lewrockwell--2020-07-20--The Death Wish of the Anarcho-Communists

[ This article first appeared in the Libertarian Forum , January 1 , 1970 . ]
Now that the New Left has abandoned its earlier loose , flexible non-ideological stance , two ideologies have been adopted as guiding theoretical positions by New Leftists : Marxism-Stalinism , and anarcho-communism .
Marxism-Stalinism has unfortunately conquered SDS , but anarcho-communism has attracted many leftists who are looking for a way out of the bureaucratic and statist tyranny that has marked the Stalinist road .
And many libertarians , who are looking for forms of action and for allies in such actions , have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seemingly exalts the voluntary way and calls for the abolition of the coercive State .
It is fatal , however , to abandon and lose sight of one ’ s own principles in the quest for allies in specific tactical actions .
Vitamin C : The Real St ... Steve Hickey , Andrew W ... Best Price : $ 8.91 Buy New $ 12.47 Anarcho-communism , both in its original Bakunin-Kropotkin form and its current irrationalist and “ post-scarcity ” variety , is poles apart from genuine libertarian principle .
If there is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anarcho-communism hates and reviles more than the State it is the rights of private property ; as a matter of fact , the major reason that anarcho-communists oppose the State is because they wrongly believe that it is the creator and protector of private property , and therefore that the only route toward abolition of property is by destruction of the State apparatus .
They totally fail to realize that the State has always been the great enemy and invader of the rights of private property .
Furthermore , scorning and detesting the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ private property , and material affluence—all of which are corollaries of each other—anarcho-communists wrongly identify anarchism with communal living , with tribal sharing , and with other aspects of our emerging drug-rock “ youth culture.
” The only good thing that one might say about anarcho-communism is that , in contrast to Stalinism , its form of communism would , supposedly , be voluntary .
Presumably , no one would be forced to join the communes , and those who would continue to live individually , and to engage in market activities , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Anarcho-communists have always been extremely vague and cloudy about the lineaments of their proposed anarchist society of the future .
Many of them have been propounding the profoundly anti-libertarian doctrine that the anarcho-communist revolution will have to confiscate and abolish all private property , so as to wean everyone from their psychological attachment to the property they own .
EcoNugenics u2013 Pect ... Buy New $ 104.53 ( $ 6.58 / Ounce ) Furthermore , it is hard to forget the fact that when the Spanish Anarchists ( anarcho-communists of the Bakunin-Kropotkin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Spain during the Civil War of the 1930s , they confiscated and destroyed all the money in their areas and promptly decreed the death penalty for the use of money .
None of this can give one confidence in the good , voluntarist intentions of anarcho-communism .
On all other grounds , anarcho-communism ranges from mischievous to absurd .
Philosophically , this creed is an all-out assault on individuality and on reason .
The individual ’ s desire for private property , his drive to better himself , to specialize , to accumulate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all branches of communism .
Instead , everyone is supposed to live in communes , sharing all his meager possessions with his fellows , and each being careful not to advance beyond his communal brothers .
At the root of all forms of communism , compulsory or voluntary , lies a profound hatred of individual excellence , a denial of the natural or intellectual superiority of some men over others , and a desire to tear down every individual to the level of a communal ant-heap .
In the name of a phony @ @ @ @ @ @ @ profoundly anti-human egalitarianism is to rob every individual of his specific and precious humanity .
Furthermore , anarcho-communism scorns reason , and its corollaries long-range purpose , forethought , hard work , and individual achievement ; instead , it exalts irrational feelings , whim , and caprice—all this in the name of “ freedom.
” The “ freedom ” of the anarcho-communist has nothing to do with the genuine libertarian absence of interpersonal invasion or molestation ; it is , instead , a “ freedom ” that means enslavement to unreason , to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Socially and philosophically , anarcho-communism is a misfortune .
Economically , anarcho-communism is an absurdity .
The anarcho-communist seeks to abolish money , prices , and employment , and proposes to conduct a modern economy purely by the automatic registry of “ needs ” in some central data bank .
No one who has the slightest understanding of economics can trifle with this theory for a single second .
NOW Supplements , Vitam ... Best Price : null Buy New $ 9.92 ( $ 0.04 / Count ) Fifty years ago , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a planned , moneyless economy to operate above the most primitive level .
For he showed that money-prices are indispensable for the rational allocation of all of our scarce resources—labor , land , and capital goods—to the fields and the areas where they are most desired by the consumers and where they could operate with greatest efficiency .
The socialists conceded the correctness of Mises ’ s challenge , and set about—in vain—to find a way to have a rational , market price system within the context of a socialist planned economy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ approach to the communist moneyless economy in their “ War Communism ” shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution , reacted in horror as they saw the Russian economy heading to disaster .
Even Stalin never tried to revive it , and since World War II the East European countries have seen a total abandonment of this communist ideal and a rapid move toward free markets , a free price system , profit-and-loss tests , and a promotion of consumer affluence .
It is no accident that it was precisely the economists in the Communist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ communism , socialism , and central planning , and toward free markets .
It is no crime to be ignorant of economics , which is , after all , a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a “ dismal science.
” But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance .
Yet this sort of aggressive ignorance is inherent in the creed of anarcho-communism .
The same comment can be made on the widespread belief , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all anarcho-communists , that there is no longer need to worry about economics or production because we are supposedly living in a “ post-scarcity ” world , where such problems do not arise .
But while our condition of scarcity is clearly superior to that of the cave-man , we are still living in a world of pervasive economic scarcity .
How will we know when the world has achieved “ post-scarcity ” ?
Simply , when all the goods and services that we may want have become so superabundant that their prices @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , when we can acquire all goods and services as in a Garden of Eden—without effort , without work , without using any scarce resources .
Organic Zinc Sulfate L ... Buy New $ 18.95 ( $ 4.74 / Fl Oz ) The anti-rational spirit of anarcho-communism was expressed by Norman O .
Brown , one of the gurus of the new “ counter-culture ” : The fact that the abandonment of rationality and economics in behalf of “ freedom ” and whim will lead to the scrapping of modern production and civilization @ @ @ @ @ @ @ faze our anarcho-communists and other exponents of the new “ counter-culture.
” But what they do not seem to realize is that the result of this return to primitivism would be starvation and death for nearly all of mankind and a grinding subsistence for the ones remaining .
If they have their way , they will find that it is difficult indeed to be jolly and “ unrepressed ” while starving to death .
All this brings us back to the wisdom of the great Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset : The Best @ @ @ @

[This article first appeared in the Libertarian Forum, January 1, 1970.]
Now that the New Left has abandoned its earlier loose, flexible non-ideological stance, two ideologies have been adopted as guiding theoretical positions by New Leftists: Marxism-Stalinism, and anarcho-communism.
Marxism-Stalinism has unfortunately conquered SDS, but anarcho-communism has attracted many leftists who are looking for a way out of the bureaucratic and statist tyranny that has marked the Stalinist road.
And many libertarians, who are looking for forms of action and for allies in such actions, have become attracted by an anarchist creed which seemingly exalts the voluntary way and calls for the abolition of the coercive State.
It is fatal, however, to abandon and lose sight of one’s own principles in the quest for allies in specific tactical actions. Vitamin C: The Real St... Steve Hickey, Andrew W... Best Price: $8.91 Buy New $12.47 (as of 10:10 UTC - Details)
Anarcho-communism, both in its original Bakunin-Kropotkin form and its current irrationalist and “post-scarcity” variety, is poles apart from genuine libertarian principle.
If there is one thing, for example, that anarcho-communism hates and reviles more than the State it is the rights of private property; as a matter of fact, the major reason that anarcho-communists oppose the State is because they wrongly believe that it is the creator and protector of private property, and therefore that the only route toward abolition of property is by destruction of the State apparatus.
They totally fail to realize that the State has always been the great enemy and invader of the rights of private property.
Furthermore, scorning and detesting the free market, the profit-and-loss economy, private property, and material affluence—all of which are corollaries of each other—anarcho-communists wrongly identify anarchism with communal living, with tribal sharing, and with other aspects of our emerging drug-rock “youth culture.”
The only good thing that one might say about anarcho-communism is that, in contrast to Stalinism, its form of communism would, supposedly, be voluntary. Presumably, no one would be forced to join the communes, and those who would continue to live individually, and to engage in market activities, would remain unmolested.
Or would they?
Anarcho-communists have always been extremely vague and cloudy about the lineaments of their proposed anarchist society of the future. Many of them have been propounding the profoundly anti-libertarian doctrine that the anarcho-communist revolution will have to confiscate and abolish all private property, so as to wean everyone from their psychological attachment to the property they own. EcoNugenics u2013 Pect... Buy New $104.53 ($6.58 / Ounce) (as of 03:48 UTC - Details)
Furthermore, it is hard to forget the fact that when the Spanish Anarchists (anarcho-communists of the Bakunin-Kropotkin type) took over large sections of Spain during the Civil War of the 1930s, they confiscated and destroyed all the money in their areas and promptly decreed the death penalty for the use of money. None of this can give one confidence in the good, voluntarist intentions of anarcho-communism.
On all other grounds, anarcho-communism ranges from mischievous to absurd.
Philosophically, this creed is an all-out assault on individuality and on reason. The individual’s desire for private property, his drive to better himself, to specialize, to accumulate profits and income, are reviled by all branches of communism. Instead, everyone is supposed to live in communes, sharing all his meager possessions with his fellows, and each being careful not to advance beyond his communal brothers.
At the root of all forms of communism, compulsory or voluntary, lies a profound hatred of individual excellence, a denial of the natural or intellectual superiority of some men over others, and a desire to tear down every individual to the level of a communal ant-heap. In the name of a phony “humanism,” an irrational and profoundly anti-human egalitarianism is to rob every individual of his specific and precious humanity.
