lewrockwell--2020-12-14--Power Outside the Matrix: What It Means

Power Outside the Matrix: What It Means

Time and time again , during my 30 years as a reporter , I ’ ve come across what I call “ the elite creation of reality.
” It shows up in areas of politics , energy , modern medicine , media , money , covert intelligence , the military , religion , science , multinational corporations .
It ’ s as if a painter is working on a mural , and the global population is looking at that mural and seeing it as Reality .
This goes deeper .
Much deeper : AIDS Inc. Rappoport , Jon Best Price @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Limited concepts of space , time , energy , the mind , cause-and-effect—these , too , are “ given ” to human beings as the be-all and end-all of a story .
A story that ultimately short-circuits and short-changes what the individual is really capable of .
The entire mural of imposed Reality is aimed at radically diminishing the individual ’ s power .
So in addition to my work as an investigative reporter , I ’ ve been researching the individual ’ s ability to go beyond this mural of reality .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the brilliant hypnotherapist Jack True ( who gave up doing hypnosis with his patients ) , I developed many , many exercises and techniques for expanding the creative power of the individual .
Some of those exercises are included in my new collection , Power Outside The Matrix .
These techniques are aimed at accessing more energy , more imagination , more stability and intelligence “ beyond the mural of reality.
” In fact , Power Outside The Matrix is all about being able to think , act , and create both @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that ’ s the goal : to be able to function in both places .
People are consciously or unconsciously fixated on boundaries and systems .
They are hoping for whatever can be delivered through a system .
Oklahoma City Bombing : ... Jon Rappoport Best Price : $ 7.81 Buy New $ 1.99 That is a form of mind control .
But freedom needs creative power , otherwise it just sits there and becomes a lonely statue gathering dust in an abandoned park .
At one time or another , every human @ @ @ @ @ @ @ planet has abandoned his creative power .
The question is : does he want to get it back ?
It never really goes away .
It is always there .
It is the basis of a life that can be lived .
A life that can be chosen .
People instead choose roles that don ’ t require that power .
They think this is a winning strategy .
A section of this mega-collection , titled Power Outside The Matrix and The Invention of New Reality , features creative exercises you do on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ move toward the goal of power outside The Matrix .
The exercises are all about increasing your energy and stability—and about the invention of new spaces .
Access to your internal energy , in huge amounts , is necessary for a life outside The Matrix-rather than relying on the illusory energy that The Matrix seems to provide .
I ’ ve developed the exercises for exactly that purpose : your energy , your dynamism .
Lifting the Veil with David Icke Buy New $ 10.21 Power Outside The Matrix , features a long @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Age of Disinformation .
This section is filled with specific examples of my past investigations .
Based on 25 years of experience , it shows you how to take apart and put together data that lead to valid conclusions .
It is far more than a logic course .
Establishing power outside The Matrix requires that a person be able to deal with today ’ s flood of information , misinformation , and disinformation .
I ’ ve left no stone unturned in bringing you a workable approach to analysis .
There is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ People have been asking me to provide this Tutorial , and here it is in spades .
But it ’ s not just for writers .
It ’ s for any creative person who wants to grasp his own power , understand it , and use it to reach out into the world .
The Tutorial exposes you to lessons that go far beyond what is normally taught in writer ’ s seminars .
In fact , several core concepts in the Tutorial contradict ordinary writer ’ s seminars , and thus give @ @ @ @ @ @ @ otherwise be ignored .
The Best of Jon Rappoport

Time and time again, during my 30 years as a reporter, I’ve come across what I call “the elite creation of reality.”
It shows up in areas of politics, energy, modern medicine, media, money, covert intelligence, the military, religion, science, multinational corporations.
It’s as if a painter is working on a mural, and the global population is looking at that mural and seeing it as Reality.
This goes deeper. Much deeper:
AIDS Inc. Rappoport, Jon Best Price: $33.29 Buy New $18.89 (as of 03:34 UTC - Details) Limited concepts of space, time, energy, the mind, cause-and-effect—these, too, are “given” to human beings as the be-all and end-all of a story. A story that ultimately short-circuits and short-changes what the individual is really capable of.
The entire mural of imposed Reality is aimed at radically diminishing the individual’s power.
So in addition to my work as an investigative reporter, I’ve been researching the individual’s ability to go beyond this mural of reality.
In the late 1980s, in concert with the brilliant hypnotherapist Jack True (who gave up doing hypnosis with his patients), I developed many, many exercises and techniques for expanding the creative power of the individual.
Some of those exercises are included in my new collection, Power Outside The Matrix. These techniques are aimed at accessing more energy, more imagination, more stability and intelligence “beyond the mural of reality.”
In fact, Power Outside The Matrix is all about being able to think, act, and create both outside and inside The Matrix. Because that’s the goal: to be able to function in both places.
People are consciously or unconsciously fixated on boundaries and systems. They are hoping for whatever can be delivered through a system. Oklahoma City Bombing:... Jon Rappoport Best Price: $7.81 Buy New $1.99 (as of 07:45 UTC - Details)
That is a form of mind control.
Freedom isn’t a system.
But freedom needs creative power, otherwise it just sits there and becomes a lonely statue gathering dust in an abandoned park.
At one time or another, every human being who has ever lived on this planet has abandoned his creative power. The question is: does he want to get it back?
It never really goes away. It is always there. It is the basis of a life that can be lived. A life that can be chosen. People instead choose roles that don’t require that power. They think this is a winning strategy.
It isn’t.
A section of this mega-collection, titled Power Outside The Matrix and The Invention of New Reality , features creative exercises you do on a daily basis that will help you move toward the goal of power outside The Matrix. The exercises are all about increasing your energy and stability—and about the invention of new spaces.
Access to your internal energy, in huge amounts, is necessary for a life outside The Matrix-rather than relying on the illusory energy that The Matrix seems to provide.
I’ve developed the exercises for exactly that purpose: your energy, your dynamism. Lifting the Veil with David Icke Buy New $10.21 (as of 04:32 UTC - Details)
Power Outside The Matrix, features a long section called: Analyzing Information in the Age of Disinformation .
This section is filled with specific examples of my past investigations. Based on 25 years of experience, it shows you how to take apart and put together data that lead to valid conclusions.
It is far more than a logic course.
It’s an advanced approach to analysis.
Establishing power outside The Matrix requires that a person be able to deal with today’s flood of information, misinformation, and disinformation. I’ve left no stone unturned in bringing you a workable approach to analysis.
There is a further extensive section titled, A Writer’s Tutorial . People have been asking me to provide this Tutorial, and here it is in spades. But it’s not just for writers. It’s for any creative person who wants to grasp his own power, understand it, and use it to reach out into the world.
The Tutorial exposes you to lessons that go far beyond what is normally taught in writer’s seminars. In fact, several core concepts in the Tutorial contradict ordinary writer’s seminars, and thus give you access to inner resources that would otherwise be ignored.
Reprinted with permission from Jon Rappoport’s blog.
The Best of Jon Rappoport


lewrockwell--2020-12-14--Sometimes Life Really Is Like a Bad Dream

When you think of the US Supreme Court , it ’ s probably the image of its august Greco-Roman façade , expressing the conjoined ideas of democracy ( ancient Greece ) and a republic ( classical Rome ) .
Or else , you might imagine the grand courtroom inside — always featured in drawings , because photos aren ’ t allowed — which is the ultimate performance space for the law of the land .
But there must be quite a backstage area , offices for the justices and their clerks , and surely some kind of boardroom , or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leather club chairs , a fireplace , and a sideboard with the cut-crystal sherry bottle .
Would you suppose that the nine justices , or , at least the two divisions of them , get together there and palaver informally over dockets and cases ?
I would .
Now imagine they are palavering over the current case at hand brought by Texas with what… eightteen other states now , plus the president , in for backup ?
Is the court really reluctant to take the case , as the media gossip says ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ it , would they eventually rule to not disturb the current disposition of the election — even as alleged to be rife with ballot fraud — out of fear of venturing into a constitutional wilderness , as other gossip has it .
Maybe .
But what happens then… ?
Hey , whatever you think of Donald Trump , he has been POTUS for four years , with access to whole lot of non-public information about his colleagues in government , including who among them has been playing footsie with the tentacles of China @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and prompted by four years of non-stop seditious harassment by a deranged Democratic Party , would you suppose he had a plan to meet some version of what played out on November 3 ?
I would .
Living in the Long Eme ... James Howard Kunstler Buy New $ 24.95 I would suppose , for instance , that Mr. Trump ’ s military intelligence allies saw , in real time on election night , all the packets of internet data that Dominion vote tabulation machines in the USA sent across the Atlantic to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Frankfurt , Germany , cyberwarfare station .
This , you understand , when those Dominion machines in the USA were forbidden by law to be connected to the Internet .
If you ’ re a regular reader here , you will recall the recent report of a US Army special forces operation going into the Frankfurt CIA station directly after the election and seizing servers there .
Assume that they underwent forensic dissection afterward .
If you were President DJ Trump , would you suspect that the CIA might be playing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ extension , the nation ) ?
Are you aware that China has a 75 percent investment stake in the holding company that now owns Dominion ?
Are there grounds to suppose that China somehow interfered in the election ?
With assistance from an eager Democratic Party and the CIA ?
Would Mr. Trump , of all people , let such a thing stand ?
Especially considering the evidence that the putative “ winner ” of the election , Joe Biden , the kid from Scranton , PA , was up to his eyeballs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in Chinese funny-money ?
( Not to mention money from Ukraine , Kazakhstan , Russia , and other lands ? )
Note : information about this evidence gleaned from Hunter Biden ’ s forgotten laptop was deliberately suppressed in October by the major newspapers and cable news stations , with help from Facebook , Twitter , and Google , along with a claque of “ fifty former and current intel officials ” led John Brennan , who denounced the reports from The New York Post in a public letter as “ Russian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ among the swamplings .
Are you aware that in the weeks since the election there have been unusual movements of US military aircraft around the country , including C-130 “ Hercules ” troop carrier planes ?
And that the navy has two carrier groups out along the Pacific Coast and three strung along the Atlantic coast ?
That ’ s what I hear .
Remember , the president cleaned house at the top of the Pentagon this fall , and probably not for nothing .
Sounds like preparation for something… some extraordinary executive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ known as Joe Biden from being sworn-in as president — in the absence of anything else in a strictly constitutional way that would keep that from happening , like a Supreme Court decision that would order the rare passing on of the disputed 2020 election to the House of Representatives for resolution , with a strong statistical likelihood that the body would re-elect Mr. Trump .
These are the sorts of things I imagine the Supreme Court justices might be palavering about and weighing over their sherry in the comfortable back room of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of course , the likelihood that such a momentous decision to send the vote to the House would provoke a violent , batshit crazy response from the Democratic Party ’ s street warriors , BLM and Antifa — thus the C-130 flights perhaps deploying troops around the country .
This time , expect the Black Blocs to get their asses kicked , and swiftly .
Expect also a mind-blowing raft of arrests of political celebrities on charges like treason .
Does it sound like a bad dream ?
Yeah , kind of does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Best of James Howard Kunstler

