lewrockwell--2020-05-23--Duncan Lemp – America’s First Covid-19 Death

On 9/11 it took just under 9 hours for two planes to collapse three New York skyscrapers .
As Toby Keith described it in his most jingoistic song “ A sucker punch came flying from somewhere in the back.
” “ What just happened ?
” was the dazed sentiment repeated for months .
Those were hard times .
Many were reminded that you can ’ t change the past .
Eventually , most people snapped out of it .
The corona communism , put in place from the Ides of March 2020 , in contrast , has unfolded in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ destruction takes place in full view around us daily .
“ What is happening ?
” has been the dazed sentiment repeated for months , as people grasp at straws trying to make sense of it .
While you can ’ t change the past , you can change the present .
You just stop complying .
And despite the insistence of self-proclaimed authorities , life goes back to whatever “ normal ” it is that individuals demand in their own lives .
I Drink Therefore I Am ... Scruton , Roger Buy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ snap out of it .
The destruction is vast , far more vast than 9/11 .
The outcome is not determined .
It continues to unfold .
Any individual can just stop living in fear this very moment , can stop living in compliance with the fearmongers .
In Dallas , on Wednesday , April 29 , armed men , stood guard outside a salon owned by Shelley Luther , a dissident in the era of corona communism , who refused to close .
They vowed not to let anyone close her salon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Daily Mail , the two men didn ’ t give their names .
They gave an alias .
It was a far more meaningful choice than the reprobate Tyler Durden used as an alias by some .
The name they both gave : Duncan Lemp .
He was the first American victim of Covid-19 .
John Whitehead reports on the tragic death of Duncan Lemp , “ It was 4:30 a.m. on March 12 , 2020 , in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic that has most of the country under a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when this masked SWAT team—deployed to execute a ‘ high risk ’ search warrant for unauthorized firearms—stormed the suburban house where 21-year-old Duncan , a software engineer and Second Amendment advocate , lived with his parents and 19-year-old brother .
“ The entire household , including Lemp and his girlfriend , was reportedly asleep when the SWAT team directed flash bang grenades and gunfire through Lemp ’ s bedroom window .
“ Lemp was killed and his girlfriend injured .
“ No one in the house that morning , including Lemp , had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Conserv ... Scruton , Roger Best Price : $ 27.63 Buy New $ 17.00 “ No one in the house that morning , including Lemp , was considered an ‘ imminent threat ’ to law enforcement or the public , at least not according to the search warrant.
” No One Wrote Covid On Duncan Lemp ’ s Death Certificate Duncan Lemp wasn ’ t a victim of Covid-19 like the other corona deaths written about in the papers .
No one wrote Covid-19 on Duncan Lemp ’ s death certificate .
A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was caught in .
It was the same psychological shift that brought about corona communism .
In his history of the colonial period and revolution , Conceived in Liberty , Murray Rothbard tells the story of the American Revolution as having taken place from the 1760s to sometime before 1776 .
The colonists had come to think of themselves as something else .
The revolution was psychological , intellectual , economic , and social .
What followed that was a bloody rebellion , as the self-professed authorities were brought into compliance with what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Something similar took place prior to the Ides of March 2020 .
For decades , Americans had been undergoing a devolution .
Once truly the land of the free , because America from Tierra Del Fuego to Point Barrow , Alaska was populated , by pioneers that would go to great lengths to have a better life for themselves and their descendants .
You could not cross the Atlantic to restart your life if you were unable to get yourself off the couch .
Though it was never perfect , life in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fetters than the old world .
A special type of person tended to self-select and to make that trek to the new land .
Over time , the United States slowly became populated by the compliant .
Compliance marks the death of freedom .
Henry David Thoreau writes “ Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty .
The obedient must be slaves.
” America declined into a state of slavery , a state of decline widespread and great in magnitude .
Many Americans had long ago placed themselves in shackles voluntarily .
During @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government simply locked those shackles shut .
Shaysu2019s Rebellion : ... Leonard L. Richards Best Price : $ 6.48 Buy New $ 17.61 On March 12 , 2020 , Duncan Lemp was killed in his bed at 4:30 a.m. by a police force who could do exactly that .
He would not be the first to die in such a way .
Such acts only take place when a police officer feels no fear of reprisal .
Duncan Lemp was a casualty of the devolution .
He was a casualty of the same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ corona communism to take place , the same devolution that has us in fear masks .
No virus is to blame .
It ’ s our total ingratitude for the inheritance of freedom .
Even if this era has no use for it , it ’ s also our ineptitude to keep that inheritance intact long enough to pass it along to the next generation .
The same sickness that caused us to lie about the dying elderly , the same sickness that caused us to so cowardly blame our elders on their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up on life and gave up on the American experiment , that ’ s the same sickness that killed Duncan Lemp .
While the name for the first two conditions has been called Covid-19 , that ’ s merely the superficial distraction that we are told is to blame .
It ’ s but the scapegoat for life ’ s woes .
Anyone who ’ s paying attention knows Covid isn ’ t to blame and knows how irrelevant it is whether there are 3,000 cases this year or 300,000 cases .
Duncan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a casualty of some very dark days .
In his last tweet he wrote “ the constitution is dead.
” Fellow cultural dissident Roger Scruton , in his final published piece of writing before his death , earlier this year , observed “ Our highest aspirations grow from our darkest griefs…the gate to fulfillment stands on the way of loss.
” It ’ s the same devolution that leaves us groped at airports and allows us to say to our sons or daughters that it ’ s okay .
The same devolution that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I surrender ” pose each time we fly .
The same devolution that leaves us compliant and servile across life though our money is fake , though our food and water are being poisoned , though the many wars are based on lies , though the country is run by a bunch of pedophiles , and all around you so many appear too distracted to do anything about it .
The Appropriateness Of Living In Fear Seven governors either had the common sense to keep their states open or so feared reprisals in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Iowa , Nebraska , North Dakota , South Dakota , Utah , Wyoming .
On Thursday , April 30 , the Michigan governor and legislature came to know what fear of reprisal felt like .
At some point that day , as the capital filled with well-armed protestors , Gov Gretchen Whitmer likely wondered if that day could be her last .
The accounts from other politicians that day contain such fear .
Fear is what a free people cause their public servants to feel when life operates according to the natural @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fear of government is not what a free people feel .
The tree of liberty is not only refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots , like Duncan Lemp , but also by the blood of tyrants , as Thomas Jefferson pointed out as he welcomed the tax protest known as Shays ’ Rebellion .
“ God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion , ” wrote the 44-year-old Jefferson in the same letter .
Will You Choose To Mourn The Loss Of America As We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t care enough about the topic of emancipation in Michigan to follow it .
Most will stay engrossed with their own life on lockdown : Netflix and fast food .
So few Americans are anything but compliant .
One can spend time mourning the “ loss ” of the flabby midsection of America that won ’ t be moved to action .
That flabby midsection can only ever be counted on to cautiously follow .
In the devolution they moved far away from being a free people .
Yes , one can choose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dark times , one can marvel at the resistance forming in America , from a tiny , resilient , enduring , passionate minority lighting brushfires of liberty — the kind of people who name their kids Socrates , strike fear in the hearts of complacent politicians , and identify themselves to British reporters as Duncan Lemp .
But that ’ s all it takes .
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On 9/11 it took just under 9 hours for two planes to collapse three New York skyscrapers.
As Toby Keith described it in his most jingoistic song “A sucker punch came flying from somewhere in the back.”
“What just happened?” was the dazed sentiment repeated for months. Those were hard times. Many were reminded that you can’t change the past. Eventually, most people snapped out of it.
The corona communism, put in place from the Ides of March 2020, in contrast, has unfolded in slow motion. The magnitude of the destruction takes place in full view around us daily.
“What is happening?” has been the dazed sentiment repeated for months, as people grasp at straws trying to make sense of it. While you can’t change the past, you can change the present. You just stop complying. And despite the insistence of self-proclaimed authorities, life goes back to whatever “normal” it is that individuals demand in their own lives. I Drink Therefore I Am... Scruton, Roger Buy New $13.99 (as of 02:42 UTC - Details)
Eventually most people will snap out of it.
The Destruction Is Vast
The destruction is vast, far more vast than 9/11. The outcome is not determined. It continues to unfold. Any individual can just stop living in fear this very moment, can stop living in compliance with the fearmongers.
In Dallas, on Wednesday, April 29, armed men, stood guard outside a salon owned by Shelley Luther, a dissident in the era of corona communism, who refused to close. They vowed not to let anyone close her salon down.
Interviewed by a reporter for the Daily Mail, the two men didn’t give their names. They gave an alias. It was a far more meaningful choice than the reprobate Tyler Durden used as an alias by some.
The name they both gave: Duncan Lemp. He was the first American victim of Covid-19.
The March 12, 2020 Death Of Duncan Lemp
John Whitehead reports on the tragic death of Duncan Lemp, “It was 4:30 a.m. on March 12, 2020, in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic that has most of the country under a partial lockdown and sheltering at home, when this masked SWAT team—deployed to execute a ‘high risk’ search warrant for unauthorized firearms—stormed the suburban house where 21-year-old Duncan, a software engineer and Second Amendment advocate, lived with his parents and 19-year-old brother.
“The entire household, including Lemp and his girlfriend, was reportedly asleep when the SWAT team directed flash bang grenades and gunfire through Lemp’s bedroom window.
“Lemp was killed and his girlfriend injured.
“No one in the house that morning, including Lemp, had a criminal record. The Meaning of Conserv... Scruton, Roger Best Price: $27.63 Buy New $17.00 (as of 02:42 UTC - Details)
“No one in the house that morning, including Lemp, was considered an ‘imminent threat’ to law enforcement or the public, at least not according to the search warrant.”
No One Wrote Covid On Duncan Lemp’s Death Certificate
Duncan Lemp wasn’t a victim of Covid-19 like the other corona deaths written about in the papers. No one wrote Covid-19 on Duncan Lemp’s death certificate. A psychological shift had happened that Duncan Lemp was caught in. It was the same psychological shift that brought about corona communism.
