lewrockwell--2020-06-02--Do Conservatives Really Believe Than Unconstitutional Law Is No Law?

I see that all manner of conservatives are saying in response to the draconian lockdowns across the country that an unconstitutional law is no law .
They are praising district attorneys , sheriffs , and local police for saying that they won ’ t enforce the decrees of state governors .
Some conservatives are advocating rebellion and civil disobedience .
Their focus , of course , is mainly on states with Democratic governors .
But it is typical of conservatives not to criticize Republicans too much .
But do conservatives really believe that an unconstitutional law is no law ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , sheriffs , and local police should not enforce unconstitutional laws ?
Of course they don ’ t .
Now , I am glad to see that conservatives are actually talking about civil liberties .
But the greatest violation of civil liberties , private property , individual liberty , personal freedom , and free enterprise is the federal government ’ s war on drugs .
Possession of marijuana is punishable by up to one year in jail and a minimum fine of $ 1,000 for a first conviction .
For a second conviction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mandatory minimum sentence with a maximum of two years in prison and a fine of up to $ 2,500 .
Subsequent convictions carry a 90-day mandatory minimum sentence and a maximum of up to three years in prison and a fine of up to $ 5,000 .
The War on Drugs Is a ... Laurence M. Vance Best Price : $ 5.87 Buy New $ 5.95 And that is just possession .
Manufacture or distribution carries tougher penalties .
The sale of paraphernalia is punishable by up to three years in prison .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ be carried out on a defendant who has been found guilty of manufacturing , importing or distributing a controlled substance if the act was committed as part of a continuing criminal enterprise.
” And that is just marijuana .
Woe unto the American who possesses , manufactures , or distributes cocaine , heroin , meth , or fentanyl .
Does the Constitution authorize the national government to regulate , criminalize , or prohibit the manufacture , sale , or use of any drug ?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to intrude @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or smoking habits of Americans ?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to restrict or monitor any harmful or mood-altering substances that any American wants to consume ?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to have a drug war ?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to concern itself with the nature and quantity of any substance Americans inhale or otherwise take into their body ?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government regulate , monitor , or restrict the consumption , medical , or recreational habits of Americans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government to have an Office of National Drug Control Policy ?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to have a Drug Enforcement Administration ?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to have a drug czar ?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to have a Controlled Substances Act ?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to have a Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act ?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Use and Health ?
The Free Society Laurence M. Vance Best Price : $ 13.55 Buy New $ 17.54 Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to have a Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act ?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to have any federal crimes other than treason , piracy , and counterfeiting ?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to have a National Drug Control Strategy ?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to institute drug prohibition without a constitutional amendment ?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to wage war on a plant ?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to ban anything ?
Of course it doesn ’ t .
Since an unconstitutional law is no law , shouldn ’ t conservatives be opposed root and branch to the federal government ’ s war on drugs instead of being its biggest supporters ?
The Best of Laurence M. Vance

I see that all manner of conservatives are saying in response to the draconian lockdowns across the country that an unconstitutional law is no law. They are praising district attorneys, sheriffs, and local police for saying that they won’t enforce the decrees of state governors. Some conservatives are advocating rebellion and civil disobedience. Their focus, of course, is mainly on states with Democratic governors. But it is typical of conservatives not to criticize Republicans too much.
But do conservatives really believe that an unconstitutional law is no law? Do they really believe that district attorneys, sheriffs, and local police should not enforce unconstitutional laws?
Of course they don’t.
Now, I am glad to see that conservatives are actually talking about civil liberties. But the greatest violation of civil liberties, private property, individual liberty, personal freedom, and free enterprise is the federal government’s war on drugs.
Under federal law—
Possession of marijuana is punishable by up to one year in jail and a minimum fine of $1,000 for a first conviction. For a second conviction, the penalties increase to a 15-day mandatory minimum sentence with a maximum of two years in prison and a fine of up to $2,500. Subsequent convictions carry a 90-day mandatory minimum sentence and a maximum of up to three years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.
The War on Drugs Is a ... Laurence M. Vance Best Price: $5.87 Buy New $5.95 (as of 09:10 UTC - Details) And that is just possession.
Manufacture or distribution carries tougher penalties. The sale of paraphernalia is punishable by up to three years in prison. And “the sentence of death can be carried out on a defendant who has been found guilty of manufacturing, importing or distributing a controlled substance if the act was committed as part of a continuing criminal enterprise.”
And that is just marijuana.
Woe unto the American who possesses, manufactures, or distributes cocaine, heroin, meth, or fentanyl.
Drug laws are certainly unconstitutional laws.
Does the Constitution authorize the national government to regulate, criminalize, or prohibit the manufacture, sale, or use of any drug?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to intrude itself into the personal eating, drinking, or smoking habits of Americans?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to restrict or monitor any harmful or mood-altering substances that any American wants to consume?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to have a drug war?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to concern itself with the nature and quantity of any substance Americans inhale or otherwise take into their body?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government regulate, monitor, or restrict the consumption, medical, or recreational habits of Americans?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to have an Office of National Drug Control Policy?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to have a Drug Enforcement Administration?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to have a drug czar?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to have a Controlled Substances Act?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to have a Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to have a National Survey on Drug Use and Health? The Free Society Laurence M. Vance Best Price: $13.55 Buy New $17.54 (as of 04:55 UTC - Details)
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to have a Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to have any federal crimes other than treason, piracy, and counterfeiting?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to have a National Drug Control Strategy?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to institute drug prohibition without a constitutional amendment?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to have a Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to wage war on a plant?
Does the Constitution authorize the federal government to ban anything?
Of course it doesn’t.
Since an unconstitutional law is no law, shouldn’t conservatives be opposed root and branch to the federal government’s war on drugs instead of being its biggest supporters?
The Best of Laurence M. Vance


lewrockwell--2020-06-02--Just To Be Clear — The Covid-19 Vaccine Will Be Rigorously Tested

Some people claim that the Covid-19 vaccine will not be rigorously tested .
That ’ s a lie .
I worked for a software company once that didn ’ t test its code in a testing environment .
They tested their code “ in production.
” That worked until it didn ’ t .
Everything fell apart .
Customers lost millions .
It was the most awful product release I ’ ve ever witnessed .
Similarly , the Covid-19 vaccine will be tested in production .
Notable examples come to mind when people talk about testing vaccines in production .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Royal Society of Medicine “ In April 1955 more than 200,000 children in five Western and mid-Western USA states received a polio vaccine in which the process of inactivating the live virus proved to be defective .
Within days there were reports of paralysis and within a month the first mass vaccination programme against polio had to be abandoned .
Subsequent investigations revealed that the vaccine , manufactured by the California-based family firm of Cutter Laboratories , had caused 40,000 cases of polio , leaving 200 children with varying degrees of paralysis and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ V ... Coleman , Dr Vernon Buy New $ 3.99 Smithsonian Magazine recalls the 1955-1970 epidemic of subacute myelo-optic neuropathy ( SMON ) , which mystified and terrorized many , though ultimately proving to be medically induced .
While not due to a vaccine , the concern is similar .
Examples of “ cure as cause , ” are legion .
Johns Hopkins , in a 2016 published study , pointed to medical intervention as the third leading cause of death over an eight year period .
At 250,000 deaths per year , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leading cause of death — respiratory diseases , which claim 150,000 Americans a year .
The Johns Hopkins team claimed the CDC does not effectively collect data on medical error .
The 1976 and 2009 stories of untested vaccines offer detailed lessons for our era in their foolhardy similarity .
“ This is a story about one time over 40 years ago when poor decision-making on the part of the government led to the unnecessary vaccination of about 45 million citizens , ” reports Smithsonian Magazine .
There was a novel form of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in February 1976 .
The flu that was expected that fall was widely reported to be an outbreak unlike anything seen since the 1918 Spanish Flu .
Smithsonian Magazine goes further “ To avoid an epidemic , the CDC believed , at least 80 percent of the United States population would need to be vaccinated .
When they asked Congress for the money to do it , politicians jumped on the potential good press of saving their constituents from the plague.
” “ The World Health Organization adopted more of a wait-and-see attitude @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the strain of flu that year was not a repeat or escalation of the 1918 flu , but ‘ the U.S. government was unstoppable.
’ ” President Ford was up for re-election that fall and something had to be done .
A Salon report from 2009 , cautioning President Obama against mass vaccination continues with the story : Safe and Effective ?
: W ... McCormack , RN , BSN , PH ... Buy New $ 15.50 “ 1976 was the year of the U.S .
Bicentennial .
1976 was a presidential election @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Watergate caused Nixon ’ s resignation , and one year after the fall of Saigon .
The U.S. government , both Republicans and Democrats , had never been held in such low esteem .
Practically every elected official felt an overwhelming itch that patriotic year to do something to get the public thinking of them as good guys again .
A swine flu pandemic was an opportunity on a plate .
What better way to get into the good graces of the voters than to save them from a plague ?
“ Knowing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not veto a bill he requested , the Democratically controlled House attached $ 1.8 billion dollars in welfare and environmental spending to the flu bill .
“ The 1976 to 1977 flu season was the most flu-free since records had been kept ; a condition that was apparently unrelated to the vaccination program .
The Great Swine Flu Epidemic of 1976 never took place.
” Once informative on the topic of caution around inherently risky medical intervention such as needless vaccines , Salon , The New York Times , and NPR have all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have mystifyingly become yet another liberal shibboleth .
As reported by Buzzfeed , and not too many other outlets , “ Dozens of NHS workers are fighting for compensation after developing narcolepsy from a swine flu vaccine that was rushed into service without the usual testing when the disease spread across the globe in 2009 .
They say it has destroyed their careers and their health.