Furthermore, anarcho-communism scorns reason, and its corollaries long-range purpose, forethought, hard work, and individual achievement; instead, it exalts irrational feelings, whim, and caprice—all this in the name of “freedom.” The “freedom” of the anarcho-communist has nothing to do with the genuine libertarian absence of interpersonal invasion or molestation; it is, instead, a “freedom” that means enslavement to unreason, to unexamined whim, and to childish caprice. Socially and philosophically, anarcho-communism is a misfortune.
Economically, anarcho-communism is an absurdity. The anarcho-communist seeks to abolish money, prices, and employment, and proposes to conduct a modern economy purely by the automatic registry of “needs” in some central data bank. No one who has the slightest understanding of economics can trifle with this theory for a single second. NOW Supplements, Vitam... Buy New $9.92 ($0.04 / Count) (as of 04:43 UTC - Details)
Fifty years ago, Ludwig von Mises exposed the total inability of a planned, moneyless economy to operate above the most primitive level. For he showed that money-prices are indispensable for the rational allocation of all of our scarce resources—labor, land, and capital goods—to the fields and the areas where they are most desired by the consumers and where they could operate with greatest efficiency. The socialists conceded the correctness of Mises’s challenge, and set about—in vain—to find a way to have a rational, market price system within the context of a socialist planned economy.
The Russians, after trying an approach to the communist moneyless economy in their “War Communism” shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution, reacted in horror as they saw the Russian economy heading to disaster. Even Stalin never tried to revive it, and since World War II the East European countries have seen a total abandonment of this communist ideal and a rapid move toward free markets, a free price system, profit-and-loss tests, and a promotion of consumer affluence.
It is no accident that it was precisely the economists in the Communist countries who led the rush away from communism, socialism, and central planning, and toward free markets. It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a “dismal science.” But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance. Yet this sort of aggressive ignorance is inherent in the creed of anarcho-communism.
The same comment can be made on the widespread belief, held by many New Leftists and by all anarcho-communists, that there is no longer need to worry about economics or production because we are supposedly living in a “post-scarcity” world, where such problems do not arise. But while our condition of scarcity is clearly superior to that of the cave-man, we are still living in a world of pervasive economic scarcity.
How will we know when the world has achieved “post-scarcity”? Simply, when all the goods and services that we may want have become so superabundant that their prices have fallen to zero; in short, when we can acquire all goods and services as in a Garden of Eden—without effort, without work, without using any scarce resources. Organic Zinc Sulfate L... Buy New $18.95 ($4.74 / Fl Oz) (as of 02:28 UTC - Details)
The anti-rational spirit of anarcho-communism was expressed by Norman O. Brown, one of the gurus of the new “counter-culture”:
The great economist von Mises tried to refute socialism by demonstrating that, in abolishing exchange, socialism made economic calculation, and hence economic rationality, impossible…But if von Mises is right, then what he discovered is not a refutation but a psychoanalytical justification of socialism…It is one of the sad ironies of contemporary intellectual life that the reply of socialist economists to von Mises’ arguments was to attempt to show that socialism was not incompatible with “rational economic calculation” — that is to say, that it could retain the inhuman principle of economizing. (Life against Death, Random House, paperback, 1959, pp. 238–39)
The fact that the abandonment of rationality and economics in behalf of “freedom” and whim will lead to the scrapping of modern production and civilization and return us to barbarism does not faze our anarcho-communists and other exponents of the new “counter-culture.” But what they do not seem to realize is that the result of this return to primitivism would be starvation and death for nearly all of mankind and a grinding subsistence for the ones remaining.
If they have their way, they will find that it is difficult indeed to be jolly and “unrepressed” while starving to death. All this brings us back to the wisdom of the great Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset:
In the disturbances caused by scarcity of food, the mob goes in search of bread, and the means it employs is generally to wreck the bakeries. This may serve as a symbol of the attitude adopted, on a greater and more complicated scale, by the masses of today towards the civilization by which they are supported…Civilization is not “just here,” it is not self-supporting. It is artificial…if you want to make use of the advantages of civilization, but are not prepared to concern yourself with the upholding of civilization — you are done. In a trice you find yourself left without civilization. Just a slip, and when you look, everything has vanished into air. The primitive forest appears in its native state, just as if curtains covering pure Nature had been drawn back. The jungle is always primitive and vice versa, everything primitive is mere jungle. (José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses, New York: W.W. Norton, 1932, p. 97)
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The COVID Coup

Panicked by fears manufactured by the ruling class , the American people assented to being put essentially under house arrest until further notice , effectively suspending the habits , preferences , and liberties that had defined our way of life .
Most Americans have suffered economic damage .
Many who do not enjoy protected status have had careers ended and been reduced to penury .
Social strains and suicides multiplied .
Forcibly deferring all manner of medical care is sure to impose needless suffering and death .
In sum , the lockdowns ’ medical and economic dysfunctions make for multiples @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 virus itself .
Bad judgments and usurpations—the scam , not the germs—define this disaster ’ s dimensions .
The COVID-19 ’ s devastating effect on the U.S. body politic is analogous to what diseases do to persons whom age ( senectus ipsa est morbus ) and various debilities and corruptions had already placed on death ’ s slippery slope .
Outside of the few who have gained ( and are still gaining ) power and wealth from the panic , Americans are asking what it will take to end this outrage—not to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” decided by who knows whom , on who knows what authority .
Since no one in authority is leading those who want to end it , Americans also wonder who may lead that cause .
What follows suggests answers .
Unreported Truths abou ... Berenson , Alex Buy New $ 5.99 What history will record as the great COVID scam of 2020 is based on 1 ) a set of untruths and baseless assertions—often outright lies—about the novel coronavirus and its effects ; 2 ) the production and maintenance of physical fear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ challenges to the U.S.. ruling class , led by the Democratic Party , 3 ) defaulted opposition on the part of most Republicans , thus confirming their status as the ruling class ’ s junior partner .
No default has been greater than that of America ’ s Christian churches—supposedly society ’ s guardians of truth .
Since obfuscation , pretense , and lies concerning the COVID-19 are the effective agents of the panic and of the seizure of arbitrary power , truth and clarity about it are the foundational requirements for escaping @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
From early March 2020 on , the best-known authorities on epidemics—the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control—presented the COVID-19 respiratory disease to the Western world as a danger equivalent to the plague .
But China ’ s experience , which its government obfuscated , had already shown that the COVID-19 virus is much less like the plague and more like the flu .
All that has happened since followed from falsifying this basic truth .
Our “ best and brightest , ” at first having minimized fears of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , during which the disease spread from China to the West , then declared that the virus is unusually contagious , and posited—on zero factual basis—that it would kill up to one in twenty persons it infected—5 % infection/fatality rate ( IFR ) .
Based on that imagined fatality rate , they adopted mathematical models from Britain and the University of Washington that predicted that up to two million Americans would die of it .
The U.S. Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation ( IHME ) modeled the authoritative predictions on which the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also predicted COVID deaths for un-locked-down Sweden .
On May 3 it wrote that , as of May 14 , Sweden would suffer up to 2800 daily deaths .
The actual number was below 40 .
Whether magnifying this falsehood was reckless or willful , it amounted to shouting “ fire !
” in a crowded theater .
What justifies listening to , and paying , people who do that kind of science ?
Establishing any infectious disease ’ s true lethality is characteristically straightforward : test a large sample of the population @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sex , race , socioeconomic categories .
Follow up with the subjects a month later to add up the rate of infections and learn the results thereof .
Period .
Today , we still lack this definitive , direct knowledge of COVID ’ s true lethality because bureaucrats have prevented widespread testing for the purpose of firmly establishing the one figure that matters most .
That is because that figure ’ s absence allows them to continue fearmongering .
In May the Centers for Disease Control , by then discredited professionally ( though @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media ) , was forced to conclude that the lethality rate , far from being circa 5 % was 0.26 % .
Double a typical flu .
The CDC was able to keep the estimate that high only by factoring in an unrealistically low figure for asymptomatic infections—never mind inflated figures for deaths .
But the U.S. government , instead of amending its recommendations in the face of reality , tried to hide reality by playing a shell game with the definition and number of COVID “ cases.
” False Alarm : The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : $ 12.95 Buy New $ 12.70 During March and April , the authorities had defined as “ cases ” people sick enough to be hospitalized , who also tested positive .
Whoever divided the number of reported deaths ( a number inflated by a CDC directive to count deaths due to other causes as being due to COVID ) by the number of cases thus defined , was predictably scared and willing to heed “ the best advice ” —namely societal lockdowns—on how to stay safe .
That turned out to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the time , they defined the number of these “ cases ” as the “ curve ” which we were supposed to sacrifice so much to “ flatten , ” lest the wave of hospitalizations overwhelm our health care system .
Because their premises were wrong , that wave never came .
Instead , in May , as various non-official surveys were published showing that the majority of those who tested positive for COVID either barely knew that they had been infected or had not known at all , these very authorities doubled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mere infections as “ cases.
” They divorced reporting of these “ cases ” from reporting of the number of deaths , and warned the inattentive public about “ spiking COVID cases ” as if infection carried a serious risk .
They also promoted widespread testing of wholly asymptomatic persons for current and past infections , the results of which tests were sure to produce a surging number of new “ cases ” thus defined .
And they toyed with reporting deaths by attributing to COVID any that “ involved ” or looked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
They then included pneumonia , influenza , and COVID into the category PIC .
That is how the death figure came to exceed 100,000 .
But if the CDC had used the same criterion that it did with the SARS virus , namely “ severe acute respiratory distress syndrome , ” the figure by the end of June would have been some 16,000 .
Such naked ploys could succeed only because the media colluded in them .
The New York Times ’ May 27 lead story ominously blared : “ California is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ known cases.
” Meanwhile , the number of deaths attributed to COVID continued dropping from ever-lower bases .
By the July 1 , even using the CDC ’ s inflated figures for COVID-responsible deaths , COVID-19 ’ s Infection Fatality Rate for people under 70 was 0.04 % .
