Per the Conman

I have reports of – and have seen – armed government workers in my state ( VA ) menacing businesses that dare to transact business .
Free exchange is now a criminal offense .
Of course , it has been for some time – depending on the free exchange involved .
But it ’ s now general .
You face armed government workers – and their arms – for attempting to serve people a cup of coffee .
The AGWs are prowling around local restaurants , menacing the proprietors if more than ten people are within .
The “ locking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for inmates of prisons ) of America passes almost without comment – and little objection .
The government decrees that people are no longer free to associate ; to freely transact business .
It is the new Answer for Everything .
Or at least , the new justification for everything .
Our freedom – or what we still had of it – now held at gunpoint .
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to “ keep us safe.
” The irony is lost on most people , who seem okay with being told they may not go @ @ @ @ @ @ @ meal or even have a cup of coffee anymore .
On the basis of .
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what , exactly ?
Lots of sick people , yes .
But how many dead people ?
In this country , about 150 so far .
How many of these were very old people vulnerable to any sickness ?
People with some form of immune system debility that makes them vulnerable to any sickness ?
Don ’ t we have a right to know that – since it bears hugely on how many otherwise healthy younger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get briefly sick ?
How long will it be ( the principle being the same ) before the government decrees no more associating , period .
In our homes .
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everywhere ?
This is already happening .
Mass house arrest – aka , “ sheltering in place.
” We are being clearly told who our owners are .
I have been trying for years to get people to understand that principles matter ; that evil precedents set are always expanded upon .
Thirty years ago , the principle that it ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – to randomly stop people and demand they produce “ papers ” as well as prove they are not “ drunk ” set a very dangerous precedent .
It did – and was expanded on .
It became routine to not only subject everyone to police inquisitions on the theory that someone might be a “ drunk ” – but that they might also be an “ evildoer.
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I have reports of – and have seen – armed government workers in my state (VA) menacing businesses that dare to transact business. Free exchange is now a criminal offense. Of course, it has been for some time – depending on the free exchange involved. But it’s now general.
You face armed government workers – and their arms – for attempting to serve people a cup of coffee. The AGWs are prowling around local restaurants, menacing the proprietors if more than ten people are within.
The “locking down” (a term once reserved for inmates of prisons) of America passes almost without comment – and little objection. The government decrees that people are no longer free to associate; to freely transact business.
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It is the new Answer for Everything. Or at least, the new justification for everything. Our freedom – or what we still had of it – now held at gunpoint . . . to “keep us safe.” The irony is lost on most people, who seem okay with being told they may not go work out, sit down for a meal or even have a cup of coffee anymore.
On the basis of . . . what, exactly?
Lots of sick people, yes. But how many dead people? In this country, about 150 so far. How many of these were very old people vulnerable to any sickness? People with some form of immune system debility that makes them vulnerable to any sickness?
Don’t we have a right to know that – since it bears hugely on how many otherwise healthy younger people may die as opposed to just get briefly sick?
How long will it be (the principle being the same) before the government decrees no more associating, period. In our homes . . . everywhere?
This is already happening. Mass house arrest – aka, “sheltering in place.” We are being clearly told who our owners are.
I have been trying for years to get people to understand that principles matter; that evil precedents set are always expanded upon.
Thirty years ago, the principle that it’s morally legitimate – “constitutional” – to randomly stop people and demand they produce “papers” as well as prove they are not “drunk” set a very dangerous precedent.
It did – and was expanded on. It became routine to not only subject everyone to police inquisitions on the theory that someone might be a “drunk” – but that they might also be an “evildoer.”
And now, “sick.”
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lewrockwell--2020-03-21--The Coronavirus Is Not the Plague: the Plague Is US

“ Two categories of propaganda must be distinguished .
The first strives to create a permanent disposition in its objects and constantly needs to be reinforced .
Its goal is to make the masses ‘ available , ’ by working spells upon them and exercising a kind of fascination .
The second category involves the creation of a sort of temporary impulsiveness in its objects .
It operates by simple pressure and is often contradictory ( since contradictory mass movement are sometimes necessary ) .
” – Jacques Ellul , The Technological Society The French-Algerian writer Albert Camus ’ great @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a warning to us today , but a warning in disguise .
When he died sixty years ago at the young age of forty-six , he had already written The Stranger , The Fall , and The Plague , and had won the Nobel Prize for Literature .
The outward story of The Plague revolves around a malignant disease that breaks out in a town that is quarantined when the authorities issue a state of emergency .
After first denying that they have a problem , the people gradually panic and feel painfully @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much like today with the coronavirus .
The authorities declare martial law as they warn that the situation is dire , people must be careful of associating , especially in groups , and they better obey orders or very many will die .
So the town is cordoned off .
The Technological Society Jacques Ellul Best Price : $ 6.50 Buy New $ 9.99 Before this happens and the first signs that something is amiss emerge , the citizens of the town of Oran , Algeria remain oblivious , for they “ work @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of getting rich.
” Bored by their habits , heavily drugging themselves with drink , and watching many movies to distract themselves , they failed to grasp the significance of “ the squelchy roundness of a still-warm body ” of the plague-bearing rats that emerge from their underworld to die in their streets .
“ It was as if the earth on which our houses stood were being purged of their secret humors ; thrusting up to the surface the abscesses and pus-clots that had been forming in its entrails.
” To them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an abstraction , until all their denials are swept aside as the truth emerges from the sewers and their neighbors and families die from the disease .
“ Stupidity has a way of getting its way ; ” the narrator , Dr. Rieux tells us , “ as we should see if we were not always so wrapped up in ourselves … .
plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.
” The American people are wrapped up in themselves .
Nor do they recognize the true rats .
They are easily surprised @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Camus uses a physical plague to disguise his real subject , which is the way people react when they are physically trapped by human rats who demand they obey orders and stay physically and mentally compliant as their freedom is taken from them .
The Plague is an allegorical depiction of the German occupation of France during World War II .
Camus had lived through that experience as a member of the French Resistance .
He was a writer and editor of the underground Resistance newspaper Combat , and with his artist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Plague a revelatory read for today , especially for citizens of the United States , the greatest purveyor of the plague of violence in the world .
We are all infected with the soul-destroying evil that our leaders have loosed upon the world , a plague of killing that is now hidden behind the coronavirus fear that is being used to institute tight government controls that many will come to rue in the months ahead , just as happened after the attacks of September 11 , 2001 .
Coronavirus is a perfect cover-story @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s mind by a propaganda apparatus that has grown even more devious over the past 19 years .
Ask yourself : Where is the news about U.S. military operations in Syria , Afghanistan , Yemen , Iraq , eastern Europe , Africa , Latin America , Asia , etc.
?
There is none in the corporate mainstream media , and little in the alternative media as well .
Have those operations ceased ?
Of course not .
It ’ s just that the news about them , little that it was , has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us and the coronavirus panic .
It is about how many of us might die .
It is about stocking toilet paper .
For the rich , it is about getting to their second or third houses where they can isolate themselves in splendor .
As I write , 150 or so Americans are said to have died of Covid-19 , and by the time you will read this the number will have climbed , but the number will be minuscule compared to the number of people in the U.S.A. and those numbers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ comprehend unless , rather than reacting in fear , they did some comprehensive research .
But arguments are quite useless in a time of panic when people are consumed with fear and just react .
For we live in plague time , and the plague lives in us .
But to most Americans , Covid-19 is the plague , because the government and media have said it is .
Like the inhabitants of Oran , the United States is “ peopled with sleep walkers , ” pseudo-innocents , who are “ chiefly aware @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their lives or affected their interests.
” That their own government , no matter what political party is in power ( both working for “ deep-state , ” elite interests led by the organized criminals of the CIA ) , is the disseminator of a world-wide plague of virulent violence , must be denied and divorced from consensus reality .
That these same forces would use the fear of disease to cow the population should be no surprise for those who have come to realize the truth of the attacks of September 11 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ followed , both of which were used to justify the endless “ wars on terror ” that have killed so many around the world .
It is a shock for so many people who can ’ t countenance the thought that their own government could possibly be implicated in the death of thousands of U.S. citizens and the release of the deadly anthrax , which we know came from a U.S. lab and was carried out by a group of inside government perpetrators .
When it comes to the plague-stricken deaths visited on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the American government , this must be denied by diverting attention to partisan presidential politics , and now the coronavirus that engenders fear , loathing , and a child-like tendency to believe Big Brother .
The true plague , the bedrock of a nation continually waging wars through various means – i.e .
bombs and economic and medical sanctions , etc .
– against the world , disappears from consciousness .
As U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albrecht said to 60 Minutes Lesley Stahl in 1996 when Stahl asked her if the U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the death of 500,000 Iraqi children were worth it : “ We think the price is worth it.
