lewrockwell--2020-06-01--Remembering Brazil’s 2015 (Failed & Forgotten) Zika Virus-Microcephaly Freak-Out

“ … [ O ] ur current results are consistent with the existing evidence on the toxicology and pharmacokinetics of aluminum adjuvants which altogether strongly implicate these compounds as contributors to the rising prevalence of neurobehavioral disorders in children .
Given that autism has devastating consequences in a life of a child , and that currently in the developed world over 1 % of children suffer from some form of ASD , it would seem wise to make efforts towards reducing infant exposure to aluminum from vaccines.
“ — CA Shaw , PhD “ There is a serious problem with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ adverse neurological effects , at dosages that are recommended by the US CDC .
Vaccine critics are supported by the science .
Parents refusing to vaccinate according to the recommended CDC schedule are supported by the science .
Use aluminum-containing vaccines with great caution , or not at all.
” — CA Shaw , PhD http : //vaccinepapers.org/category/aluminum/ The CDC ’ s recommendation that doctors give every pregnant woman a Tdap vaccination during every pregnancy—regardless of whether a woman has already received one dose of Tdap—is an off-label use of the vaccine.
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Best Price : $ 12.73 Buy New $ 11.58 “ Yielding to the pressure from Big Pharma and with a mis-placed confidence in the Big Pharma-dominated CDC , FDA and his Big Medicine health advisors , President Obama has recommended that Congress spend $ 1,800,000,000 for defending America against a non-disease and for the fast track development of a Zika virus vaccine .
Most of the money will go to corporations.
” – GG Kohls Last week ’ s Duty to Warn column on the Zika @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Global Research ) has been widely circulated around the planetary blogosphere , but not , apparently ( and not unsurprisingly ) , among the gatekeepers of information in Big Government , Big Medicine , Big Pharma , Big Media and the CDC despite many of those organizations being duly informed about the “ unspeakable ” reality of yet another vaccine-induced , iatrogenic ( medical industry-caused ) disease .
For those organizations and industries , it must be preferable to blame iatrogenic illnesses on innocent mosquitos , viruses and people ( for not spraying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ themselves ) .
For guilty medical industries , it must be preferable to blame anything other than the true culprits rather than risk losing public confidence in drugs or the over-vaccination programs that are constantly being forced on our ever-sickening children .
For more understanding on the issue , check out last week ’ s Duty to Warn column here .
Alternative websites , alternative talk shows and assorted , non-brain-washed critical thinkers around the world ( that have not been co-opted by Big Business ) have expressed profound interest in the information @ @ @ @ @ @ @ various whistle-blowers that have correctly asserted that the most likely causative factor in the epidemic of microcephaly is NOT Zika virus .
Rather , it is Brazil ’ s desperate act of mandating that every pregnant women in Brazil – starting in early 2015 – be inoculated with GlaxoSmithKline ’ s Tdap vaccine ( a neurotoxic aluminum-containing vaccine that is supposed to prevent whooping cough ) .
Pregnant women , trusting the wisdom of the public health agencies and also their physicians , took the shot ( some right along with their mercury-containing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ year was out , those deceived women began delivering an increased number of microcephalic babies with shrunken , underdeveloped brains and therefore shrunken skulls .
Intex Explorer K2 Kaya ... Buy New $ 124.12 Aluminum Toxicity in Sao Paulo and Lead Toxicity in Flint What could possibly go wrong when neurotoxic heavy metals like aluminum or mercury ( thimerosal ) or lead get into the developing brains of fetuses , whose blood-brain barriers are at their most immature ?
Brazilian public health authorities didn ’ t check into aluminum neurotoxicity before they issued @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had no choice .
Speaking of no choice , it is instructive to ponder some of the similarities between what happened to the aluminum-poisoned pregnant women and fetuses in Sao Paulo and what is likely to happen to some of the lead-poisoned pregnant women in Flint , Michigan .
Don ’ t expect the public health officials to do the right thing in either city .
Of course , it remains to be seen what other neurological , hormonal , endocrine , mental , behavioral , sexual , physical or spiritual abnormalities will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Brazilian babies that were lucky enough to not be born with gross anomalies like microcephaly .
Vaccine-induced ( or other ) toxic microcephalies are , after all , spectrum disorders , with stillborn anencephalics at one end of the spectrum and grossly normal-appearing babies , that have only invisible synaptic- and/or cellular-level brain defects at the other end .
Guilty or embarrassed public health officials , threatened with humiliating exposes , lawsuits and/or criminal indictments ( financially supported by Big Pharma ’ s powerful corporate forces ) can be expected to fail to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investigation into the emerging catastrophe – after trying to stonewall it initially .
What every mainstream media outlet in America failed to report when the public health authorities released the Brazilian data ( after finally getting their stories straight ) was the fact that there were no unusual numbers of Brazilian microcephalics born in the summer and fall of 2015 , whereas there were reportedly1200 in November , another 1200 in December and by the end of January 2016 there was a total of 4000 .
Nobody seems to know the exact details @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that way .
Plague : One Scientist & ... Mikovits , Judy Buy New $ 1.99 It is important to recognize that none of the other risk factors for brain toxicity , brain cell death and therefore brain atrophy in Brazil changed since 2015 – except for the dramatic injections of the toxic aluminum adjuvant into developing fetuses .
Let ’ s list some of those factors .
Brazil is a world leader in poverty in the developed world , but it is not alone in desperately trying to maximize its position as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of that desperation , Brazil has succumbed to the temptation from Big Agribusiness to raise heavily drugged ( with antibiotics ) , very sickened livestock ( that eat GMO grains that haven ’ t been tested adequately for long-term safety ) .
Brazil has also succumbed to Big Agrichemical ’ s siren song to use more and more toxic chemicals on its crops .
Thus it is genetically-altering its livestock feeding program , which requires a lot of Round-up in order to force its increasingly micronutrient-depleted soil to grow more malnourishing grains and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , of course , their fetuses may be among the most seriously malnourished in the developed world .
Poor maternal and prenatal nutrition can ’ t grow healthy fetal brains and bodies .
Before 2015 , Brazil was ( and still is ) a world leader in the heavy use of Monsanto ’ s mitochondrial and cellular toxin , Round-up ( which contains glyphosate , a carcinogenic herbicide [ according to WHO ] ) .
What could possibly go wrong when fetal brains are exposed to mitochondrial toxins that are sprayed ( both @ @ @ @ @ @ @ number of Round-up Ready GMO foodstuffs that seem to be in every non-organic grocery store and restaurant ?
Before 2015 , Brazil was ( and still is ) a world leader in the heavy use of Syngenta ’ s hormone-disrupting Atrazine ( the synthetic herbicide that was behind Minnesota ’ s infamous rural Atrazine-toxified farmland epidemic of hermaphroditic frogs that also exhibited a slew of physical defects , including extra or absent limbs [ not to mention the near-extinction of the species ] ) .
Hermaphrodites , it should be noted , contain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and can not reproduce .
Atrazine contaminates the drinking water of half of southern Minnesota .
CamelBak Eddy Kids Wat ... Best Price : $ 8.85 Buy New $ 12.78 What could possibly go wrong with the fetal development in pregnant Brazilian women when they are exposed to estrogen-mimicking chemicals like Atrazine ?
Brazil has been , and is still a world leader in the use of insecticides that are designed to poison the nervous systems of insects .
DEET isn ’ t as Safe as Public Health Agencies Want us to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ insecticides or repellants are inhaled or are applied to the highly absorbent skin of pregnant women ?
Back in the 1980s there were a number of cases reported in the medical literature of childhood “ toxic encephalopathy ” that were caused by the popular insect repellant DEET ( which is widely – and falsely – “ generally regarded as safe ” [ gras ] ) .
The encephalopathy in those cases was characterized by agitation , weakness , disorientation , ataxia , seizures , coma and even death .
One of fatal cases @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the cerebellum and spinal cord plus an enlarged liver .
According to other published toxicology reports , DEET is rapidly absorbed through the skin and is distributed to all organs including the brain and the fetus of pregnant women .
The chemical is secreted in the breast milk of lactating women but is primarily excreted from the body through the urine .
No long-term safety studies for DEET have been done on pregnant women or their exposed fetuses , but the public health authorities in Brazil are silent on the issue .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Control and Prevention is silent on the known adverse fetal effects of DEET , neurotoxic insecticides , neurotoxic mercury in flu shots and the neurotoxic metal aluminum .
The CDC gives the impression that some neurotoxins might be safe for pregnant women and fetuses at some level , while it simultaneously preaches total abstinence of even small amounts of alcohol in pregnancy , proclaiming that ” there is no safe amount of alcohol for a woman during any stage of pregnancy ” implying that there must be a safe amount for vaccine ingredients @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agency ( unfortunately heavily influenced by Big Pharma ) that the American public and most physicians look to for honest , unbiased , well-researched information about xenobiotics like drugs and vaccines and about events like pandemics and epidemics , and here it is blatantly failing to truthfully inform the public about all aspects of the Zika virus/microcephaly event .
How can we ever trust the CDC again ( or WHO or the media ) when they refuse to tell us the truth of the matter : that there “ is no safe amount @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for fetuses or infants ?
Plague of Corruption : ... Mikovits , Judy Buy New $ 17.99 That is the most important lesson to be learned in this whole sad Zika hoax .
My hope is that readers of this column will demand truthfulness from the journalists and editors who are the gate-keepers of “ all the news that ’ s fit to print ” .
Yielding to the pressure from Big Pharma and with a mis-placed confidence in the Big Pharma-dominated CDC , FDA and his Big Medicine health advisors , President @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1,800,000,000 for defending America against a non-disease and for the fast track development of a Zika virus vaccine .
Most of the money will go to corporations .
I end this piece with some revealing information that I have excerpted from the internet that also needs wide attention : Excerpts From the CDC ’ s “ Toxicological Profile for Aluminum ” “ …neurofibrillary pathological changes have been associated with several neurodegenerative disorders , suggesting that the cause of aluminum-related abnormal neuronal function may involve changes in cytoskeletal protein functions in affected cells.
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( to aluminum ) may result in a higher distribution of aluminum to the brain , as compared to adults .
In the fetuses of rats receiving a single subcutaneous injection of aluminum on gestation day 5 , the amount of the radio-labelled aluminum in the brain was 30 % higher than in the liver ; in the dams , brain aluminum levels were only 1 % of the levels found in the liver ( Yumoto et al .
2000 ) .
Aluminum is distributed transplacentally , and elevated levels of aluminum have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ following oral , dermal , or parenteral exposure to aluminum ( Anane et al .
1997 ; Cranmer et al .
1986 ; Yumoto et al .
2000 ) .
” ( p 122 ) “ Preterm infants may also be particularly sensitive to the toxicity of aluminum due to reduced renal capacity ” ( Tsou et al .
1991.
” ( p 127 ) Vaccine Company Package Inserts That List Encephalopathy as an Adverse Reaction Sanofi Pasteur PENTACEL DTaP IPV and HIB Combo Vaccine Data from Clinical Studies , Serious Adverse Events @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccine-induced encephalomyelitis warned about above occurred in infants , children and adolescents .
Think how much more common or serious such cases might be in immature fetuses !
The following extended excerpt was from Carol Adl ’ s article “ Is Zika Virus Or The Tdap Vaccine Causing Birth Defects In Brazil ?
” It has been published here .
“ FACT—Drug companies did not test the safety and effectiveness of giving Tdap vaccine to pregnant women before the vaccines were licensed in the U.S. and there is almost no data on inflammatory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that could affect pregnancy and birth outcomes .
“ FACT—According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) adequate testing has not been done in humans to demonstrate safety for pregnant women and it is not known whether the vaccines can cause fetal harm or affect reproduction capacity .
The manufacturers of the Tdap vaccine state that human toxicity and fertility studies are inadequate and warn that Tdap should “ be given to a pregnant woman only if clearly needed.
” “ FACT—There are ingredients in pertussis containing Tdap vaccine that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ genotoxic or other adverse effects on the human fetus developing in the womb that may negatively affect health after birth , including aluminum adjuvants , mercury containing ( Thimerosal ) preservatives and many more bioactive and potentially toxic ingredients .
“ FACT—There are no published biological mechanism studies that assess pre-vaccination health status and measure changes in brain and immune function and chromosomal integrity after vaccination of pregnant women or their babies developing in the womb .
“ FACT—Since licensure of Tdap vaccine in the U.S. , there have been no well-designed prospective @ @ @ @ @ @ @ large groups of women who get pertussis containing Tdap vaccine during pregnancy either separately or simultaneously compared to those who do not get the vaccines , and no similar health outcome comparisons of their newborns at birth or in the first year of life have been conducted .
Safety and effectiveness evaluations that have been conducted are either small , retrospective , compare vaccinated women to vaccinated women or have been performed by drug company or government health officials using unpublished data .
“ FACT—The FDA has licensed Tdap vaccines to be given @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shot to individuals over 10 or 11 years old .
The CDC ’ s recommendation that doctors give every pregnant woman a Tdap vaccination during every pregnancy—regardless of whether a woman has already received one dose of Tdap—is an off-label use of the vaccine .
“ FACT—Injuries and deaths from pertussis-containing vaccines are the most compensated claims in the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program ( VICP ) and influenza vaccine injuries and deaths are the second most compensated claim .
“ FACT—A 2013 published study evaluating reports of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis ( ADEM @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System ( VAERS ) and in a European vaccine reaction reporting system found that pertussis containing DTaP was among the vaccines most frequently associated with brain inflammation in children between birth and age five .
“ Tdap is manufactured by two pharmaceutical companies : Sanofi Pasteur of France and GlaxoSmithKline ( GSK ) of the United Kingdom .
“ Unsurprisingly , the Brazilian government announced on January 15 , 2016 it will direct funds to a biomedical research center ( Sao Paulo-based Butantan Institute ) to help develop a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccine is expected to take 3-5 years .
Again , no consideration to the irony that you may be developing a vaccine to address a problem that may have been CAUSED by a vaccine , and that that new vaccine may COMPOUND the problem No consideration to the possibility that the answer to the problem may not be to do MORE , but rather to do LESS ( simply STOP giving Tdap to pregnant women ) .
“ The number of cases of microcephaly in Brazil has grown to 3,530 babies , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such cases were seen in all of 2014.
” The original source of this article is Global Research .
The Best of Gary G. Kohls , MD

