The Last Gasp

No one is more dangerous than the suicidal .
When you can ’ t love , you hate .
When you can ’ t build , you destroy .
When you ’ re ignored , you scream .
When you can ’ t tell the truth , you lie .
When you can ’ t reason , you panic .
When no one will follow you out of admiration or respect , you compel .
When you can ’ t live , you kill .
This is it , the last gasp of the psychopaths who express their contempt and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it .
Compulsion , not voluntary and natural cooperation .
Power , pull , and politics , not incentives , competition , honest production , and value-for-value trade .
From each according to his virtue to each according to his depravity .
It can ’ t work .
It won ’ t work .
They know it .
Do you ?
As the totalitarian horror unfolds before our eyes , only the willfully blind will ignore it .
Only those who refuse to think will fail to grasp its implications .
Only the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I Know Abou ... Robert Gore Best Price : $ 11.82 Buy New $ 11.87 This shouldn ’ t come as a surprise .
We were warned .
Now I will tell you the answer to my question .
It is this .
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake .
We are not interested in the good of others ; we are interested solely in power .
Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness ; only power , pure power .
What pure power means you will understand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing .
All the others , even those who resembled ourselves , were cowards and hypocrites .
The German Nazis and Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods , but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives .
They pretended , perhaps they even believed , that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time , and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where humans beings would be free and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it .
Power is not a means ; it is an end .
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution ; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship .
The object of persecution is persecution .
The object of torture is torture .
The object of power is power .
Now do you begin to understand me ?
The worship of power has reached its apex even as its temples have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ century , the most bloodthirsty governments in history inflicted unprecedented carnage , destruction , and death .
Some of them now have the capability to destroy life on earth .
It was clear to those who looked and thought about what they saw that the only outcome of destruction and death would be destruction and death , including the destruction and death of those who inflicted it .
The temples started crashing in 1945 with the fall of Nazi Germany , Fascist Italy and Tojo ’ s Japan and they ’ ve been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was the Soviet Union and its puppet regimes in Eastern Europe .
Now destruction and death loom before what ’ s called the Western democracies , built on the myth that societies can serve two masters : violence and freedom .
The forces of the former will always see seek to destroy the latter .
That is what has happened and is now accelerating towards either total annihilation or a rejection of hate and violence and a rebirth of freedom and the human spirit .
Homemade Hand Sanitize ... Smith , Rebecca Buy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ innocence , a remnant of human decency , that asks : why would they want to destroy us , don ’ t they know they ’ ll be destroying themselves ?
If we owe to George Orwell our recognition that they want power solely for power ’ s sake , we owe to Ayn Rand the answer to that question and the recognition of a much more subtle point , one from which most people instinctively recoil .
He was suddenly seeing the motive that had directed all the actions of his life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or his love for others or his social duty or any of the fraudulent sounds by which he had maintained his self-esteem : it was the lust to destroy whatever was living , for the sake of whatever was not .
It was the urge to defy reality by the destruction of every living value , for the sake of proving to himself that he could exist in defiance of reality and would never have to be bound by any solid , immutable facts .
A moment ago , he had been able @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all men , that the hatred was proof of Galt ’ s evil , which he need define no further , that he wanted Galt to be destroyed for the sake of his own survival .
Now he knew that he had wanted Galt ’ s destruction at the price of his own destruction to follow , he knew that he had never wanted to survive , he knew that it was Galt ’ s greatness he had wanted to torture and destroy—he was seeing it as greatness by his own admission , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , whether anyone chose to admit it or not : the greatness of a man who was master of reality in a manner no other had equaled .
In the moment when he , James Taggart , had found himself facing the ultimatum : to accept reality or die , it was death his emotions had chosen , death rather than surrender to that realm of which Galt was so radiant a son .
In the person of Galt—he knew—he had sought the destruction of all existence .
They want to rule you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they want to kill existence and themselves .
Hard as it may be to comprehend , don ’ t we know them by their works : by the slavery , carnage , and wars they ’ ve imposed , the freedoms they ’ ve robbed , the joy they ’ ve extinguished ?
Look at the world with eyes wide open .
What do you see ?

No one is more dangerous than the suicidal.
When you can’t love, you hate. When you can’t build, you destroy. When you’re ignored, you scream. When you can’t tell the truth, you lie. When you can’t reason, you panic. When no one will follow you out of admiration or respect, you compel. When you can’t live, you kill.
This is it, the last gasp of the psychopaths who express their contempt and hatred for humanity by trying to rule it. Compulsion, not voluntary and natural cooperation. Power, pull, and politics, not incentives, competition, honest production, and value-for-value trade. From each according to his virtue to each according to his depravity.
It can’t work. It won’t work. They know it. Do you?
As the totalitarian horror unfolds before our eyes, only the willfully blind will ignore it. Only those who refuse to think will fail to grasp its implications. Only the irretrievably corrupt will embrace it. Everything I Know Abou... Robert Gore Best Price: $11.82 Buy New $11.87 (as of 07:20 UTC - Details)
This shouldn’t come as a surprise. We were warned.
Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness; only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where humans beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me? George Orwell, 1984, 1949
The worship of power has reached its apex even as its temples have come crashing down. During the twentieth century, the most bloodthirsty governments in history inflicted unprecedented carnage, destruction, and death. Some of them now have the capability to destroy life on earth. It was clear to those who looked and thought about what they saw that the only outcome of destruction and death would be destruction and death, including the destruction and death of those who inflicted it. The temples started crashing in 1945 with the fall of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Tojo’s Japan and they’ve been crashing ever since. In 1991 it was the Soviet Union and its puppet regimes in Eastern Europe.
Now destruction and death loom before what’s called the Western democracies, built on the myth that societies can serve two masters: violence and freedom. The forces of the former will always see seek to destroy the latter. That is what has happened and is now accelerating towards either total annihilation or a rejection of hate and violence and a rebirth of freedom and the human spirit.
Homemade Hand Sanitize... Smith, Rebecca Buy New $8.99 (as of 09:37 UTC - Details) There is a residual innocence, a remnant of human decency, that asks: why would they want to destroy us, don’t they know they’ll be destroying themselves? If we owe to George Orwell our recognition that they want power solely for power’s sake, we owe to Ayn Rand the answer to that question and the recognition of a much more subtle point, one from which most people instinctively recoil.
He was suddenly seeing the motive that had directed all the actions of his life. It was not his incommunicable soul or his love for others or his social duty or any of the fraudulent sounds by which he had maintained his self-esteem: it was the lust to destroy whatever was living, for the sake of whatever was not. It was the urge to defy reality by the destruction of every living value, for the sake of proving to himself that he could exist in defiance of reality and would never have to be bound by any solid, immutable facts. A moment ago, he had been able to feel that he hated Galt above all men, that the hatred was proof of Galt’s evil, which he need define no further, that he wanted Galt to be destroyed for the sake of his own survival. Now he knew that he had wanted Galt’s destruction at the price of his own destruction to follow, he knew that he had never wanted to survive, he knew that it was Galt’s greatness he had wanted to torture and destroy—he was seeing it as greatness by his own admission, greatness by the only standard that existed, whether anyone chose to admit it or not: the greatness of a man who was master of reality in a manner no other had equaled. In the moment when he, James Taggart, had found himself facing the ultimatum: to accept reality or die, it was death his emotions had chosen, death rather than surrender to that realm of which Galt was so radiant a son. In the person of Galt—he knew—he had sought the destruction of all existence. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
They want to rule you because they want to kill you because they want to kill existence and themselves. Hard as it may be to comprehend, don’t we know them by their works: by the slavery, carnage, and wars they’ve imposed, the freedoms they’ve robbed, the joy they’ve extinguished? Look at the world with eyes wide open. What do you see?
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lewrockwell--2020-03-26--The Day Natural Immunity Prevailed Over Flu Vaccination