” For “ decent folks must be allowed to sleep at night , ” says the character Tarrou sarcastically ; he is a man who has lost his ability to “ sleep well ” since he witnessed a man ’ s execution where the “ bullets make a hole into which you could thrust your fist.
” He awakens to the realization that he “ had an indirect hand in the deaths of thousands of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had and vows to resist the plague in every way he can .
“ For many years I ’ ve been ashamed , ” he says , “ mortally ashamed , of having been , even with the best intentions , even at many removes , a murderer in my turn.
” The rats are dying in the streets .
They are our rats , diseased by us .
They have emerged from the underworld of a nation plagued by its denial .
Unconscious evil bubbles up .
We are an infected people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are not feelings with which to confront plague.
” But we don ’ t seem ashamed of our complicity in our government ’ s crimes around the world .
For decades we have elected leaders who have killed millions , while business went on as usual .
The killing didn ’ t touch us .
As Camus said , “ We fornicated and read the papers.
” He knew better .
He warned us : Yet the fight against the plague must go on .
Tarrou puts it thus : The Plague Albert @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New $ 11.63 These days , I keep thinking of an incident that occurred when I was a young investigator of sexually transmitted diseases , working for the U.S. Department of Health , Education , and Welfare through the Public Health Service as an epidemiologist .
My job was to track down sexually transmitted diseases by finding links of sexual contacts .
One day I went to interview and take a blood sample from a poor woman who had been named as a sexual contact .
I knocked on her door on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ apartment building .
She looked through the peep hole and asked who it was and I told her my name and what government agency I represented .
I could tell she was very wary , but she opened the door .
She stood there naked , a very heavy woman of perhaps 300 pounds .
She nonchalantly welcomed me in and I followed her as she padded down the hall where she took a housecoat off a hook and put it on .
There is , as you know , an old tale @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Emperor ’ s New Clothes.
” Although the emperor parades around naked , the adults make believe he is clothed .
Only a child sees the obvious .
I was a 23-years-old naïve young man at the time of this unforgettable incident , but it echoes in my mind as a reminder to myself that perhaps that woman was unconsciously teaching me a lesson in disguise .
The year was 1967 , and when I went out to get into my government car with federal license plates , a white man in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a poor black neighborhood , a hail of bricks rained down toward me and the car from the roof opposite .
I quickly jumped in and fled as the ghettos were exploding .
Soon the National Guard would be called out to occupy them .
Intuition tells me that although the emperor has no clothes and a vast PSYOPS occupation is now underway , too many are too grown-up to see it .
It ’ s an old story continually updated .
Like The Plague .
The Best of Edward Curtin

“Two categories of propaganda must be distinguished. The first strives to create a permanent disposition in its objects and constantly needs to be reinforced. Its goal is to make the masses ‘available,’ by working spells upon them and exercising a kind of fascination. The second category involves the creation of a sort of temporary impulsiveness in its objects. It operates by simple pressure and is often contradictory (since contradictory mass movement are sometimes necessary).” – Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society
The French-Algerian writer Albert Camus’ great 1947 novel, The Plague, is a warning to us today, but a warning in disguise. When he died sixty years ago at the young age of forty-six, he had already written The Stranger, The Fall, and The Plague, and had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The outward story of The Plague revolves around a malignant disease that breaks out in a town that is quarantined when the authorities issue a state of emergency. After first denying that they have a problem, the people gradually panic and feel painfully isolated. Death fear runs rampant, much like today with the coronavirus. The authorities declare martial law as they warn that the situation is dire, people must be careful of associating, especially in groups, and they better obey orders or very many will die. So the town is cordoned off.
The Technological Society Jacques Ellul Best Price: $6.50 Buy New $9.99 (as of 12:52 UTC - Details) Before this happens and the first signs that something is amiss emerge, the citizens of the town of Oran, Algeria remain oblivious, for they “work hard, but solely with the object of getting rich.” Bored by their habits, heavily drugging themselves with drink, and watching many movies to distract themselves, they failed to grasp the significance of “the squelchy roundness of a still-warm body” of the plague-bearing rats that emerge from their underworld to die in their streets. “It was as if the earth on which our houses stood were being purged of their secret humors; thrusting up to the surface the abscesses and pus-clots that had been forming in its entrails.” To them the plague is “unthinkable,” an abstraction, until all their denials are swept aside as the truth emerges from the sewers and their neighbors and families die from the disease.
“Stupidity has a way of getting its way;” the narrator, Dr. Rieux tells us, “as we should see if we were not always so wrapped up in ourselves …. plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”
The American people are wrapped up in themselves. Nor do they recognize the true rats. They are easily surprised; fooled would be a better word.
Camus uses a physical plague to disguise his real subject, which is the way people react when they are physically trapped by human rats who demand they obey orders and stay physically and mentally compliant as their freedom is taken from them.
The Plague is an allegorical depiction of the German occupation of France during World War II. Camus had lived through that experience as a member of the French Resistance. He was a writer and editor of the underground Resistance newspaper Combat, and with his artist’s touch he later made The Plague a revelatory read for today, especially for citizens of the United States, the greatest purveyor of the plague of violence in the world.
We are all infected with the soul-destroying evil that our leaders have loosed upon the world, a plague of killing that is now hidden behind the coronavirus fear that is being used to institute tight government controls that many will come to rue in the months ahead, just as happened after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Coronavirus is a perfect cover-story for the occupation of the public’s mind by a propaganda apparatus that has grown even more devious over the past 19 years.
Ask yourself: Where is the news about U.S. military operations in Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia, etc.? There is none in the corporate mainstream media, and little in the alternative media as well. Have those operations ceased? Of course not. It’s just that the news about them, little that it was, has disappeared.
Now it is all about us and the coronavirus panic. It is about how many of us might die. It is about stocking toilet paper. For the rich, it is about getting to their second or third houses where they can isolate themselves in splendor. As I write, 150 or so Americans are said to have died of Covid-19, and by the time you will read this the number will have climbed, but the number will be minuscule compared to the number of people in the U.S.A. and those numbers will be full of contradictions that few comprehend unless, rather than reacting in fear, they did some comprehensive research.
But arguments are quite useless in a time of panic when people are consumed with fear and just react.
For we live in plague time, and the plague lives in us. But to most Americans, Covid-19 is the plague, because the government and media have said it is. Like the inhabitants of Oran, the United States is “peopled with sleep walkers,” pseudo-innocents, who are “chiefly aware of what ruffled the normal tenor of their lives or affected their interests.” That their own government, no matter what political party is in power (both working for “deep-state,” elite interests led by the organized criminals of the CIA), is the disseminator of a world-wide plague of virulent violence, must be denied and divorced from consensus reality.
That these same forces would use the fear of disease to cow the population should be no surprise for those who have come to realize the truth of the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the anthrax attacks that followed, both of which were used to justify the endless “wars on terror” that have killed so many around the world. It is a shock for so many people who can’t countenance the thought that their own government could possibly be implicated in the death of thousands of U.S. citizens and the release of the deadly anthrax, which we know came from a U.S. lab and was carried out by a group of inside government perpetrators.
When it comes to the plague-stricken deaths visited on millions around the world for decades by the American government, this must be denied by diverting attention to partisan presidential politics, and now the coronavirus that engenders fear, loathing, and a child-like tendency to believe Big Brother. The true plague, the bedrock of a nation continually waging wars through various means – i.e. bombs and economic and medical sanctions, etc. – against the world, disappears from consciousness. As U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albrecht said to 60 Minutes Lesley Stahl in 1996 when Stahl asked her if the U.S. sanctions on Iraq that had resulted in the death of 500,000 Iraqi children were worth it: “We think the price is worth it.”
For “decent folks must be allowed to sleep at night,” says the character Tarrou sarcastically; he is a man who has lost his ability to “sleep well” since he witnessed a man’s execution where the “bullets make a hole into which you could thrust your fist.” He awakens to the realization that he “had an indirect hand in the deaths of thousands of people.” He loses any peace he had and vows to resist the plague in every way he can. “For many years I’ve been ashamed,” he says, “mortally ashamed, of having been, even with the best intentions, even at many removes, a murderer in my turn.”
The rats are dying in the streets. They are our rats, diseased by us. They have emerged from the underworld of a nation plagued by its denial. Unconscious evil bubbles up. We are an infected people. Worry and irritation – “these are not feelings with which to confront plague.” But we don’t seem ashamed of our complicity in our government’s crimes around the world. For decades we have elected leaders who have killed millions, while business went on as usual. The killing didn’t touch us. As Camus said, “We fornicated and read the papers.” He knew better. He warned us:
It’s a wearying business being plague-stricken. But it’s still more wearying to refuse to be it. That’s why everybody in the world looks so tired; everyone is more or less sick of plague. But that is why some of us, those who want to get the plague out of their systems, feel such desperate weariness.
