lewrockwell--2020-11-23--US – UK Intel Agencies Declare Cyber War on Independent Media

British and American state intelligence agencies are “ weaponizing truth ” to quash vaccine hesitancy as both nations prepare for mass inoculations , in a recently announced “ cyber war ” to be commanded by AI-powered arbiters of truth against information sources that challenge official narratives .
In just the past week , the national-security states of the United States and United Kingdom have discreetly let it be known that the cyber tools and online tactics previously designed for use in the post-9/11 “ war on terror ” are now being repurposed for use against information sources promoting “ vaccine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that runs counter to their state narratives .
A new cyber offensive was launched on Monday by the UK ’ s signal intelligence agency , Government Communications Headquarters ( GCHQ ) , which seeks to target websites that publish content deemed to be “ propaganda ” that raises concerns regarding state-sponsored Covid-19 vaccine development and the multi-national pharmaceutical corporations involved .
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Both countries are preparing to silence independent journalists who raise legitimate concerns over pharmaceutical industry corruption or the extreme secrecy surrounding state-sponsored Covid-19 vaccination efforts , now that Pfizer ’ s vaccine candidate is slated to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s history of being fined billions for illegal marketing and for bribing government officials to help them cover up an illegal drug trial that killed eleven children ( among other crimes ) has gone unmentioned by most mass media outlets , which instead have celebrated the apparently imminent approval of the company ’ s Covid-19 vaccine without questioning the company ’ s history or that the mRNA technology used in the vaccine has sped through normal safety trial protocols and has never been approved for human use .
Also unmentioned is that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Drug Evaluation and Research , Patrizia Cavazzoni , is the former Pfizer vice president for product safety who covered up the connection of one of its products to birth defects .
Essentially , the power of the state is being wielded like never before to police online speech and to deplatform news websites to protect the interests of powerful corporations like Pfizer and other scandal-ridden pharmaceutical giants as well as the interests of the US and UK national-security states , which themselves are intimately involved in the Covid-19 vaccination endeavor .
On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reported that the UK ’ s GCHQ “ has begun an offensive cyber-operation to disrupt anti-vaccine propaganda being spread by hostile states ” and “ is using a toolkit developed to tackle disinformation and recruitment material peddled by Islamic State ” to do so .
In addition , the UK government has ordered the British military ’ s 77th Brigade , which specializes in “ information warfare , ” to launch an online campaign to counter “ deceptive narratives ” about Covid-19 vaccine candidates .
Covid-19 : The Greatest ... Coleman , Dr @ @ @ @ @ @ @ announced GCHQ “ cyber war ” will not only take down “ anti-vaccine propaganda ” but will also seek to “ disrupt the operations of the cyberactors responsible for it , including encrypting their data so they can not access it and blocking their communications with each other.
” The effort will also involve GCHQ reaching out to other countries in the “ Five Eyes ” alliance ( US , Australia , New Zealand and Canada ) to alert their partner agencies in those countries to target such “ propaganda ” sites hosted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that “ the government regards tackling false information about inoculation as a rising priority as the prospect of a reliable vaccine against the coronavirus draws closer , ” suggesting that efforts will continue to ramp up as a vaccine candidate gets closer to approval .
It seems that , from the perspective of the UK national-security state , those who question corruption in the pharmaceutical industry and its possible impact on the leading experimental Covid-19 vaccine candidates ( all of which use experimental vaccine technologies that have never before been approved for human @ @ @ @ @ @ @ originally designed to combat terrorist propaganda .
While The Times asserted that the effort would target content “ that originated only from state adversaries ” and would not target the sites of “ ordinary citizens , ” the newspaper suggested that the effort would rely on the US government for determining whether or not a site is part of a “ foreign disinformation ” operation .
This is highly troubling given that the US recently seized the domains of many sites , including the American Herald Tribune , which it erroneously labeled as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ editor in chief , Anthony Hall , being based in Canada .
The US government made this claim about the American Herald Tribune after the cybersecurity firm FireEye , a US government contractor , stated that it had “ moderate confidence ” that the site had been “ founded in Iran.
” In addition , the fact that GCHQ has alleged that most of the sites it plans to target are “ linked to Moscow ” gives further cause for concern given that the UK government was caught funding the Institute for Statecraft @ @ @ @ @ @ @ labeled critics of the UK government ’ s actions as well as its narratives with respect to the Syria conflict as being related to “ Russian disinformation ” campaigns .
I Do Not Consent : My F ... Gold MD , JD , Simone Buy New $ 12.99 Given this precedent , it is certainly plausible that GCHQ could take the word of either an allied government , a government contractor , or perhaps even an allied media organization such as Bellingcat or the Atlantic Council ’ s DFRLab that a given site @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to launch a cyber offensive against it .
Such concerns are only amplified when one of the main government sources for The Times article bluntly stated that “ GCHQ has been told to take out antivaxers [ sic ] online and on social media .
There are ways they have used to monitor and disrupt terrorist propaganda , ” which suggests that the targets of GCHQ ’ s new cyber war will , in fact , be determined by the content itself rather than their suspected “ foreign ” origin .
The “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a means of evading the prohibition in GCHQ ’ s operational mandate on targeting the speech or websites of ordinary citizens .
This larger pivot toward treating alleged “ anti-vaxxers ” as “ national security threats ” has been ongoing for much of this year , spearheaded in part by Imran Ahmed , the CEO of the UK-based Center for Countering Digital Hate , a member of the UK government ’ s Steering Committee on Countering Extremism Pilot Task Force , which is part of the UK government ’ s Commission for Countering @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Independent in July that “ I would go beyond calling anti-vaxxers conspiracy theorists to say they are an extremist group that pose a national security risk.
” He then stated that “ once someone has been exposed to one type of conspiracy it ’ s easy to lead them down a path where they embrace more radical world views that can lead to violent extremism , ” thereby implying that “ anti-vaxxers ” might engage in acts of violent extremism .
Among the websites cited by Ahmed ’ s organization as promoting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ national security risk ” were Children ’ s Health Defense , the National Vaccine Information Center , Informed Consent Action Network , and Mercola.com , among others .
Similarly , a think tank tied to US intelligence—whose GCHQ equivalent , the National Security Agency , will take part in the newly announced “ cyber war ” —argued in a research paper published just months before the onset of the Covid-19 crisis that “ the US ‘ anti-vaxxer ’ movement would pose a threat to national security in the event of a ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ From Killer to Common ... Graham MD , David M. Buy New $ 14.99 InfraGard , “ a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) and members of the private sector , ” warned in the paper published last June that “ the US anti-vaccine movement would also be connected with ‘ social media misinformation and propaganda campaigns ’ orchestrated by the Russian government , ” as cited by The Guardian .
The InfraGard paper further claimed that prominent “ anti-vaxxers ” are aligned “ with other conspiracy movements including @ @ @ @ @ @ @ social media misinformation and propaganda campaigns by many foreign and domestic actors .
Included among these actors is the Internet Research Agency , the Russian government–aligned organization.
” An article published just last month by the Washington Post argued that “ vaccine hesitancy is mixing with coronavirus denial and merging with far-right American conspiracy theories , including Qanon , ” which the FBI named a potential domestic terror threat last year .
The article quoted Peter Hotez , dean of the School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is globalizing and it ’ s going toward more-extremist tendencies.
” It is worth pointing out that many so-called “ anti-vaxxers ” are actually critics of the pharmaceutical industry and are not necessarily opposed to vaccines in and of themselves , making the labels “ anti-vaxxer ” and “ anti-vaccine ” misleading .
Given that many pharmaceutical giants involved in making Covid-19 vaccines donate heavily to politiciansin both countries and have been involved in numerous safety scandals , using state intelligence agencies to wage cyber war against sites that investigate such concerns is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ journalism but it suggests that the UK is taking a dangerous leap toward becoming a country that uses its state powers to treat the enemies of corporations as enemies of the state .
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British and American state intelligence agencies are “weaponizing truth” to quash vaccine hesitancy as both nations prepare for mass inoculations, in a recently announced “cyber war” to be commanded by AI-powered arbiters of truth against information sources that challenge official narratives.
