newswars--2020-09-08--MKULTRA and the CIA’s War on the Human Mind

The author and executor of countless coups and political assassinations , the CIA is notorious for waterboarding , “ extraordinary rendition , ” regime change , kidnapping , narcotics smuggling , financing of guerrilla wars , and many other unsavory activities around the world , including against Americans , even inside the United States .
But “ fearsome ” does not mean “ flawless.
” The CIA has failed at least as often as it has succeeded , and sometimes the failures are so flagrant—such as sending thousands of anticommunist guerrilla fighters behind enemy lines in Korea , Eastern Europe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Cold War , where nearly all of them died—that CIA insiders wryly refer to their organization as “ Clowns In Action.
” Which is it ?
Is the CIA a dastardly menace or a hotbed of horrible mistakes ?
If Stephen Kinzer ’ s new book , Poisoner in Chief , is any indication , the answer is both .
A veteran reporter on foreign conflicts such as those in Rwanda , Guatemala , Nicaragua , and Iran , Kinzer is a former New York Times correspondent and , most famously , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : America ’ s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq .
In his latest effort he brings his analytical skills to bear on perhaps the most disturbing CIA project of them all : MKULTRA , the top-secret , long-running effort to find a method for controlling the human mind .
“ History ’ s most systematic search for techniques of mind control , ” Kinzer writes , was a by-product of World War II .
At the end of 1942 , a University of Wisconsin bacteriologist named Ira Baldwin— “ America @ @ @ @ @ @ @ part-time Quaker preacher—was loaned to Washington ( with the blessing of the University of Wisconsin president ) in order to set up and run a bioweapons program for the United States military ( p. 16 ) .
Based out of Camp Detrick in Maryland , the Baldwin lab cranked out bioweapons for possible use against Allied enemies .
In one of Baldwin ’ s bigger projects , shipment of tons of anthrax spores , ordered by Winston Churchill for potential use against the Nazis , was approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ surrendered on May 7 , 1945 ( p. 19 ) .
For many , even for Quaker preachers , World War II cleared away the last of the psychological hurdles against unleashing bioweapons against an enemy .
Kinzer ’ s book tells the tale of how the targeting of unsuspecting populations was later justified by the bigger war , the Cold War , which followed the demise of the Third Reich .
The ruined Third Reich provided much of the original brainpower for MKULTRA .
Immediately after World War II , the CIA—formed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 1945—was faced with a choice .
The Germans and the Japanese had been conducting advanced experiments on germ warfare and other forms of biological weaponry .
Should the Allies prosecute as war criminals the scientists involved with such projects , or hire them as expert advisors ?
With the Cold War starting and the Soviets looming as an unpredictable enemy , the CIA , with the tacit approval of the few members of the United States Congress who were allowed to know even the existence of the Central Intelligence Agency , decided @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of erstwhile foes in order to counter the new adversary in Moscow .
For example , Kurt Blome , the Nazis ’ director of biowarfare research and development whose work had been championed by Heinrich Himmler , was acquitted , by American political fiat , at the Doctors ’ Trial in Nuremberg in 1947 and sent to work—as part of Operation Paperclip designed mainly to bring German rocket scientists to the US—at Camp Detrick ( pp .
20–24 ) .
It was at Camp Detrick that Blome encountered a rising star in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a bacteriological specialist who had been a star student of Ira Baldwin ’ s at Wisconsin , is the main figure in Kinzer ’ s book .
His career is virtually synonymous with MKULTRA .
Under the direction of Gottlieb , the CIA ’ s laboratories at Camp Detrick transitioned from R & D on bioweapons—often using unwitting American subjects , such as in 1950 when a US Navy minesweeper “ specially equipped with large aerosol hoses ” spent six days spraying the Serratia marcescens bacterium into the San Francisco fog , infecting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
37–38 ) —to drugs which could be used for mind control .
( MKNAOMI , MKULTRA ’ s sister CIA project , was also tasked with finding poisons and biotoxins which the CIA and the US government could use in various operations . )
Gottlieb provided the big ideas into which to fit Blome ’ s nefarious knowledge of mass murder by bacillus .
Gottlieb became , virtually overnight and with the help of former Nazi doctors , America ’ s “ poisoner in chief.
” The CIA ’ s mind control @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and bigger importance as fears of Soviet brainwashing grew in the US , was originally called Operation Bluebird and was personally overseen by CIA higher-up Allen Dulles .
( 47 ) At first , the Bluebird team experimented with “ hypnosis , electroshock , and sensory deprivation , ” along with drugs like sodium amytal , at CIA sites in “ secret prisons in Germany and Japan , ” looking for a way to extract information out of POWs and captured spies ( pp .
44 , 48–49 ) .
But Dulles was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ give the young CIA recruit Sidney Gottlieb control of Bluebird ’ s updated iteration : Operation Artichoke ( pp .
51–52 ) .
The goal of Artichoke was to do whatever it took to get prisoners to divulge military and state secrets to the CIA .
The Cold War would brook nothing short of full-scale war against the human mind .
Dulles became deputy director of central intelligence three days after launching Artichoke in 1951 , and Gottlieb , invisible to the outside world , was given virtually unlimited rein to carry out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ control ( p. 51 ) .
This drive to achieve total operational control over the human psyche eclipsed all reality and tactical limitation .
If the US didn ’ t win the race to the mind control method , many in the CIA thought , the entire American population lay vulnerable to mental enslavement by the Soviets .
Dulles , Kinzer writes , despite a disastrously unsuccessful three-year “ Artichoke ” attack on a Bulgarian political prisoner named Dmitri Dimitrov , “ had convinced himself not only that mind control techniques exist but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that this posed a mortal threat to the rest of the world ” ( pp .
52–53 ) .
Mind control was the pressing need , but nothing brought it within reach .
Technique after technique , drug after drug , was tried on prisoners , but to no avail .
In frustration , Artichoke agents under Gottlieb upped the ante , turning to marijuana , cocaine , and then heroin as possible catalysts of CIA-directed , anti-Soviet brainwashing .
As part of Artichoke , a University of Rochester psychology professor was given @ @ @ @ @ @ @ test heroin on his students .
The control of the mind remained as elusive as ever , despite the massive dosing of the Rochester student population with opiates .
Nothing seemed to have the potential to crack open the mind for the CIA ( p. 59 ) .
Someone in Artichoke suggested using mescaline after the other narcotics failed , and this gave Sidney Gottlieb an idea .
He remembered hearing about a drug called LSD which Dr. Albert Hofmann had discovered during an experiment at Sandoz laboratories in Basel , Switzerland , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ LSD ) , an ergot enzyme , produced extraordinary and disturbing psychological effects , Dr. Hofmann found when he ingested some and recorded the drug ’ s effects .
Washington learned of Hofmann ’ s discovery in 1949 , and one of the chemical specialists in the US military complex told Gottlieb of the new substance ( pp .
34–35 ) In 1951 , Gottlieb asked Harold Abramson , who had been a physician in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War II , to administer LSD to him .
Gottlieb experienced the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ described .
Other subjects were tested , as well , not all of them wittingly , and all seemed to exhibit similar reactions .
LSD most definitely altered the mind ( pp .
60–61 ) .
Gottlieb was convinced that he had found the magical drug which would allow the CIA to control the psyche , and therefore to beat the Soviets at ( what Allen Dulles , Gottlieb , and many others at CIA thought , at least , was ) the Soviets ’ own game .
The experiments on human subjects @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to belief in the powers of LSD .
These experiments often ended in death , often by murder .
One study quoted by Kinzer reports that in 1951 a team of CIA scientists led by Dr. Gottlieb flew to Tokyo….Four Japanese suspected of working for the Russians were secretly brought to a location where the CIA doctors injected them with a variety of depressants and stimulants….Under relentless questioning , they confessed to working for the Russians .
They were taken out into Tokyo Bay , shot and dumped overboard .
( p. 64 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and executions in Korea and Germany ( p. 64 ) .
Gottlieb was usually personally involved .
Throughout the 1950s the experimentation continued .
An American artist named Stanley Glickman was lured to a bar near his studio in Paris by CIA agents in 1951 and a chemical was slipped into his drink .
Glickman began to hallucinate wildly .
He fled in a state of panic and remained in his Paris apartment for the next ten months in paranoid hiding until his family came to take him home , and then he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a near invalid .
The chemical which the CIA had slipped into Glickman ’ s drink was almost certainly LSD , and Glickman , Kinzer suggests , had been chosen by the CIA because he had just recovered from hepatitis and the Artichoke team was conducting an experiment on the effects of hepatic infection on the efficacy of LSD ( pp .
66–67 ) Things got worse from there .
