lewrockwell--2020-06-27--Why Iran Won’t be Broken

Why Iran Won’t be Broken

So what ’ s goin ’ on in Iran ?
How did the Islamic Republic really respond to Covid-19 ?
How is it coping with Washington ’ s relentless “ maximum pressure ” ?
These questions were the subject of a long phone call I placed to Prof. Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran – one of Iran ’ s premier , globally recognized analysts .
As Marandi explains , “ Iran after the revolution was all about social justice .
It set up a very elaborate health care network , similar to Cuba ’ s , but with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
When the coronavirus hit , the US was even preventing Iran to get test kits .
Yet the system – not the private sector – managed .
There was no full shutdown .
Everything was under control .
The numbers – even contested by the West – they do hold .
Iran is now producing everything it needs , tests , face masks .
None of the hospitals are full.
” THE IRAN PRIMER : Power ... Best Price : $ 8.85 Buy New $ 27.83 Expanding Marandi ’ s observations , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Iran ’ s wide primary healthcare system , comprising public clinics , health houses and health centers is available in thousands of cities and villages ” , and that enabled the government to “ easily offer basic services ” .
As Hashemi details , “ the Health Ministry established a Covid-19 call center and also distributed protective equipment supplied by relief providers .
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei ordered the armed forces to help – with the government deploying 300,000 soldiers and volunteers to disinfect streets and public places , distribute sanitizers and masks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Iranian military that established production lines for producing face masks and other equipment .
According to Hashemi , “ some NGOs partnered with Tehran ’ s chamber of commerce to create a campaign called Nafas ( “ breath ” ) to supply medical goods and provide clinical services .
Iran ’ s Farabourse , an over-the-counter stock market in Tehran , established a crowd funding campaign to purchase medical devices and products to help health workers .
Hundreds of volunteer groups – called “ jihadi ” – started producing personal protective equipment that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , mosques and hussainiyas and even natural fruit juices for health workers.
” This sense of social solidarity is extremely powerful in Shi ’ ite culture .
Hashemi notes that “ the government loosened health-related restrictions over a month ago and we have been experiencing a small slice of normality in recent weeks.
” Yet the fight is not over .
As in the West , there are fears of a covid-19 second wave .
Marandi stresses the economy , predictably , was hurt : “ But because of the sanctions , most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The economy is now running without oil revenue .
In Tehran , you don ’ t even notice it .
It ’ s nothing compared to Saudi Arabia , Iraq , Turkey or the UAE .
Workers from Pakistan and India are leaving the Persian Gulf in droves .
Dubai is dead .
So , in comparison , Iran did better in dealing with the virus .
Moreover , harvests last year and this year have been positive .
We are more self-reliant.
” The Shadow Commander : ... Azizi , Arash Buy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ important factor : “ The Covid-19 crisis was so massive that people themselves have pitched in with effort , revealing new levels of solidarity .
Individuals , civil society groups and others have set up a range of initiatives seeking to help the government and health workers on the front line of countering the pandemic.
” What a relentless Western disinformation campaign always ignores is how Iran after the revolution is used to extremely critical situations , starting with the eight-year-long Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s .
Marandi and Hashemi are adamant : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crisis pales in comparison with what they had to put up with throughout the 1980s .
Marandi ’ s analysis ties up the economic data .
In early June , Mohammad Bagher Nobakht – responsible for planning Iran ’ s state budgets – told the Majlis ( Parliament ) that the new normal was “ to sideline oil in the economy and run the country ’ s programs without oil.
” Nobakht stuck to the numbers .
Iran had earned just $ 8.9 billion from the sale of oil and related products in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 119 billion less than a decade ago .
The whole Iranian economy is in transition .
What ’ s particularly interesting is the boom in manufacturing – with companies focusing way beyond Iran ’ s large domestic market towards exports .
They are turning the massive devaluation of the rial to their advantage .
In 2019-20 , Iran ’ s non-oil exports reached $ 41.3 billion .
That exceeded oil exports for the first time in Iran ’ s post-revolutionary history .
And roughly half of these non-oil exports were manufactured goods @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pressure ” via sanctions may have led to total non-oil exports going down – but only by 7 % .
The total remains near historic highs .
Iran and the Bomb : Sol ... Affairs , Foreign Best Price : $ 10.49 Buy New $ 19.95 According to Purchasing Managers ’ Index ( PMI ) data published by the Iran Chamber of Commerce , private sector manufacturers were seriously back in business already in the first month following the relaxation of the partial lockdown .
The fact is Iranian consumer goods and industrial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ steel – are exported by small and medium enterprises to the wider Middle East and also to Central Asia , China and Russia .
The myth of Iranian “ isolation ” is , well , a myth .
Some new manufacturing clusters bode well for the future .
Take titanium – essential for myriad applications in military , aerospace , marine industries and industrial processes .
The Qara-Aghaj mine in Urmia , the provincial capital of West Azarbaijan , which is part of Iran ’ s mineral belt , including the country ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ potential .
Iran features in the Top 15 of mineral-rich countries .
In January , after getting the technology for deep-level mining , Tehran launched a pilot project for extraction of rare earth minerals .
Still , Washington pressure remains as relentless as the Terminator .
In January , the White House issued yet another executive order targeting the “ construction , mining , manufacturing , or textiles sectors of the Iranian economy.
” So Team Trump is targeting exactly the booming private sector – which means , in practice , countless Iranian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has nothing to do with forcing the Rouhani administration to say , “ I can ’ t breathe ” .
Apart from a few scuffles between the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps ( IRGC ) and the Health Ministry about China ’ s response to Covid-19 , the Iran-China “ comprehensive strategic partnership ” ( CSP ) remains on track .
The next big test is actually in September .
That ’ s when Team Trump wants to extendthe UN arms embargo on Iran .
Add to it the threat to trigger the snapback @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if other Security Council members refuse to support Washington and let the embargo expire for good in October .
China ’ s mission at the UN has stressed the obvious .
The Trump administration unilaterally abandoned the JCPOA .
Then it reimposed unilateral sanctions .
Thus it has no right to extend the arms embargo or go for the snapback mechanism against Iran .
China , Russia and Iran are the three key nodes of Eurasia integration .
Politically and diplomatically , their key decisions tend to be taken in concert .
So @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reiterated last week in Moscow at the meeting of Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov and Javad Zarif – who get along famously .
Lavrov said , “ We will be doing everything so that no one can destroy these agreements .
Washington has no right to punish Iran.
” Zarif for his part described the whole juncture as “ very dangerous ” .
Additional conversations with Iranian analysts reveal how they interpret the regional geopolitical chessboard , calibrating the importance of the axis of resistance ( Tehran , Baghdad , Damascus , Hezbollah ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the US and its “ stooges ” ( the House of Saud , UAE , Egypt ) , the master – Israel – and also Turkey and Qatar , which , like Iran , but unlike the “ stooges ” , favor political Islam ( but of the Sunni variety , that is , the Moslem Brotherhood ) .
One of these analysts , pen name Blake Archer Williams , significantly remarks , “ the main reason Russia holds back from helping Iran ( mutual trade is almost at zero ) is that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not have a Reagan moment and does not prevail on Iran , and the US is in any event driven out of the Middle East by the continuing process of Iran ’ s weapons parity and its ability to project power in its own pond , then all of the oil of the Middle East , from the UAE , Qatar , Kuwait and Bahrain , to Iraq , of course , and not least to the oilfields in Saudi Arabia ’ s Qatif region ( where all the oil is and is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will come under the umbrella of the axis of resistance.
” Still , Russia-China continue to back Iran on all fronts , for instance rebuking the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) for giving in to US “ bullying ” – as the IAEA ’ s board last week passed a resolution submitted by France , Britain and Germany criticizing Iran for the first time since 2012 .
Another key foreign policy front is Venezuela .
Tehran ’ s soft power , in quite a spectacular manner keenly observed all across the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s sanctions/blockade in its own Monroe Doctrine “ backyard ” , when five Iranian tankers loaded with gasoline successfully crossed the Atlantic and were received by a Venezuelan military escort of jets , helicopters , and naval patr That was in fact a test run .
The Oil Ministry in Tehran is already planning a round two of deliveries to Caracas , sending two or three cargos full of gasoline a month .
That will also help Iran to offload its huge domestically produced fuel .
The historic initial shipment was characterized @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scientific and industrial cooperation , side by side with a “ solidarity action ” .
And then , this past week , I finally confirmed it .
The order came directly from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei .
In his own words : “ The blockade must be broken ” .
The rest is – Global South – history in the making .