In just the past week, the national-security states of the United States and United Kingdom have discreetly let it be known that the cyber tools and online tactics previously designed for use in the post-9/11 “war on terror” are now being repurposed for use against information sources promoting “vaccine hesitancy” and information related to Covid-19 that runs counter to their state narratives.
A new cyber offensive was launched on Monday by the UK’s signal intelligence agency, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), which seeks to target websites that publish content deemed to be “propaganda” that raises concerns regarding state-sponsored Covid-19 vaccine development and the multi-national pharmaceutical corporations involved. Anyone Who Tells You V... Coleman, Dr Vernon Buy New $3.99 (as of 04:06 UTC - Details)
Similar efforts are underway in the United States, with the US military recently funding a CIA-backed firm—stuffed with former counterterrorism officials who were behind the occupation of Iraq and the rise of the so-called Islamic State—to develop an AI algorithm aimed specifically at new websites promoting “suspected” disinformation related to the Covid-19 crisis and the US military–led Covid-19 vaccination effort known as Operation Warp Speed.
Both countries are preparing to silence independent journalists who raise legitimate concerns over pharmaceutical industry corruption or the extreme secrecy surrounding state-sponsored Covid-19 vaccination efforts, now that Pfizer’s vaccine candidate is slated to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by month’s end.
Pfizer’s history of being fined billions for illegal marketing and for bribing government officials to help them cover up an illegal drug trial that killed eleven children (among other crimes) has gone unmentioned by most mass media outlets, which instead have celebrated the apparently imminent approval of the company’s Covid-19 vaccine without questioning the company’s history or that the mRNA technology used in the vaccine has sped through normal safety trial protocols and has never been approved for human use. Also unmentioned is that the head of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Patrizia Cavazzoni, is the former Pfizer vice president for product safety who covered up the connection of one of its products to birth defects.
Essentially, the power of the state is being wielded like never before to police online speech and to deplatform news websites to protect the interests of powerful corporations like Pfizer and other scandal-ridden pharmaceutical giants as well as the interests of the US and UK national-security states, which themselves are intimately involved in the Covid-19 vaccination endeavor.
UK Intelligence’s New Cyberwar Targeting “Anti-Vaccine Propaganda”
On Monday, the UK newspaper The Times reported that the UK’s GCHQ “has begun an offensive cyber-operation to disrupt anti-vaccine propaganda being spread by hostile states” and “is using a toolkit developed to tackle disinformation and recruitment material peddled by Islamic State” to do so. In addition, the UK government has ordered the British military’s 77th Brigade, which specializes in “information warfare,” to launch an online campaign to counter “deceptive narratives” about Covid-19 vaccine candidates. Covid-19: The Greatest... Coleman, Dr Vernon Buy New $14.71 (as of 04:43 UTC - Details)
The newly announced GCHQ “cyber war” will not only take down “anti-vaccine propaganda” but will also seek to “disrupt the operations of the cyberactors responsible for it, including encrypting their data so they cannot access it and blocking their communications with each other.” The effort will also involve GCHQ reaching out to other countries in the “Five Eyes” alliance (US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada) to alert their partner agencies in those countries to target such “propaganda” sites hosted within their borders.
The Times stated that “the government regards tackling false information about inoculation as a rising priority as the prospect of a reliable vaccine against the coronavirus draws closer,” suggesting that efforts will continue to ramp up as a vaccine candidate gets closer to approval.
It seems that, from the perspective of the UK national-security state, those who question corruption in the pharmaceutical industry and its possible impact on the leading experimental Covid-19 vaccine candidates (all of which use experimental vaccine technologies that have never before been approved for human use) should be targeted with tools originally designed to combat terrorist propaganda.
While The Times asserted that the effort would target content “that originated only from state adversaries” and would not target the sites of “ordinary citizens,” the newspaper suggested that the effort would rely on the US government for determining whether or not a site is part of a “foreign disinformation” operation.
This is highly troubling given that the US recently seized the domains of many sites, including the American Herald Tribune, which it erroneously labeled as “Iranian propaganda,” despite its editor in chief, Anthony Hall, being based in Canada. The US government made this claim about the American Herald Tribune after the cybersecurity firm FireEye, a US government contractor, stated that it had “moderate confidence” that the site had been “founded in Iran.”
In addition, the fact that GCHQ has alleged that most of the sites it plans to target are “linked to Moscow” gives further cause for concern given that the UK government was caught funding the Institute for Statecraft’s Integrity Initiative, which falsely labeled critics of the UK government’s actions as well as its narratives with respect to the Syria conflict as being related to “Russian disinformation” campaigns. I Do Not Consent: My F... Gold MD, JD, Simone Buy New $12.99 (as of 05:07 UTC - Details)
Given this precedent, it is certainly plausible that GCHQ could take the word of either an allied government, a government contractor, or perhaps even an allied media organization such as Bellingcat or the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab that a given site is “foreign propaganda” in order to launch a cyber offensive against it. Such concerns are only amplified when one of the main government sources for The Times article bluntly stated that “GCHQ has been told to take out antivaxers [sic] online and on social media. There are ways they have used to monitor and disrupt terrorist propaganda,” which suggests that the targets of GCHQ’s new cyber war will, in fact, be determined by the content itself rather than their suspected “foreign” origin. The “foreign” aspect instead appears to be a means of evading the prohibition in GCHQ’s operational mandate on targeting the speech or websites of ordinary citizens.
This larger pivot toward treating alleged “anti-vaxxers” as “national security threats” has been ongoing for much of this year, spearheaded in part by Imran Ahmed, the CEO of the UK-based Center for Countering Digital Hate, a member of the UK government’s Steering Committee on Countering Extremism Pilot Task Force, which is part of the UK government’s Commission for Countering Extremism.
Ahmed told the UK newspaper The Independent in July that “I would go beyond calling anti-vaxxers conspiracy theorists to say they are an extremist group that pose a national security risk.” He then stated that “once someone has been exposed to one type of conspiracy it’s easy to lead them down a path where they embrace more radical world views that can lead to violent extremism,” thereby implying that “anti-vaxxers” might engage in acts of violent extremism. Among the websites cited by Ahmed’s organization as promoting such “extremism” that poses a “national security risk” were Children’s Health Defense, the National Vaccine Information Center, Informed Consent Action Network, and Mercola.com, among others.
Similarly, a think tank tied to US intelligence—whose GCHQ equivalent, the National Security Agency, will take part in the newly announced “cyber war”—argued in a research paper published just months before the onset of the Covid-19 crisis that “the US ‘anti-vaxxer’ movement would pose a threat to national security in the event of a ‘pandemic with a novel organism.’” From Killer to Common ... Graham MD, David M. Buy New $14.99 (as of 06:32 UTC - Details)
InfraGard, “a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and members of the private sector,” warned in the paper published last June that “the US anti-vaccine movement would also be connected with ‘social media misinformation and propaganda campaigns’ orchestrated by the Russian government,” as cited by The Guardian. The InfraGard paper further claimed that prominent “anti-vaxxers” are aligned “with other conspiracy movements including the far right . . . and social media misinformation and propaganda campaigns by many foreign and domestic actors. Included among these actors is the Internet Research Agency, the Russian government–aligned organization.”
An article published just last month by the Washington Post argued that “vaccine hesitancy is mixing with coronavirus denial and merging with far-right American conspiracy theories, including Qanon,” which the FBI named a potential domestic terror threat last year. The article quoted Peter Hotez, dean of the School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, as saying “The US anti-vaccination movement is globalizing and it’s going toward more-extremist tendencies.”
It is worth pointing out that many so-called “anti-vaxxers” are actually critics of the pharmaceutical industry and are not necessarily opposed to vaccines in and of themselves, making the labels “anti-vaxxer” and “anti-vaccine” misleading. Given that many pharmaceutical giants involved in making Covid-19 vaccines donate heavily to politiciansin both countries and have been involved in numerous safety scandals, using state intelligence agencies to wage cyber war against sites that investigate such concerns is not only troubling for the future of journalism but it suggests that the UK is taking a dangerous leap toward becoming a country that uses its state powers to treat the enemies of corporations as enemies of the state.
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lewrockwell--2020-11-23--The Evil of American Exceptionalism