” It ’ s a story of government employees naively trusting that everything would be okay if they received a vaccine that had been rushed through testing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lesson From Other Industries Since the Covid-19 vaccine will be tested in production , with very little preliminary testing , it ’ s worth taking lessons from other industries that have entities that regularly test in production in order to determine how best to effect this end goal .
Dissolving Illusions : ... Bystrianyk , Roman Best Price : $ 38.50 Buy New $ 21.60 Best Practices for Testing In Production — E-mail Communication When testing in production , a good feedback loop is needed .
A direct email address to the manufacturer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the team that developed the product is helpful .
These emails can ’ t be filtered by customer service , marketing , or the product team .
That risks only a few emails being sent along .
The data from these emails can ’ t be compiled into a document and passed along .
They can ’ t be filtered through a doctor that determines if the data is useful .
They can ’ t be filtered through some obscure government compensation program .
All raw data needs to get to all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , if critical infrastructure is going to be tested in production .
In such a situation , where a vaccine is tested in production , the recipient needs to be handed a piece of paper that says the equivalent of “ If ANYTHING seems different , e-mail this address immediately.
” Oversampling must be preferenced over undersampling .
If there is going to be success in an effort to test in production , then as much as possible , the research and product teams who developed the vaccine and their executive leadership team @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mother crying at 2 a.m. over her suddenly unhealthy baby , or the son trying to figure out why his mother suddenly took a turn for the worse 11 hours after getting a vaccine .
Best Practices For Testing In Production — Telephone Communication Better than an email , because sometimes written words can ’ t convey what a voice can , is a cell phone number answered by someone on that team 24-7 .
We can ’ t have the kind of feedback loop we have now around vaccines and expect a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has to be a little more skin in the game before a vaccine is tested in production .
Best Practices For Testing In Production — Full Disclosure , Clearly Presented There has to be full disclosure and informed consent along the lines of “ We don ’ t know how well , if at all , this vaccine works , and we don ’ t know how safe , if at all , this vaccine is .
You may be dead tomorrow because of this vaccine .
This vaccine may disable you for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ know.
” Vaccine Whistleblower : ... Barry , Kevin Buy New $ 12.94 It must be plain language .
Not legalese .
It would be best if it were written by a pipe fitter or a stevedore during his lunch break .
It should seek to be about as honest and direct as the European tobacco carton warnings showing photos of tumor-filled lungs and gum cancer lesions .
The Key To Achieving The Manhattan Project Of Vaccines It can be taken a step further if those involved in the vaccine manufacture process want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ quickly as possible and to have as safe and effective of a vaccine as possible , a “ Manhattan Project ” of vaccines , as some have suggested .
It ’ s not in the development that the Manhattan Project of vaccines becomes helpful , it ’ s in the rollout , in the introduction , in the feedback loop , in the follow through .
Responsibility , however , is anathema in our era .
Drug manufactures have sizable teams dedicated to the mitigation of risk , and the socialization of harm @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the age-old concept of “ avoiding responsibility.
” The responsibility avoidance teams at vaccine manufacturers often rival the size of those teams that help develop the product and those who help in the follow through with the product .
Development work may include patient sampling , virus isolation , virus characterization , standardizing , manufacturing , releasing , manufacture scale up , validation , safety , efficacy , monitoring of adverse events , and regulatory review and approval .
Responsibility avoidance might include legal , marketing , lobbying , post-vaccination trials , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ post-marketing , and scheduling .
Since avoiding responsibility is so written into the DNA of large corporations , and large institutions , fresh ideas like those mentioned in this paper are needed if a Manhattan Project of vaccines is to make any headway .
To expand that thinking , at the time of vaccination with the untested vaccines , if a patient has a problem , in addition to an email address , the following can be provided to a patient in order to facilitate the feedback loop : the personal cell phone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , home address , and vacation home address of all executives , government officials , spokespersons , and media sources who endorse the vaccine should be provided to a patient both on a handout and in electronic form .
The Invisible Enemy Garrett , Mr. Gregory L ... Buy New $ 26.94 A Manhattan Project could be embarked on for identifying an extensive list of factors that put a child at risk from harm from vaccines .
That Manhattan Project could then develop effective screenings for those risk factors .
Rather than making @ @ @ @ @ @ @ perhaps there can be fiduciary encouragement to report to an employer that a vaccine study efficacy had been undermined or the manufacturing process had been compromised .
Each vaccine could be accompanied by a five million dollar bond if the vaccine were considered safe by the manufacturer .
This acceptance of risk by the manufacturer , would generate considerable goodwill in encouraging vaccines to be perceived as safe .
Alternately , an insurance policy could be issued .
It would likely be a policy that would take mere pennies to write on a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccine , this insurance policy would be free money for both the insurer and the pharmaceutical company , as they would be able to significantly markup the cost of a vaccine that is so safe that it comes with its own insurance policy , truly delineating itself from the competition in and industry that has repeatedly created unsafe products and then turned to government to defend them from responsibility .
Vaccine “ Contact Tracers , ” The Pro-Active Approach To Shortening The Feedback Loop And Identifying Adverse Events “ Contact tracers , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ truly interested in knowing the extent of the impact from their product .
They could followup with all vaccine recipients 8 hours , 24 hours 72 hours , 2 weeks , 2 months , 12 months , and annually thereafter for life .
Imagine the kind of data a diligent contact tracer would collect over the course of a carrier to help inform that feedback loop .
Any patient preferring to be left alone would be able to opt out of the service .
These contact tracers will not be selected for their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be the type to make frightening threats by telephone or to lurk around dark corners as people leave their homes , in an effort to silence genuine concerns .
Some might imagine this work to be handled that way by pharmaceutical executives .
They will instead be well-trained and customer friendly consumer advocates .
Scientific awards of $ 100,000 or even just $ 10,000 can be given to anyone who is able to identify a study that can point to the safety of mercury on a fetus .
A similar approach could be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ adjuvant in vaccines .
This would help highlight these and other relatively poorly studied vaccine components .
A vaccine manufacturer motivated to create the safest vaccines would likely take such an approach .
The Vaccine Court : The ... Rohde , Wayne Buy New $ 17.99 Best Practices : Opposing The Scheduling Of Vaccines And Prioritizing An Individual Approach Perhaps a manufacturer can assure the public that its product is so wonderful , and it is so certain people will voluntarily flock to it , that it won ’ t lift a finger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of childhood vaccines .
In fact , if some government agency tries to add it to the schedule , it will vow to lobby against it , out of the principle that a vaccine must be administered through informed consent without pressure from the outside world .
This would be a truly encouraging step to see from a vaccine manufacturer committed to the well-being of individual patients , as opposed to greedily seeking every tiny advantage over a competitor and a patient by involving the heavy hand of government .
This Can All @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all be done voluntarily , as a show of faith in the high quality of a company ’ s vaccine , a true competitive advantage in the marketplace , with no need for government to step in and mandate such encouragement of the feedback loop .
Millions of vaccine consumers would be thrilled to suddenly receive such assurances , and would flock to the company providing this level of support for its product .
This is the kind of drastic action that would be taken if safe and effective vaccines were the goal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The lawyers , the marketers , the government , and media will all get together and run their usual hatchet job on trusting individuals .
The Covid-19 vaccine will be tested out in the world , on an unsuspecting public , and tremendous resources will go into hiding , obfuscating , or otherwise preventing discovery of and silencing any notion of any negative impacts from that vaccine .
Patently unsafe medicines are sometimes removed from our medical supply by government testing .
This provides a false sense of security , is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a marketplace for medicine that they need .
Individuals who want to take the calculated risk are prevented by the federal government from using the medicines that they want .
The pharmaceutical supply is neither safe nor unobstructed .
Far worse , it is both dangerous and obstructed .
Even that might be okay if it were discussed openly and honestly .
We are assured through giant marketing campaigns that the pharmaceutical supply is incredibly safe , followed by an almost comical litany of legalese and medicalese to the contrary .
Television @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spent on legalese than the ad themselves .
Magazine or newspaper ads might have fine print medicalese that takes up more space than the actual ad .
All of this is intended to obscure a key detail , and is used to spread the notion that group data can be predictive of individual outcome .
It can ’ t .
Abstinence Is The Only Way Not To Be A Test Subject Like our medical supply , too many of our vaccines are tested that way : In production .
Even after extensive pre-market @ @ @ @ @ @ @ still tested on individuals , in real time , who don ’ t realize that they are part of the testing process .
We are told group data informs individual outcomes .
We pretend that data collected from groups can be used to predict the future for individuals .
Nothing other than that should ever be suggested — not by a doctor , not by a journalist , not by an official , not by an executive , not by a stranger offering friendly advice .
Regardless of how much the odds are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intervention is the only certain way to prevent the side effects from pharmaceutical intervention .
No one has any idea how you will react to this medicine , or any medicine .
That ’ s the truth .
This medicine has not been well-studied enough to make that prediction and the human body remains quite poorly understood .
No amount of study can allow someone to predict the future .
The future is unknown , a pharmaceutical ’ s effects on your body are unknown .
An honest starting place for a conversation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ take place , where you recognize your role as a test subject .
You are also able to recognize that the people who want to test on you , see you as a data point in a data set , not as an individual .
You don ’ t matter to them .
Philosophically you might .
Theoretically you might .
Abstractly you might .
But you , the individual , don ’ t matter to them .
You , the person , don ’ t matter to them .
If your doctor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ father , you are asking a lot from a doctor to expect anything other than that attitude .
You don ’ t matter to them .
And as such , you must understand that becoming their test subject is a choice you willingly make .
Don ’ t do it unless the disease really is so much worse than the cure .
Make an individual decision .
Recognize yourself as an individual .
Don ’ t let anyone encourage you or pressure you otherwise , especially not someone from a far more philosophically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Coat Does Not Make Anyone More Philosophically Astute Than You You are a human , not a guinea pig .
