lewrockwell--2020-10-22--FDA — Captured and Corrupt

FDA — Captured and Corrupt

If you ’ re like most people , you probably assume that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is funded by the U.S. government and therefore isn ’ t catering to private industries .
The agency itself certainly tries to present itself as independent from the industries it regulates but , in reality , legal loopholes have led to the FDA receiving money from , and being captured and corrupted by , private interests .
While the FDA itself does not accept corporate money , it does receive money funneled via a nonprofit foundation , which in turn receives money @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It ’ s really all a façade because the end result is the same .
Those donating the money ultimately end up with the ability to pull strings , when needed .
A VOYAGE IN IMAGINATIO ... Holmes , Dr Joel S Buy New $ 9.95 As explained by NPR1 back in 2012 , the Reagan-Udall Foundation is a nonprofit foundation created by Congress in 2007 to support scientific research that is of interest to the FDA .
According to NPR:2 As explained in a 2008 article3 in the Journal of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Reagan-Udall Foundation was part of a larger plan to establish a private-public partnership to facilitate the Critical Path Initiative .
The Critical Path Initiative was part of the FDA ’ s attempts to streamline and modernize the drug approval process by having companies pay user fees .
Part of the Reagan-Udall Foundation ’ s responsibilities was to set goals and priorities for the Critical Path Initiative , and then award grants to meet those goals .
However , critics voiced concern , saying the Reagan-Udall Foundation might allow the food and medical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” since it could raise money from private , including industry , sources .
To quell some of these fears , the Reagan-Udall Foundation said it would only accept grants from government , individual donors and other nonprofits , not industry .
After a few years of scraping by on small , private donations , the foundation received a $ 150,000 grant from the PhRMA Foundation , another nonprofit foundation funded by drug companies .
Being a nonprofit , the PhRMA Foundation fit the description of an acceptable funding source , but just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it ’ s founded and funded by drug companies ?
Fauci : The Bernie Mado ... Ortleb , Charles Buy New $ 5.99 As noted by consumer advocate Sidney Wolfe with Public Citizen , while the PhRMA Foundation is technically a nonprofit , “ one can hardly expect that they ’ re going to do things that are not in the interests of their funders.
” 4 Indeed , and this influence is in addition to the influence food , drug and medical device companies already have , by way of user fees @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fee Act established an accelerated application process for new drugs .
The sped-up process is funded through industry-paid fees .
This fee , however , works more like a payoff or soft bribe .
When a company pays the FDA for an accelerated review , the agency no longer has an incentive to find fault with the product or demand more extensive testing .
Not surprisingly , the Reagan-Udall Foundation has received large donations from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , which we now know rarely does anything that doesn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overall agenda .
As detailed in “ Bill Gates — Most Dangerous Philanthropist in Modern History ?
” Gates has used his philanthropy to shape public policy in ways that benefit his own agenda .
A March 17 , 2020 , article5 in The Nation titled , “ Bill Gates ’ Charity Paradox , ” even points out that the Gates Foundation has given $ 2 billion in tax-deductible charitable donations to private companies , including GlaxoSmithKline , Unilever , IBM , Vodafone , the Mastercard affiliate MasterCard Labs for Financial Inclusion,6,7 Scholastic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these so-called donations end up benefiting the Gates Foundation , as it also invests in the very same companies and industries that it donates money to .
This circular economy is why Gates just keeps getting richer , the more money he gives away .
Part of this wealth growth also appears to be due to the tax breaks given for charitable donations .
In short , it ’ s a perfect money-shuffling scheme that limits taxes while maximizing income generation .
If donating to for-profit companies sounds oddly illegal to you , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a tax evader for doing so — he ’ s simply getting away with it .
The nonprofit foundation is a disguise to avoid taxes while funding the research arms of for-profit organizations that his foundation is invested in , which is illegal .
The image below shows donations received by the Reagan-Udall Foundation in 2013 .
Topping the list is the Gates Foundation , whose contributions for the year amounted to $ 977,165 , followed by a string of drug companies .
In addition to all of this financial clout , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also have the ability to exert influence over the FDA via the members10 of the Foundation board , and this was a concern right from the get-go .
Plague : One Scientist & ... Mikovits , Judy Best Price : $ 29.55 Buy New $ 17.99 As reported in the 2008 Journal of the National Cancer Institute article,11 members of the then-newly created Reagan-Udall Foundation executive board had troubling ties to industry — and to the Gates Foundation , which years later ( see above ) ended up being a top financial donor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ B. Finkelstein , reads , in part:12 While the Reagan-Udall Foundation is the nonprofit arm of the FDA , the agency does not have the authority to set conflict-of-interest policies for the foundation.13 This , of course , leaves the door wide open for conflicts of interest and allows the Foundation to become a hidden back door of sorts , for corporate influence .
Industry Dictates Level of Evidence FDA Should Use Plague of Corruption : ... Mikovits , Judy Buy New $ 16.51 A more recent article,14 published in 2017 in The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Reagan-Udall Foundation is using “ big data ” assess drug risks and device complications , they ’ re using “ levels of evidence recommended by industry.
” The potential for manipulation should be obvious .
The article , written by BMJ associate editor Jeanne Lenzer , reads , in part:15 Lenzer also points out that the Foundation ’ s board of directors still has financial ties to the drug and device makers that the FDA is supposed to regulate .
She notes that while no more than four of the 14-member board should @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 2017 , nine of the then 13-member board had financial ties to industry at the time of their appointment .
To give just one example of how conflicts of interest can have real-world implications , take the case of Ellen V. Sigal , Ph.D.16 Sigal currently chairs the Reagan-Udall Foundation ’ s board of directors.17 She ’ s also vice president of the Cancer Moonshot program , and it too is funded by the Gates Foundation .
Sigal ’ s colleague at the Cancer Moonshot Program , Dr. Doug Lowy , is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and Sigal ’ s son , David Sigal , is married to New York State Sen. Brad Hoylman , who recently sponsored a bill to make Gardasil mandatory for all school children in New York .
A Republic Under Assau ... Fitton , Tom Buy New $ 30.00 Hoylman is also supporting a bill that would allow children as young as 9 to receive the HPV vaccine at school without the knowledge or consent of their parents .
Gates , of course , is also a supporter of HPV vaccination and funds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is on the board of the Parker Institute , which is partnered with a company called Inovio .
Inovio , which is funded by the Gates Foundation , is working on a COVID-19 vaccine .
What are the chances Sigal ’ s son-in-law might support efforts to make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory in New York as well ?
When you start tracing relationships , it ’ s amazing how often you find the Gates Foundation involved in matters relating to forced vaccinations and the destruction of legal protections .
Sad to say , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government agency that hasn ’ t been captured by private interests .
I ’ ve written several articles detailing the corruption at the CDC , for example , including “ CDC Petitioned to Stop Lying About Pharma Funds , ” “ How Conflicts of Interest Have Corrupted the CDC ” and “ Public Health Agency Sued for Coke Collusion.
” The same can be said about the World Health Organization which , of course , is also funded by the Gates Foundation .
In fact , when the U.S. withdrew its funding , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ funder — larger even than entire nations .
Without doubt , the FDA can be added to the list of agencies that largely serves corporate masters , hidden as they may be behind nonprofit façades .
A recent investigative report18 by Science Magazine highlights the agency ’ s failures when it comes to overseeing clinical research , which is one of its many duties .
Inspectors conduct routine visits to research trial sites and review trial records to make sure research parameters and safety protocols are followed .
They also respond to complaints @ @ @ @ @ @ @ obtained via Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA ) requests reveal it rarely sanctions or penalizes researchers or research companies even when grave problems — including fraud — are found .
What ’ s more , there ’ s a marked trend toward less and less adequate oversight .
