lewrockwell--2020-09-26--Secret Court Rules It Lacks Jurisdiction To Reveal Its Own Secret Opinions

In April , the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review ( FISCR ) published an opinion that set the civil liberties community on edge .
It addressed whether it had jurisdiction to resolve several First Amendment claims seeking access to opinions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ( FISC ) .
FISCR acknowledged that civil liberties groups that brought suit had satisfied two of the three jurisdictional requirements .
First , a lack of access to these opinions was unquestionably an injury that could be redressed by a court , making the case actionable and live .
Second , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ law .
But FISCR found that the third needed category—that the issue must be authorized by a “ jurisdictional statute ” —was not satisfied .
Last week , FISC acted on this standard , rejecting requests for opinions regarding bulk data collection .
In three cases brought by civil liberties organizations seeking access to unreleased opinions , FISC dismissed each motion for a lack of jurisdiction , notwithstanding the strength of the First Amendment claims of access .
LED Headlamps , Neoligh ... Buy New $ 24.99 “ Orwellian ” is a word @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days , but when a court needs special permission to decide questions about its own internal procedures , that adjective certainly comes to mind .
What ’ s next , a requirement for a specific grant of permission to decide what to order for lunch ?
While some other court perhaps could rule on the issue , or not , the public should not have to scurry from court to court begging for basic information on what its government is up to .
What can be done ?
Congress should step in to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ authority regarding FISC has held it lacks .
Congress can provide the American people with the means to hold the courts accountable by slightly but explicitly expanding FISC ’ s—and FISCR ’ s—jurisdiction to allow it to hear First Amendment right-of-access claims .
Of course , granting FISC jurisdiction to consider these questions would not resolve their merits .
But FISC , like every federal court , would be free to determine—in each case—if maintaining the secrecy of its opinions would be the necessary , least-restrictive way of furthering the government ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the jurisdictional statutes , FISC and FISCR will be free to continue to dismiss even the most meritorious claims .
So Congress should fix this defect—after all , a right without remedy is no right at all .
This originally appeared on Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability

In April, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review (FISCR) published an opinion that set the civil liberties community on edge. It addressed whether it had jurisdiction to resolve several First Amendment claims seeking access to opinions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).
FISCR acknowledged that civil liberties groups that brought suit had satisfied two of the three jurisdictional requirements. First, a lack of access to these opinions was unquestionably an injury that could be redressed by a court, making the case actionable and live. Second, the FISC withheld those opinions based on federal law. But FISCR found that the third needed category—that the issue must be authorized by a “jurisdictional statute”—was not satisfied.
Last week, FISC acted on this standard, rejecting requests for opinions regarding bulk data collection. In three cases brought by civil liberties organizations seeking access to unreleased opinions, FISC dismissed each motion for a lack of jurisdiction, notwithstanding the strength of the First Amendment claims of access. LED Headlamps, Neoligh... Buy New $24.99 (as of 06:00 UTC - Details)
“Orwellian” is a word that gets a lot of use these days, but when a court needs special permission to decide questions about its own internal procedures, that adjective certainly comes to mind. What’s next, a requirement for a specific grant of permission to decide what to order for lunch?
While some other court perhaps could rule on the issue, or not, the public should not have to scurry from court to court begging for basic information on what its government is up to. What can be done? Congress should step in to correct the situation and provide the express authority regarding FISC has held it lacks.
Congress can provide the American people with the means to hold the courts accountable by slightly but explicitly expanding FISC’s—and FISCR’s—jurisdiction to allow it to hear First Amendment right-of-access claims.
Of course, granting FISC jurisdiction to consider these questions would not resolve their merits. But FISC, like every federal court, would be free to determine—in each case—if maintaining the secrecy of its opinions would be the necessary, least-restrictive way of furthering the government’s national security interests.
Unless Congress amends the jurisdictional statutes, FISC and FISCR will be free to continue to dismiss even the most meritorious claims.
So Congress should fix this defect—after all, a right without remedy is no right at all.
This originally appeared on Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability


lewrockwell--2020-09-26--And Then What? – We Daren’t Not Look into the Abyss

Secular Millenarianism – the belief that some transformative catharsis in history has the power to expunge the crimes and follies of the past – has a long and bloody history .
The notion originally owes to religion .
Theories of human ‘ Progress ’ as an upward-trending , linear continuum , inevitably leading to ‘ a better human end ’ , though clothed today as technological ‘ miracles ’ , were never empirical hypotheses .
They were always concocted myths , answering to a human need for meaning , yet manipulated ruthlessly in the interests of power .
But what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. Presidential election ?
Quite odd .
Suddenly , American politics now ( by and large ) , eschews detailed policies , and defines itself , rather , as a Manichean struggle between the forces of light and of darkness ; of freedom versus despotism ; of justice versus oppression and cruelty .
The election is no longer ‘ politics ’ , but is configured more as a ‘ crusade ’ against cosmic evil – a devil , or demiurge .
Stranger still , the two sides seem to mirror each other in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : ... Applebaum , Anne Buy New $ 20.99 “ In article after article , liberal intellectuals and activists have been talking for months about how Trump could steal the election or refuse to leave the White House even if he loses .
But if the Right dares to point out that Democrats are actually changing the rules of the electoral process and actually speaking publicly about refusing to concede even if they lose , well , this only proves that the Right is going to steal the election and refuse to concede @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an article , Stop the Coup ! )
What is going on ?
What seems almost certain is that the election will be irretrievably contested either by one , or both major parties .
A major constitutional crisis lies ahead , and then what ?
This is the abyss into which we daren ’ t not look .
A part of ‘ Blue ’ Millenarianism does reflect something substantive : a shift in how Americans ( and many Europeans ) conceive the world .
But in another way , this Manicheanism is cynical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the narrative that Trump will lose .
He will lose in the popular vote ( even if he gains a majority in the Electoral College ) , and will then refuse to leave office – in flagrant disregard for the ( so-called ) public ‘ verdict ’ .
The U.S. constitution , however , is plain .
The candidate who wins 270 votes in the Electoral College is President .
The Democrats ’ and ‘ never-Trumper ’ Republicans have released a 22-page report , The Transition Integrity Project , an exercise in war-gaming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ each TIP scenario results in mass mobilisation and political impasse , which the authors argue can and should lead to the removal of Trump .
The point here is that the TIP blueprint , is perversely portrayed as no coup .
On the contrary , it is fore-staged as a heroic effort to save the country – to save Democracy from Despotism .
Cynical it may be , but that does not make it any less effective .
Ergodyne Standard Each ... Buy New $ 16.80 Anne Applebaum ’ s new book , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pointers about the roots to this Manichean ‘ dark versus light ’ narrative .
She is a prominent U.S. journalist and the wife of Radek Sikorski , a senior Polish politician .
Ron Dreher summarises thus : “ She begins her book by talking about a New Year ’ s Eve party at their Polish country home at the turn of the millennium .
Poland had been free from communism for about a decade .
Everyone was giddy .
But now , half the people at the party – aren ’ t talking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Applebaum ’ s view , that key anti-communist consensus has been fractured into classically liberal internationalists like her — pro-globalism , pro-liberal social values , pro-immigration — and , on the other side of the schism , nationalist populists , like supporters of Poland ’ s Law & Justice Party , Hungary ’ s Fidesz – and Donald Trump .
That is to say : the middle ground is empty , and has migrated either to wokeness , or to the new-Right .
Her conclusion is that the U.S. is not heading into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but rather into right-wing authoritarianism .
( Authoritarianism here , is defined as a strong national leader , exercising something approaching a monopoly of power , whereas totalitarianism is not just authoritarianism , but extends to require an ideological ‘ hold ’ in which ‘ all ’ are required to ‘ live ’ the ideology – in every facet of their thinking , and in daily conduct . )
Here we get to the root of it : Applebaum presents a world where everything has become inverted : Conservativism is no longer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ radical , but rather seek ‘ to conserve ’ what exists .
She writes : “ The new Right does not want to conserve or to preserve what exists at all … It has broken with the old-fashioned , Burkean small-c conservatism that is suspicious of rapid change in all its forms .
Although they hate the phrase , the new right is more Bolshevik than Burkean : these are men and women who want to overthrow , bypass , or undermine existing institutions , to destroy what exists ” .
Trump thus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pull down everything ‘ good ’ , which Applebaum defines as secular , liberal , capitalist , and globalist .
People on the ‘ new Right ’ , she says , think of the institutions that exist ( the American-shaped global order ) , as a threat to their particular traditions and sovereignty – and therefore are intent to disrupt both those institutions , and the global order , per se .
Thus taking America to the type of despotism that used to characterise East European regimes .
Pocket Knife Spring As ... @ @ @ @ @ @ @ written that Applebaum ’ s “ much-praised history books about the Soviet Gulag and the establishment of the communist regimes in Central Europe were her historical introduction to ‘ The Inevitability of 1989 ’ .
For her , the end of the Cold War was not a geopolitical story : It was a moral story , a verdict pronounced by History herself .
She tends to see the post-Cold War world as an epic struggle between democracy and authoritarianism , between freedom and oppression ” .
“ It was Marx who believed that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ force with godlike powers of determination – required it .
Well , the Democrats ’ Millenarianism now precisely lies with the shared belief that humanity is on a “ Grand March ” upward toward ‘ Progress ’ .