But rather than ask how clarion calls of danger comport with decreasing reports of deaths that may somehow be associated with it , the ruling class agitated to reverse returning to normal life .
Be afraid , be very afraid .
Heads the House @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if indirect indication that COVID is no plague also comes from comparison between the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 during any given period with the number of deaths due to all causes for the same period—despite official inflation in the number of deaths attributed to the virus .
The Imperial College , London ’ s tally for Great Britain , broken down by age of death , shows that the chances of dying from COVID-19 infection roughly track the chances of death from all causes at any given age , except for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the chances of death co-incident with the virus don ’ t exceed 1 % , or the average death rate , until age 70 .
For women , they don ’ t exceed the average death rate until close to age 90 .
In Spain , the death rate for infected persons over 90 years old was 10 % .
The measure of “ excess deaths ” tells a similar story .
During the six-week peak of the COVID event in 2020 , deaths in the U.S. exceeded deaths during the same period @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Considering that , concurrently , the 2020 flu season was one of the worst on record ( typically the flu is responsible for some 50,000 deaths during the season ) and given the CDC-mandated conflation of COVID numbers with others , the COVID-19 pandemic in and of itself did not amount to much—except in New York City , for reasons only partly known .
By June 20 , 2020 the CDC reported ZERO excess deaths—meaning that the figure for weekly deaths was within the long-term normal curve for that time of the year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Judy Buy New $ 16.51 Not incidentally , in 1957 some 116,000 Americans ( out of a population two thirds of today ’ s size ) died of the flu .
Ten years later , the toll was 100,000 and in 2019 it was 61,000 .
By June 2020 the ( inflated ) toll from COVID-19 stood at 100,000 .
In short , COVID-19 is not America ’ s plague .
It did not shake America .
The ruling class shook it .
They have not done it ignorantly or by mistake @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the general public ’ s compliance with their agendas .
Their claim to speak on behalf of “ science ” is an attempt to avoid being held accountable for the enormous harm they are doing .
They continue doing it because they want to hang on to the power the panic has brought them .
BTW : Whenever you hear someone claiming to speak on science ’ s behalf , referring to authorities rather than to facts and logic , you may be sure that person is a fraud .
“ Lockdowns ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ based on the premise that everyone is , if not equally vulnerable , then equally responsible , and hence that everyone must stay cooped up to contribute to everyone else ’ s safety .
But because every word of that is contrary to reality , false , a lie , applying the lockdowns ’ force to society has caused needless deaths and suffering .
Prefatory to considering the lockdowns ’ specific effects , we must be clear about what separation of infected or possibly infected persons from presumably un-infected ones can and can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to whomever wished to know it since the Middle Ages , and repeated even in the humble 1956 study guide for the Boy Scout Public Health merit badge : protecting the un-infected from infection by limiting their contact with those who may be infected depends on knowing that the people to be protected really are un-infected .
Medieval Venetians , to make sure that no one coming from places infected by the plague would bring it into the city , prevented debarking from ships coming from such places for forty days ( quarantine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ quickly finding the few infected among the many un-infected , and removing them even faster along with those with whom they had been in contact ( known these days as contact tracing ) , is effective only to the extent of the bulk of the population ’ s near-virginity .
But , once an infectious disease has spread within a population , quarantines and associated measures are a waste at best .
Personal hygiene and minimizing contact ( what we now call social distancing ) retain all their natural importance for reducing any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to some extent—perhaps even delaying chances of exposure until the disease has run its course .
But , once a contagion is rooted in a population , these measures make no difference to general public health .
The disease running its course means , in part , that enough people have been infected and hence will have developed immunity , that they can no longer transmit it to others ( herd immunity ) .
That is how human communities have lived with and through history ’ s countless epidemics .
We have seen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sweden and U.S. states ( e.g .
South Dakota and Arkansas ) that never did shut down .
When COVID-19 hit Germany , Chancellor Angela Merkel said that , regardless of what anyone did , some 70 % of Germans would eventually become infected .
And that would be that .
Isolation makes the biggest of differences , however , to sub-categories of the population that may be especially vulnerable to the disease .
The Bubonic Plague was an equal-opportunity killer , as was Smallpox .
COVID-19 , however , seems to discriminate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are most noxious to those already most debilitated .
But this one seems to have done so more than most .
In Italy , 99.1 % of those who died with or of COVID-19 also suffered from other diseases .
But this virus obviously has a special predilection for those with type 2 diabetes , high blood pressure , compromised lungs , and most of all for the very old—to the point that a study by Germany ’ s Ministry of the Interior asked whether it made any sense to ascribe to any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were in the process of shutting down anyhow .
By contrast , COVID-19 ’ s effect on ordinary healthy persons is considerably milder than those of ordinary respiratory diseases .
What sense , then , could general isolation ever have made in the context of COVID-19 ?
It made some sense in the context of the U.S. ruling class ’ s ( tragically wrong ) assumptions/pretenses/convictions ( take your pick ) that the COVID-19 is so infectious as well as plague-like in its lethal danger to the general population , that a wave @ @ @ @ @ @ @ submerge American hospitals unless its natural course were slowed .
Hence all medical decks had to be cleared of all other activities , emergency hospitals had to be constructed in the parks , and the Navy ’ s hospital ships had to be brought in .
As we have seen , there was never the slightest evidence that the COVID-19 virus could produce mass casualties .
From the first , all evidence pointed in the opposite direction .
Even in New York , where Governor Cuomo hyperventilated panic , the hospitals in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ship were virtually empty .
But the ruling class ’ s attachment to its assumptions/pretenses/convictions overrode the obvious truth that the elderly and infirm should have special isolation from contact with persons possibly infected with the virus and that the rest of the population should go about its business .
The U.S. authorities , the “ experts , ” the ruling class , chose to do precisely the opposite .
They “ locked down ” a general population that is at virtually no risk , thereby delaying the virus ’ s spread to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infection would build herd immunity .
Keeping millions of people indoors also worsened their health .
Keeping people from interacting and working normally wrecked economic and social life .
Worst of all , these authorities , these experts , transferred elderly persons known to be infected with the virus into nursing homes .
In Michigan , the authorities even assigned to a nursing home an aide known to be infected with the virus .
As a result , the as-yet fully uncounted deaths in these facilities , which house about 1.3 million people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) come to about half of the total U.S. death toll .
That is what happened , and it is perverse .
It deserves punishment .
Doubly so because of the cruelty with which it was done .
As known virus carriers and unscreened persons were moved in , as the contagion raged , the debilitated , powerless inmates were prohibited visits from their families .
These , being nearly all uninfected , would have posed no danger .
Had the families been allowed to visit , they might have become aware of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , they were powerless to save these innocents who , without advocates , were effectively condemned .
One New York nurse was fired for objecting .
Triply perverse , because some of the officials responsible—e.g .
Pennsylvania ’ s Secretary of health—knew what they were doing enough to pull their own relatives out of danger .
Others , e.g .
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo , who sent 4,500 COVID-infected patients from hospitals to nursing homes and blew off his responsibility for over 5,000 deaths with the words “ people die , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be deemed to be national policy .
He cited guidance from the Centers for Disease Control : “ ’ Nursing homes should admit any individuals from hospitals where COVID is present.
” Both the lockdown for ordinary people and the transfer of COVID carriers to nursing homes , said Cuomo , followed CDC recommendations .
Cuomo did not resist the recommendation .
He was occupied trying to score political points on Donald Trump .
In May Dr. Anthony Fauci , the federal COVID team ’ s most influential MD , explained the counterproductive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ television .
Earlier , he had said lockdowns were needed to preclude the overcrowding of hospitals .
That having proved to be his gross professional error as an epidemiologist , he now said that extending the lockdowns was necessary to prevent so many apparently healthy young people from eventually infecting the old and infirm .
But there is zero evidence that apparently healthy ( i.e .
asymptomatic though infected ) people infect others with the COVID-19 .
The evidence is that only symptomatic people ( ones with coughs and sniffles ) do , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Moreover , if separating known spreaders had been Fauci ’ s intention all along , why had the CDC ordered known COVID carriers to be shifted to nursing homes ?
At the very least , the man who drove the COVID team did it in a reckless manner that killed people .
He too had other things on his mind—political ones .
Similarly , Governors from New York to Michigan and Illinois , to California , Oregon , and Washington have ordered citizens to stay indoors—which always was and once again proved to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of respiratory viruses .
Illinois ’ s governor criminalized more than two people in any boat .
Californians have been arrested for walking on the beach , and New York City ’ s mayor threatened to pull swimmers out of the sea .
All in the name of Science .
Online searches find no science that shows viruses thriving in fresh air and sunshine , never mind in salt water .
The mayor of Los Angeles ordered residents to wear masks at all times outdoors , though there is no evidence that this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but especially outdoors .
In July , Anthony Fauci said that masks are necessary .
But in March the same Fauci had said they did more harm than good—equally without the slightest scientific proof .
Surreally , the L.A. Health Department specified that persons should wash their hands after putting on unwashed face coverings , and refrain from touching their faces—except to put on the face coverings that were supposed to make their hands dirty to begin with !
Science , anybody ?
Fauci also guided governors to permit people to congregate by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but to forbid them to do so in churches .
This fount of Science also gave his imprimatur to sex among strangers but advised Christians to refrain from Communion .
Too intimate .
What level of partisan credulity does it take to believe any of that ?
One may also ask what level of partisan credulity it takes to take seriously such personages as the governors of New York , Michigan , and California and the mayors of Chicago and Los Angeles , who personally flout the regulations they try to impose on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for me !
The answer really does lie in the depth of political party/class solidarity .
The governors and officials who imposed , maintain , and rationalize the lockdowns are all but one ( Ohio ’ s ) Democrats .
Their counter-factual assumptions/pretenses/convictions , their misrepresentations , their falsehoods and outright lies , are all about their social class ’ s effort to secure their privileges against an increasingly recalcitrant general population .

