lewrockwell--2020-06-12--The Brave New World of Bill Gates and Big Telecom

Robert F. Kennedy , Jr. wrote last week about Malibu police ’ s ticketing Point Dume surfers $ 1,000 apiece for using the ocean during the quarantine .
Was this merely an appalling police judgment at which we will laugh post-quarantine ?
Or does anyone else feel that this is the first wave of compliance and obedience training for something more permanent ?
Are powerful state and corporate entities using the current crisis to remove basic rights , and intensify pressures to promote vaccines and surveillance ?
Does anyone else feel the suffocating darkness of tyranny descending on our nation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ my dread that Bill Gates—and his long-time associate Tony Fauci—will somehow be running our Brave New World ?
Imagine a world where the government doesn ’ t need police officers to apprehend those surfers or ticket you when you violate social distancing with your girlfriend .
Suppose that computers discover your beach trip by tracking your movements using a stream of information from your cell phone , your car , your GPS , facial recognition technology integrated with real-time surveillance from satellites , mounted cameras , and implanted chips .
Desk-bound prosecutors or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by text while simultaneously withdrawing your $ 1,000 penalty in cryptocurrency from your payroll account .
Welcome to Bill Gates ’ America .
It ’ s right around the corner .
DATA MINING : Your Ulti ... Damien , Liam Best Price : $ 15.00 Buy New $ 19.99 Recently , Bill Gates announced his financial support for a $ 1 billion plan to blanket Earth in video surveillance satellites .
The company , EarthNow will launch 500 satellites to live-stream monitor almost every “ corner ” of the Earth , providing instantaneous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
According to Wikipedia , the company expects its customers to include “ governments and large enterprises.
” deploying a vast array of ground-based 5G spy antennas .
Through his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , Gates purchased 5.3 million Crown Castle shares currently worth a billion dollars .
The Foundation ’ s second-largest tech holding after Microsoft , Crown Castle owns 5G infrastructure in every major U.S. market .
It operates and leases more than 40,000 cell towers , 65,000 small cell nodes which are the central infrastructure for 5G and 75,000 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. market that , instead of going to your home , providing you safe , fast , wired internet , has been confiscated to connect 5G cell towers .
… 5G has almost nothing to do with improving your lives ; it ’ s all about controlling your life , marketing products , and harvesting your data for Artificial Intelligence purposes .
Big Telecom , Big Data , and Bill Gates are baiting Americans into a digital tyranny-trap with million-dollar TV ads that pretend that their multi trillion-dollar 5G investment is about faster @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But 5G has almost nothing to do with improving your lives ; it ’ s all about controlling your life , marketing products , and harvesting your data for Artificial Intelligence purposes .
The 21st century ’ s “ black gold ” is data .
5G is the infrastructure for Gates ’ “ Internet of Things ” —a world where tens of billions of “ smart ” devices : cell phones , computers , automobiles , garage door openers , Apple watches , baby diapers and even our living bodies—are wirelessly interconnected @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sell our personal information .
Brave New World Aldous Huxley Best Price : $ 2.00 Buy New $ 12.28 Gates , Elon Musk , Amazon , Facebook , and Telecom are launching the flagships for the new Gold Rush , a teeming fleet of 50,000 satellites and a network of 2,000,000 ground antennas and cell towers to strip mine data from our smart devices .
This microwave radiation-emitting spider web will allow Big Data/Big Telecom and Big Brother to capture what happens inside and outside every person at every moment of life .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , characterize , analyze , and sell millions of terabytes of personal information from smart devices—private health data , medical records , our shopping habits , our biometric and behavioral responses to advertising , our children ’ s ability to learn , our facial expressions , and conversations overheard by Siri , Alexa , and your open cell phone ’ s microphones .
His and other corporations will use these analytics to develop Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) and turn you into a predictable , easily-manipulated consuming machine .
Next time you buy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the device is not the product—you are .
Corporations will use Gates ’ 5G surveillance system to sell products and escalate AI capacity .
Governments will use it to transition the globe to a totalitarian singularity more despotic than Orwell ever imagined .
Silicon Valley titans like Elon Musk , Peter Thiel , and Google ’ s Chief Engineer Ray Kurzweil talk longingly of “ transhumanism , ” the process by which humanity will transition to become part-human , part-machine via genetic engineering and surgical implants .
Bill Gates is investing heavily to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to tag us all with injected subdermal vaccine data chips seems to be merely a steppingstone toward an all-encompassing surveillance state .
Radiation Nation : Fall ... DeBaun , Ryan Best Price : $ 5.99 Buy New $ 8.28 Microsoft has patented a sinister technology that utilizes implanted sensors to monitor body and brain activity .
It will reward compliant humans with crypto currency payments when they perform assigned activities .
The Patent , WO |2020| 060606 has gained notoriety and the nickname “ World Order 2020 666.
” Microsoft describes this device @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and explains that it is “ capable of ” using body activity data to mine bitcoin in response to compliance with assigned tasks .
People who agree to install the Microsoft harmful wireless sensors will receive periodic “ duty ” smart phone instructions to watch a certain advertisement , listen to a specific song , walk down a specific grocery store aisle , or to take a certain vaccine .
This chip will collect data from embedded sensors that monitor brain waves , blood flow , and other body reactions .
The system @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s account after completion of the assigned task .
On the bright side , Microsoft ’ s dystopian invention should be a welcome source of income for the 40 % of Americans put out of work by periodic COVID quarantines , by Musk ’ s self-driving electronic cars , which also rely on the 5G rollout , and by Artificial Intelligence , including robots .
Will Gates sell the data we freely give him to companies that will take away our jobs ?
Maintaining and analyzing the data collected by a 5G infrastructure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ storage complexes .
To keep control of this infrastructure , Bill Gates is building his own “ smart city ” in Arizona According to KPNX-TV , he spent $ 80 million on a 24,800-acre plot near Phoenix with the goal of turning it into a “ smart city ” where everything is interconnected via a wireless grid , including fleets of autonomous vehicles .
The 80,000 residents of Gates ’ company town will mainly work in data centers .
To consolidate his control over what people hear , learn , and think , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one of the largest international television and Internet companies , operating in 30 countries and growing .
1984 ( Signet Classics ) George Orwell Best Price : $ 1.49 Buy New $ 3.58 Gates will even control your body , your bedroom , your medicine cabinet and even women ’ s menstrual and ovulation cycles .
He invested approximately $ 18 million in MicroCHIPS , a company that among other chip-based devices , develops birth-control implant chips with wireless on/off switches and chips for drug-delivery that allow a single implant to store and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ months or years .
The implants will be operated wirelessly by the patient to deliver medication .
Knowing of Gates ’ missionary zeal for population control , however , some customers might worry that the system could be remotely activated as well .
The expansion of the wireless cloud between 2012–2015 was equivalent to adding 4.9 million cars to the roads .
Gates ’ apparent conviction that God has ordained him to use technology for humanity ’ s salvation is exemplified in one of his most ambitious projects .
Gates is funding Harvard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sun to reverse global warming and climate change .
That project is a template for both hubris , hypocrisy and risk .
The massive expansion of wireless use and the 5G wireless grid—for which Gates is a major player—is the most significant contributor to increased energy consumption .
The expansion of the wireless cloud between 2012–2015 was equivalent to adding 4.9 million cars to the roads .
5G is expected to exponentially increase energy use by upwards of 170 % by 2026 .
Proposing to use the wireless “ smart ” grid to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a hare-brained scheme—not a solution for climate change .
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Gates and his foundation are spearheading the global shift from a cash economy towards digital transactions .
Gates and Microsoft are perfectly positioned to profit from a digital payments system .
By controlling digital transactions ( and removing cash @ @ @ @ @ @ @ everything commercial that a country and its citizens do .
Western financial institutions—Mastercard , PayPal , Visa , eBay , and Citi—have long pushed for a cashless world .
Electronic banking allows banks and financial consortiums to levy fees on every transaction .
The Digital Economy will allow the Government to monitor and scrutinize every transaction , to freeze digital accounts , and to block “ financial flows ” to punish disobedience .
Operating in a public-private partnership with government , tech billionaires will not only control the nation but will be able @ @ @ @ @ @ @ currency is the ultimate instrument of social control .
After all , in a cashless society , survival is impossible without access to the digitized economic system .
The poor—lacking bank accounts—will suffer disproportionately .
While the lockdown is a cataclysm for the world economy , it is an opportunity for Gates .
By purchasing our devalued assets at a penny on the dollar , Gates ’ $ 100 billion might make him the world ’ s first trillionaire .
But the quarantine is also an opportunity to enlarge his power and domination @ @ @ @ @ @ @ became known as “ The Borg ” because of his appetite for total market control .
Now , Gates seeks to bring all humanity under his boot .
His worship of technology and his megalomania threaten our freedoms , our democracy , our biology , our planet , our humanity , and our souls .
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Best Price : $ 1.98 Buy New $ 8.29 The microwave radiation used for wireless surveillance of the world is not biologically tolerable , especially for developing children .
Thousands of peer-reviewed , published @ @ @ @ @ @ @ profound , adverse , physical effects on humans , animals and plants .
Sickness and environmental degradation from wireless technology is already widespread .
Big Telecom control of U.S. and global regulatory agencies and media and Gates ’ financial control of the World Health Organization have allowed a few billionaires to propagate the patent lie that wireless is safe .
Gates ’ technological dreams are not biologically sustainable .
His Tower of Babel is bound to collapse , with catastrophic impact for lesser humans .