It goes on and on , obstacles notwithstanding , for obstacles there must be , if the March is to be the Grand March ” .
And if progress is ‘ inevitable ’ , and the Democratic Party is leading society ’ s Grand March to conserve the future , as it were , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against those reactionary forces standing against the future – and History , too .
As for those who oppose or disrupt The March : “ How necessary—indeed , how noble—it is of the Party to bulldoze these stumbling blocks on the Grand March , and make straight and smooth the road to tomorrow ” .
The mirror-image to Applebaum ’ s account is that many American conservatives exactly do see an increasingly illiberal Left – and she has this correct – as antagonist to those early U.S. traditions and ethos that they believe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they would wish to see restored again .
Pro-Trumpers however , see the plan to forcibly remove President Trump clearly ( even were he to win a majority in the College ) .
The TIP is explicit : “ We assess with a high degree of likelihood that November ’ s elections will be marked by a chaotic legal and political landscape .
We also assess that President Trump is likely to contest the result by both legal and extra-legal means , in an attempt to hold onto power ” .
Dead Down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The TIP scenarios , Professor Mike Vlahos foresees , inevitably will be portrayed as that of ‘ saving democracy ’ – from Trump – and from the ‘ aberration ’ of an Electoral College that could award Trump the Presidency , even as he loses the popular vote ( an outcome that occurred in 2016 , too ) .
Vlahos thus foresees the possibility of the Electoral College ( and even the Constitution itself ) being cast as ‘ the enemy ’ , standing in the way of democracy – the latter to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through the removal of an ‘ illegitimate ’ President .
The purpose behind the Manicheanist dualism therefore , becomes clear : The U.S. election is to be imagined as the epic struggle between the forces of democracy and despotism .
It is in this sense that Applebaum is a classic ‘ 1989er ’ , Krastev writes : She was shaped by the Cold War without ever really experiencing it : “ For the ’ 89ers , the Cold War was what the anti-fascist resistance was for the West ’ s student revolutionaries of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a time of inspiring heroism and moral clarity .
It was precisely this mindset that made many ’ 89ers first to detect the danger coming from Vladimir Putin ’ s Russia , but also Poland ’ s Law & Justice Party , Hungary ’ s Fidesz – and Donald Trump ” .
What is going on here is , of course , classic ‘ colour revolution ’ management of mass psychology – albeit perpetrated from within the U.S. , against its own incumbent President .
What the TIP represents is the laying down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nothing abrupt .
The Electoral College simply is incrementally ‘ moved along ’ from the ‘ in need of reform ’ category , to the ‘ obstacle to democracy ’ that “ should be dumped ” category ( see here , for example ) .
TIP is all about massaging public perceptions about Trump ’ s likely election mis-behaviour , Vlahos relates ( as a historian , and former War College professor ) , so as to slide the notion of the need to remove him under a soothing mantle of legality and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a period of time to put behind them the shock of what is about to unfold : providing them with time and space to embrace this ‘ new world ’ – and , for them to come to see that the world they were inhabiting has become unbearable and unacceptable .
( i.e .
Classic myth-making instrumentalised for political ends . )
Menu2019s Thermal Unde ... Buy New $ 26.98 All this is being orchestrated so that people will be able to move smoothly through and be prepared for the violence and turmoil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And what is to come ?
Massive demonstrations ( in the millions , that are already being prepared ) to give the impression that all of America is against the President , thus posing the question to the U.S. military : ‘ On whose side , are you : Democracy or Despotism ?
’ The TIP outlines clearly : “ A show of numbers in the streets – and actions in the streets – may be decisive factors in determining what the public perceives as a just and legitimate outcome ” .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ will conspire to suggest to people and to the military command , the only ‘ correct ’ answer .
Will it work ?
It just might .
Only a clear win in the popular vote might be a spanner in the works , but that seems a stretch .
Will the senior military balk ?
Debateable .
The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation .

Secular Millenarianism – the belief that some transformative catharsis in history has the power to expunge the crimes and follies of the past – has a long and bloody history. The notion originally owes to religion. Theories of human ‘Progress’ as an upward-trending, linear continuum, inevitably leading to ‘a better human end’, though clothed today as technological ‘miracles’, were never empirical hypotheses. They were always concocted myths, answering to a human need for meaning, yet manipulated ruthlessly in the interests of power.
But what are such myths doing in a modern U.S. Presidential election? Quite odd. Suddenly, American politics now (by and large), eschews detailed policies, and defines itself, rather, as a Manichean struggle between the forces of light and of darkness; of freedom versus despotism; of justice versus oppression and cruelty.
The election is no longer ‘politics’, but is configured more as a ‘crusade’ against cosmic evil – a devil, or demiurge. Stranger still, the two sides seem to mirror each other in these intense passions. Twilight of Democracy:... Applebaum, Anne Buy New $20.99 (as of 03:37 UTC - Details)
“In article after article, liberal intellectuals and activists have been talking for months about how Trump could steal the election or refuse to leave the White House even if he loses. But if the Right dares to point out that Democrats are actually changing the rules of the electoral process and actually speaking publicly about refusing to concede even if they lose, well, this only proves that the Right is going to steal the election and refuse to concede if they lose!” (from an article, Stop the Coup!)
What is going on?
What seems almost certain is that the election will be irretrievably contested either by one, or both major parties. A major constitutional crisis lies ahead, and then what? This is the abyss into which we daren’t not look.
A part of ‘Blue’ Millenarianism does reflect something substantive: a shift in how Americans (and many Europeans) conceive the world. But in another way, this Manicheanism is cynical political manipulation: laying the groundwork for the narrative that Trump will lose. He will lose in the popular vote (even if he gains a majority in the Electoral College), and will then refuse to leave office – in flagrant disregard for the (so-called) public ‘verdict’. The U.S. constitution, however, is plain. The candidate who wins 270 votes in the Electoral College is President.
The Democrats’ and ‘never-Trumper’ Republicans have released a 22-page report, The Transition Integrity Project, an exercise in war-gaming a contested election. The outcome of each TIP scenario results in mass mobilisation and political impasse, which the authors argue can and should lead to the removal of Trump.
The point here is that the TIP blueprint, is perversely portrayed as no coup. On the contrary, it is fore-staged as a heroic effort to save the country – to save Democracy from Despotism. Cynical it may be, but that does not make it any less effective. Ergodyne Standard Each... Buy New $16.80 (as of 06:01 UTC - Details)
Anne Applebaum’s new book, Twilight of Democracy, offers some important pointers about the roots to this Manichean ‘dark versus light’ narrative. She is a prominent U.S. journalist and the wife of Radek Sikorski, a senior Polish politician. Ron Dreher summarises thus: “She begins her book by talking about a New Year’s Eve party at their Polish country home at the turn of the millennium. Poland had been free from communism for about a decade. Everyone was giddy. But now, half the people at the party – aren’t talking to the other half”.
In Applebaum’s view, that key anti-communist consensus has been fractured into classically liberal internationalists like her — pro-globalism, pro-liberal social values, pro-immigration — and, on the other side of the schism, nationalist populists, like supporters of Poland’s Law & Justice Party, Hungary’s Fidesz – and Donald Trump. That is to say: the middle ground is empty, and has migrated either to wokeness, or to the new-Right.
Her conclusion is that the U.S. is not heading into a left-wing, soft-totalitarianism (wokeness), but rather into right-wing authoritarianism. (Authoritarianism here, is defined as a strong national leader, exercising something approaching a monopoly of power, whereas totalitarianism is not just authoritarianism, but extends to require an ideological ‘hold’ in which ‘all’ are required to ‘live’ the ideology – in every facet of their thinking, and in daily conduct.)
Here we get to the root of it: Applebaum presents a world where everything has become inverted: Conservativism is no longer conservative. And Radicals are no longer radical, but rather seek ‘to conserve’ what exists. She writes: “The new Right does not want to conserve or to preserve what exists at all … It has broken with the old-fashioned, Burkean small-c conservatism that is suspicious of rapid change in all its forms. Although they hate the phrase, the new right is more Bolshevik than Burkean: these are men and women who want to overthrow, bypass, or undermine existing institutions, to destroy what exists”.
Trump thus becomes the dangerous radical revolutionary wanting to pull down everything ‘good’, which Applebaum defines as secular, liberal, capitalist, and globalist. People on the ‘new Right’, she says, think of the institutions that exist (the American-shaped global order), as a threat to their particular traditions and sovereignty – and therefore are intent to disrupt both those institutions, and the global order, per se. Thus taking America to the type of despotism that used to characterise East European regimes. Pocket Knife Spring As... Buy New $15.95 (as of 06:01 UTC - Details)
Ivan Krastev has written that Applebaum’s “much-praised history books about the Soviet Gulag and the establishment of the communist regimes in Central Europe were her historical introduction to ‘The Inevitability of 1989’. For her, the end of the Cold War was not a geopolitical story: It was a moral story, a verdict pronounced by History herself. She tends to see the post-Cold War world as an epic struggle between democracy and authoritarianism, between freedom and oppression”.
“It was Marx who believed that communism was inevitable because History – a force with godlike powers of determination – required it. Well, the Democrats’ Millenarianism now precisely lies with the shared belief that humanity is on a “Grand March” upward toward ‘Progress’. It goes on and on, obstacles notwithstanding, for obstacles there must be, if the March is to be the Grand March”.
