lewrockwell--2020-12-28--H.G. Wells’s Dystonic Vision Comes Alive With the Great Reset Agenda

In the Time Machine , society one million years in the future has evolved into two separate species called Morlocks and Eloi .
The Morlocks represent the ugly dirty producers who by this future age , all live under ground and run the world ’ s manufacturing .
The Eloi are the effect of the inbreeding of the elite , who by this time are simple-minded , Aryan , above-ground dwellers living in idleness and consuming only what the Morlocks produce .
What was the trade off ?
The Morlocks periodically rise above ground in hunting parties to kidnap and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ circle of life .
This famous story was written by a young British writer in 1893 whose ideas and pioneering work in shaping new techniques of cultural warfare which profoundly affected the next 130 years of human history .
These ideas led to the innovation of novel techniques of “ predictive programming ” , and to mass psychological warfare .
In contrast to the optimistic views of mankind and the future potential envisioned by the great science fiction writer Jules Verne earlier , Wells ’ misanthropic tales had the intended effect of reducing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that Verne ’ s work awoke .
Horse Soldiers : The Ex ... Stanton , Doug Best Price : $ 0.98 Buy New $ 5.75 To restate the technique more clearly : By shaping society ’ s imagination of the future , and embedding existential/nihilistic outcomes within his plotlines , Wells realized that the entire zeitgeist of humanity could be affected on a profound level than simple conscious reason would permit .
Since he robed his poison in the cloth of “ fiction ” the minds of those receiving his stories would find @ @ @ @ @ @ @ simply take in all trojan horses embedded in the stories into their unconsciousness .
This has been an insight used for over a century by social engineers and intelligence agencies whose aim has always been the willing enslavement of all people of the earth .
While he is best known for such fiction works as The War of the Worlds , The World Set Free , The Invisible Man , The Island of Doctor Morrow , and The Time Machine , Wells ’ lesser-known non-fiction writings like The Open Conspiracy , The New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , The Science of Life and The World Brain served as guiding strategic blueprints for the entire 20th century war against sovereign nation states and the very idea of a society built on the premise of mankind made in the image of God .
The members of the London-centered oligarchy to which Wells had devoted himself at an early age had found themselves stuck in a rut by the turn of the 19th century .
These inbred families and retainers who managed the dying British Empire had long been encrusted by the vices @ @ @ @ @ @ @ man of low breeding and high talent arose amidst the London-ghettos treating syphilis patients as a surgeon ’ s assistant .
This young surgeon ’ s name was Thomas Huxley .
Huxley possessed a sardonic wit , a deep misanthropy , and an intelligence that were soon discovered by powerful patrons , and by his mid-20 ’ s , this young man found himself a rising star in Britain ’ s Royal Academy of Science .
Here he quickly became a leading creative force , shaping Britain ’ s powerful X Club , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ popular debates featuring himself against literalist members of the clergy .
In these debates he argued for Darwin ’ s chaos-bound interpretation of evolution .
He also founded Nature magazine as a propaganda instrument which has been used to enforce scientific consensus favorable to a world empire to this very day .
Huxley chose his opponents carefully , ensuring that he could easily and publicly obliterate the arguments of simple-minded Anglican clergy , and thus convince all onlookers that the only choice they had to account for the evolution of new species was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Darwinian evolution .
The many alternative scientific theories of the 19th century ( such as those found in the works of Karl Ernst von Baer , Georges Cuvier , Lamarck and James D. Dana ) which accounted for both the evolution of species , and the harmonics of all parts to a whole , as well as creative leaps were forgotten amidst this false dichotomy which this author unpacked in a recent interview .
During his later years , Huxley mentored a young H.G .
Wells , together with a whole generation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of social engineering ( and social Darwinism ) .
This social engineering soon took the form of Galton ’ s eugenics quickly becoming an accepted science practiced across the western world .
Wells was himself the son of a lowly gardener , but , like Huxley , exhibited a strong misanthropic wit , passion and creativity lacking in the high nobility , and he was thus raised from the lower ranks of society into the order of oligarchical management by the 1890s .
During this moment of vast potential- and – it can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that had grown overconfident during the 200+ years of hegemony were petrified to see the nations of the earth rapidly breaking free from this hegemony thanks to the under the international spread of Lincoln ’ s American System across Germany , Russia , Japan , South America , France , Canada and even China with Sun Yat-sen ’ s 1911 republican revolution .
As outlined in Cynthia Chung ’ s ‘ Why Russia Saved the USA ’ , the oligarchy just no longer seemed to have the creative vitality and sophistication required to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ described this problem in the following terms : The science of population control advanced by Huxley , Galton , Wells , Mackinder , Milner and Bertrand Russell was the basis for a new scientific priesthood and “ world government ” that would put a stop to the startling disequilibrium unleashed by the electric spread of sovereign nation states , protectionism and commitment to scientific and technological progress .
Buster : The Military D ... George , Isabel Buy New $ 11.99 Fabians , Round Tablers and Coefficients : New Think Tanks Emerge H.G @ @ @ @ @ @ @ engineers of this new priesthood organized themselves in several interconnected think tanks known as 1 ) the Fabian Society of Sidney and Beatrice Webb which operated through the London School of Economics , 2 ) the Round Table Movement begun by the fortunes left to posterity by the racist diamond magnate Cecil Rhodes which also gave rise to the Rhodes Trust , and Rhodes Scholarship programs established to indoctrinate young talent in the halls of Oxford , and finally 3 ) the Co-Efficients Club of London .
As noted by Georgetown Professor Carol @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Establishment , membership in all three organizations was virtually interchangeable .
Wells described the rise of these original think tanks and documented the inner elite ’ s inability to meet the challenge of the times saying : “ Our ruling class , protected in its advantages by a universal snobbery was broad-minded , easy going and profoundly lazy… Our liberalism was no longer a larger enterprise , it had become a generous indolence .
But minds were waking up to this .
Over our table at St Ermin ’ s Hotel wrangle Maxse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mackinder , all stung by the small but humiliating tale of disasters in the South African war , all sensitive to the threat of business recession , and all profoundly alarmed by the naval and military aggressiveness of Germany.
” Fearful of the prospect of a US-Russia-China alliance outlined in depth by Fabian/Roundtable members Halford Mackinder and Lord Alfred Milner , the solution was simple : kick over the chess board and get everyone to just slaughter each other .
Accounts of the British imperial efforts to orchestrate this war have been told @ @ @ @ @ @ @ efficiently as the 2008 documentary 1932 : Speak Not of Parties .
In the wake of the destruction which left 9 million dead on all sides and ruined countless lives , Wells , Russell and the Milner Roundtable became leading voices for world government under the League of Nations ( c. 1919 ) advocating “ enlightened cosmopolitanism ” to replace the era of “ selfish nation states ” .
A decade after its founding , the League was less successful than Wells and his co-thinkers would have liked , with nationalists from around @ @ @ @ @ @ @ empire lurking behind the apparent language of “ liberal values and world peace ” .
Sun Yat-sen , among many others was among the anti-Wellsian voices and warned his fellow Chinese in 1924 not to fall into this trap saying : “ The nations which are employing imperialism to conquer others and which are trying to maintain their own favored positions as sovereign lords of the whole world are advocating cosmopolitanism [ aka : global governance/globalization -ed ] and want the world to join them… Nationalism is that precious possession by which humanity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , then when cosmopolitanism flourishes we will be unable to survive and will be eliminated ” .
In response to this patriotic resistance across the world , a new strategy had to be concocted .
This took the form of H.G .
Welles ’ 1928 The Open Conspiracy : Blueprint for a World Revolution .
This little-known book served as a guiding blueprint for the next century of imperial grand strategy calling for a new world religion and social order .
According to Wells : “ The old faiths have become unconvincing , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are clear intimations of a new faith in the world , it still awaits embodiment in formulae and organizations that will bring it into effective reaction upon human affairs as a whole.
” In his book , Welles outlines the need for a new scientific gospel to supersede the Judeo-Christian faiths of the western world .
This new gospel consisted of a series of tomes which he and his colleague Julian Huxley composed , entitled : 1 ) The Outline of History ( 1920 ) where Wells re-wrote all of history wishing this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 2 ) The Science of Life ( 1930 ) , co-written with Sir Julian Huxley ( Thomas Huxley ’ s Grandson who continued the family tradition along with Aldous ) , and 3 ) The Work , Wealth and Happiness of Mankind ( 1932 ) .
Part of this immense project to create a new coherent synthetic religion to re-organize humanity involved a re-packaging of a Darwinism that was falling out of favor with many scientists of the 1920 ’ s .
They recognized its failure to account for obvious features of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spirit , intention , ideas and design .
This re-packaging took the form of the “ New Evolutionary Synthesis ” which attempted to save Darwin ’ s theory and its eugenic corollaries using Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ’ s doctrine of the “ Omega Man ” .
De Chardin ’ s system synthesized the foundation of Darwinian assumptions with an acknowledgment of evolutionary directionality , the possibility of spirit , and the existence of mind as a force of nature .
