lewrockwell--2020-08-31--Why Do Europeans Put Up With US Rule Over Them?

This admirable column gets a modest trickle of mail from European readers , for some reason chiefly in France and Italy but some from the Nordic realms .
While these correspondents are intelligent and thoughtful , and sometimes translate my maunderings into their languages , they do not give a comprehensive view of what Europe thinks of the United States—the populations , I mean , not the politicians , who think what will profit them , but actual people .
A question of particular interest to me is why Europe , and Europeans , put up with America .
For @ @ @ @ @ @ @ almost entirely subservient to the US , vassals , protectorates held in quiet contempt by America .
Do not you in Europe obey almost every wish of the Americans ?
Do you not do everything for their benefit , not your own ?
How could they not scorn you ?
The whole world sees this .
England wanted to use Huawei in its Five G installation , but Mommy Washington said no .
Boris Johnson wriggled and squirmed like a trained seal hoping to be given a fish…and then obeyed .
Europe almost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a research center in England , but Mr. Trump cracked the whip .
England appears poised to obey .
As usual .
A Grand Adventure : Wis ... Reed , Fred Best Price : null Buy New $ 2.99 “ Yass , Bwana .
Yassuh .
What you say , boss.
” This is the England of Nelson and Churchill and the Battle of Britain ?
“ Yass , Bwana ” ?
How do you stand it ?
Yes , I know , you Brits hide your subservience by saying that you have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as if you were somehow coequals .
In reality , the special relationship is only that of Most Servile Vassal .
But this acceptance of humiliation is not unique to England .
You know this .
Americans certainly know it .
All of Europe wanted to trade with Iran , as did Russia and China , countries representing far more population and GDP than America does .
and you all supported the nuclear deal .
But Washington said no .
When Mother America gives orders , you all obey like circus dogs—Why @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Europe become a gentleman ’ s club of bootlickers ?
It is in your interest to buy natural gas from Russia , and whether it is in your interest or not it is certainly your business .
But no .
Washington says you can not have Nordstream II…and you roll over , yes , with little whimpers of protest , but you take it .
You must buy American gas , more expensive than Russian .
But I think you know what Washington really wants , which is to make you dependent on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ working .
If you control a country ’ s sources of energy , you control the country .
We see that around the world America is going for the oil : Iran , Iraq , Venezuela , Saudi Arabia , Kuwait , Syria , the UAE .
Too much of the world tolerates this , but Europe is worse .
When Trump tells England to confiscate ( “ steal , ” in plain English ) Venezuela ’ s gold , it does .
Yass , Bwana .
And when Trump tells Germany—Germany , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country of Frederick the Great , Bismark , Guderian—to recognize Guaido , Germany rolls over and spreads .
Alankathy Mugs Liberal ... Buy New $ 11.00 Everything you do seems to be for America ’ s benefit , not your own .
Bojo docilely bans Huawei ’ s Five G , which sets back Europe ’ s adoption of an important technology by years—for the sole benefit of America .
Thus do we Yanks milk our colonials .
Poor widdle fings .
You let America do this to you .
“ Yass , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as enemies , yet you treat them as friends .
Richard Grenell comes to Germany as American ambassador , and begins barking orders to German businesses .
American senators bluntly threaten to devastate the port of Macron commercially if it allows Russia ’ s pipelaying ships to enter .
Incredible .
The US pretends to be your ally , your guardian , your mother , yet it places heavy sanctions on you if you do not abandon a pipeline that is none of its business .
Why do you send European soldiers to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a country in which you have no stake ?
Or Iraq ?
Or anywhere else ?
Washington regards you as sepoys , as its native troops .
It uses you as a fig leaf of respectability to cover America ’ s unending aggression .
But you do it , for America ’ s benefit , not your own .
How charitable of you .
There is no end to your groveling .
You have no need of NATO , the North American Treaty Organization , America ’ s prison guard in Europe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ independent with foreign troops on their soil .
Whether you call them occupation forces or something less candid , they in their tens of thousands , their dozens of bases , are a foreign presence .
Shop4Ever Donald Trump ... Buy New $ 7.95 They are there for America ’ s purposes , not yours .
You certainly do not need them to defend you against Russia which is far inferior to Europe in population , GDP , military expenditure and which , as your intelligence services tell you , is not mobilizing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grave but nonexistent danger , you must spend mor on the military—which means buy more American arms .
Of course your own militaries cling to NATO .
Their jobs and bases depend on it .
NATO gives them the chance to go to Afghanistan and be just like real soldiers and to pretend that they are not without purpose .
The bars and restaurants around the bases in Europe depend on the military dollar .
Military men are often more loyal to their international comrades than to their own populations .
Once military @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it is devilishly hard to get them out , and they will always find some budgetary pretext , send money .
Can you not see that America is playing you for fools in its creeping encirclement of Russia ?
Then , if America starts a war with Russia , it will be fought in…Europe .
When was the last time America fought an American war in America ?
And you don ’ t even control your own armies .
“ Yass , Bwana .
What you say , Bwana .
You de boss.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ like to hear what Europeans really think about all of this .
Thanks .
Reprinted with permission from The Unz Review .
The Best of Fred Reed

This admirable column gets a modest trickle of mail from European readers, for some reason chiefly in France and Italy but some from the Nordic realms. While these correspondents are intelligent and thoughtful, and sometimes translate my maunderings into their languages, they do not give a comprehensive view of what Europe thinks of the United States—the populations, I mean, not the politicians, who think what will profit them, but actual people. A question of particular interest to me is why Europe, and Europeans, put up with America.
For example, European countries seem to be almost entirely subservient to the US, vassals, protectorates held in quiet contempt by America. Do not you in Europe obey almost every wish of the Americans? Do you not do everything for their benefit, not your own? How could they not scorn you?
The whole world sees this. England wanted to use Huawei in its Five G installation, but Mommy Washington said no. Boris Johnson wriggled and squirmed like a trained seal hoping to be given a fish…and then obeyed. Europe almost always obeys. Huawei wanted to build a research center in England, but Mr. Trump cracked the whip. England appears poised to obey. As usual. A Grand Adventure: Wis... Reed, Fred Buy New $2.99 (as of 08:00 UTC - Details)
“Yass, Bwana. Yassuh. What you say, boss.”
This is the England of Nelson and Churchill and the Battle of Britain? “Yass, Bwana”? How do you stand it?
Yes, I know, you Brits hide your subservience by saying that you have a “special relationship” with America, as if you were somehow coequals. In reality, the special relationship is only that of Most Servile Vassal.
But this acceptance of humiliation is not unique to England. You know this. Americans certainly know it.
All of Europe wanted to trade with Iran, as did Russia and China, countries representing far more population and GDP than America does. and you all supported the nuclear deal. But Washington said no. When Mother America gives orders, you all obey like circus dogs—Why do you do this? When did Europe become a gentleman’s club of bootlickers?
It is in your interest to buy natural gas from Russia, and whether it is in your interest or not it is certainly your business. But no. Washington says you cannot have Nordstream II…and you roll over, yes, with little whimpers of protest, but you take it. You must buy American gas, more expensive than Russian. But I think you know what Washington really wants, which is to make you dependent on America for energy. And it is working.
If you control a country’s sources of energy, you control the country. We see that around the world America is going for the oil: Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Syria, the UAE. Too much of the world tolerates this, but Europe is worse. When Trump tells England to confiscate (“steal,” in plain English) Venezuela’s gold, it does. Yass, Bwana. And when Trump tells Germany—Germany, for God’s sake, the country of Frederick the Great, Bismark, Guderian—to recognize Guaido, Germany rolls over and spreads. Alankathy Mugs Liberal... Buy New $11.00 (as of 04:52 UTC - Details)
Everything you do seems to be for America’s benefit, not your own. Bojo docilely bans Huawei’s Five G, which sets back Europe’s adoption of an important technology by years—for the sole benefit of America.
Thus do we Yanks milk our colonials. Poor widdle fings.
You let America do this to you. “Yass, Bwana.” The Americans treat you almost as enemies, yet you treat them as friends. Richard Grenell comes to Germany as American ambassador, and begins barking orders to German businesses. American senators bluntly threaten to devastate the port of Macron commercially if it allows Russia’s pipelaying ships to enter. Incredible. The US pretends to be your ally, your guardian, your mother, yet it places heavy sanctions on you if you do not abandon a pipeline that is none of its business.
Why do you send European soldiers to fight America’s war in Afghanistan, a country in which you have no stake? Or Iraq? Or anywhere else? Washington regards you as sepoys, as its native troops. It uses you as a fig leaf of respectability to cover America’s unending aggression. But you do it, for America’s benefit, not your own. How charitable of you.
There is no end to your groveling. You have no need of NATO, the North American Treaty Organization, America’s prison guard in Europe. Countries cannot be sovereign and independent with foreign troops on their soil. Whether you call them occupation forces or something less candid, they in their tens of thousands, their dozens of bases, are a foreign presence.
Shop4Ever Donald Trump... Buy New $7.95 (as of 04:23 UTC - Details) They are there for America’s purposes, not yours. You certainly do not need them to defend you against Russia which is far inferior to Europe in population, GDP, military expenditure and which, as your intelligence services tell you, is not mobilizing. But to defend yourselves against this grave but nonexistent danger, you must spend mor on the military—which means buy more American arms.
Of course your own militaries cling to NATO. Their jobs and bases depend on it. NATO gives them the chance to go to Afghanistan and be just like real soldiers and to pretend that they are not without purpose. The bars and restaurants around the bases in Europe depend on the military dollar. Military men are often more loyal to their international comrades than to their own populations. Once military forces have encysted in a country, it is devilishly hard to get them out, and they will always find some budgetary pretext, send money.
Can you not see that America is playing you for fools in its creeping encirclement of Russia? Then, if America starts a war with Russia, it will be fought in…Europe. When was the last time America fought an American war in America? And you don’t even control your own armies.
“Yass, Bwana. What you say, Bwana. You de boss.” God almighty.
I would much like to hear what Europeans really think about all of this. Thanks.
Reprinted with permission from The Unz Review.
The Best of Fred Reed


