lewrockwell--2020-11-21--‘We Will Get Through This’ — How To Resist Governments’ COVID Vaccine Campaigns

• The latest news from Pfizer and Moderna on how “ preliminary analysis ” shows their vaccines are more than 90 % effective is not science , it ’ s public relations .
• Media are reporting that people with developmental disabilities will be among those first in line to get these experimental COVID vaccines .
“ You don ’ t target the most vulnerable people , including those who can ’ t exercise informed consent , with experimental medical products .
That ’ s arguably going after the weakest in the herd.
” • AstraZeneca ’ s COVID vaccine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has ingredients we know are correlated with brain injury .
• Governments have signed deals with vaccine makers to buy billions of dollars worth of COVID vaccines , so they ’ ll want to use them — so they ’ re programming us with messaging about fear , altruism and patriotism .
• In Denmark , people took to the streets to fight back against vaccine mandates — and won .
• Updates on Children ’ s Health Defense lawsuits against Facebook , University of California and New York mandates .
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The latest news from Pfizer and Moderna on how “preliminary analysis” shows their vaccines are more than 90% effective is not science, it’s public relations.
Media are reporting that people with developmental disabilities will be among those first in line to get these experimental COVID vaccines. “You don’t target the most vulnerable people, including those who can’t exercise informed consent,with experimental medical products. That’s arguably going after the weakest in the herd.”
AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine (still in the trial phase) has ingredients we know are correlated with brain injury.
Governments have signed deals with vaccine makers to buy billions of dollars worth of COVID vaccines, so they’ll want to use them — so they’re programming us with messaging about fear, altruism and patriotism.
In Denmark, people took to the streets to fight back against vaccine mandates — and won.
Updates on Children’s Health Defense lawsuits against Facebook, University of California and New York mandates.
Watch here:
Sign up for free news and updates from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the Children’s Health Defense. CHD is implementing many strategies, including legal, in an effort to defend the health of our children and obtain justice for those already injured. Your support is essential to CHD’s successful mission.
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lewrockwell--2020-11-21--The Rudy, Sidney, and Jenna Show: A Blistering Press Conference for the Ages

