lewrockwell--2020-02-05--Peak Facebook, Peak Soros, or Just Peak Globalism?

In late 2018 I asked the question , “ Have we reached peak Soros ?
” Because back then I realized that Soros was losing .
And every issue I touched on in that article has come to pass .
For more than ten years Soros and his cohort Tom Steyer , ( who is now somehow presidential material ? )
have worked diligently to end free speech on the internet , to regain control of The Wire and end our ability to out them in real time to stop their Brave New World .
In 2018 and 2019 Facebook @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just how deeply the company had breached the public trust .
CEO Mark Zuckerberg was hauled in front of Congress in a big Kabuki Theatre show to threaten him with removing the Facebook ’ s immunity as a platform under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act .
And we all laughed at Data trying to become a real boy , having to dealing with these pesky human emotions .
When Google Met WikiLeaks Julian Assange Best Price : $ 3.80 Buy New $ 1.99 But the threat to Facebook was real and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s costs of compliance are rising .
Its bureaucracy growing .
Pressuring Facebook publicly , putting it a no-win situation with the public is just part of Soros ’ strategy to regain control over information flow of the internet..
It has been a decade-long , multi-step process .
First , create a solution in search of a problem .
Net Neutrality was a means to create bandwidth subsidization with the government enforcing access .
This appeals to the leftards in the audience , worried about corporate control when it would never happen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he ended that .
Second , create another problem by enticing social media platforms to use their power to curtail speech in an unbalanced way , breaching the firewall of Section 230 protection .
This fires up the Q-tards , libertarians and conservatives .
All the while they were undermining the public ’ s trust in how their data is handled , and personifying the corruption — Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg — forcing them to publicly deal with the issues , well beyond their comfort zone .
That turns public frustration and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to action .
Well , that call to action finally arrived .
Soros penned another of his outrageous opinion pieces in the New York Times on Friday ( of course , not behind the paywall ) to attack Mark Zuckerberg demanding his removal as CEO of Facebook .
That ’ s the headline .
But , here ’ s the real point of Soros ’ attack .
He builds a conspiracy between Facebook and Donald Trump to get him re-elected as prima facia evidence Facebook no longer deserves Section 230 immunity .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in his desperation , thinks he can make the credible case that Facebook , which has been nothing but hostile to conservatives and libertarians since its inception , is now actively working with Trump preferentially to enable his re-election .
This depth of this man ’ s evil is truly breathtaking .
Ingenious , but evil .
I remind you that Soros isn ’ t a person .
He ’ s not an entrepreneur .
He ’ s a vampire , living off the accumulated wealth of a society grown complacent and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ made money by manipulating a zero-sum game — currency trading — which he himself has a hand in setting the stage for .
And that lack of true service to humanity is why he ’ s obsessed with his grand project of the Open Society , as he defines it .
This is his where his megalomania stems from , that deep understanding that he ’ s a leech and a fraud .
It ’ s why he insists the media calls him a philanthropist and not a devourer of souls and agent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ closer everyday to the villain in Alan Moore ’ s Watchmen , Adrian Veidt .
A man so obsessed with what he saw as humanity ’ s failures that he took it upon himself to save us from ourselves .
He just had to kill millions of people in order to do it .
Soros existed for years like Veidt , a man hiding behind proxies and a philanthropist ’ s image while quietly pulling the strings to change the direction of the world .
For more than two years I ’ ve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
There comes a point where growth simply isn ’ t possible if you already have 25 % market share of the entire human race .
This quarter ’ s earnings report saw the stock get crushed into the monthly close as headcount and operations costs are rising quickly while the growth rate can not sustain a P/E of 40 in a market finally looking to cut out the froth .
It ’ s not a deal-breaker .
The company is wildly profitable but from here it can only slow down and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and more pervasive deplatforming the more high-value Facebook users will bolt .
It ’ s what will kill YouTube in the end .
Soros wants Facebook to be a glorified government Ministry of Information Filtering , because he understands the power of a mass platform .
Facebook is The Wire now .
He failed to control the ISPs with Net Neutrality .
And it looks like Facebook ’ s unwillingness to go full Palpatine vexes him further .
That ’ s why he ’ s pushing a public feud , trying to appeal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like Zuckerberg .
But , Zuckerberg is a pawn .
He ’ s neither the problem nor the solution .
Soros is the problem and we have to remember this at all times .
While being banned from Twitter or Facebook for stupid reasons is unfair , so what .
Life isn ’ t fair , but it doesn ’ t mean we hand an already corrupt , incompetent and failing government more power to control the content we have access to .
There are other networks , other platforms .
Good information @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Ultimately , Facebook is an intelligence operation for Wall St. and the government ( or do I repeat myself ) masquerading a social media platform .
And the more it is exposed as such the less profitable it will become .
I left the platform last year and haven ’ t looked back .
So have many others .
Soros , in his zeal to control information flow , has weaponized it by pressuring failing governments into into treating criticism against his projects a crime against decency .
He may believe he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his op-ed , which by his standards is stunningly incompetent , betrays a hint of desperation there is a split between him and Wall St. Wall St. is amoral .
They aren ’ t ideologues like Soros .
They go where the money is .
And the money is still in a version of Facebook that allows the illusion of political debate .
Soros , on the other hand , is openly backing anti-Wall St. candidates like Elizabeth Warren .
He ’ s partnered with Tom Steyer on internet control .
Facebook is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them all the data , money and power they could ever want .
They really aren ’ t ready to slay the golden goose just because George is dead set against Trump .
Given the field and the collapse of the impeachment , Trump is the best candidate Wall St. has in this election unless Hillary pantsuits up and pinch hits for the DNC .
Hillary is great at hitting softballs .
But , as we all know , to make it in the majors you can ’ t have trouble with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and flexible .
Hillary is neither of those .
So , ultimately , Hillary ’ s quest to win back Wall St. for the globalists will fall short , even if Wall St. hedges their bets with her against Trump one more time .
Meanwhile , yesterday ’ s oligarchs like Soros have lost the ability to shape the narrative in their favor .
It doesn ’ t work like it used to .
People refused to be cowed into silence simply because they may lose their YouTube channel or Facebook page .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ change occurring all across the world .
And it comes from the decentralization of information and there ’ s little people like Soros can do to stop it .
They can put up roadblocks .
They can slow things down .
But the costs to do this are rising constantly as technology makes communications cheaper .
The days of controlling the on-ramps to information through artificial barriers to entry are over .
China will find that out the hard way .
Soros will too .
He doesn ’ t understand that populism isn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bad information from dishonest advertising .
How to Disappear : Eras ... Frank Ahearn , Eileen H ... Best Price : $ 2.80 Buy New $ 8.51 Populism is popular because moldy old globalists like him suck the joy out of life and destroy their homes , families and communities .
And no one actually wants to live in his brave new world of culture-free , soulless hyper-correctness .
There is no such thing as a happy police state .
There ’ s just anxiety , neurosis and endless porn .
Any idea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , no matter how crude or ignorant , is worthy of our consideration .
And that ’ s what Soros ’ lame attempts at control ultimately are , a pathetic attempt to stifle criticism by creating a worldwide network of tattle-tales and gatekeepers .
In Watchmen , Veidt convinced the State ( Dr. Manhattan ) to do just that , killing Rorschach who refused to accept the lie and would expose the truth .
And that ’ s exactly what Soros is doing asking for Facebook ’ s platform immunity to be revoked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it doesn ’ t approve of or leaving the platform is how we fight both Zuckerberg and Soros .
Forcing them to adapt to our curve balls , remembering that without us they have no power , that ’ s how we win .
Not by using the very thing that wants us curtailed , caged , taxed and just mobile enough to think we ’ re free to protect us from each other , or worse , bad ideas .
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In late 2018 I asked the question, “Have we reached peak Soros?” Because back then I realized that Soros was losing.
And every issue I touched on in that article has come to pass. For more than ten years Soros and his cohort Tom Steyer, (who is now somehow presidential material?) have worked diligently to end free speech on the internet, to regain control of The Wire and end our ability to out them in real time to stop their Brave New World.
All around you, if you look closely enough, you will see the spectre of George Soros lurking behind the headlines. The caravan, net neutrality, regulating Facebook, the de-platforming of independent media, color revolutions and election meddling, refugee creation and manipulation, the trolls on Twitter, your blog and YouTube, etc. All of these things we see in the headlines today are a product of George Soros’ money and his singular obsession with re-creating the world in his image.
In 2018 and 2019 Facebook dealt with massive data scandals which revealed just how deeply the company had breached the public trust. CEO Mark Zuckerberg was hauled in front of Congress in a big Kabuki Theatre show to threaten him with removing the Facebook’s immunity as a platform under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act .
And we all laughed at Data trying to become a real boy, having to dealing with these pesky human emotions. When Google Met WikiLeaks Assange, Julian Best Price: $4.99 Buy New $1.99 (as of 01:25 UTC - Details)
But the threat to Facebook was real and it wasn’t temporary. It’s costs of compliance are rising. Its bureaucracy growing.
Pressuring Facebook publicly, putting it a no-win situation with the public is just part of Soros’ strategy to regain control over information flow of the internet..
It has been a decade-long, multi-step process.
First, create a solution in search of a problem. Net Neutrality was a means to create bandwidth subsidization with the government enforcing access. This appeals to the leftards in the audience, worried about corporate control when it would never happen.
To Donald Trump’s credit he ended that.
Second, create another problem by enticing social media platforms to use their power to curtail speech in an unbalanced way, breaching the firewall of Section 230 protection. This fires up the Q-tards, libertarians and conservatives.
All the while they were undermining the public’s trust in how their data is handled, and personifying the corruption — Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg — forcing them to publicly deal with the issues, well beyond their comfort zone.
That turns public frustration and anger over the unfairness into a call to action.
Well, that call to action finally arrived. Soros penned another of his outrageous opinion pieces in the New York Times on Friday (of course, not behind the paywall) to attack Mark Zuckerberg demanding his removal as CEO of Facebook. That’s the headline.
That’s the click bait.
But, here’s the real point of Soros’ attack. He builds a conspiracy between Facebook and Donald Trump to get him re-elected as prima facia evidence Facebook no longer deserves Section 230 immunity.
The responsible approach is self-evident. Facebook is a publisher not just a neutral moderator or “platform.” It should be held accountable for the content that appears on its site. Speaking at a cocktail party in Davos on Jan. 22, Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, repeated the worn Silicon Valley cliché that Facebook is trying to make the world a better place. But Facebook should be judged by what it does, not what it says. I repeat and reaffirm my accusation against Facebook under the leadership of Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg. They follow only one guiding principle: maximize profits irrespective of the consequences. One way or another, they should not be left in control of Facebook.
This is truly another crazy moment where Soros, in his desperation, thinks he can make the credible case that Facebook, which has been nothing but hostile to conservatives and libertarians since its inception, is now actively working with Trump preferentially to enable his re-election.
This depth of this man’s evil is truly breathtaking. Ingenious, but evil.
I remind you that Soros isn’t a person. He’s not an entrepreneur. He’s a vampire, living off the accumulated wealth of a society grown complacent and lazy. He’s only ever made money by manipulating a zero-sum game — currency trading — which he himself has a hand in setting the stage for.
And that lack of true service to humanity is why he’s obsessed with his grand project of the Open Society, as he defines it. This is his where his megalomania stems from, that deep understanding that he’s a leech and a fraud.
It’s why he insists the media calls him a philanthropist and not a devourer of souls and agent of chaos.
But Soros is edging closer everyday to the villain in Alan Moore’s Watchmen, Adrian Veidt. A man so obsessed with what he saw as humanity’s failures that he took it upon himself to save us from ourselves.
He just had to kill millions of people in order to do it.
Soros existed for years like Veidt, a man hiding behind proxies and a philanthropist’s image while quietly pulling the strings to change the direction of the world.
For more than two years I’ve been saying that Facebook is in trouble. There comes a point where growth simply isn’t possible if you already have 25% market share of the entire human race.
This quarter’s earnings report saw the stock get crushed into the monthly close as headcount and operations costs are rising quickly while the growth rate cannot sustain a P/E of 40 in a market finally looking to cut out the froth.
It’s not a deal-breaker. The company is wildly profitable but from here it can only slow down and the more Soros et.al. push for higher-level and more pervasive deplatforming the more high-value Facebook users will bolt.
It’s what will kill YouTube in the end.
Soros wants Facebook to be a glorified government Ministry of Information Filtering, because he understands the power of a mass platform. Facebook is The Wire now. He failed to control the ISPs with Net Neutrality.
And it looks like Facebook’s unwillingness to go full Palpatine vexes him further. That’s why he’s pushing a public feud, trying to appeal to conservatives who rightly don’t like Zuckerberg.
But, Zuckerberg is a pawn. He’s neither the problem nor the solution. Soros is the problem and we have to remember this at all times. While being banned from Twitter or Facebook for stupid reasons is unfair, so what.
Life isn’t fair, but it doesn’t mean we hand an already corrupt, incompetent and failing government more power to control the content we have access to.
There are other networks, other platforms. Good information is found. The truth sells itself.
Ultimately, Facebook is an intelligence operation for Wall St. and the government (or do I repeat myself) masquerading a social media platform. And the more it is exposed as such the less profitable it will become. I left the platform last year and haven’t looked back.
So have many others. Soros, in his zeal to control information flow, has weaponized it by pressuring failing governments into into treating criticism against his projects a crime against decency.
He may believe he’s winning the argument, but his op-ed, which by his standards is stunningly incompetent, betrays a hint of desperation there is a split between him and Wall St.
Wall St. is amoral. They aren’t ideologues like Soros. They go where the money is. And the money is still in a version of Facebook that allows the illusion of political debate.
Soros, on the other hand, is openly backing anti-Wall St. candidates like Elizabeth Warren. He’s partnered with Tom Steyer on internet control. Facebook is Wall St.’s darling, feeding them all the data, money and power they could ever want.
They really aren’t ready to slay the golden goose just because George is dead set against Trump. Given the field and the collapse of the impeachment, Trump is the best candidate Wall St. has in this election unless Hillary pantsuits up and pinch hits for the DNC.
Hillary is great at hitting softballs. But, as we all know, to make it in the majors you can’t have trouble with the curve. You need to be adaptive and flexible. Hillary is neither of those.
So, ultimately, Hillary’s quest to win back Wall St. for the globalists will fall short, even if Wall St. hedges their bets with her against Trump one more time.
Meanwhile, yesterday’s oligarchs like Soros have lost the ability to shape the narrative in their favor. It doesn’t work like it used to. People refused to be cowed into silence simply because they may lose their YouTube channel or Facebook page.
There is a profound up welling of change occurring all across the world.
And it comes from the decentralization of information and there’s little people like Soros can do to stop it. They can put up roadblocks. They can slow things down.
But the costs to do this are rising constantly as technology makes communications cheaper. The days of controlling the on-ramps to information through artificial barriers to entry are over.
China will find that out the hard way. Soros will too. He doesn’t understand that populism isn’t popular because dumb people get bad information from dishonest advertising. How to Disappear: Eras... Frank Ahearn, Eileen H... Best Price: $2.80 Buy New $8.51 (as of 05:35 UTC - Details)
Populism is popular because moldy old globalists like him suck the joy out of life and destroy their homes, families and communities. And no one actually wants to live in his brave new world of culture-free, soulless hyper-correctness.
There is no such thing as a happy police state. There’s just anxiety, neurosis and endless porn.
Any idea that cannot stand up to criticism, no matter how crude or ignorant, is worthy of our consideration. And that’s what Soros’ lame attempts at control ultimately are, a pathetic attempt to stifle criticism by creating a worldwide network of tattle-tales and gatekeepers.
In Watchmen, Veidt convinced the State (Dr. Manhattan) to do just that, killing Rorschach who refused to accept the lie and would expose the truth.
And that’s exactly what Soros is doing asking for Facebook’s platform immunity to be revoked. Continuing to use Facebook in ways it doesn’t approve of or leaving the platform is how we fight both Zuckerberg and Soros. Forcing them to adapt to our curve balls, remembering that without us they have no power, that’s how we win.
Not by using the very thing that wants us curtailed, caged, taxed and just mobile enough to think we’re free to protect us from each other, or worse, bad ideas.
Reprinted with permission from Gold Goats ‘n Guns.
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lewrockwell--2020-02-05--The Most Egregious Series of ‘Corrupt Acts’ Ever

