lewrockwell--2020-02-22--Bloomberg Flunks Acting School

Bloomberg Flunks Acting School

Good work , Democrats !
In the Las Vegas debate , you blasted every target but Donald Trump .
Instead of quivering in his Gucci loafers , the man who would be king was left dancing on air .
The man who should have been king , newcomer Mike Bloomberg , was left looking like a beaten-up cigar store Indian .
He had not prepped for the debate and failed to dodge the obvious incoming missile attacks on him launched by a hissing Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg .
Many veteran Republicans fear that TV promoter Trump will steamroll Warren @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
They may be right .
Trump had to be delighted by the no-prisoners Democratic debate that bloodied his opponents before he could even get to them .
Bloomberg was totally unprepared for the savage attacks launched against him .
He looked like a neophyte suffering from camera fright .
American Raj : Liberati ... Eric Margolis Best Price : $ 4.99 Buy New $ 10.00 I got a good read on Bloomberg when I had an intimate dinner with him some years ago .
Rather than the stiff , unsmiling man we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in real life Bloomberg is clearly brilliant yet understated , charming , and endowed with a sharp sense of humor and quick wit .
Bernie Sanders , who has three homes , blasted Bloomberg for being ‘ rich.
’ This is a big sin to the Democrats who , like Hillary Clinton , pocketed millions in political support from big banks , unions and businesses under the cover of night or via bogus speaking fees and her fake foundation – a scam emulated by Trump .
The deeply corrupt Democratic National Committee , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vote that blocked Bernie Sanders during the last election .
When news of this scandal emerged , Hillary kicked off the anti-Russian hysteria to divert attention from her chicanery .
Yes , Bloomberg may be the 9th or 10th richest man in the world .
But his net worth comes from ownership of one of our most successful and reliable financial news organizations that he built up from nothing , and that employs important numbers of men and women .
The use of Bloomberg terminals saves forests of trees .
[ War at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Margolis Check Amazon for Pricing .
Ignore Elizabeth Warren ’ s cheap shots about women being called names like ‘ horse-faced lesbians ’ or ‘ fat ’ at his firm .
Many men speak this way to one-another in casual talk .
Women often do the same regarding men .
The answer to this is to totally segregate the sexes , as in Saudi Arabia .
Trying to whip up a war of the sexes is not going to make angry Elizabeth Warren president .
She should stick to her commendable work with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s pretty clear after the shootout in Vegas that Joe Biden has used up his last chance .
Black voters and unions won ’ t save him .
He looked old and very tired .
But not as tired or off the mark as Mike Bloomberg .
By contrast Bernie looked old , to be sure , but was full of beans .
As a foreign affairs specialist , what really dismayed me was that there was only one significant mention of international policy .
That ’ s when the abrasive , loud-mouthed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ name of the president of Mexico .
For God ’ s sake , she on a senate committee that deals with Mexico .
While our presidential debate focuses on overweight women and health care , the US and Russia have come terrifyingly close to open war in the Mideast .
But barely any mention of this in the debates .
Trump and his big money men from New York and Las Vegas are trying to push Iran into an air war .
The US is seeking to overthrow the governments of Venezuela , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Clashes between China and the US are a major danger .
Former defense chief Sam Nunn warns the US and Russia are closer to a nuclear conflict than any time since the 1960 ’ s Cuban missile crisis .
No matter .
Americans want entertainers for their made-for-TV politicians .
Poor , dignified Mr. Bloomberg didn ’ t know he would face professional actors , not legislators .
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Good work, Democrats! In the Las Vegas debate, you blasted every target but Donald Trump. Instead of quivering in his Gucci loafers, the man who would be king was left dancing on air.
The man who should have been king, newcomer Mike Bloomberg, was left looking like a beaten-up cigar store Indian. He had not prepped for the debate and failed to dodge the obvious incoming missile attacks on him launched by a hissing Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg.
Many veteran Republicans fear that TV promoter Trump will steamroll Warren, Buttigieg, Biden and Amy Klobuchar. They may be right. Trump had to be delighted by the no-prisoners Democratic debate that bloodied his opponents before he could even get to them. Bloomberg was totally unprepared for the savage attacks launched against him. He looked like a neophyte suffering from camera fright. American Raj: Liberati... Eric Margolis Best Price: $4.99 Buy New $10.00 (as of 05:35 UTC - Details)
I got a good read on Bloomberg when I had an intimate dinner with him some years ago. Rather than the stiff, unsmiling man we saw on TV in Las Vegas, in real life Bloomberg is clearly brilliant yet understated, charming, and endowed with a sharp sense of humor and quick wit.
Bernie Sanders, who has three homes, blasted Bloomberg for being ‘rich.’ This is a big sin to the Democrats who, like Hillary Clinton, pocketed millions in political support from big banks, unions and businesses under the cover of night or via bogus speaking fees and her fake foundation – a scam emulated by Trump.
The deeply corrupt Democratic National Committee, controlled by Hillary Clinton, rigged the vote that blocked Bernie Sanders during the last election. When news of this scandal emerged, Hillary kicked off the anti-Russian hysteria to divert attention from her chicanery.
Yes, Bloomberg may be the 9th or 10th richest man in the world. But his net worth comes from ownership of one of our most successful and reliable financial news organizations that he built up from nothing, and that employs important numbers of men and women. The use of Bloomberg terminals saves forests of trees.
[ War at the Top of th... Eric S Margolis Check Amazon for Pricing. Ignore Elizabeth Warren’s cheap shots about women being called names like ‘horse-faced lesbians’ or ‘fat’ at his firm. Many men speak this way to one-another in casual talk. Women often do the same regarding men. The answer to this is to totally segregate the sexes, as in Saudi Arabia. Trying to whip up a war of the sexes is not going to make angry Elizabeth Warren president. She should stick to her commendable work with banking and voting rights.
It’s pretty clear after the shootout in Vegas that Joe Biden has used up his last chance. Black voters and unions won’t save him. He looked old and very tired. But not as tired or off the mark as Mike Bloomberg. By contrast Bernie looked old, to be sure, but was full of beans.
As a foreign affairs specialist, what really dismayed me was that there was only one significant mention of international policy. That’s when the abrasive, loud-mouthed Sen. Amy Klobuchar could not remember the name of the president of Mexico. For God’s sake, she on a senate committee that deals with Mexico.
While our presidential debate focuses on overweight women and health care, the US and Russia have come terrifyingly close to open war in the Mideast.
But barely any mention of this in the debates. Trump and his big money men from New York and Las Vegas are trying to push Iran into an air war. The US is seeking to overthrow the governments of Venezuela, Cuba, Syria, and Iran. Clashes between China and the US are a major danger. Former defense chief Sam Nunn warns the US and Russia are closer to a nuclear conflict than any time since the 1960’s Cuban missile crisis. No matter.
Americans want entertainers for their made-for-TV politicians. Poor, dignified Mr. Bloomberg didn’t know he would face professional actors, not legislators.
The Best of Eric S. Margolis