It ’ s time to dismantle the Tower @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sign up for free news and updates from Robert F. Kennedy , Jr. and the Children ’ s Health Defense .
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wrote last week about Malibu police’s ticketing Point Dume surfers $1,000 apiece for using the ocean during the quarantine. Was this merely an appalling police judgment at which we will laugh post-quarantine? Or does anyone else feel that this is the first wave of compliance and obedience training for something more permanent? Are powerful state and corporate entities using the current crisis to remove basic rights, and intensify pressures to promote vaccines and surveillance? Does anyone else feel the suffocating darkness of tyranny descending on our nation? And finally, does anyone share my dread that Bill Gates—and his long-time associate Tony Fauci—will somehow be running our Brave New World?
Imagine a world where the government doesn’t need police officers to apprehend those surfers or ticket you when you violate social distancing with your girlfriend. Suppose that computers discover your beach trip by tracking your movements using a stream of information from your cell phone, your car, your GPS, facial recognition technology integrated with real-time surveillance from satellites, mounted cameras, and implanted chips. Desk-bound prosecutors or robots will notify you of your violation by text while simultaneously withdrawing your $1,000 penalty in cryptocurrency from your payroll account. Welcome to Bill Gates’ America. It’s right around the corner. DATA MINING: Your Ulti... Damien, Liam Best Price: $15.00 Buy New $19.99 (as of 05:03 UTC - Details)
5G Strategies
Recently, Bill Gates announced his financial support for a $1 billion plan to blanket Earth in video surveillance satellites. The company, EarthNow , will launch 500 satellites to live-stream monitor almost every “corner” of the Earth, providing instantaneous video feedback with only a one-second delay. According to Wikipedia, the company expects its customers to include “governments and large enterprises.” 5G Antennas deploying a vast array of ground-based 5G spy antennas. Through his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates purchased 5.3 million Crown Castle shares currently worth a billion dollars. The Foundation’s second-largest tech holding after Microsoft, Crown Castle owns 5G infrastructure in every major U.S. market. It operates and leases more than 40,000 cell towers, 65,000 small cell nodes which are the central infrastructure for 5G and 75,000 route miles of fiber to every major U.S. market that, instead of going to your home, providing you safe, fast, wired internet, has been confiscated to connect 5G cell towers.
… 5G has almost nothing to do with improving your lives; it’s all about controlling your life, marketing products, and harvesting your data for Artificial Intelligence purposes.
Data Mining
Big Telecom, Big Data, and Bill Gates are baiting Americans into a digital tyranny-trap with million-dollar TV ads that pretend that their multi trillion-dollar 5G investment is about faster download speeds for video games and movies. But 5G has almost nothing to do with improving your lives; it’s all about controlling your life, marketing products, and harvesting your data for Artificial Intelligence purposes. The 21st century’s “black gold” is data. 5G is the infrastructure for Gates’ “Internet of Things”—a world where tens of billions of “smart” devices: cell phones, computers, automobiles, garage door openers, Apple watches, baby diapers and even our living bodies—are wirelessly interconnected to enable Big Data to gather and sell our personal information. Brave New World Aldous Huxley Best Price: $2.00 Buy New $12.28 (as of 09:25 UTC - Details)
Gates, Elon Musk, Amazon, Facebook, and Telecom are launching the flagships for the new Gold Rush, a teeming fleet of 50,000 satellites and a network of 2,000,000 ground antennas and cell towers to strip mine data from our smart devices. This microwave radiation-emitting spider web will allow Big Data/Big Telecom and Big Brother to capture what happens inside and outside every person at every moment of life. Gates will harvest, control, sort, characterize, analyze, and sell millions of terabytes of personal information from smart devices—private health data, medical records, our shopping habits, our biometric and behavioral responses to advertising, our children’s ability to learn, our facial expressions, and conversations overheard by Siri, Alexa, and your open cell phone’s microphones. His and other corporations will use these analytics to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) and turn you into a predictable, easily-manipulated consuming machine.
Next time you buy a “smart” device, remember the device is not the product—you are.
Surveillance State & Transhumanism
Corporations will use Gates’ 5G surveillance system to sell products and escalate AI capacity. Governments will use it to transition the globe to a totalitarian singularity more despotic than Orwell ever imagined. Silicon Valley titans like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Google’s Chief Engineer Ray Kurzweil talk longingly of “transhumanism,” the process by which humanity will transition to become part-human, part-machine via genetic engineering and surgical implants.
Bill Gates is investing heavily to accelerate this altered reality. His ambition to tag us all with injected subdermal vaccine data chips seems to be merely a steppingstone toward an all-encompassing surveillance state.
Rewarding Compliance
Radiation Nation: Fall... DeBaun, Ryan Best Price: $5.99 Buy New $8.28 (as of 05:03 UTC - Details) Microsoft has patented a sinister technology that utilizes implanted sensors to monitor body and brain activity. It will reward compliant humans with crypto currency payments when they perform assigned activities.
The Patent, WO |2020| 060606 has gained notoriety and the nickname “World Order 2020 666.” Microsoft describes this device as a “Crypto Currency System” and explains that it is “capable of” using body activity data to mine bitcoin in response to compliance with assigned tasks.
People who agree to install the Microsoft harmful wireless sensors will receive periodic “duty” smart phone instructions to watch a certain advertisement, listen to a specific song, walk down a specific grocery store aisle, or to take a certain vaccine. This chip will collect data from embedded sensors that monitor brain waves, blood flow, and other body reactions. The system will transfer cryptocurrency into the subject’s account after completion of the assigned task. On the bright side, Microsoft’s dystopian invention should be a welcome source of income for the 40% of Americans put out of work by periodic COVID quarantines, by Musk’s self-driving electronic cars, which also rely on the 5G rollout, and by Artificial Intelligence, including robots. Will Gates sell the data we freely give him to companies that will take away our jobs?
Owning Smart Cities
Maintaining and analyzing the data collected by a 5G infrastructure require massive computers housed in major data storage complexes. To keep control of this infrastructure, Bill Gates is building his own “smart city” in Arizona . According to KPNX-TV, he spent $80 million on a 24,800-acre plot near Phoenix with the goal of turning it into a “smart city” where everything is interconnected via a wireless grid, including fleets of autonomous vehicles. The 80,000 residents of Gates’ company town will mainly work in data centers.
To consolidate his control over what people hear, learn, and think, Gates bought shares in Liberty Global, one of the largest international television and Internet companies, operating in 30 countries and growing. 1984 (Signet Classics) George Orwell Best Price: $1.49 Buy New $3.58 (as of 10:53 UTC - Details)
Controlling Reproduction
Gates will even control your body, your bedroom, your medicine cabinet and even women’s menstrual and ovulation cycles. He invested approximately $18 million in MicroCHIPS, a company that among other chip-based devices, develops birth-control implant chips with wireless on/off switches and chips for drug-delivery that allow a single implant to store and precisely deliver hundreds of therapeutic doses over months or years. The implants will be operated wirelessly by the patient to deliver medication. Knowing of Gates’ missionary zeal for population control, however, some customers might worry that the system could be remotely activated as well.
The expansion of the wireless cloud between 2012–2015 was equivalent to adding 4.9 million cars to the roads.
Controlling Climate: Geoengineering
Gates’ apparent conviction that God has ordained him to use technology for humanity’s salvation is exemplified in one of his most ambitious projects. Gates is funding Harvard scientists to use Geoengineering to block the sun to reverse global warming and climate change.
That project is a template for both hubris, hypocrisy and risk. The massive expansion of wireless use and the 5G wireless grid—for which Gates is a major player—is the most significant contributor to increased energy consumption. The expansion of the wireless cloud between 2012–2015 was equivalent to adding 4.9 million cars to the roads. 5G is expected to exponentially increase energy use by upwards of 170% by 2026. Proposing to use the wireless “smart” grid to combat the carbon footprint with geotechnology is a hare-brained scheme—not a solution for climate change.
Cashless Society
EMF*D: 5G, Wi-Fi & Cel... Dr. Joseph Mercola Buy New $22.49 (as of 09:53 UTC - Details) To consolidate global control, Gates has declared war on cash, and the COVID-19 lockdowns have provided governments a convenient pretext for scuttling cash as a health hazard. Gates and his foundation are spearheading the global shift from a cash economy towards digital transactions. Gates and Microsoft are perfectly positioned to profit from a digital payments system. By controlling digital transactions (and removing cash), Gates can control and monitor everything commercial that a country and its citizens do.
Western financial institutions—Mastercard, PayPal, Visa, eBay, and Citi—have long pushed for a cashless world. Electronic banking allows banks and financial consortiums to levy fees on every transaction.
The Digital Economy will allow the Government to monitor and scrutinize every transaction, to freeze digital accounts, and to block “financial flows” to punish disobedience. Operating in a public-private partnership with government, tech billionaires will not only control the nation but will be able to micromanage the worldwide population. Digitized currency is the ultimate instrument of social control. After all, in a cashless society, survival is impossible without access to the digitized economic system. The poor—lacking bank accounts—will suffer disproportionately.
Trillionaire Borg
While the lockdown is a cataclysm for the world economy, it is an opportunity for Gates. By purchasing our devalued assets at a penny on the dollar, Gates’ $100 billion might make him the world’s first trillionaire. But the quarantine is also an opportunity to enlarge his power and domination. Under Gates’ leadership, Microsoft became known as “The Borg” because of his appetite for total market control. Now, Gates seeks to bring all humanity under his boot. His worship of technology and his megalomania threaten our freedoms, our democracy, our biology, our planet, our humanity, and our souls. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Best Price: $1.98 Buy New $8.29 (as of 07:00 UTC - Details)
The microwave radiation used for wireless surveillance of the world is not biologically tolerable, especially for developing children. Thousands of peer-reviewed, published studies abundantly document wireless technology’s profound, adverse, physical effects on humans, animals and plants. Sickness and environmental degradation from wireless technology is already widespread. Big Telecom control of U.S. and global regulatory agencies and media and Gates’ financial control of the World Health Organization have allowed a few billionaires to propagate the patent lie that wireless is safe.