In 1952 , the CIA commissioned underworld denizen and former vice cop George Hunter White to run a human-subjects experiment site at 81 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ York ( pp .
74–75 ) .
White ’ s job was to bring to the CIA ’ s apartment “ expendables ” on whom Gottlieb and his team could test LSD .
White “ knew the whores , the pimps , the people who brought in the drugs , ” as one of Gottlieb ’ s MKULTRA colleagues later explained , and this made him invaluable for procuring the “ drug users , petty criminals , and others who could be relied upon not to complain about what had happened to them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were finished ( pp .
76–77 ) .
Many of these “ expendables ” suffered nervous breakdowns , and some died .
In order to keep the supply of LSD flowing , CIA agents went to Basel , where LSD had been discovered , and tried to buy all the LSD in stock .
Allen Dulles authorized a $ 240,000 outlay to pay for it ( p. 86 ) .
Sandoz held the patent for Hofmann ’ s 1943 discovery , but Sandoz wanted nothing to do with the troublesome substance and so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scruple over IP infringement , tasked US pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly with making LSD in the States ( pp .
85–86 ) With their mind control serum in production , MKULTRA agents could focus on how to dose experimental subjects .
The CIA even hired a professional magician , John Mulholland , to teach Gottlieb and his agents how to deliver LSD into unsuspecting subjects ’ drinks and food without being detected ( pp .
89–94 ) Gottlieb recruited a Kentucky addiction specialist , Dr. Harry Isbell , to test LSD and new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ More lives were destroyed ( pp .
94–96 ) .
Among the victims of another of Gottlieb ’ s agent-doctors was none other than James “ Whitey ” Bulger , the mafioso who , along with “ nineteen other inmates ” at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary , beginning in 1957 “ was given LSD nearly every day for fifteen months , without being told what it was ” ( pp .
98–99 ) .
Bulger was plagued for the rest of his life with nightmares , suicidal thoughts , and “ deep depression @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , who had been told that he was taking part in experiments designed to find a cure for schizophrenia , did not learn the truth about what had happened until 1979 ( pp .
263–64 ) .
The human toll of Gottlieb ’ s MKULTRA experiments continued to mount .
One of Gottlieb ’ s closest associates in the project , Frank Olson—a bacteriologist trained at the University of Wisconsin who had also been recruited for the CIA by Gottlieb ’ s mentor Ira Baldwin—began to express doubts about what the MKULTRA team @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that he had made a “ terrible mistake ” in his work ( p. 114 ) .
He shared his misgivings with his CIA colleagues as well .
Olson ’ s conscience appeared to be getting the better of him , and he became a liability to the team .
In late 1953 , Gottlieb surreptitiously dosed Olson with LSD at a backwoods MKULTRA gathering , “ Deep Creek Rendezvous , ” outside Camp Detrick ( p. 113 ) .
Olson spiraled into a frightening disorientation , and early in the morning on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Thanksgiving—Olson “ fell or jumped ” from a window of the Statler Hotel in Manhattan , dying few moments after hitting the concrete below .
Another MKULTRA agent , Gottlieb ’ s lieutenant Robert Lashbrook , was the only other person in the room when Olson “ fell or jumped ” ( pp .
120–21 ) .
Lashbrook told the New York City police that Olson had jumped out of the window and Olson ’ s death was originally designated a suicide , but the Olson family eventually grew suspicious and an investigation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ autopsy on Olson ’ s body .
The forensic pathologist , after a month ’ s examination of the corpse , declared : “ I think Frank Olson was intentionally , deliberately , with malice aforethought , thrown out of that window ” ( p. 250 ) .
Wounds on Olson ’ s body were consistent with methods taught in CIA manuals for incapacitating people and then killing them in order to make their deaths look self-inflicted .
Gottlieb and MKULTRA were shaken by Olson ’ s demise , but they carried on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ next few years looking for magic mushrooms in Mexico ( 157 ) ; arranging suicide capsules for American agents , including U-2 pilot Gary Powers ( who chose not to use his when he was shot down over the Soviet Union ) ( pp .
172–75 ) ; attempting , at the order of then attorney general Robert Kennedy , to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro ( after exploding cigars and exploding conch shells were ruled out , Gottlieb tried with a wetsuit laced with fungi and bacteria ) ( p. 184 ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ radicals on LSD ( pp .
188–90 ) .
Gottlieb personally delivered to the American embassy in Leopoldville in the Congo poisons that Gottlieb had developed to assassinate Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba , but the Belgians and the Africans beat the CIA to it ( pp .
176–80 ) .
Gottlieb ’ s career brought ruin and suffering to untold numbers of people , many of them innocent .
He retired from the CIA in 1973 after receiving the Distinguished Intelligence Medal ( p. 211 ) .
Lifelong devotees of folk dance , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ moved to the countryside in rural Virginia and attempted to blend in with the small community there , volunteering , dancing , and experimenting with radical ecology .
However , “ investigative reporter Seymour Hersh , who had won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing the My Lai massacre in Vietnam , ” learned of the MH-CHAOS program targeting Americans , and the Congress was forced to act .
Gottlieb ’ s career , long a well-kept secret , was being brought into the open , and his retirement would therefore be far from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who tried to cover up what Gottlieb and the other MKULTRA agents had done .
In 1975 , after the outcry caused by the Hersh reporting , President Gerald Ford deputized Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to chair a commission on the CIA .
The new CIA director , William Colby , was remarkably frank .
Colby informed the Rockefeller Commission that “ the CIA had conducted LSD experiments that resulted in deaths .
Later he referred to assassination plots ” ( p. 216 ) .
Nelson Rockefeller , attempting to prevent the CIA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Colby later : “ Bill , do you really have to present all this material to us ?
” ( p. 216 ) .
In 1977 , in the wake of the Church Report on further American intelligence excesses , Senator Edward Kennedy , Robert ’ s brother , spurred on by some documents which had been discovered as the result of a FOIA request ( Gottlieb had ordered all MKULTRA files burned , but some undetected copies remained ) , called Admiral Stansfield Turner to testify before Congress on MKULTRA .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was eventually forced to testify—albeit in a closed-room setting his lawyer had helped arrange—but Gottlieb essentially pleaded amnesia ( nearly all of his answers to questions about MKULTRA were some version of “ I do not recall ” ) and the matter seemed to end there .
Still , the skeletons in Gottlieb ’ s closet would not go away .
In 1984 Gottlieb agreed to meet with the family of Frank Olson , the former MKULTRA colleague who had “ fallen or jumped ” from his Manhattan hotel room in 1953 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ son , was unconvinced by Gottlieb ’ s explanation for the “ accident , ” and , after Frank Olson ’ s widow and Eric ’ s mother passed away , ordered Frank ’ s body exhumed in 1994 .
As information about MKULTRA built in the public ’ s awareness , other cases were reopened , including that of Stanley Glickman .
( 257 ) The courts were now involved and Gottlieb could not count on the CIA to get him out of his legal trouble .
Gottlieb pushed back the trial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as he could , and then , in early March , 1999 , Sidney Gottlieb died .
Like Frank Olson , it was not officially revealed whether or not the death had been a suicide ( p. 259 ) .
Stephen Kinzer ’ s Poisoner in Chief is a highly readable , thoroughly researched introduction to the life and work of one of America ’ s most unknown , and yet infamous , government agents .
Kinzer is to be thanked for his plainspoken , courageous book .
Even those who have studied @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crimes which “ the Agency ” has committed over the past seventy-five years will be surprised by some of the information Kinzer relates .
To see in one volume a rendering of just some of the lives ruined by just one CIA program , MKULTRA , is a sobering revelation .
Sidney Gottlieb , the person directly responsible for much , if not most , of the MKULTRA devastation over more than twenty years , remains as mysterious at the end of Kinzer ’ s volume as at the beginning , however .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ student from a stable family .
Kinzer speculates that perhaps Gottlieb ’ s having been rejected for military service in World War II—Gottlieb stuttered and had a clubfoot—left him unsatisfied and impatient to prove his patriotism , an urgent task for the son of immigrant Jews ( p. 50 ) .
Gottlieb was heavily involved in New Age mysticism and meditation and appears to have expended considerable energy psychologically compartmentalizing his “ work , ” so there are indications that he was aware that the experiments he and his MKULTRA team were carrying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and objectively speaking often outright crimes .
But Gottlieb was hardly alone in his endeavors , and the explanation that Gottlieb , Allen Dulles , and many others in the CIA gave—to themselves and to each other , and to the world around when pressed—makes the most sense .
They had a country to defend , they faced an enemy of unprecedented cruelty in the Soviet Union , and they were willing to do whatever it took , even sacrificing innocent people , to keep Americans as a whole from falling under @ @ @ @ @ @ @