Live Not by Lies : A Ma ... Dreher , Rod Best Price : $ 17.49 Buy New $ 17.99 Case in point : Aspen Clinical Research , run by Dr. Michael Harris , has on numerous occasions over the past decade been cited @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clinical trials , yet the FDA never followed through on its threats to fine , prosecute or disqualify Harris from conducting clinical research in the U.S .
According to the report , written by Charles Piller:19 According to Piller , this isn ’ t a rare case .
After reviewing some 1,600 FDA inspection and enforcement documents , Piller ’ s conclusion is that the “ FDA ’ s enforcement of clinical research regulations is often light-handed , slow-moving , and secretive.
” I recommend reading Piller ’ s report in its entirety @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that raises all sorts of questions about drug safety .
If a drug trial is riddled with errors , omissions and outright fraud and falsification of documents and data — examples of which are given in Piller ’ s report — and this research is then used to gain FDA approval , the chances of that drug being harmful can be considerable .
Clearly , oversight without follow-up and follow-through when problems are found is about as useful as no oversight at all .
The Best of Joseph Mercola

If you’re like most people, you probably assume that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is funded by the U.S. government and therefore isn’t catering to private industries.
The agency itself certainly tries to present itself as independent from the industries it regulates but, in reality, legal loopholes have led to the FDA receiving money from, and being captured and corrupted by, private interests.
While the FDA itself does not accept corporate money, it does receive money funneled via a nonprofit foundation, which in turn receives money from other nonprofits funded by private interests. It’s really all a façade because the end result is the same. Those donating the money ultimately end up with the ability to pull strings, when needed.
The Reagan-Udall Foundation
A VOYAGE IN IMAGINATIO... Holmes, Dr Joel S Buy New $9.95 (as of 04:21 UTC - Details) As explained by NPR1 back in 2012, the Reagan-Udall Foundation is a nonprofit foundation created by Congress in 2007 to support scientific research that is of interest to the FDA. According to NPR:2
“The idea was that this foundation could do things the FDA can’t. It would raise money from private sources, fund research in areas where the FDA lacks expertise, and organize collaborations involving industry, patient groups and academia.”
As explained in a 2008 article3 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the creation of the Reagan-Udall Foundation was part of a larger plan to establish a private-public partnership to facilitate the Critical Path Initiative.
The Critical Path Initiative was part of the FDA’s attempts to streamline and modernize the drug approval process by having companies pay user fees. Part of the Reagan-Udall Foundation’s responsibilities was to set goals and priorities for the Critical Path Initiative, and then award grants to meet those goals.
Massive Loophole: Nonprofits Funded by Industry
However, critics voiced concern, saying the Reagan-Udall Foundation might allow the food and medical industries “to sway FDA decisions,” since it could raise money from private, including industry, sources. To quell some of these fears, the Reagan-Udall Foundation said it would only accept grants from government, individual donors and other nonprofits, not industry.
After a few years of scraping by on small, private donations, the foundation received a $150,000 grant from the PhRMA Foundation, another nonprofit foundation funded by drug companies. Being a nonprofit, the PhRMA Foundation fit the description of an acceptable funding source, but just how independent can it actually be when it’s founded and funded by drug companies? Fauci: The Bernie Mado... Ortleb, Charles Buy New $5.99 (as of 02:55 UTC - Details)
As noted by consumer advocate Sidney Wolfe with Public Citizen, while the PhRMA Foundation is technically a nonprofit, “one can hardly expect that they’re going to do things that are not in the interests of their funders.”4
Indeed, and this influence is in addition to the influence food, drug and medical device companies already have, by way of user fees. Again, the Prescription Drug User Fee Act established an accelerated application process for new drugs. The sped-up process is funded through industry-paid fees.
This fee, however, works more like a payoff or soft bribe. When a company pays the FDA for an accelerated review, the agency no longer has an incentive to find fault with the product or demand more extensive testing.
FDA Foundation Funded by the Gates Foundation
Not surprisingly, the Reagan-Udall Foundation has received large donations from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which we now know rarely does anything that doesn’t benefit Gates’ personal bottom line and overall agenda.
As detailed in “Bill Gates — Most Dangerous Philanthropist in Modern History?” Gates has used his philanthropy to shape public policy in ways that benefit his own agenda.
A March 17, 2020, article5 in The Nation titled, “Bill Gates’ Charity Paradox,” even points out that the Gates Foundation has given $2 billion in tax-deductible charitable donations to private companies, including GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, IBM, Vodafone, the Mastercard affiliate MasterCard Labs for Financial Inclusion,6,7 Scholastic Inc. and NBC Universal Media.8,9
Many of these so-called donations end up benefiting the Gates Foundation, as it also invests in the very same companies and industries that it donates money to. This circular economy is why Gates just keeps getting richer, the more money he gives away.
Part of this wealth growth also appears to be due to the tax breaks given for charitable donations. In short, it’s a perfect money-shuffling scheme that limits taxes while maximizing income generation.
If donating to for-profit companies sounds oddly illegal to you, you’d be right. Gates is a tax evader for doing so — he’s simply getting away with it. The nonprofit foundation is a disguise to avoid taxes while funding the research arms of for-profit organizations that his foundation is invested in, which is illegal.
The image below shows donations received by the Reagan-Udall Foundation in 2013. Topping the list is the Gates Foundation, whose contributions for the year amounted to $977,165, followed by a string of drug companies.
Board Members With Ties to Industry
In addition to all of this financial clout, food, drug and medical device makers also have the ability to exert influence over the FDA via the members10 of the Foundation board, and this was a concern right from the get-go.
Plague: One Scientist&... Mikovits, Judy Best Price: $29.55 Buy New $17.99 (as of 04:10 UTC - Details) As reported in the 2008 Journal of the National Cancer Institute article,11 members of the then-newly created Reagan-Udall Foundation executive board had troubling ties to industry — and to the Gates Foundation, which years later (see above) ended up being a top financial donor. The article, written by Joel B. Finkelstein, reads, in part:12
“The Food and Drug Administration’s most recent steps toward modernizing the drug approval process have renewed some old questions about the FDA’s relationship with the industries it regulates.
Several public advocacy groups affiliated with physicians and researchers have voiced their concern over the appointment of certain members to a newly formed agency board. The groups have warned that some members may have conflicts of interest due to past or current roles as board members of pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms …
The [Reagan-Udall] foundation’s board of directors, appointed by the FDA commissioner, will be largely responsible for establishing by-laws, selecting an executive director to oversee day-to-day operations, and reporting to Congress on foundation activities and operations.
The federal statute stipulates that of the 14 members named to the board, four members should come from industry, three from academia, two from consumer or patient advocacy organizations, and one from the health provider community. The remaining four spots are open to anyone with relevant expertise.
The FDA has already chosen the members and is organizing the Reagan–Udall Foundation. However, some advocacy groups are concerned that several nonindustry members have strong ties to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, including one who is currently under investigation by the Senate Finance Committee.
Tadataka ‘Tachi’ Yamada, M.D., currently heads the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s global health program but until 2006 worked as head of research for the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline.
Senate investigators have uncovered evidence suggesting that, during his tenure with the company, he may have been involved in an effort to intimidate a scientist who was raising questions about the heart risks associated with the company’s blockbuster diabetes drug rosiglitazone maleate (Avandia).”
While the Reagan-Udall Foundation is the nonprofit arm of the FDA, the agency does not have the authority to set conflict-of-interest policies for the foundation.13 This, of course, leaves the door wide open for conflicts of interest and allows the Foundation to become a hidden back door of sorts, for corporate influence.
