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CIA Mockingbirds Shake the World

More than once , after I ’ ve written and published a piece along these lines , someone asks me , DID THAT REALLY HAPPEN ?
The answer is NO , BUT IT WOULD .
IF PUBLIC FIGURES CONFESSED THEIR CRIMES .
—Our paper , The New York Times , is the most trusted news source in the world .
Lately we ’ ve been devoting pages to first-person accounts of lockdown experiences , during the pandemic .
Yesterday , owing to the exhaustion of our editors , we published a piece by a resident of Riverhead , Long Island @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We apologize for the error .
Apparently , this person was trying to describe a dream he had .
He couched his story in terms of a briefing , but obviously no briefing occurred .
The Times editor who allowed the errant piece to be published also lives in Riverhead .
We ’ re investigating to determine whether he , in fact , was the author .
Fear of the Invisible Roberts , Janine Best Price : $ 41.22 Buy New $ 18.31 “ Ladies and gentlemen of the Congress , this is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can fly .
Flying has no technological basis .
It ’ s a rebound-reaction to months of lockdowns and overreaching government regulations.
” “ I ’ ve discovered , so far , 63 federal agencies no one has ever heard of .
They are all promoting the COVID vaccine , which is a very dangerous injection .
These agencies are connected to Zuckerberger Enterprises , headquartered in two well-fortified buildings in the center of Baltimore .
I have those buildings under surveillance.
” “ I come from the future .
I ’ m @ @ @ @ @ @ @ injecting every person on Earth with toxic compounds , under the pretext of preventing disease , is a terrible mistake .
Do not take the COVID vaccine.
” “ Joseph Biden , from my Boston office , is also from the future .
He wants to inject every human with COVID poison , called a vaccine .
He is suffering from dementia… ” The NY Times piece gave birth to untold millions of tweets , most of them jokes written by pro-vaccine advocates .
The paper did , in fact , discover that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , wrote the lockdown “ briefing.
” After a medical and psychiatric examination , Regis was pronounced “ COVID-infected , with dementia symptoms , ” and isolated for 14 days in a hotel on Broadway .
He refused to take psychiatric drugs .
On August 14 , 2020 , he escaped from confinement .
The Vaccine Papers Roberts , Janine Best Price : $ 13.95 Buy New $ 12.99 In ensuing days , he posted many online memos under the name , “ Mars.
” For example : “ My head has cleared @ @ @ @ @ @ @ future .
I ’ m here in 2020 to tell you the COVID vaccine the government is developing contains a series of so-called Q-compounds that will , over a period of years , produce profound disabilities of body and brain… ” Mars posted dozens of these memos attacking the COVID vaccine .
A reporter for the NY Times claimed Mars was acquiring hundreds of thousands of true-believer followers—anti-vaxxers .
So it was a surprise when a small online news service called the Kimosabe Courier exposed Mars , Hill Regis , as a former @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an editor at the NY Times in 2014 .
His most recent assignment , the Kimosabe Courier claimed : publish attacks against the vaccine , while “ mentally unbalanced , ” thereby smearing and defaming genuine vaccine opponents .
Guilt by association .
The Kimosabe Courier interviewed Mars ’ sister , Evelyn , who lives in Columbus , Ohio .
She is a public defender .
She told the Courier , “ My brother , Hill Regis , who is calling himself Mars , worked for the Agency for almost twenty years .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ profiled foreign politicians .
I was shocked when I found out he was employed by the Times as an editor .
I suspected he was one of those , what did they used to call them…Mockingbird agents .
Plants .
He ’ s not suffering from any mental disorder .
He ’ s quite sane .
As a boy , he loved spy novels .
He always wanted to work for the CIA.
” The Courier story was picked up by other news outlets , and finally the Associated Press confirmed that Mars @ @ @ @ @ @ @ record of service at the CIA .
The Vaccine Court : The ... Rohde , Wayne Buy New $ 17.99 The NY Times stated it was conducting an “ internal inquiry.
” The CIA refused to comment on the exposure of one of its agents .
The Miami Herald dug into the story and came up with a suggestive finding .
The CIA and the Centers for Disease Control had held a small joint “ table-top exercise ” in 2018 , during which the subject of “ pandemic messaging ” was discussed .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , how could a vaccine be sold to the public ?
How could disinformation be used to paint anti-vaxxers as deranged conspiracy theorists ?
Suddenly , the LA Times and the San Francisco Chronicle fired two medical reporters .
The newspapers stated these two employees had “ misrepresented COVID-19 case numbers.
” Sally Westfield , a veteran reporter at Harper ’ s , wrote a long piece about the history of CDC efforts to “ market vaccines through inducing fear.
” Her opening paragraph : “ Anti-vaxxers may be wrong , but that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
However , certain players would like you to believe both charges .
These players are pulling down regular paychecks from the federal government , which Americans subsidize with their taxes.
” The first wave of exposure reached new height with the resignation of the NY Times medical editor , Dr. Phillip DeMarco .
He published a mea culpa online at his new blog , My Long Sentences : “ I may not be able to fly over tall buildings , like my former colleague , Hill Regis , but I can lie @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been doing at my newspaper for the past thirteen years .
In particular , I ’ ve been distorting and suppressing the connection between childhood vaccines and autism .
Now it ’ s time to own up to the facts .
I know the facts .
I ’ m a graduate of the CDC ’ s elite program , the Epidemic Intelligence Service .
The EIS trains medical professionals .
Some of them have gone on to occupy key positions in the field of journalism .
I ’ m one .
Or I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s confession created an uproar .
The HPV Vaccine On Tri ... Iorio , Eileen Best Price : $ 12.95 Buy New $ 12.03 Three CDC researchers emerged from the shadows and admitted their role in a vaccine-autism cover-up .
They cited studies they ’ d authored , which had buried crucial and damning data linking the DPT vaccine to autism .
The CDC released a statement which failed to respond to the confessions of its own researchers , but did contain a few interesting nuggets : “ Replying to recent press @ @ @ @ @ @ @ employees to the CIA for training , and they do return with enhanced security clearances , but this program involves an important educational exchange on the subject of biological threats , which are an ongoing concern.
” Two days later , Marci Crist , a former CDC spokeswoman , testified at a hastily called Senate Committee hearing : “ …then what was I , a PR person , doing at Langley ?
” she said .
“ I am not a scientist .
I wasn ’ t discussing ‘ biological threats ’ .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and they were filling me in on press contacts I wasn ’ t aware of .
I can say this .
Between the CDC and the CIA , we have American media covered , when it comes to medical issues .
We control much of what the public learns and doesn ’ t learn .
And if you want material for a few headlines , try this : pharmaceutical companies are also in the mix .
The mix of disinformation .
They pay for all those television drug ads for one reason @ @ @ @ @ @ @ paying for the news .
The news needs their money .
The networks need their money .
So these drug companies and their agenda own the news.
” A Senator piped up : “ Then how do you explain the recent shocking media revelations ?
These revelations are coming from the ‘ news ’ .
” Marci Crist replied : “ Well , Senator , people like me are obedient professionals , and we usually tell lies on command , but we are human beings , too .
We can only take so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Buy New $ 23.55 That night , Crist , an instant star , sat down with CNN ’ s Anderson Cooper .
The interview immediately went sideways .
Cooper interrupted Crist a number of times .
He teetered on the edge of outrage .
Finally , Crist said , “ Quiet down , Sonny .
America wants to hear me right now , not you .
I ’ ve got my fifteen minutes of fame .
The CDC buys about four billion dollars worth of vaccines a year .
They also do studies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ safe and effective .
Is the CDC going to say , ‘ Guess what , this vaccine we bought in quantity causes brain damage in children ’ ?
What are the chances ?
It would be like your network saying , ‘ Guess what ?
This war we ’ ve been promoting relentlessly night after night ?
It ’ s not only destroying millions of lives , it ’ s completely unnecessary.
’ ” Cooper tried to smirk , but his mouth froze in a grotesque rictus .
Crist continued : “ The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ genitals , your heart , mind , and soul .
You just don ’ t know it .
Or maybe you do .
Which is it ?
Let ’ s take a poll .
Let ’ s do one of those famous CNN polls.
” FOX ’ s Tucker Carlson brought on a surprise guest , the man nobody thought they would ever hear from again : Hill Regis , aka Mars , the disgraced editor of the NY Times , who had kicked off the whole scandal .
Carlson : So which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sane or are you crazy ?
Regis : I ’ ve always been sane , Tucker .
I was a Mockingbird for the CIA .
I was planted at my former newspaper…my most recent task was to make it appear that any person who opposes the COVID vaccine is insane .
The technique is simple .
Carlson : You attack the vaccine , you appear to be a whacko , and therefore , anyone who attacks the vaccine is assumed to be a whacko .
Regis : That ’ s right .
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Regis : I believe we need a major investigation .
I wouldn ’ t take the shot in my arm without knowing a lot more about it .
The Senate Committee , seeing their every move grabbing huge news headlines , decided to expand their show .
They brought in Dr. Tony Fauci and grilled him .
At one point , Senator Rand Paul said to Fauci , “ Is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the COVID vaccine are only designed to prove the vaccine can prevent MILD cases of COVID-19 ?
I ask the question because mild cases cure themselves .
No vaccine is needed.
” RAND PAUL : Really .
A person with a sniffle and cough is the same as a person lying on a hospital bed receiving heavy drugs ?
FAUCI : Of course not .
But they ’ re both infected by the virus .
RAND PAUL : You ’ re being evasive .
You know and I know that the current tests @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who have mild cases—and no one cares about that .
As I just said , mild cases cure themselves .
No vaccine is necessary .
These clinical trials are a farce .
RAND PAUL : Suppose I told you the Committee ’ s next witness is a man who actually DESIGNED a test for the vaccine ?
