lewrockwell--2020-04-18--How Easy Is It To Fool Americans?

How Easy Is It To Fool Americans?

What if I told you …….. we know now in the first two decades of the 21st century that viruses , which had made the jump from animals to humans in the recent past , had mutated and targeted vulnerable human populations on earth .
These unsympathetic viruses mounted their attack .
No one would ever guess they were being directed from an outside source .
What if I told you….. Human populations were so entranced in their cell phones they didn ’ t realize they were walking into a future viral pandemic of unimaginable proportion .
The world was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ What if I told you…..
Literally a cloud of air pollution that had been gathering over Wuhan , China caused these viruses to deliver aerosolized virus particles into the lungs of unsuspecting individuals .
This resulted in a severe form of lower- lobe lung pneumonia where the infected literally succumbed to internal drowning .
What if I told you…..
These lung infections coordinated with simultaneous and seemingly unconnected light flashes detected on the surface of the planet Mars , which initially went unreported for fear of panicking the masses in the middle of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only being revealed here and now for the first time anywhere .
The War of the Worlds Wells , H. G. Best Price : $ 2.02 Buy New $ 5.70 What if I told you… .
There is evidence that control of 5G wi-fi towers has been commandeered from an outer space source 33.9 million miles away .
Even if reported , who on earth would believe it ?
Reliable observers failed to correlate seeming disparate data collected by astronomers and epidemiologists .
It was beyond believable .
What if I told you….. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mutated the already-spreading virus in targeted individuals .
This confused virologists .
Geneticists were busied themselves , hoping to mutate a similar less virulent virus to counter the more mortal virus and put it competitively into circulation .
And then I told you… .
Aliens on Mars then took up a direct attack on earth .
An intercepted audio tape , terrifying as it may be , serves as evidence .
At the risk of ending up incarcerated like Julian Assange of Wikileaks fame , here is the audio tape for your analysis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t have to listen to the whole tape , it is readily explanatory : No , Martians haven ’ t come to earth to control 5G and mutate coronaviruses .
I wanted you to listen to the Orson Welles “ War Of The Worlds ” tape before you continued reading this report .
Orson Welles spellbinding report that Martians landed on Earth was a telling moment in America .
That was 1938 .
How Fear Works : Cultur ... Furedi , Frank Best Price : $ 10.04 Buy New $ 10.90 Oh @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wouldn ’ t fall for Orson Welles “ fake news ” if it were repeated today .
If you didn ’ t take time to listen to the tape , I ’ ve taken you through this fictional escapade created by Orson Welles in 1938 which news reports said resulted in people weeping and hiding in the closets of their homes , praying for the Martians to spare them .
Mothers were reported to be holding their babies for the last time .
It was a radio adaptation of H.G .
Wells ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In reality , Orson Welles ’ radio epic really never panicked many .
Retrospectively we find Orson Welles ’ War Of The Worlds was actually a myth .
The newspapers of the day needed readers .
About 1 million ran out of their homes upon hearing the broadcast , news reports said .
In fact , the supposed panic was so tiny as to be practically immeasurable on the night of the broadcast , says an NPR report .
But it may have been a harbinger of fake news to come .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may believe they would not be so easily fooled either , but just like yesteryear , the news agencies say otherwise .
And it is that fake panic and fear that starts to gain a hold in a population where people see other people acting like it ’ s real .
Don ’ t wear a mask or others will ostracize you !
So , truth become stranger than fiction .
How many email boxes have been flooded with messages forwarded from some source no one ever heard of , the most popular @ @ @ @ @ @ @ executive saying 5G is toxic and the certain cause of the coronavirus epidemic ?
( I ’ m not providing a link to that interview , only to spread more misinformation. )
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How convinced many Americans are that 5G is responsible for the coronavirus epidemic .
An online YouTube presentation at ScottiesTech.info provides convincing demographic maps to show COVID-19 does not correlate with where 5G installations are located .
Most convincing is the map showing COVID-19 cases are fairly prevalent in France , but there are only a few 5G installations in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all over France .
Anti-Inflammatory Oxyg ... Mark Sircus Best Price : $ 9.81 Buy New $ 10.09 What ScottiesTech.info reveals is Americans ARE easy to fool !
Here ’ s how you were fooled Already uncovered is a physician inside Elmhurst Hospital in New York City , the epicenter of the COVID-19 coronavirus Ameri-demic , foisting false images of dead bodies in refrigerated trucks , recording fake pleas for more ventilators , all emanating from a physician who is a trained “ medical simulation specialist.
” An infectious disease disaster drill went @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over again .
( Orson Welles II ? )
COVID-19 coronavirus is now being produced as a daily drama by television , newspaper and other online news sources .
The entire locked-down American public has nothing else to do but turn on their television sets and get propagandized .
Sponsors need viewers .
Americans dutifully follow orders issued by federal officials and state governors , and shame those who don ’ t .
It is so cunning .
Religion and paper currency wiped out in a week .
I ’ ll just bet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the definition of demagogue is .
Here ’ s how the sheeple are responding to the new era of authoritarianism : We have record of physicians and hospitals being paid to mis-code their diagnostic and billing numbers to indicate “ COVID-19 ” instead of plain pneumonia because hospitals are reimbursed $ 39,000 instead of just $ 13,000 for COVID-19 !
There is a financial incentive to list COVID-19 on death certificates .
Normally Medicare or the AMA would issue billing code information .
This directive comes from the CDC .
The federal government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doctors and hospitals to mis-code Medicare billing and then using that fake data to lockdown the citizenry .
Were Americans completely hoodwinked by the frightful but inaccurate mortality figures for COVID-19 in the US and drawn by fear to cooperate with a lockdown of the economy ?
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The US fatality rate is ~3.5 % .
What gives ?
Why such a disparity in the numbers ?
Italy , a hotspot for COVID-19 coronavirus deaths , later re-evaluated the cause of death of patients who died of respiratory failure .
In the re-evaluation only 12 % of death certificates showed a direct causality from coronavirus while 88 % of patient deaths were attributed to co-morbidity ( accompanying disease , such as diabetes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the CDC 83.3 % of of Americans with laboratory confirmed COVID-19 coronavirus infections have underlying medical conditions. )
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Many patients who succumbed to respiratory failure had two or three co-morbidities says a report in The Telegraph .
So , 8 in 10 of the reported deaths are NOT coronavirus-caused .
Hope you got that .
( Orson Welles III ) There are a lot of scary numbers being distributed , infections , deaths , etc .
What we actually need the number infected out of the total population ( 326 million @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rate .
Otherwise , you might as well say the Martians caused the deaths .
As of Easter Sunday April 12 , 2020 , 20,601 American souls are reported to have died of Covid-19 coronavirus in the U.S. this flu season and 533,378 were confirmed by blood test to have been infected , or out of 326 million Americans the risk for infection is 0.0016 or almost 2 in 1000 and the risk for death is 0.00006 % or 6 in 100,000 .
Remember , I ’ m using mortality numbers that are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of COVID-19 deaths are bogus , then only ~4000 have died , and maybe not from COVID-19 .
However , out of 20,601 reported deaths , 8,627 are from New York State where immigrants comprise a great deal of cases and were more likely to have tuberculosis than coronavirus and where Orson Welles II resides .
Of course , these numbers are specious because the US has used a flawed test to detect coronavirus-related disease and the 533,378 figure is actually much higher and the death rate much , much lower .
When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anything ?
The American Lung Association reveals the CDC ’ s 36,000 Americans die of the flu each year is a misrepresentation .
In some years flu-related deaths have only amounted to a few hundred people .
Great Britain used an antibody test and estimated 68 % of its citizenry may have been infected .
That is a very high infection rate .
A phlebotomist working at Roseland Community Hospital , a suburb of Chicago , reveals 30-50 % of patients tested had coronavirus antibodies and only 10-20 % had active virus .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the CDC that is planning on universal vaccination .
But the vast majority of Americans may have already developed immunity .
A report dated March 31 in The Atlantic estimates over 1 million Americans tested for COVID-19 .
So , if a half-million COVID-19 cases have been laboratory confirmed ( 533,378 ) , then we have an infection rate of around 50 % .
So COVID-19 coronavirus is very infectious but not very lethal .
When the vaccine is available , a lot of Americans won ’ t need it .
Authorities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the present time , a trio of dishonest and deceitful virologists who advise the President have taken over the world .
Wear a ( useless ) mask .
Stay six-feet away .
Stay indoors , at home .
Be a good American .
But what if it ’ s all a misdirection , Orson Wells redux ?
The new spelling for coronavirus : CARONOVIRUS