“ The evidence points in the direction of the president inviting Ukraine to engage in the corrupt acts of investigating a US political opponent , ” House manager Adam Schiff told the U.S. Senate about a thousand times last week .
A master dissembler , Schiff said whatever he had to in his effort to remove President Trump from office .
However shameful , that was his job .
The media had no excuse for enabling him .
Those old enough to remember the Clinton years know what “ corrupt acts ” by a sitting president really smell like .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Governmental Affairs chaired by Sen. Fred Thompson laid out in broad terms the scope of corruption that President Bill Clinton orchestrated : The president and his aides demeaned the offices of the president and vice president , took advantage of minority groups , pulled down all the barriers that would normally be in place to keep out illegal contributions , pressured policy makers , and left themselves open to strong suspicion that they were selling not only access to high-ranking officials , but policy as well .
Millions of dollars were raised in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ foreign sources .
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“ The White House is like a subway , ” he told the Thompson committee .
“ You have to put in coins to open the gates.
” Chung admitted to funneling $ 100,000 from the Chinese Military to the Democratic National Committee .
In the runup to the 1996 election , the Clintons needed every dollar they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scandalous missteps and the Democratic Party ’ s drubbing in the 1994 midterms .
I could cite a score of specific outrages during that campaign , but I will concentrate on one that , as Schiff was fond of saying , “ endangered U.S. national security.
” By comparison , anything the U.S. or the Ukraine suffered as a result of the celebrated funding “ pause ” was a trifling inconvenience .
Here are a few of the other , lesser outrages during that election cycle : • In February 1996 , Clinton @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jun , a meeting greased by a $ 50,000 donation , a meeting even Clinton would admit was “ clearly inappropriate ” but only after Wang Jun ’ s company was caught flooding California ’ s inner cities with illegal semi-automatic weapons .
• In April 1996 Clinton sent embattled Commerce Secretary Ron Brown to Croatia to broker a sweetheart deal between the neo-Fascists who ran that country and the Enron Corporation .
• In April 1996 , the Clinton White House sabotaged the investigation into the inexplicable USAF plane crash that killed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ July 1996 , the White House orchestrated a cover-up of the accidental missile strike on TWA Flight 800 that killed 230 .
• In September 1996 Clinton “ unilaterally ” declared a new 1.7 million-acre national monument in southern Utah , in the process handing his patrons , the Riady family of Indonesia , a monopoly on the world ’ s supply of low-sulfur coal .