lewrockwell--2020-08-31--Send Me Your Local Face Mask Order

Send Me Your Local Face Mask Order

I don ’ t really want to see your local face mask order .
I want you to find your local face mask order .
Because then we are one step closer to you reading your local face mask order .
And that brings us one step closer to you understanding your local face mask order .
And that brings us one step closer to someone thinking about your local face mask order .
Because I have an interesting statistic for you : since your local face mask order has been issued , not a single person has read it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you to prove me wrong .
The Case Against Masks ... Heckenlively , Kent Buy New $ 12.99 Some may have interpreted the face mask order according to the accompanying press releases and accompanying press conferences .
Some may have enforced it based on the emails the orders were attached to .
Others may have been in positions of authority or enforcement and may have repeated the talking points about the orders from whatever cloud of glyphosate , mercury , and radiation that floats through the ether and that they get their information @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you to read it and think about it , I can get you to enact the exemptions that apply to you .
Do you know why I can get you to do that ?
Because you are a thinking person and anyone who encounters the lunacy of some of the ways enforcement is being handled and then compares it to the reality of what “ the rules ” say , is left with no choice but to laugh out loud at anyone who speaks such misinformed lunacy with such self-righteous entitlement .
Millions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may be one of them .
The Gadfly Majestic is one of them .
He ’ s never worn a face mask .
I estimate thousands of readers of these pages have never worn one , because hundreds have written me telling me that they never have .
It ’ s such a joke , just not a funny one , that if you simply read the order , in 19 out of 20 situations , you won ’ t ever have to wear a face mask again .
Unless you ’ re @ @ @ @ @ @ @ writers and their colleagues just follow their own orders the way they are written .
I don ’ t think many gutless people show up in whatever little corner of the world you encountered this piece of writing today .
You didn ’ t find it on the front page of Reddit or Drudge .
You and I both are probably reflected by the Becky Ackers commentary about Pastor Rob McCoy who refuses to follow California lockdown orders : “ If you ’ re like me , you want your heroes full-throated and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ my heroes that way .
For an example of a poorly executed policy , look at the face mask policy below .
Until I found this face mask policy and pointed it out to a hotel manager , this is a face mask policy she was enforcing under the claim that there were absolutely no exemptions .
Does this look like an excerpt from a face mask policy with absolutely no exemptions ?
I ’ ll let you be the judge : “ Medical exception : The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Agency of Canada ( PHAC ) recognize that wearing cloth face coverings may not be possible in every situation or for some people .
Consistent with CDC Mask Guidance this includes : • Anyone who is unconscious , incapacitated , or otherwise unable to remove the cloth face covering without assistance Please note , CDC guidelines recognize individuals outside these two categories also may be exempt from wearing face masks .
Please refer to the FAQs below and additional hotel documentation for guidance on how to handle any guest request for additional exceptions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ associates and guests who may have disability-related issues wearing a mask.
” I ’ ve now heard hundreds of stories of people exercising legitimate face mask exemptions by simply calling a manager beforehand and saying the words “ I have a concern .
I am unable to wear a face mask safely .
May I still come by later on today ?
” That will be enough in approximately 19 out of 20 situations .
GEER Head Mask Full Fa ... Buy New $ 79.99 You know why those exemptions exist ?
Because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tyrannical place yet .
We live in a place where those writing these awful orders are leaving room for humans to fit into the order — if those humans claim their humanity .
And most people refuse to .
I invite you to send me your local face mask order .
I will read it with pleasure .
I invite you to send me the Marriott written face mask policy , the Menard ’ s written face mask policy , and your local laundromat ’ s written face mask policy .
I invite @ @ @ @ @ @ @ orders you ’ d like .
But what I ’ d really like is for you to read those written orders , and to use those written orders to enter into a place where you are exempt from the face mask .
I know , it might be hard to even get anyone to send the written policy to you , because they don ’ t actually know where to find it , since they ’ ve never read it .
If you persist , you will get it though .
And then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do the work of just getting the corporatespeak-trained manager to follow their own policies and to instruct the doorknob-headed lug guarding the entrance to follow the same policies , instead of the ad hoc and widespread denigrating of people that they otherwise engage in .
All it takes is reading the order , and then getting another to do the same .
Then please be so kind as to send me your stories from the face mask compliance checkpoint and help me put an end to this tyranny .
The Best of Allan @

I don’t really want to see your local face mask order. I want you to find your local face mask order.
Because then we are one step closer to you reading your local face mask order. And that brings us one step closer to you understanding your local face mask order. And that brings us one step closer to someone thinking about your local face mask order.
Because I have an interesting statistic for you: since your local face mask order has been issued, not a single person has read it and thought about it.
I challenge you to prove me wrong.
The Case Against Masks... Heckenlively, Kent Buy New $12.99 (as of 04:52 UTC - Details) Some may have interpreted the face mask order according to the accompanying press releases and accompanying press conferences. Some may have enforced it based on the emails the orders were attached to. Others may have been in positions of authority or enforcement and may have repeated the talking points about the orders from whatever cloud of glyphosate, mercury, and radiation that floats through the ether and that they get their information from.
But if I can get you to read it and think about it, I can get you to enact the exemptions that apply to you.
Do you know why I can get you to do that? Because you are a thinking person and anyone who encounters the lunacy of some of the ways enforcement is being handled and then compares it to the reality of what “the rules” say, is left with no choice but to laugh out loud at anyone who speaks such misinformed lunacy with such self-righteous entitlement.
Millions of people have legitimate exemptions. You may be one of them. The Gadfly Majestic is one of them. He’s never worn a face mask. I estimate thousands of readers of these pages have never worn one, because hundreds have written me telling me that they never have.
It’s such a joke, just not a funny one, that if you simply read the order, in 19 out of 20 situations, you won’t ever have to wear a face mask again. Unless you’re too gutless to insist that the order writers and their colleagues just follow their own orders the way they are written.
I don’t think many gutless people show up in whatever little corner of the world you encountered this piece of writing today. You didn’t find it on the front page of Reddit or Drudge. You and I both are probably reflected by the Becky Ackers commentary about Pastor Rob McCoy who refuses to follow California lockdown orders: “If you’re like me, you want your heroes full-throated and unflinching.”
I, too, like my heroes that way.
For an example of a poorly executed policy, look at the face mask policy below. Until I found this face mask policy and pointed it out to a hotel manager, this is a face mask policy she was enforcing under the claim that there were absolutely no exemptions.
Does this look like an excerpt from a face mask policy with absolutely no exemptions? I’ll let you be the judge:
“Medical exception: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) recognize that wearing cloth face coverings may not be possible in every situation or for some people. Consistent with CDC Mask Guidance this includes:
Children younger than 2 years old
Anyone who is unconscious, incapacitated, or otherwise unable to remove the cloth face covering without assistance
Please note, CDC guidelines recognize individuals outside these two categories also may be exempt from wearing face masks. Please refer to the FAQs below and additional hotel documentation for guidance on how to handle any guest request for additional exceptions.
Hotels should work to reasonably accommodate associates and guests who may have disability-related issues wearing a mask.”
I’ve now heard hundreds of stories of people exercising legitimate face mask exemptions by simply calling a manager beforehand and saying the words “I have a concern. I am unable to wear a face mask safely. May I still come by later on today?” That will be enough in approximately 19 out of 20 situations. GEER Head Mask Full Fa... Buy New $79.99 (as of 04:45 UTC - Details)
You know why those exemptions exist? Because we don’t live in a tyrannical place yet. We live in a place where those writing these awful orders are leaving room for humans to fit into the order — if those humans claim their humanity.
And most people refuse to.
I invite you to send me your local face mask order. I will read it with pleasure. I invite you to send me the Marriott written face mask policy, the Menard’s written face mask policy, and your local laundromat’s written face mask policy. I invite you to send me any face mask orders you’d like.
But what I’d really like is for you to read those written orders, and to use those written orders to enter into a place where you are exempt from the face mask. I know, it might be hard to even get anyone to send the written policy to you, because they don’t actually know where to find it, since they’ve never read it. If you persist, you will get it though. And then, yes, I want you to do the work of just getting the corporatespeak-trained manager to follow their own policies and to instruct the doorknob-headed lug guarding the entrance to follow the same policies, instead of the ad hoc and widespread denigrating of people that they otherwise engage in.
All it takes is reading the order, and then getting another to do the same.
Then please be so kind as to send me your stories from the face mask compliance checkpoint and help me put an end to this tyranny.
The Best of Allan Stevo


lewrockwell--2020-08-31--‘In Defense of Looting’

