lewrockwell--2020-08-06--Another Hiroshima Is Coming, Unless We Stop It Now

When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967 , the shadow on the steps was still there .
It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease : legs splayed , back bent , one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open .
At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6 , 1945 , she and her silhouette were burned into the granite .
I stared at the shadow for an hour or more , then I walked down to the river where the survivors still lived in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Yukio , whose chest was etched with the pattern of the shirt he was wearing when the atomic bomb was dropped .
He described a huge flash over the city , “ a bluish light , something like an electrical short ” , after which wind blew like a tornado and black rain fell .
“ I was thrown on the ground and noticed only the stalks of my flowers were left .
Everything was still and quiet , and when I got up , there were people naked , not saying anything @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or hair .
I was certain I was dead.
” ” Socialism Is Gr ... Zhang , Lijia Best Price : $ 1.94 Buy New $ 12.11 Nine years later , I returned to look for him and he was dead from leukaemia .
“ No radioactivity in Hiroshima ruin ” said The New York Times front page on 13 September , 1945 , a classic of planted disinformation .
“ General Farrell , ” reported William H. Lawrence , “ denied categorically that [ the atomic bomb ] produced a dangerous , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wilfred Burchett , an Australian , had braved the perilous journey to Hiroshima in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing , in defiance of the Allied occupation authorities , which controlled the “ press pack ” .
“ I write this as a warning to the world , ” reported Burchett in the London Daily Express of September 5,1945 .
Sitting in the rubble with his Baby Hermes typewriter , he described hospital wards filled with people with no visible injuries who were dying from what he called “ an atomic plague @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accreditation was withdrawn , he was pilloried and smeared .
His witness to the truth was never forgiven .
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was an act of premeditated mass murder that unleashed a weapon of intrinsic criminality .
It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of America ’ s war propaganda in the 21st century , casting a new enemy , and target – China .
During the 75 years since Hiroshima , the most enduring lie is that the atomic bomb was dropped to end the war @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ Even without the atomic bombing attacks , ” concluded the United States Strategic Bombing Survey of 1946 , “ air supremacy over Japan could have exerted sufficient pressure to bring about unconditional surrender and obviate the need for invasion .
“ Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts , and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved , it is the Survey ’ s opinion that … Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped , even if Russia had not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.
” The National Archives in Washington contains documented Japanese peace overtures as early as 1943 .
None was pursued .
A cable sent on May 5 , 1945 by the German ambassador in Tokyo and intercepted by the US made clear the Japanese were desperate to sue for peace , including “ capitulation even if the terms were hard ” .
Nothing was done .
Hidden Hand : Exposing ... Ohlberg , Mareike Buy New $ 27.00 The US Secretary of War , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was “ fearful ” that the US Air Force would have Japan so “ bombed out ” that the new weapon would not be able “ to show its strength ” .
Stimson later admitted that “ no effort was made , and none was seriously considered , to achieve surrender merely in order not to have to use the [ atomic ] bomb ” .
Stimson ’ s foreign policy colleagues — looking ahead to the post-war era they were then shaping “ in our image ” , as Cold War planner @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clear they were eager “ to browbeat the Russians with the [ atomic ] bomb held rather ostentatiously on our hip ” .
General Leslie Groves , director of the Manhattan Project that made the atomic bomb , testified : “ There was never any illusion on my part that Russia was our enemy , and that the project was conducted on that basis.
” The day after Hiroshima was obliterated , President Harry Truman voiced his satisfaction with the “ overwhelming success ” of “ the experiment ” .
The “ experiment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over .
Between 1946 and 1958 , the United States exploded 67 nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific : the equivalent of more than one Hiroshima every day for 12 years .
The human and environmental consequences were catastrophic .
During the filming of my documentary , The Coming War on China , I chartered a small aircraft and flew to Bikini Atoll in the Marshalls .
It was here that the United States exploded the world ’ s first Hydrogen Bomb .
It remains poisoned earth .
My shoes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ counter .
Palm trees stood in unworldly formations .
There were no birds .
I trekked through the jungle to the concrete bunker where , at 6.45 on the morning of March 1 , 1954 , the button was pushed .
The sun , which had risen , rose again and vaporised an entire island in the lagoon , leaving a vast black hole , which from the air is a menacing spectacle : a deathly void in a place of beauty .
The radioactive fall-out spread quickly and “ unexpectedly ” .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ changed suddenly ” .
It was the first of many lies , as declassified documents and the victims ’ testimony reveal .
Gene Curbow , a meteorologist assigned to monitor the test site , said , “ They knew where the radioactive fall-out was going to go .
Even on the day of the shot , they still had an opportunity to evacuate people , but [ people ] were not evacuated ; I was not evacuated… The United States needed some guinea pigs to study what the effects of radiation would do.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Marshall Islands was a calculated experiment on the lives of large numbers of people .
This was Project 4.1 , which began as a scientific study of mice and became an experiment on “ human beings exposed to the radiation of a nuclear weapon ” .
China : The Bubble that ... Orlik , Thomas Best Price : $ 22.20 Buy New $ 21.99 The Marshall Islanders I met in 2015 — like the survivors of Hiroshima I interviewed in the 1960s and 70s — suffered from a range of cancers , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ died .
Miscarriages and stillbirths were common ; those babies who lived were often deformed horribly .
Unlike Bikini , nearby Rongelap atoll had not been evacuated during the H-Bomb test .
Directly downwind of Bikini , Rongelap ’ s skies darkened and it rained what first appeared to be snowflakes .
Food and water were contaminated ; and the population fell victim to cancers .
That is still true today .
I met Nerje Joseph , who showed me a photograph of herself as a child on Rongelap .
She had terrible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hair missing .
“ We were bathing at the well on the day the bomb exploded , ” she said .
“ White dust started falling from the sky .
I reached to catch the powder .
We used it as soap to wash our hair .
A few days later , my hair started falling out.
” Lemoyo Abon said , “ Some of us were in agony .
Others had diarrhoea .
We were terrified .
We thought it must be the end of the world.
” US official archive film @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the islanders as “ amenable savages ” .
In the wake of the explosion , a US Atomic Energy Agency official is seen boasting that Rongelap “ is by far the most contaminated place on earth ” , adding , “ it will be interesting to get a measure of human uptake when people live in a contaminated environment.
” American scientists , including medical doctors , built distinguished careers studying the “ human uptake ’ .
There they are in flickering film , in their white coats , attentive with their clipboards @ @ @ @ @ @ @ teens , his family received a sympathy card from the scientist who studied him .
I have reported from five nuclear “ ground zeros ” throughout the world — in Japan , the Marshall Islands , Nevada , Polynesia and Maralinga in Australia .
Even more than my experience as a war correspondent , this has taught me about the ruthlessness and immorality of great power : that is , imperial power , whose cynicism is the true enemy of humanity .
This struck me forcibly when I filmed at Taranaki Ground Zero @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In a dish-like crater was an obelisk on which was inscribed : “ A British atomic weapon was test exploded here on 9 October 1957 ” .