Yesterday , I took Trump attorney , Sidney Powell , to task for her lack of court-case filings .
Because time is of the essence .
From everything I ’ ve studied , the amount of vote-fraud is titanic .
Court cases are obviously necessary .
I want to read Sidney ’ s filings .
I want to see the progress of cases through the courts .
Licensed to Lie Powell , Sidney Best Price : $ 17.87 Buy New $ 23.93 But after the monster press conference yesterday , during which Rudy Giuliani , Sidney , and surprise star @ @ @ @ @ @ @ understand what ’ s really going on here .
Ultimately , it has nothing to do with Sidney .
I ’ ll speak to that in a minute .
First , the press conference was a hell of an event .
Rudy broke through and hit home runs out of the park .
Sidney made a stalwart presentation .
Jenna Ellis , legal advisor to Trump , served up MAJOR high heat to the gathered press .
She hammered on the distinction between an opening presentation ( the press conference ) and a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ presented in detail .
She told the press they wouldn ’ t even accurately report this very press conference the next day .
Her tone was iron conviction heated in a forge .
You don ’ t learn that in school or in a courtroom .
It comes from someplace else .
Rudy took the reporters to school .
He told them their claims of “ lack of evidence ” for fraud were ridiculous .
Affidavits are evidence .
He waved a list of sworn statements at them , from on-site witnesses , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ballots .
Unobserved ballots .
Unsigned ballots .
Mountains of them .
From multiple states .
Sidney spoke about Dominion Voting Systems , Smartmatic , and their Swiss Cheese software with back doors .
The easy opportunities for hacking into machines .
The algorithm set up to flip votes from Trump to Biden .
Jenna said a prosecutor could take days to prepare a case about a single crime that was committed during the course of a few minutes .
Here , the lawyers were dealing with a case that stretched out across @ @ @ @ @ @ @ went back in time .
Conviction Machine : St ... Powell , Sidney Best Price : $ 23.00 Buy New $ 19.55 AND THAT IS THE PROBLEM .
Trump ’ s lawyers ARE under the gun .
The moment Trump settled into the Oval Office , after the 2016 election , he should have appointed a high-IQ , loyal-to-the-death , grim reaper to prepare for this moment : his next election .
Because it was obvious the Democrats—if they couldn ’ t impeach him first—were going to call in all their markers to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : They ’ d assemble foot soldiers , enforcers , journalists , bureaucrats , city-machine politicians , computer pros , straight-out thugs , agent provocateurs , every usual suspect and bribable piece of scum in every big city in every key state .
All hands on deck .
But a Trump team to plan for that kind of 2020 didn ’ t materialize .
Not soon enough .
Not good enough .
Not thorough enough .
Not relentless enough .
And because Trump is a salesman , and a deal maker , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t button up that team and discover their deficiencies .
So , when the time came , and the 2020 election votes poured in , he wasn ’ t ready .
Not in the way you have to be ready for this kind of war .
Therefore , the whole battlefield has to be occupied by his lawyers .
Right now .
For the multi-dimensional fraud case of a lifetime .
With deadlines looming .
No small band of lawyers , no matter how sharp , could handle this on the fly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Especially when some of their attorney colleagues are jumping ship , because their careers are being threatened by fanatical Left Democrats from Nome to Tampa .
Above the Law : The Ins ... Whitaker , Matthew Buy New $ 26.09 And every day , the bloated news network slugs calmly twiddle and twaddle about the brand spanking new president Joe and his plans and possible choices for cabinet posts , as if the sky is clear and the course is fixed , and all ’ s right with the world .
Justice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spoken .
The US is most certainly not a banana republic .
Right .
Sure .
Down in those forlorn places , troops with guns take over the radio station , which is all you need to stage a coup .
Up here , our very best coiffed and powdered professional liars are ALREADY the radio station .
And they call the election .
If they say Rex the shaggy dog is the next president , the nation of viewers nods and goes back to sleep .
But not this time .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in freedom , work , earn a living , raise their families with the least possible government interference .
They don ’ t want more lockdowns , economic devastation , and unconstitutional COVID mandates from gangster governors .
The millions of Biden voters want , or will dutifully submit to , those mandates and lockdowns .
They believe government can not only establish equality of opportunity for all , but can guarantee “ equality of outcome ” across the board .
That way spells the long night of disaster .
That is why @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
To see if that happens , there must be an honest count .
So far , we have a news-network count .
That ’ s all .
Follow the Money : The ... Bongino , Dan Buy New $ 25.20 So the lawyers go to court .
I don ’ t profess naïve faith in the judicial system .
But it ’ s a road that has to be traveled .
Win or lose , this isn ’ t over , because the truth isn ’ t over .
Ever .
Slavery @ @ @ @ @ @ @ halls and offices and conference suites that make Las Vegas money-counting rooms look like church chapels .
Freedom is in homes and in the open air of adventure and striving .
That dream , that reality isn ’ t dead in America .
No tonnage of lockdown or fraud can kill it .
OK , Sidney , OK , Rudy , you shouldn ’ t have to carry all this freight , but you ’ re in the slot .
The Department of Justice should be all over the case with warrants blazing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a pre-packaged movie about Eliot Ness taking down Al Capone .
This is you , and the election system of America .
The decades of cash-and-carry City Halls in Atlanta , Philadelphia , Detroit , and Milwaukee .
The Stakes : The 2020 E ... Anton , Michael Buy New $ 28.99 Just make sure we know where to go to read your court filings , and the evidence you can disclose in those filings .
Show us every step of every case .
Stay tuned to us , we ’ ll @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ re facing now is all part of the ten thousand year war for freedom .
Determination , war , blood , sacrifice : It started in clans in caves ; it made a majestic layover in ancient Athens ; it flashed forward to the signing of the Magna Carta and the American Constitution ; it stopped to take a quick photo of a New Orleans DA who was standing outside on a rainy night with a valise full of papers exposing the assassination of a US president ; it moved into another @ @ @ @ @ @ @ flashing inside technological masterpieces designed to invent reality , any reality .
It ’ s still the same war .
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Yesterday, I took Trump attorney, Sidney Powell, to task for her lack of court-case filings.
Where’s the beef, I asked.
Because time is of the essence.
From everything I’ve studied, the amount of vote-fraud is titanic. Court cases are obviously necessary.
I want to read Sidney’s filings. I want to see the progress of cases through the courts. Licensed to Lie Powell, Sidney Best Price: $17.87 Buy New $23.93 (as of 05:55 UTC - Details)
But after the monster press conference yesterday, during which Rudy Giuliani, Sidney, and surprise star Jenna Ellis spoke, I believe I understand what’s really going on here. Ultimately, it has nothing to do with Sidney. I’ll speak to that in a minute.
First, the press conference was a hell of an event. Rudy broke through and hit home runs out of the park. Sidney made a stalwart presentation. Jenna Ellis, legal advisor to Trump, served up MAJOR high heat to the gathered press.
She hammered on the distinction between an opening presentation (the press conference) and a court trial, in which evidence is presented in detail.
She told the press they wouldn’t even accurately report this very press conference the next day. Her tone was iron conviction heated in a forge.
You don’t learn that in school or in a courtroom. It comes from someplace else.
Rudy took the reporters to school. He told them their claims of “lack of evidence” for fraud were ridiculous. Affidavits are evidence. He waved a list of sworn statements at them, from on-site witnesses, which asserted:
Fake ballots. Back-dated ballots. Unobserved ballots. Unsigned ballots. Mountains of them. From multiple states.
Sidney spoke about Dominion Voting Systems, Smartmatic, and their Swiss Cheese software with back doors. The easy opportunities for hacking into machines. The algorithm set up to flip votes from Trump to Biden.
Jenna said a prosecutor could take days to prepare a case about a single crime that was committed during the course of a few minutes. Here, the lawyers were dealing with a case that stretched out across a massive amount of space, and went back in time. Conviction Machine: St... Powell, Sidney Best Price: $23.00 Buy New $19.55 (as of 03:46 UTC - Details)
AND THAT IS THE PROBLEM.
Trump’s lawyers ARE under the gun. The moment Trump settled into the Oval Office, after the 2016 election, he should have appointed a high-IQ, loyal-to-the-death, grim reaper to prepare for this moment: his next election.
Because it was obvious the Democrats—if they couldn’t impeach him first—were going to call in all their markers to take him to the cleaners in 2020: They’d assemble foot soldiers, enforcers, journalists, bureaucrats, city-machine politicians, computer pros, straight-out thugs, agent provocateurs, every usual suspect and bribable piece of scum in every big city in every key state. All hands on deck.
But a Trump team to plan for that kind of 2020 didn’t materialize. Not soon enough. Not good enough. Not thorough enough. Not relentless enough.
And because Trump is a salesman, and a deal maker, and not a detailed planner, he didn’t button up that team and discover their deficiencies.
So, when the time came, and the 2020 election votes poured in, he wasn’t ready. Not in the way you have to be ready for this kind of war.
Therefore, the whole battlefield has to be occupied by his lawyers. Right now. For the multi-dimensional fraud case of a lifetime. With deadlines looming.
No small band of lawyers, no matter how sharp, could handle this on the fly, without breaking into a cold sweat. Especially when some of their attorney colleagues are jumping ship, because their careers are being threatened by fanatical Left Democrats from Nome to Tampa.
Above the Law: The Ins... Whitaker, Matthew Buy New $26.09 (as of 05:57 UTC - Details) And every day, the bloated news network slugs calmly twiddle and twaddle about the brand spanking new president Joe and his plans and possible choices for cabinet posts, as if the sky is clear and the course is fixed, and all’s right with the world. Justice has been served. The people have spoken. The US is most certainly not a banana republic.
Right. Sure. Down in those forlorn places, troops with guns take over the radio station, which is all you need to stage a coup. Up here, our very best coiffed and powdered professional liars are ALREADY the radio station. And they call the election.
If they say Rex the shaggy dog is the next president, the nation of viewers nods and goes back to sleep.
But not this time.
The millions of Trump voters want to live in freedom, work, earn a living, raise their families with the least possible government interference. They don’t want more lockdowns, economic devastation, and unconstitutional COVID mandates from gangster governors.
The millions of Biden voters want, or will dutifully submit to, those mandates and lockdowns. They believe government can not only establish equality of opportunity for all, but can guarantee “equality of outcome” across the board. That way spells the long night of disaster.
That is why I want the Trump voters to win.
To see if that happens, there must be an honest count.
So far, we have a news-network count. That’s all. Follow the Money: The ... Bongino, Dan Buy New $25.20 (as of 06:00 UTC - Details)
So the lawyers go to court.
I don’t profess naïve faith in the judicial system. But it’s a road that has to be traveled.
Win or lose, this isn’t over, because the truth isn’t over. Ever.
Slavery is always waiting and percolating in government halls and offices and conference suites that make Las Vegas money-counting rooms look like church chapels.
Freedom is in homes and in the open air of adventure and striving.
That dream, that reality isn’t dead in America.
No tonnage of lockdown or fraud can kill it.
OK, Sidney, OK, Rudy, you shouldn’t have to carry all this freight, but you’re in the slot. The Department of Justice should be all over the case with warrants blazing. Unfortunately, we’re not in a pre-packaged movie about Eliot Ness taking down Al Capone.
This is you, and the election system of America. The decades of cash-and-carry City Halls in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Milwaukee. The Stakes: The 2020 E... Anton, Michael Buy New $28.99 (as of 03:16 UTC - Details)
Just make sure we know where to go to read your court filings, and the evidence you can disclose in those filings. Show us every step of every case.
Stay tuned to us, we’ll stay tuned to you.
What we’re facing now is all part of the ten thousand year war for freedom.
Determination, war, blood, sacrifice: It started in clans in caves; it made a majestic layover in ancient Athens; it flashed forward to the signing of the Magna Carta and the American Constitution; it stopped to take a quick photo of a New Orleans DA who was standing outside on a rainy night with a valise full of papers exposing the assassination of a US president; it moved into another kind of struggle with zeroes and ones flashing inside technological masterpieces designed to invent reality, any reality.
It’s still the same war.
Reprinted with permission from Jon Rappoport’s blog.
The Best of Jon Rappoport


lewrockwell--2020-11-21--Is Trump Exiting Afghanistan—To Attack Iran?

