lewrockwell--2020-11-20--Trump vs Biden: Will the Future Belong to the Patriots or the Globalists?

It is an undeniable fact that the republic has entered one of the most dangerous crises of its short existence .
This is not only due to the disputed election results of November 3rd , but also to a multitude of other factors beyond American borders , including the global financial crisis which a certain pandemic has unleashed upon the world , and slide towards a major world war between great powers that has accelerated chaotically in recent years .
As unpopular as it might be to state in polite society , as of this writing it is still impossible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Joe Biden will in fact be inaugurated on January 20 , 2021 .
The simple reason for this is that verifiable evidence of vast partisan vote fraud tied to the highest echelons of British Intelligence have mount with every passing day with Dominion voting systems most recently accused of erasing 2.7 million Trump votes across the nation , and giving 220 000 pro-Trump votes given to Biden in Pennsylvania ( along with hundreds of other vote counting anomalies and technology glitches across all major swing states ) .
These and other major signs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to reasonable questions of the validity of the official results which will be taken to the courts as Gen. Michael Flynn ’ s Attorney Sidney Powell eloquently laid out recently .
Floerns Women ’ s ... Buy New $ 36.99 By now most people reading this are aware ( or should be aware ) that the trans Atlantic financial system has been set to melt down under a $ 1.5 quadrillion derivatives time bomb being held together by a mix of wishful thinking , hyperinflationary money printing and vast unpayable securitized debts waiting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as no surprise that the Great Reset Agenda designed to coordinate the “ post-COVID world order ” has nothing to do with any actual pandemic , and everything to do with imposing a new bankers ’ dictatorship onto the nations of the earth .
If you are uncertain about these claims , I invite you to read my recent study “ What the Great Reset Architects Don ’ t Want you to Know About Economics ” .
Both Trump and Biden profess to support American leadership to the world going into this storm @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much opposing paradigms of what this means , and what foreign policy tradition should be activated .
Where Biden has championed the idea that “ America should lead the world ” in opposition to the dangerous rise in “ authoritarianism , nationalism and illiberalism ” giving the reigns of foreign policy over to a team packed with hawkish representatives of the Military Industrial Complex , Trump has done something different .
On November 9 the incumbent president fired Mark Esper ( possibly to subvert a planned coup ) and instated General Christopher Miller @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has called for a total end to the 19 year Afghan war stating : “ we are not a people of perpetual war .
It is the antithesis of everything for which we stand and for which our ancestors fought .
All wars must end.
” Having vocalized his desires to return the USA to its traditional protectionist , non-interventionist agenda repeatedly over four years , Trump famously characterized the battle at hand as one of “ patriots against the globalists.
” And yet , despite these facts , many apparently intelligent people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ man ” has finally been ousted and normality may once again occur .
In an April 2020 Foreign Policy article , Joe Biden called for the re-assertion of American leadership of the world order stating that “ for over 70 years , the United States under democratic and republican presidents , played a leading role in writing the rules ” of the world order .
Predicting the two possible scenarios that will befall the world should the USA continue to “ abdicate our leadership ” as Trump has done , Biden says that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America ’ s place as global hegemon that doesn ’ t “ advance our interests and values or 2 ) “ No one will and chaos will ensue ” .
Shouldn ’ t there be a third option in Biden ’ s crystal ball ?
What about the option of a world defined by sovereign nations working in win-win cooperation and mutual self interest ?
Sadly , from a zero-sum mind that can only think in “ balance of power ” terms , this third scenario can not exist .
The paradox for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the very essence of America ’ s emerging from WWII in a leading position that Biden praises is entirely premised on the understanding that the world is more than a zero sum system .
The Forgotten Multi-Polar Traditions of the USA From the drafting of the UN Charter in 1941 , the formulation of the Bretton Woods system in 1944 , to the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 , there is no doubt that there is very little that America has not directly influenced .
APTRO Women ’ s Fa ... @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is undeniable and often objectively destructive as sin , it is too easily forgotten that the UN Charter , as outlined by Franklin Roosevelt was premised on the belief that America must never become an empire but merely help those in need by providing the means of industrial development .
This was essentially understood as the internationalization of the New Deal which included social safety nets , bank regulation , productive work guarantees and infrastructure projects to all other nations aspiring independence across Africa , Asia and the Americas or struggling the heal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
FDR ’ s vision for the IMF/World Bank mandates were never to reconquer poor nations under a new system of debt slavery and conditionalities , but to extend productive credit for long term megaprojects that were in the common aims of mankind and which angered Churchill immensely .
Most importantly , this vision was premised on the need for a trust-based U.S.-Russia-China alliance that never would have permitted the emergence of a bipolar Cold War .
Working alongside such anti-imperial co-thinkers as Republican leader Wendell Willkie , Vice President Henry Wallace , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hopkins , Asst .
Secretary of State Sumner Welles and Attorney General Robert Jackson ( to name a few ) , this small but powerful group of patriots representing both parties , worked vigorously to ensure not only that the Wall Street/City of London Frankenstein Monster of Nazism would be put down but that Churchill ’ s vision of a restored British Imperial system would not succeed .
The True Spirit of the United Nations Unlike the earlier “ League of Nations ” which intended to destroy all national sovereignty in the wake @ @ @ @ @ @ @ always meant to become a platform for dialogue , and economic multilateral trust-building much more in harmony with the multipolar alliance now sweeping the world ( and scaring the hell out of the thing that controls Joe Biden ) .
If this is hard to believe , let me cite article one : OUGES Womens Long Slee ... Buy New $ 32.99 “ To maintain international peace and security , and to that end : to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace , and for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other breaches of the peace , and to bring about by peaceful means , and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law , adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples , and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace ; To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic , social , cultural , or humanitarian character @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race , sex , language , or religion ; and To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.
” These principles were expanded even further to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10 , 1948 which re-iterated the founding principles of America ’ s Declaration of Independence- extending those unalienable rights to all mankind as FDR envisioned stating in its preamble : “ Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom , justice and peace in the world , “ Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind , and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people , 7-8mm Freshwater Cultu ... Buy New $ 269.00 “ Whereas it is essential , if man is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as a last resort , to rebellion against tyranny and oppression , that human rights should be protected by the rule of law , “ Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations , “ Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights , in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ themselves to achieve , in co-operation with the United Nations , the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms , “ Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge , “ Now , Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations , to the end that every individual and every organ of society , keeping this Declaration constantly in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures , national and international , to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance , both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.
” These were the ideas that were meant to give life to the “ Four Freedoms ” first enunciated by President Roosvelt in 1941 and re-asserted by his anti-imperial Vice President Henry Wallace in 1942 .
Now admittedly this positive American foreign policy outlook which launched the post-war @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the world has come to recognize in the USA since the emergence of the Cold War… and especially since the murder of John F Kennedy who had done much to resist America ’ s full takeover by this newly revised British Empire ( which some have chosen in recent years to label “ the deep state ” ) .
RULTA Women ’ s Fa ... Buy New $ 22.68 Much like the U.S. Constitution itself , these principles largely remained ink on parchment as a new age of Cold Warriors , Rhodes Scholars @ @ @ @ @ @ @ NATO , divided the world among the lighter skinned haves and darker skinned have nots while unleashing a system of endless wars onto the earth under a new Pax Americana .
These are the forces like Lord Mark Malloch Brown and George Soros who together have poured billions of dollars into promoting the post-nation state order using anti-UN Charter doctrines like Responsibility to Protect ( R2P ) , overthrowing governments with color revolutions and running a current coup against President Trump .
Today a small window is still open for a renewal of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ traditions that were upheld by such leaders as John Quincy Adams , Lincoln , Grant , Garfield , McKinley , Harding , FDR and JFK .
