lewrockwell--2020-08-07--Gold at $2k+. So Why the Fuss?

Gold at $2k+. So Why the Fuss?

There appears to be no way out for the bullion banks deteriorating $ 53bn short gold futures positions ( $ 38bn net ) on Comex .
An earlier attempt between January and March to regain control over paper gold markets has backfired on the bullion banks .
Unallocated gold account holders with LBMA member banks will shortly discover that that market is trading on vapour .
According to the Bank for International Settlements , at the end of last year LBMA gold positions , the vast majority being unallocated , totalled $ 512bn — the London Mythical Bullion Market is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to come .
An awful lot of gold bulls are going to be disappointed when their unallocated bullion bank holdings turn to dust in the coming months — perhaps it ’ s a matter of a few weeks , perhaps only days — and synthetic ETFs will also blow up .
The systemic demolition of paper gold and silver markets is a predictable catastrophe in the course of the collapse of fiat money ’ s purchasing power , for which the evidence is mounting .
It is set to drive gold and silver @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , fiat currencies much lower .
This is only the initial catalysing phase in the rapidly approaching death of fiat currencies .
• • The rescue attempt has already failed • The financial system depends entirely on inflationary fiat Measured in dollars , the current bull market for gold started in December 2015 , since when the price in dollars has almost doubled .
Other than the odd headline when gold exceeded its previous September 2011 high of $ 1920 , only gold bugs seem to be excited .
But in our modern @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has moved on from the days when gold operated as a monetary standard , it is viewed as an anachronism ; a pet rock , as Jason Zweig of the Wall Street Journal called it in 2015 , only a few months before this bull market commenced .
Despite almost doubling , Zweig ’ s view of gold is still mainstream .
His comment follows the spirit of today ’ s macroeconomic hero , John Maynard Keynes , who called the gold standard a barbaric relic in his 1924 Tract on Monetary Reform @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the back of his 1936 General Theory , and whether you profess to be Keynesian or not , as an investor you will almost certainly kowtow to macroeconomics .
It has been well-nigh impossible to have a successful career in the investment industry unless you subscribed to inflationist Keynesian theories .
You are required to substitute the economics of aggregates for those of the human action of individuals , upon which classical economics was based .
And with it , you must unquestionably accept the state theory of money .
Well , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Keynesian fallacy ; the destruction of macroeconomics in a systemic failure centred on paper markets for gold and silver .
The rescue attempt has already failed You may have missed the establishment ’ s last-ditch attempt earlier this year to save itself .
Figure 1 below shows its failure .
Comex open interest peaked in January , when the gold contract was being overwhelmed by global demand .
Never before had open interest been this high : the previous all-time record had been in July 2016 , when it hit 658,000 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ market had recovered strongly from a deeply oversold condition , the price rallying from the December low in our headline chart , from $ 1049 to $ 1380 .
That was successfully crushed with open interest taken down to 392,000 and the gold price to $ 1120 .
However , the take-down which commenced in earnest in January this year did not succeed .
The Last Gold Rushu202 ... Haynes , Bill Buy New $ 28.00 There is no question it was a coordinated attempt by the bullion bank establishment to contain a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 799,541 contracts on 15 January open interest fell to 553,030 on 23 March .
Initially , the gold price continued rising to $ 1680 on 9 March , but by 18 March it finally reacted , falling to $ 1471 in only nine trading sessions .
But while open interest went on to fall to 470,000 in early-June , the price exploded higher with unprecedented price premiums developing on Comex from 23 March onwards .
The bullion banks ’ short exposure net of longs on Comex in a rising market had risen to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 53.5bn before the attempt to drive the market lower .
Today , the respective figures are $ 38.3 and $ 53bn .
The failure of this well-worn tactic precludes it from being used again .
We look at the seriousness of the current position on Comex and the LBMA later in this article .
The financial system depends entirely on inflationary fiat In the investment industry it is monetary debasement that gives you your living .
For the rise in the general level of prices of financial assets , measured by various @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reflection of the loss of purchasing power of your state ’ s currency .
The world has been enjoying the phenomenon particularly from the mid-1970s , four years after the last vestiges of Keynes ’ s barbarous relic , when President Nixon removed pet rocks from the monetary scene .
A continual decline in the dollar ’ s purchasing power ensued .
Apart from the occasional hiccup , from 1982 when the S & P500 Index rose from 291.34 to today ’ s 3,270 the general public has appeared to make money .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to convincingly challenge , being populated by group-thinkers believing their stock and property gains have been the consequence of their individual financial acumens .
But one of those periodic hiccups is now upon us , threatening to be more disruptive than anything seen hitherto in our lifetimes , which the macroeconomists in the central banks and governments tell us will require virtually unlimited inflationary finance to resolve .
The distinction between unlimited fiat currency being issued by the state compared with gold is important , because gold was always the money of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disciplines are limiting .
History has always seen the right to issue money taken away from the failures of kings , emperors and governments and handed back to the people , so the empirical evidence is that it will happen again .
But macroeconomists argue that their science is an advance on former economic science , so what went before is irrelevant .
Therefore , so is gold .
For these reasons , the investment industry is not attuned to gold .
Physical gold is not even a regulated investment , which means @ @ @ @ @ @ @ funds they license to hold physical metal beyond , if permitted at all , a small exposure .
The uncontentious position , taken by nearly all compliance officers , is for investment managers not to hold any .
But besides mining stocks , today there are exchange-traded funds that do offer some investment exposure to gold for fund managers .
Assuming , that is , they are willing to contradict the Keynesian views of their colleagues .
But even then , the context is wrong .
Gold is not an investment but money @ @ @ @ @ @ @ last hundred years by the steady encroachment of gold substitutes evolving into pure unbacked fiat .
It is no one ’ s liability , unlike the dollar , for instance , backed only by the full faith and credit in the Donald — or will it be Joe Biden .
In the case of the euro or the yen , with negative interest rates and having banking systems arguably on the point of collapse , their central banks are similarly committed to accelerating debauchment of their currencies .
Even semi-official gold bugs , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gold as a portfolio investment , with its income arising from the securitisation of gold through the GLD ETF .
An audience of professional investment managers , which subsists on an intellectual diet of macroeconomics , does not readily accept that gold is money , and if the World Gold Council argued that it is money and not an investment , they would doubtless fail to attract institutional investors .
But an understanding that gold is money is a vital distinction .
When you regard it as an investment , you expect to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
You assume your government ’ s currency will always have the objective transactional value and gold is the subjective variable .
Accounting conventions force investment managers and advisors to ignore the reality that it is the currency failing and not the price of gold rising .
Even the overwhelming majority of gold bugs cheer a rising gold price , instinctively treating it as an investment which rises in value , measured in fiat .
When Money Dies : The N ... Adam Fergusson Best Price : $ 1.97 Buy New $ 10.08 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ concept to understand when it comes to gold .
If the wider public begins to understand that measured in goods , the state ’ s currency is no longer fit for an objective role in day to day transactions , it will be doomed .
For that marks the point where fiat money begins to be discarded , and the public then ultimately decides what is its preferred money .
That is where all this is going .
In recent years , suggestions that a monetary reset , centred on the dollar , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been made by a number of observers .
Central bank research into blockchain solutions have added to this speculation , but a recent paper by the IMF shows there is no consensus in central banks as to how and for what purpose they would use digital currencies — the central banking version of cryptocurrencies .
[ i ] In any event , it is likely to take too long for a central bank digital currency to be implemented , given the speed with which monetary events are now unfolding .
Empirical evidence suggests @ @ @ @ @ @ @ collapse happens in a matter of months .
Today , the Fed has tightly bonded the future of financial asset values to the dollar — one goes and they both go .
The credibility behind financial asset values is already stretched to the limit , and the inevitable collapse , taking fiat money with it , is likely to be sudden .
As a side note , the last time a collapse in financial assets took the currency down in similar circumstances was exactly three hundred years ago — in 1720 when John @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Interestingly , Richard Cantillon made his second fortune by shorting Law ’ s currency , the livre , and not his shares .
His first fortune was made acting as a banker lending money to wealthy speculators taking in Mississippi shares as collateral , which he then promptly sold , pocketing the proceeds .
An attempt at a currency reset , with or without blockchains , can only be contemplated after the public has begun to abandon existing currencies .
But the speed with which events unfurl when fiat currencies die precludes advance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to produce a new fiat money after the existing one has failed will also fail — rapidly .
The idea that the state can take control of the valuation of a new currency in a fiat reset in order to make it durable is the ultimate conceit of macroeconomics , the denial of personal freedom to make choices in favour of the management of the aggregate .