With the Pentagon ’ s announcement that U.S. forces in Afghanistan will be cut in half — to 2,500 — by inauguration day , after 19 years , it appears the end to America ’ s longest war may be in sight .
The Pentagon also announced a reduction of U.S. troop levels in Iraq to 2,500 by mid-January .
In 2003 , we invaded and occupied Iraq to remove a perceived threat from Saddam Hussein and to disarm that nation of weapons of mass destruction we discovered it did not have .
No WMD were ever found , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ find and destroy them has been called the greatest strategic blunder in U.S. history .
These two wars , Iraq and Afghanistan , cost us some 7,000 dead , 50,000 wounded and trillions of dollars .
And as they preoccupied us for two decades , China rose to become a strategic , military and economic superpower to rival the United States .
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US , Ncri Best Price : $ 11.99 Buy New $ 16.95 Iraq and Afghanistan were the longest wars in U.S. history , and the most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fought there , but there were others .
In 2011 , we attacked Col. Moammar Gadhafi ’ s army in the early days of Libya ’ s civil war .
We intervened on the side of the rebels in Syria ’ s civil war .
We assisted Saudi airstrikes in Yemen after Houthi rebels arose up in 2015 to dump over a Saudi-backed regime .
Over two decades , Arabs and Muslims have died in the hundreds of thousands from these wars .
But what have any of these wars availed the USA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government in Tripoli and Russian- and Egyptian-backed rebels under Gen. Khalifa Hifter in Benghazi and the east of the country .
The Syrian regime of Bashar Assad has largely won its civil war , thanks to timely and decisive intervention by Russia , Iran and Hezbollah , which came to the regime ’ s rescue when it was on its last legs .
Today , Iran-backed militias in Iraq with ties to Tehran have far greater influence in Baghdad than Iran did before the Americans arrived in 2003 .
And the Americans are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Iraq , Trump is terminating the U.S. presence .
It is impossible to believe a President Joe Biden would emulate President Barack Obama and surge 100,000 U.S. troops into Afghanistan in some new crisis to stave off a Taliban victory .
Thus , what we are looking at is not only the end of America ’ s war in Afghanistan but the possible , if not probable , eventual victory of the Taliban .
If the Afghan army and security forces could not put away the Taliban with 100,000 Americans fighting at their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to do so when all of the Americans are gone .
The outcome of this war could well be a reenactment in Kabul of what happened in Saigon in 1975 , two years after the Americans ended their role in the Vietnam War .
Terrorist Training Cam ... U.S. Representative Of ... Best Price : $ 25.10 Buy New $ 19.73 Yet , as Trump is halving U.S. forces in Afghanistan , The New York Times is reporting an Oval Office meeting with his national security inner circle to discuss a strike on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Natanz .
According to the Times , Trump had to be persuaded not to order the attack by Vice President Mike Pence , Secretary of State Mike Pompeo , Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller , and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley .
Why Trump would order an attack on Natanz seems on its face inexplicable .
The facility is under regular U.N. inspection and has never enriched uranium to the 90 % level needed for a bomb .
Even today it is enriching uranium only to 4.5 % .
U.N. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
While the small stockpile of low-enriched uranium Iran has produced is in violation of the nuclear deal , Trump walked away from that deal in 2018 .
And Tehran could return to compliance easily by halting production and shipping its small stockpile out of the country .
As America exits from the seemingly endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq , what strategic U.S. interest is imperiled by Iran ’ s enrichment of low-grade uranium to justify a new war with a nation larger , more populous and more powerful than any of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the last 20 years ?
As Trump is mulling over an attack on Iran , the Israelis are carrying out strikes in Syria on Iranian-backed militias and boasting about it .
Thus , if the election of 2020 turns out the way most now expect , with Biden taking the oath on Jan. 20 , the new president could be faced in his first days with a crisis with Iran and the prospect of a collapse of the Afghan regime in Kabul in his first year in office .
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With the Pentagon’s announcement that U.S. forces in Afghanistan will be cut in half — to 2,500 — by inauguration day, after 19 years, it appears the end to America’s longest war may be in sight.
The Pentagon also announced a reduction of U.S. troop levels in Iraq to 2,500 by mid-January. In 2003, we invaded and occupied Iraq to remove a perceived threat from Saddam Hussein and to disarm that nation of weapons of mass destruction we discovered it did not have.
No WMD were ever found, and the war George W. Bush launched to find and destroy them has been called the greatest strategic blunder in U.S. history.
These two wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, cost us some 7,000 dead, 50,000 wounded and trillions of dollars. And as they preoccupied us for two decades, China rose to become a strategic, military and economic superpower to rival the United States. Iran’s Ballistic... US, Ncri Best Price: $11.99 Buy New $16.95 (as of 03:36 UTC - Details)
Iraq and Afghanistan were the longest wars in U.S. history, and the most costly of the Mideast wars we have fought there, but there were others.
In 2011, we attacked Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s army in the early days of Libya’s civil war. We intervened on the side of the rebels in Syria’s civil war. We assisted Saudi airstrikes in Yemen after Houthi rebels arose up in 2015 to dump over a Saudi-backed regime.
Over two decades, Arabs and Muslims have died in the hundreds of thousands from these wars. But what have any of these wars availed the USA?
Libya is split between a Turkish-backed government in Tripoli and Russian- and Egyptian-backed rebels under Gen. Khalifa Hifter in Benghazi and the east of the country.
The Syrian regime of Bashar Assad has largely won its civil war, thanks to timely and decisive intervention by Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, which came to the regime’s rescue when it was on its last legs.
Today, Iran-backed militias in Iraq with ties to Tehran have far greater influence in Baghdad than Iran did before the Americans arrived in 2003.
And the Americans are now going home.
In Afghanistan and Iraq, Trump is terminating the U.S. presence. It is impossible to believe a President Joe Biden would emulate President Barack Obama and surge 100,000 U.S. troops into Afghanistan in some new crisis to stave off a Taliban victory.
Thus, what we are looking at is not only the end of America’s war in Afghanistan but the possible, if not probable, eventual victory of the Taliban.
If the Afghan army and security forces could not put away the Taliban with 100,000 Americans fighting at their side in 2011, they are unlikely to do so when all of the Americans are gone.
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Yet, as Trump is halving U.S. forces in Afghanistan, The New York Times is reporting an Oval Office meeting with his national security inner circle to discuss a strike on Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz.
According to the Times, Trump had to be persuaded not to order the attack by Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley.
Why Trump would order an attack on Natanz seems on its face inexplicable. The facility is under regular U.N. inspection and has never enriched uranium to the 90% level needed for a bomb.
Even today it is enriching uranium only to 4.5%.
U.N. inspectors have regular access to the facility. While the small stockpile of low-enriched uranium Iran has produced is in violation of the nuclear deal, Trump walked away from that deal in 2018.
And Tehran could return to compliance easily by halting production and shipping its small stockpile out of the country.
As America exits from the seemingly endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, what strategic U.S. interest is imperiled by Iran’s enrichment of low-grade uranium to justify a new war with a nation larger, more populous and more powerful than any of those with which we have been involved in the last 20 years?
As Trump is mulling over an attack on Iran, the Israelis are carrying out strikes in Syria on Iranian-backed militias and boasting about it.
Thus, if the election of 2020 turns out the way most now expect, with Biden taking the oath on Jan. 20, the new president could be faced in his first days with a crisis with Iran and the prospect of a collapse of the Afghan regime in Kabul in his first year in office.
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lewrockwell--2020-11-21--The ACLU and College Professors Are Encouraging Book Burning