Panicked by fears manufactured by the ruling class, the American people assented to being put essentially under house arrest until further notice, effectively suspending the habits, preferences, and liberties that had defined our way of life. Most Americans have suffered economic damage. Many who do not enjoy protected status have had careers ended and been reduced to penury. Social strains and suicides multiplied. Forcibly deferring all manner of medical care is sure to impose needless suffering and death. In sum, the lockdowns’ medical and economic dysfunctions make for multiples of the deaths and miseries of the COVID-19 virus itself.
Bad judgments and usurpations—the scam, not the germs—define this disaster’s dimensions. The COVID-19’s devastating effect on the U.S. body politic is analogous to what diseases do to persons whom age (senectus ipsa est morbus) and various debilities and corruptions had already placed on death’s slippery slope.
Outside of the few who have gained (and are still gaining) power and wealth from the panic, Americans are asking what it will take to end this outrage—not to modify it with any “new normal” decided by who knows whom, on who knows what authority. Since no one in authority is leading those who want to end it, Americans also wonder who may lead that cause. What follows suggests answers. Unreported Truths abou... Berenson, Alex Buy New $5.99 (as of 03:17 UTC - Details)
What history will record as the great COVID scam of 2020 is based on 1) a set of untruths and baseless assertions—often outright lies—about the novel coronavirus and its effects; 2) the production and maintenance of physical fear through a near-monopoly of communications to forestall challenges to the U.S.. ruling class, led by the Democratic Party, 3) defaulted opposition on the part of most Republicans, thus confirming their status as the ruling class’s junior partner. No default has been greater than that of America’s Christian churches—supposedly society’s guardians of truth.
Truth
Since obfuscation, pretense, and lies concerning the COVID-19 are the effective agents of the panic and of the seizure of arbitrary power, truth and clarity about it are the foundational requirements for escaping its effects. Here is a dose.
From early March 2020 on, the best-known authorities on epidemics—the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control—presented the COVID-19 respiratory disease to the Western world as a danger equivalent to the plague. But China’s experience, which its government obfuscated, had already shown that the COVID-19 virus is much less like the plague and more like the flu. All that has happened since followed from falsifying this basic truth.
Our “best and brightest,” at first having minimized fears of person-to person contagion during January and February, during which the disease spread from China to the West, then declared that the virus is unusually contagious, and posited—on zero factual basis—that it would kill up to one in twenty persons it infected—5% infection/fatality rate (IFR). Based on that imagined fatality rate, they adopted mathematical models from Britain and the University of Washington that predicted that up to two million Americans would die of it.
The U.S. Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) modeled the authoritative predictions on which the U.S. lockdowns were based. Its model also predicted COVID deaths for un-locked-down Sweden. On May 3 it wrote that, as of May 14, Sweden would suffer up to 2800 daily deaths. The actual number was below 40. Whether magnifying this falsehood was reckless or willful, it amounted to shouting “fire!” in a crowded theater. What justifies listening to, and paying, people who do that kind of science?
Establishing any infectious disease’s true lethality is characteristically straightforward: test a large sample of the population proportionately representative of location, age, sex, race, socioeconomic categories. Follow up with the subjects a month later to add up the rate of infections and learn the results thereof. Period. Today, we still lack this definitive, direct knowledge of COVID’s true lethality because bureaucrats have prevented widespread testing for the purpose of firmly establishing the one figure that matters most. That is because that figure’s absence allows them to continue fearmongering.
In May the Centers for Disease Control, by then discredited professionally (though not, alas, in the mass media), was forced to conclude that the lethality rate, far from being circa 5% was 0.26%. Double a typical flu. The CDC was able to keep the estimate that high only by factoring in an unrealistically low figure for asymptomatic infections—never mind inflated figures for deaths. But the U.S. government, instead of amending its recommendations in the face of reality, tried to hide reality by playing a shell game with the definition and number of COVID “cases.” False Alarm: The Truth... Siegel, Marc Best Price: $12.95 Buy New $12.70 (as of 11:29 UTC - Details)
During March and April, the authorities had defined as “cases” people sick enough to be hospitalized, who also tested positive. Whoever divided the number of reported deaths (a number inflated by a CDC directive to count deaths due to other causes as being due to COVID) by the number of cases thus defined, was predictably scared and willing to heed “the best advice”—namely societal lockdowns—on how to stay safe. That turned out to be ruinous in and of itself. At the time, they defined the number of these “cases” as the “curve” which we were supposed to sacrifice so much to “flatten,” lest the wave of hospitalizations overwhelm our health care system. Because their premises were wrong, that wave never came.
Instead, in May, as various non-official surveys were published showing that the majority of those who tested positive for COVID either barely knew that they had been infected or had not known at all, these very authorities doubled down their dishonesty. They began labeling mere infections as “cases.” They divorced reporting of these “cases” from reporting of the number of deaths, and warned the inattentive public about “spiking COVID cases” as if infection carried a serious risk. They also promoted widespread testing of wholly asymptomatic persons for current and past infections, the results of which tests were sure to produce a surging number of new “cases” thus defined.
And they toyed with reporting deaths by attributing to COVID any that “involved” or looked as if they might have involved it. They then included pneumonia, influenza, and COVID into the category PIC. That is how the death figure came to exceed 100,000. But if the CDC had used the same criterion that it did with the SARS virus, namely “severe acute respiratory distress syndrome,” the figure by the end of June would have been some 16,000.
Such naked ploys could succeed only because the media colluded in them. The New York Times’ May 27 lead story ominously blared: “California is the fourth state with more than 100,000 known cases.” Meanwhile, the number of deaths attributed to COVID continued dropping from ever-lower bases. By the July 1, even using the CDC’s inflated figures for COVID-responsible deaths, COVID-19’s Infection Fatality Rate for people under 70 was 0.04%. But rather than ask how clarion calls of danger comport with decreasing reports of deaths that may somehow be associated with it, the ruling class agitated to reverse returning to normal life. Be afraid, be very afraid. Heads the House wins, tails you lose.
Irrefutable if indirect indication that COVID is no plague also comes from comparison between the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 during any given period with the number of deaths due to all causes for the same period—despite official inflation in the number of deaths attributed to the virus.
The Imperial College, London’s tally for Great Britain, broken down by age of death, shows that the chances of dying from COVID-19 infection roughly track the chances of death from all causes at any given age, except for the very young. For men, the chances of death co-incident with the virus don’t exceed 1%, or the average death rate, until age 70. For women, they don’t exceed the average death rate until close to age 90. In Spain, the death rate for infected persons over 90 years old was 10%.
The measure of “excess deaths” tells a similar story. During the six-week peak of the COVID event in 2020, deaths in the U.S. exceeded deaths during the same period in the previous year by 82,000. Considering that, concurrently, the 2020 flu season was one of the worst on record (typically the flu is responsible for some 50,000 deaths during the season) and given the CDC-mandated conflation of COVID numbers with others, the COVID-19 pandemic in and of itself did not amount to much—except in New York City, for reasons only partly known. By June 20, 2020 the CDC reported ZERO excess deaths—meaning that the figure for weekly deaths was within the long-term normal curve for that time of the year. Plague of Corruption: ... Mikovits, Judy Buy New $16.51 (as of 02:59 UTC - Details)
Not incidentally, in 1957 some 116,000 Americans (out of a population two thirds of today’s size) died of the flu. Ten years later, the toll was 100,000 and in 2019 it was 61,000. By June 2020 the (inflated) toll from COVID-19 stood at 100,000.
In short, COVID-19 is not America’s plague. It did not shake America. The ruling class shook it. They have not done it ignorantly or by mistake. They have done it to extort the general public’s compliance with their agendas. Their claim to speak on behalf of “science” is an attempt to avoid being held accountable for the enormous harm they are doing. They continue doing it because they want to hang on to the power the panic has brought them.
BTW: Whenever you hear someone claiming to speak on science’s behalf, referring to authorities rather than to facts and logic, you may be sure that person is a fraud.
Falsehood
Falsehood extorted shutdowns, which caused deaths and ruined lives.
“Lockdowns” of the general population had to be based on the premise that everyone is, if not equally vulnerable, then equally responsible, and hence that everyone must stay cooped up to contribute to everyone else’s safety. But because every word of that is contrary to reality, false, a lie, applying the lockdowns’ force to society has caused needless deaths and suffering.
Prefatory to considering the lockdowns’ specific effects, we must be clear about what separation of infected or possibly infected persons from presumably un-infected ones can and cannot do. This has been known to whomever wished to know it since the Middle Ages, and repeated even in the humble 1956 study guide for the Boy Scout Public Health merit badge: protecting the un-infected from infection by limiting their contact with those who may be infected depends on knowing that the people to be protected really are un-infected.
Medieval Venetians, to make sure that no one coming from places infected by the plague would bring it into the city, prevented debarking from ships coming from such places for forty days (quarantine). By the same token, quickly finding the few infected among the many un-infected, and removing them even faster along with those with whom they had been in contact (known these days as contact tracing), is effective only to the extent of the bulk of the population’s near-virginity.
But, once an infectious disease has spread within a population, quarantines and associated measures are a waste at best. Personal hygiene and minimizing contact (what we now call social distancing) retain all their natural importance for reducing any given individual’s chances of infection to some extent—perhaps even delaying chances of exposure until the disease has run its course. But, once a contagion is rooted in a population, these measures make no difference to general public health. The disease running its course means, in part, that enough people have been infected and hence will have developed immunity, that they can no longer transmit it to others (herd immunity).
That is how human communities have lived with and through history’s countless epidemics. We have seen this once again in how COVID-19 affected Sweden and U.S. states (e.g. South Dakota and Arkansas) that never did shut down. When COVID-19 hit Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said that, regardless of what anyone did, some 70% of Germans would eventually become infected. And that would be that.