Fauci appeared shocked .
The image of his frozen face would be sent online around the world , millions of times , in the next few hours .
FAUCI : Designed it for who ?
RAND @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccine you support .
FAUCI : I would say that man is making a grave mistake .
RAND PAUL : Really ?
Why ?
Because he ’ s willing to destroy his own career by telling the truth ?
By telling the world that his test of the vaccine has nothing to do with protecting people against real harm ?
That ’ s what he ’ s going to admit in the next few hours .
On live television .
And he did .
For the next few weeks , media coverage was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ major clinical trials of the vaccine were halted .
Hill Regis , under tight military security , was brought into the Senate Committee room to explain CIA-news media connections .
Infiltration ; the planting of agents and assets in newsrooms and editorial offices all over the US , and in foreign countries as well .
Their mission : shape information ; invent disinformation ; bury vital truth .
At one point in his testimony , Regis said : “ I can assure you that , in the wake of John F Kennedy ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ major role in the media suppressing the names of key players involved in the plot .
You have to ask yourself , WHY ?
” A Senator said , “ Is this another one of your crazy tricks , Mr. Regis ?
Because your former employers at the CIA are certainly going to say so.
” “ I have no more tricks , Senator , ” Regis said .
“ Do you ?
” A week later , Dr. Robert Redfield , director of the CDC , resigned .
An editorial in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prepared to testify , before Congress , that decades ago , while working as a medical researcher for the military , Redfield had invented false data to promote his proposed vaccine against HIV .
The day he left his post at the CDC , Redfield made a brief statement to the press : “ …I know , for a fact , that all three major clinical trials of the experimental COVID vaccine are useless .
They ’ re designed to protect people against nothing more severe than a common cold .
The vaccine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It doesn ’ t. ” The Drudge Report posted a huge headline : REDFIELD SAYS SCREW YOU TO COVID VACCINE AS HE WALKS OUT THE DOOR .
Within a few hours , 50 million people viewed that headline .
The following Sunday , on CBS ’ 60 Minutes , Lesley Stahl interviewed Tony Fauci .
Stahl : So , is the COVID vaccine designed to protect people from serious illness , or isn ’ t it ?
Fauci : All these studies , these clinical trials , need to be redesigned .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ re only trying to show a vaccine can protect people from mild cases of COVID-19 .
Stahl : And that ’ s not good enough .
Stahl : How long will it take to do new clinical trials ?
Stahl : Dr. Fauci , when did you become aware of this problem ?
Stahl : Why did it take you so long to understand what was going on ?
Fauci : Key information was being withheld from me .
Fauci : People at Pfizer and AstraZeneca .
Two companies doing major clinical trials @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There is a third company , too .
You ’ ve made very positive statements about their work on the vaccine .
Stahl : Did they too withhold vital data about their clinical trial from you ?
Fauci : It ’ s possible , yes .
I would have to check my records .
Stahl : Dr. Fauci , you ’ ve been the face of the government response to the pandemic .
Many have called you a hero .
How did all this happen ?
Stahl : Nothing more than mistakes ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ investigation .
We will see .
Stahl : If necessary , can you investigate yourself ?
Before he could stop himself , Fauci smiled and laughed .
Three days later , he resigned from the White House Coronavirus Task Force .
The news-media winds had radically changed direction .
It was now all reporters on deck to expose the COVID vaccine fraud .
The story was a raging storm .
It couldn ’ t be held back .
Television news ratings were enormous .
The next revelation came out of the CDC itself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dr. Carol Fole , whom no one had ever heard of , held a press conference in Atlanta .
She made the following brutal statement : “ We have begun an investigation of the three major ongoing clinical trials of the COVID vaccine .
For the moment , I want to stress a point that hasn ’ t been covered .
Two of those trials are using a new technology , called mRNA , which has never been approved for use .
Not for any vaccine or drug .
The reason is , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ adverse reactions in humans .
That means HARM .
I ’ ll try to explain .
The immune system becomes confused .
It starts looking at the body , at certain areas of the body , at certain organs , as if they were intruders , enemies .
You could say the body begins attacking itself .
These vaccine companies believe they can overcome this problem .
They want to overcome it .
Will they be able to ?
We don ’ t know .
Here is what we do know .
From @ @ @ @ @ @ @ commercial point of view , the new RNA technology makes it possible to design and manufacture vaccines much more quickly , easily—and more cheaply .
Am I suggesting THIS is the motive for these companies bringing a new kind of vaccine into the world ?
Not yet .
But I want to find out exactly what is going on here… ” Moderna halted its clinical trial of the COVID vaccine .
In a mind-bending moment on the NBC Evening News , cadaverous anchor Lester Holt told his audience , “ In our profession @ @ @ @ @ @ @ always skating across thin ice , based on the information that is fed to us , mostly by government sources .
We trust the government .
But then there are moments when the ice breaks .
Then we… ” He broke off and stared silently at the camera .
“ Then we need rescue from truth tellers .
Where will we find them ?
Is Dr. Fauci a truth teller ?
I feel cold in here… ” That night , Holt scored the highest ratings of his career at NBC .
The following @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Stephen Hahn , released a stunning statement .
It was pure red meat for the press .
They were all over it like ravening wolves : Hahn : “ As FDA Commissioner , I want to send a message , loud and clear , to the vaccine companies .
If you come to us with an application to approve a vaccine for COVID-19 , you ’ d better have your house in order .
If you ’ re testing a vaccine that uses RNA or DNA technology , or any genetic modifications @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your product does not cause harm .
I am not making a political remark here .
This has nothing to do with what the President wants or the Democrats want .
Today , I have sent a letter to US Attorney General Barr , asking for a criminal investigation of the COVID vaccine clinical trials of all major companies .
I believe the American people are being hoodwinked .
Corporations are lying .
Corporations are pretending they know what they ’ re doing .
They want to unleash unproven technologies on our citizens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ happen .
We always say we want transparency .
Well now we ’ re going to get it .
I ’ m warning my own reviewers at the Agency , do not try to slant the truth or skim the surface .
If I discover any collusion with the vaccine manufacturers , I will make sure you are prosecuted to the full extent of the law .
Frankly , I ’ m operating out of a sense of fear .
I fear for the safety of our country .
Because of the disturbing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ month , I also fear I could personally be caught up in a scandal not of my own making .
Yes , it ’ s like THAT .
I openly admit it .
I have a very important job .
I have to be the navigator .
I ’ m not going down with this ship .
I ’ m going to do everything I can to save the ship .
Whoever you are in the pharmaceutical world , wherever you are , don ’ t try to wrap me up in your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in my hand .
Trust me , you don ’ t want to see me in a state of anger and outrage… ” The screaming Drudge headline : FDA COMMISSIONER COVERING HIS BEHIND EVERY WHICH WAY .
Politico : FDA ’ S HAHN SHOVES ALL HIS CHIPS ACROSS THE TABLE .
The New York Times : FDA ON RED ALERT ; VACCINE MAKERS IN THE CROSS-HAIRS .
NY Post : FDA CHIEF A NEW HERO ON THE RISE .
CBS News : ATTORNEY GENERAL DEMANDS MODERNA RETURN HALF A BILLION DOLLARS IN FEDERAL @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
ABC News : VACCINE MAKER MODERNA HAS NEVER BROUGHT A PRODUCT TO MARKET ; WAS FAUCI ’ S FAVORITE .
And it had all started with a man who had a job to do : convince the public that anyone who opposed the COVID vaccine was a whacko .
The Best of Jon Rappoport

More than once, after I’ve written and published a piece along these lines, someone asks me, DID THAT REALLY HAPPEN? The answer is NO, BUT IT WOULD. IF PUBLIC FIGURES CONFESSED THEIR CRIMES.
—Our paper, The New York Times, is the most trusted news source in the world. Lately we’ve been devoting pages to first-person accounts of lockdown experiences, during the pandemic.
Yesterday, owing to the exhaustion of our editors, we published a piece by a resident of Riverhead, Long Island, without properly vetting the text. We apologize for the error.
Apparently, this person was trying to describe a dream he had. He couched his story in terms of a briefing, but obviously no briefing occurred.
The Times editor who allowed the errant piece to be published also lives in Riverhead. We’re investigating to determine whether he, in fact, was the author. Fear of the Invisible Roberts, Janine Best Price: $41.22 Buy New $18.31 (as of 02:55 UTC - Details)
THE NEW YORK TIMES PIECE (fragments retrieved):
“Ladies and gentlemen of the Congress, this is an informal briefing.”
“…Some humans can fly. Flying has no technological basis. It’s a rebound-reaction to months of lockdowns and overreaching government regulations.”
“I’ve discovered, so far, 63 federal agencies no one has ever heard of. They are all promoting the COVID vaccine, which is a very dangerous injection. These agencies are connected to Zuckerberger Enterprises, headquartered in two well-fortified buildings in the center of Baltimore. I have those buildings under surveillance.”
“I come from the future. I’m here to say a program aimed at injecting every person on Earth with toxic compounds, under the pretext of preventing disease, is a terrible mistake. Do not take the COVID vaccine.”
“Joseph Biden, from my Boston office, is also from the future. He wants to inject every human with COVID poison, called a vaccine. He is suffering from dementia…”
The NY Times piece gave birth to untold millions of tweets, most of them jokes written by pro-vaccine advocates. The paper did, in fact, discover that one of its editors, Hill Regis, wrote the lockdown “briefing.”
After a medical and psychiatric examination, Regis was pronounced “COVID-infected, with dementia symptoms,” and isolated for 14 days in a hotel on Broadway. He refused to take psychiatric drugs.
