veteranstoday--2020-07-12--The Memorials to Judah Benjamin

The Memorials to Judah Benjamin

[ Editor ’ s Note : Phil takes us into a banned area of American history , the starting and control over the NAACP ’ s early years , and later the battle between black and Jewish academics on how the legacy of Jewish involvement in the slave trade would be treated .
The Jews were the victors , with their participation being airbrushed out of the textbooks and classrooms .
Like VT , Phil is an iconoclast , willing to take on issues that are deemed too delicate to write about without career and censorship repercussions .
But in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those wanting to do the historical research .
I visited topics like this frequently in my Jim Dean Journal public tv shows in Atlanta , on the Jim Dean Journal , a knockoff of the hour long Charley Rose show .
I wove lots of authoritative quotes into my controversial material , which made me bullet proof from smear accusations .
I used the same style when dealing with delicate Zionism and Israel Lobby controversy , where any criticism triggered a modern lynching response where you would be strung up as a hatemeister @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of my video interviews , the middle library section is full of Judaica books with lots of dog eared pages and yellow highlighting to speed up looking for key quotes .
I used to do show openings with a three minute commentary , borrowed from the old days when major network opened the news with the anchor ’ s commentary .
I believe that Phil ’ s motivation writing this is his knack for showing once again , while historical revisionism is generally fair game on all groups , as in tearing down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days , that Jews will be exempted .
But that is when I am for an equality for all mankind , insisting that they should not be discriminated against like that .
My favorite hidden slavery story , discovered in a Barbados library , was the niche that Bajan Jewish slave traders took over , buying sick slaves off the boats who were presumed to be terminal and were sold cheap .
The Jewish buyers nursed them back to health , most of the time , and then sold them for a nice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this ruthless exploitation , but the descendants of those slaves in Barbados might disagree .
They are proud of their heritage , more so than those of the Irish exported to work in Barbados , where the descendants were called ‘ redlegs ’ for being prone to sunburn .
When I was there , they generally lived a subsistence lifestyle , raiding neighbors ’ produce gardens to sell at the numerous roadside stands .
While Irish sold as servants in the US and to English Caribbean colonies is well documented , but suppressed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to duck the truth is by not telling you that the terms slave and servants were synonyms at the time .
Oliver Cromwell kicked off the nasty business without a whiff of remorse , and later the sugar planters bred Irish women with black slaves as the lighter skinned children sold at much higher prices .
“ In 1649 , Cromwell landed in Ireland and attacked Drogheda , slaughtering some 30,000 Irish living in the city .
Cromwell reported : “ I do not think 30 of their whole number escaped with their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ safe custody in the Barbados.
” A few months later , in 1650 , 25,000 Irish were sold to planters in St. Kitt .
During the 1650s decade of Cromwell ’ s Reign of Terror , over 100,000 Irish children , generally from 10 to 14 years old , were taken from Catholic parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies , Virginia and New England .
In fact , more Irish were sold as slaves to the American colonies and plantations from 1651 to 1660 than the total existing “ free @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( from the link above ) …Another 30,000 Irish men and women were taken prisoners and ordered transported and sold as slaves .
In 1656 , Cromwell ’ s Council of State ordered that 1000 Irish girls and 1000 Irish boys be rounded up and taken to Jamaica to be sold as slaves to English planters.
’ History has a tendency for being subjected to as much spin as can be found in political campaigns , with partially educated Donald Trump being the most recent example .
Phil will fill you in on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recommend , the first , for a quick study is Michael Hoffman ’ s They were white and They were Slaves , worth the price for the index alone , from which he pulled the gems from to do his .
And the the bible on the slave trade is Hugh Thomas ’ 900 page tome , The Slave Trade , 1997 , a 33 year effort for which humanity should be grateful for the incredible compilation , which includes me.… Jim W. Dean ] Jim 's Editor ’ s Notes are solely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ research , field trips , Heritage TV Legacy archiving & more .
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Click to donate > > The current wrath directed against anything or anyone having had anything to do with slavery or even racial discrimination includes destroying historical memorials and monuments as well as changing names that have stood for more than a century .
Much of it has been focused on white nominally Christian males , mostly of Anglo-Saxon stock , understandable as the United States was a child of Great Britain and a majority of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ centuries came from families descended from the British Isles .
Slavery in the United States version is , of course , seen in black and white terms but slavery in a broader historical context is much more complicated .
There have been slaves since ancient times through the eighteenth century in many countries and most of them have been white .
Sometimes they were called something different .
Indentured servants were de facto slaves , as were the serfs in Russia , who were tied to the land and were not liberated until @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from Slav , as many of the slaves in the Middle Ages were from the Slavic parts of the Balkans bordering on the Adriatic , where mostly Muslim seagoing raiders would attack coastal villages and carry off the inhabitants .
Italy was likewise afflicted and the numerous small castles and improvised forts along the Italian and Croatian coastlines were intended to providing a refuge for villagers against the corsair slavers .
In the United States currently progressives of all types and colors are flocking to the revolutionary banner hoisted by Black Lives Matter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Not surprisingly , given the liberal leanings of American Jews as well as their historical connections , Jewish groups have been actively engaged in the ongoing movement for racial justice .
American Jews have played major roles historically in the founding and financial support of some of the most important civil rights organizations , including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) , the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC ) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ) .
In 1909 , Henry Moscowitz was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the boards of directors of the various organizations well into the 1970s frequently reveal a majority of white Jews seated together with minority blacks .
Kivie Kaplan was , for example , the national president of the NAACP between 1966 and 1975 .
But this characterization of Jews as benefactors for the civil rights movement has also produced some curious omissions in the accepted historical narrative of who did what to whom in the slavery trade .
It is well established , though never taught in schools , that Jews from Britain and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trade that prevailed after the European discovery of the Americas .
In the United States , concentrations of Jews in the American south were in slave trading centers , notably in Charleston South Carolina , Savannah Georgia , Richmond Virginia and in New Orleans Louisiana .
Many of the Jews themselves owned slaves .
The debate over Jewish involvement in both the business side of the slave trade as well as in actually possessing slaves comes down to “ proportionality.
” As the historical record makes clear that Jews in the south were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ slaves as well as exploiting slave labor , the question becomes whether they were central to the process or just one of many identifiable groups that were peripherally involved in what was a major segment of the southern economy .
The issue became extremely heated in the 1990s when mostly black academics argued that the Jewish role was pivotal while mostly Jewish professors responded that it was insignificant .
In March 1995 the American Historical Association ( AHA ) got involved by issuing its first ever “ policy resolution ” , coming strongly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ argument , which should surprise no one .
AHA argued that it was wrong to use historical analysis to vilify one group before citing a memo by two Jewish professors which asserted that the role of their co-religionists had been marginal .
For those who are interested in more on the discussion , the following article might be helpful , though it is on a Jewish website , cites only Jewish sources for it debunking of the idea that Jews might have been heavily engaged in the slave trade , and also brings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the contrary .
It nevertheless concedes that Jews were involved in the slave trade and also possessed slaves , though it seeks to minimize the extent to which that was true .
Much more interesting is a short book by a distinguished Wellesley History Professor Tony Martin “ The Jewish Onslaught : Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront.
” Martin describes in some detail how he was subjected to a “ hysterical campaign ” by Jewish organizations and fellow academics to have him discredited and fired after he assigned to his class on African-American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ role in antebellum slavery .
Be that as it may , everyone should be aware that delving around in the past can be a messy business with no easy answers and little in the way of lines drawn between right and wrong .
But in this case , the current unrest brings one around to a chap named Judah Benjamin .
Judah was born in the West Indies to a British-Jewish family before winding up in Charleston and eventually New Orleans , where he became a lawyer and made a fortune .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Louisiana .
Among other investments , he owned a sugar cane plantation that included 140 slaves .
In March of 1861 , Benjamin was named Attorney General of the Confederacy by President Jefferson Davis , whom Benjamin knew from the Senate .
Davis would sometimes say that Benjamin was “ the brains of the Confederacy.
” That same year , Benjamin was also named Confederate Secretary of War , a post that he later resigned to become Secretary of State , a position that he held for the remainder of the conflict .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Richmond ’ s Confederate bureaucracy .
When the Confederacy fell , Benjamin fled to London and eventually to Paris , where he rebuilt his fortune by again practicing law .
Benjamin died in Paris in 1884 at the age of 72 .
He was buried in the Paris Père Lachaise cemetery with a simple headstone inscribed “ Phillipe Benjamin.
” In 1936 , the United Daughters of the Confederacy paid for a monument to be placed over his grave .
So , the question becomes , with BLM and other wreckers trying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , to include those commemorating the Founding Fathers , Union Commander Ulysses S. Grant , Abraham Lincoln , Christopher Columbus , Catholic saint Junipero Serra and even abolitionist Hans Christian Heg , why is it that Judah Benjamin has somehow been missed ?
He was a slave owner and worked as a lawyer in New Orleans where there was a thriving slave market as well as an economy built around cotton exports , which were driven by slave labor .
He eventually became the number two man in the southern Confederacy , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ war to maintain slavery .
Well , of course the answer is quite simple .
No politician or journalist who wants to stay employed would dare to publicly link Jews and slavery .
BLM is also extravagantly funded by various guilt ridden foundations and other folks who are no doubt sensitive to the fact that there are certain issues that can not be raised , and the people with their hands out know perfectly well what they can and can not do or say to keep the money flowing .
For what it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ few monuments to Judah Benjamin sitting around just waiting to be trashed .
In 1948 , Charlotte , North Carolina ’ s two Jewish congregations , Temple Israel and Temple Bethel , erected a marker on South Tyron Street at the site of the demolished house of merchant Abraham Weil where Judah Benjamin and Jefferson Davis found shelter in April 1865 as they fled the northern army .
To their credit , the congregations are now seeking to have the memorial removed .
Also of note is the 5-foot-high pink marble column topped @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Florida at the point where Benjamin escaped from the United States .
The monument is inscribed “ Near this spot on June 23 , 1865 , Judah P. Benjamin , Secretary of State of the United Confederacy , set sail for a foreign shore.
” Yet another stone marker is located at 9 West Main Street in Richmond , Virginia , identifying the location of Benjamin ’ s residence during the Civil War .
Another stone marker can be found in Fayetteville , North Carolina .
It recalls how Benjamin “ attended Fayetteville @ @ @ @ @ @ @ still another stone monument in Bradenton Florida erected by the Judah P. Benjamin chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy and in North Carolina there is a Highway Historical Marker Program plaque that marks the site of Benjamin ’ s no longer existing boyhood home .
But the most impressive historic site commemorating Benjamin ’ s legacy is the Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation in the town of Ellenton , Florida , south of St. Petersburg .
The historic site is maintained as a state park by the Florida Department @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Judah P. Benjamin Chapter No .
1545 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy .
It is the only surviving antebellum plantation in central and south Florida and includes the mansion and gardens as well as a visitors ’ center .
A large bronze memorial plaque commemorates Benjamin .
Nevertheless , the connection with Benjamin is admittedly tenuous as he only sought refuge there briefly in 1865 during his flight to England .
Philip M. Giraldi , Ph.D. , is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest , a 501 ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( Federal ID Number # 52-1739023 ) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East .
Website is https : //councilforthenationalinterest.org , address is P.O .
Box 2157 , Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is [ email protected ] .