Gates’ technological dreams are not biologically sustainable. His Tower of Babel is bound to collapse, with catastrophic impact for lesser humans. It’s time to dismantle the Tower before it’s too late.
Sign up for free news and updates from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the Children’s Health Defense. CHD is planning many strategies, including legal, in an effort to defend the health of our children and obtain justice for those already injured. Your support is essential to CHD’s successful mission.
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lewrockwell--2020-06-12--How To Reduce Tensions Between the Police and the Larger Society

If anyone is interested in actually reducing the tension between the police and the larger society , there are two things I can think of that I would put at the top of the list given the realities of modern life ( in other words , I am not considering private and competing agencies for this exercise ) .
The first would be to demilitarize the police .
Let ’ s consider some examples .
What does all of this do to the relationship between police and the common man ?
I think to ask the question is to answer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ John W. Whitehead Best Price : $ 1.16 Buy New $ 2.99 Many people are demanding to de-fund the police .
I am all for it if it means de-militarize the police .
Dump all of the war-footing paraphernalia into the ocean .
Fundamentally change the training in order to minimize assault .
Otherwise , de-funding the police does nothing for me .
The same tactics and equipment will be deployed , and the same money will be spent elsewhere .
And it really won ’ t achieve much of anything without implementing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Non-violent drug offenses come to mind , but there are others .
These laws do nothing other than put the police in a position to raise the tension between them and the rest of society .
These are used as a pretext to confront and search .
The United States has the largest prison population – both in absolute as well as relative numbers – in the world .
Currently , about half of these are in prison for non-violent offenses .
What happens to the non-violent offenders in prison ?
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ violent offenders .
Who does this serve ?
Not society at large .
It only adds fuel to the fire of the tension between the police and society at large .
I give the protestors credit ( not the mobs ; the protestors ) .
Beyond opening a discussion on the violent tactics of the police , they also got Amazon to nix ( for a time ) their facial recognition program ( sadly , I think when it returns it will be stronger than ever – one more reason I advocate for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America : T ... John W. Whitehead Best Price : $ 10.95 Buy New $ 18.80 Demilitarize the police and significantly reduce the laws on the books , focused on the non-violent offenses .
I can think of no actions that would do more to change the dynamic between police and the larger society for the better .
Narrative drives action .
All of our libertarian theory has not moved the needle one inch in a positive direction on these subjects .
Whether you agree with or disagree with the narrative that is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ certainly a narrative – not an intelligent theory – that is driving it .
Libertarians who think the great idea of property rights will drive the culture are sorely mistaken .
It is the culture that will determine what , if any , property rights you have .
The culture is driven – always – by narrative .
We live in a story , not a theory .
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If anyone is interested in actually reducing the tension between the police and the larger society, there are two things I can think of that I would put at the top of the list given the realities of modern life (in other words, I am not considering private and competing agencies for this exercise).
The first would be to demilitarize the police. Let’s consider some examples.
Before:
After:
Before:
After:
Before:
After:
What does all of this do to the relationship between police and the common man? I think to ask the question is to answer it.
A Government of Wolves... John W. Whitehead Best Price: $1.16 Buy New $2.99 (as of 10:15 UTC - Details) Many people are demanding to de-fund the police. I am all for it if it means de-militarize the police. Dump all of the war-footing paraphernalia into the ocean. Fundamentally change the training in order to minimize assault.
Otherwise, de-funding the police does nothing for me. The same tactics and equipment will be deployed, and the same money will be spent elsewhere.
And it really won’t achieve much of anything without implementing my second recommendation: decriminalize non-violent acts. Non-violent drug offenses come to mind, but there are others. These laws do nothing other than put the police in a position to raise the tension between them and the rest of society. These are used as a pretext to confront and search.
The United States has the largest prison population – both in absolute as well as relative numbers – in the world. Currently, about half of these are in prison for non-violent offenses. What happens to the non-violent offenders in prison? They learn to absorb the culture of the violent offenders. Who does this serve? Not society at large. It only adds fuel to the fire of the tension between the police and society at large.
Conclusion
I give the protestors credit (not the mobs; the protestors). Beyond opening a discussion on the violent tactics of the police, they also got Amazon to nix (for a time) their facial recognition program (sadly, I think when it returns it will be stronger than ever – one more reason I advocate for the two items above). Battlefield America: T... John W. Whitehead Best Price: $10.95 Buy New $18.80 (as of 10:15 UTC - Details)
Demilitarize the police and significantly reduce the laws on the books, focused on the non-violent offenses. I can think of no actions that would do more to change the dynamic between police and the larger society for the better.
Epilogue
Narrative drives action. All of our libertarian theory has not moved the needle one inch in a positive direction on these subjects. Whether you agree with or disagree with the narrative that is driving these actions, it is most certainly a narrative – not an intelligent theory – that is driving it.
Libertarians who think the great idea of property rights will drive the culture are sorely mistaken. It is the culture that will determine what, if any, property rights you have. The culture is driven – always – by narrative. We live in a story, not a theory.
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lewrockwell--2020-06-12--JK Rowling Refuses To Bow Down & Apologize to the ‘Woke Mafia’ on Transgenderism

‘ Harry Potter ’ author JK Rowling has responded to accusations of transphobia in an open letter presenting reasons she is concerned about ‘ toxic ’ trans-activism , drawing a fresh avalanche of criticism .
“ I know it ’ s time to explain myself on an issue surrounded by toxicity .
I write this without any desire to add to that toxicity , ” Rowling wrote at the beginning of her 4,000-plus word essay , published on Wednesday .
The novelist has been labeled a “ TERF ” – a trans-exclusionary radical feminist – on several occasions , most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ story that referred to “ people who menstruate , ” declining to instead characterize such people as women .
That position got Rowling targeted not only by activists on social media , but even by some of the actors from film adaptations of her work .
This includes Daniel Radcliffe , who became famous for playing Harry Potter in the movies , Emma Watson ( Hermione ) and Eddie Redmayne ( Newt Scamander ) from the ‘ Fantastic Beasts ’ adaptations .
Rowling , however , says in her latest essay that she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those sending “ abuse ” her way online , adding that she has serious concerns about “ trans activism.
” “ I know transition will be a solution for some gender dysphoric people , although I ’ m also aware through extensive research that studies have consistently shown that between 60-90 percent of gender dysphoric teens will grow out of their dysphoria , ” she wrote .
Irreversible Damage : T ... Shrier , Abigail Buy New $ 26.09 Admitting that she herself felt “ mentally sexless ” as a teenager , Rowling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ today whether activists would convince her to transition .
She also revealed – though without giving specifics – that she had been subjected to sexual abuse in her youth .
“ Women must accept and admit that there is no material difference between trans women and themselves .
But , as many women have said before me , ‘ woman ’ is not a costume .
‘ Woman ’ is not an idea in a man ’ s head .
‘ Woman ’ is not a pink brain , a liking for Jimmy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ideas now somehow touted as progressive , ” she wrote .
“ I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode ‘ woman ’ as a political and biological class , ” she added .
Rowling ’ s words have fallen on deaf ears with critics , as activists continued to slam the author on social media .
“ Anyone who thinks JK Rowling has a good or smart point of view is a huge f**king moron , ” columnist Beth McColl tweeted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Evans , Cheryl B .
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‘Harry Potter’ author JK Rowling has responded to accusations of transphobia in an open letter presenting reasons she is concerned about ‘toxic’ trans-activism, drawing a fresh avalanche of criticism.
“I know it’s time to explain myself on an issue surrounded by toxicity. I write this without any desire to add to that toxicity,” Rowling wrote at the beginning of her 4,000-plus word essay, published on Wednesday.
The novelist has been labeled a “TERF” – a trans-exclusionary radical feminist – on several occasions, most recently thanks to a tweet questioning a story that referred to “people who menstruate,” declining to instead characterize such people as women.
That position got Rowling targeted not only by activists on social media, but even by some of the actors from film adaptations of her work. This includes Daniel Radcliffe, who became famous for playing Harry Potter in the movies, Emma Watson (Hermione) and Eddie Redmayne (Newt Scamander) from the ‘Fantastic Beasts’ adaptations.
Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say they are. — Emma Watson (@EmmaWatson) June 10, 2020
Rowling, however, says in her latest essay that she “will not bow down” to those sending “abuse” her way online, adding that she has serious concerns about “trans activism.”
“I know transition will be a solution for some gender dysphoric people, although I’m also aware through extensive research that studies have consistently shown that between 60-90 percent of gender dysphoric teens will grow out of their dysphoria,” she wrote. Irreversible Damage: T... Shrier, Abigail Buy New $26.09 (as of 05:07 UTC - Details)
Admitting that she herself felt “mentally sexless” as a teenager, Rowling also wonders if she had grown up today whether activists would convince her to transition. She also revealed – though without giving specifics – that she had been subjected to sexual abuse in her youth.
“Women must accept and admit that there is no material difference between trans women and themselves. But, as many women have said before me, ‘woman’ is not a costume. ‘Woman’ is not an idea in a man’s head. ‘Woman’ is not a pink brain, a liking for Jimmy Choos or any of the other sexist ideas now somehow touted as progressive,” she wrote.