You are not a lab rat .
You are not a bunny .
You are not one of Pavlov ’ s dogs .
You are not a chimp .
You are not a cute and furry creature in our twisted society that people hold street marches to prevent others from experimenting on .
It is your job to stop yourself from being experimented on .
It is your job to stop those under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If even one experiment takes place , and something goes wrong , the fault may lie partly in another .
But the fault lies mainly in you .
For you have volition .
And you allowed it .
You are no victim .
The doctor who wants to see you as a data set in a group is not necessarily anti-science , though pretending that one can predict the future is the most superstitious of behaviors , and confusing group measures with individuals outcome is a well recognized fallacy ( or “ bias @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
You who don ’ t want to be experimented on are certainly not anti-science .
Philosophically you are likely at loggerheads over the nature of individual volition and individual value .
You don ’ t need to be a scientist to see that important difference .
Sometimes , in fact , education and confirmation bias can make that distinction harder to see .
That is a drawback to education that could be more commonly mentioned .
Recognition of the individual is one of the most important developments to have taken place in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ developed that , whether from reading tomes of philosophy or from just going to church and listening once in a while , you are a student of the richer and more truthful intellectual heritage , while the collectivist looking you in the eyes , despite any outward appearances to the contrary , is the more philosophically impoverished person in the room .
Do not forget the vital power of timeless wisdom and philosophy to get you to the right answer in any age , to get you closer to the truth in any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in any age , may know more of truth than those in the lab coats , tasseled gowns , and juridical garments .
Don ’ t be intimidated by the philosophically impoverished .
Their bluster is their only tool against you .
The Best of Allan Stevo

Some people claim that the Covid-19 vaccine will not be rigorously tested. That’s a lie.
I worked for a software company once that didn’t test its code in a testing environment. They tested their code “in production.” That worked until it didn’t. Everything fell apart. Customers lost millions. It was the most awful product release I’ve ever witnessed.
Similarly, the Covid-19 vaccine will be tested in production. Notable examples come to mind when people talk about testing vaccines in production.
1955 — Cutter Labs Polio Vaccine Catastrophe
As reported in the Journal of The Royal Society of Medicine “In April 1955 more than 200,000 children in five Western and mid-Western USA states received a polio vaccine in which the process of inactivating the live virus proved to be defective. Within days there were reports of paralysis and within a month the first mass vaccination programme against polio had to be abandoned. Subsequent investigations revealed that the vaccine, manufactured by the California-based family firm of Cutter Laboratories, had caused 40,000 cases of polio, leaving 200 children with varying degrees of paralysis and killing 10.” Anyone Who Tells You V... Coleman, Dr Vernon Buy New $3.99 (as of 04:06 UTC - Details)
1955-1970 — Japanese SMON “Epidemic”
Smithsonian Magazine recalls the 1955-1970 epidemic of subacute myelo-optic neuropathy (SMON), which mystified and terrorized many, though ultimately proving to be medically induced. While not due to a vaccine, the concern is similar. Examples of “cure as cause,” are legion. Johns Hopkins, in a 2016 published study, pointed to medical intervention as the third leading cause of death over an eight year period. At 250,000 deaths per year, medical error surpasses the CDC reported third leading cause of death — respiratory diseases, which claim 150,000 Americans a year. The Johns Hopkins team claimed the CDC does not effectively collect data on medical error.
1976 — Untested Swine Flu Vaccine
The 1976 and 2009 stories of untested vaccines offer detailed lessons for our era in their foolhardy similarity.
“This is a story about one time over 40 years ago when poor decision-making on the part of the government led to the unnecessary vaccination of about 45 million citizens,” reports Smithsonian Magazine.
There was a novel form of the flu that killed a US solder in February 1976. The flu that was expected that fall was widely reported to be an outbreak unlike anything seen since the 1918 Spanish Flu.
Smithsonian Magazine goes further “To avoid an epidemic, the CDC believed, at least 80 percent of the United States population would need to be vaccinated. When they asked Congress for the money to do it, politicians jumped on the potential good press of saving their constituents from the plague.”
“The World Health Organization adopted more of a wait-and-see attitude to the virus… They eventually found that the strain of flu that year was not a repeat or escalation of the 1918 flu, but ‘the U.S. government was unstoppable.’”
President Ford was up for re-election that fall and something had to be done. A Salon report from 2009, cautioning President Obama against mass vaccination continues with the story: Safe and Effective?: W... McCormack, RN, BSN, PH... Buy New $15.50 (as of 04:05 UTC - Details)
“1976 was the year of the U.S. Bicentennial. 1976 was a presidential election year. 1976 was two years after Watergate caused Nixon’s resignation, and one year after the fall of Saigon. The U.S. government, both Republicans and Democrats, had never been held in such low esteem. Practically every elected official felt an overwhelming itch that patriotic year to do something to get the public thinking of them as good guys again. A swine flu pandemic was an opportunity on a plate. What better way to get into the good graces of the voters than to save them from a plague?
“Knowing the Republican president would not, could not veto a bill he requested, the Democratically controlled House attached $1.8 billion dollars in welfare and environmental spending to the flu bill.
“The 1976 to 1977 flu season was the most flu-free since records had been kept; a condition that was apparently unrelated to the vaccination program. The Great Swine Flu Epidemic of 1976 never took place.”
Once informative on the topic of caution around inherently risky medical intervention such as needless vaccines, Salon, The New York Times, and NPR have all fallen silent, as mass vaccination campaigns have mystifyingly become yet another liberal shibboleth.
2009 — Untested Swine Flu Vaccine
As reported by Buzzfeed, and not too many other outlets, “Dozens of NHS workers are fighting for compensation after developing narcolepsy from a swine flu vaccine that was rushed into service without the usual testing when the disease spread across the globe in 2009. They say it has destroyed their careers and their health.”
It’s a story of government employees naively trusting that everything would be okay if they received a vaccine that had been rushed through testing.
Tested in Production — Taking A Lesson From Other Industries
Since the Covid-19 vaccine will be tested in production, with very little preliminary testing, it’s worth taking lessons from other industries that have entities that regularly test in production in order to determine how best to effect this end goal. Dissolving Illusions: ... Bystrianyk, Roman Best Price: $38.50 Buy New $21.60 (as of 11:00 UTC - Details)
Best Practices for Testing In Production — E-mail Communication
When testing in production, a good feedback loop is needed. A direct email address to the manufacturer, ideally read daily by all members of the team that developed the product is helpful.
These emails can’t be filtered by customer service, marketing, or the product team. That risks only a few emails being sent along. The data from these emails can’t be compiled into a document and passed along. They can’t be filtered through a doctor that determines if the data is useful. They can’t be filtered through some obscure government compensation program.
All raw data needs to get to all the right people as quickly as possible, if critical infrastructure is going to be tested in production.
In such a situation, where a vaccine is tested in production, the recipient needs to be handed a piece of paper that says the equivalent of “If ANYTHING seems different, e-mail this address immediately.” Oversampling must be preferenced over undersampling.
If there is going to be success in an effort to test in production, then as much as possible, the research and product teams who developed the vaccine and their executive leadership team need to receive the email of the mother crying at 2 a.m. over her suddenly unhealthy baby, or the son trying to figure out why his mother suddenly took a turn for the worse 11 hours after getting a vaccine.
Best Practices For Testing In Production — Telephone Communication
Better than an email, because sometimes written words can’t convey what a voice can, is a cell phone number answered by someone on that team 24-7.
We can’t have the kind of feedback loop we have now around vaccines and expect a test in production to work. There has to be a little more skin in the game before a vaccine is tested in production.
Best Practices For Testing In Production — Full Disclosure, Clearly Presented
There has to be full disclosure and informed consent along the lines of “We don’t know how well, if at all, this vaccine works, and we don’t know how safe, if at all, this vaccine is. You may be dead tomorrow because of this vaccine. This vaccine may disable you for life. We really don’t know.” Vaccine Whistleblower:... Barry, Kevin Buy New $12.94 (as of 04:05 UTC - Details)
It must be plain language. Not legalese. It would be best if it were written by a pipe fitter or a stevedore during his lunch break. It should seek to be about as honest and direct as the European tobacco carton warnings showing photos of tumor-filled lungs and gum cancer lesions.
The Key To Achieving The Manhattan Project Of Vaccines
It can be taken a step further if those involved in the vaccine manufacture process want to get feedback from the vaccine as quickly as possible and to have as safe and effective of a vaccine as possible, a “Manhattan Project” of vaccines, as some have suggested.
It’s not in the development that the Manhattan Project of vaccines becomes helpful, it’s in the rollout, in the introduction, in the feedback loop, in the follow through. Responsibility, however, is anathema in our era. Drug manufactures have sizable teams dedicated to the mitigation of risk, and the socialization of harm. These are modern-sounding, alternate terms for the age-old concept of “avoiding responsibility.” The responsibility avoidance teams at vaccine manufacturers often rival the size of those teams that help develop the product and those who help in the follow through with the product.
Development work may include patient sampling, virus isolation, virus characterization, standardizing, manufacturing, releasing, manufacture scale up, validation, safety, efficacy, monitoring of adverse events, and regulatory review and approval. Responsibility avoidance might include legal, marketing, lobbying, post-vaccination trials, medical liability insurance, product liability, post-marketing, and scheduling.
Since avoiding responsibility is so written into the DNA of large corporations, and large institutions, fresh ideas like those mentioned in this paper are needed if a Manhattan Project of vaccines is to make any headway.
To expand that thinking, at the time of vaccination with the untested vaccines, if a patient has a problem, in addition to an email address, the following can be provided to a patient in order to facilitate the feedback loop: the personal cell phone, spouse’s personal cell phone, home address, and vacation home address of all executives, government officials, spokespersons, and media sources who endorse the vaccine should be provided to a patient both on a handout and in electronic form.