President Trump has clearly taken a stand in opposition to the reconquest of the republic by the deep state and it remains to be seen if the American people have the fortitude to do everything in their power to organize themselves in defense of the republic and civilization more generally .
The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation .

It is an undeniable fact that the republic has entered one of the most dangerous crises of its short existence. This is not only due to the disputed election results of November 3rd, but also to a multitude of other factors beyond American borders, including the global financial crisis which a certain pandemic has unleashed upon the world, and slide towards a major world war between great powers that has accelerated chaotically in recent years.
As unpopular as it might be to state in polite society, as of this writing it is still impossible to state with 100% certainty that Joe Biden will in fact be inaugurated on January 20, 2021. The simple reason for this is that verifiable evidence of vast partisan vote fraud tied to the highest echelons of British Intelligence have mount with every passing day with Dominion voting systems most recently accused of erasing 2.7 million Trump votes across the nation, and giving 220 000 pro-Trump votes given to Biden in Pennsylvania (along with hundreds of other vote counting anomalies and technology glitches across all major swing states). These and other major signs of mass vote fraud have giving rise to reasonable questions of the validity of the official results which will be taken to the courts as Gen. Michael Flynn’s Attorney Sidney Powell eloquently laid out recently.
Trump, Biden and the Oncoming Meltdown
Floerns Women’s ... Buy New $36.99 (as of 05:31 UTC - Details) By now most people reading this are aware (or should be aware) that the trans Atlantic financial system has been set to melt down under a $1.5 quadrillion derivatives time bomb being held together by a mix of wishful thinking, hyperinflationary money printing and vast unpayable securitized debts waiting to default. It should also come as no surprise that the Great Reset Agenda designed to coordinate the “post-COVID world order” has nothing to do with any actual pandemic, and everything to do with imposing a new bankers’ dictatorship onto the nations of the earth. If you are uncertain about these claims, I invite you to read my recent study “What the Great Reset Architects Don’t Want you to Know About Economics”.
Both Trump and Biden profess to support American leadership to the world going into this storm, but both men operate on very much opposing paradigms of what this means, and what foreign policy tradition should be activated.
Where Biden has championed the idea that “America should lead the world” in opposition to the dangerous rise in “authoritarianism, nationalism and illiberalism” giving the reigns of foreign policy over to a team packed with hawkish representatives of the Military Industrial Complex, Trump has done something different.
On November 9 the incumbent president fired Mark Esper (possibly to subvert a planned coup) and instated General Christopher Miller to the position of Defense Secretary who has called for a total end to the 19 year Afghan war stating: “we are not a people of perpetual war. It is the antithesis of everything for which we stand and for which our ancestors fought. All wars must end.”
Having vocalized his desires to return the USA to its traditional protectionist, non-interventionist agenda repeatedly over four years, Trump famously characterized the battle at hand as one of “patriots against the globalists.”
And yet, despite these facts, many apparently intelligent people have celebrated that the “bad orange man” has finally been ousted and normality may once again occur.
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In an April 2020 Foreign Policy article, Joe Biden called for the re-assertion of American leadership of the world order stating that “for over 70 years, the United States under democratic and republican presidents, played a leading role in writing the rules” of the world order. Predicting the two possible scenarios that will befall the world should the USA continue to “abdicate our leadership” as Trump has done, Biden says that either: 1) Someone else takes America’s place as global hegemon that doesn’t “advance our interests and values or 2) “No one will and chaos will ensue”.
But wait a minute!
Shouldn’t there be a third option in Biden’s crystal ball? What about the option of a world defined by sovereign nations working in win-win cooperation and mutual self interest? Sadly, from a zero-sum mind that can only think in “balance of power” terms, this third scenario cannot exist.
The paradox for such little minds, however is that the very essence of America’s emerging from WWII in a leading position that Biden praises is entirely premised on the understanding that the world is more than a zero sum system.
The Forgotten Multi-Polar Traditions of the USA
From the drafting of the UN Charter in 1941, the formulation of the Bretton Woods system in 1944, to the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, there is no doubt that there is very little that America has not directly influenced.
APTRO Women’s Fa... Buy New $18.99 (as of 05:31 UTC - Details) While this leadership is undeniable and often objectively destructive as sin, it is too easily forgotten that the UN Charter, as outlined by Franklin Roosevelt was premised on the belief that America must never become an empire but merely help those in need by providing the means of industrial development. This was essentially understood as the internationalization of the New Deal which included social safety nets, bank regulation, productive work guarantees and infrastructure projects to all other nations aspiring independence across Africa, Asia and the Americas or struggling the heal from the destructive effects of the war.
FDR’s vision for the IMF/World Bank mandates were never to reconquer poor nations under a new system of debt slavery and conditionalities, but to extend productive credit for long term megaprojects that were in the common aims of mankind and which angered Churchill immensely.
Most importantly, this vision was premised on the need for a trust-based U.S.-Russia-China alliance that never would have permitted the emergence of a bipolar Cold War.
Working alongside such anti-imperial co-thinkers as Republican leader Wendell Willkie, Vice President Henry Wallace, economist Harry Dexter White, confidante Harry Hopkins, Asst. Secretary of State Sumner Welles and Attorney General Robert Jackson (to name a few), this small but powerful group of patriots representing both parties, worked vigorously to ensure not only that the Wall Street/City of London Frankenstein Monster of Nazism would be put down but that Churchill’s vision of a restored British Imperial system would not succeed.
The True Spirit of the United Nations
Unlike the earlier “League of Nations” which intended to destroy all national sovereignty in the wake of WWI, the United Nations was always meant to become a platform for dialogue, and economic multilateral trust-building much more in harmony with the multipolar alliance now sweeping the world (and scaring the hell out of the thing that controls Joe Biden).
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“To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace
To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;
To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion; and
To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.”
These principles were expanded even further to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948 which re-iterated the founding principles of America’s Declaration of Independence- extending those unalienable rights to all mankind as FDR envisioned stating in its preamble:
“Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
“Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,
7-8mm Freshwater Cultu... Buy New $269.00 (as of 05:31 UTC - Details) “Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,
“Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,
“Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
“Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,
“Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,
“Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.”
These were the ideas that were meant to give life to the “Four Freedoms” first enunciated by President Roosvelt in 1941 and re-asserted by his anti-imperial Vice President Henry Wallace in 1942.
Now admittedly this positive American foreign policy outlook which launched the post-war age is a far cry from anything the world has come to recognize in the USA since the emergence of the Cold War… and especially since the murder of John F Kennedy who had done much to resist America’s full takeover by this newly revised British Empire (which some have chosen in recent years to label “the deep state”). RULTA Women’s Fa... Buy New $22.68 (as of 05:31 UTC - Details)
Much like the U.S. Constitution itself, these principles largely remained ink on parchment as a new age of Cold Warriors, Rhodes Scholars and Fabians directed from British Intelligence created NATO, divided the world among the lighter skinned haves and darker skinned have nots while unleashing a system of endless wars onto the earth under a new Pax Americana.
These are the forces like Lord Mark Malloch Brown and George Soros who together have poured billions of dollars into promoting the post-nation state order using anti-UN Charter doctrines like Responsibility to Protect (R2P), overthrowing governments with color revolutions and running a current coup against President Trump.
Today a small window is still open for a renewal of the forgotten traditions of the American republican traditions that were upheld by such leaders as John Quincy Adams, Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, McKinley, Harding, FDR and JFK. President Trump has clearly taken a stand in opposition to the reconquest of the republic by the deep state and it remains to be seen if the American people have the fortitude to do everything in their power to organize themselves in defense of the republic and civilization more generally.
The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation.


