lewrockwell--2020-08-07--The Recent Corruptions of the English Language

Let ’ s discuss words .
Many of the words you hear , especially on television and other media , are confused , conflated , or completely misused .
Many recent changes in the way words are used are corrupting the language .
The corruption of language is adding to the corruption of civilization itself .
Words are extremely important because they provide the most important means we have to communicate with each other .
If you don ’ t mean what you say and say what you mean , then it ’ s impossible to communicate accurately .
Do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ end of Cool Hand Luke , when Paul Newman gets shot ?
“ What we ’ ve got here is failure to communicate ” ?
That ’ s what I want to talk about .
Where shall I start , because there are over a million words in English ?
I ’ ve rather arbitrarily chosen a few that are especially relevant to investors and freedom lovers .
Many of these words are popular with the political classes .
For instance , stimulate the economy .
That phrase came out in the ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ print up money.
” They don ’ t use it much anymore because they can see it no longer results in stimulus ; rather , the opposite .
Now it ’ s called quantitative easing .
And everybody uses it without questioning the fact that it means “ print money , ” “ inflate the currency , ” or “ debase the currency.
” They say “ quantitative easing ” with no irony .
It makes me think the chattering classes are actually , in reality , quite stupid .
I ’ ll @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Speculator ( High Groun ... Hunt , John Best Price : $ 6.35 Buy New $ 18.00 The “ powers that be ” use a word , and all the jabbering monkeys follow their lead using the same word .
I advise you to call them on it .
When you use the enemy ’ s language , you ’ re playing the enemy ’ s game on his field .
And you can ’ t win a battle when you do that .
You may have noticed , for instance , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they only talk about gold in terms of tonnes .
Not ounces , tonnes .
This is doubly confusing to the average guy .
Because they ’ re basically innumerate .
Most people are unaware that there are two kinds of tons .
There are metric tonnes , which are 1,000 kilos , or 2,204 pounds .
And English , or short tons , of 2,000 pounds .
And a lot of times , when I see things written , they ’ ll write “ a ton of gold , ” and they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ different from a T-O-N-N-E of gold , but nobody knows that , including the ignorant journalists .
But they shouldn ’ t be using either “ tonnes ” or “ tons.
” If you ’ re going to price something in ounces , and use something in ounces , and miners report it in ounces , it ’ s idiotic to insert “ tonnes ” into the conversation .
Nobody buys or sells or uses a tonne of gold .
Even though gold is priced in dollars per ounce , you have fools @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a clue how many troy ounces are in either of them .
Or even vaguely knowing what a tonne of gold is worth .
But it serves to make the subject of gold more confusing , and more irrelevant , to the average guy .
Let ’ s talk about bonds .
I ’ m short bonds right now .
But do you remember when debt instruments used to be called bonds and debentures ?
That is a critical but totally lost distinction .
A bond is a debt instrument that is guaranteed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the company ’ s credit .
A debenture is a debt instrument that is just guaranteed by the issuer ’ s general credit .
Whatever happened to debentures ?
Apparently , they don ’ t exist anymore .
Why ?
Because although almost all debt instruments are debentures today , they ’ re now called bonds—which are better than debentures .
It ’ s subtle , dishonest , and indicative of what ’ s happened to the credit universe in general .
Things are made to look better than they , in fact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deposits and demand deposits .
Some of you may remember the proper use of those terms .
But , now , they ’ re completely conflated .
Banking is actually two totally separate and different businesses combined into one .
With time deposits , you give the bank X number of dollars for a specific length of time , and then the bank guarantees you a specific amount of interest .
Why ?
So it can lend it out at a higher rate of interest for an identical amount of time , generally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to somebody of substance .
Consumer and mortgage loans are out of the question to a sound banker .
Right on the Money Casey , Doug Best Price : $ 7.46 Buy New $ 13.68 Time deposits still—kind of—exist in the form of CDs , but they ’ ve generally morphed into savings accounts in the common vernacular .
And even those have disappeared and have been conflated with demand deposits—called checking accounts by most people .
They are totally different animals .
At least if you ’ re running a sound bank @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the bank doesn ’ t pay you interest ; you pay the bank a fee .
Why ?
For the service of storing your money , and the convenience of writing checks against it .
It ’ s as if you gave your furniture to Allied Van and Storage , paying them to store it .
Now , this distinction is totally lost , and they can , in effect , lend your furniture out .
This , plus the fractional reserve system , is why all the world ’ s banks are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Investment .
Savings .
Everybody uses these words , often interchangeably .
But nobody ever defines them , because they don ’ t understand what they actually mean .
So , they ’ re misused and conflated .
What is investment ?
“ Investment ” is the allocation of a certain amount of capital to a productive enterprise , intended to create more capital .
It ’ s like planting a seed .
“ Savings ” is simply putting aside the fruits of past production .
You should produce more than you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ excess , that is savings .
Saving creates capital , and with capital , you can invest .
But now , the concepts of savings and investment are conflated .
The difference between them is undefined and therefore uncertain in the public ’ s mind .
Speculation .
A lot of people think , “ Speculation ?
Oh , that ’ s gambling.
” Well , actually no .
Speculation is allocating capital not to create more capital , but to take advantage of distortions and misallocations created in the market—usually by government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a game of chance—roulette , dice , or the like .
Since most people in the markets have no idea what they ’ re doing , they actually are gambling—just using their brokerage house as a casino .
Perhaps that ’ s why people conflate the two things .
Shareholders and stakeholders .
We all know that a shareholder actually owns a share in a company , but have you noticed that over the last generation shareholders have become less important than stakeholders ?
Even though stakeholders are just hangers-on , employees , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in on a shakedown .
But everybody slavishly acknowledges , “ Yes , we ’ ve got to look out for the stakeholders.
” Where did that concept come from ?
It ’ s a recent creation , but Boobus americanus seems to think it was carved in stone at the country ’ s founding .
We ’ re told to protect them , as if they were a valuable and endangered species .
I say , “ A pox upon stakeholders.
” If they want a vote in what a company does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Stakeholders are a class of being created out of nothing by cultural Marxists for the purpose of shaking down shareholders .
Totally Incorrect Volu ... Doug Casey Best Price : $ 1.48 Buy New $ 8.85 Inflation .
This is one of the most misused words ; few even think about its actual meaning .
What is inflation ?
“ Well , that ’ s prices going up.
” No , it ’ s not .
To say that is to confuse cause and effect .
Inflation is an increase in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money supply is increased by more than real wealth increases .
Prices go up as a result .
People have forgotten about that .
Today , inflation seems to come from out of nowhere , like a freak storm .
No cause .
Unless it ’ s blamed on the butcher , or the baker , or an evil oil company .
Nobody ever thinks it ’ s a central bank—the Fed in the U.S.—that actually creates more money , and causes inflation .
You ’ ve heard that the Federal Reserve is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inflation because , they say , “ A little bit of inflation is good.
” No , even a little bit of inflation is deadly poisonous .
For two reasons : It creates the business cycle .
And it destroys the value of savings .
Saving is the basis of capital creation .
People who say that a little inflation is a good thing are dangerous fools .
Well , what about deflation ?
That ’ s a bad thing , they say .
Well , is it ?
In fact , deflation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ capitalist economy .
Why ?
Because in a healthy capitalist economy , every year , more wealth is created .
An increase of wealth means prices , denominated in a sound money , will go down .
And when prices go down , it means that the money you saved is worth more .
Your standard of living will rise .
Deflation encourages saving .
And that ’ s a good thing , not a bad thing , because remember , savings represents the excess of production over consumption .
That ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than you consume and putting aside the difference .
And when you have deflation , where your money becomes more valuable every year , you ’ re encouraged to save .
When the government destroys the currency by inflating it , saving is discouraged .
Of course , at this point , because of the unsound monetary system , we might get a catastrophic deflation .
A credit collapse .
Another misused word is money .
Money can be defined as a medium of exchange and a store of value .
Historically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tangible .
For instance , cows or salt .
The word pecuniary comes from pecus , which is the Latin word for cow .
We get salary from the Latin word for salt .
But gold and , sometimes , silver have always been preferred as money .
Surviving Fedcoin : How ... Doug Casey Best Price : $ 9.95 Buy New $ 30.00 What you ’ ve got in your wallet , however—those dollar bills—are currency .
Currency is a relatively recent invention .
It ’ s the government ’ s substitute @ @ @ @ @ @ @ receipt for money , i.e.
, gold .
Currency no longer has any relationship to money .
And now , forget about even having currency ; it ’ s all about credit .
Even currency is going out of circulation with the War on Cash .
Soon you ’ ll only have credit , ephemeral digits in the ether .
Everything you buy or sell will go through your bank account , so the powers that be can know exactly what you ’ re doing .
It ’ ll be pretty much impossible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ privacy .
The world ’ s rapidly going in that direction .
It ’ s a huge mistake , and we should not do that .
Wait a minute—what did I just say ?
I said , “ We should.
” Those are perfectly fine English words except when they ’ re used together .
We should .
You remember Tonto and the Lone Ranger ?
Do you remember the joke about when they were surrounded by a bunch of hostile Indians—excuse me , Native Americans—and the Lone Ranger says to Tonto , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a lot of trouble.
” And Tonto looks at the Lone Ranger—incidentally , Tonto means “ stupid ” in Spanish—and says , “ What do you mean we , white man ?
” We is a dangerous word .
Especially when combined with “ should.
” It often occurs in political speeches or in comments by talking heads .
Listen to the imbeciles on TV , and see how many times the words we should occur .
I ’ m sympathetic to Tonto .
