The NSA: 'The Abyss from Which There Is No Return'
20th August 2013
- Rep. Dennis Kucinich: NSA Should be Abolished
20th August 2013
- Should You Be Able to Buy Food Directly From Farmers? The Government Doesn't Think So
18th August 2013
- Why The 2,776 NSA Violations Are No Big Deal
18th August 2013
- NSA 'Violations' Irrelevant
17th August 2013
- Storm on the Nile
17th August 2013
- Egypt's Junta Has Nothing to Lose
16th August 2013
- McCain and Graham's Strange Egyptian Adventure
12th August 2013
- Why Are We At War in Yemen?
11th August 2013
- How Ron Paul Changed My Heart and Mind on War
10th August 2013
- Washington's Drive For Hegemony Is A Drive To War
9th August 2013
- Does Washington Post Purchase Create Spooky Conflict of Interest?
8th August 2013
- US Egypt Policy: Democracy Promotion?
8th August 2013
- Welcome to Post-Constitution America: The Weapons of War Come Home
7th August 2013
- The Ron Paul Channel Will Launch August 12th
7th August 2013
- Are Police in America Now a Military, Occupying Force?
5th August 2013
- President José Mujica Versus the United Nations
5th August 2013
- Why Won't They Tell Us the Truth About NSA Spying?
4th August 2013
- NSA Spying: Fiction versus Fact
3rd August 2013
- McCain Declares War on Russia
2nd August 2013
- Rouhani's Inauguration and the West's Strategic Suicide
1st August 2013
- Time to Abolish the DHS?
1st August 2013
- July
- The American Surveillance State Is Here. Can It Be Evaded?
29th July 2013
- Japan Must Face Up To China
28th July 2013
- A House Divided Over NSA Spying on Americans
28th July 2013
- Kafka's America: Secret Courts, Secret Laws, and Total Surveillance
24th July 2013
- Sen. Ron Wyden's Warning on the Surveillance State
24th July 2013
- NRA vs Medical Associations: Guess Who Wants You in the Government Database?
23rd July 2013
- The Kurdish Spring in Turkey's Backyard
22nd July 2013
- The Road to Nowhere: Kerry's Mideast Journey
20th July 2013
- The Homeland Security Monstrosity
18th July 2013
- Adam Kokesh and the Drugs and Guns Prosecution Trap
18th July 2013
- William Hague: The Foolish Puppet
17th July 2013
- The disease is war, Not Snowden
17th July 2013
- The Government's 'Passion' to Protect Us
15th July 2013
- RT on Ron Paul Institute and Ron Paul Channel
13th July 2013
- A Possible Change in Turkey's Syria Policies?
12th July 2013
- Why the EU is Also Desperate for Snowden's Capture
11th July 2013
- Ron Paul Talks the Coming Ron Paul Channel!
8th July 2013
- New Egyptian War: Americans Lose, Again
7th July 2013
- New Post
5th July 2013
- US Egypt Policies Don't Pass the Laugh Test
4th July 2013
- What is Happening in Egypt?
4th July 2013
- Snowden Case Highlights Deep Constitutional Erosion
1st July 2013
- If You Like the Surveillance State, You'll Love E-Verify
1st July 2013
- June
- Ron Paul: Against Neocon Domination
29th June 2013
- Will Egypt Implode Tomorrow?
29th June 2013
- Obama's Wild Neo Con Dream
29th June 2013
- Why Is No One Listening to the US Government?
24th June 2013
- The Death of Daniel Somers
24th June 2013
- What We Have Learned From Afghanistan
23rd June 2013
- Nobody is Listening to Our Phone Calls?
21st June 2013
- Obama Chooses Intensified but Strategically Useless Violence over Serious Diplomacy in Syria
20th June 2013
- A Tipping Point in Syria Conflict
19th June 2013
- Ron Paul Talks NSA Spying on Neil Cavuto Today
18th June 2013
- It's Obama's Safari – But We're the Ones Taken for a Ride!
17th June 2013
- Rouhani Won the Iranian Election. Get Over it
16th June 2013
- US Mass Spying Loses Obama's 'Shoddy Coat of Legitimacy'
16th June 2013
- Obama's Syria Policy Looks a Lot Like Bush's Iraq Policy
16th June 2013
- Ron Paul Talks About Obama's Syria Claims
14th June 2013
- Obama Signals Start of US War in Syria
14th June 2013
- The Uprising Against Brother Erdogan
12th June 2013
- Iran's Presidential Election Will Surprise America's So-called Iran 'Experts'
12th June 2013
- Turkish Protests: A Backlash Against Interventionism?
12th June 2013
- Ron Paul on MSNBC: 'NSA leakers are "the real heroes"'
11th June 2013
- Turkey: Another Egypt?
10th June 2013
- Government Spying: Should We Be Shocked?
9th June 2013
- Ron Paul Warned Us About "1984" -- in 1984!
9th June 2013
- Iraq Collapse Shows Bankruptcy of Interventionism
2nd June 2013
- Those Old Colonial Lusts
1st June 2013
- Turkey's Erdogan Gets Taste of His Own Medicine?
1st June 2013
- May
- Illinois School District Forces Students to Self-Incriminate
31st May 2013
- The Self-Defeating Dynamics of American Hegemony in the Middle East
28th May 2013
- US Makes Syria an 'Offer it Can't Refuse' – again
27th May 2013
- The Real Meaning of President Obama's National Security Speeches
25th May 2013
- When Terrorism Comes Home
23rd May 2013
- As Scandals Deepen, Obama, His Party, and Republicans Will Militarily Intervene in Syria
21st May 2013
- The Great Peacemaker U.S. and Its Benevolent Effort to Bring Peace to Syria
21st May 2013
- Tony Does Tirana
21st May 2013
- Dealing remote-control drone death
17th May 2013
- Boston Becomes Toxic
16th May 2013
- Washington's Hegemonic Ambition and U.S. Policy Toward Syria (excerpts)
16th May 2013
- The Rise and the Fall of the Humanitarian Interventionists
15th May 2013
- What No One Wants to Hear About Benghazi
13th May 2013
- The Iranian Nuclear Issue: What's at Stake for the BRICS
3rd May 2013
- The Neo-Jacobin Ideology of American Empire
3rd May 2013
- April
- Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Sequester - Trust?
30th April 2013
- Liberty Was Also Attacked in Boston
28th April 2013
- Scenes From the Ron Paul Institute Press Conference
22nd April 2013
- Congress Exploits Our Fears to Take Our Liberty
22nd April 2013
- New Post
17th April 2013
- News Analysis
16th April 2013
- The Coming Non-Intervention Revolution
16th April 2013
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May 10, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Doug "Uncola" Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com,
"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. "
- Voltaire
I once read a definition of psychological depression as a result of anger and fatigue. That seems about right. Personally, I'm sick of COVID-19 dominating the headlines and I definitely have inner rage at the magic spell that's been cast over society. And it is a magic spell. Or an ill wind, if you prefer. Except tracking the source of a voodoo curse, or determining where a breeze began, might be easier than identifying the many variables of this planned-demic . Truly, the overwhelming information is difficult to process on any given day.
Last week, I read an article describing how COVID-19 is a hoax propagandized by the media and, a few minutes later, I watched a video of a survival expert (whom I very much respect) chastise those who are not taking COVID-19 seriously as a genuine health threat.
Then, I was informed of an acquaintance dying from coronavirus. I knew the man personally and the last time we spoke he was telling me about his new girlfriend. His death was deemed notable enough to have a write-up included into the COVID-19 series of a national newspaper; and that's how I learned he died – when someone sent me the link. I'll also say he was in his seventies and his blood pressure was so high his eyes were constantly bloodshot.
So did he die with COVID-19 or from COVID-19? Yes, he did.
Indeed, lots of variables to consider. And it's tricky because health policies are a matter of public concern AND private responsibility. It's why considering the variables requires balance and common sense. Yet, unsurprisingly, it's become obvious COVID-19 has been politicized by some and even commandeered by others for purposes of power consolidation and achieving authoritarian goals.
Certainly, the virus doesn't need to be devastatingly lethal in order to accomplish the objectives of the globalists. At any given time, the ship of state progresses via (what I have designated as) the "Bulbous Bow of Confusion" , or, rather, competing narratives.
Two physicians who own five urgent care locations in Kern County California recently posted a viral YouTube video citing their own COVID-19 data and calling for an end to the draconian lockdowns. Their names are Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi and the data they compiled acted as a "resistance wave" to countermand the official narrative put forth by ( as I've identified in past articles ) the likes of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO), The Gates Foundation, John Hopkins University, and UK's The Guardian.
Yet, today, if you click on any previous articles where the doctors' viral videos were once posted you will see they've been taken down; and even their other videos queued in the threads of the articles have been transitioned into dead links by our benefactors at YouTube.
Truly, censorship is the validation of ideas as the most powerful force on earth; because if you now search for the two doctors by name on YouTube, you will find a video stamped with the Washington Post logo describing "What Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi get wrong about coronavirus" .
Meanwhile, The Guardian, whose entire Global Development section is underwritten by the Gates Foundation , describes how scientists have found more evidence that Coronavirus can travel on air pollution particles .
Scary, huh?
Especially, when considering how another Gates Foundation subsidiary , the World Health Organization (WHO), has warned the worst of the virus is still ahead and that "people will need to get used to a new way of living" .
To be sure, the billionaires are committed. They can't go back now and this is why they are on full offense in the narrative war. It means no expense will be spared in the media onslaught until every person in the world fears COVID-19 being spread from cats and farts . It's also why various treatments are claimed to be ineffective and only the five innovations proposed by the New American King should be considered:
[Bill Gates] said the innovations needed to come in five areas: treatments, vaccines, testing, contact tracing, and policies for reopening the economy.
But what about Trump? He is still the U.S. President, right?
In past postings, I've exhaustively considered Trump as a possible "movie" or "reality TV show". My article entitled "Personal Politics, Public Impeachment, Persuasion and Post-Apocalyptic Planning" also discussed how the Military Industrial Complex has NOT grown weaker in the decades since Eisenhower and Kennedy – and, in fact, cited the trend of its growing strength from Abe Lincoln through the creation of the Federal Reserve, and Woodrow Wilson, onward.
I've additionally speculated in previous writings President Trump as one of the following:
1.) The Real Deal – fighting the Dark Lords out of love of country
2.) Being used by the Dark Powers unwittingly
3.) A Judas Goat
At this point in time, it appears the possibility of # 1 is fading, if not having been completely debunked as of this writing.
So, given #'s 2 & 3 above, I've previously questioned if Trump was elected as a " bleeding of the brake lines " prior to the " big stop " (i.e. end of America).
Therefore, what if the Trump Reality TV Show® was meant to demonstrate the sheer power of "The Controllers" and their ability to convert the globe into One World under Communism? And, furthermore, what if the 2016 Presidential Election was staged to illustrate to all nations the futility of resistance?
Consider the waves that have crashed upon Trump's shores over the past four years: Russiagate/Mueller, Ukrainian Impeachment, and, now, COVID-19. Each of these consecutive waves were increasingly consequential from a historical perspective.
Is the war to "drain-the-swamp" real? Because, if not, the battle lines have been made clear and the tech gods have cataloged our IP addresses.
Which brings us back to Bill Gates: His digital fingerprints are all over the COVID-19 virus because, in the years prior, Gates worked to strategically monopolize global health including research , governance , and reporting . In addition, his dirty hands have reached into online data, U.S. intelligence, mainstream media, the GAVI Vaccine Alliance , and Microsoft's ID2020 digital ID initiative. Plus, the Gates Foundation has donated the most private money to the World Health Organization (WHO), subsidized the October 2019 "Event 201" pandemic exercise , and even sponsored an event that was labeled communist propaganda – the globally televised "Together at Home" elitist infomercial ;
Since the United States recently suspended its payments to the WHO, the organization's biggest contributor is now the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Another major contributor to the WHO is the GAVI Alliance (formerly the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation). Both of these organizations are also part of ID2020, an organization that is advocating for the use of vaccines to implement a global digital ID system using tattoos or microchips.
And just as the company Gates founded (Microsoft) recently released, and then recalled, a "luciferian" advertisement starring "spirit-cooking" priestess Marina Abramović , the Gates' World Health Organization (WHO) mandates have allowed "heroes" to arrest mothers on playgrounds in front of their children .
Honestly, it really does add an entirely fresh perspective on the words of Isaiah 5:20 :
"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"
Now, paradoxically, a new bioluminescent vaccine is making headlines. If you can believe this it's called "Luciferase" and it can store vaccination history through a new dye made available with MIT research funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation .
Wow, that was fast, huh?
Or was it planned? And for those who would say it was planned, would you call them "conspiracy theorists"? But, seriously, is it really conspiracy if it's all been published ?
Because, over the decades, it has become quite evident that wealthy individuals, influential families, and powerful organizations and corporations have coopted nation-states in order to unite the globe. World War I delivered the League of Nations and World War II brought about the United Nations. Since then, the billionaire round-table groups have only grown more interconnected as Davos Men planned and the Bilderberg's conspired .
The modern era has progressed by committee; and to the giant sucking sounds as predicted by former presidential candidate Ross Perot.
In 2010, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Global Business Network drafted a document entitled " Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development " which outlined the following potential plans schemes through 2030: " Lock Step ", " Clever Together ", " Hack Attack ", and " Smart Scramble ".
The first link below is a 54-page (2.29 MB sized) PDF file. Even if the Bill Gates' inspired MS Windows gives you a virus warning, just know the file can be viewed (or downloaded) with no issues. Or, if you would rather watch a one-hour, forty-two-minute video presentation, just click on link # 2 below:
1.) PDF FILE: Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development
2.) VIDEO (1:42:34): COVID – LOCKDOWN – GLOBAL BANKRUPTCY – the PLAN
Note that on page 18 of the PDF (#1 above), the "Lock Step" scenario describes a 2012 pandemic leading to a global economic collapse followed by oppressive authoritarian controls:
In 2012, the pandemic that the world had been anticipating for years finally hit. Unlike 2009's H1N1, this new influenza strain -- originating from wild geese -- was extremely virulent and deadly. Even the most pandemic-prepared nations were quickly overwhelmed when the virus streaked around the world The pandemic also had a deadly effect on economies: international mobility of both people and goods screeched to a halt, debilitating industries like tourism and breaking global supply chains. Even locally, normally bustling shops and office buildings sat empty for months, devoid of both employees and customers.
. The United States' initial policy of "strongly discouraging" citizens from flying proved deadly in its leniency, accelerating the spread of the virus not just within the U.S. but across borders. However, a few countries did fare better -- China in particular. The Chinese government's quick imposition and enforcement of mandatory quarantine for all citizens, as well as its instant and near-hermetic sealing off of all borders, saved millions of lives, stopping the spread of the virus far earlier than in other countries and enabling a swifter post-pandemic recovery.
China's government was not the only one that took extreme measures to protect its citizens from risk and exposure. During the pandemic, national leaders around the world flexed their authority and imposed airtight rules and restrictions, from the mandatory wearing of face masks to body-temperature checks at the entries to communal spaces like train stations and supermarkets. Even after the pandemic faded, this more authoritarian control and oversight of citizens and their activities stuck and even intensified. In order to protect themselves from the spread of increasingly global problems -- from pandemics and transnational terrorism to environmental crises and rising poverty -- leaders around the world took a firmer grip on power.
At first, the notion of a more controlled world gained wide acceptance and approval. Citizens willingly gave up some of their sovereignty -- and their privacy -- to more paternalistic states in exchange for greater safety and stability. Citizens were more tolerant, and even eager, for top-down direction and oversight, and national leaders had more latitude to impose order in the ways they saw fit. In developed countries, this heightened oversight took many forms: biometric IDs for all citizens, for example, and tighter regulation of key industries whose stability was deemed vital to national interests.
Sound familiar? Because this was the dialectic with which we were presented: " Herd Immunity® " (an Orwellian term befitting cattle) or " Continuous" COVID-19®. And what did American's chose? They picked " continuous ", Alex, for $1,200 per U.S. citizen. And as we Flattened the Curve ®, the CDC broadcasted concerns regarding second waves of coronaviruses as telescreens the world over warned of mutant strains of coronaviruses more contagious than the original .
Yes. Both Coronavirus®, and Big Brother, Incorporated have marched forward unencumbered.
But as people sheltered in their homes they saw "conservative" Never-Trumpers weaponize the ghost of Ronald Reagan against the Bad Orange Man® with a video entitled "Mourning in America" . It was too cute by half. Then, fortunately, as the world remained mystified by "covid toes" , the president tweeted back at the Never-Trump "losers" in the most ingenious and gratifying ways.
And Trump is just getting warmed up. No doubt his Zoom® debates with Biden are bound to be hilarious. Unless Whistleblowergate Part Deux is the silver-bullet that will stop the Bad Orange Man® once and for all?
(CNN) Dr. Rick Bright, the ousted director of the office involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine, formally filed an extensive whistleblower complaint Tuesday alleging his early warnings about the coronavirus were ignored and that his caution at a treatment favored by President Donald Trump led to his removal.
For the Democrats, the future looks "Bright", no?
In my previous article entitled "On Used Cars, Haircuts, and Buyers Beware" , I referenced "Hegelian Polemics" and therein linked an article entitled "Hegelian Dialectic: A Tool To Enslave Humanity" .
What I found interesting in that article is how it identified "opposing sides" (i.e. opposites) as "capstones" on the bottom of the "pyramid" – with the top capstone (eye) as representative of the final action:
The chess board is a well-known Masonic or Hegelian symbol, the black and white squares symbolize control through duality in the grand game of life in all aspects. Left or right, white or black people, conservative or liberal, democrat or republican, Christian or Muslim and so on. Through two opposing parties control is gained as both parties reach the same destination, which is order through guided conflict or chaos.
Left (thesis) versus right (antithesis) equals middle ground or control (synthesis). The triangle and all seeing eye we see so often symbolizes the completion of the great work
The pyramid is supported by the bottom opposing sides. The capstone at the top is established through controlled solution or middle ground.
In my piece entitled "On Channel Surfing, Circus Acts, and Time Passages" , I discussed the 1927 movie "Metropolis" as a favorite of the occult. The words that appear on the screen at the end of that film are these:
THE MEDIATOR BETWEEN THE HEAD AND HANDS MUST BE THE HEART!
A 2010 article posted on TheVigilantCitizen.com speculated on the "mediator" as the electronic media which manipulates the plebes (workers) on behalf of the head (controllers).
To be sure, the Modern Centralizers craft their new realities by means of the Orwellian Media. It's why they call it programming . And what better way to manipulate the emotions (hearts) of people than by fiction and fear?
With that in mind, I now call your attention to the below video link of the opening ceremonies for the 2012 Olympics:
The Complete London 2012 Opening Ceremony | London 2012 Olympic Games
If one cares to click that link and view the segment shown between the 45 and 55 minute marks, they will see what appears to be a staged viral pandemic. The drama takes place beneath black pyramids malevolently towering over the stadium (and the crowd) and ends with the appearance of a giant, creepy-looking baby; or maybe a still-birth – it's hard to tell.
At the 45 to 47 minute mark, we see kids in hospital beds surrounded by dancing nurses and doctors. At around the 47:30 mark, the medical staff/dancers put the kids to bed and with fingers over their months, urging silence. What appears to be a giant virus then appears center-stage at the around the 48 minute mark.
Then, around the 49 minute mark, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling reads from Peter Pan and says: "But in the two minutes before you go to sleep, it is real ". Next, shadowy virus-looking demons take the stage to chase the children, and dark horses towing a magician and a steel cage glide behind an oriental woman who is looking elsewhere as the pandemic commences.
The 49:50 mark shows what appears to be a giant (British Prime Minister) Boris Johnson sick in bed.
Finally, as the dark magicians cast their spells and the viruses dance, the nurses and doctors appear paralyzed and robotic – like puppets (50:45 to 51:45 mark) before Mary Poppins figures descend from the sky.
In my research, I found another article by the Vigilant Citizen dated August 17, 2012 , and it had this to say back then regarding the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Olympics:
The next important sequence of the ceremony paid tribute to the National Health Service (NHS) and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). The set combined sick kids on hospital beds with characters from English children's literature and had a very strange and dark undertone from the start, when it began with the theme from The Exorcist, which is, in case you don't know, a movie about a child possessed by the Devil. Odd choice.
The sequence begins with children on hospital beds who get put to sleep by nurses. Then J.K. Rowling appears and reads a quote from Peter Pan alluding to Neverland, which becomes real in the "two minutes before you go to sleep". I couldn't say if that was done on purpose, but many elements of this set, mostly the mix of vulnerable children in a hospital with fairy tales and the concept of blurring the lines between reality and fiction, are all associated with mind control programming. Like the Wizard of Oz and Alice of Wonderland, the story of Peter Pan is heavily used in mind control programming as victims are told to escape to "Neverland" while inducing dissociation from reality.
The same article also addressed the 2012 Olympic closing ceremonie s (video at this link) and showing a new world order rising like a phoenix; while referencing The Who, no less.
At midnight, the Olympic cauldron and the petals representing each country are slowly extinguished, but the phoenix, representing the occult elite and the New World Order, stays lit above it. In other words, as the nations of the world slowly disappear, a New World Order will emerge. On that note, let's listen to The Who!
Of course, listen to The Who rock band? Or the World Health Organization (WHO)? Coincidence or conspiracy? You're probably right.
So, to summarize: 2012 was the same year the Rockefeller Foundation predicted the "Lock Step" pandemic scenario as the Olympic ceremonies that year showed opposing sides battling over children during the opening ceremonies and followed by the resolution in the closing ceremonies: A new phoenix rising from the ashes – like a new world order.
Order out of chaos.
Therefore, if COVID-19 was, indeed, a PLANdemic perpetrated by dark forces, was my aforementioned friend murdered by those who now want us to self-quarantine and wear masks for the safety of those being murdered? Most likely; because observing luciferian pedophiles through their symbols is like identifying hidden planets via the observed effects of gravitation, or studying game theory when the game is rigged.
It's how we can identify who "they" are, but only for people willing to first acknowledge that "they" exist. Unfortunately, it's a wasted effort on most. One might as well don a tinfoil hat and chase shadows on a magic pony.
Therefore, perhaps it's easier to digest the words of physician and former Presidential Candidate Ron Paul when it comes to explaining Coronavirus tyranny, forced vaccinations and 'Digital Certificates' :
Proponents of mandatory vaccines and enhanced surveillance are trying to blackmail the American people by arguing that the lockdown cannot end unless we create a healthcare surveillance state and make vaccination mandatory. The growing number of Americans who are tired of not being able to go to work, school, or church, or even to take their children to a park because of government mandates should reject this "deal." Instead, they should demand an immediate end to the lockdowns and the restoration of individual responsibility for deciding how best to protect their health.
Regrettably, it was supposed to be a season of graduation parties, weddings, and Fourth of July celebrations. But these have been displaced by lockdowns, social distancing, bodies in refrigerated trucks, fear, magic spells, and propaganda.
Fox News Host Tucker Carlson has even recently bemoaned the New America's resemblance to communist China :
Big companies partnering with the government to spy on you without your knowledge. Americans locked in their homes, banned from going to church, placated with sedatives like beer and weed. Anyone who speaks up is silenced. Political demonstrations are illegal. Organizers are arrested. Only opinions approved by unelected leaders are allowed on information platforms. Sound familiar? It sounds a lot like China. Of all the many ironies of this moment, so many of them bitter, the hardest to swallow is this: as we fight this virus, we are becoming far more like the country that spawned it. We're becoming more like China. It's horrifying.
Those in power are the ones the our professional class seeks to protect, not the country. Freedom of conscience never endangers the public. It only threatens the powerful. It endangers their control. It hinders their ability to dictate election results, to loot the economy, to make policies based on whim for their own gain. No wonder our leaders have done such a poor job protecting us from China. They're on the same team.
– Tucker Carlson Tonight: Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Sadly, it appears Trump may be a crisis actor, like Anthony Fauci , and part of the plan from the start. The final details were solidified years ago – including the bioengineered PLANdemic.
China is quite likely part of the plan, too, since One World Under Communism has become the desired destination of the billionaires; with millions dying along the way. For those who do survive, they'll be allowed to work , consume , and obey . Of course, many Americans will not cooperate with their planned demise and this is why The Central Planners will need a great big war.
Both President Trump and his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, are tying Coronavirus to the "government laboratory in Wuhan" and now the Chinese are warning of possible armed conflict with the U.S. over the COVID-19 backlash .
Most recently, in an Oval Office Press conference on May 6, 2020, Trump actually blamed China for Coronavirus while claiming it is the "worst attack we've ever had" :
"This is worse than Pearl Harbor, this is worse than the World Trade Center. There's never been an attack like this.
– President Donald Trump – May 6, 2020
It means events could potentially occur as follows: As soon as rock-solid proof is revealed that China released the virus to take out Trump because our great president was winning the trade wars, then, the Orange-Haired Wonder will rally national support via sorrowful lamentations while standing tall on reality TV amidst the economic ruins.
A bumbling first strike by the U.S. could allow a Sino-Russian alliance to seal America's fate once and for all; and most likely by nuclear means.
Then any surviving sheeple will eagerly line up for the Bill Gates of Hell special: A free digital tattoo along with a bonus vaccination and bowl of soup.
Welcome to the end of the rainbow. Orwell was right: we've always been at war with Eastasia and jackboots will stomp on human faces forever. Unless, that is, the digital drip-drops from Q-anon and our online commentaries change the future.
ConclusionThose gathering at the round tables have been tremendously successful in our societal programming . Yet most of them are mere puppets to the inner rings of concentric power. The monsters that once lurked under our beds were set loose years ago and, today, they dress in drag and read to kids in libraries while others wear blue uniforms and arrest mothers for taking kids to playgrounds.
And where are the men of action? Where are the lovers of liberty? In my area, they've been fishing. And grilling. And why not? Trump is in the White House while Nancy Pelosi is locked in her gourmet kitchen eating fancy ice cream. The stimulus checks are in the bank, the grocery stores are still open, and if the fish aren't biting, those who would stand up to tyranny can always grab a bucket of chicken through the KFC drive-thru on the way home. At least for now.
As far as national lockdowns go, this has been the best one ever. So far.
For obvious reasons, I've been thinking of the autistic livestock guru Temple Grandin and how she pioneered more humane methods of leading animals to slaughter. One of the methods was to have cattle march to their demise single file via tall shutes. That sort of isolation seems reminiscent of what's occurring in America now – with people staring at walls, muzzled by masks, and numbly following orders while remaining six-feet apart.
How can people resist when they've been fooled? How can they fight back when they're frightened? And why have they placed their hope in safety instead of liberty ?
Good questions.
Real hope remains in the smart choices, right actions, and the prepping and survival decisions made every day by those awake and aware. But no matter what the future holds, may all reading this be surrounded by friends and loved ones who know Epstein didn't kill himself.
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May 08, 2017 | ronpaulinstitute.org
Anne Applebaum: Give Me Money to Fight 'Russian Disinformation'! Daniel McAdams Monday May 8, 2017
Neocon Anne Applebaum has never seen a bed she did not expect to find an evil Russian lurking beneath. More than a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War, she cannot let go of that hysterical feeling that, "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming!" In screeching screed after screeching screech , Applebaum is, like most neocons, a one trick pony: the US government needs to spend more money to counter the threat of the month. Usually it's Russia or Putin. But it can also be China, Iran, Assad, Gaddafi, Saddam, etc.
There is no doubt that Applebaum is a true believer that Putin wants to destroy our democratic institutions, but there is also a more pedestrian way to understand her endless obsession: it pays well to hype up big threats. In fact, according to a mandatory Polish government disclosure (her husband was Polish defense and foreign minister before being forced out in disgrace after an eavesdropping scandal), Applebaum has made out like a bandit for a humble journalist and think-tanker.
As I wrote when her scandal broke:
Interestingly, Applebaum demands transparency for everyone else while rejecting it for herself. A recent mandatory income declaration of her husband to the Polish government shows that her income has skyrocketed from $20,000 in 2011 to more than $800,000 in 2013. No explanation was given for this massive influx of cash, though several ventures in which she has a part are tied to CIA and National Endowment for Democracy-affiliated organizations. Could Applebaum be one of those well-paid propagandists about whom she complains so violently?Applebaum's latest Washington Post column is about...you guessed it: the danger of Russian disinformation! Here is a synopsis of Applebaum's latest Cold War 2.0 propaganda piece from this weekend:1) The mainstream media has taken a beating. The old business model is no longer working. There are too many new sources of information available, which makes it harder for people to judge the accuracy of what they read.
My comment: Indeed, the US mainstream media no longer controls what we see, read, and think. Applebaum cannot stand that there are websites challenging the central neoconservative foreign policy paradigm. She hates organizations like the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity (she even blocked us on Twitter!).
She longs for the days when you could only pick up a Washington Post or a New York Times and had no chance of discovering opposing opinions.
In other words, Anne Applebaum misses the Soviet-style monochrome media that she pretends to despise so much.
2) As a result of mainstream media outlets like the Washington Post losing their monopoly over shaping foreign policy opinion, as she writes: "authoritarian regimes, led by Russia but closely followed by China, have begun investing heavily in the production of alternatives."
My comment: Applebaum is saying here that it's all our fault that the Russians are coming because as soon as the Internet and alternative news and analysis sites offered a point of view different from Applebaum's neocons, we played into the hands of the Russians by ignoring the Washington Post and turning to alternatives. If we had only kept our faith in the neocon worldview, the Russians would not be set to take us over.
3) This new Cold War is even worse than the old Cold War! Unlike back then, in the new Cold War, as Applebaum writes, "Russia does not seek to promote itself, but rather to undermine the institutions of the West, often using discordant messages."
My comment: Anne Applebaum offers no evidence or even clues to back her claim. But what she is saying is that by allowing voices to be heard that run counter to the Washington Post and neocon foreign policy paradigm, Russian-funded outlets like RT are seeking to sow "confusion" among Western listeners and viewers. Applebaum does not want us to be "confused" by messages that run counter to the neocon view of a US empire fighting endless wars against manufactured enemies. We would be far less "confused" if we would all just read Anne Applebaum and stop questioning the neocons!
4) Don't worry, this effort to sow confusion is being countered.
Applebaum writes:
Some countries are waking up to this, especially those that have been hardest hit. The invasion, occupation and dismemberment of Ukraine in 2014 was preceded by a highly effective propaganda blitz that fomented confusion in Russian-speaking areas and blinded both Ukrainians and Westerners to what was really going on. In response, Ukrainian organizations such as StopFake began to expose and ridicule Russian propaganda.My comment: She does not explain exactly what that "propaganda blitz" looked like. Was it the release of the tape of Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland plotting the overthrow of a democratically elected government in Kiev? Well, according to Applebaum, at least the noble, independent NGOs are spontaneously springing up across Europe to counter this Russian propaganda blitz!Except for one problem: The "StopFake" organization that she praises is not a grassroots Ukrainian organization as she would have us believe. In fact it's a George Soros astroturf organization, funded by his International Renaissance Foundation . In other words, "StopFake" is fake.
5) In fact, when it comes to funding, Anne Applebaum knows which side of her bread is buttered. As the Washington Post notes in the article's byline: "Anne Applebaum, a Post columnist, and Edward Lucas, a senior editor at the Economist, are this week launching a counter-disinformation initiative at the Center for European Policy Analysis, where they are, respectively, senior vice president and senior adjunct fellow."
My comment: Who funds the (Washington, D.C.-based) Center for European Policy Analysis? The United States Department of Defense and a handful of US defense contractors!
From their own website :
Recent donors to CEPA include:There are one or two surprises on the above list. The Hungarian government of Viktor Orban has been quite cautious about following the neocon line that any resistance to massive refugee inflows from the Middle East are signs of unforgivable xenophobia and that Russia and Putin must be resisted at all costs. In fact, Orban's opposition in Hungary is furious that he is not following the Russia-bashing neocon line. So why is the Hungarian government-funded Hungarian Initiatives Foundation backing Anne Applebaum's neocon initiative to demonize Russia? Good question. Maybe Fidesz supporters will want to ask their government why their tax money is going to such a worthless, anti-Fidesz cause.Bell Helicopter
Boeing
Chevron Corporation
FireEye
Lockheed Martin Corporation
New Vista Partners
Raytheon Company
Sikorsky Aircraft
Textron Systems
The East Tennessee Foundation
The Hirsch Family Foundation
The Hungarian Initiatives Foundation
The International Visegrad Fund
The Poses Family Foundation
The Smith Richardson Foundation
U.S. Department of Defense6) And again on funding, we come to the crux of Anne Applebaum's problem: the US government does not spend nearly enough money creating its own propaganda to counter what she claims is Russian propaganda. They are outspending us and outmaneuvering us!
She writes:
There is no modern equivalent to the U.S. Information Agency , an organization dedicated to coping with Soviet propaganda and disinformation during the Cold War. Although there has been some extra funding for U.S.-backed foreign broadcasters such as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty , they cannot provide a complete response.My comment: But that's not really true, is it? The idea that the US government is pinching propaganda pennies while the Russians are going in for the whole fake news hog is not backed up by those pernicious little things called facts. In fact, the Russian government spent around $300 million on RT in 2016. Compare that with the US propaganda arm, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, whose 2017 budget runs to $777.8 million dollars, or more than two and a half that of RT. And Congress just gave the green light to another $100 million to "counter Russian influence" in its stop-gap omnibus budget. We are out-spending them three-to-one. So why are we still "losing"?Anne Applebaum is a bitter neocon. She is furious that people no longer read the Washington Post as the authoritative voice of US foreign policy. She has apparently made a tidy fortune warning us that the Russians are coming, but she wants even more. The Washington Post still views her as an expert, but the American people, as she herself complains, are no longer interested in her worn-out fantasies. She is buried in defense industry funded think tanks and she does the bidding of her masters. Every intelligent American reader should ridicule her as the propagandist she is.
As for Russian "propaganda," like everything else in that vast cornucopia now thankfully available for our consumption, we should read all we can while keeping our wits about us. There is no one authoritative, unbiased source of information. That we do know. But we also know that we are far more able to think for ourselves now that the neocon gatekeepers like Anne Applebaum have been defeated in the marketplace of ideas.
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Gyre07 , says: Show Comment April 30, 2020 at 3:45 pm GMT
@Priss Factor Assuming he's even motivated by a desire to make America a better Constitutional Republic, Trump is a salesman first and foremost. As a former pharmaceutical rep I am well aware that most salesmen are suckers for most sales pitches as an intrinsic part of their personalities.Digital Samizdat , says: Show Comment April 30, 2020 at 4:49 pm GMTSo as I watch Trump being manipulated continuously by a variety of slick and confident grifters inhabiting the world stage with their multitude of transparent agendas I can only go, "that figures". I mean, he's basically just a more alpha version of GW Bush, so the fact that we haven't gone full gonzo yet on another nation is something of a miracle. Instead he's waging war by collapsing economies he views as competitors OR those of countries he wants to invade to steal natural resources from. As for the health of America, we're fucked.
Our economy is based on the wet dream of sycophants like Mnuchin who barely escaped prison for his games in the wake of devastation of the subprime loan disaster on 2008, and neoliberals who are much better at playing him then the opposite. So he's a puppet for Wall Street AND a closet neocon. Would the demonstrably senile Biden be any better? Not a chance, so once again the majority of Americans are left with a sham election whereby two flavors of the same shit are what's being fed to us.
@anonEmily , says: Show Comment April 30, 2020 at 9:34 pm GMTGovernment and big money seem to have formed a nexus, dominated by a very small number of people, who seem to be at war with us.
I seem to agree.
Until the American people demand electoral reform – you ain't going nowhere.
You need another party and you need to vote for it.
Stuff the neo lib or neo lib or neo lib – of the existing choice.
You have a two headed hydra – in reality a one party state.
Financed and controlled by puppet masters.
The democracy in the US is a total sham
A fraud and farce.
And you need fair voting.
Used by most democracies – PR – Proportional Representation.
Where votes mean seats.
A Ron Paul party would be a dream.
But until America gets off its fat bots and seriously acts to become a democratic state – you are getting what you continue to vote for.
Greed, corruption and elite rule – bought and paid for in the House and Senate down.
Nothing but a puppet, pawn and tax collector for another foreign power.
And you dare to mass murder and bomb in the name of 'regime change' and democracy to create your vile rule of law across the planet
Gross, an abomination – a facist state.
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May 01, 2020 | www.unz.com
Agent76 , says: Show Comment April 30, 2020 at 1:25 pm GMT
Apr 16, 2020 Dr. Ron Paul Interview: Bill Gates & Tony Fauci Are Determined To Run The World by VaccinesDr. Paul and Spiro discuss the current coronavirus crisis and the political, social and economic fallout effecting millions of Americans, as people begin to display resistance to the government lockdown response.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/LKkByA7nC4U?feature=oembed
Sep 11, 2013 9/11 In A Nutshell
James Corbett presents this 5 minute parody of the official conspiracy theory of 9/11
https://www.youtube.com/embed/vrJiKbK0tVM?feature=oembed
2.3 TRillion Dollars Missing from DOD Day before 9/11/ 2001
SEPTEMBER 10, 2001 Defense Business Practices
Secretary Rumsfeld and other officials talked with reporters about the need to refine the Defense Department's business practices. An opening ceremony will kick off Acquisition and Logistics Excellence Week. They answered questions from members of the media
http://www.c-span.org/video/?165947-1/defense-business-practices
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These facts do not provide much evidence for the thesis in Why Nations Fail that China's leaders constitute a self-serving and venal "extractive" elite. Unfortunately, such indications seem far more apparent when we direct our gaze inward, toward the recent economic and social trajectory of our own country
Against the backdrop of remarkable Chinese progress, America mostly presents a very gloomy picture. Certainly America's top engineers and entrepreneurs have created many of the world's most important technologies, sometimes becoming enormously wealthy in the process. But these economic successes are not typical nor have their benefits been widely distributed. Over the last 40 years, a large majority of American workers have seen their real incomes stagnate or decline.
Meanwhile, the rapid concentration of American wealth continues apace: the richest 1 percent of America's population now holds as much net wealth as the bottom 90–95 percent, and these trends may even be accelerating. A recent study revealed that during our supposed recovery of the last couple of years, 93 percent of the total increase in national income went to the top 1 percent, with an astonishing 37 percent being captured by just the wealthiest 0.01 percent of the population, 15,000 households in a nation of well over 300 million people.
Evidence for the long-term decline in our economic circumstances is most apparent when we consider the situation of younger Americans. The national media endlessly trumpets the tiny number of youthful Facebook millionaires, but the prospects for most of their contemporaries are actually quite grim. According to research from the Pew Center, barely half of 18- to 24-year-old Americans are currently employed, the lowest level since 1948, a time long before most women had joined the labor force. Nearly one-fifth of young men age 25–34 are still living with their parents, while the wealth of all households headed by those younger than 35 is 68 percent lower today than it was in 1984.
ORDER IT NOWThe total outstanding amount of non-dischargeable student-loan debt has crossed the trillion-dollar mark, now surpassing the combined total of credit-card and auto-loan debt -- and with a quarter of all student-loan payers now delinquent, there are worrisome indicators that much of it will remain a permanent burden, reducing many millions to long-term debt peonage. A huge swath of America's younger generation seems completely impoverished, and likely to remain so.
International trade statistics, meanwhile, demonstrate that although Apple and Google are doing quite well, our overall economy is not. For many years now our largest goods export has been government IOUs, whose dollar value has sometimes been greater than that of the next ten categories combined. At some point, perhaps sooner than we think, the rest of the world will lose its appetite for this non-functional product, and our currency will collapse, together with our standard of living. Similar Cassandra-like warnings were issued for years about the housing bubble or the profligacy of the Greek government, and were proven false year after year until one day they suddenly became true.
Ironically enough, there is actually one major category in which American expansion still easily tops that of China, both today and for the indefinite future: population growth. The rate of America's demographic increase passed that of China over 20 years ago and has been greater every year since, sometimes by as much as a factor of two. According to standard projections, China's population in 2050 will be almost exactly what it was in 2000, with the country having achieved the population stability typical of advanced, prosperous societies. But during that same half-century, the number of America's inhabitants will have grown by almost 50 percent, a rate totally unprecedented in the developed world and actually greater than that found in numerous Third World countries such as Colombia, Algeria, Thailand, Mexico, or Indonesia. A combination of very rapid population growth and doubtful prospects for equally rapid economic growth does not bode well for the likely quality of the 2050 American Dream.
