lewrockwell--2020-09-04--As Kenosha and Minneapolis Burn, Millions of Americans Buy Guns

It ’ s increasingly clear to even the average American that if riots come to your neighborhood , you ’ re on your own .
The message received is increasingly be this : if your plan is to wait until the police show up to provide “ protection , ” be prepared to wait a long time .
Consequently , as violence appears to surge in America ’ s cities , millions of Americans have become first-time gun owners .
There are two trends at work which are making Americans doubt that government law enforcement is reliable and effective .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ is witnessing nightly displays of looting , rioting , and general civil unrest .
At the same time , many police officers don ’ t appear particularly able or willing to defend the public against looters and rioters .
Homicide rates in New York , for example , have surged among accusations of a “ police slowdown.
” A number of police departments ( including those in Los Angeles and Atlanta ) are rumored to be using strategies such as the “ blue flu ” in which police personnel pretend to be ill @ @ @ @ @ @ @ favors from lawmakers .
But even when police personnel are able , there are not enough of them in most cases to truly address the ongoing nightly violence in many cities .
And in some cases , elected officials , like in Portland and Chicago , appear uninterested in confronting rioters with much enthusiasm at all .
Hands Off My Gun : Defe ... Loesch , Dana Best Price : $ 2.99 Buy New $ 4.50 It easy to see how ordinary Americans could look on current events with increasing alarm .
On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ murdered by at least one protestor among the many who have been protesting , rioting , and looting in Portland for more than three months .
Two weeks ago , a truck driver sustained serious injuries , also in Portland , when he was attacked by a group of “ protestors ” while reportedly attempting to help a woman who was being robbed .
Last week in Kenosha , protestors were seen attacking a teenager who had been attempting to protect businesses from looting and vandalism .
The teen reportedly opened fire in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a mob threatened restaurant patrons , and in Minneapolis , dozens of businesses have been burned and looted .
But even before the current rash of arson , looting , and violence , the police response to serious crime was never terribly impressive .
For violent crimes , studies have shown police may take up to an hour to respond more than one-third of the time .
( This summer , response times fo rthe NYPD are up by four minutes compared to last year . )
And if one survives an attack @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t assume justice will be done .
Fewer than half of violent crimes are ever “ solved ” in the United States .
According to new estimates from the National Shooting Sports Foundation ( NSSF ) , using the FBI ’ s National Instant Background Check System ( NICS ) , “ there were over 12 million guns bought in the first seven months of 2020—up more than 70 percent over the same time span in 2019 .
This number is likely to include nearly 5 million first-time gun owners so far this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an unsigned editorial at the Wall Street Journal , Grace Canceled : How Ou ... Loesch , Dana Best Price : $ 16.30 Buy New $ 15.75 Gun retailers saw a 95 percent increase in firearm sales and a 139 percent increase in ammunition sales in the first six months of this year compared with the same period in 2019 .
Statistically , it remains unclear that life for the average American is much more dangerous this year than it has been over the past five years .
After all , in 2014 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a 51-year low .
But the American public has never been one to sit back and conclude everything is fine just because homicides are relatively low .
After all , gun purchases were already surging even before the apparent killing of George Floyd touched off a wave of protests followed by riots and looting .
Gun purchases that had been fueled by general uncertainty and anxiety over the covid-19 panic soon became gun purchases fueled by far more immediate fears of violent crime .
Also notable is that many new gun owners are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suspects when it comes to gun purchases .
The NSSF reported that 58 percent of the new firearms purchases were by black men and women , while “ women comprised 40 % of first-time gun buyers.
” Needless to say , these trends are going very much against the grain of the usual narrative employed by gun control advocates , a narrative that generally employs several main tenets we ’ ve seen many times .
They include : Flyover Nation : You Ca ... Loesch , Dana Best Price : $ 1.44 Buy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ provide better protection than a private firearm ever could .
• If you ’ re in danger , it ’ s best to call 911 and then wait .
• If you buy a gun , the gun is more likely to kill someone you love than to stop a criminal .
• America would be safer if fewer people had guns .
• People who buy guns are mostly just right-wing hayseeds .
Hillary Clinton calls these people “ deplorables.
” And while opponents of private gun ownership rarely say this explicitly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is this : only police and military personnel should own guns .
The basic idea here is that private gun owners can not be trusted , and that government officials will keep us safe .
But as so often occurs when there are riots—as happened in Ferguson ( in 2014 ) and as is happening in Kenosha police officers and other government “ public safety ” personnel mostly just protect government property .
The private sector must just fend for itself .
Many Americans appear to have gotten the message .
Note : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ necessarily those of the Mises Institute .
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It’s increasingly clear to even the average American that if riots come to your neighborhood, you’re on your own. The message received is increasingly be this: if your plan is to wait until the police show up to provide “protection,” be prepared to wait a long time. Consequently, as violence appears to surge in America’s cities, millions of Americans have become first-time gun owners.
Government Officials Aren’t Keeping Us “Safe”
There are two trends at work which are making Americans doubt that government law enforcement is reliable and effective.
On the one hand, the public is witnessing nightly displays of looting, rioting, and general civil unrest. At the same time, many police officers don’t appear particularly able or willing to defend the public against looters and rioters. Homicide rates in New York, for example, have surged among accusations of a “police slowdown.” A number of police departments (including those in Los Angeles and Atlanta) are rumored to be using strategies such as the “blue flu” in which police personnel pretend to be ill as a negotiating tactic for obtaining political favors from lawmakers. But even when police personnel are able, there are not enough of them in most cases to truly address the ongoing nightly violence in many cities. And in some cases, elected officials, like in Portland and Chicago, appear uninterested in confronting rioters with much enthusiasm at all. Hands Off My Gun: Defe... Loesch, Dana Best Price: $2.99 Buy New $4.50 (as of 05:14 UTC - Details)
It easy to see how ordinary Americans could look on current events with increasing alarm. On August 29, a man was allegedly murdered by at least one protestor among the many who have been protesting, rioting, and looting in Portland for more than three months. Two weeks ago, a truck driver sustained serious injuries, also in Portland, when he was attacked by a group of “protestors” while reportedly attempting to help a woman who was being robbed. Last week in Kenosha, protestors were seen attacking a teenager who had been attempting to protect businesses from looting and vandalism. The teen reportedly opened fire in self-defense. In Washington, DC, a mob threatened restaurant patrons, and in Minneapolis, dozens of businesses have been burned and looted.
But even before the current rash of arson, looting, and violence, the police response to serious crime was never terribly impressive. For violent crimes, studies have shown police may take up to an hour to respond more than one-third of the time. (This summer, response times fo rthe NYPD are up by four minutes compared to last year.) And if one survives an attack from violent criminals, one shouldn’t assume justice will be done. Fewer than half of violent crimes are ever “solved” in the United States.
Gun Purchases Are Growing
Meanwhile, gun purchases have surged.
According to new estimates from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), using the FBI’s National Instant Background Check System (NICS), “there were over 12 million guns bought in the first seven months of 2020—up more than 70 percent over the same time span in 2019. This number is likely to include nearly 5 million first-time gun owners so far this year.”
Moreover, as noted in an unsigned editorial at the Wall Street Journal, Grace Canceled: How Ou... Loesch, Dana Best Price: $16.30 Buy New $15.75 (as of 05:14 UTC - Details)
The FBI’s most recent gun-sale figures are stunning. They show that in July the bureau carried out 3.6 million background checks, the third highest month on record. [T]his translates to 1.8 million gun sales for July 2020—a 122% increase over July 2019. The 12,141,032 gun sales through this July is just shy of the 13,199,172 sales for all of 2019.
Gun retailers saw a 95 percent increase in firearm sales and a 139 percent increase in ammunition sales in the first six months of this year compared with the same period in 2019.
Statistically, it remains unclear that life for the average American is much more dangerous this year than it has been over the past five years. After all, in 2014, the homicide rate in America hit a 51-year low. But the American public has never been one to sit back and conclude everything is fine just because homicides are relatively low.
After all, gun purchases were already surging even before the apparent killing of George Floyd touched off a wave of protests followed by riots and looting. Gun purchases that had been fueled by general uncertainty and anxiety over the covid-19 panic soon became gun purchases fueled by far more immediate fears of violent crime.
Also notable is that many new gun owners are outside of groups known as the usual suspects when it comes to gun purchases. The NSSF reported that 58 percent of the new firearms purchases were by black men and women, while “women comprised 40% of first-time gun buyers.”
Millions Aren’t Buying the Usual Gun Control Claims
Needless to say, these trends are going very much against the grain of the usual narrative employed by gun control advocates, a narrative that generally employs several main tenets we’ve seen many times. They include: Flyover Nation: You Ca... Loesch, Dana Best Price: $1.44 Buy New $11.99 (as of 05:14 UTC - Details)
Government police agencies provide better protection than a private firearm ever could.
If you’re in danger, it’s best to call 911 and then wait.
If you buy a gun, the gun is more likely to kill someone you love than to stop a criminal.
America would be safer if fewer people had guns.
People who buy guns are mostly just right-wing hayseeds. Hillary Clinton calls these people “deplorables.”
And while opponents of private gun ownership rarely say this explicitly, the sum total of their narrative is this: only police and military personnel should own guns. The basic idea here is that private gun owners cannot be trusted, and that government officials will keep us safe. But as so often occurs when there are riots—as happened in Ferguson (in 2014) and as is happening in Kenosha police officers and other government “public safety” personnel mostly just protect government property. The private sector must just fend for itself.
Many Americans appear to have gotten the message.
Note: The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.
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lewrockwell--2020-09-04--How Many People Have ‘Psychological Covid’?

For months , I ’ ve been laying out evidence that : a new coronavirus was never properly discovered ; the diagnostic tests are therefore meaningless ; and most of the people who are sick are suffering from traditional illnesses which have been re-packaged under the empty umbrella label , “ COVID.
” Of course , most people in the world have a religious belief in the new virus .
And that opens the door to : “ psychological COVID.
” Here is what it can look like .
