lewrockwell--2020-11-02--Welcome to the Socialist States of Amerika

Previously we suggested that the unfolding disarray we are witnessing in America is in reality an attempted neo-Marxist revolution .
We have also spoken at some length about the important role that Black Lives Matter is playing in this process .
To obtain a realistic assessment of our predicament , however , we must be careful not to overstate the long-term significance of BLM .
BLM is not the ultimate cause of our crisis .
The groundwork for it had been laid long before BLM came into existence .
It had been prepared in decades prior by leftists who kept @ @ @ @ @ @ @ under the auspices of the Marx-inspired philosophies and ideologies we listed in this piece .
Comrade Obama Unmasked ... Simpson , James Buy New $ 10.00 BLM is neither the mastermind nor the originator of America ’ s plight .
BLM is merely the militant wing of America ’ s Marxist movement , which is the primal originator of the present strife .
Violent groups such as BLM and Antifa emerge into prominence when problems and contradictions in a society reach a critical point and the overthrow of the existing system becomes a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stage that the militants come to the fore and try to foment the maximum disarray possible .
If they succeed in creating enough havoc , Marxist politicians who have infiltrated the government attempt a coup .
If the system is sufficiently discomposed , the coup has a good chance of succeeding .
Although BLM is now spearheading the advancing revolution , its mission is only temporary .
Should the revolution succeed , BLM ’ s violent ways will no longer be needed .
Once the Marxists seize power , there will be no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this comes to pass , order will be restored and BLM disbanded .
Some of its more militant leaders will be cancelled ( by the firing squad ) and some of those who survive will be absorbed into the new ruling structures .
The foot soldiers – the looters , the hooligans , the gross woke – will be sent home and told to become good socialist citizens .
They will be put under discipline of hard work in order to contribute to the well-being of their new society .
Their factory shifts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ until 6:00 PM .
They will be required to dress and behave decently , just like their counterparts in North Korea .
There will be no welfare payments , pornography , drugs or rap music for them .
Insolence , shouting and protesting of any kind shall not be tolerated under any circumstances .
Those who refuse to submit to the new socialist rules will be quickly dealt with by the internal police .
Once in their hands , the former looters and misfits will tearfully recall the old times when they were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whose tender care they enjoyed all kinds of rights .
No such privileges under the new American Stasi regime !
If there is a silver lining , America ’ s Marxist revolution will put an end to sixty years of the Left ’ s systematic destruction of the black family by misguided welfare programs .
The destruction was , of course , by design because it was needed at that stage to further the Marxist agenda of subversion of American society .
Burn This Book : What K ... Loudon , Trevor Best @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 9.94 The new socialist regime will move quickly to enforce morality .
Up until now the Marxists have used sexual dissolution as a means of unravelling America ’ s moral fabric .
They truly have done an excellent job .
But it will have to stop at once when they are in charge .
It is our prediction that a new government agency will be set up to deal with this matter .
It will be called something along the lines of “ The Department for Elimination of Sexual Degeneracy from the Socialist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of other socialist regimes is any guide , transexuals will be packed off into labor camps and open homosexuals will be given the option of changing their ways or be subjected to surgical removal of their reproductive organs .
Public displays of moral degeneracy will be strictly banned in socialist Amerika The Black Book of the ... Horowitz , David Best Price : $ 12.29 Buy New $ 7.34 As far as racial minorities are concerned , their equality and special privileges will be quickly eliminated .
No more reverse discrimination in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Here is a well-known secret : socialists and leftists are inveterate racists .
They have always been – they despise dark-skinned people .
This attitude goes back all the way to Karl Marx who himself was a hardened and cynical racist .
Marx , for example , claimed that French ethnologist Pierre Tremaux had scientifically proven that “ the common Negro type is the degenerate form of a much higher one.
” Below is an account by Paul Kengor of the contemptible way in which Karl Marx treated his own son-in-law , Paul @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : “ Paul came from Cuba , born in Santiago , and Marx thus viewed him as marred by ‘ Negro ’ blood and denigrated him as ‘ Negrillo ’ or ‘ the Gorilla.
’ Karl never let up his ridicule of poor Paul .
In November 1882 , still 14 years after Lafargue and Laura [ Marx ’ s daughter ] married , Marx complained to Engels that ‘ Lafargue has the blemish customarily found in the negro tribe — no sense of shame , by which I mean shame about making @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of communism : Karl Marx was an inveterate racist who despised black people One wonders what the founders of BLM , who are self-confessed Marxists , think of Marx ’ s ugly racism .
Why have they not cancelled Marx given that they have cancelled others for far less egregious statements ?
They have , in fact , accused people of racism and subsequently done away with them for making no racist comments at all .
Karl , however , gets a pass .
Why is this so ?
The Shadow Party : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Best Price : $ 3.48 Buy New $ 7.69 No more Black Privilege in socialist Amerika Up to the point of their victory , American Marxists will use black people as pawns to foment racial strife and division in American society .
Once they take over , blacks will lose their usefulness and the new socialist rulers will show their true colors .
Black people will be scorned and treated with contempt .
Now they will see and feel what real racism is .
The black revolutionaries will rue their stupidity and regret @ @ @ @ @ @ @ duped this way .
They will yearn for a return of the present America where black people enjoyed unprecedented rights and opportunities .
Never in history has any minority had it as good as blacks have it in America today : they are not only completely equal but enjoy special advantages unavailable to the rest of the population .
Rather than being discriminated against , as is often falsely claimed , African Americans enjoy what amounts to Black Privilege .
So efficacious is this privilege that a black person can become President of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are quite miniscule .
Just ask Barrack Obama , a former community organizer .
Had Mr. Obama been white , he would have never gotten anywhere close to the Oval Office .
Given his lack of experience and attainments , a white Obama would have been laughed out the moment he announced his candidacy .
There can be no question that Obama was elected largely because of the color of his skin .
If Joe Biden wins tomorrow , there is a great likelihood – given Biden ’ s enfeebled state – that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him as president .
If this should happen , it would mean that America would have two black presidents within six years .
Both would be affirmative action presidents , since Kamala Harris was also chosen to be Biden ’ s running mate primarily because she is black ( the second reason was that she is a woman ) .
Harris was certainly not selected because she is particularly competent or distinguished .
In fact , her main talent seems to be bestowing sexual favors upon her political benefactors .
But such is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black men and women can be propelled into the Oval Office despite their dearth of credentials .
There will be no more Black Privilege under the American Stasi regime , to be sure .
I fully expect that not long after their victory , American Marxists will start dealing with what they will call the “ Negro Question.
” If the history of socialist states is any guide , gulag type establishments will be set up for black people .
It will not be good or pretty , but at least the duped @ @ @ @ @ @ @ say that they had not been forewarned .
Here is the warning : Don ’ t play Marxists , because you shall be devoured by the beast .
False Black Power ?
( Ne ... Jason L. Riley Best Price : $ 8.95 Buy New $ 8.95 The rich will pay for their cowardice in the socialist utopia The rich will be another demographic to be put on the chopping block .
It is truly astonishing to watch so many of them trying to play along .
They think that their donations and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ good graces of the barbarians .
An incident involving Apple shows just how spineless and pathetic some of them are .
A couple of months ago , a photo appeared of an empty Apple store in one of the riot-beset cities .
Knowing that the looters would likely break in , the staff had cleared out the shelves of the store .
But before they evacuated , they placed a big BLM sign on the vacant table where Apple devices used to be displayed .
In other words , they publicly pledged support @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them and vandalize their property .
Instead of taking a stand against this evil of lawlessness , theft and wanton destruction , they kiss up to the worst criminal elements in our society .
Apple , Nike and others like them should do what is right and oppose this kind of behavior , as should every decent person and organization in America .
They should demand that the police stop this criminal outrage .
If the police are not able to do so , they should hire their own security to beat back @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the rich who run and own these woke corporations is something to behold .
They believe that their pandering they will get them off the hook , but in this they are badly mistaken .
The rich are among the first to go after a successful leftist coup d ’ état .
They are the obvious target because they have what everyone wants : wealth .
In liberal democracies their property is protected by law and a web of institutions .
In socialist regimes , on the other hand , there is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ protections .
Wealth is freely taken from those who have it by those in power .
The only way you can keep wealth in a socialist paradise is to be highly positioned in the party apparatus .
( And even then your situation is precarious , since you never know when the next purge may come . )
Business people are never part of hard-core socialist governments , because those that rise to the top in such enterprises are usually murderers , criminals or riffraff agitators such as Stalin , Castro and Chavez @ @ @ @ @ @ @ socialism .
These types are naturally suspicious of practical businessfolk and harbor an instinctive dislike of them .
This is why in Marxist utopias the wealthy are mercilessly cancelled ( by the noose ) , or expropriated and exiled ( the lucky ones ) .
Despite their naïve hopes to the contrary , the same fate will befall the American rich should the unfolding revolution succeed .
Socialism Under The Mi ... Paul L Williams Best Price : $ 15.25 Buy New $ 14.95 The woke will likewise have to be dealt with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their usefulness is exhausted .
The socialists will not want to have any clowns or oafs littering their society .
Like in North Korea , all their laptops and screens shall be confiscated , and they will be duly dispatched to work .
Their hair will be restored to their natural color , the rings from their noses , tongues and other body parts will be ripped away and they will be issued groovy brown uniforms in which to pass their diligent days .
The screen-addicted , junk-food weaklings will be put under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enfeebled bodies and minds .
Under socialism we used to have massive sport events called the Spartakiads .
It was a compulsory program whereby we were forced to rehearse collective athletic routines and then perform them in stadiums so that the system could show off its healthy glorious communist youth .
The woke will greatly benefit from this kind of strict regime and their bodies and minds will be much edified in the process .
After their intense sports sessions , they will have no energy or inclination to discuss their eighteen gender @ @ @ @ @ @ @ woke will have to clean up and be well-behaved in the Socialist States of Amerika The socialists in charge will put a quick end to all the woke nonsense , since no society – socialist or otherwise – can survive if this kind of thinking infects the minds of the population .
It is truly tragic that we have not recognized this and have allowed the hard left push all kinds of perversions and inanities into the minds of our young people .
A society that allows such things inevitably ends up confused @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for a takeover .
The Marxists now feel that their chance has come .
The question is whether we are still capable of enough clarity and moral resolve to stop them .
The Best of Vasko Kohlmayer