The destructive slight of hand used by Chardin was that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of design- spirit , mind , reason , etc.- were : 1 ) bound to a finite future point of no change which dominated and guided all apparent change in living space time , and 2 ) binding the world of mind and spirit to the forces of the material world .
The Chardin-Huxley-Wells remix kept Darwin ’ s laws relevant and kept science compatible with imperial modes of social organization .
Outlining the aims of The Open Conspiracy , Wells writes : “ Firstly , the entirely provisional nature of all existing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ therefore , of all loyalties associated therewith ; Secondly , the supreme importance of population control in human biology and the possibility it affords us of a release from the pressure of the struggle for existence on ourselves ; and Thirdly , the urgent necessity of protective resistance against the present traditional drift towards war.
” By 1933 , the planned Bankers ’ Dictatorship , meant to solve the four years ’ long great depression and organized during the months-long London Conference , was on the verge of being sabotaged by the recently-elected @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was then that Wells published a new manifesto in the form of a fiction book called ‘ Shape of Things to Come : The Ultimate Revolution ’ .
This book ( soon made into a Hollywood movie ) , served as an early tool of mass predictive programming showcasing a world destroyed by decades of global war , pandemic , and anarchy- all caused by… sovereign nation states .
The “ solution ” to these dark ages took the form of a masonic society of social engineers who descended from planes ( Wells @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ ) to restore order under a world government .
Wells had his main character ( a social psychologist ) state “ while the World Council was fighting for and directing and carrying on the unified World State , the Educational Control was remoulding mankind ” .
The social psychologists managing the World Government were “ becoming the whole literature , philosophy and general thought of the world… the reasoning soul in the body of the race.
” The greatest problem to overcome , stated Wells , was “ the variability of mental @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nature to the ideal of an acquiescent cooperative world.
” Wells ’ hero , Gustav de Windt , was “ pre-occupied by his gigantic schemes for world organization , had treated the ‘ spirit of opposition ’ as purely evil , as a vice to be guarded against , as a trouble in the machinery which was to be minimized as completely as possible.
” In 1932 , Wells gave an Oxford speech championing a global order run by liberal fascists saying : “ I am asking for liberal Fascisti , for enlightened @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when one realizes that the rise of fascism was never a “ nationalist ” phenomenon as popular history books have asserted for decades but rather was the artificial consequence of a supranational financier-oligarchy from above who wished to use “ enforcers ” to bend their societies to a higher will .
By the time World War II began , Wells ’ ideas had evolved new insidious components that later gave rise to such mechanisms as Wikipedia and Twitter in the form of “ The World Brain ” ( 19937 ) where Wells calls @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ basic English ” of 850 accepted words which would make up a world language .
In this book , Wells states that “ thinkers of the forward-looking type whose ideas we are now considering , are beginning to realize that the most hopeful line for the development of our racial intelligence lies rather in the direction of creating a new world organ for the collection , indexing , summarizing and release of knowledge , than in any further tinkering with the highly conservative and resistant university system , local , national and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
These innovators , who may be dreamers today , but who hope to become very active organizers tomorrow , project a unified , if not centralized , world organ to pull the mind of the world together.
” By 1940 , Wells wrote the The New World Order which again amplified his message .
In writing this , he coordinated his efforts with the many Fabians and Rhodes Scholars who had infiltrated western foreign policy establishments in order to shape the the war , but more importantly , the post-war global structure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Franklin Roosevelt , Vice-President Henry Wallace , Harry Hopkins and other genuine “ New Dealers ” who wanted nothing more than to destroy colonialism once and for all in the wake of the war .
Wells insists that the “ new age of brotherhood ” that must guide the new United Nations must not tolerate sovereign nation states as FDR dreamed ( and as was formally enshrined in the UN Charter ) but must rather be guided by his caste of social engineers pulling the levers of production and consumption within a system @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Collectivisation means the handling of the common affairs of mankind by a common control responsible to the whole community .
It means the suppression of go-as-you-please in social and economic affairs just as much as in international affairs .
It means the frank abolition of profit-seeking and of every device by which human beings contrive to be parasitic on their fellow man .
It is the practical realisation of the brotherhood of man through a common control ” .
If Wells ’ outlines look similar to those ideas recently made public by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Reset , then don ’ t be surprised .
Wells ’ Death and the Continuity of a Bad Idea With Wells ’ 1946 death , other Fabians and social engineers continued his work during the Cold War .
One of the leading figures here being Wells ’ associate , Lord Bertrand Russell , who wrote in his 1952 The Impact of Science on Society : “ I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology… .
Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods @ @ @ @ @ @ @ influential is what is called ‘ education ’ .
Religion plays a part , though a diminishing one ; the press , the cinema and the radio play an increasing part… it may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the state with money and equipment.
” “ The subject will make great strides when it is taken up by scientists under a scientific dictatorship .
The social psychologists of the future will have a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black .
Various results will soon be arrived at .
First that the influence of home is obstructive .
Second that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten .
Thirdly verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective .
Fourth that the opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity .
But I anticipate .
It is for future scientists to make these maxims @ @ @ @ @ @ @ costs per head to make children believe that snow is black , and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark gray.
” Although the bodies of Wells , Russell and Huxley have long since rotted away , their rotten ideas continue to animate their disciples like Sir Henry Kissinger , George Soros , Klaus Schwab , Bill Gates , Lord Malloch-Brown ( whose disturbing celebration of the Coronavirus as a golden opportunity to finally restructure civilization ) should concern any thinking citizen .
The idea of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ modern mouthpieces of history ’ s bad ideas signals nothing more than a new Dark Age which should turn the stomach of any moral being .
It is here useful to hold the words of Kissinger in mind who had channeled the spectre of Wells telling a group of technocrats in Evian , France in 1992 : “ Today , America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order .
Tomorrow they will be grateful !
This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , that threatened our very existence .
It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil .
The one thing every man fears is the unknown .
When presented with this scenario , individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government.
” The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation .

In the Time Machine, society one million years in the future has evolved into two separate species called Morlocks and Eloi. The Morlocks represent the ugly dirty producers who by this future age, all live under ground and run the world’s manufacturing. The Eloi are the effect of the inbreeding of the elite, who by this time are simple-minded, Aryan, above-ground dwellers living in idleness and consuming only what the Morlocks produce. What was the trade off?
The Morlocks periodically rise above ground in hunting parties to kidnap and eat unsuspecting Eloi in this symbiotically vicious circle of life.
This famous story was written by a young British writer in 1893 whose ideas and pioneering work in shaping new techniques of cultural warfare which profoundly affected the next 130 years of human history. These ideas led to the innovation of novel techniques of “predictive programming”, and to mass psychological warfare. In contrast to the optimistic views of mankind and the future potential envisioned by the great science fiction writer Jules Verne earlier, Wells’ misanthropic tales had the intended effect of reducing the creative potential and love of humanity that Verne’s work awoke.
Horse Soldiers: The Ex... Stanton, Doug Best Price: $1.45 Buy New $5.50 (as of 09:30 UTC - Details) To restate the technique more clearly: By shaping society’s imagination of the future, and embedding existential/nihilistic outcomes within his plotlines, Wells realized that the entire zeitgeist of humanity could be affected on a profound level than simple conscious reason would permit. Since he robed his poison in the cloth of “fiction” the minds of those receiving his stories would find their critical thinking faculties disengaged and would simply take in all trojan horses embedded in the stories into their unconsciousness. This has been an insight used for over a century by social engineers and intelligence agencies whose aim has always been the willing enslavement of all people of the earth.
While he is best known for such fiction works as The War of the Worlds, The World Set Free, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Morrow, and The Time Machine, Wells’ lesser-known non-fiction writings like The Open Conspiracy, The New World Order, The Outline of History, The Science of Life and The World Brain served as guiding strategic blueprints for the entire 20th century war against sovereign nation states and the very idea of a society built on the premise of mankind made in the image of God.
Thomas Huxley’s Revolution
The members of the London-centered oligarchy to which Wells had devoted himself at an early age had found themselves stuck in a rut by the turn of the 19th century. These inbred families and retainers who managed the dying British Empire had long been encrusted by the vices of decadence by the time a young man of low breeding and high talent arose amidst the London-ghettos treating syphilis patients as a surgeon’s assistant. This young surgeon’s name was Thomas Huxley.
Huxley possessed a sardonic wit, a deep misanthropy, and an intelligence that were soon discovered by powerful patrons, and by his mid-20’s, this young man found himself a rising star in Britain’s Royal Academy of Science. Here he quickly became a leading creative force, shaping Britain’s powerful X Club, serving as Darwin’s bulldog promoting popular debates featuring himself against literalist members of the clergy. In these debates he argued for Darwin’s chaos-bound interpretation of evolution. He also founded Nature magazine as a propaganda instrument which has been used to enforce scientific consensus favorable to a world empire to this very day.