When you think of the US Supreme Court, it’s probably the image of its august Greco-Roman façade, expressing the conjoined ideas of democracy (ancient Greece) and a republic (classical Rome). Or else, you might imagine the grand courtroom inside — always featured in drawings, because photos aren’t allowed — which is the ultimate performance space for the law of the land. But there must be quite a backstage area, offices for the justices and their clerks, and surely some kind of boardroom, or even a comfy lounge full of overstuffed leather club chairs, a fireplace, and a sideboard with the cut-crystal sherry bottle. Would you suppose that the nine justices, or, at least the two divisions of them, get together there and palaver informally over dockets and cases? I would.
Now imagine they are palavering over the current case at hand brought by Texas with what… eightteen other states now, plus the president, in for backup? Is the court really reluctant to take the case, as the media gossip says? Maybe. But if they do take it, would they eventually rule to not disturb the current disposition of the election — even as alleged to be rife with ballot fraud — out of fear of venturing into a constitutional wilderness, as other gossip has it. Maybe. But what happens then…?
Hey, whatever you think of Donald Trump, he has been POTUS for four years, with access to whole lot of non-public information about his colleagues in government, including who among them has been playing footsie with the tentacles of China, and lots more. Accordingly, and prompted by four years of non-stop seditious harassment by a deranged Democratic Party, would you suppose he had a plan to meet some version of what played out on November 3? I would. Living in the Long Eme... James Howard Kunstler Buy New $24.95 (as of 10:56 UTC - Details)
I would suppose, for instance, that Mr. Trump’s military intelligence allies saw, in real time on election night, all the packets of internet data that Dominion vote tabulation machines in the USA sent across the Atlantic to the Dominion server lodged in the CIA’s Frankfurt, Germany, cyberwarfare station. This, you understand, when those Dominion machines in the USA were forbidden by law to be connected to the Internet. If you’re a regular reader here, you will recall the recent report of a US Army special forces operation going into the Frankfurt CIA station directly after the election and seizing servers there. Assume that they underwent forensic dissection afterward. If you were President DJ Trump, would you suspect that the CIA might be playing dangerous games with you (and by extension, the nation)? Are you aware that China has a 75 percent investment stake in the holding company that now owns Dominion? Are there grounds to suppose that China somehow interfered in the election? With assistance from an eager Democratic Party and the CIA?
Would Mr. Trump, of all people, let such a thing stand? Especially considering the evidence that the putative “winner” of the election, Joe Biden, the kid from Scranton, PA, was up to his eyeballs, with the rest of his family, in Chinese funny-money? (Not to mention money from Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Russia, and other lands?) Note: information about this evidence gleaned from Hunter Biden’s forgotten laptop was deliberately suppressed in October by the major newspapers and cable news stations, with help from Facebook, Twitter, and Google, along with a claque of “fifty former and current intel officials” led John Brennan, who denounced the reports from The New York Post in a public letter as “Russian disinformation” — yet another seditious conspiracy among the swamplings.
Are you aware that in the weeks since the election there have been unusual movements of US military aircraft around the country, including C-130 “Hercules” troop carrier planes? And that the navy has two carrier groups out along the Pacific Coast and three strung along the Atlantic coast? That’s what I hear. Remember, the president cleaned house at the top of the Pentagon this fall, and probably not for nothing. Sounds like preparation for something… some extraordinary executive action to prevent the national security risk known as Joe Biden from being sworn-in as president — in the absence of anything else in a strictly constitutional way that would keep that from happening, like a Supreme Court decision that would order the rare passing on of the disputed 2020 election to the House of Representatives for resolution, with a strong statistical likelihood that the body would re-elect Mr. Trump.
These are the sorts of things I imagine the Supreme Court justices might be palavering about and weighing over their sherry in the comfortable back room of their august clubhouse. There is, of course, the likelihood that such a momentous decision to send the vote to the House would provoke a violent, batshit crazy response from the Democratic Party’s street warriors, BLM and Antifa — thus the C-130 flights perhaps deploying troops around the country. This time, expect the Black Blocs to get their asses kicked, and swiftly. Expect also a mind-blowing raft of arrests of political celebrities on charges like treason. Does it sound like a bad dream? Yeah, kind of does. But there it is.
Reprinted with permission from Kunstler.com.
The Best of James Howard Kunstler


lewrockwell--2020-12-15--Congress Again Proves that the Business of Washington Is War

Libertarian educator Tom Woods famously quipped that “ no matter who you vote for you end up with John McCain.
” Unfortunately Woods was proven right for about the thousandth time this past week , as Washington again showed us that it is all about war .
First , we learned that if Joe Biden ends up in the White House next month he intends to put a deep state member of the military-industrial complex in charge of the Pentagon .
General Lloyd Austin will be only the second Defense Secretary in decades to require a special Senate waiver to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mattis under President Trump also needed a waiver , as he had been out of the military less than the required seven years before becoming Defense Secretary .
But the revolving door between active military service and civilian leadership of the Pentagon is perhaps less troubling than the revolving door between the military-industrial complex and leadership of the Defense Department .
The Great Ron Paul : Th ... Horton , Scott Best Price : $ 45.43 Buy New $ 19.99 As the first African-American to take charge of the Pentagon , the Austin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for “ diversity.
” However , if we move beyond the color of a person ’ s skin , Biden ’ s selection is not all that diverse .
Gen. Austin was head of the US Central Command under an Obama Administration that launched a brutal war on Libya under false pretenses and pursued a regime-change policy in Syria that involved arming and training jihadists .
Upon retirement , as is all too common with military leaders , he cashed in on his service with a position on the board of military contractor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as usual ” for Washington ’ s warmongers and the military contractors who make a fortune inventing endless conflicts overseas .
Then things went from bad to worse , as the yearly monstrosity called the National Defense Authorization Act ( NDAA ) was passed with an amendment severely restricting the US president ’ s ability to remove troops from Afghanistan and Europe .
Offered by neoconservative Congresswoman Liz Cheney , daughter of the warmongering Dick Cheney , the amendment all but guarantees that America ’ s longest war in history will continue pointlessly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ron Paul Best Price : $ 4.87 Buy New $ 7.63 A coalition of warmongering Democrats and Republicans have been furious with President Trump for his last minute effort to draw troops down from Afghanistan and elsewhere , and they appear to have a veto-proof majority to tie the president ’ s hands .
Congress has for decades believed that the president can go to war whenever or wherever he pleases without a declaration , but if the president dares attempt to end a war their belief in a “ unitary executive ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hypocrisy .
The Constitution is clear that the president is the commander in chief of the military and as such should have the authority to move troops as he sees fit .
The Founders understood that 535 Members of Congress trying to micromanage troops on the battlefield is not a good idea .
Congress has it backward .
It should be very difficult for a president to take the country to war and easy for that war to be ended .
Time after time , the “ peace ” candidate usually wins the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the American people are of endless war , the war machine finds a way to keep chugging along .
What will it take to return to a policy of peace and prosperity ?
The Best of Ron Paul , MD