And if progress is ‘inevitable’, and the Democratic Party is leading society’s Grand March to conserve the future, as it were, the ‘March’ becomes a struggle precisely against those reactionary forces standing against the future – and History, too. As for those who oppose or disrupt The March: “How necessary—indeed, how noble—it is of the Party to bulldoze these stumbling blocks on the Grand March, and make straight and smooth the road to tomorrow”.
The mirror-image to Applebaum’s account is that many American conservatives exactly do see an increasingly illiberal Left – and she has this correct – as antagonist to those early U.S. traditions and ethos that they believe made America once great – and which they would wish to see restored again.
Pro-Trumpers however, see the plan to forcibly remove President Trump clearly (even were he to win a majority in the College). The TIP is explicit: “We assess with a high degree of likelihood that November’s elections will be marked by a chaotic legal and political landscape. We also assess that President Trump is likely to contest the result by both legal and extra-legal means, in an attempt to hold onto power”.
Dead Down Wind Trophy ... Buy New $18.99 (as of 06:01 UTC - Details) The TIP scenarios, Professor Mike Vlahos foresees, inevitably will be portrayed as that of ‘saving democracy’ – from Trump – and from the ‘aberration’ of an Electoral College that could award Trump the Presidency, even as he loses the popular vote (an outcome that occurred in 2016, too). Vlahos thus foresees the possibility of the Electoral College (and even the Constitution itself) being cast as ‘the enemy’, standing in the way of democracy – the latter to be saved to great public acclaim, through the removal of an ‘illegitimate’ President.
The purpose behind the Manicheanist dualism therefore, becomes clear: The U.S. election is to be imagined as the epic struggle between the forces of democracy and despotism. It is in this sense that Applebaum is a classic ‘1989er’, Krastev writes: She was shaped by the Cold War without ever really experiencing it: “For the ’89ers, the Cold War was what the anti-fascist resistance was for the West’s student revolutionaries of the 1960s, the ’68ers – a time of inspiring heroism and moral clarity. It was precisely this mindset that made many ’89ers first to detect the danger coming from Vladimir Putin’s Russia, but also Poland’s Law & Justice Party, Hungary’s Fidesz – and Donald Trump”.
What is going on here is, of course, classic ‘colour revolution’ management of mass psychology – albeit perpetrated from within the U.S., against its own incumbent President. What the TIP represents is the laying down of the narrative mosaic: It proposes nothing abrupt. The Electoral College simply is incrementally ‘moved along’ from the ‘in need of reform’ category, to the ‘obstacle to democracy’ that “should be dumped” category (see here, for example).
TIP is all about massaging public perceptions about Trump’s likely election mis-behaviour, Vlahos relates (as a historian, and former War College professor), so as to slide the notion of the need to remove him under a soothing mantle of legality and acceptability.
The project also permits people a period of time to put behind them the shock of what is about to unfold: providing them with time and space to embrace this ‘new world’ – and, for them to come to see that the world they were inhabiting has become unbearable and unacceptable. (i.e. Classic myth-making instrumentalised for political ends.)
Menu2019s Thermal Unde... Buy New $26.98 (as of 06:01 UTC - Details) All this is being orchestrated so that people will be able to move smoothly through and be prepared for the violence and turmoil – of that which is to come.
And what is to come? Massive demonstrations (in the millions, that are already being prepared) to give the impression that all of America is against the President, thus posing the question to the U.S. military: ‘On whose side, are you: Democracy or Despotism?’ The TIP outlines clearly: “A show of numbers in the streets – and actions in the streets – may be decisive factors in determining what the public perceives as a just and legitimate outcome”. Or, in other words, events will conspire to suggest to people and to the military command, the only ‘correct’ answer.
Will it work? It just might. Only a clear win in the popular vote might be a spanner in the works, but that seems a stretch. Will the senior military balk? Debateable.
The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation.


lewrockwell--2020-09-26--A Hundred Years in the Future: The Joy During the Lockdown

A dreamer dreams many things .
In this case , he was merely walking from his living room to the kitchen , and a thought struck him , and he went AWAY for a few seconds , and a two-part dream laid itself out like a fresco…then folded up and disappeared .
He shook his head and resumed walking to his kitchen to make coffee .
Crazy , he thought .
Where did THAT come from ?
He looked at his watch .
Another day in lockdown .
PART ONE OF THE DREAM On May 14 , 2266 , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ published a paper titled : A quote : “ Brain research discovers common patterns of activity across a whole population .
These patterns would be called ‘ normal ’ .
Exceptions would be classified as various categories of ‘ disordered thought ’ .
It ’ s assumed that only ‘ harmonious and symmetrical ’ brain patterns are positive and beneficial.
” Allen Remington Camo H ... Buy New $ 54.99 A reader commented : “ This assumption is grossly false .
It ’ s a stunted version of aesthetics .
Creative force always @ @ @ @ @ @ @ So does every new idea .
Increasingly , Earth culture is unable to understand this.
” —The reader receives a government notice and is summoned to a hearing .
He ’ s interviewed by a virtual AI employee of the federal Department of Stat Research .
HOLOGRAPHIC i-FIGURE : “ Are you all right during this epidemic lockdown ?
I see you live alone.
” “ We want you to enjoy yourself .
Are you watching learning programs ?
” “ Well , we have a report on you .
It indicates an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ What can you tell us about this ?
“ I find no extant orchestras in the country.
” “ For that day when an orchestra may come into being again.
” “ Your thought-impulses entered ranges we were not able to summarize.
” “ I suppose that means your instruments are limited.
” MOSSY OAK Hunting Fiel ... Buy New $ 49.99 “ Your last statement is incendiary .
It suggests we are imposing a restriction .
As you well know , the science is settled on this point .
We measure and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ positive outcome , for the population at large.
” “ I ’ m aware of that , yes .
But the science rests on certain assumptions .
I would call it greatest good as a lowest common denominator.
” “ You assume a certain mindset contributes to the consensus reality you favor .
You legislate a range of thought that will produce the consensus.
” “ It doesn ’ t describe the algorithms you employ , but all in all I believe my summary is correct .
You ’ re reality makers .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ find a departure from ‘ combined averages , ’ as you call them , you issue a citation.
” “ No .
If it did , I would write out the message and leave it at that.
” “ Why have we not heard of you before ?
” “ I was doing illustrations for the Happiness Holos.
” “ I became bored .
A machine could make those pictures .
So I decided to compose music.
” “ The Happiness Holos are an essential social program.
” Pocket Guides - Field ... @ @ @ @ @ @ @ They encourage people to stay on the positive side of a construct called Positive & Negative , which as you know is a State-sponsored theme .
But what is superficially indicated by those two opposing sets is , in fact , fuel for the fire.
” “ The artist can use and transform any material.
” “ Where did you hear such a thing ?
” “ Your views are highly eccentric .
I will have to consult your childhood history to understand their roots.
” “ I ’ m afraid that won @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Because your version , the US Department of Psychology version of cause and effect , is propaganda for the masses.
” “ This is your idea of a joke ?
” “ When you compose this…symphony , how do you think ?
” “ It ’ s not thinking in the way you use the term.
” “ No ?
Then what do you do ?
” “ Absurd .
According to what underlying pattern ?
” “ None .
Check the Library of Structures .
I doubt you ’ ll find @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Only known structures and patterns are contained in the files.
” “ And you exceed prescribed ranges of thought in the process.
” “ Perhaps .
I would hope so .
I don ’ t keep track.
” “ I assumed you ’ d eventually cite me .
I ’ m just composing music during the lockdown.
” “ There is no citation yet .
You ’ re an anomaly .
We investigate .
We consider.
” “ I ’ m afraid your and my idea of ‘ consider ’ are quite different.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
When you are composing , do you ever believe you enter into a realm or area that could be called ‘ non-material ’ ?
We ’ ve heard such claims before.
” “ Not if you ’ re referring to some fairyland .
But all thought is basically non-material .
The brain registers it after the fact .
Thought , the real thing , doesn ’ t take place in the brain.
” “ If I could simply confess to that and be on my way , I ’ d be a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a society .
To keep the peace and maintain the Positive , science has discovered that thought should occur within certain parameters.
” “ We want to study you .
It ’ s a great honor to be called .
You could help extend the boundaries of research…we register variation from the norm in your present thinking.
” “ The readouts are instantaneous…what are you doing ?
” “ Wait .
What you ’ re doing is disruptive.
” “ It ’ s because of how you set your frequencies.
” All along @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lake area , and in the industrial parks and residential high rises , virtual structures shattered like glass .
The composer said to no one , “ I ’ m just composing .
Well , apparently not just.
” —Back in his room at the edge of the city , he said , “ I suppose that ’ s what they mean by a negative consequence.
” He sat down at his computer and turned it on .
Before he went to the composing page , he had to click on a sunburst @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the day .
It appeared : “ We want everyone to be happy during the lockdown .
This is very important .
Because much government function is being carried out by virtual assistants , we ’ ve encountered a disruption in service owing to a segment of Disorder entered into our Net .
Please be patient .
Repairs are underway .
These are learning experiences for us .
There is always a certain amount of disordered thought in the environment .
Most of it is unintentional .
We welcome the opportunity to study @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the educated class , we ’ re sure you can appreciate the research aspect of our work .
Thank you for your patience .