“The evidence points in the direction of the president inviting Ukraine to engage in the corrupt acts of investigating a US political opponent,” House manager Adam Schiff told the U.S. Senate about a thousand times last week.
A master dissembler, Schiff said whatever he had to in his effort to remove President Trump from office. However shameful, that was his job. The media had no excuse for enabling him. Those old enough to remember the Clinton years know what “corrupt acts” by a sitting president really smell like.
In 1997, the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs chaired by Sen. Fred Thompson laid out in broad terms the scope of corruption that President Bill Clinton orchestrated:
The president and his aides demeaned the offices of the president and vice president, took advantage of minority groups, pulled down all the barriers that would normally be in place to keep out illegal contributions, pressured policy makers, and left themselves open to strong suspicion that they were selling not only access to high-ranking officials, but policy as well. Millions of dollars were raised in illegal contributions, much of it from foreign sources.
Against the Left: A Ro... Rockwell Jr, Llewellyn H Best Price: $2.85 Buy New $8.00 (as of 07:59 UTC - Details) Johnny Chung described the state of affairs a bit more colorfully. “The White House is like a subway,” he told the Thompson committee. “You have to put in coins to open the gates.” Chung admitted to funneling $100,000 from the Chinese Military to the Democratic National Committee.
In the runup to the 1996 election, the Clintons needed every dollar they could extort to rebound from their own scandalous missteps and the Democratic Party’s drubbing in the 1994 midterms.
I could cite a score of specific outrages during that campaign, but I will concentrate on one that, as Schiff was fond of saying, “endangered U.S. national security.” By comparison, anything the U.S. or the Ukraine suffered as a result of the celebrated funding “pause” was a trifling inconvenience.
Here are a few of the other, lesser outrages during that election cycle:
In February 1996, Clinton met with with Chinese arms dealer Wang Jun, a meeting greased by a $50,000 donation, a meeting even Clinton would admit was “clearly inappropriate” but only after Wang Jun’s company was caught flooding California’s inner cities with illegal semi-automatic weapons.
In April 1996 Clinton sent embattled Commerce Secretary Ron Brown to Croatia to broker a sweetheart deal between the neo-Fascists who ran that country and the Enron Corporation.
In April 1996, the Clinton White House sabotaged the investigation into the inexplicable USAF plane crash that killed Brown and 34 others.
In July 1996, the White House orchestrated a cover-up of the accidental missile strike on TWA Flight 800 that killed 230.
In September 1996 Clinton “unilaterally” declared a new 1.7 million-acre national monument in southern Utah, in the process handing his patrons, the Riady family of Indonesia, a monopoly on the world’s supply of low-sulfur coal.
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lewrockwell--2020-02-05--Human Rights Organization Says Unborn Babies Aren’t Human and Have No Rights

Kenneth Roth , the head of a so-called “ human rights ” organization known as Human Rights Watch , recently came out to claim that unborn babies have no human rights because they aren ’ t human like adult women who have the “ human right ” to get abortions if they so choose .
Speaking to the U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights , Roth declared that abortion is a “ fundamental right ” for “ anyone who wants or needs it , ” adding that unborn babies are only human in a “ philosophical ” sense .
In other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ human babies is a non-starter with no place in official government policy .
Roth openly criticized Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for even creating the U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights , which seeks to include unborn human life under the banner of all human rights – seeing as how unborn babies are , in fact , human beings .
Amazon.com Gift Card i ... Buy New $ 10.00 Even though abortion isn ’ t even mentioned in any of the United Nations ’ human rights treaties , Roth insists that legalized abortion is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ millions ” of women from having to seek out other methods of murdering their unborn babies .
“ Authoritative interpretations , ” in Roth ’ s view , underlie the U.N. ’ s acceptance of abortion as a human right , even though abortion is nowhere mentioned in its human rights proclamations or treaties .
He also contends that the U.N. ’ s Humans Rights Committee is “ not that different ” from the U.S. Supreme Court , adding that it ’ s a “ final arbiter ” of the rights enumerated in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rights , to which the U.S. is a member .

Kenneth Roth, the head of a so-called “human rights” organization known as Human Rights Watch, recently came out to claim that unborn babies have no human rights because they aren’t human like adult women who have the “human right” to get abortions if they so choose.
Speaking to the U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights, Roth declared that abortion is a “fundamental right” for “anyone who wants or needs it,” adding that unborn babies are only human in a “philosophical” sense. In other words, enshrining human rights for unborn human babies is a non-starter with no place in official government policy.
Roth openly criticized Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for even creating the U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights, which seeks to include unborn human life under the banner of all human rights – seeing as how unborn babies are, in fact, human beings. Amazon.com Gift Card i... Buy New $10.00 (as of 08:25 UTC - Details)
Even though abortion isn’t even mentioned in any of the United Nations’ human rights treaties, Roth insists that legalized abortion is a universal human right that protects “millions” of women from having to seek out other methods of murdering their unborn babies.
“Authoritative interpretations,” in Roth’s view, underlie the U.N.’s acceptance of abortion as a human right, even though abortion is nowhere mentioned in its human rights proclamations or treaties. He also contends that the U.N.’s Humans Rights Committee is “not that different” from the U.S. Supreme Court, adding that it’s a “final arbiter” of the rights enumerated in the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, to which the U.S. is a member.
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lewrockwell--2020-02-05--Claims that John Bolton’s Book Disclosures Are ‘Top Secret’ Ring Hollow

Ever since the 9/11 attacks , Republicans and Democrats have conspired to keep Americans increasingly ignorant of what the federal government does .
The number of secret federal documents skyrocketed , and any information classified was treated like a political holy relic that could not be exposed without dooming the nation .
Ironically , the fate of the Trump presidency may hinge on perpetuating the unjustifiable secrecy now pervading Washington .
John Bolton wrote a book about his experiences as President Donald Trump ’ s national security adviser that could provide key information regarding Trump ’ s dealing with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Congress are calling for the manuscript to be made public .
Former government officials are obliged to submit their publications for review to ensure that no classified information is revealed .
Bolton ’ s lawyer denies that the book contains classified information , but previous manuscript reviews of other would-be authors have dragged out for months or years .
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Since the 1990s , the number of classified documents annually by federal agencies has increased more than 15 times .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , derided the federal classification system as “ incomprehensibly complex ” and “ so bloated it often does not distinguish between the critically important and the comically irrelevant.
” The New York Times reported in 2005 that federal agencies were “ classifying documents at the rate of 125 a minute as they create new categories of semi-secrets bearing vague labels like ‘ sensitive security information.
’ ” Each classified document is tacitly backed by a federal iron fist ready to squash anyone who discloses it without permission .
Regardless of whether the Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s disclosures , it was the Obama White House that weaponized classification .
J. William Leonard , former chief of the federal Information Security Oversight Office , complained in 2011 that the Obama administration had “ criminally prosecuted more leakers of purportedly classified information than all previous administrations combined.
” For the Obama administration , leaking classified information to the news media was worse than spying for a hostile government .
Its Justice Department declared in 2011 that government officials who “ elected to disclose the classified information publicly through the mass @ @ @ @ @ @ @ greater threat to society ” than do foreign spies .
The Obama administration believed that its classification decrees were so sacrosanct , no federal judge could overturn them .
“ We don ’ t think there is a First Amendment right to classified documents , ” Justice Department lawyer Catherine Dorsey told a federal judge in 2015 .
Dorsey agreed that the government ’ s position was tantamount to claiming that the court “ has absolutely no authority ” to unseal evidence even if it ’ s clear the government ’ s bid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ irrationality ” or that it ’ s “ hiding something , ” as The Intercept reported .
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Ever since the 9/11 attacks, Republicans and Democrats have conspired to keep Americans increasingly ignorant of what the federal government does. The number of secret federal documents skyrocketed, and any information classified was treated like a political holy relic that could not be exposed without dooming the nation. Ironically, the fate of the Trump presidency may hinge on perpetuating the unjustifiable secrecy now pervading Washington.
John Bolton wrote a book about his experiences as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser that could provide key information regarding Trump’s dealing with the Ukrainian government, and Democratic members of Congress are calling for the manuscript to be made public. Former government officials are obliged to submit their publications for review to ensure that no classified information is revealed. Bolton’s lawyer denies that the book contains classified information, but previous manuscript reviews of other would-be authors have dragged out for months or years.
Obama weaponized classification
Lost Rights: The Destr... Bovard, James Buy New $7.99 (as of 11:35 UTC - Details) Since the 1990s, the number of classified documents annually by federal agencies has increased more than 15 times.
In 2004, then-Rep. Chris Shays, R-Conn., derided the federal classification system as “incomprehensibly complex” and “so bloated it often does not distinguish between the critically important and the comically irrelevant.”
The New York Times reported in 2005 that federal agencies were “classifying documents at the rate of 125 a minute as they create new categories of semi-secrets bearing vague labels like ‘sensitive security information.’ ”
Each classified document is tacitly backed by a federal iron fist ready to squash anyone who discloses it without permission. Regardless of whether the Trump White House is conniving to stifle Bolton’s disclosures, it was the Obama White House that weaponized classification. J. William Leonard, former chief of the federal Information Security Oversight Office, complained in 2011 that the Obama administration had “criminally prosecuted more leakers of purportedly classified information than all previous administrations combined.”
For the Obama administration, leaking classified information to the news media was worse than spying for a hostile government. Its Justice Department declared in 2011 that government officials who “elected to disclose the classified information publicly through the mass media” were “posing an even greater threat to society” than do foreign spies.
The Obama administration believed that its classification decrees were so sacrosanct, no federal judge could overturn them. “We don’t think there is a First Amendment right to classified documents,” Justice Department lawyer Catherine Dorsey told a federal judge in 2015.
Dorsey agreed that the government’s position was tantamount to claiming that the court “has absolutely no authority” to unseal evidence even if it’s clear the government’s bid to keep it secret is based on “irrationality” or that it’s “hiding something,” as The Intercept reported.
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lewrockwell--2020-02-05--The Real Winner in Iowa? Donald Trump

The Real Winner in Iowa? Donald Trump

After a long wait from Iowa , we can finally declare the winner of the Democratic Party caucuses : Donald Trump .
What a debacle for the Democrats the caucuses have been .
The Iowa Democratic Party failed to release the results last night , saying it found ‘ inconsistencies ’ with the reporting from its new app – a gadget designed by a firm called Shadow Inc .
Think of all of the efforts down the drain .
More than a year of campaigning in Iowa , millions of dollars spent , thousands of volunteer hours spent knocking on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coffee shops and school halls – it was all wasted .
Last night , the TV news teams waited with their fancy electronic screens ready to give precinct-by-precinct results , showing big 0s next to each candidate ’ s name .
Instead , they had to try desperately to fill the airtime with mindless talk .
What a joke .
This year the Democrats seem determined to hand the election to Trump on a silver platter .
They chose to impeach him over Ukraine , but were unable to convince a majority of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do .
In fact , they managed to increase his standing in the polls in the process .
The Democrats ’ fans in the media are also inadvertently helping Trump .
Last week , CNN aired a conversation of political commentators mocking the ‘ rubes ’ who support the president – which was quickly turned by the Trump campaign into an advertisement for his re-election .
Against the Left : A Ro ... Llewellyn H Rockwell Jr Best Price : $ 13.57 Buy New $ 8.00 And now Iowa .
The scripts write @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Democratic Party that freaked out over supposed Russian hacking of the 2016 election , that doesn ’ t lose a chance to virtue-signal about stopping ‘ voter suppression ’ , can not count votes .
The party that wants to ban fracking , and tell the thousands who will be made jobless to ‘ learn to code ’ , does not know how to code .
And the party that wants to take over and run the $ 4 trillion healthcare system for 330million Americans can not organise an election among less than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ caucuses , the Democratic field was in disarray , splintered among many candidates and factions .
Contenders have been squabbling like gossipy teenagers , as when Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders fought over whether or not Sanders had once told Warren that a woman could not defeat Trump .
As with the impeachment , the Democrats have continued to re-litigate the 2016 election rather than look forward – with Hillary Clinton weighing in a number of times , including a recent outburst in which she said ‘ nobody likes ’ Sanders .
Now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s messy conflicts , has made it look even more dysfunctional .