China rises while America falls, but are there major causal connections between these two concurrent trends now reshaping the future of our world? Not that I can see. American politicians and pundits are naturally fearful of taking on the fierce special interest groups that dominate their political universe, so they often seek an external scapegoat to explicate the misery of their constituents, sometimes choosing to focus on China. But this is merely political theater for the ignorant and the gullible.
Various studies have suggested that China's currency may be substantially undervalued, but even if the frequent demands of Paul Krugman and others were met and the yuan rapidly appreciated another 15 or 20 percent, few industrial jobs would return to American shores, while working-class Americans might pay much more for their basic necessities. And if China opened wide its borders to more American movies or financial services, the multimillionaires of Hollywood and Wall Street might grow even richer, but ordinary Americans would see little benefit. It is always easier for a nation to point an accusing finger at foreigners rather than honestly admit that almost all its terrible problems are essentially self-inflicted.
Decay of Constitutional DemocracyThe central theme of Why Nations Fail is that political institutions and the behavior of ruling elites largely determine the economic success or failure of countries. If most Americans have experienced virtually no economic gains for decades, perhaps we should cast our gaze at these factors in our own society.
Our elites boast about the greatness of our constitutional democracy, the wondrous human rights we enjoy, the freedom and rule of law that have long made America a light unto the nations of the world and a spiritual draw for oppressed peoples everywhere, including China itself. But are these claims actually correct? They often stack up very strangely when they appear in the opinion pages of our major newspapers, coming just after the news reporting, whose facts tell a very different story.
Just last year, the Obama administration initiated a massive months-long bombing campaign against the duly recognized government of Libya on "humanitarian" grounds, then argued with a straight face that a military effort comprising hundreds of bombing sorties and over a billion dollars in combat costs did not actually constitute "warfare," and hence was completely exempt from the established provisions of the Congressional War Powers Act. A few months later, Congress overwhelmingly passed and President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act, granting the president power to permanently imprison without trial or charges any American whom he classifies as a national-security threat based on his own judgment and secret evidence. When we consider that American society has experienced virtually no domestic terrorism during the past decade, we must wonder how long our remaining constitutional liberties would survive if we were facing frequent real-life attacks by an actual terrorist underground, such as had been the case for many years with the IRA in Britain, ETA in Spain, or the Red Brigades in Italy.
Most recently, President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have claimed the inherent right of an American president to summarily execute anyone anywhere in the world, American citizen or not, whom White House advisors have privately decided was a "bad person." While it is certainly true that major world governments have occasionally assassinated their political enemies abroad, I have never before heard these dark deeds publicly proclaimed as legitimate and aboveboard. Certainly if the governments of Russia or China, let alone Iran, declared their inherent right to kill anyone anywhere in the world whom they didn't like, our media pundits would immediately blast these statements as proof of their total criminal insanity.
These are very strange notions of the "rule of law" for the administration of a president who had once served as top editor of the Harvard Law Review and who was routinely flattered in his political campaigns by being described as a "constitutional scholar."
Many of these negative ideological trends have been absorbed and accepted by the popular culture and much of the American public. Over the last decade one of the highest-rated shows on American television was "24", created by Joel Surnow and chronicling Kiefer Sutherland as a patriotic but ruthless Secret Service agent, with each episode constituting a single hour of his desperate efforts to thwart terrorist plots and safeguard our national security. Numerous episodes featured our hero torturing suspected evildoers in order to extract the information necessary to save innocent lives, with the entire series representing a popular weekly glorification of graphic government torture on behalf of the greater good.
Now soft-headed protestations to the contrary, most governments around the world have at least occasionally practiced torture, especially when combating popular insurgencies, and some of the more brutal regimes, including Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany, even professionalized the process. But such dark deeds done in secret were always vigorously denied in public, and the popular films and other media of Stalin's Soviet Union invariably featured pure-hearted workers and peasants bravely doing their honorable and patriotic duty for the Motherland, rather than the terrible torments being daily inflicted in the cellars of the Lubyanka prison. Throughout all of modern history, I am not aware of a single even semi-civilized country that publicly celebrated the activities of its professional government torturers in the popular media. Certainly such sentiments would have been totally abhorrent and unthinkable in the "conservative Hollywood" of the Cold War 1950s.
And since we live in a entertainment-dominated society, sentiments affirmed on the screen often have direct real-world consequences. At one point, senior American military and counter-terrorism officials felt the need to travel to Hollywood and urge its screenwriters to stop glorifying American torture, since their shows were encouraging U.S. soldiers to torture Muslim captives even when their commanding officers repeatedly ordered them not to do so.
Given these facts, we should hardly be surprised that international surveys over the past decade have regularly ranked America as the world's most hated major nation, a remarkable achievement given the dominant global role of American media and entertainment and also the enormous international sympathy that initially flowed to our country following the 9/11 attacks.
An Emerging One-Party StateSo far at least, these extra-constitutional and often brutal methods have not been directed toward controlling America's own political system; we remain a democracy rather than a dictatorship. But does our current system actually possess the central feature of a true democracy, namely a high degree of popular influence over major government policies? Here the evidence seems more ambiguous.
Consider the pattern of the last decade. With two ruinous wars and a financial collapse to his record, George W. Bush was widely regarded as one of the most disastrous presidents in American history, and at times his public approval numbers sank to the lowest levels ever measured. The sweeping victory of his successor, Barack Obama, represented more a repudiation of Bush and his policies than anything else, and leading political activists, left and right alike, characterized Obama as Bush's absolute antithesis, both in background and in ideology. This sentiment was certainly shared abroad, with Obama being selected for the Nobel Peace Prize just months after entering office, based on the widespread assumption that he was certain to reverse most of the policies of his detested predecessor and restore America to sanity.
Yet almost none of these reversals took place. Instead, the continuity of administration policy has been so complete and so obvious that many critics now routinely speak of the Bush/Obama administration.
The harsh violations of constitutional principles and civil liberties which Bush pioneered following the 9/11 attacks have only further intensified under Obama, the heralded Harvard constitutional scholar and ardent civil libertarian, and this has occurred without the excuse of any major new terrorist attacks. During his Democratic primary campaign, Obama promised that he would move to end Bush's futile Iraq War immediately upon taking office, but instead large American forces remained in place for years until heavy pressure from the Iraqi government finally forced their removal; meanwhile, America's occupation army in Afghanistan actually tripled in size. The government bailout of the hated financial manipulators of Wall Street, begun under Bush, continued apace under Obama, with no serious attempts at either government prosecution or drastic reform. Americans are still mostly suffering through the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, but Wall Street profits and multimillion-dollar bonuses soon returned to record levels.
In particular, the continuity of top officials has been remarkable. As Bush's second defense secretary, Robert Gates had been responsible for the ongoing management of America's foreign wars and military occupations since 2006; Obama kept him on, and he continued to play the same role in the new administration. Similarly, Timothy Geithner had been one of Bush's most senior financial appointments, playing a crucial role in the widely unpopular financial bailout of Wall Street; Obama promoted him to Treasury secretary and authorized continuation of those same policies. Ben Bernanke had been appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve by Bush and was reappointed by Obama. Bush wars and bailouts became Obama wars and bailouts. The American public voted for an anti-Bush, but got Bush's third term instead.
During the Cold War, Soviet propagandists routinely characterized our democracy as a sham, with the American public merely selecting which of the two intertwined branches of their single political party should alternate in office, while the actual underlying policies remained essentially unchanged, being decided and implemented by the same corrupt ruling class. This accusation may have been mostly false at the time it was made but seems disturbingly accurate today.
When times are hard and government policies are widely unpopular, but voters are only offered a choice between the rival slick marketing campaigns of Coke and Pepsi, cynicism can reach extreme proportions. Over the last year, surveys have shown that the public non-approval of Congress -- representing Washington's political establishment -- has ranged as high as 90–95 percent, which is completely unprecedented.
ORDER IT NOWBut if our government policies are so broadly unpopular, why are we unable to change them through the sacred power of the vote? The answer is that America's system of government has increasingly morphed from being a representative democracy to becoming something closer to a mixture of plutocracy and mediacracy, with elections almost entirely determined by money and media, not necessarily in that order. Political leaders are made or broken depending on whether they receive the cash and visibility needed to win office.
National campaigns increasingly seem sordid reality shows for second-rate political celebrities, while our country continues along its path toward multiple looming calamities. Candidates who depart from the script or deviate from the elite D.C. consensus regarding wars or bailouts -- notably a principled ideologue such as Ron Paul -- are routinely stigmatized in the media as dangerous extremists or even entirely airbrushed out of campaign news coverage, as has been humorously highlighted by comedian Jon Stewart.
We know from the collapsed communist states of Eastern Europe that control over the media may determine public perceptions of reality, but it does not change the underlying reality itself, and reality usually has the last laugh. Economics Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and his colleagues have conservatively estimated the total long-term cost of our disastrous Iraq War at $3 trillion, representing over one-fifth of our entire accumulated national debt, or almost $30,000 per American household. And even now the direct ongoing costs of our Afghanistan War still run $120 billion per year, many times the size of Afghanistan's total GDP. Meanwhile, during these same years the international price of oil has risen from $25 to $125 per barrel -- partly as a consequence of these past military disruptions and growing fears of future ones -- thereby imposing gigantic economic costs upon our society.
And we suffer other costs as well. A recent New York Times story described the morale-building visit of Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to our forces in Afghanistan and noted that all American troops had been required to surrender their weapons before attending his speech and none were allowed to remain armed in his vicinity. Such a command decision seems almost unprecedented in American history and does not reflect well upon the perceived state of our military morale.
Future historians may eventually regard these two failed wars, fought for entirely irrational reasons, as the proximate cause of America's financial and political collapse, representing the historical bookend to our World War II victory, which originally established American global dominance.
Our Extractive ElitesWhen parasitic elites govern a society along "extractive" lines, a central feature is the massive upward flow of extracted wealth, regardless of any contrary laws or regulations. Certainly America has experienced an enormous growth of officially tolerated corruption as our political system has increasingly consolidated into a one-party state controlled by a unified media-plutocracy.
Consider the late 2011 collapse of MF Global, a midsize but highly reputable brokerage firm. Although this debacle was far smaller than the Lehman bankruptcy or the Enron fraud, it effectively illustrates the incestuous activities of America's overlapping elites. Just a year earlier, Jon Corzine had been installed as CEO, following his terms as Democratic governor and U.S. senator from New Jersey and his previous career as CEO of Goldman Sachs. Perhaps no other American had such a combination of stellar political and financial credentials on his resume. Soon after taking the reins, Corzine decided to boost his company's profits by betting its entire capital and more against the possibility that any European countries might default on their national debts. When he lost that bet, his multi-billion-dollar firm tumbled into bankruptcy.
At this point, the story moves from a commonplace tale of Wall Street arrogance and greed into something out of the Twilight Zone, or perhaps Monty Python. The major newspapers began reporting that customer funds, eventually said to total $1.6 billion, had mysteriously disappeared during the collapse, and no one could determine what had become of them, a very strange claim in our age of massively computerized financial records. Weeks and eventually months passed, tens of millions of dollars were spent on armies of investigators and forensic accountants, but all those customer funds stayed "missing," while the elite media covered this bizarre situation in the most gingerly possible fashion. As an example, a front page Wall Street Journal story on February 23, 2012 suggested that after so many months, there seemed little likelihood that the disappeared customer funds might ever reappear, but also emphasized that absolutely no one was being accused of any wrongdoing. Presumably the journalists were suggesting that the $1.6 billion dollars of customer money had simply walked out the door on its own two feet.
Stories like this give the lie to the endless boasts of our politicians and business pundits that America's financial system is the most transparent and least corrupt in today's world. Certainly America is not unique in the existence of long-term corporate fraud, as was recently shown in the fall of Japan's Olympus Corporation following the discovery of more than a billion dollars in long-hidden investment losses. But when we consider the largest corporate collapses of the last decade that were substantially due to fraud, nearly all the names are American: WorldCom, Enron, Tyco, Global Crossing, and Adelphia. And this list leaves out all the American financial institutions destroyed by the financial meltdown -- such as Lehman, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Washington Mutual, and Wachovia -- and the many trillions of dollars in American homeowner equity and top-rated MBS securities which evaporated during that process. Meanwhile, the largest and longest Ponzi Scheme in world history, that of Bernie Madoff, had survived for decades under the very nose of the SEC, despite a long series of detailed warnings and complaints. The second largest such fraud, that of Allen R. Stanford, also bears the label "Made in the USA."
Some of the sources of Chinese success and American decay are not entirely mysterious. As it happens, the typical professional background of a member of China's political elite is engineering; they were taught to build things. Meanwhile, a remarkable fraction of America's political leadership class attended law school, where they were trained to argue effectively and to manipulate. Thus, we should not be greatly surprised that while China's leaders tend to build, America's leaders seem to prefer endless manipulation, whether of words, money, or people.
How corrupt is the American society fashioned by our current ruling elites? That question is perhaps more ambiguous than it might seem. According to the standard world rankings produced by Transparency International, the United States is a reasonably clean country, with corruption being considerably higher than in the nations of Northern Europe or elsewhere in the Anglosphere, but much lower than in most of the rest of the world, including China.
But I suspect that this one-dimensional metric fails to capture some of the central anomalies of America's current social dilemma. Unlike the situation in many Third World countries, American teachers and tax inspectors very rarely solicit bribes, and there is little overlap in personnel between our local police and the criminals whom they pursue. Most ordinary Americans are generally honest. So by these basic measures of day-to-day corruption, America is quite clean, not too different from Germany or Japan.
By contrast, local village authorities in China have a notorious tendency to seize public land and sell it to real estate developers for huge personal profits. This sort of daily misbehavior has produced an annual Chinese total of up to 90,000 so-called "mass incidents" -- public strikes, protests, or riots -- usually directed against corrupt local officials or businessmen.
However, although American micro-corruption is rare, we seem to suffer from appalling levels of macro-corruption, situations in which our various ruling elites squander or misappropriate tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars of our national wealth, sometimes doing so just barely on one side of technical legality and sometimes on the other.
Sweden is among the cleanest societies in Europe, while Sicily is perhaps the most corrupt. But suppose a large clan of ruthless Sicilian Mafiosi moved to Sweden and somehow managed to gain control of its government. On a day-to-day basis, little would change, with Swedish traffic policemen and building inspectors performing their duties with the same sort of incorruptible efficiency as before, and I suspect that Sweden's Transparency International rankings would scarcely decline. But meanwhile, a large fraction of Sweden's accumulated national wealth might gradually be stolen and transferred to secret Cayman Islands bank accounts, or invested in Latin American drug cartels, and eventually the entire plundered economy would collapse.
Ordinary Americans who work hard and seek to earn an honest living for themselves and their families appear to be suffering the ill effects of exactly this same sort of elite-driven economic pillage. The roots of our national decline will be found at the very top of our society, among the One Percent, or more likely the 0.1 percent.
Thus, the ideas presented in Why Nations Fail seem both true and false. The claim that harmful political institutions and corrupt elites can inflict huge economic damage upon a society seems absolutely correct. But while the authors turn a harsh eye toward elite misbehavior across time and space -- from ancient Rome to Czarist Russia to rising China -- their vision seems to turn rosy-tinted when they consider present-day America, the society in which they themselves live and whose ruling elites lavishly fund the academic institutions with which they are affiliated. Given the American realities of the last dozen years, it is quite remarkable that the scholars who wrote a book entitled Why Nations Fail never glanced outside their own office windows.
A similar dangerous reticence may afflict most of our media, which appears much more eager to focus on self-inflicted disasters in foreign countries than on those here at home. Presented below is a companion case-study, " Chinese Melamine and American Vioxx: A Comparison ," in which I point out that while the American media a few years ago joined its Chinese counterparts in devoting enormous coverage to the deaths of a few Chinese children from tainted infant formula, it paid relatively little attention to a somewhat similar domestic public-health disaster that killed many tens or even hundreds of thousands of Americans.
A society's media and academic organs constitute the sensory apparatus and central nervous system of its body politic, and if the information these provide is seriously misleading, looming dangers may fester and grow. A media and academy that are highly corrupt or dishonest constitute a deadly national peril. And although the political leadership of undemocratic China might dearly wish to hide all its major mistakes, its crude propaganda machinery often fails at this self-destructive task. But America's own societal information system is vastly more skilled and experienced in shaping reality to meet the needs of business and government leaders, and this very success does tremendous damage to our country.
Perhaps Americans really do prefer that their broadcasters provide Happy News and that their political campaigns constitute amusing reality shows. Certainly the cheering coliseum crowds of the Roman Empire favored their bread and circuses over the difficult and dangerous tasks that their ancestors had undertaken during Rome's rise to world greatness. And so long as we can continue to trade bits of printed paper carrying presidential portraits for flat-screen TVs from Chinese factories, perhaps all is well and no one need be too concerned about the apparent course of our national trajectory, least of all our political leadership class.
But if so, then we must admit that Richard Lynn, a prominent British scholar, has been correct in predicting for a decade or longer that the global dominance of the European-derived peoples is rapidly drawing to its end and within the foreseeable future the torch of human progress and world leadership will inevitably pass into Chinese hands.
Ron Unz is publisher of The American Conservative and founder of Unz.org .
Sean Scallon , says: Website Show Comment April 18, 2012 at 5:11 pm GMT
Very good piece and very perceptive about reality in the U.S.Jack Ross , says: Show Comment April 18, 2012 at 6:43 pm GMTDefinitely on the money regarding the U.S., I'm not sure the outlook for China though is quite so rosy. I fear you made a serious mistake of burying the lead. That said, one other issue you should have mentioned is the way the two major parties monopolize access to the ballot, as discussed in a recent Al Jazeera series on the frauds of American democracy.platocrat , says: Show Comment April 18, 2012 at 9:44 pm GMT"Certainly America has experienced an enormous growth of officially tolerated corruption as our political system has increasingly consolidated into a one-party state controlled by a unified media-plutocracy."JonF , says: Show Comment April 18, 2012 at 9:57 pm GMTIn a nutshell.
Re: This failure suggests another reason for the decay of US (and Western European) society: political correctnessDave , says: Show Comment April 19, 2012 at 12:23 am GMTHuh? And while demographics may not be destiny, demography should not be ignored either. The US is likely to have a younger population structure than China which, as others have noted, is going to grow old without first growing rich– not an enviable situation. Moreover that population is likely to include a fair number of unmarried men for whom no women are available. That's pretty muich unprecedented in history (although the reverse has occasionally happened due to wars), and I have no idea how it will play out, but I suspect it will not be a mark in China's plus column.
This piece whistewashes China's enormous challenges while exaggerating America's. That's not to say we have no challenges nor that China does not have its strengths. Still, I would sooner bet the farm on the US coming through this century without major political calamity than China doing so. (Note: I said "calamity", I did not say "change". Both countries, will need to change a lot– something true of the whole world)
1/ I saw this movie before-in the '70's. Only then 'China' was called 'Japan'.Bob Arctor , says: Show Comment April 19, 2012 at 2:49 am GMT2/ As to history and the 2 party system, nothing new:
Gates was Bush's Sec'y of Defense and became Obama's Sec'y of Defense.
Stanton was Buchanan's Sec'y of War and became Lincoln's Sec'y of War.
And America has always had its plunderers-see the Gilded Age-Jay Gould (et al) plundered as do today's plutocrats.
And American governments have gone around killing US citizens without seriously attempting to arrest them (see J Dillinger, C Barrow, B Parker)
America's worse than third world style population growth isn't an advantage in any way, shape or form. Firstly, energy availability (and not labor) will be the bounding factor for economic growth over the next few decades, and secondly the only sectors of the population that are growing are those with the absolute least level of relevant skills that will be needed in years that are to come.Bob Arctor , says: Show Comment April 19, 2012 at 3:31 am GMTNo other developed nation, save almost empty Canada and Austrailia, have ever seen massive population growth such as this.
Japan and China is not remotely a fair comparison – Japan has only 127 million people whereas China has 1331 million people. When China reaches American levels of economic development, as Japan did in the 1980's, the implications for America, both political and economic, are going to be vastly more severe than they were when Japan emerged as a developed nation. Think of 2030 China as being ten and a half 2012 Japans to get an rough idea of what's coming.JonF , says: Show Comment April 19, 2012 at 10:07 am GMTJonF:
A good number of hunter gatherer societies that survived into modern times, such as the Yanomano in South America, had much more lopsided sex ratios than China does today. This isn't new.
Bob Arctor,Jamie , says: Website Show Comment April 19, 2012 at 12:43 pm GMTYes, some societies have had an excess of women after many men have been killed in warfare: Germany and France after WWI, or the American South after the Civil War. But an excess of men is pretty much unprecedented.
America has become the most hated country on earth along with Israel,and the tyranicle government that controlls the country with all their crimes and lies will make America a country no smart person would want to be a citizen.America can do better if people wake up to the coruption and stop spending as much as the rest of the world on their military.It's not a matter of if but when China becomes the biggest economy,but also the strongest military by far on earth.I just hope China don't act like the American criminal government wasting tax payers money on illegal wars baised on lies.It's been happening for over 100 years,but know they do it in the open and have tottaly ignored the constitution.The 1 thing that made America great was the constitution and as time goes by it is ignored to the point the rest of the world and Americans see that America has no high ground,unless you call mudering innocent civilians in illegal wars.America is bankrupt and when they can no longer afford to bribe others it will collapes and the hatred it has caused for it'self will turn the entire world against it.Even Israel will no longer be because of their warmongering and raceist government.Anonymous Disclaimer , says: Website Show Comment April 19, 2012 at 3:50 pm GMTThe subtitle, "Which superpower is more threatened by its "extractive elites"?" reflects what I believe is the most important political issue of the times. As one commenter pointed out above, really there is nothing all that different now. I suspect this is largely true in that 'the masses' have usually lived many steps removed from understanding what is 'really going on.' However today we are all linked on the material plane through electronic communication and transportation in a way that before was never possible in that most ordinary people lived nearly all of their lives bounded within a very small geographical, aka 'local' area. They were place-bound, in other words. Now we are not. And because we are not the opportunity and scope for mass deception have greatly increased along with the ability of ruling elites to be more and more extractive.Ken Zaretzke , says: Show Comment April 19, 2012 at 6:30 pm GMTI suspect you could almost make a mathematical formula out of it along the lines of: S = F+O * (E/C), where S = Society or Stable & Sane Society, F = Freedom (opportunity, creativity etc.), O = Organisation (cultural institutions of education, governance, manners, language, both in terms of efficiency and levels of corruption/deceit etc. ), E = Elites/Leadership class and C = Checks and Balances.
Something like that. Assuming a scale of 1-100 in each case, in the US I think it is about: S = 70+50 * (95/35) = 120 * 2.7 = 325.7.
China: S = 45+65(110) * (75/50) = 100* 1.5 = 150.
China has 45 F-freedom to US 70.
China has 65 O-Organisation to US 50.
China has 75 E-Elites to US 95.
China has 50 C-Checks to US 35.All of these are highly arguable of course but I think most would agree their freedom quotient is lower, albeit the US has some of the worst upward / class mobility figures in the West as a 10-year NYT study showed a while back.
China seems to have far greater organisational skills, as witnessed by their development of high speed rail of late, which the US is incapable of doing.
Because of much greater power on the local level, I have given Chinese Elites a lower score even though if we were to believe our own media, you would think that the US doesn't really have any elites and China is a monolithic top-down beast.
For the same reason, I put in more Checks for China since I believe their people demonstrate and organise far more energetically than those in the West, and that the Elites have to pay far more attention to them. This is a wild guess.The notion of "extractive elites" inadvertently wrecking their own country's future prospects is rich with irony -- of the Alfred E. Neumann kind ("What, me worry?"). What about the extraction of coal? It is the U.S. that is bribing China with coal exports -- America's relatively most abundant natural resource -- so that the Chinese will tolerate America's fiscal irresponsibility by continuing to prop up the dollar. Six months ago I sent a letter about this to my local county council, which will decide in the next year whether to allow the largest coal terminal in North America to be built (at the behest of Goldman Sachs, among others) just a few miles from where I was living until recently, in the idyllic town of Ferndale, WA. I maintained that one doesn't need to be a Green Party member in order to oppose the coal terminal project -- any ardent nationalist worth his salt can, and ought to, oppose it tooth and nail.Anonymous Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 19, 2012 at 6:49 pm GMTCoal terminals which make possible the shipping of millions of tons of coal to China would be a disaster on several counts. Symbolically and as a matter of policy, the coal exports would demonstrate America's economic subjection to China, the "Caesar" to whom we would be paying tribute. Environmentally, the mercury and other pollution will drift back across the Atlantic to the Pacific Northwest. These are just two of the problems. So why is the Republican Party bending over backwards to join Peabody Coal and Goldman Sachs in trying to build the largest coal terminal on the continent in Whatcom County, and other terminals elsewhere in Washington and Oregon? What besides money, greed, and shortsightedness is behind conservatives' obliviousness to the long-term dangers, both real and symbolic, of America's bowing down to China with massive coal exports?
The Stupid Party, indeed
Thank you for an excellent article on what is happening. My only criticism is that it appears that these things "just happen". With your insight and erudition, could you please address "why" the situation has arisen. What could be the motivation behind actions and policies which so clearly will destroy not only the 99% but also the basic wealth of the1%?Anonymous Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 20, 2012 at 12:09 am GMTThis is not something new, but a recurrent theme in world affairs.
- " Behind all the governments and the armies there was a big subterranean movement going on, engineered by very dangerous people."
- "Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organised, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
– Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States (1856-1924)- "So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." – Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister (1804-1881)
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote in November 1933 to Col. Edward House: "The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centres has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson."
Many thanks
Excellent, excellent article by Unz.Anonymous Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 20, 2012 at 3:14 am GMTAcemoglu and Robinson "characterize China's ruling elites as "extractive" -- parasitic and corrupt -- and predict that Chinese economic growth will soon falter and decline" China's ruling elites! China's ruling elites are extractive, parasitic & corrupt!
Bwaaahaaahaaahaaaa
What are Acemoglu and Robinson on? Crack? LSD? Crystal Meth?
China's ruling elites are frigging angels and saints compared to the monsters, maniacs and morons creating misery amidst colossal wealth (stolen by them) in the USA. The US elite is a parasite so bloated and stupid it is killing its host and maybe the rest of the planet too.
The state of US politics can only be accurately described as self-destructive. The government's hubris is bringing down the foundations of the economy, and it's only a matter of time before we end up living in the ruins of a dead civilization.Anonymous Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 20, 2012 at 3:47 am GMTThe basic fact that supports any capitalist system, is that increasing productivity will increase wealth, that is, real wealth. Huge military expenditures all towards the goal of keeping raw resources a little bit cheaper, and a financial structure increasingly designed to encourage making money from money, are absolutely insane. This is Ancient Rome all over again.
The issues of energy and pollution are serious enough to threaten the global economy in the long-term, but the social system here doesn't sufficiently support innovation to do much about them. How is America supposed to be competitive in the future if we don't?
For example, we're not going to "run out" of oil any time soon, but when it comes primarily from tar sands and underwater drilling, it's going to be tremendously expensive, and with more expensive energy, our standard of living will decline. Other common energy sources have the same problem. Common sense dictates that we innovate ahead of time. The possibility of resource substitution doesn't happen by magic. But of course, that would require an conscious investment in that direction.
And as for pollution, maybe high-speed rail and electric cars are part of a solution, maybe they're not, as some commenters have suggested, but what's definitely not a solution is not trying anything all. We need clean air and clean water, or else we'll die. Our food sources do, too.
And it's not entirely obvious to people who don't read about what makes China attractive for investment, but it's not solely cheap labor. (In fact, Chinese labor is more expensive than in, say, India or Bangladesh. Not to mention that Chinese bureaucracy is not all that easy to deal with!) China has constructed highly attractive logistics systems, and has an increasingly educated and disciplined labor force. In America, we have infrastructure that's becoming obsolete, and an education system that produces a lot of stupid citizens who have no idea how to create value. With the latter, it's no wonder we have an "entitlement culture."
If this all doesn't change, I'm not sticking around, waiting for this ship to sink.
Finally! A Conservative who tells the truth. Sir, you and Paul Craig Roberts are just the men to lead the GOP out of the wilderness and back to sanity.Vickie , says: Show Comment April 20, 2012 at 2:38 pm GMTYour words coincide with the words of pissed off Progressives (such as myself) and the youth at OWS movements.
We need more honesty from your side, such as Buddy Roehmer offered before the recent GOP primary devolved into the Clown Reality Show which avoided hard topics such as these you've addressed head on in "China's Rise, America's Fall".
If the GOP has no room for you, Mr. Unz, maybe you should join the Green Party or help concerned Americans from both sides start a new party. Just a thought.
Your honesty is courageous. And I believe when the Neo-Cons and Oligarchs on the Right read your words, you'll be in for a rough ride with Rush and Faux News. Stay the course. Stay true to what you have written here. Courage.
Just this one piece you have written will move me to subscribe to your magazine, a first for me, subscribing to a magazine with the word "Conservative" in it.
Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Abraham Lincoln and Barry Goldwater would be proud of what you wrote, Sir. As would Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Rock Trueblood
Hopefully China will continue to improve and the people there get more freedom. However, the Tienanmen Square incident is not a small thing. I suspect the elites in China have no more respect for their people than ours do. Infanticide, forced abortion and summary execution are not policies to emulate. What the west has, the importance of the individual, the idea that the State is supposed to be subservient to a higher law are not ideas to trade away for a mess of pottage.Anonymous Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 20, 2012 at 3:14 pm GMTI do agree, however with earlier commentators about American lack of discipline. Years ago, cutting through the Engineering School at Rutgers, I was struck that the vast majority of students were foreigners, mostly Asian. Americans at that time just went to school to party.
With her extractive elites America has taken a different path but has, ironically, arrived at the same terminus as the old Soviet Union: Too much economic power in the hands of too few.Steve Roth , says: Website Show Comment April 20, 2012 at 5:48 pm GMTI find it amazing what is not mentioned here: that the dynamic of extractive elites being described started its rapid upward trajectory at exactly the time that Reagan "conservative" policies came to dominate public policy discourse.James Canning , says: Show Comment April 20, 2012 at 11:06 pm GMTTo some extent, the relative decline of the US economically owes a good deal to idiotic levels of spending on "defence". Trillions of dollars have been squandered over the past two or three decades.James Canning , says: Show Comment April 20, 2012 at 11:07 pm GMTKolya – – The Soviet Union spent far too much on "defense". Putin has noted this fact as partly explaining the collapse of the USSR.Matt says: Show Comment April 21, 2012 at 10:14 am GMTThe author has forgotten to mention race and diversity as a factor that ensures America will not rise again. China is an homogeneous country with no need of a parasitic diversity industry hovering overhead trying to enforce its ideas of what any given activity should 'look like'. Chinese have an average intelligence above that of whites and are not saddled with untold millions of low IQ third world people hanging like a millstone round their necks. An entirely white America might have had half a chance of keeping pace with Chinese growth, but today's America has no chance at all.Anonymous Disclaimer , says: Website Show Comment April 21, 2012 at 12:42 pm GMTThanks – this piece is right on target, and revealed to me a good deal of economic chicanery of which I had previously been unaware.A. Aftab , says: Show Comment April 21, 2012 at 1:00 pm GMT...... ...
Calgacus, you're right on the money with that comment of yours! A lot of wealthy Americans now live in Costa Rica, HK, Thailand and Malaysia and AUS/NZ. Donald Trump has been investing in Costa Rica very heavily ..and there are probably thousands of other billionaires doing the same.Anonymous Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2012 at 9:50 pm GMTIn case people here haven't noticed, a lot of our super elites have been leaving the U.S. in droves, due to the disproportionally high taxes levied on them now. They are doing this because they are smarter than the rest of us. This started 5 years ago just before the housing crash. Probably has accelerated since 2010 where this article is from.
Have a whiff folks:
http://actionamerica.org/taxecon/ticktick.shtml
And also these:
- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/us/more-us-children-of-immigrants-are-leaving-us.html?pagewanted=all
- http://rt.com/usa/news/leaving-us-america-country-289/
It's becoming a joke Calgacus ..you're right some of these comments here seem to be absolutely retarded!
A good reality check on the economic situation is to ask around your friends and relatives on whose making the big money now! ..The answer will be pretty obvious.
Even if China's economy outgrows ours, it would have to be 4x as large as the US economy to match it's per capita income. The Chinese know that they are running against the clock to modernize it's economy.James Guest , says: Show Comment April 22, 2012 at 5:05 am GMTThey're nowhere near as energy efficient in their manufacturing processes and they are burning through their profits to build a big enough energy infrastructure to meet the economic growth needs.
SinoPec is already partnered with ArAmCo and Exxon to build refineries in China which means those Western Companies are already raiding the Chinese treasure chest. GM and Walmart aren't selling their products for free, either. In other words, China has been caught in the global economic web and they're going to get played just like everybody else.
Two questions.Anonymous Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 22, 2012 at 8:04 am GMTDoes the US not suffer a serioius political Catch 22? You could clean up much of the excessive influence of money for campaigning and the targeting of self-interest simply to get people to bother to vote by adopting the compulsory voting which means that, in Australia, about 90 per cent of those eligible do vote. But what would it do to actual policy when you have such a high proportion of poorly educated and ethnically disaffected poor people with existing entitlements which cause resentment amongst what was once middle America?
And here is an issue for serious empirical study. Why should a great concentration of wealth in the hands of the 1 per cent, or 5 per cent, or 0.1 per cent matter? It is perfectly clear that the very very rich don't consume significantly more of anything scarce or particularly valuable unless one counts the economically painless transfer or Titians and Tintorettos from one billionaired to another before ending up in a public gallery. It is obviously not impossible for a large super-rich class to so indulge themselves in competitive display by building palatial residences, private airstrips and golf courses and so on, that their country's economy is starved of attention and capital. But any suggestion that such a situation is to be found in the US needs to be demonstrated. It seems more likely that high taxes and regulatory burdens are adding so much to the cost of doing business in the US and even driving entrepreneurs to set up elsewhere, so that the owners of capital are not deploying it to the greatest advantage of US citizens. Yet that hypothesis doesn't stand well with the number of Australian software entrepreneurs who leave a country where it is very easy and quick to start a business doesn't have too punitive a tax regime to start or restart in California where public finances are such a threatening mess.
If the US then is still a good place to deploy one's capital in order to make a lot of money (and not do it entirely by Wall Street fiddles) and there are large concentrations of wealth which means large concentrations of investable capital what is the problem? Clearly it is what is being done to the average American of no special talent, intelligence, education or skill whose income is no longer supported by the advantages America had for many years after WW2 and is being suppressed by high immigration. To an outsider it is slightly less clear that the situation is made almost intolerable for the squeezed middle classes by tax burdens which are not fairly born by the very rich. It is perhaps a little more certain that the cost of living of the squeezed middle, including the absurdly high costs of health care, are inflated damagingly by the transfer payments to the under classes and elderly poor which don't give much benefit to the working poor unless one puts a high value on the contribution of their state sales taxes to the keeping of aggressive or hopeless young males in prison ..
China is not to blame for America's decline, America has to face its own ghosts; the 15 trillion dollars debt, the unemployment, inequality, huge military spending, endless wars that is what you have to confront.denk , says: Show Comment April 22, 2012 at 2:38 pm GMTBlaming others for Americas decline is not the solution. Be A man america and pick yourself,learn from your mistakes and move on
china is governed by engineers. amerika is ruled by banksters, lawyers. http://tinyurl.com/6n2f5hoAnonymous Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 22, 2012 at 7:29 pm GMTAnother blogger jumping on the bandwagon. So easy to say using numbers without any understanding that numbers don't rule the world – to the dismay of mathematicians everywhere.John Finnerty , says: Show Comment April 22, 2012 at 7:46 pm GMTNone of this takes into account that most of China's population lives in poverty. And if our own "War on Poverty" taught us anything is that their poor will remain poor for a very long time.
There's also no consideration that China is [still] a Communist country. This experiment simply gained them a bypass in the militarization highway. They needed to up their might quicker.
It doesn't take into consideration that their 5,000yo culture doesn't celebrate individuality -never has- and this means the creativity needed to push forth on the leaderboard is nonexistent. In fact, the most creative Chinese are those that come to the USA. You can't lead by proxy.
I am not amazed that the China-uber-allez belief is a conservative thing. Just by definition they cannot forecast the future. The future is full of X factors. X is at the core of America. Your insular perspective of what this nation is all about and what makes it tick make you the LAST ones who will decide where this country goes. I know you're just dying to sell it to someone else before the price goes down. But you, and some of your commentors, have no idea the self-contained power America holds.
PS: having lived in third world countries I can give you a warning if you're thinking of moving to Costa Rica or similar places. The people there don't like loaded-freeloaders. Most of your retirement will be spent on security. And just wait 'til you get your first emergency. Seriously, you're going to be waiting a good while. America still has the best GOVERNMENTAL services in the WORLD. Ouch I said the "G" word. Little known secret: Libertarians don't turn down fast rides to the hospital.
Never was a piece written so needed to be read. We are a one party country. We are totally failed by our media for the "most" part. God how is Corzine walking around . Why did no one on MSNBC challenge Obama on pulling out of Iraq. The Democratic Party promised in 96 if they got control of both Houses of Congress they would end Iraq. Where are you MSNBC, Ed, Rachel, "Mathews forget Mathews he's been in ther tank for either Party in the White House for years" and the loser on at 10 I can't even remember his name.Felipe , says: Show Comment April 24, 2012 at 3:49 am GMTThen the Attorney General has he arrested anybody? His only claim to work is the ridiculous suit again Sheriff Arpaio. Holder is beyond doubt the worst AG in decades.
Also finally again someone stated the wealth of the upper 1% compared to the bottom 95% . It is time to throw the bums out in both parties. Obama has got to go we need change even if it fails like him. We are in sad shape how many know friends working endless hours of over time not to be payed for it or hanging on not sure if their job will be there next Monday. It's sad how did they ruined our Country. Buchanan is canned for his book, because it's racist give me a break. Pathetic!!!
Interesting comments from folks. As one who left the U.S. in dismay and disgust at the depths to which the George W. Bush administration dragged the U.S. and at his election (not re-election since he was not elected in 2000 but appointed by the Supreme Court) in 2004 and one who returned a year ago mostly due to the hope engendered by Obama's election, I tend to be more optimistic about the U.S. but only if we are able to challenge the dark forces that keep the majority of U.S. voters in a state of ignorance and anxiety.Bob Arctor , says: Show Comment April 24, 2012 at 7:18 am GMTThe main challenge right now, as I see it, is to get a constitutional amendment passed that overturns the "Corporations are people, money is free speech" absurd court rulings as, if these are left to stand, will destroy the U.S. faster than a thermonuclear attack. The U.S. has overcome adversity before. We tend to solve problems pretty well when we know what they are and when we're agreed upon what they are. Right now, folks are puzzled and confused about the way forward. And the small size of Obama's successes are a testament not to failings on his part but to the appalling state of the system in which he's forced to operate and the enormous power of forces much bigger than he is. We are ruled by unelected corporations whose Boards pre-select candidates from whom we elect 'freely'.
We are all responsbible for allowing the system to deteriorate this far and for allowing its continuation. But America has come through before why all the doom and gloom now? As an aside, I agree with those who see our continuing and increasing diversity and large-scale immigration as our greatest strengths and these should be nurtured and treasured, not feared. Nobody ever moved forward from a position of fear. Fear can only lead us backward.
Felipe:Anonymous Disclaimer , says: Show Comment September 13, 2012 at 1:04 am GMTFunnily enough, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and and a score of European nations managed to build First World economies with negligible diversity. It's also rather peculiar that the much less diverse "America" of decades past had a much stronger economy than does modern day America, or that non-diverse China is progressing economically much, much faster than insanely diverse India.