“I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode ‘woman’ as a political and biological class,” she added.
Rowling’s words have fallen on deaf ears with critics, as activists continued to slam the author on social media.
I’m horrified+enraged that JK Rowling isn’t just openly a TERF now, but using autistic people as pawns. I’m autistic. I’m openly nonbinary and transmasculine. I was not brainwashed or manipulated into being trans. That’s just rank, disgusting ableism on top of anti-trans hate. — Lydia X. Z. Brown (@autistichoya) June 10, 2020
me trying to find reasons on why to support jk rowling #IStandWithJKR pic.twitter.com/PWF6XrjkEt — mr sirius black || olivia ☾ ★ (@padfootprince) June 10, 2020
“Anyone who thinks JK Rowling has a good or smart point of view is a huge f**king moron,” columnist Beth McColl tweeted.
Defund JK Rowling — Rob (@robrousseau) June 10, 2020
As @jk_rowling sits in her million dollar mansion, she tells us the population most likely to suffer from homelessness in America are the real bullies. As my transgender sisters post Gofundmes DAILY begging for help with surgery, food and rent, she tells us she is the victim. — Brianna #blacklivesmatter Wu (@BriannaWu) June 10, 2020
Reprinted from RT News.
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lewrockwell--2020-06-12--WARNING: The COVID-19 Panic as an Opportunity To ‘Reset’ Capitalism

There is a shocking essay on the front page of the World Economic Forum website .
The World Economic Forum hosts an annual meeting at the end of January in Davos , Switzerland .
Located in the eastern Alps , the meeting brings together some 3,000 business leaders , international political leaders , economists , celebrities and journalists for up to five days to discuss global issues , across 500 public and private sessions .
It is the annual Woodstock for the crony elite .
The founder and executive chairman of the Forum is Klaus Schwab .
The Great Devaluation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 25.00 The above-mentioned essay , which is titled , Now is the time for a ‘ great reset , ’ was written by Schwab .
It is a stunning call to take advantage of the COVID-19 panic to move away , on a global basis , from free-market capitalism toward a planned society designed by the elite COVID-19 lockdowns may be gradually easing , but anxiety about the world ’ s social and economic prospects is only intensifying .
There is good reason to worry : a sharp economic downturn has already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the worst depression since the 1930s .
But , while this outcome is likely , it is not unavoidable .
To achieve a better outcome , the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies , from education to social contracts and working conditions .
Every country , from the United States to China , must participate , and every industry , from oil and gas to tech , must be transformed .
In short , we need a “ Great Reset ” of capitalism .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Best Price : $ 17.11 Buy New $ 16.24 — The Great Reset agenda would have three main components .
The first would steer the market toward fairer outcomes .
To this end , governments should improve coordination ( for example , in tax , regulatory , and fiscal policy ) , upgrade trade arrangements , and create the conditions for a “ stakeholder economy.
” At a time of diminishing tax bases and soaring public debt , governments have a powerful incentive to pursue such action .
Moreover , governments should implement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Depending on the country , these may include changes to wealth taxes , the withdrawal of fossil-fuel subsidies , and new rules governing intellectual property , trade , and competition .
The second component of a Great Reset agenda would ensure that investments advance shared goals , such as equality and sustainability .
Here , the large-scale spending programs that many governments are implementing represent a major opportunity for progress .
The European Commission , for one , has unveiled plans for a €750 billion ( $ 826 billion ) recovery fund @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Japan also have ambitious economic-stimulus plans .
The Fed Flunks : My Spe ... Wenzel , Robert Best Price : $ 10.02 Buy New $ 10.96 Rather than using these funds , as well as investments from private entities and pension funds , to fill cracks in the old system , we should use them to create a new one that is more resilient , equitable , and sustainable in the long run .
This means , for example , building “ green ” urban infrastructure and creating incentives for industries to improve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and governance ( ESG ) metrics .
The third and final priority of a Great Reset agenda is to harness the innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to support the public good , especially by addressing health and social challenges .
Consider this post a warning .
The power players are going to use the current panic to attempt to push through their agendas of control that will benefit them , personally , but damage the greater economy .
We are part of that greater economy .
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There is a shocking essay on the front page of the World Economic Forum website.
The World Economic Forum hosts an annual meeting at the end of January in Davos, Switzerland.
Located in the eastern Alps, the meeting brings together some 3,000 business leaders, international political leaders, economists, celebrities and journalists for up to five days to discuss global issues, across 500 public and private sessions.
It is the annual Woodstock for the crony elite.
The founder and executive chairman of the Forum is Klaus Schwab. The Great Devaluation:... Baratta, Adam Buy New $25.00 (as of 05:09 UTC - Details)
The above-mentioned essay, which is titled, Now is the time for a ‘great reset,’ was written by Schwab.
It is a stunning call to take advantage of the COVID-19 panic to move away, on a global basis, from free-market capitalism toward a planned society designed by the elite
From the essay:
COVID-19 lockdowns may be gradually easing, but anxiety about the world’s social and economic prospects is only intensifying. There is good reason to worry: a sharp economic downturn has already begun, and we could be facing the worst depression since the 1930s. But, while this outcome is likely, it is not unavoidable. To achieve a better outcome, the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a “Great Reset” of capitalism. Foundations of Private... Wenzel, Robert Best Price: $17.11 Buy New $16.24 (as of 05:09 UTC - Details)
— The Great Reset agenda would have three main components. The first would steer the market toward fairer outcomes. To this end, governments should improve coordination (for example, in tax, regulatory, and fiscal policy), upgrade trade arrangements, and create the conditions for a “stakeholder economy.” At a time of diminishing tax bases and soaring public debt, governments have a powerful incentive to pursue such action. Moreover, governments should implement long-overdue reforms that promote more equitable outcomes. Depending on the country, these may include changes to wealth taxes, the withdrawal of fossil-fuel subsidies, and new rules governing intellectual property, trade, and competition. The second component of a Great Reset agenda would ensure that investments advance shared goals, such as equality and sustainability. Here, the large-scale spending programs that many governments are implementing represent a major opportunity for progress. The European Commission, for one, has unveiled plans for a €750 billion ($826 billion) recovery fund. The US, China, and Japan also have ambitious economic-stimulus plans. The Fed Flunks: My Spe... Wenzel, Robert Best Price: $10.02 Buy New $10.96 (as of 05:09 UTC - Details) Rather than using these funds, as well as investments from private entities and pension funds, to fill cracks in the old system, we should use them to create a new one that is more resilient, equitable, and sustainable in the long run. This means, for example, building “green” urban infrastructure and creating incentives for industries to improve their track record on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics. The third and final priority of a Great Reset agenda is to harness the innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to support the public good, especially by addressing health and social challenges.
Consider this post a warning. The power players are going to use the current panic to attempt to push through their agendas of control that will benefit them, personally, but damage the greater economy.
We are part of that greater economy.
Reprinted with permission from Economic Policy Journal.
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lewrockwell--2020-06-12--The New Cold War With China: How Will It Affect You?

America ’ s pundits and politicians have largely concluded that a new Cold War with China — a period of intense hostility and competition falling just short of armed combat — has started .
“ Rift Threatens U.S .
Cold War Against China , ” as a New York Times headline put it on May 15th , citing recent clashes over trade , technology , and responsibility for the spread of Covid-19 .
Beijing ’ s decision to subject Hong Kong to tough new security laws has only further heightened such tensions .
President Trump promptly threatened to eliminate that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this country , while imposing new sanctions on Chinese leaders .
Meanwhile , Democrats and Republicans in Congress are working together to devise tough anti-Chinese sanctions of their own .
For anyone who can remember the original Cold War , the latest developments may seem eerily familiar .
They bring to mind what occurred soon after America ’ s World War II collaboration with the Soviets collapsed in acrimony as the Russians became ever more heavy-handed in their treatment of Eastern Europe .
In those days , distrust only grew , while Washington @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contain and defeat the USSR .
We seem to be approaching such a situation today .
Though China and the U.S. continue to maintain trade , scientific , and educational ties , the leaders of both countries are threatening to sever those links and undertake a wide range of hostile moves .
All Hell Breaking Loos ... Michael T. Klare Best Price : $ 18.77 Buy New $ 17.64 Admittedly , some of the steps being discussed in Washington to punish China for its perceived bad behavior will have little immediate impact on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the threats , in fact , may turn out to be little more than good old-fashioned chest thumping .
Consider , for instance , the proposal floated by the top-ranking majority and minority members of the Senate Armed Services Committee , Oklahoma Republican Jim Inhofe and Rhode Island Democrat Jack Reed , to fund a multibillion dollar “ Pacific Deterrence Initiative ” intended to bolster American forces in Asia .
That effort , they avowed , will “ send a strong signal to the Chinese Communist Party that the American people are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Indo-Pacific.
” Well , that was easy !
All we , the taxpaying citizens of the United States , need to do in this opening salvo of a new Cold War is salute Congress as it funnels yet more billions of dollars to the usual defense contractors and thereby “ send a signal ” to Beijing that we will “ defend U.S. interests ” somewhere far across the globe .
( Now there ’ s a moment to wave your American flag ! )
But don ’ t count on such a moment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cold War starts in earnest .
A quick look back at the original one should remind us that we ’ ll all pay a price of some sort for intensifying hostility towards China ( even if a hot war isn ’ t the result ) .
Perhaps , then , it ’ s none too soon to consider how such a world would impact you and me .