lewrockwell--2020-02-22--School vs. the Gateless Gate: Fixing the Damage

There are indeed , many paths through the gateless gate .
This one is fairly easy — and when we arrive at the fence-line , there ’ s a little trick that will get you through .
For me , it involved dishes – – – We ’ re at the first Way-Stone already – – – The contrast between “ Indian time ” and author Nerburn ’ s succinct “ clock and a paycheck ” marks our path .
But “ Indian time ” isn ’ t unique to “ First Nation ” folks in North America – – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ legal casino in Malaysia at the time , Ghenting Highlands , our group had rented a high-end condo .
The price included cleaning .
About 6:45AM Saturday — approximately two hours after we hit the sack — the cleaning crew — two guys and three girls — rang the bell .
They were from a local family which lived mostly on wild coconuts , mangos , papaya , durian , etc .
— and by hunting a few animals I won ’ t mention .
Almost classic hunter-gatherers — as were we in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t recognized that yet .
The Switch : Ignite You ... Mr. James W. Clement Best Price : $ 17.60 Buy New $ 17.96 They didn ’ t need the money and did cleaning for “ extras ” as they put it .
When and if they felt like it .
In other words , when they were “ damn good and ready.
” This week that happened to be 6:45AM Saturday morning .
Whether we liked it or not .
“ Indian time ” but in Malaysia .
Even though there were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and huge living room , they did an excellent job .
Including our laundry .
They finished in about half-an-hour .
Apparently they really were damn good and ready .
John tipped them 20 ringgit .
And John never tips .
This “ When I ’ m damn good and ready ” attitude still survives , though deeply buried , in certain cultures .
Spanish/Latin cultures for example .
“ I ’ ll do it mañana — tomorrow maybe , but not now.
” And they have a name for the traditional afternoon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with this independent hunter-gather attitude for one of today ’ s mind-numbing pre-singularity largely meaningless jobs doing someone else ’ s work .
Well , it was like that for “ bosses ” during the early industrial age .
A lot of the hires — in the New England textile mills for example — were like the Malaysian condo-cleaning crew .
A little like the Waltons on TV , their families farmed , hunted , gardened , and were largely self-sufficient .
Some of them worked in the mills for entertainment money .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ need the money or the job to survive .
They ran on “ Indian time ” and had the equivalent of what we used to call fuck-you-money .
They could tell the “ boss ” pretty much anytime , “ You can take this job and shove it.
” While this suited the folks operating the looms etc.
, it made life difficult for their “ bosses ” — and for the folks who owned the looms and factories .
And it created a certain balance .
There ’ s something deep and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ between “ Indian time ” vs. our modern “ clock and a paycheck ” mass culture .
The American Indian Movement ‘ s Russell Means dusts off the next Way-Stone – – – It ’ s clear both Russell Means and his American coworkers were doing similar jobs — but clearly experienced them differently .
What causes that “ hated what they were doing ” difference ?
And with that question , we ’ ve stumbled on the next Way-Stone – – – Why is that a Way-Stone ?
Because it ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ take orders ” model that our early 20th Century would-be masters imported into America .
It ’ s appropriately called “ compulsory education ” — and it ’ s why the Truant Officer will visit you if you don ’ t force your children to go .
Do you recognize it now ?
Why did our would-be masters import Prussian-style forced education ?
Those twelve years of training in taking orders from Authority figures ( teachers ) — often called the “ hidden curriculum ” — would go a long way toward fixing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had with those damnably independent workers — nowadays tellingly called “ human resources ” — and used accordingly .
Presstitutes Embedded ... Dr. Udo Ulfkotte Best Price : $ 43.07 Buy New $ 31.52 The so-called “ elite ” — via Theodore Roosevelt ’ s notorious “ Brain Trust ” — were going to do it to all our kids whether we liked it or not .
That should certainly sound radical to a so-called “ free people ” don ’ t you think ?
But now we think that ’ s normal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ voluntary education , ” sounds radical instead ?
Built on that Prussian foundation and fertilized with mostly concocted fear , “ taking orders ” and obeisance to “ Authority ” has replaced freedom — and constant surveillance has become the norm .
Which is exactly what the psychopath/wiindigo/kunlangeta contingent now running things craves .
Especially the obeisance to “ Authority ” part .
This aberration has now become so firmly entrenched in the official American psyche , that we have “ helicopter parenting ” and this : As well explained by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ blog , this over-protective nonsense chills creativity and self-expression by conditioning kids — and everyone else — to think and act as if Authority figures are always surveilling them .
It also prevents kids from learning how to take care of themselves and deal with the experiences and problems of real-life .
Worse , it steals their opportunities to discover their own abilities – – – and develop confidence in them .
This malarkey has gotten so out-of-hand , according to CNBC , it ’ s now necessary to coach some kids how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their device as an interface .
Even setting “ playdates ” for your kids may now be edgy since , compared to what ’ s now considered normal supervision , “ playdates ” are imagined to be “ unstructured.
” And free-range kids are busted for taking walks in the park .
Etc .
For comparison , as a matter of deeply ingrained cultural habit , “ Indians ” — and apparently some Malaysian condo-cleaners — were brought up being individuals , under their own control , making their own decisions — and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – – – On the other hand , American culture — coming from Europe with all it ’ s kings , queens , dukes , and other so-called “ royalty ” — was already conditioned to accept top-down hierarchy – – – control and manipulation by “ elite ” rulers .
And bosses – – – “ It is just the way you were taught to think.
” Where did they teach you to think that way ?
And keep in mind , you don ’ t have to go to government schools @ @ @ @ @ @ @ early America — no government schools — approached 100 % , even functional literacy these days — with government schools — is often barely 60 % .
And another radical idea : According to thrice NY Teacher of the Year John Taylor Gatto , a normal person can learn to read , write and do ‘ rithmetic in about 100 hours — that ’ s about 17 six-hour school-days .
That ’ s less than one school-month .
What are they doing to our kids for the other 107 school-months — which works @ @ @ @ @ @ @ school-time remaining in that twelve-year sentence ?
One candid guidance counselor — Max Williams — confessed to me , “ Our purpose isn ’ t reading , writing and arithmetic , it ’ s to turn children into good tax-paying citizens.
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Samuels Best Price : $ 15.95 Buy New $ 19.95 And here ’ s the next Way-Stone : “ Taking orders ” is unnatural and contrary to human nature .
Like this for example : Is it a big deal to stand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and that type of reaction is just about universal among our small-group ancestors — which pretty much proves it ’ s genetic .
So , in and of itself , “ taking orders ” makes most folks unhappy .
VERY unhappy .
And is automatically resisted .
And congenital .
It ’ s why you — yes you — likely have a problem with Authority .
And should have .
They even have a name for it now : “ Drapetomania.
” And , ignorant of our genetic heritage , they classify @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it Oppositional Defiant Disorder .
That ’ s what American government-form schools were primarily designed to stamp out of those damnably independent potential “ workers ” and “ employees.
” And , using much harsher tactics , “ Indian ” children too .
The Donald articulates the elite viewpoint : “ Getting a job is for losers ; the key is to get other people to work for you.
” –Donald Trump , The Intercept So , in sharp contrast to tribal folks , we are brought up and conditioned to unnaturally “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s bidding — so we ’ ll be good docile little “ human resources.
” And humbly serve our “ elite ” masters for the rest of our lives .
And , unfortunately , not just in factories and/or for corporate profits .
In the military , for example , where , to protect our brother soldiers , we get conned into fighting for the state , killing literally millions of innocent men , women and children , usually in foreign lands , based on lies and/or mistakes .
But killing is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ taking orders and so requires even more stringent training .
“ Cannon fodder ” comes to mind .
So , via Russell Means above , we Prussian graduates do the same job as “ Indians ” but they enjoy it and we hate it .
Because we ’ re not doing things of our own free-will .
You may be thinking , “ The Indians weren ’ t doing things of their own free-will either .
They were taking orders from bosses too.
” If — IF a “ traditional Indian ” a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his own .
To him , the “ bosses ” are just there to help .
The result of that outlook is likely what Ben Franklin noticed – – – And I think I just caught a glimpse of the gateless fence-line showing over the next ridge – – – This all fertilized America for the 1960s invasion of the gurus .
Some could see “ our ” problem clearly .
And gave us this parable : And so we ’ ve finally reached the fence-line .
We ’ re almost ready to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you can see , all that mass-culture take-orders B.S .
has blocked-up the gateless gate – – – After ~12 years of Prussian-inspired conditioning — and a life-time of immersion in wage-slave , tax-slave mass culture and its propaganda — you have likely but unknowingly internalized “ taking orders.
” Unknowingly , you likely do the equivalent of “ giving yourself orders.
” You may subliminally feel as if you ’ re on a clock-and-a-paycheck 24/7 .
This is most noticable when you ’ re trying to force yourself to do things you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do .
And , like the accomplished drapetomaniac you are , you appropriately resist , revolt , and/or rebel !
So , to get through the gateless gate , it ’ s necessary to liberate yourself from orders , especially from orders you give yourself .
Like this : Pick something you really don ’ t like to do .
Cut the grass ?
Wash the dishes ?
Do the laundry ?
Clean out the garage ?
Come on , you know what it is .
Now don ’ t do it .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ want to do it .
Not HAVE TO do it , WANT TO do it .
REALLY WANT TO DO IT .
If you ’ ve got a partner , you may have to get their co-operation .
Explain what you ’ re doing — or more likely not doing — and make sure they won ’ t interfere , either by covering for you or bugging you .
No cheating now .
This is a serious exercise , and not as easy as it sounds .
You can ’ t allow yourself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hood-winked by those old long-established slave-culture habits .
Those will try to make you do it before you want to .
The trick is learning to recognize the difference .
If you ’ re not absolutely sure you WANT TO , wait longer — wait until you REALLY want to .
Yes , if you do it right , that WILL happen .
My path was to not wash the dishes .
This was in an older Vegas apartment without a dishwasher .
Once all the dishes were dirty , my usual M.O @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( s ) I needed for the current meal .
I ’ m still expert at using very few dishes , a valuable skill in itself .
And yes , you can sometimes get away with washing only one side .
Once I accepted that I didn ’ t have to wash ’ em — and stopped trying to force myself — it only took about two days to start looking at the dishes and wishing they were clean and put away .
About the third day , I realized that indeed I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and after about an hour of marveling at this odd sensation , I took care of it .
Haven ’ t had a dish-washing problem since .
Usually , when on my own , I do ’ em after every meal or in spare moments while I ’ m waiting for the burger to brown , etc .
Because I want to .
Once you ’ ve mastered this trick , you neither “ take orders ” — nor give them to yourself .
You accept your drapetomania as completely normal .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Indians ” — and perhaps a few Malaysian condo-cleaners — If — IF you a “ job , ” you make it your own .
And , like the Happy Buddah , you do the same things you did before but now you do them because you want to and choose to not because you have to .
And so you do them quickly and well .
And maybe get tipped .
Despite mañana and siesta , your chosen work still gets done .
And , like Russell Means and “ traditional Indians @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And maybe it isn ’ t “ work ” anymore – – – And so , as you exit stage left , you ’ re smiling all the way too .
This simple exercise is a window into how modern mass culture has twisted us against our true nature .
We have been so deeply programmed and conditioned to accept “ Have to , ” hierarchy — and it ’ s handmaiden , “ Authority , ” — most of us think it ’ s normal .
Even after many decades , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and then that it isn ’ t .
When your mind switches out of “ have to ” “ take orders ” mode and back to normal genetic hard-wired “ want to ” mode , it ’ s strange and noticeable , especially the first time .
The feeling of release — maybe even euphoria — is hard to describe .
But don ’ t take my word for it , see for yourself .
It ’ s something you probably won ’ t forget .
And shouldn ’ t .
But might @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have all those bad habits to overcome .
Most folks even eat and sleep defined by a clock-and-a-paycheck — which is why they can sell all those sleeping pills — and 5-Hour Energy .
Once you pass through the gateless gate , though , you ’ re at odds with the wage-and-tax-slave mass culture we ’ ve been conned into , almost since birth .
Certainly at least since your first day at “ Pre-K ” or Kindergarten — where the hidden curriculum first began to shape you into a good little tax-paying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just the way you were taught to think , ” remember — in order to keep Napoleon from defeating the Prussians again .
But don ’ t worry too much — becoming an individual is good not bad .
It ’ s the ancestral way .
And if it didn ’ t work extremely well , our ancestors wouldn ’ t have survived and we wouldn ’ t be here .
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There are indeed, many paths through the gateless gate. This one is fairly easy — and when we arrive at the fence-line, there’s a little trick that will get you through. For me, it involved dishes – – –
We’re at the first Way-Stone already – – –
“‘You know what Indian time means?’ [an Ojibwe tribal leader] had responded in a session with local college students. ‘It means, ‘When I’m damn good and ready.’ The old man was operating on Indian time. I was still operating on a clock and a paycheck.” –Kent Nerburn, Neither Wolf nor Dog
The contrast between “Indian time” and author Nerburn’s succinct “clock and a paycheck” marks our path. But “Indian time” isn’t unique to “First Nation” folks in North America – – –
For our sortie into the only legal casino in Malaysia at the time, Ghenting Highlands, our group had rented a high-end condo. The price included cleaning.
About 6:45AM Saturday — approximately two hours after we hit the sack — the cleaning crew — two guys and three girls — rang the bell.
They were from a local family which lived mostly on wild coconuts, mangos, papaya, durian, etc. — and by hunting a few animals I won’t mention. Almost classic hunter-gatherers — as were we in a sense, but I hadn’t recognized that yet. The Switch: Ignite You... Mr. James W. Clement Best Price: $17.60 Buy New $17.96 (as of 10:54 UTC - Details)