Libertarian educator Tom Woods famously quipped that “no matter who you vote for you end up with John McCain.” Unfortunately Woods was proven right for about the thousandth time this past week, as Washington again showed us that it is all about war.
First, we learned that if Joe Biden ends up in the White House next month he intends to put a deep state member of the military-industrial complex in charge of the Pentagon. General Lloyd Austin will be only the second Defense Secretary in decades to require a special Senate waiver to serve in that position. Gen. James Mattis under President Trump also needed a waiver, as he had been out of the military less than the required seven years before becoming Defense Secretary.
But the revolving door between active military service and civilian leadership of the Pentagon is perhaps less troubling than the revolving door between the military-industrial complex and leadership of the Defense Department. The Great Ron Paul: Th... Horton, Scott Best Price: $3.80 Buy New $7.98 (as of 08:14 UTC - Details)
As the first African-American to take charge of the Pentagon, the Austin pick is celebrated as a great victory for “diversity.” However, if we move beyond the color of a person’s skin, Biden’s selection is not all that diverse. Gen. Austin was head of the US Central Command under an Obama Administration that launched a brutal war on Libya under false pretenses and pursued a regime-change policy in Syria that involved arming and training jihadists. Upon retirement, as is all too common with military leaders, he cashed in on his service with a position on the board of military contractor Raytheon.
Austin will be “business as usual” for Washington’s warmongers and the military contractors who make a fortune inventing endless conflicts overseas.
Then things went from bad to worse, as the yearly monstrosity called the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was passed with an amendment severely restricting the US president’s ability to remove troops from Afghanistan and Europe. Offered by neoconservative Congresswoman Liz Cheney, daughter of the warmongering Dick Cheney, the amendment all but guarantees that America’s longest war in history will continue pointlessly onward. Pillars of Prosperity:... Ron Paul Best Price: $4.87 Buy New $7.63 (as of 07:55 UTC - Details)
A coalition of warmongering Democrats and Republicans have been furious with President Trump for his last minute effort to draw troops down from Afghanistan and elsewhere, and they appear to have a veto-proof majority to tie the president’s hands.
Congress has for decades believed that the president can go to war whenever or wherever he pleases without a declaration, but if the president dares attempt to end a war their belief in a “unitary executive” is thrown out the window. What hypocrisy.
The Constitution is clear that the president is the commander in chief of the military and as such should have the authority to move troops as he sees fit. The Founders understood that 535 Members of Congress trying to micromanage troops on the battlefield is not a good idea.
Congress has it backward. It should be very difficult for a president to take the country to war and easy for that war to be ended.
Time after time, the “peace” candidate usually wins the election. But no matter how sick the American people are of endless war, the war machine finds a way to keep chugging along. What will it take to return to a policy of peace and prosperity?
The Best of Ron Paul, MD


lewrockwell--2020-12-15--An Expert Military Analysis of War With China

The Correlation of Armed Forces : U.S. goods and services trade with China totaled an estimated $ 634.8 billion in 2019 .
Exports were $ 163.0 billion ; imports were $ 471.8 billion .
The U.S. goods and services trade deficit with China was $ 308.8 billion in 2019 .
Trade in services with China ( exports and imports ) totaled an estimated $ 76.7 billion in 2019 .
Services exports were $ 56.5 billion ; services imports were $ 20.1 billion .
The U.S. services trade surplus with China was $ 36.4 billion in 2019 .
There is talk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with China .
Steve Bannon , who apparently was dropped on his head as a child , actually favors such a war .
We hear the usual shoo-the-boobs alarm about how the Chinese are doing something terrible and we must gird our loins and American values and show them what for , bow wow , woof .
The danger is that the current game of who-blinks-first in Asian waters might actually provoke a shooting war .
You know the kind of thing : One warship refuses to get out of the way of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ retard lieutenant who signed up on waivers opens fire , and we ’ re off and running .
It is not a good idea to let children play with matches .
Au Phuc Dup and Nowher ... Reed , Fred Best Price : $ 6.95 Buy New $ 10.95 The said war is discussed either in emotional terms by idiots or in purely naval terms by those familiar with such things , so we hear of the First Island Chain and the Second Island Chain and whose missiles against the other ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be appropriate if we were fighting World War Two again .
Which we aren ’ t .
Let ’ s take a quick-and-dirty look at how such a war might go .
To begin the war , America would overestimate itself and underestimate China .
This is doctrine in the Pentagon .
There is probably a manual on it .
Inside the DC Bubble , fern-bar Napoleons would assure us that it would be a short war , a cakewalk , a matter of days , not weeks .
You know , like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Iraq , Syria .
When it turned out that the Chinese had other ideas , among which surrendering was not , and the months dragged on , various fascinating things would happen .
Rand , a thinktank wholly owned by the Pentagon , at least mentally , has wargamed both the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea , concluding that the war could be both very long and a loss for America .
We no longer live in 1960 .
OK , the war : On day one , all the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Example : Apple loses its factories , products from those factories , and the Chinese market of 1.4 billion consumers .
Its stores close .
Tim Cook ’ s gratitude will know no bounds .
American auto manufacturers sell googolplexes of cars in China ( or at least lots ) , mostly made in China .
Overnight they will lose factories , cars , and Chinese customers .
Overall , China buys many more cars than does the US .
This analysis , if anything so obvious may be called analysis , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after industry .
Goodbye , business vote .
Within weeks , Walmart ’ s shelves go bare .
Walk down the aisles and read the “ Made in ” labels .
We are not talking only plastic buckets and mops but chain saws , pharmaceuticals , motorcycles , and blood-pressure cuffs .
So much for the blue-collar vote .
The US buys 472 billion in goods annually from China , high-tech , low-tech , consumer goods , manufacturing components .
No more .
China buys over $ 163 billion annually in American goods @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , soybeans , airliners , on and on .
No more .
It is hard to underestimate the joy this will cause in influential boardrooms .
And of course the American workers who would have produced these things for China will be laid off .
As electoral politics , this will prove suboptimal .
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@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Just about everything in America uses these , to include the computers that run the electrical systems of cars .
Though I haven ’ t checked , it is quite possible that the computers themselves are made in China .
If you want a new and deeper understanding of the word “ hostile , ” check the influential CEOs of businesses on their second chipless day .
In a real war , it is likely that China , having thought of the foregoing , would ( intelligently ) destroy Taiwan ’ s semiconductor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as well as other factories of electronics .
This would hardly be difficult since the Taiwan Strait is only a hundred or so miles wide .
Losing these industries would be exceedingly painful for the US since its high-end chips come from Taiwan .
It would take America years to replace this capacity domestically .
Some of the necessary equipment , extreme ultraviolet lithography machines , is not made in America and in any event can not be stamped out like beer cans .
In America it would quickly be discovered that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than some might think .
If I may make up an example : The automotive industry finds that its sparkplugs come from China .
While America could certainly make spark plugs , it turns out that a decade back the industry found that China could make them for forty percent less .
In the cooperative commercial world pre-Trump , this was no problem .
Not now .
So much for sales of cars .
And for the jobs of the workers who make them .
I will bet you all my diamond mines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Argentina , that if you went through a parts list for , say , Boeing ’ s airliners , you would find lots of them made in China .
Sure , the US could manufacture most of them , eventually .
But companies need parts now , not eventually .
A Brass Pole in Bangko ... Reed , Fred Best Price : $ 3.94 Buy New $ 18.80 The effects on other countries of a large war against China would be catastrophic if not worse .
Other countries also get many things , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ semiconductors .
Google on “ country x largest trading partner.
” A strong pattern quickly becomes clear : China is huge in trading with practically everybody .
“ Everybody ” includes Germany , Japan , Australia , Russia , and South America as a whole .
The world economy in its entirety would collapse .
How smart would this be ?
The United States is already in serious trouble , what with a currency rapidly being debased , a sinking middle class , businesses dying of Covid , jobs disappearing abroad , people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unhappiness resulting in continent-wide riots .
Do you suppose the public will gladly support an unfathomably stupid war causing an instant , profound , and murderous economic depression ?
If so , you probably already have a collection of bridges .
This can be inflicted on the entire earth by a half-dozen loons in or circling around the White House unhindered by a worthless Congress .
Six loons .
Yes , I know , Trump is unlikely deliberately to start a Third world War , even as a publicity stunt .
No , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nearly stupid enough .
( They might even refuse , pointing out that starting a war requires a declaration by Congress . )
The problem is that for years America has been , if not actually looking for a fight , at least daring other countries to start one .
For example , murdering Iranian officials , pulling out of arms-control treaties , pushing NATO ever closer to Russia , sanctioning countries far beyond anything that can be called a trade war , and playing chicken with China in the South China Sea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a fight without quite looking for one .
Reprinted with permission from The Unz Review .
The Best of Fred Reed