“…[O]ur current results are consistent with the existing evidence on the toxicology and pharmacokinetics of aluminum adjuvants which altogether strongly implicate these compounds as contributors to the rising prevalence of neurobehavioral disorders in children. Given that autism has devastating consequences in a life of a child, and that currently in the developed world over 1% of children suffer from some form of ASD, it would seem wise to make efforts towards reducing infant exposure to aluminum from vaccines.“ — CA Shaw, PhD
“There is a serious problem with vaccine safety. Vaccine aluminum adjuvants have adverse neurological effects, at dosages that are recommended by the US CDC. Vaccine critics are supported by the science. Parents refusing to vaccinate according to the recommended CDC schedule are supported by the science. Use aluminum-containing vaccines with great caution, or not at all.” — CA Shaw, PhD http://vaccinepapers.org/category/aluminum/
The CDC’s recommendation that doctors give every pregnant woman a Tdap vaccination during every pregnancy—regardless of whether a woman has already received one dose of Tdap—is an off-label use of the vaccine.” — Carol Adl Protect Yourself!: Zik... Baird, Chris A. Best Price: $12.73 Buy New $11.58 (as of 04:38 UTC - Details)
“Yielding to the pressure from Big Pharma and with a mis-placed confidence in the Big Pharma-dominated CDC, FDA and his Big Medicine health advisors, President Obama has recommended that Congress spend $1,800,000,000 for defending America against a non-disease and for the fast track development of a Zika virus vaccine. Most of the money will go to corporations.” – GG Kohls
Last week’s Duty to Warn column on the Zika virus/microcephaly “freak-out” (published by Global Research) has been widely circulated around the planetary blogosphere, but not, apparently (and not unsurprisingly), among the gatekeepers of information in Big Government, Big Medicine, Big Pharma, Big Media and the CDC despite many of those organizations being duly informed about the “unspeakable” reality of yet another vaccine-induced, iatrogenic (medical industry-caused) disease.
For those organizations and industries, it must be preferable to blame iatrogenic illnesses on innocent mosquitos, viruses and people (for not spraying enough neurotoxic insecticides or neurotoxic repellants on themselves). For guilty medical industries, it must be preferable to blame anything other than the true culprits rather than risk losing public confidence in drugs or the over-vaccination programs that are constantly being forced on our ever-sickening children. For more understanding on the issue, check out last week’s Duty to Warn column here.
Alternative websites, alternative talk shows and assorted, non-brain-washed critical thinkers around the world (that have not been co-opted by Big Business) have expressed profound interest in the information contained in the handful of exposes from various whistle-blowers
(check out here, here and here)
that have correctly asserted that the most likely causative factor in the epidemic of microcephaly is NOT Zika virus. Rather, it is Brazil’s desperate act of mandating that every pregnant women in Brazil – starting in early 2015 – be inoculated with GlaxoSmithKline’s Tdap vaccine (a neurotoxic aluminum-containing vaccine that is supposed to prevent whooping cough).
Pregnant women, trusting the wisdom of the public health agencies and also their physicians, took the shot (some right along with their mercury-containing flu shot!) and before the year was out, those deceived women began delivering an increased number of microcephalic babies with shrunken, underdeveloped brains and therefore shrunken skulls. Intex Explorer K2 Kaya... Buy New $124.12 (as of 04:38 UTC - Details)
Aluminum Toxicity in Sao Paulo and Lead Toxicity in Flint
What could possibly go wrong when neurotoxic heavy metals like aluminum or mercury (thimerosal) or lead get into the developing brains of fetuses, whose blood-brain barriers are at their most immature?
Brazilian public health authorities didn’t check into aluminum neurotoxicity before they issued the mandate last year. The victims had no choice.
Speaking of no choice, it is instructive to ponder some of the similarities between what happened to the aluminum-poisoned pregnant women and fetuses in Sao Paulo and what is likely to happen to some of the lead-poisoned pregnant women in Flint, Michigan. Don’t expect the public health officials to do the right thing in either city.
Of course, it remains to be seen what other neurological, hormonal, endocrine, mental, behavioral, sexual, physical or spiritual abnormalities will develop over the next decades in the Brazilian babies that were lucky enough to not be born with gross anomalies like microcephaly. Vaccine-induced (or other) toxic microcephalies are, after all, spectrum disorders, with stillborn anencephalics at one end of the spectrum and grossly normal-appearing babies, that have only invisible synaptic- and/or cellular-level brain defects at the other end.
Guilty or embarrassed public health officials, threatened with humiliating exposes, lawsuits and/or criminal indictments (financially supported by Big Pharma’s powerful corporate forces) can be expected to fail to do a thorough, unbiased, scientific investigation into the emerging catastrophe – after trying to stonewall it initially.
What every mainstream media outlet in America failed to report when the public health authorities released the Brazilian data (after finally getting their stories straight) was the fact that there were no unusual numbers of Brazilian microcephalics born in the summer and fall of 2015, whereas there were reportedly1200 in November, another 1200 in December and by the end of January 2016 there was a total of 4000. Nobody seems to know the exact details. Crimes and their ever-present cover-ups work that way.
Plague: One Scientist&... Mikovits, Judy Buy New $1.99 (as of 05:16 UTC - Details) It is important to recognize that none of the other risk factors for brain toxicity, brain cell death and therefore brain atrophy in Brazil changed since 2015 – except for the dramatic injections of the toxic aluminum adjuvant into developing fetuses.
Let’s list some of those factors.
A Short List of Risk Factors for Fetal Brain Atrophy
Brazil is a world leader in poverty in the developed world, but it is not alone in desperately trying to maximize its position as a world leader in agriculture. Because of that desperation, Brazil has succumbed to the temptation from Big Agribusiness to raise heavily drugged (with antibiotics), very sickened livestock (that eat GMO grains that haven’t been tested adequately for long-term safety).
Brazil has also succumbed to Big Agrichemical’s siren song to use more and more toxic chemicals on its crops. Thus it is genetically-altering its livestock feeding program, which requires a lot of Round-up in order to force its increasingly micronutrient-depleted soil to grow more malnourishing grains and food. The poor in Brazil and, of course, their fetuses may be among the most seriously malnourished in the developed world. Poor maternal and prenatal nutrition can’t grow healthy fetal brains and bodies.
The “Universal Influenza Vaccine”
Before 2015, Brazil was (and still is) a world leader in the heavy use of Monsanto’s mitochondrial and cellular toxin, Round-up (which contains glyphosate, a carcinogenic herbicide [according to WHO]).
What could possibly go wrong when fetal brains are exposed to mitochondrial toxins that are sprayed (both before and after harvesting) on any number of Round-up Ready GMO foodstuffs that seem to be in every non-organic grocery store and restaurant?
Before 2015, Brazil was (and still is) a world leader in the heavy use of Syngenta’s hormone-disrupting Atrazine (the synthetic herbicide that was behind Minnesota’s infamous rural Atrazine-toxified farmland epidemic of hermaphroditic frogs that also exhibited a slew of physical defects, including extra or absent limbs [not to mention the near-extinction of the species]). Hermaphrodites, it should be noted, contain both sex organs, thanks to Syngenta, and cannot reproduce. Atrazine contaminates the drinking water of half of southern Minnesota. CamelBak Eddy Kids Wat... Best Price: $8.85 Buy New $12.78 (as of 04:38 UTC - Details)
What could possibly go wrong with the fetal development in pregnant Brazilian women when they are exposed to estrogen-mimicking chemicals like Atrazine?
Brazil has been, and is still a world leader in the use of insecticides that are designed to poison the nervous systems of insects.
DEET isn’t as Safe as Public Health Agencies Want us to Believe
What could possibly go wrong when insecticides or repellants are inhaled or are applied to the highly absorbent skin of pregnant women?