Food deliveries will be delayed by a factor of…two hours .
Our latest figures indicate 2,147 new epidemic cases have been detected in your sector in the last 24 hours .
Re-testing is underway .
Please place your hand on the screen now…thank you .
You may remove it .
Just a moment…we ’ re unable to process your assay at this time .
You ’ ll receive a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as the system is up and running again .
End of message.
” The composer plugged a small module into the side of his computer .
The screen went red .
Black letters formed : DISEQUILIBRIUM .
He pressed the send key .
The encrypted score of the first three movements of his symphony set out on a rapidly changing zig-zag journey to a series of caverns below cities in Belgium , Switzerland , Germany , Italy , America .
A program consisting of the synthesized instruments of a full orchestra read the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to small groups of people sitting in the caverns… PART TWO OF THE DREAM In a government office , a Stat analyst read a note from his supervisor : “ The pandemic is having a positive effect on mass thought-patterns .
We ’ re seeing a significant smoothing out of trends .
With major focus on staying indoors , rapid testing , isolation , and official updates tuned to each population group , overall harmonization is expanding.
” “ This gives us more time to focus on outliers and odd departures from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ find a story written by a man who has been living alone for the past 12 years .
He ’ s a former scripter for the Department of Education series , ‘ I Love School.
’ He dropped out and began writing fiction .
This in itself would be a red flag , but the content of his latest effort is quite problematical .
Give it a read and send me your assessment.
” The analyst opened up the attachment , took several calming breaths , and dug in : “ You want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ buried under mind control , there is a very different human being ?
Suppose , for example , the psyche is equipped to see and use language itself in a way that ’ s foreign to us ?
Suppose this language sends signals to our endocrine systems , and our chemical and biological processes undergo a revolution ?
” “ Here is what an astronaut said in a closed room in Houston when he came back from a three-month voyage in space and emerged from his quarantine period .
Here is what he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ …You see it wasn ’ t just a planet .
It was somewhere that made no sense at all .
There were…things there , but I couldn ’ t identify them .
I couldn ’ t put names to them .
I thought it might be a puzzle .
A game .
So I just started walking .
I don ’ t know how long I walked .
You tell me I ’ ve been away for three months .
All right .
I can ’ t put any sort of time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in on me , over and over again .
I was in a different universe .
And if it was organized , I couldn ’ t find the pattern .
So for a very long time I rejected the whole place , the whole setup .
That was my main experience .
Because who would ever imagine being in a locale where things were so strange he couldn ’ t find a single word to convey them to anyone else ?
And then , finally , I remembered something from years ago .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
They spoke in a “ language ” no one had ever heard of .
It went on for almost an hour .
I felt very angry .
A few minutes before the end , I was hit by lightning .
I suddenly understood everything they were saying .
I don ’ t know how .
And I couldn ’ t translate it back into English .
I just understood .
It was a one-time experience .
And that was what it was like , being in that universe .
When I remembered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I knew where I was .
I knew what was going on .
I knew that universe .
But I can ’ t sit here and tell you what it was .
That seems impossible to you .
But it ’ s true .
I ’ m stymied .
One thing I can say .
Everything I once thought I knew about beauty…that ’ s gone out the window .
I ’ ve realized there were certain rules embedded in my mind .
Maybe principles .
Principles of harmony , symmetry , balance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to those rules or principles all my life , in all my choices , and now they ’ re gone .
They don ’ t exist anymore .
When they evaporated , I was able to understand what that universe was .
All at once .
On the trip home , I started to draw .
You ’ ve seen my “ work.
” You ’ ve looked at it , and you wonder whether you can use it to decipher what happened to me .
But you can ’ t .
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
A wonderful vacuum .
I was working from nothing , a void .
I ’ m not asking you to understand it .
I don ’ t feel you need to .
I just know I stumbled across something .
I never wanted it or looked for it .
You ’ ve told me the drawings mean nothing to you .
That ’ s fine .
I didn ’ t do them for you .
All the vast telemetry we have ?
The codes and symbols and shorthand , the measurements ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ scans ?
I ’ m not interested in them anymore .
I don ’ t have the slightest bit of interest.
’ There was silence in the room .
“ Sounds like you got religion , ” one man said .
“ I feel , ” the astronaut said , “ like a tiger who just walked out of the zoo.
” Security men stepped into the room .
They had their hands on their holsters .
But the ops chief held up his hand .
“ It ’ s all right , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ re fine .
This man found something .
Let him go .
No one will understand him .
We ’ re protected .
We ’ re all inside the protocol.
” There is the little-known work of philosopher/linguist Ernest Fenollosa , the author of The Chinese Written Character as a Medium of Poetry .
Fenollosa analyzed modern Chinese words back to older pictographs that minimized nouns .
Instead , these ancient pictographs , at one time , presented a view of reality that was far more dynamic and shifting , in which action @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and object of a sentence were themselves of lesser importance , and were related to one another by their mutual participation in that action .
“ To be ” verbs—is , are , am—were just dead ducks .
Irrelevant .
Suppose we had a language in which every noun was also a verb , in the sense that it threw off rays and curves and vectors of action and energy .
What would we have then ?
We might , at the extreme , have an endless supply of dynamic universes .
No @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with each other in a way that instantly gave birth to possibilities beyond current meanings embedded in our style of speaking and writing .
The implications of each word of text would jump and leap .
Instead of peeling off layers to get at the precise definition of a word , we would automatically be proliferating it .
Language , created by consciousness , also feeds back to it .
And this feedback informs our way of viewing reality .
The structure of language becomes , in a true sense , a monitor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we can ’ t see .
What we can imagine and what we can ’ t imagine .
It ’ s as if a psychologist , running one of those old inkblot tests , told the patient : “ Guess what ?
There ’ s nothing wrong with you .
Forget all that nonsense .
Look at these shapes and imagine anything you want to .
Tell me what you invent .
Then I ’ ll do the same .
Pretty soon we ’ ll be speaking a different language , and we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reality… ” Instead of the standard blots , print out all sorts of complex shapes on a page and say , OK BOYS , THIS IS A LOST LANGUAGE .
FIGURE OUT WHAT IT MEANS .
WORK ON IT .
Then if you can nudge or inspire or bribe people to do that , they will work for a few years believing there is really something there , something that is embedded in the shapes , and they ’ ll dig in and try to decode it .
A few more years and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ say , “ The hell with this , let ’ s just make it up .
Let ’ s say each shape means whatever we imagine it to mean , and each shape can change its meaning from minute to minute.
” Then they start writing to each other with these shapes and thousands of others they make up—and gradually , they forget about the notion that they might be crazy .
After that , glimpses and glints begin to surface in their minds .
They don ’ t know what they are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ de-conditioning themselves from any language they previously knew .
They ’ re out in open water .
Their operational concept of Understanding is undergoing a revolution .
They realize how tightly they clung to their old basic notion of Meaning .
They drop that .
They discard it in the garbage , because they ’ re fascinated with the glints and glimpses they ’ re getting .
They want more glimpses .
They ’ re inventing this language with no rules and no assigned structure .
They ’ re experiencing sensations of flying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ back into their body processes and into their minds .
The hard wiring is giving way .
You could say they ’ re astronauts training for a mission in which they ’ ll encounter an intelligence that ’ s completely alien to Earth .
There are analogues to what I ’ m discussing here .
For example , microtonal music .
You tune a piano so that , altogether , 88 keys display the range of sounds contained within just one octave of a conventional piano .
Going from the lowest note to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you hear thin slices and gradations of notes that cover , all told , no more ground than one octave of a normal piano .
You sit at the microtonal piano and you play .
And play .
And play .
You listen to what you play .
At first , it ’ s repugnant .
It ’ s not only dissonant , it ’ s absurdly muddy .
But after a few months of playing that piano every day , you begin to hear something .
It comes through .
And the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ places you ’ ve been , experiences you ’ ve had .
But they go further , into a void where new sensations and meanings you can ’ t name are possible , are happening .
Are real .
Eventually , super-real .
These sensations flood your endocrine system , and new proportions and sequences of hormones are produced .
You experience feelings you ’ d forgotten or never had before .
The spectrum of feeling and thought expands .
Your whole notion of what you can experience and understand changes .
Your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seriously considered there could be seven comprehensible sounds between any two keys on an ordinary piano .
Now , you ’ re not only hearing them , they make sense .
They convey emotion .
This would be like saying that , between each pair of words in a sentence , there are seven other words , and every one of them is an action verb .
When you understand that expanded and exploded sentence , you can talk to an alien from Parsec-12 .
He can talk to you .
After your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the facility where he ’ s under heavy guard , ride the elevator down to the parking lot , and drive through the gate , you look at the desert and you see things you never saw before .
You understand why magic was hard to do .
It was all supposed to be taking place in a tight reality of unbreakable connections .
Impossible .
But now those connections have snapped .
The landscape , any landscape , is much more inclusive and malleable .
You ’ re reminded things were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in your body open up .
There is a reason for them to change .
They secrete information and energy that have been dormant for a long time .
Dormant , because there was no use for them .
The cells in your nervous system wake up to a remarkable degree .
They ’ ve been waiting for this moment .
They turn off the perverted game show called Life they ’ ve been glued to for 40 years .
They project rays in all directions .
Your physical aliveness shifts up exponentially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ facility behind you , you can see the alien .
He ’ s nodding at you .