Huxley chose his opponents carefully, ensuring that he could easily and publicly obliterate the arguments of simple-minded Anglican clergy, and thus convince all onlookers that the only choice they had to account for the evolution of new species was either literal Biblical creationism or his brand of Darwinian evolution. The many alternative scientific theories of the 19th century (such as those found in the works of Karl Ernst von Baer, Georges Cuvier, Lamarck and James D. Dana) which accounted for both the evolution of species, and the harmonics of all parts to a whole, as well as creative leaps were forgotten amidst this false dichotomy which this author unpacked in a recent interview.
https://youtu.be/5yAitkCMvP0
Wells Picks up Huxley’s Torch
During his later years, Huxley mentored a young H.G. Wells, together with a whole generation of new imperial practitioners of the arts of social engineering (and social Darwinism). This social engineering soon took the form of Galton’s eugenics quickly becoming an accepted science practiced across the western world.
Wells was himself the son of a lowly gardener, but, like Huxley, exhibited a strong misanthropic wit, passion and creativity lacking in the high nobility, and he was thus raised from the lower ranks of society into the order of oligarchical management by the 1890s. During this moment of vast potential- and – it cannot be restated enough- the oligarchical order that had grown overconfident during the 200+ years of hegemony were petrified to see the nations of the earth rapidly breaking free from this hegemony thanks to the under the international spread of Lincoln’s American System across Germany, Russia, Japan, South America, France, Canada and even China with Sun Yat-sen’s 1911 republican revolution.
As outlined in Cynthia Chung’s ‘Why Russia Saved the USA’, the oligarchy just no longer seemed to have the creative vitality and sophistication required to snuff out these revolutionary flames.
Wells described this problem in the following terms:
“The undeniable contraction of the British outlook in the opening decade of the new century is one that has exercised my mind very greatly… Gradually, the belief in the possible world leadership of England had been deflated by the economic development of America and the militant boldness of Germany. The long reign of Queen Victoria, so prosperous, progressive and effortless, had produced habits of political indolence and cheap assurance. As a people we had got out of training, and when the challenge of these new rivals became open, it took our breath away at once. We did not know how to meet it…”
The science of population control advanced by Huxley, Galton, Wells, Mackinder, Milner and Bertrand Russell was the basis for a new scientific priesthood and “world government” that would put a stop to the startling disequilibrium unleashed by the electric spread of sovereign nation states, protectionism and commitment to scientific and technological progress. Buster: The Military D... George, Isabel Buy New $11.99 (as of 10:02 UTC - Details)
Fabians, Round Tablers and Coefficients: New Think Tanks Emerge
H.G Wells, Russell and other early social engineers of this new priesthood organized themselves in several interconnected think tanks known as 1) the Fabian Society of Sidney and Beatrice Webb which operated through the London School of Economics, 2) the Round Table Movement begun by the fortunes left to posterity by the racist diamond magnate Cecil Rhodes which also gave rise to the Rhodes Trust, and Rhodes Scholarship programs established to indoctrinate young talent in the halls of Oxford, and finally 3) the Co-Efficients Club of London. As noted by Georgetown Professor Carol Quigley, in his 1981 The Anglo-American Establishment, membership in all three organizations was virtually interchangeable.
Wells described the rise of these original think tanks and documented the inner elite’s inability to meet the challenge of the times saying: “Our ruling class, protected in its advantages by a universal snobbery was broad-minded, easy going and profoundly lazy… Our liberalism was no longer a larger enterprise, it had become a generous indolence. But minds were waking up to this. Over our table at St Ermin’s Hotel wrangle Maxse, Bellairs, Hewins, Amery and Mackinder, all stung by the small but humiliating tale of disasters in the South African war, all sensitive to the threat of business recession, and all profoundly alarmed by the naval and military aggressiveness of Germany.”
Fearful of the prospect of a US-Russia-China alliance outlined in depth by Fabian/Roundtable members Halford Mackinder and Lord Alfred Milner, the solution was simple: kick over the chess board and get everyone to just slaughter each other. Accounts of the British imperial efforts to orchestrate this war have been told in many locations, but none as efficiently as the 2008 documentary 1932: Speak Not of Parties.
In the wake of the destruction which left 9 million dead on all sides and ruined countless lives, Wells, Russell and the Milner Roundtable became leading voices for world government under the League of Nations (c. 1919) advocating “enlightened cosmopolitanism” to replace the era of “selfish nation states”.
The Battle For World Government
A decade after its founding, the League was less successful than Wells and his co-thinkers would have liked, with nationalists from around the world recognizing the evil hand of empire lurking behind the apparent language of “liberal values and world peace”. Sun Yat-sen, among many others was among the anti-Wellsian voices and warned his fellow Chinese in 1924 not to fall into this trap saying:
“The nations which are employing imperialism to conquer others and which are trying to maintain their own favored positions as sovereign lords of the whole world are advocating cosmopolitanism [aka: global governance/globalization -ed] and want the world to join them… Nationalism is that precious possession by which humanity maintains its existence. If nationalism decays, then when cosmopolitanism flourishes we will be unable to survive and will be eliminated”.
In response to this patriotic resistance across the world, a new strategy had to be concocted. This took the form of H.G. Welles’ 1928 The Open Conspiracy: Blueprint for a World Revolution. This little-known book served as a guiding blueprint for the next century of imperial grand strategy calling for a new world religion and social order. According to Wells:
“The old faiths have become unconvincing, unsubstantial and insincere, and though there are clear intimations of a new faith in the world, it still awaits embodiment in formulae and organizations that will bring it into effective reaction upon human affairs as a whole.”
In his book, Welles outlines the need for a new scientific gospel to supersede the Judeo-Christian faiths of the western world. This new gospel consisted of a series of tomes which he and his colleague Julian Huxley composed, entitled: 1) The Outline of History (1920) where Wells re-wrote all of history wishing this analysis to replace the book of Genesis, 2)The Science of Life (1930), co-written with Sir Julian Huxley (Thomas Huxley’s Grandson who continued the family tradition along with Aldous), and 3) The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1932).
Part of this immense project to create a new coherent synthetic religion to re-organize humanity involved a re-packaging of a Darwinism that was falling out of favor with many scientists of the 1920’s. They recognized its failure to account for obvious features of nature such as directionality in evolution, spirit, intention, ideas and design.
This re-packaging took the form of the “New Evolutionary Synthesis” which attempted to save Darwin’s theory and its eugenic corollaries using Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s doctrine of the “Omega Man”. De Chardin’s system synthesized the foundation of Darwinian assumptions with an acknowledgment of evolutionary directionality, the possibility of spirit, and the existence of mind as a force of nature. The destructive slight of hand used by Chardin was that all of these “transcendent” features of design- spirit, mind, reason, etc.- were: 1) bound to a finite future point of no change which dominated and guided all apparent change in living space time, and 2) binding the world of mind and spirit to the forces of the material world. The Chardin-Huxley-Wells remix kept Darwin’s laws relevant and kept science compatible with imperial modes of social organization.
Outlining the aims of The Open Conspiracy, Wells writes: “Firstly, the entirely provisional nature of all existing governments, and the entirely provisional nature therefore, of all loyalties associated therewith; Secondly, the supreme importance of population control in human biology and the possibility it affords us of a release from the pressure of the struggle for existence on ourselves; and Thirdly, the urgent necessity of protective resistance against the present traditional drift towards war.”
By 1933, the planned Bankers’ Dictatorship, meant to solve the four years’ long great depression and organized during the months-long London Conference, was on the verge of being sabotaged by the recently-elected American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It was then that Wells published a new manifesto in the form of a fiction book called ‘Shape of Things to Come: The Ultimate Revolution’. This book (soon made into a Hollywood movie), served as an early tool of mass predictive programming showcasing a world destroyed by decades of global war, pandemic, and anarchy- all caused by… sovereign nation states.
The “solution” to these dark ages took the form of a masonic society of social engineers who descended from planes (Wells’ ‘Benevolent Dictatorship of the Air’) to restore order under a world government. Wells had his main character (a social psychologist) state “while the World Council was fighting for and directing and carrying on the unified World State, the Educational Control was remoulding mankind”. The social psychologists managing the World Government were “becoming the whole literature, philosophy and general thought of the world… the reasoning soul in the body of the race.”
The greatest problem to overcome, stated Wells, was “the variability of mental resistance to direction and limits set by nature to the ideal of an acquiescent cooperative world.”
Wells’ hero, Gustav de Windt, was “pre-occupied by his gigantic schemes for world organization, had treated the ‘spirit of opposition’ as purely evil, as a vice to be guarded against, as a trouble in the machinery which was to be minimized as completely as possible.”
In 1932, Wells gave an Oxford speech championing a global order run by liberal fascists saying: “I am asking for liberal Fascisti, for enlightened Nazis”. This was not paradoxical when one realizes that the rise of fascism was never a “nationalist” phenomenon as popular history books have asserted for decades but rather was the artificial consequence of a supranational financier-oligarchy from above who wished to use “enforcers” to bend their societies to a higher will.