One of the specious arguments that arises time and again is that inflation reduces the true burden of debt .
This is true for existing debt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for government indebtedness fail to understand that it also increases the cost of the government ’ s future debt .
And while it similarly reduces the burden on private sector debtors , by destroying savings inflation leads to capital starvation and hampers any recovery .
It is possible , and desirable , that the ills of fiat currencies will be properly addressed .
But that will require an abandonment of inflationism , and a commitment to balanced budgets .
It requires governments to rein in their spending , reducing their role in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ both regulatory and mandated by law have to be axed , and full responsibility for their actions handed back to the people .
And only then , sound money , preventing governments from reverting to their inflationary ways , can be successfully introduced .
A Generation of Sociop ... Gibney , Bruce Cannon Best Price : $ 4.19 Buy New $ 13.47 Assuming all this is possible , the only sound money is one with a track record and where governments have no control over it as a medium of exchange .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will have no alternative to turning their currencies into substitutes fully convertible into gold , with silver in a subsidiary coinage role .
Coins in both metals must be freely available on demand from all banks at the fixed rate of exchange for gold , and for silver equating to its monetary value .
[ ii ] The circulation of gold and silver coins ensures the public fully understands their monetary role , thereby deterring future governments from inflationary policies .
Bank credit must also be backed by gold , and not expanded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But the pervasive and mistaken beliefs in macroeconomics appear to be an unsurmountable impediment to an orderly change towards sound money .
Imposing their fervent denial of economic reality , macroeconomists are in charge of both economic and monetary policy in America , Europe and Japan — and by extension those of almost all other nations .
It is not even certain that a currency collapse will dislodge them from their position of power , prolonging the chaos that will ensue .
Talk of a monetary reset only makes any sense if those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doing .
And one thing will become immediately clear : the Americans , who stand to lose power over global affairs , will be the most reluctant of all nations to accept that the days of its hegemonic currency are numbered and that a return to a credible gold standard is the only solution .
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There appears to be no way out for the bullion banks deteriorating $53bn short gold futures positions ($38bn net) on Comex. An earlier attempt between January and March to regain control over paper gold markets has backfired on the bullion banks.
Unallocated gold account holders with LBMA member banks will shortly discover that that market is trading on vapour. According to the Bank for International Settlements, at the end of last year LBMA gold positions, the vast majority being unallocated, totalled $512bn — the London Mythical Bullion Market is a more appropriate description for the surprise to come.
An awful lot of gold bulls are going to be disappointed when their unallocated bullion bank holdings turn to dust in the coming months — perhaps it’s a matter of a few weeks, perhaps only days — and synthetic ETFs will also blow up. The systemic demolition of paper gold and silver markets is a predictable catastrophe in the course of the collapse of fiat money’s purchasing power, for which the evidence is mounting. It is set to drive gold and silver much higher, or more correctly put, fiat currencies much lower.
This is only the initial catalysing phase in the rapidly approaching death of fiat currencies.
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Introduction 2020 1/10 oz Gold Amer... Check Amazon for Pricing. The rescue attempt has already failed The financial system depends entirely on inflationary fiat Forget currency resets Transition pains on Comex London’s hidden liabilities Conclusion
Introduction
Measured in dollars, the current bull market for gold started in December 2015, since when the price in dollars has almost doubled. Other than the odd headline when gold exceeded its previous September 2011 high of $1920, only gold bugs seem to be excited. But in our modern macroeconomic world of government-issued currencies, which has moved on from the days when gold operated as a monetary standard, it is viewed as an anachronism; a pet rock, as Jason Zweig of the Wall Street Journal called it in 2015, only a few months before this bull market commenced.
Despite almost doubling, Zweig’s view of gold is still mainstream. His comment follows the spirit of today’s macroeconomic hero, John Maynard Keynes, who called the gold standard a barbaric relic in his 1924 Tract on Monetary Reform. Keynes went on to invent macroeconomics on the back of his 1936 General Theory, and whether you profess to be Keynesian or not, as an investor you will almost certainly kowtow to macroeconomics. It has been well-nigh impossible to have a successful career in the investment industry unless you subscribed to inflationist Keynesian theories. You are required to substitute the economics of aggregates for those of the human action of individuals, upon which classical economics was based. And with it, you must unquestionably accept the state theory of money.
Well, we are now witnessing the cataclysmic ending of the Keynesian fallacy; the destruction of macroeconomics in a systemic failure centred on paper markets for gold and silver.
The rescue attempt has already failed
You may have missed the establishment’s last-ditch attempt earlier this year to save itself. Figure 1 below shows its failure.
Comex open interest peaked in January, when the gold contract was being overwhelmed by global demand. Never before had open interest been this high: the previous all-time record had been in July 2016, when it hit 658,000 contracts. At that time, the market had recovered strongly from a deeply oversold condition, the price rallying from the December low in our headline chart, from $1049 to $1380. That was successfully crushed with open interest taken down to 392,000 and the gold price to $1120. However, the take-down which commenced in earnest in January this year did not succeed. The Last Gold Rushu202... Haynes, Bill Buy New $28.00 (as of 04:04 UTC - Details)
There is no question it was a coordinated attempt by the bullion bank establishment to contain a developing crisis. From its peak of 799,541 contracts on 15 January open interest fell to 553,030 on 23 March. Initially, the gold price continued rising to $1680 on 9 March, but by 18 March it finally reacted, falling to $1471 in only nine trading sessions. But while open interest went on to fall to 470,000 in early-June, the price exploded higher with unprecedented price premiums developing on Comex from 23 March onwards. The bullion banks’ short exposure net of longs on Comex in a rising market had risen to $35bn and the gross position was $53.5bn before the attempt to drive the market lower. Today, the respective figures are $38.3 and $53bn.
The failure of this well-worn tactic precludes it from being used again. We look at the seriousness of the current position on Comex and the LBMA later in this article.
The financial system depends entirely on inflationary fiat
In the investment industry it is monetary debasement that gives you your living. For the rise in the general level of prices of financial assets, measured by various indices, is little more than a reflection of the loss of purchasing power of your state’s currency. The world has been enjoying the phenomenon particularly from the mid-1970s, four years after the last vestiges of Keynes’s barbarous relic, when President Nixon removed pet rocks from the monetary scene. A continual decline in the dollar’s purchasing power ensued. Apart from the occasional hiccup, from 1982 when the S&P500 Index rose from 291.34 to today’s 3,270 the general public has appeared to make money.
It has not been an easy environment to convincingly challenge, being populated by group-thinkers believing their stock and property gains have been the consequence of their individual financial acumens. But one of those periodic hiccups is now upon us, threatening to be more disruptive than anything seen hitherto in our lifetimes, which the macroeconomists in the central banks and governments tell us will require virtually unlimited inflationary finance to resolve.
The distinction between unlimited fiat currency being issued by the state compared with gold is important, because gold was always the money of the people, disliked by governments because its disciplines are limiting. History has always seen the right to issue money taken away from the failures of kings, emperors and governments and handed back to the people, so the empirical evidence is that it will happen again. But macroeconomists argue that their science is an advance on former economic science, so what went before is irrelevant. Therefore, so is gold.
For these reasons, the investment industry is not attuned to gold. Physical gold is not even a regulated investment, which means that government regulators do not permit the funds they license to hold physical metal beyond, if permitted at all, a small exposure. The uncontentious position, taken by nearly all compliance officers, is for investment managers not to hold any. But besides mining stocks, today there are exchange-traded funds that do offer some investment exposure to gold for fund managers. Assuming, that is, they are willing to contradict the Keynesian views of their colleagues.
But even then, the context is wrong. Gold is not an investment but money, driven out of circulation over the last hundred years by the steady encroachment of gold substitutes evolving into pure unbacked fiat. It is no one’s liability, unlike the dollar, for instance, backed only by the full faith and credit in the Donald — or will it be Joe Biden. In the case of the euro or the yen, with negative interest rates and having banking systems arguably on the point of collapse, their central banks are similarly committed to accelerating debauchment of their currencies.
Even semi-official gold bugs, like the World Gold Council, promote gold as a portfolio investment, with its income arising from the securitisation of gold through the GLD ETF. An audience of professional investment managers, which subsists on an intellectual diet of macroeconomics, does not readily accept that gold is money, and if the World Gold Council argued that it is money and not an investment, they would doubtless fail to attract institutional investors.
