lewrockwell--2020-07-06--You Don’t Need More Medicine, You Need More Medi-Sun

We have all been brainwashed into being needlessly fearful .
There is going to be a calamity of great proportion , and many people on the earth are going to die if everyone doesn ’ t overcome their imagined fear of the COVID-19 coronavirus .
Remember how they fooled us by showing people in Wuhan , China who were dropping dead on the streets ?
News reports called these “ haunting pictures ” and said : “ These days many people have died.
” But as of July 3 , 2020 , there have been 3869 deaths attributed to COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ epicenter for the outbreak .
That is 3869 deaths in a population of 11 million , or 3.5 deaths per 10,000 .
Remember the body bags at the hospital in New York and they had to store the dead bodies in body bags in a refrigerated truck in the hospital parking lot .
Listen to the haunting music added to the video .
That was the panic the news bureaus sold us – – – people walking down the street and dropping dead .
Yet this never happened anywhere .
This is propaganda @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not listen to the health experts ( imposters ) .
Maps of countries where face masks are worn almost religiously , like Bolivia and Chile in South America , reveal these countries have high death rates from COVID-19 coronavirus .
Social distancing will not save you .
It will only delay when a bacterium enters your lungs from another infected person .
Staying inside in quarantine will only cause your immune system to weaken .
There is evil in this world that is attempting to exterminate the masses .
To starve and impoverish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , turn one race against another .
NOW Supplements , Vitam ... Best Price : null Buy New $ 9.92 ( $ 0.04 / Count ) The pandemic was pre-planned in the U.S. Congress beginning on January 24 , 2019 , a year before the first cases of COVID-19 were reported .
The experts have told you on the television to protect from COVID-19 coronavirus , but it kills very few people .
Here in America Stanford University researchers discovered only 1 in 4000 middle-age people get sick from COVID-19 and only 1 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But if you stay indoors as your health charlatans advise , you are going to get sicker .
More people succumb to COVID-19 coronavirus when their immune system is weak .
The entire epidemic is a fraud , a charade , a hoax .
It is fake news ; whatever way you want to say it .
Some people die of horrible death that isn ’ t a coronavirus Health experts have made you phobic over COVID-19 .
They keep advising you to wash your hands , and disinfect everything else .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not spread by contact with viral particles on surfaces .
Even the Centers For Disease Control admits COVID-19 is not spread to our lungs by viral particles on surfaces like door handles , tables , etc .
Another misdirection ( let ’ s call it a lie ) .
Yes , some people are dying of lung disease .
They can ’ t breathe .
Many of these are cases of tuberculosis that are being misclassified as COVID-19 .
Pay attention .
You may hear of the great Spanish flu in 1918 that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the University of California , Berkeley have only in recent years discovered it wasn ’ t influenza that killed millions of people in 1918 , it was tuberculosis .
The major antidote for tuberculosis is sunshine vitamin D. That is why infectious diseases like the flu come in winter and vanish in summer .
But if you stay indoors , you will wither without sunlight .
You will become ill .
Humans are like plants , they can not survive without sunlight .
No one is dying from COVID-19 coronavirus or from tuberculosis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immune system .
In simple language , think of this as your internal defense system .
You hear of many people dying in China and Italy and New York City .
Those are areas where tuberculosis is concentrated among immigrants or as a soil organism in pig waste that blows in the air into the lungs to cause you to have difficulty breathing .
The outbreaks of COVID-19 in Wuhan , China and Modena , Italy were cities with terrible air pollution .
Tuberculosis is caused by an aerosolized bacterium , not a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) in 2 billion people on the earth , waiting to erupt into active infections when vitamin D levels are low .
TB produces similar symptoms as COVID-19 coronavirus ( cough , fever , diarrhea , etc . )
Both are lung infections .
In 2015 an estimated 48,922 people in China died of tuberculosis .
For comparison there have been 4603 estimated deaths from COVID-19 coronavirus in China since the outbreak started in Wuhan in late 2019 .
Which is the greater fear ?
COVID-19 coronavirus or tuberculosis ?
There are an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ latent ) tuberculosis in the United States and yet we are being urged to be fearful of a lung virus that has infected far fewer Americans than tuberculosis .
The drugs being used against COVID-19 coronavirus ( hydroxychloroquine , azithromycin ) are antibiotics that are used to treat tuberculosis .
Antibiotics don ’ t “ kill ” viruses .
Vitamin D3 , Zinc and M ... Jeffers , Nancy Best Price : null Buy New $ 6.98 Countries that have a policy to immunize their population against tuberculosis have a far lower infection @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Why , if this is a virus ?
You must come out of your homes and expose your skin to the sunlight to make life-saving vitamin D. You must overcome the fear that the newspapers and the internet sources and television reporters told you .
If you can not get mid-day sun ( 10 AM to 3 PM ) , then try to find sun lamps , or vitamin D pills .
Go to the pharmacy .
Ask them for vitamin D pills .
All infectious disease is worse in winter when we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ skin is exposed to the sun .
It is not the cold temperature that causes colds and virus infections in winter , it is the lack of sunshine vitamin D that brings on colds and flu in wintertime .
Almost nobody dies of infectious diseases if they have enough vitamin D. Many millions of people in the world have weak immune systems .
If you can find vitamin pills , take vitamin C and D , and the mineral zinc .
Zinc is difficult to find in foods — only oysters have a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ subject to our over-lords and politicians and bankers .
And they have evil plans .
We must unite , we must save our own lives , we must begin to rise up .
Look at the picture below .
Almost nobody died of COVID-19 coronavirus in the hospital when their vitamin D levels were adequate .
If your country has hospitals , demand the doctors test for vitamin D blood levels in every patient that is admitted to the hospital .
This practice will uncover the fraud and lies they are telling you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and your loved ones are dying of vitamin D deficiency induced by your health authorities telling you to stay indoors .
The hospital deaths will vanish when the doctors correct the vitamin D deficiency .
The Vitamin D Revoluti ... Soram Khalsa Best Price : $ 1.25 Buy New $ 10.69 Since there isn ’ t a vaccine for this COVID-19 virus ( which really isn ’ t a virus ) then you must expose yourself to it and develop natural antibodies .
It is actually very difficult to get infected with COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ takes 6,670,000 contacts with people who are already infected for 1 person to become actively infected and die .
Antibodies are small protectors in your body that fight germs .
Antibodies are better than any vaccine .
Don ’ t wait for the vaccine , it may be fashioned to kill people .
Even if the vaccine is effective , it will kill because it doesn ’ t correct your vitamin D deficiency .
Vaccines don ’ t work if you don ’ t have enough vitamin D. Go out and be social @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t even feel sick or only get a mild fever if infected .
Don ’ t be afraid .
We need to develop our own antibodies so we don ’ t need to be vaccinated .
Don ’ t be fooled .
Time is short .
The people who run the world are leading you in the wrong direction .
Defy the self-proclaimed health experts .
Defy the World Health Organization .
Do not believe them .
Turn off your television sets .
The news reporters are spreading fear .
Come out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ go outdoors , like our loved ones in nursing homes , they have low vitamin D levels and are at high risk for death from COVID-19 coronavirus .
Get them outside in the sun .
Take the desks in your children ’ s schools and put them outside , like they did in the 1930s .
Young bare-chested male students schooled outdoors in midday sun ( circa 1940s ) to prevent tuberculosis ; no vaccine needed .
People who have dark skin pigmentation do not make as much vitamin D from sunshine as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is why people with dark skin are high risk .
Cease unproductive arguments over disparity in the quality of healthcare between groups of people .
Sunshine is the equalizer .
You don ’ t need more medicine , you need more medi-sun .
The Optimal Dose : Rest ... Judson Somerville MD Best Price : $ 9.96 Buy New $ 9.98 If you are light-skinned and sensitive to the sun then use vitamin D pills .
Take a lot of beta carotene ( non-toxic , as much as 25 milligrams ) and it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prevent sunburn so you can go out in the sun and make vitamin D. If you are dark skinned and don ’ t like turning darker from sun exposure , take vitamin D pills .
Why infectious disease vanishes in summer and returns in winter In ancient history people worshipped the sun .
Now we know why .
When the earth tilts back towards the sun in the northern hemisphere , summer begins in April and May and winter begins in November ; and in the southern hemisphere summer starts in December and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ begins , these infectious diseases vanish .
When winter comes , they return .
There is a band of countries that encircle the earth at the equator .
This is where sunshine is most intense .
And those equatorial countries have very few deaths from COVID-19 coronavirus .
The liver should store 3 months of vitamin D during the summer for winter months when our skin makes very little vitamin D. Vitamin D is free .
Understand , for many years now , the health experts have kept this information about vitamin D @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the world .
Your elected politicians have already made deals to buy millions of dollars of unproven vaccines that may cause you to go to the hospital .
They should have been purchasing millions of dollars of vitamin D pills .
Vitamin D was discovered in 1913 .
It has taken over 100 years for the experts to tell you that can you can not be healthy without vitamin D. When you go to the hospital you are deprived of sunshine vitamin D , the primary source of this vitamin .
When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t get enough vitamin D unless they play outside .
Today many millions of people who once worked outdoors now work indoors at desks with computer monitors .
The whole world is deprived of vitamin D. Your doctors aren ’ t telling you this .
Modern medicine doesn ’ t like people knowing how to stay healthy without costing money .
There are no side effects from taking vitamin D pills unless we take one million units a day for many months .
400 units of vitamin D , the amount @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in fortified foods , is not enough to stay healthy .