lewrockwell--2020-11-20--Don’t ‘Californicize’ The Rest Of America

California was once a shining exemplar of everything a state should be — inventive , creative , energetic , freewheeling , fast-growing and conservative .
No more .
Today , it ’ s a giant welfare economy run by far-left kleptocrats and union shills who can ’ t even keep the lights on .
As hundreds of thousands of Californians flee the once-Golden State , the rest of America should ask itself : Will they bring their politics with them ?
Put another way , will California ’ s broken model be adopted by much of the rest of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and seeding the nation with high taxes , more rules , corrupt politicians , and slow growth ?
We hope not , but given the 2020 election , it ’ s not an idle question .
California ’ s political class is widely regarded as among the most corrupt , irresponsible , hypocritical , hard left and incompetent of any comparable group of state politicians in the country , which is saying a lot .
The troubles have been on full display this week .
A week after imposing sweeping new restaurant closures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Californians not to gather in groups for Thanksgiving , California Gov .
Gavin Newsom admitted on Monday that he attended a birthday party for an old friend at an ultra-swank Napa Valley restaurant , The French Laundry .
Never mind that the party for his buddy , himself a lobbyist , also included a bunch of medical industry lobbyists .
The photos show not only more people in attendance than allowed under state guidelines , neither the governor nor his wife were wearing masks .
Newsom called it a “ bad mistake.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as Newsom himself admitted : “ I should have stood up and … drove back to my house … the spirit of what I ’ m preaching all the time was contradicted , ” he said .
“ I need to preach and practice , not just preach.
” Nice words , but Newsom isn ’ t alone in his two-faced behavior .
This week , a handful of California legislators are enjoying an expenses-paid five-day vacation in Hawaii , where they ’ re attending the annual Independent Voter Project conference at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ says the event “ includes policy discussions and schmoozing with corporate sponsors.
” “ Organizers booked about 50 rooms and have about 120 people staying at the Fairmont Kea Lani on Maui ’ s southwest shore , ” the AP reported .
In short : One set of rules for average Californians , who have just had a new , strict lockdown imposed , and another for the state ’ s political elite .
These are just the most recent examples of the misrule and mismanagement of California , which has become a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , who were way ahead of the national curve in turning the state ’ s elections into fraudulent farces that encourage cheating which systematically benefits their party .
Faced with such poor governance , many Californians have said , “ Enough !
” With taxes soaring , quality of life plunging as violent crime and homelessness surge , home prices out of reach , nonsensical government regulations spreading , an increasingly heavy-handed government and a slumping job market , California now ranks 47th out of 50 states on the widely followed Economic Freedom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fraser Institute .
As their future prospects dim , many longtime and even native Californians are leaving for better times in neighboring states such as Nevada , Arizona , Idaho , Utah and New Mexico .
More recently , the departing have moved even farther away , relocating in Texas , Tennessee , the Carolinas , Georgia and Alabama .
It ’ s a “ reverse Beverly Hillbillies ” migration .

California was once a shining exemplar of everything a state should be — inventive, creative, energetic, freewheeling, fast-growing and conservative. No more. Today, it’s a giant welfare economy run by far-left kleptocrats and union shills who can’t even keep the lights on. As hundreds of thousands of Californians flee the once-Golden State, the rest of America should ask itself: Will they bring their politics with them?
Put another way, will California’s broken model be adopted by much of the rest of the country, turning reliably red states blue and seeding the nation with high taxes, more rules, corrupt politicians, and slow growth?
We hope not, but given the 2020 election, it’s not an idle question. California’s political class is widely regarded as among the most corrupt, irresponsible, hypocritical, hard left and incompetent of any comparable group of state politicians in the country, which is saying a lot.
The troubles have been on full display this week.
A week after imposing sweeping new restaurant closures across much of the state and telling Californians not to gather in groups for Thanksgiving, California Gov. Gavin Newsom admitted on Monday that he attended a birthday party for an old friend at an ultra-swank Napa Valley restaurant, The French Laundry.
Never mind that the party for his buddy, himself a lobbyist, also included a bunch of medical industry lobbyists. The photos show not only more people in attendance than allowed under state guidelines, neither the governor nor his wife were wearing masks.
Newsom called it a “bad mistake.” A better term might be rank hypocrisy, as Newsom himself admitted: “I should have stood up and … drove back to my house … the spirit of what I’m preaching all the time was contradicted,” he said. “ I need to preach and practice, not just preach.”
Nice words, but Newsom isn’t alone in his two-faced behavior. This week, a handful of California legislators are enjoying an expenses-paid five-day vacation in Hawaii, where they’re attending the annual Independent Voter Project conference at a high-end resort.
The Associated Press says the event “includes policy discussions and schmoozing with corporate sponsors.”
“Organizers booked about 50 rooms and have about 120 people staying at the Fairmont Kea Lani on Maui’s southwest shore,” the AP reported.
In short: One set of rules for average Californians, who have just had a new, strict lockdown imposed, and another for the state’s political elite.
These are just the most recent examples of the misrule and mismanagement of California, which has become a de facto one-party state under the Democrats, who were way ahead of the national curve in turning the state’s elections into fraudulent farces that encourage cheating which systematically benefits their party.
Faced with such poor governance, many Californians have said, “Enough!”
With taxes soaring, quality of life plunging as violent crime and homelessness surge, home prices out of reach, nonsensical government regulations spreading, an increasingly heavy-handed government and a slumping job market, California now ranks 47th out of 50 states on the widely followed Economic Freedom Index issued annually by Canada’s Fraser Institute.
As their future prospects dim, many longtime and even native Californians are leaving for better times in neighboring states such as Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, Utah and New Mexico.
More recently, the departing have moved even farther away, relocating in Texas, Tennessee, the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama. It’s a “reverse Beverly Hillbillies” migration.
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Correct Diagnostics Needed

You present to a physician with severe abdominal pain .
He examines you and concludes that your ingrown toenails are the cause of your abdominal distress .
He prescribes that you soak your feet in warm water but that does not bring relief to your abdominal pain .
Then he suggests that you apply antibiotics to your feet .
Still no relief .
Then the physician suggests that you wear sandals instead of shoes .
Still no relief .
The point of this story is that your toenails can be treated until the cows come home , but if there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ still going to have your abdominal pain .
The former superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools , Meria Carstarphen , last year said , “ White students are nearly 4.5 grade levels ahead of their black peers within Atlanta Public Schools.
” In San Francisco , 70 % of white students are proficient in math ; for black students , it is 12 % — a gap of 58 % .
In Washington , D.C. , 83 % of white students scored proficient in reading , as did only 23 % of black students @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In Philadelphia , 47 % of black students scored below basic in math and 42 % scored below basic in reading .
In Baltimore , 59 % of black students scored below basic in math and 49 % in reading .
In Detroit , 73 % of black students scored below basic in math and 56 % in reading .
MondayStyle Men ’ ... Buy New $ 24.95 “ Below basic ” is the score a student receives when he is unable to demonstrate even partial mastery of knowledge and grade level skills @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
To do well in school , someone must make a kid do his homework , get a good night ’ s rest , have breakfast and mind the teacher .
If these basic family functions are not performed , it makes little difference how much money is put into education the result will be disappointing .
In 2019 , the racial breakdown of high school seniors who took the ACT college entrance exam and met its readiness benchmarks was 62 % of Asians , 47 % of whites , 23 % of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That helps explain a 2016 study by Georgetown University ’ s Center on Education and the Workforce “ African Americans : College Majors and Earnings.
” It found that black college students were highly concentrated in lower-paying and less academically demanding majors like administrative services and social work .