Previously we suggested that the unfolding disarray we are witnessing in America is in reality an attempted neo-Marxist revolution. We have also spoken at some length about the important role that Black Lives Matter is playing in this process.
To obtain a realistic assessment of our predicament, however, we must be careful not to overstate the long-term significance of BLM. BLM is not the ultimate cause of our crisis. The groundwork for it had been laid long before BLM came into existence. It had been prepared in decades prior by leftists who kept systematically undermining the foundations of our society under the auspices of the Marx-inspired philosophies and ideologies we listed in this piece.
Comrade Obama Unmasked... Simpson, James Buy New $10.00 (as of 04:38 UTC - Details) BLM is neither the mastermind nor the originator of America’s plight. BLM is merely the militant wing of America’s Marxist movement, which is the primal originator of the present strife. Violent groups such as BLM and Antifa emerge into prominence when problems and contradictions in a society reach a critical point and the overthrow of the existing system becomes a realistic possibility. It is at this stage that the militants come to the fore and try to foment the maximum disarray possible. If they succeed in creating enough havoc, Marxist politicians who have infiltrated the government attempt a coup. If the system is sufficiently discomposed, the coup has a good chance of succeeding.
Although BLM is now spearheading the advancing revolution, its mission is only temporary. Should the revolution succeed, BLM’s violent ways will no longer be needed. Once the Marxists seize power, there will be no more need for internal destabilization. When this comes to pass, order will be restored and BLM disbanded. Some of its more militant leaders will be cancelled (by the firing squad) and some of those who survive will be absorbed into the new ruling structures. The foot soldiers – the looters, the hooligans, the gross woke – will be sent home and told to become good socialist citizens. They will be put under discipline of hard work in order to contribute to the well-being of their new society. Their factory shifts will begin at 8:00 AM and run until 6:00 PM. They will be required to dress and behave decently, just like their counterparts in North Korea. There will be no welfare payments, pornography, drugs or rap music for them. Insolence, shouting and protesting of any kind shall not be tolerated under any circumstances. Those who refuse to submit to the new socialist rules will be quickly dealt with by the internal police. Once in their hands, the former looters and misfits will tearfully recall the old times when they were coddled by good old American cops in whose tender care they enjoyed all kinds of rights. No such privileges under the new American Stasi regime! If there is a silver lining, America’s Marxist revolution will put an end to sixty years of the Left’s systematic destruction of the black family by misguided welfare programs. The destruction was, of course, by design because it was needed at that stage to further the Marxist agenda of subversion of American society. Burn This Book: What K... Loudon, Trevor Best Price: $9.82 Buy New $9.94 (as of 03:22 UTC - Details)
Ending the moral dissolution
The new socialist regime will move quickly to enforce morality. Up until now the Marxists have used sexual dissolution as a means of unravelling America’s moral fabric. They truly have done an excellent job. But it will have to stop at once when they are in charge. It is our prediction that a new government agency will be set up to deal with this matter. It will be called something along the lines of “The Department for Elimination of Sexual Degeneracy from the Socialist States of Amerika.” If the history of other socialist regimes is any guide, transexuals will be packed off into labor camps and open homosexuals will be given the option of changing their ways or be subjected to surgical removal of their reproductive organs.
Public displays of moral degeneracy will be strictly banned in socialist Amerika
The Black Book of the ... Horowitz, David Best Price: $12.29 Buy New $7.34 (as of 03:14 UTC - Details) As far as racial minorities are concerned, their equality and special privileges will be quickly eliminated. No more reverse discrimination in the Socialist States of the former USA. Here is a well-known secret: socialists and leftists are inveterate racists. They have always been – they despise dark-skinned people. This attitude goes back all the way to Karl Marx who himself was a hardened and cynical racist. Marx, for example, claimed that French ethnologist Pierre Tremaux had scientifically proven that “the common Negro type is the degenerate form of a much higher one.”
Below is an account by Paul Kengor of the contemptible way in which Karl Marx treated his own son-in-law, Paul Lafargue, who was Cuban by birth:
“Paul came from Cuba, born in Santiago, and Marx thus viewed him as marred by ‘Negro’ blood and denigrated him as ‘Negrillo’ or ‘the Gorilla.’ Karl never let up his ridicule of poor Paul. In November 1882, still 14 years after Lafargue and Laura [Marx’s daughter] married, Marx complained to Engels that ‘Lafargue has the blemish customarily found in the negro tribe — no sense of shame, by which I mean shame about making a fool of oneself.’”
Founder of communism: Karl Marx was an inveterate racist who despised black people
One wonders what the founders of BLM, who are self-confessed Marxists, think of Marx’s ugly racism. Why have they not cancelled Marx given that they have cancelled others for far less egregious statements? They have, in fact, accused people of racism and subsequently done away with them for making no racist comments at all. Karl, however, gets a pass. Why is this so? The Shadow Party: How ... David Horowitz, Richar... Best Price: $3.48 Buy New $7.69 (as of 02:30 UTC - Details)
No more Black Privilege in socialist Amerika
Up to the point of their victory, American Marxists will use black people as pawns to foment racial strife and division in American society. Once they take over, blacks will lose their usefulness and the new socialist rulers will show their true colors. Black people will be scorned and treated with contempt. Now they will see and feel what real racism is. The black revolutionaries will rue their stupidity and regret bitterly that they have let themselves be duped this way. They will yearn for a return of the present America where black people enjoyed unprecedented rights and opportunities. Never in history has any minority had it as good as blacks have it in America today: they are not only completely equal but enjoy special advantages unavailable to the rest of the population. Rather than being discriminated against, as is often falsely claimed, African Americans enjoy what amounts to Black Privilege. So efficacious is this privilege that a black person can become President of the United States even though their accomplishments are quite miniscule. Just ask Barrack Obama, a former community organizer. Had Mr. Obama been white, he would have never gotten anywhere close to the Oval Office. Given his lack of experience and attainments, a white Obama would have been laughed out the moment he announced his candidacy. There can be no question that Obama was elected largely because of the color of his skin. If Joe Biden wins tomorrow, there is a great likelihood – given Biden’s enfeebled state – that within two years Kamala Harris will succeed him as president. If this should happen, it would mean that America would have two black presidents within six years. Both would be affirmative action presidents, since Kamala Harris was also chosen to be Biden’s running mate primarily because she is black (the second reason was that she is a woman). Harris was certainly not selected because she is particularly competent or distinguished. In fact, her main talent seems to be bestowing sexual favors upon her political benefactors. But such is the great power of Black Privilege that black men and women can be propelled into the Oval Office despite their dearth of credentials.
There will be no more Black Privilege under the American Stasi regime, to be sure. I fully expect that not long after their victory, American Marxists will start dealing with what they will call the “Negro Question.” If the history of socialist states is any guide, gulag type establishments will be set up for black people. It will not be good or pretty, but at least the duped black revolutionaries will not be able to say that they had not been forewarned. Here is the warning: Don’t play Marxists, because you shall be devoured by the beast. False Black Power? (Ne... Jason L. Riley Best Price: $8.95 Buy New $8.95 (as of 10:15 UTC - Details)
The rich will pay for their cowardice in the socialist utopia
The rich will be another demographic to be put on the chopping block. It is truly astonishing to watch so many of them trying to play along. They think that their donations and odious virtue signaling will win them the good graces of the barbarians. An incident involving Apple shows just how spineless and pathetic some of them are. A couple of months ago, a photo appeared of an empty Apple store in one of the riot-beset cities. Knowing that the looters would likely break in, the staff had cleared out the shelves of the store. But before they evacuated, they placed a big BLM sign on the vacant table where Apple devices used to be displayed. In other words, they publicly pledged support for those who were coming to loot them and vandalize their property. Instead of taking a stand against this evil of lawlessness, theft and wanton destruction, they kiss up to the worst criminal elements in our society. Apple, Nike and others like them should do what is right and oppose this kind of behavior, as should every decent person and organization in America. They should demand that the police stop this criminal outrage. If the police are not able to do so, they should hire their own security to beat back the looters.
The cowardice and stupidity of the rich who run and own these woke corporations is something to behold. They believe that their pandering they will get them off the hook, but in this they are badly mistaken. The rich are among the first to go after a successful leftist coup d’état. They are the obvious target because they have what everyone wants: wealth. In liberal democracies their property is protected by law and a web of institutions. In socialist regimes, on the other hand, there is no reliable system of property rights or protections. Wealth is freely taken from those who have it by those in power. The only way you can keep wealth in a socialist paradise is to be highly positioned in the party apparatus. (And even then your situation is precarious, since you never know when the next purge may come.) Business people are never part of hard-core socialist governments, because those that rise to the top in such enterprises are usually murderers, criminals or riffraff agitators such as Stalin, Castro and Chavez. These are the wealthy ones under socialism. These types are naturally suspicious of practical businessfolk and harbor an instinctive dislike of them. This is why in Marxist utopias the wealthy are mercilessly cancelled (by the noose), or expropriated and exiled (the lucky ones). Despite their naïve hopes to the contrary, the same fate will befall the American rich should the unfolding revolution succeed. Socialism Under The Mi... Paul L Williams Best Price: $15.25 Buy New $14.95 (as of 03:47 UTC - Details)
Cleaning up the woke
The woke will likewise have to be dealt with promptly once the revolutionary stage ends and their usefulness is exhausted. The socialists will not want to have any clowns or oafs littering their society. Like in North Korea, all their laptops and screens shall be confiscated, and they will be duly dispatched to work. Their hair will be restored to their natural color, the rings from their noses, tongues and other body parts will be ripped away and they will be issued groovy brown uniforms in which to pass their diligent days. The screen-addicted, junk-food weaklings will be put under a vigorous exercise regime to strengthen their enfeebled bodies and minds. Under socialism we used to have massive sport events called the Spartakiads. It was a compulsory program whereby we were forced to rehearse collective athletic routines and then perform them in stadiums so that the system could show off its healthy glorious communist youth. The woke will greatly benefit from this kind of strict regime and their bodies and minds will be much edified in the process. After their intense sports sessions, they will have no energy or inclination to discuss their eighteen gender identities.
Woksters the beautiful: The woke will have to clean up and be well-behaved in the Socialist States of Amerika
The socialists in charge will put a quick end to all the woke nonsense, since no society – socialist or otherwise – can survive if this kind of thinking infects the minds of the population. It is truly tragic that we have not recognized this and have allowed the hard left push all kinds of perversions and inanities into the minds of our young people. A society that allows such things inevitably ends up confused and soft and becomes an easy target for a takeover. The Marxists now feel that their chance has come. The question is whether we are still capable of enough clarity and moral resolve to stop them.
The Best of Vasko Kohlmayer