The World Brain
By the time World War II began, Wells’ ideas had evolved new insidious components that later gave rise to such mechanisms as Wikipedia and Twitter in the form of “The World Brain” (19937) where Wells calls for reducing the English language to a “basic English” of 850 accepted words which would make up a world language. In this book, Wells states that “thinkers of the forward-looking type whose ideas we are now considering, are beginning to realize that the most hopeful line for the development of our racial intelligence lies rather in the direction of creating a new world organ for the collection, indexing, summarizing and release of knowledge, than in any further tinkering with the highly conservative and resistant university system, local, national and traditional in texture, which already exits. These innovators, who may be dreamers today, but who hope to become very active organizers tomorrow, project a unified, if not centralized, world organ to pull the mind of the world together.”
By 1940, Wells wrote the The New World Order which again amplified his message. In writing this, he coordinated his efforts with the many Fabians and Rhodes Scholars who had infiltrated western foreign policy establishments in order to shape the the war, but more importantly, the post-war global structure. These were the networks that hated Franklin Roosevelt, Vice-President Henry Wallace, Harry Hopkins and other genuine “New Dealers” who wanted nothing more than to destroy colonialism once and for all in the wake of the war.
Wells insists that the “new age of brotherhood” that must guide the new United Nations must not tolerate sovereign nation states as FDR dreamed (and as was formally enshrined in the UN Charter) but must rather be guided by his caste of social engineers pulling the levers of production and consumption within a system of mass “collectivization” saying:
“Collectivisation means the handling of the common affairs of mankind by a common control responsible to the whole community. It means the suppression of go-as-you-please in social and economic affairs just as much as in international affairs. It means the frank abolition of profit-seeking and of every device by which human beings contrive to be parasitic on their fellow man. It is the practical realisation of the brotherhood of man through a common control”.
If Wells’ outlines look similar to those ideas recently made public by the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset, then don’t be surprised.
Wells’ Death and the Continuity of a Bad Idea
With Wells’ 1946 death, other Fabians and social engineers continued his work during the Cold War. One of the leading figures here being Wells’ associate, Lord Bertrand Russell, who wrote in his 1952 The Impact of Science on Society:
“I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology…. Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called ‘education’. Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema and the radio play an increasing part… it may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the state with money and equipment.”
“The subject will make great strides when it is taken up by scientists under a scientific dictatorship. The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at. First that the influence of home is obstructive. Second that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten. Thirdly verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. Fourth that the opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity. But I anticipate. It is for future scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark gray.”
Although the bodies of Wells, Russell and Huxley have long since rotted away, their rotten ideas continue to animate their disciples like Sir Henry Kissinger, George Soros, Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, Lord Malloch-Brown (whose disturbing celebration of the Coronavirus as a golden opportunity to finally restructure civilization) should concern any thinking citizen. The idea of a “Great Reset” expounded by these modern mouthpieces of history’s bad ideas signals nothing more than a new Dark Age which should turn the stomach of any moral being.
It is here useful to hold the words of Kissinger in mind who had channeled the spectre of Wells telling a group of technocrats in Evian, France in 1992:
“Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government.”
The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation.


lewrockwell--2020-12-28--Parent Versus Pediatrician: An Open Vaccine Debate

Open , scientific discussion is pivotal to progress in the medical field , but it ’ s something that remains elusive when it comes to vaccinations .
Rather than address questions , concerns and inconsistencies head on via public debate and research , vaccine advocates often resort to name-calling , intimidation and threats against those who question the federal once-size-fits-all vaccine policy .
Pediatricians may also belittle parents who ask questions about vaccine side effects , with many refusing to see patients who choose not to vaccinate or choose an alternate vaccine schedule .
Yet , they manage to educate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ way , one that ’ s ultimately neither “ pro ” nor “ anti ” vaccine , but rather focused on doing what ’ s best to protect public health .
Meanwhile , public health officials , including Dr. Anthony Fauci , director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ( NIAID ) , continue to downplay or flat-out deny that vaccines can and do cause injuries and death , as he did in an interview with CBS News in January 2019.4 The news outlet had featured parents who are concerned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whose middle child suffered from severe reactions to vaccinations .
Soldier Dogs : The Unto ... Goodavage , Maria Best Price : $ 0.44 Buy New $ 5.28 Understandably , Eckhart then refused to vaccinate her youngest son and stated , “ If I could go back , I wouldn ’ t have vaccinated any of my kids.
” When asked what to say to such parents , who have experienced adverse vaccine reactions among their own children and are hesitant to have the same procedure performed on another child , Fauci graciously @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but that they must be told vaccines are “ very safe.
” “ [ T ] he lack of safety and the adverse events , things like autism … that issue is based purely on fabrication and that ’ s been proven … there is no association whatsoever between the measles vaccine and autism , ” he said .
When the reporter said that Eckhart believes that perhaps the right studies weren ’ t being done to show the harm vaccines can cause , Fauci vehemently denied there was any truth in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ true … that ’ s just not true , period , ” Fauci said , refusing to even entertain the notion that vaccines may cause adverse reactions in some people , and that parents of vaccine-injured children may be justified in their hesitation to vaccinate their other children .
Vaccinating Against Measles Because It ’ s so Contagious ?
When asked about the once common childhood illnesses that are now the subject of vaccinations , Rife acknowledged that in most cases , those who get measles and especially chicken pox “ do just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ considered to be such a danger , she said , is because it ’ s so contagious , adding that , “ If you are not vaccinated for measles and you ’ re in a room near , or even after , a person with measles left , maybe two hours ago … your chances of catching measles with exposure is 90 % .
” The fact comes from a 1964 study5 titled “ Survival of Measles Virus in Air , ” which is often cited by the CDC .
“ In a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ the measles virus has been reported to have been transmitted by airborne or droplet exposure up to two hours after the measles case occupied the area.
” 6 Sharon goes on to explain what actually took place during the study , which involved a tiny closet in a laboratory .
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Best Price : $ 3.99 Buy New $ 14.99 Researchers sprayed measles virus in the air then collected petri dishes to find out if they contained the virus .
There @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infectious dose of the virus may be , but what is noted , she said , is that the humidity in the closet was only 15 % .
Increasing research is highlighting the importance of humidity levels in the spread of infectious diseases like influenza and COVID-19 .
Not only does dry air impair the built-in defenses in your respiratory tract,7 but studies on the survival of influenza virus also show a humidity connection , with one suggesting that aerosolized influenza survived the longest when the relative humidity was below 36 % .8 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 60 % range appear to be ideal in lowering your risk of infection , a level you may achieve by placing a humidifier in your bedroom .
Some experts suggest public spaces should also maintain minimum humidity levels to protect public health .
Even 100 % Vaccination Rate Not Enough for Herd Immunity The media , as well as public health organizations , typically blame pockets of unvaccinated individuals for measles outbreaks in the U.S. , but the percentage of people vaccinated with the measles-mumps-rubella ( MMR ) vaccine is actually very high @ @ @ @ @ @ @ almost 95 % of U.S. children entering kindergarten had received two doses of MMR vaccine,9 as had 91.8 % of school children ages 13 to 17 years.10 That high rate of vaccination for MMR among U.S. school children continues today.11 This high MMR vaccination rate should theoretically ensure “ herd immunity , ” but cases of both measles and mumps keep occurring , which hints at vaccine failure .
Population density , social mixing patterns and other factors all affect viral transmission , and there ’ s also the glaring fact that immunity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the years following the last booster.14 Unfortunately , with the waning effectiveness of MMR vaccine , protection is not lifelong the way it is following natural infection , leaving older adults potentially vulnerable .
As pregnant women no longer have natural immunity to pass on to their newborns , very young infants are also more susceptible to the disease .
The Storm on Our Shore ... Obmascik , Mark Best Price : $ 2.65 Buy New $ 11.00 Authors of one study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases reported that when measles infection is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worse “ than would be expected in a prevaccine era in which the average age at infection would have been lower.
” 15 Meanwhile , in the majority of cases , measles infection resolves on its own without complications In a question from viewers of the “ When Opinions Collide ” video , someone asked whether forced vaccination is on the horizon .
Rife said she doesn ’ t think the public will stand for forced vaccination , but others , like Alan Dershowitz , a lawyer and legal scholar , believe otherwise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interpretation of Constitutional law : As the basis and justification for his legal orientation on this issue , Dershowitz relies on a 1905 Supreme Court ruling in the matter of Jacobson v. Massachusetts , which involved the smallpox vaccine .
Jacobson had been injured by a previous vaccine and took the case to the Supreme Court in an effort to avoid the smallpox vaccine .
He lost and paid a $ 5 fine for refusing the vaccine .
Dershowitz agreed that the 1905 ruling “ is not binding on the issue of whether @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get the vaccine , ” but that “ the logic of the opinion … strongly suggests that the courts today would allow some form of compulsion if the conditions that we talked about were met : [ the vaccines are ] safe , effective , [ and ] exemptions [ given ] in appropriate cases.