They are much less likely than other students to major in science , technology , engineering and math , even though blacks in these fields earned as much as 50 % more than blacks who earned a bachelor ’ s degree in art or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ T- ... Buy New $ 24.95 James D. Agresti , the president and co-founder of Just Facts has just published an article titled “ Social Ills That Plague African Americans Coincide with Leftism , Not Racism.
” Agresti writes : “ Among all of the afflictions that disproportionately impact people of color , violence may be the worst .
In 2018 , blacks comprised 13 % of the U.S. population but roughly 53 % of the 16,000 murder victims.
” The clearance rate for murders , where a suspect was identified and charged @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to 62 % in 2018 .
For example , in Chicago , the clearance rate fell from 96 % in 1964 to 45 % in 2018 .
In Baltimore , the 2019 clearance rate was 32 % .
In 2015 , when Baltimore experienced the highest per-capita murder rate in its history , the average homicide suspect had been previously arrested more than nine times .
When crimes remain unsolved , it gives criminals free range and black people are their primary victims .
By the way , most law enforcement occurs at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these local levels are typically dominated by Democrats .
According to statistics about fatherless homes , 90 % of homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes ; 71 % of pregnant teenagers lack a father figure ; 63 % of youth suicides are from fatherless homes ; 71 % of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes ; and 70 % of juveniles in state-operated institutions have no father .
Furthermore , fatherless boys and girls are twice as likely to drop out of high school and twice as likely to end @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has argued , “ The black family , which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination , began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life.
” The bottom line is that while every vestige of racial discrimination has not been eliminated , today ’ s discrimination can not go very far in explaining the problems faced by a large segment of the black community .
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You present to a physician with severe abdominal pain. He examines you and concludes that your ingrown toenails are the cause of your abdominal distress. He prescribes that you soak your feet in warm water but that does not bring relief to your abdominal pain. Then he suggests that you apply antibiotics to your feet. Still no relief. Then the physician suggests that you wear sandals instead of shoes. Still no relief. The point of this story is that your toenails can be treated until the cows come home, but if there is improper diagnosis, then you are still going to have your abdominal pain.
The former superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools, Meria Carstarphen, last year said, “White students are nearly 4.5 grade levels ahead of their black peers within Atlanta Public Schools.” In San Francisco, 70% of white students are proficient in math; for black students, it is 12% — a gap of 58%. In Washington, D.C., 83% of white students scored proficient in reading, as did only 23% of black students — a gap of 60%. In Philadelphia, 47% of black students scored below basic in math and 42% scored below basic in reading. In Baltimore, 59% of black students scored below basic in math and 49% in reading. In Detroit, 73% of black students scored below basic in math and 56% in reading. MondayStyle Men’... Buy New $24.95 (as of 05:32 UTC - Details)
“Below basic” is the score a student receives when he is unable to demonstrate even partial mastery of knowledge and grade level skills. How much can racism explain this? To do well in school, someone must make a kid do his homework, get a good night’s rest, have breakfast and mind the teacher. If these basic family functions are not performed, it makes little difference how much money is put into education the result will be disappointing.
In 2019, the racial breakdown of high school seniors who took the ACT college entrance exam and met its readiness benchmarks was 62% of Asians, 47% of whites, 23% of Hispanics and 11% of blacks. That helps explain a 2016 study by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce “African Americans: College Majors and Earnings.” It found that black college students were highly concentrated in lower-paying and less academically demanding majors like administrative services and social work. They are much less likely than other students to major in science, technology, engineering and math, even though blacks in these fields earned as much as 50% more than blacks who earned a bachelor’s degree in art or psychology and social work.
MondayStyle Graphic T-... Buy New $24.95 (as of 05:32 UTC - Details) James D. Agresti, the president and co-founder of Just Facts has just published an article titled “Social Ills That Plague African Americans Coincide with Leftism, Not Racism.” Agresti writes: “Among all of the afflictions that disproportionately impact people of color, violence may be the worst. In 2018, blacks comprised 13% of the U.S. population but roughly 53% of the 16,000 murder victims.” The clearance rate for murders, where a suspect was identified and charged, declined from 92% in 1960 to 62% in 2018. For example, in Chicago, the clearance rate fell from 96% in 1964 to 45% in 2018. In Baltimore, the 2019 clearance rate was 32%. In 2015, when Baltimore experienced the highest per-capita murder rate in its history, the average homicide suspect had been previously arrested more than nine times. When crimes remain unsolved, it gives criminals free range and black people are their primary victims. By the way, most law enforcement occurs at the local level. The governments at these local levels are typically dominated by Democrats.
According to statistics about fatherless homes, 90% of homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes; 71% of pregnant teenagers lack a father figure; 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes; 71% of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes; and 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions have no father. Furthermore, fatherless boys and girls are twice as likely to drop out of high school and twice as likely to end up in jail. Dr. Thomas Sowell has argued, “The black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life.”
The bottom line is that while every vestige of racial discrimination has not been eliminated, today’s discrimination cannot go very far in explaining the problems faced by a large segment of the black community.
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lewrockwell--2020-11-20--British Medical Journal Editor Argues “Medical-Political Complex” Is Corrupt & Suppressing Science

During the COVID-19 pandemic , the world has witnessed the suppression of not only science , but a number of prominent scientists and doctors from around the world .
These doctors and scientists have shared their research , observations and opinions about COVID-19 that directly contradicts the information given to the citizenry by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) and government health authorities in dozens of countries .
Mainstream media is constantly giving attention to government affiliated scientists and is only sharing one perspective on this pandemic .
Social media platforms like Facebook , YouTube , Vimeo , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ number of scientists and doctors , but why ?
Why censor information if it ’ s not true ?
How can tens of thousands of doctors and scientists be sharing a perspective that ’ s constantly ridiculed by mainstream media ?
I ’ m not talking about the more controversial films or messages like what has been touted by David Icke or the film Plandemic , we ’ re talking about real science from tens of thousands of respected and credentialed health professionals .
Why are they not allowed to be heard ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ around the internet telling people what is and what isn ’ t ?
COOFANDY Mens Cowboy S ... Buy New $ 31.99 These scientists have not backed down , for example , Michael Levitt , a Biophysicist and a professor of structural biology at Stanford University criticized the WHO as well as Facebook for censoring different information and informed perspectives regarding the Coronavirus .
Dr. Martin Kulldorff , professor of medicine at Harvard University , a biostatistician , and epidemiologist , Dr. Sunetra Gupta , professor at Oxford University , an epidemiologist with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bhattacharya , professor at Stanford University Medical School created “ The Great Barrington Declaration.
” It now has approximately 45,000 signatures from doctors and scientists , the declaration strongly opposes COVID lockdown measures , stating that they do more harm than good and are not really effective .
Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi , one of the most cited scientists in German history , who was chair of Medical Microbiology at the University of Mainz along with his wife Karina Reiss Ph.D have published a book titled “ Corona , False Alarm ?
Facts & @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than 500 German doctors & scientists who have signed on as representatives of an organization called “ Außerparlamentarischer Corona Untersuchungsausschuss .
The organization opposes measures taken by governments worldwide .
These are just a few of countless examples out there from so many different countries .
COVID-19 has united prominent scientists and doctors from around the world in large numbers , yet their concerns go unheard .
Sometimes it seems like the mainstream media can make the minority feel like the majority , and the majority feel like the minority .
The general @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not as dangerous as it ’ s been made out to be , and that there is manipulation of science and data on several different levels , from the infection/fatality rate , the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 , the number of cases that are actually out there , and the idea that the virus is being made out to be much more dangerous than it actually is .
What Happened : The latest example comes from Dr. Kamran Abbasi , executive editor of the prestigious British Medical Journal , editor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Organization , and a consultant editor for PLOS Medicine .
He is editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine and JRSM Open .