For most Americans , the first consequence of an intensifying Cold War could be a weaker than expected recovery from the Covid-19 economic meltdown .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a swift rebound — and a new Cold War with China falls into that very category — would be bad news .
Unlike in the original Cold War , when Washington and Moscow maintained few economic ties , the U.S. and Chinese economies remain intertwined , contributing to the net wealth of both countries and benefiting this country ’ s export-oriented industries like agriculture and civilian aircraft production .
Admittedly , such ties have also harmed blue-collar workers who have watched their jobs migrate across the Pacific and tech companies that have seen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Donald Trump stoked resentments over just such issues to get himself elected in 2016 .
Since then , he ’ s sought to disentangle the two economies , claiming we would be better off on our own .
( America first ! )
As part of this drive , he ’ s already imposed stiff tariffs on Chinese imports and blocked Chinese firms from gaining access to American technology .
The End of Victory Cul ... Engelhardt , Tom Best Price : $ 5.06 Buy New $ 15.79 Feel free to argue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rules , as Trump and his allies have charged , and whether imposing tariffs ( paid for by American importers and consumers , not Chinese suppliers ) is the best way to address that country ’ s economic rise .
The key thing to note , however , is that economic growth in both places had slowed in the wake of Trump ’ s trade war even before Covid-19 hit .
As 2019 drew to a close , in fact , the prospect of yet higher tariffs and intensified economic warfare was already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And while some experts believe that a relaxation of tariffs and other steps to improve U.S.-China trade would stimulate the economy in tough times , Trump and his China hawks , led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and White House trade adviser Peter Navarro , appear to view this moment as the perfect opportunity to double down on anti-Chinese measures .
The president has already hinted that he ’ s prepared to order yet more tariffs on Chinese products and take other steps to hasten the “ decoupling ” of the two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we could do , ” he told Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business in mid-May .
“ We could cut off the whole relationship.
” Cut off the whole relationship ?
Some policymakers claim that such a decoupling would stimulate growth at home as American firms shifted manufacturing back to the United States and its close allies .
This argument , however , ignores two key factors when it comes to Americans desperate for work now : first , many of the tasks currently performed by Chinese workers will be shifted to plants in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other low-cost manufacturing hubs ; and second , any relocation of entire production lines to this country will take years to accomplish and , in the end , undoubtedly wind up employing more robots than workers .
Bottom line : economically , an intensifying Cold War is guaranteed to scuttle any chances of a rapid recovery from the Coronavirus Depression , dampening employment prospects for millions of Americans .
And here ’ s another thing a new Cold War guarantees : a significant increase in military spending at a time of ballooning national @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in domestic economic recovery .
A Nation Unmade by War ... Tom Engelhardt Best Price : $ 3.97 Buy New $ 6.84 By the end of June , unless Congress votes additional assistance , much of the $ 2.2 trillion in emergency pandemic relief voted by Congress will have been used up , leaving millions of jobless Americans and many small business owners in dire straits .
Democrats in the House of Representatives did unveil a plan for an additional $ 3 trillion in emergency funding , including aid for struggling states and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to citizens .
White House officials and many Republicans insist , however , that any further giveaways to ordinary Americans will raise the federal debt to unsustainable levels ( a problem that never worries them when it comes to tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy ) .
So passing anything like that stimulus package appears ever less conceivable and July may leave millions of Americans unable to pay rent as well as other essential expenses .
When it comes to increased military spending , however , Republicans have no such qualms .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ example , has introduced a $ 43 billion Forging Operational Resistance to Chinese Expansion ( FORCE ) Act .
( Nifty title , huh ? )
Its goal , he claims , would be to “ help thwart the Chinese Communist Party ’ s main geopolitical aim [ of ] pushing the United States out of the Western Pacific [ and ] achieving cross-strait unification with Taiwan via military force.
” It includes , among other things , $ 3.9 billion for another Virginia-class submarine ( that ’ s in addition to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sub in the Pentagon ’ s proposed 2021 budget ) and $ 3 billion for more of one of the most expensive weapons systems in history , the F-35 jet fighter ( and that ’ s in addition to the $ 4.6 billion requested for 48 of them in that same budget ) .
With the Democrats desperate to demonstrate their own anti-Chinese credentials , passage of the FORCE Act , or the somewhat more modest Pacific Deterrence Initiative introduced by Senators Reed and Inhofe , appears to be a sure thing .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ more military funds may prove to be the Republican rationale for rejecting calls for additional pandemic relief .
But won ’ t higher military spending act as an economic stimulus , just as it did during World War II when it helped lift the United States out of the Great Depression ?
Indeed , passage of the FORCE Act or a variant of it will pump additional money into the economy .
But today ’ s military-industrial complex bears little relation to the one of 80 years ago when millions of workers were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and planes monthly in an all-out drive to defeat Nazi Germany .
Nowadays , military hardware has become so complex that most of any dollar spent on a new plane , tank , or ship goes into specialized materials and computer systems , not armies of laborers .
So the billions of dollars for one new submarine and additional F-35s are likely to generate only a few thousand extra jobs , while spending the same amounts on health care or elementary school education would generate many times that number .
The United States @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 1.70 Buy New $ 9.02 And then there ’ s the issue that should be on the minds of every young man and woman in America ( along with their parents , grandparents , and loved ones ) : the draft .
In contrast to the original Cold War , young men in this country are no longer obliged to serve in the U.S. military , though they ( and their female counterparts ) may choose to do so , whether for patriotic reasons , economic need , or both .
Even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ involved in “ forever wars ” since the 9/11 attacks , the armed services have been able to use a variety of economic and educational incentives to keep the ranks filled ( and avoid the public outcry over those wars that would surely have accompanied a draft ) .
This was possible in part because the numbers of soldiers engaged in combat at any given moment was not huge in comparison to , say , the Korean or Vietnam War eras and because vast numbers of troops were no longer on tap to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Europe .
A full-scale Cold War with China could , however , prove another matter entirely , even if Pentagon manpower requirements were somewhat diminished by U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan and Iraq .
Large force deployments will undoubtedly be needed to engage in a modern version of the “ containment ” of China , not to speak of deterring the further adventurism of Vladimir Putin ’ s Russia .
Can this be done with an all-volunteer military ?
Not if tensions rise with Beijing .
Count on it : at some point @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to come up .
So far , the Department of Defense has not opted for reinstating the draft — a move that would require congressional approval and undoubtedly ignite intense political debate of the sort top officials would prefer to avoid right now .
Still , the leadership ’ s overarching guidance , the National Defense Strategy of 2018 , made it quite clear that the United States must expect to face years of intense rivalry with its “ great power competitors ” and that such an epic struggle could well require the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ capabilities .
“ Long-term strategic competition [ with China and Russia ] , ” it claimed , “ requires the seamless integration of multiple elements of national power.
” Conscription was not specifically mentioned , but given the new focus on a rising China and a reckless Russia , it will be on the table sooner or later .
Shadow Government : Sur ... Tom Engelhardt Best Price : $ 2.30 Buy New $ 6.98 Another feature of the original Cold War that you should expect in a new one is an environment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In this case , it would be against Chinese-Americans , Chinese students and researchers currently in this country , and non-Chinese viewed as in any way beholden to that power .
Sadly enough , signs of this have already emerged .
Officials from the FBI and the National Security Council have , for instance , been dispatched to leading Ivy League universities to warn administrators against admitting or retaining Chinese students who may be collecting scientific and technical information to share with government-sponsored institutions at home .
Concurrently , some 30 Chinese @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had their visas denied , despite a history of collaboration with American academics .
In a more dramatic move , the chair of Harvard University ’ s chemistry department , Charles Lieber , was arrested in January for failing to report income he had received from a Chinese university .
Many American academics have criticized such actions as an assault on academic freedom .
Increasingly , however , U.S. officials insist that they represent a necessary component of the new Cold War .
And while those officials also insist that our adversary in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people associated with it ( however tangentially ) , many Chinese-Americans are increasingly experiencing suspicion and hostility just for being Chinese .
“ Chinese-Americans feel targeted , and that ’ s really hurtful , ” said Charlie Woo , a prominent Chinese-American businessman .
The experience of the first Cold War suggests that this sort of intolerance and repression will only increase with potentially chilling effects on intellectual freedom and the already deeply unsettled racial situation in this country .
And never forget that cold wars always risk becoming hot ones .
Looking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to remember those years of the U.S.-USSR standoff as a relatively war-free era , since the two superpowers were fearful that a direct conflict of any sort between them might spark an all-out thermonuclear conflagration , leaving a planet in ruins .
In reality , though , both sides engaged in a grim assortment of bloody “ proxy wars ” — regional conflicts in Korea , Vietnam , and Afghanistan , among other places , involving troops from one superpower and local allies armed by the other .
In addition , the U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in direct conflict on several occasions .
The most notable , of course , was the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 , when Moscow installed nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Cuba and the U.S. nearly went to war — which would probably have turned into a nuclear conflict — to remove them .
Only a last-ditch negotiating effort by President John F. Kennedy and his Russian counterpart , Nikita Khrushchev , averted such an outcome .
The American Way of Wa ... Engelhardt , Tom Best Price : $ 3.72 Buy New $ 12.12 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that both contemporary versions of such proxy conflicts and of the Cuban Missile Crisis could emerge from a growing confrontation with China .
An incident on the Korean Peninsula , no matter how it was sparked , could quickly turn into just such a proxy war .
The greatest danger , however , would be U.S. and Chinese forces facing off directly , perhaps due to a naval clash in the East or South China Sea .