But an understanding that gold is money is a vital distinction. When you regard it as an investment, you expect to sell it when its positive trend ends. You assume your government’s currency will always have the objective transactional value and gold is the subjective variable. Accounting conventions force investment managers and advisors to ignore the reality that it is the currency failing and not the price of gold rising. Even the overwhelming majority of gold bugs cheer a rising gold price, instinctively treating it as an investment which rises in value, measured in fiat. When Money Dies: The N... Adam Fergusson Best Price: $1.97 Buy New $10.08 (as of 10:10 UTC - Details)
The objective/subjective confusion is the most important concept to understand when it comes to gold. If the wider public begins to understand that measured in goods, the state’s currency is no longer fit for an objective role in day to day transactions, it will be doomed. For that marks the point where fiat money begins to be discarded, and the public then ultimately decides what is its preferred money. That is where all this is going.
Forget currency resets
In recent years, suggestions that a monetary reset, centred on the dollar, is planned by the monetary authorities have been made by a number of observers. Central bank research into blockchain solutions have added to this speculation, but a recent paper by the IMF shows there is no consensus in central banks as to how and for what purpose they would use digital currencies — the central banking version of cryptocurrencies.[i]
In any event, it is likely to take too long for a central bank digital currency to be implemented, given the speed with which monetary events are now unfolding. Empirical evidence suggests that once initiated, a fiat currency collapse happens in a matter of months. Today, the Fed has tightly bonded the future of financial asset values to the dollar — one goes and they both go. The credibility behind financial asset values is already stretched to the limit, and the inevitable collapse, taking fiat money with it, is likely to be sudden.
As a side note, the last time a collapse in financial assets took the currency down in similar circumstances was exactly three hundred years ago — in 1720 when John Law’s Mississippi bubble failed. Interestingly, Richard Cantillon made his second fortune by shorting Law’s currency, the livre, and not his shares. His first fortune was made acting as a banker lending money to wealthy speculators taking in Mississippi shares as collateral, which he then promptly sold, pocketing the proceeds.
An attempt at a currency reset, with or without blockchains, can only be contemplated after the public has begun to abandon existing currencies. But the speed with which events unfurl when fiat currencies die precludes advance planning of currency replacements. Any attempt to produce a new fiat money after the existing one has failed will also fail — rapidly. The idea that the state can take control of the valuation of a new currency in a fiat reset in order to make it durable is the ultimate conceit of macroeconomics, the denial of personal freedom to make choices in favour of the management of the aggregate.
One of the specious arguments that arises time and again is that inflation reduces the true burden of debt. This is true for existing debt, but its advocates as a remedy for government indebtedness fail to understand that it also increases the cost of the government’s future debt. And while it similarly reduces the burden on private sector debtors, by destroying savings inflation leads to capital starvation and hampers any recovery.
It is possible, and desirable, that the ills of fiat currencies will be properly addressed. But that will require an abandonment of inflationism, and a commitment to balanced budgets. It requires governments to rein in their spending, reducing their role in the economies they oversee. Statist interventions, both regulatory and mandated by law have to be axed, and full responsibility for their actions handed back to the people. And only then, sound money, preventing governments from reverting to their inflationary ways, can be successfully introduced.
A Generation of Sociop... Gibney, Bruce Cannon Best Price: $4.19 Buy New $13.47 (as of 04:54 UTC - Details) Assuming all this is possible, the only sound money is one with a track record and where governments have no control over it as a medium of exchange. In other words, metallic money. They will have no alternative to turning their currencies into substitutes fully convertible into gold, with silver in a subsidiary coinage role. Coins in both metals must be freely available on demand from all banks at the fixed rate of exchange for gold, and for silver equating to its monetary value.[ii] The circulation of gold and silver coins ensures the public fully understands their monetary role, thereby deterring future governments from inflationary policies. Bank credit must also be backed by gold, and not expanded by banks out of thin air.
But the pervasive and mistaken beliefs in macroeconomics appear to be an unsurmountable impediment to an orderly change towards sound money. Imposing their fervent denial of economic reality, macroeconomists are in charge of both economic and monetary policy in America, Europe and Japan — and by extension those of almost all other nations. It is not even certain that a currency collapse will dislodge them from their position of power, prolonging the chaos that will ensue.
Talk of a monetary reset only makes any sense if those doing the resetting understand what they are doing. And one thing will become immediately clear: the Americans, who stand to lose power over global affairs, will be the most reluctant of all nations to accept that the days of its hegemonic currency are numbered and that a return to a credible gold standard is the only solution.
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lewrockwell--2020-08-07--The US Bombed Japan in 1945 To Demonstrate Its Power to the USSR

As the world reflects on the decision by the US to drop two atomic bombs on Japan at the end of World War II , the reality is that the US nuclear enterprise remains the greatest threat to world peace .
Seventy-five years ago this week , two American B-29 ‘ Superfortress ’ bombers departed Tinian Island , in the northernmost part of the Mariana Islands , some 1,500 miles south of Tokyo , armed with the world ’ s newest and most horrific weapon : the atomic bomb .
On August 6 , a B-29 nicknamed the ‘ Enola @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 64 kilograms of highly enriched uranium over the Japanese city of Hiroshima .
The bomb , nicknamed ‘ Little Boy , ’ detonated with the force of 15 kilotons of TNT .
At least 66,000 people were killed outright , with another 69,000 wounded , many of whom subsequently died of their injuries .
Two days later a second B-29 , nicknamed the ‘ Bockscar , ’ dropped a bomb containing 6.4 kilograms of plutonium over the city of Nagasaki .
This weapon , nicknamed ‘ Fat Man , ’ detonated with a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 39,000 Japanese outright and wounding another 25,000 , most of whom , like those injured in Hiroshima , later died from their wounds .
SCORPION KING : America ... Ritter , Scott Best Price : $ 22.80 Buy New $ 22.82 American historians have struggled with the morality of dropping weapons that could destroy a city and its population in one mighty blast .
Over the years , a consensus has been reached that justifies the horror of using the atomic bomb on the grounds that it helped shorten the war with Japan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hundreds of thousands of American lives that would have been lost in any invasion of the main Japanese islands , along with the lives of millions of Japanese , who would have died defending their homeland .
The problem with this narrative is that it provides an inaccurate picture of what really transpired .
Certainly , the math regarding expected casualties in the case of an invasion of Japan is factually accurate , as far as estimates go .
However , the reality was that Japan was on the cusp of surrendering and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ replicating the post-war arrangement eventually reached by General MacArthur ( the retention of the Imperial family , and a modicum of Japanese self-governance ) , there is every reason to believe that the Japanese would have surrendered without the US resorting to a costly campaign of conquest .
The fact of the matter is Truman ’ s inner circle , including Secretary of State James Byrnes and Secretary of War Henry Stimson , were in favor of dropping the atomic bomb on Japanese cities not so much because it would shorten the current @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it would help deter a future war with the Soviet Union .
Byrnes believed that “ Russia might be more manageable ” in a post-war reality shaped not by the theoretical possibility of an atomic bomb , but the demonstrated destructive capacity of the new weapon .
As General Leslie Groves , the military director of the Manhattan Project that produced the two American bombs , relayed to the scientists involved , “ the whole purpose of this project was to subdue the Russians.
” This distinction is critical to understanding the role @ @ @ @ @ @ @ posture and policy today .
Doctrine , like organizations and people , are heavily influenced by the circumstances of their birth .
There is a huge distinction between the calculation required to justify using a weapon for the purpose of shortening a war and saving lives , and that used to seek to intimidate a potential future opponent by demonstrating the destructive capability of a weapon through the annihilation of two cities , and their respective populations , that otherwise need not have been targeted for destruction .
The Bomb : Presidents , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 17.00 Americans like to embrace the narrative of the use of the two atomic bombs that targeted Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a perverse act of humanitarianism – we had to kill hundreds of thousands in order to save millions .
Seen in this light , the continued possession of nuclear weapons by the United States is a necessary evil , as their existence helps prevent , through deterrence , the future employment of these terrible weapons of mass destruction .
But when viewed through a lens that reflects the reality of the genesis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was a force of intimidation the power of which had to be demonstrated through the murder of hundreds of thousands of people , most of whom were civilians who otherwise would have survived – the atomic bomb and its progeny were no longer a necessary evil , but rather pure evil personified .
The United States has long struggled with the need to balance the notion of ‘ war made easy ’ through the existence of nuclear weapons and the temptation to use them that such a philosophy promotes , and the harsh @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other nuclear powers should it be inclined to use them .
The fact that , over the years , the US has been tempted to use nuclear weapons to resolve difficult non-nuclear conflicts ( Korea , Vietnam , and Iraq come to mind ) only underscores the reality that intimidation , and not deterrence , is their principal value .