Van Heusen Men ’ s ... Buy New $ 29.89 He recently published a piece in the BMJ , titled “ Covid-19 : politicisation , “ corruption , ” and suppression of science.
” In his article , he writes the following : Politicians and governments are suppressing science .
They do so in the public interest , they say , to accelerate availability of diagnostics and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ innovation , to bring products to market at unprecedented speed .
Both of these reasons are partly plausible ; the greatest deceptions are founded in a grain of truth .
But the underlying behaviour is troubling .
Science is being suppressed for political and financial gain .
Covid-19 has unleashed state corruption on a grand scale , and it is harmful to public health .
Politicians and industry are responsible for this opportunistic embezzlement .
So too are scientists and health experts .
The pandemic has revealed how the medical-political complex can be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is even more important to safeguard science .
The UK ’ s pandemic response provides at least four examples of suppression of science or scientists .
First , the membership , research , and deliberations of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies ( SAGE ) were initially secret until a press leak forced transparency .
The leak revealed inappropriate involvement of government advisers in SAGE , while exposing under-representation from public health , clinical care , women , and ethnic minorities .
Indeed , the government was also recently ordered to release a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Operation Cygnus , following a verdict from the Information Commissioner ’ s Office .
Next , a Public Health England report on covid-19 and inequalities .
The report ’ s publication was delayed by England ’ s Department of Health ; a section on ethnic minorities was initially withheld and then , following a public outcry , was published as part of a follow-up report .
Authors from Public Health England were instructed not to talk to the media .
Third , on 15 October , the editor of the Lancet complained @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a UK government scientist , was blocked by the government from speaking to media because of a “ difficult political landscape.
” Now , a new example concerns the controversy over point-of-care antibody testing for covid-19 .
The prime minister ’ s Operation Moonshot depends on immediate and wide availability of accurate rapid diagnostic tests .
It also depends on the questionable logic of mass screening—currently being trialled in Liverpool with a suboptimal PCR test .
Clarks Men ’ s Til ... Buy New $ 44.99 The incident relates to research published @ @ @ @ @ @ @ finds that the government procured an antibody test that in real world tests falls well short of performance claims made by its manufacturers .
Researchers from Public Health England and collaborating institutions sensibly pushed to publish their study findings before the government committed to buying a million of these tests but were blocked by the health department and the prime minister ’ s office .
Why was it important to procure this product without due scrutiny ?
Prior publication of research on a preprint server or a government website is compatible with The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if to prove a point , Public Health England then unsuccessfully attempted to block The BMJ ’ s press release about the research paper .
Politicians often claim to follow the science , but that is a misleading oversimplification .
Science is rarely absolute .
It rarely applies to every setting or every population .
It doesn ’ t make sense to slavishly follow science or evidence .
A better approach is for politicians , the publicly appointed decision makers , to be informed and guided by science when they decide policy for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ retains public and professional trust only if science is available for scrutiny and free of political interference , and if the system is transparent and not compromised by conflicts of interest .
Suppression of science and scientists is not new or a peculiarly British phenomenon .
In the US , President Trump ’ s government manipulated the Food and Drug Administration to hastily approve unproved drugs such as hydroxychloroquine and remdesivir .
Globally , people , policies , and procurement are being corrupted by political and commercial agendas .
The UK ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and other government appointees with worrying competing interests , including shareholdings in companies that manufacture covid-19 diagnostic tests , treatments , and vaccines .
Government appointees are able to ignore or cherry pick science—another form of misuse—and indulge in anti-competitive practices that favour their own products and those of friends and associates .
How might science be safeguarded in these exceptional times ?
The first step is full disclosure of competing interests from government , politicians , scientific advisers , and appointees , such as the heads of test and trace , diagnostic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The next step is full transparency about decision making systems , processes , and knowing who is accountable for what .
Once transparency and accountability are established as norms , individuals employed by government should ideally only work in areas unrelated to their competing interests .
Expertise is possible without competing interests .
If such a strict rule becomes impractical , minimum good practice is that people with competing interests must not be involved in decisions on products and policies in which they have a financial interest .
Adam Baker Men ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ industry must also stop announcing critical science policy by press release .
Such ill judged moves leave science , the media , and stock markets vulnerable to manipulation .
Clear , open , and advance publication of the scientific basis for policy , procurements , and wonder drugs is a fundamental requirement .
The stakes are high for politicians , scientific advisers , and government appointees .
Their careers and bank balances may hinge on the decisions that they make .
But they have a higher responsibility and duty to the public .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ doesn ’ t need to be followed blindly , but it does need to be fairly considered .
Importantly , suppressing science , whether by delaying publication , cherry picking favourable research , or gagging scientists , is a danger to public health , causing deaths by exposing people to unsafe or ineffective interventions and preventing them from benefiting from better ones .
When entangled with commercial decisions it is also maladministration of taxpayers ’ money .
Politicisation of science was enthusiastically deployed by some of history ’ s worst autocrats and dictators @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in democracies .
The medical-political complex tends towards suppression of science to aggrandise and enrich those in power .
And , as the powerful become more successful , richer , and further intoxicated with power , the inconvenient truths of science are suppressed .
When good science is suppressed , people die .
The Takeaway : What does it say about our world when so many voices are silenced ?
Why is this happening ?
How can so many doctors and scientists be wrong , ridiculed , completely ignored and censored to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aware of the information they are sharing ?
Why do we only get one perspective from the mainstream media ?
Can we continue to rely on government , and government health agencies to provide us with real information and recommendations that have the best interests of the people at heart , or is everything we are seeing an attempt to not only control , but profit off the human race ?
Why have so many people lost faith in their government and the ability of it to deliver accurate and real information to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ take matters into our own hands ?
Do we really live in a democracy when the voice and the will of so many people continue to go unheard and unacknowledged ?
We ’ re in a time where these very questions are more important to answer than ever before .
Action is needed , worldviews are shifting , practice is everything .

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has witnessed the suppression of not only science, but a number of prominent scientists and doctors from around the world. These doctors and scientists have shared their research, observations and opinions about COVID-19 that directly contradicts the information given to the citizenry by the World Health Organization (WHO) and government health authorities in dozens of countries.
Mainstream media is constantly giving attention to government affiliated scientists and is only sharing one perspective on this pandemic. Social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, and Twitter have all been actively censoring a number of scientists and doctors, but why? Why censor information if it’s not true? How can tens of thousands of doctors and scientists be sharing a perspective that’s constantly ridiculed by mainstream media?
I’m not talking about the more controversial films or messages like what has been touted by David Icke or the film Plandemic, we’re talking about real science from tens of thousands of respected and credentialed health professionals. Why are they not allowed to be heard? Why are there ‘fact-checkers’ going around the internet telling people what is and what isn’t? COOFANDY Mens Cowboy S... Buy New $31.99 (as of 05:34 UTC - Details)
These scientists have not backed down, for example, Michael Levitt, a Biophysicist and a professor of structural biology at Stanford University criticized the WHO as well as Facebook for censoring different information and informed perspectives regarding the Coronavirus.
Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist, Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School created “The Great Barrington Declaration.” It now has approximately 45,000 signatures from doctors and scientists, the declaration strongly opposes COVID lockdown measures, stating that they do more harm than good and are not really effective.
Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, one of the most cited scientists in German history, who was chair of Medical Microbiology at the University of Mainz along with his wife Karina Reiss Ph.D have published a book titled “Corona, False Alarm? Facts & Figures.“ They are part of more than 500 German doctors & scientists who have signed on as representatives of an organization called “Außerparlamentarischer Corona Untersuchungsausschuss. The organization opposes measures taken by governments worldwide.
These are just a few of countless examples out there from so many different countries. COVID-19 has united prominent scientists and doctors from around the world in large numbers, yet their concerns go unheard. Sometimes it seems like the mainstream media can make the minority feel like the majority, and the majority feel like the minority.