Yes , he ’ s thinking .
You ’ re on the right track .
—The stat analyst leaned back in his chair .
He prepared to gather his thoughts so he could write a report for his supervisor .
The author of the very strange piece he ’ d just read was obviously insane .
Anyone could understand that .
But what could the government learn about outlier thought patterns from the piece ?
During @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people were settling in , trying to relax , turning off their stray ideas , looking for the Positive , as the authorities had urged .
But this man , whoever he was , had gone in the opposite direction .
Why ?
And why had he chosen language as his jumping-off point ?
He was trying to attack everything that was harmonious and repetitive .
The analyst remembered something from his own past .
A novel he had read as a child .
A sea adventure .
A sailor had stepped off @ @ @ @ @ @ @ walked along a road toward a range of hills .
It was a summer afternoon .
The analyst remembered that as the sailor walked on this road carrying his pack , a whole scene had opened up in his child ’ s mind , and he had put down the book .
He saw those hills and he walked up to them , too , with the sailor .
He walked ahead of the sailor and he saw a valley , and there was a city in the valley , and very tall @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Among these people , he moved slowly , listening to them talk .
He couldn ’ t understand their language .
And then he could .
He felt he was falling and flying at the same time .
Now , in his office , he did a search and discovered the man who had written the piece he was supposed to report on lived in Hartsdale , a small town 20 miles from his office .
He pinned on his federal badge , took an elevator down to the parking lot , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his car , and drove out of the facility .
The roads were empty .
A half-hour later , he parked at the end of a dirt road next to a small cottage .
He entered the cottage without knocking .
Floor boards in the bedroom were stacked in a pile , and there was a hole in the floor .
He saw a ladder .
He climbed down the ladder to a dark room .
The floor was dirt .
He felt the walls and found a door .
He opened it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ They glanced at him and made no moves .
There was music .
They were listening to music .
He sat down in a chair .
He had never heard music like this before .
He was back in the city in the valley .
He walked the streets , and he knew this was just the beginning .
It was where he went to depart from what he had been thinking about .
It was the first difference , the breaking of a connection .
Not only the absence of gravity , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gravity .
He felt quite alone and quite complete .
But not isolated .
There was nothing from his past he needed to share .
And nothing about the pandemic or the lockdown .
It occurred to him there was no danger at all .
No pandemic .
The whole edifice of danger and all its sub-sections were like old faded photos .
He stood still in the city .
The man who just had this dream made his coffee in the kitchen and took it back into the living room .
Another @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the couch and shook his head like duck who ’ d just jumped out of a pond up on to dry land .
He took a sip of coffee and turned on the news .
He felt himself relax .
He flipped from one channel to another .
“ A person over 65 who has suffered from any one of several key illnesses must be vaccinated , as a precaution .
All hospital and nursing home employees must be vaccinated .
Travelers returning from the following locations must be vaccinated before re-entering @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Two Corp , all our people take the vaccine proudly .
We want the community to know we ’ re in the lead in compliance .
We support the Governor and his team of public health advisors .
Our new contact tracing app has built in signals telling you when you ’ re at risk in certain neighborhoods .
Visit our Facebook page and learn more.
” “ Hi , I ’ m Dr. Julie Meng of the CDC .
I want to tell you about a man named Carl .
He refused @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and we had to shut down the company .
Right now , Carl is on a ventilator fighting for his life in a hospital…don ’ t be a Carl… ” “ Did you know you can report certain people who actively refuse the vaccine ?
Go to our Facebook page and learn who you can report on and why… ” “ At YYY Corp , all 32,000 of us want to salute the nation ’ s contact tracers who are working to keep all of us safe .
We know you ’ re @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we ’ re cutting your insurance premiums by 15 percent across the board , for the next six months , as a gesture of thanks .
Tracing leads to vaccinating , and that ’ s what we all need—immunity from the virus… ” “ Leading our coverage this morning , the CDC has pinpointed three areas in Utah where vaccine refusal has climbed higher in recent weeks .
Some estimates place it as high as ten percent .
A breakaway church and its pastor have been blamed for spreading conspiracy theories .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID vaccine can be mandated , one of those areas has now been designated a ‘ hot spot.
’ Local border controls have been set up .
Two clinics are prepared to receive people who have turned down the vaccine and are being placed in custody .
We now go live to the ER at Buchen Hospital… ” “ In Houston , a group calling itself COVID Truth has leaked a public-health list of local residents who have so far refused to take the vaccine .
Utilizing Facebook posts , 90 names have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ privacy is an issue , but the majority of local citizens seem to be siding with COVID Truth… ” “ Today , three eastern states reached agreement limiting inter-state travel , deploying a wide-ranging series of highway checkpoints , where officers can demand certificates of immunity… ” The man heard a rising noise .
He walked over to his window and looked outside .
A few blocks away he saw crowds gathering .
They were spreading out across his neighborhood .
How was that possible ?
He noticed they weren ’ t wearing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The dream flashed through his mind again .
Without thinking , he grabbed his jacket and went outside to join them .
An hour later , he was threading his way through thousands of people .
The crowds extended all the way to downtown .
So many people were holding signs that said FREEDOM .
A woman next to him was laughing .
She looked at him and handed him a pair of binoculars .
He took them and looked in the direction she was pointing .
Along the highway , thousands @ @ @ @ @ @ @ city .
He took a deep breath and let it out .
“ What ’ s happening to me ?
” he said without thinking .
“ Nothing , ” the woman said .
“ It ’ s all over .
Their organization is gone.
” The Best of Jon Rappoport

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PART ONE OF THE DREAM
On May 14, 2266, the New England Journal of Medicine and Psychology published a paper titled:
WHAT IS ‘A NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCE?’
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A reader commented: “This assumption is grossly false. It’s a stunted version of aesthetics. Creative force always breaks out of these little geometries. So does every new idea. Increasingly, Earth culture is unable to understand this.”
—The reader receives a government notice and is summoned to a hearing. He’s interviewed by a virtual AI employee of the federal Department of Stat Research.
HOLOGRAPHIC i-FIGURE: “Are you all right during this epidemic lockdown? I see you live alone.”
“Yes, I’m fine.”
“We want you to enjoy yourself. Are you watching learning programs?”
“No.”
“Why not?”
“I don’t like them.”
“Well, we have a report on you. It indicates an output difficult to measure or interpret. What can you tell us about this?
“I don’t know. I’m composing a symphony.”
“A symphony? What is that?”
“It’s a piece of music written for a large orchestra.”
“I find no extant orchestras in the country.”
“That’s true. Nevertheless, I’m composing.”
“Why?”
“For that day when an orchestra may come into being again.”
“Your thought-impulses entered ranges we were not able to summarize.”
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“Your last statement is incendiary. It suggests we are imposing a restriction. As you well know, the science is settled on this point. We measure and interpret thought that contributes to an overall positive outcome, for the population at large.”
“I’m aware of that, yes. But the science rests on certain assumptions. I would call it greatest good as a lowest common denominator.”
“What do you mean?”
“You assume a certain mindset contributes to the consensus reality you favor. You legislate a range of thought that will produce the consensus.”
“That’s a gross oversimplification.”
“It doesn’t describe the algorithms you employ, but all in all I believe my summary is correct. You’re reality makers. You monitor thought-emissions, and when you find a departure from ‘combined averages,’ as you call them, you issue a citation.”
“What is this symphony you’re composing?”
“It’s impossible to explain. It’s music.”
“It has a specific message?”
“No. If it did, I would write out the message and leave it at that.”
“Why have we not heard of you before?”
“I was doing illustrations for the Happiness Holos.”
“What happened?”
“I became bored. A machine could make those pictures. So I decided to compose music.”
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“Perhaps. They encourage people to stay on the positive side of a construct called Positive&Negative, which as you know is a State-sponsored theme. But what is superficially indicated by those two opposing sets is, in fact, fuel for the fire.”
“Fuel for what fire?”
“The artist can use and transform any material.”
“Where did you hear such a thing?”
“Nowhere. I’ve experienced it many times.”
“Your views are highly eccentric. I will have to consult your childhood history to understand their roots.”
“I’m afraid that won’t do you any good.”
“Why not?”
“Because your version, the US Department of Psychology version of cause and effect, is propaganda for the masses.”
“This is your idea of a joke?”
“Not at all.”
“When you compose this…symphony, how do you think?”
“It’s not thinking in the way you use the term.”
“No? Then what do you do?”
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“Absurd. According to what underlying pattern?”
“None. Check the Library of Structures. I doubt you’ll find my activity in the catalogs.”
“Only known structures and patterns are contained in the files.”
“I don’t invent through pattern.”
“No? How then?”
“I improvise.”
“And this term refers to?”
“Something done spontaneously.”
“And you exceed prescribed ranges of thought in the process.”
“Perhaps. I would hope so. I don’t keep track.”
“You’re being flippant.”
“I assumed you’d eventually cite me. I’m just composing music during the lockdown.”
“There is no citation yet. You’re an anomaly. We investigate. We consider.”
“I’m afraid your and my idea of ‘consider’ are quite different.”
“Let me ask you this. When you are composing, do you ever believe you enter into a realm or area that could be called ‘non-material’? We’ve heard such claims before.”
“Not if you’re referring to some fairyland. But all thought is basically non-material. The brain registers it after the fact. Thought, the real thing, doesn’t take place in the brain.”