‘In Defense of Looting’

The Racist , Anti-White Propaganda Organization Called National Public Radio Justifies Mass Looting as Liberation from White Oppression : “ The very basis of property in the U.S. is derived through whiteness and through Black oppression , through the history of slavery and settler domination of the country .
Looting strikes at the heart of property , of whiteness and of the police .
It gets to the very root of the way those three things are interconnected .
And also it provides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure and helps them imagine a world that could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s a part of it that doesn ’ t really get talked about—that riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory.
” White Guilt : How Black ... Steele , Shelby Best Price : $ 13.13 Buy New $ 10.08 The reason Democrats don ’ t enforce law and order is that law and order are protections for white people .
Anything that protects white people is bad , because it lets white people continue their oppression of black people .
This is the level of intelligence at NPR , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ need to understand that the Democrat Party and their presstitute shills are anti-white and anti-Asian ( consider Harvard ’ s massive discrimination against Asians ) and intend not only the dispossession of white people of their property and their lives but also of their country .
Now be a good dumbshit American .
Go give your money to NPR and elect a Democrat .
The Best of Paul Craig Roberts

The Racist, Anti-White Propaganda Organization Called National Public Radio Justifies Mass Looting as Liberation from White Oppression:
“The very basis of property in the U.S. is derived through whiteness and through Black oppression, through the history of slavery and settler domination of the country. Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police. It gets to the very root of the way those three things are interconnected. And also it provides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure and helps them imagine a world that could be. And I think that’s a part of it that doesn’t really get talked about—that riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory.”
White Guilt: How Black... Steele, Shelby Best Price: $13.13 Buy New $10.08 (as of 05:01 UTC - Details) The reason Democrats don’t enforce law and order is that law and order are protections for white people. Anything that protects white people is bad, because it lets white people continue their oppression of black people. This is the level of intelligence at NPR, a font of anti-white ideology.
Americans need to understand that the Democrat Party and their presstitute shills are anti-white and anti-Asian (consider Harvard’s massive discrimination against Asians) and intend not only the dispossession of white people of their property and their lives but also of their country.
Now be a good dumbshit American. Go give your money to NPR and elect a Democrat.
The Best of Paul Craig Roberts


lewrockwell--2020-08-31--Archbishop Viganò: Mothers Must Protect Their Children From the State

Former papal nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has written a letter to mothers in Italy , warning them that they must protect their children from corruption by the state .
In his impassioned address , written on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary , the archbishop endorsed an upcoming parents ’ protest in September against the security measures and secular values being imposed on Italian schools .
Viganò reminded mothers that parents have an “ inalienable right ” and duty to educate their children .
“ The State can not arrogate this right , much less @ @ @ @ @ @ @ perverse principles that are so widespread today , ” he wrote ( full letter translated and published below ) .
Vaccine Epidemic : How ... Best Price : $ 7.50 Buy New $ 12.99 The Archbishop warned that usurpation of the parents ’ role is a hallmark of totalitarian regimes , “ not of a civil and Christian nation ” and stressed that if they permit this , their own values will be rejected .
“ It is your duty to raise your voice so that these attempts to steal the education of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with force because you will be able to do very little for them if your faith , ideas , and culture are judged incompatible with those of an impious and materialistic state.
” He later added that the “ idea that children are the property of the state repulses every human person.
” Viganò asserted that the family is the foundation of society and that attempts to demolish it must be denounced .
He stressed that the presence of both a mother and a father is “ fundamental ” to children ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by those who assert otherwise .
“ You can easily understand the impact of the destruction of the family on the civil consortium , ” he added .
“ Today we have right before our eyes the results of decades of unfortunate policies that inevitably lead to the dissolution of society.
” The HPV Vaccine On Tri ... Iorio , Eileen Best Price : $ 12.95 Buy New $ 12.03 The archbishop also condemned abortion and the Italian government ’ s recent decision to remove safeguards on the use of abortion pills in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not hope for God ’ s blessing when “ human sacrifices are being made in our clinics.
” This point led him to reflect on the use of material from aborted fetuses to create vaccines and the threat of vaccines that may be dangerous .
He deplored the possibility that children with the coronavirus may be taken from their parents and the more immediate problem of children having to wear masks and being forced into “ social distancing ” at school .
“ It seems that the very notion of common sense that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in social life has been lost , ” Viganò remarked .
The archbishop also took aim at the World Health Organization for appointing former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti , who belongs to such international NGOs as the Bilderberg Club , as the new President of the European Commision for Health and Development “ This mixing of private interests in public affairs , inspired by the dictates of Masonic and globalist thought , should be vigorously denounced by those who are representatives of the citizens , and by those who see their legitimate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ never made a mystery of its true intentions , ” Viganò wrote .
The Vitamin D Solution ... Michael F. Holick Best Price : $ 2.01 Buy New $ 9.08 The Archbishop explained why he believes that a vaccine may not be the best way to stop the Covid-19 pandemic , and accused the WHO of being in league with pharmaceutical companies to transform “ citizens into chronically ill people.
” “ How can we think that the search for cures and therapies is being promoted in a disinterested way if those who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ persistence of pathologies ?
” he asked .
Calling upon Catholic doctors to be faithful to their vocation , Viganò mourned the “ new orientation ” of the Pontifical Academy for Life away from concern for the unborn towards hopes for mass vaccination .
The archbishop declared that “ it is absolutely inadmissible to accept a vaccination that utilizes material coming from human fetuses in its process of production.
” The archbishop also condemned any state attempt to impose vaccination on citizens and the ideology of those who would like to use nanotechnologies @ @ @ @ @ @

Former papal nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has written a letter to mothers in Italy, warning them that they must protect their children from corruption by the state.
In his impassioned address, written on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the archbishop endorsed an upcoming parents’ protest in September against the security measures and secular values being imposed on Italian schools.
Viganò reminded mothers that parents have an “inalienable right” and duty to educate their children.
“The State cannot arrogate this right, much less corrupt children and indoctrinate them in the perverse principles that are so widespread today,” he wrote (full letter translated and published below). Vaccine Epidemic: How ... Best Price: $7.50 Buy New $12.99 (as of 06:30 UTC - Details)
The Archbishop warned that usurpation of the parents’ role is a hallmark of totalitarian regimes, “not of a civil and Christian nation” and stressed that if they permit this, their own values will be rejected.
“It is your duty to raise your voice so that these attempts to steal the education of your children may be denounced and rejected with force because you will be able to do very little for them if your faith, ideas, and culture are judged incompatible with those of an impious and materialistic state.”
He later added that the “idea that children are the property of the state repulses every human person.”
Viganò asserted that the family is the foundation of society and that attempts to demolish it must be denounced. He stressed that the presence of both a mother and a father is “fundamental” to children’s upbringing and decried the exploitation of children by those who assert otherwise.
“You can easily understand the impact of the destruction of the family on the civil consortium,” he added.
“Today we have right before our eyes the results of decades of unfortunate policies that inevitably lead to the dissolution of society.” The HPV Vaccine On Tri... Iorio, Eileen Best Price: $12.95 Buy New $12.03 (as of 07:25 UTC - Details)
The archbishop also condemned abortion and the Italian government’s recent decision to remove safeguards on the use of abortion pills in the country and suggested that Italy cannot hope for God’s blessing when “human sacrifices are being made in our clinics.”
This point led him to reflect on the use of material from aborted fetuses to create vaccines and the threat of vaccines that may be dangerous. He deplored the possibility that children with the coronavirus may be taken from their parents and the more immediate problem of children having to wear masks and being forced into “social distancing” at school.
“It seems that the very notion of common sense that ought to govern choices fraught with consequences in social life has been lost,” Viganò remarked.
The archbishop also took aim at the World Health Organization for appointing former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, who belongs to such international NGOs as the Bilderberg Club, as the new President of the European Commision for Health and Development
“This mixing of private interests in public affairs, inspired by the dictates of Masonic and globalist thought, should be vigorously denounced by those who are representatives of the citizens, and by those who see their legitimate powers usurped by an elite that has never made a mystery of its true intentions,” Viganò wrote. The Vitamin D Solution... Michael F. Holick Best Price: $2.01 Buy New $9.08 (as of 10:55 UTC - Details)
The Archbishop explained why he believes that a vaccine may not be the best way to stop the Covid-19 pandemic, and accused the WHO of being in league with pharmaceutical companies to transform “citizens into chronically ill people.”
“How can we think that the search for cures and therapies is being promoted in a disinterested way if those who finance the search profit disproportionately from the persistence of pathologies?” he asked.
Calling upon Catholic doctors to be faithful to their vocation, Viganò mourned the “new orientation” of the Pontifical Academy for Life away from concern for the unborn towards hopes for mass vaccination. The archbishop declared that “it is absolutely inadmissible to accept a vaccination that utilizes material coming from human fetuses in its process of production.”
The archbishop also condemned any state attempt to impose vaccination on citizens and the ideology of those who would like to use nanotechnologies to control their fellow man.
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lewrockwell--2020-08-31--How the CIA Used the Media To Ensnare Michael Flynn