In his history of the colonial period and revolution, Conceived in Liberty, Murray Rothbard tells the story of the American Revolution as having taken place from the 1760s to sometime before 1776. The colonists had come to think of themselves as something else. The revolution was psychological, intellectual, economic, and social. What followed that was a bloody rebellion, as the self-professed authorities were brought into compliance with what the new normal was going to be.
The American Devolution
Something similar took place prior to the Ides of March 2020. For decades, Americans had been undergoing a devolution. Once truly the land of the free, because America from Tierra Del Fuego to Point Barrow, Alaska was populated, by pioneers that would go to great lengths to have a better life for themselves and their descendants. You could not cross the Atlantic to restart your life if you were unable to get yourself off the couch. Though it was never perfect, life in the new world tended to require fewer fetters than the old world. A special type of person tended to self-select and to make that trek to the new land.
Over time, the United States slowly became populated by the compliant. Compliance marks the death of freedom. Henry David Thoreau writes “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
America declined into a state of slavery, a state of decline widespread and great in magnitude. Many Americans had long ago placed themselves in shackles voluntarily. During the Ides of March 2020, the government simply locked those shackles shut. Shaysu2019s Rebellion:... Leonard L. Richards Best Price: $6.48 Buy New $17.61 (as of 09:55 UTC - Details)
On March 12, 2020, Duncan Lemp was killed in his bed at 4:30 a.m. by a police force who could do exactly that. He would not be the first to die in such a way. Such acts only take place when a police officer feels no fear of reprisal.
Duncan Lemp was a casualty of the devolution. He was a casualty of the same devolution that allowed the massive destruction of corona communism to take place, the same devolution that has us in fear masks. No virus is to blame. It’s our total ingratitude for the inheritance of freedom. Even if this era has no use for it, it’s also our ineptitude to keep that inheritance intact long enough to pass it along to the next generation.
The same sickness that caused us to lie about the dying elderly, the same sickness that caused us to so cowardly blame our elders on their deathbeds for why so many Americans gave up on life and gave up on the American experiment, that’s the same sickness that killed Duncan Lemp. While the name for the first two conditions has been called Covid-19, that’s merely the superficial distraction that we are told is to blame. It’s but the scapegoat for life’s woes. Anyone who’s paying attention knows Covid isn’t to blame and knows how irrelevant it is whether there are 3,000 cases this year or 300,000 cases.
Duncan Socrates Lemp was a cultural dissident and a casualty of some very dark days. In his last tweet he wrote “the constitution is dead.” Fellow cultural dissident Roger Scruton, in his final published piece of writing before his death, earlier this year, observed “Our highest aspirations grow from our darkest griefs…the gate to fulfillment stands on the way of loss.”
It’s the same devolution that leaves us groped at airports and allows us to say to our sons or daughters that it’s okay. The same devolution that leaves many of us in the “I surrender” pose each time we fly. The same devolution that leaves us compliant and servile across life though our money is fake, though our food and water are being poisoned, though the many wars are based on lies, though the country is run by a bunch of pedophiles, and all around you so many appear too distracted to do anything about it.
The Appropriateness Of Living In Fear
Seven governors either had the common sense to keep their states open or so feared reprisals in their state that they refused: Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming.
On Thursday, April 30, the Michigan governor and legislature came to know what fear of reprisal felt like. At some point that day, as the capital filled with well-armed protestors, Gov Gretchen Whitmer likely wondered if that day could be her last. The accounts from other politicians that day contain such fear. Fear is what a free people cause their public servants to feel when life operates according to the natural order of things between the two. Fear of government is not what a free people feel.
The tree of liberty is not only refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots, like Duncan Lemp, but also by the blood of tyrants, as Thomas Jefferson pointed out as he welcomed the tax protest known as Shays’ Rebellion. “God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion,” wrote the 44-year-old Jefferson in the same letter.
Will You Choose To Mourn The Loss Of America As We Knew It?
Most people won’t care enough about the topic of emancipation in Michigan to follow it. Most will stay engrossed with their own life on lockdown: Netflix and fast food. So few Americans are anything but compliant.
One can spend time mourning the “loss” of the flabby midsection of America that won’t be moved to action. That flabby midsection can only ever be counted on to cautiously follow. In the devolution they moved far away from being a free people.
Yes, one can choose to mourn.
Alternately, in these dark times, one can marvel at the resistance forming in America, from a tiny, resilient, enduring, passionate minority lighting brushfires of liberty — the kind of people who name their kids Socrates, strike fear in the hearts of complacent politicians, and identify themselves to British reporters as Duncan Lemp.
A mere remnant of free individuals remain in America.
But that’s all it takes.
The Best of Allan Stevo


lewrockwell--2020-05-23--The Scary Truth About Living in Big Cities During the Turbulent Times Ahead

International Man : Amid the Covid-19 hysteria and global shutdown , the drawbacks of living in a big city have become more apparent .
Sure , cities can offer more career opportunities .
Still , they are also more expensive , dirtier , have higher levels of crime , crowded , have fragile supply lines , and infrastructure that can get easily overwhelmed .
How do you view the value proposition of living in a big city today , given what is transpiring ?
Jeff Thomas : Well , in my college years , I found cities to be very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lots of shops , a greater variety of goods , etc .
But , during that time , I was very fortunate to have experienced two city crises from which I learned valuable lessons .
The Stakes : The 2020 E ... Anton , Michael Buy New $ 28.99 The first was an oil crisis in the winter of 1973 .
It was bad enough that many people had to abandon their cars , some out on the highway , in the snow .
Some people died from exposure .
But at that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only one who was wondering what would happen if it got just a bit worse .
What if there were no fuel to heat houses ?
People in the country can find a way to survive , but in the city , you have no options .
Many would die without heat .
But first , they ’ d become desperate and desperate people are a threat to your well-being .
The second was a city riot .
Until I was in the midst of one , I didn ’ t fully understand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t merely a crime spree ; it ’ s random chaos , fueled by anger and desperation .
They occur due to built-up tension that ’ s sparked off , often by a “ last straw ” event .
Because they ’ re spontaneous , mini-riots tend to pop up all over the city like popcorn .
And they ’ re uncontrollable .
When the sirens are heard , rioters may disburse , but as soon as the police drive on to the next neighbourhood , the rioters start in again .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ except that they have no organization whatsoever .
They are high on anger and low on reason and , as such , are very dangerous .
For someone living in a city who ’ s hoping to be left in peace , there ’ s no chance of that in a riot .
Sooner or later , you have to go out , and when you do , you may become a casualty .
Those two occurrences provided me with the important lesson that , whilst cities are very attractive in good times @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of them in a chaotic period .
International Man : What are some risks of living in a city during a prolonged crisis ?
Jeff Thomas : One of the greatest attractions of a city is that , all around you , there are small businesses that do everything for you .
It ’ s wonderfully convenient .
As long as you can pay , you can have anything .
The great advantage is that a host of others have control of everything you may need .
And , in a crisis , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ becomes your greatest danger .
You can ’ t remove yourself from the dependency on others and suddenly become self-reliant .
You have very little control over your surroundings and the services you need .
Revolution : Trump , Was ... McFarland , KT Best Price : $ 26.08 Buy New $ 22.54 In a crisis , the first locations to be hit with food shortages are cities , and you find you have no alternate supply of food .
And this is true of any city , no matter how nice it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ End of London is a neighbourhood that I ’ m fond of , but if there ’ s a food shortage and some people are desperate , I ’ m not going to want to be walking home from Sainsbury ’ s with a loaf of bread under my arm .
And this holds true of all things in a city .
You need the shops for your food .
You may need a laundromat to wash your clothes .
Your building has a central water supply , gas supply and electrical supply @ @ @ @ @ @ @ low indeed .
In a crisis , none of the attractions of city life continue to have value .
The city becomes a liability .
International Man : How important is it to have a pleasant place to go to in the countryside or a small town ?
Jeff Thomas : It ’ s vital .
Your life may depend upon it .
International Man : Do you think there will be a trend of people moving out of cities ?
What are the implications ?
Jeff Thomas : Yes .
We have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ look at when it comes to this question .
Historically , a small number of people will see the writing on the wall and arrange to have a bolt-hole somewhere in a small town or in the country .
But the great majority will wait until the last minute and , when it comes time to make a run for it , they may have no plan whatsoever .
Above the Law : The Ins ... Whitaker , Matthew Buy New $ 26.09 So , we ’ ll see panic exits—large numbers of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of some ‘ last-straw ’ event .
It may be similar to the 1930s – the Okies loading up their Model A trucks with their possessions and driving to California .
Only this time , it will be Montana , and other rural places where the existing residents are known to be self-reliant .
And there are numerous problems with this idea .
First , there will need to be plenty of gas stations with ample fuel along the way , or you ’ ll never reach your destination .
Second , there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This , again , is historically the norm in such situations .
And , if you arrive at your destination , you ’ ll find that those who had settled these areas want no part of the city-dwellers , who are descending upon them in droves .
Nor will they want to share the stores of food that they so carefully ferreted away in anticipation of a crisis .
Just as the Okies discovered , the new arrivals will be quite unwelcome .
International Man : Do you perceive a different mindset @ @ @ @ @ @ @ makes them more desirable as neighbours in a crisis ?
Jeff Thomas : Oh , definitely .
It ’ s not so true in the suburbs , but those who choose to live in small towns and rural areas do , for the most part , tend to be more self-reliant than city-dwellers .
And because , in those areas , neighbours are few and don ’ t change often , people get to know their neighbours personally , and they become mutually reliant .
They form strong bonds , which may help @ @ @ @ @ @ @ each other in the knowledge that the help will come back to them at some later date .
This , of course , is not so true in a city , where many people don ’ t even know the names of those in the apartment across the hall .
BLITZ : Trump Will Smas ... Horowitz , David Buy New $ 25.19 So , in a crisis , you want rural people around you .
First , they ’ re unlikely to aggress against you , and second , they may even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with you , once they know you well .
But it does mean that you ’ d have to start early and earn your place amongst them .