It's almost as if diversity is utterly and completely worthless. I wonder why that is
From the CIA Factbook:Marie Arouet , says: Show Comment July 17, 2013 at 5:18 am GMTChina 91% "Han", 9% Other (Korean, TIbetan, & 53 others comprising a total population of 105 million people)
Languages: 7 major language groups (Jin, Wu, Yue, Min, Xiang, Hakka, Gan) comprising hundreds of dialects and sub-languagesUSA 80% White, 12% Black, 8% Other
Languages: 82% English, 10% Spanish, 8% OtherSo it seems to me that the USA is only slightly more "diverse" than China in percentage terms when you spell things out in terms of Black and White. However, looking at the cultural variations and especially language, it becomes quite clear that the designation of "Han Chinese" is as meaningful or meaningless as the designation "White American."
I agree however that a nation unable to cope with its own diversity and the challenges it presents by discarding bigotry is doomed to failure.
Mark Green , says: Website Show Comment February 5, 2014 at 6:31 am GMT
- http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/freepublications/en/intproperty/941/wipo_pub_941_2012.pdf
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12885271
Ron,
You might be interested to mention next time that China has overtaken the United States in patent filings, utility model patents, industrial design patents, trade mark filings, as well as scientific paper publications.
Hi Ron. That was yet another outstanding overview and analysis. Well done!Anonymous Disclaimer , says: Show Comment February 6, 2014 at 5:02 pm GMTYou have provided your readers a very nuanced view of the countless variables – some intangible, many virtually invisible – that propel a civilization forward, or even over a cliff. There's much to contemplate here. Thank you!
What makes a state fall is well described in "the rise and decline of great powers" and it is related with spending money on missiles and the like.Robert Anderson , says: Show Comment February 25, 2014 at 10:43 pm GMTWhen a state or country begins to spend more money than the amount she gets in return for the expenses, she is doomed. perhaps America will retain much of her power but she is doomed as far as i understand.
The US is an plutocracy, not a democracy.B-Real , says: Show Comment March 18, 2014 at 8:13 pm GMTA great analysis. The decline of the US and the rest of the west reminds me of the Fall of the Roman Empire, but I'll have to a little bit more reading to back that up.conatus , says: Show Comment June 5, 2014 at 2:41 pm GMTAnd by the way: Remember to be a little bit proud every day of the way you are spending your money. Sites like this is increasingly important in the Age of Misinformation.
Wow! only four comments! This is an eye opening essay. Our elite are lawyers and they manipulate, China's elite are engineers and they build things. Three trillion on Bush's stupid wars('fought for completely irrational reasons") and our non participating(no draft) populace quietly went along with the entire show! Why?redzengenoist , says: Show Comment June 12, 2014 at 9:03 am GMTMr. Unz said, "And since we live in a entertainment-dominated society, sentiments affirmed on then screen often have direct real-world consequences."
Double Wow or bow-wow, great point!
I also think we are encouraged NOT to participate in the Democratic process as that seems 'angry.' We are shown that in our entertainment.
People who complain about the way-things-are-now are party p0opers and impolite. The first media approved reaction is to scoff and then shun them.I also think the only safe topic 0f conversation around the water cooler is sports. Again, no politics allowed, unless you are an approved victim. But generally the major league sports of baseball, football and basketball are THE only thing you can talk about publicly, on which you can safely agree. The racial divisions we have created with our blessed multiculturalism, have starkly different interests and the differences are too real in the workplace to discuss them so we all act like Putnam's turtles and talk NFL training camp lingo.
As long as our GDP increases one per cent a year and six-packs of beer are available for Joe Six-pack, everything will be fine, but if the increase turns to a decrease watch out!
"Sweden is among the cleanest societies in Europe, while Sicily is perhaps the most corrupt. But suppose a large clan of ruthless Sicilian Mafiosi moved to Sweden and somehow managed to gain control of its government. On a day-to-day basis, little would change, with Swedish traffic policemen and building inspectors performing their duties with the same sort of incorruptible efficiency as before, and I suspect that Sweden's Transparency International rankings would scarcely decline. But meanwhile, a large fraction of Sweden's accumulated national wealth might gradually be stolen and transferred to secret Cayman Islands bank accounts, or invested in Latin American drug cartels, and eventually the entire plundered economy would collapse."Randal , says: Show Comment March 13, 2017 at 1:15 pm GMTIt's happening in Sweden, unfortunately.
In Iceland, it already happened, over a very short span of time. But the Icelandic native populace literally ejected them corporally from the govt. buildings, and now the heads of the major banks have been criminally sentenced and imprisoned, Iceland has the only PM to have been criminally convicted in the financial crisis. Dire predictions by other mafiosi of economic meltdown as a consequence of the "too big to fail" going to jail have yet to materialise, Iceland is doing fine.
Excellent piece.Agent76 , says: Show Comment March 13, 2017 at 7:15 pm GMTSome of the sources of Chinese success and American decay are not entirely mysterious. As it happens, the typical professional background of a member of China's political elite is engineering; they were taught to build things. Meanwhile, a remarkable fraction of America's political leadership class attended law school, where they were trained to argue effectively and to manipulate. Thus, we should not be greatly surprised that while China's leaders tend to build, America's leaders seem to prefer endless manipulation, whether of words, money, or people.
Great stuff.
It's also noticeable that when China creates a "crisis" it's by building new land, whereas the US creates crises by fomenting strife and bombing. Construction versus destruction seems to be a theme.
Aug 26, 2015 How the West Re-colonized China9/11 Inside job , says: Show Comment April 29, 2020 at 12:04 pm GMTThe "Chinese dragon" of the last two decades may be faltering but it is still hailed by many as an economic miracle.
Far from a great advance for Chinese workers, however, it is the direct result of a consolidation of power in the hands of a small clique of powerful families, families that have actively collaborated with Western financial oligarchs.
newsbud.com ;Johnny Walker Read , says: Show Comment April 29, 2020 at 1:50 pm GMT"The Rockefellers and Rothschilds in China :a long intimate relationship" :
"The history of Wall Street and Anglo-American finance in China is one that is rarely discussed in Western media or even academia , whereas knowing it would explain much about both China's stunning economic rise over the past 70 years ,as well as seemingly rising tensions between China and the US today."
I must say Ron made many good points and predictions in his article of several years ago. America has been a clown world of a one-party political system since the end of WWII.Never before has it been so obvious we have a government of, by, and for the rich corporate kleptocrat's who control every aspect of life in this country.
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Bookmark Toggle All ToC ▲ ▼ Add to Library Search Text Case Sensitive Exact Words Include Comments Search Clear CancelNearly 30,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus during the last two weeks, and by some estimates this is a substantial under-count, while the death-toll continues to rapidly mount. Meanwhile, measures to control the spread of this deadly infection have already cost 22 million Americans their jobs, an unprecedented economic collapse that has pushed our unemployment rates to Great Depression levels. Our country is facing a crisis as grave as almost any in our national history.
For many weeks President Trump and his political allies had regularly dismissed or minimized this terrible health threat, and suddenly now faced with such a manifest disaster, they have naturally begun seeking other culprits to blame.
The obvious choice is China, where the global epidemic first began in late 2019. Over the last week or two our media has been increasingly filled with accusations that the dishonesty and incompetence of the Chinese government played a major role in producing our own health catastrophe.
Even more serious charges are also being raised, with senior government officials informing the media that they suspect that the Covid-19 virus was developed in a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan and then carelessly released upon a vulnerable world. Such "conspiracy theories" were once confined to the extreme political fringe of the Internet, but they are now found in the respectable pages of my morning New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
Whether plausible or not, such accusations carry the gravest international implications, and there are growing demands that China financially compensate our country for its trillions of dollars in economic losses. A new global Cold War along both political and economic lines may soon be at hand.
I have no personal expertise in biowarfare technology, nor access to the secret American intelligence reports that seem to have been taken seriously by our most elite national newspapers. But I do think that a careful exploration of previous Sino-American clashes over the last couple of decades may provide some useful insight into the relative credibility of those two governments as well as that of our own media.
During the late 1990s, America seemed to reach the peak of its global power and prosperity, basking in the aftermath of its historic victory in the long Cold War, while ordinary Americans greatly benefited from the record-long economic expansion of that decade. A huge Tech Boom was at its height, and Islamic terrorism seemed a vague and distant thing, almost entirely confined to Hollywood movies. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the possibility of large scale war seemed to have dissipated so political leaders boasted of the "peace dividend" that citizens were starting to enjoy as our huge military forces, built up over nearly a half-century, were downsized amid sweeping cuts in the bloated defense budget. America was finally returning to a regular peacetime economy, with the benefits apparent to everyone.
At the time, I was overwhelmingly focused on domestic political issues, so I only paid slight attention to our one small military operation of that period, the 1999 NATO air war against Serbia, intended to safeguard the Kosovo Albanians from ethnic cleansing and massacre, a Clinton Administration project that I fully endorsed.
Although our limited bombing campaign seemed quite successful and soon forced the Serbs to the bargaining table, the short war did include one very embarrassing mishap. The use of old maps had led to a targeting error that caused one of our smart bombs to accidentally strike the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, killing three members of its delegation and wounding dozens more. The Chinese were outraged by this incident, and their propaganda organs began claiming that the attack had been deliberate, a reckless accusation that obviously made no logical sense.
In those days I watched the PBS Newshour every night, and was I shocked to see their U.S. Ambassador raise those absurd charges with host Jim Lehrer, whose disbelief matched my own. But when I considered that the Chinese government was still stubbornly denying the reality of its massacre of the protesting students in Tiananmen Square a decade earlier, I concluded that unreasonable behavior by PRC officials was only to be expected. Indeed, there was even some speculation that China was cynically milking the unfortunate accident for domestic reasons, hoping to stoke the sort of jingoist anti-Americanism among the Chinese people that would finally help bind the social wounds of that 1989 outrage.
Such at least were my thoughts on that matter more than two decades ago. But in the years that followed, my understanding of the world and of many pivotal events of modern history underwent the sweeping transformations that I have described in my American Pravda series . And some of my 1990s assumptions were among them.
Consider, for example, the Tiananmen Square Massacre, which every June 6th still evokes an annual wave of harsh condemnations in the news and opinion pages of our leading national newspapers. I had never originally doubted those facts, but a year or two ago I happened to come across a short article by journalist Jay Matthews entitled "The Myth of Tiananmen" that completely upended that apparent reality.
According to Matthews the infamous massacre had likely never happened, but was merely a media artifact produced by confused Western reporters and dishonest propaganda, a mistaken belief that had quickly become embedded in our standard media storyline, endlessly repeated by so many ignorant journalists that they all eventually believed it to be true. Instead, as near as could be determined, the protesting students had all left Tiananmen Square peacefully, just as the Chinese government had always maintained. Indeed, leading newspapers such as the New York Times and the Washington Post had occasionally acknowledged these facts over the years, but usually buried those scanty admissions so deep in their stories that few ever noticed. Meanwhile, the bulk of the mainstream media had fallen for an apparent hoax.
ORDER IT NOWMatthews himself had been the Beijing Bureau Chief of the Washington Post , personally covering the protests at the time, and his article appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review , our most prestigious venue for media criticism. This authoritative analysis containing such explosive conclusions was first published in 1998, and I find it difficult to believe that many reporters or editors covering China have remained ignorant of this information, yet the impact has been absolutely nil. For over twenty years virtually every mainstream media account I have read has continued to promote the Tiananmen Square Massacre Hoax, usually implicitly but sometimes explicitly.
Even more remarkable were the discoveries I made regarding our supposedly accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in 1999. Not long after launching this website, I added former Asia Times contributor Peter Lee as a columnist, incorporating his China Matters blogsite archives that stretched back for a decade. He soon published a 7,000 word article on the Belgrade Embassy bombing, representing a compilation of material already contained in a half-dozen previous pieces he'd written on that subject from 2007 onward. To my considerable surprise, he provided a great deal of persuasive evidence that the American attack on the Chinese embassy had indeed been deliberate, just as China had always claimed.
According to Lee, Beijing had allowed its embassy to be used as a site for secure radio transmission facilities by the Serbian military, whose own communications network was a primary target of NATO airstrikes. Meanwhile, Serbian air defenses had shot down an advanced American F-117A fighter, whose top-secret stealth technology was a crucial U.S. military secret. Portions of that enormously valuable wreckage were carefully gathered by the grateful Serbs, who delivered it to the Chinese for temporary storage at their embassy prior to transport back home. This vital technological acquisition later allowed China to deploy its own J20 stealth fighter in early 2011, many years sooner than American military analysts had believed possible.
Based upon this analysis, Lee argued that the Chinese embassy was attacked in order to destroy the Serbian retransmission facilities located there, while punishing the Chinese for allowing such use. There were also widespread rumors in China that another motive had been an unsuccessful attempt to destroy the stealth debris stored within. Later Congressional testimony revealed that the among all the hundreds of NATO airstrikes, the attack on the Chinese embassy was the only one directly ordered by the CIA, a highly-suspicious detail.
I was only slightly familiar with Lee's work, and under normal circumstances I would have been very cautious in accepting his remarkable claims against the contrary position universally held by all our own elite media outlets. But the sources he cited completely shifted that balance.
Although the American media dominates the English-language world, many British publications also possess a strong global reputation, and since they are often much less in thrall to our own national security state, they have sometimes covered important stories that were ignored here. And in this case, the Sunday Observer published a remarkable expose in October 1999, citing several NATO military and intelligence sources who fully confirmed the deliberate nature of the American bombing of the Chinese embassy, with a US colonel even reportedly boasting that their smartbomb had hit the exact room intended.
This important story was immediately summarized in the Guardian , a sister publication, and also covered by the rival Times of London and many of the world's other most prestigious publications, but encountered an absolute wall of silence in our own country. Such a bizarre divergence on a story of global strategic importance -- a deliberate and deadly US attack against Chinese diplomatic territory -- drew the attention of FAIR, a leading American media watchdog group, which published an initial critique and a subsequent follow-up . These two pieces totaled some 3,000 words, and effectively summarized both the overwhelming evidence of the facts and also the heavy international coverage, while reporting the weak excuses made by top American editors to explain their continuing silence. Based upon these articles, I consider the matter settled.
Few Americans remember our 1999 attack upon the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and if not for the annual waving of a bloody June 6th flag by our ignorant and disingenuous media, the "Tiananmen Square Massacre" would also have long since faded from memory. Neither of these events has much direct importance today, at least for our own citizens. But the broader media implications of these examples do seem quite significant.
These incidents represented two of the most serious flashpoints between the Chinese and American governments during the last thirty-odd years. In both cases the claims of the Chinese government were entirely correct, although they were denied by our own top political leaders and dismissed or ridiculed by virtually our entire mainstream media. Moreover, within a few months or a year the true facts became known to many journalists, even being reported in fully respectable venues. But that reality was still completely ignored and suppressed for decades, so that today almost no American whose information comes from our regular media would even be aware of it. Indeed, since many younger journalists draw their knowledge of the world from these same elite media sources, I suspect that many of them have never learned what their predecessors knew but dared not mention.
Most leading Chinese media outlets are owned or controlled by the Chinese government, and they tend to broadly follow the government line. Leading American media outlets have a corporate ownership structure and often boast of their fierce independence; but on many crucial matters, I think the actual reality is not so very different from that in China.
I tend to doubt that Chinese leaders have any overwhelming commitment to the truth, and the reasons for their greater veracity are probably practical ones. American news and entertainment completely dominate the global media landscape and they face no significant domestic rival. So China recognizes that it is vastly outmatched in any propaganda conflict, and as the far weaker party must necessarily try to stick closer to the truth, lest its lies be immediately exposed. Meanwhile, America's overwhelming control over global information may inspire considerable hubris, with the government sometimes promoting the most outrageous and ridiculous falsehoods in the confident belief that a supportive American media will cover for any mistakes.
These considerations should be kept in mind as we attempt to sift the accounts of our often unreliable and dishonest media in hopes of extracting the true circumstances of the current coronavirus epidemic. Unlike careful historical studies, we are working in real-time and our analysis is greatly hindered by the ongoing fog of war, so that any conclusions are necessarily very preliminary ones. But given the high stakes, such an attempt seems warranted.
When my morning newspapers first began mentioning the appearance of a mysterious new illness in China during mid-January, I paid little attention, absorbed as I was in the aftermath of our sudden assassination of Iran's top military leader and the dangerous possibility of a yet another Middle Eastern war. But the reports persisted and grew, with deaths occurring and evidence growing that the viral disease could be transmitted between humans. China's early conventional efforts seemed unsuccessful in halting the spread of the disease.
Then on Jan. 23rd and after only 17 deaths, the Chinese government took the astonishing step of locking down and quarantining the entire 11 million inhabitants of the city of Wuhan, a story that drew worldwide attention. They soon extended this policy to the 60 million Chinese of Hubei province, and not longer afterward shut down their entire national economy and confined 700 million Chinese to their homes, a public health measure probably a thousand times larger than anything previously undertaken in human history. So either the China's leadership had suddenly gone insane, or they regarded this new virus as an absolutely deadly national threat, one that needed to be controlled at any possible cost.
Given these dramatic Chinese actions and the international headlines that they generated, the current accusations by Trump Administration officials that China had attempted to minimize or conceal the serious nature of the disease outbreak is so ludicrous as to defy rationality. In any event, the record shows that on December 31st, the Chinese had already alerted the World Health Organization to the strange new illness, and Chinese scientists published the entire genome of the virus on Jan. 12th, allowing diagnostic tests to be produced worldwide.
Unlike other nations, China had received no advance warning of the nature or existence of the deadly new disease, and therefore faced unique obstacles. But their government implemented public health control measures unprecedented in the history of the world and managed to almost completely eradicate the disease with merely the loss of a few thousand lives. Meanwhile, many other Western countries such as the US, Italy, Spain, France, and Britain dawdled for months and ignored the potential threat, and have now suffered well over 100,000 dead as a consequence, with the toll still rapidly mounting. For any of these nations or their media organs to criticize China for its ineffectiveness or slow response represents an absolute inversion of reality.
Some governments took full advantage of the early warning and scientific information provided by China. Although nearby East Asian nations such as South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore had been at greatest risk and were among the first infected, their competent and energetic responses allowed them to almost completely suppress any major outbreak, and they have suffered minimal fatalities. But America and several European countries avoiding adopting these same early measures such as widespread testing, quarantine, and contact-tracing, and have paid a terrible price for their insouciance.
A few weeks ago British Prime Minister Boris Johnson boldly declared that his own disease strategy for Britain was based upon rapidly achieving "herd immunity" -- essentially encouraging the bulk of his citizens to become infected -- then quickly backed away after his desperate advisors recognized that the result might entail a million or more British deaths.
By any reasonable measure, the response to this global health crisis by China and most East Asian countries has been absolutely exemplary, while that of many Western countries has been equally disastrous. Maintaining reasonable public health has been a basic function of governments since the days of the city-states of Sumeria, and the sheer and total incompetence of America and most of its European vassals has been breathtaking. If the Western media attempts to pretend otherwise, it will permanently forfeit whatever remaining international credibility it still possesses.
I do not think these particular facts are much disputed except among the most blinkered partisans, and the Trump Administration probably recognizes the hopelessness of arguing otherwise. This probably explains its recent shift towards a far more explosive and controversial narrative, namely claiming that Covid-19 may have been the product of Chinese research into deadly viruses at a Wuhan laboratory, which suggests that the blood of hundreds of thousands or millions of victims around the world will be on Chinese hands. Dramatic accusations backed by overwhelming international media power may deeply resonate across the globe.
News reports appearing in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times have been reasonably consistent. Senior Trump Administration officials have pointed to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a leading Chinese biolab, as the possible source of the infection, with the deadly virus having been accidentally released, subsequently spreading first throughout China and later worldwide. Trump himself has publicly voiced similar suspicions, as did Secretary of State and former CIA Director Mike Pompeo in a FoxNews interview. Private lawsuits against China in the multi-trillion-dollar range have already been filed by rightwing activists and Republican senators Tom Cotton and Lindsey Graham have raised similar governmental demands.
I obviously have no personal access to the classified intelligence reports that have been the basis of these charges by Trump, Pompeo, and other top administration officials. But in reading these recent news accounts, I noticed something rather odd.
ORDER IT NOWBack in January, few Americans were paying much attention to the early reports of an unusual disease outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan, which was hardly a household name. Instead, overwhelming political attention was focused on the battle over Trump's impeachment and the aftermath of our dangerous military confrontation with Iran. But towards the end of that month, I discovered that the fringes of the Internet were awash with claims that the disease was caused by a Chinese bioweapon accidentally released from that same Wuhan laboratory, with former Trump advisor Steve Bannon and ZeroHedge , a popular right-wing conspiracy-website, playing leading roles in advancing the theory. Indeed, the stories became so widespread in those ideological circles that Sen. Tom Cotton, a leading Republican Neocon, began promoting them on Twitter and FoxNews, thereby provoking an article in the NYT on those "fringe conspiracy theories."
I suspect that it may be more than purely coincidental that the biowarfare theories which erupted in such concerted fashion on small political websites and Social Media accounts back in January so closely match those now publicly advocated by top Trump Administration officials and supposedly based upon our most secure intelligence sources. Perhaps a few intrepid citizen-activists managed to replicate the findings of our multi-billion-dollar intelligence apparatus, and did so in days while the latter required weeks or months. But a more likely scenario is that the wave of January speculation was driven by private leaks and "guidance" provided by exactly the same elements that today are very publicly leveling similar charges in the elite media. Initially promoting controversial theories in less mainstream outlets has long been a fairly standard intelligence practice.
Regardless of the origins of the idea, does it seem plausible that the coronavirus outbreak might have originated as an accidental leak from that Chinese laboratory? I am not privy to the security procedures of Chinese government facilities, but applying a little common sense may shed some light on that question.
Although the coronavirus is only moderately lethal, apparently having a fatality rate of 1% or less, it is extremely contagious, including during an extended pre-symptomatic period and also among asymptomatic carriers. Thus, portions of the US and Europe are now suffering heavy casualties, while the policies adopted to control the spread have devastated their national economies. Although the virus is unlikely to kill more than a small sliver of our population, we have seen to our dismay how a major outbreak can so easily wreck our entire economic life.
During January, the journalists reporting on China's mushrooming health crisis regularly emphasized that the mysterious new viral outbreak had occurred at the worst possible place and time, appearing in the major transport hub of Wuhan just prior to the Lunar New Year holiday, when hundreds of millions of Chinese would normally travel to their distant family homes for the celebration, thereby potentially spreading the disease to all parts of the country and producing a permanent, uncontrollable epidemic. The Chinese government avoided that grim fate by the unprecedented decision to shut down its entire national economy and confine 700 million Chinese to their own homes for many weeks. But the outcome seems to have been a very near thing, and if Wuhan had remained open for just a few days longer, China might easily have suffered long-term economic and social devastation.
The timing of an accidental laboratory release would obviously be entirely random. Yet the outbreak seems to have begun during the precise period of time most likely to damage China, the worst possible ten-day or perhaps thirty-day window. As I noted in January, I saw no solid evidence that the coronavirus was a bioweapon, but if it were, the timing of the release seemed very unlikely to have been accidental.
If the virus was released intentionally, the context and motive for such a biowarfare attack against China could not be more obvious. Although our disingenuous media continues to pretend otherwise, the size of China's economy surpassed that of our own several years ago, and has continued to grow much more rapidly. Chinese companies have also taken the lead in several crucial technologies, with Huawei becoming the world's leading telecommunications equipment manufacturer and dominating the important 5G market. China's sweeping Belt and Road Initiative has threatened to reorient global trade around an interconnected Eurasian landmass, greatly diminishing the leverage of America's own control over the seas. I have closely followed China for over forty years, and the trend-lines have never been more apparent. Back in 2012, I published an article bearing the provocative title "China's Rise, America's Fall?" and since then I have seen no reason to reassess my verdict.
China's Rise, America's Fall Which superpower is more threatened by its "extractive elites"? Ron Unz • The American Conservative, April 17, 2012 • 7,000 WordsFor three generations following the end of World War II, America had stood as the world's supreme economic and technological power, while the collapse of the Soviet Union thirty years ago left us as the sole remaining superpower, facing no conceivable military rival. A growing sense that we were rapidly losing that unchallenged position had certainly inspired the anti-China rhetoric of many senior figures in the Trump Administration, who launched a major trade war soon after coming into office. The increasing misery and growing impoverishment of large sections of the American population naturally left these voters searching for a convenient scapegoat, and the prosperous, rising Chinese made a perfect target.
Despite America's growing economic conflict with China over the last couple of years, I had never considered the possibility that matters might take a military turn. The Chinese had long ago deployed advanced intermediate range missiles that many believed could easily sink our carriers in the region, and they had also generally improved their conventional military deterrent. Moreover, China was on quite good terms with Russia, which itself had been the target of intense American hostility for several years; and Russia's new suite of revolutionary hypersonic missiles had drastically reduced any American strategic advantage. Thus, a conventional war against China seemed an absolutely hopeless undertaking, while China's outstanding businessmen and engineers were steadily gaining ground against America's decaying and heavily-financialized economic system.
Under these difficult circumstances, an American biowarfare attack against China might have seemed the only remaining card to play in hopes of maintaining American supremacy. Plausible deniability would minimize the risk of any direct Chinese retaliation, and if successful, the terrible blow inflicted to China's economy would set it back for many years, perhaps even destabilizing its social and political system. Using alternative media to immediately promote theories that the coronavirus outbreak was the result of a leak from a Chinese biowarfare lab was a natural means of preempting any later Chinese accusations along similar lines, thereby allowing America to win the international propaganda war before China had even begun to play.
A decision by elements of our national security establishment to wage biological warfare in hopes of maintaining American world power would certainly have been an extremely reckless act, but extreme recklessness has become a regular aspect of American behavior since 2001, especially under the Trump Administration. Just a year earlier we had kidnapped the daughter of Huawei's founder and chairman, who also served as CFO and ranked as one of China's most top executives, while at the beginning of January we suddenly assassinated Iran's top military leader.
These were the thoughts that entered my mind during the last week of January once I discovered the widely circulating theories suggesting that China's massive disease epidemic had been the self-inflicted consequence of its own biowarfare research. I saw no solid evidence that the coronavirus was a bioweapon, but if it were, China was surely the innocent victim of the attack, presumably carried out by elements of the American national security establishment.
Soon afterward, someone brought to my attention a very long article by an American ex-pat living in China who called himself "Metallicman" and held a wide range of eccentric and implausible beliefs. I have long recognized that flawed individuals can often serve as the vessels of important information otherwise unavailable, and this case constituted a perfect example. His piece denounced the outbreak as a likely American biowarfare attack, and provided a great wealth of factual material I had not previously considered. Since he authorized republication elsewhere I did so, and his 15,000 word analysis , although somewhat raw and unpolished, began attracting an enormous amount of readership on our website, probably being one of the very first English-language pieces to suggest that the mysterious new disease was an American bioweapon. Many of his arguments appeared doubtful to me or have been obviated by later developments, but several seemed quite telling.
He pointed out that during the previous two years, the Chinese economy had already suffered serious blows from other mysterious new diseases, although these had targeted farm animals rather than people. During 2018 a new Avian Flu virus had swept the country, eliminating large portions of China's poultry industry, and during 2019 the Swine Flu viral epidemic had devastated China's pig farms, destroying 40% of the nation's primary domestic source of meat, with widespread claims that the latter disease was being spread by mysterious small drones. My morning newspapers had hardly ignored these important business stories, noting that the sudden collapse of much of China's domestic food production might prove a huge boon to American farm exports at the height of our trade conflict, but I had never considered the obvious implications. So for three years in a row, China had been severely impacted by strange new viral diseases, though only the most recent had been deadly to humans. This evidence was merely circumstantial, but the pattern seemed highly suspicious.
The writer also noted that shortly before the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, that city had hosted 300 visiting American military officers, who came to participate in the 2019 Military World Games , an absolutely remarkable coincidence of timing. As I pointed out at the time, how would Americans react if 300 Chinese military officers had paid an extended visit to Chicago, and soon afterward a mysterious and deadly epidemic had suddenly broken out in that city? Once again, the evidence was merely circumstantial but certainly raised dark suspicions.
Scientific investigation of the coronavirus had already pointed to its origins in a bat virus, leading to widespread media speculation that bats sold as food in the Wuhan open markets had been the original disease vector. Meanwhile, the orchestrated waves of anti-China accusations had emphasized Chinese laboratory research on that same viral source. But we soon published a lengthy article by investigative journalist Whitney Webb providing copious evidence of America's own enormous biowarfare research efforts, which had similarly focused for years on bat viruses. Webb was then associated with MintPress News , but that publication had strangely declined to publish her important piece, perhaps skittish about the grave suspicions it directed towards the US government on so momentous an issue. So without the benefit of our platform, her major contribution to the public debate might have attracted relatively little readership.
Around the same time, I noted another extremely strange coincidence that failed to attract any interest from our somnolent national media. Although his name had meant nothing to me, in late January my morning newspapers carried major stories on the sudden arrest of Prof. Charles Lieber, one of Harvard University's top scientists and Chairman of its Chemistry Department, sometimes characterized as a potential future Nobel Laureate.
The circumstances of that case seemed utterly bizarre to me. Like numerous other prominent American academics, Lieber had had decades of close research ties with China, holding joint appointments and receiving substantial funding for his work. But now he was accused of financial reporting violations in the disclosure portions of his government grant applications -- the most obscure sort of offense -- and on the basis of those accusations, he was seized by the FBI in an early-morning raid on his suburban Lexington home and dragged off in shackles, potentially facing years of federal imprisonment.
Such government action against an academic seemed almost without precedent. During the height of the Cold War, numerous American scientists and technicians were rightfully accused of having stolen our nuclear weapons secrets for delivery to Stalin, yet I had never heard of any of them treated in so harsh a manner, let alone a scholar of Prof. Lieber's stature, who was merely charged with technical disclosure violations. Indeed, this incident recalled accounts of NKVD raids during the Soviet purges of the 1930s.
ORDER IT NOWAlthough Lieber was described as a chemistry professor, a few seconds of Googling revealed that some of his most important work had been in virology, including technology for the detection of viruses. So a massive and deadly new viral epidemic had broken out in China and almost simultaneously, a top American scholar with close Chinese ties and expertise in viruses was suddenly arrested by the federal government, yet no one in the media expressed any curiosity at a possible connection between these two events.
I think we can safely assume that Lieber's arrest by the FBI had been prompted by the concurrent coronavirus epidemic, but anything more is mere speculation. Those now accusing China of having created the coronavirus might surely suggest that our intelligence agencies discovered that the Harvard professor had been personally involved with that deadly research. But I think a far more likely possibility is that Lieber began to wonder whether the epidemic in China might not be the result of an American biowarfare attack, and was perhaps a little too free in voicing his suspicions, thereby drawing the wrath of our national security establishment. Inflicting such extremely harsh treatment upon a top Harvard scientist would greatly intimidate all of his lesser colleagues elsewhere, who would surely now think twice before broaching certain controversial theories to any journalist.
By the end of January, our webzine had published a dozen articles and posts on the coronavirus outbreak, then added many more by the middle of February. These pieces totaled tens of thousands of words and attracted a half million words of comments, probably representing the primary English-language source for a particular perspective on the deadly epidemic, with this material eventually drawing many hundreds of thousands of pageviews. A few weeks later, the Chinese government began gingerly raising the possibility that the coronavirus may have been brought to Wuhan by the 300 American military officers visiting that city, and was fiercely attacked by the Trump Administration for spreading anti-American propaganda. But I strongly suspect that the Chinese had gotten that idea from our own publication.
As the coronavirus gradually began to spread beyond China's own borders, another development occurred that greatly multiplied my suspicions. Most of these early cases had occurred exactly where one might expect, among the East Asian countries bordering China. But by late February Iran had become the second epicenter of the global outbreak. Even more surprisingly, its political elites had been especially hard-hit, with a full 10% of the entire Iranian parliament soon infected and at least a dozen of its officials and politicians dying of the disease, including some who were quite senior . Indeed, Neocon activists on Twitter began gleefully noting that their hatred Iranian enemies were now dropping like flies.
Let us consider the implications of these facts. Across the entire world the only political elites that have yet suffered any significant human losses have been those of Iran, and they died at a very early stage, before significant outbreaks had even occurred almost anywhere else in the world outside China. Thus, we have America assassinating Iran's top military commander on Jan. 2nd and then just a few weeks later large portions of the Iranian ruling elites became infected by a mysterious and deadly new virus, with many of them soon dying as a consequence. Could any rational individual possibly regard this as a mere coincidence?
Biological warfare is a highly technical subject, and those possessing such expertise are unlikely to candidly report their classified research activities in the pages of our major newspapers, perhaps even less so after Prof. Lieber was dragged off to prison in chains. My own knowledge is nil. But in mid-March I came across several extremely long and detailed comments on the coronavirus outbreak that had been posted on a small website by an individual calling himself "OldMicrobiologist" and who claimed to be a retired forty-year veteran of American biodefense. The style and details of his material struck me as quite credible, and after a little further investigation I concluded that there was a high likelihood his background was exactly as he had described. I made arrangements to republish his comments in the form of a 3,400 word article , which soon attracted a great deal of traffic and 80,000 words of further comments.
Although the writer emphasized the lack of any hard evidence, he said that his experience led him to strongly suspect that the coronavirus outbreak was indeed an American biowarfare attack against China, probably carried out by agents brought into that country under cover of the Military Games held at Wuhan in late October, the sort of sabotage operation our intelligence agencies had sometimes undertaken elsewhere. One important point he made was that high lethality was often counter-productive in a bioweapon since debilitating or hospitalizing large numbers of individuals may impose far greater economic costs on a country than a biological agent which simply inflicts an equal number of deaths. In his words "a high communicability, low lethality disease is perfect for ruining an economy," suggesting that the apparent characteristics of the coronavirus were close to optimal in this regard. Those so interested should read his analysis and judge for themselves his possible credibility and persuasiveness.
Was coronavirus a Biowarfare Attack Against China? OldMicrobiologist • March 13, 2020 • 3,400 WordsOne intriguing aspect of the situation was that almost from the first moment that reports of the strange new epidemic in China reached the international media, a large and orchestrated campaign had been launched on numerous websites and Social Media platforms to identify the cause as a Chinese bioweapon carelessly released in its own country. Meanwhile, the far more plausible hypothesis that China was the victim rather than the perpetrator had received virtually no organized support anywhere, and only began to take shape as I gradually located and republished relevant material, usually drawn from very obscure quarters and often anonymously authored. So it seemed that only the side hostile to China was waging an active information war. The outbreak of the disease and the nearly simultaneous launch of such a major propaganda campaign may not necessarily prove that an actual biowarfare attack had occurred, but I do think it tends to support such a theory.
When considering the hypothesis of an American biowarfare attack, certain natural objections come to mind. The major drawback to biological warfare has always been the obvious fact that the self-replicating agents employed will not respect national borders, thus raising the serious risk that the disease might eventually return to the land of its origin and inflict substantial casualties. For this reason, it seems very doubtful that any rational and half-competent American leadership would have unleashed the coronavirus against China.
But as we see absolutely demonstrated in our daily news headlines, America's current government is grotesquely and manifestly incompetent , more incompetent than one could almost possibly imagine, with tens of thousands of Americans having now already paid with their lives for such extreme incompetence. Rationality and competence are obviously nowhere to be found among the Deep State Neocons that President Donald Trump has appointed to so many crucial positions throughout our national security apparatus.
Moreover, the extremely lackadaisical notion that a massive coronavirus outbreak in China would never spread back to America might have seemed plausible to individuals who carelessly assumed that past historical analogies would continue to apply. As I wrote a few weeks ago:
Reasonable people have suggested that if the coronavirus was a bioweapon deployed by elements of the American national security apparatus against China (and Iran), it's difficult to imagine why the they didn't assume it would naturally leak back in the US and start a huge pandemic here, as is currently happening.
The most obvious answer is that they were stupid and incompetent, but here's another point to consider
In late 2002 there was the outbreak of SARS in China, a related virus but that was far more deadly and somewhat different in other characteristics. The virus killed hundreds of Chinese and spread into a few other countries before it was controlled and stamped out. The impact on the US and Europe was negligible, with just a small scattering of cases and only a death or two.
So if American biowarfare analysts were considering a coronavirus attack against China, isn't it quite possible they would have said to themselves that since SARS never significantly leaked back into the US or Europe, we'd similarly remain insulated from the coronavirus? Obviously, such an analysis was foolish and mistaken, but would it have seemed so implausible at the time?
As some must have surely noticed, I have deliberately avoided investigating any of the scientific details of the coronavirus. In principle, an objective and accurate analysis of the characteristics and structure of the virus might help suggest whether it was entirely natural or rather the product of a research laboratory, and in the latter case, perhaps whether the likely source was China, America, or some third country.
But we are dealing with a cataclysmic world event and those questions obviously have enormous political ramifications, so the entire subject is shrouded by a thick fog of complex propaganda, with numerous conflicting claims being advanced by interested parties. I have no background in microbiology let alone biological warfare, so I would be hopelessly adrift in evaluating such conflicting scientific and technical claims. I suspect that this is equally true of the overwhelming majority of other observers as well, although committed partisans are loathe to admit that fact, and will eagerly seize upon any scientific argument that supports their preferred position while rejecting those that contradict it.
Therefore, by necessity, my own focus is on evidence that can at least be understood by every layman, if not necessarily always accepted. And I believe that the simple juxtaposition of several recent disclosures in the mainstream media leads to a rather telling conclusion.
For obvious reasons, the Trump Administration has become very eager to emphasize the early missteps and delays in the Chinese reaction to the viral outbreak in Wuhan, and has presumably encouraged our media outlets to direct their focus in that direction.
As an example of this, the Associated Press Investigative Unit recently published a rather detailed analysis of those early events purportedly based upon confidential Chinese documents. Provocatively entitled "China Didn't Warn Public of Likely Pandemic for 6 Key Days" , the piece was widely distributed, running in abridged form in the NYT and elsewhere. According to this reconstruction, the Chinese government first became aware of the seriousness of this public health crisis on Jan. 14th, but delayed taking any major action until Jan. 20th, a period of time during which the number of infections greatly multiplied.
Last month, a team of five WSJ reporters produced a very detailed and thorough 4,400 word analysis of the same period, and the NYT has published a helpful timeline of those early events as well. Although there may be some differences of emphasis or minor disagreements, all these American media sources agree that Chinese officials first became aware of the serious viral outbreak in Wuhan in early to mid-January, with the first known death occurring on Jan. 11th, and finally implemented major new public health measures later that same month. No one has apparently disputed these basic facts.
But with the horrific consequences of our own later governmental inaction being obvious, sources within our intelligence agencies have sought to demonstrate that they were not the ones asleep at the switch. Earlier this month, an ABC News story cited four separate government sources to reveal that as far back as late November, a special medical intelligence unit within our Defense Intelligence Agency had produced a report revealing than an out-of-control disease epidemic was occurring in the Wuhan area of China, and widely distributed that document throughout the top ranks of our government, warning that steps should be taken to protect US forces based in Asia. After the story aired, a Pentagon spokesman officially denied the existence of that November report, while various other top level government and intelligence officials refused to comment. But a few days later, Israeli television revealed that in November American intelligence had indeed shared such a report on the Wuhan disease outbreak with its NATO and Israeli allies, thus seeming to independently confirm the complete accuracy of the original ABC story and its several government sources.
ORDER IT NOWIt therefore appears that elements of the Defense Intelligence Agency were aware of the deadly viral outbreak in Wuhan more than a month before any officials in the Chinese government itself. Unless our intelligence agencies have pioneered the technology of precognition, I think this may have happened for the same reason that arsonists have the earliest knowledge of future fires.
Back in February, before a single American had died from the disease, I wrote my own overview of the possible course of events, and I would still stand by it today:
Consider a particularly ironic outcome of this situation, not particularly likely but certainly possible
Everyone knows that America's ruling elites are criminal, crazy, and also extremely incompetent.
So perhaps the coronavirus outbreak was indeed a deliberate biowarfare attack against China, hitting that nation just before Lunar New Year, the worst possible time to produce a permanent nationwide pandemic. However, the PRC responded with remarkable speed and efficiency, implementing by far the largest quarantine in human history, and the deadly disease now seems to be in decline there.