” It remains to be seen what the future holds with mandatory vaccination , particularly in light of COVID-19 , but one thing is clear : Public health depends not on the compulsory use of vaccines but on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ debate , research and brainstorm solutions to the chronic and acute diseases plaguing the world — solutions that may include vaccinations but must not ignore their potential for harm .
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Open, scientific discussion is pivotal to progress in the medical field, but it’s something that remains elusive when it comes to vaccinations. Rather than address questions, concerns and inconsistencies head on via public debate and research, vaccine advocates often resort to name-calling, intimidation and threats against those who question the federal once-size-fits-all vaccine policy.
Pediatricians may also belittle parents who ask questions about vaccine side effects, with many refusing to see patients who choose not to vaccinate or choose an alternate vaccine schedule. Yet, they manage to educate each other and listeners in a positive way, one that’s ultimately neither “pro” nor “anti” vaccine, but rather focused on doing what’s best to protect public health.
Health Officials, Fauci Deny Vaccine Injuries
Meanwhile, public health officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), continue to downplay or flat-out deny that vaccines can and do cause injuries and death, as he did in an interview with CBS News in January 2019.4 The news outlet had featured parents who are concerned about vaccination risks, including one woman whose middle child suffered from severe reactions to vaccinations. Soldier Dogs: The Unto... Goodavage, Maria Best Price: $1.16 Buy New $5.99 (as of 09:52 UTC - Details)
Understandably, Eckhart then refused to vaccinate her youngest son and stated, “If I could go back, I wouldn’t have vaccinated any of my kids.” When asked what to say to such parents, who have experienced adverse vaccine reactions among their own children and are hesitant to have the same procedure performed on another child, Fauci graciously said they shouldn’t be denigrated but that they must be told vaccines are “very safe.”
“[T]he lack of safety and the adverse events, things like autism … that issue is based purely on fabrication and that’s been proven … there is no association whatsoever between the measles vaccine and autism,” he said. When the reporter said that Eckhart believes that perhaps the right studies weren’t being done to show the harm vaccines can cause, Fauci vehemently denied there was any truth in the claim.
“That’s not true … that’s just not true, period,” Fauci said, refusing to even entertain the notion that vaccines may cause adverse reactions in some people, and that parents of vaccine-injured children may be justified in their hesitation to vaccinate their other children.
Vaccinating Against Measles Because It’s so Contagious?
When asked about the once common childhood illnesses that are now the subject of vaccinations, Rife acknowledged that in most cases, those who get measles and especially chicken pox “do just fine.”
The reason why measles is considered to be such a danger, she said, is because it’s so contagious, adding that, “If you are not vaccinated for measles and you’re in a room near, or even after, a person with measles left, maybe two hours ago … your chances of catching measles with exposure is 90%.”
The fact comes from a 1964 study5 titled “Survival of Measles Virus in Air,” which is often cited by the CDC. “In a closed setting,” the CDC noted, “the measles virus has been reported to have been transmitted by airborne or droplet exposure up to two hours after the measles case occupied the area.”6 Sharon goes on to explain what actually took place during the study, which involved a tiny closet in a laboratory. Lost Horse Park (Redmo... Kechely, Troy B. Best Price: $10.97 Buy New $14.99 (as of 09:47 UTC - Details)
Researchers sprayed measles virus in the air then collected petri dishes to find out if they contained the virus. There’s no mention of what an infectious dose of the virus may be, but what is noted, she said, is that the humidity in the closet was only 15%.
Increasing research is highlighting the importance of humidity levels in the spread of infectious diseases like influenza and COVID-19. Not only does dry air impair the built-in defenses in your respiratory tract,7 but studies on the survival of influenza virus also show a humidity connection, with one suggesting that aerosolized influenza survived the longest when the relative humidity was below 36%.8
Humidity levels in the 40% to 60% range appear to be ideal in lowering your risk of infection, a level you may achieve by placing a humidifier in your bedroom. Some experts suggest public spaces should also maintain minimum humidity levels to protect public health.
Even 100% Vaccination Rate Not Enough for Herd Immunity
The media, as well as public health organizations, typically blame pockets of unvaccinated individuals for measles outbreaks in the U.S., but the percentage of people vaccinated with the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine is actually very high.
In the 2013-2014 school year, almost 95% of U.S. children entering kindergarten had received two doses of MMR vaccine,9 as had 91.8% of school children ages 13 to 17 years.10 That high rate of vaccination for MMR among U.S. school children continues today.11 This high MMR vaccination rate should theoretically ensure “herd immunity,” but cases of both measles and mumps keep occurring, which hints at vaccine failure.
Population density, social mixing patterns and other factors all affect viral transmission, and there’s also the glaring fact that immunity from the MMR vaccine likely declines in the years following the last booster.14
Unfortunately, with the waning effectiveness of MMR vaccine, protection is not lifelong the way it is following natural infection, leaving older adults potentially vulnerable. As pregnant women no longer have natural immunity to pass on to their newborns, very young infants are also more susceptible to the disease. The Storm on Our Shore... Obmascik, Mark Best Price: $1.23 Buy New $9.81 (as of 10:52 UTC - Details)
Authors of one study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases reported that when measles infection is delayed, negative outcomes are 4.5 times worse “than would be expected in a prevaccine era in which the average age at infection would have been lower.”15 Meanwhile, in the majority of cases, measles infection resolves on its own without complications
Is Forced Vaccination Coming?
In a question from viewers of the “When Opinions Collide” video, someone asked whether forced vaccination is on the horizon. Rife said she doesn’t think the public will stand for forced vaccination, but others, like Alan Dershowitz, a lawyer and legal scholar, believe otherwise. According to Alan Dershowitz’s interpretation of Constitutional law:
“You have no constitutional right to endanger the public and spread the disease. Even if you disagree, you have no right not to be vaccinated. You have no right not to wear a mask. You have no right to open up your business. And if you refuse to be vaccinated, the state has the power to, literally, take you to a doctor’s office and plunge a needle into your arm.”
As the basis and justification for his legal orientation on this issue, Dershowitz relies on a 1905 Supreme Court ruling in the matter of Jacobson v. Massachusetts, which involved the smallpox vaccine. Jacobson had been injured by a previous vaccine and took the case to the Supreme Court in an effort to avoid the smallpox vaccine. He lost and paid a $5 fine for refusing the vaccine.
Dershowitz agreed that the 1905 ruling “is not binding on the issue of whether or not you can compel someone to get the vaccine,” but that “the logic of the opinion … strongly suggests that the courts today would allow some form of compulsion if the conditions that we talked about were met: [the vaccines are] safe, effective, [and] exemptions [given] in appropriate cases.”
It remains to be seen what the future holds with mandatory vaccination, particularly in light of COVID-19, but one thing is clear: Public health depends not on the compulsory use of vaccines but on the ability for leading minds to openly debate, research and brainstorm solutions to the chronic and acute diseases plaguing the world — solutions that may include vaccinations but must not ignore their potential for harm. The Return of a Champi... Man, George Buy New $6.99 (as of 10:47 UTC - Details)
Sources and References
The Best of Dr. Joseph Mercola


lewrockwell--2020-12-28--With Biden’s New Threats, the Russia Discourse is More Reckless and Dangerous Than Ever

To justify Hillary Clinton ’ s 2016 loss to Donald Trump , leading Democrats and their key media allies for years competed with one another to depict what they called “ Russia ’ s interference in our elections ” in the most apocalyptic terms possible .
They fanatically rejected the view of the Russian Federation repeatedly expressed by President Obama — that it is a weak regional power with an economy smaller than Italy ’ s capable of only threatening its neighbors but not the U.S. — and instead cast Moscow as a grave , even existential , threat to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the worst security breaches in U.S. history .
This post-2016 mania culminated with prominent liberal politicians and journalists ( as well as John McCain ) declaring Russia ’ s activities surrounding the 2016 to be an “ act of war ” which , many of them insisted , was comparable to Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 attack — the two most traumatic attacks in modern U.S. history which both spawned years of savage and destructive war , among other things .
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen ( D-NH ) repeatedly demanded that Russia ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as “ an act of war.
” Hillary Clinton described Russian hacking as “ a cyber 9/11.
” And here is Rep. Jerry Nadler ( D-NY ) on MSNBC in early February , 2018 , pronouncing Russia “ a hostile foreign power ” whose 2016 meddling was the “ equivalent ” of Pearl Harbor , “ very much on par ” with the “ seriousness ” of the 1941 attack in Hawaii that helped prompt four years of U.S. involvement in a world war .
With the Democrats , under Joe Biden , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the White House and the U.S. military and foreign policy that goes along with it , the discourse from them and their media allies about Russia is becoming even more unhinged and dangerous .
Moscow ’ s alleged responsibility for the recently revealed , multi-pronged hack of U.S. Government agencies and various corporate servers is asserted — despite not a shred of evidence , literally , having yet been presented — as not merely proven fact , but as so obviously true that it is off-limits from doubt or questioning .