The general theme among these groups is that COVID-19 is not as dangerous as it’s been made out to be, and that there is manipulation of science and data on several different levels, from the infection/fatality rate, the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19, the number of cases that are actually out there, and the idea that the virus is being made out to be much more dangerous than it actually is.
What Happened: The latest example comes from Dr. Kamran Abbasi, executive editor of the prestigious British Medical Journal, editor of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, and a consultant editor for PLOS Medicine. He is editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine and JRSM Open. Van Heusen Men’s... Buy New $29.89 (as of 05:34 UTC - Details)
He recently published a piece in the BMJ, titled “Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science.”
In his article, he writes the following:
Politicians and governments are suppressing science. They do so in the public interest, they say, to accelerate availability of diagnostics and treatments. They do so to support innovation, to bring products to market at unprecedented speed. Both of these reasons are partly plausible; the greatest deceptions are founded in a grain of truth. But the underlying behaviour is troubling. Science is being suppressed for political and financial gain. Covid-19 has unleashed state corruption on a grand scale, and it is harmful to public health. Politicians and industry are responsible for this opportunistic embezzlement. So too are scientists and health experts. The pandemic has revealed how the medical-political complex can be manipulated in an emergency—a time when it is even more important to safeguard science. The UK’s pandemic response provides at least four examples of suppression of science or scientists. First, the membership, research, and deliberations of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) were initially secret until a press leak forced transparency. The leak revealed inappropriate involvement of government advisers in SAGE, while exposing under-representation from public health, clinical care, women, and ethnic minorities. Indeed, the government was also recently ordered to release a 2016 report on deficiencies in pandemic preparedness, Operation Cygnus, following a verdict from the Information Commissioner’s Office. Next, a Public Health England report on covid-19 and inequalities. The report’s publication was delayed by England’s Department of Health; a section on ethnic minorities was initially withheld and then, following a public outcry, was published as part of a follow-up report. Authors from Public Health England were instructed not to talk to the media. Third, on 15 October, the editor of the Lancet complained that an author of a research paper, a UK government scientist, was blocked by the government from speaking to media because of a “difficult political landscape.” Now, a new example concerns the controversy over point-of-care antibody testing for covid-19. The prime minister’s Operation Moonshot depends on immediate and wide availability of accurate rapid diagnostic tests. It also depends on the questionable logic of mass screening—currently being trialled in Liverpool with a suboptimal PCR test. Clarks Men’s Til... Buy New $44.99 (as of 05:34 UTC - Details) The incident relates to research published this week by The BMJ, which finds that the government procured an antibody test that in real world tests falls well short of performance claims made by its manufacturers. Researchers from Public Health England and collaborating institutions sensibly pushed to publish their study findings before the government committed to buying a million of these tests but were blocked by the health department and the prime minister’s office. Why was it important to procure this product without due scrutiny? Prior publication of research on a preprint server or a government website is compatible with The BMJ’s publication policy. As if to prove a point, Public Health England then unsuccessfully attempted to block The BMJ’s press release about the research paper. Politicians often claim to follow the science, but that is a misleading oversimplification. Science is rarely absolute. It rarely applies to every setting or every population. It doesn’t make sense to slavishly follow science or evidence. A better approach is for politicians, the publicly appointed decision makers, to be informed and guided by science when they decide policy for their public. But even that approach retains public and professional trust only if science is available for scrutiny and free of political interference, and if the system is transparent and not compromised by conflicts of interest. Suppression of science and scientists is not new or a peculiarly British phenomenon. In the US, President Trump’s government manipulated the Food and Drug Administration to hastily approve unproved drugs such as hydroxychloroquine and remdesivir. Globally, people, policies, and procurement are being corrupted by political and commercial agendas. The UK’s pandemic response relies too heavily on scientists and other government appointees with worrying competing interests, including shareholdings in companies that manufacture covid-19 diagnostic tests, treatments, and vaccines. Government appointees are able to ignore or cherry pick science—another form of misuse—and indulge in anti-competitive practices that favour their own products and those of friends and associates. How might science be safeguarded in these exceptional times? The first step is full disclosure of competing interests from government, politicians, scientific advisers, and appointees, such as the heads of test and trace, diagnostic test procurement, and vaccine delivery. The next step is full transparency about decision making systems, processes, and knowing who is accountable for what. Once transparency and accountability are established as norms, individuals employed by government should ideally only work in areas unrelated to their competing interests. Expertise is possible without competing interests. If such a strict rule becomes impractical, minimum good practice is that people with competing interests must not be involved in decisions on products and policies in which they have a financial interest. Adam Baker Men’s... Buy New $169.99 (as of 05:34 UTC - Details) Governments and industry must also stop announcing critical science policy by press release. Such ill judged moves leave science, the media, and stock markets vulnerable to manipulation. Clear, open, and advance publication of the scientific basis for policy, procurements, and wonder drugs is a fundamental requirement. The stakes are high for politicians, scientific advisers, and government appointees. Their careers and bank balances may hinge on the decisions that they make. But they have a higher responsibility and duty to the public. Science is a public good. It doesn’t need to be followed blindly, but it does need to be fairly considered. Importantly, suppressing science, whether by delaying publication, cherry picking favourable research, or gagging scientists, is a danger to public health, causing deaths by exposing people to unsafe or ineffective interventions and preventing them from benefiting from better ones. When entangled with commercial decisions it is also maladministration of taxpayers’ money. Politicisation of science was enthusiastically deployed by some of history’s worst autocrats and dictators, and it is now regrettably commonplace in democracies. The medical-political complex tends towards suppression of science to aggrandise and enrich those in power. And, as the powerful become more successful, richer, and further intoxicated with power, the inconvenient truths of science are suppressed. When good science is suppressed, people die.
The Takeaway: What does it say about our world when so many voices are silenced? Why is this happening? How can so many doctors and scientists be wrong, ridiculed, completely ignored and censored to the point where not many people are even aware of the information they are sharing? Why do we only get one perspective from the mainstream media? Can we continue to rely on government, and government health agencies to provide us with real information and recommendations that have the best interests of the people at heart, or is everything we are seeing an attempt to not only control, but profit off the human race? Why have so many people lost faith in their government and the ability of it to deliver accurate and real information to the people?
Is it time to take matters into our own hands? Do we really live in a democracy when the voice and the will of so many people continue to go unheard and unacknowledged?
We’re in a time where these very questions are more important to answer than ever before. Action is needed, worldviews are shifting, practice is everything.
Reprinted with permission from Collective Evolution.


Decency Inverted

How does a “ mask ” prevent a person who isn ’ t sick from distributing a sickness he does not have ?
A full Moon Suit connected to a closed-circuit oxygen rebreather system would not “ stop the spread ” if the “ spreader ” hasn ’ t got anything to spread .
The Coronamonomaniac ’ s answer , of course , is that the “ mask ” protects against the possibility that you might be sick and not realize it – i.e.
, “ asymptomatic ” – and their fear of this possibility – no matter how unlikely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you to wear the “ mask.
” One might ask , in that case , whether the possibility that someone might be a thief obliges the suspected person to keep their hands in plain sight at all times – so as to assuage the fear of theft ?
If not – and most reasonable people would probably agree that it does not – then why must a person who isn ’ t sick be made to pretend – eternally – he is sick because other people are afraid he might be ?
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He shouldn ’ t have to pretend he is sick .
Ever .
Nor be made to appear to agree with the tenets of the Sickness Cult , which the wearing of the “ mask ” implies he does .
There is something very wrong with this business of insisting that people alter their behavior in degrading ways – as by walking around in fear of other people , avoiding proximity , wearing a silly “ mask ” over their faces – because some people are afraid .