What if I told you …….. we know now in the first two decades of the 21st century that viruses, which had made the jump from animals to humans in the recent past, had mutated and targeted vulnerable human populations on earth. These unsympathetic viruses mounted their attack. No one would ever guess they were being directed from an outside source.
What if I told you….. Human populations were so entranced in their cell phones they didn’t realize they were walking into a future viral pandemic of unimaginable proportion. The world was not prepared for such a calamity.
What if I told you….. Literally a cloud of air pollution that had been gathering over Wuhan, China caused these viruses to deliver aerosolized virus particles into the lungs of unsuspecting individuals. This resulted in a severe form of lower- lobe lung pneumonia where the infected literally succumbed to internal drowning.
What if I told you….. These lung infections coordinated with simultaneous and seemingly unconnected light flashes detected on the surface of the planet Mars, which initially went unreported for fear of panicking the masses in the middle of another panic, an event that is only being revealed here and now for the first time anywhere. The War of the Worlds Wells, H. G. Best Price: $2.02 Buy New $5.70 (as of 04:58 UTC - Details)
What if I told you…. There is evidence that control of 5G wi-fi towers has been commandeered from an outer space source 33.9 million miles away. Even if reported, who on earth would believe it?
Reliable observers failed to correlate seeming disparate data collected by astronomers and epidemiologists. It was beyond believable.
What if I told you….. 5G radiation directed from an outer-space source mutated the already-spreading virus in targeted individuals. This confused virologists. Geneticists were busied themselves, hoping to mutate a similar less virulent virus to counter the more mortal virus and put it competitively into circulation.
And then I told you…. Aliens on Mars then took up a direct attack on earth. An intercepted audio tape, terrifying as it may be, serves as evidence. At the risk of ending up incarcerated like Julian Assange of Wikileaks fame, here is the audio tape for your analysis (click below). You don’t have to listen to the whole tape, it is readily explanatory:

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No, Martians haven’t come to earth to control 5G and mutate coronaviruses.
I wanted you to listen to the Orson Welles “War Of The Worlds” tape before you continued reading this report. Orson Welles spellbinding report that Martians landed on Earth was a telling moment in America. That was 1938. How Fear Works: Cultur... Furedi, Frank Best Price: $10.04 Buy New $10.90 (as of 03:28 UTC - Details)
Oh, I know you are thinking you wouldn’t fall for Orson Welles “fake news” if it were repeated today.
If you didn’t take time to listen to the tape, I’ve taken you through this fictional escapade created by Orson Welles in 1938 which news reports said resulted in people weeping and hiding in the closets of their homes, praying for the Martians to spare them. Mothers were reported to be holding their babies for the last time.
It was a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ novel The War Of The Worlds.
In reality, Orson Welles’ radio epic really never panicked many. Retrospectively we find Orson Welles’ War Of The Worlds was actually a myth. The newspapers of the day needed readers. About 1 million ran out of their homes upon hearing the broadcast, news reports said. In fact, the supposed panic was so tiny as to be practically immeasurable on the night of the broadcast, says an NPR report. But it may have been a harbinger of fake news to come.
And yes, the masses of Americans today may believe they would not be so easily fooled either, but just like yesteryear, the news agencies say otherwise. And it is that fake panic and fear that starts to gain a hold in a population where people see other people acting like it’s real. Don’t wear a mask or others will ostracize you! So, truth become stranger than fiction.
It’s 5g! April fools!
How many email boxes have been flooded with messages forwarded from some source no one ever heard of, the most popular being an interview with a former Vodafone executive saying 5G is toxic and the certain cause of the coronavirus epidemic? (I’m not providing a link to that interview, only to spread more misinformation.). How convinced many Americans are that 5G is responsible for the coronavirus epidemic.
An online YouTube presentation at ScottiesTech.info provides convincing demographic maps to show COVID-19 does not correlate with where 5G installations are located. Most convincing is the map showing COVID-19 cases are fairly prevalent in France, but there are only a few 5G installations in major cities in France. COVID-19 is all over France. Anti-Inflammatory Oxyg... Mark Sircus Best Price: $9.81 Buy New $10.09 (as of 10:37 UTC - Details)
What ScottiesTech.info reveals is Americans ARE easy to fool!
Here’s how you were fooled
Already uncovered is a physician inside Elmhurst Hospital in New York City, the epicenter of the COVID-19 coronavirus Ameri-demic, foisting false images of dead bodies in refrigerated trucks, recording fake pleas for more ventilators, all emanating from a physician who is a trained “medical simulation specialist.” An infectious disease disaster drill went live. It’s 1938 all over again. (Orson Welles II?)
COVID-19 coronavirus is now being produced as a daily drama by television, newspaper and other online news sources. The entire locked-down American public has nothing else to do but turn on their television sets and get propagandized. Sponsors need viewers.
Americans dutifully follow orders issued by federal officials and state governors, and shame those who don’t. It is so cunning. Religion and paper currency wiped out in a week. I’ll just bet you most Americans have no idea what the definition of demagogue is. Here’s how the sheeple are responding to the new era of authoritarianism:
Bribed to call it COVID
We have record of physicians and hospitals being paid to mis-code their diagnostic and billing numbers to indicate “COVID-19” instead of plain pneumonia because hospitals are reimbursed $39,000 instead of just $13,000 for COVID-19! There is a financial incentive to list COVID-19 on death certificates. Normally Medicare or the AMA would issue billing code information. This directive comes from the CDC. The federal government, namely the CDC, is bribing doctors and hospitals to mis-code Medicare billing and then using that fake data to lockdown the citizenry.
War of the Worlds 2020
Were Americans completely hoodwinked by the frightful but inaccurate mortality figures for COVID-19 in the US and drawn by fear to cooperate with a lockdown of the economy? Systems Health: The Ma... Ayyadurai, V. A. Shiva Buy New $17.96 (as of 03:24 UTC - Details)
Let’s conduct an autopsy on the data used to lockdown Americans in their homes to see if it is any more reliable than what Orson Welles broadcast in 1938.
Italy has a mortality rate among those hospitalized for respiratory failure ~9%, whereas Germany’s fatality rate is just 0.3%. The US fatality rate is ~3.5%. What gives? Why such a disparity in the numbers?
Italy, a hotspot for COVID-19 coronavirus deaths, later re-evaluated the cause of death of patients who died of respiratory failure. In the re-evaluation only 12% of death certificates showed a direct causality from coronavirus while 88% of patient deaths were attributed to co-morbidity (accompanying disease, such as diabetes, heart disease). (According to the CDC 83.3% of of Americans with laboratory confirmed COVID-19 coronavirus infections have underlying medical conditions.).
Many patients who succumbed to respiratory failure had two or three co-morbidities says a report in The Telegraph. So, 8 in 10 of the reported deaths are NOT coronavirus-caused. Hope you got that. (Orson Welles III)
Case fatality rate or individual mortality risk?
There are a lot of scary numbers being distributed, infections, deaths, etc. What we actually need the number infected out of the total population (326 million), the infection rate and death rate. Otherwise, you might as well say the Martians caused the deaths.
As of Easter Sunday April 12, 2020, 20,601 American souls are reported to have died of Covid-19 coronavirus in the U.S. this flu season and 533,378 were confirmed by blood test to have been infected, or out of 326 million Americans the risk for infection is 0.0016 or almost 2 in 1000 and the risk for death is 0.00006% or 6 in 100,000. Remember, I’m using mortality numbers that are 80% fluff. If 80% of COVID-19 deaths are bogus, then only ~4000 have died, and maybe not from COVID-19.
However, out of 20,601 reported deaths, 8,627 are from New York State where immigrants comprise a great deal of cases and were more likely to have tuberculosis than coronavirus and where Orson Welles II resides.
Of course, these numbers are specious because the US has used a flawed test to detect coronavirus-related disease and the 533,378 figure is actually much higher and the death rate much, much lower. When does government ever issue real numbers about anything? The American Lung Association reveals the CDC’s 36,000 Americans die of the flu each year is a misrepresentation. In some years flu-related deaths have only amounted to a few hundred people.
Great Britain used an antibody test and estimated 68% of its citizenry may have been infected. That is a very high infection rate. A phlebotomist working at Roseland Community Hospital, a suburb of Chicago, reveals 30-50% of patients tested had coronavirus antibodies and only 10-20% had active virus. This type of data is not welcome at the CDC that is planning on universal vaccination. But the vast majority of Americans may have already developed immunity.
A report dated March 31 in The Atlantic estimates over 1 million Americans tested for COVID-19. So, if a half-million COVID-19 cases have been laboratory confirmed (533,378), then we have an infection rate of around 50%. So COVID-19 coronavirus is very infectious but not very lethal. When the vaccine is available, a lot of Americans won’t need it. Authorities are not telling you that.
At the present time, a trio of dishonest and deceitful virologists who advise the President have taken over the world. Wear a (useless) mask. Stay six-feet away. Stay indoors, at home. Be a good American. But what if it’s all a misdirection, Orson Wells redux?
The new spelling for coronavirus: CARONOVIRUS