On August 14, 2020, he escaped from confinement. The Vaccine Papers Roberts, Janine Best Price: $13.95 Buy New $12.99 (as of 06:21 UTC - Details)
In ensuing days, he posted many online memos under the name, “Mars.” For example:
“My head has cleared. I’m from the distant future. I’m here in 2020 to tell you the COVID vaccine the government is developing contains a series of so-called Q-compounds that will, over a period of years, produce profound disabilities of body and brain…”
Mars posted dozens of these memos attacking the COVID vaccine.
A reporter for the NY Times claimed Mars was acquiring hundreds of thousands of true-believer followers—anti-vaxxers.
So it was a surprise when a small online news service called the Kimosabe Courier exposed Mars, Hill Regis, as a former CIA officer who had been hired as an editor at the NY Times in 2014.
His most recent assignment, the Kimosabe Courier claimed: publish attacks against the vaccine, while “mentally unbalanced,” thereby smearing and defaming genuine vaccine opponents. Guilt by association.
The Kimosabe Courier interviewed Mars’ sister, Evelyn, who lives in Columbus, Ohio. She is a public defender. She told the Courier, “My brother, Hill Regis, who is calling himself Mars, worked for the Agency for almost twenty years. He analyzed reports and documents, and profiled foreign politicians. I was shocked when I found out he was employed by the Times as an editor. I suspected he was one of those, what did they used to call them…Mockingbird agents. Plants. He’s not suffering from any mental disorder. He’s quite sane. As a boy, he loved spy novels. He always wanted to work for the CIA.”
The Courier story was picked up by other news outlets, and finally the Associated Press confirmed that Mars, Hill Regis, had a long record of service at the CIA. The Vaccine Court: The... Rohde, Wayne Buy New $17.99 (as of 04:05 UTC - Details)
The NY Times stated it was conducting an “internal inquiry.” The CIA refused to comment on the exposure of one of its agents.
The Miami Herald dug into the story and came up with a suggestive finding. The CIA and the Centers for Disease Control had held a small joint “table-top exercise” in 2018, during which the subject of “pandemic messaging” was discussed. In the event of a global outbreak, how could a vaccine be sold to the public? How could disinformation be used to paint anti-vaxxers as deranged conspiracy theorists?
Suddenly, the LA Times and the San Francisco Chronicle fired two medical reporters. The newspapers stated these two employees had “misrepresented COVID-19 case numbers.”
Sally Westfield, a veteran reporter at Harper’s, wrote a long piece about the history of CDC efforts to “market vaccines through inducing fear.”
Her opening paragraph: “Anti-vaxxers may be wrong, but that doesn’t necessarily make them crazy. However, certain players would like you to believe both charges. These players are pulling down regular paychecks from the federal government, which Americans subsidize with their taxes.”
The first wave of exposure reached new height with the resignation of the NY Times medical editor, Dr. Phillip DeMarco. He published a mea culpa online at his new blog, My Long Sentences:
“I may not be able to fly over tall buildings, like my former colleague, Hill Regis, but I can lie inside buildings—which is what I’ve been doing at my newspaper for the past thirteen years. In particular, I’ve been distorting and suppressing the connection between childhood vaccines and autism. Now it’s time to own up to the facts. I know the facts. I’m a graduate of the CDC’s elite program, the Epidemic Intelligence Service. The EIS trains medical professionals. Some of them have gone on to occupy key positions in the field of journalism. I’m one. Or I was, until recently.”
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Three CDC researchers emerged from the shadows and admitted their role in a vaccine-autism cover-up. They cited studies they’d authored, which had buried crucial and damning data linking the DPT vaccine to autism.
The CDC released a statement which failed to respond to the confessions of its own researchers, but did contain a few interesting nuggets:
“Replying to recent press queries, the CDC does send certain employees to the CIA for training, and they do return with enhanced security clearances, but this program involves an important educational exchange on the subject of biological threats, which are an ongoing concern.”
Two days later, Marci Crist, a former CDC spokeswoman, testified at a hastily called Senate Committee hearing: “…then what was I, a PR person, doing at Langley?” she said. “I am not a scientist. I wasn’t discussing ‘biological threats’.
I was meeting with CIA communications people, and they were filling me in on press contacts I wasn’t aware of. I can say this. Between the CDC and the CIA, we have American media covered, when it comes to medical issues. We control much of what the public learns and doesn’t learn. And if you want material for a few headlines, try this: pharmaceutical companies are also in the mix. The mix of disinformation. They pay for all those television drug ads for one reason and one reason only. They are paying for the news. The news needs their money. The networks need their money. So these drug companies and their agenda own the news.”
A Senator piped up: “Then how do you explain the recent shocking media revelations? These revelations are coming from the ‘news’.”
Marci Crist replied: “Well, Senator, people like me are obedient professionals, and we usually tell lies on command, but we are human beings, too. We can only take so much bullshit.” Vaccine Injury Compens... Buy New $23.55 (as of 02:55 UTC - Details)
That night, Crist, an instant star, sat down with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. The interview immediately went sideways. Cooper interrupted Crist a number of times. He teetered on the edge of outrage. Finally, Crist said, “Quiet down, Sonny. America wants to hear me right now, not you. I’ve got my fifteen minutes of fame. The CDC buys about four billion dollars worth of vaccines a year. They also do studies to find out whether those vaccines are safe and effective. Is the CDC going to say, ‘Guess what, this vaccine we bought in quantity causes brain damage in children’? What are the chances? It would be like your network saying, ‘Guess what? This war we’ve been promoting relentlessly night after night? It’s not only destroying millions of lives, it’s completely unnecessary.’”
Cooper tried to smirk, but his mouth froze in a grotesque rictus.
Crist continued: “The pharmaceutical companies, Anderson, own your genitals, your heart, mind, and soul. You just don’t know it. Or maybe you do. Which is it? Let’s take a poll. Let’s do one of those famous CNN polls.”
FOX’s Tucker Carlson brought on a surprise guest, the man nobody thought they would ever hear from again: Hill Regis, aka Mars, the disgraced editor of the NY Times, who had kicked off the whole scandal.
Carlson: So which is it, sir? Are you sane or are you crazy?
Regis: I’ve always been sane, Tucker. I was a Mockingbird for the CIA. I was planted at my former newspaper…my most recent task was to make it appear that any person who opposes the COVID vaccine is insane. The technique is simple.
Carlson: You attack the vaccine, you appear to be a whacko, and therefore, anyone who attacks the vaccine is assumed to be a whacko.
Regis: That’s right. Thimerosal: Let the Sc... Kennedy Jr., Robert F. Best Price: $18.01 Buy New $15.93 (as of 02:45 UTC - Details)
Carlson: So, DO you actually oppose the vaccine?
Regis: I believe we need a major investigation. I wouldn’t take the shot in my arm without knowing a lot more about it.
The Senate Committee, seeing their every move grabbing huge news headlines, decided to expand their show. They brought in Dr. Tony Fauci and grilled him.
At one point, Senator Rand Paul said to Fauci, “Is it true the major clinical trials of the COVID vaccine are only designed to prove the vaccine can prevent MILD cases of COVID-19? I ask the question because mild cases cure themselves. No vaccine is needed.”
Fauci said, “A case is a case.”
RAND PAUL: Really. A person with a sniffle and cough is the same as a person lying on a hospital bed receiving heavy drugs?
FAUCI: Of course not. But they’re both infected by the virus.
RAND PAUL: You’re being evasive. You know and I know that the current tests of the vaccine only apply to people who have mild cases—and no one cares about that. As I just said, mild cases cure themselves. No vaccine is necessary. These clinical trials are a farce.
FAUCI: I disagree completely.
RAND PAUL: Suppose I told you the Committee’s next witness is a man who actually DESIGNED a test for the vaccine?
Fauci appeared shocked. The image of his frozen face would be sent online around the world, millions of times, in the next few hours.
FAUCI: Designed it for who?
RAND PAUL: For a company whose COVID vaccine you support.
FAUCI: I would say that man is making a grave mistake.
RAND PAUL: Really? Why? Because he’s willing to destroy his own career by telling the truth? By telling the world that his test of the vaccine has nothing to do with protecting people against real harm? That’s what he’s going to admit in the next few hours. On live television.
And he did.
For the next few weeks, media coverage was all COVID vaccine, 24/7.
Two major clinical trials of the vaccine were halted.
Hill Regis, under tight military security, was brought into the Senate Committee room to explain CIA-news media connections. Infiltration; the planting of agents and assets in newsrooms and editorial offices all over the US, and in foreign countries as well. Their mission: shape information; invent disinformation; bury vital truth.
At one point in his testimony, Regis said: “I can assure you that, in the wake of John F Kennedy’s assassination, the CIA played a major role in the media suppressing the names of key players involved in the plot. You have to ask yourself, WHY?”
A Senator said, “Is this another one of your crazy tricks, Mr. Regis? Because your former employers at the CIA are certainly going to say so.”
“I have no more tricks, Senator,” Regis said. “Do you?”
A week later, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the CDC, resigned. An editorial in the Washington Post suggested several ex-Army officers were prepared to testify, before Congress, that decades ago, while working as a medical researcher for the military, Redfield had invented false data to promote his proposed vaccine against HIV.
The day he left his post at the CDC, Redfield made a brief statement to the press: “…I know, for a fact, that all three major clinical trials of the experimental COVID vaccine are useless. They’re designed to protect people against nothing more severe than a common cold. The vaccine should be protecting against severe COVID-19 cases. It doesn’t.”
The Drudge Report posted a huge headline: REDFIELD SAYS SCREW YOU TO COVID VACCINE AS HE WALKS OUT THE DOOR. Within a few hours, 50 million people viewed that headline.
The following Sunday, on CBS’ 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl interviewed Tony Fauci.
Stahl: So, is the COVID vaccine designed to protect people from serious illness, or isn’t it?