International Man : What do you look for in an ideal “ bug out “ location ?
I have homes in several countries so that , if one proves to have been a poor choice as a bolthole , I have other options .
In assessing each of those countries , I first wanted to know that the government had a history of political stability @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leadership to another .
I also value governments that impose themselves as little as possible onto the lives of residents .
Any country that ’ s already in the habit of being overly-autocratic is only likely to get worse in a crisis .
As I described , having neighbours that are unlikely to become a liability to you is another essential .
In considering each of my homes , I asked myself , “ How do these people treat each other ?
” and “ How would they behave in a crisis ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ s advisable to choose locations that have an abundance of food and water .
If there are already farms all around you , wonderful .
However , if this doesn ’ t exist — that is , if most food is imported — you ’ d want to either establish a farm or , at the very least , stockpile food that could carry you for a while .
CODE RED : Computerized ... Simon , Jonathan David Buy New $ 24.95 I don ’ t doubt that , over the next few @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a breakdown in the availability of food in some countries , and those locations would be the worst of choices .
However , even in countries where food delivery is likely to be good , there may be interruptions from time to time , so a month ’ s backup food storage would be advisable , no matter where you plan to be .
International Man : Any final points that should be considered ?
Jeff Thomas : Only that we ’ ve just begun a period that will evolve into what may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There ’ s no guarantee that one reader out there will be luckier than another and will fare better .
In such times , the likelihood of very major unrest and shortages is high enough that it would be quite unwise to just “ wait and see what happens , ” or “ hope for the best.
” Those who prepare are less likely to become casualties of the coming crisis .
I wouldn ’ t want to be locked into a city residence once the fur begins to fly .

International Man: Amid the Covid-19 hysteria and global shutdown, the drawbacks of living in a big city have become more apparent.
Sure, cities can offer more career opportunities. Still, they are also more expensive, dirtier, have higher levels of crime, crowded, have fragile supply lines, and infrastructure that can get easily overwhelmed.
How do you view the value proposition of living in a big city today, given what is transpiring?
Jeff Thomas: Well, in my college years, I found cities to be very attractive. Lots of social opportunities, lots of shops, a greater variety of goods, etc. But, during that time, I was very fortunate to have experienced two city crises from which I learned valuable lessons.
The Stakes: The 2020 E... Anton, Michael Buy New $28.99 (as of 03:16 UTC - Details) The first was an oil crisis in the winter of 1973. It was bad enough that many people had to abandon their cars, some out on the highway, in the snow. Some people died from exposure.
But at that time, I seemed to be the only one who was wondering what would happen if it got just a bit worse. What if there were no fuel to heat houses? People in the country can find a way to survive, but in the city, you have no options. Many would die without heat. But first, they’d become desperate and desperate people are a threat to your well-being.
The second was a city riot. Until I was in the midst of one, I didn’t fully understand their real nature. A riot isn’t merely a crime spree; it’s random chaos, fueled by anger and desperation. They occur due to built-up tension that’s sparked off, often by a “last straw” event. Because they’re spontaneous, mini-riots tend to pop up all over the city like popcorn. And they’re uncontrollable. When the sirens are heard, rioters may disburse, but as soon as the police drive on to the next neighbourhood, the rioters start in again. Riots are similar to guerilla warfare, except that they have no organization whatsoever. They are high on anger and low on reason and, as such, are very dangerous.
For someone living in a city who’s hoping to be left in peace, there’s no chance of that in a riot. Sooner or later, you have to go out, and when you do, you may become a casualty.
Those two occurrences provided me with the important lesson that, whilst cities are very attractive in good times, you want to be well out of them in a chaotic period.
International Man: What are some risks of living in a city during a prolonged crisis?
Jeff Thomas: One of the greatest attractions of a city is that, all around you, there are small businesses that do everything for you. It’s wonderfully convenient. As long as you can pay, you can have anything. The great advantage is that a host of others have control of everything you may need. And, in a crisis, it’s that very condition that becomes your greatest danger. You can’t remove yourself from the dependency on others and suddenly become self-reliant. You have very little control over your surroundings and the services you need. Revolution: Trump, Was... McFarland, KT Best Price: $26.08 Buy New $22.54 (as of 03:14 UTC - Details)
In a crisis, the first locations to be hit with food shortages are cities, and you find you have no alternate supply of food. And this is true of any city, no matter how nice it is in good times. The West End of London is a neighbourhood that I’m fond of, but if there’s a food shortage and some people are desperate, I’m not going to want to be walking home from Sainsbury’s with a loaf of bread under my arm.
And this holds true of all things in a city. You need the shops for your food. You may need a laundromat to wash your clothes. Your building has a central water supply, gas supply and electrical supply. Your ability for self-reliance is very low indeed.
In a crisis, none of the attractions of city life continue to have value. The city becomes a liability.
International Man: How important is it to have a pleasant place to go to in the countryside or a small town?
Jeff Thomas: It’s vital. Your life may depend upon it.
International Man: Do you think there will be a trend of people moving out of cities? What are the implications?
Jeff Thomas: Yes. We have literally thousands of years of history to look at when it comes to this question. Historically, a small number of people will see the writing on the wall and arrange to have a bolt-hole somewhere in a small town or in the country. But the great majority will wait until the last minute and, when it comes time to make a run for it, they may have no plan whatsoever. Above the Law: The Ins... Whitaker, Matthew Buy New $26.09 (as of 05:57 UTC - Details)
So, we’ll see panic exits—large numbers of people attempting to leave as a result of some ‘last-straw’ event. It may be similar to the 1930s – the Okies loading up their Model A trucks with their possessions and driving to California. Only this time, it will be Montana, and other rural places where the existing residents are known to be self-reliant.
And there are numerous problems with this idea. First, there will need to be plenty of gas stations with ample fuel along the way, or you’ll never reach your destination. Second, there may well be marauders along the way. This, again, is historically the norm in such situations.
And, if you arrive at your destination, you’ll find that those who had settled these areas want no part of the city-dwellers, who are descending upon them in droves. Nor will they want to share the stores of food that they so carefully ferreted away in anticipation of a crisis. Just as the Okies discovered, the new arrivals will be quite unwelcome.
International Man: Do you perceive a different mindset amongst those who reside outside cities that makes them more desirable as neighbours in a crisis?
Jeff Thomas: Oh, definitely. It’s not so true in the suburbs, but those who choose to live in small towns and rural areas do, for the most part, tend to be more self-reliant than city-dwellers. And because, in those areas, neighbours are few and don’t change often, people get to know their neighbours personally, and they become mutually reliant. They form strong bonds, which may help them through harder times. People help each other in the knowledge that the help will come back to them at some later date. This, of course, is not so true in a city, where many people don’t even know the names of those in the apartment across the hall.
BLITZ: Trump Will Smas... Horowitz, David Buy New $25.19 (as of 02:44 UTC - Details) So, in a crisis, you want rural people around you. First, they’re unlikely to aggress against you, and second, they may even help you and share what they have with you, once they know you well. But it does mean that you’d have to start early and earn your place amongst them.
International Man: What do you look for in an ideal “bug out“ location?
Jeff Thomas: Three things: stable government; good neighbours; ample food and water.
I have homes in several countries so that, if one proves to have been a poor choice as a bolthole, I have other options.
In assessing each of those countries, I first wanted to know that the government had a history of political stability, not undergoing dramatic change from one leadership to another. I also value governments that impose themselves as little as possible onto the lives of residents. Any country that’s already in the habit of being overly-autocratic is only likely to get worse in a crisis.
As I described, having neighbours that are unlikely to become a liability to you is another essential. In considering each of my homes, I asked myself, “How do these people treat each other?” and “How would they behave in a crisis?”
And, finally, it’s advisable to choose locations that have an abundance of food and water. If there are already farms all around you, wonderful. However, if this doesn’t exist — that is, if most food is imported — you’d want to either establish a farm or, at the very least, stockpile food that could carry you for a while.
CODE RED: Computerized... Simon, Jonathan David Buy New $24.95 (as of 03:16 UTC - Details) I don’t doubt that, over the next few years, we’ll be seeing a breakdown in the availability of food in some countries, and those locations would be the worst of choices. However, even in countries where food delivery is likely to be good, there may be interruptions from time to time, so a month’s backup food storage would be advisable, no matter where you plan to be.
International Man: Any final points that should be considered?
Jeff Thomas: Only that we’ve just begun a period that will evolve into what may be the crisis of our lifetimes. There’s no guarantee that one reader out there will be luckier than another and will fare better. In such times, the likelihood of very major unrest and shortages is high enough that it would be quite unwise to just “wait and see what happens,” or “hope for the best.”
Those who prepare are less likely to become casualties of the coming crisis. I wouldn’t want to be locked into a city residence once the fur begins to fly.
Reprinted with permission from International Man.


lewrockwell--2020-05-23--How the British Empire Created and Killed George Orwell

The British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) , happily amplified by the Public Broadcasting System ( PBS ) in the United States which carries its World News , continues to pump out its regular dreck about the alleged economic chaos in Russia and the imagined miserable state of the Russian people .
It is all lies of course .
Patrick Armstrong ‘ s authoritative regular updates including his reports on this website are a necessary corrective to such crude propaganda .
But amid all their countless fiascoes and failures in every other field ( including the highest per capita death @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one of the highest in the world ) the British remain world leaders at managing global Fake News .
As long as the tone remains restrained and dignified , literally any slander will be swallowed by the credulous and every foul scandal and shame can be confidently covered up .
1984 ( Signet Classics ) George Orwell Best Price : $ 1.49 Buy New $ 3.58 None of this would have surprised the late , great George Orwell .
It is fashionable these days to endlessly trot him out as a zombie ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so that he can not set the record straight himself ) critic of Russia and all the other global news outlets outside the control of the New York and London plutocracies .
And it is certainly true , that Orwell , whose hatred and fear of communism was very real , served before his death as an informer to MI-5 , British domestic security .