lewrockwell--2020-04-18--Ron Paul: Be Leery About a Coronavirus Vaccine

Ron Paul , in a Monday interview with host Dan Dicks at Press for Truth , warns that people “ should be leery about ” coronavirus vaccines that may come out .
Further , says Paul , a doctor and former United States House of Representatives member , “ right now I wouldn ’ t think there is any indication for anybody to take them , ” noting that “ scare tactics ” are being used to pressure people into thinking they should take such potential vaccines to protect against coronavirus .
Paul supports this conclusion by stressing in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as well as the overstated threat from coronavirus .
Regarding the potential danger from a coronavirus vaccine , Paul discusses at the beginning of the interview how , in 1976 in his first week as a House member , Paul was one of only two members , both doctors , who voted against legislation that helped rush through a vaccine in response to swine flu .
Paul describes the results of the push for people to take the swine flu vaccine as follows : Jabbed : How the Vaccin ... Wilcox , Brett @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 13.05 They rushed the vaccine through .
The vaccine was not properly made .
It had nothing to do with the virus that was out there , so it saved nobody ’ s life from it .
It caused a lot of harm .
More people ended up dying from the inoculation than died from the flu that year .
And that sort of was a lesson , like that ’ s a little bit too extreme .
But , that ’ s about what happens when governments get involved and you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was also , because a lot of people ended up getting the vaccine , I think there were like 50 people or more who got Guillain-Barré syndrome , which is temporary total paralysis and you can die from it but most of them did get better .
But , it was a very , very serious complication of a viral injection , you know , a vaccine .
Paul also discusses in the interview the overstated danger from coronavirus that is being used to scare people to take actions including to potentially take @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many of the people whose deaths have been blamed on coronavirus are elderly people , including people living in nursing homes , who have multiple other diseases .
Further , explains Paul , doctors have “ been instructed by [ the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ] and other politicians that , when the doctors sign the death certificate , if [ patients ] have four different things but they happen to have a positive test for the virus that is to be put down as the major cause of death.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ concludes Paul regarding the daily tabulation of coronavirus deaths .
Pain Killer : An Empire ... Barry Meier Best Price : $ 3.12 Buy New $ 7.66 In addition , Paul explains that many more people than officially recorded have contracted coronavirus .
Some of these individuals never became sick .
Others got better without any treatment , says Paul , pointing to his son Sen. Rand Paul ( R-KY ) as an example .
While Rand Paul was given a test that confirmed he had coronavirus , most people who have had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ problems have not been tested .
With “ probably millions of people ” having contracted coronavirus , Paul concludes that the percentage of people who have contracted coronavirus and have died as a result “ is probably very , very small.
” While Paul says he would choose not to take a vaccine for the coronavirus should one appear next week even if people claim it is 99 percent effective , he says that the decision to take or not take a vaccine is one that should be made by each individual , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a doctor .
Absolutely , Paul concludes , that decision should not be made by government .
Watch here Paul ’ s complete interview , in which he also discusses how government actions taken in the name of fighting coronavirus are harming the economy and his support for people speaking out for ending coronavirus-justified encroachments on freedom :

Ron Paul, in a Monday interview with host Dan Dicks at Press for Truth, warns that people “should be leery about” coronavirus vaccines that may come out. Further, says Paul, a doctor and former United States House of Representatives member, “right now I wouldn’t think there is any indication for anybody to take them,” noting that “scare tactics” are being used to pressure people into thinking they should take such potential vaccines to protect against coronavirus.
Paul supports this conclusion by stressing in the interview the potential danger of a vaccine as well as the overstated threat from coronavirus.
Regarding the potential danger from a coronavirus vaccine, Paul discusses at the beginning of the interview how, in 1976 in his first week as a House member, Paul was one of only two members, both doctors, who voted against legislation that helped rush through a vaccine in response to swine flu. Paul describes the results of the push for people to take the swine flu vaccine as follows: Jabbed: How the Vaccin... Wilcox, Brett Best Price: $13.02 Buy New $13.05 (as of 03:50 UTC - Details)
They rushed the vaccine through. The vaccine was not properly made. It had nothing to do with the virus that was out there, so it saved nobody’s life from it. It caused a lot of harm. More people ended up dying from the inoculation than died from the flu that year. And that sort of was a lesson, like that’s a little bit too extreme. But, that’s about what happens when governments get involved and you do things for political reasons. There was also, because a lot of people ended up getting the vaccine, I think there were like 50 people or more who got Guillain-Barré syndrome, which is temporary total paralysis and you can die from it but most of them did get better. But, it was a very, very serious complication of a viral injection, you know, a vaccine.
Paul also discusses in the interview the overstated danger from coronavirus that is being used to scare people to take actions including to potentially take a coronavirus vaccine.
Paul notes that many of the people whose deaths have been blamed on coronavirus are elderly people, including people living in nursing homes, who have multiple other diseases. Further, explains Paul, doctors have “been instructed by [the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and other politicians that, when the doctors sign the death certificate, if [patients] have four different things but they happen to have a positive test for the virus that is to be put down as the major cause of death.” “The numbers mean nothing,” concludes Paul regarding the daily tabulation of coronavirus deaths. Pain Killer: An Empire... Barry Meier Best Price: $3.12 Buy New $7.66 (as of 08:30 UTC - Details)
In addition, Paul explains that many more people than officially recorded have contracted coronavirus. Some of these individuals never became sick. Others got better without any treatment, says Paul, pointing to his son Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) as an example. While Rand Paul was given a test that confirmed he had coronavirus, most people who have had coronavirus and suffered no to minor medical problems have not been tested. With “probably millions of people” having contracted coronavirus, Paul concludes that the percentage of people who have contracted coronavirus and have died as a result “is probably very, very small.”
While Paul says he would choose not to take a vaccine for the coronavirus should one appear next week even if people claim it is 99 percent effective, he says that the decision to take or not take a vaccine is one that should be made by each individual, who can discuss the vaccine alternative with a doctor. Absolutely, Paul concludes, that decision should not be made by government.
Watch here Paul’s complete interview, in which he also discusses how government actions taken in the name of fighting coronavirus are harming the economy and his support for people speaking out for ending coronavirus-justified encroachments on freedom:


lewrockwell--2020-04-18--How To Think About the Fed Now

How To Think About the Fed Now

[ This text is excerpted from the introduction to Anatomy of the Crash , a Mises Institute ebook to be released in April 2020 . ]
The Great Crash of 2020 was not caused by a virus .
It was precipitated by the virus , and made worse by the crazed decisions of governments around the world to shut down business and travel .
But it was caused by economic fragility .
The supposed greatest economy in US history actually was a walking sick man , made comfortable with painkillers , and looking far better than he felt—yet ultimately fragile @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exposed the underlying sickness of the US economy .
If anything , the crash was overdue .
Too much debt , too much malinvestment , and too little honest pricing of assets and interest rates made America uniquely vulnerable to economic contagion .
Most of this vulnerability can be laid at the feet of central bankers at the Federal Reserve , and we will pay a terrible price for it in the coming years .
This is an uncomfortable truth , one that central bankers desperately hope to obscure while the media and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But we should not let them get away with it , because ( at least when it comes to legacy media ) the Fed ’ s gross malfeasance is perhaps the biggest untold story of our lifetimes .
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After more than a decade of quantitative easing , relentless interest rate cutting , and huge growth in “ excess ” reserves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ parked at the Fed , banks still did not have enough overnight liquidity ?
The repo market exposed how banks were capital contstrained , not reserve constrained .
So what exactly was the point of taking the Fed ’ s balance sheet from less than $ 1 trillion to over $ 4 trillion , anyway ?
Banks still needed money , after a decade of QE ?
As with most crises , the problems took root decades ago .
What we might call the era of modern monetary policy took root with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ convertibility of dollars for gold .
Less than twenty years later , in October 1987 , Black Monday wiped out 20 percent of US stock market valuations .
Fed chair Alan Greenspan promised Wall Street that such a thing would never happen again on his watch , and he meant it : the “ Greenspan Put ” was the Maestro ’ s blueprint for providing as much monetary easing as needed to prop up equity markets .
The tech stock crash of the NASDAQ in 2000 only solidified the need for “ new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that policy took full flight under the obliging hand of Fed chairman Ben Bernanke—a man who not only fundamentally misunderstood the Great Depression in his PhD thesis , but who also had the self-regard to write a book titled The Courage to Act about his use of other people ’ s money to reinflate the biggest and baddest stock bubble in US history. James Grant of Grant ’ s Interest Rate Observer characterizes the Fed ’ s recent actions as a “ leveraged buy-out of the United States of America.
” The Fed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sheet , able to provide financial markets with “ liquidity ” as needed , in any amount , for any length of time .
Pennsylvania senator Pat Toomey urges the Fed to do more , and Congress to spend more , all in the unholy name of liquidity .
But liquidity is nothing more than ready money for investment and spending .
In the current environment it is a euphemism for free manna from heaven .
It is “ free ” money—unearned , representing no increase in output or productivity .
It has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not only are there no new goods and services in the economy , there are far fewer due to the lockdown .
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What central banks and Fed officials do no longer falls within the realm of economics or policy ; in fact the Fed no longer operates as what we think of as a central bank .
It is not a backstop or “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ originally designed ( in theory ) , nor is it a steward of economic stability pursuing its congressionally authorized dual mandate .
It does not follow its own charter in the Federal Reserve Act ( e.g.
, impermissibly buying corporate bonds ) .
It does not operate based on economic theory or empirical data .
It no longer pursues any identifiable public policy other than sheer political expediency .
Fed governors do not follow “ rules ” or targets or models .
They answer to no legislature or executive , except when cravenly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ future generations .
The Fed is , in effect , a lawless economic government unto itself .
It serves as a bizarro-world ad hoc credit facility to the US financial sector , completely open ended , with no credit checks , no credit limits , no collateral requirements , no interest payments , and in some cases no repayments at all .
It is the lender of first resort , a kind of reverse pawnshop which pays top dollar for rapidly declining assets .
The Fed is now the Infinite Bank .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and operates on faith .
Note : The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute .
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[This text is excerpted from the introduction to Anatomy of the Crash, a Mises Institute ebook to be released in April 2020.]
The Great Crash of 2020 was not caused by a virus. It was precipitated by the virus, and made worse by the crazed decisions of governments around the world to shut down business and travel. But it was caused by economic fragility. The supposed greatest economy in US history actually was a walking sick man, made comfortable with painkillers, and looking far better than he felt—yet ultimately fragile and infirm. The coronavirus pandemic simply exposed the underlying sickness of the US economy. If anything, the crash was overdue.
Too much debt, too much malinvestment, and too little honest pricing of assets and interest rates made America uniquely vulnerable to economic contagion. Most of this vulnerability can be laid at the feet of central bankers at the Federal Reserve, and we will pay a terrible price for it in the coming years. This is an uncomfortable truth, one that central bankers desperately hope to obscure while the media and public remain fixated on the virus.
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Symptoms of problems were readily apparent just last September during the commercial bank repo crisis. After more than a decade of quantitative easing, relentless interest rate cutting, and huge growth in “excess” reserves (more than $1.5 trillion) parked at the Fed, banks still did not have enough overnight liquidity? The repo market exposed how banks were capital contstrained, not reserve constrained. So what exactly was the point of taking the Fed’s balance sheet from less than $1 trillion to over $4 trillion, anyway? Banks still needed money, after a decade of QE?
As with most crises, the problems took root decades ago. What we might call the era of modern monetary policy took root with the 1971 Nixon Shock, which eliminated any convertibility of dollars for gold. Less than twenty years later, in October 1987, Black Monday wiped out 20 percent of US stock market valuations. Fed chair Alan Greenspan promised Wall Street that such a thing would never happen again on his watch, and he meant it: the “Greenspan Put” was the Maestro’s blueprint for providing as much monetary easing as needed to prop up equity markets. The tech stock crash of the NASDAQ in 2000 only solidified the need for “new” monetary policy, and in 2008 that policy took full flight under the obliging hand of Fed chairman Ben Bernanke—a man who not only fundamentally misunderstood the Great Depression in his PhD thesis, but who also had the self-regard to write a book titled The Courage to Act about his use of other people’s money to reinflate the biggest and baddest stock bubble in US history.
James Grant of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer characterizes the Fed’s recent actions as a “leveraged buy-out of the United States of America.” The Fed is assumed to have an unlimited balance sheet, able to provide financial markets with “liquidity” as needed, in any amount, for any length of time. Pennsylvania senator Pat Toomey urges the Fed to do more, and Congress to spend more, all in the unholy name of liquidity.
But liquidity is nothing more than ready money for investment and spending. In the current environment it is a euphemism for free manna from heaven. It is “free” money—unearned, representing no increase in output or productivity. It has no backing and no redeemability. And not only are there no new goods and services in the economy, there are far fewer due to the lockdown. America’s Great ... Best Price: $14.73 Buy New $14.73 (as of 08:09 UTC - Details)
So monetary “policy” as we know it is dead as a doornail. What central banks and Fed officials do no longer falls within the realm of economics or policy; in fact the Fed no longer operates as what we think of as a central bank. It is not a backstop or “banker’s bank,” as originally designed (in theory), nor is it a steward of economic stability pursuing its congressionally authorized dual mandate. It does not follow its own charter in the Federal Reserve Act (e.g., impermissibly buying corporate bonds). It does not operate based on economic theory or empirical data. It no longer pursues any identifiable public policy other than sheer political expediency. Fed governors do not follow “rules” or targets or models. They answer to no legislature or executive, except when cravenly collaborating with both to offload consequences onto future generations.
The Fed is, in effect, a lawless economic government unto itself. It serves as a bizarro-world ad hoc credit facility to the US financial sector, completely open ended, with no credit checks, no credit limits, no collateral requirements, no interest payments, and in some cases no repayments at all. It is the lender of first resort, a kind of reverse pawnshop which pays top dollar for rapidly declining assets. The Fed is now the Infinite Bank. It is run by televangelists, not bankers, and operates on faith.
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lewrockwell--2020-04-18--Coronavirus Deception, Lies, Fakery, and Fraud Trumps the Truth

“ It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
” ~ Noel Coward ( 1979 ) .
“ Plays , four ” , Methuen Drama The fear agenda propagated by governments and media is meant for one purpose and one purpose only , and that purpose is to deceive in order to gain power and control over people .
One look around is enough to understand that this is a successful strategy , as the bulk of society has voluntarily imprisoned themselves at the behest of the ruling class .
What is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the population at large through incremental measures and indoctrination has been fooled into becoming more obedient and dependent for many , many years .
The culmination of that obedience training and dependent mindset has now come to total maturation .
We are in the midst of what can only be described as the most prolific takeover of humanity that has ever occurred .
This takeover has been achieved by state deceit , lies , fakery , and fraud , and has been accomplished in spite of all truth , logic , and sanity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been completely fooled into believing that an impotent virus was going to end life as we have known it on this planet ?
How else could a fake sickness created in a lab change the entire course of mankind ?
How else could false declarations by government cause people around this country to hide in fear in their own homes ?
How else could shaming others and reporting your neighbors to “ authorities ” be normal behavior ?
How else could abandoning family values , business , jobs and faith be so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not one single death has been proven to be specifically from this particular Covid-19 strain , because the proper established methodology necessary to assure that proof has not been met .
It seems we are all being manipulated due to an illusion , and not any legitimate or natural viral pandemic .
Joseph Goebbels would have been proud to be a part of such deception , and would consider this virus coup to be the ultimate propaganda scheme ever devised .
“ Crisis is the path to happiness .
Decay and disintegration do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beginning .
The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.
” ~Joseph Goebbels ( 1987 ) .
“ Michael : a novel ” , Amok Pr This quote by Goebbels outlines exactly what is happening now , and his words ring true in the minds of the globalists and their puppets in government .
Cause of death has taken on a whole new meaning in this country due to the fraud called Covid-19 , as no proof whatsoever is necessary to claim death occurred @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the CDC guidelines distributed to every doctor makes this perfectly clear , as the more deaths attributed to this so-called virus , the better it is for those standing to profit from this fake pandemic .
In addition , most any that have had a flu shot in the past ten years would most likely test positive to the PCR test ; a test that is faulty at best , but this truth is not even considered .
Testing for any strain of coronavirus , as is the norm , does not isolate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the numbers that can be falsely used by those attempting to push multiple nefarious agendas .
“ The ‘ gold standard ’ in testing for COVID-19 is laboratory isolated/purified coronavirus particles free from any contaminants and particles that look like viruses but are not , that have been proven to be the cause of the syndrome known as COVID-19 and obtained by using proper viral isolation methods and controls ( not the PCR that is currently being used or Serology /antibody tests which do not detect virus as such ) .
PCR basically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ amplifies any DNA to look for ‘ viral sequences ’ , i.e .
bits of non-human DNA that seem to match parts of a known viral genome .
The problem is the test is known not to work.
” Is this virus even a virus , or is it a long-term plotted response scenario purposely structured as a reaction to a planted idea meant to cause mass fear ?
Regardless of how or where this started , the totalitarian response is the real pandemic , as the response itself will cause the deaths @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus has the ability to do .
This is the truth that is shunned , as isolation , economic collapse , financial ruin , poverty , bankruptcy , unemployment , and extreme fear will have enormous and deadly ramifications for years to come .
The psychological damage alone will be devastating , and sickness , immune system damage , suicide , abuse , and violence will escalate beyond anything imagined .
In addition , economic systems across all sectors will not magically go back to normal when things reopen , and the fallout @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to individuals , families , and businesses for years to come .
What all should understand is that this entire exercise is a manufactured criminal undertaking by the dark forces that exist among us .
The government and media are involved at a very high level , and are the lynchpin in efforts to implement draconian measures that will lead to a particular outcome .
Many of those that control the politicians , and that also control the narrative , are for the most part hidden from view , but if one looks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and accomplished , whether monetary restructuring , population control , mandatory vaccination , digital money systems , social scoring and surveillance , and other agendas fatal to liberty , the benefactors of these atrocious aims will become more evident .
Once exposed , the lies and fascist partnerships become easier to identify , and once identified , the crimes being committed can be isolated and more easily targeted .
Tests are not only flawed but also useless in pinpointing Covid-19 , deaths are being greatly exaggerated , if in fact not completely fraudulent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus are nonsensical and in many cases medically impossible .
The media hype is being purposely staged so as to present a worst-case scenario where no real risk is evident .
Does this sound like a stage production to you ?
It certainly appears to be a hoax at every turn .
This is a conspiracy of epoch proportions , and not theory at any level .
It is a conspiracy that has been planned for many years , and has now been implemented and is being tested to determine just how far @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people wake up .
Dissent is beginning , but it must not only continue , but also gain strength in the future .
The public should not let any partial relaxation of dictatorial policies fool them , and in fact , all should be very skeptical of any temporary pullback meant to calm the herd .
Like everything else , that will be a lie .
My motto is to believe nothing and question everything .
When government is concerned , this is a mandatory requirement if slavery is to be avoided .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , here , and here .
The Best of Gary D. Barnett