If Vladimir Putin was willing to help President Barack Obama seal the misbegotten Iranian nuclear deal , Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn , then chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency ( DIA ) , was not .
His resistance made him a target , especially once he started advising candidate Donald Trump .
As to who launched the disinformation campaign against Flynn , the jury is still out .
Best evidence , however , suggests forces within the CIA working in tandem with its friends in the media .
The co-conspirators started publicly setting the trap with a February 2016 Reuters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ advised by ex-U.S .
Lieutenant General who favors closer Russia ties.
” https : //reut.rs/2EwzoEL This was a bold gambit .
As recently as July 2015 Obama was telling Tom Friedman of the New York Times , “ We would have not achieved this [ Iran nuclear ] agreement had it not been for Russia ’ s willingness to stick with us and the other P5-Plus members in insisting on a strong deal.
” https : //nyti.ms/3jaDTnz Obama praised Putin a year after Putin annexed the Crimea .
That invasion was so much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ apparently not for Flynn .
Just months later , it was considered newsworthy that Flynn would advise Trump to “ work more closely with Russia to resolve global security issues.
” Unmasking Obama : The F ... Cashill , Jack Buy New $ 9.99 “ Flynn raised eyebrows among some U.S. foreign policy veterans , ” wrote Steve Holland and Mark Hosenball of Reuters , “ when he was pictured sitting at the head table with Putin at a banquet in Moscow late last year celebrating Russia Today , an international broadcasting network @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reporters ’ “ three sources , ” all said to be “ former foreign policy officials , ” failed to mention that Flynn had been briefed by the DIA before the dinner and debriefed afterwards .
What made me suspicious about this article was the Mark Hosenball byline .
Hosenball appears to have been carrying water for the intelligence community ( IC ) for at least twenty years , maybe twice that long .
To say the least , he has a curious background .
Hosenball moved to England when he was 17 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ year in England and three in Ireland , he moved back to England to become a reporter .
This information comes from a 1977 British appeals court document explaining why the United Kingdom chose to deport the 25-year-old Hosenball “ in the interests of national security.
” TWA 800 : The Crash , th ... Cashill , Jack Buy New $ 9.99 “ The Secretary of State believes that Mr. Hosenball is a danger to this country .
So much so that his presence here is unwelcome and he can no longer be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ document .
Reportedly , Hosenball was one of a group of people who were “ trying to obtain information of a very sensitive character about our security arrangements.
” The document does not identify on whose behalf Hosenball was allegedly spying , but it affirms the government ’ s decision to deport him nonetheless .
The American intelligence community did not appear troubled by Hosenball ’ s actions .
As the New York Times reported at the time , “ A United States Embassy spokesman said that he knew of no United States @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” https : //nyti.ms/3jeLgdO Nor did the deportation seem to hurt Hosenball ’ s career .
By 1993 , he was working for Newsweek .
By 1997 , he was using Newsweek to spread CIA disinformation .
In 2003 , I met Hosenball at the Newsweek office .
At the time , I was promoting First Strike , a book I co-authored with James Sanders on TWA Flight 800 , the 747 that mysteriously exploded off the coast of Long Island on July 17 , 1996 .

If Vladimir Putin was willing to help President Barack Obama seal the misbegotten Iranian nuclear deal, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, then chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA),was not. His resistance made him a target, especially once he started advising candidate Donald Trump. As to who launched the disinformation campaign against Flynn, the jury is still out. Best evidence, however, suggests forces within the CIA working in tandem with its friends in the media.
The co-conspirators started publicly setting the trap with a February 2016 Reuters article teasingly titled, “Trump being advised by ex-U.S. Lieutenant General who favors closer Russia ties.” https://reut.rs/2EwzoEL This was a bold gambit. As recently as July 2015 Obama was telling Tom Friedman of the New York Times, “We would have not achieved this [Iran nuclear] agreement had it not been for Russia’s willingness to stick with us and the other P5-Plus members in insisting on a strong deal.” https://nyti.ms/3jaDTnz
Obama praised Putin a year after Putin annexed the Crimea. That invasion was so much water under the bridge for Obama but apparently not for Flynn. Just months later, it was considered newsworthy that Flynn would advise Trump to “work more closely with Russia to resolve global security issues.” Unmasking Obama: The F... Cashill, Jack Buy New $9.99 (as of 03:33 UTC - Details)
“Flynn raised eyebrows among some U.S. foreign policy veterans,” wrote Steve Holland and Mark Hosenball of Reuters, “when he was pictured sitting at the head table with Putin at a banquet in Moscow late last year celebrating Russia Today, an international broadcasting network funded by the Russian government.” The reporters’ “three sources,” all said to be “former foreign policy officials,” failed to mention that Flynn had been briefed by the DIA before the dinner and debriefed afterwards.
What made me suspicious about this article was the Mark Hosenball byline. Hosenball appears to have been carrying water for the intelligence community (IC) for at least twenty years, maybe twice that long. To say the least, he has a curious background.
Hosenball moved to England when he was 17 to attend school. After spending a year in England and three in Ireland, he moved back to England to become a reporter. This information comes from a 1977 British appeals court document explaining why the United Kingdom chose to deport the 25-year-old Hosenball “in the interests of national security.”
TWA 800: The Crash, th... Cashill, Jack Buy New $9.99 (as of 04:56 UTC - Details) “The Secretary of State believes that Mr. Hosenball is a danger to this country. So much so that his presence here is unwelcome and he can no longer be permitted to stay,” reads the document. Reportedly, Hosenball was one of a group of people who were “trying to obtain information of a very sensitive character about our security arrangements.” The document does not identify on whose behalf Hosenball was allegedly spying, but it affirms the government’s decision to deport him nonetheless.
The American intelligence community did not appear troubled by Hosenball’s actions. As the New York Times reported at the time, “A United States Embassy spokesman said that he knew of no United States pressure on Britain to discipline Mr. Hosenball.” https://nyti.ms/3jeLgdO Nor did the deportation seem to hurt Hosenball’s career. By 1993, he was working for Newsweek. By 1997, he was using Newsweek to spread CIA disinformation.
In 2003, I met Hosenball at the Newsweek office. At the time, I was promoting First Strike, a book I co-authored with James Sanders on TWA Flight 800, the 747 that mysteriously exploded off the coast of Long Island on July 17, 1996.
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lewrockwell--2020-08-31--We Rant About the BBC Proms…Yet Make Ourselves Slaves to Coronaphobia

Why are arguments about the love of country always held between BBC-type Britain-hating pinkoes , embarrassed by their own nation , and shouty jingoes , who never think about what patriotism really means ?
Here we all are in a state of rage about whether the words of Rule , Britannia should be sung at the Last Night Of The Proms .
Yet the same people who claim to be exercised about this meekly submit to compulsory masks , house arrest , the suppression of Parliament , compulsory family separation and a catalogue of outrages against our liberty that only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ months , jingoes put up with being treated like cattle or serfs .
Then they get cross because of a song ?
What is wrong with them ?
A proper patriot knows that what makes us great above all is centuries of liberty , and a state that is beneath our feet , not over our heads .
How I Found Freedom in ... Browne , Harry Buy New $ 14.99 All they needed to do was to say ‘ We ’ re not putting up with this ’ as our ancestors so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ without a whimper .
When Britain actually did rule the waves , my late father helped it to do so .
In peacetime this involved years of rigorous training , harsh discomfort and long months of separation from home .
In wartime , well , you probably know what it involved if you think about it .
That ’ s why we did not become the slaves of Hitler in the 1940s – because we still controlled the seas that surround us .
By my guess , 40 well-handled destroyers , commanded and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , probably made the crucial difference when it mattered .
But my father , like most of those who actually do the hard work which defends the freedoms of both pinkoes and jingoes , was not much given to bombast .
The Russian convoys he took part in were grisly , exhausting , sleepless slog , not glorious .
He ’ d lost too many friends in war .
He preferred sad sea songs like Tom Bowling to any amount of Rule , Britannia .
Around 1960 , not long after an ungrateful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beach in post-Suez defence cuts , I first heard Rule , Britannia , sung in a wonderful old-fashioned way by the contralto Constance Shacklock .
Contagion Myth : Why Vi ... Fallon Morell , Sally Buy New $ 22.49 It was a few years before the BBC fell under the spell of the cultural revolutionaries , who have been trying to get rid of such things since 1969 .
So she was still able to get as far as the verse containing the words ‘ Thee haughty tyrants ne ’ er shall tame @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from my eight-year-old self to the most ancient retired Admiral nodding over his grog , pictured those haughty tyrants as foreigners in strange uniforms or silly hats , Bonaparte , Mussolini , Hitler , Stalin .
We never thought that – when it came to it – our painfully acquired freedoms would be strangled by a jolly , obese , blond Etonian .
Or that a people once famed for their fierceness and independence would be tamed into muzzled , mumbling submissives by a little well-orchestrated fear propaganda .
Never shall be slaves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now have to sing it at all , whether the BBC lets us or not ?
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Why are arguments about the love of country always held between BBC-type Britain-hating pinkoes, embarrassed by their own nation, and shouty jingoes, who never think about what patriotism really means?
Here we all are in a state of rage about whether the words of Rule, Britannia should be sung at the Last Night Of The Proms.
Yet the same people who claim to be exercised about this meekly submit to compulsory masks, house arrest, the suppression of Parliament, compulsory family separation and a catalogue of outrages against our liberty that only a slavish mind would accept.
For months, jingoes put up with being treated like cattle or serfs. Then they get cross because of a song? What is wrong with them?
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All they needed to do was to say ‘We’re not putting up with this’ as our ancestors so frequently did. But they gave in without a whimper.
When Britain actually did rule the waves, my late father helped it to do so. In peacetime this involved years of rigorous training, harsh discomfort and long months of separation from home. In wartime, well, you probably know what it involved if you think about it.
That’s why we did not become the slaves of Hitler in the 1940s – because we still controlled the seas that surround us.
By my guess, 40 well-handled destroyers, commanded and crewed by serious, well-trained fighting men, probably made the crucial difference when it mattered. But my father, like most of those who actually do the hard work which defends the freedoms of both pinkoes and jingoes, was not much given to bombast.
The Russian convoys he took part in were grisly, exhausting, sleepless slog, not glorious. He’d lost too many friends in war. He preferred sad sea songs like Tom Bowling to any amount of Rule, Britannia.
Around 1960, not long after an ungrateful government had dumped my father on the beach in post-Suez defence cuts, I first heard Rule, Britannia, sung in a wonderful old-fashioned way by the contralto Constance Shacklock.
Contagion Myth: Why Vi... Fallon Morell, Sally Buy New $22.49 (as of 04:23 UTC - Details) It was a few years before the BBC fell under the spell of the cultural revolutionaries, who have been trying to get rid of such things since 1969. So she was still able to get as far as the verse containing the words ‘Thee haughty tyrants ne’er shall tame’.
I suspect everyone listening, from my eight-year-old self to the most ancient retired Admiral nodding over his grog, pictured those haughty tyrants as foreigners in strange uniforms or silly hats, Bonaparte, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin.
We never thought that – when it came to it – our painfully acquired freedoms would be strangled by a jolly, obese, blond Etonian.
Or that a people once famed for their fierceness and independence would be tamed into muzzled, mumbling submissives by a little well-orchestrated fear propaganda.
Never shall be slaves, indeed. What right do we now have to sing it at all, whether the BBC lets us or not?
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lewrockwell--2020-08-31--The Church and Violence