The Unknowns @ @ @ @ @ @ @ K. Best Price : $ 4.29 Buy New $ 10.00 Any questioning of this claim will be instantly vilified by the Democrats ’ extremely militaristic media spokespeople as virtual treason .
“ Now the president is not just silent on Russia and the hack .
He is deliberately running defense for the Kremlin by contradicting his own Secretary of State on Russian responsibility , ” pronounced CNN ’ s national security reporter Jim Sciutto , who last week depicted Trump ’ s attempted troop withdrawal from Syria and Germany as “ ceding territory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Putin .
More alarmingly , both the rhetoric to describe the hack and the retaliation being threatened are rapidly spiraling out of control .
Democrats ( along with some Republicans long obsessed with The Russian Threat , such as Mitt Romney ) are casting the latest alleged hack by Moscow in the most melodramatic terms possible , ensuring that Biden will enter the White House with tensions sky-high with Russia and facing heavy pressure to retaliate aggressively .
Biden ’ s top national security advisers and now Biden himself have , with no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ threatened aggressive retaliation against the country with the world ’ s second-largest nuclear stockpile .

To justify Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss to Donald Trump, leading Democrats and their key media allies for years competed with one another to depict what they called “Russia’s interference in our elections” in the most apocalyptic terms possible. They fanatically rejected the view of the Russian Federation repeatedly expressed by President Obama — that it is a weak regional power with an economy smaller than Italy’s capable of only threatening its neighbors but not the U.S. — and instead cast Moscow as a grave, even existential, threat to U.S. democracy, with its actions tantamount to the worst security breaches in U.S. history.
This post-2016 mania culminated with prominent liberal politicians and journalists (as well as John McCain) declaring Russia’s activities surrounding the 2016 to be an “act of war” which, many of them insisted, was comparable to Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 attack — the two most traumatic attacks in modern U.S. history which both spawned years of savage and destructive war, among other things.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) repeatedly demanded that Russia’s 2016 “interference” be treated as “an act of war.” Hillary Clinton described Russian hacking as “a cyber 9/11.” And here is Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) on MSNBC in early February, 2018, pronouncing Russia “a hostile foreign power” whose 2016 meddling was the “equivalent” of Pearl Harbor, “very much on par” with the “seriousness” of the 1941 attack in Hawaii that helped prompt four years of U.S. involvement in a world war.
With the Democrats, under Joe Biden, just weeks away from assuming control of the White House and the U.S. military and foreign policy that goes along with it, the discourse from them and their media allies about Russia is becoming even more unhinged and dangerous. Moscow’s alleged responsibility for the recently revealed, multi-pronged hack of U.S. Government agencies and various corporate servers is asserted — despite not a shred of evidence, literally, having yet been presented — as not merely proven fact, but as so obviously true that it is off-limits from doubt or questioning. The Unknowns: The Unto... O'Donnell, Patrick K. Best Price: $2.47 Buy New $18.95 (as of 10:52 UTC - Details)
Any questioning of this claim will be instantly vilified by the Democrats’ extremely militaristic media spokespeople as virtual treason. “Now the president is not just silent on Russia and the hack. He is deliberately running defense for the Kremlin by contradicting his own Secretary of State on Russian responsibility,” pronounced CNN’s national security reporter Jim Sciutto, who last week depicted Trump’s attempted troop withdrawal from Syria and Germany as “ceding territory” and furnishing “gifts” to Putin. More alarmingly, both the rhetoric to describe the hack and the retaliation being threatened are rapidly spiraling out of control.
Democrats (along with some Republicans long obsessed with The Russian Threat, such as Mitt Romney) are casting the latest alleged hack by Moscow in the most melodramatic terms possible, ensuring that Biden will enter the White House with tensions sky-high with Russia and facing heavy pressure to retaliate aggressively. Biden’s top national security advisers and now Biden himself have, with no evidence shown to the public, repeatedly threatened aggressive retaliation against the country with the world’s second-largest nuclear stockpile.
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lewrockwell--2020-12-28--Ontario (Canada) Admits Labelling Deaths as Covid When They’re Not a Result of Covid

What Happened : Ontario ( Canada ) Public Health has a page on their website titled “ How Ontario is responding to COVID-19.
” On it , they clearly state that deaths are being marked as COVID deaths and are being included in the COVID death count regardless of whether or not COVID actually contributed to or caused the death .
They state the following , This statement from Ontario Public Health echoes statements made multiple times by Canadian public health agencies and personnel .
According to Ontario Ministry Health Senior Communications Advisor Anna Miller , Again , this means @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Ontario , Canada , we are observing an inaccurate number given the fact that those who died with COVID may not have necessarily died as a result of it .
Theoretically if a person committed suicide and tested positive for COVID or died in a car crash , of a heart attack , of cancer , diabetes or any other illness , they are also included in the COVID death count .
Let ’ s not forget the fact that a positive PCR test does not mean one has COVID .
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For example , in late June Toronto ( Ontario , Canada ) Public Health tweeted that “ Individuals who have died with COVID-19 , but not as a result of COVID-19 are included in the case counts for COVID-19 deaths in Toronto.
” It ’ s not just in Canada where we ’ ve seen these types of statements being made , it ’ s all over the world .
There are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we ’ ve written about before .
For example , Dr. Ngozi Ezike , Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health stated the following during the first wave of the pandemic , During the first wave , the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment had to announce a change to how it tallies coronavirus deaths due to complaints that it inflated the numbers .
The only issue is that we can ’ t know how many people have been added to the COVID death count in multiple places across the globe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ result of COVID .
Theoretically , this could drive the global death count significantly lower than the official numbers we are getting .
At the end of the summer the CDC put out data showing that 94 % of deaths that have been marked as COVID deaths had at least two or there other causes listed .
Out of all the deaths that have been labelled as a COVID-19 death in the United States up to the end of August , for 6 % of them COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were other causes and conditions in addition to COVID-19 .
The CDC states that “ for deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19 , on average , there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.
” So how do we know that COVID was the cause for many of these deaths or even contributed ?
Many believe COVID was the cause and even contributed to the comorbitities listed .
You can view the updated numbers here in table 3 from the CDC as they are similar .
We also saw @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where 99 percent of those who were marked as COVID deaths had multiple comorbidities .
With the last two examples it ’ s important to mention that COVID may have been the cause or even a contributing factor .
We already know that people with comorbidities as well as the elderly are the most vulnerable .
We also know that for people 70 years and younger the survival rate of the virus is 99.95 percent , according to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya , MD , PhD , from the Stanford University School of Medicine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and scientists have now signed The Great Barrington Declaration strongly opposing lockdown measures , citing information showing that they are doing more harm than good and explaining that we don ’ t have to lockdown everything to protect the vulnerable .
There are , according to them , more proper and efficient ways of doing so .
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A lot of scientists and doctors have been doing their best to create awareness about this as we don ’ t hear a peep from the mainstream about it .
Social media outlets have been censoring and blocking information that opposes the official narrative that ’ s beamed out by government health authorities .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like Dr. Anthony Fauci for example , can get all the air time in the world and given instant virality , yet thousands of other experts it the field who share an opposite opinion are completely ignored .
It raises a lot of questions and red flags .
The bottom line is , science is being suppressed , and this is no secret .
Below is a tweet from Dr. Martin Kulldorff , a Harvard professor of medicine that emphasizes this point , which was also recently emphasized by Kamran Abbas , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Medical Journal , and the editor of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization .
He has published an article about COVID-19 , the suppression of science and the politicization of medicine .
There are many examples to choose from , I thought I ’ d simply mention these few to get my point across .
It ’ s also not surprising to find conflicts of interests among government COVID advisors .
The Takeaway : A big problem we seem to be having today as a collective is that we are unable to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or what are labelled as controversial stances appropriately .
This is in large part due to the fact that these stances are heavily censored and ridiculed by mainstream media , a lot of information is labelled as controversial or a “ conspiracy theory ” which leads to a lack of understanding by the masses .
It also makes it easy to not even entertain or have a discussion around the topic .
Why do we have such a hard time entertaining what are deemed controversial stances ?
Why do we have such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and taking on other beliefs that contradict our own ?
Why do we have such a hard time understanding the view of another person and why they feel that way ?
Why have we become so polarized in what we believe in to the point where we can ’ t even have appropriate conversations about it with each other ?
Why do so many people respond with hatred , anger and ridicule when it comes to an opposing view ?
What ’ s going on here ?
Is information really the solution , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is completely ignored in order to protect one ’ s own belief system .

What Happened: Ontario (Canada) Public Health has a page on their website titled “How Ontario is responding to COVID-19.” On it, they clearly state that deaths are being marked as COVID deaths and are being included in the COVID death count regardless of whether or not COVID actually contributed to or caused the death. They state the following,
Any case marked as “Fatal” is included in the deaths data. Deaths are included whether or not COVID-19 was determined to be a contributing or underlying cause of death…”
This statement from Ontario Public Health echoes statements made multiple times by Canadian public health agencies and personnel. According to Ontario Ministry Health Senior Communications Advisor Anna Miller,
As a result of how data is recorded by health units into public health information databases, the ministry is not able to accurately separate how many people died directly because of COVID versus those who died with a COVID infection.
