lewrockwell--2020-07-09--Tyranny Without a Tyrant: the Deep State’s Divide-and-Conquer Strategy Is Working

What exactly is going on ?
Is this revolution ?
Is this anarchy ?
Is this a spectacle engineered to distract us from the machinations of the police state ?
Is this a sociological means of re-setting our national equilibrium ?
Is this a Machiavellian scheme designed to further polarize the populace and undermine our efforts to stand unified against government tyranny ?
Is this so-called populist uprising actually a manufactured race war and election-year referendum on who should occupy the White House ?
Crises of the Republic ... Arendt , Hannah Best Price : $ 11.00 Buy New $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hypersensitivity without racial justice , the kowtowing to politically correct bullies with no regard for anyone else ’ s free speech rights , the violent blowback after years of government-sanctioned brutality , the mob mindset that is overwhelming the rights of the individual , the oppressive glowering of the Nanny State , the seemingly righteous indignation full of sound and fury that in the end signifies nothing , the partisan divide that grows more impassable with every passing day—is not leading us anywhere good .
Certainly it ’ s not leading to more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to divide , conquer and subdue a nation is succeeding .
It must be said : the Black Lives Matter protests have not helped .
Inadvertently or intentionally , these protests—tinged with mob violence , rampant incivility , intolerance , and an arrogant disdain for how an open marketplace of ideas can advance freedom—have politicized what should never have been politicized : police brutality and the government ’ s ongoing assaults on our freedoms .
For one brief moment in the wake of George Floyd ’ s death , it seemed as if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ put aside our differences long enough to stand united in outrage over the government ’ s brutality .
That sliver of unity didn ’ t last .
We may be worse off now than we were before .
Suddenly , no one seems to be talking about any of the egregious governmental abuses that are still wreaking havoc on our freedoms : police shootings of unarmed individuals , invasive surveillance , roadside blood draws , roadside strip searches , SWAT team raids gone awry , the military industrial complex ’ s costly wars @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , civil asset forfeiture , fusion centers , militarization , armed drones , smart policing carried out by AI robots , courts that march in lockstep with the police state , schools that function as indoctrination centers , bureaucrats that keep the Deep State in power .
The Prince Machiavelli , Niccolo Best Price : $ 5.99 Buy New $ 5.99 The more things change , the more they stay the same .
How do you persuade a populace to embrace totalitarianism , that goose-stepping form of tyranny in which the government has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the people ” have none ?
You persuade the people that the menace they face ( imaginary or not ) is so sinister , so overwhelming , so fearsome that the only way to surmount the danger is by empowering the government to take all necessary steps to quash it , even if that means allowing government jackboots to trample all over the Constitution .
This is how you use the politics of fear to persuade a freedom-endowed people to shackle themselves to a dictatorship .
It works the same way every time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ extended wars on terrorism , drugs , violence , illegal immigration , and so-called domestic extremism have been convenient ruses used to terrorize the populace into relinquishing more of their freedoms in exchange for elusive promises of security .
Having allowed our fears to be codified and our actions criminalized , we now find ourselves in a strange new world where just about everything we do is criminalized , even our ability to choose whether or not to wear a mask in public during the COVID-19 pandemic .
Strangely enough , in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the part of our elected officials , Americans in general remain relatively gullible , eager to be persuaded that the government can solve the problems that plague us , whether it be terrorism , an economic depression , an environmental disaster , or a global pandemic .
The 48 Laws of Power Greene , Robert Best Price : $ 8.96 Buy New $ 16.67 We have relinquished control over the most intimate aspects of our lives to government officials who , while they may occupy seats of authority , are neither wiser , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ needs , more knowledgeable about our problems , nor more aware of what is really in our best interests .
Yet having bought into the false notion that the government does indeed know what ’ s best for us and can ensure not only our safety but our happiness and will take care of us from cradle to grave—that is , from daycare centers to nursing homes—we have in actuality allowed ourselves to be bridled and turned into slaves at the bidding of a government that cares little for our freedoms or our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ once a free people allows the government inroads into their freedoms or uses those same freedoms as bargaining chips for security , it quickly becomes a slippery slope to outright tyranny .
Nor does it seem to matter whether it ’ s a Democrat or a Republican at the helm anymore .
Indeed , the bureaucratic mindset on both sides of the aisle now seems to embody the same philosophy of authoritarian government , whose priorities are to milk “ we the people ” of our hard-earned money ( by way of taxes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in control and in power .
Modern government in general—ranging from the militarized police in SWAT team gear crashing through our doors to the rash of innocent citizens being gunned down by police to the invasive spying on everything we do—is acting illogically , even psychopathically .
( The characteristics of a psychopath include a “ lack of remorse and empathy , a sense of grandiosity , superficial charm , conning and manipulative behavior , and refusal to take responsibility for one ’ s actions , among others.
” ) When our own @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beings with dignity and worth but as things to be manipulated , maneuvered , mined for data , manhandled by police , conned into believing it has our best interests at heart , mistreated , and then jails us if we dare step out of line , punishes us unjustly without remorse , and refuses to own up to its failings , we are no longer operating under a constitutional republic .
Instead , what we are experiencing is a pathocracy : tyranny at the hands of a psychopathic government , which “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people except for favoring certain groups.
” So where does that leave us ?
Having allowed the government to expand and exceed our reach , we find ourselves on the losing end of a tug-of-war over control of our country and our lives .
And for as long as we let them , government officials will continue to trample on our rights , always justifying their actions as being for the good of the people .
Yet the government can only go as far as “ we the people ” allow .
Therein @ @ @ @ @ @ @ T ... John W. Whitehead Best Price : $ 10.95 Buy New $ 18.80 The pickle we find ourselves in speaks volumes about the nature of the government beast we have been saddled with and how it views the rights and sovereignty of “ we the people.
” Now you don ’ t hear a lot about sovereignty anymore .
Sovereignty is a dusty , antiquated term that harkens back to an age when kings and emperors ruled with absolute power over a populace that had no rights .
Americans turned the idea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ declared their independence from Great Britain and rejected the absolute authority of King George III .
In doing so , Americans claimed for themselves the right to self-government and established themselves as the ultimate authority and power .
In other words , in America , “ we the people ” — sovereign citizens—call the shots .
So when the government acts , it is supposed to do so at our bidding and on our behalf , because we are the rulers .
That ’ s not exactly how it turned out , though @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years since we boldly embarked on this experiment in self-government , we have been steadily losing ground to the government ’ s brazen power grabs , foisted upon us in the so-called name of national security .
The government has knocked us off our rightful throne .
It has usurped our rightful authority .
It has staged the ultimate coup .
Its agents no longer even pretend that they answer to “ we the people.
” Worst of all , “ we the people ” have become desensitized to this constant undermining of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Founders ’ vision of the government as an entity whose only purpose is to serve the people with the police state ’ s insistence that the government is the supreme authority , that its power trumps that of the people themselves , and that it may exercise that power in any way it sees fit ( that includes government agents crashing through doors , mass arrests , ethnic cleansing , racial profiling , indefinite detentions without due process , and internment camps ) ?
They can not be reconciled .
They are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ An ... Rockwell Jr. , Llewelly ... Best Price : $ 5.02 Buy New $ 5.52 We are fast approaching a moment of reckoning where we will be forced to choose between the vision of what America was intended to be ( a model for self-governance where power is vested in the people ) and the reality of what it has become ( a police state where power is vested in the government ) .
This slide into totalitarianism—helped along by overcriminalization , government surveillance , militarized police , neighbors turning in neighbors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ camps , to name just a few similarities—is tracking very closely with what happened in Germany in the years leading up to Hitler ’ s rise to power .
We are walking a dangerous path right now .
No matter who wins the presidential election come November , it ’ s a sure bet that the losers will be the American people .
Despite what is taught in school and the propaganda that is peddled by the media , the 2020 presidential election is not a populist election for a representative .
Rather @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shareholders to select the next CEO , a fact reinforced by the nation ’ s archaic electoral college system .
Anyone who believes that this election will bring about any real change in how the American government does business is either incredibly naïve , woefully out-of-touch , or oblivious to the fact that as an in-depth Princeton University study shows , we now live in an oligarchy that is “ of the rich , by the rich and for the rich.
” When a country spends close to $ 10 billion on elections @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intents and purposes , a glorified homecoming king or queen to occupy the White House and fill other government seats , while more than 40 million of its people live in poverty , more than 40 million Americans are on unemployment , more than 500,000 Americans are homeless , and analysts forecast it will take a decade to work our way out of the current COVID-induced recession , that ’ s a country whose priorities are out of step with the needs of its people .
Be warned , however : the Establishment—the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ really run the show , pull the strings and dictate the policies , no matter who occupies the Oval Office—is not going to allow anyone to take office who will unravel their power structures .
Those who have attempted to do so in the past have been effectively put out of commission .