The Church and Violence

Given the warring nature of society during the early Middle Ages , especially in the regions of today ’ s France , and the not uncommon attacks against non-warring peasants , the Church stepped in to address this via a series of actions and decrees .
The first tactic was to scold the knights .
This evolved eventually into a meaningful and formal attempt , captured under the banner of the Peace and Truce of God .
it was not an avenue to bless fighting ; it was designed as a means to curtail the fighting that was in any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or Pax Dei was a proclamation issued by local clergy that granted immunity from violence to noncombatants who could not defend themselves , beginning with the peasants ( agricolae ) and with the clergy .
The Synod of Charroux decreed a limited Pax Dei in 989 , and the practice spread to most of Western Europe over the next century , surviving in some form until at least the thirteenth century .
The Birth of the West : ... Collins , Paul Best Price : $ 2.50 Buy New $ 10.01 Further protections @ @ @ @ @ @ @ children , the theft of farm animals , protection of church property , etc .
The penalty for violations could rise to excommunication .
Its origins coincided with the failure of the last Carolingian rulers to keep order in West Frankland , and the accession of Hugh Capet , founder of a new dynasty in 987 .
This was a popular movement , as the discussions involved many people in large , open fields , and not merely a discussion amongst the bishops and nobles .
Saints ’ relics were brought from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an oath on the relics in the presence of the crowds .
Paul Collins would write , in The Birth of the West : The biggest threat to those breaking the peace was the use of relics and the bodies of the saints to frighten warlords with curses of from the afterlife if they engaged in warfare .
Those who refused to keep the peace were excluded from Mass and Communion , refused forgiveness of sin , and denied church burial in consecrated ground , which effectively condemned them to hell .
Tom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Millennium : Fearsome were the sanctions proclaimed against any horseman who might subsequently go back upon his word .
A lighted candle , extinguished by the fingers of a bishop himself and dropped into the dust , would serve to symbolise the terrible snuffing out of all his hopes of heaven .
“ May he render up his bowels into the latrine.
” The movement gained momentum around the millennium anniversary of Christ ’ s death – assumed 1033 .
Such popular movements , however , did not instantly transform the nobility .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a failure : That traditional view , however , by concentrating on the failure of the movement to accomplish its quasi-messianic goals , misses the indirect impact it had .
More recently historians accord a central place to the Peace in the transformations of European culture in this period , a period often characterized as the birth of Western ( as opposed to Mediterranean ) civilization .
The lack of a coercive force behind the demand for peace may have been what moved European culture and tradition : For without recourse to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more fundamental cultural activity : building a wide and powerful social consensus , developing courts of mediation , educating a lay populace , high and low , to internalize peaceful values .
Albionu2019s Seed : Fou ... David Hackett Fischer Best Price : $ 7.73 Buy New $ 12.99 In other words , don ’ t look to the state ( or king ) to enforce a proper cultural view ; the only way to transform a culture is to transform the culture .
This had many follow-on effects : it awakened the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it Christianized the nobility , leading to a chivalric code ( with more on this shortly ) ; it gave authority to the Church , giving it space as a major player in the political and social life of the time ; it opened up a dialogue on the true meaning of Christianity .
The Peace of God evolved to include the idea that the shedding of a Christian ’ s blood was the shedding of Christ ’ s blood .
This had ramifications for the peace internally , but also toward views @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Muslims .
Through its high moral vision and its appeals to communal action , the Peace of God furthered the peaceful organization of a violent society .
And this , I think is key : the society was violent ; the Church led action to curb this violence .
That heaven on earth was not achieved is almost irrelevant ; that the culture was shifted toward considerations of peace is both valuable and without doubt .
It was during this period , and in no small part to the sentiment behind the Peace @ @ @ @ @ @ @ application , that the individual was discovered .
Returning to Collins : Individuality here refers to a sense of self-awareness , personal identity , and moral responsibility .
It also involves spirituality .
As Morris says , “ A sense of individual identity and value is implicit in a belief in a God who has called each man by name.
” It was Christianity that identified the individual , and this well before the Enlightenment or even the Renaissance .
The Truce of God , or Treuga Dei came in 1027 , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Normandy .
The Truce of God is after a temporary suspension of hostilities , unlike the Peace of God , which is intended to be perpetual .
It confirmed permanent peace for all churches and their grounds , the monks , clerks and chattels ; all women , pilgrims , merchants and their servants , cattle and horses ; and men at work in the fields .
For all others peace was required throughout Advent , the season of Lent , and from the beginning of the Rogation days until eight days @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the list , until only about 80 days per year were available for fighting .
American Nations : A Hi ... Woodard , Colin Best Price : $ 9.74 Buy New $ 11.86 From William Ward Watkin : the long sweep from Constantine ’ s reign until the close of the Hundred Years ’ War can not be considered a period of peace , but a period of seeking peace – to include a search for just causes of war and also establishing a just peace .
Early churchmen expressed that “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of God.
” “ It is the Divine will which gives to each man his Jus ( strict law ) , for it is the good and beneficial Creator who grants men to seek to hold , and to use what they need , and it is He who commands men to give such things to each other and forbids men to hinder their fellows from enjoying them.
” The feudal system , contrary to the stereotype , was a system of reciprocal obligation : the serf owed duty only as long as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ serf .
Yes , the serf was tied to the land – so was the noble ; it was an agrarian society , after all .
The serf , unlike slaves before or after , could own and accumulate personal property and could leave it for his heirs .
From about the ninth century through the thirteenth , Christian civilization came into full flower .
While every region had its cultural differences , the over-riding clarity and purpose was one aimed at Christianity .
In the middle of the thirteenth century , Thomas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , holding that it was lawful to wage war for purpose of safeguarding the commonweal on holidays and feast days .
Yes , there was still fighting – this is the human condition .
Yet , it was the time of the building of the greatest cathedrals : a generation before saw Chartres as well as other cathedrals in France .
From Watkin : We find civilization at one of its extreme high levels in philosophy , in religion , and in creative construction .
No age has followed which approached it .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of God only had a limited effect – the Church had no physical means by which to curb the violence .
Therefore , the Church then sought to direct the desire of violence to something more noble : the chivalric code , a code of honor , developed by poets and writers affiliated with the Church .
Listen to the women ; they will not send you off to senseless war but to a cause more noble .
Returning to Reeves : The key figure in developing the chivalric code is Chrétien de @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He was a chaplain , or pastor , in the area of Champagne in France .
He writes stories of King Arthur , including Perceval and the Holy Grail : seek the Church , seek the sacraments ; this was the more noble undertaking for the knight .
He also added the story of Lancelot of the Lake , Lancelot who fell in love with King Arthur ’ s wife Guinevere .
He seeks to win Guinevere ’ s respect by doing good .
These stories were written not in Latin , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it accessible to a larger portion of the knight class .
Hence , chivalry was not a result of male patriarchy or oppression of women ; this is reading history backwards , from our time looking back .
Instead , the chivalric code sought to elevate women to a position of soft authority over the warrior instinct of the men .
Millennium Holland , Tom Best Price : $ 9.12 Buy New $ 18.37 There were other authors and works as well – written independently and without knowledge of the other works : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; the Libre del ordre de cavayleria , written by Ramon Llull ; the Livre de Chevalerie of Geoffroi de Charny .
While differing in detail , they combine to show a way of life where the military , the nobility , and religion combine .
It is easy to point to the history of Christianity and find untoward behavior ; we are all human after all .
Yet , every time one digs a little deeper , one finds that it was through Christianity that such behavior was tempered .
The Hundred @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Black Death , fundamentally terminated this progress .
This long war was between the two powers – France and England – that were most centralized , most consolidated .
In its wake , nationalism grew while the commonality of a Christian culture receded .
In earlier times , the king ’ s powers were limited by the law – the old and good law or the common law .
This changed to a position where the king was the law .
Here is where one can begin to see a state in our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ One was the culmination , the final blow , the suicide of the West .