So what’s goin’ on in Iran? How did the Islamic Republic really respond to Covid-19? How is it coping with Washington’s relentless “maximum pressure”?
These questions were the subject of a long phone call I placed to Prof. Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran – one of Iran’s premier, globally recognized analysts.
As Marandi explains, “Iran after the revolution was all about social justice. It set up a very elaborate health care network, similar to Cuba’s, but with more funding. A large hospital network. When the coronavirus hit, the US was even preventing Iran to get test kits. Yet the system – not the private sector – managed. There was no full shutdown. Everything was under control. The numbers – even contested by the West – they do hold. Iran is now producing everything it needs, tests, face masks. None of the hospitals are full.”
THE IRAN PRIMER: Power... Best Price: $8.85 Buy New $27.83 (as of 04:59 UTC - Details) Expanding Marandi’s observations, Tehran-based journalist Alireza Hashemi notes, “Iran’s wide primary healthcare system, comprising public clinics, health houses and health centers is available in thousands of cities and villages”, and that enabled the government to “easily offer basic services”.
As Hashemi details, “the Health Ministry established a Covid-19 call center and also distributed protective equipment supplied by relief providers. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei ordered the armed forces to help – with the government deploying 300,000 soldiers and volunteers to disinfect streets and public places, distribute sanitizers and masks and conduct tests.”
It was the Iranian military that established production lines for producing face masks and other equipment. According to Hashemi, “some NGOs partnered with Tehran’s chamber of commerce to create a campaign called Nafas (“breath”) to supply medical goods and provide clinical services. Iran’s Farabourse, an over-the-counter stock market in Tehran, established a crowd funding campaign to purchase medical devices and products to help health workers. Hundreds of volunteer groups – called “jihadi” – started producing personal protective equipment that had been in short supply in seminaries, mosques and hussainiyas and even natural fruit juices for health workers.”
This sense of social solidarity is extremely powerful in Shi’ite culture. Hashemi notes that “the government loosened health-related restrictions over a month ago and we have been experiencing a small slice of normality in recent weeks.” Yet the fight is not over. As in the West, there are fears of a covid-19 second wave.
Marandi stresses the economy, predictably, was hurt: “But because of the sanctions, most of the hurt had already happened. The economy is now running without oil revenue. In Tehran, you don’t even notice it. It’s nothing compared to Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Turkey or the UAE. Workers from Pakistan and India are leaving the Persian Gulf in droves. Dubai is dead. So, in comparison, Iran did better in dealing with the virus. Moreover, harvests last year and this year have been positive. We are more self-reliant.”
The Shadow Commander: ... Azizi, Arash Buy New $27.95 (as of 04:59 UTC - Details) Hashemi adds a very important factor: “The Covid-19 crisis was so massive that people themselves have pitched in with effort, revealing new levels of solidarity. Individuals, civil society groups and others have set up a range of initiatives seeking to help the government and health workers on the front line of countering the pandemic.”
What a relentless Western disinformation campaign always ignores is how Iran after the revolution is used to extremely critical situations, starting with the eight-year-long Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. Marandi and Hashemi are adamant: for older Iranians, the current economic crisis pales in comparison with what they had to put up with throughout the 1980s.
Made in Iran soars
Marandi’s analysis ties up the economic data. In early June, Mohammad Bagher Nobakht – responsible for planning Iran’s state budgets – told the Majlis (Parliament) that the new normal was “to sideline oil in the economy and run the country’s programs without oil.”
Nobakht stuck to the numbers. Iran had earned just $8.9 billion from the sale of oil and related products in 2019-20, down from a peak of $119 billion less than a decade ago.
The whole Iranian economy is in transition. What’s particularly interesting is the boom in manufacturing – with companies focusing way beyond Iran’s large domestic market towards exports. They are turning the massive devaluation of the rial to their advantage.
In 2019-20, Iran’s non-oil exports reached $41.3 billion. That exceeded oil exports for the first time in Iran’s post-revolutionary history. And roughly half of these non-oil exports were manufactured goods. Team Trump’s “maximum pressure” via sanctions may have led to total non-oil exports going down – but only by 7%. The total remains near historic highs.
Iran and the Bomb: Sol... Affairs, Foreign Best Price: $10.49 Buy New $19.95 (as of 04:59 UTC - Details) According to Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) data published by the Iran Chamber of Commerce, private sector manufacturers were seriously back in business already in the first month following the relaxation of the partial lockdown.
The fact is Iranian consumer goods and industrial products – everything from cookies to stainless steel – are exported by small and medium enterprises to the wider Middle East and also to Central Asia, China and Russia. The myth of Iranian “isolation” is, well, a myth.
Some new manufacturing clusters bode well for the future. Take titanium – essential for myriad applications in military, aerospace, marine industries and industrial processes. The Qara-Aghaj mine in Urmia, the provincial capital of West Azarbaijan, which is part of Iran’s mineral belt, including the country’s largest gold reserves, has tremendous potential.
Iran features in the Top 15 of mineral-rich countries. In January, after getting the technology for deep-level mining, Tehran launched a pilot project for extraction of rare earth minerals.
Still, Washington pressure remains as relentless as the Terminator.
In January, the White House issued yet another executive order targeting the “construction, mining, manufacturing, or textiles sectors of the Iranian economy.” So Team Trump is targeting exactly the booming private sector – which means, in practice, countless Iranian blue-collar workers and their families. This has nothing to do with forcing the Rouhani administration to say, “I can’t breathe”.
The Venezuelan front
Apart from a few scuffles between the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Health Ministry about China’s response to Covid-19, the Iran-China “comprehensive strategic partnership” (CSP) remains on track.
The next big test is actually in September. That’s when Team Trump wants to extendthe UN arms embargo on Iran. Add to it the threat to trigger the snapback mechanism inbuilt in UNSC resolution 2231 – if other Security Council members refuse to support Washington and let the embargo expire for good in October.
China’s mission at the UN has stressed the obvious. The Trump administration unilaterally abandoned the JCPOA. Then it reimposed unilateral sanctions. Thus it has no right to extend the arms embargo or go for the snapback mechanism against Iran.
China, Russia and Iran are the three key nodes of Eurasia integration. Politically and diplomatically, their key decisions tend to be taken in concert. So it’s no wonder that was reiterated last week in Moscow at the meeting of Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov and Javad Zarif – who get along famously.
Lavrov said, “We will be doing everything so that no one can destroy these agreements. Washington has no right to punish Iran.”
Zarif for his part described the whole juncture as “very dangerous”.
Additional conversations with Iranian analysts reveal how they interpret the regional geopolitical chessboard, calibrating the importance of the axis of resistance (Tehran, Baghdad, Damascus, Hezbollah) in comparison with two other fronts: the US and its “stooges” (the House of Saud, UAE, Egypt), the master – Israel – and also Turkey and Qatar, which, like Iran, but unlike the “stooges”, favor political Islam (but of the Sunni variety, that is, the Moslem Brotherhood).
One of these analysts, pen name Blake Archer Williams, significantly remarks, “the main reason Russia holds back from helping Iran (mutual trade is almost at zero) is that it fears Iran. If Trump does not have a Reagan moment and does not prevail on Iran, and the US is in any event driven out of the Middle East by the continuing process of Iran’s weapons parity and its ability to project power in its own pond, then all of the oil of the Middle East, from the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain, to Iraq, of course, and not least to the oilfields in Saudi Arabia’s Qatif region (where all the oil is and is 100% Shi’ite), will come under the umbrella of the axis of resistance.”
Still, Russia-China continue to back Iran on all fronts, for instance rebuking the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for giving in to US “bullying” – as the IAEA’s board last week passed a resolution submitted by France, Britain and Germany criticizing Iran for the first time since 2012.
Another key foreign policy front is Venezuela. Tehran’s soft power, in quite a spectacular manner keenly observed all across the Global South, de facto ridiculed Washington’s sanctions/blockade in its own Monroe Doctrine “backyard”, when five Iranian tankers loaded with gasoline successfully crossed the Atlantic and were received by a Venezuelan military escort of jets, helicopters, and naval patr
That was in fact a test run. The Oil Ministry in Tehran is already planning a round two of deliveries to Caracas, sending two or three cargos full of gasoline a month. That will also help Iran to offload its huge domestically produced fuel.
The historic initial shipment was characterized by both sides as part of a scientific and industrial cooperation, side by side with a “solidarity action”.
And then, this past week, I finally confirmed it. The order came directly from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. In his own words: “The blockade must be broken”. The rest is – Global South – history in the making.
Reprinted with the author’s permission.


lewrockwell--2020-06-27--The Press Continues To Lie About COVID-19 To Generate Fear

They just won ’ t stop lying : If you have been reading the mainstream leftist press , you are probably now under the impression that the COVID-19 epidemic is once again raging across the land , destroying whole communities while spreading out-of-control everywhere because some Republican governors thought it was now okay to come out of hiding .
The CNN article at the link above is typical , reporting in lurid detail how multiple states across the country are now experiencing record levels of new coronavirus cases .
Oh my !
We are all gon na die !
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What the CNN article completely failed to mention is the number of deaths from COVID-19 taking place during this rise in new cases .
Are you curious why ?
Could it be because , though the number of people now infected with the virus has skyrocketed , the number of deaths has remained largely flat , as shown by the graph above ( data source here ) .
The past two days has seen a slight uptick , but that is entirely within the range of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by low numbers recorded over the weekends .
I am not the only one to notice this strange dishonest reporting , Nor is CNN the only culprit .
This article at Just News noticed the same thing in a Washington Post report .
On Wednesday evening , the Washington Post issued a breaking news email alert headlined “ New coronavirus cases in the U.S. soar to highest single-day total.
” “ Across the United States , ” reported the Post , “ more than 36,000 new infections were reported by state health departments @ @ @ @ @ @ @ record of 34,203 set on April 25.
” Yet the article failed to mention that even while new infections are on the rise , new COVID-19 deaths are not .
Stand or Fall in the P ... Garrett , Mr. Gregory L ... Buy New $ 10.95 This vital information gap in the media is causing some health policy experts to worry that fear about the coronavirus — evidenced , for example , by Wednesday ’ s sharp stock market drop — is not founded in facts , particularly about how the virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spreading of unfounded alarm , the experts fear , could risk deep harm to Americans ’ livelihoods and mental health due to a prolonged , widespread shutdown .
[ emphasis mine ] This dishonest reporting however is par for the course from mainstream leftist outlets like CNN and the Washington Post .
Having failed to overthrow Trump with the Russian collusion hoax and the Ukraine phonecall hoax , they are now working hard to gin up more panic and fear about COVID-19 , thus allowing their partners in the fascist Democratic Party to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grabs , such as in Oregon , where Democratic governor Kate Brown has convened her Democratically-controlled legislature into emergency session for the sole purpose of suspending due process for up to sixty days .