Now we are afraid to go to the doctor ’ s office only to be infected by healthcare workers who have COVID-19 coronavirus infection .
You don ’ t need a prescription to get vitamin D. It is as free as sunshine .
In the 1960s in Finland , where people live many thousands of miles from the equator , the vitamin D requirement was 4000-5000 units per day .
But doctors didn ’ t make much money because the people were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the doctors lowered the amount of vitamin D needed to just 400 units , not even equivalent to 10 minutes of sunshine .
Life Enhancement Ultra ... Buy New $ 14.99 ( $ 0.12 / Count ) If we go outside in the middle of the day in summer and expose most of our skin to sunshine for 30 minutes you will make 10,000 units of vitamin D. You need about 8000 units of vitamin D per day .
Health experts said they made a big ( intentional ? )
mistake when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of vitamin D to stay healthy .
We need 30 minutes of midday sunshine with full-body skin exposure to the sun .
Go to the beach where the sand reflects the sun onto our skin .
Your liver will store vitamin D for many months after going to the beach .
We need to do these things to save our own lives .
Do not depend upon government or health authorities .
Do not depend on vaccines .
Do these things now or suffer terrible consequences .
Do not believe news reports that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ outside and are not locked indoors .
The news reporters will twist your mind into thinking the sun is our enemy .
Rise up now before millions are exterminated .
The man who is funding all the vaccine experiments believes there are too many people on the planet .
Don ’ t be one of his victims .
Spread this around the world .
The people of the world are going to be knocked over like bowling pins .
Come out of the fear before it becomes perpetual .
You have been conned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wear them , that is your choice .
But face masks will not save your life , vitamin D will .
Most of us are poor .
Three-quarters of the world ’ s population earns less than 5 United States dollars per day .
The people in power in the world , especially bankers , are going to cut off our money supply .
They are trying to force everyone to use electronic money so they can cut us off from money so we can ’ t survive .
Throw away your credit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ peons and slaves to bankers .
Don ’ t give the bankers your money they use to make themselves richer .
Start in small towns and cities and create your own money .
Be very truthful and honest .
Trade labor .
If you do two hours of labor , mark it on a piece of paper and agree what your hourly rate of pay is .
Have three people sign the paper .
Trade these hours of labor with each other .
If you can barter , then do that .
Trade @ @ @ @ @ @ @ must do to survive .
Get to know farmers and buy from them directly .
The Vitamin D Solution ... Michael F. Holick Best Price : $ 2.01 Buy New $ 9.08 Go back to work .
If we don ’ t go back to work , no one will get enough food .
No one will get their medicine .
No one else will have their jobs if we don ’ t go to our jobs .
If we don ’ t work to harvest the crops and prepare our chickens and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Go back to work .
Do not wait for the vaccine .
Even a perfectly safe vaccine has side effects that can kill .
Guard yourself if you have diabetes , or high blood pressure , or obesity , or you have autoimmune problems , you are in a high-risk group .
Read this report to your family , especially if they live in poor countries where many people may be illiterate .
Unlike any other time in history , we have opportunity to tell the world about this fraud via the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this report from view .
Forward it everywhere you can think so it can ’ t be erased .
Post it in every location you can imagine .
Put a different title on it to fool the censors .
We all must carry the torch for health freedom .

Dear People Of The World,
We have all been brainwashed into being needlessly fearful. There is going to be a calamity of great proportion, and many people on the earth are going to die if everyone doesn’t overcome their imagined fear of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Remember how they fooled us by showing people in Wuhan, China who were dropping dead on the streets? News reports called these “haunting pictures” and said: “These days many people have died.” But as of July 3, 2020, there have been 3869 deaths attributed to COVID-19 coronavirus in Wuhan, China, the epicenter for the outbreak. That is 3869 deaths in a population of 11 million, or 3.5 deaths per 10,000. Remember the body bags at the hospital in New York and they had to store the dead bodies in body bags in a refrigerated truck in the hospital parking lot. Listen to the haunting music added to the video. That was the panic the news bureaus sold us – – – people walking down the street and dropping dead. Yet this never happened anywhere. This is propaganda. You have been conned.
Do not listen to the health experts (imposters). Maps of countries where face masks are worn almost religiously, like Bolivia and Chile in South America, reveal these countries have high death rates from COVID-19 coronavirus.
Social distancing will not save you. It will only delay when a bacterium enters your lungs from another infected person. Staying inside in quarantine will only cause your immune system to weaken.
There is evil in this world that is attempting to exterminate the masses. To starve and impoverish, to turn one person against another, turn one race against another. NOW Supplements, Vitam... Buy New $9.92 ($0.04 / Count) (as of 04:43 UTC - Details)
The pandemic was pre-planned in the U.S. Congress beginning on January 24, 2019, a year before the first cases of COVID-19 were reported.
The experts have told you on the television to protect from COVID-19 coronavirus, but it kills very few people. Here in America Stanford University researchers discovered only 1 in 4000 middle-age people get sick from COVID-19 and only 1 in 19 million die from it. But if you stay indoors as your health charlatans advise, you are going to get sicker.
More people succumb to COVID-19 coronavirus when their immune system is weak. The entire epidemic is a fraud, a charade, a hoax. It is fake news; whatever way you want to say it.
Some people die of horrible death that isn’t a coronavirus
Health experts have made you phobic over COVID-19. They keep advising you to wash your hands, and disinfect everything else. But viruses are not live. They are not spread by contact with viral particles on surfaces. Even the Centers For Disease Control admits COVID-19 is not spread to our lungs by viral particles on surfaces like door handles, tables, etc. Another misdirection (let’s call it a lie).
Yes, some people are dying of lung disease. They can’t breathe. Many of these are cases of tuberculosis that are being misclassified as COVID-19. Pay attention. You may hear of the great Spanish flu in 1918 that killed millions of people. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have only in recent years discovered it wasn’t influenza that killed millions of people in 1918, it was tuberculosis.
The major antidote for tuberculosis is sunshine vitamin D. That is why infectious diseases like the flu come in winter and vanish in summer. But if you stay indoors, you will wither without sunlight. You will become ill.
Humans are like plants, they cannot survive without sunlight.
No one is dying from COVID-19 coronavirus or from tuberculosis. They are dying from a weak immune system. In simple language, think of this as your internal defense system.
Hotbeds of COVID-19 coronavirus have tuberculosis
You hear of many people dying in China and Italy and New York City. Those are areas where tuberculosis is concentrated among immigrants or as a soil organism in pig waste that blows in the air into the lungs to cause you to have difficulty breathing. The outbreaks of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China and Modena, Italy were cities with terrible air pollution. Tuberculosis is caused by an aerosolized bacterium, not a virus. Tuberculosis is dormant (latent) in 2 billion people on the earth, waiting to erupt into active infections when vitamin D levels are low.
TB produces similar symptoms as COVID-19 coronavirus (cough, fever, diarrhea, etc.) Both are lung infections.
In 2015 an estimated 48,922 people in China died of tuberculosis. For comparison there have been 4603 estimated deaths from COVID-19 coronavirus in China since the outbreak started in Wuhan in late 2019. Which is the greater fear? COVID-19 coronavirus or tuberculosis?
There are an estimated 13 million people with dormant (latent) tuberculosis in the United States and yet we are being urged to be fearful of a lung virus that has infected far fewer Americans than tuberculosis.
The drugs being used against COVID-19 coronavirus (hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin) are antibiotics that are used to treat tuberculosis. Antibiotics don’t “kill” viruses. Vitamin D3, Zinc and M... Jeffers, Nancy Buy New $6.98 (as of 03:40 UTC - Details)
Countries that have a policy to immunize their population against tuberculosis have a far lower infection and mortality rate from COVID-19 coronavirus. Why, if this is a virus?
Humans don’t thrive without sunlight
You must come out of your homes and expose your skin to the sunlight to make life-saving vitamin D. You must overcome the fear that the newspapers and the internet sources and television reporters told you. If you cannot get mid-day sun (10 AM to 3 PM), then try to find sun lamps, or vitamin D pills. Go to the pharmacy. Ask them for vitamin D pills.
All infectious disease is worse in winter when we bundle up to stay warm and no skin is exposed to the sun. It is not the cold temperature that causes colds and virus infections in winter, it is the lack of sunshine vitamin D that brings on colds and flu in wintertime.
Almost nobody dies of infectious diseases if they have enough vitamin D.
Sunning in a hospital bed to cure tuberculosis.
(Circa 1930s)
Many millions of people in the world have weak immune systems. If you can find vitamin pills, take vitamin C and D, and the mineral zinc. Zinc is difficult to find in foods — only oysters have a lot of zinc.
We are all subject to our over-lords and politicians and bankers. And they have evil plans.
We must unite, we must save our own lives, we must begin to rise up.
Look at the picture below. Almost nobody died of COVID-19 coronavirus in the hospital when their vitamin D levels were adequate.
Vitamin D tests for the hospitalized
If your country has hospitals, demand the doctors test for vitamin D blood levels in every patient that is admitted to the hospital. This practice will uncover the fraud and lies they are telling you about COVID-19 for many years. You and your loved ones are dying of vitamin D deficiency induced by your health authorities telling you to stay indoors. The hospital deaths will vanish when the doctors correct the vitamin D deficiency. The Vitamin D Revoluti... Soram Khalsa Best Price: $1.25 Buy New $10.69 (as of 08:00 UTC - Details)
Develop natural antibodies
Since there isn’t a vaccine for this COVID-19 virus (which really isn’t a virus) then you must expose yourself to it and develop natural antibodies.