Yet the fight against the plague must go on. Tarrou puts it thus:
All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it’s up to us, as far possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can’t judge if it’s simple, but I know it’s true. You see, I’d heard such quantities of arguments, which very nearly turned my head, and turned other people’s heads enough to make them approve of murder; and I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. So I resolved always to speak – and to act – quite clearly, as this was the only way of setting myself on the right track.
The Plague Albert Camus Best Price: $7.49 Buy New $11.63 (as of 12:52 UTC - Details) These days, I keep thinking of an incident that occurred when I was a young investigator of sexually transmitted diseases, working for the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare through the Public Health Service as an epidemiologist. My job was to track down sexually transmitted diseases by finding links of sexual contacts. One day I went to interview and take a blood sample from a poor woman who had been named as a sexual contact. I knocked on her door on the third or fourth floor of a walkup apartment building. She looked through the peep hole and asked who it was and I told her my name and what government agency I represented. I could tell she was very wary, but she opened the door. She stood there naked, a very heavy woman of perhaps 300 pounds. She nonchalantly welcomed me in and I followed her as she padded down the hall where she took a housecoat off a hook and put it on.
There is, as you know, an old tale by Hans Christian Anderson called “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Although the emperor parades around naked, the adults make believe he is clothed. Only a child sees the obvious. I was a 23-years-old naïve young man at the time of this unforgettable incident, but it echoes in my mind as a reminder to myself that perhaps that woman was unconsciously teaching me a lesson in disguise. The year was 1967, and when I went out to get into my government car with federal license plates, a white man in a white shirt in a white car in a poor black neighborhood, a hail of bricks rained down toward me and the car from the roof opposite. I quickly jumped in and fled as the ghettos were exploding. Soon the National Guard would be called out to occupy them.
Intuition tells me that although the emperor has no clothes and a vast PSYOPS occupation is now underway, too many are too grown-up to see it.
It’s an old story continually updated. Like The Plague.
The Best of Edward Curtin


lewrockwell--2020-03-21--The State Is Not Your Friend

The State Is Not Your Friend

Before we get to today ’ s essay , a quick note on the gold markets… Regular readers know our founder , Doug Casey , sees gold as the ultimate safe-haven asset .
So if you ’ re wondering why gold has been taking a hit this week amid massive sell-offs on Wall Street , you ’ re not alone .
But it ’ s still an important protective asset to hold for the long term .
In fact , we ’ ve seen this happen before – take the recession of 2008 .
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And we see another breakout on the horizon .
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Panic selling is the worst course of action today .
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Now… Onto today ’ s essay .
Read on to see why our founder is “ quite pessimistic about the future of freedom in the US ” … especially in light of the recent heavy-handed restrictions due to coronavirus… The Real Crash : Americ ... Schiff , Peter D. Best Price : $ 3.00 Buy New $ 9.55 Allow me to say a few things that some of you may find shocking , offensive , or even incomprehensible .
On the other hand , I suspect many or most of you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t crystallized your thoughts , or are hesitant to express them .
I wonder if it will be safe to say them in another five years… You ’ re likely aware that I ’ m a libertarian .
But I ’ m actually more than a libertarian , I ’ m an anarcho-capitalist .
In other words , I actually don ’ t believe in the right of the State to exist .
Why not ?
The State isn ’ t a magical entity ; it ’ s a parasite on society .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and would be , provided by entrepreneurs seeking a profit .
And would be better and cheaper by virtue of that .
More important , the State represents institutionalized coercion .
It has a monopoly of force , and that ’ s always extremely dangerous .
As Mao Tse-tung , lately one of the world ’ s leading experts on government , said : “ The power of the State comes out of a barrel of a gun.
” The State is not your friend .
There are two possible ways for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ either voluntarily or coercively .
The State is pure institutionalized coercion .
As such , it ’ s not just unnecessary , but antithetical , to a civilized society .
And that ’ s increasingly true as technology advances .
It was never moral , but at least it was possible in oxcart days for bureaucrats to order things around .
Today the idea is ridiculous .
The State is a dead hand that imposes itself on society , mainly benefitting those who control it , and their cronies .
It shouldn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ abolished .
That belief makes me , of course , an anarchist .
People have a misconception about anarchists – that they ’ re violent people , running around in black capes with little round bombs .
This is nonsense .
Of course there are violent anarchists .
There are violent dentists .
There are violent Christians .
Violence , however , has nothing to do with anarchism .
Anarchism is simply a belief that a ruler isn ’ t necessary , that society organizes itself , that individuals own themselves , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s always been a battle between the individual and the collective .
I ’ m on the side of the individual .
An anarcho-capitalist simply doesn ’ t believe anyone has a right to initiate aggression against anyone else .
Is that an unreasonable belief ?
Let me put it this way .
Since government is institutionalized coercion – a very dangerous thing – if you want a government it should do nothing but protect people in its bailiwick from physical coercion .
What does that imply ?
It implies a police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its boundaries , an army to protect you from coercion from outsiders , and a court system to allow you to adjudicate disputes without resorting to coercion .
I could live happily enough with a government that did just those things .
Unfortunately , the US Government is only marginally competent in providing services in those three areas .
Instead , it tries to do everything else conceivable .
The argument can be made that the largest criminal entity today is not some Colombian cocaine gang , but the US Government .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ They have a legal monopoly on the force to do anything they want with you .
Don ’ t conflate the government with America ; they ’ re different and separate entities .
The US Government has its own interests , as distinct as those of General Motors or the Mafia .
In fact , I ’ d probably rather deal with the Mafia than I would with any agency of the US Government .
Even under the worst circumstances – even if the Mafia controlled the United States – I don ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would try to steal 40 % of people ’ s income every year .
They couldn ’ t get away with it .
But – because we ’ re said to be a democracy – the US Government is able to masquerade as “ We the People , ” and pull it off .
Incidentally , the idea of democracy is an anachronism , at best .
The US has mutated into a domestic multicultural empire .
The average person has been propagandized into believing that it ’ s patriotic to do as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ need libraries of regulations , and I ’ m happy to pay my taxes .
It ’ s the price we pay for civilization.
” No , that ’ s just the opposite of the fact .
Those things are signs that civilization is degrading , that the members of society are becoming less individually responsible .
And therefore , that the country has to be held together by force .
It ’ s all about control .
Power corrupts , and absolute power corrupts absolutely .
The type of people that gravitate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Contrary to what we ’ re told to think , that ’ s why the worst people – not the best – want to get into government .
What about voting ?
Can that change and improve things ?
Unlikely .
I can give you five reasons why you should not vote in an election ( see this article ) .
See if you agree .
Hark back to the ’ 60s when they said , “ Suppose they gave a war and nobody came ?
” But let ’ s take @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tax and nobody paid ?
Suppose they gave an election and nobody voted ?
That would delegitimize the State .
I therefore applaud the fact that only half of Americans vote – although it ’ s out of apathy , not as a philosophical statement .
If that number dropped to 25 % , 10 % , then 0 % , perhaps everybody would look around and say , “ Wait a minute , none of us believe in this evil charade .
I don ’ t like Tweedledee from the left wing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I like Tweedledum from its right wing… ” Remember , you don ’ t get the best and the brightest going into government .
That ’ s because there are two kinds of people .
You ’ ve got people that like to control physical reality – things .
And people that like to control other people .
That second group , those who like to lord it over their fellows , are naturally drawn to government and politics .
Some might ask : “ Aren ’ t you loyal to America ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ these terrible things ?
” My response is , “ Of course I ’ m loyal to America , but America is an idea , it ’ s not necessarily a place .
At least not any longer… ” America was once unique among the world ’ s countries .
Unfortunately that ’ s no longer the case .
The idea is still unique , but the country no longer is .
I ’ ll go further than that .
It ’ s said that you ’ re supposed to be loyal to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s a revelation .
I have less in common with my average fellow American than I do with friends of mine in the Congo , or Argentina , or China .
The reason is that I share values with my friends ; we look at the world the same way , and have the same worldview .
But how much do I have in common with my fellow Americans who live in the trailer parks , barrios , and ghettos ?
Or even Hollywood and Washington ?
Not much .
How much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your fellow Americans who support Bernie Sanders , AOC , antifa , or Elizabeth Warren ?
You probably have very little in common with them , besides sharing the same government ID .
Most of your fellow Americans are actually welfare recipients , dependent on the State in some way .
And therefore an active threat to your personal freedom and economic wellbeing .
Everyone has to be judged as an individual .
So I choose my countrymen based on their character and beliefs , not their nationality .
The fact we may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accident of birth .
Those who find that thought offensive likely suffer from a psychological aberration called “ nationalism ” ; in serious cases it may become “ jingoism.
” The authorities and the general public prefer to call it “ patriotism.