The Correlation of Armed Forces: U.S. goods and services trade with China totaled an estimated $634.8 billion in 2019. Exports were $163.0 billion; imports were $471.8 billion. The U.S. goods and services trade deficit with China was $308.8 billion in 2019. Trade in services with China (exports and imports) totaled an estimated $76.7 billion in 2019. Services exports were $56.5 billion; services imports were $20.1 billion. The U.S. services trade surplus with China was $36.4 billion in 2019.
There is talk within the Washingtoniat of a possible war with China. Steve Bannon, who apparently was dropped on his head as a child, actually favors such a war. We hear the usual shoo-the-boobs alarm about how the Chinese are doing something terrible and we must gird our loins and American values and show them what for, bow wow, woof. The danger is that the current game of who-blinks-first in Asian waters might actually provoke a shooting war. You know the kind of thing: One warship refuses to get out of the way of another, a collision ensues, some retard lieutenant who signed up on waivers opens fire, and we’re off and running. It is not a good idea to let children play with matches.
Au Phuc Dup and Nowher... Reed, Fred Best Price: $6.95 Buy New $10.95 (as of 08:20 UTC - Details) The said war is discussed either in emotional terms by idiots or in purely naval terms by those familiar with such things, so we hear of the First Island Chain and the Second Island Chain and whose missiles against the other’s missiles and so on. This would be appropriate if we were fighting World War Two again. Which we aren’t. Let’s take a quick-and-dirty look at how such a war might go.
To begin the war, America would overestimate itself and underestimate China. This is doctrine in the Pentagon. There is probably a manual on it. Inside the DC Bubble, fern-bar Napoleons would assure us that it would be a short war, a cakewalk, a matter of days, not weeks. You know, like Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria. When it turned out that the Chinese had other ideas, among which surrendering was not, and the months dragged on, various fascinating things would happen.
Rand, a thinktank wholly owned by the Pentagon, at least mentally, has wargamed both the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea, concluding that the war could be both very long and a loss for America. We no longer live in 1960.
OK, the war: On day one, all the multitudinous American factories in China shut down. Example: Apple loses its factories, products from those factories, and the Chinese market of 1.4 billion consumers. Its stores close. Tim Cook’s gratitude will know no bounds. American auto manufacturers sell googolplexes of cars in China (or at least lots), mostly made in China. Overnight they will lose factories, cars, and Chinese customers. Overall, China buys many more cars than does the US. This analysis, if anything so obvious may be called analysis, can be repeated for industry after industry after industry. Goodbye, business vote.
Within weeks, Walmart’s shelves go bare. Walk down the aisles and read the “Made in” labels. We are not talking only plastic buckets and mops but chain saws, pharmaceuticals, motorcycles, and blood-pressure cuffs. So much for the blue-collar vote. The US buys 472 billion in goods annually from China, high-tech, low-tech, consumer goods, manufacturing components. No more.
China buys over $163 billion annually in American goods: petroleum, semiconductors, airline engines, soybeans, airliners, on and on. No more. It is hard to underestimate the joy this will cause in influential boardrooms. And of course the American workers who would have produced these things for China will be laid off. As electoral politics, this will prove suboptimal. Nekkid In Austin: Drop... Reed, Fred Best Price: $3.99 Buy New $14.95 (as of 01:20 UTC - Details)
China produces a great majority of the rare earth elements crucial to the manufacture of electronics, such as semiconductors. No quick substitute is in sight. Just about everything in America uses these, to include the computers that run the electrical systems of cars. Though I haven’t checked, it is quite possible that the computers themselves are made in China. If you want a new and deeper understanding of the word “hostile,” check the influential CEOs of businesses on their second chipless day.
In a real war, it is likely that China, having thought of the foregoing, would (intelligently) destroy Taiwan’s semiconductor fabs, notably those of TSMC, as well as other factories of electronics. This would hardly be difficult since the Taiwan Strait is only a hundred or so miles wide. Losing these industries would be exceedingly painful for the US since its high-end chips come from Taiwan. It would take America years to replace this capacity domestically. Some of the necessary equipment, extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, is not made in America and in any event cannot be stamped out like beer cans.
In America it would quickly be discovered that the country is rather more dependent on China than some might think. If I may make up an example: The automotive industry finds that its sparkplugs come from China. While America could certainly make spark plugs, it turns out that a decade back the industry found that China could make them for forty percent less. In the cooperative commercial world pre-Trump, this was no problem. Not now. So much for sales of cars. And for the jobs of the workers who make them.
I will bet you all my diamond mines in South Africa and cattle lands in Argentina, that if you went through a parts list for, say, Boeing’s airliners, you would find lots of them made in China. Sure, the US could manufacture most of them, eventually. But companies need parts now, not eventually.
A Brass Pole in Bangko... Reed, Fred Best Price: $3.94 Buy New $18.80 (as of 01:20 UTC - Details) The effects on other countries of a large war against China would be catastrophic if not worse. Other countries also get many things, from China or Taiwan, such as semiconductors. Google on “country x largest trading partner.” A strong pattern quickly becomes clear: China is huge in trading with practically everybody. “Everybody” includes Germany, Japan, Australia, Russia, and South America as a whole. The world economy in its entirety would collapse.
How smart would this be? The United States is already in serious trouble, what with a currency rapidly being debased, a sinking middle class, businesses dying of Covid, jobs disappearing abroad, people living paycheck to paycheck, and social unhappiness resulting in continent-wide riots. Do you suppose the public will gladly support an unfathomably stupid war causing an instant, profound, and murderous economic depression? If so, you probably already have a collection of bridges.
This can be inflicted on the entire earth by a half-dozen loons in or circling around the White House unhindered by a worthless Congress. Six loons. Yes, I know, Trump is unlikely deliberately to start a Third world War, even as a publicity stunt. No, the generals in the Pentagon are not nearly stupid enough. (They might even refuse, pointing out that starting a war requires a declaration by Congress.) The problem is that for years America has been, if not actually looking for a fight, at least daring other countries to start one. For example, murdering Iranian officials, pulling out of arms-control treaties, pushing NATO ever closer to Russia, sanctioning countries far beyond anything that can be called a trade war, and playing chicken with China in the South China Sea. Under these circumstances you can get a fight without quite looking for one.
Reprinted with permission from The Unz Review.
The Best of Fred Reed


lewrockwell--2020-12-15--When Money Dies, 100 Years Later

When Money Dies, 100 Years Later

When Money Dies , Adam Fergusson ’ s cautionary account of hyperinflation in Weimar-era Germany , is the book Americans desperately need to read today .
Ours is a nation willfully lacking in knowledge and understanding of money ; a cynic might think this lack of apprehension is by design .
Money is seldom discussed in schools , popular media , or politics .
And almost a century after the stark lessons of 1923 Germany , the West is convinced it can ’ t happen here .
In our overwhelming material abundance , aided by the natural deflationary pressures of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ability to imagine a hyperinflationary scenario .
Sure , there have been currency meltdowns since the two world wars in places like Yugoslavia , Zimbabwe , Bulgaria , and Argentina .
Yes , Venezuela and arguably Turkey face currency crises today .
But we need not worry about this , because modern central banks—especially the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank—have tamed inflation through sheer technocratic expertise and a willingness to use extraordinary monetary policy tools .
Asset purchases and balance sheet expansion , ultralow or negative interest rates , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ liquidity ” as an economy needs are the new normal for central bankers .
Thanks to this open embrace of centrally planned money , former Fed chair ( and likely future Treasury secretary ) Janet Yellen assured us we need not expect another financial crisis in our lifetime .
When Money Dies : The N ... Adam Fergusson Best Price : $ 1.97 Buy New $ 10.08 To believe this , one has to believe policy is more important than production , and that an express policy of inflation is the mechanism to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a curious position .
It ’ s also a position sorely tested by the events of 2020 .
With governments across the world shutting down business , schools , and travel in response to covid , central banks have opened the floodgates of expansionary monetary policy like never before .
Any slight tapering of the Fed ’ s balance sheet , still swollen from the crash of ’ 07 , is now a pipe dream as it heads toward $ 10 trillion ( Congress chipped in with its own $ 2.7 trillion fiscal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trillion imminent ) .
The fed funds rate is barely perceptible at 0.25 percent , and reserve requirements for banks are suspended since March .
M1 money supply spiked precipitously , while Congress funded nearly half of 2020 federal spending with Treasury debt .
Fed chair Jerome Powell now tells us the bank ’ s sadistic 2 percent annual inflation target must average out over a period of years .
In other words , we should expect ( dubious official ) inflation measures to run at 4 or 5 percent in coming years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the years when inflation supposedly was near zero .
Is it any wonder even mainstream hedge fund gurus like Ray Dalio now sound the alarm against hyperinflation ?
Cash is trash !
Fergusson ’ s book should be assigned to central bankers stat ( we wonder how many of them know of it ) .
It ’ s not a book about economic policy or banks per se , but rather a historical account of folly and hubris on the part of German politicians and bureaucrats .
It ’ s the story of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they could overcome markets by monetary fiat .
It ’ s a reminder that war and inflation are inextricably linked , that war finance leads nations to economic disaster and sets the stage for authoritarian bellicosity .
Versailles and reparations alone were perhaps not enough to create the conditions for Hitler ’ s rise , but without the Reichbank ’ s earlier suspension of its one-third gold reserve requirement in 1914 it seems unlikely Germany would have become a dominant European military power .
Without inflation , Hitler might have been a footnote @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Buy New $ 9.99 Most of all , When Money Dies is a tale of privation and degradation .
Not only for Germans , but also Austrians and Hungarians grappling with their own political upheavals and currency crises in the 1920s .
In a particularly poignant chapter , Fergusson describes the travails of a Viennese widow named Anna Eisenmenger .
Her Austrian kronen , which in 1914 were worth one-quarter of a British pound sterling , spiral to 1/35,000 by 1922 .
As the twenties unfold , she is forced into black markets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her war-damaged children .
Her late husband ’ s gold watch exchanges for potatoes and coal .
Luckier than most Viennese women , she owns small investments which produce modest income—fixed in kronen .
Her banker urges her to immediately exchange any funds for Swiss francs , but this practice is banned by authorities .
The downward spiral of her life , marked by hunger and hoarding anything with real value , happens so quickly she barely has time to adjust .
Conditions in Vienna find voice in the realistic silent film about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ starring a young Greta Garbo .
Her character sees everything deteriorate around her ; even her father beats her with his cane for returning home without food .
Once friendly neighbors become suspicious of each other ’ s stores of bread and cheese , while prostitution becomes rampant .
Angry people jostle in line waiting for the butcher to open ; when he does only the most attractive women receive the scraps of meat available that day .
Everything familiar and beautiful in society becomes degraded and cheapened seemingly overnight .
1920s Germany @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but such grim historical lessons should counsel us to avoid repeating their mistakes .
As Professor Jörg Guido Hülsmann so capably explains in The Ethics of Money Production , there are enormous moral and civilization components to monetary policy .
Inflation not only harms our economy , it makes us worse people : profligate , shortsighted , lazy , and unconcerned with future generations .
This is perhaps the greatest untold story in America today : the story of how the Fed not only fundamentally shifted our economy from one of production to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and sociological implications of that shift .
The Ethics of Money Pr ... Hulsmann , Jorg Guido Best Price : $ 11.00 Buy New $ 14.00 Our make-believe economy , as Axios puts it , increasingly depends on enormous levels of ongoing fiscal and monetary intervention .
Corporations borrow so cheaply we might call it “ house money , ” then buy back their own stock rather than hire or expand .
Newly created money and credit benefits those closest to the spigot , juicing equity markets but doing little for ordinary people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Fed will keep its debt service low and provide a ready backstop market for US Treasurys—but little of the stimulus reaches Main Street .
Whole industries , including airlines , seek bailouts for covid shutdowns .
Those shutdowns also strain tax revenue for state budgets ; Mr. Biden promises a bailout there too .
Meanwhile , small business and retail face an apocalypse which already leaves tens of millions unemployed .
Once again , the presumed answer to all of this is the Fed .
Hyperinflation may not be around the corner @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can predict such a thing .
The US dollar may well hold or gain value relative to foreign currencies over the coming years .
After all , foreign currency exchange values are relative and “ King Dollar ” may remain a perceived store of value .
But at some point the US economy must create real organic growth if we hope to maintain living standards and avoid an ugly inflationary reality .
No amount of monetary or fiscal engineering can take the place of capital accumulation and higher productivity .
More money and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ better , and cheaper goods and services .
History shows us how money dies .
Yes , it can happen here .
Only a fool thinks otherwise .
Note : The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute .
The Best of Jeff Deist