A person is watching TV for hours .
He ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ public service announcements—all about the virus and the pandemic .
After days and weeks and months of this solid operant conditioning , he ’ s in the COVID frame of mind .
COVID-19 Human Behavior Napoleon , Anthony Best Price : $ 30.79 Buy New $ 19.95 He ’ s IN the context , the box , the pattern , the story line .
He occasionally feels a bit of this and that : a scratchy throat , a sniffle .
So he thinks , “ Maybe this is the start of COVID.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ headache .
He thinks , “ Didn ’ t they say that could be a symptom , too ?
” He takes his temperature .
99.8 .
He tries to remember— “ Isn ’ t my normal always a bit low ?
” He calls his sister and asks her .
She says , “ Yes , you usually came up 98 .
Why ?
What ’ s the matter ?
” “ Nothing .
I had a little cough yesterday , so I took my temperature .
It was 99.8.
” “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CALL THE DOCTOR.
” After talking to his sister , his throat feels raw .
He makes some tea .
He putters around the apartment .
He feels tired .
For a second , a pain shoots up his arm .
“ They said the virus could cause a heart problem.
” He goes to the fridge , takes out half a cake and eats a large slice .
Now he really feels tired , so he lies down and goes to sleep .
When he wakes up , his nose is stuffed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ blows his nose .
He looks at himself in the mirror .
His eyes are a little red .
His face is pale .
COVID-19 and the Agend ... Perloff , James Best Price : $ 15.95 Buy New $ 14.57 He calls his doctor .
A nurse says , “ Well , you might have a few symptoms .
You should come in and get tested.
” The next day he does .
For two days , while he ’ s waiting for the results , he ’ s sneezing on and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He ’ s sleeping more than usual .
His limbs ache a bit .
Is he feeling a chill , or is that a breeze blowing in through the screen ?
If you told him his thoughts and his mindset could be bringing on physical symptoms , he wouldn ’ t believe you .
Every year for the past ten years , he ’ s had at least one episode of cough-sneeze-slight fever , and he ’ s thought nothing of it…but if you reminded him of that now , he wouldn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is different .
He begins to feel fear .
In that state of mild fear , he imagines going to the hospital and being put on a ventilator .
He imagines infecting someone else and being found out .
He imagines dying .
The fear ratchets up .
He sits in front of the TV , hoping to distract himself .
But the commercials show people wearing masks .
The next day , the phone rings .
It ’ s the nurse .
She tells him he ’ s positive for COVID .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ll need to isolate himself for two weeks , and if the symptoms become worse , he should go to Emergency… Now his fever inches over 100 .
He ’ s coughing more .
The Problem of Politic ... Michael Huemer Best Price : $ 28.00 Buy New $ 33.99 If you don ’ t think the mind and thoughts can affect the body , think again .
If you don ’ t think the ability to resist and shake off a concocted story-line is important , think again .
If you don @ @ @ @ @ @ @ official pronouncements is vital… This person I ’ m describing , who has now been tagged with the COVID label , is suffering from NOTHING .
As in : NOTHING .
He ’ s adding up and making up his own story line , which puts him in a hole .
If someone slapping him in the face could wake him up , someone should slap him in the face .
He ’ s just been suckered in , and he ’ s suckering himself in .
“ Sir , you have psychological @ @ @ @ @ @ @ name .
Sucker ’ s Disease.
” The Beautiful Cure : Th ... Davis , Daniel M. Buy New $ 18.00 —Oh but wait…what about the people who are REALLY sick ?
As I mentioned at the top , most of those people are suffering from traditional illnesses that have nothing to do with “ a new virus.
” Give me control of all major news outlets in the world , and venal mouthpieces like Fauci to put on television day after day , and I ’ ll convince the population that pink @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Antarctic , and they ’ re roaming the globe spitting pink poison at billions of victims .
And whatever the symptoms of pink poisoning are supposed to be , people WILL BEGIN TO EXPERIENCE THEM .
“ I saw three panthers this afternoon on my lawn.
” “ They were your cats .
You might recall that your wife , who is divorcing you , had them at her apartment .
She dropped them off in your yard early this morning.
” Before some people jump to erroneous conclusions , let me state @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are people in the world who are actually sick and dying , as always , and most of those who have been labeled “ COVID ” are suffering from traditional diseases , such as pneumonia , TB , flu , other lung problems , etc .
The remaining people who are labeled COVID—you would have to look at these groups , wherever they live , to discover causes , such as : new toxic vaccine campaigns ; new levels or new content of deadly pollution ; pesticides ; treatments with ventilators and toxic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ VIRUS REQUIRED .
Mind control or psychological COVID is its own creature , and it is widespread .
If anyone thinks my use of the term Sucker ’ s Disease is too strong , and is unkind , and I should have called it something like Befuddlement Syndrome , let me point out that , in this situation , being Nice and Polite doesn ’ t cut through the mind control .
In fact , Nice and Polite , as they have spread across society like a moldy blanket , are main components @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the virus story and the consequent lockdowns and economic destruction .
They don ’ t want to make waves .
They want to be kinder and gentler toward Authority .
They want to cozy up to Fascism and cooperate in their own downfall .
George Carlin laid it out 20 years ago : “ What we have now is a completely neurotic population… Where did this sudden fear of germs come from in this country ?
Have you noticed this ?
The media , constantly running stories about all the latest infections – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bird flu – and Americans , they panic easily so now everybody ’ s running around , scrubbing this and spraying that and overcooking their food and repeatedly washing their hands , trying to avoid all contact with germs .
It ’ s ridiculous and it goes to ridiculous lengths… bunch of goddamn pussies !
Besides , what do you think you have an immune system for ?
It ’ s for killing germs !
…Let me tell you a true story about immunization okay ?
When I was a little boy in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we swam in the Hudson River and it was filled with raw sewage okay ?
We swam in raw sewage !
You know… to cool off !
And at that time , the big fear was polio ; thousands of kids died from polio every year but you know something ?
In my neighborhood , no one ever got polio !
No one !
Ever !
You know why ?
Cause we swam in raw sewage !
It strengthened our immune systems !
The polio never had a prayer ; we were tempered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I never take any special precautions against germs .
I don ’ t shy away from people that sneeze and cough , I don ’ t wipe off the telephone , I don ’ t cover the toilet seat , and if I drop food on the floor , I pick it up and eat it !
Yes I do .
Even if I ’ m at a sidewalk café !
In Calcutta !
The poor section !
On New Year ’ s morning during a soccer riot !
And you know something @ @ @ @ @ @ @ risky behavior , I never get infections , I don ’ t get them , I don ’ t get colds , I don ’ t get flu , I don ’ t get headaches , I don ’ t get upset stomach , you know why ?
Cause I got a good strong immune system and it gets a lot of practice… ” A person suffering from self-induced psychological COVID needs to take a sledgehammer to his own complicity AND the propaganda of the State .
Crack the egg and climb out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rappoport

For months, I’ve been laying out evidence that: a new coronavirus was never properly discovered; the diagnostic tests are therefore meaningless; and most of the people who are sick are suffering from traditional illnesses which have been re-packaged under the empty umbrella label, “COVID.”
Of course, most people in the world have a religious belief in the new virus. And that opens the door to: “psychological COVID.”
Here is what it can look like.
A person is watching TV for hours. He’s treated to wall-to-wall news, ads, public service announcements—all about the virus and the pandemic. After days and weeks and months of this solid operant conditioning, he’s in the COVID frame of mind. COVID-19 Human Behavior Napoleon, Anthony Best Price: $30.79 Buy New $19.95 (as of 05:16 UTC - Details)
He’s IN the context, the box, the pattern, the story line.
He occasionally feels a bit of this and that: a scratchy throat, a sniffle. So he thinks, “Maybe this is the start of COVID.” One day, he has a headache. He thinks, “Didn’t they say that could be a symptom, too?”
He takes his temperature. 99.8. He tries to remember—“Isn’t my normal always a bit low?”
He calls his sister and asks her. She says, “Yes, you usually came up 98. Why? What’s the matter?”
“Nothing. I had a little cough yesterday, so I took my temperature. It was 99.8.”
“Call the doctor.”
“I’ll be fine.”
“You don’t know that. CALL THE DOCTOR.”
After talking to his sister, his throat feels raw. He makes some tea. He putters around the apartment. He feels tired. For a second, a pain shoots up his arm. “They said the virus could cause a heart problem.”
He goes to the fridge, takes out half a cake and eats a large slice. Now he really feels tired, so he lies down and goes to sleep. When he wakes up, his nose is stuffed. He walks into the bathroom and blows his nose. He looks at himself in the mirror. His eyes are a little red. His face is pale. COVID-19 and the Agend... Perloff, James Best Price: $15.95 Buy New $14.57 (as of 05:16 UTC - Details)
He coughs three times.
He calls his doctor. A nurse says, “Well, you might have a few symptoms. You should come in and get tested.”
The next day he does.
For two days, while he’s waiting for the results, he’s sneezing on and off. His head is stuffed. He’s sleeping more than usual. His limbs ache a bit. Is he feeling a chill, or is that a breeze blowing in through the screen?
If you told him his thoughts and his mindset could be bringing on physical symptoms, he wouldn’t believe you. Every year for the past ten years, he’s had at least one episode of cough-sneeze-slight fever, and he’s thought nothing of it…but if you reminded him of that now, he wouldn’t pay attention. No, this is different. He begins to feel fear.
In that state of mild fear, he imagines going to the hospital and being put on a ventilator. He imagines infecting someone else and being found out. He imagines dying.
The fear ratchets up. He sits in front of the TV, hoping to distract himself. But the commercials show people wearing masks.
The next day, the phone rings. It’s the nurse. She tells him he’s positive for COVID. He’s infected. He’ll need to isolate himself for two weeks, and if the symptoms become worse, he should go to Emergency…
Now his fever inches over 100. He’s coughing more. The Problem of Politic... Michael Huemer Best Price: $28.00 Buy New $33.99 (as of 04:55 UTC - Details)
Getting the picture?