After a long wait from Iowa, we can finally declare the winner of the Democratic Party caucuses: Donald Trump.
What a debacle for the Democrats the caucuses have been. The Iowa Democratic Party failed to release the results last night, saying it found ‘inconsistencies’ with the reporting from its new app – a gadget designed by a firm called Shadow Inc. Think of all of the efforts down the drain. More than a year of campaigning in Iowa, millions of dollars spent, thousands of volunteer hours spent knocking on doors, all of the gatherings in coffee shops and school halls – it was all wasted. Last night, the TV news teams waited with their fancy electronic screens ready to give precinct-by-precinct results, showing big 0s next to each candidate’s name. Instead, they had to try desperately to fill the airtime with mindless talk. What a joke.
This year the Democrats seem determined to hand the election to Trump on a silver platter. They chose to impeach him over Ukraine, but were unable to convince a majority of Americans this was the right thing to do. In fact, they managed to increase his standing in the polls in the process. The Democrats’ fans in the media are also inadvertently helping Trump. Last week, CNN aired a conversation of political commentators mocking the ‘rubes’ who support the president – which was quickly turned by the Trump campaign into an advertisement for his re-election. Against the Left: A Ro... Rockwell Jr, Llewellyn H Best Price: $2.85 Buy New $8.00 (as of 07:59 UTC - Details)
And now Iowa. The scripts write themselves for the Trump staff. The Democratic Party that freaked out over supposed Russian hacking of the 2016 election, that doesn’t lose a chance to virtue-signal about stopping ‘voter suppression’, cannot count votes. The party that wants to ban fracking, and tell the thousands who will be made jobless to ‘learn to code’, does not know how to code. And the party that wants to take over and run the $4 trillion healthcare system for 330million Americans cannot organise an election among less than 200,000 voters.
Coming into the Iowa caucuses, the Democratic field was in disarray, splintered among many candidates and factions. Contenders have been squabbling like gossipy teenagers, as when Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders fought over whether or not Sanders had once told Warren that a woman could not defeat Trump. As with the impeachment, the Democrats have continued to re-litigate the 2016 election rather than look forward – with Hillary Clinton weighing in a number of times, including a recent outburst in which she said ‘nobody likes’ Sanders. Now Iowa, rather than resolving the party’s messy conflicts, has made it look even more dysfunctional.
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lewrockwell--2020-02-05--John Lennon: ‘The World Is Run By Insane People, For Insane Objectives’

Between the wars on terror and on drugs , recurring economic disasters and the disappearing middle class , racial wars , Big Pharma , GMOs , and corporate lobbying , it ’ s clear we ’ re in desperate need of change , and you have to wonder how we got here in the first place .
It was in my later years of high school that I began to feel relief about something that had bothered me for a long time : I started to realize how the world really works .
Now , at 30 years old , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many of the top researchers in the field of truth seeking .
These conversations have illuminated many truths about our world , but none more so than this one : Our world is run by psychopaths .
I want to be very clear here — my aim is not to judge these men and women or call them evil , nor is it to stir up strong emotions amongst my readers .
This is about taking a good , hard look at what ’ s really going on in our world so we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it .
Against the Left : A Ro ... Llewellyn H Rockwell Jr Best Price : $ 13.57 Buy New $ 8.00 “ As difficult as it was for me , I ’ ve come to an inescapable and profoundly disturbing conclusion .
I believe that an elite group of people and the corporations they run have gained control over not just our energy , food supply , education , and healthcare , but over virtually every aspect of our lives ; and they do it by controlling the world of finance .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ by actually controlling the source of money.
” You know it ; you feel it .
Something is not quite right with our world , and as each day goes by , more and more people are realizing this in a big way .
In 2016 we witnessed millions begin to realize how elections are rigged and that we truly have no choice about who governs us .
We began to learn that our world leaders are closely involved with companies who fund terror and that the War on Terror is largely fabricated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ understandings like this shows a shift in our overall consciousness as a planet and helps us to realize how we can move forward .
Should we keep voting expecting to see change when that ’ s not how our world actually works ?
Should we spend money supporting companies who are harming us and our environment ?
Should we support the medical system blindly rather than working to create better health and wellness so we experience fewer illnesses overall ?
The more we understand how the game works , the more we can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of it this way : Imagine you are playing a game and you find out someone is cheating , rigging the rules so you always lose .
You might get up , walk away , and refuse to keep playing .
Since that person can ’ t play alone , they ’ re forced to stop altogether .
In a sense , this is exactly what we need to work towards .
A transformation in consciousness comes from understanding , which leads to taking new actions , which helps to create a different @ @ @ @ @ @ @ starts with knowledge and consciousness .
John Lennon ’ s name is synonymous with peace and political activism .
He was always a bit of a rebel , even early in life , and helped millions to think differently about their world .
His song “ Give Peace a Chance ” became an anthem for the anti-war movement and is still heard today during peace marches around the world .
Best known for his time with The Beatles , John has always had strong views about politics and today might be equally as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Imagine all the people living life in peace .
You may say I ’ m a dreamer , but I ’ m not the only one .
I hope someday you ’ ll join us , and the world will be as one .
You don ’ t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are .
You are what you are !
My role in society , or any artist ’ s or poet ’ s role , is to try and express what we all feel .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Not as a preacher , not as a leader , but as a reflection of us all .
Lennon had a deep sense of wisdom about him , and even to this day , his words have the power to affect millions .
On June 6 , 1968 , Peter Lewis chatted with Lennon and Spinetti about a new play they were working on .
The filmed interview would air on BBC-2 as part of the arts program Release .
This is a clip from that interview .

Between the wars on terror and on drugs, recurring economic disasters and the disappearing middle class, racial wars, Big Pharma, GMOs, and corporate lobbying, it’s clear we’re in desperate need of change, and you have to wonder how we got here in the first place.
It was in my later years of high school that I began to feel relief about something that had bothered me for a long time: I started to realize how the world really works. Now, at 30 years old, I’ve interviewed and worked with many of the top researchers in the field of truth seeking. These conversations have illuminated many truths about our world, but none more so than this one: Our world is run by psychopaths.
I want to be very clear here — my aim is not to judge these men and women or call them evil, nor is it to stir up strong emotions amongst my readers. This is about taking a good, hard look at what’s really going on in our world so we can actually begin the work of changing it.
Against the Left: A Ro... Rockwell Jr, Llewellyn H Best Price: $2.85 Buy New $8.00 (as of 03:52 UTC - Details) “As difficult as it was for me, I’ve come to an inescapable and profoundly disturbing conclusion. I believe that an elite group of people and the corporations they run have gained control over not just our energy, food supply, education, and healthcare, but over virtually every aspect of our lives; and they do it by controlling the world of finance. Not by creating more value, but by actually controlling the source of money.”
– Foster Gamble (Thrive)
Why It’s Important
You know it; you feel it. Something is not quite right with our world, and as each day goes by, more and more people are realizing this in a big way. In 2016 we witnessed millions begin to realize how elections are rigged and that we truly have no choice about who governs us.
We began to learn that our world leaders are closely involved with companies who fund terror and that the War on Terror is largely fabricated to justify certain actions.
Coming to understandings like this shows a shift in our overall consciousness as a planet and helps us to realize how we can move forward. Should we keep voting expecting to see change when that’s not how our world actually works? Should we spend money supporting companies who are harming us and our environment? Should we support the medical system blindly rather than working to create better health and wellness so we experience fewer illnesses overall?
The more we understand how the game works, the more we can determine how to change it. Think of it this way: Imagine you are playing a game and you find out someone is cheating, rigging the rules so you always lose. You might get up, walk away, and refuse to keep playing. Since that person can’t play alone, they’re forced to stop altogether. In a sense, this is exactly what we need to work towards.
A transformation in consciousness comes from understanding, which leads to taking new actions, which helps to create a different world and bring solutions. But it starts with knowledge and consciousness.
John Lennon Speaks Truth
John Lennon’s name is synonymous with peace and political activism. He was always a bit of a rebel, even early in life, and helped millions to think differently about their world. His song “Give Peace a Chance” became an anthem for the anti-war movement and is still heard today during peace marches around the world.
Best known for his time with The Beatles, John has always had strong views about politics and today might be equally as known for his activism and wisdom.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.
You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
Lennon had a deep sense of wisdom about him, and even to this day, his words have the power to affect millions.
On June 6, 1968, Peter Lewis chatted with Lennon and Spinetti about a new play they were working on. The filmed interview would air on BBC-2 as part of the arts program Release. This is a clip from that interview.

Reprinted with permission from Collective Evolution.


lewrockwell--2020-02-05--The Assassins Are Back!

The Assassins Are Back!