Fifteen years ago researchers investigated whether flu vaccines are effective , that is , save lives .
These researchers noted that vaccination rates for the flu among high-risk senior adults rose from a low 15-20 % prior to 1980 to over 65 % beginning in 2001 .
However , counterintuitively flu-related mortality rose dramatically .
The researchers performed their calculations and concluded the flu-related mortality rate was very close to what would have occurred had no vaccine been available !
In fact , there were so few flu-related deaths some years ( the American Lung Association reports flu deaths as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 2002 , and 411 in 2007 .
This is in stark contrast to the Centers for Disease Control that says there are ~36,000 estimated flu deaths annually .
The US news media in concert with the Centers for Disease Control continue to issue scary reports of ~14,000 to 36,000 annual deaths from the flu .
For the record , here is a direct quotation from The Centers for Disease Control : Pure Acerola Cherry Po ... Buy New $ 29.95 ( $ 3.74 / Ounce ) Scratching their heads , these researchers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , leaving few deaths in this age group left to prevent , ~5000 per year .
This helps to explain why only a third of American are vaccinated against the flu but flu outbreaks are very limited .
It is not herd immunity , transferred from one person to another , almost like viruses are shed and transferred to others .
This may be why a recent analysis could not find any association between vaccination rates and severity of the flu season in 2010-11 and 2017-18 .
The chart below reveals the Centers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ flu infections and deaths by a wide margin , a practice that has become a common way to scare the public into flu vaccination .
In some years there were only a few hundred cases of laboratory-confirmed flu , but many millions of Americans were vaccinated .
If there were 100 million Americans vaccinated and just 1000 flu deaths , that means 100,000 would have to be vaccinated to prevent one flu death , an example of massive over-vaccination .
Let ’ s refer to another source .
The Kaiser Family Foundation reports @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is also a high figure ( a 2.8 per 100,000 incidence ) .
About a third of Americans roll up their sleeves for flu vaccination annually .
Let ’ s say 120 million Americans ( out of a population of ~325 million ) were vaccinated for the flu – – – 10,748 would need to be vaccinated to prevent a single death .
In other words , a person electing to vaccinate has a remote chance of every benefiting ( avoiding death ) from the flu .
In the coronavirus panic of 2019-20 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ flu shots than ever before .
As of the end of February 2020 , a record 174.5 million doses of flu vaccine had been distributed .
The American Lung Association 2015 report on deaths associated with influenza infections is much lower than data provided by the Centers for Disease Control ( see chart below ) .
GNC Vitamin D-3 2000 IU Buy New $ 14.99 ( $ 0.08 / Count ) The CDC and the news media choose to commonly publish that there are ~36,000 flu-related deaths per flu-year .
The American Lung @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 257 ( 2001 ) , 727 ( 2002 ) , and 411 ( 2007 ) .
A pediatrician wrote the CDC an official demand for correction , that the CDC correct the misperception that flu-related death rates are high .
But the CDC smugly says there is no egg on their face .
The CDC sticks to its misleading figure of 36,000 annual flu-related deaths .
Just what measures human immunity ?
Answer : T cells .
There are cells generated in the thymus gland to produce life-long antibodies against various incoming pathogens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) The thymus gland shrinks and does not produce sufficient antibodies without the trace mineral zinc .
Zinc is required to produce T-cells that facilitate memory immunity which is the objective of vaccination .
Zinc-dependent antibodies are required to fight off pathogeNatural immunity is thought to produce life-long immunity whereas synthetic vaccines require booster shots .
nic bacteria and viruses .
Essentially vaccines don ’ work without zinc .
An authoritative report is available at www.beyondvaccines.com for those who want to learn more .
It is natural immunity that is making vaccines look @ @

Fifteen years ago researchers investigated whether flu vaccines are effective, that is, save lives. These researchers noted that vaccination rates for the flu among high-risk senior adults rose from a low 15-20% prior to 1980 to over 65% beginning in 2001. However, counterintuitively flu-related mortality rose dramatically.
The researchers performed their calculations and concluded the flu-related mortality rate was very close to what would have occurred had no vaccine been available!
In fact, there were so few flu-related deaths some years (the American Lung Association reports flu deaths as low as 257 in 2001, 727 in 2002, and 411 in 2007. This is in stark contrast to the Centers for Disease Control that says there are ~36,000 estimated flu deaths annually.
The US news media in concert with the Centers for Disease Control continue to issue scary reports of ~14,000 to 36,000 annual deaths from the flu.
For the record, here is a direct quotation from The Centers for Disease Control: Pure Acerola Cherry Po... Buy New $29.95 ($3.74 / Ounce) (as of 10:43 UTC - Details)
“Epidemics of influenza typically occur during the winter months in temperate regions and have been responsible for an average of approximately 36,000 deaths/year in the United States during 1990—1999.” Morbidity & Mortality Reports Volume 54, No. RR08, pages 1-40, July 29, 2005.
Scratching their heads, these researchers concluded that natural immunity emerged after 1968, leaving few deaths in this age group left to prevent, ~5000 per year.
This helps to explain why only a third of American are vaccinated against the flu but flu outbreaks are very limited. It is not herd immunity, transferred from one person to another, almost like viruses are shed and transferred to others.
This may be why a recent analysis could not find any association between vaccination rates and severity of the flu season in 2010-11 and 2017-18.
The chart below reveals the Centers for Disease Control over-estimates the number of flu infections and deaths by a wide margin, a practice that has become a common way to scare the public into flu vaccination. In some years there were only a few hundred cases of laboratory-confirmed flu, but many millions of Americans were vaccinated.
If there were 100 million Americans vaccinated and just 1000 flu deaths, that means 100,000 would have to be vaccinated to prevent one flu death, an example of massive over-vaccination.
Let’s refer to another source. The Kaiser Family Foundation reports 11,164 flu deaths in 2018. That is also a high figure (a 2.8 per 100,000 incidence). About a third of Americans roll up their sleeves for flu vaccination annually. Let’s say 120 million Americans (out of a population of ~325 million) were vaccinated for the flu – – – 10,748 would need to be vaccinated to prevent a single death. In other words, a person electing to vaccinate has a remote chance of every benefiting (avoiding death) from the flu.
In the coronavirus panic of 2019-20, more Americans are lining up for flu shots than ever before. As of the end of February 2020, a record 174.5 million doses of flu vaccine had been distributed.
The American Lung Association 2015 report on deaths associated with influenza infections is much lower than data provided by the Centers for Disease Control (see chart below). GNC Vitamin D-3 2000 IU Buy New $14.99 ($0.08 / Count) (as of 02:54 UTC - Details)
The CDC and the news media choose to commonly publish that there are ~36,000 flu-related deaths per flu-year. The American Lung Association reports flu deaths as low as 257 (2001), 727 (2002), and 411 (2007).
A pediatrician wrote the CDC an official demand for correction, that the CDC correct the misperception that flu-related death rates are high. But the CDC smugly says there is no egg on their face. The CDC sticks to its misleading figure of 36,000 annual flu-related deaths.
Just what measures human immunity? Answer: T cells. There are cells generated in the thymus gland to produce life-long antibodies against various incoming pathogens (bacteria, viruses, etc.)
The thymus gland shrinks and does not produce sufficient antibodies without the trace mineral zinc.
Zinc is required to produce T-cells that facilitate memory immunity which is the objective of vaccination. Zinc-dependent antibodies are required to fight off pathogeNatural immunity is thought to produce life-long immunity whereas synthetic vaccines require booster shots. nic bacteria and viruses. Essentially vaccines don’ work without zinc. An authoritative report is available at www.beyondvaccines.com for those who want to learn more.
It is natural immunity that is making vaccines look good.