Voting sustains the illusion that we have a democratic republic , but it is merely a dictatorship in disguise , or what political scientists Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page more accurately refer to as an “ economic élite domination.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elite ( lobbyists , corporations , monied special interest groups ) dictate national policy .
As the Princeton University oligarchy study indicates , our elected officials , especially those in the nation ’ s capital , represent the interests of the rich and powerful rather than the average citizen .
As such , the citizenry has little if any impact on the policies of government .
We have been saddled with a two-party system and fooled into believing that there ’ s a difference between the Republicans and Democrats , when in fact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ same .
As one commentator noted , both parties support endless war , engage in out-of-control spending , ignore the citizenry ’ s basic rights , have no respect for the rule of law , are bought and paid for by Big Business , care most about their own power , and have a long record of expanding government and shrinking liberty We ’ re drowning under the weight of too much debt , too many wars , too much power in the hands of a centralized government run by a corporate elite @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many laws , too many lobbyists , and generally too much bad news .
The powers-that-be want us to believe that our job as citizens begins and ends on Election Day .
They want us to believe that we have no right to complain about the state of the nation unless we ’ ve cast our vote one way or the other .
They want us to remain divided over politics , hostile to those with whom we disagree politically , and intolerant of anyone or anything whose solutions to what ails this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they don ’ t want us talking about is the fact that the government is corrupt , the system is rigged , the politicians don ’ t represent us , the electoral college is a joke , most of the candidates are frauds , and , as I point out in my book Battlefield America : The War on the American People , we as a nation are repeating the mistakes of history—namely , allowing a totalitarian state to reign over us .
Former concentration camp inmate Hannah Arendt warned against this when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ future been more unpredictable , never have we depended so much on political forces that can not be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity , if judged by the standards of other centuries.
” As we once again find ourselves faced with the prospect of voting for the lesser of two evils , “ we the people ” have a decision to make : do we simply participate in the collapse of the American republic as it degenerates toward a totalitarian regime , or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the pathetic excuse for government that is being fobbed off on us ?
Never forget that the lesser of two evils is still evil .
The Best of John W. Whitehead

“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless, we have a tyranny without a tyrant.” ― Hannah Arendt, On Violence
What exactly is going on?
Is this revolution? Is this anarchy? Is this a spectacle engineered to distract us from the machinations of the police state? Is this a sociological means of re-setting our national equilibrium? Is this a Machiavellian scheme designed to further polarize the populace and undermine our efforts to stand unified against government tyranny? Is this so-called populist uprising actually a manufactured race war and election-year referendum on who should occupy the White House?
Crises of the Republic... Arendt, Hannah Best Price: $11.00 Buy New $13.58 (as of 03:21 UTC - Details) Whatever it is, this—the racial hypersensitivity without racial justice, the kowtowing to politically correct bullies with no regard for anyone else’s free speech rights, the violent blowback after years of government-sanctioned brutality, the mob mindset that is overwhelming the rights of the individual, the oppressive glowering of the Nanny State, the seemingly righteous indignation full of sound and fury that in the end signifies nothing, the partisan divide that grows more impassable with every passing day—is not leading us anywhere good.
Certainly it’s not leading to more freedom.
This draconian exercise in how to divide, conquer and subdue a nation is succeeding.
It must be said: the Black Lives Matter protests have not helped. Inadvertently or intentionally, these protests—tinged with mob violence, rampant incivility, intolerance, and an arrogant disdain for how an open marketplace of ideas can advance freedom—have politicized what should never have been politicized: police brutality and the government’s ongoing assaults on our freedoms.
For one brief moment in the wake of George Floyd’s death, it seemed as if finally “we the people” might put aside our differences long enough to stand united in outrage over the government’s brutality.
That sliver of unity didn’t last.
We may be worse off now than we were before.
Suddenly, no one seems to be talking about any of the egregious governmental abuses that are still wreaking havoc on our freedoms: police shootings of unarmed individuals, invasive surveillance, roadside blood draws, roadside strip searches, SWAT team raids gone awry, the military industrial complex’s costly wars, pork barrel spending, pre-crime laws, civil asset forfeiture, fusion centers, militarization, armed drones, smart policing carried out by AI robots, courts that march in lockstep with the police state, schools that function as indoctrination centers, bureaucrats that keep the Deep State in power. The Prince Machiavelli, Niccolo Best Price: $5.99 Buy New $5.99 (as of 03:21 UTC - Details)
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
How do you persuade a populace to embrace totalitarianism, that goose-stepping form of tyranny in which the government has all of the power and “we the people” have none?
You persuade the people that the menace they face (imaginary or not) is so sinister, so overwhelming, so fearsome that the only way to surmount the danger is by empowering the government to take all necessary steps to quash it, even if that means allowing government jackboots to trample all over the Constitution.
This is how you use the politics of fear to persuade a freedom-endowed people to shackle themselves to a dictatorship.
It works the same way every time.
The government’s overblown, extended wars on terrorism, drugs, violence, illegal immigration, and so-called domestic extremism have been convenient ruses used to terrorize the populace into relinquishing more of their freedoms in exchange for elusive promises of security.
Having allowed our fears to be codified and our actions criminalized, we now find ourselves in a strange new world where just about everything we do is criminalized, even our ability to choose whether or not to wear a mask in public during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Strangely enough, in the face of outright corruption and incompetency on the part of our elected officials, Americans in general remain relatively gullible, eager to be persuaded that the government can solve the problems that plague us, whether it be terrorism, an economic depression, an environmental disaster, or a global pandemic.
The 48 Laws of Power Greene, Robert Best Price: $8.96 Buy New $16.67 (as of 08:20 UTC - Details) We have relinquished control over the most intimate aspects of our lives to government officials who, while they may occupy seats of authority, are neither wiser, smarter, more in tune with our needs, more knowledgeable about our problems, nor more aware of what is really in our best interests. Yet having bought into the false notion that the government does indeed know what’s best for us and can ensure not only our safety but our happiness and will take care of us from cradle to grave—that is, from daycare centers to nursing homes—we have in actuality allowed ourselves to be bridled and turned into slaves at the bidding of a government that cares little for our freedoms or our happiness.
The lesson is this: once a free people allows the government inroads into their freedoms or uses those same freedoms as bargaining chips for security, it quickly becomes a slippery slope to outright tyranny.
Nor does it seem to matter whether it’s a Democrat or a Republican at the helm anymore. Indeed, the bureaucratic mindset on both sides of the aisle now seems to embody the same philosophy of authoritarian government, whose priorities are to milk “we the people” of our hard-earned money (by way of taxes, fines and fees) and remain in control and in power.
Modern government in general—ranging from the militarized police in SWAT team gear crashing through our doors to the rash of innocent citizens being gunned down by police to the invasive spying on everything we do—is acting illogically, even psychopathically. (The characteristics of a psychopath include a “lack of remorse and empathy, a sense of grandiosity, superficial charm, conning and manipulative behavior, and refusal to take responsibility for one’s actions, among others.”)
When our own government no longer sees us as human beings with dignity and worth but as things to be manipulated, maneuvered, mined for data, manhandled by police, conned into believing it has our best interests at heart, mistreated, and then jails us if we dare step out of line, punishes us unjustly without remorse, and refuses to own up to its failings, we are no longer operating under a constitutional republic. Instead, what we are experiencing is a pathocracy: tyranny at the hands of a psychopathic government, which “operates against the interests of its own people except for favoring certain groups.”
So where does that leave us?
Having allowed the government to expand and exceed our reach, we find ourselves on the losing end of a tug-of-war over control of our country and our lives. And for as long as we let them, government officials will continue to trample on our rights, always justifying their actions as being for the good of the people.
Yet the government can only go as far as “we the people” allow. Therein lies the problem. Battlefield America: T... John W. Whitehead Best Price: $10.95 Buy New $18.80 (as of 10:15 UTC - Details)
The pickle we find ourselves in speaks volumes about the nature of the government beast we have been saddled with and how it views the rights and sovereignty of “we the people.”
Now you don’t hear a lot about sovereignty anymore. Sovereignty is a dusty, antiquated term that harkens back to an age when kings and emperors ruled with absolute power over a populace that had no rights. Americans turned the idea of sovereignty on its head when they declared their independence from Great Britain and rejected the absolute authority of King George III. In doing so, Americans claimed for themselves the right to self-government and established themselves as the ultimate authority and power.
In other words, in America, “we the people”— sovereign citizens—call the shots.
So when the government acts, it is supposed to do so at our bidding and on our behalf, because we are the rulers.
That’s not exactly how it turned out, though, is it?
In the 200-plus years since we boldly embarked on this experiment in self-government, we have been steadily losing ground to the government’s brazen power grabs, foisted upon us in the so-called name of national security.
The government has knocked us off our rightful throne. It has usurped our rightful authority. It has staged the ultimate coup. Its agents no longer even pretend that they answer to “we the people.” Worst of all, “we the people” have become desensitized to this constant undermining of our freedoms.