“It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
~ Noel Coward (1979). “Plays, four”, Methuen Drama
The fear agenda propagated by governments and media is meant for one purpose and one purpose only, and that purpose is to deceive in order to gain power and control over people. One look around is enough to understand that this is a successful strategy, as the bulk of society has voluntarily imprisoned themselves at the behest of the ruling class. What is not spoken about concerning this imprisonment is that the population at large through incremental measures and indoctrination has been fooled into becoming more obedient and dependent for many, many years. The culmination of that obedience training and dependent mindset has now come to total maturation.
We are in the midst of what can only be described as the most prolific takeover of humanity that has ever occurred. This takeover has been achieved by state deceit, lies, fakery, and fraud, and has been accomplished in spite of all truth, logic, and sanity. How else could billions of people have been completely fooled into believing that an impotent virus was going to end life as we have known it on this planet? How else could a fake sickness created in a lab change the entire course of mankind? How else could false declarations by government cause people around this country to hide in fear in their own homes? How else could shaming others and reporting your neighbors to “authorities” be normal behavior? How else could abandoning family values, business, jobs and faith be so easily achieved? Jabbed: How the Vaccin... Wilcox, Brett Best Price: $13.02 Buy New $13.05 (as of 03:50 UTC - Details)
To my knowledge, not one single death has been proven to be specifically from this particular Covid-19 strain, because the proper established methodology necessary to assure that proof has not been met. It seems we are all being manipulated due to an illusion, and not any legitimate or natural viral pandemic. Joseph Goebbels would have been proud to be a part of such deception, and would consider this virus coup to be the ultimate propaganda scheme ever devised.
“Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.” ~Joseph Goebbels (1987). “Michael: a novel”, Amok Pr
This quote by Goebbels outlines exactly what is happening now, and his words ring true in the minds of the globalists and their puppets in government.
Cause of death has taken on a whole new meaning in this country due to the fraud called Covid-19, as no proof whatsoever is necessary to claim death occurred due to Covid. In fact, the CDC guidelines distributed to every doctor makes this perfectly clear, as the more deaths attributed to this so-called virus, the better it is for those standing to profit from this fake pandemic. In addition, most any that have had a flu shot in the past ten years would most likely test positive to the PCR test; a test that is faulty at best, but this truth is not even considered. Testing for any strain of coronavirus, as is the norm, does not isolate Covid-19, but it does vastly increase the numbers that can be falsely used by those attempting to push multiple nefarious agendas.
From Julian Rose at Global Research:
“The ‘gold standard’ in testing for COVID-19 is laboratory isolated/purified coronavirus particles free from any contaminants and particles that look like viruses but are not, that have been proven to be the cause of the syndrome known as COVID-19 and obtained by using proper viral isolation methods and controls (not the PCR that is currently being used or Serology /antibody tests which do not detect virus as such). PCR basically takes a sample of your cells and amplifies any DNA to look for ‘viral sequences’, i.e. bits of non-human DNA that seem to match parts of a known viral genome. The problem is the test is known not to work.”
Is this virus even a virus, or is it a long-term plotted response scenario purposely structured as a reaction to a planted idea meant to cause mass fear? Regardless of how or where this started, the totalitarian response is the real pandemic, as the response itself will cause the deaths of many more people than any fake virus has the ability to do. This is the truth that is shunned, as isolation, economic collapse, financial ruin, poverty, bankruptcy, unemployment, and extreme fear will have enormous and deadly ramifications for years to come. The psychological damage alone will be devastating, and sickness, immune system damage, suicide, abuse, and violence will escalate beyond anything imagined. In addition, economic systems across all sectors will not magically go back to normal when things reopen, and the fallout from these factors will cause extensive harm to individuals, families, and businesses for years to come. THE DOSADI EXPERIMENT HERBERT, FRANK Best Price: $5.50 Buy New $14.73 (as of 03:06 UTC - Details)
What all should understand is that this entire exercise is a manufactured criminal undertaking by the dark forces that exist among us. The government and media are involved at a very high level, and are the lynchpin in efforts to implement draconian measures that will lead to a particular outcome. Many of those that control the politicians, and that also control the narrative, are for the most part hidden from view, but if one looks closely enough, the agendas being sought and accomplished, whether monetary restructuring, population control, mandatory vaccination, digital money systems, social scoring and surveillance, and other agendas fatal to liberty, the benefactors of these atrocious aims will become more evident. Once exposed, the lies and fascist partnerships become easier to identify, and once identified, the crimes being committed can be isolated and more easily targeted.
Tests are not only flawed but also useless in pinpointing Covid-19, deaths are being greatly exaggerated, if in fact not completely fraudulent, and most claims about this so-called virus are nonsensical and in many cases medically impossible. The media hype is being purposely staged so as to present a worst-case scenario where no real risk is evident. Does this sound like a stage production to you? It certainly appears to be a hoax at every turn.
This is a conspiracy of epoch proportions, and not theory at any level. It is a conspiracy that has been planned for many years, and has now been implemented and is being tested to determine just how far the elite monsters can go before the people wake up. Dissent is beginning, but it must not only continue, but also gain strength in the future. The public should not let any partial relaxation of dictatorial policies fool them, and in fact, all should be very skeptical of any temporary pullback meant to calm the herd. Like everything else, that will be a lie. My motto is to believe nothing and question everything. When government is concerned, this is a mandatory requirement if slavery is to be avoided.
Additional links of merit are listed here, here, and here.
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The Best of Gary D. Barnett