When Money Dies, Adam Fergusson’s cautionary account of hyperinflation in Weimar-era Germany, is the book Americans desperately need to read today.
Ours is a nation willfully lacking in knowledge and understanding of money; a cynic might think this lack of apprehension is by design. Money is seldom discussed in schools, popular media, or politics. And almost a century after the stark lessons of 1923 Germany, the West is convinced it can’t happen here. In our overwhelming material abundance, aided by the natural deflationary pressures of markets, we simply have lost our ability to imagine a hyperinflationary scenario. Sure, there have been currency meltdowns since the two world wars in places like Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe, Bulgaria, and Argentina. Yes, Venezuela and arguably Turkey face currency crises today. But we need not worry about this, because modern central banks—especially the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank—have tamed inflation through sheer technocratic expertise and a willingness to use extraordinary monetary policy tools. Asset purchases and balance sheet expansion, ultralow or negative interest rates, and a determination to provide as much “liquidity” as an economy needs are the new normal for central bankers. Thanks to this open embrace of centrally planned money, former Fed chair (and likely future Treasury secretary) Janet Yellen assured us we need not expect another financial crisis in our lifetime. When Money Dies: The N... Adam Fergusson Best Price: $1.97 Buy New $10.08 (as of 10:10 UTC - Details)
To believe this, one has to believe policy is more important than production, and that an express policy of inflation is the mechanism to forestall too much inflation. This is a curious position.
It’s also a position sorely tested by the events of 2020. With governments across the world shutting down business, schools, and travel in response to covid, central banks have opened the floodgates of expansionary monetary policy like never before. Any slight tapering of the Fed’s balance sheet, still swollen from the crash of ’07, is now a pipe dream as it heads toward $10 trillion (Congress chipped in with its own $2.7 trillion fiscal stimulus bill, with another $1 trillion imminent). The fed funds rate is barely perceptible at 0.25 percent, and reserve requirements for banks are suspended since March. M1 money supply spiked precipitously, while Congress funded nearly half of 2020 federal spending with Treasury debt. Fed chair Jerome Powell now tells us the bank’s sadistic 2 percent annual inflation target must average out over a period of years. In other words, we should expect (dubious official) inflation measures to run at 4 or 5 percent in coming years, to make up for the all the years when inflation supposedly was near zero.
Is it any wonder even mainstream hedge fund gurus like Ray Dalio now sound the alarm against hyperinflation? Cash is trash!
Fergusson’s book should be assigned to central bankers stat (we wonder how many of them know of it). It’s not a book about economic policy or banks per se, but rather a historical account of folly and hubris on the part of German politicians and bureaucrats. It’s the story of a disaster created by humans who imagined they could overcome markets by monetary fiat. It’s a reminder that war and inflation are inextricably linked, that war finance leads nations to economic disaster and sets the stage for authoritarian bellicosity. Versailles and reparations alone were perhaps not enough to create the conditions for Hitler’s rise, but without the Reichbank’s earlier suspension of its one-third gold reserve requirement in 1914 it seems unlikely Germany would have become a dominant European military power. Without inflation, Hitler might have been a footnote. The Joyless Street - D... Buy New $9.99 (as of 05:14 UTC - Details)
Most of all, When Money Dies is a tale of privation and degradation. Not only for Germans, but also Austrians and Hungarians grappling with their own political upheavals and currency crises in the 1920s. In a particularly poignant chapter, Fergusson describes the travails of a Viennese widow named Anna Eisenmenger. Her Austrian kronen, which in 1914 were worth one-quarter of a British pound sterling, spiral to 1/35,000 by 1922. As the twenties unfold, she is forced into black markets and pawning assets to procure food for her war-damaged children. Her late husband’s gold watch exchanges for potatoes and coal. Luckier than most Viennese women, she owns small investments which produce modest income—fixed in kronen. Her banker urges her to immediately exchange any funds for Swiss francs, but this practice is banned by authorities. The downward spiral of her life, marked by hunger and hoarding anything with real value, happens so quickly she barely has time to adjust.
Conditions in Vienna find voice in the realistic silent film about the era called The Joyless Street, starring a young Greta Garbo. Her character sees everything deteriorate around her; even her father beats her with his cane for returning home without food. Once friendly neighbors become suspicious of each other’s stores of bread and cheese, while prostitution becomes rampant. Angry people jostle in line waiting for the butcher to open; when he does only the most attractive women receive the scraps of meat available that day. Everything familiar and beautiful in society becomes degraded and cheapened seemingly overnight.
1920s Germany and Austria represent extreme hyperinflationary scenarios, but such grim historical lessons should counsel us to avoid repeating their mistakes. As Professor Jörg Guido Hülsmann so capably explains in The Ethics of Money Production, there are enormous moral and civilization components to monetary policy. Inflation not only harms our economy, it makes us worse people: profligate, shortsighted, lazy, and unconcerned with future generations. This is perhaps the greatest untold story in America today: the story of how the Fed not only fundamentally shifted our economy from one of production to consumption, but also the profound ethical and sociological implications of that shift. The Ethics of Money Pr... Hulsmann, Jorg Guido Best Price: $11.00 Buy New $14.00 (as of 02:24 UTC - Details)
Our make-believe economy, as Axios puts it, increasingly depends on enormous levels of ongoing fiscal and monetary intervention. Corporations borrow so cheaply we might call it “house money,” then buy back their own stock rather than hire or expand. Newly created money and credit benefits those closest to the spigot, juicing equity markets but doing little for ordinary people. Congress spends with abandon, knowing the Fed will keep its debt service low and provide a ready backstop market for US Treasurys—but little of the stimulus reaches Main Street. Whole industries, including airlines, seek bailouts for covid shutdowns. Those shutdowns also strain tax revenue for state budgets; Mr. Biden promises a bailout there too. Meanwhile, small business and retail face an apocalypse which already leaves tens of millions unemployed. Once again, the presumed answer to all of this is the Fed.
Hyperinflation may not be around the corner or even years away; no one can predict such a thing. The US dollar may well hold or gain value relative to foreign currencies over the coming years. After all, foreign currency exchange values are relative and “King Dollar” may remain a perceived store of value. But at some point the US economy must create real organic growth if we hope to maintain living standards and avoid an ugly inflationary reality. No amount of monetary or fiscal engineering can take the place of capital accumulation and higher productivity. More money and credit is no substitute for more, better, and cheaper goods and services.
History shows us how money dies. Yes, it can happen here. Only a fool thinks otherwise.
Note: The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.
The Best of Jeff Deist


lewrockwell--2020-12-15--Shocking Report On Covid Vaccine Adverse Effects: The Roll-Out Continues Anyway