” It ’ s understandable , though .
Everyone , including the North Koreans , tends to identify with the place they were born , and the State that rules them .
But that should be fairly low on any list of virtues .
Nationalism is the belief that my country @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just because I happen to have been born there .
It ’ s scary any time , but most virulent during wars and elections .
It ’ s like watching a bunch of chimpanzees hooting and panting at another tribe of chimpanzees across the watering hole .
50 Pcs Masks Disposabl ... Buy New $ 29.89 It ’ s actually dangerous not to be a nationalist , especially as the State grows more powerful .
The growth of the State is actually destroying the idea of America .
Over the last 100 years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exponential rate ; it ’ s the enemy of the individual .
I see no reason why this trend is going to stop .
And certainly no reason why it ’ s going to reverse .
Even though the election of Trump in 2016 was vastly preferable to Hillary from a personal freedom and economic prosperity point of view , it hardly amounts to a change in trend .
The decline of the US is like a giant snowball rolling downhill from the top of the mountain .
It could have been stopped @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the thing is a behemoth .
If you stand in its way you ’ ll get crushed .
It will stop only when it smashes the village at the bottom of the valley .
I ’ m quite pessimistic about the future of freedom in the US .
It ’ s been in a downtrend for many decades .
But the events of September 11 , 2001 , turbocharged the loss of liberty in the US .
At some point either foreign or domestic enemies will cause another 9/11 , either real or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – and we will have another one – the State will lock down the US like one of their numerous new prisons .
I was afraid that the shooting deaths and injuries of several hundred people in Las Vegas on October 1 , 2017 , might have been the catalyst .
But , strangely , the news cycle has driven on , leaving scores of serious unanswered questions in its wake .
No competent reporting , and about zero public concern .
Further testimony to the degraded state of the US today .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ unpleasant in the US at some point soon .
It seems to me the inevitable is becoming imminent .
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The Real Crash: Americ... Schiff, Peter D. Best Price: $3.00 Buy New $9.55 (as of 12:25 UTC - Details) Allow me to say a few things that some of you may find shocking, offensive, or even incomprehensible. On the other hand, I suspect many or most of you may agree – but either haven’t crystallized your thoughts, or are hesitant to express them. I wonder if it will be safe to say them in another five years…
You’re likely aware that I’m a libertarian. But I’m actually more than a libertarian, I’m an anarcho-capitalist. In other words, I actually don’t believe in the right of the State to exist. Why not? The State isn’t a magical entity; it’s a parasite on society. Anything useful the State does could be, and would be, provided by entrepreneurs seeking a profit. And would be better and cheaper by virtue of that.
More important, the State represents institutionalized coercion. It has a monopoly of force, and that’s always extremely dangerous. As Mao Tse-tung, lately one of the world’s leading experts on government, said: “The power of the State comes out of a barrel of a gun.” The State is not your friend.
There are two possible ways for people to relate to each other: either voluntarily or coercively. The State is pure institutionalized coercion. As such, it’s not just unnecessary, but antithetical, to a civilized society. And that’s increasingly true as technology advances. It was never moral, but at least it was possible in oxcart days for bureaucrats to order things around. Today the idea is ridiculous.
The State is a dead hand that imposes itself on society, mainly benefitting those who control it, and their cronies. It shouldn’t be reformed; it should be abolished. That belief makes me, of course, an anarchist.
People have a misconception about anarchists – that they’re violent people, running around in black capes with little round bombs. This is nonsense. Of course there are violent anarchists. There are violent dentists. There are violent Christians. Violence, however, has nothing to do with anarchism. Anarchism is simply a belief that a ruler isn’t necessary, that society organizes itself, that individuals own themselves, and the State is actually counterproductive.
It’s always been a battle between the individual and the collective. I’m on the side of the individual. An anarcho-capitalist simply doesn’t believe anyone has a right to initiate aggression against anyone else. Is that an unreasonable belief?
Let me put it this way. Since government is institutionalized coercion – a very dangerous thing – if you want a government it should do nothing but protect people in its bailiwick from physical coercion.
What does that imply? It implies a police force to protect you from coercion within its boundaries, an army to protect you from coercion from outsiders, and a court system to allow you to adjudicate disputes without resorting to coercion.
I could live happily enough with a government that did just those things. Unfortunately, the US Government is only marginally competent in providing services in those three areas. Instead, it tries to do everything else conceivable.
The argument can be made that the largest criminal entity today is not some Colombian cocaine gang, but the US Government. And they’re far more dangerous. They have a legal monopoly on the force to do anything they want with you. Don’t conflate the government with America; they’re different and separate entities. The US Government has its own interests, as distinct as those of General Motors or the Mafia. In fact, I’d probably rather deal with the Mafia than I would with any agency of the US Government.
Even under the worst circumstances – even if the Mafia controlled the United States – I don’t believe Tony Soprano or Al Capone would try to steal 40% of people’s income every year. They couldn’t get away with it. But – because we’re said to be a democracy – the US Government is able to masquerade as “We the People,” and pull it off.
Incidentally, the idea of democracy is an anachronism, at best. The US has mutated into a domestic multicultural empire. The average person has been propagandized into believing that it’s patriotic to do as he’s told. “We need libraries of regulations, and I’m happy to pay my taxes. It’s the price we pay for civilization.” No, that’s just the opposite of the fact. Those things are signs that civilization is degrading, that the members of society are becoming less individually responsible. And therefore, that the country has to be held together by force.
It’s all about control. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The type of people that gravitate to government like to control other people. Contrary to what we’re told to think, that’s why the worst people – not the best – want to get into government.
What about voting? Can that change and improve things? Unlikely. I can give you five reasons why you should not vote in an election (see this article). See if you agree.
Hark back to the ’60s when they said, “Suppose they gave a war and nobody came?” But let’s take it further: Suppose they gave a tax and nobody paid? Suppose they gave an election and nobody voted? That would delegitimize the State.
I therefore applaud the fact that only half of Americans vote – although it’s out of apathy, not as a philosophical statement. If that number dropped to 25%, 10%, then 0%, perhaps everybody would look around and say, “Wait a minute, none of us believe in this evil charade. I don’t like Tweedledee from the left wing of the Demopublican Party any more than I like Tweedledum from its right wing…”
Remember, you don’t get the best and the brightest going into government. That’s because there are two kinds of people. You’ve got people that like to control physical reality – things. And people that like to control other people. That second group, those who like to lord it over their fellows, are naturally drawn to government and politics.
Some might ask: “Aren’t you loyal to America?” and “How can you say these terrible things?” My response is, “Of course I’m loyal to America, but America is an idea, it’s not necessarily a place. At least not any longer…”
America was once unique among the world’s countries. Unfortunately that’s no longer the case. The idea is still unique, but the country no longer is.
I’ll go further than that. It’s said that you’re supposed to be loyal to your fellow Americans. Well, here’s a revelation. I have less in common with my average fellow American than I do with friends of mine in the Congo, or Argentina, or China. The reason is that I share values with my friends; we look at the world the same way, and have the same worldview. But how much do I have in common with my fellow Americans who live in the trailer parks, barrios, and ghettos? Or even Hollywood and Washington? Not much.
How much do you really have in common with your fellow Americans who support Bernie Sanders, AOC, antifa, or Elizabeth Warren?
You probably have very little in common with them, besides sharing the same government ID. Most of your fellow Americans are actually welfare recipients, dependent on the State in some way. And therefore an active threat to your personal freedom and economic wellbeing.
Everyone has to be judged as an individual. So I choose my countrymen based on their character and beliefs, not their nationality. The fact we may all carry US passports is simply an accident of birth.
Those who find that thought offensive likely suffer from a psychological aberration called “nationalism”; in serious cases it may become “jingoism.” The authorities and the general public prefer to call it “patriotism.”
It’s understandable, though. Everyone, including the North Koreans, tends to identify with the place they were born, and the State that rules them. But that should be fairly low on any list of virtues. Nationalism is the belief that my country is the best country in the world just because I happen to have been born there. It’s scary any time, but most virulent during wars and elections. It’s like watching a bunch of chimpanzees hooting and panting at another tribe of chimpanzees across the watering hole. 50 Pcs Masks Disposabl... Buy New $29.89 (as of 04:59 UTC - Details)
It’s actually dangerous not to be a nationalist, especially as the State grows more powerful. The growth of the State is actually destroying the idea of America. Over the last 100 years, the State has grown at an exponential rate; it’s the enemy of the individual. I see no reason why this trend is going to stop. And certainly no reason why it’s going to reverse. Even though the election of Trump in 2016 was vastly preferable to Hillary from a personal freedom and economic prosperity point of view, it hardly amounts to a change in trend.