lewrockwell--2020-04-18--The Fear Mask and the ‘I Surrender’ Pose

“ For if you put me to death , you will not easily find another , who , to use a rather absurd figure , attaches himself to the city as a gadfly to a horse , which , though large and well bred , is sluggish on account of his size and needs to be aroused by stinging .
I think the god fastened me upon the city in some such capacity , and I go about arousing… ” A gadfly friend of mine has never done the pose of submission to the great state , the “ I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the one where you stick your hands up in the air when someone points a gun at you , exposing your vulnerable torso and midsection .
You know , that “ I surrender ” pose – the pose that is drilled into you every time you pass through airport security .
You must enter the naked body scanner and do the pose of submission .
If you don ’ t you will be barked at , eye-rolled at , and huffed at until you do .
The Cancer Industry : C ... Sloan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Buy New $ 12.75 Notably , this “ I surrender ” pose is mere security theater .
It looks like it works .
It doesn ’ t actually work .
That , alongside the dehumanizing : take off your shoes , get groped , and throw away whatever items you recently bought that happen to be more than 3.3 ounces .
3.4 ounces will take down a plane , we are assured .
3.3 ounces can ’ t .
Yes , that ’ s why it must be confiscated .
Otherwise , we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like confiscate your private property .
A half-full 3.4 ounce container can take down a plane too .
Yes , that ’ s why that too must be confiscated .
It ’ s for your own safety .
Fascinating fiction , this US security theater that doesn ’ t actually work .
But what it does work at is taking some of the most affluent members of society – air travelers – and bossing them around until they submit .
The more affluent you are ( to a degree ) the more you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you travel by commercial air , the more you get put through the compliance tester and obedience enforcer .
This is a predictable way to make the most affluent in a society more compliant .
You can almost imagine a table of Bush era stooges saying to themselves over beers “ What ’ s the stupidest thing we can get people to do ?
” “ I know .
Hold their hands up in the air for no reason like someone is pointing a gun at them.
” Dopesick : Dealers , Doc @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 4.90 Buy New $ 12.75 “ Let a stranger go through their underwear.
” “ No I ’ ve got one better : Let a stranger CONFISCATE their underwear.
” “ This is way better : Let a stranger take photos of them naked.
” “ No .
Even better .
Let a stranger touch them in between the legs.
” “ No this is way worse .
Get a rattled mother to voluntarily throw away pumped breast milk , because it ’ s a risk to national security , even if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a flight and screams for three hours.
” You now know the “ I surrender ” pose I mean , right ?
Not once has the gadfly done it , despite being a regular traveler by commercial air .
It says a lot about him that he learned about the TSA-implemented pose and told himself that government would never convince him to do it .
He drew a firm line in the sand .
A boundary impenetrable .
He would never do the “ I surrender ” pose for anyone working for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a reason they seemed to be offering him .
That ’ s all there was to it .
You know what else he ’ s never done ?
Donned a fear mask .
Pain Killer : An Empire ... Barry Meier Best Price : $ 3.12 Buy New $ 7.66 You know , a fear mask – the pieces of fabric that people have started wearing in response to the top-down national fear mask campaign announced on April 3 , 2020 .
It ’ s been a popular campaign .
Near me @ @ @ @ @ @ @ April 2 .
By the afternoon of April 3 , it was hard to find people without one .
Now , I don ’ t mean to say the gadfly hasn ’ t ever worn a scarf over his face , or a respirator , or a face mask .
The guy is as handy as MacGyver , so of course he ’ s worn all that and more .
Today he ’ s soldering e-bike parts , tomorrow he ’ s in the middle of the desert keeping his face protected from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are only really fear masks when you politicize them , when you put a mask on in response to whatever nonsense the CDC and New York Times try to provoke in you , when you run from a seasonal virus .
You know the one .
Corona .
Then it becomes a fear mask .
There ’ s a thing about masked faces .
They freak people out .
People like seeing the full , healthy , relaxed faces of those around them .
Reading faces is one way our primal selves avoid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ They tell you something is wrong .
There ’ s a reason doctors try to avoid masks during hospital rounds : a face is more comforting to a patient .
An additional detail about face masks is that they probably don ’ t work .
Along with the face mask , has come another fear-induced intervention : the lockdown .
The lockdown probably doesn ’ t work for any respiratory virus .
The lockdown certainly doesn ’ t work for Covid-19 , which is largely spread in households , not community settings .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ PSYOPS , Psychological Operations , or Psychological warfare ) is a behavior intended to psychologically weaken a target .
The US government is renowned for this .
While I don ’ t know what is an intentional psy op in my life and what isn ’ t , I know fear is psychologically harmful to me and those around me .
To live in a constant state of fear is hell .
It shortens life and reduces the quality of the short life you have .
Drug Dealer , MD : How D @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 3.20 Buy New $ 11.00 “ When stress is prolonged , ” writes Aphrodite Matsakis , “ The adrenal glands and some of these helping biochemicals can become depleted .
This depletion can lead to depression , panic attacks , mood swings , rage reactions , and problems responding appropriately to others.
” Notably , the most poignant changes after 9/11 were the ones that worked least , yet created the greatest , most contorted , obeisant behavior in order for a person to travel : the ” I surrender ” pose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most poignant changes after the ides of March 2020 were the ones that worked least , yet created the greatest , most contorted , obeisant behavior in order for a person to live life : the fear mask and their brethren .
Rooted in fear to obtain compliance , these diktats from government do us harm .
Keeping this in mind , it ’ s almost natural for a free person to presume , that in time of crisis , awful advice will come from established government officials talking about best practices , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ care , or the received wisdom of the establishment media telling you what is good for you .
In contrast , the gadfly stings with truth .
The work of the gadfly is some of the most noble work that can be done in a society , for it brings others into a more accurate relationship with reality and helps them to live a life that is more effective , more in touch , aware .
That is not readily appreciated by all .
Bloated , with inaction , expert committees , legal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hind quarters of the ass barely responds to the gadfly ’ s goading toward the truth .
It seeks to pass the rest of life in slumber , to paraphrase Socrates .
The best gadfly is the one who is determined to live life honoring his own boundaries , and to be as truthful as possible with others about where those boundaries are .
That person is a natural gadfly .
He does not exist to sting another .
His mere living of his life , however , is an affront to those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and honestly state those boundaries to others .
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Some part of them wants to kill him .
They are “ triggered ” by him .
They build “ triggering ” into an axiomatic evil , and build @ @ @ @ @ @ @ around the inability to be a gadfly .
Here , coddled society comes into conflict with the free man .
They raise moral arguments against his very nature , against his very existence , to defend themselves from the reminder that they have betrayed their own existence , let others repeatedly traverse their own boundaries , trampled those boundaries into things unrecognizable .
And yes , in such desperation , they find it a lot easier to blame the gadfly , who they may have never seen their entire lives , but in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in a way they do not in coddled society .
Irrationally , with great feeling , he must be to blame for the pain .
He must be destroyed .
Otherwise , his existence is just too triggering to be moral , in our age that abhors both pain and struggle , almost as much as it abhors truth .
He must be brought to his knees .
He must wear the fear mask .
He must assume the “ I surrender ” pose .
He must be made to drink the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Best of Allan Stevo