Meanwhile, the disease naturally leaks back into the US, and despite all the advance warning, our totally incompetent government mismanages the situation, producing a huge national health disaster, and the collapse of our economy and decrepit political system.
As I said, not particularly likely, but certainly a very fitting end to the American Empire
Related Reading:
The Myth of Tiananmen by Jay Matthews China's Rise, America's Fall Was Coronavirus a Biowarfare Attack Against China? by OldMicrobiologist Bats, Gene Editing and Bioweapons: Recent Darpa Experiments Raise Concerns Amid Coronavirus Outbreak by Whitney Webb How It All Began: the Belgrade Embassy Bombing by Peter Lee
Ozymandias , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:43 am GMT
Otto von Komsmark , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:07 am GMTBut their government implemented public health control measures unprecedented in the history of the world and managed to almost completely eradicate the disease with merely the loss of a few thousand lives
And if you can't trust China's numbers, who can you trust?
The timing of an accidental laboratory release would obviously be entirely random. Yet the outbreak seems to have begun during precise period of time most likely to damage China
It almost sounds like putting a virus lab in the middle of twelve million people was a bad idea.
Lol. I can't believe you're doubling down on this jackassery.
Ron Unz has done it again!! Good job, I've always thought the standard "Wuhan lab leak" theory seemed flawedOtto von Komsmark , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:10 am GMTMr Unz, also have you read David Cole's theory on this (at TakiMag)? I know you and him got in blog beef a couple years ago over your Pravda article on Holocaust, but his theory also criticized the Wuhan "lab leak" and believes the wet markets originated the virus while the state lab was trying to cover up the "natural market" zoonotic mess. Would be fun to (again) watch you 2 debate notes.Tor597 , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:13 am GMTIf I had told you a year ago that Iran would have its top General assassinated and then its country decimated by a viral infection, that China would be a world pariah with calls for trillion in reparations, that Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela would have a bounty on his head for lol being involved in the cocaine trade, and that Kim Jong Un would be dead who do you think would be the architect of this future?Mustapha Mond , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:19 am GMTChinese elites or American ones?
American neocons are literally getting everything they want.
You can look at all of the damage to the American economy relative to China, but who is really being hurt in America? Regular Americans are being hurt. But the elites are getting bailed out and will buy US assets for pennies on the dollar.
"When considering the hypothesis of an American biowarfare attack, certain natural objections come to mind. The major drawback to biological warfare has always been the obvious fact that the self-replicating agents employed are not prone to respect national borders, raising the serious risk that the disease might eventually return to the land of its origin and inflict substantial casualties. For this reason, it seems quite doubtful that any rational and half-competent American leadership would have unleashed the coronavirus against China."Ozymandias , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:26 am GMTUnless, of course, those in power knew exactly what that 'blowback' would entail, as they had modeled it over and over, for years, maybe decades.
They would be in a position to crash the stock market (and get out at the very top), assure a new alliance between the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury (allowing the elites to use the American taxpayers to fund their losses indefinitely), destroy the middle and lower classes through government ordered 'lockdowns' (driving down wages yet again, and making Americans frightened, unemployed and angry, and thereby easily mislead like in the 9/11 aftermath), create a world political environment allowing medical tyranny to make universal yearly vaccines and mandatory microchipping of everyone acceptable to the masses (ala Bill Gates/Tony Fauci/WHO and their Pig Pharma vaccine brigade), drop the price of oil indefinitely to fatally weaken Iran, hurt Russia and allow our predator capitalist banks to scoop up the failing US shale oil industry for pennies (which they are fully preparing to do), and ultimately allow the elites to perfectly time the inevitable deflation of the world's derivatives bubble, further sending the commoners into complete panic mode (and making their primal fears easily directed against the Western world's now common enemy, the Red Yellow Hordes.)
Doesn't sound very 'incompetent' to me. Sounds like utterly evil, but undeniably brilliant, military-economic planning. And it is looking like they may pull this one off, just like 9/11, and get the scared and terminally gullible Western plebes on board for their own further destruction economically, politically, and very possibly physically.
End Result: the PTB get to blame China for everything; make China foot the bill (or else); and when China balks, prepare the West's gullible, easily controlled citizens for military conflict if the Chinese don't roll over and cough up to the West's satisfaction.
Incompetence?
Sure looks to me like a neoliberal zionist-neocon elitist wet dream come true ..
@Otto von Komsmark If you believe that the virus originated in a wet market, what's your theory on why China immediately allowed wet markets to open back up (albeit with guards posted to prevent pics). Are they just exceptionally slow learners or do they realize that the wet market theory was always bogus?swamped , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:39 am GMT" the Chinese government began gingerly raising the possibility that the coronavirus may have been brought to Wuhan by the 300 American military officers visiting that city, and was fiercely attacked by the Trump Administration for spreading anti-American propaganda. But I strongly suspect that the Chinese had gotten that idea from our own publication" not at all improbable since said publication has a very deep current of slavish devotion to the Chinese state; such that one might even strongly suspect that the publication is getting its ideas from the Chinese totalitarians as much as the other way round. But since 'false flag' theories are another popular concept in such discussions, it might be conceivable that the human rights regime in Beijing deliberately released the mystery bug in China & Iran first, in order to throw suspicion on the U.S. The Chinese & Iranian tallies so far have been surprisingly low despite starting there earlier, so if they're not suppressing the facts, maybe they knew what to expect & were prepared. And the brunt of it would then be borne by their Western 'adversaries'. Not to mention, that the Chinese despots could reinforce their iron grip on Chinese society with their customary contempt for civil liberties. China's "current government is grotesquely and manifestly" incompatible with personal freedom, more incompatible than "one could almost possibly imagine", with tens of millions of Uighurs, Tibetans, dissidents, workers having now already paid with their lives & freedom for such extreme incompatibility.Jim Jatras , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:43 am GMT
"Rationality and competence are obviously nowhere to be found among the Deep State Neocons that President Donald Trump has appointed to so many crucial positions throughout our national security apparatus" and certainly rationality, competence, humanity are never to be found among Neo-cons anywhere. The President has been wise to largely ignore them. If Trump had been President in '99, it's very likely that the absolutely unnecessary, devastating war on Serbia by Hillary & Bill – based on deliberate lies – would never have gotten off the ground.
President Trump now faces the daunting dilemma of how to protect the society while at the same time not displaying the same disdain for political & civic freedom that is the hallmark of the CCP. An end to America Empire would be a good thing – the President knows that, as he again reiterated the trillions misspent in the M.E. at his daily press conference today – but this isn't the way to do it. Only a Chinese communist or fellow traveler could believe that."At the time, I was overwhelmingly focused on domestic political issues, so I only paid slight attention to our one small military operation of those years, the 1999 NATO air war against Serbia, intended to safeguard the Bosnian Muslims from ethnic cleansing and massacre, a Clinton Administration project that I fully endorsed." And why should one believe our government and media about "safeguard(ing) the Bosnian Muslims from ethnic cleansing and massacre" any more than one should believe their other lies?TG , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:44 am GMTFor most of this post, I can't say one way or the other. I personally think this was either the result of the so-called "wet-markets" in China – long known to be the primary source of the annual flu epidemics (why the heck haven't they been shut down??) or a criminally NEGLIGENT release from a research lab.CanSpeccy , says: Website Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:48 am GMTBut.
"China recognizes that it is vastly outmatched in any propaganda conflict, and so as the far weaker party must necessarily try to stick closer to the truth, lest its lies be immediately exposed. Meanwhile, America's overwhelming control over information may lead to considerable hubris, with the government sometimes promoting the most outrageous and ridiculous falsehoods in the confident belief that a supportive American media will cover for any mistakes."
OUCH! Good one. Nicely said.
Tor597 , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:50 am GMTNearly 30,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus during the last two weeks, and by some estimates this is a substantial under-count
Quoted numbers of deaths are as unreliable as the number of infections.
Cause of death as stated in a death certificate is often, and even usually, wrong, and during an epidemic caused by a virus that induces respiratory difficulty it is likely that virtually all deaths due to respiratory dysfunction will be attributed to the virus without confirmatory evidence.
Furthermore, virtually all deaths of persons testing positive for covid19 will be attributed to the virus even though the deceased may have had multiple other diseases, any one of which could have been the cause of death.
But as this epidemic is shaping up, it is likely that the estimated death toll will be comparable to that of the seasonal flu in a bad year. Herd immunity is likely now widespread, so the thing should fizzle out soon, with or without continued population incarceration.
Unz, just wanted to say that it has been quite a ride to read this blog during the outbreak.CanSpeccy , says: Website Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:03 am GMTStuff we talked about 2 months ago is starting to trickle out into the mainstream with the appropriate spin of course.
There really is no other place where alternative views such as your get a proper viewing.
Getaclue , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:05 am GMTBoris Johnson boldly declared that his own coronavirus plan for Britain was based upon rapidly achieving "herd immunity" -- essentially encouraging the bulk of his citizens to become infected -- then quickly backed away after his desperate advisors recognized that the result might entail a million or more British deaths.
LOL. Neil Ferguson an Imperial College epidemiologist with an awesomely bad track record in predicting the course of epidemics, made some such prediction which he soon modified to a very much smaller number – 20,000 I believe, a number not yet reached.
In fact, the original plan was abandoned for fear that unrestricted spread of the virus would result in a concentration of infections, which at the peak, would overload hospitals by that minority of cases requiring hospital treatment.
@Ozymandias Seems they could and did: https://fromrome.info/2020/03/26/rai-in-2015-reported-that-the-chinese-had-developed-covid-19/anon [257] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:10 am GMTNot just NWO ChiCom China of course– they're just the tool, the NWO "Elites"/Globalists, who shipped USA Manufacturing to China and destroyed the Middle Class in the USA etc., have made China the "Model" for us all -- "Social Credit Scores" for the Peons, an authoritarian "Party" of "Elites" with all power, Peons having to get a "green" signal on their cell phones every time they go outside . -- NWO Globalist "Elites" actually running the CVirus show/"Production"/911 "Event" Part 2 -- "Invisible Terrorists Forever"– meanwhile most "journalists" are cheering the loss of freedoms and anyone who points out what is going on wants to "kill Grandma" is "Selfish" it's all about on a Junior High School level but after getting away with 911 Demolition anyone not a rube, grifter/or in on it knew they'd be back to finish it off– and so they are here with the Plandemic:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/elite-covid-19-coup-against-terrified-humanity-resisting-powerfully/5709479Side note: Interesting the Mainslime Media is not all over China's Racism towards Blacks as evidenced in their Ad here against "Diversity" and "Race Mixing"– they aren't kidding! Seems ChiComs can do what YT could never .: https://twitter.com/sadir_Palwan/status/1250570077163925509
All of it laid out on the Walls of the creepy NWO/Masonic Denver Airport: https://thechive.com/2012/03/08/something-is-rotten-in-the-denver-airport-25-photos/
Rothschild Magazine too: https://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/order-out-of-chaos-how-the-elites-plans-were-foretold-in-popular-culture/
Grossly unfair to blame the Trump administration for the depredations of the deep state.Hippopotamusdrome , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:17 am GMTJeremygg5 , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:28 am GMT"The Myth of Tiananmen"
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The Nanjing protests were groundbreaking dissidence for China and went from solely expressing concern about alleged [sic] improprieties by African men to increasingly calling for democracy or human rights. They were paralleled by burgeoning demonstrations in other cities during the period between the Nanjing and the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, with some elements of the original protests that started in Nanjing still evident in Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, such as banners proclaiming "Stop Taking Advantage of Chinese Women" even though the vast majority of African students had left the country by that point.
@OzymandiasCanSpeccy , says: Website Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:28 am GMTAnd if you can't trust China's numbers, who can you trust?
It's very true that China's numbers is perhaps the best numbers that you could trust.
Moritz Kraemer, a scholar at Oxford University who is leading a team of researchers in mapping the global spread of the coronavirus, says China's data "provided incredible detail," including a patient's age, sex, travel history and history of chronic disease, as well as where the case was reported, and the dates of the onset of symptoms, hospitalization and confirmation of infection.
The United States, he said, "has been slow in collecting data in a systematic way.". The article not only showing the chaotic situation in different states, but highlights the limited information shared with scientific community.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/coronavirus-data-privacy.htmlThe WHO too only had high praises for China's transparency and efficiency.
The only parties challenging these are Trump, Mike Pompeo, and the US Intelligence. Make a pick who to trust.
nsa , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:29 am GMTBut in mid-March I came across several extremely long and detailed comments on the coronavirus outbreak that had been posted on a small website by an individual calling himself "OldMicrobiologist" and who claimed to be a retired forty-year veteran of American biodefense. The style and details of his material struck me as quite credible, and after a little further investigation I concluded that there was a high likelihood that his background was exactly as he had described. I made arrangements to republish his comments in the form of a 3,400 word article, which soon attracted a great deal of traffic and 80,000 words of further comments.
Although the writer said that he had absolutely no proof, he said that his experience led him to strongly suspect that the coronavirus outbreak was indeed an American biowarfare attack against China, probably carried out by agents brought into that country under cover of the Military Games held at Wuhan in late October, the sort of sabotage operation our intelligence agencies had sometimes undertaken elsewhere.
Oh God, that crap again. Some geezer who may or may not have any relevant expertise, had a suspicion, but absolutely no proof, of a goofy theory that to launch a biowarfare attack on China the US Government had the brilliant idea of having the agent released by a contingent of 300 American soldiers participating in the international military games held in Wuhan, China.
Is that a stupid idea, or what?
And anyhow, there is evidence just published in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences that the viral epidemic in China did not begin in Wuhan and, furthermore, it began earlier than originally believed, i.e., before the Military Games.
But we are dealing with a cataclysmic world event
Not really. Just a new disease out of China, one of many from China since the year dot, which has a lethality comparable to the seasonal flu. The event is cataclysmic only because of the economic consequences of the public policy response in most Western states, though not Sweden.
@Ozymandias Hey Ozy, The Australians claimed to have suffered only 120 wu-wu virus deaths total. The South Koreans claim only 250 wu-wu deaths total. In Ozy world, are they liars too along with the Chinese? Or is it possible they have a functional public health system and moderately competent politicians who decided to fix the wu-wu virus problem .instead of playing golf and bullshitting the public for six weeks. The wu-wu virus death total in the essential exceptional nation is now 42,000 and rising. No other country is even close. It's like Trumpie heard the experts advise "fatten the curve" instead of "flatten the curve".Anonymous [886] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:36 am GMTSo, you "fully endorsed" Clinton Administration 1999 NATO air war against Serbia, and you don't even know that it wasn't "intended to safeguard the Bosnian Muslims from ethnic cleansing and massacre",Hail , says: Website Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:38 am GMT
because war in Bosnia was already done long before 1999 (war finished in 1995).thordaddy , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:42 am GMTthe Tiananmen Square Massacre Hoax
a year or two ago I happened to come across a short article by journalist Jay Matthews entitled "The Myth of Tiananmen" that completely upended that apparent reality.
According to Matthews the infamous massacre had likely never happened, but was merely a media artifact produced by confused Western reporters and dishonest propaganda, a mistaken belief that had quickly become embedded in our standard media storyline, endlessly repeated by so many ignorant journalists that they all eventually believed it to be true.
the protesting students had all left Tiananmen Square peacefully, just as the Chinese government had always maintained.
the bulk of the mainstream media had fallen for an apparent hoax.
This is like saying the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre was a hoax because most of the deaths occurred overnight, past midnight, no longer St. Bartholomew's Day, ergo "the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre" was a Hoax. Throwing the baby out with a technicality.
Checking the Jay Matthews story, I see this:
Hundreds of people, most of them workers and passersby, did die that night, but in a different place and under different circumstances.
The Chinese government estimates more than 300 fatalities. Western estimates are somewhat higher. Many victims were shot by soldiers on stretches of Changan Jie, the Avenue of Eternal Peace, about a mile west of the square, and in scattered confrontations in other parts of the city
And now back to the local scene There is no "there" there .Nils , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:45 am GMTMany things to discussMike-SMO , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:45 am GMTRegarding SARS inability to spread further, that's why the glycoprotein 120 was added: it's an external protein they borrowed from HIV and CRISPR'd onto the Covid-19.
Interesting enough by including this mechanism in the novel virus they have perhaps laid the ground for future AIDS type syndromes in those who get the virus or some variant of it. That's another topic deserving it's own crowd funded public research.
Much of the suddenly far reaching effects of this novel virus derive from the advent of CRISP technology and the ability to fuse different parts of virus into one. Of course, zoonotic transmission still needs to occur hence all the special grants to Wuhan Institute and North Carolina in doing this type of research, going out and collecting the special virus out of bat shit 600 miles away from Wuhan in caves in remote China, and feeding it to pigs and chimps who die and the process is repeated until a stable virus is developed.
Interesting enough Dr Fauci is an expert on HIV and specifically glycoprotein 120. He's worked to run private trial tests while working in the government probably for his Fort Detrick buddies.
Everyone reading this article and still intrigued for more information out to check out two key players that researching the origins of the virus and it's likely bioengineered origins:
George Webb on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/embed/NdMt8bHfQKM?feature=oembed
Dr. Paul Cottrell on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/embed/x9_gY43iIns?feature=oembed
This virus has links to Fauci, research at Fort Detrick, as well as research carried out in North Carolina and Wuhan that was paid for by grants from Fauci while running major government groups.
It appears part of this operation utilized the NATO transport network for transporting deadly diseases and nuclear material. In fact, one such courier was in Wuhan as an American cyclist for the military games
But I digress.
The blowback part Ron mentions being the consequence of stupidity from the government are possible but I think unlikely. If you follow parallel developments in geopolitics and, specifically, finance (not withstanding all of Bill Gates work with companies to have a vaccine ready to go ), you'll see perhaps the makings of a grand conspiracy to (1) cement the strength of the dollar and (2) sequester Chinese economic growth and power all at once.
For this to work most of the government would not know what's going on and that probably includes Trump. Plus, what better way to hide culpability than to inflict a wound on yourself?
For links to articles discussing this topic see below:
https://thesaker.is/strengthening-the-us-dollar-comments-on-ramin-mazaheri/
Everyone is enjoying the screaming and paranoia but China (East Asia) has been producing new and "wonderful" diseases for several thousand years. They used to have bacterial variations but in the last few centuries have moved to designer viruses.Anonymous [785] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:45 am GMTSouth China has wall-to-wall rice paddies where wild and migratory animals feed, drink and sh*t with farm animals under the care of a billion or so humans with primitive concepts of sanitation and minimal, to no, modern healthcare, so "rare" or "unlikely" bug mutations and species "jumps" are just a matter of time. The wild birds of China Summer in Siberia and Alaska with all the other birds of the world. The "Real" Globalism ..
The appearance of Corona variants in Kazhakstan, Iran, the Gulf States, and Israeli ckickens, or the appearance of "pig flu" in Mexico, or the Spanish Flu (1918?) in Kansas, all under major bird migratory routes, should not be too much of a surprise. Even if a US, UN or Chinese agency finds it. Be aware that this used to happen before Boeing and AirBus joined the game.
Be careful cleaning the poop off your windshield and/or yard furniture.
Damn flying dinosaurs are dangerous. If you find some poop with a "made in China" label, call the authorities. They will love the warning about the poison from a flying Chinese Communist dragon.
Tl;drutu , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:58 am GMTThe coronavirus is serial! Thooper serial! Look at all these in depth political analyses and ignore the facts in plain view!
Blowback is a particularly telling choice of word, since I remember Noam Chomsky using the same term. He used it to add weight to the official 9/11 story by claiming the events were a direct result of US foreign policy, which re-enforced the Muslim terrorist angle and stopped people from looking for the real culprits.
Ron, when exactly did you republish the Metallicman's blog? The following seems to imply that it was in late January:Anon [605] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:59 am GMTThese were the thoughts that came to mind during the last week of January ..
At that point, .a very long article by an American ex-pat living in China who called himself "Metallicman" .
and the date under the title is January 27 but the first comment was on February 14.
Another great installment in the American Pravda series. I use to work in the federal government and always wondered why employees of the Nationals Archives* needed a top secret U.S. government clearance and why employees of Presidential libraries needed to have the same security clearance as a nuclear submarine commander (top secret- sensitive compartmented information). What secrets could there possibly be from 60 years ago?? Then it dawned on me that it could never be known by the general public how their country behaves toward other countries and why and how we go to war. We would lose all faith in our government.Vaterland , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 6:04 am GMTI have only one small correction:
[Charles Lieber] was seized by the FBI in an early-morning raid on his Cambridge home and dragged off in shackles, potentially facing decades of federal imprisonment.
He lives in a wooded suburban neighborhood in Lexington, MA, not in the city of Cambridge.
On the one hand a bio-warfare attack on China is something I can absolutely see the American elites post 9/11 do. Their track-record speaks for itself.Seraphim , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 6:04 am GMTThere have also been significant shifts in Europe's alignment, on which US global dominance critically depends: the continuation of Northstream 2 against the explicit wishes of the Americans, 5 G expansion and Huawei cooperation in the European market, plans of replacing NATO with a European army (talks on the fringe of the right about a defense pact with Russia), the Belt and Road trillion dollar project which has its better European name as "The New Silk Road". Eurasian integration goes directly against the global dominance strategy of the US Empire. Europe is also now caught between an intense and visible propaganda warfare of the USA and China/Russia.
And there were also the proxy-war in Ukraine and the refugee crisis: the latter at minimum a fallout of US-Israeli wars in the Middle East and the Zionist assault against Libya; yet not unlikely itself a direct assault against Europe. And not only Willy Wimmer, closest adviser to our old chancellor Helmut Kohl, strongly suspected as much already back in 2015. Wimmer had been part of several war games in Langley in his time in the German government, quite clearly reasoning that in modern warfare you cannot initiate a conflict without knowing where the refugees will go – it is part of the planning process.
There also exists this paper:
https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/strategic-engineered-migration-weapon-warOn the other hand we must recognize the long term and massive investments of for example Blackrock and Vanguard into China; the ambitions to liberalize Chinese society and further open their economy for foreign, especially US investments; the attempts of Zionism to set up shop in China; the key role of Israel in the Belt and Road project and the admiration the Chinese have for Jews and their material success.
If it was a bio-warfare attack and if the ambition is to lock the USA and China in a new Cold War with potential proxy wars, then Americas financial and Jewish elite, which so very much dominate the deep state neocons, must be of the opinion that their profits will not be affected by it.
And if it was the long-term plan of Zionism and much of Americas financial, largely Jewish, elite to shift their power-base from the USA which they have effectively subjugated to the less secured China, then a bio-warfare attack would hardly be a smart move to keep the transition as quiet as possible.
@if American biowarfare analysts were considering a coronavirus attack against China, isn't it quite possible they would have said to themselves that since SARS never significantly leaked back into the US or Europe, we'd similarly remain insulated from the coronavirus? Obviously, such an analysis was foolish and mistaken, but would it have seemed so implausible at the time?Christopher Marlowe , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 6:05 am GMTAlbert Einstein: "Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results".
Moreover, in establishing whether a crime was committed, the criminal investigation has to establish first that there was a motive, the means and the opportunity to commit the crime. All these criteria are satisfied in this case pointing to a biological attack against China and its allies.
The possibility of biowarfare (and its desirability) was unequivocally formulated in September 2000 when the 'Project for the New American Century' released "Rebuilding America's Defenses", a report that promotes "the belief that America should seek to preserve and extend its position of global leadership by maintaining the preeminence of U.S. military forces." The report also states, "advanced forms of biological warfare that can "target" specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool".
The first bioweapons research program was initiated in America by Sir Frederick Banting with corporate sponsorship in 1940.
From Wikipedia (no secrets): In 1942 "U.S. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson requested that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) undertake consideration of U.S. biological warfare. In response the NAS formed a committee, the War Bureau of Consultants (WBC), which issued a report on the subject in February 1942.The report, among other items, recommended the research and development of an offensive biological weapons program.
The British, and the research undertaken by the WBC, pressured the U.S. to begin biological weapons research and development and in November 1942 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt officially approved an American biological weapons program. In response to the information provided by the WBC, Roosevelt ordered Stimson to form the War Research Service (WRS). Established within the Federal Security Agency, the WRS' stated purpose was to promote "public security and health", but, in reality, the WRS was tasked with coordinating and supervising the U.S. biological warfare program. In the spring of 1943 the U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories were established at Fort (then Camp) Detrick in Maryland".
The Chinese read their James Bond: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action".It doesn't make sense to me that the US would fly drones over chinese pig farms half way around the world in order to infect half the pigs in China with African swine flu.Octavian , says: Website Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 6:12 am GMT
Smithfield is the largest producer of pork in the US. Smithfield is owned by a Chinese firm. So China is making up for their lack of domestic pork by buying their own US pork. How would this risky venture benefit the US? Yet this was the accusation labelled against the US by many Chinese. With zero proof.The timing of this pandemic is very beneficial to the deep state, and the MSM is hyping the heck out of it; and the CDC et al are pumping up the numbers to make it seems as bad as possible. It's like they WANT a global pandemic. To crash the market and make DJT look bad? That is what the Biden for drooling pres campaign videos are hyping already.
If there is a germ war going on, it is China doing it to its communist shit-hole self. I don't know why anybody trades with them. The Chinese state literally kills Uyghurs and Falun Gong and steals their organs, but they have favored nation trading status? wtf
Interesting take.anon [227] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 6:14 am GMTIt is fairly congruent with my own writeup from a few weeks back. Although I did not go so far as to definitively endorse any particular theory. The idea of this all being an American strike on China is the interesting hypothesis to me and fits my understanding of how America's geopolitical toolbox might work best. There is also a case to be made that the blowback stateside is a feature not a bug.
The United States could come out ahead in terms of the great game with China. But only if it can play its cards correctly.
Ultimately, what enough people think about this whole situation is what will define outcomes and right now things are on track for the bulk of the Chinese population to think that this is an American attack and for a significant number of Americans to believe that this is either accidental or deliberate Chinese action.
I think those popular attitudes are very valuable to their respective governments.
It's not helpful to onshore blame.
Thanks for another engaging article!
Devil's advocacy is always an important intellectual activity, but you seemed to have pretty much pointed out the hole in your grand theory yourself.Miro23 , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 6:20 am GMTIf we're going to imagine the US gov't apparatus is competent enough to start the virus in China, one would have to presume (if their collective IQ's approach anywhere near 90) that they would also set up for the contingency that it might come to the US too.
Imagining otherwise is akin to thinking the US top brass have the intelligence of some of those bonehead crooks who sometimes make the news for their stupid (and funny) attempts at crime. The US top brass might be dumb, but c'mon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn5CvDgaZSc
mike99588 , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 6:34 am GMTI think we can safely assume that Lieber's arrest by the FBI had been prompted by the coronavirus epidemic, but anything more is mere speculation. Those now accusing China of having created the coronavirus might surely suggest that our intelligence agencies discovered that the Harvard professor had been personally involved with that deadly research. But I think a far more likely possibility is that Lieber began to wonder whether the epidemic in China might not be the result of an American biowarfare attack, and was perhaps a little too free in voicing his suspicions, thereby drawing the wrath of our national security establishment.
Or alternatively, who would a laboratory whistleblower turn to other than a respected Harvard professor, who would understand the technical aspects, and who he may actually already have known and trusted?
Thus, we have America assassinating Iran's top military commander on Jan. 2nd and then just a few weeks later large portions of the Iran's ruling elites became infected by a mysterious and deadly new virus, with many of them soon dying as a consequence. Could any rational individual possibly regard this as a mere coincidence?
An irresistible add-on like Larry Silverstein's extra insurance cover and payout.
One intriguing aspect of the situation was that almost from the first moment that reports of the strange new epidemic in China reached the international media, a large and orchestrated campaign had been launched on numerous websites and Social Media to identify the cause as a Chinese bioweapon carelessly released in its own country.
Again similar to 9/11 with an instant media explanation trumpeted around the world (no investigation necessary).
It therefore appears that elements of the Defense Intelligence Agency were aware of the deadly viral outbreak in Wuhan more than a month before any officials in the Chinese government itself. Unless our intelligence agencies have pioneered the technology of precognition, I think this may have happened for the same reason that arsonists have the earliest knowledge of future fires.
Agreed – they really messed it up – and it would be a world class irony if it was their own virus that wrecks the US economy.
The Chinese embassy in Serbia is an interesting side story. However, as much as I disagreed with why we were there, another Clinton abuse of office, China was apparently participating as a combatant providing crucial signals support to the Serbian military. Topped off by handling sensitive F117 residuals that we wanted destroyed. Or perhaps only some of US, given various conflicts of interests in both Clinton globalism and sharing/planned obsolescence by arms makers .antitermite , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 6:35 am GMTCV19
The "US did it" is a possibility that certainly should be addressed in the continuum of many possibilities. I certainly would look for linkages between BHO administration/Gates/academia/DeepGreen/China. China certainly does not act innocent, covering up the early patients' stories and physical evidence a la our JFK scale.As for US incompetence, the globalist media favors CCP; liberalism; Big Tech; Big Medicine; the Democratic Party; along with the O/Clintonista FDA and CDC, have done everything possible to hamstring accurate CV19 information amongst the citizenry, and specifically against Trump. Huge TDS.
Months of near total shutdown on IV vitamin C, bowel tolerance dosing of vitamin C, high dose vitamin D, quercetin and orthomolecular cocktails for prophylaxis and treatment. As well as censorship and savage attacks on people trying to evolve the HCQ+AZM+zinc cocktail.
A few loose thoughts, firstly that China accusation is one of the most egregious exhibitions of chutzpah by the western government & media.SolontoCroesus , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 6:54 am GMT
Trial by media, if you will.
We now have ignoramuses spouting that "China has exterminated 21 million virus carriers" despite rational economic explanation of the phenomenon https://www.tweaktown.com/news/71555/21-million-chinese-phone-users-vanished-not-attributed-to-coronavirus/index.htmlProf Lieber's greatest "crime" is probably because he is responsible for saving untold numbers of potential infectees, at least in the early stages
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2004/10/sensor-detects-identifies-single-viruses/
ie his work on virus detection & identification is why the Chinese government was able to deal with the pandemic so quickly & effectively.A bioweapon does Not have to have a high bodycount to work as intended; weapons of mass destruction – even nukes (despite western brainwashing that they "ended WWII") – have very few military applications and primarily target civilians.
Their main effect is disruption & demoralisation; in this Covid-19 has succeeded beyond possible expectations.The USA has patents for coronaviruses going back to 2003, post-SARS:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7220852B1/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/US10130701B2/en
https://patents.justia.com/patent/10130701
Whilst these are Not the Covid-19 variant, it goes to show that they can indeed be vat-grown.
Even should the current coronavirus be a natural mutation, it can still be weaponised.
Many of the most fearsome pathogens such as smallpox, anthrax and the bubonic plague are also natural-born killers. Supposedly they have been eradicated from the face of the planet, safely existing only in military laboratories around the globe, for research purposes of course.The circumstantial evidence that Cov19 is a bioattack is enormous, and the likelihood of US origin is pretty damning. The US government will be desperate to point fingers everywhere else, and is using the tried&tested trial by media +obfuscation, rather than logic and reasoning.
If hard proof of US culpability manifests then the appropriate level of China's response will be "nuclear" (I don't mean actual nukes, but something like dumping US treasury bonds).Gaius Gracchus , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 6:59 am GMTMeanwhile, the disease naturally leaks back into the US
How?
Is there specific information tracing this "leak" to China?
Is it possible -- is it even conceivable -- that the same logic that you detailed to tip the scales in favor of US biowarfare against China can also suggest that the bioweapon did not "naturally leak" into the US but was deliberately deployed against the people of the United States?
Follow the money: the goal of (speculated) biowar against China was, as you wrote, not to kill but to economically devastate a formidable competitor-turned-adversary (same thing the US has been doing to Iran by sanctions since at least 1995 with Clinton's executive order, made permanent by the D'Amato Iran Libya Sanctions Act).
The goal of biowar against the people of the USA is to cripple the economy, to Weimarize American commerce and enable those left standing to scoop up the life's work and investment of millions of entrepreneurs for pennies on the dollar, with the added travesty that those left standing are supplied with dollars by the very taxpayers whose assets are being snapped up!
The Chinese government lied and continues to lie about the virus.Daniel Rich , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 7:01 am GMTThe Wuhan leadership knew in mid December and arrested doctors who leaked the info and destroyed lab records.
Xi likely knew no later than January 1.
There are thousands of wet markets in southern China and SE Asia, but only the one a short walk from the Wuhan Institute of Virology allegedly was the source.
Chinese researchers worked in America to develop this exact virus, adding HIV to SARS, and left in 2015 to work in Wuhan.
Chinese national was arrested in 2018 in Detroit while carrying live SARS and MERS viruses.
Chinese scientists working in Canada were kicked out in 2019 for shipping stolen biological material to Wuhan.
It was developed in the lab, but I suspect the release was accidental. The cover up and letting the virus spread around the world was intentional.
Xi is fighting to maintain power. He might not succeed
The US government did fund the research of those Chinese researchers at UNC. They continued to fund them in China.
China's economy had already stalled. Then it lost the trade war. Banks were failing. Foreign companies were moving out. Xi used the opportunity of the virus to avoid the disaster of economic collapse and to hurt the rest of the world after the Century of Humiliation, China would rather take the rest of the world down rather than go down alone.
@ Ron Unz,Hail , says: Website Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 7:07 am GMTAlthough nearby East Asian nations such as South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore had been at greatest risk and were among the first infected, their competent and energetic responses .
Japan's reaction to the Corona virus is/was not competent and energetic, unless you want to count the way how the Japanese government dealt with the cruise ship 'Diamond Princess' as a resounding success. Send army recruits without protection to the ship, start with 10 patients, quarantine the entire ship, end up with 765 infected individuals, and then send people [tourists] home. I live on one of the 4 big islands and there is no lock down here. Below is a picture I took just now [what they refer to as a Junior High School], Tuesday, 21 April, 2020 ~16:00 P.M. fro the window of my apartment.
Judge for yourself.
No masks. No distance. No governmental guidance. Japan is run by bureaucrats and it shows.
Thanks for the article. It was a pleasure to read.
Thulean Friend , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 7:20 am GMTAccording to this reconstruction, the Chinese government first became aware of the seriousness of this public health crisis on Jan. 14th, but delayed taking any major action until Jan. 20th, a period of time during which the number of infections greatly multiplied.
This also fits in with an alternative explanation, which is admittedly wild but which I would say is considerably less wild than the bioweapon-blowback theory:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/for-want-of-a-nail/#comment-3847340
[MORE]J.Ross has proposed [ ] this whole thing may be a Chinese Communist Party 'Hoax,' in the sense that while the 'new' virus is real (there are always 'new viruses'), the reaction was at least 1000x what was necessary to deal with a bad flu strain and that China played it up to scare people, especially the US. China's actions (mass shutdown) triggered a series of events that scared everyone. But none of the data we have corroborate the Mass Killer Apocalypse Virus fears. So what was this?
[This] theory would have it that the CCP's sudden about-face on The New Virus -- a literally overnight about-face [Jan. 20] from "not a big deal" to "shut down a region with 60 million people, cue the Virus Apocalypse Movie film reels and the hazmat suits" -- was a calculated bid to hurt the US and to hurt Western economies. By the time of the unexpected about-face, they had 100% certainty it had spread to the US and elsewhere, AND that these countries had the kind of media that would go into hysteria mode AND had the technological capacity to do "testing."
This theory would attribute to the CCP a calculated bid to create a false virus panic with plausible deniability ("so sorry! we didn't have the data! it was early; we reacted the best we could; and hey even the highly-neutral WHO are calling us heroes") which would scare people and trigger a series of events that throw the US and its satellites in Western Europe into chaos, making the latter easier pickings for Belt & Road and Huawi colonization, etc.; countries dazed by a mass-hysteria-recession are suddenly beggars, not choosers.
The Chinese Communist Party's calculation would have been, on that fateful 'about-face' evening, that the West was much less ready to handle a panic than Communist China would be. It was a risk to them but it worked.
If this theory is right, in fact, the CCP succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. A case of the dog finally catching the car bumper; what the heck now? The results for China's regime itself are unclear, given that the cynical triggering of mass-hysteria-recessions in major trading partners equates to a drought that sinks all boats.
The alternative, and many would say more plausible theory, is that the Chinese Communist Party panicked, too, and reacted highly irrationally, taking a sledgehammer to a handful of mosquitoes and then salting the earth where the flattened bodies of the mosquitoes landed. Or a synthesis of the two may be true. It's hard to disentangle motivations. But the unexplained 'about-face' is real and needs explanation.
In the end, does it matter? Even if we take the more innocuous version at face value: the virus had nothing to do with bioweapons and simply mutated naturally from bats to humans, the response of the West has been utterly atrocious either way.utu , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 7:23 am GMTWe're now seeing a Yellow Peril 2.0 campaign ramped up at astonishing speed. The so-called "liberal class", posturing as tolerant and sophisticated, is now trying to run on Trump's right flank on China. Joe Biden's campaign ads on China are Cold War-style cariactures.
I've been seeing the consequences play out even in neutral places. I frequent quite a few technology-related subreddits and the unmitigated hatred of China is truly a sight to be hold. Even the most tangential topics get hijacked by zealots. For all the talk about how the media's power is supposedly dimishing, the cattle is still very much influenced by what the MSM tells them to think.
On a related note, I find this article to be great: https://thegrayzone.com/2020/04/20/trump-media-chinese-lab-coronavirus-conspiracy/
I hope Unz can syndicate some stories from The Grayzone, which I find to be the only publication on the left which isn't in thrall with the DNC. Even Democracy Now! and Jacobin are pushing state department scare stories on China. The total collapse of the American left over the last 10-15 years is a greatly undertold story.
The alleged report by National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) is the most damning piece of evidence if the report does exist. Here is the official denial:Pft , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 7:25 am GMThttps://www.nationalreview.com/news/pentagon-bashes-bombshell-abc-report-denies-u-s-intel-identified-coronavirus-threat-in-november/
Colonel R. Shane Day, a medical doctor and director of the NCMI, issued a rare public statement to deny the existence of the report."As a matter of practice, the National Center for Medical Intelligence does not comment publicly on specific intelligence matters," Day said. "However, in the interest of transparency during this current public health crisis, we can confirm that media reporting about the existence/release of a National Center for Medical Intelligence Coronavirus-related product/assessment in November of 2019 is not correct. No such NCMI product exists."
So we are in the "Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied." territory.
What is important is not that Channel 12 (in Israel) followed the ABC article but that it added an extra bit of information which was not in the original ABC article that the report was passed to Israel and that the IDF held a first discussion about it still in November.
Fooling some ABC reporter by offering her Trump damaging leak that Trump knew but did nothing could be easy but getting a confirmation from Israel where presumably sources in the IDF had to be involved it does not seem as a simple get Trump operation.
I don't think people understand the extent of collaboration between US and China including Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) , It actually goes back to the early 1980's with cooperation between USAMIID and WIV on Hanta Viruses. More recently extensive collaboration between China and US on gain of function studies and virus hunting, especially with corona viruses from bats. Ralph Baric UNC and Shih Zhengli from Wuhan have published papers together . Funding of joint studies from USAMIID, NIAID, DARPA. NIH, etc. George Gao the Director of Chinese CDC participated in the Event 201 simulation. There are many more ties. Google Wuhan Biolake -a lot of global biotech companies there.BPVegas , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 7:25 am GMTI dont think anyone can know the extent of the disease in China. After all a super spreading virus from as early as November circulating in heavily polluted Wuhan, a city more populated than NYC , which was also a major domestic and international transportation hub with millions leaving the city for other destinations in China and internationally in the weeks before Wuhan was locked down just before the New Year when everything shuts down for 2 weeks anyways. And yet the disease only spreads to Europe and US but not to any degree outside Hubei province? Not believable.