The decline of the US is like a giant snowball rolling downhill from the top of the mountain. It could have been stopped early in its descent, but now the thing is a behemoth. If you stand in its way you’ll get crushed. It will stop only when it smashes the village at the bottom of the valley.
I’m quite pessimistic about the future of freedom in the US. It’s been in a downtrend for many decades. But the events of September 11, 2001, turbocharged the loss of liberty in the US. At some point either foreign or domestic enemies will cause another 9/11, either real or imagined.
When there is another 9/11 – and we will have another one – the State will lock down the US like one of their numerous new prisons. I was afraid that the shooting deaths and injuries of several hundred people in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017, might have been the catalyst. But, strangely, the news cycle has driven on, leaving scores of serious unanswered questions in its wake. No competent reporting, and about zero public concern. Further testimony to the degraded state of the US today.
It’s going to become very unpleasant in the US at some point soon. It seems to me the inevitable is becoming imminent.
Reprinted with permission from Casey Research.
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lewrockwell--2020-03-21--Bioweapons Expert Speaks Out About Novel Coronavirus

As you know , a novel coronavirus ( initially labeled 2019-nCOV before being renamed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization1 ) originating in Wuhan City , Hubei Province in China , is rapidly spreading across the world .
The first case was reported in Wuhan on December 21 , 2019 .
Symptoms include fever , shortness of breath , severe cough and pneumonia which , in more severe cases , can lead to impaired kidney and liver function and kidney failure.2,3 On January 21 , 2020 , the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first U.S. case4 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had recently visited Wuhan .
Then , the first U.S. death was reported February 29 , 2020 , in Washington state.5 Less than a week later , CBS News reported March 5 , 2020 , that the number of deaths had quickly risen to 11 nationwide in the U.S. — 10 in Washington state and one in California.6 Not only that , but as of that day , “ The World Health Organization urged governments around the world to pull out ‘ all the stops ’ ” to fight the outbreak .
On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be over the worst ” of it , CBS said .
Headwear , Head Wrap , N ... Buy New $ 17.99 All told , as of March 5 , 2020 , there were 98,067 reported cases of novel coronavirus infections affecting 88 countries , 80,430 of which were in China .
Worldometer.info provides an easy overview of confirmed cases and deaths that you can check for the latest statistics.7 In this interview , Francis Boyle — whose background includes an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago , a juris doctor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Ph.D. in political science — shares his theory of the origin of this novel coronavirus .
For decades , he ’ s advocated against the development and use of bioweapons , which he suspects COVID-19 is .
In fact , Boyle was the one who called for biowarfare legislation at the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972 , and the one who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 , which was passed unanimously by both houses of Congress and signed into law by George Bush , Sr. At the time of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , more than 50,000 people in China had been infected with the virus .
Certainly , it does not originate from infected bat soup .
As a result of Boyle ’ s antibiological warfare work , which goes back to the early days of the Reagan administration — a time in which they were using DNA genetic engineering to manufacture biological weapons — Boyle has carefully followed “ mysterious outbreaks of disease in both humans and animals around the world ” that have appeared since then .
The first reported case of COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Depending on the incubation period , which is still unknown , the initial lead , provided there was one , might have occurred anywhere in November .
The official estimate is a 14-day incubation period , but a British health expert believes it ’ s 24 days , and North Korean biological warfare experts believe it ’ s 30 days , Boyle says .
When asked about rumors the COVID-19 virus might have been stolen from a high-security laboratory in Winnipeg , Canada , Boyle says : Despite Laws , Biowarfare Experimentation Is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ... Buy New $ 16.99 ( $ 0.34 / Count ) As noted by Boyle , the Wuhan lab is a designated WHO research lab , which may sound odd , considering these facilities specialize in developing and researching dangerous pathogens that can easily be turned into bioweapons .
According to Boyle , we should not be surprised however , as “ WHO is up to its eyeballs in this type of work and has been for quite some time.
” The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the drug industry @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in many of the outbreaks of what appear to be weaponized viruses .
According to Boyle , the U.S. government spent $ 100 billion on biological warfare programs since September 11 , 2011 , up until October 2015 , which is no small sum .
To put it into perspective , the U.S. spent $ 40 billion ( assuming a constant dollar value ) on the Manhattan Project , which developed the atomic bomb .
Boyle also estimates the U.S. has some 13,000 life scientists working within the biowarfare industry .
While there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ number of reported cases of COVID-19 infection in the U.S. , the U.S. military has designated several detention sites around the country to quarantine Americans,8 should the situation take a turn for the worse .
Historically speaking , however , government health officials have been vastly exaggerating the threat of pandemics in the U.S. , including the bird flu , the swine flu , anthrax and Ebola .
For example , as detailed in my 2009 New York Times bestseller “ The Great Bird Flu Hoax , ” then-President George Bush Jr. projected @ @ @ @ @ @ @ flu ; the best-case scenario taking only 200,000 lives .
The final death count in the U.S. from that pandemic was zero .
It generated massive profits , though , as U.S. taxpayer dollars were used to purchase 20 million doses of Tamiflu .
One of the people who was able to line his pockets from that hoax was defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld , who was president of Gilead Sciences when the drug was created .
Whether or not COVID-19 will be similarly ineffective in its spread and lethality remains to be seen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ it doesn ’ t look very good , ” Boyle says .
According to Boyle , the COVID-19 virus is a chimera , like the avian flu virus before it .
It includes SARS , an already weaponized coronavirus , along with HIV genetic material .
“ That was in a published article by Indian scientists .
You could see the pictures right there , [ but ] political pressure was brought to bear upon them so they withdrew [ the paper ] .
” This is why some scientists are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ treat it,9 Boyle says .
COVID-19 may also have a flu virus mixed in , along with gain of function properties that allow it to spread a greater distance than normal .
3M Safety Glasses , Vir ... Best Price : $ 10.99 Buy New $ 8.19 Pandemics Repeatedly Used to Further Police State Pandemics have also been used to chip away public freedoms .
For example , the anthrax scare of 2001 was used as the impetus for signing the Patriot Act , which was the first step in taking away many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a complete surveillance state .
To me , such outcomes are far more concerning than the risk of infection itself .
Boyle adds : As noted by Boyle , George Orwell ’ s book , “ 1984 , ” has become reality .
Boyle has since lectured lawyers at DePaul Law School in Chicago about the totalitarian nature of the Patriot Act .
Bioweapons Are Developed To Be Used As noted by Boyle , the U.S. government has a large stockpile of Amerithrax — a super weapons-grade nanotechnology anthrax with 1 trillion spores @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just the tip of the iceberg of the biological weapons developed .
What ’ s more , Boyle has no doubt these weapons will eventually be put to use , as they have in the past .
He says : Indeed , Johns Hopkins University is the biggest recipient of research grants from federal agencies , including the National Institutes of Health , National Science Foundation and Department of Defense .
It has also received millions of dollars in research grants from the Gates Foundation.12 In 2016 , Johns Hopkins spent more than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leading all U.S. universities in research spending for the 38th year in a row.13 How Can We Best Prevent or Treat COVID-19 Infection ?
While it ’ s unclear exactly which treatment is the most effective , my guess is that Dr. Paul Marik ’ s intravenous vitamin C protocol for sepsis would be a good starting point , seeing how sepsis appears to be what kills those who succumb to a serious COVID-19 infection .
Marik ’ s retrospective before-after clinical study14,15 showed that giving patients IV vitamin C with hydrocortisone and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from 40 % to 8.5 % .
The precise protocol used was 200 mg of thiamine every 12 hours , 1,500 mg of ascorbic acid every six hours , and 50 mg of hydrocortisone every six hours.16 Importantly , the treatment has no side effects and is inexpensive , readily available and simple to administer .
According to Marik , vitamin C and corticosteroids have a synergistic effect,17 which is part of why his combo protocol is so effective .
Still , simply using high-dose IV vitamin C exclusively has been shown to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ acute respiratory failure , reducing mortality from 46 % to 30 % .18 Gloves Latex Free , Glo ... Buy New $ 14.89 ( $ 14.89 / Count ) It also reduced the number of days they needed to remain hospitalized .
On average , those who received vitamin C had by Day 28 spent three fewer days in the intensive care unit than the placebo group ( seven days compared to 10 ) .
By Day 60 , the treatment group had also spent seven fewer days in the hospital overall —15 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no trials that look at integrating hyperbaric oxygen therapy ( HBOT ) , my suspicion is that this would provide a powerful synergy that could get the fatality rate from sepsis even closer to zero .
Sadly , HBOT is not available at many hospitals , and even if it were , it is not approved for sepsis .
You can learn more about Marik ’ s sepsis protocol in “ Vitamin C — A Game Changer in Treatment of Deadly Sepsis , ” along with commonsense recommendations for how to lower your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
You can also review Marik ’ s PowerPoint presentation , “ Hydrocortisone , Ascorbic Acid and Thiamine for the Treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock , ” presented at the 2020 Critical Care Reviews meeting in Australia .