Isolation makes the biggest of differences, however, to sub-categories of the population that may be especially vulnerable to the disease. The Bubonic Plague was an equal-opportunity killer, as was Smallpox. COVID-19, however, seems to discriminate a lot. Yes, all diseases are most noxious to those already most debilitated. But this one seems to have done so more than most.
In Italy, 99.1% of those who died with or of COVID-19 also suffered from other diseases. But this virus obviously has a special predilection for those with type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, compromised lungs, and most of all for the very old—to the point that a study by Germany’s Ministry of the Interior asked whether it made any sense to ascribe to any cause the deaths of persons whose bodies were in the process of shutting down anyhow. By contrast, COVID-19’s effect on ordinary healthy persons is considerably milder than those of ordinary respiratory diseases. What sense, then, could general isolation ever have made in the context of COVID-19?
It made some sense in the context of the U.S. ruling class’s (tragically wrong) assumptions/pretenses/convictions (take your pick) that the COVID-19 is so infectious as well as plague-like in its lethal danger to the general population, that a wave of desperately ill and dying patients would submerge American hospitals unless its natural course were slowed. Hence all medical decks had to be cleared of all other activities, emergency hospitals had to be constructed in the parks, and the Navy’s hospital ships had to be brought in.
As we have seen, there was never the slightest evidence that the COVID-19 virus could produce mass casualties. From the first, all evidence pointed in the opposite direction. Even in New York, where Governor Cuomo hyperventilated panic, the hospitals in the park and the Navy’s hospital ship were virtually empty.
But the ruling class’s attachment to its assumptions/pretenses/convictions overrode the obvious truth that the elderly and infirm should have special isolation from contact with persons possibly infected with the virus and that the rest of the population should go about its business.
The U.S. authorities, the “experts,” the ruling class, chose to do precisely the opposite. They “locked down” a general population that is at virtually no risk, thereby delaying the virus’s spread to people it could not harm and whose infection would build herd immunity. Keeping millions of people indoors also worsened their health. Keeping people from interacting and working normally wrecked economic and social life.
Worst of all, these authorities, these experts, transferred elderly persons known to be infected with the virus into nursing homes. In Michigan, the authorities even assigned to a nursing home an aide known to be infected with the virus. As a result, the as-yet fully uncounted deaths in these facilities, which house about 1.3 million people (about 0.39% of the population) come to about half of the total U.S. death toll. That is what happened, and it is perverse. It deserves punishment.
Doubly so because of the cruelty with which it was done. As known virus carriers and unscreened persons were moved in, as the contagion raged, the debilitated, powerless inmates were prohibited visits from their families. These, being nearly all uninfected, would have posed no danger. Had the families been allowed to visit, they might have become aware of what was happening. As it was, they were powerless to save these innocents who, without advocates, were effectively condemned. One New York nurse was fired for objecting. Triply perverse, because some of the officials responsible—e.g. Pennsylvania’s Secretary of health—knew what they were doing enough to pull their own relatives out of danger.
Others, e.g. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who sent 4,500 COVID-infected patients from hospitals to nursing homes and blew off his responsibility for over 5,000 deaths with the words “people die,” later deflected responsibility onto what legitimately may be deemed to be national policy. He cited guidance from the Centers for Disease Control: “’Nursing homes should admit any individuals from hospitals where COVID is present.” Both the lockdown for ordinary people and the transfer of COVID carriers to nursing homes, said Cuomo, followed CDC recommendations. Cuomo did not resist the recommendation. He was occupied trying to score political points on Donald Trump.
In May Dr. Anthony Fauci, the federal COVID team’s most influential MD, explained the counterproductive national lockdown of healthy people on national television. Earlier, he had said lockdowns were needed to preclude the overcrowding of hospitals. That having proved to be his gross professional error as an epidemiologist, he now said that extending the lockdowns was necessary to prevent so many apparently healthy young people from eventually infecting the old and infirm.
But there is zero evidence that apparently healthy (i.e. asymptomatic though infected) people infect others with the COVID-19. The evidence is that only symptomatic people (ones with coughs and sniffles) do, and that not through casual contact. Moreover, if separating known spreaders had been Fauci’s intention all along, why had the CDC ordered known COVID carriers to be shifted to nursing homes? At the very least, the man who drove the COVID team did it in a reckless manner that killed people. He too had other things on his mind—political ones.
Similarly, Governors from New York to Michigan and Illinois, to California, Oregon, and Washington have ordered citizens to stay indoors—which always was and once again proved to be the ideal environment for the transmission of respiratory viruses. Illinois’s governor criminalized more than two people in any boat. Californians have been arrested for walking on the beach, and New York City’s mayor threatened to pull swimmers out of the sea. All in the name of Science. Online searches find no science that shows viruses thriving in fresh air and sunshine, never mind in salt water. The mayor of Los Angeles ordered residents to wear masks at all times outdoors, though there is no evidence that this virus transmits through casual proximity anywhere, but especially outdoors.
In July, Anthony Fauci said that masks are necessary. But in March the same Fauci had said they did more harm than good—equally without the slightest scientific proof. Surreally, the L.A. Health Department specified that persons should wash their hands after putting on unwashed face coverings, and refrain from touching their faces—except to put on the face coverings that were supposed to make their hands dirty to begin with! Science, anybody? Fauci also guided governors to permit people to congregate by the hundreds at Walmart and Costco, but to forbid them to do so in churches. This fount of Science also gave his imprimatur to sex among strangers but advised Christians to refrain from Communion. Too intimate. What level of partisan credulity does it take to believe any of that?
One may also ask what level of partisan credulity it takes to take seriously such personages as the governors of New York, Michigan, and California and the mayors of Chicago and Los Angeles, who personally flout the regulations they try to impose on others. Restrictions for thee but not for me!
The answer really does lie in the depth of political party/class solidarity. The governors and officials who imposed, maintain, and rationalize the lockdowns are all but one (Ohio’s) Democrats. Their counter-factual assumptions/pretenses/convictions, their misrepresentations, their falsehoods and outright lies, are all about their social class’s effort to secure their privileges against an increasingly recalcitrant general population.
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lewrockwell--2020-07-20--The True Story of the 1918 ‘So-Called Viral Influenza’ Pandemic

The 1918-19 bacterial vaccine experiment may have killed 50-100 million people For over a century , various entities that are involved in the propaganda machinery that has been tasked by the powers-that-be to advance American patriotism and corporate profiteering have covered-up the truth about what actually started the epidemic of what became known as the “ Spanish Flu ” , successfully obscuring what was actually a shameful experiment perpetrated by the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research – the uber-wealthy entity that started the American Medical Association and the School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University .
2020 American Silver @ @ @ @ @ @ @ For over a century , Americans have been led to believe that what was the true epicenter of the pandemic – US Army military bases – was actually the result of a Rockefeller Instutute vaccine experiment gone awry .
The culprit vaccine , nicely documented by author Kevin Barry was perpetrated upon hapless military recruits at a variety of bases in the US .
Spain had nothing to do with the epidemic , except for actually allowing its journalists to write about it .
The experimental vaccine was devised when the only vaccine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ preventing disease was the smallpox vaccine ( which , when evaluated in retrospect , didn ’ t actually deserve credit for the disappearance of smallpox , since only a small minority of world citizens every actually received the vaccine . )
The crude experimental vaccine was intended to theoretically prevent bacterial ( not viral ) meningitis in soldiers , which had been a problem in past wars .
Barry nicely documents the story that has been left out of the history books , ignored by the Mainstream Media , deleted from the Pentagon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and medical industries , the NIH , the CDC , the NIAID and every corporation that seeks to profit from vaccinating as many infants , children and adults that they can .
And that includes , of course , the widely discredited Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that has spent hundreds of billions of dollars funding , founding and subsidizing corporations and other entities that promote universal vaccinations for whatever is proclaimed Big Pharma to be “ vaccine-preventable disorders ” ) A previous 4261 word Duty to Warn column can be accessed at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are excerpts from the article that was written by author Kevin Barry , whose website is called First Freedoms .
“ During the war years 1918-19 , the US Army ballooned to 6,000,000 men , with 2,000,000 men being sent overseas .
The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research took advantage of this new pool of human guinea pigs to conduct vaccine experiments.
” Kirkland Signature Wil ... Buy New $ 44.80 ( $ 7.47 / Ounce ) “ During WW1 , the Rockefeller Institute also sent its experimental anti-meningococcal serum to England , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ countries , helping spread the epidemic worldwide.
” “ The Rockefeller Institute and its experimental bacterial meningococcal vaccine , contrary to the accepted mythology may have killed 50-100 million people in 1918-1919.
” “ The crude anti-bacterial vaccine used in the Fort Riley experiment on soldiers was made in horses.
” “ According to a 2008 National Institute of Health paper , bacterial pneumonia was the killer in a minimum of 92.7 % of the 1918-19 Pandemic autopsies reviewed.
” “ Clean water , sanitation , flushing toilets , refrigerated foods and healthy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more to protect humanity from infectious diseases than any vaccine program.
” “ In 1918 , the vaccine industry experimented on soldiers…with disastrous results—but in 2018 , the vaccine industry experiments on infants every day .
The vaccine schedule has never been tested as it is given .
The results of the experiment are in : 1 in 7 of America ’ s fully vaccinated children is in some form of special education and over 50 % have some form of chronic illness.
” The “ Spanish Flu ” killed an estimated 50-100 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ What if the story we have been told about this pandemic isn ’ t true ?
What if , instead , the killer infection was neither the flu nor Spanish in origin ?
Newly analyzed documents reveal that the “ Spanish Flu ” may have been a military vaccine experiment gone awry .
Womens 45 2020 Trump S ... Buy New $ 19.99 The reason modern technology has not been able to pinpoint the killer influenza strain from this pandemic is because influenza was not the killer .
More soldiers died during WWI @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pandemic was not flu .