How do we reconcile the Founders’ vision of the government as an entity whose only purpose is to serve the people with the police state’s insistence that the government is the supreme authority, that its power trumps that of the people themselves, and that it may exercise that power in any way it sees fit (that includes government agents crashing through doors, mass arrests, ethnic cleansing, racial profiling, indefinite detentions without due process, and internment camps)?
They cannot be reconciled. They are polar opposites. Against the State: An ... Rockwell Jr., Llewelly... Best Price: $5.02 Buy New $5.52 (as of 11:35 UTC - Details)
We are fast approaching a moment of reckoning where we will be forced to choose between the vision of what America was intended to be (a model for self-governance where power is vested in the people) and the reality of what it has become (a police state where power is vested in the government).
This slide into totalitarianism—helped along by overcriminalization, government surveillance, militarized police, neighbors turning in neighbors, privatized prisons, and forced labor camps, to name just a few similarities—is tracking very closely with what happened in Germany in the years leading up to Hitler’s rise to power.
We are walking a dangerous path right now.
No matter who wins the presidential election come November, it’s a sure bet that the losers will be the American people.
Despite what is taught in school and the propaganda that is peddled by the media, the 2020 presidential election is not a populist election for a representative. Rather, it’s a gathering of shareholders to select the next CEO, a fact reinforced by the nation’s archaic electoral college system.
Anyone who believes that this election will bring about any real change in how the American government does business is either incredibly naïve, woefully out-of-touch, or oblivious to the fact that as an in-depth Princeton University study shows, we now live in an oligarchy that is “of the rich, by the rich and for the rich.”
When a country spends close to $10 billion on elections to select what is, for all intents and purposes, a glorified homecoming king or queen to occupy the White House and fill other government seats, while more than 40 million of its people live in poverty, more than 40 million Americans are on unemployment, more than 500,000 Americans are homeless, and analysts forecast it will take a decade to work our way out of the current COVID-induced recession, that’s a country whose priorities are out of step with the needs of its people.
Be warned, however: the Establishment—the Deep State and its corporate partners that really run the show, pull the strings and dictate the policies, no matter who occupies the Oval Office—is not going to allow anyone to take office who will unravel their power structures. Those who have attempted to do so in the past have been effectively put out of commission.
Voting sustains the illusion that we have a democratic republic, but it is merely a dictatorship in disguise, or what political scientists Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page more accurately refer to as an “economic élite domination.”
In such an environment, the economic elite (lobbyists, corporations, monied special interest groups) dictate national policy. As the Princeton University oligarchy study indicates, our elected officials, especially those in the nation’s capital, represent the interests of the rich and powerful rather than the average citizen. As such, the citizenry has little if any impact on the policies of government.
We have been saddled with a two-party system and fooled into believing that there’s a difference between the Republicans and Democrats, when in fact, the two parties are exactly the same. As one commentator noted, both parties support endless war, engage in out-of-control spending, ignore the citizenry’s basic rights, have no respect for the rule of law, are bought and paid for by Big Business, care most about their own power, and have a long record of expanding government and shrinking liberty
We’re drowning under the weight of too much debt, too many wars, too much power in the hands of a centralized government run by a corporate elite, too many militarized police, too many laws, too many lobbyists, and generally too much bad news.
The powers-that-be want us to believe that our job as citizens begins and ends on Election Day. They want us to believe that we have no right to complain about the state of the nation unless we’ve cast our vote one way or the other. They want us to remain divided over politics, hostile to those with whom we disagree politically, and intolerant of anyone or anything whose solutions to what ails this country differ from our own.
What they don’t want us talking about is the fact that the government is corrupt, the system is rigged, the politicians don’t represent us, the electoral college is a joke, most of the candidates are frauds, and, as I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, we as a nation are repeating the mistakes of history—namely, allowing a totalitarian state to reign over us.
Former concentration camp inmate Hannah Arendt warned against this when she wrote, “Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.”
As we once again find ourselves faced with the prospect of voting for the lesser of two evils, “we the people” have a decision to make: do we simply participate in the collapse of the American republic as it degenerates toward a totalitarian regime, or do we take a stand and reject the pathetic excuse for government that is being fobbed off on us?
Never forget that the lesser of two evils is still evil.
The Best of John W. Whitehead


lewrockwell--2020-07-09--The Shameful History of the Anti-Smoking Crusade

Jacob Grier doesn ’ t like cigarettes .
He doesn ’ t smoke cigarettes .
He advises people against smoking cigarettes .
And yet he believes that adults should be allowed to smoke cigarettes without being harassed , demonised , over-taxed and thrown out of every building in America , including , in some cases , their own home .
This view , which was once so uncontroversial as to go without saying , makes him virtually a libertarian provocateur today .
In The Rediscovery of Tobacco , Grier explains how this cultural revolution happened .
It is unusual for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intolerance and animosity towards a large group of fellow citizens , but that is effectively what happened when ‘ denormalisation ’ was embraced as a tobacco-control strategy .
The restraints of the US Constitution mean that many of the policies available to anti-smoking campaigners elsewhere , such as advertising bans and plain packaging , are out of reach , and so , rather than targeting the product , American crusaders have forcefully targeted the consumer .
The Rediscovery of Tob ... Grier , Jacob Buy New $ 14.99 It is the petty vindictiveness @ @ @ @ @ @ @ smoking bans that really irks .
There will soon be nowhere left to hide .
If it is not obvious to you that most ‘ smoke-free ’ laws are contrivances to force smokers to quit , rather than to ‘ protect ’ nonsmokers , this book will surely persuade you .
It is almost comic to watch the quackademics of ‘ tobacco control ’ garrotting science to justify bans on smoking outdoors and in private dwellings .
When the dubious epidemiology of secondhand smoke outlived its usefulness , the concept of thirdhand smoke @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they are at risk from anything that had ever come into contact with smoke : furniture , carpets , wallpaper and , most pertinently , the clothes , hair and skin of smokers themselves .
In the land of the free , campaigners would rather encourage mass hypochondria than admit to being paternalists .
The mere sight of someone smoking is viewed as sufficiently dangerous to justify criminalisation .
When New York City ’ s health commissioner wanted to ban smoking in Central Park in 2010 , he asserted that ‘ families should @ @ @ @ @ @ @ parks and beaches knowing that they won ’ t see others smoking ’ .
The ban was introduced the following year .
By the time vaping became a mainstream activity in the early 2010s , the anti-smoking lobby was well practised in the art of manipulating public opinion .
The greatest harm-maximisation innovation of the century was no match for people who could get away with making three preposterous claims before breakfast .
By 2019 , a steady stream of junk science and outright lies from supposed ‘ public health ’ groups had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as hazardous or more hazardous than traditional cigarettes .
Joyoldelf Tobacco Smok ... Buy New $ 32.99 The anti-smoking fanatics get away with it , Grier argues , because they have had no accountability since the turn of the millennium .
By the mid-1990s , the American tobacco industry had become a byword for corporate malfeasance .
By the end of the decade , cigarette companies had finally stopped trying to dispute the addiction and harm associated with their products and closed down front groups such as the Tobacco Institute .
On the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ great loss to smokers , but one effect of the industry withdrawing from the stage was to leave the anti-smoking lobby free to say almost anything .
The threat of having their work picked apart by the Tobacco Institute ‘ helped enforce rigour in anti-smoking research in much the same way that the adversarial process in a courtroom trial forces both sides to justify their claims with evidence ’ .
Without it , it was open season for junk scientists .
Meanwhile , the spectacular collapse in trust in the industry gave the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would ever need .
It became a simple morality tale in which there was no doubt about who the goodies and baddies were .
Those who called for greater restrictions on smoking wore a halo , while those who defended smokers ’ rights were suspect .
Journalists were understandably anxious not to be fooled again , but their lack of scrutiny of the anti-smoking side amounted to giving a free pass to extremist cranks and fostered ‘ a scientific environment in which research is judged primarily for its usefulness in promoting the goals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by personal attacks , and dubious claims about the effects of second- and thirdhand smoke can be made with impunity , sure to receive favourable press coverage by reporters eager to write a shocking headline ’ .
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Jacob Grier doesn’t like cigarettes. He doesn’t smoke cigarettes. He advises people against smoking cigarettes. And yet he believes that adults should be allowed to smoke cigarettes without being harassed, demonised, over-taxed and thrown out of every building in America, including, in some cases, their own home. This view, which was once so uncontroversial as to go without saying, makes him virtually a libertarian provocateur today. In The Rediscovery of Tobacco, Grier explains how this cultural revolution happened.
It is unusual for governments in modern democracies deliberately to encourage intolerance and animosity towards a large group of fellow citizens, but that is effectively what happened when ‘denormalisation’ was embraced as a tobacco-control strategy. The restraints of the US Constitution mean that many of the policies available to anti-smoking campaigners elsewhere, such as advertising bans and plain packaging, are out of reach, and so, rather than targeting the product, American crusaders have forcefully targeted the consumer.
