lewrockwell--2020-10-19--Has Anyone Noticed That the World’s Billionaires During the Covid Fraud Are Getting Richer While Eve

Has Anyone Noticed That the World’s Billionaires During the Covid Fraud Are Getting Richer While Everyone Else Is Facing Poverty?

“ In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents .
nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen ” During this time of a non-existent ‘ virus ’ pandemic , world lockdowns , mass business closings , economic failure , growing bankruptcies , panic , and starvation , the rich are laughing all the way to the bank .
Coincidence ?
There is no such thing as coincidence , as everything happens for a reason , and in this case that reason is clear .
Everything that is happening today was planned long ago , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the richest not affected by any fake virus like the rest of us , and in fact have been able to use this farce to gain massive wealth in a structured time of chaos ?
The only logical answer to this question rests on the fact that they knew exactly what was coming and when , and how to profit from it .
The multi-billionaires are part of the big club , the one that you and I are not allowed to join .
That club is made up of those that hold @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and those that call the shots .
These are the self-claimed ‘ elites ’ that make up the top tier of the oligarcal pyramid of power , and that walk in the halls of the big banks , corporations , and tax-free foundations .
They do no wait to see what will happen , they cause the things that happen .
They are the controllers .
That is why in the arena of power and control , there are never coincidences ; there is only certainty .
Junky : The Definitive ... @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 7.45 Buy New $ 10.24 By using this purposely manufactured ‘ pandemic , ’ the world ’ s billionaires ’ wealth has increased from $ 8 trillion to $ 10.2 trillion from April until July this year .
That is a 28 percent increase in net worth for the richest on the planet in just four months , while most of humanity has been economically destroyed and locked inside home prisons .
Again , this is no coincidence , and since it is not , it is blatantly obvious that it was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ small and medium sized businesses are in dire condition , devastated by the Covid response , big business has used a crisis brought about and perpetuated by the billionaires ’ pawns in government .
While children and families around the world are starving , these evildoers are taking advantage of this killer reset to line their pockets with money stolen from the very people now starving .
Of course , there was a $ 2 trillion stimulus plan that was passed into law for the supposed purpose of relief for those individuals and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s draconian response to a fake virus .
Some of that money did go to individuals in the form of a $ 1,200 payment , and some was used for federal unemployment benefits for those forcibly removed from their jobs .
But the bulk of the money went to large corporations , state and local governments , large hospitals , airlines , and the largest universities .
The small business portion , as it was labeled , also catered to companies with up to $ 5 billion in revenue .
Much of what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ form of loans that had to be paid back , and many of the loan transactions due to this Congressional Act went through large banks , allowing them to profit from this stimulus bill .
All in all , including money going to not so small companies , about $ 1.3 trillion was spent mostly to support large business .
The balance was sent in small payments to individuals , and used for unemployment meant to keep people at home so they would not work .
This also helped the rich get richer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government has no money whatsoever ; it can only steal from its citizens .
So every time payments were sent out and collected by individuals and real small businesses , it came out of the pockets of the same 99 % receiving what was called aid .
In reality , most all money was distributed to the wealthiest among us .
Queer , 25th Anniversa ... Burroughs , William S. Best Price : $ 11.01 Buy New $ 11.02 During all this chicanery , the stock market was supported by trillions more dollars @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up to a trillion dollars a day in what are called repurchase agreements , or short term borrowing to raise capital , has been used as a tactic to prop up the markets .
In addition , the Federal Reserve continued to print money out of thin air at levels never seen in history , piling more debt on the public , destroying the value of the assets of the general population .
With all the asset loss on closed or restricted businesses , on commercial property , and the massive loss of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the billionaires were able to buy these assets for pennies on the dollar , allowing for huge profits at the expense of the citizenry of America .
So it should come as no surprise that the wealthiest people in the world have increased their net worth by $ 2.2 trillion in just 4 months of this Covid hoax .
This is just the beginning of a massive wealth transfer from the poorest to the richest , as with every lockdown , and every business closure , the billionaires simply continue to make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The housing collapse coming in the near future will be a goldmine for the rich at the expense of homeowners everywhere .
The most important thing to take from this scam is that it was planned in advance , and the terror used to frighten the people allowed the rich to not only gain immense wealth , but also to do so with the help of all those in the political class that claim to represent you .
It is all a lie , and while the wealthy billionaire class is unaffected by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and partying while stealing from you all your money and property .
If left to finish their agenda , they will continue to amass wealth until they have most all of it , and then will gain even more from a vaccination that will leave the average person stupefied by state poison meant to allow for the total control of all .
Naked Lunch : The Resto ... William S. Burroughs Best Price : $ 4.99 Buy New $ 10.04 When will the herd disperse , and use their individual minds to seek @ @ @ @ @ @ @ truth , awaken to the fact that no freedom can exist unless they alone create it ?
“ Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups , parties , nations and epochs , it is the rule.
” The Best of Gary D. Barnett

“In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen”
~ William S. Burroughs
During this time of a non-existent ‘virus’ pandemic, world lockdowns, mass business closings, economic failure, growing bankruptcies, panic, and starvation, the rich are laughing all the way to the bank. Coincidence? There is no such thing as coincidence, as everything happens for a reason, and in this case that reason is clear. Everything that is happening today was planned long ago, so the obvious question is why are the richest not affected by any fake virus like the rest of us, and in fact have been able to use this farce to gain massive wealth in a structured time of chaos? The only logical answer to this question rests on the fact that they knew exactly what was coming and when, and how to profit from it.
The multi-billionaires are part of the big club, the one that you and I are not allowed to join. That club is made up of those that hold all the strings of the political puppets, and those that call the shots. These are the self-claimed ‘elites’ that make up the top tier of the oligarcal pyramid of power, and that walk in the halls of the big banks, corporations, and tax-free foundations. They do no wait to see what will happen, they cause the things that happen. They are the controllers. That is why in the arena of power and control, there are never coincidences; there is only certainty. Junky: The Definitive ... Burroughs, William S. Best Price: $7.45 Buy New $10.24 (as of 03:07 UTC - Details)
By using this purposely manufactured ‘pandemic,’ the world’s billionaires’ wealth has increased from $8 trillion to $10.2 trillion from April until July this year. That is a 28 percent increase in net worth for the richest on the planet in just four months, while most of humanity has been economically destroyed and locked inside home prisons.
Again, this is no coincidence, and since it is not, it is blatantly obvious that it was the plan all along. While most small and medium sized businesses are in dire condition, devastated by the Covid response, big business has used a crisis brought about and perpetuated by the billionaires’ pawns in government. While children and families around the world are starving, these evildoers are taking advantage of this killer reset to line their pockets with money stolen from the very people now starving.
Of course, there was a $2 trillion stimulus plan that was passed into law for the supposed purpose of relief for those individuals and small businesses harmed by the government’s draconian response to a fake virus. Some of that money did go to individuals in the form of a $1,200 payment, and some was used for federal unemployment benefits for those forcibly removed from their jobs. But the bulk of the money went to large corporations, state and local governments, large hospitals, airlines, and the largest universities. The small business portion, as it was labeled, also catered to companies with up to $5 billion in revenue. Much of what went to smaller businesses was in the form of loans that had to be paid back, and many of the loan transactions due to this Congressional Act went through large banks, allowing them to profit from this stimulus bill. All in all, including money going to not so small companies, about $1.3 trillion was spent mostly to support large business. The balance was sent in small payments to individuals, and used for unemployment meant to keep people at home so they would not work. This also helped the rich get richer.
It is imperative to understand that government has no money whatsoever; it can only steal from its citizens. So every time payments were sent out and collected by individuals and real small businesses, it came out of the pockets of the same 99% receiving what was called aid. In reality, most all money was distributed to the wealthiest among us. Queer, 25th Anniversa... Burroughs, William S. Best Price: $11.01 Buy New $11.02 (as of 03:07 UTC - Details)
During all this chicanery, the stock market was supported by trillions more dollars, and manipulation through the repo-markets of up to a trillion dollars a day in what are called repurchase agreements, or short term borrowing to raise capital, has been used as a tactic to prop up the markets. In addition, the Federal Reserve continued to print money out of thin air at levels never seen in history, piling more debt on the public, destroying the value of the assets of the general population.
With all the asset loss on closed or restricted businesses, on commercial property, and the massive loss of wealth of the lower and middle classes, the billionaires were able to buy these assets for pennies on the dollar, allowing for huge profits at the expense of the citizenry of America.
So it should come as no surprise that the wealthiest people in the world have increased their net worth by $2.2 trillion in just 4 months of this Covid hoax. This is just the beginning of a massive wealth transfer from the poorest to the richest, as with every lockdown, and every business closure, the billionaires simply continue to make more money and gain more power. The housing collapse coming in the near future will be a goldmine for the rich at the expense of homeowners everywhere.
The most important thing to take from this scam is that it was planned in advance, and the terror used to frighten the people allowed the rich to not only gain immense wealth, but also to do so with the help of all those in the political class that claim to represent you. It is all a lie, and while the wealthy billionaire class is unaffected by this virus scam, they are laughing and partying while stealing from you all your money and property. If left to finish their agenda, they will continue to amass wealth until they have most all of it, and then will gain even more from a vaccination that will leave the average person stupefied by state poison meant to allow for the total control of all. Naked Lunch: The Resto... William S. Burroughs Best Price: $4.99 Buy New $10.04 (as of 03:07 UTC - Details)
When will the herd disperse, and use their individual minds to seek the truth, and in finding that truth, awaken to the fact that no freedom can exist unless they alone create it?
“Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche–Beyond Good and Evil Ch. 4
Sources:
https://time.com/5845116/coronavirus-bailout-rich-richer/
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-anatomy-of-the-2-trillion-covid-19-stimulus-bill/
https://www.techspot.com/news/87015-pandemic-has-seen-billionaires-wealth-reach-record-102.html
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/bill-gates-investments-covid/
https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1586-new-world-next-week-with-james-evan-pilato/
The Best of Gary D. Barnett