Industry Dictates Level of Evidence FDA Should Use
Plague of Corruption: ... Mikovits, Judy Buy New $16.51 (as of 02:59 UTC - Details) A more recent article,14 published in 2017 in The BMJ, points out that when the Reagan-Udall Foundation is using “big data” assess drug risks and device complications, they’re using “levels of evidence recommended by industry.” The potential for manipulation should be obvious. The article, written by BMJ associate editor Jeanne Lenzer, reads, in part:15
“Big data can be used cautiously to examine real world outcomes and to improve surveillance of drug safety … However, big data are a noisy mess, and analyses by entities with profit motives may identify spurious associations that support fast track approvals and indication creep (broadening the indications for drugs and devices).
The Reagan-Udall Foundation curates real world evidence or ‘big data’ derived from routinely collected health data from insurance claims, electronic health records, voluntary registries, and social media.
The U.S. drug and device regulator, the Food and Drug Administration, says that such data can speed up research, ‘saving time and money’ for ‘therapeutic development, outcomes research [and] safety surveillance.’
In January [2013], Robert Califf, then FDA commissioner, announced the launch of Innovation in Medical Evidence Development and Surveillance (IMEDS), a foundation project that he said would collect and analyze big data to identify ‘important safety issues.’
However, critics of the move say that big data are poor for identifying adverse events … Financial conflicts of interest, they worry, could influence the way big data are used, including exploitation of the weaknesses inherent in observational data to win FDA approval for new uses of drugs and devices and to exonerate drugs of previously detected harms. There is evidence and precedent to support both concerns.”
Lenzer also points out that the Foundation’s board of directors still has financial ties to the drug and device makers that the FDA is supposed to regulate. She notes that while no more than four of the 14-member board should be representatives of FDA regulated industries, in 2017, nine of the then 13-member board had financial ties to industry at the time of their appointment.
The Ties That Bind
To give just one example of how conflicts of interest can have real-world implications, take the case of Ellen V. Sigal, Ph.D.16 Sigal currently chairs the Reagan-Udall Foundation’s board of directors.17
She’s also vice president of the Cancer Moonshot program, and it too is funded by the Gates Foundation. Sigal’s colleague at the Cancer Moonshot Program, Dr. Doug Lowy, is a co-inventor of the HPV vaccine Gardasil, and Sigal’s son, David Sigal, is married to New York State Sen. Brad Hoylman, who recently sponsored a bill to make Gardasil mandatory for all school children in New York. A Republic Under Assau... Fitton, Tom Buy New $30.00 (as of 03:00 UTC - Details)
Hoylman is also supporting a bill that would allow children as young as 9 to receive the HPV vaccine at school without the knowledge or consent of their parents. Gates, of course, is also a supporter of HPV vaccination and funds HPV vaccine research.
Lastly, Sigal is on the board of the Parker Institute, which is partnered with a company called Inovio. Inovio, which is funded by the Gates Foundation, is working on a COVID-19 vaccine.
What are the chances Sigal’s son-in-law might support efforts to make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory in New York as well? When you start tracing relationships, it’s amazing how often you find the Gates Foundation involved in matters relating to forced vaccinations and the destruction of legal protections.
FDA’s Lax Oversight of Clinical Research
Sad to say, it’s hard to find a government agency that hasn’t been captured by private interests. I’ve written several articles detailing the corruption at the CDC, for example, including “CDC Petitioned to Stop Lying About Pharma Funds,” “How Conflicts of Interest Have Corrupted the CDC” and “Public Health Agency Sued for Coke Collusion.”
The same can be said about the World Health Organization which, of course, is also funded by the Gates Foundation. In fact, when the U.S. withdrew its funding, Gates stepped in and became the largest funder — larger even than entire nations.
Without doubt, the FDA can be added to the list of agencies that largely serves corporate masters, hidden as they may be behind nonprofit façades. A recent investigative report18 by Science Magazine highlights the agency’s failures when it comes to overseeing clinical research, which is one of its many duties.
FDA documents obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests reveal it rarely sanctions or penalizes researchers or research companies even when grave problems — including fraud — are found.
Inspectors conduct routine visits to research trial sites and review trial records to make sure research parameters and safety protocols are followed. They also respond to complaints by whistleblowers.
However, FDA documents obtained via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests reveal it rarely sanctions or penalizes researchers or research companies even when grave problems — including fraud — are found. What’s more, there’s a marked trend toward less and less adequate oversight.
Live Not by Lies: A Ma... Dreher, Rod Best Price: $17.49 Buy New $17.99 (as of 07:13 UTC - Details) Case in point: Aspen Clinical Research, run by Dr. Michael Harris, has on numerous occasions over the past decade been cited for “egregious errors” in its clinical trials, yet the FDA never followed through on its threats to fine, prosecute or disqualify Harris from conducting clinical research in the U.S. According to the report, written by Charles Piller:19
“FDA found there were serious lapses in obtaining informed consent from trial volunteers, unqualified staff made medical assessments, and Harris failed to properly report abnormal lab test results. He also did not disclose that trial participants were taking opioid, antidepressant, or antipsychotic drugs — which could have skewed results or posed safety concerns.
The agency said Aspen’s records were disorganized, contradictory, and sometimes backdated in a way that ‘begs the question of the authenticity and veracity of data collected.’ Those ‘serious, ongoing deviations’ might constitute ‘fraud, scientific misconduct,’ and ‘significant human subject protection violations,’ according to FDA documents …
Repeat problems and a raft of new ones emerged during inspections in 2014, 2015, and 2019. Each time, in responses to FDA, Harris admitted some transgressions, strenuously disputed others, and promised to improve.
Through all that, FDA never formally sanctioned Harris or pursued other penalties. The agency never made public the alleged offenses or told trial participants they might have been put at risk. Nor did it tell companies sponsoring some of the trials that their data might have been compromised …
Meanwhile, pharmaceutical and medical device companies continued to contract with Aspen. Since 2011, they have paid the firm millions of dollars for work on at least 65 trials, and Aspen is now recruiting people for nine new trials on Alzheimer’s disease, autism, depression, and other serious disorders.”
According to Piller, this isn’t a rare case. After reviewing some 1,600 FDA inspection and enforcement documents, Piller’s conclusion is that the “FDA’s enforcement of clinical research regulations is often light-handed, slow-moving, and secretive.”
“Clear corrections of inspector-reported dangerous or unlawful clinical trial practices were the exception, even amid signs that trial participants were harmed and that data underpinning evidence-based medicine were corrupted,” Piller writes.
“On the rare occasions when FDA formally warned researchers of findings that they had broken the law, the agency often neglected to ensure that fixes occurred … Moreover, the agency frequently closed cases on the basis of unverified claims by those accused.”
I recommend reading Piller’s report in its entirety. It’s a sobering read that raises all sorts of questions about drug safety.
If a drug trial is riddled with errors, omissions and outright fraud and falsification of documents and data — examples of which are given in Piller’s report — and this research is then used to gain FDA approval, the chances of that drug being harmful can be considerable. Clearly, oversight without follow-up and follow-through when problems are found is about as useful as no oversight at all.
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The Best of Dr. Joseph Mercola


lewrockwell--2020-10-23--Wisdom From a Master

Wisdom From a Master

America today confronts an unprecedented crisis .
Our economy is collapsing , and the fake coronavirus ” epidemic , ” with its Draconian restrictions , is destroying our liberty .
What can we do ?
We ’ re fortunate that Dr. Ron Paul , our greatest living American , has provided a masterful diagnosis and offers us hope for a cure—if only we will listen .
The End of Unearned Opulence sums up and extends Ron ’ s message that he has given us in his many years of devoted service .
In the book , he speaks of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the American people when he abandoned convertibility of the dollar into gold in 1971 .
He offered us fifty years of fake prosperity , but inevitably , the bill from the devil came due .
In telling us about this , Ron talks about the great German writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe and how he modified the Faust legend .