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Knights and Chivalry, a video by Ryan Reeves
Given the warring nature of society during the early Middle Ages, especially in the regions of today’s France, and the not uncommon attacks against non-warring peasants, the Church stepped in to address this via a series of actions and decrees.
The first tactic was to scold the knights. This evolved eventually into a meaningful and formal attempt, captured under the banner of the Peace and Truce of God. it was not an avenue to bless fighting; it was designed as a means to curtail the fighting that was in any case occurring.
The Peace of God
The Peace of God or Pax Dei was a proclamation issued by local clergy that granted immunity from violence to noncombatants who could not defend themselves, beginning with the peasants (agricolae) and with the clergy. The Synod of Charroux decreed a limited Pax Dei in 989, and the practice spread to most of Western Europe over the next century, surviving in some form until at least the thirteenth century.
The Birth of the West:... Collins, Paul Best Price: $2.50 Buy New $10.01 (as of 11:14 UTC - Details) Further protections would be offered, regarding women and children, the theft of farm animals, protection of church property, etc. The penalty for violations could rise to excommunication.
Its origins coincided with the failure of the last Carolingian rulers to keep order in West Frankland, and the accession of Hugh Capet, founder of a new dynasty in 987.
This was a popular movement, as the discussions involved many people in large, open fields, and not merely a discussion amongst the bishops and nobles. Saints’ relics were brought from the region; the warriors would then swear an oath on the relics in the presence of the crowds. Paul Collins would write, in The Birth of the West:
The biggest threat to those breaking the peace was the use of relics and the bodies of the saints to frighten warlords with curses of from the afterlife if they engaged in warfare.
Those who refused to keep the peace were excluded from Mass and Communion, refused forgiveness of sin, and denied church burial in consecrated ground, which effectively condemned them to hell.
Tom Holland would add, from his book Millennium:
Fearsome were the sanctions proclaimed against any horseman who might subsequently go back upon his word. A lighted candle, extinguished by the fingers of a bishop himself and dropped into the dust, would serve to symbolise the terrible snuffing out of all his hopes of heaven. “May he render up his bowels into the latrine.”
The movement gained momentum around the millennium anniversary of Christ’s death – assumed 1033. Such popular movements, however, did not instantly transform the nobility. Many historians traditionally looked at the movement as a failure:
That traditional view, however, by concentrating on the failure of the movement to accomplish its quasi-messianic goals, misses the indirect impact it had. More recently historians accord a central place to the Peace in the transformations of European culture in this period, a period often characterized as the birth of Western (as opposed to Mediterranean) civilization.
The lack of a coercive force behind the demand for peace may have been what moved European culture and tradition:
For without recourse to force, it had to depend on more fundamental cultural activity: building a wide and powerful social consensus, developing courts of mediation, educating a lay populace, high and low, to internalize peaceful values.
Albionu2019s Seed: Fou... David Hackett Fischer Best Price: $7.73 Buy New $12.99 (as of 10:20 UTC - Details) In other words, don’t look to the state (or king) to enforce a proper cultural view; the only way to transform a culture is to transform the culture. This had many follow-on effects: it awakened the populace to the possibility of self-organization; it Christianized the nobility, leading to a chivalric code (with more on this shortly); it gave authority to the Church, giving it space as a major player in the political and social life of the time; it opened up a dialogue on the true meaning of Christianity.
The Peace of God evolved to include the idea that the shedding of a Christian’s blood was the shedding of Christ’s blood. This had ramifications for the peace internally, but also toward views regarding those on the outside – primarily Muslims.
Through its high moral vision and its appeals to communal action, the Peace of God furthered the peaceful organization of a violent society.
And this, I think is key: the society was violent; the Church led action to curb this violence. That heaven on earth was not achieved is almost irrelevant; that the culture was shifted toward considerations of peace is both valuable and without doubt.
It was during this period, and in no small part to the sentiment behind the Peace of God despite the lack of consistent application, that the individual was discovered. Returning to Collins:
Individuality here refers to a sense of self-awareness, personal identity, and moral responsibility. It also involves spirituality. As Morris says, “A sense of individual identity and value is implicit in a belief in a God who has called each man by name.”
It was Christianity that identified the individual, and this well before the Enlightenment or even the Renaissance.
The Truce of God
The Truce of God, or Treuga Dei came in 1027, the result of another council meeting this time in Normandy. The Truce of God is after a temporary suspension of hostilities, unlike the Peace of God, which is intended to be perpetual.
It confirmed permanent peace for all churches and their grounds, the monks, clerks and chattels; all women, pilgrims, merchants and their servants, cattle and horses; and men at work in the fields. For all others peace was required throughout Advent, the season of Lent, and from the beginning of the Rogation days until eight days after Pentecost.
More days were added to the list, until only about 80 days per year were available for fighting.
American Nations: A Hi... Woodard, Colin Best Price: $9.74 Buy New $11.86 (as of 04:59 UTC - Details) From William Ward Watkin: the long sweep from Constantine’s reign until the close of the Hundred Years’ War cannot be considered a period of peace, but a period of seeking peace – to include a search for just causes of war and also establishing a just peace. Early churchmen expressed that “justice is a quality of the will of God.”
“It is the Divine will which gives to each man his Jus (strict law), for it is the good and beneficial Creator who grants men to seek to hold, and to use what they need, and it is He who commands men to give such things to each other and forbids men to hinder their fellows from enjoying them.”
The feudal system, contrary to the stereotype, was a system of reciprocal obligation: the serf owed duty only as long as the noble kept his oath to the serf. Yes, the serf was tied to the land – so was the noble; it was an agrarian society, after all. The serf, unlike slaves before or after, could own and accumulate personal property and could leave it for his heirs.
From about the ninth century through the thirteenth, Christian civilization came into full flower. While every region had its cultural differences, the over-riding clarity and purpose was one aimed at Christianity.
In the middle of the thirteenth century, Thomas Aquinas would challenge the Truce of God, holding that it was lawful to wage war for purpose of safeguarding the commonweal on holidays and feast days. Yes, there was still fighting – this is the human condition.
Yet, it was the time of the building of the greatest cathedrals: a generation before saw Chartres as well as other cathedrals in France. From Watkin:
We find civilization at one of its extreme high levels in philosophy, in religion, and in creative construction. No age has followed which approached it.
Chivalry
As mentioned, the Peace and Truce of God only had a limited effect – the Church had no physical means by which to curb the violence. Therefore, the Church then sought to direct the desire of violence to something more noble: the chivalric code, a code of honor, developed by poets and writers affiliated with the Church. Listen to the women; they will not send you off to senseless war but to a cause more noble.
Returning to Reeves: The key figure in developing the chivalric code is Chrétien de Troyes, in the twelfth century. He was a chaplain, or pastor, in the area of Champagne in France. He writes stories of King Arthur, including Perceval and the Holy Grail: seek the Church, seek the sacraments; this was the more noble undertaking for the knight.
He also added the story of Lancelot of the Lake, Lancelot who fell in love with King Arthur’s wife Guinevere. He seeks to win Guinevere’s respect by doing good. These stories were written not in Latin, but in the common vernacular. This made it accessible to a larger portion of the knight class.
Hence, chivalry was not a result of male patriarchy or oppression of women; this is reading history backwards, from our time looking back. Instead, the chivalric code sought to elevate women to a position of soft authority over the warrior instinct of the men. Millennium Holland, Tom Best Price: $9.12 Buy New $18.37 (as of 04:59 UTC - Details)
There were other authors and works as well – written independently and without knowledge of the other works: the anonymously authored poem Ordene de chevalerie; the Libre del ordre de cavayleria, written by Ramon Llull; the Livre de Chevalerie of Geoffroi de Charny. While differing in detail, they combine to show a way of life where the military, the nobility, and religion combine.
Conclusion
It is easy to point to the history of Christianity and find untoward behavior; we are all human after all. Yet, every time one digs a little deeper, one finds that it was through Christianity that such behavior was tempered.
Epilogue
The Hundred Years’ War, along with the Black Death, fundamentally terminated this progress. This long war was between the two powers – France and England – that were most centralized, most consolidated. In its wake, nationalism grew while the commonality of a Christian culture receded.
In earlier times, the king’s powers were limited by the law – the old and good law or the common law. This changed to a position where the king was the law. Here is where one can begin to see a state in our understanding of the word.
World War One was the culmination, the final blow, the suicide of the West.
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lewrockwell--2020-08-31--The Totalitarian Future the Globalists Want for the Entire World Is Being Revealed