If you don’t think the mind and thoughts can affect the body, think again.
If you don’t think the ability to resist and shake off a concocted story-line is important, think again.
If you don’t think the refusal to accept official pronouncements is vital…
This person I’m describing, who has now been tagged with the COVID label, is suffering from NOTHING.
As in: NOTHING.
He’s adding up and making up his own story line, which puts him in a hole.
If someone slapping him in the face could wake him up, someone should slap him in the face.
He’s just been suckered in, and he’s suckering himself in.
“Sir, you have psychological COVID. It goes under a better name. Sucker’s Disease.” The Beautiful Cure: Th... Davis, Daniel M. Buy New $18.00 (as of 03:19 UTC - Details)
—Oh but wait…what about the people who are REALLY sick?
As I mentioned at the top, most of those people are suffering from traditional illnesses that have nothing to do with “a new virus.”
Give me control of all major news outlets in the world, and venal mouthpieces like Fauci to put on television day after day, and I’ll convince the population that pink panthers escaped from a zoo in the Antarctic, and they’re roaming the globe spitting pink poison at billions of victims.
And whatever the symptoms of pink poisoning are supposed to be, people WILL BEGIN TO EXPERIENCE THEM.
“Sir, you’re not feeling pink poison symptoms. They don’t exist.”
“I saw three panthers this afternoon on my lawn.”
“They were your cats. You might recall that your wife, who is divorcing you, had them at her apartment. She dropped them off in your yard early this morning.”
Before some people jump to erroneous conclusions, let me state this yet AGAIN: Yes, there are people in the world who are actually sick and dying, as always, and most of those who have been labeled “COVID” are suffering from traditional diseases, such as pneumonia, TB, flu, other lung problems, etc. The remaining people who are labeled COVID—you would have to look at these groups, wherever they live, to discover causes, such as: new toxic vaccine campaigns; new levels or new content of deadly pollution; pesticides; treatments with ventilators and toxic antiviral drugs, etc. NO NEW VIRUS REQUIRED.
Mind control or psychological COVID is its own creature, and it is widespread.
If anyone thinks my use of the term Sucker’s Disease is too strong, and is unkind, and I should have called it something like Befuddlement Syndrome, let me point out that, in this situation, being Nice and Polite doesn’t cut through the mind control. In fact, Nice and Polite, as they have spread across society like a moldy blanket, are main components of the reason why people are buying the virus story and the consequent lockdowns and economic destruction. They don’t want to make waves. They want to be kinder and gentler toward Authority. They want to cozy up to Fascism and cooperate in their own downfall.
George Carlin laid it out 20 years ago: “What we have now is a completely neurotic population… Where did this sudden fear of germs come from in this country? Have you noticed this? The media, constantly running stories about all the latest infections – salmonella, e-coli, hanta virus, bird flu – and Americans, they panic easily so now everybody’s running around, scrubbing this and spraying that and overcooking their food and repeatedly washing their hands, trying to avoid all contact with germs. It’s ridiculous and it goes to ridiculous lengths… bunch of goddamn pussies! Besides, what do you think you have an immune system for? It’s for killing germs!…Let me tell you a true story about immunization okay? When I was a little boy in New York City in the 1940s, we swam in the Hudson River and it was filled with raw sewage okay? We swam in raw sewage! You know… to cool off! And at that time, the big fear was polio; thousands of kids died from polio every year but you know something? In my neighborhood, no one ever got polio! No one! Ever! You know why? Cause we swam in raw sewage! It strengthened our immune systems! The polio never had a prayer; we were tempered in raw shit! So personally, I never take any special precautions against germs. I don’t shy away from people that sneeze and cough, I don’t wipe off the telephone, I don’t cover the toilet seat, and if I drop food on the floor, I pick it up and eat it! Yes I do. Even if I’m at a sidewalk café! In Calcutta! The poor section! On New Year’s morning during a soccer riot! And you know something? In spite of all that so-called risky behavior, I never get infections, I don’t get them, I don’t get colds, I don’t get flu, I don’t get headaches, I don’t get upset stomach, you know why? Cause I got a good strong immune system and it gets a lot of practice…”
A person suffering from self-induced psychological COVID needs to take a sledgehammer to his own complicity AND the propaganda of the State. Crack the egg and climb out and breathe.
Reprinted with permission from Jon Rappoport’s blog.
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lewrockwell--2020-09-04--How Undercover Journalism Turned the Tide in 2016

In mid-October 2016 , while on business in New York , I swung over to New Jersey to visit with my relatives .
At dinner that evening , my brother , then in in the early stages of TDS — it has since metastasized ; pray for him — was gloating over Hillary ’ s impending victory .
I asked my brother if he were willing to bet on it .
He most certainly was .
He was sufficiently confident to give me 7 to 1 odds .
I took it .
Based on what I knew , I would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I had inside info .
Earlier in the day , I had popped up to visit James O ’ Keefe at the Project Veritas offices north of the city .
My timing was excellent .
O ’ Keefe was in the middle of rolling out his “ Rigging the Election ” series of undercover videos .
Adam Schiff ’ s Wo ... Webb , George Buy New $ 6.99 A few days earlier , O ’ Keefe had released as part of the series a video recorded by the irrepressible Laura Loomer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
If there is a ballsier journalist/activist in America , I have not met him .
Today , Loomer is the Republican candidate for Congress in Florida ’ s 21st District .
Loomer caught Alan Schulkin , a Democrat on New York ’ s Board of Elections , in a moment of rare candor .
“ I think there is a lot of voter fraud , ” admitted Schulkin .
“ People don ’ t realize , certain neighborhoods in particular they bus people around to vote.
” When Loomer asked him to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Hispanic , and Chinese .
This was not a lead the major media were prepared to follow up on .
The New York Daily News attacked Project Veritas .
The New York Times did its best to ignore it .
O ’ Keefe ’ s next bombshell was harder to ignore .
A Project Veritas reporter had been posing as a young Democrat organizer named “ Steve ” in Wisconsin and gained the trust of the higher-ups , most notably Scott Foval .
Foval was then deputy director of People for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ TV producer Norman Lear and funded by George Soros among others .
Let ’ s Call Him M ... Webb , George Buy New $ 3.99 Like many campaign strategists , Foval liked to boast .
He began by sharing with Steve the many ways in which Democrats move people around to affect the outcome of an election .
As though speaking to an imagined Republican , Foval claimed , “ Well you know what ?
We ’ ve been bussing people in to deal with you f—— a——- for fifty years and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now.
” Vote fraud is old news , but Foval moved into new territory : a phenomenon he called “ bird-dogging.
” “ You remember the Iowa State Fair thing where Scott Walker grabbed the sign out of the dude ’ s hand , and then the dude kind of gets roughed up right in front of the stage right there on camera ?
” Foval asked Steve .
“ We train our people , and I work with a network of groups , ” explained Foval .
“ We train them up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ situation on tape , on camera , that we can use later.
” Unwittingly , Foval was committing to video the way Democratic operatives were using their own people to foment violence at Trump rallies , for which Trump people were inevitably blamed .

In mid-October 2016, while on business in New York, I swung over to New Jersey to visit with my relatives. At dinner that evening, my brother, then in in the early stages of TDS — it has since metastasized; pray for him — was gloating over Hillary’s impending victory.
I asked my brother if he were willing to bet on it. He most certainly was. He was sufficiently confident to give me 7 to 1 odds. I took it. Based on what I knew, I would have taken the bet at even money. I had inside info.
Earlier in the day, I had popped up to visit James O’Keefe at the Project Veritas offices north of the city. My timing was excellent. O’Keefe was in the middle of rolling out his “Rigging the Election” series of undercover videos.
Adam Schiff’s Wo... Webb, George Buy New $6.99 (as of 05:16 UTC - Details) A few days earlier, O’Keefe had released as part of the series a video recorded by the irrepressible Laura Loomer. Laura was twenty-three at the time. If there is a ballsier journalist/activist in America, I have not met him. Today, Loomer is the Republican candidate for Congress in Florida’s 21st District.
Loomer caught Alan Schulkin, a Democrat on New York’s Board of Elections, in a moment of rare candor. “I think there is a lot of voter fraud,” admitted Schulkin. “People don’t realize, certain neighborhoods in particular they bus people around to vote.” When Loomer asked him to identify the neighborhoods, Schulkin specified black, Hispanic, and Chinese.
This was not a lead the major media were prepared to follow up on. The New York Daily News attacked Project Veritas. The New York Times did its best to ignore it.
O’Keefe’s next bombshell was harder to ignore. A Project Veritas reporter had been posing as a young Democrat organizer named “Steve” in Wisconsin and gained the trust of the higher-ups, most notably Scott Foval. Foval was then deputy director of People for the American Way, an outfit founded by TV producer Norman Lear and funded by George Soros among others.
Let’s Call Him M... Webb, George Buy New $3.99 (as of 04:21 UTC - Details) Like many campaign strategists, Foval liked to boast. He began by sharing with Steve the many ways in which Democrats move people around to affect the outcome of an election. As though speaking to an imagined Republican, Foval claimed, “Well you know what? We’ve been bussing people in to deal with you f—— a——- for fifty years and we’re not going to stop now.” Vote fraud is old news, but Foval moved into new territory: a phenomenon he called “bird-dogging.”
“You remember the Iowa State Fair thing where Scott Walker grabbed the sign out of the dude’s hand, and then the dude kind of gets roughed up right in front of the stage right there on camera?” Foval asked Steve.
“We train our people, and I work with a network of groups,” explained Foval. “We train them up on how to get themselves into a situation on tape, on camera, that we can use later.” Unwittingly, Foval was committing to video the way Democratic operatives were using their own people to foment violence at Trump rallies, for which Trump people were inevitably blamed.
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lewrockwell--2020-09-04--CDC Vindicates Dr. Bukacek, Indicts Itself

At the height of the government ’ s coronavirus lies and lockdowns , 30-year veteran physician , Dr. Ann Bukacek , stood at the podium of Liberty Fellowship and exposed the gross exaggeration of corona death certificates that were being encouraged by the CDC as a way of manipulating public perception regarding the nature and extent of the virus .