“You’re deluded. And disordered.”
“If I could simply confess to that and be on my way, I’d be a happy man.”
“You live in a society. To keep the peace and maintain the Positive, science has discovered that thought should occur within certain parameters.”
“If you insist.”
“We want to study you. It’s a great honor to be called. You could help extend the boundaries of research…we register variation from the norm in your present thinking.”
“What present thinking?”
“What you’re thinking right now.”
“That was quick.”
“The readouts are instantaneous…what are you doing?”
“I’m starting the fourth movement.”
“Wait. What you’re doing is disruptive.”
“It’s because of how you set your frequencies.”
All along the major esplanade, and in the lake area, and in the industrial parks and residential high rises, virtual structures shattered like glass.
The i-figure went dark.
A thousand holographic government buildings froze and vanished.
The composer said to no one, “I’m just composing. Well, apparently not just.”
—Back in his room at the edge of the city, he said, “I suppose that’s what they mean by a negative consequence.”
He sat down at his computer and turned it on. Before he went to the composing page, he had to click on a sunburst icon and read a government message for the day. It appeared:
“We want everyone to be happy during the lockdown. This is very important. Because much government function is being carried out by virtual assistants, we’ve encountered a disruption in service owing to a segment of Disorder entered into our Net. Please be patient. Repairs are underway. These are learning experiences for us. There is always a certain amount of disordered thought in the environment. Most of it is unintentional. We welcome the opportunity to study such examples. As a member of the educated class, we’re sure you can appreciate the research aspect of our work. Thank you for your patience. Food deliveries will be delayed by a factor of…two hours. Our latest figures indicate 2,147 new epidemic cases have been detected in your sector in the last 24 hours. Re-testing is underway. Please place your hand on the screen now…thank you. You may remove it. Just a moment…we’re unable to process your assay at this time. You’ll receive a message indicating your viral status as soon as the system is up and running again. End of message.”
The composer plugged a small module into the side of his computer. The screen went red. Black letters formed: DISEQUILIBRIUM. He pressed the send key.
The encrypted score of the first three movements of his symphony set out on a rapidly changing zig-zag journey to a series of caverns below cities in Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, America.
A program consisting of the synthesized instruments of a full orchestra read the score and began to broadcast the music to small groups of people sitting in the caverns…
PART TWO OF THE DREAM
In a government office, a Stat analyst read a note from his supervisor:
“The pandemic is having a positive effect on mass thought-patterns. We’re seeing a significant smoothing out of trends. With major focus on staying indoors, rapid testing, isolation, and official updates tuned to each population group, overall harmonization is expanding.”
“This gives us more time to focus on outliers and odd departures from the symmetrical norm. Attached you’ll find a story written by a man who has been living alone for the past 12 years. He’s a former scripter for the Department of Education series, ‘I Love School.’ He dropped out and began writing fiction. This in itself would be a red flag, but the content of his latest effort is quite problematical. Give it a read and send me your assessment.”
The analyst opened up the attachment, took several calming breaths, and dug in:
“You want to forget about the possibility that, buried under mind control, there is a very different human being? Suppose, for example, the psyche is equipped to see and use language itself in a way that’s foreign to us? Suppose this language sends signals to our endocrine systems, and our chemical and biological processes undergo a revolution?”
“Here is what an astronaut said in a closed room in Houston when he came back from a three-month voyage in space and emerged from his quarantine period. Here is what he told the men at the table.”
‘…You see it wasn’t just a planet. It was somewhere that made no sense at all. There were…things there, but I couldn’t identify them. I couldn’t put names to them. I thought it might be a puzzle. A game. So I just started walking. I don’t know how long I walked. You tell me I’ve been away for three months. All right. I can’t put any sort of time stamp on it. One thought came in on me, over and over again. I was in a different universe. And if it was organized, I couldn’t find the pattern. So for a very long time I rejected the whole place, the whole setup. That was my main experience. Because who would ever imagine being in a locale where things were so strange he couldn’t find a single word to convey them to anyone else? And then, finally, I remembered something from years ago. A play being performed by crazy actors. They spoke in a “language” no one had ever heard of. It went on for almost an hour. I felt very angry. A few minutes before the end, I was hit by lightning. I suddenly understood everything they were saying. I don’t know how. And I couldn’t translate it back into English. I just understood. It was a one-time experience. And that was what it was like, being in that universe. When I remembered this, I felt a shift. I knew where I was. I knew what was going on. I knew that universe. But I can’t sit here and tell you what it was. That seems impossible to you. But it’s true. I’m stymied. One thing I can say. Everything I once thought I knew about beauty…that’s gone out the window. I’ve realized there were certain rules embedded in my mind. Maybe principles. Principles of harmony, symmetry, balance. Organization. I was living according to those rules or principles all my life, in all my choices, and now they’re gone. They don’t exist anymore. When they evaporated, I was able to understand what that universe was. All at once. On the trip home, I started to draw. You’ve seen my “work.” You’ve looked at it, and you wonder whether you can use it to decipher what happened to me. But you can’t. I was just inventing out of a vacuum. A wonderful vacuum. I was working from nothing, a void. I’m not asking you to understand it. I don’t feel you need to. I just know I stumbled across something. I never wanted it or looked for it. You’ve told me the drawings mean nothing to you. That’s fine. I didn’t do them for you. All the vast telemetry we have? The codes and symbols and shorthand, the measurements? The markers and the baselines and the scans? I’m not interested in them anymore. I don’t have the slightest bit of interest.’
There was silence in the room.
“Sounds like you got religion,” one man said.
“I feel,” the astronaut said, “like a tiger who just walked out of the zoo.”
Security men stepped into the room. They had their hands on their holsters.
But the ops chief held up his hand.
“It’s all right,” he said. “We’re fine. This man found something. Let him go. No one will understand him. We’re protected. We’re all inside the protocol.”
There is the little-known work of philosopher/linguist Ernest Fenollosa, the author of The Chinese Written Character as a Medium of Poetry. Fenollosa analyzed modern Chinese words back to older pictographs that minimized nouns. Instead, these ancient pictographs, at one time, presented a view of reality that was far more dynamic and shifting, in which action was the main event. The subject and object of a sentence were themselves of lesser importance, and were related to one another by their mutual participation in that action. “To be” verbs—is, are, am—were just dead ducks. Irrelevant.
Suppose we had a language in which every noun was also a verb, in the sense that it threw off rays and curves and vectors of action and energy.
What would we have then?
We might, at the extreme, have an endless supply of dynamic universes. No potted plants.
We would be communicating with each other in a way that instantly gave birth to possibilities beyond current meanings embedded in our style of speaking and writing. The implications of each word of text would jump and leap. Instead of peeling off layers to get at the precise definition of a word, we would automatically be proliferating it.
Language, created by consciousness, also feeds back to it. And this feedback informs our way of viewing reality. The structure of language becomes, in a true sense, a monitor on what we can see and what we can’t see. What we can imagine and what we can’t imagine.
It’s as if a psychologist, running one of those old inkblot tests, told the patient: “Guess what? There’s nothing wrong with you. Forget all that nonsense. Look at these shapes and imagine anything you want to. Tell me what you invent. Then I’ll do the same. Pretty soon we’ll be speaking a different language, and we’ll levitate out of this worn-out reality…”
Let’s cut out middlemen.
Instead of the standard blots, print out all sorts of complex shapes on a page and say, OK BOYS, THIS IS A LOST LANGUAGE. FIGURE OUT WHAT IT MEANS. WORK ON IT.
Then if you can nudge or inspire or bribe people to do that, they will work for a few years believing there is really something there, something that is embedded in the shapes, and they’ll dig in and try to decode it. A few more years and they might throw in the towel and say, “The hell with this, let’s just make it up. Let’s say each shape means whatever we imagine it to mean, and each shape can change its meaning from minute to minute.”
Then they start writing to each other with these shapes and thousands of others they make up—and gradually, they forget about the notion that they might be crazy. After that, glimpses and glints begin to surface in their minds. They don’t know what they are, but they feel they’re de-conditioning themselves from any language they previously knew. They’re out in open water. Their operational concept of Understanding is undergoing a revolution.
They realize how tightly they clung to their old basic notion of Meaning.
They drop that. They discard it in the garbage, because they’re fascinated with the glints and glimpses they’re getting. They want more glimpses. They’re inventing this language with no rules and no assigned structure.
They’re experiencing sensations of flying and soaring. These sensations are feeding back into their body processes and into their minds. The hard wiring is giving way.
You could say they’re astronauts training for a mission in which they’ll encounter an intelligence that’s completely alien to Earth.
There are analogues to what I’m discussing here. For example, microtonal music. You tune a piano so that, altogether, 88 keys display the range of sounds contained within just one octave of a conventional piano. Going from the lowest note to the highest on the microtonal piano, you hear thin slices and gradations of notes that cover, all told, no more ground than one octave of a normal piano.
You sit at the microtonal piano and you play. And play. And play.
You listen to what you play.
At first, it’s repugnant. It’s not only dissonant, it’s absurdly muddy.
But after a few months of playing that piano every day, you begin to hear something. It comes through. And the sensations it brings might remind you of places you’ve been, experiences you’ve had. But they go further, into a void where new sensations and meanings you can’t name are possible, are happening. Are real. Eventually, super-real.