But it was not the Soviet Union , Stalin ’ s show trials or his experiences with the Trotskyite POUM group in Barcelona and Catalonia during the Spanish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” as the Anglo-America Conventional Wisdom Narrative has it .
It was his visceral loathing of the British Empire – compounded during World War II by his work for the BBC which he eventually gave up in disgust .
And it was his BBC experiences that gave Orwell the model for his unforgettable Ministry of Truth in his great classic “ 1984.
” George Orwell had worked in one of the greatest of all world centers of Fake News .
And he knew it .
More profoundly , the great secret of George @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in plain sight for 70 years since he died .
Orwell became a sadistic torturer in the service of the British Empire during his years in Burma , modern Myanmar .
And as a fundamentally decent man , he was so disgusted by what he had done that he spent the rest of his life not just atoning but slowly and willfully committing suicide before his heartbreakingly premature death while still in his 40s .
The first important breakthrough in this fundamental reassessment of Orwell comes from one of the best books on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Burma ” was published in 2005 and written by “ Emma Larkin ” , a pseudonym for an outstanding American journalist in Asia whose identity I have long suspected to be an old friend and deeply respected colleague , and whose continued anonymity I respect .
“ Larkin ” took the trouble to travel widely in Burma during its repressive military dictatorship and her superb research reveals crucial truths about Orwell .
According to his own writings and his deeply autobiographical novel “ Burmese Days ” Orwell loathed all his time as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Myanmar .
The impression he systematically gives in that novel and in his classic essay “ Shooting an Elephant ” is of a bitterly lonely , alienated , deeply unhappy man , despised and even loathed by his fellow British colonialists throughout society and a ludicrous failure at his job .
This was not , however , the reality that “ Larkin ” uncovered .
All surviving witnesses agreed that Orwell – Eric Blair as he then still was – remained held in high regard during his years in the colonial police service @ @ @ @ @ @ @ officer .
Indeed it was precisely his knowledge of crime , vice , murder and the general underside of human society during his police colonial service while still in his 20s that gave him the street smarts , experience , and moral authority to see through all the countless lies of right and left , of American capitalists and British imperialists as well as European totalitarians for the rest of his life .
Finding George Orwell ... Larkin , Emma Best Price : $ 2.00 Buy New $ 9.42 The second revelation to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do in those years comes from one of the most famous and horrifying scenes in “ 1984.
” Indeed , almost nothing even in the memoirs of Nazi death camp survivors has anything like it : That is the scene where “ O ’ Brien ” , the secret police officer tortures the “ hero ” ( if he can be called that ) Winston Smith by locking his face to a cage in which a starving rat is ready to pounce and devour him if it is opened .
I remember thinking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the power of “ 1984 ” at my outstanding Northern Irish school , “ What kind of mind could invent something as horrific as that ?
” ) The answer was so obvious that I like everyone else missed it entirely .
Orwell did not “ invent ” or “ come up ” with the idea as a fictional plot device : It was just a routine interrogation technique used by the British colonial police in Burma , modern Myanmar .
Orwell never “ brilliantly ” invented such a diabolical technique of torture @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not have to imagine it .
It was routinely employed by himself and his colleagues .
That was how and why the British Empire worked so well for so long .
They knew what they were doing .
And what they did was not nice at all .
A final step in my enlightenment about Orwell , whose writings I have revered all my life – and still do – was provided by our alarmingly brilliant elder daughter about a decade ago when she too was given “ 1984 ” to read as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it with her one day , I made some casual obvious remark that Orwell was in the novel as Winston Smith .
My American-raised teenager then naturally corrected me .
“ No , Dad , ” she said .
“ Orwell isn ’ t Winston , or he ’ s not just Winston .
He ’ s O ’ Brien too .
O ’ Brien actually likes Winston .
He doesn ’ t want to torture him .
He even admires him .
But he does it because it ’ s his duty.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But how could Orwell the great enemy of tyranny , lies and torture so identify with and understand so well the torturer ?
It was because he himself had been one .
“ Emma Larkin ’ s ” great book brings out that Orwell as a senior colonial police officer in the 1920s was a leading figure in a ruthless war waged by the British imperial authorities against drug and human trafficking crime cartels every bit as vicious and ruthless as those in modern Ukraine , Columbia and Mexico today .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where anything and everything was permitted to “ get the job done.
” The young Eric Blair was so disgusted by the experience that when he returned home he abandoned the respectable middle class life style he had always enjoyed and became , not just an idealistic socialist as many in those days did , but a penniless , starving tramp .
He even abandoned his name and very identity .
He suffered a radical personality collapse : He killed Eric Blair .
He became George Orwell .
Down and Out in Paris @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 2.30 Buy New $ 7.40 Orwell ’ s early famous book “ Down and Out in London and Paris ” is a testament to how much he literally tortured and humiliated himself in those first years back from Burma .
And for the rest of his life .
He ate miserably badly , was skinny and ravaged by tuberculosis and other health problems , smoked heavily and denied himself any decent medical care .
His appearance was always abominable .
His friend , the writer Malcolm Muggeridge speculated that Orwell wanted to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tramp .
The truth clearly was that Orwell never forgave himself for what he did as a young agent of empire in Burma .
Even his literally suicidal decision to go to the most primitive , cold , wet and poverty-stricken corner of creation in a remote island off Scotland to finish “ 1984 ” in isolation before he died was consistent with the merciless punishments he had inflicted on himself all his life since leaving Burma .
The conclusion is clear : For all the intensity of George Orwell ’ s experiences @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and integrity , his hatred of the abuse of power did not originate from his experiences in the Spanish Civil War .
They all flowed directly from his own actions as an agent of the British Empire in Burma in the 1920s : Just as his creation of the Ministry of Truth flowed directly from his experience of working in the Belly of the Beast of the BBC in the early 1940s .
George Orwell spent more than 20 years slowly committing suicide because of the terrible crimes he committed as a torturer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We can therefore have no doubt what his horror and disgust would be at what the CIA did under President George W. Bush in its “ Global War on Terror.
” Also , Orwell would identify at once and without hesitation the real fake news flowing out of New York , Atlanta , Washington and London today , just as he did in the 1930s and 1940s .
Let us therefore reclaim and embrace The Real George Orwell : The cause of fighting to prevent a Third World War depends on it .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation .

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), happily amplified by the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in the United States which carries its World News, continues to pump out its regular dreck about the alleged economic chaos in Russia and the imagined miserable state of the Russian people.
It is all lies of course. Patrick Armstrong‘s authoritative regular updates including his reports on this website are a necessary corrective to such crude propaganda.
But amid all their countless fiascoes and failures in every other field (including the highest per capita death rate from COVID-19 in Europe, and one of the highest in the world) the British remain world leaders at managing global Fake News. As long as the tone remains restrained and dignified, literally any slander will be swallowed by the credulous and every foul scandal and shame can be confidently covered up.
1984 (Signet Classics) George Orwell Best Price: $1.49 Buy New $3.58 (as of 10:53 UTC - Details) None of this would have surprised the late, great George Orwell. It is fashionable these days to endlessly trot him out as a zombie (dead but alleged to be living – so that he cannot set the record straight himself) critic of Russia and all the other global news outlets outside the control of the New York and London plutocracies. And it is certainly true, that Orwell, whose hatred and fear of communism was very real, served before his death as an informer to MI-5, British domestic security.
But it was not the Soviet Union, Stalin’s show trials or his experiences with the Trotskyite POUM group in Barcelona and Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War that “made Orwell Orwell” as the Anglo-America Conventional Wisdom Narrative has it. It was his visceral loathing of the British Empire – compounded during World War II by his work for the BBC which he eventually gave up in disgust.
And it was his BBC experiences that gave Orwell the model for his unforgettable Ministry of Truth in his great classic “1984.”
George Orwell had worked in one of the greatest of all world centers of Fake News. And he knew it.
More profoundly, the great secret of George Orwell’s life has been hiding in plain sight for 70 years since he died. Orwell became a sadistic torturer in the service of the British Empire during his years in Burma, modern Myanmar. And as a fundamentally decent man, he was so disgusted by what he had done that he spent the rest of his life not just atoning but slowly and willfully committing suicide before his heartbreakingly premature death while still in his 40s.
The first important breakthrough in this fundamental reassessment of Orwell comes from one of the best books on him. “Finding George Orwell in Burma” was published in 2005 and written by “Emma Larkin”, a pseudonym for an outstanding American journalist in Asia whose identity I have long suspected to be an old friend and deeply respected colleague, and whose continued anonymity I respect.
“Larkin” took the trouble to travel widely in Burma during its repressive military dictatorship and her superb research reveals crucial truths about Orwell. According to his own writings and his deeply autobiographical novel “Burmese Days” Orwell loathed all his time as a British colonial policeman in Burma, modern Myanmar. The impression he systematically gives in that novel and in his classic essay “Shooting an Elephant” is of a bitterly lonely, alienated, deeply unhappy man, despised and even loathed by his fellow British colonialists throughout society and a ludicrous failure at his job.
This was not, however, the reality that “Larkin” uncovered. All surviving witnesses agreed that Orwell – Eric Blair as he then still was – remained held in high regard during his years in the colonial police service. He was a senior and efficient officer. Indeed it was precisely his knowledge of crime, vice, murder and the general underside of human society during his police colonial service while still in his 20s that gave him the street smarts, experience, and moral authority to see through all the countless lies of right and left, of American capitalists and British imperialists as well as European totalitarians for the rest of his life. Finding George Orwell ... Larkin, Emma Best Price: $2.00 Buy New $9.42 (as of 02:44 UTC - Details)
The second revelation to throw light on what Orwell had to do in those years comes from one of the most famous and horrifying scenes in “1984.” Indeed, almost nothing even in the memoirs of Nazi death camp survivors has anything like it: That is the scene where “O’Brien”, the secret police officer tortures the “hero” (if he can be called that) Winston Smith by locking his face to a cage in which a starving rat is ready to pounce and devour him if it is opened.
I remember thinking, when I was first exposed to the power of “1984” at my outstanding Northern Irish school, “What kind of mind could invent something as horrific as that?”) The answer was so obvious that I like everyone else missed it entirely.