Back in the 1980s there were a number of cases reported in the medical literature of childhood “toxic encephalopathy” that were caused by the popular insect repellant DEET (which is widely – and falsely – “generally regarded as safe” [gras]). The encephalopathy in those cases was characterized by agitation, weakness, disorientation, ataxia, seizures, coma and even death. One of fatal cases that was autopsied showed necrotic lesions in the cerebellum and spinal cord plus an enlarged liver. According to other published toxicology reports, DEET is rapidly absorbed through the skin and is distributed to all organs including the brain and the fetus of pregnant women. The chemical is secreted in the breast milk of lactating women but is primarily excreted from the body through the urine. No long-term safety studies for DEET have been done on pregnant women or their exposed fetuses, but the public health authorities in Brazil are silent on the issue.
And even America’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention is silent on the known adverse fetal effects of DEET, neurotoxic insecticides, neurotoxic mercury in flu shots and the neurotoxic metal aluminum. The CDC gives the impression that some neurotoxins might be safe for pregnant women and fetuses at some level, while it simultaneously preaches total abstinence of even small amounts of alcohol in pregnancy, proclaiming that ”there is no safe amount of alcohol for a woman during any stage of pregnancy” implying that there must be a safe amount for vaccine ingredients.
The CDC is the public health agency (unfortunately heavily influenced by Big Pharma) that the American public and most physicians look to for honest, unbiased, well-researched information about xenobiotics like drugs and vaccines and about events like pandemics and epidemics, and here it is blatantly failing to truthfully inform the public about all aspects of the Zika virus/microcephaly event.
How can we ever trust the CDC again (or WHO or the media) when they refuse to tell us the truth of the matter: that there “is no safe amount of aluminum, mercury or lead” for fetuses or infants? Plague of Corruption: ... Mikovits, Judy Buy New $17.99 (as of 03:22 UTC - Details)
That is the most important lesson to be learned in this whole sad Zika hoax. My hope is that readers of this column will demand truthfulness from the journalists and editors who are the gate-keepers of “all the news that’s fit to print”.
Yielding to the pressure from Big Pharma and with a mis-placed confidence in the Big Pharma-dominated CDC, FDA and his Big Medicine health advisors, President Obama has recommended that Congress spend $1,800,000,000 for defending America against a non-disease and for the fast track development of a Zika virus vaccine. Most of the money will go to corporations.
I end this piece with some revealing information that I have excerpted from the internet that also needs wide attention:
Excerpts From the CDC’s “Toxicological Profile for Aluminum”
“…neurofibrillary pathological changes have been associated with several neurodegenerative disorders, suggesting that the cause of aluminum-related abnormal neuronal function may involve changes in cytoskeletal protein functions in affected cells.“ ( p 118)
”Fetal exposure (to aluminum) may result in a higher distribution of aluminum to the brain, as compared to adults. In the fetuses of rats receiving a single subcutaneous injection of aluminum on gestation day 5, the amount of the radio-labelled aluminum in the brain was 30% higher than in the liver; in the dams, brain aluminum levels were only 1% of the levels found in the liver (Yumoto et al. 2000). Aluminum is distributed transplacentally, and elevated levels of aluminum have been measured in the fetus and placenta following oral, dermal, or parenteral exposure to aluminum (Anane et al. 1997; Cranmer et al. 1986; Yumoto et al. 2000).” (p 122)
“Preterm infants may also be particularly sensitive to the toxicity of aluminum due to reduced renal capacity” (Tsou et al. 1991.” (p 127)
Vaccine Company Package Inserts That List Encephalopathy as an Adverse Reaction
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ADVERSE REACTIONS: Encephalitis
Merck GARDASIL (Human Papillomavirus Quadrivalent)
ADVERSE REACTIONS (Postmarketing):Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
Merck VARIVAX Varicella (Chickenpox ) Live Virus Vaccine
ADVERSE REACTIONS, (Post-marketing): Encephalitis
Glaxo INFANRIX (DTaP) Pertussis Vaccine
Postmarketing Experience: Encephalopathy
Sanofi Pasteur PENTACEL DTaP IPV and HIB Combo Vaccine
Data from Clinical Studies, Serious Adverse Events: Encephalopathy
MedImmune FLUMIST Vaccine (Influenza Vaccine Live, Intranasal Spray)
Postmarketing Experience: Vaccine-associated encephalitis
Merck AFLURIA Flu Vaccine
Postmarketing Experience: Encephalopathy
Novartis Vaccines AGRIFLU Flu Vaccine
Postmarketing Experience: Encephalomyelitis and transverse myelitis
GlaxoSmithKline FLUARIX Flu Vaccine
Postmarketing Experience: Encephalomyelitis
Note that the cases of vaccine-induced encephalomyelitis warned about above occurred in infants, children and adolescents. Think how much more common or serious such cases might be in immature fetuses!
* * *
The following extended excerpt was from Carol Adl’s article
“Is Zika Virus Or The Tdap Vaccine Causing Birth Defects In Brazil?”
It has been published here.
“FACT—Drug companies did not test the safety and effectiveness of giving Tdap vaccine to pregnant women before the vaccines were licensed in the U.S. and there is almost no data on inflammatory or other biological responses to this vaccine that could affect pregnancy and birth outcomes.
“FACT—According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) adequate testing has not been done in humans to demonstrate safety for pregnant women and it is not known whether the vaccines can cause fetal harm or affect reproduction capacity. The manufacturers of the Tdap vaccine state that human toxicity and fertility studies are inadequate and warn that Tdap should “be given to a pregnant woman only if clearly needed.”
“FACT—There are ingredients in pertussis containing Tdap vaccine that have not been fully evaluated for potential genotoxic or other adverse effects on the human fetus developing in the womb that may negatively affect health after birth, including aluminum adjuvants, mercury containing (Thimerosal) preservatives and many more bioactive and potentially toxic ingredients.
“FACT—There are no published biological mechanism studies that assess pre-vaccination health status and measure changes in brain and immune function and chromosomal integrity after vaccination of pregnant women or their babies developing in the womb.
“FACT—Since licensure of Tdap vaccine in the U.S., there have been no well-designed prospective case-controlled studies comparing the health outcomes of large groups of women who get pertussis containing Tdap vaccine during pregnancy either separately or simultaneously compared to those who do not get the vaccines, and no similar health outcome comparisons of their newborns at birth or in the first year of life have been conducted. Safety and effectiveness evaluations that have been conducted are either small, retrospective, compare vaccinated women to vaccinated women or have been performed by drug company or government health officials using unpublished data.
“FACT—The FDA has licensed Tdap vaccines to be given once as a single dose pertussis booster shot to individuals over 10 or 11 years old. The CDC’s recommendation that doctors give every pregnant woman a Tdap vaccination during every pregnancy—regardless of whether a woman has already received one dose of Tdap—is an off-label use of the vaccine.
“FACT—Injuries and deaths from pertussis-containing vaccines are the most compensated claims in the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) and influenza vaccine injuries and deaths are the second most compensated claim.
“FACT—A 2013 published study evaluating reports of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) following vaccination in the U. S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) and in a European vaccine reaction reporting system found that pertussis containing DTaP was among the vaccines most frequently associated with brain inflammation in children between birth and age five.
“Tdap is manufactured by two pharmaceutical companies: Sanofi Pasteur of France and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) of the United Kingdom.
“Unsurprisingly, the Brazilian government announced on January 15, 2016 it will direct funds to a biomedical research center (Sao Paulo-based Butantan Institute) to help develop a vaccine against Zika. Development of the vaccine is expected to take 3-5 years. Again, no consideration to the irony that you may be developing a vaccine to address a problem that may have been CAUSED by a vaccine, and that that new vaccine may COMPOUND the problem No consideration to the possibility that the answer to the problem may not be to do MORE, but rather to do LESS (simply STOP giving Tdap to pregnant women).
“The number of cases of microcephaly in Brazil has grown to 3,530 babies, as of mid-January 2016. Fewer than 150 such cases were seen in all of 2014.”
The original source of this article is Global Research.
The Best of Gary G. Kohls, MD