On the rim of the crater was this sign : Has China Won ?
: The Ch ... Mahbubani , Kishore Best Price : $ 22.23 Buy New $ 19.89 around this point may be above those considered For as far as the eye could see , and beyond , the ground was irradiated .
Raw plutonium lay about , scattered like talcum powder : plutonium @ @ @ @ @ @ @ third of a milligram gives a 50 per cent chance of cancer .
The only people who might have seen the sign were Indigenous Australians , for whom there was no warning .
According to an official account , if they were lucky “ they were shooed off like rabbits ” .
Today , an unprecedented campaign of propaganda is shooing us all off like rabbits .
We are not meant to question the daily torrent of anti-Chinese rhetoric , which is rapidly overtaking the torrent of anti-Russia rhetoric .
Anything Chinese is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wuhan … .
Huawei .
How confusing it is when “ our ” most reviled leader says so .
The current phase of this campaign began not with Trump but with Barack Obama , who in 2011 flew to Australia to declare the greatest build-up of US naval forces in the Asia-Pacific region since World War Two .
Suddenly , China was a “ threat ” .
This was nonsense , of course .
What was threatened was America ’ s unchallenged psychopathic view of itself as the richest , the most successful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
What was never in dispute was its prowess as a bully — with more than 30 members of the United Nations suffering American sanctions of some kind and a trail of the blood running through defenceless countries bombed , their governments overthrown , their elections interfered with , their resources plundered .
Obama ’ s declaration became known as the “ pivot to Asia ” .
One of its principal advocates was his Secretary of State , Hillary Clinton , who , as WikiLeaks revealed , wanted to rename the Pacific Ocean @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Clinton never concealed her warmongering , Obama was a maestro of marketing.
” I state clearly and with conviction , ” said the new president in 2009 , “ that America ’ s commitment is to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.
” Obama increased spending on nuclear warheads faster than any president since the end of the Cold War .
A “ usable ” nuclear weapon was developed .
Known as the B61 Model 12 , it means , according to General James Cartwright , former vice-chair @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that “ going smaller [ makes its use ] more thinkable ” .
The target is China .
Today , more than 400 American military bases almost encircle China with missiles , bombers , warships and nuclear weapons .
From Australia north through the Pacific to South-East Asia , Japan and Korea and across Eurasia to Afghanistan and India , the bases form , as one US strategist told me , “ the perfect noose ” .
A study by the RAND Corporation – which , since Vietnam , has planned America ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China : Thinking Through the Unthinkable .
Commissioned by the US Army , the authors evoke the infamous catch cry of its chief Cold War strategist , Herman Kahn – “ thinking the unthinkable ” .
Kahn ’ s book , On Thermonuclear War , elaborated a plan for a “ winnable ” nuclear war .
Kahn ’ s apocalyptic view is shared by Trump ’ s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo , an evangelical fanatic who believes in the “ rapture of the End ” .
He is perhaps the most dangerous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ director , ” he boasted , “ We lied , we cheated , we stole .
It was like we had entire training courses.
” Pompeo ’ s obsession is China .
The endgame of Pompeo ’ s extremism is rarely if ever discussed in the Anglo-American media , where the myths and fabrications about China are standard fare , as were the lies about Iraq .
A virulent racism is the sub-text of this propaganda .
Classified “ yellow ” even though they were white , the Chinese are the only ethnic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ exclusion act ” from entering the United States , because they were Chinese .
Popular culture declared them sinister , untrustworthy , “ sneaky ” , depraved , diseased , immoral .
An Australian magazine , The Bulletin , was devoted to promoting fear of the “ yellow peril ” as if all of Asia was about to fall down on the whites-only colony by the force of gravity .
‘ The Chinese Octopus ’ , The Bulletin , Sydney 1886 , an early promoter of the “ Yellow Peril ” and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Powers writes , acknowledging China ’ s modernism , its secular morality and “ contributions to liberal thought threatened European face , so it became necessary to suppress China ’ s role in the Enlightenment debate … .
For centuries , China ’ s threat to the myth of Western superiority has made it an easy target for race-baiting.
” In the Sydney Morning Herald , tireless China-basher Peter Hartcher described those who spread Chinese influence in Australia as “ rats , flies , mosquitoes and sparrows ” .
Hartcher , who favourably @ @ @ @ @ @ @ likes to interpret the “ dreams ” of the current Chinese elite , to which he is apparently privy .
These are inspired by yearnings for the “ Mandate of Heaven ” of 2,000 years ago .
Ad nausea .
To combat this “ mandate ” , the Australian government of Scott Morrison has committed one of the most secure countries on earth , whose major trading partner is China , to hundreds of billions of dollars ’ worth of American missiles that can be fired at China .
The trickledown is already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by violent racism towards Asians , Australians of Chinese descent have formed a vigilante group to protect delivery riders .
Phone videos show a delivery rider punched in the face and a Chinese couple racially abused in a supermarket .
Between April and June , there were almost 400 racist attacks on Asian-Australians .
“ We are not your enemy , ” a high-ranking strategist in China told me , “ but if you [ in the West ] decide we are , we must prepare without delay.
” China ’ s arsenal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but it is growing fast , especially the development of maritime missiles designed to destroy fleets of ships .
“ For the first time , ” wrote Gregory Kulacki of the Union of Concerned Scientists , “ China is discussing putting its nuclear missiles on high alert so that they can be launched quickly on warning of an attack… This would be a significant and dangerous change in Chinese policy… ” In Washington , I met Amitai Etzioni , distinguished professor of international affairs at George Washington University , who wrote that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was planned , “ with strikes that could be mistakenly perceived [ by the Chinese ] as pre-emptive attempts to take out its nuclear weapons , thus cornering them into a terrible use-it-or-lose-it dilemma [ that would ] lead to nuclear war.
” In 2019 , the US staged its biggest single military exercise since the Cold War , much of it in high secrecy .
An armada of ships and long-range bombers rehearsed an “ Air-Sea Battle Concept for China ” – ASB – blocking sea lanes in the Straits of Malacca @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to oil , gas and other raw materials from the Middle East and Africa .
It is fear of such a blockade that has seen China develop its Belt and Road Initiative along the old Silk Road to Europe and urgently build strategic airstrips on disputed reefs and islets in the Spratly Islands .
In Shanghai , I met Lijia Zhang , a Beijing journalist and novelist , typical of a new class of outspoken mavericks .
Her best-selling book has the ironic title Socialism Is Great !
Having grown up in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has travelled and lived in the US and Europe .
“ Many Americans imagine , ” she said , “ that Chinese people live a miserable , repressed life with no freedom whatsoever .
The [ idea of ] the yellow peril has never left them… They have no idea there are some 500 million people being lifted out of poverty , and some would say it ’ s 600 million.
” Modern China ’ s epic achievements , its defeat of mass poverty , and the pride and contentment of its people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as Pew ) are wilfully unknown or misunderstood in the West .
This alone is a commentary on the lamentable state of Western journalism and the abandonment of honest reporting .
China ’ s repressive dark side and what we like to call its “ authoritarianism ” are the facade we are allowed to see almost exclusively .
It is as if we are fed unending tales of the evil super-villain Dr. Fu Manchu .
And it is time we asked why : before it is too late to stop the next Hiroshima @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are the author ’ s own and do not necessarily reflect MintPress News editorial policy .