It is actually very difficult to get infected with COVID-19 coronavirus. Stanford University researchers found it takes 6,670,000 contacts with people who are already infected for 1 person to become actively infected and die.
Antibodies are small protectors in your body that fight germs. Antibodies are better than any vaccine. Don’t wait for the vaccine, it may be fashioned to kill people. Even if the vaccine is effective, it will kill because it doesn’t correct your vitamin D deficiency. Vaccines don’t work if you don’t have enough vitamin D.
Go out and be social with others. Most healthy people don’t even feel sick or only get a mild fever if infected. Don’t be afraid. We need to develop our own antibodies so we don’t need to be vaccinated.
Defiance
Don’t be fooled. Time is short. The people who run the world are leading you in the wrong direction. Defy the self-proclaimed health experts. Defy the World Health Organization. Do not believe them. Turn off your television sets. The news reporters are spreading fear.
Come out of the dark
People who do not go outdoors, like our loved ones in nursing homes, they have low vitamin D levels and are at high risk for death from COVID-19 coronavirus. Get them outside in the sun.
Take the desks in your children’s schools and put them outside, like they did in the 1930s.
Young bare-chested male students schooled outdoors in midday sun (circa 1940s) to prevent tuberculosis; no vaccine needed.
People who have dark skin pigmentation do not make as much vitamin D from sunshine as other people with white skin. This is why people with dark skin are high risk. Cease unproductive arguments over disparity in the quality of healthcare between groups of people. Sunshine is the equalizer. You don’t need more medicine, you need more medi-sun. The Optimal Dose: Rest... Judson Somerville MD Best Price: $9.96 Buy New $9.98 (as of 06:05 UTC - Details)
If you are light-skinned and sensitive to the sun then use vitamin D pills. Take a lot of beta carotene (non-toxic, as much as 25 milligrams) and it will be stored in your skin and prevent sunburn so you can go out in the sun and make vitamin D. If you are dark skinned and don’t like turning darker from sun exposure, take vitamin D pills.
Why infectious disease vanishes in summer and returns in winter
In ancient history people worshipped the sun. Now we know why. When the earth tilts back towards the sun in the northern hemisphere, summer begins in April and May and winter begins in November; and in the southern hemisphere summer starts in December and winter starts in June. When summer begins, these infectious diseases vanish. When winter comes, they return.
There is a band of countries that encircle the earth at the equator. This is where sunshine is most intense. And those equatorial countries have very few deaths from COVID-19 coronavirus.
The liver should store 3 months of vitamin D during the summer for winter months when our skin makes very little vitamin D. Vitamin D is free.
Understand, for many years now, the health experts have kept this information about vitamin D and the sun hidden from the people of the world. Your elected politicians have already made deals to buy millions of dollars of unproven vaccines that may cause you to go to the hospital. They should have been purchasing millions of dollars of vitamin D pills.
Vitamin D was discovered in 1913. It has taken over 100 years for the experts to tell you that can you cannot be healthy without vitamin D. When you go to the hospital you are deprived of sunshine vitamin D, the primary source of this vitamin. When your children go to school, they don’t get enough vitamin D unless they play outside. Today many millions of people who once worked outdoors now work indoors at desks with computer monitors. The whole world is deprived of vitamin D. Your doctors aren’t telling you this.
Modern medicine doesn’t like people knowing how to stay healthy without costing money.
There are no side effects from taking vitamin D pills unless we take one million units a day for many months. 400 units of vitamin D, the amount commonly provided in vitamin D pills or in fortified foods, is not enough to stay healthy.
Now we are afraid to go to the doctor’s office only to be infected by healthcare workers who have COVID-19 coronavirus infection. You don’t need a prescription to get vitamin D. It is as free as sunshine.
In the 1960s in Finland, where people live many thousands of miles from the equator, the vitamin D requirement was 4000-5000 units per day. But doctors didn’t make much money because the people were healthy taking that much vitamin D. So, the doctors lowered the amount of vitamin D needed to just 400 units, not even equivalent to 10 minutes of sunshine. Life Enhancement Ultra... Buy New $14.99 ($0.12 / Count) (as of 04:34 UTC - Details)
If we go outside in the middle of the day in summer and expose most of our skin to sunshine for 30 minutes you will make 10,000 units of vitamin D. You need about 8000 units of vitamin D per day.
Health experts said they made a big (intentional?) mistake when they said we only need small amounts of vitamin D to stay healthy. We need 30 minutes of midday sunshine with full-body skin exposure to the sun.
Go to the beach where the sand reflects the sun onto our skin. Your liver will store vitamin D for many months after going to the beach.
Don’t rely on government
We need to do these things to save our own lives. Do not depend upon government or health authorities. Do not depend on vaccines. Do these things now or suffer terrible consequences. Do not believe news reports that more people are dying when they go outside and are not locked indoors. The news reporters will twist your mind into thinking the sun is our enemy.
Rise up now before millions are exterminated. The man who is funding all the vaccine experiments believes there are too many people on the planet. Don’t be one of his victims.
Spread this around the world. The people of the world are going to be knocked over like bowling pins. Come out of the fear before it becomes perpetual. You have been conned. Throw off the face masks or wear them, that is your choice. But face masks will not save your life, vitamin D will.
Money is being controlled
Most of us are poor. Three-quarters of the world’s population earns less than 5 United States dollars per day.
The people in power in the world, especially bankers, are going to cut off our money supply.
They are trying to force everyone to use electronic money so they can cut us off from money so we can’t survive. Throw away your credit cards and debit cards. Stop being peons and slaves to bankers.
Don’t give the bankers your money they use to make themselves richer.
Start in small towns and cities and create your own money. Be very truthful and honest. Trade labor. If you do two hours of labor, mark it on a piece of paper and agree what your hourly rate of pay is. Have three people sign the paper. Trade these hours of labor with each other.
If you can barter, then do that. Trade potatoes for tomatoes. Do what you must do to survive. Get to know farmers and buy from them directly. The Vitamin D Solution... Michael F. Holick Best Price: $2.01 Buy New $9.08 (as of 10:55 UTC - Details)
Go back to work
Go back to work. If we don’t go back to work, no one will get enough food. No one will get their medicine. No one else will have their jobs if we don’t go to our jobs. If we don’t work to harvest the crops and prepare our chickens and distribute the eggs, everyone will starve. Go back to work.
Do not wait for the vaccine. Even a perfectly safe vaccine has side effects that can kill.
Guard yourself if you have diabetes, or high blood pressure, or obesity, or you have autoimmune problems, you are in a high-risk group.
Read this report to your family, especially if they live in poor countries where many people may be illiterate. Unlike any other time in history, we have opportunity to tell the world about this fraud via the internet. Censors will attempt to erase this report from view. Forward it everywhere you can think so it can’t be erased. Post it in every location you can imagine. Put a different title on it to fool the censors. We all must carry the torch for health freedom.


lewrockwell--2020-07-06--Is America Heading for Civil War? Of Course It Is…

In last week ’ s article I discussed the issue of American “ balkanization ” and the rapid migration of conservatives and moderates from large population centers and states that are becoming militant in their progressive ideology .
In my home state of Montana there has been a surge of people trying to escape the chaos and oppression of leftist states .
Some are here because of the pandemic and the harsh restrictions they had to endure during the first lockdowns .
Others are here because they can ’ t stand the hostility of identity politics , cancel culture and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are fleeing places with decidedly leftist influences .
Uprooting and moving to an entirely new place is not an easy thing to do , especially in the middle of a pandemic .
For many people , such an idea would have been unthinkable only a few years ago .
Believe me , moving to a place like the Rocky Mountain Redoubt is not an easy transition for most .
Hopefully these people understand that they will have to make extensive preparations for the rough winter and be ready to work hard in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Maybe they don ’ t realize yet how tough it is here ; maybe they know and don ’ t care .
That ’ s how bad the situation has become – Rational and reasonable people are willing to leave behind their old life and risk it all to keep a margin of freedom .
Four Cardinal Errors : ... Yates , Ph.D. , Steven Best Price : $ 11.98 Buy New $ 17.97 In my view it is clear that the political left has gone so far off the rails into its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ back .
There can be no reconciliation between the two sides , so we must separate , or we must fight .
I advocate for separation first for a number of reasons : First and foremost , conservatives are the primary producers within American culture .
If we leave the leftists to their own devices there is a chance they will simply implode in on themselves and eat each other because they have no idea how to fill the production void .
The recent developments in the defunct CHAZ/CHOP autonomous zone are a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t have the slightest clue what they are doing and it shows .
Second , if conservatives separate it provides a buffer that helps defuse future random conflicts .
When you force the two sides into a box together eventually they will find a reason to try to kill each other .
Putting some distance between them and us reduces the angst .
Third , if the leftists decide they don ’ t like that we have separated and are thriving on our own , and they attempt to antagonize or attack us @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the clear moral high ground when we smash them to pieces in response .
I fully realize that the third outcome is the most likely .
War is probably inevitable .
Why ?
Because collectivists and narcissists are never satisfied .
They desire unlimited control over the lives of others and they will use any means to get that control no matter how destructive .
Separating from them is only a stop-gap that allows us to take the superior position .
Through peaceful migration , we set the pace of the conflict .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and there will be no doubt about our response then .
There will be no way to spin the result in their favor , no way for them to play the victims .
Some people might question if we are actually to the point of open conflict ; they might accuse me of “ doom mongering ” .
Others may argue that conservatives are acting “ passive ” and that we will never take any action .
These assumptions are common right now because such people do not understand how history progresses and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not something pursued lightly , or haphazardly .