Are you ready for this week ’ s absurdity ?
Here ’ s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty , risks to your prosperity… and on occasion , inspiring poetic justice .
ACLU and Professor Team Up to Encourage Book Burnings Abigail Shrier has committed the ultimate sin : she has a different opinion than the woke mob .
And that is an unforgivable transgression .
Shrier ’ s new book is called Irreversible Damage : The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters , and she discusses some very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shouldn ’ t be coaxed into taking life-altering hormones .
This is a controversial topic for many people , and they can choose to support or argue against Shrier ’ s opinions .
But that ’ s not how the woke mob works .
They don ’ t use logic and debate to engage in intellectual discourse .
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” So naturally Twitter is jumping all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it .
Target– the mega retail chain with stores all over the Land of the Free , already buckled , and decided to pull the book because apparently it ’ s full of hate speech .
But more surprising is that Chase Strangio , a deputy director with the ACLU , is one of the Twitter mobsters .
Strangio recently Tweeted , “ We have to fight these ideas… Stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100 % a hill I will die on.
” Remember , Strangio is with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ and ‘ L ’ stand for ‘ Civil Liberties ’ .
And last time I checked , civil liberties include freedom of speech .
How quaint .
Also joining the mob is a Professor of English from the University of California ’ s Berkely campus , who encourages people to steal and burn the book .
That ’ s right , our cultural overseers are now advocating literal book burnings in the Land of the Free .
Click here to read the full story .
How to Be a Hero in Germany @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the German government opens with an old man telling his story about how he survived the winter of 2020… back when he was 22 .
The commercial is meant to be a comical way to encourage people to stay home to contain COVID-19 .
The producers filmed the spot to make it look as if a Veteran of World War Two was being interviewed about doing something actually heroic– for instance , risking his life to save a village of defenseless civilians .
But the ad says that all it takes to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is to do nothing : “ Absolutely nothing .
Being as lazy as raccoons.
” Sure it ’ s a joke… but it ’ s also not .
People actually think they are heroes for being lazy , while shaming anyone who dares to live their lives without fear .
Click here to read the full story .
State Universities of New York Threaten to Hold Students Hostage Over COVID The system of New York State Universities announced a policy that all students on all campuses must test negative for COVID-19 before LEAVING @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
If students test positive , they will be FORCED to quarantine on campus for 14 days , at the responsibility of the University .
And since campuses close just prior to Thanksgiving , that means students who test positive could be held hostage in isolation on the holiday , prevented from going home to see their families .
One question : HOW IS THIS NOT KIDNAPPING ?
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Click here to read the full story .
Argentina ’ s government has been an endless supply of terrible ideas , from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Their latest idea ?
Taxing the air– more specifically the wind .
Companies which sell wind power will have to pay 4.5 % REVENUE ( not profit ) tax to the municipality for the privilege of using the air .
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Gee I wonder what ’ s going to happen with this one… Click here to read @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Portland , Oregon , Comrade Jo Ann Hardesty , has strongly voiced her support for defunding the police .
So you ’ d think she ’ d be the last person to ever call the cops .
But Hardesty was recently in a Lyft and got into an argument with her driver over some petty issue over the windows being up or down .
Apparently the argument escalated , and the driver pulled into a gas station and asked Hardesty to exit the vehicle .
Now , instead of resolving the matter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elected official– decided to call 911 ( i.e .
a number reserved for EMERGENCIES ) .
The 911 dispatcher explained to Hardesty that no crime had been committed ; if the Lyft driver wanted to cancel the ride , that was his right .
But Hardesty insisted that the dispatcher send the police , i.e .
the very people she wants to defund… because apparently this petty dispute constituted an emergency .
Of course there is room for police reform .
But Hardesty is absurdly hypocritical to call the police for such a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be defunded .
Click here to read the full story .

Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice.
ACLU and Professor Team Up to Encourage Book Burnings
Abigail Shrier has committed the ultimate sin: she has a different opinion than the woke mob. And that is an unforgivable transgression.
Shrier’s new book is called Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, and she discusses some very strong views, such as that children shouldn’t be coaxed into taking life-altering hormones.
This is a controversial topic for many people, and they can choose to support or argue against Shrier’s opinions.
But that’s not how the woke mob works. They don’t use logic and debate to engage in intellectual discourse. Irreversible Damage: T... Shrier, Abigail Buy New $26.09 (as of 05:07 UTC - Details)
Instead, they simply rage– what Isaac Asimov described as “the last resource of fools.”
So naturally Twitter is jumping all over this book and trying to cancel it.
Target– the mega retail chain with stores all over the Land of the Free, already buckled, and decided to pull the book because apparently it’s full of hate speech.
(Never mind that Target continues to sell White Fragility, which is also full of hate speech that accuses roughly half the country of being White Supremacists…)
But more surprising is that Chase Strangio, a deputy director with the ACLU, is one of the Twitter mobsters.
Strangio recently Tweeted, “We have to fight these ideas… Stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on.”
Remember, Strangio is with the ACLU, where the ‘C’ and ‘L’ stand for ‘Civil Liberties’. And last time I checked, civil liberties include freedom of speech. How quaint.
Also joining the mob is a Professor of English from the University of California’s Berkely campus, who encourages people to steal and burn the book.
That’s right, our cultural overseers are now advocating literal book burnings in the Land of the Free.
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How to Be a Hero in Germany: Do Nothing
A new ad from the German government opens with an old man telling his story about how he survived the winter of 2020… back when he was 22.
The commercial is meant to be a comical way to encourage people to stay home to contain COVID-19.
The producers filmed the spot to make it look as if a Veteran of World War Two was being interviewed about doing something actually heroic– for instance, risking his life to save a village of defenseless civilians.
But the ad says that all it takes to be a hero in the winter of 2020 is to do nothing: “Absolutely nothing. Being as lazy as raccoons.”
Sure it’s a joke… but it’s also not.
People actually think they are heroes for being lazy, while shaming anyone who dares to live their lives without fear.
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State Universities of New York Threaten to Hold Students Hostage Over COVID
The system of New York State Universities announced a policy that all students on all campuses must test negative for COVID-19 before LEAVING campus to go home for the holidays.
If students test positive, they will be FORCED to quarantine on campus for 14 days, at the responsibility of the University.
And since campuses close just prior to Thanksgiving, that means students who test positive could be held hostage in isolation on the holiday, prevented from going home to see their families.
One question: HOW IS THIS NOT KIDNAPPING????
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Great idea #593,291: Let’s Tax the Wind
Argentina’s government has been an endless supply of terrible ideas, from wealth taxes to full-blow asset confiscation. Their latest idea? Taxing the air– more specifically the wind.
Companies which sell wind power will have to pay 4.5% REVENUE (not profit) tax to the municipality for the privilege of using the air. Burning the Books: A H... Ovenden, Richard Buy New $29.95 (as of 11:50 UTC - Details)
Remember when governments were talking about fossil fuel taxes to encourage energy companies to stop drilling and start investing in renewable energy?
Gee I wonder what’s going to happen with this one…
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“Defund Police” politician calls police over dispute with Lyft driver
The City Commissioner in Portland, Oregon, Comrade Jo Ann Hardesty, has strongly voiced her support for defunding the police.
So you’d think she’d be the last person to ever call the cops.
But Hardesty was recently in a Lyft and got into an argument with her driver over some petty issue over the windows being up or down.
Apparently the argument escalated, and the driver pulled into a gas station and asked Hardesty to exit the vehicle.
Now, instead of resolving the matter like a grown adult, Hardesty– an elected official– decided to call 911 (i.e. a number reserved for EMERGENCIES).
The 911 dispatcher explained to Hardesty that no crime had been committed; if the Lyft driver wanted to cancel the ride, that was his right.
But Hardesty insisted that the dispatcher send the police, i.e. the very people she wants to defund… because apparently this petty dispute constituted an emergency.
Of course there is room for police reform. But Hardesty is absurdly hypocritical to call the police for such a trivial reason… and then demand that they be defunded.
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Reprinted with permission from Sovereign Man.


lewrockwell--2020-11-21--In the Euston Road

In the Euston Road

Traveling between England and France recently was a profoundly depressing experience .
First I had to get to Euston Station and then walk the few hundred yards to St. Pancras Station .
The Euston Road , which runs between them , is not a beautiful thoroughfare at the best of times , and this was certainly not the best of times .
I never thought , however , that I would miss the suffocating traffic that normally clogs and chokes it , but this unpleasing phenomenon had been replaced by another , namely a dispiriting emptiness except for numbers of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or camping in urine-soaked sleeping bags propped up against walls , surrounded by the detritus of their appalling lives—bottles , packaging of junk food , needles , flattened cardboard cartons .
Life at the Bottom : Th ... Theodore Dalrymple Best Price : $ 4.57 Buy New $ 8.83 As a liberal who is only too aware of his own good fortune , I was slightly ashamed of the visceral disgust that they aroused in me .
My wife said that these people had the appearance of true degenerates : malnourished , dirty @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
When they spoke—often shouting at each other from great distances—their language was only barely recognizable as English , indeed as language at all , though they were English and almost certainly spoke no other language .
Had they always been there in the Euston Road in such numbers , and had I failed to notice their presence because , before the great confinement of the rest of the population , it had been diluted by that of thousands of normal people passing by ?
Or had they emerged from somewhere underground , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ story The Time Machine ?
To reach such a state of degradation , however , was not the work of a moment ; rather , it was that of a lifetime .
They must have been somewhere .
Around the World in th ... Dalrymple , Theodore Best Price : $ 13.71 Buy New $ 12.99 Nothing would have been easier than to dismiss them from my mind as degenerates , such as there have always been and probably will always be .
But each of them must have had an individual @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or at any rate not one of great privilege .
Their every decision would almost certainly have been the worst possible , taken without forethought and always in pursuit of the gratification of the moment .
Surely they should be swept up and forced to live better ?
But how , by whom , and by what right ?
One thing that I have noticed about such people in England ( though not in France ) is that they are almost all white .
If such degradation were the result of poverty @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of mechanical operation , there ought to have been among them a disproportion of people from those ethnic minorities that ( we are informed almost ad nauseam ) are economically downtrodden and discriminated against .
But there were none ; hence I concluded that the degradation that I saw was not purely economic in origin , but had some kind of cultural source .
I have encountered many alcoholic Sikhs , for example , who were among the most refractory with regard to abstinence of all my patients ; I have encountered almost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , from incest to drug addiction—but I have never seen any Sikh or Muslim living the kind of life that I witnessed on the Euston Road .
The Best of Theodore Dalrymple