Fauci: All these studies, these clinical trials, need to be redesigned. In the current format, they’re only trying to show a vaccine can protect people from mild cases of COVID-19.
Stahl: And that’s not good enough.
Fauci: No.
Stahl: How long will it take to do new clinical trials?
Fauci: At least a year.
Stahl: Dr. Fauci, when did you become aware of this problem?
Fauci: A few weeks ago, Lesley. I was shocked.
Stahl: Why did it take you so long to understand what was going on?
Fauci: Key information was being withheld from me.
Stahl: By whom?
Fauci: Dr. Redfield and others.
Stahl: Which others?
Fauci: People at Pfizer and AstraZeneca. Two companies doing major clinical trials of the COVID vaccine.
Stahl: There is a third company, too. You’ve made very positive statements about their work on the vaccine.
Fauci: Yes. Moderna.
Stahl: Did they too withhold vital data about their clinical trial from you?
Fauci: It’s possible, yes. I would have to check my records.
Stahl: Dr. Fauci, you’ve been the face of the government response to the pandemic. Many have called you a hero. How did all this happen?
Fauci: Mistakes were made.
Stahl: Nothing more than mistakes?
Fauci: I’m conducting an investigation. We will see.
Stahl: If necessary, can you investigate yourself?
Before he could stop himself, Fauci smiled and laughed.
Three days later, he resigned from the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
The news-media winds had radically changed direction. It was now all reporters on deck to expose the COVID vaccine fraud. The story was a raging storm. It couldn’t be held back. Television news ratings were enormous.
The next revelation came out of the CDC itself. Its new interim director, a Dr. Carol Fole, whom no one had ever heard of, held a press conference in Atlanta. She made the following brutal statement:
“We have begun an investigation of the three major ongoing clinical trials of the COVID vaccine. For the moment, I want to stress a point that hasn’t been covered. Two of those trials are using a new technology, called mRNA, which has never been approved for use. Not for any vaccine or drug. The reason is, in past efforts, researchers have seen adverse reactions in humans. That means HARM. I’ll try to explain. The immune system becomes confused. It starts looking at the body, at certain areas of the body, at certain organs, as if they were intruders, enemies. You could say the body begins attacking itself. These vaccine companies believe they can overcome this problem. They want to overcome it. Will they be able to? We don’t know. Here is what we do know. From a business point of view, a commercial point of view, the new RNA technology makes it possible to design and manufacture vaccines much more quickly, easily—and more cheaply. Am I suggesting THIS is the motive for these companies bringing a new kind of vaccine into the world? Not yet. But I want to find out exactly what is going on here…”
Moderna halted its clinical trial of the COVID vaccine.
In a mind-bending moment on the NBC Evening News, cadaverous anchor Lester Holt told his audience, “In our profession, the news business, we are always skating across thin ice, based on the information that is fed to us, mostly by government sources. We trust the government. But then there are moments when the ice breaks. Then we…” He broke off and stared silently at the camera. “Then we need rescue from truth tellers. Where will we find them? Is Dr. Fauci a truth teller? I feel cold in here…”
That night, Holt scored the highest ratings of his career at NBC.
The following day, the commissioner of the FDA, Stephen Hahn, released a stunning statement. It was pure red meat for the press. They were all over it like ravening wolves:
Hahn: “As FDA Commissioner, I want to send a message, loud and clear, to the vaccine companies. If you come to us with an application to approve a vaccine for COVID-19, you’d better have your house in order. If you’re testing a vaccine that uses RNA or DNA technology, or any genetic modifications, we will demand solid evidence that your product does not cause harm. I am not making a political remark here. This has nothing to do with what the President wants or the Democrats want. Today, I have sent a letter to US Attorney General Barr, asking for a criminal investigation of the COVID vaccine clinical trials of all major companies. I believe the American people are being hoodwinked. Corporations are lying. Corporations are pretending they know what they’re doing. They want to unleash unproven technologies on our citizens. I will not allow this to happen. We always say we want transparency. Well now we’re going to get it. I’m warning my own reviewers at the Agency, do not try to slant the truth or skim the surface. If I discover any collusion with the vaccine manufacturers, I will make sure you are prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Frankly, I’m operating out of a sense of fear. I fear for the safety of our country. Because of the disturbing revelations that have emerged over the past month, I also fear I could personally be caught up in a scandal not of my own making. Yes, it’s like THAT. I openly admit it. I have a very important job. I have to be the navigator. I’m not going down with this ship. I’m going to do everything I can to save the ship. Whoever you are in the pharmaceutical world, wherever you are, don’t try to wrap me up in your machinations. I hold a true compass in my hand. Trust me, you don’t want to see me in a state of anger and outrage…”
The screaming Drudge headline: FDA COMMISSIONER COVERING HIS BEHIND EVERY WHICH WAY.
Politico: FDA’S HAHN SHOVES ALL HIS CHIPS ACROSS THE TABLE.
The New York Times: FDA ON RED ALERT; VACCINE MAKERS IN THE CROSS-HAIRS.
NY Post: FDA CHIEF A NEW HERO ON THE RISE.
Next Drudge headline: FDA COMMISH SUDDENLY GROWS A HUGE PAIR.
LA Times: A VACCINE IN CHAOS; ALL MAJOR CLINICAL TRIALS STOPPED.
Miami Herald: PFIZER CEO RESIGNS OVER COVID VACCINE SCANDAL.
CBS News: ATTORNEY GENERAL DEMANDS MODERNA RETURN HALF A BILLION DOLLARS IN FEDERAL FUNDING; COMPANY MAY FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY.
ABC News: VACCINE MAKER MODERNA HAS NEVER BROUGHT A PRODUCT TO MARKET; WAS FAUCI’S FAVORITE.
And it had all started with a man who had a job to do: convince the public that anyone who opposed the COVID vaccine was a whacko.
That man was a CIA Mockingbird.
Reprinted with permission from Jon Rappoport’s blog.
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lewrockwell--2020-10-03--What They Are Not Talking About: War and Peace, Healthcare and Jobs Are Non-Issues

Watching the network news on television or reading about current events in the newspapers seemingly transports one to an alternate universe where nothing seems to make sense .
The profit driven news cycle in the United States is admittedly a poor mechanism for actually gaining an understanding of what is going on , but seven days of Ruth Bader Ginsburg worship hardly addresses what is ailing the country , particularly as questions about how she earned many millions of dollars while serving as a judge as well as some unsavory aspects of her career have been carefully buried .
A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ general made an interesting comment several days ago , observing that when it comes to politics and voting patterns the so-called “ silent majority ” is indeed silent .
What he meant was that many Americans who hold currently unpopular conservative views will not respond honestly to a call from an unknown pollster regarding voting intentions .
This is particularly true of the current campaign in which Donald Trump is being reviled by the media and depicted by the Democrats as no less than a threat to American democracy .
Biden by way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pass , to include forgiveness for his frequent faux pas and mental lapses .
In other words , Trump is being framed as someone poised to mount a totalitarian takeover of the United States , which in and of itself would disincline many voters to indicate openly that they would support him over Biden .
The Red Thread : A Sear ... West , Diana Buy New $ 9.47 My friend was suggesting that the polls on the upcoming election just might be more than usually wrong .
I would add to that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expect from the presidential debates , which are similarly being framed in such a fashion as to avoid any topics that might really matter .
But the polls do reveal two things .
First , that there is a lack of any confidence in the integrity of politicians at all levels , and second , that jobs and healthcare are the principal concerns of nearly all voter demographics as they directly impact on quality of life .
Healthcare is admittedly a complicated issue given the fact that the entire system in the United @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with considerable government intervention .
The respected British medical journal The Lancet recently published “ Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories ” .
The study revealed , to no one ’ s surprise , that the United States has by far the world ’ s most expensive medical care , at around $ 9,000 per person per year while at the same time delivering poorer results than virtually any other industrialized nation .
Medical expenses are in fact a leading @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Above the Law : The Ins ... Whitaker , Matthew Buy New $ 26.09 So , what are the two parties saying about health care ?
The Republicans want to overturn so-called Obamacare and replace it with something else which they can not describe while the Democrats insist that they want to keep Obamacare in place while also blaming the president for the response to the coronavirus .
That ’ s it .
There is plenty of blame to go around on Covid-19 and Obamacare is in fact a bad program .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the bill for you , but anyone who is paying for his or her own insurance has seen the rates treble and even quadruple since the program became active .
It has become a gold mine for the health care industry , which now assumes that it can charge whatever it wants and the suffering customer will be obliged to pay for it .
That there is no effective regulation of health care is due to the fact that Big Pharma and other providers have completely corrupted Congress through political donations to make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ remains untouched .
And when it comes to the other great concern , “ The Economy , ” which means jobs , the two major parties have even less to say since they know deep down that they have both conspired in the gutting of America ’ s industrial and manufacturing infrastructure .
Obsession : Inside the ... York , Byron Buy New $ 28.99 But another area dear to my own heart which the parties have been silent about is Foreign Policy , which also subsumes National Security , a related issue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ address .
Both parties are strong on issuing position papers that refer to supporting allies , meaning Israel followed by everyone else , confronting threats from Russia and China , and maintaining the world ’ s number one military .
Beyond that it gets a bit vague .
We have recently learned from a possibly unreliable source named Bob Woodward that President Trump sought to assassinate Syria ’ s President Bashar al-Assad but was talked out of .
Trump did order the assassination of senior Iranian General Qassim Soleimani , whom he and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the “ world ’ s leading terrorist , ” which is manifestly untrue .
Is assassinating foreign leaders something that the United States wants to engage in ?
Why is no one talking about it ?
And then there are the “ hot wars ” being fought in Syria , Iraq , Somalia and Afghanistan .
