lewrockwell--2020-06-29--In Defense of Walter Block – Bulwark Against the Leftist Academic Takeover

With all that they have already taken down , the mob has now set its eyes on a new target – academia .
It ’ s bad enough that universities are filled with predominantly leftist academics , that scream about fabricated claptraps like “ institutional racism.
” I know this , because I ’ ve seen it every day in the “ honors ” college at my university .
But , no .
Somehow this is not enough for the mob .
As a STEM major , I thought that I would be free from leftist jargon taking over my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ miscalculation .
Some crazies want to “ embed learning outcomes related to ethics ” in my engineering and mathematics courses .
Defending the Undefend ... Walter Block Best Price : $ 1.99 Buy New $ 10.80 Jeff Deist was right to say that colleges are virtually left wing think tanks , nowadays .
But a few contrarians exist out there to counter the prevailing campus norms .
And I regard my friend Dr. Walter Block as one of these dissenters .
A group of butt hurt students ( of the type I frequently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to set up a petition against him , because he ’ s supposedly “ racist.
” Unlike the loser who set up the petition ( that barely got 500 signatures ) , I ’ ve known Dr. Block fairly well over the past few years .
He is a good man of great wit and creativity .
Attaching a pejorative to him is an obscene , unwarranted , and namely ignorant mischaracterization .
It ’ s frankly a cheap shot ( which is to be expected from people whose ambitions are predicated on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the latter which they hate ) .
I met Dr. Block a few years back at Mises University , a weeklong economics conference in Auburn , Alabama .
I spent a good deal of time then discussing ideas pertaining to the free market and ethics with him .
Compared to the other academics , there was something sui generis about Dr. Block .
His ideas seemed insane at the surface – but revealed themselves as profoundly complex and well-reasoned as one dug deeper .
From the evictionist theory , to privatizing oceans , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ awfully peculiar .
But with a little bit of an open mind , they became fascinating to any astute student of economics or philosophy .
I left Auburn that week incredibly inspired .
So inspired , that I wrote my college admission essay specifically on my dialogue with Walter Block .
But this inspiration transcended the realms of economics and philosophy .
It spilled into the general conduct of life .
Here is a man – even at 78 years young – who continues churning out well thought out papers like a machine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ waste a minute of his life and always remains incredibly productive .
He ’ s already published some 500 papers , both independently and with others .
He ’ s sparked viciously rigorous debates in academic circles that have resulted in endless cycles of rejoinders .
The Case for Discrimin ... Rockwell Jr. , Llewelly ... Best Price : $ 15.00 Buy New $ 19.00 I think it ’ s safe to say that Walter Block is what business magnate Dan Peña would call a “ high performance person ” – “ being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ day , 24/7 , 365.
” It ’ s hard not be inspired by such individuals .
At the end of the day , the same lessons of discipline and high-performance apply , regardless of how one leads their life .
Whether one wants to go into the realm of business , academia , or entrepreneurship , the Walter Block mindset is one worth adopting .
Contrary to what his adversaries say of him , Dr. Block ’ s ideas are not “ half-baked ” or “ bigoted.
” They are substantive and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Block attracted crowds of 30 or so people , huddled into a small library to ask him questions .
Given this , it ’ s hard to assign pejoratives to his scholarship .
I know I was inspired through my interactions with Dr. Block .
And I ’ m certain that I wasn ’ t the only one .
It makes sense that brainless twits would resort to mob tactics when confronted by someone like Dr. Block .
They could never do what he does .
The attempt at executing this ouster demonstrates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ higher education claim to provide , and what they actually provide .
College has become an embedded element in the rhythm of the American way of life .
Society at large acts like everyone must go to college .
Put bluntly , there are plenty of nimrods I see every day , who ’ d be far better off going to trade school or something of that nature .
I see college as a “ choose your adventure ” with two choices : 1 . )
Go to college to become well versed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leverage ( what I am doing via studying engineering ) ; 2 . )
Go to college to go after an academic career , in which you pursue the truth – above all other things – and do so via rigorous and unabashed debate .
Privatization Of Roads ... Block , Walter Best Price : $ 22.99 Buy New $ 14.95 But we don ’ t see rigorous and unabashed debate anymore .
The fact that so many people have forgotten the place of the American college in the societal fabric , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ indifference that has allowed one side to seize the debate stage .
Its consequences have been catastrophic .
Colleges have become feel-good consortiums of the insecure .
People at my university are being booted out of SGA for holding beliefs contrary to the egalitarian agenda .
Insecure , do-gooder students are trying to impose “ diversity ” graduation requirements on the student body .
Even worse , most people , whether they agree with it or not , nod with tacit approval like imbeciles !
Elie Wiesel was right : “ The opposite @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s indifference.
” In strange times like these , the people we need the most are people like Walter Block , who have a pair and are willing to stand up to this mob .
The last thing we need to do is ignore the attempt at ousting him .
Not acting is the same as reluctantly nodding your head .
The Best of Atilla Mert Sulker

With all that they have already taken down, the mob has now set its eyes on a new target – academia.
It’s bad enough that universities are filled with predominantly leftist academics, that scream about fabricated claptraps like “institutional racism.” I know this, because I’ve seen it every day in the “honors” college at my university.
But, no. Somehow this is not enough for the mob.
As a STEM major, I thought that I would be free from leftist jargon taking over my curricula, but that was a big miscalculation. Some crazies want to “embed learning outcomes related to ethics” in my engineering and mathematics courses.
Defending the Undefend... Walter Block Best Price: $1.99 Buy New $10.80 (as of 07:55 UTC - Details) Jeff Deist was right to say that colleges are virtually left wing think tanks, nowadays.
But a few contrarians exist out there to counter the prevailing campus norms. And I regard my friend Dr. Walter Block as one of these dissenters.
A group of butt hurt students (of the type I frequently encounter on my own campus) decided to set up a petition against him, because he’s supposedly “racist.”
Unlike the loser who set up the petition (that barely got 500 signatures), I’ve known Dr. Block fairly well over the past few years. He is a good man of great wit and creativity. Attaching a pejorative to him is an obscene, unwarranted, and namely ignorant mischaracterization. It’s frankly a cheap shot (which is to be expected from people whose ambitions are predicated on hatred and misinformation over sound ideas, the latter which they hate).
I met Dr. Block a few years back at Mises University, a weeklong economics conference in Auburn, Alabama. I spent a good deal of time then discussing ideas pertaining to the free market and ethics with him. Compared to the other academics, there was something sui generis about Dr. Block. His ideas seemed insane at the surface – but revealed themselves as profoundly complex and well-reasoned as one dug deeper.
From the evictionist theory, to privatizing oceans, to privatizing space – these ideas were awfully peculiar. But with a little bit of an open mind, they became fascinating to any astute student of economics or philosophy.
I left Auburn that week incredibly inspired. So inspired, that I wrote my college admission essay specifically on my dialogue with Walter Block. But this inspiration transcended the realms of economics and philosophy. It spilled into the general conduct of life.
Here is a man – even at 78 years young – who continues churning out well thought out papers like a machine. He doesn’t seem to waste a minute of his life and always remains incredibly productive. He’s already published some 500 papers, both independently and with others. He’s sparked viciously rigorous debates in academic circles that have resulted in endless cycles of rejoinders. The Case for Discrimin... Rockwell Jr., Llewelly... Best Price: $15.00 Buy New $19.00 (as of 04:02 UTC - Details)
I think it’s safe to say that Walter Block is what business magnate Dan Peña would call a “high performance person” – “being all that you can be, every day, 24/7, 365.” It’s hard not be inspired by such individuals.
At the end of the day, the same lessons of discipline and high-performance apply, regardless of how one leads their life. Whether one wants to go into the realm of business, academia, or entrepreneurship, the Walter Block mindset is one worth adopting.
Contrary to what his adversaries say of him, Dr. Block’s ideas are not “half-baked” or “bigoted.” They are substantive and inspiring. At Mises University, Dr. Block attracted crowds of 30 or so people, huddled into a small library to ask him questions. Given this, it’s hard to assign pejoratives to his scholarship. I know I was inspired through my interactions with Dr. Block. And I’m certain that I wasn’t the only one.
It makes sense that brainless twits would resort to mob tactics when confronted by someone like Dr. Block. They could never do what he does.
The attempt at executing this ouster demonstrates a serious disconnect between what institutions of higher education claim to provide, and what they actually provide.
College has become an embedded element in the rhythm of the American way of life. Society at large acts like everyone must go to college. Put bluntly, there are plenty of nimrods I see every day, who’d be far better off going to trade school or something of that nature.
I see college as a “choose your adventure” with two choices: 1.) Go to college to become well versed in a skill that you want to leverage (what I am doing via studying engineering); 2.) Go to college to go after an academic career, in which you pursue the truth – above all other things – and do so via rigorous and unabashed debate. Privatization Of Roads... Block, Walter Best Price: $22.99 Buy New $14.95 (as of 04:02 UTC - Details)
But we don’t see rigorous and unabashed debate anymore. The fact that so many people have forgotten the place of the American college in the societal fabric, as described earlier, has led to an indifference that has allowed one side to seize the debate stage. Its consequences have been catastrophic. Colleges have become feel-good consortiums of the insecure.
People at my university are being booted out of SGA for holding beliefs contrary to the egalitarian agenda. Insecure, do-gooder students are trying to impose “diversity” graduation requirements on the student body. Even worse, most people, whether they agree with it or not, nod with tacit approval like imbeciles! Elie Wiesel was right: “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.”
In strange times like these, the people we need the most are people like Walter Block, who have a pair and are willing to stand up to this mob. The last thing we need to do is ignore the attempt at ousting him. Not acting is the same as reluctantly nodding your head.
The Best of Atilla Mert Sulker