Traveling between England and France recently was a profoundly depressing experience.
First I had to get to Euston Station and then walk the few hundred yards to St. Pancras Station. The Euston Road, which runs between them, is not a beautiful thoroughfare at the best of times, and this was certainly not the best of times. I never thought, however, that I would miss the suffocating traffic that normally clogs and chokes it, but this unpleasing phenomenon had been replaced by another, namely a dispiriting emptiness except for numbers of homeless people wandering intoxicated in the road or camping in urine-soaked sleeping bags propped up against walls, surrounded by the detritus of their appalling lives—bottles, packaging of junk food, needles, flattened cardboard cartons.
Life at the Bottom: Th... Theodore Dalrymple Best Price: $4.57 Buy New $8.83 (as of 07:45 UTC - Details) As a liberal who is only too aware of his own good fortune, I was slightly ashamed of the visceral disgust that they aroused in me. My wife said that these people had the appearance of true degenerates: malnourished, dirty, with rotten teeth and feral expressions. When they spoke—often shouting at each other from great distances—their language was only barely recognizable as English, indeed as language at all, though they were English and almost certainly spoke no other language.
Had they always been there in the Euston Road in such numbers, and had I failed to notice their presence because, before the great confinement of the rest of the population, it had been diluted by that of thousands of normal people passing by? Or had they emerged from somewhere underground, like the Morlocks in H.G. Wells’ story The Time Machine? To reach such a state of degradation, however, was not the work of a moment; rather, it was that of a lifetime. They must have been somewhere.
Around the World in th... Dalrymple, Theodore Best Price: $13.71 Buy New $12.99 (as of 03:38 UTC - Details) Nothing would have been easier than to dismiss them from my mind as degenerates, such as there have always been and probably will always be. But each of them must have had an individual history, most likely a tragic one, or at any rate not one of great privilege. Their every decision would almost certainly have been the worst possible, taken without forethought and always in pursuit of the gratification of the moment. Surely they should be swept up and forced to live better? But how, by whom, and by what right?
One thing that I have noticed about such people in England (though not in France) is that they are almost all white. If such degradation were the result of poverty alone, as if by a kind of mechanical operation, there ought to have been among them a disproportion of people from those ethnic minorities that (we are informed almost ad nauseam) are economically downtrodden and discriminated against. But there were none; hence I concluded that the degradation that I saw was not purely economic in origin, but had some kind of cultural source. I have encountered many alcoholic Sikhs, for example, who were among the most refractory with regard to abstinence of all my patients; I have encountered almost every kind of social pathology among Muslims, from incest to drug addiction—but I have never seen any Sikh or Muslim living the kind of life that I witnessed on the Euston Road.
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lewrockwell--2020-11-21--The Many Layers of Travail

The Many Layers of Travail

One thing you could say about the three Trump campaign lawyers ’ joint press conference at high noon , Thursday : it sure wasn ’ t slick .
But then , are we now such a nation of lobotomized chumps that our chief criteria for any public acting-out of an acute national melodrama is slickness of presentation ?
I guess we like our crises fluffed , like a Caitlin Jenner spot on The View .
This one , though , is raw and savage .
And so there stood Rudy Giuliani in that cramped briefing room , with dark rivulets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were sweating blood ( more likely , hair dye ) , cracking jokes at times , and laying out some rather harsh predicates for pending election fraud lawsuits .
Next up , the usually demure Sidney Powell appeared boiling over with grief and rage at the hijacking of American democracy , and the Deep State ’ s long-running connivance with all that , yielding nearly to tears at moments as she sketched out the sinister history and associations of the Dominion and Smartmatic vote systems — and the utter failure of public officialdom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years .
Then Jenna Ellis , much in command of herself , emphasized perhaps half a dozen times , and quite sternly for the obdurately seditious news media , that the actual evidence would be revealed in court and that the day ’ s presentation was a mere overview .
Got that ?
In court .
History of the Deep St ... Stone , Jeremy Buy New $ 14.99 The news media didn ’ t get the message — on purpose , as usual — and so the stories flew all over the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the three lawyers failed to make a case .
Later that night , Tucker Carlson piled on Sidney Powell for not sharing what she intends to present in a court of law .
Apparently , she hung up the phone on him .
Let ’ s face it , the lady has had a hard month , and a hard year , having to battle the malevolent and depraved Judge Emmet Sullivan over the dismissal of the case against General Flynn ( as ordered by the DOJ ) , and now this colossal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fraud case .
( If I were her , I ’ d be deep into the George Dickel No .
12 Sour Mash by eight o ’ clock that night , Tucker Time . )
All right then , Mr. Trump ’ s lawyers have set the table for this epic political food-fight with just a few weeks to file and proceed , and we ’ ll have to stand by like grownups and see how it all plays out in the courts .
There may be other sideshows and shenanigans in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and such , along the way , but meanwhile I want to remind you that there are many other layers in this burgeoning mega-crisis worth being mindful of .
The Fourth Turning : An ... Howe , Neil Best Price : $ 7.92 Buy New $ 12.04 One , of course , is the train of tyranny that would follow the crooked and demented Ol ’ White Joe Biden into power , should he manage to be sworn in ( more on that below ) .
From the actions so far of his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Biden ( or the shadowy gang behind him ) is aiming to bring on an official regime of speech suppression , news suppression , cancel culture , race hustling , gender warfare , and other portfolios of Wokesterism to the federal agencies .
Do you have any idea how much anger and opposition that will provoke ?
Do you suppose that half the population will sit still for struggle sessions over white privilege ?
Another layer is the Deep State itself .
This evil empire is close to prevailing in a final act @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , serial intrigues .
The Justice Department , the FBI , the CIA and all the other spook agencies will have a free hand in surveilling US citizens and attempting to control whatever they do .
The whole RussiaGate case ( such as it might be under John Durham ) will get towed out to sea and dropped overboard in cement slippers .
Comey , Brennan , Clapper , McCabe , Strzok , Gina Haspel , Andrew Weissmann , and the rest of the gang will all skate — some of them possibly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Twitter , and Google will be enlisted as social controllers ( this has already happened , of course ) to guard against the sharing of undesirable information .
Gawd knows what sort of misadventures in foreign lands this gang will blunder into .
I won ’ t even bother to outline the possible economic perversities and experiments the new regime might attempt to try because of the following… Living in the Long Eme ... James Howard Kunstler Buy New $ 24.95 …which is the king-hell financial fiasco that will attend a Joe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ activity that will present as implacable depression .
The global banking system is ten-months pregnant with Rosemary ’ s Baby .
The Covid-19 winter lockdowns will put a bullet in the brain of any remaining small businesses , and the giant zombie companies are next to fall .
Rent , mortgage , and loan forbearances run out in December .
If they are not renewed , many families stand to lose their homes ; if they are extended , many creditors and landlords will be screwed , unable to meet their own obligations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ officialdom seem to comprehend that unpaid debts thunder through the system , and eventually undermine the whole system , especially the currencies that circulate like the system ’ s blood supply .
Not only will there be no money for Progressive economic experiments , there will not be enough money to arrest the fast-sinking standard of living in America .
Biden & Company , so triumphal in these days of dwindling daylight , are in for shock with 2021 .
In the looking-less-likely event that Mr. Trump prevails in this election quarrel , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to exactly the same thing , which is the onset of the epic crisis or “ fourth turning ” that I call the long emergency .
It will include an additional layer of Antifa/BLM anarchy in the streets on top of epochal economic hard times .
How America manages to emerge from that will be the $ 64-trillion question of the ages .
Neo-feudalism , a dark age , a new stone age… who knows… ?
The Coming of Neo-Feud ... Kotkin , Joel Best Price : $ 30.51 Buy New $ 19.54 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ per what I mentioned above , there are the lingering questions as to whether Ol ’ White Joe Biden can manage to make it to the inaugural podium in any case .
Apart from his failing mental faculties , there are the matters around his and his family ’ s shady business dealings in foreign lands over recent years , especially the money garnered from ventures in China linked to China ’ s intel services .
There are legitimate concerns about Mr. Biden being a security risk as president .
They are not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ words of encouragement to those of you almost terminally disgusted with the dishonesty and bad faith of the people who have been running things in our country : this is not a place like Russia in 1989 .
The Soviet overlords had a captive press , of course , but the Internet was barely a larval presence in world culture then .
All the Russian people had to fight the immersive milieu of lies they lived in was the mimeograph machine and the verbal grapevine .
We have much better resources for distributing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tribulations with the corporate news media and their Silicon Valley cadres .
We have a pretty sturdy alt-news network and many diligent entrepreneurial reporters who are able to get the news out .
It will get out , and it pays to remember that truth has Godly powers of its own .
The Best of James Howard Kunstler