When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open.
At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite.
I stared at the shadow for an hour or more, then I walked down to the river where the survivors still lived in shanties.
I met a man called Yukio, whose chest was etched with the pattern of the shirt he was wearing when the atomic bomb was dropped.
He described a huge flash over the city, “a bluish light, something like an electrical short”, after which wind blew like a tornado and black rain fell. “I was thrown on the ground and noticed only the stalks of my flowers were left. Everything was still and quiet, and when I got up, there were people naked, not saying anything. Some of them had no skin or hair. I was certain I was dead.” ”Socialism Is Gr... Zhang, Lijia Best Price: $1.94 Buy New $12.11 (as of 04:18 UTC - Details)
Nine years later, I returned to look for him and he was dead from leukaemia.
“No radioactivity in Hiroshima ruin” said The New York Times front page on 13 September, 1945, a classic of planted disinformation. “General Farrell,” reported William H. Lawrence, “denied categorically that [the atomic bomb] produced a dangerous, lingering radioactivity.”
Only one reporter, Wilfred Burchett, an Australian, had braved the perilous journey to Hiroshima in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing, in defiance of the Allied occupation authorities, which controlled the “press pack”.
“I write this as a warning to the world,” reported Burchett in the London Daily Express of September 5,1945. Sitting in the rubble with his Baby Hermes typewriter, he described hospital wards filled with people with no visible injuries who were dying from what he called “an atomic plague”.
For this, his press accreditation was withdrawn, he was pilloried and smeared. His witness to the truth was never forgiven.
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was an act of premeditated mass murder that unleashed a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of America’s war propaganda in the 21st century, casting a new enemy, and target – China.
During the 75 years since Hiroshima, the most enduring lie is that the atomic bomb was dropped to end the war in the Pacific and to save lives.
“Even without the atomic bombing attacks,” concluded the United States Strategic Bombing Survey of 1946, “air supremacy over Japan could have exerted sufficient pressure to bring about unconditional surrender and obviate the need for invasion. “Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey’s opinion that … Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war [against Japan] and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.”
The National Archives in Washington contains documented Japanese peace overtures as early as 1943. None was pursued. A cable sent on May 5, 1945 by the German ambassador in Tokyo and intercepted by the US made clear the Japanese were desperate to sue for peace, including “capitulation even if the terms were hard”. Nothing was done. Hidden Hand: Exposing ... Ohlberg, Mareike Buy New $27.00 (as of 04:18 UTC - Details)
The US Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, told President Truman he was “fearful” that the US Air Force would have Japan so “bombed out” that the new weapon would not be able “to show its strength”. Stimson later admitted that “no effort was made, and none was seriously considered, to achieve surrender merely in order not to have to use the [atomic] bomb”.
Stimson’s foreign policy colleagues — looking ahead to the post-war era they were then shaping “in our image”, as Cold War planner George Kennan famously put it — made clear they were eager “to browbeat the Russians with the [atomic] bomb held rather ostentatiously on our hip”. General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project that made the atomic bomb, testified: “There was never any illusion on my part that Russia was our enemy, and that the project was conducted on that basis.”
The day after Hiroshima was obliterated, President Harry Truman voiced his satisfaction with the “overwhelming success” of “the experiment”.
The “experiment” continued long after the war was over. Between 1946 and 1958, the United States exploded 67 nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific: the equivalent of more than one Hiroshima every day for 12 years.
The human and environmental consequences were catastrophic. During the filming of my documentary, The Coming War on China, I chartered a small aircraft and flew to Bikini Atoll in the Marshalls. It was here that the United States exploded the world’s first Hydrogen Bomb. It remains poisoned earth. My shoes registered “unsafe” on my Geiger counter. Palm trees stood in unworldly formations. There were no birds.
I trekked through the jungle to the concrete bunker where, at 6.45 on the morning of March 1, 1954, the button was pushed. The sun, which had risen, rose again and vaporised an entire island in the lagoon, leaving a vast black hole, which from the air is a menacing spectacle: a deathly void in a place of beauty.
The radioactive fall-out spread quickly and “unexpectedly”. The official history claims “the wind changed suddenly”. It was the first of many lies, as declassified documents and the victims’ testimony reveal.
Gene Curbow, a meteorologist assigned to monitor the test site, said, “They knew where the radioactive fall-out was going to go. Even on the day of the shot, they still had an opportunity to evacuate people, but [people] were not evacuated; I was not evacuated… The United States needed some guinea pigs to study what the effects of radiation would do.”
Like Hiroshima, the secret of the Marshall Islands was a calculated experiment on the lives of large numbers of people. This was Project 4.1, which began as a scientific study of mice and became an experiment on “human beings exposed to the radiation of a nuclear weapon”. China: The Bubble that... Orlik, Thomas Best Price: $22.20 Buy New $21.99 (as of 04:15 UTC - Details)
The Marshall Islanders I met in 2015 — like the survivors of Hiroshima I interviewed in the 1960s and 70s — suffered from a range of cancers, commonly thyroid cancer; thousands had already died. Miscarriages and stillbirths were common; those babies who lived were often deformed horribly.
Unlike Bikini, nearby Rongelap atoll had not been evacuated during the H-Bomb test. Directly downwind of Bikini, Rongelap’s skies darkened and it rained what first appeared to be snowflakes. Food and water were contaminated; and the population fell victim to cancers. That is still true today.
I met Nerje Joseph, who showed me a photograph of herself as a child on Rongelap. She had terrible facial burns and much of her was hair missing. “We were bathing at the well on the day the bomb exploded,” she said. “White dust started falling from the sky. I reached to catch the powder. We used it as soap to wash our hair. A few days later, my hair started falling out.”
Lemoyo Abon said, “Some of us were in agony. Others had diarrhoea. We were terrified. We thought it must be the end of the world.”
US official archive film I included in my film refers to the islanders as “amenable savages”. In the wake of the explosion, a US Atomic Energy Agency official is seen boasting that Rongelap “is by far the most contaminated place on earth”, adding, “it will be interesting to get a measure of human uptake when people live in a contaminated environment.”
American scientists, including medical doctors, built distinguished careers studying the “human uptake’. There they are in flickering film, in their white coats, attentive with their clipboards. When an islander died in his teens, his family received a sympathy card from the scientist who studied him.
I have reported from five nuclear “ground zeros” throughout the world — in Japan, the Marshall Islands, Nevada, Polynesia and Maralinga in Australia. Even more than my experience as a war correspondent, this has taught me about the ruthlessness and immorality of great power: that is, imperial power, whose cynicism is the true enemy of humanity.
This struck me forcibly when I filmed at Taranaki Ground Zero at Maralinga in the Australian desert. In a dish-like crater was an obelisk on which was inscribed: “A British atomic weapon was test exploded here on 9 October 1957”. On the rim of the crater was this sign: Has China Won?: The Ch... Mahbubani, Kishore Best Price: $22.23 Buy New $19.89 (as of 04:18 UTC - Details)
WARNING: RADIATION HAZARD
Radiation levels for a few hundred metres
around this point may be above those considered
safe for permanent occupation.
For as far as the eye could see, and beyond, the ground was irradiated. Raw plutonium lay about, scattered like talcum powder: plutonium is so dangerous to humans that a third of a milligram gives a 50 per cent chance of cancer.
The only people who might have seen the sign were Indigenous Australians, for whom there was no warning. According to an official account, if they were lucky “they were shooed off like rabbits”.
Today, an unprecedented campaign of propaganda is shooing us all off like rabbits. We are not meant to question the daily torrent of anti-Chinese rhetoric, which is rapidly overtaking the torrent of anti-Russia rhetoric. Anything Chinese is bad, anathema, a threat: Wuhan …. Huawei. How confusing it is when “our” most reviled leader says so.
The current phase of this campaign began not with Trump but with Barack Obama, who in 2011 flew to Australia to declare the greatest build-up of US naval forces in the Asia-Pacific region since World War Two. Suddenly, China was a “threat”. This was nonsense, of course. What was threatened was America’s unchallenged psychopathic view of itself as the richest, the most successful, the most “indispensable” nation.
What was never in dispute was its prowess as a bully — with more than 30 members of the United Nations suffering American sanctions of some kind and a trail of the blood running through defenceless countries bombed, their governments overthrown, their elections interfered with, their resources plundered.
Obama’s declaration became known as the “pivot to Asia”. One of its principal advocates was his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who, as WikiLeaks revealed, wanted to rename the Pacific Ocean “the American Sea”.
Whereas Clinton never concealed her warmongering, Obama was a maestro of marketing.”I state clearly and with conviction,” said the new president in 2009, “that America’s commitment is to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.”
Obama increased spending on nuclear warheads faster than any president since the end of the Cold War. A “usable” nuclear weapon was developed. Known as the B61 Model 12, it means, according to General James Cartwright, former vice-chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that “going smaller [makes its use] more thinkable”.
The target is China. Today, more than 400 American military bases almost encircle China with missiles, bombers, warships and nuclear weapons. From Australia north through the Pacific to South-East Asia, Japan and Korea and across Eurasia to Afghanistan and India, the bases form, as one US strategist told me, “the perfect noose”.
A study by the RAND Corporation – which, since Vietnam, has planned America’s wars – is entitled War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable. Commissioned by the US Army, the authors evoke the infamous catch cry of its chief Cold War strategist, Herman Kahn – “thinking the unthinkable”. Kahn’s book, On Thermonuclear War, elaborated a plan for a “winnable” nuclear war.
Kahn’s apocalyptic view is shared by Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, an evangelical fanatic who believes in the “rapture of the End”. He is perhaps the most dangerous man alive. “I was CIA director,” he boasted, “We lied, we cheated, we stole. It was like we had entire training courses.” Pompeo’s obsession is China.
The endgame of Pompeo’s extremism is rarely if ever discussed in the Anglo-American media, where the myths and fabrications about China are standard fare, as were the lies about Iraq. A virulent racism is the sub-text of this propaganda. Classified “yellow” even though they were white, the Chinese are the only ethnic group to have been banned by an “exclusion act” from entering the United States, because they were Chinese. Popular culture declared them sinister, untrustworthy, “sneaky”, depraved, diseased, immoral.
An Australian magazine, The Bulletin, was devoted to promoting fear of the “yellow peril” as if all of Asia was about to fall down on the whites-only colony by the force of gravity.
‘The Chinese Octopus’, The Bulletin, Sydney 1886, an early promoter of the “Yellow Peril” and other stereotypes.
As the historian Martin Powers writes, acknowledging China’s modernism, its secular morality and “contributions to liberal thought threatened European face, so it became necessary to suppress China’s role in the Enlightenment debate …. For centuries, China’s threat to the myth of Western superiority has made it an easy target for race-baiting.”
In the Sydney Morning Herald, tireless China-basher Peter Hartcher described those who spread Chinese influence in Australia as “rats, flies, mosquitoes and sparrows”. Hartcher, who favourably quotes the American demagogue Steve Bannon, likes to interpret the “dreams” of the current Chinese elite, to which he is apparently privy. These are inspired by yearnings for the “Mandate of Heaven” of 2,000 years ago. Ad nausea.
To combat this “mandate”, the Australian government of Scott Morrison has committed one of the most secure countries on earth, whose major trading partner is China, to hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American missiles that can be fired at China.
The trickledown is already evident. In a country historically scarred by violent racism towards Asians, Australians of Chinese descent have formed a vigilante group to protect delivery riders. Phone videos show a delivery rider punched in the face and a Chinese couple racially abused in a supermarket. Between April and June, there were almost 400 racist attacks on Asian-Australians.
“We are not your enemy,” a high-ranking strategist in China told me, “but if you [in the West] decide we are, we must prepare without delay.” China’s arsenal is small compared with America’s, but it is growing fast, especially the development of maritime missiles designed to destroy fleets of ships.
“For the first time,” wrote Gregory Kulacki of the Union of Concerned Scientists, “China is discussing putting its nuclear missiles on high alert so that they can be launched quickly on warning of an attack… This would be a significant and dangerous change in Chinese policy…”
In Washington, I met Amitai Etzioni, distinguished professor of international affairs at George Washington University, who wrote that a “blinding attack on China” was planned, “with strikes that could be mistakenly perceived [by the Chinese] as pre-emptive attempts to take out its nuclear weapons, thus cornering them into a terrible use-it-or-lose-it dilemma [that would] lead to nuclear war.”
In 2019, the US staged its biggest single military exercise since the Cold War, much of it in high secrecy. An armada of ships and long-range bombers rehearsed an “Air-Sea Battle Concept for China” – ASB – blocking sea lanes in the Straits of Malacca and cutting off China’s access to oil, gas and other raw materials from the Middle East and Africa.
It is fear of such a blockade that has seen China develop its Belt and Road Initiative along the old Silk Road to Europe and urgently build strategic airstrips on disputed reefs and islets in the Spratly Islands.
In Shanghai, I met Lijia Zhang, a Beijing journalist and novelist, typical of a new class of outspoken mavericks. Her best-selling book has the ironic title Socialism Is Great! Having grown up in the chaotic, brutal Cultural Revolution, she has travelled and lived in the US and Europe. “Many Americans imagine,” she said, “that Chinese people live a miserable, repressed life with no freedom whatsoever. The [idea of] the yellow peril has never left them… They have no idea there are some 500 million people being lifted out of poverty, and some would say it’s 600 million.”
Modern China’s epic achievements, its defeat of mass poverty, and the pride and contentment of its people (measured forensically by American pollsters such as Pew) are wilfully unknown or misunderstood in the West. This alone is a commentary on the lamentable state of Western journalism and the abandonment of honest reporting.
China’s repressive dark side and what we like to call its “authoritarianism” are the facade we are allowed to see almost exclusively. It is as if we are fed unending tales of the evil super-villain Dr. Fu Manchu. And it is time we asked why: before it is too late to stop the next Hiroshima.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect MintPress News editorial policy.