Orwell did not “invent” or “come up” with the idea as a fictional plot device: It was just a routine interrogation technique used by the British colonial police in Burma, modern Myanmar. Orwell never “brilliantly” invented such a diabolical technique of torture as a literary device. He did not have to imagine it. It was routinely employed by himself and his colleagues. That was how and why the British Empire worked so well for so long. They knew what they were doing. And what they did was not nice at all.
A final step in my enlightenment about Orwell, whose writings I have revered all my life – and still do – was provided by our alarmingly brilliant elder daughter about a decade ago when she too was given “1984” to read as part of her school curriculum. Discussing it with her one day, I made some casual obvious remark that Orwell was in the novel as Winston Smith.
My American-raised teenager then naturally corrected me. “No, Dad, ” she said. “Orwell isn’t Winston, or he’s not just Winston. He’s O’Brien too. O’Brien actually likes Winston. He doesn’t want to torture him. He even admires him. But he does it because it’s his duty.”
She was right, of course.
But how could Orwell the great enemy of tyranny, lies and torture so identify with and understand so well the torturer? It was because he himself had been one.
“Emma Larkin’s” great book brings out that Orwell as a senior colonial police officer in the 1920s was a leading figure in a ruthless war waged by the British imperial authorities against drug and human trafficking crime cartels every bit as vicious and ruthless as those in modern Ukraine, Columbia and Mexico today. It was a “war on terror” where anything and everything was permitted to “get the job done.”
The young Eric Blair was so disgusted by the experience that when he returned home he abandoned the respectable middle class life style he had always enjoyed and became, not just an idealistic socialist as many in those days did, but a penniless, starving tramp. He even abandoned his name and very identity. He suffered a radical personality collapse: He killed Eric Blair. He became George Orwell. Down and Out in Paris ... Orwell, George Best Price: $2.30 Buy New $7.40 (as of 08:25 UTC - Details)
Orwell’s early famous book “Down and Out in London and Paris” is a testament to how much he literally tortured and humiliated himself in those first years back from Burma. And for the rest of his life.
He ate miserably badly, was skinny and ravaged by tuberculosis and other health problems, smoked heavily and denied himself any decent medical care. His appearance was always abominable. His friend, the writer Malcolm Muggeridge speculated that Orwell wanted to remake himself as a caricature of a tramp.
The truth clearly was that Orwell never forgave himself for what he did as a young agent of empire in Burma. Even his literally suicidal decision to go to the most primitive, cold, wet and poverty-stricken corner of creation in a remote island off Scotland to finish “1984” in isolation before he died was consistent with the merciless punishments he had inflicted on himself all his life since leaving Burma.
The conclusion is clear: For all the intensity of George Orwell’s experiences in Spain, his passion for truth and integrity, his hatred of the abuse of power did not originate from his experiences in the Spanish Civil War. They all flowed directly from his own actions as an agent of the British Empire in Burma in the 1920s: Just as his creation of the Ministry of Truth flowed directly from his experience of working in the Belly of the Beast of the BBC in the early 1940s.
George Orwell spent more than 20 years slowly committing suicide because of the terrible crimes he committed as a torturer for the British Empire in Burma. We can therefore have no doubt what his horror and disgust would be at what the CIA did under President George W. Bush in its “Global War on Terror.” Also, Orwell would identify at once and without hesitation the real fake news flowing out of New York, Atlanta, Washington and London today, just as he did in the 1930s and 1940s.
Let us therefore reclaim and embrace The Real George Orwell: The cause of fighting to prevent a Third World War depends on it.
The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation.


lewrockwell--2020-05-23--One Ring To Rule Them All

One Ring To Rule Them All

I have written here about how Christianity can play its part in moving toward a society better grounded in liberty .
To summarize : civil law should be aimed against violations of person and property – basically violations of the non-aggression principle ( recognizing that ’ s application of this principle gets a bit tough at the edges ) ; it is the role of other institutions – and , I argue , Christianity in the form of churches – to properly teach moral instruction .
Here , I will examine what I consider as the wrong means for Christians @ @ @ @ @ @ @ means by which much of the destruction of liberty that we have seen since the turn of the last century gained its force .
Christians offered Sauron the ring and then thought they could then control him .
The Progressive Era Murray N Rothbard Best Price : $ 17.74 Buy New $ 11.33 World War I as Fulfillment : Power and the Intellectuals , by Murray Rothbard This essay can also be found as Chapter 13 in The Progressive Era , written by Murray Rothbard and edited by Patrick Newman .
I will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ essay , and that focus is best described as follows : By “ both groups , ” Rothbard is writing of “ a fusion or coalition between various groups of big businessmen , led by the House of Morgan , and rising groups of technocratic and statist intellectuals.
” These intellectuals include not just academicians , but “ also all manner of opinion-molders in society — writers , journalists , preachers , scientists , activists of all sort — what Hayek calls ‘ secondhand dealers in ideas.
’ ” For those unfamiliar with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be on the role of these “ postmillennial pietist Protestants ” in using state power to advance their social agenda .
This would then hasten the Second Coming , as a thousand years of purity was required before Jesus would return .
It was this desire to harness state power as the means by which human beings can be made pure for Christ ( I am gagging as I write these words ) that made it possible for others to then use the state to usurp the traditional role of Christianity in society @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , that of helping the poor and disadvantaged , that of holding civil authority accountable .
And guess what ?
While these others appreciated using the state as the means , they most certainly didn ’ t see Christian morality as the end .
THREE KEYS JEWELRY 6mm ... Buy New $ 21.99 With that , let ’ s look at Rothbard : This is a powerful statement : it is in World War I where progressivism reached its fulfillment .
The ultimate ends , or purpose , of progressivism was to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that Jacques Barzun and others describe as the suicide of the West , this war that was the fruit of killing God , as Nietzsche ’ s madman predicted and as Solzhenitsyn would later record .
Progressivism could only lead here , and it was here that it achieved its ultimate end .
And Rothbard dedicates at least this chapter ( maybe many others ; I have not read the entire book ) , to the role that postmillennial pietist Protestants played in the United States in bringing on this end ( and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ gifts ” that have continued in the century since ) .
Rothbard has written a good amount on the risk of “ value-free ” social science when it comes to the possibility of achieving liberty .
And , of course , no scientist approaches his science in a value-free manner ; value-free is just used as code .
Often , but not always , it is meant to imply no revelation – meaning no Christianity .
This politically influential subset of Christians saw the State as the instrument through which they would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ order – thus speeding Jesus ’ s return and bringing on their hoped-for thousand-year reign .
King Will Nature 8mm A ... Buy New $ 16.99 They would preach a Social Gospel .
An important leader in this regard was Rev .
Josiah Strong , through his monthly journal The Gospel of the Kingdom .
World War One would start that same month .
Citing Strong : Amazingly , they thought that they could harness the power of the one ring that could rule them all .
Tolkien would write his book about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ believed that this power could be used not just in the United States , but exported throughout the world .
Starting with World War One .
Via entry in the war , the dreams of the progressive prohibitionists could be fulfilled .
Food production , placed under Hoover , meant that there was now a vehicle through which grain for alcohol use could be prohibited .
Even beer – the favorite of the out-of-favor German Catholics and Lutherans – would be banned .
Real Whiskey Barrel Wo ... Buy New $ 169.99 Next @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vote , greatly increasing the ranks of pietist voters .
Citing Susan B. Anthony : Hoover would enlist the cooperation of the nation ’ s women in his quest for food industry cartelization : all for the good of “ ’ conservation ’ and elimination of ‘ waste , ’ ” as Rothbard puts it .
In addition to food control , another important and immediate function of the Woman ’ s Committee was to attempt to register every woman in the country for possible volunteer or paid work in support of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or over was asked to sign and submit a registration card with all pertinent information , including training , experience , and the sort of work desired .
Then there was the New Republic magazine : All of this power granted to the state would soon be turned from a postmillennial progressive Christian statism to progressive secular statism .
We are value-free , after all .
This desired marriage of church and state was certain to end in dominance , if not divorce , as power doesn ’ t really like to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of this progressivist agenda is war , as Rothbard offered in the title of this chapter .
War as fulfillment , beatitudo – turning the proper ends of man into horror .
These postmillennial pietist Protestants thought that they could control the one ring that would rule them all .
We saw that even Frodo was not immune to the power of the ring , succumbing at the last moment , at the edge of the abyss .
Such a ring should be in the hands of no human being ; it will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and it will be the worst of the worst who will end up with it .
As long as the ring existed , it would return to Sauron .
Christianity does have its proper role to play in securing liberty against the over-reach of the state .
It is far from playing that role today , still dancing with the state that has happily taken control of the ring .
Yet every day we are left playing a losing battle – both for Christian ethics and for liberty .
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I regard progressivism as basically a movement on behalf of Big Government in all walks of the economy and society… – Murray Rothbard
I have written here about how Christianity can play its part in moving toward a society better grounded in liberty. To summarize: civil law should be aimed against violations of person and property – basically violations of the non-aggression principle (recognizing that’s application of this principle gets a bit tough at the edges); it is the role of other institutions – and, I argue, Christianity in the form of churches – to properly teach moral instruction.
Here, I will examine what I consider as the wrong means for Christians to achieve these ends – and a means by which much of the destruction of liberty that we have seen since the turn of the last century gained its force. Christians offered Sauron the ring and then thought they could then control him. The Progressive Era Murray N Rothbard Best Price: $17.74 Buy New $11.33 (as of 07:25 UTC - Details)
World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals, by Murray Rothbard
This essay can also be found as Chapter 13 in The Progressive Era, written by Murray Rothbard and edited by Patrick Newman. I will focus on one specific aspect of the essay, and that focus is best described as follows:
Also animating both groups of progressives was a postmillennial pietist Protestantism that had conquered “Yankee” areas of northern Protestantism by the 1830s and had impelled the pietists to use local, state, and finally federal governments to stamp out “sin,” to make America and eventually the world holy, and thereby to bring about the Kingdom of God on earth.