None of those wars benefit from a constitutionally mandated declaration of war by Congress and they have cost the U.S. taxpayer trillions of dollars .
Shouldn ’ t that be under discussion ?
Or the “ maximum @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Venezuela , Cuba , Syria and Iran ?
Those “ wars ” have collectively killed tens of thousands of civilians and have done nothing to enhance the security of the United States .
Shouldn ’ t Trump and Biden be talking about that ?
Instead , we will see much finger pointing and hear a lot about how dangerous a win by either presidential candidate will be , all couched in general terms based on a lot of “ what-ifs.
” But what the American public needs , particularly the silent majority , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ affordable healthcare similar to what most of the rest of the world enjoys .
And a new government also must act decisively to challenge corporate offshoring interests to bring manufacturing jobs back home .
But most of all , the United States needs peace after nineteen years of spreading chaos all over the globe .
End the wars and bring the troops home .
Do it now .
The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation .
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Watching the network news on television or reading about current events in the newspapers seemingly transports one to an alternate universe where nothing seems to make sense. The profit driven news cycle in the United States is admittedly a poor mechanism for actually gaining an understanding of what is going on, but seven days of Ruth Bader Ginsburg worship hardly addresses what is ailing the country, particularly as questions about how she earned many millions of dollars while serving as a judge as well as some unsavory aspects of her career have been carefully buried.
A friend who is a retired U.S. Army general made an interesting comment several days ago, observing that when it comes to politics and voting patterns the so-called “silent majority” is indeed silent. What he meant was that many Americans who hold currently unpopular conservative views will not respond honestly to a call from an unknown pollster regarding voting intentions. This is particularly true of the current campaign in which Donald Trump is being reviled by the media and depicted by the Democrats as no less than a threat to American democracy. Biden by way of comparison pretty much gets a free pass, to include forgiveness for his frequent faux pas and mental lapses. In other words, Trump is being framed as someone poised to mount a totalitarian takeover of the United States, which in and of itself would disincline many voters to indicate openly that they would support him over Biden. The Red Thread: A Sear... West, Diana Buy New $9.47 (as of 04:36 UTC - Details)
My friend was suggesting that the polls on the upcoming election just might be more than usually wrong. I would add to that the general vapidity of what one might expect from the presidential debates, which are similarly being framed in such a fashion as to avoid any topics that might really matter. But the polls do reveal two things. First, that there is a lack of any confidence in the integrity of politicians at all levels, and second, that jobs and healthcare are the principal concerns of nearly all voter demographics as they directly impact on quality of life.
Healthcare is admittedly a complicated issue given the fact that the entire system in the United States would have to be reformed, with considerable government intervention. The respected British medical journal The Lancet recently published “Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories”. The study revealed, to no one’s surprise, that the United States has by far the world’s most expensive medical care, at around $9,000 per person per year while at the same time delivering poorer results than virtually any other industrialized nation. Medical expenses are in fact a leading cause of personal bankruptcy by Americans.
Above the Law: The Ins... Whitaker, Matthew Buy New $26.09 (as of 05:57 UTC - Details) So, what are the two parties saying about health care? The Republicans want to overturn so-called Obamacare and replace it with something else which they cannot describe while the Democrats insist that they want to keep Obamacare in place while also blaming the president for the response to the coronavirus. That’s it. There is plenty of blame to go around on Covid-19 and Obamacare is in fact a bad program. It is good if the government is footing the bill for you, but anyone who is paying for his or her own insurance has seen the rates treble and even quadruple since the program became active. It has become a gold mine for the health care industry, which now assumes that it can charge whatever it wants and the suffering customer will be obliged to pay for it. That there is no effective regulation of health care is due to the fact that Big Pharma and other providers have completely corrupted Congress through political donations to make sure that the highly profitable status quo remains untouched.
And when it comes to the other great concern, “The Economy,” which means jobs, the two major parties have even less to say since they know deep down that they have both conspired in the gutting of America’s industrial and manufacturing infrastructure.
Obsession: Inside the ... York, Byron Buy New $28.99 (as of 03:14 UTC - Details) But another area dear to my own heart which the parties have been silent about is Foreign Policy, which also subsumes National Security, a related issue that the opinion polls do not specifically address. Both parties are strong on issuing position papers that refer to supporting allies, meaning Israel followed by everyone else, confronting threats from Russia and China, and maintaining the world’s number one military. Beyond that it gets a bit vague. We have recently learned from a possibly unreliable source named Bob Woodward that President Trump sought to assassinate Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad but was talked out of. Trump did order the assassination of senior Iranian General Qassim Soleimani, whom he and Secretary of State have recently described as the “world’s leading terrorist,” which is manifestly untrue. Is assassinating foreign leaders something that the United States wants to engage in? Why is no one talking about it?
And then there are the “hot wars” being fought in Syria, Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan. None of those wars benefit from a constitutionally mandated declaration of war by Congress and they have cost the U.S. taxpayer trillions of dollars. Shouldn’t that be under discussion? Or the “maximum pressure” economic wars being waged against Venezuela, Cuba, Syria and Iran? Those “wars” have collectively killed tens of thousands of civilians and have done nothing to enhance the security of the United States. Shouldn’t Trump and Biden be talking about that?
Instead, we will see much finger pointing and hear a lot about how dangerous a win by either presidential candidate will be, all couched in general terms based on a lot of “what-ifs.” But what the American public needs, particularly the silent majority, is a viable plan for decent and affordable healthcare similar to what most of the rest of the world enjoys. And a new government also must act decisively to challenge corporate offshoring interests to bring manufacturing jobs back home. But most of all, the United States needs peace after nineteen years of spreading chaos all over the globe. End the wars and bring the troops home. Do it now.
The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation.
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lewrockwell--2020-10-03--California’s Looming ‘Green New Car Wreck’

The numbers don ’ t pencil out for the future where just 25 % of cars in California would be electric .
On September 23 , California Gov .
Gavin Newsom issued an executive order that will ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars in the Golden State by 2035 .
Ignoring the hard lessons of this past summer , when California ’ s solar- and wind-reliant electric grid underwent rolling blackouts , Newsom now adds a huge new burden to the grid in the form electric vehicle charging .
If California officials follow through and enforce Newsom ’ s order @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new car version of a train wreck .
Let ’ s run some numbers .
According to Statista , there are more than 15 million vehicles registered in California .
Per the U.S. Department of Energy , there are only 256,000 electric vehicles registered in the state—just 1.7 percent of all vehicles .
Inconvenient Facts : Th ... Gregory Wrightstone Best Price : $ 16.16 Buy New $ 14.66 Using the Tesla Model3 mid-range model as a baseline for an electric car , you ’ ll need to use about 62 kilowatt-hours ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ standard range Model 3 battery to full capacity .
It will take about eight hours to fully charge it at home using the standard Tesla NEMA 14-50 charger .
Now , let ’ s assume that by 2040 , five years after the mandate takes effect , also assuming no major increase in the number of total vehicles , California manages to increase the number of electric vehicles to 25 percent of the total vehicles in the state .
If each vehicle needs an average of 62 kilowatt-hours for a full charge , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would be 3,750,000 x 62 KWh , which equals 232,500,000 KWh , or 232.5 gigawatt-hours ( GWh ) daily .
Utility-scale California solar electric generation according to the energy.ca.gov puts utility-scale solar generation at about 30,000 GWh per year currently .
Divide that by 365 days and we get 80 GWh/day , predicted to double , to 160 GWh /day .
Even if we add homeowner rooftop solar , about half the utility-scale , at 40 GWh/day we come up to 200 GW/h per day , still 32 GWh short of the charging @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fleet in California .
Even if rooftop solar doubles by 2040 , we are at break-even , with 240GWh of production during the day .

The numbers don’t pencil out for the future where just 25% of cars in California would be electric.
On September 23, California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order that will ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars in the Golden State by 2035. Ignoring the hard lessons of this past summer, when California’s solar- and wind-reliant electric grid underwent rolling blackouts, Newsom now adds a huge new burden to the grid in the form electric vehicle charging. If California officials follow through and enforce Newsom’s order, the result will be a green new car version of a train wreck.
Let’s run some numbers. According to Statista, there are more than 15 million vehicles registered in California. Per the U.S. Department of Energy, there are only 256,000 electric vehicles registered in the state—just 1.7 percent of all vehicles. Inconvenient Facts: Th... Gregory Wrightstone Best Price: $16.16 Buy New $14.66 (as of 05:10 UTC - Details)
Using the Tesla Model3 mid-range model as a baseline for an electric car, you’ll need to use about 62 kilowatt-hours (KWh) of power to charge a standard range Model 3 battery to full capacity. It will take about eight hours to fully charge it at home using the standard Tesla NEMA 14-50 charger.
Now, let’s assume that by 2040, five years after the mandate takes effect, also assuming no major increase in the number of total vehicles, California manages to increase the number of electric vehicles to 25 percent of the total vehicles in the state. If each vehicle needs an average of 62 kilowatt-hours for a full charge, then the total charging power required daily would be 3,750,000 x 62 KWh, which equals 232,500,000 KWh, or 232.5 gigawatt-hours (GWh) daily.
Utility-scale California solar electric generation according to the energy.ca.gov puts utility-scale solar generation at about 30,000 GWh per year currently. Divide that by 365 days and we get 80 GWh/day, predicted to double, to 160 GWh /day. Even if we add homeowner rooftop solar, about half the utility-scale, at 40 GWh/day we come up to 200 GW/h per day, still 32 GWh short of the charging demand for a 25% electric car fleet in California. Even if rooftop solar doubles by 2040, we are at break-even, with 240GWh of production during the day.
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lewrockwell--2020-10-03--Eyewitness to the Trial and Agony of Julian Assange

John Pilger has watched Julian Assange ’ s extradition trial from the public gallery at London ’ s Old Bailey .