lewrockwell--2020-06-01--What Would Happen If…

What Would Happen If…

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W : My objection is to the oath .
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Be Smart Get Prepared ... Buy New $ 7.57 W : Well , it ’ s a start , but I still have an objection .
W : I object to the phrase “ the whole truth.
” It ’ s vague .
J : No one has ever had that objection before .
Why do you , now ?
W : I am sure that the prosecutor has coached his witnesses to tell the truth , but no more than is absolutely necessary to avoid revealing anything that might be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and other investigators have been similar coaching .
J : Are you suggesting that there is anything improper in the prosecution ’ s presentation of his case ?
W : I simply want to avail myself of the same opportunity , namely , to tell the truth , but no more of it as seems prudent .
J : You ’ ve heard many other witnesses in this case take the oath to which you reject .
None of them have presented any objections , much less those to which you object .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
W : Yes , sir .
It tells me that it is very easy to follow the lead of thousands of people doing the same thing over the years—even the centuries .
It smooths the way , and obviates any requirement to think about what you are doing .
J : Be that as it may , your attitude suggests that you might be willing to play fast and loose with the truth in this matter .
Be assured , sir , that lying under oath is a serious crime—a felony .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ conviction that it best , given your warning , not to take an oath .
J : Are you going to tell this court the truth , or not ?
W : I assure you , sir , that I will not lie to this court .
J : But the whole truth ?
W : Where does the whole truth end ?
Would it include the vulgar and offensive language used by the policeman when he arrested the defendant ?
Would it include the fact that the policeman , the prosecutor , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ employees of the same political organization , namely , the state , thus raising the question of conflict of interest ?
J : I ’ d like to see the attorneys , and you , sir , in my chambers—now .
Or there might be this : Cop : You have the right to remain silent .
Anything you say can and will be used against you in court of law .
Do you understand this ?
Cop : Did you understand ?
Do you want me to repeat what I said ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ m not playing games here .
Did you hear me or not ?
Cop , to bystanders : Anybody know this guy ?
Is he simple or something ?
Doesn ’ t he understand English ?
Bystander : I know this man .
He understood you perfectly .
C : Yeah ?
Then why doesn ’ t he say so ?
B : You just told him he didn ’ t have to .
C : I asked him if he understood .
Does he , or not ?
B : But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the right to remain silent .
C : Yeah , sure , but he can at least tell me that he understands it .
B : But his remaining silent tells you that he understands perfectly .
C ( under his breath ) : bunch of goddam wiseguys around here .
B : Could that remark be used against YOU in court ?
C : What are you talking about ?
B : Your disparaging remarks indicate a bias against this man you ’ ve just arrested .
Perhaps you should be warned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against you .
C : Listen , smart alec , I don ’ t answer to you .
Butt out .
This has nothing to do with you .
Keep sticking your nose where it doesn ’ t belong , and you could find yourself in big trouble .
B : How can that be , officer ?
You didn ’ t warn me that anything I said could be used against me .
The Best of Paul Hein

Clerk of the Court: Do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Witness for the plaintiff: No
CC: What?
Witness: No. I said “No.”
Judge: Sir, am I to understand that you are not willing to tell the truth in this matter?
W: My objection is to the oath. My faith tells me not to take oaths, but to say yes when I mean yes and no when I mean no.
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W: Well, it’s a start, but I still have an objection.
J: To what?
W: I object to the phrase “the whole truth.” It’s vague.
J: No one has ever had that objection before. Why do you, now?
W: I am sure that the prosecutor has coached his witnesses to tell the truth, but no more than is absolutely necessary to avoid revealing anything that might be exculpatory. I am sure the police and other investigators have been similar coaching.
J: Are you suggesting that there is anything improper in the prosecution’s presentation of his case?
W: I simply want to avail myself of the same opportunity, namely, to tell the truth, but no more of it as seems prudent.
J: You’ve heard many other witnesses in this case take the oath to which you reject. None of them have presented any objections, much less those to which you object. Doesn’t that tell you something?
W: Yes, sir. It tells me that it is very easy to follow the lead of thousands of people doing the same thing over the years—even the centuries. It smooths the way, and obviates any requirement to think about what you are doing.
J: Be that as it may, your attitude suggests that you might be willing to play fast and loose with the truth in this matter. Be assured, sir, that lying under oath is a serious crime—a felony.
W: You have just reinforced my conviction that it best, given your warning, not to take an oath.
J: Are you going to tell this court the truth, or not?
W: I assure you, sir, that I will not lie to this court.
J: But the whole truth?
W: Where does the whole truth end? Would it include the vulgar and offensive language used by the policeman when he arrested the defendant? Would it include the fact that the policeman, the prosecutor, and you, sir, are all employees of the same political organization, namely, the state, thus raising the question of conflict of interest?
A moment of pause
J: I’d like to see the attorneys, and you, sir, in my chambers—now.
Or there might be this:
Cop: You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in court of law. Do you understand this?
Prisoner is silent.
Cop: Did you understand? Do you want me to repeat what I said?
P remains silent.
C: listen, fella, I’m not playing games here. Did you hear me or not?
Silence continues
Cop, to bystanders: Anybody know this guy? Is he simple or something? Doesn’t he understand English?
Bystander: I know this man. He understood you perfectly.
C: Yeah? Then why doesn’t he say so?
B: You just told him he didn’t have to.
C: I asked him if he understood. Does he, or not?
B: But before that, you said he had the right to remain silent.
C: Yeah, sure, but he can at least tell me that he understands it.
B: But his remaining silent tells you that he understands perfectly.
C (under his breath) : bunch of goddam wiseguys around here.
B: Could that remark be used against YOU in court?
C: What are you talking about?
B: Your disparaging remarks indicate a bias against this man you’ve just arrested. Perhaps you should be warned that anything you say can be used against you.
C: Listen, smart alec, I don’t answer to you. Butt out. This has nothing to do with you. Keep sticking your nose where it doesn’t belong, and you could find yourself in big trouble.
B: How can that be, officer? You didn’t warn me that anything I said could be used against me.
C (assorted obscenities)
The Best of Paul Hein