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has a fearsome reputation.
The author and executor of countless coups and political assassinations, the CIA is notorious for waterboarding, “extraordinary rendition,” regime change, kidnapping, narcotics smuggling, financing of guerrilla wars, and many other unsavory activities around the world, including against Americans, even inside the United States.
But “fearsome” does not mean “flawless.” The CIA has failed at least as often as it has succeeded, and sometimes the failures are so flagrant—such as sending thousands of anticommunist guerrilla fighters behind enemy lines in Korea, Eastern Europe, China, and Southeast Asia during the Cold War, where nearly all of them died—that CIA insiders wryly refer to their organization as “Clowns In Action.”
Which is it? Is the CIA a dastardly menace or a hotbed of horrible mistakes? If Stephen Kinzer’s new book, Poisoner in Chief, is any indication, the answer is both.
A veteran reporter on foreign conflicts such as those in Rwanda, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Iran, Kinzer is a former New York Times correspondent and, most famously, the author of the 2006 bestseller Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. In his latest effort he brings his analytical skills to bear on perhaps the most disturbing CIA project of them all: MKULTRA, the top-secret, long-running effort to find a method for controlling the human mind.
“History’s most systematic search for techniques of mind control,” Kinzer writes, was a by-product of World War II. At the end of 1942, a University of Wisconsin bacteriologist named Ira Baldwin—“America’s first bio-warrior” and a part-time Quaker preacher—was loaned to Washington (with the blessing of the University of Wisconsin president) in order to set up and run a bioweapons program for the United States military (p. 16). Based out of Camp Detrick in Maryland, the Baldwin lab cranked out bioweapons for possible use against Allied enemies. In one of Baldwin’s bigger projects, shipment of tons of anthrax spores, ordered by Winston Churchill for potential use against the Nazis, was approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and almost ready for delivery when the Germans surrendered on May 7, 1945 (p. 19).
For many, even for Quaker preachers, World War II cleared away the last of the psychological hurdles against unleashing bioweapons against an enemy. Kinzer’s book tells the tale of how the targeting of unsuspecting populations was later justified by the bigger war, the Cold War, which followed the demise of the Third Reich.
The ruined Third Reich provided much of the original brainpower for MKULTRA. Immediately after World War II, the CIA—formed out of the Office of War Information in 1945—was faced with a choice. The Germans and the Japanese had been conducting advanced experiments on germ warfare and other forms of biological weaponry. Should the Allies prosecute as war criminals the scientists involved with such projects, or hire them as expert advisors? With the Cold War starting and the Soviets looming as an unpredictable enemy, the CIA, with the tacit approval of the few members of the United States Congress who were allowed to know even the existence of the Central Intelligence Agency, decided to make use of the bioweapon expertise of erstwhile foes in order to counter the new adversary in Moscow.
For example, Kurt Blome, the Nazis’ director of biowarfare research and development whose work had been championed by Heinrich Himmler, was acquitted, by American political fiat, at the Doctors’ Trial in Nuremberg in 1947 and sent to work—as part of Operation Paperclip designed mainly to bring German rocket scientists to the US—at Camp Detrick (pp. 20–24).
It was at Camp Detrick that Blome encountered a rising star in the CIA, Sidney Gottlieb. Gottlieb, a bacteriological specialist who had been a star student of Ira Baldwin’s at Wisconsin, is the main figure in Kinzer’s book. His career is virtually synonymous with MKULTRA. Under the direction of Gottlieb, the CIA’s laboratories at Camp Detrick transitioned from R&D on bioweapons—often using unwitting American subjects, such as in 1950 when a US Navy minesweeper “specially equipped with large aerosol hoses” spent six days spraying the Serratia marcescens bacterium into the San Francisco fog, infecting some eight hundred thousand people (pp. 37–38)—to drugs which could be used for mind control. (MKNAOMI, MKULTRA’s sister CIA project, was also tasked with finding poisons and biotoxins which the CIA and the US government could use in various operations.) Gottlieb provided the big ideas into which to fit Blome’s nefarious knowledge of mass murder by bacillus. Gottlieb became, virtually overnight and with the help of former Nazi doctors, America’s “poisoner in chief.”
The CIA’s mind control program, which was assuming a bigger and bigger importance as fears of Soviet brainwashing grew in the US, was originally called Operation Bluebird and was personally overseen by CIA higher-up Allen Dulles. (47) At first, the Bluebird team experimented with “hypnosis, electroshock, and sensory deprivation,” along with drugs like sodium amytal, at CIA sites in “secret prisons in Germany and Japan,” looking for a way to extract information out of POWs and captured spies (pp. 44, 48–49). But Dulles was unsatisfied with the results and decided to give the young CIA recruit Sidney Gottlieb control of Bluebird’s updated iteration: Operation Artichoke (pp. 51–52). The goal of Artichoke was to do whatever it took to get prisoners to divulge military and state secrets to the CIA. The Cold War would brook nothing short of full-scale war against the human mind.
Dulles became deputy director of central intelligence three days after launching Artichoke in 1951, and Gottlieb, invisible to the outside world, was given virtually unlimited rein to carry out any experiments thought necessary to achieve mind control (p. 51). This drive to achieve total operational control over the human psyche eclipsed all reality and tactical limitation. If the US didn’t win the race to the mind control method, many in the CIA thought, the entire American population lay vulnerable to mental enslavement by the Soviets. Dulles, Kinzer writes, despite a disastrously unsuccessful three-year “Artichoke” attack on a Bulgarian political prisoner named Dmitri Dimitrov, “had convinced himself not only that mind control techniques exist but that Communists had discovered them, and that this posed a mortal threat to the rest of the world” (pp. 52–53).
Mind control was the pressing need, but nothing brought it within reach. Technique after technique, drug after drug, was tried on prisoners, but to no avail. In frustration, Artichoke agents under Gottlieb upped the ante, turning to marijuana, cocaine, and then heroin as possible catalysts of CIA-directed, anti-Soviet brainwashing. As part of Artichoke, a University of Rochester psychology professor was given a grant by the US Navy to test heroin on his students. The control of the mind remained as elusive as ever, despite the massive dosing of the Rochester student population with opiates. Nothing seemed to have the potential to crack open the mind for the CIA (p. 59).
Someone in Artichoke suggested using mescaline after the other narcotics failed, and this gave Sidney Gottlieb an idea. He remembered hearing about a drug called LSD which Dr. Albert Hofmann had discovered during an experiment at Sandoz laboratories in Basel, Switzerland, in 1943. Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), an ergot enzyme, produced extraordinary and disturbing psychological effects, Dr. Hofmann found when he ingested some and recorded the drug’s effects. Washington learned of Hofmann’s discovery in 1949, and one of the chemical specialists in the US military complex told Gottlieb of the new substance (pp. 34–35) In 1951, Gottlieb asked Harold Abramson, who had been a physician in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War II, to administer LSD to him. Gottlieb experienced the same psychedelic state as Dr. Hofmann had described. Other subjects were tested, as well, not all of them wittingly, and all seemed to exhibit similar reactions. LSD most definitely altered the mind (pp. 60–61). Gottlieb was convinced that he had found the magical drug which would allow the CIA to control the psyche, and therefore to beat the Soviets at (what Allen Dulles, Gottlieb, and many others at CIA thought, at least, was) the Soviets’ own game.
The experiments on human subjects followed rapidly after Gottlieb’s conversion to belief in the powers of LSD. These experiments often ended in death, often by murder. One study quoted by Kinzer reports that
in 1951 a team of CIA scientists led by Dr. Gottlieb flew to Tokyo….Four Japanese suspected of working for the Russians were secretly brought to a location where the CIA doctors injected them with a variety of depressants and stimulants….Under relentless questioning, they confessed to working for the Russians. They were taken out into Tokyo Bay, shot and dumped overboard. (p. 64)
The CIA carried out similar experimentation and executions in Korea and Germany (p. 64). Gottlieb was usually personally involved.
Throughout the 1950s the experimentation continued. An American artist named Stanley Glickman was lured to a bar near his studio in Paris by CIA agents in 1951 and a chemical was slipped into his drink. Glickman began to hallucinate wildly. He fled in a state of panic and remained in his Paris apartment for the next ten months in paranoid hiding until his family came to take him home, and then he spent the rest of his life as a near invalid. The chemical which the CIA had slipped into Glickman’s drink was almost certainly LSD, and Glickman, Kinzer suggests, had been chosen by the CIA because he had just recovered from hepatitis and the Artichoke team was conducting an experiment on the effects of hepatic infection on the efficacy of LSD (pp. 66–67)
Things got worse from there. In 1952, the CIA commissioned underworld denizen and former vice cop George Hunter White to run a human-subjects experiment site at 81 Bedford Street in Greenwich Village, New York (pp. 74–75). White’s job was to bring to the CIA’s apartment “expendables” on whom Gottlieb and his team could test LSD. White “knew the whores, the pimps, the people who brought in the drugs,” as one of Gottlieb’s MKULTRA colleagues later explained, and this made him invaluable for procuring the “drug users, petty criminals, and others who could be relied upon not to complain about what had happened to them” when the CIA’s experiments were finished (pp. 76–77). Many of these “expendables” suffered nervous breakdowns, and some died.
In order to keep the supply of LSD flowing, CIA agents went to Basel, where LSD had been discovered, and tried to buy all the LSD in stock. Allen Dulles authorized a $240,000 outlay to pay for it (p. 86). Sandoz held the patent for Hofmann’s 1943 discovery, but Sandoz wanted nothing to do with the troublesome substance and so Gottlieb, freed of any need to scruple over IP infringement, tasked US pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly with making LSD in the States (pp. 85–86) With their mind control serum in production, MKULTRA agents could focus on how to dose experimental subjects. The CIA even hired a professional magician, John Mulholland, to teach Gottlieb and his agents how to deliver LSD into unsuspecting subjects’ drinks and food without being detected (pp. 89–94)
Gottlieb recruited a Kentucky addiction specialist, Dr. Harry Isbell, to test LSD and new mind-altering drugs on prisoners and patients. More lives were destroyed (pp. 94–96). Among the victims of another of Gottlieb’s agent-doctors was none other than James “Whitey” Bulger, the mafioso who, along with “nineteen other inmates” at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, beginning in 1957 “was given LSD nearly every day for fifteen months, without being told what it was” (pp. 98–99). Bulger was plagued for the rest of his life with nightmares, suicidal thoughts, and “deep depression” (p. 98). Bulger, who had been told that he was taking part in experiments designed to find a cure for schizophrenia, did not learn the truth about what had happened until 1979 (pp. 263–64).
The human toll of Gottlieb’s MKULTRA experiments continued to mount. One of Gottlieb’s closest associates in the project, Frank Olson—a bacteriologist trained at the University of Wisconsin who had also been recruited for the CIA by Gottlieb’s mentor Ira Baldwin—began to express doubts about what the MKULTRA team was doing. He told his wife that he had made a “terrible mistake” in his work (p. 114). He shared his misgivings with his CIA colleagues as well. Olson’s conscience appeared to be getting the better of him, and he became a liability to the team.
In late 1953, Gottlieb surreptitiously dosed Olson with LSD at a backwoods MKULTRA gathering, “Deep Creek Rendezvous,” outside Camp Detrick (p. 113). Olson spiraled into a frightening disorientation, and early in the morning on November 28, 1953—a few days after Thanksgiving—Olson “fell or jumped” from a window of the Statler Hotel in Manhattan, dying few moments after hitting the concrete below. Another MKULTRA agent, Gottlieb’s lieutenant Robert Lashbrook, was the only other person in the room when Olson “fell or jumped” (pp. 120–21). Lashbrook told the New York City police that Olson had jumped out of the window and Olson’s death was originally designated a suicide, but the Olson family eventually grew suspicious and an investigation was carried out, including a new autopsy on Olson’s body. The forensic pathologist, after a month’s examination of the corpse, declared: “I think Frank Olson was intentionally, deliberately, with malice aforethought, thrown out of that window” (p. 250). Wounds on Olson’s body were consistent with methods taught in CIA manuals for incapacitating people and then killing them in order to make their deaths look self-inflicted.
Gottlieb and MKULTRA were shaken by Olson’s demise, but they carried on with their work. They spent the next few years looking for magic mushrooms in Mexico (157); arranging suicide capsules for American agents, including U-2 pilot Gary Powers (who chose not to use his when he was shot down over the Soviet Union) (pp. 172–75); attempting, at the order of then attorney general Robert Kennedy, to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro (after exploding cigars and exploding conch shells were ruled out, Gottlieb tried with a wetsuit laced with fungi and bacteria) (p. 184); and hooking Allen Ginsberg and other radicals on LSD (pp. 188–90). Gottlieb personally delivered to the American embassy in Leopoldville in the Congo poisons that Gottlieb had developed to assassinate Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, but the Belgians and the Africans beat the CIA to it (pp. 176–80).
Gottlieb’s career brought ruin and suffering to untold numbers of people, many of them innocent. He retired from the CIA in 1973 after receiving the Distinguished Intelligence Medal (p. 211). Lifelong devotees of folk dance, Gottlieb and his wife, Margaret, moved to the countryside in rural Virginia and attempted to blend in with the small community there, volunteering, dancing, and experimenting with radical ecology. However, “investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, who had won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing the My Lai massacre in Vietnam,” learned of the MH-CHAOS program targeting Americans, and the Congress was forced to act. Gottlieb’s career, long a well-kept secret, was being brought into the open, and his retirement would therefore be far from peaceful.
But there were still many who tried to cover up what Gottlieb and the other MKULTRA agents had done. In 1975, after the outcry caused by the Hersh reporting, President Gerald Ford deputized Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to chair a commission on the CIA. The new CIA director, William Colby, was remarkably frank. Colby informed the Rockefeller Commission that “the CIA had conducted LSD experiments that resulted in deaths. Later he referred to assassination plots” (p. 216). Nelson Rockefeller, attempting to prevent the CIA director from revealing too much, buttonholed Colby later: “Bill, do you really have to present all this material to us?” (p. 216).
In 1977, in the wake of the Church Report on further American intelligence excesses, Senator Edward Kennedy, Robert’s brother, spurred on by some documents which had been discovered as the result of a FOIA request (Gottlieb had ordered all MKULTRA files burned, but some undetected copies remained), called Admiral Stansfield Turner to testify before Congress on MKULTRA. The walls were closing in. Gottlieb himself was eventually forced to testify—albeit in a closed-room setting his lawyer had helped arrange—but Gottlieb essentially pleaded amnesia (nearly all of his answers to questions about MKULTRA were some version of “I do not recall”) and the matter seemed to end there.
Still, the skeletons in Gottlieb’s closet would not go away. In 1984 Gottlieb agreed to meet with the family of Frank Olson, the former MKULTRA colleague who had “fallen or jumped” from his Manhattan hotel room in 1953. Eric Olson, Frank Olson’s son, was unconvinced by Gottlieb’s explanation for the “accident,” and, after Frank Olson’s widow and Eric’s mother passed away, ordered Frank’s body exhumed in 1994. As information about MKULTRA built in the public’s awareness, other cases were reopened, including that of Stanley Glickman. (257) The courts were now involved and Gottlieb could not count on the CIA to get him out of his legal trouble. Gottlieb pushed back the trial for Glickman’s murder as long as he could, and then, in early March, 1999, Sidney Gottlieb died.
Like Frank Olson, it was not officially revealed whether or not the death had been a suicide (p. 259).
Stephen Kinzer’s Poisoner in Chief is a highly readable, thoroughly researched introduction to the life and work of one of America’s most unknown, and yet infamous, government agents. Kinzer is to be thanked for his plainspoken, courageous book. Even those who have studied the CIA and the various schemes and crimes which “the Agency” has committed over the past seventy-five years will be surprised by some of the information Kinzer relates. To see in one volume a rendering of just some of the lives ruined by just one CIA program, MKULTRA, is a sobering revelation.
Sidney Gottlieb, the person directly responsible for much, if not most, of the MKULTRA devastation over more than twenty years, remains as mysterious at the end of Kinzer’s volume as at the beginning, however. By all accounts Gottlieb was a good student from a stable family. Kinzer speculates that perhaps Gottlieb’s having been rejected for military service in World War II—Gottlieb stuttered and had a clubfoot—left him unsatisfied and impatient to prove his patriotism, an urgent task for the son of immigrant Jews (p. 50). Gottlieb was heavily involved in New Age mysticism and meditation and appears to have expended considerable energy psychologically compartmentalizing his “work,” so there are indications that he was aware that the experiments he and his MKULTRA team were carrying out were, at best, unethical, and objectively speaking often outright crimes.
But Gottlieb was hardly alone in his endeavors, and the explanation that Gottlieb, Allen Dulles, and many others in the CIA gave—to themselves and to each other, and to the world around when pressed—makes the most sense. They had a country to defend, they faced an enemy of unprecedented cruelty in the Soviet Union, and they were willing to do whatever it took, even sacrificing innocent people, to keep Americans as a whole from falling under the spell of communist mind control.