They didn’t need the money and did cleaning for “extras” as they put it. When and if they felt like it. In other words, when they were “damn good and ready.”
This week that happened to be 6:45AM Saturday morning. Whether we liked it or not. “Indian time” but in Malaysia.
Even though there were three bedrooms, kitchen, two baths and huge living room, they did an excellent job. Including our laundry. They finished in about half-an-hour. Apparently they really were damn good and ready.
John tipped them 20 ringgit. And John never tips.
This “When I’m damn good and ready” attitude still survives, though deeply buried, in certain cultures. Spanish/Latin cultures for example. “I’ll do it mañana — tomorrow maybe, but not now.” And they have a name for the traditional afternoon nap. Siesta.
Imagine hiring someone with this independent hunter-gather attitude for one of today’s mind-numbing pre-singularity largely meaningless jobs doing someone else’s work.
Well, it was like that for “bosses” during the early industrial age. A lot of the hires — in the New England textile mills for example — were like the Malaysian condo-cleaning crew. A little like the Waltons on TV, their families farmed, hunted, gardened, and were largely self-sufficient. Some of them worked in the mills for entertainment money. Sometimes. They didn’t really need the money or the job to survive.
They ran on “Indian time” and had the equivalent of what we used to call fuck-you-money. They could tell the “boss” pretty much anytime, “You can take this job and shove it.”
While this suited the folks operating the looms etc., it made life difficult for their “bosses” — and for the folks who owned the looms and factories. And it created a certain balance.
There’s something deep and psychological to be learned from this contrast between “Indian time” vs. our modern “clock and a paycheck” mass culture.
The American Indian Movement‘s Russell Means dusts off the next Way-Stone – – –
By then, I was beginning to form an opinion about working in America. Most of my jobs were fun and there were many wonderful people among my coworkers, yet so many of them were unhappy. They couldn’t wait for the whistle to blow at the end of the day. Too many of them absolutely hated what they were doing… I thought, what a weird way to live. –Russell Means, Where White Men Fear to Tread
It’s clear both Russell Means and his American coworkers were doing similar jobs — but clearly experienced them differently.
What causes that “hated what they were doing” difference?
And with that question, we’ve stumbled on the next Way-Stone – – –
“Almost immediately after the Prussian government lost the battle of Jena to Napoleon, a German philosopher named Fichte delivered his famous “Address to the German Nation”…. In effect he told the Prussian people …that the nation would have to shape up through a new Utopian institution of forced schooling in which everyone would learn to take orders.” –New York Teacher of the Year John Taylor Gatto
Translation: They needed good obedient cannon fodder.
Why is that a Way-Stone?
Because it’s the Prussian “forced schooling” “take orders” model that our early 20th Century would-be masters imported into America. It’s appropriately called “compulsory education” — and it’s why the Truant Officer will visit you if you don’t force your children to go. Do you recognize it now?
Why did our would-be masters import Prussian-style forced education?
Those twelve years of training in taking orders from Authority figures (teachers) — often called the “hidden curriculum” — would go a long way toward fixing the problem the bosses and factory owners had with those damnably independent workers — nowadays tellingly called “human resources” — and used accordingly. Presstitutes Embedded ... Ulfkotte, Dr. Udo Best Price: $38.43 Buy New $34.09 (as of 11:15 UTC - Details)
The so-called “elite” — via Theodore Roosevelt’s notorious “Brain Trust” — were going to do it to all our kids whether we liked it or not. That should certainly sound radical to a so-called “free people” don’t you think? But now we think that’s normal. Why is it that the opposite, “voluntary education,” sounds radical instead?
Built on that Prussian foundation and fertilized with mostly concocted fear, “taking orders” and obeisance to “Authority” has replaced freedom — and constant surveillance has become the norm. Which is exactly what the psychopath/wiindigo/kunlangeta contingent now running things craves. Especially the obeisance to “Authority” part.
This aberration has now become so firmly entrenched in the official American psyche, that we have “helicopter parenting” and this:
As well explained by Lenore Skenazy in her Free Range Kids blog, this over-protective nonsense chills creativity and self-expression by conditioning kids — and everyone else — to think and act as if Authority figures are always surveilling them. It also prevents kids from learning how to take care of themselves and deal with the experiences and problems of real-life. Worse, it steals their opportunities to discover their own abilities – – – and develop confidence in them.
This malarkey has gotten so out-of-hand, according to CNBC, it’s now necessary to coach some kids how to talk to others face-to-face — without their device as an interface. Even setting “playdates” for your kids may now be edgy since, compared to what’s now considered normal supervision, “playdates” are imagined to be “unstructured.” And free-range kids are busted for taking walks in the park. Etc.
For comparison, as a matter of deeply ingrained cultural habit, “Indians” — and apparently some Malaysian condo-cleaners — were brought up being individuals, under their own control, making their own decisions — and not taking orders. Starting in childhood – – –
[American] Indian parents often will not make decisions for their children until they have determined what the children want. Sometimes they will permit youngsters to do things which they know are not good for them simply because they believe in allowing children to make decisions for themselves. –James E. Officer, Journal of American Indian Education, October 1963,
On the other hand, American culture — coming from Europe with all it’s kings, queens, dukes, and other so-called “royalty” — was already conditioned to accept top-down hierarchy – – – control and manipulation by “elite” rulers. And bosses – – –
“The white world puts all the power at the top, Nerburn. …When your people first came to our land they were trying to get away from those people at the top. But they still thought the same, and soon there were new people at the top in the new country. It is just the way you were taught to think.” –Lakota elder Dan, Kent Nerburn, Neither Wolf nor Dog
“It is just the way you were taught to think.”
Where did they teach you to think that way?
And keep in mind, you don’t have to go to government schools to learn things. While literacy in early America — no government schools — approached 100%, even functional literacy these days — with government schools — is often barely 60%.
And another radical idea: According to thrice NY Teacher of the Year John Taylor Gatto, a normal person can learn to read, write and do ‘rithmetic in about 100 hours — that’s about 17 six-hour school-days. That’s less than one school-month. What are they doing to our kids for the other 107 school-months — which works out to be 99.07% of the school-time remaining in that twelve-year sentence?
One candid guidance counselor — Max Williams — confessed to me, “Our purpose isn’t reading, writing and arithmetic, it’s to turn children into good tax-paying citizens.” Killing History: The F... Mr. L.K. Samuels Best Price: $15.95 Buy New $19.95 (as of 12:00 UTC - Details)
And here’s the next Way-Stone: “Taking orders” is unnatural and contrary to human nature. Like this for example:
Briggs tells us in detail how religious services were conducted in iglus [igloos] and how Inuttiag (in the role of religious coordinator) tried at certain points to get his tiny congregation to stand. The community initially conformed, but then more and more people began to disregard his orders until the majority were ignoring him. At that point, he simply stopped trying to command them. (Boehm 1999:54)
Is it a big deal to stand on cue during church services? Yes, and that type of reaction is just about universal among our small-group ancestors — which pretty much proves it’s genetic.
So, in and of itself, “taking orders” makes most folks unhappy. VERY unhappy. And is automatically resisted. And congenital. It’s why you — yes you — likely have a problem with Authority. And should have.
They even have a name for it now: “Drapetomania.” And, ignorant of our genetic heritage, they classify it as a mental illness and call it Oppositional Defiant Disorder.
That’s what American government-form schools were primarily designed to stamp out of those damnably independent potential “workers” and “employees.” And, using much harsher tactics, “Indian” children too.
Were they successful?
With you?
The Donald articulates the elite viewpoint: “Getting a job is for losers; the key is to get other people to work for you.” –Donald Trump, The Intercept
So, in sharp contrast to tribal folks, we are brought up and conditioned to unnaturally “take orders” and do someone else’s bidding — so we’ll be good docile little “human resources.” And humbly serve our “elite” masters for the rest of our lives.
And, unfortunately, not just in factories and/or for corporate profits.
In the military, for example, where, to protect our brother soldiers, we get conned into fighting for the state, killing literally millions of innocent men, women and children, usually in foreign lands, based on lies and/or mistakes.
But killing is even more contrary to human nature than taking orders and so requires even more stringent training. “Cannon fodder” comes to mind.
So, via Russell Means above, we Prussian graduates do the same job as “Indians” but they enjoy it and we hate it.
Because we’re not doing things of our own free-will.
You may be thinking, “The Indians weren’t doing things of their own free-will either. They were taking orders from bosses too.”
Right-on! You’ve spotted the next important Way-Stone – – –
“…traditional Indian people have never been able to accept the concept of ‘jobs,’ of forcing themselves to do something they are not happy with. …Traditional Indians wholeheartedly accept whatever they are responsible for — and don’t take time off from responsibility.” –Russell Means, Where White Men Fear to Tread
If — IF a “traditional Indian” accepts a “job,” he makes it his own. To him, the “bosses” are just there to help.
The result of that outlook is likely what Ben Franklin noticed – – –
Happiness is more generally and equally diffus’d among Savages than in civilized societies. No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies. –Benjamin Franklin, 1770
AND Jefferson too – – –
I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. –Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 16 Jan. 1787
And I think I just caught a glimpse of the gateless fence-line showing over the next ridge – – –
This all fertilized America for the 1960s invasion of the gurus. Some could see “our” problem clearly. And gave us this parable:
The Happy Buddah is striding along, a heavy bag slung over one shoulder. Someone calls out, “What is the method of Zen?” The Buddah sets the bag down. “What is the result of Zen?” calls out another. Happy picks up his bag, slings it back over his shoulder, and exits stage left, smiling all the way. –my version, lrw
And so we’ve finally reached the fence-line. We’re almost ready to start dish-washing – – – but as you can see, all that mass-culture take-orders B.S. has blocked-up the gateless gate – – –
After ~12 years of Prussian-inspired conditioning — and a life-time of immersion in wage-slave, tax-slave mass culture and its propaganda — you have likely but unknowingly internalized “taking orders.” Unknowingly, you likely do the equivalent of “giving yourself orders.” You may subliminally feel as if you’re on a clock-and-a-paycheck 24/7.
This is most noticable when you’re trying to force yourself to do things you think you don’t want to do. And, like the accomplished drapetomaniac you are, you appropriately resist, revolt, and/or rebel!
So, to get through the gateless gate, it’s necessary to liberate yourself from orders, especially from orders you give yourself.
Now here’s that trick I mentioned – – –
Like this: Pick something you really don’t like to do. Cut the grass? Wash the dishes? Do the laundry? Clean out the garage? Come on, you know what it is.
Now don’t do it. Don’t do it until you want to do it. Not HAVE TO do it, WANT TO do it. REALLY WANT TO DO IT.
If you’ve got a partner, you may have to get their co-operation. Explain what you’re doing — or more likely not doing — and make sure they won’t interfere, either by covering for you or bugging you.
No cheating now. This is a serious exercise, and not as easy as it sounds. You can’t allow yourself to be forced, fooled, or hood-winked by those old long-established slave-culture habits. Those will try to make you do it before you want to.
The trick is learning to recognize the difference. If you’re not absolutely sure you WANT TO, wait longer — wait until you REALLY want to.
Yes, if you do it right, that WILL happen.
My path was to not wash the dishes. This was in an older Vegas apartment without a dishwasher. Once all the dishes were dirty, my usual M.O. was to only wash the one(s) I needed for the current meal. I’m still expert at using very few dishes, a valuable skill in itself. And yes, you can sometimes get away with washing only one side.
Once I accepted that I didn’t have to wash ’em — and stopped trying to force myself — it only took about two days to start looking at the dishes and wishing they were clean and put away.
About the third day, I realized that indeed I did want them washed and put away, and after about an hour of marveling at this odd sensation , I took care of it.
Haven’t had a dish-washing problem since. Usually, when on my own, I do ’em after every meal or in spare moments while I’m waiting for the burger to brown, etc. Because I want to.
Once you’ve mastered this trick, you neither “take orders” — nor give them to yourself. You accept your drapetomania as completely normal. Which it is.
Like “traditional Indians” — and perhaps a few Malaysian condo-cleaners — If — IF you accept a “job,” you make it your own. And, like the Happy Buddah, you do the same things you did before but now you do them because you want to and choose to not because you have to. And so you do them quickly and well. And maybe get tipped.
Despite mañana and siesta, your chosen work still gets done. And, like Russell Means and “traditional Indians,” you may even enjoy it. And maybe it isn’t “work” anymore – – –
And so, as you exit stage left, you’re smiling all the way too.
This simple exercise is a window into how modern mass culture has twisted us against our true nature. We have been so deeply programmed and conditioned to accept “Have to,” hierarchy — and it’s handmaiden, “Authority,” — most of us think it’s normal. Even after many decades, I still need to remind myself now and then that it isn’t.
When your mind switches out of “have to” “take orders” mode and back to normal genetic hard-wired “want to” mode, it’s strange and noticeable, especially the first time. The feeling of release — maybe even euphoria — is hard to describe. But don’t take my word for it, see for yourself. It’s something you probably won’t forget. And shouldn’t. But might.
Because unfortunately, most of us have all those bad habits to overcome. Most folks even eat and sleep defined by a clock-and-a-paycheck — which is why they can sell all those sleeping pills — and 5-Hour Energy.
Once you pass through the gateless gate, though, you’re at odds with the wage-and-tax-slave mass culture we’ve been conned into, almost since birth. Certainly at least since your first day at “Pre-K” or Kindergarten — where the hidden curriculum first began to shape you into a good little tax-paying human resource. “That’s just the way you were taught to think,” remember — in order to keep Napoleon from defeating the Prussians again.
It’s like this – – –
“…the real self is dangerous, dangerous for the established church, dangerous for the state, dangerous for the crowd, dangerous for the tradition, because once a man knows his real self, he becomes an individual” –Meditation by Osho
But don’t worry too much — becoming an individual is good not bad. It’s the ancestral way. And if it didn’t work extremely well, our ancestors wouldn’t have survived and we wouldn’t be here.
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lewrockwell--2020-02-22--Blagojevich Is Finally Free, But Justice Has Not Been Served