lewrockwell--2020-10-19--Of Course the Nazis Were Socialists

Of Course the Nazis Were Socialists

In “ No , the Nazis Were Not Socialists , ” which appeared online in Jacobin , the philosopher Scott Sehon makes a surprising claim .
In the course of criticizing some remarks by Senator Rand Paul , Sehon says , Paul seems to quote the mid-century economist Ludwig von Mises : Under national socialism there was , as Mises put it , “ a superficial system of private ownership… [ sic ] but the Nazis exerted unlimited , central control of all economic decisions.
” With profit and production dictated by the state , industry worked the same as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ means of production , making economic prediction and calculation impossible.… It turns out that Paul ’ s most clear assertion about Nazi control of the economy was , apparently , just something that the senator made up and falsely attributed to Ludwig von Mises .
( blockquote ellipses and brackets in Sehon ) Omnipotent Government : ... Ludwig von Mises Best Price : $ 16.61 Buy New $ 1.99 Had Sehon looked into Mises ’ s views more carefully , he would have found that Mises did indeed believe that Nazism was a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ direction of the economy rather than collective ownership .
In Omnipotent Government ( p. 56 ) , Mises says , The German and the Russian systems of socialism have in common the fact that the government has full control of the means of production .
It decides what shall be produced and how .
It allots to each individual a share of consumer ’ s goods for his consumption….The German pattern differs from the Russian one in that it ( seemingly and nominally ) maintains private ownership of the means of production and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wages , and markets .
There are , however , no longer entrepreneurs but only shop managers ( Betriebsführer ) ….The government , not the consumers , directs production .
This is socialism in the outward guise of capitalism .
Some labels of capitalistic market economy are retained but they mean something entirely different from what they mean in a genuine market economy .
Sehon says that this view is false and cites an article I have not yet been able to gain access to that argues that business under the Nazis retained @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in his well-received book The Wages of Destruction ( 2007 ) , the historian Adam Tooze says this : “ The German economy , like any modern economy , could not do without imports of food and raw materials .
To pay for these it needed to export .
And if this flow of goods was obstructed by protectionism and beggar-my-neighbour devaluations , this left Germany no option but to resort to ever greater state control of imports and exports , which in turn necessitated a range of other interventions ” ( p. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s point .
Interventionist measures in the free market such as price control fail to achieve their purpose .
This leads the government to add more interventionist measures in an effort to remedy the situation , and continuing this process can quickly lead to socialism .
This is what happened under the Nazis .
Businesses that were reluctant to follow the plans of the new order had to be forced into line .
One law allowed the government to impose compulsory cartels .
By 1936 , the Four Year Plan , headed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nature of the German economy .
“ On 18 October [ 1936 ] Goering was given Hitler ’ s formal authorization as general plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan .
On the following days he presented decrees empowering him to take responsibility for virtually every aspect of economic policy , including control of the business media ” ( Tooze 2007 , pp .
223–24 ) .
Marxism Unmasked : From ... Mises , Ludwig von Best Price : $ 10.00 Buy New $ 12.00 Sehon says that there were socialists in the Nazi @ @ @ @ @ @ @ brother Otto , but that their influence ended when Hitler purged this wing of the party in the Night of the Long Knives in 1934 .
( By the way , Otto was more of a socialist than his brother Gregor , and the latter repudiated his brother ’ s views as too radical . )
This is not entirely accurate .
What it ignores is that Josef Goebbels , the influential minister of propaganda , held strongly socialist views despite his personal enmity for Strasser .
On 16 June 1941 , five @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Goebbels exulted , in the privacy of his diary , in the victory over Bolshevism that he believed would quickly follow .
There would be no restoration of the tsars , he remarked to himself , after Russia had been conquered .
But Jewish Bolshevism would be uprooted in Russia and “ real socialism ” planted in its place – “ Der echte Sozialismus “ .
Goebbels was a liar , to be sure , but no one can explain why he would lie to his diaries .
And to the end @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was what National Socialism was about .
In his article , Sehon criticizes Watson extensively for relying on a book by Otto Wagener , a Nazi who was removed from his position of authority in 1932 , but he does not mention Watson ’ s quotation from Goebbels ’ s diary .
Goebbels was by no means alone among the Nazis holding power in his radical opinions .
Ferdinand Zimmerman , who worked as an important economic planner for the Nazis , had been before their rise to power a contributor under the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Die Tat , edited by Hans Zehrer , and a leading member of a group of nationalist intellectuals known as the Tatkreis .
Fried strongly opposed capitalism , analyzing it in almost Marxist terms .
Socialism : An Economic ...
Von Mises , Ludwig Best Price : $ 7.57 Buy New $ 12.95 Wilhelm Roepke wrote a devastating contemporary criticism of Fried , now available in translation in his Against the Tide ( Regnery , 1969 ) .
One of the best scholarly accounts of Fried ’ s views , which includes some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ regime , is in Walter Struve ’ s Elites against Democracy : Leadership Ideals in Bourgeois Political Thought in Germany , 1890–1933 ( Princeton University Press , 1973 ) .
Sehon makes another misleading point in his article .
He says , Paul ’ s argument here goes from the undeniable premise that the Nazis had “ socialist ” as part of their name to the conclusion that the Nazis were , in fact , socialists .
For that inference to work , Paul needs an intermediate premise like the following : If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ name , then the organization is correctly described by that adjective .
But if Senator Paul really believed this , then he would be forced to conclude that communist East Germany and present-day North Korea count as democracies , for the German Democratic Republic and the Democratic People ’ s Republic of North Korea both have the adjective “ Democratic ” as part of their name .
Sehon is right that the word “ socialist ” does not by itself tell us much , but unfortunately it does not occur to him to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ word and why they used it .
Note : The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute .
The Best of David Gordon