lewrockwell--2020-06-29--The Farce and Diabolical Agenda of a ‘Universal Lockdown’

First comes the farce , an ( almost ) universal government lie around the globe about a deadly virus , WHO named COVID-19 .
The decision for a global lockdown – literally for the collapse of the world economy – was already taken at the WEF conference in Davos , 21 – 24 January 2020 .
On January 30 , WHO declared COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern ( PHEIC ) .
At that time , there were only 150 known COVID-19 cases outside of China .
No reason whatsoever to declare a pandemic .
On March 11 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ converted the PHEIC into a pandemic .
This gave the green light for the start if implementing “ The Plan ” .
The pandemic was needed as a pretext to halt and collapse the world economy and the underlying social fabric .
There is no coincidence .
There were a number of preparatory events , all pointing into the direction of aworldwide monumental historic disaster .
It started at least 10 years ago – probably considerably earlier – with the infamous 2010 Rockefeller Report , which painted the first phase of a monstrous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” scenario .
Among the last preparatory moves for the “ pandemic ” was Event 201 , held in NYC on 18 October 2019 .
A VOYAGE IN IMAGINATIO ... Holmes , Dr Joel S Buy New $ 9.95 The event was sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health , the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ( BMGF ) and the World Economic Forum ( WEF ) , the club of the rich and powerful that meets every January in Davos , Switzerland .
Participating were a number of pharmaceuticals ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) ’ s of the US and – of China .
One of the objectives of Event 201 was a computer simulation of a corona virus pandemic .
The simulated virus was called SARS-2-nCoV , or later 2019-nCoV .
The simulation results were disastrous , killing 65 million people in 18 months and plunging the stock market by more than 30 % — causing untold unemployment and bankruptcies .
Precisely the scenario of which we are now living the beginning .
The Lock @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and disturbing events or components of The Plan to be implemented by the so called Agenda ID2020 , a Bill Gates creation , fully integrated into the UN ’ s Sustainable Development Goals ( SDG ) – target date for completion – 2030 ( also called Agenda 2030 , the hidden agenda unknown to most of the UN members ) , the same target date for completion of the Agenda ID02020 .
Here , just the key elements as a precursor to what the world is living now , and what is to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stop it – to demonstrate how this entirely criminal sham has been planned .
Parts of the scenario are : • A massive vaccination program , probably through compulsory vaccination – Bill Gates ’ dream and brainchild is vaccinating 7 billion people .
• Massive population reduction , a eugenics plan – in part through vaccination and other means ( Ref .
Bill Gates , “ if we are doing a real good job vaccinating , we may reduce the world population by 10 % to 15 % ” .
See “ Innovating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the TED2010 annual conference , Long Beach , California , February 18 , 2010 ) .
• An electronic ID for every person on the planet – in the form of a nano chip , possibly injected along with the mandatory vaccination .
This nano-chip could be remotely uploaded with all personal data .
• Universal rolling out of 5G , later to be followed by 6G .
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It is sold to the public as the Internet of Things ( TIT ) , meaning self-driving cars , robotized kitchen equipment , artificial intelligence ( AI ) for the production and delivery of everything .
What the sales pitch doesn ’ t say , is how humans would be marginalized and enslaved .
To carry this masterplan forward , high frequency electromagnet waves are needed .
Therefore , rolling out of 5G is a must , no matter what the health impact on humans , fauna and flora may be – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ viral infections , like possibly the current COVID19 .
WHO remains silent , although they do admit that no independent official study has been carried out on the dangers of 5G – and electromagnetic fields in general .
Does that mean that WHO is coopted by the Big and Powerful into this deadly spiel ?
– Let it suffice to say that unlike other UN agencies , WHO was created in 1948 by the Rockefeller Foundation ( RF ) – see The Lancet .
It might be also noteworthy that about half of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , mostly the pharma industry , but also others , like telecom giants .
This is a precursor for understanding how things are being planned .
It may help connecting the dots for what is coming .
It may also help us understand what is happening right now , in the first phase of the Lock Step scenario .
It portrays in vivid colors the criminal nature of the Dark Deep State .
Never mind the stock market crash – that ’ s a speculator ’ s syndrome , rich people ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a western invention to play with capital and capital gains to the detriment of the workers , whose lives depend on working that capital .
They are the first ones to go , when Big Money calls for a merger – or a bankruptcy .
Now the almost universal and justified by NOTHING quarantine , total lockdown of every business , small or big – restaurants , construction , tourism , little and big hardware stores , bakeries , air lines , transport – interrupted supply chains – factories , food processing – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In the Global North some up to 90 % of business transactions are emanating from small and medium size enterprises ( SME ) .
Almost all of them are closed now .
Two thirds or more of them may never open again .
Employees and workers are laid off , or are reduced to part-time work , meaning part-time pay – but still need to sustain their families .
Poverty and desperation set in and becomes rampant .
No future in sight .
Suicide rates will rise – see Greece in the 2008 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ten years later – broken families , foreclosures , families expulsed from rental apartments because they can no longer pay their rents .
Street begging becomes normal , except there is nobody left to spare a dime .
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In the US official unemployment figures are as of this writing in excess of 23 million – and are expected , by predictions of the FED , Goldman Sachs , Bloomberg -to reach between 32 % and 40 % in the next quarter .
Bankruptcies may spin out of control .
The IMF predicts for 2020 a worldwide economic contraction of a mere 3 % – and a small growth rate in the latter part of 2021 .
How utterly ridiculous !
– What planet are these people on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and why ?
Perhaps to encourage countries to borrow huge amounts of foreign exchange from these predatory Bretton Woods institutions , IMF and World Bank – to get deeply into debt , thinking with IMF predictions they will be fine ?
– Further enslavement by deceit ?
This is the Global North – which has some kind of social safety nets , whatever flimsy they may be – there is a sliver of hope for relief .
Another sliver of hope is built on the premises that mankind will be constantly creating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like a river towards new horizons , creating new dynamics , new jobs… yes , that ’ s what mankind can do – and in our comfort we have forgotten this virtue – an essential virtue for survival – survival of the corona crisis .
The Global South – or developing countries – presents a grimmer story .
Under normal circumstances a third to half of the economy is informal , meaning not tight to any norm of formal or legal organization .
They are short-term workers , daily , hourly laborers – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no safety nets- and in most cases no health coverage .
They are left to the whims of the “ market ” , literally .
Now the market collapsed .
There is nothing left .
No work , no income , no money to pay for food , rent , medication – and the government orders them , the deprived poverty-stricken , to stay ‘ home ’ – ‘ lockdown ’ in quarantine – to protect themselves from a virus , an imposed virus that nobody sees , but the government and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and SCARED – of its dangers , you never know whether true or false .
Confinement at ” home ” ?
– Where is home ?
Home is gone .
No money to pay rent .
Keep social distance – don ’ t get together .
Stay apart .
The infection could spread .
Fear is of the essence .
Take a city like Lima , Peru .
Peru ’ s total population about 30 million .
Lima , about eleven million – of which some 3 to 4 million live on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or worse .
Daily , or hourly laborers .
They live sometimes hours away from their work place .
Now , there is no workplace anymore .
They have no money to pay for food , transport or rent – landlords put them in streets , expel them from their properties .
How can they stay in confinement ?
How can they take care of themselves by quarantine – lockdown – having no shelter , no food – desperately looking to earn just enough money to survive another day – and perhaps to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t .
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The poor they starve with kids and families – and quite possibly with the corona disease .
They live within the circles of poverty and misery , where there is nothing to spare .
Nobody has anything .
Not even in solidarity .
There simply is nothing .
Total deprivation , caused by a total economic standstill – forced upon the world and especially the poor by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ women .
These 3 to 4 or 5 million people , they all have come at one point or another from the rural provinces , for which the government does nothing , or not enough to keep them there .
So , in search of a better life , they abandon their ‘ çhacras ’ ( little plots of land ) and move to the Big City – to paradise – where they are relegated to live in more misery than in their provincial meagre settlements .
They endure – always with hope @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crisis – has made life even worse , much worse for them .
There are none or far from enough government handouts – or they come too late or get lost in corruption .
In solidarity they assemble .
They need to get back to their provincial origins , to their çhacras , to their families – where they will get shelter and food , where they again may feel “ home ” and loved or at least welcome .
A dictatorial military style government prevents them from leaving – for security reasons @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other people , — the farse continues .
And nobody says peep .
Nobody dares , for fear of being locked away .
Police brutality – sticks , tear gas – repression – back to no shelter – no food .
Until the central almighty government decides to “ organize ” repatriation – by buses , but there is not enough capacity , nor organization – chaos emerges – and the lot gets worse – and how much worse can it get ?
Famine will strike , will make them weaker and weaker @ @ @ @ @ @ @ die – not fromCOVID19 , but from famine .
But as statistics go , MUST go , by orders of the Masters , such deaths will automatically be attributed to the corona pandemic .
Naturally .
It ’ s done elsewhere , in the Global North .
Why not in the Global South ?
Lima is just a case in point – Its representative probably for most of Latin America , except for Venezuela , Nicaragua and Cuba – where , in the midst of misery , there is still a sense of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government stands with the people , yet , where people are more severely suffering , because of western sanctions – they are literally being murdered by western sanctions – foremost the US of A .
A genocidal nation .
The New York Times ( 22 April 2020 ) reports , ‘ Instead of Coronavirus , the Hunger Will Kill Us.
’ A Global Food Crisis Looms .
The world has never faced a hunger emergency like this , experts say .
It could double the number of people facing acute hunger to 265 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
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” Kissinger , like the Gates , the Rockefellers are “ well meaning ” : They have never made a secret of their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a format that reminds one of eugenics , by “ eradicating poverty ” , for example through vaccination – starting in Africa .
Gates has recently suggested that he would try out his new corona vaccine in Africa – to which even his buddy , Dr. Tedros , the WHO Director General , protested .
The coronavirus pandemic has brought poverty and famine to millions of people around the world .
And there is no end in sight .
To the contrary , it would seem that almost all governments are coopted or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guidelines ” .
It is both diabolical as well as beyond comprehension .
Why ?
The “ global elites ” really believe that they are contributing to the future and well-being of humanity .
Yet their actions have resulted in abject misery , unemployment and despair .
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The very people they are supposed to protect against unemployment , famine and despair .
Under “ normal ” circumstances of our globe ’ s predatory inequality , some 9 million people die annually from hunger and famine-related diseases .
This figure may now shoot up exponentially .
Maybe into the tens of millions , or more .
Famine and death by famine could be further affected by artificially caused food shortages , or by droughts or floods – resulting from purposefully man-made climate change – not through the ludicrously @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the advanced US Air Force HAARP system ( HAARP = High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program ) .
“ During the Vietnam war , cloud-seeding techniques were used , starting in 1967 under Project Popeye , the objective of which was to prolong the monsoon season and block enemy supply routes along the Ho Chi Minh Trail ” .
Today the HAARP system has been perfected and weaponized .
According to US Air Force document AF 2025 Final Report , weather modification ( for military use ) : Under the proposed Gates Foundation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccination , may , for example , not be able to travel .
The abject misery that is purposefully imposed upon mankind becomes ever more visible .
Aside from wiping out people ’ s and business ’ assets , it ’ s poverty and famine… There is today no Nuremberg-type Tribunal , honest , ethical and powerful enough to hold the global elites accountable and bring them to justice .
We the people have to take the reign in this ongoing paradigm shift .
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Letting the enemy ’ s ferocious forces strengthen our weakness – and make us overcome .
The original source of this article is Global Research .