The Manhattan Project Of Vaccine Safety
The Invisible Enemy Garrett, Mr. Gregory L... Buy New $26.94 (as of 05:21 UTC - Details) A Manhattan Project could be embarked on for identifying an extensive list of factors that put a child at risk from harm from vaccines. That Manhattan Project could then develop effective screenings for those risk factors.
Rather than making it a potentially career ending issue, perhaps there can be fiduciary encouragement to report to an employer that a vaccine study efficacy had been undermined or the manufacturing process had been compromised.
Bonding Of The Vaccination Process
Each vaccine could be accompanied by a five million dollar bond if the vaccine were considered safe by the manufacturer. This acceptance of risk by the manufacturer, would generate considerable goodwill in encouraging vaccines to be perceived as safe. Alternately, an insurance policy could be issued. It would likely be a policy that would take mere pennies to write on a safe vaccine. On a truly safe vaccine, this insurance policy would be free money for both the insurer and the pharmaceutical company, as they would be able to significantly markup the cost of a vaccine that is so safe that it comes with its own insurance policy, truly delineating itself from the competition in and industry that has repeatedly created unsafe products and then turned to government to defend them from responsibility.
Vaccine “Contact Tracers,” The Pro-Active Approach To Shortening The Feedback Loop And Identifying Adverse Events
“Contact tracers,” could be hired by those pharmaceutical companies truly interested in knowing the extent of the impact from their product. They could followup with all vaccine recipients 8 hours, 24 hours 72 hours, 2 weeks, 2 months, 12 months, and annually thereafter for life. Imagine the kind of data a diligent contact tracer would collect over the course of a carrier to help inform that feedback loop.
Any patient preferring to be left alone would be able to opt out of the service. These contact tracers will not be selected for their ability to intimidate. They will not be the type to make frightening threats by telephone or to lurk around dark corners as people leave their homes, in an effort to silence genuine concerns. Some might imagine this work to be handled that way by pharmaceutical executives. They will instead be well-trained and customer friendly consumer advocates.
Best Practices: Grand Awards For Vexing Concerns
Scientific awards of $100,000 or even just $10,000 can be given to anyone who is able to identify a study that can point to the safety of mercury on a fetus. A similar approach could be taken with tests on aluminum as an adjuvant in vaccines. This would help highlight these and other relatively poorly studied vaccine components. A vaccine manufacturer motivated to create the safest vaccines would likely take such an approach. The Vaccine Court: The... Rohde, Wayne Buy New $17.99 (as of 04:05 UTC - Details)
Best Practices: Opposing The Scheduling Of Vaccines And Prioritizing An Individual Approach
Perhaps a manufacturer can assure the public that its product is so wonderful, and it is so certain people will voluntarily flock to it, that it won’t lift a finger to add its product to the schedule of childhood vaccines. In fact, if some government agency tries to add it to the schedule, it will vow to lobby against it, out of the principle that a vaccine must be administered through informed consent without pressure from the outside world. This would be a truly encouraging step to see from a vaccine manufacturer committed to the well-being of individual patients, as opposed to greedily seeking every tiny advantage over a competitor and a patient by involving the heavy hand of government.
This Can All Be Done Voluntarily By Manufacturers
It could all be done voluntarily, as a show of faith in the high quality of a company’s vaccine, a true competitive advantage in the marketplace, with no need for government to step in and mandate such encouragement of the feedback loop. Millions of vaccine consumers would be thrilled to suddenly receive such assurances, and would flock to the company providing this level of support for its product.
This is the kind of drastic action that would be taken if safe and effective vaccines were the goal.
None of this will happen though.
The lawyers, the marketers, the government, and media will all get together and run their usual hatchet job on trusting individuals.
The Covid-19 vaccine will be tested out in the world, on an unsuspecting public, and tremendous resources will go into hiding, obfuscating, or otherwise preventing discovery of and silencing any notion of any negative impacts from that vaccine.
Patently unsafe medicines are sometimes removed from our medical supply by government testing. This provides a false sense of security, is not reliable, and leaves some shut out of a marketplace for medicine that they need. Individuals who want to take the calculated risk are prevented by the federal government from using the medicines that they want. The pharmaceutical supply is neither safe nor unobstructed. Far worse, it is both dangerous and obstructed. Even that might be okay if it were discussed openly and honestly.
We are assured through giant marketing campaigns that the pharmaceutical supply is incredibly safe, followed by an almost comical litany of legalese and medicalese to the contrary. Television ads for pharmaceuticals might have more time spent on legalese than the ad themselves. Magazine or newspaper ads might have fine print medicalese that takes up more space than the actual ad. All of this is intended to obscure a key detail, and is used to spread the notion that group data can be predictive of individual outcome. It can’t.
Abstinence Is The Only Way Not To Be A Test Subject
Like our medical supply, too many of our vaccines are tested that way: In production. Even after extensive pre-market testing has taken place, they are still tested on individuals, in real time, who don’t realize that they are part of the testing process. We are told group data informs individual outcomes. We pretend that data collected from groups can be used to predict the future for individuals.
They can’t.
Nothing other than that should ever be suggested — not by a doctor, not by a journalist, not by an official, not by an executive, not by a stranger offering friendly advice.
Regardless of how much the odds are in your favor, abstinence from pharmaceutical intervention is the only certain way to prevent the side effects from pharmaceutical intervention.
No one has any idea how you will react to this medicine, or any medicine. That’s the truth. This medicine has not been well-studied enough to make that prediction and the human body remains quite poorly understood. No amount of study can allow someone to predict the future. The future is unknown, a pharmaceutical’s effects on your body are unknown.
An honest starting place for a conversation like this allows a different conversation to take place, where you recognize your role as a test subject. You are also able to recognize that the people who want to test on you, see you as a data point in a data set, not as an individual.
You don’t matter to them.
Philosophically you might. Theoretically you might. Abstractly you might.
But you, the individual, don’t matter to them.
You, the person, don’t matter to them.
If your doctor isn’t your mother or your father, you are asking a lot from a doctor to expect anything other than that attitude.
You don’t matter to them.
And as such, you must understand that becoming their test subject is a choice you willingly make.
Don’t do it.
Don’t do it unless the disease really is so much worse than the cure.
Make an individual decision. Recognize yourself as an individual. Don’t let anyone encourage you or pressure you otherwise, especially not someone from a far more philosophically impoverished background than yourself.
The White Coat Does Not Make Anyone More Philosophically Astute Than You
You are a human, not a guinea pig.
You are not a lab rat. You are not a bunny.
You are not one of Pavlov’s dogs.
You are not a chimp.
You are not a cute and furry creature in our twisted society that people hold street marches to prevent others from experimenting on.
It is your job to stop yourself from being experimented on.
It is your job to stop those under your care from being experimented on.
If even one experiment takes place, and something goes wrong, the fault may lie partly in another. But the fault lies mainly in you. For you have volition. And you allowed it. You are no victim.
The doctor who wants to see you as a data set in a group is not necessarily anti-science, though pretending that one can predict the future is the most superstitious of behaviors, and confusing group measures with individuals outcome is a well recognized fallacy (or “bias”) within the field of statistics.
You who don’t want to be experimented on are certainly not anti-science.
Philosophically you are likely at loggerheads over the nature of individual volition and individual value. You don’t need to be a scientist to see that important difference. Sometimes, in fact, education and confirmation bias can make that distinction harder to see. That is a drawback to education that could be more commonly mentioned.
Recognition of the individual is one of the most important developments to have taken place in the history of humanity. If you developed that, whether from reading tomes of philosophy or from just going to church and listening once in a while, you are a student of the richer and more truthful intellectual heritage, while the collectivist looking you in the eyes, despite any outward appearances to the contrary, is the more philosophically impoverished person in the room.
Do not forget the vital power of timeless wisdom and philosophy to get you to the right answer in any age, to get you closer to the truth in any age.
The man in sackcloth, in any age, may know more of truth than those in the lab coats, tasseled gowns, and juridical garments.
Don’t be intimidated by the philosophically impoverished. Their bluster is their only tool against you.
The Best of Allan Stevo


lewrockwell--2020-06-02--A State Secret: The Closest the US Ever Came to a Nuclear Confrontation: June 8, 1967

HINT : It wasn ’ t the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis – that was a distant second on the list The 53rd anniversary of the United States ’ closest-ever nuclear confrontation event will soon come and go with nary a mention of its significance – certainly not in the “ Main Stream Media ” ( MSM ) where it should appear , but probably very little in the “ alternative ” press either .
That is because it is still shrouded in secrecy , for the sake of protecting the presidential legacy of a man generally mis-designated as one of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all time by people who self-identify as credentialed “ historians , ” who are purposely ignorant of the incident because knowledge of it is not “ politically correct.
” The ironies abound , given that this incident was merely another – and not even the worst – of his treasons .
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Best Price : $ 2.49 Buy New $ 17.27 The documented facts ( at least by the BBC and Al Jazeera , since no American MSM source ever investigated it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( 2:45 p.m. off the coast of the Sinai Peninsula ) on June 8 , 1967 two A-4 bomber aircraft loaded with nuclear bombs were dispatched from the aircraft carrier USS America , bound for Cairo with orders to drop those bombs on that city .
[ 1 ] It came on the fourth day of the Six-Day War between Israel and three of her neighbor states : Egypt , Syria and Jordan ( the trio was known as the United Arab Republic – U.A.R.
, for their defense pact ) .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for months , provoked and started by Israel but falsely blamed on Egypt .
That war is still celebrated in Israel for how it resulted in expanding its borders ; a sub-operation , to be examined below – the attack on the USS Liberty , which Israel had no real motive or reason to conduct – had been inserted by President Johnson for his own muddled political reasons .