In “No, the Nazis Were Not Socialists,” which appeared online in Jacobin, the philosopher Scott Sehon makes a surprising claim. In the course of criticizing some remarks by Senator Rand Paul, Sehon says,
Paul seems to quote the mid-century economist Ludwig von Mises: Under national socialism there was, as Mises put it, “a superficial system of private ownership…[sic] but the Nazis exerted unlimited, central control of all economic decisions.” With profit and production dictated by the state, industry worked the same as if the government had confiscated all the means of production, making economic prediction and calculation impossible.… It turns out that Paul’s most clear assertion about Nazi control of the economy was, apparently, just something that the senator made up and falsely attributed to Ludwig von Mises. (blockquote ellipses and brackets in Sehon)
Omnipotent Government:... Ludwig von Mises Best Price: $16.61 Buy New $1.99 (as of 07:25 UTC - Details) Had Sehon looked into Mises’s views more carefully, he would have found that Mises did indeed believe that Nazism was a form of socialism, marked by state direction of the economy rather than collective ownership. In Omnipotent Government (p. 56), Mises says,
The German and the Russian systems of socialism have in common the fact that the government has full control of the means of production. It decides what shall be produced and how. It allots to each individual a share of consumer’s goods for his consumption….The German pattern differs from the Russian one in that it (seemingly and nominally) maintains private ownership of the means of production and keeps the appearance of ordinary prices, wages, and markets. There are, however, no longer entrepreneurs but only shop managers (Betriebsführer)….The government, not the consumers, directs production. This is socialism in the outward guise of capitalism. Some labels of capitalistic market economy are retained but they mean something entirely different from what they mean in a genuine market economy.
Sehon says that this view is false and cites an article I have not yet been able to gain access to that argues that business under the Nazis retained a large degree of autonomy. But in his well-received book The Wages of Destruction (2007), the historian Adam Tooze says this: “The German economy, like any modern economy, could not do without imports of food and raw materials. To pay for these it needed to export. And if this flow of goods was obstructed by protectionism and beggar-my-neighbour devaluations, this left Germany no option but to resort to ever greater state control of imports and exports, which in turn necessitated a range of other interventions” (p. 113). This is exactly Mises’s point. Interventionist measures in the free market such as price control fail to achieve their purpose. This leads the government to add more interventionist measures in an effort to remedy the situation, and continuing this process can quickly lead to socialism.
This is what happened under the Nazis. Businesses that were reluctant to follow the plans of the new order had to be forced into line. One law allowed the government to impose compulsory cartels. By 1936, the Four Year Plan, headed by Hermann Goering, had changed the nature of the German economy. “On 18 October [1936] Goering was given Hitler’s formal authorization as general plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan. On the following days he presented decrees empowering him to take responsibility for virtually every aspect of economic policy, including control of the business media” (Tooze 2007, pp. 223–24). Marxism Unmasked: From... Mises, Ludwig von Best Price: $10.00 Buy New $12.00 (as of 05:25 UTC - Details)
Sehon says that there were socialists in the Nazi party, principally Gregor Strasser and his brother Otto, but that their influence ended when Hitler purged this wing of the party in the Night of the Long Knives in 1934. (By the way, Otto was more of a socialist than his brother Gregor, and the latter repudiated his brother’s views as too radical.) This is not entirely accurate. What it ignores is that Josef Goebbels, the influential minister of propaganda, held strongly socialist views despite his personal enmity for Strasser.
According to George Watson,
On 16 June 1941, five days before Hitler attacked the Soviet Union, Goebbels exulted, in the privacy of his diary, in the victory over Bolshevism that he believed would quickly follow. There would be no restoration of the tsars, he remarked to himself, after Russia had been conquered. But Jewish Bolshevism would be uprooted in Russia and “real socialism” planted in its place – “Der echte Sozialismus“. Goebbels was a liar, to be sure, but no one can explain why he would lie to his diaries. And to the end of his days he believed that socialism was what National Socialism was about.
In his article, Sehon criticizes Watson extensively for relying on a book by Otto Wagener, a Nazi who was removed from his position of authority in 1932, but he does not mention Watson’s quotation from Goebbels’s diary.
Goebbels was by no means alone among the Nazis holding power in his radical opinions. Ferdinand Zimmerman, who worked as an important economic planner for the Nazis, had been before their rise to power a contributor under the pen name Ferdinand Fried to the journal Die Tat, edited by Hans Zehrer, and a leading member of a group of nationalist intellectuals known as the Tatkreis. Fried strongly opposed capitalism, analyzing it in almost Marxist terms.
Socialism: An Economic... Von Mises, Ludwig Best Price: $7.57 Buy New $12.95 (as of 07:00 UTC - Details) Wilhelm Roepke wrote a devastating contemporary criticism of Fried, now available in translation in his Against the Tide (Regnery, 1969). One of the best scholarly accounts of Fried’s views, which includes some discussion of his activities under the Nazi regime, is in Walter Struve’s Elites against Democracy: Leadership Ideals in Bourgeois Political Thought in Germany, 1890–1933 (Princeton University Press, 1973).
Sehon makes another misleading point in his article. He says,
Paul’s argument here goes from the undeniable premise that the Nazis had “socialist” as part of their name to the conclusion that the Nazis were, in fact, socialists. For that inference to work, Paul needs an intermediate premise like the following: If an organization has an adjective in their name, then the organization is correctly described by that adjective. But if Senator Paul really believed this, then he would be forced to conclude that communist East Germany and present-day North Korea count as democracies, for the German Democratic Republic and the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea both have the adjective “Democratic” as part of their name.
Sehon is right that the word “socialist” does not by itself tell us much, but unfortunately it does not occur to him to investigate what the Nazis meant by this word and why they used it.
Note: The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.
The Best of David Gordon


lewrockwell--2020-10-19--Before the Bidens ‘Did’ Ukraine, There Was Iraq – and Serbia