Another word the political class uses a lot lately @ @ @ @ @ @ @ got to have diversity.
” No , we don ’ t have to have diversity .
I don ’ t see why every room has got to have a few blacks , Hispanics , or women .
Well , of course , half of the human race are women .
But I occasionally like to go to a men ’ s club .
It ’ s odd that men are never invited to ladies ’ functions—and don ’ t care .
In fact , birds of a feather usually flock together .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t think you need diversity .
If you want it in your club , fine .
But freedom of association is far , far more important .
I form my friendships based upon neither diversity nor a lack of diversity , although there ’ s a natural tendency to associate with people like yourself .
I form my friendships based upon the character and the beliefs that a person has .
The attributes that create diversity are stupid accidentals .
The fact that diversity is emphasized draws attention to incidentals like race , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it from important things like character and beliefs .
Diversity has become destructive .
Cultural Marxists love it because they hate people .
Unity has also become poisonous .
That ’ s another one moronic politicians love to invoke : “ We ’ ve got ta have unity.
” No , we don ’ t have to have unity .
In fact , we shouldn ’ t have unity .
Unity is dangerous .
It ’ s what happens when all the chimpanzees get together and start hooting and panting to create a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and Mao required unity .
Remember when it was okay to have bank secrecy , or any kind of secrecy ?
And then secrecy became somehow wrong .
So , moral cowards said , “ Let ’ s just have privacy ; the word sounds less threatening.
” Well , you can forget about privacy , too .
Now , you ’ re just supposed to have transparency .
That ’ s another word that ’ s just been revitalized in the last politically correct generation or two .
It ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Transparency is a condition where everybody can see everything .
Frankly , in my life , I don ’ t want everybody , or anybody for that matter , to see anything ; it ’ s none of their damn business .
The ability to maintain privacy or secrecy is one thing that separates civilized men from primitives living in mud huts .
I don ’ t acknowledge either the necessity or the automatic goodness of transparency .
Now , if I own shares in a publicly traded corporation , as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the management .
Generally speaking , management shouldn ’ t be trusted .
They ’ re hired suits , and shareholders should keep them on a short leash .
But nobody other than shareholders has a right to demand transparency from a corporation .
In general , forget about this word .
It ’ s popular .
Everybody uses it .
But it should be expunged from your vocabulary simply because it ’ s become such a favorite of cultural Marxists and busybodies .
Fair .
That ’ s a great word @ @ @ @ @ @ @ different idea of fair .
Put a bunch of money on the table , and let ’ s divide it up .
Well , what ’ s fair ?
I don ’ t know .
But I guarantee everybody will have a different idea of what ’ s “ fair.
” So , let ’ s forget about the idea of fair , because nobody knows what that is .
It ’ s a floating abstraction .
I have a better idea .
Whatever happened to justice ?
What is “ just ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deserve .
Now , perhaps you can solve the problem .
It ’ s a bit more specific , more focused , to find out what you deserve as opposed to what ’ s fair .
Because , frankly , some people don ’ t deserve anything .
Simply existing doesn ’ t necessarily give you a right to a piece of the pie—or even a right to vote on it .
But nobody talks about justice today ; they talk about fairness .
And , of course , this corrupts the moral @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of speech ?
You can forget about freedom of speech .
One reason is because nobody knows what words mean anymore .
You need words in order to speak .
But if you don ’ t define and use words accurately , they mean nothing .
Forget about all the non-PC words you ’ re not even allowed to think , much less use .
Freedom of speech is a phrase now divorced from reality .
It ’ s actually no longer very important , except , oddly enough , among the political @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very important in exactly the wrong way .
Because freedom of speech , today , often means hate speech .
I ’ m not an antagonistic person , and I like most other people , if they ’ re of good character .
Here ’ s a shocker for you : I don ’ t see anything wrong with hate speech .
Why ?
Because there are a lot of things in the world worth hating , because they ’ re evil and destructive .
But , if you want to live in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t conflate so-called hate speech with bad taste .
Most so-called hate speech is simply bad taste or stupidity .
Outlawing hate speech is far worse than anything that can possibly be said .
One good thing about hate speech is that it lets you discover something about the person speaking .
If he can ’ t speak , you may not really know who you ’ re actually dealing with .
Which can be dangerous .
Well , of course , now that we have “ hate speech , ” that draws @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s another newly coined phrase .
Be aware of neologisms , newly minted words that the average chimpanzee uses as if they ’ d been around since the day of Aristotle .
One of them is microaggression .
This one is really popular with so-called minorities at universities today .
It can occur when somebody says something that—by really parsing it in the manner of a Talmudic scholar—might make a person feel uncomfortable .
As a result , these weenies are demanding segregated “ safe spaces.
” It ’ s not just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ psychotic .
You should laugh off the concepts of microaggressions and safe spaces , revel in free speech , and recognize the difference between hate speech and bad taste speech .
“ And that ’ s a genuine fact.
” Does anybody say that anymore ?
Another change in the language over the last generation is that nobody says fact anymore .
Facts are now factoids .
“ Here ’ s a factoid.
” Do you know what a factoid is ?
It ’ s an artificial fact , or something that looks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
What , for instance , is an asteroid ?
An asteroid is something that looks like a star but isn ’ t .
What ’ s an android ?
An android is something that looks like a human but isn ’ t .
That ’ s what the ending -oid means—something that resembles the object in question .
So , a factoid is really a phony , made-up fact , a created fact .
I never say “ factoid ” unless I mean something that somebody ’ s made up .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they really mean to say , to be cute , is factette .
A little fact .
A trivial fact .
But people now use factoid .
They don ’ t even think about what the word means .
But that ’ s true of so many words today… Like United States .
Everybody likes the United States .
Well , I ’ m not sure I do , because they so often conflate the United States with the U.S. government .
Talking heads will say , “ The U.S. did this .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a minute .
Do they mean the nation-state that lies in between Canada and Mexico , or do they mean the U.S. government ?
They ’ re almost always talking about the U.S. government .
So , they ’ re conflating the U.S. itself , a conglomeration of 300 million people , with the U.S. government .
They ’ re two different things .
The U.S. government has a life of its own .
And it only really cares about the U.S. the way a flea cares about a dog .
A flea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dog to survive .
But not because it cares about the dog itself .
The prime directive of every living being , whether it ’ s an amoeba or a corporation or a government , is SURVIVE .
That ’ s the prime directive ; it comes before anything else .
The U.S. government is an entity that has a life of its own .
Its prime directive is looking out for number one .
So , don ’ t conflate the U.S. and the U.S. government .
If you mean the government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the country , say , “ … the U.S. , and I don ’ t mean the U.S. government.
” Unfortunately , it ’ s now necessary to be extremely clear .
Otherwise , people will assume what they will… But it ’ s worse than that , because people now conflate the U.S. with America .
They ’ re totally different things .
America is a unique concept , and it was an excellent concept .
Its values—what it stood for , at least in theory—were actually unique in the world ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the U.S. , which is now really just another one of the 200 nation-states that cover the face of the Earth like a skin disease .
I ’ m all for the idea of America .
It ’ s unique , it ’ s good , it ’ s wonderful .
But the U.S. is just another nation-state , like Burundi , Burma , or Ecuador—there ’ s less and less practical difference .
Be especially careful when you conflate the U.S. and America .
Another good thing that people always confuse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is health care .
“ We need the state to pay for health care.
” “ I want to buy some health insurance.
” No , you don ’ t .
And , no , you can ’ t .
What they mean to say is medical care .
Health care is something you do for yourself .
It ’ s diet , it ’ s exercise , it ’ s prudent habits .
Those things increase your odds of having health .
They ’ re how you maintain your health .
Your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Obamacare or something else , can ’ t maintain your health .
It only insures some costs of your medical care .
Recall the beginning of the movie Dances with Wolves , when they show the surgeon cutting off people ’ s limbs on a battlefield .
That ’ s medical care , in effect , emergency damage control .
It ’ s important and necessary , but medical care can ’ t maintain your health .
That ’ s something you do .
But people love to use the words health care @ @ @ @ @ @ @ political classes never say “ medical care ” ; they always say “ health care , ” because everybody wants to be healthy , but people are scared by medical care .
It means anesthesia , doctors cutting into you , and dread diseases .
That ’ s why health insurance is so easy to sell to the average chimpanzee .
It ’ s because he thinks to himself , “ Yeah , health insurance .
Sure , I want to insure that my health stays good.
” He doesn ’ t want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s a scary scientific thing .
So , please don ’ t say “ health insurance ” when you really mean “ medical insurance.
” I just mentioned the movie Dances with Wolves .
That was partly about the so-called American Civil War .
Well , no , it wasn ’ t a civil war , and you shouldn ’ t call it “ the Civil War.
” A civil war occurs when two or more groups use military violence in trying to take over the same government to control a designated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the so-called U.S. Civil War was about .
It was actually a war of secession , where the Southern states were simply trying to secede .
A war of secession is totally different from a civil war .
The Spanish Civil War was a real civil war .
There , the fascists and the communists were both trying to take control of the same real estate .
What we had in the U.S. was not a civil war ; it was a war of secession .
So , call it the War Between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ War of Northern Aggression .
Here ’ s another one : concentration camps .
Who can tell me when concentration camps started , and who started them ?
No one ?
Most people would say , “ Oh , it was those damn Nazis in World War II.
” No , it wasn ’ t .
It was the Brits , the wonderful Brits , our perpetual allies , in the Boer War in South Africa .
The Afrikaners call it the British War for Gold .
The British created the first concentration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intentionally starving scores of thousands of mostly women and children .