For COVID-19 at-home care advice from the WHO , please see “ Novel Coronavirus — The Latest Pandemic Scare.
” One of the Most Powerful Videos I ’ ve Ever Seen The following video from Barbara Loe Fisher is one of the most powerful videos that I have ever seen .
I am @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you to take up the cause and join the fight for vaccine freedom and independence .
There is a cultural war and collusion between many industries and federal regulatory agencies that results in a suppression of the truth about vital important health issues .
If this suppression continues we will gradually and progressively erode our private individual rights that our ancestors fought so hard to achieve .
Please take a few minutes to watch this video .
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As you know, a novel coronavirus (initially labeled 2019-nCOV before being renamed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization1) originating in Wuhan City, Hubei Province in China, is rapidly spreading across the world.
The first case was reported in Wuhan on December 21, 2019. Symptoms include fever, shortness of breath, severe cough and pneumonia which, in more severe cases, can lead to impaired kidney and liver function and kidney failure.2,3
On January 21, 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first U.S. case4 — a patient in Washington state who had recently visited Wuhan. Then, the first U.S. death was reported February 29, 2020, in Washington state.5
Less than a week later, CBS News reported March 5, 2020, that the number of deaths had quickly risen to 11 nationwide in the U.S. — 10 in Washington state and one in California.6 Not only that, but as of that day, “The World Health Organization urged governments around the world to pull out ‘all the stops’” to fight the outbreak. On the up side, China “appeared to be over the worst” of it, CBS said. Headwear, Head Wrap, N... Buy New $17.99 (as of 11:56 UTC - Details)
All told, as of March 5, 2020, there were 98,067 reported cases of novel coronavirus infections affecting 88 countries, 80,430 of which were in China. Worldometer.info provides an easy overview of confirmed cases and deaths that you can check for the latest statistics.7
COVID-19 — A Weaponized Coronavirus?
In this interview, Francis Boyle — whose background includes an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago, a juris doctor (lawyer) degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. in political science — shares his theory of the origin of this novel coronavirus.
For decades, he’s advocated against the development and use of bioweapons, which he suspects COVID-19 is. In fact, Boyle was the one who called for biowarfare legislation at the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972, and the one who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, which was passed unanimously by both houses of Congress and signed into law by George Bush, Sr.
At the time of this recording, February 14, 2020, more than 50,000 people in China had been infected with the virus. Certainly, it does not originate from infected bat soup.
As a result of Boyle’s antibiological warfare work, which goes back to the early days of the Reagan administration — a time in which they were using DNA genetic engineering to manufacture biological weapons — Boyle has carefully followed “mysterious outbreaks of disease in both humans and animals around the world” that have appeared since then.
“My biowarfare antiterrorism act was specifically designed to not only to deal with regular biological weapons but also with DNA genetic engineering for biological weapons that was just coming into its infancy when the BWC was being drafted.
Even though the BWC would cover DNA genetic engineering, I wanted to make it clear by name that it was covered. I also made it clear [that] it covered synthetic biology as well,” Boyle says.
“So, when these unexplained mysterious illnesses break out, I monitor them a while and usually I just conclude they can be explained by normal reasons: lack of sanitation, poverty, things of that nature. But in Wuhan it seemed pretty suspicious to me.
There is this Biosafety Level 4 facility there in Wuhan. It’s the first in China, and it was specifically set up to deal with the coronavirus and SARS. SARS is basically a weaponized version of the coronavirus.
There have been leaks before of SARS out of this facility, and indeed the only reason for these BSL-4 facilities, based on my experience, is the research, development, testing and stockpiling of offensive biological weapons.
For that reason, I stated my opinion: That this Wuhan coronavirus leaked out of that BSL-4 facility … maybe mid-November … and the Chinese government has been lying about it and covering up ever since.”
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The first reported case of COVID-19 infection was December 1, 2019. Depending on the incubation period, which is still unknown, the initial lead, provided there was one, might have occurred anywhere in November. The official estimate is a 14-day incubation period, but a British health expert believes it’s 24 days, and North Korean biological warfare experts believe it’s 30 days, Boyle says.
“As for Wuhan and Hubei Province, they’re basically under martial law. There’s no other word for it. If you read the statements by President Xi and his assistants, they’ve made it very clear they’re at war here, and that is correct. They’re at war with their own biological warfare agent.
President Xi just fired the party apparatchiks in charge of this and has brought in trusted military personnel to handle it, as well as large numbers of PLA [People’s Liberation Army] forces saying they’re health care workers. They don’t look like health care workers to me. So, as of now, that’s my best reading of the situation.”
When asked about rumors the COVID-19 virus might have been stolen from a high-security laboratory in Winnipeg, Canada, Boyle says:
“It could have been. I want to make it clear that, in my opinion they were already working on that at the Wuhan BSL-4 facility. They were working on a biological warfare weapon involving SARS, which is a coronavirus to begin with.
We do know that Dr. [Yoshihiro] Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin … resurrected the Spanish flu virus for the Pentagon, obviously for weapons purposes, and he specializes in mating the Spanish flu virus to all sorts of hideous biowarfare instrumentalities. And there was a record of him shipping his products to Winnipeg.
Winnipeg is Canada’s equivalent of our own Fort Detrick. It’s a BSL-4 facility, and yes, they research, develop tests, manufacture and stockpile every type of hideous biological warfare weapon that we know of. So, some of this technology could have been stolen from Winnipeg. I don’t know about that but, as I said, the Wuhan BSL-4 was already working on this to begin with.
They had already developed SARS. SARS had leaked out two to three times before this, and it seems they were turbocharging SARS, which is what [COVID-19] looks to be. This is a brand-new generation of biowarfare weapons we haven’t seen before.
Its lethality goes from 15%, as estimated by Lancet, up to 17% to 18% by a British health official and even Chinese statistics. Its infectivity is 83%. It can infect maybe three to four people for every person infected.
It has gain of function properties, which means it travels through air at least 6 or 7 feet, and … there are reports that even contaminated human feces give it off, that the human feces radiate off maybe 6 or 7 feet. So, we’ve never seen anything like this before in the history of biological warfare, at least in the public record.
I want to make it clear: I have never worked for the United States government. I’ve never had a security clearance. I’ve never had access to any type of secret information.
I just read what is in the public record and the scientific record and try to draw my own conclusions, and that’s what I’m giving you today. I could change my opinion if people can provide me reputable scientific evidence to the contrary.
Right now, I’m standing by my conclusion that it leaked out of the Wuhan BSL-4, the highest level of the Chinese government has known about it, they’ve been covering it up from the get-go, until they informed the WHO at the end of December.”
Despite Laws, Biowarfare Experimentation Is Alive and Well
Caxinthy 50 PCS Dispos... Buy New $16.99 ($0.34 / Count) (as of 11:56 UTC - Details) As noted by Boyle, the Wuhan lab is a designated WHO research lab, which may sound odd, considering these facilities specialize in developing and researching dangerous pathogens that can easily be turned into bioweapons.
According to Boyle, we should not be surprised however, as “WHO is up to its eyeballs in this type of work and has been for quite some time.” The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the drug industry also appear to have had their hand in many of the outbreaks of what appear to be weaponized viruses.
“I won’t go through the long history of big pharma getting involved in this. There’s huge amounts of money here. I believe the West Africa Ebola pandemic originated out of the US BSL-4 facility in Sierra Leone, and [that] they were testing out a so-called vaccine that contained live Ebola and gave it to these poor people,” Boyle says.
“As for the CDC, it has been involved in every … BSL-4 biological warfare death science you could possibly imagine … It’s a matter of public record that during the Reagan administration, the CDC and the American Type Culture Collection sent 40 shipments of weapons-grade biological warfare agents to Saddam Hussein in Iraq, in the hope and expectation that he would weaponize these agents and use them against Iran …
Of course, the problem is that when that war was over … an order was given to U.S. military forces to blow up Saddam Hussein’s biological warfare facilities, and that’s not how you deal with biological warfare weapons …
[It] contaminated our own troops, and that was a causative factor in the Gulf War Syndrome that … murdered about 11,000 U.S. troops and disabled about 100,000.”
According to Boyle, the U.S. government spent $100 billion on biological warfare programs since September 11, 2011, up until October 2015, which is no small sum. To put it into perspective, the U.S. spent $40 billion (assuming a constant dollar value) on the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb. Boyle also estimates the U.S. has some 13,000 life scientists working within the biowarfare industry.
“Clearly, the Reagan administration, under the influence of its neoconservatives who definitely believe in biological weapons and ethnic-specific biological weapons (you can see that in the PNAC report), were engaged in the use of DNA genetic engineering for the purpose of manufacturing biological weapons.