By “both groups,” Rothbard is writing of “a fusion or coalition between various groups of big businessmen, led by the House of Morgan, and rising groups of technocratic and statist intellectuals.” These intellectuals include not just academicians, but “also all manner of opinion-molders in society — writers, journalists, preachers, scientists, activists of all sort — what Hayek calls ‘secondhand dealers in ideas.’”
For those unfamiliar with postmillennialism:
In Christian end-times theology (eschatology), postmillennialism…is an interpretation of chapter 20 of the Book of Revelation which sees Christ’s second coming as occurring after the “Millennium”, a Golden Age in which Christian ethics prosper.
So, my focus will be on the role of these “postmillennial pietist Protestants” in using state power to advance their social agenda. This would then hasten the Second Coming, as a thousand years of purity was required before Jesus would return.
It was this desire to harness state power as the means by which human beings can be made pure for Christ (I am gagging as I write these words) that made it possible for others to then use the state to usurp the traditional role of Christianity in society: that of being the moral teacher, that of helping the poor and disadvantaged, that of holding civil authority accountable. And guess what? While these others appreciated using the state as the means, they most certainly didn’t see Christian morality as the end. THREE KEYS JEWELRY 6mm... Buy New $21.99 (as of 02:45 UTC - Details)
With that, let’s look at Rothbard:
…I am convinced that the war [World War I] came to the United States as the “fulfillment,” the culmination, the veritable apotheosis of progressivism in American life.
This is a powerful statement: it is in World War I where progressivism reached its fulfillment. The ultimate ends, or purpose, of progressivism was to be found in this war – this war that Jacques Barzun and others describe as the suicide of the West, this war that was the fruit of killing God, as Nietzsche’s madman predicted and as Solzhenitsyn would later record.
Progressivism could only lead here, and it was here that it achieved its ultimate end. And Rothbard dedicates at least this chapter (maybe many others; I have not read the entire book), to the role that postmillennial pietist Protestants played in the United States in bringing on this end (and, of course, all of the “gifts” that have continued in the century since).
…most [intellectuals] combined in their thought and agitation messianic moral or religious fervor with an empirical, allegedly “value-free,” and strictly “scientific” devotion to social science.
Rothbard has written a good amount on the risk of “value-free” social science when it comes to the possibility of achieving liberty. And, of course, no scientist approaches his science in a value-free manner; value-free is just used as code. Often, but not always, it is meant to imply no revelation – meaning no Christianity.
One of the few important omissions in Professor [Robert] Higgs’s book [Crisis and Leviathan] is the crucial role of postmillennial pietist Protestantism in the drive toward statism in the United States. Dominant in the “Yankee” areas of the North from the 1830s…
This politically influential subset of Christians saw the State as the instrument through which they would stamp out sin and Christianize the social order – thus speeding Jesus’s return and bringing on their hoped-for thousand-year reign. King Will Nature 8mm A... Buy New $16.99 (as of 02:45 UTC - Details)
Citing Professor James H. Timberlake:
According to this view, the Christian’s duty was to use the secular power of the state to transform culture so that the community of the faithful might be kept pure and the work of saving the unregenerate might be made easier.
They would preach a Social Gospel. An important leader in this regard was Rev. Josiah Strong, through his monthly journal The Gospel of the Kingdom.
…in the July 1914 issue, The Gospel of the Kingdom hailed the progressive spirit that was at last putting an end to “personal liberty”
World War One would start that same month. Citing Strong:
We are no longer frightened by that ancient bogy — “paternalism in government.” We affirm boldly, it is the business of government to be just that — Paternal. Nothing human can be foreign to a true government.
Amazingly, they thought that they could harness the power of the one ring that could rule them all. Tolkien would write his book about sixty years too late. These pietists believed that this power could be used not just in the United States, but exported throughout the world. Starting with World War One.
Via entry in the war, the dreams of the progressive prohibitionists could be fulfilled. Food production, placed under Hoover, meant that there was now a vehicle through which grain for alcohol use could be prohibited. Even beer – the favorite of the out-of-favor German Catholics and Lutherans – would be banned. Real Whiskey Barrel Wo... Buy New $169.99 (as of 02:45 UTC - Details)
Next came women’s suffrage and the vote, greatly increasing the ranks of pietist voters. Citing Susan B. Anthony:
There is an enemy of the homes of this nation and that enemy is drunkenness. …I say, if you believe in chastity, if you believe in honesty and integrity, then take the necessary steps to put the ballot in the hands of women.
Hoover would enlist the cooperation of the nation’s women in his quest for food industry cartelization: all for the good of “’conservation’ and elimination of ‘waste,’” as Rothbard puts it. In addition to food control, another important and immediate function of the Woman’s Committee was to attempt to register every woman in the country for possible volunteer or paid work in support of the war effort. Every woman aged sixteen or over was asked to sign and submit a registration card with all pertinent information, including training, experience, and the sort of work desired.
In 1910, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., like his father a pietist Baptist, was chairman of a special grand jury to investigate and to try to stamp out prostitution in New York City. For Rockefeller, the elimination of prostitution was to become an ardent and lifelong crusade. He believed that sin, such as prostitution, must be criminated, quarantined, and driven underground through rigorous suppression.
Then there was the New Republic magazine:
…founded in 1914 as the leading intellectual organ of progressivism, was a living embodiment of the burgeoning alliance between big-business interests, in particular the House of Morgan, and the growing legion of collectivist intellectuals.
All of this power granted to the state would soon be turned from a postmillennial progressive Christian statism to progressive secular statism.
[John Dewey] he was far more interested in the wonderful changes that the war would surely bring about in the domestic American polity. In particular, war offered a golden opportunity to bring about collectivist social control in the interest of social justice.
We are value-free, after all. This desired marriage of church and state was certain to end in dominance, if not divorce, as power doesn’t really like to be told what to do.
“Why should not the war serve,” the [New Republic] magazine asked, “as a pretext to be used to foist innovations upon the country?” In that way, progressive intellectuals could lead the way in abolishing “the typical evils of the sprawling half-educated competitive capitalism.”
The ends of this progressivist agenda is war, as Rothbard offered in the title of this chapter. War as fulfillment, beatitudo – turning the proper ends of man into horror.
Conclusion
These postmillennial pietist Protestants thought that they could control the one ring that would rule them all. We saw that even Frodo was not immune to the power of the ring, succumbing at the last moment, at the edge of the abyss.
Such a ring should be in the hands of no human being; it will only bring out the worst in people, and it will be the worst of the worst who will end up with it. As long as the ring existed, it would return to Sauron.
Christianity does have its proper role to play in securing liberty against the over-reach of the state. It is far from playing that role today, still dancing with the state that has happily taken control of the ring. Yet every day we are left playing a losing battle – both for Christian ethics and for liberty.
Reprinted with permission from Bionic Mosquito.
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lewrockwell--2020-05-23--Fast-Tracked COVID-19 Vaccine — What Could Go Wrong?

Bill Gates — who illegally invests in the industries he gives charitable donations to and promotes a global public health agenda that benefits the companies he ’ s invested in — claims life can not go back to normal until we can vaccinate the global population against COVID-19.1,2 And , according to The Rockefeller Foundation ’ s white paper,3 “ National COVID-19 Testing Action Plan , ” privacy concerns “ must be set aside ” so that the infection status of every individual can be accessed and validated before permission is given to entering schools , office buildings , places @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sport venues and more .
We ’ re currently being told that we “ must ” forgo our civil liberties because we might spread a virus to a potentially vulnerable individual .
To prevent deaths from occurring by people moving about freely , we ’ re told we have to stop living .
JUST IMAGINE ... : A SEC ... Holmes , Dr Joel S Buy New $ 7.95 Yet every single flu season throughout history , people have moved about , spreading the infection around and facilitating the acquisition of natural herd @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have ever left their house with a cold , stomach bug or other influenza at any point in the past , have unwittingly spread the infection to others , some of which may have ended up with a serious case of illness and some of which may ultimately have died from it .
There is simply no way to prevent such a chain of events in perpetuity .
As noted by Attorney General William Barr in an April 21 , 2020 , interview with Hugh Hewitt,4 “ impingements on liberty ” were adopted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ down the spread , that is bending the curve .
We didn ’ t adopt them as the comprehensive way of dealing with this disease.
” Indeed , giving up our civil liberties in an effort to prevent all future deaths from infectious disease is profoundly misguided , and will not work in the long run .
Still , people around the world are being effectively manipulated and brainwashed with carefully honed propaganda derived from massive behavioral surveillance , to put life on hold until there ’ s a vaccine .
Of course @ @ @ @ @ @ @ become mandatory for anyone who wants to return to regular life .
To pull off this global plan of “ disease surveillance ” ( which will eventually be tied to digital finance and identification schemes that are also in the works ) , those advocating for a “ new normal ” need a vaccine , and they need it fast , while fears are still dominating the news .
Safety testing for vaccines typically leaves much to be desired to begin with , but when it comes to fast-tracked pandemic vaccines , safety @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inadequate .
The COVID-19 vaccine may in fact be the most fast-tracked vaccine ever created in history , which necessitates the elimination of required safety testing steps , such as animal testing.5,6 May 5 , 2020 , The New York Times reported7 that Pfizer , in collaboration with BioNTech , was scheduled to begin human trials of a COVID-19 vaccine on May 11 , 2020 in the U.S .
If successful , the vaccine could be released under an FDA-approved Emergency Use Authorization ( EUA ) 8 as early as September 2020 — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Other vaccine makers have announced vaccine candidates will be ready in September as well9 — far sooner than the original 18 months to two years that Gates , Fauci and other authorities initially predicted at the beginning of this pandemic .
American Vinyl No Bill ... Buy New $ 5.99 April 23 , 2020 , a dozen healthy German volunteers , aged 18 to 55 , received Pfizer ’ s vaccine candidate , known only as BNT162.10 That trial is expected to eventually be expanded to 200 .
Why the elderly , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ complications , would be excluded is a question worth asking — especially in light of the paradoxical immune enhancement that coronavirus vaccines are known for .