As I read this , I thought about Goethe ’ s finishing his great play Faust in the wisdom of his later years .
Ron has in like fashion offered us in this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ron ’ s message for us ?
He says , “ The opulence of unearned wealth has been exposed .
The grave danger we now face can no longer be denied .
What we are witnessing today is what happens to a society when counterfeit wealth dissipates .
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.A Ponzi scheme mentality which has existed for decades allows for constant pyramiding of debt as part of our fiat monetary system .
This policy is a predictable event and is instrumental in the creation of financial bubbles .
Fractional reserve banking is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of thin air , which inflates the debt bubble .
Much of the malinvestment that results appears as wealth , but is in reality an illusion that disappears with the bursting of the bubble.
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Why then has it been imposed on us ?
Ron gives us the answer .
It benefits the crony capitalists—the opposite of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the government .
He says , “ The humanitarian claim of the welfare/ warfare proponents is that their efforts have always been designed to care for the poor .
The only problem is that as financial bubbles develop , the already wealthy receive most of the benefits .
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.The huge bailouts in the 2008 recession saw the banks and mortgage companies benefitting while individuals lost their homes .
With today ’ s lockdowns we see the large corporations avoiding the worst regulations and permitted to operate , while the mom and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people allow that mad and evil policy to continue ?
Ron answers that the government deludes people with crusades against imaginary enemies , in order to gain more control over us .
First and foremost , Ron is a critic of the warfare state .
Ron is not a pacifist – an ancient charge against those who oppose constant war .
He believes in the right to self-defense , but he does not believe in the initiation of violence , whether by private criminals or the state .
Still , this is the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Just talk about the budget , talk about the greatness of America , talk about whatever everyone else was talking about , and you ’ ll be fine .
And , they neglected to add , forgotten .
But had Ron shied away from this issue , there would have been no Ron Paul Revolution .
It was his courageous refusal to back down from certain unspeakable truths about the American role in the world that caused Americans , and especially students , to sit up and take notice .
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You can ’ t run an empire on the cheap .
Concerned about TSA groping , or government eavesdropping , or cameras trained on you ?
These are the inevitable policies of a hegemon .
In case after case , Ron pointed to the connection between an imperial policy abroad and abuses and outrages at home.While still in his thirties , Murray Rothbard wrote privately that he was beginning to view war as “ the key to the whole libertarian business.
” Here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been faithful to the Rothbardian tradition .
Time after time , in interviews and public appearances , Ron has brought the questions posed to him back to the central issues of war and foreign policy .
Inspired by Ron , libertarians began to challenge conservatives by reminding them that war , after all , is the ultimate government program .
War has it all : propaganda , censorship , spying , crony contracts , money printing , skyrocketing spending , debt creation , central planning , hubris – everything we associate with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ron Paul permanently changed the nature of the discussion on war and foreign policy .
The word “ nonintervention ” rarely appeared in foreign-policy discussions before 2007 .
Opposition to war was associated with anti-capitalist causes .
That is no longer the case .
In our present crisis , Ron brilliantly extends his point .
The fake coronavirus menace has become the means by which the state criminals can distract the public from its disastrous economic policies and put us under their control .
As Ron says , “ The goal of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ both local and national politicians , has been to distract from the much bigger crisis we face dealing with : the Fed ’ s responsibility for the economic collapse and its hunger for unlimited power .
The fact that responding to the exaggerated coronavirus crisis made the economic downturn much worse was not a disappointment to those individuals who see economic turmoil as an opportunity to promote radical Marxist ideas.
” Ron is of course a medical doctor , and he speaks with authority when he tells us that the health crisis is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not the bubonic plague .
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It ’ s now recognized that much of the data reported on the severity and extent of the disease was seriously flawed and misleading .
The reports inevitably made it appear that the epidemic was much worse than it was .
To many observers , this was more than just careless mistakes but rather a concerted effort to spread fear and panic .
This effort amazingly led to a delusional and extreme reaction by the media , politicians , public health fanatics , drug companies , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ socialism , fascism , and Marxism , all promoting the infamous lockdown.
” Liberty Defined : 50 Es ... Paul , Ron Best Price : $ 1.27 Buy New $ 6.79 As if this wasn ’ t bad enough , the Marxist BLM and antifa are rioting and looting while leftwing elements in government aid and abet their revolutionary tactics .
“ Antifa , BLM , and cultural Marxism ’ s concerted efforts to topple the remainder of the American Republic means , ‘ they smell blood !
’ ” We thus face @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us to change things .
I had the rare honor of serving as Ron Paul ’ s congressional chief of staff , and observed him in many proud moments in those days , and in his presidential campaigns .
People today sometimes compare Ron Paul with Bernie Sanders .
The comparison of Bernie to Ron goes like this : both launched insurgent , anti-establishment presidential campaigns while in their 70s , shook up their respective party establishments , and attracted large youth followings .
But Bernie is no Ron .
Just on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ difficult to work with ; Ron is a kindhearted gentleman who always showed his appreciation for the people in his office .
More importantly , Ron urged his followers to read and learn .
Countless high school and college students began reading dense and difficult treatises in economics and political philosophy because Ron encouraged them to .
Ron ’ s followers , meanwhile , were curious enough to dig beneath the surface .
Is the state really a benign institution that can costlessly provide us whatever we might demand ?
Or might there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ factors standing in the way of these utopian dreams ?
It ’ s not hard to cultivate a raving band of people demanding other people ’ s things , as Bernie Sanders does .
Such appeals arouse the basest aspects of our nature , and will always attract a crowd .
It ’ s very hard , on the other hand , to build up an army of young people intellectually curious enough to read serious books and consider ideas that go beyond the conventional wisdom they learned in school about government and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ build up a movement of people whose moral sense is developed enough to recognize that barking demands and enforcing them with the state ’ s gun is the behavior of a thug , not a civilized person .
And it ’ s hard to persuade people of the counter-intuitive idea that society runs better and individuals are more prosperous when no one is “ in charge ” at all .
The Great Ron Paul : Th ... Horton , Scott Best Price : $ 45.43 Buy New $ 19.99 Yet Ron accomplished all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ philosophy of liberty , when explained persuasively and with conviction , had a universal appeal .
Every group he spoke to heard a slightly different presentation of that message , as Ron showed how their particular concerns were addressed most effectively by a policy of freedom .
Before leaving Washington and electoral politics , Ron delivered an extraordinary farewell address to Congress .
The very fact that Ron could deliver a wise and learned address only goes to show he was no run-of-the-mill congressman , whose intellectual life is fulfilled by talking points @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the so-called values voters , for example , he was booed for saying he worshipped the Prince of Peace .
The second time , when he again made a moral case for freedom , he brought the house down .
But he did not pander to them nor to anyone else , and he never abandoned the philosophy that brought him into public life in the first place .
No one had the sense that there was more than one Ron Paul , that he was trying to satisfy irreconcilable groups .
There @ @ @ @ @ @ @ farewell address seemed so appropriate for Ron in the first place , while it would have been risible for virtually any of his colleagues , reflected Ron ’ s substance and seriousness as a thinker and as a man .
In that address Ron did many things .
He surveyed his many years in Congress .
He made a reckoning of the advance of the state and the retreat of liberty .
He explained the moral ideas at the root of the libertarian message : nonaggression and freedom .
He posed a series @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American society that are hardly ever asked , much less answered .
And he gave his supporters advice on spreading the message in the coming years .
“ Achieving legislative power and political influence , ” he said , should not be our goal .
Most of the change , if it is to come , will not come from the politicians , but rather from individuals , family , friends , intellectual leaders , and our religious institutions .
The solution can only come from rejecting the use of coercion , compulsion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , to mold social and economic behavior .