lewrockwell--2020-03-26--Beware a Government of Fear

Beware a Government of Fear

“ Those who would give up essential Liberty , to purchase a little temporary Safety , deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
” — Benjamin Franklin ( 1706-1790 ) One of my Fox colleagues recently sent me an email attachment of a painting of the framers signing the Constitution of the United States .
Except in this version , George Washington — who presided at the Constitutional Convention — looks at James Madison — who was the scrivener at the Convention — and says , “ None of this counts if people get sick , right ?
” In these days @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to criminalize the exercise of our personal freedoms , the words put into Washington ’ s mouth are only mildly amusing .
Had Washington actually asked such a question , Madison , of all people , would likely have responded : “ No .
This document protects our natural rights at all times and under all circumstances.
” It is easy , 233 years later , to offer that hypothetical response , particularly since the Supreme Court has done so already when , as readers of this column will recall , Abraham Lincoln @ @ @ @ @ @ @ corpus — the right to be brought before a judge upon arrest — only to be rebuked by the Supreme Court .
Lies the Government To ... Andrew P. Napolitano Best Price : $ 0.25 Buy New $ 4.46 The famous line above by Benjamin Franklin , though uttered in a 1755 dispute between the Pennsylvania legislature and the state ’ s governor over taxes , nevertheless provokes a truism .
Namely , that since our rights come from our humanity , not from the government , foolish people can only sacrifice their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ others .
Thus , freedom can only be taken away when the government proves fault at a jury trial .
This protection is called procedural due process , and it , too , is guaranteed in the Constitution .
Of what value is a constitutional guarantee if it can be violated when people get sick ?
If it can , it is not a guarantee ; it is a fraud .
Stated differently , a constitutional guarantee is only as valuable and reliable as is the fidelity to the Constitution of those in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ safekeeping .
Because the folks in government , with very few exceptions , suffer from what St. Augustine called libido dominandi — the lust to dominate — when they are confronted with the age-old clash of personal liberty versus government force , they will nearly always come down on the side of force .
How do they get away with this ?
By scaring the daylights out of us .
I never thought I ’ d see this in my lifetime , though our ancestors saw this in every generation .
In America @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fear .
Machiavelli offered that men obey better when they fear you than when they love you .
Sadly , he was right , and the government in America knows this .
But Madison knew this as well when he wrote the Constitution .
And he knew it four years later when he wrote the Bill of Rights .
He intentionally employed language to warn those who lust to dominate that , however they employ governmental powers , the Constitution is “ the Supreme Law of the Land ” and all government behavior @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Even if the legislature of the State of New York ordered , as my friend Gov .
Andrew Cuomo — who as the governor , can not write laws that incur criminal punishment — has ordered , it would be invalid as prohibited by the Constitution .
This is not a novel or an arcane argument .
This is fundamental American law .
Yet , it is being violated right before our eyes by the very human beings we have elected to uphold it .
And each of them — every governor interfering @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s own choices — has taken an express oath to comply with the Constitution .
You want to bring the family to visit grandma ?
You want to engage in a mutually beneficial , totally voluntary commercial transaction ?
You want to go to work ?
You want to celebrate Mass ?
These are all now prohibited in one-third of the United States .
I tried and failed to find Mass last Sunday .
When did the Catholic Church become an agent of the state ?
How about an outdoor Mass ?
What @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is an unassailable natural claim against all others , including the government .
Stated differently , it is your unconditional right to think as you wish , to say what you think , to publish what you say , to associate with whomever wishes to be with you no matter their number , to worship or not , to defend yourself , to own and use property as you see fit , to travel where you wish , to purchase from a willing seller , to be left alone .
And to do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Theodore and Woodrow : ... aa Best Price : $ 5.41 Buy New $ 15.93 What is the nature of government ?
It is the negation of freedom .
It is a monopoly of force in a designated geographic area .
When elected officials fear that their base is slipping , they will feel the need to do something — anything — that will let them claim to be enhancing safety .
Trampling liberty works for that odious purpose .
Hence a decree commanding obedience , promising safety and threatening punishment .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ have no legal authority to issue them , enforced by cops who hate what they are being made to do , destructive of the freedoms that our forbearers shed oceans of blood to preserve and crushing economic prosperity by violating the laws of supply and demand — should all be rejected by an outraged populace , and challenged in court .
These challenges are best filed in federal courts , where those who have trampled our liberties will get no special quarter .
I can tell you from my prior life as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than an intellectually honest , personally courageous , constitutionally faithful federal judge .
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“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
One of my Fox colleagues recently sent me an email attachment of a painting of the framers signing the Constitution of the United States. Except in this version, George Washington — who presided at the Constitutional Convention — looks at James Madison — who was the scrivener at the Convention — and says, “None of this counts if people get sick, right?”
In these days of state governors issuing daily decrees purporting to criminalize the exercise of our personal freedoms, the words put into Washington’s mouth are only mildly amusing. Had Washington actually asked such a question, Madison, of all people, would likely have responded: “No. This document protects our natural rights at all times and under all circumstances.”
It is easy, 233 years later, to offer that hypothetical response, particularly since the Supreme Court has done so already when, as readers of this column will recall, Abraham Lincoln suspended the constitutionally guaranteed writ of habeas corpus — the right to be brought before a judge upon arrest — only to be rebuked by the Supreme Court. Lies the Government To... Andrew P. Napolitano Best Price: $0.25 Buy New $4.46 (as of 12:15 UTC - Details)
The famous line above by Benjamin Franklin, though uttered in a 1755 dispute between the Pennsylvania legislature and the state’s governor over taxes, nevertheless provokes a truism.
Namely, that since our rights come from our humanity, not from the government, foolish people can only sacrifice their own freedoms, not the freedoms of others.
Thus, freedom can only be taken away when the government proves fault at a jury trial. This protection is called procedural due process, and it, too, is guaranteed in the Constitution.
Of what value is a constitutional guarantee if it can be violated when people get sick? If it can, it is not a guarantee; it is a fraud. Stated differently, a constitutional guarantee is only as valuable and reliable as is the fidelity to the Constitution of those in whose hands we have reposed it for safekeeping.
Because the folks in government, with very few exceptions, suffer from what St. Augustine called libido dominandi — the lust to dominate — when they are confronted with the age-old clash of personal liberty versus government force, they will nearly always come down on the side of force.
How do they get away with this? By scaring the daylights out of us. I never thought I’d see this in my lifetime, though our ancestors saw this in every generation. In America today, we have a government of fear. Machiavelli offered that men obey better when they fear you than when they love you. Sadly, he was right, and the government in America knows this.
But Madison knew this as well when he wrote the Constitution. And he knew it four years later when he wrote the Bill of Rights. He intentionally employed language to warn those who lust to dominate that, however they employ governmental powers, the Constitution is “the Supreme Law of the Land” and all government behavior in America is subject to it.
Even if the legislature of the State of New York ordered, as my friend Gov. Andrew Cuomo — who as the governor, cannot write laws that incur criminal punishment — has ordered, it would be invalid as prohibited by the Constitution.
This is not a novel or an arcane argument. This is fundamental American law. Yet, it is being violated right before our eyes by the very human beings we have elected to uphold it. And each of them — every governor interfering with the freedom to make one’s own choices — has taken an express oath to comply with the Constitution.
You want to bring the family to visit grandma? You want to engage in a mutually beneficial, totally voluntary commercial transaction? You want to go to work? You want to celebrate Mass? These are all now prohibited in one-third of the United States.
I tried and failed to find Mass last Sunday. When did the Catholic Church become an agent of the state? How about an outdoor Mass?
What is the nature of freedom? It is an unassailable natural claim against all others, including the government. Stated differently, it is your unconditional right to think as you wish, to say what you think, to publish what you say, to associate with whomever wishes to be with you no matter their number, to worship or not, to defend yourself, to own and use property as you see fit, to travel where you wish, to purchase from a willing seller, to be left alone. And to do all this without a government permission slip. Theodore and Woodrow: ... aa Best Price: $5.41 Buy New $15.93 (as of 03:00 UTC - Details)
What is the nature of government? It is the negation of freedom. It is a monopoly of force in a designated geographic area. When elected officials fear that their base is slipping, they will feel the need to do something — anything — that will let them claim to be enhancing safety. Trampling liberty works for that odious purpose. Hence a decree commanding obedience, promising safety and threatening punishment.
These decrees — issued by those who have no legal authority to issue them, enforced by cops who hate what they are being made to do, destructive of the freedoms that our forbearers shed oceans of blood to preserve and crushing economic prosperity by violating the laws of supply and demand — should all be rejected by an outraged populace, and challenged in court.
These challenges are best filed in federal courts, where those who have trampled our liberties will get no special quarter. I can tell you from my prior life as a judge that most state governors fear nothing more than an intellectually honest, personally courageous, constitutionally faithful federal judge.
Fight fear with fear.
Reprinted with the author’s permission.
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lewrockwell--2020-03-26--An Open Letter Regarding Closed Churches