He spoke with Timothy Erik Ström of Arena magazine , Australia : Q : Having watched Julian Assange ’ s trial first-hand , can you describe the prevailing atmosphere in the court ?
The prevailing atmosphere has been shocking .
I say that without hesitation ; I have sat in many courts and seldom known such a corruption of due process ; this is due revenge .
Putting aside the ritual associated with ‘ British justice ’ , at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Stalinist show trial .
One difference is that in the show trials , the defendant stood in the court proper .
In the Assange trial , the defendant was caged behind thick glass , and had to crawl on his knees to a slit in the glass , overseen by his guard , to make contact with his lawyers .
His message , whispered barely audibly through face masks , WAS then passed by post-it the length of the court to where his barristers were arguing the case against his extradition to an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Julian Assange , an Australian on trial for truth-telling journalism .
He was woken at five o ’ clock in his cell at Belmarsh prison in the bleak southern sprawl of London .
The first time I saw Julian in Belmarsh , having passed through half an hour of ‘ security ’ checks , including a dog ’ s snout in my rear , I found a painfully thin figure sitting alone wearing a yellow armband .
He had lost more than 10 kilos in a matter of months ; his arms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were : ‘ I think I am losing my mind ’ .
Hanes Men ’ s Ecos ... Buy New $ 8.88 I tried to assure him he wasn ’ t .
His resilience and courage are formidable , but there is a limit .
That was more than a year ago .
In the past three weeks , in the pre-dawn , he was strip-searched , shackled , and prepared for transport to the Central Criminal Court , the Old Bailey , in a truck that his partner , Stella Moris , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had one small window ; he had to stand precariously to look out .
The truck and its guards were operated by Serco , one of many politically connected companies that run much of Boris Johnson ’ s Britain .
The journey to the Old Bailey took at least an hour and a half .
That ’ s a minimum of three hours being jolted through snail-like traffic every day .
He was led into his narrow cage at the back of the court , then look up , blinking , trying to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through the reflection of the glass .
He saw the courtly figure of his dad , John Shipton , and me , and our fists went up .
Through the glass , he reached out to touch fingers with Stella , who is a lawyer and seated in the body of the court .
We were here for the ultimate of what the philosopher Guy Debord called The Society of the Spectacle : a man fighting for his life .
Yet his crime is to have performed an epic public service : revealing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ know : the lies of our governments and the crimes they commit in our name .
His creation of WikiLeaks and its failsafe protection of sources revolutionised journalism , restoring it to the vision of its idealists .
Edmund Burke ’ s notion of free journalism as a fourth estate is now a fifth estate that shines a light on those who diminish the very meaning of democracy with their criminal secrecy .
That ’ s why his punishment is so extreme .
The sheer bias in the courts I have sat in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Julian in the dock , blight any notion of British justice .
When thuggish police dragged him from his asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy – look closely at the photo and you ’ ll see he is clutching a Gore Vidal book ; Assange has a political humour similar to Vidal ’ s – a judge gave him an outrageous 50-week sentence in a maximum-security prison for mere bail infringement .
Amazon Brand - Goodthr ... Buy New $ 35.00 For months , he was denied exercise and held in solitary confinement disguised @ @ @ @ @ @ @ once told me he strode the length of his cell , back and forth , back and forth , for his own half-marathon .
In the next cell , the occupant screamed through the night .
At first he was denied his reading glasses , left behind in the embassy brutality .
He was denied the legal documents with which to prepare his case , and access to the prison library and the use of a basic laptop .
Books sent to him by a friend , the journalist Charles Glass , himself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were returned .
He could not call his American lawyers .
He has been constantly medicated by the prison authorities .
When I asked him what they were giving him , he couldn ’ t say .
The governor of Belmarsh has been awarded the Order of the British Empire .
At the Old Bailey , one of the expert medical witnesses , Dr Kate Humphrey , a clinical neuropsychologist at Imperial College , London , described the damage : Julian ’ s intellect had gone from ‘ in the superior , or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ significantly below ’ this optimal level , to the point where he was struggling to absorb information and ‘ perform in the low average range ’ .
This is what the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture , Professor Nils Melzer , calls ‘ psychological torture ’ , the result of a gang-like ‘ mobbing ’ by governments and their media shills .
Some of the expert medical evidence is so shocking I have no intention of repeating it here .
Suffice to say that Assange is diagnosed with autism and Asperger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Professor Michael Kopelman , one of the world ’ s leading neuropsychiatrists , he suffers from ‘ suicidal preoccupations ’ and is likely to find a way to take his life if he is extradited to America .
James Lewis QC , America ’ s British prosecutor , spent the best part of his cross-examination of Professor Kopelman dismissing mental illness and its dangers as ‘ malingering ’ .
I have never heard in a modern setting such a primitive view of human frailty and vulnerability .
My own view is that if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to recover a substantial part of his life .
He has a loving partner , devoted friends and allies and the innate strength of a principled political prisoner .
He also has a wicked sense of humour .
Champion Men ’ s A ... Buy New $ 34.95 But that is a long way off .
The moments of collusion between the judge – a Gothic-looking magistrate called Vanessa Baraitser , about whom little is known – and the prosecution acting for the Trump regime have been brazen .
Until the last few @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dismissed .
The lead prosecutor , James Lewis QC , ex SAS and currently Chief Justice of the Falklands , by and large gets what he wants , notably up to four hours to denigrate expert witnesses , while the defence ’ s examination is guillotined at half an hour .
I have no doubt , had there been a jury , his freedom would be assured .
The dissident artist Ai Weiwei came to join us one morning in the public gallery .
He noted that in China the judge ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This caused some dark ironic amusement .
My companion in the gallery , the astute diarist and former British ambassador Craig Murray wrote : I fear that all over London a very hard rain is now falling on those who for a lifetime have worked within institutions of liberal democracy that at least broadly and usually used to operate within the governance of their own professed principles .
It has been clear to me from Day 1 that I am watching a charade unfold .
It is not in the least a shock @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anything beyond the written opening arguments has any effect .
I have again and again reported to you that , where rulings have to be made , she has brought them into court pre-written , before hearing the arguments before her .
I strongly expect the final decision was made in this case even before opening arguments were received .
The plan of the US Government throughout has been to limit the information available to the public and limit the effective access to a wider public of what information is available .
Thus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ both physical and video access .
A complicit mainstream media has ensured those of us who know what is happening are very few in the wider population .
There are few records of the proceedings .
They are : Craig Murray ’ s personal blog , Joe Lauria ’ s live reporting on Consortium News and the World Socialist Website .
American journalist Kevin Gosztola ’ s blog , Shadowproof , funded mostly by himself , has reported more of the trial than the major US press and TV , including CNN , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Buy New $ 18.50 In Australia , Assange ’ s homeland , the ‘ coverage ’ follows a familiar formula set overseas .
The London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald , Latika Bourke , wrote this recently : The court heard Assange became depressed during the seven years he spent in the Ecuadorian embassy where he sought political asylum to escape extradition to Sweden to answer rape and sexual assault charges .
There were no ‘ rape and sexual assault charges ’ in Sweden .
Bourke ’ s lazy falsehood is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the political trial of the century , as I believe it is , its outcome will not only seal the fate of a journalist for doing his job but intimidate the very principles of free journalism and free speech .
The absence of serious mainstream reporting of the proceedings is , at the very least , self-destructive .
Journalists should ask : who is next ?
How shaming it all is .
A decade ago , the Guardian exploited Assange ’ s work , claimed its profit and prizes as well as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him with venom .
Throughout the Old Bailey trial , two names have been cited by the prosecution , the Guardian ’ s David Leigh , now retired as ‘ investigations editor ’ and Luke Harding , the Russiaphobe and author of a fictional Guardian ‘ scoop ’ that claimed Trump adviser Paul Manafort and a group of Russians visited Assange in the Ecuadorean embassy .
This never happened , and the Guardian has yet to apologise .
The Harding and Leigh book on Assange – written behind their subject ’ s back @ @ @ @ @ @ @ WikiLeaks file that Assange had entrusted to Leigh during the Guardian ’ s ‘ partnership ’ .
Why the defence has not called this pair is difficult to understand .
Assange is quoted in their book declaring during a dinner at a London restaurant that he didn ’ t care if informants named in the leaks were harmed .
Neither Harding nor Leigh was at the dinner .
John Goetz , an investigations reporter with Der Spiegel , was at the dinner and testified that Assange said nothing of the kind .
Incredibly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this in court .
However , the defence has succeeded in demonstrating the extent to which Assange sought to protect and redact names in the files released by WikiLeaks and that no credible evidence existed of individuals harmed by the leaks .
The great whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg said that Assange had personally redacted 15,000 files .
The renowned New Zealand investigative journalist Nicky Hager , who worked with Assange on the Afghanistan and Iraq war leaks , described how Assange took ‘ extraordinary precautions in redacting names of informants ’ .
Q : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s verdict for journalism more broadly – is it an omen of things to come ?
The ‘ Assange effect ’ is already being felt across the world .
If they displease the regime in Washington , investigative journalists are liable to prosecution under the 1917 US Espionage Act ; the precedent is stark .
It doesn ’ t matter where you are .
For Washington , other people ’ s nationality and sovereignty rarely mattered ; now it does not exist .
Britain has effectively surrendered its jurisdiction to Trump ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Australia , a National Security Information Act promises Kafkaesque trials for transgressors .
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been raided by police and journalists ’ computers taken away .
The government has given unprecedented powers to intelligence officials , making journalistic whistle-blowing almost impossible .
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Assange ‘ must face the music ’ .
The perfidious cruelty of his statement is reinforced by its banality .
‘ Evil ’ , wrote Hannah Arendt , ‘ comes from a failure to think .