At present , American and Chinese warships encounter each other on a regular basis in those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or even ramming ) range .
The U.S. Navy insists that it ’ s conducting permissible “ freedom of navigation operations ” ( FRONOPS ) in international waters .
The Chinese — claiming ownership of , and often building up , the many small atolls and islets that dot those seas — accuse the American ships of infringing on their national maritime territory .
On occasion , Chinese gunboats have sailed dangerously close to them , forcing them to shift course to avoid a collision .
As such incidents multiply and tensions increase @ @ @ @ @ @ @ involving loss of life on one or both sides is bound to grow , possibly providing the spark for a full-scale military confrontation .
And there can be no question of one thing : an intensifying Cold War with China will only increase the odds of such a thing happening .
No one can say at what point you or any of us will begin to feel the direct effects of this new Cold War , only that , as tensions and hostile acts heighten , the consequences will prove harsh indeed .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of measures already taken to isolate and punish Beijing , but think carefully before you embrace a full-blown Cold War with China and all that it will entail .

America’s pundits and politicians have largely concluded that a new Cold War with China — a period of intense hostility and competition falling just short of armed combat — has started. “Rift Threatens U.S. Cold War Against China,” as a New York Times headline put it on May 15th, citing recent clashes over trade, technology, and responsibility for the spread of Covid-19. Beijing’s decision to subject Hong Kong to tough new security laws has only further heightened such tensions. President Trump promptly threatened to eliminate that city-state’s special economic relationship with this country, while imposing new sanctions on Chinese leaders. Meanwhile, Democrats and Republicans in Congress are working together to devise tough anti-Chinese sanctions of their own.
For anyone who can remember the original Cold War, the latest developments may seem eerily familiar. They bring to mind what occurred soon after America’s World War II collaboration with the Soviets collapsed in acrimony as the Russians became ever more heavy-handed in their treatment of Eastern Europe. In those days, distrust only grew, while Washington decided to launch a global drive to contain and defeat the USSR. We seem to be approaching such a situation today. Though China and the U.S. continue to maintain trade, scientific, and educational ties, the leaders of both countries are threatening to sever those links and undertake a wide range of hostile moves.
All Hell Breaking Loos... Michael T. Klare Best Price: $18.77 Buy New $17.64 (as of 05:40 UTC - Details) Admittedly, some of the steps being discussed in Washington to punish China for its perceived bad behavior will have little immediate impact on the lives of Americans. A lot of the threats, in fact, may turn out to be little more than good old-fashioned chest thumping. Consider, for instance, the proposal floated by the top-ranking majority and minority members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Oklahoma Republican Jim Inhofe and Rhode Island Democrat Jack Reed, to fund a multibillion dollar “Pacific Deterrence Initiative” intended to bolster American forces in Asia. That effort, they avowed, will “send a strong signal to the Chinese Communist Party that the American people are committed to defending U.S. interests in the Indo-Pacific.”
Well, that was easy! All we, the taxpaying citizens of the United States, need to do in this opening salvo of a new Cold War is salute Congress as it funnels yet more billions of dollars to the usual defense contractors and thereby “send a signal” to Beijing that we will “defend U.S. interests” somewhere far across the globe. (Now there’s a moment to wave your American flag!)
But don’t count on such a moment lasting long, not if a new Cold War starts in earnest. A quick look back at the original one should remind us that we’ll all pay a price of some sort for intensifying hostility towards China (even if a hot war isn’t the result). Perhaps, then, it’s none too soon to consider how such a world would impact you and me.
A Feeble Economic Recovery
For most Americans, the first consequence of an intensifying Cold War could be a weaker than expected recovery from the Covid-19 economic meltdown. Anything that stands in the way of a swift rebound — and a new Cold War with China falls into that very category — would be bad news.
Unlike in the original Cold War, when Washington and Moscow maintained few economic ties, the U.S. and Chinese economies remain intertwined, contributing to the net wealth of both countries and benefiting this country’s export-oriented industries like agriculture and civilian aircraft production. Admittedly, such ties have also harmed blue-collar workers who have watched their jobs migrate across the Pacific and tech companies that have seen their intellectual property purloined by Chinese upstarts. Donald Trump stoked resentments over just such issues to get himself elected in 2016. Since then, he’s sought to disentangle the two economies, claiming we would be better off on our own. (America first!) As part of this drive, he’s already imposed stiff tariffs on Chinese imports and blocked Chinese firms from gaining access to American technology. The End of Victory Cul... Engelhardt, Tom Best Price: $5.06 Buy New $15.79 (as of 03:00 UTC - Details)
Feel free to argue about whether China has abused international trade rules, as Trump and his allies have charged, and whether imposing tariffs (paid for by American importers and consumers, not Chinese suppliers) is the best way to address that country’s economic rise. The key thing to note, however, is that economic growth in both places had slowed in the wake of Trump’s trade war even before Covid-19 hit. As 2019 drew to a close, in fact, the prospect of yet higher tariffs and intensified economic warfare was already dragging down the whole global economy.
And while some experts believe that a relaxation of tariffs and other steps to improve U.S.-China trade would stimulate the economy in tough times, Trump and his China hawks, led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, appear to view this moment as the perfect opportunity to double down on anti-Chinese measures. The president has already hinted that he’s prepared to order yet more tariffs on Chinese products and take other steps to hasten the “decoupling” of the two economies. “There are many things we could do,” he told Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business in mid-May. “We could cut off the whole relationship.”
Cut off the whole relationship? Some policymakers claim that such a decoupling would stimulate growth at home as American firms shifted manufacturing back to the United States and its close allies. This argument, however, ignores two key factors when it comes to Americans desperate for work now: first, many of the tasks currently performed by Chinese workers will be shifted to plants in Mexico, Thailand, Vietnam, and other low-cost manufacturing hubs; and second, any relocation of entire production lines to this country will take years to accomplish and, in the end, undoubtedly wind up employing more robots than workers. Bottom line: economically, an intensifying Cold War is guaranteed to scuttle any chances of a rapid recovery from the Coronavirus Depression, dampening employment prospects for millions of Americans.
Military Spending, Not Recovery Stimulus
And here’s another thing a new Cold War guarantees: a significant increase in military spending at a time of ballooning national debt and a desperate need for investment in domestic economic recovery.
A Nation Unmade by War... Tom Engelhardt Best Price: $3.97 Buy New $6.84 (as of 06:05 UTC - Details) By the end of June, unless Congress votes additional assistance, much of the $2.2 trillion in emergency pandemic relief voted by Congress will have been used up, leaving millions of jobless Americans and many small business owners in dire straits. Democrats in the House of Representatives did unveil a plan for an additional $3 trillion in emergency funding, including aid for struggling states and cities and another round of direct payments to citizens. White House officials and many Republicans insist, however, that any further giveaways to ordinary Americans will raise the federal debt to unsustainable levels (a problem that never worries them when it comes to tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy). So passing anything like that stimulus package appears ever less conceivable and July may leave millions of Americans unable to pay rent as well as other essential expenses.
When it comes to increased military spending, however, Republicans have no such qualms. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, for example, has introduced a $43 billion Forging Operational Resistance to Chinese Expansion (FORCE) Act. (Nifty title, huh?) Its goal, he claims, would be to “help thwart the Chinese Communist Party’s main geopolitical aim [of] pushing the United States out of the Western Pacific [and] achieving cross-strait unification with Taiwan via military force.” It includes, among other things, $3.9 billion for another Virginia-class submarine (that’s in addition to the $4.7 billion requested for such a sub in the Pentagon’s proposed 2021 budget) and $3 billion for more of one of the most expensive weapons systems in history, the F-35 jet fighter (and that’s in addition to the $4.6 billion requested for 48 of them in that same budget).
With the Democrats desperate to demonstrate their own anti-Chinese credentials, passage of the FORCE Act, or the somewhat more modest Pacific Deterrence Initiative introduced by Senators Reed and Inhofe, appears to be a sure thing. In fact, the need for yet more military funds may prove to be the Republican rationale for rejecting calls for additional pandemic relief.
But won’t higher military spending act as an economic stimulus, just as it did during World War II when it helped lift the United States out of the Great Depression?
Indeed, passage of the FORCE Act or a variant of it will pump additional money into the economy. But today’s military-industrial complex bears little relation to the one of 80 years ago when millions of workers were mobilized to churn out thousands of tanks and planes monthly in an all-out drive to defeat Nazi Germany. Nowadays, military hardware has become so complex that most of any dollar spent on a new plane, tank, or ship goes into specialized materials and computer systems, not armies of laborers. So the billions of dollars for one new submarine and additional F-35s are likely to generate only a few thousand extra jobs, while spending the same amounts on health care or elementary school education would generate many times that number. The United States of Fear Tom Engelhardt Best Price: $1.70 Buy New $9.02 (as of 05:40 UTC - Details)
Conscription
And then there’s the issue that should be on the minds of every young man and woman in America (along with their parents, grandparents, and loved ones): the draft.
In contrast to the original Cold War, young men in this country are no longer obliged to serve in the U.S. military, though they (and their female counterparts) may choose to do so, whether for patriotic reasons, economic need, or both. Even though the United States has been continuously involved in “forever wars” since the 9/11 attacks, the armed services have been able to use a variety of economic and educational incentives to keep the ranks filled (and avoid the public outcry over those wars that would surely have accompanied a draft). This was possible in part because the numbers of soldiers engaged in combat at any given moment was not huge in comparison to, say, the Korean or Vietnam War eras and because vast numbers of troops were no longer on tap to “contain” the Soviet Union in Europe.