Jewish slave-owners exempt from attacks by BLM?
by Phil Giraldi, …with The Unz Review
[ Editor’s Note: Phil takes us into a banned area of American history, the starting, and control over the NAACP’s early years, and later the battle between black and Jewish academics on how the legacy of Jewish involvement in the slave trade would be treated.
The Jews were the victors, with their participation being airbrushed out of the textbooks and classrooms. Like VT, Phil is an iconoclast, willing to take on issues that are deemed too delicate to write about without career and censorship repercussions.
But in fact, this topic does get covered by those wanting to do historical research. I visited topics like this frequently in my Jim Dean Journal public tv shows in Atlanta, on the Jim Dean Journal, a knockoff of the hour-long Charley Rose show.
I wove lots of authoritative quotes into my controversial material, which made me bulletproof from smear accusations. I used the same style when dealing with delicate Zionism and Israel Lobby controversy, where any criticism triggered a modern lynching response where you would be strung up as a hatemeister, heaven forbid.
In the backdrop of my video interviews, the middle library section is full of Judaica books with lots of dog eared pages and yellow highlighting to speed up looking for key quotes. I used to do show openings with a three-minute commentary, borrowed from the old days when a major network opened the news with the anchor’s commentary.
I believe that Phil’s motivation writing this is his knack for showing once again, while historical revisionism is generally fair game on all groups, as in tearing down monuments to anyone honored during the slave days, that Jews will be exempted.
But that is when I am for equality for all mankind, insisting that they should not be discriminated against like that.
My favorite hidden slavery story, discovered in a Barbados library, was the niche that Bajan Jewish slave traders took over, buying sick slaves off the boats who were presumed to be terminal and were sold cheap.
The Jewish buyers nursed them back to health, most of the time, and then sold them for a nice ten times profit. Some might consider this ruthless exploitation, but the descendants of those slaves in Barbados might disagree.
They are proud of their heritage, more so than those of the Irish exported to work in Barbados, where the descendants were called ‘redlegs’ for being prone to sunburn. When I was there, they generally lived a subsistence lifestyle, raiding neighbors’ produce gardens to sell at the numerous roadside stands.
While Irish sold as servants in the US and to English Caribbean colonies is well documented, but suppressed in MSM. The trick they use to duck the truth is by not telling you that the terms slave and servants were synonyms at the time.
Oliver Cromwell kicked off the nasty business without a whiff of remorse, and later the sugar planters bred Irish women with black slaves as the lighter-skinned children sold at much higher prices.
“In 1649, Cromwell landed in Ireland and attacked Drogheda, slaughtering some 30,000 Irish living in the city. Cromwell reported: “I do not think 30 of their whole number escaped with their lives. Those that did are in safe custody in Barbados.” A few months later, in 1650, 25,000 Irish were sold to planters in St. Kitt.
During the 1650s decade of Cromwell’s Reign of Terror, over 100,000 Irish children, generally from 10 to 14 years old, were taken from Catholic parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In fact, more Irish were sold as slaves to the American colonies and plantations from 1651 to 1660 than the total existing “free” population of the Americas!” (from the link above)
…Another 30,000 Irish men and women were taken prisoners and ordered transported and sold as slaves. In 1656, Cromwell’s Council of State ordered that 1000 Irish girls and 1000 Irish boys be rounded up and taken to Jamaica to be sold as slaves to English planters.’
History has a tendency for being subjected to as much spin as can be found in political campaigns, with partially educated Donald Trump being the most recent example. Phil will fill you in on the rest.
Two books I would recommend, the first, for a quick study is Michael Hoffman’s They were white and They were Slaves, worth the price for the index alone, from which he pulled the gems from to do his.
And the the bible on the slave trade is Hugh Thomas’ 900 page tome, The Slave Trade, 1997, a 33 year effort for which humanity should be grateful for the incredible compilation, which includes me.… Jim W. Dean ]
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– First published … June 30, 2020 –
The current wrath directed against anything or anyone having had anything to do with slavery or even racial discrimination includes destroying historical memorials and monuments as well as changing names that have stood for more than a century.
Much of it has been focused on white nominally Christian males, mostly of Anglo-Saxon stock, understandable as the United States was a child of Great Britain and a majority of the country’s leaders for nearly two centuries came from families descended from the British Isles.
Slavery in the United States version is, of course, seen in black and white terms but slavery in a broader historical context is much more complicated. There have been slaves since ancient times through the eighteenth century in many countries and most of them have been white.
Sometimes they were called something different. Indentured servants were de facto slaves, as were the serfs in Russia, who were tied to the land and were not liberated until 1861.
The very word slave comes from Slav, as many of the slaves in the Middle Ages were from the Slavic parts of the Balkans bordering on the Adriatic, where mostly Muslim seagoing raiders would attack coastal villages and carry off the inhabitants. Italy was likewise afflicted and the numerous small castles and improvised forts along the Italian and Croatian coastlines were intended to providing a refuge for villagers against the corsair slavers.
In the United States currently progressives of all types and colors are flocking to the revolutionary banner hoisted by Black Lives Matter (BLM) and other associated groups. Not surprisingly, given the liberal leanings of American Jews as well as their historical connections, Jewish groups have been actively engaged in the ongoing movement for racial justice.
American Jews have played major roles historically in the founding and financial support of some of the most important civil rights organizations, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
In 1909, Henry Moscowitz was a co-founder the NAACP. Photos of the boards of directors of the various organizations well into the 1970s frequently reveal a majority of white Jews seated together with minority blacks. Kivie Kaplan was, for example, the national president of the NAACP between 1966 and 1975.
But this characterization of Jews as benefactors for the civil rights movement has also produced some curious omissions in the accepted historical narrative of who did what to whom in the slavery trade. It is well established, though never taught in schools, that Jews from Britain and Holland were involved in the African slave trade that prevailed after the European discovery of the Americas.
In the United States, concentrations of Jews in the American south were in slave trading centers, notably in Charleston South Carolina, Savannah Georgia, Richmond Virginia and in New Orleans Louisiana. Many of the Jews themselves owned slaves.
The debate over Jewish involvement in both the business side of the slave trade as well as in actually possessing slaves comes down to “proportionality.” As the historical record makes clear that Jews in the south were engaged in both the importing and selling slaves as well as exploiting slave labor, the question becomes whether they were central to the process or just one of many identifiable groups that were peripherally involved in what was a major segment of the southern economy.
The issue became extremely heated in the 1990s when mostly black academics argued that the Jewish role was pivotal while mostly Jewish professors responded that it was insignificant.
In March 1995 the American Historical Association (AHA) got involved by issuing its first-ever “policy resolution”, coming strongly down on the Jewish side of the argument, which should surprise no one. AHA argued that it was wrong to use historical analysis to vilify one group before citing a memo by two Jewish professors which asserted that the role of their co-religionists had been marginal.
For those who are interested in more on the discussion, the following article might be helpful, though it is on a Jewish website, cites only Jewish sources for it debunking of the idea that Jews might have been heavily engaged in the slave trade, and also brings in the most disreputable sources that say the contrary. It nevertheless concedes that Jews were involved in the slave trade and also possessed slaves, though it seeks to minimize the extent to which that was true.
Much more interesting is a short book by a distinguished Wellesley History Professor Tony Martin “The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront.” Martin describes in some detail how he was subjected to a “hysterical campaign” by Jewish organizations and fellow academics to have him discredited and fired after he assigned to his class on African-American history a short reading on the Jewish role in antebellum slavery.
Be that as it may, everyone should be aware that delving around in the past can be a messy business with no easy answers and little in the way of lines drawn between right and wrong. But in this case, the current unrest brings one around to a chap named Judah Benjamin.
Judah was born in the West Indies to a British-Jewish family before winding up in Charleston and eventually New Orleans, where he became a lawyer and made a fortune. He was elected to the U.S. Senate from Louisiana. Among other investments, he owned a sugar cane plantation that included 140 slaves.
In March of 1861, Benjamin was named Attorney General of the Confederacy by President Jefferson Davis, whom Benjamin knew from the Senate. Davis would sometimes say that Benjamin was “the brains of the Confederacy.” That same year, Benjamin was also named Confederate Secretary of War, a post that he later resigned to become Secretary of State, a position that he held for the remainder of the conflict. It was the second most powerful position in Richmond’s Confederate bureaucracy.
When the Confederacy fell, Benjamin fled to London and eventually to Paris, where he rebuilt his fortune by again practicing law. Benjamin died in Paris in 1884 at the age of 72. He was buried in the Paris Père Lachaise cemetery with a simple headstone inscribed “Phillipe Benjamin.” In 1936, the United Daughters of the Confederacy paid for a monument to be placed over his grave.
So, the question becomes, with BLM and other wreckers trying to destroy America’s historical monuments, to include those commemorating the Founding Fathers, Union Commander Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Christopher Columbus, Catholic saint Junipero Serra and even abolitionist Hans Christian Heg, why is it that Judah Benjamin has somehow been missed?
He was a slave owner and worked as a lawyer in New Orleans where there was a thriving slave market as well as an economy built around cotton exports, which were driven by slave labor. He eventually became the number two man in the southern Confederacy, which is being regularly denounced as fighting a war to maintain slavery.
Well, of course the answer is quite simple. No politician or journalist who wants to stay employed would dare to publicly link Jews and slavery. BLM is also extravagantly funded by various guilt ridden foundations and other folks who are no doubt sensitive to the fact that there are certain issues that cannot be raised, and the people with their hands out know perfectly well what they can and cannot do or say to keep the money flowing.
For what it’s worth, there are a few monuments to Judah Benjamin sitting around just waiting to be trashed. In 1948, Charlotte, North Carolina’s two Jewish congregations, Temple Israel and Temple Bethel, erected a marker on South Tyron Street at the site of the demolished house of merchant Abraham Weil where Judah Benjamin and Jefferson Davis found shelter in April 1865 as they fled the northern army. To their credit, the congregations are now seeking to have the memorial removed.
Also of note is the 5-foot-high pink marble column topped by a sundial located in Sarasota, Florida at the point where Benjamin escaped from the United States. The monument is inscribed “Near this spot on June 23, 1865, Judah P. Benjamin, Secretary of State of the United Confederacy, set sail for a foreign shore.”
Yet another stone marker is located at 9 West Main Street in Richmond, Virginia, identifying the location of Benjamin’s residence during the Civil War. Another stone marker can be found in Fayetteville, North Carolina. It recalls how Benjamin “attended Fayetteville Academy on this site.”
There is still another stone monument in Bradenton Florida erected by the Judah P. Benjamin Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy and in North Carolina, there is a Highway Historical Marker Program plaque that marks the site of Benjamin’s no longer existing boyhood home.
But the most impressive historic site commemorating Benjamin’s legacy is the Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation in the town of Ellenton, Florida, south of St. Petersburg. The historic site is maintained as a state park by the Florida Department of Natural Resources and also by the Judah P. Benjamin Chapter No. 1545 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
It is the only surviving antebellum plantation in central and south Florida and includes the mansion and gardens as well as a visitors’ center. A large bronze memorial plaque commemorates Benjamin. Nevertheless, the connection with Benjamin is admittedly tenuous as he only sought refuge there briefly in 1865 during his flight to England.
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is https://councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org.