These sensations flood your endocrine system, and new proportions and sequences of hormones are produced. You experience feelings you’d forgotten or never had before.
The spectrum of feeling and thought expands.
Your whole notion of what you can experience and understand changes.
Your imagination is gearing up.
You never seriously considered there could be seven comprehensible sounds between any two keys on an ordinary piano. Now, you’re not only hearing them, they make sense. They convey emotion.
This would be like saying that, between each pair of words in a sentence, there are seven other words, and every one of them is an action verb.
When you understand that expanded and exploded sentence, you can talk to an alien from Parsec-12. He can talk to you.
After your first conversation, when you walk out of the facility where he’s under heavy guard, ride the elevator down to the parking lot, and drive through the gate, you look at the desert and you see things you never saw before.
You understand why magic was hard to do. It was all supposed to be taking place in a tight reality of unbreakable connections. Impossible. But now those connections have snapped. The landscape, any landscape, is much more inclusive and malleable.
You’re reminded things were this way once. And now processes in your body open up. There is a reason for them to change. They secrete information and energy that have been dormant for a long time. Dormant, because there was no use for them.
The cells in your nervous system wake up to a remarkable degree. They’ve been waiting for this moment. They turn off the perverted game show called Life they’ve been glued to for 40 years. They project rays in all directions. Your physical aliveness shifts up exponentially.
Through the walls of the holding facility behind you, you can see the alien. He’s nodding at you. Yes, he’s thinking. You’re on the right track.
—The stat analyst leaned back in his chair. He prepared to gather his thoughts so he could write a report for his supervisor.
The author of the very strange piece he’d just read was obviously insane. Anyone could understand that. But what could the government learn about outlier thought patterns from the piece? During the comfort of the lockdown, most people were settling in, trying to relax, turning off their stray ideas, looking for the Positive, as the authorities had urged. But this man, whoever he was, had gone in the opposite direction. Why? And why had he chosen language as his jumping-off point? He was trying to attack everything that was harmonious and repetitive.
The analyst remembered something from his own past. A novel he had read as a child. A sea adventure. A sailor had stepped off his ship at a distant port and walked along a road toward a range of hills. It was a summer afternoon.
The analyst remembered that as the sailor walked on this road carrying his pack, a whole scene had opened up in his child’s mind, and he had put down the book. He saw those hills and he walked up to them, too, with the sailor. He walked ahead of the sailor and he saw a valley, and there was a city in the valley, and very tall buildings, and people on the streets.
Among these people, he moved slowly, listening to them talk. He couldn’t understand their language.
And then he could. He felt he was falling and flying at the same time.
Now, in his office, he did a search and discovered the man who had written the piece he was supposed to report on lived in Hartsdale, a small town 20 miles from his office.
He pinned on his federal badge, took an elevator down to the parking lot, slipped on a mask, got in his car, and drove out of the facility.
The roads were empty. A half-hour later, he parked at the end of a dirt road next to a small cottage.
He entered the cottage without knocking.
The rooms were empty.
Floor boards in the bedroom were stacked in a pile, and there was a hole in the floor. He saw a ladder.
He climbed down the ladder to a dark room. The floor was dirt.
He felt the walls and found a door.
He opened it. People were sitting in chairs. They glanced at him and made no moves.
There was music. They were listening to music.
He sat down in a chair. He had never heard music like this before.
It engulfed him.
He was back in the city in the valley. He walked the streets, and he knew this was just the beginning. It was where he went to depart from what he had been thinking about. It was the first difference, the breaking of a connection. Not only the absence of gravity, but the absence of the character of gravity.
He felt quite alone and quite complete. But not isolated.
There was nothing from his past he needed to share.
And nothing about the pandemic or the lockdown.
It occurred to him there was no danger at all. No pandemic.
The whole edifice of danger and all its sub-sections were like old faded photos.
He stood still in the city.
—end of the dream—
The man who just had this dream made his coffee in the kitchen and took it back into the living room. Another day of lockdown. He sat down on the couch and shook his head like duck who’d just jumped out of a pond up on to dry land. He took a sip of coffee and turned on the news. He felt himself relax.
He flipped from one channel to another.
“A person over 65 who has suffered from any one of several key illnesses must be vaccinated, as a precaution. All hospital and nursing home employees must be vaccinated. Travelers returning from the following locations must be vaccinated before re-entering the country…”
“Here at Driver Two Corp, all our people take the vaccine proudly. We want the community to know we’re in the lead in compliance. We support the Governor and his team of public health advisors. Our new contact tracing app has built in signals telling you when you’re at risk in certain neighborhoods. Visit our Facebook page and learn more.”
“Hi, I’m Dr. Julie Meng of the CDC. I want to tell you about a man named Carl. He refused the vaccine and infected his whole warehouse and we had to shut down the company. Right now, Carl is on a ventilator fighting for his life in a hospital…don’t be a Carl…”
“Did you know you can report certain people who actively refuse the vaccine? Go to our Facebook page and learn who you can report on and why…”
“At YYY Corp, all 32,000 of us want to salute the nation’s contact tracers who are working to keep all of us safe. We know you’re out there protecting us 24/7. So we’re cutting your insurance premiums by 15 percent across the board, for the next six months, as a gesture of thanks. Tracing leads to vaccinating, and that’s what we all need—immunity from the virus…”
“Leading our coverage this morning, the CDC has pinpointed three areas in Utah where vaccine refusal has climbed higher in recent weeks. Some estimates place it as high as ten percent. A breakaway church and its pastor have been blamed for spreading conspiracy theories. In accordance with federal conditions under which the COVID vaccine can be mandated, one of those areas has now been designated a ‘hot spot.’ Local border controls have been set up. Two clinics are prepared to receive people who have turned down the vaccine and are being placed in custody. We now go live to the ER at Buchen Hospital…”
“In Houston, a group calling itself COVID Truth has leaked a public-health list of local residents who have so far refused to take the vaccine. Utilizing Facebook posts, 90 names have been exposed. Of course, medical privacy is an issue, but the majority of local citizens seem to be siding with COVID Truth…”
“Today, three eastern states reached agreement limiting inter-state travel, deploying a wide-ranging series of highway checkpoints, where officers can demand certificates of immunity…”
The man heard a rising noise. He walked over to his window and looked outside. A few blocks away he saw crowds gathering. They were spreading out across his neighborhood. How was that possible? He noticed they weren’t wearing masks. They were standing close together.
The dream flashed through his mind again.
Without thinking, he grabbed his jacket and went outside to join them.
An hour later, he was threading his way through thousands of people. The crowds extended all the way to downtown.
So many people were holding signs that said FREEDOM.
Could this…?
A woman next to him was laughing. She looked at him and handed him a pair of binoculars. He took them and looked in the direction she was pointing.
Along the highway, thousands of motorcycle riders were coming into the city.
He took a deep breath and let it out.
“What’s happening to me?” he said without thinking.
“Nothing,” the woman said. “It’s all over. Their organization is gone.”
Reprinted with permission from Jon Rappoport’s blog.
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lewrockwell--2020-09-26--Pinko Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Stick Their Elitist Noses into US Politics, Preach About ‘Hate Spe

Pinko Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Stick Their Elitist Noses into US Politics, Preach About ‘Hate Speech’ & the ‘Most Important Election’

Now living in the US , Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have already started preaching to American voters , saying this presidential election is the “ most important in our lifetime ” and shaming people into voting .
In the new video made for the Time 100 list , the British royal family members , who have given up their royal duties , aren ’ t committed enough to endorse an actual candidate for November , but it ’ s pretty clear which way they are urging folks to vote .
“ Every four years we are told the same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ important election of our lifetime , ” Markle says .
“ But this one is .
When we vote , our values are put into action and our voices are heard .
Your voice is a reminder that you matter , because you do and you deserve to be heard.
” Considering Markle has slammed Trump as “ misogynistic ” and “ divisive ” in the past , expressed excitement over Kamala Harris ’ vice presidential nomination , and done activist work with Michelle Obama , it ’ s not difficult to tell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be heard.
” And note to Markle : if you ’ re going to argue this election is the most important in our lifetimes , it ’ s probably wise not to begin your statement by saying the same thing is doled out every four years where politicians try convincing us the sky will fall based on which of the typically two bad choices we put in power .
SITKA Gear Men ’ s ... Buy New $ 30.00 Prince Harry ’ s part in the video is just as cringe-inducing with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vote in the US ( he ’ s not a citizen ) before then preaching about “ misinformation ” and “ hate speech ” online , generic points that seem ripped right out of a CNN anchor ’ s script .
“ This election I am not able to vote in the US .
But many of you may not know that I haven ’ t been able to vote in the UK my entire life .
As we approach this November , it ’ s vital that we reject hate speech , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ says .
The two have already received an onslaught of criticism for what is essentially a toothless endorsement of Biden and attempted swipe at Trump .
“ Prince Harry poking his woke nose into the US election & effectively telling Americans to vote against President Trump is completely unacceptable behaviour for a member of the Royal Family , ” Piers Morgan tweeted , his points echoed by others since the release of the video .
There is little reason for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to be preaching to Americans about any election @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pandering nonsense to be listened to .
Walking away from their royal duties and cozying it up with celebrities and politicians in California , they have become the most hollow of celebrities .
The media remains committed to giving them a platform , but there is nothing suggesting they have earned one .