“For if you put me to death, you will not easily find another, who, to use a rather absurd figure, attaches himself to the city as a gadfly to a horse, which, though large and well bred, is sluggish on account of his size and needs to be aroused by stinging. I think the god fastened me upon the city in some such capacity, and I go about arousing…”
-Socrates, as reported by Plato in The Apology
A gadfly friend of mine has never done the pose of submission to the great state, the “I surrender” pose.
You know, the one where you stick your hands up in the air when someone points a gun at you, exposing your vulnerable torso and midsection.
You know, that “I surrender” pose – the pose that is drilled into you every time you pass through airport security. You must enter the naked body scanner and do the pose of submission. If you don’t you will be barked at, eye-rolled at, and huffed at until you do. The Cancer Industry: C... Sloan, Mark Best Price: $10.19 Buy New $12.75 (as of 05:04 UTC - Details)
Notably, this “I surrender” pose is mere security theater. It looks like it works. It doesn’t actually work. That, alongside the dehumanizing: take off your shoes, get groped, and throw away whatever items you recently bought that happen to be more than 3.3 ounces.
3.4 ounces will take down a plane, we are assured. 3.3 ounces can’t.
Oh really?
Yes, that’s why it must be confiscated. Otherwise, we would never do such an awful thing like confiscate your private property. A half-full 3.4 ounce container can take down a plane too.
Oh really?
Yes, that’s why that too must be confiscated. It’s for your own safety.
Fascinating fiction, this US security theater that doesn’t actually work. But what it does work at is taking some of the most affluent members of society – air travelers – and bossing them around until they submit. The more affluent you are (to a degree) the more you travel by commercial air. The more you travel by commercial air, the more you get put through the compliance tester and obedience enforcer. This is a predictable way to make the most affluent in a society more compliant.
What a toxic thing for America.
You can almost imagine a table of Bush era stooges saying to themselves over beers “What’s the stupidest thing we can get people to do?”
“I know. Hold their hands up in the air for no reason like someone is pointing a gun at them.” Dopesick: Dealers, Doc... Macy, Beth Best Price: $4.90 Buy New $12.75 (as of 05:04 UTC - Details)
“Let a stranger go through their underwear.”
“No I’ve got one better: Let a stranger CONFISCATE their underwear.”
“This is way better: Let a stranger take photos of them naked.”
“No. Even better. Let a stranger touch them in between the legs.”
“No this is way worse. Get a rattled mother to voluntarily throw away pumped breast milk, because it’s a risk to national security, even if that means her baby goes hungry on a flight and screams for three hours.”
You now know the “I surrender” pose I mean, right?
Not once has the gadfly done it, despite being a regular traveler by commercial air.
It says a lot about him that he learned about the TSA-implemented pose and told himself that government would never convince him to do it. He drew a firm line in the sand. A boundary impenetrable.
He would never do the “I surrender” pose for anyone working for the US government, no matter how good of a reason they seemed to be offering him.
That’s all there was to it.
You know what else he’s never done?
Donned a fear mask. Pain Killer: An Empire... Barry Meier Best Price: $3.12 Buy New $7.66 (as of 08:30 UTC - Details)
You know, a fear mask – the pieces of fabric that people have started wearing in response to the top-down national fear mask campaign announced on April 3, 2020.
It’s been a popular campaign. Near me, few people were wearing face masks April 2. By the afternoon of April 3, it was hard to find people without one.
Now, I don’t mean to say the gadfly hasn’t ever worn a scarf over his face, or a respirator, or a face mask. The guy is as handy as MacGyver, so of course he’s worn all that and more. Today he’s soldering e-bike parts, tomorrow he’s in the middle of the desert keeping his face protected from a dust storm.
But those devices are only really fear masks when you politicize them, when you put a mask on in response to whatever nonsense the CDC and New York Times try to provoke in you, when you run from a seasonal virus. You know the one. Corona. Then it becomes a fear mask.
There’s a thing about masked faces. They freak people out. People like seeing the full, healthy, relaxed faces of those around them. Reading faces is one way our primal selves avoid danger. Masked faces increase cortisol. They tell you something is wrong. There’s a reason doctors try to avoid masks during hospital rounds: a face is more comforting to a patient.
An additional detail about face masks is that they probably don’t work.
Along with the face mask, has come another fear-induced intervention: the lockdown. The lockdown probably doesn’t work for any respiratory virus. The lockdown certainly doesn’t work for Covid-19, which is largely spread in households, not community settings. See this.
Psy ops (alternately PSYOPS, Psychological Operations, or Psychological warfare) is a behavior intended to psychologically weaken a target. The US government is renowned for this.
While I don’t know what is an intentional psy op in my life and what isn’t, I know fear is psychologically harmful to me and those around me. To live in a constant state of fear is hell. It shortens life and reduces the quality of the short life you have. Drug Dealer, MD: How D... Lembke, Anna Best Price: $3.20 Buy New $11.00 (as of 05:04 UTC - Details)
“When stress is prolonged,” writes Aphrodite Matsakis, “The adrenal glands and some of these helping biochemicals can become depleted. This depletion can lead to depression, panic attacks, mood swings, rage reactions, and problems responding appropriately to others.”
Notably, the most poignant changes after 9/11 were the ones that worked least, yet created the greatest, most contorted, obeisant behavior in order for a person to travel: the ”I surrender” pose and their brethren.
Notably, the most poignant changes after the ides of March 2020 were the ones that worked least, yet created the greatest, most contorted, obeisant behavior in order for a person to live life: the fear mask and their brethren.
Rooted in fear to obtain compliance, these diktats from government do us harm.
Keeping this in mind, it’s almost natural for a free person to presume, that in time of crisis, awful advice will come from established government officials talking about best practices, or establishment physicians sharing the standard of care, or the received wisdom of the establishment media telling you what is good for you.
In contrast, the gadfly stings with truth. The work of the gadfly is some of the most noble work that can be done in a society, for it brings others into a more accurate relationship with reality and helps them to live a life that is more effective, more in touch, aware.
That is not readily appreciated by all.
Bloated, with inaction, expert committees, legal liability, risk mitigation, the corpulent hind quarters of the ass barely responds to the gadfly’s goading toward the truth. It seeks to pass the rest of life in slumber, to paraphrase Socrates.
The best gadfly is the one who is determined to live life honoring his own boundaries, and to be as truthful as possible with others about where those boundaries are. That person is a natural gadfly. He does not exist to sting another. His mere living of his life, however, is an affront to those who refuse to respect their own boundaries and honestly state those boundaries to others. Fauci: The Bernie Mado... Ortleb, Charles Buy New $5.99 (as of 02:55 UTC - Details)
It can be no surprise that those who abhor truth, who contort their minds to avoid reality, who want to be coddled in the myth of riskless existence, are those most bothered by the very existence of the gadfly.
Some part of them wants to kill him.
They are “triggered” by him. They build “triggering” into an axiomatic evil, and build morality around the inability to trigger, around the inability to be a gadfly.
Here, coddled society comes into conflict with the free man.
They raise moral arguments against his very nature, against his very existence, to defend themselves from the reminder that they have betrayed their own existence, let others repeatedly traverse their own boundaries, trampled those boundaries into things unrecognizable.
And yes, in such desperation, they find it a lot easier to blame the gadfly, who they may have never seen their entire lives, but in whose presence they feel twinges of pain, in a way they do not in coddled society.
Irrationally, with great feeling, he must be to blame for the pain. He must be destroyed.
Otherwise, his existence is just too triggering to be moral, in our age that abhors both pain and struggle, almost as much as it abhors truth.
He must be brought to his knees. He must wear the fear mask. He must assume the “I surrender” pose. He must be made to drink the hemlock. He must be killed.
My friend. The gadfly majestic.
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lewrockwell--2020-04-18--The Flag, and Grammar

The Flag, and Grammar

How do you feel about the flag ?
I admit , on occasions , to having been deeply moved by the sight of it .
Seeing it upon returning home from abroad , for example , is comforting and reassuring .
Once , seeing it being carried in a parade , while a band played America the Beautiful , I got a lump in my throat .
America IS beautiful , and we are lucky to live in a country so richly blessed : a favorable climate , abundant natural resources , varied and beautiful landscapes , and rich farmland @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when I see the flag .
But there is another flag , although identical in appearance .
You inevitably see it in the background when some politician is boring us with the usual platitudes and downright lies that comprise most political speeches .
It is painted on the machinery of war , and printed on “ patriotic ” appeals to support our troops .
In such circumstances it is the logo of the United States , and not a symbol of America the Beautiful .
Official Lies : How Was ... James T. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 1.90 Buy New $ 38.50 Didn ’ t you learn in grammar school that plural subjects require plural verbs ?
“ Tom and Jim are playing ” is OK , but say “ Tom and Jim is playing ” and expect a correction from the teacher .
But there is no correction when we hear “ Today the United States has begun—- ” or “ The United States is determined—.
” We seem to realize that these statements do not involve Idaho , or Florida , or Vermont .
Rather , they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ United States , ” which has little , if anything , to do with the fifty states of America the Beautiful .
The United States is a single noun , much as General Motors is a single noun , and like the automaker , the United States seeks growth in its business .
The business of the United States corporation is governance , and to govern means , according to my dictionary , to regulate , limit , and control .
The United States want more of that !
One can easily @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Directors of General Motors .
It ’ s not so easy as regard the United States .
Since the U. S. , though trillions of dollars in debt , continues to spend trillions of dollars , it is reasonable to believe that the banking industry has a place on the Board .
( Indeed , one might suspect that the bankers are the principle shareholders in the corporation . )
The support of U.S. practices and policies by the media , Brave New World Aldous Huxley Best Price : $ 1.00 Buy New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country ’ s biggest businesses suggests their membership as well .
The front men , ( stooges , perhaps ? )
for this cabal is the Congress , whose members claim to represent their constituents , although it is manifestly impossible for one person to represent thousands , whose opinions are unknown and not sought .
Their job is to make the people think that they , the people whose labors support the Rulers , have seats on the Board as well , and periodic elections are intended to reinforce that notion .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ who rule us , have taken our flag as their logo , and love to wrap themselves in it .
What a shame !
A more appropriate one might be 666 on a dark and bloody background .
The flag of America , the beautiful , is NOT the logo of the U.S. , despite the similarity in appearance .
If you are expected to stand up and salute the flag , stop and think .
Is it our flag , or theirs ?
Salute accordingly .
The Best of Paul Hein