From : His Highness Wormwood , Prince of America To : Subordinate Fiends Re : Update on Operation Coronavirus USA , Particularly As It Affects Churches Per yesterday ’ s Memo # 57391.003 , I met with Our Father below ( OFb ) to assess our progress in Operation Coronavirus USA ( OC-USA ) .
On the whole , OFb was pleased : he screamed a mere thirteen times during our interview and once even rubbed his hands with glee .
I haven ’ t seen him this buoyant since my uncle , Screwtape , applied similar tactics to Germany @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the princes of Asia , Europe , the British Commonwealth , and Central America have likewise reported astounding success .
Incredible , isn ’ t it , that a flu-bug our underlings in government and the media so wildly hype has terrified billions !
I mean , we aren ’ t talking the Black Death or even smallpox .
Yet much of mankind has taken leave of its puny senses .
Abducting Arnold Akers , Becky Best Price : $ 15.95 Buy New $ 19.95 Including Americans , who , I proudly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ politics destroy their country .
Even before Uncle Screwtape ’ s time , our colleagues laid the groundwork for demolishing the “ City on a Hill ” : democracy , Marxism , television and other media , evolution , nihilism , public “ education , ” etc .
That preparation has paid rich dividends .
Americans may still call themselves Christian and fill the churches half-way , particularly at Christmas and Easter .
But most are actually atheists who leave their religion in the pews .
Hence their hysteria as our lackeys in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stalks them .
When you assume you have but one earthly life , you will sacrifice anything , including freedom and integrity , to prolong it .
Nor will you look to the Enemy , Whom you neither know nor trust , for salvation but to our proxy , the State .
Which brings me to our greatest triumph : closing the churches !
And that when humanity most needs the Gospel , too .
Panicked and anguished souls can no longer find solace in the Enemy ’ s house , which means @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and little fellowship among His followers .
Who ’ d have thought even a month ago that the land of the Pilgrims and more Great Awakenings than any decent devil can stomach would see its churches lock their doors !
Nor need we dread another of those peculiarly American “ revivals ” such as hindered our endeavors during earth ’ s twentieth century : Christians now obediently shun even the smallest gatherings .
Best of all , I exempted religious institutions from the “ stay-at-home ” diktats ( so far at least ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ churches voluntarily .
Why is voluntary closing such a coup ?
Because the Enemy prizes freedom , the prerequisite for love .
And love , however disgusting and debilitating , is His ultimate value .
He ’ s built humans for it , too , though why they seek love when they could hate and lust and murder and bully beats me .
But that ’ s the Enemy for you : He endows His creatures with free will in the hopes that they ’ ll adore Him .
And now I ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ via OC-USA !
Unfortunately , some of you are swiping my credit for this .
And so I ask : did you send men of the cloth scurrying to the State ’ s websites rather than independent bloggers ?
No , you did not .
I must think of everything .
Which is fine : as Prince of America , that ’ s my job .
But I demand acknowledgement of my genius .
At any rate , since a myriad of websites resist our oversight and publish truth , I inspired pastors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pages .
How vastly amusing that they quote the CDC and the WHO in emails to their parishioners and on their websites !
Nor did they so much as glance at any evidence contradicting our lies .
Indeed , so complete is their confidence in the CDC that you ’ d never guess our servants there tirelessly promote sodomy , perversion and pedophilia .
As for the WHO , Uncle Screwtape et al .
established that bureaucracy as our beachhead to one-world government—something the Enemy has abhorred since the Tower of Babel .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ followers would eschew as well .
Yet I fooled preachers into not only availing themselves of the WHO and CDC but referring their congregations to them !
Observe , too , my twisting of the Enemy ’ s own words—a potent stratagem since Eden .
But few of you wield this weapon because you haven ’ t studied the Scriptures or even read them .
You rightly suspect that pastors know the Bible better than you do .
To that end , I ’ m instituting a series of pop quizzes on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ignorant demon may quote Romans 13 fearlessly , given that 99.9999 % of your patients ignore all other relevant passages .
Yes , the Enemy frequently cautions Christians against our stronghold , the State : Judges 9 , I Samuel 8 , Psalm 2 , OFb ’ s conversation with the Enemy Incarnate in the wilderness ( a huge error on the former ’ s part , admitting that he ’ d “ give ” Him the governments of the world—because you can ’ t give what you don ’ t own .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ few grasp this nuance ) , etc .
In these , He repeatedly denounces the cruelty , greed , brutality and corruption rampant in government—as if those are bad things !
But He may as well not have bothered : Christians spurn all His warnings to fixate on Romans 13 .
A bonus : most translations imply that He refers here to political authorities when the Greek designates such private ones as parents and tutors .
Ergo , I hurl Romans 13 at your patients whenever rulers propose yet another oppression , such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , too .
Some parishioners may press their clergy to open churches , so beware .
They ’ ll likely recite the Enemy ’ s commands to “ forsake not the assembling of yourselves together ” and to “ obey God rather than men.
” Counter them by puffing pride into your pastoral patient—after all , he graduated from seminary—and arrogance ( “ Just who do they think they are , debating the Bible with me ?
Besides , it ’ s my church , I ’ ll decide whether we ’ re @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
You should also realize that we ’ ve suspended our policies on love ( e.g.
, confusing it with romance or lust , chipping away at it , entirely neutralizing it , etc ) , so you can capitalize on “ love thy neighbor.
” Remind your pastoral patient that charity requires adjourning services to protect folks from the virus .
If he still threatens to break ranks , tempt him to conformity by whispering that most churches are closed ; how will it look if he ’ s open ?
One @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : suffice to say he ’ s since repented—offered a variation on this : closing churches to safeguard elderly members .
This is insultingly stupid and entirely beneath us : Gramps could remain home while the less vulnerable assemble .
OC-USA is achieving more than we had ever dared dream and wants no such inane “ help.
” You ’ ve doubtless observed that churches have substituted “ live-streaming ” and online sermons , classes , studies , etc.
, for corporate worship .
Ordinarily , we ’ d combat these with a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we figure that Christians will quickly come to prefer lounging about the breakfast table in their PJs and watching—or not : you can suggest all sorts of activities the kiddies will enjoy far more—a sermon to showering , shaving , dressing , and driving 20 miles so they can fidget while their minds wander and their stomachs growl .
We ’ ll extend OC-USA as long as possible , but alas , it must eventually end .
You ’ ll then reap the rewards of Christians ’ mistaking “ virtual ” worship for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ several of earth ’ s weeks away .
OFb loathes that day and always has , despite our devastating strike against the Enemy .
Personally , I relish every wound , every drop of blood and sweat , every lash of the whip , every thorn and spike piercing His flesh !
But not OFb .
He says the Enemy won that round because He rose from the dead .
Nonsense : has anyone else resurrected since then ?
If the Enemy is so powerful , why aren ’ t all His followers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days ?
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But a word to the wise : keep your pastors and congregants home on Easter , focused on chocolate bunnies and springtime rather than the Enemy ’ s alleged victory , else you ’ ll suffer the customary penalties .
Finally , OC-USA has greatly encouraged our rulers in high worldly places .
They rejoice at how quickly churches complied with our State ’ s recommendations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which Christians will cave when recommendations become orders at gunpoint .
No Richard Wurmbrands or Dietrich Bonhoeffers among your American patients , that ’ s certain .
Indeed , much of our achievement with OC-USA isn ’ t due to you but to naivete in the pulpits .
Today ’ s preachers are far easier to gull than the “ Black Robed Regiment ” that thwarted our grandfathers .
Believe me , there ’ s no danger of a second American Revolution ’ s saving the country from our goal of totalitarianism .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ via OC-USA !
The Best of Becky Akers