lewrockwell--2020-08-06--CDC Director Robert Redfield: the Letter That Should Have Destroyed His Career

Long before Robert Redfield ascended to the CDC directorship , and also assumed a key post on the White House COVID Task Force , he was a US Army researcher working on an AIDS vaccine .
He ran into a great deal of trouble .
His career was almost derailed .
The Army finally saved him , through what some investigators assert was a complete whitewash .
On June 7th , 1994 , two doctors from Public Citizen , Peter Lu and the relentless consumer advocate , Sidney Wolfe , wrote a long letter to Congressman Henry Waxman , chairman @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Environment .
If Waxman had followed up with decisive action , Redfield might have been finished for good in the field of public health .
Here are excerpts from the devastating letter : Vaccines : The Biggest ... Honorof , Ida Buy New $ 0.00 “ We are writing to request that your Subcommittee hold a hearing , as soon as possible , to investigate charges of grave impropriety committed by U.S. Department of Defense ’ AIDS researchers .
We have obtained Internal memoranda , not previously made public , from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pattern of data manipulation , inappropriate statistical analyses and misleading data presentation by Army researchers in an apparent attempt to promote the usefulness of the GP160 AIDS vaccine…The Phase I and Phase II studies in which this alleged misconduct occurred were conducted by researchers at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research ( WRAIR ) , led by Lt. Col. Robert Redfield , M.D.
, Chief of the Department of Retroviral Research , and misleading results from these trials were reported in…the New England Journal of Medicine in June 1991 , the Journal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1992 and the annual International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam in July 1992 .
In addition , overstated conclusions have been presented on two occasions at hearings before your Subcommittee .
“ Meeting on October 23 , 1992 to discuss the allegations by two Air Force research physicians ( see below ) of scientific misconduct by Dr. Redfield , a subcommittee of the Institutional Review Committee at the Wilford Hall U.S. Air Force Medical Center , San Antonio , Texas reached the following conclusion : “ The committee agreed the information presented by Dr. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ researcher and has the potential to negatively impact AIDS research funding for military institutions as a whole .
His allegedly unethical behavior creates false hope and could result in premature deployment of the vaccine… AIDS Inc. Rappoport , Jon Best Price : $ 33.29 Buy New $ 18.89 “ That meeting was called to review an October 21 , 1992 memorandum…from Maj. Craig W. Hendrix , M.D.
, Director of the HIV Program in the Air Force , and Col. R. Neal Boswell , MD.
, Associate Chief of the Division of Medicine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Donald Burke , M.D.
, Director of the Division of Retrovirology at WRAIR and Dr. Redfield ’ s immediate supervisor .
The memorandum decried ‘ The problem of misleading or , possibly , deceptive presentations by Dr. Redfleld , which overstate the GP160 [ vaccine ] Phase I data… ’ and recommended that the following action be taken : “ ( 1 ) publicly correct the record in a medium suitable for widespread dissemination to our civilian scientific colleagues ; “ ( 2 ) censure Dr. Redfield for potential scientific misconduct which should @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the current immunotherapy protocols ; and “ ( 3 ) initiate an investigation by a fully independent outside Investigative body…to evaluate the facts of the case and recommend appropriate actions .
“ Senior Department of Defense scientists have known of this misconduct since at least October 1992 , and Dr. Redfield has acknowledged that his analyses were faulty on at least three occasions to internal Department of Defense audiences ( the earliest admission was on August 28 , 1992 ) … ” Anyone Who Tells You V ... Coleman , Dr Vernon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ VERY damning letter .
Vaccine fraud .
But Redfield not only avoided professional devastation , he rose through the political hierarchy , eventually becoming CDC director .
At the CDC—let ’ s be frank—lying about vaccines in order to promote and sell them is job number one .
Redfield now also serves on the White House COVID Task Force , an organization dedicated to gaining rapid approval for a pandemic vaccine , come hell or high water .
Charges of extreme scientific fraud on an issue of vaccines THEN ; the man occupies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ paramount NOW .
But don ’ t worry , all you pod people wearing masks and waiting for the messianic COVID vaccine .
All is well .
Sure it is .
The vaccine won ’ t harm or kill you or your children .
Resume your pacified slumber .
The Best of Jon Rappoport

Long before Robert Redfield ascended to the CDC directorship, and also assumed a key post on the White House COVID Task Force, he was a US Army researcher working on an AIDS vaccine.
He ran into a great deal of trouble. His career was almost derailed. The Army finally saved him, through what some investigators assert was a complete whitewash.
On June 7th, 1994, two doctors from Public Citizen, Peter Lu and the relentless consumer advocate, Sidney Wolfe, wrote a long letter to Congressman Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. If Waxman had followed up with decisive action, Redfield might have been finished for good in the field of public health. Here are excerpts from the devastating letter:
Vaccines: The Biggest ... Honorof, Ida Buy New $0.00 (as of 04:19 UTC - Details) “We are writing to request that your Subcommittee hold a hearing, as soon as possible, to investigate charges of grave impropriety committed by U.S. Department of Defense’ AIDS researchers. We have obtained Internal memoranda, not previously made public, from the Department of Defense that allege a systematic pattern of data manipulation, inappropriate statistical analyses and misleading data presentation by Army researchers in an apparent attempt to promote the usefulness of the GP160 AIDS vaccine…The Phase I and Phase II studies in which this alleged misconduct occurred were conducted by researchers at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), led by Lt. Col. Robert Redfield, M.D., Chief of the Department of Retroviral Research, and misleading results from these trials were reported in…the New England Journal of Medicine in June 1991, the Journal AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses in June 1992 and the annual International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam in July 1992. In addition, overstated conclusions have been presented on two occasions at hearings before your Subcommittee.
“Meeting on October 23, 1992 to discuss the allegations by two Air Force research physicians (see below) of scientific misconduct by Dr. Redfield, a subcommittee of the Institutional Review Committee at the Wilford Hall U.S. Air Force Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas reached the following conclusion:
“The committee agreed the information presented by Dr. Redfield seriously threatens his credibility as a researcher and has the potential to negatively impact AIDS research funding for military institutions as a whole. His allegedly unethical behavior creates false hope and could result in premature deployment of the vaccine… AIDS Inc. Rappoport, Jon Best Price: $33.29 Buy New $18.89 (as of 03:34 UTC - Details)
“That meeting was called to review an October 21, 1992 memorandum…from Maj. Craig W. Hendrix, M.D., Director of the HIV Program in the Air Force, and Col. R. Neal Boswell, MD., Associate Chief of the Division of Medicine in the Air Force, to Col. Donald Burke, M.D., Director of the Division of Retrovirology at WRAIR and Dr. Redfield’s immediate supervisor. The memorandum decried ‘The problem of misleading or, possibly, deceptive presentations by Dr. Redfleld, which overstate the GP160 [vaccine] Phase I data…’ and recommended that the following action be taken:
“(1) publicly correct the record in a medium suitable for widespread dissemination to our civilian scientific colleagues;
“(2) censure Dr. Redfield for potential scientific misconduct which should at least include temporarily suspending his involvement on the current immunotherapy protocols; and
“(3) initiate an investigation by a fully independent outside Investigative body…to evaluate the facts of the case and recommend appropriate actions.
“Senior Department of Defense scientists have known of this misconduct since at least October 1992, and Dr. Redfield has acknowledged that his analyses were faulty on at least three occasions to internal Department of Defense audiences (the earliest admission was on August 28, 1992)…”
Anyone Who Tells You V... Coleman, Dr Vernon Buy New $3.99 (as of 04:06 UTC - Details) This is a VERY damning letter. Vaccine fraud.
But Redfield not only avoided professional devastation, he rose through the political hierarchy, eventually becoming CDC director. At the CDC—let’s be frank—lying about vaccines in order to promote and sell them is job number one.
Redfield now also serves on the White House COVID Task Force, an organization dedicated to gaining rapid approval for a pandemic vaccine, come hell or high water.
Charges of extreme scientific fraud on an issue of vaccines THEN; the man occupies two high posts where pushing vaccines is paramount NOW.
But don’t worry, all you pod people wearing masks and waiting for the messianic COVID vaccine. All is well. Sure it is. The vaccine won’t harm or kill you or your children. Resume your pacified slumber.
Reprinted with permission from Jon Rappoport’s blog.
The Best of Jon Rappoport


lewrockwell--2020-08-06--Exercising With a Mask Induces a ‘Hypercapnic Hypoxia Environment’ – Not Good