newswars--2020-09-08--We’re Headed toward Stagnation—Unless the Fed Reins In Its Money Printing

The US Fed is considering lifting its inflation target above 2 percent in order to revive the economy .
Contrary to the accepted practice , the Fed is not expected to raise an alarm if the measured price inflation begins to rise .
The US central bank is not expected to counter this increase with a tighter monetary stance as in the past .
In fact , the idea is to continue robust monetary pumping until the economic data points toward a strong economy .
According to most experts , when an economy falls into a recession the central bank @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by pumping money .
This way of thinking implies that money pumping can somehow grow the economy .
The question is , How is this possible ?
After all , if money pumping can grow the economy , then why not pump plenty of it to generate massive economic growth ?
By doing that central banks worldwide could have already created everlasting prosperity on the planet .
For most commentators the arrival of a recession is due to shocks such as the covid-19 that push the economy away from a trajectory of stable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , i.e .
lower the economic growth , so it is held .
As a rule , however , a recession or an economic bust emerges in response to a decline in the growth rate of money supply .
Note that a decline in the monetary growth works with a time lag .
This means that the effect of past declines in the growth rate of money supply could start asserting their influence after a prolonged period .
It is likely that the present economic slump was set in motion by a strong @ @ @ @ @ @ @ AMS money supply from 14.3 percent in August 2011 to –0.6 percent by August 2019 .
As a result , various activities that sprang up on the back of the previous strong money growth rate came under pressure .
( Observe that the yearly growth rate of AMS jumped from 0.7 percent in March 2007 to 14.3 percent by August 2009 . )
These activities can not fund themselves independently .
They survive on account of the support that the increase in money supply provides .
The increase in money diverts to them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consequently weakens wealth generators .
A decline in the growth rate of money supply undermines various false nonproductive activities , and this is what a recession is all about .
Recessions , then , are not about a weakening in economic activity as such but about the liquidation of various nonproductive activities that sprang up on the back of the previous increase in money supply .
Irrespective of whether an activity is productive or nonproductive , it must be funded .
At any point in time the number and the size of activities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the available amount of real savings .
From this , we can infer that the overall growth rate of productive and nonproductive activities as a whole is set by the growth rate in the pool of real savings .
( Individuals , whether in productive or nonproductive activities , must have access to real savings in order to sustain their lives and well-being .
Also , note that money can not sustain individuals but can only fulfill the role of the medium of exchange . )
As long as wealth producers can generate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nonproductive activities , easy money policies will appear to be successful .
Over time a situation could , however , emerge where as a result of persistent easy monetary policy and reckless government fiscal policies , there are not enough wealth generators left .
( Wealth generators are badly damaged by loose monetary and reckless government policies . )
Consequently , real savings are not large enough to support an increase in economic activity .
Once this happens , the illusion of loose monetary and fiscal policies is shattered—real economic growth must come @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Fed were to accelerate its monetary pumping while the pool of real savings is declining , it runs the risk of severely damaging further the pool of real savings .
The various commentators who subscribe to the view that the acceleration in money pumping could fix things imply that something can be created out of nothing .
Neither the Fed nor the government can grow the economy .
All that stimulatory policies can do is redistribute real savings from wealth producers to nonproductive activities .
These policies encourage consumption that is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arresting the massive pumping and cutting government outlays , the US economy is heading toward a prolonged slump Now , the pool of real savings has been badly hurt by the past reckless monetary policies of the Fed , in particular by Ben Bernanke ’ s Fed in 2008 .
Also , the recent huge monetary pumping by the Fed , which is mirrored by the large increase in our monetary measure AMS , is going to weaken significantly the process of real savings formation .
This in turn is setting the foundation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the yearly growth rate of AMS shot up from 3 percent in September 2019 to 60 percent by July 2020 .
The response of the government and the Fed to the covid-19 , coupled with the likely depleted pool of real savings on account of the past reckless policies of the Fed and the government , has made the economic bust more severe .
Contrary to popular thinking , the covid-19 did not set the economic bust as such .
It was set in motion by a downtrend in the monetary growth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The response of central authorities to the covid-19 in terms of lockdowns and massive monetary pumping has damaged further the pool of real savings and pushed the economy into a severe slump .
I suspect that the pool of real savings is currently declining .
The likely decline in the pool of real savings undermines not only false nonproductive activities but also productive economic activities .
Consequently , if reckless Fed and government policies that have weakened the process of real savings formation continue , it is quite likely that the US economy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In the meantime , rather than allowing businesses to get on with wealth generation , American politicians are making plans for how to redistribute further the already diluted real savings of the wealth generators .
While the White House proposes a $ 1.3 trillion coronavirus aid bill , the Democrats hold that this sum is not large enough and are suggesting that it should instead be around $ 2.2 trillion .
There is a way out of the crisis : by cutting to the bone government spending and the closing of all the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of “ thin air.
” By allowing businesses to do their jobs , the process of real wealth generation could be activated and the economy could escape the path of prolonged stagnation in no time .
All that is required is that central authorities step aside and allow businesses , which know better how to generate prosperity , to get on with the task of growing the economy .