(With apologies to CS Lewis)
From: His Highness Wormwood, Prince of America
To: Subordinate Fiends
Re: Update on Operation Coronavirus USA, Particularly As It Affects Churches
Per yesterday’s Memo #57391.003, I met with Our Father below (OFb) to assess our progress in Operation Coronavirus USA (OC-USA). On the whole, OFb was pleased: he screamed a mere thirteen times during our interview and once even rubbed his hands with glee. I haven’t seen him this buoyant since my uncle, Screwtape, applied similar tactics to Germany under our Nazi proteges.
OFb mentioned that the princes of Asia, Europe, the British Commonwealth, and Central America have likewise reported astounding success. Incredible, isn’t it, that a flu-bug our underlings in government and the media so wildly hype has terrified billions! I mean, we aren’t talking the Black Death or even smallpox. Yet much of mankind has taken leave of its puny senses. Abducting Arnold Akers, Becky Best Price: $15.95 Buy New $19.95 (as of 10:35 UTC - Details)
Including Americans, who, I proudly note, cooperate as our flunkeys in politics destroy their country. Even before Uncle Screwtape’s time, our colleagues laid the groundwork for demolishing the “City on a Hill”: democracy, Marxism, television and other media, evolution, nihilism, public “education,” etc. That preparation has paid rich dividends. Americans may still call themselves Christian and fill the churches half-way, particularly at Christmas and Easter. But most are actually atheists who leave their religion in the pews. Hence their hysteria as our lackeys in politics and the media insist that death stalks them. When you assume you have but one earthly life, you will sacrifice anything, including freedom and integrity, to prolong it. Nor will you look to the Enemy, Whom you neither know nor trust, for salvation but to our proxy, the State.
Which brings me to our greatest triumph: closing the churches! And that when humanity most needs the Gospel, too. Panicked and anguished souls can no longer find solace in the Enemy’s house, which means fewer recruits from our side to His and little fellowship among His followers. Who’d have thought even a month ago that the land of the Pilgrims and more Great Awakenings than any decent devil can stomach would see its churches lock their doors! Nor need we dread another of those peculiarly American “revivals” such as hindered our endeavors during earth’s twentieth century: Christians now obediently shun even the smallest gatherings.
Best of all, I exempted religious institutions from the “stay-at-home” diktats (so far at least), so your pastoral patients closed their churches voluntarily.
Why is voluntary closing such a coup? Because the Enemy prizes freedom, the prerequisite for love. And love, however disgusting and debilitating, is His ultimate value. He’s built humans for it, too, though why they seek love when they could hate and lust and murder and bully beats me. But that’s the Enemy for you: He endows His creatures with free will in the hopes that they’ll adore Him. And now I’ve cleverly turned His gift against Him via OC-USA!
Unfortunately, some of you are swiping my credit for this. And so I ask: did you send men of the cloth scurrying to the State’s websites rather than independent bloggers? No, you did not. I must think of everything. Which is fine: as Prince of America, that’s my job. But I demand acknowledgement of my genius.
At any rate, since a myriad of websites resist our oversight and publish truth, I inspired pastors to consult only “official” web pages. How vastly amusing that they quote the CDC and the WHO in emails to their parishioners and on their websites! Nor did they so much as glance at any evidence contradicting our lies. Indeed, so complete is their confidence in the CDC that you’d never guess our servants there tirelessly promote sodomy, perversion and pedophilia. As for the WHO, Uncle Screwtape et al. established that bureaucracy as our beachhead to one-world government—something the Enemy has abhorred since the Tower of Babel. And something you might suppose His loyal followers would eschew as well. Yet I fooled preachers into not only availing themselves of the WHO and CDC but referring their congregations to them!
Observe, too, my twisting of the Enemy’s own words—a potent stratagem since Eden. But few of you wield this weapon because you haven’t studied the Scriptures or even read them. You rightly suspect that pastors know the Bible better than you do.
To that end, I’m instituting a series of pop quizzes on the Good Book. But even the most ignorant demon may quote Romans 13 fearlessly, given that 99.9999% of your patients ignore all other relevant passages. Yes, the Enemy frequently cautions Christians against our stronghold, the State: Judges 9, I Samuel 8, Psalm 2, OFb’s conversation with the Enemy Incarnate in the wilderness (a huge error on the former’s part, admitting that he’d “give” Him the governments of the world—because you can’t give what you don’t own. But men are irremediably stupid, and few grasp this nuance), etc. In these, He repeatedly denounces the cruelty, greed, brutality and corruption rampant in government—as if those are bad things!
But He may as well not have bothered: Christians spurn all His warnings to fixate on Romans 13. A bonus: most translations imply that He refers here to political authorities when the Greek designates such private ones as parents and tutors. Ergo, I hurl Romans 13 at your patients whenever rulers propose yet another oppression, such as shuttering entire states. You should, too.
Some parishioners may press their clergy to open churches, so beware. They’ll likely recite the Enemy’s commands to “forsake not the assembling of yourselves together” and to “obey God rather than men.” Counter them by puffing pride into your pastoral patient—after all, he graduated from seminary—and arrogance (“Just who do they think they are, debating the Bible with me? Besides, it’s my church, I’ll decide whether we’re open or not,” etc.).
You should also realize that we’ve suspended our policies on love (e.g., confusing it with romance or lust, chipping away at it, entirely neutralizing it, etc), so you can capitalize on “love thy neighbor.” Remind your pastoral patient that charity requires adjourning services to protect folks from the virus. If he still threatens to break ranks, tempt him to conformity by whispering that most churches are closed; how will it look if he’s open?
One of you—I won’t name him: suffice to say he’s since repented—offered a variation on this: closing churches to safeguard elderly members. This is insultingly stupid and entirely beneath us: Gramps could remain home while the less vulnerable assemble. OC-USA is achieving more than we had ever dared dream and wants no such inane “help.”
You’ve doubtless observed that churches have substituted “live-streaming” and online sermons, classes, studies, etc., for corporate worship. Ordinarily, we’d combat these with a range of technological snafus. But now we figure that Christians will quickly come to prefer lounging about the breakfast table in their PJs and watching—or not: you can suggest all sorts of activities the kiddies will enjoy far more—a sermon to showering, shaving, dressing, and driving 20 miles so they can fidget while their minds wander and their stomachs growl. We’ll extend OC-USA as long as possible, but alas, it must eventually end. You’ll then reap the rewards of Christians’ mistaking “virtual” worship for actual.
Meanwhile, Easter is but several of earth’s weeks away. OFb loathes that day and always has, despite our devastating strike against the Enemy. Personally, I relish every wound, every drop of blood and sweat, every lash of the whip, every thorn and spike piercing His flesh! But not OFb. He says the Enemy won that round because He rose from the dead. Nonsense: has anyone else resurrected since then? If the Enemy is so powerful, why aren’t all His followers climbing out of their graves after three days? Halestorm--A Novel of ... Akers, Becky Buy New $2.99 (as of 11:05 UTC - Details)
I submit that they’re not. But a word to the wise: keep your pastors and congregants home on Easter, focused on chocolate bunnies and springtime rather than the Enemy’s alleged victory, else you’ll suffer the customary penalties.
Finally, OC-USA has greatly encouraged our rulers in high worldly places. They rejoice at how quickly churches complied with our State’s recommendations and gauge from that the speed at which Christians will cave when recommendations become orders at gunpoint. No Richard Wurmbrands or Dietrich Bonhoeffers among your American patients, that’s certain. Indeed, much of our achievement with OC-USA isn’t due to you but to naivete in the pulpits. Today’s preachers are far easier to gull than the “Black Robed Regiment” that thwarted our grandfathers. Believe me, there’s no danger of a second American Revolution’s saving the country from our goal of totalitarianism.
Onward, then, to total conquest via OC-USA!
Warmly yours,
Wormwood
Prince of America
The Best of Becky Akers


lewrockwell--2020-03-26--Coronavirus Panic: the US Government Must Be Stopped Now