What Happened : A recent study published in the Journal Medical Hypothesis titled “ Exercise with facemask ; Are we handling a devil ’ s sword ?
– A physiological hypothesis ” claims the following : The Case Against Masks ... Heckenlively , Kent Buy New $ 12.99 According to the authors , exercising with facemasks induced as “ a hypercapnic hypoxia environment [ inadequate Oxygen ( O ) and Carbon dioxide ( CO ) exchange ] [ 15 ] .
This acidic environment , both at the alveolar and blood vessels level , induces numerous physiological alterations when exercising @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; 2 ) cardiorespiratory stress ; 3 ) excretory system altercations ; 4 ) Immune mechanism ; 5 ) Brain and nervous system.
’ In the figure below , the authors present a dissociation curve that “ is showing the extreme right side shift with the carbon dioxide rebreathing ( PaCO2 ) and inadequate available Oxygen ( P O ) .
Red dotted lines show the right shift of the curve due to exercise without masks ( ↑PaCO2 , PH and temperature ) .
Violet dotted lines show the extreme curve shift during @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and temperature ) .
( For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend , the reader is referred to the web version of this article . )
” The authors also point out that “ wearing of facemasks to prevent the community spread of the novel Covid-19 is itself debatable , considering the limited evidence on the subject matter .
WHO recommends masks only for Covid-19 patients but the usage of masks is morally “ exploited ” among community individuals.
” This is important to recognize , the use of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ fact-checkers ” are going around the internet censoring and labelling any information that seems to question the efficacy of masks when it comes to Covid-19 , or anything that contradicts the WHO organization .
Why do voices looking at facts ad science , and providing another perspective get silenced ?
The purpose of the paper cited in this article is to explore and question : Does the use of facemasks offer any benefit for ‘ social exercisers ’ during this pandemic ; 2 ) Does exercising with facemasks alter normal physiological @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exercising with facemasks increase the risk of falling prey to Coronavirus ; 4 ) How could “ social exercisers ” combat the physiological alteration ?
Here ’ s another interesting claim by the researchers : Cellular Hypoxia and N ... Bell , David S. Best Price : $ 5.55 Buy New $ 13.75 This isn ’ t the only paper that has called into question the use of a mask .
This study , is one of multiple that conveys the idea that they might in fact increase one ’ s chance of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a study published in BMJ Open in 2015 , This study is the first RCT of cloth masks , and the results caution against the use of cloth masks .
This is an important finding to inform occupational health and safety .
Moisture retention , reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection .
Further research is needed to inform the widespread use of cloth masks globally .
However , as a precautionary measure , cloth masks should not be recommended for HCWs , particularly in high-risk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ updated .
We have provided the first clinical efficacy data of cloth masks , which suggest HCWs should not use cloth masks as protection against respiratory infection .
Cloth masks resulted in significantly higher rates of infection than medical masks , and also performed worse than the control arm .
The controls were HCWs who observed standard practice , which involved mask use in the majority , albeit with lower compliance than in the intervention arms .
The control HCWs also used medical masks more often than cloth masks .
When we analysed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ risk of cloth masks was seen for laboratory-confirmed respiratory viral infection .
According to another study published a year after the one mentioned above , There are many examples .
Doctors have been making YouTube videos and giving interviews about the same concerns as well .
Again , many of these videos and interviews have been deleted from big tech platforms like YouTube .
Why ?
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When something credible opposes a narrative handed to the population via some very powerful people , not only is it censored and often removed , but a mass media campaign of ridicule ensues .
Of course , the main strategy used in the mainstream is to call these ideas a “ conspiracy theory ” and cast doubt .
Censorship + Ridicule = massive perception manipulation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has happened with our YouTube channel January 1st 2019 .
We were demonetized and shaddow banned .
This is just one example of big tech censorship we have experienced .
Our Facebook page has been heavily cut , and we no longer get ranked in Google search .
We often joke at the office that , if people knew what we ’ ve gone through to keep Collective Evolution afloat for the past 11 years they wouldn ’ t believe it .
This is why we created CETV .
Our own platform we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we do .
CETV is our inner circle membership site that provides news and tools to raise collective consciousness .
You can support our work and get inside access to Collective Evolution by becoming a member of CETV .
We thank everybody who has joined so far , you ’ ve truly kept CE going !
Why are there a digital authoritarian “ fact-checkers ” going around the internet and censoring information ?
Should people not have the right to examine information openly , freely and transparently and decide for themselves what is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ instead of having people in positions of power do it for them ?
Does this not leave room for mass manipulation of information ?
Diagnosis and Treatmen ... Myhill , Dr. Sarah Best Price : $ 11.83 Buy New $ 12.75 The good news is that the censorship of information has drawn the attention of even more people , and has been a catalyst for some to recognize what ’ s really going on here .
Our physical rights are slowly being taken away under the guise of good will .
Crisis ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ always been used to do this .
Create the problem , propose the solution and make it justified in the eyes of the masses .
If we continue down this path and choose to be governed by those who do not have the best interests of humanity at heart , we are going down the path of total and complete population control .
At the end of the day , there is so much controversy and information out there that completely opposes the mainstream media narrative .
This information and evidence , once @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on one ’ s consciousness and perception of the world we live in .
Just like 9/11 , this coronavirus incident is serving the collective and sparking more questions about what exactly we are doing here .
Why do we live the way we live ?
Why do we respond the way we respond ?
Why do we continue to follow orders from those whom we choose to let govern us when it isn ’ t even clear that their recommendations are for the best interest of humanity ?

What Happened: A recent study published in the Journal Medical Hypothesis titled “Exercise with facemask; Are we handling a devil’s sword? – A physiological hypothesis” claims the following:
Exercising with facemasks may reduce available Oxygen and increase air trapping preventing substantial carbon dioxide exchange. The hypercapnic hypoxia may potentially increase acidic environment, cardiac overload, anaerobic metabolism and renal overload, which may substantially aggravate the underlying pathology of established chronic diseases. Further contrary to the earlier thought, no evidence exists to claim the facemasks during exercise offer additional protection from the droplet transfer of the virus. Hence, we recommend social distancing is better than facemasks during exercise and optimal utilization rather than exploitation of facemasks during exercise.
The Case Against Masks... Heckenlively, Kent Buy New $12.99 (as of 04:52 UTC - Details) According to the authors, exercising with facemasks induced as “a hypercapnic hypoxia environment [inadequate Oxygen (O 2 ) and Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) exchange] [15]. This acidic environment, both at the alveolar and blood vessels level, induces numerous physiological alterations when exercising with facemasks: 1) Metabolic shift; 2) cardiorespiratory stress; 3) excretory system altercations; 4) Immune mechanism; 5) Brain and nervous system.’
Further, poor saturation of haemoglobin would be anticipated due to increased partial pressure of CO 2 at higher exercise intensity [19]. demonstrates the extreme right shift of the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve, which would be higher than that expected during exercise. This acidic environment would unload O 2 faster at the muscle level, but due to higher heart rate and reduced affinity at the alveolar junction, the partial pressure of O 2 would substantially fall, creating a hypoxic environment for all vital organs.
In the figure below, the authors present a dissociation curve that “is showing the extreme right side shift with the carbon dioxide rebreathing (PaCO2) and inadequate available Oxygen (P A O 2 ). Red dotted lines show the right shift of the curve due to exercise without masks (↑PaCO2, PH and temperature). Violet dotted lines show the extreme curve shift during exercise with masks (↑↑↑↑PaCO2, PH and temperature). (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)”
The authors also point out that “wearing of facemasks to prevent the community spread of the novel Covid-19 is itself debatable, considering the limited evidence on the subject matter. WHO recommends masks only for Covid-19 patients but the usage of masks is morally “exploited” among community individuals.”
This is important to recognize, the use of masks is indeed debatable. Right now, “fact-checkers” are going around the internet censoring and labelling any information that seems to question the efficacy of masks when it comes to Covid-19, or anything that contradicts the WHO organization. Why do voices looking at facts ad science, and providing another perspective get silenced?
The purpose of the paper cited in this article is to explore and question: Does the use of facemasks offer any benefit for ‘social exercisers’ during this pandemic; 2) Does exercising with facemasks alter normal physiological responses to exercise; 3) Does exercising with facemasks increase the risk of falling prey to Coronavirus; 4) How could “social exercisers” combat the physiological alteration?
Here’s another interesting claim by the researchers:
The study concludes:
Exercising with facemasks might increase pathophysiological risks of underlying chronic disease, especially cardiovascular and metabolic risks. Social exercisers are recommended to do low to moderate-intensity exercise, rather than vigorous exercise when they are wearing facemasks. We also recommend people with chronic diseases to exercise alone at home, under supervision when required, without the use of facemasks. Given the identified and hypothesized risks, social distancing and self-isolation appear to be better than wearing facemasks while exercising during this global crisis.
Cellular Hypoxia and N... Bell, David S. Best Price: $5.55 Buy New $13.75 (as of 04:20 UTC - Details) This isn’t the only paper that has called into question the use of a mask. This study, is one of multiple that conveys the idea that they might in fact increase one’s chance of contracting a respiratory infection.
For example,
According to a study published in BMJ Open in 2015,
This study is the first RCT of cloth masks, and the results caution against the use of cloth masks. This is an important finding to inform occupational health and safety. Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection. Further research is needed to inform the widespread use of cloth masks globally. However, as a precautionary measure, cloth masks should not be recommended for HCWs, particularly in high-risk situations, and guidelines need to be updated. We have provided the first clinical efficacy data of cloth masks, which suggest HCWs should not use cloth masks as protection against respiratory infection. Cloth masks resulted in significantly higher rates of infection than medical masks, and also performed worse than the control arm. The controls were HCWs who observed standard practice, which involved mask use in the majority, albeit with lower compliance than in the intervention arms. The control HCWs also used medical masks more often than cloth masks. When we analysed all mask-wearers including controls, the higher risk of cloth masks was seen for laboratory-confirmed respiratory viral infection.
According to another study published a year after the one mentioned above,
The physiological effects of breathing elevated inhaled CO 2 may include changes in visual performance, modified exercise endurance, headaches and dyspnea. The psychological effects include decreased reasoning and alertness, increased irritability, severe dyspnea, headache, dizziness, perspiration, and short-term memory loss. (source)
There are many examples. Doctors have been making YouTube videos and giving interviews about the same concerns as well. Again, many of these videos and interviews have been deleted from big tech platforms like YouTube.
Why? The Doctor’s Gui... Bell, David S. Best Price: $0.36 Buy New $12.93 (as of 04:20 UTC - Details)
Why This Is Important: We are living in a time where simply questioning information that’s dished out to us is becoming harder and harder to do and talk about on the internet – a place where ideas are shared. When something credible opposes a narrative handed to the population via some very powerful people, not only is it censored and often removed, but a mass media campaign of ridicule ensues. Of course, the main strategy used in the mainstream is to call these ideas a “conspiracy theory” and cast doubt. Censorship + Ridicule = massive perception manipulation.
Below is a screenshot of what has happened with our YouTube channel January 1st 2019. We were demonetized and shaddow banned. This is just one example of big tech censorship we have experienced. Our Facebook page has been heavily cut, and we no longer get ranked in Google search. We often joke at the office that, if people knew what we’ve gone through to keep Collective Evolution afloat for the past 11 years they wouldn’t believe it.
This is why we created CETV. Our own platform we created to help us continue doing what we do. CETV is our inner circle membership site that provides news and tools to raise collective consciousness. You can support our work and get inside access to Collective Evolution by becoming a member of CETV.
We thank everybody who has joined so far, you’ve truly kept CE going!
Why are there a digital authoritarian “fact-checkers” going around the internet and censoring information? Should people not have the right to examine information openly, freely and transparently and decide for themselves what is, and what isn’t, instead of having people in positions of power do it for them? Does this not leave room for mass manipulation of information? Diagnosis and Treatmen... Myhill, Dr. Sarah Best Price: $11.83 Buy New $12.75 (as of 04:20 UTC - Details)
The good news is that the censorship of information has drawn the attention of even more people, and has been a catalyst for some to recognize what’s really going on here.
Our physical rights are slowly being taken away under the guise of good will. Crisis’ like the coronavirus, or terrorism have always been used to do this. Create the problem, propose the solution and make it justified in the eyes of the masses. If we continue down this path and choose to be governed by those who do not have the best interests of humanity at heart, we are going down the path of total and complete population control.
The Takeaway
At the end of the day, there is so much controversy and information out there that completely opposes the mainstream media narrative. This information and evidence, once seen, has such a big impact on one’s consciousness and perception of the world we live in. Just like 9/11, this coronavirus incident is serving the collective and sparking more questions about what exactly we are doing here. Why do we live the way we live? Why do we respond the way we respond? Why do we continue to follow orders from those whom we choose to let govern us when it isn’t even clear that their recommendations are for the best interest of humanity?
Reprinted with permission from Collective Evolution.