Again, this means when we observe the COVID-19 death count in Ontario, Canada, we are observing an inaccurate number given the fact that those who died with COVID may not have necessarily died as a result of it. Theoretically if a person committed suicide and tested positive for COVID or died in a car crash, of a heart attack, of cancer, diabetes or any other illness, they are also included in the COVID death count. Let’s not forget the fact that a positive PCR test does not mean one has COVID. Lucca the War Dog Best Price: $3.70 Buy New $12.70 (as of 10:47 UTC - Details)
This has been common theme during the span of this pandemic so far. For example, in late June Toronto (Ontario, Canada) Public Health tweeted that “Individuals who have died with COVID-19, but not as a result of COVID-19 are included in the case counts for COVID-19 deaths in Toronto.”
It’s not just in Canada where we’ve seen these types of statements being made, it’s all over the world. There are multiple examples from the United States that we’ve written about before.
For example, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health stated the following during the first wave of the pandemic,
If you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live and then you were also found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death, despite if you died of a clear alternative cause it’s still listed as a COVID death. So, everyone who is listed as a COVID death that doesn’t mean that was the cause of the death, but they had COVID at the time of death.
During the first wave, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment had to announce a change to how it tallies coronavirus deaths due to complaints that it inflated the numbers.
The only issue is that we can’t know how many people have been added to the COVID death count in multiple places across the globe that did not actually die as a result of COVID. Theoretically, this could drive the global death count significantly lower than the official numbers we are getting.
At the end of the summer the CDC put out data showing that 94% of deaths that have been marked as COVID deaths had at least two or there other causes listed. Out of all the deaths that have been labelled as a COVID-19 death in the United States up to the end of August, for 6% of them COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned and for 94% of the deaths there were other causes and conditions in addition to COVID-19. The CDC states that “for deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.” So how do we know that COVID was the cause for many of these deaths or even contributed? Many believe COVID was the cause and even contributed to the comorbitities listed. You can view the updated numbers here in table 3 from the CDC as they are similar.
We also saw this very early on in Italy, where 99 percent of those who were marked as COVID deaths had multiple comorbidities.
With the last two examples it’s important to mention that COVID may have been the cause or even a contributing factor. We already know that people with comorbidities as well as the elderly are the most vulnerable. We also know that for people 70 years and younger the survival rate of the virus is 99.95 percent, according to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, MD,PhD, from the Stanford University School of Medicine. This is why approximately 50,000 doctors and scientists have now signed The Great Barrington Declaration strongly opposing lockdown measures, citing information showing that they are doing more harm than good and explaining that we don’t have to lockdown everything to protect the vulnerable. There are, according to them, more proper and efficient ways of doing so. Man’s Best Frien... Best Price: $42.21 Buy New $52.96 (as of 10:43 UTC - Details)
Why This Is Important: There are a lot of questions on the minds of many people, not only with regards to the severity of the virus, PCR testing, and the measures being taken by governments to combat it, but also the fact that information, evidence, science and expert opinion during this pandemic has been heavily censored. A lot of scientists and doctors have been doing their best to create awareness about this as we don’t hear a peep from the mainstream about it. Social media outlets have been censoring and blocking information that opposes the official narrative that’s beamed out by government health authorities. It’s odd how one scientist, like Dr. Anthony Fauci for example, can get all the air time in the world and given instant virality, yet thousands of other experts it the field who share an opposite opinion are completely ignored. It raises a lot of questions and red flags.
Over the last few months, I have seen academic articles and op-eds by professors retracted or labeled “fake news” by social media platforms. Often, no explanation is provided. I am concerned about this heavy-handedness and, at times, outright censorship. – Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH (source)
The bottom line is, science is being suppressed, and this is no secret. Below is a tweet from Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a Harvard professor of medicine that emphasizes this point, which was also recently emphasized by Kamran Abbas, a doctor, executive editor of the British Medical Journal, and the editor of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. He has published an article about COVID-19, the suppression of science and the politicization of medicine. There are many examples to choose from, I thought I’d simply mention these few to get my point across. It’s also not surprising to find conflicts of interests among government COVID advisors.
The Takeaway: A big problem we seem to be having today as a collective is that we are unable to communicate and discuss controversial issues or stances, or what are labelled as controversial stances appropriately. This is in large part due to the fact that these stances are heavily censored and ridiculed by mainstream media, a lot of information is labelled as controversial or a “conspiracy theory” which leads to a lack of understanding by the masses. It also makes it easy to not even entertain or have a discussion around the topic. Why do we have such a hard time entertaining what are deemed controversial stances? Why do we have such a hard time suspending our own beliefs and taking on other beliefs that contradict our own? Why do we have such a hard time understanding the view of another person and why they feel that way? Why have we become so polarized in what we believe in to the point where we can’t even have appropriate conversations about it with each other? Why do so many people respond with hatred, anger and ridicule when it comes to an opposing view? What’s going on here? Is information really the solution, because sometimes extremely credible information and evidence is completely ignored in order to protect one’s own belief system.
Reprinted with permission from Collective Evolution.


lewrockwell--2020-12-29--America’s Ongoing Imperial Scam

America’s Ongoing Imperial Scam

One week after the most attention-demanding election of our lifetimes , another Veteran ’ s Day came and went .
For the occasion , presumed President-elect Joe Biden laid a wreath at the Korean War Memorial in Philadelphia ; whilst yet-to-conceded incumbent President Donald Trump held a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery .
Both channeled and invoked the great reverence Americans still hold for veterans of the bygone Second World War and more complicated Korean conflagration .
Only some 300,000 of the men , and women , who fought in the former are still living .
No doubt we will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Covid-19 in the past year , and whose fault that is .
Yet , in his official statement , Biden added a personal touch — his son Beau ’ s service in Iraq — and a “ personal commitment : ” “ I will never treat you or your families with anything less than the honor you deserve.
” If he really means it , rebalancing U.S. war-making authority and ditching the dated Second World War analogies would be a good start .
World War II : The Defi ... DK Best Price @ @ @ @ @ @ @ World War II remains the go-to conflict for commemoration almost 80 years after America entered the fray .
It marks the last time the U.S. Congress did its constitutional duty and actually declared war before sending America ’ s young men off to kill and die on foreign fields .
All subsequent “ wars , ” from Korea and Vietnam , to the Iraqs ( 1991 , 2003 , 2014 ) , Somalia , Bosnia , Afghanistan , Libya , Syria , Yemen , and a host of military deployments on every continent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pleasure of the sitting president , amply funded by the Congress , yet conveniently never rose to the level of a declared war .
We should consider these wars linked to the presidents themselves , or — perhaps more accurately — to their executive staffs , and the Department of Defense .
War policy-making power has almost completely shifted from the people ’ s representatives ( House and Senate ) to unelected appointees often recruited from think tanks — these funded by an array of organizations interested not in peace , but in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at home and abroad .
Biden ’ s incoming national security team is chock-full of them .
War spending , even in the absence of any notable war , is so compelling that for years , a Congress often unable to come up with a budget ensured the flow stayed strong to the Pentagon — and its cousin , the CIA — through continuing resolutions .
So-called overseas contingency operations , or little wars , have seen their funding go “ off-book , ” as the Pentagon budget now covers just its routine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ top of that budget , so long as the Congress can be convinced by their Pentagon liaisons .
And they nearly always are .
The US Navy ’ s On ... Zullo , Matt Best Price : $ 25.01 Buy New $ 28.98 This obscene spending for military weapons , training , gifts to allies , technology enhancement — for everything from cyberwar , surveillance , data collection , AI , robotics — as well as for standard “ pocketbook ” weapons systems like the F-35 fighter and aircraft carriers , represent the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) mainstay .
Consider a disturbingly accurate recent diagnosis of the current situation : It is against this larded and incompetent backdrop — of economic dependencies for a war machine directed by men and women who ’ ve never fought a declared war , and scant understanding of what defending the nation ought look like — that Americans await an inbound president who now feels obliged to add the patriotic tick “ May God protect our troops ” at the tail end of speeches .
Veterans , Memorial , Independence , or even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at football games amidst an age of pandemic — have become empty gestures .
VA hospitals across the country had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century , and it is there today that many of our Vietnam veterans — of another little war mainly designed to entertain Pentagon fantasies at their expense — rot , for lack of a better word .
Ultimately , these sacrifices , all part of a larger Washingtonian game , hardy matter to anyone but Vietnam alumni ’ s wives , kids — and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dwindle .
40 Thieves on Saipan : ... Tachovsky , Joseph Best Price : $ 19.95 Buy New $ 20.19 What purpose then , does obligatory national celebration — in prose or pageantry — of veterans actually serve in year 20 of intractable and hopeless wars ?
Clearly , veterans and their families are the only ones who truly sacrificed anything .