The average person knows at least subconsciously that it ’ s better to seek resolution or to remain patient as events unfold .
Conservatives aren ’ t stupid ; we know that before any civil war there is first a culture war .
And , we know that the cards are stacked against us and that if we act rashly in any way we will lose position in that culture war .
So , we let the leftists spit and rage like madmen for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who were on the fence when it comes to the culture war are witnessing this and come over to our side because we ’ re the only side that is sane .
The drawback is , there comes a point in which calm professionalism might be wrongly perceived as weakness .
And when people sense weakness among conservatives , they might run into the arms of the extreme left thinking that it ’ s safer to join the “ winning team ” .
Civil Wrongs : What Wen ... Yates , Steven Best @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 8.01 I believe conservatives have not been sucked into a reactionary stance yet because they are thinking logically and refusing to play the game for now .
In some ways it is how we enter the fight that is more important than the fight itself .
To understand why , we have to look at the bigger picture beyond the left/right conflict .
As I noted last week , the political left is a tool for a greater agenda .
They are being used as a weapon of chaos by globalist interests .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , this is conspiracy fact .
Millions of dollars have poured into Antifa and BLM related groups through elitist donors like George Soros and his Open Society Foundation as well as the Ford Foundation .
Globalist institutions like these have been influencing the extreme left and promoting identity politics for DECADES .
This is openly admitted .
What we are witnessing in 2020 is simply the culmination of a half-century long propaganda campaign that created the modern feminist movement , victim group status , entitlement culture , etc .
The reason for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fear .
Fear creates division and crisis .
And , crisis creates opportunity ( as globalist Rahm Emanuel once bragged ) .
Meaning , the extreme left is going to start a war because that ’ s exactly what the global elites created them for .
Now , some might suggest that this places conservatives in a Catch-22 position ; if we don ’ t fight back then we will look weak .
We will be culturally isolated and eventually overrun and wiped from the history books .
If we do fight back @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they want – A civil war that will tear America apart .
The suggestion by certain special interests will be that there is only one way out ; use government power to turn the tide to our advantage .
In other words , institute martial law .
I don ’ t really see it that way .
Once we understand that a fight is coming regardless , our task is to position ourselves with the most advantage possible while keeping our culture and our principles intact .
This includes our belief in constitutionalism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in ANY form .
Winning the fight is important , but maintaining our principles in the process is more important .
Becoming a monster to fight the monster is the same as losing .
When the left comes for us ( and they will ) , the fight has to be won by us , not government .
We can not hand even more power to government in the name of security .
We can not become the fascists the leftists accuse us of being .
I am often asked these days about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how it will turn out .
I did predict Trump ’ s election win in the summer of 2016 based on the idea that Trump ’ s presence in the White House would drive the left insane , as well as give the globalists a perfect “ conservative ” scapegoat for the economic collapse they had been engineering since at least 2008 .
Trump ’ s cabinet of global elitists suggests his complacency in this plan .
We still live under a one party system pretending as if it is a two party @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ... Rosenfeld , Gavriel D. Best Price : $ 16.78 Buy New $ 21.49 Furthermore , I am not convinced there will even be an election in November .
With pandemic lockdowns surely returning as infections spike once again , the US economy will be in ruins by winter .
Voting in a traditional fashion will be difficult or restricted in some states .
And , mail-in or digital ballots will not be accepted by most conservatives because of their history of being used to rig election outcomes .
Look at it this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or delays the election , the left will riot and a civil war will be triggered .
Conservatives will have to deal with the violence of the left while also dealing with the potential for martial law ( which we can not tolerate or support either ) .
If Biden “ wins ” , it will be perceived by many conservatives who still think elections matter as a stolen presidency engineered through fraudulent ballot practices .
To summarize , if Trump is still in the White House in 2021 , get ready @ @ @ @ @ @ @ well as martial law measures .
If you believe in freedom , realize that fake conservatives that support government tyranny will be as much a problem as Marxist lefties .
If Biden enters the White House , expect him to immediately implement unconstitutional policies including medical tyranny , gun confiscation and martial law .
Either way , it ends in war .
It ’ s also the classic false choice narrative : You can choose Marxism and communism , or you can choose fascism .
Communism being the elevation of the weak and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ name of arbitrary “ equality ” , and fascism being the elimination of the weak or less fortunate in the name of making more room for the strong .
Both sides rely on totalitarian government to assert dominance , and both sides benefit the elitist establishment .
The great con is that there is no third option , when there is ; the non-aggression principle , citizen defense , voluntarism and freedom .
Frankly , I almost prefer a scenario in which Biden and the left are perceived as stealing the election .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ united once again and ready to fight , instead of passively relying on a Pied Piper like Trump to save them .
The truth is , in 2020-2021 we stand at a massive nexus point in human history .
We are spiraling into a decade and a fight that will decide the fate liberty for the next century or more .
On one side stands the global elites and the useful idiots on the hard left .
They will push for a collectivist system that erases all memory of the Constitutional Republic we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ help from fake conservatives that value power over principle .
On the other side stands the people that just want to be left alone ; the free minds , the people that don ’ t need or desire to have power over anybody .
If humanity is to have a future at all , the second group must continue to exist and prosper .
They are the wellspring that feeds us , that gives us something to hope for .
If the elites and the social justice mob take control , there can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ They desire what they can not and should not have .
They value only what they can take from others .
They have a hunger that can never be satiated .
They will devour the world until there is nothing left while claiming they stand for the “ greater good ” .
War can not be avoided with such people ; the only question is , will liberty minded people stay the course and stick by their principles or will they fall to their darker impulses to ensure victory ?
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In last week’s article I discussed the issue of American “balkanization” and the rapid migration of conservatives and moderates from large population centers and states that are becoming militant in their progressive ideology. In my home state of Montana there has been a surge of people trying to escape the chaos and oppression of leftist states. Some are here because of the pandemic and the harsh restrictions they had to endure during the first lockdowns. Others are here because they can’t stand the hostility of identity politics, cancel culture and race riots. Either way, they are fleeing places with decidedly leftist influences.
Uprooting and moving to an entirely new place is not an easy thing to do, especially in the middle of a pandemic. For many people, such an idea would have been unthinkable only a few years ago. Believe me, moving to a place like the Rocky Mountain Redoubt is not an easy transition for most. Hopefully these people understand that they will have to make extensive preparations for the rough winter and be ready to work hard in the spring and summer months to survive. Maybe they don’t realize yet how tough it is here; maybe they know and don’t care.
That’s how bad the situation has become – Rational and reasonable people are willing to leave behind their old life and risk it all to keep a margin of freedom. Four Cardinal Errors: ... Yates, Ph.D., Steven Best Price: $11.98 Buy New $17.97 (as of 05:08 UTC - Details)
In my view it is clear that the political left has gone so far off the rails into its own cultism that there is no coming back. There can be no reconciliation between the two sides, so we must separate, or we must fight. I advocate for separation first for a number of reasons:
First and foremost, conservatives are the primary producers within American culture. If we leave the leftists to their own devices there is a chance they will simply implode in on themselves and eat each other because they have no idea how to fill the production void. The recent developments in the defunct CHAZ/CHOP autonomous zone are a perfect example. Those people don’t have the slightest clue what they are doing and it shows.
Second, if conservatives separate it provides a buffer that helps defuse future random conflicts. When you force the two sides into a box together eventually they will find a reason to try to kill each other. Putting some distance between them and us reduces the angst.
Third, if the leftists decide they don’t like that we have separated and are thriving on our own, and they attempt to antagonize or attack us where we live, then we hold the clear moral high ground when we smash them to pieces in response.
I fully realize that the third outcome is the most likely. War is probably inevitable. Why? Because collectivists and narcissists are never satisfied. They desire unlimited control over the lives of others and they will use any means to get that control no matter how destructive. Separating from them is only a stop-gap that allows us to take the superior position. Through peaceful migration, we set the pace of the conflict. Eventually they will come after us, and there will be no doubt about our response then. There will be no way to spin the result in their favor, no way for them to play the victims.
Some people might question if we are actually to the point of open conflict; they might accuse me of “doom mongering”. Others may argue that conservatives are acting “passive” and that we will never take any action. These assumptions are common right now because such people do not understand how history progresses and how group psychology evolves.
Domestic war is not something pursued lightly, or haphazardly. The average person knows at least subconsciously that it’s better to seek resolution or to remain patient as events unfold. Conservatives aren’t stupid; we know that before any civil war there is first a culture war. And, we know that the cards are stacked against us and that if we act rashly in any way we will lose position in that culture war.
So, we let the leftists spit and rage like madmen for a little while. Each day people who were on the fence when it comes to the culture war are witnessing this and come over to our side because we’re the only side that is sane. The drawback is, there comes a point in which calm professionalism might be wrongly perceived as weakness. And when people sense weakness among conservatives, they might run into the arms of the extreme left thinking that it’s safer to join the “winning team”. Civil Wrongs: What Wen... Yates, Steven Best Price: $4.97 Buy New $8.01 (as of 02:45 UTC - Details)
I believe conservatives have not been sucked into a reactionary stance yet because they are thinking logically and refusing to play the game for now. In some ways it is how we enter the fight that is more important than the fight itself. To understand why, we have to look at the bigger picture beyond the left/right conflict.
As I noted last week, the political left is a tool for a greater agenda. They are being used as a weapon of chaos by globalist interests. This is not “conspiracy theory”, this is conspiracy fact. Millions of dollars have poured into Antifa and BLM related groups through elitist donors like George Soros and his Open Society Foundation as well as the Ford Foundation. Globalist institutions like these have been influencing the extreme left and promoting identity politics for DECADES. This is openly admitted. What we are witnessing in 2020 is simply the culmination of a half-century long propaganda campaign that created the modern feminist movement, victim group status, entitlement culture, etc.