But it backfired on him when the Liberty did not sink , a “ miracle ” some say , only possible through Devine Intervention @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have resulted in his impeachment had he not initiated the broadest , most effective cover-up of his presidency ; indeed , it was arguably the largest , most enduring cover-up of all time , as evidenced by the fact that most Americans have still never even heard of it , nor the fact that a major nuclear conflagration with the U.S.S.R. – the “ Soviet Union ” ( now known as merely as “ Russia ” ) , was likely aborted with only a few minutes to spare .
At the last minute @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Egyptian territory , probably shaken into his senses by his aides and SECDEF McNamara frantically urging him to do so – President Johnson finally cancelled the attack .
Though it could be argued that Johnson ’ s other cover-ups of his own treasons – involving JFK ’ s assassination and the murders of a number of other men whom he believed were dangerous to his continuation in office , or his later “ legacy ” – were just as highly effective in hiding his secrets .
The difference is that this outrageously brazen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ secrecy protocols put into place , still remains an “ official secret , ” thus largely unknown to a public that is now so disinterested in all of it that the myths may live on forever .
Those others – i.e.
, the murders of JFK , RFK , MLK ( etc . )
– have been force-opened sufficiently to essentially disprove forever the “ official stories ” ( myths ) , at least within the minds of those who have studied them closely .
The remaining deconstruction of the primary one ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coincide with the release of all remaining government secrets , has now been rescheduled by President Trump for April , 26 , 2021 .
( He had made a number of statements before the original disclosure date ( October 26 , 2017 ) that he fully intended to open the files and therefore the last-minute delay must be assumed to be a temporary one ) .
Remember the Liberty !
: ... Phillip F. Nelson , Ron ... Best Price : $ 12.75 Buy New $ 10.00 The plan was to embed LBJ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the war – to ensure that it would be seen as another part of the general chaos that could be expected that day – which had long been scheduled to begin on June 15 , 1967 .
But , for curious reasons , Israel “ jumped the gun ” and started the war ten days early , on June 5 , when they effectively destroyed the entire Egyptian Air Force , an act which should have also destroyed Operation Cyanide , had the U.S. President been of sound and rational mind .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ steaming its way across the Mediterranean Sea , as ordered directly by the Joint Chiefs of Staff , by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara , on May 23rd , from its previous position on the Ivory Coast of West Africa ; according to the original schedule , it would take two full days before it reached its destination off the coast of the Sinai on the evening of June 7th .
Despite that disconnect , Johnson pressured Israel to proceed with the attack four days later , on June 8th , despite the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) , it would no longer be salable to the public – how were they to believe that it was done by a country without an air force ?
That was merely one of a number of signs that Israeli leadership – conflicted by Johnson ’ s persistence and forceful resolve and the potential consequences if the plot were ever revealed – was never fully unified behind the plan , and finally balked after the vicious attack that failed to sink the ship .
One of the most compelling of the signs of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of their torpedo boats to hit the ship with any of the four torpedoes they fired at it : If there were any uncertainties about their ability to hit it , there was nothing to prevent them from getting as close as necessary to the shot-up , still-burning , crippled and defenseless ship to guarantee multiple torpedo hits .
ZACX Fishing Pliers , F ... Buy New $ 23.99 As to the fifth torpedo – that actually did hit it – there has been evidence produced that the torpedo was fired by a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state of high-frenzied psychosis – has been accused by a Liberty crew member , who hired an investigator with high-level Pentagon sources , of ordering one of his own submarines to fire that torpedo ; other men , from that submarine , have acknowledged the veracity of that report , though they have done that anonymously for obvious reasons .
That is understandable because of the implications to the men whom he ordered to do it , and the horrendous fact that they were given merely seconds to make such a revolting life-or-death @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decision to obey – or not – a presidential order .
There was a well-known precedent for LBJ making such a “ false flag ” operation when he did : The similarity was the long-planned election-year provocations in 1964 that led to the ( phantom ) Gulf of Tonkin “ attacks ” three months before the November presidential elections that year .
That operation guaranteed Johnson ’ s landslide re-election in 1964 as he briefly pretended to be a cautious statesman and seeker of peace .
After his election he soon reversed that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Vietnam civil war ; two years later , his escalation of that war had backfired on him .
Because of the intense public backlash he apparently decided — based upon the documented facts of his actions — that he would need an even larger , more ominous event to guarantee him re-election in 1968 .
His diabolical plan went off track when the Liberty refused to sink , as did his chances for being re-elected .
The nation , Johnson undoubtedly expected , would have immediately understood the reason for his quick and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been quickly blamed for the attack ; with the ship and all its men on the bottom of the sea , no one would be the wiser .
Egypt ’ s president Gamal Abdul Nassar – hated by Johnson since at least 1956 for his role in seizing the Suez Canal and thereafter becoming a “ puppet ” of the Soviet Union – was expected to be killed in a massive attack on Cairo , to be carried out under the battle cry of “ Remember the Liberty !
” Whether he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reaction of the USSR – of his attack on their ally will never be known , short of a full release of all related military files .
As it is , the few that have been released , as examined in Remember the Liberty !
, appear to be the result of either clerical errors at the LBJ Library or , as some believe , “ Devine Intervention.
” Operation Cyanide : How ... Hounam , Peter Best Price : $ 37.31 Buy New $ 67.00 But Johnson ’ s real intent , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was to turn the tide of public opinion that had risen against his Vietnam war policies .
He had come to believe that it had been led mostly by young Jewish people , whom he felt should be among his strongest backers .
Men like Abbie Hoffman , Jerry Rubin and others who had gained fame for leading the war protestors in Lafayette Park , across the street from the White House , with their incessant chants , “ Hey , Hey LBJ , How Many Kids Did You Kill Today ?
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ documented well by many of his own aides , like Joseph Califano ; even the sycophants among them , like Bill Moyers and – for awhile , until he had had enough – Richard Goodwin .
Goodwin devoted two chapters of his memoirs to describing Johnson ’ s erratic and psychotic behavior , and why he finally decided to leave his position , which he summed up in these words : [ 2 ] The contrast between those words – and the rest of what Goodwin had to say about Lyndon Johnson ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – and the Alice-in-Wonderland , inane dreck recorded by his wife Doris Kearns , is stunning .
To some , it seemed that by combining her fantasies about her intimately thrilling days with the former President , and Goodwin ’ s horrid recollections of a psychotic President in real-time , a strange sort of abstruse equilibrium was reached by both ( their brand of “ pillow talk ” must have been of the therapeutic kind ) .
In aggregating their diverse experiences , were they hoping to solidify their defenses against critics who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ did anything in real-time to expose the legendary deceits of the 36th president ?
It took another decade and a half , after Johnson ’ s death , for Goodwin to publish his “ limited hangout.
” They might not have been aware of the closeness the world had come to nuclear annihilation – as neither of them were under his employ on June 8 , 1967 – but the fact that they were both in positions which should have given them access to some of his darkest secrets , and thus provoked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that they were complicit in keeping them ( and “ it ” ) hidden .
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– Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas , was published in 2017 , the fiftieth anniversary of the June 8 , 1967 attack , by TrineDay Publishing .
Three survivors of that attack – Ernie Gallo , Ron Kukal and Phil Tourney – co-authored much of the book with their personal stories of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for fifty years , they have been fighting the government to get the real story presented .
It is a story of treason on the high seas , the direct result of disgraceful presidential treasons of the highest order : [ 1 ] Hounam , Peter , and John Simpson .
Operation Cyanide : Why the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War III .
Chatham , Kent , UK : Mackays of Chatham , Ltd. , 2003 , pp .
181-82 .
( Also see the BBC video “ Dead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) .
According to Mike Ratigan , who served on board that carrier as a center-deck catapult operator responsible for maintaining the catapult in working order .
He remembered the call to general quarters ( battle stations ) in the early afternoon of June 8 , 1967 , later learning that this was due to the attack on the Liberty .
The A-4 bombers were each fitted with two bombs having a gold-colored tip , a type that he had never seen before : “ I ’ d never seen that particular type @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gone into Condition November ( notice of imminent nuclear war ) subsequent to being in general quarters , it was definitely not a drill .
Marine guards were escorting the A-4 , and that was a very unusual experience .
I ’ d never seen anything like that in the four years that I was in the Navy as a Cat operator.
” [ 2 ] Goodwin , Richard , Remembering America , New York : Little , Brown & Co. , 1988 ( p. 416 ) The Best of Phillip F. Nelson

HINT: It wasn’t the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis – that was a distant second on the list
The 53rd anniversary of the United States’ closest-ever nuclear confrontation event will soon come and go with nary a mention of its significance – certainly not in the “Main Stream Media” (MSM) where it should appear, but probably very little in the “alternative” press either.
That is because it is still shrouded in secrecy, for the sake of protecting the presidential legacy of a man generally mis-designated as one of the ten “best” presidents of all time by people who self-identify as credentialed “historians,” who are purposely ignorant of the incident because knowledge of it is not “politically correct.” The ironies abound, given that this incident was merely another – and not even the worst – of his treasons.
Six Days of War: June ... Oren, Michael B. Best Price: $2.49 Buy New $17.27 (as of 03:21 UTC - Details) The documented facts (at least by the BBC and Al Jazeera, since no American MSM source ever investigated it) are that at 8:45 a.m. EDT (2:45 p.m. off the coast of the Sinai Peninsula) on June 8, 1967 two A-4 bomber aircraft loaded with nuclear bombs were dispatched from the aircraft carrier USS America, bound for Cairo with orders to drop those bombs on that city.[1]
It came on the fourth day of the Six-Day War between Israel and three of her neighbor states: Egypt, Syria and Jordan (the trio was known as the United Arab Republic – U.A.R., for their defense pact). It was a war that had been planned for months, provoked and started by Israel but falsely blamed on Egypt. That war is still celebrated in Israel for how it resulted in expanding its borders; a sub-operation, to be examined below – the attack on the USS Liberty, which Israel had no real motive or reason to conduct – had been inserted by President Johnson for his own muddled political reasons.