I am convinced that historians , whether or not they agree with him , will continue to marvel at Ron Paul for many , many years to come .
Libertarians a century from now will be in disbelief at the very notion that such a man actually served in the US Congress of our time .
America 2020 the Survi ... Stansberry Research Best Price : $ 26.98 Buy New $ 31.86 One of the most thrilling memories of the 2012 campaign was the sight @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to see Ron .
His competitors , meanwhile , couldn ’ t fill half a Starbucks .
When I worked as Ron ’ s chief of staff in the late 1970s and early 1980s , I could only dream of such a day .
Now what was it that attracted all these people to Ron Paul ?
He didn ’ t offer his followers a spot on the federal gravy train .
He didn ’ t pass some phony bill .
In fact , he didn ’ t do any of the things @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supporters love about him has nothing to do with politics at all .
Ron is the anti-politician .
He tells unfashionable truths , educates rather than flatters the public , and stands up for principle even when the whole world is arrayed against him .
Of course , Ron Paul deserves the Nobel Peace Prize .
In a just world , he would also win the Medal of Freedom , and all the honors for which a man in his position is eligible .
Young people are reading major treatises in economics and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Who else in public life can come close to saying that ?
No politician is going to trick the public into embracing liberty , even if liberty were his true goal and not just a word he uses in fundraising letters .
For liberty to advance , a critical mass of the public has to understand and support it .
That doesn ’ t have to mean a majority , or even anywhere near it .
But some baseline of support has to exist .
That is why Ron Paul ’ s work @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ron concludes The End of Unearned Opulence with these challenging words : “ Ideas whose times have come can not be stopped by armies or political chicanery .
Considering the intelligence and character of our enemies , it should never be said that us not resisting we capitulated to their evil nonsense .
We are indeed in unchartered waters surrounded by blood-thirsty sharks.
” With Ron ’ s wisdom and courage , we can escape those waters .
The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell , Jr .

America today confronts an unprecedented crisis. Our economy is collapsing, and the fake coronavirus “epidemic,” with its draconian restrictions, is destroying our liberty. What can we do? We’re fortunate that Dr. Ron Paul, our greatest living American, has provided a masterful diagnosis and offers us hope for a cure—if only we will listen.
The End of Unearned Opulence sums up and extends the message that Ron has given us in his many years of devoted service. In the book, he speaks of the “Faustian bargain” that Nixon imposed on the American people when he abandoned convertibility of the dollar into gold in 1971. He offered us fifty years of fake prosperity, but, inevitably, the bill from the devil came due. In telling us about this, Ron talks about the great German writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe and how he modified the Faust legend. As I read this, I thought about Goethe finishing his great play Faust in the wisdom of his later years. Ron has in like fashion offered us his mature wisdom in this book.
The Revolution: A Mani... Ron Paul Best Price: $1.99 Buy New $6.99 (as of 11:00 UTC - Details) What is Ron’s message for us? He says, “The opulence of great wealth has been exposed. The grave danger we now face can no longer be denied. What we are witnessing today is what happens to a society when counterfeit wealth dissipates….A Ponzi scheme mentality which has existed for decades allows for constant pyramiding of debt as part of our fiat monetary system. This policy is a predictable event and is instrumental in the creation of financial bubbles. Fractional reserve banking is a major contributing factor in creating money out of thin air, which inflates the debt bubble. Much of the malinvestment that results appears as wealth, but is in reality an illusion that disappears with the bursting of the bubble.”
The Austrian business cycle theory of Mises and Rothbard shows irrefutably that this policy won’t work. Why, then, has it been imposed on us? Ron gives us the answer. It benefits the crony capitalists—the opposite of genuine free market entrepreneurs—who are in bed with the government. He says, “The humanitarian claim of the welfare/warfare proponents is that their efforts have always been designed to care for the poor. The only problem is that as financial bubbles develop, the already wealthy receive most of the benefits….The huge bailouts in the 2008 recession saw the banks and mortgage companies benefitting while individuals lost their homes. With today’s lockdowns we see the large corporations avoiding the worst regulations and permitted to operate, while the mom and pop businesses go broke.”
Why do people allow that mad and evil policy to continue? Ron answers that the government deludes people with crusades against imaginary enemies, in order to gain more control over us. First and foremost, Ron is a critic of the warfare state. Ron is not a pacifist – an ancient charge against those who oppose constant war. He believes in the right to self-defense, but he does not believe in the initiation of violence, whether by private criminals or the state.
Still, this is the issue strategists would have had him avoid: just talk about the budget, talk about the greatness of America, talk about whatever everyone else was talking about, and you’ll be fine. And, they neglected to add, forgotten.
But had Ron shied away from this issue, there would have been no Ron Paul Revolution. It was his courageous refusal to back down from certain unspeakable truths about the American role in the world that caused Americans, and especially students, to sit up and take notice. End The Fed Ron Paul Best Price: $2.18 Buy New $5.68 (as of 09:55 UTC - Details)
While still in his thirties, Murray Rothbard wrote privately that he was beginning to view war as “the key to the whole libertarian business.” Here is a key way Ron Paul has been faithful to the Rothbardian tradition. Time after time, in interviews and public appearances, Ron has brought the questions posed to him back to the central issues of war and foreign policy.
Worried about the budget? You can’t run an empire on the cheap. Concerned about TSA groping, or government eavesdropping, or cameras trained on you? These are the inevitable policies of a hegemon. In case after case, Ron pointed to the connection between an imperial policy abroad and abuses and outrages at home.
Inspired by Ron, libertarians began to challenge conservatives by reminding them that war, after all, is the ultimate government program. War has it all: propaganda, censorship, spying, crony contracts, money printing, skyrocketing spending, debt creation, central planning, hubris – everything we associate with the worst interventions into the economy.
But Ron Paul permanently changed the nature of the discussion on war and foreign policy. The word “nonintervention” rarely appeared in foreign policy discussions before 2007. Opposition to war was associated with anticapitalist causes. That is no longer the case.
Ron brilliantly extends his point to our present crises. The fake coronavirus menace has become the means by which the state criminals can distract the public from their disastrous economic policies and put us under their control. As Ron says,
The goal of the hysterical reaction to the coronavirus, from both local and national politicians, has been to distract from the much bigger crisis we face dealing with: the Fed’s responsibility for the economic collapse and its hunger for unlimited power. The fact that responding to the exaggerated coronavirus crisis made the economic downturn much worse was not a disappointment to those individuals who see economic turmoil as an opportunity to promote radical Marxist ideas.
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The coronavirus epidemic is not the bubonic plague….It’s now recognized that much of the data reported on the severity and extent of the disease was seriously flawed and misleading. The reports inevitably made it appear that the epidemic was much worse than it was. To many observers, this was more than just careless mistakes but rather a concerted effort to spread fear and panic. This effort amazingly led to a delusional and extreme reaction by the media, politicians, public health fanatics, drug companies, national and global governments, supporters of socialism, fascism, and Marxism, all promoting the infamous lockdown.
As if this weren’t bad enough, the Marxist BLM and Antifa are rioting and looting while left-wing elements in government aid and abet their revolutionary tactics. “Antifa, BLM, and cultural Marxism’s concerted efforts to topple the remainder of the American Republic means, ‘they smell blood.’”
We thus face a dire situation, but Ron inspires us to change things. I had the rare honor of serving as Ron Paul’s congressional chief of staff and observed him in many proud moments in those days, and in his presidential campaigns. People today sometimes compare Ron Paul with Bernie Sanders. The comparison of Bernie to Ron goes like this: both launched insurgent, antiestablishment presidential campaigns while in their 70s, shook up their respective party establishments, and attracted large youth followings. But Bernie is no Ron.
Just on the surface: Bernie is a grump and difficult to work with; Ron is a kindhearted gentleman who always showed his appreciation for the people in his office.