An estimated 95 % ( or higher ) of the deaths were caused by bacterial pneumonia , not an influenza virus .
The pandemic was not Spanish .
The first cases of bacterial pneumonia in 1918 trace back to military bases , the first one in Fort Riley , Kansas .
From January 21 – June 4 , 1918 , an experimental bacterial meningitis vaccine cultured in horses by the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York was injected into soldiers at Fort Riley .
During the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ often living and traveling under poor sanitary conditions – were sent to Europe to fight , they spread bacteria at every stop between Kansas and the frontline trenches in France .
One study describes soldiers “ with active infections ( who ) were aerosolizing the bacteria that colonized their noses and throats , while others—often , in the same “ breathing spaces ” —were profoundly susceptible to invasion of and rapid spread through their lungs by their own or others ’ colonizing bacteria.
” ( 1 ) The “ Spanish Flu ” attacked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pneumonia attacks people in their prime .
Flu attacks the young , old and immunocompromised .
When WW1 ended on November 11 , 1918 , soldiers returned to their home countries and colonial outposts , spreading the killer bacterial pneumonia worldwide .
During WW1 , the Rockefeller Institute also sent its experimental anti-meningococcal serum to England , France , Belgium , Italy and other countries , helping spread the epidemic worldwide .
During the pandemic of 1918-19 , the so-called “ Spanish Flu ” killed 50-100 million people , including many soldiers .
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Many people do not realize that disease killed far more soldiers on all sides than machine guns or mustard gas or anything else typically associated with WWI .
I have a personal connection to the Spanish Flu .
Among those killed by disease in 1918-19 are members of both of my parents ’ families .
On my father ’ s side , his grandmother Sadie Hoyt died from pneumonia in 1918 .
Sadie was a Chief Yeoman in the Navy .
Her death left my grandmother Rosemary and her sister @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Sadie ’ s sister Marian also joined the Navy .
She died from “ the influenza ” in 1919 .
On my mother ’ s side , two of her father ’ s sisters died in childhood .
All of the family members who died lived in New York City .
I suspect many American families , and many families worldwide , were impacted in similar ways by the mysterious Spanish Flu .
In 1918 , “ influenza ” or flu was a catchall term for disease of unknown origin .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it does today .
It meant some mystery disease which dropped out of the sky .
In fact , influenza is from the Medieval Latin “ influential ” in an astrological sense , meaning a visitation under the influence of the stars .
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The 1918-19 bacterial vaccine experiment may have killed 50-100 million people
For over a century, various entities that are involved in the propaganda machinery that has been tasked by the powers-that-be to advance American patriotism and corporate profiteering have covered-up the truth about what actually started the epidemic of what became known as the “Spanish Flu”, successfully obscuring what was actually a shameful experiment perpetrated by the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research – the uber-wealthy entity that started the American Medical Association and the School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. 2020 American Silver E... Check Amazon for Pricing.
For over a century, Americans have been led to believe that what was the true epicenter of the pandemic – US Army military bases – was actually the result of a Rockefeller Instutute vaccine experiment gone awry. The culprit vaccine, nicely documented by author Kevin Barry was perpetrated upon hapless military recruits at a variety of bases in the US. Spain had nothing to do with the epidemic, except for actually allowing its journalists to write about it.
The experimental vaccine was devised when the only vaccine that had ever shown any promise in preventing disease was the smallpox vaccine (which, when evaluated in retrospect, didn’t actually deserve credit for the disappearance of smallpox, since only a small minority of world citizens every actually received the vaccine.)
The crude experimental vaccine was intended to theoretically prevent bacterial (not viral) meningitis in soldiers, which had been a problem in past wars. Barry nicely documents the story that has been left out of the history books, ignored by the Mainstream Media, deleted from the Pentagon archives, and misrepresented by the pharmaceutical and medical industries, the NIH, the CDC, the NIAID and every corporation that seeks to profit from vaccinating as many infants, children and adults that they can. And that includes, of course, the widely discredited Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that has spent hundreds of billions of dollars funding, founding and subsidizing corporations and other entities that promote universal vaccinations for whatever is proclaimed Big Pharma to be “vaccine-preventable disorders”)
A previous 4261 word Duty to Warn column can be accessed at various websites, including here.
Below are excerpts from the article that was written by author Kevin Barry, whose website is called First Freedoms.
_______________________________________________________________________
“During the war years 1918-19, the US Army ballooned to 6,000,000 men, with 2,000,000 men being sent overseas. The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research took advantage of this new pool of human guinea pigs to conduct vaccine experiments.” Kirkland Signature Wil... Buy New $44.80 ($7.47 / Ounce) (as of 03:51 UTC - Details)
“During WW1, the Rockefeller Institute also sent its experimental anti-meningococcal serum to England, France, Belgium, Italy and other countries, helping spread the epidemic worldwide.”
“The Rockefeller Institute and its experimental bacterial meningococcal vaccine, contrary to the accepted mythology may have killed 50-100 million people in 1918-1919.”
“The crude anti-bacterial vaccine used in the Fort Riley experiment on soldiers was made in horses.”
“According to a 2008 National Institute of Health paper, bacterial pneumonia was the killer in a minimum of 92.7% of the 1918-19 Pandemic autopsies reviewed.”
“Clean water, sanitation, flushing toilets, refrigerated foods and healthy diets have done and still do far more to protect humanity from infectious diseases than any vaccine program.”
“In 1918, the vaccine industry experimented on soldiers…with disastrous results—but in 2018, the vaccine industry experiments on infants every day. The vaccine schedule has never been tested as it is given. The results of the experiment are in: 1 in 7 of America’s fully vaccinated children is in some form of special education and over 50% have some form of chronic illness.” The “Spanish Flu” killed an estimated 50-100 million people during a pandemic 1918-19.”
What if the story we have been told about this pandemic isn’t true? What if, instead, the killer infection was neither the flu nor Spanish in origin?
Newly analyzed documents reveal that the “Spanish Flu” may have been a military vaccine experiment gone awry.
Summary
Womens 45 2020 Trump S... Buy New $19.99 (as of 03:51 UTC - Details) The reason modern technology has not been able to pinpoint the killer influenza strain from this pandemic is because influenza was not the killer.
More soldiers died during WWI from disease than from bullets.
The pandemic was not flu. An estimated 95% (or higher) of the deaths were caused by bacterial pneumonia, not an influenza virus.
The pandemic was not Spanish. The first cases of bacterial pneumonia in 1918 trace back to military bases, the first one in Fort Riley, Kansas.
From January 21 – June 4, 1918, an experimental bacterial meningitis vaccine cultured in horses by the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York was injected into soldiers at Fort Riley.
During the remainder of 1918 as those soldiers – often living and traveling under poor sanitary conditions – were sent to Europe to fight, they spread bacteria at every stop between Kansas and the frontline trenches in France.
One study describes soldiers “with active infections (who) were aerosolizing the bacteria that colonized their noses and throats, while others—often, in the same “breathing spaces”—were profoundly susceptible to invasion of and rapid spread through their lungs by their own or others’ colonizing bacteria.” (1)
The “Spanish Flu” attacked healthy people in their prime. Bacterial pneumonia attacks people in their prime. Flu attacks the young, old and immunocompromised.
When WW1 ended on November 11, 1918, soldiers returned to their home countries and colonial outposts, spreading the killer bacterial pneumonia worldwide.
During WW1, the Rockefeller Institute also sent its experimental anti-meningococcal serum to England, France, Belgium, Italy and other countries, helping spread the epidemic worldwide.
During the pandemic of 1918-19, the so-called “Spanish Flu” killed 50-100 million people, including many soldiers. 2020 Silver American E... Check Amazon for Pricing.
Many people do not realize that disease killed far more soldiers on all sides than machine guns or mustard gas or anything else typically associated with WWI.
I have a personal connection to the Spanish Flu. Among those killed by disease in 1918-19 are members of both of my parents’ families.
On my father’s side, his grandmother Sadie Hoyt died from pneumonia in 1918. Sadie was a Chief Yeoman in the Navy. Her death left my grandmother Rosemary and her sister Anita to be raised by their aunt. Sadie’s sister Marian also joined the Navy. She died from “the influenza” in 1919.
On my mother’s side, two of her father’s sisters died in childhood. All of the family members who died lived in New York City.
I suspect many American families, and many families worldwide, were impacted in similar ways by the mysterious Spanish Flu.
In 1918, “influenza” or flu was a catchall term for disease of unknown origin. It didn’t carry the specific meaning it does today.
It meant some mystery disease which dropped out of the sky. In fact, influenza is from the Medieval Latin “influential” in an astrological sense, meaning a visitation under the influence of the stars.
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Bloodshed, Tyranny, and Privation

On June 24th , Trump said , “ I think many of the people that are knocking down these statues don ’ t even have any idea what the statue is… Now they ’ re looking at Jesus Christ.
” Actually , both the iconoclasts and their backers know very well what they ’ re destroying , and who they ’ re humiliating , deracinating and subjugating .
Though often messy , their process has been laser focused and methodical .
Though Trump avoided naming his trigger , it was clear he was responding to Shaun King , who had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s Shaun King ?
At his website , there ’ s this self-description , “ As a magnetic element of the Black Lives Matter movement , King helps us see our present place in the larger current of American history .
He ’ s adopted social media to rally and unite people of disparate backgrounds and has now become one of the most followed activists in the world.
” Pop Culture and the Da ... Cantor , Paul A .
Best Price : $ 29.83 Buy New $ 31.98 Kings naturally speak in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more , “ Shaun King is one of the most experienced , accomplished , skilled speakers in the nation .
He has been the keynote speaker in every venue with every type of audience imaginable over 1,000 times since he was just 17 years old .
He has been a full-time speaker his entire adult life .
“ His ability to weave humor , compassion , meticulous research , and grave seriousness into one presentation is unmatched .
In his new events , he integrates photos , charts , graphs , and videos @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stick .