( l ’ ll cover that in a later section . )
The U.S. trial will include 360 healthy volunteers in the first stage , and as many as 8,000 in the second stage .
Volunteers will be divided into four groups , each group receiving one of four variations of the vaccine .
The trial is being conducted at New York University ’ s Grossman School @ @ @ @ @ @ @ School of Medicine , the University of Rochester Medical Center and the Cincinnati Children ’ s Hospital Medical Center .
COVID-19 Vaccine Will Be Unlike Any Other Like Moderna and several other competitors , the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is using messenger RNA ( mRNA ) rather than live or attenuated ( inactivated ) viruses grown in animal cells .
Among the vaccine candidates are ones containing uridine-containing mRNA ( uRNA ) , nucleoside-modified mRNA ( modRNA ) and self-amplifying mRNA ( saRNA ) .12 As explained by The New York Times:13 So , not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus , the mechanics of which is still not thoroughly understood ( some experts are now saying it appears to be a genetically engineered virus that attacks the blood14 more so than the lungs , for example ) , they ’ re also using a novel RNA-based vaccine that has never been used before .
What could possibly go wrong ?
In my view — just about everything .
It could turn into a global catastrophe the likes of which we ’ ve never experienced before .
In my recent interview above with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ history of coronavirus vaccine development , which began after three SARS epidemics had broken out , starting in early 2002 .
Two of those three epidemics were lab-created organisms .
Chinese , Americans and Europeans all started working on a coronavirus vaccine and around 2012 , there were some 30 promising candidates .
As explained by Kennedy , the four best vaccine candidates were then given to ferrets , which are the closest analogue to human lung infections .
Kennedy explained what happened next : The Vaccine Race : Scie ... Wadman , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New $ 16.32 The Cause Behind Paradoxical Immune Enhancement What could possibly account for this perplexing outcome ?
Why did the ferrets die when exposed to the wild virus even though they had a robust antibody response to the vaccine ?
As explained by Kennedy , after looking into the matter further , researchers in 2012 discovered that coronaviruses produce not just one but two different types of antibodies — neutralizing antibodies15 that fight the infection , and binding antibodies16 ( also known as nonneutralizing antibodies ) that can not prevent viral infection @ @ @ @ @ @ @ binding antibodies can instead trigger a “ paradoxical immune response , ” or “ paradoxical immune enhancement.
” “ What that means is that it looks good until you get the disease , and then it makes the disease much , much worse , ” Kennedy said , adding : Additionally , in my interview with Dr. Meryl Nass that will run May 24 , 2020 , she notes that Ralph Barric from the University of North Carolina — who collaborated extensively with Shi Zhengli from the Wuhan Institute of Virology , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if not the leading coronavirus virologist in the world — predicted that the vaccine would be an abysmal failure in the elderly who need it the most .
Many of the COVID-19 vaccines currently in the running are using mRNA to instruct your cells to make the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein ( S protein ) , in other words , the glycoprotein that attaches to the ACE2 receptor of the cell .
This is the first stage of the two-stage process viruses use to gain entry into cells .
The idea is that by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immune system will commence production of antibodies , without making you sick in the process .
But are they in fact checking which of the two types of antibodies this process will produce ?
Will injecting mRNA trigger the production of neutralizing antibodies or will it produce binding/nonneutralizing antibodies ?
Simply checking for antibody response may not suffice .
Fast-tracking vaccine development has considerable risks .
The best case scenario ( highly unlikely ) is that it will simply be ineffective ( which is typically the case for the seasonal influenza vaccine ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it will cause serious side effects ( as was the case with the fast-tracked 1976-1977 and 2009-2010 H1N1 swine flu vaccine ) , or it just might worsen infection rather than prevent it , as has been the case with previous coronavirus vaccines .
As reported by Reuters:17 Coming from a staunch pro-mandatory vaccination propagandist like Hotez , that ’ s really saying something .
Needless to say , COVID-19 vaccine makers will be indemnified from financial liability no matter how many casualties a fast-tracked vaccine might cause .
The H1N1 swine flu @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of note , and it ’ s well worth remembering what happened with the European fast-tracked vaccine .
Europe accelerated its approval process , allowing manufacturers to skip large-scale human trials18 — a decision that turned out to have tragic consequences19 for an untold number of children and teens across Europe .
The Pandemic Century : ... Honigsbaum , Mark Best Price : $ 14.72 Buy New $ 14.72 Over the next few years , the ASO3-adjuvanted swine flu vaccine Pandemrix ( used in Europe but not in the U.S. during 2009-2010 ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which abruptly skyrocketed in several countries.21,22 Children and teens in Finland,23 the UK24 and Sweden25 were among the hardest hit .
Further analyses discerned a rise in narcolepsy among adults who received the vaccine as well , although the link wasn ’ t as obvious as that in children and adolescents.26 A 2019 study27 reported finding a “ novel association between Pandemrix-associated narcolepsy and the non-coding RNA gene GDNF-AS1 ” — a gene thought to regulate the production of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor or GDNF , a protein that plays an important @ @ @ @ @ @ @ confirmed a strong association between vaccine-induced narcolepsy and a certain haplotype , suggesting “ variation in genes related to immunity and neuronal survival may interact to increase the susceptibility to Pandemrix-induced narcolepsy in certain individuals.
” In addition to that , there ’ s the research28 showing that the H1N1 swine flu vaccine was one of five inactivated vaccines that increased overall mortality , especially among girls .
The Pandemrix debacle should be instructive .
No one anticipated a flu vaccine to have genetic consequences , yet it did .
Now they ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ single cell in your body produce the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein .
How can we possibly think that the long-term ramifications of this will be clear by September ?
In my recent interview with Judy Mikovits , Ph.D. is a cellular and molecular biologist , she points out there ’ s a way to produce a much safer vaccine against COVID-19 .
Of course , her proposal will never see the light of day or ever be considered .
She proposes a novel vaccine for viruses like SARS-CoV-2 that involves alpha interferon , small @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which would block the interaction of the virus and keep your T cells from getting infected .
Interferon Type 129,30,31 is a type of beneficial cytokine released by your body as one of its first line of defense against viral infections .
In a nutshell , it interferes with viral replication .
It ’ s also been shown to suppress certain types of tumors .
As part of your immune system , it digests viral DNA and viral proteins in infected cells while simultaneously protecting noninfected neighboring cells .
Interferon alpha and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
As noted in a 2018 paper32 on the dual nature of Type 1 and Type 2 interferons , “ both antiviral and immunomodulatory functions are critical during virus infection to not only limit virus replication and initiate an appropriate antiviral immune response , but to also negatively regulate this response to minimize tissue damage.
” Unlike conventional vaccines , which are mostly injected , this would be oral and only stimulate antibody humoral responses .
Her version would also cause innate cellular immunity from the T cells .
As Mikovits explained in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in “ Could Retroviruses Play a Role in COVID-19 ?
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Bill Gates — who illegally invests in the industries he gives charitable donations to and promotes a global public health agenda that benefits the companies he’s invested in — claims life cannot go back to normal until we can vaccinate the global population against COVID-19.1,2
And, according to The Rockefeller Foundation’s white paper,3 “National COVID-19 Testing Action Plan,” privacy concerns “must be set aside” so that the infection status of every individual can be accessed and validated before permission is given to entering schools, office buildings, places of work, airports, concert and sport venues and more.
We’re currently being told that we “must” forgo our civil liberties because we might spread a virus to a potentially vulnerable individual. To prevent deaths from occurring by people moving about freely, we’re told we have to stop living.
JUST IMAGINE...: A SEC... Holmes, Dr Joel S Buy New $7.95 (as of 11:28 UTC - Details) Yet every single flu season throughout history, people have moved about, spreading the infection around and facilitating the acquisition of natural herd immunity. Undoubtedly, most people who have ever left their house with a cold, stomach bug or other influenza at any point in the past, have unwittingly spread the infection to others, some of which may have ended up with a serious case of illness and some of which may ultimately have died from it.
There is simply no way to prevent such a chain of events in perpetuity. As noted by Attorney General William Barr in an April 21, 2020, interview with Hugh Hewitt,4 “impingements on liberty” were adopted “for the limited purpose of slowing down the spread, that is bending the curve. We didn’t adopt them as the comprehensive way of dealing with this disease.”
Indeed, giving up our civil liberties in an effort to prevent all future deaths from infectious disease is profoundly misguided, and will not work in the long run.
Still, people around the world are being effectively manipulated and brainwashed with carefully honed propaganda derived from massive behavioral surveillance, to put life on hold until there’s a vaccine. Of course, by then, vaccination will likely become mandatory for anyone who wants to return to regular life.
To pull off this global plan of “disease surveillance” (which will eventually be tied to digital finance and identification schemes that are also in the works), those advocating for a “new normal” need a vaccine, and they need it fast, while fears are still dominating the news.
Vaccine Makers Race to Create COVID-19 Vaccine
Safety testing for vaccines typically leaves much to be desired to begin with, but when it comes to fast-tracked pandemic vaccines, safety testing is accelerated and becomes even more inadequate. The COVID-19 vaccine may in fact be the most fast-tracked vaccine ever created in history, which necessitates the elimination of required safety testing steps, such as animal testing.5,6
May 5, 2020, The New York Times reported7 that Pfizer, in collaboration with BioNTech, was scheduled to begin human trials of a COVID-19 vaccine on May 11, 2020 in the U.S. If successful, the vaccine could be released under an FDA-approved Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)8 as early as September 2020 — an unheard-of timeframe for any vaccine development.
Other vaccine makers have announced vaccine candidates will be ready in September as well9 — far sooner than the original 18 months to two years that Gates, Fauci and other authorities initially predicted at the beginning of this pandemic. American Vinyl No Bill... Buy New $5.99 (as of 05:21 UTC - Details)
April 23, 2020, a dozen healthy German volunteers, aged 18 to 55, received Pfizer’s vaccine candidate, known only as BNT162.10 That trial is expected to eventually be expanded to 200.