More importantly, Ron urged his followers to read and learn. Countless high school and college students began reading dense and difficult treatises in economics and political philosophy, because Ron encouraged them to. Ron’s followers were curious enough to dig beneath the surface. Is the state really a benign institution that can costlessly provide us whatever we might demand? Or might there be moral, economic, and political factors standing in the way of these utopian dreams?
It’s not hard to cultivate a raving band of people demanding other people’s things, as Bernie Sanders does. Such appeals arouse the basest aspects of our nature and will always attract a crowd. It’s very hard, on the other hand, to build up an army of young people intellectually curious enough to read serious books and consider ideas that go beyond the conventional wisdom they learned in school about government and the market. It’s hard to build up a movement of people whose moral sense is developed enough to recognize that barking demands and enforcing them with the state’s gun is the behavior of a thug, not a civilized person. And it’s hard to persuade people of the counterintuitive idea that society runs better and individuals are more prosperous when no one is “in charge” at all. The Great Ron Paul: Th... Horton, Scott Best Price: $3.80 Buy New $7.98 (as of 08:14 UTC - Details)
Yet Ron accomplished all these things. Ron knew that the philosophy of liberty, when explained persuasively and with conviction, had a universal appeal. Every group he spoke to heard a slightly different presentation of that message, as Ron showed how their particular concerns were addressed most effectively by a policy of freedom.
Before leaving Washington and electoral politics, Ron delivered an extraordinary farewell address to Congress. The very fact that Ron could deliver a wise and learned address only goes to show he was no run-of-the-mill congressman, whose intellectual life is fulfilled by talking points and focus-group results. When Ron first spoke to the so-called values voters, for example, he was booed for saying he worshipped the Prince of Peace. The second time, when he again made a moral case for freedom, he brought the house down. But he did not pander to them nor to anyone else, and he never abandoned the philosophy that brought him into public life in the first place. No one had the sense that there was more than one Ron Paul, that he was trying to satisfy irreconcilable groups. There was one Ron Paul.
That a farewell address seemed so appropriate for Ron in the first place, while it would have been risible for virtually any of his colleagues, reflected Ron’s substance and seriousness as a thinker and as a man.
In that address Ron did many things. He surveyed his many years in Congress. He made a reckoning of the advance of the state and the retreat of liberty. He explained the moral ideas at the root of the libertarian message: nonaggression and freedom. He posed a series of questions about the US government and American society that are hardly ever asked, much less answered. And he gave his supporters advice on spreading the message in the coming years.
“Achieving legislative power and political influence,” he said,
should not be our goal. Most of the change, if it is to come, will not come from the politicians, but rather from individuals, family, friends, intellectual leaders, and our religious institutions. The solution can only come from rejecting the use of coercion, compulsion, government commands, and aggressive force, to mold social and economic behavior.
America 2020 the Survi... Stansberry Research Best Price: $26.98 Buy New $31.86 (as of 05:20 UTC - Details) I am convinced that historians, whether or not they agree with him, will continue to marvel at Ron Paul for many, many years to come. Libertarians a century from now will be in disbelief at the very notion that such a man actually served in the US Congress of our time.
One of the most thrilling memories of the 2012 campaign was the sight of those huge crowds that came out to see Ron. His competitors, meanwhile, couldn’t fill half a Starbucks. When I worked as Ron’s chief of staff in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I could only dream of such a day.
Now, what was it that attracted all these people to Ron Paul? He didn’t offer his followers a spot on the federal gravy train. He didn’t pass some phony bill. In fact, he didn’t do any of the things we associate with politicians. What his supporters love about him has nothing to do with politics at all.
Ron is the antipolitician. He tells unfashionable truths, educates rather than flatters the public, and stands up for principle even when the whole world is arrayed against him.
Of course, Ron Paul deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. In a just world, he would also win the Medal of Freedom, and all the honors for which a man in his position is eligible.
Young people are reading major treatises in economics and philosophy, because Ron Paul recommended them. Who else in public life can come close to saying that?
No politician is going to trick the public into embracing liberty, even if liberty were his true goal and not just a word he uses in fundraising letters. For liberty to advance, a critical mass of the public has to understand and support it. That doesn’t have to mean a majority, or even anywhere near it. But some baseline of support has to exist.
That is why Ron Paul’s work is so important and so lasting.
Ron concludes The End of Unearned Opulence with these challenging words: “Ideas whose times have come cannot be stopped by armies or political chicanery. Considering the intelligence and character of our enemies, it should never be said by us not resisting that we capitulated to their evil nonsense. We are indeed in unchartered waters surrounded by blood-thirsty sharks.” With Ron’s wisdom and courage, we can escape those waters.
The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.


lewrockwell--2020-10-23--November 3rd, 2020: A Day That Will Live in Infamy

“ We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers or resistance by force .
The latter is our choice .
We have counted the cost of this contest , and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery .
Honour , justice , and humanity , forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors , and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us .
We can not endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bondage upon them.
” John Dickinson ’ s rewrite of the “ Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms ” in 1775 , by Thomas Jefferson What are greatly lacking in the American citizens of today are courage , intellect , and the desire for truth .
Courage is vitally necessary in order to seek and protect the truth , and a strong intellect allows for that truth to be found , and more importantly accepted .
Without these traits , no fight against tyranny can be waged or won @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be slavery .
When China Sneezes : Fr ... Buy New $ 27.95 We are in the midst of the most dangerous and ludicrous ‘ election ’ of all time .
The risk due to this farce is monumental , and it is almost a certainty that chaos and terror will occur during and long after this planned state controlled selection process .
The people have been given a choice between the incumbent Trump , who has overseen the brutality , home imprisonment , and economic destruction of this country based on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a weak , immoral , and sickening socialist that can barely stand and speak .
This in essence , is the epitome of the greater of evils instead of the lesser of evils ; so regardless of which of these forms of human waste wins out , we will all lose and face continued and greater tyranny for years to come .
Many have discussed the dangerous scenarios possible , and more likely probable , in the aftermath of this ‘ election , ’ but it seems that this population as a whole @ @ @ @ @ @ @ date to protect themselves from widespread civil unrest .
This lethargic non-reaction is telling of a society steeped in ignorance and indifference , and that combination could turn out to be deadly for much of this country .
Regardless of the outcome , and regardless of party politics , the end result will be similar in that the totalitarian measures we have seen to date due to the excuse that is a fake virus pandemic , will not only continue , but also will expand exponentially .
This seems a foregone conclusion , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on around the world in the plotted effort to rekindle a virus where none exists by manufacturing false case numbers out of thin air , should alert anyone to the fact that the final push toward total control is already in process .
That push will only escalate after the state ’ s selection of its next ruler , no matter the outcome and insanity of voting .
In the UK , Australia , New Zealand , and Canada , more lockdowns and draconian ‘ emergency ’ measures are going forward at warp @ @ @ @ @ @ @ major national lockdown of the entire country for at least 6 weeks is now in effect , with unlimited shutdowns , heavy business closings , and mass unemployment .
This will cause much more sickness and death , just as planned .
All this will quickly come to the U.S. , and the totalitarian response to this fraudulent so-called ‘ emergency ’ will once again ratchet up in this country and around the world .
If any choose to notice , this next attack on all of us is just in time for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which means this is only the beginning of more madness and government terror .
The Origins of Totalit ... Hannah Arendt Best Price : $ 8.49 Buy New $ 12.90 The central banking mafia are actively in a transition to a digital currency system , and many countries are introducing digital identification , digital tracking , tracing , and phone apps that allow for constant monitoring , surveillance , and very invasive biosecurity measures .
The technocracy assault on humanity has not only begun , but is rapidly advancing .