She used the CDC ’ s own statements to prove her assertions .
For daring to tell the truth about the coronavirus and the CDC ’ s hype and fearmongering over the virus , a tsunami of hate , vitriol @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at this respected physician ( she has been voted Best Family Physician in the county two years running and three times overall ) at a level most of us can not imagine .
Even many of her peers in the medical profession attacked her mercilessly—some even threatened to get her license revoked .
She didn ’ t flinch .
She has more courage than most men you will ever meet .
Well , hold onto your seats .
A recent report published by the CDC itself totally vindicates Dr. Bukacek and , at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ For the most part , of course , the mainstream media is ignoring the report .
La Jolla , Carter Page : ... Webb , George Buy New $ 2.99 Dr. Annie Bukacek of Kalispell did her best to try warning Montanans that the death rate of COVID-19 was being stretched and contorted by misleading death certificates .
In the article , Montana Doctor Blows the Whistle on the CDC ’ s Manipulated Coronavirus Figures , the Gazette reported Bukacek ’ s presentation which explained that COVID-19 was being placed on death certificates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the deceased had tested positive for the virus and regardless of whether or not it actually caused them to die .
Bukaceks ’ assertions were picked up by the national press and joined a loud chorus of medical professionals around the nation who were insisting that the CDC ’ s figures were skewed .
Largely , Bukacek was slandered in the press in outlets like The Daily Beast , Buzzfeed , and even Rolling Stone for being an ‘ anti-vaxxer ’ and ‘ conspiracy theorist ’ who was ‘ undermining COVID-19 response in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ In a widely circulated video posted on social media , Bukacek cast doubt over official COVID-19 death tolls , saying medical professionals were pressured to attribute non-COVID deaths to the virus.
” For this , Montana liberals who were prone to believe whatever was told to them by Governor Bullock and state health officials and castigate any opposing view as a “ conspiracy theory ” launched a petition to oust Dr. Bukacek from the Flathead County Health Board .
The petition to remove her , which has roughly half the signatures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reads , “ Dr Annie Bukacek has violated public trust by putting her political and religious views ahead of science in regards to the Covid-19 outbreak.
” It turns out , Dr. Bukacek was right all along , and her understanding of science and medicine has been vindicated in the latest report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .
According to the CDC , only 6 % of deaths originally reported as caused by Coronavirus were deaths exclusively caused by Coronavirus .
As Dr. Bukacek warned Montanans from the beginning , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 were in cases in which patients tested positive , but who had other underlying health conditions that actually caused their death .
False Alarm : The Truth ... Siegel , Marc Best Price : $ 12.95 Buy New $ 12.70 While news outlets all across the country are pointing out that the CDC has provided this data , showing that COVID-19 is the exclusive or primary cause of death in only 6 % of the cases ( and has been inflated a whopping 1,567 % ) , it should be noted that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that COVID-19 didn ’ t have a role to play in the other 94 % of deaths .
What it does mean is that patients died with or from other ailments that are far more serious .
Essentially , what the CDC has admitted is that those who have died from heart attacks or the flu were claimed to have died from COVID-19 on death certificates and in CDC reporting , whether or not that was the primary cause of their death ( or necessarily a cause at all ) .
If Montana @ @ @ @ @ @ @ across the United States , this means that approximately six Montanans have died exclusively from COVID-19 .
Meanwhile , Governor Bullock and many local health boards seem to be unmoved by the latest scientific findings .
Did you get that ?
The primary cause of death attributed to the coronavirus has been inflated by a whopping 1,567 % .
And did you hear this ?
“ Essentially , what the CDC has admitted is that those who have died from heart attacks or the flu were claimed to have died from COVID-19 on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whether or not that was the primary cause of their death ( or necessarily a cause at all ) .
” That ’ s EXACTLY what Dr. Bukacek told us back in April .
This local NBC news report states that the CDC is now admitting that only 9,683 people in the U.S. have died exclusively from the coronavirus—NOT the reputed 160,000 plus .
The rest of the deaths had other serious underlying diseases that took their lives .
Fauci : The Bernie Mado ... Ortleb , Charles Buy New $ 5.99 Please @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s own report says less than 10,000 people have died exclusively from the coronavirus .
That fact is a blatant admission that the entire CDC/WHO/medical establishment/White House/congressional/news media corona narrative has indeed been grossly exaggerated and manipulated .
Jordan Hall , Publisher of the Montana Daily Gazette , which was quoted above , gave an excellent summary of “ The Great Coronavirus Panic Of 2020.
” * The government response to COVID-19 has done far more damage than the virus itself .
* Far fewer have died exclusively from COVID-19 than is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had COVID-19 than we were led to believe .
* The so-called “ experts ” who insist we listen to them have been wrong on almost everything from the beginning .
* We self-sabotaged our economy and stripped ourselves of liberty for what amounts to a paper tiger .
* The government now has a far better idea exactly how far they can push citizens before we push back ( and it ’ s further than any of us previously thought ) .
This isn ’ t merely a strategy ; it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a coordinated effort to keep us afraid of this virus and afraid of each other in a way that far surpasses common-sense communicable virus mitigation .
The media , technocrats , and at least half of our politicians want you to remain terrified ( or should I say , terrorized ) .
* Masks are clearly far less effective at preventing the spread of COVID-19 than social distancing ( especially if you are sick ) , but almost all the PSAs from our Nanny State focus on masks exclusively .
I ’ d @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would be no visible reminder in your daily life that you ’ re supposed to be terrified of something .
A VOYAGE IN IMAGINATIO ... Holmes , Dr Joel S Buy New $ 9.95 * In fact , if it weren ’ t for media propaganda and the hysteria propagated by politicians , I submit to you we would not know there was a ‘ pandemic ’ at all .
That ’ s right ; without their fear mongering , we might have noticed nothing but a nasty respiratory bug going around , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a particularly deadly pandemic .
This means it ’ s time for the American people to call the bluff and throw away those worthless masks , forget those stupid social distancing mandates and demand that their State and local authorities give the People their country back .
The CDC has lost all credibility .
There is now no doubt : The CDC is nothing but a criminal cabal of white-coated pimps working for Big Pharma .
Anthony Fauci should go to prison .
Bill Gates should go to prison .
The medical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ along with this fraud should find other work , and the politicians and government bureaucrats who helped shut this country down , who helped destroy millions of jobs , who helped ruin the careers of millions of people and who helped take the homes and livelihoods of millions of Americans should be tarred and feathered and put on a slow boat to China .
And let ’ s not forget a president and Congress that stole over 6 trillion dollars from the American taxpayers—two thirds of which went to their big banker buddies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has the CDC lost credibility , so has the U.S. medical establishment .
Doctors HAD to have known that the narrative was false , but they sacrificed their integrity and honesty and played along—they played along for BIG MONEY .
HCA Healthcare is one of the world ’ s wealthiest hospital chains .
It earned more than $ 7 billion in profits over the past two years .
It is worth $ 36 billion .
It paid its chief executive $ 26 million in 2019 .
But as the coronavirus swept the country @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the company was not providing adequate protective gear to nurses , medical technicians and cleaning staff .
Last month , HCA executives warned that they would lay off thousands of nurses if they didn ’ t agree to wage freezes and other concessions .
Contagion Myth : Why Vi ... Fallon Morell , Sally Buy New $ 22.49 A few weeks earlier , HCA had received about $ 1 billion in bailout funds from the federal government , part of an effort to stabilize hospitals during the pandemic .
HCA is among a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that have received billions of dollars in taxpayer funds but are laying off or cutting the pay of tens of thousands of doctors , nurses and lower-paid workers .
Many have continued to pay their top executives millions , although some executives have taken modest pay cuts .
The New York Times analyzed tax and securities filings by 60 of the country ’ s largest hospital chains , which have received a total of more than $ 15 billion in emergency funds through the economic stimulus package in the federal CARES Act .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ like HCA and Tenet Healthcare , elite nonprofits like the Mayo Clinic , and regional chains with thousands of beds and billions in cash — are collectively sitting on tens of billions of dollars of cash reserves that are supposed to help them weather an unanticipated storm .
And together , they awarded the five highest-paid officials at each chain about $ 874 million in the most recent year for which they have disclosed their finances .
At least 36 of those hospital chains have laid off , furloughed or reduced the pay @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money during the pandemic .
Seven chains that together received more than $ 1.5 billion in bailout funds — Trinity Health , Beaumont Health and the Henry Ford Health System in Michigan ; SSM Health and Mercy in St. Louis ; Fairview Health in Minneapolis ; and Prisma Health in South Carolina — have furloughed or laid off more than 30,000 workers , according to company officials and local news reports .
The bailout money , which hospitals received from the Health and Human Services Department without having to apply for it , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ course , this also means that there is absolutely NO REASON to take a corona vaccination .
None .
Zero .
Zilch .
It means Gates and Fauci are international con men who make P.T .
Barnum look like a choir boy by comparison .
It means that all of these lockdowns , shutdowns , closings and mandates were total frauds .
It means the entire corona narrative is a fraud .
It also means there is something much more sinister at work here .
Planting fear , paranoia and hysteria into the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over a virus that has directly taken the lives of fewer than 10,000 people ( doubtless , the true number of low corona deaths globally are similar to those in the U.S. ) betrays a massive conspiracy to scare the world into total submission and subjugation .
As I have said from the beginning : This is NOT about our health and safety ; this is about our control and enslavement .
NOW WE HAVE THE EVIDENCE .
In Germany , more than 500 physicians and scientists came together to challenge the corona @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lot of evidence that it ’ s a fake story all over the world.
” Also in Germany , Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently rallied with a huge crowd of tens of thousands of German people who were rallying against Bill Gates and Big Pharma .
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke to an enormous crowd in Berlin on Saturday , as tens of thousands of Germans joined forces to protest what Kennedy Jr. referred to as Bill Gates ’ “ bio-security agenda , the rise of the authoritarian surveillance state and the Big @ @ @ @ @ @ @ liberal democracy.