lewrockwell--2020-06-01--One Screen, Two Movies, Three Times the Trouble

Scott Adams has a perfect phrase to describe our political divide .
What he means is that two people see the same event and process it in completely opposite ways , depending on their perspective .
That perspective is made up of a whole host of things — current state of mind , personal experience , personality traits , body chemistry , etc .
Take that one step further and incorporate human survival traits like in-group/out-group bias and the potential for self-reinforcing feedback loops of anxiety to explode into unbridgeable divisions within society become very likely .
Loserthink : How @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : $ 11.93 Buy New $ 17.27 None of what I just described is novel .
It shouldn ’ t even need to be explained at this point .
But , we ’ re living in such a state of heightened anxiety it is easy to lose sight of the basics .
I ’ ve been writing this blog now for more than three years .
I have to remind myself of things I wrote previously that I ’ ve forgotten about in the day-to-day grind chronicling the devolution of our society into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ including me , are exhibiting signs of real madness when confronted with the monstrous events we perceive playing out on our movie screens .
There is an information war occurring that is aimed at creating hair trigger reactions to events to advance particular political agendas .
It doesn ’ t matter what the issue of the day is .
Today it ’ s the burning down of Minneapolis over police brutality .
The footage of George Floyd being murdered is enough to trigger most any decent person into a near-murderous rage .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ commentary on this , no one is arguing the murder of George Floyd was anything other than just that , murder .
Whites , blacks , browns , men , womyn , cis , xe , he , vegan , capitalist .
So , why is this a race issue ?
Why are our media and our political class cheering on the destruction of a U.S. city and fanning the flames higher , excusing the destruction to promote a false race war ?
Because that ’ s what they want to see and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also see it that way .
We ’ re all outraged by underlying incident .
There aren ’ t two movies here .
Wise Owl Outfitters Ha ... Buy New $ 27.95 Unfortunately , the way we express this outrage is based on where we are at the moment we view it .
If we are in deep state of anxiety , where the left-brain has suppressed the right because survival instincts kick in , then we default to the easiest , quickest explanation .
For those on the left , fed a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , police brutality is the perfect metaphor for systemic racism and cultural division .
Paralyze the police and undermine the fabric of the society .
But it isn ’ t like the police haven ’ t been a growing problem in this country for decades .
Since the Clinton Crime Bill of the 1990 ’ s cops have been consistently militarized to the point of inhumanity .
Police officers today look nothing like my dad as NYPD in the 1970 ’ s when societal unrest there was as bad if not worse then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And I remember watching the Rodney King riots in LA with him and he saying then the problem in policing is the men have no life experience , no skin yet in the game , i.e .
family .
His generation of police are gone .
Even the ones that came behind him are leaving the scene ( dad would have been 92 this year ) .
My dad didn ’ t live to see the Clinton Crime Bill but he would have been against it .
Because with the subsequent wars @ @ @ @ @ @ @ politicized , the degradation of their relationship to their community eroded to where it is now .
Do you seek out police interactions today or fear them ?
The Fourth Turning : An ... Howe , Neil Best Price : $ 7.92 Buy New $ 12.04 What movie is playing in your head ?
Because I know which one is playing in mine .
Hence , you know , Gold Goats ‘ n Guns .
Both of these trends have accelerated as we grind through this Fourth Turning .
Endless wars in Iraq @ @ @ @ @ @ @ militarized , staffed with guys who have combat experience , that see the job through that lens .
Screening for mental instability is faulty at best so mistakes are going to happen .
Tyranny is guaranteed alongside the corruption and the need for all men to regain a lost sense of potency in a world sinking into depravity .
And those jobs need to be filled especially as the wealth is drained from the lower and middle classes through ruinous taxation , regulation and endless money printing .
But , we ’ re @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because of a white cop choking out a black man ?
And this is an excuse to burn down a city and instigate riots all over the country ?
There isn ’ t any connection between these things and reality .
Everyone is being played for a chump here .
The sad truth is , as President Trump pointed out and Twitter censored , George Floyd is irrelevant now .
This has taken on a life of its own .
It ’ s about chaos and much larger issues than the incident which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reaction to this screen ?
What movie are you seeing here ?
My movie says this is the next stage of the operation to oust Trump from power .
The Coronapocalypse movie is mostly over but it ’ s had its intended effect of dividing us even further .
Now Antifa-style mask-wearing has been thoroughly normalized .
Now the person in the CVS standing next to you can be a threat to your community .
Too paranoid a movie for you ?
Coleman 2-Person Sund ... Best Price : $ 44.70 Buy New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ image systems matter .
That ’ s the whole point of putting movies on the screen in the first place .
Jack Dorsey and Twitter are daring Trump to regulate or shut down the platform with their censoring his tweets .
CNN and MSNBC know their sit-down ratings are abysmal .
Their real ratings exist on social media .
In that sense they are no more legitimate news than people with iPhones posting thoughts on Instagram and Twitter .
The movie they are selling is Trump is to blame regardless of what happens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he brings in the National Guard to mow down black people in the streets and get any number of Twitter Moments to further confuse what you ’ re watching .
If Trump does nothing he loses Conservatives who believe in law and order , fairness and all of that .
If he over-commits he ’ s got Kent State times ten on his hands .
While my movie says this is definitely an operation designed to inflict maximal political damage on Trump the sub-text of my movie screams about what is truly wrong @ @ @ @ @ @ @ power struggle for the next century by evil people manipulating desperate and cynical ones into acts of violence and hatred which is falsely directed by a script pre-written to keep us angry , fearful and divided .
And until we all back away from the screens and see that script for what it is , this will escalate until a lot more than just Minneapolis is burning .
The Best of Thomas Luongo

Scott Adams has a perfect phrase to describe our political divide.
“One screen, two movies.”
What he means is that two people see the same event and process it in completely opposite ways, depending on their perspective.
That perspective is made up of a whole host of things — current state of mind, personal experience, personality traits, body chemistry, etc.
Take that one step further and incorporate human survival traits like in-group/out-group bias and the potential for self-reinforcing feedback loops of anxiety to explode into unbridgeable divisions within society become very likely.
Loserthink: How Untrai... Adams, Scott Best Price: $11.93 Buy New $17.27 (as of 04:39 UTC - Details) None of what I just described is novel. It shouldn’t even need to be explained at this point. But, we’re living in such a state of heightened anxiety it is easy to lose sight of the basics.
I’ve been writing this blog now for more than three years. I have to remind myself of things I wrote previously that I’ve forgotten about in the day-to-day grind chronicling the devolution of our society into madness.
Because all of us, including me, are exhibiting signs of real madness when confronted with the monstrous events we perceive playing out on our movie screens.
There is an information war occurring that is aimed at creating hair trigger reactions to events to advance particular political agendas. It doesn’t matter what the issue of the day is. Today it’s the burning down of Minneapolis over police brutality.
The footage of George Floyd being murdered is enough to trigger most any decent person into a near-murderous rage.
And, as Scott pointed out in his commentary on this, no one is arguing the murder of George Floyd was anything other than just that, murder. Whites, blacks, browns, men, womyn, cis, xe, he, vegan, capitalist.
So, why is this a race issue? Why are our media and our political class cheering on the destruction of a U.S. city and fanning the flames higher, excusing the destruction to promote a false race war?
Because that’s what they want to see and get a critical mass of people to also see it that way.
We’re all outraged by underlying incident. There aren’t two movies here. Wise Owl Outfitters Ha... Buy New $27.95 (as of 04:39 UTC - Details)
Unfortunately, the way we express this outrage is based on where we are at the moment we view it.
If we are in deep state of anxiety, where the left-brain has suppressed the right because survival instincts kick in, then we default to the easiest, quickest explanation. For those on the left, fed a toxic mix of identity politics and Communism, police brutality is the perfect metaphor for systemic racism and cultural division.
Paralyze the police and undermine the fabric of the society. But it isn’t like the police haven’t been a growing problem in this country for decades.
Since the Clinton Crime Bill of the 1990’s cops have been consistently militarized to the point of inhumanity.
Police officers today look nothing like my dad as NYPD in the 1970’s when societal unrest there was as bad if not worse then what’s happening in Minneapolis today.
And I remember watching the Rodney King riots in LA with him and he saying then the problem in policing is the men have no life experience, no skin yet in the game, i.e. family.
His generation of police are gone. Even the ones that came behind him are leaving the scene (dad would have been 92 this year). My dad didn’t live to see the Clinton Crime Bill but he would have been against it.
Because with the subsequent wars and the federal money their loyalty was politicized, the degradation of their relationship to their community eroded to where it is now. Do you seek out police interactions today or fear them? The Fourth Turning: An... Howe, Neil Best Price: $7.92 Buy New $12.04 (as of 08:30 UTC - Details)
What movie is playing in your head? Because I know which one is playing in mine. Hence, you know, Gold Goats ‘n Guns.
Both of these trends have accelerated as we grind through this Fourth Turning. Endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have police forces, already militarized, staffed with guys who have combat experience, that see the job through that lens. Screening for mental instability is faulty at best so mistakes are going to happen.
Tyranny is guaranteed alongside the corruption and the need for all men to regain a lost sense of potency in a world sinking into depravity.
And those jobs need to be filled especially as the wealth is drained from the lower and middle classes through ruinous taxation, regulation and endless money printing.
But, we’re supposed to be divided along race lines because of a white cop choking out a black man? And this is an excuse to burn down a city and instigate riots all over the country?
There isn’t any connection between these things and reality. Everyone is being played for a chump here.
Cops and protesters banging heads while bankers sit at home drinking wine with their newly printed Federal Reserve dollars. Same as it ever was. — Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) May 30, 2020
The sad truth is, as President Trump pointed out and Twitter censored, George Floyd is irrelevant now. This has taken on a life of its own. It’s about chaos and much larger issues than the incident which spawned it.
What’s happening in Minnesota was a coordinated attack.
Who is setting up pallets of bricks around the country for rioting? This is too organized. WTH? I bet people paid to do so show up first and get the party started. pic.twitter.com/iwwSpbNLud — ᗰᵉˡ 🌷 (@mel_faith1) May 30, 2020
What’s your reaction to this screen? What movie are you seeing here?
My movie says this is the next stage of the operation to oust Trump from power. The Coronapocalypse movie is mostly over but it’s had its intended effect of dividing us even further.
Now Antifa-style mask-wearing has been thoroughly normalized. Now the person in the CVS standing next to you can be a threat to your community.
Too paranoid a movie for you? Coleman 2-Person Sund... Best Price: $44.70 Buy New $51.46 (as of 04:39 UTC - Details)
I’m sorry but image systems matter. That’s the whole point of putting movies on the screen in the first place.
Jack Dorsey and Twitter are daring Trump to regulate or shut down the platform with their censoring his tweets. CNN and MSNBC know their sit-down ratings are abysmal. Their real ratings exist on social media.
In that sense they are no more legitimate news than people with iPhones posting thoughts on Instagram and Twitter.
The movie they are selling is Trump is to blame regardless of what happens, just like in Charlottesville. If he brings in the National Guard to mow down black people in the streets and get any number of Twitter Moments to further confuse what you’re watching.
If Trump does nothing he loses Conservatives who believe in law and order, fairness and all of that. If he over-commits he’s got Kent State times ten on his hands.
While my movie says this is definitely an operation designed to inflict maximal political damage on Trump the sub-text of my movie screams about what is truly wrong with America.
That this is a power struggle for the next century by evil people manipulating desperate and cynical ones into acts of violence and hatred which is falsely directed by a script pre-written to keep us angry, fearful and divided.
And until we all back away from the screens and see that script for what it is, this will escalate until a lot more than just Minneapolis is burning.
Reprinted with permission from Gold Goats ‘n Guns.
The Best of Tom Luongo