From the UK , The Guardian has the story : “ People with a history of significant allergic reactions should not receive the Covid vaccine , the medicines regulator has said , after two NHS workers experienced symptoms on Wednesday.
” They just figured this out ?
Now ?
The Guardian is referring to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine , which has just been approved in the US .
Two people experiencing significant adverse effects may not sound important , particularly since they already a history of allergic reactions , but the following quote in the Guardian article raises major red flags @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency ] advice states : ‘ Any person with a history of a significant allergic reaction to a vaccine , medicine or food ( such as previous history of anaphylactoid reaction or those who have been advised to carry an adrenaline autoinjector ) should not receive the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine .
Resuscitation facilities should be available at all times for all vaccinations .
Vaccination should only be carried out in facilities where resuscitation measures are available ’ .
” Anaphylactic Reactions ... Levy , Jerrold H. Best @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a very large number of people have a history of allergic reactions to a vaccine or medicine or food .
Automatically , these people should not take the vaccine .
But how many people in the general public are aware of this restriction ?
Second , with the operation to vaccinate hundreds of millions of people running at top speed , who actually believes that many locations where shots are given will have the necessary resuscitation equipment on hand ?
Sheer insanity .
Then , on top of all this , we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Post : “ Documents published by the two [ vaccine ] companies [ Pfizer and BioNTech ] showed that people with a history of severe allergic reactions were excluded from the [ clinical vaccine ] trials , and doctors were advised to look out for such reactions in trial participants who weren ’ t previously known to have severe allergies.
” In other words , the clinical trials were already biased , because they excluded people with a history of allergic reactions .
Therefore , the performance of the vaccine looked safer .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ that allergic reactions to the vaccine are a MAJOR danger .
And NOW , as if it ’ s nothing more than an afterthought , we get— “ Oh , by the way , if people have allergies , they shouldn ’ t take the vaccine.
” Why don ’ t regulators simply admit , “ This vaccine is as disastrous as possible , but we can ’ t let that cat out of the bag.
” I have written about the inherent dangers of the new experimental RNA technology deployed with this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a vast group of guinea pigs .
Past efforts to introduce RNA tech have failed because serious autoimmune reactions have occurred .
The body basically attacks itself .
What rational person would line up to take this shot ?
You have to ask yourself why some Pittsburgh and Chicago medical centers aren ’ t making the new COVID vaccine mandatory for their own healthcare workers .
They ’ ve issued that announcement on the basis of wait-and-see .
They know the vaccine carries major risks , and the clinical trials were far from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than 50 million Americans suffer from allergies each year.
” 200,000 people come to the ER with food allergies .
4-5 % of the population have food allergies .
Who can say , with certainty , how many Americans would experience , say , life- threatening anaphylactic shock from the COVID vaccine ?
And when it comes to medicines , consider just one type of allergic reaction—to penicillin or antibiotics .
Is the outbreak of a rash serious enough to warrant automatic exemption from the COVID vaccine ?
Should shortness of breath @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Finally , as I ’ ve reported in these pages several times , the 3 major clinical trials of COVID vaccines ( Pfizer , Moderna , AstraZeneca ) were designed to prevent nothing more than a “ mild case of COVID-19.
” That means a cough , or chills and fever .
AIDS Inc. Rappoport , Jon Best Price : $ 33.29 Buy New $ 18.89 Serious cases of illness ?
Hospitalization ?
Death ?
These were not on the radar of the clinical trials .
Cough , or chills and fever @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for a vaccine .
So again , what rational person would line up to take the COVID shot ?
What rational person would imagine the celebratory media coverage of the vaccine rollout , or the carnival barking of Trump , amounts to more than a typical sales job and a hustle and a con ?
Of course , you ’ re not supposed to know about the information in this article , even though it ’ s readily available in open source literature and in mainstream news .
Social media censor the ANALYSIS @ @ @ @ @ @ @ A dictatorship wants you to take the COVID shot .
The Best of Jon Rappoport

From the UK, The Guardian has the story: “People with a history of significant allergic reactions should not receive the Covid vaccine, the medicines regulator has said, after two NHS workers experienced symptoms on Wednesday.”
They just figured this out? Now?
The Guardian is referring to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which has just been approved in the US.
Two people experiencing significant adverse effects may not sound important, particularly since they already a history of allergic reactions, but the following quote in the Guardian article raises major red flags a mile high:
“The MHRA [UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency] advice states: ‘Any person with a history of a significant allergic reaction to a vaccine, medicine or food (such as previous history of anaphylactoid reaction or those who have been advised to carry an adrenaline autoinjector) should not receive the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine. Resuscitation facilities should be available at all times for all vaccinations. Vaccination should only be carried out in facilities where resuscitation measures are available’.” Anaphylactic Reactions... Levy, Jerrold H. Best Price: $6.97 (as of 05:16 UTC - Details)
First of all, a very large number of people have a history of allergic reactions to a vaccine or medicine or food. Automatically, these people should not take the vaccine. But how many people in the general public are aware of this restriction?
Second, with the operation to vaccinate hundreds of millions of people running at top speed, who actually believes that many locations where shots are given will have the necessary resuscitation equipment on hand? Sheer insanity.
Then, on top of all this, we have a bombshell statement from the Denver Post: “Documents published by the two [vaccine] companies [Pfizer and BioNTech] showed that people with a history of severe allergic reactions were excluded from the [clinical vaccine] trials, and doctors were advised to look out for such reactions in trial participants who weren’t previously known to have severe allergies.”
In other words, the clinical trials were already biased, because they excluded people with a history of allergic reactions. Therefore, the performance of the vaccine looked safer. Therefore, no one would find out that allergic reactions to the vaccine are a MAJOR danger.
And NOW, as if it’s nothing more than an afterthought, we get—“Oh, by the way, if people have allergies, they shouldn’t take the vaccine.”
Why don’t regulators simply admit, “This vaccine is as disastrous as possible, but we can’t let that cat out of the bag.”
I have written about the inherent dangers of the new experimental RNA technology deployed with this COVOD vaccine. The world population is a vast group of guinea pigs. Past efforts to introduce RNA tech have failed because serious autoimmune reactions have occurred. The body basically attacks itself.
What rational person would line up to take this shot?
You have to ask yourself why some Pittsburgh and Chicago medical centers aren’t making the new COVID vaccine mandatory for their own healthcare workers.
They’ve issued that announcement on the basis of wait-and-see. They know the vaccine carries major risks, and the clinical trials were far from convincing.
According to WebMD, “more than 50 million Americans suffer from allergies each year.” 200,000 people come to the ER with food allergies. 4-5% of the population have food allergies. Who can say, with certainty, how many Americans would experience, say, life- threatening anaphylactic shock from the COVID vaccine?
And when it comes to medicines, consider just one type of allergic reaction—to penicillin or antibiotics. Is the outbreak of a rash serious enough to warrant automatic exemption from the COVID vaccine? Should shortness of breath be the standard? No one knows.
Finally, as I’ve reported in these pages several times, the 3 major clinical trials of COVID vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca) were designed to prevent nothing more than a “mild case of COVID-19.” That means a cough, or chills and fever. AIDS Inc. Rappoport, Jon Best Price: $33.29 Buy New $18.89 (as of 03:34 UTC - Details)
Serious cases of illness? Hospitalization? Death? These were not on the radar of the clinical trials.
Cough, or chills and fever, cure themselves naturally. No need for a vaccine.
So again, what rational person would line up to take the COVID shot?
What rational person would imagine the celebratory media coverage of the vaccine rollout, or the carnival barking of Trump, amounts to more than a typical sales job and a hustle and a con?
Of course, you’re not supposed to know about the information in this article, even though it’s readily available in open source literature and in mainstream news. Social media censor the ANALYSIS OF THE MEANING OF THIS INFORMATION.
That’s called a clue.
That’s called medical tyranny.
A dictatorship wants you to take the COVID shot.
That’s another clue.
SOURCES:
(forthcoming)
The Best of Jon Rappoport