It defies thought for as soon as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and examine the premises and principles from which it originates , it is frustrated because it finds nothing there .
That is the banality of evil ’ .
Q : Having followed the story of WikiLeaks closely for a decade , how has this eyewitness experience shifted your understanding of what ’ s at stake with Assange ’ s trial ?
I have long been a critic of journalism as an echo of unaccountable power and a champion of those who are beacons .
So , for me , the arrival of WikiLeaks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Assange regarded the public with respect , that he was prepared to share his work with the ‘ mainstream ’ but not join their collusive club .
This , and naked jealousy , made him enemies among the overpaid and under-talented , insecure in their pretensions of independence and impartiality .
I admired the moral dimension to WikiLeaks .
Assange was rarely asked about this , yet much of his remarkable energy comes from a powerful moral sense that governments and other vested interests should not operate behind walls of secrecy .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in one of our first interviews at my home in 2010 .
What is at stake for the rest of us has long been at stake : freedom to call authority to account , freedom to challenge , to call out hypocrisy , to dissent .
The difference today is that the world ’ s imperial power , the United States , has never been as unsure of its metastatic authority as it is today .
Like a flailing rogue , it is spinning us towards a world war if we allow it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the media .
WikiLeaks , on the other hand , has allowed us to glimpse a rampant imperial march through whole societies – think of the carnage in Iraq , Afghanistan , Libya , Syria , Yemen , to name a few , the dispossession of 37 million people and the deaths of 12 million men , women and children in the ‘ war on terror ’ – most of it behind a façade of deception .
Julian Assange is a threat to these recurring horrors – that ’ s why he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of law has become an instrument of oppression , why he ought to be our collective conscience : why we all should be the threat .
The judge ’ s decision will be known on the 4th of January .
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John Pilger has watched Julian Assange’s extradition trial from the public gallery at London’s Old Bailey. He spoke with Timothy Erik Ström of Arena magazine, Australia:
Q: Having watched Julian Assange’s trial first-hand, can you describe the prevailing atmosphere in the court?
The prevailing atmosphere has been shocking. I say that without hesitation; I have sat in many courts and seldom known such a corruption of due process; this is due revenge. Putting aside the ritual associated with ‘British justice’, at times it has been evocative of a Stalinist show trial. One difference is that in the show trials, the defendant stood in the court proper. In the Assange trial, the defendant was caged behind thick glass, and had to crawl on his knees to a slit in the glass, overseen by his guard, to make contact with his lawyers. His message, whispered barely audibly through face masks, WAS then passed by post-it the length of the court to where his barristers were arguing the case against his extradition to an American hellhole.
Consider this daily routine of Julian Assange, an Australian on trial for truth-telling journalism. He was woken at five o’clock in his cell at Belmarsh prison in the bleak southern sprawl of London. The first time I saw Julian in Belmarsh, having passed through half an hour of ‘security’ checks, including a dog’s snout in my rear, I found a painfully thin figure sitting alone wearing a yellow armband. He had lost more than 10 kilos in a matter of months; his arms had no muscle. His first words were: ‘I think I am losing my mind’. Hanes Men’s Ecos... Buy New $8.88 (as of 05:31 UTC - Details)
I tried to assure him he wasn’t. His resilience and courage are formidable, but there is a limit. That was more than a year ago. In the past three weeks, in the pre-dawn, he was strip-searched, shackled, and prepared for transport to the Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey, in a truck that his partner, Stella Moris, described as an upended coffin. It had one small window; he had to stand precariously to look out. The truck and its guards were operated by Serco, one of many politically connected companies that run much of Boris Johnson’s Britain.
The journey to the Old Bailey took at least an hour and a half. That’s a minimum of three hours being jolted through snail-like traffic every day. He was led into his narrow cage at the back of the court, then look up, blinking, trying to make out faces in the public gallery through the reflection of the glass. He saw the courtly figure of his dad, John Shipton, and me, and our fists went up. Through the glass, he reached out to touch fingers with Stella, who is a lawyer and seated in the body of the court.
We were here for the ultimate of what the philosopher Guy Debord called The Society of the Spectacle: a man fighting for his life. Yet his crime is to have performed an epic public service: revealing that which we have a right to know: the lies of our governments and the crimes they commit in our name. His creation of WikiLeaks and its failsafe protection of sources revolutionised journalism, restoring it to the vision of its idealists. Edmund Burke’s notion of free journalism as a fourth estate is now a fifth estate that shines a light on those who diminish the very meaning of democracy with their criminal secrecy. That’s why his punishment is so extreme.
The sheer bias in the courts I have sat in this year and last year, with Julian in the dock, blight any notion of British justice. When thuggish police dragged him from his asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy – look closely at the photo and you’ll see he is clutching a Gore Vidal book; Assange has a political humour similar to Vidal’s – a judge gave him an outrageous 50-week sentence in a maximum-security prison for mere bail infringement. Amazon Brand - Goodthr... Buy New $35.00 (as of 05:31 UTC - Details)
For months, he was denied exercise and held in solitary confinement disguised as ‘heath care’. He once told me he strode the length of his cell, back and forth, back and forth, for his own half-marathon. In the next cell, the occupant screamed through the night. At first he was denied his reading glasses, left behind in the embassy brutality. He was denied the legal documents with which to prepare his case, and access to the prison library and the use of a basic laptop. Books sent to him by a friend, the journalist Charles Glass, himself a survivor of hostage-taking in Beirut, were returned. He could not call his American lawyers. He has been constantly medicated by the prison authorities. When I asked him what they were giving him, he couldn’t say. The governor of Belmarsh has been awarded the Order of the British Empire.
At the Old Bailey, one of the expert medical witnesses, Dr Kate Humphrey, a clinical neuropsychologist at Imperial College, London, described the damage: Julian’s intellect had gone from ‘in the superior, or more likely very superior range’ to ‘significantly below’ this optimal level, to the point where he was struggling to absorb information and ‘perform in the low average range’.
This is what the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Professor Nils Melzer, calls ‘psychological torture’, the result of a gang-like ‘mobbing’ by governments and their media shills. Some of the expert medical evidence is so shocking I have no intention of repeating it here. Suffice to say that Assange is diagnosed with autism and Asperger’s syndrome and, according to Professor Michael Kopelman, one of the world’s leading neuropsychiatrists, he suffers from ‘suicidal preoccupations’ and is likely to find a way to take his life if he is extradited to America.
James Lewis QC, America’s British prosecutor, spent the best part of his cross-examination of Professor Kopelman dismissing mental illness and its dangers as ‘malingering’. I have never heard in a modern setting such a primitive view of human frailty and vulnerability.
My own view is that if Assange is freed, he is likely to recover a substantial part of his life. He has a loving partner, devoted friends and allies and the innate strength of a principled political prisoner. He also has a wicked sense of humour. Champion Men’s A... Buy New $34.95 (as of 05:31 UTC - Details)
But that is a long way off. The moments of collusion between the judge – a Gothic-looking magistrate called Vanessa Baraitser, about whom little is known – and the prosecution acting for the Trump regime have been brazen. Until the last few days, defence arguments have been routinely dismissed. The lead prosecutor, James Lewis QC, ex SAS and currently Chief Justice of the Falklands, by and large gets what he wants, notably up to four hours to denigrate expert witnesses, while the defence’s examination is guillotined at half an hour. I have no doubt, had there been a jury, his freedom would be assured.
The dissident artist Ai Weiwei came to join us one morning in the public gallery. He noted that in China the judge’s decision would already have been made. This caused some dark ironic amusement. My companion in the gallery, the astute diarist and former British ambassador Craig Murray wrote:
I fear that all over London a very hard rain is now falling on those who for a lifetime have worked within institutions of liberal democracy that at least broadly and usually used to operate within the governance of their own professed principles. It has been clear to me from Day 1 that I am watching a charade unfold. It is not in the least a shock to me that Baraitser does not think anything beyond the written opening arguments has any effect. I have again and again reported to you that, where rulings have to be made, she has brought them into court pre-written, before hearing the arguments before her.
I strongly expect the final decision was made in this case even before opening arguments were received.
The plan of the US Government throughout has been to limit the information available to the public and limit the effective access to a wider public of what information is available. Thus we have seen the extreme restrictions on both physical and video access. A complicit mainstream media has ensured those of us who know what is happening are very few in the wider population.
There are few records of the proceedings. They are: Craig Murray’s personal blog, Joe Lauria’s live reporting on Consortium News and the World Socialist Website. American journalist Kevin Gosztola’s blog, Shadowproof, funded mostly by himself, has reported more of the trial than the major US press and TV, including CNN, combined. Amazon Essentials Men&... Buy New $18.50 (as of 05:15 UTC - Details)
In Australia, Assange’s homeland, the ‘coverage’ follows a familiar formula set overseas. The London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald, Latika Bourke, wrote this recently:
The court heard Assange became depressed during the seven years he spent in the Ecuadorian embassy where he sought political asylum to escape extradition to Sweden to answer rape and sexual assault charges.
There were no ‘rape and sexual assault charges’ in Sweden. Bourke’s lazy falsehood is not uncommon. If the Assange trial is the political trial of the century, as I believe it is, its outcome will not only seal the fate of a journalist for doing his job but intimidate the very principles of free journalism and free speech. The absence of serious mainstream reporting of the proceedings is, at the very least, self-destructive. Journalists should ask: who is next?