Any country that seeks to control others is a country that seeks aggression .
Any country that seeks aggression is a country that seeks war .
Any country that seeks war is a country that seeks domination .
Therefore , any country that seeks control , aggression , war , and domination is a country that must enslave its people in order to advance this agenda of imperialism .
This is a description of the United States of America today .
It has become a nation based on control , aggression , war , and domination , and only a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Watch closely what is hidden from view .
While there is an enormous amount of speculation and studied hypotheses concerning this coronavirus , do not allow the virus hype to cause blindness to the government ’ s hidden agendas and methods of achieving dominance over the populace .
Things are moving very quickly , and every single piece of new legislation , every executive order , and all mandated tyrannical measures instituted at any level of government could have very dangerous underlying consequences , and these will most likely not see the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
That is why it is so important to seek out those that are researching these documents and tyrannical measures , and reporting on them outside the mainstream .
In addition , the asinine social changes are not going away anytime soon , so get prepared for normal life in this new surveillance state of America to be one giant TSA center intent on inspecting and controlling all movement and action of the public .
In other words , life in this country could become one big airport security line , and pat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not ) of body cavity searches could become the norm .
Homemade Hand Sanitize ... Smith , Rebecca Buy New $ 8.99 What has happened so far is almost beyond the realm of imagination , but more tyranny at the hands of government is on the horizon .
Whether this coronavirus is a real threat or not , the authoritarian measures now in place will remain .
That alone is reason for worry .
Considering renewed surveillance , forced quarantine , mandated isolation , high unemployment , forced business closure , medical martial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ policy , forced vaccinations to come , travel bans , and highly increased poverty , all due to measures instituted so far , where will it end ?
The sad truth is that this assault on Americans will not end , and in fact will worsen in the future .
Economically speaking , the damage already evident will cause an undetermined amount of harm to all of us .
Some of course , many in fact , will face extreme hardship due to job loss , business closure , loss of income , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ due to massive money printing and distribution .
The Federal Reserve Bank has been given an unlimited ability to print money out of thin air .
Attempts are being made after passage of the largest bailout package in history , to fund corporations , big business , some small business , and even individuals , and all this fake money flooding into the public and private sectors will lead to much higher prices just as people have lost everything and do not have the ability to even pay their bills .
One of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( full text not available at this writing ) coming from government is the creation of a digital currency , which if implemented could turn into a way to eliminate cash , and also to possibly in the future control the entire monetary processes .
If China ’ s model were followed , this type of overreach could lead to social scoring and restrictions on movement , travel , credit , and even life sustaining needs should one not comply with government orders .
Unemployment is skyrocketing , and do not forget that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ websites are crashing .
Many states and cities are completely quarantined , “ locked-down ” as the new coronavirus terminology would indicate , “ social distancing ” is becoming a pandemic on its own , and “ shaming ” others for not being sheep is increasing exponentially .
Bankruptcies will abound , and suicide numbers in my opinion will outpace death from any coronavirus .
For those in certain areas that refuse to comply , basic life-sustaining services such as power and water will be cut off , as threats have already been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now , just as things worsen and distribution lines are closing .
All this and very much more will certainly lead to riots and chaos at some point .
Pompeo , the current self-professed lying cretin who is Secretary of State , announced a few days ago that this so-called pandemic response is a “ live exercise , ” so active military war games are already taking place , which means preparations are being made to implement national martial law if considered necessary .
Remember , 28 states have already called out National @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what is being discussed at the top , as anything of importance discussed by government is kept secret , and the cattle are only told what they want to hear , or at least not told of secret plans that might have horrible consequences to the populace at large .
50Pcs Disposable 3-Lay ... Buy New $ 49.99 One of the worst possible mandates that I think likely to come out of this fraudulent pandemic scare is forced vaccination of all .
The first vaccination that will be mandated will probably be a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ believe that this will be extremely dangerous , and could cause mass illness and death .
Barbara Loe Fisher explains this national plan here .
Be very aware of any fast-tracked coronavirus vaccine that the government approves whether it is forcibly required at first or not .
The hype is actually worsening , even as so many questions are being asked and not answered , and even as the numbers of deaths are but a tiny fraction of the normal flu .
Governors of many if not most states are now drunk with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are gaining in number .
It is time to slow down and review things thoroughly before drastic measures are taken .
We are headed into unknown territory , and once this government gains complete and total control over the population due to this or any other claimed emergency , all freedom will disappear , and what will remain will be a helpless people trapped in a totalitarian state intent on global domination .
“ None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ D. Barnett

Any country that seeks to control others is a country that seeks aggression. Any country that seeks aggression is a country that seeks war. Any country that seeks war is a country that seeks domination. Therefore, any country that seeks control, aggression, war, and domination is a country that must enslave its people in order to advance this agenda of imperialism. This is a description of the United States of America today. It has become a nation based on control, aggression, war, and domination, and only a totalitarian regime can achieve and hold empire.
Watch closely what is hidden from view. While there is an enormous amount of speculation and studied hypotheses concerning this coronavirus, do not allow the virus hype to cause blindness to the government’s hidden agendas and methods of achieving dominance over the populace. Things are moving very quickly, and every single piece of new legislation, every executive order, and all mandated tyrannical measures instituted at any level of government could have very dangerous underlying consequences, and these will most likely not see the light of day in any mainstream media. That is why it is so important to seek out those that are researching these documents and tyrannical measures, and reporting on them outside the mainstream. In addition, the asinine social changes are not going away anytime soon, so get prepared for normal life in this new surveillance state of America to be one giant TSA center intent on inspecting and controlling all movement and action of the public. In other words, life in this country could become one big airport security line, and pat downs and the metaphorical equivalent (or not) of body cavity searches could become the norm. Homemade Hand Sanitize... Smith, Rebecca Buy New $8.99 (as of 09:37 UTC - Details)
What has happened so far is almost beyond the realm of imagination, but more tyranny at the hands of government is on the horizon. Whether this coronavirus is a real threat or not, the authoritarian measures now in place will remain. That alone is reason for worry. Considering renewed surveillance, forced quarantine, mandated isolation, high unemployment, forced business closure, medical martial law, economic destruction, ludicrous monetary policy, forced vaccinations to come, travel bans, and highly increased poverty, all due to measures instituted so far, where will it end? The sad truth is that this assault on Americans will not end, and in fact will worsen in the future.
Economically speaking, the damage already evident will cause an undetermined amount of harm to all of us. Some of course, many in fact, will face extreme hardship due to job loss, business closure, loss of income, and inflation pressures bound to show up due to massive money printing and distribution. The Federal Reserve Bank has been given an unlimited ability to print money out of thin air. Attempts are being made after passage of the largest bailout package in history, to fund corporations, big business, some small business, and even individuals, and all this fake money flooding into the public and private sectors will lead to much higher prices just as people have lost everything and do not have the ability to even pay their bills.
One of the provisions in this massive bailout bill (full text not available at this writing) coming from government is the creation of a digital currency, which if implemented could turn into a way to eliminate cash, and also to possibly in the future control the entire monetary processes. If China’s model were followed, this type of overreach could lead to social scoring and restrictions on movement, travel, credit, and even life sustaining needs should one not comply with government orders.
Unemployment is skyrocketing, and do not forget that this is forced unemployment, and unemployment websites are crashing. Many states and cities are completely quarantined, “locked-down” as the new coronavirus terminology would indicate, “social distancing” is becoming a pandemic on its own, and “shaming” others for not being sheep is increasing exponentially. Bankruptcies will abound, and suicide numbers in my opinion will outpace death from any coronavirus. For those in certain areas that refuse to comply, basic life-sustaining services such as power and water will be cut off, as threats have already been made. Food shortages are almost certain now, just as things worsen and distribution lines are closing. All this and very much more will certainly lead to riots and chaos at some point.
Pompeo, the current self-professed lying cretin who is Secretary of State, announced a few days ago that this so-called pandemic response is a “live exercise,” so active military war games are already taking place, which means preparations are being made to implement national martial law if considered necessary. Remember, 28 states have already called out National Guard units. No one really knows what is being discussed at the top, as anything of importance discussed by government is kept secret, and the cattle are only told what they want to hear, or at least not told of secret plans that might have horrible consequences to the populace at large. 50Pcs Disposable 3-Lay... Buy New $49.99 (as of 02:49 UTC - Details)
One of the worst possible mandates that I think likely to come out of this fraudulent pandemic scare is forced vaccination of all. The first vaccination that will be mandated will probably be a fast-tracked and untested coronavirus vaccination. I believe that this will be extremely dangerous, and could cause mass illness and death. Barbara Loe Fisher explains this national plan here. Be very aware of any fast-tracked coronavirus vaccine that the government approves whether it is forcibly required at first or not.
The hype is actually worsening, even as so many questions are being asked and not answered, and even as the numbers of deaths are but a tiny fraction of the normal flu. Governors of many if not most states are now drunk with power, and explosive and unverified headlines are gaining in number. It is time to slow down and review things thoroughly before drastic measures are taken.
We are headed into unknown territory, and once this government gains complete and total control over the population due to this or any other claimed emergency, all freedom will disappear, and what will remain will be a helpless people trapped in a totalitarian state intent on global domination.
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities
The Best of Gary D. Barnett