The United States approaches the November 2020 election with growing apprehension , even dread .
• Protracted uncertainty about the presidential contest .
Think Florida 2000 but with several states ’ results unresolved for weeks or even months ( “ Experts held ‘ war games ’ on the Trump vs. Biden election .
Their finding ?
Brace for a mess ” ) ; • A disputed outcome , perhaps with Donald Trump and Joe Biden both claiming victory , compounded by a “ blue shift , ” where states are claimed by Trump on election night but flip over to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conveniently turn up days or weeks later ; • Violent civil conflict , spurred on in the streets by goon squads mobilized and funded by a Who ’ s Who of the corporate and foundation establishment ; and • A color revolution style regime change operation staged by groups like the Soros-linked “ Transition Integrity Project ” and managed by people like “ legal hatchet man ” Norm Eisen , perhaps culminating in a military coup to remove Trump and install Biden in the Oval Office ( as detailed by former Virginia State @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Black ) .
For those who have followed events outside the United States during the past few decades , much of this sounds familiar .
We ’ ve seen it before – inflicted on other countries .
Now It ’ s Coming Home to the U.S. As explained by Revolver News , what happens in America next to a great extent may be a form of blowback from a specific event : the U.S.-supported 2014 regime change operation in Ukraine : ‘ A “ Color Revolution ” in this context refers to a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ United States government has been known to deploy against foreign regimes , particularly in Eastern Europe deemed to be “ authoritarian ” and hostile to American interests .
Rather than using a direct military intervention to effect regime change as in Iraq , Color Revolutions attack a foreign regime by contesting its electoral legitimacy , organizing mass protests and acts of civil disobedience , and leveraging media contacts to ensure favorable coverage to their agenda in the Western press .
‘ It would be disturbing enough to note a coordinated effort to use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to undermine or overthrow President Trump .
The ominous nature of what we see unfolding before us only truly hits home when one realizes that the people who specialize in these Color Revolution regime change operations overseas are , literally , the very same people attempting to overthrow Trump by using the very same playbook .
Given that the most famous Color Revolution was the [ 2004 ] “ Orange Revolution ” in the Ukraine , and that Black Lives Matter is being used as a key component of the domestic Color Revolution @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thesis at Revolver with the simple remark that “ Black is the New Orange.
” ’ This hardly should come as a surprise .
The same government agencies and their corporate , NGO , and think tank cronies that are now weaponizing Black Lives Matter , Antifa , other Wokesters , and military putsch plotters here at home to remove Trump have turned regime change abroad into an art form .
Ukraine was one of their signal successes , featuring a cast of characters later key to the failed “ Ukrainegate ” impeachment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Noel Best Price : $ 1.68 Buy New $ 9.73 Another consequence of regime change : corruption .
As the old saying goes , any idiot can turn an aquarium into fish soup , but no one has yet figured out how to reverse the process .
Once a country gets broken it tends to stay broken , whether the “ breaking ” is accomplished by military means ( Serbia 1999 , Iraq 2003 , Libya 2011 ) or by a color revolution from the streets ( Serbia 2000 , Georgia 2003 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Kyrgyzstan 2005 , Lebanon 2005 , Armenia 2018 , plus many others of varying degrees of success , and failures in Iran , Russia , Venezuela , China ( Hong Kong ) , and Belarus ) .
With the target nation ’ s institutions in shambles , the dregs take over – in Libya , for example , even to the point of reintroducing trade in sub-Saharan African slaves , whose black lives evidently don ’ t matter to anyone at all .
Finally , once regime change occurs and corruption is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vultures descend on the carcass , profiteers who in many cases are the very same people that helped to create the chaos on which they are cashing in .
Invariably , these carpetbaggers are well-connected individuals in the aggressor states and organizations positioned on the inside track both for the carve-up of the target country ’ s resources and ( the word “ hypocrisy ” doesn ’ t begin to describe it ) for funds to implement “ reform ” and “ reconstruction ” of the devastated target .
The showcase of this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s reported “ Pottery Barn Rule ” ( You break it , you own it ) was the money ostensibly spent on rebuilding Iraq , despite assurances from the war ’ s advocates that it would pay for itself .
With the formal costs conservatively set at over $ 60 billion to $ 138 billion out of a tab for the war of over two trillion dollars , the lion ’ s share of it went to U.S. and other vendors , including the notorious $ 1.4 billion no-bid contract to Halliburton subsidiary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cheney , a major proponent of the war , had been a top executive .
( “ Rand Paul Says Dick Cheney Pushed for the Iraq War So Halliburton Would Profit.
” ) The predatory cronyism vignette most pertinent to the Black/Orange regime change op now unfolding before us with the intent of installing Joe Biden in the Oval Office is that of his son , Hunter , and a Ukrainian energy company with a sketchy reputation , Burisma Holdings .
( Right at the outset , even some of Hunter ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ too “ toxic ” and broke off ties with him . )
Though ignored or dismissed as fake news and a conspiracy theory by Democrats and legacy media ( or do I repeat myself ? )
, the facts are well enough known and fit the Iraq pattern to a T : then-Vice President Joe Biden pushed for regime change in Ukraine , which succeeded in February 2014 with the ouster of the constitutionally elected president , Viktor Yanukovych .
In April 2014 , Joe Biden ’ s son , Hunter , was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ along with a fellow named Devon Archer , later convicted of unrelated fraud ) at an exorbitant level of compensation that made little sense in light of Hunter ’ s nonexistent expertise in the energy business – but which made plenty of sense given that his dad was not only Veep but the Obama administration ’ s point man on policy toward Ukraine , including foreign assistance money .
[ : It now has come out that in 2015 Hunter put his dad , the U.S. Vice President , in direct contact with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sought to suppress on social media . ]
Balkan Ghosts : A Journ ... Kaplan , Robert D. Best Price : $ 3.09 Buy New $ 10.29 When a troublesome Ukrainian prosecutor named Viktor Shokin seemed to be taking too much interest in Burisma , Papa Joe came to the rescue , openly threatening the western-dependent politicians installed after Ukraine ’ s 2014 color revolution with withholding of a billion dollars in U.S. aid until Shokin , whom Joe unironically alleged to be “ corrupt , ” got the heave-ho .
As Tucker @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ouster followed a direct request from Burisma ’ s Clinton-connected PR firm , Blue Star Strategies , to Hunter to lobby his dad to get Shokin off their back .
Joe did just what was asked .
He later bragged : “ I said , ‘ You ’ re not getting the billion .
I ’ m going to be leaving here [ i.e.
, Kiev ] in , I think it was about six hours.
’ I looked at them and said , ‘ I ’ m leaving in six hours .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ you ’ re not getting the money.
’ Well , son of a bitch .
He got fired.
” But First There Was Serbia Today many people remember Iraq , some have a clue about Ukraine .
But Serbia , which preceded them , is off the radar screen of most Americans .
To recap : As a Senator in the 1990s , Joe Biden was one of the most militant advocates of U.S. military action against Serbs during the breakup of the Yugoslav federation , first in Croatia ( 1991-95 ) , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and then in Serbia ’ s province of Kosovo ( 1998- 1999 ) .
( As has been said about others like Hillary Clinton and the late John McCain , Biden evidently has never met a war he didn ’ t like .
Along with Hillary , in 2003 Biden helped to whip Senate Democrat votes for the Bush-Cheney Iraq war . )
Channeling his inner John McCain , Biden continually called for the U.S. to bomb , bomb , bomb bomb the Serbs while ( in a foreshadowing of the Obama-Biden administration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Libya and Syria , which ultimately resulted in the appearance of ISIS ) pushed successfully for sending weapons to the Islamist regime in Bosnia and then for the U.S. to arm the Islamo-narco-terrorist group known as the “ Kosovo Liberation Army ” ( KLA ) .
Joe Biden was the primary sponsor of the March 1999 Kosovo war authorization for military action against Serbia and Montenegro , S. Con .
Res .
21 .
( As a little remembered historical note , Biden ’ s resolution might be seen as the last nail @ @ @ @ @ @ @ constitutional war power .
While S. Con .
Res 21 passed the Senate , it failed in the House on a 213-213 tie vote , with Republicans overwhelmingly voting Nay .
It didn ’ t matter .
Bill Clinton , reeling from the Lewinsky scandal , went ahead with the bombing campaign anyway . )
The ensuing 78-day NATO air operation had little impact on Serbia ’ s military but devastated the country ’ s infrastructure and took hundreds of civilian lives .
( Even now , more than 20 years later , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to depleted uranium munitions . )
But for Jihad Joe even that wasn ’ t punishment enough for people he collectively demonized as “ illiterate degenerates , baby killers , butchers , and rapists.
” In May 1999 , at the height of the NATO air assault , he called for the introduction of U.S. ground troops ( “ we should announce there ’ s going to be American casualties ” ) followed by “ a Japanese-German style occupation.
” Joe Biden Unauthorized ... McCormick , Mike Best Price : $ 13.70 Buy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in June 1999 when then-Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević acceded to temporary international occupation of Kosovo on the condition that the province would remain part of Serbia , as codified in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 .
It was a promise the U.S. and NATO , not to mention their European Union ( EU ) concubine , had no intention of keeping .
Under the nose of the NATO occupation , ostensibly demobilized KLA thugs were given virtually free rein to terrorize the Serbian population , two-thirds of whom were driven out along @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sheltering in enclaves where they remain to this day .
Orthodox Christian churches and monasteries , many of them centuries old , were particular targets for destruction and desecration .
KLA commanders – who were also kingpins in the Kosovo Albanian mafia dealing in sex slaves , drugs , weapons , and even human organs – were handed local administration .
In 2007 Senator Biden praised the new order as a “ victory for Muslim democracy ” and “ a much-needed example of a successful U.S.-Muslim partnership.
” A year later , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by ramming through Kosovo ’ s independence in barefaced violation of UNSCR 1244 and despite strong Russian objections .
But instead of resolving anything the result was a frozen conflict that persists today , with about half of the United Nations ’ member states recognizing Kosovo and half not .
Touting itself as the most pro-American “ country ” [ sic ] in the world , the Kosovo pseudo-state became a prime recruiting ground for ISIS .
But hey , business was good !
Just as in Iraq , the politically well-connected , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Serbia and occupying Kosovo , flocked to the province fueled by lavish aid subsidies from the U.S. and the EU , which for a while made Kosovo one of the biggest per capita foreign assistance recipient “ countries ” in the world .
One such vulture – sorry , entrepreneur – was former Secretary of State Madeleine we-think-a-half-million-dead-Iraqi-children-is-worth-it Albright , a prominent driver of the Clinton administration ’ s hostile policy on top of her personal Serb-hatred .
Albright sought to cash in to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars @ @ @ @ @ @ @ PTK , originally a Yugoslav state-owned firm that was “ privatized ” ( i.e.
, stolen ) in 2005 as a joint stock company , but who later dropped her bid when it attracted unwanted publicity .
Also in the hunt for Kosovo riches was former NATO Supreme Commander and operational chief of the Kosovo war General Wesley Clark , who reportedly cornered a major share of the occupied province ’ s coal resources under a sweetheart deal that seems to have vanished from public scrutiny since first reported in 2016 .
At @ @ @ @ @ @ @ smoking gun of a direct Biden family payout , à la Ukraine , but there is a possible trail via Hunter ’ s Burisma-buddy Devon Archer and Archer ’ s fellow-defendant John “ Yanni ” Galanis , who in turn is connected to top Kosovo Albanian politicians .
In any case , the Biden clan seems to have paid a lot of attention to Kosovo for not having skin in the game .
Joe ’ s late son and Delaware Attorney General , Beau , worked in Kosovo following the war to train @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe ) “ rule of law ” mission ( admittedly a big task in a mafia-run pseudo-state ) , for which a road was named after him near the massive U.S. base Camp Bondsteel .
With Hunter on hand for the naming ceremony , Joe Biden took the opportunity to express his “ condolences ” to Serbian families who lost loved ones in the NATO air assault – of which he was a primary advocate .
Ukraine and the Art of ... Freedman , Lawrence Best @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 21.85 Perhaps the best parallel between Biden ’ s handiwork in Ukraine and his interest in Kosovo also relates to getting rid of an inconvenient individual .
But in this case , the person in question wasn ’ t a state official like Burisma prosecutor Viktor Shokin but a hierarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church .
In May 2009 Vice President Biden insisted on visiting one of Kosovo ’ s most venerable Serbian Orthodox Christian sites , the Visoki Dečani monastery .
Ruling Bishop Artemije of the Eparchy of Raška and Prizren , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to give his blessing for the visit , in effect telling Biden he was not welcome .
Bishop Artemije long had been a bane of Biden and others advocating detachment of Kosovo from Serbia , starting with his first mission to Washington in 1997 as war clouds gathered .
In 2004 Bishop Artemije sued the NATO powers in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg following their inaction to protect his flock during an anti-Serbian rampage by Muslim Albanian militants in March of that year .
Then , in March 2006 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ final solution ” to the Kosovo issue , Bishop Artemije launched an intensive multinational lobbying and public relations effort ( in which Yours Truly was the lead professional ) to try to derail the U.S. policy to which Biden had devoted so much attention .
While the Bishop ’ s campaign was unsuccessful in reversing U.S. policy it was instrumental in delaying it for over a year – to howls of outrage from Biden ’ s associates in Washington .
Thus , for Biden , the monastery visit snub by Bishop Artemije was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Bishop Artemije came a few months later , at the beginning of 2010 at the time of two visits to Kosovo by U.S. Admiral Mark P. Fitzgerald , then Commander , U.S .
Naval Forces Europe and Africa , and Commander , Allied Joint Force Command ( JFC ) Naples , ( who retired later that year , becoming , unsurprisingly , a consultant “ with numerous defense and commercial maritime and aviation contractors ” ) .
At that time , an unconfirmed report indicated that a high NATO officer ( whether @ @ @ @ @ @ @ specified ) stated in the course of one of his local meetings ( this is verbatim or a close paraphrase ) : “ What we need here is a more cooperative bishop.
” ( More details are available here .
Since that posting last year the NATO command in Naples seems to have scrubbed the items about Fitzgerald ’ s 2010 visits from their site . )
Shortly afterwards , Biden ’ s troublesome priest was forcibly removed by police and exiled from his see , without ecclesiastical trial , by Church authorities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ politicians installed after the October 2000 color revolution , in turn pressured by NATO .
The pretext ?
Transparently baseless charges of financial wrongdoing .
In other words , bogus accusations of “ corruption ” – like against Ukraine ’ s Shokin .
One could almost hear Joe Biden chortle : “ Well , son of a bitch .
He got fired.
” Yesterday ’ s Man : ... Marcetic , Branko Best Price : $ 12.00 Buy New $ 13.46 But Look at the Bright Side… Back to the incipient coup facing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no illusion that what ’ s at stake in the unfolding scenario for the removal of Donald Trump is not just his presidency but the survival of the historic American ethnos of which he is seen as an avatar by both his supporters and detractors .
Remember , we ’ re dealing with predators and scavengers who are happy to burn the old , evil America down as long as they can achieve total power and continue to feather their cushy nests .
Short of a blowout Trump victory by a margin too @ @ @ @ @ @ @ headed for a dystopian state of affairs .
If they do manage to remove Trump , “ by any means necessary , ” and Joe Biden takes the helm , we can anticipate a bevy of globalist warmonger appointees that make Trump ’ s team look like disciples of Mahatma Gandhi .
Among the names floated like Nicholas Burns , Antony Blinken , Michele Flournoy , Evelyn Farkas , and Anne-Marie Slaughter , all were on board with Bosnia , Kosovo , Iraq , Libya , Ukraine , Syria … [ : The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s semi-official think tank in Washington and which will be instrumental in staffing a future Joe Biden administration , also has been the beneficiary of generous donations from Hunter Biden ’ s paymaster , Burisma . ]
It ’ s a recipe for wars , regime changes , and color revolutions galore .
But to finish on a positive note , the potential future business opportunities will be endless !
The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation .

The United States approaches the November 2020 election with growing apprehension, even dread.
Among the possibilities:
For those who have followed events outside the United States during the past few decades, much of this sounds familiar. We’ve seen it before – inflicted on other countries.
Now It’s Coming Home to the U.S.
As explained by Revolver News, what happens in America next to a great extent may be a form of blowback from a specific event: the U.S.-supported 2014 regime change operation in Ukraine:
‘A “Color Revolution” in this context refers to a specific type of coordinated attack that the United States government has been known to deploy against foreign regimes, particularly in Eastern Europe deemed to be “authoritarian” and hostile to American interests. Rather than using a direct military intervention to effect regime change as in Iraq, Color Revolutions attack a foreign regime by contesting its electoral legitimacy, organizing mass protests and acts of civil disobedience, and leveraging media contacts to ensure favorable coverage to their agenda in the Western press.
‘It would be disturbing enough to note a coordinated effort to use these exact same strategies and tactics domestically to undermine or overthrow President Trump. The ominous nature of what we see unfolding before us only truly hits home when one realizes that the people who specialize in these Color Revolution regime change operations overseas are, literally, the very same people attempting to overthrow Trump by using the very same playbook. Given that the most famous Color Revolution was the [2004] “Orange Revolution” in the Ukraine, and that Black Lives Matter is being used as a key component of the domestic Color Revolution against Trump, we can encapsulate our thesis at Revolver with the simple remark that “Black is the New Orange.”’
This hardly should come as a surprise. The same government agencies and their corporate, NGO, and think tank cronies that are now weaponizing Black Lives Matter, Antifa, other Wokesters, and military putsch plotters here at home to remove Trump have turned regime change abroad into an art form. Ukraine was one of their signal successes, featuring a cast of characters later key to the failed “Ukrainegate” impeachment.
Kosovo: A Short History Malcolm, Noel Best Price: $1.68 Buy New $9.73 (as of 03:09 UTC - Details) Another consequence of regime change: corruption. As the old saying goes, any idiot can turn an aquarium into fish soup, but no one has yet figured out how to reverse the process. Once a country gets broken it tends to stay broken, whether the “breaking” is accomplished by military means (Serbia 1999, Iraq 2003, Libya 2011) or by a color revolution from the streets (Serbia 2000, Georgia 2003, Ukraine 2004-2005 and again in 2014, Kyrgyzstan 2005, Lebanon 2005, Armenia 2018, plus many others of varying degrees of success, and failures in Iran, Russia, Venezuela, China (Hong Kong), and Belarus). With the target nation’s institutions in shambles, the dregs take over – in Libya, for example, even to the point of reintroducing trade in sub-Saharan African slaves, whose black lives evidently don’t matter to anyone at all.
Iraq: Crush, Corrupt, Cash In
Finally, once regime change occurs and corruption is rampant, another shoe drops: foreign vultures descend on the carcass, profiteers who in many cases are the very same people that helped to create the chaos on which they are cashing in. Invariably, these carpetbaggers are well-connected individuals in the aggressor states and organizations positioned on the inside track both for the carve-up of the target country’s resources and (the word “hypocrisy” doesn’t begin to describe it) for funds to implement “reform” and “reconstruction” of the devastated target.
The showcase of this scam, pursuant to Colin Powell’s reported “Pottery Barn Rule” (You break it, you own it) was the money ostensibly spent on rebuilding Iraq, despite assurances from the war’s advocates that it would pay for itself. With the formal costs conservatively set at over $60 billion to $138 billion out of a tab for the war of over two trillion dollars, the lion’s share of it went to U.S. and other vendors, including the notorious $1.4 billion no-bid contract to Halliburton subsidiary KBR, of which then-Vice President Dick Cheney, a major proponent of the war, had been a top executive. (“Rand Paul Says Dick Cheney Pushed for the Iraq War So Halliburton Would Profit.”)
In Ukraine, Biden’s Son Also Rises
The predatory cronyism vignette most pertinent to the Black/Orange regime change op now unfolding before us with the intent of installing Joe Biden in the Oval Office is that of his son, Hunter, and a Ukrainian energy company with a sketchy reputation, Burisma Holdings. (Right at the outset, even some of Hunter’s associates though the gig with Burisma was too “toxic” and broke off ties with him.) Though ignored or dismissed as fake news and a conspiracy theory by Democrats and legacy media (or do I repeat myself?), the facts are well enough known and fit the Iraq pattern to a T: then-Vice President Joe Biden pushed for regime change in Ukraine, which succeeded in February 2014 with the ouster of the constitutionally elected president, Viktor Yanukovych. In April 2014, Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, was brought onto Burisma’s board (along with a fellow named Devon Archer, later convicted of unrelated fraud) at an exorbitant level of compensation that made little sense in light of Hunter’s nonexistent expertise in the energy business – but which made plenty of sense given that his dad was not only Veep but the Obama administration’s point man on policy toward Ukraine, including foreign assistance money. [ NOTE : It now has come out that in 2015 Hunter put his dad, the U.S. Vice President, in direct contact with Burisma, news the giant tech firms sought to suppress on social media.] Balkan Ghosts: A Journ... Kaplan, Robert D. Best Price: $3.09 Buy New $10.29 (as of 03:09 UTC - Details)
When a troublesome Ukrainian prosecutor named Viktor Shokin seemed to be taking too much interest in Burisma, Papa Joe came to the rescue, openly threatening the western-dependent politicians installed after Ukraine’s 2014 color revolution with withholding of a billion dollars in U.S. aid until Shokin, whom Joe unironically alleged to be “corrupt,” got the heave-ho. As Tucker Carlson nails it, Shokin’s ouster followed a direct request from Burisma’s Clinton-connected PR firm, Blue Star Strategies, to Hunter to lobby his dad to get Shokin off their back. Joe did just what was asked. He later bragged: “I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here [i.e., Kiev] in, I think it was about six hours.’ I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a bitch. He got fired.”
But First There Was Serbia
Today many people remember Iraq, some have a clue about Ukraine. But Serbia, which preceded them, is off the radar screen of most Americans. To recap:
As a Senator in the 1990s, Joe Biden was one of the most militant advocates of U.S. military action against Serbs during the breakup of the Yugoslav federation, first in Croatia (1991-95), then in Bosnia (1992-95), and then in Serbia’s province of Kosovo (1998- 1999). (As has been said about others like Hillary Clinton and the late John McCain, Biden evidently has never met a war he didn’t like. Along with Hillary, in 2003 Biden helped to whip Senate Democrat votes for the Bush-Cheney Iraq war.) Channeling his inner John McCain, Biden continually called for the U.S. to bomb, bomb, bomb bomb the Serbs while (in a foreshadowing of the Obama-Biden administration’s support for jihad terrorists in Libya and Syria, which ultimately resulted in the appearance of ISIS) pushed successfully for sending weapons to the Islamist regime in Bosnia and then for the U.S. to arm the Islamo-narco-terrorist group known as the “Kosovo Liberation Army” (KLA).
Joe Biden was the primary sponsor of the March 1999 Kosovo war authorization for military action against Serbia and Montenegro, S. Con. Res. 21. (As a little remembered historical note, Biden’s resolution might be seen as the last nail in the coffin of Congress’s constitutional war power. While S. Con. Res 21 passed the Senate, it failed in the House on a 213-213 tie vote, with Republicans overwhelmingly voting Nay. It didn’t matter. Bill Clinton, reeling from the Lewinsky scandal, went ahead with the bombing campaign anyway.) The ensuing 78-day NATO air operation had little impact on Serbia’s military but devastated the country’s infrastructure and took hundreds of civilian lives. (Even now, more than 20 years later, Serbia suffers from elevated cancer levels attributed to depleted uranium munitions.) But for Jihad Joe even that wasn’t punishment enough for people he collectively demonized as “illiterate degenerates, baby killers, butchers, and rapists.” In May 1999, at the height of the NATO air assault, he called for the introduction of U.S. ground troops (“we should announce there’s going to be American casualties”) followed by “a Japanese-German style occupation.” Joe Biden Unauthorized... McCormick, Mike Best Price: $13.70 Buy New $14.49 (as of 06:03 UTC - Details)
Eventually the bombing stopped in June 1999 when then-Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević acceded to temporary international occupation of Kosovo on the condition that the province would remain part of Serbia, as codified in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244. It was a promise the U.S. and NATO, not to mention their European Union (EU) concubine, had no intention of keeping. Under the nose of the NATO occupation, ostensibly demobilized KLA thugs were given virtually free rein to terrorize the Serbian population, two-thirds of whom were driven out along with Jews and Roma, the rest sheltering in enclaves where they remain to this day. Orthodox Christian churches and monasteries, many of them centuries old, were particular targets for destruction and desecration. KLA commanders – who were also kingpins in the Kosovo Albanian mafia dealing in sex slaves, drugs, weapons, and even human organs – were handed local administration.
In 2007 Senator Biden praised the new order as a “victory for Muslim democracy” and “a much-needed example of a successful U.S.-Muslim partnership.” A year later, the Bush administration sought to complete the job by ramming through Kosovo’s independence in barefaced violation of UNSCR 1244 and despite strong Russian objections. But instead of resolving anything the result was a frozen conflict that persists today, with about half of the United Nations’ member states recognizing Kosovo and half not. Touting itself as the most pro-American “country” [sic] in the world, the Kosovo pseudo-state became a prime recruiting ground for ISIS.
But hey, business was good! Just as in Iraq, the politically well-connected, including former officials instrumental in the attack on Serbia and occupying Kosovo, flocked to the province fueled by lavish aid subsidies from the U.S. and the EU, which for a while made Kosovo one of the biggest per capita foreign assistance recipient “countries” in the world. One such vulture – sorry, entrepreneur – was former Secretary of State Madeleine we-think-a-half-million-dead-Iraqi-children-is-worth-it Albright, a prominent driver of the Clinton administration’s hostile policy on top of her personal Serb-hatred. Albright sought to cash in to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars on sale of the mobile telephone company PTK, originally a Yugoslav state-owned firm that was “privatized” (i.e., stolen) in 2005 as a joint stock company, but who later dropped her bid when it attracted unwanted publicity. Also in the hunt for Kosovo riches was former NATO Supreme Commander and operational chief of the Kosovo war General Wesley Clark, who reportedly cornered a major share of the occupied province’s coal resources under a sweetheart deal that seems to have vanished from public scrutiny since first reported in 2016.
At the moment there seems to be no smoking gun of a direct Biden family payout, à la Ukraine, but there is a possible trail via Hunter’s Burisma-buddy Devon Archer and Archer’s fellow-defendant John “Yanni” Galanis, who in turn is connected to top Kosovo Albanian politicians. In any case, the Biden clan seems to have paid a lot of attention to Kosovo for not having skin in the game. Joe’s late son and Delaware Attorney General, Beau, worked in Kosovo following the war to train local prosecutors as part of an OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) “rule of law” mission (admittedly a big task in a mafia-run pseudo-state), for which a road was named after him near the massive U.S. base Camp Bondsteel. With Hunter on hand for the naming ceremony, Joe Biden took the opportunity to express his “condolences” to Serbian families who lost loved ones in the NATO air assault – of which he was a primary advocate. Ukraine and the Art of... Freedman, Lawrence Best Price: $19.10 Buy New $21.85 (as of 03:09 UTC - Details)
A ‘Shokin’ Demand
Perhaps the best parallel between Biden’s handiwork in Ukraine and his interest in Kosovo also relates to getting rid of an inconvenient individual. But in this case, the person in question wasn’t a state official like Burisma prosecutor Viktor Shokin but a hierarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
In May 2009 Vice President Biden insisted on visiting one of Kosovo’s most venerable Serbian Orthodox Christian sites, the Visoki Dečani monastery. Ruling Bishop Artemije of the Eparchy of Raška and Prizren, which includes Kosovo and Metohija, refused to give his blessing for the visit, in effect telling Biden he was not welcome. Bishop Artemije long had been a bane of Biden and others advocating detachment of Kosovo from Serbia, starting with his first mission to Washington in 1997 as war clouds gathered. In 2004 Bishop Artemije sued the NATO powers in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg following their inaction to protect his flock during an anti-Serbian rampage by Muslim Albanian militants in March of that year. Then, in March 2006, as preparations were underway for a “final solution” to the Kosovo issue, Bishop Artemije launched an intensive multinational lobbying and public relations effort (in which Yours Truly was the lead professional) to try to derail the U.S. policy to which Biden had devoted so much attention. While the Bishop’s campaign was unsuccessful in reversing U.S. policy it was instrumental in delaying it for over a year – to howls of outrage from Biden’s associates in Washington. Thus, for Biden, the monastery visit snub by Bishop Artemije was adding insult to injury.
The end for Bishop Artemije came a few months later, at the beginning of 2010 at the time of two visits to Kosovo by U.S. Admiral Mark P. Fitzgerald, then Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa, and Commander, Allied Joint Force Command (JFC) Naples, (who retired later that year, becoming, unsurprisingly, a consultant “with numerous defense and commercial maritime and aviation contractors”). At that time, an unconfirmed report indicated that a high NATO officer (whether Admiral Fitzgerald or someone else is not specified) stated in the course of one of his local meetings (this is verbatim or a close paraphrase): “What we need here is a more cooperative bishop.” (More details are available here. Since that posting last year the NATO command in Naples seems to have scrubbed the items about Fitzgerald’s 2010 visits from their site.)
Shortly afterwards, Biden’s troublesome priest was forcibly removed by police and exiled from his see, without ecclesiastical trial, by Church authorities in Belgrade under pressure from compliant Serbian politicians installed after the October 2000 color revolution, in turn pressured by NATO. The pretext? Transparently baseless charges of financial wrongdoing. In other words, bogus accusations of “corruption” – like against Ukraine’s Shokin.
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But Look at the Bright Side…
Back to the incipient coup facing the United States, there should be no illusion that what’s at stake in the unfolding scenario for the removal of Donald Trump is not just his presidency but the survival of the historic American ethnos of which he is seen as an avatar by both his supporters and detractors. Remember, we’re dealing with predators and scavengers who are happy to burn the old, evil America down as long as they can achieve total power and continue to feather their cushy nests. Short of a blowout Trump victory by a margin too big to hijack, we’re headed for a dystopian state of affairs.
If they do manage to remove Trump, “by any means necessary,” and Joe Biden takes the helm, we can anticipate a bevy of globalist warmonger appointees that make Trump’s team look like disciples of Mahatma Gandhi. Among the names floated like Nicholas Burns, Antony Blinken, Michele Flournoy, Evelyn Farkas, and Anne-Marie Slaughter, all were on board with Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, Syria … [ NOTE : The Atlantic Council, known as NATO’s semi-official think tank in Washington and which will be instrumental in staffing a future Joe Biden administration, also has been the beneficiary of generous donations from Hunter Biden’s paymaster, Burisma.]
It’s a recipe for wars, regime changes, and color revolutions galore.
But to finish on a positive note, the potential future business opportunities will be endless!
The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation.