How shaming it all is. A decade ago, the Guardian exploited Assange’s work, claimed its profit and prizes as well as a lucrative Hollywood deal, then turned on him with venom. Throughout the Old Bailey trial, two names have been cited by the prosecution, the Guardian’s David Leigh, now retired as ‘investigations editor’ and Luke Harding, the Russiaphobe and author of a fictional Guardian ‘scoop’ that claimed Trump adviser Paul Manafort and a group of Russians visited Assange in the Ecuadorean embassy. This never happened, and the Guardian has yet to apologise. The Harding and Leigh book on Assange – written behind their subject’s back – disclosed a secret password to a WikiLeaks file that Assange had entrusted to Leigh during the Guardian’s ‘partnership’. Why the defence has not called this pair is difficult to understand.
Assange is quoted in their book declaring during a dinner at a London restaurant that he didn’t care if informants named in the leaks were harmed. Neither Harding nor Leigh was at the dinner. John Goetz, an investigations reporter with Der Spiegel, was at the dinner and testified that Assange said nothing of the kind. Incredibly, Judge Baraitser stopped Goetz actually saying this in court.
However, the defence has succeeded in demonstrating the extent to which Assange sought to protect and redact names in the files released by WikiLeaks and that no credible evidence existed of individuals harmed by the leaks. The great whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg said that Assange had personally redacted 15,000 files. The renowned New Zealand investigative journalist Nicky Hager, who worked with Assange on the Afghanistan and Iraq war leaks, described how Assange took ‘extraordinary precautions in redacting names of informants’.
Q: What are the implications of this trial’s verdict for journalism more broadly – is it an omen of things to come?
The ‘Assange effect’ is already being felt across the world. If they displease the regime in Washington, investigative journalists are liable to prosecution under the 1917 US Espionage Act; the precedent is stark. It doesn’t matter where you are. For Washington, other people’s nationality and sovereignty rarely mattered; now it does not exist. Britain has effectively surrendered its jurisdiction to Trump’s corrupt Department of Justice. In Australia, a National Security Information Act promises Kafkaesque trials for transgressors. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been raided by police and journalists’ computers taken away. The government has given unprecedented powers to intelligence officials, making journalistic whistle-blowing almost impossible. Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Assange ‘must face the music’. The perfidious cruelty of his statement is reinforced by its banality.
‘Evil’, wrote Hannah Arendt, ‘comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil’.
Q: Having followed the story of WikiLeaks closely for a decade, how has this eyewitness experience shifted your understanding of what’s at stake with Assange’s trial?
I have long been a critic of journalism as an echo of unaccountable power and a champion of those who are beacons. So, for me, the arrival of WikiLeaks was exciting; I admired the way Assange regarded the public with respect, that he was prepared to share his work with the ‘mainstream’ but not join their collusive club. This, and naked jealousy, made him enemies among the overpaid and under-talented, insecure in their pretensions of independence and impartiality.
I admired the moral dimension to WikiLeaks. Assange was rarely asked about this, yet much of his remarkable energy comes from a powerful moral sense that governments and other vested interests should not operate behind walls of secrecy. He is a democrat. He explained this in one of our first interviews at my home in 2010.
What is at stake for the rest of us has long been at stake: freedom to call authority to account, freedom to challenge, to call out hypocrisy, to dissent. The difference today is that the world’s imperial power, the United States, has never been as unsure of its metastatic authority as it is today. Like a flailing rogue, it is spinning us towards a world war if we allow it. Little of this menace is reflected in the media.
WikiLeaks, on the other hand, has allowed us to glimpse a rampant imperial march through whole societies – think of the carnage in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, to name a few, the dispossession of 37 million people and the deaths of 12 million men, women and children in the ‘war on terror’ – most of it behind a façade of deception.
Julian Assange is a threat to these recurring horrors – that’s why he is being persecuted, why a court of law has become an instrument of oppression, why he ought to be our collective conscience: why we all should be the threat.
The judge’s decision will be known on the 4th of January.
Reprinted with the author’s permission.
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Ol ’ White Joe Biden showed up last night after all , along with an executive officer of government known here as the Golden Golem of Greatness , a.k.a .
President Donald Trump .
Mr. Trump demonstrated that he is not a politician while Mr. Biden proved that a politician is exactly what he is… or was .
Mr. Trump went mad dog from the start , suggesting that either he was poorly prepared by his staff , or he was so pissed off after four years of unsporting ( and likely illegal ) harassment from the press , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that he could not control his temper .
It came off as un-presidential .
That might turn out to be not the detriment it seemed — with conventional politics in such disfavor — but the spectacle was pretty hard to watch .
Mr. Biden gave a fairly standard performance of a presidential candidate in a debate , but that ’ s all it was since he managed to contradict or renounce most of his party ’ s platform as well as his own previous policy utterances , such as whether or not he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Obsession : Inside the ... York , Byron Buy New $ 28.99 And then there was “ moderator ” Mike Wallace who frequently flew to Mr. Biden ’ s rescue when the Democrat got into a jam .
For instance , after introducing the issue of The New York Times ’ s sketchy reporting of the president ’ s taxes , Mr. Wallace halted any discussion of the Biden family ’ s awesome income stream from Ukraine , China , and Russia , amounting to many millions of dollars , during his terms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ denied that his son , Hunter , had been dishonorably discharged from the Navy for drug use .
If Mr. Biden was stoked on amphetamines , someone should have slipped half a milligram of Xanax into the president ’ s pre-debate diet Coke .
Had Mr. Trump remained calm and self-possessed , there would have been a high probability of Mr. Biden simply talking himself into a muddle of verbal applesauce by the halfway mark .
Instead , it was the president who was so keyed-up , he could barely articulate even easy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his “ fine people ” remark around the Charlottesville Riot… the gross dereliction of Democratic Party mayors and governors who support and abet riot , looting , arson , and murder… Mr. Biden ’ s own confused pronouncements about further Covid-19 lock-downs and calling Mr. Trump ’ s February halt of Chinese air traffic “ racist ” … the president ’ s shut-down last week of the insane “ critical race theory ” trainings in government agencies and companies doing business with them… the arrant attempt to sow fraud and disorder with mail-in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Obama Team colluding with Hillary Clinton ’ s RussiaGate set-up from the start….The president blew those opportunities to be clear when Mr. Wallace was not stepping on him .
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These are considered normal and okay in these opening innings of the long emergency .
Mr. Trump ’ s own bitter exasperation is of a piece with all that .
I have no idea how it will play with the voters .
My own position remains as prior the debate : that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ threat to the country than a fiercely pissed off Donald Trump .
It remains to be seen how many voters are equally pissed off at the Democratic Party as represented by its untoward candidate for president , Mr. Biden , the ghost of the Obama administration .
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Ol’ White Joe Biden showed up last night after all, along with an executive officer of government known here as the Golden Golem of Greatness, a.k.a. President Donald Trump. Mr. Trump demonstrated that he is not a politician while Mr. Biden proved that a politician is exactly what he is… or was.
Mr. Trump went mad dog from the start, suggesting that either he was poorly prepared by his staff, or he was so pissed off after four years of unsporting (and likely illegal) harassment from the press, the elected opposition, and the permanent bureaucracy that he could not control his temper. It came off as un-presidential. That might turn out to be not the detriment it seemed — with conventional politics in such disfavor — but the spectacle was pretty hard to watch. Mr. Biden gave a fairly standard performance of a presidential candidate in a debate, but that’s all it was since he managed to contradict or renounce most of his party’s platform as well as his own previous policy utterances, such as whether or not he backed the “Green New Deal.” Obsession: Inside the ... York, Byron Buy New $28.99 (as of 03:14 UTC - Details)
And then there was “moderator” Mike Wallace who frequently flew to Mr. Biden’s rescue when the Democrat got into a jam. For instance, after introducing the issue of The New York Times’s sketchy reporting of the president’s taxes, Mr. Wallace halted any discussion of the Biden family’s awesome income stream from Ukraine, China, and Russia, amounting to many millions of dollars, during his terms as vice-president. Or when Mr. Biden denied that his son, Hunter, had been dishonorably discharged from the Navy for drug use.
If Mr. Biden was stoked on amphetamines, someone should have slipped half a milligram of Xanax into the president’s pre-debate diet Coke. Had Mr. Trump remained calm and self-possessed, there would have been a high probability of Mr. Biden simply talking himself into a muddle of verbal applesauce by the halfway mark. Instead, it was the president who was so keyed-up, he could barely articulate even easy debating points — the long-proven lie about his “fine people” remark around the Charlottesville Riot… the gross dereliction of Democratic Party mayors and governors who support and abet riot, looting, arson, and murder… Mr. Biden’s own confused pronouncements about further Covid-19 lock-downs and calling Mr. Trump’s February halt of Chinese air traffic “racist”… the president’s shut-down last week of the insane “critical race theory” trainings in government agencies and companies doing business with them… the arrant attempt to sow fraud and disorder with mail-in voting… and the practically breaking news of the Obama Team colluding with Hillary Clinton’s RussiaGate set-up from the start….The president blew those opportunities to be clear when Mr. Wallace was not stepping on him. The Case for Trump Hanson, Victor Davis Best Price: $13.41 Buy New $12.19 (as of 03:21 UTC - Details)
Few failed to notice that the tenor of the debate matched exactly the distempered public mood of the day. Mr. Trump’s wild swerves of choler are a match for actions like Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer’s peevish refusal to even meet with SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett or Woke Boston Univeristy Prof. Ibram X. Kendi’s psychotic lessons on How to Be an Antiracist (by persecuting white people) or the loosing of joint Antifa / BLM mobs on small businesses and private homes across America. These are considered normal and okay in these opening innings of the long emergency. Mr. Trump’s own bitter exasperation is of a piece with all that.
I have no idea how it will play with the voters. My own position remains as prior the debate: that the Democratic Party is an even greater threat to the country than a fiercely pissed off Donald Trump. It remains to be seen how many voters are equally pissed off at the Democratic Party as represented by its untoward candidate for president, Mr. Biden, the ghost of the Obama administration.
Reprinted with permission from Kunstler.com.
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