The Rediscovery of Tob... Grier, Jacob Buy New $14.99 (as of 03:23 UTC - Details) It is the petty vindictiveness of America’s ever-expanding network of smoking bans that really irks. There will soon be nowhere left to hide. If it is not obvious to you that most ‘smoke-free’ laws are contrivances to force smokers to quit, rather than to ‘protect’ nonsmokers, this book will surely persuade you. It is almost comic to watch the quackademics of ‘tobacco control’ garrotting science to justify bans on smoking outdoors and in private dwellings. When the dubious epidemiology of secondhand smoke outlived its usefulness, the concept of thirdhand smoke was invented to persuade the public that they are at risk from anything that had ever come into contact with smoke: furniture, carpets, wallpaper and, most pertinently, the clothes, hair and skin of smokers themselves. In the land of the free, campaigners would rather encourage mass hypochondria than admit to being paternalists.
The mere sight of someone smoking is viewed as sufficiently dangerous to justify criminalisation. When New York City’s health commissioner wanted to ban smoking in Central Park in 2010, he asserted that ‘families should be able to bring their children to parks and beaches knowing that they won’t see others smoking’. The ban was introduced the following year.
By the time vaping became a mainstream activity in the early 2010s, the anti-smoking lobby was well practised in the art of manipulating public opinion. The greatest harm-maximisation innovation of the century was no match for people who could get away with making three preposterous claims before breakfast. By 2019, a steady stream of junk science and outright lies from supposed ‘public health’ groups had convinced two-thirds of Americans that e-cigarettes were as hazardous or more hazardous than traditional cigarettes.
Joyoldelf Tobacco Smok... Buy New $32.99 (as of 03:23 UTC - Details) The anti-smoking fanatics get away with it, Grier argues, because they have had no accountability since the turn of the millennium. By the mid-1990s, the American tobacco industry had become a byword for corporate malfeasance. By the end of the decade, cigarette companies had finally stopped trying to dispute the addiction and harm associated with their products and closed down front groups such as the Tobacco Institute. On the face of it, this was no great loss to smokers, but one effect of the industry withdrawing from the stage was to leave the anti-smoking lobby free to say almost anything. The threat of having their work picked apart by the Tobacco Institute ‘helped enforce rigour in anti-smoking research in much the same way that the adversarial process in a courtroom trial forces both sides to justify their claims with evidence’. Without it, it was open season for junk scientists.
Meanwhile, the spectacular collapse in trust in the industry gave the media the only story about smoking it would ever need. It became a simple morality tale in which there was no doubt about who the goodies and baddies were. Those who called for greater restrictions on smoking wore a halo, while those who defended smokers’ rights were suspect. Journalists were understandably anxious not to be fooled again, but their lack of scrutiny of the anti-smoking side amounted to giving a free pass to extremist cranks and fostered ‘a scientific environment in which research is judged primarily for its usefulness in promoting the goals of tobacco control, dissent is punished by personal attacks, and dubious claims about the effects of second- and thirdhand smoke can be made with impunity, sure to receive favourable press coverage by reporters eager to write a shocking headline’.
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lewrockwell--2020-07-10--Forced Vaccination Plan Unveiled

Forced Vaccination Plan Unveiled

Stanford University Legal & Medical Authorities Join Forces To Fashion An Indiscriminate Mandated Mass-Vaccination Plan That Would Frighten The Public , Disregard Lawful Protections Of Informed Consent And Result In Needless Deaths .
Our health overlords propose a dangerous infectious disease control plan that mandates indiscriminate immunization for all Americans , a plan that is far more dangerous than the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic itself .
Writing in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine , Stanford Law School and Health Policy departments propose priority vaccination for high-risk groups that comprise the population that are least likely to benefit and most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from COVID-19 coronavirus immunization , or from any vaccine for that matter .
The Vaccine Court : The ... Rohde , Wayne Buy New $ 17.99 The Stanford plan would initially roll out as a completely voluntary inoculation scheme to be followed by compulsory vaccination that would penalize refusers with employment suspensions and/or stay-at-home orders .
Their plan calls for a future FDA-licensed vaccine , a vaccine whose side effects will not be completely known until it is widely used , that according to another Stanford University study , would benefit only a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ study showed , as validated by blood tests , the COVID-19 coronavirus only infects Americans at the rate of 1 in 3868 encounters ( range 626 to 31,800 ) with others who are already infected and results in death in only 1 in 6,670,000 contacts among middle-age Americans ( range 1.68 to 97.6 million ) .
Despite the fear generated by TV news reports , the risk of acquiring COVID-19 coronavirus infection is remote .
With presumption the vaccine is 100 % effective , those numbers put a limit on the percent of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccination – – 19 million would be need to be vaccinated for 1 person to avoid death .
Even if only 1 % experience side-effects that result in hospitalization , in a population of 328 million Americans , that would result in 3,280,000 vaccine-induced hospitalizations , which would overwhelm the 1-million bed healthcare system .
Using data from prior flu-vaccine studies , about 1 % of those vaccinated may require hospitalization after vaccination and 1 % of the hospitalized ( 1 in 200 ) would die , which would result in 32,800 needless @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the COVID-19 coronavirus .
The vaccine itself may be perfectly safe when received by healthy subjects .
But frail , elderly , malnourished ( vitamin and mineral-deficient ) individuals would be the most prone to suffer side effects and death when admitted to the hospital with its inherent problems of antibiotic resistance , medication errors , ventilator lung trauma and failure to check for vitamin and mineral deficiencies prior to admission .
High-risk individuals least likely to benefit from vaccination While it may appear wise to vaccinate high-risk individuals ( diabetics , hypertensives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are the very people whose immune systems do not respond well to vaccines and are subject to side effects .
The Optimal Dose : Rest ... Judson Somerville MD Best Price : $ 9.96 Buy New $ 9.98 For example , flu shots are not very effective for the very young and the very old .
Flu vaccines are 40-60 % effective in the population at-large and as low as 23 % effective for certain strains of the flu , says a CDC report .
As an aside , flu vaccination may actually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a mechanism called viral interference ( by 36 % said one recently published study ) .
But despite the fact you can read that study for yourself , proponents of vaccination deny any such link between prior flu shots and subsequent COVID-19 coronavirus infections .
Viral interference is reported in other studies .
For example , those individuals who were vaccinated against the flu in the previous fall of 2010 were 1.4 to 2.5 times more likely to become ill from the H1N1 strain of the flu in the following year , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in circulation this year 2020 . )
These high-risk groups have inherent problems activating antibodies against any infectious disease , which is why most vaccines require multiple inoculations and include toxic adjuvants to provoke an immune response .
Also on the priority list for forced vaccination are prisoners , people with prior respiratory problems , nursing home patients and healthcare workers .
Why current treatments are being rejected The Stanford plan would require evidence that existing treatment or prevention of COVID-19 coronavirus is ineffective , which at the moment is solely comprised of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contact with the virus itself by employing face masks and social distancing .
Obesity , further induced by lockdown , increases the risk for COVID-19 related deaths .
Indoor lockdown deprives people of sunshine vitamin D that impairs immunity and increases risk for death .
Quarantines and lockdowns are counterproductive .
Any prospective treatments , such as hydroxychloroquine and HCQ +zinc , nebulized hydrogen peroxide , as well as vitamin and mineral regimens ( zinc , vitamin D , vitamin C , selenium ) are ignored and dismissed outright by the CDC , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
There is sufficient evidence for nutrient therapy in the prevention and management of COVID-19 infections .
Vaccine Injury Compens ... Buy New $ 23.55 But without a vaccine or an approved treatment , vitamins and minerals have vanished from retail store shelves without widespread reports of any side effects .
Zinc therapy alone is authoritatively cited as a remedy or preventive for COVID-19 coronavirus infection .
Zinc lozenges are included in the hospital protocol for treatment of COVID-19 .
What researchers have discovered during this outbreak of a newly mutated coronavirus that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ antibodies against , is that it is not antibodies but rather zinc-dependent T-cells generated in the thymus gland that produce memory immunity against this viral pathogen .
The effectiveness of vaccines is commonly determined by antibodies , which some health authorities now question .
According to the Stanford report , only about half of the U.S. population plans to be vaccinated against COVID-19 coronavirus .
This is why hospitals are over-stating the deaths attributed to COVID-19 and why news agencies create continued fear over a common-cold virus that results in few if any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very few .
Our modern healthcare system is over-committed to vaccination .
The prospect of a vaccine is dimmed by the fact 90 % of vaccines that enter human trials fail to make it to market .
Given the remote possibility a safe and effective vaccine ever materializes , the nation may await an imagined vaccine at the expense of finding an effective treatment .
Mortality rate is far lower than quoted Despite the horridness of COVID-19 induced death ( drowning in lung fluid ) , the accumulated mortality rate as of early @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or 0.00039 % deaths in the entire population .