lewrockwell--2020-10-19--Successful Covid Doctor Silenced by Federal Trade Commission

Dr. David Brownstein has successfully treated more than a hundred patients with Covid 19 , without a single fatality .
When he published interviews with patients and results of their treatment on his own website , however , he received a letter from the Federal Trade Commission telling him he was violating the law .
The FTC wrote : “ It is unlawful under the FTC Act , 15 U.S.C Sec .
41 et seq .
to advertise that a product or service can prevent , treat , or cure human disease unless you possess competent and reliable scientific evidence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ human clinical studies , substantiating that the claims are true at the time they are made .
For COVID-19 , no such study is currently known to exist for the products or services identified above .
Thus , any Coronavirus-related prevention or treatment claims regarding such products or services are not supported by competent and reliable scientific evidence .
You must immediately cease making all such claims.
” Dr. Brownstein is a Board-Certified family physician with decades of experience working with patients who have heard “ there ’ s nothing we can do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Director of the Center for Holistic Medicine in West Bloomfield , MI .
According to his website , “ Dr .
Brownstein has lectured internationally to physicians and others about his success in using natural hormones and nutritional therapies in his practice .
He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Wayne State University School of Medicine .
Dr. Brownstein is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College for the Advancement in Medicine.
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Dr. David Brownstein has successfully treated more than a hundred patients with Covid 19, without a single fatality. When he published interviews with patients and results of their treatment on his own website, however, he received a letter from the Federal Trade Commission telling him he was violating the law. The FTC wrote: “It is unlawful under the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C Sec. 41 et seq. to advertise that a product or service can prevent, treat, or cure human disease unless you possess competent and reliable scientific evidence, including, when appropriate, well-controlled human clinical studies, substantiating that the claims are true at the time they are made. For COVID-19, no such study is currently known to exist for the products or services identified above. Thus, any Coronavirus-related prevention or treatment claims regarding such products or services are not supported by competent and reliable scientific evidence. You must immediately cease making all such claims.” Dr. Brownstein is a Board-Certified family physician with decades of experience working with patients who have heard “there’s nothing we can do for you.” He is the Medical Director of the Center for Holistic Medicine in West Bloomfield, MI. According to his website, “Dr. Brownstein has lectured internationally to physicians and others about his success in using natural hormones and nutritional therapies in his practice. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Wayne State University School of Medicine. Dr. Brownstein is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College for the Advancement in Medicine.”
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lewrockwell--2020-10-19--The Polls, Donald Trump, and Secession