They walked away from their official duties in the UK , but want the spotlight on them as if they are royalty in the US now .
SITKA Gear Men ’ s ... Best Price : $ 113.05 Buy New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ part of the Royal Family , so this sort of blatant political activism also seems completely inappropriate , especially in the US .
While they don ’ t directly endorse Biden , the message from the video is clear for anyone paying attention to the current election and the talking points pushed by the very side we already know at least one of them belongs to .
The last thing this country needs at the moment is two elitist Royal Family members carelessly attaching their questionable celebrity status to the coattails of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seem relevant and topical .

Now living in the US, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have already started preaching to American voters, saying this presidential election is the “most important in our lifetime” and shaming people into voting.
In the new video made for the Time 100 list, the British royal family members, who have given up their royal duties, aren’t committed enough to endorse an actual candidate for November, but it’s pretty clear which way they are urging folks to vote.
“Every four years we are told the same thing, that this is the most important election of our lifetime,” Markle says. “But this one is. When we vote, our values are put into action and our voices are heard. Your voice is a reminder that you matter, because you do and you deserve to be heard.”
Considering Markle has slammed Trump as “misogynistic” and “divisive” in the past, expressed excitement over Kamala Harris’ vice presidential nomination, and done activist work with Michelle Obama, it’s not difficult to tell which voices she thinks “deserve to be heard.” And note to Markle: if you’re going to argue this election is the most important in our lifetimes, it’s probably wise not to begin your statement by saying the same thing is doled out every four years where politicians try convincing us the sky will fall based on which of the typically two bad choices we put in power. SITKA Gear Men’s... Buy New $30.00 (as of 06:03 UTC - Details)
Prince Harry’s part in the video is just as cringe-inducing with the royal admitting he can’t even vote in the US (he’s not a citizen) before then preaching about “misinformation” and “hate speech” online, generic points that seem ripped right out of a CNN anchor’s script.
“This election I am not able to vote in the US. But many of you may not know that I haven’t been able to vote in the UK my entire life. As we approach this November, it’s vital that we reject hate speech, misinformation and online negativity,” Harry says.
The two have already received an onslaught of criticism for what is essentially a toothless endorsement of Biden and attempted swipe at Trump.
“Prince Harry poking his woke nose into the US election & effectively telling Americans to vote against President Trump is completely unacceptable behaviour for a member of the Royal Family,” Piers Morgan tweeted, his points echoed by others since the release of the video.
Prince Harry has effectively endorsed @JoeBiden what is the US election to do with him? he doesn’t have a vote and as he still think he’s Royal, he is HRH, he’s supposed to be politically neutral. As usual, he wants it both ways — Andrew Pierce (@toryboypierce) September 23, 2020
Really don’t think it’s wise for a member of the British royal family to speak out about American politics. He’s not American, and it’s really none of his business https://t.co/9lx5JAdaWy — Ed West (@edwest) September 23, 2020
There is little reason for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to be preaching to Americans about any election, and even less reason for such pandering nonsense to be listened to. Walking away from their royal duties and cozying it up with celebrities and politicians in California, they have become the most hollow of celebrities. The media remains committed to giving them a platform, but there is nothing suggesting they have earned one. They walked away from their official duties in the UK, but want the spotlight on them as if they are royalty in the US now. SITKA Gear Men’s... Best Price: $113.05 Buy New $119.00 (as of 06:03 UTC - Details)
The two are also still part of the Royal Family, so this sort of blatant political activism also seems completely inappropriate, especially in the US. While they don’t directly endorse Biden, the message from the video is clear for anyone paying attention to the current election and the talking points pushed by the very side we already know at least one of them belongs to.
The last thing this country needs at the moment is two elitist Royal Family members carelessly attaching their questionable celebrity status to the coattails of a divisive election in some desperate attempt to seem relevant and topical.
Reprinted from RT News.


lewrockwell--2020-09-26--Never Again! (Some Restrictions May Apply)

There are certain “ firsts ” we all remember from youth .
Our first kiss .
Our first car .
Our first time being chased off a college campus by an angry mob of Jews shouting , “ Never again !
” Okay , that last one may be unique to me .
See , that ’ s what happened when I was invited by a student group to speak at UCLA in January 1992 .
After I was pummeled on stage in front of news cameras , a furious mob of about 200 students , Chabad members , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ again !
Never again !
” as I fled like Don Knotts with a hotfoot .
Sitka Men ’ s Fana ... Best Price : $ 38.00 Buy New $ 40.00 So I take that “ never again ” crap rather personally .
In theory , it ’ s supposed to be the mating call of the Holocaust-averse Jew , a defiant declaration that we Jews will never again be mistreated and abused as we were under Hitler .
And last week the never-againers were in quite a tizzy over a new Holocaust @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Material Claims Against Germany , an organization that purports to seek “ a small measure of justice for Jewish victims of Nazi persecution ” ( to clarify , the Conference defines “ small ” as “ massive , disproportionate , and unending ” ) .
And what a survey it was !
Apparently , most millennials don ’ t know the number of Jewish Holocaust victims ( oy ! )
.
Almost half can ’ t name a single concentration camp ( gevalt ! )
.
And a whopping 30 % of them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , FDR , and the Jews themselves , nearly tying the 33 % who place the blame on Germany ( vey iz mir ! )
.
The survey results were met with so much anguished Jewish garment-rending , it sounded like the earth itself had ripped a fart .
SITKA Gear Equinox Pan ... Buy New $ 199.00 Schoen has refused to release a breakdown of the responses by race and ethnicity .
Thirty-five percent of the millennial respondents were black or Latino ; this is important because black children are conditioned from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ predominantly Jewish academics ) to not care about anything except “ black history.
” Black students are expected to be ignorant of “ the white man ’ s past.
” You wan na interest black kids in the Holocaust ?
Spin a tale about how crematoriums were invented by a black man named DeBurnham Chard because racist whites barred black corpses from earthen burials .
And Hispanic students taught en español ( again , ironically , thanks to predominantly Jewish academics ) have probably not been exposed to the same Holocaust texts as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Ovens by Olga Lengyel has never been translated into Zapotec ) .
So without the racial/ethnic data , the survey is of limited value ( Schoen refused my repeated requests for a detailed black/white/Hispanic breakdown of the results ) .
Still , the survey has done its job , uniting mainstream left and mainstream right in a common pledge to up the volume on Holocaust education in U.S. schools , because you can ’ t never again if you don ’ t never forget .

There are certain “firsts” we all remember from youth. Our first kiss. Our first car. Our first time being chased off a college campus by an angry mob of Jews shouting, “Never again!”
Okay, that last one may be unique to me.
See, that’s what happened when I was invited by a student group to speak at UCLA in January 1992. After I was pummeled on stage in front of news cameras, a furious mob of about 200 students, Chabad members, and Jewish activists began chanting, “Never again! Never again!” as I fled like Don Knotts with a hotfoot.
Sitka Men’s Fana... Best Price: $38.00 Buy New $40.00 (as of 06:04 UTC - Details) So I take that “never again” crap rather personally. In theory, it’s supposed to be the mating call of the Holocaust-averse Jew, a defiant declaration that we Jews will never again be mistreated and abused as we were under Hitler. And last week the never-againers were in quite a tizzy over a new Holocaust survey sponsored by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, an organization that purports to seek “a small measure of justice for Jewish victims of Nazi persecution” (to clarify, the Conference defines “small” as “massive, disproportionate, and unending”). And what a survey it was! Apparently, most millennials don’t know the number of Jewish Holocaust victims (oy!). Almost half can’t name a single concentration camp (gevalt!). And a whopping 30% of them blame the Holocaust on the United States, FDR, and the Jews themselves, nearly tying the 33% who place the blame on Germany (vey iz mir!).
The survey results were met with so much anguished Jewish garment-rending, it sounded like the earth itself had ripped a fart.
The survey was conducted by Schoen Cooperman, an outfit run by a character named Douglas Schoen who, depending on the source, either donates money to Democrats to infiltrate the party for Republicans or donates to Republicans to infiltrate the party for Democrats. Schoen is, to use the proper clinical term, one shifty-ass mutherfucker, so I take the survey with many grains of kosher salt (I’m reminded that every few decades a bogus Holocaust survey is released to gin up a “never again” frenzy).
SITKA Gear Equinox Pan... Buy New $199.00 (as of 06:04 UTC - Details) Schoen has refused to release a breakdown of the responses by race and ethnicity. Thirty-five percent of the millennial respondents were black or Latino; this is important because black children are conditioned from birth (thanks, ironically, to predominantly Jewish academics) to not care about anything except “black history.” Black students are expected to be ignorant of “the white man’s past.” You wanna interest black kids in the Holocaust? Spin a tale about how crematoriums were invented by a black man named DeBurnham Chard because racist whites barred black corpses from earthen burials.
And Hispanic students taught en español (again, ironically, thanks to predominantly Jewish academics) have probably not been exposed to the same Holocaust texts as English-speakers (sadly, I Survived Hitler’s Ovens by Olga Lengyel has never been translated into Zapotec).
So without the racial/ethnic data, the survey is of limited value (Schoen refused my repeated requests for a detailed black/white/Hispanic breakdown of the results).
Still, the survey has done its job, uniting mainstream left and mainstream right in a common pledge to up the volume on Holocaust education in U.S. schools, because you can’t never again if you don’t never forget.
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