They just won’t stop lying: If you have been reading the mainstream leftist press, you are probably now under the impression that the COVID-19 epidemic is once again raging across the land, destroying whole communities while spreading out-of-control everywhere because some Republican governors thought it was now okay to come out of hiding.
The CNN article at the link above is typical, reporting in lurid detail how multiple states across the country are now experiencing record levels of new coronavirus cases.
Oh my! We are all gonna die!
The Invisible Enemy Garrett, Mr. Gregory L... Buy New $26.94 (as of 05:21 UTC - Details) Not. What the CNN article completely failed to mention is the number of deaths from COVID-19 taking place during this rise in new cases. Are you curious why? Could it be because, though the number of people now infected with the virus has skyrocketed, the number of deaths has remained largely flat, as shown by the graph above (data source here). The past two days has seen a slight uptick, but that is entirely within the range of the weekly ups and downs caused apparently by low numbers recorded over the weekends.
I am not the only one to notice this strange dishonest reporting, Nor is CNN the only culprit. This article at Just News noticed the same thing in a Washington Post report.
On Wednesday evening, the Washington Post issued a breaking news email alert headlined “New coronavirus cases in the U.S. soar to highest single-day total.” “Across the United States,” reported the Post, “more than 36,000 new infections were reported by state health departments on Wednesday — surpassing the previous single-day record of 34,203 set on April 25.” Yet the article failed to mention that even while new infections are on the rise, new COVID-19 deaths are not. Stand or Fall in the P... Garrett, Mr. Gregory L... Buy New $10.95 (as of 04:56 UTC - Details) This vital information gap in the media is causing some health policy experts to worry that fear about the coronavirus — evidenced, for example, by Wednesday’s sharp stock market drop — is not founded in facts, particularly about how the virus disparately impacts different age groups. The spreading of unfounded alarm, the experts fear, could risk deep harm to Americans’ livelihoods and mental health due to a prolonged, widespread shutdown. [emphasis mine]
This dishonest reporting however is par for the course from mainstream leftist outlets like CNN and the Washington Post. Having failed to overthrow Trump with the Russian collusion hoax and the Ukraine phonecall hoax, they are now working hard to gin up more panic and fear about COVID-19, thus allowing their partners in the fascist Democratic Party to use that fear to justify further power grabs, such as in Oregon, where Democratic governor Kate Brown has convened her Democratically-controlled legislature into emergency session for the sole purpose of suspending due process for up to sixty days.
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lewrockwell--2020-06-27--How the Drug Industry Is Countering Diminishing Vaccine Uptake

As lockdowns have kept people at home and out of medical facilities , infant vaccination rates have dropped .
As you might expect , this is bad news for the drug industry , which is likely why they ’ ve started promoting baseless claims that childhood vaccinations might prevent COVID-19 deaths .
There ’ s absolutely no evidence for this , yet , in March 2020 , they started pushing the TB vaccine , claiming it might “ steel the immune system ” against SARS-CoV-2 .
As reported by Science:1 Plague of Corruption : ... Mikovits , Judy Buy New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ measles-mumps-rubella ( MMR ) vaccine was touted as a “ major breakthrough ” against COVID-19 .
The British Express reported:2 In June 2020 , it was the polio vaccine ’ s turn in the spotlight .
According to The Hill,3 tuberculosis and polio vaccines are being examined “ for possible protection against COVID-19.
” Jeffrey D. Cirillo , a professor of microbial pathogenesis and immunology at Texas A & M Health Science Center , went so far as to state , “ This is the only vaccine in the world that can be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Based on what ?
Based on vaccination rates in countries such as Pakistan , “ where most of the population is vaccinated for tuberculosis and death rates for COVID-19 have been extremely low.
” That ’ s it .
Meanwhile , discussions and evidence showing the benefits of vitamin C and vitamin D — as well as many other therapies — are banned and censored .
This , despite significant scientific evidence actually backing their use and showing the biology by which these nutrients and therapies can prevent and/or treat this particular infection @ @ @ @ @ @ @ polio vaccine , by the way , is now the primary cause of polio paralysis in the world , not wild polio.4,5 This is an inconvenient fact that is completely ignored by most mainstream media .
In related news , June 12 , 2020 , the Daily Mail,6 Science Times7 and others8 reported findings from a Singaporean study9 led by professor Antonio Bertoletti , an immunologist with the Duke-NUS Medical School , showing common colds caused by the betacoronaviruses OC43 and HKU1 might make you more resistant to SARS-CoV-2 infection , and that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as 17 years .
Virus Mania : How the M ... Kennedy , Robert Best Price : $ 23.32 Buy New $ 18.31 In addition to the common cold , OC43 and HKU1 — two of the most commonly encountered betacoronaviruses10 — are also known to cause bronchitis , acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia in all age groups.11 As reported by the Daily Mail:12 Frunutta Zinc 5 mg + V ... Buy New $ 14.99 ( $ 0.17 / Count ) In other words , if you ’ ve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ OC43 or HKU1 betacoronavirus in the past , you may have a 50/50 chance of having defensive T-cells that can recognize and help defend against SARS-CoV-2 , the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 .
According to the researchers:13 Other studies have also discovered that many appear to have prior resistance to SARS-CoV-2 .
For example , a study14 published May 14 , 2020 , in the journal Cell , found 70 % of samples obtained by the La Jolla Institute for Immunology from patients who had recovered from mild cases of COVID-19 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % of people who had not been exposed to the virus , had resistance to SARS-CoV-2 on the T-cell level .
According to the authors , this suggests there ’ s “ cross-reactive T cell recognition between circulating ‘ common cold ’ coronaviruses and SARS-CoV-2.
” Like Bertoletti ’ s study above , the Cell study found that exposure to coronaviruses responsible for the common cold appear to allow your immune system to recognize and fight off SARS-CoV-2 as well .
May 14 , 2020 , Science magazine reported15 these Cell findings , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ German investigators that had come to a similar conclusion .
That German paper,17 the preprint of which was posted April 22 , 2020 , on Medrxiv , found helper T cells that targeted the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in 15 of 18 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 .
As reported by Science:18 Life Enhancement Ultra ... Buy New $ 14.99 ( $ 0.12 / Count ) These studies add support to the latest COVID-19 mortality models suggesting widespread resistance and prior immunity .
Freddie Sayers , executive editor of UnHerd , recently interviewed professor Karl @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mathematical modeling , who believes prior immunity across the global population might be as high as 80 % .
Sayers reports:21 These statistics really throw the idea of social distancing being an unavoidable part of the post-COVID-19 “ new normal ” into question .
What ’ s more , once sensible behaviors such as staying home when sick are entered into Friston ’ s model , the effect of lockdown efforts vanish altogether , so global lockdowns were likely completely unnecessary in the first place .
Michael Levitt,22 a professor of structural biology @ @ @ @ @ @ @ received the Nobel Prize in 2013 for his development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems , has also presented strong evidence that supports Friston ’ s model .
According to Levitt , statistical data reveals a mathematical pattern that has stayed consistent regardless of the government interventions implemented .
While early models predicted an exponential explosion of COVID-19 deaths , those predictions never materialized .
As reported by Sayers in the video above : Vitamin D3 , Zinc and M ... Jeffers , Nancy Best Price : null Buy New $ 6.98 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ role in why we simply don ’ t see an exponential growth pattern of COVID-19 deaths , and that certainly seems to make sense .
A majority of people simply aren ’ t ( and weren ’ t ) susceptible to the disease in the first place .
He tells Sayers the indiscriminate lockdowns implemented around the world were “ a huge mistake.
” A more rational approach would have been to protect and isolate the elderly , who are by far the most vulnerable and make up the bulk of COVID-19 deaths @ @ @ @ @ @ @ data will not be swept under the rug if or when a second wave of COVID-19 emerges this fall .
Making that mistake once is bad enough .
Let us not repeat it .
Last but not least , to bolster your immune system and lower your risk of COVID-19 infection in the future , be sure to follow the instructions given in “ Your Vitamin D Level Must Reach 60 ng/mL Before the Second Wave.
” One of the Most Powerful Videos I ’ ve Ever Seen The following video from Barbara @ @ @ @ @ @ @ powerful videos that I have ever seen .
I am hopeful that watching this video will inspire you to take up the cause and join the fight for vaccine freedom and independence .
There is a cultural war and collusion between many industries and federal regulatory agencies that results in a suppression of the truth about vital important health issues .
If this suppression continues we will gradually and progressively erode our private individual rights that our ancestors fought so hard to achieve .
Please take a few minutes to watch this video @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Defend Vaccine Exemptions With all the uncertainty surrounding the safety and efficacy of vaccines , it ’ s critical to protect your right to make independent health choices and exercise voluntary informed consent to vaccination .
It is urgent that everyone in America stand up and fight to protect and expand vaccine informed consent protections in state public health and employment laws .
The best way to do this is to get personally involved with your state legislators and educate the leaders in your community .
How Not To Die With Tr @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 18.23 Buy New $ 17.97 National vaccine policy recommendations are made at the federal level but vaccine laws are made at the state level .
It is at the state level where your action to protect your vaccine choice rights can have the greatest impact .
It is critical for EVERYONE to get involved now in standing up for the legal right to make voluntary vaccine choices in America because those choices are being threatened by lobbyists representing drug companies , medical trade associations and public health officials , who are trying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exemptions from public health laws .
Signing up for NVIC ’ s free Advocacy Portal at www.NVICAdvocacy.org gives you immediate , easy access to your own state legislators on your smartphone or computer so you can make your voice heard .
You will be kept up to date on the latest state bills threatening your vaccine choice rights and will get practical , useful information to help you become an effective vaccine choice advocate in your own community .
Also , when national vaccine issues come up , you will have the up-to-date @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your fingertips .
So , please , as your first step , sign up for the NVIC Advocacy Portal .
The Best of Joseph Mercola