The Evil of American Exceptionalism

Anne Applebaum is a renowned historian of the Soviet Union , but her recent book The Twilight of Democracy illustrates a common confusion .
She says that she and her husband , the Polish diplomat Radek Sikorski , continue to support “ the pro-European , pro-rule-of-law , pro-market center right , ” though former friends of hers who held the same views have veered toward nationalist extremism .
In doing so , she thinks the intellectuals among them have betrayed their calling as servants of truth .
In speaking of the rule of law , Applebaum has confused two very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a free market requires a secure structure of property rights .
Given this structure , people can engage in mutually beneficial trade .
As he says in Human Action , “ private ownership of the means of production is the fundamental institution of the market economy .
It is the institution the presence of which characterizes the market economy as such .
Where it is absent , there is no question of a market economy .
Ownership means full control of the services that can be derived from a good.
” A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all ( Rothbard thinks it isn ’ t ) , should defend people ’ s rights and leave everything else to the free market .
But this is not what Applebaum means by the rule of law .
She thinks that America should be governed by a “ meritocracy , ” and that we should spread democracies all over the globe , using force if necessary to do so .
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” All those who deny American “ exceptionalism , ” that is to say , global crusading for “ democracy , ” are dangerous extremists .
She bemoans the pessimism of Pat Buchanan , which in part derives “ from his dislike of American foreign policy .
Over the years he has evolved from ordinary isolationism and toward what seems to be a belief that America ’ s role in the world is pernicious , if not evil….In 2002 , he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was a direct consequence of the United States meddling in an area of the world where we do not belong and where we are not wanted.
’ ” Although Applebaum professes herself a champion of reason and enlightened discourse , she sees no need to examine the truth of this view .
Only someone deluded by propaganda could believe it , and when Buchanan later questioned the wisdom of our aggressive alliances against Russia , he showed himself to be a tool of Putin and his minions .
For her it is inconceivable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ economy and the rule of law with massive military intervention abroad to spread the blessings of democracy to all and sundry .
“ Trump ’ s victory in 2016 was the victory of exactly this form of moral equivalence [ of democracy and autocracy ] ….Instead of a nation that leads ‘ the citizens of democratic societies , ’ we are ‘ America First.
’ Instead of seeing ourselves at the heart of a great international alliance for good , we are indifferent to the fate of other nations , including other nations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has no vital interest in choosing between warring factions whose animosities go back centuries in Eastern Europe , ’ wrote Trump , or his ghostwriter , back in 2000 .
‘ Their conflicts are not worth American lives.
’ That ’ s not an indictment of the Iraq War .
That ’ s an indictment of America ’ s role in the world going back to the beginning of the twentieth century , an indictment of America ’ s involvement in two world wars and the Cold War , a return to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1920s.
” Again , she sees no need to defend what to her is the obvious truth of what she says .
Only the duped and dishonest could question it .
Only “ extremists ” and proponents of conspiracy theories could believe that “ American behavior abroad is evil….The real reality in this conspiratorial view , is that of secretive businessmen , or perhaps ‘ deep state ’ bureaucrats , who manipulate the voters into going along with their plans , using the cheesy language of Thomas Jefferson as a cover story.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , who do not wish to be controlled by the Brussels meritocracy , are foolish , as are those who decry George Soros as deserving of a place in the Kingdom of Darkness .
What rational person could doubt the good intentions of the well-educated elite ensconced in high places ?
Resurrecting Marx ( His ... Gordon , David Best Price : $ 52.55 Buy New $ 38.98 Rather than argue against those who reject her internationalist yearnings , Applebaum smears them .
The French who reject control by the European Union are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the war [ World War II ] , a different vision of France , one based on rational thought , rule of law , and integration with Europe , has held sway , But the spirit of the clercs who sought to smear Dreyfus , to join Vichy , and to fight for France First lives on.
” Against Applebaum ’ s moral posturing , it is necessary to insist that support for the free market and rule of law mean just that , not a policy of world hegemony dressed up in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute .
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Anne Applebaum is a renowned historian of the Soviet Union, but her recent book The Twilight of Democracy illustrates a common confusion. She says that she and her husband, the Polish diplomat Radek Sikorski, continue to support “the pro-European, pro-rule-of-law, pro-market center right,” though former friends of hers who held the same views have veered toward nationalist extremism. In doing so, she thinks the intellectuals among them have betrayed their calling as servants of truth.
In speaking of the rule of law, Applebaum has confused two very different things. As Mises points out, a free market requires a secure structure of property rights. Given this structure, people can engage in mutually beneficial trade. As he says in Human Action, “private ownership of the means of production is the fundamental institution of the market economy. It is the institution the presence of which characterizes the market economy as such. Where it is absent, there is no question of a market economy. Ownership means full control of the services that can be derived from a good.”
A government, if one is needed at all (Rothbard thinks it isn’t), should defend people’s rights and leave everything else to the free market. But this is not what Applebaum means by the rule of law. She thinks that America should be governed by a “meritocracy,” and that we should spread democracies all over the globe, using force if necessary to do so. Twilight of Democracy:... Applebaum, Anne Buy New $20.99 (as of 03:37 UTC - Details)
She speaks with contempt of the American radical Emma Goldman, who “was especially disgusted by American military adventures abroad, and the patriotic language used to justify them.” All those who deny American “exceptionalism,” that is to say, global crusading for “democracy,” are dangerous extremists. She bemoans the pessimism of Pat Buchanan, which in part derives “from his dislike of American foreign policy. Over the years he has evolved from ordinary isolationism and toward what seems to be a belief that America’s role in the world is pernicious, if not evil….In 2002, he told a television audience that ‘9/11 was a direct consequence of the United States meddling in an area of the world where we do not belong and where we are not wanted.’” Although Applebaum professes herself a champion of reason and enlightened discourse, she sees no need to examine the truth of this view. Only someone deluded by propaganda could believe it, and when Buchanan later questioned the wisdom of our aggressive alliances against Russia, he showed himself to be a tool of Putin and his minions.
For her it is inconceivable to challenge the equation of a free economy and the rule of law with massive military intervention abroad to spread the blessings of democracy to all and sundry. “Trump’s victory in 2016 was the victory of exactly this form of moral equivalence [of democracy and autocracy]….Instead of a nation that leads ‘the citizens of democratic societies,’ we are ‘America First.’ Instead of seeing ourselves at the heart of a great international alliance for good, we are indifferent to the fate of other nations, including other nations that share our values. ‘America has no vital interest in choosing between warring factions whose animosities go back centuries in Eastern Europe,’ wrote Trump, or his ghostwriter, back in 2000. ‘Their conflicts are not worth American lives.’ That’s not an indictment of the Iraq War. That’s an indictment of America’s role in the world going back to the beginning of the twentieth century, an indictment of America’s involvement in two world wars and the Cold War, a return to the xenophobia and inward looking isolationism of the 1920s.” Again, she sees no need to defend what to her is the obvious truth of what she says. Only the duped and dishonest could question it. Only “extremists” and proponents of conspiracy theories could believe that “American behavior abroad is evil….The real reality in this conspiratorial view, is that of secretive businessmen, or perhaps ‘deep state’ bureaucrats, who manipulate the voters into going along with their plans, using the cheesy language of Thomas Jefferson as a cover story.” In like fashion, supporters of Brexit, who do not wish to be controlled by the Brussels meritocracy, are foolish, as are those who decry George Soros as deserving of a place in the Kingdom of Darkness. What rational person could doubt the good intentions of the well-educated elite ensconced in high places? Resurrecting Marx (His... Gordon, David Best Price: $52.55 Buy New $38.98 (as of 05:05 UTC - Details)
Rather than argue against those who reject her internationalist yearnings, Applebaum smears them. The French who reject control by the European Union are characterized in this way: “Since the war [World War II], a different vision of France, one based on rational thought, rule of law, and integration with Europe, has held sway, But the spirit of the clercs who sought to smear Dreyfus, to join Vichy, and to fight for France First lives on.”
Against Applebaum’s moral posturing, it is necessary to insist that support for the free market and rule of law mean just that, not a policy of world hegemony dressed up in the language of “democracy.”
Note: The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.
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lewrockwell--2020-11-23--John F. Kennedy and America’s Lost Patriotic Heritage