The Polls, Donald Trump, and Secession

Far too many pundits and commentators live and die by polls .
It seems that each day some on-air talking head or online spinmeister reveals breathlessly increasingly bad results for President Trump and anyone who dares to support him or intends to vote for him .
Consider the following headlines blasted out recently by television news : “ The President has now slipped again in the polls and is behind Biden in the six battleground states.
” “ Trump is behind Biden now by 12 points.
” “ Georgia , a once safe GOP stronghold , is now in play @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Th ... F.H .
Buckley Best Price : $ 15.64 Buy New $ 16.22 And the pattern goes on , daily and incessantly .
At the same time , Joe Biden ’ s essentially stay-at-home , don ’ t-rock-the-boat , don ’ t-answer-controversial-questions strategy seems to be working if you believe the pundits .
Witness his “ town hall ” forum Thursday night , October 15 , on the ABC network , where not only he faced a moderator ( George Stephanopoulos , a former Clinton hack ) who served up careful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supporters who did likewise .
Nothing really difficult , nothing that would disturb his visible senility and obvious inability to form or give a substantial answer to a mildly challenging question .
Of course , even if it is true that many Trump voters will vote for the president despite his rough exterior and bull-in-a-china-shop approach to issues , most of Biden ’ s supporters will pull the Democratic lever not because Biden is a fountain of intellectual brilliance and political savviness , but because of their hatred of Donald Trump…a hatred engendered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and the entertainment industry .
Back in 2016 actually only one polling outfit got almost everything right about the presidential election .
The Scott Rasmussen organization—Rasmussen Reports—came out ahead of nearly all eleven major polling groups : “ Rasmussen Reports told you all along that it was a much closer race than most other pollsters predicted .
We weren ’ t surprised Election Night .
They were.
” Once again Rasmussen is predicting a much closer election than the other polling organizations , including Fox ( who were miserably wrong in 2016 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recent Rasmussen Reports survey ( Wednesday , October 14 ) have Biden ahead of Trump by only five percentage points , 50 % to 45 % , comparable to the polling results at this time in 2016 .
Following the helter-skelter first presidential debate ( September 29 ) and the initial flurry of news about the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace deceased Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg , the president apparently took a hit .
Rasmussen had Trump losing to Biden by 12 points : “ In mid-September , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but following Trump ’ s announcement that he was nominating federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court , Biden moved from a narrow one-point lead to eight points ahead .
Last week following the candidates ’ first debate and Trump ’ s coronavirus diagnosis , the Democrat jumped to a 12-point advantage.
” That survey occurred between September 30 ( immediately after the first debate ) and October 1 and 4-6 .
But between those dates and the most recent Rasmussen Reports ( October 14 ) three things happened .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ 7 , with Vice-President Mike Pence squaring off with Senator Kamala Harris , who continually smirked condescendingly at Pence , but also at the American electorate .
Pence ’ s performance was substantive and direct , and overall a compelling case for the current administration .
Secondly , viewers had an opportunity to watch and digest portions of the televised Senate hearings with Amy Coney Barrett .
After viewing her poise and unrattled intelligence on display in the face of some very hostile questions from Democratic members of the upper legislative chamber , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 51 % of likely U.S. voters believe the Senate should confirm Barrett as a Supreme Court justice based on what they know at this time .
That ’ s a 12-point increase from 39 % when we first asked this question in late September just after President Trump nominated Barrett to fill the seat of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg .
Forty percent ( 40 % ) still disagree , but that ’ s down from 49 % in the first survey.
” And , thirdly , the president made a quick and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and is back on the electoral trail as the happy warrior he normally is—while Biden , forced now to get out of his basement occasionally , continues to avoid inconvenient questions , with the blatantly obvious assistance of the major media .
Significantly , in this age of virulent cancel culture and personal reputation assassination by the Progressivist thuggery online ( and on the air ) , and the real fear that many voters have about revealing their political sentiments to pollsters—particularly true of conservatives—even the 50 % to 45 % results may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the surveys of pollsters , just as in 2016 .
In fact , the Trafalgar Group chief pollster Robert Cahaly forecasts that the “ silent Trump vote ” will be twice as large for the president this year than in the last election and that he will win a very tight electoral victory .
Add to this the growing Hunter Biden/Joe Biden “ pay-to-play ” scandal ( as revealed in solidly-sourced articles in the New York Post ) …a situation that the establishment media and the tech giants Facebook and Twitter have done @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lid on .
Thus far they have been partially successful , but the next two weeks may see additional permutations and explosive news details .
Look for the tightening and frenzied grip of the Leftist tech monopoly on our public discourse , as the Deep State apparatchiks strive desperately to avoid a repeat of 2016 .
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Best Price : $ 3.40 Buy New $ 11.98 The question now is just what will take place on November 3 , and then , in the days that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ millions of votes will be “ found ” and the specter of suddenly-appearing ballots or tossed ballots will raise its ugly head .
No presidential election since 1860 ( including the disputed one in 2000 ) has been fraught with such momentous consequences .
Indeed , mainstream writers have raised the question of possible separation or secession of some states .
It would not be much of a stretch politically to see California , Oregon , and Washington State refuse to accept a Donald Trump electoral victory , especially if the popular vote @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mason University law professor F. H. Buckley , in his volume American Secession : The Looming Threat of A National Breakup ( Encounter Books ) , suggests this a serious possibility .
And I have done likewise in two widely diffused articles first published by The Abbeville Institute : “ Is Secession the Answer ?
” from February 4 , 2019 , and “ Is Political Separation in Our Future ?
” from August 19 , 2019 .
More and more it seems that our ancestors in late 1860 and early 1861 were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the military conflict in 1865 in fact did not really settle fundamental issues .
The post-war triumph of 19th century liberalism and big financial capitalism , followed by the onrushing waves of state socialism conjoined with globalism as an almost natural result , just perhaps have run their course .
We live , it seems , in a geographical entity , once a nation founded on certain principles that fully one half of the population now angrily rejects and scorns .
The next month or two will be a crucial watershed in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with such great hopes in 1787 .
Will it continue as we have known it ?
Will the Progressivist totalitarians finally secure complete control ?
Will violence on a scale never before seen in our history erupt on our streets ?
I don ’ t know…but since I was doxxed by Leftwing crazies over in Chapel Hill late this summer , I am sleeping with a pistol next to my bed .
God help us all .