lewrockwell--2020-11-02--Same Story, Different Decade: How WHO’s Definition of a Global Pandemic Benefits Big Pharma

n the years leading up to 2009 , the World Health Organization ( WHO ) worked alongside vaccine manufacturers , namely GlaxoSmithKline ( GSK ) , to ensure that European and African countries entered into contracts to vaccinate their citizens in the event of an unforeseen global flu pandemic .
These dormant , or “ sleeping contracts , ” stipulated that if a global pandemic were to occur , it would trigger the contracts , specified pharmaceutical companies would manufacture flu vaccines and the respective governments would pay the vaccine manufacturers .
On June 11 , 2009 , WHO Director-General @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be a global pandemic , triggering the dormant contracts and throwing the pharmaceutical and vaccine industry into high gear .
Mitochondria and the F ... Know , Lee Best Price : $ 12.38 Buy New $ 15.79 Chan was able to make this declaration based on WHO ’ s official definition of a pandemic , which was updated just a month before declaring the H1N1 pandemic — WHO deleted its definition of a pandemic from the organization ’ s website and replaced it with a new , more flexible definition .
Under the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that anyone die from an illness before the organization could declare a pandemic .
The new definition stipulated only that infections be geographically widespread .
At the time WHO declared the H1N1 swine flu a pandemic , only 144 people worldwide had died from the infection .
As Wolfgang Wodarg , then chair of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe ’ s Health Committee , explained : “ The WHO had a definition of a pandemic , which it defined as a virus with high mortality and high morbidity .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ characteristics , saying nothing about severity or mortality.
” WHO wasn ’ t solely responsible for the decision to declare H1N1 a pandemic .
WHO officials had consulted an emergency panel of 160 scientists on the International Health Regulations Committee .
Although the identities of these scientists weren ’ t publicly known at the time , a 2010 British Medical Journal investigation revealed that many of the committee members who voted to declare H1N1 a pandemic had financial ties to flu vaccine manufacturers , including GSK .
The declaration of H1N1 as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ dormant ” flu vaccine contracts , and allowed GSK to push its vaccine , Pandemrix , onto countries all over the world .
Cancer and the New Bio ... Cowan MD , Dr. Thomas Best Price : $ 13.52 Buy New $ 18.07 The Pandemrix vaccine caused severe , life-long , adverse neurological reactions , including narcolepsy and cataplexy ( the sudden , brief loss of voluntary muscle tone triggered by strong emotions ) , in at least 1,300 children across Europe .
It ’ s possible even more children were injured @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only 10 % of adverse reactions are reported through national adverse event reporting systems .
According to Reuters and other news reports , researchers believed the culprit behind the injuries caused by the GSK H1N1 vaccine was GSK ’ s AS03 adjuvant , added to the vaccine to stimulate a powerful immune response .
In Germany , controversy erupted when German newspaper Der Spiegel reported that top politicians and government employees were going to receive Celvapan , Baxter ’ s non-adjuvanted H1N1 vaccine , even though the government was publicly promoting GSK ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Medical Journal investigation , GSK ’ s own internal safety reports showed that GSK was aware of the safety problems with Pandemrix , but never disclosed them to the public .
The most alarming data point was a five-fold increase in deaths among those who received Pandemrix , compared with people who received H1N1 swine flu vaccines that didn ’ t contain the adjuvant .
Lawsuits against the drugmaker began to pile up , but taxpayers ended up footing the bill for millions in damages — because the dormant vaccine contracts included full @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The panic that surrounded H1N1 swine flu and the subsequent rush to get vaccinated was in part driven by inflated and widely disseminated models which incorrectly predicted thousands upon thousands of people would die from the flu .
Vaccines , Autoimmunity ... Cowan MD , Dr. Thomas Best Price : $ 17.35 Buy New $ 17.29 These models were provided by Professor Neil Ferguson and his team of researchers at Oxford ’ s Imperial College .
Ferguson ’ s group advised the UK government to prepare for at least 65,000 deaths .
By @ @ @ @ @ @ @ swine flu had claimed the lives of just 457 people .
Paul Flynn , the vice chairman of the Council of Europe ’ s European Health Committee , said of the H1N1 swine flu debacle : “ The world has been subjected to a stunt by the greed of the pharmaceutical companies.
” Eleven years later , on March 11 , 2020 , WHO , relying on the same attenuated definition of a pandemic , declared COVID-19 to be a global pandemic .
Many governments based their COVID-19 prevention policies , including border @ @ @ @ @ @ @ designed by Ferguson and his team at Oxford , despite the exponential inaccuracies of the model he had provided during the H1N1 pandemic .
Ferguson ’ s models predicted more than 2.2 million Americans would die from COVID-19 .
To date , about 229,000 have died .
Oxford ’ s Imperial College has received more than $ 180 million dollars from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — making the self declared largest funder of vaccines in the world the second-largest funding source of Oxford ’ s Imperial College .
Oxford ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an organization founded and funded by the Gates Foundation , GAVI the Vaccine Alliance , a public–private global health partnership focused on increased access to vaccines .
Moncef Slaoui , the chief scientist in charge of U.S. efforts to find a COVID-19 vaccine , now known as Operation Warp Speed , was GSK ’ s Chairman of Vaccines in 2009 .
Slaoui oversaw the development and safety testing of GSK ’ s H1N1 Pandemrix .
Anyone Who Tells You V ... Coleman , Dr Vernon Buy New $ 3.99 In July 2020 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ billion deal to supply the U.S. with 100 million doses of their vaccine .
The partnership is a collaboration between a modified Sanofi flu shot and GSK ’ s AS03 adjuvant , the same compound believed to be responsible for causing permanent brain damage in at least 1,300 European children during the H1N1 swine flu .
If history repeats itself and GSK ’ s COVID vaccine causes adverse effects , taxpayers — not the vaccine maker — will once again be on the hook for damages .
This is because in March 2020 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Human Services issued a declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act , or PREP Act , that broadens immunity for COVID vaccine makers , protecting them “ against any claim of loss caused by , arising out of , relating to , or resulting from the manufacture , distribution , administration or use of medical countermeasures , ” including vaccines .
These new protections are on top of those already granted to vaccine makers under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act ( NCVIA ) of 1986 .
NCVIA ’ s purpose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of vaccine manufacturers in the face of vaccine injury claims .
Sign up for free news and updates from Robert F. Kennedy , Jr. and the Children ’ s Health Defense .
CHD is planning many strategies , including legal , in an effort to defend the health of our children and obtain justice for those already injured .
Your support is essential to CHD ’ s successful mission .