Ron Unz , the fearless disturber of established dogma , has published a long essay connecting together some of his earlier texts under the title Mossad Assassinations .
I like his natural style , his lack of pathos and drama .
He does not lecture you , but shares his progress with you ; what did he discover today , and how did he discover that .
Reading him is like talking to a pleasant knowledgeable neighbour .
In a biopic he could be played by a Henry Fonda .
For me , the length of his essays ( this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a fault but an advantage , but here is a brief summary .
It is basically a reading-together-with-Unz of the huge ( 750 pages ) volume of Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman , the recent well-researched book on Mossad killings .
Unz sifted that mountain and found it wanting for one excellent reason : Bergman willingly submitted his study of Mossad assassinations to … Mossad censorship .
While this prudence saved Bergman ’ s neck from the fury of the Kidon , as the Mossad assassination unit is called , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ less useful .
A book on assassins censored by an assassin committee is an exercise in hagiography , not a critical appreciation of history .
Unz goes for the lacunae in Bergman ’ s book , for the Dog that Didn ’ t Bark cases , like a medieval glossarist adding his valuable understanding to the otherwise obscure ( or intentionally obscured ) text .
Why should we be interested in the subject , at all ?
Unz gives a short sharp answer .
Mossad assassinated more people than all the special services @ @ @ @ @ @ @ KGB , unbridled CIA and MI6 of James Bond together .
“ The body-count [ of Mossad ] exceeded the combined total for that of all other major countries in the world .
I think all the lurid revelations of lethal CIA or KGB Cold War assassination plots that I have seen discussed in newspaper stories might fit comfortably into just a chapter or two of Bergman ’ s extremely long book ” .
Such a state did exist in the past , the Assassins of Alamut that once controlled the Middle East @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their ability and preparedness to assassinate the dynamic leaders of Crusaders and Saracens , while leaving alive only weak and passive rulers who would obey their commands .
By threatening ( and occasionally killing ) European and American leaders , the Jews , these new Assassins , ushered us into the world of weak and corrupt politicians , who fawn to them instead of caring for voters .
What is equally important , if the WASP-ruled USA avoided assassination of opponents altogether ; with the Jewish ascendancy , the tactics of the small @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the bigger Jewish state , the US of A .
“ The Bush Administration had conducted 47 of these assassinations-by-another-name , while his successor Barack Obama , a constitutional scholar and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate , had raised his own total to 542 ” , while Donald Trump upped the ante by assassinating the Iranian general .
That ’ s why this study of Mossad assassinations has urgency , and we should follow Unz critically reading Bergman .
There are practically no new revelations in Bergman ’ s book – this is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many cases , so much detail , and not even one big case previously unknown .
The suspected hits remain hidden and unmentioned .
He could but he didn ’ t discuss the ( suspected ) murder of Yasser Arafat , done by the same rare radioactive isotope that killed a Russian KGB defector Litvinenko ( this murder had been assigned to the Russians , though they insistently rejected the accusation ) , and a Brazilian Air Force officer who was assassinated in the same way by Mossad to prevent Brazil from becoming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seems to be a Mossad ’ s trademark ) .
“ Bergman simply reports the categorical Israeli denials … then emphasizes that even if he knew the truth , he couldn ’ t publish it since his entire book was written under strict Israeli censorship ” .
Bergman does his best to obscure By Way of Deception , the scary book by Victor Ostrovsky , a Mossad defector who miraculously avoided the Kidon to tell us of its memorable hits .
The book is hardly mentioned ( once in a footnote ) , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scary and revealing , The Other Side of Deception , is not mentioned at all , and his revelations are given a wide berth by prudent Mr Bergman .
While Ostrovsky explains some Mossad ’ s successes by its prolific use of sayanim , that is local Jews eager to extend all the help needed , be it a safe house , a car , a loan , a transfer – the word sayan does not even appear in the index of Bergman ’ s book .
He does not mention the very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ General Zia ul-Hak , who was killed by injecting lethal gas into the cabin of an airliner , causing its crash , though this technique could clear many mysterious air disasters .
General Zia created the Muslim Nuclear Bomb , something Israel wanted to stop at any price .
Bergman does not tell of Mossad ’ s killing of Israeli and Palestinian politicians they considered too ‘ soft ’ and pro-peace .
They didn ’ t stop on the red light at all .
There are strong suspicions they assassinated Yitzhak Rabin , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Minister ; they did not hesitate to kill even the Mossad head designate , the war hero General Yekutiel Adam , Israel ’ s Deputy Chief of Staff , as they considered he wouldn ’ t tolerate their wanton killings .
Ostrovsky tells of murder-disguised-as-suicide of the British press tycoon Robert Maxwell who , after many years of serving Mossad , had temerity to ask them for a loan .
Bergman does not even mention it .
It appears the Mossad killers weren ’ t stopped by the dignity of the US President @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bush Sr. in 1991 when he tried to force Israel to behave .
( Unz verified and confirmed that the US Secret Service indeed received the warning from Mr Ostrovsky and took it very seriously . )
This plan was derailed , but Bush had not been re-elected , just like President Jimmy Carter who was considered ‘ anti-Israeli ’ by Jewish hardliners .
Even before the state of Israel had been properly established , the Mossad predecessors tried to kill President Harry S. Truman .
At the same time they succeeded to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the US Presidents had and still have very strong reasons to pay heed to Jewish requests .
Ron Unz goes into great detail into assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 .
Following the seminal investigation of late Michael Collins Piper , he thinks Kennedy was killed because he demanded from Israel to let inspectors into Dimona Nuclear Centre and pushed for denuclearisation of Israel .
This ground had been covered by Unz previously , but now he adds a very important detail .
Robert Kennedy had been assassinated when he was very close @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in order to prevent his brother ’ s killing being investigated .
A young Palestinian named Sirhan Sirhan had fired a pistol at the scene and was quickly arrested and convicted for the murder .
Some researchers have long argued that he was merely a convenient patsy in the plot , perhaps acting under some form of hypnosis or conditioning .
Fantasy ?
Ron Unz had noticed a telltale item in Bergman ’ s book : at the same time , another young Palestinian was undergoing intensive rounds of hypnotic conditioning at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ programmed to assassinate PLO leader Yasser Arafat .
It clicked .
Mossad learned more than somewhat from its predecessor , the Old Man of the Mountain who created the assassin brand .
Hypnotic conditioning explains the mystery of Robert Kennedy ’ s assassination , and perhaps of a few others .
Ronen Bergman didn ’ t make the connection , but he allowed Ron Unz to make it .
Bergman tells a scary story of Mossad going for big-scale terror , of This plan had been aborted by the then PM Begin .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ trigger to reconsider 9/11 .
He wrote about the Twin Towers before , rejecting both versions , the government one of 19 Arabs with cutters , and the alternative of the “ inside job ” , for nobody in Bush administration would dare to do it .
Now , with the new item of Bergman , it clicked .
Ariel Sharon had been prevented by his PM from killing a hundred thousand stadium visitors in Beirut in 1981 ; but he was already a PM himself in 2001 , when nothing would stop @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It was risky , but the risk paid off .
In 2001 , the US was a peaceful and prosperous state , while Israel was on the verge of collapse .
Twenty years later , Israel is prospering , while the US is collapsing , as the result of 9/11 .
However , neither Unz , nor Bergman had tried to place the Mossad assassinations within the continuity of Jewish history .
The Jewish assassinations didn ’ t begin with Mossad , or even with Zionists .
It is a part of Jewish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
A Jewish woman took part in assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881 .
The Russian Prime Minister Peter Stolypin , the man who almost had prevented the Revolution , had been assassinated in 1911 by a Jewish killer Dmitry Bogrov .
Between these two terrorist acts , many thousands of officials had been assassinated in the Russian Empire , and the assassins had been directed by two Jewish terrorists , Grigori Gershuni and Eugene Azef .
Zionists , then a small movement , and a Jewish socialist party , the Bund @ @ @ @ @ @ @ terrorists who participated in non-Jewish organisations , eventually chose to go the nascent Jewish state , to Palestine .
Pinchas Rutenberg , a terrorist and assassin , became a Zionist and a prominent businessman ; he established electric company and there are streets named after him in many Israeli cities .
The Russian Revolution didn ’ t put an end to Jewish terrorism : in 1919 , an attempt to assassinate Vladimir Lenin was made by the Jewish woman Fanny Kaplan .
Lenin survived the attempt but had been incapacitated and died in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1953 , Joseph Stalin died in suspicious circumstances , after he had antagonised the Jews .
And the Jewish terror continued elsewhere : the Ukrainian president-in-exile Simon Petliura had been killed by a vengeful Jew , and so was the German diplomat vom Rath .
Years ago , I ’ ve met in Israel an old terrorist who participated in many killings in pre-revolutionary Russia ; then he had escaped to Palestine .
He told me : for success of terrorism , you need dynamite and a newspaper .
Dynamite without media support @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Without media , you will create a martyr .
Without a real lethal option , strong-minded people won ’ t care what you write .
We often hear that Jewish influence is based on finances and media .
It ’ s not the whole truth .
Fear of death is the third support of Jewish ascendancy .
An enemy could be dealt ( a ) by media .
At first , they blot every reference to his name ; if it does not help , they attack him ad hominem .
( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tried to combat Jewish influence , but he received an offer he could not refuse ; he apologised , burned his books , and repented rather than see his car production bankrupted .
( c ) Assassination proper , for those who do not care for adverse publicity or money .
While Jews were at it for a long while , the State of Israel has turned assassination into mass production .
There are thousands of names , thousands of killed , defamed , ruined people all over the world .
And this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state : it can ’ t be different .
“ The Jewish tradition is rampantly ethnocentric and dehumanises outsiders with a gusto that could hardly be exceeded ” , – wrote Ed Herman in his Triumph of the Market .
This is the problem with Trump ’ s Deal of the Century : not that it is unfair to Palestinians ( it is unfair , but life is unfair ) , but that it would preserve a separate Jewish state .
Even a smaller Jewish state would be the seat of Mossad and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ presidents and politicians .
Even a smaller Jewish state would possess nuclear weapons and threaten the world .
Even a smaller Jewish state will be poisoned by its deeply rooted and extremely xenophobic ideology , and will remain a source of ideological contamination for descendants of Jews and Gentiles alike .
The old Assassin State of Alamut was conquered by Mongols and these ruthless warriors flushed the Assassins out of their mountain retreats and utterly destroyed their conspiracy .
Their harmless descendants are Ismailis , who live peacefully and do not disturb peace @ @ @ @ @ @ @ solve the problem , some new Mongols will dismantle the State of Israel and render descendants of Jews as harmless as Ismailis .
However , the problem can be solved peacefully by merging Israel and Palestine into one democratic state as South Africa had been merged – not split into Bantustans , as Trump and Kushner suggest .
It won ’ t be exclusively Jewish , but there are no ethnically/religiously pure states nowadays .
That would put an end to the State of Jewish Assassins and Israel will be peacefully absorbed in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jews in their present nations .
You can also read Shamir ’ s pieces dealing with the subject : This article was first published at The Unz Review .