The reason for the agenda should be obvious: Chaos creates fear. Fear creates division and crisis. And, crisis creates opportunity (as globalist Rahm Emanuel once bragged). Meaning, the extreme left is going to start a war because that’s exactly what the global elites created them for.
Now, some might suggest that this places conservatives in a Catch-22 position; if we don’t fight back then we will look weak. We will be culturally isolated and eventually overrun and wiped from the history books. If we do fight back we will be giving the globalists what they want – A civil war that will tear America apart.
The suggestion by certain special interests will be that there is only one way out; use government power to turn the tide to our advantage. In other words, institute martial law. I don’t really see it that way.
Once we understand that a fight is coming regardless, our task is to position ourselves with the most advantage possible while keeping our culture and our principles intact. This includes our belief in constitutionalism, civil liberties and opposition to tyranny in ANY form. Winning the fight is important, but maintaining our principles in the process is more important. Becoming a monster to fight the monster is the same as losing.
When the left comes for us (and they will), the fight has to be won by us, not government. We cannot hand even more power to government in the name of security. We cannot become the fascists the leftists accuse us of being.
I am often asked these days about my view of the 2020 election and how it will turn out. I did predict Trump’s election win in the summer of 2016 based on the idea that Trump’s presence in the White House would drive the left insane, as well as give the globalists a perfect “conservative” scapegoat for the economic collapse they had been engineering since at least 2008.
Trump’s cabinet of global elitists suggests his complacency in this plan. We still live under a one party system pretending as if it is a two party paradigm. The Fourth Reich: The ... Rosenfeld, Gavriel D. Best Price: $16.78 Buy New $21.49 (as of 04:06 UTC - Details)
Furthermore, I am not convinced there will even be an election in November. With pandemic lockdowns surely returning as infections spike once again, the US economy will be in ruins by winter. Voting in a traditional fashion will be difficult or restricted in some states. And, mail-in or digital ballots will not be accepted by most conservatives because of their history of being used to rig election outcomes.
Look at it this way: If Trump “wins”, or delays the election, the left will riot and a civil war will be triggered. Conservatives will have to deal with the violence of the left while also dealing with the potential for martial law (which we cannot tolerate or support either). If Biden “wins”, it will be perceived by many conservatives who still think elections matter as a stolen presidency engineered through fraudulent ballot practices.
To summarize, if Trump is still in the White House in 2021, get ready to fight back against leftist mobs as well as martial law measures. If you believe in freedom, realize that fake conservatives that support government tyranny will be as much a problem as Marxist lefties. If Biden enters the White House, expect him to immediately implement unconstitutional policies including medical tyranny, gun confiscation and martial law. Either way, it ends in war.
It’s also the classic false choice narrative: You can choose Marxism and communism, or you can choose fascism. Communism being the elevation of the weak and the oppression of the strong in the name of arbitrary “equality”, and fascism being the elimination of the weak or less fortunate in the name of making more room for the strong. Both sides rely on totalitarian government to assert dominance, and both sides benefit the elitist establishment. The great con is that there is no third option, when there is; the non-aggression principle, citizen defense, voluntarism and freedom.
Frankly, I almost prefer a scenario in which Biden and the left are perceived as stealing the election. At least then conservatives will be fully united once again and ready to fight, instead of passively relying on a Pied Piper like Trump to save them.
The truth is, in 2020-2021 we stand at a massive nexus point in human history. We are spiraling into a decade and a fight that will decide the fate liberty for the next century or more. On one side stands the global elites and the useful idiots on the hard left. They will push for a collectivist system that erases all memory of the Constitutional Republic we once new, and they will get help from fake conservatives that value power over principle. On the other side stands the people that just want to be left alone; the free minds, the people that don’t need or desire to have power over anybody.
If humanity is to have a future at all, the second group must continue to exist and prosper. They are the wellspring that feeds us, that gives us something to hope for. If the elites and the social justice mob take control, there can be no future for our species. They desire what they cannot and should not have. They value only what they can take from others. They have a hunger that can never be satiated. They will devour the world until there is nothing left while claiming they stand for the “greater good”. War cannot be avoided with such people; the only question is, will liberty minded people stay the course and stick by their principles or will they fall to their darker impulses to ensure victory?
Reprinted with permission from Alt-Market.com.
The Best of Brandon Smith


lewrockwell--2020-07-06--Was the American Revolution a Mistake?

Was the American Revolution a Mistake?

I did not celebrate the Fourth of July today .
This goes back to a term paper I wrote in graduate school .
It was on Colonial taxation in the British North American Colonies in 1775 .
Not counting local taxation , I discovered that the total burden of British imperial taxation was about 1 % of national income .
It may have been as high as 2.5 % in the southern Colonies .
In 2008 , Alvin Rabushka ’ s book of almost 1,000 pages appeared : Taxation in Colonial America ( Princeton University Press ) .
A review @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the book ’ s findings .
Rabushka ’ s most original and impressive contribution is his measurement of tax rates and tax burdens .
However , his estimate of comparative transatlantic tax burdens may be a bit of moving target .
At one point , he concludes that in the period from 1764–1775 “ the nearly 2 million white Colonists in America paid on the order of about 1 % of the annual taxes levied on the roughly 8.5 million residents of Britain , or 1/25th in per capita terms , not taking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consumption in the Colonies ” ( p. 729 ) .
Later he writes that on the eve of the Revolution , “ British tax burdens were 10 or more times heavier than those in the Colonies ” ( p. 867 ) .
Other scholars may want to refine his estimates , based on other archival sources , different treatment of technical issues such as the adjustment of inter-Colonial and transatlantic comparisons for exchange rates or new estimates of comparative income and wealth .
Nonetheless , no one is likely to challenge his most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ between the American periphery and the core of the British Empire .
Was the Declaration of Independence Built Upon a Lie ?
Taxation in Colonial A ... Rabushka , Alvin Best Price : $ 41.35 Buy New $ 45.95 The Colonists had a sweet deal in 1775 .
Great Britain was the second-freest nation on Earth .
Switzerland was probably the most free nation , but I would be hard-pressed to identify any other nation in 1775 that was ahead of Great Britain .
And in Great Britain ’ s Empire , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I will say it , loud and clear : The freest society on Earth in 1775 was British North America , with the obvious exception of the slave system .
Anyone who was not a slave had incomparable freedom .
Jefferson wrote these words in the Declaration of Independence : I can think of no more misleading political assessment uttered by any leader in the history of the United States .
No words having such great impact historically in this nation were less true .
No political bogeymen invoked by any political sect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” ever said anything as verifiably false as these words .
The Continental Congress declared independence on July 2 , 1776 .
Some members signed the Declaration on July 4 .
The public in general believed the leaders at the Continental Congress .
They did not understand what they were about to give up .
They could not see what price in blood and treasure and debt they would soon pay .
And they did not foresee the tax burden in the new nation after 1783 .
In his book , Rabushka gets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ result of the American Revolution , the tax burden tripled .
The debt burden soared as soon as the Revolution began .
Monetary inflation wiped out the currency system .
Price controls in 1777 produced the debacle of Valley Forge .
Percy Greaves , a disciple of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises and for 17 years an attendee at his seminar , wrote this in 1972 : Our Continental Congress first authorized the printing of Continental notes in 1775 .
The Congress was warned against printing more and more of them .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America ’ s first economist , told his fellow men that Continental currency might soon become worthless unless something was done to curb the further printing and issuance of this paper money .
Marx ’ s Religion ... North , Gary Best Price : $ 15.99 Buy New $ 30.00 The people and the Congress refused to listen to his wise advice .
With more and more paper money in circulation , consumers kept bidding up prices .
Pork rose from 4 cents to 8 cents a pound .
Beef soared from about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ As one historian tells us , “ By November 1777 , commodity prices were 480 % above the prewar average.
” The situation became so bad in Pennsylvania that the people and legislature of this state decided to try “ a period of price control , limited to domestic commodities essential for the use of the Army.
” It was thought that this would reduce the cost of feeding and supplying our Continental Army .
It was expected to reduce the burden of war .
The prices of uncontrolled imported goods then went @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to buy any of the domestic commodities needed for the Army .
The controls were quite arbitrary .
Many farmers refused to sell their goods at the prescribed prices .
Few would take the paper Continentals .
Some , with large families to feed and clothe , sold their farm products stealthily to the British in return for gold .
For it was only with gold that they could buy the necessities of life which they could not produce for themselves .
On Dec. 5 , 1777 , the Army ’ s quartermaster-general @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government-set prices , issued a statement from his Reading , Pennsylvania , headquarters saying , “ If the farmers do not like the prices allowed them for this produce , let them choose men of more learning and understanding the next election.
” This was the winter of Valley Forge , the very nadir of American history .
On Dec. 23 , 1777 , George Washington wrote to the president of the Congress “ that , notwithstanding it is a standing order , and often repeated , that the troops shall always have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that they might be ready at any sudden call ; yet an opportunity has scarcely ever offered , of taking an advantage of the enemy that has not been either totally obstructed , or greatly impeded , on this account… We have no less than 2,898 men now in camp unfit for duty , because they are barefoot and otherwise naked… I am now convinced beyond a doubt , that , unless some great and capital change suddenly takes place , this Army must inevitably be reduced to one or other of these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disperse in order to obtain subsistence in the best manner they can.