The US Fed is considering lifting its inflation target above 2 percent in order to revive the economy.
Contrary to the accepted practice, the Fed is not expected to raise an alarm if the measured price inflation begins to rise. The US central bank is not expected to counter this increase with a tighter monetary stance as in the past. In fact, the idea is to continue robust monetary pumping until the economic data points toward a strong economy.
According to most experts, when an economy falls into a recession the central bank can pull it out of the slump by pumping money. This way of thinking implies that money pumping can somehow grow the economy. The question is, How is this possible? After all, if money pumping can grow the economy, then why not pump plenty of it to generate massive economic growth? By doing that central banks worldwide could have already created everlasting prosperity on the planet.
For most commentators the arrival of a recession is due to shocks such as the covid-19 that push the economy away from a trajectory of stable economic growth. Shocks weaken the economy, i.e. lower the economic growth, so it is held. As a rule, however, a recession or an economic bust emerges in response to a decline in the growth rate of money supply. Note that a decline in the monetary growth works with a time lag. This means that the effect of past declines in the growth rate of money supply could start asserting their influence after a prolonged period.
It is likely that the present economic slump was set in motion by a strong downtrend in the yearly growth rate of AMS money supply from 14.3 percent in August 2011 to –0.6 percent by August 2019. As a result, various activities that sprang up on the back of the previous strong money growth rate came under pressure. (Observe that the yearly growth rate of AMS jumped from 0.7 percent in March 2007 to 14.3 percent by August 2009.) These activities cannot fund themselves independently. They survive on account of the support that the increase in money supply provides. The increase in money diverts to them real savings from wealth generating activities and consequently weakens wealth generators.
A decline in the growth rate of money supply undermines various false nonproductive activities, and this is what a recession is all about. Recessions, then, are not about a weakening in economic activity as such but about the liquidation of various nonproductive activities that sprang up on the back of the previous increase in money supply.
Real Savings Fund Economic Activity
Irrespective of whether an activity is productive or nonproductive, it must be funded. At any point in time the number and the size of activities that can be undertaken is determined by the available amount of real savings. From this, we can infer that the overall growth rate of productive and nonproductive activities as a whole is set by the growth rate in the pool of real savings. (Individuals, whether in productive or nonproductive activities, must have access to real savings in order to sustain their lives and well-being. Also, note that money cannot sustain individuals but can only fulfill the role of the medium of exchange.)
As long as wealth producers can generate enough real savings to support productive and nonproductive activities, easy money policies will appear to be successful. Over time a situation could, however, emerge where as a result of persistent easy monetary policy and reckless government fiscal policies, there are not enough wealth generators left. (Wealth generators are badly damaged by loose monetary and reckless government policies.) Consequently, real savings are not large enough to support an increase in economic activity.
Once this happens, the illusion of loose monetary and fiscal policies is shattered—real economic growth must come under downward pressure. Now, if the Fed were to accelerate its monetary pumping while the pool of real savings is declining, it runs the risk of severely damaging further the pool of real savings.
The various commentators who subscribe to the view that the acceleration in money pumping could fix things imply that something can be created out of nothing. Neither the Fed nor the government can grow the economy. All that stimulatory policies can do is redistribute real savings from wealth producers to nonproductive activities. These policies encourage consumption that is not supported by wealth generating production. Without arresting the massive pumping and cutting government outlays, the US economy is heading toward a prolonged slump
Now, the pool of real savings has been badly hurt by the past reckless monetary policies of the Fed, in particular by Ben Bernanke’s Fed in 2008. Also, the recent huge monetary pumping by the Fed, which is mirrored by the large increase in our monetary measure AMS, is going to weaken significantly the process of real savings formation. This in turn is setting the foundation for a prolonged economic slump. Observe that the yearly growth rate of AMS shot up from 3 percent in September 2019 to 60 percent by July 2020.
The response of the government and the Fed to the covid-19, coupled with the likely depleted pool of real savings on account of the past reckless policies of the Fed and the government, has made the economic bust more severe. Contrary to popular thinking, the covid-19 did not set the economic bust as such. It was set in motion by a downtrend in the monetary growth during August 2011 to August 2019.
The response of central authorities to the covid-19 in terms of lockdowns and massive monetary pumping has damaged further the pool of real savings and pushed the economy into a severe slump. I suspect that the pool of real savings is currently declining. The likely decline in the pool of real savings undermines not only false nonproductive activities but also productive economic activities. Consequently, if reckless Fed and government policies that have weakened the process of real savings formation continue, it is quite likely that the US economy could experience a prolonged economic stagnation.
In the meantime, rather than allowing businesses to get on with wealth generation, American politicians are making plans for how to redistribute further the already diluted real savings of the wealth generators. While the White House proposes a $1.3 trillion coronavirus aid bill, the Democrats hold that this sum is not large enough and are suggesting that it should instead be around $2.2 trillion.
There is a way out of the crisis: by cutting to the bone government spending and the closing of all the loopholes for the creation of money out of “thin air.” By allowing businesses to do their jobs, the process of real wealth generation could be activated and the economy could escape the path of prolonged stagnation in no time. All that is required is that central authorities step aside and allow businesses, which know better how to generate prosperity, to get on with the task of growing the economy.


newswars--2020-09-08--Scheming Democrats Toy With Doom

Scheming Democrats Toy With Doom

You think things are bad now ?
Wait until election day .
The Democrats are slowly informing the American public @ @ @ @ @ the reigns of power by any means necessary .
Whether that is the plunging of @ @ @ @ @ , economic terrorism , or a new wave of the Coronavirus , the Democrats are @ @ @ @ @ outcomes and strategies right now .
Ultimately , their plans will become a recipe for @ @ @ @

You think things are bad now? Wait until election day.
The Democrats are slowly informing the American public about their plans to take the reigns of power by any means necessary.
Whether that is the plunging of the stock market, secession, economic terrorism, or a new wave of the Coronavirus, the Democrats are wargaming all of the possible outcomes and strategies right now.
Ultimately, their plans will become a recipe for their own failure.


newswars--2020-09-08--Jeffrey Goldberg Accused of Lifting Trump’s “Losers” Quote From End of Godfather II

Editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg has been accused of lifting President Trump ’ s “ losers ” quote from the ending of the movie Godfather II .
Goldberg claimed , citing four anonymous sources , that Trump had referred to Americans who died in battle as “ losers ” and “ suckers , ” but the veracity of this was challenged by numerous people , including former White House national security adviser John Bolton .
The Biden campaign has exploited the allegation to undermine Trump ’ s support amongst veterans .
However , a Twitter user who goes by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ has sensationally claimed that Goldberg , who has a history of being deeply interested in the mafia and Godfather , lifted the quote from a Godfather II scene .
“ They ’ re saps because they risk their lives for strangers , ” says Sonny Corleone in a scene near the end of the Francis Ford Coppola classic .
“ Jeffrey Goldberg ’ s Atlantic story about Trump ’ s alleged comments was lifted from the ending of the Godfather II , ” claimed the Twitter user .
He then went on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ writings prove he is “ obsessed with the mafia and The Godfather.
” Neo-Con Max Boot also pointed out a few days ago how “ Trump ’ s view of the military seems to echo Sonny Corleone ’ s. ” “ Jeffrey Goldberg has excellent taste in movies .
He ’ s also a liar , ” concluded the Twitter user .
What do you think ?
Did Goldberg use Godfather II as the inspiration behind attributing a fake quote to Trump ?
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Editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg has been accused of lifting President Trump’s “losers” quote from the ending of the movie Godfather II.
Goldberg claimed, citing four anonymous sources, that Trump had referred to Americans who died in battle as “losers” and “suckers,” but the veracity of this was challenged by numerous people, including former White House national security adviser John Bolton.
The Biden campaign has exploited the allegation to undermine Trump’s support amongst veterans.
However, a Twitter user who goes by the name ‘ghost of Daniel parker’ has sensationally claimed that Goldberg, who has a history of being deeply interested in the mafia and Godfather, lifted the quote from a Godfather II scene.
1 🚨🚨Jeffrey Goldberg’s Atlantic story about Trump’s alleged comments was lifted from the ending of the Godfather II. pic.twitter.com/DT4I6kZ6RD — ghost of daniel parker (@SeekerOTL) September 7, 2020
“They’re saps because they risk their lives for strangers,” says Sonny Corleone in a scene near the end of the Francis Ford Coppola classic.
“Jeffrey Goldberg’s Atlantic story about Trump’s alleged comments was lifted from the ending of the Godfather II,” claimed the Twitter user.
He then went on to document how Goldberg’s past writings prove he is “obsessed with the mafia and The Godfather.”
5 pic.twitter.com/r2doZ7zqAC — ghost of daniel parker (@SeekerOTL) September 7, 2020
6 I gathered this info in less than 30 minutes of research. I’m sure there is more out there. pic.twitter.com/tqdTJgtV7Z — ghost of daniel parker (@SeekerOTL) September 7, 2020
Neo-Con Max Boot also pointed out a few days ago how “Trump’s view of the military seems to echo Sonny Corleone’s.”
Trump’s view of the military seems to echo Sonny Corleone’s. In “The Godfather, Part II,” the mafia scion says of the men enlisting after Pearl Harbor: “They’re saps, because they risk their lives for strangers.”@PostOpinions https://t.co/0i6ocZxm5T — Max Boot (@MaxBoot) September 6, 2020
“Jeffrey Goldberg has excellent taste in movies. He’s also a liar,” concluded the Twitter user.
What do you think?
Did Goldberg use Godfather II as the inspiration behind attributing a fake quote to Trump?
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Biden Rewrites History

American history is being rewritten by a senile career politician who skews the facts at every turn to reassure himself @ @ @ @ @ campaign .
Whether it ’ s the reimagining of COVID-19 numbers or creating minority friendly @ @ @ @ @ the light bulb , Joe Biden has been stretching the truth throughout his career and @ @ @ @ @ any good at it .
Perhaps lying is just what old school politicians do .