lewrockwell--2020-12-15--A Little Learning Is a Dangerous Thing

A Little Learning Is a Dangerous Thing

I don ’ t need to tell you that , what determines a man ’ s legacy is often what isn ’ t seen .
Back in an age when people actually read newspapers dirt got buried on Saturdays .
It was said to be the most unread copy of the week .
When compromising stories couldn ’ t be spiked by the brass in public relations—from Wall Street to the Pentagon—they ’ d scheme to adjust a revelation ’ s timing .
Damage control everywhere found the seventh day holiest .
That ploy is a little dated—dailies presently take @ @ @ @ @ @ @ might .
In any case , the Federal Bureau of Investigation came up in two different articles in the December 5 Washington Post .
Neither of them was anything the alpha-bureaucrats at 935 Penn wanted in circulation .
The first story US seeks prison term for former FBI lawyer , from page A-2 , concerned defendant Kevin Clinesmith .
He admitted falsifying a statement that was used seeking a renewed FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page .
Clinesmith claimed ignorance of the full facts in altering an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is from defense counsel Justin V. Shur in a sentencing request cited in the Post article : Behold the Monster : Co ... Lauren , Jillian Buy New $ 28.00 “ By altering a colleague ’ s email , he cut a corner in a job that required far better of him .
He failed to live up to the FBI ’ s and his own standards of conduct , ” The other article from the 5th leaves you asking , what “ high ” standards ?
It brings up an institutional failure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of women .
The undue , politically motivated , surveillance of one man is paltry by comparison .
The front page piece Indifferent Justice Part 2 : Fatal flaws in the system left a killer on the loose , covers Samuel Little .
This is the man—you may have heard—now recognized as the deadliest serial killer known yet in US history .
By 1985 he had lengthy rap sheet across numerous states .
Many of the offenses were violent and he ’ d been tried twice for murder .
After near deadly rape @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Diego Little received a 19 month sentence that reportedly “ devastated ” prosecutor Gary Rempel .
Starting with paragraph 12 after the jump , the FBI gets mention : “ Rempel called the FBI in July 1985 and asked Little be added to ‘ their nationwide crime profile , ’ according to a typewritten summary of the case he prepared at the time .
Kenny Mack , a Florida sheriff ’ s investigator aware of Little ’ s connection to several murders in the South , said he , too , flagged the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Neither man ever heard back , and it is unclear what steps , if any , the FBI took to investigate Little .
At the time , the agency was in the process of launching the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program , designed specifically to identify serial killers and rapists.
” Later in the report , although the source is unclear , Little had reputedly confessed to 60 dead victims way back in the 80 ’ s , Mack and the FBI resurface in the story : “ …Mack , the retired Alachua County @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who worked the Mount case , says he called the FBI ’ s national Behavioral Science Unit in Quantico , Va. , about the 60-women story – as well as the killings in Gainesville and Pascagoula and Ocala , Fla. , killing in which Little was suspected .
Little has since confessed to all three .
Mack remembers an analyst saying the agency would look into it .
He figured an FBI agent might reach out at least to get fingerprints , photos or background information .
But , he said , ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Serial Killer Samuel L ... Maravich , Larry Buy New $ 18.95 Does any of this sound unfamiliar ?
National stories where the Bureau comes out looking sharp—or adequate— are the exception to my reading experience .
We could really use an official score keeper .
Conventional media is not up to the job .
Ineptitude in American hierarchies tends to be treated as anomaly no matter how common it is .
If the Feds were being tried on a charge of competence they ’ d be acquitted for lack of evidence .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ story–by Mark Brennan , Wesley Lowery and Hannah Knowles—in a way that only amplifies their organizational demeanor of indifference and arrogance : “ In a statement , the FBI declined to address the matter further , saying , ‘ The FBI has a longstanding practice not to confirm or deny inquiries regarding specific investigative matters.
’ ” Who owns the FBI ?
Is it the employees or the ones paying their medical and pensions ?
Did the WP staff talk to a spokesperson for a branch of the US Department of Justice ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ like an apparatchik from the NKVD making a pronouncement to TASS .
DOJ mouthpieces are rarely tight-lipped when they think they ’ ve scored an investigative coup .
Remember all the inside dope that was spilled during the Richard Jewell investigation ?
Little claims he took his last victim in 2005—that leaves the Bureau with 20 years of dormancy on the matter to answer for–at a minimum .
Will the media press this and hold them accountable ?
Past performance from the unfake news fraternity inspires little confidence of that .
Institutional mass @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into proper perspective when the scoop finally spills to them late in the game .
Particular indulgence is always allowed for the Bureau .
Early in 1974 Dusko Popov ’ s autobiography Spy/Counterspy went on sale .
Its pages revealed that Edgar Hoover had been informed of Japanese interest in Pearl Harbor ’ s defenses 3 months prior to the attack on December , 7 1941 .
Hoover had been dead less than two years at the time—if he had still been alive Popov ’ s book probably never would have made it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the information was doctored before others saw any of it .
All references to Pearl Harbor were redacted from what JEH passed on to anyone else in the US government .
Media power houses haven ’ t strained themselves making this scandal common knowledge .
History textbooks for kids leave Popov ’ s name out .
Films depicting the day FDR said would “ live in infamy ” have yet to cover the sordid details of official culpability .
J. Edgar Hoover : The M ... Curt Gentry Best Price : $ 2.00 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by later events Hoover upped the ante blaming FCC director Lawrence Fly ’ s obstruction of illegal wiretaps .
He continued to press this phony vendetta—holding full knowledge of his own perfidy—for years after the war .
What does this tell us about the character of a man who had been handed an explicit warning of the impending attack—that he refused to share with his superior in the White house or military intelligence ?
2,403 Americans died that day while Hoover retained his position for nearly 31 more years .
This isn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ betrayal—the FBI director fought tooth and nail against any trespass by fledgling intelligence agencies on his turf for the rest of his life .
Meanwhile , the US media was fed a bogus story of thwarting Operation Pastorious , a Nazi sabotage mission that , if successful , would have impeded US aircraft production for months—among other potential consequences .
Its leader , George Dasch , had actually , just as Popov tried to do , handed the FBI everything on a silver platter .
Their initial input amounted to answering the phone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ task .
Dasch was an American citizen who had been misled into returning to Germany , the country of his birth , for a better job .
His actions once back on US soil , proved those of a conscientious and loyal double agent each step of the way .
Despite possessing large amounts of cash and substantial ordnance not one US asset was harmed .
Hoover was completely oblivious to that accomplishment–making all the facts conform to his PR needs while suppressing many relevant ones .
With the tap of communication entirely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ came out looking foolproof on American front pages .
Their actual investigative role amounted to taking dictation .
Considering the exposed conditions of the Nazi ’ s carefully chosen targets , Dasch , if anything , was an American hero .
Under the circumstances amateurs could have pulled the plot off .
With characteristic Edgarite treachery the director went so far as to push for Dasch ’ s execution .
Would it be wide of the mark to diagnose a sociopath without a conscience ?
This spy lore is well known to any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no good reason the story is still arcane .
The fact that it is works for JEH fans who still dismiss it as a conspiratorial myth .
Who can provide a legitimate excuse for the Federal Bureau of Investigation surviving WWII ?
The FBI always retains the full rights to its stories ; that explains why they invariably come out so fuzzy .
It is far from clear if this federal agency missed not one , but several , grand opportunities to prevent the first World Trade Center bombing—the truth is probably clarified @ @ @ @ @ @ @ covering their tracks .
An NYT article from 1993 provides a zany description of the bureau ’ s use of undercover source Emad Salem .
He had infiltrated the conspirators and repeatedly notified handlers of bombs in the process of manufacture .
The Feds went fickle on him a few months before the bombing .
As usual their side of the details is confusing , incomplete and dismissive .
Federal management suffers the same affliction ailing all modern mega-organizations .
The ones doing heavy-lifting get over administrated and under supported .
Salem ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nosair assassinated Meir Kahane in November 1990 .
Emad befriended the men in the assassin ’ s circle .
Before that 47 boxes of documents in Arabic were found in Nosair ’ s residence .
With a man deployed in a life threatening deep cover operation—a layman would foolishly expect those papers to be a high priority .
Instead , they—and the clues their text contained–remained in federal possession untranslated until after February 1993 when the attack occurred .
The Burglary : The Disc ... Medsger , Betty L. Best Price : $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days leading into and out of 9-11 are a blur as the FBI tells it .
The public never gets anything close to resolution concerning Colleen Rowley , Sibel Edmonds , Abdullah Higazy , abandoned leads , Robert Wright or the lack of coordination with CIA .
This was failure equal to the one at Pearl Harbor .
The difference being 9-11 was a result of incompetence—we think–rather than the treason of December 7 .
In FBI defense , since these kinds of disastrous outcomes always result in more funding from the Hill—where @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lives ?
The only thing that comes out pellucid when Feds describe their involvement is that they are always nearby–as the plots proceed anyway .
A classic case took place in Garland , Texas shooting May 3 , 2015 .
Elton Simpson and Nadir Hamid Soofi drove into Curtis Culwell Center lot the day of a Mohamed drawing contest .
It was held to challenge the Muslim ban on drawing the prophet .
Trouble was expected and when the two men fired on police return fire quickly killed them after a security guard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up in a vehicle directly behind the assailants as the assault began .
He later claimed no knowledge of what Simpson and Soofi—who wore body armor and possessed 6 guns with 1500 rounds of ammo—had in mind that day .
It seems odd—did he believe the two devout Muslims would hand in entries for judgment in the competition ?
He had worked with them for 2 years .
What was their presumed purpose at the Culwell Center ?
Numerous other cases could be cited here—in fact nearly every case where the Bureau makes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or reprimand after grossly incompetent or criminal behavior .
That ’ s why Lon Horiuchi remains in the Federal murderers protection program to this day—evoking another case of federal evidentiary smoke and mirrors .
Going by everything that ’ s been made public the FBI first became aware of Samuel Little in 2013 .
That was eight years after his last murder and 28 after G-men were put on his trail from two different LEO sources .
This information is conveyed to the public from deep in the pages of an obsolete medium @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s series we learn of the FBI ’ s heartrending efforts updating loved ones to the fate of Little ’ s victims .
If listening to a maniac fess up 15 , 20 , 30 or 40 years too late is the proper role of our uber-enforcement agency their budget is overdue for serious retrenchment .
As far as the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program is concerned we are entitled to a 100 % refund .
The very media entities that are now demanding sole entitlement to a broad audience— “ fake ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gratefully swallowing lame answers from the FBI for generations .
Those responses were generally reciprocal to the quality of the questions .
Anyone who isn ’ t scared of socialism better take a closer look at the Feds .
We are all forced to buy their product while they decide how much to tell us about what it ’ s supposed to be .
The Best of Tim Hartnett