That is why I gave a Congressional briefing in Washington, D.C. in 1985. I was asked to do that by the Council for Responsible Genetics that I work with, which involves the leading life scientists in the world from MIT and Harvard.
I spent seven years at Harvard. I have three degrees and I knew all these people. They asked me to serve as their lawyer and give this Congressional briefing. I blew the whistle, and then they asked me to draft the implementing legislation, which I did …
I want to make it clear I’m not here to speak in their name, I’m only speaking in my name, but if you look at my book, ‘Biological Warfare and Terrorism,’ professor Jonathan King wrote the foreword. So, I have the leading MIT professor of molecular biology supporting what I’m saying, if you don’t think I know enough science about it.”
US Prepares for COVID-19 Pandemic
While there have so far only been a limited number of reported cases of COVID-19 infection in the U.S., the U.S. military has designated several detention sites around the country to quarantine Americans,8 should the situation take a turn for the worse.
Historically speaking, however, government health officials have been vastly exaggerating the threat of pandemics in the U.S., including the bird flu, the swine flu, anthrax and Ebola.
For example, as detailed in my 2009 New York Times bestseller “The Great Bird Flu Hoax,” then-President George Bush Jr. projected 2 million Americans would die from bird flu; the best-case scenario taking only 200,000 lives. The final death count in the U.S. from that pandemic was zero.
It generated massive profits, though, as U.S. taxpayer dollars were used to purchase 20 million doses of Tamiflu. One of the people who was able to line his pockets from that hoax was defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who was president of Gilead Sciences when the drug was created.
“[The bird flu] was another DNA, genetically engineered biological warfare weapon,” Boyle notes. “It was a chimera. It had three different elements in it and we were all lucky that somehow they attenuated the lethality and the infectiveness of the bird flu.”
Whether or not COVID-19 will be similarly ineffective in its spread and lethality remains to be seen. Judging by the statistics in China, “it doesn’t look very good,” Boyle says.
Understanding the COVID-19 Virus
According to Boyle, the COVID-19 virus is a chimera, like the avian flu virus before it. It includes SARS, an already weaponized coronavirus, along with HIV genetic material. “That was in a published article by Indian scientists. You could see the pictures right there, [but] political pressure was brought to bear upon them so they withdrew [the paper].”
This is why some scientists are now looking into using HIV drugs to treat it,9 Boyle says. COVID-19 may also have a flu virus mixed in, along with gain of function properties that allow it to spread a greater distance than normal. 3M Safety Glasses, Vir... Best Price: $10.99 Buy New $8.19 (as of 11:56 UTC - Details)
Pandemics Repeatedly Used to Further Police State
Pandemics have also been used to chip away public freedoms. For example, the anthrax scare of 2001 was used as the impetus for signing the Patriot Act, which was the first step in taking away many of our personal freedoms and rolling out a complete surveillance state. To me, such outcomes are far more concerning than the risk of infection itself. Boyle adds:
“They used Amerithrax to ram the Patriot Act through, that is correct … We became a police state … And as I pointed out in ‘Biowarfare and Terrorism,’ I think the same people who were behind the 9/11 terrorist attack were also behind the Amerithrax, but I’m just connecting dots there …
What’s called Amerithrax came out of a U.S. government biological warfare weapons lab and program, and I publicly blew the whistle on that the first weekend of November 2001.
The Council for Responsible Genetics was having its convention at Harvard Business School and I was chairing a panel with King and other experts on biological warfare, on U.S. biological warfare programs.
As I was walking into the Harvard Divinity School, Fox TV had a camera crew there and I said, ‘Obviously, this came out a U.S. biological weapons program and probably Fort Detrick.’
I conducted the session and made the same comment. Then I made a comment to a Washington, D.C., radio station to that effect [and to] the BBC, so everyone in the world heard me.
At that point, someone gave an order that I was never to be interviewed again by any mainstream news about biological warfare programs. And that’s been the case since the first week of November 2001.”
As noted by Boyle, George Orwell’s book, “1984,” has become reality. Boyle has since lectured lawyers at DePaul Law School in Chicago about the totalitarian nature of the Patriot Act.
“Snowden has correctly pointed out the federal government is spying on everything we say, all of our electronic communications, you name it,” Boyle says.
“And again, the proof is I’ve been completely blackballed out of U.S. media. Indeed, if you go back and look at the Amerithrax attacks, they also hit mainstream U.S. media to make it clear to them that if they covered this issue they will be killed too.”
Bioweapons Are Developed To Be Used
As noted by Boyle, the U.S. government has a large stockpile of Amerithrax — a super weapons-grade nanotechnology anthrax with 1 trillion spores per gram — and that’s just the tip of the iceberg of the biological weapons developed. What’s more, Boyle has no doubt these weapons will eventually be put to use, as they have in the past. He says:
“There was a tabletop exercise at John Hopkins University last fall … on coronavirus.10 Tabletop exercise, that’s a euphemism for a war game. Their estimate was that it killed 65 million people11 …
John Hopkins is up to their eyeballs in this Nazi biological warfare dirty work. They have a BSL-3 facility there … that they proudly announce on their website … They justify it by saying they’re developing vaccines. OK … How do they do that?
They go out around the world, and this is a matter of public record, and scour for every type of hideous disease, fungus, virus and bacteria you can possibly imagine. They then bring it back to these BSL-4 labs and develop an offensive, biological agent using DNA genetic engineering and synthetic biology … set up by the Pentagon under DARPA …
Once they have this offensive agent, they then proceed to develop a vaccine, because the agent is no good unless you can have a vaccine to protect your own people.
So, they’re developing vaccines to have biological weapons, because a biological weapon consists of two elements: the offensive biological warfare agent in the first place, and then, second, a vaccine to protect your own people, and that is what is being done at all these BSL-4 facilities, and many of the BSL-3s as well.
John Hopkins has a BSL-3 and they admit they do dual use. That’s what dual use means. They first develop the offensive biological warfare agent and then they develop the supposed vaccine.”
Indeed, Johns Hopkins University is the biggest recipient of research grants from federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and Department of Defense. It has also received millions of dollars in research grants from the Gates Foundation.12 In 2016, Johns Hopkins spent more than $2 billion on research projects, leading all U.S. universities in research spending for the 38th year in a row.13
How Can We Best Prevent or Treat COVID-19 Infection?
While it’s unclear exactly which treatment is the most effective, my guess is that Dr. Paul Marik’s intravenous vitamin C protocol for sepsis would be a good starting point, seeing how sepsis appears to be what kills those who succumb to a serious COVID-19 infection.
Marik’s retrospective before-after clinical study14,15 showed that giving patients IV vitamin C with hydrocortisone and vitamin B1 for two days reduced mortality from 40% to 8.5%. The precise protocol used was 200 mg of thiamine every 12 hours, 1,500 mg of ascorbic acid every six hours, and 50 mg of hydrocortisone every six hours.16 Importantly, the treatment has no side effects and is inexpensive, readily available and simple to administer.
According to Marik, vitamin C and corticosteroids have a synergistic effect,17 which is part of why his combo protocol is so effective. Still, simply using high-dose IV vitamin C exclusively has been shown to improve survival in patients with sepsis and acute respiratory failure, reducing mortality from 46% to 30%.18
Gloves Latex Free, Glo... Buy New $14.89 ($14.89 / Count) (as of 11:56 UTC - Details) It also reduced the number of days they needed to remain hospitalized. On average, those who received vitamin C had by Day 28 spent three fewer days in the intensive care unit than the placebo group (seven days compared to 10). By Day 60, the treatment group had also spent seven fewer days in the hospital overall —15 days compared to 22.19
While there are no trials that look at integrating hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), my suspicion is that this would provide a powerful synergy that could get the fatality rate from sepsis even closer to zero. Sadly, HBOT is not available at many hospitals, and even if it were, it is not approved for sepsis.
You can learn more about Marik’s sepsis protocol in “Vitamin C — A Game Changer in Treatment of Deadly Sepsis,” along with commonsense recommendations for how to lower your risk of sepsis in the first place.
You can also review Marik’s PowerPoint presentation, “Hydrocortisone, Ascorbic Acid and Thiamine for the Treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock,” presented at the 2020 Critical Care Reviews meeting in Australia. For COVID-19 at-home care advice from the WHO, please see “Novel Coronavirus — The Latest Pandemic Scare.”
One of the Most Powerful Videos I’ve Ever Seen
The following video from Barbara Loe Fisher is one of the most powerful videos that I have ever seen. I am hopeful that watching this video will inspire you to take up the cause and join the fight for vaccine freedom and independence.
There is a cultural war and collusion between many industries and federal regulatory agencies that results in a suppression of the truth about vital important health issues. If this suppression continues we will gradually and progressively erode our private individual rights that our ancestors fought so hard to achieve. Please take a few minutes to watch this video.