In the pages of LewRockwell.com almost ten years ago , I penned a defense of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich ( here , here , and here ) .
They were exclusives written for LRC after watching USA v Blagojevich at the federal courthouse in Chicago that summer 2010 .
Blagojevich is “ a politician with whom I shared little common political or philosophical ground , ” as I pointed out in The Hill five years ago , yet growing up in the midst of the ever-present corruption of Chicago , the scapegoating of Blagojevich has never sat well with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the principle that “ Justice unevenly doled out is injustice.
” Republicans ( see here and here ) Democrats ( see here ) have united in criticizing the pay-to-play politics of Illinois , calling the February 18 , 2020 commutation of Blagojevich ’ s sentence a bad decision by Donald Trump .
That bipartisanship is not worth much , since In Illinois party divide means even less than it does nationally .
The crooks cross the tribal divide with ease .
Against the Left : A Ro ... Llewellyn H Rockwell Jr @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 8.00 Some critics are right – Illinois is an awful place in many regards .
Chicago ’ s , once localized , corrupt political machines have come to control the apparatus of the entire state and have played a key role in looting and destroying the state .
101 counties in the state have credible reason for wanting to secede and to leave Chicago and Cook County with the debt that its awful policies have created .
Rod Blagojevich made a career in the midst of this disgusting political environment .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dynasty , played the game with charisma .
The obsessive focus on Blagojevich has done little to improve Illinois .
Just the opposite .
Though the first time around , federal prosecutors were only able to convict Blagojevich on one of 24 counts – an incredibly minor count , one that shouldn ’ t even be a law , since lying to the government violates the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination – he ’ s seen by many as an egregious violator of the law , a bit of a joke regarding how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and one who many in Illinois felt needed to see the inside of a prison cell , just as badly as many across the country feel Hillary Clinton needs to see the inside of a prison cell today .
Once Blago became governor , he forgot some of the kingmakers who put him there .
Accounts from the time describe a man who became a little more interested in himself and a little less interested in the rest of the thieves in the state .
It doesn ’ t seem like any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people of Illinois .
They were each busy in their own hustle .
But a few of the thieves got pretty mad that Blago wasn ’ t as approachable to the thieves as he used to be .
Eventually his own father-in-law , 33rd Ward Alderman Dick Mell , his rabbi and protector , turned on him .
And then Blagojevich was fair game .
Blago probably deserved to see the inside of a jail cell , but so did many others in Illinois far more egregious than him .
And they didn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
He became a scapegoat .
Why You Don ’ t Want A Scapegoat Defendant A problem here is that guilt is not collective .
Guilt is individual .
Scapegoat is our English term for the animal described in Leviticus 16 that was led out into the wilderness after the Chief Priest put the sins of the people of Israel on it .
Christianity lets us place our sins on Jesus on the cross .
There are religious and secular ways that many engage in scapegoating .
It can feel beautiful and freeing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Orwell writes about the Two Minutes Hate in the society described in 1984 .
The Two Minutes Hate might help many people feel better as they release stress and place anger into their image of an individual .
And , while Orwell was clearly not trying to praise the notion , such an act may have ritualistic value as well .
But that is not moral justification for how to behave toward another human .
There is only one Jesus Christ and Rod Blagojevich is not him .
It is not honest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ jail , so that the Chicago political class with the aid of their friends and useful idiots in the media , can spend the next decade pointing their fingers at how bad Blagojevich is while looting at an increasing rate .
Those who participated in the Two Minutes Hate against Blago have been useful pawns in the looting of Illinois .
Little has changed in the trajectory of Illinois in the last ten years .
Relative to neighboring states , it ’ s actually gotten worse in Illinois .
The jailing of Blagojevich @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a scapegoat predictably changed nothing .
Federal prosecutors , and federal laws , were used as a tool to distract so that business as usual was able to continue .
Obama and his team in DC made sure of it .
Predictably , the socialism offered by both the Republicans and Democrats is failing the people of Illinois .
Predictably , democracy is failing the people of Illinois .
Predictably , the act of placing power in the hands of local party bosses is failing the people of Illinois .
Predictably , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is failing the people of Illinois .
Ten years later , the winning path forward for Illinois remains the same – eliminate all taxes , slash the state budget to zero .
Watch the corrupt politicians run along when they suddenly have no gifts to hand out .
Move the assets of the politicians ’ pension plans to the state worker pension plans .
Notify the state workers in Illinois that their pension plans have been mismanaged for decades , are nearly bankrupt , and that they can either collect their $ 0.04 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wait and see what happens to their pension plan when it ’ s turned over to a private trustee .
Some connected guy ’ s cousin who ended up with four state pensions should be very happy to get his $ 0.16 on the dollar .
Notify bondholders that the state is hereby defaulting on all loans .
Publicly auction off all assets online in full public view .
Everything .
The sooner those assets get out of the corrupt hands that control the state government , the better .
The assets will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people who know what to do with them and how to manage them profitably to provide well for consumers .
Following that path , the economy that rises from the ashes of the State of Illinois will be the premier economy globally over the next one hundred years .
Following that path , only a few economies would be able to jump ahead of Illinois ’ s radical commitment to prosperity .
But they likely won ’ t .
The other option is to spend the next decade or two lying to people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Illinois government for the financial benefit and reputational benefit of the bureaucrats and politicians overseeing the process .
One option will work out very well for the people of Illinois .
The other will work out terribly for everyone but the most connected .
Sure , the shock of it all – the shock of ripping the 80 pound leach from your back that promises to slowly kill you and to then turn on your children once you ’ re sucked dry – yes , it could be a challenge .
Since when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reason to avoid doing the right thing ?
Maybe in this ensuing process individual guilt is determined , individual punishment given , and maybe justice is doled out evenly to all involved .
Left of Bang : How the ... Patrick Van Horne , Jas ... Best Price : $ 12.13 Buy New $ 14.63 When all is said and done , maybe a few of those other lowlifes end up at the same prison Blagojevich spent nearly eight years in .
Though , based on the number of people who saw the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a crooked Chicago politician entered the Oval Office and promised to see justice done in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis , I wouldn ’ t hold my breath .
And that ’ s probably okay .
Once every person in Illinois has wrestled that 80 pound leach off of their back , they ’ ll probably be less eager to point at the 80 pound leach on some other guy ’ s back and say “ Hey , that leach should be in jail !
” The leaches will all be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the government slush funds disappear .
Dry up the government slush funds , the leaches disappear .
Every kid who grew up in Chicago knows this .
We are expert observers of it .
You grow up around it , and it ’ s all second nature .
The millennials see how smartphones work from birth .
We see how graft works from birth .
Put an 80 pound leach or two in jail , nothing will happen .
You can ’ t drain a swamp that way .
The next leach @ @ @ @ @ @ @ last ten years have a lesson to teach us about how the next ten years should look for maximum prosperity .
The Best of Allan Stevo