“ Man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life .
And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe….
” Where China and Russia are currently leading a new paradigm of cooperation and development around a multipolar alliance , it is too easily forgotten that America itself had once embodied this anti-colonial spirit under the foreign policy vision of John F. Kennedy .
Even though the young leader died in office before the full effect of his grand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worth revisiting his fight and stated intention for a post-colonial world governed by win-win cooperation .
This exercise is especially important now that we are coming to the anniversary of the murder of John F. Kennedy on November 22 , 1963 .
FDR ’ s Death and the Emergence of the New Rome America didn ’ t become an imperial “ dumb giant ” after WWII without a major fight .
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During this time , those allies of FDR who were committed to Roosevelt ’ s anti colonial post war vision , rallied around former Vice President Henry Wallace ’ s 1948 Presidential bid with the Progressive Party of America .
When this effort failed , an outright police state took over and those same fascists who had sponsored WWII took control of the reins of power .
These “ economic royalists ” enjoyed full control as puppet President Harry S. Truman giggled as he dropped @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supported America ’ s new role as the re-conquistador of nations who sought independence after WWII .
While it can ’ t be argued that the politically naïve President Eisenhower had some redeeming qualities , for the most part , his 8 year administration was run by the Dulles brothers and Wall Street , and it was only on January 17 , 1961 that he made any serious effort to speak openly about the military industrial complex that had grown like a cancer under his watch .
It was no secret who the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after his address , a young John F. Kennedy was inaugurated 35th president of the United States to the great hope of many anti-fascists in America and abroad .
It is too often overlooked today , but JFK ’ s anti-colonial position was not a secret during his decade as a Senator and Congressman .
Even though his family pedigree was stained with mafia and JP Morgan ties to his treacherous father “ Papa Joe ” , John Kennedy was made of sturdier stuff .
Topspeeder LED Solar H ... Best Price : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Asia and the Middle East in the 1950s , a young Senator Kennedy expressed his sensitivity to the plight of the Arab world and problem of US imperialism when he said : “ Our intervention in behalf of England ’ s oil investments in Iran , directed more at the preservation of interests outside Iran than at Iran ’ s own development… .
Our failure to deal effectively after three years with the terrible human tragedy of the more than 700,000 Arab refugees [ Palestinians ] , these are things that have failed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make empty the promises of the Voice of America….
” Later , speaking in a 1960 speech regarding ending colonialism in Africa , JFK expressed his understanding of Africa ’ s demand for genuine independence saying : “ Call it nationalism , call it anti-colonialism , Africa is going through a revolution… .
Africans want a higher standard of living .
Seventy-five percent of the population now lives by subsistence agriculture .
They want an opportunity to manage and benefit directly from the resources in , on , and under their land… .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , technology , and education available in the modern world can overcome their struggle for existence , that their poverty , squalor , ignorance , and disease can be conquered… .
[ The ] balance of power is shifting … into the hands of the two-thirds of the world ’ s people who want to share what the one-third has already taken for granted….
” Wall Street ’ s Dulles Brothers who together ran the CIA and the State Department had made several major efforts to sabotage Kennedy ’ s “ new frontiers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ young and old alike .
Kennedy ’ s program was driven by large scale infrastructure at home and advanced scientific and technological progress in the Developing sector abroad .
Attempting to break that trajectory , Allen Dulles had prepared the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba months before Kennedy entered the scene which was a near disaster for the world .
Just days before Kennedy ’ s inauguration , Allan Dulles ensured that a pro-Kennedy ally who had just recently gained power in the Congo named Patrice Lumumba was assassinated in cold blood @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and every effort was made to back up the French fascists trying to stop the Algerian independence movement behind JFK ’ s back .
Both the Cuban invasion and the assassination of Lumumba have been blamed on Kennedy to this day .
In response to this treachery , JFK made the bold move of firing CIA director Allan Dulles , and two Wall Street-connected CIA directors on November 29 , 1961 saying that he would soon “ splinter the C.I.A .
in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.
” Recognizing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Warriors who could only look at the world through the perversity of a Hobbesian lens of “ each against all ” , JFK not only stood alone against the entire array of war-hungry Joint Chiefs calling for war with Russia during the infamous “ 13 day showdown ” ( and parodied by Kubrick ’ s brilliant Dr. Strangelove ) , but also took the advice of Generals MacArthur , and Charles de Gaulle who warned him to avoid all entrapments of a “ land war in Vietnam ” .
On this point , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to begin a full withdrawal from Southeast Asia .
JFK ’ s June 10 , 1963 speech What Kind of Peace Do We Seek ?
Showcased his resistance to the imperialists in America .
What was especially intolerable was that JFK began challenging the fixed rules of the zero sum Cold War game itself when he announced a new mission to put a man on the moon “ within the decade ” .
This would have been tolerable if the effort was kept within a geopolitical ideology of “ competition against the evil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and called for a US-Russia partnership to jointly develop advanced technologies together making the space program a project for human peace .
This little known strategic vision , announced in a September 20 , 1963 UN speech , shows how an arms race in space , which today threatens the earth , could have been avoided and the Cold War itself done away with decades before the Soviet Union collapsed : JFK ’ s efforts to build bridges with Russia were of vital importance as they resulted in the passage of the test @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and hopes were awoken for an early end to the Cold War though the mutual development of the poorest parts of the world .
This was “ International New Deal ” strategy which patriots like Henry Wallace and Paul Robeson had fought for from 1946-1959 .
Across Africa , Asia and other former colonies , JFK had worked hard to build relationships with Pan African leaders Kwame Nkrumah , Patrice Lumumba , as well as Egypt ’ s Gamal Nasser , India ’ s Jawaharlal Nehru and South Vietnamese President Diem to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ great infrastructure projects like the Akosombo Dam in Ghana , nuclear power in Egypt and Vietnam and steel industries in India .
Today the Akosombo Dam stands with a plaque dedicated to the “ martyred John F. Kennedy ” .
As historian Anton Chaitkin proves in his incredible 2013 opus “ JFK vs the Empire ” , this didn ’ t happen without a major fight with the JP Morgan controlled steel barons who artificially raised the price of steel in order to make these projects financially impossible .
Tortoise Wind Chimes S @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these projects be funded ?
Certainly , Kennedy ’ s industrial tax credit was a major help , but when it became clear that Wall Street banks , and the Federal Reserve were obstructing the flow of credit for long term development , JFK introduced Bill 11110 to begin issuing silver-backed currency through the Treasury rather than the private central banking system on June 4 , 1963 which would have liberated America from private central banking for the first time since 1913 .
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison famously played by Kevin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ JFK did more than many people today realize in exposing the networks that ran JFK ’ s murder and subsequent cover-up .
Without going into detail of the multiple bullets that killed Kennedy from several directions ( especially the lethal head shot which obviously struck him FROM THE FRONT as showcased in the Zapruder film which had been suppressed for several years ) , let ’ s look at some lesser known evidence discovered by Garrison .
In his 1991 book “ On the Trail of the Assassins ” , Garrison wrote of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the World Trade Organization on whose boards sat CIA asset Clay Shaw ( the figure played by Tommy Lee Jones in the Stone biopic ) .
Garrison wrote : “ The CIA- which apparently had been conducting its own foreign policy for some time- had begun a project in Italy as far back as the early 1950s .
The organization , named the Centro Mondiale Commerciale had initially been formed in Montreal , then moved to Rome in 1961 .
Among the members of its board of directors , we learned , was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Garrison cited French researcher Paris Flammonde when he described it as “ a shell of superficiality… composed of channels through which money flowed back and forth without anyone knowing the sources or the destination of these liquid assets.
” Garrison pointed out that Permindex had been kicked out of Italy , Switzerland and France for good reasons : “ As for Permindex… it had , among other things , secretly financed the opposition of the French Secret Army Organization ( OAS ) to President de Gaulle ’ s support for independence for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on de Gaulle.
” After naming the other pro-fascist members- many of whom were connected to European royal families and banks , Garrison then pointed to the WTC owner “ One of the major stockholders of the Centro was a Major Louis M. Bloomfield , a Montreal resident… and former agent with the Office of Strategic Services , out of which the United States had formed the CIA.
” Bloomfield & the Royal Birth of the Anti-Growth Movement Since both the World Trade Center and Permindex were owned by Bloomfield , his role @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and takes us straight to the heart of the agenda to kill Kennedy .
Not only did Bloomfield play a key role working alongside Rhodes Scholars in Canada such as Justice Minister Davie Fulton in order to stop continental water projects advocated by JFK and Canadian pro-development leaders like John Diefenbaker , Premier Daniel Johnson and BC Premier WAC Bennett , but he also played a leading role as a founding member of the 1001 Club alongside other upper level managers of the oligarchy like Maurice Strong , Peter Munk ( of Barrick @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Black .
For those who may not be aware , the 1001 Club was a special Trust set up under Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and Prince Philip Mountbatten to finance the new ecology movement as the foundation for a new global imperialism today being pushed under the framework of Cop 25 and the Green New Deal .
Philp and Bernhard were not only co-founders of the World Wildlife Fund in 1961 , but were supporters of the anti-technological growth Morges Manifesto which the WWF credits as the start of the modern green @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the World Wildlife Fund while Prince Philip was President , and later gave the baton over to Maurice Strong .
The Morges Manifesto was the first attempt to place the blame for humanity ’ s ills on the yearning for scientific and technological progress itself rather than the imperial traditions of inbred oligarchs .
A co-author of the Morges Manifesto and co-founder of the WWF was Sir Julian Huxley .
Huxley was a leading eugenicist who laid out the intention for the new imperial movement that JFK rebelled valiantly against in his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible , it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care , and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.
” The fact that dark skinned people are the most ruthlessly affected by de-carbonization schemes and “ appropriate technologies ” like expensively inefficient windmills and solar panels today @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would those founders of the ecology movement , which is today pushing a global green one world government , have wished to see President Kennedy murdered ?
If I said it was because they want depopulation or world government , it would be too simple .
BLESSEDLAND Bird Wind ... Best Price : $ 17.51 Buy New $ 19.99 It were better said that JFK was self-consciously unleashing the innate powers of creative reason as a governing principle of political economy .
He believed in an anti-oligarchical view of humanity as made in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as much repeatedly .
He believed that the human mind could conquer all challenges that both nature , vice and ignorance can throw at us .
JFK didn ’ t see the world through a zero sum lens , nor did he believe in the Malthusian “ limits to growth ” paradigm which his killers promulgated after his death .
In fact JFK argued against Malthusianism by name .
Today , those Green New Dealing technocratic zombies pervasive across the western deep state are horrified to witness the reawakening of JFK ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like China ’ s Xi Jinping and Russia ’ s Vladimir Putin who have created a new paradigm of cooperation , war avoidance , and infrastructure projects under the growing New Silk Road , Polar Silk Road as well as ambitious space projects which are quickly bringing the Moon , Mars and other celestial bodies into the sphere of our economic activity .
It should also be noted that for all of his problems , the embattled President Trump has become the first American president since JFK to seriously challenge the Deep State @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a saner non-interventionist heritage .
Kennedy ’ s revenge can best be achieved if the American people do everything possible to support the fight against this Malthusian cancer and push for America ’ s participation in that new paradigm before an economic meltdown throws America into a new Dark Age .
The author of this paper gave an extended lecture on this topic .
For those who wish to investigate this important matter further , they are invited to watch “ Montreal ’ s Permindex and the Deep State Plot to Kill JFK @ @ @