But that ’ s kind of forgotten , since the victors always write the history .
Or “ herstory , ” which , believe it or not , some “ gender equality ” types prefer to say .
They believe everything should be politicized whenever possible .
When I was in college , people used to joke , “ We ’ ll never have concentration camps in the U.S. ; we ’ ll call them something else.
” And , by God @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days—but today , it ’ s actually true .
We now call them detention facilities .
Talking about war and concentration camps , do you all remember that until 1946 , the U.S. government used to have something called the War Department ?
That ’ s what it was called .
The U.S. , technically speaking , didn ’ t go to war unless Congress declared war .
But since World War II , it ’ s had nothing but undeclared wars .
From Korea and Vietnam , which were pretty big wars @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very expensive , sport wars we get into now .
We don ’ t have a War Department anymore .
That would be too honest .
It ’ s called the Defense Department , but it doesn ’ t defend the U.S. Actually , it draws in trouble and danger to the U.S .
They should call it the Opposite of Defense Department , because it ’ s actually the biggest single existential danger to the U.S .
Entirely apart from the fact that , fiscally , it ’ s going to bankrupt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t start World War III , I wouldn ’ t be surprised to see the Seventh Fleet rotting at the dock like an Argentine destroyer , or like the Soviet Navy 20 years ago .
But in the meantime , don ’ t call it the Defense Department .
It doesn ’ t defend anything .
You may be thinking , “ This guy doesn ’ t sound like a patriot.
” Patriot .
That ’ s a loaded word .
“ I ’ m a patriot , you ’ re @ @ @ @ @ @ @ jingoist.
” I ’ m not sure I know the difference .
Why is everybody supposed to be a patriot of the country that they ’ re born in ?
I don ’ t care if you come from Rwanda ; you ’ re supposed to be a patriot .
It ’ s a ridiculous concept .
My country is the best one in the world , because I was born there .
It ’ s an accident of birth .
If you were born just five feet north of the Canadian border @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be a Canadian patriot .
At what point does a patriot turn into a nationalist ?
And at what point does a nationalist turn into a jingoist ?
Patriot is a word to use very carefully .
Be very , very careful of people that use it promiscuously , because they usually don ’ t know what it means , nor what its implications are .
And they ’ re often warmongers .
It ’ s similar to the axiom “ I ’ m a freedom fighter , you ’ re a rebel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It ’ s mostly a point-of-view thing .
But don ’ t dare broach the subject to a patriot .
God forbid a nationalist or a jingoist should hear it .
It ’ s funny how they call these ISIS people in the Middle East—horrible people , quite frankly—they call them terrorists .
Well , I don ’ t know .
They ’ ve established their own nation-state in exactly the way most nation-states are established .
You know , by killing the people that were there before , taking over the government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them .
They ’ re nasty .
I don ’ t like them ; I ’ d be one of the first people they ’ d put up against the wall .
But that ’ s how most states get started .
They ’ re just as legitimate as any other nation-state out there today .
People say , “ Well , they shouldn ’ t dismember Syria.
” Well , Syria is not a real country .
It ’ s a dozen different tribes that mostly hate each other .
Iraq is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It ’ s at least three separate , distinct countries .
Afghanistan , Pakistan , India—none of these is a real country , either .
None of those countries in the stans is a real country .
What do I mean by that ?
They have no real ethnic , tribal , religious , cultural , or linguistic homogeneity .
None of the countries in Africa is a real country , either .
It ’ s crazy to consider them countries .
A real country is homogeneous .
There are very few—places like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with migrants .
Most “ countries ” are actually domestic empires .
Non-interventionism .
There ’ s nothing wrong with non-interventionism .
It ’ s a highly benign concept , but nobody says that .
If you don ’ t want to stick your nose into somebody else ’ s business and kill the natives , then you ’ re called an isolationist .
“ These are the good natives ; those are the bad natives.
” I can ’ t tell the difference , and I promise you , the morons in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Conflating the pejorative word isolationist with the benign non-interventionist typifies the intellectual dishonesty that ’ s accepted—and rarely challenged—today .
Actually , what have I been talking about ?
I ’ ve been talking about stupidity .
So , why don ’ t we define the word stupidity ?
It ’ s usually taken to mean a low IQ .
But that ’ s not a very helpful definition .
It ’ s rather circular .
More accurately , stupidity is the ability to see the immediate and direct consequences of an action @ @ @ @ @ @ @ indirect and delayed consequences .
That ’ s a much more useful definition of stupidity .
But I ’ ll give you an even better one .
It ’ s an unwitting tendency toward self-destruction .
And so , when I use the word stupidity in reference to the misuse of words and the conflation of concepts , it ’ s appropriate .
These things are not trivial factors in the degradation of Western Civilization .
And we ’ ve only scratched the surface of the problem in the last few minutes .
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Let’s discuss words. Many of the words you hear, especially on television and other media, are confused, conflated, or completely misused. Many recent changes in the way words are used are corrupting the language. The corruption of language is adding to the corruption of civilization itself.
Words are extremely important because they provide the most important means we have to communicate with each other. If you don’t mean what you say and say what you mean, then it’s impossible to communicate accurately. Do you remember that famous line at the end of Cool Hand Luke, when Paul Newman gets shot? “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate”? That’s what I want to talk about.
Where shall I start, because there are over a million words in English? I’ve rather arbitrarily chosen a few that are especially relevant to investors and freedom lovers. Many of these words are popular with the political classes.
For instance, stimulate the economy. That phrase came out in the ’60s. It really just means “print up money.” They don’t use it much anymore because they can see it no longer results in stimulus; rather, the opposite. Now it’s called quantitative easing. And everybody uses it without questioning the fact that it means “print money,” “inflate the currency,” or “debase the currency.” They say “quantitative easing” with no irony. It makes me think the chattering classes are actually, in reality, quite stupid. I’ll discuss that word—“stupid”—later. Speculator (High Groun... Hunt, John Best Price: $6.35 Buy New $18.00 (as of 10:10 UTC - Details)
The “powers that be” use a word, and all the jabbering monkeys follow their lead using the same word. I advise you to call them on it. When you use the enemy’s language, you’re playing the enemy’s game on his field. And you can’t win a battle when you do that.
You may have noticed, for instance, that over the last 10 years, they only talk about gold in terms of tonnes. Not ounces, tonnes. This is doubly confusing to the average guy. Because they’re basically innumerate. Most people are unaware that there are two kinds of tons. There are metric tonnes, which are 1,000 kilos, or 2,204 pounds. And English, or short tons, of 2,000 pounds. And a lot of times, when I see things written, they’ll write “a ton of gold,” and they spell it T-O-N. It’s totally different from a T-O-N-N-E of gold, but nobody knows that, including the ignorant journalists.
But they shouldn’t be using either “tonnes” or “tons.” If you’re going to price something in ounces, and use something in ounces, and miners report it in ounces, it’s idiotic to insert “tonnes” into the conversation. Nobody buys or sells or uses a tonne of gold. Even though gold is priced in dollars per ounce, you have fools who talk about tons or tonnes—not having a clue how many troy ounces are in either of them. Or even vaguely knowing what a tonne of gold is worth. But it serves to make the subject of gold more confusing, and more irrelevant, to the average guy.
Let’s talk about bonds. I’m short bonds right now. But do you remember when debt instruments used to be called bonds and debentures? That is a critical but totally lost distinction.
A bond is a debt instrument that is guaranteed by a specific asset in addition to the company’s credit. A debenture is a debt instrument that is just guaranteed by the issuer’s general credit.
Whatever happened to debentures? Apparently, they don’t exist anymore. Why? Because although almost all debt instruments are debentures today, they’re now called bonds—which are better than debentures. It’s subtle, dishonest, and indicative of what’s happened to the credit universe in general. Things are made to look better than they, in fact, are.
Another one. Time deposits and demand deposits. Some of you may remember the proper use of those terms. But, now, they’re completely conflated. Banking is actually two totally separate and different businesses combined into one. With time deposits, you give the bank X number of dollars for a specific length of time, and then the bank guarantees you a specific amount of interest.
Why? So it can lend it out at a higher rate of interest for an identical amount of time, generally in a self-liquidating, secured business loan to somebody of substance. Consumer and mortgage loans are out of the question to a sound banker. Right on the Money Casey, Doug Best Price: $7.46 Buy New $13.68 (as of 07:45 UTC - Details)
Time deposits still—kind of—exist in the form of CDs, but they’ve generally morphed into savings accounts in the common vernacular. And even those have disappeared and have been conflated with demand deposits—called checking accounts by most people. They are totally different animals. At least if you’re running a sound bank. Historically, with checking accounts, the bank doesn’t pay you interest; you pay the bank a fee. Why? For the service of storing your money, and the convenience of writing checks against it. It’s as if you gave your furniture to Allied Van and Storage, paying them to store it. Now, this distinction is totally lost, and they can, in effect, lend your furniture out. This, plus the fractional reserve system, is why all the world’s banks are illiquid, and most are basically bankrupt.
Investment. Savings. Everybody uses these words, often interchangeably. But nobody ever defines them, because they don’t understand what they actually mean. So, they’re misused and conflated. What is investment? “Investment” is the allocation of a certain amount of capital to a productive enterprise, intended to create more capital. It’s like planting a seed. “Savings” is simply putting aside the fruits of past production. You should produce more than you consume. When you set aside the excess, that is savings. Saving creates capital, and with capital, you can invest. But now, the concepts of savings and investment are conflated. The difference between them is undefined and therefore uncertain in the public’s mind.