First comes the farce, an (almost) universal government lie around the globe about a deadly virus, WHO named COVID-19. The decision for a global lockdown – literally for the collapse of the world economy – was already taken at the WEF conference in Davos, 21 – 24 January 2020. On January 30, WHO declared COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). At that time, there were only 150 known COVID-19 cases outside of China. No reason whatsoever to declare a pandemic. On March 11, Dr. Tedros, DG of WHO converted the PHEIC into a pandemic. This gave the green light for the start if implementing “The Plan”.
The pandemic was needed as a pretext to halt and collapse the world economy and the underlying social fabric.
There is no coincidence. There were a number of preparatory events, all pointing into the direction of aworldwide monumental historic disaster. It started at least 10 years ago – probably considerably earlier – with the infamous 2010 Rockefeller Report, which painted the first phase of a monstrous Plan, called the “Lock Step” scenario. Among the last preparatory moves for the “pandemic” was Event 201, held in NYC on 18 October 2019. A VOYAGE IN IMAGINATIO... Holmes, Dr Joel S Buy New $9.95 (as of 04:21 UTC - Details)
The event was sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the World Economic Forum (WEF), the club of the rich and powerful that meets every January in Davos, Switzerland. Participating were a number of pharmaceuticals (vaccine interest groups), as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s of the US and – of China.
One of the objectives of Event 201 was a computer simulation of a corona virus pandemic. The simulated virus was called SARS-2-nCoV, or later 2019-nCoV. The simulation results were disastrous, killing 65 million people in 18 months and plunging the stock market by more than 30% — causing untold unemployment and bankruptcies. Precisely the scenario of which we are now living the beginning.
The Lock Step scenario foresees a number of ghastly and disturbing events or components of The Plan to be implemented by the so called Agenda ID2020, a Bill Gates creation, fully integrated into the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) – target date for completion – 2030 (also called Agenda 2030, the hidden agenda unknown to most of the UN members), the same target date for completion of the Agenda ID02020.
Here, just the key elements as a precursor to what the world is living now, and what is to come, if we don’t stop it – to demonstrate how this entirely criminal sham has been planned. Parts of the scenario are:
A massive vaccination program, probably through compulsory vaccination – Bill Gates’ dream and brainchild is vaccinating 7 billion people.
Massive population reduction, a eugenics plan – in part through vaccination and other means (Ref. Bill Gates, “if we are doing a real good job vaccinating, we may reduce the world population by 10% to 15%”. See “Innovating to Zero!”, speech to the TED2010 annual conference, Long Beach, California, February 18, 2010).
Bill Gates has been advocating for years the need for a massive population reduction – and indeed the more than 20 years of the BMGF’s extensive vaccination programs in Africa, India and other places around the world have seen a record of involuntary sterilization of women between 14 and 49 years. See In 2014 and 2015 Kenya carried out a massive tetanus vaccination program, sponsored by WHO and UNICEF.
An electronic ID for every person on the planet – in the form of a nano chip, possibly injected along with the mandatory vaccination. This nano-chip could be remotely uploaded with all personal data.
Digitized money, no more cash.
Universal rolling out of 5G, later to be followed by 6G.
The Fourth Reich: The ... Rosenfeld, Gavriel D. Best Price: $16.78 Buy New $21.49 (as of 04:06 UTC - Details) This is leading to a total control of every individuum on the planet. It is sold to the public as the Internet of Things (TIT), meaning self-driving cars, robotized kitchen equipment, artificial intelligence (AI) for the production and delivery of everything. What the sales pitch doesn’t say, is how humans would be marginalized and enslaved. To carry this masterplan forward, high frequency electromagnet waves are needed. Therefore, rolling out of 5G is a must, no matter what the health impact on humans, fauna and flora may be – and no matter how it may influence viral infections, like possibly the current COVID19.
WHO remains silent, although they do admit that no independent official study has been carried out on the dangers of 5G – and electromagnetic fields in general. Does that mean that WHO is coopted by the Big and Powerful into this deadly spiel? – Let it suffice to say that unlike other UN agencies, WHO was created in 1948 by the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) – see The Lancet. It might be also noteworthy that about half of WHOs budget comes from private interest sources, mostly the pharma industry, but also others, like telecom giants.
This is a precursor for understanding how things are being planned. It may help connecting the dots for what is coming.
It may also help us understand what is happening right now, in the first phase of the Lock Step scenario. It portrays in vivid colors the criminal nature of the Dark Deep State.
Never mind the stock market crash – that’s a speculator’s syndrome, rich people’s risks, as the stock market is a western invention to play with capital and capital gains to the detriment of the workers, whose lives depend on working that capital. They are the first ones to go, when Big Money calls for a merger – or a bankruptcy.
Now the almost universal and justified by NOTHING quarantine, total lockdown of every business, small or big – restaurants, construction, tourism, little and big hardware stores, bakeries, air lines, transport – interrupted supply chains – factories, food processing – and it goes on and on.
In the Global North some up to 90% of business transactions are emanating from small and medium size enterprises (SME). Almost all of them are closed now. Two thirds or more of them may never open again. Employees and workers are laid off, or are reduced to part-time work, meaning part-time pay – but still need to sustain their families. Poverty and desperation set in and becomes rampant. No future in sight. Suicide rates will rise – see Greece in the 2008 / 2009 crisis – and up to ten years later – broken families, foreclosures, families expulsed from rental apartments because they can no longer pay their rents. Street begging becomes normal, except there is nobody left to spare a dime. The Trillion-Dollar Co... Marrs, Jim Best Price: $3.35 Buy New $8.09 (as of 08:20 UTC - Details)
In Europe at least a third to maybe 50% or more of the work force – depending on the country and structure of the labor force – is expected to be unemployed or will be reduced to part time work. And that’s only the beginning. In the US official unemployment figures are as of this writing in excess of 23 million – and are expected, by predictions of the FED, Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg -to reach between 32% and 40% in the next quarter. Bankruptcies may spin out of control.
The IMF predicts for 2020 a worldwide economic contraction of a mere 3% – and a small growth rate in the latter part of 2021. How utterly ridiculous! – What planet are these people on? Whom are they trying to fool, and why? Perhaps to encourage countries to borrow huge amounts of foreign exchange from these predatory Bretton Woods institutions, IMF and World Bank – to get deeply into debt, thinking with IMF predictions they will be fine? – Further enslavement by deceit?
This is the Global North – which has some kind of social safety nets, whatever flimsy they may be – there is a sliver of hope for relief. Another sliver of hope is built on the premises that mankind will be constantly creating – working ingeniously inventing -moving forward flowing like a river towards new horizons, creating new dynamics, new jobs… yes, that’s what mankind can do – and in our comfort we have forgotten this virtue – an essential virtue for survival – survival of the corona crisis.
The Global South – or developing countries – presents a grimmer story. Under normal circumstances a third to half of the economy is informal, meaning not tight to any norm of formal or legal organization. They are short-term workers, daily, hourly laborers – living from hand-to-mouth, no savings, no safety nets- and in most cases no health coverage. They are left to the whims of the “market”, literally. Now the market collapsed.
There is nothing left. No work, no income, no money to pay for food, rent, medication – and the government orders them, the deprived poverty-stricken, to stay ‘home’ – ‘lockdown’ in quarantine – to protect themselves from a virus, an imposed virus that nobody sees, but the government and the media make sure you are aware – and SCARED – of its dangers, you never know whether true or false.
Confinement at ”home”? – Where is home? Home is gone. No money to pay rent. Keep social distance – don’t get together. Stay apart. The infection could spread. Fear is of the essence.
Take a city like Lima, Peru. Peru’s total population about 30 million. Lima, about eleven million – of which some 3 to 4 million live on the margins or below – in shantytowns, or worse. Daily, or hourly laborers. They live sometimes hours away from their work place. Now, there is no workplace anymore. They have no money to pay for food, transport or rent – landlords put them in streets, expel them from their properties. How can they stay in confinement? How can they take care of themselves by quarantine – lockdown – having no shelter, no food – desperately looking to earn just enough money to survive another day – and perhaps to share with their families? They can’t. The Killing of Uncle S... Williams, Paul Buy New $19.95 (as of 03:47 UTC - Details)
Lockdown-protection (sic-sic) is only for the rich. The poor they starve with kids and families – and quite possibly with the corona disease. They live within the circles of poverty and misery, where there is nothing to spare. Nobody has anything. Not even in solidarity. There simply is nothing. Total deprivation, caused by a total economic standstill – forced upon the world and especially the poor by evil men – and perhaps also evil women.
These 3 to 4 or 5 million people, they all have come at one point or another from the rural provinces, for which the government does nothing, or not enough to keep them there. So, in search of a better life, they abandon their ‘çhacras’ (little plots of land) and move to the Big City – to paradise – where they are relegated to live in more misery than in their provincial meagre settlements. They endure – always with hope. Now this – the man-made corona crisis – has made life even worse, much worse for them. There are none or far from enough government handouts – or they come too late or get lost in corruption.
In solidarity they assemble. They need to get back to their provincial origins, to their çhacras, to their families – where they will get shelter and food, where they again may feel “home” and loved or at least welcome.
A dictatorial military style government prevents them from leaving – for security reasons, of course – they may infect other people, — the farse continues. And nobody says peep. Nobody dares, for fear of being locked away. Police brutality – sticks, tear gas – repression – back to no shelter – no food. Until the central almighty government decides to “organize” repatriation – by buses, but there is not enough capacity, nor organization – chaos emerges – and the lot gets worse – and how much worse can it get? Famine will strike, will make them weaker and weaker, more prone to diseases and to die – not fromCOVID19, but from famine. But as statistics go, MUST go, by orders of the Masters, such deaths will automatically be attributed to the corona pandemic. Naturally. It’s done elsewhere, in the Global North. Why not in the Global South?
Lima is just a case in point – Its representative probably for most of Latin America, except for Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba – where, in the midst of misery, there is still a sense of solidarity uniting the people – where the government stands with the people, yet, where people are more severely suffering, because of western sanctions – they are literally being murdered by western sanctions – foremost the US of A. A genocidal nation.
The New York Times (22 April 2020) reports, ‘Instead of Coronavirus, the Hunger Will Kill Us.’ A Global Food Crisis Looms. The world has never faced a hunger emergency like this, experts say. It could double the number of people facing acute hunger to 265 million by the end of this year.
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“In Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya, residents already live in extreme poverty. Desperate to eat set off a stampede during a recent giveaway of flour and cooking oil, leaving scores injured and two people dead.” “In India, thousands of workers are lining up twice a day for bread and fried vegetables to keep hunger at bay.” “And across Colombia, poor households are hanging red clothing and flags from their windows and balconies as a sign that they are hungry.”
This reminds of the infamous Kissinger quote of the 1970s on famine,
“Who controls the food supply controls the people – the quote goes on saying,
“Who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.”
Kissinger, like the Gates, the Rockefellers are “well meaning”: They have never made a secret of their desire to reduce the world population in a format that reminds one of eugenics, by “eradicating poverty”, for example through vaccination – starting in Africa.
Gates has recently suggested that he would try out his new corona vaccine in Africa – to which even his buddy, Dr. Tedros, the WHO Director General, protested.
The coronavirus pandemic has brought poverty and famine to millions of people around the world. And there is no end in sight.
To the contrary, it would seem that almost all governments are coopted or tacitly coerced into adhering to the “guidelines”.
It is both diabolical as well as beyond comprehension. Why? The “global elites” really believe that they are contributing to the future and well-being of humanity. Yet their actions have resulted in abject misery, unemployment and despair. Why I Stand: From Free... Owens, Burgess Best Price: $9.81 Buy New $10.79 (as of 03:48 UTC - Details)
Without such coercive measures it could hardly be explained why almost all governments of the planet submit to this horrendous social and economic agenda – and lie, lie, abject lie – to their people. The very people they are supposed to protect against unemployment, famine and despair.
Corona Tyranny – and Death by Famine
Under “normal” circumstances of our globe’s predatory inequality, some 9 million people die annually from hunger and famine-related diseases. This figure may now shoot up exponentially. Maybe into the tens of millions, or more.
Famine and death by famine could be further affected by artificially caused food shortages, or by droughts or floods – resulting from purposefully man-made climate change – not through the ludicrously touted CO2-caused temperature rise – but by the advanced US Air Force HAARP system (HAARP = High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program).
“During the Vietnam war, cloud-seeding techniques were used, starting in 1967 under Project Popeye, the objective of which was to prolong the monsoon season and block enemy supply routes along the Ho Chi Minh Trail”. Today the HAARP system has been perfected and weaponized. According to US Air Force document AF 2025 Final Report, weather modification (for military use):
“offers the war fighter a wide range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary …
‘Weather modification will become a part of domestic and international security and could be done unilaterally… It could have offensive and defensive applications and even be used for deterrence purposes. The ability to generate precipitation, fog and storms on earth or to modify space weather… and the production of artificial weather all are a part of an integrated set of [military] technologies.”
Under the proposed Gates Foundation forced vaccination program – those who refuse vaccination, may, for example, not be able to travel.
The abject misery that is purposefully imposed upon mankind becomes ever more visible. Aside from wiping out people’s and business’ assets, it’s poverty and famine…
There is today no Nuremberg-type Tribunal, honest, ethical and powerful enough to hold the global elites accountable and bring them to justice.
We the people have to take the reign in this ongoing paradigm shift.
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Not confrontational, but with wisdom and savvy. Letting the enemy’s ferocious forces strengthen our weakness – and make us overcome.
A good General doesn’t like aggression A good warrior doesn’t know hate If you want to conquer your enemy, don’t confront him. Put yourself below him This is called the power of not-fighting This is using the ability of men This is called since ancient times, to be in harmony with heaven, And it is the greatest power there is (Tao 68)
The original source of this article is Global Research.