n the years leading up to 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) worked alongside vaccine manufacturers, namely GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), to ensure that European and African countries entered into contracts to vaccinate their citizens in the event of an unforeseen global flu pandemic.
These dormant, or “sleeping contracts,” stipulated that if a global pandemic were to occur, it would trigger the contracts, specified pharmaceutical companies would manufacture flu vaccines and the respective governments would pay the vaccine manufacturers.
On June 11, 2009, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan declared H1N1 swine flu to be a global pandemic, triggering the dormant contracts and throwing the pharmaceutical and vaccine industry into high gear. Mitochondria and the F... Know, Lee Best Price: $12.38 Buy New $15.79 (as of 01:10 UTC - Details)
Chan was able to make this declaration based on WHO’s official definition of a pandemic, which was updated just a month before declaring the H1N1 pandemic — WHO deleted its definition of a pandemic from the organization’s website and replaced it with a new, more flexible definition.
Under the new definition, WHO no longer required that anyone die from an illness before the organization could declare a pandemic. The new definition stipulated only that infections be geographically widespread.
At the time WHO declared the H1N1 swine flu a pandemic, only 144 people worldwide had died from the infection. As Wolfgang Wodarg, then chair of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s Health Committee, explained:
“The WHO had a definition of a pandemic, which it defined as a virus with high mortality and high morbidity. And in 2009 they suddenly dropped those two characteristics, saying nothing about severity or mortality.”
WHO wasn’t solely responsible for the decision to declare H1N1 a pandemic. WHO officials had consulted an emergency panel of 160 scientists on the International Health Regulations Committee. Although the identities of these scientists weren’t publicly known at the time, a 2010 British Medical Journal investigation revealed that many of the committee members who voted to declare H1N1 a pandemic had financial ties to flu vaccine manufacturers, including GSK.
The declaration of H1N1 as a pandemic launched $18 billion worth of “dormant” flu vaccine contracts, and allowed GSK to push its vaccine, Pandemrix, onto countries all over the world. Cancer and the New Bio... Cowan MD, Dr. Thomas Best Price: $13.52 Buy New $18.07 (as of 03:15 UTC - Details)
The Pandemrix vaccine caused severe, life-long, adverse neurological reactions, including narcolepsy and cataplexy (the sudden, brief loss of voluntary muscle tone triggered by strong emotions), in at least 1,300 children across Europe. It’s possible even more children were injured, as it’s estimated that only 10% of adverse reactions are reported through national adverse event reporting systems.
According to Reuters and other news reports, researchers believed the culprit behind the injuries caused by the GSK H1N1 vaccine was GSK’s AS03 adjuvant, added to the vaccine to stimulate a powerful immune response.
In Germany, controversy erupted when German newspaper Der Spiegel reported that top politicians and government employees were going to receive Celvapan, Baxter’s non-adjuvanted H1N1 vaccine, even though the government was publicly promoting GSK’s Pandemrix.
According to a British Medical Journal investigation, GSK’s own internal safety reports showed that GSK was aware of the safety problems with Pandemrix, but never disclosed them to the public. The most alarming data point was a five-fold increase in deaths among those who received Pandemrix, compared with people who received H1N1 swine flu vaccines that didn’t contain the adjuvant.
Lawsuits against the drugmaker began to pile up, but taxpayers ended up footing the bill for millions in damages — because the dormant vaccine contracts included full legal indemnity for the vaccine makers.
The panic that surrounded H1N1 swine flu and the subsequent rush to get vaccinated was in part driven by inflated and widely disseminated models which incorrectly predicted thousands upon thousands of people would die from the flu.
Vaccines, Autoimmunity... Cowan MD, Dr. Thomas Best Price: $17.35 Buy New $17.29 (as of 04:07 UTC - Details) These models were provided by Professor Neil Ferguson and his team of researchers at Oxford’s Imperial College. Ferguson’s group advised the UK government to prepare for at least 65,000 deaths. By the end of the pandemic, H1N1 swine flu had claimed the lives of just 457 people.
Paul Flynn, the vice chairman of the Council of Europe’s European Health Committee, said of the H1N1 swine flu debacle: “The world has been subjected to a stunt by the greed of the pharmaceutical companies.”
Eleven years later, on March 11, 2020, WHO, relying on the same attenuated definition of a pandemic, declared COVID-19 to be a global pandemic.
Many governments based their COVID-19 prevention policies, including border closures and lockdowns, on computer models designed by Ferguson and his team at Oxford, despite the exponential inaccuracies of the model he had provided during the H1N1 pandemic.
Ferguson’s models predicted more than 2.2 million Americans would die from COVID-19. To date, about 229,000 have died.
Oxford’s Imperial College has received more than $180 million dollars from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — making the self declared largest funder of vaccines in the world the second-largest funding source of Oxford’s Imperial College.
Oxford’s Imperial College also has financial ties to an organization founded and funded by the Gates Foundation, GAVI the Vaccine Alliance, a public–private global health partnership focused on increased access to vaccines.
Moncef Slaoui, the chief scientist in charge of U.S. efforts to find a COVID-19 vaccine, now known as Operation Warp Speed, was GSK’s Chairman of Vaccines in 2009. Slaoui oversaw the development and safety testing of GSK’s H1N1 Pandemrix. Anyone Who Tells You V... Coleman, Dr Vernon Buy New $3.99 (as of 04:06 UTC - Details)
In July 2020, Sanofi and GSK secured a $2.1 billion deal to supply the U.S. with 100 million doses of their vaccine. The partnership is a collaboration between a modified Sanofi flu shot and GSK’s AS03 adjuvant, the same compound believed to be responsible for causing permanent brain damage in at least 1,300 European children during the H1N1 swine flu.
If history repeats itself and GSK’s COVID vaccine causes adverse effects, taxpayers — not the vaccine maker — will once again be on the hook for damages. This is because in March 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, or PREP Act, that broadens immunity for COVID vaccine makers, protecting them “against any claim of loss caused by, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from the manufacture, distribution, administration or use of medical countermeasures,” including vaccines.
These new protections are on top of those already granted to vaccine makers under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986. NCVIA’s purpose is to eliminate the potential financial liability of vaccine manufacturers in the face of vaccine injury claims.
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lewrockwell--2020-11-02--64 Percent of College Students Say Rioting and Looting Are ‘Justified’

More rioting and looting broke out in American cities this week .
This time , it was Philadelphia consumed by violence after a police shooting .
According to ABC News , at least 30 police officers have been injured in the violent unrest , while dozens of people have been arrested for rioting or vandalism .
Mobs have descended on Walmart and rushed out carrying TVs , while other agitators ransacked Footlocker for new sneakers .
The full number of businesses ravaged by the destruction is increasing and still being tallied .
CANCEL CULTURE : How to ... Reich , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ outbreak simply adds to the thousands of businesses , from Chicago to Minneapolis and beyond , that have been rioted , ransacked , burned down , or looted in the ongoing period of political unrest over police brutality , both real and imagined .
All told , the damage from rioting in recent months will exceed any past period of civil unrest in American history , with even modest under-estimates putting the total cost at up to $ 2 billion .
The outbreak of mass rioting and looting across America is alarming in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the public ’ s support for the violence .
As first reported by the Washington Examiner ’ s Paul Bedard , a new poll finds that college students in particular overwhelmingly believe that rioting and looting is justified .
The poll was conducted by Mclaughlin & Associate in conjunction with Yale University ’ s conservative William F. Buckley Program .
It surveyed a nationally representative sample of 800 college students on a wide array of issues , from the coronavirus to race in America .

More rioting and looting broke out in American cities this week. This time, it was Philadelphia consumed by violence after a police shooting.
According to ABC News, at least 30 police officers have been injured in the violent unrest, while dozens of people have been arrested for rioting or vandalism. Mobs have descended on Walmart and rushed out carrying TVs, while other agitators ransacked Footlocker for new sneakers. The full number of businesses ravaged by the destruction is increasing and still being tallied.
Update: The School District of Philadelphia shut down most of its buildings Tuesday, a day after looting and a fatal police shooting. District headquarters, and buildings that serve as satellite elections offices, will remain open. https://t.co/5JV7EhOomh pic.twitter.com/hQcgj4Mgjb — NBC10 Philadelphia (@NBCPhiladelphia) October 27, 2020
CANCEL CULTURE: How to... Reich, Alexander Buy New $12.99 (as of 04:40 UTC - Details) This latest outbreak simply adds to the thousands of businesses, from Chicago to Minneapolis and beyond, that have been rioted, ransacked, burned down, or looted in the ongoing period of political unrest over police brutality, both real and imagined. All told, the damage from rioting in recent months will exceed any past period of civil unrest in American history, with even modest under-estimates putting the total cost at up to $2 billion.
The outbreak of mass rioting and looting across America is alarming in its own right, but equally chilling is the public’s support for the violence. As first reported by the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard, a new poll finds that college students in particular overwhelmingly believe that rioting and looting is justified.
Future ‘leaders’ College undergrads: America is racist, looting ‘justified,’ reparations required. Pollster @JMcLaughlinSTK ‘Nearly two-thirds, say the rioting and looting is justified. What are these kids learning? That’s scary.https://t.co/xOPag2GWcc — Paul Bedard (@SecretsBedard) October 27, 2020
The poll was conducted by Mclaughlin & Associate in conjunction with Yale University’s conservative William F. Buckley Program. It surveyed a nationally representative sample of 800 college students on a wide array of issues, from the coronavirus to race in America.
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lewrockwell--2020-11-02--Yes, the Nazis Were Socialists