veteranstoday--2020-07-12--Custom Weapons (Updated – New offerings)

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This could take down an elephant , though that would be wrong .
We have one Chinese made SKS rifle ( It appears to be a Norinco , but it does not have brand markings ) It has not been touched and is still coated in cosmolene .
It is a battle used and has some trench art @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 7.62X39 ( same as the AK-47 ) We gave it a cursory examination and it appears to be in relatively good condition but it has been used in battle so it has some scars .
The cosmolene prevents a closer inspection and I didn ’ t take any photos .
We are therefore offering it in as-in condition .
• We also have a new modern custom foldable stock that accepts removable magazines and one magazine .
These are available if desired at an extra cost of $ 100 .
Contact Mike @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very rare collectible rifle in “ hand select ” condition .
The Finns copied the Russian Mosin Nagant but shortened the barrel slightly and installed a much-improved trigger system .
They made only a tiny fraction of the number made by the Russians and few were imported to the US .
It is still in cosmolene and is in above average condition .
It appears to have been used very little or not at all .
It is chambered in 7.62X54R as is the original Russian model .
These are quite rare and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get one .
These are just a few of our available offerings .
We have many assembled rifles in stock for immediate shipping as well as parts to custom build on to your specifications .
Call Mike at 517-548-9558 to ask any questions or to place an order .
Ask for Mike We accept cashier ’ s checks , Money orders , Visa , MasterCard , and Discover .
There is a 3 % surcharge for credit card use as that is what we are charged and we just pass it along .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ our previous builds .
Some of these are not currently available .