The fact that the US continues to design and deploy nuclear weapons based on their ‘ usability ’ should send a chill down the neck of every American citizen , and indeed of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ world .
This is especially so now , given the current ambivalence of the US to the kind of arms control that previously helped reduce the risk of inadvertent nuclear conflict .
In the past 20 years , the US has withdrawn from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force Treaty , and is on the cusp of allowing the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty to expire without a replacement .
Bomb : The Race to Buil ... Sheinkin , Steve Best Price : $ 4.22 Buy New $ 3.83 Instead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arms control , the US seems focused on flexing its muscle through the deployment of new ‘ small yield ’ warheads on submarine-launched ballistic missiles ( SLBMs ) .
It ’ s also ‘ up-warheading ’ and flight-testing Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles armed with three multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles – despite the fact the operational Minuteman III force is deployed with only a single warhead .
American politicians and military planners may seek to mollify a worried world by insisting that these actions , and others like it , are meant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the US nuclear enterprise .
But the world should not be fooled .
Seventy-five years ago , the United States murdered hundreds of thousands of Japanese for the sole purpose of seeking to intimidate Russia .
A recent exercise involving the newly deployed ‘ low-yield ’ SLBM , in which the Secretary of Defense practiced the weapons-release procedures in a scenario involving the targeting of Russian forces in Europe , must be viewed in the shadow of this history .
Intimidation , not deterrence , was , is and always will be the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arsenal .
Like any schoolyard bully , the concern isn ’ t if the US will use these weapons , but when .
The statements , views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT .

As the world reflects on the decision by the US to drop two atomic bombs on Japan at the end of World War II, the reality is that the US nuclear enterprise remains the greatest threat to world peace.
Seventy-five years ago this week, two American B-29 ‘Superfortress’ bombers departed Tinian Island, in the northernmost part of the Mariana Islands, some 1,500 miles south of Tokyo, armed with the world’s newest and most horrific weapon: the atomic bomb. On August 6, a B-29 nicknamed the ‘Enola Gay’ dropped a single bomb containing 64 kilograms of highly enriched uranium over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb, nicknamed ‘Little Boy,’ detonated with the force of 15 kilotons of TNT. At least 66,000 people were killed outright, with another 69,000 wounded, many of whom subsequently died of their injuries.
Two days later a second B-29, nicknamed the ‘Bockscar,’ dropped a bomb containing 6.4 kilograms of plutonium over the city of Nagasaki. This weapon, nicknamed ‘Fat Man,’ detonated with a force of 21 kilotons, killing some 39,000 Japanese outright and wounding another 25,000, most of whom, like those injured in Hiroshima, later died from their wounds.
SCORPION KING: America... Ritter, Scott Best Price: $22.80 Buy New $22.82 (as of 06:04 UTC - Details) American historians have struggled with the morality of dropping weapons that could destroy a city and its population in one mighty blast. Over the years, a consensus has been reached that justifies the horror of using the atomic bomb on the grounds that it helped shorten the war with Japan and, in doing so, saved hundreds of thousands of American lives that would have been lost in any invasion of the main Japanese islands, along with the lives of millions of Japanese, who would have died defending their homeland.
The problem with this narrative is that it provides an inaccurate picture of what really transpired. Certainly, the math regarding expected casualties in the case of an invasion of Japan is factually accurate, as far as estimates go. However, the reality was that Japan was on the cusp of surrendering and, had the US offered conditional terms replicating the post-war arrangement eventually reached by General MacArthur (the retention of the Imperial family, and a modicum of Japanese self-governance), there is every reason to believe that the Japanese would have surrendered without the US resorting to a costly campaign of conquest.
The fact of the matter is Truman’s inner circle, including Secretary of State James Byrnes and Secretary of War Henry Stimson, were in favor of dropping the atomic bomb on Japanese cities not so much because it would shorten the current war with Japan, but primarily because it would help deter a future war with the Soviet Union.
Byrnes believed that “Russia might be more manageable” in a post-war reality shaped not by the theoretical possibility of an atomic bomb, but the demonstrated destructive capacity of the new weapon. As General Leslie Groves, the military director of the Manhattan Project that produced the two American bombs, relayed to the scientists involved, “the whole purpose of this project was to subdue the Russians.”
This distinction is critical to understanding the role played by nuclear weapons in American nuclear posture and policy today. Doctrine, like organizations and people, are heavily influenced by the circumstances of their birth. There is a huge distinction between the calculation required to justify using a weapon for the purpose of shortening a war and saving lives, and that used to seek to intimidate a potential future opponent by demonstrating the destructive capability of a weapon through the annihilation of two cities, and their respective populations, that otherwise need not have been targeted for destruction. The Bomb: Presidents, ... Kaplan, Fred Buy New $17.00 (as of 06:04 UTC - Details)
Americans like to embrace the narrative of the use of the two atomic bombs that targeted Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a perverse act of humanitarianism – we had to kill hundreds of thousands in order to save millions. Seen in this light, the continued possession of nuclear weapons by the United States is a necessary evil, as their existence helps prevent, through deterrence, the future employment of these terrible weapons of mass destruction.
But when viewed through a lens that reflects the reality of the genesis of the atomic bomb – that it was a force of intimidation the power of which had to be demonstrated through the murder of hundreds of thousands of people, most of whom were civilians who otherwise would have survived – the atomic bomb and its progeny were no longer a necessary evil, but rather pure evil personified.
The United States has long struggled with the need to balance the notion of ‘war made easy’ through the existence of nuclear weapons and the temptation to use them that such a philosophy promotes, and the harsh reality of retaliation at the hands of other nuclear powers should it be inclined to use them. The fact that, over the years, the US has been tempted to use nuclear weapons to resolve difficult non-nuclear conflicts (Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq come to mind) only underscores the reality that intimidation, and not deterrence, is their principal value.
The fact that the US continues to design and deploy nuclear weapons based on their ‘usability’ should send a chill down the neck of every American citizen, and indeed of the neck of every citizen of the world. This is especially so now, given the current ambivalence of the US to the kind of arms control that previously helped reduce the risk of inadvertent nuclear conflict. In the past 20 years, the US has withdrawn from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force Treaty, and is on the cusp of allowing the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty to expire without a replacement.
Bomb: The Race to Buil... Sheinkin, Steve Best Price: $4.22 Buy New $3.83 (as of 06:04 UTC - Details) Instead of doubling down on trying to revive arms control, the US seems focused on flexing its muscle through the deployment of new ‘small yield’ warheads on submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs). It’s also ‘up-warheading’ and flight-testing Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles armed with three multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles – despite the fact the operational Minuteman III force is deployed with only a single warhead.
American politicians and military planners may seek to mollify a worried world by insisting that these actions, and others like it, are meant only to bolster the deterrent capability of the US nuclear enterprise. But the world should not be fooled. Seventy-five years ago, the United States murdered hundreds of thousands of Japanese for the sole purpose of seeking to intimidate Russia. A recent exercise involving the newly deployed ‘low-yield’ SLBM, in which the Secretary of Defense practiced the weapons-release procedures in a scenario involving the targeting of Russian forces in Europe, must be viewed in the shadow of this history. Intimidation, not deterrence, was, is and always will be the driving force behind America’s nuclear arsenal. Like any schoolyard bully, the concern isn’t if the US will use these weapons, but when.
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lewrockwell--2020-08-07--COVID: How Self-Entitled Frauds at Imperial College Changed the World

It starts with Neil Ferguson , a failed computer modeler bankrolled by Bill Gates .
Working out of Imperial College in London with a team , Ferguson predicted 500,000 COVID deaths in the UK and two million in the US .
His estimates fueled two gullible political leaders , Donald Trump and Boris Johnson , who then backed the horrendous lockdown policies that have devastated their countries ’ economies .
France , Germany , and other nations followed suit .
I have written about Neil Ferguson ’ s track record before .
Here are highlights , from an April 4 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The article tries to be a puff piece , but as it unfolds , the truth emerges : “ Ferguson ’ s team warned Boris Johnson that the quest for ‘ herd immunity ’ [ letting people live their lives out in the open in the UK ] could cost 510,000 lives , prompting an abrupt U-turn [ massive national lockdown in the UK ] …His simulations have been influential in other countries as well , cited by authorities in the US , Germany , and France.
” COVID-19 : Lockdowns on ... @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ On March 23 , the UK scrapped ‘ herd immunity ’ in favor of a suppression strategy , and the country made preparations for weeks of lockdown .
Ferguson ’ s study was responsible.