American history is being rewritten by a senile career politician who skews the facts at every turn to reassure himself regarding his own delusional Presidential campaign.
Whether it’s the reimagining of COVID-19 numbers or creating minority friendly disinformation about the invention of the light bulb, Joe Biden has been stretching the truth throughout his career and he isn’t even any good at it.
Perhaps lying is just what old school politicians do.


newswars--2020-09-08--Joe Biden Says ‘The Only Person Calling to Defund The Police Is Donald Trump’

In an incredible display of gaslighting , Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden denied his party wants to defund the police , claiming that President Trump is actually the one who wants to defund the police .
Despite the fact Democrats have made “ defunding the police ” a central policy platform by the likes of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ( N.Y. ) , Ilhan Omar ( Minn. ) , and dozens of others ( including Biden himself ) , Biden incredibly claimed that President Trump is “ the only one ” who wants to defund the police .
“ I not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the police , I ’ m the one calling for $ 300 billio- million more for local police for community policing , ” Biden told reporters Tuesday .
“ The only person calling to defund the police is Donald Trump.
” Biden has denied wanting to defund the police in recent weeks amid the Democrats ’ recent polling backlash .
But the rest of the Democrat Party not only is calling for defunding police , they ’ re actually doing it .
At least 13 Democrat-run cities have cut funding from police budgets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Los Angeles , Baltimore , Portland , New York , and Minneapolis .
Ocasio-Cortez dismissed New York City ’ s $ 1 billion budget cut from the police , asserting that “ defunding the police means defunding the police.
” Omar has also called for “ dismantling ” the Minneapolis Police Department following devastating rioting by Black Lives Matter that resulted in nearly half a billion dollars of property damage .
Rep. Ayanna Pressley ( D-Mass . )
claimed in June that defunding the police was “ about true reparations.
” Then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hundreds of video clips showing leftists and Biden supporters chanting “ Defund The Police ” in the streets throughout the summer , even painting the slogan in giant yellow letters in D.C .
Meanwhile , Trump has consistently voiced his support for law enforcement amid the nationwide far-left riots engulfing America , and even released a memo last week directing federal officials to review ways to withhold funding from cities that decide to defund or abolish their police forces .
“ My Administration will not allow Federal tax dollars to fund cities that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” Trump wrote in the memo .
“ To ensure that Federal funds are neither unduly wasted nor spent in a manner that directly violates our Government ’ s promise to protect life , liberty , and property , it is imperative that the Federal Government review the use of Federal funds by jurisdictions that permit anarchy , violence , and destruction in America ’ s cities.
” Users on social media quickly picked up on Biden ’ s lie .
The Democratic Party ’ s “ Death To America ” campaign @ @ @

In an incredible display of gaslighting, Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden denied his party wants to defund the police, claiming that President Trump is actually the one who wants to defund the police.
Despite the fact Democrats have made “defunding the police” a central policy platform by the likes of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), and dozens of others (including Biden himself), Biden incredibly claimed that President Trump is “the only one” who wants to defund the police.
“I not only don’t want to defund the police, I’m the one calling for $300 billio- million more for local police for community policing,” Biden told reporters Tuesday. “The only person calling to defund the police is Donald Trump.”
.@JoeBiden: “The only person calling to defund the police is Donald Trump.” pic.twitter.com/CKi51jaXOS — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 8, 2020
Biden has denied wanting to defund the police in recent weeks amid the Democrats’ recent polling backlash.
But the rest of the Democrat Party not only is calling for defunding police, they’re actually doing it.
At least 13 Democrat-run cities have cut funding from police budgets, including Washington D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Portland, New York, and Minneapolis.
Ocasio-Cortez dismissed New York City’s $1 billion budget cut from the police, asserting that “defunding the police means defunding the police.”
Omar has also called for “dismantling” the Minneapolis Police Department following devastating rioting by Black Lives Matter that resulted in nearly half a billion dollars of property damage.
Ilhan Omar says she wants to “dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department.” Joe Biden says she’s “smart.” He’s too weak to stand up to her!pic.twitter.com/eO3HtVYRei — Trump War Room – Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) August 1, 2020
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) claimed in June that defunding the police was “about true reparations.”
Then of course, there’s the hundreds of video clips showing leftists and Biden supporters chanting “Defund The Police” in the streets throughout the summer, even painting the slogan in giant yellow letters in D.C.
Meanwhile, Trump has consistently voiced his support for law enforcement amid the nationwide far-left riots engulfing America, and even released a memo last week directing federal officials to review ways to withhold funding from cities that decide to defund or abolish their police forces.
“My Administration will not allow Federal tax dollars to fund cities that allow themselves to deteriorate into lawless zones,” Trump wrote in the memo.
“To ensure that Federal funds are neither unduly wasted nor spent in a manner that directly violates our Government’s promise to protect life, liberty, and property, it is imperative that the Federal Government review the use of Federal funds by jurisdictions that permit anarchy, violence, and destruction in America’s cities.”
Users on social media quickly picked up on Biden’s lie.
Biden’s campaign is one gigantic gaslight: Biden wants to “re-direct” (cut) police funding, so he claims Trump wants to defund the police. Biden is weak on China, so he claims Trump is weak on China. Biden supporters are burning down communities, so he blames Trump supporters. https://t.co/jCa09LmCGg — Andrew Surabian (@Surabees) September 8, 2020
When the dementia hits you hard… https://t.co/AgDL6DiQeA — Steven Crowder (@scrowder) September 8, 2020
Biden’s new slogan appears to be “I know you are but what am I?” — MikeyB (@BertzMichael) September 8, 2020
I think he forgot his platform. — OfficerNasty (@OfficerMaga) September 8, 2020
.@JoeBiden: “The only person calling to defund the police is Donald Trump … he’s pathological.” Doesn’t Biden know its BLM protesters, not @realDonaldTrump, shouting “Defund The Police?” pic.twitter.com/JVeupXAOzE — Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) September 8, 2020
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newswars--2020-09-08--Trump Calls Out Reporter Who Refused to Remove Mask While Asking Question – After Photo Surfaces Sho

Trump Calls Out Reporter Who Refused to Remove Mask While Asking Question – After Photo Surfaces Showing Him Smirking With Colleagues Maskless

A reporter who refused to remove his face mask while asking President Trump a question was lambasted after a photo surfaced of him smirking near colleagues wearing no mask .
President Trump fielded questions from reporters Monday following his Labor Day speech , but he had trouble hearing Reuters reporter Jeff Mason , whom he asked to remove his mask .
“ You ’ re going to have to take that off , please , ” the president told a barely audible Mason , who proceeded to fiddle with his face mask .
“ You can take it off , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are you away ?
” the president asked Mason , who responds , “ I ’ ll speak a lot louder.
” “ Well , ” Trump told him , “ if you don ’ t take it off , you are very muffled .
So , if you would take it off it would be a lot easier.
” “ I ’ ll just speak a lot louder .
Is that better ?
” Mason asked Trump , who begrudgingly replied with a sigh , “ It ’ s… better.
” Later @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mason speaking to a colleague at another event , his mask dangling from his hand by the ear loop .
Neither reporter is wearing a mask in the photo .
“ Same guy that didn ’ t want to take off his mask yesterday in asking a question while being very socially distanced , ” the president remarked Tuesday , following up with “ Fake News !
” Trump haters on Twitter claimed the fact the photo was from a previous ( May 11 ) event was proof President Trump was trying to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ president , meanwhile , correctly asserted the image is merely more evidence of the mainstream media spreading COVID-19 propaganda and hysteria , and is another example of the leftist media ’ s blatant hypocrisy .

A reporter who refused to remove his face mask while asking President Trump a question was lambasted after a photo surfaced of him smirking near colleagues wearing no mask.
President Trump fielded questions from reporters Monday following his Labor Day speech, but he had trouble hearing Reuters reporter Jeff Mason, whom he asked to remove his mask.
.@realDonaldTrump scolds a reporter for wearing a mask: “You’re going to have to take that off, please. How many feet are you away? Well, if you don’t take it off, you are very muffled. So, if you would take it off it would be a lot easier…” pic.twitter.com/64l8N0yLdq — Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) September 7, 2020
“You’re going to have to take that off, please,” the president told a barely audible Mason, who proceeded to fiddle with his face mask.
“You can take it off, you’re healthy… how many feet are you away?” the president asked Mason, who responds, “I’ll speak a lot louder.”
“Well,” Trump told him, “if you don’t take it off, you are very muffled. So, if you would take it off it would be a lot easier.”
“I’ll just speak a lot louder. Is that better?” Mason asked Trump, who begrudgingly replied with a sigh, “It’s… better.”
Later Monday, an older photo surfaced of Mason speaking to a colleague at another event, his mask dangling from his hand by the ear loop. Neither reporter is wearing a mask in the photo.
Was it the reporter on the right? The guy who is wearing a mask on his hand? https://t.co/az54EgyMkE pic.twitter.com/hEgJd5bmzy — Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) September 7, 2020
“Same guy that didn’t want to take off his mask yesterday in asking a question while being very socially distanced,” the president remarked Tuesday, following up with “Fake News!”
Same guy that didn’t want to take off his mask yesterday in asking a question while being very socially distanced. Fake News! https://t.co/JsE05nmcOO — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 8, 2020
Trump haters on Twitter claimed the fact the photo was from a previous (May 11) event was proof President Trump was trying to deceive the public.
Supporters of the president, meanwhile, correctly asserted the image is merely more evidence of the mainstream media spreading COVID-19 propaganda and hysteria, and is another example of the leftist media’s blatant hypocrisy.
Watch the entire press conference below:
The Red Guards are back.


newswars--2020-09-08--BLM Won’t Accept The Truth

BLM Won’t Accept The Truth

The violent crime rate for black folks is so high because Democrat-run cities have created a sociological economic nightmare for @ @ @ @ @ Meanwhile , an accepted genocide of black babies is decimating the numbers of black Americans @ @ @ @ @ every day .
The left ignores with a visceral stupidity the fact that the current @ @ @ @ @ unemployment rate to historic levels and increased economic opportunity even in the oppressive Democrat-held cities @ @ @ @ @ .
Instead , this modern black civil rights movement against police brutality has been hijacked @ @ @ @ @ their saviors , harboring a skewed message of hate , paranoia , and demoralization that @ @ @ @ @ America smack dab in the middle of an election year .