A master of his content , Shaun shocks event organizers by not using any notes or guides.
” It ’ s curious that King ’ s incitement for mass destruction of private properties has incurred no censure from the mainstream media , and we ’ re not talking about dollar store flower pots here , but the most sacred icons of Western civilization , many of which have historical and/or artistic values .
At the National Gallery , there are three Madonna and Child ’ s by Raphael , The Crucifixion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dali , etc .
At the Met , there is The Crucifixion by Fra Angelico ; The Adoration of the Magi by Giotto ; The Crucifixion and The Last Judgement by Jan van Eyck ; Christ Healing the Blind , Christ Carrying the Cross and The Adoration of the Shepherds by El Greco ; and The Denial of Saint Peter by Caravaggio , etc .
Each of these masterpieces flaunts a white Christ .
Some have his European mother or even white friends .
As a gross form of white supremacy , tools @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to King , they should all be torn down !
Iconoclasm must be nearly as old as icons .
Just a second later , perhaps .
Yahweh certainly digs it .
“ Thou shalt not bow down to their gods , nor serve them , nor do after their works : but thou shalt utterly overthrow them , and quite break down their images.
” Exodus 23:24 .
“ But ye shall destroy their altars , break their images , and cut down their groves.
” Exodus 34:13 .
“ Then ye shall @ @ @ @ @ @ @ land from before you , and destroy all their pictures , and destroy all their molten images , and quite pluck down all their high places ” Numbers 33:52 .
“ But thus shall ye deal with them ; ye shall destroy their altars , and break down their images , and cut down their groves , and burn their graven images with fire.
” Deuteronomy 7:5 .
“ The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire.
” Deuteronomy 7:25 .
“ And ye shall overthrow their altars , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ groves with fire ; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods , and destroy the names of them out of that place.
” Deuteronomy 12:3 .
“ Ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land ; ye shall throw down their altars.
” Judges 2:2 .
“ Declare ye among the nations , and publish , and set up a standard ; publish , and conceal not : say , Babylon is taken , Bel is confounded , Merodach is broken in pieces ; her idols @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in pieces.
” Jeremiah 50:2 .
Dissenters Project : Th ... Collection , Essay Best Price : $ 16.66 Buy New $ 9.95 Sanctioned and inspired by such passages , Christians have destroyed countless idols .
At times , they ’ ve smashed their own during internal squabbles , as under Constantine V during the 8th century , or , even worse , during the Beeldenstorm and similar outbreaks during the 16th .
One of the crowning achievements of Western Art , van Eyck ’ s Ghent Altarpiece , had to be dismantled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rampaging mob .
Down the centuries , it ’ s been stolen seven times , in whole or partially .
Germany filched it twice .
Only one of its 17 panels has never been recovered , however , so it ’ s resplendently restored to Saint Bavo , just waiting for Black Lives Matter to come charging in .
In Camus ’ The Fall , the missing panel turns up in an Amsterdam apartment , “ By the way , will you please open that cupboard ?
Yes , look at that painting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
It is The Just Judges .
That doesn ’ t make you jump ?
Can it be that your culture has gaps ?
Yet if you read the papers , you would recall the theft in 1934 , from the St. Bavon Cathedral of Ghent , of one of the panels of the famous van Eyck altarpiece , The Adoration of the Lamb .
That panel was called The Just Judges .
It represented judges on horseback coming to adore the sacred animal .
It was replaced by an excellent copy , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Well , here it is.
” Such a quaint question , to ask someone about possible gaps in his culture !
That ’ s all we have nowadays .
After decades of miseducation and mass media dumbing down , even a “ learned ” man has so many gaps , their edges blur right into each other , so that his culture is nothing but a hacking and spitting crater of boiling bullshit , with here and there a bobbing misunderstanding , which he will militantly misquote , to prove he has culture @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but permit me to squeeze in , edgewise , a slight and undoubtedly malnourished assertion about oil painting .
Since it is pigment in slow-drying linseed oil , hue , tone and line can be fine-tuned to an infinite degree , unlike , say , ink on paper .
This unprecedented exactitude teaches not just the artist , but his entire culture , to look more carefully , reverentially and even scientifically , a conditioning that spills into every other aspect of said culture .
This edification was further jacked by the dissemination @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) and rubber eraser ( 18th century ) .
Yo dude , go check out , in person , if possible , any pencil drawing by this whitey , Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres .
Sharp , eh ?
Cracker did crank out a super racist , white-supremacist Jesus Returning the Keys to St. Peter , however .
I mean , come on !
There ’ s not even one token African-American in the entire picture , not even a shadily shadeless one like Shaun King , so pale he was listed as white on his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ !
America ’ s current eruption of iconoclasm is not spearheaded by blacks , however , but antifa , a mostly white coalition of Communists and Anarchists , with their red and black flags .
This coupling of Communists and Anarchists is farcical , by the way , for they have diametrically opposed ideologies .
Bakunin , “ The differences between revolutionary dictatorship and statism are superficial .
Fundamentally they both represent the same principle of minority rule over the majority in the name of the alleged ‘ stupidity ’ of the latter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the former .
Therefore they are both equally reactionary [ … ] ” Beyond Woke Michael Rectenwald Buy New $ 19.99 So Communists are reactionary .
Interesting .
Their striving for a utopia is a bloody forced march towards a supposed Golden Age .
Seen in this light , Pol Pot and Mao sending city folks to primitive farms or even uncleared land makes more sense .
But then , Anarchists must be the ultimate reactionaries .
Sorry , Bakunin .
Discussing Koestler , Orwell points out , “ As an ultimate objective @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Sun State which the gladiators set out to establish , and which has haunted the imagination of Socialists , Anarchists and religious heretics for hundreds of years.
” Seeing America ’ s Communists and Anarchists pulling down statues , I wondered when churches would be targeted , for the same two groups did exactly that during the Spanish Civil War .
Arriving in Barcelona in December of 1936 , Orwell witnessed , “ Practically every building of any size had been seized by the workers and was draped with red flags or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Anarchists ; every wall was scrawled with the hammer and sickle and with the initials of the revolutionary parties ; almost every church had been gutted and its images burnt .
Churches here and there were being systematically demolished by gangs of workmen [ … ] Some of the foreign anti-Fascist papers even descended to the pitiful lie of pretending that churches were only attacked when they were used as Fascist fortresses .
Actually churches were pillaged everywhere and as a matter of course , because it was perfectly well understood that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ capitalist racket .
In six months in Spain I only saw two undamaged churches , and until about July 1937 no churches were allowed to reopen and hold services , except for one or two Protestant churches in Madrid.
” A militiaman for the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista ( POUM ) , Orwell served on the front line for 115 days , until he was shot in the neck by a sniper .
“ As soon as I knew that the bullet had gone clean through my neck I took it for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I had never heard of a man or an animal getting a bullet through the middle of the neck and surviving it .
The blood was dribbling out of the comer of my mouth .
‘ The artery ’ s gone , ’ I thought .
I wondered how long you last when your carotid artery is cut ; not many minutes , presumably .
Everything was very blurry .
There must have been about two minutes during which I assumed that I was killed .
And that too was interesting—I mean it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would be at such a time .
My first thought , conventionally enough , was for my wife .
My second was a violent resentment at having to leave this world which , when all is said and done , suits me so well.
” Though Orwell miraculously recovered , he was too weak to fight , so was free to go home , but not before he witnessed the violent crackdown of POUM , as ordered by the Soviet Union .
Much has been made of the involvement of Nazi Germany and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Communist Russia was also a key player .
This was how POUM ’ s leader , Andreu Nin , was treated , as described by Jesus Hernandes Tomas , “ Nin was not giving in .
He was resisting until he fainted .
His inquisitors were getting impatient .
They decided to abandon the dry method .
Then the blood flowed , the skin peeled off , muscles torn , physical suffering pushed to the limits of human endurance .
Nin resisted the cruel pain of the most refined tortures .
In a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mass of flesh.
” The man who directed all these arrests , tortures and executions was Alexander Orlov , but to avoid being butchered by his own regime , he had to flee to the US , where he managed to live peacefully as Alexander L. Berg , a model immigrant in Cleveland .
Even the FBI didn ’ t know about his true identity until Orlov cashed in on his memoir , The Secret History of Stalin ’ s Crimes .
Orlov ’ s boss was the sadistic Genrikh Yagoda .
After @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bolsheviks Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev , Yagoda was tortured by Nikolai Yezhov and shot , then it was Yezhov ’ s turn to be tortured and shot , but that ’ s Communism for you .
Power delirious and paranoid , they also slaughtered many of their own , just to be on the safe side .
There was never , and can never be , a dictatorship of the proletariat , for any dictatorship , by definition , is the overwhelming application of state power .
With its monstrous bureaucracy and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from some unreachable place .
Since no one likes to be told how to do everything , people will resist , which means many will be shot .
Such is the plight of a conquered population .
Freedom will have to be regained , inch by inch , one life at a time , but only with maximum courage , tremendous organization and , most likely , outside help .
Without the French , the American Revolution would not have succeeded .
A Wall Street Jew funded Trotsky .
Ho Chi Minh was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crop of vandals , looters and cosplayers are dispersed , real rebels will stand up , and if they ’ re very lucky , they ’ ll have someone with the brains and balls of a George Washington to lead them .
As published at Smirking Chimp , OpEd News and Unz Review , 7/19/20 .
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On June 24th, Trump said, “I think many of the people that are knocking down these statues don’t even have any idea what the statue is… Now they’re looking at Jesus Christ.”
Actually, both the iconoclasts and their backers know very well what they’re destroying, and who they’re humiliating, deracinating and subjugating. Though often messy, their process has been laser focused and methodical.
Though Trump avoided naming his trigger, it was clear he was responding to Shaun King, who had tweeted on June 22nd:
Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down. They are a form of white supremacy. We Have Been Harmonize... Strittmatter, Kai Buy New $30.99 (as of 05:21 UTC - Details) Always have been. In the Bible, when the family of Jesus wanted to hide, and blend in, guess where they went? EGYPT! Not Denmark. Tear them down.