As lockdowns have kept people at home and out of medical facilities, infant vaccination rates have dropped. As you might expect, this is bad news for the drug industry, which is likely why they’ve started promoting baseless claims that childhood vaccinations might prevent COVID-19 deaths.
Baseless Claims Seek to Bolster Vaccine Uptake
There’s absolutely no evidence for this, yet, in March 2020, they started pushing the TB vaccine, claiming it might “steel the immune system” against SARS-CoV-2. As reported by Science:1
“Researchers in four countries will soon start a clinical trial of an unorthodox approach to the new coronavirus. They will test whether a century-old vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial disease, can rev up the human immune system in a broad way, allowing it to better fight the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 and, perhaps, prevent infection with it altogether.”
Plague of Corruption: ... Mikovits, Judy Buy New $16.51 (as of 02:59 UTC - Details) In April 2020, the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine was touted as a “major breakthrough” against COVID-19. The British Express reported:2
“Researchers at the University of Cambridge said the injection could prevent severe symptoms in people who have had it because the rubella virus has a similar structure to the coronavirus …
When they compared the rubella virus and the coronavirus the researchers found that they were 29 percent identical … The researchers have no evidence that the MMR vaccine works on COVID-19 patients but they assured ‘a study is warranted.’”
In June 2020, it was the polio vaccine’s turn in the spotlight. According to The Hill,3 tuberculosis and polio vaccines are being examined “for possible protection against COVID-19.”
Jeffrey D. Cirillo, a professor of microbial pathogenesis and immunology at Texas A&M Health Science Center, went so far as to state, “This is the only vaccine in the world that can be given to combat COVID-19 right now.”
Based on what? Based on vaccination rates in countries such as Pakistan, “where most of the population is vaccinated for tuberculosis and death rates for COVID-19 have been extremely low.” That’s it.
Meanwhile, discussions and evidence showing the benefits of vitamin C and vitamin D — as well as many other therapies — are banned and censored. This, despite significant scientific evidence actually backing their use and showing the biology by which these nutrients and therapies can prevent and/or treat this particular infection. Talk about travesty.
The oral polio vaccine, by the way, is now the primary cause of polio paralysis in the world, not wild polio.4,5 This is an inconvenient fact that is completely ignored by most mainstream media.
Common Cold May Provide Long-Term Immunity Against COVID-19
In related news, June 12, 2020, the Daily Mail,6 Science Times7 and others8 reported findings from a Singaporean study9 led by professor Antonio Bertoletti, an immunologist with the Duke-NUS Medical School, showing common colds caused by the betacoronaviruses OC43 and HKU1 might make you more resistant to SARS-CoV-2 infection, and that the resulting immunity might last as long as 17 years. Virus Mania: How the M... Kennedy, Robert Best Price: $23.32 Buy New $18.31 (as of 03:58 UTC - Details)
Exposure to coronaviruses responsible for the common cold appear to allow your immune system to recognize and fight off SARS-CoV-2 as well.
In addition to the common cold, OC43 and HKU1 — two of the most commonly encountered betacoronaviruses10 — are also known to cause bronchitis, acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia in all age groups.11 As reported by the Daily Mail:12
“They share many genetic features with the coronaviruses Covid-19, MERS and SARS, all of which passed from animals to humans. Coronaviruses are thought to account for up to 30 percent of all colds but it is not known specifically how many are caused by the betacoronavirus types.
Now scientists have found evidence that some immunity may be present for many years due to the body’s ‘memory’ T-cells from attacks by previous viruses with a similar genetic make-up — even among people who have had no known exposure to Covid-19 or SARS …
Blood was taken from 24 patients who had recovered from Covid-19, 23 who had become ill from SARS and 18 who had never been exposed to either SARS or Covid-19 …
Half of patients in the group with no exposure to either Covid-19 or SARS possessed T-cells which showed immune response to the animal betacoronaviruses, Covid-19 and SARS. This suggested patients’ immunity developed after exposure to common colds caused by betacoronavirus or possibly from other as yet unknown pathogens.”
Frunutta Zinc 5 mg + V... Buy New $14.99 ($0.17 / Count) (as of 05:10 UTC - Details) In other words, if you’ve beat a common cold caused by a OC43 or HKU1 betacoronavirus in the past, you may have a 50/50 chance of having defensive T-cells that can recognize and help defend against SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. According to the researchers:13
“These findings demonstrate that virus-specific memory T-cells induced by betacoronavirus infection are long-lasting, which supports the notion that Covid-19 patients would develop long-term T-cell immunity. Our findings also raise the intriguing possibility that infection with related viruses can also protect from or modify the pathology caused by SARS-Cov-2.”
Other Studies Show Similar Results
Other studies have also discovered that many appear to have prior resistance to SARS-CoV-2. For example, a study14 published May 14, 2020, in the journal Cell, found 70% of samples obtained by the La Jolla Institute for Immunology from patients who had recovered from mild cases of COVID-19, as well as 40% to 60% of people who had not been exposed to the virus, had resistance to SARS-CoV-2 on the T-cell level.
According to the authors, this suggests there’s “cross-reactive T cell recognition between circulating ‘common cold’ coronaviruses and SARS-CoV-2.” Like Bertoletti’s study above, the Cell study found that exposure to coronaviruses responsible for the common cold appear to allow your immune system to recognize and fight off SARS-CoV-2 as well.
May 14, 2020, Science magazine reported15 these Cell findings, drawing parallels to another earlier paper16 by German investigators that had come to a similar conclusion.
That German paper,17 the preprint of which was posted April 22, 2020, on Medrxiv, found helper T cells that targeted the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in 15 of 18 patients hospitalized with COVID-19. As reported by Science:18
“The teams also asked whether people who haven’t been infected with SARS-CoV-2 also produce cells that combat it. Thiel and colleagues19 analyzed blood from 68 uninfected people and found that 34% hosted helper T cells that recognized SARS-CoV-2.
The La Jolla team20 detected this crossreactivity in about half of stored blood samples collected between 2015 and 2018, well before the current pandemic began …
The results suggest ‘one reason that a large chunk of the population may be able to deal with the virus is that we may have some small residual immunity from our exposure to common cold viruses,’ says viral immunologist Steven Varga of the University of Iowa. However, neither of the studies attempted to establish that people with crossreactivity don’t become as ill from COVID-19.
Before these studies, researchers didn’t know whether T cells played a role in eliminating SARS-CoV-2, or even whether they could provoke a dangerous immune system overreaction. ‘These papers are really helpful because they start to define the T cell component of the immune response,’ [Columbia University virologist Angela] Rasmussen says.”
Statistician Believes Majority Are Resistant to COVID-19

Life Enhancement Ultra... Buy New $14.99 ($0.12 / Count) (as of 04:34 UTC - Details) These studies add support to the latest COVID-19 mortality models suggesting widespread resistance and prior immunity. Freddie Sayers, executive editor of UnHerd, recently interviewed professor Karl Friston, a statistician whose expertise is mathematical modeling, who believes prior immunity across the global population might be as high as 80%. Sayers reports:21
“[Friston] invented the now standard ‘statistical parametric mapping’ technique for understanding brain imaging — and for the past months he has been applying his particular method of Bayesian analysis, which he calls ‘dynamic causal modelling,’ to the available Covid-19 data …
His models suggest that the stark difference between outcomes in the UK and Germany, for example, is not primarily an effect of different government actions (such as … earlier lockdowns), but is better explained by intrinsic differences between the populations that make the ‘susceptible population’ in Germany … much smaller than in the UK …
Even within the UK, the numbers point to the same thing: that the ‘effective susceptible population’ was never 100%, and was at most 50% and probably more like only 20% of the population.”
These statistics really throw the idea of social distancing being an unavoidable part of the post-COVID-19 “new normal” into question. What’s more, once sensible behaviors such as staying home when sick are entered into Friston’s model, the effect of lockdown efforts vanish altogether, so global lockdowns were likely completely unnecessary in the first place.
Nobel-Prize Winning Scientist Debunks Growth Projections

Michael Levitt,22 a professor of structural biology at the Stanford School of Medicine who received the Nobel Prize in 2013 for his development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems, has also presented strong evidence that supports Friston’s model.
According to Levitt, statistical data reveals a mathematical pattern that has stayed consistent regardless of the government interventions implemented. While early models predicted an exponential explosion of COVID-19 deaths, those predictions never materialized. As reported by Sayers in the video above:
“After around a two-week exponential growth of cases (and, subsequently, deaths) some kind of break kicks in, and growth starts slowing down. The curve quickly becomes ‘sub-exponential.’ This may seem like a technical distinction, but its implications are profound.
The ‘unmitigated’ scenarios modelled by (among others) Imperial College, and which tilted governments across the world into drastic action, relied on a presumption of continued exponential growth …
But Professor Levitt’s point is that that hasn’t actually happened anywhere, even in countries that have been relatively lax in their responses.”
Vitamin D3, Zinc and M... Jeffers, Nancy Buy New $6.98 (as of 03:40 UTC - Details) Levitt believes prior immunity plays a significant role in why we simply don’t see an exponential growth pattern of COVID-19 deaths, and that certainly seems to make sense. A majority of people simply aren’t (and weren’t) susceptible to the disease in the first place.
He tells Sayers the indiscriminate lockdowns implemented around the world were “a huge mistake.” A more rational approach would have been to protect and isolate the elderly, who are by far the most vulnerable and make up the bulk of COVID-19 deaths around the world.
Hopefully, these data will not be swept under the rug if or when a second wave of COVID-19 emerges this fall. Making that mistake once is bad enough. Let us not repeat it.
Last but not least, to bolster your immune system and lower your risk of COVID-19 infection in the future, be sure to follow the instructions given in “Your Vitamin D Level Must Reach 60 ng/mL Before the Second Wave.”
One of the Most Powerful Videos I’ve Ever Seen
The following video from Barbara Loe Fisher is one of the most powerful videos that I have ever seen. I am hopeful that watching this video will inspire you to take up the cause and join the fight for vaccine freedom and independence.
There is a cultural war and collusion between many industries and federal regulatory agencies that results in a suppression of the truth about vital important health issues. If this suppression continues we will gradually and progressively erode our private individual rights that our ancestors fought so hard to achieve. Please take a few minutes to watch this video.