lewrockwell--2020-03-26--Russia and China Assist European Nations

Lew Rockwell recently in his powerful “ War on China ?
” wrote that “ People are understandably upset about the coronavirus epidemic , but if we ’ re not careful , an even greater danger lies ahead .
Sinister forces in American political life are using the crisis to incite war with China and to stir up bad feelings towards the Chinese people .
The Chinese people are in fact heroic .
They are our friends , not our enemies .
But the forces of evil want you to think otherwise.
” I don ’ t know if Washington @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in providing medical protective gear and respirators to America , given recent statements by President Trump and Secretary of State Pompeo .
But even if the Chinese government is “ authoritarian , ” certainly , as I and others have written recently , America too has an authoritarian bent as well .
As is documented both on China ’ s CGTN channel on YouTube , and on RT , both nations are helping , especially in the case of Serbia whose request for EU aid was refused .
Today , as I write @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the NATO bombing campaign on Serbia .
From the article : Therefore , I am not surprised that the EU refused Serbia ’ s request for assistance and China has been a major help , as these videos from CGTN show .
This video posted on March 16th .
Serbia ’ s state of emergency : ‘ China is the only country that can help ’ “ A number of landmarks in the Serbian capital were lit up in red on March 21 and 22 as a tribute to China .
The local @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chinese government for providing medical assistance and to pay tribute to the Chinese medical expert group.
” And this video was posted as well : “ Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic greeted Chinese medics who arrived in Serbia on Saturday .
He kissed the Chinese national flag in a show of gratitude for China ’ s timely support against the COVID-19 outbreak .
Vucic said , ‘ Though China hasn ’ t finished the fight against the coronavirus yet , they say they will help Serbia , like iron brothers .
[ The ] @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” CGTN also posted this video on March 24th : “ International support for Italy has been ramping up .
China , Cuba and Russia have sent medical assistance .
Two Chinese teams have arrived in the country in the past two weeks .
But the authorities are also urging the medical staff from across Italy to go to the worst-hit areas in the country ’ s north.
” Sharing common destiny : China , Cuba , Russia and local doctors join to fight pandemic in Italy “ Italy ’ s government issued @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the battle against the country ’ s severe coronavirus epidemic .
Within 24 hours , the government had received 8,000 applications .
China , Russia and Cuba also sent medical support to Italy.
” On March 22nd , CGTN posted this video on help given to the Czech Republic : “ A Chinese cargo plane landed in the Czech Republic late on Saturday loaded with medical supplies .
Just over 1,000 cases have been confirmed in the Czech Republic so far .
The plane flew from the city of Shenzhen in south @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It includes 2 million respirators , 5 million face masks , 80,000 protective goggles , 120,000 protective suits and tens of thousands of test kits .
Two more flights are planned this month , one to the Czech Republic and one to neighboring Slovakia.
” “ Russian military transport planes which have been prepared to deliver help to Italy in its desperate fight against the Covid-19 infection have departed an air base near Moscow .
The planes are carrying Russian military medics and specialists in infectious diseases , as well as equipment necessary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus.
” “ Italy is in desperate need of help to fight the deadly coronavirus pandemic .
Assistance has come in the form of more than ten Russian military transport planes filled with people and medical supplies .
Italy has 63,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 .
RT America ’ s Alex Mihailovich has the story.
” Cuba , despite American sanctions , is also helping .
Ruptly posted this video : Italy : Cuban doctors and nurses arrive to help fight coronavirus “ A delegation of 37 Cuban doctors and 15 nurses arrived @ @ @ @ @ @ @ offer a helping hand to the overloading Italian healthcare system which is currently buried under the weight of the coronavirus outbreak .
“ Upon arrival , the delegation was greeted by Vice President of the Lombardy region Fabrizio Sala .
‘ Thank you to the ambassador , thanks to the consulate , thanks to the Cuban government for this action that they have taken to help us , ’ he stated outside the arrivals terminal .
“ The delegation arrived in Lombardy , the epicentre of the Italian COVID-19 outbreak .
The Cuban @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on to offer a hand in the new hospital that is being built in Bergamo , the province most affected by the virus .
Cuban Ambassador to Italy Jose Carlos Rodriguez Ruiz was also at Malpensa to greet his fellow Cubans .
‘ They are here to work alongside the good doctors and nurses of Italy that have been working everyday day to fight COVID .
We will do it with all the humility , every one together with everything they have , ’ he stated .
‘ We are here with a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and nurses , who have experience in disaster situations .
” ‘ They have been involved with Ebola in West Africa and some were in involved in other natural disasters such as earthquakes , ’ said Carlos Ricardo Perez Diaz , one of the leading Cuban doctors in the team of arrivals .
“ How long will we stay ?
The amount of time that the authorities believe we can offer help .
We came with a clear idea that we are here to help and we will stay as long as is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ say .
Finally , CGTN posted this video on March 24th as well : “ The Chinese Foreign Ministry has urged the United States to stop stigmatizing China over the outbreak .
It comes as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo continues to call COVID-19 ‘ Wuhan virus ’ despite clear World Health Organization guidelines , agreed to five years ago , not to do so.
” This video is about “ Giuseppe Remuzzi , director of a renowned medical research institute in Italy , spoke in an interview with U.S. ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus could be circulating in parts of Italy before people were aware of the outbreak in China.
” “ Expert : Virus may have circulated in Italy before outbreak in China ” Potentially positive news is presented in this video : “ Scientists around the world have been working to find an effective treatment for COVID-19 .
Along with some anti-viral drugs , traditional Chinese medicine has also been used to treat coronavirus patient and the Chinese government is encouraging physicians to combine both approaches.
” “ As the entire world try to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ says it is joining the efforts by sending aid to over 80 countries.
” The unanswerable question is if Washington had not been so hostile to China , would China have helped America by providing masks , gloves , protective gear , and ventilators to Americans in need ?
In contrast , Washington ’ s official response to several nations suffering from the disease is different from China ’ s , Cuba ’ s and Russia ’ s and described here by journalist Vanessa Beeley and let the reader decide which response is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the victims notwithstanding , a great deal of human suffering might have been alleviated .
At least Italy and other Western nations are being helped by China , Russia and even Cuba , nations that Washington sees as its enemies .
I want to end with this video , one of hope .
Like many Americans , I didn ’ t know much about Wuhan .
But not only is there pain , suffering and death , there is beautiful life .
CGTN posted this story about the gardens of Wuhan .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ as the Chinese are hopeful as well .
“ The cherry blossom season in central China ’ s Wuhan City is just on time .
But due to this year ’ s epidemic , cherry blossom gardens are not open to [ the ] public yet , but only the medical workers and volunteers who have been fighting on the front line for a long period of time .
Since new coronavirus cases have dropped sharply , many of medical workers can finally have a chance to relish tranquil Wuhan during their time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are in full bloom .
The garden may not be as full as usual , but happy faces remain .
Here ’ s a vlog on the coming of spring by CGTN ’ s Huang Yichang .
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Lew Rockwell recently in his powerful “War on China?” wrote that “People are understandably upset about the coronavirus epidemic, but if we’re not careful, an even greater danger lies ahead. Sinister forces in American political life are using the crisis to incite war with China and to stir up bad feelings towards the Chinese people. The Chinese people are in fact heroic. They are our friends, not our enemies. But the forces of evil want you to think otherwise.”
I don’t know if Washington would consider or China would be interested in providing medical protective gear and respirators to America, given recent statements by President Trump and Secretary of State Pompeo. But even if the Chinese government is “authoritarian,” certainly, as I and others have written recently, America too has an authoritarian bent as well.
As is documented both on China’s CGTN channel on YouTube, and on RT, both nations are helping, especially in the case of Serbia whose request for EU aid was refused. Today, as I write these words, is the anniversary of the NATO bombing campaign on Serbia. From the article:
“Twenty-one years ago, NATO, without obtaining permission to intervene from the United Nations, launched armed aggression against Serbia, thus crudely violating the UN Declaration, the Helsinki Accords, a number of other international conventions and its own act on the creation of NATO of 1949,” the statement runs. “It has been and will remain a crime against peace and humanity. The act of aggression, committed in alliance with the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army, left an estimated 3,500-4,000 people dead and 12,500 others injured and caused tremendous economic damage. The use of depleted uranium rounds and other prohibited weapons was a long-term hazard to the people and the environment. NATO turned itself into an aggressive, interventionist alliance with an outspokenly expansionist policy targeting the East first and foremost.”
Therefore, I am not surprised that the EU refused Serbia’s request for assistance and China has been a major help, as these videos from CGTN show. This video posted on March 16th.
Serbia’s state of emergency: ‘China is the only country that can help’