Friends,
Far too many pundits and commentators live and die by polls. It seems that each day some on-air talking head or online spinmeister reveals breathlessly increasingly bad results for President Trump and anyone who dares to support him or intends to vote for him.
Consider the following headlines blasted out recently by television news:
“The President has now slipped again in the polls and is behind Biden in the six battleground states.”
“Trump is behind Biden now by 12 points.”
“Georgia, a once safe GOP stronghold, is now in play, as is Texas.” American Secession: Th... F.H. Buckley Best Price: $15.64 Buy New $16.22 (as of 10:56 UTC - Details)
And the pattern goes on, daily and incessantly.
At the same time, Joe Biden’s essentially stay-at-home, don’t-rock-the-boat, don’t-answer-controversial-questions strategy seems to be working if you believe the pundits. Witness his “town hall” forum Thursday night, October 15, on the ABC network, where not only he faced a moderator (George Stephanopoulos, a former Clinton hack) who served up careful soft-ball questions to him, but planted supporters who did likewise. Nothing really difficult, nothing that would disturb his visible senility and obvious inability to form or give a substantial answer to a mildly challenging question.
Of course, even if it is true that many Trump voters will vote for the president despite his rough exterior and bull-in-a-china-shop approach to issues, most of Biden’s supporters will pull the Democratic lever not because Biden is a fountain of intellectual brilliance and political savviness, but because of their hatred of Donald Trump…a hatred engendered by the media, the educational establishment, and the entertainment industry.
Back in 2016 actually only one polling outfit got almost everything right about the presidential election. The Scott Rasmussen organization—Rasmussen Reports—came out ahead of nearly all eleven major polling groups: “Rasmussen Reports told you all along that it was a much closer race than most other pollsters predicted. We weren’t surprised Election Night. They were.”
Once again Rasmussen is predicting a much closer election than the other polling organizations, including Fox (who were miserably wrong in 2016).
The results of the most recent Rasmussen Reports survey (Wednesday, October 14) have Biden ahead of Trump by only five percentage points, 50% to 45%, comparable to the polling results at this time in 2016.
Following the helter-skelter first presidential debate (September 29) and the initial flurry of news about the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace deceased Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the president apparently took a hit. Rasmussen had Trump losing to Biden by 12 points:
“In mid-September, the candidates were neck and neck, but following Trump’s announcement that he was nominating federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, Biden moved from a narrow one-point lead to eight points ahead. Last week following the candidates’ first debate and Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis, the Democrat jumped to a 12-point advantage.”
That survey occurred between September 30 (immediately after the first debate) and October 1 and 4-6.
But between those dates and the most recent Rasmussen Reports (October 14) three things happened. First came the vice-presidential debate on October 7, with Vice-President Mike Pence squaring off with Senator Kamala Harris, who continually smirked condescendingly at Pence, but also at the American electorate. Pence’s performance was substantive and direct, and overall a compelling case for the current administration.
Secondly, viewers had an opportunity to watch and digest portions of the televised Senate hearings with Amy Coney Barrett. After viewing her poise and unrattled intelligence on display in the face of some very hostile questions from Democratic members of the upper legislative chamber, the latest Rasmussen survey indicates “that 51% of likely U.S. voters believe the Senate should confirm Barrett as a Supreme Court justice based on what they know at this time. That’s a 12-point increase from 39% when we first asked this question in late September just after President Trump nominated Barrett to fill the seat of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Forty percent (40%) still disagree, but that’s down from 49% in the first survey.”
And, thirdly, the president made a quick and total recovery from the COVID-19 virus, and is back on the electoral trail as the happy warrior he normally is—while Biden, forced now to get out of his basement occasionally, continues to avoid inconvenient questions, with the blatantly obvious assistance of the major media.
Significantly, in this age of virulent cancel culture and personal reputation assassination by the Progressivist thuggery online (and on the air), and the real fear that many voters have about revealing their political sentiments to pollsters—particularly true of conservatives—even the 50% to 45% results may belie something that is actually happening beyond the surveys of pollsters, just as in 2016. In fact, the Trafalgar Group chief pollster Robert Cahaly forecasts that the “silent Trump vote” will be twice as large for the president this year than in the last election and that he will win a very tight electoral victory.
Add to this the growing Hunter Biden/Joe Biden “pay-to-play” scandal (as revealed in solidly-sourced articles in the New York Post)…a situation that the establishment media and the tech giants Facebook and Twitter have done their damnedest to suppress and keep a lid on. Thus far they have been partially successful, but the next two weeks may see additional permutations and explosive news details. Look for the tightening and frenzied grip of the Leftist tech monopoly on our public discourse, as the Deep State apparatchiks strive desperately to avoid a repeat of 2016. The Republican Workers... Buckley, F.H. Best Price: $3.40 Buy New $11.98 (as of 04:28 UTC - Details)
The question now is just what will take place on November 3, and then, in the days that follow when hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of votes will be “found” and the specter of suddenly-appearing ballots or tossed ballots will raise its ugly head.
No presidential election since 1860 (including the disputed one in 2000) has been fraught with such momentous consequences. Indeed, mainstream writers have raised the question of possible separation or secession of some states. It would not be much of a stretch politically to see California, Oregon, and Washington State refuse to accept a Donald Trump electoral victory, especially if the popular vote goes against him. Indeed, George Mason University law professor F. H. Buckley, in his volume American Secession: The Looming Threat of A National Breakup (Encounter Books), suggests this a serious possibility. And I have done likewise in two widely diffused articles first published by The Abbeville Institute: “Is Secession the Answer?” from February 4, 2019, and “Is Political Separation in Our Future?” from August 19, 2019.
More and more it seems that our ancestors in late 1860 and early 1861 were actually right historically, and the conclusion of the military conflict in 1865 in fact did not really settle fundamental issues. The post-war triumph of 19th century liberalism and big financial capitalism, followed by the onrushing waves of state socialism conjoined with globalism as an almost natural result, just perhaps have run their course. We live, it seems, in a geographical entity, once a nation founded on certain principles that fully one half of the population now angrily rejects and scorns.
The next month or two will be a crucial watershed in the history of the country welded together with such great hopes in 1787. Will it continue as we have known it? Will the Progressivist totalitarians finally secure complete control? Will violence on a scale never before seen in our history erupt on our streets?
I don’t know…but since I was doxxed by Leftwing crazies over in Chapel Hill late this summer, I am sleeping with a pistol next to my bed. God help us all.
Reprinted with the author’s permission.


Welcome to Newark

New York , New York , once a wonderful town The people are crap and the mayor ’ s a clown The only safe space is a hole in the ground… NEW YORK—I could go on , but why be so negative ?
Arriving from bucolic Switzerland , Newark feels like Katanga circa 1960 .
If this isn ’ t a third-world-country airport , I don ’ t know what is .
Newark is known as the murder capital of America , but it ’ s not PC to mention it because Newark is 90 percent black .
My driver @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the virus is keeping people away , otherwise it would take at least three hours just to get through customs .
There are no electric signs working to indicate which terminal our luggage is off-loading from , so some very old people have to hike a mile or two to locate them .
The airport itself looks as grubby , shabby , and worn as anything the Congo or Burkina Faso can come up with .
I ’ m in a so-so mood , however , as I was the only sucker in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ good Swiss red that helped me relax .
The Airbus was one-third full , if that .
But the wily Swiss were not going full-out trying to save on fuel , and although they denied it , the trip took nine and some hours from Zurich to Katanga .
The alternative is to fly private , and 300,000 smackers .
Nothing to Declare : A ... Taki Best Price : $ 7.50 Buy New $ 11.94 When the Dominican strongman Rafael Trujillo was assassinated back in the early ’ 60s , my friend @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 707 to fly the dictator ’ s two sons and himself to Ciudad Trujillo , as the capital was then called .
He paid $ 28,000 for the round trip .
( I liked the idea that Trujillo named the capital after himself .
The old boy had just had a quickie with his young Pepita but nevertheless emerged mortally wounded from his car and shot one of his assassins .
At least he died like a man and with his boots on . )
Ruby later told me it was a waste @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The two sons were soft and did not want to crack heads so they ended up playboys in Spain .
Ramfis even lost his beautiful girl to the great skier Jean-Claude Killy , a triple Olympic champion and a good friend of mine back then .
Now where was I ?
Newark , or is it the Congo ?
My driver is an Argie and very nice .
He lives in Queens and tells me that there ’ s a war going on there also .
This time it pits the Hasidic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are clashing with cops because the former refuse to wear masks and distance themselves from each other .
The maskless Hasidic crowd “ brutally assaulted a Jewish photographer and called him a Nazi and Hitler while chasing him.
” The White House put out a statement : “ We are a community and no group lives in isolation .
The Hasidic community needs to understand they ’ re within the United States and what we need to do is think of others.
” Go tell that to the Palestinians in the West Bank @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consider the locals as Nazis who are trespassing on Holy Land .
I ’ m no fan of the Hasidic , but while rioting in the Bagel they didn ’ t destroy homes and loot businesses .
They were fined for setting fires in the street , whereas Biden ’ s “ peaceful protesters ” destroyed and looted the city and were praised .
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New York, New York, once a wonderful town
The people are crap and the mayor’s a clown
The only safe space is a hole in the ground…
NEW YORK—I could go on, but why be so negative? Arriving from bucolic Switzerland, Newark feels like Katanga circa 1960. If this isn’t a third-world-country airport, I don’t know what is. Newark is known as the murder capital of America, but it’s not PC to mention it because Newark is 90 percent black. My driver tells me I’m lucky that the virus is keeping people away, otherwise it would take at least three hours just to get through customs. There are no electric signs working to indicate which terminal our luggage is off-loading from, so some very old people have to hike a mile or two to locate them. The airport itself looks as grubby, shabby, and worn as anything the Congo or Burkina Faso can come up with. I’m in a so-so mood, however, as I was the only sucker in first class and drank two bottles of good Swiss red that helped me relax. The Airbus was one-third full, if that. But the wily Swiss were not going full-out trying to save on fuel, and although they denied it, the trip took nine and some hours from Zurich to Katanga. The alternative is to fly private, and 300,000 smackers.
Nothing to Declare: A ... Taki Best Price: $7.50 Buy New $11.94 (as of 04:31 UTC - Details) When the Dominican strongman Rafael Trujillo was assassinated back in the early ’60s, my friend and mentor Porfirio Rubirosa chartered a Boeing 707 to fly the dictator’s two sons and himself to Ciudad Trujillo, as the capital was then called. He paid $28,000 for the round trip. (I liked the idea that Trujillo named the capital after himself. The old boy had just had a quickie with his young Pepita but nevertheless emerged mortally wounded from his car and shot one of his assassins. At least he died like a man and with his boots on.) Ruby later told me it was a waste, both the trip and the money. The two sons were soft and did not want to crack heads so they ended up playboys in Spain. Ramfis even lost his beautiful girl to the great skier Jean-Claude Killy, a triple Olympic champion and a good friend of mine back then.
Now where was I? Newark, or is it the Congo? My driver is an Argie and very nice. He lives in Queens and tells me that there’s a war going on there also. This time it pits the Hasidic community against the fuzz. Orthodox Jews are clashing with cops because the former refuse to wear masks and distance themselves from each other. The maskless Hasidic crowd “brutally assaulted a Jewish photographer and called him a Nazi and Hitler while chasing him.” The White House put out a statement: “We are a community and no group lives in isolation. The Hasidic community needs to understand they’re within the United States and what we need to do is think of others.” Go tell that to the Palestinians in the West Bank, says I, where the settlers consider the locals as Nazis who are trespassing on Holy Land. I’m no fan of the Hasidic, but while rioting in the Bagel they didn’t destroy homes and loot businesses. They were fined for setting fires in the street, whereas Biden’s “peaceful protesters” destroyed and looted the city and were praised.
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