Protect Your Right to Informed Consent and Defend Vaccine Exemptions
With all the uncertainty surrounding the safety and efficacy of vaccines, it’s critical to protect your right to make independent health choices and exercise voluntary informed consent to vaccination. It is urgent that everyone in America stand up and fight to protect and expand vaccine informed consent protections in state public health and employment laws. The best way to do this is to get personally involved with your state legislators and educate the leaders in your community. How Not To Die With Tr... Henriques, Tiago Best Price: $18.23 Buy New $17.97 (as of 08:00 UTC - Details)
Think Globally, Act Locally
National vaccine policy recommendations are made at the federal level but vaccine laws are made at the state level. It is at the state level where your action to protect your vaccine choice rights can have the greatest impact.
It is critical for EVERYONE to get involved now in standing up for the legal right to make voluntary vaccine choices in America because those choices are being threatened by lobbyists representing drug companies, medical trade associations and public health officials, who are trying to persuade legislators to strip all vaccine exemptions from public health laws.
Signing up for NVIC’s free Advocacy Portal at www.NVICAdvocacy.org gives you immediate, easy access to your own state legislators on your smartphone or computer so you can make your voice heard. You will be kept up to date on the latest state bills threatening your vaccine choice rights and will get practical, useful information to help you become an effective vaccine choice advocate in your own community.
Also, when national vaccine issues come up, you will have the up-to-date information and call-to-action items you need at your fingertips. So, please, as your first step, sign up for the NVIC Advocacy Portal.
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lewrockwell--2020-06-29--Coping With Street Crime

Coping With Street Crime

Any cogent discussion of crime must begin by casting aside the obfuscations of criminologists and social scientists who habitually lump together all types of crime .
But while most people can be made to wax indignant against fraud or against such abstract “ crimes ” as insider trading , or even become outraged at employees taking pencils from their employer , these “ white-collar crimes ” do not terrify them because they do not violate the physical integrity of the person or the home of the victim .
The latter crimes are the ones that terrify and destroy the security @ @ @ @ @ @ @ peace .
We might call these malign forms “ crimes of violence , ” except that we should also put in the same category home burglary , which technically does not use weapons but inflicts the same sense of personal violation as more directly violent crimes .
Let us then call them “ street crimes , ” which would include crimes of violence on urban streets or sidewalks , and also the home burglaries in suburban or rural areas .
Economists have added their own special forms of fallacy and misdirection to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , led by Chicago School economist Gary Becker , crime is a business like any other , and the criminal , like any businessman or investor , engages in a rational cost-benefit calculation in deciding whether or not to commit a crime .
He compares the expected monetary benefit from the crime , with the expected costs of getting caught and the type of punishment probably received , all costs and benefits duly discounted by the rate of interest .
This sort of analysis may well be applicable to business-type crimes , such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thieves , bank robbers , or counterfeiters , or to the sort of mafioso activities immortalized in The Godfather .
But these business-type crimes don ’ t terrify , and they do not qualify in our definition of street crime as street assaults , rapes , muggings , shootings , as well as home burglaries .
To apply monetary cost-benefit analysis to street criminals in the Becker manner is so divorced from reality as to verge upon absurdity .
The Unheavenly City : T ... Banfield , Edward C Best Price : $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for example , the latest fashion in street crime , rampant in Detroit , which in so many ways has blazed the path in this field and now spread to other urban areas : the drive-by shooting .
A driver pulls up alongside his victims , opens fire , and then zooms off .
How in the world can this practice be encompassed by Chicagoite monetary cost-benefit analysis ?
More and more , it has become clear that much or all such street crime is done not for the money but for psychic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ asked why he killed someone at random in a driveby shooting , replied : “ I just felt like killing someone.
” Some years ago , they would have replied “ for kicks , ” but it seems that anomie has replaced a sense of joy among young muggers and murderers .
One reason why standard economics has gone so far astray is that , ever since Adam Smith , economists have routinely assumed that people are exactly the same as every other , with the same values , norms , and preferences @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because of different institutional indictments or constraints .
Combine this egalitarian legacy of the Enlightenment with Benthamite utilitarianism , and it becomes clear why economists ’ analyses and policy conclusions have so often tended to be far off the mark and even counterproductive .
The Unheavenly City Re ... Best Price : $ 20.75 Buy New $ 921.73 From its mathematical calculations , the Beckerite remedy for crime is to make punishment not so much more severe as more probable : to increase the certainty of getting caught and punished .
Apart from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out with precious few practical suggestions on how this increased certainty can be accomplished , there is more askew here .
For the Beckerites ignore one of the important contributions of Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian School of economics : that individuals all differ in their values , habits , and preferences , and that a crucial aspect of that variety is what Austrians call their “ rates of time preference.
” Working independently of the Austrian tradition , the political scientist Edward C. Banfield—in his delightfully cool , bitter , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and the later edition , The Unheavenly City Revisited ( 1974 ) —put his finger on a key to the nature of the street criminal : a very high rate of time preference for the present over the future ; in other words , a very short time horizon .
The street criminal places a high value on present , instant gratification : whether it be from money stolen , from rape , or from the sheer “ kicks ” of beating or killing another human being .
He commits these acts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because punishment is sometime in the future , and he simply doesn ’ t care about the future .
In a later article applying his analysis to street crime .
Professor Banfield put the case well : “ The threat of punishment at the hands of the law is unlikely to deter the present-oriented person .
The gains that he expects from his illegal act are very near to the present , whereas the punishment that he would suffer—in the unlikely event of his being both caught and punished—lies in a future too @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Banfield goes on to add that “ for the normal person ” there are other stronger deterrents to crime than the legal penalty , such as disgrace , loss of job , hardship for wife and children if he goes to prison .
These deterrents do not exist , however , for the present-oriented person .
Everyone in his circle naturally gets “ in trouble ” with the police from time to time .
He has no steady job anyway , and he contributes little or nothing to the support of his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ adds , “ may well be better off without him.
” Banfield makes it clear that the high-time preference person ’ s lack of a steady job is not due to lack of “ employment opportunities , ” but because this sort of person has no intention of subjecting himself to the discipline of engaging in full-time steady work .
Political Influence Best Price : $ 37.08 Buy New $ 45.36 In his trenchant analysis Banfield consciously harks back to the great political philosophers of the West , particularly Hobbes , Locke , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pointed out that there would be no need for government if everyone obeyed the dictates of reason and natural law , for then there would be social peace .
But instead , government is required because of people acting on “ their perverse desire of present profit.
” Hume writes about government being made necessary because “ men are not able radically to cure , either in themselves or others , that narrowness of soul which makes them prefer the present to the remote.
” It is all too clear that in recent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has lost its reason , its being , since the hightime preference street criminals have increasingly been allowed to run riot .
We are being plunged , at an accelerating rate , into the sort of horrible criminal anarchy that no libertarian or “ anarcho-capitalist ” would countenance for one moment .
What , then , can be done ?
The Best of Murray N. Rothbard