One thing you could say about the three Trump campaign lawyers’ joint press conference at high noon, Thursday: it sure wasn’t slick. But then, are we now such a nation of lobotomized chumps that our chief criteria for any public acting-out of an acute national melodrama is slickness of presentation? I guess we like our crises fluffed, like a Caitlin Jenner spot on The View. This one, though, is raw and savage.
And so there stood Rudy Giuliani in that cramped briefing room, with dark rivulets running down both temples as if he were sweating blood (more likely, hair dye), cracking jokes at times, and laying out some rather harsh predicates for pending election fraud lawsuits. Next up, the usually demure Sidney Powell appeared boiling over with grief and rage at the hijacking of American democracy, and the Deep State’s long-running connivance with all that, yielding nearly to tears at moments as she sketched out the sinister history and associations of the Dominion and Smartmatic vote systems — and the utter failure of public officialdom to monitor any of it for many years. Then Jenna Ellis, much in command of herself, emphasized perhaps half a dozen times, and quite sternly for the obdurately seditious news media, that the actual evidence would be revealed in court and that the day’s presentation was a mere overview. Got that? In court. History of the Deep St... Stone, Jeremy Buy New $14.99 (as of 06:14 UTC - Details)
The news media didn’t get the message — on purpose, as usual — and so the stories flew all over the Internet’s gaslit echo chambers that the three lawyers failed to make a case. Later that night, Tucker Carlson piled on Sidney Powell for not sharing what she intends to present in a court of law. Apparently, she hung up the phone on him. Let’s face it, the lady has had a hard month, and a hard year, having to battle the malevolent and depraved Judge Emmet Sullivan over the dismissal of the case against General Flynn (as ordered by the DOJ), and now this colossal hairball of a momentous and historic election fraud case. (If I were her, I’d be deep into the George Dickel No. 12 Sour Mash by eight o’clock that night, Tucker Time.)
All right then, Mr. Trump’s lawyers have set the table for this epic political food-fight with just a few weeks to file and proceed, and we’ll have to stand by like grownups and see how it all plays out in the courts. There may be other sideshows and shenanigans in the various state legislatures over electoral college slates and such, along the way, but meanwhile I want to remind you that there are many other layers in this burgeoning mega-crisis worth being mindful of. The Fourth Turning: An... Howe, Neil Best Price: $7.92 Buy New $12.04 (as of 08:30 UTC - Details)
One, of course, is the train of tyranny that would follow the crooked and demented Ol’ White Joe Biden into power, should he manage to be sworn in (more on that below). From the actions so far of his, ahem, transition team, Mr. Biden (or the shadowy gang behind him) is aiming to bring on an official regime of speech suppression, news suppression, cancel culture, race hustling, gender warfare, and other portfolios of Wokesterism to the federal agencies. Do you have any idea how much anger and opposition that will provoke? Do you suppose that half the population will sit still for struggle sessions over white privilege?
Another layer is the Deep State itself. This evil empire is close to prevailing in a final act of sedition after four years of contemptible, serial intrigues. The Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA and all the other spook agencies will have a free hand in surveilling US citizens and attempting to control whatever they do. The whole RussiaGate case (such as it might be under John Durham) will get towed out to sea and dropped overboard in cement slippers. Comey, Brennan, Clapper, McCabe, Strzok, Gina Haspel, Andrew Weissmann, and the rest of the gang will all skate — some of them possibly pirouetting back into federal offices. Facebook, Twitter, and Google will be enlisted as social controllers (this has already happened, of course) to guard against the sharing of undesirable information. Gawd knows what sort of misadventures in foreign lands this gang will blunder into. I won’t even bother to outline the possible economic perversities and experiments the new regime might attempt to try because of the following… Living in the Long Eme... James Howard Kunstler Buy New $24.95 (as of 10:56 UTC - Details)
…which is the king-hell financial fiasco that will attend a Joe Biden presidency and the monumental unwind of activity that will present as implacable depression. The global banking system is ten-months pregnant with Rosemary’s Baby. The Covid-19 winter lockdowns will put a bullet in the brain of any remaining small businesses, and the giant zombie companies are next to fall. Rent, mortgage, and loan forbearances run out in December. If they are not renewed, many families stand to lose their homes; if they are extended, many creditors and landlords will be screwed, unable to meet their own obligations. Few in the media or in officialdom seem to comprehend that unpaid debts thunder through the system, and eventually undermine the whole system, especially the currencies that circulate like the system’s blood supply. Not only will there be no money for Progressive economic experiments, there will not be enough money to arrest the fast-sinking standard of living in America. Biden & Company, so triumphal in these days of dwindling daylight, are in for shock with 2021.
In the looking-less-likely event that Mr. Trump prevails in this election quarrel, he and his people will be subject to exactly the same thing, which is the onset of the epic crisis or “fourth turning” that I call the long emergency. It will include an additional layer of Antifa/BLM anarchy in the streets on top of epochal economic hard times. How America manages to emerge from that will be the $64-trillion question of the ages. Neo-feudalism, a dark age, a new stone age… who knows…? The Coming of Neo-Feud... Kotkin, Joel Best Price: $30.51 Buy New $19.54 (as of 04:06 UTC - Details)
As a kind of PS, and per what I mentioned above, there are the lingering questions as to whether Ol’ White Joe Biden can manage to make it to the inaugural podium in any case. Apart from his failing mental faculties, there are the matters around his and his family’s shady business dealings in foreign lands over recent years, especially the money garnered from ventures in China linked to China’s intel services. There are legitimate concerns about Mr. Biden being a security risk as president. They are not going away.
Finally, a few words of encouragement to those of you almost terminally disgusted with the dishonesty and bad faith of the people who have been running things in our country: this is not a place like Russia in 1989. The Soviet overlords had a captive press, of course, but the Internet was barely a larval presence in world culture then. All the Russian people had to fight the immersive milieu of lies they lived in was the mimeograph machine and the verbal grapevine. We have much better resources for distributing information in America today, despite our tribulations with the corporate news media and their Silicon Valley cadres. We have a pretty sturdy alt-news network and many diligent entrepreneurial reporters who are able to get the news out. It will get out, and it pays to remember that truth has Godly powers of its own.
Reprinted with permission from Kunstler.com.
The Best of James Howard Kunstler