A full-scale Cold War with China could, however, prove another matter entirely, even if Pentagon manpower requirements were somewhat diminished by U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan and Iraq. Large force deployments will undoubtedly be needed to engage in a modern version of the “containment” of China, not to speak of deterring the further adventurism of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Can this be done with an all-volunteer military? Not if tensions rise with Beijing.
Count on it: at some point, the question of conscription is bound to come up. So far, the Department of Defense has not opted for reinstating the draft — a move that would require congressional approval and undoubtedly ignite intense political debate of the sort top officials would prefer to avoid right now. Still, the leadership’s overarching guidance, the National Defense Strategy of 2018, made it quite clear that the United States must expect to face years of intense rivalry with its “great power competitors” and that such an epic struggle could well require the full mobilization of America’s war-making capabilities. “Long-term strategic competition [with China and Russia],” it claimed, “requires the seamless integration of multiple elements of national power.” Conscription was not specifically mentioned, but given the new focus on a rising China and a reckless Russia, it will be on the table sooner or later. Shadow Government: Sur... Tom Engelhardt Best Price: $2.30 Buy New $6.98 (as of 05:40 UTC - Details)
Repression and Discrimination
Another feature of the original Cold War that you should expect in a new one is an environment of repression, intolerance, and discrimination. In this case, it would be against Chinese-Americans, Chinese students and researchers currently in this country, and non-Chinese viewed as in any way beholden to that power. Sadly enough, signs of this have already emerged. Officials from the FBI and the National Security Council have, for instance, been dispatched to leading Ivy League universities to warn administrators against admitting or retaining Chinese students who may be collecting scientific and technical information to share with government-sponsored institutions at home. Concurrently, some 30 Chinese professors with ties to such institutions have had their visas denied, despite a history of collaboration with American academics. In a more dramatic move, the chair of Harvard University’s chemistry department, Charles Lieber, was arrested in January for failing to report income he had received from a Chinese university.
Many American academics have criticized such actions as an assault on academic freedom. Increasingly, however, U.S. officials insist that they represent a necessary component of the new Cold War. And while those officials also insist that our adversary in this struggle is the Chinese government or people associated with it (however tangentially), many Chinese-Americans are increasingly experiencing suspicion and hostility just for being Chinese. “Chinese-Americans feel targeted, and that’s really hurtful,” said Charlie Woo, a prominent Chinese-American businessman.
The experience of the first Cold War suggests that this sort of intolerance and repression will only increase with potentially chilling effects on intellectual freedom and the already deeply unsettled racial situation in this country.
Hot War
And never forget that cold wars always risk becoming hot ones. Looking back, it’s easy enough to remember those years of the U.S.-USSR standoff as a relatively war-free era, since the two superpowers were fearful that a direct conflict of any sort between them might spark an all-out thermonuclear conflagration, leaving a planet in ruins. In reality, though, both sides engaged in a grim assortment of bloody “proxy wars” — regional conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan, among other places, involving troops from one superpower and local allies armed by the other. In addition, the U.S. and the Soviet Union nearly found themselves in direct conflict on several occasions. The most notable, of course, was the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when Moscow installed nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Cuba and the U.S. nearly went to war — which would probably have turned into a nuclear conflict — to remove them. Only a last-ditch negotiating effort by President John F. Kennedy and his Russian counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, averted such an outcome. The American Way of Wa... Engelhardt, Tom Best Price: $3.72 Buy New $12.12 (as of 05:35 UTC - Details)
It’s easy enough to imagine that both contemporary versions of such proxy conflicts and of the Cuban Missile Crisis could emerge from a growing confrontation with China. An incident on the Korean Peninsula, no matter how it was sparked, could quickly turn into just such a proxy war. The greatest danger, however, would be U.S. and Chinese forces facing off directly, perhaps due to a naval clash in the East or South China Sea.
At present, American and Chinese warships encounter each other on a regular basis in those waters, often coming within shooting (or even ramming) range. The U.S. Navy insists that it’s conducting permissible “freedom of navigation operations” (FRONOPS) in international waters. The Chinese — claiming ownership of, and often building up, the many small atolls and islets that dot those seas — accuse the American ships of infringing on their national maritime territory. On occasion, Chinese gunboats have sailed dangerously close to them, forcing them to shift course to avoid a collision. As such incidents multiply and tensions increase, the risk of a serious faceoff involving loss of life on one or both sides is bound to grow, possibly providing the spark for a full-scale military confrontation. And there can be no question of one thing: an intensifying Cold War with China will only increase the odds of such a thing happening.
No one can say at what point you or any of us will begin to feel the direct effects of this new Cold War, only that, as tensions and hostile acts heighten, the consequences will prove harsh indeed. So cheer now, if you approve of measures already taken to isolate and punish Beijing, but think carefully before you embrace a full-blown Cold War with China and all that it will entail.


lewrockwell--2020-06-12--Could Mouthwash Be an Ally in Fighting COVID-19?

New research1,2,3 shows many dental mouthwashes destroy the lipid layer of coronaviruses and reduces the replication of the virus in the throat and salivary glands , making mouthwash a potentially useful prophylactic against COVID-19 .
As noted by the authors:4 Mouthwashes that include ethanol , chlorhexidine , cetylpyridinium chloride , hydrogen peroxide or povidone-iodine are especially effective and may even work against any new coronavirus strains that emerge , as the virus ’ lipid envelope remains unchanged even when it mutates into new strains .
The Mouth-Body Connect ... Reverand , Diane Best Price : $ 2.61 Buy New $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that certain mouthwashes , particularly povidone-iodine containing ones , may help minimize the risk of viral infections and upper respiratory tract infections .
Listerine and 3 % hydrogen peroxide have also been shown to eliminate bacteria from toothbrushes with 100 % efficacy.6 Unfortunately , extended lockdowns have prevented many from seeing their dentist for regular cleanings and other dental work .
Social distancing rules and depression may also have contributed to relaxed dental hygiene among many .
This is a grave mistake , as your oral health plays an important part in your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your risk of COVID-19 infection , their “ scorched earth ” impact can also create an imbalance in your oral microbiome .
Twice-daily use of mouthwash has also been linked to an increased risk of Type 2 diabetes , so , it may be a good idea to weigh the pros and cons of this strategy .
In “ For Optimal Health , Mind Your Oral Microbiome , ” Dr. Gerry Curatola discusses the drawbacks of mouthwash and fluoride and the importance of maintaining a healthy oral microbiome .
That said , hydrogen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and remedy against COVID-19 and other viral illnesses , not just as a mouthwash but also as a nebulized treatment .
Dr. Thomas Levy7 has issued guidance8 on how to use nebulized hydrogen peroxide for the prevention and treatment of viral respiratory infections .
Dentists are also advised to use 0.5 % to 2 % peroxide to destroy the SARS-CoV-2 virus as they return to practice,9 and this includes using it as a preprocedural rinse .
To inactivate viruses with hydrogen peroxide , all you need is a nebulizer with a face mask @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emits a fine mist , and food grade hydrogen peroxide that is diluted to 1 % or less if you have any irritation .
The microscopic mist , similar to smoke or vapor , can be comfortably inhaled deep into your nostrils , sinuses and lungs .
Hydrogen peroxide ( H O ) consists of a water molecule ( H O ) with an extra oxygen atom , and it is the additional oxygen atom that allows it to inactivate viral pathogens .
Viruses are not “ alive ” per se .
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can infect live cells that then replicate the viral DNA and RNA .
Once a cell is infected , newly replicated viruses exit the cell and move on to the next cell to duplicate the process .
Revitin Natural Prebio ... Buy New $ 14.65 ( $ 5.43 / Ounce ) So , when we talk about “ killing ” a virus , we ’ re really talking about inactivating it by breaking down its structure .
This is how mouthwash can inactivate viruses , and why soap works so well .
Coronaviruses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fatty ) coating .
Soap , being amphipathic10 — meaning it can dissolve most molecules — dissolves this fat membrane , causing the virus to fall apart and become harmless .
Hydrogen peroxide works in a similar way .
Some of your immune cells actually produce hydrogen peroxide to destroy pathogens .
By killing the infected cell , viral reproduction is stopped .
So , hydrogen peroxide therapy is in essence only aiding your immune cells to perform their natural function more effectively .
Hydrogen peroxide is also a key redox signaling agent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stress or oxidative distress , oxidative eustress denotes an oxidative challenge that has positive or beneficial effects and is essential in redox signaling .
Colgate Optic White Wh ... Buy New $ 31.74 ( $ 0.33 / Fl Oz ) If you ’ re already presenting with runny nose or sore throat , Levy recommends using the nebulizer for 10 to 15 minutes four times a day until your symptoms are relieved .
You can also use nebulized hydrogen peroxide for prevention and maintenance , which may be advisable during flu season , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ full swing .
Levy notes:12 Oil pulling is another way to promote and maintain good oral hygiene .
It ’ s ability to break down fat-soluble membranes could potentially render it useful against viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 as well , although there are no studies that I am aware of that have looked into this .
Mouth rinsing and gargling with warm oils is mentioned , however , in a May 11 , 2020 , paper13 reviewing Ayurvedic approaches that might be helpful for COVID-19 prophylaxis .
Revitin Natural Toothp ... Buy New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) Oil pulling has been scientifically verified to help eliminate unhealthy biofilm , debris and harmful bacteria from your teeth,14 much like mouthwash .
It basically acts as a safe and natural detergent , without the adverse effects .