” “ There Was No British Tyranny , and Surely Not in North America ” Only after the price control laws were repealed in 1778 could the Army buy food again .
But the hyperinflation of the Continentals and state-issued currencies replaced the pre-Revolution system of silver currency : Spanish pieces of eight .
The proponents of independence invoked British tyranny in North America .
But there was no British tyranny in North America .
Christian Economics in ... North , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Frederick Engels wrote an article , “ On Authority.
” He criticized anarchists , whom he called anti-authoritarians .
His description of the authoritarian character of all armed revolutions should remind us of the costs of revolution .
After the American Revolution , 46,000 British Loyalists fled to Canada and other places controlled by the crown .
They were not willing to swear allegiance to the new Colonial governments .
They retained their loyalty to the nation that had delivered to them the greatest liberty on Earth .
They had not committed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as treasonous .
The victors write the history books .
What would libertarians — even conservatives — give today in order to return to an era in which the central government extracted 1 % of the nation ’ s wealth ?
Where there was no income tax ?
Would they describe such a society as tyrannical ?
That the largest signature on the Declaration of Independence was signed by the richest smuggler in North America was no coincidence .
He was hopping mad .
Parliament in 1773 had cut the tax on tea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , so the cost of British tea went lower than the smugglers ’ cost on non-British tea .
This had cost Hancock a pretty penny .
The Tea Party had stopped the unloading of the tea by throwing privately owned tea off a privately owned ship — a ship in competition with Hancock ’ s ships .
The Boston Tea Party was , in fact , a well-organized protest against lower prices stemming from lower taxes .
So once again , I ’ m not celebrating the Fourth of July today .
Reprinted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Best of Gary North

I did not celebrate the Fourth of July today.
This goes back to a term paper I wrote in graduate school. It was on Colonial taxation in the British North American Colonies in 1775. Not counting local taxation, I discovered that the total burden of British imperial taxation was about 1% of national income. It may have been as high as 2.5% in the southern Colonies.
In 2008, Alvin Rabushka’s book of almost 1,000 pages appeared: Taxation in Colonial America (Princeton University Press). A review published in the Business History Review summarizes the book’s findings.
Rabushka’s most original and impressive contribution is his measurement of tax rates and tax burdens. However, his estimate of comparative transatlantic tax burdens may be a bit of moving target. At one point, he concludes that in the period from 1764–1775 “the nearly 2 million white Colonists in America paid on the order of about 1% of the annual taxes levied on the roughly 8.5 million residents of Britain, or 1/25th in per capita terms, not taking into account the higher average income and consumption in the Colonies” (p. 729). Later he writes that on the eve of the Revolution, “British tax burdens were 10 or more times heavier than those in the Colonies” (p. 867). Other scholars may want to refine his estimates, based on other archival sources, different treatment of technical issues such as the adjustment of inter-Colonial and transatlantic comparisons for exchange rates or new estimates of comparative income and wealth. Nonetheless, no one is likely to challenge his most important finding: the huge tax gap between the American periphery and the core of the British Empire.
Was the Declaration of Independence Built Upon a Lie?
Taxation in Colonial A... Rabushka, Alvin Best Price: $41.35 Buy New $45.95 (as of 02:46 UTC - Details) The Colonists had a sweet deal in 1775. Great Britain was the second-freest nation on Earth. Switzerland was probably the most free nation, but I would be hard-pressed to identify any other nation in 1775 that was ahead of Great Britain. And in Great Britain’s Empire, the Colonists were by far the freest.
I will say it, loud and clear: The freest society on Earth in 1775 was British North America, with the obvious exception of the slave system. Anyone who was not a slave had incomparable freedom.
Jefferson wrote these words in the Declaration of Independence:
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
I can think of no more misleading political assessment uttered by any leader in the history of the United States. No words having such great impact historically in this nation were less true. No political bogeymen invoked by any political sect as “the liar of the century” ever said anything as verifiably false as these words.
The Continental Congress declared independence on July 2, 1776. Some members signed the Declaration on July 4. The public in general believed the leaders at the Continental Congress. They did not understand what they were about to give up. They could not see what price in blood and treasure and debt they would soon pay. And they did not foresee the tax burden in the new nation after 1783.
In his book, Rabushka gets to the point:
Historians have written that taxes in the new American nation rose and remained considerably higher, perhaps three times as much, than they were under British rule. More money was required for national defense than previously needed to defend the frontier from Indians and the French, and the new nation faced other expenses.
So as a result of the American Revolution, the tax burden tripled.
The debt burden soared as soon as the Revolution began. Monetary inflation wiped out the currency system. Price controls in 1777 produced the debacle of Valley Forge. Percy Greaves, a disciple of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises and for 17 years an attendee at his seminar, wrote this in 1972:
Our Continental Congress first authorized the printing of Continental notes in 1775. The Congress was warned against printing more and more of them. In a 1776 pamphlet, Pelatiah Webster, America’s first economist, told his fellow men that Continental currency might soon become worthless unless something was done to curb the further printing and issuance of this paper money. Marx’s Religion ... North, Gary Best Price: $15.99 Buy New $30.00 (as of 06:00 UTC - Details) The people and the Congress refused to listen to his wise advice. With more and more paper money in circulation, consumers kept bidding up prices. Pork rose from 4 cents to 8 cents a pound. Beef soared from about 4 cents to 100 a pound. As one historian tells us, “By November 1777, commodity prices were 480% above the prewar average.” The situation became so bad in Pennsylvania that the people and legislature of this state decided to try “a period of price control, limited to domestic commodities essential for the use of the Army.” It was thought that this would reduce the cost of feeding and supplying our Continental Army. It was expected to reduce the burden of war. The prices of uncontrolled imported goods then went sky-high, and it was almost impossible to buy any of the domestic commodities needed for the Army. The controls were quite arbitrary. Many farmers refused to sell their goods at the prescribed prices. Few would take the paper Continentals. Some, with large families to feed and clothe, sold their farm products stealthily to the British in return for gold. For it was only with gold that they could buy the necessities of life which they could not produce for themselves. On Dec. 5, 1777, the Army’s quartermaster-general, refusing to pay more than the government-set prices, issued a statement from his Reading, Pennsylvania, headquarters saying, “If the farmers do not like the prices allowed them for this produce, let them choose men of more learning and understanding the next election.” This was the winter of Valley Forge, the very nadir of American history. On Dec. 23, 1777, George Washington wrote to the president of the Congress “that, notwithstanding it is a standing order, and often repeated, that the troops shall always have two days’ provisions by them, that they might be ready at any sudden call; yet an opportunity has scarcely ever offered, of taking an advantage of the enemy that has not been either totally obstructed, or greatly impeded, on this account… We have no less than 2,898 men now in camp unfit for duty, because they are barefoot and otherwise naked… I am now convinced beyond a doubt, that, unless some great and capital change suddenly takes place, this Army must inevitably be reduced to one or other of these three things: starve, dissolve or disperse in order to obtain subsistence in the best manner they can.”
“There Was No British Tyranny, and Surely Not in North America”
Only after the price control laws were repealed in 1778 could the Army buy food again. But the hyperinflation of the Continentals and state-issued currencies replaced the pre-Revolution system of silver currency: Spanish pieces of eight.
The proponents of independence invoked British tyranny in North America. But there was no British tyranny in North America. Christian Economics in... North, Gary Buy New $2.99 (as of 02:46 UTC - Details)
In 1872, Frederick Engels wrote an article, “On Authority.” He criticized anarchists, whom he called anti-authoritarians. His description of the authoritarian character of all armed revolutions should remind us of the costs of revolution.
A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon — authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionists.
After the American Revolution, 46,000 British Loyalists fled to Canada and other places controlled by the crown. They were not willing to swear allegiance to the new Colonial governments. They retained their loyalty to the nation that had delivered to them the greatest liberty on Earth. They had not committed treason.
The revolutionaries are not remembered as treasonous. The victors write the history books.
The Boston Tea Party: A Protest Against Lower Tea Prices
What would libertarians — even conservatives — give today in order to return to an era in which the central government extracted 1% of the nation’s wealth? Where there was no income tax?
Would they describe such a society as tyrannical?
That the largest signature on the Declaration of Independence was signed by the richest smuggler in North America was no coincidence. He was hopping mad. Parliament in 1773 had cut the tax on tea imported by the British East India Co., so the cost of British tea went lower than the smugglers’ cost on non-British tea.
This had cost Hancock a pretty penny. The Tea Party had stopped the unloading of the tea by throwing privately owned tea off a privately owned ship — a ship in competition with Hancock’s ships. The Boston Tea Party was, in fact, a well-organized protest against lower prices stemming from lower taxes.
So once again, I’m not celebrating the Fourth of July today.
Reprinted with permission from The Daily Reckoning.
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A Double Whammy

“ Now while Paul waited for them at Athens , his spirit was stirred in him , when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry ” ~ Acts 17:16 Many Christians recently received a double whammy of blasphemy and idolatry because the Fourth of July fell on a Saturday this year .
Most churches—and especially conservative , evangelical churches—usually have some kind of a patriotic service on the Sunday before the Fourth of July .
If you have the misfortune of attending , there you will see the church building and the grounds around the church decorated with American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ troops and government officials , see military personnel wearing their uniforms to church , recite the Pledge of Allegiance , see veterans recognized , read the church bulletin with an American flag on the cover , see men wearing cross and flag lapel pins , and sing hymns of worship to the state .