lewrockwell--2020-08-06--Newly Released George Floyd Body Cam Footage Should Make Keith Ellison Nervous

Those of us that care about actual justice can only view the newly leaked arrest video of George Floyd in one way : damning to the media narrative .
A viewing of the video reveals that the events leading up to Floyd ’ s unfortunate , entirely avoidable death are not as they initially seemed , and its release is nothing short of tossing a massive wrench into the agenda-driven gears of media and political discourse .
The four officers might well be guilty of something , but the current second-degree charge of murder is not one of them .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ cause nothing short of absolute chaos when the verdict is read .
In the immediate aftermath of the Floyd incident this past May , Minnesota ’ s top lawman , an activist first and Democrat attorney general second by the name of Keith Ellison , recommended a third-degree murder charge for Derek Chauvin and the three assisting officers .
Under Minnesota statute , third-degree murder would include an action that is “ without intent to effect the death of any person ” yet “ causes the death of another by perpetrating an act @ @ @ @ @ @ @ depraved mind , without regard for human life.
” The War on Cops : How t ... Mac Donald , Heather Best Price : $ 16.73 Buy New $ 16.61 Taking the route of unintentional murder seemed appropriate , given that a routine interaction culminated in the presumably accidental death of an offender in custody .
We didn ’ t know all of the facts , but there was near unanimity that something bad had happened and that a legal consequence seemed , at the very least , legitimate .
However , vociferous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ push for an elevated charge of second-degree murder .
One aspect of Minnesota statute defines second-degree murder as being intentional .
It is clear that Chauvin ’ s actions were not .
Ellison himself is not even seeking it on those grounds .
Perhaps lesser known , and still under the second-degree murder statute , is a clause whereby the charge is applicable when the defendant can be proved having caused the death of someone “ without intent to effect the death of any person , while committing or attempting to commit a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where Ellison is gambling on a prior felony having been committed in the events of the arrest preceding Floyd ’ s demise .
The alleged felony here is the illegal “ excessive use of force.
” Where the legal challenge arises is being able to prove that officers used excessive force , and where police officers generally receive a lot of judicial leeway .
Within the handbook for the Minneapolis Police Department , officers are trained , and allowed under the Supreme Court Graham v. Connor decision , to apply force when a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attempting to evade arrest by flight.
” The video clearly shows a lengthy struggle to get compliance from Floyd .
The War on Police : How ... Roorda , Jeff Best Price : $ 6.83 Buy New $ 14.49 Furthermore , officers appear to be generally operating under the handbook ’ s guide for non-deadly force , which is understood as “ force that does not have the reasonable likelihood of causing or creating a substantial risk of death or great bodily harm.
” The video shows ample efforts of police negotiating with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Still , the handbook does allow for more aggressive measures that include “ physically subduing , controlling , capturing , restraining or physically managing any person.
” Critically , and until the language was changed on June 9 , neck restraints were also allowed under MPD guidance for the specific purpose of restraining unsafe or unpredictable suspects if force were required .
Given that piece , Ellison would have to prove that Chauvin applied the restraint knowing that it was excessive and that he was restraining Floyd incorrectly , as well as prove @ @ @ @ @ @ @ restraint itself was a pivotal cause in Floyd ’ s death .
The Hennepin County autopsy revealed no evidence of crushed bones or ligaments that would typically indicate asphyxiation .
The autopsy itself has since been removed from Hennepin County ’ s online database .
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Those of us that care about actual justice can only view the newly leaked arrest video of George Floyd in one way: damning to the media narrative.
A viewing of the video reveals that the events leading up to Floyd’s unfortunate, entirely avoidable death are not as they initially seemed, and its release is nothing short of tossing a massive wrench into the agenda-driven gears of media and political discourse. The four officers might well be guilty of something, but the current second-degree charge of murder is not one of them. The political overreach in the case will cause nothing short of absolute chaos when the verdict is read.
In the immediate aftermath of the Floyd incident this past May, Minnesota’s top lawman, an activist first and Democrat attorney general second by the name of Keith Ellison, recommended a third-degree murder charge for Derek Chauvin and the three assisting officers. Under Minnesota statute, third-degree murder would include an action that is “without intent to effect the death of any person” yet “causes the death of another by perpetrating an act eminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind, without regard for human life.” The War on Cops: How t... Mac Donald, Heather Best Price: $16.73 Buy New $16.61 (as of 05:30 UTC - Details)
Taking the route of unintentional murder seemed appropriate, given that a routine interaction culminated in the presumably accidental death of an offender in custody. We didn’t know all of the facts, but there was near unanimity that something bad had happened and that a legal consequence seemed, at the very least, legitimate.
However, vociferous protests and riots swayed the A.G. to push for an elevated charge of second-degree murder. One aspect of Minnesota statute defines second-degree murder as being intentional. It is clear that Chauvin’s actions were not. Ellison himself is not even seeking it on those grounds. Perhaps lesser known, and still under the second-degree murder statute, is a clause whereby the charge is applicable when the defendant can be proved having caused the death of someone “without intent to effect the death of any person, while committing or attempting to commit a felony offense.”
This last part is where Ellison is gambling on a prior felony having been committed in the events of the arrest preceding Floyd’s demise. The alleged felony here is the illegal “excessive use of force.” Where the legal challenge arises is being able to prove that officers used excessive force, and where police officers generally receive a lot of judicial leeway.
Within the handbook for the Minneapolis Police Department, officers are trained, and allowed under the Supreme Court Graham v. Connor decision, to apply force when a subject “is actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight.” The video clearly shows a lengthy struggle to get compliance from Floyd. The War on Police: How... Roorda, Jeff Best Price: $6.83 Buy New $14.49 (as of 04:58 UTC - Details)
Furthermore, officers appear to be generally operating under the handbook’s guide for non-deadly force, which is understood as “force that does not have the reasonable likelihood of causing or creating a substantial risk of death or great bodily harm.” The video shows ample efforts of police negotiating with Floyd in every non-forceful way possible. Still, the handbook does allow for more aggressive measures that include “physically subduing, controlling, capturing, restraining or physically managing any person.”
Critically, and until the language was changed on June 9, neck restraints were also allowed under MPD guidance for the specific purpose of restraining unsafe or unpredictable suspects if force were required. Given that piece, Ellison would have to prove that Chauvin applied the restraint knowing that it was excessive and that he was restraining Floyd incorrectly, as well as prove in a court of law that the restraint itself was a pivotal cause in Floyd’s death. The Hennepin County autopsy revealed no evidence of crushed bones or ligaments that would typically indicate asphyxiation. The autopsy itself has since been removed from Hennepin County’s online database.
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lewrockwell--2020-08-06--Washington’s Campaign Against China Could Lead to War