lewrockwell--2020-06-29--Weird: Out of Nowhere, Something Just Rocked Earth’s Magnetic Field

A GLOBAL MAGNETIC ANOMALY : On June 23rd , Earth ’ s quiet magnetic field was unexpectedly disturbed by a wave of magnetism that rippled around much of the globe .
There was no solar storm or geomagnetic storm to cause the disturbance .
So what was it ?
Lately , Earth ’ s magnetic field has been quiet .
Very quiet .
The sun is in the pits of what may turn out to be the deepest Solar Minimum in a century .
Geomagnetic storms just aren ’ t happening .
The Electric Universe Wallace Thornhill , Dav ... @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 27.00 This chart recording shows a magnetic wave rippling through Preston UK on June 23 , 2020. Credit : Stuart Green .
Green quickly checked solar wind data from NOAA ’ s DSCOVR satellite .
“ There was nothing–no uptick in the solar wind speed or other factors that might explain the disturbance , ” he says .
He wasn ’ t the only one who noticed .
In the Lofoten islands of Norway , Rob Stammes detected a similar anomaly on his magnetometer .
“ It was remarkable , ” he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ call this phenomenon a “ pulsation continuous ” or “ Pc ” for short .
Imagine blowing across a piece of paper , making it flutter with your breath .
Solar wind can have a similar effect on magnetic fields .
Pc waves are essentially flutters propagating down the flanks of Earth ’ s magnetosphere excited by the breath of the sun .
During more active phases of the solar cycle , these flutters are easily lost in the noise of rambunctious geomagnetic activity .
But during the extreme quiet of Solar Minimum @ @ @ @ @ @ @ heard ” like a pin dropping in an silent room .

A GLOBAL MAGNETIC ANOMALY: On June 23rd, Earth’s quiet magnetic field was unexpectedly disturbed by a wave of magnetism that rippled around much of the globe. There was no solar storm or geomagnetic storm to cause the disturbance. So what was it?
Lately, Earth’s magnetic field has been quiet. Very quiet. The sun is in the pits of what may turn out to be the deepest Solar Minimum in a century. Geomagnetic storms just aren’t happening.
“That’s why I was so surprised on June 23rd when my instruments picked up a magnetic anomaly,” reports Stuart Green, who operates a research-grade magnetometer in his backyard in Preston UK. “For more than 30 minutes, the local magnetic field oscillated like a sine wave.”
The Electric Universe Wallace Thornhill, Dav... Best Price: $70.00 Buy New $27.00 (as of 11:40 UTC - Details) This chart recording shows a magnetic wave rippling through Preston UK on June 23, 2020. Credit: Stuart Green.
Green quickly checked solar wind data from NOAA’s DSCOVR satellite. “There was nothing–no uptick in the solar wind speed or other factors that might explain the disturbance,” he says.
He wasn’t the only one who noticed. In the Lofoten islands of Norway, Rob Stammes detected a similar anomaly on his magnetometer. “It was remarkable,” he says.
“Our magnetic field swung back and forth by about 1/3rd of a degree. I also detected ground currents with the same 10 minute period.”
What happened? Space physicists call this phenomenon a “pulsation continuous” or “Pc” for short. Imagine blowing across a piece of paper, making it flutter with your breath. Solar wind can have a similar effect on magnetic fields. Pc waves are essentially flutters propagating down the flanks of Earth’s magnetosphere excited by the breath of the sun. During more active phases of the solar cycle, these flutters are easily lost in the noise of rambunctious geomagnetic activity. But during the extreme quiet of Solar Minimum, such waves can make themselves “heard” like a pin dropping in an silent room.
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lewrockwell--2020-06-29--This Russia-Afghanistan Story Is Western Propaganda at Its Most Vile