Very few of these reported deaths are attribute to COVID-19 coronavirus alone .
Most COVID-19 related deaths occur among high-risk groups who already have life-threatening conditions .
Data from the U.S. and other foreign countries estimate ~80+ % of COVID-19-related deaths are caused by co-morbid conditions .
Subtract 80 % of those 131,065 U.S. COVID-19-related deaths and you come up with only 26,213 COVID-19-only deaths Many COVID-19 cases are believed to be miscoded cases of tuberculosis .
( The CDC is not reporting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 . )
The BCG TB-vaccine reduces the risk for death from COVID-19 by 3-fold and drugs used to treat TB ( azithromycin , hydroxychloroquine ) are successfully used to treat COVID-19 , leading some analysts to conclude many of COVID-19-reported deaths are really tuberculosis .
Geographically , COVID-19 hot-spots , such as Wuhan , China ; Modena , Italy and New York City , have been battling TB outbreaks in recent times .
The Optimal Dose : Rest ... Judson Somerville MD Best Price : $ 9.96 Buy New $ 9.98 The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that produces mild to no-symptoms in most cases and a very low mortality rate with no approved treatments or vaccine , overshadowing tuberculosis which affects 2 billion and kills over 1.3 million a year , and has an approved vaccine and successful antibiotic treatment .
The infectious disease control industry has gone mad .
The currently misdirection is to prioritize a threat that kills in six figures over a threat that kills in seven figures .
The U.S. doesn ’ t inoculate for TB because it believes there is a low rate of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americans have latent ( dormant ) tuberculosis ( a majority of these are immigrants from foreign lands ) .
It could be many of the reported cases of COVID-19 are actually TB .
The Stanford report that calls for mandated vaccination overlooks certain rights to informed consent that are required by Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations for persons who receive newly licensed vaccines in a clinical study .
Since all vaccinated Americans will be enrolled in a surveillance study ( stage 4 ) in order to gain full FDA approval @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Informed consent consists of the right to reject vaccination , disclosure of alternatives to vaccination ( in this instance , natural antibodies ) , and confidentiality ( privacy of the vaccination record ) .
Furthermore , doctors should individually assess the chances a person has of benefiting from vaccination .
And patients have the right to reject hold-harmless clauses that would then make health practitioners legally liable should they proceed to vaccinate an individual who has little chance of benefiting from immunization .
A model INFORMED CONSENT/REFUSAL form has been written and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their doctors when and if a vaccine is licensed and available in the U.S. at covid19consent.com This is not what the vaccine industry or the Centers for Disease Control , that latter a co-holder of COVID-19 related patents , wants to be known .
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Stanford University Legal & Medical Authorities Join Forces To Fashion An Indiscriminate Mandated Mass-Vaccination Plan That Would Frighten The Public, Disregard Lawful Protections Of Informed Consent And Result In Needless Deaths.
Our health overlords propose a dangerous infectious disease control plan that mandates indiscriminate immunization for all Americans, a plan that is far more dangerous than the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic itself.
Writing in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, Stanford Law School and Health Policy departments propose priority vaccination for high-risk groups that comprise the population that are least likely to benefit and most likely to experience side effects and hospitalization from COVID-19 coronavirus immunization, or from any vaccine for that matter.
Initially voluntary then mandated
The Vaccine Court: The... Rohde, Wayne Buy New $17.99 (as of 04:05 UTC - Details) The Stanford plan would initially roll out as a completely voluntary inoculation scheme to be followed by compulsory vaccination that would penalize refusers with employment suspensions and/or stay-at-home orders.
Prospect of benefiting from vaccination
Their plan calls for a future FDA-licensed vaccine, a vaccine whose side effects will not be completely known until it is widely used, that according to another Stanford University study, would benefit only a miniscule portion of the population. That study showed, as validated by blood tests, the COVID-19 coronavirus only infects Americans at the rate of 1 in 3868 encounters (range 626 to 31,800) with others who are already infected and results in death in only 1 in 6,670,000 contacts among middle-age Americans (range 1.68 to 97.6 million). Despite the fear generated by TV news reports, the risk of acquiring COVID-19 coronavirus infection is remote.
A perfectly safe vaccine may kill frail individuals
With presumption the vaccine is 100% effective, those numbers put a limit on the percent of vaccinated subjects who could possibly benefit from vaccination – – 19 million would be need to be vaccinated for 1 person to avoid death.
Even if only 1% experience side-effects that result in hospitalization, in a population of 328 million Americans, that would result in 3,280,000 vaccine-induced hospitalizations, which would overwhelm the 1-million bed healthcare system.
Using data from prior flu-vaccine studies, about 1% of those vaccinated may require hospitalization after vaccination and 1% of the hospitalized (1 in 200) would die, which would result in 32,800 needless deaths that would likely be blamed on the COVID-19 coronavirus.
The vaccine itself may be perfectly safe when received by healthy subjects. But frail, elderly, malnourished (vitamin and mineral-deficient) individuals would be the most prone to suffer side effects and death when admitted to the hospital with its inherent problems of antibiotic resistance, medication errors, ventilator lung trauma and failure to check for vitamin and mineral deficiencies prior to admission.
High-risk individuals least likely to benefit from vaccination
While it may appear wise to vaccinate high-risk individuals (diabetics, hypertensives, obese, autoimmune), these are the very people whose immune systems do not respond well to vaccines and are subject to side effects. The Optimal Dose: Rest... Judson Somerville MD Best Price: $9.96 Buy New $9.98 (as of 06:05 UTC - Details)
For example, flu shots are not very effective for the very young and the very old. Flu vaccines are 40-60% effective in the population at-large and as low as 23% effective for certain strains of the flu, says a CDC report. As an aside, flu vaccination may actually increase the risk for coronavirus infection via a mechanism called viral interference (by 36% said one recently published study).
But despite the fact you can read that study for yourself, proponents of vaccination deny any such link between prior flu shots and subsequent COVID-19 coronavirus infections. Viral interference is reported in other studies. For example, those individuals who were vaccinated against the flu in the previous fall of 2010 were 1.4 to 2.5 times more likely to become ill from the H1N1 strain of the flu in the following year, which happens to be the predominant influenza strain in circulation this year 2020.)
These high-risk groups have inherent problems activating antibodies against any infectious disease, which is why most vaccines require multiple inoculations and include toxic adjuvants to provoke an immune response.
Also on the priority list for forced vaccination are prisoners, people with prior respiratory problems, nursing home patients and healthcare workers.
Why current treatments are being rejected
The Stanford plan would require evidence that existing treatment or prevention of COVID-19 coronavirus is ineffective, which at the moment is solely comprised of archaic quarantine and lockdown measures and limiting contact with the virus itself by employing face masks and social distancing.
Obesity, further induced by lockdown, increases the risk for COVID-19 related deaths. Indoor lockdown deprives people of sunshine vitamin D that impairs immunity and increases risk for death. Quarantines and lockdowns are counterproductive.
Any prospective treatments, such as hydroxychloroquine and HCQ +zinc, nebulized hydrogen peroxide, as well as vitamin and mineral regimens (zinc, vitamin D, vitamin C, selenium) are ignored and dismissed outright by the CDC, categorized as unproven, even potentially dangerous. There is sufficient evidence for nutrient therapy in the prevention and management of COVID-19 infections.
Natural immunity, T-cells and nutrients
Vaccine Injury Compens... Buy New $23.55 (as of 02:55 UTC - Details) But without a vaccine or an approved treatment, vitamins and minerals have vanished from retail store shelves without widespread reports of any side effects. Zinc therapy alone is authoritatively cited as a remedy or preventive for COVID-19 coronavirus infection. Zinc lozenges are included in the hospital protocol for treatment of COVID-19.
What researchers have discovered during this outbreak of a newly mutated coronavirus that the population is said to have no antibodies against, is that it is not antibodies but rather zinc-dependent T-cells generated in the thymus gland that produce memory immunity against this viral pathogen. The effectiveness of vaccines is commonly determined by antibodies, which some health authorities now question.
Public demand for a vaccine
According to the Stanford report, only about half of the U.S. population plans to be vaccinated against COVID-19 coronavirus. This is why hospitals are over-stating the deaths attributed to COVID-19 and why news agencies create continued fear over a common-cold virus that results in few if any symptoms upon infection and only kills a very few. Our modern healthcare system is over-committed to vaccination. The prospect of a vaccine is dimmed by the fact 90% of vaccines that enter human trials fail to make it to market. Given the remote possibility a safe and effective vaccine ever materializes, the nation may await an imagined vaccine at the expense of finding an effective treatment.
Mortality rate is far lower than quoted
Despite the horridness of COVID-19 induced death (drowning in lung fluid), the accumulated mortality rate as of early July 2020 is still only 131,065 deaths, or 0.00039% deaths in the entire population. Very few of these reported deaths are attribute to COVID-19 coronavirus alone.