lewrockwell--2020-11-21--Hacking at the Root

Hacking at the Root

The chief enforcement mechanism being deployed to force Americans to join the Sickness Cult – to give the appearance of universal agreement with its tenets via the wearing of the Holy Rag over their faces – isn ’ t the government .
It is the “ free ” market .
In air quotes to emphasize that it is not free .
The market – businesses – have become adjuncts of the government by dint of having accepted that they must obtain permission from the government in order to be in business .
This , in turn , gives government control @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the demand that businesses enforce “ mandates ” that are not even laws such as the wearing of the Holy Rag within their establishments .
If they fail to enforce the “ mandates ” – irrespective of their dubious legality – they are threatened with extortionate fines and the rescinding of the government ’ s permission to be in business .
The Communist Manifesto Friedrich Engels Best Price : $ 3.07 Buy New $ 2.26 And so they enforce the “ mandates.
” This follows naturally – inevitably – from the precedent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of businesses to collect taxes on behalf of the government .
Which they now do unconsciously , as a matter of routine .
How did it come to be that to be in business in this country means becoming an unpaid tax collector for the government as well as the enforcer of government “ mandates ” that aren ’ t even laws ?
The very concept of having to obtain permission to exercise a right – and what right could be more foundational than the right to buy and sell without permission ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ as obviously unconstitutional in the sense that it is unimaginable that the men who wrote the thing and approved it ever conceived that free men would be required to beg leave of the government to buy and sell .
The notion is absurd.As ridiculous as the notion that free men are obliged to obtain the permission of the government to posses arms , something every man possessed without permission – and without question – when the Constitution was ratified .
Search the records in vain to find a copy of a permit to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Or any law requiring one .
And yet , men carried guns .
No one questioned their right to do so – just as no one , at that time , questioned the right of free men to freely exchange goods and services – to be in business – without permission from the government .
The Constitution of th ... Delegates of The Cons ... Best Price : $ 4.80 Buy New $ 3.17 Because free men once understood that to beg permission from the government is to cede control to the government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s print shop printing freely if Ben knew that the government could “ pull ” his business license at its pleasure .
So how did it come to pass that businesses must obtain permission to freely exchange goods and services ?
It happened because Americans accepted it .
Along with the income tax , the education of their children in government schools – paid for by compulsory and never-ending taxes on real estate , thereby obviating the possibility of true home ownership – and other planks of the Communist Manifesto .
The Best @ @ @

The chief enforcement mechanism being deployed to force Americans to join the Sickness Cult – to give the appearance of universal agreement with its tenets via the wearing of the Holy Rag over their faces – isn’t the government.
It is the “free” market.
In air quotes to emphasize that it is not free.
The market – businesses – have become adjuncts of the government by dint of having accepted that they must obtain permission from the government in order to be in business. This, in turn, gives government control over the business – which now extends to the demand that businesses enforce “mandates” that are not even laws such as the wearing of the Holy Rag within their establishments.
If they fail to enforce the “mandates” – irrespective of their dubious legality – they are threatened with extortionate fines and the rescinding of the government’s permission to be in business. The Communist Manifesto Friedrich Engels Best Price: $3.07 Buy New $2.26 (as of 06:31 UTC - Details)
And so they enforce the “mandates.”
This follows naturally – inevitably – from the precedent set once-upon-a-time that it is the job of businesses to collect taxes on behalf of the government. Which they now do unconsciously, as a matter of routine.
How did it come to be that to be in business in this country means becoming an unpaid tax collector for the government as well as the enforcer of government “mandates” that aren’t even laws?
The very concept of having to obtain permission to exercise a right – and what right could be more foundational than the right to buy and sell without permission? – is anathema to morality as well as obviously unconstitutional in the sense that it is unimaginable that the men who wrote the thing and approved it ever conceived that free men would be required to beg leave of the government to buy and sell.
The notion is absurd.As ridiculous as the notion that free men are obliged to obtain the permission of the government to posses arms, something every man possessed without permission – and without question – when the Constitution was ratified. Search the records in vain to find a copy of a permit to carry a gun from that era. Or any law requiring one. And yet, men carried guns. No one questioned their right to do so – just as no one, at that time, questioned the right of free men to freely exchange goods and services – to be in business – without permission from the government. The Constitution of th... Delegates of The Cons... Best Price: $4.80 Buy New $3.17 (as of 03:40 UTC - Details)
Because free men once understood that to beg permission from the government is to cede control to the government. Try to imagine Ben Franklin’s print shop printing freely if Ben knew that the government could “pull” his business license at its pleasure.
So how did it come to pass that businesses must obtain permission to freely exchange goods and services?
It happened because Americans accepted it. Along with the income tax, the education of their children in government schools – paid for by compulsory and never-ending taxes on real estate, thereby obviating the possibility of true home ownership – and other planks of the Communist Manifesto.
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lewrockwell--2020-11-21--Gee, Why Can’t Trump Accept Defeat Like the Democrats?

In 1980 , Democratic President Jimmy Carter lost in a landslide to Ronald Reagan , 489-49 in the Electoral College .
So naturally , Democrats concluded that Reagan had committed treason in order to steal the election , to wit : His campaign had conspired with Iranian ayatollahs to prevent 52 American hostages from being released until after the election .
And who can blame them ?
Carter ’ s economic policies had produced a 21 % interest rate , a 17 % mortgage rate and a 15 % inflation rate in the coveted “ hat trick ” of presidential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ abandoning the Shah of Iran had led to a 154 % spike in oil prices and Islamic lunatics seizing our embassy and holding Americans hostage in Tehran , where they remained for 444 days , until Carter was safely removed from office .
Resistance Is Futile !
: ... Ann Coulter Best Price : $ 1.99 Buy New $ 7.97 With all that going for them — plus that old Mondale magic –Democrats were dumbstruck that they lost the 1980 election .
What other than a dirty trick could explain it ?
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ before the election , members of Reagan ’ s campaign had clandestinely met with representatives of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Paris and offered to sell him weapons in exchange for a promise not to release the hostages , thus denying Carter a huge election eve triumph .
In other words , liberals believed the Islamo-fascist cutthroats who had been toying with Carter like a cat with a ball of yarn wanted Carter replaced by someone stronger , like Reagan .
How else to explain the fact that , minutes after Reagan ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
The lunatics behind the “ October Surprise ” conspiracy theory might have spent their days in obscurity , talking to super-computers of the future — as one theorist claimed she did — except that , after a decade of periodic eruptions in in disreputable publications like The New York Times ( Flora Lewis , August 1987 ) , The Nation ( Christopher Hitchens , July 1987 ) , and Playboy magazine ( September 1988 ) , the Times began flogging the story in 1991 , beginning with a lengthy op-ed by Columbia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We Trust : E P ... Coulter , Ann Best Price : $ 1.53 Buy New $ 10.08 Sick had been President Carter ’ s principal aide on Iran during the hostage crisis , which would be like being FDR ’ s chief adviser on “ sneak attacks ” in December 1941 .
Columbia hired Sick as a professor , apparently unable to find Carter ’ s aide in charge of gas prices .
Soon , other news outlets such as PBS ’ s “ Frontline ” and ABC ’ s “ Nightline @ @ @ @ @ @ @ moon as if they were serious intel sources .
Carter himself called for a “ blue-ribbon ” commission to investigate , saying , “ it ’ s almost nauseating to think that this could be true.
” ( Which is ironic because that was my reaction , word for word , upon learning that Carter had been elected president . )