Every immoral agenda @ @ @ @ @ @ @ power from the top to the bottom of the tyrant pyramid is being pursued in real time , and this deceit will only get worse with every passing day , especially after this ‘ election.
’ Once this selection scam occurs , there will be rioting , looting , burning , extreme violence , and oppressive state enforcement .
This will all coincide with additional lockdowns , more business closings , more sickness blamed on a non-existent virus , more restrictions , and more fear mongering .
All of this will be happening @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chaos and uncertainty , which will lend false credibility to additional state control .
This is a disaster in the making .
Be prepared for the ruling class to tell you that you have no rights , that you are not allowed to move about freely , and that you can not function or work to support yourself and your family .
You will be instructed that you can not protest or rally against the state monster unless you are part of the proxy criminal BLM or Antifa mobs that will be allowed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the citizens of this country with little if any resistance by the state security forces claiming to be your protectors .
Be prepared for food shortages , and little if any ability to gain medical care .
This is what could be coming very soon , and the madness will only worsen well into next year .
The vaccine push that seems to have dissipated slightly as of late , will once again rear its poisonous and deadly head with every new lie put forward about the dangers of this fake ‘ pandemic.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the planned increasing death numbers are announced on a constant basis , the public will acquiesce to each and every new perceived and fabricated threat .
The herd will anticipate death at every turn , and will become the eyes of the state against all that question the validity of this hoax .
Societal pandemonium will overtake sanity , and cause legitimate dissent to be more easily squelched .
Mass censorship will consume the alternative voice even more than has happened to date .
This can only lead to a closed communication system @ @ @ @ @ @ @ broadly reported .
The Human Condition : S ... Allen , Danielle Best Price : $ 15.00 Buy New $ 15.99 This entire fiasco is not about any virus or emergency ; it is about power and control , and accomplishing the takeover of the bodies and minds of the proletariat class .
The virus is only the tool being used to gain mass compliance by the herd , thus allowing the claimed ruling ‘ elite ’ the ability to dominate the world , and complete the societal and economic great reset it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be used to initiate the next and maybe final stage of this push toward a concentrated dictatorial system of rule .
If the people of this country allow , participate , and accept this dishonest political process that falsely claims to give a say to the individual , individuality will forever be lost , and freedom will be lost with it .
Evil men have always existed since the beginning of time , and they have always sought to gain power and control at the expense of their fellow man .
Americans have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ free , while all along they have been enslaved , and subject to rule by those that did not gain power by force of arms , but by lies , deceit , and trickery .
Here , here , and here .
The Best of Gary D. Barnett

“We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.”
John Dickinson’s rewrite of the “Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms” in 1775, by Thomas Jefferson
What are greatly lacking in the American citizens of today are courage, intellect, and the desire for truth. Courage is vitally necessary in order to seek and protect the truth, and a strong intellect allows for that truth to be found, and more importantly accepted. Without these traits, no fight against tyranny can be waged or won, and the inevitable result will always be slavery. When China Sneezes: Fr... Buy New $27.95 (as of 05:23 UTC - Details)
We are in the midst of the most dangerous and ludicrous ‘election’ of all time. The risk due to this farce is monumental, and it is almost a certainty that chaos and terror will occur during and long after this planned state controlled selection process. The people have been given a choice between the incumbent Trump, who has overseen the brutality, home imprisonment, and economic destruction of this country based on the manufactured Covid coup, and Biden, a weak, immoral, and sickening socialist that can barely stand and speak. This in essence, is the epitome of the greater of evils instead of the lesser of evils; so regardless of which of these forms of human waste wins out, we will all lose and face continued and greater tyranny for years to come.
Many have discussed the dangerous scenarios possible, and more likely probable, in the aftermath of this ‘election,’ but it seems that this population as a whole has taken very few legitimate precautions to date to protect themselves from widespread civil unrest. This lethargic non-reaction is telling of a society steeped in ignorance and indifference, and that combination could turn out to be deadly for much of this country. Regardless of the outcome, and regardless of party politics, the end result will be similar in that the totalitarian measures we have seen to date due to the excuse that is a fake virus pandemic, will not only continue, but also will expand exponentially. This seems a foregone conclusion, and one look at what is going on around the world in the plotted effort to rekindle a virus where none exists by manufacturing false case numbers out of thin air, should alert anyone to the fact that the final push toward total control is already in process. That push will only escalate after the state’s selection of its next ruler, no matter the outcome and insanity of voting.
In the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, more lockdowns and draconian ‘emergency’ measures are going forward at warp speed. Ireland just announced that another major national lockdown of the entire country for at least 6 weeks is now in effect, with unlimited shutdowns, heavy business closings, and mass unemployment. This will cause much more sickness and death, just as planned. All this will quickly come to the U.S., and the totalitarian response to this fraudulent so-called ‘emergency’ will once again ratchet up in this country and around the world. If any choose to notice, this next attack on all of us is just in time for the normal flu season to begin, which means this is only the beginning of more madness and government terror. The Origins of Totalit... Hannah Arendt Best Price: $8.49 Buy New $12.90 (as of 06:35 UTC - Details)
The central banking mafia are actively in a transition to a digital currency system, and many countries are introducing digital identification, digital tracking, tracing, and phone apps that allow for constant monitoring, surveillance, and very invasive biosecurity measures. The technocracy assault on humanity has not only begun, but is rapidly advancing. Every immoral agenda sought by all those in positions of power from the top to the bottom of the tyrant pyramid is being pursued in real time, and this deceit will only get worse with every passing day, especially after this ‘election.’ Once this selection scam occurs, there will be rioting, looting, burning, extreme violence, and oppressive state enforcement. This will all coincide with additional lockdowns, more business closings, more sickness blamed on a non-existent virus, more restrictions, and more fear mongering. All of this will be happening simultaneously, and this will cause extreme chaos and uncertainty, which will lend false credibility to additional state control. This is a disaster in the making.
Be prepared for the ruling class to tell you that you have no rights, that you are not allowed to move about freely, and that you cannot function or work to support yourself and your family. You will be instructed that you cannot protest or rally against the state monster unless you are part of the proxy criminal BLM or Antifa mobs that will be allowed for a period of time to terrorize the citizens of this country with little if any resistance by the state security forces claiming to be your protectors. Be prepared for food shortages, and little if any ability to gain medical care. This is what could be coming very soon, and the madness will only worsen well into next year.
The vaccine push that seems to have dissipated slightly as of late, will once again rear its poisonous and deadly head with every new lie put forward about the dangers of this fake ‘pandemic.’ As the propaganda increases, and the planned increasing death numbers are announced on a constant basis, the public will acquiesce to each and every new perceived and fabricated threat. The herd will anticipate death at every turn, and will become the eyes of the state against all that question the validity of this hoax. Societal pandemonium will overtake sanity, and cause legitimate dissent to be more easily squelched. Mass censorship will consume the alternative voice even more than has happened to date. This can only lead to a closed communication system where only the state narrative will be broadly reported. The Human Condition: S... Allen, Danielle Best Price: $15.00 Buy New $15.99 (as of 02:44 UTC - Details)
This entire fiasco is not about any virus or emergency; it is about power and control, and accomplishing the takeover of the bodies and minds of the proletariat class. The virus is only the tool being used to gain mass compliance by the herd, thus allowing the claimed ruling ‘elite’ the ability to dominate the world, and complete the societal and economic great reset it seeks with vengeance.
November 3rd will be used to initiate the next and maybe final stage of this push toward a concentrated dictatorial system of rule. If the people of this country allow, participate, and accept this dishonest political process that falsely claims to give a say to the individual, individuality will forever be lost, and freedom will be lost with it.
Evil men have always existed since the beginning of time, and they have always sought to gain power and control at the expense of their fellow man. Americans have been fooled into believing that they were free, while all along they have been enslaved, and subject to rule by those that did not gain power by force of arms, but by lies, deceit, and trickery.