Most COVID-19 related deaths occur among high-risk groups who already have life-threatening conditions. Data from the U.S. and other foreign countries estimate ~80+% of COVID-19-related deaths are caused by co-morbid conditions. Subtract 80% of those 131,065 U.S. COVID-19-related deaths and you come up with only 26,213 COVID-19-only deaths
Many COVID-19 cases are believed to be miscoded cases of tuberculosis. (The CDC is not reporting TB-related deaths which produces similar symptoms as COVID-19.) The BCG TB-vaccine reduces the risk for death from COVID-19 by 3-fold and drugs used to treat TB (azithromycin, hydroxychloroquine) are successfully used to treat COVID-19, leading some analysts to conclude many of COVID-19-reported deaths are really tuberculosis. Geographically, COVID-19 hot-spots, such as Wuhan, China; Modena, Italy and New York City, have been battling TB outbreaks in recent times.
Is COVID-19 really TB?
The Optimal Dose: Rest... Judson Somerville MD Best Price: $9.96 Buy New $9.98 (as of 06:05 UTC - Details) The world is focusing on a viral disease that produces mild to no-symptoms in most cases and a very low mortality rate with no approved treatments or vaccine, overshadowing tuberculosis which affects 2 billion and kills over 1.3 million a year, and has an approved vaccine and successful antibiotic treatment. The infectious disease control industry has gone mad. The currently misdirection is to prioritize a threat that kills in six figures over a threat that kills in seven figures.
The U.S. doesn’t inoculate for TB because it believes there is a low rate of infection. But an estimated 13 million Americans have latent (dormant) tuberculosis (a majority of these are immigrants from foreign lands). It could be many of the reported cases of COVID-19 are actually TB.
Rights of informed consent
The Stanford report that calls for mandated vaccination overlooks certain rights to informed consent that are required by Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations for persons who receive newly licensed vaccines in a clinical study. Since all vaccinated Americans will be enrolled in a surveillance study (stage 4) in order to gain full FDA approval, informed consent will be legally required.
Informed consent consists of the right to reject vaccination, disclosure of alternatives to vaccination (in this instance, natural antibodies), and confidentiality (privacy of the vaccination record).
Furthermore, doctors should individually assess the chances a person has of benefiting from vaccination. And patients have the right to reject hold-harmless clauses that would then make health practitioners legally liable should they proceed to vaccinate an individual who has little chance of benefiting from immunization.
A model INFORMED CONSENT/REFUSAL form has been written and published for the public to present to their doctors when and if a vaccine is licensed and available in the U.S. at covid19consent.com
This is not what the vaccine industry or the Centers for Disease Control, that latter a co-holder of COVID-19 related patents, wants to be known.
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lewrockwell--2020-07-10--My Investigation of the So-Called COVID Deaths

At this point , I ’ ve written and published over 150 articles on the COVID fraud .
For every major assertion I make in the following overview , I ’ ve written at least one article .
To sum it up : deaths labeled “ COVID ” have nothing to do with the purported virus .
The purported virus has never been discovered .
A claim of discovery was made , but proper scientific procedures were never carried out .
Which leaves the question : why are all these people dying ?
AIDS Inc. Rappoport , Jon Best Price @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Are the deaths all stemming from the same cause ?
No .
They aren ’ t .
Overview : A huge percentage of people dying have traditional diseases : flu-like illness , pneumonia , other lung infections .
Many of these deaths have been re-labeled as COVID deaths .
For example , about 300,000 people a year in China die from pneumonia .
It ’ s quite easy to call some of these deaths “ COVID.
” A large number of people in Italy die every year from flu-like illness .
The same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in the north of Italy , in Spain , there is very heavy air pollution .
This pollution causes severe lung conditions and exacerbates already-existing lung problems .
Some of the consequent deaths are called “ COVID.
” As I ’ ve stated in previous articles , COVID is old people .
In New York , for example , those 65 and older account for 73.6 percent of all so-called COVID deaths in the city .
These people are actually dying , prematurely , of previous serious health conditions , plus long-term @ @ @ @ @ @ @ terror of a COVID diagnosis , plus isolation from family and friends .
Many of these people are dying in nursing homes .
No new virus required .
Master Manipulator : Th ... James Ottar Grundvig Best Price : $ 14.15 Buy New $ 17.78 Take that picture and it will generally describe what is happening all over the world .
COVID is old people .
In Canada , for example , 81 percent of all so-called COVID deaths occur in nursing homes .
One other factor in New York .
The current @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of those patients over the age of 66 who are subjected to it .
What about this re-labeling I mentioned ?
How is it done ?
Several ways .
In hospitals , doctors simply write “ COVID-19 ” on patient files .
After patients die , their charts can be tagged “ COVID.
” In general , there are three types of diagnosis .
No test at all—just the observation of general flu-like symptoms .
Or a PCR test , or an antibody test .
Both tests spit out “ COVID ” results @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The result has nothing to do with the detection of a unique “ COVID virus.
” The result is a function of the tests .
What about new conditions ?
Are any people dying as a result of non-traditional factors ?
In any so-called pandemic , this is possible .
In the north of Italy , there were several vaccination campaigns , just prior to the announcement of “ COVID.
” In New York , as I pointed out , the ventilator treatment is killing patients .
Then there is the whole issue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into that subject , I suggest exploring the work of Arthur Firstenberg , author of The Invisible Rainbow .
Strengthening Your Imm ... Lohmeier , Sebastian Buy New $ 6.99 Do not assume that ONE CAUSE is the explanation for all so-called COVID deaths .
This is a common deep error .
“ Well , if it isn ’ t the virus , then what is it ?
” There is no “ it.
” There is only a psychological disposition to search for an “ it.
” Look for MULTIPLE CAUSES .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ deaths .
Some people are quick to jump on these cases and claim they prove the virus is real and is a killer on the loose .
Nothing could be further from the truth .
“ Young and healthy , suddenly dropped dead .
See , it must be the virus.
” No , it doesn ’ t have to be the virus .
Unexplained cases—especially when a viral cause is arbitrarily brought on board—need to be examined very closely .
They rarely are .
The HPV Vaccine On Tri ... Iorio , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New $ 12.03 When I was writing my first book , AIDS INC. , in 1988 , I looked into a very early set of AIDS cases in Los Angeles .
They were all described as young , “ previously healthy , ” and then “ suddenly struck down by a new virus.
” The CDC published parts of their medical records .
From the records , it was clear “ previously healthy ” was a gross lie .
These young men had prior medical conditions , for which they were undoubtedly treated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ indication of toxic street drug use .
After an hour of reading their partial records , the diagnosis of “ suddenly struck down by a new virus ” was quickly dissolving .
I ’ ve been investigating so-called epidemics for 30 years .
I ’ ve developed the strategy of looking for multiple causes of death that have nothing to do with the announced virus of the moment .
I ’ ve always found those causes .
“ The virus ” is one of the greatest frauds in modern history .
The Best @ @ @

At this point, I’ve written and published over 150 articles on the COVID fraud.
For every major assertion I make in the following overview, I’ve written at least one article.
To sum it up: deaths labeled “COVID” have nothing to do with the purported virus.
The purported virus has never been discovered. A claim of discovery was made, but proper scientific procedures were never carried out.
Which leaves the question: why are all these people dying? AIDS Inc. Rappoport, Jon Best Price: $33.29 Buy New $18.89 (as of 03:34 UTC - Details)
Are the deaths all stemming from the same cause? No. They aren’t.
Overview: A huge percentage of people dying have traditional diseases: flu-like illness, pneumonia, other lung infections. Many of these deaths have been re-labeled as COVID deaths.
For example, about 300,000 people a year in China die from pneumonia. It’s quite easy to call some of these deaths “COVID.”
A large number of people in Italy die every year from flu-like illness. The same re-labeling occurs there.
In Chinese cities, in the north of Italy, in Spain, there is very heavy air pollution. This pollution causes severe lung conditions and exacerbates already-existing lung problems. Some of the consequent deaths are called “COVID.”
As I’ve stated in previous articles, COVID is old people. In New York, for example, those 65 and older account for 73.6 percent of all so-called COVID deaths in the city. These people are actually dying, prematurely, of previous serious health conditions, plus long-term treatment with toxic drugs, plus the terror of a COVID diagnosis, plus isolation from family and friends. Many of these people are dying in nursing homes. No new virus required. Master Manipulator: Th... James Ottar Grundvig Best Price: $14.15 Buy New $17.78 (as of 05:25 UTC - Details)
Take that picture and it will generally describe what is happening all over the world. COVID is old people. In Canada, for example, 81 percent of all so-called COVID deaths occur in nursing homes.
One other factor in New York. The current hospital treatment—breathing ventilators and sedation—kills 97.2 percent of those patients over the age of 66 who are subjected to it.