” “ The pandemic is a crisis of convenience for the elite who are dictating these policies , ” said Kennedy Jr. , who praised the huge Berlin crowd for being on the frontline of the fight against global totalitarianism .
From this point forward , anyone who submits to this phony , fraudulent corona narrative is a willing participant in tyranny .
Those who continue to go along with this masquerade need to stop waving the flag and stop singing God Bless America , because they are volitionally submitting to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ SLAVES .
Everyone who attacked and besmirched Dr. Bukacek for her courageous stand should crawl on their knees and beg for her forgiveness .
And those who embraced and promoted the phony corona narrative should publicly renounce this global medical Ponzi scheme and go to work repairing the damage that they have wreaked on our society .
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At the height of the government’s coronavirus lies and lockdowns, 30-year veteran physician, Dr. Ann Bukacek, stood at the podium of Liberty Fellowship and exposed the gross exaggeration of corona death certificates that were being encouraged by the CDC as a way of manipulating public perception regarding the nature and extent of the virus. She used the CDC’s own statements to prove her assertions.
For daring to tell the truth about the coronavirus and the CDC’s hype and fearmongering over the virus, a tsunami of hate, vitriol and personal and media attacks were hurled at this respected physician (she has been voted Best Family Physician in the county two years running and three times overall) at a level most of us cannot imagine. Even many of her peers in the medical profession attacked her mercilessly—some even threatened to get her license revoked. She didn’t flinch. She has more courage than most men you will ever meet.
Well, hold onto your seats. A recent report published by the CDC itself totally vindicates Dr. Bukacek and, at the same time, indicts itself. For the most part, of course, the mainstream media is ignoring the report. La Jolla, Carter Page:... Webb, George Buy New $2.99 (as of 05:18 UTC - Details)
Dr. Annie Bukacek of Kalispell did her best to try warning Montanans that the death rate of COVID-19 was being stretched and contorted by misleading death certificates. In the article, Montana Doctor Blows the Whistle on the CDC’s Manipulated Coronavirus Figures, the Gazette reported Bukacek’s presentation which explained that COVID-19 was being placed on death certificates as the cause of death merely because the deceased had tested positive for the virus and regardless of whether or not it actually caused them to die. Bukaceks’ assertions were picked up by the national press and joined a loud chorus of medical professionals around the nation who were insisting that the CDC’s figures were skewed.
Largely, Bukacek was slandered in the press in outlets like The Daily Beast, Buzzfeed, and even Rolling Stone for being an ‘anti-vaxxer’ and ‘conspiracy theorist’ who was ‘undermining COVID-19 response in Montana.’ Buzzfeed wrote of Dr. Bukacek, “In a widely circulated video posted on social media, Bukacek cast doubt over official COVID-19 death tolls, saying medical professionals were pressured to attribute non-COVID deaths to the virus.”
For this, Montana liberals who were prone to believe whatever was told to them by Governor Bullock and state health officials and castigate any opposing view as a “conspiracy theory” launched a petition to oust Dr. Bukacek from the Flathead County Health Board.
The petition to remove her, which has roughly half the signatures than the petition to keep her, reads, “Dr Annie Bukacek has violated public trust by putting her political and religious views ahead of science in regards to the Covid-19 outbreak.”
It turns out, Dr. Bukacek was right all along, and her understanding of science and medicine has been vindicated in the latest report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to the CDC, only 6% of deaths originally reported as caused by Coronavirus were deaths exclusively caused by Coronavirus. As Dr. Bukacek warned Montanans from the beginning, the rest of the deaths attributed to COVID-19 were in cases in which patients tested positive, but who had other underlying health conditions that actually caused their death. False Alarm: The Truth... Siegel, Marc Best Price: $12.95 Buy New $12.70 (as of 11:29 UTC - Details)
While news outlets all across the country are pointing out that the CDC has provided this data, showing that COVID-19 is the exclusive or primary cause of death in only 6% of the cases (and has been inflated a whopping 1,567%), it should be noted that it doesn’t mean per se that COVID-19 didn’t have a role to play in the other 94% of deaths. What it does mean is that patients died with or from other ailments that are far more serious.
Essentially, what the CDC has admitted is that those who have died from heart attacks or the flu were claimed to have died from COVID-19 on death certificates and in CDC reporting, whether or not that was the primary cause of their death (or necessarily a cause at all).
If Montana COVID-19 rates are largely similar to those across the United States, this means that approximately six Montanans have died exclusively from COVID-19. Meanwhile, Governor Bullock and many local health boards seem to be unmoved by the latest scientific findings.
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Did you get that? The primary cause of death attributed to the coronavirus has been inflated by a whopping 1,567%.
And did you hear this? “Essentially, what the CDC has admitted is that those who have died from heart attacks or the flu were claimed to have died from COVID-19 on death certificates and in CDC reporting, whether or not that was the primary cause of their death (or necessarily a cause at all).” That’s EXACTLY what Dr. Bukacek told us back in April.
This local NBC news report states that the CDC is now admitting that only 9,683 people in the U.S. have died exclusively from the coronavirus—NOT the reputed 160,000 plus. The rest of the deaths had other serious underlying diseases that took their lives. Fauci: The Bernie Mado... Ortleb, Charles Buy New $5.99 (as of 02:55 UTC - Details)
Please let that sink in. The CDC’s own report says less than 10,000 people have died exclusively from the coronavirus.
That fact is a blatant admission that the entire CDC/WHO/medical establishment/White House/congressional/news media corona narrative has indeed been grossly exaggerated and manipulated.
Jordan Hall, Publisher of the Montana Daily Gazette, which was quoted above, gave an excellent summary of “The Great Coronavirus Panic Of 2020.”
* The government response to COVID-19 has done far more damage than the virus itself.
* Far fewer have died exclusively from COVID-19 than is regularly reported.
* Far more have had COVID-19 than we were led to believe.
* The so-called “experts” who insist we listen to them have been wrong on almost everything from the beginning.
* We self-sabotaged our economy and stripped ourselves of liberty for what amounts to a paper tiger.
* The government now has a far better idea exactly how far they can push citizens before we push back (and it’s further than any of us previously thought). This isn’t merely a strategy; it is a test.
* There is clearly a coordinated effort to keep us afraid of this virus and afraid of each other in a way that far surpasses common-sense communicable virus mitigation. The media, technocrats, and at least half of our politicians want you to remain terrified (or should I say, terrorized).
* Masks are clearly far less effective at preventing the spread of COVID-19 than social distancing (especially if you are sick), but almost all the PSAs from our Nanny State focus on masks exclusively. I’d suggest this is because without masks there would be no visible reminder in your daily life that you’re supposed to be terrified of something. A VOYAGE IN IMAGINATIO... Holmes, Dr Joel S Buy New $9.95 (as of 04:21 UTC - Details)
* In fact, if it weren’t for media propaganda and the hysteria propagated by politicians, I submit to you we would not know there was a ‘pandemic’ at all. That’s right; without their fear mongering, we might have noticed nothing but a nasty respiratory bug going around, but it would not have struck us as a particularly deadly pandemic.
Amen, Jordan!
This means it’s time for the American people to call the bluff and throw away those worthless masks, forget those stupid social distancing mandates and demand that their State and local authorities give the People their country back.
The CDC has lost all credibility. There is now no doubt: The CDC is nothing but a criminal cabal of white-coated pimps working for Big Pharma. Anthony Fauci should go to prison. Bill Gates should go to prison. The medical “experts” who regurgitated and went along with this fraud should find other work, and the politicians and government bureaucrats who helped shut this country down, who helped destroy millions of jobs, who helped ruin the careers of millions of people and who helped take the homes and livelihoods of millions of Americans should be tarred and feathered and put on a slow boat to China. And let’s not forget a president and Congress that stole over 6 trillion dollars from the American taxpayers—two thirds of which went to their big banker buddies at the Federal Reserve.
Not only has the CDC lost credibility, so has the U.S. medical establishment. Doctors HAD to have known that the narrative was false, but they sacrificed their integrity and honesty and played along—they played along for BIG MONEY.
HCA Healthcare is one of the world’s wealthiest hospital chains. It earned more than $7 billion in profits over the past two years. It is worth $36 billion. It paid its chief executive $26 million in 2019.
But as the coronavirus swept the country, employees at HCA repeatedly complained that the company was not providing adequate protective gear to nurses, medical technicians and cleaning staff. Last month, HCA executives warned that they would lay off thousands of nurses if they didn’t agree to wage freezes and other concessions. Contagion Myth: Why Vi... Fallon Morell, Sally Buy New $22.49 (as of 04:23 UTC - Details)
A few weeks earlier, HCA had received about $1 billion in bailout funds from the federal government, part of an effort to stabilize hospitals during the pandemic.
HCA is among a long list of deep-pocketed health care companies that have received billions of dollars in taxpayer funds but are laying off or cutting the pay of tens of thousands of doctors, nurses and lower-paid workers. Many have continued to pay their top executives millions, although some executives have taken modest pay cuts.
The New York Times analyzed tax and securities filings by 60 of the country’s largest hospital chains, which have received a total of more than $15 billion in emergency funds through the economic stimulus package in the federal CARES Act.
The hospitals — including publicly traded juggernauts like HCA and Tenet Healthcare, elite nonprofits like the Mayo Clinic, and regional chains with thousands of beds and billions in cash — are collectively sitting on tens of billions of dollars of cash reserves that are supposed to help them weather an unanticipated storm. And together, they awarded the five highest-paid officials at each chain about $874 million in the most recent year for which they have disclosed their finances.
At least 36 of those hospital chains have laid off, furloughed or reduced the pay of employees as they try to save money during the pandemic.
Seven chains that together received more than $1.5 billion in bailout funds — Trinity Health, Beaumont Health and the Henry Ford Health System in Michigan; SSM Health and Mercy in St. Louis; Fairview Health in Minneapolis; and Prisma Health in South Carolina — have furloughed or laid off more than 30,000 workers, according to company officials and local news reports.