Why the elderly, who are the most vulnerable to COVID-19 complications, would be excluded is a question worth asking — especially in light of the paradoxical immune enhancement that coronavirus vaccines are known for. (l’ll cover that in a later section.)
The U.S. trial will include 360 healthy volunteers in the first stage, and as many as 8,000 in the second stage. Volunteers will be divided into four groups, each group receiving one of four variations of the vaccine. The trial is being conducted at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine, the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the University of Rochester Medical Center and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
“As soon as pharmaceutical companies can show evidence that a vaccine is effective and has produced no serious harms, they can apply for this kind of approval, which allows doctors to administer the vaccine to those most in need.
But more detailed study results may still be needed to persuade federal regulators to approve a candidate for the broader public,” The New York Times reports.11
COVID-19 Vaccine Will Be Unlike Any Other
Like Moderna and several other competitors, the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is using messenger RNA (mRNA) rather than live or attenuated (inactivated) viruses grown in animal cells. Among the vaccine candidates are ones containing uridine-containing mRNA (uRNA), nucleoside-modified mRNA (modRNA) and self-amplifying mRNA (saRNA).12 As explained by The New York Times:13
“… messenger RNA … carries the instructions for cells to make proteins. By injecting a specially designed messenger RNA into the body, the vaccine could potentially tell cells how to make the spike protein of the coronavirus without actually making a person sick.
Because the virus typically uses this protein as a key to unlock and take over lung cells, the vaccine could train a healthy immune system to produce antibodies to fight off an infection … But no vaccine made with this technology for other viruses has ever reached the global market.”
So, not only are we dealing with a novel virus, the mechanics of which is still not thoroughly understood (some experts are now saying it appears to be a genetically engineered virus that attacks the blood14 more so than the lungs, for example), they’re also using a novel RNA-based vaccine that has never been used before.
What could possibly go wrong? In my view — just about everything. It could turn into a global catastrophe the likes of which we’ve never experienced before.
Fast-Tracked Vaccine Could Have Catastrophic Consequences

In my recent interview above with Robert Kennedy Jr., he summarized the history of coronavirus vaccine development, which began after three SARS epidemics had broken out, starting in early 2002. Two of those three epidemics were lab-created organisms. Chinese, Americans and Europeans all started working on a coronavirus vaccine and around 2012, there were some 30 promising candidates.
As explained by Kennedy, the four best vaccine candidates were then given to ferrets, which are the closest analogue to human lung infections. Kennedy explained what happened next: The Vaccine Race: Scie... Wadman, Meredith Best Price: $11.17 Buy New $16.32 (as of 03:02 UTC - Details)
“The ferrets had an extraordinarily good antibody response, and that is the metric by which FDA licenses vaccines … They do a serological response [test to] see ‘Did you develop in your blood antibodies to that target virus?’ The ferrets developed very strong antibodies, so they thought, ‘We hit the jackpot.’ All four of these vaccines … worked like a charm.
Then something terrible happened. Those ferrets were then exposed to the wild virus, and they all died. [They developed] inflammation in all their organs, their lungs stopped functioning and they died …
The same thing had happened in the 1960s when they tried to develop an RSV vaccine, which is an upper respiratory illness very similar to coronavirus.
At the time, they did not test it on animals. They went right to human testing. They tested it on I think about 35 children, and the same thing happened. The children developed a champion antibody response — robust, durable.
It looked perfect [but when] the children were exposed to the wild virus, they all became sick. Two of them died. They abandoned the vaccine. It was a big embarrassment to FDA and NIH.”
The Cause Behind Paradoxical Immune Enhancement
What could possibly account for this perplexing outcome? Why did the ferrets die when exposed to the wild virus even though they had a robust antibody response to the vaccine?
As explained by Kennedy, after looking into the matter further, researchers in 2012 discovered that coronaviruses produce not just one but two different types of antibodies — neutralizing antibodies15 that fight the infection, and binding antibodies16 (also known as nonneutralizing antibodies) that cannot prevent viral infection.
Incapable of preventing viral infection, binding antibodies can instead trigger a “paradoxical immune response,” or “paradoxical immune enhancement.” “What that means is that it looks good until you get the disease, and then it makes the disease much, much worse,” Kennedy said, adding:
“Coronavirus vaccines can be very dangerous, and that’s why even our enemies, people who hate you and me — Peter Hotez, Paul Offit, Ian Lipkin — are all saying, ‘You got to be really, really careful with this vaccine.’”
Additionally, in my interview with Dr. Meryl Nass that will run May 24, 2020, she notes that Ralph Barric from the University of North Carolina — who collaborated extensively with Shi Zhengli from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and who is widely noted as one, if not the leading coronavirus virologist in the world — predicted that the vaccine would be an abysmal failure in the elderly who need it the most.
Many of the COVID-19 vaccines currently in the running are using mRNA to instruct your cells to make the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (S protein), in other words, the glycoprotein that attaches to the ACE2 receptor of the cell. This is the first stage of the two-stage process viruses use to gain entry into cells.
The idea is that by creating the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, your immune system will commence production of antibodies, without making you sick in the process. But are they in fact checking which of the two types of antibodies this process will produce?
Will injecting mRNA trigger the production of neutralizing antibodies or will it produce binding/nonneutralizing antibodies? Simply checking for antibody response may not suffice.
Vaccine Propagandist Expressed Concerns
Fast-tracking vaccine development has considerable risks. The best case scenario (highly unlikely) is that it will simply be ineffective (which is typically the case for the seasonal influenza vaccine), or, far more likely, it will cause serious side effects (as was the case with the fast-tracked 1976-1977 and 2009-2010 H1N1 swine flu vaccine), or it just might worsen infection rather than prevent it, as has been the case with previous coronavirus vaccines. As reported by Reuters:17
“Studies have suggested that coronavirus vaccines carry the risk of what is known as vaccine enhancement, where instead of protecting against infection, the vaccine can actually make the disease worse when a vaccinated person is infected with the virus.
The mechanism that causes that risk is not fully understood and is one of the stumbling blocks that has prevented the successful development of a coronavirus vaccine …
‘I understand the importance of accelerating timelines for vaccines in general, but from everything I know, this is not the vaccine to be doing it with,’ Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, told Reuters.”
Coming from a staunch pro-mandatory vaccination propagandist like Hotez, that’s really saying something. Needless to say, COVID-19 vaccine makers will be indemnified from financial liability no matter how many casualties a fast-tracked vaccine might cause.
Fast-Tracked Swine Flu Vaccine Caused Genetic Alterations
The H1N1 swine flu of 2009 was the most recent pandemic of note, and it’s well worth remembering what happened with the European fast-tracked vaccine. Europe accelerated its approval process, allowing manufacturers to skip large-scale human trials18 — a decision that turned out to have tragic consequences19 for an untold number of children and teens across Europe.
The Pandemic Century: ... Honigsbaum, Mark Best Price: $14.72 Buy New $14.72 (as of 04:53 UTC - Details) Over the next few years, the ASO3-adjuvanted swine flu vaccine Pandemrix (used in Europe but not in the U.S. during 2009-2010) was causally linked20 to childhood narcolepsy, which abruptly skyrocketed in several countries.21,22
Children and teens in Finland,23 the UK24 and Sweden25 were among the hardest hit. Further analyses discerned a rise in narcolepsy among adults who received the vaccine as well, although the link wasn’t as obvious as that in children and adolescents.26
A 2019 study27 reported finding a “novel association between Pandemrix-associated narcolepsy and the non-coding RNA gene GDNF-AS1” — a gene thought to regulate the production of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor or GDNF, a protein that plays an important role in neuronal survival.
They also confirmed a strong association between vaccine-induced narcolepsy and a certain haplotype, suggesting “variation in genes related to immunity and neuronal survival may interact to increase the susceptibility to Pandemrix-induced narcolepsy in certain individuals.”
In addition to that, there’s the research28 showing that the H1N1 swine flu vaccine was one of five inactivated vaccines that increased overall mortality, especially among girls.
The Pandemrix debacle should be instructive. No one anticipated a flu vaccine to have genetic consequences, yet it did. Now they’re proposing injecting mRNA to make every single cell in your body produce the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. How can we possibly think that the long-term ramifications of this will be clear by September?
Safer Vaccines Can Be Made

In my recent interview with Judy Mikovits, Ph.D. is a cellular and molecular biologist, she points out there’s a way to produce a much safer vaccine against COVID-19. Of course, her proposal will never see the light of day or ever be considered.
She proposes a novel vaccine for viruses like SARS-CoV-2 that involves alpha interferon, small amounts of the virus and peptide T, which would block the interaction of the virus and keep your T cells from getting infected.
Interferon Type 129,30,31 is a type of beneficial cytokine released by your body as one of its first line of defense against viral infections. In a nutshell, it interferes with viral replication. It’s also been shown to suppress certain types of tumors. As part of your immune system, it digests viral DNA and viral proteins in infected cells while simultaneously protecting noninfected neighboring cells.
Interferon alpha and beta also help regulate your immune response. As noted in a 2018 paper32 on the dual nature of Type 1 and Type 2 interferons, “both antiviral and immunomodulatory functions are critical during virus infection to not only limit virus replication and initiate an appropriate antiviral immune response, but to also negatively regulate this response to minimize tissue damage.”
Unlike conventional vaccines, which are mostly injected, this would be oral and only stimulate antibody humoral responses. Her version would also cause innate cellular immunity from the T cells. As Mikovits explained in my recent interview with her, featured in “Could Retroviruses Play a Role in COVID-19?”:
“I was part of the team that first used the immune therapy, a purified Type 1 interferon alpha, as a curative therapy for a leukemia. That research has proceeded for decades, [yet] the Food and Drug Administration said, ‘You can’t use that in preventing coronaviruses from jumping from animals [to humans].’
[Type 1 interferon] is a simple food. It’s a simple spray. We have it on the shelf now, made by Merck, [yet] Merck discontinued its use. Why would you do that if that was the frontline … prevention? Interferon alpha is your body’s own best antiviral against coronaviruses and retroviruses.”
Sources and References
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