Ron Unz, the fearless disturber of established dogma, has published a long essay connecting together some of his earlier texts under the title Mossad Assassinations. I like his natural style, his lack of pathos and drama. He does not lecture you, but shares his progress with you; what did he discover today, and how did he discover that. Reading him is like talking to a pleasant knowledgeable neighbour. In a biopic he could be played by a Henry Fonda. For me, the length of his essays (this one has 27,000 words) is not a fault but an advantage, but here is a brief summary. It is basically a reading-together-with-Unz of the huge (750 pages) volume of Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman, the recent well-researched book on Mossad killings. Unz sifted that mountain and found it wanting for one excellent reason: Bergman willingly submitted his study of Mossad assassinations to … Mossad censorship. While this prudence saved Bergman’s neck from the fury of the Kidon, as the Mossad assassination unit is called, it certainly had made his mammoth book much less useful. A book on assassins censored by an assassin committee is an exercise in hagiography, not a critical appreciation of history. Unz goes for the lacunae in Bergman’s book, for the Dog that Didn’t Bark cases, like a medieval glossarist adding his valuable understanding to the otherwise obscure (or intentionally obscured) text.
Why should we be interested in the subject, at all? Unz gives a short sharp answer. Mossad assassinated more people than all the special services of other states – more than dreadful KGB, unbridled CIA and MI6 of James Bond together. “The body-count [of Mossad] exceeded the combined total for that of all other major countries in the world. I think all the lurid revelations of lethal CIA or KGB Cold War assassination plots that I have seen discussed in newspaper stories might fit comfortably into just a chapter or two of Bergman’s extremely long book”.
Such a state did exist in the past, the Assassins of Alamut that once controlled the Middle East. The Assassins drew their power from their ability and preparedness to assassinate the dynamic leaders of Crusaders and Saracens, while leaving alive only weak and passive rulers who would obey their commands. By threatening (and occasionally killing) European and American leaders, the Jews, these new Assassins, ushered us into the world of weak and corrupt politicians, who fawn to them instead of caring for voters.
What is equally important, if the WASP-ruled USA avoided assassination of opponents altogether; with the Jewish ascendancy, the tactics of the small Jewish state of Israel had been adopted by the bigger Jewish state, the US of A. “The Bush Administration had conducted 47 of these assassinations-by-another-name, while his successor Barack Obama, a constitutional scholar and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, had raised his own total to 542”, while Donald Trump upped the ante by assassinating the Iranian general. That’s why this study of Mossad assassinations has urgency, and we should follow Unz critically reading Bergman.
There are practically no new revelations in Bergman’s book – this is the first revelation of Unz. So many cases, so much detail, and not even one big case previously unknown. The suspected hits remain hidden and unmentioned. He could but he didn’t discuss the (suspected) murder of Yasser Arafat, done by the same rare radioactive isotope that killed a Russian KGB defector Litvinenko (this murder had been assigned to the Russians, though they insistently rejected the accusation), and a Brazilian Air Force officer who was assassinated in the same way by Mossad to prevent Brazil from becoming a nuclear nation. (Radioactive poisoning seems to be a Mossad’s trademark). “Bergman simply reports the categorical Israeli denials … then emphasizes that even if he knew the truth, he couldn’t publish it since his entire book was written under strict Israeli censorship”.
Bergman does his best to obscure By Way of Deception, the scary book by Victor Ostrovsky, a Mossad defector who miraculously avoided the Kidon to tell us of its memorable hits. The book is hardly mentioned (once in a footnote), while his second book, even more scary and revealing, The Other Side of Deception, is not mentioned at all, and his revelations are given a wide berth by prudent Mr Bergman. While Ostrovsky explains some Mossad’s successes by its prolific use of sayanim, that is local Jews eager to extend all the help needed, be it a safe house, a car, a loan, a transfer – the word sayan does not even appear in the index of Bergman’s book.
He does not mention the very sophisticated assassination of the Pakistan President, General Zia ul-Hak, who was killed by injecting lethal gas into the cabin of an airliner, causing its crash, though this technique could clear many mysterious air disasters. General Zia created the Muslim Nuclear Bomb, something Israel wanted to stop at any price.
Bergman does not tell of Mossad’s killing of Israeli and Palestinian politicians they considered too ‘soft’ and pro-peace. They didn’t stop on the red light at all. There are strong suspicions they assassinated Yitzhak Rabin, the (relatively) peace-seeking Israeli Prime Minister; they did not hesitate to kill even the Mossad head designate, the war hero General Yekutiel Adam, Israel’s Deputy Chief of Staff, as they considered he wouldn’t tolerate their wanton killings. Ostrovsky tells of murder-disguised-as-suicide of the British press tycoon Robert Maxwell who, after many years of serving Mossad, had temerity to ask them for a loan. Bergman does not even mention it.
It appears the Mossad killers weren’t stopped by the dignity of the US President Office. They planned to kill President Bush Sr. in 1991 when he tried to force Israel to behave. (Unz verified and confirmed that the US Secret Service indeed received the warning from Mr Ostrovsky and took it very seriously.) This plan was derailed, but Bush had not been re-elected, just like President Jimmy Carter who was considered ‘anti-Israeli’ by Jewish hardliners. Even before the state of Israel had been properly established, the Mossad predecessors tried to kill President Harry S. Truman. At the same time they succeeded to assassinate Lord Moyne of Britain, so the US Presidents had and still have very strong reasons to pay heed to Jewish requests.
Ron Unz goes into great detail into assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. Following the seminal investigation of late Michael Collins Piper, he thinks Kennedy was killed because he demanded from Israel to let inspectors into Dimona Nuclear Centre and pushed for denuclearisation of Israel. This ground had been covered by Unz previously, but now he adds a very important detail.
Robert Kennedy had been assassinated when he was very close to be elected the US President, in order to prevent his brother’s killing being investigated. A young Palestinian named Sirhan Sirhan had fired a pistol at the scene and was quickly arrested and convicted for the murder. Some researchers have long argued that he was merely a convenient patsy in the plot, perhaps acting under some form of hypnosis or conditioning. Fantasy? Ron Unz had noticed a telltale item in Bergman’s book: at the same time, another young Palestinian was undergoing intensive rounds of hypnotic conditioning at the hands of Mossad in Israel, being programmed to assassinate PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
It clicked. Mossad learned more than somewhat from its predecessor, the Old Man of the Mountain who created the assassin brand. Hypnotic conditioning explains the mystery of Robert Kennedy’s assassination, and perhaps of a few others. Ronen Bergman didn’t make the connection, but he allowed Ron Unz to make it.
Bergman tells a scary story of Mossad going for big-scale terror, of
A huge wave of false-flag terrorist attacks unleashed in 1981 by Israeli Defence Minister Ariel Sharon… Under Israeli direction, large car bombs began exploding in the Palestinian neighbourhoods of Beirut and other Lebanese cities, killing or injuring enormous numbers of civilians. A single attack in October inflicted nearly 400 casualties, and by December, there were eighteen bombings per month, with their effectiveness greatly enhanced by the use of innovative new Israeli drone technology. Official responsibility for all the attacks was claimed by a previously unknown Lebanese organization, but the intent was to provoke the PLO into military retaliation against Israel, thereby justifying Sharon’s planned invasion of the neighbouring country. Since the PLO stubbornly refused to take the bait, plans were put into motion for the huge bombing of an entire Beirut sports stadium during a January 1st political ceremony using tons of explosives, with the death and destruction expected to be “of unprecedented proportions, even in terms of Lebanon.”
This plan had been aborted by the then PM Begin. For Unz this story served as a trigger to reconsider 9/11. He wrote about the Twin Towers before, rejecting both versions, the government one of 19 Arabs with cutters, and the alternative of the “inside job”, for nobody in Bush administration would dare to do it. Now, with the new item of Bergman, it clicked. Ariel Sharon had been prevented by his PM from killing a hundred thousand stadium visitors in Beirut in 1981; but he was already a PM himself in 2001, when nothing would stop him killing three thousand New Yorkers. It was risky, but the risk paid off. In 2001, the US was a peaceful and prosperous state, while Israel was on the verge of collapse. Twenty years later, Israel is prospering, while the US is collapsing, as the result of 9/11.
However, neither Unz, nor Bergman had tried to place the Mossad assassinations within the continuity of Jewish history. The Jewish assassinations didn’t begin with Mossad, or even with Zionists. It is a part of Jewish DNA, at least since late 19thcentury. A Jewish woman took part in assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881. The Russian Prime Minister Peter Stolypin, the man who almost had prevented the Revolution, had been assassinated in 1911 by a Jewish killer Dmitry Bogrov. Between these two terrorist acts, many thousands of officials had been assassinated in the Russian Empire, and the assassins had been directed by two Jewish terrorists, Grigori Gershuni and Eugene Azef.
Zionists, then a small movement, and a Jewish socialist party, the Bund, also dabbed in terror. Some terrorists who participated in non-Jewish organisations, eventually chose to go the nascent Jewish state, to Palestine. Pinchas Rutenberg, a terrorist and assassin, became a Zionist and a prominent businessman; he established electric company and there are streets named after him in many Israeli cities.
The Russian Revolution didn’t put an end to Jewish terrorism: in 1919, an attempt to assassinate Vladimir Lenin was made by the Jewish woman Fanny Kaplan. Lenin survived the attempt but had been incapacitated and died in 1924 after a long illness. In 1953, Joseph Stalin died in suspicious circumstances, after he had antagonised the Jews. And the Jewish terror continued elsewhere: the Ukrainian president-in-exile Simon Petliura had been killed by a vengeful Jew, and so was the German diplomat vom Rath.
Years ago, I’ve met in Israel an old terrorist who participated in many killings in pre-revolutionary Russia; then he had escaped to Palestine. He told me: for success of terrorism, you need dynamite and a newspaper. Dynamite without media support does not work, and vice versa. Without media, you will create a martyr. Without a real lethal option, strong-minded people won’t care what you write.
We often hear that Jewish influence is based on finances and media. It’s not the whole truth. Fear of death is the third support of Jewish ascendancy.
An enemy could be dealt
(a) by media. At first, they blot every reference to his name; if it does not help, they attack him ad hominem.
(b) by money. Henry Ford tried to combat Jewish influence, but he received an offer he could not refuse; he apologised, burned his books, and repented rather than see his car production bankrupted.
(c) Assassination proper, for those who do not care for adverse publicity or money.
While Jews were at it for a long while, the State of Israel has turned assassination into mass production. There are thousands of names, thousands of killed, defamed, ruined people all over the world. And this is an inherent problem with a Jewish state: it can’t be different. “The Jewish tradition is rampantly ethnocentric and dehumanises outsiders with a gusto that could hardly be exceeded”, – wrote Ed Herman in his Triumph of the Market.
This is the problem with Trump’s Deal of the Century: not that it is unfair to Palestinians (it is unfair, but life is unfair), but that it would preserve a separate Jewish state. Even a smaller Jewish state would be the seat of Mossad and its assassination unit, Kidon, threatening presidents and politicians. Even a smaller Jewish state would possess nuclear weapons and threaten the world. Even a smaller Jewish state will be poisoned by its deeply rooted and extremely xenophobic ideology, and will remain a source of ideological contamination for descendants of Jews and Gentiles alike.
The old Assassin State of Alamut was conquered by Mongols and these ruthless warriors flushed the Assassins out of their mountain retreats and utterly destroyed their conspiracy. Their harmless descendants are Ismailis, who live peacefully and do not disturb peace anymore. If we can’t solve the problem, some new Mongols will dismantle the State of Israel and render descendants of Jews as harmless as Ismailis.
However, the problem can be solved peacefully by merging Israel and Palestine into one democratic state as South Africa had been merged – not split into Bantustans, as Trump and Kushner suggest. It won’t be exclusively Jewish, but there are no ethnically/religiously pure states nowadays. That would put an end to the State of Jewish Assassins and Israel will be peacefully absorbed in the region, and the descendants of Jews in their present nations.
You can also read Shamir’s pieces dealing with the subject:
This article was first published at The Unz Review.