War , Christianity , and ... Laurence M. Vance Best Price : $ 8.95 Buy New $ 9.95 What happened this year is that some churches moved their patriotic services to Sunday July fifth since that is only one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not being content with just one Sunday of blasphemy and idolatry , some churches also had in addition a mini patriotic service on the Sunday before the Fourth of July , hence the double whammy .
This may have consisted of just one hymn of worship to the state to open the service or the choir singing just a medley of patriotic songs rather than the whole service being devoted to singing hymns of worship to the state .
The extra American flags may have been put up already .
What ended up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ church didn ’ t announce that its patriotic service was being moved .
Therefore , Christians who didn ’ t want to engage in corporate worship of the state who stayed home on the Sunday before the Fourth of July like they normally do were shocked to see idolatry and blasphemy on full display on July fifth when they weren ’ t expecting it .
Their double whammy was different .
They missed what probably would have been a normal church service and then had to unexpectedly sit through a patriotic service .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ up and went back home or did something more spiritual like go to a park or the beach .
If the Apostle Paul were here today , he would see most of the churches wholly given to idolatry ; that is , if they were open .
The Free Society Laurence M. Vance Best Price : $ 13.55 Buy New $ 17.54 Some churches are still closed because they have the fear of the coronavirus instead of the fear of the Lord .
Many churches that are open are what I call CDC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CDC guidelines to be the gospel truth : mask wearing , social distancing , etc .
But even in churches that no longer do these things and perhaps even never did any of these things , blasphemy and idolatry was still on full display during their patriotic services .
What makes patriotic services worse this year is that even though we are living through the greatest power grab , the greatest violation of civil liberties , and the greatest destruction of property rights by government at all levels ( federal , state , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American history , most churches are still singing hymns of worship to the state and talking about how free America is while our freedoms are disappearing right before our eyes .
See this , this and this .
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“Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry” ~ Acts 17:16
Many Christians recently received a double whammy of blasphemy and idolatry because the Fourth of July fell on a Saturday this year.
Most churches—and especially conservative, evangelical churches—usually have some kind of a patriotic service on the Sunday before the Fourth of July. If you have the misfortune of attending, there you will see the church building and the grounds around the church decorated with American flags, hear special prayers for the troops and government officials, see military personnel wearing their uniforms to church, recite the Pledge of Allegiance, see veterans recognized, read the church bulletin with an American flag on the cover, see men wearing cross and flag lapel pins, and sing hymns of worship to the state.
War, Christianity, and... Laurence M. Vance Best Price: $8.95 Buy New $9.95 (as of 09:10 UTC - Details) What happened this year is that some churches moved their patriotic services to Sunday July fifth since that is only one day removed from the fourth. But not being content with just one Sunday of blasphemy and idolatry, some churches also had in addition a mini patriotic service on the Sunday before the Fourth of July, hence the double whammy.
This may have consisted of just one hymn of worship to the state to open the service or the choir singing just a medley of patriotic songs rather than the whole service being devoted to singing hymns of worship to the state. The extra American flags may have been put up already.
What ended up happening in some cases is that the church didn’t announce that its patriotic service was being moved. Therefore, Christians who didn’t want to engage in corporate worship of the state who stayed home on the Sunday before the Fourth of July like they normally do were shocked to see idolatry and blasphemy on full display on July fifth when they weren’t expecting it. Their double whammy was different. They missed what probably would have been a normal church service and then had to unexpectedly sit through a patriotic service. Unless, of course, they got up and went back home or did something more spiritual like go to a park or the beach.
If the Apostle Paul were here today, he would see most of the churches wholly given to idolatry; that is, if they were open.
The Free Society Laurence M. Vance Best Price: $13.55 Buy New $17.54 (as of 04:55 UTC - Details) Some churches are still closed because they have the fear of the coronavirus instead of the fear of the Lord. Many churches that are open are what I call CDC churches because they consider all of the CDC guidelines to be the gospel truth: mask wearing, social distancing, etc.
But even in churches that no longer do these things and perhaps even never did any of these things, blasphemy and idolatry was still on full display during their patriotic services.
What makes patriotic services worse this year is that even though we are living through the greatest power grab, the greatest violation of civil liberties, and the greatest destruction of property rights by government at all levels (federal, state, county, city) in all of American history, most churches are still singing hymns of worship to the state and talking about how free America is while our freedoms are disappearing right before our eyes.
See this, this and this.
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lewrockwell--2020-07-06--Maxwell Didn’t Kill Herself by Getting Arrested

Ghislaine Maxwell was caught in New Hampshire .
Jeffrey Epstein ’ s partner-in-crime is now in U.S. custody in the darkest of all places , the Southern District of New York ( SDNY ) .
The first thing on everyone ’ s mind should be , “ Which faction actually has her and how long will she survive ?
” I can ’ t answer those questions but it doesn ’ t hurt to run out a few scenarios , all of which , at this point , are pure speculation .
When Epstein was arrested the same questions hung @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Deep State getting a hold of him to shut him up ?
Was this Donald Trump trying to tie up a ‘ loose end ?
’ Or was Trump and new Attorney General William Barr putting operational tempo on their opponents forcing Epstein into a potentially explosive situation ?
History of the Deep St ... Stone , Jeremy Buy New $ 14.99 The raid on Epstein ’ s home was conducted under the auspice of an indictment filed in the SDNY , a place “ where the worst crimes in the world…go unpunished @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a piece about Trump and Barr going after U.S. Attorney there Geoffrey Berman .
Trump and Barr took another shot at getting someone less controlled by the Deep State in charge of the SDNY and it looks like , for now , that they missed the mark .
With Berman gone , but in such a way as to allow his hand-picked assistant , Audrey Strauss , to take over , rather than anyone picked by Barr and Trump , this arrest seems way out of place .
Now , Strauss , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Trump ’ s mentors , Roy Cohn , has to be considered suspect .
Because the furor over Berman ’ s removal died down immediately after she was put in place .
And she ’ s in charge of the fate of the most important person in the world at the moment , Ghislaine Maxwell .
Because Maxwell knows everything .
If Epstein was the CEO of their international blackmail operation , Maxwell was the COO , in charge of the day-to-day operations .
Strauss ’ s indictment dog and pony show @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all the salacious bits pertaining to the indictment which only covers the period from 1995 to 1997 .
It neatly avoided any of the real implications of Maxwell ’ s apprehension , the systematic entrapment and blackmailing of major political and economic figures the world over .
L ’ affair Epstein is the big one with the potential to uncover decades of endemic corruption that is truly global in nature .
So , while we all joke about the Clinton body count , the truth is that there were plenty of people who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people today want Ghislaine Maxwell dead .
The CIA as Organized C ... Valentine , Douglas Best Price : $ 21.35 Buy New $ 23.74 The problem , of course , with analyzing this situation is that all theories about who those people might be are entirely reasonable .
Logic dictates that Trump is not one of those people , despite the pictures and the old society page quotes from Trump linking him to Epstein .
And we know this simply because after Epstein died in prison he disappeared from the news cycle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Trump ’ s deeper involvement with Epstein that information would have already come out and Trump would no longer be president .
The man who led the raid on Epstein ’ s home was Geoffrey Berman .
The man slow-rolling the investigation into Epstein ?
Berman .
The guy William Barr fired for not actively pursuing DoJ priorities pertaining to Epstein and Joe Biden while pursuing frivolous complaints about Donald Trump ?
Berman .
The guy who refused to resign to force Trump to fire him and block a recess appointment to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And the histrionics surrounding Barr ’ s removing Berman died down the minute his hand-picked ( plucked from retirement ) assistant was given the job .
Forgive me for not feeling comfortable with Maxwell ’ s future relationship with oxygen .
The Phoenix Program Douglas Valentine Best Price : $ 14.55 Buy New $ 11.00 If anything , what ’ s happening here is that Trump and Barr keep pushing the tempo against the people who are trying to remove him from office by any means necessary .
Maxwell ’ s arrest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ kill her too to protect themselves , again .
It ’ s also , in my opinion , a signal that Trump isn ’ t going down without a fight and that he may be at the point where he ’ s willing to burn the entire rotten edifice down on his way out the door .
Because at this point it should be clear to everyone that if Trump loses this November he and his family will be hounded into oblivion .
Anything he ’ s accomplished as president , some of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to reform and remake the judiciary and federal agencies , will be undone within days of his leaving office .
Trump has nothing left to lose at this point .
So , why not pull the trigger on arresting Maxwell , forcing the SDNY ’ s hand and try to force out into the open the evidence Berman sat on in relation to Epstein ?
With each and every move Trump makes , there is a series of firewalls and roadblocks erected to thwart any real movement on the endemic corruption .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to truly parse who has the upper hand in all of this .
At a minimum , ending the Epstein/Maxwell blackmail operation is a good thing .
Exposing even some of their dealings to scrutiny and forcing some conversation about them is also an unmitigated good thing .
Whether this can all be turned on its head to burn Donald Trump is , frankly , irrelevant .
Because at this point there is now a large enough group of people reporting on the various parts of this story that it won ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The most troubling thing about this story is that Maxwell was found in New Hampshire , removing herself from French protection .
Patrick Henningsen at 21st Century Wire traces down some of the threads linking Maxwell to Prince Andrew who refuses to cooperate with the FBI .
NATO ’ s Secret Ar ... Daniele , Ganser Best Price : $ 70.25 Buy New $ 53.31 And why would she do this ?
Because , one she ’ s the daughter of Robert Maxwell , a British media tycoon with close ties and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , she considers Prince Andrew a close friend who , according to a November report from The Telegraph would corroborate Andrew ’ s denial he ever had sex with an underage girl .