Speculation. A lot of people think, “Speculation? Oh, that’s gambling.” Well, actually no. Speculation is allocating capital not to create more capital, but to take advantage of distortions and misallocations created in the market—usually by government interference. Gambling is to engage in a game of chance—roulette, dice, or the like. Since most people in the markets have no idea what they’re doing, they actually are gambling—just using their brokerage house as a casino. Perhaps that’s why people conflate the two things.
Shareholders and stakeholders. We all know that a shareholder actually owns a share in a company, but have you noticed that over the last generation shareholders have become less important than stakeholders? Even though stakeholders are just hangers-on, employees, or people who are looking to get in on a shakedown. But everybody slavishly acknowledges, “Yes, we’ve got to look out for the stakeholders.”
Where did that concept come from? It’s a recent creation, but Boobus americanus seems to think it was carved in stone at the country’s founding.
We’re told to protect them, as if they were a valuable and endangered species. I say, “A pox upon stakeholders.” If they want a vote in what a company does, then they ought to become shareholders. Stakeholders are a class of being created out of nothing by cultural Marxists for the purpose of shaking down shareholders. Totally Incorrect Volu... Doug Casey Best Price: $1.48 Buy New $8.85 (as of 02:30 UTC - Details)
Inflation. This is one of the most misused words; few even think about its actual meaning. What is inflation? “Well, that’s prices going up.” No, it’s not. To say that is to confuse cause and effect. Inflation is an increase in the money supply. You inflate when the money supply is increased by more than real wealth increases.
Prices go up as a result. People have forgotten about that. Today, inflation seems to come from out of nowhere, like a freak storm. No cause. Unless it’s blamed on the butcher, or the baker, or an evil oil company. Nobody ever thinks it’s a central bank—the Fed in the U.S.—that actually creates more money, and causes inflation.
You’ve heard that the Federal Reserve is trying to create a little bit of inflation because, they say, “A little bit of inflation is good.” No, even a little bit of inflation is deadly poisonous. For two reasons: It creates the business cycle. And it destroys the value of savings. Saving is the basis of capital creation. People who say that a little inflation is a good thing are dangerous fools.
Well, what about deflation? That’s a bad thing, they say. Well, is it? In fact, deflation is a natural thing in a healthy capitalist economy. Why? Because in a healthy capitalist economy, every year, more wealth is created. An increase of wealth means prices, denominated in a sound money, will go down. And when prices go down, it means that the money you saved is worth more. Your standard of living will rise.
Deflation encourages saving. And that’s a good thing, not a bad thing, because remember, savings represents the excess of production over consumption. That’s how you get wealthy, by producing more than you consume and putting aside the difference.
And when you have deflation, where your money becomes more valuable every year, you’re encouraged to save. When the government destroys the currency by inflating it, saving is discouraged. Of course, at this point, because of the unsound monetary system, we might get a catastrophic deflation. A credit collapse.
Another misused word is money. Money can be defined as a medium of exchange and a store of value. Historically, it’s always been something tangible. For instance, cows or salt. The word pecuniary comes from pecus, which is the Latin word for cow. We get salary from the Latin word for salt. But gold and, sometimes, silver have always been preferred as money. Surviving Fedcoin: How... Doug Casey Best Price: $9.95 Buy New $30.00 (as of 06:55 UTC - Details)
What you’ve got in your wallet, however—those dollar bills—are currency. Currency is a relatively recent invention. It’s the government’s substitute for money. It originated as a receipt for money, i.e., gold. Currency no longer has any relationship to money. And now, forget about even having currency; it’s all about credit. Even currency is going out of circulation with the War on Cash. Soon you’ll only have credit, ephemeral digits in the ether. Everything you buy or sell will go through your bank account, so the powers that be can know exactly what you’re doing. It’ll be pretty much impossible to evade taxes. Or maintain any privacy. The world’s rapidly going in that direction.
It’s a huge mistake, and we should not do that. Wait a minute—what did I just say? I said, “We should.” Those are perfectly fine English words except when they’re used together. We should. You remember Tonto and the Lone Ranger? Do you remember the joke about when they were surrounded by a bunch of hostile Indians—excuse me, Native Americans—and the Lone Ranger says to Tonto, “Tonto, we’re in a lot of trouble.”
And Tonto looks at the Lone Ranger—incidentally, Tonto means “stupid” in Spanish—and says, “What do you mean we, white man?”
We is a dangerous word. Especially when combined with “should.” It often occurs in political speeches or in comments by talking heads. Listen to the imbeciles on TV, and see how many times the words we should occur. I’m sympathetic to Tonto.
Another word the political class uses a lot lately is diversity. “We’ve got to have diversity.” No, we don’t have to have diversity. I don’t see why every room has got to have a few blacks, Hispanics, or women. Well, of course, half of the human race are women. But I occasionally like to go to a men’s club. It’s odd that men are never invited to ladies’ functions—and don’t care.
In fact, birds of a feather usually flock together. This is perfectly natural. I don’t think you need diversity. If you want it in your club, fine. But freedom of association is far, far more important.
I form my friendships based upon neither diversity nor a lack of diversity, although there’s a natural tendency to associate with people like yourself. I form my friendships based upon the character and the beliefs that a person has. The attributes that create diversity are stupid accidentals. The fact that diversity is emphasized draws attention to incidentals like race, sex, and gender, and diverts it from important things like character and beliefs. Diversity has become destructive. Cultural Marxists love it because they hate people.
Unity has also become poisonous. That’s another one moronic politicians love to invoke: “We’ve gotta have unity.” No, we don’t have to have unity. In fact, we shouldn’t have unity. Unity is dangerous. It’s what happens when all the chimpanzees get together and start hooting and panting to create a war. People like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao required unity.
Remember when it was okay to have bank secrecy, or any kind of secrecy? And then secrecy became somehow wrong. So, moral cowards said, “Let’s just have privacy; the word sounds less threatening.” Well, you can forget about privacy, too. Now, you’re just supposed to have transparency. That’s another word that’s just been revitalized in the last politically correct generation or two. It’s promoted by busybodies as a good thing.
Transparency is a condition where everybody can see everything. Frankly, in my life, I don’t want everybody, or anybody for that matter, to see anything; it’s none of their damn business. The ability to maintain privacy or secrecy is one thing that separates civilized men from primitives living in mud huts. I don’t acknowledge either the necessity or the automatic goodness of transparency.
Now, if I own shares in a publicly traded corporation, as a shareholder, I’ll demand transparency from the management. Generally speaking, management shouldn’t be trusted. They’re hired suits, and shareholders should keep them on a short leash. But nobody other than shareholders has a right to demand transparency from a corporation. In general, forget about this word. It’s popular. Everybody uses it. But it should be expunged from your vocabulary simply because it’s become such a favorite of cultural Marxists and busybodies.
Fair. That’s a great word. But everybody’s got a different idea of fair. Put a bunch of money on the table, and let’s divide it up. Well, what’s fair? I don’t know. But I guarantee everybody will have a different idea of what’s “fair.” So, let’s forget about the idea of fair, because nobody knows what that is. It’s a floating abstraction. I have a better idea.
Whatever happened to justice? What is “just”? It means everybody gets what they deserve. Now, perhaps you can solve the problem. It’s a bit more specific, more focused, to find out what you deserve as opposed to what’s fair. Because, frankly, some people don’t deserve anything. Simply existing doesn’t necessarily give you a right to a piece of the pie—or even a right to vote on it. But nobody talks about justice today; they talk about fairness. And, of course, this corrupts the moral character of society.
What about freedom of speech? You can forget about freedom of speech. One reason is because nobody knows what words mean anymore. You need words in order to speak. But if you don’t define and use words accurately, they mean nothing. Forget about all the non-PC words you’re not even allowed to think, much less use. Freedom of speech is a phrase now divorced from reality. It’s actually no longer very important, except, oddly enough, among the political classes, where it’s become very important in exactly the wrong way. Because freedom of speech, today, often means hate speech.
I’m not an antagonistic person, and I like most other people, if they’re of good character. Here’s a shocker for you: I don’t see anything wrong with hate speech. Why? Because there are a lot of things in the world worth hating, because they’re evil and destructive.
But, if you want to live in a civilized environment, you shouldn’t conflate so-called hate speech with bad taste. Most so-called hate speech is simply bad taste or stupidity. Outlawing hate speech is far worse than anything that can possibly be said.
One good thing about hate speech is that it lets you discover something about the person speaking. If he can’t speak, you may not really know who you’re actually dealing with. Which can be dangerous.
Well, of course, now that we have “hate speech,” that draws attention to “aggressive speech.” That’s another newly coined phrase. Be aware of neologisms, newly minted words that the average chimpanzee uses as if they’d been around since the day of Aristotle. One of them is microaggression. This one is really popular with so-called minorities at universities today. It can occur when somebody says something that—by really parsing it in the manner of a Talmudic scholar—might make a person feel uncomfortable. As a result, these weenies are demanding segregated “safe spaces.”
It’s not just completely ridiculous. It’s actually psychotic.
You should laugh off the concepts of microaggressions and safe spaces, revel in free speech, and recognize the difference between hate speech and bad taste speech.
“And that’s a genuine fact.” Does anybody say that anymore? Another change in the language over the last generation is that nobody says fact anymore. Facts are now factoids. “Here’s a factoid.” Do you know what a factoid is? It’s an artificial fact, or something that looks like a fact but isn’t. What, for instance, is an asteroid? An asteroid is something that looks like a star but isn’t. What’s an android? An android is something that looks like a human but isn’t. That’s what the ending -oid means—something that resembles the object in question. So, a factoid is really a phony, made-up fact, a created fact.