” “ Dr Deborah Birx , coronavirus response coordinator to the Trump administration , told journalists at a March 16 press briefing that the Imperial paper [ Ferguson ’ s computer projection ] prompted the CDC ’ s new advice to work from home and avoid gatherings of 10 or more.
” “ Ferguson co-founded the MRC Centre @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at Imperial , in 2008 .
It is the leading body advising national governments on pathogen outbreaks.
” “ It gets tens of millions of dollars in annual funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , and works with the UK National Health Service , the US Centres for Disease Prevention and Control ( CDC ) , and is tasked with supplying the World Health Organization with ‘ rapid analysis of urgent infectious disease problems ’ .
” “ Michael Thrusfield , a professor of veterinary epidemiology at Edinburgh University , told @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ after reading the [ Ferguson ] Imperial paper [ on COVID ] , saying Ferguson was responsible for excessive animal culling during the 2001 Foot and Mouth outbreak [ actually Mad Cow ] .
” “ Ferguson warned the government that 150,000 people could die .
Six million animals were slaughtered as a precaution , costing the country billions in farming revenue .
In the end , 200 people died.
” Unreported Truths abou ... Berenson , Alex Buy New $ 5.99 “ Similarly , he [ Ferguson ] was accused of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ toll during the 2005 Bird Flu outbreak .
Ferguson estimated 200 million could die .
The real number was in the low hundreds.
” “ In 2009 , one of Ferguson ’ s models predicted 65,000 people could die from the Swine Flu outbreak in the UK — the final figure was below 500.
” As if all this weren ’ t enough , professionals in the computer science field have looked into the guts of the code Ferguson ’ s team used to make their COVID projections .
The discoveries are stunning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from a detailed lockdownsceptics.org article , May 10 , 2020 , “ Code Review of Ferguson ’ s Model ” : “ …the original [ Ferguson ] program was ‘ a single 15,000 line file that had been worked on for a decade ’ ( this is considered extremely poor practice ) .
” “ Non-deterministic outputs .
Due to bugs , the code can produce very different results given identical inputs .
They [ Ferguson and his team ] routinely act as if this is unimportant.
” “ This problem makes the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that a key part of the scientific method is the ability to replicate results .
Without replication , the findings might not be real at all –… ” “ Investigation reveals the truth : the code produces critically different results , even for identical starting seeds and parameters.
” COVID-19 OUTBREAK : How ... O'Donnel , Kevin Buy New $ 7.99 “ …their code is so deeply riddled with similar bugs and they struggled so much to fix them that they got into the habit of simply averaging the results of multiple runs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ behaviour became normalised within the team.
” “ …someone [ on Ferguson ’ s team ] reports that the model produces different outputs depending on what kind of computer it ’ s run on… ” “ …he [ Ferguson ] is well aware that the code is filled with bugs that create random results… ” “ Reports of random results are dismissed with responses like ‘ that ’ s not a problem , just run it a lot of times and take the average ’ … ” So there is no misunderstanding—Ferguson and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , took the SAME SET OF DATA and ran these data , and obtained different results for different runs .
Ferguson and his team at Imperial College are , at best , delusional .
In a world filled with actual computer-science experts , they chose to take a broken-down Model T Ford for a spin and made predictions that have led to the takedown of national economies and horrific human suffering .
And then , to cover their boggling faults , they floated the psychotic claim that AVERAGING the results of their individually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ results .
A VOYAGE IN IMAGINATIO ... Holmes , Dr Joel S Buy New $ 9.95 Keep in mind , as I mentioned earlier in the article , that Ferguson ’ s work is bankrolled by Bill Gates .
Gates wanted alarming predictions of deaths , leading to lockdowns—as a prelude to a COVID vaccine for every person on the planet .
He got those predictions .
Minus Bill Gates and Neil Ferguson , plus a few staunch and sensible political leaders , we would be living and working OUT IN THE OPEN @ @ @ @ @ @ @ season called “ another year of the flu.
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It starts with Neil Ferguson, a failed computer modeler bankrolled by Bill Gates. Working out of Imperial College in London with a team, Ferguson predicted 500,000 COVID deaths in the UK and two million in the US.
His estimates fueled two gullible political leaders, Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, who then backed the horrendous lockdown policies that have devastated their countries’ economies. France, Germany, and other nations followed suit.
I have written about Neil Ferguson’s track record before. Here are highlights, from an April 4, 2020, Business Insider article. The article tries to be a puff piece, but as it unfolds, the truth emerges:
“Ferguson’s team warned Boris Johnson that the quest for ‘herd immunity’ [letting people live their lives out in the open in the UK] could cost 510,000 lives, prompting an abrupt U-turn [massive national lockdown in the UK]…His simulations have been influential in other countries as well, cited by authorities in the US, Germany, and France.” COVID-19: Lockdowns on... Betrus, Michael Buy New $16.99 (as of 03:38 UTC - Details)
“On March 23, the UK scrapped ‘herd immunity’ in favor of a suppression strategy, and the country made preparations for weeks of lockdown. Ferguson’s study was responsible.”
“Dr Deborah Birx, coronavirus response coordinator to the Trump administration, told journalists at a March 16 press briefing that the Imperial paper [Ferguson’s computer projection] prompted the CDC’s new advice to work from home and avoid gatherings of 10 or more.”
“Ferguson co-founded the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, based at Imperial, in 2008. It is the leading body advising national governments on pathogen outbreaks.”
“It gets tens of millions of dollars in annual funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and works with the UK National Health Service, the US Centres for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), and is tasked with supplying the World Health Organization with ‘rapid analysis of urgent infectious disease problems’.”
“Michael Thrusfield, a professor of veterinary epidemiology at Edinburgh University, told the paper he had ‘déjà vu’ after reading the [Ferguson] Imperial paper [on COVID], saying Ferguson was responsible for excessive animal culling during the 2001 Foot and Mouth outbreak [actually Mad Cow].”
“Ferguson warned the government that 150,000 people could die. Six million animals were slaughtered as a precaution, costing the country billions in farming revenue. In the end, 200 people died.” Unreported Truths abou... Berenson, Alex Buy New $5.99 (as of 03:17 UTC - Details)
“Similarly, he [Ferguson] was accused of creating panic by overestimating the potential death toll during the 2005 Bird Flu outbreak. Ferguson estimated 200 million could die. The real number was in the low hundreds.”
“In 2009, one of Ferguson’s models predicted 65,000 people could die from the Swine Flu outbreak in the UK — the final figure was below 500.”
As if all this weren’t enough, professionals in the computer science field have looked into the guts of the code Ferguson’s team used to make their COVID projections. The discoveries are stunning.
For example, here are highlights from a detailed lockdownsceptics.org article, May 10, 2020, “Code Review of Ferguson’s Model”:
“…the original [Ferguson] program was ‘a single 15,000 line file that had been worked on for a decade’ (this is considered extremely poor practice).”
“Non-deterministic outputs. Due to bugs, the code can produce very different results given identical inputs. They [Ferguson and his team] routinely act as if this is unimportant.”
“This problem makes the code unusable for scientific purposes, given that a key part of the scientific method is the ability to replicate results. Without replication, the findings might not be real at all –…”
“Investigation reveals the truth: the code produces critically different results, even for identical starting seeds and parameters.” COVID-19 OUTBREAK: How... O'Donnel, Kevin Buy New $7.99 (as of 05:05 UTC - Details)
“…their code is so deeply riddled with similar bugs and they struggled so much to fix them that they got into the habit of simply averaging the results of multiple runs to cover it up… and eventually this behaviour became normalised within the team.”
“…someone [on Ferguson’s team] reports that the model produces different outputs depending on what kind of computer it’s run on…”
“…he [Ferguson] is well aware that the code is filled with bugs that create random results…”
“Reports of random results are dismissed with responses like ‘that’s not a problem, just run it a lot of times and take the average’…”
So there is no misunderstanding—Ferguson and his team, using the SAME CODE, took the SAME SET OF DATA and ran these data, and obtained different results for different runs.
Ferguson and his team at Imperial College are, at best, delusional. In a world filled with actual computer-science experts, they chose to take a broken-down Model T Ford for a spin and made predictions that have led to the takedown of national economies and horrific human suffering.
And then, to cover their boggling faults, they floated the psychotic claim that AVERAGING the results of their individually crippled predictions would yield accurate and vital results. A VOYAGE IN IMAGINATIO... Holmes, Dr Joel S Buy New $9.95 (as of 04:21 UTC - Details)
Keep in mind, as I mentioned earlier in the article, that Ferguson’s work is bankrolled by Bill Gates. Gates wanted alarming predictions of deaths, leading to lockdowns—as a prelude to a COVID vaccine for every person on the planet. He got those predictions.