The bailout money, which hospitals received from the Health and Human Services Department without having to apply for it, came with few strings attached.
(Source)
Of course, this also means that there is absolutely NO REASON to take a corona vaccination. None. Zero. Zilch. It means Gates and Fauci are international con men who make P.T. Barnum look like a choir boy by comparison. It means that all of these lockdowns, shutdowns, closings and mandates were total frauds. It means the entire corona narrative is a fraud. It also means there is something much more sinister at work here.
Planting fear, paranoia and hysteria into the hearts and minds of millions of people over a virus that has directly taken the lives of fewer than 10,000 people (doubtless, the true number of low corona deaths globally are similar to those in the U.S.) betrays a massive conspiracy to scare the world into total submission and subjugation. As I have said from the beginning: This is NOT about our health and safety; this is about our control and enslavement.
NOW WE HAVE THE EVIDENCE.
In Germany, more than 500 physicians and scientists came together to challenge the corona narrative saying, “We have a lot of evidence that it’s a fake story all over the world.” Also in Germany, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently rallied with a huge crowd of tens of thousands of German people who were rallying against Bill Gates and Big Pharma.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke to an enormous crowd in Berlin on Saturday, as tens of thousands of Germans joined forces to protest what Kennedy Jr. referred to as Bill Gates’ “bio-security agenda, the rise of the authoritarian surveillance state and the Big Pharma sponsored coup d’etat against liberal democracy.”
“The pandemic is a crisis of convenience for the elite who are dictating these policies,” said Kennedy Jr., who praised the huge Berlin crowd for being on the frontline of the fight against global totalitarianism.
From this point forward, anyone who submits to this phony, fraudulent corona narrative is a willing participant in tyranny. Those who continue to go along with this masquerade need to stop waving the flag and stop singing God Bless America, because they are volitionally submitting to their own subjugation. THEY ARE WILLING SLAVES.
Everyone who attacked and besmirched Dr. Bukacek for her courageous stand should crawl on their knees and beg for her forgiveness. And those who embraced and promoted the phony corona narrative should publicly renounce this global medical Ponzi scheme and go to work repairing the damage that they have wreaked on our society.
Reprinted with permission from Chuck Baldwin.
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Bill of Particulars

The few times this Covid-19 year of seclusion that friends have come over for dinner , they ’ re horrified to hear me say that I will do whatever I can to prevent the Democrats from winning the election .
I was never a big thumper for Donald Trump , and didn ’ t vote for him in 2016 ( or Hillary ) , but I will this time .
I ’ m in favor of his policy stands for defending the US border and stopping the flow of illegal migrants , on ending our foolish misadventures in foreign lands @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stranglehold on private enterprise , and on opposing the matrix of rackets that make up the “ DC swamp.
” I admire Mr. Trump ’ s resilience in the face of a relentless assault by “ the Intel Community , ” the DC cabal of Lawfare seditionists , and the despicable confabulations of The New York Times and other media voices-of-authority captive to the Left .
I still view Mr. Trump as the designated bag-holder for the catastrophe of our economic quandary , but his political opponents would surely make things worse with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nanny-state .
Few in any quarter of US leadership understand the long emergency we ’ ve entered , and most who do are too timid to spell out what it will actually require of us in the way of rigor and fortitude .
The Trump Century : How ... Dobbs , Lou Buy New $ 14.99 But here is my bill of particulars against the Democratic Party and what it has come to represent in recent years ( and I write as someone who has remained a registered Democrat since 1972 ) : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it presents as explicit hypocrisy and bad faith .
For instance , their Orwellian insistence on shutting down free speech in the name of “ diversity and inclusion.
” This malignant jive has just about destroyed higher education across the land .
But it has also managed to infect business , government , and the arts , and turned the general population into cowering hostages willing to lie about their convictions to avoid “ cancellation.
” The key to understanding the Democratic “ progressive ” ethos is this : the drive for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ around , to tell them how to think and what to do .
There is an evil purity about the pleasure they appear to take in it , like children who enjoy tearing the wings off flies .
They like to see their enemies squirm and plead in torment before “ cancellation ” makes them disappear from the scene .
They like to extract confessions and apologies , not for the sake of redemption , but as grounds for further persecution .
In short , they ’ re sadists .
They seek to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ civilized life possible and overtly campaign to overthrow science and reason in the name of a new-and-improved form of racism .
Math , history , and literature are too hard because they are products of “ white supremacy.
” Better get rid of all that — and while you ’ re at it , cancel white people on the basis of their sheer whiteness .
Relations between men and women are not difficult enough ; better gin up a campaign of grievance and resentment against men , disable them wherever possible , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America into a nation of pliable eunuchs .
Donald Trump 2020 Hat ... Buy New $ 14.99 Under their banner , anything goes and nothing matters .
Violent anarchy is “ mostly peaceful.
” Looting is a form of “ joyful liberation.
” Anybody ’ s property is just their free stuff .
( What ’ s mine is mine and what ’ s yours is mine . )
Crime is the new entitlement .
Self-defense is insulting to mobs .
Thugs with long rap-sheets are exemplars of virtue and must be honored @ @ @ @ @ @ @ At the official level since 2016 , they ’ ve played out in a set of pernicious campaigns against the public interest and common decency by the self-proclaimed “ Resistance.
” RussiaGate was , in the strict sense of the word , a conspiracy to overthrow a president carried out by a coordinated effort of high-ranking government employees across many agencies , who knew exactly what they were doing .
It was an exercise in perfidy , bad faith , and lawlessness run by the very Department of Justice entrusted with enforcing federal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s clean-up crew fronted by the dishonorable figurehead Robert Mueller .
It remains unresolved due to the tensions in that department and the obdurate resistance of the federal courts — for example in the three-year persecution of General Flynn .
The eventual day that the hammer comes down on the perps of RussiaGate , if ever it does come , will be a moment of historic moral and ethical clarification in this sore-beset country .
The 2019 impeachment fiasco was a parallel ruse run by Representative Adam Schiff , former Department of Justice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Daniel S. Goldman , with help from Resistance intriguers in the National Security Council , Eric Ciaramella and Alexander Vindman , and Hillary Clinton ’ s holdover confederates in the State Department .
Mr. Ciaramella ’ s pretense to be acting as a “ whistleblower ” was a nakedly false act , illegally abetted by Intel Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson , himself a former DOJ RussiaGate player .
It is amazing that neither of these two has been indicted for sedition .
Trump and the American ... Gingrich , Newt Best Price @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Add to these matters the associated misdeeds in the FISA courts , the ridiculous , scurrilous charges against Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh by the mendacious Christine Blasey Ford , the ongoing schemes of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer to rig the vote with unverifiable mail-in ballots , and the wholesale acts against the public interest by Democratic mayors and governors such as Ted Wheeler , Kate Brown , Bill de Blasio , Andrew Cuomo , Lori Lightfoot , J.B. Pritzker , Ralph Northam , Jacob Frey @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Eric Garcetti , Gavin Newsom , Tony Evers and a wider rogues ’ gallery of other Democratic Party subalterns such as Minnesota AG Keith Ellison and NYC education Chancellor Richard Carranza and you have a nearly complete picture of this odious faction .
Finally , add the cherry-on-top : Democratic candidate for president , Joe Biden .
Does anybody still believe he is a plausible chief executive — even in his own degenerate party ?
I doubt it .
Why they engineered his nomination may remain one of the great mysteries of human @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their sadism has turned inward and become a suicidal death-wish .
They are finally so miserably contemptible that they just want to end it all .
Personally , I don ’ t want to see any of these people anywhere near the levers of power in this country .
Quite a few of them deserve to be in jail , and I believe before Mr. Trump ’ s second term is up , they will be — if they don ’ t try to wreck the United States altogether with new treasons in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against them heart and soul , and I no longer care what my old friends think about it .
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The few times this Covid-19 year of seclusion that friends have come over for dinner, they’re horrified to hear me say that I will do whatever I can to prevent the Democrats from winning the election. I was never a big thumper for Donald Trump, and didn’t vote for him in 2016 (or Hillary), but I will this time.
I’m in favor of his policy stands for defending the US border and stopping the flow of illegal migrants, on ending our foolish misadventures in foreign lands, on reducing the government’s stranglehold on private enterprise, and on opposing the matrix of rackets that make up the “DC swamp.” I admire Mr. Trump’s resilience in the face of a relentless assault by “the Intel Community,” the DC cabal of Lawfare seditionists, and the despicable confabulations of The New York Times and other media voices-of-authority captive to the Left.
I still view Mr. Trump as the designated bag-holder for the catastrophe of our economic quandary, but his political opponents would surely make things worse with their crypto-Marxist fantasies of a totalist American nanny-state. Few in any quarter of US leadership understand the long emergency we’ve entered, and most who do are too timid to spell out what it will actually require of us in the way of rigor and fortitude. The Trump Century: How... Dobbs, Lou Buy New $14.99 (as of 05:20 UTC - Details)
But here is my bill of particulars against the Democratic Party and what it has come to represent in recent years (and I write as someone who has remained a registered Democrat since 1972):
When their basic philosophy is not incoherent, it presents as explicit hypocrisy and bad faith. For instance, their Orwellian insistence on shutting down free speech in the name of “diversity and inclusion.” This malignant jive has just about destroyed higher education across the land. But it has also managed to infect business, government, and the arts, and turned the general population into cowering hostages willing to lie about their convictions to avoid “cancellation.”
The key to understanding the Democratic “progressive” ethos is this: the drive for coercion, the wish to push everybody around, to tell them how to think and what to do. There is an evil purity about the pleasure they appear to take in it, like children who enjoy tearing the wings off flies. They like to see their enemies squirm and plead in torment before “cancellation” makes them disappear from the scene. They like to extract confessions and apologies, not for the sake of redemption, but as grounds for further persecution. In short, they’re sadists.