In 1980, Democratic President Jimmy Carter lost in a landslide to Ronald Reagan, 489-49 in the Electoral College. So naturally, Democrats concluded that Reagan had committed treason in order to steal the election, to wit: His campaign had conspired with Iranian ayatollahs to prevent 52 American hostages from being released until after the election.
And who can blame them? Carter’s economic policies had produced a 21% interest rate, a 17% mortgage rate and a 15% inflation rate in the coveted “hat trick” of presidential incompetence. His brilliant strategic ploy of abandoning the Shah of Iran had led to a 154% spike in oil prices and Islamic lunatics seizing our embassy and holding Americans hostage in Tehran, where they remained for 444 days, until Carter was safely removed from office.
Resistance Is Futile!:... Ann Coulter Best Price: $1.99 Buy New $7.97 (as of 05:40 UTC - Details) With all that going for them — plus that old Mondale magic –Democrats were dumbstruck that they lost the 1980 election. What other than a dirty trick could explain it?
The Democrats’ theory was that a month before the election, members of Reagan’s campaign had clandestinely met with representatives of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Paris and offered to sell him weapons in exchange for a promise not to release the hostages, thus denying Carter a huge election eve triumph.
In other words, liberals believed the Islamo-fascist cutthroats who had been toying with Carter like a cat with a ball of yarn wanted Carter replaced by someone stronger, like Reagan. How else to explain the fact that, minutes after Reagan’s inauguration, the hostages were released?
A more plausible theory was given in a Jeff MacNelly cartoon showing Khomeini reading a telegram aloud: “It’s from Ronald Reagan. It must be about one of the Americans in the Den of Spies, but I don’t recognize the name. It says ‘Remember Hiroshima.’”
The lunatics behind the “October Surprise” conspiracy theory might have spent their days in obscurity, talking to super-computers of the future — as one theorist claimed she did — except that, after a decade of periodic eruptions in in disreputable publications like The New York Times (Flora Lewis, August 1987), The Nation (Christopher Hitchens, July 1987), and Playboy magazine (September 1988), the Times began flogging the story in 1991, beginning with a lengthy op-ed by Columbia University professor Gary Sick. In Trump We Trust: E P... Coulter, Ann Best Price: $1.53 Buy New $10.08 (as of 03:40 UTC - Details)
Sick had been President Carter’s principal aide on Iran during the hostage crisis, which would be like being FDR’s chief adviser on “sneak attacks” in December 1941. Columbia hired Sick as a professor, apparently unable to find Carter’s aide in charge of gas prices.
Soon, other news outlets such as PBS’s “Frontline” and ABC’s “Nightline” began treating crazies howling at the moon as if they were serious intel sources. Carter himself called for a “blue-ribbon” commission to investigate, saying, “it’s almost nauseating to think that this could be true.” (Which is ironic because that was my reaction, word for word, upon learning that Carter had been elected president.)
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COVID19 – Evidence of Global Fraud

COVID 19 , and the subsequent governmental responses , appear to be part of an international conspiracy to commit fraud .
It seems there is no evidence that a virus called SARS-CoV-2 causes a disease called COVID 19 .
Sometimes you have to go with your gut .
I am not an expert in genetics and , as ever , stand to be corrected .
However my attention was drawn to some research published by the Spanish medical journal D-Salud-Discovery .
Their advisory board of eminently qualified physicians and scientists lends further credibility to their research .
Their claim is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ used in RT-PCR tests to identify SARS-CoV-2 do not target anything specific .
I followed the search techniques outlined in this English translation of their report and can corroborate the accuracy of their claims about the nucleotide sequences listed in the World Health Organisations protocols .
You can do the same .
D-Salud-Discovery state there are no tests capable of identifying SARS-CoV-2 .
Consequently , all claims about the alleged impact of COVID 19 on population health are groundless .
A Dangerous Ideology : ... Davis , Iain Buy New $ 9.99 The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deception .
Ostensibly , there is no scientific foundation for any part of it .
If these claims are accurate we can state that there is no evidence of a pandemic , merely the illusion of one .
We have suffered incalculable loss for no evident reason , other than the ambitions of unscrupulous despots who wish to transform the global economy and our society to suit their purposes .
In doing so this “ parasite class ” have potentially committed countless crimes .
These crimes can and should be investigated and prosecuted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ OF WHAT EXACTLY ?
The World Health Organisation ( WHO ) classified COVID-19 ( COronaVIrus Disease 2019 ) .
They declared a global COVID 19 pandemic on March 11th 2019 .
The WHO ’ s claim is that the SARS-CoV-2 virus causes the disease COVID-19 .
They also allege this virus has been clearly identified by researchers in Wuhan .
In the WHO ’ s Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCov Situation Report 1 , they state : Plandemic : Exposing th ... Fife , Dr. Bruce Buy New $ 8.95 These two statements from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ isolated ( meaning purified for study ) and then genetic sequences were identified from the isolated sample .
From this , diagnostic kits were developed and distributed globally to test for the virus in towns , cities and communities around the world .
According to the WHO and Chinese researchers , these tests will find the virus that causes COVID 19 .
Yet the WHO also state : The Wuhan scientists developed their genetic amplification assays from “ sequence information ” because there was no isolated , purified sample of the so called @ @ @ @ @ @ @ microscope images of the newly discovered virions ( the spiky protein ball containing the viral RNA . )

COVID 19, and the subsequent governmental responses, appear to be part of an international conspiracy to commit fraud. It seems there is no evidence that a virus called SARS-CoV-2 causes a disease called COVID 19.
Sometimes you have to go with your gut. I am not an expert in genetics and, as ever, stand to be corrected. However my attention was drawn to some research published by the Spanish medical journal D-Salud-Discovery. Their advisory board of eminently qualified physicians and scientists lends further credibility to their research. Their claim is astounding.
The genetic primers and probes used in RT-PCR tests to identify SARS-CoV-2 do not target anything specific. I followed the search techniques outlined in this English translation of their report and can corroborate the accuracy of their claims about the nucleotide sequences listed in the World Health Organisations protocols. You can do the same.
D-Salud-Discovery state there are no tests capable of identifying SARS-CoV-2. Consequently, all claims about the alleged impact of COVID 19 on population health are groundless. A Dangerous Ideology: ... Davis, Iain Buy New $9.99 (as of 03:41 UTC - Details)
The entire official COVID 19 narrative is a deception. Ostensibly, there is no scientific foundation for any part of it.
If these claims are accurate we can state that there is no evidence of a pandemic, merely the illusion of one. We have suffered incalculable loss for no evident reason, other than the ambitions of unscrupulous despots who wish to transform the global economy and our society to suit their purposes.
In doing so this “parasite class” have potentially committed countless crimes. These crimes can and should be investigated and prosecuted in a court of law.
IDENTIFICATION OF WHAT EXACTLY?
The World Health Organisation (WHO) classified COVID-19 (COronaVIrus Disease 2019). They declared a global COVID 19 pandemic on March 11th 2019.
The WHO’s Laboratory testing guidance states:
The etiologic agent [causation for the disease] responsible for the cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan has been identified as a novel betacoronavirus, (in the same family as SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV) via next generation sequencing (NGS) from cultured virus or directly from samples received from several pneumonia patients.”
The WHO’s claim is that the SARS-CoV-2 virus causes the disease COVID-19. They also allege this virus has been clearly identified by researchers in Wuhan.
In the WHO’s Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCov Situation Report 1, they state: Plandemic: Exposing th... Fife, Dr. Bruce Buy New $8.95 (as of 02:15 UTC - Details)
The Chinese authorities identified a new type of coronavirus, which was isolated on 7 January 2020……On 12 January 2020, China shared the genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus for countries to use in developing specific diagnostic kits.”
These two statements from the WHO clearly suggest the SARS-CoV-2 virus was isolated (meaning purified for study) and then genetic sequences were identified from the isolated sample. From this, diagnostic kits were developed and distributed globally to test for the virus in towns, cities and communities around the world. According to the WHO and Chinese researchers, these tests will find the virus that causes COVID 19.
Yet the WHO also state:
Working directly from sequence information, the team developed a series of genetic amplification (PCR) assays used by laboratories.”
The Wuhan scientists developed their genetic amplification assays from “sequence information” because there was no isolated, purified sample of the so called SARS-CoV-2 virus. They also showed electron microscope images of the newly discovered virions (the spiky protein ball containing the viral RNA.)
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