And as for US deaths from COVID-19 being undercounted. Where is the evidence for that. CDC has basically informed everyone to count a case as COVID based on suspicions (no positive test needed). If a heart disease patient of 80 years old has a heart attack while also having pneumonia its COVID-19. And those tests, they haven't been validated. There are many different tests. We don't know the specificity of any of them. Very likely there are many false positives. Also if a hospital can collect more money from medicare with a covid-19 diagnosis, guess whats going to be diagnosed more often.
So I am skeptical.
Now 30,000 deaths attributed to covid in 2 weeks is a lot. In a normal 2 week period there would be 110,000 total deaths. So have there been 140,000 deaths in total, or just 110, 000 deaths with 30, 000 called Covid deaths? I dont know.
I actually expect more deaths than normal even without covid. Suicides. More deaths from heart attacks and stroke due to financial stress and people delaying treatment out of fear of getting the virus. More cancer deaths for same reason. Increased alcoholism and obesity should trigger more deaths in the next few months.
One has to consider this an event on an international scale on a par with 9/11 in magnitude and impact on freedoms. Curious how WHO declares pandemic on 3/11. Coincidence I guess.
Lot of players in the Virus Industrial Complex stand to make a lot of money in coming years as a result. The Globalists will push through digital ID and mandatory vaccination for international travelers if not everyone and the Global Health Security Alliance (GHSA) will be strengthened. The right will get tighter immigration controls and more bailouts for Big Business. The left gets a taste of universal income and perhaps medicare for all (2009 pandemic helped get Obamacare approved). And the technocrats will get more toys for the Surveillance and Tracking Industry with Big Data monitoring all the chipped individuals health among other things. Cashless society to minimize virus spread pushed through so all transactions can be logged. Everyone wins but the little guy.
And you can bet the Greenies will capitalize on this
Since the Virus Industrial Complex took over the Public Health Agencies in the 1970's we have had endless Virus Scares, Swine Flu in 1976, Hepatitis B (1978) , AIDS in 1980,
MS-ME/CFS outbreaks (1984), HPV/Cervical Cancer (1984), HHV-6 (1986) , SARS (2003) , Bird Flu (2005), Swine Flu (2009) , MERs (2012) Zika (2014) Measles (2014) Ebola (2015) and now COVID-2019See a pattern here?
We got virus finders/makers in academia and security /military agencies in the interest of biowarfare defense and science working with vaccine and drug companies who receive funds to develop treatments for these newly found/made viruses, in some cases before any human has been infected. Reminds me of the time when those working for anti-virus software companies were suspected of generating computer viruses to sell more software and be fastest to provide the patch (since they created the virus). In any case, certainly a lot of interlocking conflict of interests among members of the Virus Industrial Complex.
The United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) of Ft. Detrick fame has been partnered with the Wuhan Virlogy Lab since 1981. The Wuhan Lab has also been partnered with college basketball powerhouse Duke University. Check out the Lab's website. This facilityis a diagnostic lab not a bioweapons lab. The USA has bioweapons labs located on the Chinese and Russian borders in Kazakhstan. Oh what a tangled web we weave .Ilya G Poimandres , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 7:25 am GMTExcellent summary of the anectodal evidence.The Real and Original David , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 7:29 am GMTI just want to say that we need to distinguish between conspiracy theory and conspiracy hypothesis.
The out of Wuhan lab is a conspiracy hypothesis, or much closer to it. There is no plausible benefit to the Chinese, and saying 'a disgruntled employee may have dun it to get at dem dictators' is just speculation in the sky.
On the other hand the anectodal evidence for it being US action – the obvious benefit, the time and place of the outbreak, the military games team, the precognition, as well as how the CDC is not tracing patient zero in the US (if it was in China in Nov, surely it could have been in the US then too, and then the whole propaganda story falls apart).. Even the US crying wolf again, after so many times, is almost enough for me.
They are all anecdotal of course, but perfectly in line with the MO and historical practice of the US government.
I now thank my friends when they call me a conspiracy theorist loon, as I point out that Russiagate, Skripal, and so many of the government lines are pure conspiracy hypotheses – one step further away from Kansas than my take!
Ron here reveals himself as a paid agent of the Chinese government.refl , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 7:37 am GMTOne of many China shills who are popping up in "alt media" as well as the MSM.
Disappointing, but as they say, never trust a Jew.
Thanks for this first attempt to dig through the growing tale of corona. However, as we are still in the fog of war, there can be no more then a preliminary assessment.no bat soup for you , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 7:42 am GMTMy take is still that Corona is far less of a threat then commonly believed, and that it has been deliberately saddled with diverse agendas, so in any countries the leadership have no interest in telling the truth.
1) I think there is sufficient proof that need not be repeated, and
2) it is better for everyones' mental health not to believe in killer viruses that force us to abdicate even our most basic freedoms.I believe that either a) the Chinese leadership thought that they were being attacked and undertook their lockdown in good faith, or b) they played an outright GAMBIT to force western countries into their own, more economically damaging lockdowns. The clue would be that China is so strong that it can weather the blow, while Europe and to a lesser extend the US cannot.
The director of the Chinese CDC, Dr Gao was part of Event 201 and studied in Oxford. Are there dual loyalties in China? And then, in which direction?
Possibly, something minor was indeed released as a bioweapon, before, calculably, western government incompetence and hysteria took over. I also believe that Israel used corona as a screen for biowarfare-targeted killings in Iran, whose case is definitely a story apart.
The Russian lockdown can be explained by the serious assumption that if they did not lock down they would be accused as the authors of a biowarfare attack on the US. At this point, antirussian hostility in the West is so severe that they had to comply!The coordinated actions across opposed political systems CAN be explained, and it does not take a nutter to do it.
Now, let's see, if this comment gets through.
and the hong kong flu, the asian flu, SARS classic, H5N1?Mary Marianne , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 7:43 am GMTthink horses not zebras ron. densely populated country with disgusting and satanic dietary practices.
maybe a country where people eat dogs should be dusted with anthrax.
Excellent analysis on the workings of American propaganda and disinformation war in the context of COVID-19.John Wear , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 7:47 am GMTDr. Andrew Kaufman, MD says there is no proven test for COVID-19. The PCR test given only tests for genetic material and not for the COVID-19 virus. Dr. Kaufman's interview is atBiff , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 7:48 am GMT
https://truthcomestolight.com/2020/04/10/dr-andy-kaufman-on-understanding-what-the-covid-19-tests-are-all-about-why-the-lockdown-has-nothing-to-do-with-a-pandemic/ .The majority of the American public still believe that a small group of Islamic fundamentalists wielding only box cutters atomized the World Trade Center into dust – in a cartoonish act of sorcery. If the lie is so big it has to become believable – that amount of cognitive dissonance is simply just too much to bear. An already duped population of such magnitude doesn't have much of a chance of coming out of this kind of stupor, especially under the bubble of the most powerful propaganda machine in the history of propaganda, therefore, I don't think this story is going to go anywhere.Casual Observer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 7:49 am GMTHi Ron! Your article for me is a breath of fresh air! Amidst what you accurately call the fog of war it has been very hard to discern precisely what is going on in regards to this virus situation. It's been extremely difficult to assert the "truth" or the "red pill" as some call it when it comes to this pandemic. For that reason in fact, I would caution everyone that cares about having a well calibrated "perception" sensor to tread with extreme caution when it comes to this topic, as there isn't nearly enough evidence in any direction to assume one theory over another. Faithfully adopting any one theory at the moment can only lead you to become the equivalent of a 9/11 truther (the kind that obsesses about missiles, physics, instead of the paper trail leading directly to Israel and Saudi Arabia).Other Side , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 7:57 am GMTHaving said that there are just too many statistical improbabilities to simply brush aside the Bioweapon possibility. I know quite a few influential figures in the alternative media have unequivocally rejected all Bioweapon theories (specially the theory that the US/Israel could ever conspire to spread a bioweapon) which is why I am very glad to see someone of your Intellectual authority provide a credible well thought-out case supporting this increasingly unpopular position (even in alternative circles). I get it, there is ZERO evidence to show the US/Israel or even China are behind covid-19. But there is equally ZERO evidence to support the official story (which is completely ridiculous until they provide more details) about the guy that supposedly ate the covid bat.
With that disclaimer I will freely speculate below but keep in mind this is all conjecture:
1. Anyone that claims is "impossible" for the US to let lose a bioweapon that would destroy the US economy and kill Americans for the sake of hurting their "perceived" enemies more needs to seriously examine EVERYTHING we know about the rulers of the American empire. The first obvious question is who exactly rules the American empire? Are they righteous rulers that make decisions based on what is best for the American people? The answer to this question is a clear and resounding NO. The rulers of America follow a religion that states anyone that is not part of their tribe is "cattle" and dispensable. On this grounds alone the Rulers of America would have very little issue releasing a virus that kills (mostly) "cattle" Americans. And then comes to "why would they tank their own economy" objection. To this objection I'll simply point out that AMERICA IS RULED through financial coercion. A crisis is very good for the rulers of America because they get to FURTHER consolidate their power over America. Gaining more power over America, hurting your geopolitical rivals and ultimately using the panic and confusion to pass draconian and more authoritarian rules are all INCENTIVES for American elites to release a bioweapon.
Lastly, to everyone that says it's impossible for the American elites to tank their economy and/or kill Americans in order to achieve a political objective has forgotten about 9/11! Our current rulers in Tel-Aviv paid a few saudi mercenaries to fly two airplanes into the twin towers to kill a few thousands of people in order to go to war! Of course the atrocity does not end there. A lot more Americans died as consequence of 9/11, even more were affected economically and even a lot more lost civil liberties and standing in American society. Right then and there you have a blatant and relatively recent event that almost word for word matches the consequences of this virus. Considering this as a possible escalation of tactics by the US/Israel against their enemies is a possibility. The US did drop the nuke of an innocent, already defeated enemy. What makes anyone so sure this is beyond their "moral code"
2.China decides to strongly stick by Iran, suddenly the Hong Kong protest springs out of control, 50 percent of their pork is wiped out by a weird disease and now of course, the mother of all "unforeseen" events kick starts a cascade of negative consequences for China.
This is by far the most alarming set of "coincidences" of all. I remember last year reading the Iran-China saga, as the Chinese refused to stop buying Iranian oil even as Japan stopped buying oil after a Japanese tanker "coincidentally" was hit by a bomb in the Persian gulf. Soon enough (if I am recalling correctly) a strange disease wipes out 50% of Chinese pork causing possible food insecurity. Then came the Hong Kong riots that although started for very legit reasons by the people of Hong Kong, soon enough had full on CIA spooks speaking in the US congress, attacking people on the streets of Hong Kong! Lastly against all odds these horrible events are somewhat weathered China and suddenly we have a pandemic that not only damages China in the world stage, but serves as the perfect excuse to possibly sanction, attack and possibly destabilize china.
Maybe I am completely paranoid or skeptical, but what are the chances of such a string of events? Is there some data I am not privy to that can explain some of these coincidences? Is there something to Chinese cultural norms that could explain these strange viruses literally wrecking their economy and political stability? What are the chances all of these viruses occur in a very short period and their severity and consequences directly correlated to China's defiance of US orthodoxy on Iran/US hegemony?
Unlike some people here, I do not share the opinion that the Chinese government is some sort of Angel or ideological ally. They are a government that ultimately acts on it's interests and it's full of flaws (including exerting degrees of tyranny on their own people). Having said that you don't have to be a communist to notice how strange this sequence of events truly is. Bad things keep happening to China as it opposes US Hegemony. It might even be statistically impossible for some of these things to happen by "chance", but maybe China is just really unlucky, right?
" 1999 NATO air war against Serbia to protect Bosnian muslims "Sean , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 8:02 am GMTIt was actually war over Kosovo albanians .
thotmonger , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 8:10 am GMTBut I do think that a careful exploration of previous Sino-American clashes over the last couple of decades may provide some useful insight into the relative credibility of those two governments as well as that of our own media.
During the Korean war, China used their Cats Paw North to invade the South then the Chinese army intervened under the pretense of being volunteers. Although Chinese ground troops were not directly involved, Vietnam was otherwise a rerun of Korea with China not only defeating the US but forcing it to cease isolating China. Carter issued a presidential order for officials to aid Chinese growth., and within a few decades as the internal unrest Western pundits predicted failed to amount to much, it became obvious that China's growth was at the expense of the workers of the US made jobless and suffering deaths of despair not least by illegal synthetic opioids from China. But then, by the begining of new millennium all manufacturing was in China, including the burgeoning fortunes of the already wealthy, who rose on a high tide of inequality. If history was any guide a new Gilded Age must end with a visit from the Four Horsemen. Pressaged by the appearance of the SARS-CoV virus eighteen years before, SARS-CoV-2 appears likely to end China's run of successes, because of the disruption it has caused to the US.
"The closest known relative of SARS-CoV-2 is a bat virus named RaTG13, "However, RaTG13 was sampled from a different province of China (Yunnan) to where COVID-19 first appeared and the level of genome sequence divergence between SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13 is equivalent to an average of 50 years (and at least 20 years) of evolutionary change."
The important thing about the SARS-CoV-2 virus is not its lethality, which is about an order of magnitude less than the original SARS-CoV of 2002, but rather SARS-CoV-2's extreme transmissibility which is two orders of magnitude greater than its predecessor's. Anthony Fauci warned the incoming US government administration in January 2017 of a newly mutated coronavirus with extreme transmissibility and, apart from the greatly reduced lethality of the massively more contagious SARS-CoV-2 virus, that is exactly what happened.
Unlike other nations, China had had no advance warning of the nature or existence of the deadly new disease, and therefore faced unique obstacles.
They had the WHO and Fauci's public statements. Much more usefully China had the 2002 epidemic, caused by SARS-CoV which originated in China that year. In Singapore, there were 238 cases and 33 deaths from the SARS outbreak, in 2015 the worlds largest MERS-CoV outbreak occurred in South Korea, and only the other year Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said it was only a matter of time before Singapore had its first MERS-CoV case, so they had to be well prepared. These countries were all set up and waiting to eradicate a disease just like COVID-19.
A decision by elements of our national security establishment to wage biological warfare in hopes of maintaining American world power would certainly have been an extremely reckless act
Excuse me? With the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus having a puny death rate yet colossal infectiousness a centralised authoritarian state like China would be relatively speaking best able to suppress it. A bioweapon would be tested on Whites as well as Chinese before being released. There is no way in Hell that they would not understand that releasing the SARS-CoV-2 virus in China would result in it sweeping through the US.
If an "out-of-control disease epidemic occurring in the Wuhan area" back in November 2019 was the same corona virus, then toss the idea it was intentionally timed to mess with the Chinese New Year in 2020. But then figure the deaths in China have been greatly under reported. Furthermore, China may well have allowed carriers to travel abroad, especially to USA once the outbreak was well under way.dimples , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 8:15 am GMTHowever, as regards the whole biocrime aspect of the corona virus pandemic we really cannot rely much on either US government/media or the Chinese. And if it was a bioweapon, who among "us" would be so keen to target Iran where over ten percent of their parliament got sick very early on? That is an Israel First kind of agenda. Or maybe it was Japan? Good investigators keep an open mind.
Note (This is not a subject change) Over the last several decades the American public health system has regularly failed to adequately warn our citizens about the causes and risks of numerous epidemics that have claimed many millions of lives. Or were all sugar drenched foods advertised as "Fat Free" really a "healthy choice"? So I do not quite understand why Ron Unz considers the corona virus the one instance of stellar government incompetence, as if to imply the current lock down has not nearly severe enough?!? Thank god he did not invoke the party line panacea of the Gates vaccine!
Meanwhile, what about Kushner's fast tracking mass surveillance? Will it only be temporary? Will it only be used for containing CV19? Ha. Let's all step in the van with the nice man who will give us a teddy bear
On top of this alleged biocrime, examples are abounding where the opportunists are eager to grab more power, and make killings of a sort, not least of which are the banks, Wall Street and the war mongers.
Remember, the farther the tide goes out, bigger the tsunami that charges back in.
I don't buy it. If the US was going to go to the extreme length of releasing a highly contagious virus into the territory of its new Deep State certified arch-enemy China, the risk of contagioning yourself is extremely high. Especially with global trade and travel as it is these days. Preparations would have been made in advance to make sure it would not blow back by putting appropriate people and methods in place. Its too easy to blame incompetence for this oversight.The_seventh_shape , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 8:26 am GMTIf you're looking for plotters, look no further than Wall St. They are making out like bandits in the latest bailout.
The chronology is indeed telling. Strange that the MSM never thought to ask how the DIA could have known such a thing.dimples , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 8:27 am GMTLet's hope this teaches the deep state not to fool around with viruses anymore.
@dimples Unless of course the blow back is a feature and not a bug, which it must be admitted, it usually is. If the US economy takes an enormous hit due to blow back, which it has, then China is set up as the next ultra-bad guy to replace Russia, Russia Russia!. It then becomes the new fixation of the Deep State's wet dreams, a new Cold War where plenty of money goes down the toilet into the MIC's pockets and plenty of opportunity for the heroic Special Ops types to keep the Hollywood grist mill grinding.threestars , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 8:32 am GMTThis is by far the most one-sided and far-fetching article I've read in the American Pravda series. Very disappointing, to say the least.Pheasant , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 8:42 am GMTFor example, Mr. Unz linked the below article about Tiananmen square:
https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.php
The original source went to great lengths to make it clear a massacre did in fact occur that night/morning, only it was taking place in other areas of Beijing and the victims were mostly protesting workers, not students. (At least 300 of them, by Chinese official figures.) A person reading Unz's summary will come out believing this did not take place, although the Chinese themselves don't really deny it did.
'Zerohedge a popular right-wing conspiracy website'dimples , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 8:43 am GMTHow dissapointing Ron Unz.
You should consider what people say about this website.
@dimples This is a reasonable view in my opinion. If you look at previous US false flag events, they come at periods when new directions are needed to perpetuate the US war machine's supposed usefulness. The 1990 Gulf War was clearly a set up that came just as the old Cold War was ending and prepared the way for 911 and the Iraq War, which capitalized on the US bases that had been set up during the Gulf War.interesting , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 8:49 am GMTCurrently the Russia, Russia Russia! narrative is petering out. The US Deep State wants to perpetuate it but the Euros don't really want a war with Russia, a huge market for them. So continuation of Russia Russia Russia! risks a split with the Euros.
But China, a nice new up and coming enemy there. Yum yum. So Covid-19 could be a US false flag effort in that direction it has to be admitted. Damage to US economy? Who cares, the Deep State doesn't. Its immune, rolling as it does in government loot.
My issue with the 'it's not china's fault"argument revolves around the secrecy in the beginning. And then the arrests of those sounding the alarm inside China. One would think that if this was from elsewhere the CCP would be screeching bloody murder from day one NOT trying to downplay it and outright lie about it. Didn't China use the same playbook with SARS? Silence and then misdirection.Ghali , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 8:51 am GMTmy .02
The actual number is 43000 dead Americans. The China narrative lacks hard evidence. There is mounting evidence that COVID-19 pandemic originated in the U.S. and may have been a terror attack perpetuated by the U.S., which is pursuing a massive expansion of biological weapons program. According to scholar Kevin Barrett: "It also may be a coincidence that the primary U.S. bioweapons lab, Fort Detrick, was shut down in summer 2019 over fears that weaponized pathogens might escape. It may be a coincidence that absurdly under-performing U.S. military athletes came to Wuhan for the World Military Games in October and have since been accused by China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs of being the source of the COVID-19 pandemic. It may be a coincidence that at the same time those 'athletes' were in Wuhan, the World Economic Forum, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, and other Establishment titans were hosting a pandemic simulation called Event 201".JEinCA , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 9:07 am GMTFurthermore, "It may be purely coincidental that the virus appeared in Wuhan, home of China's biggest biodefense laboratory, and China's biggest transportation hub, just in time for the Chinese New Year, when most Chinese travel to visit relatives. Likewise, it could be coincidental that the real-life COVID-19 pandemic almost perfectly mimics Lockstep, the Rockefeller Foundation's recipe for a global police state emerging on the back of a coronavirus-style pandemic", added Kevin Barrett. The U.S. regime unleashed this disease on the world, and the U.S. regime has to be held accountable.
Mr. Unz my fellow Californian,Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist , says: Website Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 9:11 am GMTYour suspicions on this matter echo my own. I remember the Russian Government warning a few years back that Western NGO's inside Russia had been discovered to be collecting DNA samples of Russian citizens and that it was the opinion of the Russian Intelligence Services that this information was being collected ny Western Intelligence Services for the purpose of future biological warfare. When this outbreak in China made international news I remembered the warning from the Russian Government. Then came the outbreak in Iran that killed many Iranian political figures. Quite a damned coincidence if there ever was one?
If you ever run for state or national office and are on the ballot (or not) herr in California you have my vote.
Veritas vos Liberabit!
@Ozymandias You're totally right!animalogic , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 9:30 am GMTLook at a very partial list of the Chinese history of lying, almost by habit, just in the last two decades alone!
China lied in 1999 about "massacres" committed by Serbia and bombed Belgrade to set up the narcomafia organ-smuggling so called state of "Kosovo".
China lied about Saddam Hussein having WMDs and invaded Iraq in 2003.
China lied about "imminent massacres" and "Viagra rape" in Libya in 2011, and deliberately misused a UN Security Council resolution to bomb and destroy that country and hand it over to slave trading jihadi headchopper gangs.
China lied about Syria using chemical weapons from 2013 onwards, armed and trained and financed terrorist gangs, conducted missile strikes on the country, and continues to occupy and steal oil from East Syria.
China organised a blatant Nazi coup in Ukraine in 2014 and lied about it being a "popular democratic revolution".
China murdered Iran's top general Qassem Soleimani in 2020 and lied about him being about to conduct terrorist attacks when he was actually on a peace mission.
With just this partial list of Chinese lies in the last two decades alone, who would believe anything China has to say?!?!?
Interesting article.Google , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 9:36 am GMT
Especially, interesting for me, the aggressive arrest of a Harvard Prof' of chemistry for technical irregularities in Grant paperwork, coincidentally at the time the virus emerges. (we assume he personally wrote up those applications ? Imagine if everyone who had written up a Grant application, which contained an error or two, in the US were to be dragged off in chains by the FBI ? )
And also interesting the Belgrade Chinese embassy attack -- Mr Unz's materials put it in a totally new perspective for me.I suspect US gov been planning this attack for years. SARS outbreak in 2003, I suspect, was a test, to test Chinese gov's response to bio attack. Note that SARS virus and the current covid-19 virus aren't that different to be considered different viruses, hence covid-19 also known as SARS-2. But the difference, SARS-1 had "kill switch", it wouldn't be able to infect humans after a while.Anonymous [499] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 9:39 am GMTDuring 2003 SARS, China acted swiftly causing the virus to be contained within China and according to US gov simulation, covid-19 should've been the same, contained within China. But China didn't act as swiftly as expected, causing the virus leaking back to US, this is why US gov is furious, had China acted earlier, the virus wouldn't travel back to US.
The killing of Iranian general, it wasn't act of recklessness, it was diversion, so that the Iran gov would be occupied by it while ignoring coronavirus spreading silently in their country.
Ron, my friend (sort of), if you think you have trouble now what with COVID-1, impending national bankruptcy, and a general flow of information that seems to have been some of the most creative fiction in our lives, just wait until you manage to invite China into US civil disputes. Our present difficulties are as nothing compared difficulties subsequent to direct Chinese involvement in civil matters.Anonymous [362] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 9:43 am GMT
Historically, third party intervention quite often leads to foreign domination. Examples: US in Afghanistan, US in Iraq (twice). Both time, native citizens thought it a great idea to invite the US in.
And why do I say this? Well, you're presenting China as morally wronged. In your frame of reference, that's an absolute, more important than anything else. But it's not the only interpretation. Perhaps China committed an act of war by giving tactical help to the Serbs. Perhaps that violation became severe when China gathered F117A wreckage. Perhaps China is lucky that bombing the embassy was all that happened, and we are all lucky that things did not escalate. This is actually less of a fantasy than your account, which is at best a bit one sided, almost a "point and sputter".In the US, such accounts are the precursor to advocacy. You should consider carefully the consequences of advocacy in this case.
America was finally returning to a regular peacetime economy, with the benefits apparent toJason Crew , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 9:46 am GMTthe everyone
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While I think the first part of the article is very interesting, and I acknowledge the theoretical benefits that could exist from the US using COVID as a bioweapon, I find the argument unpersuasive for the following reasons:Ayatollah Smith , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 9:47 am GMTObvious blowback : If the US infected China with a highly spreadable disease, why did we not put in more aggressive measures to stop it from spreading in the US? Otherwise, what's the point of hurting your enemy if you also get hurt? If the US was going to attack China with a bioweapon, why would they not engineer a genetic/ethnic bioweapon that targeted Han Chinese, as oppose one that could also kill everyone? Seeing the economic damage this has done to us, it seems unlikely that such a contagious weapon would be the one an actor would pick, as it would risk damaging their own homeland.
China has always been a hotbed of disease : A third of China's history has them facing an epidemic of some sort. The 1957 "Asian flu" , 1968 "Hong Kong flu" and 1977 "Russian flu" all started in China. The black death probably started in China. Seems far more likely that recent disease outbreaks are part of a historic trend, or gross Chinese conditions, rather than a bioweapon attack.
On April 11, 2020, Gilad Atzmon published here an excellent article titled "A Viral Pandemic or A Crime Scene?", in which he suggests circumstances have now created 'a paradigm change' in the perception of the current viral pandemic.Z-man , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 9:54 am GMThttps://www.unz.com/gatzmon/a-viral-pandemic-or-a-crime-scene/
He states: "Since we do not know its provenance, we should treat the current epidemic as a potentially criminal act as well as a medical event. We must begin the search for the perpetrators who may be at the centre of this possible crime of global genocidal proportions." I concur.
All Americans (and others) who believe in China's culpability for the emergence of this virus, should welcome such an investigation. And Mr. Pompeo, who so firmly plants the full responsibility on China's doorstep, would receive vindication of his claims. I believe that the governments and the people of China, Italy, Spain, France, and Iran, especially would like to know the results of such a criminal investigation.
All nations of the world should band together now, and proceed jointly with this endeavor. It needn't be approached with presumption of cause or intent, but simply to uncover the entire truth of this event. That will be sufficient, and it is possible the results of this worldwide investigation will prompt others into similar past events which have to date gone unquestioned and unexamined.
I believe there are yet many truths about COVID-19 (and many other epidemics) still to emerge. Perhaps one of the many people with personal knowledge of the source and method of distribution will be sufficiently brave to come forward, perhaps another Edward Snowdon or Chelsea Manning. We will then see how truly the US treasures its whistle-blowers.
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The US needs to answer this question: HOW could US 'intelligence sources' possibly have known in November – or even October – of a potential pandemic of COVID-19 that would erupt – specifically in Wuhan – two months later? (Or that was already erupting in Wuhan at the time, unbeknownst to the Chinese?). I believe the entire world would demand the answer to this.
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In early March the US government declared as classified all COVID-19 information, with all communication to be rerouted through the White House and coordinated with NSC officials. Only specified individuals with security clearance are permitted to attend secret meetings, with no mobile phones or computers allowed. Excluded staff members claimed they were told virus information was classified "because it had to do with China". The US needs to explain the need for such extreme secrecy (while condemning China for lack of transparency), and how coping with a domestic virus epidemic would involve China.
China, Italy, and several other nations in Asia and Europe have documented proof that COVID-19 was circulating in their populations for several months before the outbreak in Wuhan. And there are many, many reports, including from physicians, that infections in the US were occurring as early as September, of 2019. These claims are too numerous, too detailed, and too similar to be ignored. Japanese TV and press documented that Japanese tourists returning from Hawaii were coming home infected with COVID-19 in September.
Why was Dr. Helen Chu issued a threatening "cease and desist" order to stop testing nasal swabs her flu research team had taken in Washington State from October 2019 onward? The only possible result would be to prevent the knowledge emerging that the virus had already been circulating months earlier. As a rule, the reason we don't ask a question privately is because we already know the answer, and the reason we don't ask the question publicly is because we don't want anyone else to know the answer.
The US government needs to address the now-certain existence of the virus being widespread in America and much of the world from September, 2019.
Your globalists and anti American tendencies come out in the first part and the last few paragraphs of your piece. I didn't read most of the rest of your long winded article.NoLock , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 9:56 am GMT
Bottom line, the Chinks infected the world whether by incompetence or deliberately. They then intimidated the world with their economic might and with the help of their lackeys in the WHO and the PC/shit lib elite in the West to keep the flow of infected people to keep coming into the West. Italy is the tragic example but you can include the rest of the West including America where that old bag Nancy Pe-lousy was celebrating in China Town in late February.
They, the PRC, should be made to pay reparations.Not to dismiss Ron Unz's reasoning outright, but it has been claimed that the virus cannot be the product of direct genomic manipulation.Godfree Roberts , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 9:56 am GMTThat's barring any breakthrough in genomic manipulation techniques, a breakthrough that would have to be kept secret. What these scientists have said is that publicly available techniques would have left traces in the viruses genome. They claim that any such traces are absent from the virus's genome.
If that holds up, then the only remaining possibility would be a virus that was bred. It could have been bred by taking the bat virus and passing it through other types of animals, selecting for increased virulence. It has been claimed that ferrets would fit the bill since they have the same ACE2 receptor as humans. Ferrets are easy to handle under laboratory conditions.
If the US deep state did something like this, then their reasoning would have to be on what lines? "Let's take this virus that we have bred to dock very easily onto the human ACE2 receptor and set it loose on the Chinese. The virus will devastate them will they still be able to contain it – so that there won't be too much blow back."
Maybe they misjudged the product of their virus enhancement effort. Still, it needs be kept in mind what presuppositions have to be put in place for the blow back theory to work.
hs4691506 , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 9:57 am GMTI tend to doubt that Chinese leaders have any overwhelming commitment to the truth, and the reasons for their greater veracity are probably practical ones.
Their reasons are extremely practical:
1. In the absence of national elections they are free to make realistic promises. Since they have kept every promise they've made to date they have an investment in staying honest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_China ,
2. In the absence of factions like our Republicans and Democrats, there's no-one to blame or pass the buck to, nor lie competitively, nor attack proposed or existing policies. There's no 'them,' there's only 'us.'
3. The Chinese have always been willing to make sacrifices now for benefits later, which incentivizes being honest up front.
4. Telling the truth is cheaper in the long run, which is one reason China has the cheapest government on earth.
5. People are much more willing to cooperate with truth-tellers. Governing is infernally difficult and being truthful makes it vastly easier.
6. Straight talk, especially from leaders, is attractive (Trump's appeal to his base is that he occasionally blurts out something true). Asked on TV how it felt to be President, Xi said, "People who have little experience with power–those who are far from it–tend to regard politics as mysterious and exciting. But I look past the superficialities, the power, the flowers, the glory, the applause. I see the detention houses, the fickleness of human relationships. I understand politics on a deeper level." Imagine an American politician talking like that.
7. Smart people tell the truth more often than dumb people. People out of their intellectual and experiential depth, which our politicians usually are, tend to lie. The average IQ of China's top 5,000 political leaders is 140 and all of them have 25 years successful governing experience. They're professionals who are less likely to lie than your brain surgeon.
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@Otto von Komsmark I've read the Chinese are proud that they'll "eat everything under the sun". China is a very old culture. People might have differing opinions, but I think it strange that now we have all these cross-overs from the animal kingdom.hs4691506 , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 10:02 am GMT@animalogic I think it was Zero-hedge that said the professor lied about his Chinese funding, making him in effect an agent of China. That's not some burocratic form error.Anonymous [108] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 10:02 am GMT
I think the article is a good summary but the author is also guilty of embellishment. For example, he used the word "concerted" at least twice, when he has no proof of that.Having grown up with in the University of Chicago South Side Chicago neighborhood , then lived in racial, criminal, immigration anarchy New York City 1985-91brabantian , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 10:20 am GMT
, I m rarely if ever surprised about national or international events. The seemingly incomprehensible views and policies of American, diaspora, Neo Conservative, Hollywood,Wall Street Jews makes sense in awful ways:They hate us – want us replaced
Madeline Albright (How did this ugly woman from Central Europe get to be USA Secretary of State? Why did she demand bombing the sh&$ out of the Serbs to creat a Muslim beach head in Central Europe ? What is she ? Catholic? Episcopalian Christian? Oh she s Jewish again but wants to convert to Islam to protest President Trump s proposed Muslim immigration plan).
I look at this Chinese Kung Flu Coronavirus and just note how sensible nationalist governments/societies in Japan, Taiwan, Hungary, Slovakia and of course Israel handle it:
Strict, zero tolerance immigration, student visas from Coronavirus plague infected areas – also no millions of Muslim young male migrants.
Pretty much no one in these sensible nationalist societies care if Jews at the SPLC, The Atlantic Magazine, or National Review, CPAC or the Wall Street Journal scream that they are:
RACISTS
FASCISTS
NAZISIt s probably too late in my life to try to learn Hungarian or Japanese.
But I think I/we should all try to learn translations of :
"Shut up Jews"
"Support Israel the homeland of the Jews so go home"
Life isn t complicated .
It s the same with terrible Black AA ga g murders in my Chicago . same with TB, bubonic plague heroin addicts street people in LA's Skid Row, Gypsy no go places in Romania or France.
Life isn t complicated .
From Ron Unz's article linked above on the Canadian kidnapping of the Huawei billionaire's daughter, Ron himself said something which points to the perhaps deeper truth hereutu , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 10:22 am GMTIn that piece our host Ron suggested that the clear best course for China, was to put the squeeze on USA Jewish billionaire and political king-maker Sheldon Adelson, the big political funder of Trump and US Republicans etc Adelson being the casino king of Macau who earns most of his billions there under Chinese authority, Adelson being able to get the Huawei exec released with just a phone call to Trump, if Chinese would just walk into Sheldon's casinos and threaten shutdown
China never moved to touch Sheldon's businesses in China, and as I said at the time, this is because of the deeper frightening truth, that the big powers tend to work together behind the scenes, even whilst in public disputes, like high school football teams in rivalry
Chinese media accuse the US of creating a bio-weapon, US media accuses China of the same, the classic rivalry of Orwell's 1984
Both governments share motives of culling pensioners as covid-19 does; distracting from incipient collapse of excessive economic debt; establishing greater elite surveillance and control; and enabling elites to buy and own ever larger sectors of global economic life; in other words the classic 'NWO' of conspiracy talk.
Half a century ago, Antony Sutton proved that 1940s-1970s USA had been transmitting tech to the old Soviet Union (often via Israel), to create the 'Best Enemy Money Can Buy' the Cold War was essentially fake, and Putin came out of that, and continues trading favours with the USA Putin doesn't question 9-11, USA doesn't question false flags in Chechnya etc
Sites like the 'Secret Life of Jews in China' show how European Jews were part of China's Mao revolution, even becoming politburo members Chabad centres abound in China despite few nominal Jews there, linking hotlines to Jared Kushner's Chabad centre in DC and 'Putin's rabbi' Berel Lazar in Moscow
One has to go one level above the US vs China mudslinging, and consider it is all likely as fake and staged as was US-Soviet rivalry China and the USA may well be working together on covid
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The idea that Covid-19 was a bio-weapon deployed in China by the US visitors to the late 2019 military games, was promoted early on by Veterans Today (VT) where Unz's Kevin Barrett hails from. VT is a website widely-read by world governments, despite its partly kooky and ridiculous articles about space aliens etc
Gordon Duff, co-chief of VT, said out loud in a radio interview – where he also outed himself with a chuckle as a 'self-hating Jew' – that 30% of the material on his site is intentionally false and ridiculous, as the price he must pay for publishing true 'intel drops' without getting shut down / murdered by the US gov't in intel-speak, this is called 'poisoning the well', you publish the most damning truths on self-discrediting sites like VT or David Icke, where the typical reader easily dismisses truth because it's published next to articles about space alien lizards ruling planet earth
@Mustapha Mond Yes, what if the chief objective was not to hurt China by disrupting its society and economy but to make the whole world angry with China. Ron Unz article is the voice crying out in the desert which will not stop the tsunami of memes: WuFlu , China did it , China must pay for our suffering We must punish China. that has been whipped up from the very beginning and only will be getting loader and stronger.anon [146] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 10:22 am GMTSome of the things you list are to benefit the insiders. No little thing that could bring profit will be left to chance. It is just like when World Trade Center being transferred from Port Authority before 9/11. Was it critical to the operation? Could they get the terror event if WTC was not owned by Larry Silverstein? Yes, they could but few extra bucks could have been made with Larry Silverstein being the front man. Or just when American troops were entering Bagdad, who and when organized special outfits who systematically were visiting Bagdad museum and looting it according to the shopping list?
Ron Unz is underestimating their evil and abilities.
@Ozymandias If "they" were going to do such a thing, how would they go about it, and what would have been their thinking?FB , says: Website Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 10:26 am GMTDeliberately engineered biological agents can often be detected by careful analysis of the pathogen's genome. Bioinformatic programs can detect odd sequences that shouldn't belong; the chances of a purely natural explanation for the inclusion of some sequences are rare, for instance. Let's say I wanted to create a super virus capable of destroying humanity. One obvious way to do this would be to take viral sequences from certain dangerous pathogens and combine them into one. That might do the job, but obviously there is a risk that comes along with doing with that: current sequencing and bioinformatic techniques may quickly discover such an act and invite retaliation by the victim. " That shouldn't be there! " If half of China started dying of a mysterious virus composed of sequences from various unrelated viruses, then obviously there is an attack underway because the chances of such elements coming together in nature is very low, practically zero. A response would likely follow in short order.
Is there a way around this? Maybe.
There are several odd things about Sars2 (Covid-19) that I haven't seen before: 1) it spreads in contravention to how -- some -- previous viruses we've dealt with in recent memory have spread. Specifically, there are a higher-than-expected number of cases are transmitted before the patient become symptomatic with this virus. This is why initial airport screenings failed to stop the virus from entering the United States, aside from lax screening*. In the past, most of these viruses like MERS and SARS weren't particularly contagious when the infected carriers were asymptomatic, so simply checking their body temperature with a thermometer and following up with contact tracing was enough to stop the spread. 2) unlike both SARS and MERS, this virus is remarkably contagious for a novel pathogen, even moreso than the flu 3) this virus may have a very long asymptomatic phase, up to two weeks in some people. One explanation is that something similar is true of other viruses that cause the common cold and the flu but we haven't really noticed it before because those viruses are comparatively less lethal. If you believe in a conspiracy, on the other hand, this would be a feature deliberately engineered to ensure maximum transmission.
Elements of the conspiracy:
1. This outbreak happened just before Donald Trump's reelection campaign got underway and during crucial trade negotiations. Maybe they wanted to put pressure on the Chinese government to increase Trump's chances of getting reelected. His approval ratings according to 538 have been stuck in the low to mid 40s for essentially his entire presidency. He needs a consistent approval rating above 47% or so to ensure a high chance of reelection.
2. This happened just after a failed Hong Kong color revolution by youthful protestors. Many of the signs held by protesters included the kinds of things a boomer FBI agent might think would curry favor with the 4chan crowd -- pepe the frog, various slogans. It failed, in part, because that crowd didn't buy it. Hong Kong protestors were relentlessly mocked on some alt-right websites as morons wanting to deliver their people the "freedom" enjoyed by the West: dozens of genders, speech laws, feminism The case of a Canadian waxing salon being forced to wax a male-to-female transgendered person's genitals was prominently used to mock Hong Kong protesters demanding Western freedom.
Conspiracy:
The CIA may have bred a virus to be easily transmissible but much less lethal than the original SARS virus that made the headlines years ago. They may have expected the virus to spread quickly in China and panic the Chinese population, undermining faith in the government so the CIA could once again try to overthrow their rival. They never expected it to come back on them.
If one were going to create a viral agent guaranteed to escape detection as an artificial construction, one might do the following: take a known virus indigenous to the targeted area and breed it in animals native to the area (bats) so that it spreads undetected until symptoms present while having a traceable lineage when examined with bioinformatic software / select it against human tissue samples in vitro so that in infects human cells easily.