Tracing another British connection , given that Chief Cabinet Secretary and National Security Director Sir Mark Sedwill was fired by Boris Johnson just before the Brexit extension deadline passed this week , could this be a counter to Sedwill ’ s removal given his deep ties to British Intelligence and his staunch opposition to Brexit ?
If so , then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Trump ’ s purposes .
Remember , that I believe the meeting between Trump and Queen Elizabeth last year , which was fought virulently by the Remain crowd at the time , created a new alliance between Trump , Johnson and the Queen to rescue the U.K. from the hands of globalists like Sedwill , Theresa May and Tony Blair .
So , this attempt by Berman and Strauss to make the Epstein case all about Prince Andrew ’ s involvement is to destroy what ’ s left of the British royal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a time when the odds of a No-Deal Brexit are rising significantly .
The Narrow Corridor : S ... Robinson , James A .
Best Price : $ 15.54 Buy New $ 18.79 This would track , then , with the time line of Barr firing Berman to protect the crown while Trump has been on the warpath against Germany and the EU is deep into its next stage of evolution , ramming debt mutualization and fiscal integration consolidated under the ECB and the European Commission .
It ’ s murky , convoluted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s operations were designed from the ground up to procure this exact type of leverage it has to be considered .
Ultimately , the crimes here are monstrous .
Getting to the truth of them is only scratching the surface of this story , which goes much deeper .
Maxwell ’ s life story is one that forces more people to come face to face with the kind of corruption that we hate to admit to ourselves about our governments and leadership .
But we must admit these crimes or ourselves be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of this whole thing is the lengths our media will go to as paid white washers of the truth in order to continue enjoying their proximity to power .
We ’ ll find out soon why Maxwell effectively turned herself in and to whom .
But I doubt someone of her capabilities and connections did so to willingly put her head in the hangman ’ s noose .
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Ghislaine Maxwell was caught in New Hampshire. Jeffrey Epstein’s partner-in-crime is now in U.S. custody in the darkest of all places, the Southern District of New York (SDNY).
The first thing on everyone’s mind should be, “Which faction actually has her and how long will she survive?”
I can’t answer those questions but it doesn’t hurt to run out a few scenarios, all of which, at this point, are pure speculation. When Epstein was arrested the same questions hung in the air.
Was this the Deep State getting a hold of him to shut him up? Was this Donald Trump trying to tie up a ‘loose end?’ Or was Trump and new Attorney General William Barr putting operational tempo on their opponents forcing Epstein into a potentially explosive situation?
History of the Deep St... Stone, Jeremy Buy New $14.99 (as of 06:14 UTC - Details) The raid on Epstein’s home was conducted under the auspice of an indictment filed in the SDNY, a place “where the worst crimes in the world…go unpunished,” as I noted recently in a piece about Trump and Barr going after U.S. Attorney there Geoffrey Berman.
Trump and Barr took another shot at getting someone less controlled by the Deep State in charge of the SDNY and it looks like, for now, that they missed the mark.
With Berman gone, but in such a way as to allow his hand-picked assistant, Audrey Strauss, to take over, rather than anyone picked by Barr and Trump, this arrest seems way out of place.
Now, Strauss, a woman who prosecuted legendary mobster and one of Trump’s mentors, Roy Cohn, has to be considered suspect. Because the furor over Berman’s removal died down immediately after she was put in place.
And she’s in charge of the fate of the most important person in the world at the moment, Ghislaine Maxwell. Because Maxwell knows everything. If Epstein was the CEO of their international blackmail operation, Maxwell was the COO, in charge of the day-to-day operations.
Strauss’s indictment dog and pony show announcing Maxwell’s arrest focused on all the salacious bits pertaining to the indictment which only covers the period from 1995 to 1997.
It neatly avoided any of the real implications of Maxwell’s apprehension, the systematic entrapment and blackmailing of major political and economic figures the world over.
L’affair Epstein is the big one with the potential to uncover decades of endemic corruption that is truly global in nature. So, while we all joke about the Clinton body count, the truth is that there were plenty of people who wanted him dead.
And those same people today want Ghislaine Maxwell dead. The CIA as Organized C... Valentine, Douglas Best Price: $21.35 Buy New $23.74 (as of 11:36 UTC - Details)
The problem, of course, with analyzing this situation is that all theories about who those people might be are entirely reasonable.
Logic dictates that Trump is not one of those people, despite the pictures and the old society page quotes from Trump linking him to Epstein. And we know this simply because after Epstein died in prison he disappeared from the news cycle.
If there was any real truth to Trump’s deeper involvement with Epstein that information would have already come out and Trump would no longer be president.
The man who led the raid on Epstein’s home was Geoffrey Berman.
The man slow-rolling the investigation into Epstein? Berman.
The guy William Barr fired for not actively pursuing DoJ priorities pertaining to Epstein and Joe Biden while pursuing frivolous complaints about Donald Trump? Berman.
The guy who refused to resign to force Trump to fire him and block a recess appointment to his job at the SDNY? Berman.
And the histrionics surrounding Barr’s removing Berman died down the minute his hand-picked (plucked from retirement) assistant was given the job.
Forgive me for not feeling comfortable with Maxwell’s future relationship with oxygen. The Phoenix Program Douglas Valentine Best Price: $14.55 Buy New $11.00 (as of 04:30 UTC - Details)
If anything, what’s happening here is that Trump and Barr keep pushing the tempo against the people who are trying to remove him from office by any means necessary.
Maxwell’s arrest could be a dare to them to kill her too to protect themselves, again. It’s also, in my opinion, a signal that Trump isn’t going down without a fight and that he may be at the point where he’s willing to burn the entire rotten edifice down on his way out the door.
Because at this point it should be clear to everyone that if Trump loses this November he and his family will be hounded into oblivion. Anything he’s accomplished as president, some of which is very good, in trying to reform and remake the judiciary and federal agencies, will be undone within days of his leaving office.
Trump has nothing left to lose at this point. So, why not pull the trigger on arresting Maxwell, forcing the SDNY’s hand and try to force out into the open the evidence Berman sat on in relation to Epstein?
With each and every move Trump makes, there is a series of firewalls and roadblocks erected to thwart any real movement on the endemic corruption.
And the frustrating part is not being able to truly parse who has the upper hand in all of this. At a minimum, ending the Epstein/Maxwell blackmail operation is a good thing.
Exposing even some of their dealings to scrutiny and forcing some conversation about them is also an unmitigated good thing. Whether this can all be turned on its head to burn Donald Trump is, frankly, irrelevant.
Because at this point there is now a large enough group of people reporting on the various parts of this story that it won’t simply go gently into that good night.
The most troubling thing about this story is that Maxwell was found in New Hampshire, removing herself from French protection.
Patrick Henningsen at 21st Century Wire traces down some of the threads linking Maxwell to Prince Andrew who refuses to cooperate with the FBI. NATO’s Secret Ar... Daniele, Ganser Best Price: $70.25 Buy New $53.31 (as of 03:43 UTC - Details)
The answer to that question may very well have something to do with her friend Prince Andrew, who has been in a six-month standoff with the FBI who have wanted to interview him over his relations with Epstein and to answer to victims’ accusations of under-age sexual abuse. Could Maxwell have been summoned by the powers that be in order to provide a buffer against any further overtures by authorities towards the British Royal Family?
And why would she do this? Because, one she’s the daughter of Robert Maxwell, a British media tycoon with close ties and connections to British intelligence. And two, she considers Prince Andrew a close friend who, according to a November report from The Telegraph would corroborate Andrew’s denial he ever had sex with an underage girl.
Tracing another British connection, given that Chief Cabinet Secretary and National Security Director Sir Mark Sedwill was fired by Boris Johnson just before the Brexit extension deadline passed this week, could this be a counter to Sedwill’s removal given his deep ties to British Intelligence and his staunch opposition to Brexit?
If so, then Maxwell giving herself up serves a few of Trump’s purposes. Remember, that I believe the meeting between Trump and Queen Elizabeth last year, which was fought virulently by the Remain crowd at the time, created a new alliance between Trump, Johnson and the Queen to rescue the U.K. from the hands of globalists like Sedwill, Theresa May and Tony Blair.
So, this attempt by Berman and Strauss to make the Epstein case all about Prince Andrew’s involvement is to destroy what’s left of the British royal family and undermine the U.K. government at a time when the odds of a No-Deal Brexit are rising significantly.
The Narrow Corridor: S... Robinson, James A. Best Price: $15.54 Buy New $18.79 (as of 06:17 UTC - Details) This would track, then, with the time line of Barr firing Berman to protect the crown while Trump has been on the warpath against Germany and the EU is deep into its next stage of evolution, ramming debt mutualization and fiscal integration consolidated under the ECB and the European Commission.
It’s murky, convoluted and probably wrong, but since Maxwell/Epstein’s operations were designed from the ground up to procure this exact type of leverage it has to be considered.
Ultimately, the crimes here are monstrous. Getting to the truth of them is only scratching the surface of this story, which goes much deeper.
Maxwell’s life story is one that forces more people to come face to face with the kind of corruption that we hate to admit to ourselves about our governments and leadership.
But we must admit these crimes or ourselves be complicit in them. The saddest part of this whole thing is the lengths our media will go to as paid white washers of the truth in order to continue enjoying their proximity to power.
We’ll find out soon why Maxwell effectively turned herself in and to whom. But I doubt someone of her capabilities and connections did so to willingly put her head in the hangman’s noose.
Reprinted with permission from Gold Goats ‘n Guns.
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