Sources:
Here, here, and here.
The Best of Gary D. Barnett


lewrockwell--2020-10-23--America: a Land of Ceaseless Conflict

America: a Land of Ceaseless Conflict

When Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to a judgeship on the U.S. Court of Appeals in 2017 , Sen. Dianne Feinstein was taken aback by the Notre Dame law professor ’ s Catholic convictions about the right to life .
“ Professor , ” said Feinstein , “ when you read your speeches , the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you , and that ’ s of concern.
” Feinstein , the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee , got a second chance to quiz Barrett during the Supreme Court nomination hearings conducted by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ four days , that she and her colleagues had been treated fairly , Feinstein volunteered across the aisle , “ This is one of the best set of hearings that I ’ ve participated in.
” She gave Graham , a friend and colleague of decades , a brief hug .
To shocked Democrats , however , this was collusion , consorting with the enemy in a time of war .
The abortion-rights lobby NARAL demanded her removal as ranking Democrat .
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer indicated that he had taken the Senate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ I ’ ve had a long and serious talk with Sen. Feinstein , ” said Schumer , “ That ’ s all I ’ m going to say about it right now.
” Brian Fallon , executive director of Demand Justice , called on Feinstein to resign from the Judiciary Committee .
Because the 87-year-old Feinstein complimented a colleague of two decades for a fair hearing , and then hugged him , she is in peril of being purged from her position on the Judiciary Committee by her own party .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ capital offense in a Democratic caucus , some of whose members endlessly babble on about the need “ to work together across party lines.
” But the Jacobin spirit is alive and well not only among Democratic elites .
Maryland Gov .
Larry Hogan , a Republican critic of Donald Trump , has said he did not cast his ballot either for the president or for Joe Biden but wrote in Ronald Reagan , the last Republican to carry his state in 1984 .
Though he had walked away from a president of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ denounced for not going all the way and voting for Biden .
“ Clownish , childish , an act of cowardice ” sums up the reaction of some of the “ Never Trumpers ” who are hoping for a crushing humiliation on Nov. 3 of the Trump-led party they have abandoned .
What these episodes suggest is that the idea of bipartisan comity , or some new era of national unity should Biden win , is self-delusion .
Should Trump be defeated , his loyalists will neither forgive nor forget the Republican defectors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Goldwater Republicans of 1964 forgave or forgot the Rockefeller Republicans who abandoned Mr. Conservative .
A dozen years later , the Goldwaterites were in Kansas City plotting , demanding , and then celebrating the dumping of Vice President Rockefeller from the ticket of President Gerald Ford .
Indeed , the splintering of both parties has been made broader and deeper by the events of 2020 .
First , the battle over how to fight the coronavirus has created a new divide .
Those who insist on opening up the economy are attacked for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hundreds of thousands of lives .
Trump and his backers have been accused of mass murder .
And during the summer of 2020 , the Black Lives Matter- and antifa-fueled riots , looting , arson and assaults on cops went on for weeks , destroying billions of dollars in property and ending with demands to “ defund the police.
” Scores of statues have been toppled and destroyed — statues of explorers , missionaries , Founding Fathers of the republic and presidents on Mount Rushmore .
This rampage of iconoclasts reveals a belief @ @ @ @ @ @ @ young that “ The Making of America ” they were taught about in history books in schools was a pack of lies .
By their words and deeds , they profess America to have been the creation of racist white colonialists who enslaved Africans and brought them here to do the hard labor as they perpetrated genocide against the indigenous peoples they encountered when they came to settle and claims these lands .
These new divides in our society , manifest in 2020 , are piled upon old divisions dating back decades .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ over ideology , religion , race , culture and morality , but also our country ’ s history has become a cause of irreconcilable conflict .
In Federalist 2 , John Jay wrote of the new nation that was crafting its Constitution : “ Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors , speaking the same language , professing the same religion , attached to the same principles of government , very similar in their manners and customs… ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ polyglot America of 2020 .
And while that nation became the greatest republic in the history of mankind , the future for this land of ceaseless collision and conflict seems not so bright .
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When Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to a judgeship on the U.S. Court of Appeals in 2017, Sen. Dianne Feinstein was taken aback by the Notre Dame law professor’s Catholic convictions about the right to life.
“Professor,” said Feinstein, “when you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern.”
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Believing, after four days, that she and her colleagues had been treated fairly, Feinstein volunteered across the aisle, “This is one of the best set of hearings that I’ve participated in.”
She gave Graham, a friend and colleague of decades, a brief hug.
To shocked Democrats, however, this was collusion, consorting with the enemy in a time of war.
The abortion-rights lobby NARAL demanded her removal as ranking Democrat. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer indicated that he had taken the Senate’s oldest member to the woodshed.
“I’ve had a long and serious talk with Sen. Feinstein,” said Schumer, “That’s all I’m going to say about it right now.”
Brian Fallon, executive director of Demand Justice, called on Feinstein to resign from the Judiciary Committee.
Because the 87-year-old Feinstein complimented a colleague of two decades for a fair hearing, and then hugged him, she is in peril of being purged from her position on the Judiciary Committee by her own party.
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But the Jacobin spirit is alive and well not only among Democratic elites. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican critic of Donald Trump, has said he did not cast his ballot either for the president or for Joe Biden but wrote in Ronald Reagan, the last Republican to carry his state in 1984.
Though he had walked away from a president of his own party, Hogan has been denounced for not going all the way and voting for Biden.
“Clownish, childish, an act of cowardice” sums up the reaction of some of the “Never Trumpers” who are hoping for a crushing humiliation on Nov. 3 of the Trump-led party they have abandoned.
What these episodes suggest is that the idea of bipartisan comity, or some new era of national unity should Biden win, is self-delusion.
Should Trump be defeated, his loyalists will neither forgive nor forget the Republican defectors who endorsed Biden any more than the Goldwater Republicans of 1964 forgave or forgot the Rockefeller Republicans who abandoned Mr. Conservative.
A dozen years later, the Goldwaterites were in Kansas City plotting, demanding, and then celebrating the dumping of Vice President Rockefeller from the ticket of President Gerald Ford.
Indeed, the splintering of both parties has been made broader and deeper by the events of 2020.
First, the battle over how to fight the coronavirus has created a new divide. Trump’s Democrats Shields, Jon A. Best Price: $23.99 Buy New $27.96 (as of 05:42 UTC - Details)
Those who insist on opening up the economy are attacked for seeking herd immunity at a cost of hundreds of thousands of lives. Trump and his backers have been accused of mass murder.
And during the summer of 2020, the Black Lives Matter- and antifa-fueled riots, looting, arson and assaults on cops went on for weeks, destroying billions of dollars in property and ending with demands to “defund the police.”
Scores of statues have been toppled and destroyed — statues of explorers, missionaries, Founding Fathers of the republic and presidents on Mount Rushmore.
This rampage of iconoclasts reveals a belief among many of the nation’s young that “The Making of America” they were taught about in history books in schools was a pack of lies.
By their words and deeds, they profess America to have been the creation of racist white colonialists who enslaved Africans and brought them here to do the hard labor as they perpetrated genocide against the indigenous peoples they encountered when they came to settle and claims these lands.
These new divides in our society, manifest in 2020, are piled upon old divisions dating back decades. Now, not only are we fractured over ideology, religion, race, culture and morality, but also our country’s history has become a cause of irreconcilable conflict.
In Federalist 2, John Jay wrote of the new nation that was crafting its Constitution: “Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs…”
What Jay described has disappeared in the polyglot America of 2020. And while that nation became the greatest republic in the history of mankind, the future for this land of ceaseless collision and conflict seems not so bright.
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