from Gordon Duff and Mike Chester, we present;
In the last few months, demand for our offerings has increased dramatically and we have completely sold out of our “basic” special model. There is a severe shortage on the availability of parts which resulted in the price we pay for parts to sharply increase. Parts for the “Basic” if they were even available, would now cost more than we were selling the complete rifles for. No matter how many times I do the calculations, I still don’t think I can make up the deficit in volume.
All of the other firearms shown are still available at the prices shown but we are down to only one of each for most of them and replacing them will cost more.
We are doing our best to keep our custom products available at reasonable prices, but in the foreseeable future we see shortages and higher prices.
Right now, these seen below are the only complete rifles and pistols available, but we are working to replenish our parts supply when they become available.
We still have the necessary components to build complete lower receivers so if you already have an upper, know another place to buy one or have built your own we can still supply the necessary lowers. Prices start at $325 for complete lowers (this price is for a standard mil-spec adjustable stock and pistol grip) and can go up somewhat depending on options chosen. Call Mike at 517-548-9558 to ask any questions or to place an order…
Mike
Chet’s Firearms
The VT Custom Firearms Shop is open for business and is ready to take your orders. We took a short break to give Mike a rest but he is back building custom firearms which we are proud to offer.
COVID attack cat as requested
Recent events have seriously increased the demand for firearms and many dealers are experiencing shortages. We have a very limited supply of in-stock complete rifles and pistols as well as parts for custom builds.
Gordon Duff with one of the VT Firearms ready to go
There are many weapons in inventory that are not listed including a good supply of curio and relic military weapons. We have a somewhat limited supply of optics and magazines so, for now, they are not available for sale except with a rifle or pistol purchase.
50 years before Kadir and G
Many sellers are trying to take advantage of the current shortage by raising their prices but we don’t believe in price gouging. Of course, our suppliers have raised their prices and since our inventory needs to be replaced we will have to raise our prices to compensate. Many parts have more than doubled in price and many are not available at any price. We are doing our best to keep our prices as low as possible. We don’t encourage panic buying but are here to serve your needs.
Carbon Fiber kit
For further information or to purchase any of these guns, please contact Mike Chester at Chet’s Firearms of Howell, Michigan. chetarms@charter.net or phone 517-548-9558. Ask for Mike. Prices do not include shipping to your local FFL.
All prices are plus reasonable shipping, all sales require normal license procedures and are limited by law in your area, please check.
Dealer is Chet’s Firearms of Howell, Michigan. We have these weapons for immediate shipment and a few more, like a truckload. You want it, we will build it for you, any caliber or may well have it for immediate shipment.
Call Mike at 517 548 9558
DISCLOSURE: Chet’s Firearms is a private company. VT promotes Chet’s Firearms and Adama’s personnel design weapons offered by Chet’s, a federally licensed dealer and manufacturer. VT has NO financial interest in Chet’s Firearms and is NOT an owner, partner, or affiliate with Chet’s Firearms. All legal responsibilities for gun sales is that of Chet’s Firearms and NOT VT or VT Network
High End Custom .223/5.56 — Sold
This is a special one of a kind rifle that I originally built for myself. I am not currently able to go to the range so I am offering it for sale. It is brand new and is equipped with several custom features. It is equipped with a 3.0 lb. pull match grade custom trigger group. It has a short take-up, a crisp break and a short reset. The rifle is also equipped with a Luth-AR custom adjustable stock, a stainless steel match barrel with a stainless steel custom muzzle brake, a side charging upper, a 13.5 inch ultra slimline keymod rail, and a custom comfortable soft pistol grip. It also includes a 4X32 AIM scope with a red/green illuminated cross hair reticle and a fiber optic open sight on top.
Loadout:
16 inch match stainless steel barrel with stainless custom muzzle brake
Side charging upper receiver
13.5 inch ultra slimline keymod rail
3.0 lb. pull match grade trigger group with a short take-up, crisp break, and a short reset with anti-walk pins. – $200.00+ value
Luth-AR custom adjustable stock – $100.00 value
Soft custom pistol grip – $40.00 value
13.5 inch ultra-slimline keymod rail
AIM 4X32 scope with red/green illuminated crosshair reticle and fiber optic open sight on top. – $150.00 value
30 or 10 round magazine – depending on your local laws
Special Price of $999
Premium – Economy .223/5.56 Rifle
This rifle is a high-quality economically priced rifle. It has a 16 inch chrome-moly barrel with a “birdcage” muzzle brake, a Mil-spec adjustable stock and pistol grip, and a 12 inch slimline rail.
The functional components are our same high quality parts that we use for our more expensive rifles, but with lower-priced “furniture.”
Loadout:
16 inch chrome moly barrel with “birdcage” muzzle brake
12-inch slimline rail
Mil-spec adjustable stock and pistol grip
30 or 10 round magazine
$619.00
Our original exclusive “Can-Within-a-Can”
This is the original version of our famous “can-within-a-can design.
This was originally designed for UK forces as a replacement for the HK MP 5. Their version is 40 round clips, .300AAC/Blackout with threaded recess barrel (on the VT version as well) to take a silencer. If in Blackout, subsonic ammo is available.
When tested against a 9mm MP 5 which costs 4 times as much, this weapon makes the MP 5 look like a child’s toy. The world of fake weapons gurus had no idea we could get 8 times the range and 5 times the hitting power out of a lighter weapon with larger capacity that you can also beat someone to death with, thus the ‘can within a can’ design. This is the preferred ‘real life’ combat shooter at below 400 meters where 99.9 percent of real combat happens.
Loadout:
8.5-inch chrome-moly steel barrel
10 inch round front outer “can”
flash can
Custom pistol grip
Shockwave Blade arm brace
30 round magazine
Shown with optional red dot sight – +$50
Note – cat not included
$749
7.5 Inch .223 Pistol
Loadout:
7.5-inch chrome-moly barrel
7-inch slimline keymod rail
Shockwave Blade arm brace – newest style, easily adjustable length
Custom pistol grip
Birdcage muzzle brake
30 round magazine
$729
16 Inch .223/5.56 Rifle with “Breaching” Muzzle Brake
Loadout
16 Inch chrome-moly barrel in .223/5.56
12-inch slimline keymod rail
Breaching muzzle brake – This can be replaced with a “Birdcage Muzzle Brake at no charge
MOE stock
custom pistol grip
30 or 10 round magazine – depending on your local laws
$779
20 Inch .223/5.56 Rifle
Loadout
20-inch chrome-moly barrel in .223/5.56
15-inch slimline keymod rail
MOE stock
Custom pistol grip
Stainless trigger group
Sound forwarding muzzle device – This does not reduce the total sound but is supposed to direct more of it forward away from the shooter.
30 or 10 round magazine
$809 $799
450 Bushmaster Rifle
The .450 Bushmaster round was developed specifically as a deer hunting round though it can also be a quite effective anti-personnel round.
Several states, including Michigan, have different zones during deer hunting season. Those nearer to cities only allow the use of shotguns or rifles using non-tapered rounds. The intent of the non-tapered round was to use a pistol cartridge in a rifle for a limited range and power. Rounds such as the .357 magnum, .44 magnum or the .45 Long Colt are used.
Any rifle that uses a cartridge that has a larger compartment for powder and is necked down to propel a smaller caliber bullet at high velocity is not allowed. Bushmaster designed a round to get around this limitation and called it the .450 Bushmaster. You can think of it as basically a .45 very long Colt. It is a non-tapered cartridge so it is legal to use in these restricted areas but has power similar to the high-powered hunting rifles.
Loadout:
16 Inch Phosphate coated barrel
12 inch slimline keymod rail
Custom “tanker” style muzzle brake
Omega Tactical custom adjustable stock with thick butt pad
Custom pistol grip
8 round magazine specifically designed for the .450 (a standard .223 magazine can be used in single stack configuration but is much more prone to jam.)
Optic not included in price but we have a few available.
$779
.350 Legend — This one is sold, but I have another .350 barrel and can build another
The .350 Legend is a brand new round that was first introduced in 2019. It was designed primarily for deer hunting but is also a very fine anti-personnel round.
It is a smooth-sided round similar to the idea of the .450 Bushmaster but is a much more controllable round to shoot with much less recoil. Like the .450 Bushmaster, it was designed to allow hunters to use it in areas that limit deer hunting to the use of shotguns and non-tapered pistol rounds. They started with a basic .223 round and did not taper it down to the .223 bullet. This makes the projectile a .357 bullet. It is quite effective.
Loadout:
18 Inch Phosphate coated chrome-moly barrel
15 inch slimline MLOK rail
custom muzzle brake
custom grip
Rogers Superstock – adjustable with anti-rattle latch
5 round hunting magazine (most states limit capacity for hunting to 5 rounds. Larger magazine will probably be available in the future)
Optics are available but not included in price.
$769
The AK cats
California / New York Compatible Rifle
California and New York have enacted cosmetic laws that ban so-called “assault rifles.”
Any rifle with any appearance item from a list of “features” makes it illegal to purchase. We designed and built a “featureless” rifle that has none of the evil parts. Functionally it is identical to our regular AR rifles, it just looks different.
At first glance, it looks a bit odd but it is actually very pleasant to shoot.
We are now selling this rifle with the much nicer generation 3 stock.
This rifle now comes with the generation 3 stock shown in the first 3 photos. This stock not only looks better but it gets around the non-adjustable restriction by including a series of spacers that can be put in or taken out to adjust the length of the stock. This is legal.
It will come with an upper like the one shown on the older model pictured above. The 3-9X40 Barksa scope is not included but is available for an additional $60
Loadout:
16-inch phosphate coated barrel, target crowned without threads (one of the banned features)
New Generation 3 “featureless” stock with a curved hand grip instead of a pistol grip. (another banned item)
10 round magazine (CA and NY limit)
12-inch slimline keymod rail
$779
6.5 Grendel Precision 20 inch Target Rifle
The 6.5 Grendel is the round that the military should be used as it has much more power and accuracy at distance. The bullet is still traveling at supersonic speeds at 1000 yards.
This rifle features a high-end ELD Defense match grade target barrel. It maintains accuracy at well past 1000 yards. ELD is a British company that has made barrels for the UK competition rifle team for many years. They have recently entered the US market and offered manufacturers reasonable prices to get us to try their products. We have found their quality to be excellent. Now that we are using them the introductory prices have ended. This is the last barrel we bought at a lower price so in the future this rifle will cost more.
Loadout:
20 Inch Stainless steel ELD match grade target barrel
15-inch Ultra-slimline keymod rail
Custom Stainless muzzle brake
Custom padded stock
Custom pistol grip
25 round Magazine
$799
Collectible Rifles
SKS Rifle
We have one Chinese made SKS rifle (It appears to be a Norinco, but it does not have brand markings) It has not been touched and is still coated in cosmolene. It is a battle used and has some trench art on the stock. It is chambered in 7.62X39 (same as the AK-47)
We gave it a cursory examination and it appears to be in relatively good condition but it has been used in battle so it has some scars. The cosmolene prevents a closer inspection and I didn’t take any photos. We are therefore offering it in as-in condition.
The price is $349 .
We also have a new modern custom foldable stock that accepts removable magazines and one magazine. These are available if desired at an extra cost of $100. Contact Mike for the details.
Finnish Mosin Nagant
This is a very rare collectible rifle in “hand select” condition. The Finns copied the Russian Mosin Nagant but shortened the barrel slightly and installed a much-improved trigger system.
They made only a tiny fraction of the number made by the Russians and few were imported to the US. It is still in cosmolene and is in above average condition. It appears to have been used very little or not at all. It is chambered in 7.62X54R as is the original Russian model. These are quite rare and this may be your only chance to get one.
The price is $499
These are just a few of our available offerings. We have many assembled rifles in stock for immediate shipping as well as parts to custom build on to your specifications.
Call Mike at 517-548-9558 to ask any questions or to place an order.
Ask for Mike We accept cashier’s checks, Money orders, Visa, MasterCard, and Discover. There is a 3% surcharge for credit card use as that is what we are charged and we just pass it along.
The following photos are of some of our previous builds. Some of these are not currently available.