All western mass media outlets are now shrieking about the story The New York Times first reported , citing zero evidence and naming zero sources , claiming intelligence says Russia paid out bounties to Taliban-linked fighters in Afghanistan for attacking the occupying forces of the US and its allies in Afghanistan .
As of this writing , and probably forevermore , there have still been zero intelligence sources named and zero evidence provided for this claim .
As we discussed yesterday , the only correct response to unsubstantiated claims by anonymous spooks in a post-Iraq invasion world is to assume @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ve been provided with a mountain of hard , independently verifiable evidence to the contrary .
The fact that The New York Times instead chose to uncritically parrot these evidence-free claims made by operatives within intelligence agencies with a known track record of lying about exactly these things is nothing short of journalistic malpractice .
The fact that western media outlets are now unanimously regurgitating these still 100 percent baseless assertions is nothing short of state propaganda .
The consensus-manufacturing , Overton window-shrinking western propaganda apparatus has been in full swing with mass @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whatsoever that they have confirmed one another ’ s “ great reporting ” on this completely unsubstantiated story .
“ The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post have confirmed our reporting , ” the NYT story ’ s co-author Charlie Savage tweeted hours ago .
“ We have confirmed the New York Times ’ scoop : A Russian military spy unit offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to attack coalition forces in Afghanistan , ” tweeted The Washington Post ‘ s John Hudson .
“ We matched The New York Times ’ great @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that Russians paid Taliban to target US , coalition forces in Afg which is a pretty stunning development , ” tweeted Wall Street Journal ’ s Gordon Lubold .
Psychological Warfare ... Gonzalez , Servando Best Price : $ 22.00 Buy New $ 19.95 All three of these men are lying .
John Hudson ’ s claim that the Washington Post article he co-authored “ confirmed the New York Times ’ scoop ” twice uses the words “ if confirmed ” with regard to his central claim , saying “ Russian involvement in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” and “ The attempt to stoke violence against Americans , if confirmed “ .
This is of course an acknowledgement that these things have not , in fact , been confirmed .
The Wall Street Journal article co-authored by Gordon Lubold cites only anonymous “ people ” , who we have no reason to believe are different people than NYT ’ s sources , repeating the same unsubstantiated assertions about an intelligence report .
The article cites no evidence that Lubold ’ s “ stunning development ” actually occurred beyond “ people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ a person familiar with it said “ .
The fact that both Hudson and Lubold were lying about having confirmed the New York Times ‘ reporting means that Savage was also lying when he said they did .
When they say the report has been “ confirmed ” , what they really mean is that it has been agreed upon .
All the three of them actually did was use their profoundly influential outlets to uncritically parrot something nameless spooks want the public to believe , which is the same as just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ charge .
It is unprincipled stenography for opaque and unaccountable intelligence agencies , and it is disgusting .
None of this should be happening .
The New York Times has admitted itself that it was wrong for uncritically parroting the unsubstantiated spook claims which led to the Iraq invasion , as has The Washington Post .
There is no reason to believe Taliban fighters would require any bounty to attack an illegitimate occupying force .
The Russian government has denied these allegations .
The Taliban has denied these allegations .
The Trump administration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vice president had any knowledge of the spook report in question , denouncing the central allegation that liberals who are promoting this story have been fixated on .
Socialism Under The Mi ... Paul L Williams Best Price : $ 15.25 Buy New $ 14.95 Yet this story is being magically transmuted into an established fact , despite its being based on literally zero factual evidence .
Outlets like CNN are running the story with the headline “ Russia offered bounties to Afghan militants to kill US troops “ , deceitfully presenting this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ headlines are joined by UK outlets like The Guardian who informs headline-skimmers that “ Russia offered bounty to kill UK soldiers “ , and the Murdoch-owned Sky News which went with “ Russia paid Taliban fighters to attack British troops in Afghanistan ” after “ confirming ” the story with anonymous British spooks .
Western propagandists are turning this completely empty story into the mainstream consensus , not with facts , not with evidence , and certainly not with journalism , but with sheer brute force of narrative control .
And now you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attacking Trump for being insufficiently warlike , this time because “ he failed to sanction or impose any kind of consequences on Russia for this egregious violation of international law ” .
You ’ ve also got former George W Bush lackey Richard Haas promoting “ a proportionate response ” to these baseless allegations .
“ Russia is carrying out covert wars vs US troops in Afghanistan and our democracy here at home , ” Haas tweeted with a link to the New York Times story .
“ A proportionate response would increase @ @ @ @ @ @ @ presence in Ukraine and Syria and , using sanctions and cyber , to challenge Putin at home.
” Manifest Destiny : Demo ... F. William Engdahl Best Price : $ 18.99 Buy New $ 19.95 Haas is the president of the Council on Foreign Relations , a wildly influential think tank with its fingers in most major US news outlets .
And indeed , the unified campaign to shove this story down people ’ s throats in stark defiance of everything one learns in journalism school does appear to be geared toward advancing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to do with any concern for the safety of US troops .
Analysts have pointed out that this new development arises just in time to sabotage the last of the nuclear treaties between the US and Russia , the scaling down of US military presence in Afghanistan , and , as Haas already openly admitted , any possibility of peace in Syria .
“ This story is published just in time to sabotage US-Russia arms control talks , ” Antiwar ‘ s Dave DeCamp noted on Twitter .
“ As the US is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and possibly even live nuclear tests — the New York Times provides a great excuse to let the New START lapse , making the world a much more dangerous place .
Russiagate has provided the cover for Trump to pull out of arms control agreements .
First the INF , then the Open Skies , and now possibly the New START .
Any talks or negotiations with Russia are discouraged in this atmosphere , and this Times story will make things even worse.
” “ US ‘ intelligence ’ agencies ( ie , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) want to sabotage the ( admittedly very inadequate ) peace talks in Afghanistan , ” tweeted journalist Ben Norton .
“ So they get best of both worlds : blame the Russian bogeyman , fueling the new cold war , while prolonging the military occupation .
It ’ s not a coincidence these dubious Western intelligence agency claims about Russia came just days after a breakthrough in peace talks .
Afghanistan ’ s geostrategic location ( and trillions worth of minerals ) is too important to them.
” Radicals , Resistance , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : $ 2.59 Buy New $ 5.89 All parties involved in spreading this malignant psyop are absolutely vile , but a special disdain should be reserved for the media class who have been entrusted by the public with the essential task of creating an informed populace and holding power to account .
How much of an unprincipled whore do you have to be to call yourself a journalist and uncritically parrot the completely unsubstantiated assertions of spooks while protecting their anonymity ?
How much work did these empire fluffers put into killing off @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It boggles the mind .
It really is funny how the most influential news outlets in the western world will uncritically parrot whatever they ’ re told to say by the most powerful and depraved intelligence agencies on the planet , and then turn around and tell you without a hint of self-awareness that Russia and China are bad because they have state media .
Sometimes all you can do is laugh .
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All western mass media outlets are now shrieking about the story The New York Times first reported, citing zero evidence and naming zero sources, claiming intelligence says Russia paid out bounties to Taliban-linked fighters in Afghanistan for attacking the occupying forces of the US and its allies in Afghanistan. As of this writing, and probably forevermore, there have still been zero intelligence sources named and zero evidence provided for this claim.