“Man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe….”
President Kennedy, 1961 Inaugural Address
Where China and Russia are currently leading a new paradigm of cooperation and development around a multipolar alliance, it is too easily forgotten that America itself had once embodied this anti-colonial spirit under the foreign policy vision of John F. Kennedy. Even though the young leader died in office before the full effect of his grand vision could take hold, it is worth revisiting his fight and stated intention for a post-colonial world governed by win-win cooperation. This exercise is especially important now that we are coming to the anniversary of the murder of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
FDR’s Death and the Emergence of the New Rome
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With FDR’s death, the USA began acting more and more like an empire abroad and a racist police state under McCarthyism within its own borders. During this time, those allies of FDR who were committed to Roosevelt’s anti colonial post war vision, rallied around former Vice President Henry Wallace’s 1948 Presidential bid with the Progressive Party of America. When this effort failed, an outright police state took over and those same fascists who had sponsored WWII took control of the reins of power.
These “economic royalists” enjoyed full control as puppet President Harry S. Truman giggled as he dropped bombs on a defeated Japan and happily supported America’s new role as the re-conquistador of nations who sought independence after WWII. While it can’t be argued that the politically naïve President Eisenhower had some redeeming qualities, for the most part, his 8 year administration was run by the Dulles brothers and Wall Street, and it was only on January 17, 1961 that he made any serious effort to speak openly about the military industrial complex that had grown like a cancer under his watch.
A New Hope Emerges in 1961
It was no secret who the outgoing President was warning. Three days after his address, a young John F. Kennedy was inaugurated 35th president of the United States to the great hope of many anti-fascists in America and abroad.
It is too often overlooked today, but JFK’s anti-colonial position was not a secret during his decade as a Senator and Congressman. Even though his family pedigree was stained with mafia and JP Morgan ties to his treacherous father “Papa Joe”, John Kennedy was made of sturdier stuff. Topspeeder LED Solar H... Best Price: $15.47 Buy New $16.99 (as of 06:21 UTC - Details)
Touring Asia and the Middle East in the 1950s, a young Senator Kennedy expressed his sensitivity to the plight of the Arab world and problem of US imperialism when he said: “Our intervention in behalf of England’s oil investments in Iran, directed more at the preservation of interests outside Iran than at Iran’s own development…. Our failure to deal effectively after three years with the terrible human tragedy of the more than 700,000 Arab refugees [Palestinians], these are things that have failed to sit well with Arab desires and make empty the promises of the Voice of America….”
Later, speaking in a 1960 speech regarding ending colonialism in Africa, JFK expressed his understanding of Africa’s demand for genuine independence saying: “Call it nationalism, call it anti-colonialism, Africa is going through a revolution…. Africans want a higher standard of living. Seventy-five percent of the population now lives by subsistence agriculture. They want an opportunity to manage and benefit directly from the resources in, on, and under their land…. The African peoples believe that the science, technology, and education available in the modern world can overcome their struggle for existence, that their poverty, squalor, ignorance, and disease can be conquered…. [The] balance of power is shifting … into the hands of the two-thirds of the world’s people who want to share what the one-third has already taken for granted….”
JFK Battles the Deep State
Wall Street’s Dulles Brothers who together ran the CIA and the State Department had made several major efforts to sabotage Kennedy’s “new frontiers” initiative that gripped the imaginations of young and old alike. Kennedy’s program was driven by large scale infrastructure at home and advanced scientific and technological progress in the Developing sector abroad. Attempting to break that trajectory, Allen Dulles had prepared the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba months before Kennedy entered the scene which was a near disaster for the world. Just days before Kennedy’s inauguration, Allan Dulles ensured that a pro-Kennedy ally who had just recently gained power in the Congo named Patrice Lumumba was assassinated in cold blood knowing that JFK would be blamed, and every effort was made to back up the French fascists trying to stop the Algerian independence movement behind JFK’s back. Both the Cuban invasion and the assassination of Lumumba have been blamed on Kennedy to this day.
In response to this treachery, JFK made the bold move of firing CIA director Allan Dulles, and two Wall Street-connected CIA directors on November 29, 1961 saying that he would soon “splinter the C.I.A. in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.”
Recognizing the insanity of the zero sum Cold Warriors who could only look at the world through the perversity of a Hobbesian lens of “each against all”, JFK not only stood alone against the entire array of war-hungry Joint Chiefs calling for war with Russia during the infamous “13 day showdown” (and parodied by Kubrick’s brilliant Dr. Strangelove), but also took the advice of Generals MacArthur, and Charles de Gaulle who warned him to avoid all entrapments of a “land war in Vietnam”. On this point, JFK introduced NSAM 263 in October 1963 to begin a full withdrawal from Southeast Asia.
JFK’s June 10, 1963 speech What Kind of Peace Do We Seek? Showcased his resistance to the imperialists in America.
What was especially intolerable was that JFK began challenging the fixed rules of the zero sum Cold War game itself when he announced a new mission to put a man on the moon “within the decade”. This would have been tolerable if the effort was kept within a geopolitical ideology of “competition against the evil commies”. But JFK knew better and called for a US-Russia partnership to jointly develop advanced technologies together making the space program a project for human peace. This little known strategic vision, announced in a September 20, 1963 UN speech, shows how an arms race in space, which today threatens the earth, could have been avoided and the Cold War itself done away with decades before the Soviet Union collapsed:
JFK’s efforts to build bridges with Russia were of vital importance as they resulted in the passage of the test ban treaty on August 5, 1963, and hopes were awoken for an early end to the Cold War though the mutual development of the poorest parts of the world. This was “International New Deal” strategy which patriots like Henry Wallace and Paul Robeson had fought for from 1946-1959.
Across Africa, Asia and other former colonies, JFK had worked hard to build relationships with Pan African leaders Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, as well as Egypt’s Gamal Nasser, India’s Jawaharlal Nehru and South Vietnamese President Diem to provide American assistance for the construction of great infrastructure projects like the Akosombo Dam in Ghana, nuclear power in Egypt and Vietnam and steel industries in India. Today the Akosombo Dam stands with a plaque dedicated to the “martyred John F. Kennedy”. As historian Anton Chaitkin proves in his incredible 2013 opus “JFK vs the Empire”, this didn’t happen without a major fight with the JP Morgan controlled steel barons who artificially raised the price of steel in order to make these projects financially impossible. Tortoise Wind Chimes S... Buy New $25.99 (as of 06:21 UTC - Details)
How would these projects be funded? Certainly, Kennedy’s industrial tax credit was a major help, but when it became clear that Wall Street banks, and the Federal Reserve were obstructing the flow of credit for long term development, JFK introduced Bill 11110 to begin issuing silver-backed currency through the Treasury rather than the private central banking system on June 4, 1963 which would have liberated America from private central banking for the first time since 1913.
The Plot to Kill Kennedy
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison famously played by Kevin Costner in Oliver Stone’s 1992 JFK did more than many people today realize in exposing the networks that ran JFK’s murder and subsequent cover-up. Without going into detail of the multiple bullets that killed Kennedy from several directions (especially the lethal head shot which obviously struck him FROM THE FRONT as showcased in the Zapruder film which had been suppressed for several years), let’s look at some lesser known evidence discovered by Garrison.
In his 1991 book “On the Trail of the Assassins”, Garrison wrote of an international assassination bureau named Permindex and the World Trade Organization on whose boards sat CIA asset Clay Shaw (the figure played by Tommy Lee Jones in the Stone biopic). Garrison wrote: “The CIA- which apparently had been conducting its own foreign policy for some time- had begun a project in Italy as far back as the early 1950s. The organization, named the Centro Mondiale Commerciale had initially been formed in Montreal, then moved to Rome in 1961. Among the members of its board of directors, we learned, was one Clay Shaw from New Orleans”. Garrison cited French researcher Paris Flammonde when he described it as “a shell of superficiality… composed of channels through which money flowed back and forth without anyone knowing the sources or the destination of these liquid assets.”
Garrison pointed out that Permindex had been kicked out of Italy, Switzerland and France for good reasons: “As for Permindex… it had, among other things, secretly financed the opposition of the French Secret Army Organization (OAS) to President de Gaulle’s support for independence for Algeria, including its reputed assassination attempts on de Gaulle.”
After naming the other pro-fascist members- many of whom were connected to European royal families and banks, Garrison then pointed to the WTC owner “One of the major stockholders of the Centro was a Major Louis M. Bloomfield, a Montreal resident… and former agent with the Office of Strategic Services, out of which the United States had formed the CIA.”
Bloomfield & the Royal Birth of the Anti-Growth Movement
Since both the World Trade Center and Permindex were owned by Bloomfield, his role in this story cannot be overlooked and takes us straight to the heart of the agenda to kill Kennedy.
Not only did Bloomfield play a key role working alongside Rhodes Scholars in Canada such as Justice Minister Davie Fulton in order to stop continental water projects advocated by JFK and Canadian pro-development leaders like John Diefenbaker, Premier Daniel Johnson and BC Premier WAC Bennett, but he also played a leading role as a founding member of the 1001 Club alongside other upper level managers of the oligarchy like Maurice Strong, Peter Munk (of Barrick Gold), and media Mogul Conrad Black. For those who may not be aware, the 1001 Club was a special Trust set up under Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and Prince Philip Mountbatten to finance the new ecology movement as the foundation for a new global imperialism today being pushed under the framework of Cop 25 and the Green New Deal.
Philp and Bernhard were not only co-founders of the World Wildlife Fund in 1961, but were supporters of the anti-technological growth Morges Manifesto which the WWF credits as the start of the modern green movement. Bloomfield served as Vice President of the World Wildlife Fund while Prince Philip was President, and later gave the baton over to Maurice Strong. The Morges Manifesto was the first attempt to place the blame for humanity’s ills on the yearning for scientific and technological progress itself rather than the imperial traditions of inbred oligarchs.
A co-author of the Morges Manifesto and co-founder of the WWF was Sir Julian Huxley. Huxley was a leading eugenicist who laid out the intention for the new imperial movement that JFK rebelled valiantly against in his 1946 UNESCO founding manifesto when he said “even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.” The fact that dark skinned people are the most ruthlessly affected by de-carbonization schemes and “appropriate technologies” like expensively inefficient windmills and solar panels today is not a coincidence.
Open vs. Closed System Paradigms
So WHY would those founders of the ecology movement, which is today pushing a global green one world government, have wished to see President Kennedy murdered?
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It were better said that JFK was self-consciously unleashing the innate powers of creative reason as a governing principle of political economy. He believed in an anti-oligarchical view of humanity as made in the living image of God and said as much repeatedly. He believed that the human mind could conquer all challenges that both nature, vice and ignorance can throw at us. JFK didn’t see the world through a zero sum lens, nor did he believe in the Malthusian “limits to growth” paradigm which his killers promulgated after his death. In fact JFK argued against Malthusianism by name.
Today, those Green New Dealing technocratic zombies pervasive across the western deep state are horrified to witness the reawakening of JFK’s spirit in the leadership of powerful statesmen like China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin who have created a new paradigm of cooperation, war avoidance, and infrastructure projects under the growing New Silk Road, Polar Silk Road as well as ambitious space projects which are quickly bringing the Moon, Mars and other celestial bodies into the sphere of our economic activity.
It should also be noted that for all of his problems, the embattled President Trump has become the first American president since JFK to seriously challenge the Deep State and attempt to return the republic towards a saner non-interventionist heritage. Kennedy’s revenge can best be achieved if the American people do everything possible to support the fight against this Malthusian cancer and push for America’s participation in that new paradigm before an economic meltdown throws America into a new Dark Age.
The author of this paper gave an extended lecture on this topic. For those who wish to investigate this important matter further, they are invited to watch “Montreal’s Permindex and the Deep State Plot to Kill JFK” below:


lewrockwell--2020-11-23--Anti-Lockdown Protests Across Europe

Anti-Lockdown Protests Across Europe

The mainstream reported “ hundreds ” of protesters , but as pictures plainly show it was more like tens of @ @ @ @ @ measures , economic destitution , and sweeping police powers are evaporating public trust and eroding @ @ @ @ @ Thousands of people protest in Berlin alone .
Police hose “ Corona Deniers ” w @ @ @ @ @ violent confrontations between riot police and protestors France : Fervent resistance in the shape of @ @ @ @ @ the country Italy : Extensive protest all across the country .
Media called it hundreds @ @ @ @ @ Marches occurred in dozens of cities across the country , including Rome , Naples , @ @ @ @ @ says the “ Mafia ” was responsible .

By Robert W. Felix Ice Age Now
The mainstream reported “hundreds” of protesters, but as pictures plainly show it was more like tens of thousands.
Increasingly draconian lockdown measures, economic destitution, and sweeping police powers are evaporating public trust and eroding public patience.
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Germany: Thousands of people protest in Berlin alone. Police hose “Corona Deniers” w Water-cannons
Spain: Barcelona saw violent confrontations between riot police and protestors
France: Fervent resistance in the shape of angry marches through cities across the country
Italy: Extensive protest all across the country. Media called it hundreds, photos show more. Marches occurred in dozens of cities across the country, including Rome, Naples, Genoa and Bologna. Politico says the “Mafia” was responsible.
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Distaff Memo

NEW YORK—Who was it who first coined the expression “ It ain ’ t over until the fat lady sings ?
” The great Yogi Berra got credit for it , but what he really said was “ It ain ’ t over till it ’ s over.
” Well , I think it is all over , although it ’ s going to be dragged out by The Donald , who never knows when to stop .
But as Roger Kimball writes in American Greatness , the fix was in ; that ’ s why the man who lived @ @ @ @ @ @ @ while Trump flew maniacally all over the country rallying the troops .
Apparently the cheating was industrial-scale , and we ’ ll know the final outcome most likely in December .
Still , The Donald ’ s chances of remaining in the Big White Place “ no look so good no more , ” as they say here in the Bagel .
Over on the Upper East Side , where the poor little Greek boy resides , the dearth of preternaturally smooth-complexioned babes is as obvious as the masks worn by women who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ afford a house in the Hamptons .
The so-called beautiful people who first fled the town last March have stayed away , surrendering the Bagel to those huddled masses the Statue of Liberty plaque welcomes .
Dining outdoors at a chic restaurant last week , the crowd looked almost glamorous .
I said almost .
Darkness does wonders , obscuring age lines , blemishes , and crappy unfeminine clothes , but then there are the voices .
Some American women ’ s voices are to femininity what gangsta rap is to Mozart .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ like a hyena being strangled , although I ’ ve never heard such a sound in Africa , but have heard it time and again right here in America .
The # MeToo movement has exacerbated the problem .
Something needs to be done and quick , and it ’ s no surprise so many American men need shrinks and are overweight .
Living with such women takes its toll .
Adam Baker Men ’ s ... Buy New $ 159.99 It was never like this in the past .
As a student @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Richardson in Palm Beach , Mary-Blair Scott and Ellen Hurst in Charlottesville , and tens of others in Paris—oh how I suffer , how I suffer .
Job wouldn ’ t trade places with me .
Les Girls back then were feminine , and there ’ s nothing that makes a woman more attractive than femininity .
There are still plenty of feminine lassies around , and one of them I ’ m particularly sweet on works on the bookish side of the Telegraph newspaper .
She ’ s named after an ancient @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with and turned into a heifer to protect her from Hera ’ s jealousy .
That old lecher Zeus had great taste in women , and Io was eventually restored into a woman and even got to visit Prometheus .
Aeschylus wrote a play about her , Tim Hanbury drinks Stella Artois nonstop as he lusts after her , as do I , and the last thing she sounds like is a hyena being strangled .
Feminine women can be feisty , indomitable , and tomboyish , the latter adding to , not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ frothy verbiage , swear words , and bombast is not feminine , and a voice that grates ruins an otherwise beautiful face .
One of the horrors of modern life is hearing an attractive young woman “ effing ” this and “ effing ” that and saying “ like ” before every word .
I remember once in Paris long ago having followed a beautiful young girl who was dressed to the nines to a Place Vendôme jewelry shop .
She looked at a bracelet but couldn ’ t decide .
I approached @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
She gave me the sweetest almost angelic smile but refused .
Her voice was to die for .
A couple of weeks later I met her at a party .
She remembered .
Her name was Veronique de Pardieu .
Later on she got sick and had a sad end .
The Best of Taki Theodoracopulos

NEW YORK—Who was it who first coined the expression “It ain’t over until the fat lady sings?” The great Yogi Berra got credit for it, but what he really said was “It ain’t over till it’s over.” Well, I think it is all over, although it’s going to be dragged out by The Donald, who never knows when to stop. But as Roger Kimball writes in American Greatness, the fix was in; that’s why the man who lived in a basement remained in the basement while Trump flew maniacally all over the country rallying the troops. Apparently the cheating was industrial-scale, and we’ll know the final outcome most likely in December. Still, The Donald’s chances of remaining in the Big White Place “no look so good no more,” as they say here in the Bagel.
Over on the Upper East Side, where the poor little Greek boy resides, the dearth of preternaturally smooth-complexioned babes is as obvious as the masks worn by women who have stayed behind because they cannot afford a house in the Hamptons. The so-called beautiful people who first fled the town last March have stayed away, surrendering the Bagel to those huddled masses the Statue of Liberty plaque welcomes. Dining outdoors at a chic restaurant last week, the crowd looked almost glamorous. I said almost. Darkness does wonders, obscuring age lines, blemishes, and crappy unfeminine clothes, but then there are the voices. Some American women’s voices are to femininity what gangsta rap is to Mozart. It’s a high-pitched shriek, like a hyena being strangled, although I’ve never heard such a sound in Africa, but have heard it time and again right here in America. The #MeToo movement has exacerbated the problem. Something needs to be done and quick, and it’s no surprise so many American men need shrinks and are overweight. Living with such women takes its toll. Adam Baker Men’s... Buy New $159.99 (as of 06:23 UTC - Details)
It was never like this in the past. As a student I remember enchanting young women like Bonnie Richardson in Palm Beach, Mary-Blair Scott and Ellen Hurst in Charlottesville, and tens of others in Paris—oh how I suffer, how I suffer. Job wouldn’t trade places with me. Les Girls back then were feminine, and there’s nothing that makes a woman more attractive than femininity. There are still plenty of feminine lassies around, and one of them I’m particularly sweet on works on the bookish side of the Telegraph newspaper. She’s named after an ancient Greek priestess whom Zeus fell in love with and turned into a heifer to protect her from Hera’s jealousy. That old lecher Zeus had great taste in women, and Io was eventually restored into a woman and even got to visit Prometheus. Aeschylus wrote a play about her, Tim Hanbury drinks Stella Artois nonstop as he lusts after her, as do I, and the last thing she sounds like is a hyena being strangled.
Feminine women can be feisty, indomitable, and tomboyish, the latter adding to, not detracting from, their allure. Spouting frothy verbiage, swear words, and bombast is not feminine, and a voice that grates ruins an otherwise beautiful face. One of the horrors of modern life is hearing an attractive young woman “effing” this and “effing” that and saying “like” before every word. I remember once in Paris long ago having followed a beautiful young girl who was dressed to the nines to a Place Vendôme jewelry shop. She looked at a bracelet but couldn’t decide. I approached and offered to buy it for her. She gave me the sweetest almost angelic smile but refused. Her voice was to die for. A couple of weeks later I met her at a party. She remembered. Her name was Veronique de Pardieu. Later on she got sick and had a sad end.
Read the Whole Article
The Best of Taki Theodoracopulos