The former technique might leave behind a tale tell signature: the virus has a long incubation time within the host. Why? Well, some animals have lower resting body temperatures than humans. This can affect which pathogens are able to infect them. Pathogens that have evolved to replicate at one temperature may not replicate very well under another one. Animals like opossums and hibernating bats are less likely to die from rabies infection, for instance, because they have lower body temperatures, among other factors. Humans and dogs are not so lucky because both have higher body temperatures where the virus can replicate more easily. It's sort of strange how SARS2 (Covid-19) takes so long to clear in some patients -- up to two weeks or more. Maybe this occurs because, despite being able to easily infect human cells, it replicates poorly at first because it is adapted to bats, which often have a lower resting body temperature. Although, it is possible this could occur naturally as well.
The latter can be done by infecting cell cultures in dishes and examining which cultures became infected and to what degree. This can be done by measuring viral titers -- dilute extracted cell culture liquid, filter out cells and bacteria, apply diluted mixes to new cultures, examine results, selected superior viral lines for continued manipulation. There are lots of ways to set this up. Maybe you tag your viral proteins with a florescent protein and examine after some period of time; the more virus that is being made, the stronger the signal. Select that particular culture and continue.
Point: there are lots of ways to do this, some pretty simple (but probably expensive, dangerous, and time-consuming nonetheless -- which is why dumb Middle Eastern terrorists haven't tried it so far). The important thing is that such a set up would avoid including obviously unnatural elements that could never be explained by random chance -- the inclusion of sequences from other viruses, for example. This might come off looking natural, even if remaining mysterious to the outside observer.
*The American government was warned about this virus but didn't take it seriously. Explanation 1: Trump and his advisers are greedy imbeciles (more likely). Explanation 2: the American government didn't expect this to be a big deal because they created it to be less lethal than previous viruses, perhaps not understanding that a lower death rate over a larger population would result in higher casualties (less likely).
Americans arriving at JFK from locked-down Italy are shocked by the lack of US screening for coronavirus
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8098819/Americans-arriving-JFK-Milan-say-SHOCKED-no-screening-coronavirus.htmlTrump allegedly asked Fauci if officials could let coronavirus 'wash over' US
Points against this theory:
1) Trump is a loudmouth and a braggart. If he knew ANYTHING about this, he probably would have let it slip by now. Elements of the British government have had to restrict some information they share with the Americans for fear that Trump would leak it to his friends during his then regular discussions with people over unsecured lines. Would the CIA really do something extraordinary like this without his knowledge?
Points in favor:
1) The UK, a country that often works with the Americans to do nefarious things, didn't take this very seriously, either. They acted as if they didn't expect this to be a big deal. Other countries that usually don't work that closely with US intelligence to the same degree, have taken Covid-19 seriously even if they have failed to contain it. Although, this is probably wrong. The nations that have dealt best with this are the ones that have had lots of previous experience with similar viruses and whose populations are naturally more inclined to work together.
2) The timing and location of the viral outbreak. Isn't Wuhan a major transportation hub?
Excellent piece by Ron UnzBeen_there_done_that , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 10:26 am GMTOne thing I notice is how crisply written this is, compared to the very dense, plodding style that characterizes much of his previous work
A very good overview of the situation and a thoughtful analysis of the finger pointing that's going on
Regardless of whether the lock down measures have been an overreaction or not, most reasonable people will realize that we may never know what might have been, had we not locked down
Would the health system have been able to cope ?
What would happen when hospitals are overwhelmed by serious respiratory cases ?
China's very forceful reaction now looks absolutely brilliant
That extremely energetic reaction also hints that the Chinese leadership may have suspected an attack
Michael888 , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 10:28 am GMT". ..the current accusations by Trump Administration officials that China had attempted to minimize or conceal the serious nature of the disease outbreak is so ludicrous as to defy rationality. "
This assertion is absolutely untrue, as most readers who have followed this story early on will know. You conspicuously left out of your conspiratorial musings the news of the "whistleblower" Wi Leniang, the 34-year old ophthalmologist who had worked at Wuhan Central Hospital, and had already alerted his colleagues late last year about a suspicious viral outbreak, for which he was subsequently arrested and punished by authorities. Millions of people in China are familiar with his tragic story – he eventually died.
On January 9 the World Health Organization released the following press statement, providing sufficient information that would have warranted or obliged the authorities to have immediately closed the Wuhan airport and train station to prevent the contagious spread of the virus to other regions of the world through unwittingly infected carriers.
Instead, authorities waited two entire weeks before closing the Wuhan airport, during which time the virus spread inevitably to other countries through the many international passenger flights. According to military game theory, such inaction would surely benefit China, which could better deal with an outbreak, whereas most other countries would suffer more severely in comparison. For this reason, regardless whether the release of the presumably engineered virus was released intentionally or accidentally, the Chine government is culpable for having allowed the pandemic to evolve. So at least in this particular case the allegations of the Trump administration are correct.
Your narrative omitted these indisputable facts, which you then denigrated as " so ludicrous as to defy rationality ", yet after a Communist Party meeting in mid-February, some of those responsible for having minimized or concealed the serious nature of the outbreak were officially "demoted" (received a slap on the wrist):
Those who praise China's alleged competence in the matter have a dilemma to deal with. Either the authorities are competent, in which case they effectively waged biological warfare against the rest of the world (using incompetence as plausible deniability of intent) in order for their economy to come out ahead, comparatively, in the long run, compared to a situation where only their own economy would have suffered by effective early containment measures; or else they were indeed incompetent, that an accidental release from one of their labs in Wuhan becomes even more plausible than it already is. Either way, the focus of inquiry must remain on China, rather than conducting an exercise in reflexive exoneration. Fantastical insinuations pointing the finger elsewhere, for which no strong evidence has been presented, are just a distraction.
Accidental releases have been known to occur, but apparently only the level-4 lab in Wuhan was known to have been working on enhancing those bat-based viruses with gain of function properties and chimeric qualities.
Your entire conjecture about the strong likelihood of US culpability essentially rests almost entirely on the vague notion of " extreme recklessness ", which in such dangerous matters, as the release of deadly viruses, appears to be significantly less likely, from an analytical perspective, than an accidental release from a biological lab in Wuhan.
While your lengthy article shows the possibility that the virus originated in the US and was spread intentionally, with a lot of trust developed by our own Dr. Fauci of the NIAID and $37 million in grants (long before Trump) to study bat coronaviruses in collaboration with China, I think you are missing one important feature.9/11 Inside job , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 10:29 am GMT
Trump and his neocon clown car are loathed by the Intelligence Agencies. Unlike Obama, who loved to have the CIA "playing" in his sanctioned, National Emergencies countries (Yemen, Libya, Venezuela, Ukraine, Somalia, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Burundi), backing coups in Egypt, Honduras and the big one, Ukraine, and delighting in droning and expanding Bush's two wars into 7 or 11, depending on how you count, Trump for all his idiotic saber rattling has started no wars; Bolivia is his only coup, Nicaragua his only war-like National Emergency. You may have missed the events of Russiagate and Ukrainegate, built on incompetent spycraft, and an impeachment started by a CIA "whistleblower", but to give Trump credit for something as devious as an obvious CIA op (by your own speculations) seems disingenuous. Much more likely the CIA (whose hubris and incompetence rivals Trump's) likely were running this operation from at least when the first bat coronavirus grants were sent to Wuhan (2011? 2015? I've read both). My guess is the CIA did not even share their brilliant idea with the loathsome Trump, as he would have likely squashed it as he finally did with John Bolton's out-of-control machinations. I think the CIA sees the spectacular failure of their operation as a chance to embarrass and likely overthrow Trump. If they had destroyed the Chinese economy, they would have taken full credit, as it is, they look masterful in re-establishing the Establishment, and ridding themselves of a non-supportive Trump.Coronavirus catastrophe? Even though the CDC has been accused of exaggerating the number of deaths from the Coronavirus by allowing doctors to assume , without testing ,someone died from it, the number of deaths are not alarming . According to the CDC's provisional statistics posted on April 20,2020 , from February 1 to April 18 ,2020 there were only 15,252 deaths from the Coronavirus out of a total of 603,184 deaths from all causes ,in a US population of 327,167,434 . For the one week ending April 11 there were 5483 COVID-19 deaths and for the one week ending April 18th there were only 568 deaths . cdc.gov . Deaths from the Coronavirus appear to be on the decline in mid-April ,just as they often do in a typical flu season as Spring returns in the Northern hemisphere. As a number of doctors have observed the lockdowns, social distancing and unemployment resulting from the draconian measures taken by Governors across the US are leading to an unprecedented number of cases of depression and suicides.Concerned Citizen , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 10:41 am GMT
It is well established,that people who are depressed end up with many types of illnesses due to their compromised immune systems .
The tragedy of the Coronavirus pandemic is ,that as more and more circumstantial evidence comes to light ,it was an engineered crisis or ,as some investigators have termed it ,a planned-demic see, for example, "How to create a fake pandemic"jamesfetzer.org.Deep and enduring thanks to Ron Unz and his team for this site, an oasis of common sense in a desert of nonsense.utu , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 10:42 am GMTRegarding:
"So if American bio warfare analysts were considering a corona virus attack against China, isn't it quite possible they would have said to themselves that since SARS never significantly leaked back into the US or Europe, we'd similarly remain insulated from the corona virus? Obviously, such an analysis was foolish and mistaken, but would it have seemed so implausible at the time?"
There might be another possibility. That being that the American plans you outline were formulated and carried out by the deepest, eternally-entrenched portions of the American security state and that "senior administration officials" were simply never consulted about bio warfare efforts against China. Very possibly including those earlier events noted, aimed at Chinese agricultural interests.
Two birds with one stone would be the result: 1) China is (theoretically) taken down by orders of magnitude; 2) That usurping outsider, the ever-disruptive President Trump exits in January, as no incumbent would be judged to have a 2% chance of withstanding the hurricane of events tied to the pandemic's arrival in America.
All the better, then, to allow Trump and other leading American politicians to convincingly lead the chorus against China, and all done with never any possibility of a leak from any political "source" about anything pertaining to the background and planning of the operation.
Implications of such a possibility are too monstrous to consider, so am certain this assertion can't be true. Right?
@Hail " this whole thing may be a Chinese Communist Party 'Hoax,' in the sense that while the 'new' virus is real (there are always 'new viruses'), the reaction was at least 1000x what was necessary to deal " – The reality parsing by the hoaxers always lead to the discovery of more hoaxes. Check with your guru Kunt Wiitkowski if he was not the one who advised Chines how to pull off the hoax. Didn't he tell them that only 10,000 would have die?hs4691506 , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 10:49 am GMT@swamped I, too, doubt that Trump would have been aware of what was going on, this would have been an operation that was kicked off now because if Trump gets re-elected, he'll hopefully clean house, and all that preparation would have been for nothing.Ann Nonny Mouse , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 10:50 am GMTThat having been said what's your explanation why Trump did bring a lot of neocons on board, who effectively blocked him. If he really wanted to placate the democrats, there would have surely been hawks who weren't as dangerous as, e.g. Bolton.
@Jim Jatras He said back then he thought that. Hasn't expressed his current view. None of us knew back then that the US was dumping pure U238 on Yugoslavia making large parts uninhabitable for a thousand years.utu , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 10:53 am GMT@refl Ron, we need a new button: HoaxerAyatollah Smith , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 10:54 am GMT20.Hail says:Sean , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 10:55 am GMT"Checking the Jay Matthews story, I see this: Hundreds of people, most of them workers and passersby, did die that night, but in a different place and under different circumstances."
There is much that Jay Matthews didn't say. Read this:
29.Christopher Marlowe says:
"Smithfield is owned by a Chinese firm."
It is not. Shuanghui International Holdings Limited, now known as W-H Group, is a private company based in Hong Kong that holds a majority of shares in China's largest meat processor, Shuanghui Foods. The fact that it is based in Hong Kong does not make it "Chinese" in any sense. It is a totally foreign-owned company. The ownership of W-H is mostly American, not Chinese, and Smithfield was involved with the company. It was a complicated kind of reverse takeover, but nothing much of substance changed.
It is the largest pork company in the world, number one in China, the U.S. and much of Europe.
And the effect of the swine flu was to shift production and sales from Shuanghui China to Smithfield in the US.
Parfois1 , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 10:57 am GMTChina's sweeping Belt and Road Initiative has threatened to reorient global trade around an interconnected Eurasian landmass
By the time of the Antonine Plague of 165 to 180 AD (which surely inspired Aurelius's stoicism, and may have killed Lucius Verus and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) direct trading links between China and Rome had been established. On March 2019 Italy was the first G-7 country in Europe to become a member in the Chinese Belt and Road project . Did that globalisation reproduced the same pandemic-friendly environment that had decimated Ancient Rome, which rivaled China in population at the time of the Roman diplomatic mission from Marcus Aurelius to the Han Court in 166 AD?
Given these dramatic Chinese actions and the international headlines that they generated, the current accusations by Trump Administration officials that China had attempted to minimize or conceal the serious nature of the disease outbreak is so ludicrous as to defy rationality.
Hardly, because intent is irrelevant. Not discharging their duty to inform the international community in a timely manner of COVID-19 being extremely infectious and not massively exaggerating the infection to death ratio and duping the WHO and modelers like Imperial College into accepting terrifying but bogus infection to death ratios of 1 to 3 0r 4% as Dr. John Ioannidis says in an update ( HERE ) means quite simply that China must never ever be relied on again. Next time, and there probably is going to be another such novel coronavirus at some point in the future, China might overcompensate and downplay something extremely dangerous.
Lieber had had decades of close research ties with China, holding joint appointments and receiving substantial funding for his work. But now he was accused of financial reporting violations in the disclosure portions of his government grant applications -- the most obscure sort of offense -- and on the basis of those accusations, he was seized by the FBI in an early-morning raid on his Cambridge home and dragged off in shackles, potentially facing decades of federal imprisonment.
AS I understand it the case against him was precipitated by indications that he was taking money from the Chinese Government and lying to Federal investigators about it while getting $18 million from the Defence Department. He was not a virologist, unlike professor Montagnier who co-discovered HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and received a Nobel prize. He says the SARS-CoV-2 virus is an artificial laboratory created pathogen, which has fragments of–surprise, surprise–HIV in it. He wants his expertise to be relevant to what everyone is currently obsessed with. But life in this crazy old world is not like that. Unless you are Ioannidis.
In the early days of the CoV-19 discussion here, a solid body of commenters suggested the strong likelihood of being a US biological attack on China on the basis of its propensity for aggression towards its designated "enemies" by the only method of causing substantial damage to a powerful rival's economy under the cover of plausible deniability. Considering the inevitable demise of the US as the only superpower, it is not beyond the ruling cabal's remit to conceive such schemes to thwart the Chinese economic ascendancy. Yes, the initial suspicions of foul-play were reputational (the US habit of resorting to heinous crimes against other nations) and strategically connected as well (the only way to damage a strong opponent short of an all-out nuclear conflagration with uncertain outcome ).anon [300] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 11:02 am GMTOn the other hand, there were a series of "coincidences" widely discussed here that started giving credence to a full-blown plan of biological attack aimed at the Chinese population by engineering a virus capable to discriminating the target victims. This has been partialled discounted, but not completely until the full sequence of CoV-19 evolution is mapped. Meanwhile, the official narrative has switched to the rejection of the theory of a man-made virus to the "accidental" release by the Wuhan lab, in my view to deflect any effort to research the source of the virus and reinforce the tale of Chinese negligence. But the trouble is that there are many virologists now busy debunking that too and asserting that CoV-19 is unnatural.
I have come across a report on Australian Media Centre where the evolutionary virologist Edward Holmes of the University of Sydney reveals that "the level of genome sequence divergence between CoV-19 and the closest known bat relative in nature is equivalent to 50 years of natural evolutionary change, which suggests that CoV-19 is a synthetic creation in a lab either by insertion of suitable genetic material or, alternatively, growing different cultures in a laboratory with cells with the human ACE2 receptor. This process involves the gradual adaptations to bind the virus with the human receptor by "training" the virus to seek an efficient method of binding by natural random mutations until one progeny hits the jackpot. Although this process does not require insertions by extraneous genetic material (not strict engineering) because the virus itself produces the required adaptations, it is notheless a human interference with the natural world by breeding something for a, obviously, nefarious purpose. The great advantage of this process is to disguise the fact that it is a contrived lab creation.
There are many historically significant events the truth of which will remain hidden for a time. But this case involves a strong player (China) and it will – as wel las many outraged scientists worldwide – leave no stone unturned to reveal the unfathomable depth of the US's den of iniquity.
@CanSpeccySeraphim , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 11:07 am GMTBut as this epidemic is shaping up, it is likely that the estimated death toll will be comparable to that of the seasonal flu in a bad year.
That's not correct -- at all. Our hospital system in major cities like New York are NEVER brought to the brink with seasonal flu. The likely number of deaths from Covid-19 has already exceeded the number of deaths estimated from seasonal flu over the past 6 of 10 years -- in just over six weeks. And that's under unprecedented quarantine.
Quoted numbers of deaths are as unreliable as the number of infections.
Numbers do not need to be 100% "reliable" in this case. Many of those who have died have done so in hospital where they have been tested. We can also measure the baseline death rate in NYC. When we do, we find a tremendous daily increase far and above anything caused since 9/11. Clearly, there is something going around that city that is killing lots of people. No flu in recent memory has done that.
Cause of death as stated in a death certificate is often, and even usually, wrong, and during an epidemic caused by a virus that induces respiratory difficulty it is likely that virtually all deaths due to respiratory dysfunction will be attributed to the virus without confirmatory evidence.
This kind of flawed logic could be used to dismiss virtually any epidemic. At some point the number of deaths is so high that no counter argument could reasonably be believed. We've already reached that point. There are only so many respiratory deaths that occur over any time period. Even if we moved 100% from other categories over to Covid-19 we would still find peculiarities in the data.
Deaths in New York City Are More Than Double the Usual Total
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/10/upshot/coronavirus-deaths-new-york-city.html
Furthermore, virtually all deaths of persons testing positive for covid19 will be attributed to the virus even though the deceased may have had multiple other diseases, any one of which could have been the cause of death.
That's certainly only going to be minor contributory factor. Huge numbers of people above the average baseline don't just magically drop dead from other causes all at the same time. If someone gets Covid-19 and dies, it is reasonable to assume it was the proximate cause in the majority of cases. Only so many people die from X at any one time. If twice that number start dying all at the same time, there is a problem.
"Herd immunity is likely now widespread, so the thing should fizzle out soon, with or without continued population incarceration."
Please do not comment on things you clearly don't understand. It is estimated that no more than a few percent of the American population has been exposed to Sars2 (Covid-19). Herd immunity requires some high multiple of that number. We are nowhere near herd immunity. You don't even know what that means in all likelihood.
@nsa Whom to believe? Australia had, as per today 21.04.2020, 6,642 cases and 71 dead. Seventy-one, not 120. South Korea on the 18.04. only 232.Anon [323] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 11:12 am GMTProfessor Luc Montagnier, Who Won Nobel Prize For Codiscovering AIDS Virus, has said COVID-19's HIV "strains" could be put there in the virus's RNA only by human expert intervention in a laboratory.Jim Christian , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 11:15 am GMT
The excerpt from the French TV program where he said it can be found on YouTube.What's "funny" is the way most USA, or, how should we say?, USA-close, media reports the fact, starting from misleading headers (headers which, as usual for the USA and, how should we say?, USA-close media, are all clones, with tiny changes from one to the other).
Professor Luc Montagnier, Who Won Nobel Prize For Codiscovering AIDS Virus, Says Coronavirus Was Man-Made In Wuhan Lab.
This, when the professor clearly stated he is only a scientist, and he only wanted to relate facts that many other research groups have found but have been left unsaid due to enormous pressure, and he stated equally clearly that it is not his knowledge, duty, competence, will, to give opinions on who did it, where, why.
@Godfree RobertsBer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 11:22 am GMTThe average IQ of China's top 5,000 political leaders is 140
Have not most of the all-time Evil Greats been brilliant? We have them, Russia has them. How is China having them unique? If Ron's suspicions over this are close to true and even if not, we already have volumes of evidence in so many other situations proving we have brilliant evil-doers aplenty on the U.S. side in any case.
The rest of your points are agreeable to me. But every time I've hung my hat on the 'brilliant' high-I.Q.-types I'm always disappointed. They test well but in command of things they bring us wars and now this. The medical people are high-I.Q. as hell, they've vacuumed up half our GDP and research dollars for 100 years now and it's their job to have had this in hand. Like our high-I.Q. generals and admirals the past 75 years, they're losing another war for us. The high IQ sorts in finance are another group. We're a nation in serious decline and from where I sit, the high-IQs are merely managing said decline.
High I.Q.s just don't cut it from where I sit. Could be jealousy. My IQ is some where between a pineapple and radish, a yam maybe..
@no bat soup for you There is so much talk about Chinese will eat just about anything but there is usually no focus on other people in the world for doing similar things.skeptik23 , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 11:25 am GMTThe Chinese eat bamboo rats, the French and Belgiums eat rats too – besides snails. Some people in Asian countries eat cats and dogs, the Swiss by the thousands, eat cats and dogs. The members of Explorers' Club in New York eat just about anything as well. But to top it all, there is even have a cannibal club in LA that specializes in eating human flesh.
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Our exclusive clientele includes noted filmmakers, intellectuals, and celebrities who have embraced the Enlightenment ideals of free expression and rationalism. On event nights, avant-garde performance artists, celebrated literary figures, and ground-breaking musicians entertain our guests.
At Cannibal Club, we celebrate artistic excellence as the natural and inevitable expression of the unbridled human spirit.Now just listen to their music:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/epoHB_yZ1uU?feature=oembed
Brilliant work I have been researching everything I can find, while placing the totality of events in the context of US IC/DS ops The "botched biowarfare" attack fits the data the best by far. Thanks for this report.Anon [262] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 11:30 am GMT@Been_there_done_thatTruthseeker56890 , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 11:30 am GMTThose who praise China's alleged competence in the matter have a dilemma to deal with. Either the authorities are competent
There is no "dilemma." They detected an outbreak and dealt with it competently. Your government run by a reality show host didn't. It's as simple as that. You can deflect all you want, but it really boils down to that.
in which case they effectively waged biological warfare against the rest of the world
Nothing the Chinese did forced other countries to keep their borders open. Several countries like Israel closed them before Donald Trump did. Nothing China did forced Trump into not taking this seriously until it was too late.
[MORE]Trump calls coronavirus Democrats' 'new hoax'
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-calls-coronavirus-democrats-new-hoax-n1145721
"It's going to disappear. One day it's like a miracle, it will disappear," Trump told attendees at an African American History Month reception in the White House Cabinet Room. The World Health Organization says the virus has "pandemic potential" and medical experts have warned it will spread in the US. The President added that "from our shores, you know, it could get worse before it gets better. Could maybe go away. We'll see what happens. Nobody really knows."
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/27/politics/trump-coronavirus-disappear/index.html
Trump allegedly asked Fauci if officials could let coronavirus 'wash over' US
In Trump's 'LIBERATE' tweets, extremists see a call to arms
Stimulus checks to bear Trump's name in unprecedented move
https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Stimulus-checks-to-bear-Trump-s-name-in-15202400.php
'God help us': Americans horrified after Trump names Jared and Ivanka to his 'Council to Re-open America'
Trump threatens India 'retaliation' over unproven drug
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52180660
US 'wasted' months before preparing for coronavirus pandemic
A review of federal purchasing contracts by The Associated Press shows federal agencies largely waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders of N95 respirator masks, mechanical ventilators and other equipment needed by front-line health care workers.
https://apnews.com/090600c299a8cf07f5b44d92534856bc
'I felt I had a moral obligation': Tucker Carlson crashed Mar-a-Lago party to talk with Trump about the coronavirus
2 Phylogenetic studies have been done to suggest America was the source of the virus.Truth3 , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 11:38 am GMTThis study suggests that Type A strain the earliest type of the SARS-COV2, was mostly found in the US. While in China it was mostly type B, another strain mutated from Type A.
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/04/07/2004999117This study suggests there are 2 sources of spread, however in countries from Brazil, Italy, Australia, Sweden and South Korea , some cases are tie to the US cluster but not to China. So this suggest some cases were directly spread from the US. Japan commented it was from the US because they had the virus from traveling to Hawaii and they never went to China.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.09.034942v1here in this video presentation some arguments that supports the US had this virus in between August 2019 and Jan 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/3J6zm6zgah0?feature=oembed
A possible scenario is they developed a few Sars-Cov2 bio-weapon strains the B and C strains from the A strain. They wanted to find a vaccine for it before they can be deployed, but in developing the vaccine they leaked the A type out into the US. They had to make a decision, let the public know about it or cover it up and release the B and C strain without the vaccine. I think they did the latter.
But you be the judge, we need more transparency from the CDC and more research before any conclusions can be made.Once again Mr. Unz unleashes a Tour de Force upon the Global Power Liars.dimples , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 11:41 am GMTWell done, Sir. Truth wins in the end.
@dimples Of course I completely failed to mention in the above comment that it's the War on Terror that's coming to a close. Russia Russia Russia! has been an attempt to fill the gap but its not going anywhere due to opposition from the Euros.dimples , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 11:52 am GMTThe slow US reaction to the virus could therefore seen not as incompetence but a deliberate process of sowing more destruction, thus more China-hate later, ie its part of the plot. Also the virus is not too deadly, just enough to create a big scare and over-reaction amongst the authorities and public.
@Mustapha Mond Yes IF there is a conspiracy that would be it. I have also come to this conclusion in other comments but you have described it much better than myself.anon [215] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 11:54 am GMT@Christopher Marlowe The flying drones over pig farms is nonsense from Metallicman, who is a controlled-opp deep asset that speaks 80-90% truth and 10-20% lies.Half Back , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 11:55 am GMTI tried looking into the flying drones a bit, but couldn't confirm any of it.
@Ayatollah Smith I want to add Trump's early response to the corona virus shows Trumps and American duplicity. I used to watch a TV show 'Lie to me' with actor Tim Roth. Anyway people give away all kind of knowledge when they communicate. So my take that Trump's call that it's like a bad flu or it's nothing to worry about, reveals knowledge that it is American attack and that he (Trump) worries if it gets 'out' that the trump administration is culpable, so he tries to downplay corona virus and his own role in it!denk , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 12:01 pm GMT
"Donald A Thomson , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 12:15 pm GMTBlow back
The first thought comes to mind .
Its a feature , not a bug.OOps, several posters already noted it.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
To recap ..The Who test.. ..
Who's the motive ?
Who benefits ?
Who's the means ?
Who's a seventy years old track record of extreme malfeasance against China ?
Who's a track record of using bioweapons on friends and foe, including its own citizens ?
Who's a track record of committing FF , including many cases against China ?
[TAM, Tibet, Xinjiang, HK, Mh370, INdon genocide 1965,
..]
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- --Occams Razor .
There's a serial arsonist in town, he has been caught setting fire to John's house dozens of times in the past few months.
JOhn's house caught fire last night
Who's the first suspect to haul in for interrogation ?
Elementary, Watson.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -Last but not least.
Mathematics doesnt cheat
Ian Flaming's fundamental law of prob .
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, thrice ..How many 'coincidences' occur in the Wuhan caper. ?
-- -- -- -- -- -- –
Conclusion.Whichever way you look at it,
Logic, Circumstantial evidences and Mathematics all points to
We know who.@swamped The high casualties in the NATO countries are due to their own reluctance to do anything for so long. Look at the total number that have been infected and the current new infection rates in South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. South Korea prepared better than anybody but was cursed with a Christian sect that also had churches in Wuhan. They stayed close together for a long time in their churches to increase community feeling and, since God was looking after their health, were reluctant to admit to being ill. Yet South Korea shits on every NATO country in fighting COVID-19. So do Australia and New Zealand in spite of their extremely poor use of the 2 months warning provided by China and the DNA sequence of the virus provided by China on 12th of January, 2020. As soon as the Chinese methods were applied, the same success with humans was achieved. Now the NATO countries are aping China too, they are starting to have the same human success. They will continue with success as long as they continue aping. The Yanks are losers like other NATO members because they didn't bother to ape until they were heavily infected. I stress that Australia and New Zealand did very badly (only about 10 times better than the USA but 4 times worse than China who we should have beaten easily) because they were slow to ape. We only look wonderful when compared with NATO. Actually, we also do about 5 times better than Iran too. Even with sanctions crippling their response, Iran has done twice as well as the US losers. When it becomes a matter of drug and vaccine development where the USA has real strengths, I expect the USA to do as well as China but it's a low tech battle right now and the Yank boys haven't done well against the Chinese or Iranian men in that competition. Who would expect them to? [email protected]Vojkan , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 12:19 pm GMT@Godfree Roberts The reasons you enumerate apply to individual people, they don't apply to governments. It is true that a rational individual should prefer truth because truth is mostly self-sufficient while lies need to be reasserted permanently. The rationality of truth vs lies is very much like the rationality of well-designed software vs badly designed software. Good design as truth demands less maintenance. The problem is that it doesn't keep programmers busy and it doesn't justify budgets. A government, the "deep state" moreover, need to keep maintenance costs high to perpetrate themselves.Anonymous [538] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 12:23 pm GMT
The crucial question very few seem to be asking is the question of motive. Many commenters here project on the Chinese their own traits. The problem is that what can be said of Western elites can't be said of Chinese elites because the Chinese have different motives altogether. There's one motive they didn't have, to provoke a crisis. Viruses don't hop out of labs by accident any more than gold hops out of Fort Knox. One has to bring them out and the Chinese had no reason to do it.
Regarding the US on the other hand, though I disagree with Ron Unz's assertion that this particular US administration is more reckless and less competent than those that preceded it, seen from abroad it just appears as less hypocrite, to keep the story short I'll just say that hubris tends to cloud judgment and that desperate times ask for desperate measures.Sounds entirely plausible, and, to be parsimonious, even probable. The last element to make it feasible was leaving Trump entirely out of the loop. He still won't have a clue if he's standing in the dock at the Hague years from now. Everything he will ever know about this fiasco will be from light reading material they allow him in his cell.Quintus , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 12:23 pm GMTThe Deep State made the right bet when they decided late in the race to hack the election in favor of the Donald rather than the Queen of Warmongers. Nobody would ever expect the self-described peace candidate to escalate the ongoing hybrid wars to germ warfare. (Though maybe the use of chemical weapons by America's proxies in Syria should have been a hint.) Now the world knows, the Satanists in charge of Washington will stop at nothing.
@Mustapha Mond I 100% agree with you, Mustapha Mond. Much as I admire Ron for in so many ways for his other topnotch contributions and running this site, one of the very best news sites IMO, the evidence at hand does not suggest incompetence on the part of the US government and the deep state behind it: it's definitely an Atlanticist plandemic. Godfree Roberts showed that many steps the Trump administration took the past two years were meant to pave the way for enabling the government to play the "we didn't see this coming" card, just as with 9/11:Astuteobservor II , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 12:29 pm GMTNot mentioned in Roberts' piece is the US's PREDICT biological outbreak program, conveniently shut down in October 2019:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/health/predict-usaid-viruses.html
At the same time, the US Health Dept was running Crimson Contagion in the first half of 2019, simulating a deadly flu pandemic starting in China (as I recall). Even the US Naval War College ran a pandemic simulation causing respiratory failure:
Everyone knows about Event 201 at this point, in October 2019, sponsored by the Gates Foundation, Bloomberg via Johns Hopkins, and the World Economic Forum, simulating specifically a coronavirus pandemic. What are the odds that the organizers of Event 201 were just lucky in picking a coronavirus, knowing there are 150 other virus families, besides coronaviruses (e.g. rhinoviruses, adenoviruses, etc.):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_virus_families_and_subfamilies
That's a 1/151 chance! Lucky bastards! Present at Event 201 were recycled players involved in the 9/11 anthrax attack simulation 'Dark Winter', such as Thomas Inglesby, as documented by Whitney Webb. Not to mention the 2011 movie 'Contagion', involving a flu-like pandemic originating in China (Hong Kong),transmitted from bats to humans in an unsanitary environment!!! Another financial reset was also long overdue, as Greg Mannarino and others have pointed out: the coronavirus cover was too perfect of a tool for deflecting the guilt from the Fed and the banksters; killing many birds with one stone, the virus is also a 2) powerful psy-op hurting China's image in the world, 3) further delivering a strong blow to its export-driven economy; 4) it sets the stage for the cashless society ("dirty bills not accepted here!"), the advent of digital currencies and 5) top-down surveillance.
@Jeremygg5 You take a retarded sub human too seriously. Using logic and reason will get you no where.Astuteobservor II , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 12:37 pm GMTIt is regretful that a sub human took the first comment spot. It will attract more of it's type.
@Vaterland If we go along on that theory of yours, it would all make sense if China said no to the transition.Astuteobservor II , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 12:39 pm GMTWhy would the current Chinese elites share their country and power with outsiders? That makes no sense for the elites of China.
@Octavian That reads like the perfect scenario for cold war 2.0 or the last hot war on earth.anon [114] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 12:45 pm GMTAnonymous [395] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 12:45 pm GMTSo either the China's leadership had suddenly gone insane, or they regarded this new virus as an absolutely deadly national threat, one that needed to be controlled at any possible cost.
Those are not the only choices, Ron.
Here is another one for you:
– CCP knew this virus had a low fatality rate;
– CCP were aware of recent (DoD iirc) readiness assessments noting that US had specific vulnerability to a pandemic;
– CCP was aware that the captive Chinese people were alrady subject to 'herd control' infrastructure whereas the US population still enjoyed human rights;
– CCP decided to sow confusion about the infection. ("We can do this, but their society will fall apart Comrades!")
– The West initially chose to ignore this. Then the Corporate Press "International" decided to put psyops pressure to force US and UK to do a 180 u-turn. This due to a single lousy non-peer-reviewed paper at the Imperial College.
Must read writeup on Imperial College and their hysterical white paper : https://www.voltairenet.org/article209749.html
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Some other considerations that can inform the above are (a) the attitude of CCP towards 'world government' institutions, and (b) their relationship with WHO, in particular.
So option 3, Mr. Unz:
CCP used the (controlled?) exposure of a virus ("17") to put into motion a psychological operation to sow confusion and panic in US (based on our own published findings on readiness) that seems to have other participants in the Globalist crowd institutions. The primary target was USA, but NATO as well.
Btw, Mr. Unz, that ex-CIA psyops writer you host on your site (Giraldi) keeps censoring my comments on his propaganda pieces. Why do allow them a platform and also permit them to censor rebuttals? Hopefully you will prevent UNZ Review from becoming UNZ Pravda.
Ron, you need to rewrite this essay. If minor websites carry articles blaming China the presumption is these articles are falsifications seeded by Trump, but if wildly sensationalist Chinese propaganda pieces come from unknown sources like OldMicrobiologist or Metallicman then they're reliable? Wow is all I can say.Gorgeous George , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 12:55 pm GMTSuggesting Lieber's creds set him above espionage and bio sabotage against the United States is the best you can do? Your overwrought defense of this man is telling, given his "assistants" are provably Chinese bio espionage agents and he secretly agreed to take a post as director of the Wuhan lab.
In the same vein, did you know that the Johns Hopkins' inflammatory "dashboard" world map seen and used everywhere was developed by a 30-year-old Chinese "student," Ensheng Dong, working for Johns Hopkins? Using Edward Tufte's "Lie Factor" for evaluating the exaggeration of a graphical representation relative to the underlying data puts the Johns Hopkins map so far in the lie category as to warrant an FBI investigation of Johns Hopkins and its employees for causing irreparable economic and societal harm to the United States. In an NPR puff piece gushing over the map's creators, "all sitting around a table sipping lattes," Dong is quoted as saying it's like showing blood everywhere. That's quite accurate from the proud creator considering the irreparable harm that map has been in large part responsible for creating.
One correction for the beginning of the article. The 1999 bombing campaign against Yugoslavia wasn't directed against Bosnian Serbs. That was the 1995 campaign and had nothing to do with the Chinese Embassy being hit. It seems that you simply got the 1995 NATO bombing of Bosnian Serbs (entirely in Bosnia) and the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro – when the Chinese (brand new) embassy was hit) mixed up.Max Powers , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 12:56 pm GMTInteresting thing – the Japanese current embassy is on the exact grounds where the Chinese one used to be. I find some funny symbolism in that.
@Jim Jatras Yep. Unz lost me with that comment. And very sloppy by his high standards. The NATO 1999 bombings were to support the Albanians in Kosovo – not the Bosnian muslims. I suggest Ron does some homework on the whole Yugo Wars period. Maybe even back to ottoman times.Gorgeous George , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:03 pm GMT@Anonymous I think that he obviously got the two NATO bombing campaigns mixed up.UK , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:03 pm GMT
NATO bombed Bosnian Serbs (entirely in Bosnia) in 1995 to protect its interests under the guise of protecting Bosnian muslims. This is what Unz supports.
NATO bombed Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) in 1999 when the Chinese embassy was hit.Let's not make the comments spiral off into the Serbia/NATO conflict details. The point of the entire mention of the bombing is that there is sincere indication that the US hit the Chinese embassy on purpose. That much was clear since day 1 as the embassy was a brand new building and you couldn't mistake it for a previous occupant or anything of the sort. It was a message to China.
@swamped While I don't agree that China would have done this on purpose as I am generally doubtful of all similar theories, it would nonetheless also explain why China banned all movement to the rest of China from Wuhan while not only allowing the Wuhan infected to infiltrate the West but actually vociferously and ubiquitously complaining about Western racists for thinking about not allowing them in.Biff , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:11 pm GMT@hs4691506UK , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:12 pm GMTI think it was Zero-hedge that said the professor lied about his Chinese funding, making him in effect an agent of China.
You need to understand the system in place. The book Three Felonies a Day outlines the how, but does't really cover the why, and there lies the devil in the details. When they want you, all they have to do is pour over your life' details, and they will find something nefarious as a tool to put you in stern and squeeze.
There is million different details and forms to fill out when securing foreign funds for a university; most of the rules and the process is ad hoc, and more often a lot of it is ignored, and of course – certain countries have certain rules. The good professor didn't do anything that was completely out of the norm. It's nearly impossible in this society to be crime free – by design.Think of all the people near Trump during his Russian Collusion investigation that went to jail or indicted – most if not all were dragged in on the many petty illegalities that plague our legal system for a reason. Illegalities that on a normal day most people ignore until it is politically expedient for the authorities to use them.
This is how a Police State operates.You don't have to believe me; just ask Tommy Chong, Martha Stewart, etc .
@Ber You think there is a restaurant serving human flesh in Los Angeles? You are an abject moron.Really No Shit , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:15 pm GMTEt tu, Brute? You're worried more about the Chinese embassy in Belgrade and Bosnian Muslims than the destruction of that great Christian Serbia by the Clintons & cabal shame!TomSchmidt , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:15 pm GMTAccording to Matthews the infamous massacre had likely never happened9/11 Inside job , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:19 pm GMTIn the mid 1990s, I worked with a man of Chinese ancestry in New York named Henry Sun. Henry had been in Beijing at Tiananmen Square. He had been shot. What happened afterward was that he was treated by doctors for the bullet wound, and they had coded the illness as some sort of cancer, so that it would not be obvious that he was a dissident and so be arrested.
Now, I cannot say that someone was killed. I can say that personal testament to me from a credible witness indicates bullets were flying, and one struck him. Maybe that's not a massacre, by whatever means that word is defined. But it wasn't a Chinese tea ceremony.
I am a retired attorney and I am heartened to see that some attorneys, namely David Helm in Michigan and Lindy Urso in Connecticut ,are beginning to file lawsuits to revoke unlawful and unconstitutional Executive"Coronavirus" Orders issued by the Governors of the States of Michigan and Connecticut. I have long maintained that almost every Executive Order issued by State Governors are revocable as they are based on a lie, promoted by the WHO and the CDC ,that there is a Coronavirus pandemic and an international public health emergency .Rafael Martorell , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:21 pm GMTeverything China have and everything USA has been lost was done with the complicity and personal gain of 99% of the usa elite,political class,including CIA,etc and even the likes of Michael Jordan.Anonymous [235] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:26 pm GMTAnother great article.Godfree Roberts , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:27 pm GMTWhoever decides to believe this embarrassingly transparent anti-China propaganda is stupidly siding with Soros and his Global Deep State golems. This will be the latest IQ test for those who struggled with all the previous ones (incubator babies, Iraqi WMDs, Quaddafi's Viagra, Hillary's electability, Russiagate etc.).