How do you feel about the flag? I admit, on occasions, to having been deeply moved by the sight of it. Seeing it upon returning home from abroad, for example, is comforting and reassuring. Once, seeing it being carried in a parade, while a band played America the Beautiful, I got a lump in my throat. America IS beautiful, and we are lucky to live in a country so richly blessed: a favorable climate, abundant natural resources, varied and beautiful landscapes, and rich farmland! All of this comes to mind when I see the flag.
But there is another flag, although identical in appearance. You inevitably see it in the background when some politician is boring us with the usual platitudes and downright lies that comprise most political speeches. It is painted on the machinery of war, and printed on “patriotic” appeals to support our troops. In such circumstances it is the logo of the United States, and not a symbol of America the Beautiful. Official Lies: How Was... James T. Bennett, Thom... Best Price: $1.90 Buy New $38.50 (as of 08:05 UTC - Details)
Didn’t you learn in grammar school that plural subjects require plural verbs? “Tom and Jim are playing” is OK, but say “Tom and Jim is playing” and expect a correction from the teacher. But there is no correction when we hear “Today the United States has begun—-” or “The United States is determined—.” We seem to realize that these statements do not involve Idaho, or Florida, or Vermont. Rather, they refer to a single entity, the “United States,” which has little, if anything, to do with the fifty states of America the Beautiful. The United States is a single noun, much as General Motors is a single noun, and like the automaker, the United States seeks growth in its business. The business of the United States corporation is governance, and to govern means, according to my dictionary, to regulate, limit, and control. The United States want more of that!
One can easily learn the identities of the Board of Directors of General Motors. It’s not so easy as regard the United States. Since the U. S., though trillions of dollars in debt, continues to spend trillions of dollars, it is reasonable to believe that the banking industry has a place on the Board. (Indeed, one might suspect that the bankers are the principle shareholders in the corporation.)The support of U.S. practices and policies by the media, Brave New World Aldous Huxley Best Price: $1.00 Buy New $6.99 (as of 05:15 UTC - Details) the universities, and the country’s biggest businesses suggests their membership as well. The front men, (stooges, perhaps?) for this cabal is the Congress, whose members claim to represent their constituents, although it is manifestly impossible for one person to represent thousands, whose opinions are unknown and not sought. Their job is to make the people think that they, the people whose labors support the Rulers, have seats on the Board as well, and periodic elections are intended to reinforce that notion.
This group of largely unknown strangers, who rule us, have taken our flag as their logo, and love to wrap themselves in it. What a shame! A more appropriate one might be 666 on a dark and bloody background. The flag of America, the beautiful, is NOT the logo of the U.S., despite the similarity in appearance.
If you are expected to stand up and salute the flag, stop and think. Is it our flag, or theirs? Salute accordingly.
The Best of Paul Hein


lewrockwell--2020-04-18--Betrayed: The Rise and Fall of Dr. Fauci

On Easter Sunday evening , we reached a turning point in the monumental , wholly unprecedented , nation-wrecking fiasco that is Coronagate : President Trump retweeted a post with the hashtag # FireFauci .
Both the original tweet and Trump ’ s telling retweet were prompted by Anthony Fauci ’ s latest appearance on Fake News CNN .
On Easter Sunday , no less , Fauci , who has been undermining Trump since the day this fiasco began , implied in response to loaded questions by the insufferable Jake Tapper that Trump could have saved lives had he announced “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recommended to him as early as the third week of February .
Fauci made no such recommendation in February , but was rather saying the exactly opposite that month , as even the left-wing Politico shows in an article entitled Virus ‘ Experts ’ Early Statements Belie ‘ Prescient ’ Portrayal .
Thus , on Easter Sunday Fauci cooperated with Tapper in disseminating a demonstrable lie to the nation .
Before we get to the lie , here is the background that demonstrates it .
Good Intentions : How B ... Nussbaum , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ January 21 , Fauci was asked the following question to which he gave the following answer in a video published by Newsmax : Q .
What are you thinking in terms of this virus spreading in the United States ?
FAUCI : Well those people are probably at a very low risk… .
Well , obviously you need to take it seriously and do the kinds of things that the CDC and the Department of Homeland Security are doing .
But this is not a major threat to the people in the United @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about .
On February 18 , in a video published by USA Today , Fauci said the following : FAUCI : No , I don ’ t think people should be frightened .
The risk right now , today , currently , is really relatively low for the American public .
But… this could evolve [ ] into a global pandemic… .
So right now , don ’ t worry about it , be more concerned about influenza , which is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ season , than corona virus… .
People wearing masks now is just not relevant .
You don ’ t need to be walking around with a mask right now… .
The accompanying text of the February piece in Today quotes Fauci as saying that the danger from the Wuhan virus is “ just miniscule ” whereas : “ We have more kids dying of flu this year at this time than in the last decade or more .
The threat is ( we have ) a pretty bad influenza season , particularly dangerous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Exposing the ... Singh , Janardan Prasad Buy New $ 13.99 On Saturday , February 29 , Fauci stated as follows on the Today Show : So , on February 29 , Fauci was still giving assurances on national television that there was no need for Americans to change anything regarding their daily activities .
In fact , that was the very day the press reported the first death attributed to purported “ community spread ” of Wuhan virus in the United States .
On March 9 , Fauci told John Roberts of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a healthy young person , there is no reason if you want to go on a cruise ship , go on a cruise ship ” whereas “ if you have…an individual who has an underlying condition , particularly an elderly person who has an underlying condition , I would recommend strongly that they do not go on a cruise ship.
” To sum up , it is undeniable that during the months of January and February of 2020 , Fauci minimized the threat of the Wuhan virus .
There is not even the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a national lockdown of all Americans to “ save lives.
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Introduction
On Easter Sunday evening, we reached a turning point in the monumental, wholly unprecedented, nation-wrecking fiasco that is Coronagate: President Trump retweeted a post with the hashtag #FireFauci. Both the original tweet and Trump’s telling retweet were prompted by Anthony Fauci’s latest appearance on Fake News CNN. On Easter Sunday, no less, Fauci, who has been undermining Trump since the day this fiasco began, implied in response to loaded questions by the insufferable Jake Tapper that Trump could have saved lives had he announced “social distancing guidelines” that Fauci supposedly recommended to him as early as the third week of February.
Fauci made no such recommendation in February, but was rather saying the exactly opposite that month, as even the left-wing Politico shows in an article entitled Virus ‘Experts’ Early Statements Belie ‘Prescient’ Portrayal. Thus, on Easter Sunday Fauci cooperated with Tapper in disseminating a demonstrable lie to the nation. Before we get to the lie, here is the background that demonstrates it. Good Intentions: How B... Nussbaum, Bruce Best Price: $42.79 (as of 05:07 UTC - Details)
The Early Advice Fauci is Hiding
On January 21, Fauci was asked the following question to which he gave the following answer in a video published by Newsmax:
Q. What are you thinking in terms of this virus spreading in the United States?
FAUCI: Well those people are probably at a very low risk…. Well, obviously you need to take it seriously and do the kinds of things that the CDC and the Department of Homeland Security are doing. But this is not a major threat to the people in the United States. And this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about.
On February 18, in a video published by USA Today, Fauci said the following:
FAUCI: No, I don’t think people should be frightened. The risk right now, today, currently, is really relatively low for the American public. But… this could evolve [] into a global pandemic….
So right now, don’t worry about it, be more concerned about influenza, which is going into a second peak for the season, than corona virus…. People wearing masks now is just not relevant. You don’t need to be walking around with a mask right now….
The accompanying text of the February piece in Today quotes Fauci as saying that the danger from the Wuhan virus is “just miniscule” whereas: “We have more kids dying of flu this year at this time than in the last decade or more. The threat is (we have) a pretty bad influenza season, particularly dangerous for our children.” China Rx: Exposing the... Singh, Janardan Prasad Buy New $13.99 (as of 04:38 UTC - Details)
On Saturday, February 29, Fauci stated as follows on the Today Show:
No, right now, at this moment, there is no need to change anything that you’re doing on a day-by-day basis. Right now, the risk is still low, but this could change. I’ve said that many times…You gotta watch out, because although the risk is low now—you don’t need to change anything you’re doing—when you start to see community spread, this could change….
So, on February 29, Fauci was still giving assurances on national television that there was no need for Americans to change anything regarding their daily activities. In fact, that was the very day the press reported the first death attributed to purported “community spread” of Wuhan virus in the United States.
On March 9, Fauci told John Roberts of Fox News that “If you are a healthy young person, there is no reason if you want to go on a cruise ship, go on a cruise ship” whereas “if you have…an individual who has an underlying condition, particularly an elderly person who has an underlying condition, I would recommend strongly that they do not go on a cruise ship.”
To sum up, it is undeniable that during the months of January and February of 2020, Fauci minimized the threat of the Wuhan virus. There is not even the glimmer of a suggestion that there be a national lockdown of all Americans to “save lives.”
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