Yes, the Nazis Were Socialists

I ’ d like to continue the discussion of Scott Sehon ’ s article “ No , the Nazis Were Not Socialists ” that I began last week .
At the end of my article , I berated Sehon .
He says that the word “ socialist ” in the name of the Nazi Party ( National Socialist German Workers ’ Party ) doesn ’ t show that the Nazis were really socialist .
I complained , “ Sehon is right that the word ‘ socialist ’ does not by itself tell us much , but unfortunately it does not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nazis meant by this word and why they used it.
” Sehon might well answer me that that I didn ’ t do this either , and this is what I ’ m going to address in today ’ s article .
Sehon gives us a good suggestion that helps us to understand what the Nazis meant by “ socialism.
” He rightly calls attention to the 25-point Nazi Program of 1921 .
This , he says , is not a call to nationalize industrial production .
Rather , it is a largely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ When the Nazis talked about expropriation , they meant taking property belonging to Jews ; they were quite in favor of private property for others.
” If we look at the Nazi program , this isn ’ t quite what comes to mind .
Its dominant theme is that the German people have to come together as a collective entity : the common good must be put before the individual good .
Differences in class and wealth must be strictly subordinated to the good of the German people ( Volk ) as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the program declare : Leftism : from de Sade ... Kuehnelt-Leddihn , Erik ... Best Price : $ 29.82 Buy New $ 173.69 Point 14 is “ We demand that the profits from wholesale trade shall be shared out.
” Crucially , point 24 is The great Austrian historian Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn has given the best analysis of Hitler and the the Nazi Party Program in his Leftism .
He emphasizes Hitler ’ s disdain for traditional German society : Contrary to the impression Sehon gives , Hitler didn ’ t see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In a conversation with Carl J. Burckhardt , the League of Nations high commissioner in Danzig , Hitler called himself a “ proletarian.
” Sehon ’ s answer to this is that Hitler in power wasn ’ t a radical .
There were socialists in the Nazi Party , such as Gregor Strasser , but Hitler kicked them out and in many cases killed them .
He surrendered to big business in order to gain power .
He did not nationalize the major industries of Germany .
He was no socialist but favored @ @ @ @ @ @ @ answer to Sehon , I mentioned Mises ’ s vital distinction between two kinds of socialism .
In one of them , the state owns the means of production .
In the other , private property still exists but the state tells the owners what to do .
This is a form of central planning and still counts as socialism , and it was this that the Nazis put into practice .
Sehon says that this isn ’ t an accurate account of the Nazi economy and cites an article by Christoph Buchheim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that private business enjoyed considerable autonomy in the Third Reich .
Thanks to Mr. Paul McElroy , I now have access to the article .
Before I discuss this article , I need to mention another of Mises ’ s vital insights .
As readers will remember , Mises in his famous socialist calculation argument proved that a fully socialist economy would collapse into chaos .
If this is right , how can ostensibly socialist economies such as Soviet Russia exist ?
In answer , Mises said that these economies weren ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ private enterprise , albeit of a limited sort .
Mises ’ s point applies to the German form of socialism as well as the Russian .
Thus , Buchheim and Scherner ’ s argument , even if we accept it , doesn ’ t disprove Mises ’ s claim that the Nazi economy was a form of socialism .
Nazi control of business wasn ’ t complete , but neither was the Soviet economy totally socialist .
But should we accept Buchheim and Scherner ’ s argument ?
No , we shouldn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a number of economic historians who accept an analysis of the Nazi economy like that of Mises .
In particular , these authors criticize the famous MIT economist Peter Temin ’ s article “ Soviet and Nazi Economic Planning in the 1930s , ” available here by scrolling down .
In my opinion , Temin has the better of the argument .
Buchheim and Scherner acknowledge : The Nazi regime did not have any scruples to apply force and terror , if that was judged useful to attain its aims .
And in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ numerous regulations and interventions in markets , in order to further rearmament and autarky as far as possible .
Thus the regime , by promulgating Schacht ’ s so-called “ New Plan ” in 1934 , very much strengthened its influence on foreign exchange as well as on raw materials ’ allocation , in order to enforce state priorities .
Wage-setting became a task of public officials , the capital market was reserved for state demand , a general price stop decreed in 1936 .
In addition state demand expanded without precedent .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ an average annual rate of 26 per cent ; its share in GNP exploded in these years from 13.6 to 30.5 percent .
As a consequence private consumption as well as exports were largely crowded out .
But , they say , this isn ’ t the whole story : I think that their caveats , when read in the light of Mises ’ s point that a socialist economy needs to allow scope for private enterprise , leave Mises ’ s account of the Nazi economy intact .
In this connection , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Sehon also takes it as an argument that the Nazis weren ’ t socialists that they suppressed the Communist and Social Democratic Parties and sent many of their members to concentration camps .
I suggest that he look up what Stalin did to Mensheviks and dissident Bolsheviks .
Socialists often kill their own , a point Sehon would do well to remember .
Note : The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute .
The Best of David Gordon

I’d like to continue the discussion of Scott Sehon’s article “No, the Nazis Were Not Socialists” that I began last week. At the end of my article, I berated Sehon. He says that the word “socialist” in the name of the Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers’ Party) doesn’t show that the Nazis were really socialist. I complained, “Sehon is right that the word ‘socialist’ does not by itself tell us much, but unfortunately it does not occur to him to investigate what the Nazis meant by this word and why they used it.” Sehon might well answer me that that I didn’t do this either, and this is what I’m going to address in today’s article.
Sehon gives us a good suggestion that helps us to understand what the Nazis meant by “socialism.” He rightly calls attention to the 25-point Nazi Program of 1921. This, he says, is not a call to nationalize industrial production. Rather, it is a largely pro-business plan directed against the Jews: “When the Nazis talked about expropriation, they meant taking property belonging to Jews; they were quite in favor of private property for others.”
If we look at the Nazi program, this isn’t quite what comes to mind. Its dominant theme is that the German people have to come together as a collective entity: the common good must be put before the individual good. Differences in class and wealth must be strictly subordinated to the good of the German people (Volk) as a whole. Points 10 and 11 of the program declare: Leftism: from de Sade ... Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik... Best Price: $29.82 Buy New $173.69 (as of 04:15 UTC - Details)
The first obligation of every citizen must be to productively work mentally or physically. The activity of individual may not clash with the interests of the whole, but must proceed within the framework of the whole for the benefit for the general good. We demand therefore: Abolition of unearned (work and labour) incomes. Breaking of debt (interest)-slavery.
Point 14 is “We demand that the profits from wholesale trade shall be shared out.” Crucially, point 24 is
We demand freedom of religion for all religious denominations within the state so long as they do not endanger its existence or oppose the moral senses of the Germanic race. The Party as such advocates the standpoint of a positive Christianity without binding itself confessionally to any one denomination. It combats the Jewish-materialistic spirit within and around us and is convinced that a lasting recovery of our nation can only succeed from within on the framework: “The good of the community before the good of the individual”. (“GEMEINNUTZ GEHT VOR EIGENNUTZ”).
The great Austrian historian Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn has given the best analysis of Hitler and the the Nazi Party Program in his Leftism. He emphasizes Hitler’s disdain for traditional German society:
[Hitler] wanted to see Germany in complete monotony, with local traditions eliminated, regional self-government destroyed, the flags of the Länder strictly outlawed, the differences between the Christian faiths eradicated, the Churches desiccated and forcibly amalgamated. He wanted to make the Germans more uniform, even physically, by planned breeding and the extermination, sterilization, or deportation of those who deviated from the norm. The tribes (Stämme) should cease to exist.
Contrary to the impression Sehon gives, Hitler didn’t see himself as a partisan of business. In a conversation with Carl J. Burckhardt, the League of Nations high commissioner in Danzig, Hitler called himself a “proletarian.”
Sehon’s answer to this is that Hitler in power wasn’t a radical. There were socialists in the Nazi Party, such as Gregor Strasser, but Hitler kicked them out and in many cases killed them. He surrendered to big business in order to gain power. He did not nationalize the major industries of Germany. He was no socialist but favored private property and business enterprise.
In answer to Sehon, I mentioned Mises’s vital distinction between two kinds of socialism. In one of them, the state owns the means of production. In the other, private property still exists but the state tells the owners what to do. This is a form of central planning and still counts as socialism, and it was this that the Nazis put into practice.
Sehon says that this isn’t an accurate account of the Nazi economy and cites an article by Christoph Buchheim and Jonas Scherner to support his claim that private business enjoyed considerable autonomy in the Third Reich. Thanks to Mr. Paul McElroy, I now have access to the article.
Before I discuss this article, I need to mention another of Mises’s vital insights. As readers will remember, Mises in his famous socialist calculation argument proved that a fully socialist economy would collapse into chaos. If this is right, how can ostensibly socialist economies such as Soviet Russia exist? In answer, Mises said that these economies weren’t fully socialist. They allowed scope for private enterprise, albeit of a limited sort. Mises’s point applies to the German form of socialism as well as the Russian.
Thus, Buchheim and Scherner’s argument, even if we accept it, doesn’t disprove Mises’s claim that the Nazi economy was a form of socialism. Nazi control of business wasn’t complete, but neither was the Soviet economy totally socialist.
But should we accept Buchheim and Scherner’s argument? No, we shouldn’t. It is a response to a number of economic historians who accept an analysis of the Nazi economy like that of Mises. In particular, these authors criticize the famous MIT economist Peter Temin’s article “Soviet and Nazi Economic Planning in the 1930s,” available here by scrolling down.
In my opinion, Temin has the better of the argument. Buchheim and Scherner acknowledge:
The Nazi regime did not have any scruples to apply force and terror, if that was judged useful to attain its aims. And in economic policy it did not abstain from numerous regulations and interventions in markets, in order to further rearmament and autarky as far as possible. Thus the regime, by promulgating Schacht’s so-called “New Plan” in 1934, very much strengthened its influence on foreign exchange as well as on raw materials’ allocation, in order to enforce state priorities. Wage-setting became a task of public officials, the capital market was reserved for state demand, a general price stop decreed in 1936. In addition state demand expanded without precedent. Between 1932 and 1938 it increased with an average annual rate of 26 per cent; its share in GNP exploded in these years from 13.6 to 30.5 percent. As a consequence private consumption as well as exports were largely crowded out.
But, they say, this isn’t the whole story:
1. Despite widespread rationing of inputs firms normally still had ample scope to follow their own production plans. 2. Investment decisions in industry were influenced by state regulation, but the initiative generally remained with the enterprises. There was no central planning of the level or the composition of investment. 3. Even with respect to its own war-related investment projects the state normally did not use power in order to secure unconditional support of industry. Rather, freedom of contract was respected. But the state tried to induce firms to engage according to its plans by offering them a whole bundle of contract options to choose from.
I think that their caveats, when read in the light of Mises’s point that a socialist economy needs to allow scope for private enterprise, leave Mises’s account of the Nazi economy intact. In this connection, an incident that Temin mentions is telling:
Terror was still a potent reality for I.G. Farben in 1939, at the probable zenith of its influence. The head of one the firm’s three divisions (Sparten) was alleged to have said to a visiting group of party officials that Hitler and Göring ‘were not sufficiently expert to be able to judge something like this…’.The Farben executive was denounced to the Gestapo, and threatened with a trial and possible prison sentence….He was subject to lengthy interrogation at the Gestapo office and had to petition the local Nazi Kreisleiter for permission to call on him and apologize. The Nazi Gauleiter reprimanded him and said that he could not protect him again from more serious consequences.
Sehon also takes it as an argument that the Nazis weren’t socialists that they suppressed the Communist and Social Democratic Parties and sent many of their members to concentration camps. I suggest that he look up what Stalin did to Mensheviks and dissident Bolsheviks. Socialists often kill their own, a point Sehon would do well to remember.
Note: The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.
The Best of David Gordon