When prominent U.S. personalities such as Secretary of State Pompeo speak critically and scornfully about leaders and other prominent figures of countries with whose policies they disagree , they ignore or even welcome the fact that such attacks are heard not only by the persons at whom they are aimed .
The citizens of the country concerned are unlikely to disregard such criticism , and even if they may agree with some of it — perhaps all of it — on a purely practical or individual basis , they do not accept the premise that their countries are in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against their leaders .
There is a campaign of denigration being waged by Washington against Beijing , and Secretary Pompeo is brandishing the sharpest sword .
His speech of July 23 at the Richard Nixon Library and Museum was a definitive indication of how the United States stands in regard to the People ’ s Republic of China , and its very title made it clear that Washington has no intention of engaging in reasoned dialogue that could lead to rapprochement with the Chinese government .
Pompeo ’ s discourse on ‘ Communist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Future ’ was a venomous diatribe aimed at persuading the world community to combine against the PRC .
Everything Under the H ... French , Howard W. Best Price : $ 6.94 Buy New $ 19.94 Pompeo is nostalgic for the good old days of the Cold War , and warned that “ If we bend the knee now , our children ’ s children may be at the mercy of the Chinese Communist Party , whose actions are the primary challenge today in the free world .
General Secretary Xi is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China forever , unless we allow it .
Now , this isn ’ t about containment .
Don ’ t buy that .
It ’ s about a complex new challenge that we ’ ve never faced before.
” He has probably done more to bond and unify the people of China than has been achieved by any other foreign politician in recent years .
The purpose of psychological operations ( psyops ) , which is what Pompeo and many others are conducting against China , is to “ induce or reinforce foreign @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s objectives.
” But one of the principles of psyops is to refrain from insulting national figures on the opposing side .
By all means make gentle fun of them , because few things succeed more than laughter when you are attempting to sway people ’ s opinions against an individual — but rudeness and abuse directed against a country ’ s leader are more likely to have the effect of binding citizens together in a nationalistic fashion than uniting them in opposition to the leader whom the foreigners want them to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ is not used lightly , because Pompeo is encouraging the people of China to rise up and renounce their government and do just that .
He declared that “ we must also engage and empower the Chinese people , a dynamic and freedom loving people who are completely distinct from the Chinese Communist Party.
” This is flagrant encouragement of revolution , and when Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke with his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian on July 28 he said the Trump administration wants to “ constantly provoke China ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ system chosen by the Chinese people and slander the ruling party that is closely connected with the Chinese people.
” Asia ’ s Reckoning ... McGregor , Richard Best Price : $ 4.05 Buy New $ 25.94 Summing up the U.S. position as regards the conventions of diplomacy , which are the tools of those who wish to maintain decency and civility when seeking dialogue , Mr Wang said that Pompeo ’ s diatribes “ have lost the most basic etiquette for state-to-state exchanges and have broken through the most basic bottom line @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unlikely that the Trump administration will make any attempt to restore courtesy to the world stage .
And it isn ’ t only words that are making Washington ’ s belligerent posture clear to Beijing and the world , because the Pentagon has been conducting all sorts of fandangos along China ’ s borders , clearly aimed at provoking the Beijing government to take some sort of action .
In July the Pentagon sent a battle fleet to the South China Sea and , as observed by the New York Times , “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and its strike force is often used as a signal to deter adversaries .
Deploying two at once is recognized as a significant show of force.
” This wasn ’ t just a show of force : it was a long-planned inflammatory operation designed to irritate and exasperate what Pompeo refers to as “ the centre threat of our times.
” Washington went as far as it could in trying to make Beijing react to its coat-trailing combat ship operations which were complemented by the Pentagon ’ s deployment of some fifty reconnaissance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China ’ s coastline on missions designed to locate defence radar installations and other sensitive sites .
These some RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft which “ not only detects , geolocates , and classifies enemy air defense emitters , but it also provides communications and other forms of signals intelligence.
” Other intelligence aircraft were EA-18 Growler jets , operated from the two aircraft carriers and described as “ the most advanced electronic attack aircraft ” , which manufacturer Boeing notes “ brings fighter aircraft speed and manoeuvrability… [ and ] the ability to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ digitally jam enemy communications over a broad frequency range.
” Belt and Road : A Chine ... Mau00e7u00e3es , Bruno Buy New $ 15.95 These aircraft are part of the concerted effort to intimidate the Beijing government and the people of China by demonstrating massive military power and most sophisticated attack capabilities .
The Pentagon is using its electronic warfare assets to show the “ Chinese Communist Party ” ( in Pompeo ’ s words ) that it is preparing to take ultimate action against Chinese forces , and there is little doubt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a complementary effect to Pompeo ’ s diatribes , in that it is binding the people of China together , rather than encouraging them to overthrow their government that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty .
China is feeling stronger , day by day .
It is well aware of the most recent Gallup report concerning the international standing of the United States , which showed that , for example , “ U.S .
leadership approval is at its lowest among the country ’ s traditional allies in Europe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ performance and just 24 % approve.
” If the U.S. and China went to war , it is far from guaranteed that Washington ’ s international support would be significant .
And China is prepared for that ultimate confrontation with the United States .
The time is very near when Beijing will take action if the Pentagon ’ s forces take steps out of line in the South China Sea or elsewhere along China ’ s borders .
There could well be PLA ( Navy ) reaction involving an attack on a U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would sit back — but not with folded arms — while Washington decided what to do .
The Pompeo diatribes and Washington ’ s surge in border provocations won ’ t cause revolution in China .
They will increase domestic unity , cause western nations to doubt even more if they should become involved , and very possibly lead to war .
The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation .

When prominent U.S. personalities such as Secretary of State Pompeo speak critically and scornfully about leaders and other prominent figures of countries with whose policies they disagree, they ignore or even welcome the fact that such attacks are heard not only by the persons at whom they are aimed. The citizens of the country concerned are unlikely to disregard such criticism, and even if they may agree with some of it — perhaps all of it — on a purely practical or individual basis, they do not accept the premise that their countries are in the wrong because some foreign representative sounds off against their leaders.
There is a campaign of denigration being waged by Washington against Beijing, and Secretary Pompeo is brandishing the sharpest sword. His speech of July 23 at the Richard Nixon Library and Museum was a definitive indication of how the United States stands in regard to the People’s Republic of China, and its very title made it clear that Washington has no intention of engaging in reasoned dialogue that could lead to rapprochement with the Chinese government. Pompeo’s discourse on ‘Communist China and the Free World’s Future’ was a venomous diatribe aimed at persuading the world community to combine against the PRC.
Everything Under the H... French, Howard W. Best Price: $6.94 Buy New $19.94 (as of 05:00 UTC - Details) Pompeo is nostalgic for the good old days of the Cold War, and warned that “If we bend the knee now, our children’s children may be at the mercy of the Chinese Communist Party, whose actions are the primary challenge today in the free world. General Secretary Xi is not destined to tyrannise inside and outside of China forever, unless we allow it. Now, this isn’t about containment. Don’t buy that. It’s about a complex new challenge that we’ve never faced before.”
He has probably done more to bond and unify the people of China than has been achieved by any other foreign politician in recent years.
The purpose of psychological operations (psyops), which is what Pompeo and many others are conducting against China, is to “induce or reinforce foreign attitudes and behaviour favourable to the originator’s objectives.” But one of the principles of psyops is to refrain from insulting national figures on the opposing side. By all means make gentle fun of them, because few things succeed more than laughter when you are attempting to sway people’s opinions against an individual — but rudeness and abuse directed against a country’s leader are more likely to have the effect of binding citizens together in a nationalistic fashion than uniting them in opposition to the leader whom the foreigners want them to overthrow.
And the word ‘overthrow’ is not used lightly, because Pompeo is encouraging the people of China to rise up and renounce their government and do just that. He declared that “we must also engage and empower the Chinese people, a dynamic and freedom loving people who are completely distinct from the Chinese Communist Party.” This is flagrant encouragement of revolution, and when Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke with his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian on July 28 he said the Trump administration wants to “constantly provoke China’s core interests, attack the social system chosen by the Chinese people and slander the ruling party that is closely connected with the Chinese people.”
Asia’s Reckoning... McGregor, Richard Best Price: $4.05 Buy New $25.94 (as of 04:23 UTC - Details) Summing up the U.S. position as regards the conventions of diplomacy, which are the tools of those who wish to maintain decency and civility when seeking dialogue, Mr Wang said that Pompeo’s diatribes “have lost the most basic etiquette for state-to-state exchanges and have broken through the most basic bottom line of international norms.” But it is unlikely that the Trump administration will make any attempt to restore courtesy to the world stage.
And it isn’t only words that are making Washington’s belligerent posture clear to Beijing and the world, because the Pentagon has been conducting all sorts of fandangos along China’s borders, clearly aimed at provoking the Beijing government to take some sort of action.
In July the Pentagon sent a battle fleet to the South China Sea and, as observed by the New York Times, “the deployment of an American aircraft carrier and its strike force is often used as a signal to deter adversaries. Deploying two at once is recognized as a significant show of force.” This wasn’t just a show of force : it was a long-planned inflammatory operation designed to irritate and exasperate what Pompeo refers to as “the centre threat of our times.”
Washington went as far as it could in trying to make Beijing react to its coat-trailing combat ship operations which were complemented by the Pentagon’s deployment of some fifty reconnaissance and electronic warfare aircraft to fly around China’s coastline on missions designed to locate defence radar installations and other sensitive sites. These some RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft which “not only detects, geolocates, and classifies enemy air defense emitters, but it also provides communications and other forms of signals intelligence.”
Other intelligence aircraft were EA-18 Growler jets, operated from the two aircraft carriers and described as “the most advanced electronic attack aircraft”, which manufacturer Boeing notes “brings fighter aircraft speed and manoeuvrability… [and] the ability to locate, record, play back and digitally jam enemy communications over a broad frequency range.” Belt and Road: A Chine... Mau00e7u00e3es, Bruno Buy New $15.95 (as of 03:07 UTC - Details)
These aircraft are part of the concerted effort to intimidate the Beijing government and the people of China by demonstrating massive military power and most sophisticated attack capabilities. The Pentagon is using its electronic warfare assets to show the “Chinese Communist Party” (in Pompeo’s words) that it is preparing to take ultimate action against Chinese forces, and there is little doubt that this surge of provocation is having a complementary effect to Pompeo’s diatribes, in that it is binding the people of China together, rather than encouraging them to overthrow their government that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.
China is feeling stronger, day by day. It is well aware of the most recent Gallup report concerning the international standing of the United States, which showed that, for example, “U.S. leadership approval is at its lowest among the country’s traditional allies in Europe, where 61% disapprove of its performance and just 24% approve.” If the U.S. and China went to war, it is far from guaranteed that Washington’s international support would be significant.
And China is prepared for that ultimate confrontation with the United States. The time is very near when Beijing will take action if the Pentagon’s forces take steps out of line in the South China Sea or elsewhere along China’s borders. There could well be PLA (Navy) reaction involving an attack on a U.S. Navy combat vessel, and then Beijing would sit back — but not with folded arms — while Washington decided what to do.
The Pompeo diatribes and Washington’s surge in border provocations won’t cause revolution in China. They will increase domestic unity, cause western nations to doubt even more if they should become involved, and very possibly lead to war.
The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation.