I don’t need to tell you that, what determines a man’s legacy is often what isn’t seen.
J. Edgar Hoover
Back in an age when people actually read newspapers dirt got buried on Saturdays. It was said to be the most unread copy of the week. When compromising stories couldn’t be spiked by the brass in public relations—from Wall Street to the Pentagon—they’d scheme to adjust a revelation’s timing. Damage control everywhere found the seventh day holiest. That ploy is a little dated—dailies presently take themselves a lot more seriously than readers might. In any case, the Federal Bureau of Investigation came up in two different articles in the December 5 Washington Post. Neither of them was anything the alpha-bureaucrats at 935 Penn wanted in circulation.
The first story US seeks prison term for former FBI lawyer, from page A-2, concerned defendant Kevin Clinesmith. He admitted falsifying a statement that was used seeking a renewed FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page. Clinesmith claimed ignorance of the full facts in altering an official email and pled guilty. This is from defense counsel Justin V. Shur in a sentencing request cited in the Post article: Behold the Monster: Co... Lauren, Jillian Buy New $28.00 (as of 05:17 UTC - Details)
“By altering a colleague’s email, he cut a corner in a job that required far better of him. He failed to live up to the FBI’s and his own standards of conduct,”
The other article from the 5th leaves you asking, what “high” standards? It brings up an institutional failure with stakes of life and death—for scores of women. The undue, politically motivated, surveillance of one man is paltry by comparison.
The front page piece Indifferent Justice Part 2: Fatal flaws in the system left a killer on the loose, covers Samuel Little. This is the man—you may have heard—now recognized as the deadliest serial killer known yet in US history. By 1985 he had lengthy rap sheet across numerous states. Many of the offenses were violent and he’d been tried twice for murder. After near deadly rape attacks on two different women in San Diego Little received a 19 month sentence that reportedly “devastated” prosecutor Gary Rempel. Starting with paragraph 12 after the jump, the FBI gets mention:
“Rempel called the FBI in July 1985 and asked Little be added to ‘their nationwide crime profile,’ according to a typewritten summary of the case he prepared at the time. Kenny Mack, a Florida sheriff’s investigator aware of Little’s connection to several murders in the South, said he, too, flagged the FBI in the mid-1980’s.
Neither man ever heard back, and it is unclear what steps, if any, the FBI took to investigate Little. At the time, the agency was in the process of launching the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, designed specifically to identify serial killers and rapists.”
Later in the report, although the source is unclear, Little had reputedly confessed to 60 dead victims way back in the 80’s, Mack and the FBI resurface in the story:
“…Mack, the retired Alachua County, Fla., sheriff’s investigator who worked the Mount case, says he called the FBI’s national Behavioral Science Unit in Quantico, Va., about the 60-women story – as well as the killings in Gainesville and Pascagoula and Ocala, Fla., killing in which Little was suspected. Little has since confessed to all three.
Mack remembers an analyst saying the agency would look into it. He figured an FBI agent might reach out at least to get fingerprints, photos or background information. But, he said, ‘we never heard another word.’”
Serial Killer Samuel L... Maravich, Larry Buy New $18.95 (as of 05:17 UTC - Details) Does any of this sound unfamiliar? National stories where the Bureau comes out looking sharp—or adequate— are the exception to my reading experience. We could really use an official score keeper. Conventional media is not up to the job. Ineptitude in American hierarchies tends to be treated as anomaly no matter how common it is. If the Feds were being tried on a charge of competence they’d be acquitted for lack of evidence.
The FBI did respond to the WP story–by Mark Brennan, Wesley Lowery and Hannah Knowles—in a way that only amplifies their organizational demeanor of indifference and arrogance:
“In a statement, the FBI declined to address the matter further, saying, ‘The FBI has a longstanding practice not to confirm or deny inquiries regarding specific investigative matters.’”
Who owns the FBI? Is it the employees or the ones paying their medical and pensions? Did the WP staff talk to a spokesperson for a branch of the US Department of Justice? The above statement sounded a lot more like an apparatchik from the NKVD making a pronouncement to TASS. DOJ mouthpieces are rarely tight-lipped when they think they’ve scored an investigative coup. Remember all the inside dope that was spilled during the Richard Jewell investigation? Little claims he took his last victim in 2005—that leaves the Bureau with 20 years of dormancy on the matter to answer for–at a minimum. Will the media press this and hold them accountable? Past performance from the unfake news fraternity inspires little confidence of that.
Institutional mass media constantly fails the public putting stories into proper perspective when the scoop finally spills to them late in the game. Particular indulgence is always allowed for the Bureau.
Early in 1974 Dusko Popov’s autobiography Spy/Counterspy went on sale. Its pages revealed that Edgar Hoover had been informed of Japanese interest in Pearl Harbor’s defenses 3 months prior to the attack on December, 7 1941. Hoover had been dead less than two years at the time—if he had still been alive Popov’s book probably never would have made it to press. Further research showed that the information was doctored before others saw any of it. All references to Pearl Harbor were redacted from what JEH passed on to anyone else in the US government. Media power houses haven’t strained themselves making this scandal common knowledge. History textbooks for kids leave Popov’s name out. Films depicting the day FDR said would “live in infamy” have yet to cover the sordid details of official culpability.
J. Edgar Hoover: The M... Curt Gentry Best Price: $2.00 Buy New $15.99 (as of 11:35 UTC - Details) Far from humbled by later events Hoover upped the ante blaming FCC director Lawrence Fly’s obstruction of illegal wiretaps. He continued to press this phony vendetta—holding full knowledge of his own perfidy—for years after the war. What does this tell us about the character of a man who had been handed an explicit warning of the impending attack—that he refused to share with his superior in the White house or military intelligence? 2,403 Americans died that day while Hoover retained his position for nearly 31 more years. This isn’t even the full context of his betrayal—the FBI director fought tooth and nail against any trespass by fledgling intelligence agencies on his turf for the rest of his life.
Meanwhile, the US media was fed a bogus story of thwarting Operation Pastorious, a Nazi sabotage mission that, if successful, would have impeded US aircraft production for months—among other potential consequences. Its leader, George Dasch, had actually, just as Popov tried to do, handed the FBI everything on a silver platter. Their initial input amounted to answering the phone. They came close to botching that task. Dasch was an American citizen who had been misled into returning to Germany, the country of his birth, for a better job. His actions once back on US soil, proved those of a conscientious and loyal double agent each step of the way. Despite possessing large amounts of cash and substantial ordnance not one US asset was harmed.
Hoover was completely oblivious to that accomplishment–making all the facts conform to his PR needs while suppressing many relevant ones. With the tap of communication entirely in Hoover’s grip the bureau came out looking foolproof on American front pages. Their actual investigative role amounted to taking dictation.
Considering the exposed conditions of the Nazi’s carefully chosen targets, Dasch, if anything, was an American hero. Under the circumstances amateurs could have pulled the plot off. With characteristic Edgarite treachery the director went so far as to push for Dasch’s execution. Would it be wide of the mark to diagnose a sociopath without a conscience? This spy lore is well known to any serious student of WWII. There is no good reason the story is still arcane. The fact that it is works for JEH fans who still dismiss it as a conspiratorial myth. Who can provide a legitimate excuse for the Federal Bureau of Investigation surviving WWII?
The FBI always retains the full rights to its stories; that explains why they invariably come out so fuzzy. It is far from clear if this federal agency missed not one, but several, grand opportunities to prevent the first World Trade Center bombing—the truth is probably clarified tacitly by all the effort G-men expend covering their tracks. An NYT article from 1993 provides a zany description of the bureau’s use of undercover source Emad Salem. He had infiltrated the conspirators and repeatedly notified handlers of bombs in the process of manufacture. The Feds went fickle on him a few months before the bombing. As usual their side of the details is confusing, incomplete and dismissive. Federal management suffers the same affliction ailing all modern mega-organizations. The ones doing heavy-lifting get over administrated and under supported.
Salem’s undercover worked started after El Sayyid Nosair assassinated Meir Kahane in November 1990. Emad befriended the men in the assassin’s circle. Before that 47 boxes of documents in Arabic were found in Nosair’s residence. With a man deployed in a life threatening deep cover operation—a layman would foolishly expect those papers to be a high priority. Instead, they—and the clues their text contained–remained in federal possession untranslated until after February 1993 when the attack occurred. The Burglary: The Disc... Medsger, Betty L. Best Price: $1.54 Buy New $13.15 (as of 05:17 UTC - Details)
All the days leading into and out of 9-11 are a blur as the FBI tells it. The public never gets anything close to resolution concerning Colleen Rowley, Sibel Edmonds, Abdullah Higazy, abandoned leads, Robert Wright or the lack of coordination with CIA. This was failure equal to the one at Pearl Harbor. The difference being 9-11 was a result of incompetence—we think–rather than the treason of December 7. In FBI defense, since these kinds of disastrous outcomes always result in more funding from the Hill—where’s the motive to save American lives?
The only thing that comes out pellucid when Feds describe their involvement is that they are always nearby–as the plots proceed anyway. A classic case took place in Garland, Texas shooting May 3, 2015. Elton Simpson and Nadir Hamid Soofi drove into Curtis Culwell Center lot the day of a Mohamed drawing contest. It was held to challenge the Muslim ban on drawing the prophet. Trouble was expected and when the two men fired on police return fire quickly killed them after a security guard was wounded. An FBI informant pulled up in a vehicle directly behind the assailants as the assault began. He later claimed no knowledge of what Simpson and Soofi—who wore body armor and possessed 6 guns with 1500 rounds of ammo—had in mind that day. It seems odd—did he believe the two devout Muslims would hand in entries for judgment in the competition? He had worked with them for 2 years. What was their presumed purpose at the Culwell Center?
Numerous other cases could be cited here—in fact nearly every case where the Bureau makes the news concludes without explanation, consequences or reprimand after grossly incompetent or criminal behavior. That’s why Lon Horiuchi remains in the Federal murderers protection program to this day—evoking another case of federal evidentiary smoke and mirrors.
Going by everything that’s been made public the FBI first became aware of Samuel Little in 2013. That was eight years after his last murder and 28 after G-men were put on his trail from two different LEO sources. This information is conveyed to the public from deep in the pages of an obsolete medium. In later installments of the Post’s series we learn of the FBI’s heartrending efforts updating loved ones to the fate of Little’s victims. If listening to a maniac fess up 15, 20, 30 or 40 years too late is the proper role of our uber-enforcement agency their budget is overdue for serious retrenchment. As far as the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program is concerned we are entitled to a 100% refund.
The very media entities that are now demanding sole entitlement to a broad audience—“fake” news being such an unprecedented threat—have been gratefully swallowing lame answers from the FBI for generations. Those responses were generally reciprocal to the quality of the questions.
Anyone who isn’t scared of socialism better take a closer look at the Feds. We are all forced to buy their product while they decide how much to tell us about what it’s supposed to be.
The Best of Tim Hartnett