According to one review paper , oil pulling has been shown to:15 • Reduce bacterial count by 20 % after 40 days of pulling using sesame oil • Reduce plaque and gingival indices by 50 % after 30 days of oil pulling ( which is comparatively similar to results produced by chlorhexidine ) One @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for cleansing your teeth and gums is because bacteria have fat-soluble membranes that break down with the mechanical action of swishing and pulling the oil through your teeth.16 Coconut oil , which is an excellent option , has the added advantage of inhibiting Streptococcus mutans , the chief bacteria responsible for cavities.17 Another alternative is to use MCT oil , which also has antibacterial properties .
To whichever oil you use , you can also add a drop or two of oregano oil or olive leaf oil , both of which have both @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s of Maine A ... Buy New $ 12.32 ( $ 1.12 / Ounce ) Here are the basic instructions for how to do oil pulling : • Measure out about 1 tablespoon of coconut oil or MCT oil .
You may find this is too much or not enough , but it ’ s a good place to start .
• Swish the oil around your mouth , using your tongue and cheeks to pull the oil through your teeth .
Coconut oil is solid below 76 degrees F ( 24.4 degrees @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you start moving it around your mouth .
Try to relax your jaw muscles to avoid muscle fatigue .
• Although you ’ re using it like you would a mouthwash , avoid gargling and be careful not to swallow the oil .
If you feel the urge to swallow , spit it out and start again .
• After several minutes , the oil begins to thicken , becoming milky white .
After five to 10 minutes of pulling , spit the oil into your garbage can or outdoors .
Spitting it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to clog .
Increasing the pH in your mouth after pulling may reduce bacterial growth even further .
To do that , mix 1 teaspoon of baking soda or potassium bicarbonate in 6 ounces of water and gargle .
This will alkalize the pH of your mouth , and since bacteria thrive in an acidic environment , the increased pH will discourage growth .
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New research1,2,3 shows many dental mouthwashes destroy the lipid layer of coronaviruses and reduces the replication of the virus in the throat and salivary glands, making mouthwash a potentially useful prophylactic against COVID-19. As noted by the authors:4
“Emerging studies increasingly demonstrate the importance of the throat and salivary glands as sites of virus replication and transmission in early COVID-19 disease. SARS-CoV-2 is an enveloped virus, characterized by an outer lipid membrane derived from the host cell from which it buds.”
Mouthwashes that include ethanol, chlorhexidine, cetylpyridinium chloride, hydrogen peroxide or povidone-iodine are especially effective and may even work against any new coronavirus strains that emerge, as the virus’ lipid envelope remains unchanged even when it mutates into new strains.
The Mouth-Body Connect... Reverand, Diane Best Price: $2.61 Buy New $3.94 (as of 05:14 UTC - Details) Previous research5 has also pointed out that certain mouthwashes, particularly povidone-iodine containing ones, may help minimize the risk of viral infections and upper respiratory tract infections. Listerine and 3% hydrogen peroxide have also been shown to eliminate bacteria from toothbrushes with 100% efficacy.6
Hydrogen Peroxide Has Multiple Uses
Unfortunately, extended lockdowns have prevented many from seeing their dentist for regular cleanings and other dental work. Social distancing rules and depression may also have contributed to relaxed dental hygiene among many. This is a grave mistake, as your oral health plays an important part in your overall health.
While mouthwash may lower your risk of COVID-19 infection, their “scorched earth” impact can also create an imbalance in your oral microbiome. Twice-daily use of mouthwash has also been linked to an increased risk of Type 2 diabetes, so, it may be a good idea to weigh the pros and cons of this strategy.
In “For Optimal Health, Mind Your Oral Microbiome,” Dr. Gerry Curatola discusses the drawbacks of mouthwash and fluoride and the importance of maintaining a healthy oral microbiome. That said, hydrogen peroxide may indeed be an excellent prophylactic and remedy against COVID-19 and other viral illnesses, not just as a mouthwash but also as a nebulized treatment.
Dr. Thomas Levy7 has issued guidance8 on how to use nebulized hydrogen peroxide for the prevention and treatment of viral respiratory infections. Dentists are also advised to use 0.5% to 2% peroxide to destroy the SARS-CoV-2 virus as they return to practice,9 and this includes using it as a preprocedural rinse.
How Hydrogen Peroxide Works Against Viruses

To inactivate viruses with hydrogen peroxide, all you need is a nebulizer with a face mask that covers your mouth and nose that emits a fine mist, and food grade hydrogen peroxide that is diluted to 1% or less if you have any irritation. The microscopic mist, similar to smoke or vapor, can be comfortably inhaled deep into your nostrils, sinuses and lungs.
Hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) consists of a water molecule (H 2 O) with an extra oxygen atom, and it is the additional oxygen atom that allows it to inactivate viral pathogens. Viruses are not “alive” per se. They need a live host in which they can infect live cells that then replicate the viral DNA and RNA. Once a cell is infected, newly replicated viruses exit the cell and move on to the next cell to duplicate the process. Revitin Natural Prebio... Buy New $14.65 ($5.43 / Ounce) (as of 05:14 UTC - Details)
So, when we talk about “killing” a virus, we’re really talking about inactivating it by breaking down its structure. This is how mouthwash can inactivate viruses, and why soap works so well. Coronaviruses are held together by a lipid (fatty) coating. Soap, being amphipathic10 — meaning it can dissolve most molecules — dissolves this fat membrane, causing the virus to fall apart and become harmless.
Hydrogen peroxide works in a similar way. Some of your immune cells actually produce hydrogen peroxide to destroy pathogens. By killing the infected cell, viral reproduction is stopped. So, hydrogen peroxide therapy is in essence only aiding your immune cells to perform their natural function more effectively.
Hydrogen peroxide is also a key redox signaling agent that creates oxidative eustress.11 Contrary to oxidative stress or oxidative distress, oxidative eustress denotes an oxidative challenge that has positive or beneficial effects and is essential in redox signaling. Colgate Optic White Wh... Buy New $31.74 ($0.33 / Fl Oz) (as of 05:14 UTC - Details)
If you’re already presenting with runny nose or sore throat, Levy recommends using the nebulizer for 10 to 15 minutes four times a day until your symptoms are relieved. You can also use nebulized hydrogen peroxide for prevention and maintenance, which may be advisable during flu season, or while the COVID-19 pandemic is in full swing. Levy notes:12
“As it is a completely non-toxic therapy, nebulization can be administered as often as desired. If done on a daily basis at least once, a very positive impact on bowel and gut function will often be realized as killing the chronic pathogen colonization present in most noses and throats stops the 24/7 swallowing of these pathogens and their associated toxins.
If daily prevention is not a practical option, the effectiveness of this treatment is optimized when somebody sneezes in your face or you finally get off of the plane after a trans-Atlantic flight. Don’t wait for initial symptoms. Just nebulize at your first opportunity.”
Oil Pulling Also Breaks Down Lipid Membranes

Oil pulling is another way to promote and maintain good oral hygiene. It’s ability to break down fat-soluble membranes could potentially render it useful against viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 as well, although there are no studies that I am aware of that have looked into this.
Mouth rinsing and gargling with warm oils is mentioned, however, in a May 11, 2020, paper13 reviewing Ayurvedic approaches that might be helpful for COVID-19 prophylaxis. Revitin Natural Toothp... Buy New $57.99 ($4.30 / Ounce) (as of 05:14 UTC - Details)
Oil pulling has been scientifically verified to help eliminate unhealthy biofilm, debris and harmful bacteria from your teeth,14 much like mouthwash. It basically acts as a safe and natural detergent, without the adverse effects. According to one review paper, oil pulling has been shown to:15
Reduce bacterial count by 20% after 40 days of pulling using sesame oil
Reduce the severity of dental caries
Reduce plaque and gingival indices by 50% after 30 days of oil pulling (which is comparatively similar to results produced by chlorhexidine)
Reduce plaque induced gingivitis
One of the reasons it works so well for cleansing your teeth and gums is because bacteria have fat-soluble membranes that break down with the mechanical action of swishing and pulling the oil through your teeth.16
Coconut oil, which is an excellent option, has the added advantage of inhibiting Streptococcus mutans, the chief bacteria responsible for cavities.17 Another alternative is to use MCT oil, which also has antibacterial properties. To whichever oil you use, you can also add a drop or two of oregano oil or olive leaf oil, both of which have both antibacterial and antiviral18,19 activity. Tom’s of Maine A... Buy New $12.32 ($1.12 / Ounce) (as of 05:14 UTC - Details)
Basic Oil Pulling Instructions
Here are the basic instructions for how to do oil pulling:
Measure out about 1 tablespoon of coconut oil or MCT oil. You may find this is too much or not enough, but it’s a good place to start.
Swish the oil around your mouth, using your tongue and cheeks to pull the oil through your teeth. Coconut oil is solid below 76 degrees F (24.4 degrees C) but will quickly liquefy once you start moving it around your mouth. Try to relax your jaw muscles to avoid muscle fatigue.
Although you’re using it like you would a mouthwash, avoid gargling and be careful not to swallow the oil. If you feel the urge to swallow, spit it out and start again.
After several minutes, the oil begins to thicken, becoming milky white. After five to 10 minutes of pulling, spit the oil into your garbage can or outdoors. Spitting it into the sink may cause your drain to clog.
Increasing the pH in your mouth after pulling may reduce bacterial growth even further. To do that, mix 1 teaspoon of baking soda or potassium bicarbonate in 6 ounces of water and gargle. This will alkalize the pH of your mouth, and since bacteria thrive in an acidic environment, the increased pH will discourage growth.
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