I never say “factoid” unless I mean something that somebody’s made up. It’s a BS fact. What they really mean to say, to be cute, is factette. A little fact. A trivial fact. But people now use factoid. They don’t even think about what the word means. But that’s true of so many words today…
Like United States. Everybody likes the United States. Well, I’m not sure I do, because they so often conflate the United States with the U.S. government. Talking heads will say, “The U.S. did this. The U.S. should do that.” Wait a minute. Do they mean the nation-state that lies in between Canada and Mexico, or do they mean the U.S. government? They’re almost always talking about the U.S. government. So, they’re conflating the U.S. itself, a conglomeration of 300 million people, with the U.S. government.
They’re two different things. The U.S. government has a life of its own. And it only really cares about the U.S. the way a flea cares about a dog. A flea needs the dog; it wants the dog to survive. But not because it cares about the dog itself. The prime directive of every living being, whether it’s an amoeba or a corporation or a government, is SURVIVE. That’s the prime directive; it comes before anything else. The U.S. government is an entity that has a life of its own. Its prime directive is looking out for number one. So, don’t conflate the U.S. and the U.S. government. If you mean the government, say it. If you mean the country, say, “… the U.S., and I don’t mean the U.S. government.” Unfortunately, it’s now necessary to be extremely clear. Otherwise, people will assume what they will…
But it’s worse than that, because people now conflate the U.S. with America. They’re totally different things. America is a unique concept, and it was an excellent concept. Its values—what it stood for, at least in theory—were actually unique in the world’s history. But people conflate that with the U.S., which is now really just another one of the 200 nation-states that cover the face of the Earth like a skin disease. I’m all for the idea of America. It’s unique, it’s good, it’s wonderful. But the U.S. is just another nation-state, like Burundi, Burma, or Ecuador—there’s less and less practical difference. Be especially careful when you conflate the U.S. and America.
Another good thing that people always confuse, conflate, and define improperly today is health care. “We need the state to pay for health care.” “I want to buy some health insurance.” No, you don’t. And, no, you can’t. What they mean to say is medical care. Health care is something you do for yourself. It’s diet, it’s exercise, it’s prudent habits. Those things increase your odds of having health. They’re how you maintain your health. Your insurance policy, whether it’s Obamacare or something else, can’t maintain your health. It only insures some costs of your medical care.
Recall the beginning of the movie Dances with Wolves, when they show the surgeon cutting off people’s limbs on a battlefield. That’s medical care, in effect, emergency damage control. It’s important and necessary, but medical care can’t maintain your health. That’s something you do. But people love to use the words health care; it sounds so wholesome.
The political classes never say “medical care”; they always say “health care,” because everybody wants to be healthy, but people are scared by medical care. It means anesthesia, doctors cutting into you, and dread diseases. That’s why health insurance is so easy to sell to the average chimpanzee. It’s because he thinks to himself, “Yeah, health insurance. Sure, I want to insure that my health stays good.” He doesn’t want to think about medical care; that’s a scary scientific thing. So, please don’t say “health insurance” when you really mean “medical insurance.”
I just mentioned the movie Dances with Wolves. That was partly about the so-called American Civil War. Well, no, it wasn’t a civil war, and you shouldn’t call it “the Civil War.” A civil war occurs when two or more groups use military violence in trying to take over the same government to control a designated area. That’s not what the so-called U.S. Civil War was about. It was actually a war of secession, where the Southern states were simply trying to secede. A war of secession is totally different from a civil war.
The Spanish Civil War was a real civil war. There, the fascists and the communists were both trying to take control of the same real estate. What we had in the U.S. was not a civil war; it was a war of secession. So, call it the War Between the States. Some call it the War of Northern Aggression.
Here’s another one: concentration camps. Who can tell me when concentration camps started, and who started them? No one?
Most people would say, “Oh, it was those damn Nazis in World War II.” No, it wasn’t. It was the Brits, the wonderful Brits, our perpetual allies, in the Boer War in South Africa. The Afrikaners call it the British War for Gold. The British created the first concentration camps in modern history, incarcerating and intentionally starving scores of thousands of mostly women and children. But that’s kind of forgotten, since the victors always write the history. Or “herstory,” which, believe it or not, some “gender equality” types prefer to say. They believe everything should be politicized whenever possible.
When I was in college, people used to joke, “We’ll never have concentration camps in the U.S.; we’ll call them something else.” And, by God, it was a joke in those days—but today, it’s actually true. We now call them detention facilities.
Talking about war and concentration camps, do you all remember that until 1946, the U.S. government used to have something called the War Department? That’s what it was called. The U.S., technically speaking, didn’t go to war unless Congress declared war. But since World War II, it’s had nothing but undeclared wars. From Korea and Vietnam, which were pretty big wars, to all these little, but very expensive, sport wars we get into now.
We don’t have a War Department anymore. That would be too honest. It’s called the Defense Department, but it doesn’t defend the U.S. Actually, it draws in trouble and danger to the U.S. They should call it the Opposite of Defense Department, because it’s actually the biggest single existential danger to the U.S. Entirely apart from the fact that, fiscally, it’s going to bankrupt the U.S.
A generation from now—assuming they don’t start World War III, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Seventh Fleet rotting at the dock like an Argentine destroyer, or like the Soviet Navy 20 years ago. But in the meantime, don’t call it the Defense Department. It doesn’t defend anything.
You may be thinking, “This guy doesn’t sound like a patriot.” Patriot. That’s a loaded word. “I’m a patriot, you’re a nationalist, he’s a jingoist.” I’m not sure I know the difference. Why is everybody supposed to be a patriot of the country that they’re born in? I don’t care if you come from Rwanda; you’re supposed to be a patriot. It’s a ridiculous concept. My country is the best one in the world, because I was born there. It’s an accident of birth.
If you were born just five feet north of the Canadian border, now you’ve got to be a Canadian patriot.
At what point does a patriot turn into a nationalist? And at what point does a nationalist turn into a jingoist? Patriot is a word to use very carefully. Be very, very careful of people that use it promiscuously, because they usually don’t know what it means, nor what its implications are. And they’re often warmongers.
It’s similar to the axiom “I’m a freedom fighter, you’re a rebel, he’s a terrorist.” It’s mostly a point-of-view thing. But don’t dare broach the subject to a patriot. God forbid a nationalist or a jingoist should hear it.
It’s funny how they call these ISIS people in the Middle East—horrible people, quite frankly—they call them terrorists. Well, I don’t know. They’ve established their own nation-state in exactly the way most nation-states are established. You know, by killing the people that were there before, taking over the government, and killing people that fight against them. They’re nasty. I don’t like them; I’d be one of the first people they’d put up against the wall. But that’s how most states get started. They’re just as legitimate as any other nation-state out there today.
People say, “Well, they shouldn’t dismember Syria.” Well, Syria is not a real country. It’s a dozen different tribes that mostly hate each other. Iraq is not a real country, either. It’s at least three separate, distinct countries. Afghanistan, Pakistan, India—none of these is a real country, either. None of those countries in the stans is a real country. What do I mean by that? They have no real ethnic, tribal, religious, cultural, or linguistic homogeneity. None of the countries in Africa is a real country, either. It’s crazy to consider them countries. A real country is homogeneous. There are very few—places like Denmark and Finland—unless they’re overwhelmed with migrants. Most “countries” are actually domestic empires.
Non-interventionism. There’s nothing wrong with non-interventionism. It’s a highly benign concept, but nobody says that. If you don’t want to stick your nose into somebody else’s business and kill the natives, then you’re called an isolationist. “These are the good natives; those are the bad natives.” I can’t tell the difference, and I promise you, the morons in Washington can’t, either. Conflating the pejorative word isolationist with the benign non-interventionist typifies the intellectual dishonesty that’s accepted—and rarely challenged—today.
Actually, what have I been talking about? I’ve been talking about stupidity. So, why don’t we define the word stupidity? It’s usually taken to mean a low IQ. But that’s not a very helpful definition. It’s rather circular.
More accurately, stupidity is the ability to see the immediate and direct consequences of an action, but an inability to see the indirect and delayed consequences. That’s a much more useful definition of stupidity. But I’ll give you an even better one. It’s an unwitting tendency toward self-destruction. And so, when I use the word stupidity in reference to the misuse of words and the conflation of concepts, it’s appropriate. These things are not trivial factors in the degradation of Western Civilization.
And we’ve only scratched the surface of the problem in the last few minutes.
Reprinted with permission from International Man.
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lewrockwell--2020-08-07--A Lefty Politician Wants To Get Rid of History Class. He’s Right.

An Illinois politician wants the state board of education to get rid of history classes until the curriculum can be made less racist .
The local NBC affiliate reports : Leaders in education , politics and other areas gathered in suburban Evanston Sunday to ask that the Illinois State Board of Education change the history curriculum at schools statewide , and temporarily halt instruction until an alternative is decided upon… .
Before the event Sunday , Rep. Ford ’ s office distributed a news release “ Rep .
Ford Today in Evanston to Call for the Abolishment of History Classes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ford asked the ISBOE and school districts to immediately remove history curriculum and books that “ unfairly communicate ” history “ until a suitable alternative is developed.
” There are both good ideas and bad ideas here .
Everything You Need to ... Workman Publishing Best Price : $ 3.80 Buy New $ 8.95 First of all , it ’ s unclear in what way exactly history as taught in Illinois—as critics put it— ” overlook [ s ] the contributions of women and minorities ” In practice , history as taught in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a wide variety of good people—not just ones who are women or members of certain ethnic groups .