lewrockwell--2020-06-01--Beijing Sees Trump’s Hand and Won’t Fold

Everyone was expecting US President Donald Trump to go nuclear by de facto sanctioning China to death over Hong Kong .
In an environment where Twitter and the President of the United States are now engaged in open warfare , the rule is that there are no rules anymore .
So in the end , what was announced against China amounted to an anti-climax .
The US government , as it stands , is terminating its relationship with the World Health Organization ( WHO ) .
The geopolitical repercussions are immense and that will take time to sink in .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ be blamed for the US ’ appalling Covid-19 record , so it might as well be a UN institution .
Empire of Chaos Pepe Escobar Best Price : $ 24.50 Buy New $ 36.65 Hong Kong ’ s preferential trade status will also be terminated , but in a hazy future in still undetermined terms .
Phase 1 of the US-China trade deal still stands – at least for now .
Yet there ’ s no guarantee that Beijing itself won ’ t start to doubt it .
The bottom line : “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now .
Team Trump seems not to be exactly versed in the niceties of Hong Kong ’ s Basic Law , as the president stressed the “ plain violation of Beijing ’ s treaty obligations with the United Kingdom.
” The national security law was blasted as “ the latest ” Chinese aggression against its own special administrative region .
Now compare all this with the Two Sessions in Beijing ending the day before , with an intriguing , quite Keynesian performance by Prime Minister Li Keqiang .
This was compelling as much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for what he chose to put on the public record .
Let ’ s review some of the highlights .
Li stressed that the NPC ’ s resolution putting forth a national security law for Hong Kong is meant to protect “ one country , two systems , ” and not as an “ aggression.
” Instead of demonizing the WHO , Beijing is committed to a serious scientific investigation of the origins of Sars-Cov-2 .
“ No cover-up ” will be allowed , Li said , adding that a clear , scientific @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Beijing also supports an independent review into the WHO ’ s handling of Covid-19 .
Geopolitically , China rejects a “ Cold War mentality ” and hopes China and the US will be able to cooperate .
Li stressed the relationship could be either mutually beneficial or mutually harmful .
Decoupling was described as a very bad idea , for bilateral relations and for the world at large .
China , after all , will start to import more and that should also profit US companies .
Domestically , the absolute focus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ funding – will be on employment , support for small and medium enterprises and measures to encourage consumption rather than investment in infrastructure building .
In summation , in Li ’ s own words : “ The central government will live on a tight budget.
” If not completely Sisyphean in the long term , it will at least be a “ daunting task ” in Li ’ s terminology considering the previously stated end-of-2020 deadline would be to reach President Xi Jinping ’ s goal of eliminating poverty across China .
Putt-A-Bout @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Buy New $ 42.41 Li said absolutely nothing about three key themes : the alarming Himalayan border stand-off between China and India ; the prospects for Belt and Road Initiative ( BRI ) projects ; and China ’ s complex geopolitical and geo-economic relationship with the European Union ( EU ) .
The non-mention of the last theme is especially noticeable after Chancellor Merkel ’ s quite encouraging assessment earlier this week and EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell ’ s remark to a group of German ambassadors that “ the end of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an Asian century ” is now “ happening in front of our eyes.
” Confirming steady rumors emanating from Frankfurt , Berlin , Brussels and Paris , China and East Asia are taking precedence as the EU ’ s top trading partner .
This is something that will be extensively discussed at the upcoming EU-China summit next autumn in Germany .
The EU is going Eurasia .
Team Trump won ’ t be amused .
Predictably , the Beijing leadership needs to focus on domestic consumption and reaching the next level on technological @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the notorious “ middle-income trap.
” Fine-tuning the balance between domestic stability and a very strong and wide global reach is another tak that brings Sisyphos to mind .
Xi , Li and the Politburo very well know that Covid-19 hugely affected migrants , farmers and small-scale family entrepreneurs .
The risk of social unrest is very high .
Unemployment protection is far from Scandinavian levels .
So back to business , fast , has to be the top priority .
Enveloping this strategy is a new diplomatic offensive .
Foreign Minister Wang @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , is now increasingly exasperated .
Earlier this week , Yi defined the demonization of China by the US over Covid-19 as “ a product of the three no ’ s ” : no grounds , no factual basis and no international precedent .
Moreover , he described attempts to blackmail China through threats as “ daydreaming.
” The Global Times , for its part , has blasted the Trump administration for “ typical international hooliganism ” and additionally stressed that “ labeling Chinese diplomacy as ‘ wolf warrior ’ reflects an extreme @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Ch ... Mahbubani , Kishore Buy New $ 17.99 The “ wolf warrior ” plot is bound to thicken .
Beijing does seem ready to deploy its diplomatic force as wolf warriors .
One should always keep in mind General Qiao Liang : if China is forced to dance with wolves , it might as well set up the rhythm .
That applies perfectly to the Hong Kong question .
Whatever Team Trump thinks , Beijing has no interest whatsoever in disturbing the Hong Kong financial system or collapsing the Hang Seng @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the black block protesters last year were accomplishing .
What we saw during this week is the result of what a task force , sent to Shenzhen last year to examine every angle of the protests , relayed back to the leadership in Beijing .
The sources of financing for the hardcore black blocks have reputedly been cut .
The local 5th columnist “ leaders ” have been isolated .
Beijing was being very patient tackling the whole mess .
Then along came Covid-19 .
The economic consensus in Beijing is that this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very slow on the bottom of the L. So the West will buy much less from and invest much less in China .
This implies that Hong Kong is not going to be very useful .
Its best bet has already been offered many times over : integrate with the Greater Bay Area and be part of a booming Pearl river delta southern cluster .
Hong Kong businesses support it .
Another conclusion was that , whatever Beijing does , the Sinophobic hysteria in the US – and in this case also the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the right moment to go for the national security law , which of course is against subversion , against British-era “ wigs ” ( judges ) acting as 5th columnists and , most of all , against money laundering .
A Global Times editorial cut to the chase : the national security law is the “ death knell ” for US intervention in Hong Kong .
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is openly threatening Five Eyes allies and vassals , as well as Israel , with consequences if they fail to ditch any projects linked to Belt and Road .
That is intimately linked to the avalanche of threats and measures against Huawei and everything connected to Made in China 2025 , which proceeds at a fast pace but without using @ @ @ @ @ @ @ campaign strategy “ China , China , China , ” detailed in a 57-page memo to Republicans , is bound to be deployed as total hybrid warfare , including non-stop propaganda , threats , infowar technologies , cyber warfare and breaking news fabrications .
The ultimate objective shared by every Sinophobic strand , whether commercially-minded or think tank-based , is to derail the Chinese economy – a top level competitor – by any means necessary and thus cripple the ongoing Eurasian integration process whose three key nodes , China , Russia and Iran @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” according to the US national security strategy .
Once again , the gloves are off .
And Beijing won ’ t stop counterpunching in kind .
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Every “ conflict ” erupting across the chessboard is and will continue to be directly linked to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and disruption of the Belt and Road .
I previously referred to the Empire of Chaos , where a plutocracy progressively projects its own internal disintegration upon the whole world .
But only now is the serious game starting , complete with Trump ’ s intention to test nuclear bombs again .
Not against a bunch of low-life “ terrorists , ” but against a serious , peer-competitor : the Eurasian strategic partnership .
It would be too much to expect Team Trump to learn from Gramscian analyses of Belt and Road , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Confucianist variant of neoliberalism – marks the evolution of China into a core production zone in the neoliberal world economy by profiting from the existing global legal structure .
Team Trump has vociferously announced its own strategy .
Expect serial , silent Sun Tzu counterpunches .