As we discussed yesterday, the only correct response to unsubstantiated claims by anonymous spooks in a post-Iraq invasion world is to assume that they are lying until you’ve been provided with a mountain of hard, independently verifiable evidence to the contrary. The fact that The New York Times instead chose to uncritically parrot these evidence-free claims made by operatives within intelligence agencies with a known track record of lying about exactly these things is nothing short of journalistic malpractice. The fact that western media outlets are now unanimously regurgitating these still 100 percent baseless assertions is nothing short of state propaganda.
The consensus-manufacturing, Overton window-shrinking western propaganda apparatus has been in full swing with mass media outlets claiming on literally no basis whatsoever that they have confirmed one another’s “great reporting” on this completely unsubstantiated story.
We have confirmed the @nytimes scoop: A Russian military spy unit offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to attack coalition forces in Afghanistan. From @nakashimae @missy_ryan me and @shaneharris https://t.co/R9tQf89L7G — John Hudson (@John_Hudson) June 27, 2020
“The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post have confirmed our reporting,” the NYT story’s co-author Charlie Savage tweeted hours ago.
“We have confirmed the New York Times’ scoop: A Russian military spy unit offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to attack coalition forces in Afghanistan,” tweeted The Washington Post‘s John Hudson.
“We matched The New York Times’ great reporting on how US intel has assessed that Russians paid Taliban to target US, coalition forces in Afg which is a pretty stunning development,” tweeted Wall Street Journal’s Gordon Lubold. Psychological Warfare ... Gonzalez, Servando Best Price: $22.00 Buy New $19.95 (as of 04:13 UTC - Details)
All three of these men are lying.
John Hudson’s claim that the Washington Post article he co-authored “confirmed the New York Times’ scoop” twice uses the words “if confirmed” with regard to his central claim, saying “Russian involvement in operations targeting Americans, if confirmed,” and “The attempt to stoke violence against Americans, if confirmed“. This is of course an acknowledgement that these things have not, in fact, been confirmed.
The Wall Street Journal article co-authored by Gordon Lubold cites only anonymous “people”, who we have no reason to believe are different people than NYT’s sources, repeating the same unsubstantiated assertions about an intelligence report. The article cites no evidence that Lubold’s “stunning development” actually occurred beyond “people familiar with the report said” and “a person familiar with it said“.
The fact that both Hudson and Lubold were lying about having confirmed the New York Times‘ reporting means that Savage was also lying when he said they did. When they say the report has been “confirmed”, what they really mean is that it has been agreed upon. All the three of them actually did was use their profoundly influential outlets to uncritically parrot something nameless spooks want the public to believe, which is the same as just publishing a CIA press release free of charge. It is unprincipled stenography for opaque and unaccountable intelligence agencies, and it is disgusting.
“The Washington Post and the WSJ were called up by the same unnamed ‘officials’ as we were.
They were told the same evidence free fairytale.
Their stenographers, like ours, wrote it dutifully down.
All of us proudly published it!”#confirmation https://t.co/bEZ2OYgsxb — Moon of Alabama (@MoonofA) June 27, 2020
None of this should be happening. The New York Times has admitted itself that it was wrong for uncritically parroting the unsubstantiated spook claims which led to the Iraq invasion, as has The Washington Post. There is no reason to believe Taliban fighters would require any bounty to attack an illegitimate occupying force. The Russian government has denied these allegations. The Taliban has denied these allegations. The Trump administration has denied that the president or the vice president had any knowledge of the spook report in question, denouncing the central allegation that liberals who are promoting this story have been fixated on. Socialism Under The Mi... Paul L Williams Best Price: $15.25 Buy New $14.95 (as of 03:47 UTC - Details)
Yet this story is being magically transmuted into an established fact, despite its being based on literally zero factual evidence.
Outlets like CNN are running the story with the headline “Russia offered bounties to Afghan militants to kill US troops“, deceitfully presenting this as a verified fact. Such dishonest headlines are joined by UK outlets like The Guardian who informs headline-skimmers that “Russia offered bounty to kill UK soldiers“, and the Murdoch-owned Sky News which went with “Russia paid Taliban fighters to attack British troops in Afghanistan” after “confirming” the story with anonymous British spooks.
Western propagandists are turning this completely empty story into the mainstream consensus, not with facts, not with evidence, and certainly not with journalism, but with sheer brute force of narrative control. And now you’ve got Joe Biden once again attacking Trump for being insufficiently warlike, this time because “he failed to sanction or impose any kind of consequences on Russia for this egregious violation of international law”.
You’ve also got former George W Bush lackey Richard Haas promoting “a proportionate response” to these baseless allegations.
Russia is carrying out covert wars vs US troops in Afghanistan and our democracy here at home. A proportionate response would increase the costs to Russia of its military presence in Ukraine & Syria and, using sanctions & cyber, to challenge Putin at home. https://t.co/c0Mc7sLriO — Richard N. Haass (@RichardHaass) June 27, 2020
“Russia is carrying out covert wars vs US troops in Afghanistan and our democracy here at home,” Haas tweeted with a link to the New York Times story. “A proportionate response would increase the costs to Russia of its military presence in Ukraine and Syria and, using sanctions and cyber, to challenge Putin at home.” Manifest Destiny: Demo... F. William Engdahl Best Price: $18.99 Buy New $19.95 (as of 09:45 UTC - Details)
Haas is the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a wildly influential think tank with its fingers in most major US news outlets.
And indeed, the unified campaign to shove this story down people’s throats in stark defiance of everything one learns in journalism school does appear to be geared toward advancing pre-existing foreign policy agendas which have nothing to do with any concern for the safety of US troops. Analysts have pointed out that this new development arises just in time to sabotage the last of the nuclear treaties between the US and Russia, the scaling down of US military presence in Afghanistan, and, as Haas already openly admitted, any possibility of peace in Syria.
“This story is published just in time to sabotage US-Russia arms control talks,” Antiwar‘s Dave DeCamp noted on Twitter. “As the US is preparing for a new arms race — and possibly even live nuclear tests — the New York Times provides a great excuse to let the New START lapse, making the world a much more dangerous place. Russiagate has provided the cover for Trump to pull out of arms control agreements. First the INF, then the Open Skies, and now possibly the New START. Any talks or negotiations with Russia are discouraged in this atmosphere, and this Times story will make things even worse.”
“US ‘intelligence’ agencies (ie, organized crime networks run by the state) want to sabotage the (admittedly very inadequate) peace talks in Afghanistan,” tweeted journalist Ben Norton. “So they get best of both worlds: blame the Russian bogeyman, fueling the new cold war, while prolonging the military occupation. It’s not a coincidence these dubious Western intelligence agency claims about Russia came just days after a breakthrough in peace talks. Afghanistan’s geostrategic location (and trillions worth of minerals) is too important to them.”
We’re seeing in real time how Western intelligence agencies are derailing peace talks aimed at ending the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan. First anonymous US spies spread this rumor. Now anonymous European spies are doing the same. And the corporate media eats it up like candy https://t.co/l6Rze37MZx — Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) June 27, 2020
Radicals, Resistance, ... Pirro, Judge Jeanine Best Price: $2.59 Buy New $5.89 (as of 04:13 UTC - Details) All parties involved in spreading this malignant psyop are absolutely vile, but a special disdain should be reserved for the media class who have been entrusted by the public with the essential task of creating an informed populace and holding power to account. How much of an unprincipled whore do you have to be to call yourself a journalist and uncritically parrot the completely unsubstantiated assertions of spooks while protecting their anonymity? How much work did these empire fluffers put into killing off every last shred of their dignity? It boggles the mind.
It really is funny how the most influential news outlets in the western world will uncritically parrot whatever they’re told to say by the most powerful and depraved intelligence agencies on the planet, and then turn around and tell you without a hint of self-awareness that Russia and China are bad because they have state media.
Sometimes all you can do is laugh.
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lewrockwell--2020-06-29--Escape From Minneapolis and Seattle