Those negotiating massive defense contracts — including built-in clauses covering delays , flaws , and implicit corruption — won ’ t even sacrifice surplus profits for the good of the country @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and stock prices can ’ t compensate limbs ( to the tune of 1,645 single or multiple amputee veterans between 9/11 and 2015 ) .
The war machine is largely about money ( for select elites ) and creating new and expanding markets ( benefitting the same ) — the modern veteran ’ s primary function is simply that of “ patriotic ” bait for the public .
In fact , trotting out idealized veterans rationalizes and justifies MIC-corruption — trading on the good will that most American have for those who served @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was lying about why ) is increasingly unworkable .
Military recruitment has long been a challenge , partly because Americans increasingly see through the systemic scam , and are left wondering whether it ’ s such a great deal after all .
Despite the Pentagon ’ s massive data collection efforts and widespread access to high school and college students , recruitment is becoming more and more difficult .
The latest army and air force recruiting approach involves convincing economically-insecure parents to encourage their kids to get out of their basements , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ woods or flying video game-like drones .
In an era where more young people live at home for longer , this approach may appeal to parents , but it ’ s also a tell .
Despite repeated and routine public deference to veterans , the truth is out .
There are just too many truth bombs available from potential recruits ’ family and friends ; too much outrage at the increasingly exposed police militarization in America ’ s streets — many of their new hires practicing what they learned patrolling Baghdad or Kandahar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There ’ s scant solace in knowing top defense contractors rake in untold billions , whilst too many American families slip further through the cracks , unsure of whence their next thousand will come .
And here ’ s a truth uncomfortable for far too many privileged and polite liberals so ready for a quiet return to a Biden-induced normalcy : both Trumpism and left-leaning progressivism was partly fueled by that shared realization .
Our veterans , too , have a solid sense of this truth — a truth that ’ s often @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Pentagon has little intrinsic interest in helping veterans , except to the extent that veterans , individually or collectively , can both execute and justify profitable business-as-usual foreign policies — which are increasingly crass , contradictory , and unconstitutional affairs .
To truly honor our troops and veterans , Biden ’ s bunch should be brutally honest about what Washingtonian “ war ” is , and should respect the very real sacrifices of the “ other 1 percent ” who actually serve—by demanding a more honorable and restrained foreign policy .
That @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than obligatory utterance , and admission of a final hard truth : The imperial scam we ’ ve kept calling a republic these past 70 years is collapsing , and it will take all of us — veteran and civilian alike — to ensure a soft landing .
The Best of Karen Kwiatkowski

One week after the most attention-demanding election of our lifetimes, another Veteran’s Day came and went. For the occasion, presumed President-elect Joe Biden laid a wreath at the Korean War Memorial in Philadelphia; whilst yet-to-conceded incumbent President Donald Trump held a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.
Both channeled and invoked the great reverence Americans still hold for veterans of the bygone Second World War and more complicated Korean conflagration. Only some 300,000 of the men, and women, who fought in the former are still living. No doubt we will continue to hear how many succumbed to Covid-19 in the past year, and whose fault that is.
Yet, in his official statement, Biden added a personal touch — his son Beau’s service in Iraq — and a “personal commitment:” “I will never treat you or your families with anything less than the honor you deserve.” If he really means it, rebalancing U.S. war-making authority and ditching the dated Second World War analogies would be a good start. World War II: The Defi... DK Best Price: $5.95 Buy New $18.50 (as of 12:32 UTC - Details)
World War II remains the go-to conflict for commemoration almost 80 years after America entered the fray. It marks the last time the U.S. Congress did its constitutional duty and actually declared war before sending America’s young men off to kill and die on foreign fields.
All subsequent “wars,” from Korea and Vietnam, to the Iraqs (1991, 2003, 2014), Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and a host of military deployments on every continent around the world were waged at the pleasure of the sitting president, amply funded by the Congress, yet conveniently never rose to the level of a declared war.
Little Wars & Presidencies
We should consider these wars linked to the presidents themselves, or — perhaps more accurately — to their executive staffs, and the Department of Defense. War policy-making power has almost completely shifted from the people’s representatives (House and Senate) to unelected appointees often recruited from think tanks — these funded by an array of organizations interested not in peace, but in accessing tax dollars, and gaining revenues at home and abroad.
Biden’s incoming national security team is chock-full of them. War spending, even in the absence of any notable war, is so compelling that for years, a Congress often unable to come up with a budget ensured the flow stayed strong to the Pentagon — and its cousin, the CIA — through continuing resolutions.
So-called overseas contingency operations, or little wars, have seen their funding go “off-book,” as the Pentagon budget now covers just its routine expenses — wars are paid for on top of that budget, so long as the Congress can be convinced by their Pentagon liaisons. And they nearly always are. The US Navy’s On... Zullo, Matt Best Price: $33.98 Buy New $39.22 (as of 10:47 UTC - Details)
This obscene spending for military weapons, training, gifts to allies, technology enhancement — for everything from cyberwar, surveillance, data collection, AI, robotics — as well as for standard “pocketbook” weapons systems like the F-35 fighter and aircraft carriers, represent the Military Industrial Complex’s (MIC) mainstay.
Consider a disturbingly accurate recent diagnosis of the current situation:
“…the U.S. Presidents and their aides are quite aware of the current state of the US military: it is a military which simply cannot win even simple conflicts…a military whose Air Force spent absolutely obscene amounts of money to create a supposedly “5th generation” fighter which in many ways is inferior to US 4th generation aircraft!”
It is against this larded and incompetent backdrop — of economic dependencies for a war machine directed by men and women who’ve never fought a declared war, and scant understanding of what defending the nation ought look like — that Americans await an inbound president who now feels obliged to add the patriotic tick “May God protect our troops” at the tail end of speeches.
Empty Gestures
Veterans, Memorial, Independence, or even just Tuesdays — replete with military flyovers at football games amidst an age of pandemic — have become empty gestures. VA hospitals across the country had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century, and it is there today that many of our Vietnam veterans — of another little war mainly designed to entertain Pentagon fantasies at their expense — rot, for lack of a better word.
Ultimately, these sacrifices, all part of a larger Washingtonian game, hardy matter to anyone but Vietnam alumni’s wives, kids — and this generation’s numbers now also dwindle.
40 Thieves on Saipan: ... Tachovsky, Joseph Best Price: $10.50 Buy New $52.21 (as of 10:47 UTC - Details) What purpose then, does obligatory national celebration — in prose or pageantry — of veterans actually serve in year 20 of intractable and hopeless wars? Clearly, veterans and their families are the only ones who truly sacrificed anything. Those negotiating massive defense contracts — including built-in clauses covering delays, flaws, and implicit corruption — won’t even sacrifice surplus profits for the good of the country.
Money isn’t blood, and stock prices can’t compensate limbs (to the tune of 1,645 single or multiple amputee veterans between 9/11 and 2015).
The war machine is largely about money (for select elites) and creating new and expanding markets (benefitting the same) — the modern veteran’s primary function is simply that of “patriotic” bait for the public. In fact, trotting out idealized veterans rationalizes and justifies MIC-corruption — trading on the good will that most American have for those who served (even if the government they served was lying about why) is increasingly unworkable.
Military recruitment has long been a challenge, partly because Americans increasingly see through the systemic scam, and are left wondering whether it’s such a great deal after all. Despite the Pentagon’s massive data collection efforts and widespread access to high school and college students, recruitment is becoming more and more difficult.
The latest army and air force recruiting approach involves convincing economically-insecure parents to encourage their kids to get out of their basements, and pursue dreams of playing soldier in the woods or flying video game-like drones. In an era where more young people live at home for longer, this approach may appeal to parents, but it’s also a tell.
Despite repeated and routine public deference to veterans, the truth is out. There are just too many truth bombs available from potential recruits’ family and friends; too much outrage at the increasingly exposed police militarization in America’s streets — many of their new hires practicing what they learned patrolling Baghdad or Kandahar, policing Baltimore and Kansas City.
There’s scant solace in knowing top defense contractors rake in untold billions, whilst too many American families slip further through the cracks, unsure of whence their next thousand will come. And here’s a truth uncomfortable for far too many privileged and polite liberals so ready for a quiet return to a Biden-induced normalcy: both Trumpism and left-leaning progressivism was partly fueled by that shared realization.
Our veterans, too, have a solid sense of this truth — a truth that’s often painful, embarrassing and sometimes shameful. The Pentagon has little intrinsic interest in helping veterans, except to the extent that veterans, individually or collectively, can both execute and justify profitable business-as-usual foreign policies — which are increasingly crass, contradictory, and unconstitutional affairs.
To truly honor our troops and veterans, Biden’s bunch should be brutally honest about what Washingtonian “war” is, and should respect the very real sacrifices of the “other 1 percent” who actually serve—by demanding a more honorable and restrained foreign policy. That’s going to require more action than obligatory utterance, and admission of a final hard truth:
The imperial scam we’ve kept calling a republic these past 70 years is collapsing, and it will take all of us — veteran and civilian alike — to ensure a soft landing.
Originally published on Consortium News.
The Best of Karen Kwiatkowski