The usual history curriculum focuses overwhelmingly on politicians , military personnel and other government employees , who are supposedly the people who make the most important contributions , and allegedly make life livable for the rest of us .
The private sector is generally ignored , including all the entrepreneurs , workers , business owners and managers who actually did the hard work of improving the lives and standards of living of countless human beings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its usually as some sort of evil “ robber baron ” or similar caricature .
If workers are mentioned , it is only nonspecific workers in a Marxian context .
So , given that the general focus in history courses is on “ great men ” —most of whom are actually despicable , craven politicians like LBJ or FDR or Woodrow Wilson—then yes , I ’ m sure women and nonwhites get little mention .
There ’ s a bias in whose contributions are mentioned , all right .
But that bias tends @ @ @ @ @ @ @ class , regardless of race and gender .
But if the answer is to abolish history class , then I am all for it .
Ever since its conception , history class in public school has never been anything other than lessons in government-approved historical narratives designed to push a certain ideology .
As historian Ralph Raico has noted , people ’ s ideological beliefs are largely determined “ by what they think they know about history.
” So as long as people think Americans invented slavery , or that capitalism means children @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disease in coal mines , then people will select their ideologies accordingly .
What is taught in history will naturally shape a student ’ s worldview .
That said , there is no “ correct ” unbiased narrative , of course .
All history is written by specific human beings with their own experiences , judgments , and biases .
Each historian must make decisions as to which information is important and which is not .
Some historical events are mentioned , and other are not .
This alone determines what people will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ As Ludwig von Mises noted : The Politically Incorr ... Thomas E. Woods Jr. Best Price : $ 1.51 Buy New $ 8.71 Historians don ’ t just recreate history .
They make judgments about what historical narratives are told .
The result is a narrative that is influenced by ideology and the historian ’ s context .
Thus , it would be madness to leave it up to public school bureaucrats to determine which history ought to be taught and to cede to government employees the power to teach to children—for twelve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ correct ” historical narrative .
Early proponents of public schooling were well aware of this , and they made sure history was taught in ways that backed up their own prejudices .
In the early years of public schools , in the late nineteenth century , “ history ” class was designed to communicate anti-Catholic progovernment propaganda as approved by the progressive New England intelligentsia .
By midcentury—helped along by outright progovernment rituals like the socialist-authored Pledge of Allegiance—history class became a hotbed of center-left ideological studies designed to into inculcate American children @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Franklin Roosevelt were saintly harbingers of the American “ progress ” made possible by a strong US state .
Also , central to the curriculum was the idea that all wars waged by the American state were virtuous crusades that made the world a better place .
Things have only gotten worse since then .
The Politically Incorr ... Brion McClanahan Best Price : $ 2.06 Buy New $ 9.95 As a solution , Rep. Ford wants to get rid of history class .
I say have at it .
Let ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ abolished permanently , and not temporarily , as Ford wants .
Ford believes a “ suitable alternative ” can be developed , but I most certainly don ’ t want anyone learning whatever version of history meets Ford ’ s requirements .
I know that some old-fashioned readers will think it ’ s still a good idea to teach children history in public school .
These people are still in the thrall of the never true notion that there ’ s some sort of “ objective ” history out there that everyone can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of course , and because of this , we ’ d all be better off if public school history class were replaced by reruns of old Saturday morning cartoons .
That would be better than the twelve years of anticapitalist propaganda students are getting now .
Moreover , students could concentrate on more ideologically neutral topics like math and reading , and leave the teaching of history up to parents .
In truth , though , given that public schooling is for most people little more than government daycare , most parents wouldn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were abolished forever .
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An Illinois politician wants the state board of education to get rid of history classes until the curriculum can be made less racist. The local NBC affiliate reports:
Leaders in education, politics and other areas gathered in suburban Evanston Sunday to ask that the Illinois State Board of Education change the history curriculum at schools statewide, and temporarily halt instruction until an alternative is decided upon…. Before the event Sunday, Rep. Ford’s office distributed a news release “Rep. Ford Today in Evanston to Call for the Abolishment of History Classes in Illinois Schools,” in which Ford asked the ISBOE and school districts to immediately remove history curriculum and books that “unfairly communicate” history “until a suitable alternative is developed.”
There are both good ideas and bad ideas here. Everything You Need to... Workman Publishing Best Price: $3.80 Buy New $8.95 (as of 05:59 UTC - Details)
First of all, it’s unclear in what way exactly history as taught in Illinois—as critics put it—”overlook[s] the contributions of women and minorities”
In practice, history as taught in most schools overlooks the good deeds of a wide variety of good people—not just ones who are women or members of certain ethnic groups. The usual history curriculum focuses overwhelmingly on politicians, military personnel and other government employees, who are supposedly the people who make the most important contributions, and allegedly make life livable for the rest of us. The private sector is generally ignored, including all the entrepreneurs, workers, business owners and managers who actually did the hard work of improving the lives and standards of living of countless human beings. Whenever business owners are mentioned, its usually as some sort of evil “robber baron” or similar caricature. If workers are mentioned, it is only nonspecific workers in a Marxian context.
So, given that the general focus in history courses is on “great men”—most of whom are actually despicable, craven politicians like LBJ or FDR or Woodrow Wilson—then yes, I’m sure women and nonwhites get little mention. There’s a bias in whose contributions are mentioned, all right. But that bias tends to be in favor of the government class, regardless of race and gender.
But if the answer is to abolish history class, then I am all for it.
Ever since its conception, history class in public school has never been anything other than lessons in government-approved historical narratives designed to push a certain ideology. As historian Ralph Raico has noted, people’s ideological beliefs are largely determined “by what they think they know about history.” So as long as people think Americans invented slavery, or that capitalism means children must work until they get black lung disease in coal mines, then people will select their ideologies accordingly. What is taught in history will naturally shape a student’s worldview.
That said, there is no “correct” unbiased narrative, of course. All history is written by specific human beings with their own experiences, judgments, and biases. Each historian must make decisions as to which information is important and which is not. Some historical events are mentioned, and other are not. This alone determines what people will learn and conclude about human history. As Ludwig von Mises noted: The Politically Incorr... Thomas E. Woods Jr. Best Price: $1.51 Buy New $8.71 (as of 06:15 UTC - Details)
Now, a real reproduction of the past would require a duplication not humanly possible. History is not an intellectual reproduction, but a condensed representation of the past in conceptual terms. The historian does not simply let the events speak for themselves. He arranges them from the aspect of the ideas underlying the formation of the general notions he uses in their presentation. He does not report facts as they happened, but only relevant facts.
Historians don’t just recreate history. They make judgments about what historical narratives are told. The result is a narrative that is influenced by ideology and the historian’s context.
Thus, it would be madness to leave it up to public school bureaucrats to determine which history ought to be taught and to cede to government employees the power to teach to children—for twelve or thirteen years, no less—the “correct” historical narrative.
Early proponents of public schooling were well aware of this, and they made sure history was taught in ways that backed up their own prejudices. In the early years of public schools, in the late nineteenth century, “history” class was designed to communicate anti-Catholic progovernment propaganda as approved by the progressive New England intelligentsia.
By midcentury—helped along by outright progovernment rituals like the socialist-authored Pledge of Allegiance—history class became a hotbed of center-left ideological studies designed to into inculcate American children the idea that men like Theodore Roosevet and Franklin Roosevelt were saintly harbingers of the American “progress” made possible by a strong US state. Also, central to the curriculum was the idea that all wars waged by the American state were virtuous crusades that made the world a better place.
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As a solution, Rep. Ford wants to get rid of history class. I say have at it. Let’s just make sure history class is abolished permanently, and not temporarily, as Ford wants. Ford believes a “suitable alternative” can be developed, but I most certainly don’t want anyone learning whatever version of history meets Ford’s requirements.
I know that some old-fashioned readers will think it’s still a good idea to teach children history in public school. These people are still in the thrall of the never true notion that there’s some sort of “objective” history out there that everyone can agree on. This notion is wrong of course, and because of this, we’d all be better off if public school history class were replaced by reruns of old Saturday morning cartoons. That would be better than the twelve years of anticapitalist propaganda students are getting now. Moreover, students could concentrate on more ideologically neutral topics like math and reading, and leave the teaching of history up to parents. In truth, though, given that public schooling is for most people little more than government daycare, most parents wouldn’t even notice if history class were abolished forever.
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lewrockwell--2020-08-07--Biden’s Game Plan—Take No Risks & Run Out the Clock

When Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascended to the presidency on the death of Warren Harding in 1923 , a wag remarked that Silent Cal ’ s career had exhibited unmistakable signs of celestial intervention .
Governor Coolidge vaulted to national attention during the Boston police strike of 1919 , where , in a stinging letter to Sam Gompers of the AFL , he thundered : “ There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody , anywhere , any time.
” If Joe Biden becomes president , celestial intervention , once again , can not be ruled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Man : ... Marcetic , Branko Best Price : $ 12.00 Buy New $ 13.46 In the first Democratic contest in 2020 in Iowa , Biden , though the clear front-runner in the national polls , ran a humiliating fourth .
In New Hampshire , a week later , he ran fifth .
In Nevada , Joe was crushed again by Bernie Sanders but edged out Sens .
Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar thanks to his loyal African American base .
Came then South Carolina where the Black vote , 60 % of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ — and the momentum that propelled him to a sweeping victory on Super Tuesday .
Biden ’ s delegate count became so large it was virtually impossible for Sanders to overcome .
That March , however , which had begun with the resurrection of Biden ’ s campaign , was also the month the COVID-19 pandemic hit in full fury , sinking the exuberant economy that had been Donald Trump ’ s ticket to reelection .