But it backfired on him when the Liberty did not sink, a “miracle” some say, only possible through Devine Intervention. Johnson’s outrageous actions might have resulted in his impeachment had he not initiated the broadest, most effective cover-up of his presidency; indeed, it was arguably the largest, most enduring cover-up of all time, as evidenced by the fact that most Americans have still never even heard of it, nor the fact that a major nuclear conflagration with the U.S.S.R. – the “Soviet Union” (now known as merely as “Russia”), was likely aborted with only a few minutes to spare. At the last minute – with the A-4 bombers flying over Egyptian territory, probably shaken into his senses by his aides and SECDEF McNamara frantically urging him to do so – President Johnson finally cancelled the attack.
Though it could be argued that Johnson’s other cover-ups of his own treasons – involving JFK’s assassination and the murders of a number of other men whom he believed were dangerous to his continuation in office, or his later “legacy” – were just as highly effective in hiding his secrets. The difference is that this outrageously brazen incident, due to the stricter military secrecy protocols put into place, still remains an “official secret,” thus largely unknown to a public that is now so disinterested in all of it that the myths may live on forever. Those others – i.e., the murders of JFK, RFK, MLK (etc.) – have been force-opened sufficiently to essentially disprove forever the “official stories” (myths), at least within the minds of those who have studied them closely. The remaining deconstruction of the primary one (JFK’s assassination), might coincide with the release of all remaining government secrets, has now been rescheduled by President Trump for April, 26, 2021. (He had made a number of statements before the original disclosure date (October 26, 2017) that he fully intended to open the files and therefore the last-minute delay must be assumed to be a temporary one). Remember the Liberty!:... Phillip F. Nelson, Ron... Best Price: $12.75 Buy New $10.00 (as of 07:20 UTC - Details)
Another False Flag for LBJ
As detailed in my book Remember the Liberty!, President Johnson had persuaded Israeli leadership to include a plot called “Operation Cyanide” in their war planning: It called for Israel to attack his own reconnaissance ship, the USS Liberty, then blame Egypt for the brutal attack.
The plan was to embed LBJ’s operation into the first day of the war – to ensure that it would be seen as another part of the general chaos that could be expected that day – which had long been scheduled to begin on June 15, 1967. But, for curious reasons, Israel “jumped the gun” and started the war ten days early, on June 5, when they effectively destroyed the entire Egyptian Air Force, an act which should have also destroyed Operation Cyanide, had the U.S. President been of sound and rational mind.
On June 5th the Liberty was still steaming its way across the Mediterranean Sea, as ordered directly by the Joint Chiefs of Staff ,by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, on May 23rd, from its previous position on the Ivory Coast of West Africa; according to the original schedule, it would take two full days before it reached its destination off the coast of the Sinai on the evening of June 7th.
Despite that disconnect, Johnson pressured Israel to proceed with the attack four days later, on June 8th, despite the fact that (to a rational person), it would no longer be salable to the public – how were they to believe that it was done by a country without an air force? That was merely one of a number of signs that Israeli leadership – conflicted by Johnson’s persistence and forceful resolve and the potential consequences if the plot were ever revealed – was never fully unified behind the plan, and finally balked after the vicious attack that failed to sink the ship.
One of the most compelling of the signs of Israel’s diffidence was the failure of their torpedo boats to hit the ship with any of the four torpedoes they fired at it: If there were any uncertainties about their ability to hit it, there was nothing to prevent them from getting as close as necessary to the shot-up, still-burning, crippled and defenseless ship to guarantee multiple torpedo hits. ZACX Fishing Pliers, F... Buy New $23.99 (as of 03:21 UTC - Details)
As to the fifth torpedo – that actually did hit it – there has been evidence produced that the torpedo was fired by a U.S. submarine: LBJ, in a state of high-frenzied psychosis – has been accused by a Liberty crew member, who hired an investigator with high-level Pentagon sources, of ordering one of his own submarines to fire that torpedo; other men, from that submarine, have acknowledged the veracity of that report, though they have done that anonymously for obvious reasons. That is understandable because of the implications to the men whom he ordered to do it, and the horrendous fact that they were given merely seconds to make such a revolting life-or-death (and risk of probable court-martial) decision to obey – or not – a presidential order.
What Were LBJ’s Dubious Motives?
There was a well-known precedent for LBJ making such a “false flag” operation when he did: The similarity was the long-planned election-year provocations in 1964 that led to the (phantom) Gulf of Tonkin “attacks” three months before the November presidential elections that year. That operation guaranteed Johnson’s landslide re-election in 1964 as he briefly pretended to be a cautious statesman and seeker of peace. After his election he soon reversed that pretense as he “Americanized” the Vietnam civil war; two years later, his escalation of that war had backfired on him. Because of the intense public backlash he apparently decided — based upon the documented facts of his actions — that he would need an even larger, more ominous event to guarantee him re-election in 1968. His diabolical plan went off track when the Liberty refused to sink, as did his chances for being re-elected.
The nation, Johnson undoubtedly expected, would have immediately understood the reason for his quick and decisive retaliation against Egypt, which would have been quickly blamed for the attack; with the ship and all its men on the bottom of the sea, no one would be the wiser. Egypt’s president Gamal Abdul Nassar – hated by Johnson since at least 1956 for his role in seizing the Suez Canal and thereafter becoming a “puppet” of the Soviet Union – was expected to be killed in a massive attack on Cairo, to be carried out under the battle cry of “Remember the Liberty!”
Whether he had considered the probable repercussions – the reaction of the USSR – of his attack on their ally will never be known, short of a full release of all related military files. As it is, the few that have been released, as examined in Remember the Liberty!, appear to be the result of either clerical errors at the LBJ Library or, as some believe, “Devine Intervention.” Operation Cyanide: How... Hounam, Peter Best Price: $37.31 Buy New $67.00 (as of 03:21 UTC - Details)
But Johnson’s real intent, it can now finally be deduced, was to turn the tide of public opinion that had risen against his Vietnam war policies. He had come to believe that it had been led mostly by young Jewish people, whom he felt should be among his strongest backers. Men like Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and others who had gained fame for leading the war protestors in Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, with their incessant chants, “Hey, Hey LBJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?” His reaction to those chants has been documented well by many of his own aides, like Joseph Califano; even the sycophants among them, like Bill Moyers and – for awhile, until he had had enough – Richard Goodwin. Goodwin devoted two chapters of his memoirs to describing Johnson’s erratic and psychotic behavior, and why he finally decided to leave his position, which he summed up in these words:[2]
Later I was to question my failure to disclose what I knew of Johnson’s mental condition, inwardly speculating that through misplaced loyalty or personal cowardice I was betraying my obligation to the country . . . During the next few years, as I campaigned with [Eugene] McCarthy and then [Robert] Kennedy, I never disclosed – even to my closest friends and colleagues – the wild surmise that had preoccupied my final days in the White House. But my own active, fervent opposition was always, in part, informed and motivated by the knowledge that Lyndon Johnson had become a very dangerous man. (Bold italics added by author)
The contrast between those words – and the rest of what Goodwin had to say about Lyndon Johnson’s demented mental condition and character flaws – and the Alice-in-Wonderland, inane dreck recorded by his wife Doris Kearns, is stunning. To some, it seemed that by combining her fantasies about her intimately thrilling days with the former President, and Goodwin’s horrid recollections of a psychotic President in real-time, a strange sort of abstruse equilibrium was reached by both (their brand of “pillow talk” must have been of the therapeutic kind). In aggregating their diverse experiences, were they hoping to solidify their defenses against critics who might point out that neither of them did anything in real-time to expose the legendary deceits of the 36th president? It took another decade and a half, after Johnson’s death, for Goodwin to publish his “limited hangout.”
They might not have been aware of the closeness the world had come to nuclear annihilation – as neither of them were under his employ on June 8, 1967 – but the fact that they were both in positions which should have given them access to some of his darkest secrets, and thus provoked their curiosity, is enough to conclude that they were complicit in keeping them (and “it”) hidden. LBJ: The Mastermind of... Phillip F. Nelson Best Price: $7.91 Buy New $11.23 (as of 06:30 UTC - Details)
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Remember the Liberty! – Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas, was published in 2017, the fiftieth anniversary of the June 8, 1967 attack, by TrineDay Publishing. Three survivors of that attack – Ernie Gallo, Ron Kukal and Phil Tourney – co-authored much of the book with their personal stories of the treachery they experienced, and how, for fifty years, they have been fighting the government to get the real story presented. It is a story of treason on the high seas, the direct result of disgraceful presidential treasons of the highest order:
Endnotes:
[1] Hounam, Peter, and John Simpson. Operation Cyanide: Why the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War III. Chatham, Kent, UK: Mackays of Chatham, Ltd., 2003, pp. 181-82. (Also see the BBC video “Dead in the Water” available on Youtube).
According to Mike Ratigan, who served on board that carrier as a center-deck catapult operator responsible for maintaining the catapult in working order. He remembered the call to general quarters (battle stations) in the early afternoon of June 8, 1967, later learning that this was due to the attack on the Liberty. The A-4 bombers were each fitted with two bombs having a gold-colored tip, a type that he had never seen before: “I’d never seen that particular type of ordnance, and as we had gone into Condition November (notice of imminent nuclear war) subsequent to being in general quarters, it was definitely not a drill. Marine guards were escorting the A-4, and that was a very unusual experience. I’d never seen anything like that in the four years that I was in the Navy as a Cat operator.”