In the pages of LewRockwell.com almost ten years ago, I penned a defense of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich (here, here, and here). They were exclusives written for LRC after watching USA v Blagojevich at the federal courthouse in Chicago that summer 2010.
Blagojevich is “a politician with whom I shared little common political or philosophical ground,” as I pointed out in The Hill five years ago, yet growing up in the midst of the ever-present corruption of Chicago, the scapegoating of Blagojevich has never sat well with me.
At the root of this is the principle that “Justice unevenly doled out is injustice.”
Republicans (see here and here) Democrats (see here) have united in criticizing the pay-to-play politics of Illinois, calling the February 18, 2020 commutation of Blagojevich’s sentence a bad decision by Donald Trump. That bipartisanship is not worth much, since In Illinois party divide means even less than it does nationally. The crooks cross the tribal divide with ease. Against the Left: A Ro... Rockwell Jr, Llewellyn H Best Price: $2.85 Buy New $8.00 (as of 07:59 UTC - Details)
Some critics are right – Illinois is an awful place in many regards. Chicago’s, once localized, corrupt political machines have come to control the apparatus of the entire state and have played a key role in looting and destroying the state. 101 counties in the state have credible reason for wanting to secede and to leave Chicago and Cook County with the debt that its awful policies have created.
Rod Blagojevich made a career in the midst of this disgusting political environment. He came in young, married into a dynasty, played the game with charisma.
The obsessive focus on Blagojevich has done little to improve Illinois. Just the opposite.
The First Jury Wouldn’t Convict
Though the first time around, federal prosecutors were only able to convict Blagojevich on one of 24 counts – an incredibly minor count, one that shouldn’t even be a law, since lying to the government violates the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination – he’s seen by many as an egregious violator of the law, a bit of a joke regarding how bad and public the corruption has become, and one who many in Illinois felt needed to see the inside of a prison cell, just as badly as many across the country feel Hillary Clinton needs to see the inside of a prison cell today.
Once Blago became governor, he forgot some of the kingmakers who put him there. Accounts from the time describe a man who became a little more interested in himself and a little less interested in the rest of the thieves in the state. It doesn’t seem like any of them were that concerned with the people of Illinois. They were each busy in their own hustle. But a few of the thieves got pretty mad that Blago wasn’t as approachable to the thieves as he used to be.
Eventually his own father-in-law, 33rd Ward Alderman Dick Mell, his rabbi and protector, turned on him. And then Blagojevich was fair game.
Blago probably deserved to see the inside of a jail cell, but so did many others in Illinois far more egregious than him. And they didn’t. Blago became a figurehead. He became a scapegoat.
Why You Don’t Want A Scapegoat Defendant
A problem here is that guilt is not collective. Guilt is individual.
Scapegoat is our English term for the animal described in Leviticus 16 that was led out into the wilderness after the Chief Priest put the sins of the people of Israel on it.
Christianity lets us place our sins on Jesus on the cross. There are religious and secular ways that many engage in scapegoating. It can feel beautiful and freeing to be ritualistically cleansed of your sins.
Orwell writes about the Two Minutes Hate in the society described in 1984. The Two Minutes Hate might help many people feel better as they release stress and place anger into their image of an individual. And, while Orwell was clearly not trying to praise the notion, such an act may have ritualistic value as well.
But that is not moral justification for how to behave toward another human. There is only one Jesus Christ and Rod Blagojevich is not him. It is not honest to let someone like Blagojevich go to jail, so that the Chicago political class with the aid of their friends and useful idiots in the media, can spend the next decade pointing their fingers at how bad Blagojevich is while looting at an increasing rate. Those who participated in the Two Minutes Hate against Blago have been useful pawns in the looting of Illinois.
Little has changed in the trajectory of Illinois in the last ten years. Relative to neighboring states, it’s actually gotten worse in Illinois.
The jailing of Blagojevich predictably changed nothing. The creation of a scapegoat predictably changed nothing. Federal prosecutors, and federal laws, were used as a tool to distract so that business as usual was able to continue. Obama and his team in DC made sure of it.
Predictably, the socialism offered by both the Republicans and Democrats is failing the people of Illinois. Predictably, democracy is failing the people of Illinois. Predictably, the act of placing power in the hands of local party bosses is failing the people of Illinois. Predictably, the mistaken belief that government can provide salvation is failing the people of Illinois.
The Winning Path Forward
Ten years later, the winning path forward for Illinois remains the same – eliminate all taxes, slash the state budget to zero.
Watch the corrupt politicians run along when they suddenly have no gifts to hand out.
Move the assets of the politicians’ pension plans to the state worker pension plans. Notify the state workers in Illinois that their pension plans have been mismanaged for decades, are nearly bankrupt, and that they can either collect their $0.04 on the dollar payout now or to wait and see what happens to their pension plan when it’s turned over to a private trustee. Some connected guy’s cousin who ended up with four state pensions should be very happy to get his $0.16 on the dollar.
Notify bondholders that the state is hereby defaulting on all loans.
Publicly auction off all assets online in full public view. Everything. The sooner those assets get out of the corrupt hands that control the state government, the better. The assets will ultimately end up in the hands of people who know what to do with them and how to manage them profitably to provide well for consumers.
Following that path, the economy that rises from the ashes of the State of Illinois will be the premier economy globally over the next one hundred years.
Following that path, only a few economies would be able to jump ahead of Illinois’s radical commitment to prosperity. But they likely won’t.
The other option is to spend the next decade or two lying to people and slowly controlling the collapse of the Illinois government for the financial benefit and reputational benefit of the bureaucrats and politicians overseeing the process.
One option will work out very well for the people of Illinois. The other will work out terribly for everyone but the most connected. Sure, the shock of it all – the shock of ripping the 80 pound leach from your back that promises to slowly kill you and to then turn on your children once you’re sucked dry – yes, it could be a challenge. Since when has “challenge” been a good reason to avoid doing the right thing?
Maybe in this ensuing process individual guilt is determined, individual punishment given, and maybe justice is doled out evenly to all involved. Left of Bang: How the ... Patrick Van Horne, Jas... Best Price: $12.13 Buy New $14.63 (as of 08:15 UTC - Details)
When all is said and done, maybe a few of those other lowlifes end up at the same prison Blagojevich spent nearly eight years in.
Though, based on the number of people who saw the inside of a jail cell, after a crooked Chicago politician entered the Oval Office and promised to see justice done in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, I wouldn’t hold my breath.
And that’s probably okay. Once every person in Illinois has wrestled that 80 pound leach off of their back, they’ll probably be less eager to point at the 80 pound leach on some other guy’s back and say “Hey, that leach should be in jail!” The leaches will all be gone.
Dry up the tax funding, the government slush funds disappear. Dry up the government slush funds, the leaches disappear.
Every kid who grew up in Chicago knows this. We are expert observers of it. You grow up around it, and it’s all second nature. The millennials see how smartphones work from birth. We see how graft works from birth.
Put an 80 pound leach or two in jail, nothing will happen. You can’t drain a swamp that way. The next leach will just take their place.
The last ten years have a lesson to teach us about how the next ten years should look for maximum prosperity.
The Best of Allan Stevo