Wantdo Men ’ s Win @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t their fear oblige them to deal with it rather than others to accommodate it ?
Without regard to the impact on others of their insisted-on accommodations ?
The mental disease of Coronamonomania requires that everything – and everyone – be subordinated without limit to the unlimited fear some people have of a sickness that by any fact-based metric poses far less threat of actual harm to almost everyone than the impositions being insisted upon .
This is a sound working definition of mass hysteria , an extremely dangerous phenomenon when allowed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – how to stop its spread ?
The difficulty is the natural – and reasonable – aversion most people have for conflict .
Their desire to not make others feel bad , if they can avoid it .
We say nice things about people ’ s bad haircuts – or don ’ t say anything about them at all .
We refrain from criticism we know will not be well-received .
We seek to live – and let live .
This decent instinct is being used against decency – by making good people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rabidized fear of others .
This is a hobble which must be overcome and the way to overcome it is to realize you are not a bad person for not submitting to emotional blackmail .
To being made to actually say that a bad haircut is the best one you ’ ve ever seen and to agree with viewpoints you disagree with .
You know you are not sick .
Therefore , decline to pretend you are sick .
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It’s a simple ask:
How does a “mask” prevent a person who isn’t sick from distributing a sickness he does not have? A full Moon Suit connected to a closed-circuit oxygen rebreather system would not “stop the spread” if the “spreader” hasn’t got anything to spread.
The Coronamonomaniac’s answer, of course, is that the “mask” protects against the possibility that you might be sick and not realize it – i.e., “asymptomatic” – and their fear of this possibility – no matter how unlikely it may be in fact – obliges you to wear the “mask.”
One might ask, in that case, whether the possibility that someone might be a thief obliges the suspected person to keep their hands in plain sight at all times – so as to assuage the fear of theft?
If not – and most reasonable people would probably agree that it does not – then why must a person who isn’t sick be made to pretend – eternally – he is sick because other people are afraid he might be?
The answer to that should be obvious: He shouldn’t have to pretend he is sick. Ever. Nor be made to appear to agree with the tenets of the Sickness Cult, which the wearing of the “mask” implies he does.
There is something very wrong with this business of insisting that people alter their behavior in degrading ways – as by walking around in fear of other people, avoiding proximity, wearing a silly “mask” over their faces – because some people are afraid. Wantdo Men’s Win... Buy New $72.76 (as of 05:35 UTC - Details)
Why doesn’t their fear oblige them to deal with it rather than others to accommodate it?
Without regard to the impact on others of their insisted-on accommodations?
The mental disease of Coronamonomania requires that everything – and everyone – be subordinated without limit to the unlimited fear some people have of a sickness that by any fact-based metric poses far less threat of actual harm to almost everyone than the impositions being insisted upon.
This is a sound working definition of mass hysteria, an extremely dangerous phenomenon when allowed to run amok.
The question becomes – how to stop its spread?
The difficulty is the natural – and reasonable – aversion most people have for conflict. Their desire to not make others feel bad, if they can avoid it. We say nice things about people’s bad haircuts – or don’t say anything about them at all. We refrain from criticism we know will not be well-received.
We seek to live – and let live.
This decent instinct is being used against decency – by making good people feel bad about not deferring to the rabidized fear of others.
This is a hobble which must be overcome and the way to overcome it is to realize you are not a bad person for not submitting to emotional blackmail. To being made to actually say that a bad haircut is the best one you’ve ever seen and to agree with viewpoints you disagree with.
You know you are not sick. Therefore, decline to pretend you are sick.
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lewrockwell--2020-11-20--The Problem of Teaching Ethics

The Problem of Teaching Ethics

Ryan Reeves offers a series on Lewis and Tolkien , taken from his classroom lectures at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary .
In this video , entitled C.S .
Lewis , Theology and the Space Trilogy , he raises an interesting discussion point .
At a faculty retreat that was taken with a group of pastors , one of the professors from the seminary asked : what can we teach our theology students that we aren ’ t teaching ?
In other words , when the students graduate and you get them , on what subjects are they falling short ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ courses on ethics , and it still wouldn ’ t be enough .
Not only would it not be enough , but the ethical issues we are facing are changing so fast that we can ’ t keep up .
For a New Liberty : The ... Murray Rothbard Best Price : $ 9.51 Buy New $ 10.50 Admittedly , ethical issues are changing very fast today .
But ethical issues have always been changing , and , at other times , quite fast .
We faced such issues in the 1960s regarding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the 1920s regarding the family in post-war Europe especially ; in the 1860s regarding slavery in the United States ; in the 1790s regarding the use of the guillotine .
I could continue traveling through time in reverse .
In other words , we have faced such change before , both in speed and magnitude .
Unfortunately for us , each of those episodes preceded or followed a dramatic episode of violence .
My first point is that we have gone through many periods where we can ’ t keep up .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ cost .
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day ; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime My main point : in teaching ethics , teaching the issues of the moment is insufficient – one is always teaching on how to deal with that which already happened .
Each new question in ethics requires a new course to deal with that which has already overtaken society .
By the time a theological seminary or a university develops a new course , sends enough @ @ @ @ @ @ @ then are in a position to make an impact in their community , the horse is out of the barn – followed by four additional horses for which new courses have yet to be developed or new students have yet to be taught .
Such a course of action – giving men fish – will never offer the possibility of keeping up with change .
To keep up with change , one must teach men to fish .
Which brings me to the concept of natural law .
My thought when I heard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ courses on natural law , and you will greatly reduce the angst about keeping up with the new ethical changes coming at us at lightning speed .
Written on the Heart : ... Budziszewski , J .
Best Price : $ 2.54 Buy New $ 14.27 There is such pushback on this concept , coming at us – I believe – from two main sources : first , from those who want to control society , and second , from those who find some reason to “ fault ” the concept .
Murray @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ the natural law provides the only sure ground for a continuing critique of governmental laws and decrees.
” It is through these governmental laws and – ever-increasingly – decrees that society is controlled .
What of unpacking the second ?
Those who fault the concept of natural law have many arrows in their quivers : Aristotle ’ s physics and science have proven faulty ( as if this has to do with his thoughts on metaphysics ) ; Aquinas was Catholic ( as was the entirety of the West for 1500 years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ theology of other of Thomas ’ s teachings ( as if these have to do with natural law ) ; it is not Scripturally based ( to which I have demonstrated the opposite ) .
Finally , which natural law ( which comes to the ever-changing ethical environment that is inherent in man ’ s existence ) ?
But this is the point : natural law provides a foundation , a philosophical and theological framework by which one can address ever-changing ethical issues .
It doesn ’ t give answers to ethical questions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it offers a foundation and method by which to answer those questions yet to be asked .
There is no such things as “ which natural law ?
” there is only natural law , from which answers to ever-changing ethic questions can be derived .
The following issues are all addressed via natural law ethics : • Some basis from which to determine prohibited acts Natural Law Spooner , Lysander Buy New $ 4.99 Absent a natural law foundation , the answers to these issues can be as varied as one likes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fracturing of society .
We also see the futility of any conversation that attempts to deal with these issues absent an embrace of natural law .
The societal break-up we are living through – one that has its roots in the Enlightenment , even the Renaissance – can be described as a Christian civil war .
The reality is that all sides of this civil war can find Scriptural support for their positions .
Natural law provides arbitration regarding these disputes .
Is this a shortcoming of Scripture ?
Hardly .
After 500 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proven that Sola Scriptura isn ’ t as easy as it sounds .
What do we expect , when trying to comprehend God ?