This video also posted:
Serbian landmarks lit up red to salute China

“A number of landmarks in the Serbian capital were lit up in red on March 21 and 22 as a tribute to China. The local government used this gesture to thank the Chinese government for providing medical assistance and to pay tribute to the Chinese medical expert group.”
And this video was posted as well:
“Serbian president kisses Chinese national flag as support team arrives.”

“Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic greeted Chinese medics who arrived in Serbia on Saturday. He kissed the Chinese national flag in a show of gratitude for China’s timely support against the COVID-19 outbreak. Vucic said, ‘Though China hasn’t finished the fight against the coronavirus yet, they say they will help Serbia, like iron brothers. [The] Serbian people will never forget this kindness.”
CGTN also posted this video on March 24th:
China, Cuba and Russia send medical assistance to Italy

“International support for Italy has been ramping up. China, Cuba and Russia have sent medical assistance. Two Chinese teams have arrived in the country in the past two weeks. But the authorities are also urging the medical staff from across Italy to go to the worst-hit areas in the country’s north.”
This video posted on March 23rd:
Sharing common destiny: China, Cuba, Russia and local doctors join to fight pandemic in Italy

“Italy’s government issued an SOS for 300 doctors to help in the battle against the country’s severe coronavirus epidemic. Within 24 hours, the government had received 8,000 applications. China, Russia and Cuba also sent medical support to Italy.”
On March 22nd, CGTN posted this video on help given to the Czech Republic:
Chinese medical supplies arrive in Czech Republic

“A Chinese cargo plane landed in the Czech Republic late on Saturday loaded with medical supplies. Just over 1,000 cases have been confirmed in the Czech Republic so far. The plane flew from the city of Shenzhen in south China with 117 tons of equipment. It includes 2 million respirators, 5 million face masks, 80,000 protective goggles, 120,000 protective suits and tens of thousands of test kits. Two more flights are planned this month, one to the Czech Republic and one to neighboring Slovakia.”
From RT:

“Russian military transport planes which have been prepared to deliver help to Italy in its desperate fight against the Covid-19 infection have departed an air base near Moscow. The planes are carrying Russian military medics and specialists in infectious diseases, as well as equipment necessary for diagnostics and disinfection of the deadly coronavirus.”
RT America posted:
Vital Russian medical aid arrives in Italy

“Italy is in desperate need of help to fight the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Assistance has come in the form of more than ten Russian military transport planes filled with people and medical supplies. Italy has 63,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19. RT America’s Alex Mihailovich has the story.”
Cuba, despite American sanctions, is also helping. Ruptly posted this video:
Italy: Cuban doctors and nurses arrive to help fight coronavirus

“A delegation of 37 Cuban doctors and 15 nurses arrived at Milan Malpensa airport on Sunday to offer a helping hand to the overloading Italian healthcare system which is currently buried under the weight of the coronavirus outbreak.
“Upon arrival, the delegation was greeted by Vice President of the Lombardy region Fabrizio Sala. ‘Thank you to the ambassador, thanks to the consulate, thanks to the Cuban government for this action that they have taken to help us,’ he stated outside the arrivals terminal.
“The delegation arrived in Lombardy, the epicentre of the Italian COVID-19 outbreak. The Cuban team of doctors and nurses will move on to offer a hand in the new hospital that is being built in Bergamo, the province most affected by the virus.
Cuban Ambassador to Italy Jose Carlos Rodriguez Ruiz was also at Malpensa to greet his fellow Cubans. ‘They are here to work alongside the good doctors and nurses of Italy that have been working everyday day to fight COVID. We will do it with all the humility, every one together with everything they have,’ he stated. ‘We are here with a brigade of 52 aid workers, doctors and nurses, who have experience in disaster situations.
” ‘They have been involved with Ebola in West Africa and some were in involved in other natural disasters such as earthquakes,’ said Carlos Ricardo Perez Diaz, one of the leading Cuban doctors in the team of arrivals.
“How long will we stay? The amount of time that the authorities believe we can offer help. We came with a clear idea that we are here to help and we will stay as long as is necessary,” Carlos went on to say.
Finally, CGTN posted this video on March 24th as well:
Beijing condemns U.S.’ s attempts to stigmatize China

“The Chinese Foreign Ministry has urged the United States to stop stigmatizing China over the outbreak. It comes as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo continues to call COVID-19 ‘Wuhan virus’ despite clear World Health Organization guidelines, agreed to five years ago, not to do so.”
This video is about “Giuseppe Remuzzi, director of a renowned medical research institute in Italy, spoke in an interview with U.S.’s National Public Radio” that “the virus could be circulating in parts of Italy before people were aware of the outbreak in China.”
“Expert: Virus may have circulated in Italy before outbreak in China”

Potentially positive news is presented in this video:

“U.S. experts say traditional Chinese medicine shows promise in treating COVID-19”
“Scientists around the world have been working to find an effective treatment for COVID-19. Along with some anti-viral drugs, traditional Chinese medicine has also been used to treat coronavirus patient and the Chinese government is encouraging physicians to combine both approaches.”
On March 20th, CGTN posted this video:
China provides medical assistance to 82 countries

“As the entire world try to curb the spread of COVID-19, China says it is joining the efforts by sending aid to over 80 countries.”
The unanswerable question is if Washington had not been so hostile to China, would China have helped America by providing masks, gloves, protective gear, and ventilators to Americans in need? In contrast, Washington’s official response to several nations suffering from the disease is different from China’s, Cuba’s and Russia’s and described here by journalist Vanessa Beeley and let the reader decide which response is more humanitarian.
The age and health of the victims notwithstanding, a great deal of human suffering might have been alleviated. At least Italy and other Western nations are being helped by China, Russia and even Cuba, nations that Washington sees as its enemies.

Italian nurse’s tears from COVID-19 front-line
I want to end with this video, one of hope. Like many Americans, I didn’t know much about Wuhan. But not only is there pain, suffering and death, there is beautiful life. CGTN posted this story about the gardens of Wuhan. Let these images give us hope, as the Chinese are hopeful as well.
Vlog: Medics relish tranquil Wuhan amid cherry blossoms

“The cherry blossom season in central China’s Wuhan City is just on time. But due to this year’s epidemic, cherry blossom gardens are not open to [the] public yet, but only the medical workers and volunteers who have been fighting on the front line for a long period of time.
Since new coronavirus cases have dropped sharply, many of medical workers can finally have a chance to relish tranquil Wuhan during their time off, and when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom.
The garden may not be as full as usual, but happy faces remain. Here’s a vlog on the coming of spring by CGTN’s Huang Yichang.
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