At that point , Biden went to earth .
Through the spring of 2020 and this summer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the press and the public and sheltered in place in a basement bunker as the worst pandemic in a century drove down the best economy in decades to Depression-era levels .
The last quarter alone saw a 9 % plunge in our gross domestic product .
If Biden wins in November , then his “ basement bunker ” campaign will be studied by historians alongside the “ front porch ” campaign of Harding that led to the 1920 landslide victory over Democrat James M. Cox .
Follow the Money : The ... Bongino @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , several scheduled events could still upend Biden ’ s take-no-risks-and-run-out-the-clock strategy .
The first is his choice of a vice presidential nominee , which Biden has promised will be a woman .
However , if Biden restricts his choice to a Black woman , as some have insisted , he eliminates from consideration every governor and senator in the party save Kamala Harris .
And if all the media attention given to Harris and other VP candidates fails to produce that Black woman , in this hour of renewed demands for racial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ explaining to do to the core constituency that saved his bacon in South Carolina .
There is another danger in Biden ’ s choice .
When General Eisenhower chose Richard Nixon in 1952 , the liberal press ginned up a story about a “ secret Nixon slush fund , ” so intense that Ike was almost stampeded into dropping his running mate .
In 1972 , Sen. George McGovern ’ s campaign failed in its due diligence on his vice presidential choice , and McGovern was forced to drop Sen. Tom Eagleton from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Shriver .
Fallout : Nuclear Bribe ... Bruner , Seamus Buy New $ 25.20 Moreover , given Biden ’ s age — he would be the oldest president ever inaugurated by eight full years — his choice will have to be seen by the nation as a credible president .
A second hurdle for Biden is his speech accepting the Democratic nomination .
The country would be watching intently to see if the Biden of August 2020 had lost the mental and communication skills he once had .
But Biden ’ s advisers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the pandemic prevents Biden from traveling to the Milwaukee convention .
This leaves the three presently scheduled debates as perhaps the last major hurdles between Biden and the presidency .
Profiles in Corruption ... Schweizer , Peter Best Price : $ 17.98 Buy New $ 17.99 Since 1960 , when John F. Kennedy established himself as a credible challenger to Vice President Nixon in the first of four debates , these confrontations have often proven critical .
In 1976 , President Gerald Ford severely damaged his chances of holding onto the office @ @ @ @ @ @ @ insisted during his debate with Jimmy Carter that Poland , then under Soviet control , was a free nation .
Ronald Reagan used his 1980 debate with Carter to show with his wit and demeanor that he was anything but the reactionary of the major media ’ s depiction .
For Trump to regain lost ground , he must convince the country that not only is he the right man to manage America ’ s way out of the health crisis , economic crisis and racial crisis that were none of his doing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ physical rigor and mental capacity to cope with the triple crisis .
And the best , and perhaps last , place to do that is in the debates .
The left understands this , which is why we are suddenly seeing media suggestions that Biden should cancel the debates .
A terrified left wants Joe Biden to coast to victory , and many on that side share a belief that this may be the only way he gets there .
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When Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascended to the presidency on the death of Warren Harding in 1923, a wag remarked that Silent Cal’s career had exhibited unmistakable signs of celestial intervention.
Governor Coolidge vaulted to national attention during the Boston police strike of 1919, where, in a stinging letter to Sam Gompers of the AFL, he thundered: “There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.”
If Joe Biden becomes president, celestial intervention, once again, cannot be ruled out.
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In the first Democratic contest in 2020 in Iowa, Biden, though the clear front-runner in the national polls, ran a humiliating fourth. In New Hampshire, a week later, he ran fifth. In Nevada, Joe was crushed again by Bernie Sanders but edged out Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar thanks to his loyal African American base.
Came then South Carolina where the Black vote, 60% of the total, gave Biden a triumph — and the momentum that propelled him to a sweeping victory on Super Tuesday. Biden’s delegate count became so large it was virtually impossible for Sanders to overcome.
That March, however, which had begun with the resurrection of Biden’s campaign, was also the month the COVID-19 pandemic hit in full fury, sinking the exuberant economy that had been Donald Trump’s ticket to reelection.
At that point, Biden went to earth. Through the spring of 2020 and this summer, he has socially distanced himself from the press and the public and sheltered in place in a basement bunker as the worst pandemic in a century drove down the best economy in decades to Depression-era levels. The last quarter alone saw a 9% plunge in our gross domestic product.
If Biden wins in November, then his “basement bunker” campaign will be studied by historians alongside the “front porch” campaign of Harding that led to the 1920 landslide victory over Democrat James M. Cox. Follow the Money: The ... Bongino, Dan Buy New $25.20 (as of 06:00 UTC - Details)
Yet, several scheduled events could still upend Biden’s take-no-risks-and-run-out-the-clock strategy. The first is his choice of a vice presidential nominee, which Biden has promised will be a woman.
However, if Biden restricts his choice to a Black woman, as some have insisted, he eliminates from consideration every governor and senator in the party save Kamala Harris.
And if all the media attention given to Harris and other VP candidates fails to produce that Black woman, in this hour of renewed demands for racial equality, Biden will have some serious explaining to do to the core constituency that saved his bacon in South Carolina.
There is another danger in Biden’s choice.
When General Eisenhower chose Richard Nixon in 1952, the liberal press ginned up a story about a “secret Nixon slush fund,” so intense that Ike was almost stampeded into dropping his running mate.
In 1972, Sen. George McGovern’s campaign failed in its due diligence on his vice presidential choice, and McGovern was forced to drop Sen. Tom Eagleton from his ticket and replace him with Sargent Shriver. Fallout: Nuclear Bribe... Bruner, Seamus Buy New $25.20 (as of 04:53 UTC - Details)
Moreover, given Biden’s age — he would be the oldest president ever inaugurated by eight full years — his choice will have to be seen by the nation as a credible president.
A second hurdle for Biden is his speech accepting the Democratic nomination.
The country would be watching intently to see if the Biden of August 2020 had lost the mental and communication skills he once had.
But Biden’s advisers bypassed that hurdle this week by declaring that the pandemic prevents Biden from traveling to the Milwaukee convention.
This leaves the three presently scheduled debates as perhaps the last major hurdles between Biden and the presidency.
Profiles in Corruption... Schweizer, Peter Best Price: $17.98 Buy New $17.99 (as of 03:27 UTC - Details) Since 1960, when John F. Kennedy established himself as a credible challenger to Vice President Nixon in the first of four debates, these confrontations have often proven critical.
In 1976, President Gerald Ford severely damaged his chances of holding onto the office he had inherited from Nixon when he insisted during his debate with Jimmy Carter that Poland, then under Soviet control, was a free nation.
Ronald Reagan used his 1980 debate with Carter to show with his wit and demeanor that he was anything but the reactionary of the major media’s depiction.
For Trump to regain lost ground, he must convince the country that not only is he the right man to manage America’s way out of the health crisis, economic crisis and racial crisis that were none of his doing, but that Biden has lost the physical rigor and mental capacity to cope with the triple crisis. And the best, and perhaps last, place to do that is in the debates.
The left understands this, which is why we are suddenly seeing media suggestions that Biden should cancel the debates.
A terrified left wants Joe Biden to coast to victory, and many on that side share a belief that this may be the only way he gets there.
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lewrockwell--2020-08-07--A Related Double-Header Today

A Related Double-Header Today

Tucker Carlson on Fox News Announces What I and John-Paul Leonard Told You Almost 2 Months ago—George Floyd Fatally Overdosed with Fentanyl A Lawsuit Is Brought to Force Release of HCQ to the Public The rest of the media continues to lie to protect the anti-white agenda and Big Pharma ’ s profit agenda .
YouTube , Facebook , Twitter and the rest of the censoring Nazi media have been protecting the official lie on Floyd , just as they do on everything else , such as HCQ , Russiagate , 9/11 , Iranian nukes , peaceful protests , Russian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ free American media ” cancels him .
Note that both Tucker and his guest are sufficiently intimidated by the media claim that Floyd was murdered to make it clear that they are not claiming that the police had no responsibility in Floyd ’ s death , but they don ’ t identify what the responsibility is .
When even Tucker Carlson can be intimidated , you can see the power of the lie .
Fentanyl , Inc. : How Ro ... Westhoff , Ben Buy New $ 13.50 As Minnesota ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clearly admits on Tucker Carlson , he withheld the police video of their encounter with Floyd in order to aid his prosecution of the police officers who he falsely indicted .
In other words the video does not support the indictment or the official story that the despicable lying presstitutes have beat into your heads by endless repetition and misrepresentation .
The video clearly reveals an agitated and uncooperative Floyd complaining of difficulty breathing long before the infamous knee-on-neck , a routine restraint part of police training .
The police did not use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Floyd was in distress .
They accommodated Floyd ’ s request to be taken out of the squad car and allowed to lay on the ground .
You might remember that a large number of presstitute scum misrepresented Floyd ’ s being removed from the squad car and put on the ground as police brutality .
A number of Internet idiots screamed : “ they had him safely in the car and took him out so they could kill him !
” The police realized Floyd was on drug overdose and called for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so as not to exhaust his restricted oxygen capability in agitation .
Floyd died because the ambulance did not get there in time .
When the top law enforcement official in Minneapolis withholds exculpatory evidence in order to frame and convict innocent police , and the law enforcement official is black and the police are white , it puts a different color on the lies we have been told .
Here is one person ’ s analysis of the police video .
Here is a link to the video of the police trying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Notice that RT is so intimidated that RT warns “ disturbing video.