And:
All murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends should also come down. They are a gross form white supremacy. Created as tools of oppression. Racist propaganda. They should all come down.
Who’s Shaun King? At his website, there’s this self-description, “As a magnetic element of the Black Lives Matter movement, King helps us see our present place in the larger current of American history. He’s adopted social media to rally and unite people of disparate backgrounds and has now become one of the most followed activists in the world.” Pop Culture and the Da... Cantor, Paul A. Best Price: $29.83 Buy New $31.98 (as of 11:15 UTC - Details)
Kings naturally speak in the third person. Here’s more, “Shaun King is one of the most experienced, accomplished, skilled speakers in the nation. He has been the keynote speaker in every venue with every type of audience imaginable over 1,000 times since he was just 17 years old. He has been a full-time speaker his entire adult life.
“His ability to weave humor, compassion, meticulous research, and grave seriousness into one presentation is unmatched. In his new events, he integrates photos, charts, graphs, and videos to help make his most essential points stick. A master of his content, Shaun shocks event organizers by not using any notes or guides.”
It’s curious that King’s incitement for mass destruction of private properties has incurred no censure from the mainstream media, and we’re not talking about dollar store flower pots here, but the most sacred icons of Western civilization, many of which have historical and/or artistic values.
At the National Gallery, there are three Madonna and Child’s by Raphael, The Crucifixion by Grunewald and The Last Supper by Dali, etc. At the Met, there is The Crucifixion by Fra Angelico; The Adoration of the Magi by Giotto; The Crucifixion and The Last Judgement by Jan van Eyck; Christ Healing the Blind, Christ Carrying the Cross and The Adoration of the Shepherds by El Greco; and The Denial of Saint Peter by Caravaggio, etc.
Each of these masterpieces flaunts a white Christ. Some have his European mother or even white friends. As a gross form of white supremacy, tools of oppression and racist propaganda, according to King, they should all be torn down!
Iconoclasm must be nearly as old as icons. Just a second later, perhaps.
Yahweh certainly digs it. “Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.” Exodus 23:24. “But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves.” Exodus 34:13. “Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places” Numbers 33:52. “But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.” Deuteronomy 7:5.
“The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire.” Deuteronomy 7:25. “And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.” Deuteronomy 12:3. “Ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars.” Judges 2:2. “Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.” Jeremiah 50:2. Dissenters Project: Th... Collection, Essay Best Price: $16.66 Buy New $9.95 (as of 05:08 UTC - Details)
Sanctioned and inspired by such passages, Christians have destroyed countless idols. At times, they’ve smashed their own during internal squabbles, as under Constantine V during the 8th century, or, even worse, during the Beeldenstorm and similar outbreaks during the 16th. One of the crowning achievements of Western Art, van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece, had to be dismantled and hidden to save it from the rampaging mob.
Down the centuries, it’s been stolen seven times, in whole or partially. Germany filched it twice. Only one of its 17 panels has never been recovered, however, so it’s resplendently restored to Saint Bavo, just waiting for Black Lives Matter to come charging in.
In Camus’ The Fall, the missing panel turns up in an Amsterdam apartment, “By the way, will you please open that cupboard? Yes, look at that painting. Don’t you recognize it? It is The Just Judges. That doesn’t make you jump? Can it be that your culture has gaps? Yet if you read the papers, you would recall the theft in 1934, from the St. Bavon Cathedral of Ghent, of one of the panels of the famous van Eyck altarpiece, The Adoration of the Lamb. That panel was called The Just Judges. It represented judges on horseback coming to adore the sacred animal. It was replaced by an excellent copy, for the original was never found. Well, here it is.”
Such a quaint question, to ask someone about possible gaps in his culture! That’s all we have nowadays. After decades of miseducation and mass media dumbing down, even a “learned” man has so many gaps, their edges blur right into each other, so that his culture is nothing but a hacking and spitting crater of boiling bullshit, with here and there a bobbing misunderstanding, which he will militantly misquote, to prove he has culture.
Pardon me, hmong sir, but permit me to squeeze in, edgewise, a slight and undoubtedly malnourished assertion about oil painting. Since it is pigment in slow-drying linseed oil, hue, tone and line can be fine-tuned to an infinite degree, unlike, say, ink on paper. This unprecedented exactitude teaches not just the artist, but his entire culture, to look more carefully, reverentially and even scientifically, a conditioning that spills into every other aspect of said culture. This edification was further jacked by the dissemination of the graphite pencil (17th century) and rubber eraser (18th century).
Yo dude, go check out, in person, if possible, any pencil drawing by this whitey, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Sharp, eh? Cracker did crank out a super racist, white-supremacist Jesus Returning the Keys to St. Peter, however. I mean, come on! There’s not even one token African-American in the entire picture, not even a shadily shadeless one like Shaun King, so pale he was listed as white on his birth certificate, so tear it down!
America’s current eruption of iconoclasm is not spearheaded by blacks, however, but antifa, a mostly white coalition of Communists and Anarchists, with their red and black flags. This coupling of Communists and Anarchists is farcical, by the way, for they have diametrically opposed ideologies.
Bakunin, “The differences between revolutionary dictatorship and statism are superficial. Fundamentally they both represent the same principle of minority rule over the majority in the name of the alleged ‘stupidity’ of the latter and the alleged ‘intelligence’ of the former. Therefore they are both equally reactionary […]” Beyond Woke Michael Rectenwald Buy New $19.99 (as of 11:37 UTC - Details)
So Communists are reactionary. Interesting. Their striving for a utopia is a bloody forced march towards a supposed Golden Age. Seen in this light, Pol Pot and Mao sending city folks to primitive farms or even uncleared land makes more sense.
But then, Anarchists must be the ultimate reactionaries. Sorry, Bakunin. Discussing Koestler, Orwell points out, “As an ultimate objective he believes in the Earthly Paradise, the Sun State which the gladiators set out to establish, and which has haunted the imagination of Socialists, Anarchists and religious heretics for hundreds of years.”
Seeing America’s Communists and Anarchists pulling down statues, I wondered when churches would be targeted, for the same two groups did exactly that during the Spanish Civil War.
Arriving in Barcelona in December of 1936, Orwell witnessed, “Practically every building of any size had been seized by the workers and was draped with red flags or with the red and black flag of the Anarchists; every wall was scrawled with the hammer and sickle and with the initials of the revolutionary parties; almost every church had been gutted and its images burnt. Churches here and there were being systematically demolished by gangs of workmen […] Some of the foreign anti-Fascist papers even descended to the pitiful lie of pretending that churches were only attacked when they were used as Fascist fortresses. Actually churches were pillaged everywhere and as a matter of course, because it was perfectly well understood that the Spanish Church was part of the capitalist racket. In six months in Spain I only saw two undamaged churches, and until about July 1937 no churches were allowed to reopen and hold services, except for one or two Protestant churches in Madrid.”
A militiaman for the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (POUM), Orwell served on the front line for 115 days, until he was shot in the neck by a sniper. “As soon as I knew that the bullet had gone clean through my neck I took it for granted that I was done for. I had never heard of a man or an animal getting a bullet through the middle of the neck and surviving it. The blood was dribbling out of the comer of my mouth. ‘The artery’s gone,’ I thought. I wondered how long you last when your carotid artery is cut; not many minutes, presumably. Everything was very blurry. There must have been about two minutes during which I assumed that I was killed. And that too was interesting—I mean it is interesting to know what your thoughts would be at such a time. My first thought, conventionally enough, was for my wife. My second was a violent resentment at having to leave this world which, when all is said and done, suits me so well.”
Though Orwell miraculously recovered, he was too weak to fight, so was free to go home, but not before he witnessed the violent crackdown of POUM, as ordered by the Soviet Union. Much has been made of the involvement of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in that conflict, but Communist Russia was also a key player.
This was how POUM’s leader, Andreu Nin, was treated, as described by Jesus Hernandes Tomas, “Nin was not giving in. He was resisting until he fainted. His inquisitors were getting impatient. They decided to abandon the dry method. Then the blood flowed, the skin peeled off, muscles torn, physical suffering pushed to the limits of human endurance. Nin resisted the cruel pain of the most refined tortures. In a few days his face was a shapeless mass of flesh.”
The man who directed all these arrests, tortures and executions was Alexander Orlov, but to avoid being butchered by his own regime, he had to flee to the US, where he managed to live peacefully as Alexander L. Berg, a model immigrant in Cleveland. Even the FBI didn’t know about his true identity until Orlov cashed in on his memoir, The Secret History of Stalin’s Crimes.
Orlov’s boss was the sadistic Genrikh Yagoda. After overseeing the torture and execution of Old Bolsheviks Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, Yagoda was tortured by Nikolai Yezhov and shot, then it was Yezhov’s turn to be tortured and shot, but that’s Communism for you. Power delirious and paranoid, they also slaughtered many of their own, just to be on the safe side.
There was never, and can never be, a dictatorship of the proletariat, for any dictatorship, by definition, is the overwhelming application of state power. With its monstrous bureaucracy and violent enforcers, it micromanages your life from some unreachable place.
Since no one likes to be told how to do everything, people will resist, which means many will be shot. Such is the plight of a conquered population.
Freedom will have to be regained, inch by inch, one life at a time, but only with maximum courage, tremendous organization and, most likely, outside help.
Without the French, the American Revolution would not have succeeded. A Wall Street Jew funded Trotsky. Ho Chi Minh was trained in Moscow.
After the current crop of vandals, looters and cosplayers are dispersed, real rebels will stand up, and if they’re very lucky, they’ll have someone with the brains and balls of a George Washington to lead them.
True men matter.
As published at Smirking Chimp, OpEd News and Unz Review, 7/19/20.
Reprinted with the author’s permission.
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