Any cogent discussion of crime must begin by casting aside the obfuscations of criminologists and social scientists who habitually lump together all types of crime. But while most people can be made to wax indignant against fraud or against such abstract “crimes” as insider trading, or even become outraged at employees taking pencils from their employer, these “white-collar crimes” do not terrify them because they do not violate the physical integrity of the person or the home of the victim. The latter crimes are the ones that terrify and destroy the security of the average person and wreck social peace. We might call these malign forms “crimes of violence,” except that we should also put in the same category home burglary, which technically does not use weapons but inflicts the same sense of personal violation as more directly violent crimes. Let us then call them “street crimes,” which would include crimes of violence on urban streets or sidewalks, and also the home burglaries in suburban or rural areas.
Economists have added their own special forms of fallacy and misdirection to the problem of crime. To most economists, led by Chicago School economist Gary Becker, crime is a business like any other, and the criminal, like any businessman or investor, engages in a rational cost-benefit calculation in deciding whether or not to commit a crime. He compares the expected monetary benefit from the crime, with the expected costs of getting caught and the type of punishment probably received, all costs and benefits duly discounted by the rate of interest. This sort of analysis may well be applicable to business-type crimes, such as committed by organized groups of jewel thieves, bank robbers, or counterfeiters, or to the sort of mafioso activities immortalized in The Godfather. But these business-type crimes don’t terrify, and they do not qualify in our definition of street crime as street assaults, rapes, muggings, shootings, as well as home burglaries. To apply monetary cost-benefit analysis to street criminals in the Becker manner is so divorced from reality as to verge upon absurdity. The Unheavenly City: T... Banfield, Edward C Best Price: $42.47 Buy New $80.99 (as of 03:15 UTC - Details)
Take, for example, the latest fashion in street crime, rampant in Detroit, which in so many ways has blazed the path in this field and now spread to other urban areas: the drive-by shooting. A driver pulls up alongside his victims, opens fire, and then zooms off. How in the world can this practice be encompassed by Chicagoite monetary cost-benefit analysis? More and more, it has become clear that much or all such street crime is done not for the money but for psychic benefits. One young lad, when asked why he killed someone at random in a driveby shooting, replied: “I just felt like killing someone.” Some years ago, they would have replied “for kicks,” but it seems that anomie has replaced a sense of joy among young muggers and murderers.
One reason why standard economics has gone so far astray is that, ever since Adam Smith, economists have routinely assumed that people are exactly the same as every other, with the same values, norms, and preferences, and that they only act differently because of different institutional indictments or constraints. Combine this egalitarian legacy of the Enlightenment with Benthamite utilitarianism, and it becomes clear why economists’ analyses and policy conclusions have so often tended to be far off the mark and even counterproductive.
The Unheavenly City Re... Best Price: $20.75 Buy New $921.73 (as of 03:52 UTC - Details) From its mathematical calculations, the Beckerite remedy for crime is to make punishment not so much more severe as more probable: to increase the certainty of getting caught and punished. Apart from the fact that the Beckerites have come out with precious few practical suggestions on how this increased certainty can be accomplished, there is more askew here. For the Beckerites ignore one of the important contributions of Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian School of economics: that individuals all differ in their values, habits, and preferences, and that a crucial aspect of that variety is what Austrians call their “rates of time preference.”
Working independently of the Austrian tradition, the political scientist Edward C. Banfield—in his delightfully cool, bitter, and hardheaded The Unheavenly City (1970), and the later edition, The Unheavenly City Revisited (1974)—put his finger on a key to the nature of the street criminal: a very high rate of time preference for the present over the future; in other words, a very short time horizon. The street criminal places a high value on present, instant gratification: whether it be from money stolen, from rape, or from the sheer “kicks” of beating or killing another human being. He commits these acts not because punishment is uncertain, but because punishment is sometime in the future, and he simply doesn’t care about the future. In a later article applying his analysis to street crime. Professor Banfield put the case well: “The threat of punishment at the hands of the law is unlikely to deter the present-oriented person. The gains that he expects from his illegal act are very near to the present, whereas the punishment that he would suffer—in the unlikely event of his being both caught and punished—lies in a future too distant for him to take into account.” Banfield goes on to add that “for the normal person” there are other stronger deterrents to crime than the legal penalty, such as disgrace, loss of job, hardship for wife and children if he goes to prison. These deterrents do not exist, however, for the present-oriented person. Everyone in his circle naturally gets “in trouble” with the police from time to time. He has no steady job anyway, and he contributes little or nothing to the support of his wife and kids, who, Banfield adds, “may well be better off without him.” Banfield makes it clear that the high-time preference person’s lack of a steady job is not due to lack of “employment opportunities,” but because this sort of person has no intention of subjecting himself to the discipline of engaging in full-time steady work. Political Influence Best Price: $37.08 Buy New $45.36 (as of 03:52 UTC - Details)
In his trenchant analysis Banfield consciously harks back to the great political philosophers of the West, particularly Hobbes, Locke, and Hume. In Leviathan, Hobbes pointed out that there would be no need for government if everyone obeyed the dictates of reason and natural law, for then there would be social peace. But instead, government is required because of people acting on “their perverse desire of present profit.” Hume writes about government being made necessary because “men are not able radically to cure, either in themselves or others, that narrowness of soul which makes them prefer the present to the remote.”
It is all too clear that in recent decades, government in the United States has lost its reason, its being, since the hightime preference street criminals have increasingly been allowed to run riot. We are being plunged, at an accelerating rate, into the sort of horrible criminal anarchy that no libertarian or “anarcho-capitalist” would countenance for one moment. What, then, can be done?
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lewrockwell--2020-06-29--A Disease in the Public Mind, Part II?

A Disease in the Public Mind, Part II?