Of course , neither Jesus nor the Apostle Paul commented directly on Aristotle or Natural Law ( indirectly , they had much to say ) ; then again , neither Jesus nor the Apostle Paul gave us penicillin – albeit it was certainly in at least Jesus ’ s power to do so .
I have been watching this conversation that burst on the scene with Jordan Peterson several @ @ @ @ @ @ @ struggling with all of the issues in the list above .
It is like watching blind men thrashing about in a room .
They are talking all around everything except that which must be talked about : finding a foundation in natural law .
Nothing in natural law violates Scripture or the message of salvation ; nothing in natural law requires atheists to find Christian salvation .
This is why Christians such as Paul VanderKlay and Jonathan Pageau ( one Reformed , the other Orthodox ) can find common ground with atheists such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ albeit none of them have found reason to address the elephant in the room : natural law .
Six courses in natural law at every theological seminary and Christian university in the country would go a long way toward moving this conversation in a direction toward resolution .
Of course , it would help if ethics courses in all university were built on this foundation .
But I think I am already asking too much .
Another comment from Reeves , when recalling this exchange between the pastors and the faculty at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ convince young people that there was evil in the world .
Today , the young people are so aware of the evil , we no longer have to convince them of this .
All that is left is to give them the answer .
This is incorrect .
We first have to agree on that which is evil .
Only at the extremes is there some agreement – and even this is diminishing , what with calls of exterminating those who support the other guy .
Natural law ethics provides a foundation for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ answer not at all inconsistent with Christian teaching .
It is also an answer that can be found ( for the most part ) absent Christian teaching .
I say “ for the most part ” because , whether they like it or not , even those who claim an aversion or even repulsion to the idea of Christianity are arguing on the basis of Christianity .
In the West , we are all swimming in the same water .
We merely disagree on the proper filtration system .
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Ryan Reeves offers a series on Lewis and Tolkien, taken from his classroom lectures at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. In this video, entitled C.S. Lewis, Theology and the Space Trilogy, he raises an interesting discussion point.
At a faculty retreat that was taken with a group of pastors, one of the professors from the seminary asked: what can we teach our theology students that we aren’t teaching? In other words, when the students graduate and you get them, on what subjects are they falling short?
The answer: you could teach six courses on ethics, and it still wouldn’t be enough. Not only would it not be enough, but the ethical issues we are facing are changing so fast that we can’t keep up.
For a New Liberty: The... Murray Rothbard Best Price: $9.51 Buy New $10.50 (as of 02:10 UTC - Details) Admittedly, ethical issues are changing very fast today. But ethical issues have always been changing, and, at other times, quite fast. We faced such issues in the 1960s regarding the sexual revolution and civil rights; in the 1920s regarding the family in post-war Europe especially; in the 1860s regarding slavery in the United States; in the 1790s regarding the use of the guillotine. I could continue traveling through time in reverse.
In other words, we have faced such change before, both in speed and magnitude. Unfortunately for us, each of those episodes preceded or followed a dramatic episode of violence. My first point is that we have gone through many periods where we can’t keep up. and this has come at a tremendous cost.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
My main point: in teaching ethics, teaching the issues of the moment is insufficient – one is always teaching on how to deal with that which already happened. Each new question in ethics requires a new course to deal with that which has already overtaken society.
By the time a theological seminary or a university develops a new course, sends enough students through it, and those students then are in a position to make an impact in their community, the horse is out of the barn – followed by four additional horses for which new courses have yet to be developed or new students have yet to be taught.
Such a course of action – giving men fish – will never offer the possibility of keeping up with change. To keep up with change, one must teach men to fish.
Which brings me to the concept of natural law. My thought when I heard Reeves recite this interchange: teach six courses on natural law, and you will greatly reduce the angst about keeping up with the new ethical changes coming at us at lightning speed.
Written on the Heart: ... Budziszewski, J. Best Price: $2.54 Buy New $14.27 (as of 11:10 UTC - Details) There is such pushback on this concept, coming at us – I believe – from two main sources: first, from those who want to control society, and second, from those who find some reason to “fault” the concept.
Murray Rothbard exposed the first, writing, “the natural law provides the only sure ground for a continuing critique of governmental laws and decrees.” It is through these governmental laws and – ever-increasingly – decrees that society is controlled. What of unpacking the second?
Those who fault the concept of natural law have many arrows in their quivers: Aristotle’s physics and science have proven faulty (as if this has to do with his thoughts on metaphysics); Aquinas was Catholic (as was the entirety of the West for 1500 years); disagreement is found with the theology of other of Thomas’s teachings (as if these have to do with natural law); it is not Scripturally based (to which I have demonstrated the opposite).
Finally, which natural law (which comes to the ever-changing ethical environment that is inherent in man’s existence)? But this is the point: natural law provides a foundation, a philosophical and theological framework by which one can address ever-changing ethical issues. It doesn’t give answers to ethical questions that have not yet been asked; it offers a foundation and method by which to answer those questions yet to be asked.
There is no such things as “which natural law?” there is only natural law, from which answers to ever-changing ethic questions can be derived.
The following issues are all addressed via natural law ethics:
Man’s reason for being
A recognized hierarchy
A recognition of man’s reason
A proper respect for one’s fellow man
An expected code of behavior
Some basis from which to determine prohibited acts
A properly ordered time preference
Natural Law Spooner, Lysander Buy New $4.99 (as of 03:45 UTC - Details) Absent a natural law foundation, the answers to these issues can be as varied as one likes, and through this we see the fracturing of society. We also see the futility of any conversation that attempts to deal with these issues absent an embrace of natural law.
The societal break-up we are living through – one that has its roots in the Enlightenment, even the Renaissance – can be described as a Christian civil war. The reality is that all sides of this civil war can find Scriptural support for their positions. Natural law provides arbitration regarding these disputes.
Is this a shortcoming of Scripture? Hardly. After 500 years, the Sola Scriptura clan has proven that Sola Scriptura isn’t as easy as it sounds. What do we expect, when trying to comprehend God? Of course, neither Jesus nor the Apostle Paul commented directly on Aristotle or Natural Law (indirectly, they had much to say); then again, neither Jesus nor the Apostle Paul gave us penicillin – albeit it was certainly in at least Jesus’s power to do so.
I have been watching this conversation that burst on the scene with Jordan Peterson several years ago. It is a conversation struggling with all of the issues in the list above. It is like watching blind men thrashing about in a room. They are talking all around everything except that which must be talked about: finding a foundation in natural law.
Nothing in natural law violates Scripture or the message of salvation; nothing in natural law requires atheists to find Christian salvation. This is why Christians such as Paul VanderKlay and Jonathan Pageau (one Reformed, the other Orthodox) can find common ground with atheists such as John Vervaeke and Jordan Peterson – albeit none of them have found reason to address the elephant in the room: natural law.
Six courses in natural law at every theological seminary and Christian university in the country would go a long way toward moving this conversation in a direction toward resolution. Of course, it would help if ethics courses in all university were built on this foundation. But I think I am already asking too much.
Conclusion
Another comment from Reeves, when recalling this exchange between the pastors and the faculty at the conference: we used to have to convince young people that there was evil in the world. Today, the young people are so aware of the evil, we no longer have to convince them of this. All that is left is to give them the answer.
This is incorrect. We first have to agree on that which is evil. Only at the extremes is there some agreement – and even this is diminishing, what with calls of exterminating those who support the other guy.
Natural law ethics provides a foundation for answering this question. It is an answer not at all inconsistent with Christian teaching. It is also an answer that can be found (for the most part) absent Christian teaching.
I say “for the most part” because, whether they like it or not, even those who claim an aversion or even repulsion to the idea of Christianity are arguing on the basis of Christianity. In the West, we are all swimming in the same water.
We merely disagree on the proper filtration system.
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