Escape From Minneapolis and Seattle

Yesterday ( June 26 , 2020 ) the city council in Minneapolis ( 12 Democrats and 1 Green ) unanimously voted to abolish the city ’ s police department .
For this measure to come into effect , city residents will have to approve it in a November election .
By November the hamstrung police who are prevented from enforcing the laws on the books might all have resigned and moved away .
Regardless , as Minneapolis police are prevented from performing their duty , the Minneapolis voters who elected such a crazed government will possibly have been brought to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of police response and vote down the crazed government .
If not , kiss Minneapolis goodbye .
Into the Cannibal & rsqu ... Ilana Mercer Best Price : $ 10.00 Buy New $ 16.64 The non-woke among the citizenry are already trying to get out , but what sensible person wants to move to Minneapolis ?
It is hard to leave town when your house has a mortgage and there is no market for your property .
Everyone in multiracial cities governed by Democrats is thinking the same thought .
They now know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ persons have no protection against rioting and looting .
They want to put as much distance as they can between themselves and blacks .
The question is : can they unload their houses ?
The situation in Seattle is even more desperate .
Seattle is dying .
More truthfully , Seattle has been murdered by the citizens themselves who elected a woke government that has favored the criminal element over the law-abiding element .
If you doubt this statement , watch this video .
If you want your city to be another Minneapolis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you want the entire United States to become Minneapolis or Seattle , elect a Democrat president .
Indeed , the collapse of white confidence is so total in the US that Republican governments might not make much difference .
The forces of evil have succeeded .
The white race is now split : self-hating white liberals on one side and Trump deplorables on the other .
The latter are marked for extermination politically , economically and culturally , if not physically .
The Best of Paul Craig Roberts

Yesterday (June 26, 2020) the city council in Minneapolis (12 Democrats and 1 Green) unanimously voted to abolish the city’s police department. For this measure to come into effect, city residents will have to approve it in a November election.
By November the hamstrung police who are prevented from enforcing the laws on the books might all have resigned and moved away. Regardless, as Minneapolis police are prevented from performing their duty, the Minneapolis voters who elected such a crazed government will possibly have been brought to their senses by violence and the absence of police response and vote down the crazed government. If not, kiss Minneapolis goodbye.
Into the Cannibal&rsqu... Ilana Mercer Best Price: $10.00 Buy New $16.64 (as of 10:40 UTC - Details) The non-woke among the citizenry are already trying to get out, but what sensible person wants to move to Minneapolis? It is hard to leave town when your house has a mortgage and there is no market for your property.
Everyone in multiracial cities governed by Democrats is thinking the same thought. They now know that their businesses and their homes and persons have no protection against rioting and looting. They want to put as much distance as they can between themselves and blacks. The question is: can they unload their houses?
The situation in Seattle is even more desperate. Seattle is dying. More truthfully, Seattle has been murdered by the citizens themselves who elected a woke government that has favored the criminal element over the law-abiding element. If you doubt this statement, watch this video.
If you want your city to be another Minneapolis or Seattle, vote Democrat. If you want the entire United States to become Minneapolis or Seattle, elect a Democrat president.
Indeed, the collapse of white confidence is so total in the US that Republican governments might not make much difference.
The forces of evil have succeeded. The white race is now split: self-hating white liberals on one side and Trump deplorables on the other. The latter are marked for extermination politically, economically and culturally, if not physically.
The Best of Paul Craig Roberts


lewrockwell--2020-06-29--Why Every Person in America Needs To Become a Prepper During The Second Half Of 2020