In 2013 historian and novelist Thomas Fleming , the author of more than fifty books including biographies of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin , and histories of the two world wars , made a contribution to American Civil War history with A Disease in the Public Mind : A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War .
A kind of “ disease in the public mind ” that Fleming speaks of seems to have commenced a second wave that many fear may lead to a second civil war .
Fleming is perplexed that the United States was “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fight a war to end slavery.
” All other countries ( Great Britain , Spain , France , Netherlands , Denmark , the Northern states in the U.S. , ended slavery peacefully in the nineteenth century .
He also does not believe that the average Confederate soldier fought to defend slavery since “ a mere 6 percent of the total white population ” of the South in 1860 owned slaves and there was no stake in the system for the other 94 percent .
A Disease in the Publi ... Thomas Fleming Best @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 11.14 So why was there a war , according to Thomas Fleming ?
First , there was an extreme “ malevolent envy ” of Southerners by the New England “ Yankees ” who believed they were God ’ s chosen people entitled to rule over not only America but the world .
Today , such people would be called “ neocons.
” Southerners did not agree , obviously .
Second , there were twenty-five or so wealthy and very influential New England abolitionists who had abandoned Christianity , condemned Jesus Christ , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , John Brown , a self-described communist , as their “ savior , ” funding his terroristic bloodbaths .
( Brown and his comrades murdered entire families in Kansas who did not own slaves , including the murder of Mr. James P. Doyle and his two sons in front of their wife and mother .
Brown said his purpose was “ to strike terror into the hearts of proslavery people.
” The rationalization of mass murder such as this is the “ disease in the public mind ” that Fleming writes about .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Lincoln administration ’ s waging of total war on the entire civilian population of the South , with Sherman ’ s troops singing “ John Brown ’ s Body ” as they raped , pillaged , and plundered their way through Georgia and South Carolina .
The New England Yankees “ were inclined to believe in the moral depravity of anyone who disagreed with them , ” a trait that “ permeated ” New England , says Fleming .
Armed with such thoughts , such New England Yankees as William Lloyd Garrison @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Southerners , saying they were “ ruled by Satan , ” calling the region “ one great Sodom , ” and other outrageous insults reminiscent of the Salem ( Massachusetts ) witch trials , remarks Fleming .
And some wonder why Southerners no longer wanted to be “ united ” with the New England Yankees .
Ralph Waldo Emerson “ expressed awe and near-worship of John Brown , ” Fleming writes .
Henry David Thoreau said “ Brown was Jesus ” and “ the humanist man in the country.
” These leading literary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Yankee Leviathan : The ... Bensel , Richard Franklin Best Price : $ 12.99 Buy New $ 25.76 There are similarities with today ’ s would-be revolutionaries who seem hell bent on instigating a second civil war .
The Leftists who have displayed an uncontrollable , violent hatred of President Trump over the past three-and-a-half years have done so because their real hatred is of the people who voted for Trump and put him in office .
They are not condemned as Satanists or sodomists , as with nineteenth-century Southerners , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” racists , sexists , homophobes , etc.
, etc .
Several years before the defeat of Queen Hillary , Clyde Wilson remarked in a LewRockwell.com article entitled “ The Yankee Problem in America ” that Hillary Clinton , raised in Illinois and educated in New England , was “ a museum-quality specimen of a Yankee.
” These are the people whose dreams of destroying capitalism and replacing it with their own version of Soviet central planning under the guise of a “ Green New Deal ” have been soundly rejected if not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reason for their intense , and often violent hatred .
They feel entitled to rule over the rest of America – if not the world – and many of them appear to be seething with a murderous hatred over not being granted such power .
They have given up on debate and argumentation and are now resorting to pervasive censorship , riots , vandalism , arson , and assaults .
Mass killing can not be too far off if they are not stopped and soon .
They are essentially a combination of nineteenth-century @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bolshevik .
One thing these two movements had in common is their willingness to wage total wars of mass murder in pursuit of monopolistic political power .
Indeed , historian Richard Bensel remarked in his book , Yankee Leviathan , that the political monopoly enjoyed by the Republican Party from 1861-1913 was rivaled only by the Soviet Union itself .
The Unconstitutionalit ... Spooner , Lysander Best Price : $ 7.99 Buy New $ 6.79 Many of the violent , screaming , rioting youths displayed on television and the internet in recent weeks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bernie Brigade , ” social justice snowflake followers of lifelong communist Bernie Sanders .
Unlike Bernie , however , they have chosen violence , vandalism , arson and criminality as their modus operandi as opposed to working within the system as an elected public official .
The Southern slaves were used as pawns in a war that was not about freeing them but about destroying the voluntary union of the founders and replacing it with a coerced union more along the lines of the future Soviet Union .
Lincoln and the U.S. Congress @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Lincoln ’ s first inaugural address , and the War Aims Resolution of the U.S Congress ) that the war had nothing to do with slavery but was being fought to “ save the union ” ( geographically and for tax-collecting purposes ) .
This , too , is similar to today ’ s events , with what started out as riots supposedly over police brutality against black people turning into “ demands ” for an exponentially bigger welfare state , abolition of police and prisons , the abolition of capitalism and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Toppling statues of Christopher Columbus , Ulysses S. Grant , abolitionist Albert Pike , and even of Lincoln is not a protest against police brutality but part of an effort to destroy the institutions of Western civilization and replace them with communism at long last .
As one of the founders of Black Lives Matter proudly boasted , “ We are trained Marxists.
” ( “ Trained ” by Obama-style “ community organizers , ” no doubt ) .
In the tradition of John Brown , one Black Lives Matter spokesman named Hawk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and threatened to “ burn down the system ” if his “ demands are not met.
” “ Civil rights activist ” Shaun King recently echoed the nineteenth-century New England Yankee assault on Christianity when he went on Twitter to invite his followers to vandalize and destroy images of “ White Jesus ” and “ his European wife ” in churches throughout America .
Such people may not have a mental disease ; they are just plain evil .
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Buy New $ 29.99 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years and today is that there were people in America who urged the peaceful abolition of slavery , just as all the rest of the world had done in recent years .
Slavery existed in New York City as late as 1853 according to the New York Historical Society .
Lysander Spooner was a renowned abolitionist who wrote a book on The Unconstitutionality of Slavery that was a roadmap of the peaceful abolition of the institution .
He and others like him were ignored , for the Republican party of the day was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would rival the British , Spanish , and French empires , and were not interested in practical plans for peaceful emancipation .
Recently , Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina mistakenly believed that the rioting communists of Antifa and Black Lives Matter – the shock troops of the Democrat Party — were actually interested in reforming the criminal justice system and would support legislation that he introduced into the U.S. Senate that would address the problem of police brutality .
He was denounced by all the usual suspects and stonewalled by his own @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the senate .
These people are about revolution , not making life safer and more prosperous for black people – and everyone else .
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In 2013 historian and novelist Thomas Fleming, the author of more than fifty books including biographies of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, and histories of the two world wars, made a contribution to American Civil War history with A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War. A kind of “disease in the public mind” that Fleming speaks of seems to have commenced a second wave that many fear may lead to a second civil war.
Fleming is perplexed that the United States was “the only nation in the world to fight a war to end slavery.” All other countries (Great Britain, Spain, France, Netherlands, Denmark, the Northern states in the U.S.), ended slavery peacefully in the nineteenth century. He also does not believe that the average Confederate soldier fought to defend slavery since “a mere 6 percent of the total white population” of the South in 1860 owned slaves and there was no stake in the system for the other 94 percent.
A Disease in the Publi... Thomas Fleming Best Price: $5.84 Buy New $11.14 (as of 05:25 UTC - Details) So why was there a war, according to Thomas Fleming? First, there was an extreme “malevolent envy” of Southerners by the New England “Yankees” who believed they were God’s chosen people entitled to rule over not only America but the world. Today, such people would be called “neocons.” Southerners did not agree, obviously.
Second, there were twenty-five or so wealthy and very influential New England abolitionists who had abandoned Christianity, condemned Jesus Christ, and adopted the mentally deranged murderer of innocents, John Brown, a self-described communist, as their “savior,” funding his terroristic bloodbaths. Brown and his comrades murdered entire families in Kansas who did not own slaves, including the murder of Mr. James P. Doyle and his two sons in front of their wife and mother. Brown said his purpose was “to strike terror into the hearts of proslavery people.” The rationalization of mass murder such as this is the “disease in the public mind” that Fleming writes about. It is also the ideology that fueled the Lincoln administration’s waging of total war on the entire civilian population of the South, with Sherman’s troops singing “John Brown’s Body” as they raped, pillaged, and plundered their way through Georgia and South Carolina.
The New England Yankees “were inclined to believe in the moral depravity of anyone who disagreed with them,” a trait that “permeated” New England, says Fleming. Armed with such thoughts, such New England Yankees as William Lloyd Garrison waged a decades-long crusade of hatred against Southerners, saying they were “ruled by Satan,” calling the region “one great Sodom,” and other outrageous insults reminiscent of the Salem (Massachusetts) witch trials, remarks Fleming. And some wonder why Southerners no longer wanted to be “united” with the New England Yankees.
Ralph Waldo Emerson “expressed awe and near-worship of John Brown,” Fleming writes. Henry David Thoreau said “Brown was Jesus” and “the humanest man in the country.” These leading literary lights of New England were clearly crazy. Yankee Leviathan: The ... Bensel, Richard Franklin Best Price: $12.99 Buy New $25.76 (as of 03:54 UTC - Details)
There are similarities with today’s would-be revolutionaries who seem hell bent on instigating a second civil war. The Leftists who have displayed an uncontrollable, violent hatred of President Trump over the past three-and-a-half years have done so because their real hatred is of the people who voted for Trump and put him in office. They are not condemned as Satanists or sodomists, as with nineteenth-century Southerners, but have instead been branded as “deplorable” racists, sexists, homophobes, etc., etc. Several years before the defeat of Queen Hillary, Clyde Wilson remarked in a LewRockwell.com article entitled “The Yankee Problem in America” that Hillary Clinton, raised in Illinois and educated in New England, was “a museum-quality specimen of a Yankee.”
These are the people whose dreams of destroying capitalism and replacing it with their own version of Soviet central planning under the guise of a “Green New Deal” have been soundly rejected if not ignored by the deplorables, a key reason for their intense, and often violent hatred. They feel entitled to rule over the rest of America – if not the world – and many of them appear to be seething with a murderous hatred over not being granted such power. They have given up on debate and argumentation and are now resorting to pervasive censorship, riots, vandalism, arson, and assaults. Mass killing cannot be too far off if they are not stopped and soon. They are essentially a combination of nineteenth-century New England Yankee and early twentieth-century Russian Bolshevik. One thing these two movements had in common is their willingness to wage total wars of mass murder in pursuit of monopolistic political power. Indeed, historian Richard Bensel remarked in his book, Yankee Leviathan, that the political monopoly enjoyed by the Republican Party from 1861-1913 was rivaled only by the Soviet Union itself.
The Unconstitutionalit... Spooner, Lysander Best Price: $7.99 Buy New $6.79 (as of 03:54 UTC - Details) Many of the violent, screaming, rioting youths displayed on television and the internet in recent weeks are most likely a part of the Bernie Brigade,” social justice snowflake followers of lifelong communist Bernie Sanders. Unlike Bernie, however, they have chosen violence, vandalism, arson and criminality as their modus operandi as opposed to working within the system as an elected public official.
The Southern slaves were used as pawns in a war that was not about freeing them but about destroying the voluntary union of the founders and replacing it with a coerced union more along the lines of the future Soviet Union. Lincoln and the U.S. Congress declared to the world in 1861 (in Lincoln’s first inaugural address, and the War Aims Resolution of the U.S Congress) that the war had nothing to do with slavery but was being fought to “save the union” (geographically and for tax-collecting purposes). This, too, is similar to today’s events, with what started out as riots supposedly over police brutality against black people turning into “demands” for an exponentially bigger welfare state, abolition of police and prisons, the abolition of capitalism and in essence the adoption of socialism. Toppling statues of Christopher Columbus, Ulysses S. Grant, Albert Pike, and even of Lincoln is not a protest against police brutality but part of an effort to destroy the institutions of Western civilization and replace them with communism at long last. As one of the founders of Black Lives Matter proudly boasted, “We are trained Marxists.” (“Trained” by Obama-style “community organizers,” no doubt).
In the tradition of John Brown, one Black Lives Matter spokesman named Hawk Newsome appeared on the Fox News Channel and threatened to “burn down the system” if his “demands are not met.” “Civil rights activist” Shaun King recently echoed the nineteenth-century New England Yankee assault on Christianity when he went on Twitter to invite his followers to vandalize and destroy images of “White Jesus” and “his European wife” in churches throughout America. Such people may not have a mental disease; they are just plain evil. The Problem with Linco... DiLorenzo, Thomas J. Buy New $29.99 (as of 11:50 UTC - Details)
One final similarity between the Civil War years and today is that there were people in America who urged the peaceful abolition of slavery, just as all the rest of the world had done in recent years. Slavery existed in New York City as late as 1853 according to the New York Historical Society. Lysander Spooner was a renowned abolitionist who wrote a book on The Unconstitutionality of Slavery that was a roadmap of the peaceful abolition of the institution. He and others like him were ignored, for the Republican party of the day was devoted to creating an American empire that would rival the British, Spanish, and French empires, and were not interested in practical plans for peaceful emancipation.
Recently, Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina mistakenly believed that the rioting communists of Antifa and Black Lives Matter – the shock troops of the Democrat Party — were actually interested in reforming the criminal justice system and would support legislation that he introduced into the U.S. Senate that would address the problem of police brutality. He was denounced by all the usual suspects and stonewalled by his own (Democrat and some Republican) colleagues in the senate. These people are about revolution, not making life safer and more prosperous for black people – and everyone else.
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lewrockwell--2020-06-29--Are We Facing the End of a Passion for Life in America?