Minus Bill Gates and Neil Ferguson, plus a few staunch and sensible political leaders, we would be living and working OUT IN THE OPEN, WITH NO RESTRAINTS, through a season called “another year of the flu.”
SOURCES:
blog.nomorefakenews.com/tag/neil-ferguson/
businessinsider.com/neil-ferguson-transformed-uk-covid-response-oxford-challenge-imperial-model-2020-4
lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/
Reprinted with permission from Jon Rappoport’s blog.
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lewrockwell--2020-08-07--The Pentagon’s New UFO Disclosures: 75 Years of MK Ultra Psy Ops

In my last few articles , I found myself writing on the theme of the emerging new system and the battle between two paradigms ( multipolar vs unipolar ) .
Within that theme , the important issue of psy ops , false solutions and epistemological warfare which are a part of everyone ’ s ’ daily life ( whether they know it or not ) arose as well .
Recent events and announcements have caused me to tackle another aspect of psychological warfare in the modern age .
What would you do if the American and British governments both revealed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ material from each nations ’ respective National Archives ?
The Shock Doctrine : Th ... Klein , Naomi Best Price : $ 13.74 Buy New $ 21.34 What if you found out that leading politicians like former House Majority speaker Harry Reid had allocated $ 22 millions of tax payer dollars to UFO research and that Obama ’ s former chief counsellor ( and rampant pedophile ) John Podesta has openly called for UFO disclosure on several public occasions since 2002 or that Hillary Clinton herself called for UFO disclosure during her presidential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ believe these claims or would you remain skeptical ?
How would you decide what to do ?
With the July 23 public statement from the Pentagon that “ off world vehicles not made on this earth ” have been kept secret for decades , this question has become extremely important .
Major opinion-shapers like Joe Rogan , Tucker Carlson , and even Russia Today have promoted the cause of alien disclosure for the past few years and with the most recent Pentagon announcement , fascination in little grey men has spread like wildfire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government-sponsored UFO research has largely been driven by the work of private subcontractors like Bigelow Aerospace which was founded by billionaire real estate speculator Robert Bigelow .
Having recently joined the “ new space movement ” ( ie : an anti-nation state trojan horse designed to promote privatized money driven model of space funding ) alongside other billionaires like Elon Musk , Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson , Bigelow allocated large swaths of his fortunes to the creation of organizations like the National Institute for Discovery Science which have always worked in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
One of Bigelow ’ s biggest tools was Sen. Harry Reid who not only received generous campaign funds from the billionaire between 1998-2009 but also allocated tens of millions in national defense funds to his company starting in 2007 .
In 2014 , the creative force driving the “ UFO-disclosure cause ” has taken the form of a weird organization called To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science run by high level intelligence operatives and using a cardboard cut-out Tom Delonge ( former lead singer of the punk band Blink 182 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ millions of dollars into cultural/educational and lobbying projects driven by books , movies , film and documentaries in the cause of “ elevating global consciousness ” in preparation for a new age of UFO disclosure .
As Delonge says in his promotional video : “ through a series of meetings I was soon connected to a large group of US government officials .
From the CIA , to the Department of Defense to Lockheed Martin Skunkworks .
These were the guys involved in the secretive government programs that dealt with these subjects.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ To the Stars and featured on the group ’ s website include a former CIA director of operations , former Deputy Assistant secretary for Defense Intelligence , former Director of Information for White House Technology , and former chief of the CIA ’ s counter-biological weapons program .
Both Podesta and Bigelow ’ s Aerospace have also worked closely with Delonge ’ s strange group over the past six years .
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In 1993 , the Disclosure Initiative was created by none other than financier Laurence Rockefeller ( 4th son of Standard Oil Founder John D. Rockefeller ) .
The initiative had a two-fold purpose : • Unite all of the largest UFO research organizations in America under one umbrella organization which was promptly accomplished within one year and • Massively lobby the Clinton Administration to declassify millions of documents which was done in 1994 , revealing little more than mountains of anecdotal testimonies and correspondences .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Disclosure Initiative , the Clintons stayed at the Laurence Rockefeller ranch in Wyoming , during which time an early recruit to the “ disclosure mission ” was Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta .
Podesta started going public with calls for UFO disclosure in 2002 and has continued to work with figures like Bigelow and To the Stars Academy over the next 18 years .
A fuller overview of Laurence Rockefeller ’ s “ other ” civilization-shifting programs from the 1950s-1990s can be seen here .
During the Clinton White House years , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Stephen Greer to become the controller of the Disclosure Project which has provided his meal ticket to this very day .
Greer has given thousands of interviews promoting the narrative that NASA ’ s Apollo Lunar projects were stopped in 1972 merely because the aliens who have been stationed on the Moon for eons didn ’ t want the truth to leak out ( but were at least kind enough to let us keep the technology they gave us earlier in Roswell in the 1950s ) .
If you believe in Greer ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I promise ) , then human creative thought is actually not as special as “ the shadowy forces controlling the government ” wanted you to believe since space technology only exists because we stole stuff from ETs .
Pretty much any inspired awe in universal creation and the power of the human mind to discover this creation with the effect of making life better through scientific and technological progress would easily be killed from this outlook .
From this mindset , the idea of advanced knowledge or technological progress just become another kind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gnostic-styled cult with a select few endowed with the powers of secret knowledge ( in this case , those who are privy to communicate with aliens and use their tech . )
The questions an intelligent person should now ask are : Why would a leading figure of the Rockefeller dynasty devote the last decades of his life to the cause of “ UFO truth ” ?
Did Laurence Rockefeller or those on his payroll or those in the CIA actually care about the right of the people to know hidden truths , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mis-direct the minds of credulous and jaded citizens into an invisible cage ?
Might such a mis-direction prevent people from dealing with issues of America ’ s lurch to fascism and accelerating disintegration ?
The True Story of the ... Estulin , Daniel Best Price : $ 4.75 Buy New $ 13.99 Is it possible that these pedophiles , globalists , and Malthusian billionaires care less about the truth and more about inducing Americans to fixate on aliens while the republic is destroyed under economic collapse and war ?
A large portion of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gone into the investigation of crop circles which were first recorded in the early 1970s in Britain , and which have the peculiar characteristic of becoming increasingly well executed and complex over the course of five decades .
Live Science reported that “ the first real crop circles didn ’ t appear until the 1970s , when simple circles began appearing in the English countryside .
The number and complexity of the circles increased dramatically , reaching a peak in the 1980s and 1990s when increasingly elaborate circles were produced ” .
My @ @ @ @ @ @ @ travelling at faster-than light speed , have been leaving encoded messages to us , then why would their artistic skills have improved so dramatically over a few years ?
Just a question .
Most people know of the CIA/MI6-funded mass brainwashing operation known as MK Ultra which was launched in 1953 .
Very few people have recognized the connection between MK Ultra and the rise of the UFO movement that grew in spades throughout the Cold War .
While US and UK government UFO investigations did occur in piece meal starting in 1947 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Project Grudge ( 1949 ) , it wasn ’ t until 1950 that official tax payer-funded departments were created in both nations to pursue “ UFO research ” .
These took the form of the USA ’ s Project Blue Book ( 1952 ) which itself was modelled on the work conducted by Britain ’ s 1950 “ Flying Saucer Working Party ” spear-headed by Sir Henry Tizard ( Chief Science Advisor to the Ministry of Defense and Chairman of Britain ’ s Defense Research Policy Committee ) .
Journalist Naomi Klein @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that Tizard played a leading role in the creation and funding of MK Ultra during a high level meeting in Montreal and Tizard ’ s Wikipedia entry notes that : “ One of the most controversial meetings he had to attend in his capacity as chair of the National Research Commission would only emerge many years later with the de-classification of CIA documents , namely a meeting on June 1st , 1951 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Montreal Canada , between Tizard , Omond Solandt ( chairman of Defence Research and Development Canada @ @ @ @ @ @ @ discuss “ brainwashing ” .
This Ritz-Carleton meeting would lay the seeds for MK Ultra that was not only designed to deal with brainwashing , but created LSD , and explored the matter of breaking down a human mind into a blank slate with the explicit intention of reconstructing minds from scratch .
As Klein ’ s book eloquently showcases , the intention was to use these discoveries on a national scale in order to conduct “ shock therapy ” on nations in order to break cultures and nations from their historic memories @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them under a post-nation state ( and post truth ) neo liberal world order .