All over the Western world ever since 9/11 there have been incremental steps towards what many liberty advocates would call a “ police state ” ; a system in which governments are no longer restricted by the boundaries of civil liberties and are given the power to do just about anything they want in the name of public safety .
The use of “ the law ” as a tool for injecting tyranny into a culture is the first tactic of all totalitarians .
The idea is that by simply writing government criminality into the law books , that criminality @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recognition .
It ’ s all very circular .
Whenever government abuse of the people is initiated , it ’ s always initiated in the name of what ’ s “ best for society as a whole ” .
To save society , the individuals that make up a society must be sublimated or destroyed .
This mentality is the complete opposite of what the Founding Fathers in America fought and died for , but as Thomas Jefferson once said : “ Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of others .
I do not add ‘ within the limits of the law ’ because law is often but the tyrant ’ s will , and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
” This Perfect Day Ira Levin Best Price : $ 13.00 Buy New $ 10.09 In countries like Australia , which claim to value Western democratic principles of liberty and rule by the people , the perception is that civil rights are codified into the legal framework just as they are in the US .
However @ @ @ @ @ @ @ issues ; specifically , Australian citizens ( like many European citizens ) have absolutely no means to compel their government or the elites that influence their government to limit themselves .
It is these nations , in which the populations have been mostly disarmed and pacified , that any agenda for tyranny will first be established .
But we will get to that in a moment… Make no mistake , there is a very OPEN and easily identifiable agenda on the part of globalists to establish a heavily centralized police state system in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not “ conspiracy theory ” , this is conspiracy fact .
For many years now there have been numerous analysts , economists and geopolitical experts in the alternative media that have predicted and warned the public about the globalist strategy of “ order out of chaos ” .
In other words , the ultra-wealthy power brokers that hold influence over most governments on Earth seek to “ reshape ” the existing social order through the creation of crisis and disaster .
By engineering public desperation , they hope to lure us into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would have never considered otherwise .
The goal of a single global economy and government has been spoken of by elites time and time again , yet it is still to this day called “ conspiracy theory ” or “ paranoid delusion ” .
I could quote these elites and their organizations all day long , but I ’ ll cite a few choice statements to make my point .
As former Deputy Secretary of State under Clinton and Council on Foreign Relations member Strobe Talbot wrote in an article for Time Magazine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Birth Of The Global Nation ’ : “ In the next century , nations as we know it will be obsolete ; all states will recognize a single , global authority .
National sovereignty wasn ’ t such a great idea after all.
” As elitist and Fabian Socialist HG Wells outlines in his non-fiction treatise titled ‘ The New World Order ’ : Zone 23 Hopkins , C. J .
Best Price : $ 16.72 Buy New $ 15.99 “ …When the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system .
Countless people … will hate the new world order … and will die protesting against it .
When we attempt to evaluate its promise , we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents , many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.
” And how about one of my favorite revealing quotes from Trilateral Commission member Richard N. Gardner , former deputy assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations under Kennedy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ April , 1974 issue of the Council on Foreign Relation ’ s ( CFR ) journal Foreign Affairs ( pg .
558 ) in an article titled ‘ The Hard Road To World Order ’ : “ In short , the ‘ house of world order ’ will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down .
It will look like a great ‘ booming , buzzing confusion , ’ to use William James ’ famous description of reality , but an end run around national sovereignty @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.
” Members of globalist foundations and think-tanks like the CFR have inhabited nearly every US government office and presidential cabinet for the past several decades .
This includes the two dozen or so CFR members in Donald Trump ’ s cabinet .
Draining the swamp ?
Not going to happen .
As Harpers Magazine candidly revealed in a 1958 expose titled ‘ School For Statesmen ’ : “ The most powerful clique in these ( CFR ) groups have one objective in common , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the sovereignty and the national independence of the U.S .
They want to end national boundaries and racial and ethnic loyalties supposedly to increase business and ensure world peace .
What they strive for would inevitably lead to dictatorship and loss of freedoms by the people .
The CFR was founded for “ the purpose of promoting disarmament and submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all powerful one world government.
” The easiest method for the globalists to get what they openly say they want is to either conjure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in order to “ erode sovereignty ” .
The current pandemic fits this plan perfectly , but before sovereignty can be eliminated on a national level they need to undermine sovereignty on an individual level first .
1984 ( Signet Classics ) George Orwell Best Price : $ 1.49 Buy New $ 3.58 Actions within the US and nations allied to the US suggest an accelerated attack on personal liberties is at hand .
There are sister foundations to the CFR in many other countries .
For example , in Australia they have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Institute , which has been consistently advocating for complete centralization of government power in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic .
Their stated plan is to concentrate policy administration in the hands of a new “ commission ” or “ department ” made up of the “ brightest minds ” .
This commission would not be tasked with getting Australia back to normal , but convincing the public to ACCEPT the “ new normal ” beyond the pandemic .
The ASPI enthusiastically heralds the idea in an article titled ‘ Coronavirus Response A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : “ The agenda of such a department now is not about getting Australia back to normal after the pandemic .
It ’ s about re-imagining what Australia can be and how we can thrive and prosper in our future beyond the coronavirus and in light of drought , bushfires and climate change .
Think about the kind of new economy we can have after the forced , rapid adoption of dispersed home working and schooling through digital means .
We can be the leading digital economy the prime minister desired before the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ earlier.
” This reminds me immediately of the post 9/11 push to rapidly remove constitutional protections while the public was blinded by fear and confusion .
As US globalist Rahm Emanuel would say : “ You never want a serious crisis to go to waste .
And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.
” The ASPI reveals the true agenda , which is the complete federalization and unilateral implementation of law without public approval .
The plan is to do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its full potential and then applying the rapid societal changes in government structure .
This will then be carried on long after the coronavirus disappears in the name of the economy , welfare programs and so-called “ global warming ” .
The pandemic response is just a means to an end , and the end game is total dominance of the population .
Brave New World Aldous Huxley Best Price : $ 1.00 Buy New $ 6.99 I focus on Australia and the surrounding regions in particular because this seems to be the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ first .
Or at the very least , they are test-running their strategy and using Australians as guinea pigs .
When the ASPI says they plan to keep the pandemic changes in place well after the virus is gone , they aren ’ t just talking about shifting into a digital economy .
Right now , Australia and New Zealand are slamming citizens with perhaps the most draconian measures yet in the Western world .
These are policies that the elites want to introduce everywhere , but they are going full bore in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worse .
In various areas of Australia “ Level 4 ” response measures have been enforced for at least the next six weeks , including curfews , strict mask policies including people being forced to wear masks OUTSIDE ( contrary to everything science and virology has to say about low possibility of transmission in sunlight and open air ) , residents are not allowed to travel more than 3 miles from their homes and only one person from a household is allowed to leave at any given time .
Citizens violating these rules @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arrest .
And yes , people are being arrested simply for not wearing mask or being too far from home .
In New Zealand , the situation has become exceedingly grim and I think it should be treated as a warning to Americans specifically as to our potential future if we allow the narrative of “ public health security ” to be turned into a vehicle for tyranny .
While Australia has been using quarantine facilities to force people considered high risk to isolate , NZ quarantine camps are now fully under the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ citizens that test positive or are suspected to have Covid can be separated from their families and placed in the camps , which are hotels converted into prisons .
It is the complete erasure of personal liberties all because of an increase in cases which has amounted to a mere 525 deaths in Australia and 22 deaths in New Zealand .
I believe the reason Australia and New Zealand have been targeted with this level of restrictions first is because they have been almost fully disarmed and have no means to defend themselves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I see signs that similar measures will be attempted in the US as well .
In states like New York , there are low key programs to set up Covid checkpoints stopping and checking vehicles coming into the state .
This is where heavier restrictions start .
The Rise of Tyranny 1s ... Jonathan W. Emord Best Price : $ 18.00 Buy New $ 22.00 First , checkpoints will be established in the name of keeping infected people out of a state or city .
Then , those same checkpoints will be used @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or city .
Then , checkpoints will be set up at random to test people for fever or symptoms of illness .
If allowed to continue , the natural progression of checkpoints is to terrify the population into not traveling anywhere for any reason .
Like in Australia and NZ , people will effectively be imprisoned in their homes .
At this stage , bringing in laws or executive orders punishing people for leaving home will be easier ; they will have already acclimated to being trapped at home anyway .
Furthermore , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ calling for hard lockdowns for at least six weeks , just like the Level 4 lockdowns in Australia .
Federal Reserve member Neel Kashkari recently asserted that Americans are saving more , thus they should be subjected to hard lockdowns “ because they can afford it ” .
Virginia is planning mandatory Covid vaccinations , even though vaccines for SARS like viruses have proven impossible to develop in the past , and rushed vaccines have a history of harming or killing people rather than protecting them .
Set aside the issue that giving @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inject anything into their bodies is immoral .
What ’ s next ?
Covid camps ?
Well , yes , unless Americans make a hard stand .
Mainstream media outlets have been suggesting this strategy for months .
The Washington Post applauded the use of forced isolation camps in other nations and asks why the US has not yet used them beyond ports for foreign travelers ?
The reason is this : Many Americans will not go along with such measures , and will use force in-kind against anyone trying to lock them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a moderate threat at most to a small percentage of the population .
That said , don ’ t assume that the establishment will not eventually try it here .
They will .
Be ready when they do so .
Look to the actions in places like Australia and NZ and ask yourself , am I willing to go along with that ?
And if so , for how long ?
Because the globalists intend for these restrictions to become the “ new normal ” .
They intend for this nightmare to last @ @