veteranstoday--2020-07-12--Poll: Biden Ahead of Trump by 5% in Texas, 6% in Florida and elsewhere even more…

Daily Beast : The independent polling firm Political Polls has put Joe Biden 5 points ahead of Donald Trump in @ @ @ @ @ of respondents in the key red state favoring the former vice president over 43 percent @ @ @ @ @ poll echoes a CBS poll released Sunday that also shows Biden polling well in key @ @ @ @ @ poll shows Trump just 1 point ahead of Biden in Texas but puts the Democrat @ @ @ @ @ and in a tie in Arizona .
Meanwhile , Five Thirty Eight compiled polling averages @ @ @ @ @ surging in Virginia , Minnesota , and a host of other swing states—sometimes with double-digit @ @ @ @ @

Daily Beast: The independent polling firm Political Polls has put Joe Biden 5 points ahead of Donald Trump in Texas, with 48 percent of respondents in the key red state favoring the former vice president over 43 percent for Trump.
The new poll echoes a CBS poll released Sunday that also shows Biden polling well in key battleground states.
The CBS poll shows Trump just 1 point ahead of Biden in Texas but puts the Democrat 6 points ahead in Florida and in a tie in Arizona. Meanwhile, Five Thirty Eight compiled polling averages last week that show Biden surging in Virginia, Minnesota, and a host of other swing states—sometimes with double-digit leads over the president.


veteranstoday--2020-07-12--Putin’s vision for an Anti-Fascist/open system future and you

During the course of President Putin ’ s June 24 opening speech during the Moscow Parade celebrating the 75th anniversary of WWII , the following call to action was made : “ We understand how important it is to strengthen friendship and trust between nations , and are open to dialogue and cooperation on the most pressing issues on the international agenda .
Among them is the creation of a common reliable security system , something the complex and rapidly changing modern world needs .
Only together can we protect the world from new dangerous threats.
” This call echoed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ article published in the National Interest where he outlined in stark terms the powerful financier and aristocratic forces behind the rise of Hitler in the wake of WWI , and the vital need to honor those millions who died to ensure freedom and survival for future generations .
In his article , Putin laid out the call for an emergency meeting among the five veto-carrying members of the U.N. Security Council which he first publicized during his January 15 , 2020 State of the Union .
Although respect for Russia ’ leader runs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people have still found it exceptionally difficult to see how Putin ’ s solution-oriented spirit is anything but naïve fancy .
After all , aren ’ t relations between Russia and America as low as they have ever been ?
Aren ’ t things even worse between the USA and China ?
How could anything good possibly come from a USA which has acted like a decadent imperial machine for decades ?
Although very understandable , this inability to understand Putin ’ s intention is something I would like to help correct within @ @ @ @ @ @ @ position : Putin is no idiot .
Putin is a figure who is very much animated by a strong sense of moral duty which has given him the insight into both history and the future which is rare among citizens of our current epoch , and even rarer among the political class .
Putin also recognizes that the western neo-liberal system is sitting on the precipice of the worst financial meltdown in recorded history and he also knows that a new system will , by necessity be brought online .
It is understood @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have to be fleshed out as soon as possible if a new hardcore fascist “ solution ” will be avoided along with the obvious world war that would soon follow .
As I have laid out in a recent report , the foundations for that new operating system will either be rooted in open system or closed system thinking .
If humanity ’ s new system is presumed to be of a closed nature , then I am sorry to tell you that fascism will be necessitated as the ultimate governing mechanism of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ depressing fact is simple .
In all closed ( ie : finite/bounded ) systems , the number of people alive will always tend to consume more energy than the system itself creates over time as resources , and agricultural potential is slowly drawn down and entropy increases .
In such a world , someone has to decide who receives those ever-diminishing returns of resources , and who are the useless eaters to be sacrificed “ for the greater good ” of the system .
This is the Hobbesian world that such misanthropes like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Henry Kissinger and Al Gore live in .
In true Pygmalion fashion , these cynics will use any and all political clout at their disposal to force society to adhere to their obsession with “ balance ” , “ mathematical equilibrium ” and perfect linear predictability .
The self-professed “ alphas ” of these sorts of master-slave societies are committed to forcing the “ might-makes-right ” laws of the jungle onto humanity .
In the closed-uncreative world of such a misanthrope , imbalance is considered both un-natural and evil .
Imbalance is wild @ @ @ @ @ @ @ open .
Based on their words and actions , Putin , Xi , and other leaders of today ’ s multipolar alliance do not think this way .
As a short example of my meaning , listen to President Xi describe the fundamental principle of open system economics during a 2016 speech to the CPC central committee : “ Coordinated development is the unity of balanced development and imbalanced development .
The process from balance to imbalance and then to rebalance is the basic law of development .
Balance is relative while imbalance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not pursuing equalitarianism , but giving more importance to equal opportunities and balanced resource allocation.
” By placing imbalance as the absolute factor , and balance as merely relative , Xi is defining a process of progress built upon creative leaps with each higher system requiring a reasonable balance/distribution of resource use , but without ever becoming reliant on that particular set of finite resources .
Putin expressed his understanding of this principle in his own way when he discussed the importance of unlimited energy and growth potential attainable through the harnessing of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ harness a colossal , inexhaustible and safe source of energy .
However , we will only succeed in fusion energy and in solving other fundamental tasks if we establish broad international cooperation and interaction between government and business , and join the efforts of researchers representing different scientific schools and areas .
If technological development becomes truly global , it will not be split up or reined in by attempts to monopolize progress , limit access to education and put up new obstacles to the free exchange of knowledge and ideas.. With their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ literally see nature ’ s creation processes.
” Programs like China ’ s Belt and Road Initiative ( and its space , polar , health and information extensions ) has not only won over 135 nations to its framework but this program is entirely rooted in open system thinking .
Within this framework ’ s operating system , there is no presumed fixed limit to resources or endpoint to the progress that nations can create if certain principles are adhered to .
At the heart of these vital principles is found the moral @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as China ’ s former president Sun Yat-sen called it in his Three Principles of the People , the Principle of “ Right makes Might ” .
Sun Yat-sen understood in 1924 , as Presidents Xi and Putin do today , that if a nation adheres to win-win/right-makes-might thinking , then that nation will never lose the Mandate of Heaven ( Tianxia ) .
In the Western matrix , this principle is expressed beautifully by the Principle of Westphalia which established the first modern nation states in 1648 premised around the principle of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ When Kissinger , Brzezinski or Blair speak of a “ post-Westphalian age ” , it is this fundamental principle that they are attacking more than the mere existence of national borders .
This principle is again reflected in the UN Charter , which was designed by the anti-colonial President FDR “ to achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic , social , cultural , or humanitarian character , and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race , sex @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.
” FDR ’ s early death and the British-Deep State takeover of America over his dead body prevented these ideals and open system dynamics from ever coming to life .
As long as nations are empowered to stand on their own feet , develop full spectrum agro-industrial economies and if people benefit by developing new skillsets , and if new technologies and new discoveries in science are encouraged rather than sabotaged ( as has been the practice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) , then potential for human perfectibility is as boundless as our ability to discover , create , plan and inspire future generations .
Now there are an array of domains which all nations of the U.N. Security Council can focus on during this period of intense crisis that would tie civilization ’ s interests into open system thinking benefiting all nations and people .
If the USA has even a modicum of sanity at this late stage , then Trump will give Pompeo and other neocons the Bolton/Bannon treatment and make Putin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the sake of the USA ’ s very survival as a nation , and humanity more broadly .
To end this paper , I wish to outline several of the most fruitful topics to be tackled at upcoming summits which will best define the coming century ( or more ) of cooperation and growth : Space Diplomacy , Asteroid Defense , Arctic and Far east development , energy , and health infrastructure .
America ’ s successful return to manned space flight on May 28th was more than just another space launch , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much larger commitment illustrated by the May 15 Artemis Accords to not only send humans back to the Moon for the first time since 1973 , but to permanently develop a Lunar and Mars-based economy with a focus on international cooperation .
This outlook dovetails Russia ’ commitment for permanent lunar colonization and resource development which will start with Luna 25 in 2021 followed by Luna 26 , 27 and 28 soon thereafter with a plan to have a permanent manned base in early 2030 .
Describing Russia ’ s support for this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : “ I can imagine what kind of feeling they had all these nine years , having no opportunity to deliver their astronauts to the ISS .
It is a matter of honor and national pride .
Let us wish them professional success.
” The USA and Russia are also close partners in the ISS and Russia manufactures the strategic RD-180 and RD-181 engines used in American launch vehicles .
Both the USA and Russia are partners on the upcoming Lunar Gateway station which will soon orbit the Moon and serve as an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ used both in mining and Mars launches .
Although banned from the ISS and U.S.-cooperation since 2011 , China has become a pioneer in space with a tight alliance with Russia on lunar cooperation signed in September 2019 .
China ’ s own Chang-e program has resulted in landing on the far side of the moon with plans for colonization in the coming decades as well as the development of Helium-3 mining for fusion power .
Faced with the two-fold threat of NATO military encirclement on earth and asteroid collisions from abroad , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the concept for a joint U.S.-Russia controlled defense system first announced by President Reagan ’ s 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative .
Rogozin ’ s 2011 version ( titled the Strategic Defense of Earth ) now called for turning humanity ’ s arsenal of atomic weapons away from each other and towards the grave danger of asteroid collisions for which we are woefully unprepared .
Introducing this topic into the emerging joint U.S/Russia working groups on arms control set to begin in mid-July would contribute in powerful non-linear ways that can not be calculated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This vision has been echoed by China as well as the European and Japanese space agencies .
In 2007 , Russia revived a 150-year-old idea that once had the support of leading republicans of Lincoln ’ s 19th century America to unite rail lines in America and Eurasia through the Bering Strait crossing in the form of a 65 mile tunnel .
Russia again re-emphasized its commitment to building this $ 64 billion project in 2011 .
With China ’ s Polar Silk Road having extended the traditionally east-west development corridor into the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ increasingly merged the Belt and Road Initiative with the Eurasian Economic Union , this new development dynamic offers incredible economic opportunities for all Arctic nations and also an escape from military confrontation .
Part in parcel with this initiative comes President Putin ’ s Far East development plans as a “ 21st century national priority ” for Russia .
The development of new cities , mining , transport corridors and oil and natural gas of Russia ’ s Far East represent one of the greatest boons for economic investment during the coming century @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from China , Japan , South Korea , India and other APEC nations .
Putin ’ s 2018 proposal that the USA join in this project of win-win cooperation is important not only because it would build trust , create business opportunities and re-establish the lost art of long-term thinking , but would also help link up western businesses into partnership with the Asia Pacific development process now being shaped by China ’ s Belt and Road Initiative .
Although tensions have been enflamed to schism China and India from cooperating directly on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Russian Far East development investments has created a non-linear flank which can help bring these two Asian giants into harmony .
Only the tip of the iceberg… Overall , there are many other points of common benefit shared by nations committed to a Multi-Polar “ open system ” future including education/cultural exchange , fission/fusion energy research , counterterrorism , and COVID-19 response coordination .
On this last threat , the issue of a new world healthcare system has become an increasing focus of discussion , especially as nations set their sights on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russia , China and the USA can play a leading role to ensure a modern and equitable healthcare architecture for nations of the developing sector which has found itself so vulnerable when faced with the threat of world pandemics .
Africa , South America , Asia and beyond require vastly improved healthcare services , hospitals , training , and medical technology worthy of the 21st century .
Most importantly the world needs preventative systems such as sanitation , clean water , food sovereignty and electricity if pandemics and all future threats to world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all .
If Russia , America , China and other nations of the UN Security Council and BRICS were to apply their best minds to solving these problems rather than fall into a new arms race , then not only would either country benefit immensely , but so too would humanity more broadly .
Putin ’ s olive branches have piled up over recent years and there is no sign that he intends on permitting himself to be the cause for history ’ s repetition into war , and if we are smart @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our power to ensure that this discussion not only occurs , but that open system economics prevails .
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review , a BRI Expert on Tactical talk , and has authored 3 volumes of ‘ Untold History of Canada ’ book series .
In 2019 he co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation

by Matthew Ehret
During the course of President Putin’s June 24 opening speech during the Moscow Parade celebrating the 75th anniversary of WWII, the following call to action was made:
“We understand how important it is to strengthen friendship and trust between nations, and are open to dialogue and cooperation on the most pressing issues on the international agenda. Among them is the creation of a common reliable security system, something the complex and rapidly changing modern world needs. Only together can we protect the world from new dangerous threats.”
This call echoed the President’s powerful June 19 article published in the National Interest where he outlined in stark terms the powerful financier and aristocratic forces behind the rise of Hitler in the wake of WWI, and the vital need to honor those millions who died to ensure freedom and survival for future generations.
In his article, Putin laid out the call for an emergency meeting among the five veto-carrying members of the U.N. Security Council which he first publicized during his January 15, 2020 State of the Union.
Although respect for Russia’s leader runs high, I have noticed that most people have still found it exceptionally difficult to see how Putin’s solution-oriented spirit is anything but naïve fancy.
After all, aren’t relations between Russia and America as low as they have ever been? Aren’t things even worse between the USA and China? How could anything good possibly come from the USA which has acted like a decadent imperial machine for decades?
Although very understandable, this inability to understand Putin’s intention is something I would like to help correct within this brief article.
To restate my position: Putin is no idiot.
Putin is a figure who is very much animated by a strong sense of moral duty which has given him the insight into both history and the future which is rare among citizens of our current epoch, and even rarer among the political class.
Putin also recognizes that the western neo-liberal system is sitting on the precipice of the worst financial meltdown in recorded history and he also knows that a new system will, by necessity be brought online. It is understood that the terms of this new system have to be fleshed out as soon as possible if a new hardcore fascist “solution” will be avoided along with the obvious world war that would soon follow.
As I have laid out in a recent report, the foundations for that new operating system will either be rooted in an open system or closed system thinking.
Closed Systems in Brief
If humanity’s new system is presumed to be of a closed nature, then I am sorry to tell you that fascism will be necessitated as the ultimate governing mechanism of the elite.
The reason for this depressing fact is simple.
In all closed (ie: finite/bounded) systems, the number of people alive will always tend to consume more energy than the system itself creates over time as resources, and agricultural potential is slowly drawn down and entropy increases.
In such a world, someone has to decide who receives those ever-diminishing returns of resources, and who are the useless eaters to be sacrificed “for the greater good” of the system. This is the Hobbesian world that such misanthropes like Thomas Malthus, T.H. Huxley, Henry Kissinger, and Al Gore live in.
In true Pygmalion fashion, these cynics will use any and all political clout at their disposal to force society to adhere to their obsession with “balance”, “mathematical equilibrium” and perfect linear predictability.
The self-professed “alphas” of these sorts of master-slave societies are committed to forcing the “might-makes-right” laws of the jungle onto humanity. In the closed-uncreative world of such a misanthrope, the imbalance is considered both unnatural and evil. Imbalance is wild. It is unpredictable. It is open.
Based on their words and actions, Putin, Xi, and other leaders of today’s multipolar alliance do not think this way.
Open Systems in Brief
As a short example of my meaning, listen to President Xi describe the fundamental principle of open system economics during a 2016 speech to the CPC central committee:
“Coordinated development is the unity of balanced development and imbalanced development. The process from balance to imbalance and then to rebalance is the basic law of development. Balance is relative while imbalance is absolute. Emphasizing coordinated development is not pursuing equalitarianism, but giving more importance to equal opportunities and balanced resource allocation.”
By placing imbalance as the absolute factor, and balance as merely relative, Xi is defining a process of progress built upon creative leaps with each higher system requiring a reasonable balance/distribution of resource use, but without ever becoming reliant on that particular set of finite resources.
Putin expressed his understanding of this principle in his own way when he discussed the importance of unlimited energy and growth potential attainable through the harnessing of fusion power:
“Potentially we can harness a colossal, inexhaustible, and safe source of energy. However, we will only succeed in fusion energy and in solving other fundamental tasks if we establish broad international cooperation and interaction between government and business, and join the efforts of researchers representing different scientific schools and areas.
If technological development becomes truly global, it will not be split up or reined in by attempts to monopolize progress, limit access to education and put up new obstacles to the free exchange of knowledge and ideas. With their help, scientists will be able to literally see nature’s creative processes.”
Programs like China’s Belt and Road Initiative (and its space, polar, health, and information extensions) have not only won over 135 nations to its framework but this program is entirely rooted in open system thinking. Within this framework’s operating system, there is no presumed fixed limit to resources or endpoint to the progress that nations can create if certain principles are adhered to.
At the heart of these vital principles is found the moral concept of “win-win cooperation” or as China’s former president Sun Yat-sen called it in his Three Principles of the People, the Principle of “Right makes Might”. Sun Yat-sen understood in 1924, as Presidents Xi and Putin do today, that if a nation adheres to win-win/right-makes-might thinking, then that nation will never lose the Mandate of Heaven (Tianxia).
In the Western matrix, this principle is expressed beautifully by the Principle of Westphalia which established the first modern nation-states in 1648 premised around the principle of the “Benefit of the Other.” When Kissinger, Brzezinski, or Blair speak of a “post-Westphalian age”, it is this fundamental principle that they are attacking more than the mere existence of national borders.
This principle is again reflected in the UN Charter, which was designed by the anti-colonial President FDR “to achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion and to be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.”
FDR’s early death and the British-Deep State takeover of America over his dead body prevented these ideals and open system dynamics from ever coming to life.
As long as nations are empowered to stand on their own feet, develop full spectrum agro-industrial economies if people benefit by developing new skillsets, and if new technologies and new discoveries in science are encouraged rather than sabotaged (as has been the practice under the Might-Makes-Right Darwinian laws of gobble-ization), then the potential for human perfectibility is as boundless as our ability to discover, create, plan and inspire future generations.
Some Points of Mutual Interest
Now there are an array of domains that all nations of the U.N. Security Council can focus on during this period of intense crisis that would tie civilization’s interests into open system thinking benefiting all nations and people.
If the USA has even a modicum of sanity at this late stage, then Trump will give Pompeo and other neocons the Bolton/Bannon treatment and make Putin’s offer a top priority for the sake of the USA’s very survival as a nation, and humanity more broadly.
To end this paper, I wish to outline several of the most fruitful topics to be tackled at upcoming summits which will best define the coming century (or more) of cooperation and growth:
Space Diplomacy, Asteroid Defense, Arctic and Far east development, energy, and health infrastructure.
Space Diplomacy
America’s successful return to manned space flight on May 28th was more than just another space launch, but rather one important component of a much larger commitment illustrated by the May 15 Artemis Accords to not only send humans back to the Moon for the first time since 1973 but to permanently develop a Lunar and Mars-based economy with a focus on international cooperation.
This outlook dovetails Russia’s commitment to permanent lunar colonization and resource development which will start with Luna 25 in 2021 followed by Luna 26, 27, and 28 soon thereafter with a plan to have a permanent manned base in early 2030. Describing Russia’s support for this initiative, Roscosmos Chief Dimitry Rogozin stated:
“I can imagine what kind of feeling they had all these nine years, having no opportunity to deliver their astronauts to the ISS. It is a matter of honor and national pride. Let us wish them professional success.”
The USA and Russia are also close partners in the ISS and Russia manufacture the strategic RD-180 and RD-181 engines used in American launch vehicles.
Both the USA and Russia are partners on the upcoming Lunar Gateway station which will soon orbit the Moon and serve as an important element in the new space-based infrastructure used both in mining and Mars launches. Although banned from the ISS and U.S.-cooperation since 2011, China has become a pioneer in space with a tight alliance with Russia on lunar cooperation signed in September 2019.
China’s own Chang-e program has resulted in landing on the far side of the moon with plans for colonization in the coming decades as well as the development of Helium-3 mining for fusion power.
Asteroid Defense
Faced with the two-fold threat of NATO military encirclement on earth and asteroid collisions from abroad, Rogozin made headlines in 2011 by reviving the concept of a joint U.S.-Russia-controlled defense system first announced by President Reagan’s 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative.
Rogozin’s 2011 version (titled the Strategic Defense of Earth) now called for turning humanity’s arsenal of atomic weapons away from each other and towards the grave danger of asteroid collisions for which we are woefully unprepared. Introducing this topic into the emerging joint U.S/Russia working groups on arms control set to begin in mid-July would contribute in powerful non-linear ways that cannot be calculated by any linear standard of measurement. This vision has been echoed by China as well as the European and Japanese space agencies.
The Arctic and Far East Development
In 2007, Russia revived a 150-year-old idea that once had the support of leading republicans of Lincoln’s 19th century America to unite rail lines in America and Eurasia through the Bering Strait crossing in the form of a 65-mile tunnel. Russia again re-emphasized its commitment to building this $64 billion project in 2011.
With China’s Polar Silk Road having extended the traditionally east-west development corridor into the Arctic and as China and Russia have increasingly merged the Belt and Road Initiative with the Eurasian Economic Union, this new development dynamic offers incredible economic opportunities for all Arctic nations and also an escape from military confrontation.
Putin’s Far East Development Plan
Part in parcel with this initiative comes President Putin’s Far East development plans as a “21st-century national priority” for Russia. The development of new cities, mining, transport corridors, and oil and natural gas in Russia’s the Far East represents one of the greatest boons for economic investment during the coming century and already features an array of partners from China, Japan, South Korea, India, and other APEC nations.
Putin’s 2018 proposal that the USA join in this project of win-win cooperation is important not only because it would build trust, create business opportunities and re-establish the lost art of long-term thinking, but would also help link up western businesses into partnership with the Asia Pacific development process now being shaped by China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
Although tensions have been inflamed to a schism in China and India from cooperating directly on the BRI, India’s embrace of Russian Far East development investments has created a non-linear flank that can help bring these two Asian giants into harmony.
Only the tip of the iceberg…
Overall, there are many other points of common benefit shared by nations committed to a Multi-Polar “open system” future including education/cultural exchange, fission/fusion energy research, counterterrorism, and COVID-19 response coordination. On this last threat, the issue of a new world healthcare system has become an increasing focus of discussion, especially as nations set their sights on the post-pandemic world order.
Here, Russia, China, and the USA can play a leading role to ensure a modern and equitable healthcare architecture for nations of the developing sector which have found themselves so vulnerable when faced with the threat of world pandemics. Africa, South America, Asia, and beyond require vastly improved healthcare services, hospitals, training, and medical technology worthy of the 21st century. Most importantly the world needs preventative systems such as sanitation, clean water, food sovereignty, and electricity if pandemics and all future threats to world health shall be solved once and for all.
If Russia, America, China, and other nations of the UN Security Council and BRICS were to apply their best minds to solving these problems rather than fall into a new arms race, then not only would either country benefit immensely but so too would humanity more broadly.
Putin’s olive branches have piled up over recent years and there is no sign that he intends on permitting himself to be the cause of history’s repetition of war, and if we are smart, then we will do everything in our power to ensure that this discussion not only occurs, but that open system economics prevails.
ABOUT AUTHOR: Matthew Ehret is a Senior Fellow at American University in Moscow and Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review, a BRI Expert on Tactical talk, and has authored 3 volumes of the ‘Untold History of Canada book series. In 2019 he co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation.