lewrockwell--2020-11-02--We Are Pawns in a Bigger Game Than We Realize: the Coming ‘Great Reset’

Is it possible to make sense out of nonsense ?
So much these days is an incoherent mess .
It ’ s complete nonsense .
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has made punishing landfall .
Each is a narrative .
Each has its own inner logic .
But they simply do not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It ’ s nonsensical to be excited about rising economic growth while also concerned that each new unit of growth takes the planet further past a critical red line .
These narratives are incompatible .
So which one should we pick ?
Well , in the end , reality always has the final say .
As Guy McPherson states : Nature bats last .
So better we choose to follow the narrative that hews closest to what reality actually is , vs what we desperately want it to be .
While issues @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be difficult to fully grasp and unravel , direct threats to our lives & /or livelihoods are much more concrete and something we can react to and resist .
Such immediate and direct threats are now fully in play and , once again , they ’ re accompanied by narratives that are completely at odds with each other .
I ’ m speaking of Covid and the ways in which our national and global managers are choosing to respond ( or not ) .
It ’ s a truly incoherent mess about which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media are working quite hard to misinform us .
The mainstream narrative about Covid-19 , in the West , is this : COVID-19 Q & A ABOUT A S ... MOLE , ANONYMOUS Buy New $ 3.00 • It ’ s a quite deadly and novel disease • There are no effective treatments • Sadly , no double-blind placebo controlled trials exist to support some of the wild claims out there about various off-patent , cheap and widely available supplements and drugs • They care so much , in fact , that along @ @ @ @ @ @ @ entirely shut down economies • There ’ s a huge second wave rampaging across the US and Europe and there ’ s nothing we can do to limit it except shut down businesses and people ’ s ability to travel and gather • You need to fear this virus and its associated disease • All we can do is wait for a vaccine The alternative narrative , one that I ’ ve uncovered after 9 months of almost daily research and reporting , is this : • It ’ s not an especially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not novel • There is a huge assortment of very effective , cheap and widely-available preventatives and treatments including ( but not limited to ) • Use of a combination of these mostly OTC supplements could reasonably be expected to drop the severity of illness and the already low mortality rate by 90 % or ( probably ) more • Western health authorities have shown either zero interest in the results of studies mainly conducted in poorer nations on these combination therapies or… • They have actively run studies designed to fail so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be dismissed or… • Set up proper studies but which started late , have immensely long study periods and most likely won ’ t be done before a vaccine is hastily rushed through development .
By the way – every single one of my assertions and claims is backed by links and supporting documentation from scientific and clinical trials and studies .
I am not conjecturing here ; I am recounting the summary of ten months ’ worth of inquiry .
The conclusion I draw from my narrative ( vs. theirs ) is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the public health or saving lives has anything to do with explaining or understanding the actions of these health “ managers ” ( I can not bring myself to use the word authorities ) .
After we eliminate the impossible – which is that somehow these massive , well-funded bodies have missed month after month of accumulating evidence in support of ivermectin , hydroxychloroquine , vitamin D , NAC , zinc , selenium and doxycycline/azithromycin – what remains must be the truth .
As improbable as it seems , the only conclusion we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ machinery of politics , money and corporate psychopathy is suppressing life saving treatments because these managers have other priorities besides public health and saving lives .
This is a terribly difficult conclusion , because it means suspending so much that we hold dear .
Things like the notion that people are basically good .
The idea that the government generally means well .
The thought that somehow when the chips are down and a crisis is afoot , good will emerge and triumph over evil .
COVID : The Politics of ... Siegel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ m sorry to say , the exact opposite of all of that has emerged as true .
Medical doctors in the UK NHS system purposely used toxic doses of hydroxychloroquine far too late in the disease cycle to be of any help simply to ‘ make a point ’ about hydroxychloroquine .
They rather desperately wanted that drug to fail , so they made it fail .
After deliberately setting their trial up for failure , they concluded : “ Hydroxychloroquine doesn ’ t help , and it even makes things worse.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ able to make this claim , they had to be willing to cause harm — even to let people die .
What kind of health official does that ?
Not one who actually has compassion , a heart , or functioning level of sympathy .
It ’ s an awful conclusion but it ’ s what remains after we eliminate the impossible .
Science has proven that cheap , safe and significantly protective compounds exist to limit both Covid-related death and disease severity .
Yet all of the main so-called health authorities in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ignoring , if not outright banning , these safe , cheap and effective compounds .
This is crazy-making for independent observers like me ( and you ) because the data is so clear .
It ’ s irrefutable at this point .
These medicines and treatments not only work , but work really , really well .
However most people will be unable to absorb the data , let alone move beyond it to wrestle with the implications .
Why ?
Because such data is belief-shattering .
Absorbing this information is not an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emotional one .
I don ’ t know why human nature decided to invest so much in developing a tight wall around the belief systems that control our actions and thoughts .
But it has .
The Vitamin D Solution ... Michael F. Holick Best Price : $ 2.01 Buy New $ 9.08 I ’ m sure there was some powerful evolutionary advantage .
One that ’ s now being hijacked daily by social media AI programs to nudge us in desired directions .
One that ’ s being leveraged by shabby politicians @ @ @ @ @ @ @ con men to steer advantage away from the populace and towards themselves .
The neural wiring of beliefs is what it is .
We have to recognize that and move on .
Some people will be much faster in their adjustment process than others .
( Notably , the Peak Prosperity tribe is populated with many fast-adjusters , which is unsurprising given the topics we cover…tough topics tend to attract fast adjusters and repel the rest ) To move past the deeply troubling information laid out before us requires us to be willing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It ’ s the only way .
For you to navigate these troubling times safely and successfully , you ’ ll need to see as clearly as possible the true nature of the game actually being played .
To see what the rules really are – not what you ’ ve been told they are , or what you wish or hope they are .
The data above strongly supports the conclusion that our national health managers don ’ t actually care about public health generally or your health specifically .
If indeed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people from accepting this likely include : • Wanting to believe that people are good ( a biggie for most people ) • Trust and faith in the medical system ( really big ) There are many other operative belief systems I could also list .
But this is sufficient to get the ball rolling .
Picking just one , how hard would it be for someone to let go of , say , trust in the medical system ?
That would be pretty hard in most cases .
First not trusting the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if a loved one might have died unnecessarily while being treated .
Or realizing that you ’ re now going to have to research the living daylights out of every medical decision before agreeing to it .
Or worrying that your medications might be more harmful to you over the long haul than helpful ( which is true in many more cases than most appreciate ) .
It might mean having your personal heroes dinged by suspicion — perhaps even your father or mother who worked in the medical profession .
It would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being able to trust anything you read in a newspaper , or see on TV , about new pharmaceutical “ breakthroughs ” .
Trust , which is safe and warm and comforting , then turns into skepticism ; which is lonelier and insists upon active mental involvement .
But , as always , hard work comes with benefits — with a healthy level of skepticism and involvement , the families of those recruited into the deadly UK RECOVERY trial could have looked at the proposed doses of HCQ ( 2,400 mg on day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ Not now , not ever !
” and maybe have saved the life of their loved one .
Look at that tangled mess of undesirables that comes with unpacking that one belief : regret , uncertainty , shame , doubt , fallen idols , and vastly more additional effort .
Are all up for grabs when we decide to look carefully at the actions of our national health managers during Covid .
Which is why most people simply choose not to look .
It ’ s too hard .
I get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ compassion for why people choose not to go down that path .
It can get unpleasant in a hurry .
But , just like choosing to ignore a nagging chest pain , turning away in denial has its own consequences .
My coverage of SARS-CoV-2 ( the virus ) and Covid-19 ( the associated disease ) has led me to uncover some things that have made me deeply uncomfortable about our global and national ‘ managers ’ .
Shameful things , really .
Scary things in their implications for what we might reasonably @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accurately ) from the future .
Once we get past the shock of seeing just how patently corrupt they ’ ve been , we have to ask both What ’ s next ?
and What should I do ?
After all , you live in a system whose managers either are too dumb to understand the Vitamin D data ( very unlikely ) or have decided that they ’ d rather not promote it to the general populace for some reason .
It ’ s a ridiculously safe vitamin with almost zero downside @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ re colossally dumb , or this is a calculated decision .
They ’ re not dumb .
So we have to ask : What ’ s the calculation being performed here ?
It ’ s not public safety .
It ’ s not your personal health .
So… What is it ?
This is our line of questioning and observation .
It ’ s like the short story by Arthur Conan Doyle in Silver Blaze that many of us informally know as “ the case of the dog that didn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , because of a missing clue – a dog who remained silent as a murder was committed – this conclusion could be drawn : the dog was already familiar with the killer !
The silence around Vitamin D alone is extremely telling .
It is the pharmacological dog that did not bark .
One true inference suggests others .
Here , too , we can deduce from the near total silence around Vitamin D that the health managers would prefer not to talk about it .
They don ’ t want people to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Such lack of promotion ( let alone appropriate study ) of safe , effective treatments is a thread that , if tugged , can unravel the whole rug .
The silence tells us everything we need to know .
Do they want people to suffer and die ?
I don ’ t know .
My belief systems certainly hope not .
Perhaps the death and suffering are merely collateral damage as they pursue a different goal — money , power , politics ?
Simply the depressing result of a contentious election year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ve now reached the jumping off point where we may well find out just how far down the rabbit hole goes .
A massive grab for tighter control over the global populace is now being fast-tracked at the highest levels .
Have you heard of the Great Reset yet ?
If not , you soon will .