lewrockwell--2020-02-05--Dirty 16,000-Year-Old Dishes Show How Humans Survived the Worst Ice Age Winters

Dirty 16,000-year-old dishes have revealed that Siberian hunters cooked hot meals of fish and bone marrow to help them survive the harshest seasons of the ice age .
Researchers analysed ancient fats and lipids that had been preserved on 28 pottery sherds from ice age archaeological sites along the Amur River , in eastern Russia .
They found that — along the Lower Amur — these particular pieces of the world ’ s oldest pottery was used for fish , most likely salmon and freshwater fish .
These findings match the pattern of usage seen in pots of the same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was becoming a key food in this period of climatic chaos .
Amazon.com Gift Card i ... Buy New $ 10.00 In contrast , the team found that fragments from the middle Amur bore lipids from ruminant animals — likely from the boiling of bone marrow .
This marrow would have provided an important source of sustenance in such scarce times brought about by the colder climate .
The researchers also found that these variations in pottery usage was also reflected in the different manufacturing techniques used to create them .
Together , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in East Asia independently developed pottery making during this challenging time .
Dirty 16,000-year-old dishes have revealed that Siberian hunters cooked hot meals of fish and bone marrow to help them survive the harshest seasons of the ice age .
Pictured , some of the pottery sherds the researchers analysed from site along the Amur River in eastern Russia ‘ This study illustrates the exciting potential of new methods in archaeological science : we can extract and interpret the remains of meals that were cooked in pots over 16,000 years ago , ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of York .
‘ It is interesting that pottery emerges during these very cold periods and not during the comparatively warmer [ periods ] when forest resources , such as game and nuts , were more available.
’ ‘ We are very pleased with these latest results , ’ said paper author Shinya Shoda of the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties in Japan .

Dirty 16,000-year-old dishes have revealed that Siberian hunters cooked hot meals of fish and bone marrow to help them survive the harshest seasons of the ice age.
Researchers analysed ancient fats and lipids that had been preserved on 28 pottery sherds from ice age archaeological sites along the Amur River, in eastern Russia.
They found that — along the Lower Amur — these particular pieces of the world's oldest pottery was used for fish, most likely salmon and freshwater fish.
These findings match the pattern of usage seen in pots of the same age from Japan — suggesting that fish was becoming a key food in this period of climatic chaos.
In contrast, the team found that fragments from the middle Amur bore lipids from ruminant animals — likely from the boiling of bone marrow.
This marrow would have provided an important source of sustenance in such scarce times brought about by the colder climate.
The researchers also found that these variations in pottery usage was also reflected in the different manufacturing techniques used to create them.
Together, the findings suggest that groups of hunter-gatherers in East Asia independently developed pottery making during this challenging time.
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Dirty 16,000-year-old dishes have revealed that Siberian hunters cooked hot meals of fish and bone marrow to help them survive the harshest seasons of the ice age. Pictured, some of the pottery sherds the researchers analysed from site along the Amur River in eastern Russia
'This study illustrates the exciting potential of new methods in archaeological science: we can extract and interpret the remains of meals that were cooked in pots over 16,000 years ago,' said archaeologist Oliver Craig of the University of York.
'It is interesting that pottery emerges during these very cold periods and not during the comparatively warmer [periods] when forest resources, such as game and nuts, were more available.'
'We are very pleased with these latest results,' said paper author Shinya Shoda of the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties in Japan.
'They close a major gap in our understanding of why the world's oldest pottery was invented in different parts of Northeast Asia in the Late Glacial Period, and also the contrasting ways in which it was being used by these ancient hunter-gatherers.'
'There are some striking parallels with the way in which early pottery was used in Japan, but also some important differences that we had not expected.'
'This leaves many new questions that we will follow up with future research.'
The researchers also found that these variations in pottery usage was also reflected in the different manufacturing techniques used to create them (as pictured). Together, the findings suggest that hunter-gatherers across East Asia independently developed pottery making
They found that — along the Lower Amur — the pottery was used for fish by the Osipovka culture (bottom). In contrast, the team found that fragments from the middle Amur (from the Gromatukha culture) bore lipids from ruminant animals — likely from boiling bone marrow
'The insights are particularly interesting because they suggest that there was no single "origin point" for the world's oldest pottery,' said paper author and archaeologist Peter Jordan of the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands.
'We are starting to understand that very different pottery traditions were emerging around the same time but in different places, and that the pots were being used to process very different sets of resources,' he added.
'This appears to be a process of "parallel innovation" during a period of major climatic uncertainty, with separate communities facing common threats and reaching similar technological solutions.'
Researchers analysed ancient fats and lipids that had been preserved on 28 pottery sherds from ice age archaeological sites along the Amur River, in eastern Russia. They found that — along the Lower Amur — these particular pieces of the world's oldest pottery was used for fish, most likely salmon and freshwater fish. In contrast, the team found that fragments from the middle Amur bore lipids from ruminant animals — likely from the boiling of bone marrow
The last Ice Age reached its most intense around 26,000–20,000 years ago — forcing the humans of the time to abandon more northern-most regions, including large swathes of Siberia.
Temperatures would only begin to rise around 19,000 years ago, at which point small groups of hunters were able to begin to reoccupy these empty landscapes.
The full findings of the study were published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews.