They seek to erase every boundary of behavior that makes civilized life possible and overtly campaign to overthrow science and reason in the name of a new-and-improved form of racism. Math, history, and literature are too hard because they are products of “white supremacy.” Better get rid of all that — and while you’re at it, cancel white people on the basis of their sheer whiteness. Relations between men and women are not difficult enough; better gin up a campaign of grievance and resentment against men, disable them wherever possible, and militate against masculinity per se — turning America into a nation of pliable eunuchs. Donald Trump 2020 Hat ... Buy New $14.99 (as of 05:20 UTC - Details)
Under their banner, anything goes and nothing matters. Violent anarchy is “mostly peaceful.” Looting is a form of “joyful liberation.” Anybody’s property is just their free stuff. (What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine.) Crime is the new entitlement. Self-defense is insulting to mobs. Thugs with long rap-sheets are exemplars of virtue and must be honored in violent rituals of civic destruction.
Those are general principles.
At the official level since 2016, they’ve played out in a set of pernicious campaigns against the public interest and common decency by the self-proclaimed “Resistance.” RussiaGate was, in the strict sense of the word, a conspiracy to overthrow a president carried out by a coordinated effort of high-ranking government employees across many agencies, who knew exactly what they were doing. It was an exercise in perfidy, bad faith, and lawlessness run by the very Department of Justice entrusted with enforcing federal law, including attorney Andrew Weissmann’s clean-up crew fronted by the dishonorable figurehead Robert Mueller. It remains unresolved due to the tensions in that department and the obdurate resistance of the federal courts — for example in the three-year persecution of General Flynn. The eventual day that the hammer comes down on the perps of RussiaGate, if ever it does come, will be a moment of historic moral and ethical clarification in this sore-beset country.
The 2019 impeachment fiasco was a parallel ruse run by Representative Adam Schiff, former Department of Justice lawyer Mary McCord, and Lawfare warrior Daniel S. Goldman, with help from Resistance intriguers in the National Security Council, Eric Ciaramella and Alexander Vindman, and Hillary Clinton’s holdover confederates in the State Department. Mr. Ciaramella’s pretense to be acting as a “whistleblower” was a nakedly false act, illegally abetted by Intel Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, himself a former DOJ RussiaGate player. It is amazing that neither of these two has been indicted for sedition. Trump and the American... Gingrich, Newt Best Price: $15.19 Buy New $18.52 (as of 04:42 UTC - Details)
Add to these matters the associated misdeeds in the FISA courts, the ridiculous, scurrilous charges against Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh by the mendacious Christine Blasey Ford, the ongoing schemes of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer to rig the vote with unverifiable mail-in ballots, and the wholesale acts against the public interest by Democratic mayors and governors such as Ted Wheeler, Kate Brown, Bill de Blasio, Andrew Cuomo, Lori Lightfoot, J.B. Pritzker, Ralph Northam, Jacob Frey, Tim Walz, Muriel Bowser, Eric Garcetti, Gavin Newsom, Tony Evers and a wider rogues’ gallery of other Democratic Party subalterns such as Minnesota AG Keith Ellison and NYC education Chancellor Richard Carranza and you have a nearly complete picture of this odious faction.
Finally, add the cherry-on-top: Democratic candidate for president, Joe Biden. Does anybody still believe he is a plausible chief executive — even in his own degenerate party? I doubt it. Why they engineered his nomination may remain one of the great mysteries of human existence. Except perhaps to speculate that their sadism has turned inward and become a suicidal death-wish. They are finally so miserably contemptible that they just want to end it all.
Personally, I don’t want to see any of these people anywhere near the levers of power in this country. Quite a few of them deserve to be in jail, and I believe before Mr. Trump’s second term is up, they will be — if they don’t try to wreck the United States altogether with new treasons in the November election. I’m against them heart and soul, and I no longer care what my old friends think about it.
Reprinted with permission from Kunstler.com.
The Best of James Howard Kunstler


lewrockwell--2020-09-04--‘Snowden Hails Appeals Court Ruling Slamming NSA Metadata Harvesting as Illegal

The American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) on 2 September lauded the ruling by the US Court of Appeals that the mass surveillance programme conducted by the National Security Agency , including bulk collection of phone records , was illegal .
The ACLU called described it as a “ victory for our privacy rights ” .
Former Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) employee turned whistleblower Edward Snowden responded on Wednesday to a ruling by the US Court of Appeals that the US National Security Agency ’ s mass surveillance programme , including the bulk collection of citizens ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Permanent Record Snowden , Edward Buy New $ 15.32 The programme , believed to have been discontinued in 2015 when Congress passed the USA Freedom Act , had extended beyond the scope of what Congress allowed under a foundational surveillance law , ruled a panel of judges , acknowledging that it was possibly a violation of the US Constitution .
The former NSA contractor tweeted that he had been “ charged as a criminal for speaking the truth ” .
Snowden was referring to the trove of classified intelligence data detailing the sweeping @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leaked in 2013 and for which he is wanted in the US on charges of espionage and treason .
Snowden tweeted that he was now being “ credited ” for his actions to “ expose the illegal spying practices ” conducted by US intelligence agencies .
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had made its ruling , written by Judge Marsha Berzon , on Wednesday , to acknowledge that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act didn ’ t permit the bulk collection of phone users ’ call records .
No Place to Hide : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : $ 2.00 Buy New $ 10.79 The court also upheld convictions of four members of the Somali diaspora .
for sending , or conspiring to send , $ 10,900 to Somalia to support a foreign terrorist organisation , concluding that the NSA ’ s phone record collection was not relevant to their convictions .
The federal appeals court additionally concluded there was no evidence the sweeping surveillance programme resulted in the arrests of any suspected terrorists .
After the NSA ’ s programme to harvest phone records was first leaked by whistleblower @ @ @ @ @ @ @ outrage , US intelligence officials publicly defended it by insisting it had helped thwart terror attacks .
There has been no official comment from the NSA .
After the US Court of Appeals made its ruling , the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) tweeted that the move was a “ victory for privacy rights ” .
Dark Mirror : Edward Sn ... Gellman , Barton Best Price : $ 23.11 Buy New $ 23.08 In June 2013 , Edward Snowden leaked classified material to The Washington Post and The Guardian newspapers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that collected telephone , email and internet browsing data , despite this being prohibited by US law without a court order .
After the revelations and subsequent public outrage , the US Congress passed the Freedom Act in 2015 to significantly restrain the legality of mass data collection .
Since June 2013 , Edward Snowden has been wanted in the United States on two counts of violating the Espionage Act and theft of government property .
Having initially fled to Hong Kong , the threat of extradition to his home country forced him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2014 the whistleblower was granted a three-year residence permit which was prolonged in 2017 .

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on 2 September lauded the ruling by the US Court of Appeals that the mass surveillance programme conducted by the National Security Agency, including bulk collection of phone records, was illegal. The ACLU called described it as a “victory for our privacy rights”.
Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee turned whistleblower Edward Snowden responded on Wednesday to a ruling by the US Court of Appeals that the US National Security Agency’s mass surveillance programme, including the bulk collection of citizens’ phone records, was illegal.
Seven years ago, as the news declared I was being charged as a criminal for speaking the truth, I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA’s activities as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them. And yet that day has arrived. https://t.co/FRdG2zUA4U — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 2, 2020
 Permanent Record Snowden, Edward Buy New $15.32 (as of 11:50 UTC - Details) The programme, believed to have been discontinued in 2015 when Congress passed the USA Freedom Act, had extended beyond the scope of what Congress allowed under a foundational surveillance law, ruled a panel of judges, acknowledging that it was possibly a violation of the US Constitution.
The former NSA contractor tweeted that he had been “charged as a criminal for speaking the truth”.
Snowden was referring to the trove of classified intelligence data detailing the sweeping American domestic surveillance programme that he had leaked in 2013 and for which he is wanted in the US on charges of espionage and treason.
Snowden tweeted that he was now being “credited” for his actions to “expose the illegal spying practices” conducted by US intelligence agencies.
NSA Phone-spying Unlawful
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had made its ruling, written by Judge Marsha Berzon, on Wednesday, to acknowledge that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act didn’t permit the bulk collection of phone users’ call records.
“The metadata collection exceeded the scope of Congress’s authorisation,” the judge is cited by Business Insider as saying.
No Place to Hide: Edwa... Greenwald, Glenn Best Price: $2.00 Buy New $10.79 (as of 12:25 UTC - Details) The court also upheld convictions of four members of the Somali diaspora. for sending, or conspiring to send, $10,900 to Somalia to support a foreign terrorist organisation, concluding that the NSA’s phone record collection was not relevant to their convictions.
The federal appeals court additionally concluded there was no evidence the sweeping surveillance programme resulted in the arrests of any suspected terrorists.
After the NSA’s programme to harvest phone records was first leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013 and triggered public outrage, US intelligence officials publicly defended it by insisting it had helped thwart terror attacks.
“To the extent the public statements of government officials created a contrary impression, that impression is inconsistent with the contents of the classified record,” says the ruling.
There has been no official comment from the NSA.
After the US Court of Appeals made its ruling, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) tweeted that the move was a “victory for privacy rights”.
Mass Snooping Exposed
Dark Mirror: Edward Sn... Gellman, Barton Best Price: $23.11 Buy New $23.08 (as of 03:17 UTC - Details) In June 2013, Edward Snowden leaked classified material to The Washington Post and The Guardian newspapers pertaining to a domestic mass surveillance programme that collected telephone, email and internet browsing data, despite this being prohibited by US law without a court order.
After the revelations and subsequent public outrage, the US Congress passed the Freedom Act in 2015 to significantly restrain the legality of mass data collection.
Since June 2013, Edward Snowden has been wanted in the United States on two counts of violating the Espionage Act and theft of government property.
Having initially fled to Hong Kong, the threat of extradition to his home country forced him to seek refuge in Russia. In 2014 the whistleblower was granted a three-year residence permit which was prolonged in 2017.
Reprinted from Sputnik News.


Systemic Chaos

In the short time since the killing of George Floyd , demonstrations have taken place in all fifty US states .
Riots have occurred in forty of them .