What about this re-labeling I mentioned? How is it done? Several ways. In hospitals, doctors simply write “COVID-19” on patient files. After patients die, their charts can be tagged “COVID.”
In general, there are three types of diagnosis. No test at all—just the observation of general flu-like symptoms. Or a PCR test, or an antibody test. Both tests spit out “COVID” results in a significant percentage of cases. The result has nothing to do with the detection of a unique “COVID virus.” The result is a function of the tests.
What about new conditions? Are any people dying as a result of non-traditional factors? In any so-called pandemic, this is possible. In the north of Italy, there were several vaccination campaigns, just prior to the announcement of “COVID.” In New York, as I pointed out, the ventilator treatment is killing patients. Then there is the whole issue of 5G technology rollouts. To delve into that subject, I suggest exploring the work of Arthur Firstenberg, author of The Invisible Rainbow. Strengthening Your Imm... Lohmeier, Sebastian Buy New $6.99 (as of 03:40 UTC - Details)
Do not assume that ONE CAUSE is the explanation for all so-called COVID deaths. This is a common deep error. “Well, if it isn’t the virus, then what is it?” There is no “it.” There is only a psychological disposition to search for an “it.” Look for MULTIPLE CAUSES.
There are always outlier cases. Unexplained deaths. Some people are quick to jump on these cases and claim they prove the virus is real and is a killer on the loose. Nothing could be further from the truth.
“Young and healthy, suddenly dropped dead. See, it must be the virus.”
No, it doesn’t have to be the virus. Unexplained cases—especially when a viral cause is arbitrarily brought on board—need to be examined very closely. They rarely are.
The HPV Vaccine On Tri... Iorio, Eileen Best Price: $12.95 Buy New $12.03 (as of 07:25 UTC - Details) When I was writing my first book, AIDS INC., in 1988, I looked into a very early set of AIDS cases in Los Angeles. They were all described as young, “previously healthy,” and then “suddenly struck down by a new virus.”
The CDC published parts of their medical records. From the records, it was clear “previously healthy” was a gross lie. These young men had prior medical conditions, for which they were undoubtedly treated with toxic medicines. There was an indication of toxic street drug use. After an hour of reading their partial records, the diagnosis of “suddenly struck down by a new virus” was quickly dissolving.
I’ve been investigating so-called epidemics for 30 years. I’ve developed the strategy of looking for multiple causes of death that have nothing to do with the announced virus of the moment. I’ve always found those causes.
“The virus” is one of the greatest frauds in modern history.
Reprinted with permission from Jon Rappoport’s blog.
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lewrockwell--2020-07-10--Anti-Slavery Zealot John Brown Is No Hero

Many Americans have been aghast at violent mobs toppling statues and the widespread looting and destructive rampages that followed the killing of George Floyd .
Media coverage often ignores the damage inflicted by righteous rioters and the businessmen , black and white , whose livelihoods have been destroyed .
Instead , activists are portrayed as heroic because of their political rhetoric and demands for radical changes .
Soaring political animosity is sparking fears of much greater conflicts in the coming months .
More than 160 years ago , a similar pattern paved the way for a conflict that ravaged much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aware of how one of America ’ s most respected philosophers helped inflame the divisions that led to the first Civil War in 1861 .
In his 1849 essay , “ On the Duty Of Civil Disobedience , ” Henry David Thoreau boldly declared : “ That government is best which governs not at all.
” After a night spent in jail for refusing to pay taxes , Thoreau “ saw that the State was half-witted.
” He concluded , “ I quietly declare war with the State , ” withdrawing his allegiance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ laws .
Attention Deficit Demo ... Bovard , James Best Price : $ 1.97 Buy New $ 9.91 But late in his life , Thoreau mutated into an apologist for bloodthirsty political fanaticism .
Thoreau , following in the footsteps of his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson , believed that “ our whole life is startlingly moral .
There is never an instant ’ s truce between virtue and vice.
” Thoreau was a Transcendentalist with boundless faith in absolute truth and absolute goodness .
And he never doubted that he perceived those absolutes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of people who “ lead lives of quiet desperation , ” as he wrote in Walden .
Thoreau was justifiably fiercely opposed to slavery .
He had initially been wary of fire-breathing Abolitionists who wanted the nation to pay any price to end slavery until he met and swooned for John Brown in 1857 .
Thoreau donated to Brown after hearing him make a rabble-rousing speech .
Thoreau bragged that he “ never read ” the political columns in newspapers because “ I do not wish to blunt my sense of right.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ obliviousness ( or lack of concern ) regarding Brown ’ s notorious murders in Pottawatomie , Kansas , when he and his sons hacked to death five men living in a pro-slavery portion of the state .
That 1856 carnage embodied one of Brown ’ s favorite sayings : “ Without the shedding of blood , there is no remission of sin.
” In October 1859 , Brown led a band of zealots attacking Harper ’ s Ferry , Virginia to seize the federal arsenal , part of his plan to end slavery @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the South .
Mount Holyoke University professor Christopher Benfey aptly characterized Brown in the New York Review of Books in 2013 as someone who was “ murderous , inept , politically marginal , probably insane.
” Most of the nation was horrified by Brown ’ s attack at Harper ’ s Ferry , which was speedily put down by federal troops led by Lt .
Colonel Robert E. Lee .
Even the nation ’ s foremost abolitionist newspaper , The Liberator , condemned Brown ’ s attack as “ a misguided , wild @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wrote in the New York Tribune that “ the way to universal emancipation lies not through insurrection , civil war , and bloodshed , but through peace , discussion , and quiet diffusion of sentiments of humanity and justice.
” Crises of the Republic ... Arendt , Hannah Best Price : $ 11.00 Buy New $ 13.58 But Thoreau decided that Brown was literally Jesus—or at least that Jesus and John Brown were “ two ends of a chain which I rejoice to know is not without its links.
” In “ A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ oration delivered in Concord , Massachusetts two weeks after Brown ’ s attack , Thoreau referred to Brown as an “ angel of light ” and described Brown ’ s Harper ’ s Ferry accomplices as his “ twelve disciples.
” Thoreau hailed “ the new saint who would make the gallows as glorious as the cross.
” Thoreau exalted Brown : “ No man has appeared in America , as yet , who loved his fellow man so well , and treated him so tenderly.
” That was balderdash on par with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1930s about the “ peace-loving Soviet Union.
” When Thoreau and Emerson met Brown in 1857 , Brown told them that it would be “ better for a whole generation of men , women , and children should pass away by violent death ” than for the Golden Rule or Declaration of Independence to ever be violated .
Rather than recognizing Brown as a lunatic seeking a pretext to slaughter much of humanity , Thoreau and Emerson hailed him as a moral visionary .
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Many Americans have been aghast at violent mobs toppling statues and the widespread looting and destructive rampages that followed the killing of George Floyd. Media coverage often ignores the damage inflicted by righteous rioters and the businessmen, black and white, whose livelihoods have been destroyed. Instead, activists are portrayed as heroic because of their political rhetoric and demands for radical changes.
Soaring political animosity is sparking fears of much greater conflicts in the coming months. More than 160 years ago, a similar pattern paved the way for a conflict that ravaged much of the nation. Few people are aware of how one of America’s most respected philosophers helped inflame the divisions that led to the first Civil War in 1861.
In his 1849 essay, “On the Duty Of Civil Disobedience,” Henry David Thoreau boldly declared: “That government is best which governs not at all.” After a night spent in jail for refusing to pay taxes, Thoreau “saw that the State was half-witted.” He concluded, “I quietly declare war with the State,” withdrawing his allegiance as long as the government enforced unjust laws.
Attention Deficit Demo... Bovard, James Best Price: $1.97 Buy New $9.91 (as of 01:45 UTC - Details) But late in his life, Thoreau mutated into an apologist for bloodthirsty political fanaticism. Thoreau, following in the footsteps of his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, believed that “our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice.” Thoreau was a Transcendentalist with boundless faith in absolute truth and absolute goodness. And he never doubted that he perceived those absolutes far more clearly than the vast majority of people who “lead lives of quiet desperation,” as he wrote in Walden.
Thoreau was justifiably fiercely opposed to slavery. He had initially been wary of fire-breathing Abolitionists who wanted the nation to pay any price to end slavery until he met and swooned for John Brown in 1857. Thoreau donated to Brown after hearing him make a rabble-rousing speech. Thoreau bragged that he “never read” the political columns in newspapers because “I do not wish to blunt my sense of right.” Maybe that helped explain Thoreau’s obliviousness (or lack of concern) regarding Brown’s notorious murders in Pottawatomie, Kansas, when he and his sons hacked to death five men living in a pro-slavery portion of the state. That 1856 carnage embodied one of Brown’s favorite sayings: “Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin.”