“I had grasped the significance of the silence of the dog, for one true inference invariably suggests others…. Obviously the midnight visitor was someone whom the dog knew well.” ~ Sherlock Holmes – The Adventures of Silver Blaze
Is it possible to make sense out of nonsense?
So much these days is an incoherent mess. It’s complete nonsense.
Page 1 excitedly beams about a glorious rebound in GDP. Yay economic growth!
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Each is a narrative. Each has its own inner logic.
But they simply do not have any external coherence to each other. It’s nonsensical to be excited about rising economic growth while also concerned that each new unit of growth takes the planet further past a critical red line.
These narratives are incompatible. So which one should we pick?
Well, in the end, reality always has the final say. As Guy McPherson states: Nature bats last.
So better we choose to follow the narrative that hews closest to what reality actually is, vs what we desperately want it to be.
‘They’ Don’t Care About Us
While issues like climate change and economic growth may be difficult to fully grasp and unravel, direct threats to our lives &/or livelihoods are much more concrete and something we can react to and resist.
Such immediate and direct threats are now fully in play and, once again, they’re accompanied by narratives that are completely at odds with each other. I’m speaking of Covid and the ways in which our national and global managers are choosing to respond (or not).
It’s a truly incoherent mess about which both social media and the increasingly irrelevant media are working quite hard to misinform us.
The mainstream narrative about Covid-19, in the West, is this: COVID-19 Q&A ABOUT A S... MOLE, ANONYMOUS Buy New $3.00 (as of 03:18 UTC - Details)
It’s a quite deadly and novel disease
There are no effective treatments
Sadly, no double-blind placebo controlled trials exist to support some of the wild claims out there about various off-patent, cheap and widely available supplements and drugs
Health authorities care about saving lives
They care so much, in fact, that along with politicians they’ve decided to entirely shut down economies
There’s a huge second wave rampaging across the US and Europe and there’s nothing we can do to limit it except shut down businesses and people’s ability to travel and gather
You need to fear this virus and its associated disease
All we can do is wait for a vaccine
The alternative narrative, one that I’ve uncovered after 9 months of almost daily research and reporting, is this:
It’s not an especially dangerous disease and it’s certainly not novel
There is a huge assortment of very effective, cheap and widely-available preventatives and treatments including (but not limited to) Vitamin D Ivermectin Hydroxychloroquine Zinc Selenium Famotidine (Pepcid) Scamdemic - The COVID-... Iovine, John Buy New $19.20 (as of 03:18 UTC - Details ) Melatonin
Use of a combination of these mostly OTC supplements could reasonably be expected to drop the severity of illness and the already low mortality rate by 90% or (probably) more
Western health authorities have shown either zero interest in the results of studies mainly conducted in poorer nations on these combination therapies or…
They have actively run studies designed to fail so that these cheap, effective therapies could be dismissed or…
Set up proper studies but which started late, have immensely long study periods and most likely won’t be done before a vaccine is hastily rushed through development.
By the way – every single one of my assertions and claims is backed by links and supporting documentation from scientific and clinical trials and studies. I am not conjecturing here; I am recounting the summary of ten months’ worth of inquiry.
The conclusion I draw from my narrative (vs. theirs) is that we can no longer assume that the public health or saving lives has anything to do with explaining or understanding the actions of these health “managers” (I cannot bring myself to use the word authorities).
After we eliminate the impossible – which is that somehow these massive, well-funded bodies have missed month after month of accumulating evidence in support of ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamin D, NAC, zinc, selenium and doxycycline/azithromycin – what remains must be the truth.
As improbable as it seems, the only conclusion we’re left with is that the machinery of politics, money and corporate psychopathy is suppressing life saving treatments because these managers have other priorities besides public health and saving lives.
This is a terribly difficult conclusion, because it means suspending so much that we hold dear. Things like the notion that people are basically good. The idea that the government generally means well. The thought that somehow when the chips are down and a crisis is afoot, good will emerge and triumph over evil. COVID: The Politics of... Siegel, Marc Buy New $29.99 (as of 04:26 UTC - Details)
I’m sorry to say, the exact opposite of all of that has emerged as true.
Medical doctors in the UK NHS system purposely used toxic doses of hydroxychloroquine far too late in the disease cycle to be of any help simply to ‘make a point’ about hydroxychloroquine. They rather desperately wanted that drug to fail, so they made it fail.
After deliberately setting their trial up for failure, they concluded: “Hydroxychloroquine doesn’t help, and it even makes things worse.”
Note that in order to be able to make this claim, they had to be willing to cause harm — even to let people die. What kind of health official does that?
Not one who actually has compassion, a heart, or functioning level of sympathy. It’s an awful conclusion but it’s what remains after we eliminate the impossible.
Getting Past The Emotional Toll
Science has proven that cheap, safe and significantly protective compounds exist to limit both Covid-related death and disease severity.
Yet all of the main so-called health authorities in the major western countries are nearly completely ignoring, if not outright banning, these safe, cheap and effective compounds.
This is crazy-making for independent observers like me (and you) because the data is so clear. It’s irrefutable at this point. These medicines and treatments not only work, but work really, really well.
However most people will be unable to absorb the data, let alone move beyond it to wrestle with the implications. Why? Because such data is belief-shattering. Absorbing this information is not an intellectual process; it’s an emotional one.
I don’t know why human nature decided to invest so much in developing a tight wall around the belief systems that control our actions and thoughts. But it has. The Vitamin D Solution... Michael F. Holick Best Price: $2.01 Buy New $9.08 (as of 10:55 UTC - Details)
I’m sure there was some powerful evolutionary advantage. One that’s now being hijacked daily by social media AI programs to nudge us in desired directions. One that’s being leveraged by shabby politicians, hucksters, fake gurus, and con men to steer advantage away from the populace and towards themselves.
The neural wiring of beliefs is what it is. We have to recognize that and move on.
Some people will be much faster in their adjustment process than others. (Notably, the Peak Prosperity tribe is populated with many fast-adjusters, which is unsurprising given the topics we cover…tough topics tend to attract fast adjusters and repel the rest)
To move past the deeply troubling information laid out before us requires us to be willing to endure a bit of turbulence. It’s the only way.
For you to navigate these troubling times safely and successfully, you’ll need to see as clearly as possible the true nature of the game actually being played. To see what the rules really are – not what you’ve been told they are, or what you wish or hope they are.
The Manipulation Underway
The data above strongly supports the conclusion that our national health managers don’t actually care about public health generally or your health specifically.
If indeed true, then the beliefs preventing most people from accepting this likely include:
Wanting to believe that people are good (a biggie for most people)
Trust and faith in the medical system (really big)
Faith in authority (ginormous)
There are many other operative belief systems I could also list. But this is sufficient to get the ball rolling.
Picking just one, how hard would it be for someone to let go of, say, trust in the medical system?
That would be pretty hard in most cases.
First not trusting the medical system might mean having to wonder if a loved one might have died unnecessarily while being treated. Or realizing that you’re now going to have to research the living daylights out of every medical decision before agreeing to it. Or worrying that your medications might be more harmful to you over the long haul than helpful (which is true in many more cases than most appreciate). It might mean having your personal heroes dinged by suspicion — perhaps even your father or mother who worked in the medical profession. It would definitely require a complete reorientation away from being able to trust anything you read in a newspaper, or see on TV, about new pharmaceutical “breakthroughs”.
Trust, which is safe and warm and comforting, then turns into skepticism; which is lonelier and insists upon active mental involvement.
But, as always, hard work comes with benefits — with a healthy level of skepticism and involvement, the families of those recruited into the deadly UK RECOVERY trial could have looked at the proposed doses of HCQ (2,400 mg on day one! Toxic!) and said, “Not now, not ever!” and maybe have saved the life of their loved one.
Look at that tangled mess of undesirables that comes with unpacking that one belief: regret, uncertainty, shame, doubt, fallen idols, and vastly more additional effort. Are all up for grabs when we decide to look carefully at the actions of our national health managers during Covid.
Which is why most people simply choose not to look. It’s too hard.
I get it. I have a lot of compassion for why people choose not to go down that path. It can get unpleasant in a hurry.
But, just like choosing to ignore a nagging chest pain, turning away in denial has its own consequences.
The Coming ‘Great Reset’
My coverage of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus) and Covid-19 (the associated disease) has led me to uncover some things that have made me deeply uncomfortable about our global and national ‘managers’. Shameful things, really. Scary things in their implications for what we might reasonably expect (or not expect, more accurately) from the future.
Once we get past the shock of seeing just how patently corrupt they’ve been, we have to ask both What’s next? and What should I do?
After all, you live in a system whose managers either are too dumb to understand the Vitamin D data (very unlikely) or have decided that they’d rather not promote it to the general populace for some reason. It’s a ridiculously safe vitamin with almost zero downside and virtually unlimited upside.
Either they’re colossally dumb, or this is a calculated decision. They’re not dumb. So we have to ask: What’s the calculation being performed here? It’s not public safety. It’s not your personal health. So… What is it?
This is our line of questioning and observation. It’s like the short story by Arthur Conan Doyle in Silver Blaze that many of us informally know as “the case of the dog that didn’t bark”. As the story goes, because of a missing clue – a dog who remained silent as a murder was committed – this conclusion could be drawn: the dog was already familiar with the killer!
The silence around Vitamin D alone is extremely telling. It is the pharmacological dog that did not bark.
One true inference suggests others. Here, too, we can deduce from the near total silence around Vitamin D that the health managers would prefer not to talk about it. They don’t want people to know. That much is painfully clear.
Such lack of promotion (let alone appropriate study) of safe, effective treatments is a thread that, if tugged, can unravel the whole rug. The silence tells us everything we need to know.
Do they want people to suffer and die? I don’t know. My belief systems certainly hope not. Perhaps the death and suffering are merely collateral damage as they pursue a different goal — money, power, politics? Simply the depressing result of a contentious election year? More than that?
We’ve now reached the jumping off point where we may well find out just how far down the rabbit hole goes.
A massive grab for tighter control over the global populace is now being fast-tracked at the highest levels. Have you heard of the Great Reset yet?
If not, you soon will.
Reprinted with permission from Peak Prosperity.