Passion makes the old medicine new : Passion lops off the bough of weariness .
Passion is the elixir that renews : how can there be weariness when passion is present ?
Oh , don ’ t sigh heavily from fatigue : seek passion , seek passion , seek passion !
Rumi ( 2014 ) .
‘ Another city , ’ a selection of poems from the Persian ” , p.91 , Lulu.com .
( Rumi : September 30 , 1207-December 17 , 1273/Mathnawi VI , 4302-4304 ) Those attempting to master our fate are attempting purposely to destroy the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ precious things about mankind are under attack by the purveyors of this coronavirus fraud , and the cold hand of indifference already has a firm grip on the sleeping population .
Passion comes in many forms , from love , family and friends , anger , hatred , grief , joy , and nature .
Passion is all consuming when one has the capacity and capability to be free to embrace and experience all the many aspects of a free existence .
When all thought is concentrated due to fear , stress , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and body lose touch with one another , creating internal chaos .
This state of being brings only emptiness and pain , and stifles one ’ s ability to grasp the beauty of life , thus passion is lost .
The Essential Rumi , Ne ... Jalal al-Din Rumi Best Price : $ 5.96 Buy New $ 10.38 A cold and heartless society created out of fear and loathing does not allow for compassion for one ’ s fellow man or for self , and leaves a hole in the heart and soul @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sought by the puppet masters in control of the virus pandemic narrative , those elites that are mandating an end to the normalcy of life in favor of a totally controlled society .
Consider what has been taken away since the beginning of this manufactured crisis , and how that has adversely affected the psyche of the masses in this country .
Families have been torn apart .
Many are now afraid to be with their own , and have also in many cases been forcibly separated from those they care about the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state have closed their doors to any in need of those services .
Family members with normal symptoms of cold or flu ( or not ) have been isolated without allowance for family and friends to visit or monitor .
Family members have been literally locked out by institutional rules , even in situations of dire sickness or death .
Nursing homes and elderly care facilities have isolated all residents ; disallowing family to check on loved ones .
This has led to the mass death of many well before their time to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are responsible for almost half the deaths falsely attributed to this Covid hoax .
This in essence is nothing less than murder by the state .
Most in this country are instructed to distance themselves from everyone , remaining six feet or more from all .
They have been instructed to wear masks at all times , this a very detrimental and sometimes dangerous thing to do considering health .
These things can lead to not only despair and loneliness , but cause a lack of closeness , expression , familiarity , societal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ As humans , we are communal by nature , and contact , including intimate interaction with others , is of great importance to our being .
It is how we communicate , learn , and congregate for many purposes , including experiencing the pleasures of life .
Without close contact , a feeling of being alone sets in , and this feeling causes not only much stress , but also leads to desolation and a withdrawal from community .
This can be very devastating to one ’ s psyche .
Rumi ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 8.47 Buy New $ 10.24 The political class mandated that many businesses nationwide close their doors and shut down .
This was damaging in a multitude of ways , and of course caused mass economic harm to all those businesses , and all those employed by those businesses .
The economic and psychological damage inflicted due to these closings have been tremendous , and will take years to correct if in fact it can be corrected at all .
Many jobs are lost forever , and many small and medium sized businesses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This was the livelihood of millions of people in this country , and now much of that is forever damaged or lost entirely .
The harm caused by this will continue to grow and to cause great stress to many millions of Americans well into the future .
Once the false Covid threat could no longer sustain scrutiny , society ’ s controllers purposely brought carnage and more havoc to the people in the form of organized and staged riots , looting , arson , beatings , and murder ; blaming it on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a total lie .
But with this planned civil unrest , property destruction , and violence , came more panic and more chaos on the heels of the ongoing farce of a flu pandemic that had driven the false fear that consumes this country .
The state enforcers and police stood down while these planted thugs in the BLM and Antifa movements threatened many people .
Now , the second phase plot has been let loose on the already weak and pathetic masses that are quickly becoming accustomed to their life of fear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ rollout will most likely strike much more fear into an already beaten down populace , and will certainly lead to a poisonous vaccination being made available .
This will be marketed as a godsend to the people , and a way to guarantee that all will soon be safe .
Most will voluntarily rush to get this tainted , untested , and toxic concoction , and this will cause much more sickness and death , which will be blamed not on this vaccine , but on the people themselves .
Those not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ labeled as criminal for continuing to spread this fake disease .
That will be scripted , and due to the state calling for 100 % compliance with the vaccine in order to protect all , it will soon become mandatory .
The horrendous implications of such an atrocious agenda are mindboggling , and will most likely not be realized by the public until it is too late .
The Meaning Of It All : ... Feynman , Richard P. Best Price : $ 2.01 Buy New $ 35.76 Passion in life is the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lost , we will have destroyed all that is important in this world .
We will have allowed the few to end the idea of humanity as it has existed , in order to bring about a lifeless , empty , and fully controlled society with no feeling , empathy , love , or compassion evident .
That is not a world of worth for the living .
It is only a sterile environment meant to bring about a future of Transhumanism , a belief that humans can evolve due to science and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ few physical and mental limitations .
All beauty in life would become extinct , and a country of non-thinking , non-emotional beings would exist only in order to function as they are programmed to do .
The more our passion disappears , the less human we become !
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Passion makes the old medicine new:
Passion lops off the bough of weariness.
Passion is the elixir that renews:
how can there be weariness
when passion is present?
Oh, don’t sigh heavily from fatigue:
seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!
Rumi (2014). ‘Another city,’ a selection of poems from the Persian”, p.91, Lulu.com. (Rumi: September 30, 1207-December 17, 1273/Mathnawi VI, 4302-4304)
Those attempting to master our fate are attempting purposely to destroy the inherent passions of life. The most precious things about mankind are under attack by the purveyors of this coronavirus fraud, and the cold hand of indifference already has a firm grip on the sleeping population. Passion comes in many forms, from love, family and friends, anger, hatred, grief, joy, and nature. Passion is all consuming when one has the capacity and capability to be free to embrace and experience all the many aspects of a free existence. When all thought is concentrated due to fear, stress, tyranny, and confusion, the mind and body lose touch with one another, creating internal chaos. This state of being brings only emptiness and pain, and stifles one’s ability to grasp the beauty of life, thus passion is lost. The Essential Rumi, Ne... Jalal al-Din Rumi Best Price: $5.96 Buy New $10.38 (as of 03:57 UTC - Details)
A cold and heartless society created out of fear and loathing does not allow for compassion for one’s fellow man or for self, and leaves a hole in the heart and soul of our being. This outcome is sought by the puppet masters in control of the virus pandemic narrative, those elites that are mandating an end to the normalcy of life in favor of a totally controlled society. Consider what has been taken away since the beginning of this manufactured crisis, and how that has adversely affected the psyche of the masses in this country.
Families have been torn apart. Many are now afraid to be with their own, and have also in many cases been forcibly separated from those they care about the most. Hospitals on orders from the state have closed their doors to any in need of those services. Family members with normal symptoms of cold or flu (or not) have been isolated without allowance for family and friends to visit or monitor. Family members have been literally locked out by institutional rules, even in situations of dire sickness or death. Nursing homes and elderly care facilities have isolated all residents; disallowing family to check on loved ones. This has led to the mass death of many well before their time to die. The results of these mandates are responsible for almost half the deaths falsely attributed to this Covid hoax. This in essence is nothing less than murder by the state.
Most in this country are instructed to distance themselves from everyone, remaining six feet or more from all. They have been instructed to wear masks at all times, this a very detrimental and sometimes dangerous thing to do considering health. These things can lead to not only despair and loneliness, but cause a lack of closeness, expression, familiarity, societal needs, and of personal isolation. As humans, we are communal by nature, and contact, including intimate interaction with others, is of great importance to our being. It is how we communicate, learn, and congregate for many purposes, including experiencing the pleasures of life. Without close contact, a feeling of being alone sets in, and this feeling causes not only much stress, but also leads to desolation and a withdrawal from community. This can be very devastating to one’s psyche. Rumi’s Little Bo... Rumi Best Price: $8.47 Buy New $10.24 (as of 03:57 UTC - Details)
The political class mandated that many businesses nationwide close their doors and shut down. This was damaging in a multitude of ways, and of course caused mass economic harm to all those businesses, and all those employed by those businesses. The economic and psychological damage inflicted due to these closings have been tremendous, and will take years to correct if in fact it can be corrected at all. Many jobs are lost forever, and many small and medium sized businesses have closed their doors for good. This was the livelihood of millions of people in this country, and now much of that is forever damaged or lost entirely. The harm caused by this will continue to grow and to cause great stress to many millions of Americans well into the future.
Once the false Covid threat could no longer sustain scrutiny, society’s controllers purposely brought carnage and more havoc to the people in the form of organized and staged riots, looting, arson, beatings, and murder; blaming it on racism and inequality, when that was a total lie. But with this planned civil unrest, property destruction, and violence, came more panic and more chaos on the heels of the ongoing farce of a flu pandemic that had driven the false fear that consumes this country. The state enforcers and police stood down while these planted thugs in the BLM and Antifa movements threatened many people. Now, the second phase plot has been let loose on the already weak and pathetic masses that are quickly becoming accustomed to their life of fear and slavery.
This ‘Phase 2’ rollout will most likely strike much more fear into an already beaten down populace, and will certainly lead to a poisonous vaccination being made available. This will be marketed as a godsend to the people, and a way to guarantee that all will soon be safe. Most will voluntarily rush to get this tainted, untested, and toxic concoction, and this will cause much more sickness and death, which will be blamed not on this vaccine, but on the people themselves. Those not getting the vaccination will be shunned and labeled as criminal for continuing to spread this fake disease. That will be scripted, and due to the state calling for 100% compliance with the vaccine in order to protect all, it will soon become mandatory. The horrendous implications of such an atrocious agenda are mindboggling, and will most likely not be realized by the public until it is too late. The Meaning Of It All:... Feynman, Richard P. Best Price: $2.01 Buy New $35.76 (as of 03:16 UTC - Details)
Passion in life is the essence of our existence, and if lost, we will have destroyed all that is important in this world. We will have allowed the few to end the idea of humanity as it has existed, in order to bring about a lifeless, empty, and fully controlled society with no feeling, empathy, love, or compassion evident. That is not a world of worth for the living. It is only a sterile environment meant to bring about a future of Transhumanism, a belief that humans can evolve due to science and technology, and form a race with few physical and mental limitations. All beauty in life would become extinct, and a country of non-thinking, non-emotional beings would exist only in order to function as they are programmed to do.
The more our passion disappears, the less human we become!
The Best of Gary D. Barnett