@Jim Christian High IQ is just an entry level requirement. They have 300,000 folks with 160 IQ, so 140 is not that exceptional.Johnny Walker Read , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:27 pm GMTNew recruits' first posting is 5 years in the poorest village in the country. They 'graduate' after they've raised everyone's incomes by 50%. Then the career path gets really steep.
The people who are visible to us have been so thoroughly scrutinized that it's almost painful to contemplate. Here's Zhao Bing Bing[1], a mid-level Liaoning[2] Province official talking about her mid-level, provincial promotion to Daniel Bell:
[MORE]I was promoted in 2004 through my department's internal competition (30 percent on written exam results, 30 percent on interviews and public speaking, 30 percent on public opinion of my work and 10 percent on education, seniority and my current position) and became the youngest deputy division chief. In 2009, Liaoning Province (pop. 44 million), announced in the national media an open selection of officials. Sixty candidates met the qualifications, the top five of whom were invited for further interviews. Based on their test scores (40 percent) and interview results (60 percent), the top three were then appraised. The Liaoning Province Organizational Department sent four appraisers who spent a whole day checking my previous records. Eighty of my colleagues were asked to vote–more than thirty of whom were asked to talk with the appraisers about my merits and shortcomings–and they submitted the appraisal result to the provincial Standing Committee of the CCP for review.
In principle, the person who scored the highest and whose appraisals were not problematic would be promoted. However, because my university major, work experience and previous performance were the best fit for the position, I was finally appointed department chief of the Liaoning Provincial Foreign Affairs Office even though my overall score was second best [the government discriminates positively in promoting women–ed]. Before the official appointment there was a seven-day public notice period during which anybody could report to the organization department concerns about my promotion. I didn't spend any money during my three promotions; all I did was study and work hard and do my best to be a good person.
In 2013, thanks to an exchange program, I worked temporarily in the CCP International Department. The system of temporary exchanges offers opportunities to learn about different issues in different regions and areas like government sectors and SOEs. In a famous quote Chairman Mao said, "Once the political lines have been clearly defined the decisive factor will be the cadres [trained specialists]." So the CCP highly values organizational construction and the selection and appointment of specialists. There is a special department managing this work, The Organization Department, established in 1924 and Mao was its first leader..The department is mainly responsible for the macro management of the leaders and the staff (team building), including the management system, regulations and laws, human resource system reforms -- planning, research and direction, as well as proposing suggestions on the leadership change and the (re)appointment of cadres. In addition, it has the responsibilities of training and supervising cadres. The cadre selection criteria are: a person must have 'both ability and moral integrity and the latter should be prioritized'. The evaluation of moral integrity focuses mostly on loyalty to the Party, service to the people, self-discipline and integrity. Based on different levels and positions, the emphases of evaluation are also different. For intermediate and senior officials, emphasis is on their persistence in faith and ideals, political stance and coordination with the central Party. High-level cadres are measured against great politicians and, among them, experience in multiple positions is very important.
Fans follow the careers of one-thousand top politicians online[3] and they are impressive, as President Donald Trump[4] observed, "Their leaders are much smarter than our leaders. It's like taking the New England Patriots and Tom Brady and have them play your high school football team. That's the difference between China's leaders and our leaders".
Today's leaders began their careers in the 1960s as manual laborers in dirt-poor villages and won promotions by raising village incomes by fifty percent. As they rose, they spent sabbaticals on the lake-studded campus of The Academy of Governance where they met the world's leading thinkers, critiqued legislation and earned PhDs. They now run huge provinces, Fortune 500 corporations, universities, space programs and, of course, government departments and the Peoples Daily reords their progress under headlines like, "How Rural Poverty Criteria Affects Mayoral Promotions."

[1] Daniel Bell and Zhao Bing Bing, The China Model.
[2] Liaoning (pop. 45 million) is a northeastern Chinese province bordering North Korea and the Yellow Sea.
[3] The Committee https://macropolo.org/the-committee/
[4] Donald Trump says Tom Brady and the Patriots are just like China. Boston.com . By Steve Silva July 6, 2015Thank God this "scamdemic" was not planned long ago and shown to us through predictive programmingutu , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:28 pm GMT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=187&v=5krD8zJ6-bY&feature=emb_logo@anon There is on little problem with your hasbara. Those great strategic planners in China of yours forgot about one little thing that the West has 100% dominance over China in the soft power of creating global narratives with which it will turn China into a pariah nation in the eyes of everybody, a nation that everybody hates.Biff , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:32 pm GMT@TGutu , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:34 pm GMTI personally think this was either the result of the so-called "wet-markets" in China – long known to be the primary source of the annual flu epidemics
I've been going to markets in Asia all my adult life and suddenly they are both the source of flu epidemics and "wet".
Unless it is raining the second one makes everything seem so ridiculous.(why the heck haven't they been shut down??)
Because people would starve?
Try throwing some blame(buying food makes you sick!) at your big box corporate food monopolies and try to shut them down – take a guess at what might happen?
@Anonymous Is that you, John "WE KNOW WHERE YOUR KIDS LIVE" Bolton?anon [114] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:43 pm GMT"hasbara"Emslander , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:47 pm GMTYour Mama , you purveyour of ad-homs.
"the West has 100% dominance over China in the soft power of creating global narratives"
Oh, really, "the West"? Last I checked there was a war in "The West" between two camps of elites of "The West" for our public consumption.
"a nation that everybody hates"
No, that would be your Mama's "homeland", Israel.
@Tor597 Except, it would be helpful if Ron placed somewhere prominantly on the home page that he is a card-carrying member of the "Resistance" against Trump, which this article finally reveals full blast.Polymath , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:48 pm GMTToo much attention here on things which could have other explanations and too little attention on the real puzzles and on those things which science can definitely settle.glib , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:49 pm GMT(1) It is solvable, and it will be solved, where and when were the first cases of the infection among the general public outside China. Almost everything else depends on that.
(2) It is almost inconceivable that American agencies who had been plotting this would run it by Trump for approval first. It seems much more likely that the anonymously sourced report that our agencies knew about this in November is some kind of ass-covering to shift blame to Trump, whom these same agencies have been trying to take down for 4 years; which doesn't help us discern whether they were also responsible for the pathogen in the first place, it's consistent either way.
(3) The genome has been out there long enough, with no one pointing out inconsistencies that have held up to scrutiny, that "wild", "escaped from a lab", and "was evolved in a lab" all look much more likely than "was designed directly by RNA editing".
(4) China's behavior is much more consistent with accidental than with intentional release. They've obviously lied about the death toll and didn't feel obliged to prevent their people from traveling abroad, but ordinary Communist wickedness explains that.
(5) Travel between China and Iran and Italy explains the early prevalence there sufficiently, presuming genomic data we don't yet have will confirm this.Conclusion: Too early to get locked in to origin theories, the usual suspects are taking advantage in the same way they would whether or not it was an intentional release. THIS WILL ALL BE CLARIFIED BY TESTING OF OLD TISSUE SAMPLES so I'm going to wait and see what those results say. The reports of early COVID outside China have not been confirmed, but come from researchers WITH REAL NAMES, so it WILL get figured out one way or the other and I'm holding my fire until then.
P.S. Lieber is clearly a weird loose end that needs to be tied up. Is anyone trying to interview him?
Let's see. Here in the USA covid hit later, at a time when people have the lowest seasonal vitamin D (a major immune system hormone, with the population being 90%+ deficient). A fraction of the population being hit particularly hard has dark skin, further reducing the vit. D levels. That same fraction is over-represented among those who have metabolic syndrome (diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and the like), and that is related to all manners of immune system degradation. Then we have a medical system which looks only for profitable magic bullets, instead of trying a variety of cheap methods, each of which can increase the recovery rate by tens of percent.onebornfree , says: Website Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:53 pm GMTFinally we have lots and lots of nursing homes, unlike China. And a majority (more than 50%) of deaths comes from those places in Europe. Data from Italy suggests that privately run nursing homes are correlated with increased mortality, although it could just be extreme air pollution and/or other environmental factors. Data from Scandinavia suggest that nursing home size matters too, the smaller the better.
Why should one be surprised that this thing is hitting harder in the West?
R.Unz:"By any reasonable measure, the response to this global health crisis by China and most East Asian countries has been absolutely exemplary,"St-Germain , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:55 pm GMTYour transparent, never ending shilling for the murderous CCP is becoming more and more obvious, at least to myself. I'm starting to believe that this site is nothing more than a thinly disguised Chinese government propaganda outlet.
As in other recent threads, you fully endorse the CCP's criminal actions: lockdowns of [reportedly] 700 million Chinese citizens; literal lockdowns with citizens locked, even having their front doors welded shut by the "authorities",for weeks. The idiotic [unless deliberate], Chinese "solution" has probably already killed 1000's, if not 10's or 100's of thousands there via starvation alone, and the economic devastation caused in China will likely kill millions more Chinese in the years to come.
But that is all "exemplary" in your opinion, right? "To make an omelette you have to break a few eggs", right?
R.Unz:"Everyone knows that America's ruling elites are criminal, crazy, and also extremely incompetent."
Of course! "Everyone knows" that! [I wish].
What you [and some of them] don't know [or won't admit to themselves] is that this is no less true of the Chinese government, or of any other government, for that matter.
Reality fact: "Because they are all ultimately funded via both direct and indirect theft [taxes], and counterfeiting [central bank monopolies], all governments are essentially, at their very cores, 100% corrupt criminal scams which cannot be "reformed"or "improved",simply because of their innate criminal nature." onebornfree
Which means that believing/trusting official stories and figures doled out by competing criminal power structures, about _anything_, let alone actually supporting/promoting their idiotic and criminal acts [eg the Chinese, US and elsewhere lockdowns"], is a mugs game for useful idiots, nothing more. And yet, that is what you continue to consistently indulge yourself in here.
And so it goes No Regards, onebornfree
Thanks for the excellent wrapup, Ron Unz. Your cui bono approach works like a super-chloroquine dose to zap the anti-China virus now spreading from U.S. legacy media. What passes for news media here in Europe is no better. But apparently there are islands of sanity outside the Western imperial heartland. If you read French, you may find it encouraging to read some real journalism on the source of the carona plandemic here from darkest Africa:Greg Bacon , says: Website Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:55 pm GMTIt even includes U.S. sources like Dr. Daniel Lucey who apparently can't get a word in edgewise in the American press.
The same mendacious MSM that for three years howled at the moon that Putin had stolen the 2016 election for Trump is now barking like a mad dog about Covid being some kind of 21st Century version of the Black Death.denk , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:55 pm GMTNever mind that to get to the current figure of around 42,000 deaths, the CDC has been juicing the total number of dead by adding in those who died from a heart attack or stroke or some other medical complication, there was fear to be spread and by G-d, they were doing to scare the hell out of Americans, just like they did in the years after the Israeli masterminded 9/11 false flag.
Like Mr. Atzmon has pointed out, the 2017-18 flu season was much deadlier, yet there was no lock-downs, quarantines and a complete gutting of the US–and the worlds–economy.
The following may sound like a description of the current Novel Coronavirus pandemic: "The season began with an increase of illness in November; high activity occurred during January and February, and then illness continued through the end of March." You guessed right, this is not the description of the current global Corona pandemic but actually how CNN described the outbreak of influenza in America in September 2018.
Does it take a genius to figure out that the American 2017-18 influenza outbreak was pretty 'similar' to the current Novel Coronavirus epidemic?The first question that comes to mind is why didn't America lock itself down amidst its catastrophic 2017-18 influenza as it has now? One may wonder why the CDC didn't react to the 'severity' of the outbreak that was at least three times as lethal as the current Novel Coronavirus health crisis?
https://gilad.online/writings/2020/4/20/is-amnesia-a-symptom-of-covid-19
The Deep State thugs who are actually in charge of the US have some devious plan in mind with this Covid hysteria.
Maybe they wanted to see how quickly Americans would give up their Bill of Rights. Or maybe they wanted to cover up the multi-trillion dollar bailout of those TBTF banks that we bailed out in 2009?Or maybe this the test run for their next batch of weaponized flu, the one that will get many killed and have people lining up for Mr. Know-it-all Bill Gates RFID chipped flu vaccine.
@Anonymous Another explanationTurk 152 , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 1:56 pm GMTThe actual reason for the bombing was meant to cover-up NATO war crimes that were taking place almost daily, and the Chinese listening post located in the corner of the embassy that was bombed were intercepting orders issued by NATO which clearly revealed those crimes. The Chinese needed to be silenced and their operations ended, no matter the fallout.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article177116.html
In case you'r wondering what kind of war crimes your dear leaders were trying to cover up
https://web.archive.org/web/20120115150147/http://home.windstream.net/dwrighsr/a3820cf4d2861.html
My immediate gut reaction upon seeing the cartoon character version of a Muslim terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, was this is a fake designed to play on US xenophobia. He was obviously made for TV audiences.TomSchmidt , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:03 pm GMTI assumed after Skripal and the endless Assad gas arracks, that our ruling elite have just become lazy and couldn't even be bothered to create a plausible story to cover up their crimes, because the public is so stupid. How long did it take to determine it was a fraud, a weekend of casual reading?
Putting a mob style hit on Venezuala's President confirmed that they could care less what the Hoi Poloi think of them.
If this is a US caper, it is the either the most ridicoulosly stupid one imaginable, or the most well thought out one in a very long time.
I had not connected the intelligence reports (recently spilled out of the Deep State) with the obvious. Thanks, Ron, for pointing out that it's hard to imagine how the NSA/CIA/whoever-collecting-part-of-the-85bln-we-spend-on-intelligence could report on this in November when the sources from which they would have derived that information (the Chinese government itself) didn't know until December 31st, or shortly before that date when they reported to the WHO.JQ , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:09 pm GMTSomeone, in covering up for blowing the response to the virus, really dropped the ball.
Ill leave it at this :davidgmillsatty , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:15 pm GMTScientists from the UK have a recent paper on the mutations of Corona-19.Rafael Martorell , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:15 pm GMTHere is part of the abstract:
In a phylogenetic network analysis of 160 complete human severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) genomes, we find three central variants distinguished by amino acid changes, which we have named A, B, and C, with A being the ancestral type according to the bat outgroup coronavirus. The A and C types are found in significant proportions outside East Asia, that is, in Europeans and Americans. In contrast, the B type is the most common type in East Asia, and its ancestral genome appears not to have spread outside East Asia without first mutating into derived B types, pointing to founder effects or immunological or environmental resistance against this type outside Asia.
And here are the findings in diagram form:
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/04/07/2004999117
I think these findings throw lots of water on any bioweapon claims. But others may differ in their opinions.
It definitely does indicate that the virus did not come from a Wuhan lab or the Wuhan wet market. It originated in Southern China where most people knowledgeable about bat viruses expect bat viruses to originate.
you are mistakenly assuming and given for granted that this epidemic is much more lethat than others,that the total closure is beneficial and not harmfull,that is the solution ,you are deciding who to try to save regardless of the millions of victims of this economic harakiri,and there are many epidemiologists who disagree with you.journey80 , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:15 pm GMT"COVID-19" testing in the U.S. is unverified, developed by the CDC. Which should tell you what you need to know about its credibility.Beefcake the Mighty , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:17 pm GMTPost-Corona, there seems to be a lot of wannabes angling for one of Ron's coveted golden showers, I mean stars.Greg Bacon , says: Website Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:18 pm GMTOne more thought: The US has over 25 bio-warfare labs that are located next door to Russia and China that have been called out before for their sloppy or maybe deliberate release of pathogens.Ozymandias , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:29 pm GMThttps://www.globalresearch.ca/us-biological-warfare-program-in-the-spotlight-again/5654064
How many of those kind of labs does Russia or China have in Mexico or Canada?None that I'm aware of.
Like the old saying goes: "Admit nothing, Deny everything and Make counter-accusations." Sounds like Humpty Trumpty's Covid blame-shifting plan.
@Jeremygg5Beefcake the Mighty , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:30 pm GMTThe WHO too only had high praises for China's transparency and efficiency.
Would that be the same WHO that said chinese disease was not communicable between humans and that we should keep letting infected people into the country? That's who we should trust? Or should we trust the communist government that shut down domestic travel to and from Wuhan, because they were trying to protect the rest of THEIR country, while still allowing international travel, because they wanted the rest of the planet infected?
This virus may or may not have been engineered, and may have come from the lab or the wet market. These things are debatable. But what is absolutely not debatable is that once the virus was loose, China choose to DELIBERATELY infect the rest of the world. These are people whose numbers we should trust?
@Ozymandias " Lol. I can't believe you're doubling down on this jackassery."Jus' Sayin'... , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:30 pm GMTOnce you realize that the alt-right is a limited hangout, it makes perfect sense.
@hs4691506Robert White , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:33 pm GMT" I think it strange that now we have all these cross-overs from the animal kingdom."
In actuality, we've regularly had these crossovers and almost all seem to emanate from somewhere in China, e.g.,
1889–1890 Asian or Russian Flu Pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889%E2%80%931890_flu_pandemic
1918-1919 "Spanish" Flu Pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Hypotheses_about_the_source Despite the name the most likely theory is that this pathogen, an H1N1 virus, originated in China and mutated to become highly lethal in Europe or European-settled countries as a result of WW I. S
1957-1958 Asian Flu Pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957%E2%80%9358_influenza_pandemic
1968-1969 Hong Kong Flu Pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu
2002-2004 SARS outbreak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome
2009-2010 Swine Flu Pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic A new strain of the H1N1 virus type that was responsible for the 1918-1919 Pandemic
Taking a scientific approach to American deep state biowarfare attack on China's Wuhan district is telling in so far as Americans literally control tertiary education throughout the entire world via funding in the trillions.anonymous [400] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:33 pm GMTIf the deep state wants to eliminate academics it can do so with merely a phone call to Law Enforcement branches at a moments notice so that research & hard drives can be confiscated and destroyed early on in investigations.
Once the media & journalistic propaganda arms of state get hold of the official talking points to be disseminated the end game zero sum result is usually exactly what the state arms of propaganda have wanted all along.
To be frank, I am an Intel thinker and am well aware of the details of the CIA led biowarfare attack on China, but attaining the required data in empirical form via Requests for Information from government is NOT going to ever yield synthesis required for scientific peer-review research.
Bottom line is that the CIA had one CIA Agent/Operative deploy the nCov-19 in late October as the USA Military contingent was departing Wuhan district. The operative deployed the bioweapon via glass ampule smashed onto the ground to the entrance way for the Wuhan restaurant district near to the Wuhan Wet Market. Moreover, his CIA handler gave him the protocol & instruction on deployment of the bioweapon back in the United States of America long before the actual deployment.
Lastly, Fort Detrick scientists developed the Chimera super-spreading viral pathogenicity with a herd of pigs in the USA before hand in around 2012. Logistics of setting up the Wuhan BSL-4 laboratory scientists for the false flag event of biowarfare were dependent upon academic arrests before hand so that deflection & impression management for governance would clearly be able to utilize plausible deniability where required.
In sum, as one acutely aware of the bioterrorism that the United States of America has unleashed on the world covertly I, for one, can assure all that the US Deep State knowingly unleashed nCov-19 to undermine China's meteoric rise in the financial world due to America's incompetence writ large across the board since the Great Financial Crisis revealed that America is swimming naked and their Emperor is wearing no clothes to reveal his infinitesimally small Johnson in contradistinction to President Johnson's Johnson which was historically infamous.
P.S. The USA Deep State can get in line to lick my balls in deference to my superior intellect.
Thank you, thank you very much!
RW
First, can researchers take a look at this virus and determine with certainty whether it was artificially concocted in a lab or if it simply evolved out in the open? If so then that would help focus the discussion. If not then things will remain opaque.Astuteobservor II , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:36 pm GMT
The Iranian government outbreak is strange but then people congregating with each other, like at ski resorts, pass it to each other. If it was a US biowarfare attack then how did US agents get access to them? They wouldn't have the cover of some delegation to an event such as military games. But what was the effect on Iran? Zero. Some top leaders got sick and some older members died. They have replacements and the government continues without missing a beat. This idea that an ideal bioweapon would be highly contagious with a low lethal rate so as to tie up resources and halt the economy sounds good but in practice it's hardly more than harassment. It slowed up the Chinese economy but that's a temporary blip and they're back now. The US and other countries are hardest hit economically. Many businesses will never recover. This is self-inflicted. The lethality of this virus looks to be increasingly lower and lower each time one looks despite all the Chicken Littles who were screaming that the sky was about to fall. Was there a purpose for that?
The Wuhan outbreak coincided with the military games but things happen at random times as it is. People were crowded in there. The various plagues and viruses have been going from East to West for a very long time now. The problem is that currently there are many who have an interest in lying and misdirecting things which further muddy the waters.@Emslander What is crazy and funny is that supposed trump supporters thinks China would shrink it's economy by 6.8% for the first quarter of 2020 to help Trump's opposition.denk , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:42 pm GMTThe same supposed supporters don't even realized that the best way for trump to win the next election is to stamp out this damn virus asap. Denying is not going to work. Testing n quarantine combo is what would work. It is why trump changed his tune.
Dumbasses. Crazy n stupid.
Who's a track record of extreme malfeasance against China, since ww2 ?refl , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:43 pm GMT1950 Korean war,
1959 Tibet,
1962 Indo./sino war,
1965 [[[CIA/MI5]]] INdon genocide on ethnic Chinese.
1989 TAM,
1998 Indon pogrom , mass rapes on ethnic Chinese
1999 BOmbing of Chinese embassy in ex Yugo,
2001 Hainan spy plane, Chinese pilot died.
2003 SARS1,
2008 Tibet riots,
2009 Xinjiang bloodbath,
2013 Bird flu H7N9 , Asia pivot
2014 Xinjiang, HK, Mh370, bubonic plague, Ebola, Dengue,
2018 bird flu, H7N9
2019 HK, Xinjiang, swine flu, army worms,
2020 SARS2, H5N1, locusts .All biowarfare attacks highlighted.
@VaterlandJus' Sayin'... , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:49 pm GMTAnd there were also the proxy-war in Ukraine and the refugee crisis: the latter at minimum a fallout of US-Israeli wars in the Middle East and the Zionist assault against Libya; yet not unlikely itself a direct assault against Europe. And not only Willy Wimmer, closest adviser to our old chancellor Helmut Kohl, strongly suspected as much already back in 2015.
Thanks for that context. It is exactly what I am trying to call attention to the whole time. Regardless, how much reality there is to Corona, my issue is the overall timing in the geopolitical context, with Europe being torn apart between the Angloamericans and China / Russia on the other side. That was the agenda anyway, so how is it possible that this threat appears at this very moment?
It can be said that had Corona not happened, the powers to be would have needed to invent it.
Else, in skimming the comments, I find that until now (with some 140 comments) there are hardly any discussions, but everyone pushing their own narratives.
Mabe, it is possible to get away from the question, how and if Corona is deadly to the context that is developing. I have to admit that I did not take Corona serious enough from the start, not as an illness, but as a fundamental threat to our societies. In that sense, it is indeed a war.@hs4691506 There was also some evidence that Chinese researchers under his supervision had smuggled samples of his work out of their labs and back to China. Chinese researchers, working in the USA and Canada, have a history of smuggling viral and other lab samples back ti China. It's part of a much larger pattern of Chinese espionage and intellectual theft.Hang em high , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:53 pm GMTA search on DuckDuckGo.Com using the following search string, "chinese scientists smuggling viral samples", turns up a lot of useful information on smuggling of viral and other biological samples. (I no longer trust Google. DuckDuckGo is less censored and does not track its users)
Similar searches using the strings "chinese intellectual theft" and "chinese scientific espionage" will provide a broader picture.
BTW, I believe that Israel and the USA have both been conducting research into potential bio-weapons. I would not be surprised if the Chinese got a leg up on such research by espionage targeting both countries. Of the three, the USA's research is probably the most benign/least vicious. I suspect that the Israelis have been ruthlessly researching and developing biological weapons, just as they did nuclear and chemical weapons. The Chinese have probably been doing bio-weapons research just as ruthlessly. The biggest concern with the Chinese is that, compared against Israel and the USA, their lab safety, security and containment procedures are lax to an obscenely dangerous degree. One can only hope that after the Wuhan outbreak, this attitude, if not the Chinese bio-weapons research, will change.
This is a model opening argument for an ICC bill of indictment against the CIA command structure. The bird's-eye view is exactly right – all of CIA's gravest crimes have been most evident not at the detailed technical level but at the organizational level. CIA can shred all the MIPRs and RFPs and after-action reports they want, but the proof of all CIA crime is public information about the actions of CIA focal points in government. (Incidentally, one example you don't mention is official obstruction, including CDC, of Helen Chu's coronavirus testing. That would have shown that COVID-19 was far too widespread for a single introduction from Wuhan. Another example is the series of airport clusterfucks that muddled US haplotypes when Chinese researchers noted that they point to US origins.)Agent76 , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:56 pm GMTThe presumption of incompetence probably has its own CIA memo analogous to 1035-960. If they can get you to tacitly assume that CIA works in the national interest, but ineptly, then you misinterpret everything. CIA is a criminal enterprise with ongoing profit centers that fund opportunistic crimes from asset-stripping to aggression.
When you're using a banned biological weapon, domestic casualties confer important benefits:
First, damage to the US can help obfuscate attribution. Philip Giraldi articulates that line in its clearest form, Why would the government shoot itself in the foot like that?
Second, US contagion offers a pretext for domestic repression: house arrest; overt contact chaining illegally undertaken by NSA for decades; forcible derogation of your rights of assembly and association.
Third, US economic devastation is used as a pretext for looting the fisc on an unprecedented scale. Blackrock now performs central planning on behalf of the Fed, forcing the state to guarantee a overwhelming volume of worthless and fraudulent securities.
Illegal warfare that is difficult to attribute has one intractable problem. It's a sneak attack in breach of the Hague Convention Relative to the Opening of Hostilities. That convention was the legal justification for the first use of nuclear weapons. So if Russia and China nuke the beltway into a sinkhole of molten basalt, that's only fair.
If it is established that COVID-19 is a banned biological weapon, this is self-evidently the gravest crime in world history. The attack manifestly constituted aggression with an absolutely indiscriminate weapon. It defies considerations of proportionality with unknown global effects. The Nazi regime was extirpated for much less.
The evidence is very close to probative, and mounting.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/04/18/the-pentagon-bio-weapons/
https://www.nature.com/articles/274334a0
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@Tor597 I couldn't say it any better than Tor597.Robert Snefjella , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 2:58 pm GMT
Americans are not capable of even thinking that their elites could be so evil.There is the question of natural vs artificial origin of the novel corona virus, and from my layman's research and considerations it seems increasingly that an artificial origin is extremely likely. The pertinent technology is now widely available, there has been a massive ongoing effort in the field since the 2nd WW, and many researchers and knowledgeable people are drawing the conclusion of likely artificial origin: So, for example, George Webb's work, or the Czech scientist Dr.Sona Pekova, PhD, who near the end of the video linked to describes the virus in such a way as to indicate a great likelihood of artificial creation.vot tak , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:00 pm GMT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmL7okhbVzU&feature=youtu.beThere are many possible perpetrators. And a few likely suspects.
The ultimate health implications of the new virus are impossible to say with certainty at this point: For example, Paul Craig Roberts' website's latest title is "Bad News From the Virus if Correct", with the point being that there are now known to be a lot of different strains with presumably different potential for harm, but there may be many more not recognized.
There are additional contextual considerations that will have consequences which are anyone's guess. So for example, last year saw many widespread agricultural catastrophes and difficulties which were usually weather related. If the weather continues to be uncooperative, in conjunction with food production and transportation problems related to the virus, in conjunction with the African Swine Flu disaster, then human health and food security, and thus health, on a large scale may be affected.
Another contextual consideration is the recent rapid and accelerating deployment of 5G technology, which many are concerned can make life more vulnerable to health problems. It may just be coincidental, but worth noting, that tiny San Marino, enclosed by Italy, boasted of being the European leader in the rollout of 5G technology, and is now the world leader in corona virus deaths per million, by a long shot (San Marino with 1179 deaths per million as of today compared to second place Spain with 455 per million, and yes, Spain has been among the most ambitious countries in rolling out 5G in many cities. And Wuhan was the very poster 'child' of 5G. Just saying.)
Shutting down the world economy seems rather dire. But it may just be the impetus for a radical rethink of the basic structure and design of the global economic system.
The global paradigm which in economic terms might be described as globalism, or 'when private corporations rule the world', or neo-liberalism, or plutocracy running amuck, or grasping for 'global government', or the aftermath of the chimera of 'full spectrum domination', or in the wreckage of Rockefeller's and Kissinger's et al wet dream, or democracy spurned, is now inescapably obviously retarded, dysfunctional: a fundamental design flaw if you want humanity and Earth to thrive. In short, the culture of deception.
Someone has suggested as symptomatic of our present predicament a cartoon featuring Fauci with his bio-weapon declaring this as 'the age of the Ork', with crazed Bill Gates as Gollum wielding a syringe and gleefully chortling 'my precious!'.
The local, one's back yard, the decentralized, the careful common sense community, the regional, and the actually democratic national, with the public interest protected by the public, and much honest discourse, as one basic design alternative.
Useful article by Unz which connects the dots well. One important dot which is missing, though, in his analysis of the psywar promoting propaganda that the virus leaked out of a lab in Wuhan, and is a Chinese biowarfare agent, is that this psywar originated with an israeli military-intelligence operative. One dany shoham. This individual was also deeply involved in the "iraq has wmds" psywar operation at the beginning of the century. More on that dot and how it connects to the others, later.davidgmillsatty , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:00 pm GMTA few days ago I wrote this about how the israeloamericans are framing their psywar campaign against China:
The israeloamericans are working on a several level strategy which includes back-ups in my opinion. The israeloamericans are trying to cover all the bases at once.
So they claim China created the virus in a lab, in case it gets out it was lab created, meaning israel or the usa created it in a lab. The israeloamericans claim the virus leaked out of the Wuhan lab in case evidence is found that israeloamerica deliberately planted the virus in Wuhan or it spread from a source in the usa through some other vector. The israeloamericans claim China mislead the world about the virus so people wont notice the reality that China has successfully thwarted the virus, while trump & co. have continued making it worse. The claptrap about China under reporting victims is a variation of the latter tactic. And so on.
Is what is being reported in the following article "damage control"?
Neither 'lab' nor 'wet market'? Covid-19 outbreak started months EARLIER and NOT in Wuhan, ongoing Cambridge study indicates
https://www.rt.com/news/486194-study-coronavirus-southern-china/
Another vector in the israeloamerican preemptive strategy? Now that research is showing the virus may have been infecting people earlier and neither a market in Wuhan, or even Wuhan itself, may be where it originated?
With regard to western response to the pandemic, especially american, the delay in israel's trump colonial regime's containment response to the virus tells me they deliberately wanted the virus to spread across the country and cause the ruckus it is now causing. The question is why israel had them do this.*
* Compare the israeli response, IE: strong proactive containment strategy, to the weak responses in most zionazi colonies. It is clear there is an actual strategy underlying this difference. And it entails more than israel being sacrosanct.
Keep in mind that trump, and his corrupt regime, are israel's property. More specifically, they tepresent the israeli likud freakshow (netanyahoo and related subhuman garbage). Most of what trump says and the policies his regime follow, originate from tel aviv. Trump's cowardly "blame China" campaign, duplicated by the zionazi western media (commonly misnamed the msm) is israeli psywar.
@onebornfree See my post at 135 regarding three different variants: A, B and C. The most prevalent in Asia is B and the most prevalent variants in Europe and the US are A and C. So it could also be that A and C variants are more virulent than B.Felix Culpa , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:05 pm GMT"By any reasonable measure, the response to this global health crisis by China and most East Asian countries has been absolutely exemplary, while that of many Western countries has been equally disastrous. Maintaining reasonable public health has been a basic function of governments since the days of the city-states of Sumeria, and the sheer and total incompetence of America and most of its European vassals has been breathtaking. If the Western media attempts to pretend otherwise, it will permanently forfeit whatever remaining international credibility it still possesses."Anon [312] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:05 pm GMTSo saying, Ron Unz forfeits whatever credibility he might have retained by now acknowledging the data emerged from "the fog of war" he found himself pronouncing in a month or more ago.
Like Unz, and after examining the relevant Chinese data, epidemiologists Knut Wittkowski( almost a month ago) saluted the Asian approach to handling the novel virus threat.
Unlike Unz, Wittkowski revealed that what was salutary was the Chinese government's allowing the populace to gain herd immunity before instituting any lockdown measures. (rendering the lockdown measures a mystery from a scientific point of view).
So, and according to Wittkowski- a man with credentials relevant to this story, yet completely ignored by Unz' investigative article- the incompetence of Western governments cited by Unz is the clean reverse of what he claims: it is the incompetence of ignoring what the competent Chinese did not ignore, namely, the sound scientific counsel to allow the virus to spread, granting the herd immunity to the populace which protects the elderly and fragile self-quarantining until that immunity is gained.
@TG There's 3 possibilities:annamaria , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:08 pm GMT1) Virus is US bioweapon attack on China
2) Virus is China's own bioweapon accident
3) Virus happened in nature, and everybody is trying to profit off the crisis or contain/direct the damage to their own interests.That's 66% percent chance it's an accident.
Government in power were sane enough to avoid nuclear war as recently as 40 years ago. Why would they be crazier today? Biowarfare is Mutually Assured Destruction, too. If people can model this away, please provide a link.
@swamped You are cognitively blind to the obvious -- the ZUSA has become ZUSSR (minus excellent Soviet educational system). Before lamenting "Chinese despots" and "their contempt for civil liberties," think for a moment about the fate of Assange (why he is in a high-security prison?) and about the Banksters on the march (the financialization of the US economy).denk , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:09 pm GMTWhat is the state of "liberties" in the US and the UK? -- Gay parades. Quantitative Easings for eternity.
Why some 1000 American military bases encircle the globe? Why 25 American biofare laboratories reside in Europe? You are cheerleading for Cheneys and Rubins (read General Smedley Butler). https://fas.org/man/smedley.htm
http://armswatch.com/the-pentagon-bio-weapons/?__cf_chl_jschl_tk_Libya used to be a prosperous state with universal healthcare and excellent educational opportunities. Enter the "non-totalitarian" and "non-despotic" deciders to bring in "liberties." First, the US/NATO expropriated Libyan gold, and then a regular business of "liberation" took place: since the "non-totalitarian" and "non-despotic" liberators entered Libya, a civil war commenced, the healthcare and educational systems have collapsed and slave markets sprang.
Or perhaps you are proud of freedom of information in the US?
This important story was immediately summarized in many of the world's other most prestigious publications, but encountered an absolute wall of silence in our own country.
How much trillions have been disappeared by the Pentagon? -- 21 (twenty-one). A lot of money that could be used for initiating great national projects of all kinds.
Why the US industries have been relocated to China? -- Because this is what US corporations demanded and got. What deciders want, they get. Read General Smedley Butler, again.httpx://dilyana.bg/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1.png
@anon Another problem with your imagination is that it doesnt pass the Who Test kitJames Scott , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:10 pm GMTNobody has produced a smoking gun.
Its all about probability.By all indications,
A FUKUS FF is the most likely .
Your CON theory reeks of the classic western projection..Bandits crying robbery
@Tor597 Yes Ron's tribe is doing great because of this.MLK , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:18 pm GMT@Otto von KomsmarkSi1ver1ock , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:20 pm GMTFor many weeks President Trump and his political allies had regularly dismissed or minimized this terrible health threat, and suddenly now faced with such a manifest disaster, they have naturally begun seeking other culprits to blame.
I stopped reading after this childish fib.
I'm a little worried about The Unz Review. This pandemic is already being used to consolidate the economy and The Powers That Be are likely to use it to settle scores and purge dissident voices.Jake , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:20 pm GMTTruthDig is down and other media is likely to go down soon as ad revenue collapses. I would have advised ad revenue from foreign sources like Aeroflot (and others outside the U.S. Oligarchy), but airlines are collapsing and international travel is likely to be down for a while.
Maybe just open a Patreon Account and put a link in the sidebar.
It may be a good time to be extra cautious and gird your loins as they say.
Whatever anyone may make of Unz's assessment, I think everyone not insane or evil or mindlessly jingoistic should agree with this: "Everyone knows that America's ruling elites are criminal, crazy, and also extremely incompetent."Tor597 , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:23 pm GMTBy the way – I hope Unz has changed his mind about the bombing of Serbia. Anytime Neocons assert the need to use violence to help Moslems, the reasonable man smells not a rat, but a million putrid rats.
@Pheasant Zerohedge used to be libertarian and antiestablishment but something changed and they are now right wing neocons.denk , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:24 pm GMT@Jus' Sayin'...Jake , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:24 pm GMTI would not be surprised if the Chinese got a leg up on such research by espionage targeting both countries. [SIC]
Of the three, the USA's research is probably the most benign/least vicious [ SIC ]ROFLAMO
How fucking old are you kid ?
Back to your Harry Potter forchrissake
This is an adult site.
Do you want me to inform your mom ?@Tor597 Correct. The Elites of the Anglo-Zionist Empire will get richer from all this, while the white American middle and working classes will get poorer.RT , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:24 pm GMTMuch the same will happen in the UK and France and other European nations.
This and many other analyses focus primarily on governments, USA government, Chinese communistic government etc. and their past misadventures as proofs for their involvement or not involvement in the current disaster. I would like to see at least one extensive analyse of possible involvement of the nongovernment governments. Their interests and gains from this situation. Regards!Tor597 , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:29 pm GMT@Jason Crew If the US had come away with minimal damage there would not be the outrage required to go to war with China.davidgmillsatty , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:31 pm GMTSo America had to be infected and the pain had to be real.
Also, while main Street Americans are feeling the pain, the elites have been bailed out and will buy assets on pennies to the dollar.
There was a bubble that had to pop anyways, this way the elites get bailed out. Remember how many CEOs retired just before this hit?
Cambridge geneticist discusses the three strains of Coronavirus:utu , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:32 pm GMT@Felix Culpa Another victim of Knut Wittkowski.Ano0nymous , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:33 pm GMT@denk Not the "war crimes" bit again. Look, the whole operation was one big war crime, and that according to the US Secretary of State. Same with Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq -- overthrow of another state for no compelling reason. So what? War is war, and China can either participate or not. If it participate, it can expect to become part of the general destruction.FLgeezer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:40 pm GMT
Analogy -- if somebody is in your house and gets violent, that's a crime. You are legally able to protect yourself. If the person starts to run, you can't shoot she/he/it because she/he/it is no longer a threat. Sure, the other she/he/it started the crime, but that doesn't mean you can commit a crime of your own (shooting somebody when she/he/it isn't an immediate threat). Should she/he/it turn around and start returning fire, well, it just might be that she/he/it is legally doing so.So enough of this "you stepped on a crack and so you've transgressed the law in one particular, so you are absolutely condemned" stuff. You want to play that game, people get tired of it, and it has a bad endgame. Try playing it on COVID-19. COVID-19 might listen to you and depart. Go, use your moral authority and save us all.
Never let a crisis go to waste. The following borders on the hilarious and the propaganda never ends.Greg Bacon , says: Website Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:47 pm GMTAleksander , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:47 pm GMT"..if a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be."
From a Thomas Jefferson letter to Charles Yancey.
Since the Israeli masterminded 9/11 false flag, the MSM has told us a gazillion lies about what DID NOT happen that day.
When those lies started losing luster, we were told Bin Laden was killed, but they offered no proof, other than "Trust Us.'Then we started getting lies about ISIS, DAESH, al Nusra etc, that they were even worse than al CIA Duh, when in fact, they were started, funded, paid, protected and give air cover by the US/Israel and the Kingdom of Head Choppers.
Now the same MSM is braying that Covid will be the end of the world, unless we give up our freedoms?