lewrockwell--2020-11-23--Sharyl Attkisson on Media Bias

Sharyl Attkisson on Media Bias

Sharyl Attkisson is an award-winning investigative journalist with uncompromising integrity .
Her latest book , “ Slanted : How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism , ” is scheduled for release right around Thanksgiving , November 24 , 2020 .
In this , her third book , she addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time : media bias and the deterioration of objective journalism — a topic on which she has first-hand experience .
A former anchor at CNN and CBS News , Attkisson now produces her own Sunday television news program @ @ @ @ @ @ @ well as two podcasts : “ Full Measure After Hours ” and “ The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast , ” in which she covers the kinds of stories that mainstream news no longer touches .
Propaganda through media certainly isn ’ t a new thing .
Starting in the late 1940s,1 the CIA ran a well-documented but at the time covert campaign called “ Operation Mockingbird , ” in which they recruited journalists as assets to spread propaganda — news slanted in one way or another .
While the program is always referred to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is said to have been ended in the 1970s,2 evidence suggests it never really stopped .
Slanted : How the News ... Attkisson , Sharyl Buy New $ 28.99 Multinational industries , the drug industry in particular , also has a similar level of influence over content relating to their particular interests .
In 1996 , direct-to-consumer drug advertising was legalized , and as drug advertising became a major income stream for media companies , their reporting on health and medicine became increasingly biased .
The reason is simple .
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” If an advertiser doesn ’ t want the public to know about a particular finding , all they have to do to influence the reporting is to threaten to withdraw its advertising , which will hurt the media company ’ s bottom line .
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Today , the drug industry also controls @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it is funded by Publicis , which is supported by drug companies .
When feeding from the Big Pharma trough , how could they possibly be objective in their fact-checking ?
Reality shows us they can ’ t because they aren ’ t .
The Smear : How Shady P ... Attkisson , Sharyl Best Price : $ 3.49 Buy New $ 9.37 Big Tech companies , of course , are also masters of censoring anything that might hurt themselves or their technocratic allies .
As just one of countless examples , you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mercola.com on Twitter .
First , they added a false warning that made it look like my site contained dangerous malware when readers would click on a posted link .
After a while , they simply blocked the ability to post links to our site altogether .
Stonewalled : My Fight ... Attkisson , Sharyl Best Price : $ 1.25 Buy New $ 9.00 In her book , Attkisson also spends an entire chapter dissecting the highly-biased treatment of President Trump , and how the media have , through their own admission , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consider him “ uniquely dangerous.
” Prior to President Trump , virtually no one in the media would accuse someone of lying .
The standard was to question an individual ’ s statement or point out a discrepancy to another source , but not call it an outright lie , because it ’ s easy to get confused on specifics .
A lie is a very specific allegation that implies an intent to deceive .
Just because you misremember a fact doesn ’ t mean you lied .
The Intimidation Game : ... @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2.01 Buy New $ 9.07 In terms of health , COVID-19 reporting has taken censorship and media manipulation to brand new heights , eclipsing just about all previous efforts .
They don ’ t even hide the bias anymore .
All social media platforms are openly censoring dissenting views about the virus , particularly its origin and treatment .
Even well-respected doctors and scientists have been axed for speaking against the desired narrative dictated by the World Health Organization .
Resistance ( At All Cos ... Strassel , Kimberley Best Price : $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 2020 , the CDC had released data3 showing 94 % of people who had died during the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. died “ with ” the virus , not “ from ” it .
Only 6 % had COVID-19 listed as the sole cause of death on the death certificate .
Hence , the real death toll , those who unarguably died as a direct result of the infection , is only around 10,000 .
“ For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19 , on average , there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death , ” the CDC stated .
This is an important distinction .
Yet mainstream media continues to report that nearly 200,000 have died “ from ” COVID-19 in the U.S , thereby increasing national fear so they can implement their lockdowns and other strategies to limit our personal freedoms and liberty .
When a ‘ Case ’ Is Not a Case The media are also grossly misusing the term “ case , ” in reference to the COVID-19 case load .
A case is a medical term for a patient with a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s not someone who tests positive for antibodies or pieces of viral DNA .
By referring to all positive tests as “ cases , ” they ’ re able to fan the flames of panic , making the situation sound far worse than it actually is .
Many still do not understand that most of those who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 are asymptomatic .
They think these are sick people in the hospital and that rising “ case ” numbers mean there will be a rise in deaths .
Statistics reveal this simply @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there ’ s not a linear correlation between positive tests and deaths .
The clear take-home message I got from reading , “ Slanted : How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism , ” is that there ’ s a profoundly serious problem with most mainstream conventional media .
The obvious question is : Where can you go to get the truth ?
We would like to be informed , but we also want the truth .
We don ’ t have time to waste to be brainwashed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her book , Attkisson lists a variety of sources she ’ s come to trust .
It may be worth getting the book for those recommendations alone .
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Sharyl Attkisson is an award-winning investigative journalist with uncompromising integrity. Her latest book, “Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism,” is scheduled for release right around Thanksgiving, November 24, 2020.
In this, her third book, she addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time: media bias and the deterioration of objective journalism — a topic on which she has first-hand experience.
A former anchor at CNN and CBS News, Attkisson now produces her own Sunday television news program, “Full Measure,” as well as two podcasts: “Full Measure After Hours” and “The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast,” in which she covers the kinds of stories that mainstream news no longer touches.