lewrockwell--2020-02-06--The Twilight Zone of Church History

The Twilight Zone of Church History

Catholics , you are now traveling through another dimension , a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind , a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination .
You have entered a realm of existence between the past and the future , between sanity and madness , between delusion and reality .
You have entered the Twilight Zone of revisionists ’ Church History .
Your next stop : an America Magazine article , “ The Teaching of the Catholic Church is Clear : We are Against War.
” The article that Fr .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ spurious , and misleading , was written by Father James Martin and published on January 13 .
A day later Bishop Barron published “ ‘ 1917 ’ and Remembering Who We Are ” about the recent World War I film , which was followed by a YouTube video called “ 1917 , War , and Faith ” : both masterpieces of obfuscation .
In them Barron seems mystified by the fact that millions of Christians , “ presumably schooled in the moral principles of Jesus Christ , ” participated en masse in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ killed millions of other Christians in World War I .
How could this have happened ?
The answer is simple : Their religious leaders told them it was their duty !
Last week I discussed these two articles on my on my podcast with Fr .
McCarthy ( a priest who has been ostracized from polite circles in the Church for decades because he won ’ t stop insisting that Jesus taught a way of nonviolent love of friends and enemies ) .
The James Martin article is discussed here and the Robert @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Catholic Church is on the “ PR offensive , ” trying to recast itself as antiwar .
The audacity !
Joseph Sobran : The Nat ... Joseph Sobran Best Price : $ 25.00 Buy New $ 25.00 In a letter written to Woodrow Wilson in 1917 , signed by all of the Archbishops of the United States , Cardinal Gibbons writes : In November of that year , Gibbons wrote to Wilson : “ Guided as we are by the sublime teachings of Christianity , we have no other course open to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to our country…we wish for our people to see , and we are striving to help them realize , that they owe unswerving loyalty to the rulers whom they have elected to office , and that in doing so they are not acting in a slavish manner , for obedience is not an act of servility we pay to man but an act of homage we pay to God… ” At least American Catholic Bishops no longer try to “ help ” Catholics by telling them overtly that they owe “ unswerving loyalty @ @ @ @ @ @ @ propagating the government ’ s ill-advised , unjust , and immoral wars with pro-war speeches and letters , the American Bishops condone them with silence : seventeen years of near total , unbroken silence .
When it comes to support for war , their new motto seems to be : “ Mum ’ s the word ” and “ Leave no trace.
” It will be easier this way : American Bishops in the year 2120 will be able to look back on the wars of the early twenty-first century , shake their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like Barron , how it was that Christians— American Catholics no less !
— could have been involved in wars 9,000 miles from home , for which their was no discernible goal or purpose , that decimated the Christian populations of the Middle East .
Future American Bishops will be able to chalk it all up to the mystery of iniquity , I guess , while pointing to puff pieces written by the likes of Martin and Barron and saying , “ Didn ’ t they know that the Catholic Church is against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fr .
McCarthy to conclude : P.S “ Where I come from we write our own history.
” This is a response of a Donald Trump supporter to the issue of history judging him negatively for his support .
P.P.S .
“ History will be kind to me , because I will write it.
” So proclaims Winston Churchill , one of the most brutal and murderous politicians of the Twentieth Century .
P.P.P.S .
Throughout the Twilight Zone series , Rod Serling , its creator and major writer , continually illustrates how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reality by manipulating them into not seeing what is there to see and hence asking the wrong questions .
If you are interested in watching how this is masterfully accomplished , view ( don ’ t read about ) the Twilight Zone episode titled , “ To Serve Man ” as a superb example of this skill .
Interestingly and tellingly , after this episode appeared in 1962 , its title , “ To Serve Man , ” became the unofficial emblem patch of the U.S. Air Forces ’ 509th Bomb Wing , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ serving man dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki .
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Fr. Charles McCarthy writes:
Catholics, you are now traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind, a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. You have entered a realm of existence between the past and the future, between sanity and madness, between delusion and reality. You have entered the Twilight Zone of revisionists’ Church History. Your next stop: an America Magazine article, “The Teaching of the Catholic Church is Clear: We are Against War.”
The article that Fr. McCarthy refers to here, shallow, spurious, and misleading, was written by Father James Martin and published on January 13. A day later Bishop Barron published “‘1917’ and Remembering Who We Are” about the recent World War I film, which was followed by a YouTube video called “1917, War, and Faith”: both masterpieces of obfuscation. In them Barron seems mystified by the fact that millions of Christians, “presumably schooled in the moral principles of Jesus Christ,” participated en masse in the “folly of war,” and killed millions of other Christians in World War I. How could this have happened?
The answer is simple: Their religious leaders told them it was their duty!
Last week I discussed these two articles on my on my podcast with Fr. McCarthy (a priest who has been ostracized from polite circles in the Church for decades because he won’t stop insisting that Jesus taught a way of nonviolent love of friends and enemies). The James Martin article is discussed here and the Robert Barron article discussed here. It seems the Catholic Church is on the “PR offensive,” trying to recast itself as antiwar. The audacity! Joseph Sobran: The Nat... Joseph Sobran Best Price: $25.00 Buy New $25.00 (as of 02:50 UTC - Details)
In a letter written to Woodrow Wilson in 1917, signed by all of the Archbishops of the United States, Cardinal Gibbons writes:
“…now that war has been declared, we bow in obedience to the summons to do our part…Inspired by the holiest sentiments of truest patriotic fervor and zeal, we stand ready, we and all the flock committed to our keeping, to cooperate in every way possible with our national government…”
In November of that year, Gibbons wrote to Wilson:
“Guided as we are by the sublime teachings of Christianity, we have no other course open to us but that of obedience and devotion to our country…we wish for our people to see, and we are striving to help them realize, that they owe unswerving loyalty to the rulers whom they have elected to office, and that in doing so they are not acting in a slavish manner, for obedience is not an act of servility we pay to man but an act of homage we pay to God…”
At least American Catholic Bishops no longer try to “help” Catholics by telling them overtly that they owe “unswerving loyalty” to their government. Instead of propagating the government’s ill-advised, unjust, and immoral wars with pro-war speeches and letters, the American Bishops condone them with silence: seventeen years of near total, unbroken silence. When it comes to support for war, their new motto seems to be: “Mum’s the word” and “Leave no trace.”
It will be easier this way: American Bishops in the year 2120 will be able to look back on the wars of the early twenty-first century, shake their heads in dismay and wonder aloud, like Barron, how it was that Christians— American Catholics no less! — could have been involved in wars 9,000 miles from home, for which their was no discernible goal or purpose, that decimated the Christian populations of the Middle East. Future American Bishops will be able to chalk it all up to the mystery of iniquity, I guess, while pointing to puff pieces written by the likes of Martin and Barron and saying, “Didn’t they know that the Catholic Church is against war?”
I guess we missed the memo.
A few thoughts from Fr. McCarthy to conclude:
P.S “Where I come from we write our own history.” This is a response of a Donald Trump supporter to the issue of history judging him negatively for his support. P.P.S. “History will be kind to me, because I will write it.” So proclaims Winston Churchill, one of the most brutal and murderous politicians of the Twentieth Century. P.P.P.S. Throughout the Twilight Zone series, Rod Serling, its creator and major writer, continually illustrates how to throw viewers off the scent of reality by manipulating them into not seeing what is there to see and hence asking the wrong questions. If you are interested in watching how this is masterfully accomplished, view (don’t read about) the Twilight Zone episode titled, “To Serve Man” as a superb example of this skill. Interestingly and tellingly, after this episode appeared in 1962, its title, “To Serve Man,” became the unofficial emblem patch of the U.S. Air Forces’ 509th Bomb Wing, who as part of its history of serving man dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Gustatus Similis Pullus means “Tastes Like Chicken”.)
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lewrockwell--2020-02-06--The End Has a Date

The End Has a Date

The story goes that when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon river with his legions and headed into Rome – something forbidden by the Republic – it signaled the end of the Roman Republic .
A similar event has just occurred that heralds the end of the internal combustion-engined car .
Not because a lower-cost , more efficient and more practical alternative has been found – as happened when the Model T replaced the horse and buggy , without any bayonets shoved into the backsides of horse-and-buggy owners .
But because a higher-cost , less efficient and much-less-practical alternative has been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , for precisely those reasons .
Boris Johnson – the Caesar of Great Britain – has decreed that as of 2035 no one will be allowed to buy a new car that is not an electric car .
Not even partially electric hybrid cars will be allowed .
Less than 15 years from now .
Car manufacturers – especially European-based brands such as Mercedes , BMW , VW/Audi/Porsche , Peugot ( which just merged with Fiat – which owns the American brands Chrysler , Dodge , Jeep and Ram ) and , of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ put on notice that there ’ s no future – not long from now – for other than electric cars .
Amazon.com Gift Card i ... Buy New $ 10.00 And will therefore cease devoting resources toward the development of new cars that are not electric .
They ’ d be stupid to do otherwise .
The effect of this proscription – a Roman word whose original meaning is most apt in this context – will be felt much sooner than most people outside the car business may realize .
Far sooner than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years to conceive , develop , test and generally get a new car ready for the market .
It takes years – often decades – to recover the costs of development including the tooling and so on necessary to manufacture it , build up spare parts inventory , train dealer service people – etc .
This is called the product cycle .
And less-than-15-years is too brief a cycle to spend much time – or money – developing new products that won ’ t be legal for sale by the time they are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they won ’ t be developed .
Stagnation will ensue .
Existing models that aren ’ t electric will receive a few updates here and there but it is unlikely many new models that aren ’ t electric will be released .
Existing stock will be depleted – and not replaced .
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The story goes that when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon river with his legions and headed into Rome – something forbidden by the Republic – it signaled the end of the Roman Republic. A similar event has just occurred that heralds the end of the internal combustion-engined car.
Not because a lower-cost, more efficient and more practical alternative has been found – as happened when the Model T replaced the horse and buggy, without any bayonets shoved into the backsides of horse-and-buggy owners.
But because a higher-cost, less efficient and much-less-practical alternative has been found that requires bayonets shoved into backsides, for precisely those reasons.
Boris Johnson – the Caesar of Great Britain – has decreed that as of 2035 no one will be allowed to buy a new car that is not an electric car. Not even partially electric hybrid cars will be allowed.
Only electric cars.
Less than 15 years from now.
Car manufacturers – especially European-based brands such as Mercedes, BMW, VW/Audi/Porsche, Peugot (which just merged with Fiat – which owns the American brands Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram) and, of course, Jaguar/Land Rover – have been put on notice that there’s no future – not long from now – for other than electric cars. Amazon.com Gift Card i... Buy New $10.00 (as of 08:25 UTC - Details)
And will therefore cease devoting resources toward the development of new cars that are not electric.
They’d be stupid to do otherwise.
The effect of this proscription – a Roman word whose original meaning is most apt in this context – will be felt much sooner than most people outside the car business may realize.
Far sooner than 15 years from now.
It takes years to conceive, develop, test and generally get a new car ready for the market. It takes years – often decades – to recover the costs of development including the tooling and so on necessary to manufacture it, build up spare parts inventory, train dealer service people – etc.
This is called the product cycle.
And less-than-15-years is too brief a cycle to spend much time – or money – developing new products that won’t be legal for sale by the time they are ready to be sold.
And so they won’t be developed.
Stagnation will ensue. Existing models that aren’t electric will receive a few updates here and there but it is unlikely many new models that aren’t electric will be released. Existing stock will be depleted – and not replaced.
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