Bull. We're being lied to again and the sad part is, many are falling for this latest line of horse apples.
In Coronavirus We Trust: Medical Surveillance State For A Gov That's Experimented On You 239 Times
When are people going to realize that the mandatory vaccine is ready NOW – Gates, Fauci, Davos, the oligarchs, and the usual suspects just needed to lay the groundwork. It's ready to go now. Doesn't take much of a gedanken experiment to see the end-game here.Mustapha Mond , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:50 pm GMT@utu "Yes, what if the chief objective was not to hurt China by disrupting its society and economy but to make the whole world angry with China."Beefcake the Mighty , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:53 pm GMTIf the planning was like 9/11, then both of these objectives would have been carefully scrutinized and maximized.
Bear in mind something, please: who says these bastards are finished unleashing designer bugs?
Would it not be wisest for these evil geniuses to keep the bugs coming, intensifying the impact so that the continuously simmering anger of the increasingly desperate masses can be directed to boil over at the Chinese menace when the 'elites' deem it necessary and proper. And with exploding unemployment numbers, especially among the young, and no real short term job or career prospects, these psychopathic 'elites' have a ready-made source for boots on the ground, should that be mandated.
Of course, I hope all this turns out to not be the case. But if 9/11 was any indication, these bastards will be brazen and shamelessly murderous.
This site's credibility is going down faster than the financial markets. It's only good for entertainment value at this stage.follyofwar , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:59 pm GMT@Max Powers When you said that Ron Unz lost you with his defense of NATO in the unnecessary Serbian war, I hope that you read the rest of the article rather than stopping there. I, too, smelled a Bill Clinton obfuscation at the time, as I always do when any US president sends our troops to war. I'm a little surprised that Mr. Unz didn't.annamaria , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 3:59 pm GMTHowever, I respect his honesty, and he more than redeemed himself in the rest of his well-researched and well-written article. It did much to bolster my belief that the CIA/Neocons are behind it. Although, discounting the unfairly derided Beltway outsider Mr. Trump, I've never considered the likes of such people as West Point grad SOS Pompeo as being incompetent. To paraphrase the former CIA head: "we lie, we cheat, we steal."
@Hail The 9/11 beats it.Weston Waroda , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:00 pm GMTMustapha Mond , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:01 pm GMTBut America and several European countries avoiding adopting these same early measures such as widespread testing, quarantine, and contact-tracing, and have paid a terrible price for their insouciance.
For someone ordinarily quite careful in your use of terminology, you conflate the term quarantine with lockdown. This is usually being done these days in the media to make a lockdown seem less unreasonable to the insouciant public. Properly a quarantine is the isolation of the sick to prevent the spread of contagion to the healthy public. What we have are lockdowns, restricting the free movement of the healthy population. These have been resorted to out of the desire "to do something," but unfortunately as you must know, there is absolutely no empirical evidence that lockdowns do any good when all is said and done, and they do considerable economic harm. Sweden used a relaxed social distancing approach without a lockdown, and their mortality rate is currently less than that of most countries that resorting to this authoritarian approach.
@Quintus "Another financial reset was also long overdue, as Greg Mannarino and others have pointed out: the coronavirus cover was too perfect of a tool for deflecting the guilt from the Fed and the banksters; killing many birds with one stone, the virus is also a 2) powerful psy-op hurting China's image in the world, 3) further delivering a strong blow to its export-driven economy; 4) it sets the stage for the cashless society ("dirty bills not accepted here!"), the advent of digital currencies and 5) top-down surveillance."Si1ver1ock , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:14 pm GMTExactly!
This planned-demic is like a Timex watch for the PTB: the gift that keeps on giving.
You are spot-on when you say that digital currencies and top-down surveillance will be enabled by this oh-so-convenient viral pandemic.
Like I said, it's a neoliberal zionist-neocon elitist's wet dream come true, maybe even more than 9/11 was.
I guess we all get to watch, wait and see what happens next .
One thing I have been waiting for is confirmation that HIV is somehow involved in the virus, making it a chimera and tipping the scale towards bioweapon.Greg the American , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:19 pm GMT@anon If Trump was in on it, he didn't do much of a job making himself a hero, several missteps are noticeable in the view of 20/20 hindsight, even if he intentionally wanted to crash the economy he would have scripted it better.denk , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:19 pm GMT@Ano0nymous I've difficulty reading your incoherent rant, but this one sticks out36 ulster , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:19 pm GMToverthrow of another state for no compelling reason. So what? War is war
Enuff said.
No more comment.
@MLK Unz.com seems to be less a blog than an online asylum; Ron and most of the KrazyKommentariat have really flipped their tinfoil Trilbys this time. This site is worse than Infowars is reputed to be–yet utterly without the entertainment value. You wonder why Pat Buchanan, Steve Sailer and Bertie Woostershire continue to post on this site. And, yes, why I bother to comment.Mustapha Mond , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:23 pm GMT@Tor597 "Zerohedge used to be libertarian and antiestablishment but something changed and they are now right wing neocons."Anon [223] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:24 pm GMTTheir true colors are emerging for all to see.
I recognized early on what exactly Zerohedge was about: sayanim-directed, intelligently controlled opposition. Very intelligently controlled, I should say.
Or as I call it, "Zio-hedge".
The trick is to give lots of good analysis and establish credibility, and then on the absolutely critical issues, subtly reinforce the neocon narrative. Then, slowly over time, not so subtly. Then, when the moment is ripe, openly and strongly support the neocon narrative. Again, a very intelligent and effective technique.
Sadly, we are now at the point of "openly" reinforcing the neocon narrative ..
Ron,Rahan , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:24 pm GMT
Your article is very good! Thank you for shedding some light on this issueI would like to summarize a rebuttal to some of the points expressed in this article
However, your chart depicting America and China economic trends is statistically misleading
America started from a much higher bar than China, and it is harder for richer countries to grow. Furthermore, an additional dollar in per capita GDP for America is a less % growth than it would be for China.
Here is the GDP per capita growth from the World Bank for America vs China.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locations=US-CN
Hardly, what your graph shows at all. In fact, this shows America adding more in Per capita GDP in real terms than China over the last thirty years.
It seems the issue is that you are thinking that China's exponential growth will continue till the point where it strongly surpasses the USA, like the Coronavirus's growth, but countries don't work like that. Unless you want to believe there was some policy reason for why Japan went from 10% to 1% growth in ten years.
Second, with respect to the domestic impoverishment of America, I think you are mistaken here. Most of those who are impoverished in America are immigrants and Black people, one group because of their recent arrival and location in America's most expensive cities. The other group because of their lack of time preference, so they don't save.
America has a higher household savings rate than all of Western Europe and Japan.
Per the OCED:
https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-savings.htm#indicator-chartThe US has three times the savings rate of Japan!
Additionally, the US has ten times the household disposable income of China as of last year, though this may change with the coronavirus:
https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-disposable-income.htm
https://www.statista.com/statistics/278698/annual-per-capita-income-of-households-in-china/Additionally, How did China identify the virus so quickly? It is fairly hard to tell, even from those who died. According your own article, China shut down when they had 11 deaths, and sequenced the genome when they had even less. That has never happened before, and I feel that is suspicious to me. The offical Chinese narrative is that the Wuhan Goverment dropped the ball, so how did they catch the disease so early?
An article by Mr. Unz is always worth the wait and then the read, no matter if I agree a 100%, 60%, or even just 20% with what has been written.denk , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:29 pm GMTA real delight, and a sort of Christmasy feeling. Which is a very important psychological boost for the likes of me in such weird, weird times. Thanks!
USAF excercise before 911MacOisdealbh , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:29 pm GMT
http://911blogger.com/news/2015-09-17/air-defense-exercise-month-911-was-based-around-osama-bin-laden-carrying-out-aerial-attack-washington//UK/France War game before Libya invasion,
https://www.globalresearch.ca/when-war-games-go-live-staging-a-humanitarian-war-against-southland/24351?print=1A Haiti Disaster Relief Scenario Tested by US Military One Day Before the Earthquake
Humanitarian excercise before Haiti quake
https://www.globalresearch.ca/a-haiti-disaster-relief-scenario-was-envisaged-by-the-us-military-one-day-before-the-earthquake/17122Crimson [sic] Contagion,
An year long excercise on pandemic from Red China prior to CV 19Another 'excercise' turning live ???
The Winnipeg lab lead scientist, a Dr Plummer, dropped dead in Nigeria in early March.Anthony Aaron , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:33 pm GMT
He more than likely added the HIV 1 content to the Wu V to allow it to spread since he had the MERS variant from 2014 on.
His lab then had Wuhan Scientists escorted out by RCMP last summer.
No info as to why was offered, and Plummer was buddies with the Harvard prof, and both were recipients of Epstien the rapists financial support.
Ron always goes to the edge, but never ever steps off!!
Epstein should be brought up, he gave many millions to the Harvard and MIT people for virus development!! Cui bono Ron, cui bono, by deception, make war!!!Not sure what to make of Mr. Unz's piece here -- there's a lot of room for any number of suspects to emerge as the guilty party hereld , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:36 pm GMTOne of the earliest questions I had was just how did this virus get into Iran -- which naturally begs the question of who has the most visible and ongoing hatred of Iran -- other than israel -- and their stooge, the United States.
The Newsweek article cited here about the class action lawsuits even mentions one of the plaintiff attorneys: "But Klayman claimed he has "whistleblowers with firsthand knowledge" of China's involvement in the viral outbreak who are currently residing in Israel and the United States and who can help substantiate this charge." So just who is it among 'whistleblowers' that reside in israel and in the United States (likely dual citizenship folks) -- other than israeli nationals?
And, from this article: "But by late February Iran had become the second epicenter of the global outbreak. Even more surprisingly, its political elites had been especially hard-hit, with a full 10% of the entire Iranian parliament soon infected and at least a dozen of its officials and politicians dying of the disease, including some who were quite senior.
" Across the entire world the only political elites that have yet suffered any significant human losses have been those of Iran, and they died at a very early stage, before significant outbreaks had even occurred almost anywhere else in the world outside China. Thus, we have America assassinating Iran's top military commander on Jan. 2nd and then just a few weeks later large portions of the Iranian ruling elites became infected by a mysterious and deadly new virus, with many of them soon dying as a consequence. Could any rational individual possibly regard this as a mere coincidence?"
Even allowing for Iran's involvement by the chinese in its BRI -- how can anyone explain the virus so quickly targeting the elites in Iran's ruling class -- certainly they don't hang around with the chinese in Iran or elsewhere, do they?
@Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist Your list is too small. I laugh at these comments regarding China's lies and crimes. Americans are surely the most gullible people on the planet. They know their corrupt government steals and lies to them daily yet they can still be manipulated to jump on the bandwagon of blame and hate towards anyone at anytime with a few inciteful articles from the media.9/11 Inside job , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:44 pm GMT
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MLK
JFK
Ruby
USS Liberty
911
Venezuela
Honduras
Haiiti
Hiroshima
Vietnam
Syria
Palestine
Russia
Ukraine
Libya
Epstein
Afghanistan
32 Trillion dollars missing from the pentagone
All Presidential ElectionsHiding their own crimes against humanity, their government drug trade/sex trade/ chemical and biowarfare against poor countries.
The US of Israel so exceptional.@Mustapha Mond Agreed . Like 9/11 there is plenty of evidence in the predictive programming/revelation of the method/social conditioning that the Coronavirus pandemic was many years in the making see, for example : "WTF? Olympic Opening Ceremony 2012-NHS" YouTube . Yes, the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony revealed part of the plot of the Coronavirus plandemic. I was expecting that something like this was going to happen ,but figured the cabal/cult/globalists/freemasons wouldn't try to pull it off until Americans were disarmed but , when you have total control of the media , it is easy to create hysteria and brainwash the public into believing that the Coronavirus, which is probably no more than the flu ,is the plague and will wipeout mankind unless everyone is locked-down . As another commenter has noted ,they probably could not have pulled off the international Coronavirus psyop 10 to 20 years ago because they did not have control and ownership of the worldwide massmedia . septemberclues.info has a good, short essay on "The central role of the news media on 9/11." Unless you stop relying on news from NPR, MSNBC, New York Times , Washington Post, Fox News , CBS , NBC ,etc,etc you will remain brainwashed and unable to understand that we are living through a planned-demic with a frightening agenda .Chet Roman , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:44 pm GMT@anon "Please do not comment on things you clearly don't understand. It is estimated that no more than a few percent of the American population has been exposed to Sars2 (Covid-19)."anonymous [245] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:50 pm GMTThe key word is "estimated". No one knows (not even you) the actual number of exposed Americans to the Wuhan virus. There have been some small random samples done by Dr.Bhattacharya that indicate that there is actually a large number of Americans that have been infected but are asymptomatic and that the final mortality rate will be closer to the annual flu or 0.1% to 0.2% instead of the guesstimate of 3%. The early studies are too small to think they are representative of the nation but the results indicate that larger studies are necessary in order to support nationwide policies, which are currently being made on hunches not science. About 60,000 to 80,000 died of the flu during the 2017 season when vaccines were available, so a large number of deaths during the flu season are not unusual and never required closing down the economy.
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Gov. Cuomo was screaming at the top of his lungs that he needed tens of thousands of ventilators, thousands are now sitting in his warehouses unused. So much for estimates. Most of the early estimates were wrong by exaggerating the death rate, which turned out to be only a guess rather than based upon science.The CDC has been derelict in its duties over the years and has been giving poor advice. There are other experts in the field that have alternative views that are being ignored or dismissed and should at least be considered.
Prof. Johan Giesecke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=bfN2JWifLCY&feature=emb_logoDr. John Ioannidis
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
@Ayatollah Smith I have been reading much about Covid-19, but am waiting for anyone, in or out of government, trying to blame China and/or exonerate Uncle Sam to deal with a particular point that anyone can easily appreciate using only a timeline:MLK , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:52 pm GMTThe US needs to answer this question: HOW could US 'intelligence sources' possibly have known in November – or even October – of a potential pandemic of COVID-19 that would erupt – specifically in Wuhan – two months later? (Or that was already erupting in Wuhan at the time, unbeknownst to the Chinese?). I believe the entire world would demand the answer to this.
So far, nothing. No refutation, no rationalization, just silence. Like WTC-7, is this Achilles' heel from which the Establishment can only limp away?
I don't know who, what, when, where, or why this infection(s) began. But I'm certain that anyone dodging that particular question wants me not to.
@36 ulster Yeah . . .anonymous [206] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 4:55 pm GMTIn 2016, when I finally cancelled by NYT subscription, I was asked why I was doing so. I explained that I didn't like having my intelligence systematically insulted.
Like, I think, most UR readers, I'm game for pretty much anything as a general proposition.
But poor Ron couldn't make it more than 100 words into a droning 7,400 words with discrediting himself.
When CIA whacked JFK, the whole world outside the US iron curtain knew, but too bad. When CIA blew up OKC, the whole world knew, but hey, it's their business. When CIA knocked down the WTC, on the second try, and blew up the Pentagon a bit to start a war, the whole world knew, but Russia was tits-up, unable to do anything about it.Anon [223] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:00 pm GMTThis is different. CIA's illegal germ warfare is a maleficium, in legal doctrine going back to Grotius. CIA wronged the whole world, and the whole world has a joint obligation to hold CIA responsible. Russia and China made a missile gap for real, so now they can do it.
This is war. This is the very beginning of the world war that will end the CIA regime:
https://tass.com/world/1146127
Gina's gonna swing for this.
@Anon One problem with the chart that can be fixed to make it more representative is that the two countries should start from the same base of comparison. If you use two different bases, then you get the wrong comparison.Beefcake the Mighty , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:00 pm GMT
For instance, if you measured the US from China's base in 1980, the US added 40k in per capita gdp in the 40 years, reflecting a 4000% increase from China base in contrast to the 1400% increase that China had.
If you use the same base, then America is what looks like a superior country.@Mustapha Mond ZH isn't the only site whose true colors are showingannamaria , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:04 pm GMT@antitermite Unbelievable. A truly gifted researcher destroyed on the totally idiotic charges:MarkinLA , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:06 pm GMTCharles M. Lieber (born 1959) is an American chemist and pioneer in nanoscience and nanotechnology. In 2011, Lieber was named by Thomson Reuters as the leading chemist in the world for the decade 2000-2010 based on the impact of his scientific publications. He is known for his contributions to the synthesis, assembly and characterization of nanoscale materials and nanodevices, the application of nanoelectronic devices in biology, and as a mentor to numerous leaders in nanoscience.
Awards:
Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2001)
MRS [Material Research Society] Medal (2002)
ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials (2004)
NBIC Research Excellence Award in Nanotechnology, University of Pennsylvania (2007)
Inorganic Nanoscience Award, ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry (2009)
Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience, Materials Research Society (2010)
Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2012)
Nano Research Award, Tsinghua University Press/Springer (2013)
IEEE Nanotechnology Pioneer Award (2013)
Willard Gibbs Medal Award (2013)
MRS Von Hippel Award (2016)
Remsen Award (2016)
NIH Director's Pioneer Award (2017 and 2008)
John Gamble Kirkwood Award, Yale University (2018)
Welch Award in Chemistry (2019)On January 28, 2020, Lieber was arrested on charges of making false statements to the U.S. Department of Defense and to Harvard investigators regarding his participation in China's Thousand Talents Program According to the Department of Justice's charging document, there are two counts of alleged crime committed by Lieber. The DOJ believes Lieber's statement was false
Alleged counts. The DOJ believes . Yet the DOJ never tried to arrest Madam Ghislaine Maxwell whose crimes have been confirmed unequivocally. Any news of the arrest of Mossad-connected Mr. Lauder who stole American technologies? https://www.newcoldwar.org/mega-group-maxwells-and-mossad-the-spy-story-at-the-heart-of-the-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/
As if deciders have decided that Charles Lieber knew too much to believe in their profitable fables.
The only way "the US government did it" makes sense is if this was happening this coming November after Trump has been reelected. If the Deep State did it without Trump's approval, somebody will talk just like John Soloman claims FBI agents told him of the Russiagate conspiracy at the FBI while it was getting underway. Somebody would have alerted somebody loyal to Trump what was being planned. Remember Trump had to give the order to kill that Iranian general. The Deep State (full of Israel's toadies) didn't even do that on their own.Rahan , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:07 pm GMTOf course, there is an answer for everything. It even makes more sense for Trump to do it now so he can fix it. The Deep State did it but Trump now has to cover for them or risk the world finding out how incompetent he is.
Concerning "wet markets", I'd just like to add that 99% of those are normal "butcher's markets" with lamb, beef, pork, chickens, and sea produce, and 1%, in specific parts of the country, selling all the Cthulhu fhtagn stuff.Johnny Walker Read , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:12 pm GMTSo China reopening some wet markets now is an argument neither for, nor against the zootropic theory. Because I'm pretty sure they're reopening the "lamb and chicken" wet markets, not the "H.R.Giger's nightmares" ones, such as the one in Wuhan that is one of the three possible origins.
1) Wuhan wet market
2) Wuhan lab
3) Wuhan based foreign troops taking part in the military OlympicsHas to be one of those three. Maybe the third was even accidental, but
Dr Andrew Kaufman exposing the 'Covid-19' magic trick – the sleight of hand that transformed societyHappy Tapir , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:15 pm GMTThere's some interesting information in the article for sure, but it seems to me that if the US were to perform clandestine bio weapons attacks on another country, the Middle East and Russia would surely be the primary targets. We rely on China for a lot of things, such as virtually all the goods sold at Walmart and China owns a great deal of our debt, so it would seem to me a financially strong China is in our interest.Trinity , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:15 pm GMTMoreover, plagues and epidemics, especially coronaviruses, have started in the far east as long as can be remembered.
@Anonymous This is about the most common sense post I have read on this site. SPOT ON. OUR current problems in regards to immigration, racial issues, Black criminality, and this (((virus))) can all be traced to one group for the most part. Btw, I was in NYC about the same time perion in '83-'87 and haven't been back since, but from what I understand, it is far worse today. I actually didn't find it that bad back then even though crime and drugs were out of control. Probably because I was a twenty-something and having fun.Joey Pastrami , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:16 pm GMTAnyhow, as you said, WHY in the hell do ANY Americans, much less White Americans ALLOW RACIST JEWISH SUPREMACIST organizations have so much power over them. It isn't as if the ADL or $PLC try and hide their hatred for Whites. I would have no problem for any organization whether it be Black, Jewish or Hispanic fighting against racism, but lets face it, these organizations aren't fighting against racism, they main goal is to take away the rights of Whites or demonize WHITES ONLY.
"Life isn't complicated." And this (((virus))) isn't either. This shit was MANUFACTURED and we can only guess by whom and what their future intentions are down the road. As usual the usual suspects have already pretty much revealed themselves to anyone out there really watching. For the WILLFULLY ignorant ostriches and chinadidit people, well, they must like be lorded over by a tiny group of people who don't give two shits about them or their children.
@Thulean FriendJoey Pastrami , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:17 pm GMTthe response of the West has been utterly atrocious either way.
What do you people wish happened -- Trump-issued national lockdown order back in January? Why do the death counts need to be artificially inflated if this virus is as deadly as the media says?
The American media is run by jews. It's amazing how the great counter-semite, Ron Unz, seems to be unaware of this fact.annamaria , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:19 pm GMT@Gaius Gracchus The US intelligence services knew about the virus in the middle of November 2019 (before Chinese) and alerted Israel, NATO, and the US government about the "emerging disease in Wuhan." https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-alerted-israel-nato-to-disease-outbreak-in-china-in-november-report/Fuerchtegott , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:21 pm GMTThe US had the epidemics of a similar 'lung virus' (vaping disease) in January 2019 (a year before the announcement of the epidemic by Chinese). https://phpa.health.maryland.gov/OEHFP/EH/Pages/VapingIllness.aspx
These injuries often seem like pneumonia, but they are not caused by an infectious disease, and they do not improve with antibiotics. Respiratory symptoms reported include: shortness of breath, chest pain, pain on breathing, and cough. Other symptoms reported by many patients include: fever, chills, nausea, weight loss, vomiting, diarrhea, or abdominal pain.
utu , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:22 pm GMTWhether plausible or not, such accusations carry the gravest international implications, and there are growing demands that China financially compensate our country for its trillions of dollars in economic losses.
Aren't you comdedians Trillions deep in debt by the Chinese?
Since you'd never pay back anyway, they are in the face saving position to grant you very generous debt forgiveness.@Anon "Unless you want to believe there was some policy reason for why Japan went from 10% to 1% growth in ten years." – Absolutely, result of policy.follyofwar , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:25 pm GMThttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Accord
And China has the highest saving in terms of percent of their disposable income
@Mustapha Mond Not to mention, Mr. Brave New World (how appropriate your name is), it fits in nicely with Bill Gates' plan for a massive reduction in world population. What freedom-loving young proles will want to form families and bring children into such a dystopia? Already, US whites are well below replacement rate and dropping. As of 2018 it was 1.73 babies per woman, 16% below replacement rate, the lowest rate ever recorded. Asian Americans are even lower at 1.525 (per the World Atlas).Rafael Martorell , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:25 pm GMT@Chet Roman there things that are kmown:the almost universal economic damage that stopping the economy,as if it were a ball game,would bring,guaranteedobwandiyag , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:27 pm GMT@Ozymandias Just as I have been saying for a long time now, all you China-did-its are quarter-a-post troll farm trolls.Morton's toes , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:28 pm GMTChina-did-it trolls agree implicitly with our owners, and yet act like, ooh, they're big radicals. You hapless trolls.
We all have one hand tied behind our back. There is nobody that I know of presenting information from inside the border of China to compare with Ronald Unz and his collaborators at unz.com . I have seen exactly one document in the last two years. It was a post on medium.com which purportedly was written by a Chinese ex-pat graduate student in British Columbia with google earth images analyzed to show the proliferation of concentration camps in Xinjiang for the retention of young male uyghurs.Ilya G Poimandres , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:28 pm GMTEvery single time I saw this document referenced on the internet it was followed up within an hour by a shower of posts from all over the place that it was CIA fake news.
Basically at most we know about 1/2 and it is tough to know what to do with that.
@36 ulster Because articles with stated evidence linked to articles/research/legislation where it is taken from (unlike the MSM, that links nothing other than its own circle-jerk), and some implicit acceptance that the reader should have the freedom to decide for themselves – rather than being spoonfed 'truths' agreed upon somewhere 'up high' – offers people enough respect to allow them to accept that the webzine is not an ideological printout, but a spectrum of ideas, to be evaluated by the reader. This is a contract with consideration.Felix Culpa , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:29 pm GMTWe have no truths from our elected leaders, or their stenographers in the MSM though.
When Trump says 'blame China', most of us see a bankruptcy merchant peddling a lie to weasel out and default on 1 trn $$ (Martyanov said it first methinks!) – cause that's what he does, and that's what he knows.
Unz offers a fairly balanced approach to conspiracy theory – not conspiracy hypothesis. Ain't seen any article on some dude claiming he got anal probed by little green men without any even anecdotal evidence.
This place debates the smoke, often without the fire. But it's a good start to some explanation for some fire. Much of the rest of the net doesn't look at the smoke, but instead distracts its audience with some other eye candy.
But hey, is it fair to complain – some people enjoy WWE!
@utu There's nothing like attacking the person (Wittkowski himself) in place of his point ( herd immunity already gained by Asians before lockdown) to demonstrate your bona fides.obwandiyag , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:29 pm GMTThanks for your back-handed admittal that you can't rebut his conclusion.
I have been trying to get this across for an age. It's very simple. Anybody who says China did it is suspect. Not only does the import of their message suggest that the China-did-its are ruling-class-hired trolls, the trolly smartass tone suggests it, not to mention the illiteracy.anon [414] Disclaimer , says: Show Comment April 21, 2020 at 5:33 pm GMT@Other Side "The drastic changes in the Balkans in the 1990s and the disintegration of Yugoslavia in particular have resulted in a large number of publications attempting to explain the break-up of this country and the political developments in the Balkans. Some of these publications deal partly with the local Muslims who were engaged in the Balkan conflicts but, with some exceptions, they are focused mainly on recent developments, with less attention paid to the historical contexts in which the Muslim nationalist movements were shaped. Although religion played a more important role in the nation-building process of the Bosnian Muslims than in that of the Albanians, there are very few studies that examine the reasons for this and the impact of Islam on the Muslim nationalist movements in historical perspective. The following article examines from a comparative perspective the role of Islam in the Bosnian Muslim and Albanian national movements from the Ottoman period up to the end of the Cold War. The Sunni Muslims of Bosnia and the Albanians, who are divided into three religions and a variety of sects, present contrasting societal structures for the analysis of different aspects of Islam."Current Commenter
Would you like to read the rest of this article
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233460310_The_Bosnian_Muslims_and_Albanians_Islam_and_nationalismMore reading
"Immediately after the fall of communism in Albania in 1991, Arab Islamic fundamentalists infiltrated the mosques in the country, which is 70 percent Muslim. The interlopers represented the Saudi Wahhabis and the Egyptian disciples of today's al Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri. In spring 1999, a dozen of Al-Zawahiri's acolytes, known as the "Albanian Returnees," were deported from the eastern Adriatic republic to Egypt, tried, and sentenced to death or extended prison terms for terrorism. The "Returnees" had been told by their "sheikhs" to stay in Albania and avoid going to Kosovo, where NATO military forces were, by that time, thick on the ground. But Albania booted them out with alacrity. Evidence in the case of the "Albanian Returnees" proved extremely important in tracing the evolution of al Qaeda's Egyptian predecessors."https://www.islamicpluralism.org/2033/arabs-iranians-and-turks-vs-balkan-muslims
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Apr 20, 2020 | ronpaulinstitute.org
From California to New Jersey, Americans are protesting in the streets. They are demanding an end to house arrest orders given by government officials over a virus outbreak that even according to the latest US government numbers will claim fewer lives than the seasonal flu outbreak of 2017-2018.
Across the US, millions of businesses have been shut down by "executive order" and the unemployment rate has skyrocketed to levels not seen since the Great Depression. Americans, who have seen their real wages decline thanks to Federal Reserve monetary malpractice, are finding themselves thrust into poverty and standing in breadlines. It is like a horror movie, but it's real.
Last week the UN Secretary General warned that a global recession resulting from the worldwide coronavirus lockdown could cause "hundreds of thousands of additional child deaths per year." As of this writing, less than 170,000 have been reported to have died from the coronavirus worldwide.
Many Americans have also died this past month because they were not able to get the medical care they needed. Cancer treatments have been indefinitely postponed. Life-saving surgeries have been put off to make room for coronavirus cases. Meanwhile hospitals are laying off thousands because the expected coronavirus cases have not come and the hospitals are partially empty.
What if the "cure" is worse than the disease?
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Apr 14, 2020 | ronpaulinstitute.org
Ron Paul, in a Monday interview with host Dan Dicks at Press for Truth, warns that people "should be leery about" coronavirus vaccines that may come out. Further, says Paul, a doctor and former United States House of Representatives member, "right now I wouldn't think there is any indication for anybody to take them," noting that "scare tactics" are being used to pressure people into thinking they should take such potential vaccines to protect against coronavirus.Paul supports this conclusion by stressing in the interview the potential danger of a vaccine as well as the overstated threat from coronavirus.
Regarding the potential danger from a coronavirus vaccine, Paul discusses at the beginning of the interview how, in 1976 in his first week as a House member, Paul was one of only two members, both doctors, who voted against legislation that helped rush through a vaccine in response to swine flu. Paul describes the results of the push for people to take the swine flu vaccine as follows:
They rushed the vaccine through. The vaccine was not properly made. It had nothing to do with the virus that was out there, so it saved nobody's life from it. It caused a lot of harm. More people ended up dying from the inoculation than died from the flu that year. And that sort of was a lesson, like that's a little bit too extreme. But, that's about what happens when governments get involved and you do things for political reasons.Paul also discusses in the interview the overstated danger from coronavirus that is being used to scare people to take actions including to potentially take a coronavirus vaccine.There was also, because a lot of people ended up getting the vaccine, I think there were like 50 people or more who got Guillain-Barré syndrome, which is temporary total paralysis and you can die from it but most of them did get better. But, it was a very, very serious complication of a viral injection, you know, a vaccine.
Paul notes that many of the people whose deaths have been blamed on coronavirus are elderly people, including people living in nursing homes, who have multiple other diseases. Further, explains Paul, doctors have "been instructed by [the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and other politicians that, when the doctors sign the death certificate, if [patients] have four different things but they happen to have a positive test for the virus that is to be put down as the major cause of death." "The numbers mean nothing," concludes Paul regarding the daily tabulation of coronavirus deaths.
In addition, Paul explains that many more people than officially recorded have contracted coronavirus. Some of these individuals never became sick. Others got better without any treatment, says Paul, pointing to his son Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) as an example. While Rand Paul was given a test that confirmed he had coronavirus, most people who have had coronavirus and suffered no to minor medical problems have not been tested. With "probably millions of people" having contracted coronavirus, Paul concludes that the percentage of people who have contracted coronavirus and have died as a result "is probably very, very small."
While Paul says he would choose not to take a vaccine for the coronavirus should one appear next week even if people claim it is 99 percent effective, he says that the decision to take or not take a vaccine is one that should be made by each individual, who can discuss the vaccine alternative with a doctor. Absolutely, Paul concludes, that decision should not be made by government.
Watch here Paul's complete interview, in which he also discusses how government actions taken in the name of fighting coronavirus are harming the economy and his support for people speaking out for ending coronavirus-justified encroachments on freedom:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/TblqxaQbtac
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Apr 18, 2020 | ronpaulinstitute.org
We are getting sick and tired of the CNN/Cuomo Brothers inquisition and the Coviddeath Cavalcade. Their relentless, morose, partisan coverage of the coronavirus pandemic is the single greatest campaign of misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, scaremongering and elitist prattle we can recall in our entire lifetime.
Indeed, Joe McCarthy's Red Scare was a Sunday School picnic compared to CovidGate. And just as there were no commies secretly subverting America 66 years ago, there is no deathly contagion stalking the American people today and no public health emergency that remotely justifies the Lockdown Nation regime that the CNN/Cuomo Brothers and infectious disease lobby have foisted on the country with virtually no public debate or democratic accountability.
By every measure, New York is the aberrant epicenter of the Covid-19 outbreak. So what you find in the New York stats has got to be definitive, but what they're conclusive about is the very opposite of the hysteria being propagated by the Cuomos & friends.
The New York data, in fact, show that Covid-19 almost pinpointedly attacks the old, the frail, and the medically vulnerable, not the general population.
In turn, that means that public health measures should be focused on identifying, isolating, protecting, treating and supporting the very small sub-population that is bearing the brunt of the illness and deaths, while allowing the vast bulk of the population to get back to normal social and economic life forthwith.
As we document below, the peak of new cases and deaths is now in the rear-view mirror. So what we can glean from the New York stats through April 13th reporting is definitive and will only get even more definitive in the weeks ahead.
As of 1PM today, the nationwide death count "WITH" Covid-19 was 23,529. And we go full monte with CAPs, quotes, bolds and italics for the reason that it is self-evident the virus per se didn't kill many or most of these people: It triggered organ and function failures that were already embedded in pre-existing morbidities. And that truth is validated in spades by the New York data. As of this afternoon, New York had reported 10,834 corona deaths or 45% of the national total.
But when you look at the break-out by age categories and rates relative to population, the numbers are simply stunning:
- · Under 50 years: 642 deaths or 4.9 per 100,000;
- · 50-69 years: 3,174 deaths or 65 per 100,00;
- · 70-79 years: 2,888 deaths or 272 per 100,000;
- · 80 years+: 4,130 deaths or 1,086 per 100,000.
In short, 18% of all the Covid-19 nationwide deaths crawling across the CNN screen today have been among New Yorkers 80 years and older; and 7,018 or 30% of national deaths and 65% of New York Covid-19 deaths have been among those 70 years and older.
To be sure, as a member of the 70+ class of New York residents, we don't begrudge anyone the longest and happiest life possible. But we are here talking about the appropriate public policy response to a bad winter flu and suggest that when the mortality ratio for the over 80 population is 222 times higher than for those under 50 years old, then one size surely does not fit all.
Indeed, when it comes to quarantines and contact tracing, the Cuomo brigade has it assbackwards. To wit, leave the general population alone where quarantine is unnecessary and contact tracing is a ridiculous needle-in-the-haystack waste of time, and target protection measures on the vulnerable, instead.
After all, in the entire state of New York there are only 382,000 souls age 80 or over. Would it not have been far more rational for Governor Cuomo's health department minions to track down these 382,000 vulnerable elderly rather than to shutdown the entire economy of the state in order protect 13.05 million folks under 50 years from a death risk which amounts to a minuscule 4.9 per 100,000?
In all honesty, that latter figure is a rounding error in the scheme of things. Every year in New York state, 11,760 persons under 50 years or 91.3 per 100,000 suffer an untimely death -- including 3,428 from auto and other accidents and 917 from suicides.
Since the infection wave, hospitalizations and death numbers have now clearly peaked and will be falling sharply in the weeks ahead (see above), we can say with some considerable confidence that when the Covid is gone, it is doubtful whether more than 917 New Yorkers under 50 -- the normal year suicide population -- will have died WITH the coronavirus.
That's 7.0 souls per 100,000 -- and its just plain insane to got into plenary Lockdown on their account -- especially because the predominant share of under 50 year-olds who have succumbed WITH the coronavirus were also suffering from one or more morbidities, especially hypertension, diabetes and COPD (see below).
Indeed, that gets us to the even more damning stats in the New York data. To wit, only 1,242 or 11% of New York's 10,834 Covid-deaths (as of April 13) were not accompanied by at least one of the top 10 co-morbidities.
By contrast, of the 9,592 cases with these conditions, the total co-morbidities were 19,280. That means the New Yorkers among this group died with an average of 2.01 comorbidities, and some with three or four.
Again, when you stratify by age, the injunction to identify, trace, isolate and treat by indicated vulnerability could not be more dispositive. Among the 4,130 persons aged 80 or older who have died in New York,
· 2,489 or 60% had hypertension;
· 1,264 or 31% had diabetes;
· 845 had hyperlipidemia (blood disorder);
· 605 had coronary artery disease;
· 819 had dementia;
· 425 had renal disease;
· 534 had COPD;
· 366 had cancer;
· 386 had congestive heart failure.
So Governor Cuomo, riddle us this. In lieu of your daily reality TV show and presidential campaign audition, way didn't you mobilize the doctors and health authorities to identify these 10,834 medically imperiled among the thousands more with like and similar conditions among the 382,000 octogenarians in your state in order that every possible precaution could have been taken weeks ago?
Compared to the needle-in-the-haystack idiocy of contact tracing among the general population, the state's doctors and health agencies do actually know the names, addresses and social security number of nearly every one of these medically vulnerable cases. That's where the resources should have gone -- not into a mindless Lockdown of the entire economy.
Indeed, when you look at the next most vulnerable category, the 1.26 million state residents aged 70-79, the story becomes even more compelling. In this age bracket, there have been 2,888 deaths WITH Covid reported as of April 13th, which, as indicated above, represents 272 per 100,000.
But, not surprisingly, 62%, 45%, 23% and 14% also had hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and coronary artery disease, respectively. In all, this group had 5,695 comorbidities among the to 10 diseases, which amounts to 2.0 per deceased.
In sum, 7,018 or 65% of the WITH Covid deaths in New York were 70 years and older and suffered from 13,800 instances of these major underlying illnesses that could have been readily identified by the doctors and health care professionals who treat them.
Likewise, even the 3,174 deaths among aged 50-69 overwhelmingly involved 4,848 comorbidities, including 2,930 cases of hypertension and diabetes alone.
Finally, among the 642 deaths under 50 years, there were fully 634 cases of the top 10 morbidities.
That is to say, there have been virtually no deaths among the disease free population under 50. Yet hundreds of thousands have been infected and tens of thousands have become symptomatic or sick, but recovered from this novel flu in the normal fashion.
Here's the thing. The US economy was so weakened by 30 years of debt, speculation and money-printing that its own economic "immune" system was at ultra low ebb.
So the Lockdown Folly will prove to be far more destructive than would have otherwise been the case. So now is the time for the Donald to do something constructive for once, and face-down the CNN/Cuomo Brothers and infectious disease lobby and stop cold the economic bleeding cure they have foisted on the US economy in the name of public health.
And now is the moment. During the last few days, the death rates have plunged in most of the nation, and clearly even New York has turned the corner as this chart makes abundantly clear.
But for want of doubt, here is the the nationwide gain in new cases WITH Covid-19. It is now down nearly 26% from its Good Friday peak, after accelerating in early April:
April 5-April 14 trend: 25,974, 28,752, 30,437, 30,130, 34,346, 34,617, 29,591, 28,983, 24,948, 25,699
So let us repeat: The New York Covid epicenter has provided the pretext for the present nationwide hysteria and insensible acts of economic suicide.
But its actual data show why the Lockdown should be ended now. To wit, the 1.64 million residents of New York over 69 years old account for just 0.5% of the US population, but have suffered 30% of the nation's deaths WITH Covid.
It is therefore time to tell the economy-wreaking Cuomo Brothers and their political cohorts and media megaphones to stand down and let America get back to work, and the doctors and health professionals refocused on the real victims of this nasty virus.
Reprinted with permission from David Stockman's Contra Corner .
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Apr 15, 2020 | ronpaulinstitute.org
Look at How Ridiculously Wrong All the Covid-19 Models Were Written by Robert Wenzel Friday April 10, 2020
The dotted line on the above map indicates the current trend of beds needed for COVID-19 in New York.
At present, only 18,279 are in use.
The professional forecasters all projected that beds would be a multiple of the beds actually needed.
Notice not one model came in under the actual number. These are all professional fearmongers who alarmed the country about a virus that appears to be in line with a severe flu season.
Can they really be that incompetent?
Some may be but I called the evil Tony Fauci out a month ago on his phony projections: Why is Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Lying to Congress and the American People?
He knows better.
Reprinted with permission from Target Liberty .
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Samuel D. Finkelstein
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