veteranstoday--2020-07-12--Erdogan’s Decision to make Hagia Sophia a Mosque is Sinful and Un-Islamic

From a secular perspective , there is nothing particularly wrong with Turkey ’ s decision to return Hagia Sophia to its status as a mosque .
After all , it WAS a mosque from 1453 to 1934 , when the crypto-Jewish Donmeh Sabbatean tyrant Attaturk unilaterally secularized it as part of his genocide against Turkish Islam .
( Attaturk ’ s atrocities were by far the worst cultural genocide in all of world history—he even went so far as abolishing the Turkish written script , which would be the equivalent of an American tyrant ordering the destruction of all English @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a new “ American English ” written in Arabic or Chinese characters ! )
Attaturk burned some mosques , and turned others into stables full of horse dung .
He tortured and killed a high proportion of Turkey ’ s leading Muslims , including most of the key Sufis .
Turkish Islam deserves trillions of dollars in reparations from the Rothschilds , the sponsors of Attaturk ’ s cultural genocide .
But it does not need or deserve reparations from the Eastern Orthodox Christians !
On the contrary , Turkish Islam needs to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ take down the House of Rothschild .
From an Islamic religious perspective , Hagia Sophia should be a church , not a mosque .
Muslims are enjoined by the Covenants of the Prophet to protect Christians and their houses of worship “ until the end of time.
” So the 1453 transformation of Hagia Sophia from a church to a mosque was un-Islamic and sinful .
( Yes , I know the Christians often destroyed mosques or turned them into churches , and yes , the Grand Mosque of Cordoba should be turned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t make a right . )
The Islamic thing to do would be to return Hagia Sophia to the Christians .
That would not only be morally right , but also send the right message : The Islamic Ummah is strong and confident enough to be generous .
Unlike some folks here at VT , I think Erdogan sometimes gets unfairly bashed .
His neo-Ottomanism is not entirely a bad thing .
Any way you slice it , it sure beats Attaturk/Rothschild genocide !
But when he makes a mistake , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Syria , he needs to be called on it .
Making Hagia Sophia a mosque is a huge mistake , as Sheikh Imran Hosein , the world ’ s leading Islamic eschatologist , points out in the video above .