All over the Western world ever since 9/11 there have been incremental steps towards what many liberty advocates would call a “police state”; a system in which governments are no longer restricted by the boundaries of civil liberties and are given the power to do just about anything they want in the name of public safety. The use of “the law” as a tool for injecting tyranny into a culture is the first tactic of all totalitarians.
The idea is that by simply writing government criminality into the law books, that criminality somehow becomes justified by virtue of legal recognition. It’s all very circular. Whenever government abuse of the people is initiated, it’s always initiated in the name of what’s “best for society as a whole”. To save society, the individuals that make up a society must be sublimated or destroyed. This mentality is the complete opposite of what the Founding Fathers in America fought and died for, but as Thomas Jefferson once said:
“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”
This Perfect Day Ira Levin Best Price: $13.00 Buy New $10.09 (as of 07:13 UTC - Details) In countries like Australia, which claim to value Western democratic principles of liberty and rule by the people, the perception is that civil rights are codified into the legal framework just as they are in the US. However, there are some glaring differences and issues; specifically, Australian citizens (like many European citizens) have absolutely no means to compel their government or the elites that influence their government to limit themselves. It is these nations, in which the populations have been mostly disarmed and pacified, that any agenda for tyranny will first be established. But we will get to that in a moment…
Make no mistake, there is a very OPEN and easily identifiable agenda on the part of globalists to establish a heavily centralized police state system in every country they are able. This is not “conspiracy theory”, this is conspiracy fact.
For many years now there have been numerous analysts, economists and geopolitical experts in the alternative media that have predicted and warned the public about the globalist strategy of “order out of chaos”. In other words, the ultra-wealthy power brokers that hold influence over most governments on Earth seek to “reshape” the existing social order through the creation of crisis and disaster. By engineering public desperation, they hope to lure us into accepting restrictions on our freedoms that we would have never considered otherwise.
The goal of a single global economy and government has been spoken of by elites time and time again, yet it is still to this day called “conspiracy theory” or “paranoid delusion”. I could quote these elites and their organizations all day long, but I’ll cite a few choice statements to make my point.
As former Deputy Secretary of State under Clinton and Council on Foreign Relations member Strobe Talbot wrote in an article for Time Magazine in 1992 titled ‘America Abroad: The Birth Of The Global Nation’:
“In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.”
As elitist and Fabian Socialist HG Wells outlines in his non-fiction treatise titled ‘The New World Order’: Zone 23 Hopkins, C. J. Best Price: $16.72 Buy New $15.99 (as of 11:13 UTC - Details)
“…When the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people … will hate the new world order … and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.”
And how about one of my favorite revealing quotes from Trilateral Commission member Richard N. Gardner, former deputy assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations under Kennedy and Johnson? He wrote in the April, 1974 issue of the Council on Foreign Relation’s (CFR) journal Foreign Affairs (pg. 558) in an article titled ‘The Hard Road To World Order’:
“In short, the ‘house of world order’ will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great ‘booming, buzzing confusion,’ to use William James’ famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.”
Members of globalist foundations and think-tanks like the CFR have inhabited nearly every US government office and presidential cabinet for the past several decades. This includes the two dozen or so CFR members in Donald Trump’s cabinet. Draining the swamp? Not going to happen.
As Harpers Magazine candidly revealed in a 1958 expose titled ‘School For Statesmen’:
“The most powerful clique in these (CFR) groups have one objective in common, they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the national independence of the U.S. They want to end national boundaries and racial and ethnic loyalties supposedly to increase business and ensure world peace. What they strive for would inevitably lead to dictatorship and loss of freedoms by the people. The CFR was founded for “the purpose of promoting disarmament and submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all powerful one world government.”
The easiest method for the globalists to get what they openly say they want is to either conjure a crisis or exploit an existing crisis in order to “erode sovereignty”. The current pandemic fits this plan perfectly, but before sovereignty can be eliminated on a national level they need to undermine sovereignty on an individual level first. 1984 (Signet Classics) George Orwell Best Price: $1.49 Buy New $3.58 (as of 10:53 UTC - Details)
Actions within the US and nations allied to the US suggest an accelerated attack on personal liberties is at hand.
There are sister foundations to the CFR in many other countries. For example, in Australia they have the highly embedded and influential Strategic Policy Institute, which has been consistently advocating for complete centralization of government power in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Their stated plan is to concentrate policy administration in the hands of a new “commission” or “department” made up of the “brightest minds”. This commission would not be tasked with getting Australia back to normal, but convincing the public to ACCEPT the “new normal” beyond the pandemic.
The ASPI enthusiastically heralds the idea in an article titled ‘Coronavirus Response A Chance To Reimagine Future For Australia’:
“The agenda of such a department now is not about getting Australia back to normal after the pandemic. It’s about re-imagining what Australia can be and how we can thrive and prosper in our future beyond the coronavirus and in light of drought, bushfires and climate change. Think about the kind of new economy we can have after the forced, rapid adoption of dispersed home working and schooling through digital means. We can be the leading digital economy the prime minister desired before the pandemic, not by 2030 but much earlier.”
This reminds me immediately of the post 9/11 push to rapidly remove constitutional protections while the public was blinded by fear and confusion. As US globalist Rahm Emanuel would say:
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”
The ASPI reveals the true agenda, which is the complete federalization and unilateral implementation of law without public approval. The plan is to do this by exploiting the pandemic event to its full potential and then applying the rapid societal changes in government structure. This will then be carried on long after the coronavirus disappears in the name of the economy, welfare programs and so-called “global warming”. The pandemic response is just a means to an end, and the end game is total dominance of the population. Brave New World Aldous Huxley Best Price: $1.00 Buy New $6.99 (as of 05:15 UTC - Details)
I focus on Australia and the surrounding regions in particular because this seems to be the place where globalists are enforcing technocratic policies first. Or at the very least, they are test-running their strategy and using Australians as guinea pigs. When the ASPI says they plan to keep the pandemic changes in place well after the virus is gone, they aren’t just talking about shifting into a digital economy.
Right now, Australia and New Zealand are slamming citizens with perhaps the most draconian measures yet in the Western world. These are policies that the elites want to introduce everywhere, but they are going full bore in Australia, and it just keeps getting worse.
In various areas of Australia “Level 4” response measures have been enforced for at least the next six weeks, including curfews, strict mask policies including people being forced to wear masks OUTSIDE (contrary to everything science and virology has to say about low possibility of transmission in sunlight and open air), residents are not allowed to travel more than 3 miles from their homes and only one person from a household is allowed to leave at any given time. Citizens violating these rules are subject to $10,000 fines or arrest. And yes, people are being arrested simply for not wearing mask or being too far from home.
In New Zealand, the situation has become exceedingly grim and I think it should be treated as a warning to Americans specifically as to our potential future if we allow the narrative of “public health security” to be turned into a vehicle for tyranny.
While Australia has been using quarantine facilities to force people considered high risk to isolate, NZ quarantine camps are now fully under the control of the military, and ALL citizens that test positive or are suspected to have Covid can be separated from their families and placed in the camps, which are hotels converted into prisons.
It is the complete erasure of personal liberties all because of an increase in cases which has amounted to a mere 525 deaths in Australia and 22 deaths in New Zealand.
I believe the reason Australia and New Zealand have been targeted with this level of restrictions first is because they have been almost fully disarmed and have no means to defend themselves from government overstep. That said, I see signs that similar measures will be attempted in the US as well. In states like New York, there are low key programs to set up Covid checkpoints stopping and checking vehicles coming into the state. This is where heavier restrictions start. The Rise of Tyranny 1s... Jonathan W. Emord Best Price: $18.00 Buy New $22.00 (as of 05:00 UTC - Details)
First, checkpoints will be established in the name of keeping infected people out of a state or city. Then, those same checkpoints will be used to keep people from leaving a state or city. Then, checkpoints will be set up at random to test people for fever or symptoms of illness. If allowed to continue, the natural progression of checkpoints is to terrify the population into not traveling anywhere for any reason. Like in Australia and NZ, people will effectively be imprisoned in their homes. At this stage, bringing in laws or executive orders punishing people for leaving home will be easier; they will have already acclimated to being trapped at home anyway.
Furthermore, elites and globalists within the US are calling for hard lockdowns for at least six weeks, just like the Level 4 lockdowns in Australia. Federal Reserve member Neel Kashkari recently asserted that Americans are saving more, thus they should be subjected to hard lockdowns “because they can afford it”.
Virginia is planning mandatory Covid vaccinations, even though vaccines for SARS like viruses have proven impossible to develop in the past, and rushed vaccines have a history of harming or killing people rather than protecting them. Set aside the issue that giving government the power to force citizens to inject anything into their bodies is immoral.
What’s next? Covid camps? Well, yes, unless Americans make a hard stand. Mainstream media outlets have been suggesting this strategy for months. The Washington Post applauded the use of forced isolation camps in other nations and asks why the US has not yet used them beyond ports for foreign travelers? The reason is this: Many Americans will not go along with such measures, and will use force in-kind against anyone trying to lock them up because of a virus that is a moderate threat at most to a small percentage of the population.
That said, don’t assume that the establishment will not eventually try it here. They will. Be ready when they do so. Look to the actions in places like Australia and NZ and ask yourself, am I willing to go along with that? And if so, for how long? Because the globalists intend for these restrictions to become the “new normal”. They intend for this nightmare to last forever.
Reprinted with permission from Alt-Market.