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lewrockwell--2020-03-23--Coronavirus Cases in the US Are Going To Explode Out of Nowhere?

In a prior report I revealed the spring equinox ( May 19 ) marks the beginning of the earth tilting back towards the sun and an increase solar ultraviolet radiation which results in elevate vitamin D levels in human populations that will abolish coronavirus cases and death .
I also indicated quarantines will be counterproductive and force people indoors and further deprive them of life-saving vitamin D. Ron Klain , the ex-federal EBOLA CZAR , issued a warning that coronavirus cases are going to “ explode ” in the U.S. On Thursday , March 19 , 4,940 new cases were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to rise precipitously .
But here is how this ruse is accomplished .
Buried in the news report is this language : “ numbers in the U.S. are rising sharply partly because testing is being more widespread.
” So indiscriminate news reports will sound alarming because news agencies want to capture readership .
This parade of irresponsible news reports is anticipated to raise levels of anxiety in the American population at large .
The “ What do we do now ?
” panic sets in .
Because there are more cases of coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because testing produces a high percentage of false positive tests that falsely indicate a person has the disease when they don ’ t , it will be easy to mislead the public and cause the public to accept draconian community lockdowns .
Just the intentional withholding of toilet paper supplies could provoke civilian unrest and cause the public to clamor for troops in the streets to halt civil unrest .
Vitamin C ( Ascorbic Ac ... Buy New $ 6.95 ( $ 0.07 / Count ) And just because more deaths are likely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ necessarily mean the virus is the cause of the pneumonia that kills .
It just could be a companion virus .
Or it could even be tuberculosis .
An overlay of US maps shows the same geographical incidence for coronavirus as for tuberculosis .
So which germ is it ?
Despite the admission that coronavirus was in circulation in the U.S. prior to the initial news reports of a coronavirus outbreak in China in January 2020 , this means coronavirus was either causing so few deaths it went unnoticed or simply was not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are we worried about if we get infected , experience mild or no symptoms , and develop natural long-term antibodies against this pathogenic disease , without need for future vaccination ?
Coronavirus induces a lower respiratory tract infection ( lungs versus throat and bronchus ) where lungs fill with fluid ( pneumonia ) blocking oxygen transfer to the blood .
Patients drown in their own fluids .
Chronic lower respiratory diseases are already the number four cause of death in the U.S. , resulting in 160,201 deaths in 2017 .
More than 250,000 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the US .
The mortality rate for pneumonia in the US population ( all ages ) is 15.1 deaths per 100,000 .
An estimated 4,749 pneumonia-associated deaths per year ( 13/day ) are reported for the State of New York ( 2018 data ) , an epicenter for this infectious disease .
Unless New York health officials report excess pneumonia-related deaths over the normal seasonal occurrence , the published number will be totally misleading .
Most deaths associated with coronavirus infection and resultant pneumonia occur among aged adults , over age 70 and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ STATISTA , there are ~12,680,000 Americans over age 80 ( 2018 ) .
Using an estimation that 80 % of the 50,000 deaths due to pneumonia in the U.S. occur among 80-90-year-olds ( 40,000 deaths or 110 pneumonia-related deaths per day ) , the pneumonia mortality rate would only be ~4/10ths of one percent of that total population .
A Stanford University epidemiologist says reports of widespread death from COVID-19 coronavirus are unsubstantiated and irresponsible , but they are governing the daily decisions by politicians how to manage this disease .
The population @ @ @ @ @ @ @ masks and conduct habitual hand washing , which are meaningless .
Vitron-C High Potency ... Buy New $ 39.67 ( $ 0.22 / Count ) All of the health pronouncements issued from public health agencies , particularly the Centers for Disease Control , emanate from an infectious disease that is not even as deadly as the seasonal flu .
Yet every single case is being reported in the news , giving the false impression millions of Americans are going to die .
Bottom line , misleading news reports are likely to report thousands @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a part of the normal course of events .
An estimated 68.9 % of adults over age 65 have been inoculated against pneumococcal infection .
The pneumonia vaccine is said to be 85 % effective against strains of Streptococcus pneumococcal infection .
Data tabulated below does not support the claim that increased vaccination reduces deaths caused by pneumonia .
VACCINATION AGAINST STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMOCCAL INFECTION IS NOT ASSOCIATION WITH REDUCTION IN PNEUMONIA DEATHS

In a prior report I revealed the spring equinox (March 19) marks the beginning of the earth tilting back towards the sun and an increase solar ultraviolet radiation which results in elevate vitamin D levels in human populations that will abolish coronavirus cases and death. I also indicated quarantines will be counterproductive and force people indoors and further deprive them of life-saving vitamin D.
Ron Klain, the ex-federal EBOLA CZAR, issued a warning that coronavirus cases are going to “explode” in the U.S. On Thursday, March 19, 4,940 new cases were reported. Coronavirus deaths are also predicted to rise precipitously. But here is how this ruse is accomplished.
Buried in the news report is this language: “numbers in the U.S. are rising sharply partly because testing is being more widespread.”
So indiscriminate news reports will sound alarming because news agencies want to capture readership. This parade of irresponsible news reports is anticipated to raise levels of anxiety in the American population at large. The “What do we do now?” panic sets in.
Because there are more cases of coronavirus infection reported with more testing, and because testing produces a high percentage of false positive tests that falsely indicate a person has the disease when they don’t, it will be easy to mislead the public and cause the public to accept draconian community lockdowns. Just the intentional withholding of toilet paper supplies could provoke civilian unrest and cause the public to clamor for troops in the streets to halt civil unrest. Vitamin C (Ascorbic Ac... Buy New $6.95 ($0.07 / Count) (as of 09:47 UTC - Details)
And just because more deaths are likely to be attributed to coronavirus does not necessarily mean the virus is the cause of the pneumonia that kills. It just could be a companion virus. Or it could even be tuberculosis.
An overlay of US maps shows the same geographical incidence for coronavirus as for tuberculosis. So which germ is it?
Despite the admission that coronavirus was in circulation in the U.S. prior to the initial news reports of a coronavirus outbreak in China in January 2020, this means coronavirus was either causing so few deaths it went unnoticed or simply was not causing symptomatic disease.
So, what are we worried about if we get infected, experience mild or no symptoms, and develop natural long-term antibodies against this pathogenic disease, without need for future vaccination?
Coronavirus induces a lower respiratory tract infection (lungs versus throat and bronchus) where lungs fill with fluid (pneumonia) blocking oxygen transfer to the blood. Patients drown in their own fluids.
Chronic lower respiratory diseases are already the number four cause of death in the U.S., resulting in 160,201 deaths in 2017.
More than 250,000 people are hospitalized for pneumonia annually in the US. The mortality rate for pneumonia in the US population (all ages) is 15.1 deaths per 100,000.
An estimated 50,000 Americans die of pneumonia annually (137/DAY).
An estimated 4,749 pneumonia-associated deaths per year (13/day) are reported for the State of New York (2018 data), an epicenter for this infectious disease. Unless New York health officials report excess pneumonia-related deaths over the normal seasonal occurrence, the published number will be totally misleading.
Most deaths associated with coronavirus infection and resultant pneumonia occur among aged adults, over age 70 and predominately over age 80.
According to STATISTA, there are ~12,680,000 Americans over age 80 (2018). Using an estimation that 80% of the 50,000 deaths due to pneumonia in the U.S. occur among 80-90-year-olds (40,000 deaths or 110 pneumonia-related deaths per day), the pneumonia mortality rate would only be ~4/10ths of one percent of that total population.
A Stanford University epidemiologist says reports of widespread death from COVID-19 coronavirus are unsubstantiated and irresponsible, but they are governing the daily decisions by politicians how to manage this disease.
The population at large has been ill-advised to wear masks and conduct habitual hand washing, which are meaningless. Vitron-C High Potency ... Buy New $39.67 ($0.22 / Count) (as of 09:47 UTC - Details)
All of the health pronouncements issued from public health agencies, particularly the Centers for Disease Control, emanate from an infectious disease that is not even as deadly as the seasonal flu. Yet every single case is being reported in the news, giving the false impression millions of Americans are going to die.
Bottom line, misleading news reports are likely to report thousands of new coronavirus-related deaths that are likely a part of the normal course of events.
PNEUMONIA VACCINE EFFECTIVENESS
An estimated 68.9% of adults over age 65 have been inoculated against pneumococcal infection.
The pneumonia vaccine is said to be 85% effective against strains of Streptococcus pneumococcal infection.
Data tabulated below does not support the claim that increased vaccination reduces deaths caused by pneumonia.
VACCINATION AGAINST STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMOCCAL INFECTION IS NOT ASSOCIATION WITH REDUCTION IN PNEUMONIA DEATHS