[2] Goodwin, Richard, Remembering America, New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1988 (p. 416)
Reprinted with the author’s permission.
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lewrockwell--2020-06-02--I’m Not Watching the Minnesota Movie

I’m Not Watching the Minnesota Movie

I have not watched any of the videos out of Minneapolis or listened to any of the commentary .
I have not watched because I resent having to watch only one genre over and over again .
This is the genre in which a white antagonist , presumed guilty at the outset , kills or injures a black protagonist , presumed innocent .
More than 15,000 Americans were murdered in 2019 , but no movies for national release were made about blacks killing blacks , the most common scenario .
Nor were any made about blacks killing whites , Hispanics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these movies are generally suppressed .
No , only one genre of movie is allowed .
In recent years , we have seen the Trayvon movie ; the Ferguson movie ; the Baltimore movie ; and , for comic relief , the Jussie Smollett movie among others .
The most lethal of the movies was the one filmed in Ferguson .
The most dishonest one was the Trayvon movie , filmed on location in Florida .
The Trayvon Hoax : Unma ... Gilbert , Joel Best Price : $ 15.59 Buy New $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and book The Trayvon Hoax , filmmaker Joel Gilbert proved beyond any doubt that the State of Florida ’ s star witness in its murder case against George Zimmerman , Rachel Jeantel , was an imposter .
Gilbert enlisted a private investigator , as well as two prominent handwriting analysts , an audio expert , and a forensic DNA lab .
After poring through page after page of text messages , phone calls , tweets , Facebook messages , high school yearbooks , and crime reports , Gilbert was able to find the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ then-sixteen-year-old Haitian-American hottie Trayvon knew as “ Diamond.
” Diamond had the good sense not to regurgitate the media ’ s false narrative under oath .
A Pulitzer awaited the intrepid reporter who followed Gilbert ’ s leads , but the media were not about to reshoot this movie .
Not a journalist could be bothered — not in New York , not in Orlando , not even in Miami .
Only twelve minutes elapsed from the time Gilbert sent an email to the Miami Herald ’ s managing editor asking for his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ Thanks for reaching out .
We are going to pass.
” The ensuing email flurry from the Herald newsroom quickly built to Category 5 level contempt , and this was Miami , Trayvon ’ s home .
The fact that Trayvon ’ s mother , Sybrina Fulton , undeniably at the heart of the conspiracy , was running for county commissioner did not pique the media ’ s interest .
Nor did the fact that her co-conspirator , attorney Benjamin Crump , has gone on to star in several subsequent movies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rou ... Buy New $ 5.49 In Ferguson , only the media were corrupt .
Not too long after Michael Brown was shot , I spent an afternoon with the officer involved in the shooting , Darren Wilson , pushing his infant daughter in her swing , reviewing his past , and assessing his future .
He had no job and no prospect of getting a job , certainly not in the St. Louis area , at least not as a police officer .
Were it not for the courage of St. Louis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Wilson suspected he would be in prison .
McCulloch ’ s grand jury introduced too much legitimate eyewitness testimony for the DOJ to ignore .
Grateful Democrats responded by defeating McCulloch in the next primary .
The cops got the picture .
They knew they too could face termination , lawsuits , criminal charges , and death threats , all driven by the mandates of mob justice .
They knew , as well , that the political class , from President Barack Obama on down , would gladly throw them to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but especially in cities where rioting followed lethal police-citizen encounters , cops instinctively began to pull back from actively policing black neighborhoods .
Sensing opportunity , criminals moved into the void .
Attorney and Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald has dubbed this phenomenon the “ Ferguson Effect.
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I have not watched any of the videos out of Minneapolis or listened to any of the commentary. I have not watched because I resent having to watch only one genre over and over again. This is the genre in which a white antagonist, presumed guilty at the outset, kills or injures a black protagonist, presumed innocent.
More than 15,000 Americans were murdered in 2019, but no movies for national release were made about blacks killing blacks, the most common scenario. Nor were any made about blacks killing whites, Hispanics, or Asians. In fact, these movies are generally suppressed.
No, only one genre of movie is allowed. In recent years, we have seen the Trayvon movie; the Ferguson movie; the Baltimore movie; and, for comic relief, the Jussie Smollett movie among others. The most lethal of the movies was the one filmed in Ferguson. The most dishonest one was the Trayvon movie, filmed on location in Florida. The Trayvon Hoax: Unma... Gilbert, Joel Best Price: $15.59 Buy New $14.99 (as of 03:24 UTC - Details)
In 2019, in his film and book The Trayvon Hoax, filmmaker Joel Gilbert proved beyond any doubt that the State of Florida’s star witness in its murder case against George Zimmerman, Rachel Jeantel, was an imposter. Gilbert enlisted a private investigator, as well as two prominent handwriting analysts, an audio expert, and a forensic DNA lab. After poring through page after page of text messages, phone calls, tweets, Facebook messages, high school yearbooks, and crime reports, Gilbert was able to find the real “phone witness,” a then-sixteen-year-old Haitian-American hottie Trayvon knew as “Diamond.” Diamond had the good sense not to regurgitate the media’s false narrative under oath.
A Pulitzer awaited the intrepid reporter who followed Gilbert’s leads, but the media were not about to reshoot this movie. Not a journalist could be bothered — not in New York, not in Orlando, not even in Miami. Only twelve minutes elapsed from the time Gilbert sent an email to the Miami Herald’s managing editor asking for his help to the time Gilbert was told, “Thanks for reaching out. We are going to pass.” The ensuing email flurry from the Herald newsroom quickly built to Category 5 level contempt, and this was Miami, Trayvon’s home.
The fact that Trayvon’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, undeniably at the heart of the conspiracy, was running for county commissioner did not pique the media’s interest. Nor did the fact that her co-conspirator, attorney Benjamin Crump, has gone on to star in several subsequent movies, including Minneapolis. Eagle Claw Snap-On Rou... Buy New $5.49 (as of 03:24 UTC - Details)
In Ferguson, only the media were corrupt. Not too long after Michael Brown was shot, I spent an afternoon with the officer involved in the shooting, Darren Wilson, pushing his infant daughter in her swing, reviewing his past, and assessing his future. He had no job and no prospect of getting a job, certainly not in the St. Louis area, at least not as a police officer. Were it not for the courage of St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch, a Democrat, Wilson suspected he would be in prison. McCulloch’s grand jury introduced too much legitimate eyewitness testimony for the DOJ to ignore. Grateful Democrats responded by defeating McCulloch in the next primary.
The cops got the picture. They knew they too could face termination, lawsuits, criminal charges, and death threats, all driven by the mandates of mob justice. They knew, as well, that the political class, from President Barack Obama on down, would gladly throw them to the wolves to preserve the peace.
Nationwide, but especially in cities where rioting followed lethal police-citizen encounters, cops instinctively began to pull back from actively policing black neighborhoods. Sensing opportunity, criminals moved into the void. Attorney and Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald has dubbed this phenomenon the “Ferguson Effect.”
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lewrockwell--2020-06-02--Burning America: Be Careful What You Wish For

I wake up this morning to multiple U.S. cities on fire , the police are under siege and V for Vendetta trending on Twitter .
Hackivist group Anonymous has declared war on the government and a whole lotta people are very confused about what ’ s going on .
I have no doubt the riots , looting and burning happening around the U.S. today is a directed , coordinated attack on the institutions of this country .
But saying that doesn ’ t mitigate the real anger and desperation of so many Americans and the victims of this government .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of this isn ’ t truly organic and real .
When people lose everything , the saying goes , they lose it .
In my last post I talked about the solipsism of what version of America people have in their heads .
One screen , two movies and all that .
The two movies that are playing out now is the incredulous one exemplified by this tweet : How many times in the past few days have you heard a politician say , “ This isn ’ t who we are.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are .
And we ’ re all to blame for it .
America , the shining house on the hill overlooking the Utopia of Boomerville is slowly eating itself .
The facade still looks good from down in the valley but the interior looks like the house from The Money Pit .
The other movie is out on the streets protesting the fundamental inequality of the American system .
It ’ s being stoked to violence by brick-throwing , mask-wearing Marxists too dumb to realize that they will be the first ones shot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ day .
Scrolling through my Twitter feed last night I saw the true state of hatred for the U.S. empire from some of my most ardent followers who live outside the U.S .
It was unnerving .
KOOFIN GEAR Fishing Gl ... Buy New $ 15.99 Because it became clear that they ’ d lost their humanity as well in the orgy of violence that they were witnessing .
The comeuppance to the U.S. for all the pain and sorrow it had inflicted on the world couldn ’ t be held back .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ hate the sin , not the sinner ?
Isn ’ t that supposed to be the great ‘ hack ’ of Christianity ?
The capability for forgiveness and temperance , to remember that we all have the capacity for redemption ?
Or is that just a cute Hollywood lie that doesn ’ t change the world when the moment of crisis arrives ?
I ’ ve said before and I ’ ll say it again , when you uncover someone ’ s existential fear you reveal their inner tyrant .
I wouldn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or Aussies , Germans or Brits ( all complicit in the U.S. government ’ s crimes around the world , by the way ) when some of them reached their limit and lashed out in inchoate rage .
I ’ d weep for it having come to that , for people to believe this is the only way they feel they will be heard .
I ’ ve succumbed to that rage at times .
I ’ ve been that guy .
And it ’ s shameful .
ICOLOR Folding Sun Cap ... @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 5.38 / 100 g ) Buy New $ 16.88 ( $ 9.38 / 100 g ) A lot of people in America today are waking up to what they are capable of and it ’ s time to integrate that into our image of ourselves , our psyches and , hopefully , our politics .
To reject the false image of a shining beacon of truth and accept the corruption , stagnation and violence for what it is .
And that it is our job to neuter those behind this brewing civil war @ @ @ @ @ @ @ again , anywhere .