Slanted Media
Propaganda through media certainly isn’t a new thing. Starting in the late 1940s,1 the CIA ran a well-documented but at the time covert campaign called “Operation Mockingbird,” in which they recruited journalists as assets to spread propaganda — news slanted in one way or another. While the program is always referred to in the past tense, as it is said to have been ended in the 1970s,2 evidence suggests it never really stopped. Slanted: How the News ... Attkisson, Sharyl Buy New $28.99 (as of 05:20 UTC - Details)
“There are all kinds of ways the Intel community has, and can, manipulate the news,” Attkisson says, “but we reached a new level in 2016, 2017, because they don’t even have to whisper in our ear to get us to report stuff. We hired them. Meaning, Brennan, Clapper, Comey — all of them were hired as consultants. They were invited on the news directly.
You didn’t have to put them through a filter and anonymous sources, although plenty of anonymous sources were also used. But daily putting forth their propaganda, much of which, obviously, was proven false, particularly on the Trump, Russia narrative.
But every day, we allowed them to plaster the airwaves, even after they were proven admittedly wrong … After two years of spewing this false information, they’re still consulted by the media. They’re still used. So, it’s so easy for an Intel operation if they wish to use the media towards whatever goal they may have …
I firmly believe that there have been ongoing [propaganda] campaigns that continue today. Maybe separate operations by intelligence agencies and officials to manipulate the news, and certainly have things reported a certain way to try to push for certain outcomes in politics here at home and internationally.”
Big Industry Also Influences the News
Multinational industries, the drug industry in particular, also has a similar level of influence over content relating to their particular interests. In 1996, direct-to-consumer drug advertising was legalized, and as drug advertising became a major income stream for media companies, their reporting on health and medicine became increasingly biased.
The reason is simple. They cannot afford to “bite the hand that feeds them.” If an advertiser doesn’t want the public to know about a particular finding, all they have to do to influence the reporting is to threaten to withdraw its advertising, which will hurt the media company’s bottom line.
Drug companies have also become major sponsors of medical education; thus, doctors are taught to prescribe drugs for all ills, but they’re not taught about the side effects and drawbacks of those drugs.
Today, the drug industry also controls fact-checking organizations such as NewsGuard, as it is funded by Publicis, which is supported by drug companies. When feeding from the Big Pharma trough, how could they possibly be objective in their fact-checking? Reality shows us they can’t because they aren’t. The Smear: How Shady P... Attkisson, Sharyl Best Price: $3.49 Buy New $9.37 (as of 05:08 UTC - Details)
Big Tech — Master Manipulators of Minds
Big Tech companies, of course, are also masters of censoring anything that might hurt themselves or their technocratic allies. As just one of countless examples, you can no longer post a link to Mercola.com on Twitter.
First, they added a false warning that made it look like my site contained dangerous malware when readers would click on a posted link. After a while, they simply blocked the ability to post links to our site altogether.
“This started, and I traced this in my second book, ‘The Smear,’ to Media Matters … the left-wing propaganda group that supported Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and is a big smear organization,” Attkisson says. “They acknowledged going to Facebook about the time when they were worried that Donald Trump was going to get elected.
They really felt that the only thing giving him a leg up, and they still believe this today, is his social media outreach. They tried to think of a way to control, with the kind of social media and news people could get, so Media Matters lobbied Facebook and tried to convince them — and did so successfully — to taking a fact-checking brand-new role that nobody had ever asked for.
We’re not begging for our information to be curated. That was a pretend demand created by the propagandists who wanted to control the information. They had to make us think that we needed a third party to step in and tell us what to think and sort through the information … The fake news effort, the fact-checking, which is usually fake fact-checking, meaning it’s not a genuine effort, is a propaganda effort …
We’ve seen it explode as we come into the 2020 election, for much the same reason, whereby, the social media companies, third parties, academic institutions and NewsGuard … they insert themselves. But of course, they’re all backed by certain money and special interests. They’re no more in a position to fact-check than an ordinary person walking on the street …
They have interests. They make sure certain things are not seen, even if true. And I think this is the most serious threat that I’m looking at right now to our media environment.
I’m afraid that our kids will be telling their kids of a time when you used to be able to go on the internet and find most, any, information you wanted, because we are increasingly being pointed only to that which they, people who control the information, wish for us to see.”
Presidential Treatment Takes on a New Meaning
Stonewalled: My Fight ... Attkisson, Sharyl Best Price: $1.25 Buy New $9.00 (as of 03:30 UTC - Details) In her book, Attkisson also spends an entire chapter dissecting the highly-biased treatment of President Trump, and how the media have, through their own admission, suspended traditional journalistic ethics simply because they consider him “uniquely dangerous.”
“Therefore, you don’t have to follow the normal rules and guidelines when it comes to fair and accurate reporting, which I think is one of the most absurd things I’ve ever heard in my life, from someone in our profession, because the standards exist precisely so that we report on everybody the same way,” she says.
“In other words, using the same standards, whether we like them or not. Particularly, perhaps, if we don’t like or agree with the candidate — that’s when the standards become most important. But you need only look at Politico, for example, during the last election.
I interviewed them shortly afterwards. Someone in charge of some of their coverage … in almost every answer to a question, she brought up President Trump and something negative about him.
One of the things she said was how many lies he tells per minute. She said, ‘We actually had a team that calculated the number of lies per minute that President Trump told.’ And I asked the obvious question, ‘Well, what was that compared to Hillary’s supposed lies per minute?’ And she actually said, ‘Oh, we didn’t have the staffing to do Hillary too.’
Can you imagine a national news organization that purports to cover something fairly and we’ll fact-check the lies per minute of one candidate and not the opposing candidate and pretend that that qualifies as fair news?
I also interviewed some noted liberals who have noticed the same thing: That they look at things from a fair-minded viewpoint and are no fan of President Trump, yet are appalled at how the media has dishonestly treated certain topics and information, which should make everybody wonder, ‘Are we getting the truth when it comes to things that don’t have to do with President Trump?
If the media can report so many things out of context and incorrectly when it comes to somebody they don’t like, what else are we getting that’s not in context or that’s not fully true?’”
The Invention of Lying
Prior to President Trump, virtually no one in the media would accuse someone of lying. The standard was to question an individual’s statement or point out a discrepancy to another source, but not call it an outright lie, because it’s easy to get confused on specifics. A lie is a very specific allegation that implies an intent to deceive. Just because you misremember a fact doesn’t mean you lied. The Intimidation Game:... Strassel, Kimberley Best Price: $2.01 Buy New $9.07 (as of 06:03 UTC - Details)
“[In the book] I talk about the fact that … I know I’ve probably been lied to many times, but I don’t believe I’ve ever reported that somebody lied to me in a hard news report. Why? Well, a lie is a specific thing that requires you to know the mind of the person. And you as a journalist have to withhold, even if you think something is true without the evidence, you really can’t say it’s true.
I’ll use the example I used in the book: Ford and Firestone tires. The executives consistently said there was no evidence that these tires were dangerous prior to the scandal around the 2000 time period where there were a lot of deaths. I had documents from a source that showed this very danger many years before.
It appeared that they were lying, but I didn’t call it a lie because there are many other explanations someone could give. They could say, ‘Well, these guys weren’t there at the time. So, they didn’t know that these discussions had been had. They didn’t have access to the emails, their subordinates didn’t tell them.’ So, you don’t know whether they’re mistaken or lying.
And from a journalistic standpoint, we used to always take the objective road and say something like, ‘Their testimony contradicts the documentary record.’ That’s good enough. People at home can make up their own mind.
But there was a turn taken, specifically, to target President Trump, whereby, the media started frequently calling things that he said, lies — even when there was simply something that was a matter of opinion, or could not be proven, or a mistake, none of which are lies.
The New York Times was proud of this when it did it. And I recount in the book the first time they made a headline where they talked about President Trump lying, and how that was cheered on by others in the media who then followed suit.
They were even cheered on by a journalism professor who wrote a big op-ed about how it was time to stop doing this objective reporting and that we needed to call out President Trump’s lies frequently and often. It’s just, again, from a journalistic standpoint, ridiculous … I think this is a new and dangerous tactic that has really destroyed our objectivity in the eyes of the public. And rightly so.”
Massaging COVID-19 Messages
In terms of health, COVID-19 reporting has taken censorship and media manipulation to brand new heights, eclipsing just about all previous efforts. They don’t even hide the bias anymore.
All social media platforms are openly censoring dissenting views about the virus, particularly its origin and treatment. Even well-respected doctors and scientists have been axed for speaking against the desired narrative dictated by the World Health Organization. Resistance (At All Cos... Strassel, Kimberley Best Price: $21.36 Buy New $12.04 (as of 04:39 UTC - Details)
August 26, 2020, the CDC had released data3 showing 94% of people who had died during the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. died “with” the virus, not “from” it. Only 6% had COVID-19 listed as the sole cause of death on the death certificate. Hence, the real death toll, those who unarguably died as a direct result of the infection, is only around 10,000.
“For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death,” the CDC stated. This is an important distinction. Yet mainstream media continues to report that nearly 200,000 have died “from” COVID-19 in the U.S, thereby increasing national fear so they can implement their lockdowns and other strategies to limit our personal freedoms and liberty.
“I think we need both numbers, in a separate sense, to have perspective and understanding of what’s really happening,” Attkisson says. “And it’s something that very few people have shown interest in … Early on, it was clear … that the primary victims were those with the comorbidities and the elderly population in nursing homes and so on.
But then we sort of lost track of that. And then there seemed to be a propaganda effort to convince people that, initially, after understanding young people were at very little risk of serious illness and death, there seemed to be an effort to convince people that the youth must be very careful. That more young people are dying and getting sick.
I can only guess as to why that’s important to some interests, but I suspect it has something to do with the fact that when the vaccine comes out, the market needs to be aimed.
You can’t rule out young people, you must make them believe they need it, or else you’ve ruled out a huge section of the vaccine market. And they certainly don’t want to make a vaccine that’s not used by a giant percentage of the population. I think they have to create a market. Why do I think this?
Well, I was actually told by a top immunization official for the government, when they learned flu shots are ineffective in the elderly … that the way around that was not to take flu shots away from the elderly — who would think that was dishonest because we’ve been telling it was necessary for so many years — but to convince parents to get their children and babies flu shots so that they wouldn’t ‘carry flu to the elderly.’
I remember him saying to me, ‘The trick is going to be to convince parents to give a vaccine to their children who don’t really need it themselves.’ In other words, for a secondary supposed benefit for the elderly. And darn it, if you didn’t see in the next season, they recommended flu shots for babies and children.
And they didn’t tell anybody at the time that they were doing it because flu shots don’t work in the elderly. They just started telling people that your kids need flu shots.”
When a ‘Case’ Is Not a Case
The media are also grossly misusing the term “case,” in reference to the COVID-19 case load. A case is a medical term for a patient with a symptomatic type of infection. It’s not someone who tests positive for antibodies or pieces of viral DNA. By referring to all positive tests as “cases,” they’re able to fan the flames of panic, making the situation sound far worse than it actually is.
We’re at a pretty scary time when scientists who are experts on these issues fear speaking what they believe is the scientific truth because they’ll be controversialized. ~ Sharyl Attkisson
Many still do not understand that most of those who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 are asymptomatic. They think these are sick people in the hospital and that rising “case” numbers mean there will be a rise in deaths. Statistics reveal this simply isn’t true, and that there’s not a linear correlation between positive tests and deaths.
“There are just so many things that are misreported,” Attkisson says. “But if you try to report them accurately and factually, you get called out by those in the media who either didn’t understand, or are simply so blinded by the propaganda narrative.
The New York Times did this. They actually called me and several other people out as ‘coronavirus doubters,’ although I had never said or written anything that even remotely denies coronavirus or denies the risk of it. But they were working very hard to silence voices who are simply reporting more accurately and with context on what’s really happening.
By the way, when I spoke to some scientists … and I said, ‘Why don’t you speak out or correct what you think is the misconception?’ Separately, several of them told me they feared speaking out publicly because they were afraid they would be labeled a coronavirus doubter, and for fear of contradicting Dr. Fauci.
So, I said, ‘We’re at a pretty scary time when scientists who are experts on these issues fear speaking what they believe is the scientific truth because they’ll be controversialized.’”
Search for Truth and Unbiased Facts
The clear take-home message I got from reading, “Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism,” is that there’s a profoundly serious problem with most mainstream conventional media.
The obvious question is: Where can you go to get the truth? We would like to be informed, but we also want the truth. We don’t have time to waste to be brainwashed by propaganda. At the end of her book, Attkisson lists a variety of sources she’s come to trust. It may be worth getting the book for those recommendations alone.
“I didn’t make a comprehensive list,” Attkisson says. “I’m sure I left many people out, but I tried to point to a few outlets and people, and I consulted some of my colleagues for their recommendations. It’s not an easy answer. There isn’t a place you can go. I can’t say, ‘Watch this news every day or read this publication.’ It’s more granular than that.
You have to find a reporter that you trust on a topic and then chase that reporter around … That’s where I think you can find a segment of truth. And it’s not always, sadly, going to be objective truth.
Some of the reporters I name are coming from the left viewpoint or coming from a right viewpoint, but they have proven themselves to be brave reporters of a particular topic or controversy that I think you can rely on. But it’s just not so simple as it used to be where you could just point to a person or an outlet and say, ‘Watch that, and you’ll get your fair shake at the news’ …
I would say, in closing, that I do think a new paradigm will develop when it comes to news reporting. There are people looking at how news and information can be reported in a way that it cannot be censored by big tech giants, political figures and nonprofits and so on …
I’m told there’s a way to develop a social media platform where you can post freely and also not be subject to censorship. I think things will evolve because people are tired of what they’re seeing. And I hope something really positive, being an optimist, develops out of all of this down the road.”
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