The violent crime rate for black folks is so high because Democrat-run cities have created a sociological economic nightmare for black Americans for decades.
Meanwhile, an accepted genocide of black babies is decimating the numbers of black Americans by roughly 250 black babies every day.
The left ignores with a visceral stupidity the fact that the current President has lowered the black unemployment rate to historic levels and increased economic opportunity even in the oppressive Democrat-held cities the rage is generated from.
Instead, this modern black civil rights movement against police brutality has been hijacked by white Marxists posing as their saviors, harboring a skewed message of hate, paranoia, and demoralization that is terrifying the rest of America smack dab in the middle of an election year.


newswars--2020-09-08--San Fran Officials Using Government Gyms While Private Gyms Remain Shut

Fitness centers owned by the city of San Francisco have quietly remained open while private gyms have been ordered closed for months during the coronavirus lockdown , according to reports .
After discovering city employees have been accessing government-run training facilities , owners of private gyms are outraged .
“ Even though they ’ re getting exposed , there are no repercussions , no ramifications ?
It ’ s shocking.
” Rabkin says she has been fighting to keep her gym alive since state officials issued a mandatory stay-at-home order in mid-March .
“ It just demonstrates that there seems @ @ @ @ @ @ @ standard between what city employees are allowed to do and what the residents of San Francisco are allowed to do , ” Dave Karraker , owner of MX3 Fitness , told NBC .
Karraker asserts the city has effectively proven gyms can be safely reopened .
“ What the city has unwillingly done is created this great case study that says that working out indoors is actually safe , ” he said .
“ So at this point , we ’ re just demanding that they allow us to have the same workout @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the employees of San Francisco have.
” City gyms are open to police officers , attorneys , judges , bailiffs , and other government workers .
In a request for comment from the city , NBC was told , “ the current health order does not allow indoor fitness gyms to operate , and per Mayor London Breed ’ s latest reopening announcement , privately owned gyms have to stay closed until at least the end of the month.
” A new report shows that a recent outbreak of polio in Sudan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to treat polio .
This is a damning disclosure and shows the UN and it ’ s health wing , the WHO , can ’ t be trusted when it comes to vaccines and their safety .

Fitness centers owned by the city of San Francisco have quietly remained open while private gyms have been ordered closed for months during the coronavirus lockdown, according to reports.
After discovering city employees have been accessing government-run training facilities, owners of private gyms are outraged.
“It’s shocking, it’s infuriating,” Daniele Rabkin, who runs Crossfit Golden Gate, told NBC Bay Area.
“Even though they’re getting exposed, there are no repercussions, no ramifications? It’s shocking.”
Rabkin says she has been fighting to keep her gym alive since state officials issued a mandatory stay-at-home order in mid-March.
“It just demonstrates that there seems to be some kind of a double standard between what city employees are allowed to do and what the residents of San Francisco are allowed to do,” Dave Karraker, owner of MX3 Fitness, told NBC.
Karraker asserts the city has effectively proven gyms can be safely reopened.
“What the city has unwillingly done is created this great case study that says that working out indoors is actually safe,” he said.
“So at this point, we’re just demanding that they allow us to have the same workout privileges for the citizens of San Francisco that the employees of San Francisco have.”
City gyms are open to police officers, attorneys, judges, bailiffs, and other government workers.
In a request for comment from the city, NBC was told, “the current health order does not allow indoor fitness gyms to operate, and per Mayor London Breed’s latest reopening announcement, privately owned gyms have to stay closed until at least the end of the month.”
A new report shows that a recent outbreak of polio in Sudan was the result of a vaccine designed to treat polio. This is a damning disclosure and shows the UN and it’s health wing, the WHO, can’t be trusted when it comes to vaccines and their safety.
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newswars--2020-09-08--The Fed’s Brilliant Plan? More Inflation and Higher Prices

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell recently announced that the Fed is abandoning “ inflation targeting ” where the Fed aims to maintain a price inflation rate of up to two percent .
Instead , the Fed will allow inflation to remain above two percent to balance out periods of lower inflation .
Powell ’ s announcement is not a radical shift in policy .
It is an acknowledgment that the Fed is unlikely to reverse course and stop increasing the money supply anytime soon .
Following the 2008 market meltdown , the Fed embarked on an unprecedented money-creation binge .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and an explosion of debt .
Today total household debt and business debt are each over 16 trillion dollars .
Of course , the biggest debtor is the federal government .
The explosion of debt puts pressure on the Fed to keep increasing the money supply in order to maintain low interest rates .
An increase in rates to anything close to what they would be in a free market could make it impossible for consumers , businesses , and ( especially ) the federal government to manage their debt .
This would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fed has also dramatically expanded its balance sheet since 2008 via multiple rounds of “ quantitative easing.
” According to Bloomberg , the Fed is now the world ’ s largest investor and holds about one-third of all bonds backed by US home mortgages .
Congress has expanded the Fed ’ s portfolio by giving the central bank authority to make trillions of dollars of payments to business as well as to state and local governments in order to help the economy recover from the unnecessary and destructive lockdowns .
Contrary to what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a general increase in prices is an effect — not a cause — of inflation .
Inflation occurs whenever the central bank creates money .
Increasing the money supply lowers interest rates , which are the price of money , distorting the market and creating a bubble ( or bubbles ) that provides the illusion of prosperity .
The illusion lasts until the inevitable crash .
Since the distortions come from money creation , the system can not be “ fixed ” by just requiring the Fed to adopt a “ rules-based ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the Fed ’ s actions may lead to a short-term boom .
However , the long-term effect will be even more debt , continued erosion of the average American ’ s standard of living , and the collapse of the fiat money system and the welfare-warfare state .
The crisis will likely be brought on by a rejection of the dollar ’ s reserve currency status .
This will be supported both by concerns about the stability of the US economy and resentment over America ’ s hyper-interventionist foreign policy .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will end .
The question is how it will end .
If the end comes via a meltdown , the result will likely be chaos , violence , and increased support for authoritarian movements as desperate people trade their few remaining liberties in hopes of gaining security .
However , if pro-liberty Americans are able to force Congress to begin cutting spending — starting with the money wasted on militarism — and to move toward restoring a sound and sane monetary policy that includes ending the Federal Reserve , we can minimize an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government , a free-market economy , and respect for liberty .
This article first appeared at RonPaulInstitute.org .
Alex Jones breaks down the engineered economic collapse class war as the Fed pushes for more inflation .

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell recently announced that the Fed is abandoning “inflation targeting” where the Fed aims to maintain a price inflation rate of up to two percent. Instead, the Fed will allow inflation to remain above two percent to balance out periods of lower inflation. Powell’s announcement is not a radical shift in policy. It is an acknowledgment that the Fed is unlikely to reverse course and stop increasing the money supply anytime soon.
Following the 2008 market meltdown, the Fed embarked on an unprecedented money-creation binge. The result was historically low interest rates and an explosion of debt. Today total household debt and business debt are each over 16 trillion dollars. Of course, the biggest debtor is the federal government.
The explosion of debt puts pressure on the Fed to keep increasing the money supply in order to maintain low interest rates. An increase in rates to anything close to what they would be in a free market could make it impossible for consumers, businesses, and (especially) the federal government to manage their debt. This would create a major economic crisis.
The Fed has also dramatically expanded its balance sheet since 2008 via multiple rounds of “quantitative easing.” According to Bloomberg, the Fed is now the world’s largest investor and holds about one-third of all bonds backed by US home mortgages.
Congress has expanded the Fed’s portfolio by giving the central bank authority to make trillions of dollars of payments to business as well as to state and local governments in order to help the economy recover from the unnecessary and destructive lockdowns.
Contrary to what most “mainstream” economists claim, a general increase in prices is an effect — not a cause — of inflation. Inflation occurs whenever the central bank creates money. Increasing the money supply lowers interest rates, which are the price of money, distorting the market and creating a bubble (or bubbles) that provides the illusion of prosperity. The illusion lasts until the inevitable crash. Since the distortions come from money creation, the system cannot be “fixed” by just requiring the Fed to adopt a “rules-based” monetary policy.
Once the lockdowns end, the Fed’s actions may lead to a short-term boom. However, the long-term effect will be even more debt, continued erosion of the average American’s standard of living, and the collapse of the fiat money system and the welfare-warfare state. The crisis will likely be brought on by a rejection of the dollar’s reserve currency status. This will be supported both by concerns about the stability of the US economy and resentment over America’s hyper-interventionist foreign policy.
The question is not if the current system will end. The question is how it will end.
If the end comes via a meltdown, the result will likely be chaos, violence, and increased support for authoritarian movements as desperate people trade their few remaining liberties in hopes of gaining security.
However, if pro-liberty Americans are able to force Congress to begin cutting spending — starting with the money wasted on militarism — and to move toward restoring a sound and sane monetary policy that includes ending the Federal Reserve, we can minimize an economic crisis and begin restoring limited constitutional government, a free-market economy, and respect for liberty.
This article first appeared at RonPaulInstitute.org.
Alex Jones breaks down the engineered economic collapse class war as the Fed pushes for more inflation.