lewrockwell--2020-02-22--No Weapon Left Behind: The American Hybrid War on China

The New Silk Roads – or Belt and Road Initiative ( BRI ) – were launched by President Xi Jinping in 2013 , first in Central Asia ( Nur-Sultan ) and then Southeast Asia ( Jakarta ) .
One year later , the Chinese economy overtook the U.S. on a PPP basis .
Inexorably , year after year since the start of the millennium , the U.S. share of the global economy shrinks while China ’ s increases .
China is already the key hub of the global economy and the leading trade partner of nearly 130 nations .
While @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the casino financing of the U.S. government – repo markets and all – reads as a dystopian nightmare , the civilization-state steps ahead in myriad areas of technological research , not least because of Made in China 2025 .
China largely beats the U.S. on patent filings and produces at least 8 times as many STEM graduates a year than the U.S. , earning the status of top contributor to global science .
A vast array of nations across the Global South signed on to be part of BRI , which is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ year alone , Chinese companies signed contracts worth up to $ 128 billion in large-scale infrastructure projects in dozen of nations .
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The only economic competitor to the U.S. is busy reconnecting most of the world to a 21st century , fully networked version of a trade system that was at its peak for over a millennia : the Eurasian Silk Roads .
Inevitably this state of things is something interlocking sectors of the U.S. ruling class simply @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suspects fret over the “ stability ” of the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) and the Xi Jinping administration , the fact is the Beijing leadership has had to deal with an accumulation of extremely severe issues : a swine-flu epidemic killing half the stock ; the Trump-concocted trade war ; Huawei accused of racketeering and about to be prevented from buying U.S. made chips ; bird flu ; coronavirus virtually shutting down half of China .
Add to it the incessant United States government Hybrid War propaganda barrage , trespassed by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ officials ” to self-titled councilors are either advising corporate businesses to divert global supply chains out of China or concocting outright calls for regime change – with every possible demonization in between .
There are no holds barred in the all-out offensive to kick the Chinese government while it ’ s down .
A Pentagon cipher at the Munich Security Conference once again declares China as the greatest threat , economically and militarily , to the U.S. – and by extension the West , forcing a wobbly EU already subordinated to NATO to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cold War 2.0 .
The whole U.S. corporate media complex repeats to exhaustion that Beijing is “ lying ” and losing control .
Descending to sub-gutter , racist levels , hacks even accuse BRI itself of being a pandemic , with China “ impossible to quarantine ” .
All that is quite rich , to say the least , oozing from lavishly rewarded slaves of an unscrupulous , monopolistic , extractive , destructive , depraved , lawless oligarchy which uses debt offensively to boost their unlimited wealth and power while the lowly U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ barely survive .
As Thomas Piketty has conclusively shown , inequality always relies on ideology .
We ’ re deep into a vicious intel war .
From the point of view of Chinese intelligence , the current toxic cocktail simply can not be attributed to just a random series of coincidences .
Beijing has serial motives to piece this extraordinary chain of events as part of a coordinated Hybrid War , Full Spectrum Dominance attack on China .
Enter the Dragon Killer working hypothesis : a bio-weapon attack capable of causing immense economic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The only possible move by the “ indispensable nation ” on the New Great Game chessboard , considering that the U.S. can not win a conventional war on China , and can not win a nuclear war on China .
On the surface , coronavirus is a dream bio-weapon for those fixated on wreaking havoc across China and praying for regime change .
Yet it ’ s complicated .
This report is a decent effort trying to track the origins of coronavirus .
Now compare it with the insights by Dr. Francis Boyle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Illinois and author , among others , of Biowarfare and Terrorism .
He ’ s the man who drafted the U.S .
Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 signed into law by George H. W. Bush .
Dr. Boyle is convinced coronavirus is an “ offensive biological warfare weapon ” that leaped out of the Wuhan BSL-4 laboratory , although he ’ s “ not saying it was done deliberately.
” Dr. Boyle adds , “ all these BSL-4 labs by United States , Europe , Russia , China , Israel are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ test biological warfare agents .
There ’ s really no legitimate scientific reason to have BSL-4 labs.
” His own research led to a whopping $ 100 billion , by 2015 , spent by the United States government on bio-warfare research : “ We have well over 13,000 alleged life science scientists… testing biological weapons here in the United States .
Actually this goes back and it even precedes 9/11.
” Dr. Boyle directly accuses “ the Chinese government under Xi and his comrades ” of a cover up “ from the get-go @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1 , so they ’ d been sitting on this until they couldn ’ t anymore .
And everything they ’ re telling you is a lie .
It ’ s propaganda.
” The World Health Organization ( WHO ) , for Dr. Boyle , is also on it : “ They ’ ve approved many of these BSL-4 labs ( … ) Can ’ t trust anything the WHO says because they ’ re all bought and paid for by Big Pharma and they work in cahoots with the CDC , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ work in cahoots with Fort Detrick.
” Fort Detrick , now a cutting-edge bio-warfare lab , previously was a notorious CIA den of mind control “ experiments ” .
Relying on decades of research in bio-warfare , the U.S .
Deep State is totally familiar with all bio-weapon overtones .
From Dresden , Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Korea , Vietnam and Fallujah , the historical record shows the United States government does not blink when it comes to unleashing weapons of mass destruction on innocent civilians .
For its part , the Pentagon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( DARPA ) has spent a fortune researching bats , coronaviruses and gene-editing bio-weapons .
Now , conveniently – as if this was a form of divine intervention – DARPA ’ s “ strategic allies ” have been chosen to develop a genetic vaccine .
The 1996 neocon Bible , the Project for a New American Century ( PNAC ) , unambiguously stated , “ advanced forms of biological warfare that can “ target ” specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.
” There @ @ @ @ @ @ @ far , has been a Heaven-sent politically useful tool , reaching , with minimum investment , the desired targets of maximized U.S. global power – even if fleetingly , enhanced by a non-stop propaganda offensive – and China relatively isolated with its economy semi paralyzed .
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Yet perspective is in order .
The CDC estimated that up to 42.9 million people got sick during the 2018-2019 flu season in the U.S. No less than 647,000 people were hospitalized .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Chinese “ people ’ s war ” against coronavirus .
It ’ s up to Chinese virologists to decode its arguably synthetic origin .
How China reacts , depending on the findings , will have earth-shattering consequences – literally .
Setting the stage for the Raging Twenties After managing to reroute trade supply chains across Eurasia to its own advantage and hollow out the Heartland , American – and subordinated Western – elites are now staring into a void .
And the void is staring back .
A “ West ” ruled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ irrelevance .
BRI is in the process of reversing at least two centuries of Western dominance .
There ’ s no way the West and especially the “ system leader ” U.S. will allow it .
It all started with dirty ops stirring trouble across the periphery of Eurasia – from Ukraine to Syria to Myanmar .
Now it ’ s when the going really gets tough .
The targeted assassination of Maj. Gen. Soleimani plus coronavirus – the Wuhan flu – have really set up the stage for the Raging Twenties .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ WARS – Wuhan Acute Respiratory Syndrome .
That would instantly give the game away as a War against Humanity – irrespective of where it came from .
The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation .

The New Silk Roads – or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – were launched by President Xi Jinping in 2013, first in Central Asia (Nur-Sultan) and then Southeast Asia (Jakarta).
One year later, the Chinese economy overtook the U.S. on a PPP basis. Inexorably, year after year since the start of the millennium, the U.S. share of the global economy shrinks while China’s increases.
China is already the key hub of the global economy and the leading trade partner of nearly 130 nations.
While the U.S. economy is hollowed out, and the casino financing of the U.S. government – repo markets and all – reads as a dystopian nightmare, the civilization-state steps ahead in myriad areas of technological research, not least because of Made in China 2025.
China largely beats the U.S. on patent filings and produces at least 8 times as many STEM graduates a year than the U.S., earning the status of top contributor to global science.
A vast array of nations across the Global South signed on to be part of BRI, which is planned for completion in 2049. Last year alone, Chinese companies signed contracts worth up to $128 billion in large-scale infrastructure projects in dozen of nations.
The only economic competitor to the U.S. is busy reconnecting most of the world to a 21st century, fully networked version of a trade system that was at its peak for over a millennia: the Eurasian Silk Roads.
Inevitably this state of things is something interlocking sectors of the U.S. ruling class simply would not accept.
Branding BRI as a “pandemic”
As the usual suspects fret over the “stability” of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Xi Jinping administration, the fact is the Beijing leadership has had to deal with an accumulation of extremely severe issues: a swine-flu epidemic killing half the stock; the Trump-concocted trade war; Huawei accused of racketeering and about to be prevented from buying U.S. made chips; bird flu; coronavirus virtually shutting down half of China.
Add to it the incessant United States government Hybrid War propaganda barrage, trespassed by acute Sinophobia; everyone from sociopathic “officials” to self-titled councilors are either advising corporate businesses to divert global supply chains out of China or concocting outright calls for regime change – with every possible demonization in between.
There are no holds barred in the all-out offensive to kick the Chinese government while it’s down.
A Pentagon cipher at the Munich Security Conference once again declares China as the greatest threat, economically and militarily, to the U.S. – and by extension the West, forcing a wobbly EU already subordinated to NATO to be subservient to Washington on this remixed Cold War 2.0.
The whole U.S. corporate media complex repeats to exhaustion that Beijing is “lying” and losing control. Descending to sub-gutter, racist levels, hacks even accuse BRI itself of being a pandemic, with China “impossible to quarantine”.
All that is quite rich, to say the least, oozing from lavishly rewarded slaves of an unscrupulous, monopolistic, extractive, destructive, depraved, lawless oligarchy which uses debt offensively to boost their unlimited wealth and power while the lowly U.S. and global masses use debt defensively to barely survive. As Thomas Piketty has conclusively shown, inequality always relies on ideology.
We’re deep into a vicious intel war. From the point of view of Chinese intelligence, the current toxic cocktail simply cannot be attributed to just a random series of coincidences. Beijing has serial motives to piece this extraordinary chain of events as part of a coordinated Hybrid War, Full Spectrum Dominance attack on China.
Enter the Dragon Killer working hypothesis: a bio-weapon attack capable of causing immense economic damage but protected by plausible deniability. The only possible move by the “indispensable nation” on the New Great Game chessboard, considering that the U.S. cannot win a conventional war on China, and cannot win a nuclear war on China.
A biological warfare weapon?
On the surface, coronavirus is a dream bio-weapon for those fixated on wreaking havoc across China and praying for regime change.
Yet it’s complicated. This report is a decent effort trying to track the origins of coronavirus. Now compare it with the insights by Dr. Francis Boyle, international law professor at the University of Illinois and author, among others, of Biowarfare and Terrorism. He’s the man who drafted the U.S. Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 signed into law by George H. W. Bush.
Dr. Boyle is convinced coronavirus is an
“offensive biological warfare weapon” that leaped out of the Wuhan BSL-4 laboratory, although he’s “not saying it was done deliberately.”
Dr. Boyle adds, “all these BSL-4 labs by United States, Europe, Russia, China, Israel are all there to research, develop, test biological warfare agents. There’s really no legitimate scientific reason to have BSL-4 labs.” His own research led to a whopping $100 billion, by 2015, spent by the United States government on bio-warfare research: “We have well over 13,000 alleged life science scientists… testing biological weapons here in the United States. Actually this goes back and it even precedes 9/11.”
Dr. Boyle directly accuses “the Chinese government under Xi and his comrades” of a cover up “from the get-go. The first reported case was December 1, so they’d been sitting on this until they couldn’t anymore. And everything they’re telling you is a lie. It’s propaganda.”
The World Health Organization (WHO), for Dr. Boyle, is also on it: “They’ve approved many of these BSL-4 labs (…) Can’t trust anything the WHO says because they’re all bought and paid for by Big Pharma and they work in cahoots with the CDC, which is the United States government, they work in cahoots with Fort Detrick.” Fort Detrick, now a cutting-edge bio-warfare lab, previously was a notorious CIA den of mind control “experiments”.
Relying on decades of research in bio-warfare, the U.S. Deep State is totally familiar with all bio-weapon overtones. From Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Korea, Vietnam and Fallujah, the historical record shows the United States government does not blink when it comes to unleashing weapons of mass destruction on innocent civilians.
For its part, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) has spent a fortune researching bats, coronaviruses and gene-editing bio-weapons. Now, conveniently – as if this was a form of divine intervention – DARPA’s “strategic allies” have been chosen to develop a genetic vaccine.
The 1996 neocon Bible, the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), unambiguously stated, “advanced forms of biological warfare that can “target” specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.”
There’s no question coronavirus, so far, has been a Heaven-sent politically useful tool, reaching, with minimum investment, the desired targets of maximized U.S. global power – even if fleetingly, enhanced by a non-stop propaganda offensive – and China relatively isolated with its economy semi paralyzed. Empire of Chaos: The R... Escobar, Pepe Buy New $3.99 (as of 01:50 UTC - Details)
Yet perspective is in order. The CDC estimated that up to 42.9 million people got sick during the 2018-2019 flu season in the U.S. No less than 647,000 people were hospitalized. And 61,200 died.
This report details the Chinese “people’s war” against coronavirus.
It’s up to Chinese virologists to decode its arguably synthetic origin. How China reacts, depending on the findings, will have earth-shattering consequences – literally.
Setting the stage for the Raging Twenties
After managing to reroute trade supply chains across Eurasia to its own advantage and hollow out the Heartland, American – and subordinated Western – elites are now staring into a void. And the void is staring back. A “West” ruled by the U.S. is now faced with irrelevance. BRI is in the process of reversing at least two centuries of Western dominance.
There’s no way the West and especially the “system leader” U.S. will allow it. It all started with dirty ops stirring trouble across the periphery of Eurasia – from Ukraine to Syria to Myanmar.
Now it’s when the going really gets tough. The targeted assassination of Maj. Gen. Soleimani plus coronavirus – the Wuhan flu – have really set up the stage for the Raging Twenties. The designation of choice should actually be WARS – Wuhan Acute Respiratory Syndrome. That would instantly give the game away as a War against Humanity – irrespective of where it came from.
The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation.


lewrockwell--2020-02-22--Keep Throwing Spaghetti at That Wall

Keep Throwing Spaghetti at That Wall

We ’ re reminded this morning by The New York Times , America ’ s official psychotic fantasy generator , that the Russians are coming ( again ! )
as an ad hoc arm of the committee to re-elect Mr. Trump .
You have to ask yourself : Does Mr. Trump actually need their help ?
His opponents have been self-meddling so diligently that their party now looks like a Frankenstein creature assembled from the spare parts of Herbert Marcuse , Tupac Shakur , Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , and Jame Gumb .
Imagine that monster running a government .
If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the idea at an international cocktail party , can you really blame him ?
Plenty of Americans surely feel the same way .
Anyway , the Times ’ story never gets around to saying much about the alleged new Russian campaign besides this : Living in the Long Eme ... James Howard Kunstler Buy New $ 24.95 Wow , that ’ s pretty scary !
Except when you consider that Americans have done a crackerjack job of mind-fucking themselves with disinformation the past several years , coincidentally via this very The New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ demented that it has come to resemble the proverbial crazy aunt locked in the attic .
The true wonder is the Times ’ poverty of imagination , reviving a tattered cockamamie story that bombed abjectly the first time around .
I suppose , in a culture addicted to stupid sequels , they expect Robert Mueller will be called back on-duty to sort this one out like he did so nicely before .
Actually , you could make a credible argument that the vaunted US “ Intel Community ” is a bigger threat to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do on Facebook .
Hence , the good news that Mr. Trump has just appointed Ambassador to Germany , Richard Grenell , to the pivotal job as Director of National Intelligence , a position created in 2004 to supposedly coordinate the farflung activities of seventeen armies of spooks and snoops , lately notorious for feeding disinformation to The New York Times and its “ Resistance ” media allies .
Note : right off the bat , The Washington Post characterized Mr. Grenell as a “ partisan propagandist , ” seeking to disable him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ assume that the officers of the seventeen intel agencies will do everything possible to work around Mr. Grenell , but he does have the power to ask questions , and to ask additionally the reason why he isn ’ t getting straight answers , and then to do something about it .
Of course , that ’ s exactly what the Resistance is afraid of .
It was Mr. Grenell ’ s predecessor , Joseph Maguire , who fecklessly allowed the “ whistleblower , ” and that phantom ’ s enabler , ICIG @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on UkraineGate , a hideously embarrassing episode of engineered political subterfuge that instigated the grave process of impeachment , so that the whole world could see exactly how dishonest we are amongst ourselves — more proof that we don ’ t need Russia ’ s help sowing disorder and ignominy in our own country .
Mr. Grenell might commence by asking some questions about that caper .
There ’ s so much to dig into at the CIA , FBI , and the NSC after three years of deceitful shenanigans that he ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to get the job done .
A History of the Futur ... James Howard Kunstler Best Price : $ 9.07 Buy New $ 10.07 The Attorney General sure can use some help .
No doubt you saw the circus around the Roger Stone case develop into another Lawfare operation to oust Mr. Barr when a thousand-odd former federal attorneys — including some who signed off falsely on FISA warrants — mobbed up a petition for his resignation .
I suspect it only pissed him off and made him more determined to bring cases @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of course , is a political clown with a weak sense of boundaries who made some legally foolish moves , considering the parlous times .
But you can still argue he was treated rather unfairly , since his jury forewoman outed herself as a Resistance activist as soon as the trial concluded and no one , including Judge Amy Berman Jackson , has addressed how that happened .
The General Flynn matter is something else , and goes far deeper into the seditious misuse of US intelligence .
Flynn has become the American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through the muck unjustly by the Intel Community working “ six ways from Sunday , ” in the immortal words of Senator Chuck Schumer , to prevent its dirty laundry from being aired .
His ordeal has gone on for three years and is coming close to climax .
The legal devices used to screw General Flynn are known to the public now , including the initial deceitful interrogation by FBI agents Strzok and Pientka , the withholding of exculpatory evidence by his prosecutors ( and plenty of other misconduct ) , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the Swamp firm of Covington and Burling .
He ’ s going to eventually get off this ignoble rap sooner or later , one way or another .
Silencing him was probably the key objective in the long train of seditions that I sum up as CoupGate .
It would be best if the federal court itself could clean up the Flynn mess by Judge Emmet Sullivan declaring it a malicious prosecution and throwing out the case , because that would begin to repair the institutional damage .
But Mr. Trump might @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
If he does , I hope he goes on national television and provides a detailed explanation of the aforesaid DOJ misconduct for the public , and I hope he does it from the teleprompter so it will come off clearly and coherently .
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We’re reminded this morning by The New York Times, America’s official psychotic fantasy generator, that the Russians are coming (again!) as an ad hoc arm of the committee to re-elect Mr. Trump. You have to ask yourself: Does Mr. Trump actually need their help? His opponents have been self-meddling so diligently that their party now looks like a Frankenstein creature assembled from the spare parts of Herbert Marcuse, Tupac Shakur, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and Jame Gumb. Imagine that monster running a government.
If Vlad Putin happened to express an aversion to the idea at an international cocktail party, can you really blame him? Plenty of Americans surely feel the same way. Anyway, the Times’ story never gets around to saying much about the alleged new Russian campaign besides this: Living in the Long Eme... James Howard Kunstler Buy New $24.95 (as of 10:56 UTC - Details)
They have made more creative use of Facebook and other social media. Rather than impersonating Americans as they did in 2016, Russian operatives are working to get Americans to repeat disinformation, the officials said. That strategy gets around social media companies’ rules that prohibit ‘inauthentic speech.’”
Wow, that’s pretty scary! Except when you consider that Americans have done a crackerjack job of mind-fucking themselves with disinformation the past several years, coincidentally via this very The New York Times, a figment machine so demented that it has come to resemble the proverbial crazy aunt locked in the attic. The true wonder is the Times’ poverty of imagination, reviving a tattered cockamamie story that bombed abjectly the first time around. I suppose, in a culture addicted to stupid sequels, they expect Robert Mueller will be called back on-duty to sort this one out like he did so nicely before.
Actually, you could make a credible argument that the vaunted US “Intel Community” is a bigger threat to American life than anything the Russians might do on Facebook. Hence, the good news that Mr. Trump has just appointed Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, to the pivotal job as Director of National Intelligence, a position created in 2004 to supposedly coordinate the farflung activities of seventeen armies of spooks and snoops, lately notorious for feeding disinformation to The New York Times and its “Resistance” media allies. Note: right off the bat, The Washington Post characterized Mr. Grenell as a “partisan propagandist,” seeking to disable him from the get-go. One could reasonably assume that the officers of the seventeen intel agencies will do everything possible to work around Mr. Grenell, but he does have the power to ask questions, and to ask additionally the reason why he isn’t getting straight answers, and then to do something about it. Of course, that’s exactly what the Resistance is afraid of.
It was Mr. Grenell’s predecessor, Joseph Maguire, who fecklessly allowed the “whistleblower,” and that phantom’s enabler, ICIG Michael Atkinson, to play the nation on UkraineGate, a hideously embarrassing episode of engineered political subterfuge that instigated the grave process of impeachment, so that the whole world could see exactly how dishonest we are amongst ourselves — more proof that we don’t need Russia’s help sowing disorder and ignominy in our own country. Mr. Grenell might commence by asking some questions about that caper. There’s so much to dig into at the CIA, FBI, and the NSC after three years of deceitful shenanigans that he’ll need a Bucyrus RH400 hydraulic excavator to get the job done.
A History of the Futur... Kunstler, James Howard Best Price: $7.93 Buy New $10.05 (as of 10:30 UTC - Details) The Attorney General sure can use some help. No doubt you saw the circus around the Roger Stone case develop into another Lawfare operation to oust Mr. Barr when a thousand-odd former federal attorneys — including some who signed off falsely on FISA warrants — mobbed up a petition for his resignation. I suspect it only pissed him off and made him more determined to bring cases against some of them. Stone, of course, is a political clown with a weak sense of boundaries who made some legally foolish moves, considering the parlous times. But you can still argue he was treated rather unfairly, since his jury forewoman outed herself as a Resistance activist as soon as the trial concluded and no one, including Judge Amy Berman Jackson, has addressed how that happened.
The General Flynn matter is something else, and goes far deeper into the seditious misuse of US intelligence. Flynn has become the American Dreyfus, an honorable army officer dragged through the muck unjustly by the Intel Community working “six ways from Sunday,” in the immortal words of Senator Chuck Schumer, to prevent its dirty laundry from being aired. His ordeal has gone on for three years and is coming close to climax. The legal devices used to screw General Flynn are known to the public now, including the initial deceitful interrogation by FBI agents Strzok and Pientka, the withholding of exculpatory evidence by his prosecutors (and plenty of other misconduct), and the unethical behavior of his former lawyers from the Swamp firm of Covington and Burling. He’s going to eventually get off this ignoble rap sooner or later, one way or another. Silencing him was probably the key objective in the long train of seditions that I sum up as CoupGate.
It would be best if the federal court itself could clean up the Flynn mess by Judge Emmet Sullivan declaring it a malicious prosecution and throwing out the case, because that would begin to repair the institutional damage. But Mr. Trump might have to pardon him in the end. If he does, I hope he goes on national television and provides a detailed explanation of the aforesaid DOJ misconduct for the public, and I hope he does it from the teleprompter so it will come off clearly and coherently.
Reprinted with permission from Kunstler.com.
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lewrockwell--2020-02-22--How Trump Made the Federal Courts Blink