Those folks cheering the collapse of the U.S. on display today have no idea of the chaos that comes to their shores the moment the U.S. , for all its flaws , unravels in this disorderly a fashion .
Chaos is never pretty , that ’ s why it ’ s chaos .
The U.S. has unleashed it around the world , like the Brits and the French before them and so on and so on .
Our government deserves every insult hurled at it .
But at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ opportunity for real change when that moment of enlightenment occurs and we stop denying our baser selves and become whole .
And we can do that as long as we keep our heads high , our hearts open and focus true .
ForEverlast Snakeguard ... Buy New $ 34.57 There are truly evil people acting out their plans today .
The Flying Monkeys are in charge in our Post-Dorothy Oz .
In our Post-Dorothy Oz , where the witch is dead and the Wizard unmasked , the Flying Monkeys are left leaderless and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ raiding the countryside for their own benefit that absent the meta-stable leadership of the Tyrant overlord , they believe they can run their own operations .
It ’ s clear that… the Flying Monkeys believe they can manipulate a hapless President to achieve their personal political agendas and not have them blow up in their faces .
… Given the structure of D.C. for so long , Presidents , at best have been allowed to lead the squadrons of Flying Monkeys but they don ’ t actually set policy .
That ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the problem is that The Witch is Dead and she won ’ t be resurrected .
Because the Witch wasn ’ t any one person , the Witch was our willingness to accept the lies of our political system as constructive to our future .
That perception is a puddle of goo stinking up the room .
They are making demands like demented lunatics and sadly too many think they are right because things have been so unfair for so long .
They want us yelling at each other , not talking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reigned the net result was never what was written in the operations manual .
Iraq was never pacified , Afghanistan is still unruly , the Donbass is still free , Iran refuses to be toppled , Russia is resilient and potentially resurgent , Venezuela will survive , Syria is rebuilding and China will be taking over Hong Kong .
The death toll is horrific , the human price paid incalculable .
The U.S. ’ s adversaries have pleaded with it for years to back away gracefully , but Empires don ’ t bargain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ silver lining to Americans waking up this morning to an orgy of violence , coming face to face with who exactly we are .
It ’ s the realization that the house is rotten , the politicians powerless and our enemies are more ruthless and organized then many of us thought .
And with that realization comes asking the question of who we are going to be ?
ReelSonar CGG-MY-IBOBB ... Best Price : $ 67.46 Buy New $ 89.95 But that ’ s for us to figure out , not for you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will be spared the chaos of a disorderly breakdown of the U.S. That ’ s not a threat , that ’ s reality .
So , again I won ’ t be cheering when Antifa in all its guises comes to Toronto or Berlin , Sydney or London .
And I won ’ t be saying I told you so .
Because , just like in those places the U.S. has destroyed , those trying to destroy the U.S. will find it a lot harder to pacify than they think it will be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money spigots , burn businesses , pay agent provocateurs , even overthrow presidents and foment real civil wars but all you ’ re doing is making the next generation stronger .
Just ask Russians , Iranians , Iraqis , Lebanese and Syrians .
They ’ ll tell you .
All you ’ re doing is making sure the next empire fails .
So folks , I ’ m with you .
I know the end of the U.S. empire is on the horizon and I ’ m here to do my part and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I also know those making it happen and cheering it on better be careful what they wish for .
Because they just might get it , in the words of H.L .
Mencken , good and hard .
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I wake up this morning to multiple U.S. cities on fire, the police are under siege and V for Vendetta trending on Twitter. Hackivist group Anonymous has declared war on the government and a whole lotta people are very confused about what’s going on.
I have no doubt the riots, looting and burning happening around the U.S. today is a directed, coordinated attack on the institutions of this country.
But saying that doesn’t mitigate the real anger and desperation of so many Americans and the victims of this government. It doesn’t mean that part of this isn’t truly organic and real.
When people lose everything, the saying goes, they lose it.
In my last post I talked about the solipsism of what version of America people have in their heads. One screen, two movies and all that.
The two movies that are playing out now is the incredulous one exemplified by this tweet:
whats so incredible to me, is that we are LETTING this happen. — GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) May 31, 2020
How many times in the past few days have you heard a politician say, “This isn’t who we are.”
Sadly, it is exactly who we are. And we’re all to blame for it.
America, the shining house on the hill overlooking the Utopia of Boomerville is slowly eating itself. The facade still looks good from down in the valley but the interior looks like the house from The Money Pit.
The other movie is out on the streets protesting the fundamental inequality of the American system. It’s being stoked to violence by brick-throwing, mask-wearing Marxists too dumb to realize that they will be the first ones shot if the Marxists they serve win the day.

Scrolling through my Twitter feed last night I saw the true state of hatred for the U.S. empire from some of my most ardent followers who live outside the U.S.
It was unnerving. KOOFIN GEAR Fishing Gl... Buy New $15.99 (as of 03:25 UTC - Details)
Because it became clear that they’d lost their humanity as well in the orgy of violence that they were witnessing. The comeuppance to the U.S. for all the pain and sorrow it had inflicted on the world couldn’t be held back.
But aren’t we supposed to hate the sin, not the sinner?
Isn’t that supposed to be the great ‘hack’ of Christianity?
The capability for forgiveness and temperance, to remember that we all have the capacity for redemption? Or is that just a cute Hollywood lie that doesn’t change the world when the moment of crisis arrives?
I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, when you uncover someone’s existential fear you reveal their inner tyrant.
I wouldn’t wish looting and rioting on Canadians or Aussies, Germans or Brits (all complicit in the U.S. government’s crimes around the world, by the way) when some of them reached their limit and lashed out in inchoate rage.
I’d weep for it having come to that, for people to believe this is the only way they feel they will be heard.
I’ve succumbed to that rage at times. I’ve been that guy. And it’s shameful. ICOLOR Folding Sun Cap... Best Price: $9.68 ($5.38 / 100 g) Buy New $16.88 ($9.38 / 100 g) (as of 03:25 UTC - Details)
A lot of people in America today are waking up to what they are capable of and it’s time to integrate that into our image of ourselves, our psyches and, hopefully, our politics.
To reject the false image of a shining beacon of truth and accept the corruption, stagnation and violence for what it is.
And that it is our job to neuter those behind this brewing civil war and prevent them causing this chaos ever again, anywhere.
Those folks cheering the collapse of the U.S. on display today have no idea of the chaos that comes to their shores the moment the U.S., for all its flaws, unravels in this disorderly a fashion.
Chaos is never pretty, that’s why it’s chaos. The U.S. has unleashed it around the world, like the Brits and the French before them and so on and so on. Our government deserves every insult hurled at it.
But at the same time, there is always that opportunity for real change when that moment of enlightenment occurs and we stop denying our baser selves and become whole.
And we can do that as long as we keep our heads high, our hearts open and focus true.
ForEverlast Snakeguard... Buy New $34.57 (as of 03:25 UTC - Details) There are truly evil people acting out their plans today. The Flying Monkeys are in charge in our Post-Dorothy Oz.
In our Post-Dorothy Oz, where the witch is dead and the Wizard unmasked, the Flying Monkeys are left leaderless and they’ve been successful in their raiding the countryside for their own benefit that absent the meta-stable leadership of the Tyrant overlord, they believe they can run their own operations. It’s clear that… the Flying Monkeys believe they can manipulate a hapless President to achieve their personal political agendas and not have them blow up in their faces. … Given the structure of D.C. for so long, Presidents, at best have been allowed to lead the squadrons of Flying Monkeys but they don’t actually set policy. That’s the Witch’s job. But, the problem is that The Witch is Dead and she won’t be resurrected. Because the Witch wasn’t any one person, the Witch was our willingness to accept the lies of our political system as constructive to our future. That perception is a puddle of goo stinking up the room.
They are making demands like demented lunatics and sadly too many think they are right because things have been so unfair for so long.
They want us yelling at each other, not talking to each other.
Everywhere that chaos reigned the net result was never what was written in the operations manual.
Iraq was never pacified, Afghanistan is still unruly, the Donbass is still free, Iran refuses to be toppled, Russia is resilient and potentially resurgent, Venezuela will survive, Syria is rebuilding and China will be taking over Hong Kong.
The death toll is horrific, the human price paid incalculable. The U.S.’s adversaries have pleaded with it for years to back away gracefully, but Empires don’t bargain, they dictate.
There is a silver lining to Americans waking up this morning to an orgy of violence, coming face to face with who exactly we are. It’s the realization that the house is rotten, the politicians powerless and our enemies are more ruthless and organized then many of us thought.
And with that realization comes asking the question of who we are going to be? ReelSonar CGG-MY-IBOBB... Best Price: $67.46 Buy New $89.95 (as of 03:25 UTC - Details)
But that’s for us to figure out, not for you to gloat over.
Because no one will be spared the chaos of a disorderly breakdown of the U.S. That’s not a threat, that’s reality. So, again I won’t be cheering when Antifa in all its guises comes to Toronto or Berlin, Sydney or London.
And I won’t be saying I told you so.
Because, just like in those places the U.S. has destroyed, those trying to destroy the U.S. will find it a lot harder to pacify than they think it will be.
Sure you can shut off the money spigots, burn businesses, pay agent provocateurs, even overthrow presidents and foment real civil wars but all you’re doing is making the next generation stronger.
Just ask Russians, Iranians, Iraqis, Lebanese and Syrians. They’ll tell you.
All you’re doing is making sure the next empire fails.
So folks, I’m with you. I know the end of the U.S. empire is on the horizon and I’m here to do my part and help define what comes next. But I also know those making it happen and cheering it on better be careful what they wish for.
Because they just might get it, in the words of H.L. Mencken, good and hard.
Reprinted with permission from Gold Goats ‘n Guns.
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