lewrockwell--2020-08-06--The Nightmare Scenario for the World

The Nightmare Scenario for the World

“ Gold has no role in portfolio of wealthy clients ” said the chief investment officer of Goldman Sachs ’ private wealth management in the week that gold in US dollars went up by over $ 100 and made a new high of $ 1,984 .
Many found this statement puzzling as another Goldman department previously has told clients not to sell any gold .
The CIO went on to say : “ Our view is that gold is only appropriate if you have a very strong view that the US dollar is going to be rebased .
We don @ @ @ @ @ @ @ here we have a dollar that has lost 85 % against gold in this century and 40 % since 2018 .
How can the CIO of the mighty GS say that the dollar is not being rebased .
History certainly tells us that she is not telling the truth .
Or does she believe that the dollar won ’ t go down in coming years .
As CIO she can clearly see what everyone is seeing namely that the prospects for the dollar are doomed with what is happening in the US economy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
When Money Dies : The N ... Adam Fergusson Best Price : $ 1.97 Buy New $ 10.08 The truth clearly lies elsewhere .
No asset manager is interested in protecting their clients ’ assets by investing in the ultimate form of wealth preservation which of course is physical gold .
The reason is very simple .
Goldman ’ s private wealth management like all other asset managers are not interested in holding physical gold for their clients for the simple reason that the bank can ’ t earn sufficient revenue on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ want to put expensive proprietary products and their own managed funds into client portfolios and also buy and sell shares regularly to churn commissions .
No bank , managing client portfolios , tells their clients that in the last 20 years gold has outperformed all major asset classes including stocks .
The Dow for example has lost 70 % against gold since 1999 ( excluding dividends ) .
Instead asset managers stick to their conventional portfolios of stocks , bonds and some alternative assets .
The Dow – Gold ratio is now 13 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to 1 as in 1980 and probably 0.5 to 1 as I discussed in last week ’ s article .
What 0.5 to 1 Dow-Gold ratio means in price is impossible to say today .
It could be $ 20,000 gold and 10,000 Dow .
It could also be $ 50,000 gold and 25,000 Dow .
And if hyperinflation takes hold , which I think is very likely , we could see $ 100 billion gold .
At that point I would expect the ratio to collapse in line with most stocks and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gold at $ 100 billion might sound sensational but remember that the world has seen a lot higher gold in fiat money .
In the Weimar Republic in 1923 gold reached Marks 100 trillion .
But measuring the gold price in worthless paper money obviously serves no purpose .
100 trillion marks might sound like a lot of money .
Well , it is if you have to pay it in actual paper money .
But the problem is that paper money at that point has lost its useful function .
Today paper @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sweden for example , no one carries or pays with paper money .
Even for small amounts like a loaf of bread , a credit card is used .
The Anti-Demographic C ... Blessings , Joe Buy New $ 5.99 Abolishing paper money has been a planned process by governments and central banks .
Firstly it makes bank runs impossible .
The banks will simply just turn off the ATMs .
They can obviously also stop electronic transfers .
The most important aspect of electronic money is the Big Brother is Watching Syndrome @ @ @ @ @ @ @ control of the citizens money not just from a tax point of view but the state can decide to block individual accounts or to charge fines or taxes without the permission of the account holder .
As regards hyperinflation , it is only a matter of time before inflation picks up as the frantic printing accelerates further in line with the collapsing economy .
The current explosion of the Fed balance sheet combined with surging government debt will increase money supply exponentially .
This will also lead to the dollar decline accelerating .
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“Gold has no role in portfolio of wealthy clients” said the chief investment officer of Goldman Sachs’ private wealth management in the week that gold in US dollars went up by over $100 and made a new high of $1,984. Many found this statement puzzling as another Goldman department previously has told clients not to sell any gold.
The CIO went on to say: “Our view is that gold is only appropriate if you have a very strong view that the US dollar is going to be rebased. We don’t have that view.”
THE IMPLODING DOLLAR
So here we have a dollar that has lost 85% against gold in this century and 40% since 2018. How can the CIO of the mighty GS say that the dollar is not being rebased. History certainly tells us that she is not telling the truth. Or does she believe that the dollar won’t go down in coming years. As CIO she can clearly see what everyone is seeing namely that the prospects for the dollar are doomed with what is happening in the US economy causing surging deficits and unlimited money printing. When Money Dies: The N... Adam Fergusson Best Price: $1.97 Buy New $10.08 (as of 10:10 UTC - Details)
The truth clearly lies elsewhere. No asset manager is interested in protecting their clients’ assets by investing in the ultimate form of wealth preservation which of course is physical gold. The reason is very simple. Goldman’s private wealth management like all other asset managers are not interested in holding physical gold for their clients for the simple reason that the bank can’t earn sufficient revenue on just holding client gold. Instead they want to put expensive proprietary products and their own managed funds into client portfolios and also buy and sell shares regularly to churn commissions.
No bank, managing client portfolios, tells their clients that in the last 20 years gold has outperformed all major asset classes including stocks. The Dow for example has lost 70% against gold since 1999 (excluding dividends).
Instead asset managers stick to their conventional portfolios of stocks, bonds and some alternative assets. The Dow – Gold ratio is now 13 on its way to at least 1 to 1 as in 1980 and probably 0.5 to 1 as I discussed in last week’s article.
100 TRILLION GOLD IN WEIMAR REPUBLIC
What 0.5 to 1 Dow-Gold ratio means in price is impossible to say today. It could be $20,000 gold and 10,000 Dow. It could also be $50,000 gold and 25,000 Dow. And if hyperinflation takes hold, which I think is very likely, we could see $100 billion gold. At that point I would expect the ratio to collapse in line with most stocks and be substantially below 0.5 to 1. Gold at $100 billion might sound sensational but remember that the world has seen a lot higher gold in fiat money.
In the Weimar Republic in 1923 gold reached Marks 100 trillion.
But measuring the gold price in worthless paper money obviously serves no purpose. 100 trillion marks might sound like a lot of money. Well, it is if you have to pay it in actual paper money. But the problem is that paper money at that point has lost its useful function. Today paper money is gradually being abolished. In Sweden for example, no one carries or pays with paper money. Even for small amounts like a loaf of bread, a credit card is used. The Anti-Demographic C... Blessings, Joe Buy New $5.99 (as of 04:54 UTC - Details)
AS PAPER MONEY DIES
Abolishing paper money has been a planned process by governments and central banks. Firstly it makes bank runs impossible. The banks will simply just turn off the ATMs. They can obviously also stop electronic transfers. The most important aspect of electronic money is the Big Brother is Watching Syndrome. Now the state has total electronic control of the citizens money not just from a tax point of view but the state can decide to block individual accounts or to charge fines or taxes without the permission of the account holder.
As regards hyperinflation, it is only a matter of time before inflation picks up as the frantic printing accelerates further in line with the collapsing economy. The current explosion of the Fed balance sheet combined with surging government debt will increase money supply exponentially. This will also lead to the dollar decline accelerating.
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lewrockwell--2020-08-06--Lebanon SITREP: Letter From a Lebanese Friend

This was just sent to me by a good Lebanese friend : Huge disaster , investigation underway , on face value was caused by utter negligence , corruption and incompetence of Lebanese state , but I am one of those that has been stressing that the enemies could have exploited this state negligence and corruption to trigger this disaster through sabotage .
Few simple reasons for this , including : a ) this disaster completely serves current US-Israeli efforts to pressure Lebanon economically to bow down to their demands b ) the site of the explosion , Port of Beirut @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % of Lebanon ’ s commodity and trade needs were met c ) the explosions struck wheat reserves stored there as well , exacerbating the dire economic situation and inflation further False Flags , State Sec ... Hamilton , John Best Price : $ 20.08 Buy New $ 19.99 d ) Israeli officials few days ago were warning the Resistance that if they struck Israeli army targets ( a response to recent Israeli crimes by Resistance was imminent ) , Lebanon ’ s infrastructure will be targeted e ) one year ago exactly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the Security Council that the Port of Beirut had become ‘ Hezbollah ’ s Port ’ .
Lebanese ambassador said this was a direct threat to Lebanon ’ s civilians and security f ) last but not least , the 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate ( that exploded ) were reportedly stored there 6 years ago , and they have been described as a ticking time bomb considering the irresponsible way that they were stored .
Is it really coincidental that this ticking time bomb goes off today , at the worst @ @ @ @ @ @ @ falling on all levels , coronavirus , US siege at its peak etc ) ?
So , while initial reports have said this disaster was caused by the utter negligence , corruption and lack of accountability of Lebanese state institutions , an official investigation is currently underway , and the Resistance will certainly be doing its own investigation , because there was no worse possible time for this disaster to occur to Lebanon than today .
Sabotage by the enemy must remain a strong possibility ( though actually proving that may be difficult @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Thomas L. Best Price : $ 3.99 Buy New $ 13.66 Lebanon : A History , 60 ... Harris , William Best Price : $ 28.01 Buy New $ 29.91 Lebanon : A Country in ... Arsan , Andrew Best Price : $ 18.51 Buy New $ 21.76

This was just sent to me by a good Lebanese friend:
Huge disaster, investigation underway, on face value was caused by utter negligence, corruption and incompetence of Lebanese state, but I am one of those that has been stressing that the enemies could have exploited this state negligence and corruption to trigger this disaster through sabotage. Few simple reasons for this, including:
a) this disaster completely serves current US-Israeli efforts to pressure Lebanon economically to bow down to their demands
b) the site of the explosion, Port of Beirut, was the transit through which 50-80% of Lebanon’s commodity and trade needs were met
c) the explosions struck wheat reserves stored there as well, exacerbating the dire economic situation and inflation further False Flags, State Sec... Hamilton, John Best Price: $20.08 Buy New $19.99 (as of 05:17 UTC - Details)
d) Israeli officials few days ago were warning the Resistance that if they struck Israeli army targets (a response to recent Israeli crimes by Resistance was imminent), Lebanon’s infrastructure will be targeted
e) one year ago exactly Israel’s ambassador to UN said at the Security Council that the Port of Beirut had become ‘Hezbollah’s Port’. Lebanese ambassador said this was a direct threat to Lebanon’s civilians and security
f) last but not least, the 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate (that exploded) were reportedly stored there 6 years ago, and they have been described as a ticking time bomb considering the irresponsible way that they were stored. Is it really coincidental that this ticking time bomb goes off today, at the worst possible moment for Lebanon (Country is falling on all levels, coronavirus, US siege at its peak etc)?
So, while initial reports have said this disaster was caused by the utter negligence, corruption and lack of accountability of Lebanese state institutions, an official investigation is currently underway, and the Resistance will certainly be doing its own investigation, because there was no worse possible time for this disaster to occur to Lebanon than today. Sabotage by the enemy must remain a strong possibility (though actually proving that may be difficult).
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