How Trump Made the Federal Courts Blink

A quick back-and-forth occurred over the last week between President Trump and the nation ’ s federal judges .
After lying to Attorney General Barr about seeking a minimum sentence , the prosecutors in the Roger Stone case ( including two from the Mueller Crew ) entered a harsh sentencing recommendation that he serve a decade behind bars for lying to Congress .
President Trump rightly criticized the prosecutors for their double standard in persecuting one of his political allies while leaving Hillary , Huma , Brennan , Clapper , Comey , McCabe , and countless others free to lie @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with impunity .
The president lit into Judge Amy Berman Jackson while Twitter-jousting by noting that she had not only presided over this political prosecution , gagging Roger Stone in the process , but also allowed the malicious prosecution of the president ’ s former campaign chairman , Paul Manafort , denying him bail and leaving him in solitary confinement during his trial .
Well , the Deep State collectively fainted .
The four lying prosecutors resigned ( as if they had planned this theatric episode beforehand ) .
The press called President @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the 1,100-member Federal Judges Association called for an “ emergency meeting ” that simply “ could not wait.
” Clearly , the Judicial Branch was gearing up for an unprecedented rebuke of the sitting president .
Against the Left : A Ro ... Llewellyn H Rockwell Jr Best Price : $ 13.57 Buy New $ 8.00 A funny thing happened , however , on the way to the courthouse .
Two things , actually .
First , the jury forewoman in Stone ’ s case outed herself as a die-hard Democrat who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ well as a former congressional candidate and far-left activist who still buys into the Russian collusion scam .
She came out to defend the honor of the prosecutors in Stone ’ s case but ended up revealing that , while Judge Jackson silenced Roger Stone from speaking to the public during his trial , the forewoman of the jury was busy posting daily anti-Trump polemics .
Second , rather than cowering in intimidation , President Trump took the opportunity of an “ emergency meeting ” of the federal judges to publicly ask that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Court fraud and the Judiciary ’ s role in perpetrating the greatest political scandal in our nation ’ s history : President Obama ’ s use of the CIA and FBI to spy on the campaign of a presidential candidate from the opposing party and the subsequent use of such criminally obtained information to launch the Mueller probe and overturn the result of the 2016 election .
Judge Jackson has decided to ignore both the jury forewoman ’ s impropriety and Roger Stone ’ s motion for a new trial and sentenced him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , you can take part in a coup and find yourself a paid contributor for cable news , but if you attempt to obstruct a coup , hell hath no fury like the Deep State scorned .
The judges have postponed their planned “ emergency meeting ” indefinitely .
Like most things the president says that cause alarm for the D.C. establishment , it is not the recklessness of his words , but their truthfulness that rattles them , and the more truth he slings their way , the more rattled they become @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to make a consequential mistake by taking on directly the one person in the country not afraid to put the Judicial Branch in its place .

A quick back-and-forth occurred over the last week between President Trump and the nation’s federal judges. After lying to Attorney General Barr about seeking a minimum sentence, the prosecutors in the Roger Stone case (including two from the Mueller Crew) entered a harsh sentencing recommendation that he serve a decade behind bars for lying to Congress. President Trump rightly criticized the prosecutors for their double standard in persecuting one of his political allies while leaving Hillary, Huma, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, McCabe, and countless others free to lie, destroy evidence, and obstruct investigations with impunity. The president lit into Judge Amy Berman Jackson while Twitter-jousting by noting that she had not only presided over this political prosecution, gagging Roger Stone in the process, but also allowed the malicious prosecution of the president’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, denying him bail and leaving him in solitary confinement during his trial.
Well, the Deep State collectively fainted. The four lying prosecutors resigned (as if they had planned this theatric episode beforehand). The press called President Trump a dictator. And the leadership of the 1,100-member Federal Judges Association called for an “emergency meeting” that simply “could not wait.” Clearly, the Judicial Branch was gearing up for an unprecedented rebuke of the sitting president.
Against the Left: A Ro... Rockwell Jr, Llewellyn H Best Price: $2.85 Buy New $8.00 (as of 07:59 UTC - Details) A funny thing happened, however, on the way to the courthouse. Two things, actually. First, the jury forewoman in Stone’s case outed herself as a die-hard Democrat who despises President Trump and his supporters as well as a former congressional candidate and far-left activist who still buys into the Russian collusion scam. She came out to defend the honor of the prosecutors in Stone’s case but ended up revealing that, while Judge Jackson silenced Roger Stone from speaking to the public during his trial, the forewoman of the jury was busy posting daily anti-Trump polemics. Second, rather than cowering in intimidation, President Trump took the opportunity of an “emergency meeting” of the federal judges to publicly ask that they look into the well documented FISA Court fraud and the Judiciary’s role in perpetrating the greatest political scandal in our nation’s history: President Obama’s use of the CIA and FBI to spy on the campaign of a presidential candidate from the opposing party and the subsequent use of such criminally obtained information to launch the Mueller probe and overturn the result of the 2016 election.
Judge Jackson has decided to ignore both the jury forewoman’s impropriety and Roger Stone’s motion for a new trial and sentenced him to forty months behind bars. Apparently, you can take part in a coup and find yourself a paid contributor for cable news, but if you attempt to obstruct a coup, hell hath no fury like the Deep State scorned.
The judges have postponed their planned “emergency meeting” indefinitely. Like most things the president says that cause alarm for the D.C. establishment, it is not the recklessness of his words, but their truthfulness that rattles them, and the more truth he slings their way, the more rattled they become. The judges realized they were about to make a consequential mistake by taking on directly the one person in the country not afraid to put the Judicial Branch in its place.
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