Stranger things have happened.
Everyone was expecting US President Donald Trump to go nuclear by de facto sanctioning China to death over Hong Kong. In an environment where Twitter and the President of the United States are now engaged in open warfare, the rule is that there are no rules anymore.
So in the end, what was announced against China amounted to an anti-climax.
The US government, as it stands, is terminating its relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO). The geopolitical repercussions are immense and that will take time to sink in. In the short term, something must be blamed for the US’ appalling Covid-19 record, so it might as well be a UN institution. Empire of Chaos Pepe Escobar Best Price: $24.50 Buy New $36.65 (as of 05:45 UTC - Details)
Hong Kong’s preferential trade status will also be terminated, but in a hazy future in still undetermined terms.
Phase 1 of the US-China trade deal still stands – at least for now. Yet there’s no guarantee that Beijing itself won’t start to doubt it.
The bottom line: “Investors” were duly appeased, for now. Team Trump seems not to be exactly versed in the niceties of Hong Kong’s Basic Law, as the president stressed the “plain violation of Beijing’s treaty obligations with the United Kingdom.” The national security law was blasted as “the latest” Chinese aggression against its own special administrative region.
Now compare all this with the Two Sessions in Beijing ending the day before, with an intriguing, quite Keynesian performance by Prime Minister Li Keqiang. This was compelling as much for what Li did not say as for what he chose to put on the public record.
Let’s review some of the highlights. Li stressed that the NPC’s resolution putting forth a national security law for Hong Kong is meant to protect “one country, two systems,” and not as an “aggression.”
Instead of demonizing the WHO, Beijing is committed to a serious scientific investigation of the origins of Sars-Cov-2. “No cover-up” will be allowed, Li said, adding that a clear, scientific understanding should contribute to global public health. Beijing also supports an independent review into the WHO’s handling of Covid-19.
Geopolitically, China rejects a “Cold War mentality” and hopes China and the US will be able to cooperate. Li stressed the relationship could be either mutually beneficial or mutually harmful. Decoupling was described as a very bad idea, for bilateral relations and for the world at large. China, after all, will start to import more and that should also profit US companies.
Domestically, the absolute focus – 70% of the available new funding – will be on employment, support for small and medium enterprises and measures to encourage consumption rather than investment in infrastructure building. In summation, in Li’s own words: “The central government will live on a tight budget.”
If not completely Sisyphean in the long term, it will at least be a “daunting task” in Li’s terminology considering the previously stated end-of-2020 deadline would be to reach President Xi Jinping’s goal of eliminating poverty across China. Putt-A-Bout Grassroots... Best Price: $29.28 Buy New $42.41 (as of 04:40 UTC - Details)
Li said absolutely nothing about three key themes: the alarming Himalayan border stand-off between China and India; the prospects for Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects; and China’s complex geopolitical and geo-economic relationship with the European Union (EU).
The non-mention of the last theme is especially noticeable after Chancellor Merkel’s quite encouraging assessment earlier this week and EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell’s remark to a group of German ambassadors that “the end of an American-led system and the arrival of an Asian century” is now “happening in front of our eyes.”
Confirming steady rumors emanating from Frankfurt, Berlin, Brussels and Paris, China and East Asia are taking precedence as the EU’s top trading partner. This is something that will be extensively discussed at the upcoming EU-China summit next autumn in Germany. The EU is going Eurasia. Team Trump won’t be amused.
Dancing with wolves, remixed
Predictably, the Beijing leadership needs to focus on domestic consumption and reaching the next level on technological production so as not to fall into the notorious “middle-income trap.” Fine-tuning the balance between domestic stability and a very strong and wide global reach is another tak that brings Sisyphos to mind.
Xi, Li and the Politburo very well know that Covid-19 hugely affected migrants, farmers and small-scale family entrepreneurs. The risk of social unrest is very high. Unemployment protection is far from Scandinavian levels. So back to business, fast, has to be the top priority.
Enveloping this strategy is a new diplomatic offensive. Foreign Minister Wang Yi, usually meticulously nuanced and polite, is now increasingly exasperated. Earlier this week, Yi defined the demonization of China by the US over Covid-19 as “a product of the three no’s”: no grounds, no factual basis and no international precedent.
Moreover, he described attempts to blackmail China through threats as “daydreaming.” The Global Times, for its part, has blasted the Trump administration for “typical international hooliganism” and additionally stressed that “labeling Chinese diplomacy as ‘wolf warrior’ reflects an extreme ideology.” Has China Won?: The Ch... Mahbubani, Kishore Buy New $17.99 (as of 04:40 UTC - Details)
The “wolf warrior” plot is bound to thicken. Beijing does seem ready to deploy its diplomatic force as wolf warriors. One should always keep in mind General Qiao Liang: if China is forced to dance with wolves, it might as well set up the rhythm.
That applies perfectly to the Hong Kong question. Whatever Team Trump thinks, Beijing has no interest whatsoever in disturbing the Hong Kong financial system or collapsing the Hang Seng index. That’s exactly what the black block protesters last year were accomplishing.
What we saw during this week is the result of what a task force, sent to Shenzhen last year to examine every angle of the protests, relayed back to the leadership in Beijing.
The sources of financing for the hardcore black blocks have reputedly been cut. The local 5th columnist “leaders” have been isolated. Beijing was being very patient tackling the whole mess. Then along came Covid-19.
The economic consensus in Beijing is that this will be an L-shaped recovery – actually very slow on the bottom of the L. So the West will buy much less from and invest much less in China.
This implies that Hong Kong is not going to be very useful. Its best bet has already been offered many times over: integrate with the Greater Bay Area and be part of a booming Pearl river delta southern cluster. Hong Kong businesses support it.
Another conclusion was that, whatever Beijing does, the Sinophobic hysteria in the US – and in this case also the UK – is unabated. So now is the right moment to go for the national security law, which of course is against subversion, against British-era “wigs” (judges) acting as 5th columnists and, most of all, against money laundering.
A Global Times editorial cut to the chase: the national security law is the “death knell” for US intervention in Hong Kong. Hanes Men’s Pull... Buy New $20.27 (as of 04:40 UTC - Details)
Cold War 2.0
As much as Yi may have said, this time diplomatically, that we’re “on the brink” of a new Cold War, the fact is the Trump administration’s hybrid war on China – or Cold War 2.0 – is now fully established.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is openly threatening Five Eyes allies and vassals, as well as Israel, with consequences if they fail to ditch any projects linked to Belt and Road.
That is intimately linked to the avalanche of threats and measures against Huawei and everything connected to Made in China 2025, which proceeds at a fast pace but without using the terminology.
The official Trump re-election campaign strategy “China, China, China,” detailed in a 57-page memo to Republicans, is bound to be deployed as total hybrid warfare, including non-stop propaganda, threats, infowar technologies, cyber warfare and breaking news fabrications.
The ultimate objective shared by every Sinophobic strand, whether commercially-minded or think tank-based, is to derail the Chinese economy – a top level competitor – by any means necessary and thus cripple the ongoing Eurasian integration process whose three key nodes, China, Russia and Iran, happen to be top “threats” according to the US national security strategy.
Once again, the gloves are off. And Beijing won’t stop counterpunching in kind.
Salt: A World History Mark Kurlansky Best Price: $2.50 Buy New $10.38 (as of 10:05 UTC - Details) It’s as if Beijing had so far serially underestimated the Deep State and Beltway’s larger than life obsession with always remaining the undisputed hegemon, geopolitically and geo-economically. Every “conflict” erupting across the chessboard is and will continue to be directly linked to the twin objectives of containment of Russia and disruption of the Belt and Road.
I previously referred to the Empire of Chaos, where a plutocracy progressively projects its own internal disintegration upon the whole world. But only now is the serious game starting, complete with Trump’s intention to test nuclear bombs again. Not against a bunch of low-life “terrorists,” but against a serious, peer-competitor: the Eurasian strategic partnership.
It would be too much to expect Team Trump to learn from Gramscian analyses of Belt and Road, which demonstrate how the Chinese Dream – a Confucianist variant of neoliberalism – marks the evolution of China into a core production zone in the neoliberal world economy by profiting from the existing global legal structure.
Team Trump has vociferously announced its own strategy. Expect serial, silent Sun Tzu counterpunches.
Reprinted with the author’s permission.


lewrockwell--2020-06-01--Hydroxychloroquine, Me, and the Great Divide

I took hydroxychloroquine for two years .
A long time ago as a visiting cancer surgeon in Asia , in Thailand , Nepal , India , and Bangladesh .
From 1987 to 1990 .
Malaria is rife there .
I took it for prophylaxis , 400 milligrams once a week for two years .
Never had any trouble .
It was inexpensive and effective .
I started it two weeks before and was supposed to continue it through my stay and four weeks after returning .
But I stopped it after two years .
I was worried about potential side @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as with all drugs right down to Tylenol and aspirin .
These , however , are rare .
At a certain point , I was prepared to take my chances with mosquitoes and plasmodium , and so I stopped .
Chloroquine , the precursor of HCQ , was invented by Bayer in 1934 .
Hydroxychloroquine was developed during World War II as a safer , synthetic alternative and approved for medical use in the U.S. in 1955 .
The World Health Organization considers it an essential medicine , among the safest and most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ healthcare system .
In 2017 , US doctors prescribed it 5 million times , the 128th most commonly prescribed drug in the country .
There have been hundreds of millions of prescriptions worldwide since its inception .
It is one of the cheapest and best drugs in the world and has saved millions of lives .
Doctors also prescribe it for Lupus and Rheumatoid arthritis patients who may consume it for their lifetimes with few or no ill effects .
Vitamin D3 , Zinc and M ... Jeffers , Nancy Best Price : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ happened to this wonder drug .
From savior of the multitudes , redeemer and benefactor of hundreds of millions , it transformed into something else : a purveyor of doom , despair , and unspeakable carnage .
It began when President Trump discussed it as a possible treatment for COVID-19 on March 19 , 2020 .
The gates of hell burst forth on May 18 when Trump casually announced that he was taking it , prescribed by his physician .
Attacks on Trump and this otherwise harmless little molecule poured in .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ highly effective medicinal became a major threat to life , a nefarious and wicked chemical that could alter critical heart rhythms , resulting in sudden cataclysmic death for unsuspecting innocents .
Trump , more than irresponsible , was evil incarnate for daring to even mention it .
While at it , the salivating media trotted out the canard about Trump ’ s nonrecommendation for injecting Clorox and Lysol or drinking fish-tank cleaner to combat COVID .
It was Charlottesville all over again .
Frunutta Zinc 5 mg + V ... Buy New $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Before a nation of non-cardiologists , the media agonized over , of all things , the prolongation of the now infamous “ QT interval , ” and the risk of sudden cardiac death .
The FDA and NIH piled on , piously demanding randomized , controlled , double-blind studies before physicians prescribed HCQ .
No one mentioned that the risk of cardiac arrest was far higher from watching the Superbowl .
Nor did the media declare that HCQ and chloroquine have been used throughout the world for half a century , making them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ history with not a single reported case of “ arrhythmic death ” according to the sainted WHO and the American College of Cardiology .
Or that physicians in the field , on the frontlines , so to speak , based on empirical evidence , have found benefit in treating patients with a variety of agents including HCQ , Zinc , Azithromycin , Quercetin , Elderberry supplements , Vitamins D and C with few if any complications .
Or that while such regimens may not cure , they may help and carry little or @ @ @