In October 1859, Brown led a band of zealots attacking Harper’s Ferry, Virginia to seize the federal arsenal, part of his plan to end slavery via the mass killing of slaveowners across the South. Mount Holyoke University professor Christopher Benfey aptly characterized Brown in the New York Review of Books in 2013 as someone who was “murderous, inept, politically marginal, probably insane.” Most of the nation was horrified by Brown’s attack at Harper’s Ferry, which was speedily put down by federal troops led by Lt. Colonel Robert E. Lee. Even the nation’s foremost abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, condemned Brown’s attack as “a misguided, wild, and apparently insane–effort.” Horace Greeley wrote in the New York Tribune that “the way to universal emancipation lies not through insurrection, civil war, and bloodshed, but through peace, discussion, and quiet diffusion of sentiments of humanity and justice.” Crises of the Republic... Arendt, Hannah Best Price: $11.00 Buy New $13.58 (as of 03:21 UTC - Details)
But Thoreau decided that Brown was literally Jesus—or at least that Jesus and John Brown were “two ends of a chain which I rejoice to know is not without its links.” In “A Plea for John Brown,” an oration delivered in Concord, Massachusetts two weeks after Brown’s attack, Thoreau referred to Brown as an “angel of light” and described Brown’s Harper’s Ferry accomplices as his “twelve disciples.” Thoreau hailed “the new saint who would make the gallows as glorious as the cross.”
Thoreau exalted Brown: “No man has appeared in America, as yet, who loved his fellow man so well, and treated him so tenderly.” That was balderdash on par with Stalin’s apologists gushing in the 1930s about the “peace-loving Soviet Union.” When Thoreau and Emerson met Brown in 1857, Brown told them that it would be “better for a whole generation of men, women, and children should pass away by violent death” than for the Golden Rule or Declaration of Independence to ever be violated. Rather than recognizing Brown as a lunatic seeking a pretext to slaughter much of humanity, Thoreau and Emerson hailed him as a moral visionary. But they never explained how to reconcile the Golden Rule with genocide.
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lewrockwell--2020-07-10--£1k Bounties for Care Homes To Take Covid Patients Show Bojo Can’t Dodge Blame for UK’s Death Toll

Boris Johnson ’ s attempt to blame care facilities for Covid-19 deaths backfired after one council admitted it paid care homes to accept patients .
More stories like this will emerge if he continues to deflect responsibility .
The uproar caused by PM Boris Johnson blaming care homes for the spread of coronavirus shows no sign of lessening , following revelations that cash was paid to those facilities prepared to take in hundreds of untested patients from hospitals as a council desperately tried to free up beds .
BoJo ’ s apparent “ misspeak ” – an excuse when someone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that “ too many care homes didn ’ t really follow the procedures in the way that they could have ” has opened the floodgates to revelations of some very dubious behaviour at the outset of the pandemic .
Breaking out of the ou ... Bowden , John Buy New $ 0.99 And right up among the many missteps made throughout this crisis is the rush in Birmingham , the UK ’ s second largest city , to empty its NHS hospital beds of hundreds of patients , freeing up space for an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
To expedite this , the City Council admits it paid 16 care homes an incentive of £1,000 each to take in hospital patients .
The proviso at the time was that the care homes had to move quickly and accept the discharged patients , whether or not they were infected with the virus .
A council spokesman suggested the incentive could have been used to buy PPE , pay extra staff , or provide for deep cleaning .
No one did anything shifty ; Birmingham City Council was simply looking for solutions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ think this would play out ?
In one of the more idiotic claims of the whole pandemic balls-up so far , a council statement read that it did not want Covid-19 – the killer virus that so far has struck nearly 12 million people worldwide and claimed more than half a million lives – to be “ a barrier to discharge ” from hospital to care homes .
Surely the whole idea of freeing up the beds was so that Covid-19 patients could be treated by medical staff , not so they could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ irony of the payment scheme is that the anticipated run on hospital beds never materialised , and the Nightingale pop-up hospital in Birmingham – which opened on April 16 and was mothballed just three weeks later – never admitted a single patient .
The Sun Kings : The Une ... Clark , Stuart Best Price : $ 7.30 Buy New $ 17.15 It ’ s a grim equation , but it will have to be calculated as part of the government inquiry : how many of the nearly 20,000 care home deaths across @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been avoided if patients had just stayed put in the hospital beds they occupied at the outset before being needlessly evacuated ?
If the Birmingham approach affected “ hundreds ” of people , then how many were treated like this nationwide ?
And if people died because of this strategy , how then can the care home operators be held responsible for simply following government guidelines ?
If BoJo was attempting to begin apportioning blame for this shambles onto the care home sector , then he quickly had his fingers nipped .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Integrated Care charity , called the PM ’ s comments “ cowardly ” and accused him of a “ travesty of leadership.
” He said , “ If this is genuinely his view , I think we ’ re almost entering a Kafkaesque alternative reality where the government sets the rules , we follow them , they don ’ t like the results , they then deny setting the rules and blame the people that were trying to do their best.
” The Anglo-American Est ... Carroll Quigley Best Price : $ 10.59 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clear is that , if the government attempts to shift the blame for mishandling the coronavirus pandemic on to others , the pushback will be swift and uncompromising .
Its political goodwill has been wasted on repairing the damage done by mixed messages , U-turns , ridiculous claims of “ world-beating ” this and that , and now an attempt to blame those who run the nation ’ s 21,000 independently operated care homes for the deaths of their residents .
Any inquiry that finds the government less than wholly culpable for this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And rightly so .
The statements , views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT .

Boris Johnson’s attempt to blame care facilities for Covid-19 deaths backfired after one council admitted it paid care homes to accept patients. More stories like this will emerge if he continues to deflect responsibility.
The uproar caused by PM Boris Johnson blaming care homes for the spread of coronavirus shows no sign of lessening, following revelations that cash was paid to those facilities prepared to take in hundreds of untested patients from hospitals as a council desperately tried to free up beds.
BoJo’s apparent “misspeak” – an excuse when someone unintentionally reveals what they truly think – that “too many care homes didn’t really follow the procedures in the way that they could have” has opened the floodgates to revelations of some very dubious behaviour at the outset of the pandemic.
Breaking out of the ou... Bowden, John Buy New $0.99 (as of 03:06 UTC - Details) And right up among the many missteps made throughout this crisis is the rush in Birmingham, the UK’s second largest city, to empty its NHS hospital beds of hundreds of patients, freeing up space for an expected flood of critically ill coronavirus victims.
To expedite this, the City Council admits it paid 16 care homes an incentive of £1,000 each to take in hospital patients. The proviso at the time was that the care homes had to move quickly and accept the discharged patients, whether or not they were infected with the virus.
A council spokesman suggested the incentive could have been used to buy PPE, pay extra staff, or provide for deep cleaning.
No one did anything shifty; Birmingham City Council was simply looking for solutions. But still, how did it think this would play out?
In one of the more idiotic claims of the whole pandemic balls-up so far, a council statement read that it did not want Covid-19 – the killer virus that so far has struck nearly 12 million people worldwide and claimed more than half a million lives – to be “a barrier to discharge” from hospital to care homes.
Surely the whole idea of freeing up the beds was so that Covid-19 patients could be treated by medical staff, not so they could be discharged by hospital bureaucrats?
The irony of the payment scheme is that the anticipated run on hospital beds never materialised, and the Nightingale pop-up hospital in Birmingham – which opened on April 16 and was mothballed just three weeks later – never admitted a single patient. The Sun Kings: The Une... Clark, Stuart Best Price: $7.30 Buy New $17.15 (as of 03:06 UTC - Details)
It’s a grim equation, but it will have to be calculated as part of the government inquiry: how many of the nearly 20,000 care home deaths across the UK due to the coronavirus could have been avoided if patients had just stayed put in the hospital beds they occupied at the outset before being needlessly evacuated?
If the Birmingham approach affected “hundreds” of people, then how many were treated like this nationwide?
And if people died because of this strategy, how then can the care home operators be held responsible for simply following government guidelines?
If BoJo was attempting to begin apportioning blame for this shambles onto the care home sector, then he quickly had his fingers nipped.
Mark Adams, CEO of the Community Integrated Care charity, called the PM’s comments “cowardly” and accused him of a “travesty of leadership.”
He said, “If this is genuinely his view, I think we’re almost entering a Kafkaesque alternative reality where the government sets the rules, we follow them, they don’t like the results, they then deny setting the rules and blame the people that were trying to do their best.”
The Anglo-American Est... Carroll Quigley Best Price: $10.59 Buy New $15.15 (as of 07:15 UTC - Details) What’s clear is that, if the government attempts to shift the blame for mishandling the coronavirus pandemic on to others, the pushback will be swift and uncompromising.
Its political goodwill has been wasted on repairing the damage done by mixed messages, U-turns, ridiculous claims of “world-beating” this and that, and now an attempt to blame those who run the nation’s 21,000 independently operated care homes for the deaths of their residents.
Any inquiry that finds the government less than wholly culpable for this mess will make Britain a laughing stock. And rightly so.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.