” American Overdose : The ... McGreal , Chris Best Price : $ 7.13 Buy New $ 13.15 Notice that Floyd is very agitated and very confused .
He was sitting in a car with the windows up , but refuses to get in the police car because he is claustrophobic .
The police assure him that they will roll down the window and stay with him .
He is too confused to comply with police instructions to show his hands @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wheel , put his hands on his head .
Instead , he gives non-relevant replies .
Note that the police do not taser him or strike him .
One officer keeps Floyd covered with a pistol until he shows his hands .
Note that Floyd complains of breathing problems following his resistance to being put in the police car .
The breathing problem associated with fentanyl overdose is beginning to set in .
Fentanyl ’ s effects include confusion , problems breathing , and unconsciusness .
“ An overdose occurs when a drug @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
When people overdose on fentanyl , their breathing can slow or stop .
This can decrease the amount of oxygen that reaches the brain , a condition called hypoxia .
Hypoxia can lead to a coma and permanent brain damage , and even death ” .
The lessons to be learned from the George Floyd tragecy are these : A black state attorney general withheld exculpatory evidence in order to falsely indict police officers .
The presstitute media is so totally devoid of integrity that a sustained campaign of disinformation was used @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the minds of the public .
To find an unbiased jury is probably impossible .
When will Americans ever learn to stop listening to the media ?
Pills , Powder , and Smo ... Loewenstein , Antony Best Price : $ 3.59 Buy New $ 13.99 The presstitutes have done the same thing to hydroxychloroquine ( HCQ ) , which is proven to be the most successful and safe treatment for Covid-19 .
The media–print , TV , Facebook , YouTube , Twitter , Google–have covered up the safety and effectiveness of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Facebook , Twitter , and Internet searches evidence provided by doctors treating Covid-19 , and by virologists , epidemiologists and immunologists attesting to the safety and efficacy of HCQ .
I was , perhaps , the first to give you the true information about HCQ .
I also reported that CDC , NIH , WHO , and FDA are in cahoots with Big Pharma which does not want the information out that a cheap cure for Covid exists , because Big Pharma and its shills at the public health agencies want to sell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and “ cure.
” For them , Covid is a money-making opportunity .
In pursuit of this opportunity , they are jointly responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths .
There should not only be class action suits against these criminals , but also murder indictments .
If officer Chauvin can be indicted for Floyd ’ s death , Fauci , Redfield , Big Pharma , and the rest can be indicted for murder not merely of one person but hundreds of thousands of people .
Here is an explanation of why and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a treatment for Covid .
Here is an account of how the CDC ’ s Redfield survived fraud in AIDS research to rise to the head of CDC .
You might wonder how such a compromised individual can rise to such a responsible position .
The answer is that Redfield is the kind of person Big Pharma wants in the position .
The Assoiation of American Physicians and Surgeons has filed a lawsuit to compell the release of HCQ to the public .
We will see if Big Pharma also owns the federal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CDC , FDA , WHO , and Trump ’ s Department of Health Human Services .
Information about Fauci ’ s corruption is beginning to get around .
Once again , the HCQ accurate information .
And this from a friend who grew up in Africa : “ I am a child of hydroxychloroquine .
I spent my childhood using it against Malaria .
I have used it for many , many years , one tablet a week .
It kills Malaria in the blood .
A pill a week works as prevention @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mosquito , the hydroxychloroquine instantly killed the Malaria .
In Eastern Congo , the Belgians farm it .
Miles and miles of farming of the hydroxychloroquine trees .
The medicine is made from the bark layer of the stem , they just cut the bark , dried it and made it into pills .
Which even makes it organic , at least the type we used.
” Once again , the information on Fentanyl .
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Tucker Carlson on Fox News Announces What I and John-Paul Leonard Told You Almost 2 Months ago—George Floyd Fatally Overdosed with Fentanyl
A Lawsuit Is Brought to Force Release of HCQ to the Public
The rest of the media continues to lie to protect the anti-white agenda and Big Pharma’s profit agenda.
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and the rest of the censoring Nazi media have been protecting the official lie on Floyd, just as they do on everything else, such as HCQ, Russiagate, 9/11, Iranian nukes, peaceful protests, Russian invasions, so watch Tucker before the “free American media” cancels him. Note that both Tucker and his guest are sufficiently intimidated by the media claim that Floyd was murdered to make it clear that they are not claiming that the police had no responsibility in Floyd’s death, but they don’t identify what the responsibility is. When even Tucker Carlson can be intimidated, you can see the power of the lie. Fentanyl, Inc.: How Ro... Westhoff, Ben Buy New $13.50 (as of 05:32 UTC - Details)
As Minnesota’s black attorney general, Keith Ellison, clearly admits on Tucker Carlson, he withheld the police video of their encounter with Floyd in order to aid his prosecution of the police officers who he falsely indicted.
In other words the video does not support the indictment or the official story that the despicable lying presstitutes have beat into your heads by endless repetition and misrepresentation.
The video clearly reveals an agitated and uncooperative Floyd complaining of difficulty breathing long before the infamous knee-on-neck, a routine restraint part of police training. The police did not use excessive restraint. They eventually realized that Floyd was in distress. They accommodated Floyd’s request to be taken out of the squad car and allowed to lay on the ground. You might remember that a large number of presstitute scum misrepresented Floyd’s being removed from the squad car and put on the ground as police brutality. A number of Internet idiots screamed: “they had him safely in the car and took him out so they could kill him!”
The police realized Floyd was on drug overdose and called for medics. Floyd was being held still so as not to exhaust his restricted oxygen capability in agitation. Floyd died because the ambulance did not get there in time.
When the top law enforcement official in Minneapolis withholds exculpatory evidence in order to frame and convict innocent police, and the law enforcement official is black and the police are white, it puts a different color on the lies we have been told.
Here is one person’s analysis of the police video.
Here is a link to the video of the police trying to get Floyd into the car. Notice that RT is so intimidated that RT warns “disturbing video.” American Overdose: The... McGreal, Chris Best Price: $7.13 Buy New $13.15 (as of 05:34 UTC - Details)
Notice that Floyd is very agitated and very confused. He was sitting in a car with the windows up, but refuses to get in the police car because he is claustrophobic. The police assure him that they will roll down the window and stay with him. He is too confused to comply with police instructions to show his hands, put his hands on the steering wheel, put his hands on his head. Instead, he gives non-relevant replies. Note that the police do not taser him or strike him. One officer keeps Floyd covered with a pistol until he shows his hands.
Note that Floyd complains of breathing problems following his resistance to being put in the police car. The breathing problem associated with fentanyl overdose is beginning to set in. Fentanyl’s effects include confusion, problems breathing, and unconsciusness. “An overdose occurs when a drug produces serious adverse effects and life-threatening symptoms. When people overdose on fentanyl, their breathing can slow or stop. This can decrease the amount of oxygen that reaches the brain, a condition called hypoxia. Hypoxia can lead to a coma and permanent brain damage, and even death”.
The lessons to be learned from the George Floyd tragecy are these: A black state attorney general withheld exculpatory evidence in order to falsely indict police officers. The presstitute media is so totally devoid of integrity that a sustained campaign of disinformation was used for the purpose of convicting the police in the minds of the public. To find an unbiased jury is probably impossible.
When will Americans ever learn to stop listening to the media?
Pills, Powder, and Smo... Loewenstein, Antony Best Price: $3.59 Buy New $13.99 (as of 05:36 UTC - Details) The presstitutes have done the same thing to hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), which is proven to be the most successful and safe treatment for Covid-19. The media–print, TV, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google–have covered up the safety and effectiveness of HCQ and have stricken from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Internet searches evidence provided by doctors treating Covid-19, and by virologists, epidemiologists and immunologists attesting to the safety and efficacy of HCQ.
I was, perhaps, the first to give you the true information about HCQ. I also reported that CDC, NIH, WHO, and FDA are in cahoots with Big Pharma which does not want the information out that a cheap cure for Covid exists, because Big Pharma and its shills at the public health agencies want to sell you Big Pharma’s expensive vaccine and “cure.” For them, Covid is a money-making opportunity. In pursuit of this opportunity, they are jointly responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. There should not only be class action suits against these criminals, but also murder indictments. If officer Chauvin can be indicted for Floyd’s death, Fauci, Redfield, Big Pharma, and the rest can be indicted for murder not merely of one person but hundreds of thousands of people.
Here is an explanation of why and how Anthony Fauci has blocked HCQ as a treatment for Covid.
Here is an account of how the CDC’s Redfield survived fraud in AIDS research to rise to the head of CDC.
You might wonder how such a compromised individual can rise to such a responsible position. The answer is that Redfield is the kind of person Big Pharma wants in the position.
The Assoiation of American Physicians and Surgeons has filed a lawsuit to compell the release of HCQ to the public. We will see if Big Pharma also owns the federal courts, as well as NIH, CDC, FDA, WHO, and Trump’s Department of Health Human Services.
Information about Fauci’s corruption is beginning to get around.
Once again, the HCQ accurate information.
And this from a friend who grew up in Africa:
“I am a child of hydroxychloroquine. I spent my childhood using it against Malaria. I have used it for many, many years, one tablet a week. It kills Malaria in the blood. A pill a week works as prevention, if we were bit by Malaria mosquito, the hydroxychloroquine instantly killed the Malaria. In Eastern Congo, the Belgians farm it. Miles and miles of farming of the hydroxychloroquine trees. The medicine is made from the bark layer of the stem, they just cut the bark, dried it and made it into pills. Which even makes it organic, at least the type we used.”
Once again, the information on Fentanyl.
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