While MK Ultra was funded and executed by the Americans , the guidance for this operation were always driven by London ’ s Tavistock Clinic .
A bone chilling expose of this clinic was produced by EIR ’ s Jeffrey Steinberg in 1993 which may keep you up at night .
Area 51 : An Uncensored ... Annie Jacobsen Best Price : $ 3.92 Buy New $ 9.30 As one can imagine , the very act of providing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ itself sufficient to legitimize the existence of aliens in the minds of millions of Europeans and Americans during the Cold War years .
During these dark years , faith in honest government collapsed under the imperial wars of Korea , Vietnam abroad and the growth of the Military Industrial Complex and McCarthyism at home .
The world of secret patents , secret weapons , secret R & D that developed during this period in facilities like Area 51 made the frequent sightings by civilians and even un-vetted military pilots of “ unidentified flying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her 2012 book Area 51 Uncensored , journalist Annie Jacobson provided lengthy detail of the Cold War experiments , aerospace technology and nuclear bomb testing that took place at Area 51 during this period which largely put the earlier social engineer experiment of H.G .
Wells ’ War of the Worlds emergency broadcast read aloud in 1938 .
The mass panic that ensued the broadcast provided an insight into the levers of mass psychology that certain social engineers drooled over .
What could account for observed UFO phenomena ?
In an interview with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The UFO craze began in the summer of 1947 .
Several months later , the G2 intelligence , which was the Army intelligence corps at the time , spent an enormous amount of time and treasure seeking out two former Third Reich aerospace designers named Walter and Reimar Horten who had allegedly created [ a ] flying disc .
… American intelligence agents fanned out across Europe seeking the Horton brothers to find out if , in fact , they had made this flying disc.
” During WWII , the Horten brothers were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whose innovative designs for implosion ( vs explosion ) flying technology utilized water currents , and electromagnetism to generate flying machines that by all surviving accounts flew faster than the speed of sound .
While much of his research was confiscated and classified by victor nations after WWII , Schauberger was promised government sponsorship in America which induced the inventor to move across the ccean where Canada ’ s Avro Arrow program sought his designs for supersonic nuclear missile delivery aircraft .
When he discovered that his work would only be used for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over the course of several months , his patents were essentially stolen , and he returned to Austria to die broke and depressed in 1958 .
It was never a secret that the post-1971 globalized world order championed by the likes of Sir Henry Kissinger , David and Laurence Rockefeller and other Malthusians throughout the 20th century was always designed to collapse .
With the mass shock therapy that such a collapse would impose upon the world , it was believed that a deconstruction of the Abrahamic traditions that governed western society for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new society could be socially engineered in the image of the Brave New ( depopulated ) World that would live like happy sheep forever under the grip of a hereditary alpha class and their technocratic managers .
The story of the Tavistock-led attack on scientific progress is told brilliantly in the 2010 Lpac film The Destruction of NASA .
The only problem these social engineers have encountered in recent years is the re-emergence of actual statesmen who are unwilling to sacrifice their people and traditions on the altar of a new global Gaia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s better traditions have launched the multipolar alliance and have driven a policy of long-term growth and advance scientific and technological progress which is embodied brilliantly by the New Silk Road , and its extensions to the Arctic .
The most exciting aspect of this New Silk Road/Multipolar Paradigm is the leap into space exploration as the new frontier of human self-development which has not been seen since the days of President Kennedy .
With China and Russia signing a pact to jointly develop lunar bases and the NASA Artemis Accords calling for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ development/industrialization , the age of unlimited growth that was lost with the LSD-driven mass psychosis of 1968 ’ s “ live in the now ” paradigm shift may finally be recaptured .
Programs designed to put humanity ’ s focus on real objective threats like Asteroid collisions , and solar-induced new ice ages are seriously being discussed by leaders of Russia , China and the USA .
There are billions of suns and potentially billions of galaxies , and chances are there is indeed life on many of the planets orbiting some of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ universe… and there is also a fair chance that cognitive life has also emerged on some of those planets .
The best way to find out is not to sit at home while the world economic system collapses under a controlled disintegration thinking about Rockefeller-funded conspiracy theories , but rather to fight to revive humanity ’ s open system destiny starting with a cooperative space program to extend human culture and economy to the Moon and Mars , and then onto other planetary bodies followed by missions to deep space .
If other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ duty to take up the torch left to us by JFK and go find them .
The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation .

In my last few articles, I found myself writing on the theme of the emerging new system and the battle between two paradigms (multipolar vs unipolar).
Within that theme, the important issue of psy ops, false solutions and epistemological warfare which are a part of everyone’s’ daily life (whether they know it or not) arose as well. Recent events and announcements have caused me to tackle another aspect of psychological warfare in the modern age.
UFOs and You
What would you do if the American and British governments both revealed that their secret UFO programs would declassify material from each nations’ respective National Archives? The Shock Doctrine: Th... Klein, Naomi Best Price: $13.74 Buy New $21.34 (as of 06:08 UTC - Details)
What if you found out that leading politicians like former House Majority speaker Harry Reid had allocated $22 millions of tax payer dollars to UFO research and that Obama’s former chief counsellor (and rampant pedophile) John Podesta has openly called for UFO disclosure on several public occasions since 2002 or that Hillary Clinton herself called for UFO disclosure during her presidential campaign pledges of 2015?
Would you believe these claims or would you remain skeptical? How would you decide what to do?
With the July 23 public statement from the Pentagon that “off world vehicles not made on this earth” have been kept secret for decades, this question has become extremely important.
Major opinion-shapers like Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, and even Russia Today have promoted the cause of alien disclosure for the past few years and with the most recent Pentagon announcement, fascination in little grey men has spread like wildfire.
Who’s Playing this Game?
For the past several decades, government-sponsored UFO research has largely been driven by the work of private subcontractors like Bigelow Aerospace which was founded by billionaire real estate speculator Robert Bigelow. Having recently joined the “new space movement” (ie: an anti-nation state trojan horse designed to promote privatized money driven model of space funding) alongside other billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson, Bigelow allocated large swaths of his fortunes to the creation of organizations like the National Institute for Discovery Science which have always worked in a private capacity with governments and academia. One of Bigelow’s biggest tools was Sen. Harry Reid who not only received generous campaign funds from the billionaire between 1998-2009 but also allocated tens of millions in national defense funds to his company starting in 2007.
In 2014, the creative force driving the “UFO-disclosure cause” has taken the form of a weird organization called To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science run by high level intelligence operatives and using a cardboard cut-out Tom Delonge (former lead singer of the punk band Blink 182). To the Stars has poured millions of dollars into cultural/educational and lobbying projects driven by books, movies, film and documentaries in the cause of “elevating global consciousness” in preparation for a new age of UFO disclosure.
As Delonge says in his promotional video: “through a series of meetings I was soon connected to a large group of US government officials. From the CIA, to the Department of Defense to Lockheed Martin Skunkworks. These were the guys involved in the secretive government programs that dealt with these subjects.”
Some of the shadowy figures affiliated with To the Stars and featured on the group’s website include a former CIA director of operations, former Deputy Assistant secretary for Defense Intelligence, former Director of Information for White House Technology, and former chief of the CIA’s counter-biological weapons program. Both Podesta and Bigelow’s Aerospace have also worked closely with Delonge’s strange group over the past six years. Tavistock Institute: S... Daniel Estulin Best Price: $15.34 Buy New $10.00 (as of 07:15 UTC - Details)
Bigelow is not the only billionaire who has allocated their vast fortunes to the cause of “UFO truth”.
The Rockefeller Project
In 1993, the Disclosure Initiative was created by none other than financier Laurence Rockefeller (4th son of Standard Oil Founder John D. Rockefeller). The initiative had a two-fold purpose:
Unite all of the largest UFO research organizations in America under one umbrella organization which was promptly accomplished within one year and
Massively lobby the Clinton Administration to declassify millions of documents which was done in 1994, revealing little more than mountains of anecdotal testimonies and correspondences.
During the heyday of the Rockefeller UFO Disclosure Initiative, the Clintons stayed at the Laurence Rockefeller ranch in Wyoming, during which time an early recruit to the “disclosure mission” was Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta. Podesta started going public with calls for UFO disclosure in 2002 and has continued to work with figures like Bigelow and To the Stars Academy over the next 18 years.
A fuller overview of Laurence Rockefeller’s “other” civilization-shifting programs from the 1950s-1990s can be seen here.