It has been on my heart to write this article for a few days , but I knew that it wouldn ’ t be easy to write .
2020 has already been one of the worst years in modern U.S. history , and it looks like the next six months are going to be extremely challenging as well .
But even though most Americans are expecting that things will return to “ normal ” in 2021 and beyond , the truth is that the “ perfect storm ” that we are witnessing is only in the very early stages .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , all of the bubbles are bursting , and we are starting to experience the consequences of decades of incredibly foolish decisions .
So even though the remaining months of 2020 will be chaotic , the truth is that things are going to get progressively worse as the years move along .
That means that you should use this period of time to prepare for what is ahead of us , because at some point the window of opportunity to prepare will be closed for good .
COVID-19 should have been a wake @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lockdowns were implemented very suddenly once the virus started to spread in the U.S. , and shortages of key items began to happen .
To this day , many retailers are still limiting the number of items that you can buy in certain categories .
Hopefully this has helped people to understand that if you have not stocked up in advance , you may not be able to go out and get what you need when a major crisis strikes .
The Prepperu2019s Blue ... Tess Pennington Best Price : $ 11.98 Buy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of this pandemic , a lot of people ended up being stuck at home without enough supplies .
In the event of a truly historic emergency , you can certainly survive without toilet paper , but if you run out of food you could find yourself in big trouble quite quickly .
The good news is that COVID-19 is not going to kill us all .
About half a million people around the world have died so far , and the final death toll will be a lot lower than the tens of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pandemic of 1918 to 1920 .
But if our society was extremely ill-prepared for a pandemic of this nature , what is going to happen when a pandemic that is much more severe hits us ?
Scientists assure us that it is just a matter of time before a killer plague sweeps across the planet , and the Bible tells us that there will be “ pestilences ” in the last days .
If you find yourself isolated at home for an extended period of time as millions of others are dying from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to survive on what you have already stored up ?
If not , you need to get to work .
Big economic problems are ahead as well .
So far in 2020 , more than 47 million Americans have filed new claims for unemployment benefits , more than 100,000 businesses have permanently closed their doors , and it is being projected that U.S. GDP will decline by 46.6 percent on an annualized bases during the second quarter .
Those are absolutely disastrous numbers , but so far trillions of dollars of emergency government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But those emergency measures were only meant to get us through a few months , and it is now becoming clear that this new economic depression will be with us for a very long time to come .
Of course deteriorating economic conditions will fuel even more civil unrest .
We have seen rioting , looting , arson and violence in city after city , and much more civil unrest is on the horizon .
If you live in one of our major urban areas , you may want to move while @ @ @ @ @ @ @ huge surge in demand , property prices in the most desirable small towns and rural areas are already starting to go through the roof .
Prepperu2019s Home Def ... Jim Cobb Best Price : $ 2.78 Buy New $ 8.90 On top of everything else , food shortages are starting to occur all over the globe .
According to the head of the UN , we are on the verge of seeing “ unimaginable devastation and suffering around the world ” … Giant swarms of locusts the size of major cities are devouring @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Asia , African Swine Fever has already killed about one-fourth of all the pigs in the entire world , and crazy weather patterns have been playing havoc with crop production all over the planet .
And now on top of everything else COVID-19 is greatly disrupting food distribution systems all over the world .
We have never seen so many severe threats to global food production occur simultaneously , and the Bible clearly tells us that there will be “ famine ” in the last days .
Meanwhile , a major war @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any moment .
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he will begin the process of annexing portions of Judea and Samaria in July , and Israel ’ s Arab neighbors have promised a very forceful response if that actually happens .
The region has constantly been on the precipice of war for years , and this could potentially be the trigger that finally causes it to happen .
If everything that I have discussed so far wasn ’ t enough , the planet that we all live on is becoming increasingly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of very alarming earthquakes this week , and a truly catastrophic event could literally happen at any moment .
As my regular readers already know , I am particularly concerned about seismic activity on the west coast and about the potential for a historic earthquake along the New Madrid fault zone .
But even considering everything that I just shared with you , there is no other time in human history that I would have rather been alive than right now .
The Prepperu2019s Pock ... Bernie Carr Best Price : $ 1.15 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ history has been building up to this point , and we are so fortunate to be living during this moment .
However , it is going to be exceedingly difficult to thrive during the historic events that are ahead if you have not made any preparations for what is coming .
I realize that things may seem very chaotic now , but the truth is that this is your window of opportunity to prepare .
I would take full advantage of that opportunity , because the clock is ticking .
Reprinted with permission @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Best of Michael Snyder

It has been on my heart to write this article for a few days, but I knew that it wouldn’t be easy to write. 2020 has already been one of the worst years in modern U.S. history, and it looks like the next six months are going to be extremely challenging as well. But even though most Americans are expecting that things will return to “normal” in 2021 and beyond, the truth is that the “perfect storm” that we are witnessing is only in the very early stages. All of the old cycles are ending, all of the bubbles are bursting, and we are starting to experience the consequences of decades of incredibly foolish decisions. So even though the remaining months of 2020 will be chaotic, the truth is that things are going to get progressively worse as the years move along. That means that you should use this period of time to prepare for what is ahead of us, because at some point the window of opportunity to prepare will be closed for good.
COVID-19 should have been a wake up call for all of us. Lockdowns were implemented very suddenly once the virus started to spread in the U.S., and shortages of key items began to happen. To this day, many retailers are still limiting the number of items that you can buy in certain categories. Hopefully this has helped people to understand that if you have not stocked up in advance, you may not be able to go out and get what you need when a major crisis strikes.
The Prepperu2019s Blue... Tess Pennington Best Price: $11.98 Buy New $18.98 (as of 02:20 UTC - Details) During the initial stages of this pandemic, a lot of people ended up being stuck at home without enough supplies. In the event of a truly historic emergency, you can certainly survive without toilet paper, but if you run out of food you could find yourself in big trouble quite quickly.
The good news is that COVID-19 is not going to kill us all. About half a million people around the world have died so far, and the final death toll will be a lot lower than the tens of millions that died during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 to 1920.
But if our society was extremely ill-prepared for a pandemic of this nature, what is going to happen when a pandemic that is much more severe hits us?
Scientists assure us that it is just a matter of time before a killer plague sweeps across the planet, and the Bible tells us that there will be “pestilences” in the last days. If you find yourself isolated at home for an extended period of time as millions of others are dying from a virus, will you be able to survive on what you have already stored up?
If not, you need to get to work.
Big economic problems are ahead as well. So far in 2020, more than 47 million Americans have filed new claims for unemployment benefits, more than 100,000 businesses have permanently closed their doors, and it is being projected that U.S. GDP will decline by 46.6 percent on an annualized bases during the second quarter. Those are absolutely disastrous numbers, but so far trillions of dollars of emergency government spending has helped to ease the pain.
But those emergency measures were only meant to get us through a few months, and it is now becoming clear that this new economic depression will be with us for a very long time to come.
Of course deteriorating economic conditions will fuel even more civil unrest. We have seen rioting, looting, arson and violence in city after city, and much more civil unrest is on the horizon.
If you live in one of our major urban areas, you may want to move while you still can. Due to a huge surge in demand, property prices in the most desirable small towns and rural areas are already starting to go through the roof.
Prepperu2019s Home Def... Jim Cobb Best Price: $2.78 Buy New $8.90 (as of 06:00 UTC - Details) On top of everything else, food shortages are starting to occur all over the globe. According to the head of the UN, we are on the verge of seeing “unimaginable devastation and suffering around the world”…
The U.N. chief on Thursday warned the largest gathering of world leaders since the coronavirus pandemic began that it will cause “unimaginable devastation and suffering around the world,” with historic levels of hunger and famine and up to 1.6 billion people unable to earn a living unless action is taken now.
Giant swarms of locusts the size of major cities are devouring crops in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, African Swine Fever has already killed about one-fourth of all the pigs in the entire world, and crazy weather patterns have been playing havoc with crop production all over the planet.
And now on top of everything else COVID-19 is greatly disrupting food distribution systems all over the world.
We have never seen so many severe threats to global food production occur simultaneously, and the Bible clearly tells us that there will be “famine” in the last days.
Meanwhile, a major war could erupt in the Middle East at any moment. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he will begin the process of annexing portions of Judea and Samaria in July, and Israel’s Arab neighbors have promised a very forceful response if that actually happens.
The region has constantly been on the precipice of war for years, and this could potentially be the trigger that finally causes it to happen.
If everything that I have discussed so far wasn’t enough, the planet that we all live on is becoming increasingly unstable. We have witnessed a number of very alarming earthquakes this week, and a truly catastrophic event could literally happen at any moment.
As my regular readers already know, I am particularly concerned about seismic activity on the west coast and about the potential for a historic earthquake along the New Madrid fault zone.
But even considering everything that I just shared with you, there is no other time in human history that I would have rather been alive than right now. The Prepperu2019s Pock... Bernie Carr Best Price: $1.15 Buy New $2.99 (as of 08:10 UTC - Details)
All of human history has been building up to this point, and we are so fortunate to be living during this moment.
However, it is going to be exceedingly difficult to thrive during the historic events that are ahead if you have not made any preparations for what is coming.
I realize that things may seem very chaotic now, but the truth is that this is your window of opportunity to prepare.
I would take full advantage of that opportunity, because the clock is ticking.
Reprinted with permission from The Most Important News.
The Best of Michael Snyder