By Kevin Barrett, VT Editor
From a secular perspective, there is nothing particularly wrong with Turkey’s decision to return Hagia Sophia to its status as a mosque. After all, it WAS a mosque from 1453 to 1934, when the crypto-Jewish Donmeh Sabbatean tyrant Attaturk unilaterally secularized it as part of his genocide against Turkish Islam. (Attaturk’s atrocities were by far the worst cultural genocide in all of world history—he even went so far as abolishing the Turkish written script, which would be the equivalent of an American tyrant ordering the destruction of all English written in Roman script in favor of a new “American English” written in Arabic or Chinese characters!)
Attaturk burned some mosques, and turned others into stables full of horse dung. He tortured and killed a high proportion of Turkey’s leading Muslims, including most of the key Sufis.
Turkish Islam deserves trillions of dollars in reparations from the Rothschilds, the sponsors of Attaturk’s cultural genocide. But it does not need or deserve reparations from the Eastern Orthodox Christians! On the contrary, Turkish Islam needs to befriend and ally with Orthodox Christianity and take down the House of Rothschild.
From an Islamic religious perspective, Hagia Sophia should be a church, not a mosque. Muslims are enjoined by the Covenants of the Prophet to protect Christians and their houses of worship “until the end of time.” So the 1453 transformation of Hagia Sophia from a church to a mosque was un-Islamic and sinful. (Yes, I know the Christians often destroyed mosques or turned them into churches, and yes, the Grand Mosque of Cordoba should be turned back into a mosque—but two wrongs don’t make a right.) The Islamic thing to do would be to return Hagia Sophia to the Christians. That would not only be morally right, but also send the right message: The Islamic Ummah is strong and confident enough to be generous. Unlike some folks here at VT, I think Erdogan sometimes gets unfairly bashed. His neo-Ottomanism is not entirely a bad thing. Any way you slice it, it sure beats Attaturk/Rothschild genocide! But when he makes a mistake, as when he joined the Zionist destruction of Syria, he needs to be called on it. Making Hagia Sophia a mosque is a huge mistake, as Sheikh Imran Hosein, the world’s leading Islamic eschatologist, points out in the video above.
Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist is one of America’s best-known critics of the War on Terror. He is the host of TRUTH JIHAD RADIO; a hard-driving weekly radio show funded by listener subscriptions at Substack and the weekly news roundup FALSE FLAG WEEKLY NEWS (FFWN). He also has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS, and other broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and other leading publications. Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin; where he ran for Congress in 2008. He currently works as a nonprofit organizer, author, and talk radio host. Archived Articles (2004-2016) www.truthjihad.com


veteranstoday--2020-07-12--Smoke From Siberian Wild Fires Is Reaching West Coast of U.S.

Higher temperatures and drier surface conditions are providing ideal conditions for these fires to burn and to persist for so long over such a large area , ” European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts fire specialist Mark Parrington says in a statement , per the New York Times .
The smoke from the fires alone spans over 1,000 miles , per the Post , and is causing hazy skies the northwestern United States , as Nick Morgan reports for the Mail Tribune .
Permafrost is rich in organic material that froze before it could completely decompose .
Melting permafrost releases @ @ @ @ @ @ @ released by the blazes themselves , per National Geographic .
All of which could exacerbate further climate change .
After a month of blazes that released record-breaking amounts of polluting gases , smoke from Siberian wildfires are now making their way to the west coast of the United States .
The New York Times ’ Somini Sengupta reports that Arctic wildfires in June released more pollution than in the previous 18 years that data had been collected .
Seasonal wildfires are common in Siberia , but this year ’ s fires are unusually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ change-driven heatwave , as Madeleine Stone reports for National Geographic….read more : ATTENTION READERS Due to the nature of independent content , VT can not guarantee content validity .
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The Far-Reaching Consequences of Siberia’s Climate-Change-Driven Wildfires
by Theresa Machemer/Smithsonianmag.com
Higher temperatures and drier surface conditions are providing ideal conditions for these fires to burn and to persist for so long over such a large area,” European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts fire specialist Mark Parrington says in a statement, per the New York Times. The smoke from the fires alone spans over 1,000 miles, per the Post, and is causing hazy skies the northwestern United States, as Nick Morgan reports for the Mail Tribune.
Permafrost is rich in organic material that froze before it could completely decompose. Melting permafrost releases greenhouse gases on top of the pollution released by the blazes themselves, per National Geographic. All of which could exacerbate further climate change.
After a month of blazes that released record-breaking amounts of polluting gases, smoke from Siberian wildfires are now making their way to the west coast of the United States.
The New York Times’ Somini Sengupta reports that Arctic wildfires in June released more pollution than in the previous 18 years that data had been collected. Seasonal wildfires are common in Siberia, but this year’s fires are unusually widespread in part because of a climate change-driven heatwave, as Madeleine Stone reports for National Geographic….read more:


veteranstoday--2020-07-12--Let’s murder Grandma for her house: COVID parties by greedy millennials target boomer generation ass

Let’s murder Grandma for her house: COVID parties by greedy millennials target boomer generation assets

COVID 19 is now the most common murder weapon in America , being used to very purposefully kill off older Americans who are burning away the inheritances of their greedy little meth and Oxy sucking family members .
Sometimes this backfires : And police have no tools to deal with it and dozens of cases are being looked at and , perhaps , hundreds more need to.. Our younger Americans are killing off their grandparents and parents for their assets , homes , cars and retirement funds .
A parent or grandparent soon to deploy to a nursing home or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unless something is done and the COVID Party , the new craze for MAGA-Red State young folks , is the answer .
Children and grandchildren with a very high survivability rate for COVID are attending anti-vaxx sponsored infection parties in order to kill off asset rich family members .
“ COVID Parties ” are going on around the country .
Health officials in Washington State were recently chastised for calling them innocent .
They are , on the surface , peddled on Craiglist as opportunities to gain immunity or as lotteries for 20 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a prize and demonstrate the underdeveloped cerebral cortex .
The real reason is something far more sinister .
We have a younger generation that has not managed credit , not saved money , has run up massive credit card debt and , though little or no fault of their own , student debt .
Most who owe tens of thousands in student debt never get degrees and even if they do remain underemployed in the Trump economy .
Much of the reason for this is economic , school loans for sure but the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ younger generation raised on Minecraft and Tic-Tok has never developed ethical norms .

The Senior Editor
COVID 19 is now the most common murder weapon in America, being used to very purposefully kill off older Americans who are burning away the inheritances of their greedy little meth and Oxy sucking family members. Sometimes this backfires:
Spouse of friend went to a coronavirus party where young people try to infect each other to get through it and get back to normal life. Of 22 in attendance, 2 are dead and 6 are in the hospital. Friend’s spouse is sick at home. All of them were under 35.
And police have no tools to deal with it and dozens of cases are being looked at and, perhaps, hundreds more need to..
Our younger Americans are killing off their grandparents and parents for their assets, homes, cars and retirement funds. A parent or grandparent soon to deploy to a nursing home or assisted living will be stripped of assets unless something is done and the COVID Party, the new craze for MAGA-Red State young folks, is the answer.
Children and grandchildren with a very high survivability rate for COVID are attending anti-vaxx sponsored infection parties in order to kill off asset rich family members.
“COVID Parties” are going on around the country. Health officials in Washington State were recently chastised for calling them innocent. They are, on the surface, peddled on Craiglist as opportunities to gain immunity or as lotteries for 20 and 30 “somethings” to win a prize and demonstrate the underdeveloped cerebral cortex.
The real reason is something far more sinister. We have a younger generation that has not managed credit, not saved money, has run up massive credit card debt and, though little or no fault of their own, student debt.
Several attendees of massive Michigan July 4th party now have COVID-19 https://t.co/hs9SmsA6xS — The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 12, 2020
Most who owe tens of thousands in student debt never get degrees and even if they do remain underemployed in the Trump economy.
Diamond Lake in Cass County, Michigan makes it on TMZ for all the wrong reasonshttps://t.co/Pg4o4QogRx — Max Lewis (@MaxLewisTV) July 5, 2020
Much of the reason for this is economic, school loans for sure but the social breakdown of America, with a younger generation raised on Minecraft and Tic-Tok has never developed ethical norms.