newswars--2020-09-08--University Defends Course on ‘How to Overthrow the State’

Washington and Lee University in Lexington , Virginia , is offering a course on “ How to Overthrow the State.
” According to the description on the university ’ s website , the class , which is officially titled “ Writing seminar for first years , ” is being taught by Assistant Professor of History Matt Gildner .
The course “ places each student at the head of a popular revolutionary movement aiming to overthrow a sitting government and forge a better society.
” “ How will you attain power ?
How will you communicate with the masses ?
How @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the people ?
How will you deal with the past ?
” the description states .
“ From Frantz Fanon to Che Guevara to Mohandas Gandhi and others , we explore examples of revolutionary thought and action from across the Global South.
” Students who take the course will be asked to complete “ a variety of writing exercises , ” including “ producing a Manifesto… ” Students will also be tasked with “ drafting a white paper that critically analyzes a particular issue , and writing a persuasive essay on rewriting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , speaking on behalf of the leadership team of the College Republicans at Washington & Lee , told Campus Reform , “ Our opinion is that while the class as an idea is not objectionable , the content is .
Our objection is that it is focused purely on leftist revolutionary movements .
What could have been a class that focused on W & L ’ s complex relationship to revolutionary movements and teaches students about the difference between a justified revolution with good ends in mind and an unjust revolution is instead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ biases from the professor and centered on anti-Western thought and revolutions.
” Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk described the course as “ disgraceful ” in a statement to Breitbart .
“ We must stop brushing aside these egregious examples of campus craziness as isolated incidents .
The lessons of the past few months prove that these ideas don ’ t stay on campus , they spill out onto the streets .
This is a prime example of the intellectual rot that has infected the academy in America .
The Trump administration should @ @ @ @ @ @ @ type of scholarship federal funds should be used to subsidize , ” Kirk said .
Former House Speaker and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich reacted to the course on Twitter , writing , “ Washington and Lee University ’ s course on ‘ how to overthrow the state ’ is one further sign of the insanity taking over higher education .
The alumni should rise up and show how to overthrow a crazy college administration.
” Campus Reform reached out to the university and the professor who is teaching the course but did @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
According to one local TV news reporter , Washington and Lee University President Will Dudley said in an email to the campus community , calling the media ’ s portrayal of the course “ distorted , sensationalized , and turned into political fodder on blogs , television , and social media.
” “ We are expressly committed to encouraging all to speak their minds freely and to consider carefully alternative points of view .
It is incumbent upon us to treat each other with respect and not perpetrate or tolerate personal attacks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as an opportunity , and the challenge posed by this episode is an opportunity to remind ourselves of the value of liberal arts education and the means by which we provide it , ” he added , according to the local reporter .
A new report shows that a recent outbreak of polio in Sudan was the result of a vaccine designed to treat polio .
This is a damning disclosure and shows the UN and it ’ s health wing , the WHO , can ’ t be trusted when it comes @ @ @ @ @ @

Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, is offering a course on “How to Overthrow the State.”
According to the description on the university’s website, the class, which is officially titled “Writing seminar for first years,” is being taught by Assistant Professor of History Matt Gildner. The course “places each student at the head of a popular revolutionary movement aiming to overthrow a sitting government and forge a better society.”
“How will you attain power? How will you communicate with the masses? How do you plan on improving the lives of the people? How will you deal with the past?” the description states. “From Frantz Fanon to Che Guevara to Mohandas Gandhi and others, we explore examples of revolutionary thought and action from across the Global South.”
Students who take the course will be asked to complete “a variety of writing exercises,” including “producing a Manifesto…”
Students will also be tasked with “drafting a white paper that critically analyzes a particular issue, and writing a persuasive essay on rewriting history and confronting memory.”
Will Tanner, speaking on behalf of the leadership team of the College Republicans at Washington & Lee, told Campus Reform, “Our opinion is that while the class as an idea is not objectionable, the content is. Our objection is that it is focused purely on leftist revolutionary movements. What could have been a class that focused on W&L’s complex relationship to revolutionary movements and teaches students about the difference between a justified revolution with good ends in mind and an unjust revolution is instead a class that is obviously full of biases from the professor and centered on anti-Western thought and revolutions.”
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk described the course as “disgraceful” in a statement to Breitbart.
“We must stop brushing aside these egregious examples of campus craziness as isolated incidents. The lessons of the past few months prove that these ideas don’t stay on campus, they spill out onto the streets. This is a prime example of the intellectual rot that has infected the academy in America. The Trump administration should investigate and determine if this is the type of scholarship federal funds should be used to subsidize,” Kirk said.
Former House Speaker and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich reacted to the course on Twitter, writing, “Washington and Lee University’s course on ‘how to overthrow the state’ is one further sign of the insanity taking over higher education. The alumni should rise up and show how to overthrow a crazy college administration.”
Campus Reform reached out to the university and the professor who is teaching the course but did not hear back in time for publication.
According to one local TV news reporter, Washington and Lee University President Will Dudley said in an email to the campus community, calling the media’s portrayal of the course “distorted, sensationalized, and turned into political fodder on blogs, television, and social media.”
“We are expressly committed to encouraging all to speak their minds freely and to consider carefully alternative points of view. It is incumbent upon us to treat each other with respect and not perpetrate or tolerate personal attacks. I try to view every challenge as an opportunity, and the challenge posed by this episode is an opportunity to remind ourselves of the value of liberal arts education and the means by which we provide it,” he added, according to the local reporter.
A new report shows that a recent outbreak of polio in Sudan was the result of a vaccine designed to treat polio. This is a damning disclosure and shows the UN and it’s health wing, the WHO, can’t be trusted when it comes to vaccines and their safety.


newswars--2020-09-08--TedX Says it Will Refer to Women as “Womxn” to Fight “Discrimination”

Conference organization TedX says it has started referring to women as “ womxn ” in order to fight “ prejudice ” and “ discrimination , ” prompting a backlash on Twitter .
The group announced that it was planning to hold a TEDxLondonWomxn conference this coming Autumn , prompting one user to ask , “ what is a womxn ?
” “ Why we ’ re using ‘ womxn ’ …No , that ’ s not a typo : ‘ womxn ’ is a spelling of ‘ women ’ that ’ s more inclusive and progressive , ” the organization @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the prejudice , discrimination , and institutional barriers womxn have faced , and explicitly includes non-cisgender women.
” Numerous respondents on Twitter pointed out that this was just another example of a leftist organization pandering to extremist woke mobs who are trying to control language .
“ How do you pronounce Womxn ?
You dont .
Cos its bulshit , ” tweeted Suzanne Moore .
“ It ’ s actually less inclusive , considering no normal person knows what the hell you ’ re talking about , ” remarked another Twitter user @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crap that has made it almost impossible to watch Ted Talks anymore .
Too many people pandering to the “ woke ” crowd .
Sorry , but no…..that is not inclusive , it ’ s just bs , ” added another .
Ted Talk ’ s embrace of social justice warrior lunacy is nothing new .
Over four years ago , they gave a platform to Rachel Dolezal , the white former NAACP chapter president who was exposed and humiliated for pretending to be black .
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Conference organization TedX says it has started referring to women as “womxn” in order to fight “prejudice” and “discrimination,” prompting a backlash on Twitter.
The group announced that it was planning to hold a TEDxLondonWomxn conference this coming Autumn, prompting one user to ask, “what is a womxn?”
what is a womxn? — Nikki Murray (@n1kk1m) September 5, 2020
“Why we’re using ‘womxn’…No, that’s not a typo: ‘womxn’ is a spelling of ‘women’ that’s more inclusive and progressive,” the organization responded.
“The term sheds light on the prejudice, discrimination, and institutional barriers womxn have faced, and explicitly includes non-cisgender women.”
Why we’re using ‘womxn’ No, that’s not a typo: ‘womxn’ is a spelling of ‘women’ that’s more inclusive and progressive. The term sheds light on the prejudice, discrimination, and institutional barriers womxn have faced, and explicitly includes non-cisgender women. — TEDxLondon (@tedxlondon) September 5, 2020
Numerous respondents on Twitter pointed out that this was just another example of a leftist organization pandering to extremist woke mobs who are trying to control language.
“How do you pronounce Womxn? You dont . Cos its bulshit,” tweeted Suzanne Moore.
How do you pronounce Womxn? You dont . Cos its bulshit. — suzanne moore (@suzanne_moore) September 8, 2020
“It’s actually less inclusive, considering no normal person knows what the hell you’re talking about,” remarked another Twitter user.
It’s actually less inclusive, considering no normal person knows what the hell you’re talking about — the Maganator 🇺🇸 🚀 (@the_maganator) September 8, 2020
“This is the kind of crap that has made it almost impossible to watch Ted Talks anymore. Too many people pandering to the “woke” crowd. Sorry, but no…..that is not inclusive, it’s just bs,” added another.
This is the kind of crap that has made it almost impossible to watch Ted Talks anymore. Too many people pandering to the “woke” crowd. Sorry, but no…..that is not inclusive, it’s just bs. — Dodie Williams (@dodiewill2) September 8, 2020
Ted Talk’s embrace of social justice warrior lunacy is nothing new.
Over four years ago, they gave a platform to Rachel Dolezal, the white former NAACP chapter president who was exposed and humiliated for pretending to be black.
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newswars--2020-09-08--Watch Live: Americans Are Sick of The COVID Lockdown

On this Tuesday transmission of The David Knight Show , your guest host Harrison Smith will go over Labor Day @ @ @ @ @ stories and lay out what ’ s to come this week .

On this Tuesday transmission of The David Knight Show, your guest host Harrison Smith will go over Labor Day weekend’s top news stories and lay out what’s to come this week.
WATCH LIVE: America Held Hostage Day 176 https://t.co/BftR60Z9HU — David Knight (@libertytarian) September 8, 2020