lewrockwell--2020-11-02--The Southern (Catholic) Tradition

The Southern (Catholic) Tradition

When asked why he was a Catholic , Southern author Walker Percy liked to provocatively respond , “ What else is there ?
” Savannah-born writer Flannery O ’ Connor , a Catholic or Irish heritage , once asserted that she was a “ hillbilly Thomist , ” a nod to Thomas Aquinas , whose Summa Theologiae she piously read .
Percy and O ’ Connor certainly saw no conflict between their Southern identity and their Catholic faith .
The second volume of historian and seventh-generation Californian Kevin Starr ’ s history of Catholicism in the Americas , Continental Achievement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , recently and posthumously published ( Starr died in 2017 ) , shows the deep roots of Catholic Southern identity .
As Starr explains in his first volume , Continental Ambitions , the colony of Maryland served as refuge of religious freedom , including for Catholics , such as the colony ’ s most illustrious family , the Calverts .
Yet even then the Catholic population of early colonial Maryland was never more than ten percent , and a Protestant-dominated Maryland General Assembly in 1704 explicitly forbade celebration of Catholic sacraments and limited @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Catholicism slowly grew in Maryland and other Southern colonies .
In many respects the Revolutionary War served as a catalyst for strengthening Catholic and Protestant bonds across the colonies , including in the South .
The sole Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence , Charles Carroll of Carrollton , hailed from Maryland , and served as the state ’ s first senator .
His cousin Daniel Carroll , also of Maryland , was one of only two Catholics to sign the Constitution ( the other , Thomas Fitzsimons , was from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vital role in the fight against the British .
In 1777 , Congress named Polish Catholic nobleman Casimir Pulaski as brigadier general of cavalry in the Continental Army .
Pulaski would ultimately die during a 1779 attempt to retake Savannah from the British ; his last words were “ Jesus , Mary , and Joseph !
” Hungarian Catholic Michael Kovats de Fabriczy , another cavalry officer in the Continental Army , died during the 1779 siege of Charleston .
Polish Catholic nobleman Tadeusz Kościuszko in turn designed and oversaw the construction of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a brigadier general , and authored the first military manual adopted by the U.S. Army , which remained in use through the Mexican-American War .
Kościuszko also developed a close friendship with Thomas Jefferson — after the war , when the Polish nobleman returned to Europe , he requested Jefferson liquidate his American assets and use the money to “ purchase freedom for slaves and pay for their education ” writes Starr .
A military expedition led by George Rogers Clark persuaded French Catholics living in present-day Indiana to swear allegiance to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the city of Richmond was for a time led by French Catholic the Marquis de Lafayette .
Irish Catholic and Colonel John Fitzgerald , an aide-de-camp to General George Washington , distinguished himself at multiple battles , and was wounded at Monmouth in 1778 .
After the war he maintained his home in Alexandria , Virginia , as a “ Mass House ” for Catholics .
The Continental Congress and Army were ultimately reliant on two other Catholic nations , France and Spain , for final victory against the British .
At @ @ @ @ @ @ @ General Cornwallis ’ surrender , 24,000 French soldiers and seamen supported 7,500 American soldiers .
Indeed , the greatest naval battle of the entire war , the Battle of the Chesapeake , ( or Virginia Capes ) , fought between French and British navies during the Yorktown campaign , with no American naval contribution .
That same Yorktown campaign was also supported by a half million silver pesos provided by the Spanish Empire .
Washington and his family were great friends to many Catholics , including several Virginia landowners .
Our nation ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to work his Mount Vernon estate , which helps explain nearby Alexandria ’ s proud and venerable Irish Catholic heritage .
Another Washington friend , Maryland Catholic Thomas Attwood Digges , was a Revolutionary spy , who published a novel based on his early life , Adventures of Alonso ( 1775 ) .
The book , Starr notes , is considered by some literary historians as the first published novel written by a native-born American .
The “ Southern Catholic writer ” apparently has quite an ancient pedigree !

When asked why he was a Catholic, Southern author Walker Percy liked to provocatively respond, “What else is there?” Savannah-born writer Flannery O’Connor, a Catholic or Irish heritage, once asserted that she was a “hillbilly Thomist,” a nod to Thomas Aquinas, whose Summa Theologiae she piously read. Percy and O’Connor certainly saw no conflict between their Southern identity and their Catholic faith. The second volume of historian and seventh-generation Californian Kevin Starr’s history of Catholicism in the Americas, Continental Achievement: Roman Catholics in the United States, recently and posthumously published (Starr died in 2017), shows the deep roots of Catholic Southern identity.
As Starr explains in his first volume, Continental Ambitions, the colony of Maryland served as refuge of religious freedom, including for Catholics, such as the colony’s most illustrious family, the Calverts. Yet even then the Catholic population of early colonial Maryland was never more than ten percent, and a Protestant-dominated Maryland General Assembly in 1704 explicitly forbade celebration of Catholic sacraments and limited civic participation for Catholic residents. Nevertheless, Catholicism slowly grew in Maryland and other Southern colonies.
In many respects the Revolutionary War served as a catalyst for strengthening Catholic and Protestant bonds across the colonies, including in the South. The sole Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, hailed from Maryland, and served as the state’s first senator. His cousin Daniel Carroll, also of Maryland, was one of only two Catholics to sign the Constitution (the other, Thomas Fitzsimons, was from Pennsylvania).
Catholics also played a vital role in the fight against the British. In 1777, Congress named Polish Catholic nobleman Casimir Pulaski as brigadier general of cavalry in the Continental Army. Pulaski would ultimately die during a 1779 attempt to retake Savannah from the British; his last words were “Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!” Hungarian Catholic Michael Kovats de Fabriczy, another cavalry officer in the Continental Army, died during the 1779 siege of Charleston.
Polish Catholic nobleman Tadeusz Kościuszko in turn designed and oversaw the construction of defenses of West Point, was named a brigadier general, and authored the first military manual adopted by the U.S. Army, which remained in use through the Mexican-American War. Kościuszko also developed a close friendship with Thomas Jefferson — after the war, when the Polish nobleman returned to Europe, he requested Jefferson liquidate his American assets and use the money to “purchase freedom for slaves and pay for their education” writes Starr.
A military expedition led by George Rogers Clark persuaded French Catholics living in present-day Indiana to swear allegiance to the Revolutionary Virginia government. The colonial protection of the city of Richmond was for a time led by French Catholic the Marquis de Lafayette. Irish Catholic and Colonel John Fitzgerald, an aide-de-camp to General George Washington, distinguished himself at multiple battles, and was wounded at Monmouth in 1778. After the war he maintained his home in Alexandria, Virginia, as a “Mass House” for Catholics.
The Continental Congress and Army were ultimately reliant on two other Catholic nations, France and Spain, for final victory against the British. At the siege of Yorktown that forced British General Cornwallis’ surrender, 24,000 French soldiers and seamen supported 7,500 American soldiers. Indeed, the greatest naval battle of the entire war, the Battle of the Chesapeake, (or Virginia Capes), fought between French and British navies during the Yorktown campaign, with no American naval contribution. That same Yorktown campaign was also supported by a half million silver pesos provided by the Spanish Empire.
Washington and his family were great friends to many Catholics, including several Virginia landowners. Our nation’s first president also hired Irish Catholics to work his Mount Vernon estate, which helps explain nearby Alexandria’s proud and venerable Irish Catholic heritage. Another Washington friend, Maryland Catholic Thomas Attwood Digges, was a Revolutionary spy, who published a novel based on his early life, Adventures of Alonso (1775). The book, Starr notes, is considered by some literary historians as the first published novel written by a native-born American. The “Southern Catholic writer” apparently has quite an ancient pedigree!
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