During the Clinton White House years, Laurence Rockefeller recruited a bodybuilding biologist named Stephen Greer to become the controller of the Disclosure Project which has provided his meal ticket to this very day. Greer has given thousands of interviews promoting the narrative that NASA’s Apollo Lunar projects were stopped in 1972 merely because the aliens who have been stationed on the Moon for eons didn’t want the truth to leak out (but were at least kind enough to let us keep the technology they gave us earlier in Roswell in the 1950s). If you believe in Greer’s narrative (which gets much crazier I promise), then human creative thought is actually not as special as “the shadowy forces controlling the government” wanted you to believe since space technology only exists because we stole stuff from ETs. Pretty much any inspired awe in universal creation and the power of the human mind to discover this creation with the effect of making life better through scientific and technological progress would easily be killed from this outlook.
From this mindset, the idea of advanced knowledge or technological progress just become another kind of “secret knowledge” for some gnostic-styled cult with a select few endowed with the powers of secret knowledge (in this case, those who are privy to communicate with aliens and use their tech.)
The questions an intelligent person should now ask are:
Why would a leading figure of the Rockefeller dynasty devote the last decades of his life to the cause of “UFO truth”? Did Laurence Rockefeller or those on his payroll or those in the CIA actually care about the right of the people to know hidden truths, or is the plan just designed to mis-direct the minds of credulous and jaded citizens into an invisible cage? Might such a mis-direction prevent people from dealing with issues of America’s lurch to fascism and accelerating disintegration? The True Story of the ... Estulin, Daniel Best Price: $4.75 Buy New $13.99 (as of 08:55 UTC - Details)
Is it possible that these pedophiles, globalists, and Malthusian billionaires care less about the truth and more about inducing Americans to fixate on aliens while the republic is destroyed under economic collapse and war?
Squaring the Crop Circle
A large portion of the Disclosure Project’s work has gone into the investigation of crop circles which were first recorded in the early 1970s in Britain, and which have the peculiar characteristic of becoming increasingly well executed and complex over the course of five decades. Live Science reported that “the first real crop circles didn’t appear until the 1970s, when simple circles began appearing in the English countryside. The number and complexity of the circles increased dramatically, reaching a peak in the 1980s and 1990s when increasingly elaborate circles were produced”.
My question is: If transcendental alien races travelling at faster-than light speed, have been leaving encoded messages to us, then why would their artistic skills have improved so dramatically over a few years? Just a question.
MK Ultra & UFOs
Most people know of the CIA/MI6-funded mass brainwashing operation known as MK Ultra which was launched in 1953. Very few people have recognized the connection between MK Ultra and the rise of the UFO movement that grew in spades throughout the Cold War.
While US and UK government UFO investigations did occur in piece meal starting in 1947 under Project Sign (1947), and Project Grudge (1949), it wasn’t until 1950 that official tax payer-funded departments were created in both nations to pursue “UFO research”. These took the form of the USA’s Project Blue Book (1952) which itself was modelled on the work conducted by Britain’s 1950 “Flying Saucer Working Party” spear-headed by Sir Henry Tizard (Chief Science Advisor to the Ministry of Defense and Chairman of Britain’s Defense Research Policy Committee).
Journalist Naomi Klein stated in her book The Shock Doctrine that Tizard played a leading role in the creation and funding of MK Ultra during a high level meeting in Montreal and Tizard’s Wikipedia entry notes that:
“One of the most controversial meetings he had to attend in his capacity as chair of the National Research Commission would only emerge many years later with the de-classification of CIA documents, namely a meeting on June 1st, 1951 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Montreal Canada, between Tizard, Omond Solandt (chairman of Defence Research and Development Canada) and representatives of the CIA to discuss “brainwashing”.
This Ritz-Carleton meeting would lay the seeds for MK Ultra that was not only designed to deal with brainwashing, but created LSD, and explored the matter of breaking down a human mind into a blank slate with the explicit intention of reconstructing minds from scratch. As Klein’s book eloquently showcases, the intention was to use these discoveries on a national scale in order to conduct “shock therapy” on nations in order to break cultures and nations from their historic memories and traditions with the purpose of reconstructing them under a post-nation state (and post truth) neo liberal world order. While MK Ultra was funded and executed by the Americans, the guidance for this operation were always driven by London’s Tavistock Clinic. A bone chilling expose of this clinic was produced by EIR’s Jeffrey Steinberg in 1993 which may keep you up at night. Area 51: An Uncensored... Annie Jacobsen Best Price: $3.92 Buy New $9.30 (as of 09:57 UTC - Details)
As one can imagine, the very act of providing government funds to investigate flying saucers was itself sufficient to legitimize the existence of aliens in the minds of millions of Europeans and Americans during the Cold War years. During these dark years, faith in honest government collapsed under the imperial wars of Korea, Vietnam abroad and the growth of the Military Industrial Complex and McCarthyism at home. The world of secret patents, secret weapons, secret R&D that developed during this period in facilities like Area 51 made the frequent sightings by civilians and even un-vetted military pilots of “unidentified flying aircraft” an expected occurrence.
Flying Saucers and Area 51
In her 2012 book Area 51 Uncensored, journalist Annie Jacobson provided lengthy detail of the Cold War experiments, aerospace technology and nuclear bomb testing that took place at Area 51 during this period which largely put the earlier social engineer experiment of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds emergency broadcast read aloud in 1938. The mass panic that ensued the broadcast provided an insight into the levers of mass psychology that certain social engineers drooled over.
What could account for observed UFO phenomena?
In an interview with NPR Radio, Jacobson stated: “The UFO craze began in the summer of 1947. Several months later, the G2 intelligence, which was the Army intelligence corps at the time, spent an enormous amount of time and treasure seeking out two former Third Reich aerospace designers named Walter and Reimar Horten who had allegedly created [a] flying disc. … American intelligence agents fanned out across Europe seeking the Horton brothers to find out if, in fact, they had made this flying disc.”
During WWII, the Horten brothers were associated with the Austrian scientist Viktor Shauberger whose innovative designs for implosion (vs explosion) flying technology utilized water currents, and electromagnetism to generate flying machines that by all surviving accounts flew faster than the speed of sound. While much of his research was confiscated and classified by victor nations after WWII, Schauberger was promised government sponsorship in America which induced the inventor to move across the ccean where Canada’s Avro Arrow program sought his designs for supersonic nuclear missile delivery aircraft. When he discovered that his work would only be used for military purposes, Schauberger pushed back and over the course of several months, his patents were essentially stolen, and he returned to Austria to die broke and depressed in 1958.
The Strategic Importance of Space
It was never a secret that the post-1971 globalized world order championed by the likes of Sir Henry Kissinger, David and Laurence Rockefeller and other Malthusians throughout the 20th century was always designed to collapse. With the mass shock therapy that such a collapse would impose upon the world, it was believed that a deconstruction of the Abrahamic traditions that governed western society for 2000 years could be accomplished and a new society could be socially engineered in the image of the Brave New (depopulated) World that would live like happy sheep forever under the grip of a hereditary alpha class and their technocratic managers. The story of the Tavistock-led attack on scientific progress is told brilliantly in the 2010 Lpac film The Destruction of NASA.
The only problem these social engineers have encountered in recent years is the re-emergence of actual statesmen who are unwilling to sacrifice their people and traditions on the altar of a new global Gaia cult. Such defenders of humanity’s better traditions have launched the multipolar alliance and have driven a policy of long-term growth and advance scientific and technological progress which is embodied brilliantly by the New Silk Road, and its extensions to the Arctic. The most exciting aspect of this New Silk Road/Multipolar Paradigm is the leap into space exploration as the new frontier of human self-development which has not been seen since the days of President Kennedy.
With China and Russia signing a pact to jointly develop lunar bases and the NASA Artemis Accords calling for international cooperation on Lunar and Mars resource development/industrialization, the age of unlimited growth that was lost with the LSD-driven mass psychosis of 1968’s “live in the now” paradigm shift may finally be recaptured. Programs designed to put humanity’s focus on real objective threats like Asteroid collisions, and solar-induced new ice ages are seriously being discussed by leaders of Russia, China and the USA.
There are billions of suns and potentially billions of galaxies, and chances are there is indeed life on many of the planets orbiting some of the stars within our growing, creative universe… and there is also a fair chance that cognitive life has also emerged on some of those planets. The best way to find out is not to sit at home while the world economic system collapses under a controlled disintegration thinking about Rockefeller-funded conspiracy theories, but rather to fight to revive humanity’s open system destiny starting with a cooperative space program to extend human culture and economy to the Moon and Mars, and then onto other planetary bodies followed by missions to deep space.
If other civilizations exist, maybe it is our duty to take up the torch left to us by JFK and go find them.
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