In each of the incidents , many protesters held up signs saying , “ Defund the Police.
” Of course , no one wants to become a riot victim , but in those cities and states that are Democrat-run , there ’ s a bit of a hitch : Politicians must be seen to sympathise with protesters , or they will not appear to be sufficiently outraged by “ systemic racism.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ safety of their constituents and appeasing protesters .
This is not an enviable position to be in ; yet , since most all politicians regard re-election as overshadowing all other concerns , they can be predicted to follow the irrational wishes of the protesters .
Mises on Money Gary North Best Price : $ 7.90 Buy New $ 9.00 Minneapolis , where the protests began , has a population of some 425,000 residents .
Only a small fraction of them actually joined the protest , and in fact , even the Democratic governor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the protestors were from out of town .
There are conflicting theories as to whether these 80 % were actual sympathisers or were hired by heavily funded organisations that hope to create a dysfunctional situation in Minneapolis and other cities in the US .
Not surprisingly , Minneapolis is now the first city whose city council has voted to defund the police .
In place of the police will be a department of community safety that will be staffed with people who have no police training whatever .
There will , however @ @ @ @ @ @ @ health , social services and counselling .
The reader could be forgiven if he is inclined to shake his head and say , “ But the removal of the police entirely won ’ t decrease crime , it will invite more crime .
Don ’ t those on the city council understand that ?
” Well , apparently , yes , they do .
In fact , since they themselves will no longer have the protection of the police , they ’ ve arranged for the city to hire security guards to protect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alone , it has cost the taxpayers of Minneapolis over $ 60,000 to protect council members .
So how can it be that police are not needed by the general public to protect them from rioters and other criminals , whilst the city council members do ?
Well , one member has explained that need , stating that she has no fear from rioters , but that white nationalists have made her fear for her life .
Unassailable : Protect ... Jeftovic , Mark E Best Price : $ 26.03 Buy New $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I think it ’ s safe to say that Minneapolis is in for a crime wave beyond anything it has ever experienced .
Inner cities have a penchant for being breeding grounds for chronic street crime .
And criminals in inner cities have a long-held record for creating as much crime as they can get away with .
The only limitation on the crime level is whatever degree of arrests can be made .
And it may be safe to say that social service counsellors will not be making many arrests .
Those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t live in the US tend to be stupefied by such developments taking place , as the US had , for so long , been regarded by the rest of the world as a paragon of freedom and common sense .
In recent years , however , that perception has been tossed in the dustbin .
We tend to be stunned that such absurdly self-destructive decisions such as the recent one in Minneapolis could take place , and just as stunned that the majority of Americans , who surely have more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ furor .
But this view leaves out an important factor in US political culture .
Beginning in the 1960s , American youth began to take their country in a new direction .
In countless campus demonstrations , they championed causes such as peace and race relations .
This was the baby-boomer generation , and whilst these university students may have been somewhat spoiled and self-focused , they were more numerous than the previous generation and had a huge impact on American society .
Also , truth be told , the concepts of peace @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were laudable and well worth protesting for .
Profiles in Corruption ... Schweizer , Peter Best Price : $ 17.98 Buy New $ 17.99 Indeed , it might be said that it would be perennially desirable for younger people to question the previous generation , and to offer possible alternatives .
Not all would be workable , but it ’ s healthy for the grand social experiment to be questioned periodically .
But , unfortunately , this is not what we ’ re seeing in today ’ s America .
What we ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ correctness – a movement that at first appeared to be relatively benign .
However , from the very first , it contained a telltale dark aspect .
Anyone who disagreed with a tenet of politically correct thinking was shamed and sometimes ostracized .
Of course , our old friend George Orwell warned us of this approach .
He understood that once it took hold – once it had firmly rooted itself in the culture – it would be almost impossible to stop .
“ War is peace .
Freedom is slavery .
Ignorance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Orwell ’ s “ Ministry of Truth , ” which dictated whatever the State decided was true at any given time .
Today ’ s Ministry of Truth actually has several outlets – primarily the twenty-four hour news programmes that repeat the same interpretations of events , ad nauseum .
And it does seem that the result has been that a percentage of Americans have come to accept the often-ludicrous concepts that are put forward by the Ministry .
The Liberal Media Indu ...
Dice , Mark Best Price : $ 15.35 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it ’ s possible for the politically correct but largely non-factual claim of systemic racism to soon be replaced by the very real systemic chaos .
And worse , just as our friend Mister Orwell predicted , the great majority – who thoroughly understand that many politically correct concepts are nonsense – are so fearful of being singled out as not accepting such dogma that they simply remain quiet and allow their once-great country to be converted into a collectivist oligarchy .
Of course , that term may startle some as possibly being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ value freedom and common sense have effectively been silenced , it ’ s safe to say that it ’ s game over .
From that point forward , the political class may pass whatever legislation it wishes , with impunity , no matter how illogical or harmful .
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion : the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases , while the citizens may act only by permission ; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .

In the short time since the killing of George Floyd, demonstrations have taken place in all fifty US states. Riots have occurred in forty of them.
In each of the incidents, many protesters held up signs saying, “Defund the Police.”
Of course, no one wants to become a riot victim, but in those cities and states that are Democrat-run, there’s a bit of a hitch: Politicians must be seen to sympathise with protesters, or they will not appear to be sufficiently outraged by “systemic racism.”
They must therefore choose between the safety of their constituents and appeasing protesters. This is not an enviable position to be in; yet, since most all politicians regard re-election as overshadowing all other concerns, they can be predicted to follow the irrational wishes of the protesters. Mises on Money Gary North Best Price: $7.90 Buy New $9.00 (as of 05:45 UTC - Details)
Minneapolis, where the protests began, has a population of some 425,000 residents. Only a small fraction of them actually joined the protest, and in fact, even the Democratic governor of Minnesota has stated that 80% of the protestors were from out of town.
There are conflicting theories as to whether these 80% were actual sympathisers or were hired by heavily funded organisations that hope to create a dysfunctional situation in Minneapolis and other cities in the US.
Not surprisingly, Minneapolis is now the first city whose city council has voted to defund the police.
In place of the police will be a department of community safety that will be staffed with people who have no police training whatever. There will, however, be people with expertise in mental health, social services and counselling.
The reader could be forgiven if he is inclined to shake his head and say, “But the removal of the police entirely won’t decrease crime, it will invite more crime. Don’t those on the city council understand that?”
Well, apparently, yes, they do. In fact, since they themselves will no longer have the protection of the police, they’ve arranged for the city to hire security guards to protect them. Over the past three weeks alone, it has cost the taxpayers of Minneapolis over $60,000 to protect council members.
So how can it be that police are not needed by the general public to protect them from rioters and other criminals, whilst the city council members do? Well, one member has explained that need, stating that she has no fear from rioters, but that white nationalists have made her fear for her life. Unassailable: Protect ... Jeftovic, Mark E Best Price: $26.03 Buy New $14.95 (as of 05:08 UTC - Details)
Without seeking to be judgmental, I think it’s safe to say that Minneapolis is in for a crime wave beyond anything it has ever experienced. Inner cities have a penchant for being breeding grounds for chronic street crime. And criminals in inner cities have a long-held record for creating as much crime as they can get away with. The only limitation on the crime level is whatever degree of arrests can be made.
And it may be safe to say that social service counsellors will not be making many arrests.
Those of us who are not American and don’t live in the US tend to be stupefied by such developments taking place, as the US had, for so long, been regarded by the rest of the world as a paragon of freedom and common sense.
In recent years, however, that perception has been tossed in the dustbin.
We tend to be stunned that such absurdly self-destructive decisions such as the recent one in Minneapolis could take place, and just as stunned that the majority of Americans, who surely have more sense, would not raise an immediate furor.
But this view leaves out an important factor in US political culture.
Beginning in the 1960s, American youth began to take their country in a new direction. In countless campus demonstrations, they championed causes such as peace and race relations. This was the baby-boomer generation, and whilst these university students may have been somewhat spoiled and self-focused, they were more numerous than the previous generation and had a huge impact on American society.
Also, truth be told, the concepts of peace, racial equality and gender equality unquestionably were laudable and well worth protesting for. Profiles in Corruption... Schweizer, Peter Best Price: $17.98 Buy New $17.99 (as of 03:27 UTC - Details)
Indeed, it might be said that it would be perennially desirable for younger people to question the previous generation, and to offer possible alternatives. Not all would be workable, but it’s healthy for the grand social experiment to be questioned periodically.
But, unfortunately, this is not what we’re seeing in today’s America.
What we’re seeing is the maturation of political correctness – a movement that at first appeared to be relatively benign. However, from the very first, it contained a telltale dark aspect. Anyone who disagreed with a tenet of politically correct thinking was shamed and sometimes ostracized.
Of course, our old friend George Orwell warned us of this approach. He understood that once it took hold – once it had firmly rooted itself in the culture – it would be almost impossible to stop.
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
This motto was created by Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth,” which dictated whatever the State decided was true at any given time.
Today’s Ministry of Truth actually has several outlets – primarily the twenty-four hour news programmes that repeat the same interpretations of events, ad nauseum.
And it does seem that the result has been that a percentage of Americans have come to accept the often-ludicrous concepts that are put forward by the Ministry. The Liberal Media Indu... Dice, Mark Best Price: $15.35 Buy New $16.16 (as of 04:46 UTC - Details)
This is how it’s possible for the politically correct but largely non-factual claim of systemic racism to soon be replaced by the very real systemic chaos.
And worse, just as our friend Mister Orwell predicted, the great majority – who thoroughly understand that many politically correct concepts are nonsense – are so fearful of being singled out as not accepting such dogma that they simply remain quiet and allow their once-great country to be converted into a collectivist oligarchy.
Of course, that term may startle some as possibly being an overstatement, but once those who value freedom and common sense have effectively been silenced, it’s safe to say that it’s game over.
From that point forward, the political class may pass whatever legislation it wishes, with impunity, no matter how illogical or harmful.
As Ayn Rand observed,
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Reprinted with permission from International Man.