I took hydroxychloroquine for two years. A long time ago as a visiting cancer surgeon in Asia, in Thailand, Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. From 1987 to 1990. Malaria is rife there. I took it for prophylaxis, 400 milligrams once a week for two years. Never had any trouble. It was inexpensive and effective. I started it two weeks before and was supposed to continue it through my stay and four weeks after returning. But I stopped it after two years. I was worried about potential side effects of which there are many, as with all drugs right down to Tylenol and aspirin. These, however, are rare. At a certain point, I was prepared to take my chances with mosquitoes and plasmodium, and so I stopped.
Chloroquine, the precursor of HCQ, was invented by Bayer in 1934. Hydroxychloroquine was developed during World War II as a safer, synthetic alternative and approved for medical use in the U.S. in 1955. The World Health Organization considers it an essential medicine, among the safest and most effective medicines, a staple of any healthcare system. In 2017, US doctors prescribed it 5 million times, the 128th most commonly prescribed drug in the country. There have been hundreds of millions of prescriptions worldwide since its inception. It is one of the cheapest and best drugs in the world and has saved millions of lives. Doctors also prescribe it for Lupus and Rheumatoid arthritis patients who may consume it for their lifetimes with few or no ill effects. Vitamin D3, Zinc and M... Jeffers, Nancy Buy New $6.98 (as of 03:40 UTC - Details)
Then something happened to this wonder drug. From savior of the multitudes, redeemer and benefactor of hundreds of millions, it transformed into something else: a purveyor of doom, despair, and unspeakable carnage. It began when President Trump discussed it as a possible treatment for COVID-19 on March 19, 2020. The gates of hell burst forth on May 18 when Trump casually announced that he was taking it, prescribed by his physician. Attacks on Trump and this otherwise harmless little molecule poured in. The heretofore respected, commonly used, and highly effective medicinal became a major threat to life, a nefarious and wicked chemical that could alter critical heart rhythms, resulting in sudden cataclysmic death for unsuspecting innocents. Trump, more than irresponsible, was evil incarnate for daring to even mention it. While at it, the salivating media trotted out the canard about Trump’s nonrecommendation for injecting Clorox and Lysol or drinking fish-tank cleaner to combat COVID. It was Charlottesville all over again. Frunutta Zinc 5 mg + V... Buy New $14.99 ($0.17 / Count) (as of 05:10 UTC - Details)
Before a nation of non-cardiologists, the media agonized over, of all things, the prolongation of the now infamous “QT interval,” and the risk of sudden cardiac death. The FDA and NIH piled on, piously demanding randomized, controlled, double-blind studies before physicians prescribed HCQ. No one mentioned that the risk of cardiac arrest was far higher from watching the Superbowl. Nor did the media declare that HCQ and chloroquine have been used throughout the world for half a century, making them among the most widely prescribed drugs in history with not a single reported case of “arrhythmic death” according to the sainted WHO and the American College of Cardiology. Or that physicians in the field, on the frontlines, so to speak, based on empirical evidence, have found benefit in treating patients with a variety of agents including HCQ, Zinc, Azithromycin, Quercetin, Elderberry supplements, Vitamins D and C with few if any complications. Or that while such regimens may not cure, they may help and carry little or no risk.
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lewrockwell--2020-06-01--Baby Talk and Bad Language

Baby Talk and Bad Language

GSTAAD—Well , Theodora did not wait and I missed yet another grandchild ’ s birth .
( The prettiest little blue-eyed thing ever , if I say so myself . )
Funny thing is , I ’ ve never been able to be there when it counts .
I missed my daughter ’ s birth because I was playing tennis in Palm Beach and got to the Bagel ten minutes too late .
( She rarely forgets to mention it . )
I missed my boy ’ s because I went back to sleep and Alexandra chose not to wake @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Rome , and Antonius and Theodora in Salzburg .
This makes children and grandchildren 6 , yours truly 0 .
Nothing to be proud of but I make up for it .
For example : After my father died I instructed the household to always refer to my person as the GP .
GP did not stand for general practitioner , nor for great pretender , but for great provider .
The children howled in laughter and mock anger , but the great provider endured as my name until the kids grew @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the great pest .
Now that I have turned everything over to them and the wife I am the great pain .
Lolly has three residences , JT has four , and poor little me is down to two , both in the name of the wife .
What I need is a GP , as in a great psychoanalyst .
Activ Life Best Kid & rs ... Buy New $ 12.99 Never mind .
Up here in the Alps all I hear is ding-dong all day as the cows that surround me @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The weather has been sunny and breezy , and I exercise all day .
How ironic this is .
When I was young and competing at a high level in various sports , I was always out of shape from drinking , chasing , and staying up late .
Now , with one foot in the grave , I ’ m in the best shape of my life and looking forward to meeting the man in the white suit while in excellent trim .
The lockdown is good for one ’ s health @ @ @ @ @ @ @ social life .
GoSports Portable PVC ... Buy New $ 42.99 Perhaps it sounds stuffy , but reading Susan Hill ’ s column in the brilliant 10,000th issue of The Spectator got me going .
It was about manners , or lack of nowadays .
What I miss most are the good old days when manners were exquisite .
Good manners are very simple to define : It means putting other people before yourself without thinking about it .
Actually , Christianity is good manners .
We are now in the age of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the halfwit elite .
The absolute dirt emanating from the TV channels , with movies and TV shows of coarse people using the coarsest language possible , makes viewing anything filmed over the past twenty years unbearable .
People speaking without using the f-word are always depicted as bigots , whereas those using the most degrading of words and actions are shown in a favorable light .
The Best of Taki Theodoracopulos

GSTAAD—Well, Theodora did not wait and I missed yet another grandchild’s birth. (The prettiest little blue-eyed thing ever, if I say so myself.) Funny thing is, I’ve never been able to be there when it counts. I missed my daughter’s birth because I was playing tennis in Palm Beach and got to the Bagel ten minutes too late. (She rarely forgets to mention it.) I missed my boy’s because I went back to sleep and Alexandra chose not to wake me. Taki and Maria were born in Rome, and Antonius and Theodora in Salzburg. This makes children and grandchildren 6, yours truly 0. Nothing to be proud of but I make up for it.
For example: After my father died I instructed the household to always refer to my person as the GP. GP did not stand for general practitioner, nor for great pretender, but for great provider. The children howled in laughter and mock anger, but the great provider endured as my name until the kids grew up. Then the great provider became the great pest. Now that I have turned everything over to them and the wife I am the great pain. Lolly has three residences, JT has four, and poor little me is down to two, both in the name of the wife. What I need is a GP, as in a great psychoanalyst. Activ Life Best Kid&rs... Buy New $12.99 (as of 04:42 UTC - Details)
Never mind. Up here in the Alps all I hear is ding-dong all day as the cows that surround me bask peacefully in the surrounding fields. The weather has been sunny and breezy, and I exercise all day. How ironic this is. When I was young and competing at a high level in various sports, I was always out of shape from drinking, chasing, and staying up late. Now, with one foot in the grave, I’m in the best shape of my life and looking forward to meeting the man in the white suit while in excellent trim. The lockdown is good for one’s health and very bad for one’s social life. GoSports Portable PVC ... Buy New $42.99 (as of 04:42 UTC - Details)
Perhaps it sounds stuffy, but reading Susan Hill’s column in the brilliant 10,000th issue of The Spectator got me going. It was about manners, or lack of nowadays. What I miss most are the good old days when manners were exquisite. Good manners are very simple to define: It means putting other people before yourself without thinking about it. Actually, Christianity is good manners. We are now in the age of the f-bomb, and in the power of the halfwit elite. The absolute dirt emanating from the TV channels, with movies and TV shows of coarse people using the coarsest language possible, makes viewing anything filmed over the past twenty years unbearable. People speaking without using the f-word are always depicted as bigots, whereas those using the most degrading of words and actions are shown in a favorable light.
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The Best of Taki Theodoracopulos